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The Registry—Plain Truths.
We cannot better protest against the
present lethergy on the subject oi
registration than by using the remarks
ofthe Augusta Chronicle and Senti
nel, as follows:
The next few days will show whether
the decent white people of this State
are willing, that the State Government
shall pass into the hands and become
subject to the oontrol of Radical emis
saries through the colored people. —
We say that the events of the next
few days will show whether intelligent,
patriotic and virtuous people of Geor
gia are willing to have such a consum •
mation of the Military Bills, because
we know that, if they are not willing
to submit to such a condition of affairs
they can prevent it. But they can
prevent it in only one way: “They
must register." It will be too late
when the lists are closed —and closed
they will bo, and that very soon—to
say that if they had thought there wa3
danger they would have acted differi
ently. To prevent danger they must
act now—now while the lists are open.
We entreat tho people of Georgia to
take warning from the condition of
the people of Louisiana, who, now that
the registry lists in that State are be
ing closed, have ascertained that, by
their voluntary refusal to register,
they have permitted the negroes, un
der the control of Northern emissaries,
to poll nearly double the number of
registered whites. Will Georgians
look at the following figures and say
that there is not cause for alarm grow
ing out of their reluctance to perform
this important duty of registering :
REGISTRATION IN LOUISIANA.
Negroes. . . . .44,759
Whites 24,528
Negro majority. .... 20,231
To show how completely responsi*
ble the whites of Louisiana are for
this condition of things in their State,
we give the number of white votes
cast in the State in 1860.
Breckiubridgo. . . . 22,681
Bell 20,204
Douglas. .... 7,625
Total. . . . . 50,519
With a voting population of over
fifty thousand, the whites have regis
tered only 24,528, less than one-half
their proper strength.
Seriously and earnestly we ask, will
the people of Georgia, by failing to
register, become a party to placing
their good old State in the same con
dition with their sister State of Lout
isiana ?
We have the power in Georgia to
control this movement. The prepon*
derance of the whites is so great that,
making duo allowances for the number
disfranchised, and those of the white
livered who will go with the Radicals,
we can still keep the question of recon
struction in our own control.
The white vote of the State in 1860
was as follows:
Breckinridgo. . . . 51,889
Bell 42,886
Douglas. . . . 11,590
Total. . . . 106,365
The total number of blacks in the
State last year (and this return inclu*
dee all males between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty) was only 65,909,
which, being deducted from the white
vote of 1860, leaves a majority of whites
40,456.
From Washington.
Washington, Juno 30.—Ex-Mex
ican Minister Campbell was at the
White House to-night.
The Austrian Minister is at the
Springs. It is impossible togetinfor*
mation of his dispatches, though then
seems to be no donbt that Maximilian
was shot on tho 19th.
Considerable doubt is felt regarding
the presence of a quorum on Wcdncs.
■day. The Democrats will not attend
until an organization. Some Cqnser*
vative Republicans deprecate the July
-meeting. Some twenty members have
arrived.
The State Department has nothin"
official regarding Maximilian’s oxecu.
Hon.
Secretary Seward’s health is excel
lent.
Washington, July I.—lt is vague*
ly reported that Gen. Custar, with a
small cavalry force was overpowered
by the Indians, and that Custar had
nine killed.
Gen, Custar, at last reliable accounts
was at the forks ot Republican river,
ready to pursue tho Indians should
they go south.
Horace Greeley is before the Judi
ciary Committee.
There is an extra session of tho
Cabinet to-day.
The Republicans will hold a caucus
to-night.
Neither the President nor heads of
departments will send a message or re
ports to Congress unless specially call
ed for.
'Greeley, after testifying before the
Judiciary Committee, left for home.—
His evidence, it is stated, did not
strengthen impeachment.
The internal revenue receipts to-day
were $2,014,000.
Judge Wayne, of the Supreme
Court, is very sick.
Seven-thirty bonds, bearing date
August 15, 1864, will be converted
into five-twenties. The June and
July issues are not yet convertabie.
The Truth, in a Nutshell.—lhc
Mobile Advertiser says:
Tho Southern people may assure
themselves absolutely of one fact, and
that ig, that the Radical programme
of reconstruction has hut one interpe*
tration—radicalize your State Govern
ment, and send us Radical Senators
and Representatives, and you may
<come in ; fail in that, and you shall |
pot. It is the old story of the turkey
and the buzzard, and they “do not
pay turkey to us onetime.”
(Enterprise
(SEMI-WEEKLY.) ~~
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1867.
SPEAKING ON THE FOURTH.
The 4th cf July, yesterday, was celc
brated in rhomasville, beside in the
manner already alluded to by our local,
by the assembling of an immense au
dience at tho Court House, to hear an
address delivered by Hon. 11. S. Fitch,
U. S. District Attorney for Georgia.—
This gentleman had previously been
invited by citizens both white and
colored, to address them on the ‘‘Situ
ation’’ of the country, and the 4th ap
pointed as the time. Mr. Fitch spoke
about one hour with .great force and
eloquence upon the issue now presen
ted to the Southern people of recon
struction of the Union, and advocated
a full and complete, as well as imme
diate —not submission, (for the people
have already submitted ;) but “ accept
tance?’ and cordial co.operation in all
the indignities a faithless Congress, and
a venomous and relentless fanaticism
have in their mercy chosen to im
pose upon a brave but conquered
minority. This he advocates and
recommends, upon the ground chat
our refusal to sanction our degra
dation and disgrace, will incense the
North against us, and illustrating it
by comparing us with ‘-Catharine the
Shrew,” assured us, that although we
may be harrassed and weary —altho’
we may be ready to sink under the
combined weight of disappointment,
hunger, fatigue and tyranny, and may
implore and beseech our tyrants to give
us one or both, or either, wo shall re
ceive tho “ mustard without tiia beef.”
Indeed, we could draw but precious
little comfort from the gentleman’s ar
guments, notwithstanding his force and
eloquence, and we think he felt that
the alternative he offered was a des
perate and doubtful remedy, although
bound by his position to offer it. lie
denounced as “stupidly blind to their
own interests,” all those who advocate
“No Convention,” and referred to B.
H. Hill’s “Notes on the Situation,” but
all Mr. Fitch’s astuteness, did not ena
ble him to refute a single point made
by Mr. Hill. We are therefore, left
precisely where Mr. Fitch found us,
although we are anxious for some
learned gentleman to show us that it
is wrong to oppose the Convention.—
We desire to be right on this question,
and if Mr. Fitch or any other person
will convinco us that the Convention
of Georgia will be composed of the in
telligent true men of the South, instead
of a mongrel crew of Northern fanat.
ics, or their recently converted South
ern allies, white or black, wo will im.
mediately change our position and vote
for the Convention. We believe that
a Convention of the State composed
of such material as the last mentioned,
would be the direst calamity that could
befall our people—it would bo tho in
auguration of confiscation, and the be
ginning of a tyranny and oppression,
surpassing even Tennessee, perhaps,
in cruelty and atrocity. Convince us
that this will not be the result, and we
will immediately become tho zealous
advocate of tho Convention.
But we have no room at presont to
commont further on tho subject. Mr.
F'iteh’s remarks, and advice to the
colored people were calculated to do
much good, and we were pleased to
see that they were heard with great
satisfaction by the immenso colored
audicnae. Col. Seward followed Mr.
Fitch in a brief pointed speech to tho
same .effect —Colonel’s Mclntyre,
Spencer and F'oucho, wore called out
also by £ho colored portion of the au
dience, and each plcdgod his weight
and influence to tho harmony and
prosperity of the two races. A colored
orator then came forth named Jacob,
a vencrablo old man, formerly the ser
vant of Col. Mclntyre, who put tho
audicnco in an uproar of laughter by
his strictures upon the inconsistency of
tho white orators. Mack Davis was
then called for by both whito and black
and coming forward, Mack spoke feel
ingly and Bensibly upon the relative
positions of tho two races, when tho
large assembly adjourned in good hu
mor and good order.
Qua Locum Tenkns.—Our ab
sence for a day or two has again given
full exerciso to the local vigilance of
our worthy foreman, Mr. R.W. Murray,
and our readers will find by this issue
of the paper, that he is fully os skill
ful with tho pen as with the type and
shooting stick.
MITCHELL COUNTY.
Wo have receivod a very cnoour*
aging letter from Mitbohell County on
the subject of aid to the South Goor*
gia Sc Florida Railroad and it was
read and reooivod with applause at our
railroad meeting on Saturday last.—
Let our friends in Mitchell get up the
fire—we will set them on their feet in
a short time.
CONGRESS.
The July session of Congress has
commenced. Thero is a quorum in
both houses. Bills introduced by Se
nator Wilson, provide that all offices
in the South bo declared vacant within
thirty days —commanding Generals
empowered to fill the same, or oontinuc
present incumbents. The newly elect*
cd membors from Kentucky present,
but find opposition to their admission,
on the ground of having aided in the
rebellion, and gained their cleotion by
overawing the people
- RAILROAD SUCCESS.
It will be seen by reference to our
report of the election on Tuesday last,
that the South Georgia & Florida Rail
road has been triumphant in Thomas
county, and we now add another SIOO,-
000 to the stock of the Company.—
Bonds and private subscriptions may
now be stated at €250,000 in Thomas
county. This secures us a good be
ginning for the road, and we liavo am
ple promises of aid from tho other lo
calities along the line. The early con
struction of the South Geoigia & Flo
rida Railroad, is now a fixed fact, and
we congratulate the citizens of Thomas
county upon the prospect of a brilliant
future for thoir county and section.
They have done nobly in commencing
this great work, and proved their faith
by their works, in submitting gener.
ously to taxation -for tho public good.
The majority in ’favor of the Road is
large and decisive, showing unmistake
ably, that the masses of the people of
Thomas county are resolved to bui'd
it, and we hope all opposition will now
cease, that all may work together, foi
tho fuH and speedy accomplishment of
the one gra*nd object. It is a project
worthy of the energy and enterprise of
the people ot Thomas county, and now
that it lias been submitted to the test
ofthe ballot box and proved successful,
let there be unanimity of fiction among
all our people on the subject hereafter.
This will give us strength at home and
influence abroad, and if then we should
still need material aid, it will not be
difficult to obtain it.
OUR NATIONAL BIRTH-DAY.
The 91st Anniversary of American
Independence has again passed away
in the South with little observance.
Indeed, we may say none, when the
past enthusiasm of former years is
considered. This does not result from
any want of patriotism or proper ap
preciation on the part of our people.
It is simply the fruit of an unfortun
ate train of circumstances, too huge in
their proportions to be overcome by
“an arm of flesh.” Southern Liberty
writhes beneath the iron heel of North
ern despotism, which, though largely
quaffing from the fountain of free
dom, refuses to let a brother, whose
1 powerful arm struck boldly and deci
sively for our nation’s rights, quench
his thirst from the same pure stream.
She cannot, therefore celebrate the hal
lowed occasion, if she would, for the
icy hand of tyranny has shrouded her
heart in gloom, and withered the flow
ers of her affection. She keenly feels
the importance of the occasion, when
freedom’s banner first “ flaunted in
the breeze.” Bunker Ilill and York
town are enshrined too deeply to be
forgotten ! —their reminiscences and
glorious associations will ever enkindle
the liveliest emotions of the Southern
heart, and while who cannot at present
enjoy the rich legacy they bequeathed
to us, yet will sho cherish them, though
no booming cannon should reverberate
along her snores, or life and drum give
to her patriotism a fresher glovv. She
desires to observe the day truthfully
and not in mockery.
FIRE ENGINE.
We have heard so much about pur
chasing a Fire Engine for our town,
and seen so many attempts result in
failure, that wo have almost despaired
of any thing ever being dono. Why
such a stato of things is suffered to.
exist in an intelligent growing coni*
munify like ours, surrounded on every
hand by the most inflammable mate
rial, and populated by so many differ
ent races of people, is, and always has
been to us asouroo of painful mystery.
Wo know that an Engitio cannot be
purchased, for a penuy, and that our
citizons generally, are poor, but wo
are inclined to the opinion, that the
want of propor effort, backed by a lit
tle vigorous determination, has more
to do with it than poverty. There is
one thing certain, wo arc standing very
much in our own light by thus putting
off, time and again, the purchase of this
very important nrticlo of protection
against fire. No people like ours,
should be without a well regulated fire
department for a single moment. A
(ire occurring on our Main street, even
with all its fire-proof brick tenements,
during tho prevalence of a high wind,
could not be stayed in its fearful rava
ges until thoro was nothing more for
it to feed upon.
It is certainly muoh to bo regretted
that so fine a body of intelligent and
stalwart men as constitutes “ Noptuno,
No. 1,” should bo without a machine.
Lot the members bestir themselves
onoo moro. Can’t should liavo no
plaoc in tho vocabulary of a fireman.
“Nut, Cnn't, but Most, will bring the dust,
The gold, tho fame. The Engine /”
A meeting is advertised to bo held
on Tuesday, 9th instant.
DON’T FAIL TO REGISTER.
In a short time our citizens will be
callod upon to register. Wo trust
none will ncgloot this very important
and essontinl duty. They owe it to
themselves, their childron and their
State, to act promptly in tho matter.
A failure to do so now may deprive
them lor many years to come, of tho
priceless privilege of exercising the
right of suffrage. The right to voto
is the highest prerogative that an Ame
rican freeman can enjoy, and he should
guard and watch it with jealous care,
lest he be deprivod of it. Every good
Southern vote (white and black,) it
needed to get our country on the old
Constitutional track. Don’t suffer in
difference to get the advautage of your
better judgment. Somo r.re urging
as a reason why they will not register,
that tho colored voto will outnumber
the white, and be oast for Radical can
didates. Avery flimsy reason indeed,
and one that should stimulate you to
greater exertion. Defeat we know,
especially in a good cause, is hard to
be borne with, but the time will come
when victory will perch upon your
banner, if you will get the right to
vote and perseveringly make use of it
Besides wo don’t believe the colored
voters will do you half the injury, in
this respect, you seem to imagine they
will. We always have believed, and
believe still; that a very large number
of the voters you so much dread, will
be found acting with you. Your and
their interests arc identical. Let the
lreedrtren fully understand this fact,
and their support will be readily forth
coming. Any reason you can at pre
sent urge is groundless, and will, soon
er or later, recoil upon your own head.
Remember, “Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, for power is always
stealing from the many to the few.’’ ,
ELECTION ON TUESDAY.
Tho polls were opened at two pre
cincts only, Thomasville and Boston :
For subscription to the South
Georgia & Florida R. R. - 412
No subscription, • . 127
Aggregate, . . . 539
Notes on the Situation.—No. 5.
by n. H. HILL.
It is said, in the next plaoc, that if
we do not accept the present plan of
reconstruction proposed in these Mili
tary Bibs, another plan, more odious
and oppressive, will be provided.—
Further disfranchisement, it is said,
of the white race will take place, and
it may boa total disfranchisement of
all but the blacks and their follows in
sufferings and former bondage—the
persecuted loyalists, and who alone
will then have the government of the
State.
But if the present plan fails because
it is unconstitutional, how can a worse
plan—a plan still more unconstitution
al -succeed '! If it is not in the pow
er of Congress to disfranchise a few,
how can it disfranchise all '! Congress
can neither make nor unmake electors,
and every member of the Congress
knows it. And every act which seeks
or pretends to make or unmake voters
in a Stato is void and will be declared
so; and every election held, or consti
tution formed, or government organiz
ed by voters who are made voters on
ly by Congress, is void and will be de
clared so. Every man who is made
a voter by the laws of his State, and
is denied that vote by Congress, is
wronged, and every agent or officer of
the Congress or other person who en
forces the denial is a wrong-doer, and
responsible in all tho penalties and
damages prescribed by the State laws.
The only danger possible lies in the
strange fear of tho peoplo to assert
their rights, and the consequent dis
position to consent to the wrong.
From couscnt alone can wrong derive
power, and when once consented to
its power becomes irresistible. If
they did not see, or think they saw,
a fatal inclination in our peoplo to
yield, Congress and tho renegades
would not ask their oonsent, nor duro
to inflict tho wrongs. For to attempt
the wrong and fail (and without con
sent they must fail,) can only bring
ultimate disgrace on those who make
the attempt. When the burglar knows
the owner of the house is awake and
determined to resist, he will not dare
enter; but if ho knows the owner is
asleep or disposed to yield, he is sure
to enter; he is invited to enter. A
Congress, or a fragmentary conclave
thereof, who breaks the Constitution
to inflict wrongs on an unresisting
people, is more criminal and far more
cowardly than tho burglar; and the
man who is within—who is ol the
peoplo—and who counsels submission
to the wrong, is far more to bo dispis
cd than a burglar or than evon such
a Congress. . -
Os like character is the threat that,
if wc rejeot their plan, Congress will,
in anew plap, add confiscation, lie
is to be pitied for his simplicity who
does not know that Congress has no
moro power to confiscate tho property
of a special citizen than has a politi
cal meeting or a church mob; and
that the very attempt would necessari
ly end the cxistenco of the Congress
attempting it.
But, unmanly and without founda
tion of either law or reason, as are
these thicats of further attempts at
disfranchisement and o uifiscation,
they arc of surpassing importance in
other reepeotf, and demand the meat
serious consideration of our people.—
The position urged upon us is this :
Wo must submit to a proposed wrong
lest a greater wrong follow. Wo must
surrender our franchises, because, if
wo do not, our property will bo taken
also. Now, the first point to which 1
bog attention is this : These positions
admit that tho party (or power if you
please) which proposes tho present
wrong, has already the will to inflict
further wrongs; that tho Congress
which requires you to consent to the
destruction of your franchise, has al
ready the will to rob you of your pro
perty.
Thus, you are asking to place your
property for safety in the keeping of
that power which already has the will
to tuko it. You aro iriiportuned t>
escape the power of tho lion by rush,
ing to his embrace; to avoid the fang
of tho serpent by plaoing your hand
in his mouth !
This is precisely the point. Will
every man in the South ponder it —
repeat it—never forgot it ? Disfran
chisement, confiscation, and far worso
evils will not conic—caunot come—
through our existing State govern
ment. Never ! But they can come,
and they will come through the gov
ernment, which this plan ol recon
struction proposes to establish for our
existing Stato governments. Who,
in all those States, favor or agitate for
confiscation except the Northern em
issary or Southern renegade, and the
negro, when prompted and directed
by these emissaries and renegades?—
Are wo not warned ?■ Read the reso
lutions of negro conventions and
whenever you find one of these con
ventions in which these emissaries and
renegades are the devilish prompters,
you will find confiscation threatened,
or apologised for, or justified or de
manded. And these are the very
men who are to form, organize, con
trol and administer, and enjoy the of
fices, under these new governments
proposed by these Military Bills.—
And when admit the power to abro
gate existing governments and organ
ize new governments to be composed
of such men with such views and
for such purposes, these abrogations
and disfranchisements, and new organ
izations, will cantinue until such men
do effectually control, and such views
and purposes do effectually prevail.—
The whole purpose of these Military
Bills is to add these ten States to Ra
dical party power; nothing less than
tho complete accomplishment ot the
purpose will be accepted. And this
purpose oan never bo accomplished
but by disfranchising, impoverishing,
destroying and driving off al] the true
and noble and manly and country-lov
ing of the Southern people; and de
livering over our bright and beautiful
land to the riotous rule and miscegen
ating orgies of negroes, yankees and
base apostates from their own kindred,
color, country and blood. I would
not fear the docile negro, left to him
self. He would soon know his true
friends, in his interert, and be useful.
But tho Africanized white man is an
enemy to tho peace and the interest of
both races, and would be an admitted
monster in any age or country of bar,
barians.
I admit, then, that wc are in dan
ger of confiscation. Those who outlaw
patriotism and intelligence, would not
scruple to rob.. The representatives
who violato the Constitution they are
sworn to support, in order to abrogate
Stato government, and reduce the peo
ple to military bondage, could not add
to their iniquities by taking the little
property we have left. Asa people
wc have but little—scarcely enough to
prevent starvation. All the world
seems to be moving to send bfead to
keep us alive. What a curious peo
ple we are ! fit objects of charity and
fit subjects for confiscation ! The same
train brings the bread to feed, the offi
cer to oppress, and the emissary to
breed strife anti rob ! Alas, we have
been robbed—robbed in war and in
peace, and by foes and by friends. —
A few are rich. They prospered while
their victims wore sacrificed—showed
a talent to make money while their
dupes showed a will to lose blood.—
Those might naturally dread confisca
tion, and, in view of the sacrifices they
tnado to get property, it may be rea
sonable they should make greater sac
rifices to keep what they made, for
what is honor worth to such ? But
even theso should not altogether lose
their reason May they not be nurs
ing a power that may consume them ?
Thieves are not always to be trusted,
even by their friends and co-laborers.
It is safer to avoid a danger than trust
to controlling it.
When wc abandon the safeguards
of tho Constitution, and trust ourselves
to tho magnanimity of its violators, we
shall embrace the surest means of pro
curing the loss of all things. But I
scorn to pursue such a line of argu
ment.
A people who are willing to sacri
fice honor to avarice are beyond the
possibility of redemption. If the very
statement of the proposition does not
awaken a feeling of abhorrence we arc
indeed in a sad condition. If any.
thing can bo baser than degradation
it is such a motive for sinking to it.
Lost property may be recovered;
burned cities may be rebuilt; devas
tated fields will bloom again ; even
buried children, fallen for their coun
try, will livo again in the qnickened
spirits of now generations. But as
with individuals so with peoples and
communities —tho sense of honor once
lost is lost forever. Yea, more; the
history of human nature, singly and
in communities, teaches, without ex
ception of example, that when self
respect is once lost, self-abasement
once accepted, cities, lauds, liberty,
country caunot be retained.
It is natural, too, that all others
should lose respect for those who lose
respect for themselves. If we accept
tho humiliation proposed for us, all
mankind will be nshamed of us, our
chaldron will bo ashamed of us, and
ourvory enemies, whose hatred promp
ted tho shame, will mock and deride
us. Even now 1 believo tho impres
sion whioh a few hi ve been industri
ous to produce, that our people arc
willing to reconstruct under these acts,
has damaged us more in the estima
tion of all honorable minds than any
thing else that has happened. Ido
not know Gen. Pope, but if, as 1 as
sume, he possesses the ordinary in.
stinots of honor belongingto an Amer
ican gentleman, ho must have felt an
almost nauseating pity for the poor
men who gathered about him in At
lanta, and, forgetting tho history of
their fathers and tho character of our
institutions, welcomed, with feasting
and rejuioing, the inauguration of mil
itary desptiosm over ono of the Old
Thirteen, whose sons were in the first
revolution, and who holds in her bosom
the ashes of Pulaski 1 A brave man
loves courage in others, and despises
sycophancy, especially that sycophan.
cy which makes sacrifices to power to
seeuro safety, perhaps patronage for
itself. Ueroism in defeat, patience in
suffering, the preservation of honor in
tho midst of misfortune, are the sub
lime virtues which everything on
earth admires, and everything in
Heaven rewards, and which never fail
to lift a people possessing them, how
ever temporarily unfortunate, to final
prosperity and renown. And a peoplo,
however great, who propose dishonor
to the helpless, who would take ad
vantage of misfortune to force oppres.
sion on the unresisting, will surely
sink by the weight of their own in
famy to mire, and every thing on
earth and in Heaven will rejoice at the
fall.
I admit I have often overrated the
intelligence, and virtue, and endurance
of our people. Everything they have
done, from the suicidal repeal of the
Missouri Compromise to the criminal
and factious demoralization which com
pelled our surrender, has been contra
ry to my wishes, and against ray pro
test. But Ido Dot believe they are so
lost to every instinct of manhood as to
accept the plan of State destruction
proposed by the fanatical represents,
tives of other States, as contained in
these Military Bills. Many at first
were taken by surprise, aDd were
tempted with a desperate thoughtless
ness to yield.
But they will reject the hateful
thing they had almost emb'aeed.
The Confederate Dead now on
Chickamauga Battle-Field.
The Trustees of the “Georgia Met
morial Association ” having carefully
collected the names, as far as possible,
of the Confederate dead who now lie
•on the battle-field of Chickamauga,
herewith publish them for the benefit
of their friends in the various States.
The small appropriation made by the
Georgia Legislature is very inadequate
to the great work, and oijly serves as
a nucleus wi'h which to begin this
work of reinterment in consecrated
ground.
Wc have selected a beautiful site
which has been given us immediately
on the railroad at Marietta, and now
call upon the citizens of our State to
give us the means to reinter them all
in one spot, and make it as attractive
and bcautifulas their heroism render
ed "the name of Chicamauga glorious.
This work will be no longer delayed.
We cannot wait further legislative
action. Nearly four years have passed,
and the headboards, and all records,
are fast passing away, and in a little
while, longer neglected, Georgians
will blush when Chickamauga, is men
tioned, as its unmarked graves will be
an eternal monument of their ingrati
tude.
The following list is only of Chick
amauga’s dead. The lists of all pla
ces south to Resaca is not yet finished
Wherever only initials appear we will
be glad if their friends and comrades
will furnish us (heir full name, and
for any information apply to
Mrs. Cha’s J. Williams,
Columbus Georg’a.
Miss Mary J. Grekn,
Rt-saca, Georgia.
Rcsaca, Ga , June 29, 1867.
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
General Longstreet.
A dispatch Fays: “Gen. Long,
street lias left New Orleans for Jack
son, Miss., where he will remain with
his family and attend to his private
affairs. lie is said to have felt totally
unprepared for the storm his letters
created in the Southern press, lie
meditated no intontion of allying him.
self with tho radical party, but simply
expressed, with a soldier’s ignorance
of sophistry, the policy he thought
host and most likely to secure an early
reconstruction to the country.”
We will do Gen. Longstreet the
justice to copy tho statement for what
it is worth. The confession only
servos to show the danger to their re
putations incurred by military men
when they leave their sphere and ven
ture before the public as instructors in
the abstruse scicnco of government of
which they aro totally ignorant Wo
very much doubted whether General
Longstreet fully comprehended the
language used in his recent letters, in
which he boldly penetrates the inner
temple of political science, and lays
down, as axioms of statesmanship, pro
positions that would startle the despo
tisms of the old world, and that have
ao sanction in public tho law of any
civilized nation. The truth is, he was
writing about matters of which he
knew nothing, giving his own crude
notions for established political prin
principles, without a thought of the
dangerous vortex into which they
were leading him. We are not sur
prised that he is startled by the com
ments of the Southern press upon his
alarming doctrines. Some weeks ago,
Gen. Beauregard, also a great man in
tho Geld, committed a similar blunder
by chanting praises to a “ consolida
ted ’’ government, and when surprise
was expressed by his friends at the
sentiment, he innocently replied, in a
letter to tho press, that he simply
meant a reunited government 1 “Nc
sutor ultra crepidam’’ —“shoemaker
stick to your last”—is an excellent
maxim, and if our military men in the
South value their reputations, so
prized by the whole Southern people,
they will let political polemics, alone
and confine themselves to matters
within their sphere.— M. Telegraph.
The Ciiickmauua Dead. —Wo in
vite attention to the card of the Trus
tees of tho Memorial Association,
copied elsewhere from the Atlanta
Intelligoncer. It appears that Mariet
ta has been selected for the cemetery,
toward which the last Legislature ap
propriated the sum of four thousand
dollars. Tho list of the dead is a long
one, and wo hopo a . prompt response
will be given to the appeal of the la*
dies. The Intelligencer, which does
not publish the names, on account of
the great number, says: “Some idea
of its magnitude may be formed when
we state that the list of 'ChiokamaugaY
dead alone embraces some twenty-five
pages of foolscap paper, with 891 dead
whose names are ‘entirely unknown."
Theso dead hailed in their lives from
every Southern State While patriotic
and benevolent in our sister Southern
States have provided mausoleums tor
many of Georgia’s dead, lot it not be a
reproach to. Georgians that the gallant
dead of those sister States lie scattered
along the line of Sherman’s march,’
with no sign to indicate who they were*,
rom whence they came, or for what
fause they bled and died.”
Maximilian’s Death Certain.
Washington, July I.—The follow
ing is but an extract from a dispatch
reoived at the Navy Department, da*
ted Vera Cruz 25th iqst., signed F. A.
Roe, Commander : “Maximilian was
shot on the 19th. I have begged for
his corpse for the Austrian Captain
but was refused. The City of Mexico
fell on the 20th. Vera Cruz holds
out on account of the foreign legion.
Diaz orders that thero shall be bo ac
ceptance of a surrender.”
Washington, July I.—The follow
ing is the dispatch of the Austrian
Captain is the Austrian Minister :
“Southwest Pass, June 29 ’67.
To the Austrian Ambassador, Wash
ington :
1 have just come in to telegraph
you of the condemnation and execu
tion of Maximilian, President Juarez
refuses to deliver up his body.
(Signed) M. TneibiuT,
Capt. Austrian Navy.”
SQfThe rumor was current at Nett
Orleans on the 29th, and generally be
lieved, that Gen. Sheridan wculd bo
relieved, and Gen. Rousseau put in bis
place, A different opinion obtained
in Washington, where tho movements
of the political machinery are better
understood. In former da/s, such *
communication as that of fJner'i'dan to’
Grant would have cost the former his
uniform, and at short notree. Times,
however, haVe changed, and a siibordi*'
natCj should he tie a Radical in politics
is at perfect liberty to say what he
pleases about his commander-in-chief.
It is probable that no action will bo ta
ken in this case under the peculiar
condition ot the times, but wo must
say that if the President declines to’
remove Gen. Sheridan for his inso*
lence, he might as well abdicate his
military office at once, for", practically,-
it will amount to nothing else. —Macon
Telegraph.
ATTENTION FIREMEN!!
A SPECIAL Meeting of Neptune Fire Com
nany, w ill be held on Tuesday, Julv 9, at
8 o'clock, P. M.,‘ at the Mayor’s Office, for the
purpose of electing Officers, and making ar
rangements for purchasing an Engine. Every
member is requested to attend.
By order of
G A. JEFFERS,
July 5-2fc Foreman.
FAIR WARNING 1
DON’T FA II, to go to Jeffers' Oullen*
and GET YOUR PICTURES TAKEN
before IHr. Stnibmk the IJrrnt Artiftt
leaven. Julystf
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be feold on the First Tuesday in Sep
tember next, in the Town of Camilla, Mitchell
County, Georgia, the Real Estate belonging to
the estate of George W. McLeod, deceased,
consisting of Lot No. 8, in Block F, containing
one-fourth of an acre; also one-fourth of an
acre, on the west side of lot No. 5 in Block C,
all in thetownof Camilla. aa ; d,/Bounty. Sold
for the benetitof the heirs and creditors—terms
cash. Sold under an order of the Court of Or
dinary of said count v, this Julv Ist 18fi7.
SAM L C. GREGORY,
July 5 id Adui'r.
OEOROlA— Tlioiua* County.
Court of Ordinary, Jane 30,1867.
Whereas, Permeliu Williams, Administra
trix outlie (‘state of fl. 11. Williams, deceased,
makes application by petition to said Court for
letters of Dismission from said Administra
tion :—All persons interested are therefore no
tided to tile their objections in Court, otherwise
said Letters will be granted the applicant in
terms of the law.
H. H. TOOKE,
July 5 6tn Ordinary,
Mendenhall Loom
rpiIHS valuable invention may now be seen
l by calling on Messrs. McQueen St Vick
ers, in Thomusville, where it will be on exhi
bition for several davs. The citizens gener
ally are invited to call and witness its opera
tions. These Looms are manufactured at At
lanta, Georgia.
Looms and county rights for sule.
Agents wanted in every countv.
C. A. KING, Agent.
Jny 2 ts
SIOO Reward.
ON the night of the 22d ultimo, (Saturday,)
ut the residence of James McClelland,
who resides in the 17th District of Thomas
< Vanity. alaiut 18 miles west of Thomasville,
the undersigned was robbed of a haversack
containing the following articles :— 1 wo hun
dred and fifteen dollars in greenbacks— one one
hundred dollar bill, one ten dollar bill, one two
dollar bill, and the remainder Arc dollar bills.
Also, thirteen yards of bleached homespun,
one silk handkerchief,|one pair wbollen socks,
one pound powder, four pounds of shot, four
linen shirts, 'livers medicines, two small notes,
amounts not remembered, but signed respec
tively by Wtn. Jordan and John Skipper, and
ono note for oue hundred dollars, due January
Ist. 1867, and signed by Matthew Albritton
Said haversack was Stolen by a white man, the
undersigned believes, while hanging up in the
house of James McClelland, at the time men
tioned, daring divine worship, which the un
dersigned was attending. The following Wed
nesday the haversack was discovered by Mr.
McClelland, thrown over into his cane patch,
hut torn open and ull the contents extracted.
The above reward will be cheerfully paid fm
the recovery of the nrticles, and for the arrest
of the thief with proof to convict All persons
are hereby forewarned from trading for said
notes, as t will take steps for their re estab
lishment.
SILAS R McCLELLAKD.
July 2 3m
TAKEN UP!
r |3WO Mules were taken up by the trader-
I signed at his residence near Glasgow,
Thom** Comity, O*-, on the 23d of Marrblaat,
and every effort made to discover their owner,
hut without success One is a small Mouse Co
lored Horse Mole, about ten roars old, and the
other a medium sixed Black Mare Mole, about
the same age. branded with the letter 8 on the
left fore shonlde# The owner or owners of
said Mules arc hereby notified to come for
ward, prove property, pay charge* and take
them away, or they will 6c dealt with a* the
law direct*.
„ & P ROOM.
Glasgow, Ga. Jane 29 km
(•KOKfil.4—Thomas f'eaaty.
ON the First Monday in September next.
We will apply to the honorable Court of Ordi
nai vof said county. for an order granting leave
to sell a portion of the I-and- of Thos Steele,
deceased PAN A HORN.
, , W. L STEELE,
July . iA) Executors