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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. Instruments Requiring Stamps. The following aro the instruments to 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.