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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, Y. J. WOMBWELL 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 17*OR RALE CHEAP, by r J. 8. 5 DA Tift. Mat 21 a