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LUCIUS c. BRYAN, Editor & Proprietor. VOL. V. <Tj)f Simtjimt (Enterprise. ‘ • -•* ♦ ♦ Thomasville. Georgia . * • • <►. ••’ —— BMniM W’OCIT'K. 4 , 1H65. SU BSC R 1 PTI ON TIIR Ms, •’..• o • • • The'-'S.H’Tn! i:>• BstbrMlME” is publiah d’ weekly ;.it EpV u DoLLAB&. per annum, strictly in auvanck. AT >\'| Utl'lSiNO tkums; ‘ Anv kl; iskmknts will be inserted for one [■ dollar pjf square of twelve lines or less •for eac.h insertion. • From this rate.adis • count of rwiVTl-fiTl per cent will be made lor’ advertisements - inserted for three. , * months'or under six months; :ind fifty per cent for twelve months or more. .All ad.** ■ ‘vertisetments sent to the office .must be • muri cjl with the number of insertions de-. .sired or (lie period to be published, arid in rvcryinstance accompanied with the amount required • for payment. Marriages and deal iis.will hereafter be charged for as ad vert iseiuents. Special or editorial notices • wilt be published and charged at double the -above rates. Payments must be made .in current funds. Remittances may be • iji(ie'by.Express at ottr risk All others . must bfc .at the .nek of. those ranking the S mic: Subscribers harries will bedroped from, the list at the-, end of the term for which’ the subscription has been paid, iin 'lfisa renewed'. All communications should be addressed-to Proprietor Southern Enter priHc,. ThomaaviUt “Georgia. • ... ‘■ jroit THU EMTEUTIiISK.] . . . ‘ “CUBES*”/ “ . \ I) picking .up a few “chips” to • liel keep an the steam-of voiir mer\ “Hhccii .Mr Editor, I'liave’ found some •of good- bard \Yood, others of rather ; soft and • arm:is material, and yet oth ers of tolerably .fair /kijvdlrijg wood.’ But hereisone of the fattest kort * of . light wood ‘.• .. • . . : ’ . •A’ v. ung mania Mississippi, makes Vprdiuauon to the Circuit Court for li ■ to •’ ill el and practice law, in-the ■* n ; ‘ t -il'Courts in that State. A com-’ tiiitteciff • pointed to ; examine the Candidate,- whose' n£<ii#.'.is Jefferson KiiowJy, bur Called For-short. Jeff. ‘The committee talr.e. J.efiV with. them, during’ the TCi of Cne ’ Court, into an evacuated • gr’oeefy.. ’ The examiners take their seats on the counter, and the exami nee on.a.i empty-whiskey barrel. and commence their ‘specially searching’ -examination': •••,'. • • “Mr.. Knowly what is a chose ‘in’ •. action ?'’ . ‘ * * . .“A eimsen action, eh ?•—yes—rex actly—j ustiso- —a chose fraction ? why’ u chosen action is where a man’s got ■a right to fetch two or three actions, a: l fie'.he chuses one of them which h’e wiii fetch—the one that’s chusc. is the.chosen action; that’s easy, squire.” “Well! what is a , chose in posses’ sion •/’’• ‘ i•• •* - “A chosen possession ? A .chosen possession ? yes—exactly--jess so,- ahem. * Why, squire, if a mam has’ • two. possessions to be chose, which he is to chuse as a gurdeen which the es-, tate have not- been divided, and they -come to a divide of it in lots which’ •the. commissioners has set aside and. .prized!, and he chuses one of them possessions, which one he chuses . that is the chosen possession. That aint ; hard, neither.” . • -. •‘/Mr- Knowly, how many fees arc there !” ‘ ’ “ “How many fees ? why squire there .are several; doctor’s fees, lawyer's fees, sheriffs’ fees, jailor’s fees, clerk fees, and a. most every body else’s.” ‘ . ; .“What is the difference between a ffc simple and a contingent fee ?” • ‘ ‘•The difference between—yes —ex* actly —jess so. Why squire a simple fee ds when a client gives a lawyer so much .any how, let it go how it will ; and a contingent fee is when he takes •it on sheers, and no cure no pay.” ” “What are the marital rights of a ’ husband at common law ?” “The martal rights ! concerning of ~what, squire ?’ “Her property V THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTORER 4, 1865. “Oh ‘! that—why, yes= —-jes% so — why, squire he gets her track, i e. .if he can, without committing a tiv ; as ; what’s hers is his’n, and what’s his-’h is his own. Squire, 1 knowed that be fore I ever opened a law book “Is the wire entitled to dower in the husband s lands, if she survives him V* “Oh,* yes squire; in course ; I vj. seen that tried in Alabama ; that, i:, squire, you understand, if the estate is solvent to pay its debts..’ ‘ “Suppose the husband’s estate is insolvent, what then ?” • . • “Why, then, in course not-.” • “Why not.” • “Whynot ? why, squire, it stand - to- reason- n for ‘i hen you see, trio bus-* hand .might gather, a whole heap of land, and then just fraudulently die to give bin wile dower rights -to hi£. land. .1 jest know pleqrty of i ab nt bore mean enough to do it. ajud jump at the chance ’ * ‘lias a’ man a m.’f-ural j. ht :tp pose of hjs property by will-?’/ “Why, now squire, cuncomHg < : f tha-;,.my mind alnt sq dare on to:.', er *pint*-r-it trikes nie sorter-v; something about a cow laying, or should have 4aid doda in a • p]hc which she had- a’ light, an i ‘an trier cow c beast nor airy: another having no rights to-disturb her; aint that k squire f” ‘ .“Au[ pose, Mr. K.. a tenant for kfe { should hold ever alter the'teniiiimtipir, ■of lifs estate,what kind of an act-ion, would you bring against him ?” . ‘ ’ • “T shant. i ’■.r ’ life --hold —terminus . tion of state f joss so, squire, and tl most iami-ri, i ri Licliff.ru 4uVsth& time : ■ Blackyto-iio's.nyl'. s >/-;.r’ {har. “Air. K*. if-a-man vv'a.T-i toj.-f li • property injti - family, how far can he make it descend to li-is ciii!d v e:i and grandchildren V- • ‘ . “Why as to that,, squire, some* Yul: ‘ about .ajl the caudles burning • .but, squire £ never could understand v. hat candles had’to do with it.’’ ‘ • “What is an estate fail female, con-’ tingerit ’on the happening of a past event limited by con tin-gen devise to the children ,0f gfantm s after poss biJ ity of issue extinct, considered With .the. statute de (lon is ?” ’ • ‘ “Squire,-the devil himself coidd’nt answer that, and .1 reckon. He is as smart as any other lawyer ; but I reck .on it ivS —— ’ •“Air. K. what is the distinction bei tw.een Law and Equity ?” • “'.Why squire, law is as it happens, cording to-proof, and the wav the jury goes ; ‘ equity is jestiss, and- a man mav git a- devilish - sight of law, and git mighty little jestiss.”’ •‘Docs’ Equity ever interfere with Law r ; “Not that 1 ever seed,’squire.” “Whose son is a bastard considered in law • . • . ’ • “Squire that’s further than I’ve ! got. I’ve gioerally seed. that it was •laid to .the in the settles nient best able to pay over its- maiu t-ainance ; and I suppose it would be his son in law.” • “What is a libel ?” ‘ • “Why squire, if a man gits another in a room, and locks the door on him and makes him sign a paper certifying he’s told a lie ui him, the paper is a lie-bill ” ’ . ‘ ’ “What •is the difference between trespass and case r” “Why squire, trespass are when a man trespasses on another. Now squire your putting so many hard questions to me, tlfat is a trespass .” “Yes, and if the fellow can’t answer a single one, 1 should say he was a case.” And then the examination closed, and Jeff, was not admitted to pled and practice law in the Courts of Mississ^ ippi- ; A distinguished Georgia lawyer says that in his younger days, he taught a ’ boy’s school, and requiring the pupils ; to write compositions, he sometimes | : received some of a pecttliir sort, of i I which the following’ is a specimen : . • • Q.\ ‘lndustry'. . • It- its bad for, a man to be idol. 1m i dirstry is the best’ thing a man can have, and a wife is the- . Proph ets and kings desired -it died without the ofte. . The crui. . ‘ Here is another: . . . On the Sr.usoxs.- ‘ Tl\ere'arc’ tour seasons. spring,‘sum-’ mor.'nulir/Mi and .winter,. They’, are .all pleasant, Soiqe people- may like spring best.; but as for . me, give nic - liberty or-give me death. The end. .Here is a specimen of the condst: in epistolary composition.; . • ‘ ‘'•-“DearjNephew : . • *. • ♦ •* . ‘ /©• 1 ; : W : ■’ ?-'A io winch the nephew replied by return mail : - .’ ‘ “Head Undo :’ •. ‘ © v * . * • ‘The long of this .short was I ,'that the unde wrote to his .-nephew*. “rtc.my i4al on”> which ‘a se-mh-qp- Q.n ex pressed ; and the youngster, ip harmed nis -tindo'that the:-coal was shinped, by: I laying- cvjS'on. _ Iu divine-advice to young ladies*m the choice of a ‘husband; a modern ’ wri-ter'utters the following oracles : ’ • • “The who does not t'akc tea, nut takes strut?,-‘and stands with ‘Lis hack to .the tire r is a brute whom I Would irot ‘advise.'vou,'. mv dears, to • /’ *’ . marry upon any •(•or.side*af.iori> either. • lor.love or-nmney—but'd-ecidcdl y not-. Hr But the'man, who,- when the tea is cvc-r;is discovered: toy-have had hone, i£ sure to make..the best bus band-, i alienee, like liis, deserves to be rewarded with the best c’f wives and , •ti e'.best.of mothers.in dauL My dears When .you meat with such a mat), do your utmost to marry, him. Tn the se verest winter he would not mind ing to bed firsL\ ;.-: • ’. -- •. • p- ~ *• ■+> m BFesai'y; A* Wise 2sfs I*©- . ;.sißoa. • . * 0 • ‘ Our’ readers will- remember that Gen. Wise recently made application to Gen.'Terry'for perm.ssion to return to his home, in I'nncfss Anne county,, as. under the terms of iris parole.. Gen’. Terry (through Gen. Mann) refused, for specified reasons. . U,nder ’ date of ‘September 1, Gen.; Wise.- has written a letter to ‘ Gyri. A’. ant,-forwarded through Gen. Terry, ’ c m/ ‘ from which we make extracts. • He re plies in succession to the points made in the letter of refusal, and. after de> blarihg that hip-never “abandoned his home’.’ except in going -to camp to d-e**- fend.it against'invasion, with the full determination to return -to it as soon as the chahc'es -of war should .permit,'he says : ‘“I found no new home for my family ; they are simply'refugees from the old;’ He then writes as follows If Gen, Terry was governed by ear- ’ nest and honest c.onvicfcions pf duty, of right and-authority in-'all he did — so was'l. If he gave proofbf his votion--so did I. If-lie thought’ he had the shield- of constitutional law and pclitical- sovereignty to protect him* against- the charge of rebellion ‘find treason —so I thought I” had. If die loved.and cherished the Union of these Slates-, I loved and- cherished it so cordially that I never, from choice, would have seceded from it, ‘but pre ferred to fight “in the .Union •” and .if lie wondered how I can truly declare these sentiments, after voting for se* cession, and taking up arms against the acts of the Federal executive and congress, I must beg him to remem ber that he and I .have been taught in different schools of politics ; and 1 that will account for our differences of .opinion, and wight to'allow-a large mi rgin for charity, at least, if not tol eration . If lie was’ trained in the school of Hamilton and the elder Adams,'l was in that of Jeffers oh and Madison ; and he would .boldly expose himself to the- charge and bigotry and presumption, who would charge either school with . teaching rebellion and treason. • It is. dangerous . too,, either” .to adopt-the dogmas of treason and r<S hellion against the other,-alterating in domination as they have done so olfen already” in our history. Each might shoot and bang; the’ other by-turns in the-course-"of half a century. •• •. If Cqa.• Tet'iy believed in conso-L. ■ elation, I believed in- State Kights and powers. if he believed fhatthe Fed eral ‘Executive -and Congress, and the Judiciary; Possessed absolute, 1 believ ed’they ha-d only relative and delega ted- sovereignty. If he believed that they were unchecked and u'nbalhvnecd •by other “powers-, I believed that the whole’ system of the TJ.ni.tcd Stales.- • State and- Federal, was composed of reciprocal check's and balances, and that the sovG^gn*States’ were theba sis checks ana balance of the Federal’ government. I; was taught, that the ‘States was -not tinum -but e plur’ibus nri inii,’ i\iy<] this ‘ many in one, one in manij. When’ called “a rebel, J shall point -to the - -of Virginia’s buck ler, and claim that my sovereign State ‘is sole sponsor for the acts'of her own citizens a-hd subjects.” I'am no.rebel of traitor, and never was,-and my St.ate-cahnof-.be- either, -She has- still a sovereignty by the', constitution of the-United States, and by the original , ‘■authority before-it ever existed, unless ’ she is how utterly demolished fey sub '•jug'atiou, and unless* that .is “destroy*'.'!- by.any force which has demolished, her.. • ; . “ Thesc ‘are still tile- tenets'of my faith,--and I -believe these truths wili - -perpetually revive and prevail to pre serve the” republican freedom of* the United States. VYhen- the-vivil.liber ty. for which .1 dev.outlv. pray • really comes'again, I can without hindrance, .fall on. the bosom, of my country and weep, with’ her.“for - any wrongs we have done// lain now .a prisoner on •parole. I dare'-not now. ask of her any favor:great or small,. 1 claim on.-,. jy her good faith, the precious, privi • lege promised me by her highest a • gents to go home and be at peace. So far trom being • opposed to the name .‘freedmen'/ as indicating the • condition- of slave's freed by the war, the chief.consolation .I. have in the re sult of the war is that slavery is forev*. er abolished ; that not'only the -slaves . are, in fact, freed from bondage, but that I am’ freed from them. . Long.be fore the'war-e.nde.d, I had definitely made'up my mind actively to advocate emancipation throughout the South-’ I had determined, if I could help it, my descendants should never be •subject to the humiliation I have been by. the weakness, if not the .wickedness of .slavery.; and while I ..cannot recognize as lawful and -mane the violent and shocking mode in which it has been abolished, yet I accept the fact most heartily as an ac complished one,’ and am determined not only to abide by it and acquiesce •in it, but to strive by all the means in my power to make it beneficent to both races, and a -blessing especially to our country.. I unfeignedly. rejoice at the act, and am reconciled to many of •the worst -calamities of the war, be cause I‘am now convinced’ the i war Was a special providence of God, unavoidable” by the nations at either • extreme, to tear loose from us a black, idol from which we never could have been- separated by any other means than those of fire and blood, • sword and sacrifice.. • Artemus Ward says : “I have ah ways sustained a good moral ebarac ’ ter. I was never a railroad director in my .life” ‘ . * TERMS $4,00 A Your, in Advance. Gems from Tiuuideiis Stevens Great Npcetli. Thaddeus Stevens, one .of the high .priests of the radical party, ’ lately* made a speech in Lancaster, Fa., from which we cull a few salient points % That the foundations of southern’ institutions political, municipal and. social, must be broken up and'roleid, • or all our blood and treasure has been spent in vain:’ . “; . That this .can only be done by trea ting an-d holding the southerners as a conquered people. * That it is fashionable to belittle the Federal debt,-lest the people should become alarmed,'and political parties should, suffer. . ‘ • That it, is unwise to .deceive the people. ••. That the dear.people can always be trusted- with the truth.’ ’That if. the.people are confided in/ repudiation will’ be avoided ; if hot, the niost disastrous results- may be -looked for.. •; . • •'■.'■ That the interest on the Federal debt will be double that of Great Britain ; and.th&ftithe old cry against the British of .being ground down.and tax ridden, is no longer valid.'. - That ‘ though’ he hears, every where that slavery is 'dead, he cannot learn •who killed it. . .'That no thoughtful man has preten ded that .Lincoln’s proclamation, so ■ noble in’ sentiment, has liberated a sin gle slave. • .’ . “That it’might as well be said that Ger.eßal Smith conquered Canada by a proclamation • •’ ■ \ ‘ ‘ That restoration-will leave the Un ion as-it was—a hideous idea, That-restoration .i-s the'seed of re bellion. • . • That the . theory of restoration will lead'to the .most melancholy'results. • That the Louisiana, Tennessee, Mis sissippr and Arkansas State-govern rnen|s are-mere counterfeits and- pre tences, sure to be disowned by the sqs her sense of .the Southerners if they should unhappily, succeed, in getting re-admitted in the Union. . ... That restoration would, in the next quarter of. a. century, germinate and produce, the same, bloody strife which has j ust ended. ’ That it is far easier and more bene* ficial to exile the proud, bloated, and defiant rebels, than to expatriate 4,000,000 peaceful, industrious labor-* er.s, native to the soil and loyal to the government. .” That when when the. virus of. si a* very has onefe entered .the veins of the slaveholder-no subsequent effort seems capable of eradicating it. • • • Th.at Mr. Johnson will soon, des pite of unfavorable appearances, say to -the accursed - slave drivers < -your time has -come? • *•/. ’ • . ‘ Mr. Stevens’ reputation as a plii” lanthropist and statesman.is too well’ established to require any elucidation. The fact, however, is not bo well that his talents as a political econov, mist and-financier are of quite as high an order. In proof, he .has ransacked all- statistics and reports with the dis criminating eye of ft Ricardo, , and gives as the- result of his researches, the solution of. vexed, social arid po litical problems in this wise : - That the property of-the Confeder ates shall pay our national, debt, and indemnity to freedom and loyal suffer ers. .. ‘ ’ . • That the property of the Confeder** ates fairly divided will just give 40 acres to each one of the colored race, • • _ ’ * * * Governor Perry of South Carolina, has complained to President Johnson of the atrocious conduct of the coU ored troops in that State.. He alleged that they have disgraced the service,, and filled the public mind’with the most horrible apprehensioM. This application for redress to the Presm dent has been successful; they are to be sent on the coast, where they can do no further mischief. NO. 14;