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LUCIUS C BRYAN, Editor & Proprietor. VOL. V. CJjt Santera Enterprise Thomas vilie, Georgia- WUp-VKSDAV, OCT’K. 11, 1863. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. .- ■ -o • Tht “BoOTHRm ivvnui'rriisK’’G jnibli'aa •d at Foru L*r llac* per aunuta, ii .aotakci. ‘• —* o— : . ADVERTISING TEB.M3.* •AuvwttTiitAiKNTs will be inserted.lor one 4oilar par tiqu&re of- tweivo liaefl or for each lusertiua. F.roiii this nUV& dist. coaat of TW*TT-riVB percent will be made iur ftdvtnUtneiUri ii*t*;• i for three taunt tit or tinder sis months, andrirtrrper for twelve month* or- more* Ail ad vertiaemeiit* sent ‘to the offtce must be marked with ti, number of insertion* de .i-jd or i lie t’o 8* published, and in •W7 J a *RCeaccompanied withs he.nmount’ required lor payment..’ M.-irringes and deaths wtU hereafter He charged for as ad V9rtigemtsti.lt* Special or editorial notices will be published and charged \t double the nbov-e rates. Payments must .be made •ill •current- funds. Remittances cuay be *n ale by jvx pieas at our risk - All* others ranst be- at .the risk of Those making the same. Subacri!:-?r.H hame s will be dho red .from the list at the end of the term which- the subscription has been paid: un is:*?-'* renewed.* Ad corn muni cations should <*e addressed to ‘l*rovrist<ir. Southern Erttr* f p k(imaMtUe Georgia. * • o • . • ‘‘Brick** S*ojncry oh .7lusoni ” ‘‘Biittk 11 Pomeroy, of the La Crosse ! {VVis.7 Democrat-, gires the following an *hi* experiment in get tin# rnttsquj f h-a itir >xi.rnt *. .. “Josh Bikings’’ | can’t beat.it * . * * MCSQCITOI* Q 0 a BENDKrt'.- . 1 Night before last, in order to sleep, we pieced a piece .of raw beefsteak oh a plpte at the head of ‘ our bed. In tlie morjil ng if -.dflto by-the m usq u itor**l mucked ;t* dry of . blM*<i .qs • an- old j epuntfiPv :;iud pur skin *aved at least I tvru thoueandH perluratione. All arbout ike* room- is the morning were niusquii too% plethoric with blood. 1 haded Until they could 11.0 L fly. .\\ o’ killed a lew, but the job. was too sanguinary, so we loft them to their feast. Last uight ,* in order to get even with ike. fie re n ■ defils.* wo steeped half a I outtd of fresh beef steak’ in -some’ old ry*. whiskey and left it on a plate * ear the bed. Nothing* like “being j hospitably inclined*. * In ten minuses ai’ter the light was extinguished a swarm f these, back'biting bilhpotjfc cfs made an advance movement. One of. them caress* and us sweetly on the! .nose—i e sen in his bill—there #aa a | slap-T-a diluted damn—a dead nius* | quite ! Soon we -heard a tremendous I bussing about the whiskey soaked | beef. The entire- mosquito family ! came singing is, .and such a’ opera— I good Lord deliver-us ! But they did] not disturb us with bites—we fell asiee-p to* be awakened in. ten .minutes by the worst mosquito concert ever ed i'tdr, mortal, devd,- ang 1, divine,.dutch man or anv other man listened to. We raised a light and the greatest show of the season was there to be seen. Ev. j . orv inusquito was drunk as a blind fid- i •dlcr, and such an uproarious night as .the long.-billed wnelps had, never was*! seen this side of —tektk / The worst antics ! Some were playing circus on the plate. One big fellow, with a bel ly like Falstsff, full of blood and j key, was dancing juba on the bibic, , while a fat friend of his tribe lay on her back beating the devil’s dream on an invisible tamborine with one hind leg ! Two id ore were wrestling on the foot board ot the bed, each with his bill stuck fast in the timber. An other wos tying the legs of our pants into a bow knot to tie about the neck j of Anna Dickinson, which hangs ag* ainsfc the wash stand, while another red*stomached customer was trying to j iland on hie head in the wash bowl. All o” “ the room were drunken aaaaquifc’ .ong bill, gaunt re* THOMAS'VILLE. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11,1865. j presentative was trying to ram the mm j cilagc bottle full of newspaper dip-’ | pingo. Another eltap wss drilling a j hole through a revolver handle,-and | singing ‘“My Mary Ann,” #hile anoth* ’ er was limping across the wtedew sill !* in scar it of*fresh air, to the a ionising I tune of. tramp, trail..:•,’* trump ! One I little ram* of a ekeet was trying to jam ‘"the cock out of ‘< *ep Butler’s eye with f.a tooth brush, as his nieture. hung be- I *ide tfiat of Kidd, ihe pirate, and a j few .other thieves..* Another drunken i statesman of the tousquito family Hb minding us .of Zaeh *Oh -n. f !cr, was talking *Ru>sian*'to a ,’loi iif'druu ken companions as they lay in -i hey.p* ‘on a plate, while an other, tme sat *.m’ the handle ofay bowks knife, doubled | up with a c*;auip in the stomach, and i trying to unite his tail with his bi 1.1, | widen seemed hkc Lincoln’s back bone j when Anna Dickinson .said it wanted • stiffening. . He was a Stele- looking skeeter, and died within three .minutes after we fiaw hitu. her .or ft as the case in ay be. Twp others took a bath in * the- inkstand.. Another one With a bill like ‘the .devil’s mirrafivo j was Irving to. wind our watch with, a I pen wiper, while, another had just Lied as he was sitting on the run. of a dish in the room, trying to chant —“Moth- er I;v.e come home to die i” Boor skeeter. ‘ • ‘., A nice skeeter,: but ‘Tw.m's a pitv ho d.rsnk,'” an old veteran, with- a paunch full.of ’alf. and huf— blood *. and \vbis- i key —mt oft the table'reading-. Lea” Miserabl.es, while his wife was irndcr the rtovc’ trying to mend hers broken wingwit-h -a iimpdey tou*: h • pick. .S: iff. looked disgusted 1 Another o o cofre^ bed his hai-r avitl). a paper of pins, tie< i a.piuie''M whins paper ahoat iiis*heckl * pasted A five . cent • ioal roVernjp starn.T; oft* bis rumT), at fi died Lke a , *. ‘ . 0 loyal citizen'.. llis*lasi words were : • ‘. tho traitors nil arourk! yo'ij,” etc*.’ Another drunken scamp has us’r started’ out of the window for John 13 G'ough, or a stomach pu'mp.’ A worse’ bdiavcd yc*fc of bummers ‘we never saw. They have acted fearful.. About fwfo* thousand *iic* about* dead, but sadur.ss seemed not i;o break, in upon heir hilarious rioting upon blood and*whiskey. . Half a dozen of'them sat on our n.ew hat playiug draw .po ker, using worm lozenges for cheeks, white one of the party got- clean-bus-, ted by making a fifty do!la r blind good os a four flush, which did’nt fill 1 He wilt be apt to* wear cotton goehs next winter, and to keep church collection-days.’ Another sat oti top •of a'brandy- bottle, reading Baxter's call to the unconverted, while his part n r lies dead at his feet, evidently for* - ced to * close doors by the failure of Ketch urn At Son of New -York ! • Six J others were ttying to hang oiie that) looks like.a copperhead-to the coiner df i a match box, but- as they were drunk j aud he ?ober it is not safe to .- befc on 1 his being dangled. They have eatun the beef, drank the blood and whiskey, ! drilled the plate full of holes, and on I the centre table organized a Son of- Malta lodge, using a five cent shin? plaster for a blanket in the act euti-** tied “The elevation of Man.”’ * Another red bellied leader of the. Miss Reeter family had a battalion of drunken bummers on the edge of a spittoon watching him jam a fur over-’ j coat into his left ear. He was foolish \, foolish enough for a Brigadier Gen'* j eral or a member of Congress. A lit tle cuss with black legs, crimson stomach and double jointed bill, was ’ vomit.ng in a satin slipper, while his t wife, a sickly looking lady of her tribe ! was gnawing at the bed post, thinking ‘ it a bologna. Another one, evidently an old maid, sat under the sofa milk** ing the cat. while her sister was crow, ding a pair of woolen drawers into her waterfall, singing in a subdued strain : | “Oms rest is tbit Ixmoe& I” j Congressionail Admissions* ‘ j (The W ashington Ciironieie, •which i is .considered the home mouth piece of j the administration, has . commenced 1 -peaking ab.o*ut what it will be neces** ! lor States to do in order to* have ; their Con .res-ionai delegates admitted jto Congres *. Here is what the-Caron ! ici-e says on -the matter . • In order to illa.-trato-whit wifi c*a [tainly be required * by Congress be- J jure admitting a sccecfed State in full I dmi-n union, w-c wiil take the example I& • , 1 • o . * O i or Pcnnsvan:a,* bordering •o three ! Slave States which formed its -South fern bouiidaiy The act. of* 178-0 for .Jthe gradual* abolition o% slavery, ex . this instifution twenty yeafs ago and cot even a]single slave appears m the Constitutions of 1850 and 1860. Somerset’s case is the ret* *’:.z< d’ and established law of Penii. ) lvania. By the amended Constitu. j non of 1888, ohly “white freemen with i the requisite qualifications arc,entitled j to vote and enjoy ,the right of electors Colond eitrxens -do not hold public * Ificea, Whetner executive, legislative, jor judidbl; uo.r do they sit uco ’ ju- Jjries.; but in* all. other-respects •'are 00 h par with their wi.*ft.e-fellow-’ eii'ize. ;A . the three- great cardinal rights oY . .e. liberty and property, .and'are-governed by the same-criminal and civil - laws, which know no ‘ dis* tinctiou of color or race. *.- • This is-’ clearly.the ‘policy of’ den* ‘gftess as evidenced in iheir legislation lor th( . fret .of. Colamhia, in sub* I'-cting persons of ’ color .to the same law as win •* persons and. no other, and -in .via.* • lit g that there shall• ho j i no excluMoh . from* the rail ’ road ca a, Rfl * account of color. In the courts of the United Stale- sit-: and. dispensing jiisacc ia • very Ablate of* the u nioo, there is uo exclu*- skm of witnesses oai accoant or color, -and color Is no disqualification from einployme-ht in carry pg the mails. — In Pennsylvania the -C&rrstiaß iustitu.-- .tion i.;f liivirrvage ctis-Lf in all its force with the colojed- race'.* and adul-en and forriiet.fciori, whether’ with whites *>f peisous of ci-lor, are punishable b\ avf. * The father not the mother, has the guat’dainshipy education and main tatnance of. his children, and tbe hus'- ‘•batid taanot.be torn from his wife .and 1 -hsidren. They have common schools . like the whites, -and aj*e tcugni to • read the Bible unexpurgated by- slave .ow ners or', their divines. There is no patrol system-r-uo • black • code—-but only one system .< f laws,* governing alike whites and blacks, without'the slightest distinction arising from color. They are on a perfect equality as to rig hts with the great .body of the £n gli>ii people. .All laws, therefore, in’ the Southern States recognizing any. distinction between the two ‘ races as to the three great rights- of life, lib erty and property, must be repealed j forthwith, and. t he’ means of- educat on 1 must be given to them. They are do* j | ciio and willing to learn, and it i& the’ duty of the .National Government to j see that those who fought u.nder the old flag* fo.r the Union and for the free do® of -their, race, should have the ! benefits of education and ehr stiai ity extended without stint to them arid to the w!*oie of our colored population. • ’ Taking .RHiisre Be lit nil -Hi 5 Atqrro. • • • The* Tribune says this wais not’ a white man’s Government during the last three years, when it found refuge against white traitors behind two hun dred thousand black bayonets.” o * * 0 • It is possi’ le that the readers Os the Unbone may* be imposed on by such twaddle as- this ; but to the seu~ sible and intelligent community at large, it is sheer nonsense 1 . Nor is that ail. It is insulting to all parties in this great c- untry. Four-fifths ot the people, Republicans as well as Democrats, opposed the employment of negTO soldiers. The oily men who found refuge behind the ‘ armed negro were the ultra Abolitionists. A Slight Mistake; • Some men mike fortunes by dint-of energetic perseverance and.economy, -son e become wealthy* by inheritance, .while others marry, rich- The latter is decidedly preferable to*, sooie when the lady is amiable, pretty and intel lectual. So thought the young- mail success,- or want of success, in ‘this line we chronicle : * . . During the course of -the war a citi zen-of Deleware saw ind- admired a -.amscl; who had left the South, alien ated from her father’s-roof, on account of .her “Union sentiments,”• as she stated, said father being a wealthy res ident of Staunton, lie sympathized, with her in her exile ic r : opinion’s sake, and, with the attraction ot mon ey ahead, courted and married hgr. The war having ceased, a few days since he arrived in Staunton, and re's paired to the parental domicil to make Himself known as- the soh-in-law, and to get a-share of the father's wealth fhis .right) in hand.- . . . = . Reader, we ‘ leave you to- imagine his chagrin, when he was Infornud that instead of his being the son in law hi§ wife .was’ of negro extraction, and had only been the lormer servant • of. the gentleman, and that, his exper iment in the marrying line had result ed in practical In scegenation -instead . of a * fortune. • He- left these- parts suddenly, a sadder, .but’ doubtless a wiser nan -—Staunton Va. Vindica,'- tor . ‘ . • • . * . The ‘ late ‘ tornado . -in Minnesota kiekt-d up florae* queer pranks. It. blew eight oxeit over a liver . eight bun area \ aids wide. Tc took aft the .water out of *a pond, -carried it a ruile, ana then set it down on Major Doran’s farm ia the shape erf a small lake. • It blew a mans bcota off. Auother dia.n’s coat was not only blown abort,, bat ‘actually buttoned from top to bolt mu One old lady went up like & bailoon, was carried two and a half miles, and was finally landed astride a telegraph wire, where she was found bv her grandson and relieved by a lad> der. and udge Morgan says the wind not only -carried off his dwelling bouse ‘but his sub*cellar, and two wells.— Bome tornado that ! . c ■ ■■ *-*^- c Alabama and South Carolina. President Johnson has been advised by telegraph, that the • Alabama con vention, by a vote of- 60 to* 19, had qjassed an ordinance declaring all debts created by the late war; either direct j ly or .indirectly, as void, and that.the I general assembly of the State shall have no authority, and are forbidden to ratify the same.or assume to provide , for the payment ot the same, or ar y part’ thereof, and ihe general assembly of tLe State, shall have no authority, and are forbidden . to assume, or make any proposition, tor the .payment ot any portion of the debts contracted or incurred; directly pr indirectly, bv Confederate Stales agents or Confedk crate States authority. “The convens tioo has also decided, by a vote of 61 to 25, to submit the amendments to the constitution io the popular vote. ‘ From South Carolina, the chairman telegraphs to Washington that the* convention adjourned, after a most har mofiious and unanimous session of sis% teen dajs. They repealed the ordi nance of secession; also abolished ! slavery, and equalized the representas ■ tion of senators and taxation through- I out-the State* of’ gevenor and to the people, and voting in by viva vice, and endorsed the adminis tration unanimously. Popular elec tion is anew feature in ths history of South Carolina politics. In six years there has eleven revolutions in Hayti—the* negro re** public. Somehow the darks never get their political rights fixed exactly right- TERMS $4,00 A Year, in Advance. ; Russia^—lmmense touila;t a> j. lions. A communication from ist. Peters'* ‘ burg, dated. Aug.’ 20,. says • . •I he Russian journals continue, to .-announce .conflagrations which deso* late the whole extent of the empire. Ihe population are almost always • warned, beforehand, that on a certain day the town or village which they in. habit will be set on tire .if a certain sum •of money be not deposited at a - stated-place. ‘The threat. lardy finis to .be executed. Kremeiuchoiur. :l town in the'sou h of Russia, has . had to - contend against twenty tires i a . short space .of tithe. • The inhabitants after removing all- maveab es from • their houses, which are built of wood,, have-, left the town pariioNstricketi, and’ . have ‘encamped in .the- tow-U of Orel, letters nave been receiv*- ed imperiously. demanding that cer*. ; tatti citizens, : mentioned by name should .deposit a sum of money in a particular place, and threatening that in case of refusal their houses would •he burned. • Moreover; a proprietor residing at Orel received notice that he must not rely upon any assistance . i-rom the citizens, since all. the : men belonging to the tire brigade. had been ordered,, under pain of death, not to . attempt to subdue the flames. Thank* to the energetic measures of the in'* habita ts of Orel, these threats-have, not been carried out: The.police have . been most active in their efforts to Cis coves the authors of the outrage, hut had not-yet succeeded in elucidating the afl’air, notwithstanding that they, have airested several.individuals arm* ed with revolvers and provided with, inflammable, material.” - In the villa-.-©’ MpoastryskaSloboda a sum of money ‘ was deniiUdeo of the inhabitants, and this'demand dot being complied with the -village was set on Are, and in f art ‘ I destroyed, notwithstanding .the extrc.4 - j ordinary precautions taken by the in* I habitants. A large number of towns j and villages have become a prey tothe j flames under similar .circumstances. It j is also announced- that.'a large-portion lof the Resienie, chief . town of thu district of that name. • Ims been ties* troyed .by fire. Upward of two bun died houses, the town hall> the syna agogue, the public Gourt add two churches were reduced to ashes. Tho rn an u factory of fire arms .at Tiowski. has been lurned.down, Letters from Leniburg, Gallaeia, state that scarcely a day passed without a . fire taking p'acc in some town or village .in Galla cia. Both the Christian, and Jewish populate n were taking refuge in the fields. The Czar announces the burns ing. on the. .Is.th of Au ust of a sugar, refinery in the village of Leonon, di*. tr.ict Woclawck. ’ It was. the property of*the banker Goldstant, of-Warsaw,, and; is the third'sugar refinery recent’ ly. des royed in the kingdom .of Pot , land. The less is-calculated at” .2,000,’ OOOfl. The official journal of Warsaw • publishes intelligence of the burning of a village” called’ -Solencin, in the district of Ostralescka. • Ail the; buiL dings of a farm, four hundred and fifty sheep,-the principal part- oi the year’s crops, and the agricultural “im* plements, all fell a prey to the-flamea- Two hundred houses of the- town of. Sfedlee have also been burned down. ’ It is stated, as anew discovery,.that wonderful effects may be obtained by watering • fruit. trees and vegetables with a solution of sulphate of iron.~ Under this system beans will grow to nearly double the size, and will acqui re a much more savory tasie. The pear seems to be • particularly well adapted to this treatment. Old nails thrown into water, and .left to rust there will impart toil all the neeessa* ry qualifies for forcing vegetation ae. described. Great encouragement this, to place the political power of tbs South in the 1 hand aof r he negro. NO. 15.