The federally appointed Provisional Governor of Georgia, James Johnson, had called for a state convention and on this day the elections were held to select its delegates.  The convention met in Milledgeville three weeks later, on October 25, 1865, with the 270 elected delegates in attendance.  The convention cleared the way for the return of state rule to Georgia by passing on this day an ordinance to repeal the Georgia measures voted on January and March, 1861 which had enabled secession and its allegience to the constitution of the former Confederate States of America.  President Johnson strongly requested additionally the repudiation of all Confederate debt and this was later passed after discussion, as well.  (By John Osborne) 

The federally appointed Provisional Governor of Georgia, James Johnson, had called for a state convention and on this day the elections were held to select its delegates.  The convention met in Milledgeville three weeks later, on October 25, 1865, with the 270 elected delegates in attendance.  The convention cleared the way for the return of state rule to Georgia, repealing all Confederate ordinances, and repudiating all Confederate debt.  By the end of the year, the state had an elected governor and legislature.  (By John Osborne) 

The General Convention of the Universalists of the United States opened in the morning in Middletown, Connecticut with 51 delegates representing ten states.  The main business of the gathering was the announcement that a new constitution for the movement had been approved.  The convention closed three days later with the next meeting being set for Galesburg, Illinois in late September, 1866.  (By John Osborne)

King Leopold I, the first king of Belgium, died near Brussels aged seventy-four.  A prince of the German House of Saxe-Coburg, he had been offered the throne in 1830 after the successful revolution against Dutch rule and the European powers' guarantee of an independent Belgium.  He had earlier been married to George IV of Britain's daughter, Charlotte, whose death in childbirth resulted in Victoria eventually becoming Queen.  Leopold's son succeeded him, taking the name Leopold II.  (By John Osborne)    

Preston King, the former New York Democratic and Free Soiler congressman, and Republican U.S. Senator, had been appointed as Collector of the Port of New York four months before, already suffering from depression.  On a Monday morning, he had boarded the Hoboken ferry Paterson at the Christopher Street Dock,  jumped into the Hudson soon after and was drowned. He was fifty-nine years old. (By John Osborne)