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FllOill VMIUM** SOL'IH'Kf*.
A Washington dispatch pays that during the
last week upwards of a dozen citizens of the |
South who* had obtaim and their pardons, made j
personal applications at the J-Y« edwen’B Ita- ;
reau for the restoration of lands which had
been taken into the custody of the bureau.—
On production of the certificates of pardon, tin
applicants were furnished orders upon local
agents of the butcau in the Bout!) for the res
toration of the property claimed, with provi
siorid that the owners be made to compensate
the blacks for the crops they m t-y be cultiva
ting thereon or leave them in undisturbed pos
session until the same are harvested.
St. Leger Grenfel, a British subject con
victed of ‘aiding prisoners of war to escape,
has been sentenced to death, has had it com
muted by the President to imprisonment for
life at hard labor at the Dry Tortuga*
Surveys and estimates for the lot ; Colonial
Bailway have been submitted. The route re
commended is via iiivcr du Loup Bay of
chaleur,
The cost will be about twenty live millions, or
$40,000 per mile.
Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, has received a
special pardon.
The receipts for internal revenues for six
days ending August 21, amounted to $9,000,-
1)00.
The rumor that Gen. Butler has resigned is
gaid to he incorrect.
Jbe President’s health has been much*'im
proved by his late exclusion.
Hon. Alfred Ely has been Btifebasnaed ns wit
ness against Wertz, and net for him, as ba
been stated.
8. Nicholson has been assumed ns Com
mandant of the Navigation Department at.
Washington.
Joe Johnston, while at Fortress Monroe, was
asked if ho would uot like to see ,E fit Ha re
plied he did not wish to see him or h<.ar his
named mentioned ever.
Large quantities of cotlon arc being shipped
Norilt from Memphis.
Hon. llertthei V. Johnson is at present in
Washington.
Captain More lias completed h> work of in
terment at Audersonvilio. Each grave ha.;
been marked with the number and nam •,
wherever the latter could bo ascertained, ana
the burial spot has been neatly inclosed.
The banking house of Cole, Bumner & Cos.,
at Lioross, Wisconsin, lost heaViiy by the
Ketchum frauds, ami has been eom-pelled to
suspend.
The census of Chicago, just completed, gives
a total of 177,956.
The act of Congress forbidding, underheavy
penalties, (he placing of the words “Hailed
[States Mail,” «fcc., on a steamboat or other ves
sel not employed in carrying llse mad, and the
publishing in u newspaper, of othei wise, that
uny such steamboat or vessel, not so employ
ed, is Used in carrying the mails of the United
folates, having been recently evaded in many
instances, the Postmaster Gencial Las given
instructions to Postmasters to take the neces
sary steps to promptly enforce its provisions
against all offenders.
The steamer Traveller has been burned at
Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior. Loss SIO,OOO,
insurance $20,000.
The amount of currency issued during - life
week ending August 10 was $150,005,500, and
the total issue up to that date $172,004,400.
MATTERS JN SOUlli CARO LIN \.
Telegraphic dispatches from New Yok give
the annexed synopsis of South Carolina news :
The Herald’s Chari, stort correspondence
says that very little atteution has been paid by
any officers to the demand of Governor Perry’s
civil appointees for the surrender to them ot
the superior control in the administration oi
affairs,and the Palmetto State still remains
under military rule. There has been
no actual collsion, hut considerable disagree
ment and luck.of co-operation between the civ
il and military authorities. General Gilmore,
who recently returned to Charh-ston from the
tour through the interior, had a conference
with Gov. Perry, and is represented as slat
ing that the military will maintain the direc
tion of affairs, until the regular Slate Govern
ment in organized.
Loiters in the North from Charleston say many
of the candidates nominated for the convention
are withdrawing their namjs Tim mechanics
have nominated a ticket Ironi their own ranks.
The naturalized citizens havo done tl.o same
thing.
A land, banking and emigration company,
for the purpose ot inducing emigration to
HTmth Carolina, has been fully oigmiz.d and
will shoitly commence operations The agent
of the company will h i located iti New York
city, to receive all who come, provide lor their
comfort, and make all arrang meats for their
transportation to such parts of the iStato as
they iuny elect for their residence.
According to letters liom South Catolina
published at the North, since Gov. Perry’s
Greenville speech ho has become very popular
among the leading secessionists of his State.
A letter published in the New Yoik HeraM
says the people of South Carolina take the oaths
required of them without scruple, but among
themselves they claim they aro eomeulaory,
and consequently not binding. Nearly evciy
one expresses his determination to still remain
loyal to Liis State, and if she ever sees t IU to go
out of the Union again, bo is determined to
share her fortune, all onlhs to*tho contrary
notwithetunding.
They do not yet, in many in«lanc?s, givo up
the idea ot slavery, they believe emancipa
tion illegal, and propose, n' forced (o acknowl
edge it when carried by the r* quire,! votes of
States as an ainoudmeut to the Constitution, to
get some kind of an arrangement by which
they w iu have slaves In every thing but the
uarue. Legislation may fix some nominal sum
as remuneration for labor, and allow the mas
ter to use what coercive measures ho may tjiiuk
necessary for compelling that labor. Occasional
cases ol trouble between the planter and hL
liberated slaves are bought before the courts.
It is difficult for (bo former to understand
that, since bis laborer has become Lee, be
has lost the rights ho formerly (aid of coercing
him. Many of them declare that as long us
they have negroes on their plantati ns they
will enforce the old plantation discipline, and
thou when they think they deserve it. Oc
casionally, one of them stabs a negro, and is
brought before the Provost Court.
Postmaster General Dennison has refused to
be considered a successor to Senator Sheramaa
of Ohio.
Gov. Andrew, of Mass , lias determined to
retire at the end of his present term.
lheWirz Court martial re assembled Au
gust 23, or rather anew commission, embrac
ing the same members, was appointed. The
indictment of Witz, was modified by strikin'*
out the names of Sedd-m aud L o as aceom -
{dices ot \\ins. Witzs counsel protested
against the new tribunal, holding that he eith
er ought to be relumed or tried on tue old in
dictment. They therefore refused to have
anything to do with the case. The Court thru
adjourned in order to give the prisoner
time to prepare for his defense.
An agent is in Washington to make arrange
meats tor the emigration of a large number of
Poles to Virginia.
Only two pa-dons were granted by the
President on August 23. *
The Stiveyor Generals of Montana aud I)t
--kot'di Tenitories reportjbe sinvoy as prir i
pally made along the western border ot .Min
nesota and on the li g Sioux. The lands are
praised as being finely adapted to agricultural
and grazing purposes.
Too crowds at the White Hons-? continue,
notwithstanding the President's reiusal to issue
more pardons.
The veteiau Reserve Corps is to be consoli
dated and a large number of officers will be
thus dismissed.
The convention between the United S ates
of American and the United States ot Colum
bia, supplemental to that of September 10:b,
lbfi7, has just been proclaimed. It extends for
nine months the joint convention heretofore
appointed for the examination and adjustment
of such claims as were presented, but not hero -
tofore settled.
A Washington disprtch says non II V
Johnson, who was lately pardoned has suc
ceeded in obtaining a long private interview
with the President. Whatever may be thought
ot the disposition of the Southern people it is
certain that all the promiuenr ruen from that
section, ss well as otheis, represent a general
acquiescence in the policy of the President in
Regard tv the restoration of the southern States
to their constitutional relations to the L nion
A man named Lemos and a woman who has
been livieir with him, have been arrested by
(i o ral II vev’s order at Fort Wayne, Ind
au t. on -uspicions that Lemos was a I'onfc
ale of-) Wilkes Booth, the President’s
Hri. The man and a woman, believed to be
■; «'orrc now taken with him, were in New
Uv. n in May last, and an attempt was then
u, aie to arrn-t them, but they escaped The
v'• jr.t of their movements, as published in a
v w llaven panxr, and this fact led to their
j,:, ntffiention, tlweiul Hovey’siof rmant serq
jr,g him a marked copy, of the Cineinnatti G;sjg
z tteto: taming the article, with the nctifi a
tio of Lemos’ whereabouts. Some parties
t-ndeavored to get Lemos free with a suit of
halteas corpus, but failed.
The potatoe rot is spreading in the North
west. Wet weather is the cause.
i hc Postmaster General hits ordered resump
tion of did v mail service from Macon to Col
i; I,:, us, Atiaata. Chattanooga, and other impor
tant points in Georgia by railroad.
r..n. Ewell is trying to obtain the pardon
i oil.) -wi e, who is quite wealthy. lie says
no* liiug about his own, though his appi.cation
:is own file. . , T .
Ad spatch fom the Hon. J. A. Jason, ol
! ‘u a tltih, from Fort Kearney says an lu
j ,) lU a War is ahead, bqt off Irom the overland
! r, ute. Gen* ral Conner is puisuiug them north
, v u d Bom Fort Lirame. General Dodge goes
j ijnt to Fort Larame. The Indians are stiff
! , port, si watching the overland line. No
| •or troops are on the plains than are abso
int-ly needed..
Monday night August 21 the>teain:r Ar
g*. y No. 3, baviug on board the fceven leiir
Ohio R cimeut, three hundred strong, v.e e
blown asi. -re near Hatfield’s Landing, eighty
M.f s below Louisville, on the Ohio river and
exploded Thirty or forty of the soldiers
jumped overboard, eight of whom were
Uiown. 1. About a dozan persons were
{...allied—two or three, it is feared, fatally.
i', !v-htuoy the official vote in 108 counties
iv * h N alt- Union, -41,070 ; Garrad, Opposition,
; *l-701. Neale’s majority, £lB, Two more
! counties remain to be heard lrorn, Neale is
| undoubtedly elected.
J he news irom Europe is very unfavorable
for the crops there, and considerable damage
b been an mined in consequence of the storm.
I hero is no room to doubt that England,
Fiaacewnd Germany, will be compelled to im
p.ut le VelA' from tuis country. lathe south
of Russia the crop will he short, end that
country will not probably be an exporter to
any <xttnt this year.
Outhwaicer, Schimer & C.o’s oil refinery,
Cincinnati, was'burned, August 23d. Loss s3o*
000.
Tne price of coal is advancing in the New
York market, strikes in the mining region
is the cause.
The Mercury at Mount Washington August
22, stood at 28 Ice half an iiJHi tnick.
Richmond letter writers say Davis will be
taken to lira: city for trial.
The authorities have ordered the establish
m ; t of soup bouses in the several sub districts
of Viigiui.i, for the freed mcU, where they col
lect in coi siderable numbeis. Ail rations, ex
cept such as can be provided at their own
houses, are to ho discontinued.
ihe Canadian Government wili remove to
Ottowu next moDth, when Parliament will
close.
Butinesfl in San Frapcisco is on the increase.
Since the news of tho Shenandoah’s atrocities
whale oil hu3 advanced thirty per cent in
Northjym uiaiket-:.
The Government machine shops at Norfolk,
Va , have been d'seontined.
The Government Commissioners to the
Grand Indian Couucil has arrived at Leaven
wonh. ■&
The falling off in the Canadian customs the
[ia-L year an compared ‘with the year previ
ous is $ 117,(100.
A special to New Orleans Times, dated An
um 22, says the Mississippi convention'passed
an ordinance declarijg the ordii.auceof seces
wiop nuli and void. It repeals all thß ordi
nances of the Convention of 18(51 except th'o
revenue oidinaute, which the Legisfature will
act upon. At an informal meeting of the del
egates in their individual capacity, a memorial
w,pii-seiited, expressed in eloquent terms,
pribioiiing President Johnson to extend par
iion to Joseph David and Governor Clark,
widen was acquiesced in by all present.
M<. i u Gen Wright, comjnaadingjthe Depart
ment of 'Texas, had lurived at Galveston.
New Orleans dates of August 22, quote cot
ton at -10 a 43e.
Tne woitns aro ravaging (he cotton fields on
ihc TallahaUihie tiv. r.
The first halo oi Texas cotton received in
New Oilcans, raised in Brazos county, sold at
oljy.
r he p 1 aiders in the vicicity of Lynchburg
have discharged all their hands. The cily
authorities ol that place have passed an ovdi
uauce expelling nil colored persons Who have
not been three years residents iu tho place,
it is hinted that the government will interfere.
Gen. Fremont is at the head of an organiza
tion who are about commencing iron mauu
lacmre in Missouri.
Lata Washington despatches say that of tho
2d,tan) applications lor pardon received it is
staied that tho Dissident Las actually pardon
ed less than otic hundred.
Up to Aug 21, tho total receipts for (ho
quarter oi internal revenue up to that date
amounted lo"$! 1,970 1)22.
G u. Cheatham is iu Washington trying to
get. a pardon.
A patent lilts just been issued to the State of
fowa for 4,(i18 acres, as indemnity lor that
quantity ol swamp land iu Montgomery Coun
ty of that State, which his been disposal ot by
the Uiiitcd States as other public land.
According to Hayti advices, the rebels still
hold Cape llaytien ; and it is thought they will
still continue to hold it. The attempt of
foreign cousins to settle matters has (Tiled.
Ail accounts from St. Domingo setm to iudi
cate the troubles not yet settled between Spain
ami the offloads of the island.
A Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia
inquirer says : “It ts known that Guv. Suur
key of Mississippi has failed to keep his prom
ises made to President Johnson, either in letter
or spirit ; and it is not improbable that his
concern may come to a summaiy close before
long.” *
A s{ ecial to the New York Herald says Judge
Loohiauo and other Georgians represent the
weak ot recouHruction in Georgia as progress
ing satisfactorily to the Union men.
Mexico is now being devastated by guerilla
warfare.
Th finances of the treasury are in a good
condition The Secretary can make a further
issue of compound treasury notes, if required
A grand reception is to be given President
Johnson on his visit to Richmond.
An attempt will be made iu next Congress
to revive the Monroe doctrine.
iho French papers talk of “Gen. Shetidan’s
threatening demonstrations on Northern Mex
ican l.'omier
St yen Major Generals, thirty five Brevet
M »j >r Generals, and forty-three Brigadier Geu
erais are to be mustered out of service.
Ihe pardon granted A Dudley, President of
Richmond aud \ork river railroad, has been
revoked
!he Tribune's special notes that General
Grant recently remarked that sufficient evi
dence. had be. u elicited to convict Mr. Davis
. eomplieiiy in President Lincoln’s assassina
tion. ana the late of the conspiraio.s retriesthet
ot Davis.
M j >r Walsh nnl his accomplice are to be
force.! to dic-gorge the colored school luud up
p: opriate.l in Washington.
Bounty brokers and bounty jumpers are
bei; g .hummed cut ot service, and imprisoned
for t: iee years at hard labor.
M ax'm i a i's letter of condol nee on the death
of Mr. Lincoln to the Pns dent has been re
fused .
IK vv seizures of whiskey have been made
St Cincinnati and Indianapolis, involving
s. v. r:.I million dollars.
Mure fi.-hting is expected in Panama.
Sterling Price has been made Major Gene
ra! liy Maximilian ami empowed to rUse 30,
0 0 men. Every tbing quiet on Rio Grande.
Geo. 11. Z atmoD, oi Kentucky, has been ap
.P' luted Consul Ipr Denmark.
The Nashvi.le stove and tin ware estiblish
ment ct Me Dure, Buck & Cos., was burned
A-: 28di. L -ss SOO 000. No insurance.
ine Suite Department has ordered that pa
ri a[ i .tiers against whom no special cha.ges
are pending can obtain passports to toreign
•“ouuTries on condition they do not return with
out lire special permission of the President.
Tilt) Shenandoah had destroyed the bark
Susan Abigail, near the Gulf Anadair. to j
seems the Sustn Abigail La-J San Fraacsc*
papers of the 10th July, cc turning acc .ouU- ;
of the collapse of the r* beilem, but Waddell ■
would not credit them a tbef camg rom
Kcrt&eru pipers, art'; ••-.noonnud Uis intention ;
of burning every American vc-?»t-l lie could j
find. A ter and -rr-y.ng the Su. ;*n, tho pirate j
went towards Befaang ltra*.t and the Aoic
cceftT*. At the 100 of Lawrence Island he
burned the ship G n. Wiiiiams, oi New Lon- :
don, and the next morumg burned five more j
ves.--ei3.
~ It is thought in Washington that Hon. A
H. Stephens will be relt **• and.
It is said G.m Lee wid avail himself of a
recent order and leave the copfftry.
Our officers on Die Rio Grande expect to see
lively times before they leave toat section.
Young Ketchum has been arrested in New
Yoik. He hasjiiad an interview with his father,
triecds and victims. The latter will mite up
a statement sofl(|
Pieston King and G* n. Vv'alker have gone to
Europe. Gov. Moon is still in Cuba, await
ing Washington orders. Magrnder is iu .Yiexi
C' :
The steamer Brother Jonathan f{ora Sin
Francisco, for P -ctland, Oregon and Victoria,
with between 200 act! 500 passengers, was to
tally i.-.«t ueat Camp Linc.dD, Oregon, on the
30th- July. Only lourieen men and one wo
man were saved. Among tie passengers weie
!J -iig.tO'n Wilgbt and family, Lieut Ws.it,
Capt Ohaddock o! lha R venue Service. Geu
Wright, was en route.to take command of the
Department of Columbia.,
Gen. Ros.ecrnns received a most eutkuY.astic
welcome .in A..11 Fracciseo.
Many of the bmi'heru wca in Washicgton
believe that the transition from free to slave
iabojsin the South wlii work better than iiist
represented-
Upwards of ft fly Government pensioners at
the South l ave applied for the renewal oi their
pensions which had been stopped by tho war,
but only three have been granted New pen
sion agents ate soon to be appointed in the
Southi rrt Stales.
Lieut. Col. Biney the paymaster of the de
partment of Virginia, has been ordered to
Washington to an.- wer to seine questionable
transaction?, cut oi which he ir , reported to
have m; tie from ddity to fifty tlfe*is uid dollar:,
A Coustai.litu pie correepundent of tho N’.
Y. Tribune under date of Aug. 2, states deaths
from cholera amount to about six hundred per
d--y.
Parties have been arrested in Virginia who
had committed to their charge during tho-last,
day a of the yyar about SBO,OOO of Government
gold. They claim they have spent most of it.
The railroad between Brazos and Brownsville,
Texas, is being laid. The telegraph line be
tween the two places will be finished in a few
days.
The Pacific Warehouse in San Francisco,
was destroyed by fire August 2. Loss a quar
ter of a million.
The operations of (he Indians tends to stop
telegraphic communt* aiipa wMu California,
they cut aud carry off Die wires.
L is now ascertained that the extent of the
abstraction of funds, combined with the for
gery of gold checks by Ketchum, aggregate
$4,200,000.
An office, to procure white labor from Eu
rope, has been opened in Mobile.
Cotton ceases to come into ShrevesporL
owing to the seizure by the military of nearly
ai! that arrive?..
Complaints are becoming general in Louis
iana in regard to the non-fulfilment of cou
tuicfs made by the'freed men.
Biowiisviile Texas is growing amazingly
luciative. Trade . lias commenced with the
Mexican rnnohercs on the Upper Rio Grande
The steamrhip Francis. B. Catting cleared*
from Mobile for Liveipool with a cotton cargo
valued at s'lßo,ooo, being the first c into ship
ped irom Mobile lor a foreign port since its
aceiipaiion. t
Gju. Woods has issued an order forbidding
the removal oi cotton, in Alabama, from ihc
planfations or warehouses for the present.
Gov. Parsons of Alt, has proclaimed against
cotton and horse etoaliug. and is providing
for re organization and the sitting us courts.
The bureau ot pinions has been organized
Hou. J. WiVoa is at the head. The rooms for
the cieiks will uc in the White House, if pos
sible.
Hereafter the vacancies in the government
printing house at Washington which can he
filled with women will be filh.ql with the
widows and orphans af soldiers.
It is suggested that military courts will soon
he established iu Maryland tuprotect the rights
oi fr< odmen.
But eight prisoners ate now confined in the
old capital prison, Washington.
The rumor that President Johnson and
ChiH Justice Chant have consulted in regard
to Mr Davis is pronounc' and incorrect.
Secretary Stauton is taking a vacation from
Washington of a week ur two duration.
Consular reports from Europe state that the
cholera is Steadily advancing westward.
ThoCre.asury Department .has f »vwarded
the Fist of the seven thirty loan notes to the
subscribers.
Capt. Thornton A. J. whins has been ap
pointed Chief of the BtireJu of Navigatidß* in
the Navy Department.
Gen. Wheeler has been testifying iu defence
of Champ Ferguson at Nashville.
Trains .of artillery continue to arrive at
Brownsvijle, Texas.
News from Mexico give.accounts of Imperial
disa:.*ers.
The recall of the Papal Nuncio, by the Pope,
from Mexico caused a great e. n-jiuon among
the clergymen, who are also openly opposed
to the Emperor.
The Union party claim that they will carry
lowa this tall by thirty thousand majority.
The Fisk expedition to Yellow Stone liver
will not start this fall, for want of a military
escort.
Counterfeit collar greenbacks have made
their appearance at the North.
It is said that James A. Seddon and Goa.
Lee’s names were stricken out ot the Were in
dictment at the solicitation of Gen. Grunt.
Both the cotton und corn crops iu many
sections of Tennessee are unpromising.
QanFons have bom placed in several sec
tions of Arkansas to protect freed men-
The Presidents or Superintendents' of rail—
‘reads hr the Gulf Stab are now trying to re
place their worn out. rolling stock by purohas
ing that used by the U S, military railroads
during the war. They have no money and no
credit in the general market, and are therefore
trying to buy on time .
Wall street New York is recovering from
late defalcations."
Major Gen. Mesde, accompanied by Brevet
Major Gen-Web.-ter, inspector Genetal ; Col.
BatcUefiler, Q. uretermaster, and Lieut. Cos!.
Meade, Aid da Uarnp, are now on a miiitaiy lour
of inspection through the Departments of
Virginia, North Carolina, and .-South Carolina.
Gov. Parsons, of Alabama, has telegraphed
to tho President to au-v-md all peutions lor
pardon recommended by him prior to August
22. It is not known what prompted the move
ment, but it is believed to have some connec
tion with the arrival iu Wa.-hir.gtou of u large
number of pardon seeking Alabamians.
Ic is stated iu well iuforme i circles that tho
Government will arrest and hold tor trial the
lsad ere o! the rebellion, and p redon all others
by proclamation.. '
It is generally believed that our Government
will oppose by diplomacy the aggressions oi
Spain upon St Domi - go, and perhaps with
string measures.
A large party of Swedes have arrived in
Richmond. They will settle uii tho Upper
James
Everything Is reported quiet throughout
Virginia at present.
A lame sv zuro cf whiskey has beeen made
a*- Williamsburg, LI- for non payment of du
ties.
A remarkable forgery and robbery has'coaie
to light m New York. One George Gladwin
obtained $2u4,000 in railway bonds of one of
Die clerks ot the St. Nicholas- Hotel on r. lour
ed order, and a No. us-d a cheek tor nearly
$4,000 ou a b cue >u that city with a forged iu
dorremenb He was urres'ed j a New llaven
Conn., aud at mice c- ntresed Ids guilt.
Wiiz, keeper ot Audefsonviiie priion. has
plead not^ui.ty.
Gen. Grant is expected in Washington soon
to attend to official badness.
The number of while troops retained to con
stitute the Regular Army wilt number 125,000
men.
a Washington dispatch says, reports of the
destitution in the Southern States are fully con
firmed by the observations of the Special Pro
vest Marshal of the War Department, wno has |
p i returned from a brief trip through the
S- uUiem States, whither he went on official
business.
J--bn Mitchell is now allowed to take open
air < xereise at Fortress Monroe, atteaded with
a quart].
• ihe statistics of Bj3ton Post Office for the
fiscal year, ending June 30, 18C5. show a-stet
profit all of S34B,S‘Jt) for the Govern
ment-.
The community at Pittsburg, Va., is much
excited by the discovery of a horrid murder *
also by a poisoning case —p which two persons
have died.
Several millions of doilar.s worth of whis
kev have b-’en seized by revenue officers at
Cincinnati.
The Austin, Texas Inh-llmeccer give accounts
of horrible viliian barharities on the lrontier.
Robbers continue on public roads, and horse
stealing is carried oa The Austin San An
tonio llerahi et-.tes daring and fiendish depre
dations; and cold blooded murders co>mmitt,ed
by Indians, near Fredericksburg. Gen. Mer
ritt lias taken steps towards the speedy pun
bfiment of the guilty parties, detachments ol
his cavahy being sent cut to scout the gwhole
country,
A destructive fire in l niontown, Art. f ae
stroyed the entire bnsine.-s portion of the town.
A call is | üblished in the Louisville paper
j for a National tobacco Convention, to meet
| in that city on tho second Wednesday in Sep
tember.
The Ct mmissionev of Intern®.! Revenue has
| made the annexed decisions: That vessels are
| uot regarded as merchandise within the mean
ling of section ninety nine of the act of Juae‘
30tb, 1864 Land the tax of one-eighth of one
per cent, imposed by said s ction upon the
salt sos merchandise is not to be assessed on
the sale of vessels. In regard to dividends,
ilie Commissioner has made the following de
cioion : It is held by ilrs office that- all divi
dends declaied by any of the institutions men
tioned in section No. 120 of the excise law
j-ir.cs the first day of July, 1864, are subject to
the tax of five per without regard to the
time when the profits upon v.hich such divi
dends are based were earne t.
The N. Y. Gerald’s Quebec correspondent
eays Canadians have already, to a certain ex
tent, miterated the proceedings which their
delegates in the Datriot Commercial Conven
tion said would be tho result of the non remo
val by the United [States ot the reciprocity
treat)-. This was nothing less than throwing
open their ports along the border and en
couraging smuggling. Snuggling is now
carrier! on to an almost unlimited extent along
the frontier, aud it is said with the knowledge
of the Canadian'ministry. A correspondent
des vibes the condition of the province as very
unpromising. Taxes aud other burdens are so
heavy, aud the crop prospect is so poor, that
thousands of the inhabitants have at * etdy sold
cut aud emigrated to the far West. Real estate
has fallen fifteen percept, in value within
the pa s t eighteen months, and it is estimated
that in the city of Toronto alone there are 1,-
. 300 empty tenements,
Gen. Slocum has shut down by peremptory
order on Gov, Sharkey’s proj -ct for focal ui ti
tary organization to put down jay hawkers in
Misissippi, • . *
Two ’cat-goes of coolies have bean imported
into Panama.
A private letter says the Japanese Govern
• had ceded hull an acre of land on the
canal at Tide Water, for.a coal depot for the
prospected California and China steamship
Company.
The Shanghai thorough clean
ing of the city, of the Russian
plague.
A Fort Taramie dispatch of August 25, states
that the Indians are alt moving North with
great rapidiiy.
Young Ketchum was -arrainged August 28.
The case was postponed until Monday.
Gen. Thomas has Beverly reprimanded Cos).
Blucaburn and Captain Quinn, for their coward
ly and uncfficeriike attack oa Gen. Wheeler,
at Nashville, and promised them a court raar
‘ tial if they had not been mustered out the
service.
Ex-Congressman George 11. Yeatman of
Ky , hits been appointed Minister to Denmark.
The number of Public animals sold thus far
amount to 25,000. Amount realized $4,00,-
000.
THE MISSISSIPPI CONVENTION.
A dispatch to N, O. Times dated Jackson
..ugust 23, says the Mississippi State Cenven
tiot adopted an ordinance ratifying all -laws
and official acts passed since the State’s seces
sion, not repugnant to the Constitution of the
United Ptates and of Mississippi prior to Janu
ary, 1861, except laws concerning crimes, and
acts enabling railroads to pay monies borrow
ed by them; repeals all £laws authorizing the
payment of dues to lftc State in Cob federate
scup, and distillation of spirits on Sta e ao
county ; ratifies all official acts, proceedings,
judgments, decrees, &j., cl the several courts,
wan aU sales made by administiatiori and olli
ers acting in judicial capacity ; authorizes ex
ecutors aud others to compromise with persons
against whom they hold notes as to lha real
value of tho property for which such notes
were given ; author z»s paioi testimony to bo
taken to prove whether or uot contracts con
templated sjejie or currency ; ratified allmar
aiages consummated since January 1861.
Gov. Sharkey ' ommunicattd a telegram,
from President Johnson, congratulating the
convention on the progress uakiuar in paving
the way to re-admission into the Un on. Ait
obstacles will ba removed; says he will restore
iltc writ of ‘habeas corpus and remove the
troops at* he earliest moment, when the State
makes sufficient progress to have entirely re
turned to allegiance. Hopes the example of
Mississippi will be followed by other States.
Judge E. S. Fisher was nominated for Gov
ernor, aud the Convention then adjourned,
sine (lie.
OHIO DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The Democratic Convention assembled at
Columbus, August 24, aud organized by elect
ing iUifus P. Rannoy, President. The follow
ing ticket was nominated : For Governor,
Gen. Geo. W. Morgan ; Lieutenant Governor,
William Long ; Supreme Judges, P. Van
frump and Thomas M. Key ; State Treasurer,
' Wilson ; Scinarf Commissioner, H. 11. Btirny ;
Board ot Public Works, O. Basil ; Clerk ol the
Supreme Court, D. S Donuor.
The resolutit ns oppose a consolidation of all
power in the Federal Government, and main;
ta.u the do’clriue of ,si; t te Rights as laid dowtl
in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of
17!>S ; declared that the ordinances of seces
sion being void the Southern States are still in
the Union as States, and entitled .to all the re
seived rights and to their due representation
in Congress. They denounce all efforts to con
fer the light Os suffrage, and discourage negro
immigiation into the State. They compliment
the soldiers on their valor and lortitude ; re
paid the national debt as a national corse;
demmd the exercise of the most rigid econo
my ; recommended that the national taxes be
col'ectc-d by the county treasurers, as far as
possible ; that the militia commutation"tax be
repealed ; denounced the arrest of citizens by
military authority in States where the civil
tribunals haye been unmolested ; declare that
the cout nutd suspension of the habeas corpus
since the termination of tho war. the denial ot
right of trial by jury, . and interference with
elections, as iu recent instances in Kentucky
and Tennessee, are revolutionary violence cK
lire Constitution.
The last -resolution declares that, while we
will .resolutely condemn all infractions of the
Constitution, and while Gen. Sherman’s -acts ih
April )a-t were not at once ratified.by the
Federal Executive,'we will nevertheless stand
by President Johnson in all Caastitutional ef
forts Jo restore to the State the exercise of
thqir rights and powers within tho Union. —
Speeches were made by General Morgan, Yal*
landingham.
STw Orleany Market—August 24.
Cottoa sales 1,750 bales. Prices unchanged;
weeks sales 15,000 bales ; weeks exports 17,000
bales; stock 90.000 bales. Sugar house mo
rasses dull and drooping. Freights jto I^.
*“t. L«;ui* Marker—Aegust 2S.t
Receipt of cotton 94 b lies ; flour 9 to 11£ ;
oats 40, new crop 55 : tobacco lugs lower;
bee' steady.
T t ri et—August 23.
C ttoa 4S, flour without important change
also wi?isky, wheat advanced 2 cents but
closed witJi downward tendency; corn un
changed; coffee quiet and firm; sugar 12£ to
14 cents; pork $32 SC ; sterling 9J; gold Tis,
gove.nment sic-aka firm,
S'*. r • - -
-r* - t- 4-•£ -'* *«.-*
i-a-.G *••£_'.4 itsfc.tGate 4 is- t" •- k u i t • Y.a.*
OTiTS OF GEORGIA. COLUMBIA tOUfcTT.
ft Wh reas the estate f T vi BiaU » m . pi-.f -t.-d: |
These arc tuereturc to cito aud admouith, a.: aud siugu ai the I
kindred aud creiitois of said deceased, to be and appear at my |
office wi:ulu the time pres .nbed by w , re si: w cauae. if *i 7 1
they have, why saM letters ot uJmh*DtrA*ion should not he
granted to the C*c.k of heper.or Couxl etf ta.u county, or
so.oe other fl t aud proper poison.
Given under mv hand aud official signature at office in Ap
rdiug, this 7»a uar of Jury, 1865. __ . „ „ ..
jj 7 6w29 W, tV HILL 'S, t ( rc*v.
CITATfi OF GEORGIA. COLUMBIA COU - l'X
ft Wh reas tnefttiteoi Joh, s' Young, suit presented:
t hese te there!, ‘re to cite and admonish, all an 1 singular the
kindred .cad ereddurs o! said deceased, to oe and appear at my
office within the 1 me pre.-c.ibed by law, to show cause, ii any
they have, why said letters of ad.niulsir.luou should n< t be
granted to Oi-.rk O: Superior Court of sai t couacy, or acme
otuer hi and pr -pet pers-.n
Given ur.! rmy hand and official signature, at office in Ap
p'ing, ti.is Till and iv of Juiy. ISA.
j,Tow9 ' \V W. SHIELDS. Oru’y.
ilO i'it'L ______
JSUSSJITtttiiv
tVo'IGE.
All persona indebted to the Fs'ate of Waters Dunn,
ia c .of Go a mb'a c uinty dec ased. Era r. q rested to make pay
ment to the undo signed, and those havli g claims against a »id
Estate-ire notified ti n.is.ut them, duly attested, within the
time prescribed by law, pyop nv .ues-e.l
E.MC U CORU, } Adminlslratoia.
TkTCTICE.
Xs All p rsns indebted to the Estate of J. I’. McCord,
lute ot Columbia Countv. de eased, are requested to make
iinmedi te payment to the undersigned, and those having
claims against said estate, will present them within the- time
pr.se ioedby law, properly attested.
y E. & Z MoCOUD,
iy7«29 Administrators de boots non.
CITATIONS
FOii LEfTERS DISMISSOKY.
CtTATE OF GEORGI A, RICHMOND COUNTY.
C? VVliereas, Jouu J Clayton, guar.im ot Wiley M.
i yt .11. minor, (now of nge ) appli s to me for letters of
Dismission.
These are thcr fore to cite and admonish a' 1 , and singular
the kindred aud tr emis of said minor, to be and appear at
my office, 00 or before the liret Monday in •September next, to
show cause, if any they have, why said h Stirs should not be
granted.
Given under my hand and official signatu#, it office in Au
guste., this till day of July, 1865.
iy? 2iw iam y DAVID L. ROATH, Ordinary.
Ct C ATE OF Gfi >RGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY,
ft Whereas hbimuel N Yomg'lood, guardian of Sarah
A- Bussey, (i.w Mirali a. Dmst ) applies to me for Letters oi
Dismission
These are therefore, to cite and admonish all, and singular
the .kindred aud fiends ol said minor, t > be aul appear at
my office, on or before the first Monday in •- cpteni! s next, to
show cause, if guy they have, why said Letters should not be
granted.
Given under ray hand and official signature, at offiejin Au
gust, tills 3., day of July, 1u65. -
DAVID L. ROATH,
jy7 SCw lam2S Ordinary..
(CT ATKOB r GEuiIUIA, RICHMOND COUNT A . ~
Whereas, Wil.iam Mackie, Administrator on the Estate
of James 10, Mackie, deceased, applies to me for Letters of Dis
mission ;
Tnese are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular
the. kindred and creditors of said deceased, to he and appear at
my office, on or before- the first Monday in November next, to
show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at office n Au
gusta, this 3d day ot April, 131i5.
DAVID L. ROATH, Ord’y.
April 0,1805. Omlamlo
CT A T EOF GEORGIA, KiCHMON D CO U N I Y. ~
Q VUierees, George Da via administia’or 011 the estate ol
David W. Tuilej, deceased, applies o me forletteia fdismls
si u
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singular
the kuulred and credit rsof said deceased, to be and appear at
my office, on or before the first Monday in r-eptember next,
to show cause, If any they have, why said Letters shoqUi not
be granted.
Given under my hand fhd official signature, at officein Au
gusta, this Bth yQt February, 1865.
!V“ lo atiwli!u7 DAVID L. KOATII, Ordinary.
Ct TATE OF GEORGI A, RICHMOND COUNTY.
Ed Whereas Josep'i H. spears. guardian of Catherine E.
Spears, minor (now of age) applies to me fir Letters of dismis
sion.
These are therefore, to cite and admonish alt, and singular
the kindred and friends of said miner, to be and appear at my
office, on or before the first Monday in November next, to
show cause, if any ih y have, why said Letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Au
gusta, this sth day of (September, 1364.
DAVID L. ROATH,
sep7 26w1wu37 Ordinary.
OTATE UF GEO'tGl 1, COLUMBIA COUNT i
if} Whereas, B. F. B dton, Administrator ou me estate of R.
M. Bo.tou, deceased, applies to me for Getters of Dismission:
These are therefore to cite ahd admonish all and singular t.he
kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be aud appear at my
office, wiihiu the ;irae prescribed by law, to show cause, if any
they have, why said letters should not be granted the said appli
cant.
Given under my hand „«id official signature, at office in Ap
pling, this4Uiaay of October, 1364.
oct7 26wiain4i V/. W. SHIELD*. Ordinary,
CtTATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNT i!
[3 hereas, Beinjamiu F Had 1 dminlslrator on the Ej
late of E izmeth ashingt ai, deceas-<l, applies to me for
letters 1 f dismlssion-
Thesea e therefore to cite and admonish all and singular,
the kindred aud creditors of said dace sand, to lis aad aj pear
at my office, on or before the first Monday in September
next, to sho w c mse. if any they have, way said letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and official slguat.ure at office in Au
gusta, Ulis "thdiy of February, 1865.
DAVID L. ROATH,
feb 8 2Gwlam7 . - Ordinal y.
ST"TKOFGK )RGI A, RICHMOND 1 OUNTY
v hereas, .tackson Vladdox Administrator on the Estate
of Lydia Crawford, Alias t.yuia Buck, d.ceased, applies to
me for letters of dismission.
these »re therefore, to cite and admonish ali and singula:,
the ki -aired and creditors o> said deceased, to be and appear at
««iy offici. on or before the first Monday in .September neat, to
'imow cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be
granted.
Given und -f my hand and official signature at office iu Au
gusta, this 7ih day of February, 1805.
DAVID L. ROATH,
feb 826 w taml Ordinary.
TA’I E OF GEORGIA; CoGUMB-a . OuFl'i.
Whereas, Middleton F-irish, administrator on the estate
of Henry Radford, deceased, appfias to me for letters of oU
mi 'Siou ;
These are therefore to cite and admonish ail ar.il sirtgularthe
kin 'red and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my
office, within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any
they have, why letters should not to granted the said appli
canr..
Given under my hand and official signature at office in Ap
pling, this 21st day ol%ebruary, 1805.
W. W. SHIELDS.
feb2s 26wlam9 Ordinary.
OTATE OF GEORGIA, RI fill JND COUNTY.
Jo a heretts, George Davis, Administrator ou the Es’ate 0
David W.Tihley,decease .applies to me for letters of dis
m ssion.
These are the r.fore to cite and a.lmonl-ib, a’l and singular,
the kindred an 1 c-,Uitors uftaid doc» ised, to be and appear at
my office, on or before the list Monday in i-eptember next,
to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not
be granted.
Given under my hand aid ofllJal signature at office in Au
gusta, this 8!h -ay of February, 1865,
DAVID L. ROATH,
feb 9 26w lam 7 Ordinary.
hi I ATE <# GEORGIA, OGLETHORI’E COUATi:
Wli. reas, Calvin H. Steel, Executor on the estate ol
Larkin T. Rent, deceased, makes application for fetters 01
il smissiou 1 rom said ex-catoisn.p:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the
kindred and irieirtsof said decerned to be amt appear at my
offlc", within the Mine prescribed by law, to show cause, if auy
they have, why said letters should not tie granted.
Given under my hand aud official signature, this 15th day ol
March, 1805. E. O. ttIIAOKELF OKL>,
mhlß 26wi2 Ordinary.
a TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLE l'llOKfiS cOuim.
ft Whereas, James F. O’KeUcv, ad ninistnator on the estate
ot JamesO’lCchey,deeeased, makes application lor letters
ol dismission from said administration:
■J hose are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular
the kindred and creditors of said deceased to he ami appear
a f my office within the time prescribed by law. to show cause,
if any they have, why said letters should not he granted said
"**Si veuunder my hand and official signature St office in Lex
ineton this 10thday ot March, 1805.
mhlS 26 wU ID. C,HACK EL FORD, Odinnrv.
TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLKi'HORi'E (JoOn i 1.
w'hereas, a IreJ J . Stewart, administrator on the Estate
ot Thomas A. Stewart, deceased, makes application for letters
of disraiS3ion fr nn said administration :
These are therefore to cite aud admonish, all and singular
the kindred ami creditors al said deceased, to be and appear at
my office within the time prescribed by law to show
cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not be grant-
Lt Given under my hand and official signatare this 15th day oi
rjTATE OF GEORGIA, COLUMBIA OOUNT k .
ft Whereas, Mrs JVaney Culpepper. Administratrix on the
estate ol W. W. Culpepper, deceased, applies lome for let
t-rs of dismissien:
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all, and 6ingularthe
Mnd ed and creditors of said dec used, to he and appeal at my
office within the time prescribed by iaw, aud show cause, if any
they have, why saiu letters,-Would not be granted to the sale
a *Giyen under my hand and official signature, at office, In Ap
Tiling this 2 Lst day of February, 1865.
P feb242iw9 W. W. SHlELDS.Ordinary.
estate of Georgia Columbia county.
» Whereas, the.es ate of WFu iiu is unrepresented;
j'hese are ther-fore to oise and-admotlsh all and fiaguiar 1 he.
kindred end credit nos said deceased, to be and appear at my
office within the time prescribed by law, lo show cause, if any
they have, why said letters 0. adm lustration should not be
granted toCleik of Superior Court of said county, or some
cittier fir and proper nersm.
G venuid-=r my hand and ffieial figaa'.ure at office, in Ap ■
uling. this 27th day of June, 1865.
pll -W W SHIELDS,
Jy2S6w27 * ordinary.
BY virtue ot an order from Uie Hono >tbU ‘he Oourt o
OrJintry of Columbia county, will be «old before the
srour* H >use door at Ailing, ia ra.ti county, between the le
ira' liou r s of on the Ist Tuesday lu June next, the tollay
in2D'".partv, viz; Filty tbreeac-e3 or .Lat.d, sdjoinjcg lands
ofOolliM Lvek nandK ox; also, two hundred aces, more
or leas adjoining Un sd Ur Smith and Geo. \V. Kvane—also
the following neg osa, vU: 0;d Fanny, Frances, an-' lierthiee
eni d'cu, O.cCiV, Young 1 anay, and her four children.
Terms on dry of aale. i.li. WIHJD,
mavio 6wl'3 ndinr.
‘ AUiIUIaTHVIIOi'V HALK.
1Y miruancenf the 'ast Will and Testament of Sat ah P.o's,
‘late of Columbia county, deceased will be sohl at the late
reg 'en r e jf said deceased, on We-nesdav, June 14th, the
Plantation of said deceas-d. contain o« live hnndred end
twe- ty acres of land, including the grow ng crop on ea‘<l
f -rra whichi# in go and order Also the perishable property
of said deceased, consistr g of corn, todd r, whea% horses,
c e'e, bogs w gi>L«, Blacksmith and p!a'tation tool”, and
alloi her ar iceau ed o-t a ia-m SaM plantation is situ ted
ten nines north of Th omson, on Ga.it ft. &<■ eto continue
from day to day till all is told. Terms on day of sale,
iromuaj o. 8. MORKISS,
may 10 6w2) Adm’r with will annexed.
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