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What Rocamo of the Body pf
Wilkes Booth.
General Lafeyette C. Baker, the
Veil known Chi if of the Bureau of
National Detective Police during the
war, has published a portly volume
presenting a record of the operations
of his force, “so far as it is proper to
make them known to the public ’’ —
The following passage, if to be believ
ed, sets at rest the dispute as to the
final disposition of Booth’s body :
In order to establish the identity of
the body of . the assassin beyond all
question, the Secretary of War direc
ted me to summon a number of wit
nesses residing in the city of Wash
ington, who had previously known the
murderer. Some two years previous
to the assassination of the President,
Booth had had a tumor or carbuncle
cut from his neck by a surgeon. On
inquiry, I ascertained that Dr. May, a
well known and very skillful surgeon,
of 25 years, practice in Washington,
had performed the operation.
Accordingly, I called on Dr. May,
who, before seeing the body, minutely
described the exact locality of the tu
mor, the nature and date ol the ope'
ration, &c. After being sworn, he
pointed to the scar in the neck, which
vy&S lliwu plurnVj- -rraiblo. oihiir
witnesses were axamined, all of whom
had known the assassin intimately for
years. The various newspaper ac
counts, referring to the mutilation of
Booth’s body, are eaqually absurd. —
General Barnes Surgeon. General U.
S. A., was on board tlie gunboat where
the postmortem examination was held,
with his assistants. Gen. Barnes cut
from Booth’s neck about two inches of
the spinal column through which the
ball had passed ; this piece of bone
which is now on exhibition at the
Government IVJedical Museum in \V ash
ington, is the only relic of the assas
sin's body above ground, and this is
the only mutilation of the remains
that ever occurred.
Immediately after the conclusion of
the examination, the Secretary of War
gave orders rs to the disposition of the
body, which had become, very • offen>
give, owing to the condition in which
it had remained after death ; the leg,
broken jti jumping from the box to the
stage, was much discolored and swol
len, the blood from the wound having
saturated his under clothing. With
the assistance of Ijieut. L. 13. Baker,
I took the body from the gun boat to
the old Penitentiary, adjoining the
old Arsenal grounds. The building
had not been used as a prison for some
years previously. The Ordnance De
partment had filled the ground-floor
cells with-fixed amuuition— one of the
largest of these cells was selected as
the burial place of Booth —the auimu."
nitioif was removed, a large flat stone
lifted from its place, and a rude grave
dug; the body was dropped in, the
grave filled up, the stone replaced, and
there rests to this hour ail that re
mained of John Wilkes Booth.
The Death of John M.. Park.man.
T&e telegraph announced a few
days ago the suicide, by drowning, of
John M. I’arktuan, late President of
the First National Bank of Belina.
The Times, of that city, of a subse
quent date, furnishes the following
particulars of the sad affair .
On the 10th of last month John M.
Parkinan, President of the First Na.
tional Bank of this city, offered, thro’
the city papers, a-reward pf ?20,000
for tho recovery of SI6u,OOQ, said to
have been stolen the day before from
the bank. On the following day Gen.
Swayne, on behalf of the government,
took possession of tire bank and its
deposits, and placed tho President un
der military arrest.
The next morning Parkman escaped
from liis residence, when he was under
guard, and took tho Cahaba road on
horseback. General Swayne offored a
reward of SISOO for bis apprehension,
and on the 19th he was captured in
Wilcox county, brought hack to Selma,
and the following day lodged in the
county jail at Cahaba, were ho hhs re.
mained until yesterday evening about
sunset. At this hour the inmates of
the jail were in tho hall, when the
jailor entered. Upon the opening of
the door, Parkman rushed out and
made for the Alabama river, about
sevetityefive yards distant. The jailor
fired at him as ho ran, and soon afteri
wards he was seen to fall. , Recover,
ing himself .he ran into the river, and
struck out as a swimmer. The steamer
Gertrudo was lying alout twenty yards
below where he entered, and his m >vo
znenis were distiuctly seen by a party
of ladies and gentleman aboard. He
disappeard once or twice while floating
down to the boat, and efforts were bo
ing made to saVehim. Reaching tine
wheel of tbc )&©«*>, mvti was nut in mo.
tion, he paused for-a moment, stifled
and exhausted, then sunk under thg
boat and has not been seen since.
Every means ai'o being used to re
cover his remains.
He leaves a wife and two children
overwhelmed with the sad calamities of
a few weeks, and exciting tho tender*
est sympathies of the entiro commu
nity.
The Girls to the Young Men,—
The literary department of the luka
(Miss.) Mirror is edited by four your.g
ladies. Their last number contains
the following paragraph, which exhorts,
fcbeyoungman to “depend on himself.”
M-ost young men consider it a mis«
fortune to be born poor, or not to havo
capital enough to establish themselves
flt the outset of life in a good and eom
fortable business. This is a mistaken
notion. So far from poverty being u
misfortune to them, if we may judge
from what wo dally behold,' it is a
blessing; the chances are moro than
ten to one against him who starts with
a fortune. Most rich men’s sons die
in poverty, while many poor men’s
sons come to wealth and honor. It is
a blessing, instead of a curse, to have
to work oMt their own fortune.
Jitmijimt (feterpst
(SEMI-WEEKLY. Y
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1867.'
ELECTION TO-MORROW.
Let every voter within the corpora
tion, white or black, remember, that,
to-morrow, (Wednesday,) he is called
upon to vote, whether or not the town
of Thomasville shall be authorized to
issue bonds to the amount of SIOO,-
000, and to tax the people for the pay.
ment ot the interest on the same, for
tho benefit of the South Georgia &
Florida Railroad. Wo have now to
decide whether we will let IToraas.
ville go down with the extension of
the Atlantic & Gulf Road to Bain.
bridge, or whether we will put our
shoulders to the wheel, and lift her up
to tho high state of prosperity and im
portance of other towns possessing like'
advantages. Shall we permit onr pro.
perty to be reduced in value, or shall
we double, treble and quadruple its
value, by adding to our facilities for
travel and transportation ? These are
the questions that stare us in the face.
Ono or the other must now surely come
to pass , and upon ms devolves the de~-
cision of the question. Will any man
vote against hh otpn interests? We
hope none will be found so foolish.
The humblest colored .laborer at the
plane, or in the brick yard, as well as
the rohest merclwnt at his. counter,
will be benefitted by the construction
of this railroad. It will give the one
more brick to make, more houses to
build, and the other more goods to sell,
more customers to buy. It will bring
population to the town and country, to
buy and cultivate the lands, and add
life and interest to tho town and sec
tion. Who would not pay a light tax
for such splendid results? Beside,
the motley paid out for this tax is not
lost*to the tax payer. He will get a
receipt, for the amount of tax he pays,
convertible into stock in the Railroad.
This receipt will possess a market va
lue, and may bo sold or traded to suit
the convenience of the holder, hut
! good always for stock in the Railroad,
i Furthermore, wc'beliovc arrangements
| will be made to allow every tax payer
to commute the whole amount of his
' Railroad tax, by paying in the amount
at any time , and exempting his pro
perty from future taxation for tho same
purpose. This would ho a good nr.
rangement, and advantageous to thoso
who may put their property on the
market, and calm .tho .fears of those
who think thoir property would become
less saleable because of the Railroad
tax. Show them by your votes that
you intend to build this road, and the
property of these men will nut be for
sale until the road is so far advanced,
as at least to double its value ; and ah
though some of them may now argue
and even volo against tho road, they
will soon show how they can appreci
ate its advantages, arid how quickly
they c>n take advantage of its influ
ence to rise in tho price.of their pro
perty. Our advice is, let every man
vote for the Railroad , if it takes half
his property to pay tho tax. lor weave
assured that it will he paid hack to
him fourfold.
MONTICELLO—TALLAHAS
SEE-ALBANY.
All three ol tho above cities aro
deeply interested in tho success of tho
South Georgia & Florida Railroad.—
Many of their citizens would invest in
tho enterprise, if its merits were set
before them. Why will not our co
temporaries of the press in those cities
give the niiittor somo attention ? Al
bany cannot apprehend danger from
tho extension of her road Southward,
and Mostioello and Tallahassee cr.tn
not be blind to the great advantages
onr road will confer upon them. Speak
up, gentlemen, and let us know your
position. We offer our neighbors in
Albany a Gulf connection and cheap
ened freights —and wo offer our Flo
rida friends, a highway to the North-
West and all tho World. Will you not
oome and help us ?
$25,000 SUBSCRIBED!
We take pleasure in announcing that
Dr. Bower’s proposition to ho one of
twenty-live men, to subscribe si,ooo
each, as a nucleus cash subscription
for the South Georgia & Florida R il
roud, has h-on natty .-ccundqd and
carried without opposition. Several
of the gontlemon who subscribed
SI,OOO, now propose to double their
subscriptions That is now the ques
tion in order, and a noble move in the
right direction— debate is not in order
—down with the money, and let us
soo at onCe how many will double. —
Another motion has also been made to
raise a similar subscription of $25,090
by .fifty nton at five hundred dollars
each. llow many will meet this pro
position ? Let somo energetic citizen
take the book and go round, without
delay, jllako this proposition as suo>
cesslul as the first, and a $50,000 sub
scription will be ready for operations
on the road. Tho time is propitious,
and let the proposition be testod at
once.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S
OPINION.
* Wo are indebted to the Maopn Tele
graph for the very excellent synopsis
of the Attorney Goneral's Opinion,
whioh we publish to-day. Our columns
aro too small for the elaborate argu
ments of tho Attorooy General, and
we thank our able cotcmporaries of the i
Telegraph for siring us the trouble,
by furnishing a good synopsis.
8®“ The Ghicago Times says
“ From a traitor’s prison Jefferson
Davis' has gone forth to assume the
place which the future will assign him,
as tho most colossal character in the
history of his time.’’
Yes, “the most colossal character ia
the history of- his time.” The Radi
cals may rave, gnash their teeth and
denounce Jefferson Davis as a trai
tor, rebel, or whatever they will; but
when the future impattial historian
take 9 up his pen, to set before the
world a true history of the times, ev
ery department of the ovidence, from
the dusky, pile of manuscript, piled
mountain high by the events of the
war, will trumpet forth the genius of
the man who sat sternly and calmly
four years in Richmond, and in'one
hundred miles of the Federal Capitol,
hurled bsck, broken and shattered, the
best appointed armies the world has
ever seen. It is almost incredible, that
the sparsely settled South, without re
sources, arms or ammunition, il hermct
ically sealed’’ from all the world, one
third ot' her population defected slaves,
and one-third of her white population
loyal to the Federal Government —we
say, it is almost incredible that the
South, under these adverse (fircum
sutances, did actually meet, defeat and
repel, the great armies of the’ all-pow
erful North for four years. Napoleon
raised one million of men and bade
defiance to all Europe; but Mr. Lin
coin ea]\ed out jibe millions of tjie sol
diers of the North to put down an
“insurrection'’ in the cotton planta.
tions of the South, and strange to say,
those Cotton planters successfully re
sisted that mighty host, throughout
Mr. Lincoln's' Presidential term- of
four years. He never was President
over the South. 11c vtho uprooted
the foundations of Republican Liberty
and shed the blood of the nation, ne
ver reigned over the South. Ilis em
pire was divided: and a calm, stern
mau, sat in council at Richmond, des
tined to defeat his ambition and wear
■ Ins crown of fame.
WAR OF THE RACES-WHO
SHALL RULE?
The “war ol races” may bo said
fairly to have commenced in New Or
leans. The colored leaders clitim the
exclusive government of the city, and
the whites have resolved to resist,-
Even the Radicals in the city arc
alarmed, and tho Advocate, a Radical
journal heads a lengthy hostile article
against the colored leaders as follows :
“Shall white men or black mon rule
this city? Such is tho issue which is
being forced upon our community. It
is a question of the gravest possible
Import. It is a movement environed
with difficulties and pregnant with re
sults which appall our best and wisest
citizens. It is tho tocsin note of tho
“war of races.”
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR.
The Juno number of this excellent
work on agriculture is on our table.
Those who have not alroady subscribed
for it should do so without delay. It
is the most valuable aid and adviser
the Southern farmer can obtain, and
none should be without it.
NOT SO LOW DOWN AS THAT.
Wo arc pleased to see that in his re.
ply to the Loyal Georgian, Mr.
Hayes, editor of ihe Savannah Repub
lican, nbly defends his conservative
views, and although'confesses that he
is a Radical, yet, he lias not yet de
fended’ to the level of tho Loyal Gear .
ginn
tS&C President Johnson is in the
South. He passed through Richmond
on tho 2nd inst. on his way to Raleigh
N. G. lie was accompanied by many
gentlemen (officials) of distinction.
Moro about Maximilian’s Capture
Matamoras, May 23 (via New Or
leans, May 27.) —The following was
received from General Fscobedo to
day :
Citizen Minister of War —At o
o’clock on tho morning of the 15th,
La Crosse was taken by our foroes,
who surprised tho enemy, and shortly
after tho garrison were mado prisoners,
and our troops occupied the plaza. In
the mean while tho enemy retreated
towards Carro do la Campana, where
our artillery caused him to surrender
at 8 o’clock this morning. Maximilian
and his Generals, Mejia and Costello,
surrendered unconditionally. You will
pleaso give the President my congiat
ulat’ons on this triumph of tho nation
al army.
Nf.i) Escobedo.
General Escobedo reports from the
interior that President Juarez*hason
dered tho Aaohduko Maximilian and
all his Generals to be .shot.
Matamoras, May 25.—Tho-Liber
al force which took peses&ion of Quorc
taro have started for tho capitol.
Commander J. I). Pagan, of the
Mexican Navy, has been oplorod by
General Borrizcabal to command an
expedition against Vera Cruz.
Tho Liberals have taken possession
of tho steamer Genoral Sheridan lor
naval purposes.
So ends the struggle in Mexico.
Washington, Juno I.—The Herald
lias a special dispatch announcing the
execution of Maximilian and officers.
Tho report is discredited at tho State
Department.
J Home for Mr. Davis —The j
Mississippians are inaugurating a
movement to ra.se means to purchase i
homo for Mr. Davis, i.t tho capital of !
tho Stato.
Ge.v Sueridan.—Tho tyranny ex- i
croised by this military despot iji Lou- !
isiana has driven tho people in that 1
Stato to petition the President for his j
removal. They have asked that Gen. !
Meade he appointc 1 in his place.
The Attorney General’s Opinion
Synopis.
For the conveniences of those who
have not time to read the Attorney
General’s opinion, and for general
reference, wc have prepared below a
synopis of all the most important
points of the document:
The registration mjist bo completed
before the Ist day of September, 18G7.
A voter must he 21 years of age at'
the dale of registration; and have
been ono year a resident of the State
when he votes, though he may regis*
ter and state the number of months he
has been resident which fact muss ap
pear on the list of voters opposite his
name.
This clause of the oath, that “ I
have never been a member of any
State Legislature nor held any execu
tive or judicial office in any State and
afterwards engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or
given aid and comfort to the enemies
thereof,” is treated as independent of
this: “ That 1* have never taken an
oath as a member of tho 'Congress of
the United. Stafes, or as an officer of
the United States, or as a member of
any State Legislature,-or as an execu
tive of judicial'.officer of any State to
suppo.t the Constitution of the United
States, pr given, pid and comfort to
the enemies thereof.” And under it
lie seems to consider members (f the
State Legislatures and executive and
judicial officers during the .rebellion,
who may never have taken the oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States, as Well as members of secession
conventions and military officers of the
States during the. rebellion, as clearly
disfranchised, subject to the limitations
hereinafter stated.
All officers, civil and military, of the
United States, who to-k thc-oath to
support the Constitution oft he United
States, and afterwards engaged in re.
hellion, &e., are disfranchised.
Militia officers of a State prior to
the rebellion are not disfranchised.
Members of Congress and members
of State Legislatures lire clearly desig
nated, hut officers of Legislatures are
not.
The terms executive and judiciul
officers of a State clearly include, so
far as executive officers are concerned,
all such officers as are generally k nown
by the proper description of Stato of
ficers or officers qf tho Stato. • In one
sense, and in a pr polar sense, the
description executive officers of a State
is applicable to a well known class —
the Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Stato Auditor, Treasurer, Secratary
and Stato officials proper, who exercise
executive functions at tho seat of Gov
ernment.
1 uin not prepared to say (says Mr
5.,) that only those proper State offi
cials come within this term of descrip
tion, nor am I prepared, as to judicial
officers of a State, to limit the dcscrip.
tiou to judges of courts whose jurisdic
tion extends over the entire State. I
must content myself in saying of these
officers, executive or judicial, that they
arc clearly within the meaning of the
law.
Upon the subject of those not inclu.
ded cortcinly, he says:
I have said that in addition to tho
class of officers who dearly conm with
in the terms of the Aft as judicial and
executive officers of the State, and to
those classes which comprehend mi.itia
officers and milnfcilpul officers, who
clearly are not within the terms of the
Act, there remains a vast number of
officers whose status is in some way
defined. These are known in popular
language by such terms of description
as county, township and precinct of.
fleers. Their name is legion. Their
func'ious and duties arc, for the most
part, strictly local. Some of them,
such as sheriffs'ami justices of tho
county courts, have jurisdiction tmsr
the entire county. Others are resit
ted to the smallest civil sub-divisions.
I have directed abstracts to bo prepare
ed for each of these States, which will
exhibit all these officers and the duties
which appertain to-them, and the form
of oath required.
Engaging in insurrection or rebell
ion against the United States, to work
exclusion, must be voluntary. Con
scripts, and slaves forqod into the army
or to w >rk on fortifications are not ex
cluded.
Oft the other hand, all thoso who in a
legislative or ’other official capacity
were engaged 4n the. furtherance of a
ootumon unlawful nurpose, or persons
who in tjieir individual capacity have
done any over hot for the purposo of
promoting rebellion, may well bo said
in tho meaning of this law to have en
gaged in rebelliun.
All persons who during tho robot
tho-duties ot' oflfoe necessarily had re
lation to tho support of tho rebellion,
such as members of a rebel legislature
and rebel congress and rebel con veil ■
tions, diplomatic agents of tho rebel
Confederacy, or such other officials
Whose duties more especially apper
tained to the Support of the rebel
cause, ■ must he held to cotuo within
the terms of exclusion.
Officers in those rebel States who du'
ring the rebellion discharged official
duties not incident to the war, but in
preserration of order and administra
tion of law, are no: to bo considered as
thereby engaging in rebellion.
I must reserve lor further eonsid.
oration, after the abstracts arc made,
the question whether nil of them, or if
not all, what classes of these offio rs
oouie within the disqualification. As
to all otter executive or'judioial ofli
oers who are not in popular language
characterised as county officers, I sh.
dine to consider them ns coming un
der tho description of executive and
judicial officer* of a State, within the
meaning of these laws.
Further—
i cannot enumerate all of tho em
ployments under State authority
which, i« mv opinion, work no dis
franchisemcnt. I will name some by
way of illustration, viz : Boards of
commissioners of public works, direc
ted of asylums, visitors of State uni
versities, directors of State penitenti
aries, State directors of banks, or other
corporations, special commissioners or
agents appointed by the Governor of
another State with authority to per
form special duties, as examiners of
banks, notaries public, and coramis
sioners to take acknowledgments of
deeds. The rule laid down, and these
illustrations, will perhaps be sufficient
to determine who come within its op.
erations.
We give this extract also as perti*
nent: . . ,
The exclusion is all comprehensive
as to time, and applies not only to
those who were in office when the
rebellion commenced, but to those
who held the prohibited offices-at any
previous time, although they fnay
have ceased to hold such office an in
definite number of years prior to the
rebellion.
I now come.to consider’what is the
meaning and scope of the disqualifica
tions.arising under that part of the
oath which requires the person tc state
1 that lt9.“hds nrfc engaged in insurrec
tion or rebellion against the United
States, or given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof.” 1 must here repeat
What has been said before, that to work
disqualification two clerrfonts must con
our: first", holding the designated of
fice!, State or Federal, accompanied by
an official oath to support the Cousti
tution of.the United States; and sec
ond, engaging nt rcheUi ;n against the
United States,-or giving aid and com.
Tort to its enemies. Both these must
not only concur, hut they must concur
in the order of time mentioned. —
First, the office and the oath, and af
terwards, engaging in rehdlion, or
giving aid and comfort. A person
who iias held office within the mean
ing of this law, and has taken- tho of.
ficial oalh, and who has not afterwards
participated in a rebellion, may very
safely take this oath ; and so, too, the
person who has fully participated ip
the rebellion, but has not, prior there
to, held an office and taken tho oifi
• cial oath, may with equal 'Safety take
th s oath.
As to individual acts he- says .
More acts of common humanity and
chuirity cannot he considered as in-
I volving the party in participation in
the rebellion. 80, too, forced oont i
butions by the rebel authorities, or the
compulsory payment of taxes in aid of
the rebellious States, would not in
volve the person, and they must not.
work disqualification under this law.
Voluntary contributions in further
ance of the rebellion, or subscripts- n
to the rebel loans, and those organized
contributions of food or clothes or nec
essary supplies, except of a strictly
sanitary character, are to be classed
with acts whio.h disqualify.
Yielding to the orders or a fits of. a
de facto Government or to the circum
stances incident to its cxeicisipg pew
er temporarily over the people, is not
considered 4“ voluntary ’’ act. “ In.
voluntary ”acts are not considered
’disqualifying. •
Registers are simply for the purpose
j of registering the vliters’ names under
orders given them as t, > manner, &e.,
i and not determining any rights.
Parties applying to be registered
J have only to take the oath, and their
j names must bo registered, ami when
! registered they are entitled to vote. •
Mr. Greeley having dourol
| ishod top Pharisees of the League, of
| Now York, yesterday turned Lis at ton«
! (ion to Wendell Phillips and gave that
demagogue a dressing he will lopg re
member. In alluding to the latter’s
lloody manifesto, 11. G. says:
Such language from Wendell Phil
lips is hypocritical and infamous. He
panders to tuoh passions for the grati
fications of his own. We leave him to
that remorse which calm and reflec
tion must engender.
, To show the spirit which rules Wen
del! Phillips we append tho following
sentence from the article to whioh
Greeley replies :
The fawning spaniel is no emblem
or teacher of forgiveness. The survi
vors in the Army of the Potomac —
the men who remember McCook,
Memphis, Fort Pillow, and the mur
ders of Bello Isle--will read this act
!in a different and redder light.. They
will resolve to settle thoir own wrongs
tho next time) and prevent being
cheated by law. When, during the
war, soldiers found that guet rillus and
other rob Is, their hands dripping
.blood, had only to take the oath and
got immediate liberty, they did net
l-ni-n tK« llrwwtwy L.-hum* to forgive
murderers; they simply brought in no
prisoners. • No arrests were reported
at headquarters ; only rumors ro ched
it Os men shot in the attempt to bring
them in. Wc think our baffled hoys
in blue will lay up some such lessons
from this. occurrence, jn case they
have another call to arms.
Tu heat down law does not always
mean that you set up Christianity ; it
sometimes makes room tor anarchy.
Toward that gulf Mr. Greeley cads the
nation t > take the first step, find him
self leads the way.
Free Speech—A Terrible Threat
Wo find itl an exchange extracts from
the Central Christian Advocate —M.
E. Church, North—St. Louis, Missouri,
ffl' which the following very Christain
threut is ono :
“ W «sav to all now, that our person
al friends in the Ghuroh B uth we still
cherish and love; that we are ready
always for pence, but the real business
of the Protestant t’hnrches of the
North is to bear down upon the Bouth i
with all their forces W e infbrm the
St. Louis Advocate that we are going
to amp out, and thru spread tver the
South, bearing with us free schools,
equal rights, free speech and a
thorougly'Christian civilization. We
expect to put down by the free ballot
and the true Gospel every form ,ol
barbarism including all the untold
villainies of slavery. We intend to
keep right on. and when there are
enough school teachers, Radical voters
and Yankee notions all over the South,
we expect Wendell Phillips, William.
Lloyd Garrison, and other fanatics,
to swing round that entire circle
through Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi
and south Carolina, and talk just as
they please without the slightest mo
lestation. You must really grin and
bear it. We will not stop for ‘line up.
on line,’ leaving opt the ‘n’ if you like.
We will leave ‘whining’ to your ancient
friend-s, the bloodhounds, now out of
office with slaveholders, and‘whimpere
ing' to chagrined rebels, who have
been suppressed but not taught-”
. Does “free speech” mean the liber
ty to insult a people under military
rule ? If so you have it. —Southern
Christian Advocate.
How -to Advertise. —There are al-*
ways two ways of doing a thing, and
a good thing in itself may be turned
from its purpose by the mode in which
it is. applied. For want of experience
and judgment some mode's Os advertis
ing are nearly as had as none at all,
and therefore a knowledge of the pla
ces and papers in which a business
man is going to a IvertjSc, is of as much
consequence to him as the advertise
ments themselves. It nitty be laid
down as. an indisputable fact-that the
money spent in judicious advertising
by a busin 'ss man, invariably yields
bitfc fourfold,-sooner or later, and in
numerous instances ono hundred or
one thousand-fold. Borne advertise for
a short time a ter they commence bush
ness, and thiuk it is sufficient; others
Intermit ad vortisemerts utter they have
establish.'i a flourishing business l>
its aid This is a great mistake. From
tho moment a house ceases to adver
tise, however 'arge its reputation -o
stand tig, it begins to decline. The
changes arc so rapid in this country,
and the public min'd is so.constantly
occspied by new aspirants fur its favor
and its attention, th <t to be out of the
papers fthere everybody seeks for ills
formation on every subject, is to be,
forgotten The Cress is daily more
and more b rom tig an «e*sity, and
its usefulness as a'i advertising me
dium i4 as eon t .titly inpreas.ng. No
man is wise, r.r ju.-t t". hiinaelf, who.
undertake* to .do business without
availing hinisqlf of its advantages.—
La. c cry. c Democrat.
YALI'tHU 3 ill*
i J riee.-. ' t Confederate M w,/ Jar Gold
from Jan. 1, ’Of to. May 1, ’65.
isei,
January to May Ist, 5 por oeat. disc’t,.
July Ist to Oct. Ist.. 10 per cent.- diso’t.
Oct. Ist to Oct. 15tli, l'J p-er cent. diseT.
Oct. loth to Nov. 15th, 15 per cent, .lisc’l.
Dec. Ist to Dec. 7th, 20 percent, disc’t.
December 15th, 30 per cent, diso’t.
1 MH'i.
January Ist, 20 per cent, discount
“ 16th, 20 per ceift. discount
February Ist, 25 per efint. discount
“ loth, 40 per cent discount
Mar cli Ist, 50 per cent; discount
“ 15th,• 05 per cent, discount
April Ist, 75 por cent, discount
“ Jsth, 80 per cent, discount
May Ist, !ft) per cent, discount
“ 15th, So per cent, discoun
June Ist, 95 per cent, discount
• •“ 15th, $2 iVV for One Dollar
July Ist, 2.00 Coy One Dollar
“ 15th, 3.00 for Onfe Dollar
August Ist, $2.20 for Owe Dollar
“ 16tb, 2.20 for One Dollar
September Ist, . 2.50 for One Dollar
“ - loth, 2.50"f0r tine Dollar
October Ist, 2.50 for One Dollar
“ 15fb, 2.60 for Ono Dollar
Nov. 1, 02 to Feb. 1, ’O3, $3.00.
186.'*.
' Feb. Ist to Mar. Ist, $3.10 for One Dollar
March Ist, 3.26 for fne Dollar
Mar 15 to May 15th, 5.00 for One Dollar
May 15lh, 0.00 for Ono Dollar
Juno Ist, 0.50 for One Dollar
June 15th, 7.50 for One Dollar
July Ist, 8.00 for One Dollar
July 16th, 10.00 for Ono Dollar
August Ist, 14.00 for One Dollar
August 15r.fi, 15.00 for Ono Dollar
September Ist, 14.00 for On > Dollar
September 15th, 14.00 for One Dollar
October Ist, 13.00 for Ono Dollar
October 15th, 12.50 for Ouo Dollar
November 15th, 15.50 for One Dollar
December Ist, 20 00 for Ono Dollar
December 15th, 21.00 for One Dollar
IS«|.
January Ist, 21.00 for One Dollar
January 15th, 20.00 for. One Dollar
February Ist, 20 01) for One Dollar
February 15th, 2J.OCf for One Dollar
March Ist, 25.00 for One Dollar
March 15ib, 20.00 for One Dollar
April Ist, 19.00 for One Dollar
April 15th, 21 00 for One Dollar
May Ist, 20.00 for On > Dollar
Mfly loth, 18.00 for One Dollar
July Ist to July loth, 18,00-so? One Dollar
.I’ulj to August loth, 'Jo ttu I'or One TSoltar
August loth, - -.00 fur One Dollar
September Ist, 20 50 for One Dollar
September 15th, 22.50 for One Dollar
October Ist, 27.00 for One Dollar
October lot-li, 25.00 for One Dollar
November Ist, 26.60 for One Dollar
Novembtr 15th, 28.00 for Ono DAlar
December Ist, 82.00 for One Dollar
December 15th, 36.00 for One Dollar
December Slat, 51,00 for One Dollar
January Ist, 60.00 fir One Dollar
January 15th, ’ 65.00 for One D dlar
February Ist. 50.00 for One llojar
February 16lh, 46.00 for One Dollar
March Ist. 55.00/or One Dollar
March 15th, 57.00 for One Dollar
April Ist,- 70.00 tor Oye Dollar
April 15th, 80.00 for One Dollar
April 20th. 100.00 for One Dollar
April 2thh, 200 00 for One Dollar
April 27tli, 3iH),o<) for One Dollar
Aprtl 2Sth, 500 00 for One Dollar
April 2‘.)ih, 8 M .o<) f.r One Dollar
April 3)t', I,'"00,00 for One Dollar
May Ist, 1,2 )0 00 for One Dollar
tKiC Br.nator W iLou's remarks at
New Orleans . rod- -eribod by the
Crescent as very conciliatory. Head
vised the cultivation . t kind re stions
between the races, deelarin. ;
“ We waut no black party, nbr no
white party. The man who place* a
ground of alienation between the races
is the worst public enemy.
Proceedings of Council. ?
At a meeting of Council on Monday
night last, it was ordered that no horse,
I mule, or other animal, should be bro’t
| into Town and hitched to any tree,
: out house or fence in, on, or adjoining
j Broad Street, under penalty of having
the ordinance strictly enforced against
such offender
WM. CLINE, Clerk.
The Inevitable Reaction. The
Herald analyzes the frantic attempts
of the ultra Radicals to perpetuate
disunion, and excite a conflict between
the white and blabk races in tho
South. In conclusion itsayß -•
And what must be the result of all
this? Radical extremists have houn*
ded the niggers to their side of the
line and driven the whites to the
other. And now conies a parly inti*
matson that if the whites persist in
their refusal to bow down there shall
Ire anew upturning—all that has been
done shall be Undone; what has been
settled shall be unsettled; the wnites
stall be disfranchised, at-least and if
neeessary, their property shall be han«
ded over to the niggers; Republican*,
istn must remain dominant at any cost.
The result of such a policy and such
i an intimation must be to .stimulate, to
intensify, to hasten an inevitable reac
tion over the whole North-—to give
purpose and vitality to that rising sen<
ti-oient of the American people that al
ready weighs the necessity of. repudii
ating these reckless, ruinous leaders,
who would sacrifice every interest of
the country, every aspiration if *he
people, every principle of right and
ju trice before the Moloch of party.
Masonic Notice.
civilE nc-ij Regular Commnpication of St.
L. Tbiopae J.odge, will be held in the Lodge
It, >mi, Thomasville, on Saturday, the Istii
i .si . at 2 o’clock, P. M , at which time all the
Rrathren an- respectfoity rvqaired to attend,
on business of special 'importance. By order
of the W. M.
WM. GUNE.Scc'y-
Jane 4 w’2t
FLORENCE
SEWING
MACHINES.
WE have been appointed agents for tho
celebrated and unrivalled
liilCE SifflSS HE111S!
Reversable Feed—making fonr distinct stitch
es—fur the County of Thomas and adjoining
Coiftities, . '
Can tarnish them at manufacturers’ prices.
We will also be able to furnish by the first *f
sbpteu>ber. the great Southern invention,
(range’Marker, Tucker, Predser and ilemmer,
| all combined ia one piece, perfectly simple
and can be applied to anv Sewing Machine.
McQueen * vicsers.
Jane 4 ts
(■KOKHlA—Colquitt County.
Whereas, Mrs Elendor Hancock, Otiar
• dian for formerly Rachel Hancock, now R»-
cliel Murphy, has tiled her petition for Dis
mission :—Notice is hereby given to all con
cerned. to show cause if any exist, why said
guardian should not be discharged front Her
Guardianship, and receive letters of Dismis
sion on the first Monday in August next. Giv
en under my official signature, this 22d day of
May, 1867.
ISAAC CARLTON,
June 4 30d* Ordinary.
A Proclamation.
GEORGIA;
IJ.v Chaiu.ks J. Jekklks,
i Governor of saul State r
Wlicrens, Official information has been re-
I ci-ived'at this Depart ment that n homicide
was committed in tli« county of Chatham, on
I the 3d day of May, Iflltf, upon the body of
John llAi.ninn, and that at the hist term of
the Superior Court of said county, tree bills
were found against four frehdmen, vk : Small
Blake, Alfred Stafford, Billy Reflv and Don
nell McDonnell, the alleged perpetrators of
said homicide.
1 have thought proper, therefore, to issue
this, mv proclamation, hereby offering a re
ward of seventy live dollars each, for the ap
prehension and delivery of the said freedmen
to the Sheriff of said county and Stats-.
And 1 do, moreover, charge and rerpyrre all
officers of this State, civil and nrtSVtry, to bo
vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said
four freedmen in order that they may be
brought to trial for the offence with wliieh
they stand chargcd-
Givcn under my hand and the great seat of
( ) the State at the Capitol in Milledge
? 1., s. I vibe,Shis 22.1 dav of May, A. D. 1867.
( ) and of the Independence of the Uni
ted States of Amorjca the ninety first.
CHAS J. JENKINS, Governor
By th* Governor.
N C. Barnstt, Sec’y of State.
DKSCHIPTION : .
Sm*ht I’li.AKr is about 38 to 32 years old, 5
feet 8 inches high, black complexion, and
hfiavy set. 1 ■
A r.r am STArroßn is about 23 years old, 5
foot 8 inches high, brown complexion and
j slim built.
Hiu.Y Rkh-V is between 28 and 30 year*
j old, 5 feet. 7 inches high, dark complexion am)
sdimre built.
IhisNei.r. McDovxr.Lt, is about 2# to 21
I rears old, 5 f-et 9 inches high. Idaokcomplex
ion, slim built and very small head.
June 4
n < r v \ cm
r |MIE Partnership heretofore existing under
I the sivle and firm of BROWN A. CO.
i for the sale of Merchandise nt Suunv Hill,
! Leon County, Florida, is this duy dissolved by
• mutual consent. The successors, W. G. Poa
let-, Win P. nqd A. Curtis Brown, are em
powered to settle nil ontsiandmg claims either
li. favor of Or against the late firm,They bar-
I ing assumed alt the liabilities of the firm
BROWN St CO
M t v 31 3t
(t)OK(tl X—TTiomas tosslr
Tothe Hon. Ordinary of said Comity.
THE Petition of T J. Brown, Executor o#
the estate of Sarah Brown, deceased shewetb
that said estate consist* in part »f Land*, and
that it is necessary for the purpose of distribu
tion, that the same should be sold :—Petitioner
therefore makes application to wH the same
and pmvs that an order may be granted, au
thorising him to sell said lemdtin terras of the
law, as tu duty boend. etc.
1. J BROWN, ExT.
GEORGIA—T>> mat C-reaftc
Coort of OrJtirary May jO. 1867
UPON hearing the foregoiug apphe .tioo, it
is ardcred by the Court lutt said Petition Red
this oedei b>- published in the tfouthem Eater
pr,ae for *ixty days H H TDOKB,
May 31 B'<f Ordinary
Situation as Teacher Wanted
IMIE undersigue l will be oat of employ
ment yotbe 15th of June, asd desiree a
situation as Reboot Teacher. Having 7'ktrtp.
terse rears exper.eaoe in teaching, ne Walters
i.imscif that he can five satisfaction to nay
reasonable community, sad desires an early
* Msv .'l it JNQ M vffcTORD