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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boasts of twenty-five to thirty millions sur plus coin, which, if two hundred mil lions of legal tenders were withdrawn from circulation, would form -a basis for the redemption of the balance that would be almost sure to be permanent.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. - .4 ■ infill Disaster oil the Paeit- j ic Coast „ j 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. —.—. . - 4 ♦♦ ——— 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. „ - * • ♦- ►— —— — ■ 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 . .. 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 ©. . • 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. -—-!•- • - 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.