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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE. liUCIUS C: BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $4.00 a year, m Advance. . j Law and Medical Cards. BRYAN & HARRIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 4A. rr. OFFIC E fir*’ /ij-ir in fn'coitii .story of Shark’s Confectionary. L. C BRYAK: R. H, HARRIS Mar 14 U . ts. MITCHELL & MITCHELL,” ATTORYKY* AT LAW, • THOMASVILLE, : : : GEORGIA. ‘ ■ ry Office over M-Le:in\< store—opposite Mrl ntvre 5s Yonng's. • • W. D IlTcaiU. R G„ Mitchell. ■ June ft IT Sv B. BrKSts.R C I* Hassell. Spencer & Hansell, attoryeys at law, THOMASVILLE, GA. Will give prompt attention to all legal t.ilsi- Hess entrusted’ to their care in the. counties of the Soulhenv Circuit—Decatur of the South- Western—and Clinch/ Ware and Appling, pf the Brunswick Circuit. HpOf Ftct over Meser*. Wolff A Brother's Store, _ july 4-.ly W.M. HAYE3. J, A. SEWARD. HAYES & SEWARD, ITTOKAEVI AT LAW, THOMASVILLE, : : GEORGIA. & ~in C. c. RICHARDSON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, rHo<iAYii,Li:, a. Juite ft 23 ts J. K. Kr id. M. U. W.T. HrW itt, M. B. Dr. REID At Dt W ITT, OFFER their services to the’ citizens of Thomasville and vicinity. l~S r ‘OFFICF <t/ l>r. De Witl’ < Dm ” Shire , Feb SI 8-ts Or. T. S. IIOFKIYS, OFFICE ■ N MBU LOT with KEMIOF. YCK. L. O. ARYOLD, RESIDENT DENTIST THOMASVILLE, GA. YXTILL be found at tbe old Y > stand oeeapied by him for the lat ten Tear* YjLQrTTr i Aug 23-12 tn 1 DrT W P. CLOWER HAVING permanently Unrated in Th©nias . ville, offers his -I*roJiV**wio*iMl rvi erm to the [HiUlie. Bg*“OFFICE at the Drag Store of W. I’, Clower A Cos. PENCE — tke boose formerly oc cupied by Dr. Brandon. mar 14 ly FEESH DRUGS! Dlt I*. S. BOWER has just returned from New York and Philadelphia, with a large : #tock of pfiESH ii min mis. Purchased with a great deal of care from the t>est manufacturers in the country—embracing j every article in tin* Medical Department— ■ which he proposes to sell on as good terms as can be had in this market. He would call particular attention to his j large supply of FANCY ARTICLES, Bach as. Soaps. Cologne, Perfumes, Pomades, Cosmetics, Hair , and Tooth Brushes, Combs, Ac., all of which he can sell at reasonable ! prices, considering the quality of the articles.- He has some preparations which will restore > to the bald bead a beautiful suit of hair, turn gray hair to its healthy and natural color, and restore the bloom of youth to the faded visage, j He would call special attention to his large stock of Phalon s Night Blooming Cereus, and Laird's Bloom of Youth. Girt me a Call. P. S. BOWER. June 30 25 ts | APOTHECARY W. P. CLOWER & CO., DRUGGISTS. Have renovated and refitted the Store next to Young's Hotel, for the purpose of es tablishing a First Class Drug Store. The new firm ask for a share of patron age, and invite the attention of the citi zens to their well selected stock of Medicines, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Soaps and Perfumery. Fine Green and Black. Teas. Be rosin** Lamps and Oil, DYE STI FFS, Together with every other article usually kept in a well appointed Drug Store. Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully prepared 4—ts Jan 24 DRUGS AND The undersigned having purchase'! the elegant Drug Store of Dr. Little, take pleasure in announcing to the people of Thomasville, and the coustry generally, that they have just received a full supply of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints. Oils, Perfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call and examine for yourselves By strict attention to business, courte ous and honorable dealing with our cus tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe ral share of patronage. WINN & CASSELS. James N. Wins, Samcbl J. Cassels. jan 17tf THE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant known—DARBY’S PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. For sale by W. P. CLOWER, aug 23 Druggists. Commission Merchants. Smallwood, Hodgkiss & Cos, COTTON F actors AND GENERA L COMMISSION . MERCHANTS, Xo.'lQ He aver Sf., .Yew York. J.-L. Sm alLwoon, formerly Smallwood, Earle & Cos., and J. L. Smallwood & Cos. Thus. H. Hobckiss, Georgia, 4 Late Hodgkiss, G.W. Scott, Florida, / Scott &■ Cos., ’D. H. Poole, Georgia. ) New York. We are prepared through Resident Agents to Advance on and Sell Cotton in all the ston ther■■ I*ort, or forward from These I*ort to Yew York or I.irerpool Direct, as our friends may prefer. Our connections in I.irerpool are such as will give our customers all the advantages of . that market. July 4 • . > 27-ly AUSTIN & ELLIS, UMISSII m MWARDII Morcliants, Wo. S U KAY ST HE ET, SAVANNAH, Thomas 11. Austin, Georgia. Charles Ellis-. Oct 4 ‘ din E. Weitzfelder & Cos., COMMISSION MERCHANTS A X D Cotton Factors, r,O Leonard SI., YEW YORK. I. Kubitshek 5z Brother, Thom’ as ville, Ga., are acting as our agents, and are prepared to make liberal advances on all con signments made to ustlirough them, or directed tons. oct 4-ts Duncan & Johnston, COTTON FACTORS • COMMISSION \r i.i j> 1 1 i r a yti n c jJu Jcli JuixiN xS # WAVAYYAkT, : : t CiEOKCJIA. • ‘ ‘ • REFERS TO Col. A. T. Mclntire, Thomasville, Ga: Col. E. Remington, Donald McLean, Esq., ■ • “ July 25 • Cm J. IL S. DA VIS & CO., AUCTION COMMISSION AND THOMASVILLE, GA. J. R. S. Davis. G. A. Jeffers. July 11 28 ts TISOX& GORDON, COTTON FACTORS, COMMISSION AID F0BFA1DII& Merchants, •ut. \ SAVANNAH, GA. WM. H. TISON. WM. W. GORDON. May 16 6m J. L VILLALONGrA, COTTON FACTOR niruine mb commission Mcrdiant No- 94 Bay Street, jan 1-ts SAVANNAH, GA. BRIGHAM, HOLST & CO., COMMISSION All FORWARDING AXE £ CHANTS, H. Brigham, \ SAVANNAH, C M. Holst, > C. H. olmstead. y Georgia. aug 8 6m W. Hooper Harris, . j. L. Gaines, Late of Nashville, Late of Asheville, Tenu. No. Ca. R. R. 5c R. M. Bearden, Late of Macon, Ga. . Harris, Gaines & Cos., WHOLESALE GROCERS And Dealers in . Liquors, Tobacco and Scsrars, Grocer's Drugs and Spices, ASD 20 BEAVER STREET, L. F. Choice. ) Sew York. Lateot Milledgeville, Ga. j REFERENCES; E. Remington & Son, Thomasville. Ga. Hardaway & McKinnon, “ “ McQueen >k Mitchell, “ “ July 11 28-3m* 1033 Acres OF GOOD LAND FOR sale in Brooks County Ga-, for only $9,600. Some of these lands are under a. high state of cultivation—n ith good Dwelling House, out houses and everv other conve nience. Freedmen also on the place. The best bargain ever offered in the country —now is the time to strike —terms half cash, balence - secured. Applv at this office. July II 28 ts ©rimircl Communication. [FOR the enterprise.] Repudiation alone will bring relief to the distressed people of Georgia. | Asa general thing, they are not ac countable either to God or man, for 1 debts contracted durin.g or before the war, unless the act of secession and its consequent evils are unjustifiable on i our part; because the people in Con vention passed the ordinance of seces- I sion, severing the ties that bound us to ! the Union, and war was the inevitable result; and after four years of untold : hardships and unparalleled bravery on ’ the part of the Southern soldiery, the issue was decided against us, but not until a powerful army had overrun the wealthiest part of the State, pilfering and destroy ing in its ravages almost ! every species of property, and con- S verting the lairest, portion of our do main into a howling wilderness. It was then, the people were called upon again to meet in Convention, lor the purpose of repealing tbe ordinance of secession and abolishing slavery—one of the. issues of the struggle—which act completed the work of ruin ; for some of the wisest and best men of the country are of the opinion, that nine tenths of the property of the State was destroyed. A people thus impover ished and still oppressed by a relent less foe, cannot pay their debts, how ever just they may have been at the time they were made. The Conven tion seeing the suffering condition of the people, repudiated the State debt to avoid a heavy system of taxation, which destroyed a large amount of property in the hands of individuals, in the shape ol bonds and other means of indebtedness ? Did they -do right ? The people generally sustained ihcin in doiug so. The principle then is the same. If it was right to release one part of the State from their indebt edness to the other, or those who held the State bonds, it is equally right to release one individual from his indebto edness to another. There is no differ* fence, upon equitable terms, whatever. Resides, was it their own individual acts by extravagance, or a course of profligacy, that they lost their pro. perty ? Or was it the act of the go vernment, through its armies and au lliuiizeil ugtiuls X If It was the act of government, they are not then accoun table and should be relieved. Could a man prevent the enemy from de stroying his property, or the govern ment from compelling the people (af ter they were overpowered by brute force,) of the South to meet in Con. vention in the different States, and abolish slavery; which acts reduced him from wealth to poverty ? Can he be blamed for not paying his debts, when the government has destroyed his property ? Is there any had morals in not doing so? If’ so, those bad morals belong to the government, and not to the man. Besides, would not; humanity and Christianity dictate a 1 course of forbearance for such a one ? j and yet, there are thousands in our ! State, especially in the middle and ‘ upper parts, who are in that condition, ■ and the Homestead Bill will not re- 1 lieve them, neither will their creditors ; compound with them. If they do, they differ from the people of Southern | Georgia. But the demands will be sued into judgment, and those judg ments, like an old cancer deeply seated upon the body, will continue to irritate and molest them, without any hope of relief through life, and thus their en- ! ergies will be paralyzed, and the spirit j of industry and enterprise destroyed, j and the progress of improvement re- • tarded throughout the State. Biind avarice is a base principle, that lies deeply embodied in the hearts of de mons, and can only be checked among men by legislation. Uncontrolled it will seize its victim by the throat, and suck the last drop of bloud from its vitals and grind the poor into the dust. It is a gormand'zer that devours every thing, and leaves the balance of the world to perish, ,I’et, it has its vota* ries in Georgia, who stalk abroad by day as well as by night. During the war they were generally screened be hind some little exemption, engaged in buying and selling goods, cotfofi, and other articles of commodity. Oc casionally now, you will see them in the shape of” an attorney at laic, seeking to plunge the people into an endless source of litigation ; for the flood gates are now, through the wisdom of our legislature, thrown wide open, in order that they might come in for a share of the spoil, for there is no class of men in the State, that would be injured pe cuniarily, more than the lawyers by repudiation. But I can see no reason why they the speculators, and the few misers scattered over the country, should swim in ease and [rosperity, while the unfortunate, who fought our battles, in the vain effort of preserving their property are sinking. Wipe out then, and give every man a fair show ing, and it will give life and vitality to trade,to commerce,and toeverybranch of industry throughout the country, and roll a burden from the hearts of the people, which, if possible, is creat icg greater distress than the war itself. It is to be regretted, that the mem bers of our last Legislature were such poor financiers, in passing the act which is wrongfully styled, “au act for the Tliomasville, Georgia, Thursday, October 11,1800. relief of the people of Georgia.” It is provided in section first, ‘‘that there shall be no levy or sale of property of defendant's, in this State, under any execution, founded on any judgment, order, or decree of any Coin hercto : fore or hereafter to te rendered,, upon i any contract or liability, made or in ! curred prior to the first of June, 1865, ! provided the said defendant shall pay; ! or pause to be paid during each year, i ooeffotirth part of the amount of prre \ cipal and interest of- such execution, (or of the debt,'’ kc. This does r caliy seem to be a trap to deprive’ the pep -1 pie of what little they have left. When, l iu t.he history of Georgia, in the days of her greatest prosperity, did her citi zens pay annually one-fourth of t-heir indebtedness? The time has-yet to be recorded—that event has not yet transpired, and I venture the predict tion, that it will never occur.” Why. pass an act then, requiring of the peo ple an impossibility ? Besides, it is the opinion of some. of our ablest judges that, under the law, if the one fourth should not be paid at the time,, as required, the whole amount can be collected. If that decision prevails, the whole demand will certainly be; required, and how is.it possible for the people to pay it ? The short crops caused by drought and bad culture, under the free negro system of labor, has blighted the prospects of the land, and our people are greatly, distressed about bread for themselves and fami lies, to say nothing of paying. their debts. The result will be, without relief for the people, that the principal part of the real estate in the country, will pass into the hands of the loyal men of the North, and the few capL talists at the South; men, in many irn stances, who would not take the Con . federate monoy when offered for their demands, and there, was no way to- 1 compel them, as tile government did not make it a legal tender, and thus j the poor and oppressed,- with their. former slaves, will become “ hewers of wood and drawers of water.'* Where is the justice in that ? If that is Christianity, heaven deliver me from such a reformation. Justice. Nerlbt-FM Fi-wspcrtty. Hon. John Forsyth, writing from New York to liis paper, the Mobile Register, says of a portion of Southern , l^cnu mrot* w h;*h ho has.tra- i veled : “The wealth of this country cannot be justly measured by its population. The improvements in machinery, es pecially as applied to agriculture, al most dispense with human hands and the sweat of the brow. —They plough, sow and reap, with machines, and man's only occupation is to superin tend, them. Hence, you ride over a country dotted with farms, in a high * state of culture and groaning under i crops, and are suprised at the lack of laborers, and wonder who does all ■ this work ! Capital and science have [ supplied the places of our large gangs j of negroes, and the work goes on as if ! by magic. Thus Pennsylvania with ‘ her ‘3 millions ’ of population, enjoys J productions equal to the labor-of six j millions. The same processes would \ make the South a garden of fruitful- j ness, the abode of a great population, and the seat of poicsr. Let us take lessons from our neighbors, ana 2nd compensation for the sudden destruc- J tion of our vast labor system. We j have all that Pennsylvania has, in coal , iron and water power, without her . harsh winter climate. We have pro- j ducts impossible to her soil. The war has hewn a pathway for Southern en- j ergies in anew direction. Let fol low it, encourage men of labor and ! skill to settle among us, capital, to ex port our latent resources* and train and elevate the negro to be able to do his : part of the grand work of closing the i gap in material civilization, which our I hardy Northern neighbors have for so long kept wide open between us. By this path, too, men of the South, we are to recover the political power to. make our rights respected and sure. Strength is needful, to t-bis end, in a wrong-minded world. In States-, as well as among men, the weak are the prey to the strong. To work,. then, for this precious boon of a proud and free people. • God speed it, and save my high-hearted country from, the wrongs and degradation which many violent men. are burning to inflict upon them. • . . . More Fighting in South Ameri ca.-—Advices from Brazil to the 26th ultimo are received. Fighting of a most stubborn and- sanguinary nature took; place o-n the l6th and 18th of July, causing a loss of 4,260 killed and.woanded in the Allied armies, and an approximate number in the Para* guayan army. The second Brazilian army* 9,000 strong, under Ponto Ale gro, had been incorporated with the allied forces. Two or three thousand convalescents had also joined. Further reinforcements have also been demand ed and expected from Brazil and the Argentine Provinces. Get married, young woman ! never p-iuse because your suitor is not hand some. If he is good that is much bet ter. Few handsome men are good for much, except to break wives’ hearts with jealousy, and fail in business, be cause too much tempted to attend to it assiduously. A .Siorr of Wonderful - piooverie— Three- hundred ajid sixty Buried Cities—dol'd Coin Vour pounds in- Weight— Old Te*t-Bficks. An English” civil engineer, named Johnson, lptely engaged i-n the trigo nometrical survey of Cashmere, has made a curious report of what he -saw in Chinese part of ; the’ world long inaccessible to Eiiro. ! pcans He'says that while measuring and triangulating,‘last year, at a’ remote j station on the borders of Cashmere, he ’ received an invitation to visit the new ruler of Ivhotan, who had expelled, the Chinese from his- province, declared his indeper.dece, and determined to •enter into’ friendly relations with the British officer within, reach. ‘ The ad-’ ■ venturous Johnson being the handiest the Khan forthwith requested Iris presence at the capital, Ilchi. The way thither lay across the Kiun-Lun chain of mountains, by a difficult pass at an elevation- of nineteen thousand fcet—*-three miles and a half. It was a hatd journey, but the. indefatigable Johnson, pushed oti, saw tlie Khan,. stayed with him for four days; heard some very wonderful stories, and then made his way back .by’ the Himalayan passes —resisting the Khotanese in ’ clination to hold him as a hostage for the opening of oommcrci'il relations with England. • •. • It is said that although German travellers have previously crossed the J high mountains which hem in Khotan | no European has ever before entered ’ Ichij the -capital. The Khan is des- i cribed as a natural king of men of the . Carlyiese pattern, eighty years old, six feet high, stout, of a fair complexion, and altogether a good specimen of the old Turkish gentleman, such as he was | in the days before Ottomans were ! heard of. He rules a province of two j hundred an fifty thousand inhabitants, { whereof his capital contains forty thou ‘ sand ; fine strong men, .and short but pretty women, fair cleanly in apparel, ( and dressing well; all Turks snd Mo hammedans; great eaters of meat and dr-inkers of tea; all carrying on a con siderable trade in the face of great dis- j fieulties, and most anxious to trade with the English in particular. The country, well watered- by moderate-j showers, and irrigated from the rivers > which flow northwards from tlie Kiun- Lun, is fertile and productive enough oKna . favorable comparison Wllh Cashmere itself, but its climate is desi cribed ?.r being much -superior; both dry and equable. ‘ ‘ The reports brought back by Mr-. , Johnson are somewhat Munchausen, ish. For instance 1 • . ‘.’ • 1. The fertility of the country is increased by a fine impalpable dust or mould which is wafted in from the ad jacent deserts; “without win-d, in per- ■ feet, calm, and fills the air so as to darken it.” This phenomenal! occur-, ed during Mr. Johnson’s visit and he was then unable to read print at neon without a candle. • It is not explained how the dust is blown without a wind but Mr. Johnson says it is “wafted in a calm” and he cannot be contradic ted. 2. The storms in the degert raise, waves of sand which • settle into hills three hundred to four. hundred feet j high. Why not one thousand teet! 3. The tradition of the country id j that, three hundred and sixty cities i were overwhelmed in or.e day by saud storms. The sites-of these cities are partially known; so there is a vast ar ray. of Fompeiio and Nine.vehs await ing .somebody’s pickaxe, shovel and archaeological skill. 4. The people of these buried towns used gold coins weighing four pounds ; each-*-but “this is kept a profound secret by those v.ho know the position. ‘ There is no relic of tlie Broldignaglan purses in which th:s money was carried about for every-day use. 5. “The store of tea used for the actual consumption of the people is now dug out ot one of these ruined cities,” and-Mr. Johnson brought a brick of this tea away with him .“The , Chinese supply is now cut off ;".so the Ichians cut off their supply from these bricks. . • . We are. further informed tha-t the country in which these wonderful things happened is highly auriferous —a remark which is perhaps unneces sary when we remember the fouripound gold coins which seem to have been the circulating medium. Mr. “Johnson's report is about-to be published in London. An appropriate. vignette would be drawing cf a long bow. •• •. ‘ • . • lot of freedmen left here . yesterday for Tennessee. ‘ AYe under stand there was nearly a> car load of them'.. They go to seek employment and higher wages... We have ho doubt many more of them will go between this and Spring. There will be nei ther food nor employment in this sec -1 tion of the country for the large Hum- ’ her of theta he-re. We advise all to go who can. —Grange (G.) Re j porter , 28 th. ‘. ‘ .—— - . —^ An Example for the Whole South. —The committee of the Texas House of Representatives., to which was referred the constitutional amend ment passed by Congress and forward ed by the Secretary cf State, has re fused to entertain the question, and asked to be excused from its further i consideration. From tli# Anti -Slavery Journal.'. The Imprnehment of th Pr'iiliitt— Wendell l’hillip'-* Plan. The House of Representative* is urged to’ impeach President Johnson. We add our voice to the demand. There are abundant reasons for the', measure and the need of it is self-evi dent. • If the present emergency, does not demand a “recurrence of” this con stitutional” m.ethod ot ‘protection, it is impossible to conceit* cine which WOlild. • • . Put we hold impeachment of Tittle or no value, .indeed useless unless the House, when it lays it articles of im peachment before the Senate, demands that Mr. Johnson be suspended from the exercise- of his functions, and that —*— * “act as President until Mr. Johnson is acquitted", cr,- in any other result of the trial, until the next Presi dential term “commences.. . Without this the constitutional pro-’ vision for the impeachment” of the". Executive is a sham. As it is the remedy, is wholly unattainable in ordi nary circumstances. - Hut it tho itn-. peached President unlike other acens "ed and impeached officers, is to be. allowed to carry oh his illegal schemes while on .trial and” until the Senate pronounces him guilty, the whole pro vision is worse than useless. • The true rule undoubtedly is, that when —— , of the House of. lie presentatives, pronounces the Presii dent’ guilty of. grave misdeeds, and offer-} to the Senate evidence •of its accusation, the incumbent ceases to have a right to exercise his office until acquitted. This is the only construct tion that leaves any value in the con, stitutionul clause; and when we re> member how powerful the Executive must always be to prevent any action against himself by. the House, we sec there can be no danger in recognizing it as the constitutional rule, although no express'provision for it is made in ‘ that instrument. Further l till, we urge on the Thirty, ninth” Congress, before it adjourns, to. provide” by law for the assembling of the Fortieth Congress, on.the fifth day of. March, 1807. A-s the Constitution now stands, the Fortieth Congress will not assemble till December, 1807, thus leaving the whole ierm from Mareh 4 to December 4 of that year, for the President to plot treason uncontrolled by Congress. This should never be allowed. The Constitution gives Con gress the power to remedy it. Let there bo -no negloct to exercise this power aßd save the nation from this peril: Wendell Phillips. The Old Man of the Mountain, or the great stone face, the profile in the Franconia Mountain, which stands ou.t from roefty precipice towering a thousand feet above the beautiful lake neat’ the Profile House-, is noticed in the “Journal of Commcrccf which says-:.. ; • . ‘‘The forehead, nose, mouth, chin, and even Auaip’s apple on the neck, all are perfect. Many a man can be seen whose face resembles it. The strange fact about this profile, however not generally known, is that the effect is produced, not by the “edge.of one rock, but simply by the social accident al grouping of various rocks, some more distant than others. In fact the front of the top of the precipice.is a group of rocks about eighty feet high by a hundred in breadth. The nose is forty feet west of the forehead The mouth, Which seems an opening of two thin lips, is a sidelong chasm or break of fifty fc-et in extent. Viewed from the front, the face vanishes, while the rocks seena inaccessible a.s they hang in the air ever *he precipitous decent below.. •. • William B. Swett, a-deaf mute, and noted for his wanderings, educated at the Hartford Asylum, a carpenter by trade during the paJt summer, pro duced a very remarkable work, being .neither more nor less than a sac simile • in plaster of the great stone lace. His measurements were accurately made not without great risk and daring ex-> posure. The work is framed, about 18 inches square. The front view shows the ragged, rocky face of the precipice while a side view gives the profile. A eurious fact, discovered by this work of Mr. Swett is that the view from the west, never seen by human eyes, be cause inaccessible, gives almost as good a profile as the well-known view from the east. -The permanent guests at the Profile House, during the last summer*,. raised a sum of money as a testimonial of their appreciation, and advised him to go to some c.;ty where he could have it reproduced in pla-ster eopics for sale. A subscription book was opened,, and during the season a large number of subscriptions for copies, at a price not to exceed” $lO. each, were obtained. His address is Henniker, N. 11. fittT A eoarse, ill-natured fellow died one day, and a few friends assem bled at his funeral, but not one had a good word to say about .the deceased. Even” at the grave all were’ silent. At last, a good natured Dutchman, as he turned to go home, saidj ‘Veil, he was a goot schmoker.’ fc- . An old lady who had insisted on her minister praying for rain, had her cab bages cut up by a. hail storm, and on viewing the wreck, remarked that she “ never knew him to undertake any thing with out overdoing it.” VOL. VI.—No. 41.. . A Conirurrd t- iirau i. ■Once upon a time, Frederick, King of Prussia, surnamed ‘Old. Fritz/.’ took a ride and espied an old farmer plough- • ing his acre by the Wayside, cheerfully singing his melody. , ‘Toy must be well off, old mao/ said the’ King - r ‘does this acre belong to you-, wicti you so “industriously labor?’ ‘No, sir/ replied the farmer, who did hot know that ilwas the King. ‘1 am not so rich as that; I plough for w . geS-\ ‘How much do you get a day asked .the King. . . • ‘ ‘Eight gfoschen/ said the farmer. ■ ‘This-is not, much/ replied the King; ‘can you get along with this 7’. ■ ‘Get along, and have something left.* ‘How is that The far.mer smiled, and said : . ” ‘Well, if I must tell you, two gros chen are for mySelf and wife; with two I pay my old debts"; two I lend ; and two, I give for the lord’s sake/ ‘This, is a mystery which I cannot solve/.replied the King. ‘Then I will solve it fbr you/ said the farmer. • ‘I have two,’ old parents at home, who kept me when 1 was weak and needed help; I keep them ; this is my debt toward which I pay two groschen, a day. Tho third pair groschen, which I lend away, .1 spend for the children, that they may receive a Christaid instruction ; this will com* handy to me and my wife when we get old.’ With tho last two groschen I. maintain two sick sisters whom I w.ould not be compelled-to keep; this I give for the Lord’s sake/ The King, well • pleased with this answer, said : ‘Bravely spoken, old man ! Now I will give you something to guess. Have you ever seen me be fore V . • ‘Never/ said the farmer. . ‘lu less than five minutes you shall sec me fifty times, and carry in your pocket fifty of my likenesses. ■‘This is a riddle which I cannot un ravel/ said the farmer. ■ ‘Then I will do it for you/ replied the King, .” Thrusting his hand into his pocket, and counting him fifty new gold piece* into his hand, stamped with his royal likeness, he said to the astonished far mer, who knew not what was coming ; ‘The coin is also genuine, for it also comes from our Lord God, and I am his. paymaster.’ . ... ,— Internal Revenue Receipts.— The receipts of Internal Revenue, from July first to date, as compared with the same period last year, afford an interesting study. The figures for each month in each year are as follows : July, 1865, . -. $21,693,470 75 July. 1866, .• •, 27,079,103 38 August, 1865, .. , 84,087,539 09 August, 1860, . 38,043,340 81 September, 1860, • 37,999,415 82 Sept..lß6o, (21 days). 26,954,382 64 Aggregate for'three months in 1805, months and 21 days, in 1866, $92,. 076,826-83. ‘ The receipts for the prc sent quarter will undoubtedly reach . one hundred millions, or about seven millions in excess of the same period last jear, though for the present month of September, they are likely, to be about four millions less than for the same month in 18G5. • H- Ox&of the Safes.—Two merchants were recently f resenting the claims of their respective articles. One was a Yankee, the other wasn’t. He that wasn’t told his story. A gamecock had been shut up in one of his safes, and then it was exposed for three days to the most intense heat. When the door was opened the eock stalked out as if nothing had happened. It was now the. Yankee’s turn. A eock had been-shut up in one of his safes, with a pound of fresh butter, and the safe was submitted to the trial of a tremen dous heat for more than a week. Th© legs of the safe were melted off, and the door itself so far fused as to require a eold chisel to get it open, When it was opened the coek was found froze a dead, and the butter so solid that * man who knocked off a piece of it with a hammer, had his eye put out with the butter splinter. . ■ A “Western editor lately lost hi* sweetheart, but h* has all that made her lovely. He has her eurls, her frizzle, her fats, her waterfall ! H© • has her spiral palpitators, her store teeth and her ealves. He has put all things in their order—has them hung 00 wires—-and intends to melt a little girl and pour her into the fixings and have another Miranda* Soft Soap for All.-—¥ or a lieuten ant, call” him captain; for a middle aged lady, kiss her, and say that you mistook h.er .for her daughter ; for a young gentleman rising fifteen, ask his opinion respecting the comparative merits of a razor; for young ladies, if you know their color to be natural, ac cuse them of painting. ®@P*The Knoxville Commercial in forms us that large numbers of negroes from Georgia, Alabama and Florida, are pouring into East Tennessea, and that, upon inquiry, their purpose is found to be to settle there at the in . stance of Brownlow and his agents, with a view of controlling the State elections in favor of Radicalism.