Southern enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1865-1866, August 23, 1865, Image 1

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LUCIUS C BRYAN, Editor & Proprietor. VOL. V. ®{jc Sontfjeru (Sntfrprrse. Thomasville, Georgia. WKDNESOAV AUOI T ST ‘3,1, 183. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. o— < The ‘‘Southern Enterprise” is publish ed weeklj- At Four Dollars per anuum, strictly in advance. ADVERTISING TERMS. Advertisements will be inserted for one dollar per square of twelve lines or less for each insertion. From this rale a dis count of twenty-civic per cjr,t will be made for advertisements inserted for three months or under six months, and fifty per cent for twelve mouths or more. All ad vertisements sent to the office must be marked with th* number of insertions de sired or the period to be pubfished, and in evry instance accompanied with the amount! required for payment. Marriages and deaths will hereafter be charged for as ad vostiseiuentg. Special or editorial notices will be published and charged at double the above rates. Payment for subscriptions may at present be made either in current funds, or the products of the country, such Wheat, flour, corn, bacon, beef, sugar, ?yrup, tallow, sweet or irish potatoes, chickens, eggs, Ac., Ac., at their market value in Thomasville. Remittances may be made by Express at our risk. All others nmst be at the risk of those making ‘the -atne. Subscribers names will be droped from the list at the end of the tertp. for which the subscription has been paid, un less renewed. All communications should bo addressed to Proprietor Southern Enter pne, Thomattilic, Georgh. A Review of Use SoaaUi—Her Armies and Resources our I ans the AVar—fffier CoadKSozi \ow, New York, July:Sl.~ The World's correspondent writes a long letter commenting on the condition of af fairs in the South. He says the South is exhausted by her tremendous effort. First and last, more than a million of men.have bc-en in her ranks. The six great Slates of \ irginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and-South Carolina, have each furn ished from 85,000 to a 120,000 men to the confederate army, independent of militia. Louisiana, Tennessee, Ai> kansas, Texas, and Florida furnished each 50,000 to 80,000, and Missouri and Kentucky 40,000 each. Mary land furnished still less. Although the musterrolls of the adjutant gener - al at Richwon and contained 450,000 nsmes at the evacuation of that city, of which not quite half were on duty in the field. Yet in January, 1863, t he rebel army numbered seven bun* dred and fifty thousand men, most of whom were in actual service. By laws subsequently enacted, every man capa ble of bearing arms, with the excep tion of a few civil officers and profes sional persons, was made a soldier. — Although the list of eemptions, de* tails for special service, and desertions, reached the.point of absurdity, there was still a large army, with sufficient equipment and tolerable morale, in the field. Os this number, the actual loss can only be approximately estimated. From the best judgement I have been able to obtain, the proportionate mor tality has been larger than that of our army. The number of maimed, crip pled and waisted forms every where to be seen so indicate it. Nearly eve ry family is in mourning, sometimes for two, three or four victims. The total loss is set down, by good author ity, at a hundred thousad killed and died in service, and a hundred thou® sand permanently disabled; while there were, perhaps, two hundred thousand suffering under various de grees of disability Lack of medical skill, and supplies, has undoubtedly added largely to the 1 number of deaths in the Southern &r ----■ my, which, it is claimed, are more l than balanced by the ravages of dim- I ate upon our o,wn troops. Want of or hospital .organization, un * 4<spbtwlJy, swelled the mortality at the THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1865. South. The rebels never spared men. when tlieir sacrifice would win advan tage. Great as has been the loss in men, the loss in wealth has been still greater. The-unrecorded loss of the South is larger than that of the North. Togethoflwwith its national debenture b inds, issued by the confederacy, to support the war, it would amount to about ’four thousand mi.lions of dol lars, which, reduced ‘to our own cur rency, would represent a thousand millions. A full record of all -other indebtedness of the confederacy wa.s never made up, but may safely cover another thousand millions. Beside this, there arc State, municipal, and individual sacrifices. One-third of the first issues of currency was swept away by repudiation, and worthless bonds given for the remainder. The real and appreciable losses of the South may be summed up in three de partments Ist. cost of army and war material; 2d. destruction of property by both armies ; 3d. less incident to disturbance. The correspondent's esv timate of these losses foots up to nine thousand three hundred millions. In Virginia there are thousands of miles ,of fencing destroyed, and half a mil lion of acres in rank weeds, farther South the damage.is greater Through South Caiolina, Georgia, and part of North Carolina, the cotton fields are almost like primitive forest. Gins, sheds, barns, and even wells and cisterns, have been destroyed. Many farms are uninhabitable. Alabama has suffered in the destruction of cot-’ ton, railroads,, workshops, factories, founderies, and in the cessation of all industry, -beyond the vital needs of her people. So of Louisiana and Mis sissippi, although more fortunate in getting . back earlier into harness.- — Texas,, although hardly touched by the feet of our soldiers, has been a prey to the ravages of guerrillas more destructive than enemy. Arkansas has been eaten out, and has little left her but naked territory and its rude habitations. The broad belt of . destruction, extending from Chattanooga to Savannah, and thence to the Potomac, has destroyed the wealth of a powerful empire, hot to-, mention what has been lost elsewhere-, from the Ohio to the Gulf.- The individual suffering has’ also been yer}: remarkable. • It is the .com mon story of almost every person who had wealth that he is- now poor. — Many of them who had large credit, who lived on incomes of thousands per year, have not . now enough-to buy daily subsistence, but depend, on the taxed charity of their less unfortunate friends. Fops, who were .once elabo rate in their attire, new appear in soil ed jeans and gaping cowhide shoes. The loss of slaves is most mourned. Many young men, widows, and unpro fessional persons, were living uponJhe hire of a few servants who had been left to them. Such persons are now utterly at a loss to know how to live. Os hard money there is much still handled at the South. Specie was a drag at New Orleans before the war. The country abounded with gold and silver coin. Much of this is undoubt edly buried, and will only make its ap_ pearance when order is restored. The cotton now in the country is very rap idly exchanged for specie and com modities, such as are much needed.— For corse wearing apparel, except shoes, the South has lacked less, per haps, than of aught else. Cotton cards and house-looms were in great demand, so much so, that Governor Brown is said to owe his last election to a judu cius distribution of the former to his constituency. A few tanneries have sprang up, bnt most of their shoes are evidently imported from England. The South has lost its indepedence, which it might willingly have surren* dered after it had been obtained, but it has also the prestige and power and fame and name, compared to which all other sacrifices are as a mere trifle, in her estimation. Alldangers, all labors, all hardsiips and all losses might have been bone more cheerful-, lv, if they had not Ken in vain. Their conversation is fraigbt. with various reasons for their future- Among the more intelligent am] conservative, it is placed on tho ground that numbers and materials were (gainst them. It is- the.con?inon belief with them that our armies have been made up of the hired soldiers of Eqrope.- In reality they were sustained by fresh promises.of intervention, or r.C’ cognition, by England or France, or both, until, by force ot many. <Laap pointments, they have tome to enter’ tain deep prejudice agahst both Gov ernments. If it be reierved for the United States to; maintain . a conflict with either of these powers, the aid of the South, iii men, will be given without stint. They beat with some surprise -and doubt, that the Northern people have not, on the whole, been united upon the maintenance of the Union. Exaggerated stories of political a is sention at the North hae been circu lated.’ The-opinions of .he South are divided on the question ot Jeff, Davis’ merits. A division prevails m nearly all classes, though as a mlc I think those who remained at tome in civil offices are the bitterest revilcrs of the captured Piesident. Hehad a con tinued battle to fight with the Gov ernors of States, who cat led for the theoretical rights oft Fie States. Had his rule ben prolonged ‘.ill tho next election, it is quite likely a strong contest would have arben on the ground of his encrcacliments upon State rights. . Quiet, but considerable interest is manifested in the fate of Davis. Hi3 death would be the happiest solution of the trouble for his friend*, as either hanging or banishment would be very seriously taken to heart by ’nearly all classes. On the question of reconstruction the correspondent. says: The organ ization of State governments, thus far, gives great satisfaction, in most of the States. . Men who have in favor of the Union will have a fair chance at the polls. • Many strong rebels say they desire to make no opposition at the polls, and they will advise their friends to support the administration candidates for the sake of giving more speedy order, peace and law. • Governor Vance ofA'orth Carolina, and Governor Watts of Alabama, were originally accounted Uuion men, but swayed round after.their accession to office. “ The inauguration of State Govern ments is of the first importance Rep resentation in the gene-al Congress is most advisable at the present moment.. There will be questions whether, the State indebtedness .incurred during the rebellion shall be assumed/ Secu rity for property needs to be strength ened, for at present every species of moveable property is terribly insecure. Next comes the question of kiegro suffrage. There is up doubt but this measure is looked upen with the ut most alarm and horror at the South. At present they are unable to see it in its true light. They have not yet be gun to distinguish between the prop ositions that the negro has no right to vote and that he is not fit to vote.— Very few of the negroes are capable of exercising intelligently political privileges. This objection the South* ern States will make and can sustain. It is not improbable they find it to their own interests to give a por tion of the negroes votes. General amnesty should prevail as early as possible. It is remarkable that fight ing men, on both sides, agree, and forget the ill feeling which the war may have fostered. The So uthlnAd versify* When Napoleon overran Prussia, in his brief but. terrible Jena campaign, dosing with a peaoe which confirmed to him moat of her fortresses and near’ ly half of her population, her ruin on all hands was deemed complete and beyond remedy. Very few even cf her own statesmen,-supposed she could within the next generation, resume the place won for her by her great Frederick among the controlling European pow-- ers. Vet seven years had not passed when, before she had fought a fresh battle, or recovered a square of terri* tory, threw a weighty sword into the scale of legitimacy, and entered as the ally and peer-of Ilussia, upon the triumphant War of Liberation. ■ For the genius of her. statesmen, the ardor of her patriots, the organizing skill of her great soldiers, bad meantime reno.v rated and enlarged her .strength, and Lom the. ruins of--the kingdom had evoked the might of the nation. And Prussia remains to this day a substano tiai gainer by her sudden, stupendous downfall in 1806. The South stands to day substantial ly where Prussia did at the close of that disastrous struggle. She has made a wild, mad venture, and incurred an overwhelming defeat. Her song have been slain, her fields and cities devas* tated, her resources exhausted. She staked her all on a great throw, and lost; hence, she now sits amid ashes and ruins. Vet the South Las still the elements of a great prosperity —& speedy recoi •very of all the material wealth she hag sacrificed, and a rapid advance in in* dustry, knoweldge, wealth, refinement and power. In.climate, soil, timber, minerals, inland navigation, water power, and nearly every element of material well being,she is scarcely sur passed, while the commercial world i* hungry for immense quantities of her staples, and ready to buy them at ex* traordinary prices.. Capital from either hemisphere is eager to flow into her lap— to buy her lands and hire her la bor at far above those of the past, and to purchase all the cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, naval stores, &e , &c., she can produce for years to come at not less than double the cost of their produc tion. In all the known world there ig not another field for the employment of capital and labor so promising as is afforded throughout the length and breadth of the late Slave States of our Union. —-iV. V. Tribune . T&© Evil of a Bad Temper, A bad temper is a curse to the pos* sessor, and its influence is most dead - ly wherever it is found. It is allied to martyrdom to be obliged to live with one of a complaining temper. To hear one eternal round of complaint and murmuring, to have . every pleasant thought scared away by their evil •spirit, is a sore trial. It is like the sting of a scorpion-—a perpetual net tle, destroying your peace, rendering so a burden. Its influence is y ; and the purest and sweetest atmos* phere is contaminated into a deadly miasma wherever this evil genius pre vails. It has been said truly, that while we ought hot to let the bad temper of others influence us, it would be as reasonable to spread a blister upon the skin and not expect it to draw, as to think of a family not suf fering because of the bad temper of any one of its inmates. One string out of tune will destroy the music of an instrument otherwise perfect, so if all the members of a church, neigh borhood and family, do not cultivate a kind and affectionate temper, there will be dwcord and every evil work, • ■ V- . ■ ■ Advertising—lts Benefits. No man goes into business without sticking a sign over his door at a cost of from ten to tweenty dollars. This gign bears his name only, and is seen occasionally by the few who pass by it. But how many business men think of the importance of sticking his name the newspapers, where it can be seen by thousands every day, and in every quarter—where his business and TERMS *4,00 A Year, m Advance. all its particulars can be explained and presented in its most profitable as pects ? Look at the lottery men, and medicine iucu, how they advertise, and what immense fortunes they real* m 1 w lze by the operation */ Should not the merchant and mechanic avail himself of the same means of making his name and business familiiar to tb world ? . —■— A Fable.—Aycung man once pick ed up a sovereign lying in the road. —* Ever afterwards aa he walked along, he ■kept his eyes fixed steadily on the ground, in hopes of finding another- Audio the course of a long life he pick ed up at different times,, a good amount of gold and silver. But all these long years while-he was looking for them, he saw not that heaven was bright, above, him,, and all nature beautiful around. He never once allowed his eyes to look up from the mud and filth in which he sought the treasure, and when he died, a rich old man, he only knew this fuir earth of ours‘as a dirty road,.in which to pick up money as you walk along., Once upon a time, on a plantation in Kentucky, while a little nigger baby o-r pickaninny was snoozing in its era die, a streak of lightning came down the capacious chimney of the cabin and killed it. Old Sam, an aged ne gro, came rushing in the stenn, and after seeing what had occurred he let himself out as follows, gazing in tently at the defunct small darkey “Now, Lord, you link you bab done great tings—jest gone and killed a little nigger baby who ain’t worf two dollars and a half.” And then ing up on his feet, almost bursting with indignation, and with & defiant tone, he yelled out; . “S’pose you try yourse’f on old Sam V* Miss Augusta J. Evans, author* ess of “ Beulah,” “ Macaria,*’ &c,, hag been spending some time in New York, the guest of Mr. Darby, pub lisher. -A correspondent speaking of . her says: • * >* . “ Miss Evans is not looking nearly so well as when we saw he in 1860.—- Her health has evidently been affect* ed by the cares and experiences of the past four years, and there is no doubt that she is deeply disappointed at the . result of the war. • Probably no wo® man entered into the cause “of the South more earnestly, believing more* over in its justness than Miss Evans, and when the bubble burst, and she saw that the Confederacy was a faiL ure, no one could feel the bitterness of the moment more than she. “ Maca ria/ 7 and also an earlier novel, “ The Alamo/ 7 were both re-published here during the war, and as they had a good sale, there ought to be quite a snug little sum coming to her for the copyright. Miss Evans expects tore turn to Mobile in the course of a few days. 77 The supreme court of Wisconsin ha* decided that the law of Congress re quiring stamps on legal process, in the beginning or other stages of a suit, is unconstitutional and therefore void, and that the stamps on legal papers are not necessary. The ground of the decision is that the imposition of a tax * upon any proceedings in a State court is an invasion oi the right of a State to regulate proceeding in its own court; that if Congress can tax these proceedings at all, it can lay a tax that will practically amount to prohi bition, and .thus legislate the State, courts out of existence. The decis ions of other State courts on this point, will be looked for with interest. —° * ——— . The Postmaster General has nofcu fied the Provisional Governors that the postal service will be resumed on all the lines of railroad in the South as soon as they respectively certify that the routs are in proper condition for that purpose NO. 8. .