Named Entity Results, William H. Ross

n of the fort until the relations of Georgia and the Federal government should be determined. Having telegraphed advices of what he had done to the governors of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, Governor Brown soon had the satisfaction of receiving the endorsement of similar action on their part. On the day following the occupation of Fort Pulaski, the officers of the volunteer companies of Macon, Capts. R. A. Smith, E. Fitzgerald, T. M. Parker, L. M. Lamar, E. Smith and Lieut. W. H. Ross, telegraphed the governor, asking if he would sanction the movement of Georgia volunteers going to the aid of South Carolina; but this generous impulse was very properly checked, pending the action of the State convention. By act of the legislature, a sovereign convention had been summoned to meet at Milledgeville on January 6, 1861, to decide upon the action to be taken by the State of Georgia. Among the delegates were some of the ablest men that Georgia has produced. Immediate s

e two regiments were consolidated with the First battalion sharpshooters and the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth regiments, under the name of the First Georgia Confederate battalion. Under General Johnston it participated in the campaign of the Carolinas, laying down its arms near Goldsboro, April 26, 1865. The First battalion Georgia infantry, sharpshooters, was made up of four independent companies under Maj. Arthur Shaaf; Capts. (A) H. D. Twyman, (B) A. L. Hartridge, (C) William H. Ross, (D) G. C. Dent. It served on the Georgia coast through 1862 and 1863; was drilled to act either as infantry or heavy artillery; was distinguished in the defense of Fort McAllister in the attack upon that little fortress in February, 1863, and was sent to the army of Tennessee in time to take part in the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. It participated in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns, and in the spring of 1865, being consolidated with the First Georgia Confederate a

Bad subject. --Wm. H. Ross, free, was carried before the Mayor yesterday, for assaulting and beating Wm. Roberts, free. Ross is regarded as one of the most vicious negroes in the city, a former incarceration in the Penitentiary having, in no perceptible degree, tended to lessen his unamiable qualifications. The Mayor ordered him 39, committed him in default of $300, and ordered that he be enrolled as a member of the Chain-Gang. Bad subject. --Wm. H. Ross, free, was carried before the Mayor yesterday, for assaulting and beating Wm. Roberts, free. Ross is regarded as one of the most vicious negroes in the city, a former incarceration in the Penitentiary having, in no perceptible degree, tended to lessen his unamiable qualifications. The Mayor ordered him 39, committed him in default of $300, and ordered that he be enrolled as a member of the Chain-Gang.

An Escapade and its consequences. --A negro fellow named Wm. H. Ross, who manages to get into the clutches of the police just often enough to pass two-thirds of his existence in the jail and chain-gang, recently got tired of the latter institution and cut stick. The police, who never fail when Bill is the game on hand, apprehended him directly. The Mayor, on Saturday, ordered him thirty-nine, and restored him to the ranks.

Escaped. --A colored member of the chain-gang, named Wm. H. Ross, slipped his ball and chain, and levanted on Monday, while at work near the place at present used as a City Alms-House. He will be caught in a few days, whipped and put back. He has before performed a similar feat.

Mayor's Court. --The proceedings at this place yesterday possessed no special interest, although the presence of a large number of free colored individuals, in and about the Court-House, contributed somewhat to the confusion of the hour, and excited the curiosity of the loafing spectators who make it their daily resort. These negroes are under orders to shoulder spades and proceed to Manassas, which they don't relish much, and all sorts of excuses are framed, but few received. Among the criminals was a negro girl named Susan, charged with setting fire to the premises of Mrs. Elizabeth E. Gentry. The case was continued till Tuesday next. Wm. H. Ross, ex-penitentiary convict, and refugee from the chain-gang, entered upon the register as the worst nigger in town, was ordered 39 lashes for fleeing when the watchmen pursued. A few rollicking fellows were committed to jail for drunkenness, and some other charges of a trivial nature were disposed of, and then the Court adjourned.

es' A. Clarke, the same party arrested and tried about a year since for robbing Antonio Silva, was arraigned for having on the 23rd of December, cut and stabbed Jenn A. Owens. The proof being damned staple, Clarke was committed for trial before Judge Lyons. Robert free negro, was tried for having in his possession, on the 8th of January, a variety of species supposed to have been stolen. Nobody put in a claim for the property, and the defendant was acquitted. The case against Wm. H. Ross and John Robinson, free negroes for the alleged robbery of Alfred, a slave, on the 1st of January, of $22 in Confederate was board and conduced until the next term. James S. Tyler was examined for having on the 28th of December robber Elizabeth Half of in Confederate currency. He was sent on for trial before the Judge of the Hustings Court. Joseph Starkey and Jerry Divine, charged with garroting and robbing W Story, on the 17th of December of a silver watch were examined and

Continued. --The case of Wm. H. Ross, a free negro, charged with stealing a pocket-book containing $1,600 from Joseph Stuckenberg, was continued by the Mayor yesterday until to-day, the defendant meanwhile being confined in the cage to await developments.

Mayor's Court--Thursday, April 2d. --William H. Ross, a free negro, was examined (by Recorder Caskie, who presided in the absence of the Mayor,) for feloniously stealing $1,600 in C. S. notes from Joseph Stuckenberg. The robbery, as previously related, occurred in a house on Main street. The witness, desiring to wash his face, pulled off his great coat, one pocket of which contained the money, and laid it on the counter of the store. Ross being therein. When he had completed his ablutions he took hold of his coat and found Ross and the pocket book non est inventus. The Recorder sent the prisoner (who has long been a notorious character,) to jail, fRoss and the pocket book non est inventus. The Recorder sent the prisoner (who has long been a notorious character,) to jail, for trial before the Hustings Court on the second Monday in April. Patrick McGarra, who had rendered himself liable to police surveillance by getting drunk and lying down on sundry sidewalks, was sent to jail in default of security to be of good behavior. It appeared that Pat had arrived from the South a short time since with

th, though characteristically unfriendly in temper, yet bore the same general testimony to the necessity of avoiding all interference in American affairs. Miscellaneous. The rebels in New Orleans had a report that Bragg had been defeated by Rosecrans. The British steamer Dolphin and the Clara, both prizes, arrived at Key West on the 1st. A special dispatch to the Chicago Times from Helena, Arkansas, the 8th, says the entire Tallahatchie fleet, consisting of the divisions of Ross and Quimby, and numerous gun and mortar boats, arrived the night previous. The expedition left. Fort Greenwood Sunday, having been absent 43 days. The divisions under Quimby and Hovey have been ordered to Vicksburg. The iron-clads Louisville, Mound City, Carbondale, Benton, Lafayette, and two others are all prepared to run the blockade at Vicksburg, which it was thought would be attempted Friday or Saturday night list. It was also said transports had been prepared with logs and cotton