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THOMASTON. ga.
41 ILL practice in Upson. Talbot, Taylor, Crawford, j
Monroe, l’ike ami Merriwether Counties.
April 7. 1859—1 y.
DR. JOHN GOODE,
T)h>PE( THLLI otters his Professional services to I
t,u ‘ ( 'iiizens of Thomaston and its vicinity.
He cmi be found during the day at Dr. Hoard's of
'e and at h;, lather's residence at nigh?,
thomaston, Feb. 10.
THOMAS BEALL,
ATTORNEY at law,
fedS—ly THOMASTON, GA.
w. ALEXANDER
ATTORNEY at law,
nor2s-lv TH °MASTON. GA.
E. WxuREX. ‘ c. T. Guooe.
barren & GOODE,
ATTORNEYS at law,
DOTIB-tf RKV ’ HOUSTON C - GA -
A. C. MOORE,
DENT IST,
AFFIOF * TII OMASTON, GA.
vi IP,T , !tl - House (the late residence of Mrs.
es of h-• i” liere * am prepared to attend to all class
G. A. MILLER,
attorney at law,
THOMASTON. GA.
JsT es s cards.
GEORGE W. DAVIS,
1 m? Ceipt of a b, : autit ' u! Stock of Spring and Sum
the ur JIKK s - comprising every article usually kept in
“Untry. Call and see him at bis old stand.
_ ir ‘omaston, April 7, 1859.
hall,
OPPOSITE TIIE LANIER HOUSE
GEORGIA
B . F . DENSE,
(Late of the I'loyd House.)
Profbietor
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BUSIN ESS QA R DS .
W. A. SNELL,
Dealer in pure Drugs and Medicines,
THOMASTON, GA.,
KEEPS constantly on band and for sale a large Stock
of pure Drugs. Medicines, Chemicals and Tatent
Medicines, consisting in part of Dr. Ayer’s Cherry Pec
toral and Cathartic Pills, and Sarsaparilla, Wistar’s
Balsam of Mild Cherry, Mustang Liniment. Perry Da
vis’ Vegetable Pain Killer, Roberts’ Cholic Mixture,
Alcohol, Linseed Oil, Train Oil, Spirits of Turpentine,
Coach and Japan Varnish. Also, Dye StulFs, fine Cog
nac Brandy, Ten Year Old Apple Brapdy, fine Bourbon
Whiskey, Old Port and Madeira Wines, Fine Cigars
and Tobacco, all of the very quality Be-rides
these, he has line and fancy articles for the Toilet,
Paints, Varnishes, &e., and in fact every thing usually
kept in a first class Drug Store.
Cal! and see him at the stand formerly occupied by
Harwell & Goode. May 19
SYDEXUAM At EE. JNO. F. IVF.RSON
ACEE &. IVERSON,
DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS,
SIOX OF OOLDF.X FAOLF,,
COLUMBUS, GEOR GI A .
DEALERS ill 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 Stulls, Fancy and
Toilet Articles, Fine Tobacco and Havana Segars, &e..
&c. janC—tf.
HARDEMAN & GRIFFIN,
DEALERSIA
STAPLE DRY GOODS AND GKOCEKIES
Os Every Description
Corner of Cherry and Third Streets,
MACON, GA.
WE would call the attention of the Planters of'TJp-
VV 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. nov2s—tf.
Wasted Capacity in tlic South.
One effect of the want of proper atten
tion to domestic industry in the South is
the waste of capacity, which might be
turned to profitable account. This is a
very heavy drawback to her prosperity,
i The results are everywhere seen and felt,
! but the cause, we fear, is almost lost sight
of. The evil pervades, to a great extent,
the entire South. It is due to the preva
| lence of a false notion in reference to the
! dignify of labor, and a wrong direction in
■Xr; T h r,! v .;??••■ in consequence. yeai|
! ago, and in which they still continue*! ‘
though happily there are indications of a
return to more enlightened and philosoph
| ie views, and to a policy more in accord
ance with those principles ot sound politi
i cal economy from which a community de
parts at its peril. There is a great variety
I of mental capacities and tastes observable
in every state of society. The design of
this evidently was to provide for the diff’er
! cut wants of man as a social being. This
diversity of tastes and ot talents is there
fore a great primal Jaw, which God has
imbedded deep in the nature oi man for a
great and wise purpose, and to ignore it is
to ignore an irreversible decree ot Omnip
otence. We know very well that com
merce comes in to remedy largely a depar
ture fiom this great law, which, hence be
comes a wise provision to avoid the evils
that might otherwise arise from such de
parture where this in some degree cannot
be avoided, as is sometimes the case. But
that it is a law, general in its extent, is
manifest from the fact that in such com
munities as are apparently, or even really,
shut it]) to a single pursuit by nature her
self, this variety of inclination and capac
ity is still found, though it ruay be less
distinct than in countries more favorably
circumstanced. Hence, in regions better
adapted to agriculture and the mechanic
arts, there will still be found persons who
have no taste for pastoral life. They pre
fer the music of machinery to the warb
lings of forest choristers. I hey worship
more devoutly the triumphs of human ge
nius in the skill displayed in producing ai
tifieial results than the “cloud-capped pal
aces and <>-orgeous towers erected b\ the
hand of the Great Architect. In a woid,
they prefer the hammer, the chisel, the
loom, the pencil or the scalpel to the plow,
the spade and the pruning hook. It they
are shut up to that for which they have no
inclination, they are listless and indolent,
and as a consequence of this they are ready,
or they soon become so, for almost any
thing that will relieve them from the cn
nuie which is so oppressive to them.
Now, in the South we have no excuse
whatever for ignoring the great law of an
inherent variety of talent and taste in the
moral and intellectual constitution of man.
We have almost every variety of soil and
climate. We have, or may have, almost
all kinds of natural productions, Mater
i power, mines and in a word, the elements
of nearly every kind ot industry. W hat
do they avail us ? Is not our industry
confined chiefly to llie culture of two or
three agricultural productions P For what
was all this profusion of elemental riches
given us, if not to be developed by indus
try, by the skillful labor of cunning hands,
wisely and systematically employed ? Aa
riety of elements indicates clearly enough
to him that can read the design, the ne
cessitv of variety of pursuit in order that
i there may be no M’aste oi capacity. And
1 this, we take it. is precisely the point where
‘THE UNION DF THE STATES:-DISTINCT. LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2-5, 1859.
the shoe pinches in the South. It is just
here that we need reform, that we need a
healthful departure from the old track
| which we have been pursuing with never a
thought, apparently, that it is not the
right one for us to travel.
As things have been and as they f now
continue, though not to so great an extent
as formerly, the limits between which a
young man must, almost of necessity, con
fine himself in the choice of a pursuit for
life, have been exceedingly narrow. Why,
as a general rule, be must either take to
farming or enter the “learnedprofessions !”
We trust we shall not be suspected of a
covert purpose to cast reflections upon the
pursuit of agriculture or any other honest
profession, learned or unlearned. But how
often is it that a young man whose father
is a planter has very little taste for the
business P He may not know exactly
Mliat lie does like, but he cannot get his
consent to go to plowing, either with or
without a hand or two. AN hat is he iiom t
to do ? He looks around. There is—
blank before him. If there w'ere a ma
chine shop within striking distance, he
would be attracted towards it instanter,
and as a machinist or some other kind of
a mechanic, he -would rise to eminence,
would enrich his native county by bis in
dustry, intelligence and bis energy. But
he lias no such chance, and lie takes, as
the only alternative, to law or physic. He
has no taste or capacity for either of these,
and the consequence is that he drags out a
lounging existence in some country vil
lage, his time about equally divided be
tween his “clients” and the card table and
tippling shop. Ilis capacity is wasted, ut
terly lost to himself and his country. In
stead of being a benefit to himself and liis
friends,, and a. source of strength and rich
es to his State, he is little better than a
drone and a burden. Very frequently the
idle habits, which the non-gratification of
his inclination in the choice of a pursuit
lead him to crime and the penitentiary, or
cause him to take flight to avoid the lat
ter. Or, it may be, that he takes to poli
tics for-a living, turns agitator, and “saves”
the South —between which and the peni
tentiary, in point of usefulness, it might
be somewhat difficult to decide, as in the
-.yu)ej: case, lie keeps clear of the law but
lex's a great deal v>l mischief; but in the
latter, lie commits an off nee, but goes to
work afterwards, and Ins labor becomes
useful.
We are drawing no fancy skeicli, but
one that is true to the life. \N hoover is
familiar with the South must, we think,
recognize'the original of our picture. W c
wish it distinctly understood, that we are
casting no reflections upon the callings ol
medical or law students. In the case we
have supposed, it is the misfortune ol the
young man rather fault that he
is of Uo use to himself or any body else.
His ambition to be somebody and to do
something was commendable, and it took
a wrong direction only because there was
no opportunity for giving it a right, direc
tion. It by no means follows that because
a man lias not the capacity to fit him for
a physician or an advocate, that lie is
therefore without talents. T niton or
Morse as a doctor or lawyer, or preacher,
would have been, we doubt not, a dead
failure.
We ol (served in the beginning of this ar
ticle, that the evil we are commenting up
on is due, in a great part il not chiefly, t<>
a false notion in reference to the dignity of
labor. The young man thinks that to be
a mechanic, though not in any sense dis
reputable. is, after all, not quite so ie
spectable” as to enter a “learned profes
sion ;” and this Lise and ridiculous no
tion causes many inferior minds to adopt
those professions, as the w r eaker minds <uc
the first to yield to false notions ot pride
or to the prevailing prejudice. Contempt
of them frequently denotes genuine tal
ents, boldness and originality. Hence we
find mechanics in the South often exhibit- ,
ing the first order of ability.
The foolish notion in regard to the so
cial status which industrial, artistic pur
suits give their votaries in the South ought
to be everywhere scouted, as. depressing in
its effects and incalculably disastrous in its
consequences. The North has encouraged
a different spirit. She varies her industry
so as to give free scope and employment to
every class of talent, and nothing is fir ic
fore wasted. She supplies us with what
wc might supply ourselves; which Me re
ceive, pay largely for and ridicule her a
community of “clock pedlars” and nick
nack makers, while she all the vhile. is
laughing at our stupidity, and exhausting
beggarly policy ot paying and abusing hei
at the same time.
It is about time for us to change all
this. If we would become independent
in any sense worthy anybody but an idiot s
regard, we must vary our industry so as to
develope our natural riches, and so as to
prevent any waste of capacity among us.
This will give us true independence, and
before it northern “aggressions,’ how grave
or numerous soever they may be, will van
isli as the hosts of Senuacharib did before
the destroying angel. Depend upon it this
is the onlv’.war club competent to beat back
| the said “aggressions.” Make a large com
munity rich in intelligence and in moral
and material Mealth, and it will be strong,
abundantly able to take care of itself, and
to repel any assaults from what quarter
they may come— X. O. Bulletin.
Garibaldi's Movement.
The brilliant movement of Garibaldi in
the northern part of Lombardy entirely
ellipses in interest the success gained by
ihe allies at Montebello. In fact, the di
re**, mdefence of that movement, if no re
verse overtakes it, will be as important up
on the issue of the present campaign as a
victory in a general action on the line of
the Po or the Ticino. Not only is Gari
baldi now descending M'itli bis little army
upon the flank of the Austrian line—a ma
noeuvre M’liich under all circumstances
would give him ail advantage such as
would do much toMards making up for the
small number of bis men—but his move
uiun-t has something more than an ordina
ry military aspect. He is about to test
the strength of the hold which Austria lias
upon its subjects in Lombardy. So far as
it extends, bis march is a revolution. He
calls upon the people of Lombardy to act
for themselves, and to aid in throwing off
the foreign yoke, and freeing them from
the intimidating presence of an Austrian
force, lie offers to them the opportunity of
striking a blow in their own cause, if in
deed they feel that they have any cause to
tight for.
About ten years ago Garibaldi M*as en
gaged in making candles on Staten Island,
and thus practically instructed Ins coun
trymen in exile how by labor, hoM’ever
humble, to exalt themselves in individual
independence and in the eyes of society.—
Garibaldi was educated, like bis father and
grandfather, to fulloM* the sea. W bile but
a youth he made voyages along the Medi
terranean and to the Levant, and finally
M’as condemned to death for being a mem
ber of a secret order of Italian patriots. —
He made bis escape from Genoa to Mar
seilles. We find him subsequently in
South America, M’liere he raised an Ital
ian legion of eight hundred men, and, as a
er of Montevideo, he joitled in the war
agaiust Rosas, tin* tyrant of Buenos Avrcs.
-• a ... attacked i* the Parana, and was
ii t in -lie neck, Tailing insensible, and re
maining so till the action M*as over. He
pafc- xl fourteen years in South America,
and there trained an Italian legion for fu
ture service in the cause of Italy. Some
of these are now sharing in his new for
tunes.
In one of liis maritime expeditions to
South America he married a lady M'ho is
thus described :
“She was trained to horsemanship and
the most athletic habits Mliich prevail
among the females in those countries.— j
Though, like him, noble-hearted, afi’ec-1
! innate, and disinterested, she also posses
sed a similar degree of personal courage j
and fortitude Mliich have seldom been dis- ‘
]flayed, and still more rarely depicted by
any authentic pen. After her marriage, |
she-.. Accompanied him in his battles, by j
sea and land, and although usually un
armed, and keeping at his side only as his
companion, she sometimes aided in his
most desperate conflicts, by dealing out
powder, loading guns, and even firing
them at the enemy. The sufferings which
she endured among the mountains, in times
of adversity and seasons of tempests, Mere i
severe and almost incredible.
“The short account of her escape from
a Brazilian guard, after capture in an en
gagement, and the journey of several days
and nights, on horseback and alone, tliro’
wild forests, SM’imming swollen torrents,
on her way, by holding to the mane or
tail of her horse, is exceeded by the sad
narrative of her death, in 184*9, on the’
banks of the Po, when, after resolutely ac
companying Garibaldi on his retreat from
Rcqne, she landed with him in one ot the
boats in which lie Mas seeking to reach
Venice, then the only place in Italy which
held out against the enemy.”
Within the last feM r years Garibaldi lias
been commanding vessels in China and
Peru, but sometime ago lie returned to
Piedmont, where he attended to the edu
cation of two sons, and took measures to |
colonize the island of Oaprea, purchased
by him m ith money inherited from his
bro her. He is a very brave sailor and
soldier, and equally successful in either ca- ;
pacify.
Foote on Democracy.— Gov. Foote of ;
Mississippi made a speech lately at Mem- j
phis Tennessee, in which lie came down
upon the Democracy with a vim that was
terrible in the extreme. Considering that
the Governor has been a Democrat all bis
life, he ought to know ‘that whereof he
speaketh/ For the comfort and the pri
vate delectation of our Democratic friends,
m c make an extract from the Governor’s
speech, as folloM'S :
“•He M-as a Democrat, but he contended
there was no true Democratic party now j
in existence. The organization called De
mocratic he regarded as utterly incapable
of conducting public a flairs in an honest 1
and statesmanlike manner. In fact, the
Democratic party, now in existence, is dis
honest, corrupt and imbecile in the ex
treme—confessedly so. Party organs and
party leaders openly avow it—the Wash
ington States had repeatedly charged it,
and had exposed the peculations, frauds,
and thefts of Government officials. Even
the Washington Union, the organ of the
Executive, has had the unblushing efiron
; tery to acknowledge and attempt to justi
fy one of the most corrupt procedures ever
undertrken by an Executive. He
! referred: to the laying ot* a percentage? on
| the salaries of federal officers for party pur
poses. The late letter of Gov. Wise, of
Virginia, (high Democratic authority.)
M’as referred to in support of his allega
tions. In charging corruption upon the
Democratic party, he did not mean to be
understood as saying the majority—the
masses —of the party M’ere corrupt. He
meant the leaders of the party ; the
men mlio pull the M ires and turn the crank
of the political machine ; the men mAio get
up lists of delegates to County, State and
National Conventions ; men who hold cau
cuses to manufacture platforms and candi
dates ; the Slidells of the party. These
w’ere the men to M’liom he referred. The
masses of the American people to whatever
party they may be attached, he believed to
be honest and patriotic, capable of self
government, and still capable of rescuing
the govern went from the hands of the un
scrupulous tricksters who were’ flurrying
the country onward to destruction. The
masses M’ere honest and incorruptible ; but
the organization is utterly and irretrieva
bly rotten and debased. He referred to
leading men’s statements in support of this
and to the fact that in the great city of
New York among the host of Democratic
office-holders there, not an honest man was
to be found.’
A Beautiful Postal System.
The mail route from this place to Co
lumbus, via Hamilton lias been stopped
for the last two weeks, resulting from the
inability of the government to respond to
the demands against it held by Mr. Thom
as Davis, the contractor on that route—
thus shutting out the people along the
route from all communication M’itli the
world vnd “ the rest of mankind.” We
have bebn to Hamilton since the discontin
uance of the m&Wf and found the people
very much enraged against “ the powers
that be.”
This is not the only ease of the kind in
Georgia, as M*e learn by our exchanges.—
While our Federal nobility are luxuriat
ing in all the regal splendor that ever
adorned royal courts, our poor mail-con
tractors are compelled to do M’itliout their
money, and the people M’ithout their mails,
while our Congressmen have received their
pay of $3,000, and have enjoyed the case
and comforts of fine rocking chairs—reflec
ting their dishonest faces in splendid
SI3OO French mirrors—combing their
heads M’itli costly combs and sleeking them
over m ith expensive hairbrushes, and that,
too at your expense. Tou are compelled
to do without your mails because the poor
mail carriers, m lio have‘breasted the storm
of M’inter and M’ithstood tlie heat of sum
mer. cannot get their money and thus ena
ble them to fulfil their contracts.
The people of Hamilton, and those
along the route from here to Columbus,
have been compelled to forego the conven
iences and privileges ot mail facilities tM’o
long weeks ; and it is a shame to our coun
try that such should be the fact. Wc un
derstand, however, that the mail mAII be,
hereafter continued until the end of the
present month.
Since writing the above we are informed
by Mr. Davis that upon the reception of
the circular sent out by A. N. Zevely, 3rd
assistant Post Master General he notified
the Post Office Department at Washing
ton that ho wished to assign his claims
against it to a third person, and desired
that “the proper evidence of the amount
due” him should be made out and fonvar
ded to him ; for unless the Department
did do so he should be compelled to dis
continue the mails, as lie Mas unable to
meet the expenses on the route already due.
It is now the middle of June and Mr. Da
vis has not yet received his certificate from
the government.
The people of Hamilton, and those along
the route, will now understand the true
cause of the discontinuance of the mail. —
La Grange Reporter.
Wiierf. is Montebello ?— Very feM
tnaps contain the place upon M liich renown
has fallen for a second time, in conjunction
with contests between the armies ot I ranee
and Austria. Montebello is a very insig
nificant village, and is so near toCasteggio j
that its name is rarely lound in ordinary
geographical charts. Casteggio is about
thirty miles east of Alessandria, and fifteen
west of the Po, M'hile Montebello is but a ;
few minutes walk southwest of Casteggio.
Casteggio and vicinity has been a cele
brated battle-grotmd for more than 2,000
years. It is the ancient Cldustidium, and
it M-as here that Claudius Marcell us won
the richest of spoils by vanquishing and
slaying Yiridomarus, King of theGcesatce.
In the Punic wars it was an important mil
itary position. It was besieged by Hanni
bal, and might have defied his power, but
historians tell us that 200 large pieces of
gold, paid to the commander, Publius Da
rius. “purchased the fortress.” The stores
and provisions found therein were of the
greatest utility to the Carthaginians. A
spring not far from Oasteggio is still called
Fontana d’A nnibale.
Ohio Americans, —At a meeting of the
“Americans” at Cincinnati last week, the
following preamble and resolutions were
adopted :
Whereas the character of the late Re
publican State Convention, as exhibited
by their action in repudiating Judge Swan,
on account of his honest and sound opin
ions as one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of Ohio in the rescue case, and as
further exhibited by their platform, through
which a direct thrust is made at the prin
ciples of the American party; which was
invited to unite in ihe Convention, calls
upon all true Americans to consider their
their duty to the public and the'r party;
“ Therefore Unsolved , That all Ameri
cans of the city and county he requested
to assemble at on Thursday, June 9,
to consider and adopt a proper course of
action in the emergency.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the meet
ing was addressed by several prominent
members of the party, all of whom seemed
to agree in their denunciation of ihe action
of the Columbus Convention.
The Sin of D ancing. —The Rev. James
L. Corning, the Presbyterian minister at
Buffalo, whose lectures on “The Christian
Law of Amusement,” have oc casioned some
comments, is in favor of dan ing, at least
as it is practiced “on the Highlands of
Scotland and the green swards of Switzer
land, and in the rural districts of Germa
ny.” Jlc objects strongly to fashionable
suppers and parties, and would seem to
speak in the following passage, not with
out personal observation : “ Why, I have
sat beside a professing Clnistian woman in
one of ihe beautiful parlors of a fashiona
ble metropolitan avenue, whose jeweled
neck, and ears and ting, vs, and dazzling
brocade, as much as said to the assembled
guests, ‘none of your dresses cost as much
as min and then I have seen her go into
the supper room and cat enough to make 1 a
swine have gripes of conscience, and then
come out; obese, and panting for breath,
made marvelously religious by sandwitclies
and champagne, and wind up the farce with
a pious discourse on the sin of dancing. —
Now, I think that if she had transported a
portion of her conscience from her slippers
to her stomach, though she might have an
inch or two less of phylactery, the loss
would have been comp msated by several
additional yards of Christian consistency.”
Death of a Printer who knf.w “Ju
nius/’—The Pendleton (ft. ('.) Messenger
in a sketch of the ‘Old Stone Meeting
House/ in thnt town, after speaking of
several celebrities buried in the graveyard,
says :
Beneath a cluster of cedars repose all
that is mortal of John Miller, printer. Wo
lingered long by his grave, for his eventful
life afforded us fo< and for meditation. If
we could have seen and conversed with his
descendants, who live in this vicinity, we
could have gained a fuller sketch of him.
Mr. Miller was the oldest typo in the State.
For the publication of Jiioius'B letters—
the author of those papers he well knew—
he was expelled from England, lie came
to South Carolina ; \ rohably w. fked for a
while in the office ot the first paper pub
lished in this State, at Charleston, and
thence removed to Pendleton, using the
press which Gen. Greene had in his cam
paiVo. He did job work until he commen
ced the publication ot the Pendleton Mes
senrjcr —the second paper established in
this State.
The world has speculated much Os to
the authorship of Junius, but John Miller
carried the secret it> his grave at the ‘Old
Stone Meeting House,’ and has left no in
formation as to the name of the author.
Narrow Escape or Napoleon. —ln his
visit t a the field of battle at Montebello,
the Emperor Napoleon narrowly orwtiped
bciier made piisofiei*. Ho had pushed on
as far as Casteggio, arid was observing with
his telescope the movements of the
between Barbiahcllo and the <>'t cd dei
Stella on the Po, when suddenly a detach
ment of Austrians piesented themselves
before him, only two hundred paces dis
tant. Whether they had loft their way, or
whether they had advanced thus far from
mere hardihood, cannot ho told ; but it is
probable that the latter supposition is cor
rect. inasmuch as the advanced posts of
the Austrians arc mucii more on igeticand
daring than those of the J lanco-Sardin
ians. Directly, however, the Emperor saw
them, he changed color, threw away
cimir. drove the spurs into, his horse’s
flanks and galloped hack to Yogliera at a
iiace which would have done lienor to the
-’ inner f the DerhT
Number 32.