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Important from Mexico.
New Orleans, June, 20. —The
following has been received with uni
versal enthusiasm bj the Mexican
people and military. General Santa
Anna is now probably at Vera Crux :
Pronunoiamento and Declaration of
the City and Port of Tampico de
Tamaulipas, recognising his Excel*
lenoy Gen. Antonia Lopez de Santa
Anna aa General-in-Chief of the
Moxican Armies and President ad
interim of the Republic of Mexico.
Article 1. The garrison of Tampico
and its citizens have decided to disavow
the Government of Don Benito Juarez
as anti-national and unpatriotic.
Art. 2. They repel and protest in
due form against the decrees of April
23, 1867.
Art. 3. The garrison of Tampico,
and the brigades of Bargas and Cana
les, declare that they will defend and
sustain, with all their strength and
power, the sovereignty of the State of
Tamaulipas.
Art. 4. They protest against the act
of Don Benito Juarez, by which he
has mortgaged the States of Taman
lipas and San Luis Potosi to the Gov
ernment of the United States of North
America for 845,000,000.
Art. 5. They recognize his Excel
lency, General A. L. De Santa Anna,
aa General-in-Chief of the Mexican
Armies, and President ad interim of
the Republic of Mexico.
Art. 6. The garrison at Tampico
places at the disposal of General Scnta
A-nna said city and State, with all its
material of war and resources, so as to
enable him to sustain and defend the
sovereignty of the nation.
Art. 7. His Excellency, General
Santa Anna, will support and adhere
to the reformed laws, which tolerate
religious liberty and the free press,
etc.
Art. 8. As soon as General Santa
Anna shall have taken possession of
the City of Mexico, as President ad
interim, he shall convene a National
Congress, for the election of a regular
President.
Art. 9. Gen. R. Flores is hereby
authorized to represent Tampico near
his Excellency, Gen. Santa Anna.
Art. 10. Gen. Flores will explain
verbally to his Excellency, Gen. Santa
Anna, the intentions of the Govern
ment of the State of Tamaulipas, as
well as its political and military situa
tion.
Art. 11. In case that his Excel
lency, Gen. Santa Anna, should have
absented himself from the city of N.
York, then Gen. Floros will immedi
ately proceed to St. Thomas, or to any
other place where he may find his
Excellenoy, and comply with the ob
ject of his commission.
Art. 12. His Excellenoy, General
Santa Anna, is solicited to declare his
determination within three days after
having reoeived the present oommu«
nication, and to make it known to the
Government for its future action.
Manuel Gardette, Sec’y.
Later from Mexioo.
New Orleans, Juno 24.—We
have dates from Querotaro of the Bth,
San Luis, 11th, Monterey, 17th, via
Galveston. It is reported that as soon
as Marqucsa learned of the sale and
deliverery of Qucretaro by Lopez, he
opened documents left with him by
Maximillian, and amongst them found
one in which he abdicated in favor of
young Iturbide. Marqucsa immedi
ately proclaimed Iturbide Emperor
under the regency of the Empress
Carlotta. He also arrested thirty of
the most notable Liberals and impris
oned them as hostages for the lives of
Maximillian and his companions.
There is no authorative denial of
tho Emperor’s proclamation published
last week; it is st-ll believed to be
genuine.
Why Masons Celebrate the Twen
ty-fourth Day of June—St.
John’s Day.
Maaonio Lodges in ancient times
were dedicated to King Solomon.—
Tradition informs us that they were
thus dedicated from the building of the
first temple at Jerusalem to the Baby
lonish captivity, From that time to
the coming of the Messiah, they were
dedicated to Zerubbabel, builder of the
second temple, and from then to the
final destruction of the Temple by Ti
tus, in the reign of the Emperor Ves
pasian, they were dedicated to Saint
John the Baptist.
Owing to the many massacres and
disorders whioh attended that memo
rable event, Freemasonry fell very
much into deesy. Many of the Lodges
were broken up, and few couid meet
with sufficient n.tu.ber» to constitute
their legality. Under these circum
stances. a general meeting of the Craft
was held in the city of Benjamin,
when it was observed that the reason
of the decline of Masonry was the
want of a Grand Master to direct its
affairs. They therefore deputed aeven
of their most eminent members to
Wait upon St. John the Evangelist,
who was at that time Bishop of Ephe
sus, to request him to take the office
of Graad Master. He returned for
answer that though well stricken in
Cars (being upwards of ninety), vet
ving been in the early part of nis
life initiated into Masonry, be would
take upon himself that office. lie diti
so, and accomplished by his learning
what St. John the Baptist accomplish
ed by his aoal. After his docease the
Christian Lodges were dedicated to
him and St. John the Baptist, both of
them being regarded as eminent Chris
tian patrons of Masonry. Since then
Masons have ever celebrated the 24th
of June, in commemoration of St.
John the Baptist, and the 27th of
December in commemoration ol‘ St.
John the Evangelist.
Mr A nomination for the United
States Senate is said to be what’s the
matter with General kwgatMt
Jiflntjjent Enterprise
~ (SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : s : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1867.
Railroad Meeting.
A meeting will be held at the Court
House, in Thomasviile, at 11 o’clook,
A. M., on Saturday next, 29th inst.,
for the purpose of discussing the sub
ject of the South Georgia & Florida
Railroad, and ascertaining the senti
ments of the citizens of Thomas county
on the subject. The audience will be
addressed by gentlemen of experience
and ability, and who are thoroughly
posted on the merits of the proposed
Railroad. The citizens generally, and
the voters especially, both white and
black, are requested to attend and par
ticipate in the proceedings.
exaxrcrrxoxv ri/jsaDAY NEXT.
Bear in mind that the election will
come off on Tuesday next, when the
voters of Thomas county must decide,
whether the county will issue bonds to
tho amount of SIOO,OOO, for the con.
struction of the South Georgia & Flo
rida Railroad. Tho annual interest on
this sum will be 87000, which is also
the amount of tax annually to be col
lected of the wealthy county of Thomas.
Taking the aggregate of voters in the
county, this sum will not bo $3 to
each voter. Can we not vote the piti
ful sum of three dollars to build an
important railroad ? Even this small
sum is not thrown away. It is only
invested in valuable stock. Each tax
payer will receive a negotiable receipt,
convertible into stock iu the railroad.
These receipts will therefore have a
market value, and may be sold and
transferred at pleasure. See order of
Inferior Court published on the sub
ject.
Men who would not build valuable
railroads at cost so trifling, would dig
all their days in old worn out land
without enriching it, because it would
cost a trifle to haul manure.
EX-GOV. PERRY AND STATE
CONVENTIONS.
We have read the last letter of Ex-
Gov. Perry of South Carolina, in opi
position to the proposed State Con
ventions, and confess to great respect
for his bold and honest patriotism. If
there is any sentiment in our heart, it
is contempt for the threats of the law
less, blood-thirsty plunderers of tho
Constitution and tho country, now en
throned at Washington, and hatred of
the blaok-souled tyranny that would
pull down a brave, generous and Chris,
tian people, to set up in their stead,
and as their masters, an ignorant herd
of unchristian barbarians, just escaped
from the shackles of slavery.
If voting for a Convention is to bring
about such a result —in tho namo of
liberty and humanity—in the name of
civilization and Christianity, lot the
Convention go, with all its Northern
advocatos and followers, to the ever
lasting shades of tho d—d. The
question is, will this be the result ?
Wo have not a doubt of it, The Radi
cals, so long as they remain in power,
will never admit tbe South into tho
Union, until she is thoroughly con
verted to Radicalism and turned over
to the control of the negroes, and their
fanalioal, prinoiple hating allies of the
North. Military rule is infinitely pre
ferable to such a state of affairs, and
to provent it, ovory honest man in tho
Bouth should vote against the Con<
vention. Wo do not, however, advise
against registration. It will injure
no man to register, and it may be ab
solutely necessary lor the good of tho
Southern white people. Let overy
man therefore register, but lot him
vote against tho Convention.
HELPER’S NEW BOOK.
In our last issue wc made reference
to Helper’s new book againFt tlio col
ored race, and quoted his “apology”
lor changing his sentiments as pro
mulgated in tho “ Impending Crisis.”
Below wo quote furthor from his new
book, that the colored people of the
South may be able to sound the depth
of the friendship entertained for thorn
by the Northern fanatics Here is
Mr. Helper’s opinion of .them and
what he would do with them :
American Negroes must bo De
ported or Exterminated.
Certain it is that wo owe it to our.
solves—and we ought to bo able—to
get rid of tho negroes soon ; if they
are to bo retained much longor in tho
United States, whioh may God, in his
great mercy, forbid it we may as well
bnild immediately, for their relief and
correction, in alternate adaptation, a
row cf hospitals and prisons, all tho
way from the Atlantio to the Pacifio
and, upon tho same plan, arrange a
series of almshouses and penitentiaries
the entire distsneo from Lake Superior
to the Gulf of Mexico ! All the devil
begotten imps of darkness, whether
black or brown, whether nogroes or
Indians, whether Mongols or mulattoes
should at onoe be dismissed, and that
forever from tho care, from the sight,
and even from the thoughts, of tho
Heaven-born whites. Wherever soon
or wherever existing, the black and
bi-colored races are the very personi.
fieations of bastardy and beggary, in
America, these races are the most un
wieldy occsßioncrs of dishonor and
weakness; they are the ill-favored and
unwelcome instruments of disservice ,
they are the ghastly types of effeteness
and retrogression. At the earliest
practicable moment, these inutile and
baneful elements of our population
must be eitheir deported or fossilized.
Bow the Negro came to this Country.
He was hatless and coatless, and
trouserless, and shoeless, and shirtless
—in brief, he was utterly resourceless,
naked and filthy. He came as the
basest of criminals —he came as a slave;
for submission to slavery is a crime
even more heinous than the crime
of murder ; more odious than'the guilt
ofjncest; more abominable than the sin
of devil-worship. With himself he
brought no knowledge of agriculture,
commence, nor manufactures ; no abili
ty for the salutary management of civil
affairs; no tact for the successful
manoeuvring of armies; no acquian.
tanceship with science, literature, nor
art; no skill in the analysis of theo
ries ; no sentiment stimulative of no
ble actions; no soul for the encourage
ment of morality. Bringing with him
self nothing but his own black and
bastard body, denuded fend begrimed,
he came like a brute ; he was a brute
then ; he had always been a brute ; he
is a brute now ;- and there is no more
reason for believing that he will ever
cease to be a brute, than there is for
supposing that the hound will ever
cease to be a dog —only that the black
biped, the baser of the two will be the
sooner exterminated. Yet this is the
fatuous and filthy fellow whom, by
certain degraded and very contempt!,
ble white persons, we are advised to
recognize as an equal and as a brother !
The " Fatuous and Flihy Fellow” as
a Candidate for Suffrage.
This is the incorrigible and grovel
ling ignoramus tlpon whom it is pro
posed to confer at once the privilege
of voting—the right of universal suf
frage ! This is the loathsome and
most exccrablo wretch (rank-smelling
and hideous arch-criminal that he is)
who has been mentioned as one fit to
have a voice in the enactment of laws
for the government of the American
people 1 Shall we confer tho elective
franchise on this base born and ill
bred blackamoor—this heathenish and
skunk-scentei idiot? No! Whynot?
Because he does not know, and cannot
know, how to vote intelligently. It
would therefore, to say the least, be
an act of gross folly on our part, to
extend to the negro the privilege of
doing what the omnipotent God of
Nature has obviously, and for all time,
denied him the power to do. Those
of our half-witted and demagogical le.
gislato.B who waste time in attempting
to prove the equality of the negro, and
in the drafting of absurd laws for his
recognition in good faith, as a citizen
of the United States, might, with
equal propriety, busy themselves in
tho ridiculous irrationality of framing
codes for allowing the gorilla and the
chimpanzee to attend common schools,
and for the baboon and oran-j-nutu-.p,
to testify in courts of equity! Let
the blundering and baneful two thirds
majority of the Black Congress both
blush and beware !
[for hie southern enterprise.]
Wf, the undersigned, a Committee
appointed for this purpose, by the
unanimous voico of St. Thomas Lodge,
take great pleasure in returning the
sincere thanks of the Fraternity to
Brother E. J. Young, for tho choice
and ample dinner furnished us on tho
anniversary of St. John the Baptist.
We also acknowledge our grateful
obligations to Brother Young’s excel
lent lady and tho ladies who assisted
her, lor tho efficient efforts sho and
they used to minister to our comfort
and pleasure.
The elegant and tastol'ul manner in
which tho tables wore arranged, and
tho choice array of rich and tempting
viands, were fully appreciated by ev.
cry one present, and our hearts warmed
toward the fair hands that had busied
themselves for our enjoyment.
To our visiting Brethren wo return
our thanks for their agreeable pre
sence, and for their future tomporal
happiness, wo can wish them no greater
boon than their presence in our midst
was to us. Our heartfelt welcome met
thorn when they oame, our fraternal
farewell followed them to their homes,
aud our best and kindest wishes at
tend them for the future.
Wo also return thanks to Brother
Robert 11. Harris, for Iris kindnoss in
supplying the vaoancy occasioned by
the unavoidable failure of D. G. M.,
Brother J. Emuict Blaokshenr, to de
liver tho address appointed for the oc
casion. On less than one hour’s no
tice, Brother Harris delivered a very
entertaining and instructive address,
holding the undivided attention of the
appreciative audienco for nearly an
hour; and, by his self-sacrificing con
duct in accepting the call, under the
peculiar oiroumstanoes, illustrating one
of tho first principles of Free Masonry ;
a readiness to respond to a summons,
notwithstanding the nooessity of per
sonal sacrifice in obedience.
E. S. Rbminghon, T
S. L. Hayes, > Com’toe.
11. A. Varnadoe, )
Radical Southern Papers. —The
Savannah Herald says, that tho effort
to establish a Radical press in the
South docs not appear to be crowned
with bucooss, and thnt the reason is,
that “there are not euough Radicals
in tho Southern oities to support a
party journal decently.”
They havo had to rely on alms and
advertising from the North, and tho
Republican Committee have so much
to pay in tho way of postage for con
fiscation speeches that thoy cannot
grant subsidies to semi-strangulated
daily papers
CORRESPONDENCE.
Thomasyille, June 22, ’67.
The undersigned, citizens of Thomas
county, would be pleased to hear an
address from Hon, II- S. Fitch, upon
the state of thj country, at such time
as may suit hi| convenience:
S. Fouche, Arthur P. Wright
J. R. Reid, E. S. Remington,
P. N. Vickers jT. P Jones,
S. J. Cassels, M. M. Futch,
W. M. Hayes Rob’t H. Harris,
W. E. Davis, 11. H. Hardaway,
Jno. C. Vaugln, J. H. Roberts,
H. B. Ainswo'th, Dr. P. S. Bower,
J. N. McKinnon, Dr. E. O. Arnold,
L. Dekle, Wm. McLendon,
A. &R. Smifc, Jas. L. Seward.
H. M. Butler,
Savannvh, Ga., June 24, '67.
Messrs. S. Fcfcuhe, J. R. Reid, John
C. Vaughn, E. S. Remington and
others :
Gentlembx :—Tour letter of the
22d instant, iiviting me to address the
citizens of Ttomas upon the question
of Reconstruttion, has been received.
Fully appreefiting the compliment im
plied in this request, and earnestly
desirous of advancing, as far as it may
be within mypower, the speedy resto.
ration to Georna of all her constitu
tional rights within the Federal Union,
1 take pleasuie in accepting your in
vitation, and would respectfully sug
gest the 4th >f next July, as a conve
nient time so; the delivery of such an
address as I .my be able to prepare.
I remain, gentiehien;
Very 'espectfully,
Ymr ob’tse. v’t,
Henry S. Fitch.
Notes on the Situation—No. 1.
IY B. H. HILL.
“Never dispair of the Republic,”
was a much.auded Roman maxim.—
But maxims aeves saved a coutry, and
this one did not save Rome. She
was very grest. The combined world
was too weak to harm her. But she
fell— -fell by ter own hands —and for
centuries has remained fallen!
If gcod lncrty-loving Americans
almost despair of their country, the
events of thelaat thirteen years would
seem to be siificient tosave them from
reproach From ,the repeal of the
Missouri Conpromise until now, no
period in hunan annals of thrice the
duration exhibits such deception
among leaden, such credulity among
the people, sich treacheries by rulers
and such energetio self-destruction by
the nation.
The United States have done no
more in theso years to weaken con
fidence in free institutions, and have
inflicted more injury upon their own
people, and created heavier burdens
for their children and children’s chil
dren, than the united armies and na
vies of the earth could have accom
plished iu fifty years. Before these
notes close 1 may undertake to show
the real causes of these evils. It is
sufficient nov to say that from 1854 a
spirit which is enmity to tho life of
the Constitition has been dominant.
The Government has been in the
keeping of ife enemies. We read of a
great man vho, whilo an infant, was
nursed by \ wolf. This may have
been and wity again be possible ; but
it never hasbeon and never will be
possible for non of extreme tempers
and opinions to nurse a constitution
whose only Ifc is mutual concession
for the cousnon good.
‘ The Soutlbrn pot pie, greatly pro
voked and misguided, abandoned the
Union to prfcerve the Constitution.—
While tho Nirthcrn people, less pro
voked but Cjually misguided, made
war to presevo the Union, by placing
themselves Vuler the loud of men who
were the bitar, implacable enemies of
tho Constitulon, and who wore fore
determined » destroy or reform it.
After fouiyears of heroic struggle
tho Soutberiipeoplo laid down their
arms beonusl they wero assured by
their cnemis, and taught by long
trusted but bithless counsellors and
office holdersatnong themselves, that,
by so doing kiy would be again in
the Union ns cforo. The many be
lieved this ail withdrew their support
and desortedtheir colors. The few
who disbeliotd wore overpowered.—
But more thi> two yours have passed
—more tbanjulf the period of the ac
tual conflict-jand the Southorn peo>
pie, now thrle deluded, havo not en
joyed the busings of the Union !
Why? Defuse those leaders of the
North —truito their origiual hatred,
nnd perfeotljlogica! in that hatred—
dcclaro tho shall not bo restro
ed except upn terms which practical
ly destroy tin Constitution, and whioh
certainly leare no Union except one
founded in fires. And thus far tho
Northern pecolt either have failed to
comprehend, ir havo consented to
sustain their enohery, and, to give
the last dovobf'uent of their most rc-
I markable hisur, we soo some of our
Southern councilors, who urged us
i into secession is tho only peaceful
! method of secring our rights; who
| afterwards led e to subjugation as tho
! only method of scaping military dcs
; potisrn; now boßiug of the great con.
iidenco heretotre reposed in their
oounsel, ndvisiq us to accept tho pro
posed terms fori now Union !
With such oaprienoo fresh and still
increasing, hov shall we wonder if
truo men denbtif brave men fear and
i if good men depair ?
For thirteon jars the actual revolu
| tion has been gbt onward; nnd is
| still onward, ie is stupidly blind
j who does not so that the evils before
i us are far geatethan the evils present
and behind us. *ur people havo drank
i bitter cups, be they are as- honey
when comparedwith the cups they
! must drink if tl child is not taken
from the wolf. ! the constitution is
not taken from the nursing care of
those who hate it, if the Government
shall continue to be administered by
its enemies.
If anything I may say shall tend,
however slightly, to avert (ho evils
which threaten the country, I shall
not only be satisfied but happy. I
have no party to serve and no personal
ends to accomplish.
I lrankly admit my opinions hereto
fore have not been accepted by a ma
jority of the people. I have never
thought that what the majority be
lieved, W£B, therefore, true; or that
what the majority did was, therefore,
right. My political life has been but
a struggle against prevailing opinions
and policies. When polieies have
been adopted and fixed in spite of my
opposition, I have labored to work
good results in spite of my convictions
that the policies were unwise. And
when I see the ruin which has been
wrought I can but rejoice in the reeol.
lections that I was notone of the cho
sen architects. Ido belive the people
have mourned and still mouri: only
because wicked men have ruled and
still rule; and I believe wicked men
have been chosen to rule only because
they have made political issues to fo
ment popular passions, and have suited
their conduct and opinions to the pop
ular passions so fomented.
These notes are, therefore, given to
the public claiming no title to consid
eration, except that they are written,
not to please that public, but to aid in
arresting the further progress of a rev
olution which has been so prolific of
ruin in the past, and which is so fear
fully pregnant with ruin for the future.
It may turn out that no man—that no
human power can arrest this revolui
tion. It may be that a change of gov
ernment, through an ordeal ot anarchy,
is cnevitable. But this much every
man can do : He can see to ifc that, if
this destruction must come, it shall not
owe its coming to his consent. If the
Constitution must be violated, it shall
not he by him. If the Government
must be subverted, it shall be the work
of others. This, therefore, patriotic
reader, is all the promise I exact —in
advance; that, whatever others may
do; you will support the Constitution,
and oppose whatever is contrary there
to —tfor mark this: Whatever else
people and rulers may do, they cannot
support or preserve the Government
by violating ics fundamental law.
Special Instruction to Boards of
Registration in Georgia.
Headers 3ij Military Dist, )
Atlanta, Ga., June 17, '67. y
In addition to the general instruc
tions for the guidance of Boards of
Registration for the States of Georgia,
Florida and Alabama, promulgated
June 1, 1867, the following rules of
construction will' be followed by the
Boards of Registration in tbe State of
Georgia, in carrying out the provisions
of the first section of the Supplemen
tary act of Congress. [See page 5
instructions.]
I. l’ersons entitled to registration
on taking and subscribing tbe oath
(page 5) are:
All male citizens of the U. States
twenty-one years of age and upward,
of whatever race, color, or previous
condition, who have been residents of
the State for one year immediately
preceding, and are exempt from the
disqualifications hereinafter described.
11. Persons not entitled to regis
tration and incapable of taking the
oath (page 5) are those who have,
been disqualified as follows :
First. Those who were at any time
members of Congress or officers of the
United States, civil or military, and,
as such officers, took an oath to sup
port the Constitution of the U. States ;
and all who were at any time mem
bers of any State Legislature, or of
any body that passed a State ordinance
of secession, or executive or judicial
ofiioers of any State, and afterwards
engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against tho United States, or give aid
and comfort to the enemies thereof.
It will bo noticed that the words
“at any time,” apply to all who, at any
time previous to the rebellion, held
any of tho offices 'named, some of
which offices no longer exist.
Tho following will bo regarded as
exoeutivo and judicial officers of the
State of Ge irgia within the meaning
of tho law.
Governor of the State; Secretary of
Stato , Stato Treasurer; Comptroller
General; Surveyor General; J udges of
the Supremo Court; Clerks of the Sui
premo Court; Reporters of the Su
preme Court; Judges of tho Superior
Court; Clerks of the Superior Court ;
Judges of the Inferior Court; dorks
of the Inferior Court ; Judges usually
styled Ordinaries; Clerks of the Court
of Ordinary ; County Treasurer; Coun
ty Surveyor; Receivers of Returns of
Taxable Property; Tax Collectors;
Tax Receivers; Attorney General;
Solicitor G ’neral; Sheriffs • J usticcs of
the Peace , Coroners ; Judges of any
Court of special jurisdiction, such as
City Court of Augusta, City Court of
Savannah, City Court of Parien, Po«
lice Court of Savannah, cto.; and
Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Council
men of any incorporated city cr town
who are ex-officio Justices.
Second. Tax Receivers and Tax
Collectors who have acted in levying
or collecting moneys in aid of the re
bellion.
Third. Any judicial or executive
officer not herein named, who has ex
ercised his official functions in furnish,
icg men, money, munitions of War, or
any material aid in favor of the rebel
lion.
Fourth. Those persons who have
been convicted of felony against the
laws of any State or of the United
States.
Fifth. All executive or judicial
officers who held or exercised the
functions of any officer under the so
called Confederate Government, or the
Government of any one of the. United
States, which functions were of a na
ture to aid in prosecuting the war or
in aiding hostile preparation or action,
and all who engaged in the rebellion
or gave aid and comfort to the enemies
of the United States.
Sixth. Those executive or judicial
officers who voluntarily furnished sup
plies of food, clothing, arms, amutri
tion, animals, or any other material of
war, or lobor or service of any kind to
the Confederate military or naval for
ces, or money by loan or otherwise to
the Contederate Government, or aided
in any way the raising, organizing or
equ pment of troops, gave aid and
comfort to the enemy, and participa
ted in the rebellion and civil war
against tho United States.
111. -Ministering to the wants of the
sick and wounded, or giving individ
ual soldiers food to relieve present
suffering, are merely acts of charity,
and do not constitute “ giving aid and
comfort to the enemy.” The parent
who gave a son, in armed hostility,
food and clothing for his own use,
might do so without hostile intent. —
If he gave him a horse, gain, or any
thing else to be used for hostile pur
pose, he thereby gave ai l and comfort
to the enemy.
IV. Boards of Registration will ad
here strictly to directions published in
General Order No. 20, Instructions of
June 1, and to these special instruc
tions, and will use every effort to se
cure a just and fair registration in ac
cordance therewith.
If any who are entered on the regis
tration as rejected by the Board after
examination, still believe they are en
titled to vote, and desire to take the
prescribed oath, the oath may be adi
ministered, and the fact of its being
taken recorded opposite the name of
the party.
Members of Boards in large towns
will use special diligence to prevent
fraudulent registration of persons dis
qualified by felony, non residence, mi
nority or want of citizenship.
V. Registering officers arc hereby
empowered toadminster oaths to wit
nesses who may be summoned by the
Board in any case of contested regis
tration.
VI. The third section of the Con
stitutional .amendment referred to in
section 6, act of March 2, 1867, (see
page 4 instructions,) is hero published
for the information of Boards of Reg
istration. It is as follows : r
“No per-on shall be a senator or
Representative in Congress, or elector
of President and Vice President, or
hold any. office, civil or military, under
the United States, or under any Slate,
who having previously taken an oath
as a member of Congress, or as an of
ficer of the United States, or as a
member of any State legislature, or as
an executive or judicial officer of any
State, to support the Constitution ot
the United States, shall have engaged
in insurrection or rebellion against
tho same, or given aid and comfort to
die enemies . thereof. But Congress
may, by a vote of two-thirds of each
house, remove such disability.”
By command of Brevet Mayor Gen
eral Pope.
James F. Meline/
Bv’t Colonel, Geneal Tri-pector
of Registration, lid Military Dist.
The Art of Milking. —The art of
mi 1 k i ng , says the Massachusetts
Ploughman, is not acquired at once.—
Children in farm districts should ho
taught to miik. They may commence
on-an old cow that soon is to become
dry. But let them learn when young
—for we are not to expect that art is
to ho practiced by foreigners alone who
are drifting to our shores.
Cows that have been well bred will
ba gentle and kind to those who ap
proach them to draw their milk. They
know that a good milker gives them
relief, when their udders are full, and
need to have the milk down.
The dust, &c., should first be brush
oil off after the milker is fairly seated
by the side of the cow. Tho end of
each teat should then he moistend with
a little milk, to be drawn from it before
the pail is placed under it. This makes
the milk come easier, and saves giving
any pain to the cow, as wo do when
the teat is perfectly dry.' Now, as soon
as the milk begins to come, freely,
draw it out as fast as possible, other
wiso you fail to get the wholo; for, iu
a few minutes, if the milk is not drawn
out, it flows hack again into the milk
ducts and you cannot have it. In a
short time the oow becomes dry. Milk
fast and milk clean. Never let two j
persons, while milking, attempt to talk j
to each other. Keep still and mind j
what you are about, or you will oomo ;
off as bad as tlio man who arrives too
late for the cars.
Anti Reconstruction in Georgia. —
“Quondam,” the New York Timed
coirespondent, speaking of the towns
ho has visited in Georgia, says :
“It has been my fato that a large
majority of thoso I met agree with
Gov. Perry, and a very few think a
convention is ‘the only safe thing to
be done.’ Both in Columbus and
here (La Grange) the tide seems to be
strongly set against a convention, nnd
this has become more settled since the
publication of the address attributed
to Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, in
which it is declared to boa sine qua
non for restoration to elect Radicals
to Congress and the Legislature so as
to insuro the continuance of Radical
power.”
He goes on to say that he still ad
heres to the conviction that a majority
will be found on the side of Congres
sional reconstruction, bat canuot avoid
the acknowledgment that the opposi
tion is tremendous and full of success
ful possibilities. And with a grim
smile he concludes with this doxology :
“Horace Greeley is a thousand times
more popular than Joe Brown ”
Inferior Court.
IN CHAMBERS, t
Thomasville, June 8, 1867. J
AGREEABIiYIo an Act of the Lej/iihturs
of the State of Geor K ia, panned aniai
senteil to on 12th of December, 1866. author
iz'Dg the Inferior Court to issue Bonds to tfie
amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, in
subscription to the South Georgia t Florida
Railroad Comntany, which said Act is herewi li
published .—lt U ordered, that an election be
held at the several precincts in this conntv, ou
Tuesday, July 2d, 1867, and all voters in favor
of subscribing the said amount of Sto.lt to the
South Georgia Jfc Florida Rail Road, will vote
“subscription," and all voters opposed to sub
scribing sleek to said Railroad, will vote “no
subscription,"
The condition of subscribing stock to said
Railroad is this. Every tax payer shall he en
titled to a special fax Receipt for the amount
of his Railroad tax, and when he has receipts
a mounting to the value of one or more shares
of stock m said Railroad, tbe said tax pttyer
may present said receipts to the County Clerk,
and nave turned over to him certificates of
paid up stock in the said Ra lruad Company to
the full amount of his receipts. Said Tax’Re
ceipts shall be payable to bearer, and when
said receipts shall be presented to the County
Clerk, in sums of one or more hundred dollars,
he shall issue to the holder of said receipts,
certificates of stock for the same, in the said
Railroad.
All managers of said election will make
prompt returns of the votes cast at each pre
cinct to the County Clerk, properly attested.
R. H. HARDAWAY, j. i. c.
ANSEL DEKLE, J. I. c.
IIEN MITCHELL, j. i. c.'
Attest:
Lebbeus Dekle, Cierk.
AN ACT to authorize the Inferior Courts of
Thomas and Mitchell to issue bonds for the
purpose of taking stock in the South Georgia
&. FJorida hailroud
20. Section 1. Be it enacted, ct , That the
Inferior Courts of the counties of Thomas aud
Mitchell be, and they are hereby authorized to
issue bonds to the amounts, respectively, ot one
hundred thousand dollars, aud twenty live
thousand dollars to be issued in such sums aud
payable at such times as said Interior Courts
may deem proper; interest of seven per cent,
per annum, pay able severalty at their respec
tive eounly sites ; provided , the citizens of the
aforesaid counties give their consent thereto
before such stock is taken and such bonds
issued.
21. Sec. 11. The Inferior Courts of said coun
ties shall designate a day when the. legal vo
ters of said counties shall assemble at theirre
spective election precincts to givetheir consent
to said subscription.
Sec. 111. Repeals.conflicting laws.
Asscmed to 21st December, 1866.
June 11 td
Secretary Seward Makes a Speech
at Boston.
Boston, June 25.— During the
President’s speech at Boston, which
was confined to thanks to the people
for courtesies to him as a citizen and
chief magistrate, three cheers for Con
gress were called for Irom the outskirts
oi the audience. The cheers were not
given during Mr. Seward’s speech, but
three cheers for North Carolina was
proposed, and Mr. Seward said; Yon
may well give three cheers for th«r
State of North Carolina ; she was tho
first State to put up a declaration of
independence in the revolution against
Great Britain; you may well give
three cheers for North Carolina; she
whs the State, of eleven that seceded
who weiit last most reluctantly out of
the Union. You may well give threo
cheers for North Curolina; she was
the first of the eleven who seceded to
come again to the firesideof the Union,
and to-day nothing is wanting for htr
to resume her ancient, honorable, most
patriotic position in the family of the
Republic, but the consent of the pco»
pie of Massachusetts.
Newspaper Boosting —Prentice, of
the Louisville Journal thus “ takes
off’’ some of the cotcinporarics, who
are always boasting of their “ immense
business
The daily circulation of our paper—
to actual bona fide paying subscribers
—is just, five million six hundred and
twelve thousand and forty, two sheets.
We have employed upon the paper
Gve hundred compositors* and ow
hundred and eleven editors, nine hun
dred carriers, three hundred and
twelve mailing clerks, and other aiders
too numerous to mention. We have
taken special charge of the falls of tho
Ohio, and use them exclusively for
“ wetting down ’’ our paper. Wo have
eleven paper mills in constant opera
tion, the smallest of which turns out
two hundred thousand'bundles of pa
per daily. It requires seventeen nine
tcon-story Hoc’s presses to work off
our vast edition, and we are compelled
to engage all the coal that is mined in
tho Lehigh Valley, as well as to con
tract for ali that conics down ilia Ohio
River, to supply our engines with fuel.
Our correspondents arc all graduates
of the first universities and colleges in
the world, and are stationed in every
city, town, aud hamlet on the habitablo
globe. .
War Dkpartment, )
Washington, D C., June 21,’67. )
Maj. Gen. Sickles, Charleston, S. C :
Your telegram asking to be relieved
from the command of the Skewed Mili
tary District, and demanding a court
of enquiry, was submitted by the Sec
retary of War, yesterday, to the l‘re<
sid nlcf the United States, who di
rects you to retain your command, and
he declines to order the court of en.
quiry demanded by you.
By order of the President ol the
United States.
(Signed)
E. D. Tow-isend, A. A. G.
WaT 1 At the month of what is known
as G uy Gulch in Californio Territory, it
is said that someone has put up a
stake on which is written a list of wa
ter p.iwer and other claims in that
neighborhood. The claimants htve
certainly claimed enough, but on tbe
other side of the etake is written, “ I
claim all creation, and my wife claims
the balance, beginning at the stake.”
That last chap is evidently a Radical
of the Thad. Stevens school.
Getting L'ncasy —Tbe recent Deni,
ocratic successes throughout the Nor*
them States are beginning to cause no
small alarm among tho Radical leader*
at the growing power of the opposi
tion. A leading Radical paper of
Pennsylvania admits that the remit of
tbe approaching election in that State
is “somewhat doubtful.*’