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WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. Crtfc CMBtr I«Ua*tlMUk Par Senator— THO& H. MOORE-* ALFRED MANSI S. M. BRADFORD. Ordinary— B. TOLLESON. Sheriff— 4. B. BLACKWELL. Deputy— JOHN ANDERSON. * Clerk of Superior Court— •JAMES M. BARNWELL. Clerk of Inferior Court— w. w. Carroll. Tax Collector— O. JOHNSON. Receiver of Returns— ■L F. McCLESKY. Coroner— JOHN WHITE. County Surveyor— J. B. FAlh. Lctttn mt AcctpUnct. Atlanta, Ga., August 18.1855. Col. John Collier— Dtur Sir: We have been apitoiuted )>y a eooveotioB of the Democratic Anti-Know- Nothing party, held in this city on the 10th i us taut, a committee to notify you of y«.ur unanimous nomination us it candidate to represent Fulton county in the Senatorial branch of our uext Legislature, and to re quest your acceptance of the same. We are, rery respectfully. Your oh’t. servant.,, A. W. JONES, 1 0 S. B. HOYT, j g R. ORME, i | JESSE WOOD, | 2. E. MORRIS, j S A. RATTEREE) • TUESDAY, AUGUST 21. Mr. Hilt. Mr. Benjamin Hill, the worthy candi date of the American party for Congrats, is •e ae he and his friends well know and as we his political opponents arc willing to con fess, a apeaker of ranch more than ordinary capacity. And for the very reaeou that he la so he should, we respectfully submit, be more careful in the statement of facts.— The didactic manner which Mr. Hill has seen fit to assume, becomes a dangerous one unless the matter is strictly and impartial ly true, and such we think was not the case with the speech of the gentleman in this city on Friday last. For instance he confi dently asserted that by an aot of Congress 160 acres of land were given to every for eigner who Betties in theJTeritories of Kan sas and Nebraska. We have closely exam ined the acts of the last Congress, and find uo Buch law. We have satisfied ourselves that no snch exists; the only thing approach ing it will be fonnd in the act to establish the office of Surveyor General of Kansas ahd Nebraska—Congressional Globe page 2238. By reference to the provisions of this act it will be seen that Congress has donated one-quarter section to every white male citi zen of the United States, or to every white male above the age of twenty-one years, who has declared bis intention to become a citi zen, on condition of actual settlement and cultivation for not less than four years.— “Provided, however, That when lands are claimed under any of the provisions of this act by persons who are not citisens of the United States, patent shall not issue therefor until they become citizens.” So much fbr the matter of giving lands to foreigners; it will be seen that the act- donates land to none but citizens. But in figures Hr. Hill becomes absolutely Skimpola-ish ; he really seems to us to multiply numbers without any notion of their meaning. We would respectfully submit to Mr. Hill that the Zol- lieoft'er is rather an unreliable school for etatistics, and when he states that 234,000 out of 460,000 emigrants who came to this couutry in the year 1854 were vagrants, all the assurance be can command will not make people believe it. In the first place, what does he mean by vagrant ? one who has been properly tried and found guilty of the offence of vagrancy ? will Mr. Hill as sert that 234,000 have beeu tried, found guilty, and punished for this offence? But if by vagrants he means paupers chargeable to the public, the statement is tnr-nstiously improbable. We are iguuraut oi any census of nor population taken since ♦be year 1850: daring the year ending Jane 1st 1850, we had uut of 2,210,000 foreign- born resideuts 68,000 paupers—a little more thun 3 per cent. On the let day of Juno 1850. the entire number of foreign paupers in the United States was 13,000, a little over three-fifths of one per cent of the for eign population. Will auy sane man be lieve that in the year 1854 the paupers con stituted more than 50 per ceut of the en tire immigration? But fortunately we have a few facte of a later date bearing up on this subject. The total number of for eigners who arrived at the port of Boston for the year 1854 was 23,827. In the last quarter there were bonded as likely to become a public charge 215. Taking thi« a« an uverage for the entire year, we will have 860 who were bonded or about 3,65 of the entire number of emigrants.— Tor the benefit of Mr. Hill, we would -ute that the ln*t quarter which has passed . this year only tixe have been bonded in the city of Boston. It will probably also be cousoling to read the following which we ei'ip from a New York paper; “ The emigrants who havo arrived at this p >rt siuce the the 4th of August have brought with them #72,005—about #44.66 to each man. woman and. child.” But of Mr. Hills criminals. We under stand this gentleman to state what ot the enitgrante of 1854, 6,666,out of 10,000 were criminals. Upon what authority does he muke this statement; this would make the number over 306,000. Doee he mean to say that these were charged with orime in the United States? The census of 1850 will show bow improbable are these state ments. The whole number of foreign born criminals in the United States for the year Juue 1st, 1850 out of a foreign born popula tion of 2,210 000 was 14,000; yet Mr. Hill makes the emigrants for one year, contrib ute more than 21 times this number. Who will not Bay it is impossible? Mr. Hill should remember that reckless daring is not courage, nor will bold assertion always com mand respect or obtain credence. “A r EEY Important.”—The Now York Times has from Paris a reliable statement of the Emperor Napoleon’s views upon the Crimea campaign. He acknowledges the tactics of it to have been his own, ana says, he is satisfied with the results, as Russia, as long ago as Deoember, had lost 270,000 men, and the allies had not lost a tenth so many. Sebastobol is a running sore, drain ing the Bystem of Russia. “Tne future will judge my taotioes.” These revelations does thus:— ’‘It is confidently stated that Louis Napo leon in person will command in the forth coming campaign in Moldavia and Russia Poland. Tne new levy of 140,000 is des tined for this field of'action and will super sede the Austrian army of occupation.— The object of this campaign will be er ection of Polish republic comprising lh- ynia, Poland and Bessarabia. In case Prus sia dissents, an advance made by an Anglo- French army upon her cis-Rhenikh provinces and the Baltic fleet, will keep her in oheck, while Lombardy and Hungary are moved ,np to block the interference of Austria.— The end of all this will be and empire ef republics. Turkey will be obliterated from the map of Europe and from a neet of By zantine States, into which Greece .and per haps Hungary my fall. The last great European war commenced with republican ism and ended with confirmed monarchy; this present struggle commences with a bat tle of the monarches, and will end with con firmed republics. Atlanta, August 20th, 1855. j Gentlemen: Your favor of the 18th inst. has been received, by which I am informed, that at a Democratic Anti-Know-Nothing convention, which met in thin city on the 16th inst., I was unanimously nominated as a candidate to represent the county of Ful ton in the Senatorial branch of our next Legislature, and request my acceptance of the same. j This mark of confidence and esteem on j the part of my fellow-citizens was to me | wholly unexpected, especially when it will ' be remembered that it hu« been bestowed j without the slightest effort on my part, and tnerefore brings me under renewed obliga- j tions to them. I accept the nomination thus tendered, j and if elected, will, to the utmost of my 1 feeble ability, endeavor to promote the best i interests of our common country. My opinions upon the great questions j which are being agitated, and which agita tion is shaking this mighty Republic from centre to circumference, are so well known to the people of Fulton county, that I deem it unnecessary at thiB time to say anything with regard to them. I hope to be able between this and the 1st j Monday in October next, to speak with them | on those important questions which are so intimately connected with our future pros- j perity and happiness. Allow me, Gents., to tender to you, and j through you to the Convention that did me j the honor of placing me before the people | of Fnlton county, for re-election to the Sen • j ate, the acknowledgements of a grateful i heart, for this renewed manifestation of their esteem and confidence. 1 am, Gentleman, Very 7 Truly, Your ob’t serv’t OHN COLLIER. I To A. W. Jones, S. B. Hoyt, Richard Orme, j Jeesee Wood, Enoch Morris, and Alex- j ander Rattaree, Committee. “That Wild Hut after Office.’ 7 KBCORDED BY JONATHAN SMITH. Hark, ’flu the bugle’s clarion call! Hark. on the "ffiec hunters fall It- viH'r- lingering in mid air, Prom Walker down to swampy Ware : Mount Yonah trembles in the bln..:, While on the ocean many a mast Its pennon’s flutter in the gale, And swells to bursting every sail. It is St. Francis winds his horn, And huutsmen brave salute the morn; They’re on a hunt that’s wild to-day— As snorting chargers dash away, Their riders raise a deafening cry, That wildly rings through earth and sky, For on that hunt that’s wild they go— While Cone and Miller wildly blow, Bob Trippe, Ben Hill are following fast, To frenzy wrought by maddening blast. Still on they speed—so well is blown Tho rousing blastby Father Cone, E'en Tumliu wakos and joins tho cry, As Andrews hurries yelling by. And Fouche* is with tho frenzied throng That o’er the mountain sweeps along. “ Hurrah, my boys,” St. Francis cries ; “ Speed on till every charger dies ! The glorious game of place is ours— You’ll gain it—swear it by the Powers! Strike deep your rowels, mend your pace, It is a wild, exciting chase 1” They gain in numbers as they go, Tilf joins them weighty Varnadoe; Josh Hill as well as Ben puts in. To follow Miller who has been With every party ever known. E’en down to that acconchod by Cone, And who ha*> ground for every clique That could the name of “ office ” speak, While parson Foster, parson Knowles Go with the crowd to mend their souls. Ah 1 well ’twcnld fail me to relate The third rate lawyers in the State, And other small-great men who go Where Cone and Miller loudly blow. All office-seekers join the chase, And ’tis a wild and frenzied race; Away they go with thundering speed, St. Francis blowing in the lead: O'er hill, and dell, and stream they fly, As if the devil followed nigh: No rest for them by night or day, Away they rush, away, away! 'Twas June when first 6t. Francis blew The blast that waked the hunting crew; Through Summer’s heat they wildly sped By hope of gaining office led. For four long months they wildly rushed— But 'tie October and are hushed The clarion bugle and the cry Which lately rent the very sky. One stream has balked them in their course, For now the hunters, hallowing hoarse, Stem for a time Salt River’s wave, And then they find a watery grave. A tablet stands beside that stream, And where its sparkling waters gleam, You there the mournful tale may read Of sturdy rider and his steed: “Here lie St. Francis and his men, Who wildly rushed from mount to glen On steeds as bravo as e’er were strode. Or were by mail-ed heroes rode: Oh! that wild hunt these horsemen made— But hero their bleaching bones are laid.” August 8th, 1855. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22. *Mr. Phooshay muBt excuse Mr. Swift for pro nouncing his name Fouch, as it is only a poetical licence. Tho Poet regrets bringing up reminis cences of the past, by pronouncing your name as yonr mother did, but he could not possibly get Phoothay into the line—that name making one syllable too many. Atlanta and. LaGrang Rail Road. It will be eeen from the Report of tho Treasurer of this Company, that the Road and Outfit, including Real Estate and por tion of common Paesenger Depot at Atlanta, have cost, up to the 30th of June, 1855, §1,- 092,222 90. The means have beeu derived from Our Candidates. We have seen, wo think, nr-ny signs of uneasiness on the part of < u. opponents, since ihe publication of the ici .ers of accep-' canoe of our candidates for the Legislature. We should bo surprised if i iis was other wise ; for with such men e. John Collier and Alison Nelson ;l> nr mdard-bearers, . there can be nodoubt of the triumph of the 1 Anti-Know-Nothing party in this county at the coming election. Our candidate for the j senate holds claims upon the people of Ful ton which can never be disregarded. Inter- i est alike with gratitude demands that he I should be returned to the place which he so ! ably filled in the last Legislature of Geor- I gia. It is to his services that we aro indebt- I ed for the creation of the very county which I he now proposes to represent in the senate. [ But much more, especially, was it he who j defeated the bill for the removal of the Cap- j ital to Macon. It was a matter at that • time confessed by all persons, that but for ; the masterly management of Col. Collier, i the seat of government would have been re- i moved from Miliedgeville, and Atlanta I would have lost all chances of securing it for herself. In every instance, when tho interests of his constituents was involved, our senator was found prompt and able to ; secure them. Such is the man that the : Democracy of Fulton again present to the people fur re-election : a man tried and ap- | proved. Not a less effective man have we secured for our candidate for the other branch of the Legislature. Captain Nelson is one of whom not the party only, but the coun try is proud. We would not deal in pan- ygeric: we think we speak but what all con fess when we say, that a bolder or a truer man than Alison Nelson is not among us.— He stands forth wherever he is known a model of high-toned honor, incorruptible in tegrity, and indomitable energy. The county has great interests to be rep resented in tho next Legislature. Where is the man into whose hands we could more confidently trust them than the candidate of the Democratic party. Known and re spected over the entire State, the services of such a man cannot be too highly valued.— With a will to do and an energy equal to its execution, we may be assured that with Captain Nelson as our representative, no interests of his constituents will be unatten ded. It would have been impossible for the party to havo selected candidates more wor thy the confidence of the people, than those whose names head our columns. Atlanta, Ga., August 18, 1855. j Capt. Allison Nelson— Dear Sir: We have been appointed by a i convention of the Democratic Anti-Know- i Nothing party, held in this city on the 16th 1 Capital stock paid in, • . „ e '■ Com. < per ceut bonds, instant, a committee to notify you of your . gur pr0 ^ t3 a pp ropr i a ted. unanimous nomination as a candidate to i represent Fulton county in the Representa-I tive branch of our next Legislature,and tore- i quest your acceptance. We aro, very respectfully, Your ob’t. servants, A. W. JONES, §719,842 99 Public Speaking. John W. II. Underwood and the Hon. John E. Ward addressed a large body of our citizens, in the Athenmum, on Monday night. We have seldom, if ever, listened with more pleasure to a political discussion. And unless we are much mistaken, the speakers made an impression which will be felt in our election on the first Monday in October. We have not space to notice these 225,000 00 j speeches in the manner they deserve. Mr. 147,370 91 1,092.22290 S. B. HOYT, R. ORME, [ § JESSE WOOD, f 2. E. MORRIS, j g A. RATTEREE J ’ Total, After the payment of interest and divi dends, the Company has found means, from : surplus profits, to put a bonus in the Road ! and Ootfits, of $47,379 91; and further, to j pay oft' 825,500 of tho Bonded Debt, as will 5 j appear by the statement of accounts for the past year: Earn, lor past year, $251,076 13 Exp. of muuagouieut, 89,882 49 Leaving nett profits, $161,193 75 From this two dividends havo been declared, one of $3 50 and lur- i tho other of $4porskareamount- 20th, 1850. ; ingto $53,666 68 of the 18th ; Interest aeconnt, 23,134 74—$76,220 99 Atlanta, Aug Gentlemen :—Your letter instant, notifying me 1 had been unanimous- j Surplu( , prolit6 to reeervod fund , $94,972 76 ly nominated by a Democratic Anti-Know. This Surplus has been disposed of as fol- Nothing Convention, held in this city, on j owg . the 16th inst, as a candidate for the Repre- • ^wo passenger, 2 baggage * sentative Branch of tho next Legislature,! and 20 freight ears, bal- has been received, and duly cousidered. j *$53,666 68 From the position I had been placed in, j Bonds of Com. pur- prior to the meeting of that Convention, by i chas d ’ my friends, and the fact that my name was Balance applicable to reserve, fund, $4,806 OS before that body for a different position, 1 j It will be perceived that, from the busi- dotermined not to accept. \ ness of the last year, the Company has paid _ . , , 1 to the Stockholders 7 1-2 per cent dividends, But, the magnanimous course pursued by ; dp p ropriated §53,660 68 to Road and Outfit Col. Collier, and the very urgent appeals of j account; purchased, at par and interest, my party and friends, leave me in a position i 825,500 of the Company’s ten years seven that, if I were to still refuse acceptance, ! P er cent Roods, and have added to Reserved would show, on my part, an utter want of 25,500 00—$79,168 68 magnanimity or true regard for the great cause aud principles which we all feel so deep an interest in. I shall, therefore, under the circumstan- ! ces aliove referred to, accept the position | of one of your standard bearers in the pre- | sent canvass, relying on the aid and assist- j ance of those friends whose regard and i wishes have influenced my course, to sus- S tain me in my humble efforts to advance { those principles which 1 have an abiding j confidence will bos; promote the interest j and welfare of our common country. I have the honor to remain, ; Your obedient servant, ALLISON NELSON. Messrs. A. W. Jones, S. B. Hoyt, Richard Orme, Jessee Wood, Enoch Morris, A. Ratteree. | Kind #5,806 08. The Stockholders have received seven per : cent, upon their subscription from the time of payment up to the first of January last, ■ and, siuce then, divivends at the rate of eight per cent. The net income for the last year, on the present capital stock, is a frac tion over twenty per cent, or fourteen per cent the whole cost of Road and equipment. The following is a statement of the num- • her of bales of Cotton forwarded from each Station on the Road, from July 1st, 1854, to July, 1st, 1855. Fairburn, 822 Palmetto, - - - - 3,118 ; Newnan, ..... 13,611 Grautville, .... 1,361 ! Ilogansville. .... 1,152 LaGrango, - 12,543 Long Cane, .... 223 West Point, .... 11,620 Total, 44,550 Amonnt of fr’t rec’d at West Point, $28,975 85 “ “ forwarded from W. P. 24 855 74 The Next President. The Boston Telegraph—the especial organ of anti-slavery in Massachusetts—writes an j article to show that tho next President must j be a slaveholder or « supporter of slavery, j in case the election shall go to the House of Representatives, as is generally anticipated. The following is the language of the Consti tution, as providing for such an emer gency: “The House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the Presi dent ; but in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by Stales, the representa tion from each State having one vote; a quo rum for this purpose shall consist of a mem ber or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. There are, says the Telegraph, thirty-one States, sixteen being a majority. There are fifteen slave States, not one of which would vote for an anti-Nebraska man. In addi tion to these fifteen slave States. California has chosen two slavery Democrats, who, in all probability, would vote with them. The State of Iowa has a divided delegation, one anti-Nebraska man and one Nebraska Dem ocrat. Her rote will thus probably bo lost. The other States, fourteen in number, would vote for an anti-Nebraska man. So, if the issue should be Nebraska and anti- Nebraska, tha vote would stand thus: Total. 53,861 79 Know-Xotklmgiam in Texas. A correspondent of the New Orleans Del ta, in a letter dated Lagrange, Texas, 4th inst., says: “ Know-Nothingism is on its lasit legs in Texas. The quasi removal of secresv has bereft it of the charm of mystery, without altering its proscriptive designs. The gar ment has been raised till the cloven foot ap pears distinctly; and scores on scores of Democrats, duped by their curiosity into a connection with the Latter-day Jacobins, are fleeing like Joseph from Potiphar’s house, and “ getting them out.” In Hous ton, a whole Council, numbering one hun dred, dissolved, and burned their records. One hundred members have withdrawn from the Council at Washington ; ten mem bers withdrew from the Georgetown Lodge; and oighteen in the Belton Lodge, out of twenty-one in all, “ vamoosed the ranche.” The Lodge in Lockhart, Caldwell county, numbering 110 members, has all “gone in” —not a member left; ditto at Hallettsville, Goliad, Victoria and De Witt.” The election of Humphrey Marshall to Congress has cost the city of Louisville one million of dollars in money and ten thousand inhabitants. He is what might be called a vnry dear representative.—Lou isville limes. YtUsw Ftvtr la Rsw OrltM*. Tew (Moans, Aug. 20.—The yellow fever tpidly on the increase. Deaths for the k amount to five hondred and seventeen, nding three hundred end ninety-four a fovsr> Nebraska. Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, California, South Carolina, North Carolina, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky—16 Ss. Anti-Nebraska. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois—14 States. Divided. Iowa—1 State. j A new edition of “Fen on the English and i Foreign Funds.” very recently issued, gives j a statement of the existing National Debts j of the principle countries of tho world.—■ i This is interesting at the time, when the j contraction of additional debt is very likely | to be forced upon all the leading nations i of Europe at least. The aggregate amouut i of Europen dept is stated to be £1,644,841.- 000, of which thttfebt of England is £773,- 923,000; FndMR233,000,000; Holland £102, 451,00«Ks8ia £3,500,000; Rus sia £68,000,GPo; Spain £70,000,000: Bel gium £26,OOBt0O, Austria £21 l,00fij000.— The varioiudonntries of Central and South America, It will be seen from the above that if the election goes to the House of Repeesenta- tioei, t^e slaveholders will agpun triumph. Underwood read tho Know-Nothings off the Nebraska platform, and more clear ly exposed what all but themselves had seen before, the Federalism of their doctrines. One hard question the speaker put, which, wo suppose, will remain for some time un answered: Why didnot Judge Andrews,and his former Union and now Know-Nothing friends, who now so strenuously object to foreigners being allowed to vote in Kansas, make the same objection to tho same prin ciple as applied to the Territorial bills of Utah and New Mexico? But it was especially upon Dr. Miller that Mr. Underwood was great. The spea ker evidently understood the subject, and treated it to the satisfaction of everybody. We have no doubt that the Doctor himself would have been quiescent had he been pre sent. We neglected to note all the different changes Dr. Miller had assumed in the last few years, and find our memory now quite inadequate to the task of collecting them. Wo will never hear the Rev. Doctor again, without thinking how zealous au opponent of Know Nothiugism he might have beeu had he only been nominated to Congress in place of Lumpkin. The speaker kindly conceded to his friend Dr. Miller great abil ity as a huntsman after office. After Mr. Underwood had kept the audi ence for near two hours, he was followed by the Hon. John E. Ward, who is doubtless the most finished orator who has been among us this campaign. Iiis speecli con sisted mainly of a most masterly vindication of the Catholics against the charges which have been brought against them, reading for this purpose undisputable authority proving their loyalty to whatever State they have been citizens. We have not time, nor do we deem it necessory. to make a further review of these speeches. It must remain a loss to those who failed to hear them. Counterfeit. Wo have been shown, by Mr. James Mc- ! Pherson of this place, an admirably execu ted Ten Dollar bill, counterfeit, on the Bank of Georgetown. It differs from the genuine only in execution, and is calculated to de ceive any but the most observant. The signatures of the Cashier and President, D. L. McKay and J. W. Coachman, are so per fectly imitated as to defy detection. The counterfeit bears date 1st July, 1846, and is somewhat shorter than the genuine. The shading of the X in the middle of the bill, is defective, where it is crossed by the words Georgetown, South Carolina, Ten. The fe male head on the lower right hand corner, is however, the best detective, being but a poor imitation of the genuine, and, in want of finish, showing unmistakable signs of counterfeit. It is the opinion of Mr. Valen tine, Cashier of the Atlanta Bank, that we have among us some persons engaged in passing off these counterfeits, as he has re peatedly of late, rejected bills of this de scription. Squatter Sovereign. The Squatter Sovereign has come out in opposition to the Know Nothings. As it is well known that the object of Stringfellow’s existence is to make Kansas a Slave State, what does he mean by giving aid and com fort to the “Foreigners,” if they are, as the Know-Nothing presses here alledge, Free- 1 Soilers. BQLThe n .umber of applications - r : bounty land wai rants received at the U. S. ! Pension Office up to the 7th inst., was 201;- | 900. Up to the same date, 164,455 war-J rants had been issued, which is at the rate of about 8,000 warrants per month, the first warrant under the new bounty land act having been issued in the early part of June. PaMle Oue of the largest and most respectable meetings ever held in Charleston, took place on the evening of the 15th. .inst. It was composed ofihose who^prero opposed to the new organization.of Kno'w Nothings. Hon. W. D. Porter was called to the Chair, and a number of Vice Presidents were appointed. We have not room for the whole proceed ings, which are interesting, and must eon- tent ourselves for the present, by publishing the resolutions,-which were adopted, with but one dissenting voice: 1. Resolved, That as citizens of the State of South Carolina, we recognize the Ordi nance adopted by the people of the State, assembled in Convention in 1852, as a part of the fundamental law of the body politic, equal in authority as a Declaration of lught, with the Constitution itself, and we proclaim as a cardinal principle of the pre sent organization, “That South Carolina, in the exercise of her Sovereign Will as an independent State, acceded to the Federal Union, known as the United States of America ; and that, in the exercise of the same Sovereign Will, it is her right, without let, hindrance, or molestation, from any power whatsoever, to secede from the said Federal Union, and that, for the sufficiency of the causes which may impel her to a separation, she is re sponsible alone, under God, to the tribunal of public opinion among the Nations of the earth.” Wo consider the proceedings of said con vention as having authoritatively defended the position of South Carolina and her re lation to the Federal Union. And in the opinion of this meeting, the obligation of the Third Degree, as set forth in the Con stitution of the National Council of the U. S. of North America, known as the Order of Know Nothings, is a direct denunciation of the principles of this Ordinance, and the position assumed in these procedings, and the triumph of the order in this State, would effect revolution within her limits. 2. Resolved, that we protest against the proposition put forth by the Grand Council of the Order, in Philadelphia, that “the maintenance of the Union of these States is the paramount political good”—a doctrine which assumes that Government is above the object for which it was instituted— strikes at the very foundation of the Sov- ereigenty of the States, and under every violation of the Constitution, however fla grant, and under every degree of oppression and injury, however destructive, demands of the States eternal and unresisting sub jection to the eternal power; and we disap prove, as heretical in principle and eminent ly dangerous to the South, the idolatrous devotion to the Union of these States, so prominently and constantly inculcated by the Constitution and Ritual of Order, when contrasted with their silence as to the ne cessity of preserving unimpaired the rights of the States respectively. 3. Resolved, That we hail, with unfeign ed satisfaction, the recognition of the Dem ocratic parties of Georgia and Louisana, of the resolutions adopted by the people of Georgia, assembled in Convention in 1851; and, as we believe, South Carolina too, “will and ought to resist, even (as a last resort) to a disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, any action of Congress upon the subject of slavery in the district of Co lumbia, or in places subject to the jurisdic tion of Congress, incompatible with the safe ty, domestic tranquility, the rights and hon or of the slaveholding States, or any act suppressing the slave trade between the slaveholding States, or any refusual to ad mit, as a State, any territory hereafter ap plying, because of the existence of slavery therein ; or any act prohibiting the intro duction of slaves into the Territories of Utah and New Mexico ; or any act repealiing or materially modifying the laws in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves.” 4. Resolved, That we sympathise with the friends of the slavery cause in Kansas, in their manly efforts to maintain their rights and the rights and interests of the Southern people, and that we rejoice at their recent victories over the paid adventures and fan atical hordes of Northern Abolitionism.— That the deep interest felt and taken by the people of Missouri, in the settlement of Kansas, aud the decision of the slavery question in it, is both natural and proper; and that it is their right and duty to extend to their Southern brethren in tho Territory every legitimate and honorable sympathy and support. 5. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the existence and progress of the organization known as the Order of Know- Nothings, is opposed theoretically and.prac- tically to the principles which have hitherto characterized South Carolina as a state, and the Southern Rights party every where, and render a rally and reorganization of that party in South Carolina a matter of imper ative duty with those who remain steadfast in the faith. 7. Resolved, That this meeting disap proves utterly and entirely of the introduc tion of religious tests into the politics of the country, and believes such a connection op posed to the Constitution of the United States, and anti-American in spirit and policy. 8. Resolved, That while wo regard the facility with which foreigners of all kinds are admitted to the rights of citizenship, and the abuses practiced under the existing naturalization laws, as proper subjects of legislative reform, we unhesitatingly and uncompromisingly reject as a remedy, the formation of secret affiliated political asso ciation, possessed of powers so novel and despotic as those of the Order of Know Nothings; and we utterly repudiate the in discriminate condemnation and unqualified exclusion from the privileges of citizenship of all foreigners, whatsoever, which is the practical result of the triumph of the Order as illiberal, unwise, and peculiarly anti- American. 9. Resolved, That in addition to these stringent objections, we are opposed to the Know Nothing Order:— Because by its secrecy and mystery, its oaths and ritual, it is calculated to promote insincerity and duplicity, and to.,Stifle the bold, open, manly condn which characterise the freeman Because i of spies on e conduct am" pecting, to cils and mai proscription And becau confidence, a in the social 10. Resolved, nal harmony 1 here, to the future yet certan^erils which, as citizens of these slaveholding States; we must meet, and to resist which successfully, there should exist unbroken unauififty, that we should, with the utmost earnestness, ap peal to those who have been led into this Order to come oat from, awPstrip it of its power to do evil, and to all, of whatsoever political designation they may have been, to unite in opposition to an organization FRIDAY, MORNING, AUG. 24, ~ FOB QOVKMMOm HEBSCHBL V. JOHWBOV, or BALDWBL FOR CONGRESS: 1st District—J. X. ■ award, mt Thmsu. Id “ BK. J. Crawfsrd, of Hu’fe. 3d domes B. Smith, mt Upson. 4th H.W«mtr,ef Arlwether Ith “ JB.lismrkta.efFtoyd. •th “ _ HowtU Cohb, of Clark*, COUNTY NOMINATIONS. For tht Senate: • t JOHN COLLIER. For Representative! ALLISON NELSON dads* Warner’s Appointments. Hon. Hiram Warner, will address the people of the Fourth Congressional District at the following times and places: Greenville, Saturday, Aug. 25. Fayetteville, Tuesday, Sept. 18. LaGr&nge, Saturday, Sept. 22. The Louisville Tragedy—The Press on Prentice. The editor of the Louisville Journal be gins to feel the awful pangs of blood guilti ness, and strives in vain to make the inno cent, partakers in his great sin. He is pre tending to give to the world the sworn cer tificates of Irish Catholics going to shew that the late murders were provoked by the handful of foreign born citizens in Louis ville. But the verdict of the Union has been pronounced against the awful carnage of American citizens, ancfyipon Know-Noth ing leaders and Know-Nothing principles must rest forever the orushing guilt of this inhuman and Bavage butchery of unoffend ing citizens. The Louisville Times, some days after the election, thus writes: The scenes on Monday were spoiling beyond anything yet witnessed in this Union. They were not exceeded by the Jacobins of Franoe under her most ferocious political tyrants. The city was for 18 hours in the hands of a mob. They pillaged fruit stalls and assaulted innocent citizens, burnt houses, robbed breweries, murdered men, women and children at their pleasure. Nothing was sa cred from their polluted touch. Desperadoes all, and led and assisted by leaders who held back out of tho site of exposure, they defied the sanctities of the law and the obligations of humanity alike. Godless wretches as they are, George D. Prentice is their loader and defender. Prentice is the leader of these miscreants, and the worst among them. The Mobile Register, a paper distinguish ed for its lofty and truthful character, after commenting upon the testimony of the Journal in relation to the causes of the riot, says: In contrast with the Democrat, the Journal teemed from day to day with the most inflamable appeals to the passions of its party. The editor of that paper, who, notwithstanding his admittted talents, is known to be one of the most unscrupu lous partisans and greatest blackguards and cow ards in the whole country, appears to have set himself deliberately to work to produce juBt the very events that he uow records. The Journal of Commerce always cool and circumspect in its judgment, speaks the fol lowing language: The New York Journal of Commerce of the 10th inst., says there is littlo room for doubt as to the probable causes of the late sanguinary riots in Louisville, when it is considered that several of tho newspapers in that oity teemed with articles like the following, published in tho Louisville Journal on tho day previous to the election,- and there may have been articles equally virulent on tho other side of the question: “People of Kentucky, the argument is closed ; tho issue is made up; and the case submitted for your verdict. Vital principles of American na tionality and existence are at stake. We now call on you to rally. “Rally to crush a faction of foreigners, politi cal Papists aud anti-American native demagogues —who falsely charge that we are hostile to reli gious freedom, whilst we, at the very time, uot only declare its sacred principle in our platform, but are actually engaged in conflict with its most formidable and deadly foe. Until the light of Protestanism shone in the world, there was no re ligious freedom. Popery, with its iron heel, trod out the life of religious liberty as fast as it was born. The RomiBh corporation, under pretense of being the bride of Christ, has ever been the prostitue of Satan. Millions have suffered mar tyrdom bocause they would not surrender their consciences into the keeping of the prostitute.— The hierarchy is yet drunk on the blood of saints —and has the audacity to charge with tyrauny the native American friends of constitutional liberty. “Rally to preserve the homogeneous charaoter of American institutions from the corrupt influ ences if a mixed foreign rabble. “Rally to put dowH an organization of Jesuit Bishops, Priests, and other Papists, who aim by secret oathB and horrid peijuries, and-midnight plottings, to sap the foundations of all our politi cal edifices—State and national.’* It is only necessary to add to what the Journal of Commerce has said, to remark , that no articles equally as virulent were ev er published by the other side. On the con trary, the unchallenged reoord is, that all the city presses on the “other side” labored earnestly and constantly before the election to shield the city and the Amerioan charac ter from the impending infamy. The ver dict is made up, and with its blood-stained history Know Nothingism is consigned; the spirit of our blessed Constitution to thq xiocoqiw execration of the American paopl«PyIqp jjvflbchete; propagandists and interested supporters feet that the Louisville carnage signed its death warrant. Hence their trembling anxiety to slur over the horrid recital, or find seme scape-goat for the enormous crime of this wholesale butchery. But it will not all do. Know Nothingism cannot live, for it is built upon unmixed and unmitigated wrong. It has no kindness, no trust, no charity for mankind. It appeals not to a love for our own freedom and equality, but rather to a truculent, unchristian passion that tyrany has for robbing other men of their rights.— It seeks not to cheer and hold up the weak and lowly and unhappy, but rather with a savage disregard of our brother man, it starts a crusade under a once-honored flag against men whose only crime seems to be that they are unhappy, and have appeal to us for shelter. View it in any light, am it must meet the unsparing censure of iaceful and loyal citizen. Its pretei prevention rather than cure..ialtl d aim of Know Nothingism, is nothing nor nothing in its favor. Perawution oppression are hoary with age, but ly are not a whit older than this venero- lie, behind which all the persecutions at ever vexed and oursed mankind has ta ken refuge. The just man who waits to punish, waits just as he will do when he approves, until he has “proved all things.” The spirit of Democracy, of freedom, the spirit of the American Constitution neither rewards nor proscribe- men in classes. Our chief and former glory as a people has been that the benignant spirit of our 4 republican ism, like that of Christianity, stqops to. tUt evil, if ever an evil had, been correcting ittelf for the last four years by growng con stantly lees and less every year. Don’t now begin to talk about paupers, sinoe the Irish famine is over, when, besides millions sent them in bread and money, we sent tens of millions of sympathetic invitations to come over to this land of plenty and freedom.— Unhappily for the “ Order,” they began their gambling game too late, not until they were stript bare of their last copper’s capi tal. So far from foreign immigrants being a charge to this country, it is as well ascer tained as any custom house data can be, that if the rate of increase shall be no great er for the next six months than it has been for the last six, the K. N. “ paupers and felons ” will have brought into - the country more than §12,000,000 of hard cash. Yes, after all the Zolliooffering of our day and generation, it is the fact that the Germans bring here with them §100 a head, the Irish about $38, and all other immigrants about $60. This average is not for men alone, or women and men, but for every head that lands upon our shores, including the babies that K. N’s. in Louisville sometimes set upon and slay. But what’s the use in an argument with a Know-Nothing? If he can outvote you he stuns you with his wild shouts—if you outvote him he gets up a riot and kills you if you don’t stand square up to him. If you believe a figure he puts upon paper, he will prove that there are many times more foreigners here than na tives before be is done, and if you take him up on promises and snatch his conclusions from him, why he gets the victory by shout ing louder than the Alpine thunders, that “Americans shall rule Ameriky.” So what’s the use in talking? Bather com mend us to tho ballot box, the only sort of a box that seems to have a pious and subduing effect on that rollicking, young, good-for-nothing yclept, Sam. To Correspondents. The article of our friend from Farie Knowe was received too late for insertion in this weeks paper, but it shall certainly ap pear in our next issue. It treats of a great question, the very greatest in our view ; next to the burial of Sam. To relieve the olfactories of gentle folks from the obtru-. eions of the said late individual is the work now that demand the united and the best efforts of thepublic spirited and patriotic.— Will not our friend go to work in one more number and elaborate a little more fully the duty of the Stato in perfecting the groat works of internal improvement in Georgia, that cannot be without State aid. We are fully agreed with our corrsepondents posi tion and have been since we served together in 1849. Wo only stop however when the fund of 6,000,000 » devided between the counties for tho establishment of poor schools upon the military basis. Tlte Discipline. The Discipline commenting upon a letter from an Irish Editor in New York, publish ed in this paper a few days since, wishes us to publish “that part which says the Ger mans aro all Abolitionists.” We assure the editor of the Discipline that there is no such part to publish. He is entirely mistaken as to the facts set forth in the letter. We saw fit not to publish the entire communication, from the fact that portions of it did not bear on the question treated of, the Irish i North. A possesed in for 50 years, whose is ti said and o The [From the Richmond Inquirer 1 —* Tits Cincinnati^Tlnees at | U T*», u The Kno w-N othinn have been nlavtm. characteristic gamo m the recent etat£§ * Their organ at Cincinnati ia the Tim*! 0 **', the Bardstown Ky., Gazette, thus show,*** ’681 "r its two ugly faces: “This paper, intended exclusiv tiv r Kentucky circulation, we have had in J ° T possession some days, and we have now ^ ceeded in getting hold of one of its iJ" 0 ' for Ohio and Northern circulation oftk* same date and numbor—and the paper *** as different as if emanating from hut ar ® offices and edited bv different men r?* Northern number has nothing about a fifth district in it—no article appeal;..”* the citizens of Kentucky—and nothin^ r° yoring the Sonth or Southern institutin' It speaks with pleasure of Chase’s eleefl being secure—gives anti-slavery —pats the abolitionists familiarly on*? 6 back, and openly avows that * SAM ia , FREESOILER IN OHIO. The other nLf ber is made of quite different materia] goes against negro stealing and uniT ground Railroads—and hurrahs for Chari Wintersmith. Both papers are numWj ‘Volume XII., No. 52, and dated ‘ThurZ* 1 July 19,1855.’ They are both fa oS session, and can be seen bv anv and one.” j “uu every This rascally Times figured in the gam* way in the Virginia, Tennessee, and off*! Southern States, “to preserve the righto f native born citizens” and Becure the,’,.* ° rity of the ballot box. mte ^ own way and after their own conecien*. ? Are such useful and unselfish charities t appeal in vain for an equal participation in the bonefits of our government, and th blessings of our constitutions ? As w beautifully said by Mr. Senator Hunter ^ his sneech during the Virginia canvass- “ But, fellow-citizens, I wont a little ton far when I said it was proposed to pro- ' scribe Catholics from all offices in th’ country. There are some offices, which the sons and daughters of that Church are con sidered competent to discharge. I meaD the offices of Christian charity, of ministra- tion to the sick. The sister of charity mav enter yonder pest-house, from whose dread portals tho bravest and strongest man quails and shrinks; Bhe may breathe there tho breath o» the pestilence which walks abroad in that mansion of misery, in order to min ister to disease where it is most loathsome and to relieve suffering where it is most helpless. There, too, the tones of her voice may be hoard mingling with the last ac cents of human despair, to soothe the faint ing soul, as she points through the gloom of the dark valley of the shadow of death to the Cross of Christ, which stands trane figured in celestial light, to bridge the way from Earth to Heaven ; and whether cholera or yellow fever invades your citiee the Catholic Priest may refuse to take ref uge in flight, holding tho place of the true Soldier of the Cross, to be by the sick man’s bed, even though death pervades the air because ho may there tender the minisW tions of his holy office to those who need them most.” Louisville Riot’s. We do not say that the blame of initiating tho deplorable outrages committed at many elections in tho last eighteon months was in all cases fairly chargeable to the Order; nor do we think it necessary or useful to oro- voke controversy about such a matter,‘we simply assert that since this secret associa tion came into the field of politics as an ele ment in 1 ur elections more blood has been shed, more property wantonly destroyed, greater aud moredangerous violations of the laws have occurred than had ever before been experienced in the most exciting times or tho most violent contentions of parties, put together.—New Orleans True Delta, tch to the St. Louie Aug. 7, says: i vetoes has beeu Judges for their I them have ei- the action of the e Legielo- rnoval of 6fthem w to be chosen, tatives to Cob] Louisana, Missi land, which ai to twenty-thrt will- take place as': California, , Vermont., j i Maine, Georgia, Pennsylvanj Indiana, Ohio, Louisana, Mississippi, New YosIlP *•« AO* v/ui/vozviuu »U Oixuuwaniuu . J ••«••• | r .W which, if successful, must prostrate the ! cons |^ or ea ch individual case, and ignore rights of individuals and States, and in the j right to dispose of the claims of men ii the gross. | The Macon Journal- & Messenger of! yesterday contains the following notice: ( “ Died—In this city, on the 18th inst., ; Solomon Humphries, a free man of color, aged about 54 years. lie was a resident of this place at its earliest settlement, and since that time has been well known—first exico and Cuba, have an aggre- as a small trader, and afterwards, for many obedience it exacts to the will of a majori ty, extinguishes the hopes and rights of a minority. Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting appoint a committee of one hun dred, who sha 1 ’ V cb i rged with the organi zation of a .80 . iiights Party, in oppo sition t-» the Oi- of iv 10 >',v-Nothings. The meetingv\.o addressed by the Presi dent, Col. Isaac Havne, A. G. Magnath, Esq., and Gen. W. E. Martin. Letters were read from Hon. A. P. Butler, Hon. L. M. Keitt, Hon. P. S. Brooks, and Hon. James Simons. The letter of Mr. Butler is an ex cellent one, and we will publish it as soon as we can find room. gate debt of £59,788,280. The debt of the United States is put down at £10,000,000, and that of British India at £48,000,000— making the total public or national debt of the world to be £1,762^29,480. years, as a merchant and cotton dealer.— Iiis uprightness and strict integrity in bus- i iness, and quietly and gentlemanly demean | or, always secured for him the respect aud i friendship of all who knew him.” I Desolation.—Tho neighborhoods where the Ures and riots of Monday occurred, are being fast deserted, cspccialy by forign-born citizens. They arc also Ioaving other loealitiies in considerable numbers. They are leaving the city in such con veyances as they can procure. The houses on- Fifth, between Main and Water street, from VAff to the bead of the canal, we expect to see entiray beforo the weok closes. The only prospect before us now is, that tho value of all the property in the city will be leaned at least 25 per cent. It has fallen coflHerably. There is no one willing to invest at any price at this time. Desolation reigns where two days ago, all wm life.—Louisville So we demand that the ger within our gates” shall be judged. Jfa the Constitution swea1& he shall be, and bil ly thus will the just and chivalrous heart have him judged. If the foreign-born citi zen offends against law, why punish him—•; no more, no less—than the son of your own loins. If the Catholic seeks political povfor for his Church as a hierarchy, wait for zhet treasonable overt act, and then strike home no sooner, no harder than you would do against tlte Protestant in like defection. If psufperism from abroad oppresses us, sendj^tway just as we do when it invades U9 from any sister city in this Union. If immigrants among us corrupt our slaves and foment revolt among them, why hang them high, just as high as you would a bloody miscreant doing the like who Bhonld de scend upon us from the only purely Know- Nothing government that history tells ns of. Yes, just as soon as if he came fkgH Mas sachusetts. But in the name oflHKfcven and Heaven’s truth, don’t begin OHout in false alarms against ‘ jy, September [ondsy, September 10.' Monday, October "’uesday, October 1 ueeday, October 'uesday, October? 9; Monday, Noyembwtff; Monday, Novemter 5. Tuesday, November 6. Tuesday, November 6. Wed’y November 7. Monday, November 12. ■—The City Councils of LouiB 1 a committee to inquire into necessities of the families made iy the outbreak, and rejected a resolu- to pay for the property destroyed. The own ers of tho houses burnt mast, therefore, lose them, unless they can recover damages by suits at law. This action of Councils appears to have been the cause of the resignation of several of the mem bers of the Councils. It is not probable, howeV' er, (the Baltimore American says,) “that the ac tion of tho Councils in regard to compensation for property destroyed will fie acquiesced in, as the principle has been abundantly established that a city is responsible for damages committed by mob which the authorities failed to restrain.” The Sooth of Ou>Ett*rixh.—In Mr. Benton’s forthcoming volume of his thiry years in the Se nate, occurs tho following passage, in allusion to the decline of the commerce of the Southern States: “ It is a traditoh of the colonios that the South had been the seat of wealth and happiness, of power and opulence; that a rich population covered tho land dispensing hospitality, and diffusing the felicity Which themselves enjoyed; that all was life, and joy and affluence then. And this tradition was not without similitude to the rality, as this writer can testify; for he was old enough to have seen (after the Revolution) the still surviving state of southern colonial manners, when no traveller was allowed to gn to a tavern, and was handed over from family to family through ontire States—When hoidays were days of festivity and expectation, long prepared for, and celebrated by master and slave with music and feaati' i», and great oonoourse '-of. friends and relatival; when gold was kept in deske’s or chests, (after the downfall of paper) anctarcighed in scales, and lent to neighbors for Short terms without note, interest, witness or se curity—and on bond and land security for long years and lawful usance: and when petty litigation was at so low an ebb that it required a fine offorty pounds of tobacco to mako a man serve as con stable.” The k. n. state council for Connecticut havo teen in session at Hartford, with only about half the delegation iu attendance, and it is under stood they deoided to abolish the secrecy of tho order, and took steps toward a fusion with tho anti-slavery elements. Kansas.—Wm. Walker, a half-breed of the Wyandott tribe of Indians—a man of education and of wealth, and who glories in his Indian blood is spoken of as a candidate for Congress in Kansas. Kentucky Election.—Official returns from 74 counties in Kentueky, and the reported ma jorities for remaining counties reduce toe majority of Morobead, K. N-, far Governor, to 4»20v. Saws.—The No- A the official re- acres of public one fiscal vear ast, for which cash and scrip, This is exclusive with militarr bounty * id. The ag- the title in transferred from the tduals, was never be- . o ye»r. Even in the ition fa the public do- whole quantity sold and was not as great. clatuus.—The new to the United -States is (saw ray nose off.) An „ * " ion at Washing- ..mvr nose off) Col. Kutmanosoff, perial Guard; my nose off,) begone,) ana -Election. jates to the Syracuse it resulted in the choice a. In some of the wards made to smuggle in free- iration only tended to of the factionist and Tribune represents the e of the wards very much as year, when it gave the “full par- lars” just a month, to a day, before the lections were held. New York oity will send to the 8tate Convention a strong body of bold, unflinch ing Democrats, who will take good can that the Democracy of the State is not mis represented, nor committed to Anti-Nebras ka ism, by resolutions condemnatory of the National Administration.—N. T. Day Book. Thk War in Europe.—“Ion,” the intel ligent correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writes from Washington: During the present suspense of active operations in the Crimea, we may calmly contemplate the aspects and the resalts^of this great war—a war that took the world by surprise—a war which no statesman can account for or justify. As to the results of this war, I wish to cite the opinion of an eminent German physician, who is in the Russian servioe, and has lately published m Berlin many curious and instructive obeer- rations on the subject. I give nothing mue than his conclusion, to wit—that when Se bastopol Bhall be taken, the Allies will not be nearer to the realization of their bopm than before their conquest. It is more thftn a tear. It is the first phase of an Historical epoch l It is in this light that we are to view the struggle. The war, terrible as « is, has been just commenced. That it will result in tho development of {wpri* 1 strength and republican principles in Eu rope, is the belief and the hope of all, ex cept of those who provoked it, and now blindly conduct it. The onslaught upon Judge Kane, for hU in tho Wheeler slave case, clamoring ag*J*” “j* U. S. Courts as though they were alien to of Peunsylvainia, and were offending agamst w State Judiciary'and the State sentiment, m •# protection of tho rights of Southern slAveholM”. has met with an unexpected rebuke in the sou of tho State oourts. The Grand Jury of*® quarter Sessions, the county criminal court oi r udolpia, has found a true 1>I1I against. Pawn Williamson, and his colored associates inth»t ' fair, for riot, and assault and battery. The tcries may now be turned upon the State toibun > which have thus recognized the rights of . men to tho protection of the State law ' abolition ruffianism. It is a very en ? 0Uf fSai. sign of the existence of a sound constituta®**.* ing in Philadelphia, that a grand jury of bears this publio testimony ofoondomnation agauwv the lawless oonduot of there own citizens. Large Telescopes.—Ofthe late improve®*®* - in the manufacture of telescopes a most int **v ’ ing account has been given by SirD. B»*wst > including a description of the gigantic telescope the Earl of Rosse, the site of which, as eomp*"“ with other instruments, may be understood oy fact that the area of Newton’s best telescope w 586 square inohes, that of Lassels 576, of t» chel 2,304 and of Rosse 5,184. ^at,The Belgian government, owing to abundant harvest, has ordtrsd tha baker* to daw th* Frio* of bread.