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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.) Terms, $4.00 a year in Advance. j LAW AND MEDICAL CARDS. BRYAN & HARRIS, ATTORXEVS IT Lt. THOU %*%'■ 1.1. E. G. 4. FiTOFFICE firt door in second story of Shirk's Confectionary , L. C BEYAX. U. H. HARRIS. Mar 14 11 ts S. B. SPENCER, ATTORN E Y A T I. AW , Thomasrillr, Georgia, Will attend promptly to all aril business en trusted to bis care in the Sontbem Circuit, Clinch and Ware of the Brunswick Circuit. Jan 31 5 ly* C. P. HANSELL, ATTORX E Y A T LA W, Thomasrillr, Georgia Jan 31 5-ly ROBERT G. MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT LA W , THOMASVILLE, GA. over McLane’s Store.“USA Jan 24 4-12 m 7. K. K id, U. U. W.F. DcWilt. H. D. |)rs. KBI rX. DeWITT, OFFER their services to the citizens of Thomtisville and vicinity. OFFICE at Dr. DeWitt's Drug Store Feb til 8-ts Dr. T. S. HOPKINS, O P P,I O DEI I\ x vm: LOT with KLSIDEM'E. I. O. ARNOLD, RESIDENT DENTIST THOMASVILLE, GA. \\ r ILL be found at the old T V stand occupied by bim for the hist ten years Aug 23-12uo Dr. W. P. CLOWER HAYING permanently located in Thomas Ville, otV rs bis I’rotVwwionsil t** to the public. I t-"OFFICE at the Dntg Store of W. P. ('lower A Cos. ’ V*RG*II>EXCE—the house formerly oc cupied byJDr. Brandon. mar 11 ly Dr. R. IV. IS iSTOX Having permanently located in Tliomas ville, rfapectfully offers his services to the citizens of the Town and Surrounding Country, in the practice of Medicine, Surs gery and Midwifery. Will also pay spe cial attention to the treatment of Diseases of Women. Office It. It. Evans* old Store upstairs. janl7-3m E. G. F l II G I SO N , (Graduate of Queen s College.) PHYSICAN, SURGEON, &c., Boston, Georgia. May be consulted at Mr. Murphy’s near Railroad Station. APOTHECARY W. P. CLOWER & GO., DRUGGISTS. Have renovated and refitted the Store next to Young's Hotel, for the purpose of es tablishing a First Class Drug Store. The new firm ask for a share of patron age, and invite the attention of the citi zens to their well selected stock of Fancy anil Toilet irticles, Soaps ami Perfumery. Fine Green and (Slack Teas, Kerosine Lamps and Oil, BYE M l I IS, Together with every other article usually kept in a well appointed Drug Store. £-25“’ Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully prepared. 4-ts Jan 24 DRUGS AND MEDICINES. The undersigned having purchased the elegant Drug Store ot Dr. Little, take pleasure in announcing to the people of Thomasville, and the country generally, that they have just received a full supply of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oil#, Perfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call and examine for yourselves. By strict attention to business. courte cus and honorable dealing with our cus tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe ral share of patronage. TV INN & CASSELS. James X. Winn, Samuel J. Cassels. jan 17tf FRESH DRUGS DR. P. S. BOWEH has just received a large stock of fresh Drugs, purchased at the best manufactories in the United States, and embracing every article in the Medical Department. ll is Drugs were purchased with the view of supplying the market with the very Best Quality of Medicines manufactured, and the prices were not therefore consulted. He will nevertheless sell upon easy terms, and feels sure that he can give satisfaction. Thankful for the liberal patronage ex. tended to him heretofore by the people of Thomas County, he hopes to merit a eontin uation of their favors. lie may be found at his old Stand opposite Remington & Son. Jan 4, ts P. S.BOVvATR. UEOKItI.l —Clinch County. Whereas, Ziba King applies to said Court for letters of Guardianship, for the property, person and effects of Duncan Henderson, dee’d. All persons are notified to tile their'objections in said Court, otherwise said letters will be granted in terms of the law. H. MORGAN, Feb 21 8-40 J Ordinary. tpWO tlonthi from date, npplira. A tion will be made to LonndesCourt of Or dinary, for leave to sell the Real Estate of Archibald Mclntvre, late of said Conntv, dec'd. „ ISAAC JESSUP. Mar 21 2m Adm r. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. GEO. T. PATTEN, COMMISSION MERCHANT, THOHABTILLE, GA. \\XILL purchase and sell Colton, llaron. TV Hugar, Syrup. Wool, Arc., &c., on Commission, forward Cotton and other Pro duce to Savannah, and Goods from Depot to other points. Orders and Consignments solicited. Feb 14 7-3m* GEORGE PATTEN, Forwar aing AXD COMMISSION MERCHANT, MAVA.VVIII, GEORGIA. rTTEXDERS bis services to the Merchants of I Thomasville. and the Planters of Thomas County, for the forwarding of Goods, the sale of Pro bice and pnrrhase of Supplies, and re spectfully solicits their patronage- Feb 14 7-3m* J. R. S, DAVIS & CO., ” Auction & Commission •MERCHANTS, Vrxl door loll.A Goldbcrry’s Store, SOLICIT consignments of goods of all de scriptions. Particular attention paid to telling real and peisonal propertv. I sales on Wednesdays and Satur days—day and night. J. R. S DAVIS, G. A. JEFFERS. Feb 14 7-3m # F. TV. SIMS,) ( J. F. WHEATON, Late of the > < Late of the firm of Republican. ) ( Wilder, Wheaton & Cos. F. W. SIMS & Cos., SAVANNAH, GA., FACTORS AND GENERAL CIMiSSI MERCHANTS. DEALERS IN Merchandise, Produce, Tim ber, I.umber and Cotton. Consignments and orders respectfully solicit ed, and whether by wagou, river, railroad or sea, will receive the strictest attention. The Forwarding Business carefully and promptly done. mar 7 10-Gm MILLER, THOMAS & Cos., COMMISSIONS GROCERY MEECH AN T S, SAVANNAH, . . . . , GEORGIA. A. J. MILLER. SAMUEL B. THOMAS. D. G. LIVINGSTON. Jan 24 4-6m* 7, L. VILLA LORO A, COTTON FACTOR mi® 11 MISSION No- 94 Bay Street, jan l-3m SA YANXAII . GA. TISON& GORDON, COTTON FACTORS, SIMiSSI 1111816 ivshesio-g 98 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Special attention will be given to the sale of SYRUP, LUMBER, ROSIN, TURPEN TINE, &C. -o:o- SAVANNAII, Ist., Sept., 1865. We are again in our old Office, prepared for business. An experience in this city of over eleven years, and our undivided attention to all business entrusted, induces us to hope for a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofore extended. WM. 11. TISON, WM. W. GOIIDON. Jan 1 3m F. Bchuittrr. Ilcinsius, SCHUSTER & HEINSiUS. snipping, CMHISSIOIII FORWARDING M E R C 11 A NTS, 142 Bay St., SAVANNAH, Ga : Consignments of Cotton for sale in this market or for shipment to our friends in New York, Philadelphia, Boston. Balti more. Liverpool and Germany are solicited and liberal advances made. Orders for Wines, Liquors, Groceries, &c., promptly attended to. AGENTS FOR Crcine df Rouzt nud Vrurr Clicquot CHAM P A CINE. DILTIIEY, SABL & CO’S., Rhine Wines, and P. I, de Tenet & de Georges’ BORDEAUX WIHES. Nov 8 6mo ROBT P. YORK. i J. R. McINTYRE M. E. WILLIAMS, | P. H. WARD. YOIK.WILLIAMIM IHTYRE & CO.. AUCTION COMMISSION MERCHANT#, BAY STREET, Savannah, Geo. Consignments of COTTON AND LIMBER Solicited. REFERENCES: Brigham, Baldwin & Co.,Savannah. Gaden & Unekles, Savannah. Isaac D. Laßoche, Sa vannah, Hunter A: Gammell, Savannah, Erwin & Hardee, Savannah, Hiram Roberts. Savan nah, W. Woodbridge, Savannah, L. C. Xor vejl -A Cos., Savannah. S. T. Knapp <fc Bro , New York, D. H. Baldwin & Co.,New York. Nov 8 6m N OTICE.—WiII be sold on the First Tues day in April next, at the Court House, in the town of Thomasville, within the legal hours of sale. Lot of Land. No. 32, in 14th District. The property of the estate of Geo. Folsom, deceased. Terms on dav of sale. JOSIAH J EVERETT. Feb 21 S-td Adni’y. RKINNWICK AND STATE IM PROVE VI EATS. Savannah, Jan. 27, IS6G. Hon. U. Dart, of Glynn County, Milledgeville, Ga. Jfy Dear Sir : —Though personally a stranger to you, the fact that I now have an interest direct in the prosperi ty and welfare oi Brunswick, induces me to the liberty of writing you upon the subject, as for some years my at tention has been given to the Bails road facilities and resources of Geor gia. As far back as 1846, when on my way to Mexico, through Georgia, eir. cumstances drew my attention to the Bailroad wants of the State, and to the readiness with which the commerce of the West and South-West of the Uni ted States might be led to her Atlan tic coast for an outlet. In 1859, when fitting out an expedition to California, across the country, at Memphis, Tenn., I endeavered to establish a system of through freights from Savannah to Memphis without breaking bulk; but unsuccessfully, owing to the conflicting views of the several Bailroads forming the route, arising from narrow ideas of interest and restricted estimates of the influence ot Bailroads. In 1861, when sent to Brunswick, in Septem ber, to fortify the harbor, I was struck with wonder at its capacity and advan tages, and could hardly realize that such a treasure had been allowed by the State to pass from its own hands into those of strangers. Had such a harbor been in one of the Northern States, its shores would long ago have been crowned with a flourishing city, influencing’’ materially the commerce of the country. Occupied during Sep • ternber and October in fortifying the harbor, it became my duty, as it was my pleasure, to study and learn, from the best charts, and from personal ex amination, the approaches to, capacites and advantages of Brunswick; lam therefore prepared to speak in rehu tion to them with intelligence and certainty. From that time I have re garded Brunswick as the key stone in the arch ot Georgia’s prosperity. The man who docs not look beyond the limits of the State of Georgia for the value and influence of her Bailroads, takes, permit me to say, but a very narrow view of the subject. Ac one time the commerce of Norfork, Va., surpassed that of New York; but hew is it, that while the former re* mains with her magnificent advanta ges, but a little seaport, the latter has become one of the Metropolitan Cities of the world! The answer will be found, I think, in the sing’c fact of the far-reaching mind of De Wit Clinton, who, looking beyond the limits of his own State to the then undeveloped wealth of the West, and seeing that an outlet must be prepared for it, pro jected that great highway, the Erie Canal, and thus laid the foundation of New York’s prosperity and gave birth to the spirit of Internal Improvement, which seizing upon the developments of science and art, as successively pro duced, has made the City and State of New York the wealthy and powerful ascendency of commerce and exchange of the United States. In the same manner, it is in the pow* er of the State of Georgia now to shape her destiny. I say now, for hitherto, the State has been purely agricultural, with her giant resources for commerce and industrial pursuits, bur ed, disre garded and uncared lor, under the fancied wealth of a few bales of cotton and bushels of rice. The door, how-- ever, by hidden decrees of Providence, is now opened for Georgia to enter up on her true position and influence. Iler mission is to absorb and control the trade and commerce of the West and Southwest, from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Gulf, and to share with New York the trade of Chicago. In makingthis assertion, do not think me wild, vis ionary nr rhapsodical. I am writing with a full knowledge of the Bailroads and Bailroad system of the North and West, (on which I was once called up on to report as military resources for tranoportation) and with a full under standing of the immense power of the capital wielded in New York. But at the same time, I know the advantages presented by a Southern outlet, if a suitable one can be foun 1, and the im mutable law of interest that seeks al ways its own benefit. This outlet, I think, can be had advantageously and suitably only in Georgia at Brunswick. An examination of the coast of the United States, from Norfolk, Ya., to Cape Sable, the southernmost end of Florida, presents but two harbors capa> ble of carrying on a direct European trade, or maintaining an extensive commerce. The bars at Wilmington,N. C., Charleston, S.C., are too shallow to admit large ocean travers'ng steamers or ships. The bar at Tybee is deep enough; but, once over it there is not room or depth of water enough in the Iloads for many or large vessels, and no shelter from North and Easterly gales. Port Royal and Brunswick, then, are only left to our considera. tion. Port Royal bar carries over 26 feet of water; Brunswick bar, 24 feet. Port Royal bar is difficult to approach on account of dangerous shoals shut’ ting it in ; Brunswick bar is open, free, presenting no danger to vessels coming in. Port Royal harbor is a wide sheet of water, two and three quarter miles wide, rendering its defence a problem Thomasville, Georgia, Wednesday, April 4, 1806. of great difficulty, almost an impossi bility except at an enormous expense ; Brunswick harbor is about a mile to a mile and a half wide, affording every facility for a strong lortification Port Boyal harbor is not sheltered from North and Easterly gales ; Brunswick harbor is completely so. Port Boyal harbor presents great difficulties from its character and position for communi cation witli the interior; Brunswick labors under no such disadvantages, be ing on the main land, in ordinary com mon road connection with the whole State. Lastly, all the reports es every comm’ssion sent by the United States to examine the Southern Atlantic coast for the site of a Navy Yard, lave re ported in favor of Brunswick. Add to this, the commercial wealth oed politi cal influence derived from the Com mercial Southern Metropolis to the State that possesses it, and the ques tion in favor of Brunswick must be de cided for every Georgian who has any State love or State pride, Could Sa vannah fulfil these anticipations, 1 would unhesitatingly advocate her claims. But a seaport’s growth and power is measured by its capacity for business. Large ships must lighter fourteen miles below the city, and vessels of moderate draught must wait for the tide, even before they can run up to town ; and, then, owing to the narrowness and shallownes of the chan nel, they frequently run aground and are obliged to wait a tug to take off passengers and a portion of freight bei fore they can run up to the wharves. But without these difficulties, there is not, from Tybce Loads to the city, room enough for a large number of ships. At Brunswick, on the contrary, the whole fleet of England can lie secure ly and commodiously, and the largest vessels anchor at the wharves. Be tween Brunswick and Savannah there can be no comparison as to facility and capacity for a large and deep com merce. Again, Brunswick bar is about seventy miles south of Tybce—a run for a sca-going steamer of six hours and a half. Passengers, therefore for Brunswick, parting at Tybee with pas sengers for Savannah, will, in ninety nine cases out of one hundred, be land ed at Brunswick before those for Sa. vannah on shore, owing to the delays of liver approach from Tybee to Savant nab. I write on this subject freely and for what I believe to be the great in terests of Georgia. My landed interest is all in and around Savannah ; but I know enough of Bailroad influences to have no fears on account of Brunswick's prosperity. Quite the reverse. I know that one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants at Brunswick will enhance the value of my real estate in Savannah 25 per cent. No city has ever yet been destroyed by Bailroads; and Savannah will form no exception to this inflexi ble rule. Men who reason against Brunswick for fear of destroying Sa vannah, show but narrow intehigince, and exhibit fears arising from a want of observation and knowledge. Look at Portland, Portsmouth, Boston, Phila delphia and Baltimore, Have they been injured by leading Bailroads to New York ? and why should Savannah fear a New York at Brunswick ? It was thought that the Jersey Bailroads would ruin Philadelphia and fatten New York 1 But what has been their influence ? Philadelphia has now more houses than New York ? These idle fears, founded in ignorance, have no longer sway at the North and West; and it is time that our people should acquire the same enlightened opinions. We must sec something else beside cot ton, and lctrn that there are sources of wealth in the State of equal if not grea ter value. We must regaid our great mineral wealth, the increased value of lands on account of immigration, and the industrial pursuits growing out of them; and we must learn to estimate properly the great value of commerce tlowiug through our channels to an outlet capable of receiving them with* in our borders. Asa just step to these results, the completion of the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad is the most important. I do not know accurately the condition of the Road, but I hope it is such as to insure an active and speedy prose cution of it to its termination. Fin* ished, and in running order to Macon, it must become in profit what the Cen tral Railroad has been, but more of a link in State and Natioual influence than that Road ever was or can be come. I regard it as the most irnpor tant Railroad now projected on this Continent. Every man in the State of Georgia is interested in its completion, as its influence will be felt throughout our limits. That completed, the Bruns wick and Albany Road must soon foN low, leading on its present line. Then a road from Lumber city to Sanders ville to Union Point, connecting with the Athens Road, and from Athens, eventually, through Clarksville direct to Knoxville, Tenn ; meeting the Cin cinnati and Knoxville road and thus connecting Chicago with Brunswick. Another road, in time from Screvens, the crossing of the A. & G. R. R. by the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, to Millen, meeting the Augusta and Waynesboro Road, and we shall have opened ways through Georgia to all accessible points, inviting trade to a port at which business may be carried on the whole year, without interruption from winter’s snows or summer’s heat, and whence the voyage to Europe may be safely and pleasantly made at all seasons without danger from fogs, ice bergs, or freezing wintry gales. St. Lcuis is over two hundred miles near er Brunswick than it is to New York. Cincinnati is equi-distant from New York and Brunswick. And Chicago i- about niuety miles nearer New York than Brunswick. But take into con sideration the great, cheapness with which Bailroads are built in the South, the more direct lines that they can fol low, and the freedom in winter from obstruction by snow or extreme cold, and I think that travel and trade can find a cheaper and readier exit from the North and West at Brunswick than at New York. I know there are not impossibilities, and with our advanta ges difficulties will soon disappear be fore energy and earnest purpose. I am not so silly as to think we can up set New York, but I do see, as clearly as some years of close study of the subject warrant me in seeing, that without aiming at competing with New York we can share the trade of the country with her, and have in Georgia the great and the governng Southern Metropolis. As the representation of the city of Brunswick’s interest in the Macon and Brunswick Bailroad, let me urge upon you an energetic prosecution of the road, and as the surest earnest of it, the election of Directors and a Pres ident who estimate at its true value the importance of the road, and who believe in its success. Milk and wa ter men, or men with divided inten ests will not do. We want single heart ed, whole hearted, energetic, practical businessmen who wont mistake a dime for a dollar, and grasp of mind enough to comprehend that there is a Great West and a South West teeming with wealth, seeking an Atlantic seaport, and that there is other freight in Geor gia. The State might well aid the Macon apd Brunswick Bailroad for the ultimate benefit to her Treasury. But as I know nothing of the affairs oi the road, I don’t know that it needs it. If the road does, the State might safely take her bonds to 81,000,000 and more. Nothing but absolute im becility or gross mismanagement can make the road fail. Apologising for trespassing so long upon your time, I am, very respect fully, Your obedient servant, HEN BY C. WAYNE. UJistdimtiL 1 11 Vote for the Ollier Jinn. The following story is told of a Be volutionary soldier, who was running for Congress. It appears that he was opposed by a much younger man, who had never been to the wars, and it was the want of Bevolutionary to tell the people of the hardships he had endured. Says he : Fellow citizens, I have fought and bled for my country —I helped whip the British and Indians. 1 have slept on the field of battle with no other covering than the canopy of heaven. I have walked over frozen ground till every foot step was marked with blojd. Just about that time, one of the so vereigns who had become very much affected by this tale of woe, walks up in front of the speaker, wiping the tears from his eyes with the extremity of his coat tail and interrupting him says : Did you say that you had fought the British and the Injines ? Yes, responded the Bevolutionary. Did you say that you had slept on the ground while serving your country without any kiter? Yes, sir, I did. Did you say ycu had followed the enemy of your country over frozen ground till every footstep was covered with blood ? Yes, exultingly replied the speaker. Well, then says the tearful sovereign as he gave a sigh of painful emotion,’ I’ll be blamed if I don’t think you’ve done enough for your country, and I’ll vote for the other man !” - Young America Wonders —Won der why mama, keeps Bridget at home from church to work all day, and then says it is wicked for me to build my rabbit house on Sunday? Wonder why our minister bought that pretty cane with the yellow lion’s head on the top, and then asked me for my cent to put in the missionary box? Don’t 1 want a jewsharp just as well as he wanted a cane? Wonder what makes papa, tell such nice stories to visitors about his hiding the master's rattan when he went to school, and about his running away from the school-mistress when she was going to whip him, and then shut me up in a dark room all day because I tried just once to be as smart as he was. Wonder what made papa say that wicked word when Betsy upset the ink all over his papers, and then slap ped my ears because I said the same thing when my kite-string broke ? Wonder why mama told Bridget the other day to say that she was not at home when Tommy Cay’s mother call ed, and then puts me to bed without my supper every time I tell a lie ? Oh, dear! there are lots of things I want to know, I wish I was a man! Who Khali Tench the Xegro f The education of the negro follows as one of the inevitable consequences * of his freedom. Ills natural desire to imitate white people, and his longing after every th : ng novel and mysterious, will induce him to make the attempt himself, and the party which has freed him, and hopes to u-e him as a politi cal capital in the future, will see to it that the ways and means shall be pla ced at his disposal. Schoolmasters and schoolmarms came with the freed men’s Bureau, in the rear of the armies of occupation, and in all the Southern cities negro schools have been opened, and are attended by large numbers of negroes, great and small. Negro edu cation has opened anew and ungar.- nered field to the unemployed young men and women of New England, and they have not been, and will not be slow in the future, to avail themselves of the harvest. Up to the commence ment of tlie war a large proportion of the Southern youth, of both sexes, were taught by these people out of books manufactured in Boston, and made with the single purpose of gloris fying the Yankee and his exploits at the expense of the balance of mankind. Every intelligent and thinking man, who has arrived at the age of matu rity, has had to unlearn the partial, prejudiced and dangerous lessons he has learned in his boyhood about the history of our own and other countries, and as to the character and deeds of men who were among the best and most illustrious of their race. Messrs. Seward and Trumbull, two of the most able and distinguished leaders of that party which has over thrown the South, were once itinerant pedagogues in Georgia. It is no part of the purpose of this article to refer to the practical exhibitions given by either of their then belief in the equal ity of the races; but who can doubt if it would not have been better for the South in the past to have had her own teachers and preachers, and may not the experience of the past be benefr cially used for her future safety and interest. Who, then, shall educate the negro ? The Southern man, his former owner, to whom he feels attached, in whose friendship he has an abiding confi dence, or Noithern radical, who, for his hard earned gains comes to give him lessons which will only increase his un happiness and discontent, and hasten, perhaps his destruction? In the answer to this question is involved an idea of momentary importance to the South. Her interest is to keep the freedman in a state of kindness and amity with those with whom he has been born and raised, and with whom all his future destinies, personal and polticial, are cast. That the majority of them now possess this feeling can scarcely be doubted, but how long it may con tinue under the teaching of Yankee fanatics, is a question of terrible earn estness to us. The party at the North desirous of giving the negro political equality, are not going to retire from the field after one repulse. Their past history, their recent triumph—our wasted fields and desolated towns, our impoverished people, tell of their in domitable perseverance. They will make the negro our master, if they can, a war of races is the first grand move ment marked out for the campaign. To make the negro capable of marching up to such an undertaking, he must be educated, and educated alone by their emissaiics. Will the South qui> etly sit down and see the dragon’s teeth sown in her soil ? We are will ing that the negro shall be educated to the extent of his capacity. He is desirous of learning all and every thing which can be taught him. Not long since, at a large convention of negroes in a neighboring State, they passed resolutions averring their pre.- fcrence to being taught by their for* mer friends and owners. Will the white man respond to the appeal of the negro ? We have large numbers of competent young men, unable to get employment —will they teach the ne groes, and while earning a living bene fit and advance the interests of their country ? Or must the Yankee come down and gather up the hard earnings of this unfortunate class, and instil into their minds that spirit of hatred and revenge for the Southern white man, which must inevitably cause the speedy destruction of the negro race ‘! We are fully aware that we are touching a subject which will arouse long seated prejudices ; but is it not time that the South should stifle pre judices, and look to her material inter ests ? She must educate her people, white and black ; have her mechanics and artizans, her preachers and pro fessional men, her factories and work shops, and until she does, she will be lacking in the elements of strength which make other people strong and great, and the want of which caused her recent and disastrous subjugation, Columbus Sun. - • ♦- - Thf People’s President The Boston Post thus expresses its opinion of President Johnson: If ever a President could be prop erly called “The People’s President,” it is Andrew Johnson in his present attitude. lie does not wrap himself up in his official consequence and stand aloof from his fellow-citizens, but comes to them as his friends, his equals, his protectors. lie is free to VOL. VL-Xo. 14. acknowledge himself chosen to exe cute their will in the administration of their Government. The same man* ly frankness distinguishes his inter course with all the departments of Government as with the people. His convictions are honest, founded upui reasons, and uttered with the sincerity and earnestness that disdains subter fuge. So he spoke at Washington on the 22d : his words came from his heart and will reach the hearts of his coun trymen. lie labors for the entire na tion—he seecks the preservation of its freedom, the restoration of its unity and the permanence of its power. — No man can turn him from his de* sign. Threats are to him air bubbles — party combinations and attempted in timidations arc vain, in the effort to swerve him from the course he con ceives duty points out With such a man at the head of tho Government one armed so strong in honesty—the turbulence of faction — the bitterness of enmity—the struggle of revenge—may fret and chafe to their topmost bent without ruftlirg a hem of his garment. lie stands for the country, and will be sustained by its patriotism and judgment. His facts and his arguments have engaged tho attention and won the approbation of prominent men who have been ranked as radical abolition Republicans, while larger numbers of tho more conserva tive members of the party give them warm sanction They feel that the questions at issue rise above party consideration and present themselves to the candor of all good citizens for decision; that they appeal to the patrio - tic integrity of the people for solution, as did the question of suppressing the rebellion in ISGI, and that the response will be equally strong and enthusiastic now as then, in favor of sustaining the Union. The motto of the people will be now as then —“Our country —our WHOLE country.” Want's a Wife. • The following appeared in a St. Louis paper: Wanted. — I have lived Solitary long enough. I want someone to talk at, quarrel with —then kiss and make up again. Therefore lam ready to receive communications from young’ ladies and blooming widows of mom than average respectability, .tolerable tame in disposition and hair of arty color. As nearly as I can judge of myself, I am not over eighty nor under twenty five years of age. 1 am cither live feet eight, or eight feet five, I forget which. Weigh 135, 315, or 531 lbs., one of the three. I recollect each figure perfectly well, but as to their true ar rangement I am somewhat puzzled. Have a whole suit of hair, dyed by nature and free from dandruff. Eyes buttermilk brindlc, tinged with pea green. Nose blunt, according to ionic order of architecture, with a touch of the composite, and a mouth between a catfish’s and alligator’s-—made espe cially for oratory and the reception if large oysters. Ears pai mated, long and elegantly shaped. My whisker’s are a combination of dog’s hair, moss and briar brush —well behaved, fear fully luxuriant. I am sound in limb and on the nc-. gro question. Wear boots No. 9 when corns are troublesome, and can write poetry by the mile, with double rhyme on both edges—to read backwards, forwards, crosswise or diagonally. Can play the Jew’s harp or brass drum and whistle Yankee ~f>o4idle in Spanish. Am very correct in my morals, and first-rate at tenpius ; have a great re gard for the Sabbath, and never drink unless invited. Am a domestic animal, am perfectly docile when towels aic clean aud shirt buttons all right. If I possess a pre eniinating virtue it is of forgiving ev ery enemy whom I deem it hazardous to handle. I say my prayers every night, musquitoes permitting; as to whether I snore in my sleep I want somebody to tell. Money is no object, as I was never troubled with it, and never expect to be. I should like for some lady who is perfectly able to support a husband, or if she could in., troduce me to a family where religious example would be considered sufficient compensation for board, it would do just as well. * *- Don't Complain. —Don't complain of your birth, your training, your em ployment, your hardships ; never fancy that you could be something if you on ly had a different lot or sphere assign ed to you. God understands his own plans, and knows what you want bet. ter than you do. The very things that you most depreciate as fatal limi tations and obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrance and discouragement, are probably God’s opportunities, and it is nothing to dislike her medicines or any certain proof that they are poisons, No ! a truce to all such impatience. Choke that devilish envy which gnaws at your heart because you are not in the same lot with others ; bring down your soul, or rather bring it up to rc ceive God’s will and his word, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptation, and then you shall find that your con di ion is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it. Peal gently with the erring soi l