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S[>ccl<‘ Paynentu PracHcable.
Wc Uavc been without a specie cir*
-dilution in this country since the Ist
. Os January, 1862, a period of over
thrcc years and a half, during which
time the business of out tradespeople
lias been carried on with government
sli in plasters and irredeemable paper,
-md the puichaser has not ouly been
forced to submit to all the annoyances
incident thereto, but has been subject
to the heaviest extortions, and the
most exorbitant prices, which the
depreciation of the currency could
possibly render an excuse for. The
war being over and peace again res
tored to the country, the people are
beginning to wonder when the “cons
atitutional currency,” as they under.
st and the Wa, is to be again return*
‘.j to them ; but there is nobody who
seems willing or able to give the de
fied information. The government
has recently been throwing half a
million or more of geld daily upon the
market for the purpose of keeping
down the premium, but it has only
succeeded in reducing the value two
or three percent, which will be re
opened, aud even higher rates be
established, as soon as the Sub-1 resury
supply ceases. Therp is but one way
to permanently bring down the pi ice
of gold, and that is to reduce the vol
ume of paper. The government boasts
of twenty-five to thirty millions sur
plus coin, which, if two hundred mil
lions of legal tenders were withdrawn
from circulation, would form -a basis
for the redemption of the balance that
would be almost sure to be permanent.
Such a movement would compel the
national banks to pay coin _ for their
bills, and thus the foundation for a
speedy return to the speeie basis would
be laid, and the hard currency would j
airain become the medium of our daily j
transetions. But as long as the gov
ernment keeps from seven to eight
hundred millions of paper afloat there
will be no permanent reduction in the
premium oa gold. Speculators know
tlieir fate atd operate upon it.
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infill Disaster oil the Paeit- j
ic Coast
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Wreck of the Steamer
Brother Jonathan.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE-!
On the afternoon of Sunday, July j
30th, the steamship Brother Jonathan j
while on her passage from San I ran- j
cisco to Portland, Oregon, struck ag- j
4111 st a sunken rock, bilging her bot- !
tom in such a manner as caused her j
to sink within an hour afterwards. —
The meagre report ol the catastrophe i
thus far received, states that out ot j
one hundred and ninety-three passe n- j
gers and crew, about fourteen only es*
caned from a watery grave.
The place where the disaster occur- |
red was near the Crescent City, and
about two miles from the coast, in a
very dangerous locality, filled with
hidden rocks, the dread of mari ers.
Brigadier General Wright, with his
stati and family were on board, and
are supposed to be lost.
It is likewise reported that cx-Uni- 1
ted States A. G. Henry, recently ap
pointed Governor of A\ ashiugton Ter
ritory, was also a passenger 041 the ill
fated steamer.
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Kew ‘York Evening Ex
change.
The regular board of New York
brokers have ..done ag#)d thing. They
have forbidden tjieir members from
attending what is ca'led the “Even,
ing Exchange,” at the risk of expul
sion. The Evening Exchange was
. ,tlie nursing mother of vice, not only
.as affording a wide field for stock spec*
.illation, but various forms ot vice.—
This is an end (says the Evening Pose)
of that evil, and with it will fall prob
ably a number of music, dancing, and
drinking saloons, which gathered in
the neighborhood, for the accommo
dation aud temptation of those who
could not do business enough between
daylight and dark, but protracted their
speculations into the night, and natu
rally drifted from the Evening Ex.
change Uto the congenial haunts near
by. *
Gen. S wayne, of the Alabama
Freed men’s Bureau, alluding in his
circular to the impression prevailing
among negroes that plantations will be
parceled out among them beginning
next year, tells them they must hope
for nothing of the sort, but must go to
work and behave themselves..
‘%\v. .Southern Enterprise.
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I.UCIUS C. BRYAN, EDITOR.
THOMASVIIiIiB, GA,
WKMKMOAV, SEPT. *7, 1865.
Rays! Rnyfn ! ! ling*!!!
Full value will he paid at the Enterprise
Office for all dean cotton and linen rags. Let
those who wish us to carry on the paper suc
cessfully save and bring us in all the rags
thrown about and waisting on their premises.
We know there is plenty of them if you will
only gather up and send them.
Election Tickets.
Election tickets will be supplied at the
Enterprise Office at SI,OO per hundred. If
our friends in the adjoining counties wish
us to furnish them tickets, let them send
in their orders early accompanied with the
cash.
Election Day.
Next Wednesday is the day of election
for delegates to the State Convention. For
Thomas County there is but one ticket, all
the elements cf opposition having been
harmonized in the meeting on Saturday
last, and the nominees of the County Cons
vention, Messrs, Seward, Alexander and
Mclntyer arc without opposition.
TA EE AIIASSE E FEORIDIA A.
We are gratified to learn that the Talla
hassee Floridian has been turned over by
the Military Authorities, to its former and
proper owners, C. E.. Dyke and Sparhawk.
We are pleased io see also that the Florid- j
ian is hereafter to be a semi-weekly in->
stead of a weekly journal. We wish them
every success.
ADAMS’ EXPRESS.
It will bo gratifying intelligence to our
readers to learn that Adams’ Express line
has again been extended over the Atlantic
& Gulf Hail Road, and that one Messenger
will arrive in Thomasville every Tuesday
and another depart every Wednesday for
Savannah. All packages for the line left
at.the storo of E. Remington .& Son, will
receive prompt attention.
For this information we are Indebted to
Alt’- Janies Russell, the Messenger, who
leaves on next Wednesday on the down
train,
THE MEETING EAST SAT
URDAY.
In accordance with previous notice a
larste audience assembled at the Court
House last Saturday, aud were addressed,
as orators of the day, by Messrs. Alexan
der and Mclntyre. These gentlemen, as
Candidates for the Convention, defined
their positions and set forth what course
they would pursue if elected. B. B.
Moore and S. B. Spencer, E. c qrs., were
also called for and both responded in brief,
but lucid explanation of the opposition
tliev heretofore offered to the election of
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the nominees, and closed by harmonizing
entirely with the Candi lacy of Messrs.
Seward, Alexander and Mclntyre. Mr-
Moore declined before the meeting, bes
coming a candidate —Mr. McDonald re
quested the withdrawal of his name, and
Mr. Mitchell has subsequently written us
a note expressing his thanks for the honor
his friends would confer, but adding that
the condition of his domestic affairs abso
lutely precluded the idea of his serviug,
even if elected to the Convention. The
whole ticket is therefore withdrawn by
the gentlemen who authorized its publica*
tion.
The Meeting was presided over by the
Rev. W. W. Blewett.
Tlie Public Debt.
Thad. Stevens, the Chairman of the
committee of ways and means, of the
late congress, and whose position re>
quired him to be constantly informed
of the true condition of the finances,
■ and the extent of the public debt, in a
1 recent speech at Lancaster, Pa., said
in regard to this subject that the pop
ular estimate of 4,000,000,000 was
far short of the actual amount, and
that one half of this debt bears interest,
and the interest amounts to $120,000,-
000 per annum. He also stated that
the ordinary expenses of the govern*
, ment and the sums required for the
army and navy will swell our annual
j expenditures to $500,000,000. *
i On the 15th inst., a test vote was
taken in the Alabama State Convent
tion, on the question of repudiation of
the State debt, and decided yeas 34
nays ss. This decisive vote will get
i fie the question in Alabama.
Confederate Officers in Me\i
co.
The New York Times city of Mex
ico correspondent notes the presence
in that city, of some forty Confeder
ate officers of different grades, among
whom may be mentioned Gens. Price,
Magruder, Shelby, AYdicox and King.
And the correspondent adds:
They all associate with American j
citizens here who have maintained a
loyal attitude, with the utmost cordi- j
ality, and no bitter virtuperation of the j
Yankee is heard. , ■ .
Many schemes of colonization are
proposed by them, of which, least
memorable i Duke Gwin’s Sonora
project, which came to an untimely
end. Among those now pressed upon j
the attention of the government, and
which is the most feasible and impor
tant, is, that the government should
cede or donate a large tract of land in
the vicinity of Cordova, lor founding
a large colony, if.the donation is ob
tained it is proposed to issue a circular
for general circulation, particularly
throughout the South, under the sig.
nature of Kirby Smith, Price and
gruder, and it is confidently asserted
that this will induce .large numbers,
particularly those who have served un
der these officers, to emigrate from the
Spates, notwithstanding the persistent
refusal of the government of the llnil
ted States to recognize the imperial
government ol Maximilian, the only
government de Jacto existing in the
(ivilized portions ol Mexico. This;
government has very carefully main- j
tained a position of impartial neutrality ;
throughout the late war, and now it j
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declines to accept these propositions |
for various reasons, ipjt the least Ol
.which are, that it might appear to our
government an abandonment of ‘.this
neutral position, by extending too
much protection to disloyal Southern
ers, and also that it might appear to
be preparing for any future emergen*
cy by inducing theinjo'come..
The Christian Soldier.
Nearly, says the writer of a biogra •
pliical sketch of the late Stonewall
Jackson, were these the last words ol
that Christian soldier :
‘■‘Order A. P llill to prepare for ac
tion ! Pass the infantry to the front !<
Tell Major Hawks to send forward
provisions for the min/’ Then his
martial ardor disappeared,‘A smile dif
fused itself over his pale features ;
and he murmured, “Let us cross over
the river and rest under the trees
It was the river of death he was about
to pass ; and soon after uttering these j
words he .expired. ‘ . j
Dt*;tUi Hed ofi .Join* €. € al
bouii.
A correspondent of the St. Louis j
Democrat writes: “A gentleman, who
spent an afternoon with Calhoun at his
chamber in Washigton some time be
fore his death, mentions that, among j
other passages ol Scriptuie discussed
by them, he quoted the precept ol St. ;
peter, ‘Honor ah men/ ‘AY hat, sir!’ Mr.
Calhoun exclaimed, ‘honor all men ! ‘ls
that in the Bible?’ ‘Certainly, sir/
was the reply. iSir/ he said, ‘God does
not require that. Honor all men! \\ hat
the fellow in the white house, and the ;
mass of beings *as I meet every day
ponder in the capitol ? On, 410 ! I
cannot honor them ; God does not
command it/ His friend explained
th?t the passage claimed for every
man, honor as a man, and because he
is a man, until he shall forfeit his
right by crime. ‘Sir/ he replied,
‘that is right ) and Ido honor all men
who deserve it. I honor my slaves who
deserve it; but sueli men as I have
to do with .in Washington, neither
God nor man can honor. ”
“The dying statesman continued in
the same frame of mind to the last,
j Just before the solemn closing scene,
the chaplain of the senate called, and
was announced by a friend. Supposing
him, from his name, to be his con
gressional colleague, Judge Butler,
Mr. Calhoun said, ‘Why did you not
admit him ?’ Being told it was Rev.
Mr. Butler, who felt it his duty to
converse with him- —‘The llev. Mr.
Butler !’ he said ; what does he want l
He, a young man, to call at this time,
I to speak to me on a subject upon
which I have thought all my life J
Tell him he cannot be admitted / ”
Some negro troops in New Orleans
have been sent to prison fer three
months for trespassing cn the city
cars set a part exclusively for the
whites.
The President ami the South.
A Washington correspondent of the
Portland Advertiser says he has there
fore indulged the belief that “Pres*
ident Johnson would ultimately shake
off the trammels of the Republican
party” and ally himself with the Dem
ocracy ; but it grieves him “to be
compelled to say that the indications
are that there is no prospects that
it will be done soon.” The
following, which this disheartened
correspondent relates, seeme to be the
cause of his diminished hopes of seeing
the President restored to the Democrat
ic fold:
A conversation has been detailed
to me, which took place recently at
the White House between President
Johnson and a*gentleman from one of
the Western States, prominent in the
Republican party, which, I hafe
reason to believe, expresses the deten
ruination at which the President has
arrived in his treatment of the South
ern people. At this interview the
President said in substance that he
was satisfied oi the impolicy of making
any further reduction of the army ;
that he doubted the genuineness of
the loyalty professed by a majority of
the people of the South ; that treason
and rebellion there, though crushed
and repressed, still existed; that he
would be glad to restore to the people
of the Sout h all of their political rights
hut that he would not do it until he
was certain they would not abuse the
privilege by the election to office of
Rebels and traitors ; that the recent
elections in Virginia made it quite
clear that the people of that State are
net heartily- ioyal, but . would, if the
opportunity were offered to them,
elect Rebels and traitors to office in
preference to Unionmen ; that as soon
as he is convinced ol the unquestioned
loyalty of any State, he will withdraw
the troops therefrom and allow it the
utmost freedom of election, etc.; but
until he is so convinced, lie intends to
keep the present military force in
each Southern Stare, and to use the
military power in order to prevent the
election of rebels and traitors.
lie said, furthermore, that the.
contingency might arise, nor was it
improvable, when he should feel it to
be his duty to remove the present.
Provisional Governor-, and place tl c
government of those States entirely
under the control of the military
officers in command of /military
departments there, and intimated that
it was with that view that the military
departments had been created. Rut he
said that it depended entirely on the
people of the Soytli themselves
whether he would do that or not ; but
that they .must be made to realize that,
ni person who has been prominently
connected with the robe lion can be
elected to office. If they can only
learn that lesson through the presence
of the military, why they must learn
in that way. Such is the substance
of this remarkable conversation on
the part of the President. 1 give it
with real reluctance, for i have no
doubt that such were the views
expressed:
I'eru.
The Government has received from
tl e Legation of the United States in
Peru copies of two decrees issued, by
the President of that Republic. -The
first closes the port of Islay, Arica,
and the Ray of Quinlice, to merchant
vessels, national as well as foreign.
In order to make effectual the'.res*
ponsibility which any ships may incur
from an infraction of this article, tie.
period of time fixed taking the date
of this decree (the Bth of .June,) is
for all vessels proceeding from ports
in Europe or Asia, or from the United
States of North America, Mexico,
the United States of Columbia and
Venezuela in the Atlantic .0 can five
months.
The second decree is in part that
every person, who without the author
ity and order of legitimate and com
petent authority, shall export guano
from the Chinca Islands, or from any
other deposits of that manure, shall
be considered as a robber of the pub”
lie wealth, and offender against the
rights ot the consignees and all the
creditors who have on the guano a pos
itive guaranty for the fulfilment of
their contracts, and the discharge of
their credits, ana will be prosecuted
and punished with severity, agreeably
to the laws 9!’ the Republic aud of
universal right.
Gen. John C. Breckenridge arrived
- cbec last week from Liverpool.
Bureau of CcuOederate Ar
chives.
New York, Sept. 10. — The Times’
Washington special says -the Bureau
of Confederate arehiews under charge
of that well known scholar and writer,
Dr. Francis Lirbet, is now finally or’
ganized and at w T ork on examination
and classifications of 500 boxes of ar*
chives of the late Confederate govern
ment. These documents relate to ev
ery department of the war. and cov
ers the larger part of its civil and mil”
itary history. Their classifications
and compilation by such an able and
discriminating gentleman as Dr. Lir*-
bet, will put the history of the Con
federacy in a correct light before the
public. The title of the bureau has
been changed, and it is now called the
archive office of the war department,,
and it will he the custodian of an im
mense portion of the archives of the
war which have been forwarded to’
the department. There arc now de
posited in the department the histo
ries of nine or ten army corps, as filed
by their adjutant generals. The ar
chives now occupy spacious rooms on
Bth street, while waiting the prepara
tion of Ford’s theatre which will be in
readiness about January Ist,
In addition to these archives there
will be deposited there about TOO cap*
tiircd flags and numerous other troph
ies, which'will render it the historical
memorandum of the war.
Number of Xcjfro Troops Mus
tered iaito Service.
New y< rk, Sept. 20.-— The ihr
aid s “Washington special, dated Sept.
19, ; ays the whole number of negro
troops mustered into service since thu
commencement of the war, is in round
numbers, 180,000. The deaths aud
casualties, among them greatly exceed
ed the proportion among the whites,
and amounted to over 50,000. Sixty
thousand of the remaining 180,00(1
have lately been ordered to be mus
tered out in the several departments.
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A Hovel Duel.
A .quarrel took place about some
trifle between Sir Edward K ,
an English gentleman,very well known
in Fans, ami another sportsman, not
less .famous, the Baron R* —. The
seconds had in vain endeavored to re
concile them, and it w: s necessary to
have r.( course to arms ; but, as both
the principals were first rate shuts and
swordsmen; it was. agreed that rtlnv
should;tigl t with cigars. Two cigars,
similar in every external respect, hup
one of them prepared in such a ‘man
ner that it should explode and prove
fiiortal to the smoker, were plaued om
a table. The combatants drew lots
for the first choice! I lie novel wea
pons of war were then, lighted, and:
alter a few puffs an explosion took
place, and S r Edward foil cn his hack.
He, however, immediately got up, and
was surrounded by his seconds ; while
his adversary offered him his hand.—
“Gentlemen,” then said one of the
seconds, “you have both of you shown
the greatest courage, since you were
both ignorant of the effects of the ex
plosion, Mr. 11- - - (the other sec.
end) and I agreed to put only a little
gun cotton in one of the cigars, and
now let us to dinner.” May such he
the end of every diel. The meeting
is said to heve taken place on the
.Belgian frontier.- — Galignnni.
The pointed manner in which the
President of the United States
sustained Governor Sharkey, in his.
late contest with the military authror.,
ities of Mississippi, has been a matter
for congratulation among the advocates
of the establishment cf civil law,
wherever the facts became known,
throughout the land. It established
the fact that the executive desirsd the
complete restoration of civil power,
and would sustain it at all times, ag’
ainst military rule, even in ihe States
lately in arms against the government.
Sympathy for Mr. Jell; Davis.
A petition has been got up in Tex”
as requesting the venerable ex-Gov
ernor Burnett to proceed to Washings
ton to intercede with President John
son in behalf of Mr. Davis. It is
signed by the oldest and most expe
rienced men of that State, having
among its numbers those who were in
the Texas Convention of 1834 and
1836; men who fought at San
to, and other famous battles, and one
among the number was a colonist who
went out under Austin. The cx-Gov*
ernor has consented, and will. prooeed
I at an early moment to Washington.