The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource]

The ratification of the constitutional amendment by Georgia secures twenty-eight States in its 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 amendment to be a part of the Constitution. He might have issued it even without Georgia, for Colorado is not yet a State.

The Secretary of War has addressed a circular to each member of Congress, calling attention to the fact that he has the privilege of nominating from his Congressional district two persons as 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 its annual meeting in Macon, Georgia, on Thursday, the 14th day of December next. The Committee of Commissions will meet at the same time and place, and the proceedings of the two bodies will be looked for with no small interest.

A Savannah paper states that the railroad from Augusta to Savannah will probably be repaired and in running order about the 1st of January next. Two weeks ago the break extended from station No. 5 to Waynesborough, fifty miles, but strong parties were working at both ends, narrowing the interval rapidly.

Reports to the Freedmen's Bureau represent fifty-three colored schools, one hundred and twelve teachers, and five thousand six hundred and eighteen pupils, in Washington, Alexandria. Georgetown, Freedmen's Village, and the Government farms in Maryland.

The widow of Stonewall Jackson, it is telegraphed to the Northern papers from New Orleans, "is in a most destitute condition." The authority given is a "letter from a distinguished 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.

General Banks and Speaker Colfax have been invited by the National Equal Suffrage Association to deliver addresses before that body. It 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 recognize them as citizens.

Clever executed counterfeit coin of the nickel three-cent denomination are noticed in circulation. It is 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 habeas corpus, Judge Busteed has indignantly adjourned the United States Court for the Middle District.

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph has good authority for saying that Provisional Governor Johnson has received instructions from Washington not to vacate the chair of State until further advised.

The freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad announces that the restrictions on shipments of freight to Atlanta and the South have been removed.

The First National Bank of Danville, Virginia, J. F. Ficklin president, and J. M. Johnston cashier, has gone into operation.

Roger A. Pryor is practicing law in New York city.