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TELEGRAPHIC.
Western. Union Telegraph.
Special to the Southern Enterprise.
Telegraphic Communication
to Thomasvllle.
Pres* Creeling*.
naatgamccr Blair Denounce* the
Prealdent and Radicals-
Cotton Crop. Worm, Market*, Ace.
Maximilian s Body.
CTecley’s Nomination n Joke.
Mcmphia Nary Yard Deatroyed.
The following dispatch was received
in answer to our greeting this morm
ing te the Savannah press. The Her
ald, not yet heard from :
Savannah, July 23, 1867.
To L. C. Bryan All hands recip
rooate your good wishes —the Devil
would, but he is sick. We know that
there is much “.Enterprise’’ in Thom
»sville. Put it forward till you have
Railroad connections with Albany and
Florida.— [ Advertiser.
July 23, 1867. —Montgomery Blair
spoke at Rockbridge, Alum Springs,
Saturday, severely denounced the
Radicals and President Johnson. He
said the latter defeated the Conserva
tive party by retaining its enemies in
office. He would advise the Presi
dent to get rid of the spies around
him and make Gen. Grant, who he be
lieved was a just man, temporary Sec
retary.
New Orleans. —The cotton pros'
pects continue dubious, owing to con.
tinued rains. The worm has appeared
in some districts and the wet weather
prevented the grass being cleaned out.
Jt is reported that in some sections the
.cotton has been plowed up and corn
•planted. All agree that even two
thirds of a crop anywhere is contin
gent upon the cessation of the rains.
The weekly report shows nine deaths
by cholera and only two by yellow lei
ver.
Vera Cruz advices say Maximilian’s
body is coming there for dilivery to
the Austrians. The Tribune consid
ers Greeley’s nomination as Minister
to Austria a joke on the part of
Secretary Seward.
Mobile. —The late incessant rains,
it is feared, will be very injurious to
the cotton —it is probable that only
two-thirds of a crop will be made.
London, 22. — Consols 74 7-6,
Bonds 72 5-8.,
Liverpool. —Noon. —Cotton firm,
sales 12,000 bales—N Y Stocks steady
39}. Cotton more active and very
firm, sales 3,000 bales at 27; Flour
Bteady—Southern 9.50 a 17 —Corn
heavy with decline at noon.
sales 600 bales; low middling 24};
receipts 186 bales; sugar and molasses,
do change ; Stocks light.
The Memphis Navy Yard and 300
bales of cotton destroyed by an incen
diary fire. Loss 300,000.
Congressional Proceedings.
Washington, July 20.—The excite,
ment in the House to-day was very
great, the impeachcrs taking advan>
taga of a thin House, carried their
point of ordering the evidence reported
and printed, but Mr. Wilson who has
strongly opposed the movement trifled
over the matter until the Speaker’s
hammer fell for adjournment. This
again defeating them, there was an ir
regular discussion regarding adjourn
ment, in which the President was de.
nounced as contumacious, and Mr.
Chandler said there was a sort of a
hybrid concern in the Senate, called
'Conservative Radicalism.
Mr. Fessenden took further remarks
<of Chandler as personal, and said ho
had but one thing to say—“ The Se
nator from Michigan says what is not
true.”
Mr. Chandler hurled back Mr. Fes
senden’s contempt with scorn, when
the amiable controversy was intenup
ted by a motion to go into Executive
session.
The Senate adopted the report of
the Committee of Conference, and ad
journed to the 21st of November.
The President nominated Horace
Greeley for the Austrian Mission, but
-objection being made under tho rule
of the Senate, that nominations cannot
be’considered the same day, the nomi
nation goes over.
The Houso resolution ordering thir
ty-five hundred oopies of the report on
Physics, and the Ilydography of the
Missiissippi river. Passed.
The Judiciary Committee was au
thorized to send for persons and pa
pers on the question whether Ken
tucky, Maryland and Delaware have
Republican Constitutions.
The Conference Committee reported
on the adjournment from 4 o’clock to
the 21st November. Agreed to —
yeas 61, nays 45.
Mr. Wilson was about reporting tho
evidence on the impeachment when
the Speakers hammer fell.
Adjourned.
Death of an Editor. —The Augusta
Press regrets to hear of the Death of
NV m. N. White, Esq., editor and pro.
prietor of the Southern Cultivator,
which took place on Sunday last, at
his residence in Athens, Gs. Through
his energy and industry the Cultivator
was second to no other Agricultural
paper in the country.
brought you to prison,
my colored friend
“Two constables, sab.”
“Yes, but I mean had intemperance
anything to do with it?”
“ Yes, sab; dey was bofe of’em
drunk,”
Enterprise
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1867.
RAIL ROAD MEETING IN
ALBANY.
A large number of the citizens of
Dougherty county, having expressed
the desire to hold their South Georgia
& Florida Railroad meeting at a time
convenient for the friends of tho road
in Thomas, we are authorized to an
nounce that Wednesday, the 7th day
of August, will suit the convenience
of those among us who will be able to
meet our friends of Dougherty in
oounsel. The railroad men of Thomas,
therefore, will be at Camilla, in Mitch,
ell county, on Saturday the 3rd, at
Newton, in Baker county, on Monday
the stli, and at Albany, on Wednes
day, the 7th of August.
DON’T PAIL TO REGISTER.
We publish to-day the list of ap
pointments of the Board for liegistrai
tion in Thomas county, and say to all
go and register. Don’t stop to en
quire whether you can register or not.
Go to the Board and decide it there.
Many men who think they cannot reg.
ister, will find that they can register.
At any rate, give it a fair test. It
may be of the greatest importance to
you hereafter to have your name reg>
istered. It can harm no man and may
turn out to be of vast importance. You
may be disfranchised by the Board,
but you will certainly be disfranchised
if you fail to go before it.
FIFTY STUMP SPEAKERS
COMING!
The Savannah Republican, as its
name indicates, a Republican journal,
disapproves the course of tho Northern
Republicans in filling the South with
stump speakers, to distract and stir up
enmity and hatred among tho people
at this important crisis. The Radicals
are resolved to convert the negroes at
all hazards, and for that purpose they
arc organizing a corps of stump demo
gogues, distinguished for thoir un
blushing impudence* thoir total want
of humanity and regard for law and
good order. These fair samples of
Northern Radicals are to be distribu
ted over tho South to “cnliyhtei »’’ tho
deluded blacks and prepare them for
the ballot box.
Tho Savannah Republican depre
cates Buch aotion on tho part of its
Northern friends and says, “We are
for party, but not bo lost to all sense
of honor and patriotism as to sink our
love of country that
source, and hasten to recognize tho re
turning sense of justice.
BEAST BUTTLER ON NEGRO
SUFFRAGE.
Who would have thought that Beast
Buttler could find it in his heart to
oppose negro suffrage ? Yet so it is
Buttler thinks that “universal ignor
ance” should not be allied with univer
sal suffrage. But hear him:
In his impeachment speech in New
York lie said :
“Universal, impartial suffrage, allied
to universal ignorance, will only add to
our danger; giving to tho masses the
club of Hercules, to ho wicldod with
the strength of the blind Samson, alter
ho has been a slave grinding in tho
house of the Philistines.”
lie opposos nogro suffrage, Hot be
cause of the great injury which the
South would sustain from its adoption,
but because lie sees in it the certain
destruction of tho Federal Govern
ment.
THE VETO AND IMPEAC
MENT.
A Washington dispatch of the 19th
inst quotes tho closing paragraph of
tho Presidents veto messago, and
gives us somo light on tho impeach■
incut sensation. The President says:
“With abiding confidence in this
patriotism, wisdom and integrity, I am
still hopeful of the future, and that in
the end the rod of despotism will be
broken, tho armed rulo of power he
lifted from tho neoks of the people,
and the principles of a violated con
stitution preserved.”
Immediately aftor reading tho mes
sage, the impeachers made a strong
effort. Mr. Boutwell, Mr. Butler and
others characterized tho messago as
defiant. Mr. Stevens said they were
urging that matter in vain—“there
are unseen agenoios at work ; there
are invisible powers at work in this
country which will prevent impeach
ment. I repeat, any attempt to im
peach tho President will be vain and
futile.”
Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Judi
ciary Committee, denounced Stevens’
insinations, assorting that no amount
of political pressure should tnrn him
aside front his discharge of duty to the
law and the fact. [Applause from tho
Democratic sido ]
Mr. Stevens, without reply,demand
ed the vote and tho bill passed—lo 9
to 24.
LETTERS OF HON. B. H. HILL.
The powerful and universally read
letters recently contributed to the Au
gusta Chronicle <& Sentinel, by Hon.
B. 11. Hill, aro now published in
pamphlet form, and may be obtained
through orders addressed to the Chro
nicle 3? Sentinel. We hope tho pub-
Ushers of Mr. Hill's letters will now
include in the pamphlet, his able
ppeeoh at Atlanta on tho 16th iqst.
THE PRESIDENT’S VETO.
Alluding to the declaration that
“the State Governments are illegal,''
the President says :
A singular contradiction is appa
rent here: Congress declares the lo
cal State governments to be illegal
governments, and then provides that
these illegal governments shall be car
ried on by Federal officers who arc to
perform the very duties imposed on
its own officers by this illegal State
authority. It certainly would be a
novel spectacle if Congress should at
tempt to carry on a legal State gov.
ernment by the agency of its own of
ficers. It is yet more strange that
Congress attempts to sustain and car
ry on an illegal State government by
the same Federal agency.’’
With regard to title by conquest,
he says: “Itis anew title acquired,
by war. It applies only to territory,
for goods or moveable things regularly
captured in war are called booty, or if
taken by an individual soldier, plun
der. There is not a spot of land in
any one of these ten States which the
United States holds by conquest, save
only such land as did not belong to
either of these States or any individ
ual owner. I mean for such
lands as did belong to the pretended
Government called the Confcdera’e
States. These lands we may claim to
hold by conquest; as to all other land
or territory, whether belonging to the
States or individuals, the Federal
Government has now no more title or
right to it than it had before the re
bellion.”
The message concludes:
“ Within a period less than a year
the legislation of Congres has attemp
ted to strip the Executive Department
of the Government of some of its es<
sentia! powers. Thu Constitution,
and the oath provided in it, devolve
upon the President the power and the
duty to see that the laws are faithful'
ly executed. The Constitution, in
order to carry out this power, gives
him the choice of tho agents and
makes them subject to his control and
supervision; but in the execution of
these laws the constitutional obliga
tion upon the President remains, but
the power to exercise that constitu
tional duty is effectually taken away.
The Military Commander is as to the
power cf appointment, made to take
the place of the President, and the
General of the Army the plico of the
Senato; any attempt on the part of
the President to assert his own con.
stitutional power may, under pretence
of law, be met by official insubordi
nation.
It is to be feared that these military
officers, looking to the authority given
by tho laws rather than to the letter of
tho Constitution, will recognize no au
thority but tho Commander of the
District and the General of the Army.
If there wore no other objections than
this to this propoecd legislation it
Whilst T h-U
the chief executive authority of tho
United States; whilst tho oblgation
rests upon me to see that all the laws
aro faithfully executed, I can nevor
willingly surrender that trust or tho
powers given for its execution. I can
never give my consent to be made re
sponsible fur tho laithful execution of
laws, arid at the same time surrender
that trust and the powers which ac>
company it to any other executive of
ficer, high or low, or to any number of
executive officers.
Sale of an Engine.
The Neptuno Fire Company, No. 1,
of ’] homasvillo, being desirous of ob
taining a good hand engine, mado ap
plication to tho City Council for tliat
purpose. Tho Council thereupon de
puted Mr. Geo. A. Jeffers, a former
citizen of Savannah, who is now Pres
ident of that company, to proceed to
this city and seo what ho could do.
Accordingly, on his arrival, finding
the Chid Fireman absent from tho
city, ho had an interview with Mr
James’A. Barron, the Acting Chiof of
tho Department. Thoir negotiations
resulted in the transfer of tho engine
formerly used by the Washington
Company to tho Neptunes. This en
gine lias done good service at fires in
this city for somo years past, and after
being repaired and overhauled, will
prove liorself a good machine, and un
der the efficient oaro of George Jol
l'era nnd his company will bo able to
subdue almost any fire that may ao
cur in Thouiasvillo.
Besides having tho machine thor
oughly overhauled, repaired and pain
ted, Mr. Barren is also authorised to
procure 500 feet of new hose and a
jumper to carry it; trumpets for tin
officers, spanners for each member, and
new fronts for their tiro hats. When
tho “Old Live Oak” is thoroughly re
juvenated and ready for shipment,
Mr. Barren proposes anew idea. In
stead of having tho engine hauled to
tho railroad by drays, ho suggests that
tho mombers of tho old Washington
Company show thoir appreciation of
their old machine as well as- their fel
lowship with the Neptuno company of
Thouiasvillo, by turning out ou uiusso,
and hauling it themselves to tho de
pot. “ Barron ” has been an active
fireman for twenty years and better,
and a suggestion of this kind, coming
trom him, will bo enthusiastically
adopted by the members of tho com
pany over whioh ho long presided, aud
who still retain a lovo for ono who did
all in his power to build up tho com
pany.-- Savannah Advertiser.
The Fillibnste ring M o ve m e n t. —
I hero is no doubt that a filibustering
movement against Mexico is really on
foot, but how formidable in its charac
ter cannot be determined. ’ In New
\ork, Now Orleans, and possibly iu
other cities, secret meetings aro being
held, organizations are being formed,
and a strong effort is being made to fit
out a hostile expedition
THOMAsviLtE, July 12, 1867.
Editor Quitman Banner:
Dear Sir :—Having completed and
forwarded my Annual List for the year
1866, I send ypti, according to prom
ise, copied from my books, a statement
of my assessment. The Annual List
includes Tax on Incomes and “Spe
cial” or License Tax :
TIIOMAB COUNTY.
Income Tax, $3,555 35
Special or Li
cense Tax, 1,200.00
Watches & Plate, 191.00
Total, $5,05135
BROOKS COUNTY.
Income Tax, $1,735.46
Special or Li
cense Tax, 754.75
Watches & Plate, 60.00
Total, $2,550.21
Total for 25th Division, $7,607 56
This amount will bo increased by
returns unavoidably delayed, probably
two thousand dollars.
Very respectfully,
T. S. llopkins,
Aes’t Assessor 25th Dist.
City of Mexico, June 26,1RG7. —
The policy th.it is pursued by the Re
publicans so far since their triumph
at Qucretaro lias been
nlooi)! blood! blood!
Nothing but executions, imprison-, j
merits and extortions have thus far
marked the now era which has dawned
upon Mexico, by the destruction of
the Empire, and over which so many
promising prop'ncies wore made.—
Eighteen hundred tpon, strangers and
Mexicans, bearing arms, have been
shot at Qucretaro since the capitula
tion of that city, and not an evening
lias come or a morning broken but
what the clang of rifles is hoard at
the different public plazas or squares.
Whenever wo hea.’ these reports, at
eventide or sunrise, we know that
somo uncondcmned Frenchman, Ger
mans or Mexicans arc being pierced
through by bullets. Np
trial allowed, no confession granted,
but death, death, and blood, blood are
demanded by this so-called Liberal
Government. 8o far as we have seen,
with but few exceptions,. it is com
posed of a motley crowd---and one
thing is certain, no foreigner can live
here. The persecutions upon all of
them, Americans as well as others,
have begun with earnest. All the
Consulates and Foreign Legations
were entered and searched last even,
ing, against the protests of the respec.
tive Consuls and Ministers. “Leave
tho country —we don’t want you here,”
are the greetings given to all foreign
residents.
Quiorgo and O’Horan, it is now
known, escaped by the causeway
aoross Lake Terccoco the night of the
19th. with 1100 of the Northern rifle
men, or Coloration, us nicy aro called
They have always escaped when be
sieged, and again are free to follow
their favorite caHing, in spite of Por
lirio’s army of 40,000 men. They
were heard from yesterday, being lo
cated in the Sieria Madro Mountains.
Marquez escapod also, and reached
Vera Cruz, from which no doubt ho
will embark hefoie tho port is surren.
dered to tho Repiblicans.
The Imperial party will]side with
Ortega or anything, oven foreign nbi
sorption, before tioy will or can bei
come reconciled ti this administration.
No intelligent and educated Christian
can conform to the principles of this
government ns it is. Juarez may most
radically cliaugo its phase by his de
portment; but we think not. There
is no earthly shadow of a hopo for
civilization in Mexico, unless it be in
foreign absorption. Intervention will
not do wfiat is required. Let France
tuko the Southern States, England the
Central and tho United States tho
Northern Stales, and govern them by
their own wil aud people. But be
fore all light »nd progress and civilli-'
zation are blotted out, before all dcoent
Mexicans aro murdered or impover
ished, and brigandago only is left to
mark where ouce was a soinblanco of
a nation.
Capitalists have made no stir. No
goods are being sold. There is nei
ther a retail nor wholesale trade. —
Mines are unworkod. Haciendas'or
pluintations uncultivated. Nor will
there bo any change in months.
Frou Mexico.
New Orleans, July 19: —Tho reve
nue cutter Wilderness arrived last
night irom Vor* Crux, wlioro who ar
rived on the 14th. A deputation of
Mexican officials boarded the vessel
and warmly welcomed Madame Juarez.
On the 16tn she disembarked and was
met with an enthusiastic publio recep
tion by the civil and military author
ities. The city was illuminated and
fireworks displayed. The party wore
to leave for the City of Mexico on the
16th instant.
Juarez arrived at the Capitol on the
I4tli. . Mo emphatically declines re
election, and has ordered anew eleo.
tion. He will retire to his hacienda
in tho mountains.
The Florida Railroad. —Tho en
tire track, says tho Fernandina Cou
rier, of the Florida Railroad, from this
city to Cedar Keys, is now laid. Tho
tiains now run to tho depot here, or
rather to tho spot where the depot is
to he erected, in tho outskirts of the
town.
The Ruction in Jhtb/ic Opton in
Illinois.— 'Pho reaction in public opin
ion is well shown by the result of the
late judicial election in Illinois. Tho
second grand division of the Btate,
which gave 3,044 majority for tho
Radicals for November, now elects a
Democratic conservative for Judge by
a majority of 1,000.
’ [for the southern enterprise ]
TO THE MEN OF COLOR IN
THOMAS COUNTY.
Number 4
In ray last numbers I gave you a
sketch of those orators and pro!eased
iriends from New England, who visit
you of late with such honied words and
sweet pretensions. You have, no
doubt, found the picture quite lifelike,
and the ooloring and shading true to
nature. That was all I designed. The
soft pine and jack-knife I left out on
purpose. All the rest is correct.
According to my programme, I now
want to talk to you a little about your
selves. To tell you where you come
from—how you came here —and where
these Yankee friends of yours want to
get you. I need not tell you that
your present’gencration are all natives
of the American soil, born in this
country, but descended from African
progenitors. Do you ask how your
forefathers came to be imported into
tljis country, and reduced to slavery ?
I answer---not by any Southern Plan
ter, or any Southern Merchant, or any
Southern ship. These are all harm
less and innocent of the deed ; and’ if
these, your Yankee visitors , fell you
otherwise, they only add another to
their numerous’falsehoods already ut
tered.
The American Continent was dis
covered about the close of the Fif
teenth Century, in the year 1492. Tho
Mariner’s Compass was already in use,
and the Portuguese, Venetians, Span
iards, Hollanders or Dutch, and in a
short time afterwards the English, all
had vessels navigating different parts
of the world. But the Americans,
who were all Indians and savages at
that time, had none; and until they
saw the small ships of Christopher Cos.
lumbus, which came from Spain, by
whom the discovery was made, they
had never seen a floating vessel larger
than a canoe, and did not know what
a ship was. In a century or two af- *
terwards, permanent Colonies were
planted on ’he American Continent,
in South America by the Spaniards;,
and in North America mostly by the
English. The vessels first above men
tioned had already Visited the African
Continent, Where they went to trade
for ivory, gold dust, sandal wood, olive
oil and some other articles of com
merce. Tho owners and traders in
these vessels were not slow to learn of
the English Colonics in America, and
the need the Planters in those Colo
nies had for manual labor; and they
at once conceived the idea of supply
ing the demand from Africa to their
own profit. They knew that the petty
kings of that country were in the habit
of- making war upon each other; of
taking their enemies prisoners and re
ducing them to perpetual slavery ; and
that the prisoners might be had tor a
very trifling sum—a small piece of
CUIIOU Ulolh, a few beutla, biaws itnae*,
or other almost valueless trinkets. This
trade was at onco entered into by the
African traders from England. The
slaves were procured and carried to tho
Colonies ; the trade was found to be
profitable; the Planters needed their
labor and purchased them ; and thus
tho first slaves wore introduced into
the British Cofenies, the original Uni
ted States, by foreigners, mostly the
English. The English nnd other Eu
ropeans owned all the ships, and they
alone could and did import all the
slaves N > Southern Planter over im
ported one of them, nor did lie oyer
advanco The first dollar to aid in their
transportation or introduction. The
European merchants sent their own
ships, and purchased tho slaves with
their own money. The slaves were
captives taken in war by other Afri
' cans, and brought by those Euiopean
merchants to this country and sold to
the Planters, like any other merchan
dise. The had nothing to do
with them until they were brought
hero and offered for sale; and he pur
chased them then because he needed
their servioes and could not get the
labor any where else. More in next
paper.
Your loving,
Unolk Ben.
Washington, July 21, —The latest
official accounts received at the Greek
Legation give tcrrildo accounts of
Turkish cruelties in Crete. The Cretes
inflicted severe punishment on one of
Omul l’asha’s spies. Omar, in retalia
tion crucified a Cretan priest, in order
say tho dispatches, to satiate his re
venge and cast odium on the Ohristiuu
religiou. from which Omar apostatized,
having himself been bom a Christian.
11c next beseiged a cavern in which
Greek women and child rent, took
relugo, dosing tffc mouth ami leaving
thorn to die of starvation.
Tho dispatches state that the Turk
ish Government declines to yield to
tho remonstrancos of the European
[lowers regarding Omar Dasha's'con
duct.
Thad. Stevens' Joist Bill. —This
remarkable document provides sot. the
overthrow of military power in the
South ; the abolition of State Govern
ments; the vesting of all power in the
territories in three “Commissioners of
Reconstruction,” two to be nominated
by tho Houso and one by the Senate,
for each territory; everybody to keep
their hands off except Congress, ants
the military to remain only to preserve
tho peace, under tho direction of the
Commissioners; nobody to vote who
took part iu the war, etc., etc.
Freedom of opinion is rapidly be
coming a myth in this country. It is
announced by telegraph that “General
Grant has approved a suggestion from
General Dope, that Confederates who
oppose tho Congressional reconstruc
tion act violates the terms of their
parole ”
War on the Freedmon s Bureau.
. I did maintain, apd still do, that th e
Bureau itself is an illogical anomalvi
and in direct antagonism to the recog
nized freedom of the negro. The man
that is at liberty to vote for his own
candidate, should be at liberty to make
his own contract; the citizen intelligent
enough to participate in the affairs of
government, is intellignt enough to
manage his piivate affairs.
I did advise the freedmen, and still
do, that their fiist duty, after the edu
cation of the children, was to exercise
their constitutional privilege of “peti
tioning lor a redress of grievances,’’
and demand of Congress the abolition
of that unecessary and humiliating
guardianship known as the Freedmen’s
Bureau. Until that is done, they are
not freemen before the'laty or society,
but mere political tools in a tjuasi state
of servitude.
I remain, very respectfully,
Henry S. Fitch.
A Letter Thom Juarez.--The
Bolotin Official, of Matamoras,, of the
26th, publishes Jhe following letter,
which El Moxicanosays is understood
to have been written by Juarez hifti.
seif to Beriozabel:
The trial of Maximilian, Miramon
and Mejia terminated, and, as was to
be expected, the council of war has
condemned them to death. Notice of
the sentence was given them yesterday
at 1, and Escobedo ordered the execu
tinn to take place at 2 in the evening.
The Bar in Magnus, who had - been
Minister of Prussia, near Maximilian,
and Senores Riva Palacio and Marti
nez de la Torre, have received a tele
gram from Qucretaro informing them
as to the hour of execution, made ap
plication to the Government for a sus
pension, so that the condemned per
sons might have time to make their
testamentary dispositions, for ' which
the time was too short. The Govern
ment, which has been anxious all
along to temper justice with clemency,
suspended the execution until Monday
next, So as to give Baron Magnus time
to arrive before the execution. The
sentence has been pronounced and is
irrevocable. All means has been tried
to procure the favor of the Govern
raetlt for the condemned, but in vain.
To all such the Government has re
plied with a simple negative. All
efforts arc useless to avoid the law,
which will bo applied without remis
sion. By the leisurely course of the
proceedings, and the various concasi
sions made to Maximilian and his asi
! sficiates, the Government has tried to
! show the world that it has not been
; urged by passion, but by its conscience,
j to a solemn duty, however weighty.—
The death, therefore, of Maximilian,
Miramon and Mejia is decided upon,
and they mustexpiato their criiqes.—
j The whole world is about to be shaken,
| and Mexico*will be raised to a lofty
height in the consideration and respect
| of the world.
A Wonderful Invention. Tli e
Wheeling Intelligcnoer says the Rev.
Ashjy Stephens, well known through,
out Wost Virginia as a Methodist min
ister, now a “teacher *at Point Pleasant,
has invented a clock which may justly
be ranked among tho remarkable in
ventions of tho times. It is not, accu
rately speaking, a clock, but an attach
ment which may bo joined to any
clock. It calculates with scientific
precision the rising and setting of the
sun, moen and stars. Shows the
changes in the moon, and calculates
all the eclipses. I (shows the right asccn
Mon and desconsion of the stars, the
place of-the sun and moon in the zodiac,
and in what constellation, with many
of the celestial phenomena. Thus it
will do for one hundred years to come.
At the end of that time it would have
to bo stopped, so as to lose a day to
make the calculation correct for the
next hundred years —a necessity grow,
iug out, of this fact, understood by
| scientific men, that calendar time docs
: not absolutely correspond with actual
I time, su that in a century.the former
| gains a day. Mr. Stephens, who seems
to have a genius sos mechanism, made
| his contrivance throughout whith his
own hands, lie calls it an “astron
: omical clock,” and intends claiming a
j patent fur IT.
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En D U re— K ek P QU i ET. Ton cl ti
ding a long and ably written editorial,
the Mobile Advertiser fj- Register
| (Hon. John Forsyth’s paper) says
j that, “the path of duty in the South
j is plain; it is to endure, to keep quiet,
and patiently, firmly and hopefully-to
wait for the revolution to run its
| course. This session will give a strong
; accelerating impetus toils wheels, and
1 its measures sooucr or later will forco
tho people of the North, who love lib-
I erty, to [ireak their silence and rise in
j counter-revolution to save the govern
| ment of their fathers. We of the
! South ean only be spectators of the
coming scenes of the drama. It is tho
North’s turn now.”
*4 Dutchman's Description of a
Rainy Xnjht- —“Veil, last night vast
de vorat a* nev«,r vash. I (ought to
go down de hill to mine house, but no
sooner did I valk den de vaster I stand
I still, for de darkness vas so tick dat I
coot not stir it mit mine boots, and der
rain—dunder and bitten! in more don
tree minute mine skin Tas vet troo to
mine clo’s. But after von feetle vile
stopped quitted to raiu eomeding; so
: I kept' icclin of mineself all do v»y
■ ’long, and veto I coo me to mine houso
Ito valk in, vat you dinks ? It belong
to somepody rise!”
fcaF* Prentice thus takes off the fins
of some small fry editorial minnow in
this State that has 1 cen very active of
' late in nibbfing at Hon. B. It. Hill.
A Radical editor in Georgia attack*
the Hon. If. 11. Hill’s very able arti
cles. The editor’s intellect is “small
potatoes a Fifty such wouldn’t make
a Hill
The Confiscation Bughear.— For l
ney’s Chronicle of Saturday says hi
reference to the bill of Mr. Julian,
providingfor the forfeiture qf all lands
granted to the Southern States to aid
them in tKe construction of railroads,
that it is agreed by intelligent men
everywhere, that however important
the policy of confiscation would have’
been as a war measure, or ass in«an*
of breaking up the grind landed ct,
tates of the South, if it had been fairly
inaugurated iu 1863, it is too late now
to count upon it under any circnm*
stances that are likely to arise.
The Mexican government is pre
paring an address to the world,. im
which they expect to justify them
selves for the execution of Maximilian.
.It will treat of killing 63,000' Mexi
cans for defending their native soil),
and will cite precedents, which they
think will prove clearly their acts to
have been within the rouge of propri-"
ety, and will produce documents whiclt
will throw anew light upon their acta.
Somp of the ablest men in the Repub-.
lie are engaged in the work.
Facts Curious and Valuable. —•
Noah’s ark was 547 feet high, mea
suring 82,525 tons.
The difference between a water level
and a straight line is a departure of 8
inches to the mile, which furnishes by
a simple proposition in geometry i*
method of calculating the earth’s di
ameter ' .
A soap bubble’may be blown so thin
that it would take 2,500,000 layers to
form the thickness of an iuch.
Average quantity of blood in the
body in health is reckoned to be 483
ounces, or 25 pounds avoirdupois, or
20 imperial [lints.
Quill p:ns were first used in 553,
A. I). Metallic pens came iuto use
in 1830.
A pair of rats, well situated, and
left entirely undisturbed, will in three
years have increased to 605,909.
Small pox is not contagious over 30
feet.
The yellow is the illuminating ray
of sunlight.
Water constitutes nearly four-fifths
of the weight of the animal body.
A good-sized mature brain in a man
weighs 3 pounds 8 ounces; in a wo
man 3 pounds 4 ounces.
One Radical Who Will Keep his
Word. —In the debate in the Senate
on Tuesday, Mr. Frelinghuysen saidhe
would riot add one jot or one title to
what Congress bad declared to be a
finality, and he would not therefore
vote to turn ten or fifteen thousand
civil officers out of office. He believed
a policy of mildness and conciliation,
tempered by justice and right, would
do more to restore harmony and peace
than any policy of confiscation and dis
franchisement.
These remarks were made upon Mr.
' Wilson’s proposition to declare all tho
civil oliiouo vnoant—Mr. Wilson w4itt
assured us all that tho reconstruction
measure# of the last session \yero a
finality. —Richmond Dispatch.
VALUE OF BANK NOTES.
Wehave selected the following from
an exchange, to show the present va
lue of the notes of Georgia Banks :
GeorOTA.—Augusts Insurance and
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 Empiiie
State 25, Bank ot Middio Georgia 82,
Bank of Savannah 36, i’ank of State
of Georgia 15, Central Railroad Bank
inc Company'97, City Bank of Au
gusta 28, Farmers' and Mechanics’ 8,
Georgia Railroad ami Bunking Com
ing 97, Manufacturers’ Rank, Macon,
14, Marine Bank 95, Mechanics’Bank
j •’!, Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank 6,
! Planters’ Bank 14, Timhcr Cutters’
Bank 2, Union Bank 5.
flcjy'Ejrl Derby, in announcing Mat*
iinilian’s death in the Ilouse of Lords,
| said lie shared in the feelings of all
| tlic.r Lordships in rcganl to thiamn'*
necessary, cruel and barbarod# mur
der, which must have excited sorrow
in every country. A murder purely
gratuitous, which, far from producing
any beneficial effect, would only add
to the miseries of Mexico.
lion. John Bell. —The Nashville
Union & Dispatch, of the 18th says :
The latbst intelligence from the ol*am«
her of this'venerable statesman repre
sents his cond tion as no better. It
is the opinion of those in attendance
that he cannot long survive.
Aptf.r.—Tho Reconstruction Bill,
as finally passed by Congress provides
: that the iron clad oath shall be admire
1 istered to * a’l persons hereafter elec
! ted or appointed to office in said dis*
triots.” » *
** - “
j i never saw a Letter vcrifii-uttuq of
the old adage that "one good urti-Ic I* worth
| more than a hnndred inferior one*.’’than when
we visited the laboratory of Professor Kin ton
a few dan ago. IV* w- re shown (he different
l-rorexees tu the manufacture of hia popular
medicine*, from the extracting of the medi
cinal virtue- from root* and herb*, to the final
■vrapping and sealing of the boufes and bole*
; for shipping. We saw several vent large or
der* Iront adjoining Slate*, and toe writer*
-luting that remedies were Treating a
| hirer.- unknown in the annals of medirinr*.
, U laof morse anneceeeary (for ire to rer.-tnmead
; nor reader* to tupplr themselves with them,
as undoubted! v cv- cy reader of oar paper ha*
i these remedies in the bonee.
The Professor* remedies consist* of K*r.
i r»" * Magic CYri, for Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Cholera, 4. Eat Ton's Olrcm Vit x sot
Kh-'-imniiwii. Neoralirie, Toothache. Retain*.
Headache*. Hum*. Ac. and
rirrtc Pu.ifor Dyspepsia. Coo slip* lion or
CosJiV-.nese. Su;l« Headacii* aud all disease*
-I tho Liver. Stomach, Bowel* and digetftve
Apparatus Prof kavion applied hia rswedie*
free to several in .itfr presence. aH of whom
.■teknowle-WeU. themmdne* pleased with Weir
‘ elfr. t* Satraanak Omanonai.
Address all order* »-Fmf H. H Ksytea.
Savannah, Oa., or to A. A. Sotomea* fit Cos
Mivantush. On
S 3P Hrwsry. of reoriterfeita. the geatuae
have Prof H. H Ksyt m » signatare onaarh
bottle and bout ,
K-r safe V>v Dt P. S. Bower. Th nnarvtßs
l July 19