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General Order# from Gen’l Pope
on Assuming Command of the
Third Military District.
Headuabtkks 3rd Military Div.,
Montgomery, Ala., April 1, 1867.
General Orders, No. 1.
In compliance with General Orders,
No. 18, dated Headquarters of the
Army, March 15, the Third Military
District, which comprises the States of
Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
The District of Georgia and Ala
bama will remain as at present consti
tuted, and. with their present comman
ders, except that the Headquarters of
the District of Georgia will be forth
with removed to Milledgeville.
The District of Key West is hereby
tnerged into the District of Florida,
which will be commanded by Col.
John T. Sprague, 7th U. S. Infantry.
The Headquarters of tho District of
Florida are removed to Tallahasse, to
which place the District Commander
will transfer his Headquarters without
delay.
I. The civil officers at present in of
fice in Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
will retain their offices until the ex
piration of their terms of servioe, un
less otherwise directed in special cases,
so long as justice is faithfully aod im
partially administered. It is hoped
that no necessity may arise for inter
position of the military authorities in
the civil administration, and such
necessity can only arise from the
failure of the civil tribunals to protect
the people, without distinction, in
their rights of person and property.
11. It is to be clearly understood,
however, that the civil officers thus
retained in office shall confine them
selves strictly to the performance of
their official duties, and whilst hold,
sng their offices they shall not use any
influence whatever to deter or dissuade
the people from taking an active part
in reconstructing their State Govern
ments, under the act of Congress to
provide for the more efficient govern
ment of the rebel St-tes and the act
supplementary thereto.
111. No election will be held in any
of the States comprised in this Milita
ry District', except such as arc provi
ded for in this act of Congress, and in
manner therein established, but all
vacancies in civil offices which now
exist, or which may occur by expira
tion of the terms of office of the pres
ent incumbents, before the prescribed
.Registration of voters is completed,
will be filled by apppointr.icnt of the
General commanding the District.
John Pope,
Major General Commanding.
Progress of the Civil Revolution.
Just before the war closed, Mr.
Lincoln himself proposed, ss the terms
of settlement, merely the restoration
of the union and the abolition of sla
very. After the surrender both he
and Mr. Johnson required, ss the ex
tent of their demands, an oath of the
Southern population to accept the res
toration of the union, and to abide by
the emancipation proclamation. Pres
ently more was required. It was inr
sisted that every Southern State
should do three things; ratify the
constitutional amendment abolishing
the Confederate debt,
and repeal the ordinance of secession.
“If they will do this,” said the New
York Timet in December, 1805, “ we
do not believe there will be fifty votes
in congress apainst the admission oi
their representatives.” This was the
very utmost. After some delay it was
all dooe.
Presently we were required to pass
laws permitting the negroes to testify
in the eourti. This was algo done.
The next step was the civil lights
bill. Then eatue the freedmeu’s bu
reau bill.
All this time every Southern man,
with trivial exceptions, was absolutely
excluded from Congress, from the fed
eral courts, from every federal office,
even where that office was located in
their midst.
The next step was to refuse admis
sion into Congress of even the repre
sentatives who could t.kc the test
oath.
All this while, back taxes and cur
rent taxes, such as wero never heard
of even in England, wero collected
from a country litterally blasted by
war, and stripped absoluiely of every
thing but the land. At this moment
there is no currency in the South, and
thousands arc tarnishing for bread.
Presently they demauded, without
attracting much attention at the time,
qualified suffrage for the negroes.—
The extremists soon widened this into
a demand for universal suffrage.
The Louisiana bill, passed by a two
thirds vote in the house of representa
tive's actually does give universal suf
frage, with this qualification—the
whites are excluded from the ballot—
the state of Louisiana is just handed
over exclusively to the negroes.
Along with this, passed also by a
vote within a fraction of two thirds,
comes the military bill, handing over
the rest of the South to martiul law,
until further orders.
This reads like romance, but it is
reality—as real an the terrible march
of the French revolution.— Chariot'
tsville Chronicle.
f- ....... ....
'IH Revolution in Hayti. Ha
vana, March 28.-~Tbe long expected
revolutionary outbreak has at last taken
plaoe in Hayti, and the efforts of the
insurgents have been crowned with
jiuceess. The city of Port-au-Prhce
is in their hands, and the people are
£ing in their adhesiou to the new
vernment. After several days’
fighting in the vicinity of the capitol,
nearly all of Geffrard’s troops went
over to the enemy, and President Gef
frard himself was compelled to take
refuge on board of a French man-of
war, which at last accounts was carry
ing him and some of his officers to Ja
main.
Houtjitrn Enterprise
(SEMFWEEKLY.)
L. c. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1867.
SHORT CHAT FOR THE COL
ORED PEOPLE.
We have but little space at present
to oontinne our “ Short Chat for the
Colored People,” but we will use that
to-day, in cautioning them against the
traducers of their Southern white
friends. Your friend is that person
who feels a deep interest in your wel
fare, sympathizes with you in misfor
tune, aids you under difficulties, and
encourages you with good advice. —
When you know one who feels and
acts thus toward you, give heed to no
one who would slander and attempt
to rob your friend of his good name.
Honorable and truthful men never go
behind the backs of others to accuse
them of wrong, but they always meet
them openly and boldly, face to face
You may well fear the motives of that
individual who must load you off to a
secret spot, to communicate to you # the
budget of wonderful good things he
may have to state. Such an one “has
an axe to grind ” —he is going to make
use of you to advance his interests or
his party. Shun him if you would
not be made bis dupe, for be will
sor«ly lead you into trouble. If he
tells you that your friend is a liar and
will lie to deceive you, be sure that
he is trying to destroy your confidence
in your friend, that he may get the
firmer hold upon yon. Beware of
such.
GEN. POPE’B ORDER.
Our exchanges generally, speak in
favorable terms of Gen. Pope’s first
order upon assuming command of the
Third Military District, which we pub
lish to-day, and aeeua to anticipate that
the rigor of the Sherman Military bill,
will be mitigated by the mild execu
tion of its provisions. For ourself, we
have to say, that it seems to be as mild
as the nature of the circumstances will
Ecrinit, but with all due tespcct to our
iilitary commander, wc must say, that
history furnishes few instances, where
Military despots foreshadowed in tbeir
first public acts, the rigor with which
they meant to characterize their ulti
mate measures. Gen. Pope may be a
mild and clever gentleman, aod so with
the rest of* the Southern satraps, but
the Radicals meant the Sherman bill
to be i severe punishment to the South
ern people, and if the Generals cbosea
do not execute it accordingly, they
will be displaced in due time. Os
coarse, they do not wish to disorgaa.
ize the South and throw everything
into confusion, but every vestige of
State Sovereignty, end with it, South
ern influence and power, is to be toot,
ed oat. This done, Radical R'puUi
eanism is established throughout the
country, and the Radical Congress
will breathe easy.
THE MINSTRELS ARE
COMING!
YVe take pleasure in stating that
Mr. B. Z. Dutton, who we noticed fa
vorably in this paper a few days ago,
as Agent for valuable Looks, has been
induced to favor the citizens of Thom
asville with a Minstrel Entertainment,
which will come off on Friday night
next, in the second story of Dr. Bruce's
new brick builuings, nt half-pit?t seven
o’clock, Mr. Dutton has considerable
experience of tho stage, aud beside bis
own performances, be lias also asßoci.
ated with him several of the well
known musicians of Tliomasvillo.
Every thing will bo arranged for
comfort nnd convenience, and no pains
spared to please and entertain the au.
die nee.
Tho proceeds of the entertainment
will be given by Mr. Dutton to the
Orphans of Thomas County.
This is a laudable undertaking, wor
thy of all praise in a stranger, nnd wc
hope our citizens will show thoir ap
preciation.
Admission $1 ; children hall-price.
PROVISION HOUSE.
Our readers will find, by reference
to the advertisement of David Harrell,
that he proposes to sell provisions
cheaper than any other house in Tuom
asvilje. This is certainly a groat ad
vantage, and entitles him to custom.
People prefer trading where articles
aro cheapest, and as Mr. Harrell has
a heavy stock on hand, now is the time
to profit by his offer.
. FROST.
We had a sharp frost on Saturday
night, but after all our fears, we have
seen or hoard of but little damage,
either to the orops or garden vegeta
bles. Those who have cotton up,
however, will be likely t» »ce the ef
fects of it in a few days, although we
do not think the cotton was seriously
injured.
GEN. EARLY S CAMPAIGN IN
VIRGINIA.
The above book is now ready for
circulation, ana will be found highly
instructive and entertaining, to all who
feel interest or pride in the military
operations of the Confederate heroes
of the war. The priee of the book ia
fil.OO, and one-half the profits of sale
are to be given to the “ Memorial As
sociation,” for decoration of the graves
of Confederate soldiers. Ono dozen
copies $9. Orders must be accotnpai
nied by the cash, and addressed to
Goo. E. W. Nelson, Augusts, Ga
SODA FOUNT.
Our old friend and near neighbor, J.
Stark, has, as usual, with his accom
modating nature, prepared something
cool for the warm days. April shone
out with a brilliant sun a few days
ago, and led him to believe the time
had arrived for the sparkling bever
age, but a brief oold snap immedi
ately followed, and to-day (Monday),
though warmer than yesterday, is still
cloudy and the weather unsettled. It
will now grow rapidly warmer, how
ever, and those who wish to cool oil
the summer perspiration, are duly no
tified of the proper place.
McQUEErf&TVICKERS.
This firm aTe now receiving their
Spring Btock of goods, which includes
almost every thing demanded in the
market. They omitted to mention
their Ready Made Clothing in their
advertisement, but we now assuro
tbeir customers, that they have such
on hand of elegant quality, and our old
friend Hubert is still there behind
tho counter to fit you. If it takes him
half an hour to try a coat on you,
never despair, he will give you a good
fit and a cheap bargain. There is no
clever a fellow than he, as you all
know.
E@“Tho Season may be late in pre
senting its smiling countenance, but
not so Dimouest’s Monthly. It is
on hand for May, exuberant with No
velties, Brilliant Ideas, Fashions, in
their multitudinous forms, Illustra
tions, Poetry, Music, Braid Patterns,
Dress Patterns, Architecture, and a
host of other vuluable matter useful
and indispensable to every household.
$8 per year. W. Jen sinus Devo
res*, 473 Broadway, N. Y.
Interesting Military Correspon
dence-Gen. Grant Against Re
moval of Southern Governors.
Washington, April 6. The Secre
tary of War has submitted to the Pre
sident, a correspondence between Gen
erals Grant and Sheridan re-rarding
removals. A special to the Baltimore
Sun says, General Griffin recommends
the removal of Governor Throckmor
ton of Texas. General Sheridan agrees
with him, and suggests the removal of
the Governor of Louisiana. General
Grant, in reply, doubts tho General’s
power to remove Govetnors. and thinks
removals must be made by Congress,
or after trial under the sixth section.
Injunction against the Military Re
construction Act. —The Baltimore Sun
understands that application will short
ly be made to the United States Su
preme Court, in tho names of the
States of Mississippi and Alabama,
and such other States as may become
parties to the cause, to enjoin all pro
ceedings to subject the people of those
States to military rule under the re
cent act of Congress, because it will
inflict irreparable injury on sail peo
ple, and for other rcaions. The case
j will be conducted, it is said, by Judge
! Sharkey, of Mississippi, and Charles
I O'Connor, Ksq., of New York. Tho
I Jackson Mississippi®!! says tlijjt Gov.
Humphreys has given the requisite
authority on the part of the Slate of
Mississippi.
This will account for the protracted
absence of Governor Jenkins in Wash,
ington and New York, and his remark
able reticence at a time when the peo
ple of the State are so anxiously wait
ing for his counsel and advice.
Injunction Against the Military
Bill Asked for.
Washington,- April 5. In the Su
preme Court to-day", Judge Sharkey
gave notice of a motion for a prelim
inary injunction against Andrew John
son, Pres.dent, und General Old, Com
mander of the Military District com
prising Mississippi, and stated that tho
motion was founded on a bill of equity
which ho possessed, to file, and was
brought by the State of Mississippi as
complainant against the parlies named
to enjoin them from executing the acts
ol Congress, recently passed, on lied the
Military and the Supplemental bills.
Attorney General Stanberry sug
gested that, as it was a ease involving
the original jurisdiction of the Court,
the motion in the first place should be
for leave to file tho bill.
Judge Sharkey acquiesced, and said
tho counsel tor tho Stute of Mississippi
would now make tho motion for leave
to file tho bill, and wore now ready to
argue it. The Attorney General said
he contended that tho bill, iu so far
as it purported to make the President
a party defendant, was in effect a suit
against the United States, ho would
thereierc object to leave being given
by the Court to file the bill, and ho
further stated that he also was ready
now to go into argument of the motion.
The Chief Justice, alter consulta
tion, stated that the motion for leave
to file tho bill might be made and put
on tho motion docket, hut in conform
ity with the rules of tho Court, tho
argument would not be heard until
the next regular motion day. This
motion will, therefore, oomo up on
Friday next.
Taking au Early Start. —A Wash,
ington correspondent writes: “ The
first application foi removal for disa
bility, tinder the third section of tho
constitutional amend moot , comes from
James L. SewHrd, of South-Western
Georgia, formerly member of Congro.-s
from that State, whose memorial was
laid before the United States Senate
on the 29th ult.’’ And that before
the amendment has been adopted as
part of the Constitution!
Weaver, a ci lorcd man
of Cincinnati, lias removed to Nash
ville, and assigns as his reason that
the prejudice against the blaoks is so
great in Ohio that he oould not remain
there withoot losing bis self respect
Briok Pomeroy's Advice.
M. M. Pomeroy, Esq. (Brick) de
livered an address to a large audience,
in Macon last week. We give a few
pointed extracts from his speech as
given by the Journal 3c Messenger.
In January I left the ice-bound
funaticised North to visit tho Southern
States or territories, so called, and tp
learn by travel, patient enquiry and
close observation, the sentiments of
the people here both white and black,
civil and military; with the wants,
sufferings, rosoureos, and capacities of
the pecple and their plantations, and
to learn if the reports started by the
Southern loyalists, negroswindling ad
venturers and Yankee school-marms,
be true or false. God cursed Egypt
with lice-~~the orisrinul “Southern loy
alists’’—more filthy and loathsome
than other vermin, but lovable beyond
words, in comparison to the political
vermin which for joy come into the
Northern States, crawling and biting
their way into the passion excited
brain of fanatics and narrow minded
people there abounding.
The result of my observations so
far strengthens my preconceived opin
ion of their falsity and of. your patri
otism, earnestness of desire for peace,
and a heartfelt willingness to vie with
all good citizens every where in devo
tion to the true principles of Govern
; ment, the Constitution, the Union,
j and the domestic tranquility cnce the
j joy of oar common land, before fanat
j icisru strangled liberty and stole both
laws aud that which laws protected,
| property both publio and private.
Indeed I am surprised to find so
j much order, quietness and regard for
i law and order in the South as 1 now
I -la. Life and property is more secure
in the seven Southern States I have
I traveled in, except Tennessee, where
j the impious Brownlow and his baud of
j co-thicves rule to ruin, than in most
[ parts of the North. There are fewer
| robberies in the South than iQ the
North. There is less drunkenness,
less vice and less coarse-tongued
1 brawling here than there. There is
less stealing here than in the North, if
we exeept the Northern men here who
arc stealing from tho poor blacks, the
poor whites of the south, and the yet
poorer government iu which we all
have a common interest, and to which
wc must yeld the same support. I
find many, good, honesty eonseient’ous
men from the North—would to God,
I could say that all Northern men in
I the South were of the same class, and
I tliat all Northern men hire had the
| courage, the patriotism, the honesty,
1 the manhood and common sense to
mind their own affairs and not seek
; to worry and persecute those not able,
! from the chain of circumstances sur.
rounding them, to speak for them.
! selves. * * * * *
Long before the war you had be
come rich. Y'ou wero a law loving,
prosperous people. Y’ou had beauti
ful homes, were surrounded by domes
tic institutions, protected to you by
I law—you had beautiful res donees,
large plantations, happy families and
f all the comforts of life. You had
wealth which excited the cupidity of
! New England.
Y'ou were growing in gretness —
you excited her fears. Westward the
star of empire was pointing its way to
millions of poorYneu from other lands,
and in the future New England saw
the haunts of deer on the broad pra
iries of the great West broken in upon
and dotted by the thousands oi' homes
which there mark from year to year
the increase of life, of jJuek and mus
cle. The interesis ot the West and
the South wire identical, as they were
the pnxkicers, while New England
manufactured. The idea of the origi
nal partnership was grand, but tin; ar
rogance of the smaller interest must
war upon that which was its greater
greatness lor the future.
New England must divide the West
from the South. She charged you
with uristocracy. She cited to yi ur
huppy slaves. She filled tho land
with lies wrought into seeming truth
by the meddlers she sent here. She
eduoated the ignorant of the North to
hate you; she printed millions of
tracts in other languages than her own
and soattered them in foreign lands at
the feet of those who were girding on
their loins for the long travel. As
the immigrants camp here on crowded
shi|s they passed tho listless hours,
reading*of our so-charged atrocities,
an-i learned from New England to hate
you with all the bitterness of honest
ignorance aad-oousoicirtiousnoss abhor
rence of slavery. And when these
men landed on our shores they swore
ullogiatico to the proud old banner of j
which ono of your brave Southern -
poets wrote the “ Star Spangled Ban.
ner, ” and they believed to war upon
that, flasf was troasoh to be punished |
by death.
v * s- * *
Tho element which New England
taught to hate you is in turn hating
her. The war broke down a Southern
aristocracy, which was evenly taxable ;
it has created a non-taxahl- aristocracy
in the North—a cold blooded arisiie
racy of bond holders, who are living
from tho cantinas of the poor foreign
era of the West aud tho freed negroes
of the South, who taxed on the cotton
they raise to support bond holders of
New England, and who, I am glad to
know, are already in favor ot a general
repudiation of all war debts. Negro
suffrage will be the feather which will
break the back of the New England
camel, and that, at no distant day.
Aud let me tell you how to renew
tho war on New England : Erect Cot
ton factories here. Manufacture that
which you raise, llad I uiy way, 1
would blight every cotton field of ihe
South fob the next five years, till the
rust aloud as thmk on New England
cotton mills ns tho blood was on
Southern battle-fields. Plant corn.—
I’lant more corn. Subsist your owu
people. Stop the long trains of cotton
going North. Stop sending West for
corn. Erect batteries of spindles, lor
they are more feared in New England
than all the bayonets in the world.
Let your ladies refuse to buy Yan
kee trinkets for every one of them is
tinted with the blood of brave men
who died fighting for tbeir homes and
loved ones’. Wlmn your cotton fields
refuse to yield, New England trembles.
We of the West are thus caring for
our interest, and time adds to the
music of our machinery. And then
educate your negroes. Be kind to
them. Help them to learn. Deal
liberally with them, for they aro of
groat use to you, and of no use to us
in the North.
A wonderful quantity of sense in
the above, and the West will yet make
issues that will make New England
tremble. Nc.w England should make
haste to make friends of the South,
her only financial salvation. Great
events are maturing in the womb ol
the fature. — Rec.
Supremo Court to be Disregarded
The New York Times openly pro
claims the intention* of the Republi
cans to disregard-the decision of the
Supreme Court, should it be against
them on the reconstruction bills, and
to go into open rebellion against the
law as pronounced by that t-ody. It
says, in referring to the movements of
Southern Goverriors to test the consti
tutionality of their laws:
“ Its (the South’s) pride may be
gratified by a legal assault npon the
policy of Congress, but only incorrigi
ble fools can suppose that policy will
be materially hindered, or on any
pending question reversed, by an ap
peal to the Courts. The refusal of
Judge Martin, of the Superior Court
of B-ltitnore, to grant tho injunction,
prayed for by the Maryland Radicals,
to prevent the meeting, of the State
Convention, proceeds on the hypothe
sis that the Convention is a political
body of which the State Legislature
ha-1 proper and exclusive cognizance.
By a parity of reason, and with the
precedent of the decision in the “Dorr
rebellion” case to sustain it, the Su
preme Court may not unreasonably be
> expected to disclaim jurisdiction in,
the premises. At any rule, the fact
| is incontestibht, that Congress has ab
: solute mastery over the By
no appeal to the Courts, ly up quibble
jof lawyers, no combination or ef
frontery of Southern p- liliciuns, can
I this fact be everoome. A denial of it
| theoretically will not affect it practi
! cully. And the supremacy of Congress
will continue, despite petitions for in
junctions or' averments of unconstitu
tionality. Its power to carry out its
will is already assured. Neither the
j President nor the lawyers can compel
its admission of Southern representa
tives, its acknowledgment of State
Governments which it has decreed
provisional, or its abatement of ou-kio
to of the conditions which it has im
posed upon the South,
i Here we have it openly proclaimed
j that the will of the majority is the
i supreme law and that the majority has
| made arrangements to carry out its
will, by force if necessary. Have the
Radicals really an understanding with
Gen. Grant and tiie.avtny that the lat
ter will joiu them in this act of rebel
lion? — Macon. Telegraph.
Mi's srtgr from the Prey i> ini t to the
House of 11')ircs<~ntoJiret.~~S\ ashing.
ton, March 30. —The President this
morning sent the following message to
the House of Representative* .*
In giving m3' approval to the ygint
resolution '• providing for the expenses
of carrying into fail effect the act to
provide for the more efficient govern
ment of the rebel States/’ 1 am moved
to do so for tite following reason r
Tha seventh section of the act sup
;plotnerttary to the act ’“for the more
efficient government of the rebel
States/’ provides that sll efponses in
mined under or by virtue of that act
shall be’paid out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated
This provision is wholly unlimited as
to the amount to be expended, where
as the resolution now before me limits
the appropriation to $.’)00,000. 1 con
sider this limitation as • very
sary cheek against unlimited expendi
tures and liabilities. Yielding to that
consideration, 1 am bound to approve
this resolution, without modifying in
any manner my objections heretofore
stated against the original and supple
mentary acts.
Andrew Johnson.
Maryland-Radical Movements
Mi\ Brooks’ Speech-
The committee of the Maryland
Radical Convention called on Speakor
Cal fax and Vice President Wade on
Thursday,, and were encouraged to
proceed in their opposition to the le.
gal authorities of the State. A Mr,
Rogers has prepared a bill of injunc
tion to prevent the proper officers from
holding an election for a convention.
Mr Colfax was severely handled by
several members for having such stuff
as the proceedings of a Radical meet*
ting read to the House.
“Mr. Brooks remarked that if be
had not, long since, adopted tbo Hv>-
rati an maxim of nit mdmirari he
would have been astonished at the ex
traordinary presentation of a partisan
memorial in this House, and at tho
still more extraordinary speech of the
geuiletran from Maryland against his
own State constitution. Mr. 1> pro
ceeded to show that the same inequ -1*
ity of representation existed in the
States of Maine ami Connecticut; that
by the gerrymandering process in
l’> nnsylvania au i other States the ma
jority was cheat'd of its representa
tion ; and that real republican foims of
governments existed in no State As
to Tcfincssce and Missouri, there waa
no more republieaaiam there than
there existed under the Pasha of
Kgypt or ?h« Sultao cf Turkey.—
There was no republicanism represen
ted even in tho Senate ot the United
States. It was a body existing in ut
ter defiance of all republican forms of
government; and he expected the gen.
tleman from Maryland (Mr. Thomas),
when he had suoceeded in reforming
the affairs of lire own State, to intro
duce a proposition to abolish the Uni
ted States Senate. The State ot Ne
braska, with a population not one fifth
of the number that are found every
day under ground in the First Ward
of the city of New York, attending to
their daily business, had an equal rep
resentation in the Senate with Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Y’ork.—
The proposition of the gentleman from
Maryland would amount to an over
throw and subversion of the whole
structure of the government, aconsol
idation and despotism of the worst
kind, utterly repugnant to the whole
idea of the founders of-the Republic.”
From Mexico.
Brownsville," Texas, April 3.---Ad
vices have been received from Monte
rey to the 27th March, Saltillo 25th,
and San Louis 20th.
No new features had occurred in
the siege of Quaretaro. The Liberals
were not disposed to assault, hoping
to capture the city by starvation.
A letter from a well known mer
chant of Zueetecas says; “The last
news from Quaretaro is
. Imperialists attempted asflllya’nd
were dri-’en back with fifty killed.”
Pro fork) Diaz was in Guadaleupe, a
league distant from the city of Mexi
co. Riva Pulacis wus ir» Tajul-aya.—
Many other chiefs are about the city of
•Mexico, with forces amounting in all
to 20,000 men The capture of the
heights ol La .Campagna fortifications
of Laeuise was reported, but has been
contradicted.
Congress and the Close ot ih* \V<cr:
—The New York Times thus puts to
flight the only pretext lor the exten
sion of military law over tho South at
the present time, It says :
“A Veteran Observer” vindicates
the suspension of the writ of habeas
\ corpus on the plea that rebellion ex
ists ; and he asks when did the rebel
lion eeasc? Nobody but Congress, lie
j says, “ ha-1 the autliority to make
peace or assume it.”
Wo reply, in the first place, that
j Congress, in laws passed during tho
War, expressly declared that certain
j acts for the suppression of tlie rebel-.
lion, should continue in force “until
j the President of the United States
\ should declare, by proclamation, that
I the rebellion had ceased .” The Pres
: ident has so declared, lie has offici
ally proclaimed that the rebellion has
: ceased; and he did it by authority ex
pressly conferred upon him by Con
gress itself. It is nut competent,
therefore, for Congress to assume, fu
I tho face of its own action, that the re.
bcllion still exists.
But, secondly, we beg to remind
| our correspondent that the mere fact
t of rebellion, enpeeially of a construe
tive * rebellion, does not authorize a
i suspeusiou of tlie writ of habeas cor •
j pus. The Constitution says that it
I shall not be suspended unless “ in caso
of rebellion or invasion the public
! safety shall require it.” There is no
I such rebellion in the South as endan
| gers the “public safety.’’ No man,
I even among the extremists in Con-
I gross, lias ventured to assert that the
| public safety now requires the suspen-
I .rioti oPtliat great writ.
Advertising. —Prentice, of the Lou
isville 3-j-urruil, in its Issue of the 28th
inst., says : “ Wc have Bc£n carrying
ou, the . J-qoisville Journal between
thirty-six and thirty-seven Dur
ing that time-wo have kq-jjvn no man
of business in the city to Tail jrho ad
vertised liberally. And we have known
uo ore to succeed in any considerable,
if even in a respectable degree, who
dicTnt advertise liberally !
“ Do you tell us, oh, candidate for
the gustom of the community, that
you gtan’t afford to advertise because
your business is dull ? v Ah ! why is it.
dull 7 Listen, and wc will tell you.
It is dull because you don’t advertise,
und you don’t advertise because it is
dull. So the vacant circle is complete.
We tell you, i( you are doing ill, to
advertise that you may do well, and,
if you aVc doing well, advertise that
you may do better. Set high your
mark of business success and adver
tise up to it. You can do so, if you
will, even in hard times.
“A little nerve is needed in adver
tising as well as in using any ot’lier
means of success. Your men who
have no more nerve than a wet rag ad
vertise little, or not at all, and they*
succeed little, or not at all. You tqay
suppose that wc aro giving advice that
we think would benefit ourselves. Y’es,
we do think that it would ben -fit us,
but benefit you immensely more.—
Think a little, and you will agree with
us. Aud if you and > agree with us, be
wise cnough'to act accordingly.”
A Rim Incident.—A convention
of North Carolina “loyalists” and col
ored peopls recently met in lluleigb.
During the proceedings a rich inci
dent oeoured. It seems that the clerk
of tho oonvention had inserted the
term ‘ colored*' on his roll, opposite
the name ot the coloft'd members.—
On the roll being belled at the session
referred to, Mr. Col. Rev. Jas. Sin
clair, better known as the “fighting
parson" arose, an 1 moved tb it tlie term
cvb rsd be ckpunged, ts nut respectful
to tfio colored delegation. J.is. II
Harris, an intelligent and respected
colored uiar., arose, aud sai 1 be did
noj see any good reason for the p*upo
sit ion. The record was literally irue.
God had made them colored men, and
he was not ashamed of anything that
God ha-1 done. Hr was not ashamed
of his color, and he hoped the gentle
man front Robeson was not ashamed of
his .’ Tbs “fighting parson" caved in -
Proteediugs of Connell.
Thomasville, April g, 1867.
Council met this day in regular
meeting. Present hi* Honor R H
Harris Mayor; Aldermen Hansell,
Taylor, Reid aod Bower.
A petition fronj R. A. Varnadoe, tr>
return funds paid over to Treasurer
for -License to sell spirituous liquors
was granted.
The amendments to License Ordi
nance were adopted.
Ihe Southern Express Company
was relieved from the -penalty for ne.
gleet to take out license, provided they
and lay no further. J
I he ease of G. G. Gibbea was takon
up. Moved and carried, that those
persons ordering guano and other fer<
tilizcrs from abroad, be not liable to
the charges on commission merchants.
An account for printing was tefer
red to Finance Committee, and tho
following ordered to be said-, to wit:
McGladhan & Little, sf.oo ; E. J
Young, $10.00; G. Wilson, $1.20;
do. $7.70. ’ ’
Council then adjourned.
WM. CLINE, Clerk.
#§F*llon. John A. Logan, who is
now one of the Radical Representa
tives in Congress from Illinois, wrote a
letter in 1801, from which the follow
ing is an extract:
Washington, January 27, 1861.
Dear Fhjend : * * * lam al
most despairing of our glorious coun
try ; there is but little hope of any ad
justment; the Republicans are arro
gant arid defying; tficy have adopted
such a course here as to irritate instead
qf soothing the angry feelings of
Southern men, and unless they come
to some terms very soon, the last hope
is gone. * * * Thcire ii no uso
of our talking about coercion to make
tlie -States c me bipk. They may be
subdued, but never made to stay ia tho
tin 'Oil, unless some safe compromise
is made by the Republicans. They
talk of war; this would he the ever
lasting overthrow of all our-insfitutions,
resulting only in despotism.
God preserve us from the horrible
sconce of war.. Your friend,
. * _ John A. Looan.
. The Pity of Army Officers. — A
paragraph that originally appeared in
the New Y'ork Tribune, and which is
being extensively copied in the news
papers throughout the country, rela
tive to the present pay of officers in the
army, cives a very exaggerated state
ment ol the amount of salary received
by them. For the purpose of correct
ing it, the following statement of the
pay belonging to each grade has been
carefully prepared, and represents tho
amount per annum received in each
grade after deducting tho income tax :
A general receives, $16,465 10
Lieutenant general, 13,919 10
Major getie-al, 7,956 85
Brigadier general, 5 513 50
Colonel, 3,068 20
Lieutenant colonel, 2,734 70
Major, 2,403, 15
Captain, cavalry, 1,909 15
Captain, foot, -1,738 15
First lieutenant, cavalry, 1,538 93
First lieutenant, foot, 1,527 10
'Second lieutenant, cavnlry, 1,538 93
Second lieutenant, foot, 1,400 90
Hard on (hr. Radicals. —ln an ar
ticle arowing over the result of the
CuOTtowliwaf elections, the World says
that ‘‘tlie nineteen months which in
tervene between now and the presi
dential election, will witness the de
cline and lad of a party w.hich lias
’■done more mischief, shed more blood,
squandered more treasure, kindfod
more'diabolical passions, and inflicted
deeper wounds on constitutional go
vernment, than any other political
party that ever existed in the world.’’
J - 1 *' ' ■ "■ .'I n-
HIPOKTANT TABLIk
Ynlur of CSrcmbucky in Cnoft-dcrniv
~~j ' =X
months. IB6J. | 1863.) 186-t 1865.
January I misl3 .VI s•_'« on
February t | 2 19 IS 79 25 2#
March t..j * W ITST 34 90
April | 3 23 W 33|
Muv 3 87 65
June 4 85 812
July I 689 7 79,
A uplift 10 531 .8 85
September s•> )!' JO
Otcobur* 105 9 07; 12 80!
November 5 "JO 9 90j 12 551
Dcreinht*r *2 18261......
The above table shown what one dollar iu
Greenback* is esmnHtud to Ik; wqgfrh in (Jon
federate Treasury notes at the w»*e m! dutm
specified ; one that the Revenue Depaitment
has adopted, and which they require to be ob
served iu estimating the ymlimi of (Jonfederate
money. The reader will rendily observe that
the Confederate money must be induced to
currency and not to h specie basis,has been
the practice.— Southern Jim-ordcr, -
MARK WHAT
X SAY!
SOME of thy old friends w-eni not to know
that lam nfill in bu*in< s. l>et etich fully
understand by this, that
DAVII) HARRELL
IS STILL IX THE -
GROCERY AND PROVISION
Husim and rtmt h« t* alvravr Miwpiied with
this artii lea in hi* line, und ready to sett them
AT LOWER r RICES,
Than any other <4rorrry or Provinion Hours
m Ihe flourwhiiig rity ofT-totDaayiUo.
if vor »oi rt it r onr ani»
*»r.t %
HO ID II UIRCLL.
Ar n 3*
• -FOKI.It IfeMMH «•>»!,.
t'oun nt Ordinary, Malt-h 29, 1967.
Wkrms V. Cray. Adnuß-*tnitvr .4-1 Cot
legmdvm, on tin- «kale of Jerry Brocket,
deceased, of said Conwy, will, if no objection
1* filed in Court. Ac .'•pj.-mted I‘corani nt Ad
mimutrator thereon. t» the Viral Monday id
Mac uex-.
H U TOOKE,
Af 9 VM Otdißiry.