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The Miner. Down ’mid the tangled roots of things That foil alKMit the central fire, I seek for that whieh giveth wings To stoop, not soar, to my desire. Sometimes I hear as ‘twere a sigh, She sea's deep yearning far above, “Thou hast the secret not,” I cry, “In dwjier depths is hid my love.” They think I hurrowfrom the sun, In darkness, all alone and weak ; Such loss were gain’d if He were won, For'tis the sun’s own Sun’l seek. The earth, they murmur, is the tomb That vail v sought his life to prison; Why grovel longer in its gloom? He is not here; He hath arisen. More life for mo where He hath lain Hidden, while ye believed Him dead, Than in cathedrals cold and vain, liuilt on loose sands of “It is said.” Mv search is for the living gold, Him I desire who dwells recluse, And not h : s image worn and old, I fay-servant of our sordid use. If Him I find not, yet I find Tin-ancient joy of cell and church, The glimpse, the surety undefined, The uiujucnched ardor of the search. Happier to chase a Hying goal Than to sit counting laurelled gains, To guess the Soul within the soul Than to be lord of what remains. [James Unwell Lowell. GEORGIA LEGISLATIKE. Report and Resolutions ofthe Joint Stand ing Committee on the Constitutional Amendment. Your Committe have serious boubts as to the propriety of'discussing the proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the I ’nited States. They are presented to us without the authority of the Constitution, and it has < occurred to us, that as the dignity and i rights of Georgia might be compromised by a ('moderation of the merits ofthe pro posed Amendments, that the proper course j would be to lay them upon the table or in- j definitely postpone their consideration with- j out one word of debate. We shall depart from this course only so far as to give the reasons which to our minds forbid discussion upon the merits of the proposed Amendments. The argument resolves itself into a few simple propositions.. Ist. If Georgia is not a State compos ing a part of the Federal Government known as the Government of the United States Amendments to the Constitution of the United States arc not properly before this body 2d. If Georgia is a State, composing a part ofthe Federal Government, known as the Government ofthe United States, then these Amendments arc not proposed, ac cording to the requirements ofthe Federal Constitution, and are proposed in such a manner as forbids this House from acting or discussing the merits of the Amend ments. In discussing these propositions we will endeavor to establish, Ist. That Georgia is a State ofthe Unit ed States, coequal with all the other States of the Federal Union, and, therefore, en titled to all the rights and privileges ofany and every other State under the Federal Constitution. 2d. That these amendments have not been proposed in either ofthe methods re quire 1 by the sth Article of the Constitu tion. We do not propose to discuss whether any political organization, except a State ol the Union, can constitutionally consider amendments to the Constitution, because by the sth Article proposal amendments become a part of the Constitution of the ih.ited States when ratified by the Legis latures of three-fourths of the several States , or by conventions in three-fourths of the States, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Con gress ! With this citation we shall dismiss what seems to us to be a self-evident pro position. It might with propriety be said that the affirmative of the second proposition ; is Georgia one of the United States? might rest, upon the fact that the Constitutional Amendments proposed have been submit ted to the L gislature of Georgia for ratifi cation or rejection, but in view of the fact that Lhe Radical party, now dominant at the North recognizes the status of the seceding States as States whenever sueii recognition is necessary to a surrender of rights, and denies the proposition when ever the recognition is essential to their maintenance, it may not be out of place to recur to the history ofthe Federal Govern ment in order to define the relation of Georgia to the several States ofthe Ameri can Union. Neighboring States certainly have no in herent right to control the political condi tion of each other, this being the case, thirteen States formerly colonies of Great Britain formed a political alliance and es tablished a Government called the United States of America. Georgia was one of the original thirteen, certain political pow ers were delegated to the General Govern ment, and certain other powers reserved to the States respectively. The delegated powers were expressed in a written instrument called the Constitu tion of the United S'ates.md the power of the (ieneral Government tolegislatein any way upon the interest of the several States composing the Union is derived from that instrument, either by express grant or by necessary implication. Georgia was clearly a State when the Union was formed, for site was one of the original States by whom the Government was created. Georgia then being one of the original States, has never ceased to occupy that relation to her sister States unless by the Constitution, either expressly or by impli cation she has reserved to herself the right to secede or vested in the Legislature or some other department of the Govern ment the right to eject her. Did Georgia have the right to secede? Georgia supposed that when the General Government ceased to answer the purposes of its creation, that she had a right to se cede, and did in fact endeavor to withdraw from the Federal Union in conjunction with ten of her sister States. The remain ing. or non-seceding States, declared the Union to be perpetual and indivisible, but failing, under the Constitution, to find any power to coerce a State, Congress resorted to Stir section, in which the legislative powers are defined, wherein the power is given to C ingress to suppress insurrection, and on the T'hh of July, 1861, passed an act entitled "An Act to provide for the suppression of rebellion against and resis- i tunee to the laws of the United States, and ! to amend an act passed February 28, 1795.” 1 Under this and similar acts the military power of the United States was called forth | < hsignedl i/ not against the States, but to ! suppress insurrection by the people within j the States. The United States Govern- j ment uniformly refused to recognise the | acts of secession as State acts, but treated ; them as the acts of insurgents rebelling ! against the authority of the United States, | Under tills political aspect of the case, no tear was erer tie I iretl og Congress (which is the only department that could declare i war), because a declaration of war would have recognized the practical right of se cession. The war should have necessarily been declared against the Confederate Govern ment as a foreign power, and the relations which the States composing the Confeder ate Government would have borne to the United States, or remaining States, when conquered would have been entirely de pendent upon such terms as should be embodied in the treaty of peace which might be between the contending Powers. Instead of recognizing secession and de claring tear, the Congress of the United States passed the act referred to for sup pressing insurrections, whenever, in the judgment of the President, the laws of the United States could not be enforced by the ordinary course of judicial proceeding’s. How long did the power of the President continue to employ the militia of the sev eral States. and the land and naval forces of the United States ? So long as the cause which called it into existence continu ed no longer. What was that cause? This act and all acts passed by Congress on the subject declares that it was to suppress insurrection when it should be so formida ble that laws of the United States could not be enforced by ordinary judical course, and this act was left-to the judgment of the President, whose duty it is to see that the laws of the l nited States are executed. The President, by proclamation, has de clared the rebellion suppressed, that peace reigns throughout the United States, and that the laws can be enforced by ordinary judieial course. In other words, that an insurrection did exist on the portion of the people of the several States of the Union ; that that insurrection has been suppressed, and the whole people of these States are now t.as a portiou of them always have bcen\ ready to yield obedience to the laws of the l nited States. No treaty followed the suppression of the insurrection, because a Government does not treat with individuals, and the Government of the United States through out the whole of this contest, has refused to treat it as a contest with States; and again, because the people hitherto charged with being in insurrection were citizens of States already bound together by a com pact known as the Constitution of the United Spates, which has never been abro gated or overthrown, and has lost none of its vitality by an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow it, and which is therefore now the supreme law of Georgia. _ By virtue of its powers, the Congress of the United States, acting upon the theory of the indi visibility of the Union, treated the State as a State in the Union, and under the sth section, Ist article of the Constitution, de clares : “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be in this auiou. according to their respective members, did on the sth August, IS6I, enact “That a direct tax of twenty millions of dollars be and is hereby annually laid upon the United States, and the same shall be apportioned to the States respectively in manner following : The ’ State oi Georgia, $584,367 33, and a pro portionate amount to each State and terri- , tory of the United States,” and on the j 15th July, 1862, “An Act to amend the , Judicial system of the United States, the districts of South Carolina, Georgia, Ala- ; bama. Mississippi and Florida were consti tuted the fifth circuit of the United ! States.” ! There are several other acts passed du- j ring the rebellion deriving all their force I from the Constitution, wherever it defines ; the legislative power of Congress over the | States in the Union which but for the tact i that these States were regarded as in the j Union would have been wholly inapplicable I Ito them. , , , „ 1 The whole theory adopted by Congress , I and the Executive, and maintained J j throughout the entire war was this: The ' Union is indissoluble, the practical relation | I ofthe States to the Federal Government is ■; j interrupted by a rebellion. The whole i I i>ower ofthe Government must lie used to ! I suppress the rebellion; that the States j i may be restored to their practical relations j and this result followed, whenever the ; ! President declared the rebellion suppress- : jed ! Wherever the laws could be enforced in the ordinary judicial course, the Union was restored and the Constitution pro- : claimed the relation of the States to the J Federal Government, rendering legislation j on the subject by Congress not only unne cessary, but unwarranted. We have thus endeavored to show that i the right to secede is denied by the Gen eral Government, and its construction has i been maintained by the sword and is sub- ! rnitted to by all the States. Has Congress the right to eject a State. The powers of Legislation are defined in the Bth section, and no power is given to Congress to legislate a State out of the j ; Union ; and while by the 3d section of the i 4th article, the Congress may admit anew I State formed out of the territ try of the I United States or foreign territory, there is no clause of that instrument by which j Congress or any other power can transform i a Siate into a terrritory. Then as Georgia was one of the original \ ! Thirteen States which formed the Union, ; I and could neither withdraw from it or be- j ! legislated out of it, her Federal relations j being, only suspended during the rebellion, she must necessarily continue to be one of the United States, and as such, her rela tions to the Federal Government and to her sister States is defined by the Consti ■ tution ofthe United States, and this rela tion cannot be changed, nor the terms of the Constitution altered in any way except in one of the modes provided in that in strument by the Stats themselves. 2d. Are these Amendments constitu tionally proposed. By the Fifth Article of the Constitution of the United States, two modes are prescribed for proposing Amend ments. One by application of the Legis latures of two-thirds of the States to the Congress. The other by a vote of two-thirds of the Congress. If proposed, they become Amendments when ratified by the Legisla ture of three-fourths of the several States, or by Conventions of three-fourths of the States, as the one or the other mode of ratification maybe directed by Congress. 1 lave these amendments been proposed by two-thirds of the Congress of the United States? Georgia in conjunction with her sister States by the Ist Section Ist Article of the Constitution declared that all Legis lative powers herein granted shall be vested in in Congress ofthe United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Rep resentatives. The 2d Section prescribes the mode of re-electing members of Congress, and de clares that Georgia shall have at least three members of the House of Representatives and two Senators, and that her represen tation shall be increased from time to time on a certain basis therein named, upon i which basis of representative she is now entitled to seven members in the represen tative branch. By the sth article it is provided that she shall never be deprived of her equal suff rage in the Senate without her consent. Thus, by the Constitution of the United States in virtue of which instrument alone has any other State or Government any right to interfere with her external or in ternal political relations, the Senators and Representatives of Georgia form an integ ral part of the Congress of the United States! The same reasoning applies to the other ten States whose practical relations to the Federal Government were for a time interrupted, they were like Georgia either original States by whom the Government was created, or States since admitted upon terms of equality under rules presented by the original thirteen. During the war Congress could be con stitutionally convened without the repre sentation from these States because they were voluntarily absent and the States failed to elect, representatives. It was fur ’ this reason that the amendments abolish 1 ing slavery were constitutionally proposed, and in ratifying them Georgia yielded no political principle, a material sacrifice was demanded of her, and she laid it as a peace offering on the altar of our common country. , Since the reorganization of the State gov ernment Georgia has elected Senators and Representatives. So has every other State. i They have been arbitrarily refused admis sion to their seats, not on the ground that the qualifications of the members elected did uot conform to the 4th paragraph 2d section Ist article of the Constitution, but because their rights of representation was denied by a portion of the States having equal but not greater rights than them selves. They have in fact been forcibly excluded, and inasmuch as all legislative power granted by the States to the Con gress is defined, and this power of exclusion is not among the powers granted expressly or by implication. The assembly, at the capital, of Representatives from a portion oi' the States to the exclusion of the Repre sentatives of another portion, cannot be a constitutional Congress when the represen tation of eaeh State forms an integral part of the whole. This amendment is tendered to Georgia for ratification under thai power in the Constitution which autorizes two-thirds of the Congress to propose amendments. We have endeavored to establish that Georgia had a right in the first place, as a part ofthe Congress, to act upon the ques tion, “shall these amendments be pro posed ?” Every other excluded State had the same right. The first constitutional privilege has been arbitrarily denied, and therefore the seoond should be promptly declined. Had these amendments been submitted to a Constitutional Congress, that never would have been proposed to the States. Two-thirds of the whole Congress never would have proposed to eleven States voluntarily to reduce their political power in the Union, and at the same time dis franchise the larger portion of the intellect, integrity and patriotism of eleven co-equal State's. Had they been constitutionally proposed, even then the Legislature of Georgia, act ing for itself, never would, as it never will, ratify an amendment by which the State will bo shorn of political power, and a por tion of her best citizens branded with dis honor. If we have been successful in establish ing our premises, the conclusion necessari ly follows that Georgia can only act upon this question as a State, one of the mem bers of the United States Government : that as such States these amendments are not properly before her, not having been proposed by a Constitutional Congress ; and to act upon them when proposed in any other way, would be to participate in set ting aside the Constitution and to estab lish as a precedent that the mandates of the Constitution are subordinate to the will of the Federal Legislature. The evil is directed at Georgia to-day— to-morrow in some other shape, when anew party gets into power, it may be directed with equal force against States now free from its in fluence. In recommending that these Amend ments be rejected for the reasons stated, your Committee are animated by no cap tious spirit. It material sacrifices were 1 demanded to promote harmony, Georgia would in the future, as in the past, stand ready to make the offering, but, in the opinion of your Committee, the State ! should not yield her Constitutional rights, even though her citizens may, therebv, have to endure further privations. Individual wrongs will pass away with time, but the overthrow of the Constitu tion is an enduring evil. If need be. let u> wait and suffer, and let history teach the le son that, under the Constitution, the States of this Union are co-equals, and that any war made to perpetuate the Un ion. in its utmost success, can only main tain the States in their original relations to each other. We recommend the adoption of the fol lowing resolution: Hesotved, That the Legislature of Geor gia declines to ratify the proposed Amend ments adding a Fourteenth Article to the Constitution of the United States. B. A Thornton, Ch'rn'n Senate Com. J. J. Gresham, 0. L. Smith, James Dickey, R. Nf. Paris. R. A. Rowley Ch’m'n pro tern. House Com. R. J. Moses, John Dodds. Wui. A. Mcßougaid, James A. McWhorter, Lewis P. Dozier, Hiram L. French, Thos. B. Granniss, Jesse A. Glenn, W. H. Malloe, Thos, W. J. Hill. Another conspiracy against the Govern ment has been discovered in Lima. A woman in England recently died of excessive anger. The Austrian government has adopted j the Lindner gun for the arms’. A paper printed in Chinese and Ja panese is published in London. Blind Men and Elephant. BV JOHN 0. SAXE. The following has a moral, which re quires but little thought to discover: It was six men of Hindoostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant, (Thoufih all of them were blind,) That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall ; Against his broad and sturdy- side, At once began to bawl: | “(>h bless me !—but the Elephant Is very like a wall.” I The Second, feeling of the tunk 1 Cried, “Ho ! what we have here : So very round and smooth and sharp ? To me 'tis mighty clear Tliis wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear !” The Third approached tiie animal And, happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: “ I see.” quoth he, “the Elephant Is very like a snake !” The Fourth reached out his eager hand, And felt about tiie kuee ; j “What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain,” quoth he; “ ’Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree !” The Fifth who chanced to touch the ear> Said, E'en the blindest man Can t%ll what this resembles most ; Deny the fact who can, Tliis marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!” The SUUi no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on tiie swinging tail That tell within his scope, “I see,” quoth ne, “the Elephant Is very like a rope !” And so these men of Hindoostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And partly in the wrong 1 Foreign Items. There is to be another great fight for the championship of the English prize ring, the combatants being Baldwin, called “ The Irish Giant,” who recently fought for and won the belt, and a man who has been se lected by Mace, the ex-champion, but whose name has not heen allowed to transpire. It is, however, to be made known at least two months before the fight, which is ap pointed to take place in what is called the London District, ou the sth of April, 1867. The necessary articles of agreement have been entered into, and the stake at issue will be “£2OO aside, and the Champion ship of England.” The bell which is heard in the first act j of “Don Juan d’Autriche,” at the Theatre j Francais, is one of those which on the j 24th of August, 1572, gave the signal for j the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Being nut up for sale during the revolution all the ' bells of St, German l’Auxerois were I bought by a founder named Flouban, who | parted with the smallest of them to the ! theatre just named. It was rung for the! first time at the theatre in 1861, at the first i performance of “Edouard enEcosse,” by I Alexander Duvall. The Emperor Napoleon will be an exhib- j itor at the international Exhibition in j Paris. His Majesty has designed a model ! for a workman’s house, which, to lowness of price, unites all the accommodations desira- j ble and the conditions required by the pub- ! lie health. By paying a moderate rent, ; one part of which would be devoted to a j kind of sinking fund, thetenant would in a \ few years become the proprietor of the j house, such being, in his Majesty’s opinion i quo of the surest methods ot'instilling hab its of order and economy in the working classes. The iron arm-chair presented by the city of p’Luvec to Gustavus Vasa was sold in 1425 to M. Schinkel, a chamberlain of the King of Sweden, for 120,000 francs; the prayer-book used by Charles I, of England, on the scaffold, brought 2,500 francs ; the coat worn by Charles XII, at the battle of Pultowa, was sold in Edinburgh for 561,- francs; and in 1816, Louis Sehwarterbury gave 16,595 francs for a tooth of Newton, which is now set in a ring and worn by the elder branch of that family. The chief of the feudal party in Prussia lias published a pamphlet in which he says that he does not believe in the crowning of German unity effected by Prussia, and condemns in the policy of the cabinet all which seems to tend toward liberal ideas, which he describes as the old and sworn . enemies of the crown. This pamphlet is I looked upon as a proof of the schism between j Count Bismark and the Prussian conser : vatives. The Herald's Paris correspondent says ; Gen. Castenau will arrange for the retire ment of the French troops from Mexico cn masse, as Napoleon thinks that the march by detachments would be inconvenient. It was considered that France would be re lieved of two huge incubuses—Mexico and Rome—at about the same period of time. General Garibaldi, on his late arrival in Florence, summed up his counsels to the crowd assembled bcneatli the windows of the villa at Bellosgoardo, by the following ; words,, addressed to the female portion of the audience: “ Italian mothers, Italian sisters, if you wish your sons and your brothers to be good patriots, never again [ enter a confessional. ’ ’ i At a recent sitting of the Medical Society of Stockholm, Dr. Malensten adduced ar guments to prove that not only quarantines were no preservation against cholera, but that they even tended to propagate it. His statement produced a great sensation, and his colleagues unanimously expressed con currence in the opinion so expressed. Chang, the Chinese giant, eight feet high, accidentally stumbled in Worcester, England, lately, and two living bodies roll ed out of him, one of which had furnished the head and the other the legs of the monster. Barnum’s Fecjee mermaid probably supplied the idea ofthe ingenius combination, King 4 ictor* Emanuel has just institu ted anew order of knighthood, to he eal- j led the Order of the Leone del St. Marco, ! according to the same ; that ofthe Italian 1 lion, according to others. It is to take j rank immediately after the Order of the Anuunziata, which last is only given to crowned heads, members of reigning houses, j and generalissimos. The Paris journals announce that the ! Empress Eugenie has placed in the Church of Notre Dame des Yictoircs a magnificent lamp, bearing the initials L. N., which is to i burn perpetually before the higli altar. It, j is a present to which is said to be attached ! a vow relative to her family. The Empress of Mexico, now called the | Princess Charlotte, is affected with a religi- j qus _ monomania, always bewailing the in- ! justice done the Church in Mexico; and j her case is hopeless of cure. It is s»-id the unfortunate lady has attempted suicide by : jumping from a window. annual ceremony of crowning the King of the Pumpkins at the Central Mar ket, Paris, took place the other day. The vegetable which obtained the honor this' year weighed two hundred and fifty-eight pounds, and measured ten feet four inches in circumference. Baron James de Rothschild is in a very critical state of health. He is the only surviving son of the founder of the house, is chief of the Paris branch of the Roths childs, and the most eminent financier of the whole family. The Paris Jloniteur publishes the names of 115 persons upon whom medals have been conferred by Napoleon, on the recom mendation of the Minister for the Interior, for acts of devotedness in saving lives during the month of July last. The Louvre, in Paris, contains over 2,000 pictures, amongst which are: 12 Raphaels, 3 Corregios, Is Titans 13 Paul Vcroness, 42 Rubens. 22 Van Dykes, 17 Rembrandts, 11 Gerard Dows. 11 Murillos, 6 4 elasquez, 1 Warteau. 40 Passius, 16 C. Lorraines. 441 Joseph Yernets. The Bishop of Orleans, who is absent from his diocese for his health, has nobly given up his episcopal palace for the use of the sufferers from the floods, and de voted a quarter of a year's income to the same purpose. A law exists in Germany to prevent drinking on the Sabbath during Divine service. It runs thus: “Any person m an ale-house during service on Sunday, or other holiday, mav leeallv part without paying." The final result of the plebisalum of > enetia shows 641,768 votes in favor of a union with Italy, and only 69 negative. 1 here was great popular enhusiasm throughout V enetia. r-. There is a report that an energetic effort wul be made next session by the leaders of fashion in Paris to revive the practice of powdering the hair. The cupatorium saturija, a plant from Sauta Fe de Bogota, has been successfully used against cholera in Paris. It is what the snake-charmers cat when bitten. Maximilian made a car a Hero and a grand cross of the order of Guadalupe, of the editor of bis organ. Lacronica. The decorated journalist is an ex-New Yorker. Rev. Augustus 4\ alker. a missionary of the American Board, died of cholera at Diarbaker, Turkey, on the 18th of Sep tember. The short-time movement among the Lancashire cotton manufacturers was mak ing progress, and indicated a large decrease in production. The English and French Governments are to interfere in the dispute between Spain and the South American Republics. The cost of pauperism in Great Britain last year was between thirty-five and forty j million dollars. CHARGE OF HOX. WM. R. McLAWS 1 To the Grand Jury of Richmond County, November Term. 1866. Mr. Foreman, and. Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: This is the sixth month of your service as Grand Jurors of the County Court of Richmond county, and I have thought that a short address from me, by way of a charge —giving you the result of my experience as Judge of the Court, together with such arguments as may have suggested, them selves to my mind in favor of the Court, and such alterations or modifications as I humbly conceive to be necessary to be made by tiie Legislature now in session—would not be unacceptable to you at this time. My motive being a good one, gentlemen. I hope that you will pardon my trespassing upon your attention. Though this is the sixth month of your service, it is not your last Court. You will have to assemble once more at the semi annual session of the Court, on the first Monday in December next, when, after having discharged your duties as Grand Jurors, your time of service will have ex pired—the language ofthe Act being “that you shall serve for the next six months, and during the next semi-annual session.” You were drawn at the first semi-annual session of the Court, which met on the first Monday in June last; the first term of your service was on the second Monday in June, and your last term will be, as I have stated, at the next semi-annual session. And just here I would suggest the abolition of Grand Juries at the semi annual sessions, as being unnecessary, in consequence of their having no civil cases to try, and owing to the proximity of the monthly session ofthe Court, being in this county on the following week, and in all of the counties in the same mouth.—a jail delivery once a month answering all the expectations ofthe people. The Court is one of the offsprings ofthe | revolution, and was organized by the Legis- I lature to meet the necessities of the times. I am satisfied that we must have the Court as it is, or one similarly organized. Abol- I ish it altogether, and we will soon have the j military tribunals of the Freedmen’s j Bureau established again over us. They will be ordered by the Government as a necessity, and will doubtless be called for by some of our citizens, as humiliating as it may be, lather than we should be without some tribunal where speedy jus tice could be administered to the i'reedman or to our citizens in ail cases where they should be at variance with the freedman. I say that it wouid be humiliating, for it would amount to a confession that the peo ple of the once great State of Georgia had proved incapable of self-government, and wanting in sufficient wisdom to manage the internal affairs of the State. Abolish the Court altogether, and what I would be our situation? We would then ; have remaining our Superior Courts and j Justices’ (the Supreme Court being only a j Court of Errors) Courts; the first sitting ! twice a year, and the latter monthly. The j Justices’ Courts have only the power of j committing Courts. They have no author j ity to punish persons for crimes, because I they have no grand jury, nor have they a | pettyjury of twelve men to try offenders. ! The Superior Courts then will have to try all offenders, amounting in this county to j at least twenty or thirty every month. _ A j large majority of these, unable to give ; security for their appearance, will have to j be sent to jail, where they will have to re main at the expense of theccunty until the I meeting of the Superior Court, when they j will first have to be indicted by the Grand Jury, and then tried by a petty jury. I I would ask you how long would this occupy 1 the time of the Judge and juries? Make . the calculation for yourselves; and by w r ay | of a data to govern you, 1 will state that i our Superior Court just adjourned occupied I fifteen days in trying seme twenty cases, I | believe, fourteen of them being felonies, j and that there were still remaining in jail j to, be tried seine fourteen defendants. The [ number of persons on bail awaiting trial I j never learned, but it must be quite large. New, experience proves that, as a general thing, it takes a day to try a felony, because | the defendant is entitled to a full panel j jury; the evidence has to bo taken down, and the punishment being severe and infa mous, the attorneys very properly exercise all their ingenuity, skill and eloquence in behalf of the accused. And whilst my mind is upon this sub ject, I would suggest an amendment to our | constitution, taking away from our Superior Courts exclusive jurisdiction in cases of felonies, and giving authority to the Legis lature to extend the jurisdiction to our County Courts ; and, I may add, our City Courts, in order that there might be a speedy jail delivery in all cases under the j grade of capital offences. This, I think, j would be productive of great good to the I community, and attain what we have so | much needed in Georgia—speedy trials, j speedy convictions, or speedy acquittals. There have been such great delays in j the administration of criminal justice throughout the country, that great crimi nals have presumed upon it, knowing that every continuance inures to their benefit, and that after much delay they will finally ; escape the prosecution, and the community cease to take an interest in the case; wit nesses die or move away, some, disgusted by frequent attendance upon the courts — I waitihg perhaps a week or two for the case to be called, and then to be continued for six months —cease to attend, and when the trial does, come on, the offenders, as a general thing, are acquitted. Therefore, in bad cases, the policy is always to con tinue, and when there are many witnesses some are sure to be absent; lienee the punishment is not associated with the offence, and the fear of punishment does not deter others from committing crimes. Speedy jail deliveries will save great ex pense to the counties. Thecity of Augusta having charge of the jail in this county — has to pay the sum of six hundred and thirty-five dollars per month, this being the average payment, or over seven thous and dollars per annum for the purpose of keeping up the jail. This is a very heavy tax upon our oppressed population. Speedy trials are but just to the accused, many of whom may be innocent, and for their cases to. be continued after they have been in jail six months awaiting trial, is a crying evil, and must fall more heavily upon the poor freedman, very few of whom are able to give bail, particularly in felonies. This would, of itself, in the event of the aboli tion of the Court, attract the attention of those who would desire the presence of the Freedmen’s Bureau. | The speedy trials given by the County j Courts, would take so many cases from the j Superior Courts, thereby affording that ; Court more time to devote to the civil j docket. What a trial it is every session to ! parties and witnesses, many of whom are dependant upon their daily labor for the i support of themselves and families, to bo | detained about the Court, awaiting the ! disposal of the criminal docket. You have, ! doubtless, most of you, experienced this | great inconvenience, annoyance, and w T hat some of you have conceived to be trifling wit li your time. The argument most generally used against the County Court is the onerous duties it imposes upon juries. This I ap prehend, is a mistake. The cause does not lie in the County Courts, but in the new relations created by the revolution ; for without the Court, our citizens would have to perform three times as much duty as jurors as they performed before the Act of the Legislature of ’66, placing the freedmen upon a footing with the whites inour Courts of Justice. It should be borne in mind that we are now called upon to perform the additional duty as jurymen for the colored race set free amongst us ; not only to settle dis putes between themselves, between the blacks and whites, but to sit in judgment in all cases where they are charged with violating the criminal laws of the land. I say that it has been deemed politic, and wise by the Legislature to grant them equal rights in our Courts of Justice, and the chief of these rights is that of trial by | iury. All this duty, as we well know, must Ibe performed by the whites. Were the I blacks sufficiently intelligent and advanced j in civilization to sit as jurymen in these | cases, only where their own color j were concerned, we would be re j lieved from much of this new duty. Our own laws now require this duty of us. and it is but just, right and hu mane in us to give those who are inferior to ns in natural capacity, acquired infor mation and opportunities of improvement, the benefit of our superior intelligence, not only inour Courts of Justice, but in the daily pursuits of life. Experience has proven to me. however, that in some of the cases on the criminal j side of the Court, a jury trial may be dis- j pensed with. It has sometimes happened j that freedmen. who had been arrested and brought before me as a Magistrate, for violating some of the criminal laws, after examination, and after I had decided to commit them for regular trial, have impor tuned me to pass sentence upon them at once, rather than await the annoyance and delay of a trial with the certainty of final punishment. In such cases I had no au thority to punish. To make punishment legal there must be findings by both I Grand and Petty Juries, unless the defend : ant pleads guilty to a charge, made by a ! Grand Jury. Now I would respectfully 1 suggest to the Legislature to grant author j ty, l and I presume that there can be no i doubt about the right to the Judges of the j County Court, sitting as committing magis : trates. to pass sentence upon defendants, j where there can be no doubt of their guilt, and where they desire it. This right, if wiselv and humanely exercised will relieve both ’Grand and Pettv Juries from the bur dens and vexation of Magistrates. ! I see it suggested as an improvement to } the Court, that anew Grand Jury be sum j moned to attend at every term; that this would cause a more equal distribution of the burdens of Jury duty amongst the 1 citizens. I have no doubt but what this ; plan would be more acceptable to the peo -1 pie at large throughout the State, partic-u --: larly as it is not the fashion now-a days for j Grand Juries “to diligently enquire and i true presentments make of all such matters and things as shall be given them in charge or shall come to their knowledge, touching the present service.” T say that it is not the fashion.' ibr it Las been several years since 1 have known a * I rand Jury to make a (Special Presentment; and though you. gentlemen, have been in session lor near six months, you have not thought proper to call upon the Solicitor to make out a Special Presentment wherein you might make a charge “from your own knowledge t aud observation. ” One ofthe objects of the Legislature in having you drawn for six months, 1 sup pose, was, to cause you to present in Term time what violations of law you had ob ! served in vacation. This haying failed in practice, I can see no objection to having anew Jury’ every Court ; though were 1 a J uryman, living in a city like Augusta, 1 would prefer the present system, which l do not think has proved to be particularly onerous, and which has preserved , you from molestation by the Superior Courts where the duties of Grand Ju.ries are doubly severe—having to serve not only as a Grand Inquest in the investigation of felonies, but as Special .Jurors on the civil side of the Court—and where you are lia ble to be called upou to serve, not only as as falis Grand Jurors, but Labs Petit Jurors in the trial of criminals. Being a | sworn Grand Jury of the County Court for six months, and presumed by law to be in i the discharge of the duties during that time, I should think, would protect you . from Jury duty in any of the other Courts. I can perceive no particular objections! to the civil powers of the court. They are j iu most respects eminently wise and ! proper. I would suggest, however, that in all suits above the sum of thirty dollars, tried by the Judge at the monthly session, the losing party be allowed the benefit of an appeal to a Jury, subject to the usual rules regulating appeals in the other courts. Experience has taught me that from the haste with which the Judge is sometimes called upon to decide cases, and the little time given him for reflection or investiga ; tion, that sometimes his decisions work in , justice, and that the remedy now pointed \ out by eertorari, is so expensive aud tedi j ous that the party would prefer to submit to what he conceives to be an injustice rather than avail himself of it. It would relieve my mind very much were appeals allowed in suck cases, or even in all cases above the sum of twenty dollars. No fault has been found with the semi annual sessions. Leaving out of view the Grand Jury and criminal powers which I have suggested be taken away, the Court simply takfs the place of the old Inferior Court; tlic only difference being that the new Court has a single Judge, whilst the old Court dad five. Before the revolution such a Court, as the present semiannual session ofthe County Court, existed in some of the Southern States, and was pretty generally advocated amongst the legal pro fession ir. Georgia. The semi-annual ses sion of the Court, I may safely say, is an admitted necessity in our Judiciary system. The civil jurisdiction of the Court at its monthly session is the same, in most re spects, with that of the Justices of the Feace in the city of Augusta. The princi pal additional power given it is the right to try mses sounding in damages-—a right which the Legislature, though appealed to at every session, have always refused to cor,for upon the Justices of the Peace. This is a very important power, and in my opinion, has tended to the advancement of justice in many cases, which, without the power in the Court, would have altogether been denied. It is true that suits lor dam ages in small, or in any amounts, could be brought in the Superior Court; but who would king a suit in that Court for a cow, for instance —a horse, or a dog of small value—where the services of an attorney were absolutely indispensable ; where the suit mist be framed in a formal manner, and where the fees of counsel would, in most cases, amount to the value sued for? Before the existence ofthe County Court it was a rtre case for a suit to be brought for articles of small value (an action of Trover), and these rare cases were brought where the parties had the means and were stimulated by pride or passion to seek re dress for wrongs, at whatever cost. The special powers of the Court, and the power to hold special sessions at the option of the J udge, have worked admirably well in this county, and have been the source of much convenience and satisfaction. But, gentlemen, for a proper understand ing of the powers and operations of the Court, I respectfully refer to the act of the Legislature organizing it, and ask of you to give it a careful perusal. lam satisfied that most of the opposition to its existence arises from ignorance ; for I ’have never yet conversed with an honest, intelligent man, who understood its operations, but who admitted its necessity. In the discharge of what I conceive to be my duties, a great part of my time is devo ted to giving advice to the f'reedmen. An impression prevails amongst them that the office was established for their especial benefit, and they call upon me daily for ad rice and legal counsel, which I freely and patiently give without reward, to tiie best of my ability ; and in giving counsel to them I have endeavored to give it such a direction as would promote harmony be tween the races, instruct them in their new duties, and cause them to turn again to us with confidence ; for it is but in ac cordance with the laws of our nature, that we should lie after all, their truest and sincercst friends. The freedmen require some place to go to for advice, and I have never turned one away without rendering him or her some service. An impression has gone abroad that the officers of the County Court are very handsomely paid by fees received in the different cases. This, gentlemen, is a great mistake. We are not paid in one half of the eases brought, and were it not for the fees received as Committing Magis trate, it would be impossible for me to hold the office any longer ; and even as Committing Magistrate, I receive no pay for my trouble in a majority of the cases ; for no pay is received for cases where the parties are sent to jail—and a majority of those tried are sent there, as they belong to that class who are unable to give secu rity. Those parties who are regularly in dieted and tried—generally f'reedmen— are unable to pay, as a general thing, either fines or costs, and our only recourse in such cases is to look to the fines which are paid, and which have amounted toonlv about one hundred and fifty dollars since the existence of the Court. Remember that these fines are divided amongst the officers, and that the Judge has to pay the Clerk out of liis own re ceipts. Speaking within bounds, I do not think that the Solicitor, who is required by law to give a bond for slo,ooo— the same as the Solicitor-General of the Circuit—has received, as fees, more than one hundred dollars since he has been in office; and I would here suggest that provision be made by the Legislature, now in session, for the payment of all “insolvent costs” at least quarterly, by the County Treasury—the bills being first passed by three of the Judges of the. Inferior Court; or, tliat a similar provision be made for Richmond county as is made for the county of Mus cogee, in the bill organizing the Court. Speaking for myself alone, I regret that the Judge should have any fees of office at all. It would certainly make him feel more independent were he a salaried officer. Though the salary did not amount to as much as the fees, it would place the Judge beyond the temptation to swerve from the path of rectitude, or at least from the sus picion of being governed by improper motives for the purpose of making fees. Our Legislature, as an act of justice, revised the Code, and out of kindness to the blacks, and as an act of necessity from the anomalous condition of affairs, "passed an act reducing some twenty-two felonies to misdemeanors —a very wise measure, I think, upon the whole —for had it not been for the passage of this act. Richmond Su perior Court alone, provided it tried all the cases, would fill the Penitentiary with con victs in two years. I say that it was a very wise measure upon the whole, because I do not approve of some of the reductions. For instance, I think it would have been wise to have retained larceny from the person as a felony; and the offence of breaking and en tering into a dwelling house, and stealing therefrom articles of any value, is no longer burglary. Even the offence of rape is a misde meanor; but this last must have been an error on the part of some of the engross ■ing clerks of the Legislature—the offence of attempting to commit a rape being still a felony. I hope I may be mistaken —but I thinkT perceive a disposition on the part of some of our people to shrink from the real cares which our changed relations have imposed upon us. I think that I can perceive an indifference to every thing like State pride —the glories of the past or the hopes of the future. lam afraid, too, that there is a willingness to allow others to interfere in what should not concern them, in order that they, as citizens might follow un molested their own selfish pursuits. We are all perhaps unconsciously giving away too much. This should not be—let us be true to ourselves ; let us arouse from tbe lethergy which is creeping over us, and let us be prepared cheerfully to bear our new bui dens. There are ’ high and noble du ties for us to perform—duties requiring the highest qualities, moral and intellec tual ; and should we perform them with zeal and ability, instead of sinking to the level of slaves, we will arise like Antee.i, gathering strength from our fall. The 23d course of lectures in tbe Reform Medical College at Macon, was opened on Monday in an able address by Pror. M. S. Thomson. Mr. Willians, the Episcopal clergyman who was recently charged with picking the pocket of a lady in the sth Avenue stage has been released onbat! Garabaldifat. I bis farming. Linton & Doughty, COTTON FACTOR S AND Commission Merchants, j Continue the Business in all its Branches. OFFICE ON JACKSON STREET i opposite th old stand, where t ey STILI, 5T01513. AVil! also, ltcep oil liand, PURE PERUVIAN GUANO. SAM'L I>. LINTON CHAS. W. DOUGHTY. auglO—d&wlm New Firm, J. C. DAWSON A BROTHER, PRODUCE AND CONMISSION MERCHANTS, Augusta, Ga. THE undersigned respect-, fully inform their friends and the public that they wil be prepared on the Erst day of September next to receive Consignments of Cotton, Rice, Tobacco, Hag ging, Hope, Hay, Salt, Corn, Wheat, liyc, Oats, Flour, Feathers, Ba con am! Lard, in short, everythin*; from every portion of the United State? that will pav the shipper a profit m this market. Con signments of COTTON will be stored in the Warehouse formerly occupied by DOUGHTY, HE ALL & C J. . on Jackson street. Office and Sales Room second door up stairs. flavin" had long experience in the WAREHOUSE and COMMISSION BUSINESS. our planting friends mayiely upon our beat efforts to obtain the highest market rate for their cotton and th** exercise of our best jugment in the pur chase of BAGGING, ROPE, Ac. Liberal advances will be made on Produce n store, if de sired. Our charges will be customarv. We hope by strict and punctual attention to business to merit the confidence and patronage of the public? ‘ J. C. DAWSON, S. J. DAWSON augl2— ddtwSm 01 Greensboro, New Firm, .X. 51. DYE & CO. WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MKRCIIT’S ! At the old stand, No. 113 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GA. r pilE UNDERSIGNED HAVE TIITS I day formed a copartnership as above, and will continue the busiuess in all its branches. Our personal attention will be given to the STORAGE and SALE OF COTTON. Liberal CASH ADVANCES made on Cotton and other j Produce in Store, when desired. Consignments respectfully solicited. JAMES M. DYE, SOL. ROBINSON. Augusta, Ga. Nov. Ist, 1566. nov2—d&wlin M, P. STOVALL, WAREHOUSE AND OomMiissicii Merchant, AUGUSTA, GA. WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE IIIS y ¥ personal attention to the Storage and Sale of CO I’- TON and OTHER PRODUCE. Consignments <>f Cotton will b» stored in the NEW EIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE on Jackson Street, on the site formerly occupied by Doughty, Beall <fc Cos. His Sales Room and Office—the New Granite Front build ing, now erecting on the Northeast corner of Jackson and Reynolds streets. augll—d&wtf S,!). Heard, W A. R E BC O XT S E AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, AUGUSTA, GA. aug2B—d& w6mw3 New Stock of Clothing —AND— FURNISHING GOODS I JOHN K. HORA, (Under Central Hotel) Has received a well as- SORTED Stock of CLOTHING, consisting of— Beaver and Cloili Overcoats* Black Cloth Frocks and Sacks, Beaver and Cassimere Frocks and Sacks Black and Colored Caasimere Pants, Black and Colored Silk asttl Velvet Vests, Black and Colored Casaimere Vests, &;o —ALSO— Fine Shirts and Drawers, Socks, Suspenders, Collars, Gloves, Neckties, &c, To the examination of which he would invite his old friend and the public generally, as they will be sold on REASONA BLE TERMS. oet2s—6wd&4w Guano ! Guano!! J JAWING SECURED A STORE AT SAVANNAH, WE ARE PREPARED TO SUPPLY PLANTES S WITH PIHENIX AND NO. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO, FROM EITHER SAVANNAH OR AUGUSTA, IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT, All orders should be addressed to the undersigned at Augusta. WILCOX, GIBBS & CO. Commission Merchants and dealers in Guano, nov6—d&wSm No, 24l Broad St. Mill Furnishing Goods, THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RE spectfully inform his old customers, and the Millers in general, that lie is now prepared to furnish the best quality ol ri’caeli Burr, ESOPUS & COLOGNE MILLSTONES Bolting: Cloth, Smut Machines, Belting, Wire Cloth, Mill Picks, And any other articles needed'for a good grist or flouring mill. Orders solicited and promptly attended to. WM. BRENNER, apl6-d&wly Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. G. C. NORTON. WM. 15ARKUL00. G. C. Norton & G 0 .3 Et 33 Ij E SSS O? AT B AND INSU It A NCE AG E NTS, Brunswick, Ga. anglT d&w6m3s Carriages and Buggies Manufactured and repair ed by Experienced Workmen, AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE, And on as REASONABLE TERMS As any ether Establishment. MURPHY & WELTCII, Bethany, sep!9—6mw4of Jefferson Cos. Gs. I m^slller 212 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. \\ r E ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR 1 T stock of YELLOW and WHITE oiviorsr sets, Our supply of FRESH garden seeds papers and in bulk. Our .Stock will be the most complete ever offered in tins market. Descriptive Catalogues and Almanacs lurnished gratis. * PLUMB & LEITNER. oct2C—dinseoddswtf 212 Broad St. Augusta ~COTTON WAREHOUSEr NEW FIR3I. J.J. PEARCE. W. T. WHELESS, CKAS. A. PEARCE Pearce, Wheless & to, Cotton Factors & Commission Merchants., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. TTAVIXG FORMED A COPARI njU-A, ERSHIP as above, and having secured a fire-proof warehouse on Jackson Street, formerly occupied by T.ees A j,:; we will continue to store and sell Cotton 'and other Ca;;. advances cn Produce in Store. Order3 for Family a \ les .uileu at market prices. / nos the patronage of our friend? and acquaint an*. -- iS solicited, J. J. PEARCE x SOX, , W. T. WHELESS, , _ , lAte of the firm of Fleming & Wheless. Augusta, Ga.. July 10. l -66. ivli—dAw6nuns Great Barham, the subscriber, wishing to -A char. 2 his planting interest, offers for sale his well known and Valuable PLANTATION, known as Shady (Trove, sc Columbia county, on Oocfcee and Kiokee Creeks, a '..Doming . anus of Clacton, Walton. Lamkin and o hers, lb n.-ies \v e>.t of Augusta, between Washington and Columbia containing a~res, regarded as the best land in >UGm»: Georgia ; GOO acres open, balance in pine and original -•.•res,, raeplace is very healthy and well watered, with all p e^f* sai T out uund.ngs, Stock. Plantation Implements, Corn. AfWif r \ . p n ,ne place has been made the largest crops in .Lou.e Georgia. A great bargain is now offered”. Apply to L J. H. Ivey, on place. p. KAMSE Y. Notice, \ LL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE -4jL. iate firm* of J. M. NEWBY & CO., and IIOEA, ul.sLiCO., for debts contracted previous to the war, ana to J . K. Hera during and since the close of the war are particularly requested to call and make arrangements * r M-:Tl:r,;r their inn a? lam desirous ofsettiing np said claims immediately. The books and notes of said J™* car ] be at the old established clothing stand, 231 Broad street. JcHN K- HORA. Iron Fronts. TRON FRONTS, EITHER PLAIN OR . OJtNAMEN IAL, furnished at short notice, and at low P DAY & HOPKINS, PHOENIX IRON WORKS, aovl-tf y areuif it, near Augusta Cotton Factory, JENNINGS, WARD & SMITH, | Warehouse and Commission M e rohants. AUGUSTA, G A . T H £.SS^S- SIGNia » HAVE FORMED A COPARTNERSHIP UNDER THE T ho „„., l( JENNINGS, WARD & SMITH and offer theirwrvices 10 an A GENERAL COMMISSION BUSINESS, attention to all business entrustedtothem? d the pUbllC ‘ Thu - V P lwJ g e Oieir undivided Cotton I 'blade l ofAususta ‘and the services of Mr. E Brsn v , Y h„ P, oasu . n ' 111 a'tnouneing that they have secured LIBERAL CASH ADVACES will & madcW b0 ° k '* ! /• A JENNINGS, Augusta, " I 00l2M^',m JOsLYt K COTTON HOUSE. J. «J. ROBERTSON «s*c CO., WILL CONTINUE TII E WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AT THEIR LARGE AND COMMOr 1 OUS CLOSE STORE No. 5 Warren Block, Augusta, Ga. PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO STORAGE AND SALE OF COTTON Ukli^c'u-fofVv'n^N^anlu : V; K- is considered far superior to open “Warehouses ," both as regard uanceonw'r'rDr* : 1 1 * l!e vc ‘ r J ll '-' oral tatronage extended us during the past year, we respectfully ask for a contia w augl9—d&w4m3& . ISAAC S’. HEARD & CO„ WAEEHOU3L AND COMMISSION MERCHASJS, CORNER REYNOLDS AND McINTOSH STREETS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. TO DEVOTE THEIR STRICT PERSONAL ATTENTION TO THE t AND of cotton, and all other produce. v 11 11 Order? lor Irairc.ng Hope, &c., promptly attended to. Liberal Cash Advances made at all times on Produce inStob J - VA - '• UL.tiin lausrll—d«fcwbm| O. M. STONE JEFFERSON COUNTY. T OUISYILLE. JEFFERSON COUN- T\.—Whereas, Mary A. Kelley, Executrix of the Tasi Will and Testament of John N. Kelley, lute of said count , deceased, has made her application asking to be discharged^ Executrix aforesaid, and recommending Reuben W. Carswell as a suitable person to be appointed as Administrator wit h the Will annexed of said deceased: These are therefor -, to cite and require all the heirs and creditors, of said deceased, to be and appear at my otlice by the first Monday in December next, to show cause, if any they have, why said application should not hr granted. Given under my hand and official signature, this 29th day of October, 1866. NICHOLAS DIEHL, nov2—sw4G Ordinary. A dmintstrators saleT^by XJI virtue of an order from the Honorable Court of Ordi- 1 rnrvjof JO:or.-'on County, will he sold on the FIRST TUES- i 1 Fnext, at the market house In the town of Louisville, the following property, to wit : One tract of laud in said county, contaiug 169 aces more or less, adjoining lands ol Rut us Way, Meredith Carsons and others.’ Also, one other iract of kind in said county containing 171 acres more or less, adjoining C. Hudson, Wm. Wren and others, bold as the property ot the estate of Benjamin F. Taylor, de ceased. 1 eras on the dav ot sale. c * . , ; t AMES KING, no. 8 —w47td Adm r with will annexed. GEORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. \ I \\ hereas, Win. A. Goodown applies to me for Letters of Administration on the Estate of George F. Way, late of said county, deceased— These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said doee:ised, 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 granted. Giv n under my hand and official signature, at office in Louisville, tins sth day of November, ]B6f». novb—4w47 NICHOLAS DLEIIL, Ordinary. ( GEORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. ' V A " hereas. Robert E. Alexander applies to me. for I.ct j ters of Guardiar.shsp of the persons and property of Aden j and Augustus I*. J. Harden, minor heirs of Augustus A. Harden, deceased— These are therefore to cite and admoiiisli all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my otlice within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said Letters Should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in Lou isville, this fall day of November, 18GL novS—4w47 NICHOLAS DIEIIL, Ordinary. GEORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. Whereas, Job R. Hunter applies to me for Letters of Administration on the Estate of Noah B. Covington, de ceased— These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or before the first Monday in December next, and show cause, if any they have, why said Letters sli uld not bt granted. Given under my hand ar.d official signature at office in Lou isviile, this 19th day of October, 13iSG. j oct23d- 5w44 NICHOLAS DIEHL, Ordinary. GEORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. \ Jl. Whereas, Wills Howard applies to me for Letters of Administration on Estate of Michael Pcole, deceased : These are therefore to cite and adraoi ish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my otlice on or before the first Monday in December next, to show cause, if any they have, why suid Letters should not be granted. Given under mv hand and official signature at office in Lou sville, this 15th day of October. 18156. octlS—sw44 NICHOLAS DIEHL, Ordinary. A DMINISTRATOR’S SALE.- BY / a virtue of an onler from the Honorable Court of Ordi nary of Jefferson County, will be sold on the FIRST TUES DAY IN NOVEMBER NEXT, at the Market House in the town of Louisville, a tract of Land containing eight hundred and twenty acres more or less, adjoining lands of Cyrus Hud son, JA. Bigham, L. Q. C. I>. Brown and others. Sold as tie property of Andrew F. W liigham, deceased, for the benefit of tlie heirs and creditors of said deceased. Terms on day of sale. LUCIUS Q. C. I). BROWN, sepl3—w39td Adin’r. / IJCOHuIA. JEFFERSON COUNTY. V_A Whereas, tlm Estate of Isaac Youngblood, deceased is unrepresented: These are therefore to cite and require all persons concerned to sh >w cause, if any they have, why the Administration of said Estate ahould not be vested in the Clerk of the Superior Court, or in some other lit and proper person at the Court of Ordinary to be held in and for said count}-, on the first Mon day in December next. Given under my hand at office in Louisville, September 29th, 1566. NICHOLAS DIEHL, oct3—2mw42 Ordinary A DMIN ISTRATOR’S SALE.—BY /a virtue of an order from the Honorable < !ourt of Ordi nary of Jefferson County, will be sold on the FIRST TUES DAY IN’ NOVEMBER next, at the Market House in the Town of Louisville the following property tc wit: One tract of land in Jefferson county, containing 119 acres more or less, adjoining lands of Tempy McDaniel, Dr. Boring, Mrs. Reed and others. Sold as the property of William Hutchens, de ceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said de ceased. Terms on day of sale. sep22-6w40 RED M. HALL, Adm’r. f i EORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY yjBT Whereas, Dele Wudley and Milledgc Murphey, Ad ministrators, applies to me for Letters of Dismission from the Estate of Michael Wall, late of said county, deceased — These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office on or before the first Monday in I ebruary, i867, to show cause, if any they have, why saiu Letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in Louisville, this 17th day of August, 18 <i. ang-.’l—wff-Him NICHOLAS DIEHL, OrrVy. / 5 EORGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. y 7 Whereas, John G. Jordan Executor, applies to me for Letters of Dismission li oni the estate of Robert Jordan, late of said county, deceased— These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singu lar the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appeal* at my office on or before the first Monday in Feb ruary, 1867, to show cause, if any they have, why said Let ters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in Louisville, this 20th day of July, iB6O. jy2s—\v32-6m NICHOLAS DIEIIL. Ordinary. jVTOTICE.—TWO MONTHS AFTER JLI date, application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county, for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of Thomas G. Jordan, deceased. SARAH JORDAN. Adm’x. November Bth. 3806. novß—Bw47 iVJJTICE. 1 Two months after date, to wit. on the first, Monday in January next, application will be n ado to the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county for leave tosell all the land be longing to the estate ol' Benjamin F. Ta\ lor, of said county, and ceased. JAMES KING, Adm’r; nov2—2mw4‘i jVTOTICE.—TW 0 MONTHS AFTER JLi date, application will b - made to the Honorable, the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county, for leave to sell the Lands belonging to the Estate of Samuel A. Lucky, late of said county, deceased. IIENRY J. FARMER, oet 1— 2mw42 Adm’r de bonis non. ATOTICE.— I TWO MONTHS AFTER date, application will be made to the Honorable, me Court of Ordinary of Jcfbrson comity, for leave to sell the Lands belonging to tin* Estate of Lucius Q. C. I). Han nah, late of said county, deceased. PLEASANT WALDEN, ocM—2mw42 Executor. ~\TOTICE. —TWO MONTHS AFTER _l_ date, application will be made to ihe Honorable, the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county, for leave to sell the Heal Estate of John N. Kelly, late of said county deceased. MARY A. KELLY. oCt3—2raw42 Executrix. 'jV' OTICE,—TWO MONTHS AFTER date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of Jasper Vining, late of said countv, deceased. sepl —Bw39 MARY VINING, Adm’x. AJOTICE.—TWO MONTHS AFTER i. 1 date, application will be made to the Honorable the < '*urt of Ordinary of Jefferson county, lor leave to sell the Real Estate belonging to Thomas N. Polhill, late of said county, deceased. FREDERICK A. POLHILL, OCt3—2inw42 Adm’r. ivroTicE. ' j_ x Two months after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of Newton J. Hadden, late of said county, deceased, ANDREW J. WILL IA MS. Adm’r. September 3,1866. s*j r2 —2mw3B ATOTICK X ? Two months after date application will be made to . t ne Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of John J. Hadden, late of said county', deceased. MARTIN G. DYE, Adm’r. September ?, 1866. seps—2mwßß Administrator’s Sale. By VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM the Court of Ordinary, of Jefferson county, will be sold at the Market House in the Town of Louisville, on the Ist Tuesday in December .next, a tract of Land, con ; taining (692) six hundred and ninety-two acres, more or less, adjoining lands of It. L. Gamble, George Stapleton and others. Sold as the property of James F. Hannah deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Terms on day of sale. HENRY J. FARMER, oeti—2mw42 Admr. Administrator’s Sale, py VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM I ) the Court of Ordinary, of Jefferson county, will lie sola at the Market Hou-m i the Town of Louisville on the Ist Tuesday in December next, a tract of Land, contain ing (822) eight hundred and twenty-two acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Asa Willoughby, Willis Howard, Henry Peebles and others. Sold as the property of \ alen tiue A. Hatcher, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. T Terms on day of ..ale. ROBERT A. M ERCER. oct4—2mw42 Adm’r. Administrator’s Sale, t GREEABLE TO AN ORDER OF the (Vjiirt of Ordinary of Washington county, •»•!:) he -Did before the Court House door in the Town of Dalton, Whitfk!<l county, Ga., on the Brat Tuesday in Uecemhcrmixt within the legal hours of sale, a tract of LAN D, in W bitfield county, Ga., containing three hundred and twenty (320> acres, including adjoining lots Nos. 62 and 63 in the 18th dis trict and 3d section. The land lies well, excellent water, we; timbered, about thirty acres cleared, produces about 25 to 80 bushels of corn or wheat per acre, and situated on the Stab Railroad, two miles from the station Tilton, and six miles from Dalton. Sold as the property belonging to the estate of Eli Gumming, late of Wasnington, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs. Terms on dav of sale D R. & N. Y GUMMING, occ 6 wtd-42 Administrators. Plantation for Sale, I ton ACRES GOOD PINE LAND ; ■ TUV/ (formerly belonging to Joseph Olipbsnt, deceased; lying In Jefferson county, Georgia, 17 miles north <f Louis vhle, the county site, about one-third open and well-fenced, the balance original forest, well-timbered. Upon this place is a good dwelling house, outhouses, blacksmith shop, good gin house, screw, Ac. This land lies in a compact body, sur rounded on three sides by rnnning streams, which furnish three good null .eats, and some ex cel lent swamp land, in a high sta eof cultivation. This place is very healthy, and may be divided into three parts, having a good mill seat on each— a splendid chance for a Factory of F arms. Offered for sale for distribution among the heirs. Call and see it, or uddrest the undersigned at Louisville, Jefferson county, Ga. J. H.OLIPHaNT,) oet27—omw4s J. N. OLIPiIANT.i A ? e COLUMBIA COUNTY. 4 DMINISTRATORS’ SALE.—WILL J~\ be sold at the Court House i; Appling, Columbia Rmty.onthc FIRST TUESDAY IN DEC EM BEK next, FIVE SHAKES of the SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD STOCK, belonging to the estate of Mrs. Nancy Butler, late of said county, deceased. T. H. PA SCHAD oct2o—wtdf A<!tai r /COLUMBIA SHERIFF’S SALE.— \J Will be sold on tho FIK.vT TUESDAY IN ItECEM- Bx.K next before the Court House door at Appling. tween the legal hours of sale, two lots of land, one contain ins thirty-two acres more or less, adjoining lands at J. *' Biackston, Francis Tillery and others: the other lot coy taining nineteen and one half acres. adjouiDS *anas oi J W. Blackstoa andestate of Geo. M. ilagruder, levied on a.- the property of Britton Bos worth to satisfy live arias. from the Justice’s Court of the Sixth Company Distnctoi said county in favor of Joseph Day. and transferred by sain ST ‘ lamfs w - Blackston u. Sblriff ’ J cAdrMEcnmitL RICHMOND COUNTY. Georgia’ Richmond county. ?• Mm ' s - Administratrix on the estate ot Hubbard b. Mill la, deceased, applies to me for Letters of Dismission * These are theriaore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors ot said deceased to be and avnerr at my office on or before the first Monday in June next, to show “anKal" any hCy have - wb >’ 3uhl la-ttrn should not be Oiveii under nry band and official signature, at office in Au gusta. this Oth day ot November, nov7—6mw47 DAVID L. ROATll,Ordinary. / 5 EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY^ N A Whereas, Artemas Gould, Guardian and Adininist>: t#r ot Joseph 11. Adams, minor, deceased, applies to me for Li ters of Dismission: These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to tie and appear at my office on or before the first. Monday in June next, to show cause, it any they have, why said Letters should not be grant- Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta. this 6th day of November, 1b66. nov7—Gmw47 DAVID L. ROATH, Ordinary. ffJ-EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY V \N hereas, John Tilkey, up] lies to me for Letters oi Administration de bonis non wltJi the will annexed on the Estate ot Thomas Courtney, late of said county deceased: J These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singu lar, the kindred and creditors ot said deceased to be end appear at my office, on or before the Ist Monday in Decem ber next, to show cause, if any they have, why said Let ters should not bo granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, tins Ist day ol.Ncvember, 1566. r DAVID L. ROATII, r.p\-—sw4f> Ordi i iary. ( 5 EORGIA, RICHSIOND COUNTY, V_A Y\ hereas, Nancy M. Hills, applies to me for Letters ot Administration on the Estate of John M. Hills, late of said county deceased: Those are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singu lar, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before the first Monday in December next, to show cause, if any they have, why said Lettere should not be granted, J Given underlay hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, this Ist day of November, 1866. r 4 . DAVID L. ROATH, jiov2-5w46 Ordinary. EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. VJi, Whereas, Samuel Drayton, applies to me lbr Letter ot Administration on the Estale of Rose Drayton, late of said county, deceased: ’ These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular tne kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or before the first Monday in December next to granted USC if auy tiley ljave * why 6aid Letters slamld not lie Given under my hand and official signature at office in Au gusta, tins Ist day of November, 18' 6. _ .. DAVID L. ROATII. nov2—s\v4G Omiimry. / 5 EORGIA, "RICHMONIT COUNTY. \ n hereas, James Henderaon apinh-s to n:e for I o'tors OI Ailmimstration on tJie Estate of u iiliam JI. Cooncr. late of saul county, deceased : * These are t herefore to cite and admonlshtfall and slmmlar flic kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and attnearat my office on or before the lirst Monday in December next to allow cause, it any they have, v.-hy said Letters should not be granted. t.h cn under my hand and official signature at office in Au gusta, tins 2d day of November, 1866. uov2—4w4i DAVID L. K OATH, Ordinary. (75 EORGIA, RICH3IOND COUNTY. .* A Whereas, Sludrach S. Tarduc, applies to me for Let ters of Administration on the Estale of Harry Thomas late said county, deceased: These arc therefore to cite and adraon Lh all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at rnv office on or before the first Monday in December m-xt. to'; iimv * l ' iy have, why said Letters sliuul'd not be Given under my hand and official signature at office in Au gusta, this Ist day of November, lflfifk _ , . An DAVID L. ROATH, nov2—jw46 Ordinary. /GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. \ hereas, the Estate of Thomas S. Dunbar, late of said county, deceased, is unrepresented : These are. therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin gular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office on or before the first Monday in December next, to show cause, if any they have, why Letters of Administration on the real estate, and letters of administration with the nuncupative will annexed on the personal property, should not be granted to Lafayette JMcLaws, Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, or to such tit and proper person as may be named and present ed to the Court. # Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, this Ist day of November, 1C66 t ., •> - 1R DAVID L. ROATH, _ nov — Ordinary. (GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTV VJI Whereas, Caroline Doubet applies to me for Letters ot Aclministrst ion, with the will annexed on the Estate of Antoine I’icqnet, late of said county, deceased : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all und sin gular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before tile first Monday in De cember next, te show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not granted. Given under my hand and official signature, ut office in Augusta, this first day of November, 1666. k ir DAVID L. ROATH, nov2 5m 46 Ordinary. fJEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. v " M hereas, Catherine E. Trimbly, applies to me lbr Letters of Administration on the Estate of Wm. W. Trims bly, late of said county, deceased : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin gular tlie kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before the Ist Monday in Decem ber next to show cause, if any they have, why said Let ters should not l*e granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, tins Ist day of November, lsf>6. „ r „ DAVID L, ROATH, nov2 jw46 Ordinary. ( GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. * A M hereas, Louisa U. Nelson, applies to me for Let ters of Administration on the Estate of John Nelson, late ot said county, deceased: These ai e, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin gular, th<- kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before the Ist Monday in December next. *o show cause, if any they have, why said Letters sho.-d not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, this Ist day of November, 1.566. . . „ DAVID L. ROATH, nov2—ow46 Ordinary. ( GEORGIA, RICHMOND COT NTY \ J Y\ hereas, Josejdiine Wilson, app'i- s: to n; f>r Let ters of Administration outlie Estate ol' Refer Wiison a minor, late of said county, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and sin gular, the kindred and friends of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before the Ist Monday in Decem ber next, to show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Augusta, this Ist day of November, 1566. DAVID L. ROATII, nov2-. r >w4o Ordinary. jVTOTICE.—ALL PERSONS INDEBT JLI. edto the Estate of Augustus H. Roe, late of Rich niond county, deceased, are required to make immediate payment, and those having claims against said Estate are no tified to present the same, duly attested, within the time pre scribed by law. FOSTER BLODGETT, oct4—4oaw42 Adminstrator. ( Y EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY. Whereas, Robert A. Allen, Executor of Joshua Jones, deceased, applies to me lbr LeFers of Dismission : These are therefore to cite and admonish all ami singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or before the first Mornlav in March next, and show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature at office in Augusta, this 3d day of September, 1866. sep3 36w6m DAVID L, ROATH, Ordi nary. EORGIA, RICHMOND COUNT Y. ~ \ X Whereas, (Charles A. Rowland, Exetmtor of Fatlie rine Barnes, deceased, applies to mo for letters of Dismis sion : These are. therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office on or before the first Monday in March next, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta, th;.- 6th day of August, 1866. aug7—26w34 D. L. ROATH, Ord’ry. /4.KOKGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY. VT Whereas, ID-!. :l If. May. Guardian of Carrie WiEis Kv ~1 Mi:.or, (:.ow illc : me f..r Litters of D ■ : These are therefore to cite r.:.d ndmonSh all and singular the kindred and creditors of a 11. y ■ next, t° show cause, if any they Lave, why'said Letters should not lie granted. Given under my hand and cfilcial signature, at office in Augusta, tills 6th day of Augu.-.t, augT—J >A V I D L. KOA TH. Ordinary. RICHMOND COUNTY. * A bonis non will annexed, on the Estate of Thomas J. Walton,<kceased,apnlh •• ; These aie, tlien fore, to cite and . the kindred and creditors of said d< 1, to hi at my office on or before the first Monday in January next to show cause, if any they have, why said etters should not begranted. Given under rny hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta, this 2d day of {July, iboG. DAVID L. ROATH, jy3—w2 'J 6m Ordinary'. YAEOIIGIA. RICHMOND COUNTY. vjT Whereas, Margaret Scanlon, Administratrix on the estate of Timothy Scanlon, deceased, applies to me for Letters of Dismission : These are, therefore, to cite and adm on »:'h all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or before the flrot Monday in January next, to show cause, if any they have. Why said Letters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, at office in Au gusta, this 6th day of Jute, 1866. ie6 26w24 DA VID L. ROATII, Ordinary. LINCOLN COUNTY. A DMINISTRATOR S SALE. —IN pursuanc'* of an order from the Court of Ordinary of Lincoln county, will be sold on ti.e FIKriT TUFSDAY IN •I AN UAK \. 1867. before the Court House door in said coun ty, let ween the lawful hou:s of sale, the following property, o-wit. Three hundred and eighty-five acre? of land, more or le«s. in Lincoln county, on the waters of Lloyd’s Creek, ad joining lands of James T. Loftin, .John L. Paschal.C. A. .Strother and others, sold as the property belonging to the estate of Virgil M. Paschal, for the benefit of the heirs jfod creditors of said estate. Bold subject to the widow's dower. Terms on the day of sale. novS—'w47td DENNIS PASCHAL, Jb. Adm’r. A DMINISTRATRIX 7 " SALE. —IN / A pursuance of an order from the Court of Ordinary of Gone county. Georgia, will be sold before the Court House in Lincoln county, Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN DEC EMBER' next, between the lawful hours of sale : One hundred and twenty-five acres of land, more or Dsf% in said bounty of Lincoln, on the waters of Mill Creek, adjoining land or P. W. Sale, George W. Norman and William S. Taton . -old as the property belonging to the estate of Mitchell I>. Turner, late of Cobb county, deceased, for The benefit of tee ueirs and creditors of said deceased. Terms cash. JULIA A. TURNER. Administratrix* of Mitchell D. Turner, dee'd. OctlS—6w44 V OTICE—APPLICATION IVILL BE i \ n adc* to the Court of Ordinary o Lmcoin c .m.t>, Ga. Hie first reguia- term after the expirarion of two i . from this notice, for leave 10 sell the lands belonging to the -state of Jared Fouik. iate of said county, deceased, for the ,eneflt of heirs and creditors of said deco red. 15. r. j Lhi. October Dth, 1860. Ex'r of Jared F ouik, deed. CK-t t>—6W44 ilsignee's Notice. BANK OF AUGUSTA, ) Augusta, Ga., Ist Angus-, 1 } i LL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS y\ against tiie BANK OF AU'iUSTA, a C »rp r t; u; iteiy doing business in the c: y of Augusta, Stated »eorgia, are notified to present such claim > to the under igued, within six months from 'hisdat -. The Code if .Borgia provides thai bill holders stall present their iaims withiu six months or lose their priori y. J AS. W. DAVIES, A tor eyfor nov2—4dA3mw46 Assignee of Bunk of Augusta. rs GIVING UNIVERSAL SATIS- I FACTION. Orders Ciled by Price «130. F, PHINIZT & CO. «KX3o—dltwliasoa r»etoj» * Gem. MenJust*. GREENE COUNTY. ~ GREENE COUNTY.— ' , Ep,ate °f L y Bonner, late of said coiinu, deceased lsunrepresente.l— w«>'?•»«of«udLucv Bonner.deceased ' v.font , .-Hf , ( - crk ofthe Superior Court, cr In fVi.J i m j ' ‘ :u a ! ,he Court of Ordinary to her next. ™ f ‘ nly ’ 0h thc Qm Monday in Decem- Giveu under my hand at in .Greensbero October 20th, 186 °wt3a-5w EL GENIUS L. KING, Ord’y. * i DMINISTRATOIt'S S\ LK RY J. L vlrtne of an order of the Court of Ordinary uiGrrene eoimty, Ga. will be- «.M before the Court Hufs? ',w?n tireenesbnro in said county between the e sale, on the Fin.ST TUI.SDAy IN tiFt'EMBKH following Heal Kstnte. lying in said cnntv to tractof land belonging to the estate of John L T irlw deceased, adjoining lands ot John A. Cartwright '"m '.re'or' ] . C0 1 Sbont i 1-’ #cns. more or ie>s, our 4<» an os of which has I.om, ! assigned to the widow ns dower. All of the ah'“ Kg I will be sold except that purttuii assigned as dowtr-the fee ' in which dower u ill not be soid. j The place is under fence, and a portion of it is valuable I wood uuid. Sold as the property of the estate of John L i Tarpley, deceased, lor the benefit of the heirs and credit..™ Terms cash. \v ILLI t M 11RVAN octln—7w 13 Adm rol John L. Tarpley. V i A DMINISTRATOIt'S SALE. j /x. virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of GVccne county, Georgia will iw sold before the Court House doorin t*rccoc-1.,-ro, 111 said couutv, on the FIRST Tryo ; I>AV IN OKCFMiIr;!; next, betwc'C the b™i hours of j sa.o, the following tract ol land in said countv i> the estate of John D. Gentry, deceased, to wit :‘a tract of tl.ota'tn . I!.*,' MV" K ' ll u ‘V f ' ,o m f’-'-"i-'laii and others— I .1! I r , ?-' 1 " I't'reon ea and John I). Gentry re -1 r.V . '.V, 1 of . his death, t-aid land willbe sold satv- I ject to flit* niiion (i dower. Sold a> the iirc’.crrv ..t ti... estate of John l». (ientre. deceiied mid t',r the SmlVof | payiDgthe debtsof said deceased, ' e purpose of -NANi'V L.D.GENTRY, Adtn'x, ... . „ SAMUEL T. GENTRY, Adm’r oCtlfr ~' W « QfJohn dee'll. GREENE COUNTY^ be made to said Court for leave to sell all the kV.i vit conssting of a house amilet in J'enfleld in said con, L'.’' El longing to the estate of-Samli Aaburv, deceased for the Y.ur pose of paying the debts of said estate. ' 1 r !ur SIMEON T PTSTTT Bep26—low4l Adm’r of Sarah Asbury, deceas!d. ( r JEORGI.\TGi;EENE'coUNTY.- > A Iwo months after date, to wit. at the i ' be made to Aide, -urtiw l2a?®toSll < S| "lS John D. Copelan, deevaoed. 1 Estateot September J6th, IS 6. OfIAWAU rj.EORGIA, GREENE COUNTY.— her Term „f il,. ol' l 'i),Viinsra t 'i'r’s'iiit elmntr anl plication will be made to the said Court for h ave to neff all the Leal Estate helonging to the estate of George 0. Daw son. deceased, lor the purpose of paying the debts of said estate and tor d;stnnution. Eli HARD IV. SRABROOK Adm’r ~ ~ H’ith H ill annexed’of sepJ7—lOtvfl George 0. Dawson, dee’d. EORGIA, GREENE COUNTY.- V A M hereas, Mrs. Ovmthia Sanders. Ex ecu rlx of the la« wi.l ana testament of Biillngton M. Sanders, deceased, pet 1 ;S&L CoUrtof Ordinary of said county for Letters of I)i t :lr<> 'tef to to cite and require r.ll persons c^ucemei.. Executrix, ami l-suiiig to her i.ett.i- 1 )isn i-,s.. r v*ni^ht- ronrt of OriUnary to t>o held in and lor said county, on tlie first Monday in April next. 1867. • Given under my liand at office in Greenesboro September 18th, 186 L EUOENIUS L. KING, Ordinary. 8e p2o—6 m&3 w—w 40 I YZJ.EORGIA, GREENE COUNTY.— ! fwo months after date, to wit, at the next Doeember j 4‘ i m of the Court, ot Ordinary of said county application will be made to said Court for leave to sell all the land belong, ltig to the estate of Robert (’. Bowden, deceased, for thu purpose ol paying the debts cf said estate ISAAC A WILLIAMS, . JOHN A. (’ARTWRIGHT, Administrators ot Roht. Bowden, det’d Seplmber 19th, 1860. gep2>-10wA3d-w4Q ’ TjXECUTOR’S SALE.—BY VIRTUE i J of the last will and testament of Jasper N. Cope- Ihu. late of Greene County, Ua. deceased, will be sold bo toiv tho Court House door in Greenesboro, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN DECEMBER NEXT, the interest, (the same being one-half.) of said Jasper N. Copelan in tho Livery Stable and Lot in Greenesboro. r l his Stable is conveniently located, has room fur .*>o or CO horses, with good crib, carriage shelter and well of water, and lot attached. This Stable belongs to the late firm of Copelan A; Brother, and tlie interest of both copartner* will be sold at tlie game time. MARY E, COPELAN, Executrix, JOHN CO DEL AN, Executor, _ , of Jasper N. Cop. lan, riec’d. Greenesboro, Ga. Sept. 12th 1860, * t pis 12w39 GREENE COUNTY. \Ji Two months after date to wit, at the next Decem ber Tei m of the Court of (Jrdinary of said county, applica tion will be made to said Court for an order to sdl all the Real Estate, (consisting of It Ul acres ffiore or less) belong ing to the estate of Jas-er N. Copelan, deceased, for the purpose of pari ng the debts of the E«r te of said deceased. MARY E. COPELAN, Executrix, JOHN COPELAN, Executor BeplS—l2wß9 of Jasper N. Copelan, deceased. .September 12lh, iB6O. I {Jt EORGIA. (JREENE COUNTY^ VJI Whereas. Übadiah G. Copelan, Administrator of Hie estate of Fealston A. Seals, deceased, petitions the Court ot Ordinary of said county for Letters Dismissory: These are therefore to cite and require all ju raons concern ed to show cause against tlie granting of the discharge ol said Administrator, and issuing to him Letters Dismissory, at the Court of Ordinary to be held in and fur said county, on the first Monday in December next. Given under my hahd at, office in Greensboro, May 23d. 18CC. EUGENICS L. KING, my27—6mw23 Ordinary. /Ji EORGIA, GREENE COUNTY. V T Whereas, John E. Jackson, administrator of the estate ofJoseph B. W alker, deceased, petitions the Court of Ordina ry of said county for Letters Dismissory : These are therefore to cite and require all per-'ons concerned to show cause against the granting of the discharge of said. Administrator, and issuing to him Letters Dismissory, at the Court of Ordinary to be hdd in and for said county, on the first Monday in January next. (1867.) Given under my hand at office in Greenesboro, June 13th, 1866- E I*GENIUS L. KING, Or dinar}'. iv t—v'2Bflm ; A DMINISTRATOIt’S SALE.—BY virtue of an order of 1 he Court of Ordinary of Greene c >unty, Georgia, will Lesobl before the Court House door in Greenesboro in said county and State, between the lawful hours of sale, on the FI R-T TUESDAY IN JANUARY next, 1867, the following tract of lanu Iviugin said county, Ut wit: The tnrt of land upon which Mrs. Rebecca Mocre re sided at the time of her death, tlie same being her dower in the lands of Burnett Moore, Sr. deceased, containing s">o acres, more or less, adjoining lands of estate of Janus Findley, T. P. Janes, Jas. T. Findley, W. A Parteeaml others. About fifty acres in original woods ; about L 5 acres in cul t vat ion—the balance in pine. < in the premises is a good dwelling and necessary outbuild ings. and a good peach orchard. Sold as the property of the estate of Burnett Moore, Sr. de ceased, and for purposes of distribution. Term son the day of sale. WILLI A M A. COIj 'LOUGH, Adin’r de bonis non. of Burnett Moore, Sr. ilcc’d. nov9—Bw47 ELBERT COUNTY. ICt EORGIA, ELBERT COUNTY.— VT Court, of Ordinary. October'jerm. 3666.-D appearing I to the < nun. by the written petition of Mary A. Hall, one of ! the heirs at law ot James O. Hall, that Phillip A. TV White, of ; said county, did. on the I6«b day o: January, 1857,execute to said James O. Hall, then in life, now deccaed. two txmds con* i ditioned to execute lawful thus to two tracts oi land, one lying on the South Beavcrdara ertek. oinlng lands of Maria flail, Robert White and others, containing two hundred and eighty acres more or less. The other tract King on the waters o» - lieuverdam Creek, jolidng lands of Maria Hall, William R. Hally atid others, containing one hundred ands -r’y seve and a half acie.s, more o- less. And it further appearing that the said Janies <Hall ih pa ted this life without having titles made to him; and it further appearing to the said Court that the purchase morey has been paid, according to the tenor ofsaid bornD, and Maiy A. Hall, one of tl e heirs at law of said James <’. Hall, having petitioned the (hurt to direct Philip A. Wilh ite to execute title** to the above de scribed t rads of laud to the heirs at law of said James C. Hall in conformity with said bonds; therefore, all persons concern ed are hereby notified and required to file their o ejections, if any they have, in my office witljn the time allowed by law, why said Philip A. Wiilhite should not.be ordered to execute titles to the hei'-s at law of said James C. Hall, to .h two tracts of land, according to said bonds; and it is fiirtner or dered that a copy of this rule be published in the <’hi<nic!e & Sentinel, a newspaper published in Atigus a. Ga. for three months. WM. ii. EDWARDS, oct27—3mw4 "> < trdin.v-y. IYTOTICE.—APPLICATION WILL X i be imide to the Court of Ordinary «.f i JiM-ri county, Ga. ut the first regular term after the c: pi ration of two months from this notice, for leave to sell all the lands bel nging to the estate of Woodson Burden, lite of said counfy, deceased, for tlie benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased ELIZABETH C. BURDEN. 0ct27—8w45 Executrix. ( i EORGIA, ELBERT COUNTY.—TO \ J ALL WiluM IT MAY CONCERN,-Nathalnci I »o< *t *i, having an j!. ‘to me for letters of Administratiiu de bonis non, on the E : * j ol John S. Culvaud, late of said Tii'.** is to cite all and ingo! ir, the next of kin and creditors of said lifera.-cd, to i>c ai.d .; p ii, at my office within the time allowed by law, an : , ..v ... • •. If any they can, why said letters should not be ai.-.uu and !•. said applicant. Witucas my hand a:.*i o signature, 29th September. 1800. W. H. KDWARDS, oct4 —1 mw 42 Ordinary. TyEORGI A7EL Li’. HTI'OU NTY. \ Whereas, John H. Jones, Executor of Simeon Hall, rejiresents to the Court in his petition filed and entered on the minutes that he has fully administered as Executor of said Simeon Hall’s Estate: This is, therefore, to cite all perr ons concerned, kindred and creditors to show caasc, if any they can why said Executor should not. l e discharg ’d from his Executorship and receive letters of i lisuusslon on the first Monday in March, 1867. August29th, 1860. W. H. EDWARDS, sepl—6mw37 Ordinary. EORGIA, ELBERT COUNTY. ~ VJT Whereas, Sarah C. Rucker. Administratrix of William P». Rucker deceased, represents to the Court in her petition, duly filed and entered on the minutes that she has fully ad mmistered William B. Rucker’s Estate : This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cxiuse. If any tie j can, why said Adminis ratrix should not he discharged from her Administration, and eet-ive Letters of Dismission on the first Monday in J- ebruary 1867. W. 11. EDWARDS, Ordinary, jylf—29w6m TALIAFERRO COUNTY. Valuable Plantation for Sale, BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE IN a Bill in Equity in Taliaferro Supe ior Court, at the September Term, 1/66, will he sold at the Court 1 louse door in Crawfordville, Georgia, between ri-e legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in December u *xt, the Plantation of the late James Pe> k, Sr., of Taliaferro coun ty, deer ased, lying and being situated on the water- of Ogeecfcee river. The Plantation consists of NINETEEN HUNDRED ACRES of laud, ajont nine hundred and fifty, under fence, and about six hundred in original forest. On the place is a good dwelling house, with six rooms, besides a large dining room, a good kitchen, besides other out houses, good si ables, and scow houses. The stables are twenty-two in number—framed ari l in good condition— a good bam, and granary—six corn c ibs, two gin houses cne first-rate rollon press, two carriage houses, Ac., 4tc. Upon the whole, it is one of the lest improved places in this section of the country, and taken all in all. it is one of the most desirable hs well as most valuable planta tions in Tft!iafe»ro county. Capitalist and those desirous of I iirrh to cs fig premi ses. 'I hey are situated about five miles from < raw fords ville,in a southwestern direction, onthe road from Craw fordsvilh- to Bethany Church. The place is to he sold undei decree of ( 0.. r for distribution between the heirs at law of said <)ecea-ed. Terms of sari will he made known on the day of sale. Perhaps part will he required in cash, and time, with undoubted curity, given for the balance. FELIX G. C. PEEK, Receiver u ikr order from Court. Crawfordville. October ' #66. dlm&wtd-fl /ri i:ORL IA,TALIAFERRO L’OUNYT " X Mrs. Margaret Fi. Fr -t, applies to ne-fer U tters of Administration 1 n the Estate of Richard M. Frost late ofsai<lcounty, deceased. 'i'his is to cite all persons concerned to l,*e and appear at the regular term of the Court of Ordiu.trv for said county, to be held on the first Monday in l> comber next, to show cause, if any they have, why saidjltiters should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature, this Orto ber the 25t1i," 1866. J. D. HA .MM NCR, oci.il— swl •'» *>rd 1 nary. V DM IMSTKATUIX S.A US—WILL J.Y »*eso!donteeFiU.-TT* ;:BDAY i> !GJ E.IBER :- At, 1. fore the Court II - in t . . .>!•»?•;vin-. 'lalla ferro county, under an order from the Court of <Jr. :. ,ry of -aid county, the following property, to wit: Ot.etra- 1 of land it; said county cci.taining al»out sixty ac-es more or ad joining lands of Lawrence Battle Peyton Grierson and others, and lietter known a-* the Elijah Meadowitract of land, it being the sirnc conveyed by deed to Mrs. huaan Grierson by Elijah Meadows. Sold a- the property cf Mrs. Susan Grierson, late of said county, deceased, for distribution amongst the legatees of s.id Terms cash. oetl»- td DELI LA MEADGWS. Adm’x. VOTICE.-ALL PERSONS IX UEIITED totheestateof Cterlcj W. fl . late of I aliaferro county, deceasetL arc required to make payment, and those having claims against said deceased, will present them to the undersigned in terms of the law-. October 17th 1806. MARY C. GEE, Adm x. 'V OTI VE. —ALL PE RSI )NS IN II DEBTED to the Estate of Esau Ellington, late of Tai-afcrro county, deceased, are required to make nay merit, and those having claims against tad deceased, will present tb octl9-7wfa nll ‘ !relg ‘ J A >ajs“sLUXGTOS, Adm'r. vOTICE. A Two moi:th lifer to date, to wit, «t the November him ofthv < --in > 1 Orriiii»r>- -r 1 u .Mr uoaftty. t.on wifi he made fir leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of John G. Morgan, late of said county, deceased. FAITiIA L. MOKGAX.Adn,’*. September »1, luC-. sep4 ■ Siiw-jm SC RIVEN COUNTY 7 igcnTyEN <x>. sheuikftTsale. tri . ' i ' ,or ! n Sylvanla, • in Fcriven bounty, on tbc FIRS I rUESDAY tv df. C LMBERp'-xt, between the usual hours of sale, one tract of land, containing ore hundred and eighty one acres more or °f V ie BenQ l-annual session of fcher.ffS. C. V]St WO months after grlc.;*s, a 'S “ , lr 'v w } ll, w made t-the <;ojr. ofordlDa tTe J. :of Ki'S (? Swrep^Idt^L'dnds 1 d t^L'd nds Mo "^ g ’° octt ROBT.D. SHARPE Administrator. AT OTICE.— TWO MONTHS AFTER ■4-3 .^ ate application will be made to the Court of Ordinary oi county, Ga. for leave to sell all the Real Estate of W ilkins H. .sunnallv. deceased . „ IJIODORUS B. C. NUNN ALLY, sep^3—Bw4l Adm’r de bonis non. A LL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS jX Against V. likins H. Nunnally. late of Scriven county. Ga. ueceaLod, ate requested to present them to me as required by law, and those indebted will make immediate payment. DIODORUS B.C. 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