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pftospa per—Hftartel to ^ai ... ■ iir ittfrenr I’itaraten, ^gritnltnrt, Jfinrrign a -n-.--irr.mn , #1111 ntl flftos, &c. B. F. BENNETT, Editor and Publisher. “EQUALITY IN THE UNION OR INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT.” TERMS—TWO DOLLARS e-reor, In Advance. V OL. 11. CASSVILLE, GA., THUESDAY, FEB. 17, 1859. ISTO. 5. business Citrus, |Mertistmtnts, | Pisdlaittgits. JOS. DUNLAP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Kingston, Cass co., Ga. W ILL practice in the counties of Cuss, Gordon, Floyd, Polk and Paulding. W.ll also attend to the securing and collection of claims in any portion ol Cherokee Georgia. Office at Mrs. Johnson’s Hotel. June lOtb, 1858—ly. B. H. LEEKE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Cassi'ille, Ga. S TANDARD JOB OFFICE.—The Stan- Remarks of Hon. Robert Toombs, dard Office being well supplied with a „ rrcmm large variety of the best kinds of printing 0F ’ E01 IAl materials, we are prepared to do all kinds of J n the Senate. January 24, 1859, on the JOG PRINTING in the best style of the art, j at short notice, and at low terms. j Acquisition of Cuba. Particular attention will be paid to the * __ _ , , .. „ , ... _ ’inting of Circulars, Blanks of all kinds, I The Senator from New lork [Mr. Sew- Ulank Notes, Programmes, Hand and Show | ardl has gone into a history of our pres- Bills, Posters, Ac. . . ° . ... , ,, We respectfully solicit the patronage of the 1 Rncl prospective indebtedness, and tne public. All orders must be accompanied with deficiencies of our revenue system. I shall the cash [ given. or an “ acceptable city reference” j not undertake to discuss the difference be- stand, then, where it would stand if you of them in Texas ? Where are they in made the treaty without the bill It does California ? In both Houses we find that not limit It; it does not restrain it It is ! noble State, the last acquisition to our in that respect different from the effort of ^ Union, represented by American citizens, the gentleman and his political friends and everywhere, throughout the whole of when the} - sought to couple the acquisi- 1 our acquisitions—twice, yea thrice larger tion of territory from Mexico with certain than the original limits of the Republic conditions that did greatly affect the inter- when the revolution was concluded—we nal harmony of the Republic. This prop osition does not do that It leaves that matter precisely where it would be left without the bilL If the treaty fixes it, it leaves it with the treaty. If the treaty Laws of Newspaper*. 1. Subscribers who do not give express no- B U.SINESS entrusted to rav care will meet bee to tbe contrary, are considered as wishing to *he wants of the country. The ques- with prompt and vigilant attention, and to continue their subscriptions. I tion is not with this Republic now, where .• •» 11_ 1 o Tr«uh«f»rihf»rs nrflpr thp Hia/*/»n*.n..ow« n * tween us upon either of those points. As j leaves it open, the bill leaves it to the pco- to our revenue system, I consider it equal | pie of the United States, who have been monies paid over punctually. Feb. 1, 1858—ly. W. V. WESTER, ATTORNEY AT CALHOUN, GEO. W ILL practice in all the counties of the Cherokee Circuit, Particular attention paid to the collection if claims, and to prompt ly paving over the same when collected. Nov 25, 1857—ly 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of • their newspapers without settling all arreara- j are Nve to get money from . but our finan- 1 Res, the Publisher may continue to send them 1 cia.1 system for the last fifteen or twenty i until they are paid for. . , _ . . ... i 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take j I®®rs has been an effort how not raise it. r A \\r ' their newspapers from the offices to which they! Even when you have drawn tariff bills X j / V VV , i SM J.rAotAvl thnir awn ImM rncnnnaiklo nnt.l - ANDREW H. RICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, are directed, they are held responsible until i they have settled the bills, and ordered a dis- ! continuance. j 4. If subscribers remove to other places witb- ! out informing the Publisher, and tne newspa- C ers arc sent to the former direction, they are eld responsible. 5. It has been decided by tbe Courts that subscribers refusing to take their newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence ot inten tional fraud. 6. The Courts have also decided that a Post master who neglects to perform his duty of giv- Cussvillc, Geo. P RACTISES in the Counties of Cass. Cher-1 . ., . » — , . .r , okec. Cobb, Catoosa, Gordon. Gilmer, re:l s° nabIe notice as required bv the Post- Fannin. Paulding and Whitfield. i Office Department, of the neglect of a person to Prompt attention given to the Collectingbu- ‘* ke fro ‘ n the office newspapers addressed to siucss in all of Hie above named counties h "? 1 ’ rendcrs hmaself liable for the subscription May he found in the office formerly occu- P r,cc * pied by J. II. h A. II. Rice. June 17 th, 1853—ly. THOMAS J. VERDERY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CEDAR TOWN, GA. ILL practice in the counties of Floyd, Polk, Paulding, Carroll, Haralson and w Cass. Strict attention paid to collecting. Foh. IS, 1838—Jy. M. J. CRAWFORD, Attorney nnd Counsellor at Lnw, RIKCUOLD, CATOOSA COUNTY, GA. LL practice in all the counties of the w Cherokee Circuit. P:i' tienhir attention paid to the collecting of money, aud to paying over the same when col lected. n»h 19, 1858—ly W offord, Crawford & Howard, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CASSVI1.I.K, AM) Cautkiisvili.k, Ga. W ILIj faithfully attend to any hnsinessen- trusted to their care, in any of the coun ties of Upper Georgia. Win. T. Wofford, J. A. Crawford, Cassville; J. A. Howard, Cartcrsville. July 23. E. M. KEITH, mmr it uw, CASSVILLE, GEO. P RACTICES in the counties of Cass, Cher* okee, Gordon, Whitfield and Paulding. All business entrusted to his care will meet with prompt attention. Ofiice north of the public square, in Rice’s building. Nor. IS, 1858—ly. AND BUGGY-MAKING, AND BLA0K-SM1TH1NS, BY H. H. HOLMES, CASSVILLE, GA. niflHBLif * can P ut ll P an Y Vehicle wanted, at sh irt notice, and in ns good style as it can be done any- tcher*. All work warranted. Cassville, July 1st, 1S5S. JNO. W. FOSTER, BEIGE KHII, CASSVILLE, GEO. M WILL do any kind of work in his line of business at as low rates it can be done by any good work- Wan in the State. As to his abilities as a work man, he refers to a nr work done by him. Con tracts taken in any part of the State. June 3d, 1S5S—-1 V- SUMMEY & HURLICK, DEALERS IN MARBLE 9Ioniiiucnts, Tombs, Urns, Va- SES, VAULTS, TABLETS, HEAD AND FOOT STONES, Ac. sRDEIfS promptly filled. Address Marble r Works P. O., Pickens Co., Ga. James Vaughan, agent, Cassville, Ga. Feb 1st, 1S5S—ly. At his old Tricks, Again! KIIPS AUWATS OX HAND A GOOD READVrMADE Terms of The Standard : If paid strictly in advance, $2; if payment is delayed C months, $2.50 ; if delayed until the end of the year, $3. No paper discontinued until paid for, except at the option of the Editor. Miscellaneous Advertisements inserted at (1 per square (twelve lines) for tbe first insertion, and 50 cents for each weekly continuance. Contracts for advertisements by the month or vear will be made at fair rates. B. F. BENNETT, Cassville, Ga. Editor and Publisher. CBSROOE BAPTISTCflUIGE. CASSVILLE, GA. fTMIE Trustees Like pleasure in informing JL the public that they have made arrange ments by which the continuance of the opera tions of this Institution :s rendered perma nent, and fitted to meet the wants of tbe youth of the country. The next Session will open January 14th, 1859, and close July 13th, following. The reg ular course extends over six classes: two in the Academic and four in the College Department, and is as complete and thorough as the course of any College in the country. Students maj* pursue a select course, provided they attend so many studies as will fully occupy their time. No extra charge is made irregulars, nor for the use of Apparatus or Library. Faculty: Rev. THOS. RAMBAUT, A. M.. President, Professor of Moral and Meutal Science. •T. D. COLLINS, A. M., Professor Natural Science and Agriculture. S. H. DEVORE, A. M., Professor Mathemat ics and Astronomy. J. D. COLLINS, Professor English Litera ture and History. EXPENSES : In College, Spring Session, 24 weeks, $24.00 “ Fall “ 16 “ 16.00 In Academy, Spring “ 24 “ 18.00 “ ' Fall ’ “ 16 “ 12.00 Contingent Fee, Spring Session, • 1.20 “ “ Fall “ 80 Board from $10 to $12 per month, including washing and fuel. Tuition must be paid by cash or approved note to Thos. M. Compton, Treasurer, befjre entering College, each *ea- sion. Young men of adult age who need it may settle bv note, payable on their success in after life. Those studying for the ministry may alwuvg receive gratuitous instruction. Cassville is a inoral and healthy village : being distant two miles from tbe Railroad, it is free from the allurements to vice too preva lent in large towns ; there is no tippling shop in the village. For Catalogues or further particulars ad dress Rev. THOS. RAMBAUT, Pres’t, or W. A. MERCER, Sec’y. Dec. 3, 1S5S. with the express view of putting down surpluses, of reducing the revenue, of get ting less of it than an ordinary system would bring, you have failed in the effort Most of the nations of the world have been driven to extraordinary shifts, cer tainly in war, and often in peace, to know how to raise the wind—in what manner to raise money enough to carry on their governments. The man who could invent a new tax, even in England, has been a- warded great financial talent. But in this country the whole ingenui ty and talent of all sides, especially of gen tlemen holding the political opinions of that Senator, have been devoted to the problem how not to raise money enough. Such is the wealth of the country, such arc its vast productions, that the question is not one of raising enough for the eco- herctofore, and, I doubt not, will ever be, able to manage these questions as they a- rise. So far as I am concerned, though representing the weaker portion of the Republic, I am content to make this ac quisition and leave it to the wisdom and patriotism of my countrymen to settle on fair and just principles what shall be the status of the bond and the free in the island of Cuba. I am not afraid to meet the issue. I require nothing in this bill, I require nothing in the treaty, on that point When we acquire the island of Cuba, the annexation of which I look upon as important to the country, I am content that my own countrymen shall settle the status of all the people there ac cording to the Constitution of the United States. But I will remark to the honorable Sen ator that I consider that question as al ready settled; I have no difficulty upon it. I consider that it has been settled by the American people ; a settlement with which I am content; which I do not be lieve he will he able to shake; which I News worth Telling. A T this particular season of tbe year, when the weather is as changeable as the wind, S le are very apt to be suffering from severe i; they are so weakening to the system and depressing to the spirits, that persons hardly feel capable of attending to their busi ness—they do nothing but mope around and complain ; we feel it our duty to advise all who are suffering from this cause, to take a dose of Kramer’s Anti-Bilious Pills; they will instantly remore the cause and make the system to glow with healh. These Pills are also very highly recommended for Head ache, Costivenees, Indigestion, and all disor ders of the Stomach. Prepared and sold wholesale and retail; by SamT R. Kramer k Co., Di nggists and Chemists, Cartersvill Ga. For sale by ’ ~ ~ Levy, Cassville; merchants generally. Kramer's Nerve and Bone Liniwumt nomical wants of the government, or even b( . lieve will stand unshaken when hc and for the extravagant wants of the govern- r shall have passed away from the sUlge . ment; but the question with that Sena- j that wiI1 outlfve him andoutlive the tor, and his friends is, how to raise reve- try itsclf It is thatj while the territoiy nucs so as to benefit particular branches stands ^ a depcn dency of this Republic, of industry at the expense of other branch- ; t shall be open to settlement by all the es of industry. We should have no trouble at all about raising revenue if that was the object; we should have no difficulty about knowing what rate of taxation would produce a sufficient amount for us, or would bring in a greater amount or lesser amount than was necessary ; but we liavc complicated it by schemes to lay taxation in such a way as to benefit particular in terests, so that persons come to Congress and seek by legislation to obtain benefits in their own private pursuits. This is the difficulty we have. I take it for granted that many of the objects of expenditure to which the Sena tor has alluded may be dispensed with.— He speaks of one hundred and twenty-five million or one hundred and filly million of dollars for a Pacific railroad. That is a fact not yet accomplished, and I dot not suppose it ever will be. I agree that in every argument of public policy, the ex pense is a material element, and it ought to hc considered by the legislative depart ment of the government, and more especi ally when he, himself, I think, has satis fied the Senate and the country—those who were not satisfied before—that it is utterly worthless for all pecuniary purpo ses or commercial transactions. That one hundred and twenty-five million dollars, therefore, I propose not to spend at all.— That is a very easy way of getting rid of | people of the republic—North and South, East and West—with ample constitution al protection to all property held in any of the States; and when it takes its posi tion among the sovereign States of this Un- i > i; t ,v A 11; i settle for itself what shall be the stat us of all colors and ot all races within its borders. That is the principle on which I think this question has already been settled by the verdict of the Ameri can people, and I am content to stand on that principle; and hence I feel no diffi culty about the acquisition. I am willing to-morrow to accept Cuba ; for I deem it advantageous to the Republic. I will ac cept Canada as readily, if it can he fairly and honorably done. I will accept Central America, and such portions of Mexico, as in my judgment would be advantageous to the Republic; and I leave external questions unfettered by our internal broils. I leave it to the wisdom and patriotism and justice of the American people to set tle their own internal difficulties here.— Hence, I will not trammel this great con stitutional power of the E.vecutive to deal with foreign nations with our internal questions, and I will not mancle my coun try ; I will not handcuff the energies of this mighty nation by tying up our for eign diplomacy and foreign intercourse, and mingling with it our own internal dis- . , , , , , . .... . sensions. At least, to all the rest of the that one hundred and twenty-five million I ^ dollars. If it were a wise expenditure, if it were an expenditure which would be advantageous to the nation, I should not consider, even in our present circumstan ces, that it was too great; but as I see no advantage to the public commensurate to world let us present ourselves as one peo ple and one nation ; and whatever are our domestic troubles, let us settle them in ternally. I should suppose that those who have power, those who have majori ties, those who have mighty numbers, ,, ° ... , - i j would be willing to confront on this prin- the expenditure, and no commercial ad- ( “ r ' ciple a section of the eountry which has nothing but the Constitution, right, and reason, to rely upon. find the English language spoken; and, as a general rule, they are represented by American citizens, even of our own race. It will be the case again. We got free negroes, we got slaves, we got Spaniards, and we got Frenchmen when we acquired Louisiana. We shall get Spaniards, and Englishmen, free ne groes, slaves, and coolies, when we ac quire Cuba. Our institutions arc sufficient for alL We can Americanise them upon the great principle that we will give them a bulwark which has been sufficient for all these difficulties, and it will ever .-be sufficient as long as we are true to our selves. We have stricken down the bonds of political slavery, and we have given those people our institutions; we have given them justice; we have given them equality; and by that means we have no strife, no trouble. We have not kept one soldier to maintain our dependencies throughout the whole of our acquisitions, from 1803 to this hour. It requires twen ty thousand men to keep Cuba now from throwing herself into our arms. It requi res political machinery to prevent the peo ple of Central America—as we all know who have any acquaintance with the inte rior of our political system, especially our foreign affairs, for the last ten years—from throwing themselves under our protection, and getting the benefit of our institutions. It is simply a question for ourselves; we have no trouble with them at all. Our institutions are broad enough to hold all this continent This acquisition will not require an increase of our military estab lishment ; it will not require an increase in our navy, so far as our people are con cerned ; and if we are safer as to internal relations, so much the better. We have no soldiers in Florida to keep down the Spaniards; none in Louisiana to keep down the Frenchmen and Spaniards; none in California, none in Texas, none in New Mexico, to keep down the Spaniards. We send soldiers to protect those people against the Indians, but we have not sent a single soldier to preserve the fidelity or allegiance of a single human being whom we have brought within the great fold of our Republic; and we shall never need one as long as we pursue the same line of policy. It is a mistake to suppose that, by a bill like this, we are delegating the treaty-mak ing power. We do no such thing. It is the President’s duty to originate all trea ties, all contracts, with foreign govern ments. They know us only through the Executive. The Executive believes, and it may be true, that to have a portion of the" price in hand for this valuable acqui sition will be advantageous to the happy termination of a treaty for this purpose. If this be so, I will consent to let him have it If it fails, I am where 1 am. As to the idea which has been thrown out of its being an insult to Spain, I do not so re gard it. I do not think very much of the even, sometimes, before decay, with a prodigal administration, improvident ra ters sell their territory, as Charles IL of England sold Dunkirk. Decayed nations always sell, and generally do a good thing by it—because what they do not sell is usually taken away from them for noth ing. When they have lived out their day from San Francisco to Shanghai, it would be no benefit in this view, because you can now bring products from Shanghai tb New York for ten dollars a ton, when freights are low, and for twenty-five dol lars a ton at the customary freights. As the Senator from Massachusetts fully and satisfactorily demonstrated the other day. and generation, about tbe wisest thing | R would be impossible to carry freight they can do is to part with their domin ion, which they can no longer hold. E- vents will have their coarse, and that gravitation of Cuba towards ns, of which Mr. Adams spoke, continues, like the grav itation of the earth, gaining accelerated motion every day it moves; and what was gravitating fifty years ago, is now coming with terrific power against that island.— The same law of gravitation operates in politics as well as in the natural world. We are told, I suppose, by way of ter ror—the last point I think the honorable gentleman made was that England and France had guarantied that the Island should not be taken by force from Spain. I have seen the same intimation ; and, if I relied on newspapers, I might show that they have said that we should not have it with or without the consent of Spain. That is one of the main considerations why I desire the American Senate and House of Representatives to-day to declare what their policy is. I desire that Eng land and France shall know from these halls that we are a power in our own right, and that, if we make a contract with Spain, no threats of war from either of them, or both of them, will deter us for one mo ment I am ready to say to them; if you have any of that work on hand, we will meet you at any moment you please. I will not surrender the independence which we have won, and which we have held for seventy years, to England and France.— They recognise Spain as an independent sovereignty. We have won ours, and they recognise us. Then, if we make a contract with Spain for the purchase of contiguous territory useful to us, beneficial to us, I defy France and England to interfere. I would glory in that vindication of our na tionality. I would rather they would than not I want to know whether we arc in dependent or not I want to know wheth er we are sovereign or not I want to know whether a usurper of ten gear’s standing, who maintains his power with half a million troops, shall dictate to free America whom she will treat with and whom she will not I desire to sec the American who is base enough to have his conduct or his vote or the policy of his country controlled by any such motive. I am ready to throw back the defiance across the Atlantic to England and to France, and tell them I will purchase where I list, of free people,. and I will be ready to meet them whenever they at tempt to defeat or to interfere with this great right, belonging to every free and independent people. We are able to main tain our independence against England and France thrown into the scale with Spain at any moment At all events, I am ready, even in the first three quarters of a century of our existence rather than be deterred from pursuing a national policy by the threats of two such governments. Now, Sir, is this acquisition desirable ? honor of a man who does not exactly know Is it a matter on which we ought to risk the place where it is touched. As for all' so much money as thirty million dollars, this bluster of Spain supposing herself to j for the chance of opening more favorable be insulted, it amounts to nothing. If she were to offer to buy from this government Massachusetts or Georgia, I should not consider myself at all insulted, if it was not done in an improper manner, by way of bully or bravado. We have already made purchases from Spain. In 1819 we i purchased Florida from her, but we heard nothing about the offer in that case being an insult. Perhaps they did make a little fuss beforehand—there may hare been some kicking up then; but she took the vantages of any sort, I simply propose to get rid of that one hundred and twenty- j five million dollars by letting it stay in the pockets of the people. * t Then, sir, let us dismiss these questions; Then, as to the amount the government: they have not arisen; they ought not to will give for Cuba. The Senator lias car-! ar ** e - ^ e ought to consider whether it amt ci ’ ts r rte 'll ried it to two hundred and fifty million of * s to advantage of the United States v J. D. C C arnLt'er a r ndTam’i j dollars. I think it is more than it is worth. J of America, as now constituted, to acquire • money, and we bought the territory, and Eddy ’ * in ss“* n . » nd b y I do not think the government will be this territory. If it is let us acquire it if the thing was closed. Spain sold at one likely to pay that sum. I do not know . *t can be fairly and honorably obtained, rARDERS promptly filled. Address Marble This article is highly recommended by Phy- what !t P a >' 5 but > look5n S u P on the and ' e ‘ the future **» ° f V_ / Works P. O., Pickens Co., Ga. siemns, as being the best medicine known lor acquistion as a matter of such vast advan-, Probably wiser and better men will have James Vaughan, aaent, Cassville. Ga. Rheumatism, Bruises, Sprains, Swellings of, , t to ever „ ™ rt : on 0 f 1 that to settie afterwards. The people may any kind, old Sores, on man or beast. All “S e lo tne country, to every portion oi , . / that is asked is a trial—it has nerer been the Union, to every interest in the United “ ave other agents here more faithful to known to faiL i States, I am willing to risk the thirty mil- their trust than of settle these Kramer s Celebrated Worm Syrup, j jj on dollars for the purpose of buying it S^t questions in the future. I will do W. B. BOHANNON, bLVverS-i at a fair and legitimate price; and if a my duty today, and I shall trust to the;land. I do not count the Mexican pur- CASS\ ILLE, GA., fuge for Worms now in use; it is used by j treaty should come to me proposing to . ^ wisdom of Hie country to set- ^ chase; because I admit that was rather a suertv or j pay two hundred and fifty million dollars tle these questions rightly when they ! forced sale, a sale on execution, as my j faction. ' , • for it I will weigh that amount of money £ta li arise. friend from Louisiana [Mr. Benjamin] sug- | 4^ ^warraoUdlo i “ Glance, and the great advantage As to the diversities of population, ^ We fixed the damages ourselves, time an empire larger than the then States of the Union to France, though they said they were going to stand by every inch of sand and every drop of water within their territory. The uncle of the present Em peror of France sold to the United States an empire worth a thousand times this Is- negodations ? I think it is. I know of no portion of the earth that is now so im portant to the United States of America, as tbe Island of Cuba is. We speak ofthe trade of India; and some of the friends of a Pacific Railroad tell us that, when that Railroad shall be constructed, it will bring the trade of Asia to our continent, and that we shall get at least the profits of the transportation of the wealth of the Indies. Sir, this wealth is at our feet; but they know it not What, to-day, is the value of the East Indies ? Formerly, those nations which had a monopoly of its trade were great, and powerful, and rich. Why? They had then a monopoly of silks and teas,— and, more than all, the Western powers were then rude; and engaged in war.— The steam engine had not then been in vented. Their labor was cheap, because of excessive population, and those peculiar products were important; and, beyond all, Asia had the tropical products. The com merce of the East Indies then engaged the great tonnage, and gave rise to the great wealth of the world. Then the monopoly AJLCHX i above mentioned stores, and are warranted to; 6*' w “ , . , ’ (made br himself) REPAIRING done »t ; K ir « “bslaclion. Physicians are invited toof the acquisition to the Republic in the which the Senator urges as an objection, j ana were exceedingly moderate. I nave ^hTp^bUel:^^™^ Se‘i puMwT.f ’ ° ther - and decide accordingly. we have had them at all our acquisitions. Wn ashamed of the moderation! ^the spicra was valuable, and was a cause him & trial. Call at MrLolme^l’amaire Sbon. I *»• *. 1859—ljr. The Senator seems to object to this We had diversities of language and race exhibited on that greet occasion, be- of war ^ Dutch people, out of upstairs. ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ’ ' ~ —*■ * - ~^ J —*' * ' ' THOS. K CASSVILLE, GA, Agent of the Bank of the State of Sonth Carolina. ■^yiLL sell Exchcnge on Charleston and there is force in the idea of the Senator every acquisition of territory made by the! b»ve given than to them, and they are from New York that he wants to know f Republic, we have had exactly the same [ suffering at this day for our not having the latest and most approreds4ylw,seit-: tbe status of tiie seven hundred and fifty ; difficulties ofracc^ of language, and of con- j *- U able for Sewing Leather, Cloth, Negro thousand white people, the two hundred efition of people different from dor own;— < I say these purchases have not been un- SEWING MACHINES! SEWING MACHINES! SEWING MACHINES! which were raised in the East Indies, were not cultivated there. Sugar and coffee, andall the tropical productions, were teen confined to the East Indies; and the pos session of that trade mode nations rich Ac., and" attend - to" all the "busings* usuallV: **1* Leyden’s General SewtngMaehme j thousand free negroes, and the all of them different possibly from the usual. Young, thriving, vigorous nations transacted br Bank Agents. j Depot, Atlanta, Georgia, at mauufrctoren’pn-! four hundred thousand slaves in Cube, be people of any State ofthe Union; bat we are purchasers; the weak, the feeble, the and powerful. Naur itis difceat I have Nor. 18, 1S5S ' ' — — i - ‘ ' DLANK NOTES, printed on good paper 1 AS and in good style; one dollar per hnn. i CG died, cash ; call at tbe 1 o D** 5,1W8. STANDARD OFFICE, i 45 j ces. Send for sample of work an^^iegK different kinds, at tbe STANDARD OFFICE. will still have that question before him have moulded them into one Amerkan when the tMbty stodl be mode and come people. What has become of the Spen- ophere for ratification. This bill does ish race it Florida? What fans become *Mtprapem to affect it at all. It will of than in Louisiana ? What has become dccrapid, are sellers. It has always been so; it always will be so. When nations begin to daeey, they sell them territory, or it is taken feoffs them by eonqwwt; or ne idea that the trade in teas and silks would justify our making e railroad $00 miles long. sad ley e psrifcgy Mol fhOroad to-day over a railroad to the Pacific. I say, then, that such a road cannct advance us in ob taining the control of the trade in those products; but we have all the wealth which ever came from the East Indies to day at our feet in the West Indies, and the only question of foreign policy which is worthy of the consideration of Ameri can statesmen, is the tropical empire lying at our feet; and it ought to be declared to be our settled policy—not by force, not by violence, not by depriving the rightful possessors of their present possessions—to be the American policy to unite, as fast as it can be fairly and honestly done, all the tropics under our flag. We have now the command of one of the great elements of human commerce- cotton. We have now the command of the bread of the world. We have their bread and their clothing. Give us Cuba, give us the West Indies, and we shall command all the other wants of the human race; we shall control their commerce in everything; we shall control their ton nage, and it will be of more value even to the Northern people than to tbe South.— It will bring a competitor in tropical fruits and sugar to a port of the Southern States. Cuba is exactly in the condition the most iavoralle possible to break off all commer cial restrictions for the benefit of New England and the entire North. She does not grow beef, except to a very small ex tent, and pork not at all; she has no man ufactures ; she has no iron. She raises everything that the North wants, and she would be the best customer in the world for every article of their industry. There is no production in New England that can not find a market in Cuba. There is just the point for an exchange of commodities from which the most beneficial commerce the world ever saw will result Therefore, I say, the manufacturing States, the grain growing States, have the greatest interest in this acquisition. They can get there sugar and coffee and West India fruits, which they can sell to all the world, and increase their exports. They can exchange products with Cuba without duty, with entire internal free trade, and there will be built up a home market for their man- factures, such a market as can be found in no other habitable part of the globe.— Here is a natural exchange of products, arising from locality, and climate, and soiL It will be Nature’s commerce; bcncficient, prosperous, beneficial to all engaged in it It does not need laws; it does not need restrictions ; it requires no ingenuity to show that that commerce will be a benefi cial one to all concerned in it, especially to the Northern and middle States; it will not benefit the South to the same ex tent. Some may think that we go for it be cause by this means we shall have one more slave State in the Union. I know that the Senator from New York, at the last session, alluded to the comparative number of non-slaveholding States; but I never considered that my rights lay there —I never considered that I held my rights of property by the votes of Senators. It is too feeble a tenure. If I did, I have shown by my votes that I have not feared them. Yi henever any State, Minnesota or Oregon, or any other came, no matter where from, if she came on principles which were sufficient in my judgment to justify her admission into this great fami ly of nations, I have never refused the right hand of fellowship. I did not in quire whether you had seventeen or eigh teen free States. If you had fifty, it would not alter my vote. The idea of getting one slave State would have no effect on me.— But Cuba has fine ports, and with her ac quisition we can make first the Gulf of Mexico, and then the Caribbean Sea,—a mare clausum. Probably younger men than you or I will live to see the day when no flag shall fioat there except by permis sion of the United States of America.— That is my policy. I rose more with a view to declare my policy for the future, that development, that progress through out the tropics was the true, fixed, unal terable policy of the nation, no matter what may be the consequences with refer ence to European powers. A Touch Ose.—A story is told by a Canadian paper of a Mr. Gaston who was standing beneath a trap door when a sack of wheat fell from an upper story directly upon his head dislocating his neck. He immediately raised ins hands and pulled it back into place, as the workmen who “ heard the bones snap back into their sockets” will swear. Mr. Gaston is sup posed to be as well as ever. Eleven thousand males and six hnndred females were an prisoned for debt, in England, in 1856.