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TELEGRAPHIC.
Western Union Telegraph.
Special to (he Enterprise.
Miscellaneous Items.
Washington, Sept. 9.—The New York
Deputy Revenue Collector, Allen, of Brook
lyn, was arrested this morning on a charge
of fraud.
Secretary Browning has entirely recov
ered from his recent illness and is again
attending to duty.
The steamer Rising Star, from Califor
nia and Panama, brings advices to the 19th
and 21st. The report of an attempted re
volution in behalf of Morequera and its
failure is confirmed.
Gen’l E. F. Cooke, Secretary U. S. Le
gation, at Santiago, Chili, died the Oth of
August.
The resignation of the Vice President of
the Argentine Republic had boen tendered
but refused.
The President intends to head the ar
mies against Paraguay.
There is no war news.
The Cholera is still raging badly in
same Districts of Nicaraguay.
Savannah Market.
Savannah, Sept. 9.—The Cotton market
is flat and nominal, 24c. for middlings.
No sales and weather very hot and raining
for last two days.
New Orleans Market.
New Orleans, Sept. 9.—The Cotton mar
ket suspended and no sales reported, pri
ces nominal, but tending downward. Re
ceipts 488 bales. Sugar, a little Louis
iana in market, but only a retail business
doing, fully fair 15 3-4. Molasses market
bare. Flour quiet and firmer, superfine
$8.25 a $R 50.. Core dull, mixed 1.20,
white and yellow, 1.25. Oats dull at 70c.
Hay dull and drooping, prime wesiern 27.
Mess Pork in demand, round lots 27. Ba
con scarce and active, shoulders 16 1-4 a
15 1-2, clear sides 191 a 20. Sugar cured
hams 23 a 24. Gold 42J a 43. Sterling
64 1-2 a 56 1-2. New York Sight half
premium.
The yellow fever deaths for the week
ending yesterday were 249. For twenty
four hours ending yesterday morning 49,
and ending this morning 51.
New York Market.
Hew York, Sept. 9.—The Cotton market
is easier and 900 bales were sold at, 26 ft
26J. Flour active and advanced 20 and
30c. Sales of 1800 bbls. State, 7.30 a.
10.85. Southern 9.50 a 13.50. Wheat
active and advanced. Corn active, large
speculation and enquiry. Oats advanced
lc. Pork, new mess, 24.75. Naval stores
quiet and freights dull. Stocks improved
ibut dull. Gold 43 a 43}.
Cincinnati Market.
Cincinnati, Sept. 9.—Flour steady and
•fair demand. Corn firmer, $1.05. Cot
ton dull and nominal. Provisions buoy
ant and unsettled. Mess Pork $25.00.
-NOON DISPATCHES.
Cable Dispatches-
Atlantic Cable, 2 o’clock, P. M., Sept.
10.—London.—Bonds 7 3-8. Other mat
ters unchanged.
Liverpool, Sept. 10.—Cotton market dull
owing to the unfavorable trade report.
The Manchester market is drooping.
Havana, Sept. Bth.—Santa Anna’s son
is contemplating an expedition into Mexico
Two hundred cigar makers, engaged in
a strike, have been thrown into prison.
The payment of taxes is very slew.
Minister Otterbourg presented his cre
dentials to Juarez, as Minister Plenipoten
tiary of the United States, on the 20th ult.
M. Magna, the Prussian Minister at
Mexico, keeps in seclusion at San Luis.
He is supp sed to be insane, and disre
gards the orders from Prussia to leave the
country.
Maine election.
Portland, Maine, Sept, 10.—Chamber
lain was elected Governor yesterday, by
about 14,000.. The democrats have made
gains throughout the Slate. The Repub
lican loss in Bath is 247. Beddeford gives
a democratic majority of 240, against 00
of last year. The democrats will gain re
presentatives in some of the Towns, but
not enough to givo them much power in
the Legislature. In one hundred and nine
towns, giving Chamberlain over six thou
sand majority, (hero is a Republican loss
of over 9000 votes.
New York Market.
New York, Sept. 10.—The steamer Man
hattan has arrived with Gen. Sickles on
board.
Flour 25c better. Wheat three and five
cts. better. Corn quiet and pork steady ;
new mess $24 80 a 24.85. Cotton quiet at
26 a 20}, uplands. Spirits Turpentine
firm at 69 a 60. Rosin quiet, 4.124. Com
mon stocks dull and heavy. Money 4a 5.
Gold 43 5-8. Tenn. 6’s Ex. Coupon 66 7-8.
New issues 65 1-4. Virginia Sixes, new
issue, 60.
Savannah, Sept. 10.—Joseph S. Carulli
ers, Teller Central Rail Road Bank, a
-with 8 or 9,000 dollars on Sat u
day night last. One thousand dollars re
ward is offered for his apprehension.
Newspaper Writing. —lt is not s
easy to write for a newspaper as pcopl
suppose. A man may be a good scholar’
a profound thinker, a vigilant observer
oi passing events, without being able
to write for a nowspaper. An exchange
says the power of writing a leading arti
cle for a newspaper is a tart which few
possess, and which we have known ma
ny, with all their learning, unable to
acquire. It requires a large amount of
information on a variety of subjects,
and areadiness of application that must
never be at fault, or the writer will
fail; for remember, the editor is always
writing against time, and the inexor
able printer must have his copy, so
that there is no time to revise and
amend; but as slip after slip is written,
“devil’’ snatches it away, and one hall
is usually set up in type before the oth.
er half is written. This exacts a deci
sion of thought and a facility of wri
ting which, like poetry, seems rather
a gift of nature than an acquired fa
culty.
A poverty stricken Frenchman being
interrupted by his wife one night with
the ery of —Get up, Jacques, there’s
a robber in the house, —calmly replied
liusb, don, tlet us disturb him. Let
him ransack the house, and if he finds
anything of value we'll get up andtake
it away from him.
(tuteqirise
(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1807.
J"sr\Mr. N. It. Stakbuck is onr authorized
Agent for the City of Savannah, to receive
and receipt for advertising and subscriptions
to the Southern Enterprise.
ISOY WAITED.
A boy of good moral character, eight or
ten years old, who can read and write
well, will be received in this office as an
apprentice to the Printing business.
HON. B. 11, HILL.
lion. B. 11. Hill has commenced
the publication in the Augusta Chron
icle & Sentinel, a third series of
“Notes on the Situation,” this time
addressed to Gen. Grunt, and in reply
to the ridiculous and nonsensical let
ter of Gen. Pope. This third series
of Mr. llill, have, if that be possible,
a keener edge than his Erst and second
series, and show in every line the
first orator statesman and patriot in
the ccuntry. lion. 11. S. Fitch, a
short time ago, in reply to the Macon
Journal & Messenger, affected to
sneer at both, the statesmanship and
oratoraenl abilities of Mr. Hill ; lint
wc failed to see the errors he pointed
out, or his own superior political ac.
union. Without professing to be a
critic, or claiming extraordinary taste,
for literature, our sensibilities acknowl
edge in Mr. Ilill, the profound states
man, warning his countrymen against
impending evils, the true patriot,
ready to'Baerifiee all for country, and
the all powerful irresistible orator,
overwhelming his enemies and putting
them to shame by the power and
truth of his logic and Rhetoric. If
this is not true oratory, then Demos
thenese was a humbug, Cicero was a
stump demagogue, and lion. H. S.
Fitch a statesman and the only ora
tor.
THE IMPENDING CRISIS.
The Missouri Democrat, a Radical
paper, has become terribly alarmed by
the Presidents, movements and cells
fora Consultation among the Governors
of the Northern States, and invokes the
genius of the Grand Army of the lie.
public, (so called) to save the country
from falling back upon the Constitution
and to holster up the falling rotten
Radical party. Giecley of the Tribune
endorses the suggestion, and both
think the Grand Army of the Republic
should hold its next session at Wash
ington, in order that they may he con
venient and ready to second the lladi-
CSl JX.Y/3 1 1\5 ; StVriY ifie‘ ’re’i ll a of Govern
ment by force. Let the conservative
people of the North and the President
look to it, for the Radicals will surely
make the attempt if they find them
selves with sufficient power, when the
time arrives. The President may fore,
stall them if he will, and so cripple
their power, that they will not dare to
advance ; hut the Radicals, at present,
are most assuredly perfecting their
plans lor taking forcible possession of
the Government.
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC
VICTORY.
California semis greetings to all
conservative citizens of the East, hav
ing elected Henry S. Haight, Uovcr.
nor by many thousands, majority, fol
lowing in the footsteps of Connecticut,
and improving on her example. The
President is said to ho much elated by
the defeat of the Radicals in Califor
nia and predicts similar results in the
Atlantic States. By their defeat in
California the Radicals lose a Senator
So mote it bo.
COLORED MAN S SPEECH
We call tho especial attention of
the colored people of Thomas County,
to the able, eloquent and truthful
speech we publish to-day, which was
delivered at Columbus Georgia by Joe
Will iums, a colored man of Tennessee.
Let the sensible colored men every
where read this speech carefully, and
consider whithor the Radicals are
leading them.
ISSUE MADE UP.
The canvass is growing warm in (ho
State of Ohio, and the press on both
sides is working up to the fighting
pitch. Wo copy tho lollowing from
the Pomeroy Ohio Banner.
“Voters should constantly bear in
mind that one of the planks in the
Democratic platform is payment by the
States for the n egro e s set free by
the emancipation proclamation." Ath>
ens Messenger.
“Voters should hear in mind that
the writer of tho above is an infernal
liar let hiui be who lie may."— Pomeroy
Banner.
AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.
The President’s Amnesty Procla
mation was issued yesterday, the Bth,
and referrs exclusively to tho 14
clusses excluded by previous proclama
tions. Most of those are relieved of
disabilities, and restored to rights and
privileges of property only. The pro
clamation, as a matter of course, docs
not relieve the Southern States of the
evils of the Reconstruction Acts, nor
does it enfranchise any who have been
disfranchised by those Acts. The
President had no power to change the
Acts of Congress, and the laws ot that
body must take their course in the
Southern States.
[FOR THE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE j
XnußiOA, Prov. S. Paui.o, 1
Brazil, June 21, ’67. j
Dr. II J. Bruce, Thomasoille, (la. :
Dear Friend : —At last I am here,
by water 150 miles from the Atlantic
coast and by land 75. Your cousin of
whom I spoke to you when at your
place is on Dunn’s place, up the Juca
yar, about 100 miles North East of
this, and 180 by water from the sea
coast, on a small stream, one of the
tributaries of this “Ribera de Iguape.’’
Dear Doctor, you have doubtlcs3
long ere this concluded I was dead or
lost, as it has been more than seven
weeks since I wrote you. It is only
necessary for me to say to you, that
my engagements have been such us to
render it impossible for me to write,
and then it is necessary to know some
thing before writing. I had a large
family of my own to look after. Then
the company with mo, numbering 32,
required my personal attention, whe
ther provisions were to get, or if sea
sick or otherwise, or canoes were wan
ted, or drays, etc., Pyles was called
for, hence no rest or leisure moments
for me. Still I kept notes from the
start to this point, hut at present have
not the time to transcribe. This you
may look lor in due time.
Our trip from Savannah to N. York,
and thence to this point was in some
respects pleasant. As before stated
(in my last) there were near 400 omi<
grants on hoard— several who had been
much exposed previously, and yet, out
of the whole number, men, women and
children, not a single one died and no
serious sickness occurred. Disagree,
able and irksome as was the trip up
the river from Iguape, yet wc finally
lauded all safe.
I have traversed the river lands for
many miles, and ranged the hills
(Terras) time and again, and have be
come fully satisfied that this is a pe
culiar country. Notwithstanding it is
one of the grand divisions of the globe,
yet it lias all the characteristics of an
island. The lands every where are
rich, whether upon the hilly beach or
the mountains of the interior, or the
valleys in the midst of’ the mountains,
or immediately upon the rivers mar
gins—all rich and abounding with rich
and delicious products planted by the
hand ot nature’s God. One special
peculiarity of the country is, that the
hills (high as they are, deserving tho
name of mountains, and often running
down to the water’s edges) are richer
even upon their summits than the liv
er lands. A second peculiarity is,
that out of the immense variety of for
est timbets, not a tree is found.for
rails or hoards. The houses are of
stone, brick or mud and sticks, and
covered with tyh. They last always.
As to the water of this country, it
is clear and pure. It is hotter than
that of any country I have ever seen.
I do not mean there is no water in
river, creek and branch water hero, is
just as pleasant, palatable and healthy,
as a beverage, as tho springs and
wells in the States—it is cool.
As to what can bo produced here, I
am satisfied from my knowledge of
farming, that all the cercjs may he
grown here, as well as all the tropical
fruits, or nearly so. The river lands
are not only rich, but possess every
quality for grass, clover, wheat, barley,
etc. As to what quantity of tmy par
ticular crop can ho raised to the acre,
it is impossible now to determine, ns
there is not a cultivate! crop in all
this region of country, if in Brazil
And yet, some men have made inn
mense fortunes hero within the last
twenty years, they say, from their
farms. You traverse their lands in
the low spots, near the river, where
you find hundreds of trees, bananas,
plantains, etc. Then around their
houses, coffee, oranges, lemons, col
lat'd.-, two or three acres, all apparent
ly without attention, full of rich fruit.
Then off in tho hills, hack from 1 to
1) miles, tho basons are lull of rioe,
grown in fresh land, without cultiva
tion, and on the summits of tho hills,
two, three and sotnetim s five acres in
mandiocha, and yet, although you see
scarcely any thing that is planted, and
nothing cultivated, yet nearly every
farm has a mill, and every mill seems
lull of rice, nml every store is sup
plied with Feriuha, made of the man
diocha. Every enclosure (around the
hacienda) lias more or less ponies,
mules, lino cattle and fat hogs, graz
ing around upon the rich pasture,
which always encloses the residence.
This is fenced for the stock, whilst
the crops arc outside.
As to the health of this particular
section of country, it is said to be
good, and 1 seo no particular reason
why it should not he.
As to Cotton—as that has been tho
staple product of our people in the
States—l am not yet prepared to re
port. 1 doubt, however, whether cot
ton can ho grown hero to pay so well
as many other things. 1 have seen
tho cotton weed large and sufficiently
strong for mo to climb it a few feet,
hut the fruit is rather scattering and
much ot it rots. What change can be
made by cultivation, is to be learned
in the future. 1 shall try enough to
sat’sfy myself. There aro other crops
tho Cano and Rico for example
that will perhaps pay better.
There is no doubt as to the adapta
tion of tho soil and climate to the
growth of Sugar and Coffee. The
brinks of the rivers grow fine cane, in
the midst o! the wild forest grotto. I
cut one stalk —in the woods—with 51
matured joints. \\ e have found cane
in the woods 24 inches in diameter in
the grass, from four to live feet high,
and in the hushes from fifteen to twen
ty feet high.
As to tho prices of land, I am as
yet at a loss to determine. The go
vernment lands tire, as you know, at
Rom 30 to 70 cents per aero. Pri
vate lands range from $1.50 to $25.00
in price, as well as I can ascertain.
There arc several difficulties in the
way of arriving at prices. Ist. It is ;
difficult for us to get the natives to J
understand the questions we ask, aud
equally as much so for us tq under
stand them. 2nd. They have not
their boundaries sufficiently defined in
their own minds to he able to tell what
they own. Their deeds show, but
they are so ignarant that they can’t
comprehend, and we being ignorant
ot the language in which the deeds
are written, wo can’t tell as to the
quantity of acres.
I have four places or tracts in view
for myself, and some friends yet in
the States, and am waiting for a weal
thy native, who has a brother-in-law,
who speaks both languages, to make
the purchase for me. lam willing to
givo SIO,OO per acre for one of the
places. It is perhaps as rich a
body of land as I have ever seen, ly
ing one and a half miles above town.
Another on the opposite side of the
river, one mile front and ouo league
deep (3J miles ), four to five hundred
acres bottom, immensely rich, I think
I can get lor $3,000. There is two
hundred acres of low land on this
place, unsurpassed by none in the
Siatjs. that is growing the various
crops, while there are five pretty good
houses, and perhaps, 3,000 bushels of
mandiocha now ready fer gathering,
worth from 15 to 18 cts. per bushel,
clear of expense. This would give
from SIOO to’ SOOO dollars to the acre.
There is less than half the work re
quired to cultivate the mandioca than
we gave the potatoe usually in the
States, and it is more easily gathered,
as it lies immediately under the grassy
surface. More anon.
Yours, truly,
S. M. Pyles.
Spocch of Jos. E. Williams (color
ed), of Tennessee.
AT THE CONSERVATIVE MEETING IN
COLUMBUS, GA., A(IG. 31st,
Gentlemen and Fellow-Citizens of
Georgia :
I feel honored by your invitation t"
visit this city. There seems to be
some conflict between tho two races.
It is all owing to the distracted con
dition of the country. I come to aid
in devising means, as far as lies in my
power, to restore peace and prosperity.
1 helped to fight for liberty, and for
the Union of the States ; I have been
a soldier in the United States, and
have in my possession a certificate to
that cfleet, and I am now a loyal citi
zen. 1 came to endeavor to unite the
l two races on the ha-is of political
| equality. Unless this can ho done,
j there will be a war of races. lam for
! the enfranchisement of every white
[ and black man in the country. I have
stood the storm of cannon, and can
stand a political campaign in spite of
1 labored hard in Tennessee for tho
welfare of my country, and the good
of hotli races. Northern emissaries,
wi It whom the country is flooded,
cannot aid the blacks. The bone and
sinew of the country is composed of
the white men. The whites furnish
the land and the capital. The North
si.ld the negroes to the South when
they found their labor was not pvofit.
able. They did not free the slaves,
hut pocketed t'.ie money received for
them.
The South before tho war was op
posed to the slave trade. The slave
trade had been carried on iu New
England vessels and by New England
Yankees, because they found it prof,
itahle. I have been raised and school,
cd among the Northern people. 1 have
known many blacks turned from their
schools for no other reason than their
color. Thero are not many thousand
negroes in the North ; yet the people
there have never been their friends,
hut their enemies. Tho Radicals de
sire to exterminate the negro. They
arc sending them in crowds from Ten
nessee to Georgia.
Before tho election in Tennessc, no
groes were rushed thero from Arkan
sas and Kentucky. They wero prom
ised land and mules and desirablo po
sitions, as they are now being cajoled
in Georgia, if they would vote for the
radiea's. When the election was over,
the deluded blacks applied to tho Bu
reau to fulfill promises. They were
told they must seek land in Georgia
by doing there as they had in Tennes
see, and were driven off. You will
he treated in the same way.
The Radicals will break up any
government. They will enslave what
they made l'veo. All their measures
are extreme. They aro now robbing
the whites and creating political sla.
very. [Ho read from Brownlow’s
late speeches, showing him to be in
favor of extermination of tho bl.iek
race.] The radicals aro driving you
from the border States and confining
you to a narrow compass. Your pla
ees there are being filled by foreigners,
brought by the Radicals. They can
live cheaper than you, and can under,
work you. You will he crowded into
a narrow compass, brought in contact
with a more intelligent and vigorous
people, and will die more rapidly.—
This i- radical friendship.
The radicals say the government
fought to froe the blacks. It is not so.
The fight was for the Union of the
States. Lincoln expressly stated that
he issued his emancipation proclama
tion bocau.se it was a military necessity,
and he never would have issued it if
slavery could have been saved and at
the same time the Union preserved.
The officers and soldiers denied the
war was lor tho negro.
Until long after the commencement
of the war no negroes were enlisted
Many came to the army from the
South. They were retained, because,
ha-1 they been returned, they would
have aided tho rebels. The number
became so numerous that they w.ere
enlisted in the army, and afterwards
they were placed in the front: ranks to
act as defences for the Northern
wh’tes. The Radicals now desire to
use them in the same way. Their
emissaries want the negroes for tools
to elevaic them to power. Will you
be used thus ?
The blacks should unite with the
whites for their own protection. A
high General from Indiana told me, at
Indianapolis, that after the war was
over, all the vessels of tho United
States would be employed to transport
all the negroes to Africa. Stand by
the whites of the South. They are
your only friends. With them as
your friends you cannot be driven
away. On their lands the Radicals
will have no power over you when the
time for removals comes. You should
do as you would be done by. The late
of the Indians is befireyau.
[The resolutions, published on Sun
day, were read and adopted. They
favor equal legislation, universal en
franchisement, anti repudiation of the
national debt, repeal of heavy taxation,
peace and harmony, equal political
rights, and immediate enfranchise
ment]
Exact justice to all should be meted
out. Yv’e want restoration under the
Constitution. In some Northern
States the laws forbid a residence of
negroes; in i tlicrs they cannot vote
or testify. In radical Tennessee they
cannot hold office or he jurymen. In
New Y’ork or Philadelphia you do not
see a colored hack or dray driver, bar
ber, or a black man in the mechanical
pursuits. The rich and prominent
men stay North ; they feel above the
negro. Radicalctnrnissaries, however,
who have hardly a carpet bag, coine
South as fortune seekers. They are
traitors to their country and their
race, and will he to the negroes. They
have no love for us. They came to
keep from work, and make you sup
port them. There should boa unity
of races in the South. Our interests
are identical. If the blacks arc capa
ble of voting, they arc surely capable
of holding office. Tho Radicals don’t
want you to vote for yourselves, but
for them. Don’t you see their ob
ject';'
While the Radicals make laws to
punish the whites of the South, they
equally punish you. They tax cotton
three cents a pound, three dollars per
hundred, and thus they will reduce the
price to twelve and a half to fifteen
cents per pound. The laborer has to
pay the tax alter all. The white man
owns the land, hut'you till it. If you
owned it yourself, you would have to
pay the tax. Why is not the wheat
of the Northwest taxed? Does this
show friendship for you?
I call upon you to rally for tho res
toration of your country. The Radi
cals are paid to poison your minds
against those who are yonr best
friends. Make an honest living and
lf/icaTWaTmn! 10 "' 1 fn ,hcir uwn p 0”
Not long since in Nashville a color
ed man was arrested on the charge of
having murdered one of the same col.
or. The negroes were enraged at him.
The evidence was circumstantial only.
No friends appeared to help him.—
Radicals lot him alone. The blacks
were clamorous for his blood. The
nows reached his former master. lie
employed lawyers, furnished money
for tho trial, and by tho master’s aid
the negro was acquitted. This is the
kind of friend you want. To give
character to yourselves, make friends
in the country in which you live—
friends who are willing and able to
stand by you. If you are on the land
ofißueh men, when the time comes for
tho Radicals to drive you away, you
can resist all efforts.
The Radicals say they will give you
forty acres and a mule, if you will vote
lor them. Wltero aro tho lands and
mules? Suppose tiny confiscate lands
and do what they say. When you get
in a tight, they’ll oppress you and buy
your lands for a mere song. They
treat colored soldiers on their discharge
that way. Gheated them out of their
bounties, and when complaint was
made drove them off If the agents
have so much money, why arc they
always seeking the hard-earned wages
of the negro ?
Now is tho time for the negroes to
make friends of the people who will
stand by them. Re-enslavement is
idle talk. No one wants it. It is im
possible. History does not record an
instance of slaves, onco freed, again
enslaved. Emissaries have so poison
ed the minds of the blacks against
their true interests, that the larger por
tion will not come to hear ono of their
own color. The Southern iron love as
David did Absalom, tho colored peo
ple, though the latter are arrayed
against them. That man must have a
good heart who will employ ono who
would out his throat. How can a
hlaek man go to tho league and face
next morning a kind employer ?
By the law 1 am free to express uiy
opinions. It is my duty to do so.—
Radical loaders of repute respect me.
1 care not for the small fry. I
havo been a high radical leader among
the blacks. When war was declared
for tho freedom of my race, l fought
in the army. I have faced cannon
and musketry, an! 1 don’t fear a mob.
If l have done wrong there is enough
law in the land to punish me. I ant
willing tuba a martyr in a righteous
cause.
He read the advice of Geritt Smith
and Horace Greeley to the blacks to
avoid mobs. The reason the former
gave for the whites having land and
the blacks none was, the Hacks drank
tho most rum. llis advice was, for
the hiacks none. Then the latter would
have land. While they were waiting
for land they would starve. Ho a.so
commented upon the generous policy
of Greeley, who desired $00,00U,000
given to the whites of the Bouth
If there is a war ol races the sol
diers would side with the whites, and
create havoc among the blacks.
Vote for men of princ pie—men
who will give you good government
Vote for peace, order and quiet. Emis
saries have nothing here, no interest, no
property. What are they? Mere ad
venturers, who seek your money and
votes. Let the blacks protect by their
votes the men who will protect them in
turn.
I desire equality in political rights.
The Southern white man will give
that. I stopped to see my former
master at Chattanooga,and he gave me
some excellent adviee. Social equali
ty wilt regulate itself. It is founded
on idividual tastes.
Vote down a Convention if they will
not admit colored delegates. Vote for
the best Men for that Convention. Bud
men make bad laws. Look at Tennes
see. Radicals rule there, yet negroes
are not allowed to hold office or sit on
juries. A great many Radicals do not
know what politics mean. Don’t lis
ten to them or their offers. They have
nothing, and arc wanting in everthing.
Let politics and emissaries alone. Have
nothing to do with the last, for they
will prove your ruin. Was not Brown
low tl e strongest pro-slavery man of
the South ? Did not these emissaries
hold or oversee slaves and support
every slave measure, and object to sei
cession because it would free their
slaves ? Can you trust their professions
now ?
Abide by your contracts, be honest
and industrious, and labor for the ad
vancement of tho State and the good
of the race.
Southern Reconstruction.
The following paragraph from a re
cent letter of the Hon. Herschel V.
Johnson to the New York Tribune,
will strike t he reader as not only being
moderate and candid, hut as embody
ing truth which cannot he evaded,
though it may be “crushed to earth”:
“The scheme of reconstruction of
fered to us professes to extend to us
the right of choosing by vote ; it calls
on us to say whether we are for or
against a convention, such as that
scheme contemplates. When I, in
the exercise of that volition, express
myself as opposed to it, you and the
other lea-ling Republicans of the North
who consider my poor opinions worthy
to he noticed, infer therefrom that I
am disloyal, factious, and rebellious
If those who are opposed to that plan
of reconstruction are thus to he brand
ed, why call on us to choose ? If wo
be free to choose, is it quite consistent
charitable and just to denounce us he
cause wc do not choose as the Repub
licans desire that wo should ? Aye,
more than this : to threaten us with
perpetual disfrinchisemcnt and confis
cation if \Ve do not chooie. Is that
the way to establish State governments,
“deriving their just powers from the
consent of tho governed ?” Is it true
that lam disfranchised —I am not per
uiiu.eu io ro gin tor. i>uc i cua not
know that I was, therefore, not at lib
erty to write and speak freely to my
fellow.citizens, without being denoun
ced as disloyal and factious. I profess
to be loyal to the Constitution, and in
tend to be loi al to tho Union, when it
shall he settled that Georgia constitutes
one of the States of the Union. Rut
if loyalty means fidelity and adhesion
to the Republican party, I shall never
belong to it nor be loyal to it, so long
as it persists in a course of p o 1 i c y
which must end in the overthrew of
the Constitution. I have taken the oath
of amnesty, and intend to keep it in
good faith, in letter and in spirit. It
binds tne to support the constitution.
That I will do to tho best of my ability.
It binds me to support the emancipa
tion of the negroes from slavery. That
L intend to do, and favor their invest
ment, by law, witli every right that is
consistent with their wellare, tho in
terest of well organized society, and
the perpetuation of good government.
More than this you would not ask of
me. \Ye may differ honestly as to
what rights are compatible with these
ends; hut that difference does not con
stitute either of us traitors or disloyal
ists, in any legitimate sense of that
term.
Tho Atlanta Ring.
There can bo little doubt hut that a
“King” has been formed in this State,
with its chief managers located at At
lanta, for the purpose of procuring the
removal of Gov. Jenkins and tho ap.
pointment of some cno under tho in
fluence of the “Ring” iu his place.—
The leading members of this corrupt
combination are said to bo gentlemen
who have been more than once honor
ed by the people of Georgia; but who,
on account of those honors, both
State and Federal, arc disqualified for
holding office themselves. The “Ring*’
also embraces a set of broken down
political hacks, and bankrupt gambling
speculators, who, for tho purpose of
making money, have sold themselves
to the ultra Kadieal party. Those men
are well known in Atlanta and their
plotting and counterplotting for the
removal of Governor Jenkins, whose
honesty and stern integrity of charac
ter forbids the hope that lie could he
made subservient to their wishes and
objects, is no longei a secret.
Wc hope and believe that General
Fope is well informed as to tho pur
poses of this contemptible clique, and I
that he has the good sense to refuse I
any co-operation with them in their
attempt to get possession of the State
government. Without the aid of Gen.
Pope, they are powerless- But if in
an hour of weakness he should be led
into the snares which the “Ring” j
have so adroitly arranged for him, the
interests of the State, which, under
the Military bills, are confided to his
care ami protection, will become a prey
to the unscrupulous and corrupt men
who are now pulling the wires for the
removal of Gov. Jenkins— Augusta
Chronicle A- Sentinel.
General Pope—What the “Hub* ’
Thinks of Him.
In reviewing General Pope’s recent
letter to General Grant, in relation to
the extradition of Messrs. Hill, John
son and Perry, the Boston Post gives
the following neat and polished sketch
of the peculiar characteristics of this
truly great and good man :
Gen. Pope is a funny man. All
who remember his Falstaffian report
about the number of his prisoners, hi»
announcement that his Headquarters
were in the saddle, his demoralized
retreat toward Washington, his army
without any head and he seeking quar
ters at the Capitol while steam was up
on the Potomac to convey the Gov
ernment from the District in case the
enemy followed the sagacious General
too close for its safety, will not wonder
that President Lincoln thought Pope
had more wind than efficiency. Ilia
pretentious letter to Gen. Grant illus
trates his conceit and weakness. Ho
recommends the banishment of those
who differ from him in opinion and
express that difference, proscribes all
newspapers that oppose his views, and
then announces his anxiety to secure
freedom of speech and the liberty of
the press ! lie declares the only safe,
ty for reorganization in the South is
through free discussion, and then re
commends ostracising all who oppose
the Radical plan and procribes all pa
pers that do not advocate it. He says
this course is necessary to secure the
South to tho Republican party, and
then proceeds to demostrate the cer
tainty that the Ro publicans will
triumph in all these States without
any coercive measures. Pope, y< u are
an Ass.
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bo stamped, and the stamps to be used
in ordinary business transactions. Cut
this out and preserve it for reference :
All notes and evidence of debt, five
cents on each $100; if
five cents ; if over, SIOO, five cents on
each additional SIOO or part thereof.
All receipts, for any amount with
out limit, over S2O, two cents ; if S2O,
or under, nothing.
All deeds and deeds of trust, fifty
cents on each $")00 in value of tho
property conveyed, or the amount re.
cured; when a deed of trust is duly
! stamped, tho note secured must not
be; hut they should he endorsed to
| show the reason why.
All appraisements of estates or of
estravs, five cents on each sheet or
piece of paper.
Affidavits of every description two
exempt from stamp duty.
Acknowledgement to deeds, &c ,are'
also exempt.
Contracts and agreements, five cents,
except for rent; when for rent, fifty
cents for S3OO of rent, or less ; if over
SBOO, fifty cents for each S2OO or less
over SOO.
Any person interested can affix and
r»nnr»ol atnmp\
Negroes Not Permitted to Run for
the Convention. —ln a recent conver
sation which we had with an agent of
the Frecdmen’s Bureau, and a County
Registrar of this State, we were in
formed by him that there would be no
negroes in the Convention. Wegavo
it as our opinion that thero would bo
quite a number, when bo replied that
“ he knew that there would not he one—
that orders had been sent out from
Atlanta to all the counties that negroes
must not run this time, hut wait until
the State was reorganised .”
This remark was made to us in the
presence of another gentleman, at the
Depot in Forsyth, and, as we havo
stated,, by a man who is a County
Registrar under the Military Bills
and an Agent of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau.—Augusta Chronicle 8f Sentinel.
Pope's Ambition. —General Pope
emerged from the war a hero without
a victory. He is now occupying a
position ‘ at the front’’ in which he is
determined to achieve a triumph. Ills
letter to Grant proposing to banish
Ben Hill, establishes his reputation
inonc direction. Disorder forbidding
the civil officers advertising in news*
papers that do not fall down and wor
ship Goneral Pope, was a personal
victory of considerable consequence
to the Janus-facod starvelings ty whom
he is surrounded. But this last order
No. 53, which bears date 10th inst ,is
tho finishing touch to his labors, over,
whelms his adversaries in bulk, and
satisfies the full measure of his ambi
tion.—Nashville Union Sf Dispatch.
George, do you remember the story
of David and Goliah? Yes,sir, David
was a tavern keeper and Goliah was an
intemperate man. Who told you that?
Nobody, 1 read it, and it said that Da
vid fixed a sling for Goliah and Goliah
got slewed with it.
Another Richmond in the Field. —
The Bainbridgo Argus says Isaiah
U illianas, a colored citizen of that
place, has announced himself a candi
date for a seat in Congress. It doos
not state which branch.
DEPARTED THIS LIFE,
In Thomaavifla, on Thurwiny evening, the
sth instant, after K short illness. VfiLtir, in
fant sun of I»r VVm I’, ami Mrs. Letttsa V.
Glower, aged a hoot sixteen mouths Wnin
was n sweet and promisinir child, and his death
is a sore bereavement to his -inline parents,
their relatives sad friend*. But the Hieh and
Holy One. in his inscratuMe dispensation sn-i
holy purpose, low thought proper to blast his
infant prospects on «-*rth, »nd translate him. m
pure and immaculate rt)enib, to s world of
spirits, to he forever about His throne in a
happy eternity Suffer little children to come
unto use, for of surh is the kingdom of heaven
Pun—On Monday, the 2d msant, of
Cnngejiive Chill, Cyxthia Eliza, second
daughter of Eli and Elizabeth Jane Fufch.
*g~d iwo year* and six months. Eitia
was an interesting little child. The All
wi«* Dispenser has cropped this beautifu!
flower from earth to plant il in his l'aro
dtse iu Heaven, where it will bloom in his
benign smiles throughout the todlesa ages
cf eternity.