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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.