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Radical Congress —Extra Session-
Washington, July 9.—Senate. —
The Judiciary Committee’s Recon ■
struction bill was taken up and the
day consumed in arguing points wheth
er the Commanders should be allowed
to appoint civilians to vacant State of
fices. The Senate adjourned without
definite action.
House. —The Reconstruction bill
was resumed. The sixth section was
modified by striking out the words “or
unless he shall consent to bo relieved’’
and inserting instead “or under arrest
punishable by dismissal from the array,
or disqualified by sickness from per
formance of his duties,” and the bill
passed —yeas 119, nays 31, viz: Mes«
srs. Adams, Archer, Barnes, Rldridge,
Getz, Glossbrenner, Morgan, Morris
sey, Mungin, Niblack, Nicholson,
Noel, Phelps, Randall, Robinson,
Ross, Sitgreaves, Steward, Stone, Ta
ber, Van Anken, Van Trump and
Wood.
The House then adjourned.
Washington, July 10. —House. —
The time for taking evidence on the
Kentucky election has been extended
to December.
A committee of five was appointed
to inquire into the treatment of Union
prisoners, with power to send for per
sons and papers. [Why not into the
treatment of prisoners on both sides ?
Eds.]
A bill was introduced extending the
provisions of the Homestead Act to
Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Lou.
isiana and Florida. Referred to re
construction Committee.
The Committee on Foreign Re.
lations was directed to inquire wheth.
er any American citizen has been ar.
rested and convicted in Great Britain
for words spoken in America.
Mr. Wilson stated that the Judicrn
ry Committee had requested him to
state that they were not ready to report
on impeachment.
Mr. Boutwcll offered a concurrent
resolution to adjourn to October next,
eliciting a warm debate, which was in
terrupted by the announcement of Mr.
Dennison’s death. After eulogies, the
House adjourned.
Senate.—The consideration of the
Judiciary Committee’s Reconstruction
bill was resumed. An* amendment
giving Commanders power to fill va
cancies by appointing citizens or de
tailed soldiers was adopted by a vote
•of 20 to 15. The following was added
to the 6th section : “ Whether hold
ing such office at the time of the re
bellion or before. 1 ’
Mr. Dennison’s death was announced
and eulogies pronounced, after which
ithc Senate adjourned.
Mr. Bill’s “Notes.” —These bold,
masterly and patriotic papers are exci
ting great public interest lhiOU<4l
■out the South, a&iHincting their way
into papers of every State. The
Louisville Journal has commenced
* v ’~ : " J .TO v .s l i?h‘An9
patriotism, by sound statesmanship,
by profound sagaeity, by extraordinary
ability, and by that chivalric sense of
■self-respoct whieh to some has seemed
dead i« the Southern breast, but
which all will now beleive to have
slept. It can sleep no longer. Under
the spirit-stirring notes of this true
Southerner, it must awake, and spring
into wonted life and glory. The pub'
lication of these masterly and brilliant
papers marks a crisis in the fate not
only of the South but of the Rcpublc.
The night of unmanly and self-des
tructive compliance is fleeing. The dav
of manly and sclfiprcserving constancy
!s breaking. So wo verily believe
And all honor to him who is the glori
ous harbinger of the coming day.’’
'The Atlanta Radical Convention. —
Tho Griffin Star, whose editor was
present, tliussjcaks of the black and
white affair in Atlanta on the Ith
inst.:
The attendance was almost cxclii'
sively comprised of colored people,
and was about the size of tho “ Wilson
gathering,’’ a few weeks since. ,Wo
notice with pleasure that many respec
table citizens of Atlanta who wore
persuaded to grace by their attendance
the Wilson meeting, were not present
on this interesting oocasion. Os all
the boasted converts from tho rebel
ranks to radical faith, Farrow alono
appeared upon tho arena, unless wo
include Foster Blodgett, who can
hardly be counted ub either fish, flesh
or iowl. It was essentially a dark
colored affair—there being some thou
sand negroes present and not fifty
■white folks, even counting in the man
agers of teh concern and tho idlo
spectators who were not indentified
with it.
Important Order in Relation to
Registration.
Editor Savannah Republican :
Permit me to use your paper to
state that the Board of Registration
for this city has received instructions
from Headquarters to register all per
sons who will take the prescribed oath.
Will those gentlemen who called at our
offioe on Saturday last with their par
dons in their hands, please call again
if they wish to register under the
above regulation ? If they will name
a suitable hour we will bo glad to
give them prompt attention.
Respectfully,
Henry S. Wetmore,
President Board.
Savannah, July 3,1867.
l&'The following are the appoint
ments of Registers in Bankruptcy for
the State of Georgia:
Ist Distriot —Joshua Hill.
2d District —F. 8. Hesseltine.
3d District —Charles G. McKinley.
4th District —Alex. G. Murray.
sth District —N. G. Foster.
oth District —Garnett Andrews. “
7th District—Lawson Black.
J§»n%nt
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L. c. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 18G7.
THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU—
AN ILLUSTRATION OF ITS BE
NEFICENT ADMINISTRATION.
The community of Fletcherville was
thrown into a state of excitement, on
Saturday last, by an assault upon white
ladies, by soldiers attached to the
Freedmen’s Bureau.
The following are the facts, stated
by a witness, as well as wo can remem
ber them:
Mrs. Gen. King notified a colored
woman living in a small house on her
premises, that she could no longer re
main there, on account of highly im
proper conduct. The woman flew into
a passion, made many threats, and ap
plied to the Bureau for protection. On
her return, she found that Mrs. King
had put her things out of the house,
and had also discovered a bundle of
her own missing articles among the
plunder. These proceedings enraged
the woman so much, that she struck
Mrs. King a violent blow, but was de
terred from further violence by the
resolution of Miss Josie Cooper,
niece to Mrs. King, who was also pre
sent.
The woman now returned to Capt.
White for the promised protection, and
soon reappeared with three soldiers,
armed and equipped as the “ Bureau
directs.’’ Beside Miss Cooper, another
niece of Mrs. King’s was present, Mrs.
Sheftall. Determined that the woman
should not be redomiciliated on her
premises, Mrs. King and her two nie
cies stationed themselves in the door
way, to prevent the soldiers from re
turning the woman’s things to the
house.
One of the three soldiers, to the
honor of his manhood, refused to par
ticipate in violence to women and stood
aloof; but the other two, one a corpo
ral, ordered the ladies to get out of the
way, and allow the things to bo re
turned to the house, threatening to
shoot them if they refused. The la
dies resolutely refused, however, and
defied their threats of violence. The
corporal now seized a heavy trunk, and
assisted by his companion, an Irish
man, attempted to rush through tho
door, and thus prostrate the ladies by
the weight of tho trunk, and gain aft
entrance. Miss Cooper was accord
ingly prostrated and much bruised by
-the trwnlTjlmttlio ladies now, in their
turn, seized tho trunk, and with their
united strength, hulled it back through
the door, completely overturning the
gallant corporal and his brave com
sition flat of their backs on the ground,
heels in the air, and in turn, held down
by the trunk. They quickly scram
bled out, however, and tho gallant
corporal, satisfied with his brilliant
achievement, retired from the conflict.
His comrade continued the fight awhile
longer, and pulled Miss Cooper’s hair,
struck her twice with his clenched list,
from tho effects of which, we are in
formed, she is still suffering. Finding
the ladies invincible, and truo to tho
blood of their family, these gallant re
presentatives of the U. S. Army, with
drew to make their report to head
quarters.
Mrs. King is a very old lady, an
invalid and almost helpless, whi'c her
two nieces are both very small delicato
ladies. Mrs. King states that sho
wrote to the agent of tho Bureau in
reference to tho conductor the colored
woman, and requested her removal,
before the difficulty oocurrod, but that
model of wisdom, justice and dignity,
did not deign to notice her request.
When the colored woman, however,
applied for protection, threo soldiers
were promptly sent to her aid.
After the difficulty occurred, Mrs.
King also applied to tho Bureau for
redross of giievanoos, but was sagely
informed that ho had nothing to do
with it—‘‘she must seek redress in tho
civil courts ”
When tho Buroau desires to advance
tho interests of Radicalism, it has am
ple jurisdiction, though it perpetrate
a crime against tho law ; but should
any unlucky Southern white person
seek redress fur insults or wrongs,
dono under its orders, tlioy are blandly
informed that tho Buroau lias no jur
isdiction—that redress must besought
in the civil courts. Iftho Bureau had
no jurisdiction in Mrs. King’s caso,
why did it interfere at all 7
That the ladies noted very impru
dently in exposing themselves to such
treatment, there can be no doubt, for
different treatment under tho circum
stances, could not bo expected ; but
the party who issued the orders, and
not tho soldiers who executed them,
are responsible for whatever wrong
was dono.
Let unprotected ladies hereafter
tako warning, and not expect protec
tion from tho agents of an institution
designed, not for the protection of
Southern white people; but for the
conversion of the blacks to Radicalism.
REPUBLICAN PARTY OP
GEORGIA.
The 4th of July was sot apart by
the Southern converts to Radicalism,
for tho organization at Atlanta, of tho
Republican party of Georgia. Ac
cordingly, a good many negroes and a
few whito men assembled at Atlanta
on that day, and passed the usual
Southern Radical resolves, Thoy dono
the usual amount of bragging, glorify
ing, Ac., and finding that no attention
was paid to them by tbc masses of the
people adjourned. Sixty nine coun
ties of the 131 in the State were re
ported as represented by white and
colored, and the well satisfied assem
bly concluded therefore, that the State
would go Radical at the next election.
So we believe also, but it will bo the
result of disfranchisement of the white
men by a Radical Congress. They
are afraid of Southern white men at
the polls, and don’t mean to let them
go there.
RADICAL SYMPATHY.
Many of the Radical journals—all,
except Forney—are affecting great in
dignation at the execution of Maxi
million in Mexico, and shedding crock
odile tears of grief, over the astound
ing exhibition of barbarian ferocity on
the part of Juarez and his followers.
They are quick to perceive “the beam”
in the eye of Juarez, but the “blind
guides” cannot behold the beam in
their own eyes. In the death of Maxi
milliao, a few persons are ruined; but
these extremely sympathetic philan>
thropists who recoil and have a holy
horror of barbarous deeds, now have
their feet upon tho necks, and are
daily bending every energy and strain.
ing overy nerve to ruin and cxtermin<
ate eight millions ofenlightenod Chris
tian while people.
SAVANNAH HERALD.
Mr. J. 11. Estill, a well known prin
ter in Savannah, and clever gentleman,
has recently become associated with
Mr. Mason in the proprietorship ofthe
Savannah Herald. We have known
Mr. Estill for a long time, and we feel
confident that Mr. Mason could not
have made a better choice for an as.
sociate. Industrious, energetic and
gentlemanly, Mr. Estill will prove a
valuable addition to the office, and add
to the influence and patronage of the
paper. Tho Ilerald was always one
of tho best papers in the South, and
the courtesy of its editors, and vigi
lance in serving the interests, of all
sections, is rapidly making it the most
popular journal in all this region. Mr.
Estill will add to that growing popu
larity, and when it is generally known
that three as elevor gentleman as Mr.
Mason, Dr. Jones and Mr. Estill, have
clubbed together to work for the pub
lic good, tho .Herald wilt be the paper
of Southern Georgia and Florida.
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
If the South ever had any doubt
that the Radical party in Congress
meant tlxi lota! ruin of their power and
influence in tho Government, that
doubt will now bo entirely dispelled.
Tho following act which has by this
time passed into law, gives absolute
authority to tire five Military Com
manders in the South, sets at defiance
the Judiciary department of the Go 4
vernment, and raises even tho little
oE j r u<?-/es
ters. The President shamefttlly srnb.
mrtted at the last session of Congress
to be deprived of his constitutional
powers, arid having thus put down one
of the co-oruinate branches of the Go
vermnent, the Radicals now strike
boldly and confidently at another, the
Judiciary, and the surrender of that
will leave all the power in their hands
undisputed. But read the act:
Stevens, from the Committee of
Nino, introduced the following bill:
Bo it enacted by tho Senato and
House of Representatives, in Congress
assembled, That it is hereby declared
to bo the truo intent and meaning of
the act of tho 2d day of March, 1867,
entitled “An act to provido for tho
more efficient government ofthe Reb
el States,” and of the act supplemen
tary thereto, passed on the 23d Maroh,
1867, that tho government then exis
ting in the Rebel States of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Flor
ida, Texas and Arkansas wero illogal
and void, and that thoroaftcr said gov
ernments, if continued, wero to bo
continued subject in all respects to the
military ■Commanders ofthe respective
districts and to the authority of Com
gross.
Section 2. That tho said nets to
which this is a supplement should bo
construed to authorize tho’offiocrs
assigned to the command of any mili
tary district under said acts, whenever
ho shall doom it necessary to tho duo
performance of his duties under said
acts, to removo or suspend from ofiico
any municipal or Stato offioor, or per
son exercising authority under or by
virtuo of any so-called Stato govern
ment existing in the district; and the
said officer so assigned to oommand ns
aforesaid is hcroby empowered to ap
point another person in tho stead of
the officer or person so romovod, if ho
should deem it propor so to do; and
whenever he may deem it necessary
as aforesaid, prohibit, suspend or set
aside any act or proceedings of any
suoh Stato or municipal govornmont,
or act or thing dono under or by vir
tue of its authority ; and all nets here,
tofore dono liy any such officer, in ac
cordauce herewith, shall bo doomed
valid.
Section 3. That tho board of regis
tration of tho several military districts,
established by the acts to which this
is supplementary, shall admit to regis
tration only suoh persons as thoy may
doom entitled to bo registered by the
acts aforesaid. They shall not regard
the taking of the oaths prescribed in
the act of March 23, 1867, conclusive
ovidenoo of tho right of tho person ta
king it to be registered, but prima
facie evidenootj only; nod they may
reocive suoh evidence, undor oath, re
lating thereto as they may deem pro
per, oithor from tho person applying to
be registered or others, ana either
member of said board is hereby au
thorised to administer oaths or affir*
mations, and examine without touch
ing the right of any person to bo regi
istered- Said board of registration
may strike from the list of voters the
name of any one already registered
who; in their judgment, improperly
took the oath prescribed in the acts to
which this is supplementary, or was
not entitled by said acts to be regis
tered. Record evidence shall not be
required by said board to prove par
ticipation in the rebellion, but parole
evidence shall bo sufficient to estab
lish the fact of such participation ; and
said board of registration shall not be
bound or governed in their action by
any opinion of any officer <>f the Uni
ted States government.
Section 4. That no civil court of
the United States, rr of any State,
shall have jurisdiction of any action or
proceeding, civil or criminal, against
any such district commander, or any
officer or person acting by his authori
ty, for or on account of the dis
charge of the Saties imposed on him
by these acts or tbe acts to which they
are supplementary.
Section 5. That no district comman
der shall be rilieved from the conn
mand assigned to him under the aforei
said act, unlea the Senate shall havo
first been addressed and consulted
thereto, or unless by sentence of court
martial be shall Vie cashiered or dis
missed from tho army, or unless he
shall consent to be relieved. ,
Section 0. That the time for the
completion of of per
sons properly qualified to vote may be
extended by order of the several dis
trict commanders to any day prior to
the Ist day of October, 1807;
Mr. Stevens accepted the following
as an additional section: “Any per
son who shall attempt to prevent the
execution of this act shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be
liable to a finq of $5,000 or imprison
ment for one year. The right of any
person to be registered as a legal vo
ter shall in no respect be changed or
affected by the President’s pardon for
participation in the rebellion.”
S. CAROLINA AND FLORIDA-
As it inay be a matter of some in
terest to our readers, we publish the
following extract of a letter received
by a citizen of Thomasville, from an
esteemed friend now residing in Flo
rida, but more recently a denizen ol
South Carolina:
Gainesville, Fla.,. July 6, ’G7.
This town has grown wonderfully
since I passed through it thirteen years
since. I saw the first pine tree cut
down, and now it boasts of thirty
stores, and a population of twelve or
fifteen hundred. The corn crop is
made and is abundant. Unfortunately,
only a small breadth of land was plan
ted. Cotton looks well, but has to
encounter several vicissitudes before
it can be regarded as secure. We have
• * • ’ ' -—i. las J,n
last two weeks. Business is very dull
; and money scarce.
The wheat «rop in Chester (S. C.)
is splendid. Tho destitution in tho
old State has been very great, and you
can form hut a feeble idea of the suf
fering which h;m prevailed. If any
State in the South is truly in sackcloth
and ashes, that State is S. Carolina.
RULING OUT THE KEN
TUCKY MEMBERS.
Tho JVi rtivnal Intelh'ijencer speaks
as follows of the programme arranged
by tho Radicals, fur excluding "tho
Kentucky members from Congress :
“It was a little remarkable that the
most active member in the execution
of this programme was Hon. John A.
Logan, of Illinois. It isstrange that ho
should so soon have forgotten that the
rule ho sought to apply to these mem
bers elect from Kentucky applies with
greater force to himself. 110 came to
Congress, having been publicly
charged his own neighbors witli ar
rant disloyalty in tho early period of
the war 110 was charged with having
recruited men for tho rebel servieo,
with having made spocohcs in favor of
the rebellion, with having been under
arrest for his disloyalty, and with
having, with upraised arm, uttered
emphatically tho declaration, “If over
1 take up arms against tho South, may
this arm thll paralyzed.’’ There is
nothing in all tho charges preferred
against tho Kentucky members elcot
equal in disloyalty to tho rocord of
this prosecutor himself; but ho is
among the Radical leaders, and tho
fiat of tho Radical cabal has gone forth
that Kentucky, that noble old Stato,
that has suffered so much and strug
gled so bravely to maintain her posi
tion in tho Union, shall ho excluded
from representation in Congress uutil
sho shall send a Radical representa
tion.
Maryland ia to be similarly served
when her ease comes up. Tho pro
gramme is plainly developed. There
is not space in a single article to com
ment on it,; but it is simply this : The
Radical party managers, foreseeing
their loss of political power in the
Northern States, are preparing to
make up their losses by the means of
military despotism in tho South.—
Fearing tho influonoo of tho Border
States, they have detormin and to reduoe
Kentucky and Maryland, to bogin
with, to the same status as tho ten
Southern States hitherto subjected to
Radical military control; Having, by
fraud and violence, by tho outrageous
disfranchisement of white voters, and
tho fraudulent multiplication of negro
votes, scoured to themselves tho politi
cal power of the.twelvo —and with
Tennessee, thirteen —States, t hey will
bo ready to deal likowiso with any
Northern or Western State that dares
to elect Senators and Representatives
who will not submit to the dictates of
the Radical cabal; and whenever it
becomes necessary for the preserva
tion of the supremacy in Congress of
the Radical faction, the delegations
from other Northern States, will be
subjected to precisely the same pro
cess as that already applied to Ken
tucky, and soon tq be applied Mary
land. ..a., yPC
Thus with* all
its attendant frauds and outrages, will
be. extended oV*r “State after State
throughout- the whafiS Union. This is
what is in store for and
betrayed people of the‘loyal Alorthern
and Western States. Tliwirfloyalty
and their rights under the Ceo§ritu
tion are to bo measured only by their
allegiance to the Radical revolutionary
cabal. This is the purpose developed
yesterday. Will tho poople of the
North and West take warning ? Will
they see for themselves the handwri
ting on the wall foretelling their doom?
We shall see. There are other de
velopments, for which a single news-*
paper article does not afford room, that
will be exposed to their view and chal
lenge their serious consideration.
The Murder of Maximilian—The
United States Responsibly
Washingt6n, July 1, —The official
confirmation of the execution of Maxi
milian in Mexico has produced a pro
found sensation here in governmental
and diplomatical quarters. At tho
Mexican Legation the news was first
received from the Austrian Embassy,
who gave it with their official credence.
Senor llomero made haste to cornmu
nicate to Secretary Seward, who ex
pressed no opinion either way, but is
disposed to look upon his efforts in be>
half of Maximilian’s life as hindered
by the absence of the proper diploma
tic representave of this Government
in Mexico. The Austrian Legation
received the news with a thrill of hor
ror, and sent it to Vienna over the
Atlantic cable with all possible speed,
and dispatched it by telegraph to
Count Wydenbruck, the Minister, who
is temporarily absent from Welling
ton.
An important official fact has trans
pired to-day relative to the policy pro
posed by tho French Government to
the United States as regarded the
presence of Maximilian in Mexico.—
It-appears that, as long ago as January
last, Count Berthemy, the French
Minister here, informed Secretary Sew
ard that Maximilian bad proposed to
abdicato Mexico, provided that Juarez
would convene the Constitutional As
sembly for the election of a President
of the Republic. The Emperor was
thereby willing to acquiesce in a re.
publican form of govqrmnent in Mexi
co, but desired anew choice of the
Assembly for the presidency. He
was willing to pledge himself not to
object if Juarez was chosen again. It
seemed to bo the desire of the French
Government to obtain tho approval of
this Government to this proposition,
but Mr. Seward regarded this step as
nothing less than an interference in
»j._: — ii„.„ r... l;„ „(r.„;„i
efforts to save Maximilian’s life will
prove to be an interference, remains
to be seen when the official correspon
dence is laid before Congress.
It is further learned that the tele
grapliio requests of Queen Victoria
and Napoleon to Mr. Seward to urge
Juarez to sparo Maxmiliun, never
reached the latter official owing to the
want of'efficient diplomatic representa
tion to Mexico on the part of this gov
ernment. —New World.
Tho European Courts in Mourn
ing for Maximilian.
London, July 5.—A1l the Courts
ol Europe havo adopted mourning fer
the death of Maximilian. ■
The recall of the British Legation
from the City of Mexico and the sus
pension of diplomatic relations between
Great Britain and the Government of
Mexico arc seriously proposed.
SUSPENSION OF DIPLOMATIC INTER.
COURSE BETWEEN FRANCE AND MEX
ICO.
Paris, July 5. The Moniteur to
day has an article expressing its detes.
tation of the murder of Maximilian.—
In the Senato and Corps Legislat'd’ to>
day speeches were made denouncing
tho execution as a crime against civi
lization.
Orders have been sent out suspend
ing from their functions all tbs French
Consuls in the Mexican Republic.
All festivitios iu this city have ceas
ed, and all the preparations for forth
coming fetes havo been abandoned out
of respect for tho memory of the ill
fated Maximilian.
Maximillian, the late Emperor. —
Maxiiuilliun, ex-Emperor of Mexico,
was born July (5, 1832, bo that he was
nearly thirty-five years of ngo on the
19th of Juno. lie was the brother of
tho present Emperor of Austria, and
son of the Archduke Francis Char'cs
Joseph and the Archduchess Sophia,
both of whom survive him. 11 is wife,
the Atchduckess Charlotte, is a daugh
ter of the laic King of the Belgians,
a sister of tho present King, and a
grand-daughter of tho late King Louis
I’hillippo, of France. She was 27
years old on tho 7th of June. They
have never had any children.
A Liberal Ojfcr. —ln No. 13 of
h's “Notes,” lion. B. 11. Ilill has
goneruusly tendered his services in de
fence of any person who will make a
case before the District Courts on
present political issues. We trust this
magnanimous offer will bo fervently
responded to. Wo could wish for no
more powerful a champion, *3ys the
Augusta Constitutionalist, than B. 11.
Hill, and no worthier cause than Con
stitutional Liberty.
Let somebody go forward and make
a case forthwith. Chief Justice Chase,
in Richmond, or perhaps it was
Raleigh, declared that the military
had no authority over the United
States Courts
[FOR the southern enterprise.]
TO THE MEN OF COLOR OF
THOMAS COUNTY.
Number 1. .
Many of you have, no doubt, dis
covered, how common and plenty good
advice has become of late. I say good
advice, for of the large amount ten
dered to you from time to time, the
most of it must be considered very ex
cellent by the donors, or they would
not be so lavish in giving it. Some of
these good advisers have come to you
unasked, and from the distance of a
thousand miles or more, of their own
will and accord, and without any
pay or other expense to you, just to
bestow this good advice upon you. Let
me ask you, Is not this very strange ?
Are you the only fools in the world,
and the only people who need all this
advice ? .And are these traveling ora
tors possessed of all the wisdom of this
Western world, that they have to come
all this long distance to deal it out to
you ? Is it not wonderful ? How very
stupid you must be, and how very wise
they must be ! And they are so very
kind, and ail that to you. Here is the
whole world before them, and from the
Grissly Bear of tho Californian moun
tains (who would feign learn to dance,)
to the Ringtailed Monkey (who might
be taught to pick cotton and grabble
goober peas)—from the great ghorilla
in Africa, to the little Esquimaux on
the coast of Greenland, all need culti
vation and the tiael-ings of wisdom;
but these wise men will not go to one
of them. They do not love any thing
or any body else but you. Is not this
remarkably strange? What is the
cause of it ? They tell you that you
have not got any sense, and that is the
reason they have come to instruct you.
That you cannot take care of your
selves, and that is the reason they have
sent the Bureau men to take care of
you. They tell you that your old own,
ers hate you, and they loVe you; that
your former owners want to do you
only evil, and they want to do you a
heap of good. All this they tell you,
but have you seen any thing of it ?
Have you thought over all this fine
pretension ? Have you thought why
.they should love you above all others?
For what purpose they should come a
thousand miles or more, and bear their
own expense, to tell it to you ? I will
talk to you more about these good
friends in my next number.
Your loving
Uncle Ben.
Particulars of tho Murdor of Max
imilian and his Generals.
New Orleans, July 9. —The Times
has a special from Houston, Texaas,
giving a detailed account of the exe
cution of Maximilian, Miramon and
Mejia- None were bound cr blindfol
ded, nor was aoy indignity offered, as
reported. Maximilian, before being
shot, recapitulated the causes that
-uiuugin. titu» Moaioo, JouK-u th*
authority of the court that sentenced
him, and hoped his blood would stop
the effusion of blood in Mexico. Mi
ramon spoke from paper. His only
regret felt in dying was that should
the Liberals remain in power, his chil
dren would bo pointed at as the chil
dren of a traitor. Mejia made no ad
dress. Maximilian calfed the sergeant
of the guard, gave him a handful of
gold, and requested the favor that he
would aim at his heart. Five balls
entered his breast but he was not quite
dead. Two soldiers were culled out
and shot him in the side.
Much dissatisfaction and grief were
manifested by the spectators.
The sword of Maximilian was pre
sented to Juarez by Escobedo in tbe
Government palace.
South Georgia & Florida R. R.
We arc truly glad to learn, through
the Thomasvillo Enterprise, that this
Toad has been triumphant in Thomas
county in securing from the people
thereof an additional subscription of
SIOO,OOO to the stock of tho Com.
pany; which added to private sub
scriptions, secures a good begining
for tho road, and we have no doubt,
may be regarded as an earnest of the
consummation, enterprise at an earley
period 1 .
We beg leave to join the indefati
gable editor of the Enterprise, who
has labored most earnestly for the ad
vancement of this project, in congrat
ulating the public spirited citizens of
Thomas upon an achievement whieh
docs them great ffooor ami opens up
tho prospect of n brilliant futuro for
their already flourishing town, as well
as for the promotion of tho intorosts of
a section of Georgia which is unsnri
passed for the value of its resources
and the hcalthfulness and delicious'
ness of its climate.— Sav. Herald.
Death of a Distinguished Floritlian.
—The Monticello (Fla) Gazette, of
the 6th instant, announces the melan
choly intelligence cf the death of
Hon. J. Wayles Baker, at his resi-.
denoe in Tallahassee, on the 4th in
stant. The deceased, who had been
.Judge of the Middle District for near
ly twenty years, was greatly esteemed
and honored for the purity of his
character, for usefulness as a citizen,
and for his integrity and learning as a
Judge.
Rejistration Suspended in the Car.
olinas, —Charleston, July 9.—The fol
lowing semi-official announcement ia
published this morning:
“ Geo. Sickles has been directed not
to begin registration in this Military
District until CangreW shall have de«
tenniaed more explicitly who are en
titled to be registered. It is presumed
that Congress will extend tho time
for the completion of registration in
tho Carolinas until October or No
vember.
VALUE OF BANK NOTES.
We havo selected the following from
an exchange, to show the present va
luo of the notes of Georgia Banks :
Georgia. —Augusta Insurance an t
Banking Company 6, Bank of Augus
ta 49, Bank cf Athens 43, Bank of
Columbus 8, Bank of Commerce 6,
Bank of Fulton 45, Bank of Empire
State 25, Bank ol Middle Georgia 82,
Bank of Savannah 36, Bank of State
of Georgia 15, Central Railroad Bank
inz Company 97, City Bank of Au
gusta 28, Farmers’ and Mechanics’ 8,
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
ing 97, Manufacturers’ Bank, Macon,
14, Marine Bank 95, Mechanics’ Bank
3, Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank 6,
Planters’ Bank 14, Timber Cutters’
Bank 2, Union Bank 5.
The Roman Celebration-
Rome, June 27, 1867.—The reli<
gious ceremonies in celebration of the
eighteen hundredth anniversary of St.
Peter’s martyrdom, and in reverence
of St. Paul and the canonization of 25
Dutch, French and Spanish martyrs,
who died in Japan, as saints, was one
of the most gorgeous religious cere
monies witnessed in the world since
the days of King Solomon.
The observance was commenced yes
terday evening with a general illumi
nation of the city of Rome. St. Peter’s
shone like a great church on fire. At
seven o’clock this morning there was
a grand procession of prelates, priests,
monks and soldiers from the Vatican
to Saint Peter’s,
His Holiness, the Pope, was carried
on his throne. There was an.immense
crowd assembled in tho interior ofthe
church before his arrival.
St. Petftr’s was most magnificently
decorated with cloths of gold, silver
tapestries, paintings and two hundred
thousand yards of crims n sUk. The
building was lighted with many mil.
lions of wax candles. ,
There were one hundred thousand
people inside its walls, including the
Naples, the foreign Minis*
try, five hundred cardinals, archbish*
ops and bishops, and many thousands
of clergymen, priests, friarsand monks.
There were nuns and soldiers from al
most every country in the world pre
sent, and the assembled multitude
made up a mopt bril'iant congregation. -
Pope Pius tlie Ninth celebiatfid the
Gregorian muss in- Latin and Greek.
There were two interruptions to tbe
ceremony. The curtains of one of the
w ndows of the church caught fire at
one moment, but they \,crc speedily
torn down by the guard, and no dam
age occurred. Alter this a man who.
had become crazy from excitement
produced by the pomp and glitter and
lights, cut his throat, and died just
under the bronze statue of St. Peter.
There was no confusion attending it.
His body was quickly removed outside.
The Pope at once proceeded to re.
consecrate the church stajned by the *
blood of the suicide, and then pro
ceeded with Ihe service of the altar/-
Listz composed extra music for the
grand Mass, and a chord placed on the
dome of St-Peter’s made the angelical
responses', tfhe cannon of Castle San
Ati-jelo thundering forth the accomr
paniment instead of the organ.
The Pope's voice during the cele
bration was clear and very sweet, and
heard all over the church.
It was a most sublime secne when
at the elevation of the Host the pre*
fates, priests and nobles, peasantry and
soldiers, were spectators, knelt to earth
to do reverence to the Higher than tho
Highest and who had Become for mau
lowlier than the lowiest of all those
present.
Romo, June 30.—The Holy Father,
both before and after the grand reli*
gious solemnities celebrated yesterday,,
and wherever he appeared in public,
was received with the most enthusias
tic manifestations of attachment and
devotion from the immense multitudes
of clergy and laymen' gathered fr>m
all parts of tbe world.
Tragedy in Brunswick. —On Fri v
day last Mr. E. G. Westmoreland act
ing British Consul, was shot ly-Capt.
E. J. Martin. Thero were two shots'
both of which took effect producing
instant death. A Challenge had pass
ed between them previously, but this
as was supposed had been settled.-
Both parti s had been seeking the
hand of the daughter df Cok C. I>.
Schlatter. Mi. Westmoreland had
been united in marriage to the young
lady on the morning of the day of the
tragedy. The jury of inquest render
ed a verdict of murder. Capt. Martin
was taken to Savannah and lodged in
jail.
®t?“Tho whites have almost caught
up, in New Orleans, under the more
liberal registration rulings. On the
29th, the lists contained the names of
14,419 whites, and 14,06* Wadka
There are probably sareral thousand
whites that ought yet Cos register.
lor the entire State of Louisiana,
tho Dicatfune of tho 3d has returns of
102,126 registered voters. Of.these
38,276 are whites, and 58,750 blacks.
GROOVER VILLE
Ac ademy
FOR VIAI.BA ASD FRWAMB
rpilE Exereieee of lhi* Iru-titntk-n wilt com
.1 mence n*tain. SEPT ’.M ISS7
The rale* of tuition am M follows, payable
iu (fold, or iu equivalent ia currency, per
quarter of tea wueka :
Primary Clan*.. .... yt-50
Interne .Ini i« Claat, . 6.00
Senior Class, .... R.oo
Mimic at the -uoial charge.
With a ' ..mmooiou, builitifw, jant Snmhod,
»i touted at Groov.-rviiUq Oa., 8r« wile* from
No I* A d> G R. R.. in the mid* <n a quiet
•nd refined neighborhood, free fro« the id
oncement* to diminution incidental to eity
life. student* will find advantages here.equal
ed by few institution* of the name tfntde.
R-strd can be hud in private families at or
dinary rate*.
For further particulars ad-ima
RICHARD RAMSEY
July 12 9b prtf Board Trustee*