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He can he found during the day at Dr. Heard’s of fice, and at his lather’s residence at night. Thomaston, Feb. 10. THOMAS BEALL” ATTORNEY AT RAW, THOM ASTON, GA. fed3—lv I*. \V. ALEXANDER, ATTORNEY AT RAW, THOMASTON, GA. tiov2s—lv E. Warren. 0. T. Goode. ! WARREN & GOODE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PERRY, HOUSTON CO., GA. novlß—tf A. C. MOORE, DENTIST, THOMASTON, GA. OFFICE at my House (the late residence of Mrs. ; Hicks.) where 1 am prepared to attend to all class es ol Dental Operations. My work is mvßeference. nor 18—ts G. A. MILLER, ATTORNEY AT RAW, THOMASTON, GA. BUSINESS CARRS. GRANITE HiYLR, OPPOSITE THE LANIER HOUSE, MACON, GEORGIA B. F. DENSE, (Late of the Floyd House,) decl6—tf Proprietor. HARDE MAN & GR IF FI N/~ Dealers in Staple Dry Goods and Groceries of every Description Corner of Cherry and Third Streets, W MACON, GA. U would call the attention of the Planters of Up son and adjoining counties to the above Card, be lieving we can make it to their interest to deal with us. Mitcon. Ga. ; November 10 ; 1858. nov25 —ts. BUSINESS CARRS. AS BROOKS, Dealer in Family GFroceries, THOMASTON, GA., KEEPS constantly on hand a large stock of all kinds of Family Groceries. Iron, Hollow Ware, &c.. &e., and a few Liquors for the afflicted. Fruits and Oysters in season. nov2s—tf JAMES M. EDNEY, General Purchasing and Commission Merchant, AM) DEALER IX PIANOS, MELODEONS, PUMPS. SAFES, SEWING MACHINES, &e. Publisher ofCherokee Physician.’’ “Chronology of N. C., Southern Bishops’’ llickorv Nut Falls. &e. ‘W 1 11 < liuiiihers Street, IVewl'orh. Buys every kind of Merchandise directly from Job bers, Importers, Manufacturers, and Whole sale Dealers, (either for Cash or on time.) on the best possible terms. Commission for Buying and Forwarding, Two and a Half per ('cut. REFERENCES: Wilson G. Hunt & Cos., Boss, Falconer & Cos., Meli us, Courier & Sherwood. Cook, Dowd, Baker & Cos., Furman Davis & Cos.. A. T. Bruce & Cos., A. H. 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IVERSON, B!tl(lISTS A!\ I> CHEMISTS, SIGN OF GOLDEN EAGLE, COL UMB US, GEO RGI A . DEALERS in Foreign and Domestic Drugs, Medi cines, Chemicals, Acids, Fine Soaps, Fine Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery, Trusses and Shoulder Braces, Surgical and Dental instruments, pure AVines and Liquors for Medicinal purposes. Medicine Chests, Glass, Paints, Oils, A’arnishes, Dye Sturts, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Fine Tobacco and Havana Segars, &e.. &c. janO—tf. p .© l a t a <p a L a Speech of Mr. Thompson, of Ky. The Cuba bill came up as the special order, and Mr. Thoinnsmi. (omr.Lnf .Kxfl = ten. ivy, auiucßscu mu ijuuotu <ijia an aiiui ence of over tvvo thousand persons. He spoke two hours in a facetious strain, in terrupted by continued laughter. He was wholly against the acquisition of Cuba, and was astonished that the Senator trom Louisiana was in favor of it. The acqui sition would draw olf trade and commerce to a better climate and the port of Ha vana, till New Orleans became shriveled up and became like Lexington, Kentucky, a finished town. Cuba, the youngest child, would be as usual the pet of the family, and how much it would cost to get her in trim the Lord only knows. The children of the North eat dates and oranges which they are told are from an island wdierc there is no winter, and their natural in stinct is to seek it. He here quoted from “Cliildc Harold” and the “ Corsair.” Re ferring to Mr. Hale’s remark yesterday re specting Catholicism, Mr. Thompson did not think Catholicism so objectionable in itself as in the genius of the people who professed it, for lie had lived half his life among American Catholics, and no jieople are better or more loyal citizens. Mr. Hale had also suggested that avc should annex Canada. That proposal was mon strous, for the people there were of Anglo- French extraction, and he never knew a Frenchman yet whose idea of a republic was not merely to get a chance to vote for an Emperor. In talking so of the British possession, he seemed to forget that Great Britain is a larger landholder oil the North American continent than we are. One of the best poets of Home had said that that empire had tumbled to pieces from mere accretion. He feared that would he our fate. Our people from the Anglo-Saxon blood have derived the belief that it is right and proper to take from the Spaniard, Mexican or Indian anything they want, and that it is not homicide nor murder to kill him either. We want to Americanize and christianize Cuba, do we ? It remind ed him that two young Kentuckians went there on a similar mission ; one being a good looking fellow for an American, g’ot to be an overseer for a Avidovv ; that chris tianized her. The other ran away with the old man’s daughter, and within a year the old man Avas living on a corner ol the plantation, and himself in lull possession. That is the way Ave Americanize. The Cubans would not stay if we had the is land. They have too much instinct for that, Place the lion on the prairie, and ; the buffalo will soon vacate it, or put the tiger where the deer haunt, and you will not find one there in forty days. The blue rat peacefully possessed this country until the Norway rats acquired it—then instinct told them they had to leave, and they did. It was a shame to pamper to the spirit of acquisition that is dominant within us.— A century in the life of nations is hut a j day—so this nation is not yet a year old. — j Our true policy is to consolidate, secure ‘THE UNION OF THE STATESDISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.” THOMASTON. GEORGIA. THUBSDAY MOUSING, MARCH 10, 1859. . and build uji what we have, not to acquire more. It Avas said the possession of Cuba would give us an outlet for our fiery spirits. The Pacific railroad was argued on a similar plea. He had seen some of these filibus ters about Washington. They did noth ing, had nothing, “toiled not/neither did they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Imagine these men letting off their spirits in the Rocky mountains cracking rocksf or toting about railroad sills. No, sir, it is falla cious—for those who are always talking about their readiness to spill the last drop of their blood are generally willing to let anybody else spill theirs first. Cmba- Soetncd to Mr. Thompson to he element of weakness rather than of strength, and ten ding to interrupt our peaceful relations Avitli other Powers. He did not bolicA'e England or France wanted it; hut if they do, England Avill fight for it, and France will go in for the glory of the thing. The battle of the Gods and Titans, and the 1 ♦at tic of the fallen angels, as described by the poet, do not equal in grandeur her warfare. Recently ten thousand Persian cavalrv, on the plains of Teheran, were attacked by a regiment of Scotts Greys, led by three lieu tenants, Avlio fell one after another; the British rode them down like ninepins, re formed and charged hack again and again, j till in tAventy minutes there were not so ! many Persians lott as there were by Leon- j idas at Thermopybe. That’s the kind of fighting England does. For a thousand years her temple of Janus has never been shut. John Bull is, in tact, a bloody old bruiser, who has been roaming about the world, browbeating, insulting and Avhip ping everybody he has a mind to. If we had Cuba we could not raise such obstruc tions as we would keep him out of the Gulf, and for the reason that avc have no navy to match the English and French steam fleets. We would be driven out of the water, not because our people are not brave, but because we couldn’t stand such a fight. If we are to hold it, it must be by fortifications ; and he would have a committee, composed of the officers avlio went to the Crimea, to whom he would add Senator Davis, of Mississippi, and Gen. Shields, to svrvey and say where the Re dans and Malakoffs shall rear their crests fcffiltf fiW AoFitrdf e[ rftaP a pMifiereu child, whose stomach is not big enough for his appetite. Mr. Thompson had knowH gentlemen of Virginia to be ruined ere by owning too much land, which would be sold for the taxes upon it, until when they died there was hardly enough left to pay their funeral expenses. Our own country would be too big and the treaty ofGuadaloupe would have been a curse had it not been for the fortunate turn-up of gold in Cali fornia. But as to Cuba, there is not any godsend left there—nor has it gravitated one inch, notevenby the “passional attraction” of the free love school. We would derive no benefit from it. We would pay Spain more for it than it is worth, and negroes being cheaper there than in the South they would rise in price, and the Cubans would sell out their possessions at higher rates. He had also other insuperable objections to the bill. If it means anything it means that the money is to he drawn by the Span ish Minister of the day, who will make a treaty, and is thus offering a premium to revolution. Here Mr. Thompson made some palpable hits at the democratic par ty, saying he understood the discipline was very strict, and that whoever does not chalk up to the mark goes overboard. A\ lien I was in politics, and I may say when 1 was alive, (laughter) and old man Clay battled against the democratic party, lion hearted as he was, like Richard Cceurde Lion him selt, when he went into the Holy Land to rescue it from the custody of the infidels, Mr. Clay, Avitli a lion's heart, and his bat tle-axe uplifted, fought to rescue what he believed to he the Constitution and the rights of the country from the Democratic party, that he thought was disloyal and untrue to them ; then, sir, I fought and felt like a field marshal. Well, sir, as to (lie dnmocratic party, I do not know that I could very well join them unless 1 could see further into them. I could not be a locofoco anyway. (Laughter.) They mus ter their men with great severity, accord ing to regular drill, and if a man docs not chalk up to the mark, overboard he goes ; and the rule is that it is better to have an enemy out of the camp than a friend in the camp cutting capers and cutting shines. John Randolph, of Virginia, said of the democratic party —Avhat I Avill not sa} of them —that all they wanted Avas men of sense enough to lead, and fools enough to follow, [laughter] and if any man could not subscribe to these principles, and went into the party as a leader, who had not sense enough to lead he ought to be turn ed out. I believe you did cashier one or two. Ido not know what the severity of the discipline is. 11 I can get a private conversation with my friend from Illinois Mr. Douglas] before I lea\’e here I should like to know if he lias not learned some thing on that subject. (Laughter.) I wish, but privately and confidentially, to know from him if the discipline is not excessively lght. If I AYdg to go in 1 do not know upon aa hat sort ot probation or trial I should he put. I suppose it would be long enough to make them certain that they had got all the old genuine, gentlemanly Whig principles and feelings out of me, and that I leally had the true religion and was con verted. Then they might put me in the kitchen of the household of the locofocos until they believed I was really a Chris tian, and showed it evidently. Ido not know how I should be treated. I think I shall look a little further before I go in. Indeed, he must take an opportunity be | his term ends to ask the Senator from ; i I hums it ho has not been doing something with Cuba to amuse the South—and the Keystone bound to him by bars of iron and hooks ot steel, the President might demand a renomination—for lie never knew a Scotchman hut who would hold on till death. It Avas said his luck would kill Mr. Buchanan, hut Mr. Thompson knew j something of hygienne, and gave a decided opinion That ho is good for ten years vet, and then may leave it to a son of his,‘po litically of bourse, for none lie has other wise. In conclusion, Mr. Thompson utter ly condemns this rampant spirit that clam ors for war. It is a Avrong spirit and wrong Reaching to the country. If we get into a war with France and England avc will re pent it to the last day of our lives. It will saddle us with debts that it will take us as long to get rid ol as the Israelites ay ere in Egypt making bricks Avithout straw. Old John Bull might he likened to a bulldog, going about hunting up fights—Cmsar,’ Pompev, Jumper and Juniper follow in his trail, and when he pins anything they go in and worry it to death—and then out goes a nation from the map of Europe, or if left in it is crippled the rest of its life to pay the expenses of the fight. Our lower orders have an inveterate hatred against Great Britain, whether just or unjust he avou ld not say—but to hate a redcoat and a Britisher is an element of onr national character. It is true we eat suppers and read Shakspearre together, but that is no more than two old ladies having a bit of scandal over a cup of tea and hating each other like the devil. We can back against the bulldog a terrier that lias the spirit in him of the seven devils driven out of Marv must go through with it. We will suffer in it however avc may come out; hence as Jhe poAvers do not seem tow “want to fight there is no need to prqyoke it. Cuba, how ever, might do for a platform. Here Mr. Thompson, addressing himself directly to Mr. Seward, said ho would volunteer him a piece of advice that would he useful if he came to he President. As far as the noise and laughter permitted the reporter to hear, lie understood Mr. Thompson to ironically advise Mr. Seward to follow the example of other Presidents, and throw down the ladder when it had placed him in power. There was always some alternative to cast it aside. The advice Avas, “Don’t stand on the platform when the cars are in mo tion.” (Roars and laughter.) Mr. Thomp son finished by adopting an aspiration of Daniel Webster’s, that God will so shape our ends that they will result in good.— (Mr. Thompson had proceeded but a short time when he Avas obliged to sit and deliv er his speech, as lie was too weak to stand. Lord Napier chanced to be seated near him, and was evidently amused by his re marks.] The Senate Avcnt into executive session, and afterwards adjourned. The Virginia Whig Platform. Unanimously adopted in Convention. Resolved , 1. That the reckless extrava gance of the preceding and present Ad ministrations of the Federal Government, hy which the public expenditures have been increased from fifty to nearly one hundred millions of dollars, and the public debt greatly enlarged, is a wrong that must be corrected, and should be rebuked. 2. That the recommendations of the President, that Congress shall divest itself of the Avar and treaty making power, and confer them upon himself, subjecting, at the same time, the army and navy to his control, coupled xvith the proposition for enormous appropriations out ot the public treasury, to carry out his views, are the most astounding that have been ever sub mitted to the consideration of the Ameri can people, and call for the most unequiv ocal condemnation that the public voice can announce. In our relations with oth er {States, Ave recognize all those interna tional obligations which our position, as a member of the great family ot nations, im poses on us, and we would ever contorm to the requirements of those obligations. 3. That we are opposed to the doctrine of “free trade and direct taxation,” main taining that revenue sufficient for an eco nomical administration of the government ought to he raised by specific duties on for eign importations. And in adjusting a tariff, avc hold that it is the duty of Con gress to make such discriminations as Avill afford* to American industry the incidental advantages to vv’Hek it is justly entitled. •h That the public lands are held m trust for the benefit of all the States ; that such disposition should be made of them as will enure, by a disposition of the pro ceeds tfioteof, equally to the benefit of that Virginia who gave most, and has re ceived least, should now be allowed to have her just proportion, and that any party that opposes this is opposed to the best in terests of the State, and allows, if it does not favor, a continuation of the heavy tax es which afilict her people. 5. That, in respect to the Territories, | we adhere to the principles of the Compro mise measures of 1850 ; we repudiate the j modern doctrines of “squatter sovereign; v” j and “alien suffrage” and hold 1 ha., to the j inhabitants of the Territories, 1 ful citizens of the United States, belongs ! the light, when they come to form a State Constitution, to fashion their domestic in stitutions, according to their own pleasure, with the privilege of admission into the! Union upon equal terms with the citizens of the other States, whenever they have I the requisite population for one member of i the House of Representatives. (J. I hat, by their unanimous endorsa ! lion of the present Administration, the De mocratic Convention of this State, lately held at Petersburg, have assumed the re sponsibility ot till the errors and misdeeds of* Avhich Ave complain, and upon their par ty and their nominees the public judgment must be pronounced. 7. That the Hon. John Letcher, in his declared willingness to divide this ancient Common AA r ealth, for the purpose of exter minating slavery from the section in which he resided, committed an offence which is without justification, excuse, or palliation, and upon him Ave invoke the deliberate judgment of the people of this State. % 8. That the unfinished and unproduc tive condition in which our great lines of internal improvement have been left to lan guish, demands that the best exertions of all should be directed to their early com- pletion. 9. That the Union of the States, as es tablished by the Federal Constitution, is the surest guaranty of the liberty .of the people, and the safest support of their peace and prosperity, and avc deprecate all measures, and repudiate all parties, that teil(l t.n its ovprthrnw oral government as a sacred trust, to he faith fully exercised Ifir the common benefit, and Ave dgynaymyvscctional organization Avhich threafflis: w .pervert those poAvers to the ends ofmjustice and oppression. \Ve know of no diversity of interests among tlie sov eral States incompatible with an adminis tration of the government coincident with the equal rights of each, and avc hold it to he the duty of the Federal Government, and each department of it, Avitliin the just limits of the Constitution, to promote, by eA’ery means, the interests of all the States. f> j? -.Tie Salisbury AVatchman, Tlie % lliglit Spirit. The following able and patriotic letter Avas addressed to the. Whig Convention held in Richmond, Virginia, on the 10th iust. It breathes the right spirit, and ev ery Whig and American in the country should drink deep of the noble feelings vis ible in ewery line, and not give rest to his efforts until the disorganizers and section al agitators are driven from the high pla ces Avhich they now so unworthily hold. — There is a storm, avc verily believe brcAV ing in the public mind, as Avill, if rightly directed, burst Avith fury upon the heads of the cohesionists and public plunderers of the nation's Treasury , —place liofftst men in office, and bring our government back to its pristine purity. Staunton, Feb. 9, 1859. My Dear Siii : I regret very r u h that circumstances, over which I have no con trol, Avill prevent me from attending the Convention on the 10th instant, i was anxious to be present-^—l desired to avjL ness another old fashioned “ union ot the Whigs for t!i sake (jf the Union - Nev er was there more urgent reason tor such a meeting—never Avas the Union ot the States in more imminent peril than at pre sent. never Avas there greater occasion for the concert and co-operation ot all nation al and conservative men to resist the tac tions spirit and sectional tendencies, Avhich are running riot throughout the country — never Avas there a time which appealed more persuasiA'dy to the honest and patri otic portion of the community, to stem the tide of wasteful extravagance and political corruption, Avhich pervade the administra tion of the Government. Surely the people of Virginia must aAvake from their lethargy ere long ? When thev see doctrines broached by the execu tive, for the regulation of our intercourse with foreign nations, Avhich could be tole rated only in a code of freebooters ; Avhen they see all fraternal feeling between the North and South destroyed by the machi nations of the federal government, Avhen they Avitness the monstrous demand of thirty millions of dollars, to be AvithdraAvn ’ from the public treasury and placed at the control of tiro ‘'xe utivo • when th*y see a Democratic Senate abandoning ite execi>* tivo 1 unctions, and willing, in adr&iMXq tef ratify any treaty tlir President may urgo-* tiate for the aoquidtion of Cuba when they perceive that one line ot conduct is pro*’ scribed for our dealings with strong nations” and another for those that.are weak and defenceless ; when they discover that the golden rule of asking of other countries, “nothing but what is right and submitting | to nothing that is wrong, is utterly ignor | ed ; when they find that in a time of pro found peace, the expense of the goveru | meat are swelled from fifty to more than : eighty millions ; when they learn that the i surplus of seventeen millions, which was ■ i rr th.! treasury when Mr duchanan came ’ into power has been squandered, and all the current revenues are-gone, and a debt of seventy inii 1 ions has been created in two years ; when th.y see that American in dustry has been prostrated to foster the la bor and reward the capital of foreign na tions, when they are told that we tax tfie productions of foreign nations only twenty per ci nt } on an average, when they tax our productions, (except cotton, which they’ I cannot do without,) of an average, three | hundred per cent , and Virginia tobacco i about om ihousond per cent ! {Surely, I say, the people must awake to a just sense j of their w rongs ; surely they must rise in | the majesty of their strength and hurl from ! power the party that has so shamefully abused t heir confidence ! Must the earth quake? Must the earth quike before the people can lie aroused ? I think not. I think, when the Democracy stands con demned, us it does, out of the mouths of its own organs, the people must see and feel the necessity of a change. - V O Let, then, the noble Whigs and Amer ieans go on in the work which they have so nobly begun ! Let them put in nomi nation a strong ticket of good men and true ! Let them speak to the people face to face ! Let them expose the iniquities and and mis-cleeds of the party in power 1 them unveil its treachery to the South I Let them shew up the wasteful extrava gance and profligacy of the present Admin istration, and I cannot doubt that they will find responsive chords in the popular heart 1 I am with your movement heart and i*j• • r - cerely regret that I cannot be present with the gallant Whigs and Americans of Vir ginia to lend my voice with theirs in a loud and earnest appeal to eomo to the Constitution and the country 1 May God speed the good work ! Your friend and fellow Whig, ALEX. H. H. STUART.’ Democratic Reform.—The Louisville. Journal publishes the following apt and ‘ amusing illustration of democratic Reform. It is capital, We hope the democracy in. this region will at oncO Commence tooir calculations and give the public the advnb* tage of the results of their cyphering.—*. The Journal says: That facetious and’ talented gentleman R. B. H., Esq., in one of his stUtnpifig campaigns, being near the Southern borders of Kentucky, and hear ing of a large political meeting to be hold not far off in Tennessee, crossed over te witness bow stomping was done there.— Among many other gems of oratory that he brought away with him he relates the following part of one of the speeches, as a specimen sample: “Fellow-citizens, this thing of “Democ racy and Reform” commenced about thirty . years ago. Instead of the corruptions of government being reformed, we have con tinually been sinking deeper and deeper.— I cannot better illustrate this than by what I witnessed when at school. Jhe teacher ono day in a jocose mood gave Bill Coons the fallowing question in arithmetic: — Suppose a frog at the bottom of a thirty foot w 11. who climbs up one foot every day and tails Kick two ti er at night, how long will it take the frog to'g'-t t the top? At it Bill wo m and worked away until he had nearly filhd both sides of his slate with tigures, when the master called out: “Bill,; have you not finished that question yet ?” “No, sir,” answered Bill, “taint finished,, but I see how it must be done.” “Well,”, gays the master, “how high up in the well have vou got the frog?” “Taint high up, at allj but low down,” answered Bill, “I reckon he is about half way down to hell!” “Now fellow-citizens, I reckon thatyoir are as fate as that boy Bill, and, though you may not be able ter cypher it out ex actly how low down in the depths of cor ruption this Democratic Reform has guide us, vet vou can see as plain as the boy did? where it will land us.” A good story ‘is told of a lady wit who’ dined at the President’s the other day, and was seated at table between a certain Rep-’ resentative from Tennessee, and the Hon.’ Mr. Ruffin, of Noith Carolina. “How are you getting on, my dear madam, asked the folly bachelor of the White House, u Well as could be expected, with a BaV* a-c on one side, and a Ruffi(a)n on the otft* was the instant reponse. 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