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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14.
Cakk CtHljr Nml
For Senator—
THOS. n. MOORE
Representatives—
ALFRED MANElt,
S. M. BRADFORD.
Ordinary—
B. TOLLESON.
Sheriff—
J. B. BLACKWELL.
Deputy—
.JOHN ANDERSON.
Clerk of Superior Court—
JAMES M. BARNWELL.
Clerk of Interior Court—
W. W. CARROLL.
Tax Collector—
G. JOHNSON.
Receiver of Returns—
J. F. McCLESKY.
Coroner—
JOHN WHITE.
County Surveyor—
J. B. FAIR.
Dotaila bjth* Bottle.
Dispatch notf Gn.lhuiMt.-The
Moniteur oontahu tU fofewine despatch
from Geaand Pelimier, deled Jdr 23, 11
P. M —-Tke torn? apptan to have taken
alarm tart tight, and opeaed a very brisk
ire on the right aad left of our item of at*
took. Our batteries replied as briskly, aad
ith soocess. I have good news hom Yen-
state Afrlealtaral Fair.
Oar next Fair which opens in this city on the
11th of next month promises to be a splendid
meeting. It is confidently expected that there
will be in Atlanta in attendance on the Fair not
less than 15,000 visitors, and the grounds are now
ready to receive all contributions that may be
sent, rndcr the admirable management of the
Secretary, Dr. Camak, the old grounds have been
jemuJeled, new and convenient structures have
been erected, and such a number of them, that no
possible convenience that could be asked for on
such an occasion is now wanting. We have heard
the opinion expressed recently, by one every way
qualified to judge correctly about snch matters,
that Dr. Camak has made the Atlanta Fair
Grounds superior to any thing of the sort in the
Union. The “ Ladies' ” Hall is 125 feet by 35,
aad will be arranged upon a new plan by which
all the finer fabrics deposited with the Society will
be protected from injury by handling. A large
fruit hall with glam* came* has been built—a me
chanical hall 100 feet by 30—then we have 20
sheep pens—20 pens for bogs—40 stalls for cattle
—20 for brood mares and colts, extra size—30 for
harness horses—20 stables with ceiled sides for
stallions, and double doors by which the animals
may l*e exhibited without danger—we have 10
strong stalls for Jacks, and the same number for
mules. A ring of a quarter’s stretch has been
graded for the exhibition of saddle and harness
b ,rses. Besides these we will have erected large
tent: at convenient points for the accommo lation
of spectators. Three mills fur supplying broken
provender for slock will be erected on the ground,
and an abundance of water has been secured by
four new wells. We had nearly forgotten to com
mittee room has lieen erected and also a saloon for
ladies exclusively.
In this hurried notice wc cannot of course do
justice t<> the highly praiseworthy attention that
J’r. Camak ha- I allowed upon these preparations
for the next Fair. All of those charged with this
im!«*rtmt public interest s]>eak in terms of the
h'ghe-i commendation of his intelligence and assi
duity. It is greatly to be desired that all Geor
gia's main stay—the agricultural interest—will do
- mething. by word or deed, to aid the labors of
thu-e public spirited men who have dono and are
still doing so much to encourage & more enlighten
ed a more successful tillage of the soil of the
South. Other pursuits may engage more of our
zeal and enthusiasm, but no more material interest
can ever so deeply affect us. The Legislature
should take up this vast and vital question, and
with a more earnest mind than it usually gives to
the interest- of the State. No institution of pub
lic concern in our State, in our judgment, has as
large claim- upon the fostering care of Georgia
as the .State Agricultural Association. For our
part we should greatly prefer to see State aid giv
en to that than to Frnnklhi College, if things have
come to the Iwggarly pass that only one of these
interc-t- can be protracted by our Legislature.—
Wc must eat to live, and that is no longer an open
question—but how we are to live on the fatness of
clay gully dwarf bamboo and “poor Joe” it an
opsa question, and a very open one. We will
lead off. then, in an agitation for these objects.—
First, an annual appropriation of $3,000 by the
State t<> l*c used under the direction of the Execu
tive Hoard «f the State Agricultural Society,
whenever the Association will locate its meeting
permanently «l our point, and establish, in con*
section with its other aims, an experimental farm.
Wc tbeu agitate for an entire change in the pres
ent mode of bestowing premiums. Wo are dead
against the egg shell cups now and forever. Let
the gate and subscription money go to pay a geoloj
gist demoted to the interests of the Society, and
let him !>c as able as the next man, if it shall take
f l.OuO a year to secure him. We are prepared
to shew that the present system is a wasteful one,
and one that />«« failed in its object. We must
then make this fair of ours what fairs all the
world over ought to he, and ore except in this
country—a place to which the whole State will
look to as a great mart where the best that farm
ers raise for talc .nay he had once a year. This,
and improvement in modes of culture, make the
turn of the good we should propose for the next
few years.
The war News.
The Baitic mails bring nothing of impor
tance from the seat of war. The same tire
some detail of “Hieing increased” and “fin
ing diminishedsuccessful and unsuccess
ful sorties, which mean about the same
thing, has formed the staple of news since
the unsuccessful assault of the 18th of June.
The allies appear to have lost all hope of
taking Sebastopol, and have fixed them
selves with dead despair to meet the de
struction which inevitably awaits them.—
The governments paralyzed with the pros
pect of defeat and its ruinous consequen
ces, are making no efforts to avert it fur
ther than sending on more men to meet
the certain fate of those who have gone be
fore: while the soldiery, relinquishing all hope
of return have moodily prepared themselves
to die. As a farther increase to the troub
les of the allies, the position of Austria is
beginning to excite considerable alarm.—
Should their fears be realized, and this pow
er throw her influence with Russia, there
can be no doubt as to the speedy result of
the war. There is now every probability of
Austria’s purshing this course. The gov
ernment is bankrupt, and unable longer to
maintain her standing army, has been com
pelled to disband a larger portion of it. An al-
liancewith Russia under this state of affairs
would seem indispensable to quiet the ever-
rising insurrection of her territories.
Grand Blass Meeting.
The Democrats and Anti-Know-Nothings
of the Fifth Congressional District, invite
the people to a Mass Meeting and Free Bar
becue, at Cartersville, on the 30th instant.
The following gentlemen are announced
by the Committee of arrangements, to dis
cuss the political topics of the day:
Hons. 11. V. Johnson, of Georgia; John
U. Lumpkin, of Georgia; Henry A. Wise,
of Virginia ; John Kerr, of North Carolina;
James L. Orr, of South Carolina; Andrew
Johnson, of Tennessee; A. H. Stephens,
of Georgia : Howell Cobb, of Georgia.
Many other distinguished speakers 'iave
been invited, and are expected to address
the people of the oceasion. The fare will
lie reduced, and extra trains provided on the
State Road for the accommodation of all.
Honor to whom Honor la Due.
A few days ago we published a notice of
a new brake for Rail Road cars which we
saw was attracting considerable notice from
the press of the country. This new and
improved brake has been tested on the
Orleans line in France, with complete suc
cess. The application of the resisting pow
er is applied to the engine and through the
means of the momentum of the entire train.
This invention seems to be identically the
same as the one suggested to Mr. Young
fbnnerly Superintendent of the State Road
by Samuel Elam, Esqr. of this city, more
than 2 yean ago.
ikale. Everything there Is going on wall,
under the direction of Lieut. Cot Osmont,
who has taken measures to prevent any dis
order at Kertoeb,”
Despatch non Gen.a&mpson.
Panmure baa received die Allowing com
munication from the Crimea, dated the 25th
of July, 5 P. M.:—“Cholera has not in
creased since ray last report, and the array
continues in satisfactory health.”
The correspondent of the Tunes alludes
to a rumor that the naval preparations in
the Black Sea are not making with a view
to an attack on Odessa, bat on Sevastopol
itself. A bold attempt, it is said, will be
made 100 vessels of every kind, with 40,000
men, to force the passage, land in the midst
of the place, while a simultaneous attack
will be made on the land ride.
Pans, July 27.—The Moniteur of this
morning contains the following despatch
from Gen. Pelisricr:
“ Crimea, July 25,3 A. M.—After a brisk
cannonade, the Russians made a sortie about
midnight on the left of the little Redan.—
As we are now quite close to tiiem it did not
take die enemy many minutes to reach our
S ibions. They were vigorously repulsed by
e Foot Chasseurs of uie Imperial Guard,
and by some companies of the 10th regi
ment of the line. The Russians beat a
hasty retreat, although there were some
wounded and eight Rilled among our am
buscades and the fdieee of the place, a very
dark night enabling them to carry off the
others. The affair does honor to our olfi-
Cantp before Sevastopol, July 7.—The
abandonment, yesterday, of the position in
the neighborhood of Baidar has given rise
to some speculation; but the true cause
seems at present unknown. The 10th Hus
sars, however, have eome in to join the
camp, and the Turks who were at Baidar
now occupy the old redoubts. The with
drawal of the 10th is attributed by some
people to the failure of the land transport
corps; bat inadequate as this service would
be, I fear, at present to take the field, it
seems scarcely credible that any difficulty
should be experienced in so easy an under
taking as transporting supplies for a small
force only a few miles. There is much talk
of the whole of our army being relieved
from the trenches by the French, in order
that we may take tne field, but I fear it is
only talk. Eupatoria is the .place named,
from which we should advance to their
north side.
July 8.—It is said to-day, and I think
without doubt it is the case, that a French
division is about to be landed at Yalta. On
the arrival of the 92d Highlanders, which
regiment is immediately expected from Gi
braltar, a Highland division will be formed
under the command of Sir Colin Campbell,
as there will be then Highland regiments
enough for two brigades—the 42d, 79th and
93d, the original brigade, and the 71st, 72d
and 92d willform the new one. The Guards
will form a separate command under Lord
Rokeby. Tne weather has to-day been
somewhat hotter than we have of late ex-
G rienced, but the night is again cool.—
uch firing as usual going on in front.—
The Russians have commenced firing grape
out of mortars into the trenches, which is
unfortunately as little to be guarded against
os shell. Our casualties are very great.
July 9.—A sortie was made last night by
the Russians on the Mamelon. The mus
ketry was heavy for eome time, but I do
not near that the French have suffered se
verely. Beyond this there is again noth
ing to record on another day of this weary
and monotonous life. Some new batteries
are about to be opened on the Redan.
July 10.—Passing to a narrative of the
operations of the seige, I have to report lit
tle more than the continuance of the same
stand, still rate of things that distinguished
and discouraged every one when I last wrote.
To be sure the same resultless and final
snatches of canonading are kept up by day,
with variations of musketry at night; and
having stated this I left little untold. We
hammer away, spasmodically, at the ever
lasting Redan, which returns quite as good
as it gets ; or help our neighbors the French
by practising on the equally retributive
Malakoff—in either case without making
the smallest measure of headway towards
the Russian troy beyond. As the moon,
however, has now reached her last quarter,
the garrison takes increasing advantages of
the darkness to attempt nightly mischief
against both our own and the Branch lines.
On the night before last rather a brisk af
fair took place between the latter and a
strong party of the enemy, who sallied from
the Malakoff to essay the destruction of the
French approaches to that redoubt It will
be remembered that our allies, soon after
their own and onr defeat on the memorable
18th, commenced a sap from the Mamelon
to its vis a-vis tbe Malakoff. As thi»#work
has been prosecuted with more or less suc
cess every night, it has at present penetrat
ed over half the distance between the two
redoubts, at its farthest extremity is within
some 350' yards of the Russian embrasures.
To stop its further advance, therefore, the
enemy made a strong sortie on Sunday
nightj but after a sharp fight, were driven
back into their own works with considerable
loss. The attempt was repeated soon after
but was again repulsed after another deter
mined straggle.
During this second scuffle occurred an
other grand illustration of what an untrav
elled Milesian would mill that “ most beau
tiful ” system of blundering, in which
there seems to be an understood rivalry be
tween our allies and ourselves. After the
affair of the 18th, I may remark, onr artil
lerymen in the twenty-one gun and other
neighboring'batteries had reoeived orders
to train their guns at night on the ap
proaches to the Quarries on the one hand
and on the space between the Mamelon and
Malakoff on the other; in this case without
the smallest arrangement for signals with
the French. Aocordingly, on Sunday night
when a strong force of Trench deployed out
from the Mamelon to support those who
were already engaged in repelling the ene
my, our twenty-one gun battery opened fire
on them, and kept it up most effectively till
a breathless messenger arrived to give notice
of the murderous mistake. The well-timed
blunder, I'learn, afforded the enemy most
valuable aid, and had it been much longer
continued would' have resulted in the re
pulse of our allies and the destruction of
their hard-worked sap.
That sneh an error could arise is about
equally the fault of ourselves and the suf
ferers, for the arrangement of eome system
of signals to distinguish a friendly from a
hostile party on ground, on which it was
mutually understood that onr guns should
be prepared to play at night seems so much
a matter of course, that the rawest recruit
that was ever connected with a marching
regiment would have thought of it as a first
step in the plan of operations. With such
generalship, what armies could succeed ?
1 am glad to see in the papers a second
despatch about the Quarries, supplying the
very mss omisions noticed in my last let
ter. Slovenliness seems to have pervaded
everv air and document that emanated from
beaa quarters daring the late regime; and
if the new commander’s present attack of
the gout be of frequent occurence, we can
hardly hope for much improvement in this
respect. It remains to be seen how the new
military secretary—Col. Stephenson, of the
Guards, will compare with his predecessor,
who at all events, was popular, and borethe
name of a hardworking man.
July 10.—A powerful fire was opened
against the Sedan at 3, A. M., this morn
ing, from both the left and right British at
tacks, and «aa continued about 9 hours.—
The Redan anawared quickly and vigorous-
£ . Our prectioe was most exodlent. 3 of
e most powerful mortars in the Greenhill
attack wore constantly discharged together,
and the first effect produced by shells fall
ing within the Redan, at short distanoes,
were strongly marked. They reached the
ground almost at the same instant, and
clouds of dust arose after their explosion.—
Frequently the shot from the Frenchman’s
hill batteries were noticed to pass right
through the embraeuw of the Redan, plow
ing right through the cheeks of the open
ings as they passed along. Yet it is doubt
ful whether much damsge.jras done to the
enemies guns. Often? when cor artillery
men had supposed that certain guns, from
their long continued silence, had been
knocked over, these guns would suddenly
appear in their embrasures, and open fire.
Even late in the evening, after the fire had
been renewed in the afternoon against the
Redan, the guns appeared able to reply
whenever it sailed the purpose of the ene
my that they should. It is evident the ene-
Lord my possesses some means of speedily draw
ing the guns away and placing them under
safe cover; where they can be loaded and
be ready for use, and afterwards of speedily
placing them in the embrasures. What
kind of “blindage” is used cannot be distin
guished. After a gun from the Redan has
been fired, the space in the embrasure was
often observed to beoome vacant, and only
re-occupied before another discharge took
place.
But though the guns may have remained
for the most part uninjured, it was seen
that the artillerymen suffered severely.—
Behind the hollow between the Redan and
Malakoff bills, part of a broad road is visi
ble. This road emerges from behind the
Redan yard wall, and is lost to view behind
the Malakoff hUL Along this way men
bearing stretchers and ambulance wagons
were observed to pass and repass in unusu
al numbers. Nor could it be understood
hew the requisite number of men for work
ing the guns could remain within the Redan
aim great loss not occur among tiiem from
the discharge of such an overpowering weight
of metal.
The fire from onr batteries against the
Redan ceased about noon. It was resumed
between three and four o’clock P. M., and
prolonged till sunset. The object appeared
to be to silence, if possible, the fire which
for some time past the Redan had kept up
against our working parties. The guns of
the enemy failed to do any execution againBt
onr batteries. In the course of the morning
a 10 inch gun in the right attack burst, kil
ling one sailor and wounding two others.—
It u remarkable that the Malakoff batteries
did not fire.
Three new embrasures were discovered
this morning on the proper right of the Mal
akoff works. They must have been opened
daring the night. The line of fire appears
to be against onr quarry-work.
About 10 P. M. a fire broke out in the
town, which threw a bright glare for a wide
distance round. It appeared to be near the
ravine, at the head of tne south harbor, and
was very probably an intentional destruc
tion of some of the houses of the suburbs
which were in the way of the Russian works.
The fire ia the batteries has been very slack all
day. The weather has continued oppressively
hot. It appears strange that at this period of the
hot season the issue of summer clothing to the
troops is not yet completed. In the light division
the issue was only commenced within a week past,
and as yet summer trousers only have been given
out to the men. It is stated that the suits will
be completed within a short time, but two months
ago they might have been distributed with advan
tage. The soldiers who have lately joined have
brought their canvass dress with them, and all
the men who are wearing it describe it to be an
easy and cool attire, especially when on fatigue
duty. Flies now infest the camp in such count
less myriads that they almost amount to a plague.
They chiefly consist of the same species as the
common house fly in England. Mosquitoes and
sand flies ore also annoying, but do not exist to
such an extent as to cause inconvenience worthy
of note.
July 13.—The fire from the batteries was ex
ceedingly heavy on both sides last night, but onr
casualties have been very few in number.
Fort Paul fired a salute of 19 guns to-day.—
Some of the guns on the roof, as well as others
facing the harbor, were used. The object of tho
salute is only a matter of surmise.
A communication was observed to take place
between Fort Constantine and one of our blocka
ding vessels.
The French toward sunset, and for about an
hoar afterwards, fired a number of incendiary
rockets against the town. They were discharged
from one of the redoubts on the east side of Ca
reening Bay ravine.
July 14.—Heavy gusts of wind and occasional
rains .occurred during the night. The fire from
the batteries was less heavy than on the preceding
night.
The general health of the troops engaged in the
siege operations continues excellent. Dysentery
and fevers are the prevailing diseases. Cholera
seems almost to have entirely quitted the front of
our position, although it still clings to some pecu
liar situations. The temperature has continued
very high.
A Russian official account of the loss sustained
by the garrison of Sevastopol on the 17th and
18th of June, when the attacks were made upon
the Malakoff Tower and the Redan, has found its
way to this countiy; and we learn from it, with
no small surprise, that the loss on that occasion
was very little less than, that of the Allies; where
as it unusually happens when a serious assault
on a fortified place is repulsed, that the loss of
the assailants, who are necessarily fully exposed to
fire, is very much greater than that of the defen
ders, who fight under the protection of their
works. Notwithstanding this advantage, the
Russians had no less than 797 officers and men
killed, and 4,797 wounded; numbers considera
bly exceeding the entire loss of the allied armies
in the bloody battle of Inkermann! The loss
must have been caused chiefly by the heavy fire
of artillery which succeeded the repulse of the
assaults; for neither the English nor the French
troops attained any position from which their
musketry fire could have keen very effective.
A French steamer had been sent to Malta for
troops to aid the Bey of Tripoli. The insurrec
tion in that province has assumed a serious as
pect Two thousand Turks were defeated by the
insurgent Arabs.
In the House of Commons, Friday night, July
27th, Sir J. Walch asked as to the truth of the
rumor that Omar Pacha had returned to Constan
tinople, and was about to tender his resignation ?
Lord Palmerston replied that Omar Pacha had re
turned to Constantinople to hold consultation with
his government on miUitaiy matters. It was not
true that he had any intention of resigning, and
he hoped that be would long continue to hold his
command.
The Bashi-Bazouks have been again behaving
badly. A party of them, (in English pay, under
Gen. Beaston,) mutinied in the town of Darda
nelles, pillaged the place, and committed murder,
violations and all sorts of excesses. Two French
frigates fired on the scoundrels, on which they left
the town and dispersed themselves over the coun
try. Troops have gone in pursuit.
France.—Queen Victory is expected in Paris
on the 17th of August. She will make he entrance
by the Strasburg railway anjd tee Boulevard do
Strasburg, arrangements have been made to al
low the train to pass from the Northern to the
Strasburg line, as the more eligible entrance.
Atlanta, Ga.
A correspondent of the Abbeville Banner
discourses as follows, concerning the enter
prising and thriving city of Atlanta.
The town of Atlanta, in area, is second
to Savannah, and a match in population for
Augusta. As an apology for the crooked
cross streets of Atlanta, a humorous Geor
gian remarked that each residence could
boast of its own street and atmosphere!—
The crowning depot of the United States, is
the one at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. That
at Atlanta in size and mode of structure, is
second. Dimensions—in length 110 yards,
in breadth fifty yards. To study the varie
ty of the biped homo genus, the press would
have the curious to repair to New York
city. I fearlessly suggest a stop at Atlanta.
Evera hue of skin, from the lampblack to
the freckled red, there will be seen. Also
to the eye; each grade of cross from the
Ebo to the red-head German, with tongues
as multifarious as they were at the tower of
BabeL The English Reviewer asserts that
the products of the first cross of the Euro
pean upon the New Englander Peri tan, is a
top; second cross a slender ape. At Atlan
ta, the number one thousand would not suf
fice to represent the shades of mixture; so
John Bull will not fail to visit Atlanta to
replenish his stock of epithets for the regu
lar graduation of crosses.
Ameedote •t Andrew Jackson.
There is a fine sketch of the life of An.
drew Jackson in the January. number of
Hurpef* Magazine. Among other anec
dotes is the following, which we do not re
member to have heard before:
While he was connected with the army
an officer complained to him that some of
the soldiers were making a great noise in
the tent.
“What are they doing?" asked the Gene
ral.
“They are praying now, but they have
been singing,” was tne reply.
/‘And is that a crime? asked Jackson,
with emphasis.
"The articles of war,,’ the officer said,
"ordered punishment for any unusual noise.
“God forbid!* replied Jackson with much
feeling, "that praying should 1)0 an unusual
noise in any camp,” and advised the officer
to join them.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15.
Western sndAtfaatisBribead.
The comparative eernii^i of this Rood
for Jnly 1855 en$1854* are as follows:
freight, fntttngtrt. Mails. Total. ■
July ’H MS.z4o.to eu,asi.m si,M6.n eta.sn.ss
July’4* SM&S.S3 U,MUI 1,108.06 ST,*X3.M
IncremtrZM,TM.76 S1.068.M *72®. 17 SSMMU
In vista of the almost entire suspension
of navigation on the Tennessee—the famine
crop of last year—the chasm of 1800 foot in
the Road at Etowah—to say not one word
about that $6,000, that we hear Dr. Miller
rays was paid to Maj. M. A. Cooper, as a
drawback for overcharges—this showing of
the earnings of the Western k Atlantic
Railroad for last month, is pretty fair. We
fearlessly challenge the onion to show one
great work involving interests and responsi
bilities of the magnitude of those of the
State Road, that is as ably managed;
and yet the K. N party of Georgia taj so
hard premed for capital, that it is vainly la
boring to beat the Democracy, on the ground
of the mal-administration of this in tercet.
Know-Nothing Democrats, if there are
any sneh about, please remember (says the
Boston Post) that Jefferson, the founder of
the Democratic party of the Union, when
he came to die, requested the following epi
taph to be inscribed on bis tomb:
" Here lies Thomas JxmsaoN, author of
the Declaration of Independence, and of
the statutes establishing religious toleration
in the Commonwealth of Virgiaia. n
a9*There is a minor to the effect that
the Free Soilers of Kansas are getting up
armed companies in several parts of the
Territory in anticipation of a collision with
the slaveholders, whom they have so long
tried, in various ways, to provoke and an
noy.
Y. L. G. Harris, Esq., has declined the
nomination tendered him by the K. N’a. of
the Sixth Congressional District, in opposi
tion to the Eton. Howell Cobb. Mr. Harris
assigns, private business which demands
his attention, for declining.
Lnlivlli* Rials.
Below we publish the correspondence of
the New York Evening Post on the subject
of the election riots in Louisville. We deem
this account—coming as it does from a neu
tral paper and written by a stranger in the
city—much more reliable than any we have
yet seen.
[Correspondence of the Evening Post.]
Election Riots in Lonisvllle-—Rnow-
Hothing Outrage*.
Louisville, JKy., August 6, 1855.
The election has been attended by fright
ful scenes of outrage. The telegraph will
have given you the results as to the loss of
life and property, as soon as they can be as
certained, and Defore this reaches you. I
note hastily some of the particular incidents
which have come to my knowledge, either
by credible report or by observation.
The Mayor and police of the city are
Know-Nothings; and although there was
reason to apprehend violence, no steps were
taken to prevent it. The day was ushered
in by all the inflammatory appeals to the
passions of the respective parties which are
usually employed by hot-headed partisan
leaders. I arrived at 3 P. M. from Cincin
nati, and heard rumors of several men hav
ing been killed, the military called out, Ac.
A large open wagon drove np to the Louis
ville Hotel, with eight or ten half-drunken
outlaws, armed with dubs, and brandishing
them with fierce gestures and savage yells.
Each had a yellow election ticket stuck in
his hat band, the destructive badge of Know-
Nothingism. After a drink they went off
shouting and cursing.
Took a walk with a friend. Saw knots
of people standing round the corners and
occasionally running in one or another di
rection. We stopped and gathered what in
formation we could. A brewery was broken
open, and its barrels distributed among the
crowd. An engine company loitered along
h«Jf drank, with two casks on their
“machine.” The brewery was fired and
bunt.
Stopped at the postoffice. “ Dreadful do
ings,” said a gentleman near ns; "they
have killed five men, and pistol shots are
heard evera few minutes.” We tamed to
vicinity of the Coart House, and saw a
stream of men and boys running, one with
a gnn and many with clubs. Well-grown
boys, of 15 to 18 years, seemed to take the
lead. They would meet an Irishman and
E ush him with their clubs, crying, " Move
im—move him!” until the poor follow
would ran to escape, which was the signal
for all to puisne and beat him. In this way
they literally beat out the brains of a harm
less man who was qoietly going his own
way.
At7 we heard an alarm of fire, and return
ed to the Louisville Hotel, from the balcony
of which we saw the burning buildings,
about half a mile distant* in the same street.
And now a most singular state of things
prevailed. The streets were as quiet as a
funeral procession. The fire raged and was
sweeping down a row of live houses, the oc
cupants of which were Irish. It was said
that a shot from the homing buildings
struck down an American, but noons knew
from which house it came, or in foot, wheth
er it was really so; hat a young Irishman
was seen to cross the street, escaping from
the fire, and the crowd seised him, hone
him, set fire to the building in which he bad
and’his wife came oat of one of the houses;
the former was instantly shot down. A
woman was killed by another shot. While
all this was going on, we oould hear the
walls of the burning houses foil in with a
crash, hat no noise of human voices. It
was the quietness of Sunday. People walk
ed np ana down lazily, listening to and re
peating the most exaggerated tales of what
was doing and to be done. There was a
small crowd at the fire. The engines were
there, but were not used. The firemen were
mostly Know-Nothings, and were ready to
qoarrel among themselves. A complete
panic existed. An engine drawn by dovb,
each with a yellow ticket in his hat, and a
dab in his hand, passed the hotel toward the
fire, and in a lime while returned.
"Every man and boy yon see has a revol
ver or a bowie-knife ooncealed about his per
son,” said my friend.
"Yes,” added another; "the Jews’ show
cases were all bought dean of the pawned
weapons."
To get a better view, we walked as near
to the fire as we thought prudent There
stood the engines unused, the fire raged and
crackled, and the funeral-like silence was
broken only by a pistol shot ora single
voice shooting for a lost comrade. It was
now half-past nine, and the fire horned
fieredy for three hours. Fortunately, the
cur was calm. A strong westerly wind
would have destroyed half of Louisville.
Sitting now in the balcony of the hotel
at 101-2, P. M., the fire is yet formidable,
though I judge it to have reached its limits,
having oonsumed eight or ten, some raj
twenty houses.
There has not been an attempt made to
arrest this infernal outrage* or restore order.
Apprehensions and rumors are freely ex
pressed that even greater destruction is pre
pared tot the night - and there is no hand
to interfere. Than is no civil power, no
protection against the rage of the Know
Nothings. Tui is a state of thing* worthy
of record, bring a part of our political his
tory. I have not told yon the fourth of
what Ihave heard and seen, nor painted
this homed sketch with the high colon of
reality. My description is tame,
There are about thirty ^thousand Irish
and German in the population of Louisville.
Many of the former are quite old residents,
and are very wealthy. They pay a large
aggregate tax to the city.
Horton, Aug. 11.—Hob. Abbot Lawrenoe
a tertian
[From the Louisville Courier.]
Tbs Klee Ztom Riots—Bloody Work*.—
Harder and . Anon I—Twenty Men
Killed*
We passed yesterday, through the forms
of an election. As provided for by statue,
the pools were opened, and privilege grant
ed to snehjas were “right upon the goose,”
with a few exceptions, to exercise their elec
tire franchise. Never, perhaps, was a
greater force, or, as we should term it, tra
gedy, enacted. Hundreds and thousands
were deterred from voting by direct acts of
intimidation, others through fear of conse
quences, mid a. multitude from the lack of
proper facilities. The city, indeed, was do
ing the day, in possession of an armed mob,
the base passions of which were infuriated
to the highest pitch by the incendiary ap
peals of me newspaper organs and the popu
lar leaders of the Know Nothing party.
(hi Sunday night, large detachments of
men were sent to the First and Second
Wards to see that the polls were properly
opened. These men, tne ‘American Execu
tive Committee’ were supplied with the re
quisite refreshments, ana as may be ima
gined they were in very fit condition on
yesterday morning to see that the rights of
freemen were respected. Indeed, they dis
charged the important trusts committed to
them in sneh manner as to commend them
forever to the admiration of out-laws. They
opened the polls; they provided ways and
means for their own party to vote; they
bluffed and bullied all who could not show
the sign; they, in fact, converted the elec
tion into a perfect farce, without one re
deeming or qualifying phase.
We do not know when or how their plan
of operations was devised. Indeed, we do
not care to know when such a system of out
rage—sneh perfidy—such dastardy—was
oonoeived. We only blush for Kentucky,
that her soil was the scene of such outrages,
and that some of her sons were participants
in the nefarious swindle.
It would be impossible to state when or
how this riot commenced. By day break
the polls were taken possession of by the
American party, and in pursuance of their
preconcerted game, they used every stra
tagem or device to hinder the vote of every
man who could not manifest to the “guar
dians of the polls” his soundness on the K.
N. question. We were personally witness
to the procedure of the party in ceartain
wards, and of these we feel authorised to
speak. At the Seventh Ward we discover
ed that for three hours in the outset in the
morning it was impossible for those not
‘posted’ to vote, without the greatest difficul
ty. In the Sixth Ward a party of bullies
were masters of the poll. We saw two for
eigners driven from the polls, forced to run
a gauntlet, beat unmercifully, stoned and
stabbed. In case of one fellow, the lion.
Wm. Thomasson, formerly of Congress from
Ibis district, interferred, and while appea
ling to the maddened crowd to cease their
acts of disorder and violence Mr. Thomas
son was struck from behind and beat, llis
gray hairs, his long public service, his man
ly presence, and his through Americanism
availed nothing with a crazed mob. Other
and more serious fights occured in the Sixth
Ward, of which we have no time to make
mention now.
The more serious and disgraceful distur
bances occurred in the upper wards. The
vote cast was but a partial one, and that
too, all on one side. No show was given to
the friends of Preston, who were largely in
the majority, but who, in the face of can
non, markets, and revolvers, could not,
being an unarmed and quiet populace,
confront the mad mob. So the vote was
cast one way, and the result stands before
the people.
In tne morning, as we state elsewhere,
George Berg, a carpenter living on the cor
ner o? 9th and Market, was killed near Han
cock street. A German named Fritz, for
merly a partner at the Galt House, was se
verely, it not fatally beaten.
In tiie afternoon a general row occurred
on Shelby street; extending from Maine to
Broadway. We are unable to ascertain the
facts concerning the disturbance. Some 14
or 15 men were shot, including officer Wil
liams, Joe Selvage, and others. Two or
three were killed, and a number of houses,
chiefly German coffee houses, broken into
and pillaged. About 4 o’clock, when the
vast crowd, augmented by accessions from
every part of the city, and armed with shot
guns, muskets and rifles, were proceeding
to attack the Catholic church on Shelby
street, Mayor Barbee arrested them with a
speech, and the mob returned to the First
Ward polls. Presently a large party of
followeSby^z number of men and boys with
muskets. In an hour afterward the large
brewery on Jefferson street, near the j unction
of Green was set fire to.
In the lower part of the city, the distur
bances were characterized by a greater de
gree of bloody work. Late in the afternoon
three Irishmen going down Main street, near
Eleventh, were attacked, and one knocked
down. Then ensued a terrible scene, the
Irish firing from the windows of their hous
es, on Main street, repeated volley’s. Mr.
Bodes, a river-man, was shot and killed by
one in the upper story, and a Mr. Graham
met with a similar fate. An Irishman who
discharged a pistol at the back of a man’s
head was shot and then huDg. He, how
ever, survived both punishments. John
Hudson, a carpenter, was shot dead during
the fracas.
After dusk, a row of frame houses of
Main street between Tenth and Eleventh,
the property of Mr. Quinn, a well known
Irishman, were set on fire. The flames ex
tended across the street and 12 buildings
were destroyed. These houses were chiefly
tenated by Irish, and upon any of the
tenants venturing out to escape the flames
they were immediately shot down. No idea
could be formed of the number killed. l>Ve
are advised thatyiee men were roasted to death,
having been so badly wounded by gun shot
wounds that they could not escape front the
burning buildings.
Of all the enarmoties and outrages com
mitted by the American party yesterday
and last night, we have not time now to
write. The mob having satisfied its appe
tite for blood, repaired to Third street, and
until midnight made demonstrations against
the “Times” and “Democrat” offices. The
furious crowd satisfied itself, however with
breaking a few window panes, and burning
the sign of the Times office.
At one o’clock this morning a large fire is
raging in the upper part of the city.
Upon the proceedings of yesterday and
last nigfiFVe have no time, nor heart now
to comment. We are sickened with the
very thought of the men- murdered, and
houses burned and pillaged, that signalized
the American victory yesterday. Not less
than 20 corpses form the trophies of this
wonderful achievement.
Tbe Latest from tbe LmUtvUI* Jsmrssl.
“There was a grand evacuation yester
day. On Fifth street, below Main, and al
so in the lower part of the city, many of
the Irish families residing there have left,
notwithstanding the assurance of the Mayor
that they would be protected. About three
hundred left on the mail boat for Cincin
nati.”
Now, does not this exodus from the dis
graced soil of Kentucky, prove that these
wretched people—the persecuted foreign-
born citizens — feel that they are tbe
weaker party, and consequently, that they
are not the aggressors. Prentice* of tbe
Louisville Journal, has no character as a
man of truth, and the world knows it, when
he writes for his party. We have never
known the man, who set so low a value up
on his word, where he had party ends in
view. But Prentice proves enough against
his party to conviot it of the horrid guilt of
this K. N. massacre. First, it was well
known some time before the election, that
the Democrats asked of their opponents, a
joint police of both parties, for the protec
tion of the ballot box and the public order.
This was flatly refused. Then the Journal
the organ of the order before the election,
made inflammatory appeals to its party to
protect the “least of its rights," and on the
other hand, in feeblest tone, spoke in behalf
of quiet and good order. Next, we see,
by the Journal’s own admission, that as it
was thought 13 hours would not allow all
parties time to vote in the city, that the K.
N. party determined that if any were
obliged to loose their vote for want of time,
the foreign-born citizens should be the men,
and by the same authority we learn that
access to the polls was so completely block
ed up, that the K. N’s were bodily lifted up
and passed over the heads of their friends to
the ballot box. All these facts, derived from
a quarter as interested as the Journal, go to
convince any imprejudiced mind, that tbe
Know Nothings in Louisville, with “malice
prepense,” determined to provoke these hor
rid crimes, that have covered the name of
Louisville, with eternal shame. Grant for
the sake of argument, that insult and the
systematic agitation of a political organiza
tion against the religion and franchises of
an unoffending portion of our citizens, did
lead to the shedding of the first blood by an
Irishman. This we do not admit to be the
fact, but if admitted, does that justify the
murder of others who gave no offence—the
shooting of a woman, the blowing an in
fant’s brains out—the burning of houses,
and the bodies of their owners in the
flames—the decapitation of a poor devil
fleeing for life, and the savage display of his
head or a pole. Who now will dispute
with Stephens about his celebrated Jacobin
parallel ? Is it not perfect, and are we
not in one short day completely un-Ameri
canized by this Kentucky butchery?—
Where were those precious abettors of mur
der and rapine, the Mayor and Aldermen of
Louisville—all Know Nothings—all dead
too against this “wild hunt after office, and
resolving to cultivate an “intense American
feeling ?” They were all Know Nothings.
Where were they during the row ? What
efforts did they make to quell it ? No ! the
fact is, that Know Nothingism is civil war
and labors not to secure the peaceful fruits
of constitutional triumphs.
Queer Talk.
“If the organization of yesterday has ac
complished such results as ths electiou indi
cates, what may we not expect of it when
stripped of its objectional features ?”—
Nashville Banner, (K. N.)
So then it appears there arc objectionable
features l It is strange that you had not
found out the same before. Adversity is an
excellent teacher, and the present platform,
“not commending itself to the popular
mind,’ the leaders are setting themselves to
work to create a more commendable one.
What humbug next ? The Pope failing to
alarm the good people of Tennessee, North
Carolina and Alabama, what say you to a
crusade against the Mormons ? Any thing
to put a stop to this “wild hunt after office,”
on the part of the Democrats. We, how
ever, advise our Know Nothing friends
abroad, to wait until after the October elec
tions, when they will have the hearty co
operation of their party in this State, in re
modeling their principles. Vive la baga
telle !
FOR CONGRESS:
1st District-—J. L. Icvrard, of Thomas.
M « M. J. Crawford, of Mus’ge.
3d “ James M. Smith, of Upson.
4th “ H. Warner, of Meriwether
5th “ J- H. Lumpkin, of Floyd.
6th “ Howell Cobh, of Clarke.
night, bat k rather oom-
ana losr, m m pmmiy mmhm ana re
signed tot^e change which is evidently
Probably the history of the world for tho
last thousand years can witness nothing
like the wonderful rise of Louis Napoleon.
He is now the arbiter of Europe, and all
the more so because not one person in a
hundred sees the fact. In the summer of
1848, on taking his seat in the National As
sembly of France, he read a short speech
amid the jeers and interruptions of his fellow
representatives. Six months later he had
beicome President of the Republic, and poli
ticians were debating among themselves
how they should use him. Thiers, O’Dillon,
Barrot, and ma v others, he played with as
though they wei »* children. He encouraged
them in all their native meanness, and
smiled when they took from the vast ma
jority of the people their right to vote, be
cause he knew that this act would be the
instrument of their own destruction. He,
in the name of religion, sent troops to Rome,
made himself master of the Eternal City,
and kept the Pope as his vassal. In De
cember, 1851, he had France at his feet,
«nH all her men of mark in his iron or his
golden chains. But he stood isolated from
surrounding nations; he was master of
France and Rome and nothing still. The
Caar despised him, and the Germanic
Powers, and England merely tolerated
hiss.
^■Riujoio Stock.—We understand
fifteen shares Georgia Railroad stock were
sold yesterday, at $95 per share.—Constitu-
KmJu. IQGiJitsi
[From the Augusta Constitutionalist]
The Louisville Riot and the Chronicle
&• Sentinel.
We find the following in that paper of
yesterday in reference to the Louisville
riot:
“Such scenes, which only occur in locali
ties where there are large bodies of aiien
citizens, afford a most powerful and conclu
sive argument in favor of a modification of
the Naturalization Laws—an extension of
the time, in order that they may become
Americanized before they are allowed to
exercise the privilege of voting.”
This betrays remarkable ignorance on
the subject of the Naturalization Laws and
the right of voting. How can a modifica
tion of these laws, and an extension of the
time, affect the privilege of voting ? Con
gress has power “to establish a uniform rule
of naturalization.” But Congress can
neither bestow or take away the right of
voting. That authority belongs alone to
the State Governments. Several of the
States, by their Constitutions, allow white
male inhabitants who have resided a speci
fied time in the State, and are twenty-one
years of age, whether naturalized citizens
or not, to vote. Can Congress, by a law in
reference to naturalization, abolish these
State Constitutions ?
The Democratic and anti-Know Nothing
doctrine—the true State Rights doctrine
is that each State should regulate this mat
ter of voting to suit herself. The Know
Nothings of Massachusetts, refuse the
rights of suffrage to foreigners, but allow it
to the kinkey heads. In Connecticut and
other Northern States, the Know Nothings
advocate the right of Negroes to vote—even
the runaway Negroes of the South—but de
sire to refuse it to all white men born
abroad.
l.et each State in this matter consult its
own taste and manage its own affairs its
own way. But let not the Grand National
Council of Know Nothings, which by its
Constitution has jurisdiction of all political
matters, be allowed to regulate in the States
the right of voting. If this were permitted
them, Wilson, Chase, Ford, Hale, Barker,
and Company, may insist on Georgia and
other Southern States, altering their Con
stitutions, so as to allow Negroes to vote,
and refuse the privilege to the foreigner,
the middle of January so cold that a far
mer would need to wear a coat when about
his out-door work.”
Mrs. Lovejoy, wife of a Methodist mis
sionary, located with a company at the
junction of Big Blue and Kansas rivers, af
ter describing the exceeding beauty and
fertility of the country, notices the peculiar
transparency of the atmosphere, a particu
larity that we have not before seen men
tioned. She says:
“The air is so pure and clear, that objects
six and eight miles distant can be as dis
tinctly seen as those in the East at one-
? carter of a mile, strange as it may seem,
t is hard for us to become habituated to it,
and it seems a constant phenomenon to us;
so healthy, too, that one can lie in the open
air and realize no inconvenience from it.—
An instance occurs nightly in sight of our
cabin. A gentleman from Maine, a grad
uate of Waterville, who was to all appear-
ance in the last stages of consumption, giv
en over by his physicians to die, as a last
resort came to Kansas, has lived here
through the winter, and is now so well he
labors constantly, and at night wraps a buff
alo robe about him, and throws himself on
the open prairie, with no covering but the
canopy of heaven.”
FRIDAY, MORNING, AUG. 17.
FOR GO
HERSCHEL V.
OF BALDWIN.
Judge Warner’s Appointments.
Hon. IIiraic Warner, will address the
people of the Fourth Congressional District
at the following times and places:
Franklin, Saturday, Aug. 18.
Campbellton, Tuesday, Aug. 21.
Greenville, Saturday, Aug. 25.
Fayetteville, Tuesday, Sept. 18.
LaGrange, Saturday, Sept. 22.
“We hope our friends of the Intelligencer
will not continue their unfair, offensive and
dangerous mode of conducting the present
canvass. Americans have rights in this
Government, as well as have the Irish and
Dutch ; they have likewise a spirit of re
sentment which if once aroused, will not be
easily allayed. Verbumsalsapienli.—Amer
ican Discipline, 15th inst.
We care nothing for your spirit of resent
ment—nothing more than wc do for your
opinion of our piety, which is so handsome
ly and genteelly intimated in another part
of the precious article from which wc take
the above. No gentleman need look an
inch farther than the last number of the
American Discipline to see of what spirit
the bloody proscription of Know Nothingism
has sprung. It has outrage, insult and the
butcher knife for the foreign-born and Cath
olic, and detraction and gross personality for
the native who presumes to tear the mask
from its shallow and hypocritical pretences,
and who feels it to be a duty to warn the
country of its tendencies. We repeat again
and will do it again and again, that Know
Nothingism can lead to nothing but civil
We defy any one about the editorial
chair of this lamb-like organ of Know Noth
ingism to say,—when or where did an elec
tion ever occur under the auspices of tlie
Order,” where the provocations to popular
tumult have been in the most ordinary force
that we have not been made to witness
scenes of riot and bloodshed ? Witness the
butchery in Brooklyn of Christians bury
ing their dead—the riot in Chicago—in Cin
cinnati—in New Orleans—the inhuman
scandal of the treatment of defenceless wo
men by the Massachusetts Legislature—the
two previous carnivals of blood that prepar
ed the gallant Americans (J ?) of Louisville
for this last shameful tragedy. Look at all
this crime and brutal bravado, and then say
if the like has ever been heard before. No
wonder the conductors of the Discipline are
sore at the mention of these things. Sore,
not because they deplore violence and out
raged order—not because unoffending and
powerless strangers in our gates, have been
butchered, that upon their bones a parly
may be built up—not because the once
proud boast of this laud is turned to humil
iation and self-reproach—that boast that the
great American heart felt a true brother
hood for him who fled from the “oppressor’s
wrong,” the world over,—we say our re
spectful neighbor, no doubt ignores all this,
and only feels sorry that the “intense Amer
ican feeling” in Louisville, has now three
times made a wretched blunder. The Dis
cipline knows well that while Bogus Ameri
canism may think the new Reign of Terror a
fine and profitable thing, the genuine Spirit
of freedom that yet burns in sixty thousand
manly hearts in Georgia will never abide its
bloody sceptre. No, depend upon it that
while we scorn the cowardly resort that our
contemporary with such nice courtesy in
sinuates against us, the refuge of a social
war in our own community to cover up (as
we infer is the idea) the weakness of our
cause, we yet proclaim without fear, with
out reservation, without the suppression of
a breath in our purpose, that there is to be
no wing of the Democratic party in our
State that is to be selected and devoted as
the scape-goat of popular fury and outrage.
We all contend in that army for equal
rights and for what the Constitution of the
country guarantees—and if that be a sin,
then we all have sinned against you alike,
and alike we mean, by the help of God, to
tare. Let no man dare to say in the face of
truth and knowledge that wc or the Demo
cratic party here are blowing the flames of
civil strife. It is false to say so. We defy
the Discipline to give a case that looks
like it, except the one of the “dntnken Irish
man” that with such refreshing verdancy it
instanced last week. That paper will see
that the sober judgment of this country will
demand some better defence of the radical
and revolutionary movement and designs of
its party, tban tho maudlin resentments of
a foreigner against a public speaker, who
sought to disgrace him to the level of a
white nigger. But weaker and greener
than this is the attempt of the Discipline
to prove that the last awful butchery in
Louisville was provoked by the foreign-boru
citizens. The Louisville Journal! Who
does uot know that where his party and his
personal resentments are involved that G.
D. Prentice is a discredited witness ? lie
baulks at no quirk, however disingenuous,
no offence against decency or no outrage on
character or truth. If our courteous neigh
bor trusted to Prentice's honor and his de
fence of its party, why did it not imitate
our “ pious ” example and trust that de
fence by the side of the Courier's and Times’
report of the Louisville murder ? We are
accused of conducting the controversy un
fairly when we publish to the world the
best defence that has been made, or that
any other man except G. D. Prentice will
ever have the hardihood to make of the
most shocking popular tumult that ever dis
graced the American name. Why does not
our decent and orderly neighbor take the
trouble to do this ? It will not cost half the
trouble that it will, to keep a tally stick for
the public of how many times a day we are
weak enough to swear. The Discipline
feels, no doubt, as the whole country docs,
that blood is upon the hands and soul of tbe
Kno-Nothing party. A party that was
strong enough in Louisville to vote a major
ity 1,600 strong—to take violent possession
of the polls—to pass belated friends over the
heads of their hostile and impenetrable
ranks that they might have their votes and
exclude their opponents, the world will say
was strong enough to bring the first man or
the last man either to justice for his viola
tion of good order, and to such justice as
the law of the land would have meted out.
For not doing this, that all precedent and
all lawful obligations demanded should be
done, the Know-Nothing party is now held
amenable to the moral sense of the whole
country for “ blood guiltiness.” We have
not done with this thing, but will hold up
the horrid picture that Know-Nothingism
in Kentucky has drawn of itself that it may
be seen and known of all men.
Concord, N. H., Aug. 11.—The Concord
Savings Bank, was entered about noon
yesteraay, and robbed of nearly 1,000. A
reward of $300 is offered for the apprehen
sion of the thieves, and the recovery of the
money.
Removal ot the Capitol.
Let it not be forgotten in the heat of the
political contest now waging, tw»
pie of Georgia are to dtfde afffi&ballotW
in October, next, whether the sfetoith*
State Government shall' be remold
Milledgeville to a more central and
tageous location.' -The last I*Sgisls
enacted that at the next Governor’s ewL,
the people shall endorse upon their tickets
“Removal,” or “No Removal.” if ^
voter is in favor of removal, he is to desi®
nate upon his ticket the place to which he
prefers to have it removed. The question
of removal, is a question in which the p eo .
pie of Upper Georgia are particularly j n .
terested, and we would urge upon our co
temporaries in that region to keep the ball
moving. Below we give the Act of the Leg.
islature submitting the question to the
people:
Seat of Government.
Dec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia in General Assembly met, and it
hereby enacted by the authority of the saw
That the question of Removal and Location
of the Scat of Government of tho State of
Georgia be referred so the legal voters of
said State, and that they bo required, at the
next general election, to endorse on their
tickets “ Removal ” or “ No Removal.” jr
to be removed, where. And it shall be the
duty of the managers to make return, to his
Excellency the Governor, the number of
votes polled for and against Removal, and
the places voted for.
Approved, February 17th, 1854.
“Having been furnished by a friend with
the amounts paid the State Road, by three
public meetings along the line, vi Z: tbe
American meeting at Cartersville on the 1st
inst; the anti-American meeting at Calhoun
on the 9th, and the American meeting at
Calhoun on the 10th inst., we insert it be
low, which certainly proves one of three
things very conclusively—either that the
anti-American demonstration at Calhoun
was a small affair—or that people went there
by private conveyances, or, that a great
many travelled on the extra trains that day,
free of charge. But let the fiyures speak
for themselves:
Cartersville American Meeting, §549 05
Calhoun anti-American Meeting, 57 00
Calhoun American Meeting next day, 188 00
What a tale these figures tell! No won
der our neighbors forgot to tell their readers
the number at their great rally at Calhoun.
—American Discipline.
“Which certainly proves one of three
things”—an achievement that we do not
often witness in the American Discipline.—
It hardly ever proves anything, unless it be
tho side that it fights against. But in the
case of the Calhoun meeting, we take the
A. D. up on one of its three grounds—“that
the people went there by private con
veyances,” and in our opinion, there were
full 1500 strong. Thank God, the Democ
racy have never yet “with their left hands
placed on the right breast, and their right
hands raised towards the flag of our coun
try,” taken an oath “in all things social and
political,” to obey a little secret knot of
masters, who may send men under oath to
a party meeting, just as it sends men to tho
polls to rote. Will the A. D. say that no
orders in council were ever passed that so
many of the Iv. N’s must be and appear at
their mass meetings ? Speak out—if your
oath will allow it.
Ono would suppose, from the tone of the extract
just quoted, that the editors were the mostdevout-
ly pious men in the city. Perhnps they are, iu
their own estimation; but one of them, at least,
has a queer way of inculcating religious and mor
al principles, inasmuch as he cannot utter a senti
ment without interlarding it with oaths and blas
phemous imprecations horrible to hear.—Ameri
can Discipline.
These domineering native lords, in their “wild
hunt” are not willing to allow any democratic
citizen the privilege to swear even;—they must (A.
it all. But this we have to say about ont profan
ity, that never yet hnve wc been weak or wicked
enough to swear away the political freedom that
till now has been the pride and boast of free white
men—in this country. We admit that such swear
ing as this is to some purpose.
Appointment by the President.
Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, to be governor
of the Territory of Kansas in the place of
John L. Dawson, declined.
We are quite certain that the announce
ment of the appointment by the President
of Hon. Wilson Shannon to he governor of
the Territory of Kansas in the place of Hon.
John L. Dawson, whose declination was
communicated yesterday, will give general
satisfaction. Gov. Shannon’s attainments,
his large experience in public affairs, State
and national, hia sound discretion, and his
unquestioned integrity, eminently fit him
for the delicate and responsible position to
which he has been called, ne is about
fifty-eight years of age, was by the choice of
his fellow citizens, a most acceptable Go
vernor of the State of Ohio; a distinguished
member of the last Congress from the 17th
district of that State, and a firm and able
supporter of the Kansas and Nebraska bill.
Washington Union.
Emigrant Wealth.—At Castle Garden,
an account is kept of the money each emi
grant brings—all specie of course. Since
August 1st, 1855, emigrants have arrived,
and confessed to a total, specie means of
$72,005, being $44.56 for every man, woman
and child. The Germans bring most—their
average on confession, is $60 for every soul
landing. The probability iB that the emi
grants bring more than they confess, and that
$100 for Germans, $30 for Irish, and$60for
others. At the wreck of the New Era, 300
persons, mostly Germans, were lost: $30,000
were found in the trunks, and on the bodies
of the perished. Altogether, the tide of
European emigration brings us annually
several millions in specie.—N. T. piper.
Okra for Winter Soup,—Take a clezu
tight cask, sprinkle a layer of fine Liver
pool salt over tbe bottom; on this place a
layer of okra pods cut green from the bush
es ; now sprinkle another layer of salt, and
then another layer okra, and so on, until
the cask is full. It will shrivel, but lose
none of its peculiar soup juices. When
wanted for soups take it ont. and cut it up
place it in the pot without salt, as the salt
already in the oara will diffuse itselfthrougn-
out the soup and make the seasoning abou
right. There is a method of saving toma
toes, but it is attended with much trouble
the safest plan is to make tomatoes mio
catsup. TheD, we uot only have the toma
to, but the other ingredients to flavor the
soup—Soil of the South.
[From the Macon Telegraph.]
More Know-Sothing -withdraw
Knoxville, GA.,_July 30, ^
Gentlemen: The undersigned, who' wen-
entrapped into Know-Nothing Council ca
ed “ Worth, No. 70,” at this place,. unde,
solemn pledge and promise, that n .
were displeased with tho institution'a
joining, they should at any time receive
honorable discharge, have this day app
for such discharge to the President <> •
Council, which has been refused tvi
any cause being assigned for the ve >
except that it would involve him 1
guilt of Perjury to comply with the ieq -
—impressed with tho belief that the o J
and purposes of the organization, a
conflict with the duties which they o
their country and to their fellow citiz --
believing that it binds them to a bhn
dience to the will of an irresponsible
jority, interferes with the freedom o
frage and compels them to resign
right of thought, under tho frivolous P
text set up by the President, and havnio
other mode of freeing themselves from , .
fetters placed upon their consciences, .
hereby declare in this public manner
independence of the shackles put P
them, and that they are no longer memo
of the Order. H. H. Horton,
John T. Sanders,
C. G. Beavers,
Sanders Bond,
W. F. Kennedy,
t V Smith.