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THE BALL HIOAES OS!
Last week wo promised to continue
the publication of withdrawals from the
closed-door and sealed-lip iniquity, by
men who have been initiated, witnessed
its corrupt workings, and are satisfied
that it is dangerous to their liberties as
American freemen. By the first Mon
day in October the “ battalion” will be
reduced to a corporal’s guard.
Another' Know-Nothing Explosion
The know-nothing order nt Contre
Star, in Lauderdale country, says the
Tuscumbia (Ala.) Enquirer, has bursted
asunder from all its oaths, and forty of
135 of that council came out in a card in
the Florence Gazette, denouncing the
know-nbthing order. We have not space
this week to publish their card, but may
make an extract or two. The forty call
the order “anti-republican organization
they contend that “the bonds by which
we were held to this know-nothing soci-
ciety were contrary to the laws of both
God and our country.” They call upon
the members of our councils to come out,
and “you will then be untrameled at the
Ballot-box by OATHS or threats of ex-
communication of this unhallowed order,
and be free from all its wireworkers.”—
The card sets forth the following:
“We this bight ouit this Know-Noth
ing Order for the following reasons: 1st,
We believe it originated with those who
care not for God or country, so they can
get the power to hold offices of the coun
try. 2nd, Wc believe it uncoustitbtion
VJ/proscribing one class of our citizens
because they differ with us in opinion in
regard to religion.”
The forty who publish the card hit
know-nothingi«n another sledge hammer
blow:
“Wc oppose it upon its organization ;
for freemen, in a free country, to he
meeting in the dark, slipping around their
neighbors, for fear they might see them,
denying their creed, and telling false
hoods to their best friends, to keep from
violating their pledges, is enough, in our
opinion, witiiin itself to put down this or
der. Oh our country, has it come to
this ! that freedom can he maintained
only through these midnight meetings !
-Yes, in this country, where freedom of
speech, of the press, of action nnd of con
science are allowed to their, fullest ex
tent, this political junto says that dark
ness suits it best. What better evidence
do you want of its evil designs than this.
None. Secret republican principles, what
an absurdity /”
After the know-nothings of Centre
Star heard the address, a resolution was
"carried unanimously that the Constitu
tion, and all other papers belonging to the
know-nothing society, be burned, which
done, the society adjourned to meet no
more under the black banner of Know-
Nothingism.”
lic-Aclion Still doing On.
The following address signed by for
ty one voters of Yazoo county—seven of
whom are Whigs—is copied from the
Yazoo Democrat. It will be seen that
having joined the Know Nothing organi
zation and having ascertained it to be
dangerous and anti-Republican in its ob
ject** and tendencies, these gentleman
have unequivocally severed their con
nection with the Order and have warned
their countrymen agaiust its evil effects.
Wc personally know most of the signers
of this declaration. They arc honest,
high -minded intelligent citizens. They
arc witnesses whose testimony cannot be
impeached:
TO THE PUBLIC.
Being convinced from our connection,
with wliat is commonly called the Know
Nothing party, thatwc have been de
luded ns to its aims and purposes, we
therefore publish to the world, and par
ticularly to tho so-called Know Nothing
party, that we are no longer members of
that organization. As to the secrets
and obligations, connected wish the or
det, we shall hold them inviolate, and in
dissolving our connection with it, wc do
so with a conscientious belief that the
operations of the order are dangerous to
the practical workings of this Republi
can Government—dangerous to the lib
erties of the people—and that they
trammel the free exercise of the elective
franchise.
and still they comb!
We hereby dissever cur connection
with.the Know Nothingtnck-
T. NORWOOD.
June 30,1855.
The following gentlemen, _ citizenl cf
Attala, in a long and well written carl
announce their withdrawal through the
columns of Roy’s Southern Sun f
A. M. Atkison, D. L. Smytbe,
H. P. Donald, " J: Riley,
Billups Burt, Robert Sanders,
J. McCullum.
Desoto County.—The People |P/-ew
says that “on Thursday evening last, a
large number of Democrats who bad at
tached themselves to the Know Nothing
Order, assembled, at the Hernando Ho
tel, to deliberate upon tho most effica
cious plan of declaring their indepen
dence from the yoke of political bondage
they had in an unsuspecting moment
fastened upon their Democratic princi
ples. We understand (says the Press)
that their counsel was characterized with
manly resolves, and all united, 6ave
one, in absolving themselves, forever,
from the shrine of intolerance. When
this news reached the main body of the
Democratic Army, a company was de-
From tho Albany Patriot
Methodism and Persecution.
We commend the following sensible
remarks from the New Orleans CArw-
tian Advocate, a prominent organ of the
M. E. Church South, to our Methodist
readers.'" The Editor takes a correct
view of the subject. Even admitting
that persecution “for conscience ’ sake
is a corfegt -principle, policy would for
bid an interference liy Government with
the rights of Catholics because they are
Catholics. Such a course will have a
direct tendency to cement the constitu
ent elements of that Church more close-
lv, and attach them more firmly to their
religious principles. The prospect. of
political martyrdom, instead of drawing
them off from their Church, will only
cause a deeper devotion for it to be telt
by them. Snch a course will and has
already enlisted in their defence, hund-
rededs and thousands of men, who, but
for tho proscriptive policy of Know
Nothingism, would never have rased a
finger in their behalf. It is bringing
them prominently before the public, and
enlisting in their favor men who are re
ally opposed to tbeir Church, bat who
are equally against developing tbeir op
position in any but a legitimate manner.
In short it is the policy better calculated
than any other to strengthen and build
up that Cborch in this country. But
stoicism worthy of |>atriarchal days,
Abolitionism filed out of the Hall, leav
ing its dejected Southern friends, like
‘“Niobe,” all tears. We trust the'sweep-
efof the Hall respected the sacredness
of that grief—and allowed the weepers
to dry their tears before he turned them
intp tiie street.
tachcd to receive them, with the Demo t ,. t .
cratic flag flying—the presentation of we are keeping our readers from the re
arms—and the fife and drum playing-
Ilail Columbia.’
[From list Troy Bulletin.)
To the Pnblic.
We, the undersigned, havingunwisely
joined a certain order or organization
commonly designated “Know-Nothings,”
having, as wo then hoped and believed,
principles upon which any honest South
erner or true American could unite, but,
alas! to our great mortification nnd as
tonishment, what did we find ? Did we
find great national principles ypt un
known ? No. Did we find the Whig
principles as held by Webster, Clay,
and other great Whigs ? No. Did
they have any of the great Demo
cratic principles? ‘Nonot any ofthem—
but principles that would well compare
and suit the dark ages of the world,
when tho Roman Church was at the
zenith of its power—Therefore!
Resolved, That we no longer belong to
the order, and we do heartily sympathise
with our friends who honestly differ from
us in their judgment.
Resofred, That we, in our judgmeut,
be'.ioye it to bo repugnant to the letter and
spirit of the Constitution of these United
States, and in direct violation of the faith
of our Revolutionary sires who framed it,
and detrimental to the prosperity, peace
and liberties of the people of the Govenr-
ment, and dangerous to the prosperity
of the Union.
tricksters and demagogues, who cannot
rise upon their own men's, and thereby
defeating characters of worth.
Resolved, That we will support no
man for any office in the gift of the peo
ple who docs not disavow all connection
with the order; and that every person
belonging to any secret political organ-
marks of the Advocate,
“ Beyond the principle involved, there
are grave considerations of expediency.
A misfortune has befallen the contro
versy, as hot ween Catholics and Protest
ants' Our opponents have suddenly
been put at immense advantage.
“ The sympathies ert a powerful par
ty are unavoidably with them. Public
speakers uud journalists become tbeir
apologists and eulogists. InviduoUs
comparisons arc drawn between Catho
lics and Protestants, in disparagment of
the latter, and those who have luthcito
thought and acted otherwise.
“ A comparatively feeble se.ct has
been elevated into undue importance.—
According to the representation of the.
census, in 1850, the Roman Catholic
Clmrch has 1,112 churches, which can
accomodate only 621,000 hearers! Not
one-rlcenth of the number of churches be
longing to the Methodists, scarcely more
than one-eighth of the number of Bap
tists, not one-fourth the number of Pres
byterians. It has not one-thifty-tkird of
tfsc whole number reported, while Meth
odists have more than one-third, and
the Baptists nearly one-fourth.
“ And this handful a party aspiring to
nationality proposes to resist!
“ If the General of Jesuits himselfhnd
been in council he could not more effectu
ally have devised to weaken the Protes
tant nnd aggrandize the catholic cause.
Should this platform succeed to the
Resolved, That we believe that the government, wc shall be put back where
sole object of this Order is to subserve England was before the act of Catholic
ization is unfit to represent
independent people.
T. K. Mullins,
Jeft. Dabby,
B. F. Dabby,
\Ym. Barron,
Wm. H. Tompkins,
Henby Jordan,
S. Y. Tompkins,
J. C. Cade.
England
emancipation. This is taking steps
backward—back of ourselves.
“ It gives Catholics the tremendous
benefit of persecution. That cry will
rally to any sect hosts of noble spirits,
who otherwise would hold it in religious
ahhorancc.
Many who were hanging loosely by
James Anderson,
Robert Fisher,
John W. Penny,
Kinchen Exam,
T. R. Griflin,
R. H. Griffin,
B. H. Griffin,
J. M. Griffin,
Willis F. Hall,
Wm. T. Mnrtin,
W. M. Williams,
Thos. Smith,
F. B. Roberts,
James Gordon,
F. M. Beall,
Z- Pepper, Jr.
Elios Fisher,
W. Wadlington,
8. F. Garner,
B. A. King,
Wm. Russell.
E. II. Brown,
D. W. McNcal,
J. W. Bell,
George W. Penny,
Mait n Stubblefield,
Wm. Blalock,
J. W. Blalock,
Zed Pepper, Sr.,
A. G. Pepper.
P. C. Chambcly,
N. Wallace,
L. Roberts,
L. T. Price,
W. H. Capshaw,
J. M. Miller,
T. B. Alsop,
K. A. Moore,
J. S. Roberts,
Elijah Russell,
Nixon Russell,
In Choctaw, Mr. H. C. Avant lms set
M noble example. He was induced to
join the Order, and they tendered him
ihe Domination for the* office of Sheriff. —
But discovering the character of the or
ganization* ho' abandoned it and declin
ed to run fiar the lucrative office for which
he was nominated, Hear what he says:
Fro® the Central Journal.
TO THE PEOPLE OF CHOCTAW.
Fellow-citizens ;-^Aftpr due delib
eration, 1 have thought it proper to de
cline the nomination from the American
party for the office of Sheriff of this
county, and in doing so I also hereby
signify my withdrawal altogether,- from
tho organization commonly known as
the Know Nothings. I was grossly de
ceived in this matter. I was told it was
not being organized for political purpos
es—but now I find that its objects are
political, and its movements strictly of a
party character.
Like the gennpri mass of mankind, I
commit errors, but at the same, time,
feel able, and am always willing, to
moke amends for any such. I am not a
candidate before the people of this coun
ty for any office, and wffl *ay to my old
Democratic friends, that I am with them,
henceforth, and will exert my influence
in be half of the Democratic candidates
in this county, at the ensuing election*'*
H. 0, AVANT,
June 30, 1855.
Tlic Crusade Extending—Assault on
the Methodists,
Wc have noticed the movements of
the Know Nothings of New Jersey
against the Methodists, and the public
meetings held in New York to denounce
them. It appears that a Mr. Graves is
out in a volume having the same object
called “The Iron Wheel, or Republican
ism Backward, and Christianity Revers
ed.” A writer in the Cortland Demo
crat quotes some specimen of the vindic
tive work :
“ ‘Methodism cannot he justly called a
church of Christ.’ ‘Methodism a human
invention—is the granddaughter of Rome
—the grandchild of the man of sin, and
son of perdition; the church cannot fel
lowship it.’ ‘The first chapter of the
Dccipline wholly untrue*’ Methodism
without either altar or divinity—its
members are preachers all unconverted.’
Methodism the Popery of Protestantism,
&c. ‘The doctrine of the power of the
keys held by Methodist clergy in com
raon with tlic pope.’ Thirty untruths
taught in the baptism of one infant.’
1 Masonry has equal—yea, far supe
rior claims than Methodism to assume
the title nnd demand the regard and con
sideration of a church of Christ.’ ‘It is
a society set on foot by a man, not pro
fessing the slightest conformity tc« the
work of God.’ ‘What is such a society
but a great rival and antagonistic insti
tution to the church set up by the God
of Heaven ?’ ”
'The Methodist system is death to
all the institutions for which Washing-
to' fonglit and freemen died.’ ‘All the
Methodist preachers in this country were
tones.’ And yet he rays again:—
‘Methodism is only sixty-eight years old.’
The Methodists ‘ate the merest puppets
ever wired or worked by stratagem.—
Oli, my country! how much is to be
feared for thy liberties from these!’—
* The Methodism of the Discipline is a
naked clerical despotism, and in essence,
Popery itself, and the worst form of
Popery—*A Methodist Society is an in
quisition, not a Church.’ ‘1 unhesita
tingly pronounce it Anti-Cubist!’—
The preachers are ‘tyrants,’ ‘circuit
riders,’ 'scandal mongers,’ ‘hypocrits and
deceivers.’ ”
But the writer docs not stop here.—
Other denominations come in for a share
of his proscription. He says: “This
women (Popery) is called the mother of
harlots and abmoninations. Who are
the daughters? The Lutheran, the
Presbyterian and the Episcopalian
Churches, ore all branches of the (Ro
man) Catholic," &c. “Are not these
denominated ‘harlots and abominations'
in the.above passage?. I so decide'
could not, wito the stake before me, de
cide otherwise,’ "Presbyterians and
Episcopalians compose a part of Baby
lon.” “They hold the distinctive prin
ciples of Papacy in common with Pa
pists.” The spirit of religious intoler-
•ance, once loosed, never sates of its vic
tims. Jt is all devouring and inppticasa-
ple.—Albany .\tlaf.
free and j the skirt of Catholicism, and being grad
ually but surely disintegrated from its
communions are fired with new zeal and
compacted by the sense of opposition
“The weapons of this warfare are not
carnal. We acknowledge tlic kind in
tent ions, hut decline the alliance of poli
ticians. It is burdensome. This con-
troversv belongs to us—Protestant Chris
tians, Protestant Churches, Protestant
Journals, and societies, as such. We
want no direct or indirect aid from Gov
eminent in managing it, believing that if
let alone, with truth on our side, wc can
bring if forth to victory.
The proceedings of the Convention
lately assembled in Philadelphia, whose
platform is published in another column,
were watched by us with great interest.
Ecclesiastical matters were early intro
duced. An' attempt was made, princi
pally by Southern men, to trow them
out. But the ‘Catholic test’ was affirm
ed, and finally renfiiriucd. ‘ The Ro
man Catholic Church’ is named distinct
ly. ‘Resistance to it is propounded
among the things rredenda and things
agenda. If wc read correctly, every
Catholic is proscribed. He may he an
American—native, good and potriotic;
lie may stoutly and practically deny the
power of the Pope in civil matters as an
interference from the ecclesiastical. Yet
for his religion’s sake, ho is barred ‘ad
vancement to all political stations—exe
cutive, legislative, judicial or diplomat
ic.’ This is a test to which our reli
gious principles and republican instincts,
the spirit of our institutions and the lib
erty of conscience, as interpreted by the
age, are all opposed. No party holding
it, however excellent the other princi
ples held in combination, may expect to
pass before the conservative people of
the United States, especially of the
South. It cannot budge a ste)i—it can
not stand, with this millstone about its
neck.”
. Facts /or the People.
t Who can read the following facts, and
tbon ^euy that the Northern Know-
Nqtitiogs are Abolitionists—enemies to
tiie South-—the Federal Constitution,
and. the Union.
. IT IS A FACT—That the Whig
and Know-Nothing papers in the South
are unable to designate a Representative
elected to tho Congress or Senate of the
United States, in any one of the free
States by the Know-Nothings, that is
not an Abolitionist or Freesoiler.
IT IS A. F ACT—That every repre
sentative from the free States in the
Congress or Senate in the United States
that the Know-Nothings have elected,
or assisted to elect,, is in favor of the re
peal of tlic Nebraska hill, and the repeal
or modification of the Fugitive slave
law.
IT IS A FACT—That the Know
Nothing Legislature of Massachusetts
have removed J udge Loriug, an able
and npriglit Judge, from Oflice because
he decided that the Fugitive slave Burns
slioultf ho delivered up under the Fugi
tive slave-law—rand, this same Know-
Nothing Legislature elected Henry Wil
son, nu Abolitionist, to the Senate of
the United States—and the said Henry
Wilson voted in the Senate of the United-
States to repeal the Fugitive slave law.
.IT IS A FACT—That the Know
Nothings of Wisconsin elected* Durkcc,
an ultra Abolitionist, to the Senate of
the United States.
IT IS A FACT—That the Know-
Nothing legislature of Michigan passed
resolutions instructing Gen. Cass and
Mr. Stuart, the Senators from Michigan
to veto for-, the repeal of the Fugitive
slave.law—the Nebraska and Kansas
hill. And the same Know-Npthin
.Legislature of Michigan passed a law re
fusing the use of tlic prisons of the State
of Michigan to the oflicers of tlic United
States government to secure Fugitive
slaves.
IT-IS A FACT—That tlic Know
Nothing "Senate of Maine passed resoliv
tion$*dcc1aring the Fugitive slave law
unconstitutional, and demanding its im
mediate repeal—and in favor of abolish
ing slavery in the District ofColumbia—
and declaring that they should never
consent to the admission into tlic Feder-
al Union of any more States with c6nsti-
tutions authorising Slavery.
IT IS A FACT—That every gover
nor elected by the Know-Nothings in the
Free States is an Abolitionist.
IT IS A FACT—That the grand
councils of the Know-Nothings in Mas
sachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New
Hampshire have passed strong Abolition
and anti-slavery resolutions.
IT IS A FACT—That the Know
Nothings of tlic North arc in favor of pro
scribing all white foreigners aud Cath
olics frbrii Oflice, and arc at tho same
time In favor of full civil liberty to all
freeNebbobs.
IT IS A FACT—That tlio negroes
of the North vote with the Know-Noth
ings, and have been repeatedly complim
entedfor their patriotism in thus voting,
by the Know Noticing organs.
. IT IS A FACT—That tlic leaders of
Tho Know Nothings in Kentucky are,
or have been, Emancipationists, wher
ever that question lias been agitated, and
they dare not deuy this statement. •
IT IS A FACT—That the Know
Nothing Legislature of Ncw-Hampskiie
have just elected that notorious Aboliti
onist John V. Ilalc to the United States
Scuatc—and his colleague, Bell, equal
ly as' strong an enemy to the South.
IT IS A FACT—That a committee
of the New Hampshire Legislature, to
whom were referred the resolutions of
the Maine Legislature on the subject of
slavery, has reported in favor of a union
of. tin.' free States to demand the restorn-
tionjf}fiti ,c Missouri Compromise, tin? ale-
olitiqu o( slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, the repeal of the fugitive slave
law, and against the admission of any
move slave States into the Union.
IT IS A FACT—And a damuingone
—that in the face of all these facts, the
Southern Know-Nothings have the ef
frontery to claim that their party is
National, and friendly to the South!
IT IS A FACT—That not one of
the facts above stated can be truthfully
denied by any Know Nothing or Know-
Nothing organ of the South.
The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Tex
as Railroad.
The Board of Directors of the Vicks
burg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad
was in session in this place during the
greater portion of last week, and we
were pleased to meet with L. P. Grant,
of Atlanta, and J. U. Horne, of MiL
ledgeville, Georgia, who were in atten
dance at the meeting. The former gen
tleman has,, by his eminent engineering
ability, contributed as much as any man
of his age in Georgia to place the Rail
road affairs of that State, based
her own domestic resources, ahead of
any State in the Union. For several
years past Mr. Grant has been engaged
in heavy Southern contracts executed
with slave labor and his uniform success
is a guaranty of his resources and judg
ment, ensuring the completion of any
enterprise in which he may be interes
ted. Col. Home is the President of the
Milledgeville and Gordon Railroad, and
to his energy, enterprise and capital,
that road is mainly indebted for its com
pletion and success. These gentlemen
nave carefully travelled over the line of
Railroad from Vicksburg to this point,
and as parties in interest in the contract
heretofore executed by the Company
with Col. Fannin, enter with interest
and zeal on the execution of the work.—
They will, until fall, employ such labor
;;s can be procured in the country, at
which time they will place a large negro
force from Georgia on the work. We
cannot but commend to the public this
to our section, vital enterprise. The
whole proceedings of the Board of Di
rection are marked by energy, enter
prise, and a zealous united effort to
accomplish the purpose. There is no
secrecy or concealment in their proceed
ings ; their books and papers are at all
times subject to the inspection of the
stockholders, and the meeting of tlic
Board open to the public. From an in
timate knowledge of the views and opin
ions governing the Board—by a free in
tercourse with the members and an oc
casional attendance at their meetings;
we can, with confidence, predict the
success of the work, if tho stockholders
and property holders on the line will
but aid them by reasonable subscriptions
to stock and prompt payments.—Ouachi
ta Register.
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■as
Thursday, : s:::: July, 19, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. HERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON,
Of Baldwin.
foiTcongress,
1st Dial.—Jainc* L. 8fwnril,of Thomaa.
34 « Itt.JT. Crawforrf.of .Vluocoaco.
.34 •* Jiwi H. Mtuitb, af V’p*an.
4th “ Hiram Warier, of Meriwether,
5th “ John II. Lnmpkin,of Floyd.
6th “ Howell Cobb, of Clark.
Free Barbecue.
A free Barbecue will be served up at the
School House near Alfred Smiths’s, near
the line of Madison and .lackson counties,
about two miles East of Newtown,, on San
dy Creek, und twelve miles from Athens,
on Friday, the 3d of August next. Gov.
Johnson, Hon. Howell Cobb, and other dis
tinguished speakers are expected to be there.
The citizeus of Jackson and Madison coun
ties, and the public generally are respectfully
invited to attend.
Consistency Isa Jewel.
The glaring inconsistency of the \ n e
American Know-Nothing Jacobin part* ”,
Georgia iis their late Macon platform, j
avowing themselves in favor, of the
sition ot Cuba, seems to attract general
tenfion. Opposition to foreigners and CatL
olic* f& the most prominent feature of ih*
ganization, and yet they declare themscl*
in favor of a measure which will bring jj*
the United States over Five Hundred Tht*
sand foreigners and over Five Hundred Tho*
sand Catholics. The Macon TVlegrank
commenting on this platform, says:-
“The Know Nothing organization isfo Un j
ed on these two dogmas—opposition to f,."
eigners -and opposition to Catholics.
now come before the people with a pj: lI! - J '
which advocates the acquisition of Cubz
The Co bass are all Forkixokers aud iT
Catholics. If Cuba comes into the L'ni
ai all, it must be as Texas came—as a „ f ' v
ereign State possessed of equal powers
the rest. But here we have a party f.tvorii* I
its annexation, who ai the very saute ti- S ™
laboring lo exclude every Catholic fro,;, <t g£
That is to say, Cuba is to be annexed on tn 1
condition that the people of Cuba shall „
knowledge that their religion unfits then,/
the offices of freemen. A most feasible ai !l
statesman-like undertaking it! Thisiioe
tainly a beautiful specimen of consistency '
The Know Nothings must swoar not ta ,n?
port Catholics for any office, and then tU
must support a platform which »pprove»S
acquisition of a Catholic State { VYfcct* j,
the sophist who can reconcile the position,/.
The Sixth District.
“Gov.Cobb writes lo his friends in Urn
part of the world that this District willl ai,. I
Bounty Laud M urrains.
There have been filed in the Pen
sion office, at Washington, about one
hundred and eighty-seven thousand ap
plications for Bounty Land, tinder the
act of 3d March, 1855, und the number
is-increasing at the rate of about five
thousand a week. It is calculated that
over 300,000 applications will he filed
under the law. The Pension office
commenced the issue of warrants ou the
first of June, and have since been en
gaged upon claims filed, from the pas
sage of the law to the 24th of March.—
During that period about 17,000 appli
cations were filed, of which 12,252 have
been allowed, and 8,788 warrants is
sued thereon. It will thus be perceiv
ed that several thousand claims tiled
within a very short period after the
passage of the law remain unacted upon
Claimants who are expecting the receipt
of their warrants will have to remain
pationt. In a few weeks tho Commis
sioner of Pensions wil) he enabled to is
sue at the rate of 5 to 6Q0 per day,
whilst now the amount issued does not
each half that number.
now it Seemed to Northern Men,
We extract the following from the New
Haven Register, one of the soundest aud
truest papers in the whole North. The
Palladium, to which allusion is made,is a
Freesoil Know Nothing organ, published,
in New Haven, (Ct.) It may be seen
from this extract, what impression was
produced on the minds of the Northern
people, by the conduct of the Southern
delegates at the Philadelphia Conven
tion. It is very mortifying:
An Affecting Scene.—Wc learn
from the Palladium that when the South
ern delegates in the Philadelphia Hin
doo Convention, saw that they were to
lose their Northern Free Soil .brethren,
they “besought them to stay, with tears
in their eves,”—but the Abolitionists
“shook off the dust” from theut feet, and
departed. We should liked to'- have
seen that lachrymose parting! That
rending of soul and body which must
have characterized the parting scene
among sqoh dear friends! That of
“Ruth and Naomi,” though remarkable
for its disinterestedness, did not approach
this in sublimity. We think we see
Raynor apd Cone hanging mum then-. Bis
of Wilson and Spep-y, and sobbing it
that agony of grief which knows- no' con-
solation-^-bogging them not to desert,,
and offering to give up everything pos
sible! while the latter, elrect as two col*
umns of granite,- are. impervious to tiie
briny effusions arid 'agonizing protesta
tions of endearment ’ t‘It was too late !*
the “Rubicon was passed}’* nndwifr a
The Columbus Enquirer.
The last issue of the paper contains
the Valedictory of Hon. Joseph W.
Thomas, who has conducted that puper
for about a year past with iairuess, tact
and ability. Having committed him
self to the Columbus Movement in good
faith, he could not he whistled off the
track^hy the self constituted leaders
of th* American party who recently
met in Council at Macon and nominat
ed Garnett Andrews for Governor; hence
his decapitation. We take leave of him
with regret. He was an ornament and
an honor to the profession. He is sue
cceded by that *old political veteran,
Samuel Flournoy, Esq., well known by
the democracy-of Georgia as one of their
sturdiest and most uncompromising opo-
uents. His opening address is in char
acter with his antecedents. He is quite
as bitter against his “old enemy" in his
ncu; .character of Know Nothing as he
was in his familiar impersonation of whig.
We congratulate him, nevertheless, on
his recovered health and welcome him to
the “field of his fame and glory.”—
Times if Sentinel,
- Tbe Prospects.
A Jcfter received from Hog Hountair
daWd'the 12th inst, says: “Democracy
seems to be in a very sonnd condition in
this section of Hall county.. There are
a few of the Dark Lantern Order in this
settlement, but we have not nitich to
fear frojn the opposition, for as yet they
hayo only taken the first degree, and
say they will not take any oath to de-
unyerthem of voting for whom they
please. I think Johnson will-receive a
mtich iaTgervote,- on tlio first Monday ..
in October, ;thab. be. received at fbe last
electidsL .'.Th fact, I feel r.that a Demo-
; -cr&tic ;yiatpjy i» cpytain oja the first Mon*
•day iri-OdoberTiext.’* ••• . •
An Avalanche of Bread.
Yesterday, there were one hundred
cars loaded with wheat at Chattanooga,
ready to move, and the depot crammed
to its utmost capacity. Two trains a
day arrive at Chattanooga, by the Nash
ville Road, and it was estimated yester
day that there were stored in that town
30,000 bushels of w heat exclusive of
that in store by our Road. From Chat
tanooga down to Etowah, the depots are
all full to bursting. Ou the 9th, there
were received at Calhoun 2,000 bushels,
and the hands could not knock off their
loading till 11 o’clock at night. Maj.
Youngt the Agent, of Calhoun, thinks
that from Iris depot. alone, lie will ship
100,000 bushels during the season.—
To-day, Jive full trains will he down,
aud we suppose each car will contain 130
sacks.
The rush of this description of freight
has been unprecedented, caused, as we
learn, by the otters of New Y’ork Millers
to give 81,25 for all wheat delivered at
Depot by the 10th, and at Charleston
anil Savannah by the 15th of this month.
—Atlanta Intelligencer, 13th inst.
Complcctioii of thJ E. T. & G. R. R.
This important enterprise, revived
sqme years since under the most unfa
vorable auspices, is now completed, and
,s of such a character as to reflect great
credit upon those who have been direct
ing its operations, agaiust the numerous
aud almost insurmountable difficulties
that have interposed from to time, to im
pede its progress. Had we time, it would
afford us great pleasure to recur back to
the early history of tills' great work,
when it was contended by many that the
road was not needed) impassible to build
it, &c,., hut time and space will not per
mit us now. Suffice it to say, that the
great work is consummated, and East
Tennessee is rejoiciug in a state of pros
perity she scarcely dreamed ot at the in
ception of the enterprise. Whatever of
petty prejudice may, at any time arise
m the minds of individuals we arc sure
that the public will never refuse to ac
knowledge the debt of gratitude they
owe the officers and men who have thus
prosecuted the enterprise with resistless
aud preserving energy to completion.-
[Dalton Times, 12th inst,
A Know.Noth mo Candidate for Gover
nor.—The “Order” in Georgia have recently
nominated Judge Garnett Andrews as their
candidate for Governor. It seems that this
gentleman decided, as judge, upon one occa
sion, that the oath of a Universaliatwas not
admissablo in a Court of Justice. A writer
in a Georgia paper, in bringing up this re*
ininiscence, remarks that “religious liberty
is the corner stone of the American Govern
ment; take that away, and the whole super
Perjnred Renegades.
A writer in the Chronicle Sentinel, speak
ing of those men who have by specious
words and false representations, been en
trapped into Know Nothing Councils, and
acting like freemen, withdrawn from the un
holy thing, calls them “perjured renegades,'
thereby confesssing what we have heretofore
asserted, that the 1 aders, after once getting
a man in their toils,, attempt by such threats
and epithets as the following to control, and
iorce a continued connection with them:
“Ninety-nine hundredths of the pretended
communications and anonymous letters, an
nouncing hopes for desertions,are tho dishon
est fabrications of the unprincipled editors
who seek to foist them on the public as
genuine and reliablethe remaining hun
dredth are the precious confessions of PER
JURED RENEGADES and foreign spies,
who, cajoled by flattery, or bribed by rewards
or the hope thereof, are induced to sign the
manifests of their own infamy, as written out
for them oy men t\ho “love the treason but
hate the traitor.’ ”
“ Perjured Ronegades,” indeed! When
you are persuading a man to,join your Or
der, and telling him that “it is a no party
movement,” and that it will not interfere with
his principles, do you tell him also, that if
he desires to .withdraw at any time, ho will
bv* branded a “PERJURED RENEGADE!”
As to the wholesale assertion that these
withdrawals are the “ dishonest fabrications
of unprincipled editors,” it is simply brazen
Impertinence. The names of those tvith-
drawing-are given, and their places of resi
dence. If they are fictitious names, why do
not the citizens of these places come out
and say no such persons are there ! And if
they arc the names of persons who never
belonged to the Lodge, why do not the mem
bers of the Lodge from which they profess
to withdraw, state the tact ? It is a fact
which cannot be denied, Know Nothingism is
getting in bad odoi all over the country, anu
men are leaving it like rats desert a sinking
ship, and members who attempt to conceal it,
make the matter worse.
If a good act 'benefits no one else, it
benefits tlio dner,
structure falls. The Know Nothing party m
Georgia proscribes Catho|ies; its candidate
for Governor prostrates Universaliahs. A
Know Nothing pamphlet has recently been
put out in New Jersey, recomendjng the pro?'
scriptjoq of Metbodtstj. \Yhose turn !o
next) *
Montgomery Advertiser.
Horribly Wounded.—A man by the name
of Alexander, waq hoijibly wounded at Bue
na -Vista, Marion equi ty, Georgia, by Lang
ston Bacon, on Tuesday, of last week, tlio
wounded man is likely to recover. The per
petra!or of the ontr ipe fled.
Know Kothingism and the Crowned
Heads of Europe.
The following extract from the Paris cor
respondent of the New York Herald con
tains some truths which it would be well for
the friends of political end religious liberty,
both in the New and Old World, to ponder
That it is the objectof the crowned heads of
Europe to give “aid and comfort” lo the
Know Nothings of the United States, and
to “localize freedom in America, instead of
being held out to all who are willing to wor
ship at its shrinp,” is a fact that cannot he
doubted. It will bo remembered that some
time ago the London Times, which has ever
been the advocate of British aristocracy and
absoluteism in Europe, came out in an elabo
rately written article in defence of the Order
in this country. We commend the follow
ing paragraph to the attention of our Know
Nothing friends :
“The late Know No hing defeats in the
United States have had a good effect on pub
lic opinion in Europe. They preserve the
belief in tlie hospitality and generosity of
the American people, and will go far to pfe-
vent a serious falling off in the emigration to
the land of promise. No one for a moment
believes that the administration of Gen.
Pierce has anything to do with tl-rse achieve
ments, for it is hot known here or elsewhere
that the administration has not contributed
to the establishment of the order of Know
Nothings; but the fact itself that a secret
order is doomed to u pnhiic defeat, conveys
a moral full of practical application at all
times, and in all countries. .The absolute
Powers of Europe desirod nothing more
than the triumph Know Nothingism in the
United States. They would have liked to
see freedom localized in America, instead of
its being held out to all. who are willing to
worship at its shrine. It is the generality
of the aoctrine and its application which has
iven them so much trouble, and which still
iaturbs their rest.”
i"*;• *"»* "•”* District willl tri« x
Johnson this year a larger majority, by SOI
votes, than it did in 1853. His majoriir
then was 2191, (nearly half of which »j,
from the single county of Franklin;) and if
the Ex-Governor’s calculations are right, hj
majority against Andrews will be 2691
Our ihfortnalion from the Sixth, particuk t |.
from Athens and from the northern porJcj
of the District does not lead us to anticipate
any such result. On the contrary, ml*
lieve that his ex-Excellency is as wide i
the mark as he was in the estimate of
own strength, before the Democratic Cun
ofthe last Legislature. The “beggarly*.
count, of empty boxes,” to which he la
generally spoken thus far in his peroghn.
tions through the Sixth District, does ex
auger a brilliant success either for him
for his candidate for Governor.”—iTm
Messenger.
Your Athens informant, Brother Mmm-
gcr, has taken advantage of yoilr unsophiri
cated credulity. “The beggarly aceom
of empty boxes,” is an invention only ««-
thy the brain of some of the Know Nothin ;
of llicSixth District. Gov.Cobb li'.s h .dln.i
audiences and his speeches enttmsi ishoiSi
received, wherever he has spoken. S-itre
the places we hate been personally prerti:
at, and from the remainder have infor .ndr
from men whom we have never knowi *
part from the truth, and have never dean
their connection with a party to which lb
are bound by a secret, solemn (tilth. Cs
your Athens informant
“ Look you iu the face and say the same
Georgia Enterprise*
It will be seen from an extract in anal*
column, taken from the Ouaciiiu /fr/fiifara
paper published in upper Imuisiamt, t• j
enterprising citizens of this State have ex
tracted to build the “ Vicksburg/Shrevopr
and Texas Rail Road.” Ia addition h
Messrs. Horne and L. P. Grant, who h»«
long been known as energetic and praetic*
Rail Road men in Georgia, we’ underitui
the company is composed of Mr. J. T. Grant
of Walton, Messra. riyrick and Mitchell, o
Milledgeville, and other gentlemen of sand
ing and property in this State, fully tap:
lent to complete successfully the great wo'
they have undertaker.. Mr. John T. Gut.
is generally as well known as Messrs. Horn,
and L. P. urant as an able and faithfu. cot
tractor, full of energy and resources, of»
bounded credit, and long experience in th
department of business. Indeed, we undo
stand the entire company is composed ofor
most practical and thor0ugh-g«tng busine*
men. Such men have contributed largely W
acquire for Georgia the title of“Bnpi»
State of the South.” Wo are glad ton.,
hem extending their influence and
prize beyond her limits. \ few such ms
scattered throughoui the South would «o
make the whole of it an “empire” indeed.
Walton County-
The Democrats of Walton county have put
up a strong ticket for the Legislature. For
Senate, Col. John T. Grant, for House of
Representatives, Blake J. Cooper and J. H.
Kilgore. Col. Grant, the candidate for the
Senate, is a man of unyielding integrity, and
the very embodiment of hospitality, generos
ity and all the attributes which compose the
gentleman and the patriot. Messrs. Cooper
and Kilgore are men of whom the Democra
cy of Walton may well be proud, and we have
po doubt buttljat they will triumph over the
prescriptive Older by an overwhelming ma
jority. If every county in the District will
run qp such a ticket, success will bs certain-
J@*Wo have seen the proceedings of a
Know Nothing Council in North Cafolinia,
which commenced as follows:
“ A meeting of this order took place on
Tuesday nmht last,git the ajgn of the Clo
ven Foot. There was, a full attendance. As
soon as the clock struck one, ffie president
blew out the candle, and business coin-
njopced*”
Testimeny of Mr. Stephens.
lion. Alexander H. Stephens, in ate
munication to the Chronicle «J' Sentine 1 , ff'
reefing a typographical error which occa#
in the Chronicle's edition of his speed J j
Sparta, says:
I will take this occasion, also, to con
some erroneous and conflicting states
which i have seen in the newspapers, -
the subject of the exact vote ou the hs***
aiid Nebraska bill. Ttlo ayes and noei
as follows, in the House, ou tho final p.tfS-T
of the Bill:
Yeas—Abercrombie,"of Ala.; James CJ
Un, 111.; IVillis Mien, 111.; Ash, N. C.; D»^
J. Bailey, Ga.;T. H. Bailey, Va., lLrUi|>
Mi.; Barry, Mi.; Bell Texas; Brock, '
Boyce, S. C.; Breckenridge, Ky.; Bill
Pa.; Brooks, S. C.; Caskic, Va.; Cbir"
Ga.; Clinsman, Ky.; Churchwcll, T
Clark, Mich.; Clingman, N. C.; Cobb, J
Colquit, Ga.; Cox, Ky.; craige, N. C.; (
ming, N, Y.; Culling, N. Y.; J. G.
Ind.; Dawson, Pa.; Disney, O.; Dowdel,
Dunbar, La.; Dunham, La.{.Eddy, h>'‘ , »,
inunson, Va.; Elliott, Ky.; English *
Faulkner, Va.; Florence, Pa.; Good*, ''
Green, O.; Greenwood, Ark.; Grayi
Hamilton, Md.; Harris, AlaHendrick, 1 *
Henn, Iowa.; Hibbard, N, H-; Hitt. *f
Hillycr, Ga.; Houston, Ala.; JngcrWy.
Jones Tenn.: Junes, )Pa.; Jones, La-il
N. C.( Kid well, Va.; Kurtz, Pa.; Lamti **
Lane, Ind., Latham, Cal.; Letcber, '
Lilly, N. J.; Lir.dley, Mo.; MeDonaii,*
McDougald, C»l.; McNair, Pa., Maxwell. ^
May, Md.; Miller, Mo.; Miller, Ind,: ,
O. ; Oliver, Mo.; O/r, S. C.; Parka. ,
Perkins, La., Phelps, Mo.; Phillip*,
Powell, Va.; Preetcn, Ky.; Ready, 1
Reese, Ga.; Hickardwn. III.; Riddta
Robbins, Pa.; ifqtpe, N. Y.j Ruffin,
Shannon, O.; Shaw, N. C.; So°* e /
Singleton, Mi.; Smith, Tenn.; Suuu>._
Snodgrass, Va.; Stanton, Team; “' —
Ky.; Smith, Va.; Smyth, Texas
(5a.; Straub, t*a.; Stuart, Mich.; i? h
Y.; Tiered, N. Y.; Fail, £. Jj
Md.; Walbridge, N. Y.; Better. ‘
IVaUh, N. Y.; warren, Ark.;
Y.; Witte, Pa.; Wright, Ml;
ZollicofferjTonn,—U3. *
Adu.^all, Ghio,tBqr^»,
Ct.; Bennett,. N. Y.j Benton,
Tenn.; Can. .bell, Ohio.} parnenter. ‘ ^
Chandler, Pa.; Crocker,,
Tenn.; Curtis, Pa4j&Hsl»,&tj2***j( J
Dewitt, Miss., Dick,
Drum, Pa.; Eastman, Wis-J-EdgerW*
Edmonds, Mass.; EUjott, Mass., .
Ohio.; Etheridge, Tenn.; ■
Farley, Me.', Fenton, N. Y-tF^TOa* li
At,Me.;Gamble. Pa.;Giddmg». jf,
rich, Mass.; Grow, Pj<( Harlan,
Ind.; Harrison,Ohio.; Hastings,N.
N. Y.; Hiester, Pa.; •« , we,'I a *> ,,
Y.; HuNT.Ift.; Johns-<h Ohio.', ***'