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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