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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