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• [To. North* A ‘ >•]• l*| ie 120,000 : % uinuton, .Tnly 9.- President • i|i . • ‘ft ted oft yesterday by • ..- s \ Jones, B, A. linn’ • .'< . ,-.’ \\". -I I. • ilnxaii and -I. L. Ap"* p ( representatives of merchant* und fibers of Virginia,- who wished •• ibi tio. amend the amnesty prockma n, by striking oilt the*, thirteenth exception I^ the! • K ‘w. They’ • represented that this feature -interfer-. ed with, the development. of industry, •by binding up capita},-and in this way oppressed tW poor;and. -when they i udeavored : to berr >W. money; -in the ‘ • Northern or Middle States, they were* at .once,-'i pet. by the objection that, / perhaps, they had oyer .$20,000, and if they bad, accotnmodhition could not .f. extended;so they .-were unable to <rive work to the poor men who called on-them. . Xh# president reminded’ them.- that the amnesty proclamation, did - nut cuwM.thia.distrust.. It-was the coni’ ‘. mission of treason and the violation of law did it.’ The amnesty proclama tion left these men j ust, -where ’ they were ■> efore. It did not .add- fcnydis* ■ ability to them, if they had commit* / ted treason they were amenable to the confiscation law which congress- bad passed, find” which .. hey. as president, could not alter or . amend. In the .’ amnesty proclamation he • hail offered pardon tOrSoine person?, .but- that did • not injure any Other persons. •. W-ould .they like, to’have -the .amnesty proC’ lamation .removed altogether ? Would they feel any easier in that case ? • • . Qoe of the deputation— u .No, but it would assist us very .much if you would'fxtend the benefits of the proc lamation to persona worth over. §20 t . (fOO. r .. -. . ’ .- The president, replied, tlipt in ma s . king that exception he had actcd-on the natural supposition that men had ’ aided the rebellion according,, to-the. extent of .their pecuniary means. ’ . “ Did they 7i’ot.kiiow'this! / " r -. ‘ • . One of't hedeputfition-—‘ ( No., I.did not know it.*’. ‘ . - •’ • • . The president—'*’ Why, yes you do. Yon know perfectly i. well it wasi the • wealthy men of-the South who aiSg*. coned the. people into secession;. I. lived in the South, and.know how the thing-was done.- Your State wbsiover.-. ’ whelnaingly opposed, to secession,-but. your, ri ih men Used the p-ress and the, ■ bullies, and ‘you-r'litth- army, to foret; / • the State into secession. •’ Take the S2O/100--clause; Suppose- .a man is worth more than that,- n*w the war is’ over, and the chance ten to - one he ; made it out of the;- rebellion’ by- co.n* tracts, &c. ‘We • might as well * talk . plainly.about this.-’ I don 7 t -think you • are-s 6 very- anxious about relieving the , po6r. If jou are SO very eager to • help the poor, why don't you take the surplus - over. ’ $20,000 you own anJ . give it to them ?. In - that way you will help them and bring yourselves • within* the benefits of the- pvoclama^ ’ ti, n. ‘ . • .. • •. • “I rut free to say to you.that I .think gome of you ought to bo .taxed ‘on all . overJs2o>GoG, to help the-ppar. When I was military Governor of Tennessee', ’ i assessed such taxes oil those wild li-ad ! ti wealthy leaders ; of ‘the. rebellion ami it hid a good effect.” -. i •One'of the deputation--'* It- .so •’ happens that none of-us were leriders-; e. staid out as long as we could, and were last to go- in.” • • • .- • - .The President—‘‘Frequently those who went in lasi were among the Worst • after they got in; bufbe.thafas ft may ohderstan and -in’C, geo tie me n, .1- do riot • say (his personally. I am-just speaks ing ofthe general working of the mat-* ter.’ 1 know there has. been an Offdrt made by some to. persuade the people that tbe .amnesty proclamation is injfL ring tliQm by shutting up capital and keeping-work from the poor. -It does no such-thing,! If that -is done stall it is done in.consequence of the viola tion, of law, and-thp commission of _treason.” . .- ! \ . The President conoluded by. saying he Vould look at the papers, but so Tir Lad seen n.o reason fur • removing the thirteenth exception. Pick TaylorN movements. ft is understood'here to-day that the rebel General Pick Taylor, who left W ashington on Saturday, has gone .to T <>tress Monroe, instead of New York, . as reported, with a permit from the President to Visit Jiff jp&Vii, his broths i erindaW. Taylor proposes repent* see tor hit evil ways,. and promises to ecome. a good and loyal citizen-. He }iß expected tq return fn Wednesday. He want! and -to get a parole to allow him ’ to go to Fur. pe, but the Prcsid n re*- fused to grant it, telling him to home and goto work in restoring the. Swuthem-’ people to a healthy. condi tion .of loyalty. — CtncinitaUi . Com* \ mrreiul. • . • ! * . . * 7 . ‘ ‘ CD Southern Dninprise. ;0 .’ . O . .• t . ‘ . . ‘. LUCIUS e, EDITOR, * ♦•••. - T.lip 3MP.O.SVtXiXiSi ‘<3^^L [wKinnspiY, AtJOtJUT ie, iMs-S. Fuji -v:illit# ..will I'm- paid at th Enterprise Office for all dean cotton and linen rags.. . Lot .those wlxb'wiali ixs t” carry on the paper sue i.cessfally. save and bring *ni .in-.all the rags’ thrown aboat and waisting on their premises. We knoW there is plenty of.them if you will only aather-np andsetmthem. * • . • -.-We- are ‘under obligations to Col. Boyd for late Cincinnati and x Atlanta papers. ‘ •* ! , * -*-***> ! * rifts WAXTI'U. A lady wishes to purchase half a ; bushel of good figs to preserve. Ap-* ply at the Knterpriso Office, . • • • S*I T 85,513 .S>EBATK. • We are requested to announce that • the ..Young Men's Debating Club of Thoraasville will have a- public debate in Fletchcrville on, Friday next the 18th in st., .commencing at early can-v die light All who feel an interest in the improvement and success of the Club, especially the ladies, are invite ed to attenC ‘ ; ‘ . * : . -s* 4k —* y ‘ k What W 111 He 15© With If?” It is interesting and amusing to Southern men,’ and perhaps to the’ whole civilized world, to notice the voluminous resolutions and dec lam a; tion s'of the Northern press and states men os to what they shall do with the negroes of the-South now that they are free. ‘.lt is interesting, because we. of the South are immediately and vitally concerned in its final adjustment, and amusing because we see oil* neighbors of the- North, like ‘ the’ man who a -bought the elephant,” inexperienced as to the disposition arid .magnitude’ of file animal, sorely puzzled • about what to do With him. That they have, invested.the negro with freedom there can be no further doubt, but how and •where they shall locate, .him, preserve him, rule him and ust his. political in fluence in his present deplorably. ig~ Borant and-degraded state with a cold • Hack skin on his bcxly, Is a questiou ■ uofc- ea-sily settled, if the negro was white then the Anglo ‘Saxon blood would not boil in. the veins of the Soathem people at the bare mention ’ of the words equality, amalgamation ‘■ &c., and cur friends of the North could .freely- use those words without the fear of “war between the races , black as he is, if the hegro was an ed** ucated reasonable specimen of humane ity, the politic Yankee could use him • where lie is to swejl the tide of Fa* .Fiatieo Black Bepublicanism gress without the. fear of cncounteriiig decency and civilisation in tho North ,as well -as.in the South. The question, however, is one of the gravest • importance to the people of ■ the South, and it'becomes .us to meet it'manfully. A portion of the North ern people, called the radicals, soften - ed down from fanatics, are using their utmost endeavors to enfranchise -the iiegio and place him upon an equal footing With the white people of the . Sontlo- Fearful that this cannot be ] done if left to the States where - the negroes now’ are, they have resolved to create such a pressure upon the President’ and his Congress as-'will make the enfranchiS'^iriDu t of the ne gro a condition ol the re**admission of the.seceded States into the Fniori. So elated are they with their tfium'ph i.n arms, and- political as well as military [ power that they set about the w rk- of ■ dissecting the body politic os ifit was a real deadcorpse,. With them, a triumph to day is a triumph for all time to’ come,’ land they see not that the fut%ktt may record a fearfulliistOry of the triumphs of to-day. The idea the radicals now have of attempting to force equality j between two-races as. widely separated . and incongriv us as the African and is as unparalleled', in j history as it ‘is absurd end frought i with the* greatest danger to the future | welfare of the Kcpuhlic.. As thisis'j sue is closing down Upon us it is time ‘ ! wf should be making ‘ l repamtidh te ‘meet-ii ? Ao sensif 1 --* man doubts for one moment that the South will utters [ly repudiate -all attempts, fVorn . w hat.’ ever sour< e they come, to /ora upon them unity.and equality with a race go utterly ropug to all their ffiel-j .•invs arid sentiments., and. the GfiVcrtb j liiert would be acting foolish -id. deed; While endeavoring to heal one hmedh, to lay the foundation of a stilt more disastrous disease to convulse the Ke ptiblic in the future. . M e are consid* ering all the Southern States, as mem-* hers of the Union, ami as much inter* . estedin the future Welfare- of the na< tion.as the Northern States.. If we rate to be the? considered?by the Uni ted States Government, then, we ox& pect that Government to respect-our rights under the Constitution as ©ill 1 ’ zens of the States, and we'.expect it also when marking out its political po}.* icy so take bnr future welfare .into consideration. If the Governipeut fails to do this,-thvn we must guard ourselves against the danger and do whatever w| can to avoid the gulf of distruot’on into; which, the. errors or wilful injustice of the Government would plunge ms. .• • . . • [to be continued..] m ‘,m w <■ <*;■ * ■*— lUthmoHd. Municipal Klee* • • . fiotl.- ■ . ‘• From’ the following paragraph it would seem that the- Government is determined that none shall hold office in the Foutli but those who- have been steadily u loyal throughout the war : New York, July 31—The Ilieli - • mood Whig of Saturday contains or ders from the military authorities pro hibiting the recently elected of the Pity Council and Aldermen from organizing, and declaring null and void the election. The members appointed a committee to inform Gov. Pierpont of the prohibition. !. . Maj/ Sturdivant (Opposition) was elected Mayor.of Eiehmond over Mr. Taylor* sty lea the ‘DJnioiT’ candidate, ; and many of the Northern papers be came very loud and noisy in their de-- nunciation of the. “ Opposition ” can* didate because he. was a soldier in the Confederate'army. Ills election they conceive to be hostility and defiance to the Goverpment, and the election is accordingly.nnmded. This is neith er qisp nor politic. From the aign in ants of the political parties engaged, in the election,, we cannot-seo'hostility or defiance to the United States Gov eminent, hut a sharp and laudable contest only, on the part, of-the’ masses of the people, to prevent their being ruled over, by . a class of men in the South.who were too loyal to join the ; Confederate army, but 00/lpyal enon</h to take •up arms in .defence of the United States-. To be loyal n&w m then, they o ust have been disloyal, to the Confederates —<md if they were disloyal to the Confederates thcy .wcrc bound as good citizens to oppose the rebellion with all their power. Did they do it ? We will say what many of them did do—they skulked through, and took the risk of the Conseipt Act to speculate and.make .money'-- and if .the South had succeeded they would 1 have represented themselves as the truest potriots in it phut-as the South • failed, they are the loyal men in it.'” Now therefore,.they who failed to sustain the United States in her hour ; of peril, and yet,- though remaining in the So'utli, among the enemies of their loyalty, refused to take part with tier, riow present themselves for the first ’ positions in the gift of the : Is it any wonder the people’ repudiate them. They were, traitors to both parties, for they would aid neither.— Theie is no mistaking the . fact that the Whole people of the South as a body were-disloyal to the Union at the breaking out of the war. They have not l'orgotton these things and their vote's will not be east for men who -at** ’ tempt te deceive them into the eon* trary. - Asa people they rioW aoceept the terms offered them by tlie victoria Otis power of tho*United States,- and having taken tie oath, of allegiance wn bclicFe they will abide by that aU •Jegranee So’ long ns - the Government manifests .a disposition to do them jus tire andooncedd their right to coimhon tespCOt, but it is not wise nor politic for the Government to ohooss for them, ; their representatives at home or in the national as-eiiibly, for then the people are not represented, and siu-h a course, would not be very well calculated to calm the troubled waters ii>r increase the love of the South for the North. The Southern people have not. forgot-. • tin the free gifts ami benefits fuiwn [ teed bv the Constitution to tim States and the people, and to be | restored to there tbojf tro I disposed to < .(invocation now, re some J of the Northern papers would have us : in uiito to the late Richmond election-. {ron me k.n nupaisad Mr. Khitoh : —Our country is in a deplorable condition.. ? War, with the besbm of distraction, lias desolated our lalid, Bvveepißg aWav Ottlf ehe6 nshe.l ■ institutions, 4.->t: oy ing the highways <>f intereotftse, broken, up bur com merce and left bur people without business- or nvbans. . The South dis&px pointed and impoverished, are bv the fortunes of war .-compelled to’ profess ♦allegiance to that - government which once awoke in the minds of her peo ple, caotioiis of the tefiderest attach m-ent and si nearest patriotism, but is HOW to garded as the author, of their tnffefortuoe and min. They accept their condition without murmuring, as a’conquered people; but when forced into a union, held together by exter nal force instead of mutual attraction, where the great American principle, consent of the. governed, is no. longer’ considered fundamental, for the super'. structure of a good .government,- they arc carried so far from what tin y al ways considered the i{ ancient. landt marks ,r of happy rule that it would be doing too much violence to human na. ture to expect contentment of mind or affection . for that flag which is so closely associated with the desolation j of our hemes and the despoliation of.i our people. ‘ . j Such being the case in the United States, each section repelling and re pelled, it becomes a matter of grave moment with the statesmen to devise some means to assuage animosities en-’ gendered in the past, overcome sec. fcional repulsion and tender our coun try more united, . Nothing that, would contribute to these ends should be ig nored by wise rulers nbr deemed too costly or arduous, livery practicable step should be taken to gain and main tain the affection of the people and make it their individual interest to’ support the government under which they live. Persuade a people of a dis position on the part of government to | be just, and you place Uietn in a posi- . j tjon of ready acquiescence in any Sfceming hardship attending the policy thereof. The bout hern people, have ; been failed upon to renew their pledge of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States,', fwbiel* constitution they never objected to,) arid in the same oath to agree to their being de : prived by authority of executive -proc lamation of that which- the Constitu tion guarantees to them as’-property.. Without debating this policy f the gov eminent, we know the Southern peo ple and many of the Northern consid er it extremely unjust on the part of the Government to. seize private prop erty for public use without just com pensation* and this the Constitution also declares. . Under such circumstances the true statesman will no doubt, see to it, that his influence be given to secure the best interest of'tlic country by award* ing to every citizen his constitutional dues or its cquivolent where policy re auires a change.’ ‘ Now since, it has been deemed necessary for the public good to abolish slavery, wherein was invested tho largest part of the pro* ductive wealth of the Southern people, does not justice require due compen sation to be made? If it be said that the South forfeited all. claims by re bellion, yet will not the magnanimity of a victorious government reject the ■ dictates of petty vengeance ? Further, does not s&und policy demand the adoption of such measures as will con vert a. forced, into a cheerful and wil ling union of all the members, of the body corporate, by satisfying each of the just intentions of the government ? Slavery was originally forced upon the people of the South. They have J since regarded it as a system well adapted to their climate and producr lions, and therefore of great national utility.’ 13iit individually, they had no peculiar predilections for it*or at least this was the case with many slaveholders. Now that the institu tion has been destroyed, they feel soic, not so much at the loss of slaves as at the loss of property, and the manner in which it, has been effected. Some things connected with the recent war will probably never he forgotten. But time works wonders. It is said to ov tbrow the illusions of opinion and <\s, tablish the decisions of nature. Its I assttdgiag influence boiycvet, tnay be? greatly assisted by projer <oueiliat arrangements. Let the Cover ; pay for the’’emancipated. -q - v a;iu She will demonstrate to .all ; i at; so far from Wishing to ‘ injure’ and. rob,, she was only doing that which Was deem ed essential to her future peaceful e*. istence. But it- may .be asked how and when could, ghe do this with the immense, debt now resting upon her ? .With her people united, the- resources of our government are boundless. She may not be able to pay the. wln-h amount in one year or ten years, nor is it desirable that she should, Man's days are numbered.- Those m a gov ernment founded.on the principles of ours should never end.except with th en dOf time. AToarr in. debt is con sidered in an unenviable condition,— A government indebted to its own ctN izens has the surest guarantee of tfieu support and goodwill. Let the Gov* eminent pay i’ovthc slaves With bonds running fifty years, with interest able annually and a powerful motive will be brought to bear upon the hob ders thereof to secure their adherence and support. A justly'.'discriminating tariff would appease the North. Thus with all factions satisfied and working together we could bid deliam c to the world, and receiving a fresh impetas, our troubles ended, go on hi our ca reer of national prosperity ami great iiess-rthe . envy of all despots—the pride of all freemen. ’• Such consum mation is devoutly to be desired, and I cannot doubt, that in the next Con gross, good and true statesipen can be found who, riseiug above demagogue ism and sectional antipathies, will con coct and- mature .some such measure fcbc above, calculated to render our people homogenieus in ’interest an will. , .. • .VALDOSTA. August t, 1865. Lafeiit from Mexico* . We have just received the following important information, which c< im via. San Antonio: . Our information from Eagle pass and Piedras Negrasis up to July 1. \Y<- learn that Gen, Shelby had readied the first named point in a quiet am! peaceable manner, hut was informed by the authorities in Piedras Nostras * • that he would not be allowed to take bis pieo info Mexico; with arm's in their hands, but that if he would leave his arms there would be ■ no objection to the entry into the country as emi grants of himself and men. We are informed that’ Ocb Shelby .finally agreed to this, and sold his arms, and cannon to the Liberals at Piedras Ne gras. There Bgre 2,500 stand of small arms.and three pieces of artillery for which Shelby received 811,000- — $6,000 in specie, and $5,000 in bonds issued by the Liberals. The arms were immediately shipped for Chihu ahua. The Governor of the State of Coahulia acted as agent for the Libe rals. President Juarez is said to be at Cbuahua,and that city, is strongly for tified No imperial troops nearer than 300 miles, and not insufficient force to justify an advance .against Juarez’s capitol. There is no truth in the re port that President Juarez is about to visit the United States, . New York.; July 31.—A Clarks. ville, Texas, letter, of J uly 12 says : Notwithstanding so many weeks hav elapsed since embarkation of the Tex as expedition began, it has not yet fully arrived., there being, still a portion of General Bussell’s Brigade, 2G;h Corps behind, and the 4th Corps is at New Orleans.. Our troops .are stationed along the river lvio Grande, and thro* the country to the city of Bio Grande. The fleet-of the Bio Grande numbers fifty’soils, mostly French, but the flags of America and England arc. conspic uous on war vessels among them. Maximillian’s forces are estimated at from 16,000 to 20,000, and many arc Mexicans, whose pay is twenty five cents per day and no rations fur -1 nished. The steamer Carmago, captured by the rebels from the United States, on one of the Louisiana rivers, and sold I to the French, has been doing a good !’ business between Bagdad aud M a ta in oras. Our Government will soon demand the resi oration of the .Carina j go. ‘ ‘ v / ‘■ There is a good feeling apparently j existing between the French and American forces, each party steming* ly determined not to be the aggressor. . ——-• The new Atlantic cable is ibout twenty-six hundred miles long