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The Murder of Maximilian—An
Appeal to Avenge his Death.
New Orleans, July 13.—Noon. —
The following proclamation is being
circulated on the Rio Grande border:
Americans : Shall the civilized
people of a great nation stand passive,
and, by their silence, assent to the most
barbarous act of the nineteenth century
—the butchery in cold blood, by a
mongrel race of God-lorsaken wretches,
of a man who, by treachery, became a
prisoner of war? lie was certainly
not a filibuster, for he would not con
sent to become their Emperor until a
large and poworful delegation of the
representatives of the Mexican Gov
ernment waited on him in Europe and
pressed his acceptance of the Mexican
Grown, and which he only accepted
after much reluctance. History teach
es that the Mexican people, for nearly
the last half century, have been inoa
pable of self-government, while Maxi
milian has shown to the world that he
was the best ruler they ever had, and
was doing all that a wise man could do
to develope the resources of. that coun
try until betrayed by Judas Iscariot,
in whom he trusted. Maximilian was
one of nature’s noblemen, bccauso he
was an educated Christian gentleman,
and all his acts were high toned, chiv
alric and becoming the brother of an
Emperor. He was a brave man, and
died as a pure sacrifice to beastly swine.
The civilized world will honor and re
vere his memory for his many virtues
for ages to come, while it will shrink
with horror and detestation from the
perpetrators of this most dastardly
outrage of modern history. Araerii
cans ! The blood-hound Escobedo has
insolently and defiantly declared to
the world that before closing his milii
tary career he hopes to see the blood
of every foreigner spilt that resides in
his country. Shall this be so ? Out
with this foul blot that stains the
American continent. Let us meet in
our strength that we may give expres
sion to our ineffgnation, and let it fall
on those who, in the eyes of the Chris
tian world, are morally responsible for
the death of Maximilian. Yea, even
though it fall upon a Secretary of
State, whose little bell, alas, did not
tinkle to save the life of one of the
best men that ever lived. “Honor to
whom honor is due, but let justice be
done though the heavens should fall."
[Signed,]
A Native op New York.
Maximilian’s Decree. —The an
nexed decree of Maximilian is the
main point urged against him at his
trial, and is, therefore, of historic in,
terest. It is held that atrocities were
committed under it, which, however,
was denied on 'the trial, and the addi
tional statement made that it was de
signed as a terror and prepared by the
French Commander-in-chief.
Mexicans: Tho cause which Don
Benito Juarez defended with so much
valor and constancy has already suc
cumbed under the force, not only of
ifhe national will, butaisoot the other
law which that officer invokes in sup
port of his pretensions. To-day even
the faction to which the said cause is
degenerated is abandoned by the de
parture of the chief from his native
soil.
The national government for a long
time was lenient, and exercised great
clemency, so as to givo those misled
and misinformed men an opportunity
ifca rally to the majority of tho nation,
and to place themselves anew in tho
path of duty. It has fulfilled its ob
ject; tho honorable men have assem
bled under its banner, and have accep
ted the just and liberal principles
•which regulate its politics. The dis
order is only maintained by some lea.
■dors carried away by unpatriotic pas
sions, assisted by demoralized porsons,
itoo ignorant to comprehend political
principals, and by an unprincipled
soldiery, tho last and sad remnants of
rthc civil war. Hereafter contests will
•only ffe between the honorable men
of the nation and tho gangs of crimi
nals and robbeis. Clemency will cense
now, for it would only profit the mob
who burn villages, rob and murder
peaceful citizens, poor old men and
defenceless women.
The government, resting cn its pow
er, from this day will be inflexible in
its punishments, since the laws of
civilization, the rights of humanity
and the exigencies of morality de
mand it.
Maximilian.
Mexico, October 2, 1865.
Confiscation. —It is now said on
what may be considered semi-official
authority that the question of confis
cation will not be permitted to be act
ed upon until the regular session of
Congress, commencing with the first
Monday in December. At least such
is believed to be Mr, Stevens’ view of
the matter, he being satisfied that any
action on the subject now would provo
abortive, and only result in opening
the eyes of the negroes to the rascally
deception being practiced upon them.
There are but eight confiscationists in
the House and two in the Senate.
®6yThe debate in the Connecticut
Legislature on the divorce laws brings
out the fact, that during the past year
488 dissolutions of the marriage bond
occurred in that small State, and that
daring the previous year there were
quite as many divorces. One lawyer
who took part in the debate said he
had himself procured within the year
three divorces for one woman! Phis
beats Chicago, and Chicago beats—
well, any other place this side of Hades
J&'We learn that an intelligent
eolored man of Newton county, who
had been spoken of as a registrar, up
on hearing the “iron-clad” oath read,
remarked that he could take it consci
entiously, but said he would be d—d
if he would eit with white men who
could ! — Sav. Herald.
UmitlKnt Enterprise
~~ (SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLB, GA.:
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1867.
SOUTH GEORGIA & FLORIDA
RAILROAD,
It will be gratifying to the friends
of tho above road in Thomas, to find
that the people of Dougherty and
Mitohell counties are beginning to
manifest a deep interest in the enter
prise. It will be seen by the call we
publish to-day, for a meeting in Al
bany, that our friends at the other end
of the road are goiDg to work in good
earnest, with a determination to build
the road with the feast possible delay.
That is the right spirit, such a spirit
as that which moved Thomas county,
and a spirit that will speedily unite
Thomasville and Albany with bonds
of iron. We must have representatives
in the Albany meeting and get all the
counties interested together for final
action.
TRIAL OF MAXIMILIAM.
The trial of the Austrian Archduke
and Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian,
■seems to have been a mere form to
excuse cold blooded murder. Even
the rules of Mexican law were not
complied with, but the Courtmartial
hurried through the few preliminaries
to execution, as if fearful that by some
means the great prisoners would es
cape their bloody clutches. A more
cowardly and beastly barbarian outrage
has not been perpetrated since the fall
of the Spanish Inquisition, from which
the Mexicans have doubtless inherited
their barbaric cruelty. The whole ci
vilized world, and even the Northern
Republicans, were shocked and dis
gnsted by the news of this greatest of
Mexican atrocities. The only people
we have heard from who pretend to
respectability, that have not expressed
their horror and disgust of these atro
cious murders, is a few Northern Rad
icals, headed by Forney and Logan ,
who the world knows, would butcher
8,000,000 of enlightened white pea
pie, to scoure the votes of half a mil
lion illiterate colored men. It was
doubtless tho advice and encourage
ment of such men that inspired the
bloody deed of Juarez in Mexico.
Forney and Logan liavo set up a howl
of disappointment, like oowardly hye
nas, cheated of their prey, because
they were not allowed to butcher
Southern men who they feared to meet
in arms, but they are greatly consoled
upon discovering a 11 fellow feeding ’’ in
Juarez, who, more fortunate than them
selves, enjoyed the opportunity of
quenching his thirst for blood. Their
Mexican champion of “nerve," how
ever, will have but brief rest with his
gorge of human gore. Already tho
“ hand has written upon the wall,"
and the murderer of Maximilian and
his Generals, hears the muttering thun
ders of discontent, and tho penis grow
louder and tho lightning’s flash brigh
ter and fiercor, as tho blood of the in
nocent cries for rovengo and sends a
thrill of horror through the gathering
hosts. And it will be revenged !
Heaven has decreod it since the day
Mount Sini trembled to its base with
the judgments against “man’s inhu
manity to man.” Let Forney and
Logan therefore be assured, that their
“Dragon’s Tooth” have sprung up in
Mexico, and takan deep root in the
soil of that unhappy country. Lot
them be assured also, that the harvest
is rapidly approaching, and that For
ney and Logan shall be cowardly spec
tators of tho gathering.
MAXIMILIAN’S JUDGES.
The time may come when our read
ers may desiro to remember tho names
of the bloodthirsty men who composed
the Court which condemned and sen*
tcnced Maximilian to die the doatb of
a traitor. Maximilian, Miramon, Meija,
wore the three noblo heads which fell
by the sontenco of a Court composed
or the following material :
President— -Lt. Col. l’laton Sanoltez.
Members —Capt. Joso Y. Ramirez,
Capt. Miguel Lojero,
Capt. Ignacio Jurndo,
Uapt. Juan Ruodnry Anza,
Capt. Joso Verasti&ue,
Uapt. Lucas Villagrnu.
Judge Advocate, Lieut. Col. Man
uel Aspirox.
Maximilian chose for his counsol,
Mr. JeßUs Varquez, Kulnlio Ortega,
Mariano ltiva Riva l’alacio and Raf
ael Martinez dq la Torro.
Miramon choso Messrs. Jauregui
and Ambrosio Moreno.
Mejia choso Mr. I’rospero C. Yoga.
These last are tho men who exerted
all their ability and exhausted all their
eloquence, the brief period allotted by
Juarez would allow, to divert tho
bloody vengcanoe of a tyrant; but thoy
appealed to tho dark and remorseless
hearts of barbarians.
Radical Congross—Extra Session-
House. —Mr. Stevens introduced
two bills on reconstruction, one enti
tled a bill to enable the inhabitants of
the Southern territories to form State
governments. They were ordered to
be printed, and referred to the Com
mittee on Reconstruction.
Washington, July 16.—Our Consul
at Yera Cruz, under date of June 28,
writes to the State Department that
the City of Yera Cruz and Castle of
Saint Juan de Ulloa is in quiet pos
session of the Mexican national Gen.
Benavides. The Imperial chief und
foreign troops have embarked and left
the country.
SOUTH GEORGIA & FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
The following letter addressed to the
Albany News, and referring to the call
of citizens for a Railroad Meeting at
Albany, will show some ol the interest
felt for our railroad enterprise in
Dougherty county:
Albany, Ga., July 16, 166".
Mr. Editor :—l would call attention to
the suggestion of some of the leading citi
zens of Dougherty and Mitchell counties,
for a Railroad Meeting, which will appear
in your columns to-day.
To say that this road will save you
nearly one-half of the present high freights
on Western produce, and put Albany in
fifty miles nearer to tide-water, and give
competition at both points, with monopo
lies that seem determined to exact the ut
most farthing possible, is enough to show
that this road must be built at once. Let
other projects give way to the only prac
ticable one, and let us all concentrate in
this at once.
1 assure you our people feel a deep in
terest in the road, and will subscribe lib
erally to it, when properly brought before
(hem.
Yours, truly,
R. K. IIINES.
Lest — in Disgust. —Col. Hart, who
was defeated yesterday, says the Flo
rif ian of the 12th, for President of
the Republican Convention, left this
morning in the 10 o’clock train for
Jacksonville, carrying with him, we
are told, several delegates Tho Col.
onel’s fate is another illustration of
the “ingratitude of”—Republicans,
lie has labored, so his friends say,
early and late, for “the party;’’ and it
was even alleged in tho debate yes
terday that but for him, this Conven
tion would not have been held. In
point of fact, he was held up as tho
father of the Republican party in Flo
rida. But his children repudiate him
—drive him "forth and take possession
of the horitage.
“ Keen were liis pangs, but keener far to feel
lie nursed the pinion that impelled the steel.”
Tallahassee Sentinel.
The fate of Col. Hart, foreshadows
the fate of some intensely negro loving
white Radicals in Geoigia. Already
some of the Southern Yankee Radi
cals are becoming alarmed at the am>
lit ion of their colored dupes, and be
gin to see that the colored man con
siders himself quite as competent to
hold office as an ignorant Yankee oiti
zenized by the Sherman bill. For our-
Belf, we have to say that we are ready
always to vote for the blackest negro
men in tho South, in preference to any
recently imported incendiary Radical,
in the Frcedmen’s Bureau or out of it,
and we shall bring out colored candi
dates against all such.
Prom the Albany Tri Weekly News.
SOUTH GEORGIA & FLORIDA
RAILROAD.
To the Citizens of Tho in it*, Dough
erty mill mitchell Counties i
We, tho undersigned, feeling a deep
interest in the early completion of the
Railroad from Thomasville to Albany,
would most respectfully call the atten
tion of all interested to the fact, that
if an immediate and united effort is
made this road can be secured. The
charter, granted by the Legislature,
cannot be used for any other road, and
the road if built as chartered, will
provo a fine investment and a publie
benefit.
Wo would urge that immediate steps
bo taken by those interested to begin
the enterprise. Asa preliminary step,
we would suggest a public meeting bo
held in Albany upon some day in Au
gust next, that may be selected by tho
Thomasville friends of the road, and
that at suoh meeting some definite
plan of operations bo agreed upon for
future action.
DOUGIIEUTY COUNTY.
R K Hines, D A Yason,
J G Stephens, II .J Cook,
.) T Dickinson, J B Higdon,
1‘ W Alexander, G* M Clark,
JII Campbell, Tucker & Ball,
O R C Todd, J T Sims,
W W Kendrick, DII Rope,
N O Brinson, Clms Volkcr,
R A Boers, L E .t II li Welch,
Sam’l Mayer, Shackelford & Cos,
S F DeGraflenreid, Jns II Hill,
W I Vason, Fields & Alloy,
J M Mcroer, W Q Dickinson,
Marx Smith, .J M Cooper,
John Talbott, R T Russel,
WII Gilbort & bro W O 11 Cooper,
W A Farley, 0 O Brooks,
K Richardson, I- ft D Warren,
M U Pulaski, S 8 Sweet,
A O Westbrook, O L Woodward,
R N Westbrook, E G Connally,
J P Graves, W T Grant, M. D.
MITCHELL COUNTY,
ltobt J Bacon, J J Bradford,
II 11 Baoon, W A Strother,
W T Walton, Troup Butler.
J W Fears and M P Calloway, Macon.
Mark lluson and C G Farmer, Terrell.
The Prospective Satrapy of Ken
tucky.—Tho Louisville Deinoorat, is
in spite of its name Radical, and well
posted in tiro revolutionary designs of
its party, gives notieo that should Kcn
tuoky elect a Demooratio Governor,
she will bo degradod from her high
position as a State, and reduced to a
military district with an army officer
at her head. This result, the Demo
crat says, is “as certain as that God
divided the waters from the waters.”
Thus wc see the revolutionary party
“lengthening their cords and strength
ening their stakes.’’
Good for Butler. —Speaking of ne
gro suffrage in the South, General
Butler, in his impeachment spcoch in
New York, said :
Universal, impartial suffrage, allied
to universal ignorance, will only add
to our danger—giving to the masses
the club of Hcrculos, to be wielded
with tho strength of the blind Samson,
after he has been a slave grindiug in
the house of the Philistines.
From Washington.
Washington, July 15. —The Piesi
dont sent to the Senate the document
called for, regarding reconstruction,
and estimates the expense of carrying
out these bills at 814,000,000 addi
tional to the $2,100,000 already ex
pended. This is the aggregate for
governing these States before the war.
This turn, continues tho President,
would be considerably augmented if
the State machinery be operated by
the Federal government, and would be
largely increased if the United States,
by abolishing tho State government,
should become responsible for liabili
ties incurred by them before the re
bellion, in laudiblc efforts to develop
their resources, and in no wise connec
ted with insurrectionary purposes.—
These debts will approximate a bun
drod million dollars, the greater part
of which is due loyal citizens and for
eign:rs.
Its subject for Congressional con
sideration, is whether the assumption
of such obligations would not impair
the national credit.
Ex-Gov. Johnson on Resonstruc
tion-
Augusta, r’uly 16. —Ex-Governor
Hershell V. Johnson has writton a
letter in which he advises the people
of Georgia not to accept the terras of
the Militarj Reconstruction acts. Af
ter reviewirg the situation and terms
proposed for reconstruction of the
Southern States, he sys: “ I never
will approve of, consent to, or accept
the poisoned chalice offered to our lips,
nor will I advise any fellow citizen to
do so. If jormitted to vote, in view
of the turn of events, I should register
and I hope every man in Georgia who
can will do so, with tho view of defeat
ing tho schemes for degradation and
the overthrow of republican govern
ment.”
The Reconstruction Bill passed
by Congress on Saturday, differs in
two important respects from the meas
ure that originally passed the House.
The latter provided that all persons
now in office in tlie late seceded States
should take the iron-clad oath, while
tho measure as finally passed provides
that it shall be administered to “all
persons hereafter elected or appointed
to office in said districts.’’
In the secoud place, the House bill
provided specifically that no court,
State or Federal, should interfere in
any manner with the District Com
manders or their subordinates. The
bill as passed rejects this language and
provides that “ no District Commander
shall be bound in his action by any
opinion of any civil officer of the Uni
ted States.” As Congress refused to
designate the courts and adopted gen
eral language, tho natural inference is
that they did not intend to deny juris
diction to those tribunals; but like
everything else that comes from the
Radicals, the language was made gen
eral for the express purpose of throw
ing responsibility on tho commanders
nnd allowing thorn to construo the law
as they please and set asido all au
thoiity over them, from the courts or
elsewhere. — Telegraph.
Tennessee. —The Louisville Journal
daguerreotypes our unhappy sister State
under tho rule of Southern Radicals,
who are far more to be dreaded than
tho fanatics of the North.
This is tho situation and the specta
cle in Tennessee : Tho candidate for
tho principal State offico has tho sole
appointment of the registers, who can
decide without appeal who shall and
who shall not vote in tho election.—
This candidate announces, by procla
mation, that lie will rcccivo only the
returns of the judges and clerks of his
own appointmeut; lie declares that his
own constructions of tho franchise law
is the law itself; and he endeavors to
intimidate tho nnti-Brownlow voters
by threatening to bayonet them if they
npprouoh the polls.
And this is what Radicalism calls
“guaranteeing a Republican form of
government to every State,” and a fair
sample of tho sort of reconstruction
which makos Tennessee a Stato in the
Union, while Texas is onlya territorial
appendage.
Why Maximilian was Shot. —Mr.
Romero is said to attribute tho stern
measures against Maximilian and the
Mexican rebels to “the desire of the
Mexican authorities to take warning
by tho ill success of the conciliatory
policy of the President and Cabinet of
tho United States toward traitors, and
also a desire to win the sympathies of
tho dominant political party in this
country by a stringent and relentless
roUI'MO (vjnr«ar«l tho (Wlftll uml JottlOt*
tic enomicHof tho Mexican Republic.’’
There is no doubt but that Juarez
had the approval of the Radicals when
he murdered Maximilian, and recent
developments in Congress show how
well he lias succeeded. Some interest
ing views on this point will bo found
in our Washington letter on the first
page.— - Telegraph ,
Mail Service at the South —We are
glad to learn, from tho National In.
telligencer, that the Southern mail ser
vice, restored as before the war, which
went into operation on the Ist instant,
includes about ono thousand routes,
and is as completely under contract
with responsible parties as at any for
mer period. No effort has becti spared
by the Department to furnish the very
best service in regard to frequency of
trips and best connections, so that tho
most remote part of each State may be
laterally webbed with postoflices.
Col. Sibley’s Headquarters. —The
Commandant of Georgia, his staff, aud
the several headquarter attaches, have
reached Atlanta and taken possession
of the second story of Mr. Markham’s
Empire Building, on Whitehall street,
where Col. Sibley will have his head,
quarters.
[YOR the southern enterprise.]
TO THE MEN OF COLOR OF
THOMAS COUNTY.
Number 3.
I intended to tell you in my last,
(but my article became too long,) that
the only traitor you read of in the his
tory of the old Revolutionary War, Was
tho Yankee General Benedict Arnold.
He was a brave and untiring soldier;
but his inherent love of money opened
his bosom to the temptation of British
gold; he betrayed his charge, bar
gained away his trust, and was upon
the point of delivering it over to the
enemy, when our great and beloved
Washington counteracted his proceed
ings and saved the country.
It appears to me, that these people
are given over to the devil to do his
mean and dirty work. Let them go
at what they will--start when and
where they may—let their aim be mo
ral or malicious —religious or rascally—
they cannot help bringing up with
some mean, money making speculation,
in which someone is to suffer.
It will bo well for you to treasure
up this little p ; ece of their history in
your minds; it will afford you tho key
by which you can unlock and see into
much of their pretended good inten
tions towards you. Recollect, that
whatever they propose to do fur you,
they expect to be rewarded for it; and
in any bargain between you and them,
they look for the lion’s share; and will
have it too, unless you watch them
very closely.
1 have said that they come long dis
tances, and spend much money, under
tho pretence of disinterested friend
ship towards you, but you may calcu
late that thoy have some money leak
ing scheme connected with their move
ment, by which they hope fully to pay,
and doubly pay themselves back again,
or they would not be there. They do
nothing upon any other terms. Why,
at home, among themselves, members
of the same family will keep little ac
counts against each other for trifling
sums and expenditures —the father
against the son and the son against the
father—the mother against the daugh
ter and tho daughter against the mo
ther—brother against sister and sister
against brother. It is amusing to a
Southern man visiting the North, to
hear one Yankee invite another into a
public drinking saloon, to take some
refreshment with him; and then see
him (No. 1,) coolly put down his five
or ten cents for his own drink aud
leave his friend (No. 2,) to pay for his.
But this is tho custom of the country,
brought about by the greedy, grasp
ing, avaricious disposition of the peo
ple. And so raised at home —with
such dispositions ingrafted within
them from childhood—with every hu
mane and natural affection torn from
their breasts by the love of gain, do
you think they will put tbemsolves to
the expense and trouble aforesaid, for
you, all strangers to them, for nothing ?
You aro not only black, but nctually
pea green if you think any such thing.
From a generous, high-toned Southern
man you might look for liberal acts
without his calculating on any special
reward, as you have seen it from your
youth up, but, in plain terms, you are
a fool if you expect any such thing
from a Yankee. I am not so ungen
erous as to say that the above charac
ter is universal in Yankcedom; but it
is general, and the exceptions are few
and far between.
Your loving
Uncle Ben.
Tftad Stevens on Confiscation. —A
correspondent of the New York Her
ald professes to have had a conversa.
lion with Old Thad. Here is part of
it:
Question. —Do you still adhere to
the policy of confiscation ?
Mr. Stevens. —I look on tho lead
ing rebels of tho South as great crinn
inals, who have not yet expatiated
their crimes. They have entailed up
on the loyal people, by their voluntary
and wieked acts, much suffering and
sorrow—tho loss of millions of treas*
uro and hundreds of thousands of
lives. They have done this in the
very worst cause that could bo coo.
ceivcd—in an attempt to break up a
noble, benefioient and freo govern
ment. They have waged upon us a
flagrantly unjust war. They deserve
to have imposed upon them tho heav
iest penalties of war, now that they
are conquered. But as they are our
countrymen I would be merciful to
them. I would not tako their lives,
and I would not begger and oppress
them. But if I had my way, I would
at tho very least impose upon the rich
moil of the ex-rebel territory— those
who have come out ol their wieked
struggle with large weallh —a mild
confiscation, sufficient to repay the
loyal men of the South all they have
lost by confiscation at the hands of the
rebels, and Northern men all tho dam
ages they havo suffered by rebel raids
and invasions,. Thcro aro thirty or
forty thousand rich rebels in the con
quered territory whose wealth would
suffice to pay theso claims and yet not
leave them beggars. These classes of
sufferers by tho war have no other
means or hope of obtaining repayment,
for their losses, and it is but just that
they should be repaid.
Mexico. —Blow at the Church —
Ortega in the Field. —A coirespon
dent v oftho New York Times writes
from tho City of Mexico, on the 2d,
as follows:
The blow to tho Church has been
struch by Bax. He ordered, last
night, the nuns to disocupy the con
vents within forty-eight hours. So
from henceforth there are to be no
more convents in Mexico. The disoc
upation is going on to-day, and by
sunrise to-morrow tho SCO nuns of this
Capital will be separated, never, per.
haps, to reunite ou earth
Letter from Gen. Toombs.
The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes
the following:
Washington, Ga., Juno 19, ’67.
My Dear Sir: Your letter of the
6th instant was duly received, and
would - have been before replied to but
for my absence from homo. Having
but recently arrived in the United
States I knew nothing of yotlr pro
posed organization—What it was for,
or Who were in it—when I wrote my
letter in reply to your’s of the 9th ult.
After the reception of yours of the
6th inst., with the proceedings of tho
Cincinnati Convention, I accept with
the greatest pleasure the position to
which I hava been assigned, and will
cheerfully give my utmost efforts to
promote, establish and vitalize those
principles.
The first Kentucky resolution con*
tains the principles of my Whole polit
ical life. I have stood by them from
my youth to the present hour, I have
maintained them in peace and war, in
power and out of power, in prosperity
and adversity ; and I am as ready to
day as I was thirty years ago, when I
entered public life as a nullifier, “to
spend and be spent’’ in the sacred
cause ; and if my sacrifices of all sorts
had been a thousand times more than
they have been, I should considerthem
well spent “for a lost cause,” rather
than accept any other interpretation of
the American Constitution.
I, therefore, accept any man as a
brother, in peace or war, who will hon,
estly stand by and defend them. I
will be with him as long as the weak,
ness of humanity will enable me to
stand by the truth to my own hurt. —
Therefore, “sink or swim, survive or
perish,” I am with the West and South
for the maintainance of the Cincinnati
Platform of April 13th.
I will take immediate measures to
organize the State of Georgia on that
basis, and will urge the true men of
the (so called) ten rebel State to “fall
into line.’’ You can fully count on
them—l have tried them.
I will leave to-morrow with the
view of beginning the organization in
Georgia, and enlarging yonr subscrip
tion, as tlie means of propagating true
constitutional ideas, and I will en
deavor to send you subscriptions, from
time to time, as tho organization is en
larged .
I regret nothing in the past but the
dead and the failure, and I am to-day
ready to use the best means I can
co nmand to establish the principles
for which 1 fought.
* * * * *
I am, respectfully and truly, your
friend,
R. Toombs.
W. M. Corry, Corresponding Secre
tary Pemocratic Central Committee.
Tho Reconstruction Bill asit Pass
ed Both Houses of the Radical
Congress.
Washington,. July 13., —Tho follow
ing is a text of the Bill as it passed
both houses :
Re it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled,, That it is hereby declared to
have been tho true intent and moaning
of the Act of tho second day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
seven, entitled “An Act to provide
for the more efficient government of
the rebel States,”’and of the Act sup
plementary thereto, on the 23d day of
March, 1867, that the governments
then existing in the rebel States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkan
sas were not legally established gov
ernments, and that therelore said gov
ernments, if continued, were continued
subject in all respects to the Military
Commanders of the respective Dis.
triots, and of the paramount authority
of Congress.
Section 2. That the commander of
any district named in said act shall
have power, subject to- tho disappro
val of the General of the Army of the
United States, to have effect till dis
approved, whonover in the opinion of
such commander the proper adminis
tration of said act ahull require it, to
suspend or removo from, office, or from
tho performance of official duties and
the exercise of official powers, any of.
ftccr or person holding or exercising or
professing: to hi Id or cxcrciso any
civil or military offico or duty in such
district under any power, election, ap
pointment or authority derived from
or granted by or claimed under any
so-called State or tho Government
thereof, or any municipal or other di
vision thereof, and upon such suspen
sion or removal suoh commander, sub
ject to the disapproval ot the General
as aforesaid, shall have the power to
provide from time to time for the per
formance of tho said duties of such of
ficer or person so suspended or re
moved, by the detail of some compe
tent officer or soldier of the army, or
by the appointment of some other per
son to perform the same, and to till
vacancies occasioned by death, resig
nation or otherwise.
Section 3. That tho General of the
army of tho United States shall be in
vested with all the powers of suspan
sion, removal, appointment and detail
granted in tho preceding section, to
District Commanders.
Section 4. And be it farther enac
ted, That the acts of the officers of the
army already done, in removing in
said Districts persons exercising the
functions of civil officers and appoint
ing others in theirstead, a.e hereby
confirmed ; Provided, that any person
heretofore or hereafter appointed by
any District Commander to exercise
the functions of any civil office may
be removed either by the military
officers in command of the District or
by the General of the army, and it
shall be the duty of such Commanders
to remove from office as aforesaid all
persons who arc disloyal to the gov
ernment of the United Slates, or who
use their official influence in any man*
nor to hinder, delay, prevent or ob*
struct the due and proper administra*
tion of this act and the acts to which
it is sepplementary.
Section 5. That the Boards 6f Reg*
istration provided for in the act enti*'
tied qn act supplemtary to an act en.'
titled an act to provide for the moret
efficient government o f the rebel
States, passed March 23, 1867, shall
have power, and it shall be their duty, -
before allowing the registration of any
person, to ascertain upon such facta
or information as they can obtain/
whether such person is entitled to be
registered under said act, trad the odt ti
required by Said a«I rhall riot be con
cltfefive eti each qrieafio'ri; and no per
son shall &e registered unless sqjeh
Board shall decide that fie' is; entitled
thereto; aud such Board shall siW
have powef to examine under oath, to
be administered by any member of
such board, any one, touching the!
qualification of any person claiming
registration, but in every case of a re. -
fusal by the Board to register an ap
plicant, and in every ease of striking
his name from the list, as hereinafter'
provided, the Board shall make anotd
or memorandum, which shall be re*
turned with the registration list to the
commanding General of the District,
setting forth the grounds of such re.
fusal or such striking from the list;
Provided, that no person shall be dis
qualified as a member of any Board
of Registration by reason of race or
color.
Section 6. That the intent aud
meaning of the oath prescribed in said
supplementary act is, among other
things, that no person who has been a
member of the. Legislature of any
State or who has held any executive
or judicial office in any State, whether
he has taken an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States or
not, and whether he was holdinq such
office at the commencement of the re*
bellion, or had held it before, and who
was afterwards engaged in insurrection
or rebellion against the United States,
or giving aid or comfort to the ene
mies thereof, is entitled to be register
ed or vo*e ; and the words “executive
or judial office in any State,” in said
oath mentioned, shall be construed to
include all civil officers created by law
for the administration of any general
law of a State lor the administration of
| justice.
j Section 7. That the time for coru
l pletirig the original registration provi
ded for in said act may in discretion
of the Commander of any District, bo
extended to the Ist day of October,
1867, and the Boards cf Registration
shall have the power, and it shall bo
their duty, commencing fourteen daya
prior to any election under s.id act,
and- upon reasonable notice of the
time and place thereof, to revise for a
period of five days the registration
lists, and, upon beir\g satisfied that
any person, not entitled thereto has
been registered, to strike the name of
such person from the lists, and such
Board shall also during the same period
add to such registry the names of all
persons who at that tirwe possesses
the qualifications required by said act
who have not been already registered ;
and no person shall ab any time be
entitled to bo registered or to vote by
reason of any Executive pardon or am.
nesty for any act or thing which with
out such pardon or amnesty would,
disqualify him from registering or
voting.
Section 8. That section four of said
last named act shall be construed to
authorize the commanding General
named therein,'whenever he shall
deem it needful, to remove any mem
ber of a Board of Registration and to
appoint another in his stead, and to fill
any vacancy in such Board.
Section 'J. That all members of said
Boards of Registration, an.d all jjersonp
hereafter elected ox apj-ipjqted to of
fice in said Military District? under
any so-ealled State or municipal au
thority, or by detail or appointment of
tho District Commanders, shall be re
quired to take and subscribe the oath
of office prescribed by law for office of
the United States.
Section 10. That no District Com*
mandor or member of tho Board of
Registration, or any of the officers or
appointees acting under them, shall be
bound in his action by any opinion of
any civil officer of the United States.
Section. 11. That all tho provisions
of this act, and the acts to which this
is supplementary, shall be construed
liberally, to tho end that all tho in*
tcrests thereof may be fully and per
fectly carried out.
ry*We never saw n Letter verification o(
the old Ullage that "one (next article is worth
more than a hundred inferior onoe,” than when
we visited the laboratory of Professor Kay ton
a few days ago. We were shown the different
prurosaes in the manufacture of his popular
medicines, from the extract! tin of the medi
cinal virtues from roots ami herbs, to the final
wrapping and sealing of tbe bottles and !>oxea
for shipping. We saw several verv large or
ders from adjoining States, and the wrileis
stating that these n-meiliea were creating a
furore unknown in the annals of medicines
It is of course unnecessary for ns to recommend
onr readers to supply themselves with them,
as undoubtedly every reader of onr paper lias
these remedies in the house.
The Professor's remedies consists of K*r.
van's M agic t ear, for Disriho-a, Dysentery,
Cholera, Stc . KavtoVs OlkC* Vitxe for
Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Toothache. Sprains,
Headaches, Hnrns, Ate . and Ksttox's Dfs
rzrvic Piles, for Dyspepsia, Constipation or
C’oetiveuess, .Sick Headache aud elf direases
of the Liver. Stomach, Bowels and digestive
Prof. Kayton applied his remedies
free to several in our presence, all of whom
acknowledged themselves pleased with their
effects —SacammiA Occasional.
Address all orders to Prof 11. H Kayton,
Savannah, Ga, or to A. A. Solomons At Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.
IT Beware of cowiterfeiu, the genuine
have Prof B. H Kayt -n » signature on each
bottle and box
Ear sale by Dr P. 8. Bower, Thomasville
July 19
Gen. Sickles to Senator JTrumbull.
—Geo. Sickles has written to Senator
Trumboll urging a general amneaty,
except to individuals to be named, on
the ground among others, that few ot
the disfranchised ebss are fit to hold
office.