The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-11


delivery of property.
The ratification of the constitutional amend
ment by Georgia secures twenty eight States
in it's favor that is, three fourths of the whole
number which, including Colorado is thirty
seven. The President will now, it is said.
issue his proclamation declaring the amend
ment to be part of the Constitution. He
might have issued it even without Georgia,
for Colorado is not yet State.
The Secretary of War has addressed a circu-
lar to each member of Congress, calling atten-
tion to the fact that he has the privilege of
nominating from his Congressional district
two persons applicants for the positions of
first and second lieutenants in the regular
army, to the end that they may be examined
before the board for the position, and If found
qualified, appointed at once.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the Southern States will hold it's
annual meeting in Macon, Georgia, on Thurs
day, the l4th day of December next. The Com
mittee of Commissions will meet at the same
time and place, and the proceedings of the two
bodies will be looked for with no small in
tPreSt.
from Augusta to Savannah will probably be
repaired and In running order about the lst of
January next Two weeks ago the break ex-
tended from station No to WaynpsbOrOugh,
fifty miles, but strong parties were working at
both ends, narrowing the interval rapidly.
Reports to the Freedmen's Bureau represent
fifty three cOlOrpd schools, one hundred and
twelve teachers, and five thousand six hun
exandria, Georgetown, Freedmen's VILLAGE
and the Government farms in Maryland.
The widow Of Stonewall Jackson, it is tele-
graphed to the Northern papers from New
Orleans, is in a most destitute condition -
The authority given is letter from dis
tinguished clergyman in Virginia." We trust
the report is not true.
In response to inquiries from Major General
Pope, the Secretary of War replies that the
deserters whose regiments are still in service
on the Plains will be dishOnOrably discharged
without pay or allowances.
been invited by the National Equal Suffrage
Association to deliver addresses before that
body. 1t is reported that they will take strong
ground in favor Of negro suffrage.
Comptroller Clark, Of the Currency Bureau,
has decided that ladies cannot act as directors
of National Banks, as the laws do not recOg-
nize them as citizens.
Clever executed counterfeit coin of the nickel
| three-cent denomination are noticed in circnla-
ton. 1t il made Of some kind Of an allOyed
metal, which is much softer and lighter than
the genuine coin.
In consequence Of the refusal Of General
Woods, commanding In Alabama, to obey a
writ Of habeos corpws, Judge Busteed has in
dignantly adjourned the United States Court
for the Middle District.
The Macon (Ga.l 7sleogupA has good au thOri-
ty for saying that Provisional Governor John
son has received instructions from Washington
not to 'vacate the chair Of State until further
advised.
The freight agent Of the Louisville and Nash
willie railroad announces that the restrictions
on shipments Of freight to Atlanta and the
South have bora removed.
The rirst Nattoaal hank Of Ddnvtlls, vtr
ginta, j. r. Ficklin president, and j. n.
Johnston cashier. has Gone into operation:
Roger 4. Pryor = practicins law In New
verk city.