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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.)
Terms, 84.00 a year in Advance. /
Law and Medical Cards.
x : . ■
BRYAN & HARRIS,
ATTORXIVfI'AT LAW,
tuoti isvii.ee, ;a.
FtF OFFICE fir ft 4oor in second story of
Stork's Confectionary. . ■
L C BRYAN. li H. HARRIS. :
Mar 11 . • 11:f
MITCHELL & MITCHELL.
A TTO K>E \ S AT I. AAV,
THOMABVILLB, : • • GEORGIA.
( ttfioe over McLean * store—eppotate
Mclntyre & Yoang'a-
W. I) MITCHKLL. ’ It. G. MITCHEI.r..’
June 6 .
.4. B.” SP*!*Ct{l C. P- HvNaELL.
Spencer & Han sell,
ATTORVEIS AT I. AAA,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
Will give prompt attention to all legal bnsi
neßrt entrusted to their- care iu the counties of
the Southern Circuit—l>eeatur of the South-
Western—and Clinch. Ware and Appling, of
the Brunswick Circuit. , ,
[yOfftCE over Moots. dff & Brother s
Store. ___ j'd- v4l -V
W. M. HAYES. J. A. SEWARD.
HAYES & SEWARD,
ATTOUIE VS AT IAW,
THOM ASVILLE, ; i GEORGIA.
augff _J>“_
C c. RICHARDSON,
a pcncA pXT TNT
lx JL 1 U JLIXV Xil
AND
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
THOiTIASVIEI'K, GA.
June 6. ~ ‘I ls
J. U. Reid, tl. I>. W.F. ISrH itt. JI. S>.
Drs. It IIIIA & Wo WITT,
OFFER their services to the citizens of
Thomasvirte and vicinity.
I OFFICE at Dr. Dentil's Dm” Store
Feb 21 S-ts
l)r. T. S. IIOPKIYS,
OFFICE
IX ftAflli LOT with KKSIUEATE.
t. ©. ARXOLII,
RESIDENT DENTIST
THOM ASVILLE, GA.
A A’'l El* he found at the’ old
1 f stand occupied by him for JErntt
the last ten years -- ’ ’T'X
Aug 23-12 m
Dr. W P CLOWER
1 1 AYING permanently Located in Thomas -
1 1 ville, otters his .*iervi.
-*■ to .the public.
FI ( E at the Drug Store of IV. P.
Allow or A Cc.
r'^’KESIDEN'CK —the house formerlv oc
cupied by Dr. Brandon. xnar 11 ly
v rush
X3 I?L XT C3r £5 l
DR P. S. BOWER has just returned from
New York and Philadelphia, with a large
stock of.
FSISIIIMI IMS:
Purchased with a great deal of care from the
- at mannfactarera in the country-—embracing
•every article in the Medical Ilepartment—
which he proposes to 11 on as good terms as
can be had in this market.
He would cull particular atfeiiUoh to his
large supply of
FANCY ARTICLES,
SSuch as, Soaps, Cologne, Perfume#, Ponsades,
Cosmetics, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Coiubs,
&.C., all of which he can sell at reasonable
prices, considering the qmdiry of the articles.
He has souse preparations which will restore
to the bald head a beautiful suit of hair, turn
gray hair to its healthy ;tnd natural color, and
restore the Moo us of youth to the faded visage.
He would call special attention V his large
.stock of Phalons Night Blooming Cereus. and
Laird a Bloom of Youth. Give me a Call.
P S. BOWER.
June 23 25 ts
APOTHECARY
HALL.
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 cf
Medicine!),
Fancy and Toilet Articles,
Soaps and Perfumery.
Fine Green and Black Teas,
Kerosine Lamps and Oil,
DTE STI FFS,
Together with every other article usually
kept, in a well appednted Drug Store.
Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully •
prepared 4-ts
Jan 24
DRUGS
iiomiiL
The undersigned having purchase the
elegant Drug Store of Dr. Little, take
pleasure in announcing to the people o'”
Thomasville, and the country 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, couries
ous and honorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
WINS & CASSELS.
James N. Wink.
Samuel J. Cassels. ,
jan 17tf
THE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant
known—DARBY’S PROPHYLACTIC
ELUID. For sale by
W. P. CLOWER.
ug 28 Druggists.
Commission Merchants.
Smallwood. Hodgkiss & Co s,
COTTON
Factors
* - . -AND
general
COMMISSION
’ MIRGHAHTS,
Xt* 1® Beaver-SI., New York.
J. L Sma.llwooj), formerly Smallwood,Earle
& Cos., and -J. L. Smallwood & Cos.
Th• > v H Hodgkiss, Georgia, V Late Hodgkiss,
I (1 W Scott. Florida, > Scott & Cos.,
iI) H, Pool t, Georgia. J New York.
We are prepared through Resident Agents
to Advance on and Well Cotton in all the
soHtheni Port*, r forward from Three
I'orix to \• n Vorkor l.ivcrpooi Direct,
as our friends may prefer.
I'ur connections in l.iverpool are such as
will giveonr customers all the advantages of
that market.
July 1 27-1 v
*. m. Sloan, c. h. srrr.BS. c. w. stkgall.
Sloan, Stubbs & Stegall,
Cotton Factors
FORWARDING
AND
6o)i)lxissio)j h|cl'ei)th)l-s,
No. 4, Nioddnrd’s Loxyer KnHs;r,
Isiy Street. Savannah, Ga.
Sept 6 3m
AUSTIN & ELLIS,
mmw si Fiissiiii
Merchants,
No. SO HAY STREET,
SAVANNAH,
Thomas H. Austin, fteorgin.
Charles Ellis.
Oct 4 3m
E. Weitzfelder & Cos.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND
Cotton Factors,
r>© Leonard St., ALU YORK.
{ jr’ll'-ssrs. I. Knhitsb>.-k & Brother, Thom
asville. Ga., are acting as our agents, and are
prepared to make liberal advances on all con
signment-made to us through them, or directed
to us. oct 4-ts
J.R.S.bAIIS&CO.,
AUCTION
COMMISSION
AND
Foidr^igiiKf
. THOMASVILLH, GA.
and. li. S Davis.- G. A.'Jeffers.
July 11 28-ts
11. Iv WaShbukk. J. Washburn.
1. Washburn.
J. WASHBURN & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
cnrinssni m rami
WERGHA^TS,
Savannah. - - - Georgia.
July 25 3ni
TISON & GORDON,
COTTON FACTORS,
mm MB FORFARDISB
Merchants,
SAVANNAH, GA.
WM. H. TISON. IVII. IV. GORDON.
May 16 6m
J. L. VILLALONGA,
COTTON FACTOR
niVUUlilfi AKB COMMISSION
Merchant
No. 94 Bay Street,
jan 1-ts SA VAXXAII, GA.
BRIGHAM, HOLST & CO.,
COMMISSION m FlßWAfifill
MERCHANTS,
!’ > savannah,
C. H Olmstead-7 Georgia,
aug S 6m
IV Hooper Harris, J. L. Gaines,
Late of Nashville, Late of Asheville,
Tenu. No. Ca.
R. R. &l R. M. Bearden,
Late of llacou, Ga.
Harris, Gaines & Cos.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
And Dealers in
Liquors. Tobacco and Scsrars,
Grocer’s Di ngs and Spices,
AN’Dt
GENERAL
£oip)issiort iiiereiiaitis,
20 BEAVExt STREET.
L. F. Choice. ) KeiF fork.
Late of Milledge ville. Ga. )
REFERENCES-
E; Remington & Son, Thomasville, Ga.
Hardaway A McKinnon, “ “
McQueen & Mitchell, “ “
July 11 28 3m*
Quick Sales and
Small Profits!
.I.ScliillWßm.
ARE RECEIVING THEIR
Fall and Winter Stock of
DRY GOODS,
AND
aofinft
Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Flour,
toffee, Rice, Tobacco,
Feather. &c„ &c.
Sept 13 1.6 ts
Save Your Money
A LL those indebted to J. ScliiiT & Brother,
J\. from, before and during the war, who
will pav up before the first of November next,
will l>e relieved of four years interest, other
wise they will be sued and collected according
to law.
If vou want to buv COOl) CHE Al*
(Aiiieors. i humh ueri.xok,
Dfl,.4l.\ES, and a great variety of other
Igaidsome UltKss HOODS, call on
J. SCIKIFF A IttJO'S.
A. FINE LOT Os
CASSIMERE. Satinets and Kent Jeans,
you can find at very low prices, at the.
store of
J. SC 111 F F A It ISO'S.
If you want
nsiiiiMU niw
For Ladies or Children,
Call at
J. SCIIIFF A- BKO’S.
A good assortment of
BALMORALS,
■_ (Ladies and Children,)
SIIAWL.S, FINE BLANKETS OF
ALIi SIZES, BBIKLEV’S EL,
LIFT 1C All) OTHER
IIDOP SKIRTS
are kept by-
J. SfHIFF A BKO’S.
.—
If you want to purchase
CLOTHING,
For Men and Boys, call at J. SCIIIFF &
BROTHER'S, who have one of the largest
and best stocks in the market. If you wish to
SAVE MONEY come,and look.
J. SCHIFF & BRO.
Keep a good article of
Boots, Shoes and Leather,
And will sell them at the very lotcest prices.
A good assortment of
Gold and Silver Watches, Jewel
ry, Notions, Cotton Scales,
And most everything else -kept usually at a
Dry Goods and Clothing Store.
Come and see for yourself, and you will
admit that
J SCIIIFF & BRO.
Will sell you Goods Cheaper, or at least as
Cheap, as any other House South of Mason
& Dixon’s line. oct 4
Duncan & Johnston,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
SAVANNAS, : s is GEORGIA.
REFERS TO
Col. A. T. Mclntire, Thomasville, Ga.
Col. E. Remington, ■ “ .“
Donald McLean, Esq., “ w
July 25 6m
1032 Acres
OF GOOD LAXII
FOR sale in Brooks County Ga., for onlv
Some of these lands are under a
high state of cultivation—w ith good Dwelling
House, out houses and every ofbei conve
nience. Freedmen also on the place. Tl*
best bargain ever offered in the country —now
is the time to strike—terms half cash,*balence
secured Apply at this office.
July 11 . 28 ts
MASSEY’S A.
COTTUX PRESS.
THE undersigned are now prepared t? re
ceive orders for the putu'ngup of Massey ’-)
well known HI'PERIOR COTTON
PRESSES, Having made arrangements
for the manufacturing of Screws at lla. on,
Georgia, they will now commence operations
as soon as half a dozen orders are received.
Orders left with L. C. Bryan at Thomasville,
will receive prompt attention.
DANIEL MASSEY,
J. S. MASSEY,
ang 15-ts P. B. MASSEY.
BRYANT’S Cholera Mixture-^-
A specific for incipient Cholera, for
sale by W. P. CLOWER & CO.
Tliomasville, Georgia, Thursday, October 18, 1866.
STRIVE—WAIT —PRAY* •
Strive —yet I do not prouiise .
The prize you dream of to-day,
Will not fade when you. think to grasp it
And melt in vour hand away,
But another and a holier treasure, .
You would now perchance disdain, .
Will come'when yonr toil is ovei
And pay you for all j pur pain.’
Ilotit—yet’ Ido not tell you.
The hour you loiik for now,
Will not come with its radiance vanished,
And’ a shadow upon its brow,
But far through the misty future,
With a crown of starry light,
An hour.of ji>v you knew not,
Is winging lier silent flight,
the gift von ask for,-
May never comfort yotir fears,
May never repay yotir pleading, ■ ■ .
.Yet pray with hopeful tears,
An answer not that you long for,
. But diviner, will come one day,
Youreyes are too dim to see it— . ..
Yet Strive;and Wait , and• Pray.
Stlfdti) Ifiisallang. ■
“AM, IS MOT LOST”
We rejoice to see the spirit, display
ed in the following extracts from a
letter written by J. A. Turner, Esq.,
of Geo , formerly editor of The Coun
tryman. Mr. Lamar, of Miss., has, it
seems, been indulging in some discon
solate oratory on ‘The Lost Cause/’.
Mr. Turner replies to it as follows :
“ We have long felt a disposition to
rebuke the confession of our reading
men, cur press and our people that
State rights are gone, and that “all is
lost!” . It is unmanly to make such a
confession. All is not lost, if we will
but be men. The idea that we sub’
mitted a l to the arbitrament of the
sword, and when the voice of the sword
went against tis, we lost all is a false
one-. We who depend upon fighting
for our rights in the .Union, and under
the flag, never intended to yield our
rights, because • opposed by superior
physical power. Neither, numbers nor.
the sword are the things upon which
we depend We appeal to God and
the sovreignty of the States, in the
Union. “Upon this line,’’ we will ‘fight
it out to the bitter end.” Figurative
ly speaking; we will not stop this side
of the “last ditch.” We will neither
suffer our cause crushed out by the
fanatical physical power of Sumner and
Stevens, nor allow it to become para
lyzed by the gloomy despair of Lamar
& Cos. Beaten by the sword, we fall
back upon our orignal, long tried, and
faithful arms—reason and argument ;
arms which have won us a thousand
battles, and that have never failed us
upon the field.
“Not only must we repair the breach
made by the foe, but now that they
abandoned the fortress, we must occupy
it again, and within its sacred walls,
we can never more fail. Not only must
we have the flag which has been borne
away by the retireing foe men, but we
must have the stars and stripes to plant
upon the citadel. As Peter, the lien
uiit fired the hearts of the faithful to
fight and wrest the holy sepulchre
from the hands ot the infidels, so must
we writers of the South and the orators
ot the sunny land, stir the Southern
heart to contend for a Union based
upon the Constitution. JVe must
urest the government from the hands
of the infidels. We must not be put
to sleep and fold our hands to a little
more slumber, and the narcotizing in
fluence of Mr. Lamar’s desponding
oratory And not only must we of
the South rush to the delivery of the
holy sepulchre, where the Constitution
has been buried by unholy hands, but
we must join our columns in one solid
miss with those of the gallant North
men who have the same object in view.
Our Northern friends are leading us in
the light, and we will follow them.
Victory shall be ours; and we will
plant the stars and stripes with our own
hands in the federal city, over the
trailing colors of treason dragged in
the dust by Sumner and Stevens.
This is the ring of the true metal.
“We must wrest the government trom
the hands of the Abolition infidels,”
ought to be inscribed upon every ban
ner. We shall degenerate sons of
woithy sires, if we permit a handful of
insane Abolitionists to rule our coun
try forever. There has been too much
of Mr. Lamar's desponding oratory at
the Soutn —a kind of hugging a heart
felt sorrow—a lacryuiose mourning
over a “lost cause,’ as if that could
avenge wrongs, repair injuries, or res
tore rights. We have met some such
determined mourners, that it seemed
to us that they would actually regret
to see the Southern States fully restor
ed to their tights, for fear it would de
prive them of the luxury of shedding
tears ! They actually seem to take a
delight in insisting that “all is 1< st,’’
and often act as if they felt offended,
because others do not feel as “blue,”
and a? desponding as themselves.
Now, this is all wrong. There is a
great deal to dampen ardor and cause
mistrust of the future. But it is not
manly, it is not patriotic to sit down and
folding your hands in listless, idleness,
insist that “all is lost.” All is norlost
so long as men are true to themselves,
no matter how adverse may be the
preset situation of affairs. If every
person opj osed to the Abolition party
were imbued with the spirit of the
writer of the extract we have copied,
how soon we should scale the walls of
Abolition treason and put it to fight.
It is the activity of the Abolition trai
tors and the. listless indifference of
those who cry “all. is lost,” that pros
trates the Demociatic party. If. we
were working as earnestly and as vig
orously as our opponents, we should’
soon “wrest th3 government from the •
hamfs of the Abolition infidels,’’ and
restore Uniou to its ancient condition. .
We rejoice that there are some, at
least, who see this truth distinctly and
vindicate .it in bold and eloquent
words.. ‘ • . .”
Day Book.
A Lrnnit Scheme of Colonization. .
A correspondent of the New York;
World who is travelling through Eu
rope, writes to that journal from Balse,
Switerland, giving an account of a
scheme which has just been originated
having for -its object the rejuvenation
of the East. As detailed, the project
seems to be to build up the jewish
nation in Palestine. To this end an
important confidential circular has
been sent to all the European powers
proposing that applications shall be
made to the Grand Porte for land in
Palestine, which shall be disposed of
in such manner as shall seem most
likely to secure the objects of the or
ganization. The correspondent reports
that the plan has already made much
headway, and the International Society
of the Oiient has been organized to
carry out the scheme in all its details.
Louis Napoleon, the llothchilds, Sir
Moses Montebiore, are already num
bered among the patrons of the Socie
ty. The influence of the organization
is reported to be rapidly extending,
and it is expected that all the gr at
European powers will soon lend their
hearty co-operation to the enterprise..
It is even stated that the scope of the
Society will be extended to the Ur ited
States, and that the Jews will soon be
urged to return to the land of their
fathers. •
The argument which appeals, most
forcibly to the continental powers in
aid of the project is that by this means
the equilibrium of Europe will be more
perfectly secured, and the Eastern
question which has been looming up
threateningly belore the eyes of all
Europe, will be settled once for all.
Interesting prophesies bearing On
the return of the Jews to the Holy
Land are quoted from the nurmerous
texts which are given. We quote the
following : •
Nor thy waste and desolate places
shall even now be too narrow by rea
son of the inhabitants; and they that
swallowed shall be far away.
And the sons of strangers shall build.
up thy walls, and their kings shall
minister unto thee ; for in my wrath I
smote thee, but in my favor I have had
mercy on thee.
Whereas, thou hast been forsaken
and hated, so that no man went
through thee; I will make thee an
eternal excellency —-a joy of many
generations.
And it shall come to pass that every
one that is left of all the nations which
came against Jerusalem, shall even go
up from year to year to worship the
King, the Lord of Hosts.
In that day I will make the Gov
ernors of Judah like an hearth of fire
among wood, and like a torch of file
in a sheaf; and they shall devour all
the people round about on the right
and on the left; snd Jerusalem shall
be inhabited again in her old place,
even in Jerusalem.
“C. O. D.”
An Irish shopkeeper, having order
ed a quantity of haddock fish, by the
exj ress, was somewhat indignant upon
the delivery of the fish, to find on the
package the letters .0, O. D.\
“An’ sure man,” said Pat, “I didn’t
order codfish f” . .
The expressman examined the fish
and pronounced them haddocks..
“ Well,” said Pat, “c-o-d spells cod.”
“An’,” said Pat, triumphantly poin
ting to the fish, “them's fish ?” .
“Yes—you are right there.”
■‘‘Well, that makes cod fish, don’t it,
ye spalpeen ?”
‘•But where do you get the *eod’
from?” returns the expressman.’
“Look there !” says Pat, pointing to
the pretensions C. 0, D., “ that's cod
to be sure 1”
“0 ho,” replied the expressman,
“that’s C. 0. I)., whiGh means,
on Delivery.’ ”
“Ah, bedad, sir, I didn’t think of
that,” cried Pat, scratching his head
with one hand and feeling for hi3 purse
with the othef---*‘but, young man, let
me give you a bit of advice. When
yez bring any bundles for me don’t
put on anything mysterious again , but
jist reverse the big letters, D. 0. C.,
and then yez can deliver on collection
which any fool can understand !”
Female Printers. —The Maoon
Citizen is about to employ female com
positors The Field and Fireside is
entirely set by young ladies . The
Editor says they belong to the best
families in that State, who wer.> ruined
tiy the war. A number of girls are
also employed on the Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
“ What makes you look so gram,
Tom?” “Oh, l had to endure a sad
trial to my feelings.” “What on earth
was it?” “Why, I had to tie on a pret
ty girl’s bonnet while her raa was look
ing on.” -V
A> ERROR CORRECTED.
M.r. Beecher, in his. recent letter to
the Committee of the soldiers and sail
lor*’ Convention, makes the following
statement i ‘
“Churches in the North crown every
hill, and schools swarm in every neigh
borhood ; while the South has but tew
scattered lights, at long distances, like •
light-houses twinkling along the edge
of a continent of darkness.’’
The reflection upon the .Southern
States is entirely gratuitous, and is in
deed a ‘ palable misrepresentation, as
the following facts, which appeared in
the pnited States census of 1850 will
show. ■
In 1850 there were 21,387 churches
in the Northern States, and 16,(358 in
the Southern States. The proportion,
1 church to 628 person in the North,
and 1 church to 562. persons in the
South. The accommodations of these
churches were 8,656,0(31 sittings for
13,434,922 persons North, and 5,541,'-
875, sittings for 9,6 4,G5G persons
South, Thus, 64 persons out of 100
could attend service at the same time
in the North, and 57 out of 100 in the
South, including whites and slaves
alike. Thus the Northern States had
only 7 per cent, greater accomodations
than the Southern.
Surely the difference indicated by
this statement docs not warrant the
charge of heathenism upon the Sou
thern people. n .
But if we include the negroes, as
has been asserted by many Northern
papars and preachers, from our church
es, we have these results :
Pop. N. States. .. . .13,434,922
Sittings in N. Chs, . . 8,656,061
64 in 100.
Pop. S. States, ..... . . 6,460,343
Sittings in S. Chs, .. . ‘ . 5,541,875
85 in 100.’
Thus, 85 white persons in 100 could
attend servee in the South, and only
64 in the North —a difference of 21
per cent, in favor of the South !
Now if we include the whole white
population of the South, and all the
negroes over 15 years of age, the Sou
thern churches would accommodate 65
in 100 of the population South, against
64 in 100, the accommodation of the
churches North. Yet in the opinion
of Mr Beecher, in 1850, the South
was inhabited by a comparatively bar
barous and heathen people l—Sat.
Herald.
—■■ ■ ■ ’■.—
The Torch-and-Turpentinc Party.
Parson Brownlow, Says the
World , is hailed by the Radicals as
their evangelist. This minister of the
gospel of peace everywhere publishes
his piety and his statesmanship in
these fitting terms:
I would divide your army into three
<rrand divisions; Let the first go armed
and equipped as the laws of the army
require, with small arms and artillery.
Let them he the largest division and
let them do the killing. Let the sec
ond division be armed with pine torch
es and spirits of turpentine , and let
them do the burning. Let the third
and last division be armed with sur
veyors’ compasses and chains, and
will survey out the land and settle it.
We ill first sell it out to pay the ex
penses of the war with the proceeds,
and then settle it with men who will
honor this glorious banner. These are
my sentiments.
General Butler, the warrior of
the Radicals,, accepts the torch-and
turpentine gospel. In his speech at
Gloucester. Mass., he, too, contended
for the lorfeiturc of “the property, the
rights and the lives’’ of the Southern
people.
Forney, the journalist of the torch
and-turpentine party, publishes in his
Press a prayer for those who are labor-,
ing lor the restoration of the Southern
people to the right of
calling upon God to.
Sweep them away as with pestilence
that their wives may become widows
and their children, orphans , and that,
their names may become a hissing, a
by-word, and a reproach throughout
all generations-.
Wendell Phillips, the orator of
the torch-ahd-turpentine party, calls
down upon President Johnson, the
Northern advocates of his policy, and
the Southern people, like curses ; and
Thaddeus Stevens, their leader in
the Hump Congress, would consign
them all to “the penitentiary ot hell.”
The Torch-and-Turpentino party
are they not fitly namod ?
Worth Knowing. —A poison of
any conceivable description and degree,
of potency, which has been swallowed,
intentionally or by accident, may be
rendered almost instantly harmless by
swallowing two gills of sweet oil An
individual with a very strong constitu
tion should take twice the quantity.
This oil will neutralize every form of
vegetable or mineral poison with which
physicians and chemists are acquaint
ed. — Lynchburg News.
- ■■ —.
Colonization op the Blacks.—
The American Colonization Society
has received applications from six hun
dred colored people at the South for a
passage to the Republic of Liberia, and
the society has asked the New York
branch to assume one-third tho ex
pense in fitting out the expedition.
The board has the subject under eon
sideratioa.
YOL. VI.--.Yo. 42.
Whipping the Peti.l .Hound
the Stump.— The Round Table , a
New York publication, publishes a
startling article upon drunkenness
among women. It says the vice is
prevalent among fashionable ladies,
and that some of the most elogant of
them will pass this summer not at Sara
toga or Newport as usual, but at an
asylum for inebriates. The writer in l
tiluates that t.lio vice of fashionable
drinking is now more prevalent among
the ladies than among the gentlemen
of the country ; that certain dressma
kers make it a point to furnish their
customers with drink, while in some
stores bottles of wine arc also kept on
hand for lady shoppers, and in others
the merchants allow their boys to go to
the nearest bar room for liquor when
ladies desiie it. Whiskey and.brandy
are the favorite drinks of these ladies
and as some of the saloons they fre
quent do not have these liquors on the
bill of fare, a neat little sign—“if you
do not see what you want, ask for it,”
gives the hint to the initiated. In
dressmakers’bills the significant item .
“small trimmings” often covers up the
expense of liquors which the lady has
ordered through the modiste who pan*
ders to her vitiated taste, while at the
watering places a bribe to the waiter
procures a secret supply of liquor,
which, by the connivance of the land
lord, is charged as “extra luncheons.”
It is asserted that girls of eighteen,
daughters of most respectable New
York merchants, have been seen gross
ly intoxicated in Broadway stages and
upon the public streets, and that no
superiority of. intellect or social posi
tion is sufficient t'guard a lady against
this vice.
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Something we all Ougtit To
know. — The Treasury Department
will not recognize as ot full valie torn
greenbacks. If any part of a bill is lost,
a discount is made in proportion. Tako
an example—one-fourth of a five dollar
greenback is torn off, the value of t he
note is worth but 83.75; a fifty dollar
greenback in the same condition is
worth #37.50. Tho names ot the sign
ers may be legibly written on the face
of a bill, but that will not avail , any
thing if a portion of the note is lost.
There may be a reason,and it is probai
bly a good one, why this difference is
made, but we cannot see the necessity
of it. — Savannah News.
We understand this requirement of
the Treasury Department grew out of
the circumstance of attempts at clip
ping bills,, thereby making eleven bills
out of ten. Numerous instances of this
Yankee cuteness and shrewdness havo
come to the notice of the Treasurer.
This caused an order to be issued from
the Treasury Department to all receiv
ing offices and dtspositories of the
Government to receive all mutilated
bills at a price proportioned to the
amount of paper torn or cut from the
bill, llaggcdness of a bill docs not
lessen its value, provided none of the
parts are lost. Col. Sun.
Effect of Failure. —The New
York Journal of Commerce rightly
regards the present as a time of unpre
cedented importance, and says:
“If the efforts of Union loving, men
fail now to establish the great princh
pies of the Constitution as the law for
Southern as well as Northern States,
then the war will have proved a total
failure, and the outlay of money and
blood worse than vain. It is time for
all men to awake, if they are not al
ready awake, and to work for national
•peace and tranquility. We have had
enough of theories. We have been
led far enough by men who insist on
governing by their moral ideas, and
administering law, not as it is, but as
they think it ought to be. To compel
a Southern State to adopt any peculiar
domestic law, to dole out to it the
terms ot suffrage and the system of
social equalities and inequalities which
it is to take and live under, to prescribe
local legislation to any State, Northern
ot Southern, not prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States is to
violate the Constitution, violate the
principles of self-government, destroy
the balance of the whole Union, and
open the way for eternal quarrels be
tween sections.’*
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fiSTAnot'hef steamer load of negroes
left the Fortress on Saturday for Bos
ton. The Freedmen’s Bureau man
has been endeavoring, but with little
success, to induce the starving Penin
sular negroes to emigrate to Florida,
promising them, free passage.
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Orff Si Watkins.
We were informed by the junior of
this firm, while on our late visit to
Savannah, that he had, during the
last twelve months, paid out to the
printer, for job work and advertising,
five thousand dollars. This accounts
for the great success of this house.—
B. Argus. ‘ •
General Beauregard, who arrived in
New York from Paris by the steamer
from Brent on Thursday, is stopping
at the New York Hotel.
“What sort of a sermon do you like?”
asked Dr. Rush of Robert Morris, one
day. “ I like, sir,” replied Mr. Morris,
“ that kind of preaching which drives
a man into the corner of his pew, and
mako him think the devil ns after him.”