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Cbf£flttfjrfrn<£nterprisr. o u i Lrnr v. bryat, editor. _ 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. * V _____ * 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