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T!H).MASVn,LE, GA.
VTED\ESDII 4PKIL I. I^6o.
Mrr |tralifi'd a* In-inR nblr to nrMioctnrr
that Col. TI. O. !<oJici tor (.furral
of ihr Noiiilirrn Circuit. hnn ron<-ulr<l to net as
Agrni lorlhr HOI TBERX ENTERPRISE du
rinj[ his atlmdanrr upon lh- CourtM throughout
thr Circuit, aud is hereby authorized to receive
•ad receipt tor all subscriptions to thr paper,
aud to contract for advertisements for the name.
This being our fir.n iasna of a full sheet
since the foil anti destruction of tue Enterprise of
fice, on the 18th of February, we cannot resist
the temptation to say a few word* in reference to
the paper, and the course we have pursued since
that time. And first of an, we gratefully acknowl
edge our obligations to ihose friends and patrons of
the paper who came so promptly to its support, and ,
hastened to discharge their indebtedness to ths of- :
flee. The paper has been self-sustaining, and only
a little time was necessary, to call in its dues to pro
cure anew outfit; but oven this difficulty was, iu a
great measure, overcome by the liberality and
promptness of its friends, and the office Las already
been re-furnished with now material, which will
gradually insinuate itself into the paper after the
present issue. Quite enough of the old material
was recovered, (such as it is,) to issue a full sized
sheet, but so badly pitd, that we have onlv this week
been able to bring it into u*e. just upon the arrival
of the new. Our readers have been so kind and
indulgent in submitting, without a murmur, to a
half theet, filled almost entiroly with advertisements
tor nearly .five weeks, that wc feel inclined to offer
some apology, and would do so, were we not satisfi
ed that they fully comprehended.uur condition, and
willingly accept*! out wish for the deed, to do better.
. We are now, however, once more under full headway
with the paper, and ready for the Presidential con
test, so rapidly wanning up our Cotemporaries, and
.threatening to convulse the Union from center to cir
cumference. Believing from the evidence before us,
that the Black Republican and Democratic parties *
in their Conflict for the spoils, have strayed from the
path of wisdom and patriotism, and finally lost sight
of the value placed by their forefathers upon The
Union, and that they would divide it between them
merely to preser yeparty power ; we take our place in
the ranks of the hew, or Constitutional Union party,
whose destiny, wo trust it may be, to enforce the
Constitution, restore harmony and perpetuato the
dignity power and glory of the nation by tho preser
vation of tho Federal Union.
Ol'R niiETIKtEV.
Our cotemporaries of the press gave our down
fall a wide circulation, expressing much sympathy
and many good wishes for our resurrection in good i
time, lor all of which we are under many obliga- !
tions and feel duly grateful. Some of hem noticed |
that the Lkterprise would be revived as soon as new
material could be procured—will they do us the kind
ness to state now that it has been revived.
GENT’tt FINE (JOOON.
Peter Lindsay has just received a lot of fine new
goods, which he will exhibit at liis tailoring estab
lishment, and cut and make to fit anybody. His pat
terns for pants, vests, <ic., are of the latest an ■
most fashionable .colors. Call before it is too late.
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WITHDRAWING from tiije contest.
Hon. Howell Cobb lias addressed a long letter to j
Hon. I. T. Irvine, President of the March Demo
cratic State Convention of Georgia, in which he
withdraws from the souffle for the next Presidency
and positively refuses to let his name go before the
Charleston Convention. Mr. Cobb declares that lie
is fully satisfied from the demonstration in his favor
at the December as well ns at the March Convention,
that a large majority of the Democracy of Georgia
favor .liis nomination ; but as he is more devoted to ;
the interests of the party than to his own ambition,
and there are some who bitterly oppose him, he is
willing to make the sacrifice for the sake of harmony.
These are not his words, but, we tbink, the sub
stance of his meaning. The anti-Cobb men think
’ they have defeated him, but Mr.-Cobb assumes the.!
magnanimity of a conqueror,-and generously for
bears to trample under his feet an enemy who, in
tho plenitude of their ignorance, mistake • their j
weakness for strength.
Mr. B.vcnv who was arrested in Baltimore
npon the charge of having perpetrated a fraud upon
the State Dank of Georgia, in which the Dank lost
$20,000 lately underwent a rigid examination in
Savannah, and was discharged.
- -
We arc under obligations to the Hon. Peter
E. Love, and also to Hon. John H. Logan, for inter
esting Congressional documents.
Among other letters from •“lejiding men of
loth parties in Georgia and Ala’barna,” complimentary,
to the Albany Patriot, the editor displays the follow
ing:
From one of the Opposition. —“l have read the
Patriot with much pleasure since your connection |
with it. You have taken high Southern ground, and j
seem to stand by what you say. Your course is an
independent one. fearlqgs of consequences. We dif
fer in some points, yet our general views are the.
same. * * * We look to you as our guide, and .
will follow you. Do what you can to unite the South.
Save the Union if you can, or burst it into frag
ments.”
Ha! ha, ha, ha, he! he, he, he,-hi! hi. hi, hi,- ho!
ho, ho, ho. The idea that the Opposition look to the
Albany Patriot as a guide for the South, and will fol
low its lead, is truly refreshing. When did our Co
temporary of the Patriot install himself leader of
the opposition ? We should like to know the precise
point where his Democracy ended and his Opposition
began. We do hope and trust, from the inmost re
cesses of our heart that he will not, without mature re
flection ‘■'burst this Union into fragments.” No: don't
do it, brother: In the name of the Union, we beseech
thee to withohl thy might.’
“ Take heed
llow you awake your sleeping Sword of War •
We charge you in the name of God,.take heed.”
Or,
If thou, Jove, thy biasing thunderbolts |
Spare! Oh spare! In/>%, spare a pleading world! j
[Communicated.]
TOTE OF THANKS.
Mr. Editor: Please give admission in your paper
to the following extract from the minutes of the
Presbytery of Florida; which has lately closed its
session in your pdace :
“On motion. Resolved. That a vote of thanks be
returned to the citizens of Thomasville for their kind
hospitality to the members of Presbytery: and also
to our Methodist and Baptist brethren, for their
courtesy in tendering the use of their respective 1
Churches on the Sabbath, and that this vote be read
from the pulpits to-morrow, and the papers of the
place be requested to publish the same in their col
woids.” ‘ WM. MATTHEWS, Stated t’lerk.
TkoutatviUe. March 21, 1800. j
THE NEW PARTY.
Hitherto we have said very little on this subject
for the want of room. We copy to-day the call by
1 the Opposition Executive Committee, for a State j
! Convention, to send delegates to the Baltimore Na
tional Convention, to be held on the 9tb of May.—
j Georgia should send delegates to this Convention,
and todo that, she Must hold a Stare Convention;
this Convention the Executive Committeee have ap
pointed to be held at Milledgeville ou the 2d of May.
Now, to make the State Convention effective, every i
county should be particular in sending a strong del
egation, that.the true sentiments of the people may
; fully represented. There is no time now for j
lukewarmness or irresolution on the part of the Op- j
position—they have put their Lands to the plow, and ‘
loudly wo hear the call for a uow party —a partv of
conservative men with courage to stand by the Con- j
-titution and the Union, amid the clamor and strife ‘
of demagogues and disunionists.
Democrats have asked us, where the necessitv of ‘
anew party, and what can it do in the present state
; of political affairs? We answer, that at present it
| can do nothing, unless the people everywhere can
be awakened to a 30n.se of the true condition of the
country; but, being the only conservative element
in the South, it should be organized and readv at
any moment to rush to the support of the- country,
when Democrats and Black Republicans have lost
sight of every thing else in their mad conflict over
the spoils.
Its necessity arises from tho want of harmony in
the political elements now at work in the production
of strife between the various sections of t'ne Union,
as enumerated by a coteuiporary, in the following
truths:
“A cotemporary ("says the Memphis Bulletin) say-
I agely but truthfully observes that the Democratic
electioneerer who travels around among his own
party this year, will litiyo a hard time of it. He will
be expec‘ed to avow a different set of principles at |
each place. In Illinois he must swear that popular
sovereignty is the true doctrine, and in Virginia that
it is a rank heresy. He must mount the Pacific
Railroad platform in Missouri, but back square
down off iii Georgia. In Philadelphia lie must un
furl the banner of “specific duties,” in Richmond
of “adyalorem” duties, and in Charleston of no du-*
ties at all. He may saye the Union in New York,
but he must dissolve it again inoMississippi. In Mi
chigan, denounce filibusters, but® in Louisiana he i
must take them by the hand and bid them God
speed. His Democratic hearers may cheer him if
he opposes the slave trade in Connecticut, but tliev
will perhaps tar and feather .him if he does it in
Georgia. As to the fishing bounties he lias only to
believe them just and proper in Maine, and an a'tro- ;
cious swindle in Alabama. lie can then complete
! the parti-colored creed by whispering his dislike of
: a Territorial slave code in New England, and shout
ing his admiration of it in South Carolina. In tho
North \N est lie must be a defender of internnal im
| provements; in the South he must denounce them as
j old Whig heresies. If he can contrive to support
all these different doctrines at once, he will be a
faithful exponent of the principles of his party:—
On one point only will he find agreement among the
warring members of the Democratic household, and
that is that the country is sure to go to destruction
| unless they, eacJi of them, g.et the offices,
i How any party can long hold together, under the
influence of so many.conflicting interests, wc cannot
determine. The country would be unsafe if they
were harmonized , from the fact that’mutual bargains
and concessions only, would prev<*it open hostili
ty between the. factions, and hence the origin of
corruption and traitorism to the constitution and
the Union. The Charleston Mercury , a Democratic
paper, says :
The Democratic party oft 5, North, re a party,
ir nttrrlj hostile to the constitutional rights of the
South.”
There is, then, no national p£rty in the Union.—
All are sectional and must remain so until anew
; party is formed of the conservative elements of all
parties, around which the people may rally once
more, for their defence against the ambition of de
magogues.
The Democrats of Goorgia declare that they will
. not support Senator Douglas if nominated at the
Charleston Convention, and yet have no other man
capable of carrying a single Northern State, in the
Presidential contest. To Southerners, this should
: be a strong indication (if the Democracy are sin- j
cere) that the contest will be strictly sectional, and in j
such an event it is not difficult to see that the Black !
Republican candidate will be elected. What then
will bo the result ? The Democratic disunion lead
ers of .the South have declared that the election of
a Black Republican President, shall be sufficient
cause for a dissolution of the Union. This is the
j • *
I issue they are laboring to fasten upon the South,, |
J and if they can conimit # the people to it, their poiat !
will have been gained. Then, the Democratic party ,
will not be dissolved, for if they can succeed in cs- j
.tablishing a*Southern Confederac\’, where their strenr/th
is, they may still live on in the enjoyment of the
spoils.
It is the business or tie nac party to expose them,
ineir position and .motives to the pe.ople, whom they ;
have so long deceived, roll back the tide of fanati
cism and disunion, now threatening to overwhelm
the country, open up the way for harmony and peace 1
between the sections, and restore the whole Union
to its former allegiance to the constitution and laws.
For these reasons, all good men and true, every
where, ought to attach themselves to it, and engage
heart and hand in the good work. If they fail, they
have lost nothing; but if ‘ they succeed, they have
gained their country with all its blessings, and once
more may transmit it to posterity as an inheritance
more precious than the gold for which it has so oft
en been sold. ®
btati-: ruvvKvriox.
Macon March 16th 1860. •
At a consultation of the State Executive Commit
tee of the Opposition Party of Georgia, held this
day, ('nil the. members being present or ’ consenting
thereto, except Col. Milledge, of the Eighth District)
it was unanimously resolved to issue the following
cal.l :
The citizens of Georgia who are opposed both to
the mad schemes of. the anti-slavery party of the
North and to the abuses and extravagance of the
Democratic party —to all inteforence by one section
with the domestic institutions of another, whether in
the States, or in the Territories, which are the com
mon property of all the States—who believe the con
stitutional right of the South to a free enjoyment of
the latter, with her property of every description,
both just and indefeasible—who eschew all sectional
political parties ns inimical to the public tranquility
who reverence the Constitution and advocate re
spect and obedience to all laws passed in pursuance
! thereof, and to the decisions of theconstitutedjudici.nl
tribunals of the land, are requested to meet, in their
respective counties, as early as practicable, and ap
-1 point delegates to a State Convention, to be held in
| the city of Milledgeville, on Wednesday, the 2d day
i of May next, for the purpose of taking such action
as may be deemed expedient in reference to the ap
proaching Presidential election.
A Card.
Owing to the late accident we have removed to
i the Framed Store next to Mr. R. R. Evans, where
we are now receiving a very large stock of Spring
Goods, which we will sell, at present, for Now York
cost and expenses for cash, as our store is too small
to open all our goods.
To Country Merchants, who do not buy goods in
New T ork, we can sell goods at wholesale as low
as they can bny in any Southern city. Cali soon and
examine our stock and prices.
J SGfUFF & BROTHER
March 24, I s <>9.
A p.fun TO ALBAXT. f ®
We are surprised at the lukewarmness of thejjJH
tens of Jefferson, ia reference to the great rajK.l
enterprise, that is some day, sooner or later. tA-edm
! ncet this section of country with the great. tßjfth-
I e ' r - Everybody tavors a railroad connectiotßrith
the South- western road—we cannot find a s/itarv
person opposed to the measure—and still a sufficient
interest cannot be created to cause the people to
Ihere are a number of gentlemen in this county,
that we ate aware of, who are anxious to contribute
i ot *“ e ‘ r means for the construction of this road, but
i . ere having been no depionstraiion of popular feel
ing in reference to the matter, the opportunity to of
i for aid and assistance has never been offered them.
Cannot we get up a railroad manting, and take the
i initiatory steps towards the final consummation of ,
; an enterprise that will prove of such vast advantage i
; to every citizen and property holder in our mi Ist?
It some of our influential citizens will take ih pro
: Per course, and propose action, we can soon have
i an organized company and the w
i we will build tfcc road to Thomasville, the people of
I Albany and the interest there involved will form the
| connection.. We propose that the citizens of Thorn- !
I as county, Georgia, and Jefferson county, Florida,
j meet at some convenient point, at an v, to
discuss the matter, and take preliminary action. ,
What say our cotemporaries of the Thomasville En
terprise and Reporter ? — Monticello, Florida Family
friend.
Hie remarks of onr cofemporary upon the advan
cu a Railioau from Albany via Ihomasvilie to ■
Monticello are truthful and just; we are only sur
prised that a line so important to Middle Florida
and Southern Georgia ha* heretofore attracted so
little attention outside of Thomas county. A char
ter for this road has been in existence for seicral
years, and lately a Board of Directors and Jp|esi
dent have been elected, and a survey
| which our cofemporary of the Friend, it seems, has
i not been made acquainted with. Such are the faef3,
| however, and nothing remains but to subscribe more
stock and proceed with the work. About $75,000
have been subscribed to the enterprise in Thomas |
and .Mitchell counties, and the first installment of |
6 pev cent. called in to pay the expense of survey
ing the lino. • . ~
There is nothing to prevent our Jefferson friends,
then, from putting their shoulders to the-wheel, hut
their own policy, and here, we propose to inform !
the Friend why his people a'ppear so “lukewarm,” j
while they are really heart and hand in our favor.
While in Florida but days ago, we met sever
al influential gentlemen of public spirit, and con
versed directly upon this point. They desire the
connection with the Main Trunk at Thomasville,
but that desire is based upon the convenience of an
i extension to Albany, for the purpose of giving an
outlet to North Georgia,, Alabama, See., at the same
time holding in tact the interezts of their men road at
home. These gentlemen are interested in the main
lino of the Florida Railroad, and, as a matter of
course, while they favor a connection with the Geor
gia road, at some point, they desire that point to be
fixed as near Savannah as possible, that their own
road may carry off the Florida .freight, instead of
surrendering it up to a Georgia road, as they think
would be the case, if their farthest eastward con
nection was made at Thomasville or Valdosta. Their
policy, therefore, is $> form their first connection
east of the Suwannee, in order to carry their own
freight over their own road, though bound with it to a
Georgia market. They think this would be fair and
but justice to themselves, in as much as Georgia
should bo liberal in her policy for the privilege of
entering Florida under any circumstances with her
railroads. They view the Georgia Main Trunk
Company, as seeking a Gulf connection only Htrough
Florida, ana n onovc mat ns iRm-ronm.im J, vt
towards the various applicants for Florida ccVinco
tions points fact, fMTTTTcon
nection was ./jMF'aTlowed at Thomasville, the Main j
Trunk Company would refuse a connection further j
east, and thus secure to at least one hundred miles
of the Main Trunk, freight* legitimately belonging
to the Florida road. They have only taken their
position in self-defence, and agaiust it we have no
thing to urge, save the fact, which we shall hereaf
ter endeavor to show, that their delay in taking hold
of the Albany and Monticello connection, (a work
they declare themselves ready to engage in as soon
as they have assurance ot their eastern connection,)
may prove detrimental to a direct road from Albany,
unless it is managed without their assistance.
Whenever the people of Jefferson are ready to
meet on this subject., we think W e can safely
assure them that they will be met rro re than half
way by the citizens of Thomas, and in a. spirit cal
culated to show their deep interest in the rork.
■*
If there is a man in the neighborhood of!
Thomasville named Itobcris, a brick mason, by !
calling upon thfi’editor of thio {*>fC ho may learr.
something to his advantage. •
niHEDCEVILLE E?I(BATIC t'OX.
VENTION.
“Oh, consistency, thou art a Jewel!” Our Dem
: ocratic friends verified the truth of this exclamation
in the adjustment of their recent difficulties tbout
the mode of appointing their Charleston delegation, ‘
I and proved how.utterly impossible it is for the to
il pie, in their trusting simplicity, to put down a Wll
combined set of unscrupulous politicians. Thy
| have installed themselves masters of the people art
| are determined to hold the reins of govenment at a
hazards. If they cannot succeed by boldness no
vigor, they affect to retire in submission to the wil
of the people, only to return with a subtlety that it
sure of success. When the Democratic members of
the late Legislature held a Convention and appoint-*
ed delegates to the Charleston Convention, two thirds
of a!l the Democratic journals in the State denounc
ed their action, declaring it an assumption of au
thority, and called upon the people to resist and re-
pudiate their delegates-, because said delegates ACCEPT- |
ed the instructions of the Convention , TO VOTE FOI!
.HOWEL COBB FOll THE PRESIDENCY. Accor
j dingly, the “ people ” suddenly became inflated with
: the most righteous indignation against the Legisla
! live “usurpers,” and so formidable a demonstration
| did they make, that many of said delegates (valiant
| men) actually fled in dismay from the field of action
i and hastened to resign a dubious authority, likely
to prove so disastrous to their political fortunes.—
Everywhere the “innocent people” rose up and with
a loud voice demanded anew Convention, a “pco
pie's Convention'’ in fact, an aad-Cobb Convention,
j The Legislative Convention was now hors du combat,
j and only here and there could one be found with j
’ sufficient courage to dispute the ground, and only
I then, when a sinking fortune combined with desper- j
lat ion to inspire with a dogged resolution. These !
| were finally quieted, although they knew they had j
| been defeated by ill disciplined numbers rather than
I by the power of right aud precedent, and were the
more easily kept under by the indications of a spee- !
dy relaxation on the part es the people, a consequent ;
reaction in favor of the politicians, and a peniten- !
tial return of the people to the allegiance of their ‘
masters. There was then “abetter time ahead.” I
the “dear people,” however gained one point —that is |
to say, they called another Convention through their j
Executive Committee, and, dear innocent things! in !
their county meetings they chose every delegateprr
viously appointed by the Cobh Convention thev could
lay hnndg on. to represent them in the unit Cobb ‘
as ever fortune more perverse 7
“interested, pa Or iu (ir party-loving, couniry-sav-
Jtng delegates accepted the new appointment, went
I *° 51‘lledgevillc as the representatives of the peo- \
P ‘ 1 ■’ dorsed tj xe action of the previous Convention,
which had appointed and instructed them to vote for
Dowel Cobb for the Presidency, reaffirmed their own
a PP , returned home covered with glory, and
kSnt “people,”-*! : ‘ . Dest
fouls!—shouted aloud and abed, tears of joy over
the happy reunion of the long discordant family.
J “ i;o\v pleasant to see kindred and friends agree!”
j The scene makes cur heart swell with tenderest
emotion, the fountain ol our tears is broken up,
and “may me divil fly amy with our coat tail,” if
we don t believe we’ll have to ‘dnd for the doctor to
keep from taking the influenza and dying with a
j cataleptic fit of E PluHlus Vnum.
©l it BOOK TABLE.
The Bdeciic for April lias arrived and beside its
al quantity of valuable and interesting reading
I matter, contains two large and splendid port rail s, one
| of Lor(1 Macaulay the lately deceased English his
| iorian and scholar, and the other of Henry W. Long-
I fellow, the American poet.
i l<e Aurora.
We have also received a handsome Magazine bear
ing tlie above title, published.in Memphis Tennessee,
and edited by Mrs, E. M. Eaton, W. R. Gulley h; W.
S. Perry. The Aurora is filled with good and useful
ai tides, well printed and being a Southern work de
serves a widely extended circulation in the South j
Price $2.00 per annum,
The Printer..
I his beautiful work deserves tho high compliments
so often bestowed upon it by the press throughout
the 1 nion, and should be in the hands of every prin- 1
! ter at least. ® ©
The War Commenced —American Troops
Crossed the Rio Grande.
New Orleans, March 27. —Accounts from 1
Brownsville, of the 2od, companies of
I Texas Rangers, under command of Ford, and
j two companies of U. S. Cavalry, under Stene
man, cuossed the llio Grands into Mexico on
the 10th, instant, in search of Cortinas, who
had returned to the frontier. Our troops ap
proached the Mexican encampment iu theenight,
j drove in the pickets and took thirty prisoners,
%ho claimed to belong to a large body, of Mex
| iean Xational Guards, also in search of Corti
j oas. The next morning a large Mexican force
appeared who claimed the prisoners as their
rear guard. ® g, 0
II was afterwards ascertained that forces
had been watching the movements of the Amer
icans that Cortinas was with them and had es
caped at the first alarm. Our troops remain en
camped on the Mexican side of the river, above
Brownsville, determined to capture Cortinas? @
Major iletzclman has sent over a reinforce
ment, of two companies of artillery.
Three thousand Mexican Church troops ar.e
expected on the Rio Grande.
It is reported that Gen, Garcia had invited
the Americans into Mexico. ©
HOSTS LITIES ISL TBJI7©O S ILF.
WAR WITH MEXICO BEGUN.
Capture of 2 Mexican Steamers.
New Orleans, March 19.—The Mexican
war steamship Marquez has arrived below, as a
States prize, irt charge of Lieut. Chap
man, ot the frigate Saratoga. The Saratoga’s
men also, vTrptnred tlie Mexican steamship
j Gen. M i ram on, which arrived belofrSw££ak:
i noon. Both of these steamers were capturetT
j on Anto Lizardo, on the morning of the 6th :
instant, after a brief action, with slight loss.
the city of Mexico is surrounded by the
Liberals.
There was a great excitement at Vera Cruz
in consequence of the action of the Ai mrieui*
squadron. The French and Spanish are v ....
bitter.
Mi ram on commenced the Seige of Vera Cruz,
on the sth. On the 6th, two steamers appear
ed before the city, showing no colors. The G.
S. ship Saratoga, with a detachment of marines
from the Savannah and Preble, in the Indiatfctla
and Wave, were-ordered to proceed to t>c an
chorage of * lie steamers and ascertain their
character. On rearing the anchorage, and
when off Anton Lizardo, one- of the steamers
moved oft. A snot was fired bring her to,
! and the Indhnola sent to overhaul her. The j
! Indianola'a ia ‘l was answered by a shot from
the steam' I ', followed by a simalar demonstra
tion fror Miramon’s guns and a volley of mus
ketry jA hereupon the-Saratoga fired a broad
side the action became general. The Mexi-i
can Commodore, marines and men were taken
prisoners, and are on board the Preble.
(Marin's steamers passed by all tlie foreign
cquadrons arid the castle without hoisting their
flags, although ordered to do So by shot from j
the castle and other signals. The French, ‘
English and Spanish vessels didn’t notice the 1
c? x @
iciCvj.
The Saratoga w'as towed by the Indianola
and took Marin by surprise. The engagement
took place by moonlight. Thy steamers tried
to inakb their escape. Three Americans were
wounded one mortally. ©Fifteen Mexicans are
reported to be killed and thirty wounded. „
i When the fiction commenced, Mann hoisted
the Spanish flag. The prisoners corroborate j
be report of the steamers’ having cleared from 1
fat-ana as merchantmen. They raised the
Icxican flag only after they had left Havana;
bev afterwards mounted six guns each.
4 The blow was struck, remarks the Kiehmond
dispatch, at a critical moment, when the treaty
“th Mexico was still under discussion ‘and
fcng trembling In the scales. The sword of i
Cptain Turner seems in a fair way to make that j
phponderate into which it has beeu thrown.
\Yc observe that no orders had been received
fr<m Washington, but tliat theGovernroent ap
plies of the act in question. As far as weean
loan, the ease stand thus: 1 here is, in Mexico, |
a f hellion, as there always is, against the Gov
| crXiient, which our own has acknowledged, and
at be head of which is Juarez, with whom
the rcaty now under consideration in the Pen- j
i ate as been concluded. At the head ot this
rcbeliou is Miramon, a man who has already !
sho|t| an utter disregard of all international
• law|iy driving our citizens out of Mexico, and
plumering them wherever he has had an op
portu'ity. He is, it is well known, at this mo
ment .eseiging the city of Vera Cruz. When
he waiabout to advance upon it, Capt, Turner
I went o, shore and visited him at his headquar
i ters, so the purpose of ascertaining whether it
| was his intention to respect the lives and pro-
I perty of American citizens, both of which were
j placed i extreme peril by his movements. It
! is not fciown what answer he gave, but it is
j presumet to have been not very satisfactory.—
At any lie, to this interview he had
sent sever 1 hundred thousaud dollars to Ha
vana, whet he had purchased two war steamers,
and. undeithe very none of the authorities, hd
, manned them with Spanish soldi* rs. With
these steamers he intended to blockade the port
; of Very Cruz, with the design, doubtless, of en
riching himself with the plunder derived from
i the merchant vessels who might attempt to en
ter it The scheme was evidently piratical, for
bis vessels had no national charactt r, and could •
not, therefore, legally constitute a blockading
squadron. Capt. Turner, no doubt,, saw wl
was intended. He knew that vast numbers of
I American ships are constantly entering the har
bor of \ era Cruz, and lie saw that the blockade
was nothing more than a pretext to justify Mi
ranion in seizing them. It was, in fact, a bold
attempt to establish a system of legalized piracy
on a large scale.- He determined to prevent it.
it he could, and he did prevent it most effectual
ly- The Spanish Government evidently, con
nived at it. as it did at tlu; Incursions or the
Florida Indians upon our frontier, when Florida
belonged to Spain, and the systematic warfare
waged upon all commerce that navigated the gulf
by the pirates of the Foxardo Islands. Jackson
broke up the first, and Horter the second band
of robbers. ‘1 urncr has done nothing more than
imitate the examples which proved so success
ful ‘on the former occasion. lie crushed the
pirates it®a single blow. Such appears to us to
| have been the whole case. & |
Captain i urner is a native of Virginia, and
was born in Fauquier county. lie entered the
j Navy about thiitv yeajrs ago, and is, we nnder
| stand, between forty-five and fifty years of age. •
A Great Political ‘“Machine.”
Mayor Wood, of New York, is one of the
most indefatigable men alive. After, attending
to the multifarious duties of his office at the
City Hall, he leaves town every aftemoorf to
make speeches tootlie democrats, fifty or sixty
miles away iir Connecticut, and returns home by ’
the first, train next morning. He is the great
est political machine of the day. & q® ©
\ .
Paying Security Debts. •
I have the honor to be a poor fid have
enjoyed that distinction in iii'e, since I was
A years of age. ® Eleven years ago, I gave
up o tlic last rail nan tof property I had, which
was a Printing Office, to nay a security debt.
Since that time, L have paid three thousand
dollars more of the same* sort of debts, with
out any hope, or prdkpect of getting any por
i tion of it refunded! Within the last few weeks,
judgments have been taken against trie, in
! Court and before a magistrate, for fifteen hun
! dred more, purely security debts. I shall loose
1 very little, if anything, in these last cases.
1, therefore, being of lawful age, and sound
in mind, and without desiring to parade my per
! sonal affairs before the public, take this method
of saying to il ail the world and the rest of man
kind,” that from the day and date of this wri
ting, I will cease to sign any man’s paper JPs se
curity. And as I pay my debts, and claim te ‘
be good for any debt I may contract, if I eat) t
be trusted without giving security, I will make
no trades. Here I might close this article, but
I desire to say a lew other things.
1. A rnai#s relations to his family, especially
helpless children, forbids that lie obligates
himself to pay other people's debts, at the risk
of defrauding his children of what belongs to
them, and of’ depriving them of clothes to wear,
of bread and meat to eat, and of an education.
2. A man has no right to ask another to en
dorse for him without furnishing the one who
takes the risk—with at least what will secure
j him, Vc,
1 both parties, ‘‘a business transac
and a man should feel that he has nu
r 'o'ht to ask a neighbor to endorse bis pa- i
: Jr without being secured in the matter, than i
hf as to a Company to insure his house
i Jatuitouslv. O
i nr n .
*4 ii- A liiiifi who docs not lui-.tr bc-.,nd the
JassiMiity <#l a doubt, that lie will meet’u g ,
stability, or who has made no jrftv ;• ion i-y mcc:-
su cli obligations, ha-3 no light toicail on a:
n a ?r t<* endorse his paper. And the man ftho
will secure ‘the endorsement of a neighbor tor
the purchase of a given piece ot -property, and
then privately convey that property to a” third
p#*gn, by mortgage, or otherwise, will steal
whenever an opportunity oilers!
4. A rnarf who will see his security pay his
debts, whether St a sacrifice or otherwise as long
as he himself has tUnything with which to meet
| the obligation, and seeks to avoid doing so, is a
thief and is only prevented A- 0 m open robbery,
i bv a dread of the State Prison I
| 5. A man who will endorse another’s paper,
because he promises to accommodatdSihn j r , the
i § am ® manner, is a fool, inasmuch as the excha ■ v s .
signatures usually haa a very unequivocal
value.
b. It will be said that the commerce and
| , e cou ntry, and the business relations
of hiC, imolve the ueccessity for ask irni and
I gianting such favors, and of making such etr
uiange. i hat is true, but in every instance cne ■
party shcfuld make the other safe. It is jus to.
do so, and it he cannot, let him stay oft of
business.— Urounlow's Whu jr_
‘*“*'**"*’ ~~
When Ladies Should be Looked xt. . i
A wliter in the Atlantic. Monthly, tlus en- |
lightens the belles of tire street concenNng the I
inalienable rights of men tcflook at thir pret
ty faces: ;
J here arc some very pretty, but unhappily
very ill bred women, who don’t undoistand the
laws of the road with regard to handsome faces.
Nature and custom would no doubt agree in
conceding to males the right of at least two dis
tmet looks at every comely female countenance,
without any infraction of tho rules of courtesy
or the sentiment of respect. The first look is
necessary to define the person of the individual
one meets, i as to avoid her in passing A.ny
unusual . attraction discovered in a first glapceis
sufficient apology for a second- -w r ,Aj nr> , t
andjmpertinent stare, but hom
age of the eyes, such *s a stranger may inoffen
sively yield to a passing iipge. It is astonish
ing how morbidly sensitivtfmme vulgar beauties
are to the sliglitest demonstration of this kind.
When a lady walks thefstreets she leaves her
j virtuous indignation cot fcnancc at home; she
; kn ° ws well enough th-f the street is a picture
; gallery, where pretf* faces framed in pretty
| bonnets are meant IrLe seen, and everybody
has a right to see tlm.
A rough commp-sense pervades the follow
mg, in which th# is certainly “more of truth
than poetry:’’
“ Great roet/ever swell It is only vour
‘three cent indjduals,’ who are salaried at the
rate of two hiJred dollars a year, and dine on
potatoes and and and herring, who put on airs and
flashy waistcos swell, puff, blow, and endeav
or to give tw>selves a consequential appear
ance. No (Criminating person need ever mis
take the spoons for the genuine article. The
difference the two is as great as that be
tween/ a brel of vinegar and a bottle 0 f the
“purs ju| “f the grap ’’
Proceedings of Council—Krgulnr Timing
COUNCIL CHAMBER. Makcii 26, IB6o*
Mured, that the Mayor appoint ts- 0 suitable per
j sons to assist Mr. Swift in laying oft ih e g rave yard
in accordance with a previous resolution. Passed.
; John A. Lane and John M. Dyson appointed.
Moved, that all persi us noiified at the last meet
ing of this Council to remove all obstructions from
ihe streets be allowed ten days in which to do so.
Passed.
There being no further business, the Council then
adjourned. A. I’. PELHAM, Dep. Clerk.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
.Special Notice.
VI.L PERSONS indebted by note, or otherwise,
to tyat portion ot the estate of James M.
’ inkers deceased, which is bow iu the hands of
.Eneas Armstrong as legatee, are hereby informed
ti.at he w ill b • in Ihomasviilc from the Ist to the
7th of May inclusive, for the purpose cf COLLEO
liNtj. 1 oisons indebted to liim are requested to
settle, as no indulgence will be given after that time
uch as may be allowed by law.
I w st
*.
The Whole.
IITISHING TO GRATUA THE TASTE AND
It fancy ot all, we have made arrangement* to
supply those ‘ who prefer them,” with
Buggies, Rorßanays and C arriages,
Manufactured at the North of
©casonod. Timber.
We shall ai°-o on hand, those of our own
make. We ship our o
Util)*, Spokes and Rims
from the North., of which we.always order the host.
Whether we get the seasoned ones or not, is a matter
unconcern to as we
Warrant our W ork ;
anJPthat is sufficient, as John Smith said when hi*
[ “gal” told him she “ would marry him if she died
for it.” Therefore bo it
Resolved, Tlfat all who are in n?ed of something
to ride in, who wish their horses shod so they
will not fall down, and plows made and repaired so
. they will add 25 per cent to harvest, -be advised
j and recommended to call at w
©Adopted. LOWRY k SWIFT'S.
t>P 4 © w ts
£ dissolution oi'C'o|>:iri n<>rship.
rSTIIi; COPARTNERS Flip HERETOFORE EXIS
JL ‘’ n g betweng.Moore llontan, is this day dis
solvAi by mutual Consent.
C. G. MOORE.
April 2, 1860. 3t E. T. HOMAN.
L eath ei\ eat Tier*.
Of\K AND HEMLOCK SOLE LEATHER—
Harness and Bridle Leather,
Fame String and Upper Leather,
Oil Tauned Lacing Leather,
Enameled Leather,
Calf Skins. Lining Skins,
0 Deer Skins, Pad Skins,
and Horse Hides,
Always on hand and for -ale, opposite the Market,
House, by Mi GLASHA* & LITTLE, j
@Thomasvillo, April 4, 1860. Cm
Clark Plow. I
HSMIIS PLOW IS COMING UP FULLY TO TitEjj
f the inventor. Those who bne^ m
:ricd^# ; . ■ satisfied that it is tho best cnl.
■ tg-ator they have ever used. \ illiam A. Carr. Esq.,
a large planter on Lake Jack spa in this (Leon) coun
ty. ‘ 1 a thoroughly pructital farmer, nites as
j follows concerning it:
j n he Simplest and Cheapest Plow of the Ay*-
I) the undersigned, have
i than ordinary interest thzcjMFfuU of the PLOW
recently patented to -kt-tfCLAKK, of Tallahasse.
Honda. Col. JDSEPII 11. ALSTON h. t J
the patcut thi* Plow, for the States Jr fi
I and A’ Oam a. Hewing ~ oa t „ n , V° f G *°W
’ ’ :r oe of the L*t mow. T i t,n?ljr P ro -
MS M£kjs
Vir mo:-: ei ;„ n vi-i-.v’ „ . 1 ,ter on eof
(y pnetic:,! men who know they^-l’
!r ve signed similar certificates. * * eft
Me.clip the above from ftie TallniA—- r , ~©
and Journal, to show wha , S?*
“S* ‘i-ii v -- ‘ Placed upon
x - 0 - Claris. o w
HOME. °
l 1 ‘ purpose of selling County Rights. He i s
ageri ,s m The nd will make all necessary®
auaugement# with purchasers. $ They have ore 5 O
too l sows at their Si op and will take pleasure in
fe lUg ltS PCrformance3 4P %*hojJr b to pur
March 26, 1860. ® S __
A-ChaJ^enge.
A. If. WILSON* . . „
I'NHALLENGES MONTICELLO, TIIOMASMLLB
and .he city of. Quitman to equal bis
j Ajd‘ig Sfoci; of
which li ■is noq- ve - - iv'mg .. u* 2 sH^Hkhr*..
issipoi Vi
.x styles, qualities or
cannot be objected to, from the fact that they are™
the New York Jobber’s profits less than usual.
’ The Stock consists in part of
Ladies’ Bonnets—from $3 to sl6
Ladies’ Mantilla* and Point*, of every variety
Silk and Tulferas Bareges
* Lawns, Ginghams, Muslins.
French, English and American Calico*
llat=, Boots and Shoes.
In fact every thing wanted nr needed in this county.
Call at the BIG STORE in Grocverville, G.
April 4, 1860. * ts • .
Georgia Sarsaparilla Compound,
OR
DENNIS’ ALTERATIVE.
For Purifying the Blot a ami Disrates cfthe-Lirtr.
rnms is the best medicine of the day.
8 It is used to a great extent by Physicians l*
their practice, and by Families to prevent Disease* m
of Children, and as a general Purifier of thej jlyjjdff*
and by Females in the most common-diseases to
which they are subject.
Prepared by J. DENNIS. M, D-, Augusta, Ga.
Ecr Sale in* Thonms'H.v by P. S. Bower, in New
York by Hurr-DE lituiey k Kitchen. an 4-3 m
l>l*KKlia:i! CR.4JHPSI CHOLERAI
j~TjFE DROPS. I , TIIIS MEDICINE has been
I THE NEVER failixg tricd > ,ested aU(I proved by ten
REMEDY. years experience to be the only
1 certain, safe and reliable reme
dy for all Bowel Derangements, Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Cramps, Pains, Cholera, Cholic , now before the
public. One or two doses of 20 drops, will cure the
j most severe cramps in the stomach in 20 minutes.
A single dose often cures the Diarrhoea and it never
constipates the bowels. One dose will satisfy any*
, one of its merits. Price only 25 Cents.
Prepared by TRALL & STOW,
43 Broadway, New York.
And sold in Thomas*. Jl e by E. Seixas and T. B.
Little. ap4-ly
YEW YORK JPIAYOS. -
T. XX. CHAM^|br>s
PIA3TO FOnTBS,
ESTABLISHED 1N’ 0.828.
TH. CHAMBERS, Piano
# erly Dubois & Stodart, and Dubois,
Chambers.)
Warerooms in the “Bible House,” corner SiV, St
and sth Avenue, New York City.
This is a reliable place to purchase. Or deft bw
letter faithfully executed, and perfect
guaranteed. /
N. B.—Send for a circular, with deMflfptioo of
styles and aehedul* of price* *p 4-3 m