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J. H. CHRISTY, EDITOR.
From the New York Herald-
THE KNOW NOTHING REVOLU
TION-RAPID PROGRESS-*
COMING INTO GOOD SHAPE
AND CONSISTENCY.
The Teports which we publish else
where. of the New York, Vermont and
Connecticut State Councils of-tne Know
Nothings ire exceedingly interesting
and Important, showing as they do, the
rapid multiplication of the active force
of the New American party. Prom
these returns it is manifest that, with the
exercise of the saving qualities of skill
and discretion, this new party, from this
time to close of the great campaign of
1856—at least in the Northern and
Eastern States—may sweep the field.
The Virginia State election uf May next
will determine their strength in the
South. Should they carry Virginia, as
they expect to do hya handsome majori
ty, we may set down a great salutary
national political reformation as a fore
gone conclusion.
The progress of the Know Nothings
in this State, notwithstanding the draw
backs of Sewardism and his spurious
affiliations with this new party, te most
Extraordinary and remarkable. In Oc
tober last the total number of enrolled
members in good standing was sixty six
thousand. In November, with the aid
of the democratic hard slie!ls,they polled
for Ullnmn for Governor, one hundred
and twenty five thousand votes. Now,
according to our returns from the Sy
racuse State Council,the^rested” mem
bers of the nine hundred and teH conncils
represented, amount to one hundred
and forty thousand 1 At anything like
this ratio of incenre they will be able
to command in Ibis State, by Novem
ber next, an overwhelming majority
over all the outside i arties and factions,
whig and democratic, free soil and agra
rian, combined.
It also appears that the proceedings
of this Syracuse Council were harmo
nious and a unit,even in the recommen
dation to the obnoxinous Mr. Eamcs to
take the fir t train back to Albany.
Bating the demonstrations against him
of personal violence, his expulsion was
well deserved, and proves most deci
sively that neither Seward nor his anti-
slavery programme, nor bis supporters,
meet with the slightest sympathy or re
cognition from the regularly organized
Know Nothing party of New York—
We are informed, too, that it is a fixed
purpose of this party to maintain their
stand upon the boad conservative com
promises of the constitution, in active
opposition to all sectional disunion agi-
taitors, or organizations, North or South.
This is the right platform. It is found
ed upon n rock, stronger, under the
protection of the American people, than
<ke xlafeKoes of Sebastopol or the rock
Gibraltar itself.
The work of putgttgttihwew T***?
of the least and last, remains of 'Seward
ism, is a good work, indcspensable to
the unity aud consistency of the other.
It may now lie considered as substantial
ly completed. Treachery has done its
worst, the faithless have been disregard
ed ; and the New York Know Nothings,
therefore, purified of all their late trou
blesome Seward disorganizations, may
bold up their hands to the South, and
cbaltsengc their cordial co-operation in
the important business of cleansing the
Augeaa stables at Washington, from
stem to stem.
The field of reform is inviting and at
tractive. The great body of the Ameri
can people are for a thorough-going re-
volution in the organization and con
trolling agencies of our political parties,
aud in the foreign and domestic policy
of the government. The wretched im
becility exhibited by this unfortunate
Pierce administration in the manage
roent of our foreign affairs-, suggests the
work demanded in this department;
and the overshadowing corruptions
which have crept into the public land
policy at Washington imperiously call
for the purging knife. Nothing is more
urgently required by Congress than a
sin\ple, consistent and honest adminis.
traiion of the public lands ; but nothing
of the sort can be exacted while the
4*wdittg sad log-rolling spoils politicians
wf «u old estreat parties remain in
power. Then there is the judicious mo
dification of onr tariff laws, the strength
ening of the Navy, and ihe reconstruc
tion of the Array “with all the modern
improvements,” with regard lo which
the old party fogies of the executive
bureaus and of Cong ics3 have shown
tbemsel.es ulierlj iucempaent for any.
thing new or practical. But ihe tariff,
the army and tlie navy require only the
more efficient working machinery or a
popular modern American party, thorou
gfaly imbued with the progressive ideas
of the »g<*.
These things we understand, will be
among the practical measures of the
Know Nothing platform for 1856. They
will also adhere to their policy of hosti
lity to “ Fopcrity,” as they call it, not
as a religious, but as a political element
in our elections. The Know Nothings
propose to star.d by the constitution upon
the question of religions liberty, as up
on the other things ; but they will a : m,
at the same time, to destroy all schemes
for the monopoly of any church proper
ty in the bauds of the hierarchy, to the
prejudice of the sovereign authority of
rhe congregations. In this connection,
also, the Know Nothings have taken
the field against all such Church and
State affiliations as those between Arch
bishop Hughes and W. II, Seward’s
party instruments at Carroll Hall. The
Know Nothings, in a word declare that
^Catholics, such, shall cease to be ur
‘ ad by nrtful demagogues as a balance of
— : -political elections, and that
of the Papal ecclesiastics
ily of the property of their
f tit be arresttd-that no such
tr shall be secured to the
Pop# through hi? bishops here, over the
Catholic laity ns citizens of the United
States.
We see nothing very dreadful in all
this.’•» On-the Contrary, Ihe Into proceed
ings H&f the Catholic Tally at Hartford
and Buffalo) against tile assumptions of
their bishops, prove th*,t the body of our
Catholic citizens are 'bpposed to such as
sumptions, and are ks tenaetdtis of their
rights under OOr jgbVernmetft'hs of their
religion itaVff. ^ with regard to the
naturalization laws. The Know Noth
ings contemplate their modification; but
in no Way calculated to prejudice the ex
isting rights of our adopted citizens, nor
the claims and aspirations of good and
substantial emigrants to a timely citi
zenship. But in this relation, it is a
part of this new Americas movement
as we comprehend it, tJutt all military
and political combinations of citizens in
their old cast off nationalities, as Irish
men and Germans, for example, shall
be done away wftirt and tkttt all natura
lized foreigners in all public organiza
tions aad demonstrations, shall blend
themselves with the masses of the Ameri
seople. In becoming Americans, they
must cease to be -Irish or Germans—
that’s all.
This will explain what otherwise ap
peal* as a singleness of hostility against
theJ2atho1ics and the Irish. It is situ-
ply-because the Irish are Catholics, aud
have, to some extent, allowed themsel
res to be managed as such by reckless
demagogues, as a balance of political
power, distinct from the homogeneous
mass of the American people, that they
feel most heavily the pressure of this
Know Nothing reaction. It is because
this balance of power has fallen too much
tinder the control of the whiskey and
rowdy influence of our old currupt poli
tical parties, that the Know Nothings
have risan to abolish the evil, and the
rum and ruffianism of the whigs and
democrats in the same blow.
IIayiug thus defined the policy and
principles of this great Know Nothin
movement, and presuming them to rest
upon the solid basis of the constitution
and the Unioni we think there is little
evil to fear,but much good to be antici
pated from their success henceforward
to and through November, 1856. It is
evident that the Sympatlnes ofthe Ameri
can masses are with this new party ;
and its overwhelming popularity can
only be attributed to the great principles
of a wholesome and Comprehensive poli
tical reformation. With proper skill
and discretion this movement, then, can
not come to its culmination short of the
Presidental campaign of ’56.
'flttiteru ‘Mi'tjiiuni
U.TT, ORDER, 1XD Vjl* 'COSYTITCTIOS.
ATHENS, GA»
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15. 1855
93* Mr. William Dorter, of AUaata, l* '
thonied Agent ia Cherokee Georgia.
93-lltfgpapeTU filed, xnd maytt all time* he seen
the (Heading Boom of Prof. Holloway, 944 Strand;
London
E5P* We are compelled to leave out
our usaai head of F-nretyn News, as
our mails are perfectly silent on that
suhject fn its absence, however, we
wonld simply observe, that so far as re
gards the Eastern War, several small
items, in other columns, will give the
reader an idea of the State of affairs in
this particular. We presume the pres
ent grounds will be abandoned, and the
contest shift to some point a little fur
ther from the headquarters of the Czar.
Lit* We acknowledge the receipt of
the Inaugural Address of Charles F.
McCay, Prof, of Mathematics and Me
chanical Philosophy, in the South "Car
olina College, delivered in the State
House. Dec. 11, 1854.
We are aware that no greater favor
could be conferred upon a very large
number of our readers, than to trans
fer, at least a portion of this address to
our columns; but the late hour at which
it was received, denies that gratification.
His subject : “ The pre-eminent claims
of Physical Science in a liberal educa
tion,” is considered in a manner, entire
ly in keeping with this gentleman’s high
reputation.
I5P We harve also received the Re
port of the Finance Committee on the
State of the Treasury, Public Debt,
Central Bank, W. & A. Railroad, Pen
itentiary, &c. &c., of our own State,
which we may take Occasion to notice
more fully in -our next.
THE CONTEST IN VIRGINIA.
Hemet A. Wise, the renegade Whig
who reviled Gen. Jackson and outraged
decency in his abuse of Democracy in
general, is now the candidate for Go
vernor, (as, doubtless, most of onr rea
ders are aware) o? the once powerful
but now fragmentary Democratic party
of Virginia. IFe look upon his defeat
as certain- We have several reasons
for believing this—the principal one,
however, is the fact that his friends,
seeing that the Know Nothings are “ af
ter him with a sharp stick.” and will
inevitably defeat him unless something
desperate he done, have resorted to a
perfect system of the most stupendous
LYING ever witnessed in this or any
other country. So tar have they carri
ed this thing, that they anblushingly
charge that the Know Nothing -organi
zation is intended to interfere with the
liberty of conscience, and to proscribe
certain religious sects; that after the
Cathojics have been “ put down,” the
Methodists are t6 be “ done for.” Nor
do they stop here. They have issued
from the press and are circulating thou
sands of copies of a pretended revelation
of the secrete of the Know Nothings,
which is doubtless the creation of the
distempered imagination of some pen
sioned, scoundrel who has been paid to
—T—
—■ ■r *-• vn-fci
WHAT ARE THEIR PR1NCIPLES ?
This question is daily propouned by
persons who affect to believe that the
“ American party” dare not lay before
the people the platform of their organi
zation. Here are their principles—we
throw the banner to the breeze, that
these principles may be “ known and
read of all men.” They possess a vitali
ty which all the party platforms in- our
day have wofully lacked. The great
American heart beats responsive to this
short hut comprehensive creed, which
appeals to the patriotism of every true
native of our genial soil.
It has been said with truth that the
old party issues are “ dead cocks in the
pit”—-if we do not greatly err, the old
parties themselves are “ dead cocks”
too. Denationalized, sectionalized and
abolitionized, they still maintain, it is
true, at least the appearance of a frag
mentary' existence. But their days are
numbered—the sceptre has departed.
The American party—which is em
phatically the party of the People—pre
sents issues of the deepest moment—
necessarily growing out of the present
condition of the country—and which
must settle, for weal or wo, its future
destiny.
Let the people of Georgia read the
following declaration of American prin
ciples, and regardless of the dictation of
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.
The following appointments Were
made by the President and Senate, near
the close of the session, for the four new
regiments:
FOR THE TWO CAVALRY REGIMENTS.
Colonel*.
Brevet Col. E, V. Sumner, Lieuten
ant Colonel first dragoons.
fiHjor An>U • A SyIim mi
pay department. *
Lieutenant 'Colonel.
Brevet Colonel R. E. Lee, Captain of
Engineers.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. E.
Johnsfon, Captain Topographical Engi
neers. •!•
' r - Majors.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel W. J.
Hardee. Captain second dragoons.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Braxton
Bragg Captain third artillery.
Brevet Major W. H. Emory, Captain
to pographicn! engineers.
Benjamin McCulloough, Texas
FOR THE TWO INFANTRY REGIMENTS
Colonels.
Brevet Colonel George Wright
Lieutenant ’Colonel fourth infantry.
Brevet Lieutenant Ootooel Edward
B. Alexander, Major eight iflfentry.
Lieutenant Colonels.
Brevet Colonels Charles F. Smith
Major first artillery.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Silas
Caaey, Captain second infantry.
Majors.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel W, H, T.
Walker, Captain sixth infantry.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Edward
J. Steptoe, Captain third artillery.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel E. R. S.
Canby, Captain adjutant general's-de
partment.
Captain II. W, Beniiam, engineers.
Civil Appointments.
Among the many important civil ap
pointraent made at the same time we
iavc'to add: _•
Israel D. Andrews, of Maine, Con
sul General for the British North Ameri
can provinces, (an office recently creat
ed )
John Roraeyn Brodhcad, of New
York-. Consular Agent (or Commis
sioner) for Japan-, to reside at Samodi.
Court of Claims
Judge Gilchrist, of New Hampshire
Judge Isaac Blackford, of Indiana; and
Joseph II. Lumpkin, of Georgia. Mont
gomery Blair, of Washington, Solicitor.
To tiie Mountains.- -A proposition,
is on foot at Atlanta, to establish a line
of stages from that city, via Warsaw
and Cumming, to Dahlonega. It will
be over a fine ridje road, and will
no doubt be a great convenience to the
thousaiMl8 who visit the mountains du
ring the summer and fall.
for tbem-
American
WELL DONE, MADISON.
We paid a flying visit to our neigbor-
ing county of Madison" last week, and
during our brief sojourn of a few hours
had the pleasure of adding forty-five
names to our rapidly increasing list.-
This, considering the shortness of the
time and the comparatively small num
ber of persons in attendance, was doing
aswcnur treTTCT than j virc , ny (
where yet. We expect a very large in
crease of out lis*, not only in the coun
ties yet to visit, bat in all where we
have been. We shall endeavoi to be
with our frieuds in the remaining coun
ties of this circuit, as well as contigHous
counties in other circuits, at their re
spective Courts, and hope they will aid
us in giving a good account of our suc
cess. -
The New York Journal of Com
merce says;—
“ We’earn that one or both of the
boxes of gold shipped by Messrs. Page,
Bacon, &, Co., from San Francisco,and
for which two boxes of iron scraps were
substituted, as noticed in our paper a
few weeks since, have been discovered
in the coal hole of the steamer, where
the robbers had doubtless deposited
them for safe-keeping”
FIRE! FIRE 1
We understand that great damage
was sustained by numbers of citizens
in various parts of the country on Fri
day last, by fires in the old fields and
adjaoent woodlands. An imense amount
of fencing was destroyed, and the grow
ing timber seriously injured. We are
surprised that fire should be so careless
ly used en plantations as almost every
one is m the dai : y habit of doing. The
wonder is, that so little damage has
grown out of it.
The dwelling-house on the plantation
of Henry Hull, Jr. Esq. was consumed
by fire last week, we learn, together
with all the furniture, &c. of Mr. Sykes
the overseer.
Wc understand that in Madison and
Jackson counties the destruction of pro
perty was much greater than here—fod
der stacks,coi u-crops,and out buildings,
and in some in-dances dwelling-house?
having been utterly consumed by the
devouring element.
Will the Federal Union have the
kindness to publish, for the information
of its readers and the public, Mr. Ste
phens’ “severe castigation, of the Know-
Nothings,” of which it and kindred
prints make such frequent mention. We
have read the speech referred to, but for
the life of us could not find that “severe
castigation.” Perhaps the Union’s copy
of Mr. S’s speech may differ from ours.
One thing is certain, however—there
was no sort of “castigation” of the
Know Nothings, either severe or other
wise, in the speech we read. If, there
fore. the editor should chance to “meet
up” with the “severe castigation” afore
said, we trust he will publish it, fer the
benefit of those who have not Seen it:
invent the MONSTER LIE of the 19t|| |?arty hacks—whether Whigs or Demo-
century. But unfortunately for the pur
poses of these blinded and besotted party
hacks, he has neglected the sage advice
to liars of Butler or some one else, who
says
“Lest the world believe your tale untrue,
Always keep probability in view.”
This he has utterly failed to~do—and
not only so, but the thing ts not even
plausible; nay more, it is grossly in
consistent in its several parts. Notwith-:
standing all which, we are informed,
that a certain Georgia editor has inti
mated his intention to publish this thing
in his paper, and not only so, but to print
many hundreds of- them for general
distribution. We trust that we have
been misinformed. Owing to the re
spect we entertain for him personally,
we hope that he has no such intention.
Of course he knows as well as we do,
that the whole story is •* a weak inven
tion of the enemy,” and doubtless will
sooner or later, regret having prostituted
his columns by the publication of such
a calumny. Of course ®o unprejudiced
wmid Will for a raometft give the slight
est credence to the pretended revelation.
Those, who have condemned the •* Amer
ican paTty” without a hearing, may
persuade themselves that it is true.—
But they are like those persons of whom
we read in the Bible, who are sufferrd
to “believe a lie that they may be
damned.” And most "assuredly will they
be damned politically,
We repeat, that this stupendous fraud
attempted to be practised upon the peo
ple of Virginia by the friends of this
renegade Whig, presents to our mind
the strVmgest evidence of his approach
ing defeat—which will be overwhelm
in«r.
public speaker at a Seward
meeting in New York lately gave the
following account of the origin of the
Know Nothing or “ Hindoo” party, as
these New York “ Woolly-heads” term
the new organization. Is it not strange
that the Federal Union and other kin
dred prints here in Georgia—the pro
fessed guardians of the rights and in
terestsofthe South—should be found
co-oppfating with the “ Woolly.Heads'
of New York, the National Era and
other Abolition prints, in their desper
ate efforts to put down the only national
party which is likely to do anything
towards the preservation of our rights in
the Union ? Strange as this thing may
appear, it is nevertheless true. But
hear what their Sewardite coadjutor
says: “ This Hindoo party, is doing
more to prostrate civil and religious
liberty]&Bn. any that has gone before
them. It originated in hatred to Wm.
H.Seward. Why did they hate him?
Because, when he was Governor of this
State, Slavery existed here as much as
before its abolition, under the nine
months law. Men in New York had
mortages on slaves, and hired them out
in this State, taking them away to sleep
oveT night, whenever the nine months
expired,and then bringing them back.—
Under Gov. Seward’s administration
that nine months law was repealed.—
The question came up under a requisi
tion from Virginia, for the return of per
sons charged with the offence of teach
ing men to read their Bible. Gov Se-
wafd refused to surrender them. Vir
ginia retaliated by passing laws pressin
upon our commerce.”
The Shield, published at Helena, Ar
kansus, of Feb. 10, complains that no
rain ‘of, consequence has fallen since
September, and no snow. It pronoun
ces the past autumn and present winter
“ most extraordinary seasons,”
It is stated that the Rev. L. L. Ham-
liue, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, has donated S25,000 towards
the establishment of a university at Red
Wing, Minnesota, to be called the
“Hamliue University.’’
caats—let them determine
selves if they be not true
doctrines-:
OUR PRINCIPLES.
First, We shall advocate a repeal of
the laws of naturalization, or lfthatcan-
not be accomplished, then such a modi
fication of these laws as will prevent fu
ture emigrants from becoming citizens,
short of a residence of twenty-one years,
after taking the oath of allegiance to
the United States, and of abjuration of
all other powers, potentates, and prin
ces.
Second. We -shall advocate the pas
sage of a stringent law by Congress to
prevent immigration hitherof foreigners
who are either paupers or criminals, and
to send back to the countries from which
they come all such foreigners of these
classes as may, m violation of such law
hereafter reach our ports 4 , aud to require
the President of the United States to
demand from any government, which
may send hither such classes of its sub
jects, immediate and ample satisfaction
forsoch outrage, and proper indemnity
against the repetition thereof.
Third. We shall oppose the election
or appointment of any foreign-born citi
zens to any office of trust, honor or emo
lument, under the Federal or State
governments, or the employment or en
listment of such perst ns in the army or
navy in time of war ; maintaining, as
we do the opinion, that the native born
«4tt«ns 6f the United States have the
right to govern the land of their birthl
and that immigrants from abroad be con
tent with the enjoyment of life, liberty
and property under our institutions,
without seeking to participate in the
enaction,admimstration,or execution of
our laws.
Fourth. We shall advocate and urge
the adoption of such an amended form
of an oath to support the Constitution
of the United States, and to be adminis
tered to all person elected or appointed
to any office of trust, honor, or emolu
ment, under the Federal or State gov
ernments, as will effectually exclude from
such offices all persons who shall not
directly and explicitly recognize the ob
ligations and binding force of the Con
stitution of the United States, as para
mount to all obligations of adhesion or
allegiance to any foreign prince, power,
potentate, or authority.whatever, under
any and all circumstances.
Fifth. We shall maintain the doctrine
that no one of the States of this Union
has the right to r.dmit to the enjoyment
of free suffrage any person of foreign
birth> who has not been first made a
Citizens of the United States, according
to the ‘‘uniform rule” of naturalization
prescribed by Congress,under the provi-
sionsof the constitution.
Si&th. We shall oppose now and here
after any “union of Church and State,”
no matter what class of religionists shall
seek to bring about such union.
Seventh. We shall vigorously main
tain the vested rights of all persons, of
native or foreign birth, and shall at all
times oppose the' slightest interference
with such vested rights.
Eighth. We shall oppose ai.d protest
against all abridgement of religious li
berty, holding it as a cardinal maxim,
that religious faith is a question between
each individual and his God and over
which no political government, or other
human power, can rightfully exercise
any supervision or control, at any time,
in any place, or in any form.
Ninth. We shall oppose all “higher
law” doctrines, by which the constitu
tion is to be set at nought, violated, or
disregarded, whether by politicians, by
religionists, or by the adherents or fol
lowers of either, or hy any other class of
persons
Tenth. We shall maintain and defend
the constitution as it stands, the Union
as it exists, and the rights of the States,
without diminution, as guaranteed there
by ; opposing at all times, and to the ex
tent of our ability and influence, all
who may assail them, or either of them
Eleventh. We shall oppose no man,and
sustain no man on the ground of the op
position to, or his support of, Democra
tic measures or Whig measures, but we
shall oppose those who oppose our doc
trines, and sustain those who sustain our
doctrine?.
Twelfth. And lastly, we shall use
our utmost exertions to build up an
“American party,” whore maxim shall
K
Americans shall rule their country
THEY ARE EVERYWHERE.
■ Wherever we go, we find numbers
of citizens who have nothing but the
good oftheir native land at heart—men
who are not, and never expect to be
come office-seekers—who warmly ahd
zealously advocate the principles of the
“American.party,” on the ground that
nothing else can save our happy country
from the grave which foreign Jesuits
and native demagogues have dug for
men who no longer recognize the
claims of dismembered parties divided
upon effete issues, and who are deter
mined to free our happy land from the
pollution of foreign influence. These
men are to be found everywhere, and
their name is-Legion." Having conversed
freely on this subject with the people of
several adjoining coantics, we can safe
ly say, that so far from being “ Whigge-
ry in disguise,” as has been charged by
some of the organs of deceased Demo
cracy, we have found as many or more
gentlemen who once acted with that
party and now speak favorably of the
"new organization, as can be found of
the old Whig party. The new move
ment is made up of the massess of all
parties—while many of the “ old bell
wethers” of the defunct organizations
either denounce it openly or quietly seat
themselre on “the fence” waiting for
“ a moving of the waters.” The Ameri
can party can get along very well with
out them—“ bless ’em, let ’em go l"
Mr. J. H. CnnisTY : Dear Sir—I
regret to perceive that you have lately
been giving “ aid and comfort” to the
so-called “ American party.” I think
subscribers by our course, we have this
to say. We have never yet swerved
one inch from what we believed to be
the path of duty—we shall not do so
now, We may lose every subscriber
we have. If so, we will sell out and
turn our attention to the production of
cabbage and potatoes. The “ Signs of
the times” for the lost few weeks—dur
ing which time we have added from fif
ty to one hundred names per week to
our list; and bad but two discontinuan
ces ordered—do not seem to indicate
the result anticipated by our ftspccted
frieHd.
you had better “ watch and wait” awhile
before committing yourself to their doc
trines. The course of the editors of
the Recorder and of the Chronicle &
Sentinel has been far more prudent than
yours. They have wisely seated them
selves upon the fence, the only safe post
tion for editors or other politicians when
parties are in a transition state. By
pursuing a course of “ masterly inac
tivity” at present, they can better deter
mine, when they see “how things work,'
which side to light on. This is the
.course suggested by prudence; and as
you know me to be a whig “ of the ori
ginal panel” and a friend of yours, I
hope you will not suffer vour ideas of
independence to cause a rejection of my
advice.
Your friend, *#*##*
P. S. if you continue your present
course, a loss of many subscribers will
inevitably be the consequence.
We trust that our much respected
i’iend will pardon the liberty we take
in publishing the above. We do so, be
cause we have thought it likely that he
gives expression to an “pinion entertain
ed by others of our friends, and in ans
wering him we can reply to all of them
In the first place, we know as well as
our correspondent or any body else, that
prudence and policy, (which are only
softer names for political rascality) fre
quently dicate a mum game; but this
is a lesson which we cannot learn. Our
ideas of independence” have always
led us boldly to avow our honest senti
ments on all subjects—regardless of the
direful consequences of “speaking right
out in meetingand consequently, we
have never yet occupied'“ the fence”
on any question. Onr “aid and com
fort” to the Know Nothings is no new
thing. We stated many months ago,
that if their principles were as repre
sented, we were pleased with them.—
We do not expect to change our pur
pose until we are convinced that the
order is justly liable to graver objections
than any which have yet been urged
against it.
It is not for us to say whether our
respected cotemporaries are on “ the
fence” or not; but this much we will
say for ourself, we have never consider
ed them or any body else as “ buglemen”
for us to follow, We recognise no lea
der—\ve do not claim to be the “ or
gan” of any party; we do not belong
to any body or clique. Our press is our
own—we are a free man—and in the
enjoyment of this freedom and a glori
ous “ independence ’ which we would
not part with for all the offices and emo
lument in the g'ft of the people, we
give free utterance to our sentiments.
These opinions bind nobody else. We
alone nre responsible for them,and
hold ourself always ready to meet the
consequences. So that our friend wih
see, that to talk to us about following
s, is simply a
Kossuth’s Plan to be Adopted by
the Allies.—A Paris letter say* :
We have news this week from private
sources of considerable interest. The
doctrine some time ago laid down by
Kossuth, that the Allies were not attack 1
ing Russia in her vulnerable point, has
been at last recognized, and two days
ago Prince Napoleon stated in a diple^
matic circle that the French Govern
ment intended to attack Russia notF
through the Prussian territory. This
report has been repeated very oftert
lately, but it is now for the first time
confirmed by the language of the Prince.
The programme of Kossu'.h, therefore,
in regard to Poland and Hungary, is in
a fair way of adoption, not because it is
his programme, but because it is the
only rational one, and'because it is now
a demonstrated faetthat the Crimea is
not a vulnerable point. Preparations,,
therefore, will soon be made to march
an army toward the Rhine, and then the
war will commence in earnest *, for all
central Europe, in view of this contin
gency, is placing its armies on'a war
footing, the pec ple of Poland and Hun
gary are making their preparations, and
the arrival pf a French and English
army on the Rhine, will be the signal
that will put all Europe in a blaze.
Ahead.—Advices from
Trouble
Key West to the 27ih ult., state that ex
tensive preparations were on foot for the
removal of the Seminole Indians.—
Should Billy. Bowlegs, and his heroes,
submit quietly, there will be no trouble,
but if that cunning and enterprising
chieftain takes the war path, a long and
expensive war is certain.
The Gardner Fraud.—The whole
amount actually received by Gardiner
for the three-fourths of his fraudulent
Mexican claim was about $3*20,000.
Of th s the Government has recovered
about $230,003. Of the residue, a con
siderable portion went into the hands of
lawyers and agents who were the instru
ments in carryingont the fraud. There
is not much likelihood that any portion
of this will be recovered.
the lead of
waste of time.
.. ^ect, er
find many-.’other papers and politicians,
now on V the fence,” with us, ready lo
receive whatever bcnpffs may enure
from t'-c new movement. This has
been our past experience.. be this
as it may, we are determined to perse
vere until convinced that wc are wrong
As to the jntiijiation J.ha{ wp will Jose
A friend, speaking the other day
of the pretended exposure of the secrets
of the Know Nothings, remarked, that
no sensible man could posibly give cre
dence to the story ; for, said he, if the
fellow is what he pretends to be, he is not
only a traitor, but a forsworn villain—
and if he has never belonged to the order
why .the whole story is simply an inven
tion of his own, and therefore a lie—
and the only question to be se ttled is.,
whether he has just simply told a lie or
sworn falsely. This being the case, he
is not a competent witness, and no man
of sense would be willing to convict a
dog on his testimony.
Barnum after Burns.—Barnum
with his eye ever on notabilities, from
theFeejee Mermaid to the Swedish
Nightingale,—is now after Burns, tho
Fugitive negro, who is on his way to
Boston. The Boston Transcript says
that, in a letter to Hon. D. K. Hitch-
cook, of the State Senate, received on
Thursday morning, Mr. Barnum says:
“ 1 see that Burns, the fugitive slave,
is bought and is on his way to Boston.
I’ll give him $500 to go in my Museum
five weeks, and there tell his tale to oUp
visitors, provided he don’t first appear
elsewhere in New York, and also pro-,
vided he will commence in New YorH
hy the loth of March, and as mucl\
sooner as may be.’ 9
Exploration of the Florida Ever*
glades.—The United States steamer
Fashion, from Tampa, arrived at Key
West on the 15th ultimo, with a large
number of canoes and other. appnrtfttU
ances for the exploration of the Ever?
glades. The troops now at the Miami
were to take charge of this shipment, and
at once prepare to' make a tour of obi
servalion within the Seminole hunting
grounds. Lieutenant Colonel Monroe*
in command of the troops in Flor'da,
went up to J ’*
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