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TELEGRAPHIC.
Western Union Telegraph.
Special «« the Enterprise.
Registration and a Row.
Richmond, Aug. 29. Returns from
nil except eight counties, received at
headquarters, show registration to be,
whites 110,000, blacks 90,000. The
oounties not yet received give large
white majorities.
The blacks having badly beaten one
policeman at the circus last night and
stoned others, a company of U. S.
troops have been sent to the spot to
prevent a riot, which was considered
imminent.
Washington Items.
Washington, August 29.—A Court
martial is to convene at Leavenworth,
on the 15th of September, to try Gen.
Custar for being absent from his com
mand without leave.
The custom receipts for week end
ing 24th inst., were three millions
seven hundred and two thousand.
The steamer Colorado has arrived
after an absence of two years.
The revenue to-day is $514,000.
Gen. Emery succeeds Gen. Canby
in the Washington Department.
Wcw Orleans Market.
New Orleans, August 29.—Cotton
sales 250 bales and dull; low mid
dlings 26c ; receipts 31 bales. Sugar
Molasses nominally, unchanged. Flour
dull, superfine $9.00, choice $12.50 a
$14.00. Corn held firm at $1.25. —
Oats drooping, 67c. Laid firm and
unchanged. Pork firm and held at
an advance, 50c. Bacon, shoulders,
13}, clear sides, 17}. The supply of
l>areoa is light. Gold closed at 41} a
41J. Sterling 53 a 555. New York
Sight i premium.
New York Market.
Washington, Aug. 29.—New York
Stocks steady. Gold 41}. ’62 Cou
pons 14}. Sales of Cotton heavy,
900 bales at 27c. State Flour $6.75
a 811.00; Southern $9.25 a 18.25;
Wheat dull and favorable to buyers,
Southern amber $2.20 a 2.30. Mixed
Western Corn, 12 a 13. Pork $23.10.
Lard steady and whiskey unchanged.
Bonds 40c. Tallow 11}. Freights 3.
Baltimore Market.
Baltimore, Aug. 29.—Coffee dull
and no large sales. Cotton market flat,
nominally 27c. Flour dull and quota>
tions unchanged. Wheat firmer, fair
to prime $2.50 a 2.35 ; no prime white
offered. Corn lower, white 5, yellow
14 a 15. Bacon, shoulders, 13} a 14,
rib sides 15} a 16. Western Mess
Pork $24 95.
Cincinnati Market.
Cincinnati, Aug. 29.—Flour firm
and unchanged, wheat firmer at $2.13
a2.15. Corn advanced,in bulksl.oo,
and very scarce—the failure of the
growing crop causes farmers to hold
on. Whiskey firm. Moss Pork $23.50.
Bacon, firm, shoulders, 12}, clear sides
16. Lard 12} a 13.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, Aug. 29 —Noon.—The
Cotton market opens quiet but steady,
middling uplands 10}, Orleans 10}.
Sales of 8000 bales. Breadstuffs un
changed. Pork 75 a 76. Bacon 43
a 46.
London Market.
London, August 29. —Noon.—Con-
sols 94 11-16. Bonds 73i.
Savannah Market.
Savannah, Aug. 29. —Cotton mar
ket dull and heavy and the demand
light; middlings, nominally, 25c. Re
ceipts 186 bales. Receipts of the week
639 bales. Exports 1188 b iles. Stock
on hand 437 bales. Weather hot and
the rains continue.
NOON DISPATCHES.
Washington, Aug. 30.—Souloquo,
the Ex'Haytien emperor is dead.
The British Consul at Cape Ilnyton,
reports that fighting against Salinave
has commenced.
Cable Dlapatchen.
The Moniteur reiterates that tho
Salsbury conference secures European
peace, but apprehensions of war excito
the Bourse.
Rentß are declining.
The Cretans still resist in the moun
tains.
Advices from Athens denounce the
reports of Omar Pacha’s successes as
grossly exaggerated.
Minister Bancroft dined with the
King of Prussia.
A negro by the name of Langston
has applied for the Haytien Minister
ship. The President informed him
there was no vacancy, and added, that
should any occur he saw no reason why
Langston’s claims should not be con
sidered. To the enquiry whether the
President would grant him another
interview in a week, he replied, yes.
The Canadian Parliament nomina
tions for the army were attended with
considerable riots. Thirty casualties
occurred, but none were fatal.
New York Stock market dull. Mo
ney four and five per ct. Gold 42}.
Sterling unchanged. Sixty Coupons
14} a 15. Flour more active, but 10
and 150. lower. Wheat and Corn
quiet. Rye dull and drooping. Oats
a shade firmer. Pork dull. Laid
quiet. Whiskey steady. Cott-ndull,
27e. Turpentine firm. Rosin rather
more active.
The Montana Rangers under Gen.
Seem, will move on the Indians in a
short time.
Five hundred dollars were recently
paid by the wife of Col. Bankhead, for
three Indian Bcalps.
Houtlmit Enterprise
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1867.
t3F“ Mr. N. H. St ait ruck is our authorized
Agent for the City of Savannah, to receive
and receipt for advertising and subscriptions
to the Southern Enterprise.
WHY IS IT.
The Columbus Enquirer says, th e
Rome papers state, that the Boards of
Registration have been ordered by Gen.
Pope to give no reports of registration,
nor allow any to be taken from their
books. The Enquirer says, we were
before aware that the registers of this
district had received sim lar instruc
tions, but we did not before know that
it was a general order. The reason of
it says the Enquirer, is a mystery to us,
as the papers mado no charge for such
publications.” Wc think we can ex
plain the mystery for our cotemporary
of the Enquirer, without exploring
Gen. Pope’s budget for Washington.
If the reports should be given now to
the press, they might be compared
hereafter when the election astonishes
all lovers of right and justice, by show
ing an overwhelming Radical Majorit
ty. Before publication, therefore, they
must be examined by o u r Radical
Union loving patriots, and if it should
appear that there is a large majority of
white voters registered in Georgia,
that lucky clause in the Military re
construction Acts of Congress, will be
applied to the books of registration
and all anti-reconstructionists, “ad
herents of Hill, Johnson and Perry,”
including the editors of the Enquirer
and Enterprise, will be stricken out.
POPE’S GREAT LETTER.
We dont exactly agree with the
Chronicle & Sentinel that Pope
“ would not have written his letter t,o
Grant had he been apprised of the
decapitation of Stanton and Sheridan.”
He may or may not have been aware
of the steps taken by the President ;
but Gen. Pope, in our, opinion wrote
that letter with a view of rousing the
Northern Radicals once more as a
check to the President’s progress. —
Pope seems to think the President
was making too much headway, for
Radical success, and remembering the
old rallying key note of “rebels still,”
he thought lie might gain a little no
toriety and attract public attention to
himself by representing to Thud. Ste
vens, Sumner, Wilson & Cos, that the
South was “still rebellious.’’ We have
never seen a more incongruous incon
sistent, jutnblcd up piece of composition
than his letter to Grant, and his in
consistences arose from bis want of the
politicians shrewdness and sagacity,
to harmonize his fears, his wishes and
his knowledge of the true situation.
He could not conceal his ambition, he
possessed not the ability to make him
self understood and he had not the
wisdom to remain silent —hence his
ridiculous letter to Grant, which is
now being laughed ut all over the
North ns well as the South.
GEN. POPE’S SEDITION
The National Intelligencer commen
ting upon Gen. Dope’s letter to Gen.
Grant, writes him down as willing to
encourage all men of prejudice against
the reconstruction sch iute, to hasten
their banishment that he, Dope, tnay
enjoy an indefinite military rulo over
his district. lit conclusion tho Intel
ligencer says :
“Wc iuvite the attention of the
leading members of Congress, of tho
President, and ot Gen. Grant to tho
seditious course of General Dope.”
CHANGED HIS MIND.
Admiral Seinmos, recently advised
the people of Tennessee to vote for
reconstruction, ho now says “iho de
velopments since made havo shown
without a doubt that Congress was not
in earnest whott it called upon the
people to put thoir shoulders to the
wheel and help to extricate the politi
cal wagon from the mire.” Others
will get thoir eyes opon beloro long.
ANOTHER COLORED CON
GRESSMAN.
Ellick Maiialy a colorod man,
has announced himself in tho Macon
Telegraph, as a candidate for Congress
in the 4tli District.
District Meeting The Bain,
bridge District Meeting, South Geor
gia Conference, will convene in Alba
ny Methodist Church on Thursday
the sth of September. The dclogatcs
elect, on arriving at Albany, will re
port at Sim’s Livery stable where a
committee will receive them.— Album/
News.
Not Suppressed. Tho Albany
News was not suppressed by Genera]
Dope, as reported ; but tho editor says,
“what he most lears is suppression by
his friends, nnd that if they do not
come to his rescue, now that ho is de.
prived of all legal advertisements, be
must go under, as he has no other
means to fall back on.’’
Progress of the Good Work.—
Stanton, Sheridan, Sickles: These
are the three woithies, whoso heads
have gone to the block. The Presi
dent has gone to work in earnest, and
we think he means to clean out the
“Augean stables” before Congress
meets. He has now been all round
Pope, and is no-doubt, critically sur
vejing his position.
[FOR TIIE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.]
TEXAS -STOCK RAISING.
In the coast counties of South-West
ern Texas, stock raising is the leading
interest, while in the more interior
counties farming is first in the order
of profitable pursuits, and stock rais
ing second. Jackson county, lying
immediately on Lavacca bay, is one of
the chief cattle producing counties in
the State. The number of cattle put
down in the Texas Almanac is 77,000,
but the people of the county told me
the number was too small —that the
writer of that county report took that
number from the tax book, when the
truth was, that tax payers did not
know how many cows they had, when
their stocks amounted to 20,000 or
more, and it was quite likely that a
tax payer’s guess would fall below the
truth. Let this be as it may, one thing
is certain, to travel, as I did, on one
of those great prairies for half a day,
and at no time be out of sight of from
500 to 2000 head, would cause any
one to admit that the number in the
Almanac was not too large, if large
enough. Victoria county is not much
behind Jackson, if any. Every man
has stock a plenty to Bupply all his
wants, whether he raises to sell or not;
for it costs him nothing to raise horses,
cattle, hogs, sheep and goats, but that
of looking after them a little, and the
trouble of marking and branding, &c.
The manner of raising cattle is the
same as in the range in this country,
but the method of raising horses and
mules is peculiar, consisting of consid
erable science. The mares are divided
into bunches or classes of twenty five
each, with one stallion to each bunch.
The stallion and his twenty-five mares
is called a cav i-ard —the word being
Spanish, as I was informed by an in
telligent stock man on the Gauda’oupe.
He also informed me that the Mexi
cans called the same tiling by a differ
ent name. There are some other tech
nicalities connected with the science
of horse raising, which I have forgot
ten, and which convey allusions to the
more delicate parts of the business. —
For instance, let me explain as mod
estly as I can : —A man wants to raise
mules, but the stallion is as indispen
sable to the cav-i-ard* as the jack. The
stallion is the “herder, ’’ i.e. he watch
es over his cav-i-ard as his family, suf
fering none of his mares to go abroad
to frolic, nor does lie allow any sport
ing filley from another cav-i aid to in
trude upon his family circle to play
her pranks. The old fellow observes
order and all good fidelity at 1 onic and
never goes abroad to break the peace
of another family. I would not make
these statements, if 1 had not heard
them affirmed and reaffirmed by the
most intelligent and reliable stock
raisers in that country. The jack is
no “herder.’’ The stallion then must
be retained with all his efficiency as a
“herder’’ unimpaired, while lie must
be rendered impotent for the produc
tion of colts. This requires a surgical
operation of such a delicate nature, as
calls for the aid of a scientific operator.
This operation over and all is ready
for the introduction of the jack. The
caviard thus furnished, all a e kept up
in an ample lot for a few weeks, where
the jack and stallion has a desperate
fight, in which the jack is always the
victor, and the caviard is reedy to be
turned out on (lie prairie to roam at
large. Colts are raised to tho age of
three or four years old, with no ex
pense but the little attention necessary
to prevent the caviard from straying
out of their range. At tho age of
about three years old, the colts, whe
ther horse or mule, arc sold utibroke
from the caviard, or gathered out of
tho caviards and driven off to the
States for sale. Mule colts, unbroke,
on the prairie, are worth from thirty
to sixty dollars. Horse colts under
the same circumstances, am worth from
fifteen to twenty dollars. Mules are
usually sold to Kentucky drovers at
the above figures, and they, after keep
ing them a few months, sell them to
ns for $150.00, more or less. The
Texas mule, though of medium size,
is very tough and serviceable.
From reading the Texas Almanac,
one would bo led to conclude that
sheep raising was the most profitable
stock business in Texas, but on my ar
riving there, and from reports of most
of the stock men, 1 might have con
cluded that nothing was a more losing
business than sheep raising, and vet,
almost everybody had sheep. A few
of the most intelligent told mo, how
ever, that wool paid better than al
most any thing else, where the she. p
were well attended to. And this,
j from all tho information I could ob
tain from all classes 1 believe to ho a
I correct statement in reference to sheep
; growing in that State. The sheep, in
all countries, is a timid animal, and is
extremely liable to diseases of various
kinds, which, together with dogs and
I wolves, destroy sometimes whole flocks,
if not closely attended to. That tho
largest number of those who havegono
to Texas and invested in sheep, have
lost by the operation is true l liavo no
doubt ; but. it is equally true that ev
ery such failure in sheep raising, may
be justly attributed to u want of pro
per attention. Tho truth is, sheep re
quire more attention than is con-pati.
Ido with tho indolent habits of tho
people. The presence of a shepherd
is necessary at all times, to guard the
flock from dogs, wolves. &o. And
I then there arc the va.tuus diseases to
j euro, especially that soourgo of Texas
\ sheep, called the “scab ’’ But a very
intelligent gentleman, who had raised
wool, said to me, that thore was no
tuoro necessity for a sheep to have the
“scab,’’ than thcro was for a chil 1 to
have a louzy head ; but then it requires
the attention of someone to go with
the sheep every day, and besides the
oversight of the owner constantly, at
intervals of one to two or three weeks.
I have no hesitation in saying, that
sheep thus attended to, will pay at
least fifty per cent, on the capital in
vested, and favorable years will pay
as high as one hundred per cent.
1 have been thus particular on sheep
raising, because there may be those
who are looking to the business.—
Sheep are worth from SI.OO to $2.00
per head, according to quality.
W. Blewet.
*1 spell the word as it sounded to
my ear.
Prom Washington.
Washington, August 27.—The
breach between the President and Gen
eral Grant is widening. General Grant
is on defiant ground, in opposition to
the Executive assignments. He pro
tests with some indignation, against
General Hancock’s removal from the
Department of Missouri. Grant lias
not yet promu’gated instructions carry
ing the President’s orders into effect.
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, August 26, 1867. j
Brevent Major-General R. S. Canby
is hereby assigned to the command of
the Second Military District, created
by an Act of Congress of March 2,
1867, and of the Military Department
of the South, embracing the States of
South and North Carolina. He will,
as soon as practicable relieve Major-
General Daniel E. Sickles, and on
assuming the command to which he
is hereby assigned, will, when necessa«
ry to a faitful execution of the laws,
exercise any and all powers conferred
by acts of Congress upon the District
Commanders, and any and all authority
pertaining to officers in command of
the military departments. Major-Gen.
eral Daniel E. Sickles is hereby re
lieved from the command of the Sec
ond Military District.
The Secretary of War ad interim
will give the necessary instruction to
carry this order into effect.
Andrew Johnson.
To-day the Tribune hugs Grant and
the Herald drops him, saying the
political position assumed by General
Grant shows our great soldier in anew
light. It is his first developement of
political genius—his first and final mis
take. The reply of the President has
completely overthrown him and out
flanked him. Gen. Grant does not
understand tho crisis, lie clirgs to
Sheridan and forgets principles.
Notes on the Situation- No 17.
IJY B. 11. HILL.
No nation or people ever realized,
during tin 1 descent, how rapidly they
were rushing to destruction. If peo
ple could only be made to see whither
they were hurrying they would not
go. Those who do see and rrise a
voice of earnest warning, are generally
considered as excited—sometimes as
mad. People will not believe their
own leaders will sell them or betray
them until the bond is executed or
the treachery is complete. Here is
tho trouble wiili our Northern friends.
The masses love the Union and the
Constitution. They have shown that
love. But they will not see that tho
very men they send to Congress are
trampling on the Constitution and for
ever destroying the Union. Those
who undertake to lay bare to a people
the corruptions of their own leaders
assumes a task as difficult as it is dan
gerous. The wicked become their
enemies and use every means to de.
stroy their power, and the good will
not believe their revelations or heed
their warnings. Yet no man who
ever undertook such a task was ever
able to tell all the real truth. The
realties of national misfortunes and
downfalls arc always far greater than
tho descriptions of those who, by
warnings, sought to prevent tit :m
So the measures which produce na
tional ruin arc never fully understood
until the ruin is beyond remedy. Do'
nounce them as you may, and they
aro always worse than you said they
were. History furnishes us many sad
illustrations of these solemn truths.—
To recite them would be instructive,
but I will not now delay to do so.
The Military Bills will furnish one
of tho most striking proofs, in the fu
ture, of the truths 1 have uttered. 1
am denounced as a calumniator be.
eauso of what I havo said of these
measures and their authors and sup
porters. Time will prove my language
to bo tamo and leeble. Every day
! something is developed which gives
' them a more infamour character than
was ever suspected before! I have
denounced tlioso measures ns being
contrary to tho Constitution ; as abro
gating State government; as degra
ding tiro white ntoo ; as calculated in
evitably to beget n war of races ; ns
destructive of all constitutional liber
| ty; ns being enacted in fraud, execu
ted by force, and consummated by per
jury. Can anything be worse l you
will ask. 1 reply, yos; these very
hills are infinitely worse. I find 1
havo never fully—indeed but vaguely
—comprehended their turpitude. 1
I have ull along supposed that odious as
| they were, tho people —a people—
were, at least, allowed a semblance of
right to reject them and, of course, by
rejecting them escape the purposes
and objects of the measures. 1 had
frequently called attention to
the fact that Congress had devised a
schemo of relieving themselves of tho
odium of theso measures by at least
seeming to submit to same people the
privilege of accepting or rejecting
them. This, I supposed, also exhibi
ted a lingering, though farcical, re
spect for the once pure and great idea
that the people—at least some people
—should have a government founded
in their consent. And this I had sup
posed was tho reason for permitting
the voters to express their approval or
disapproval of the scheme by endors
ing on their rickets “lor a Convention”
or “against a Convention ’’ But in
this I have been greatly mistaken.—
What I have been laboring so earnest
ly to prove was a cheat turns out to
be a trap —a snare—a downright pit
fall! This is one of the remarkable
disclosures made in Governor Brown’s
last article reviewing the notes. Hear
him : “If we reject and vote down
the Convention, when Congress again
meets in December, it will pass an act
extending the disfranchisement to
every man who votes against the Con<
vention, whether white or black, and
probably to all others who voluntarily
aided the rebellion.” If Congress
never intended to abide the decision
of its own selected qualified voters,
why ask for a decision 7 But let us
hear the Governor fully. I wi 1 not
imitate his example by cutting sen
tences in two and changing words to
represent him as saying just the re
verse of what he does say.
“ But it may be asked why disfran
chise a man because he votes against
the Convention 7 The reply is, Con
gress, representing the conqueror, has
submitted its pian for reconstruction
and restoration of the Uuicn, and the
vote of each man, white or black, will
be looked to as a test of his loyalty
and willingness to see the Union re
stored and peace once more establish
ed. The tickets of all, black and
white, will, no doubt, be numbered,
and it will be an easy matter for tho
Government to see how each voted. —
The question is not whether wo will
allow the freedmen to vote. That is
already established beyond revoca--
tion.”
Again lie says : “ Mark it -be not
deceived. If you vote down the Con
vention, in less than two years Geor
gia will be reconstructed with a repre
sentation in Congress ; the great mass
of white men in Georgia, including all
who vote against the Convention, will
be disfranchised ; and there will be a
very general confiscation of property
to pay the war debt and pension Union
soldiers who were disabled in the war.”
Now, let every man, in Georgia and
in the United States, fairly analyze
the above remarkable disclorurcs.
In the first place, the object of sub
mitting the plan of reconstruction to
tho vote of the people is not to asceri
tain the will of the people with a view
of respecting that will. Georgia is to
be reconstructed anyhow in two years,
even though the people vote against
it. The people are to vote, but the
vote is not to decide the question voi
ted on !
In tho next place, wc are not called
on to decide “whether we will allow
the freedmen to vote.” “That,” we
arc distinctly told, “is already estab
lished,” and established ‘ beyond re
vocation.” If wc were not all ciphers
we might ask, when, where, how and
by whom was this established !
But what is the object 7 If you
did not intend to abide the decision
why ask it 7 The vote is asked as a
means of ascertaining who is loyal. —
“The vote of each man will be looked
to as a test of of his loyalty.” Loyal
ty, then, is not to depend upon sup
port of, or adherence to the Coi)3titu
tion. It is not to depend upon con
nection with the rebellion ! A man
may have come from the North ; he
may have fought four full years in the
Union army ; still, if ho has settled in
Georgia and votes against tho Conven
tion, ho is d-sloyal ! It does not dc
pend on color. “Whether black or
white,” if he votes against the Con
vention he is disloyal. Tho tickets
of all, black and white, will he num
bered ! So, a man may be a Norihcrn
man —a Northern black man—or a
Northern black Union soldier—but if
he votes “against Convention” he is
dishyal! And so a man may boa
Southern man—an original secession
ist—and a real white n an—a South,
ern white Confederate soldier who
fought four years for the Confederacy
—but if he only votes for a Conven
tion he is to be considered loyal!
But why : s a vote for or against a
Convention to be taken ns the test of
loyalty or disloyalty '! Because it is a
vote for oi against the plan “submitted
by Congress.” Which plan is to se
cure ten States to the Radical party.
Here is plainly confessed what l have
labored to prove; whoever is a Radical
is loyal. The Radical party is thus
substituted for the laws, for the Union,
and for the Government! People of
the United States, was it lor this you
fought '! Did the South, sure enough,
fight for the Constitution, and the
North for the Radical party 7
But this is not all 7 Why so anx
ous to ascertain who is loyal, or rather
disloyal T Because all who, by
this test, are ascertained to be disloyal,
aro to be disfranchised and their pro
perty is to bo confiscated !
Thus, it turns out, that the only
feature in this Congressional recon
struction plan, which had even a far
cical resemblance to anything virtuous,
is shown to be a snare, a trap, a dis
graceful, deceitful, iniquitous inquisi
tion. I affirm there is nothing in the
dark, cruel and bloody history of the
inquisition of the Jesuits, surpassing
this schemo in the iniquity of its con
ception, in tho hypocrisy of its plan of
execution, or in the villainy of its pur.
pose. And dark, cruel and bloody,
beyond any precedent in the past, will
bo many years of American history if
this plan bo consummated. I have
said, and I now re-affirm with all added
emphasis, that the time will soon come
when not a decent, respectable man
will be found in the Radical party. I
beg all such, mw lingering in it, to
consider wither wc aro going. If all
who vote agaiust the Convention arc to
bo disfranchised, only negroes and a
few Africauiaed whites will be left to
r ile tho country. Does any »<i«e man
believe such a rule possible 7 Under
pretence of restoring the Union teu
negro -States are to be formed ! Un
der pretence of allowing the people to
rote, a hunt is devised to find victims
for disfranchisement and robbery !
And all these thing# done under oaths
to support the Constitution !
If this be only a threat, originating
with Gov. Brown, what shall bo said
of a Southern man who would manu
facture 6uch a threat against his own
people 7 If it be the real purpose of
the so-called Congressional plan, what
American citizen, after understanding
it, can be so lost to every sense of jus
tice, of decncy, of manhood, of honesty
and of honor, as to support cither the
plan or the party which could desire
to adopt it, or whose existence could
depend on its success.
If it be a desperate threat how cow
ardly are they who will be alarmed by
it ? If it be the real purpose, how
base is be who could possibly support
it 7
So in any view it is absolutely nec
essary for every man who would pre
serve moral, political or social respect,
or any sense of manhood, either not to
vote at all, or vote, like a man, “against
a Convention.”
Gov. Brown makes another very re
markable statement. He tells us that
almost all the entire property of Geor
gia is “already confiscated l’ 1 And,
reader, how 7 He says by the Act of
July, 1862. And this singular sate
rnent is made by one who has been
Governor of our State—who tells you
he is a lawyer, and has a good profes
sion.
In reply to this I say :
1. That this act w. s unconstitution
al and void, even as a war measure,
and has been declared so even by some
of the courts of tho Northern'St ites.
2. That if constitutional as a war
measure, then, by its very nature, it
could only be of force during the war,
operating on property seized during
the war, and necessarily ceased to have
any force as soon as the war ended,
and such has been declared to be the
law by the courts of even Massachu
setts.
3. That the Act on its very face
makes itself only a war measure, and
declares its only puipose to be “to in
sure the speedy termination of the pres
eqt rebellion.”
Thus over the nature of the subject
—over the nature of the act —over de
cisions of Northern courts —over the
declared purpose of the act, nnd, I will
add, over the express authority of
every respeetablo international law
writer in existence. Governor Brown
tells tho people of Georgia this act is
still of force, and by it their property
is already confiscated.
Why don’t the President execute
it 7 He seems to feel bound to exe
cute all acts of Congress. Governor
Brown tells us that “Thaddeos Stevens
arraigns the President for having fail
ed to execute it.” Well, I do not know
what Stevens has done. Heaven for
bid I should keep posted in his opin
ions, or quote his acts or threats as au
thority for any people. But I believe
Governor Brown has slandered even
poor old Thad. Stevens. He and Sum
ner have both been trying to induce
Congress to pass bills to confiscate par
tially our property.
Why ask sueli bills if they already
have one by which the property had
already been confiscated 7 Not long
since it was stated Mr. Stevens was
perfecting a bill for mild confiscation,
which lie hoped to get through Con
gress if ho could live five years longer.
Why pray for five years to perfect a
partial measure of confiscation when
one more extensive is already on the
statute book unrepealed 7 Why send
even the resolution 7 Has not Con
gress been anxious to find a reason to
impeach the President! Wly not im
peach for refusing to execute a law
which was passed by Congress and
approved by the Executive 7
1 have desired to find some excuse
for Gov. Brown’s advocacy of tho mili
tary bills. But I am utterly unable
to palliate bis conduct. Ho rushed
out in support of the Sherman bill be
fore the President had acted on it, and
before Congress had passed it over his
veto—thus weakening the President
and encouraging the Congress. He
was then declaiming against the case
pending in the Court beloro the Court
had decided it. And now what Ste
vens and Sumner have been vainly
trying to induce Congress to do against
the Southern people, this man finds out
is “already done.” No need for poor
old man Stevens to live five years
more Do let him be informed oi' thi<
great discovery of the “often-honored”
Southern statesman, that ho may die
in peace !
Every decent Radical paper in the
North has denounced the idea of con
fiscation—even Mr.Slovens’ mild con
fiscation—as disgi aceful robbery .which
would nuke the nation stink with in
famy ; aud yet Governor Brown—so
willing to sacrifice himself for the dear
poor people —has continued to threaten
us with confiscation —“the sleeping
lion on the speaker's desk” —and now
at last, proclaims our property already
confiscated. The terrible lion has
waked up, crawled off tho speaker’s
desk, and actually entered the “staute
book !’’
Man, alas ! is a more dangerous ani
mal than the lion. And better that
all the lions of the earth were turned
loose upon the American people than
that this Radical party should be al
lowed longer to tear the American
Constitution and prey upon American
liberty.
“Poor-wan ' I knew he would no« he a wolf
Hut that he tret the Romans art but thtrp;
He were no lion, trerr not Romans kinds.
The President to be. Sustained
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier says:
“Whatever the President has done
or may do in opposition to the ascen
dancy of the negro political power in
the South, will be hailed with gratitude
and satisfaction by the great comcr
vative mass of the North. The Rad
ical capitalists are but just beginning
to open their eyes to the new dangers
threatening them.
fcSTGcn. Grant and the President
were at variance upon the removal of
Gen. Sheridan, but they harmonized
on the 28th inst., and removed Sickles.
Twenty five men belonging to
the sth Regiment, U. S. troops, died
of Cholera a few days since, at Fort
Wallace. ’
Andrew Female College.
Ex-Gov. A. K. Allison, of Florida
who was in Bainbridge a few days
since, declared to us emphatically
thjtt he had witnessed a good many
similar tests of efficiency, but the late
examination of this institution was the
most thorough, fair satisfactory, aod
withal, demonstrated a higher order
of ability on the part of the Faculty,
as teachers, than any College examina.
tion he had ever attended. He con
siders Andrew Femalo College as the
best institution of the kind he ever
saw.— Bainbrid<j3 Argus.
Ilow the President’s Organ lalks.
—1 he National Intelligencer says :
“As to tho removals of others of the
military satraps, telegraphed from this
city, we have no definite information.
We are satified, however, that no man
will be permitted to play the monarch
in this country with imnunity. With
the consent of Europe—we might say
of the civilized world—the Monroe
doctrine has become the settled policy
of this country in respect to domains
on this Continent outside of the juris
diction of tho United States; and it
could hardly be supposed that in this
Republic men ‘dressed in a little brief
authority’ will long be allowed to exer
cise a despotism, for which they can
find no warrant even in the uconstitu*
tional acts of Congress, and which tar
exceeds in atrocity any tyranny in the
Old World.”
tWaT - Whenever an article of benefit
to the public presents itself, it is the
duty of the journalist to call attention
thereto. We do this with a full con
viction of right when we refer our
readers to Professor Kayton’s reme
d'cs. The demand for these remedies
we understand, is unprecedentedly
large and daily on tho increase, and
| that too when they have been before
the public but a very short time. It
very plainly shows that our people
know how to appreciate a remedy.
Kay ton’s Oleum Vitae is a German
liniment for external uses. Kayton’s
Magic (Jure for internal pains, and
Kayton’s Dyspeptic Pills (or Dyspepsia
and all disorders of the livery stomach
bowels and blood. For salo by drug
gists and dealers in medicines. Send
stamp circular. A. A. Solomons &
1 Cos., Savannah, Ga , Agents. —Si van*
\ nah News Sc Herald.
OBITUARY.
John J-udin departed this life on the 13th
instant, in hope of u blessed immortality, aged
87 yearn.
fie was born and raised in Wayne county,
N. C., and came to Georgia in 1807. lie mar
ried and settled in Jefferson county, where he
lived until the winter of 1829, when he moved
to Loumles county, Ga In 1833 he moved t<>
Thomas county, where he remained until the
day of his death.
He joined the M. E. Church in 1808, of
which he was an acceptable member, until
death removed him to the church triumphant
In Heaven. For the last three years his sight
hud failed him so.tluit lie could not read, hut
he was ill the habit of having the Scriptures
read (o him daily ; frequently getting happy
while it was read to him. lie longed to de
part from this world and be forever at rest,
lie leaves four sons and one daughter, and
many grand children anil tr ends to mourn lira
loss. Hut they feel confident that their loss is
his eternal gain.
“Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.’’
.LG. J
Model School for Young Ladies.
ANDREW
FIUALU COLLEGE
t i l’ll KURT, GA.,
Will enter upon its next Nchssl Year,
.Honda?, Obtober 7th.
SIT’KKIOR facilities are offered Young La
dies in search of an education.
The Teachers and Managers (fourteen in
number,) represent ull churches, and for tho
roughness in their respective departments of
lalsir, cannot he surpassed.
The course of study is most extensive and
complete. French, German, Music, Drawing
and Fainting Departments offer superior in
ducenients.
Physical training, the Needle, the Cuisine,
and the Normal School Departments—all very
perfect.
H aiding H-nse No. 1 in all respects. Small
girls and young ladies will alike find it a home
indeed.
Cuthhcrt is one of the healthiest and most
beautiful towns South.
The discipline of the College is one of its
chief attractions. The officers of the College
are ihor.iurhly Southern
Charges unusually moderate. Send for cat
alogue A. L. HAMILTON,
Aug3otm President.
HOUSE TO RENT
And Household aud KltclieH
Furniture for Sale.
rfiNllE undersigned will rent his Dwelling
I House and Git. until the first of January
next for $.>0.00. The dwelling haafive moms
and three fire places—good kitchen and out
houses, garden, good well of water and other
conveniences. He also offers for sale bis
Household and Kitchen Furniture on the pre
mises. F. L. JONES.
Aug SO St
E* La NEIDLINGER,
DEALER IN
SADDLES. BfIIDLES ill K&IRSS.
Sa<ldl<-ry Ware, Leather, Ac.
< *rner Brengblnn j
nnd Hnrmard *««•., \ Ssitsstk. 6a.
tVAboot the 10th ot September will re
move to No. 72 8» Jal'an Street, to the Store
at present oceopted by Messrs. Meinhard A
Hn-ther, opposite Messrs Hsidl St Ludlow a
Ang 3b 3m
gKORCI*-Cslgsdtt Csssty,
Wbrrrns, Susan A Nessmith, Adminiatra
trit on the estate of Malarhia Nessmith. dee.,
and Seaborn Weeks. Administrator on the as
tate of James Weeks, deed , haring filed their
petitions in this Court for letters of Diamis
eion from their several estates: — Notice is
hereby given to all persona interested, to file
their objections in Conn, if they have any,
otherwise Letters ot Uismtsston will be grant
ed sai-l applicant at the Match term, ISBB, of
this Court.
ISAAC CARLTON,
Ang 10 f>m Ordinary.
I.crier, sf Adsniaistralisw far Male
at this orrir*