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Circular of a Bureau Officer to
the Colored People.
Bureau F,F. &A. L., "1
Office Agent Albany Div., >
Albany, Ga., June 10, ’67. )
It is constantly reported to me that
you have been deceived as to the ini
tentions of the Government, and that
reports calculated to unsettle labor and
give rise to disorder and suffering have
been industriously circulated amongst
you. This has been done through ig
norance, perhaps, but it is more likely
that it has been done by persons who
are disposed to do evil.
It is said that you have been told
that lands are to be taken from the
present holders and divided amongst
you. This impression, wherever it
exists, is wrong. By honest industry
and frugality you will be enabled to
purchase lands, but none will be given
to you.
It is reported that you have military
organizations and are drilling. Such
unauthorized organizations are not only
perniciously wrong, but they are in
direct violation of existing orders, and
must be disbanded at once. The story
that arms are to be distributed to you
from this or any other office is false and
without foundation in truth. The Go
vernment will render you all neces
sary protection, but it will not prctcct
mil ir* nri»nn re
It is reported to me by people of
your own color that some of you arc
not mindful of your obligations under
your contracts. Your contract is to
work for your employer six days in
the week, in the manner customary on
a plantation. During these six days
your time is not your own, but your
employer’s, who pays you for it, and
every hour of that time should be de
voted to his service, and you must take
turns in doing the work which is ne
cessary to be done on Sunday.
You must labor industriously, obey
ing all reasonable orders promptly and
cheerfully, and bearing in mind that
when you stop work, or are absent
from the plantation during working
hours, without the permission of your
employer, you are violating your com
tract, and that you are liable to lose a
part or the whole of your wages, or
your share of tho crop. A contract
violated by you is no ienger binding
on your employer.
The reports that you have been re.
quired to come to Albany on any par*
ticula-r day, under a penalty of live
dollars or any other sum, is false.
It will be your duty to go to the
place of registration at the proper time
and register your names as voters, ami
go to the polls and vote; and that you
>may vote you should
avail yourselves of every proper means
to obtain information. Should you
disagree with your employer upon po
litical matters, that fact should not af
fect your duties as laborers. Your
contract is for field work, not political
servitude.
Remember always to avoid every •
thing which tends to stir up strife be.
tween you as a people and the white
selves and to your employers, remem
bering that your success in life de
pends upon yourselves, upon your own
conduct, your industry, your honesty,
truthfulness and frugality, and that bo
among you who is the most industri
ous, the most honest, truthful and fru
gal, will have the greatest measure of
success.
To your employers I would say that
contracts have been brought to my no
tice which do not allow the freedmen
reasonable compensation for thoir la.
bor. Unless good wages aie paid, and
paid when due, tho employer cannot
expect his labor to be either reliable
or profitable. Neither can he expect
me to interfero to compel the freed,
men to fulfill their part of the con.
tract, nor can ho expect the Govern
ment to permit his contract to be en
forced. All efforts of mine in that di
rection must be preceded by iiiir com
pensation and kind treatment.
0. H. Howard, Agont.
Appearance of lion. Alex. 11. St*
phens. —A correspondent dcscribos A.
H. Stophens, of Georgia, as follows :
His face, at first glance, is the face
of a boy, with a few wrinkles in it.
There is neither strength, age, nor
force of character in tho features. Ilis
complexion is pale, with n sallow tinge
on the cheeks ; the skin seems soft
and delicate as a child’s and there is
not the sign of beard or whisker, nor
of the use of a razor to prevent them.
His small mouth and thin livid lips
set physiognomy at naught with those
who know him as an orator. Rut what
js lacking in other features to denote
£he man is fully made up in a pair of
the finest and most keenly expressive
browa eyes I have ever seen in a hu«
man head. They tell the whole story.
Only let him look you full in the face
with them, and you forget the sad boy,
prematurely old and wrinkled, and are
.confronted by a man whoso body dis
ease may have wasted and worn, but
whose mind is vigorous, strong and
powerful enough for the physique of a
gymnast. Mr. Stephens is now about
55 years of age. Ho is about five feet
eleven inches in height, but his shoul.
ders stoop a little and mako him look
shorter. His dress is simplo and rus
tic. Whon at borne, he usually woars
a suit of brown homespun, real Geor
gia made Btuff 1 presume. He lias
never been married, but has lived
alone, for many years at “ Liberty
Hall,” as big present rosidenco is
named.
South Georgia & Florida It. R
We are glad to see our friouda waking
up to this great interest. A consort
of action upon the part of all along the
line, and the road can at once he put
under way. The people of Thomas
county are fully aroused, and they are
going ahead in good earnest. Why
can’t Dougherty county make a move
in this direction I—Albanyl — Albany News.
jioufjjmt Enterprise
~~ (SEMLWEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1867.
SOUTH GEORGIA & FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
We desire the voters of Thomas
County to remember, that we are pub
lishing an order of the Inferior Court,
calling for an election on the First
Tuesday in July, to authorize the
county to subscribe 8100,000 to the
stock of tho South Georgia & Florida
Railroad Company. That day is now
close at hand, and it behooves the
friends of the enterprise to look well
to the interests of the same. The
amount proposed to be subscribed is
entirely too small for the wealthy
county of Thomas, but we can do no
better at present, and we must vote
for that. The remainder will doubt
less be made up by private subscrip
tion, or should be, but if it is not, we
still have other resources, which will
1* - a j~> pior ti inn YV li f» f
we want now is a beginning. Wo
must have a starting point, and an
affirmative vote of the county will give
us that point. The work needs to be
commenced on the line, and if our
people do their duty, and work to their
interests at the coming election, the
next Christmas will find the South
Georgia & Florida Railroad far ad
vanced on its mission of good.
Brother Russell of the Argus may
well “come over to Thamasville to in
hale fresh air’’ and “ reinvigorate his
health,” for he will certainly need it
after so long a residence among the
miasma's of Flint river, and drinking
the rotten limestone water of Baini
bridge. He knows by experience that
Thomasville is a fine healthy locality,
and therefore, though unwittingly, lie
recommends it to the public.
MAXIMILIAN TO BE BAN
ISHED.
We did not think Juarez would be
so blind to the future welfare of his
faction to murder Maximilian in cold
blood, for then, even the potent voice
of the Yankee Government would not
have been able to save him and his
followers from tho vengeance of en
raged Europe combined.
STAY LAW NULL AND VOID.
Judge Warner of Georgia, follow
ing in tho wake of the Supreme Court,
has recently decided a case against the
Constitutionality of the Stay Law pass
ed in 1866. He believes that law to
be clearly within the prohibition of the
Constitution of tho United States.
Thn Powers of tho Militarv Com
manders.
Washington, June 17.-—The opi
nion of the Attorney General, on the
powers of Military Commanders, under
the Reconstruction Acts, is elaborate.
The following verbatim extracts cover
the conclusions:
I find it impossible, under tho pro
visions of this Act, to comprehend
such an official as a Govornor of one
of these States appointed to office by
one of theso military commanders.—
Certainly ho is not tho Governor re
cognized by tho laws of the State,
elected by the people of the Stato, and
clothed, as such, with tho chief exe
cutive power. Nor is he appointed as
a military Governor for a State which
has no lawlul Governor under the
pressure of an existing necessity to
exercise powers at large. Tho inten
tion, no doubt, was to appoint him to
fill a vacancy occasioned by a military
order, and to put him in tho place of
the removed Governor to execute tho
functions of tho office as required by
law. The law takes no cognizance of
such an official, and ho is clothed with
no authority or color of authority.
W hat is true as to the Governor, is
equally true as to the other legislative,
executive and judicial officers of tho
State. If tho military commandor can
oust one from his office, ho can oust
them all; if he can fill one vacancy he
can fill ail vacancies, and thus usurp
all oiyil jurisdiction into his own hands
or the hands of those who hold thoir
appointments from him and subject
to his power of removal, and thus frus
trate the very right seourod to tho peo
ple by the Act. Certainly this Act is
vigorous enough in tho power which it
gives with all its severity. The right
of electing their own oflicors is still
left with the people and it must bo
preserved.
I must not be understood as fixing
limits to the power of tho military
commander in case of an actual insur
rection or riot. It may happen that
an insurrection in one of these States
may be so general and formidable as
to require the temporary suspension of
all civil government, ami the estab
lishment of martial law in its place ;
and tho sarno thing may to true as to
local disorder or riot. In reference to
the civil government of tho city or
place where it breaks out, whatever
power is neoossary to meet suoh exit
goucics, the military power may pio
perly exercise. I confine myself to
the propei* .authority of the military
commander wild? peace and order pre
vail. When peace and order do pre
vail, it is not allowable displace tho
civil officers and appoint others in
their place, under any idea that the
military commander can better per.
form his duties and carry out tho
great purposes of this aot by the agon,
oy of civil officers of his own choice
rather than by the lawlul incumbent.
The act gives him »o right to resort
to such agency, but docs give him the
right to have a sufficient military force
to enable him to perform his duties
and enforce his authority within the
district to which he is assigned. In
the suppression of insurrection or riot,
the military commander is wholly in
dependent of the civil authority. So,
too, in the trial and punishment of
criminals and offenders : ho may su
persede the civil jurisdiction in his
power to be exercised in these special
emergencies, and the means are put
into his hands by which it is to be ex
ercised ; that is to say, a sufficient
military force to enable such officer to
perform his duties and enforce his
authority, and military tribunals of
his own appointment to try and punish
offenders. These are strictly military
powers to bo executed by military au
thority, not by the civil officers ap.
pointed by him to perform ordinary
civil duties.
If these emergencies do not happen,
if civil order is preserved and crimi
nals arc duly prosecuted by the regu
lar criminal courts, the military power,
though present, must remain passive.
Its proper functions is to preserve the
peace, to aot promptly when the peace
is broken, and restore order. When
that is done, the civil authority may
safely resume its functions ; tho mili
tary pewer becomes again passive, but
on guard and watchful.
rnts, in my judgement, is the whole
scope of the military power conferred
by this act, and in arriving at this
construction of the act, I have not
found it necessary to resort to the
strict construction which is allowable.
Longstreet’s Epistles.
The following comment on the late
course of General Lnngstrect is from
the pen of that sterling patriot and
soldier, Raphael Semmes:
Gen. Longstreet’s epistles seem to
becoming chronic, lie has written
still another letter to somebody, on the
subject of reconstruction, claiming
that that measure is a peace offering.
It is a very difficult thing to know
when to speak, and bow often to speak.
Many excellent well-meaning men
have gained prestige by a first speech,
and lost it afterwards by too much
speech. We fear this will be the ease
with our friend, if he does not stop
writing, and that people will begin to
charge him with being a politician in.
stead of a patriot. We should regret
this, for the General’s first letter was
a very sensible cne, and lie gave ad
vice, which was to make tho best of a
bad bargain.
The General, though an old soldier,
is a jejune philosopher, if ho supposes
that the Radical party, composed for
the most part of ranting, raving New
England Puritans, who hate a South
ern gentleman and all his belongings,
on the same principal that the devil
does holy water, can be capable of a
“peaco offering” that would benefit
our people. The hatred of tho New
England Puritan of the Southern gen
tleman is the inherited hatred of the
“roundhead’’ of the “cavalier,” and can
no more die out than tho leopard
** 1 " «| Xu abvcpvlitg
reconstruction acts, we are accepting
a hard bargain, driven with us by a
heartless and unrelenting enemy, who
would be glad to sink us many fathoms
deep in mid ocean, if the thing were
possible, and not a “peace offering,” as
Gen. Longstroct navily supposes.—
Memphis Bulletin.
The New Orleans Picayune, appro
priately characterized by an exchange
as “one of the mildest mannered pa>
pers on this terrestrial ball, thus speaks
its mind.
Gcne.ul Longstrcct’s maxims of con
duct amount, therefore, to this : The
issue of the war iei't the Republican
party in full control of absolute power,
and they have a right to uso it exactly
as they please, forever thereafter in
time of peace, not only ovor those who
were oouquered in war, but over every
other person in all the States in cvcry>
thing. The proposition, extondod in
its truo bearings, will not stand a mo
ment, and we do not believe it will
cause any other emotions among the
Conservatives than that same regret
wo feel in writing these words, that a
brilliant reputation in war should have
been put to such peril by political ut
terances so feeble.
Perhaps —The New York Herald
is growing bilious at the progress ol
Radicalism in the South. It says tho
Radical policy may bo so far success
ful in tho South that in tho new
Southern representation there will bo
half a dozen niggers. Should this be
the case it will excito tho wonder and
disgust o( tho world. It will bo just
ly regarded ns the most remarkable
and revolting spectacle of the age. It
will furnish an argument to those who
hold that, a tendency to degradation
exists in institutions based upon uni
versal suffrage, since it will seem to
show that in choosing our law-niakors
from a race just brought from a ser
vile condition we do not seek to be
governed by tho wisdom, education
and intellect of the nation, but aro
ready to pander to tho mast debasing
debaucheries of domestic theory.
taT'Cho case of John Surratt, tor
the murder of .Mr. Lincoln, opened
before the criminal Coart at Washing
ton, on Monday, with pretentions on
the part of the prosecution that were
somewhat startling. The U. 8. At
torney, in his opening address, an
nounced himself ready to prove, by
competent and reliable testimony, that
Surratt was in Washington, at Ford’s
theatre, on the night ot tho murder;
that he assisted in the. crime, that he
directed the bullet that entered the
brain of the I’residont, and tho knife
that fell upon tho throat of the Secre
tary of State.
A burglar on being pursued, solilo
quised, “hang it! if I am caught with
these spooi)", I will havo to go to Con
gress.
Late and Important from Mexico.
Maximilian, Miramon & Mejia
are sentenced to be Shot—Santa
Anna off Vera Cruz.
New Orleans, June 18. —The fol
lowing is from Galveston, under date
of the 16th:
We have dates from of
the 3d and Monteray of the 9th. A
letter dated Ban Luis, 3d, says: A
telegram from Quaretaro, dated 3d,
says the trial of Maximilian was not
concluded. Sixty ladies, dresfced in
mourning, had called on President
Juarez and prayed him to spare the
lives of the prisoners. Juarez replied
that lie would do all he could compati
ble with justice and duty; that many
Liberals had been shot and they had
not interceded for them.
Two engagements had been fought
at tho capitol, both of which resulted
in favor of tho Republicans. Foreign
ers in the city advised Marquesa to
surrender, premising to protect his
escape.
The BrowiSvillo Ranchero says El
Mexicano of Ihe 12th, reports Santa
Anna off Verl Cruz.
It was repotted that Maximilian had
asked a private interview with Juarez
for the purple of disclosing to him
important Stale secrets.
Maximilian was convicted on the
night of the 3d, and sentenced to be
shot, on the morning of the 4th, to*
gether with Miramon and Mejia.
Marquesa, comnanding the city of
Mexico, has executed Gen. O’Haran,
commander of the jost, for treasona
ble correspondence with the Liberals.
Ho has also arrested 160 Liberal syns<
pathizers, and threatened to execute
them and burn tho capitol if Maximil
ian and his Gonerals are harmed.
Gen. Mejia selected Escobedo as
his counsel, who refused to servo, say
ing he “would,see him damned first.”
New Orleans, June 14.—A let
ter from Queretaro, published in El
Comercio, of Mattamoras. of the 2d in
stant, says the Government will for
the present content itself with banish,
ing Maximilian and the principal Im
perial chiefs, reserving the inflicting
of extreme penalties for those only
whoso crimes demand it.
In doing this the Government is not
more influenced by the expressed
wishes of the Government of the Uni
ted States than by the requirements of
its own dignity and the principles of
justice, morality and conciliation,
“Os Two Evils Choose tho Loast.”
“ Onslow,” the correspondent of the
St. Paul Pioneer, speaking of the
Sherman bill, has the following in a
late letter •
General l’opo said to a gentleman,
the other day, that unlees we adopt
this bill, and that speedily, Congress
would imposo still harsher measures
on us, and in less than twelve months
wo would find ourselves in the condi
tion of Tennessee and Missouri. The
gentleman replied, “ that it was to
avoid tho condition of Tennessee and
iUissouri tnat tie was op|iwcu go t,ne
measure; that those States were in
the union and enjoyed the benign pro
tection ol the Federal Constitution,
and yetwero ten thousand times worse
ofl than we were; that Ohio or Con.
necticut or Pennsylvania cared very
little what Brownlow did in Tennessee
or Fletcher in Missouri; but they did
begin to wince when Congress attemp
ted the same tyranny in Georgia, be.
cause their turn might soon come.”
Said tho General, “ What aro you
going to do, then ?” The gentleman
replied, “ defeat the convention if
possible, and remain under military
rule, for we would much prefer Gen.
Pope for our king than any such Gov
ernor as wo would be compelled to
oloct by tho provisions of tho Sher
man Rill.” Tho General replied, “Rut,
sir, the country won’t stand a perpet
ual military government.” Said the
gentlemen, “ l am well aware of that.
Congress lias placed military rulers
ovor us, and l think wo can stand it,
if they can, and l for one, propose to
stand it until they get tired of paying
them. Why did Congress enaot that
wo should go through tho farco of an
olootion, and givo us tho option of
voting cbnvcntioii or no convention '(
Why not havo prepared just such a
constitution ns they desirod and des
ignate tho men in view to elect ? ■ I
can seo no reason for it, except that
they desiro us to do by our own not,
and complete by State legislation what
they aro not yet prepared to accom
plish by a further usurpation of au
thority. Confiscation and blood is
what their loaders desiro, and this they
well know connot ho brought about
until tho Southern States aro placed
under the control of suoh masters as
Rrownlow and Flctohor.”
The Future Cotton Pickers of the
South. —The Darlington Southerner,
alluding to tho experiment of teaching
monkeys to pick cotton, makes the
following palpable hit:
“ If we tako these monkeys from
their native words, and develop their
brains, and teach their young ideas
how to shoot, and humanize them, and
make highly respectable cotton pick
ers out of them, we don’t want them
putting on airs, and talking about pro
gress, and universal suffrage, and so.
cial equality We have been ‘fooled
to tho top of our bent’ on this point
already, and can’t stand any more of
it. Our want is cotton pickers, who
aro satisfied with the condition of life
in which Providence placed them.”
#afSaid a knobby gentleman of
fashion, with a red uoso and bleared
eyes, reoently to a waggish friend of
oursi “Did you—«h ! -lid you evor—•
hem—l doubt it—’twas exquisite—
see a carnation pink
“No,” said our friend, looking up
quaintly; “ but I've seen your nose,
which is ctarnation pints P 1
Interview with Old Thau.
Mr. Drake, one of the editors of the
Union Springs Times, who is now
travelling in the Northern States, had
an interview a few days since with
Thaddeus Stevens at his home. We
copy Mr. Drake’s interesting report of
the conference :
I visited Lancaster, and in the fore,
noon of Friday, 23d inst., obtained an
audience. Let me first give you a
potrait of the man and his household.
Radicals have a good deal to say about
the close relationship some of the for
mer slaves bear to their masters and
their masters’friends. They tell South
ern people that numbers among their
servile class are too yellow to be white,
and too white to be black. They must
stop this. It is horribly unki n and to
their great leader and master. In the
city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the
godly North nigh unto the pure city of
Philadelphia, Thaddeus Stevens has for
years lived in open adultery with a
mulatto woman, whom he seduced
from her husband, a full-blooded ne
gro. This mulatto manages his house
holds, both in Lancaster and at Wash
ington, receives or rejects his visitors
at will, speaks of Mr. Stevens and her
self as “we,” and in ail things com.
ports herself as if she enjoyed the
rights of a lawful wife. I have no
word of unkindness or abuse for her.
She is a neat, tidy housekeeper, and
appears to boas polite as well-trained
negroes generally are. As to Mr.
Stevens’ connection with her, it is his
own business, and entirely a matter of
taste. I only mention the fact, that
the ultra godly, super-sanctified saints
of the African ascendency, may get the
beam out of their own eye before they
gouge so mcrcilossly at tho mote in
ours.
Mr. Stevens was in his fine library,
quite feeble physically but intellects
ally more vigorous, prompt and lucii
than is usual in men seventy-four years
old. He is tall, and has the bone of
a large man, but is now very thin in
flesh: The face and head are both
good—the eye uncertain ; the mouth,
with its thin, closed lips, and the strong
jaw, tell the secret of the bitterness
and love of despotic power and revenge
that fills his heart and keeps the man
alive. Upon .first entering the room
by a door, which gave me a full view
of the man, there was a something so
like a smile on his face, that I thought
his heart and his speeches, his con
science and his words, were not in
harmony. This soon flitted, and from
that time to the close of the interview,
the whole countenance —from the
grand, arched forehead to the hard
chin —was tho very ideal of cold piti
less intellect. I told him who I was,
the views I entertained, and requested
that he w'ould say nothing to me which
he would desire kept secret. As he
had been talking a great deal and was
quite exhausted, I was forced to ques
tion rapidly and confine myself to lead
ing top’es. The mostof the conversation
was heard by a gentleman who called
with me, and who can vouch for its
correctness, which is almost verbal.
I ti/tU 1.1... Z 1... U ........ 4. l.oor from
him, whom I regarded as the great
head and master ot his party, just
what his party demanded and where
their demands would stop--upon what
terms and at what probable time bis
party would recognize the Southern
States as equal members of the Gov.
eminent —and to ask his interpreta
tion-of tlus present measure of recon
struction. Then, prefacing the qucsi
tion with the (remark that it was an
indelicate one to put to a gentleman,
l asked :
“Do you pursue your harsh policy
as a party measure for the purpose of
intimidation i”’
He answered at once, “ I do noth
ing morcly foi party purposes. I rci
gard my proposed action as equitable,
and resting upon principles of law.”
“ But, Mr. Stevens, by what pro
vision of the Constitution are you war
ranted in perverting a war made to re
solve a doubtful question, and the right
itself to make which was doubtful, in
to an oxcuso for going beyond its pur
poses, in treating the defeated so
harshly as you propose ?”
“ Tho Constitution does not enter
into the question—has nothing to do
with it at all. You made an issue of
war. The North—whether wisely or
unwisely it is no use now to inquire—
aocepted the issue and conquered you.
Ry a thousand acts, which some of my
party seem now to forget, the Govern
ment recognized you as a belligerent
nation, and your defeat left you no
rights uudor the Constitution nor any
claim to bo treated by its provisions.
While you wero belligerents, I regar
ded you also as great criminals, who
bad forfeitod all rights of person as
well as property. 1 propose to deal
with you ontirely by the laws of war,
and though not earing to havo ’ thoso
laws executed to tho full extent of
hanging the poor devils, I regard it as
a matter of tho simplest equity to
punish you by fines at least sufficient
to indemnify loyal men for the dama
ges sustained at your hands.”
“ Will you persist in your confisca
tion uicasuro, Mr. Stevens—will you
be satisfied with no less ?”
“No, sir! Anything less would bo
unjust to those wronged by your
crime.’’
“ Will you bo able to bring your
party to your support ?”
“ I do not know—we had a hard
work to secure tho passages of tho
Military Hill—bat l shall take care of
mysolf, and devote all of my strength
and ability to pushing on this meas
ure of justice.”
“Well, Mr Stevens there aro good
men in the South, honest men, who
took an oath of loyalty to the United
States Government in good faith, upon
the assuranoe that they would be trea
ted as citizens. The unsettled condi
tion of politics bears hardly upon them.
Lunds are valueless, and industry is
discouraged. If you—and I say you,
because you are your party —intend to
perfect the proposed confiscation, do
it quickly. Do not torment the South
by delay and-deception. Bring Wil
son home, and don’t let him tell any
more lies to honest people. Let the
issue be distinct and well understood.
You are consistent and have been
frank, at least”
Mr. S. now complained of being
over-worked. I begged him to answer
one or two more questions.
“Would you be pleased to see or
ganized in Alabama a government
similar to that of Tennessee undersuch
men as Brownlow, a few of which I
am sorry to say we have among us,
Milt. Saffold for instance ?” .
He replied hesitatingly, “It is not a
matter of men at all, it would depend
upon circumstances and principles.— *
YVe would inquire whether you had a
State, and—”
I here interrupted, feeling that he
was dodging, and asked the following
question :
“ Suppose, sir, Alabama should or.
ganize a government enfranchising the
negro, providing for his edcuation and
giving ample guarantees for his pro
tection before the courts and in soci.
ety, and under that government should
send good men, who could take the
“ Test Oath,” to Congress, would you
admit her to representation ?”
Without a moment’s pause, he an
swered with strong emphasis, “No,
sir,” and thus closed the interview.
Extinction of the Negro in the Uni
ted States. —The blacks of the South,
four millions in number at the com
mencement of the war, are now estima.
ted at three millions. In other words,
the loss by death, within six years, in
curred by that part of the Southern
people, has been equal to not only all
the increase by propagation, but covers
one-fourth of the orignal stock. At
this rate, it would be easy to calculate
the climatic period ol negro philan
thrupy iff this country, in the extinc
tion of the race which it assumed to
patronize and protect. It is hardly
probable, however, that diminution
will regularly proceed in this ratio;
otherwise the race would become ex
tinct almost too soon to enter upon a
realization of those political advanta
ges which it is proposed to bestow up
on such as survive. Still the work
will go on rapidly; and the man is
probably born who will find a negro
rather an uncommon spectacle in many
places where now negroes congregate
in abundance.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
An Editor in Heaven. —Under the
above caption an exchange g'vcs a
long obituary notice of a deceased
brother editor. The following is the
closing paragraph:
“ Should-we not then rejoico that
our lute friend of the scissors and quill
is in heaven '( In that paradise the
cry of‘more copy’ will never again fall
upon his distracted ears. There his
enjoyments will no more be interrup
ted by the growls of the unreasonable
subscriber, or the duns of the paper
maker. There ho will enjoy entire
freedom from the detractions and mis
representations of political opponents,
and the carcasses of ambitious political
aspirants. In that blest abode he is
no more to be troubled with illegible
manuscript or abominable poetry. No
rival editors will there steal bis thun
der, or his items, and typographical
errors shall know him no more forever.’’
agrarian policy which
Wendell Phillips proclaimed in Bos
ton a few days ago at the meeting of
the Anti-Slavery Society, sooms to
meet with no responso in the Repub
lican Press. He called for a “ largo
measure of confiscation,” so that the
negro masses might become possessors
of land; and ho saw in this the only
security for the new order of things.
Thad. Stevens agrees with Phillips as
to the necessity of confiscation, but he
urges it primarily in order that the
Pennsylvania farmers may be paid for
tho losses they suffered by tho inva.
sions of rebel armies. Neither of
these propositions meets with any such
support as to encourage their origina
tors. —N. Y. Times ( Rep )
few days ago, Mr. Jefferson
Davis, on arriving at Niagara Falls, on
the Canada, side, was serenaded, and
in response to the compliment, spoke
as follows :
Gentlemen —l thank you sincerely
for the honor you have this evening
shown to me ; it shows that true Brit
ish manhood to which misfortune is
always attractive. May peace and
pr -sperity be forever the blessing of
Canada, for she has Leen tho asylum
for many ot my friends, as sho is now
an asylum to myself. I hope that
Canada may forever remain a part of
the British Kmpiro, and may God
bless you all, and the British flag never
ccaso to wave over you.
The Confederate Cotton Bonds.
Forney, in ono of his London letters
to the Philadelphia Press, says : “The
violent Louis T. Wigfall, of Texas,
also here, is engnged in tuo precious
businesa of collecting the lists of the
victims who invested in the oelebrated
Cotton loan- of the Confederate Gov
ernment, and in the other securities of
that miserable conspiracy itself. His
hope is that the British courts will de
cide, and that the American Govern
ment will abide by the decision, that
the rebels enjoyed belligerent rights
in tho recent war, in which event the
credulous holders of these bonds are
told by Mr. H igfall, that they will be
reimbursed by the conquering gov.
eminent of the Union.”
ftp?* Col. F. McLeod, of Florida,
whose recent disappearance in Wash,
ington City was mentioned lately in
the Courier, has turned up safe in
Baltimore.
Farmers’ Motto. —“ Keep the grass
down!”
West Virginia. —Tho Wheeling
Register states that the.details of the
elections show that a remarkable revo
lution is taking place in the sentiments
ol’ the people of West Virginia. The
expression is general and emphatic.—
In Uhio and Brooke, the radicals suf
fered a complete defeat. In Marshal
and Monongahelia there have also been
decided changes. Tho Conservatives,
of Clarksburg, says that in Marion the
radical ticket has been defeated in five
out of seven townships. In Taylor
county, a largeVnajority of the Board
of Supervisors has been elected by the
Democrats. Jefferson county has also
•returned to the democratic- fold. In
Calhoun county the Conservatives car*-
ried every township in the county..
JQfßen. Wale has made a speech
in Kansas, in which he declares that
the Republican party not only favors
the distribution of Southern lands, but
the more equal distribution- of property
everywhere among the laboring men.*
He sees that the whiter of the North
will clamor for confiscation and distri
bution whenever it is resorted to at
the South, and he takes time by the'
forelock—being in the line of accident
tal succession, and an aspirant for tbs’
Presidency.
A Beautiful Extract. —The velvet
moss grows on sterile rocks; the mis*-
tletoe flourishes on tho naked branch
es j the ivey clings to the mouldering
ruins; the pine and cedar remain fresb
and fadeless amid the meditation of
the receding year—and, heaven be
praised, something green and beauti
ful to see and greatful to the soul. wifi,
in the darkest hour of fate still twine
Its tendrils around the crumbling al
tars broken arches of the desolate tem
ple of the human heait.
A New Leaf Turned. —General
Howard, finding that the negroes wilf
drink, and the Sons of Temperance
will n tt admit them into thoir organi
zations, has advised his officers to or
ganize “ Lincoln Temperance Socie
ties” among them, to which white men
may also be admitted. He also de
sires the names of officers of tho Bu
reau who are intemperate to be repor.
ted to him.
Civil officers in the South to be Re’
stored. —Washington, June 17. —The
Cabinet held a protracted special ses
sion toiday, and it is stat-'d on author
ity that it was decided to restore the
civil Officers, removed contrary to law
at the South. An executive order to
that effect will be issued to-morrow.
S up\r eme Court Judge.— The
Southern Recorder states, apparently
by authority, that Governor Jcnkin9
has tendered this appointment to
Judge Warner, who, it is thought, will
accept and assume the duties within
the present week, as successor ol"
Chief Justice Lumpkin, deceased.
The Emperor of Austria is
alarmed tor the safety of his brother
Maximilian. A dispatch from Vienna
states that the Austrian Minister at
Washington has been instructed to
negotiate with President Juarez in caso
he should fall into the hands of the
Liberals.
Cholera in New York. —A New
York- paper says a disease so like
cholera that the difference is not dig. .t
tinguishuhle has appeared in that city.
It is stated that the doctors and Heulth
Boards keep very quiet about it.
After Their Cotton. —Ninty-three
suits have been commenced by tho
claimants of Savannah cotton, alleged
to have been captured by Gen. Sher*
man and sold in New York. The
claims amount to $4,000,000 in gold,
and suits arc'authorized by recent acta
of Congress.
Jiof Recent soundings have disclos
ed the existence of a submarine moun
tain abont 2,400 feet high, and within
about 2,000 feet of the surface of the
water, in the straits between Florida
and Cuba. The Gulf Stream flows so
strong over its summit that soundings
are made with difficulty.
Registration!
rpHE books, paper-, Sec , having, been re
-1 ceivt-d by A. V. Clark, President of Board
of Registration for this District, tho work will
commence at once at Quitman, Brooks County,
on Thursday. 20th inst. Thomas Comity wuf
be the next in order, as it is the intention of
the Board to push the Registration through as
soon ns possible. It is hoped that the people
will give it their attention, and be prepared to
register at the time the Board will tat in their
respective precincts, and not wail expecting
to register during the three ilays that tho
Bourn will lie at toe County seat. The Presi
dent ugd other members aro from Thomaa
count v. and will answer any inanities about
the Kogtwrutton. I>«e nonce will ne given as
to the time the Board will be in each precinct
in Thomas county.
A V CT.ARK, >
O T LYON, £ Com ™.
GIBES PRICE, )
Jnne2l ‘ ts
rI sH E undersigned desires to retnrn his thanks
i for the liberal patronage he has hereto
fore enjoyed at the hands of the citissns of
THOIHBVILLE A 51 D BCB
UOIMHVG COrSTRI 5
And assures them that he will hereafter Sa
heretofore.be always »u haad and prepared
promptly to execute job*
/v -t. Low Prices.
That he is muster of hit profession, to be
proved, needs only to be tested.
oteoKGE w parn-ell
June 21 tea
6BOMU-TkssHu C'aawty.
Court of Ordinary , Jane JO, 1867.
n'brrras. Thomas J. Monroe, makes up*
plication to haul Court for Letters Os Adminis
tration on the estate of Malcom Munroe, dec and :
All persons interested are to at tiro to ttle tbesr
objections in Court, otherwise snid letters will
be granted in terms of the law.
II H TOOKE.
June 21-3 W Orfeaary.