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tjp .Southmi flftitcrjiris*. mmm - • • • *■ - •* MTIUS O. BUY AN, EDITOR. THOMASVIIiIjH. oVV . VrEDNKMDiV, Al ia NT 0, INfl.l. TANARUS, N. Lewis Esqr. is our authorized Agent at Quitman, Brooks Cos , Ga. to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the Southern Enterprise. ■ ■ The ooinmunication signed “ Val dosta ” was unavoidably crowded out. . :\ hearing next week. • •% ♦ •- - We are under obligations to Mr. it. WoLFf for late Savannah, New York and Cincinnati papers. ■■■■■ •Neither of the Savannah papers are now carried on by their old pros prietors. The federal military author, ■jties took possession of the'two offices upon their first occupation of the city and have held them ever .since. We see by a military order published in the Republican , that a petition by F, W, Simms, craving permission to re-* flume possession of his property* the Republican , has been refused. We regret to learn that tho Talla* hnssec Floridian Journal has been suspended by the military authorities of that city.- We do no.t know for what cause, as we have n.o mails to learn the news from, abroad, but we hope the difficulty will soon be settled and the publication of the - paper resumed. If it was suppressed for disloyalty, we do not see why any of our cote in ponudes should indulge in dis loyal sentiments now that the mischief is all done and our hands firmly bound. It is folly to preach disloyalty where nothing can he gained. : . n • 0 ITBMC MCETI\C;. • A/public meeting will be held in •; ’ Thoiuasvillc at 11 o clock on the first j Saturday iii September next, for the \ purpose of nominating Candidates to | represent Thomas County in the State j Convention to be hold at Milledgc • | vi I{c on the fourth Wednesday in Oc tober. Every voter in the County is invited to attend and participate in the proceedings. Lot there be a good j turnout and a full representation from i every District. Let also the proceed- j ings of the convention be harmonious ! sml unanimous. Let every member j . be actuated by purely patriotic •mo* ! fives—disinterested and unselfish.- —i Nominate no man who seeks to be nominated directly or indirectly',.but •nominate those men whose.knoWuper*’ sonul charaptfcr and ability, (together, with their past political record entitle them to the oft abused confidence.of the people. • ■ for the St ate 1 Con vention. Several gentlemen .have handed us. . in. lists of names to be suggested, as candidates for the State Convention with the request for publication. Omitting the remarks accompany ing them, for want of room, we give the tickets below as they were handed in. •> . •’ These names we are assured are offer ed. merely as suggestions for the.con sideration of the nominating convene tion to assemble at the. Court House in XhomasvilJe on. the .first Saturday, jn September. . .* j J. R. ALEXANDER, • l\ K. LOVE, j. l. seward; • . . * . 4 • a. t: Mclntyre, • S. A. SMITH, J. L. SEWARD. J. R ALEXANDER, R. 11. HARDAWAY, J. L. SEW ARD. . L. C. BRYAN, . HENRY MITCHELL, . JOSIAII J. EVRITTE.. . W. D. MITCHELL, W.J. YOUNG, . j as. McDonald. • THOMAS JONES, Sr’. JAS. T. HAYS, J. 8.. SINGLETARY. ■ G rilAt FREsnET.-r-Lato Northern papers speak much of a great freshet which lately flooded a large portion of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, de toying T.orth of properly. | YANKEE IDEA OF NEERO INTELLIGENCE. The Transcript, a paper published in Portland, Maine, a copy of which is before us, has a communication signed St. Johns Park N. Y.', under the caption of The Pathology of the late Rebellion •’ • ‘ •• The writer premises that a “curious and interesting chapter might be writ ten on the physiology, or more proper* ly speaking, the pathology of tl>e late rebellion, for it had. its causes and sym toms like any other disease, since it was a disease of the body politic/’ Ac Ac, and after a lengthy peroration he proceeds to argue that work, not read ing, develops the brain, and marks the scale of individual .intelligence.— But that our readers may have the real language of this Northern phihs opher on this most “curious chapter” of Southern pathology , we quote the following paragraph in his own words;. From the nature of things, it was impossible for the North. to be any* thing but loyal to the Government;, for the same reason good and fan see** ing men* who knew what influences were at work to mould and influence the theughts of men-, have long look i ed upon the South with aptehension, fearful of the bursting forth of the volcano which slumbered there. Far how could we expect loyalty from < a class of men who did not labor, from a people universally given to the use of tobacco in seme of its forms, to the drinking of whiskey and other intoxicating liquors, to the indulgence of gastronomic and animal passions? Labor taught the black men of the South to be loyal. The white man should have thought of this before, he attempted to bind their fetters, closer by going to war with the industrious working population of the North.~ Said Mr. Phillips, in- a recent speech i “Is education- the exclusive perogative ■of colleges ? Oh, The masses sos all men have their faculties, educa ted by work, not by reading. When G*)d declared as a condition of our be 1 ’ ing ; that we should earn our .living in the sweat of our brows, lie gave the gua*antee of the development J lof the brain. Whoever works, de velops his intellectual faculties.; and. taking them in classes, the masses who work and don't read are half a century i a head of the masses who read and don’t work. And this is the reason | whv the negro is half a century ahead i of the poor white man of the South, j The negro inherited a brain which’ ! work had cultivated for four genera* i tious, and he added to it the skill of a practical hand. The consequence is that, whether the soldier’ goes to j biin for advice or the merchant for i counsel among the masses-of the South the negro is the only man who can give him either: The white man in herited a brain sodden by the idleness of four generations. Infinitely better, if you.can have but one,- is. the educa tion of’ work.” • •’ ‘ - If tha 4 is not enough to take the palm and elevate Northern philosophy to the highest scale then we must con* less that wc h;ive nn critical, acumen .and no knowledge of philosophy. The author of the article, by his quotation marks, makes Wen dull Phillips say “whoever works, develops his intelect ual faculties ; and taking men in the: main—taking them in classes, the masses who work and. dont read are half a century ahead of the masses who read and dont work. And this is the reason why the negro is htylf a. cen turyahead of thepoor white men of the South. Listen a%ain : “Whether, the soldier goes to him (the negro) for advice or the merchant for counsel among the masses of the South, the negro is the only man wjio can give him either” Wendall Phillips finds so much more intelligence among the working negroes than he does among the read* ing poor white men of the South, that he recommends the Northern soL dicr and the Northern merchant to go to the negro for aduice and counsel.— Philips must’ be a “ working man and don’t read.” . * T San Fran,cisco, duly 10. On the Bth instast, Billy Mulligan, who was expatriated by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco in 1856, and who afterwards raised a volunteer regiment, which he .was not allowed to lead to the war, shot ahd killed two men, while in a fit of delirium tremens and was about to fire again when a po • lteceman shot him dead. He had de fied all previous effort* to arrest him. PAYMENT OF THE NATION AL DEBT. */ •’ The New York Herald has suggest ed a plan of voluntary contribution for the payment of the National Debt of the United .States,-and its issue of the 22d- of July has nearly an page of enthusiastic correspondence on tlie subject, urging the perfection pt the plan, and pledging the people at large to tho support of the meas ure. The.following .to the editor ®f the Herald will throw some light gp* op the organization: A ttforii . TO THK EDITOR OF THE HERALD.’ Majukta, Ohio, June 3,1805 - . I have seen several txtracts from your paper relating to a movement started in ycur city for the purpose of paying off the national debt. I infer that the Herald leads off in the move ment. God grant that every.paper in the land may second your noble effort. Our young nation, just now cm erg-, ing from the terrible conflict which for the last four years has swept oyer it, comes up from this baptism of fire and blood with one half of her fair heritage devastated, paralized by.the. unchained demon of war, while upon the. other half must inevitably fall the greater shave of the enormous.debt in curred by the struggle. . Now, wc have either to pay off this debt or submit to a system .of rigorous taxation for generations to come.- • • Call we pay the debt ? You. nobly., answer yes ! and give substantial evi dence of your faith by. your works.— Others, we are rejoiced to see, arc do ing the same thing, and that, too* up on a scale that evidently means busi ness. . • . ! . • ■; That magnificent ‘butiori of. Commodore Vanderbilt is worthy of that trenerous man, and is but anoth - .. 7 er pledge of his poble patriotism. He is practically illustrating the postu late, “ He that deyiseth liberal thing?, by liberal things shall he stand. ,r It is a Hirculcan work which you have undertaken. Can you carry it through ? God grant you success.- — Meanwhile, w<? pf the laboring masses are watching fhg results with inter est. We feel that amt asure fraught with such ippjncnfous interests must not fail, and now, sir, while we have neither the right nor the wish to start new issues, permit us to ask whether if you fail to raise the amount by 610,* 000 subscriptions, > ill you permit .thy* deficiency to be made up by those who emulate you* noble example, but have .not the means to subscribe in so large amounts ? Success, and that alone, is what we. wish, If.those who arc able to contribute their thousands will do up the work it will make for them the proudest record .ever written by mpji. The world will hail them as the bene factors, of our race, and all good men .wili hallow their memory as patriots. Oh .that the question of your success Were put. beyond a peradventure ! But whatever may be the result of your present movement, may we not look to.< you for aid and counsel if an ultimate . appeal to the masses should bo site ? ]se assured, dear sir, that such, an appeal would thrill through the heart of our. people like the touch of electric tire. Let me illustrate what I mean in a pr.actieal way. . In a conversation which recently took place in my hear, ing among the employees of one of our. manufacturing establishments, one man (and he a man of very limited means) said : “ I will give one hun dred dollars to that object.” “ And so I would give fifty dollars/’ respond (led an honest German, who had sat a quiet listener. “ And I,” said a cas ual callcr-in, whose sleeves were roll ed up and his garments grimed with liipe dust, *“ I wjll give another one liundred,-amj have it all back again in two years time in the reduction of prices of supplies for my family.”—- And thus the thing went round the circle. There will be no such word as fail if, in the arrangement of your plans, if you will only give us the privilege (the post of honor, if you please) of standing as your reserve corps. Our cousins across the water have for the last four years been watching the facility with which we Yankees do impossible things. Let us break the seal of a national debt. It would be the greatest peace measure ever inaugurated by man. A standing army of a million of men, backed by a navy of triple our present one, would be as nothing compared to it. Keepect would bo attaind then, wrung perchance from unwilling courts ! and cabinets, but nevertheless it would bo an attained tact, written as with the point of a diamond in eternal granite. Four years ago,, British capitalists scouted the idea of touching an Amer ican loan. That we were utterly bankrupt, and bur government a fail ure, were to them foregone conclusions. • Pay the debt, and the old world will be •cured of such folly. We well remem ber how pur checks burned on read. : lug that flippant speech of Kyi'l Rus - at the breaking out of the rebel**', ilbb :-r-“ Now that the bubble lias burst, c.ut them up into half a. dozen fragments? They. are getting too stFong.V The wbh. was father to the . thought. ‘■ But \v6 have chas'cd them, with greenbacks quite out- of their financial folly, while’ the. bubble still remains intact, a sphere of polished and elastic steel, all the stronger for thp crdcul .through which it has passed, j and brighter by far for the fierce at trition it has endured.. ; Pay off the debt, and we shall have peace —permanent and enduring peace. There is not a power on earth that will not pause and. think twice before it strikes once the young Titan j whose right hand, with its iron stran gles the most formidable rebel lion ev er recorded by man, while with his left he wipes out the score, of three billions of dollars . incurred in the struggle. Pay off the debt, and let England boast that Britannia rules the wave, that the sun never sets upon her flag, and that the roll of her drum boat girdles the globe.. Our word for. it, there will be a modest method in , that boasting. The Stars and.Stripes will have been insulted iii her Oapitol r for the last time, and . respect will be the word in future. \ • . • ■ ; Von will pardon tlie liberty l hare 1 taken if.} thus, addressing .you upon a subject in which 1 feel the deepest aw tejest, put in relation to which t of necessity stand a plebeian and not as a peer. I‘LEBIAN FKIEXIh X. ]>.—Since Uniting tire above ! . . J am well eo-Dvmecd that 1 ocbl d easily find among our laboring men fully one bundled who would give <mnS fully equal to those above named, and j if business men, who have the means, j would do in piopprtion (and I think 1 they woult take hold earnestly) our ; contribution would help on iho good:! Work a little. Perhaps you will think j j us. a little enthusiastic. But, sir, pray j i tell us bow we an* to. lie ip it. 1 as*’ ; stive vpu that it will not d.o for the 1 rich men of Gotham, -c.spepially your- ! self and the Comtmdcre, to be amuss 1 itlg yourselves in these, times with a i flint and steel. Why sir, the sparks I are falling; all around us here ; before ! you are aware of it the prairies will be j on Ure. The . flames with their red I tongues will be lapping against the ! sky, setting the whole horizon I ■ ... v . ‘<* i Those.who patriotically subscribe to ; tiie extinguishment of the national debt are styled “ The Roll of Jlonor,’ and I are fa. have their names printed in a book, by Congress, as a lasting ancj j honorable testimony of their patriotism ; for all.time to come.. Mere is aspecimen of the excitement and enthusiasm now displayed in the North on thG subject, j we eppy from the Herald the follow- I ing letter r A XnliofiiU JDc.bt TO Tilt EJHTO.R QF TUE HERALD. New .York, June 4, 1865. In order to carry otit the great work proposed by you to free our beloved Country from the burdens of taxation a National Debt League has been or-. ganized.. The plan, which has been entered into with great enthusiasm, will speedily be laid before the public, and will extend over the entire coun try where waves our noble flag. The chosen head is a man of the true. Grant stamp—the man for the occasion. It is desired that you ask f o.uc cf your patrons to contribute the use of a suit of rooms for the objept until a suitable place can be procured. As means are necessary to accomplish this great object, the sum of ten dollars has been fixed upon as an admission to membership. Those desiring to be come members can send in their names to the National Debt League, at your office until a location is procured. As great labor will be required, gentlemen willing to assist and become identified with this great work here; and also those desiring to take the lead in forming auxiliary leagues iri other partr? of the country are also desired to send in their names as above. Pepping it not just to encroach up on your valuable time and the space in your columns in future, y f we be* lieve the deep interest you mkv in this glorious object will prompt you to . place it before your readers in a favor* able manner. CHRISTIE, . Secretary N. I>. L-; lOS Broadway. . A “Herculean ” task it certainly is, . and one in which, if the Yankees suo cecd, they will certainly Reserve to be placed upon the. highest,scale of nation* nl* greatness, and proudly meyit .in’de votion to their country, the envy of all the civilized powers .of Europe.—* Well,” go ahead fellows, and pay your public'debt,- and don’t wait for tqxa tion f which makes you pay it three or four times over before you are \yith it, you shall have all the credit W.hen wc sec your •balance, sheet / , an( j then tv will utter one wild l< A ul long yell soy the ““universal Yanl^ ce / •Wcof the South arc . not ablo to help you, and you should j, 0 t look to U3 for help, for it is your fauh that we are not able to \idp you. We were all, the North an a the South together, a free people. We of the South had as much rigUt to our opinion as you had •to yours* Nobody doubts that. Well, if you doubted it then, because you had pjore force and greater influence with the world, and succeeded in a long bloody war in forcing your views upon .us, you ought to he satisfied, though it. cost you dearly, for you re member, we were both free people •when wo commenced. You liberated our slaves,, and destroyed our property in the conflict-—it was our misfortune, <• ibecause we Were too weak to prevent it..’ If you destroyed our property ; you should not expect us tp help pay youv public debt —it is ungenerous.— We paid dearly also-tor our part of the fray. We not only submitted like lambs to the tyranny; of the Confeder ate Government, but we submitted to your taking what we had left when the Confederates were overthrown —- Your burthen was no heavier than ours j. . • --not half so giueli as ours for voi: have your property in tact and arc on ly threatened .wit j: poverty, while wc ’ are poor alieady. As to the matter of j thp blood that was shed, that is natnr a I to the Anglo. race whenever they have a brawl whether will a bar-. ; banan or the next, door neighbor-.'’ If ; we of the South had ■ surrendered p f our opiukm without a light yon woqhi | have called u.s cowards, and deserved** !ly so. But we made your, “whistle’- 1 cost you a round sum both in Mood I and money. You hgvp no right to I murmur if it bud cost you tic See as | muph, for we wen hyt}\ free peop c and I had tlie right of uj inion equally.-*— | Now if you have saved your country, ! prove it tv paying your public debt. | Prove yourselves the noble brave mag nanimous people you bgast, and pur : word for it, the Ciiion henceforth will | stand impregnable as the rock of Gi | bralfer. } ——V-♦ * —- Opt Railroads.—Tlie repairs to I the track of the Central Kailrpnd are steadily.progressing. We have been informed that the iron lias been laid some ten or twelve miles from the city, | and in a few days will be in running order for a distance, of forty-fivp miles. It is confidently expected, at the pres ent rate of progress, that by tbp Ist of October communication with Auirusta : • * by this route will be resumed. We. learn also that the worjt of repairs to the Gulf Road is being pushed for ward with much vigor. This energy on the part of those having the roads under management is hailed with the liveliest satisfaction by those who have put their shoulders to the wheel and determined to place Georgia in the position she once occupied amoag her sister States of the Union, and opening up the extensive trade for Si vannah for which her merchants are now actively preparing.— /Sava]ijiuh Republican. ■— * —- • * It is stated that the leading Masons pf Massachusetts are about to invite theip most influential brethren of the South to visit them a4 partake of th/eir bos* pitalities, that the meuu>:ies of the past strifes may be blotted out and the Union commence, where it should, in the individual hearts. General Santa Anna is now living at St. Thomas, W. I. He is said tq be in excellent health, and at seventy years of age walks erect, and manages his cork leg with skill*