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then not to try it. At the lock: near
the B Han t’ulverta boatman,
named Nafl shot another named dames
H. Gibbs, fortunately oniy ‘ inflicting
a flesh wound in fa t and anotl-i -■
er in h ii. Ho uiueh drurikness
among the boatnn ot the lowpath j
has never before been ytataßpd.
. Fiendish .Outrage at Ole#eland.
We leant from the Cleveland Plains
dealer of a most revolting outrage com*
omitted on the person of a beautiful
jom o. ‘ iermuß widow at that city w
• Thursday last. The young woman re- 1
sides in Paiuesv'ille, Ohio,-and had
bcdn to Columbus on business ‘conrux*-
ted: with her husbands affairs, who hud
• hern and soldier, and killed in battle.- —
On arriving at. Cleveland, where’ she
” was a-stranger, and- ascertaining she
coul 1 not pursue her journey • home
urvr.il night, she applied to a hack mao
to fee conveyed to a- hotel up town
Ihe hack man after speaking to some
§• friends near by, hade her follow him
to his. Carriage, The - unsuspecting
woman . followed and was conducted
under the piers at the depot. • A terri
suspicion .here po -,d her and
sheattempted to return, when she was
s ze 1 by the ruffian that had brought ’
her thither and the th ree y friends
.he had-beeii seen to-speak with. Ilcr
head and face were .covered with a.coat
and her mouth stopped with a ha-uker 4
chief, and the brutal purpose of the
assailants accomplished. When -she
recovered consciousness, late in the
evening, the vilHans had ffed* and she .
was barely able to. crawl to the open
\ where the attention of’ some offi
cers was. arrested by her moans, and
who carried her into the ‘depot. She
was placed on the D o'clock train that
. evening and ‘taken ‘to. her home in
Painesyille. . .
. The fiends have not yet been arres-U
ted, but the police sere oil their track.
Tie Truth .®f the Matter,’
The A. T. Tkcpresa has. the follow
k iag editorial paragraph.: •
**Oneo-f the_ party with Jeff I) a vis,
’ through all his. flight front Richmond, .
*outh, in a lengthy and careful state -
’ meat and review of-all the tacts, erives
I in the Herald no evidence of the truth
of‘the petticoat.story,’ and there is no’
longer any doubt with just ‘men that
this part lOi the reported’ plight in
which Davis was Captured is a fiction. ’’
*—Now let .us see precisely what this
companion of Davis.’ flight into Geor
gia does ‘say : ‘. •.
“ Had he [Davis] ‘not gone .to assure
himself of his wife’s safety, and had
he not been excessively fatigued.while
there, Col. Pritchard would be with
out the honor of capturing him, for
nothing was easier than his escape,, as
Breckinridge and W cod and the writer
of this know, and by meeting no in
terrupt'ion themselves have proved.—
Their immunity might have been his.
H Bat Davis ran his lisks and took
his chances, fully conscious of immi
nent danger, yet powerless, from phy
sical weariness, to . do.all he designed
doing against the danger... When the .
musketry firing was .heard in the morn
ing, fat grim; day dawn/- it was suppo*
sod to be between the Rebel maraud
ers and Mrs. Davis/ few ca'rnp defend'’
crs. Under this impression, he'hur
riedly put on his boots and prepared to
go out for the purpose- of interposing,
saying
i They, will at least yet respect me/
MAs he got t 6 the tent door thus
hastily equipped, and with this good
intention of preventing an affusion of
blood by an appeal in the name of. a.
fading but not wholly faded authority,
he saw a few cavalry ride up the road
and deploy in front.’
(Ha, Federals !’ was his exclamation.
‘‘Then you are captured/ cried Mrs.
Davis with emotion.
a In a moment she caught an idea
a woman’s idea—and as quickly as
women in an emergency execute their
designs, it was done. He slept in a
wrapper —a loose one. It was yet
around him. This she fastened, ere
he was aware of it r and then, bidding
him adieu, urged him to go to the
spring, a shorty distance off, where his
horses and arms were.’ Strange as it
may seem, there was not a pistol in the
tent. Davis felt that his only course
was to reach his horse and arms, and
complied. As he was leaving the-door,
followed by a servant with a water
backet, Miss Howell flung a shawl
\ over his head. There was no time to
\ remove it withput exposure and ein
-1 harassment,. and, as he had not far to
i go, he ran the chance exactly as it was
devised for him. in these two articles
■aisled the woman's attire of which
much nWtnee ha- .:i.spoken a
; written, sod under these circumstances
a"; ;d in this -waywas JefirsOQ Pa vis
I going forth to perfect his escape. V
j bonnet. Ho- gown, iio petti-*” £B, .bo
. crinoline, no nothing: of all these*, -hi, i
what there was happened ho ecu
sable under ordinary ctreuo&stan
and.perfectly natural as'things we
. ,4 ‘ Bus it’ was too late, lor any. efft
to reach his horses, and the C-mfeder**
ate’ President wav at last.a prisoner in
the hands.wf the United States/* ‘
Now this we presume, bays the N. |
\ . Tribune. 1 to be a.n honest sr itemenfc ;
of the facts, by one, who-, a: ail • . .
is.not inclined to make the case against;
J’. D. worse than- it is.- ‘ Does i; fistii I
fy the broad assertion of TJo Express?
Why did not that journal give The
Herald's statement, instead.of .its own
most unwarranted commentary Who
*.. • r •
should fear the truth r
We never strike one whots already
.down. We do.not say that’.it was
wrong,’ ‘cowardly, or even ridiculous,
for’ Davis to seek escape from capture’
in the guise of woman. Had he only,
succeeded in getting away, the trick
would have been deemed'a clever one
It-is failure that makes.it seem ridicu.
l-Gu*.’ No one ever thought worse of
La valet U for escaping from prison and
death in his wife’s, garments. But
fact is fact, and it is clear as noonday,
‘that Davis tried to evade capture by
personating and being taken for a wo
man. If The Express did not know
this to be -true., why dues it’ not print-!
the evidence ; instead cf .so grossly ;•
garbling it f : . *
° . * . . . .
. ‘ • From ths Nashville Dispatch.
Mexico aiul the Tnitcd states
—Some ,\ew Facts.
The attitude of our Government re
specting the Imperial developments
in Mexico is now a paramount subject
of interest with the public. • and one,
.too, about which there Is.but little ‘ in
formation. To relieve in some meas
ure this suspense, the New York Sun
discloses some facts that have come
into its possession regarding the Mexi
can question, the influence, operating
upon the President respecting it, and
the purposes of the Government in
the premises. From the popular in
terest manifested On behalf of the Ke
publi.can party in Mexico, and from
the general denunciation that has been
heaped upon Maximilian and bis Gov-:
eminent, the public, have been led to
believe that Juarez monopolizes the.
sympathy of all classes in the United
States. This supposition, according
to the Sufi, is erroneous. There is
now, and has been from the time
Maximilian occupied Mexico, a quiet
yet powerful political influence in. fa
vor of recognizing his Government.'—
•O t
Numerically speaking, this. influence
has but little strength, for it is unsup-’
ported by any considerable portion of
the people.. But, says the Sun, it is
headed by a promine't member of the
Cabinet; it is pressed forward by a class
of prominent and influential politicians,
and is backed up by a strong monarchy
ial. interest.’ ‘Since the ’conclusion of.
our c.ivil war, the efforts ot this party
*to secure the recognition of Maximil
iaii have been redoubled, and the Pres
ident has been urged in the’ strongest
terms to give his assent to that policy.
Acting in conjunction with agents pf
Maximilian and of the French Empe
ror, this party have been able to urge’
very strong inducements for the Gov- 1
er.nment to take the step, indicated*
Maximilian is willing to guarantee
an American transit route- across hi.s
dominions to protect and facilitate the
operations of mining, companies; to
.furnish free homesteads to ‘ American
settlers; to make the most liberal ar
rangements for international trade, and
a • *. •
in general terms to concede everything
that our Government, could reasonably
ask in return for recognition. On the
other hand, the President and ail his
Cabinet, with the single exception aD
luded to, are firm, in” the principle of
the Monroe Doctrine. They are in
lavor of eventually expelling Maxi”
miliaii and his French allies at. any
cost, and but for the persistent. oppo
sition of this one member of the Cabi
net which backs him up, the people
would not thus long have been kept
in ignorance concering the .Mexican
question.- The recent speech of Sec*
retary Harlan regarding Mexico was a
truthful exposition of the President's
views and those of his Cabinet, with
the one. exception, and it was intended
to be so. considered by the public. The
attempt to procure - the recognition of
Maximiliian. ‘herefoi?, has so far fail*
| 1: but tl: r -siire in favor of that
inure is still.maiatiined. • she sit
in? • just how is, * that Pr !nt
I Jbhnsoh, believing i.t to’ b< for the
tfecst ititeresti of -the-couiury r.
court a* foreign war at tti;.*- time, wiljl
for the present quitely remain a spec
tator of the Mexican’ quarrel, mean,
I me -keeping a strong arm .* on ti e
J fr< atu-r to be ready tor *uy c mtmgen- :
j cy . . ‘
■ —-* —— r
j • T2-ie Black. Hftait’l tHaMce.. -
| • • Ethnological questions are notorious”
ly knotty, but one, at leasl ofs.
I ficieotfy settled, that two physiological*
I Iy and mentally unequal, races■ cannot ;
l'long-live together in a state of noliti,
! cal, or even, social equa|ty. Prate as j
dreamers may of the eonwon brother
hood of man,'the infeuor inevitably I
fades away before the'st-perijr people..'j
Why so it is • difficult to say,’ but a
■ slight glimpse at the past of this .coum !
try will show how true tie -proposition ‘
has proven with us. Home forty .years
1 since the North bad many thousands i
•of. lately freed negroes who,'so far as J
merely personal rights went, were. *on !
the same footing with whites inhabit.
.
ing that region—but where to-day ared
these negroes —where their offspring.*— 1
where that prorata increase-it- - might
bethought the race would have borne ,
to the .increase ot-tne native /white
population f ; Let statistics answer ;
In 1790, when, slavery had cease.l to]
exist in Massachusetts, the population
.off free native born black to free;white,
natives was in the ratio .of fifteen to
.every thousand. In 1850 the propoiV
tion was only eight to the thousand.
, In -New Ycrk, in 1830, when slavery
was virtually dead, the native .blacks
w ere ‘twenty Jour'to the thousand of
native whites; in 1830, eighteen only.
In pennsvlvanhu’ in the’ same yearJ
1830, the free'b’lacks were twenty* nine
to the thousan 1.; in 1 SSO only twen*
cy-one. In 1790 the black population
.(slave), of Georgia was in the ratio of
] to. every thousand whites. In
18 >0 the proportion, had become 731
tv) tiie.thousand whites, a jpr&rata in l ]
1 -reuse airucst identical with-.the pro |
rata decrease of Massachusetts for the
same, length of time. So much for
the past. At date of present writing
it is found that in .Boston, taking that
as an exponent of Massachusetts, the
deaths among the blacks outnumber
the births two to one. In Philadel
phia, which may stand for Pennsylvm ;
nia, the annual - births among the’
blacks are about three hundred, the
deaths a trifle over seven hundred—a
greater rate of decrease than even in
Boston. In New York city, the pro
portion is not known but the ratio of
free blacks is eleven to the thousand
whites, much less i;t will be seen than
even the reduced average for the State - ,
at large.- ‘ From these, figures it will
appear that in the South, where the.
inferior race has been kept in an in
ferior'condition p has largely in ereas- :
■e'd;inthe North where it has been
elevated to a’ more, or less perfect
equality with the superior i’t has lam
. entably. dwind Uaway, Same causes 1
producing t ime - ‘Abets it may be look/
ed’fer that now,'the negro is free .in
.the South and possessed of a so t of
quasi equality with the whites, he will
share -he .fate of his brethren at the
North—-gradual extinction. .- It has :
been estimated that of the. four; mill
ions of negroes in America at the out
break of.the war three million now re
main, and startling as this statement is
it borrows caedenoe from the immense
mortality among the colored troops of
the vSouth, and those, casualties anions
; the slave population alluded to by Mr.
Davis, when presiding overthe desti>
nits of the Confederate States. From
all accounts, says a. writer in the New
i’ork Herald, thi3 mortality. is alarim
ingly on the increase, so much so in
fact as to . induce the. belief • among
niany of the public men of the North,
that in a century the negro will be no
more numerous in the country than
the. Indians - are now! • . •
Whether the lately fned slave re®
. main here or go to the Northern
States, he will equally be brought in
competition with the white race .and
in the collision of interest, thus neces’
sarily engendered, every fact • given
aboye goes to show be mqst necessari”
]y go down.. But one hope, remains
then for the black man —one only
chance —to migrate to the West, where
land is cheap and soil fertile, where ne°
gro colonies can be erected, and where
removed from the contact so fatal to
j existence, the uegjo cin livo. by
; Kmcif. While no! believing. the
black nee p< as a rule, of
! much m-n .! power, it has soon
, beea oar fortune from yoath op, to
I ‘ res?
fW al! restraints up*
f movemeoi aro removed.
, ‘ tu exceptions
c ght (iia an me far themgelyes and
r what would, doubtless, be-a
i,rrc t benefit on their race by organ
j i&tag colonies to emigrate’ Westward,
f • Some of the-means n . • • .ryto this
step might, perhaps. *be furnished'by
j Freed mei Bureau —to h the
; welfare of the black- has been especial.
I ly committed. Other assistance aright
-..• • • o
j with great propriety, besought by the
j freedmen at- the sands of those who
• have professed themselves the pecu*
| liar friends of the African race —4he
.philanthropist apd reformer:? of . the
| ’North. • •’
l Once established amid . the fertile
pruries and primeval - forests .of the
great \\est; the negro could be a law
’ unt.o himself, so far as regards all. sb%
ciaj. interests, and would have opened
to him an excellent opportunity ofide*
veloping those latent capabilities -he
may poss jss. All the advantages of
the Liberian Republic’ might be ob
tained .ufithout the attendant drawbaoh
of a ‘long sea voyage, exposure to micL
African miasmas, apd residence, iaa
Jaud. environed by savage tribes’.—*
Bdmd President Edwards might arise :
, .
to- wield the power of the-black- man’s
state;, some T:ussaint. I/Oqv
mi. lit dignify ifby his idee is,
peace, liberty and pi
might thrive.’ Here, if-figures
the truth, if bistort can
■
;it is doomed.- There, it Bii N... pr ?-.]
per, and to seize the opportunity
j black man’s only chance, . • •
Const it iitionatist. ■
-- ■
Neb* Orleans, Tuesday, Aujr.*:
An extensive .fire occurred at Galves
ton on the 2a inst. f involving heavy
loss. ’lt was doubtless the design of the ’
• C3
■ parties to burn the town. Tlie trans
actions of villains iri Galveston were
never before'equaled.
Texas is • divided into three mil
itary. districts.- Gen. Turner commands
the Galveston district, relieving .Gen
Granger,
New Advertisements.
PROVISION
IS’ t o n. is
. AT THE OLD STAND OF
[ MERRILL & PAINE
rtUHE u&dersigned has opened a Provision
i 1 Store in Tliomasville, [and will hereafter
| keep constantly on hand
PROVISIONS OF ALL KINDS,
• SUCH AS. 3
SYRUF. BACOX
FLOUR LARD
COFFEE TALLOW
SUGAR SALT
CORN MEAL Ac * &c.
• ‘ W ITH A . LOT OF . .
T O B AfC C O
; ■ Ami many other articles too numerous to
mention. ■
They ‘will use every .effort to accommodate
the public and sell as low as possible. They
W 11 also sell on •
. COMMISSION -
A 1 gOeds *r produce entrusted to them.
M. C.. SMITH & SONS.
Aug. 23-t-f.
i E. O. IRi\OLO,
RESIDENT DENTIST
THOMASVILLE, GA.
WILL be found at .the old
stand occupied by him for ‘
the last ten years rrp
. • Aug 23-5 m . ‘ ‘
FOIt SALE
MY plan • rioh in the County of
Lowndes, ten .miles from
Valdosta and two from Clyattville,
containing four tboasand and two
hundred acres, - not surpassed by ‘
. anv in the country, or in this part ©f the - -
STATE IN FERTILITY.
.
The titles are indisputable. There are upr
wards of fourteen hundred acres cleared—
. eleven hundred since 1862, which exhibits the
strength and character of the. soil in the pres
ent crop. The ‘ .
BUILDINGS ARE SI7BSTAX
tiaI and Commodious,
The charters capable of accommodating com
fortably two hundred laborers There is- a
new Grist and Saw Mill appended to. the plant
ation. Corn, fodder and .other produce, to
gether with the stock, consisting of mules and
horses, dec., will be sold with, the plantation.
Terms Cash. Apply to
J. WALDBURG, Savannah’,
or to j. M. H. C. CHIP, Valdosta.
August 23, 1865. ts.
3 Kilt REIT
000 \4 k; , OF ! IM V, i'll 0O
Am-. Opr ii lor t’u Ui vntion. Auj •
.
ntaire to secure the plantation •
faH ■ ■
a i . •.. , ...
orers tor the remainder ot the • ‘ ‘
Present Year,
.who rente his tkrm. rhe land u
• w ill go
CULTIVATION OF COTTON-
b ’ • informal oo apply to tho Editor
Southern Enterpr
Fhtouivilk, Gt. Aor. 23,1865 ‘ • •
GEORGIA—Thomas Const i.
1 ’ tug.
WHER \S, Mary Murphey, aebnin iix
* * - 1 -of John
H- Murphey, decease
petition to this ( for • ut -
thereon. All person interested are therefore
netihedto file their objectn ns in
otherwise said letters will be granted. md
sued to said applicant at a regular ;. rm of. said
Court to be held’al 1 • ■ ill©, said County
on the first. Monday in October next. • . -
H. H. rOOKE, Ordinary.
Aug. 23, 1865. 309. .
Cif ORiiIA-Brook Couaty,
To <.’ -1 ti mat/ concern.
X*”' >riCE is hereby given that two months
ky, after date I sh.au apply to the Court of
Ordinary, of said eonnty r for leave -t® resign
my trust as administrator on the’ estate of J. •
L-. Howell dece sedron account of my advanc
sand feeble health. This August Ifiil
1865 v JOHN McMULLEN, Admr ■
•■ • .
SoiUlu rn Jutliriai District,
. . - AT CHAMBER,
. August, 16th, 1865.
• e regain;- sess ons.of tin* Superior Courts.
; District will be held at the times fi:
1.1 . v- : The Inferior Courts are requested
i , ! Uni juries are regularly drawn, and all
- hears of _the Courts', who have taken tbs
i V meaty Oath, are required to proceed in the
“discharge of ’their official duties* : .
.Al'G. H. HANSELL, Judge S.C. S. D.
August 23-ts
GEO RGi A —if l ooks County,
T(H XW. DUKES having applied to b.
es appointed Guardian of the persons’ and
property of Millard, Florence and- William
Dukes, minors under fourteen years of age,
rtesidents of said County. This is to cite all
..persons, interested to be and appear at a regu.
lar term of the Court pf Ordinary to be held
on the first Monday -in (October next, and show
cause if any they can, r why said J. W. ©ukes
should not Be intrusted with the guardianship
of the persons and property, of said minora. •
Witness my hand and seal, this Aug Id. 1865..
Aug 23-2 m .J. G. McOALJL, Ordinary. ’
GEORGIA—Thomas County*
Court of Ordinary,'August V2th, W
WHEREAS* Caroline E.. Evans makesap
'TV .pi'i--;iri<m.by petition to this Court
letters of Administration on the Estate-of Bo
bert R. Evans, late Os said Comity deceased.
All persons interested are therefore, notified
to file their objections in said Court., otherwise
said letters will be granted and issued to said
applicant at a regular term of said Court to be
held at Tliomasville, said County on the first
Monday in October next.
H, 11. TOOIvE, Ordinary,
August 16,1865. 30d
FOR SALE
OR REIVT.
4 NEAT AND COMFORT F ~ n
ABLE DWELLING,
Containing Five Rooms A good IsSml 8 § H W
•Kitchen. Smoke House. Crib -
and Negro houses. Thet;e is
so TEN ACRES of. LAND, mostly timbered.
The place is just-out. of the incorporation of
Thomasville, for further information enquire
at the Enterprise Office Aug 9-ts
BOARDIMt HOUSE.
MRS. C. W. E4TOX,
HAS opened her house for ..pgy
the reception of Boarders,
and offers the best accomodations wEyl i| S |ijv
at moderate prices. Iler house JffljwUyLitt
is coveniontly situated for
33 xj sitv:e s s m e nsr ,
In a pleasant section of the town, and no pains
Will be spared to give general satisfaction.
Thomasville, G'a . Aug 7-3 m •
NOTICE. “
I UTTERS, Money-pack ages-, and other
will he received daily at the store
of E. Remington & Son, at Thomas.vii.le. to bo
forwardeand
Savannah and all Intermediate
Stations on the A- & G. R. R.
A special Messenger will leave by the regular •
passenger train in charge-of all such parcels.
In all cases the charges must he prepaid. AH
returned letters and packages will be deliver
ed at the store of E. Remington.
JAB. RtJSSELL.
Erwin Ha dee.. ..
Ang. -9,’ 1865. -ts.
GEOKCiIA Brooks County.— ’ all
whom it may concern, Charles and Mar>#
tin Knight having applied-for permanent let
tens of administration on the estate Os T-ailton
Knight late of said comity deceased, this is to
cite and admonish all and singular, creditors
and next of kin, to be and appear at the ib st
regular term of this court, after the expiration
of thirty days from this date, and show cause
if any they can, otherwise said letters will be
granted said applicants.
By order of Ed. W. THOMPSON,
July 25-30d’ • Assistant Provost Judge.-
Carbonate of Magnesia.
COOKING SODA, .
EPSOM SALTS . . . .
SULPHUR. .
RACE GINGER,
For sale by
DeWITT & STEGALL
.July 5, 1865. ts