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PROFESSION AL (JARDS.
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wm. (4. hokslev.
All orn e v a i La w ,
TIIOMASTON, CA.
IV ILL practice in Upson. Talbot, Taylor, Crawford, i
* Monroe, l’ik.* and Merriwether Counties.
April 7. 1859—1 y,
DR. JOHN GOODE,
TANARUS) EsPEi TFI LLY offers his Professional services to j
At the citizens of Tliomaston and its vicinity.
He can be found during the day at Dr. Heard's of- ;
“ C G an 4 a t his father’s residence at night.
Thoniaston, Feb. 10.
THOMAS BEALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
fed3—ly TUOMABTOS . GA ’
P* VV. ALEXANDER,”
attorney at law,
or THOM ASTON, GA.
nov2s—ly
2 ****“’ C. T. Goode.
WARREN A- GOODE.
I ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
jovr (f lmi ’- iIOUSTGN CO., GA.
A. C. MOORE,
D E N T IST,
I TIIOMASTON, GA.
I 0 hpa- 2 a ’ *■ ouse (Hie late residence of Mrs.
I . f s >) “here lam prepared to attend to all class-
I 1 f! Ual operations. My work is mv Reference.
\ Ct. a. miller,
I ATTORNEY at law,
TUoM\stii\ GA.
P YY 1 N E 8 S C ARDS.
I GEORGE W. DAVIS,
■ I nierG, r>l a beautiful Stock of Spring and Sum-
Hth up-^ 0 * S ’ Con iprising every article Usually kept in
■ I Then>i.' Untr -'’• ‘ all and see him at his old stand.
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■ °‘ ;ri^NriT: E3
II > OPPOSITE TIIE LANIER HOUSE,
y lA( o\. ftPORGIA
I B. F. DENSE,
B (Late of thy Floyd House.)
BB Propfietoß;
BUSINESS CAIIL> S .
W. A. SNELL,
Dealer in pure Drugs and Medicines,
TIIOMASTON, GA.,
I r EEPS constantly on hand and for sale a large Stock
L of pure Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals and Patent
Medicines, consisting in pact of Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pec
toral and Cathartic Pills, and Sarsaparilla, Wistar’s
Balsam of Wild Cherry, Mustang Liniment, Terry Da
vis’ Vegetable Pain Killer, Roberts’ Cholic Mixture,
Alcohol, Linseed Oil, Train Oil, Spirits of Turpentine,
Coach and Japan Varnish. Also, Dye Stuffs, fine Cog
nac Brandy, Ten Year Old Apple Brandy, fine Bourbon
Whiskey, Old Port and Madeira Wines, Fine Cigars
and Tobacco, all of the very best quality. Besides
these, he has fine and fancy articles for the Toilet,
Paints, Varnishes, (fee., and in fact every thing usually
kept in a first class Drug Store.
Call and see him at the stand formerly occupied by
Harwell & Goode. May 19
SYDENHAM ACER. JNO. F. IVERSON
ACEE 81 IVERSON,
DRUGGISTS A.\D CRIMIStS,
SIGN OF GOLDEN EAGLE,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
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 Wines
and Liquors for Medicinal purposes, Medicine Chests,
Glass, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and
Toilet Articles, Fine Tobacco and Havana Segars, &e..
&c. jan6— ts.
HARDEMAN* & GRIFFIN,
DEALERSIN
STAPLE DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
Os Every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets ,
MACON, GA.
\\TE would call the attention of the Planters of Up-
IT son and adjoining counties to the above Card, be
lieving we can make it to their interest to deal with
us.
Macon, Ga., November 19.1858. nov25 —ts.
IP vb” lTtT© A L ■
To tlie American Party of Geor
gia :
The undersigned, your Central Execu
tive Committee, appointed by the Conven
tion at Milledgeville in J uly, 1857, having
been requested by various American Pres
ses and individuals, to call a Convention
of the A meric an Party , according to us
age, preparatory to a general re-organiza
t-ion for the approaching fall elections —
beg leave to announce, that, after due con
sultation and deliberation, they have deem
ed it advisable not to call said Convent ion.
Still true to our principles, and cherish
ing the liveliest regard for their mainte
nance. we nevertheless believe, that there
are other objects to be accomplished, of
much higher and more pressing impor
tance than any question connected with
tlie rights of foreign citizenship.
There is a party in power, composed of
i tiie worst, elements of all parties, which,
under the sanction of the Democratic
name, has committed a series ol unparal
leled abuses and frauds upon the Ameri
can people.
It lias perpetrated the Kansas swindle —
squandered the public money in the most
shameless manlier —run up the national
expenditures in time of peace, to near 90
millions of dollars per annum! —encour-
cd sectional undo for its own aggrandize
ment, —and even connived at Mormon pro
tection J Worse still! It has elected an
Abolition Governor over a Southern State!
—a State, which owes more to the instiln
: tion of slavery, than all the South besides
I —having acquired riches and power, by
the professional business of breeding slaves
for sale.
These are some of the enormities which
have been recently covered by the sanc
tions of the Modem Democratic Party.
To hurl this corrupt party from power,
is now the highest duty of every good citi
zen ; and to accomplish this noble pui
■ pose, we are willing to ignore tor the time
all questions of minor importance.
Trusting in the good sense and patriot
ism of our countrymen, we are satisfied
that the evils connected with the naturali
zation of foreigners, will, in due time, bo
corrected. And here we rest the subject.
We now call upon our friends every
where, to unite with ihe Opposition, against
this spurious Democracy. Let us make a
common cause. Together, with conseita
tive Whigs and independent Democrats,
make a bold descent upon the spoils-men,
| and, together, share in the honors of vic
j tory.
Already, the good sense of conservative
: men, throughout the length and breadth
‘of the land, has revolted at the misdeeds
of the Democratic Party ;—and many who
once adhered to it as the only consei value
National Party, have left it in disgust.—
Virginia, the nursing Mother of Democra
tic Statesmen and Presidents, is giving
, way ; —Tennessee and Kentucky are cx
pected soon to follow with still more deci
sive results —and Georgia , upon v hose pa
triotism and example the whole South re
lies, will not fail to thunder her indigna
! tion into the ears pi her betrayers. Let
then organize— Organize is the word.
The newspapers have suggested the hol
ding of an Opposition Convention in
Milledgeville on the 3rd Wednesday in Ju
ly next. We cordially endorse the sug
gestion, and urge ourlriends in every coun
ty to send up their delegates. Let them
M nd their hest eiid mvtt experienced men
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES:-DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
TIIOMASTON, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 18-59.
without respect to political antecedents,
provided they are known to be opposed to
the party in power; and, our word for it,
we shall be able to organize such a party
as will not only correct all local abuses, j
but rout the plunderers, and save the Na->
tional Government of our Fathers, from
demoralization and ruin.
J. H. R. Washington,
J. W. A. Sanford,
J. M. Calhoun,
Foster Blodgett, Jb.
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What the Whigs Oppose.
The following statement, showing what
the Whigs oppose, is from the Lynchburg
Virginian :
“The Whig party, essentially, is noth
ing but an Opposition party. That is re
ally the meaning of the word. It was its
meaning in England when the Whigs op
posed tyranny and corruptions of the oli- :
garchy—and it was its meaning in the’
American Revolution when those persons
were called Whigs who opposed the preten
sions and exactions of the mother country.
If there be any one, either in our own ranks
or the ranks of the other side, who is in
any doubt of the real character of the ‘Op
position* to the Democratic party, we pro
pose to enlighten him by giving a compre
hensive resume, which we find capitally
done to our hands, by an able Tennessee
cotemporary. Should any one, then, en
quire what is the nature of our ‘opposition/
let him be answered as follows ;
“ Opposition to the enormous and un
necessary increase of the public expendi
tures, and to the extravagances and corrup
tions practiced under the existing demo
cratic rule.
“Opposition to the policy of entrusting
to the Executive the purse and the sword,
as illustrated by the $'30,000,000 bill and
recommended by the President to Congress
to transfer to him the war-making power
in respect to Mexico and the Central Amer
ican States.
“Opposition to the monstrous project of
a bankrupt law, which, together with oth
er measures of Federal aggrandisement re
commended and sanctioned by the present
administration, lays the axe to the root of
State Rights. i
“Opposition to Presidential intcrfiwancc
with the freedom ot elections and the right
of suffrage, as exemplified in the removal
by Air. Buchanan of his own appointees to
office in Illinois, because they would not
war upon a Senator ol the L nited States
of his own party, for pursuing a course, as
Senator, contrary to the wishes of the Pres
ident.
“Opposition to the national indulgence
of a morbid and unhealthy appetite for
territorial acquisition, which, losing sight
of every principle of honor, justice, and
sound policy, and at the imminent risk ot
war, would, by cunning and dishonest con
trivances, or open force if necessary, extend
infinitely the limits of the Republic, and
absorb into our system mongrel popula
tions, which, after years of trial, have con
clusively shown their utter inability dura
bly to establish and peaceably to live un
der a free representative government
“Opposition to the further agitation ot
the slavery question, as leading to no prac
tical good to any portion of our country,
but fraught with peril to the peace and
perpetuity of the Union.
“Opposition to the division of the coun
try into two sectional parties—which will
be the inevitable result of the continued
ascendancy and course of the Democratic
party in the Southern States.
“Opposition to the fomenting of jeal
ousies, dissensions and heart-burnings be
tween different sections of our common
country by misrepresenting the aims and
opinions of the people of the different sec
tions in regard to one another.
“Opposition —determined untiring oppo
sition—to a dissolution of the Union, and
to all parties, as such, which cherish and
uphold as leaders men who are known to
entertain the spirit of disunion in their
hearts, or whose professions, doctrines and
acts manifestly tend to that result.
“Opposition to the wild policy of an ex
clusively metallic currency, which, if car
ried into effect, would, in the language of
James Buchanan, “at once diminish the
nominal value of all property more than
50 per cent” —“ would in effect, double the
amount of every man’s debts” —“enrich
creditors at the expense of their debtors”
and “make the rich richer and poor
poorer.” _ # .
“Opposition to direct taxation, which is
openly advocated by a portion ot the Dem
ocratic party, and which would be the uec
essarv and inevitable result of the canning
out of the Democratic doctrine o tjree trade
—direct taxation and free trade being, in
effect, one and the same thing.
“Opposition to a continuance of the L>e
mocratic poliev ot giving millions ot acies
of the public lands to the new States, and
persistently refusing to grant an acre to the
old States.
“Opposition to the borrowing of money
and the creation of public debt by the na
tional government, in time of peace, to aid
in carrying on its ordinary operations, with
out at the same time making due.and ade-
quate provision for its prompt redemption.
“Opposition to the admission into this
country of foreign paupers and criminals —
to the voting at the polls by foreigners not
naturalized—-and to all evasions and viola
tion of the naturalization laws.
“Opposition, in fine, to Modern Democ
racy.
“Opposition ! It is, at this important
conjucture in our national and State af
fairs, a good name, a peculiarly appropri
ate name, a highly patriotic name, for a
party that would save the country from
the blighting effects and the fatal conse
quences of a longer continuance of Demo
cratic misrule.”
From tiie Washingt n States (Democratic.)
44 The Black Lettered List.”
There must be a divorce of the President
from the Bennett clique cr a repudiation
of the Administration by the Democracy.
One or the other, in the interest of public
chastity, Democratic morality, and gov
ernmental integrity is imperatively de
manded.
It will be recollected that in 1856 one
John C. Fremont was nominated for Pres
ident, and was an especial favorite of the
hyena of the New York Herald. Said hy
ena, in fact, arrogantly claiming him as
his own bantling, as the Wooly Horse of
his own peculiar training. But as soon as
the result of the Pennsylvania State elec
tion was ascertained, Bennett discovered
to his amazement that the Woolly Horse
was in a sad condition :
With one eye out, the other blind,
His fore leg stiff and lame behind;
and, naturally enough, turned right over
with the velocity of a newly-greased loco
motive wheel, and shouted at the top of
his voice thenceforth, until the 15th of No
vember, for the Democratic candidate,
whose success was placed beyond all per
adventure.
He reminded us of an occurrence some
years ago in North Carolina. It was one
of the wicked pastimes of the “poor white
folks,” as they were called by the slaves,
and the negroes in old Rip Van Winkle,
to fight cocks at Easter. A lean, tall,
cross-eyed, ill-looking fellow —much like
Bennett, as described by Blackwood, ex
cept that he had a hare lip, and the ac
cent consequent upon such a deformity—
proposed a wager of five dollars with a
slave, that a celebrated cock known as
“high comb,” which was just in the act of
being pitted against another called “low
comb,” would be the victor. The slave
quickly took him up, and covering his
money, told him lie might hold the stakes.
High comb at first seemed to be more than
a match for his adversary, which so over
joyed his backer that be could not control
his self-possession, but jumping up and
clapping his hands, he shouted : “ Hurra
for the high-comb cock ! Hurra for the
high-comb cock ! Hurra for the high
comb cock ! I knew how it would be ! I
knew how it would be ! I knew how it
would be !” In a short time low-comb be
gan to rise and to show unmistakable signs
that he was to win the battle. As soon as
this was manifest to hare lip, he commenc
ed in a tone scarcely audible, progressively
raising his voice to its highest pitch :
“Hurra for the low-comb cock ! Hurra
for the low-comb cock ! Hurra for the
low-comb cock ! I told you so. I told
you the low-comb would whip !” “ Well,
but massa I bet on the low-comb cock,”
exclaimed Scipio. “You bet on the low
comb ! what a liar ! Well, we’ll have no
fuss. Here, here, here —there, there, there
—you take back your money and I’ll keep
mine, and if ever I bet with another nig
ger may I be d—d.” Bennett could not
restrain his joy as long as high comb was
rising and low comb seemed to be sinking
in the last Presidential canvass, but the
moment he discovered that low comb was
rising, and high comb sinking, he unscru
pulously claimed the former as his favor
ite.
And now for the black lettered list,
or list of the proteges of James Gordon
Bennett, who, as such have been especially
employed by a Democratic Administra
tion.
No. 1. Mr. Wykoff, Chevelier cVlndus
trie, bearer of despatches to St. Peters
burg, at eight dollars per day, and travel
ling expenses defrayed. Subsequently ap
pointed bearer of despatches to China,
whither he is about to proceed, at the same
rate of compensation. This person has
been the confidential pimp and scavenger
of the Bennett Family ever since he came
out of the penitentiary of Sardinia—per
forming all manner of services for his em
ployees. from mojor-clomo down to citisin
ier. As the inflated courrier, or. more
properly speaking, lacquais of Fanny Elss
ler, he reluctantly consented to act the part
of groomsman at the celebration of Ben
nett’s nitptials ; but becoming indignant
at the enormous black mail levy of Jack
Ketch upon the celebrated danseuse, he
suspended his relations with tiie Bennetts
in high disgust—a long correspondence en
suing on both sides, which went far to es
tablish the fact, that if both had been
locked up for a score of years in Blackwell,
even-handed justice would not have been
the sufferer. After Wykoff’s notorious tie
gradation, deserted by every friend but a
dastardly petite maitre —of whom we shall
speak presently—be recanted, the Ben
netts seemingly relented, and an entete cor
diale, offensive and defensive, ensued, the
legitimate workings of which are to be
found in bis intimate connection with the
government.
No. 2. Mr. Grund.—Francis J. Grund,
‘the “ basest Hessian of them all”—not ex
actly a Chevelier d’lndustrie, but some
thing, if possible, tenfold worse—a beast
in human form, who, provided his neck
is not submitted to a halter, nor his body
to a dungeon, is ever ready to act on any
side, or on all sides, just as interest may
suggest, for the highest attainable price.
An Austrian Jew of half-way Christian
conversion, he is in morals and in politics
as he is in religion, neither one thing nor
another, and yet all things to all men.
This fellow, as we are advised from abroad,
has been for more than a twelvemonth a
secret agent of the Administration in Eu
rope, upon a salary of ten dollars per day
and travelling expenses defrayed, acting as
correspondent for the Herald, and also for
the Union for a time. Whatever other
services he lias been performing for the
country we do not pretend to state.
No. 3. Mr. Fleuret—A Chevalier d’ln
dustrie of the rarest professional accom
plishments—a former dealer in Nasons
conventionncl- —the ami veritable of Wy
koff, but to what country belonging no one
with whom we have conversed knoweth.
This person was the the favori particulair
de la famille Bennett, and was pensioned
by the Administration through the sole
influence of that family, upon an an
nuity of two thousand dollars, in the be
stowal of the Bordeaux consulate.
No. 4. Mr. Thrasher —a hireling sub
edifor of the Herald —sent to Mexico as
bearer of despatches, and compensated at
the rate of eight dollars per day, and trav
elling expenses defrayed.
No. 5. Mr. Rainey—a Chevalier d’ln
dustrie of the shabby genteel order, not
quite so quick at tricks and shifting as his
more notorious Confrere, but a willing
minded vender of sill kinds of charlatan
ries—which be peddled in Ohio, Louisiana,
and elsewhere. The. precise relation in
which he stood to the Bennett concern can
not be easily defined, but he was in full
communion with Wykoff and those of his
ilk. This person was sent to Liber aas
supercargo of the captured Africans, at a
compensation, we suppose, considering the
rate at which Wykoff has been paid for
his services—of ten dollars a day and
traveling expenses.
How much further the black lettered list
may be extended we cannot at this time
say. but we shall inquire. Enough is ex
hibited, however, to cause every patriot to
blush for his country, and solemnly resolve
that its condition shall be bettered. Our
official portals must be closed against the
vicious—hermetically sealed, in fact—if
we would perpetuate the republic. Vice,
whatever the power it may exert, must not
be dignified with official sanction. Legions
of Bennetts will arise, with the rapidity of
mosquitoes from impure water, if it is as
certained that position, for the sake of
casting off a sullied reputation, has be
come a tradeable commodity.
In the instance of Bennett there is a
forcible exemplification of the trifle adage :
“Familiarity breeds contempt.” In an
undoubted “bogus telegraph” from Wash
ington, the President is now as good as
told by the hangman of the press that no
information is to be imparted hereafter by
either of the Executive Departments for
publication, except exclusively in the col
umns of that journal. Mr. Assistant .Sec
retary Clayton, of the Treasury, and other
officials, are roundly berated fur having
told what Bennett calls government se
crets, which first found their way into
newspapers other than the Herald. The
truth is, the Bennett concern has become
so presuming as to regard Mr. Buchanan
as a mere convenience for its advantage,
having but little more authority without
its assent than to sign commissions and
hold mere formal Cabinet meetings.
College for Editors. —The Rev. Or
ville Dewey, of Massachusetts, in a recent
fast day sermon, says : “There ought to
he a chair in our Universities for the in
struction of editors.” “If,” says the Bos
ton Post, “the reverend gentleman means
simply that editors oiight to have a colie- 1
giate education, we can only say the chair
is already in the universities, for editors
(to be) as for lawyers, doctors, and divines
in expectancy. If he means (as seems more
likely) that editors should learn their bu
siness—the art editorial, in a college—lie ;
is talking about as wisely as if he were to
say that they should go to a factory for the
same purpose. A college in which tc learn j
human nature ; to acquire common sense ; j
to cultivate at once a sound arid quick un- j
derstanding ; a ready wit; a prompt and
accurate composition ; the higher art of
distinguishing truth from falsehood ; reali
ty from pretension— that is the college for
an editor ; a college which ha3 its ‘chairs’
only in editorial sanctums, situated usual
ly Dear the attic (usque ad cerium) and as
little like a ‘university’ as a man of fanci
ful theories is like a man of successful
practice.
Bloody Affray between t \vo Candi
datcs for Congress. —The two Demo
cratic candidates in the Sixth District,
Ken tuck) —Mr. Rice, the independent
nominee, and Mr Garrard, the .regular—
had a difficulty on Monday of last week,
at Boonville, which resulted in a bloody
conflict-. The Richmond Me&sehgVr gives
the following account of the affray :
It seems that Garrard in a speech re
flected severely upon Rice, and his course
in becoming a candidate, and Rice in his
reply retorted bitterly, giving Mr. Garrard
as good as he sent Gairard replied, stat
j!ig that Rice's remarks “were as false as
h—l.” Rice called him a d-—n liar, where
upon Garrard drew a pistol and tired at
Rice without teaching him. A Mr. Gib
son, son-in-law of Mr. Garrard, immedi
ately drew a pistol and fired three or four
times, two balls took effect upon Rice, bad
ly wounding him, and a third upon amah
by the name of {Smith, who is thought to
be hlbrtally wounded;, flic ball having pass
ed through bis neck. Rice’s wounds are
very severe but ndt considered very diahgel'-
ous. The affair is unfortunate, and where
it will end we cannot say.
Some Good Reasons for not Fight
ing a Duel.— Mr. Samuel H Hammond,
in a letter to a St. Louis gentleman, dated
March 3d, 1809, tells the. following inci
dent of his editorial, experience : ,
While I edited tlie Albany Register I
offended a hot-blooded member of the F.
F.’s of New Tbi-k. He sent a polite invi
tation, through a friend, for me to visit
Baltimore. He again, through his friend;
invited me to visit Canada. Having jiisfc
returned from a fishing excursion to the
interior of her Majesty’s colony, and hav
ing no occasion to go thfit Way, 1 again de
clined. He then, in direct terms, invited
me to name a friend and time, weapons
and place*, to indulge in the pleasant pass
time of cutting each other’s throats. I
thought the matter over and declined a
tliird time, assigning Lie following reas
ons :
“1. The .hia;.’ wm- - nlrmy to law, and
I had no b ;-i.- to b bung for killing him ;
or - lip. h-i ■, hb be hung for killing me.
“2. I had i wife who loved me, and who
would n . : ri . if I fell. lie had only
a mist}- v 1 rej- ; e at his death
as reliev;! n he necessity of fly
ing from lb ii 4 ■ that of some
other man.
3. I had .hr. o chi! iron, i< r *’ done edu
cation I was in honor and by nature bound
to provide, lie has none.
4. Society Iras no slake in his life. Its
continuance wotlld be no blessing, and its
extinguishment no loss. Society had some
claims upon me—upoh him it had none ;
I had some claims upon society—he had
none.
And thebe tho matter lias rested ever
since/’
A Wooden Cannon. —J.*G\, of the Sal
isbury Banner, relates a revolutional inci
dent, which will be read with interest,
though we have heard of such things be
fore. In the Revolution the house of
James Casey, of Lexington, S. C., was in
possession of a small British garrison, and
not far off. the Americans, at the same
time, defended a rude fort. .In his descent
from the up-country, Gen. Greene deter
mined to rout the British from the house
I speak of, but having no field piece, and
being full of expedients, he constructed a
cannon of a piiie log. with which he at
tacked the enemy, who. after a few fires,
surrendered to the Americans. The hole
in the house, through which the pine log
cannop shot the hall which frightened the
British ihto submission, still exists.
Genl. Scott and the European War.
—A very silly paragraph is going the
I rounds of some of the papers, says the
New York Express , and has found jtftWay
into our own, that Genl. Scott Had jet 500
bottles of champagne that Louis
on would never re enter France alive. The
opinion and the bet both surprised Gene
ral Scott this morning, and,he that
| any friend or ehemy should have taken
such liberties with his name. Both state
ments ate absurd and ridiculous. Gen.
Scott is neither a betting man nor a guz
zler of champagne,
TrCth. An exchange Says,,“show us a
newspaper whose columns are crowded with,
I new advertisements, and we will show you
a community alive with business Mid en
terprise. I’he age is a moving one. A
man that stands still in these “latter days’’
will, in a short time, find himself behind
his competitors.
The Macon Telegraph has a short chap
ter oil “distressed politicians.” No doubt
the returns from the Virginia elections will
cause the Democracy, generally, to be elo
quent cn that subject
Number 30.