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Letter From Gen. Longstreet on the Political Situation. Nkw Ormcans, La , 1 March 18. 17«7. j JLiiitur A’< tc 0 Irons Time* : Dear Sir —In your paper of yes terday you have expressed a desire to hear the views of several gentlemen upon the political condition of the country. I find my name mentioned upon your list, nud proceed, without hesitation, to respond. As I have never applied myself to politics, I cannot claim to speak to the wise statesmen of the country, who are devoting their energies to the so lution of the problem which agitates the public mind. I can only speak the plain, honest convictions of a sol. dier. ' It can hardly be necessary at this late day to enter into a discussion of the mstter that is usually brought up ia arguing upon the proposed plan for reconstructing the Government. In deed, I think that mat y of them are not pertinent to the question. Ihe striking feature, and the one that our people should keep in view, is, that we are a conquered people.— | Recognizing this fact fairly and squar- j ely, there is but one course leit for wise men to pursue. Accept the terms i that are offered us by the conquerors ! There Can be no discredit to a con quered people for accepting the con ditions offered by their conquerors. — Nor is there any occasion for a fee ling of humiliation. We have made an honest, and I hope that J may say, i a creditable fight; but we have lost. Let us come forward, then, and accept the ends involved in the struggle. Our people earnestly desire that i the Constitutional Government shall be re-cstablii-hcd, and the only means to accomplish this is to comply with ' the requirements of the receut Con- i grcssional legislation. It is said by some that Congress will ' •not receive us even after wc have com plied with their conditions. * But 1 can find no sufficient reason for enter- . taining this proposition for a moment. 1 cannot admit that the repr-senta-i-te men or a great nation could make 1 such a pledge in bad faith. Admit ting, however, that there, is such a mental reservation, can that be any excuse for us in failing to discharge our duty ? Let us accept the terms as we arc in duty bound to do, and if there is a lack of good faith, let it be upon others. I am, very re peeifiilty, Your most obd't servant, James Longstreet. A Vision of the Future. Last week, the New York Day-Book re.fered to ! that curious glimpse of the future which seemed to have crossed the vis ion of President Johnson in writing his veto of the Military Subjugation Bill, and subsequently quoted from that document the paragraph in full : “ * * * Those who sdvocateu the right of secession alleged in their own justification that we had no re. gard for law, and that their riirhts of property, life and liberty would not be sale under the Constitution as admin istered by us. If we now verify that aaecrtioa we prove that they i cere iu truth and in fact fighting for their lib erty, and, instead of branding their leaders with the dishonoring name of traitors against righteous and legal government, we elevate them in his tory to the rank of aelf-saorificiug pa triots j consecrate them to the admira tion of the »corlil and place them by the side of Washington , Hampden and Sidney.' 1 The Dayißook adds, this glare of truth was so offensive, that Mr Julin •od at once turns from it! General Pope —General I‘ope, since his campaigns in Virrginia, has been on duty among the Indians. A contemporary thinks this in his favor, as he will come among us with a mind comparatively free from party or sec tional prejudices and malice. Ucficral Pope was born in Illinois about 1822, but appointed a cadet from Kentucky ; graduated at West Point in the corps of Topographical Engineers ; brevetted First Lieutenant and Captain for gallant conduct at Monterey and Buena Vista ; Captain in 1h59 ; Colonel in Juue, 1801 ; com manded in Missouri in February, 1862; captured New Madrid and ai ded in the capture of Island 10 ; com manded the advance at Corinth ; placed in commaud in Virginia; and conducted the campaign against the Indians. The Montgomery Mail says : “Gen eral Pope has always borne the repu. tation of a clever gentleman of conser vative views, and we believe that his appointment to the military command of this District will be a source of great relief to the people.” Tribute of RttprtU to Gen l Scho field. —The luUllijencer »ay* ; The recent order of General Schofield, »o ropectlul to the people of Virginia and regardful of thetr feelings, is the beat possible negative to the libels upon them which are even now used to fire the Northern heart. Referring to the subject, the Richmond IHspmtdi has occasion, we are glad to say, for uaiDg the following language “We find that the rigors of the sit nation are mitigated by the official good sense of a gentleman. No un provoked and unnecessary harshness has marked the inauguration of an ab. •olute military despotism in Virginia. The temple of our civil liberties has not been demolished by a brief order. No civil officer has been disturbed in the faithful discharge of bis duties. The sword has not heen drawn, nor the military dictator inaugurated amid a blast of trumpets, the roar of can-, non, the clash of sabre*, and the shouts of the soldiery. Governors, legisla tors, and judges perform their tunc turns with assurances of aid and pro tection in the discharge of their legit imate d.titles ” j&rutjient (£ntcr|)rise * (SEMI-WEEKLY.) L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor. THOMABVILLE, GA.: TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1807. A SHORT CHAT FOR THE COLORED PEOPLE. If you will read the numerous pa pers of the South, you will find that so far from cherishing a desire to injur« and oppress the colored feople, many of the most distinguished men in the are at this moment adv -eating the impartial execution of the laws, and everywhere counselling the South ern white people to conciliation, mod eration and kindness to the colored people. Public expressions indicate a general desire among the white peo ple, to cultivate a spirit of harmony and good feeling toward the colored ; people, and believing, in the words of Gen. Sickles, that “ whatever seriously impairs the rights of one rare, must result injuriously to the other,” the Southern white people are ready to form an alliance offensive and and ten sive with, the colored people of the j South, for the fail hln I execution of the local laws, and all national laws binding upon them as a people, for the peace and harmony of society, for the expulsion of all interlopers and j mischief uiak-rs, ai-d for the mutual i welfare of both races. What more could they propose ? They meet you more than half way to tell you they desire to be your friends. But to know what they say respecting you, and what they think in regard to your fbture welfare, you must meet them in their public assemblies with unbi ased minds, and read their publie journals with unprejudiced under standirg. When we desire to know what the North is saving and think-ng ; ot us, we read the Northern papers, and when you wish to kuow what w j ! are thinking and saying of you. ycu | must read ottr papers. That is the way to find out the truth. If you i read papers that do not represent our views, you will all the time be misled j and deceived, as to what we sav and • think. You are advised by men, hav j mg no good feeling or friendship for the Southern white people, to patron ize and read papers they have estab j lishcd, tor the express purpose of mis- I representing us ami deceiving you, that they may be able, by means of these papers, of poisoning your minds against i the Southern white people, and set - ting you at variance with them. If - they succeed in this evil d-sign, they will control your votes under pretence of being your ouly patrons sod friends, and thus set themselves up as your ! leaders, to revel and fatten on the I spoils of the offices your vdes are to furnish for them. Now, these men who are now trying to drill you into ranks to vote for them are i ckste men. | like we of the South, and are from the ; same old English stock as the South ern white people, ami how is it tL.it they have fallen out with their own ! race, and so suddenly fallen in love with the colored rae■: ? Will colored men fall out with their own race and !go over to the white race ? You can not find a single instance. You may ibe su r e then, that it is unnatural for those Northern white men to hate and j injure their own race, while they flat. | ter and fawn upon the colored race, und as sure as the sun slimes at noun j day, they will forsake you whenever j they fall to be profited by your servi j ces or your votes. But the Southern ; white people arc your natural and pro. j per friends, because they live with you, have raised you from childh jod, have boon profited, not by your votes, but by your faithful lubor, which they recoguizc and appreciate, and for which they now owe you a debt of gratitudo To pay this debt they are willing to be your friends, to watch over your interests, to guard your legal rights, to employ your labor on their farms, aid you in obtaining education, and to make you u happy and contented peo ple. All they now or ever wdl ask of you, is your confidence and co-opera- I lion. But tht-v ask of you not to bo j liovc thofalv uoods and misropresen | talious of their t- aduccrs—tin y ask ! you to read the better class of jour i nals in the South, or the more honest j Republican papers of tho North. More | anon. fl*aJ"Should our readers consider our news column dull, let them turn their eyrs to the new advertisement of J. Scl) iff Sc Rrother, and behold Ihe ar ray of splendid articles offered for sale in the dry goods line. These gentle men hare also tail in a stock of spring goods, and with their usual oourtesy, will exhib t them at their counters free of cherge. •ST 1 We direct the especial attention of our readers to the new advertisc rmut of Messrs. I Kubitahek Sc Bro., who have completed their spring stock of dry goods, and nre now prepared to satisfy every demand made upon their line of business. Remember, they selected their fine goods with anew to phase the taste of the ladies. CONGRESS ADJOURNED. At last the country is notified that Congress has adjourned. Having plac ed ibe South under a oomplete Mili tary Despotism, the Radical Congress has adjourned and gono home, q-rictl'. to witness the consternation produc'd by their measures of bate and revenge. Like Nero, when he caused Rome to be set on fire for bis amusement, they now retire to a sale plaoe of observa tion, and may now play upon tboir Radical fiddles In the North, while despotic law is being executed to the letter in the M«atb. MR. BAKER S SCHOOL. In company with a friend, we drop ped in unexpectedly, during the clos ing exercises, on Friday evening last, of the popular School of Mr. John K. Baker, at Fletcher Institute. We found the boys declaiming, and always deriving pleasure from such exercises by the young, we remained until the close. Moat of the boys did well, and a few acquitted themselves with great credit, and are not far behind the best we have heard in the Institute, in its palmiest days. Mr. Baker ia distinguished, as a teacher, no less for his correct and rigid, but gentle discipline, than For his fine education and natural talent for imparting it to others Being a thorough Christian gentleman himself, he enforces his principles in liis school, and through all the exercises their good influences aie visible, lie has now about fifty scholars, able assist ants, nni a growing reputation. Iu tliis brii f notice we have alluded to the boys. Oil our next visit to the Institute, we may have something to say about the gills. COLORED ASSOCIATION. We have been favored by Giles Price, Ulerk ot ttie Association, with a copy of the Minutes of a Colored Baptist Association, organized at Thotuaiville on the 21st of December last, and composed of the co'ored Churches at Thomasvillc, Bainbridge, Quitman, Valdosta and Clinch County. The aggregate of members of the Churches represented was 35U, and the amount of money sent up to the Asso ciation 515,00. Their organization, rules of decorum, arti -les of faith, Ac., are all substantially the same as these of the white Baptist Associations, and the proceedings as kept by the Clerk quite intelligently written. This As sociation is the only one among the colored Baptists in the Southern por tion oi' the State, and will doubtless absorb all the colored ‘ Baptists in Southern Georgia and Middle Florida. THE SMETS LIBRARY. This splendid library, we sec by a paragraph going the rounds, is to be soli in New fork the coming fall. Is it j-ossible that this or gn ficent col lection of books and manuscripts must leave the South ? Aud can no noble | Georgian t-e found who will devote a hundred thousand of his surviv.ng millions, to immortalize himself by presenting this richest ol American j Libraries to the State University ? Perhaps it could be purchased for $50,000. We t! lik t cou and But il there is no tndivt hal with soul enough, wc must look to the ! State. Gentlemen ot the press, you can influence the State to purchase Ithis library, and you ought to do it. Suppose we are disorganized—wc shall be organized again by the fall, per haps, and tl.e heirs at interest will wait for us. They desire to see it go 1 into the State University, and it wilt be a reproach upon us if we lose this eieat literary trea>ure. Old Books. lii the library of the i late A. A. Sinet-s, of Savannah, are j Lcn books printed previous to 1479. , The oldest wit pt iii Lt.-d in 1400, two \ in 1465, one in 1408, two in 1470, | one in 1473, one in 1477, two in ‘ 1178. The oldest manuscript book ! was written in the year 800, and is now full / 1,000 years old; it is writ- j ten on parchment, and is about the size of a family Bil-le. The library of ! the late .Mr. Smuts will be sold iu N. j York the coming full. “ It is true, our people have not yet fully done their duty, but one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, in bonds and individual stock, has been sub scribed, and the remaining twenty thousand will he taken at the meeting on next Tuesday, sure as yo.i live. As to Hie volcano that was c mfiued to' Thomas county, principally, culmina ting in a ooiivcntion that exploded most beautifully. You wero wrong Major, and we were right; dou’t you see?”—/iui’n bridge Argus . We do not yet see our error. If wo mistake not, our cotempornry, at first, was going to raise the Cush —now he talks al-uut bonds Ho may get thut- amount of bonds, but when you got the money on the bonds, brother Russell, let us know. I Ve were not nfllioted with that htHo “ volcano” in Thomas countv, it was a small «ud in dependent affair. The voloano we al luded to, is now in eruption, and with other Radical filth, it has thrown forth universal suftrng- , equality of races, abolition of State Governments and Statu sovereignty, and capped the elt* max by establishing Military Uospo tisin. Would you not consider such a power a political volcano ? And is it no where savo in “Thomas County ?’’ We are glad to know that it has not reached our ooteniporary in Decatur county. Hut we have only touche,/ upon the evils poured out of Sherman's Pandora Box ” We might mention stagnation ill business ol all kinds, losa of public confidence, idleness of ca| ital, excitement and gloom in the public mind, with many other evils too numerous to mention. MEXICAN ATROCITY. The Mexican General, Escobedo, has ordered and caused to be exeooted 133 French prisoners, captured.on the Ist of Fob’y, ut San Jacinto Rancho, on the ground of tbeir being foreign ers and outlaws. The Brownsville Ran,hero says they ware shot one by one, and each bloody body left where it felt for the next victim to look upon, j It further states, that the victims ne ver faltered, but when marched out for execution, most of them sang the Mnrselkise hymn. JUDGE STARNES ON THE SITUATION. The following letter from Judge Starnes to the Augusta Chronicle If Sentinel, affords light upon the feel ing entertained toward the Freedmcn iu upper Georgia. The views of Judge Starnes, we believe, under tl e circum stances, aru eminently wise and pro per, and it behooves us to adopt them in this section i “I was not in town on last Saturday, and that accounts for my not having seen, on that day, your eitoral sug ge-ting a publie meeting of the white and colored men in our own in unity to discuss and Consider the new relations in which they have been placed to wards each other by the reocut action of Congress. My attention was culled iliese suggestions for the first time to day, or 1 should sooner have said that I heartily approve of the sentiments contain* and in that editorial column.— And, in reply to your 'illusion to nte personally, I now say, I am quijte.yriU iug to talk with and to the people white and colored—at such a meeting, aud believe that such an interchange of views and opinions between persons who have been so recently put into new and important po'iticil relations with eicli other, wHI be productive of t.u-.ot>o'»l 'phoy can iIiUS C'lllic into a clear antfexplitil understanding with each other, ascertain if there be any necessary antagonism between the races here or anywhere in the South. The result, I aui very will show that there arc tics of the closet friend ship, bonds of strongest aoi sternest interests binding the white aid colored men of .the South to each ither. 1 w ii undert ike to prove this utiny time and at any place ; but prefer that we should wait a few days, until the re. turn of our Governor shall enable us a little more accurately to decide upon what will be the best course for both white and black citizens to pur.-ue in the new posture- f affairs. I sincerely hope that our friends, especially- cur colored friends, will not commit them selves hast ly or rashly to any line of ■ policy until we can ha\e the fair and reasonable understanding uirjing our selves to which such a meeting as you suggest will probably lead. 1 am authorized by Governor John son, to whom you also allude person ally, to say that he approve# what I have written, and will cordially lend his aid to the propose-1 mooting. E. Starnes. Jofferson Davis to be Released. Washington, March 24.—The Pres blent has recently been urged by Con gressmen ot the Republican persua sion and other inSuentiul citizens to release Jefferson Davis from imprison ment upon bail, or upon his owo recog nizance, inasmuch as there is now le-s probability than heretofore that Chief Justice Chase can be induced to pre side at a session of the United States t’krcuit Court ia Virginia within a reason ibie time. J udge Lhasa baa heretofore refused to hold court io the district in which Mr. Davis must be tried, upou the ground that it would not bo in keep ing with the dignity of a Judge of the Supreme Court to preside in a district in which the civil authority was not paramount and fully restored, aud where the military arm of the Govern ment is required to sustain the law and direct aud contr„l the action of the citidihs, and until the civil au thority shall be acknowledged aud es tablished beyond cavil. He has said, repeatedly, that bo would m t take Iris seat upon the bench In view of all the e iwtumstf nees, (fn President is asked to release Mr. Davis from con finement on bail. Or on his own reeog ni sauce, and there is good leusoo for saying that within the next toil days or two we*cka Mr. Davis will be dis charged from custody upon his recog nisance to answer the charges that may be brought Against him.— Balti< more Sun « The Inquisition Commence,/. —After til, the election of Beast Butler to Congress may be productive of good results, lie belongs to a nest of foul birds, is hated by many of them, ami is already scratoh-ng among their filth and exposing it fb the public. He is I lie very mun to air the and rty lucii of the party, and has made a fair oom mcneenientof the nauseating task.— His developments concerning the trial of Mrs. Surratt, whom I e declares an innocent womau e-ieritjced upon (he scaffold, and the few items of infor mution concerning the diary of Wilkes Booth, are all important. Tho world will urrivo at the truth alter awhile. The Rad eal rogues have fallen ont, and wo shall have rare developments ere long. Butler has a blaek record, ’tts true, but then his opponents are in little better condition, lie has tho advantage of having reached the top round of infamy where there is noth ing to lose, while they are compara tively respect ibto in the world’s esti mation and mfty well shrink from an exposure of their crimes. \V<J wish Butler God-speed iu the inquist ion he has commenced.'— -1/wtwX Tr/rgh Bo? - ' A difficulty occurred in the school room of tho St. John's Semin ary in this place, on Wednesday after noon last, between Mr. Bristow, tho leather, uud Fntuk rope, one of his pupils, in whioh the latter shot the former, inflicting wounds iu the arm and abdomen. Mr. Bristow lies in a very Critical condition. Since the above was put in type we learn that Mr. Bristow has died.— Madison Fla Merton get, 21th i tit. Bcyin ning toyint! them Out. —At x uegro meeting in Brooklyn, N. York, Rev. Mr. William*, deliv cred a speech denunciatory of ihe Kc publ cau leaders in this country. The speaker culled tbeiu hypocrites, ano said they acted towards the blaek man like sneaking thieves. Sale of Tammany Hall. —Tammnay Hall, in New York, was sold at auction on Wednesday, forsl7o,ooo, which is considered cheap, though there may be some mor agages upon it. The purchaser is Mr. Charles A. Dana, formerly Assistant Secretary of War, snd formerly ussisfint editor of the Tiibune. It is stated that he intends, after the Ist of May, to fix up the Wigwam us a newspaper establishment. I he New York Express says : Tamtnafty Hall was one of the oldest political landmarks of this city. Du ring the war of 1812 it was tbo head, quarters of those who wert in favor of its vigorous prosecution. At no place were the victories of our forces receiv ed with more hearts It e thusiasui than iu this famous headquarters of the Deulooracy. The leading men of the couutry delivered addresses from its ro-tuin on various • occasions atm it has been remarked that it made and unmade Piesidents. It survived many of the parties who were de nounced within its walls. On on i occasion it was the great rendezvous of the supporters of Jackson ; and t was the sectie of a great jubifoe when he was elevated to the Piesidency. Wo recall in our own experience some of the most walked events in the political history of the country at this old wigwam. The administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Bu ren especially Centre there, as do those oi the Polk, Fierce and line ha nan ad ministrations. It seems hut yesterday | that we saw Lewis Gass sptt-kiug from I the rostrum, with his coat and ncck-tie I off, of a steaming summer evening, i aud receiving the applause of the im mense throng who listened to him.— ' We recall, too, the presence of Silas Wright, and many of the old war hor ses of tlie Democratic party. Alas, where are they now, and what a change of men and es times have twen ty or thirty years wrought! fcdy-Thc last number of Harper's Weekly is a disgrace even to the pub lishing house which has pandered most and grovelled lowest to current prejudices- It contains a cartoon en titled “Southern Justice,’’ which is a figure of diabolical aspect and snaky hair, holding the sc -les, in one bowl ol which is a single ‘'Southern gentle, man" outweighing three figures iti the opposite bowl labelled “Yankee,’’ “Niger” and “U. S. Soldier,*’ respec tively. Around this arc grouped oth er pictures, one a court-room, where, over the dead body of a negro, the white prisoner and the white judge and the white spectators and reporters are grinning and leering at one anothi cr; and the legend is—“ Verdict, a good joke on a nigger;” another, the hanging, on thesatue bough rveraroad leading to a church, of two bodies des cribed in the legend—“ Verdict, hang the and Yankee and nigger.” Eight smaller pictures fill up the page. One represent* planters “driving negroes off their plantations, without wages, and •shooting them,’’ and the rest are murderers ou horseback, or clubbings, or burnings, or drowning*, or some other hideous form of atrocify, in which it is always the me ro who is the vicUm and tho white man who is the raffan. I'bese in furious falsehoods—-for false hoods t .ey are as clearly as il they were so many plainly written lies appear upon tho same week with the report of the meeting of the negroes of Ci lui-bia and the address of Wade Hampton. The Harpers, and George William Curtis, the editor whom they hire to concoct these rui-fchieGbreed ing, hole engendering gi.iluii-nicg, de serve the contempt, of every {ruth-lov ing and and patriotic citizen..- New York Afccs. Jn a llotlN.—The following, which we find in the Meridian Messenger, touches the raw, but it is good for one of the prevailing diseases of the coun try, regardless of color: “A great mnny people arc exercised about the working. The way the ne gro works (or don’t wmk) is the topic of conversation everywhere, where two or three are gathered together. The dispositi nos the negro to labor (or not to labor) is watched with iutensc in terest by those who set in tc take no special interest in anything else. We are sick and disgusted with this ever lasting taJa about (he shortcomings of tho colored population. In God’s name can’t our people clevato their thoughts above the negro, or bestow them upon more worthy objects? We t-toim to led as kindly towards the ne gro as he deserves of us, and when we see him about to bo engulfed and lost in idloitess and vice, we feel, we hope, a national concern But, at the vano li me, we borealiy confoua to the in stincts which give our own race the prefere-Bee in all oar thoughts If we are concerned about the disposition of ibe negro to do or not to do, yet our concern sinks into indifference com pared to ttie con coin we Pel for the o-mduct of the whiter M Bile roinc are trotting and fumind ab ms tffe laZy ne groes they see m the l-wai and villa ges, who re I use to contract and engage in regular employment, we are im measurably utorj distressed at the sight of lazy white men and worn u If the negro as a (ref man, does -iff the work aud tarns all the wages, he will pnWc himself the better man- t the two. We ara anxious for the wnitc man to xesett bin sopor oritf in alt things by ht« works,and theretpre our anxiety for tho white urau to gtr to work. Th, Death of Prof. Dr Row.—To the Editor of the World; Sir In your issue of the 30th. I see It asked « it Prof De How is dead l** l answar that be died at LhaaUtb, New Jeray, just three wrecks ago. Hi* Review will be hereufrer published under the editorship of tavaeU and others. Ri*»r Q. Barswti » . Another Indian War. The Government is making active preparations for an Indian Campaign this Spring, and there is a prospect that in some quarters, at all events, the war will be sharp and bloody. A force of 2,000 men under Gen. Gibbon, is 1 r-'sdy to move into the country about ' the head-wafer of the Powder ami | Yellowstone Rivers, where the Sioux have long been in a chronic state of hostility. A party of peace ootmnis' sinners are now visiting their bands, and troops only await their return to decide whether to open the campaign or not; there seems to be little hope that the commissioner* will succeed in their errand. In the Department of I the Mississippi Gen. Uancock is about to proceed in person with 1,500 men to the country of the Cheyenes and Kiowas, south of the Arkansas. Ilis course there will depend upon the rc su't of a conference which he proposes first to hold with the tribes. If the result be war, the language of Gen. Sherman in speaking of these two ex ! peditions will enable us to prophesy its j character. We cannot act upon the defensive with the Indians, he says • we must get among them, kill enough i to inspire fear, and remove the rest to places where Indian agcnt3 can reside ; among them and be responsible for ! their conduct. Death or Indian agents; ! what an alternative.—_A r , Y. Tribune, 23d. A Very Important Decision. —The Columbus Enquirer of Saturday says : “U e learn verbally-—but the report is made on the authority of a distingu ished lawyer—that Judge Krskine, of the United S’ates District Court, has, during itk present term at Atlanta, ruled in effect 11 at the adjudications by our State Courts during the war are of no binding effect. Tl c point, we un derstand, came Up in this way : The plaintiff in the United State* Court sued on a note, an and Mr. H ansell. counsel for the defendant, interposed the plea that it had already been sued upon*in a State Court, an 1 judgment rendered therein. Judge Krskine overruled the plea, on the ground that there were no counts in Georgia, from tire date of the ordinance of secession to the close of the war, which a United Suites Court would recognize * “We need not attempt to explain Hie far-reaching effect of this ruling, if it should be sustained. There has been no mention, that we have noticed, irfade of it in the reports of Atlanta papers. But it reaches us through aoufees that do not nl!o$ us to doubt its substantial eoncctnesa.” Registry of Votes The follow -1 iirg questions are asked by the Board of Registers, in Washington City, to ascertain the qualification of voters, at | the corner of Nineteenth and I streets : 1. What is yoor age ? 2. Have you ever been convioted of crime T 3. How long have you resided in i this district? 1 4. How long have yotr resided in i this ward ! 5 Have y u voted at any election in the District or in any State within- the period of one year prior to ’the Ist of June next 7 6. Where were you during the ex istence of t te rebellion ? 7. Were you iu the rebel army at any time ? 8. Did you furnish supplies of any kind to that army ? 9. 11a 1 you any cdmmunicati m with any person or pereoin in t a rebel Stut ■*> between April 1861, and April, 1860 ? 10. Were you engaged in any kind of trade with tlte euetny during the rebellion ? A satisfactory answer to tho above questions entitles’ the applicant to the rigut ol registry us a duly qualified voter. Whites-Blacks. Some of our eoUMiiporaries are ma king calculations relative to the num ber of Whites and Blacks in Georgia We have seen the census of 1860, and give tho following as the censtls of our State. Number of Whites—s9l,6Bß Blacks 465,693 ; giving 135,875 more whites. The number of Male White* are— -301.U 6- Blacks - - 330,§63—giving 70,304 more male whites. With such a majority, the whites can control the legislation of the State if unit'd in the utAomplishiuent of any object or prin ciple. By reference to the comptroller Gen eral s report we see that the uu inter of White Foils in 1866, were 89,909 Blacks 65,909,giving the Whites— -34,000 uiaj-ir ty. — Southern Re,ord,r. Fitch on Con/iscocton. < IttoT fjcetb ou* friend of the Griffin Star generally ha* notions of his own on matters and thing* in general, aud here are hta views on confiscation : We desire to inform those of our readers who are fearing llita -‘raw head and Woody bones,” that the Yankee* are altogether too sbr wd a people *o confiscate our ]uudt a- long as wc fol low our present system ol busmen* ; for iht y already get every thing talu< able that we raise on our farms, aud we buy everyhing we wrar from them, aud everything wc eat except a little turnip sabot—and if th* Yankees would send that here for sale, our peo ple would quit ra sing it. Confiscation, indeed ! If we *re not already confiscated, we should like to know the reason w),y. W*are reg ular brick makers for Ysnkeedom now, ' and they do not even tuiuisb u* the straw. Democrats, Gains in Dennsylramia. --Au election was held in Lewmtowu, Penn., on Friday, the 15th instant. Ihe Democrats elected their entire 1 ticket, with one exception, lor the first time in fifteen rear* “ Might Get Stubborn —The rea son given in tbo debate in thq .Senate on Thursday, why Congress should not force negro suffrage on the Northern States as well as on the Southern, ia somewhat refreshing. The former it was said, “ might get stubborn, and refuse to submit to it.” Wc are glad to see that the present Congress, after all, think there is some liniit to theip authority. Having the South in thei#' r power, they can put anything upon her they choose, but they are afraid ta try negro suffrage on tbeir own peo ple, notwithstanding there ia not one black man to five hundred whites among them. The truth is this : ne gro suffrage, even to the unappreeia. hie extern that it would be felt at tlw North, is distasteful and odious to the Northern people who arc so ready to put it upon us, and those members am afraid of losing their place* if they offer the people of the North such air indignity. What a beautiful set of demagogues they are '.—Macon 7Vfc (jraph. Greefy Desires no Man to is Disc franchised. — Ihe last number of the Now I ork Tribune says as to the per sons who are disfranchised : “Every loyal citizen, black or white, is enabled, by the two reconstruction | .-eta, tu have » voice in the goml work of restoration, with at least foui-fifrlus of those who have been rebels. The remaining fifth we hope to see cafran closed very soon. Congress has pro* : \ ided for that in the pending consti tution 1 amendment and we trust that it? consummation will not long be de layed. 1 he Houth clearly understands, as we do, that the way to this lie* through a prompt and cheerful con formity to the requirements of Con j gross. Ihe -South seems to be acting well her part.” 1 11 E Southern Cultivator The April number of this well known aprieultu-ul journal contains 48 pages ‘“ I reading mutter, mostly orig inal. It is embellished with a t-ats lul design and gruund plan of a con venient dwelling—the first of a series. David Dickson, the most successful planter in Georgia, gives two coiumu l.ittjtions, which, with over thirty oth er original aitiele*, on topics pertain ing to the I arm, Garden und Fircsid* such as Cotton Culture, Manures, Grasses, -Sorghum and other crops, •Sheep, Implements—Grapca, Beaches, Vegctab'e*—a letter from Gcmea Munro, Ac., Ac., fully sustain the re putation ot this valuable paper, which has been regularly issued tor nearly twonty-five years. MARRIED On the 17 th of March, by Rev. I>r. Mann in if, Mr John A. ami Mit« Leith J. IjTji.k ; all of Thomas Countv, Or. J.SCHIFF AND BROTHER WAVE RECEIVED THEN* SPRlfir&& SUMMER, or DRY GOODS ’"V-” CLOTHING, To wliieli they respectfully invite the at-* tent ion of the public. TO TIJE LADIES' Wo fiiii offer rich (ircundiuc?*, Silk*, Or gam* Alien, Xunltiir, Print*, and a wrll aeleeted Stock of White* Good* and Einhronle rioa, and a good itock of Ladies', Mimio* and Children * Hat*, und many oilier styl«* of Oond* too numerous • to mention. To the Gentlemen Wa can any. If TOO wish Clothing-, flats, Host# and Kboos. Klnrts and Furnishing floods, give u* a call and we will not full to so it yon As one of th* firm is constantly ia W. Tork to attend to the toying, we run stford to sslt , foods for Isss than any other Nona*. If you asm gr-od fluid At Mlrrr Wsstftrs, saH aw J Sr HI Hr 4k BROIL At J St It IFF A BROS, you will Had th# ■ sot sa* « •soapesi Tsbsrcs Th« Cboapuot Good* are sold Wy J tH'HIPP A HKO , who arc rocoiriag fresh Usuda «• rjr ws»h. aa ona of th* Ini rest its* I* K.TsA A good wryly of Trwaks and Leather, Saleh elk. for I unties sad Gsnts, found St J 8t HIFP A BROS. French Calf Stuns and Korlhera Sol* I-rsthsr, constantly on hand at J sunrw A BRO* April 3 * areum t niuMi #■■■#>• OK th* Kim Monday la-fan* uort syplwa tin* w.Il ho wad* to th* Court of Ordinary * ■aid C-iaaSy (or aa ordar to aril all the Laado ’■eiongiag t-> the ostais of Wai, P West, Ms* of said Countr deeresorL _ jnnx wßsr. Ayr* : Id Mat t