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LV CUTS O. BEY AN, Editor & Proprietor.
VOL V.
Hr §oidf)fru Enterprise,
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THOMABViIiIiEi &A.
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To our ol<l Pdtrinit.-
If our adoption of the caeii system in our
terms above, tieod-ed any apology, we
would refer you to.a. fact known to many
yen, ttiafwe. tried 111©- creditßjwm from
>lav 1855 to April 1802, .and’ by refer--
fiif'r* to our books, -wUfind th a Foyer S4OOO
still remain there against subscribers and
advertisers, most y lor-the- las.t two years
Tisnied, while wo have been ‘ obliged d.urr
iug that time ter collect money rlsewhcre.to’
j>ar our debts and office ’ expenses. .This
1 gnotgtlerous.nor lair. We you.tho
paper at xmur request, laden- with -news,’
miscellanies &c.. enough ,t© afford you
many hours gratification ’ mul amusement,
or made your trade known'to the-world,
and thus enabled yon to'resp a rich har
vest in b-iuiuess. What each of you indi
vidually owe •u* is vejy small, but'collec-.
: tively is a con-ideruble sura', quite sufficient,
to Set ws up in business anew.-
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ent, but qtanj of you liav.o some, or all'.of
ihe products named in our terms; to spare,,
wml we ftsk you to renew your patronage
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AUGUSTIN H. lIANSELL,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW.
. THOMABVU.LE, G,C
Afire •vr.r Store ®f H. Wolff A f?r*.
• July 19, 186.5, ts
Ita. W. F. I)r.WITT. I DR; C* W. STEGALL
DcWitt & Stegall, / .
KEEP constantly in store and for sale a
well selected stock of :
MEDICINES
and all other articles nauHtly kept iu drug stores
July 5,1865. ts .
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Slander.—Let np one pappose that
. Iyy acting a good part through life. Ke
will escape slander. .There will be
those even who hate him ’ for the very
qualities that ought to procure esteem.
There are some, folks in the world
who are not willing that others should
be better than themselves.
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At the examination gF a boy of nine
years of age, fOr admission to. one of
\he public schools in a suburban town,
the teacher, after a satisfactory result
in reading and spelling, asked,.‘‘.What
do you know about • the TJunifc®d
Stages V* The youngster promptly re>
plied, “Don’t know nothing, nor no
body gone to smash.”— :Eng
lish paper.
A druggist sent his'lrish porter in*
to a darkened cellar. Soon after hear
ing a noise, ho went to the opening
and called out, “Patrick, keep your
,cyes skinned \” “ Och t never an
eye/’ roared Pat, “ but it's my nose
f Tat skint entirel3r• ,,
THOM A S VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2,1865.
1 Artemas Ward in Richmond.
lUchmoAt), ‘ Va., May —IS .&65. -
: ■ • OfonzO Ward.
Afore I .coimueu-i.s- this l.ctter from
the lat-e rebil- cupitol 1 desire citpply
to. say .that I hav seed a’ low, and skur
rilus pOiit in the papers from a. certain
pursuu who signes himselfOioozO Ward
•and sez he is my hruthur. 1 did once
have a.bruthut.of that mun-e, but I do
not reeugnize-him novi To me he.is
wus tban ded-i I tuck him from cob
lige some- JG years tigo and gave him a
good situation'as “the Bearded woman
ifi my show.. How did lie repay me for
tliis kindness ? lie basely undertook
(one day while in a Backynaliari mood
on rum A right in sight of the aujience
in the tent) to stand, upon’ his he’d,
whareby he ‘betrayed his sex on ac- •
count of his boots it his Beard falling
voff his face; thus rooinin my prospecks
in that town, and likewise incurrin the
.seris displeasure of the Press,, which
.sod boldly. I was. triflin’ with'the fcch
in’s of an intelligent publick, I know
no such man as Olonzo AVard, Ido
not ever wish liis name breathed in
my presents. Ido not recughize him.
I perfectly disgust him. • v
Richmond.. . .
‘ The. old man finds himself ‘ once
more in a Sunny climb. I cum here
a few days arter the .city cattcrpiller
tulatcd. . My naburs seemed surprised
and astonisht at this darfn’ onto the
part of a man at biy time of life, but
our family was liever .kn.ovv’d to qun-le
in dangers’ stormy hour. My father,
was a sutler.hi.the revqlpotkm War.— .
3lv father once liad-an intervoo with
Gineral Lafayette.’ He asked Laiactte
to lend him fire dollars, prolnisiiT to
pay him in’the fall’- but Laf.said u he
couldn’t sec it in those lanips.” Lufy
.was French, and his.knowledge.of our
language-was a little shaky. .
’ Immcjutly on my ’lival here, ! per
ceede’d to the ’Bpotswood House, and
callin’ to my .oss.isja.ns a’ young ■ man;
from our town -who-rites a good xunn
in’ Hand, 1 put my ortograph • on-the
•register, and handin’ ! my u-mbrellcr to
a. bald.-headed man’ behind the counter
who I sposed was Mr.! Bpotswood,.l
said, oSpbtsy,- how does lie .run ?”——
He called a'cu-llud person, and said,
“Show the:gentleman to the cowyard,
. and.give him cart number “Isn’t
.Grant here ?” 1 said. . Lily*
.ssis wouldn’t mind my turnin in with
him. 0 .“JDo‘ vou know the . Ginral
ar . . a
inquired Mr. Spottswood. • “Wall no,
not ’zactly; but he’ll remember-me.—
IHs brothcr'in'law’s Aunt bought her
r/e meal’ of nry#uncle Levi, all one
winter. My uncle Levi's -rye meal
was • • ’.• ’•
: “Poo'll 1 pooh i *'• ‘ said Spotsy, don.t
bother me,”. and he. shuved my uud
brella onto the floor. Obsarvin to him
not-to be so keerless'with that wepin,
• I accompanied the African to my lodg
• ins. • “My brother//I sed,’ “are you
aware that you are ‘mancip&ted ?•
Do you realize how glorius it •’ is to be
free ? -Tell me, my dedr- docs
it seem like some dreafns, or do you
realize the great fact in all its living
. and holy magnitood ?”-he sed he Would
take'some.gin.. I was show’d - ‘to the
cowyard, and laid down under a ■one*’
mule cart. The hotel was orful crowds
ed, and I was sorrow I hadn’t gone to
the Libby prison. Tho’-I should have
slept eomfable enufi’if the bed clothes
hadn’t been pulled off me during the
night by a scoundrel who cum and
hitched a mule to the cart- and drove
it .off. /I. thus lost .my cuverin’ and
m.y throat ‘ feels a little husky this
mornin > . .
Gin’ral Halleck offered me tho hos*
pitality of the city, givin’ me the
j choice of hospitals- He has very kind
ly placed at my disposal a smalßpos
amboolancm
Union. Sentiment.
There is raly a grat deal of. Dnion
sentiment in this city. I see it on
cvry hand. I met a man to-day—l
am mot at liberty to tell his name, but
■\n:
he is an old and infooentooial citizen
of Richmond, and sez he,-“Why we’ve,
bin agin tire old- flag 1 • Lor’
bless me, • iiow sing lar L. He then
borrowed five dollars -oi me .and- bust.
• into a flood of tears. ’ . .’ •
Sed another (a man ol standin and
’ formerly a bitter rebuel, “Let*.us at
once stop this effooshun of. Biud !
The. Old Flag is good enough for me •
Sir, he aded “ you are from the North !
Have you a doughnut or a piece of cus
tard pie about you?” I told him no, but
I knew a man from Vermont who had
iust organized a sort of restaurant,
where he could go and make a very
comfortable break fa ston New England
rum and cheese. He borrowed filly
cents of me and askin me to send him
Win. Lloyd Garrison's ambrotype
when I got home, he walked off.
. Said another,’ “There’s bin’ a tr^
■ mendus Union feeliii’ here • from the
fust* But we was- kept down by. a
rain of Have you a degerre*
type of Wendell Philips about your
person ? and will you lend me. ‘ four
dollars for a few days till we air once
more a happy and united people !” .
* Jeff. Davis. .
Jeff Davia is not poplar here. . She
is regarded as a Southern sympathiser
and yifc I am told lie was kind to her
Parents. She ran away from them
many years ago . and haft never bin
back. This was showin cm a good
’ deal of considerfttiqn when we reflect
what his c.onduc-k has bin. Her cap*
tur in female apparel confo.oses bio in
regard to his sex, and you see I speak
of him as a her as frokent. as.other
wise, and .1 guess he feels so herself.
• ‘ : Jl. Lee. -
• Robert Leo is regarded as .a'noble
feller. Hc # was opposed to the war at
tile fust, and drawed his -sword very
reluct nut. -In fac.t, lie. would’at have
drawd his Sword aLall, only he had a
large, stock of military clothes on baud
which'lie didnt want to waste - He
sez tbo.’.colorcd man is right, . ./! we
.will at’ ohcq go to New York dud -open
a Sabath school for negro, minstrels.
As’ l am-through, I'll say.adoo, ien
tie reader-, merely remarkin- that the
Star Spangled Banner is wavin round
loose again and tliat there’dont seem,
to bo any thing the matter ‘ with ■ the
Goddess qf Liberty beyond a -slite cold.
Arte Mus Ward.’ .
Effects of Negro Eiiiaiicijja
; tton.
. The New York’ Courier and Eiw
quiver says that at the time of.the'.ins
surrccti'on inilayti, there was export*
ed annually from the island .93,573,-
300 pounds, of sugar, about 77,0Q0,0Q0
pounds of coffee, and 7,000,000! of
cotton. In 1801 there'was-exported
-18,500,000 pounds of sugar,. 43 r 420,<
270 pounds of coffee, and 2,480,340
pounds of cotton. In 1820 the sugar
crop had fallen 32,864 pounds, coffee
to-32,18.9,784, and cotton to 620,972.
•In 1849 the export of coffee was SO,*
.608,343,'and cotton 545,126.
Sugar, it. will finis be seen, has dis-.
.appeared from thn articles of expert,
the fact being, that- what, sugar is used
on the island is imported from Jamai*
ca and the .United .States.. The total
value of itlie expor ts ini 1789 was 205,-
000,000 francs, ai id forty years later it
was but 3,500,000. 0 ’
Similar results* have attended Brit*
ish West India emancipation. It is
in accordance wifcj’i all past experience,
that if slavery w.c ‘uld be abolished in
Cuba and the Uni led States, the world
would have to do without sugar and
cotton.
Let every man who has a eon to ed
ucate, remember and believe that
scieict lays the foundation of every
thing valuable in Agriculture.
Pe&n Swift p#> |> 0gt 'and £o put a tax
on female beautw leave every
lady to rats her own K He
said the tax would be cW W l * P B^’
andbeveryproductiyo, -
NO PROSCRIPTION. .
All good men will condemn the cxi
. crcise of a spirit of proscription, or
the imposition by local authorities or
legislation, of any political disabilities, ‘
beyond the exceptions made in the
amnesty proclamation, upon any cit
izens of the States which adhered to.
tli,c Confederate cause. Proscription,
on account of the past will find but
few supporters in any of the States—
The disposition of nine-tenths of the
people is to let the past be forgotten,
and the few who imagine themselves
holier than any body else, will consti*
tute a minority so insignificant in
strength, in Georgia at least, that they
will find themselves the proscribed
ones, and that beyond redemption.
In Tennessee, while military rule
prevailed and controlled elections, a
packed legislature was chosen which,
acting under the advice of Brownlow,
passed a disfranchising law. And the
result in the estimate in which the leg
islature is held at home, and the pr*
feet such legislation has had upon the
progress of the Stale, is thus stated by
the Nashville ‘Gazette:
The General Assembly of Tennes’
see stands rebuked on all
in words only, but by deeds. It will
scarcely be contended by any one, that
Virginia has been.less rebellious than
Tennessee, yet the work of reconstruc
tion is more forward- and promising
there than here. Gov. Pierpont has
lately culled together the Union Leg*
islature, who, in a Session of five days.,
have repealed the disfranchising act
passed at Alexandria during the war,
and adjourned. This repeal admits to
suffrage -all who will take the Presp
, dent’s oath of amnesty ; that is nearly
every body in the State*. ‘.
. We do not believe there is auy dan
ger of a Georgia Legislature, making
the same error as did the Legislatures
of Virginia and Tennessee —the for-,
inerof which has. already yepented,
• and the latter will do so'as soon'as the
voiee of the people can be. heard.—
But one meeting in this State has de
clared for. proscription,; which was in
the formation: of a Union club in Lib
erty County. By the rules of the club
vsecessionists and those who voted for
secession are ‘excluded from member
shrp. ,> -We hope tve-. shall not be
called upon to record ‘ the manifesto’
tibnofa similar spirit a.t any other
point-in the State, and trust the little
clique'at Gum Branch Church, Liberty
County,” wiil be . left to a party by
themselves. Their political purity is
.toastrong to be contaminated by con
tact with the opinions. of the great
body of the people of Georgia
graph. • . . ‘ .
AH V KiVfisLVci.
y The Philadelphia Bulletin says:—•
‘ u It Is an established fact that no man
or no firm, lias advertised on a great
scale without making money. They
may have spent it faster than they
have made it, they may have lost, but
•advertising paid.. If there be tbe
shade of doubt as to this, let the read
er recall all the instances of persevere
ing—most editors can recall many—
which have manifested themselves in
the newspapers of late years, and he
will be astonished at. finding the prov
portion of them which have speedily
realized fortunes* If asked bow we
know whether such enterprise is suc
cessful, we answer “by the advertis
ing itself.” When we see by our ex
changes that this or that vender exa
pends fifteen, twenty or thirty thou**
sand dollars a year for advertising,
and see this continue for several years,
we require no other proof of success.
There is nowadays, nothing so cer*
tain as advertising, when a man has
something to sell, and the public will
indeed buy almost any thing, when
they find that every body else has it,
and that it is well spoken of. Obser**
rations made during the past year in
advertising have convinced us that of
all business supports, there is none so
t isfebte or profitable adrerfeisg*
r fr J e.. n
TERMS $4,00 A Your, in Advance,
Golden Thought.
In speaking of marriage, or mar*
riages lor money, Miss Muloch, the
eminent writer observes, and we think
very justly :
• “ Marriage should always be aques*
tion. not of necessity, but .choice, Ev
ery girl, ought to be taught that a
loveless union stamps upon her a loul
dishonor as one of those connections
which omit the legal ceremony alto
gether—and that however pale, dreary
and lonesome ft singlo life may be,
unhappy married life must be ten fold
worse, an over haunting temptation
and incurable regret, a torment from
which thero is no escape but death ”
TlilngH Lout Forever,
The following words from the pen
of JLydift 11. Sigourney are full of in*
structivo meaning:
Lost wealth may be restored by in
dustry ; the wreck of health regained
by temperance ; forgotten knowledge
restored by study ; alienated friend*
ship smoothed into forgetfulness; even
forfeited reputation won by patience
and virtue; but who ever looked upon
his vanished hours, recalled his slight-,
ed years, stamped them with wisdom,
or effaced from Heavens V rccord the
fearful blot of wasted time ? Tho foot
print on the sand is washed out by
the ocean wave; far easier might we,
when years are fled, find that foots
print than'recall lost hours.
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Verinlnt lllddancet
Half an ounce of soap boiled in ft
pint of water, and put On with a brush
while boiling hot, infollably destroys,
the bugs and their eggs. Flies are.’
driven out of a room by hanging up tk, :
bunch of the plantain or fleawefct
plant, after it has been dipped in milk,
llat's and mioe speedily disappear by
mixing equal quantities of skong
cheese. and powdered squills. They ,
devour this mixture with
while it is innocent to maoj Whoa
it is remembered how persona
have lost their Jives byy swallowing
mixtures of strycnino, becomes
a matter; of humanity to publish these .
items.— JlalV s Medical Journal.
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IS or ax lor Washing.
Powdered borax:, at the rate of a
large handful to ten gallons of water, ,
is used in Belgium by nearly all the
washerwomen, and by large laundries,
who prefer it to soda, as less injurious
to the fabrics. ‘ In fact, it is said that
borax, being a neutral salt, does not
injure the texture of linen in tho
slightest degree ; it has the effect
of softening the hardest water, so that
not more than half the soap is required.
In washing laces and fine linens, such
as are proverbially very white in llol*
laud and Belgium, the women are said,
to use borax in much larger quantities
than above indicated;
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She “ Filw the Trach^
A Mississippi. County Court Qogfei ,
having issued a marrige license for # *
young man, shortly after received tb j
following note from him ;
Stcato of Miss July. the 5,185D ’;♦
Mr. Moody pics let This matt ct
stand . of er until further orders
has Flu the track By her own
queast and Release my Uame oJT this
Bond if you pies.
It takes four things to make ft tbor,
ough gentleman. . You must be a g en*
tieman iii your principles, a gentle' man
in your tastes,, a gentleman in your
person, and a gontleman in your man- .
ners. No man who does not oombine
these qualities can J>e justly named a
►true gentleman,
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A gooa deacon, making an official
visit to a dying neighbor, who
very churlish qpd universally unr*opa 5
lar man, put the usual questions, iiaSl
you willing to go, my mend V\ KfSS
yes, said the jiek man, “T V * *
you are, fe Che **
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