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TELEGRAPHIC.
Western Union Telegraph
Sprriat »• i*f Sirrrfri*.
.Miscellaneous Items.
Baltimore, Aug. 15.—Attorney Geh.
Holt has returned from his Northern
trip, and his suspension is daily ex
peeved.
Brig. Gen. Horace Porter. Aid to
Gen. Grant, replaces GeD'l Pelouse as
Adjutant of the War Department, who
retires it is alleged on account of bad
health.
The Turkish Legation has arrived.
The Treasure contains $106,000,000
in coin, and $74,500,000 in currency,
to-day.
To-day’s Internal Revenue, three
hundred ana five thousand.
The same treasury orders that ap
plies to the Missouri Bonds, stolen
from the Interior Department, is made j
applicable to those of Tennessee and
North Carolina, stolen at the same
time. Holders showing that they pur
chased the bonds in good faith can re
alixe on them.
The report of the Congressional
’Committee on Suuhern Railroads, ex.
eu!pates Mr. Johnson from connection
with alleged frauds.
E. H Saalmier, Consul at Vera
Crux, under date of August Ist, writes
to Secretary Seward tbit Santa Anna
arrived there on the 30th ult.. and to
gether with Etvas, is to be confined at
the Castle of San Juan. They are
to occupy separate rooms.
He also ermmunicates that regula
tions previously existing, regarding the
customs at Vera Cruz, will soon pre
vail.
The details of a battle near Foit
Kearney between the Indians and a
foraging party of U. S. soldiers has
been received. The Indians stampeded
the atock, when the soldiers entrenched
themselves behind the wagons and
fought three hours. Reinforcements
arriving the Indians were drove off,
with a loss of sixty killed. The sol
diers lost six killed, including Lieut,
Jeanes.
Cotton Worm A other Items.
New Orleans, Aug. 15. Full re>
turns of the Registration in Louisiana
shows 44,732 whites, and 82,907
blacks. The white majority in New
Orleans is forty.
As soon as the State is arranged iDto
Districts; Sheridan will order an elec,
tion for delegates to the Convention.
The weekly deaths from Fever, in
Orleans, amount to fourteen.
Continued accounts of the destrue*
tiveness of the cotton worm in Louis
iana and the coast counties of Texas,
continues to be received.
Monterey accounts to the 3d inst.,
states that Canale3 has revolted and
attempted to capture a specie train.
Having failed to do so he is marching
on Matamoras.
Savannah Market.
Savannah, Aug. 15.—-Cotton mar
ket firm and good demand. Sales 76
bales ; middlings 26$ a 27c. Receipts
163 bales. Receipts of the week
1,353 bales. Exports 1,641 bales
Stock on hand 928 bales. Weather
hot aud raining—heavy storm at sea:
New York Market.
New York, Aug. 15.—Cotton mar
ket firm. Sales 1000 bales at 28$ c.
Flour, State, s7l a Ilf: Southern sll
a 14i ; Wheat firm. Corn firmer and
large speculation. Groceries quiet.
Baltimore Market,
Baltimore, Aug. 15.—Cotton steady
and firm ; middling 29 to 295. Flour
steady and firm, Howard street super,
fine, $9 a 9j, shipping brands Sill a
11} ; Wheat, prime dry, scarce. Corn
scarce, white, 12 a 13. Sugar firm
and quiet. Rio Coffee quoted at 9$ a
12$ for common.
NOON DISPATCHES.
Cable Summary.
Washington, Aug. 16.—Tho Roman
Catholic Cathedral, at Frankfort, built
in 1424 was destroyed by fire.
The Grand Turk has returned to
Constantinople.
A meeting has been planned be
tween the King of Fruasia and tho
Emperor of Austria.
The Turks persist in refusing joint
enquiry regarding the affairs of Candia.
The Queen has signed the Reform
Bill.
dvcrpool Market.
Liverpool, Aug. 15.—The Cotton
market closed strong; UfkJands advanci
ed $, middlings 101, Orleans, 11$.
Liverpool, Aug. 15.—Noon.—The
Cotton market opens quiet, with pro
bable sales of 10,000 bales; middling
upland 10J, Orleans 11$.
Condon Market.
London, Aug. 15.—Noon.—Consols
•weak, 94|. Bonds 70}. Breadstuff's
quiet and other articles unchanged.
New Orleans Market.
New Orleans, Aug. 16.—The Cotton
market is quiet and steady at 28$. —
Gold 401. Money 5 and 5. Sterling
9j. Sixty Coupons 13}. Virginia
Sixes, new issue, 50.
Cost of Sirratt’s Trial—lt is
stated that Surratt’s trial cost the Go
vernment not less than 8100,000. —
The number of witnesses examined
•during the progress of the trial was
two hundred and eighty.two.
Jt&T An Ohio paper gives the names
of three prominent Radicals who have
committed suicide during the year
past — an example which the entire
Radical party is following with a cer
tainty of success.
Sont|mi Enterprise
(SEM-WEEKLyT)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLB, GA.:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1867.
GLORIOUS NEWS FOR THE
STARVING RADICAL
PAPERS.
Gen. Pope has issued an order
brohibiting alt officers, whether civil
or military, from advertising in any
newspaper that opposes reconstruction
of the Union under the Congress'onal
Military bills. What a God send, for
those starving Radical sheets which
were about to give np the ghost for
want of patronage. How our friends
of the “Gulf-Road -Vt ref will chuckle
at the prospect of a glowing Radical
future, and Hess Gen. Pope for his
timely stroke of policy. He came to
their rescue just in time. The Radi
cal jouarnals throughout the South
were languishing out a miserable exis
tence, and foreseeing that sbey would
all perish, it W3s doubtless suggested
to Gen. Pope by some of those starv
ing journals, or their friends, that they
could be rescued by proscribing the.
Cinser cat ire press. The Radicals arc
even now, howling over the proscrip
tion of negroes in 'Tennessee, and Gen-
Pope by military order now proscribes
white men in Georgia. This too, in
the face of an order previously-issued
by him establishing the freedom of
the press.
This last order, virtually revokes '
the fitst, and we regard it as an aban
donment on the part of General Pope
of his liberality toward the press.
The policy now pursued indicates
that Gen. Pope is determined that the
press shall not in future stand in the
way of Radical success in the South
ern States, and thi- proscriptive order
is the forerunner of another which will
suppress conservative journals entirely,
in case they are not starred out by his
proscription. The order uses the word
‘•reconstruction,” and forbids all offi
cers to advertise in any other journals
than those “who hart not and do not
now ojrpose, reconstruction under the
acts of Congress Ac.” The Enter,
prise cert-inly comes under this bann
of proscription according to the intent
and meaning of Gen. Pope’s order;
for that intent and meaning is to quash
all opposition to Radicalism ; but it
has been nevertheless, and still is a con
sistent advocate of reconstruction,
even under Radical rule. We desire
reconstruction as sincerely as it is pos
sible to desire any good event, but we
do bow for all time to come, protest
against the inequitious debasement
: of the Southern white people, for
the elevation and supremacy of the
l colored. Erery man who votes for
1 the Radicals, votes for n?gro supre
macy in the South, and even the
Northern people, who have no fears of
such an avont in that section, are be
ginning to look with horror upon the
future of the South under such rule.
; Let no man be deceived, reconstruction
| as now going forward, means Radical
! ism with negro supremacy in the South
Are the people prepared for it? We
know some who are. Those who are
seeking the Radicals are
| prepared for anything that will give
i them office. They would see their
\ Southern white brethren annihilated,
and help to do it, for a wretched little
Radical office.
IMPORTANT INVENTION.
On Wednesday last, wc were invited
to examine the model of anew and
important invention, by Prof. W. T.
Parsons, of Thomasville, who for some
; months past has devoted his leisure
I moments to perfecting his design. The
invention is anew Brake for railroad
1 cars, and destined, if as entirely prac
ticable, as the inventor believes, to
| revolutionize the present system of
I brakes. The contrivance is as simple
as could well be imagined, but so ef
fectual that a whole train of cars aro
to be stopped in an instant, if desired,
without damage or serious shock, and
all this to be accomplished by only one
brakeman, and ho may be the engi
neer, or Conductor. The brake is let
on. and taken off with tho greatest
ease and facility, and it can bo done
instantly. We aro not mechanic
| enough to know whether this brake
will prove a success, when applied to
tho cars under full headway, but Prof.
Parsons is convinced of it, and we see
no reason to doubt it. The model is
now on its way to Washington City to
be patented, and we sincerely hope,
for the sake of a truly worthy man,
now struggling desperately with pov
erty and affliction, that it may m et
with a cordial reception at tho hands
of the Commissioners,
Hon. B. 11. IIILL.
Hon. B. II Hill is announced as
about to publish another series of or.
tides, in reply to Ex-Gov. Joseph E.
Brown. Tho Augusta Chronicle V
Sentinel thinks they will bo superior
in many respects, to his ‘ Notes on the
Situation.” Mr. Hill will take no no
tice of Gov. Brown’s personalities, but
confine himself strictly to the political
issues.
THE PRESIDENT MOVING.
hollowing Gen.Grant’B appointment
as Secretary of War, the President has
clipped the wings of Lord Dan Sickles,
of the Carolinas, by forcing him to re
voke one of his arbitrary orders.
God never wrought a miracle to con
vince atheism, because his ordinary
works oonvince it.— Lord Bacon.
THE SHOOTING AFFAIR AT
BOSTON.
We publish the following verbatim
statement of written information hand
ed to us yesterday, by gentlemen ' re
siding at Boston, as a correct version
of the shooting affair which happened
there on Friday last:
Boston, Ga., Aug. 15, 1867.
A difficulty took place between two
of the citizens of Boston, Thomas
county, on Friday morning, 9th inst,
at the above mentioned town, in which
a knife and pistol was drawn.
M. L. Flowers is a merchant of the
place, and James Hancock a black*
smith, with their places of business
adjoining.
On the day previous there was a Pic
Nic being held io a grove on Mr. T.
Adams’ place, and Mr. Floweis in or
der to get into the grounds, took the
liberty to lay down the fence. A few
hours after, someone reported that
hogs had gotten into the field, and one
of the Committee employed a negro
boy to watch the gap, which he did,
and succeeded in keeping them out.
As the last carriage passed out in the
evening, one of the Committee asked
Mr. Hancock what damage had been
sustained, and be said none; but that
he had to lose a day in attending to
his fence. The gentleman then told
i him to make out his bill for a day lost
and he would see that he got paid.
On the next morning, about seven
o’clock, Fiowers was at his store. Han
cock went down to Flowers’store, and
asxed him, when he was going to make
Boot shop. Flowers then told Han
cock to go off. as he did not want to
have any fuss with him. Hancock
then commenced abasing Flowers and
making th-eats against him, and shook
h : s fist ia his face. Flowers told Han
cock not to do so again, for if he did
he sbond hurt him. Hancock then
drew his knife and shook it-at him,
when Flowers went into his stcre and
got a pistol, telling Hancock that if he
repeated the offence he would shoot
him. Hancock again repeated the
language and shook his fist at him,
when Flowers fired his pistol, the ball
taking effect in his left breast. The
wound is not considered dangerous.
NORTHERN REACTION.
The New York Herald, one of the
most vindictive supporters of the Re
construction Bills, has become alarmed
at the prospect of the ten Southern
States passing from under the white
to African rule, and in a lengthy ar
ticle cautioning the Radicals against
the evil tendency of their policy, ex
presses its fears that should the ten
Southern States, as now indicated,
pass under the control of the negroes,
the stability of free government will
be destroyed. The Herald then ar
gues as folic «g :
“Granting that the Northern States
are prepared for the recognition and
acceptance of equal suffrage to the
blacks, is New York, or is Pennsylva
nia, or is Ohio prepared for the full*
blown experiment of negro supremacy
in ten Southern States, as contempla
ted by the Republican Radicals in
I Southern reconstruction ? Assuming
s that if, with a Conservative acting Sec*
| retary of War in the place of Mr.
| Stanton, and five military command
: ere of Mr. Johnson's way of thinking,
; in the places of the five commanders
who act and think according to the
gospel of Mr. Stanton—assuming that
the result will be to delay the work of
Southern restoration for even two or
three years—will this not be wiser
than to rash headlong into this danger
iof Southern negro supremacy ? Will
not the inevitable tendency of Degro
supremacy in South Carolina, for ex
ample, be to drive out the white popu
lation or to precipitate that war ot rai
ces which, it commenced, will be apt
speedily to ripen into a war on both
sides of indiscriminate extermination ?
Will social harmony or peace, or finan
cial confidence or active and systema
tic industry ever be restored to the
South under the threatening danger
of negro supremacy
“Wo cannot answer these questions
truly without reoognizing the sagacity
and wisdom of President Johnson’s
policy of giving to the whites as far as
possible, under the terms of Congress,
a chance to recover their lost ground,
and to take the lead in tho Southern
reconstruction. Wc are, indeed, so
far impressed with the idea that in this
view of the question ho stands ill a
strong posit ion, that wo foe I bound to
advise him to make the most of his op
portunity in bringing tho issue before
the people of the Northern States lor
their “sober second thought” upon it
in the coming fall elections. There is
no security, and there are a thousand
dangers in tho Radical programme,
which now distinctly foreshadows the
placing-of the late governing whites
ot tho South uuder tho political con
trol ami subject to tho caprices and re
venges of the black race, relieved but
yesterday from the inoral darkness, op
pressions, wrongs and disabilities of
Airioan slavery. These dangers are
so menacing that they must be appre
ciated by thinking Northern men. We
hold, accordingly, that the time at last
has come for a Northern reaction, and
the time, therefore, for decisive mea
sures on the part of President Johuso u.
Three Wonders in Heaven. —John
Newton said, “When I get to heaven
1 shall see threo wonders. The first
wonder will bo to see so many people
there whom I did not expect to see ;
the second wonder will bo to miss
many people whom I did expect to
see; and the third, the greatest won
der of all, will be to find myself there.”
Why is the country in Winter like
the Black Crook ? Because there are
so many bare limbs to be seen.
[for the southern enterprise.]
TO THE MEN OF COLOR IN
THOMAS COUNTY.
Number 11.
In my preceding numbers I have
labored to give you a fair and faithful
history of the Puritans o: Yankees,
habiting tbit section of the United
States called Naw England, as connec
ted with yourselves. I have not ex
tenuated any thing, nor set down
aught in malice, but given you a plain,
unvarnished tale of the whole matter
from thdbeginning to the end, with
out uote or comment, that you might
draw your own conclusions. I ask you
now, whether in this whole history,
you have found aught that the Y’ankee
has done for your good, out of pure
love and affection? Whether some
selfish, sordid or mean motive has not
always been connected with his action,
to gratify bis own private covetousness,
envy, jealousv, or hate ? They pre
tend to be wonderful friends to you,
but is it aot on the ground that they
think you are wonderful fools? That
you will believe whatever they may
choose to tell you, without any why
or wherefore? They tell you for in
, stanee, that they redeemed you from
: slavery. Now ask them for what
cause ? Ask them whether it was for
any love they bore you ? Ask them
where that love was when they were
bringing your fathers from Africa, and
making slaves of ttem and their chil
dren ? If there was any merit in re .
deeming you from bondage, and they
did it (which I am far from grauting.)
it is but an act of justice oa their
part for bringing you here and re
ducing you to slavery in the first place;
and they hike not done you full jus
rice yet, until every one of them who
ever imported or owned a slavi, or
their fathers or grandfathers before
them, comes forward and lays the
price, principle and interest, at your
feet. / Then, and not till then, the ac
count between you and them will be
justly footed up. The Southern
Whites have already paid you for your
services. They have redeemed you
from a land ot barbarity, uncivilized
and unchristianized, and planted you
amongst their own homes; they have
instructed you in the arts of civilized
life; they have saved you from per
tshing with cold and hunger at the
North; they have afforded you the
protection aud security of their own
and wholesome State laws; they are
willing fliat you shall continue to live
am ngthem, and enjoy all the bles
sings and privileges of their climate
and those laws, as long as you submit
to such laws, and aid to enoree them
on all alike Now whatever was in
tended by North " -uth, white or
black, you see that justice has meeted
out an equivalent to yon far your per
sonal services to the South, and a very
valuable equivalent if you make a
proper use o! it. But what has the
Yankee done for you ? He pays you
in promises. He tells you bow won
derfully good be has been to you ; how
wonderfully good he is going to be.—
Do you ever see any thing of it ? >lt
is all in promises. The Southern
man makes you no promises. He
tells you to go ahead ; you shall have
justice with himself. The laws shall
protect you whenever you do right,
and will puoish you whenever you do
wrong, the same as is provided for
himself. Qoes any proper disposed
colored man ask for more ? Would he
have more? 1 do not think you
would ; and as long as the white man
of the South shows no disposition to
treat you otherwise, and you are living
with him, and his interest is indemni.
fied with yours, and cannct be sepera
ted, so long you should be on the most
friendly terms, as mutually advanta
geous to each other.
Your affectionate
Un-'Lk Ben.
An Affecting Scene in • Court —A
Solomon on the. Bench — A Child
Chimed by (wo Mothers. —Two wo
men claimed one child before Judge
Alexander, of Baltimore, on Wednes
day. After somo evidence had been
heard and the case postponed, Mrs.
Ferry asked the Judge to have the
child kept in custody, so that it might
not bo taken beyond the jurisdiction
of tho court. At this point Judge
Alexander directed two chairs to bo
placed at one end of the court-room.
He then requested Mrs. Ferry to take
one of the seats, aud Mrs. Ferrell the
other. The child duriug tho hearing
had been standing upon the plat
form at tho side of the Judge. Judge
Alexander then turned to tho child
and till it to go to its mother. The
child started down, and then turned
around and asked the Judge, “ Fan I
go to tho mother I want ?’’ The Judge
said “ Yes. child,” when she sprang
forward and threw herself into the
arms of Mrs. Ferrell, exclaiming:—
“ This is the mother I want.” She
was received with passionate kisses.
During these proceedings tho eyes of
tho largo number of women as well as
men present were directed to the move
ment of the child, aud when her
choio was made, the women rose to
their feet aud gave vent to their feel,
ings in exclamations of delight. “The
darling child,’’ says one. “She knows
her mother,” says another. Sobs and
tears accompanied the demonstration.
The countenances of men weie not
without emotion, and it was some time
before the quiet of the courtroom was
restored.— Baltimore Sun.
toT Fol. John Forsyth says that
“there L a miracle that neither God
nor devil cau work, and that is to
make anything but a traitor, a ret. -
gade, a coward aud a scoundrel, out of
any Southern-born uiau who would
desert his Southern mother in the
hour of her agony and become a Rad
ical.”
[for the s>uthern eetkrprise.]
MY TRAVELS IN TEXAS.
Texas S*il-lu Qnality aa4 Prcdur
liraaMa.
Let it be remembered that what I
have to say in this, as well as in my
preceding article, is intended to apply
to South-Western Texas Let it also
be remembered, that wbat is true of
one section of this great State may not
be true of another section. This will
explain that the most contrary and
opposite things may be said of Texas,
and yet be true.
The soil of this section of the State
may be divided into bottom land, val.
ley land, and apland. The upland
may be divided into level plains on the
coast, and broken, rolling prairie fur
ther back in the country. The largest
portion of the upland, whether hills or
plains, is what is called hog-wallow
prairie, which is always a rich quality
of upland id this section, and 1 think
is never poor in any part of the State.
The balance of the apland is a black
sandy soil, somewhat Jess fertile, but
much more pleasant to cultivate. The
hog-wallow is the most close, stickey
land in the State, and therefore the
most difficult to cultivate, yet it is
largely cultivated in other sections,
but not in this, because, in a thinly
settled country like the stock eouutry
in this western region, the people can
Sod a plenty of bottom and valley
land, which is richer and more easily
cultivated. It is said that the bog
wallow land is always too wet or too
dry. But a waggish fellow in Grimes
county said, “he came in one of find,
ing his hog-wallow precisely right; so
nigh, that when he took out for din
ner it was a leetle too wet, and when
he got back it was just a leetle too dry,
and had be not srone to dinner he
would have caught it exactly right.”
All the timbered upland and a con
siderable portion of the prairie is black
sandy soil, and in some few places
there is so much sand as to render the
land poor and the roads heavy. The
post oak is the prevailing timber on
the upland, but Mack-jack is numerous
on the more sandy portions, and on the
irost sandy ridges the big-head hick
ory is plentiful. It is the black prai
rie mud in these sandy uplands, that
gives them their black color, and ren
der* them go fertile. The soil on these
up lands is from one to three feet deep,
lying on a strong lime clay, from a
deep red to a pale yellow. These
black sandy lands will produce from
thirty to thirty-five bushels of corn
per acre, and a half bag of cotton, or
more, and are destined to become a
very desirable portion of the State.
As 1 stated in my last, the people set
tle on the post oak ridges on each side
of the streams, and plant their gardens
and patches on this black sandy soil,
which give me a good opportunity of
seeing the natural production of this
kind of soil, as the people use no ma
nure on their gardens or patches; be
cause, as they say, treading the land
makes it more liable to burn the gar
den plants, and that the natural soil,
while fresh, is rich enough and much
more healthy. Suffice it to say, their
gardens and patches were equal to the
best manured gardens and patches of
this country. This sandy soil excels
in the production of Irish potatoes any
I ever saw, for I had the opportunity
of seeing and the pleasure of eating
Irish potatoes as large as my fist in the
month of May; and the people said
that sweet potatoes do equally well.
I saw a few small crops of corn—say
ten to twenty acres isl a field—on this
sandy upland, on the Guaduloupe riv
er, which looked remarkably fine.
As I stated before, the bottom lands
are divided into timbered bottoms, ly.
ing immediately on the stiearns, and
tho prairie valleys, extending from the
timbered bottoms back to the foot of
the hills. These brttom and valley
lands are a very black sandy loam,
exceedingly rich and productive, pro
ducing on an average from thirty to
fifty bushels of corn, and from a half
to a bale of cotton per acre. The tim
bered bottoms are considered some
thing richer than the valleys, but b>
ing sometimes, but seldom however,
subject to overflows, the valleys are al
most exclusively cultivated. Theriot,
bored bottoms have somewhat more sand
than the valleys, and are consequently
moro mellow and porous, as a genera!
thing, but somo of them are what are
called elm bottoms, which are quite
stiff, having little or no sand, but
equally rich. Thero aro somo stiff
places also on the valley lands, and 1
saw a few small hog-wallow-prairie
valleys.
This portion of the State, now under
description, being a stock country, the
farms are generally small and poorly
cultivated —just such cultivation as
would make nothing at all in this
country. I saw no cropot corn which
had received more than one plowing,
and most of them not that—generally
four furrows to tho row, and some
only two furrows. And yet the corn—
just bunohiog for tassel—looked green
er and more flourishing than corn ever
looks in this country, with a luxuriant
growth of grass, weeds aud cuckie
burrs.
Though this section is a stock coun
try and the farms generally small, yet
there aro somo very large farms on the
Naveda, Lavacoa and Guadaloupe riv
ers, containing from four to eight hun
dred acres in cultivation. The Braxos
bottoms are every where—in and out
of Texas—celebrated for their sur
passing fertility, but the Gaudaloupe
bottoms, 1 think, are equally fertile
But in Texas, where the richest land
is the question, everybody gives the
preference to the lands on “Old Car
rey a tide water stream or creek,
making up out of the Gulf, between
the mouths ot the Colorado and Bra
zos rivers
The lauds in Sotith-Western Texas
are run out in leagues* —the base line
of which arc the rivers. The unim.
proved land can be bought for one dol
lar per acre, and improved land at
from five to ten.
W. Blewktt.
*A league is three miles square.
The President—Stanton—Sher
idan.
New York, August 7.—The Tri
bune’s special says Under the civil
teDure of office bill Mr. Jonnson does
not feel fully satisfied that he can re
move Mr. Stanton, because of the
phraseology quoted here: “Shall hold
their offices respectively during the
term of office of the President by
whom they have been appointed.” —
But he feels satisfied that be can sus
pend Stanton, and prohibit him from
exercising the duties of War Minuter.
This latter point was submitted to the
Cabinet, and they agreed that the
President could suspend him, Mr
Johnson will, therefore, in a day or
two notify Mr. Stanton that he will
not hold any o’her official relations
with him, and that he cannot be ad
mitted to Cabinet meetings.
The Times’ special says General
Grant publicly expressed the opinion
to-day that General Sheridan would
not be removed, and an evening organ
of the Administration prints an edito
rial to-night advising the President
against the issue of an order to that
effect. It is probable, however,'that
neither of these statements were
made after consultation w th the Pres
ident, as it is known that he still per
sists in his intenton to displace Sheri
dan. General Grant says Generals
Thomas and Hancock are fcaitk active
ly engaged in the duties ot their de«
partments, which cannot be interfered
with without detriment to the public
service. Rumor connects the fact that
the President has tefegraphed in per
son to Gen. Rosseau, ordering him to
Washington,, with- the rem -val of Gen.
Sheridan, and it is suggested he is to
be assigned to the £>th District-
The Tribune publishes Butleris re
port, as Commissioner of Exchange
during a portion of the rebellion, from
which it appears that in December,
1863, he found the Confederate Gen
erals anxious to exchange man for
man, but the Confederate Government
reiused to treat with General Butler
on the ground that he commanded ne
gro troops. Notification to that effect
was sent lo our Government, which
refused to admit the right of the Con
federate authorises to Ould. Our of
ficers exchanges continued till March,
1864, when Gen. Butler had an inter
view with Ould, which convinced him
that retaliation would compel the reb
els to abandon their refusal to ex
change colored soldiers. The Govern
ment, on being informed of this fact,
referred the matter to General Grant,
who, in April, directed General But
ler to decline, until otherwise ordered,
all further negotiations, aud shortly
after instructed him to consider the
determination of of the rebels to make
a distinction between the white and
colored prisoners, or refusal on their
part to agree to a further exchange.
Butler was also instructed to receive
all sick and wounded the rebels would
give up, but send no man in exchange.
In August the rebels offered to renew
the exchange, man for man. General
Grant then telegraphed tho following
important order:
“It is hard on our men held in
Southern prisons not to be exchanged,
but it is humanity to those left in the
ranks to fight our battles. Every one
released on parole or otherwise be
comes an active soldier against us at
once, directly or indirectly. If we
c mtnence a system of exchange which
liberates all prisoners, we will have to
fight on until the South is extermina
ted. If we hold those caught, they
will amount to no more than dead
men. At this particular time, to re
lease all rebel prisoners N-.rth would
insure Sherman’s defeat, and would
compromise our safety here.”
Registration in Georgia.
The following from the Columbus
Enquirer, will interest the reader. In
connection with the same subject, up
on examination, we find that the whole
number of white polls, as by Como
troller General’s Report for 1866, was
86,909; blacks, 65,909. Allowing for
defective returns, there is certainly a
majority of 20,000 whites in the State
From this number is to be deducted
the disfranchised whites, numbering
probably from 10,000 to 20,000. —
Should those entitled to do so register,
we incline to tho opinion there will be
a majority of white votes in the State.
It appears also, from the same report,
that in nearly two thirds of the conn
ties in the State the white polls io
1866 outnumbered the blacks by so
much, that the disfraneMaemeot of s
portion cannot prevent a white major
ity in the same counties :
We are daily looking for the publi
cation io the Atlanta papers of the of
ficial reports ot registration in Georgia
as far as it has progressed. Not hav
ing yet seen any such rep-arts, we have
Ciliated such unofficial returns a* were
accessible, and find that we have thir
ty-four counties reported as complete
ly or nearly registered. They embrace
a number of the most populous coun
ties of th’-s State, aod probably com
prise one-third of the voting popula
tion of the State. In these thirty
four counties 24,913 whites and 26,-
123 blacks have been registered, show
ing a majority of a little over a thou
sand for the latter. These counties
are Baker, Baldwin, Bartow, Brooks,
Chattahoochee, Catoosa, Chattooga,
Coweta, Colquit, Claytoa, Effingham,
Forsyth, Fulton, Gordon, Gwinnett,
Heard, Houston, Mncon, Meriwether,
Muscogee, .Morgan, Murry, Newton,
Pierce, Stewart, Sumter, Taliaferro,
Upsoa, Wayne, Webster, Walker,
Washington, Whitfield, and the city
of Savannah.
It will be seen that (here is not a
single return from the strong * white
settlements” of Northeastern Georgia,
and that quite a number of the coun
ties in the middle belt have large
black populations are yet to be heard!
from. We adhere to the opinion
heretofore expressed, that the foil
registration will show & decided major
ity of white votes in the State.
The Brazil Fever Exploded—Ar
rival in Montgomery of Dimnt
isfied Emigrants.
Ever s'mee the close of the war we
have regretted the fact that so many
of our good citizens labored under the
mistaken impression that the condition
of themselves and their families could
be bettered in a foreign country; that
the land of their birth and tbe heme
of their childhood would never more
be attractive to them, forgetting the
soliloquy and resolution of the old con
quered chieftain: “My native land,
though laid in ruins, is my country
still, and rather would I perish on the
sacred ashes of her fame than to live
for thrones of glory on a foreign soil;
she is glorious yet; I will live and
build her up."
There arrived at the Central Hotel
last night a party of ladies and gentle
men who left Brazil last month, tho
roughly, totally, heartily disgusted
with their new homes among the hy<
brid masses in the overrated, well fat'
i«-ed country of Brazil. The party is
composed entirely of Alabamians, and
among others are Messrs. John M.
Harris, W. J. Deßerry, G. E. Jones,
Thomas McCants, T. A. McElroy, J.
Standfield, D. W. Braxiefl, and other
gentlemen and their wives wad chil
dren. They give affecting and pitiful
accounts of the sufferings, of many
hundreds of deluded Soot bern-evs,, who
were lured away from their friends by
the tempting offers of the Btazilian
Government, and thetal4&of wild and
impulsive American l adventuress 1 .-
They represent that there is no regu
larly crtganiwed' government in Braail
—there is no society—but little culti
vation among the inhabitants—no lau
dable ambition—no ways of making
money—the people scarcely know the
. meaning of the word “kindness”—ther
American citizens live about in hots,
uncared for—there is general dissatis
faetion among the emigrants, and the
whole Brasil representation- is a-hum--
bug and a farce. The American Con-*
sul is in receipt of numerous and-con
slant applications from- helpless Ame
rican citizens to assist them in getting
back to their true, rightful eouutry.
A. ». SLOAS, I C. E. 0«OOV»8$.
Home, Oa. j Brook* Cos.. <SSc
C. F. STUBBS, A. T. MAC IjITTRZ,
Macon, Oa. j Thomasville, Ga
SLOAN, GROOVER & CO.,
ODYYON FAOYDBS
AND
Commission Merchants,
4 Sloddnrd’* I.ewer Hsuyr,
BAY STREET,
SA VANS AH, : : : GEORGIA,
I IBERAI, ADVANCES ON COTTON
coiwianed io oor correspondent, in New
York and Liverpool.
Having been appointed agent, for the sale
of the ALBANY STAR COTTON-GIN ANI>
COXDENSEKS, we take pleasure in offering
the same to the public.
These Gin. having been tested, show n.
inarked superiority overall others, both as to
the facility of working and the improved ap
pearance of the Lint.
Circular* giving full information can be ob
tained bv application to the undersigned.
SLOAN. GEOOVER & CO.,
No- 4, Stoddard’s Lower Range,
Aug IS-3m Savannah. Oa.
fit piPlTijliitl
THE undersigned proposes, if sufficient pat
ronage is sect)red to justify It, to coas
maoce.on orabont the 19th of September next,
the paUication of another paper in th* City of
TUomasviUe, to be called a
THE GULF ROAD NEWS
Having been engaged in the newspaper pub
lishing business here and elsewhere for sev
eral years, and haring obtained as he believes,
the confidence of the reading pubfie ia this
vicinity, u being qualified to conduct a news
paper so as to give his patrons satire satisfac
tion, he proposes to get np in a neat style, a
Ltv* Ntwsnrtß,' satiable to the times.
Ignoring party polities, "so called," the co
lumns of Th► Oclf Road N«wj will be open
to a fall and free discussion of all matters, in
any way pertaining to the whole country It
will, in a word, in polities and everything e!»s,
be independent, though the Editor will not he
responsible for any other articles or ideas ad
vanced and appearing in the columns, exeept
such a* be strictly editorial. Every thing that
will amose, instruct or benefit tbs reading pob.
lie, will be inserted in its column*, and such
selections and coiitribotioas am respectfully
solicited from oor friends.
Airman every place in the whole country,
the sue and possessing the wealth and the nat
ural ana acquired advantages of Thomas rills,
have two and often more than two paper* and
sorely Tbomavrille will not be behind in boas#
enterprises.
Tas Golf B«a» Wsws wfO be published
for the present, only vutei each week. This,
with the "Svutkern Enterprise," now being
published su**-easf*tlly by Mat. L C BstA
will give to the . Ititel** a TrtWeekly paper,
aud instead of tailing from, will add *> the in
let vat al ready felt by the reading public in the
«i«>MHti!ttattoe yt • « #,
Commercial, Afrrlcultaral *>
I'allUcal Intelligence.
T«tt Over Roan Ni w» will be pobliahedat
the low price of Thbzs Dollar* per aturam,
payable strictly in advance.
Aovtartsiau of every descHpttoa will be
taken at the usual rates.
All we ask is oor share of public patronage,
ts you find a* deserving it. U aot, we ask
none ... ~ ,
I set ns know wbat you will do to aid ** ia
this enterprise, by leaving at the store of
Messrs Mctfc ’*» it VlcuißA. yonr name* for
a copy of the paper, find what advertfling yoq
may have. ReapeatfWly,
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Ang 10, 1067. 3t
s Papers generally will please copy
OBORtiU-Thsaiss Csailf.
Court ot Ordinary, Aug. 14,1867."
Whereas. W. J Dickey and H. Mitchell,
Administrators dr beau aea, with tha Will
annexed oa the estate of Henry D AlkrneOn,
deceased, makes aptdtcatioa by Truth* to aaid
Court for Letters us Dismisuon from aaid ad
ministration and estate—All persons interested
are notified to file their objection* m Court,
Otherwise aid letter* wilt he granted in versts
of the law. H. H TGOKE,
Aag 5-6ai • Ordinary
Three Kanos
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