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J . * CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS. “ I be governed by the following Rules, being- coinjKised of . * < * -1 i'fj! j I |.| i * . . p. ~ • r C i, . *T • 1 j= i * 1 .2 I £ *_j 1 • .*i *• ! ‘ e Square .* s. <i® .ss 00 s1 < 1 00 si .’ 00 * - .'!!■’•! 18 001 <3O 00 f • If 00 •-’! * lll 25 1 0 i . 00117 oo ha Five S juarcf 14 00 20 00 25 00 3(T 00 Six Squares 18 00 24 00; 30 00 35 00 ia* J la! t* t lolunin.. >5 00 3 1 :!5 00 10 00 Three Fourths C01umn..... 35 Oft 44 00 52 00 60 00 ( - . 00 80 00 - for the teijn cif one year, will be charged in pr portion to the Space tHey occupy, at One Dollar per Line, (solid Minion.) ....... l,i:(; tt, AOVKBTISKJIBIVT'i • • to ertiae Legtil Sales, N t impelUtd by law to comply with the following miffs: * f iliua!ii>trutors, E'vii aiors m r Cinariliaus: All .*a!e.< ..f Laud aml # >egroes by Adiniiyst rotors. “Executors or Gnat liana, are••equired*by law to be , • the first I'nesdav in the montfl, between the > . ■* •• i'clockin the forenoon, and three iq the • i Courthouse in the eoftnty in which the pnip. rtv a late. Xtes of tliA-e .ales must , . be given in a pub! ia tte F ■J 1 j ato 13'*” (!•'.■ of 11... * • 4*nlc ol I‘rrsonal E^opcrty: Notices* f the sale of Pcinonal ProperlyAnust be ■ * ® . . <to the day of sale. IXltll- 111 lll*.'. •• '! t tilOi'-.: N.-• I’ ■ . 4 : edit ®•of an estate must be pubAslaai Fortv D:A - * • . t'iwri nt Ordinal I ■ In Mrlii X * V li’ !*e made to tile ( Vtrt . of Ordinnn • * X be publ'S'a i wi <4.!v for Two Monrli< . .Vduiinistrntion ami (hiiir;iiiii!hi|): ■ Letfl Adiiiinistfation must W i rhirtv ,** :• : t Dismission from Admin i.'tratii u. *. >• • !\ 1 Nx M r Disini.--ion • ffc.ee Guai* in.- !•'■ • ■’’•reclosuia- of tj irtgaf:-: * , t nut! ’ be pub - * lontlis. • . KadiVliahing Kj%*tJPapersi .. • \ I t l’api must be pub-* ? M . ‘ 1’ • Iwt be continued according* ** , , o * . • .. ° LAWC .RDS. . • *..- • • * 0 . * •> \ or. Attokneys jst law, *. . • # # •TIIO-M AS.VILLE, G\. . * \\ .W Spf.xckk , o • •A TTOHISEY* AT LAW. # ■ JjL l!O.Mi:ib<VlL!.i:, CLT.NCII CO* 0-V.. ! •°, * . . ° Ctiward M. West,® A TTO?;NEY’AT LAWf jeA. aitA \§SEE, f FL \. 1 e Oiirt ol Florida ('ir cuit Courts of tile idle Circuit. . mil 27 l v . 0 Al<*\audei’ cv Sitne. , Attobneys at law, • THO.MASVILLE, GA. .1 11. \!.KtA*nEH, Ifel. 18 I’. K Love. . , * - • J. 15. IS. Stanley, • Attorney as* law. 0 • •)i ITM VN. P>KOtIKS CO.. GA. Will practice in the Counties of the Southern Circuit, •i ] i*l Circuit, dec 17 ts ‘ j Attorney at law, # . # V'l IT.MAN. 11U00KS CO., GA. . •* j oil Counties. * * ... luh 10 ts • * . l\ it. Bedford, ° • Attorney at law. * • WARESBOROUGH, GA. . Will ‘ Bern svi ii k (liijuit^ * . : i ounti?s of, the Southern ( Circuit. * * . ie 19 ts ••— —••— —• — * * John Ai. Hyson, Attorney at law. . THOMAS.VILLE, GA. 1 * - —. Eocene 8.. Ilim‘s. * • ATTORNEf AT LAW.* * 2.. C. * • * Attorney at law. ml* 10 . TH M VSViLLE, GA.. —— * • • —*-— • • .* •*. El. Morawi, • . A'PTORNifY AT* LAW, • NASHVILLE, BERRIEN CO., GA. 11 * . * • . v •( # - •md the ( ‘mi dy. W""’ and Dough, rtv of the •Macon; and t ofiee. tli h and VlJare . f the Brunswick i .Circuit. A Ircss :f*. FU. Cr,_ b IV ,-t Office, Ga. . mil * ... • ts * fl. T. Peeples, , • Attorney at law.* **. • *A Si IVIL l£. BE R RIE N* (.* V. GA. . je 12 .... ts # . *-■'•■. * —f -Vi.” ‘Cherokee Baptist College, CASBVILLE. CASS COOTV. GEO. „ 9134.40 to 5|62.50 Paj I'oi Forty Weeks Tui tion. Hoar.t l.otlsins. Wiwhina: Fuel, and * . School Incidentals for a Vouii Jinn. # • VjMHERE AlvK six CLASSES, two* Academic and 1 A four Collegiate * Students ate rect ived at • ot preparation, and for ary studies*they may select. . TuiUbn payable in advance. Boarding lir private fc®- ilies. Rrovieons for two hnpdred students. * . For further particulars. uddreO- . • Rev. THUS RA MG ACT. I.L IT. Pres t. * ■—Spring Sttssios #pens Thursday, Janmuy 17, ; 18to l * V jantf-ly .. •; • • •’ 1. 8 to’ 1• • Baptist- ‘Female College; ’ • cI "F , ii?ERT. CKORGIA * . r |. tALL TLR.M BEGINS THE SECOND V', * tlondar in January. , file I resident or Prof. will aid who \ e*ir.- board fpr their daughters. Many of oar.best citi the f* open their houses to accommodate j ‘■!> f *’ ?'■■■”■ -• . ibese hard times. ru _ I uiti.4i*Fees will bo granted, if nttm r,.,i ! ~*. , MALLARY. Pwafait. T’lf- •G * J rs. 1861.. • ° o B It t A \ A. K > E*A I , /• 9 Proprietors. * ) -e° ° • (h Fin anc f**3 Fndcr iiov. Brown. e ... It has*been we|l > i 1 thi* I’pjvidefice raises up tie n suited the times, and one may give in his adhesion to the truth of it* pitliou?, in ■ th° •• ‘h-groe, intywatimr its rtcclnplific%- tion in the person of our Governor. *1 ly re i- no d<>ubt but th;t there; *re scores of men in t! ■ State adapted to the presetrt emer gency, hut we have nutan*ijc # a that Gov. Krown is of the nuiiiiicr; ‘• coxpopulC’ is not stlways •• •., f>ei,” and this is one of tiie exceptional v -r.s. Su it men a- GuV. ilfown.do very well* .in -cas us of prospuritv, when the .simple dis charge of routine-business suffices to make or- * •dinary men very Governors ‘ Rut iy times tike the present we need statesmen, and not men who lack the cliscernnient ty discover duty or the nerve to discharge Tt. • ‘i*be State of Georgia seceded front the I’ni-* tej States in a financial conditiofl unsurpassed by any fitate in the h’nion. In entering upon | a war wit4i good credit anS abundant resources, it was as clear as d:P. to ]daut i straight-forward, | c ii inion seyse people that the enly way to main tani the former was to use the latter. But Gov. # Brown e’tjier lacked the discernment to sec • tins, or he lacked the independence to ae# upon it. We is welcome to make his own election. The-taxable prypeirfy of the .State is estima ted, in round numbers at eight hundred million ! fll dollars. A tax of twelve and a half cents upon every hundred dollars of property, worth! have raised one million of dollars in cash-*- would have kept the State unembarrassed, and I would have Sustained her credit equal to that* of any other Stale, and superior to that oV the United ♦■dates. * . But this most obvious plan did not suit our worthy Governor. It involved a tax upon‘the dear .people, and he being “par excellence” their champion, lye culd*submit to nothing so unjusl j and Jtuequal. And moreover, were he to advo cate or feeommcnfl a measure so dcviii;! of fi nancial tact and stall,®it might defeat him in th*o.next*Gubcrnatorial content. For strange* as it may seem, be it known,* though Governor Brown's inline .has Itfen i*l'Qpo*c®l for two years m >rc, lie lias never, modestly, signified ‘lris ae® quiescence it* thifct time honored patriotic piece deyt of htit two consecutive terms. . * • (•bx®. Brown having • declined, tft. speak (jut* like a main, and tell.the ’Legislature th#t the 1 State needed tiooney, and that the best *way to ! get it was by taxing the people, has been com •polled to struggle and flounder about, creating j difficulty where need have been norland failing to ge^money when he ha<^plenty with in resell * There is no •doubt but that one of | his first errors was, in asking the* LegislatureJ tp'pi ovi'Jc niyaiis for a * ir, by tlie sale of l*onds beariiic an interest that would be low even in times of peace. For. months beforehand, in view of a remote- possibility of trouble, State • Bonds bad less than par; was it not then egregious folly to think of a tier is ,s*ie in ni'dlr to prepare for actual war.' 1 ® N\"e have*not <*uv. Brown's Message by us, | ’and r. may be that lie did not reyonuuend the issue of them* but what we s?iy just as j welL as lie is equally culpable in not, by o spe6:al message, directing *he attenti n yf the Le!*is- ; iatilre to the utter inefficiency ol the expedß ent. • d'l ie bonds however acre autholized,tmtT it becanie necessary to sell them. But the salcoi was/ diffi *y!t problem, “t[hio<l <rant demo li st. nudum” was a goal uponVhieh* Uie Governor locked with loiTging did. Moses upoli i thc.*l’romiscd Lund. ® *t was well km®, ii the State was anxious to dispose of her Bonds; but there was no rush 1 j of buyers, and the scheme seemed likely to fall still-1 ®n, :id render ncpc.s®ary a called session ■f the in® order“tlyit they migliit do what they would have done in regular sess- # | i >n, had Gov. Brown hall the independence to have told them the *yily legitimate or pos sible mode of raising money*, in view of war, wasfiy taxation. It has been usual,®in financial or other troub les, to seek aid at the bauds of friends, but I G’ inaugurated a nej’ policy, and soyght if i aul tflat is* not the worst of it, he sought it suetwssfully,j at the hands of his en emifs, the banks l ® Tt is worth wliil®, briefly, to review thc'histo ry of Gov. Brown's intercourse with the banks, and if Governors grow nui*; the wiser “for the ‘ le'-®jii it teaches, perhapiabaukb may. Goy. Brown scarcely gotten warm in Ids seat before lie commenced a most outrageous I and most unjustifiable attack upon the banks, impliedly, if not directly, impugning the vcrac- < ity ;ui{ integrity of some of the best men jn the State. He set ojit to make tlye ban\s his by appeals to passion and , prejudice, id make the people his friends. It was in the inception of this crusade that he * displaced ueh ignorance .of bank- accounts, and expressed bis astonishment that, notwith standing the extent of their transactions, they always yiade their accounts ‘balance to a quay tc* of a cent. - \\ e must confess to a tinge ofo 0 — 1 shame when we first jjead # th : s, and felt that our vote had aided in the elevation of its au thor; but then we consoled ourselves with the • I refl?ctien that he was not alone in his glory.--® * Scott was made ridiculous by eating “a hasty pi ale wf soup,” and Taylor by being at peace “with all the world and the rest of mankind,” ivyi. to step dotvn to a lower # level, “nobody luj*t* ’ made .Lincoln 2 •buglung stock, and a “quarter of a cent” has made Bfown immortal. \Ye thoilgkt, at the timp the tjovernoranadc thi> lit two miotaka, we would touch him up a , littfb upon it, but we concluded as he was our own choice we would letffiiru pass; we may, though, saw that we did feel much interest in the election of° State Treasurer. We thought* if # ihc Governor and Treasure® should agree, tlukt the test of their integrity, and of cor rectness of their accounts in their inabili tv to) make the two sides balance, the funds of State would be its bad hands. But we are pleased*to record that the Treas*urer did not consider the of the Governor orthodox, and that the funds of the S tat ts have never been , in*safer hands* than during the* administration of Gov. Browm .* * * So„hie of the errors of Tlov. Jrown sulf- him to much ridicule,*but these have beers eoyiparatively Others have* been.more gelrioas. From Uie day of his inaug -1 uration, he*has dotie all iu hts power /o.pre^u-, o THOMASVIRLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 19, 1861. O O . dice the’people against The banks; or. *n other words, to inaugurate a war between the labor and eapifjjl of‘ thecduntrf. lie has looked up on .hie--opposition to bayks as a cardinal virtue, entitling him to any office to* which he “might aspire, eve?i to a life tenure to the Executive 0 c-hair. c . . • Sti - it nfav seem.•while he has been j more violent;and vindictive in his denanckatiod of the batiks, and more offtyisfve°an(i insulting to ttgpir managers than itny oY his predecessors, there has never beeij a Governor who has asked half so much at their hands.* • # It is a humiliating reflection, that a man oe- ‘ * cupying so distinguisiied a position shouftl first insult the directorsof the banks and then ask favors of llitun; but it is still more humiliating that those insulted .directors should grant them. Banks, with him, had fceen soulless” eorpora- tions, and Directors devoid of honor or sensi- ! bility; but when they were necessary to°sus-j tain him in shutting olf the onl\* legitimise ® ! mode, in tlie present emergency, of raisyig moTiey, tlie forme®’, by a strange sorUof metenip sychisis, shafted on.soul enough to feel an ap- - peal to patriotism, and the latter were amiable , * enough (not to s*ty weak enough) to hearken to hi§ entreaties and Jbrget an;! forgive his *in , suits.* •To some of the banks lie had but re- I cently issued a circular letter, asking thrill to i•invest, ten per cent of their capita! State bonds, Coupling it with what was“justly deemed an offensive thfieat, in the went of their non-, compliance. . . Avery short time sufficed to show him “that • the threat was unavailing, and it sufficed, too, to show that lie had no idea of executing his threat.* To have done so, he would Have had to.cull*the Legislature together, and that in volved tlie recommendation of what he lpid studiously avoided —the raising of money by taxation* lu this dilemma lie bctliou'ght him of anoth er expedient: thp, was, to invoke the aid of a couple of patyotic an*l distinguished gefitleiuen —one a citizen of Savannah and the other of Augusta —in negotiating with the baylys for that material aid whydi his cover? threat had failed to extort. Most, if notafl, of aim lyuiks con’sideiV'd tlie “operation as not* within t4iiyr sphere; that theif Stocliholdejs did *t sub i sccibe to their capital stock with a view® to the 1 aiding of the .Executive to shun his obvious | duty; and yet, but one bank, so farjis is known 1 tp tlie writer, has had the independence to act |up to these convictions. • It is true that Gov. Bi°nvn°did, iifsome mca j sure, alight from his higl# horse, and promise to recommend so the Legislature gn incrcifsc ®f i the rate from six tosevgn per cent interest,und thatstftne of.tlie banks yi Savannah, prior* to j this DCgotiagiow, had already ton-anted to take tlpe bonds, in 185?EGov. Brown, in his An nual message to “the Legislature, assaitwd “lie ; motives of the Wanks in resuming specie pay ment yrior to the period designated in the act legalizing th<#ir suspension; and we think tfiat ; in rsfil we may look for equal charity, and ex {JbcUhi*u in his “Annual *Messay* to announce* i,to the Legislature their subscription to the •bonds in about this \vi#c : “1 liyyve t* inform you, that ;fi view of the great imposition practiced*upon die peojd* by the banks, and ‘knowing that thev would fear thrust indignation of an* injured 0 people/ it I was to operate upon their fears ! of future consequences, and insist upon their \ investing a portion of Their ill-gotten gains in the builds authorize!? b* you at tin; last scss sion. . I>y throats arid entreaties l succeeded in.uiywin p from th in a relivctant subscription, •fyr wluch, in my judgment, they deserve no credit l‘or motives higher than those of self interest. p Yet., as m my need,! promised to recommend, that the rate of interest upon the bonds should Ipo advanced to seven iicr cent. Ido Recom mend it, leaving the wisdom and policy of so doing entirely at your discretion. ° o Asa citizen of Georgia, we shall feg ret if this negotiation is consumated. For one we prefer to be taxed. ? Gov. Browyi admits that the taxes in Georgia are less than in any ffiher” State; andythis fact ought to havc o aftbrdeib him a sufficient justification, if one were needed, for recompieuding that they should be increased. It is the duty of the State to maintain its | credit, and maintain Rt at the equal cost of the people. If it is not to be done, it is time to repeal the laws authorizing Administrators, Ex ecutors and G uardians, Jo in zest in State guilds. An orphan coming into possession to-day of prijperty invested within the last few years in bonds, would find it greSPiv depreciated in value, and himself the victim of the timidity and ambition, not to call it demagogism, of Gov. Brown*. • ° ! _ o 0 f J*lie Governor is fertile in expedients, and we have given a brief history of iftimber one. Number two we barely mention, for really it had scarcely vitality enough to be re ffiiembered. The Governor issued an edict which many considered e ;yi usurpstion, and* • which all thought would have corny, with a bet ter grace from President Davis,forbidding the citizens of the State paving debts t% Northern * 0 o 0 Txie gist of this scheme, was in the hope that the amounts due the North would be paid into the treasury, and as &ur indebtedness there has always been very largely estimated, the governor hoped to replenish the treasury, jrud be ftheved from his embarrassments. .But the scheme failed so signally jve dismiss it. Expedient number tiiree is the last aid quixotic of them. It is to be found in an appeal to the people to contribute one mill ion OP to the State Treasuiy. lieafly this is ridiculous. To suppose that a people, unwilling to lie # taxed to support.a government of their ohn choice, will voluntarily contribute such a sum, evidences an amount of credulity of which we should have acquitted even Gov. Brown. He ftufst have been reading the Nor thern papers, and thought that if William B. Astor would give a million, all the people of Georgia could give as much, especially, if they were bribed with°a gold uiedaljand th*e honor ol a“name enrolled on a full page, in the min ute.-* of the Executive Department!. • . The sjibject of support to 0 a Government* in process of •revolution, is hot to be summed up • iu a few wo rets, but suggestions are the better for brevity, and in concluding this article, 1 * desire to offer on*e : 1 Y\ e haye a £*t;?te and Fedenfl Government t') support, ;fnd neither*)? under existing* I circumstances, can ?je supported: by voluntary .subseriptioir* to Srat# or Federal 13onds. As regards the State Government, °let tife • tax indicated be levied, and:the whole difficul- ‘ ty will without oppression or # injury o to •<he poorest citizc%. For the -wpport of the Confederate .Govern* met, we wouhl phqerfally Bubmit*to the Same process ot to /!i> U ere a tax*of one jier cent levied, the State of Georgia would throw into the Confederate Treasury eight millions of<iol!;rs; and the di vision A this lanje sum ••pro *tttta’ among her property holders, would amount to a tax of but*’ one hundred dollai% njjon the* property of a peijon•worth ten thousand. It unusual * to Bear men say they .would sacrifice half thei? pnfperfv to sustain the Conf'ederattfGovermcnt, we think there ai* few liberal men, who wyuld not pay any ta'k for which *vas a vnatl ne cessity.® To Legislators who shu the duty of taxatio?) ;*■ they would tfce plague, tliis proposi •tion 4ooks monstrous; and we adwibit to be ! an exhovbitant tax, bift still, if there be a ne cessity for it let°it be imposed. . . But as therejs difficulty iu bringing Legisla tors to the point of taxation, we. will modify our.suggeAion, and we will do soby giving t§ it a direct application. If the Confederate Government should wish to raise fifty millions ot dollars,* we will sup , pose that it be allotted to tlie different States to raise their quota. . ‘ The quota to Georgia we will raise high, and call eight millions of dollars. To raise.it let the Legislature ppss ait act compelling e\Yry citizen to subscyilqe one.per cent of tlie value of his taxable property to the Confederate loam As it is or earnest apd heartfelt deSire that ncithor the State qf Georgia nor the Confede rate Government shoflld be embarrassed with debt, we would individually* prefer a positive’ tax, as affording material aid thq.Governme'nt in establishing a credit? There *nsy be argu ments in fivqr of a moderate indebtedness, but it cannot be the policy of anew Government that has a credit tv make, nor is it wiser for aq old Government ab*oqt to engage in war. We would be glad to sec such ah expression #f public sentiment as wouhl indicate perfect j willingness, on the part of the people, to be heavily taxed. Siteli expression would not on-” ly evidence confidence i*i our piiljie men, hnd in the Confederate Government, but jt would* afford a solid basis for its permanent establish ment? . * • If, positive taxation be inexpedient, I then we trust our “modification yia*y be adopted, as we believe it t% be *lie only way to insure ; • I?OL°AI.ITt. * Savannah, June 3d,1801. • ; ® e . ..... Efoif. f. i.. Va!!::u;liush:iiai. • • ■* One (* tl*e few men atfthc- North who have resisted the W ar Epidemic, is lion. C. L. \ iil'aningham, of Ohio, who has jus; written the* follAving • admirable letter to a committee of geuiicmcn wHo had requested o liis opinion upon political affairs : Gknti.kmkn : —Yours of the Oth fust., re questing my flpiniou upn certain points con nected with what®you justly style the present j “inglorious, and it may be, blood* war/’ lias been received. • Tfiat opinion was Ion*;- since formed, and was repeatedly set .forth through# tl*: pr®ss or by speech and vote in tlufJfouJe of “Representatives last winter, iflid re-affirmed’ in a card dated outlie 17th of# last month,*i “few days after the commencement of the war. But inasmuch as 1 never had occasion to dis cuss this particular question at length, 1 beg leave to adopt, the following admirable sumifla ■ ry of the (Rise in an extract from a ciycfully prepared and exceedingly able speech* of the lion. Stephen A. Douglas, iy the Senate of the United “I prefer such an.amicablc settlement to peaceable disunion; and I prefer it a thousand times to civil war. If we can adopt such amendments as wil? be satisfactory to Virginia, North Odrolina, Tennessee, and other border States, the same plan of pacification which will satisfy them will create a Union party in the Cotton States \?liich will soon embrace a laigjc majority of the people in tljpse States, and bring tiein Jaack of their own free will and ac cord ; and thus restore, strengthen, ;yid per petuate the glorious ftld Union forever. 1 re peat, whatever guarantees will satisfy Maryland and the bender States (The States now in the Union) will create a Union party in the sece ded States that will them back by tlie voluntary action of_jdieir o own people. You can restore and preserve the government in that mode. You can do it in no other. “tVar is disunion. War is final, eternal sep aration. Hence, disguise it as you may, every Union man in America must advocate such to the Constitution as will pre serve peace and restore the Union; while every i disunioifist, whether openly or secretly plotting itj destruction, is the advocate of peaceful se cession, or of *var, as the surest means of ren dering reunion and reconstruction impossible. I have too much respect for his # intellet't to be lieve, for one miniate, that. thei;e is a man for # watwlio is not a disuuionist per se. Hence and do not mean, if I can prevent it, that tl*3 ene mies of the Umon-*-men plotting to destroy it* —shall drag this o country into under the pretext of prutectitigfhe public propept)", and enforcing the laws; and collecting tfte revenue, when their object is disunion; and war the means of accomplishing a cherished purpose “The disunionists, therefore, are divided* into two classes : the qpe open and the other secret disunionists. The one is for peaceful secession* and a recognition # of independence; the other is in favor of war, as the surest means of ac complishing the object, and. of making the separation final anefi” eternal. lam a L nisn man, and kence agaiust war; but if the Union must be temporarily broke# by a revolution, “and the establishment of ade facto hy some of the States, let no act be done that will prevent restoration and future preservation. Peace is the only policy that can Te’ad to that result. . o “But we are told and we hear it repeated everywhere, that we must find out whether we have got a Government. “Have we a govern ment y .” is the question, and we are told we > must test that question by uging the military I* >wer to put clown all discontented Spirits *B*ir, question “hale wc # a governmpiitU’ has been propounded by every t vfant who has* ti*ie*d to liis*feet ou the iicclt- of <fie peo ple siqpe world began. When* the Barons •demanded Magifa Vharta from King John at Ktnnc\imede, he exclaimed, “have* we a Gov* ernnifnt ?” and called*fo# his arftiv to put down the discontented “Ballons. When Charles i. at tempted to collect the ship’s money in violation > of the Constitution of England, and in disre- tlie rights ot* tlie people, md re;- • si.-tfd by them, he exclaimed “have \?e a Gov ernment 7 ’’ *When J 11. was driven from tl*; throne of England for trampling on the lib-* *crtic£ of the people, he called for his army and exclaiyied, “let us .show tliat we have a govern *.mcnt.” When George 111. called upon his ar- j my to put down rebellion in Lord North cried out lustily, “no compromise* with traitors leUus dcmonstniV’ that we Ituve a S;ov ernmenf.” # HYhe#, in 1848, the people rose irpon their tyrants all over llurope, and deman ded guarantees for their rights, every crowned head exclaimed, “lirivc we a. government i 7 ” and appealed to the army to vindicate their au- . tjjority and enforce the la\?. . “Sir, the history jsf the world does nyt fail to condemn the folly, weakness, and wicked ness of that Goverrhnent which drew its .-"word uyon its own people when they demanded guar antees for their rights. This cry, that we must, have a government, i# merely following t!rc ex ample of the besotted ljourbous, who never “learned anything but misfortune, never forgave* an injury, m-. er forgot an affront. Must we de monstrate that wohavfi got°a Govcyimwit, ;uul coerce obedience without reference to the jus tice or injustice or the conqjaints ? Bii° when- ; ever ten milliuus # people .proclaim to jw>u, with one unanimous voice, that they apprehend thyi* | rights, tiieir firesides, and their lamily qll ai s are in danger, it becomes a wise#government ‘to.! “ listen to the appeal,,an?l to remove the appre hension. nistqvy docs not record an example 1 where ;yiy human government has beep strong j ctjough to crush ntillion.s of people into sub- > jection when’they believed tdicir rights and lib erties were imperiled, without first converting j the government itself into a despotism, and destroying the fast vestfge of freedom*.*”. These of the Democ#at ic*party, otAlie (Constitutional Union [•arty, and* *of a Lirgo majority of'tlie AlepuDlican presses? and pyrtk, only six weeks ago. Tliyy. were mjne—I voteef thcm“repeatedly “dong, with ® v • ci-y IK. inocrat and Union wian in the House. —*, | 1 have scenjiothing to mueli to eon- j i lirtn them since ; especially in the secession, ! within biio la;t‘thirty 4a\H, ®if Virginia, Aikan* i sas. North Carolina, end Tennessee, takiit;. with them four millions ayd a liaff of people, yn mense wealth, inexhaustible resources, five liun dre if thousand lighting men, and tjio graves of NYathingtcgi and Jackson. I shall vote them again. a Waiving the question of the doubtful legali ty .tj* tlie first proclamation, of Aprif 15, m call ing out the militk for three months, under the act A 1f95, 1 will yt vtfte to pay them* be cause they had no mojivc but supposed duty, andopatriotism, to move them s and, .moreover, they*will havc#cndered almost the entire ser yce required of them, before Congress shall meet. But the audacious usurpation* o? I*resi dent Lincoln, for which he deserves impeach , meflt* in daring, a the very lcUer of the Constitution, and. without the ot law, * to°raisc and suppoU armies, and to provide find maintain a naay, for three or five years, by mere executive proclamation, 1 will not vote to sus taßi or ratify —ticver. Millions for defence — not a man or a dollaj IGr aggressh'e.ainl offen sive wfr. ° ° “The war has had many motives for its coin- ■ wicnccmcnt, it can have but one result, whether it lasts.onc year or fifty years—final, eternal, separation, DISUNION. As for the conquest | and subjugation of tlie Softtli’ I wiU not. im- | paach the intelligence of any man among you, by assuming that you dream of it as.i*t any time or in any way possible. KcmdVnbcr the! warnjpgof Lord Chatham to the Witish Par-* liament. “My Lords® you cannot conquer Am erica.” A public debt of hundreds of mil lions, weighing us and our posterity down lb; we dm not ccsape. Fortunate shall wc be if we escape with our liberties*, indeed it js no longer so much a question df war .with the South, as whether we ourselves arc to have a°constitution and a republican form of govern ment hereafter in the North atfd . In brief: lam for the Constitution first, and < ’ at all hazards; for whatever can now be gaved of the Union next; and for Peace alwajsfas es sential) to the preservation of either. But whatever any one may think of the war, one j tiling, at least, every lover of liberty ought to demand inexorably: that it shall be carried on strAtly subject to the Const.ution. The peace policy was tried; it afirested se cession, and promised a restoration of the Un ion. The policy of war is now upon trial; in twenty*days it has driven four States and four millions and a half ot pecfple out of the Union and into the Confederacy of the South. In a liftle while longer it will drive out, also, two<cr four more States, and two or thrve millions of people. War, may indeed be the policy of the East; but peace is a necessity of the West. I would have volunteered nothing, gentle men, at this time in regflrd to this civil war ;J but, as constituents, you have a right to knov? my opinions and position ; and briefly, but i*ost frankly, you ha\*e them. ° My only answer to those who o indulge in slander and vituperation, was given i;i a card of the 17th of April herewith enqjsed. • ° Very truly, C. L. Vallandingiiam. WW®. O ° Q Ruling Powers, o The press, the pulpit, and petticoats- ? thc three ruljng powers of the day. The first spreads knowledge, the second spreads morals, and Hie last spreads considerably. • A wag tells of a boarding house keeper, whose coffee was so weak that it couldn’t get up the spout ot thcocoffee pot. There wasn't ev en sufficient grounds fur complaint. “o - * “ - ° c When Sheridam was asked what kind of wine lie liked best, answered—“ Other Peo- 0 pie’s.” There ar<° a great many Sheridams nowadays. ° s A DOM-ABS, f ( Bn Advance, a ) A CoiilVswioii without Ab4lution. 1 might aV well own it. “I'm nervous.”— . Not th'at 1 should ukind it, were* a cannon fired oTP in mv car. or did .1 sit behind* a .runaway any big ‘thing’ of Iliat sort; but for him who tlu*t;U)lc with Ms lingers, of taps We carut't with his loot lor hours, jor grinds ITia boot-sole on the rounds of my chair, during g ufliole evening's jßiblie performance, yj'°nld nt I erect gibbets as Jiiglt as Hainan's ? As to persistent, by-tlic-hour, hum-lium-huni * mtr,* no dictionary is equal to the expression of the emotion *slie evokes. Cold droos of per spiration gatfie* on myiprehead as tlie wretch • begins. It is no us to request her to stop, °\ghen you'know fiwm experience that sin* will begin again in live minutes. # So.you resort to. l stratagem; youopen a book, and sfYuck with sudden astonishntent at some passage, you ask her in flattering terms her unbiassed opinion of it, begging lvr disinterestedly, not to be hasty, . but to peruse it deliberately, adding .tjiat you shall have good i*as<sn ftfr thinking you must be wrong if she (Rous not rfgree with you. -She's lazy, and the trick fails. Then you commence I a provocative conversation on some gentleman j friend; she stupidly, ami, contrary toiler usual Leustoui, assents with a nod of 0 her head to evo>* rytiling you say; up you jump, and get some nice tit-bit in shape of luncheon. *“8110 isn’t hungry ” You produce your pevf cloak, or mantle, or bonnet;* deuce is in it, if that dou’t chapge her tune ! “Very pretty,” she laconi cally remarks, and proceeds remorselessly °with [‘•The Last ftose of Summer.”* Your Jiair stands on end as you ruJi into qnothtfr part of the house, the faithcst removed from your tof ineutort and throwing up flie window for a breath of air, slaifl it down again to shut out the “JJaJtle of Prague” tliat’s being fought tin the piano by a tnvLof “sif.feeti summery” and, lei us hope not a fall, lletreatyig to another window, you .hear a wretched parrot burlcsqu-* ingeevery ..Sally and Tdmmy in “the neighbor hood. You rush to.the front door, and .soibo’ juvenile Negro is throwing stones afttV* a yelp ! tug cue with a broken leg; while a. hot,* tired beggar-woman is slapping a baby that, has had nothing but the colic in its stomach for hours; not th mention a dilapidated .old man, very weak in the thorax.'U ngyVaM Lang Syne,” l on a wheezy flute, in manner to make ydu • d-—cttounce all* your “auld acquaintances,” * who, Kiting him alone, are th last things you [ want “brought to mind.” • ° . Xowj. of course, your -a pp 1 e.d ump fin g-r oas t beef people, who are alfve to nothing Uut edi bles, gan’t by Ony* possibility understand thi state of mind, no •more tl;an cap a deflf man sounds ; still the sounds *.q'c there just as sure — as* that an insane Hospital wjll some day take charge of you. * • ’ I* AN NY FkhX. ..••• -• • _ o , •~ e • * Tlif B*ionrfr Frog. m It w;re oil a ]!; ;.mut June day, which by ! some mistake Ipid *bcen interpolated into last .April, that we saw the pioneer frog of .the sea | son. He sat", (Ausoe-like, on a little JuanJFcr nandez ol‘ green mud in the centre of a small’ Pacific id stagnant water, and there was an ex-* pression of quiet enjoyment in his * naturally sorrowful face, that was half epicurean, half self-complacent. Jf’o wonder the old fellow felt VAnlwriuble. Coder ;t blanket of slime lie had slept apoplectically the whole winter loß^.“shut up a four Jjladed kpife’, and now, his torpidity broken in-upoiqby the.sun, lie had floated to tire surface to get his green back tickled.by its beams, and was rejoiced to , find the world properly warmcd.for* liis fcceji tion. Unpleasant visions had not? troubled his j winter sleep, nor did any.fcar or doubt disturb his waking*contemplations. Although it was his mission to croak, he was neither disappoint fed nor*discontentcd, and, ujilike many two leg ged bags of wind, he had mo ambition to quit bis native puddle, to*bellow in a sphejre where his presence would have been an intrusion. •w hat a blessing it would be t*o society if cor tain human bipeds were as modest and unam- Lull frogs; contend to move quietly Jhrough the waters of life, and only opening their mouths at appropriate seasons, people arc, however, very rare. nd it seems to us that the tribe does Dot increase. • In tho world’s great pond, a gatnc of leap frog, in which each player seems intent on leaping a little farther moonward than lire neighbor, and making more noise about it, is in constant pro , gress, and the result is that t*o raany of.ua | jump to false conclusions. Frogs are inoro dis creet. They look bcfqre they leap, and never • cut any ‘ (ftdos” \ythout a good and sufficient , reason. • o -■ ® • o ('urc of DrimkeniifM. 0 • . i There i*a prescription iu use in England for the cure of drunkenness, by which thousands ajCsaid to hflve been assisted in recovering themselves. ‘I lie recipe came Into notoriety through the effortshf John Vine IlalJ, father of Lev. Newman Hall, and Captain Vine Hall commander of the Great Eastern steamship.— o He had fallen into such habitual•efrunkenness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At length he softght the advi'ce of an eminent physician who gave him a prescripfion which he followed faithfully for* scv%n mopths, and at Jhe'end of Jhat time had lost ajl desire for liqtfors, although he'’ had°for j many years been led captive-by a most debasing * appetite. The recipe, whicn he afterwards published, and by which, many other dr.unkardg have been assisted to re-form, is as* follows:—- ’ Sulphate of Ison, five grains; magnesia, ten grains; pepperfliint water, eleven* drachms; spirit of nutmeg, one drachm; twice a day.-*- d-.ld 8 preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the ac customed liquorjl ‘and prevents that absolute physical <md moral prostratiou that follows a sudden breaking off from use of stimula* i ting drinkp. , “ -e • • A Banner Qneerlj Saved. A gplendtd banner is hung up in*tlfe E*’ press Office at Man&ssas, the property of the. Alexandriafiiflemen, who*re encamped khere. This flag was the object of the strictest scare by Ellsworth’s fire Rounds; but it was s:ne from desecration by a patriotic lady, wio oo ’ it from the staff and*smuggled it down the , street by°the aid of cripphne, in the aco enemy, and finely contrived°to bung J concealed to the Confederate camg. NO. IT.