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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE. LUCIUS C. BEYAN, Editor and Proprietor.! Ts ms, $4.00 a year in Advance. f Law and Mudical Carols. BRYAN & HARRIS, IT IOR \ CVS IT LAV*. TUOU.IHVII.I.K, JiA. t&lWtlijE 9 vs 1 £■■■’ t tH: If. L. ■. v’ ■ ... 1 ii IRRIB. ( Mar 14 H-ts ! MITCHELL & MITCHELL. ITTOBM VS %T LAH . TIIO'.IA>\ I i.l El . : : i . ‘.t.iii V ‘"**■< >iti. “Vti- ‘I I.C-... • pi i Mi I vA V-S ’ J \V. D. M’ ft UfcLt.. li. G. MITCHtL*.- .June ‘ f v S B. SPfcNC'6 l F- Hassell. Spencer & Hansell, iTTOIIVr.I.S AT MW, TIIOMABVILLE, GA. Will ji've prompt attention to all legal bo , “near- i'!unified ro their care in the counties of ! the Southern Circuit—Decatur of the South- Western —and Clinch. Ware and Appling of the K-nnswick Circuit. ttgCOFrict ovt-r Messrs. Woltf & Bi-thct'-.s , fit ore. july 4-1/ W I II U K-. ‘ A M.U Ai;i). HAYES & SEWARD, ATTORIVKYB AT 1-AtV. THOMA'-VILLE, : . : ‘ CEOUCJA. : aim 8 Cm C. C. RICHARDSON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, -r(o*f inii.i.k, in. dune t Sd-tf ,J. It. It,-iit . I, U.F. Di W ilt U. . Ifrs. Ri:ll> A Dt'WITT, o .... i- f-i s /An s c iy> A _ _ j h,t ■ ■ Ur. T . S. HOPJUSS, OVPIOK l> tittlt. LOT with L, O. IRVOL1), RESIDENT DENTIST THCMASVILLB, GA. A kg • ‘ lgm ; t Dr. .W TpTCLO WEIT Havin’!* pen-’ met; loguti-A .a'VlinuutK. .v ’ ‘ nil ■ - .c rrofrwioitid V i ii. n-t to the public. J at the Drag- Store of W. P. 4.’*o\vtiA l'o. E j. , .pied lyr Ll. B. .mum. mas 11 ly FRESH DRTJCSrS! OR I* S ROWER hun in>r returned from New Yo- v and I'hiladflphia, With a large “ii in irijule m ;’ r,hant’d w i agi eat deal ot egre i n I- matHthtctn ei.- •- ibe countrv—eutL-:cit,- t-c. v a icle in the Medical Department— av am he p*o;osea to sell m an good to- u:s as tm i ire lm,f in this tnarket. |L‘' ‘1 o-. and pare ular vt''at’on to his JargemapjAyef > FANCY ARTICLES, Sti’ h a-, s • - t ■ _ ic. Peiiime-. Poiuad.-s, t • uoiics. Hu and Tooth liinshos. Conii:- cVi all of which he dun *lt at jX-t-l ito:*- Vi,.- ‘i iatoy of ‘he articles Je r.w * uf*’- pi.-ii*v;ii \vV Iw II restore to the hatft Lea i a horrtniTut snif of hair.'turn gray hair to tt< heatiti, tad mu oral color, and ivto eiite Wnoijo; vi uh to the LiJed vi-f*_e. He would call special attention t” his large muck of Piialoi .- N i.t:t LL otuiug Cereus. and Ltird> Dloi'Ui oi Youth. Or* < a Cull. P. S. ROW Eli. June -.>5 25-ff APOTHECARY HALL. W, P, CLOWER & CO., DIU OGTSrs. Have reuoTaied auJ refined the Store next to Young's Hotel, ior iLe purpose oi es tablishing a First Class Drug Store. The new firm ask for a Bh:>*e of p;itr,ra nge, and invite the attention of the citi rens to the : r well selected stock of Medic iiiea. Fancy and Toilet IrUelt s, ‘aai*i atjtl Fei liinicry. Fine iirecii null Ri.ii !i Teas. Kerosine tamps anti Oil, DI E STI FFS. Toeeluei- with every other article usually kept in a well appointed Dru B’ore. gi-D’ PhjSiCi .n i're&L j ,~s carefully prepared 4-if dan ?4 DRUGrS mirnmm. The undersigned having purchase the elogaiU Drug Store ol Dr. Lit ■ e, take pleasure in announcing to the people of ‘Thoniasville, and the country genei-tHy. that they have just received a lull supply of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints, this, Ferfumery, Stationery, et., e’c. Call and examine lor youi selves By siiict a.tenticn to busines-, courte* ora and hpßorable dealing with our cus tomers we hope to merit receive a libe ral share of patronage. WINN Si CASS ELS. JsMRS N. Wish, Sami el J. Cass els. jan 17tf ffIHE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant J known—DARBY'S PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. For sale by W. r. CLOWER, aug 23 Druggists. * Commission Merchants. Smallwood. Hodgkiss & Cos. COTTON F actors , AND OKNE R A E COMMISSION I m lsbhahts, \o lO Beaver-M., Sew lork. i J . L SMALi.vv.M>n, forinei ky Smallwood, Earle A Cos and.l. L. Smallwood & Cos. Th If. llo:r.Ki*->. Georgia ) Late Hodgkiss, t* W SrdrT. Kinrida.’ Scott At Cos., D. If. Poolr. Georgia. ) New York. ! ‘ We arc prepared thruugn R-Stdint Agents to Idvnurr on and Nell ('•lion in all the Sotilhrrn Port*, or forward from Tkcxr Prl to Viav Yorknt I . i > fipool Direct. as or friend* may pieter. Our Ccuuocti"ns ia Liverpool are such as will giveour cumomers all the advantages of ! that market. July 1 27dy Duncan & Johnston, COTTON FACTORS COMMISSION 7| * i • o nir \ vrriQ ivj.i l 1.1 u JC--.tXA X 7, SAVANNAH, :it: DEORr.lt. REFERS TO Col: A T. .Mcfatire, ‘I iiomasvUle, Ga. : IV, 1. E Rcmt .'/ton. ” ‘ “ . Jfotmld .MvLc.iii, I'-.p, July .'-j tint J. ITS. DA VISA CO.. AUCTION COMMISSION AN D . Un’l’WuiKJ Il)Clvl|i(i)Vs, TIIOM AS VILLT7, GA. J R. S. Davis. A. Jeffers. J.uc | I vS ; f f isonAßo rdo> , COTTON FACTORS, cifflissi no mmim Mox'diants, ,"V.'U. r.vVANNAH. GA. \VM ll 1 IVON. VV>i. \V. CiOfillON. May 16 tint IOHN W. ANDERSON & SONS, Factors and General mm m fgrwmdie Mci’diants, ( oinci- DrnTlott &- ISnan Slc. t, SAVANNAH, GA. Mac ‘.Hi S HI 1 H.BttTAN, A. I• H ■I “, DC-y, T. W. S. .NV.Fk’. Imteof J. Savaiiuah Ga., t'iuciauati.O. j Bryan a Son vivaa b,Ga Bryan, Hartridge & Cos., COMMISSION MERCHANTS BROKERS, .\o. Hi;; Itn v Mml, g.% V,t Y.\ % If, Ua. Strt t attention given (o Coniigumcnts and Collectioijb. apr 11 6ui t . \Y. SIMS.Y ( J F. WHEATON, I-ale of the laue of the firm of Rep.iiidieuii. J ( Wilder, Wheaton A. Cos. F. W. SIMS & Cos., J* l VA.VVVII ii 1.. FACTORS AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCBASTS. DEALERS IN Mcr. li;*iilise, Proilure. Tim >• , r.aiiHiei and Cotton. ('< >.amueutaand >.rdei> reajiecUuJlv solicit ed. and wh. her by wagi.n, river, railroad <>r | tea. will receive the stricte>t attention. The Forwarding UuVuess carefully aud promptly done. mar 7 fOdkn J. L. VILLALONGA. COTTON FACTOR mfilllK m COMMISSION Merchant, No- 94 Bay Street, jaw Ms 5 A 1.4 V.V.4 ff, OA. W. Carvel H u.t.. J as. E. Mrris. J. llanson Thomas, Jr. Hall, Myers & Thomas GENERAL COMMISSION Mcrcliants. No. 0, Commerce St., Baltimore. ittTt-rvuees : |J- Hat an T ANARUS! om.ts. IWt Farmers’ and Mer chants Ariiooal Bans, i son <V Gordon, t>av'h j Kitki -.ad. Unite iV Cos , duo. Williams & I Williams, Bee A f'o.. X. Y., Brien i tar ft're. X Y., f Morton Su-wait. H 1,. Whit rid we, D. H. Gordon, Va.. EdwardS Myers, J. P. Plea sants .V bon. Thos. J Carsoo & Cos. Win. 11. Mat Fariand, Pie t Earners Bank.Y'a. j Alar 14 H-6m N'OTICE. —Two months afterdate I shall apply to the Court of Ordinary of Col j quitt County, for leave to sell all the Real Es tate of William Vick, deceased. JAMES ALDERMAN. * Ang 30 60d Adair Tilt SOUTHER* PEOPLE. RfiP iRT OF GENUAL GOBHON GRANGER. To H Ex clh .fy Andrew Johnson, Presi dent oj the United Stares : Sir :—ln obedience to instructions, dated may 9,1806, directing me, while carrying out a pecitic mission, 4i to examine carefully into the disposition of the people of the Southern States through which I might pass, toward the Government of the United States/’ I have the honor to report: That in all the States I visited I found no sign or symptom of organized disloyalty to the General Goverment. I found the people takingour currency, and glad to get it; anxious for North ern capital and Northern labor to de velop the rosources of their wasted eouutry, and well disposed toward ev ery Northern man who eatno among them with that object in view. In some localities I heard rumors of secret organizations, pointing to a re newal of the KebeHion. On investiga ting these secret societies I could dis’ cover in them nothing more than char itable institutions, having for their principle object <he relief of the wid owsand. orphans cf Confederate soldiers who hud fallen iu the war. During the whole cf my travels I found it to be as safe and as conveni ent to mingle with the people of the South, freely discussing any and every topic that came up, as in any other section of the United Stales. I was often among them unknown, and the tenor of their acts and conversation was then the same as when my name and official position was thoroughly undersiood. The people of the South may be divided into fwo classes. There is the industrious class, laboring earnestly to build up what lias been broken down, striving tu restore prosperity to the country, and interested mainly in the great question of providing food and clothing for themselves and. families. These form the great majority of the people. Then there is another class, an utterly irresponsible class, composed mainly of young men who were the “bucks - ’ of Southern society before the war,_aml chiefly spent their time in lounging round the court-rooms and bars, iu chicken fighting and gambling. These have been greatly broken up by the war; many of them have been killed ; but those who remain arc stili disturbing elements iu the community, and are doing much mischief. It is this class of men, and a number of the poor whites, who have formed gangs for horsestealing. It is they who in some instances have made attacks on officers oi the Frcedmen's IJurcau, and have ill-treated the freedmen. It is they who afford the main pretext for sayiDg that there is among the people of the South & feeling of hostility to ward the United States Government. Bat they arc not the representative of the Southern people. They form but an insignificant minority in the com munity', and even they are actuated not so much by a feeling o! opposition to the Government as by a reluctance to earn their own livelihood by honest labor and individual exertion. That cases of authentic outrage have occurred in the South is patent to ev ery one familiar with the current news of ihe day. But these cases are few and far between, and it is Loth unjust and ungenerous to charge the respon sibility lor such acts of lawlessness upon the whole Southern people For some malicious purpose, accounts of these isolated disorders have been collected and grouped together and sown broadcast over the North, so as to give to the public mind an utterly erroneous impression as to the condi tion of Southern society. The fact is, that wherever disaffection and turbu lence have manifested themselves out side the class to whom 1 have above alluded, there has been some local or specific cause to account for it. Law lessness, like an epidemic, has extend ed overparticular belts of the country, and, like an epidemic, is equally trace able to some initiatory cause. Chief among these causes must’ be named bad government, pillage, plunder and appression. For five years the Southern people have been the subjects of gross misrule. During the w: r their Government was a military despotism, dependent solely on the dictum of an individual. Since the war they have been left more or less in a chaotic state —tlmir Govern ment semi-civil, semi-military, or rath er a division of rule the military, the Freed men’s Bureau and the Provision al Governments. What might have been the result of a different policy it is not altogether idle to speculate.— Hvery mil.tary man who served in the South during the war will agree that the heart of the great mass of the people was not thoroughly in the strug gle. The number ot desertions from the Hebei armies abundantly estab ishes tl is tact. Had a policy of wise and statesmanlike conciliation been followed out immediately after the close of tbe war, it is more than prob able that the condition and disposition of the people would now be far better than they are. But on the subjuga tion of the Scuth the national author ity in tbe lately rebellious States was dviided and broken up into opposing factions, whose action greatly hindered the reestablishment of civil law and good order so much needed among a Tliomasville, Georgia, Thursday, September 20, 1806. people demoralized by the most de- ■ moralizing of all agencies—civil war. I The country wa* flooded with Treasury agents who with their accomplices ‘ and imitators, fleeced the people right , and left, returning into thr United j States Treasury for all the enorm us amount of property they seized and confiscated barely enough to pay the cost of confiscation. Agents of the Freedman's Bureau stepped between the planter and the laborer, stirring up strife, perpetuating antagonism, and often adding their quota of extor tion and oppression. On every hand the people saw themselves robbed and wronged by agents and gelfappointed agents pro p ess‘ng to act under the sanction of the United States Govern ment. Need it be wendcred at that among a community thus dealt with, powerless to resist and too weak and prostrated for successful complaint, some bitterness and ill feeling should arise? None but a brave and well mcanin” people could have endured unresistingly all that the South has undergone. In prosecuting this inquiry, I hard ly deemed it fair to as'c more than what had been the actions of the peo ple of the South toward the General Government. With their private opin ions, their sympathies and their preju dices T had nothing to do. Yet for a more thorough understanding of the question I made it a part of my mis sion to investigate even these. 1 found they had universally complied with the conditions granted and accepted , at the final surrender of their armies and cause. 1 found that they were carrying out with good faith and alac rity the requirements of the Constitu tional Amendment abolishing Slavery, and that in all the States except Mis sissippi and Texas, the famous Civil Rights I>;1! had been anticipated by the action of the State Legislatures previous to its passage by Congress —. Further than this, I found that in the repudiation of every dollar known as the Confederate debt, the same piompt action had been taken bv the State authorites and had been uui v e rsallv endorsed by the people ; and jl neither saw nor heard any disposition, or any thing that pointed toward a disposiiiion to repudiate the National debt, or to ever again revive the ius itution of Slavery; But while the Southern people arc thus loyal, and have fulfilled all the requirements asked of them by the Federal (Jovernment, it is impossible to disguise the fact, and the better class of citizens do not attempt to dis guise it, that there is among them a deep feeling and a strong apprehension as to the cause of their long contin ued exclusion from Congress. They believe that it is part of a set plan for perpetuating the existence of the po litical parly now’ in the ascendent, and that the question of suffrage, readjust ment of representation and taxation are but excuses for still longer delay. Thus regardless of the great interests, not only of the suffering South, but of the whole country, burdened with debt and laboring under severe embarrass ment, I found the prevailing opinion among the most intelligent citizens, as well as among the most anxious for an early restoration of the Union, to be that, if representation and an equal and just co-operation iu the adminis, tration of Federal affairs were much longer withheld from the Southern States, a feeling of indifference would spring up toward taking any part in filling Federal offices, and more par* ticularlj’ toward filling their seats in Congress.—that the people, in fact, would stay away from the polls, and allow the cledtions to go by default to the great detriment of the country at large. This feeling of indifference indeed is already manifesting itself, and is rapidly increasing, so ni'ieh so that were it not for a few persons in each Southern State who have found it necessary for their existence to live upon and hold office, and whose haunts and occupations have hitherto been at the Federal capital, I do not believe that any clamor for representation would be hoard. What is needed to restore harmony and prosperity to the entire country, | both North and Scuth, is closer and better acquaintance with each other. I have been astonished to notice how little people, even whose social rela tions are all Southern, know of the true state of feeling in that section of the country. We need greater po litical, social and commeicial freedom, more frequent intercourse, and a kind- I er appreciation of each other's pecu liarities. The advantage to the coun try in its present financial distress of a reuuion of heart and sentiment would be beyond enumeration. The broad lands of the fertile South are now ly ing almost in waste for want of means and capital to cultivate them, when every acre of the beneficent soil mi-ht be a gold miue to its possessor were the political relations of the people better understood and acted upon. I have the houor to be, your most obedient servant. GrORDON Gra.NQER. tfaT* A Boston newspaper announces that George Peabody intends to bestow sbo,ooo each upon Harvard, Amherst and Williams Colleges, of Massachu setts, and the sum of oue million dol lars upon Boston for homes for the poor Rtl, HEYRI WARD REECH EK'S REPLV. Peeksilill, Aug. 30, 1866. Chan. Li Ifaipiue, Bren t. Brigadier Genera/; If. lU. S/acum, Major General ; Gordon Granger , Major General t Committee. | Gentlemen : I am obliged to you for the invitation which you have 1 made to me to'a'ct as - Chaplain to the Convention of Sailors and Soldiers about to convene at Cleveland. I can not attend it, but I heartily wish it, and all other Conventions, of what party socver f success, whose object is the restoration of all the States late in i rebellion to their Federal relations. Our theory of Government has no place for a State except in the Union. It is justly taken for granted that the duties and responsibilities of a State : in Federal relations (end to its politi ! cal health, and to that of the whole nation. Even Territories are hastily brought in, often before the prescrib ed conditions are fulfilled, as if it were dangerous to leave a community out side of the great boby politic. Had the loyal Senators and Repres entatives o 1 Tennessee been admitted at once on the assembling of Congress I and, in moderate suceegaion, Arkansas, i.Uoorgia, Alabama, Nor:h Carolina and irginia, the public mind of the South would have been, fur more h althy than it g, and those States which lingered, on .probation to the last would have, been under a mote salutary- iuflunce to ‘.good conduct than if-a. dozen.anul .- [ watched over them. . . i Uvcry month that we delay this health. , ful ’ step complicates the case. - The ■ excluded population, enough unsettled before, grow more irritable; the army ; becomes indispensable to local govern ment, and supersedes it; the Govern ; meat at Washington is called to inter fere in one and another difficulty, and | this will be done inaptly, and some times with great injustice—for our i Government, wisely adapted to its own : proper functions, is utterly devoid of those habits, end unequipped with the instruments which fit a centralized government to exercise authority iu remote Slates over local affairs. Every attempt to perform such duties has I resulted in mistakes which have cxci j ted the nation. But whatever irnpru dcnc there may bo in the method, the real criticism should be against the requisition of such duties of the Gen -1 oral Government. The Federal Government is unfit to exercise minor police and local government, and will inevitably blun der when it attempts it. To keep ha’f a score of States under Federal authority, hut without national ties and responsibilities ; to oblige the cen tral authorty to govern half the terri tory of the Union by Federal civil officers by the army, is a policy not only uncongenial to our ideas and principles, but pre eminently danger ous to the spirit of our Government. However humane the ends sought and the motives, it is, in fact, a course of instruction, preparing onr Government to be despotic, and familiarizing the people to a stretch of authority which can never be other than dangerous to liberty. I am aware that good men arc With held from advocating the prompt and successive admission of the exiled States by the fear, chiefly, of its effect upon parties and upon freedmen. It is said that if admitted to Con gress, the Southern Senators and liep resentatives will coalesce with North ern Democrats and rule the country. Is tI)X3 nation, then, to remain dis membered to serve the ends of par ties ? —Have we learned no wisdom by the history of the last ten years, in | which just this course of sacrificing the nation to the exigencies of parties plunged us into rebellion and war ? Even admit that the power would 1 pass into the hands of a party made up of Northern men, and the hitherto dishonored and misled Demorcracy j of the North, that power could not be used just as they pleased. The war has changed, not alone institution?, but ideas. The whole country has j advanced Public sentiment is exal ted far beyond what it has been at any former period. Anew party would like a river, be obliged to seek its channels in the already existing slopes and forms of the continent. We have entered anew era ts liber ty. The style of thought is freer and more noble. —The young men of our times are regenerated. The great army has been a school, and hundred of thousands of men are gone home to preach a truer and nobler view of hu man rights. All the industrial inter est of society are moving with increas ed wisdom toward intelligence and liberty. Everywhere, in churches, in literature, in natural se'enccs, in phy scial industries, in social questions, as well as in politics, the nation feels j that the Winter is over and anew Spring hangs in the horizon and works through elements. In this happily, changed and advanced condition of t things no party of the retrograde can I maintain itself. Everything marches and parties must march. I bear with wonder and shame and scorn the fear of a few that the South once more in adjustment with the Federal Government will rule na tion ! The North is rich—never so 1 ?icb j the South is poor—never before so poor. The population of the North is nearly double that of the L*outh. The industry of the North, in diversity in forwardness and productiveness, in a'l the machinery and education re quired for manufactory, is half a sen tury in advance of the South. Chur ! cites iu the North crown every hill, and schools swarm in every neigbbor ; hood; while the South has but scat< ; tered lights, at a long distances, like light houses twiukling along the edge of a continent of darkness. In the presence of such a contrast, how mean and craven is the fear that the South will rule the policy of the land 1 That ] it will have an influence, that it will contribute in time, most important in fluences or restraints, we are glad to believe. But if it rises at once to the control of the Government it will be ; because the North, demoralized by J : | rosperity and besotted by grovcliog i i interests, refuses to discharge its share | ! of political - duty. In such a case the I South not only will control the Govern ment, hut it ought to do it. 2. It is feared, with more reason, that ihe. restoration of the South to her full ind. pondcnee will be detrimental to the li ecdineu. . The sooner we dismiss from our minds'the idea that the freed men can he classified, and seperated from the white population, and nursed and defended by themselves, the bet ter it will be for - them and us. The legi'd is part and parcel of Southern society, lie cannot he prosperous while it is uuprespered: Its evil events will rebound, upou him. Its happiness, and reiuvigoration cannot be kept from his participation. The restora tion of the South to amicable relations with the. North, the. reorganization of its industry, the reinspiration of its. enterprise and thrift will all redound to the freedhicn’s benefit. Nothing is so dangerous to the freedmen as an . unsettled state of society in ihe South, yti him comes all the . pite anger and caprice aod revenge, He will be made, the scapegoat of lawless and heartless men. Unless we turn the Government into a .vast military uiachiuc their can not he armies enough to protect the freedmen while Southern society re-, mains insurrectionary. .If Southern .society is calm, settled and occupied, and soothed, with new hopes and pros, perous industries, no armies will bo needed. Riots will subside, lawless hangers-on will be driven off c.r better governed, and a way will be gradually opened up to the froedman, through education and industry, to full citizen ship, with all its honors and duties. Civilization is a growth. None can escape that forty years in the wilder uess who travel from the Ejjypt of ig norance to the promised, land of civili zation The freedmen must take their march. I have full faith in the res ults. If they have the stamina to 1 undergo the hardships which every uncivilized people has undergone in their upward progress, they will in due time take their place among us. That place cannot be bought, nor bequeath ed, nor gained by sleight of hand. It will come to sobriety, virtue, industry and frugality.—-As the nation cannot , be sound until the South is prosperous so, on the other extreme, a healthy condition of civil society in the South is indispensable to the welfare of the freedmen. Refusing to admit loyal Senators and Representatives from the South to , Congress will not help the freedmeu. It will not secure for them the vote. It will not protect them* It will not secure any amendment of our Con stitution, however just and wise. It will only increase the dangers and complicate the difficulties. Whether we regard the whole nation, or any section of it or class in it, first demand of our time is, entire rc-union ! Once united, we can, by schools, churches, a free press and increasing free speech, attack each evil and se cure every good. Meanwhile the great chasm which rebellion made is not filled up. It grows deeper and stretches wider! Out of it rise dread spectres and threatning sounds. Let the gulf be closed, and bury it in Slavery, al animosity and all strifes and ba i tieds! It is fit that the brave men, who, on sea and land, faced death to save the nation, should now, by their viocc and vote, consumate what their swords j rendered possible, lor ibe sake of the freedmen, for t the sake of the South and its millions of our fellow countrymen, for our own sake, and for the great cause of free- | dom and civ lization, I urge the im mediate reunion of all the parts which rebellion and war have shattered. 1 am, truly yours, | lit\ry Ward Beech ir. —■ * - - A Quaker Woman’s Sermon.— Mv | dear friends, there are three things that I very much wonder at. The first, that children should be so fool ish as to throw stones, clubs and brick \ h ats sn t° fruit trees to knock down j If they would let it alone it I would fall itself. The second is that men should be so foolish as to go to war and kill each other. If let alone they would die themselves. The third and last thing I wonder at is that young i men should be so unwise as to go after young women. If they would ‘stop at home the young women would come alter them. VOL. VI.~Xo. oA Tooitlun) l<az) Clrrka HoapiunSlm nuN and Ifnnerrv-on A groat reduction in the cxpey of the Bureau, and a reform wl would render it far less objectic than it is now, would be effected ’ j the discontinuance of all paidemp’ ccs not in the military service of- c government. This would reduce expenses for clerks, contract sur hospital stewards, &c, the follow', amounts: Georgia, $34,584 po mmi; Alabama, §33,312; Mi §30,27(3; Louisiana, $55,954 ; . SIO,BB0 —making a total of $1 per annum. All the labor performed b employses, except perhaps the i sional services of a contract si might bo discharged by do Ui! iron; the troops. In pevious report vo have recommended the mergio; duties of the bureau and the i: We would again respectfully u amalgamation, and that one officers should be required to \ the joint duties, thus avoidii l! expense of maintaining two c.- meats. GEORGIA, The bureau in Georgia, uni-, management ms the present ■ • efficient assistant commissio. • . vet Major Geo. Tilso®, has cstly admitrstcred, and has ac< . e l all the good ol’ which th is capable. It has been as . the Govcrucr, by the judges qi Supreme Court, by the civil mo • . lies, and to some extent by the.eh < The ante nlcd Jaws of Gcor • fully as liberal as those of any era State, and pl.-.cc the negio. i respects on a perfect equality , white.man as to his civil rights. ALABAMA. In lliis State Major-General V- Swavne, the assistant comm:.- ’ has pursued a discreet and cnlV policy in administering the af the bureau, laboring on all oce Secure the co-opcration of authorities and to obtain judicial machinery of the :.>t cognition of- the rights cssci the security and well-being oft 1 / people. This policy of Gene* ha® piuduced a much more feeling towards the bureau that where its agents ha.-vo assumed i or else judicial, powers, ; Though the - administrate'n a 1 quarters haft been satisfactory, . dinafe agents have been guilty . side’ruble irregulaiities. The • of several engaged in planti. J given. MISSISSIPPI —IIEAVV STEAH'-;. The control of the freedmen’s : in this State is in the hands o’ , General Wood. With the cx r ; r of some localities the negroes . ing industriously, and as a i kindly treated and doing >..■; ; . this, as in others we hav officers of the bureau for. . aDd called fines, and a..,i,y l ■ • records. We found a marked in n; of this kind at Grenada, where fa or: er agent of the bureau, Chapin ermore, did a thriving bunne.s ; . • way of collecting fines, self . and Government horses ani’ This officer seems not onl - . collected fines ringing fro- ■; cer to five dollars from the re: imu ; marrying them, but also attempt <i t exact lccs from resident white mini. ters for giving thorn permission marry freedmen. The English Baptjsvs— Di. Brock, of London, is on a visit j i, ‘ country as a delegate from li e IN Baptists. At a meeting m Chi,u_ he. reported the following; “As an evidence that the Bn, :: t; of England were a live people, h stated that they had rais* 1 in i . years and a quarter <£250,00J ~ orifo for church extension ptupos, . London Association are builu..,: church every year in someone suburbs of that gre it metropolis Spurgeon’s church had 3,800 u. and was undoubtedly the larger.. C• =, > tian church in the world >1; ’ deil’s had UOO members.. Hi. M t . had 830. . Baptist Noel’s 550 The Baptist churches of London are strom | and aggressive bodies.’ r j . —— Girdling (he World. —Tl :I I graph system as it now stands ieav a vacancy between Calcutta, in and Canton, in China. The wires work to Calcutta, and run > • the couutry from there. The R line runs north of these poL ■ . strikes the western continent j’ . j ring’s straits. In order to fii ; terval and make the w ires cor \ , ! along southern Asia, a com hr been funned in this country w . tat of £1,000,000, and Mr. M a ! has gone to place the wires fro i Cau , ton to Hong Kong thence to . (Foochow, Niugpo, Shanghai, j. I thence to the main wire now be j constructed by Mr. Collins across R. k | ring’sstraits. - A Dacotah chap thinks he has foun t Paradise. Hear him : “No in col. tax ; no infernal revenue ; no p”ies to l see if you treat a friend on Sir i n o special police; no dog tax, no , tax, school tax or bounty fund. An l to end with, Indians and half-b ■? can’t tell one greenbaek from another so all our ones arc tens.’’