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OUDIN4XCKB AVI) UKNOLL 11 OHfc OF A PUP
LIC NATi lIK, CAshKI) BY MIS OEOIMJIA
CO.YVKVTIOM AT |TW hKM»|O\ IN MILL
KDOICVILLB, IN MO' * IHUS.
AN ORDINANCE.
To make valid private contracts entered into
and executed during the war against the
United States, and to authorize the courts ol
this Btate to adjust the equities between par
ties to contracts made, but not executed,
and to authorize settlements of such con
tracts by persons acting in a fiduciary char
acter.
Section 1. The people of Georgia, in con
vention assembled do ordain, That a 1 ! private
contracts made and executed during the war
against the United States, and not in violation
of the constitution and laws ot this State or
of the United States, shall he as valid and
bindiDg as if made and executed before hos
tilities commenced.
Sec. 2. And it is further ordained, That all
contracts made between the Ist of June 18GI,
and the Ist of June 1865, whether expressed
in writing or implied; or existing in parol and
not yet executed, shall receive an equitable
construction and either party in any suit for
the enforcement of any such contract, may
upon the trial give in evidence the' considera
tion and the value thereof at any time ; and
the intention of the parties os to the particular
currency in which payment was to be made,
and the value of such currency at any time,
and the verdict and judgment rendered shall
be on the principles oi equity. Provided, that
contracts executed within the time specified,
and which were simply in renewal of original
contracts made before the said first day of
June, shall stand upon the footing ot contracts
executed before hostilities commenced.
Sec. 3. And be it further ordained, '(hat
executors, administrators, guardians and trus
tees, shall have power to settle or com
promise all claims or evidence of debt, in their
possission created between tho Ist of June
1861, and the Ist of June 1865, contracted
with reference to payment in Confederate
States of American Treasury notes or other
currency of a depreciated value, and accept
in satisfaction of such indebtedness tho fair
and reasonable value of such claims.
AN ORDINANCE.
To provide for the payment of the officers and
members of the Convention. A
Be it ordained, That tho sum of ten dollars
per day be paid to tho President of this Con
vention during the present session, and the
sum of tour dollars for every twenty miles of
. travel going to and returning from the seat of
government, to be computed by the nearest
carriage route usually travelled ; the sum of
six dollars each per day, to the members of
the Convention, and the sum ot four dollars
for every twenty miles of travel, under the
same rule whicn applies to the President ; the
sum of eight dollars per day to tho Secretary,
and seven dollars each, per day, to the Assist
ant Secretary, Engrossing, Enrolling and other
Clerks, and the Clerk to the Committee of Six
teen, allowed by resolution of the Convention,
with the same mileage as is allowed the mem
bore, and the sum of ten dollars to the Secre
tary for contingent expenses, orso.much there
of as may be necessary to pay the same ; the
sum of six dollars, each, per day, to the Door
keeper, Messenger and Assistant Messenger,
and the same mileage as is allowed the mem
bers ; and tbe sum of fifteen dollars to the
Messenger for contingent expenses.
AN ORDINANCE.
To render null and void all debts of this
State created for the purpose of carrying on
tbe late war against tbe United States.
Beit ordained by the people of Georgia, in
Convention assembled, That all the debts con
tracted or incurred by the State of Georgia,
Olthor as a separate State, or as a member of
the late partnership or confederacy of States,
styled the Confederate States of America, for
the purpose of carrying on the late war of
secession against the United States ot America,
or for the purpose of aiding, abetting or pro
moting said war in any way, directly or indi
rectly, be, and tho same are hereby declared
nail and void ; and the Legislature is hereby
prohibited forever from, in any way, acknowl
edging or payiDg the same debts, or any part
thereof, or from passing any law for that pur
pose, or to secure or provide for thesaid debts,
or any part thereof, by any appropriation of
W° M r, property, stocks, fnnds, or assets of
My kind to that object.
2. Be it ivrther ordained, That inasmuch
M the annual income of tho State, before and
during said war, from taxation and other
aources ot revenue, were amply sufficient for
tbe support of the ordinary civil government
of the State, and for the payment of all its ex
ponses, incident to a state of peace ; and as
the extraordinary expenses which led to the
creation of a debt were tho offspring and re
sults of the war, it is therefore the judgment,
oidlnancc and decree of tho convention, tfiat
all debits of the State incurred during said
sh«U be considered, held aud treated “• debts
incurred for carrying on the war provided,
that nothing herein contained shall prevent
any legislature hereafter 10 assemble, from
making appropriation'’ of money for tbe pay
ment of any claim “gainst the State originating
after the 19tt of January, 1861, where it shall
be made clearly to appear that Buch claim was
founded upon a consideration disconnected
with any purpose of aiding or assisting tho
Srosecutiou of the late war against the United
tates, and not incidental to a state of war.
8. Bo it further ordained, That all bills,
bonds, notes, or evidences of debt whatever,
issued by the State, payable only in Confeder
ate currency, or on a contingency or contin
gencies which have never happened, and can
now never happen, have ceased to be debts at
all, either in whole or part, and are hereby
wholly prohibited from being paid, even
though originally issuod for other purposes
than that of carrying on the said war, for aid
ing or establishing it, directly or indirectly.
AN ORDINANCE.
To authorise the Provisional Qoveveinor, or
auoceaßor to borrow a sum of money for the
proaslng necessities of the Western and At
lantic Railroad :
The people of the State of Georgia in Conven
tion met do ordain, That his Excellency, the
Provisional Governor, or his successor, be, and
either of them are, hereby authorized and em
powered to borrow a sum of money not ex
ceeding one hundred thousand dollars, at a
rate of interest not exceediug seven per cent
per annum, upon bonds of the Stato of Geor
gia, in such form, and upon such time ,as he
may deem expedient, to be used under his di
rection in supplying the pressing necessities of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad ; and fur
ther, tbit the income from said Railroad may
be pledget! for the payment of the interest and
principal of said funds as the same may be
come due.
RESOLUTION
To memoralize the President of the United
Staten in behalf of Jefferson Davis and others:
Resolved, That a committee of live bo ap -
So In tod by the chair to memoralize the Presi
ent of the United States in behalf of Jefferson
Davis and Alexander H. Stephens; and of
James A. Seddon, of Virginia. A. G. McGrath
of South Carolina, Allison aud David L. Yulee
of Florida, and H. W. Mercer, of Georgia’
now confined as prisoners in Fort Pulaski, at
the mouth of Savannah River, aud all other
prisoners.
A RESOLUTION
Asking the Executive clemency in behalf of
oitusns not yet pardoned:
JSM 1 , 1 commiUee of five be ap
pointed by the chair, whose duty it shall be to
memorialise his Excellency Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States, invoking the
executive clemency in behalf or those of our
fellow-citizens, belonging to the classes except
ed from the benefits of the late Amnesty Pro
clamation, and who may be as yet uupardoned.
AN ADDRESS.
To the President of the United States, from
committee of five ;
Els Excellency Andkkw Johnson.
President of the United States .
Tbs people of Georgia, through her dele
gates in Convention assembled, ‘respectfully
and earnestly invoke the exercise cf the ex
ecutive olemenoy in behalf of those of our
failow-citixens embraced within the excep
tion* of the late Amnesty Proclamation who
May be as yet unpardoned.
Imcluiing as the vast roll of her disfran
■lMud Oltiiena does many cf her finest intel
lee'e and purest patriots, and involving much
of her available wealth, the Convention of
our State respectfully recommend these men
to your magnanimous clemency as cur needed
coadjutCMS in the mighty task ot lecrgauizi
tion, and as worthy subjects of your most
generous kindness.
The convention pledg-s their future fidelity
to the government of the United Stales The
very tenacity of their devotion to the South in
the late struggle, tbe very herosim and mag
nitude of fir efforts in an unsucceesul cause,
and the ve:& bivalry of their characters as
evinced in t. 1 trying vicissitudes of a gigantic
war, will be your last guarantee of the virtue
of their resignation to the result, and of the
sincerity of their allegiance to a government
wbich disarms them by its magnanimity, en
chains their gratitude by its kindness, and
punishes them only with its clement pardon
Believe us sir, there is no looking back, the
State of Gaorgia is prepare* to do her whole
duty in and to the government, and she now
asks for the restitution to her oontrol, and use
of her entire citizens, for whose integrity and
loyalty she gives most bolernn pledge, in or
der that they mav assist her to work out from
her travail and desolation the high destiny she
still trusts is in Btore for her and them, under
a government that has just emerged unharmed
from the most desperate convulsion of tho
world’s history, aud whose tremendous power
will ba infinitely strengthened by its im
measurable benignity.
ADDRESS.
To the President of the United States.
To His Excellency, Andrew Johnson,
, President of the United States
The people of the Statftff-Georgia, now in
Convention, having repealed all ordinances
and resolutions by them heretofore adopted,
with a purpose to separate themselves from
tho United States, and to enter into another
Confederacy ; and having adopted a Constitu
tion strictly republican, wherein the suprema
cy of the Constitution, constitutional lawsj
arid treaties of tho United States of America
are distinctly affirmed ; having therein recog
nized the emancipation, by the United States
Government,, of poisons previously held as
slaves in this State, and ordained, in the fun
damental law, that neither slavery nor in
voluntary servitude (save as a punish
ment for crime) shall hereafter exist in Geor
gia ; and having, as they conceive, done all
things necessary and proper, on their part, to
the full and complete restoration of their
State to her rights and privilges as a State, and'
as a member of the American Union, respect
fully request that all needful executive and
legislative measures be taken to effect such
restoration as speedily as possible.
We, the delegates of the people, fully inform
ed as to their purposes and desires, assure your
Excellency that it is their fixed intention to
perform their whole duty as citizens of the
United States; that their desire is to live un
der the Constitution, in peace and harmony
with tho whole people, and to see sectional
strife banished forever from the national coun
cils.
We moreover express to you, sir, their en
tire confidence in your just and kind inten
tions towards them, and their anticipations of
your conciliatory and trustful consideration of
their acts and doings in this Convention.
A RESOLUTION
Askiog the President of the United States to
pardon Josiah Tattnall.
Resolved by the people of Georgia in Con
vention assembled, That we, the members of
this convention, in behalf of the whole people
of Georgia, do invoke the kind consideration
of His Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, in behalf of Josiah Tatt
nall, a citizen of tho State of Georgia, who
has done his country good service, aud earnest
ly pray that his Excellency will remove the
disabilities imder which he now labors and
grant to him a fall pardon with restoration of
tfce small property which he held at the time
of h is resignation from the Navy of the United
States.
Resolved, That the foregoing signed by the
President of this Convention, and attested by
the Secretray, be forwarded to his Excellency
the President of the United States.
RESOLUTION
To raise a commission of five, consisting of
Messrs Starnes, Stephens and others, to pro
vide a Code &c.
In view of the changed relations of the citi
zens of this State, to the large number of F t,r_
eons recently held by them as slaves P now
recognized as Freedmeu, and of ( " e impera
tive obligation resting upon ~:,e fofnaer to give
efficient protection to th* la H er i a &d to pro
mote among them * Jjt! observance of law and
order, habits of ■ ;aC * Ul3tr y and moral improve
ment:
1 p., it resolved, That a commission of five
jv-aons, viz: Messrs. Ebenezer Starnes of
Richmond, Linton Stephens of Hancock, Wm.
Hope Hull of Clark, Logan E. Bleckley of At
lania, and Lewis N. Whittle of Bibb, be and
they are hereby appointed forthwith to prepare
and report to the Governor at the earliest prac
ticable day to be laid before the General As
sembly at the next session, a code or system of
laws to carry into effect the fifth paragraph of
tho third seclion of the second article, and
the third clause of the second section of
the fourth article of the Constitution adopted
by this ConventioD, and that they be requested
to meet at Milledgevilie, on ths 13th instant.
2. That any three cf said commissioners
may act, and may in their discretion fill va
cancies in their own body occasioned by the
non acceptance or resignation of any member
of it. and that this resolution be communicated
by the Secretary to each commissioner.
3. That the Goneral Assembly be requested
to make prevision for their compensation.
A RESOLTUION.
Authorizing the Governor to appoint three
Commissioners for the State to enquire into
the Finances of the State, &c.
1. Resolved, That His Excellency the Gov
ernor bo recommended to appoint a Commis
sion of three competent persona to whom shall
be assigned the duty of making a thorough
examination and investigation of the financial
operations of the State lrorn the first of Jan
uary 1861, to the present time, and report the
result of such investigation to the next Leg
islature.
2. That the Commissioners so appointed
shall before entering on the discharge of their
duties be sworn faithfully to discharge the
duties of said commission and be authorized to
administer oaths—send for persons and pa
pers and have power to compel attednance of
witness, and require ail financial agents of the
State to make such reports of their receipts
and disbursements as may be necessary for the
Commissioners to arrive at all the facts neces
sary to a proper discharge of their duty.
3. That the Governor be authorized to pay
such Commissioners as he may appoint a fair
and reasonable compensation for their servi
ces.
Be it further Resolved, That the Provisional
Governor be requested to take from Mr. Henry
Brigham an assignment of aP bis interest in
the sixteen hundred aud fifty (1,650) bales cot
ton purchased by said Henry Brigham from A.
Welbur, agent for the State, and on receiving
such assignment, that he pay Mr. Brigham auy
expense he may have incurred in and about
said cotton, provided the same do not exceed
two hundred dollars ($200) and also deliver
up the notes of said Brigham given tor said
Cotton.
Be it further Resolved, That the Governor
and our members in the Senate and Congress
of the United State?, be respectfully urged to
press the claim of this State for this cotton and
all other cotton belonging to this State and
taken possession of by the United States au
thorities.
A RESOLUTION.
For the Relief of the Tax Payers of the Sure
of Georgia.
Whereas, by the misfortunes and results of
the late war, the people of the State of Georgia
have, in a great measure, been left moneyless,
and many of them without any reasonable
prospect, at an early day, of making money,
and many, too, holders of large real estates,
such as lands, which are, from the embarrassed
condition o‘ the people dormant, and like'y to
remain so for some time to come, to the own
ers of which it would be a great sacrifice to
force a sale of such property, at this time,
to meet the tax demands of the State and
General Government thereof.
Resolved, That this Convention most respect
fully recommend for the consideration of the
ensuing Legislature, and urges upon there the 1
passage of some bill, based upon the credit of
this Stale, that will, as far as practicable, j
relieve the people of an immediate, direct, i
burdensome tax, both froth the State and Gen
oral Government, until the pecuniary condi- i
lion of the country will better enable tire peo
ple to other wist meet these demmds.
RESOLUTIONS
Authoriz'ug the Preeident of this Convention
to convene the same under certain contin
gencies, &c
Whereas a contingency may arise which will
make it necessary (or the assembling of this
Convention, or the election of new members to
a Convention, and to prevent the agitation
and excitement that might ensue from anoth
er election:
Be it therefore Resolved, That this Cfnven
tion, adjourn to day at 12 M , and stand ad
journed, subject to the call of the President of
the same. Should a contingency arise in re
gard to our Federal relations, or other cause,
which, in his judgment, will make it neces
sary for the Convention to ba again convened
provided said call bo made within six
months—if not made within that Ttime, then
this Convention to stand adjonrned bine die.
And provided further, that in the event of the
death, resignation, or other disability of any
member of this Convention, the vacancy shall
be filled by election under proclamation of
the Governor.
2 Resolved, That in the event of the remov
al, death, or resignation, or inability of the
President of this Convention, then the same
authority vested in him by the foregoing reso
lution, be and the same is hereby vested in
the Governor or officer acting as Governor ot
the State.
A Memorial to the Secretary of tho Treasuary
as to assessment of Taxes, etc:
Whereas, under the acts of the Congress of
the United States, and the instructions of the
Treasuary Department, the assessors for the
State of Georgia, are about to assess a tax up
on real estate, npoa the valuation of 1860,
and whereas the value of that description of
property now, when the assessment is about to
be made is much below that of the year 1860,
and will operate injuriously upon the agricul
tural interest of the State, now greatly de
pressed.
Therefore Resolved, Ist, That a Committeo
of five, includmg the President cf the Conven
t on, as chairman, be appointed by’the Prcsi
dent whose duty it shall be to memoralize the
Hon. Hugh McCulloch’, Secretary of the Treas
ury, requesting a suspension of the assessment
until the meeting of the Congress of the Unit
ed States, and that if compatible with his sense
of jus ice he recommend such a modification
of the internal revenue Taws as will allow the
assessment for the tax of 1861 to be
made upon the present value of real estate.
2nd. That said Committee place the|memo
rial, when prepared, in the hands ot the Pro
visional Governor, with the request that he
forward it to the Secretary of the Treasury
and give it the influences of his recommenda
tion, if it comport with his sense of propriety.
Report and Resolutions of Committee of six
teen.
The committee of sixteen recommend the
adoption of the following resolutions :
Resolved, That the repealing ordinance,
the Constitution and all other ordinances,
adopted by this Convention, when signed by
tbe President aud countersigned by the Secre
tary, be presented to bis Excellency, the Pro
visional Governor, with a request that ha cause
the same to be sealed with the great seal of the
State, adopted by this Convention, filed in the
office of the Secretary of State, and by him
recorded in a book suitable to the permanent
preservation ot the same.
2. Resolved, That a second copy of tho said
repealing ordinance and' of the Constitution,
signed, countersigned, and sealed as aforsaid,
be placed in the hands of His Excellency, the
Governor, as well as a second copy of aDy oth
er ordinanoe designated by him, for the pur
pose of being transmitted to His Excellancy,
the President of the United States, together
with a OTpy signed, countersigned as aforesaid,
of the address to the President, adopted by
the Convention.
3. Resolved, That the Journal of this Con
vention be deposited in the office of the Sec
retary of State- and that thirteen hundred
copies thereof be printed and distributed sb
follows : one copy to each member of the
Convention ; one to each member ol the next
General Assembly ; one to each Judge of the
Supreme and Superior Courts, and one to the
Ordinary, the Cleiks of the Superior aud infe
rior Courts of each county ; and that to said
copy of the Journal so printed, there be added
an appendix contaiaiug the Constitution, Ordi
nances and Resolutions adopted by this Con
vention, together with an index.
4. Resolved, That Messrs. DeGraffeuried of
Baldwin, Blount, of Jones, and Cochran, of
Wilkinson, be a committee to bring up the un
finished business of the Convention.
NEW SUMMAUY.
The action of the military commission con
vened at Coiumbus, Ky., to try lion. Emerson
Etheridge on charges, first, “encouraging re
sistance to the enforcement of the laws,’’ and
and second, “inciting sedition and insurrec
tion.” Os these charges tne commission found
Mr. Etheridge not guilty, but of a portion of
three specifications in three charges, they did
find him guilty; “and the commission do
acquit him, the said Emerson Etheridge.”
Gen. Thomas denounces the commission in
very severe terms for their decision, and
thinks that Emerson ought to have been
punished for his deeds, He, however, orders
him to be set at liberty.
At present negroes aro allowed to vote in
only six States, viz : Maine, New Hampshire,
and Vermont, subject to the same conditions
as white men ; in Massachusetts they must be
able to read and write; iu Rhode Island,
must bo worth one hundred and thirty dollars
in real estate ; in New York, must be worth
two hundred and fifty doUajs over all incum
brances; in Kansas, and under the now radical
constitution of Missouri, they are not allowed
to vote.
General Meade expresses the opinion that
25,000 men belonging to the Army of the Poto
mac are living who have been disabled by
wounds and are incapable of self-support..
The latest indications are, Patton is elected
Governor of Alabama. J t is reported that he
has carried North Alabama by tour thousand
majority, which insures his election.
Companies have been formed in Alabama
and everything is being put in readiness lor
trying the experiment of finding oil. A well
is now being bored at Fort Spring, in Law
rence county, and it is believed that oil will
be found.
A lithograph stone, equal in ail respects to
the famous stone found in Bavaria, has been
discovered in St. Louis county, Mo. It is said
this stone is found nowhere else in this county.
There are fourteen hundred children of
freedmen lrom Arkansas, Kentucky and Ten
nessee now in Springfield, Mo., most of whom
have been thrown on the cuarity of the citi
zens.
Contributions are advertised for in Baltimore
to make up the sum of $20,00U to complete
the equestrian statue to Stonewall Jackson,
which is in the hands of an English artist, and
ie to be 3et up in Richmond.
The Northern Governors are appointing the
National thanksgiving day the day for State
thanksgiving. *
During the war two negio soldiers to one
white were enlisted in the District oF Columbia.
The number of the Jews in the United States
army during the late war was 40,000. They
have established five asylums for disabled
soldiers, their widows and orphans, the benefits
of which are limited to no faith or creed —one
at New York, one at Philidelphia, one at Cin
cinnati. one at Chicago, and one at St. Louis.
There are now six steamships running be
tween Liverpool and New Orleans
Southern railroad companies have purchased
two huudred million dollars worth of loco
motives
The city of Indianapolis, Ind., is being can
vassed for signatures to a memoiial against
the pardon or parole of Mr. Davis.
Over 1,100 licenses to retail liquor have
been taken out in the District of Columbia
this year. This is about one liquor shop to
every ninety-on ! persons in the district.
The American laud system is to be intio
duced in Mexico, so that the citizens of mod
erate means can get hold of a farm. The pub
lic territory is to be surveyed into sections and
quarter sections of 640 and 160 acres.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Female detectives are to be appointed to
prevent smuggling on the Canadian frontier.
The gunboats at Portsmouth Navy Yard are
being fitted tor sea.
Tbe reported death of Gen. Duff Green is
incorrect. .
Gov. Curtin of Pa., who has been sick in
New York, is recovering.
The Navy Department refused vessels to the
Russian and American Telegraph Go. on the
ground that it was a private enterprise.
| (■CaDt. Pettit is being tried at Washington for
cruelty to prisoners.
Hon. Daniel McGee has made a speech at
Montreal denouncing the Fenians.
Among the property captured by the Federal
forces just before the close of the war was a
draft belongim to the Confederacy, dated
January 12, 1865, for three thousand pound*
sterlnig, drawn by the Federil Government ou
the house of Brown, Shepley, &Cos , London A
short time ago this draft was sent to New York
for collection. The Secretary of the Treasury
received official information that the draft had
been paid, netting the sum of $14,633 in gold.
The Tennessee Legislature have passed the
bill authorizing the Governor to issue new
bonds for the railroad bonds ol the State to the
extent of the State’s endorsement. Also for
the funding of the State debt ns it matures,
together with the interest part due, or to be
come due on the Ist ot January, 1866, by the
issuance of new bonds.
A Washington dispatch says the Secretary cf
the Treasury is considering the best method of
promptly collecting tho direct tax of 1861 due
by the Southern States. He has refused the
application ot South Carolina to assume her
quota to be paid in one year.
Politicians are busy at work in Washington
for tbo vacant collectorshiDg, of New York
city.
The steamer Greyhound has been lost in
Halifax harbor. Loss SIOO,OOO.
Hon. Samuel Ames, Chief Justice of Rhode
Island, has resigned. Cause ill-health.
The Lincoln monument Association is solic
iting subscriptions at the North.
A Washington dispatch states that the
strongest possible grounds will be taken in the
matter of relations with Great Britain, and
that the indemnity question will be taken up
if necessary by our whole naval and military
force; a'so that au army of observation, of not
less than 10,000 will soon be placed on the
Canadian frontier.
The Herald’s Washington special says late
reporis from the medical officers of the Freed
men’s Bureau in South Carolina indicate that
in spite of continual care and 6urveilance of
reforms among the freedmen there is increased
mortality among them. Intermittent fevers
prevail among them to a great extent.
On account of high board in Washington,
numbers of Congressmen are engaging rooms
in Baltimore.
A Washington dispatch states that a largo
number of discharged Federal officers are going
to Mexico,
It is said that all our foreign diplomatic
corps will be changed.
Hon. Kenneth Rayner, of North Carolina,
has had a long interview with the President on
matters which relate to that Stale.
Action on the applications lor special par -
don is nearly altogether suspended by the
President.
Complaints having frequently been made
to the Secretary of the Treasnry that letters
addressed to the different bureaus of the de
partment do not meet with prompt replies, an
order has been issued that thty shall be an
swered immediately.
The Government has restored to the Win
chester and Potomac Railroad Company all
its stock on long credit.
Gen. Howard of the Freedmen|S Bureau, has
returned to Washington
Gen. Long has signified an acceptance of tho
mission to Mexico.
The steamer Wamoffit was burned at St
Louis November 17. Loss $60,000. Insured
$50,000.
Extensive frauds on Internal Revenue De
partment have been discovered in Coal Oil
Region, Pa.
A correspondent of the National Intelligen
cer says Messrs. Curtiss, Ridgeway, Barbour,
Davis and Hodge, elected to Congress from
Virginia, will take the test oath without
scruple. Ol the other two, Meesrs. Stewart and
Conrad, he adds, whether able or not to take
the oath the correspondent is not inforn ed.
The Episcopal Church in Mobile has been
removed by special order of the President.
The Mississippi Legislature have voted down
the bill to allow negroes to testify.
Pard on brokerage still continues to be car
ried on to a groat extent in Washington.
Os the North Carolina delegation to Congess,
two were officers in the Confederate army, and
two were Confederate Congressmen.
The Fenian excitement is on the increase in
Canada.
The Government is kept fully advised on
the subject of the cholera abroad. The latest
dispatches show that the epidemic is disap -
pearing from Palermo, where it has been more
prevalent than at any other place on the
Mediteranean. The disease is evidently now
going inland, spreading over the Peninsular.
11 has crossed the frontiers of Spain and pass
ed inlo Portugal. The cholera has completely
ceased at Constantinople, and also at Gallaz
and other parts of the United Principalities of
Waldavia and Wallachia.
The commissioners of emigration reported
that 168,341! emigrants have arrived in New
York since the Ist of January last, being near
ly 3 000 less than up to the same time last
year.
The military guard and Baker’s forces have
been removed from the White House by or
der of the President.
General Howard has issued a circular in
structing the officers of the Freedmen’s Bureau
to endeavor to overcome the false reports so
industriously circulated to unsettle labor and
give rise to disorder and sufferings.
The Mississippi House have passed a bill to
provide for the support of their wounded and
disabled soldiers.
The steamer Duke with three hundred bales
of cotton has been burned on the Tombigbee
river.
The Navajoe Indians have agreed to settle
down and abandon their wild life.
A special agent has been sent to the Indian
Nations to harmonize matters between freed
men and their former owneis.
The National Armory at Harper’s Ferry is to
be rebuilt
General Howard’s visit to the South it is
said will result in great benefit.
All military detectives in Washington are to
be mustered out.
The Faragut court martial at Washington is
still engaged on the Craven case.
The President appears to be averse to par
doning all army officers who resigned to jo*n
the Southern army.
Treaties of peace have been concluded with
the nine tubes of the Sioux nation.
Chas J. Faulkner, ex Minister to France, is
in Washington looking after his case. He had
a letter from Mr. Lincoln granting his pardon.
He was afterwards indicted by the United
States District Court at Norfolk for treason.
No action has yet been had in the case; neither
hits his pardon been sanctioned by President
Johnson.
The Jamaica Standard says that over a thou
sand rebels have been hanged, and it is prob
able that before the court martial closes, over
t wo thousand will suffer death for the attempted
extermination of the whites.
gThe Secretary of the Navy has determined
to send abroad most of the surplus naval force
to cruise about and visit the principal porta oc
casionally.
Hon Chancery M. Depew has been appoint
ed minister to Japan.
Winder, Duncan and Maghee are the only
persons of’note in the Old Capitol prison Wash
ington.
Washington dispatches say that it is not
probable any Cabinet changes will be made
until after Congress meets.
Although the commiesiou appointed has
awarded the assassination conspiracy rewards,
their decision has got to be approved by the
Secretary of War.
Smuggling is carried ou largely on the Cana
dian frontier. The profits aie so great that if
half the goods are saved, a good business is
done.
Hon. Freeman Clark, Comptroller of Cur
rency, is engaged upon his report. He will re
commend the removal of the National Curren
cy Bureau to New York, and Secretary McCul
loch, ••'ho also made tbe same recommenda
tion os the Comptroller lost year will probably
renew the recommendation in his forthcoming
report as Secretary of the Treasury.
The people ot Toronto, Canada, are excited
over an expected Fenian attack.
Major General Schofield, together with Brig.
Genera'. Schofield and Brig General Wherry,
of his staff, have sailed for Europe, on a year’s
leave of absence.
The pardon of John Overton, one of the
weatbiest men in Tennessee, has been rescind
ed. General Fisk, it will be remembered, re
fused to recognize it, and has been sustained
in his refusal.
Tho majority for the Union ticket in New
York State is about 30,000.
The grand parade of the New York police
took place November 16. They
men.
Returns show that in the Alabama and North
Carolina elections the ultra Southern candi
dates were elected#
A singular accident occurred last week on the
Grand Trunk Road. While an express train
was running at the rate of twenty-five miles an
hour, the boiler of the locomotive exploded
with terrific force and noise, aud three of the
cars were thrown off tbe track. A piece of the
boiler, weighing four hundred pounds, was
blown fifty rods. No lives were lost.
The Vermont Legislature, which has jnst
adjourned, passed an act granting license to
circuses at $3 000 each. An attempt to raise
the pay of members failed. The militia bill
providing for the doing away with ail drills
except June trainings passed both houses after
a lengthy discussion. The bills taxing the in
come of United States bonds, tho stock of
National Banks, also passed both branches
after long discussion. The bill to tax savings
banks wus defeated.
ggFuller, who used the name of Secretary Hai
lan to swindle the National Democratic Com
mittee, has been released from prison without
trial.
On November 16, the Government refundef
the first money arising from the proceeds of
the sale of confiscated property, in pursuance
of section 2of the act of March 3, 1865. The
money was refunded on the ground that the
parties were loyal.
The statement that all female employees are
to be discharged from Treasury Department is
erroneuß.
On November 15, thejtime for receiving bids
for contracts for mail serviceV from Virginia,
West Virginia, aud North ana Soutn Carolina,
and Florida expired, and the formal awarding
to tbe respective contractors whoso rates had
been accepted is under way. Contracts about
to be consummated for service In the above
States will go into effect of January Ist, 1866,
and expire June, 1867. Bids made for this ser
vice are largely in excess of rates formerly in
vogue,
Antoire Ress, connected with counterfeiting
fractional currency, has been pardoned by the
President.
Washington dispatches say the ordering off
of the vessels of war has no warlike intention.
Tbe Giand Jury of the District of Colum
bia have found bills of indictment against L.
C. Baker, Chief Detective of the War Depart
ment, on the charge of false imprisonment of
Mr. Joseph R. Cobb for the period of five
hours ; and for robbing Mrs. Lucy R. Cobb of
$450 in Treasnry notes.
Nathaniel M. McLean, formerly Assistant
Adjutant General to General Burnside, who
was ordered to the Pacific coast two years ago,
as he alleges, to prevent his testiiying against
Hurt, then about to be court martialed in Cin
cinnati, is preparing to bring the case before
Congress and promises to throw much light
upon that interesting transaction.
Gov. Parsons of Ala., left Washington for
home November 15, with two hundred pardons
in his pocket.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued cir
culars, notifying Collectors of Internal Eev-
enue that he regards it but just to caution,
whenever application is made for the storage
of petroleum or its products within the limits of
any town or city The collector of Internal
Revenue should forward a statement that the
warehouse, if established, in case of fire will
endanger other property, or the lives of per
sons doing business in its vicinity.
Admiral Porter will soon publish a reply to
Banks’ strictures on the conduct of the navy in
the Red River campaign.
M"jor Hartings, with his Brazil colony will
Bafrfrom Mobile December 2.
received at New York state that
emigrants from this country had arrived at
Rio Jateria and were cordially welcomed by
the Government and citizens, and given every
encouragement and assistance by the Minister
of Agriculture.
Judge Arthur L. Hopkins, long distinguish
ed on the bench and at the bar, died in Mobile
on the Bth.
The San Antonio Express represents unparal
led drouth in Texas. The stoclyare dying all
through Western Texas. The river is very low.
Mr. Burningham, Minister to Chine is in con
sultation with the Government in relation to
China affairs. He will soon return to bis post.
The Austrian miuister has purchased a
residence for the sum of $20,000 in Washington.
Gen. Logan’s friends say he will not arcept
the Mexican mission, as he wants to be U. S.
Senator.
The boring of lidges for the Huron and On
tario ship canal is ail completed, and every
thing promises well for the great work.
The New Orleans Delta of November, sth
states that there is unusual activity in military
circles in that city since the reoeption of recent
dispatches from the Rio Grande. Mysterious
orders have been issued, Sales of all trans
portation and supplies have been stopped.
The Ist, 4th and 6th regiments of reeu ar cav-.
airy have been ordered to embark for Indian
ola, Texas, and report for duty at San Antonio,
Gen. Merritt’s dismounted colored cavalry is
destined to the same place. Gen. Forayth,
Gen. Shields chief of staff, has gone to BrazoeJ
The steamship Mercidita arrived at New
York, November 20, bringing Capt. Horace
Atwood and part of the crew of the ship Harry
of the West, bound from New Orleans to Liv
erpool, which vessel was burned at sea on the
12th inst., one hundred miles from the South
west Pass. Her cargo consisted of 3,343 bales
of cotton. The cause of the fire was unknown.
The balance of the crew were taken ofi by the
British ship Ella.
All the United States cavalry, excepting the
fifth regiment, have been ordered to San An
ton
The rules of the Old Capitol prison, Wash
ington continue as strict as daring the war.
The Choctaw aud Chickasaw Indians are
killing their late slaves in great nutubers.
The President has recently decided to issue
rations to the suffering freed men in the South
ern States during the coming winter, and jgalso
to such whites as may be destitute. The
President recently declared that fieedmen
should have full proteotion in their right to
settle on public lands in Florida and Texas,
open to preemption.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Late Liverpool dates quote naval stores dull
with little demand.
The shipping Gazette says that Oil Springs
have been discovered in Englaud.
Ihe Shenandoah lias been delivered to the
American Consul, and will be sent to New
\ork.. ihe captain and crew have been un
conditionally discharged.
FROM MEXICO.
An agent of Maximillian acknowledged that
he is not making much headway against the
Liberals. It is further stated that Maximilian
has dispatched an agent to France, to ask for
one hundred million dollars and forty thou
sand troops, and that if Napolean failed to fur
nish men and means, the evacuation of Mexico,
by the french must certaintly follow.
t-v Brownville advices say : Tho
Liberals under Gens. Escebedo, Cortinas, Can
nales and Mendez are vigorously continuing
the siege at Matamoras. The Liberals hold
the river above and below the town, which
has been evacuated by the women and chil-
Tif n b W^0 to re!u ß e °h the Amirican side.
Ihe federal forces are enthusiastically cheer
ing the progress of the Liberals. The Liberal
beseigers have captured the steamer Dessano,
after firing four shots upon her.
Gen. Steele is of the opinion that the Lib
erals will capture Matamoras. The Imperialists
are eaid to be reduced to one-third rations.
Tho Republican General Rosales has been
defeated and killed at Alamos, in Seiro-loa.
I'he adhesion of Lower California to the
Empire is announced.
Maximilian was paying a visit to Yncatan,
and had removed his personal effects to that
point as a safe place to set sail [from in case
the City of Mexico had to be abandoned.
!*RWB fcOMMARY.
An English paper states that the wife of a
laborer in Bb-hopncamoulh a few days since
was safely delivered of four children, thiee
girls and a boy, who lived about an hour.
A letter from India to a London paper
state; that tbe monkeys of that country seem
to be firmly persuaded that tbe telegraph
Hues and poles there are ecreettd for their
special use aud behoof in performing gymnas
tic exercises.
Northern negroes propose having a conven
tion in Washington this winter.
It is stated that Secretary McCulloch will
recommend a tax on sales instead of incomes.
The Tribune’s Havana correspondent says
the slave trade in Cuba is very flourishing.
ike custom receipts for October reached ten
millions.
The Legislature of Mississippi has appointed
a joint committee to petition President John
son to pardon Jacob Thompson.
The Cleveland Ohio, Plain Dealer says that
recently a justice of the peace in that city sum
moned a negro as a juryman, to sit on some
important case with white men. The white
jurors, some ot whom actually voted for the
negro suffrage} candidate Cox, refused out
right to take their seats with him. After a
couple of hours spent in requestings and refu
sals, the justice discharged the negro, and sum
moned a white man in his place.
Gen Kilpatrick has been appointed Minister
to Chili.
Tbe Emperor Maximiliau is said to have
spent 3.000.000 francs for the construction of a
palace at Lacroma, an island be has pur
chased near Rigusa.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has
made about $3 000,000 by the improvement of
the back Bay Lands at Bostou.
Tho merchants of Mobile are preparing to
organize a Chamber of Commerce iu that
city.
Members of Congress are already beginning
to arrive in Washington In view of the ap
proaching session. Fabulous prices are asked
tor rent and board.
There are over two hundred students at the
University of Virginia.
There are about 580 prisoners now confined
ou tbe Dry Tortugas.
Tbe Universalists of the United States, in their
national convention at Middletown, Conn, pass
ed a resolution to raise SIOO,OOO for misrion
ary purposes in the Southern States.
Tbe insurrection raging in Jamaica is said to
be characterized by barbarities the most appall
ing and repulsive.
While workmen wero engaged, a few days
since, in removing the ruins of the late coal by
tiro in Philadelphia, quite an excitement was
created by the discovery of the fact that a
large quantity of oil had settled in puddles in
the cellars of tbo bui.dings. Thousands of
people flocked to the scene, with tuns, pails,
aud barrels, to gather up the tbe oil.
In relation to the newly discovered cot.fish
banks in the sea ofOohotsk, a San Francisco
letter says, “ next season we will be prepared
to supply the demand for the whole Pacific
coast.
A curious pheaomena occurred in the valley
of Mexico on the sth of October. Large
streams of water burst suddenly from the
mountains, which, if they do not dimintsh in
volume, will form a considerable river.
New England lias peat ouough in the soil to
furnish fuel for a hundred years.
Dexter, the fast trooter, won $12,000
clear for his owner the past season.
All the Now York Theatres continue to give
performance without orchestras- The strike
among the mueicians continues.
The Northern papers contain a memorial
from Garabaldi, Tonageo, and three hundred
other distinguished Italians, addressed to Pres
ident Johnson, in which they eloquently plead
for clemency for Jefferson Davis.
The Hon. Ben Wood has been elected to the
Senate from New York.
It is stated that John Mitchell has taken tbe
oath, received a passport and sailed for Lon
don.
Two military companies (militia) have been
organized in Columbia, South Carolina. The
companies are required to arm and equip
themselves.
Not long since Mr. Judah P. Benjamin wrote
a letter to one of the London journals, defend
ing Mr. Davis and Geu. Lee against the charge
of having treated Federal prisoners with cruel
ty.
Maryland farmers are discussing the labor
question with much earnestness. As few of the
negroes consent to labor steadily, movements
are on foot to do away with their services as
far as practicable, by organizing associations
for the purpose of making labor contracts
with the emigrants that daily arrive at New
York, or by sending commissioners to Europe
with the same object in view
Gen Fullerton publishes a list of property
restored to owners, comprising a number of
valuable plantations and dwelling houses in
Louisiana
Military affairs in the Division of the Gulf
are in a highly satisfactory condition.
The New Orieaus Price Current, referring to
the advent of the grinding season in Plaque
mines, hopes that six thousand hogsheads of
sugar will be produced
the war upwards cf twenty thousand
hogsheads of tobacco were snipped annually
from (he region of Barksville, Kentucky, to
Nashville and other points.
SHERIFF SALES,
"LINCOLN SHERIFF’S SALE.
WILL be told before the Court House door In Llnciln
ton, Lincoln county, Georgia, between the lawful
Hours of sale, on the firs- 'iuesda*. in December next, two
hundred and thirty-eightand one halt acres (239J6) land lying
in said comity, levied t n as he property of Jesse M. dart
ledge, to satisfy following a tas: u. H. Parks, vs, J. j. flart.
Utlgeand J. M. Uartiedge security, Kslcs& Clark, vs J. J.
Cait edgeandJ.il <b.s'lcdge, Ea * Clark, vs J. J. (Jart.
ledge, Walton Ca-tledge and J M Cartledge securities, George
feistrunk, vs. Janus J. t ariledge, J. M. Cartledge security,
and K. Henderton indorse-, all issued from the Inferior
Courtot sa'd county; Estes & Clark, vs. F. f'attledge and
Jesse M. Cartledge, W. H. Tyler for the use 4c, vs. J. J.
Cartledge and J. 31. Cartledge security, issued from the Supe
rior Court of s.-)d county
Also, at the same time and place will be s-ld one hundred
and sixteen (116) acresof land lying in said county, to satisfy
all fa issuing firm the In erior Court of said county. Uriah
ijlanchardvsWm.il Cartledge Levied on as the property
of said Wm. H. Cartledge,
Also, at the same time and place oau hundred (ICO) acres
more or less in said county Levied on as the property of W.
H. ’1 yler. to tatkfv a 11 fa issuing fom the Inferior Court of
said county. I). C. Moot e. admin s’rator vs. W H. Tyler and
W. M. Paradise, secuilty aud other fl f sin my hands.
Also, at the same t ; m > and place two hundred and fifty
(250) acres in said county. Levied on as the property of
JUry Cox and John Cox to satisfy a fl fa Is-uing from the
Interior O urt of said county, Arnold Monciuf vs il&ry Cox
aid John Cox.
also, at the sime time and place two hundred and eighty
eight (2SB) acres iu taid county. Levied on as the property of
Bas.l McCord to eathfyafi fa in favor of Jeremiah raschel
vs. sdu Basil McCord, ltsued from the Superior Court of
said county. Ail the foregoing propert; pointed out by the
attorneys for the several plaintiffi.
Also, at the same time and place, 1 gr.y mare. I bay mare, 1
grey horse, 1 mule and 2 colts. Levied on as the pioperty of
Wm. Ashmore, to sath-fy a fifala favor of T. D. Cclhrava
said Wm-Ashmore. Issued from the superior Court of said
county. Property pointed out by defendant.
, , L.C. COLEMAN,
cov 6w4 Sheriff L C.
TALIAFERRO SHERIFF SALE.
WILL be told cn the first Tuesday in December next be
fore- the Court House do:r in the town of Crawfordvllle,
Taliaferro county, within the legal hours of sale, thfrfoliowlng
property o-wit ; one ot of land in said county near Ba'd town
of Craws ravilie, lying near the line of tie Ga. Kabroad,
and adjoining Innas of B. F. ja oore, said let containing about
lorty-Uve acr»e, m ire-or less. Also one house and lot in said
town of Crawfordvllle, containing about eight_acres, m ire or
leas m which there is <omfort able cwelliog house, with wort
shop and other necessary building-, it being the lot whereon
lewis Trrperow resides, all levitdas the property of I.ewis
Trope to satisfy a Ufa issued from Taliaferro Inferior Court In
lavor of Charles A. Beasley, vs. Lewis Trope, froperty point
ed out by the Plaintiff A, KHODJfS,
nov3 Sw46 Sherlfi T. C.
TALIAFERRO SHERIFFS SALE.
WILL be sold on thefi-at Tuesday in December next,
before the Court House doot in the town of Craw
fordsville, within the if gal hours of sale, the followitg prop
erly, to-w.t: Two hundred (-200; acres ot land, more or less,
in Ta'laferro county. adjoinu g lands of Jcsrph Pnntup and
cthe e, levied m as the property of Abram K Howell, it be
ing the land said Howell now resides on, to satisfy a Ufa issued
from Taliaferro Sup_ri'.r Court, in favor of James T. An
drews vs. *bram K Howell. Property pointed out br Plain
tiff ABSOLOM H HOLES,
oct!4 <Sw44 t-her-S, T. C.
LINCOLN SHERIFF'S SALE.
WILL be sold on the TUESDAY In December
nex-, at thi C»urt House door of Lincoln county,
between the lawful hours of a I'e, a tract ot Land containing
5‘ZSa rea, more o 1 se, adjoiai -g the lands of William Ben
nett Silas Or zier, join Bea tv, and Elijah Leverett. Levied
on as the property of Wili am O P. acbail of sail county, to
sat sty a fife from Linro n Supe-ior Court in favor of Dennis
PaschaU, Sen., vs. A. P Chandler and W. O. Pasch ,11.
Prope-ty pointed out by Plaintiffs Attorney.
octJO 6w43* L. C, C'JLEMAN, Sheriff.
“LINCOLN SHERIFF’S SALE
WILL be sold v efore the Court House dxr in Lincoln
county, on the first Tuesday in Dei ember next, be
tween tho lawful hours of tale, the fol owing property, t«-
wP: Fifty-fb e acres oi L-ind, smore or less, in said county,
on the road leading fiom Liccolntcn today Hill, adj • ntng
theiandsof A'exsnler Johnston, Eli) ah Leveret - , and Thurn
as Cr.wford, levied on ar the property of Philip Faikner, to
satisfy a Bfa from Lincoln Inferior Court in favor of Qibaon
<fc Litts, vs. Pl idp Faikn r, and < the- fifas in my posession.
Pr peitv pointed out by Piaintlfl’s attorney.
G. S. WILLINGHAM.
cct26 6w44 Deputy SherifiL L, O.
$25 A DaY.
AGENTS wanted to sell anew and wonderful SEWING
MACHINE, the only cheap one lieeased. Address
SHAW* CLARK. Biddeford. Maine. «ept*QWwil
CITATIONS
FOR LRTTRBB OF AOMIKISTBATION.
Stats of uioßOLv. Lincoln county.
i'o all when It raay oocce.n—Dennis far col huvin
vroper torni applies to ui« for p 1 nit»i:ect lets ts 0‘ a>lm
trator OU the Estate of Viutfi rosea!, late or ,*l4 u ...
Thn'»to cite all and singular the creditors atu! iu
kin of Virgil I'sseaito be anil appear at my office witlm
time a’lowed by law, and show cause, if any they cut;.
permanent administration should not be granted to i),
Pascal ou Virgin Pascal's estate.
Witn-si my hand and of icial signatare this 25th da
October, 1565.
oc‘36 6w44 B. F- TATUM, Ordinn-
TATE OF GEORGIA. QIUENE COUNTY.
55 Whereas, Ja—e*L Brown, applies f r letters of
miuWra ioa de bonis non wi'h the will annexed, on the
state cf Fiancls H Cone, Senior, deceased.
These arc therefore to cite and require allperscrw cone r
to ahow cause, if any they have, why said letto s eticuld
be erauled at tbe court ot Ordinary to bebtld in cue nr
county, ou the tlr.:t Monday in December next.
Given under my hand at i fS<x> in Greenesburo, October f
1865. EUGEMUS L. KlNG.Oidla.vy,
odSl tv
TATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.
55 Whereas, Is all Byrd applb s to me for letter!
Uuardl inahip for Mary E. Burca aud John Burcb, orpi
and minors of Thomas Burch, deceased :
these are therefore to cite and admonish all aud sing
the kindred and friends of said minors, to be an a; poor
office cn or before the first Monday iu December u x'.'es
eiuse. It any they have, why said letters should u l bcgrar
Given um er my hand and official signature, at office ia
tuva, this 31st day of October, 1365
novl 6w*6 D. L, ROATH. Oid.iw
S STATE OF GEORGIA. BIOHMOMD COUNTY.
Whereas. 1-ham Evans applies to me lor Letters of
mihistraUon on the ejta.e of Thomas B. Evans, late of
county, deceased.
'These are therefore to cite and admonish, ail and !ip£i
the kindred and creditors of sad dec used, lo be and npp,.
my office, on or before the first Monday in Dec, inner i.ex
>how (alias, if any they have, wny add letter should ur
granted.
Oiven under my hand and offliUl signature, at office it
trusts tins 8 at day of October, 1865.
novl 4w46 D. L. R >ATH, Ord n,
sZ7'l'sTE OF GKOKUIA. RICHMOND COUNTY.
55 Whereas, Ellaabe hFu ler -ppliesto me for latte
Adm nistration on the estate ot Josiah Ful er, late ot
county, dec ased
These are therefore to cite and admonish, a!i and siiy
the kindred and creditors of aa'.d decacsol, to be and ap
ut my office, on or before the fl:si Monday in Deo m >tr
to show cau.e. If any they have, why s id letters suoule
be irantrd.
Given under my hand and official iltfn turc, at offi e in
eusta, this 8 at day of October, 1365.
novl 4w46 D. L. KOATII, Ordica
OF GKOKGI I. RICHMOND COUNTY -
55 Wh'-reas, Jerry Reed applies to me for Ii ir- o
rutmn ration cu the estate if Charles Be ird, late o: said cot
These are th refore, to (1 e und admonish, all aud stiij
the kindred and creditors of sail d.cessed, in be and u, p i
my ifflce. on or belore the first Monday iu JVc mb r ncx
shew cause, if any have, wiry said letters sha .id not lv
ed.
Glve i undo my hand aud official signature at otlic
AuirUstn tn's 81st day o'Oc’obe , iß's.
novl 4w46 Da VID L. ROtTd, Ord
STATE OF GEORGIA OOUHMBICOUNTY. 1
Whereas, the es ate of William Gray is unreoreset
iliese are therefore tooiteacdadmoLish all and lunula
kindred aud credit rs of said deceased, to e and nj pear a
office wtthiu the time prescribed by law, lo show cause, il
they have, why said letters oi administration should no
granted toCletk of Superior Court of said county, or s
other fit and proper person.
Given under my hand and . fficial signature at office, m
r ling, this 3<l day of October, 1365.
octio#w43 W W SHIELDS, “rdiiiar
£3TATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.
55 Whereas, Thomas Lyons applies to me Tor ktu rs <
ministrat ion on the estate of Corneius Barrett, lae.f
county, deceased.
Theseare.thercfore,to cite and admonish, all and
thekindredaud creditors of said deceased, to be anduppe;
my office, on or before the first Monday in l'tnember u
toshow cause,if any they have, why said Letters should
be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature, at i ffl :
Augusta, this 2d day ot November. 1866.
u ovß 4w4« DAVID L ROA’J H; Ordinal
STATE OF GEORGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY. I
W here .s, W illiam M. Thomas aDpiles tome lor let*
o guardianship for Cora E- 'lhomas minor of Tnomaafl
Tliomaa, deceased: 1
These are therefore to cite and admonish all, and sing!
the kindred and [friends of saidlminor, to be and appeal
my office, on or before the Hrct Monday in December next!
show cause, if any they haye, why said letters should uo«
granted. P
Given under my hand and official signature, at office in I
gusta, tills 2d day of November, 1805. f
nov3 4w46 DAVID L. ROATH, Ordinary
Georgia, Taliaferro county. 1
Whereas. Wm. H. 8.-ooks applies >o me tor letter!
a. ministration oe ben-s non wt'h the will annexed, upon I
estate of Mrs. Amsy Pinks late of said touniy. deceased: I
These are therefore to cite and admonish, the lJ
deJ and creditors of eaid deceased, to be and appl
at my office, with'n the time prescribed by law, to show c.iJ
If any they have, whv said letters should notbe granted. |
Given under my official sigualure, at office in < rawlor.lvtl
this 2d day of November, 18j5. J. D. HAMMOCK, 1
novß 4w46 Ordinary]
Georgia, taliafekko county. !
Whereas Amos Ellington applies to me for lotted
atimmisiT&tlonfupcn the estate or Etau Ell iigtou, .ate oi td
county, decease: :
These are therefore to cite and admonish the kindr
and. creditors of said deceased to be and appear at n
office, within the time prescribed by law,to show cause, if ai
they have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office iu Crawtomvule, this ls‘ and
of November, 1866. J. 1). HAMM A' K,
tovS4w4S Ordinal y.
CITATIONS ■
fcOR LETTERS DISIYHXHUKY 1
State of oeoroia. Richmond county . m
Whereas, Michael O'Neal, guardian of ► lien MabeH
inow Ellen Hastings.) minor, applies to me for Letters u®
Hsmisslon lg
These are therefore, to cite and admonish all, and singula®
the kindred ami friends of said minor, t> be an J appears®
my office, on or before the first Monday in December neit t/fl
show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not be®
granted. £j
Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Ai®
gusta, this 3J day of October, 1865. m
DAVID L. ROATH, ■
oot3 26w lamil Ordinary. fl
STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUN'IDb ~fl
Whereas, Joseph E Burch, administrator on the Esi at e|
of William B. Green, iece sed, applies to me for Letters oil
Dismission. f|
These are therefoje, to oito and admonish all, and sing j’ W
the kindred and creditors of sold deceased, to be and appe
my office on or before the first Monday in March next, to
cause, if any they have, wny baid Letters bhouid not be
ed. TB
Given under my hand and official signature, at office in A ii®
gusta, this 4th day of September, 1865. 1
sepS 2«wlam33 DAVID L. KOATII, Ordinary fl
ESTATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTyT 1
Whereas, William Mackie, Administrator on the fcbtal®
or James D, Mackie, deceased, applies to me lor Letters of Dis-I
mission: 1
These are therefore to cite ar.d admonish, all and singularfl
the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear all
my office, on or before the first Monday in November next, tol
show cause, If any they have, why said Letters should not be!
granted. 1
Given under my hand and official signature at office ti Ati-1
gusta, this 3d day of April, 1865. 1
. DAVID L. ROATII, Ord’y. I
_ApriL6,lßos, Cm lam 15 I
TWO MONTHS NOTICES. j
T^TOTICE.
iv Two months after date application will be made to the |
Oourt of Ordinary of Richmond county for leave to sell the
real estate belonging to the estate of *■ till nn H. T Walker.,
late Os saik county, deceased. ADA -t JOHN&T*JN,
oct27 8w45 Admin sDator.
mrOTICE •
iw Two months after date application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary of Richmond county :or leav - to sell the
real estate belonging to the estate of Mars O. Walker, tote of
said county, deceased. WALTER E. JOHN?TON,
0C127 8 w 46 Administrator.
mroricE. "
iw Two months after date, to wit, at 'he December teen
1665, of tbo Court of Ordinary of the county of Greene -tite’’
of Georgia. Application will be male to sai l court for reave
to sll ail the real ert.te, can.Dtingo' two hundre 1 n- ; sixty
acres of land more or less, (240) belonging to the csta e ot.
Gwin Allison deceased. W. L STRAIN i
septxß Bw4l Execu or.
EOROIA, ELBERT COUNTY.
Atthe first term ot the Court of Ordinary of said coun ■
{V. “ter two months from this date, I shall ap ly to saw
Oourt for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of
Beniamin Colvard, late cf said county, aecea«ed.
„ JOHN U. I) BA DU YLER. Ex.'r.
, ter> 2 8w37.
miOTIOJE,
1W . sll ‘y dMra after date application whl b» made to t' e
Court of Ordinary of Taliaferro oountv, for leave to sell the
real estate of John Perkin s, lata of Tailaleno count*. d-cM.
novS 8*46 GILUsKT KENT, Ex'r,
NOTICE.
TO DKJTOKH AMD CKDITOKM.
mroTicß. ~ '
11 All persons indeb'ei to the estate of Elisabeth Horto*.
J®te or Richmond county, deceased, are required to make nu
medi ite payment to the under® *aerf; t»nd tk aa having clUui,
against said estate a*e notified *o pretent then*, t uly attest*.tf
wit 2in the time prescribed by law.
ak ttOWCRT H. MAY.
JAMES V.TONE*. W. O. NORRELL.
JONES & NORRELL,
General Commission Merchants,
216 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, OA.
WE take pleasure in informing cur friends and 'he pub
li<4fceneral!y. that we have formed a ex artneiship for
nhi! transaction of a General Commission B isinest.
Will give their personal attention to tne storage and sa’e cf
lot on and all produce raised on the farm. Cons’gumeots W
westernprodne and goods of every description solicited.
1 rompt attention will Le given to the receiving and forwaid
mg of g'odu.
REFERENCE*—John Davison. John 4 The.f A Bones.
? Son *' B H Warren,TUos g Metcalf, Hon J
1 King. WEJacxson. 6md*26w3B
CO-PARTNERSHIP.
A OOOK. late of the firm of BOTHWELL & CO ,
toMhe fKHpostMlf * Co-partnership with E. T. MUKFHY,
DEALING in GROCERIES
In si] their variety, at the old stand of E. T. Murohev oor
nerFroad and Washington street*. pney, Qj
JU,£ r 2 p o*9 beasattenti e and accommodating ir.osr
A A C«UK ° r |‘ COOK 4 “LTiPHKY.
g. T. MUBPfIEY.i Augusta. Oct. 1.1565. e*U 12Hwtt
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