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hrough which none but genuine Ameri
can opinions ami sympathies shall, find
expression in the functions of gover.;-
•nent.
We deari e to see the federal consti-
ution faithfully administered in strict
accordance with the views of its foanaers
all usurpations of power checked, all en
croachments upon the rights of the
States rebuked, all forced constructions
disavowed.
The Araarictin party feels the respon
sibility of the position it has assumed.
It knows full well the keen opposition
it has to encounter lrom the conglome
rate of all fragments and factions, of
the old effete democratic and whig par
tics, with their alien allies, names that
were once hallowed and had a meaning.
Errors it may commit—inferior men
may attain elevation (Torn its swelling
•anks ; such matters are unavoidable in
nil great popular movements and revo
lutions; but they, are not its principles
nor its high aims, and will be corrected.
National in feeling, national in name
American in all things, it claims as be
longing to its brotherhood and entitled
to all iu rights and privileges, any and
. every true-hearted citizen, no matter to
what party he may have belonged, no
matter in what pursuit he may be engag
ed, whether in subduing the forest, till
ing the earth, levelling the monntai-s,
filling up valleys, wielding our com
merce, toiling amid the din and bustle
of crowded cities, sailing on the ocean,
digging in the mines, seizing on the idle
•streams uiat flow from our mountain
sides, and causing them to leap upon the
water wheels and labor millions of spin
dles into motion; or amidst the dust and
whirl of bright machinery, he is in
God’s appointed vocation, moulding and
fashioning the rude materials of nature
into forms of strength, usefulness and
beauty. He*hns only to feel in his
own heart that lie approves and adopts
our principles, and that he is ready,,
when fhe star-spangled banner is un
furled, to stand under it and by it. True
at is but a piece of bunting, a painted
' :rag—yet what hallowed annotations
*chis:er round it ! It waved in glorious'
triumph when Baindridge, Decatur,
Perry, Hull, broke the charm ofBritish
invincibility on the ocean; Stark had
it at Bennington, Warren at Bunker
Hill, Gate’s at Saratogt, Sumpter, Ma
rion and Greene in the South, and
Washington bore it aloft and stood un
der its ample folds when he sealed our
nation’s independence on the plains of
Yorktowu. It is now, as it was then,
.the emblem of our nationality and
•power.
Finally, and above all, we desire to
see our Union preserved, strengthened
apd perpetuated, as the bright links of
a chain that has no end; and to this, be-
•fore all the rest, we pledge our unalter
able faith and the ..hole power of the
.American party.
resolutions.
1. Resolved, Thai the highest civic
• duty of an American citizen is to pro
>«note the prosperity of his own country;
that to do this he should endeavor to
preserve, strengthen and defend the
principles of American republicanism, as
.they were promulgated in the Revolu
tion of 1776, and incorporated in the
constitution of the United States.
And to this end we hold itindispensa
ble that every citizen who has the pri
vilege of voting in elections should be
acquainted with the constitution, both by
a capacity to read and understand it in
the language in which it;z written, and
by such long and familiar intercoure
with the country and its institutions as i*
necessary to imbue his mind with the
distinctive American perception of the
nature of free government, and with that
sentiment of attachment to it vs hieh shall
render him at all times its effective friend
and support r. *•
That with this vi«,w of the qualifica
tions'for citizen ship,-ave proclaim it to
be a fundamental precept of our repub
lican system; that America should be
governed only by Americans.
2. Resolved, That while we have full
confidence in the-strength ofour nation
ality, as it is cherished and defended bj’
•onr native citizens, and, with scarcely
‘less attachment, maintained by numbers
of citizens of foreign bin Ii. who by .Ion"
domestication have been identified with
our people, we are yet deeply impressed
with a comvietion that, in the extraordi
nary concourse of aliens which recent
inducements have brought to our land :
in tlui peculiar incompetency of many
•of them, from education and habits of life
to become thorough American citizens;
dn the attraction which,both from tIHr
•numbers and their facility to he misled,
they offer to the ambition of demagogues,
who have not scruple-’ \ 0 m ;iko use of
them as nM’.cs to secure selfish ends ; in
the frequent evidence they afford of their
incapacity to appreciate the right of suf-
fraje, when they have obtained it by the
operation of our present system of na
turalization, and to the manifold abu es
to which this right is subject in their
hands ; that the time 1ms come when it
is .essential i<> the purity of our govern
ment and iis wholesome administration,
tint the laws regulating the admission
of foreigners to citiz.-nship should be rc-
v- vised, and that either a longer term for
piVibhiion lor citizen-Uiip, and more rigid
pro'isi.ms for conferring it, should be
«*stuhlisbed, or that, iho naturalization
laws should In; wholly repealed.
•1 • Resolved, That we regard it to. be
the interest, cad duty of our goverment
and people to give to the honest and
meritorious portion of the emigrants
from foreign lands, w’o seek.an asylum
in the United St iter, a friendly recep
tion ; to extend io t iem protection «(pJ
enedui-agement; to confer upon them
every right necessary .to the security <;!'
their welfare, in whatever lawful pur- ,**“ *
tF * sinttbvy may employ, themselves; and
to demonstrate to them, by . a liberal and
considerate hospitality, that it i*.’ both
and fundamental principle of free go
vernment ; and we declare that we hold
the right of conscience—by which we
me'au especially the freedom of, opinion
and the privilege of every man td wor
ship God in such manner and Recording
to such belief as his own convictions
dictate—to be amongst the dearest and
most sacred rights of freemen.; that we
will defend these rights against all as
saults, from whatever quarter ; and that
in this determination we know no dis
tinction of creed, nor sect, nor person,
holding that the Stale should exercise
no other control over these rights than
that which may be necessary to guard
the public morals against licentious
abuse,ond to secure to every one the full
and peaceful enjoyment of his religious
opinion and worship.
5 Resolved. That, as necessary to
religious toleration, and as indispensa
ble to its healthful support, wo regard
every attempt of any one sect, or deno
mination, or church, to obtain an ascen
dency over others in the State, by the
demand of especial privilege or exemp
tion of any kind, within the sphere of
political rights and duties,and still more,
any combination of the members of any
denomination to obtain political power
by concert of action,in the performance
of civic government, to be dangerous
to that equality of which should belong
to all citizens, hostile to the order of
society and conspicuously objectionable
as a step towards the subjection of civil
powei to ecclesiastical influence; that
we therefore take our stand against all
such attempt s, wherever we may find a
disposition to make them.
6. Resolved, That we cherish, with
the highest appreciation, the education
of the youth of our country in schools
provided by the State, believing such
institutions to be the most valuable aux
iliaries to enlightened and free govern
ment. We look to these as the truest
and best nurseries of republican senti
ment and brotherhood; and regarding
them as particulary adapted to the for
mation of a vigorous national character,
we hold that they should be common to
all citizens, without distinction ol creed:;
and to that end should be frecirom all
influence or direction of religious zeal.
And as we believe the Holy Bible to be
the foundation and depository of the
universal religious doctrine of our coun
try, and the teacher of this profoundest
wisdom to all men, we express our firm
dissent and reproof against any and
every attempt to exclude it from the
course of school instruction!
And, now,having announced the prin
ciples of the party upon the chief and
peculiar questions which have created
the necessity for its organization, we
deem it proper at the same time, to de
clare the views l»j which it is governed,
in reference to other important ques
tions touching the administration ofpub
lic affairs. It is therefore further
7. Resolved, That the American parly,
holding the Union of the States to be
the great distinctive and vital idea of
permanent and comprehensive Ameri
can republicanism, will devote its united
power to the duty of sustaining and
strengthening thatUnion against the at
tacks, either open or secret, of whatever
enemy may assail it. To that end, it
will insist upon a strict construction of
the constitution of the United Stales, in
accordance with tho true intent and
meaning of that instrument, as expound
ed by its authors, and as sanctioned by
the most approved opinion of the coun
try.
Upon the full acknowledgement and
due preservation of the rights of the
States, as expressed and reserved in the.-
constitution ; and the careful avoidance,
by the general government and by each
of the States respectively,of interference
with the rights of either, by legislative or
executive action.
Upon the faithful performance by the
general government, by every State,
and by every public functionary of each,
of q'.J duties enjoined upon either by
the constitution ot lhe United States.
To the same extent the American party
also pledges itself to suppress, as far as
it has the power, all tendencies to politi
cal division- founded on geographical
position, to rebuke all agitation upon
topics of dangerous import to the peace
and harmony of the Union, to check
the effort of selfish and designing politi
cians to create dissensions by appeals to
local interests or prejudices of class:—
The purpose and desire of the party be
ing to encourage and establish a broad
and paramount sentiment of national
loyalty thorough American „in charac
ter, and sufficiently powerful to protect
the Uuion against all sectional hostility.
8. Resolved, That the American par
ty regard it as the policy of the Govern
ment to exercise its power to secure
the prosperity of every American in
terest, and to give the most ample scope
to the ingenuity and industry of Ameri
can citizens in every lawful pursuit;
that to accomplish this it is,its duty to
give all aid, compatible with the power
vested in it, to internal and. external
commerce, by improving the navigation
of rivers, by .adapting the national har
bors, bath on the lakes and the sea coast,
to the protection and convenience of
shipping; and by promoting the con
struction of national roads for intercom
munication between the oceans which
bound the territories of the Union. T6
encourage the development of Ameri
can genius by due protection of inven
tions, productions of art', and works of
literature and science. To guard the
industry of the country against the inju
rious influence of the adverse policy <Jf
foreign nations, and to secure, as fhr as
the same may be done; in accordance
with the powers conferred by the con
stitution, the prosperity of the Ameri-
can workman, by giving him; the pre-
i ferenqe in the supply of the work re
quired Hy the countrv.
thing to wasteful extravagance, but all
that is proper to the healthful develop
ment and progress of a great nation. •
And as the American party is aware
that, in the duties * here enumerated,
there will be different views honestly
entertained, at different periods, and in
different sections of the country, on the
question of the best means of securing
some of the ends proposed, we take the
ground of Congressional independence ;
that measures of temporary policy which,
from their very nature are constantly
and variously affected, by the changing
condition and circumstances of the na
tion, should be committed to the free
decision of the people, to be made in ac
cordance with their own sense of what,
is best adapted to the wants of each
section of the country,—untramelled by
the influence of party dictation ; that
the opinions of the constituency of each
State, so far as Senators in Congress
are concerned, or of each congressional
District, so far as members of the House
are concerned, are the best guides to
the general estimateof what is most con
ducive to the welfare of all ; and that
the action of government should be con
ducted in a spirit ofcompromise, direct
ed to the establishment of that content
which is essential to the general pros
perity.
We are especially induced to make
this declaration, because we are hot wil
ling that the efficiency and usefulness of
our association in the prosecution of its
great constitutional and reforming.pur
poses, should be impaired by dissensions
arising out of difference of opinion upon
subjects in their nature transitory, and
dependent upon the shifting condition of
national expansion and growth of public
interests, and upon the details of which
entire unanimity of , views is scarcely
possible.
9. Resolved, That \vc utterly condemn
as odious and un-American,.the obvious
abuse of Executive power and patronage,
which for many years past lias more
and more found favor in tiie administra
tions of our governments, both Federal
and State. , The whole system of re
wards and punishments is unworthy of
a free and independent people—We
perceive in the practice to which it has
U.d,the most unnatural and demoralizing
influence upon our population. It pro
scribes the high minded and indepen
dent citizen, and puts the obedierit tool
of power in his place.; it denounces the
best men for a sincere love of their coun
try ; it-often prefers the foreigner to the
native citizen ; and it coriupts the pa
triotism of the musses not less by des
troying a genuine American sentiment
of independence, than by stimulating Un
people to abandon the pursuits of wholc-
mE
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LAW, ORDER, AXD THE COMOTITLTIOX.
83rMr. William Dosier. of Atlanta, hour.au
thorized Agent in Cherokee Georgia.
jKP’Thi* paper is filed, and mayat all times b«' seen
at the Heading Boom of Prof Hollow at, 5244 Strand,
London
The length of the .address of the
“American party ’ to their countrymen,
setting for,h the ends and aims of that
organization—^occupies so much ofour
space this week, that we are unable to
give our usual variety. Let not. its
length deter any one from reading it:
SaP* The present i
first volume pi the
_ J-.-:' When, twelve months ago, we launched
our unpretending barque and unfurled
our banner to the breeze, croakers on
every side predicted a short cruise and
speedy abandonment of our - craft-. We
premised our friends to “hold on’’ for at
least twelve months,and endeavor to pre
sent our subscribers withat least a reada
ble paper. So far as “holding on” is
concerned, no one can call that fact in
question; while,if we are to judge from
the accessions o our list, we may aafii-
ly infer that the popular judgment has
decided that our paper is readable—so
that; we may confidently -claim that our
promises have been fulfilled to the leiter.
We cannot suffer this opportunity to
pass'without tendering to such of our
personal friends as have interested them
selves in -extending the circulation of
our paper, and to the public in general,
our profoundest acknowledgements for
comin
a great ov
^he public, the
the secrets of the Know-Nothings,
have known all the time that it was an
awfully bungling and ‘shocking affair, far as our personal observation extends,
An exchange furnis! es.tthe following
synopsis of the provisions of the late
Bounty Land Act, which we intended
for our last issue, but which was over
looked.
We have on hand, neatly and correct
ly printed declarations, both for officers
and soldiers, and for widows desiring to
avail themselves of the benefits of this
Act. Also, b'anks suited to the former
Bounty Land Acts. Price - one dollar
per quire. »
We keep on -hand—and are always
BOUNTY LANDS.
In another column will be found a the very libera^ encouragement we have
received. Our circulation not only
realizes, hut far-exceeds the expecta
tions we entertained when we began the
enterprise. Although our paper has
been in existence but. barely twelve
months, we have now a much larger
subscription list than any paper with
which we have ever been connected -
and -‘the cry is, still they come !’* at the
rate of from fifty to seventy-five per
week 1
In return for this mark of kindness
orders.
We shall Hext week take such
notice of those of our cotemporaries who
“ pitched into us * during our absence,
as we may think they deserve. , ,-
IS THE CZAR DEAD?
This question cannot be satisfactorily
answered until the next-steamer arrives,
which is now past due.
some industry fur the stake of the emolu
ments of office. It has thus brought an
element into political contests which, Un
appealing to selfish motives, has proved
itself sufficiently powerful to embroil the
country in a perpetual strife for the be
nefit of those who flatter and serve the
appointing power, and who are impelled
by cupidity more than by an honest
ambition in the di charge of their dut\
ns citizens.
We reject this principle and pratice,
not only for the reasons wc have given,
hut also because we deem it to be of
dangerous influence in enlarging and
strerightening the Executive power. We
have bad too many occasions to observe
this influence employed in making war
upon honest, independent and capable
mcri, who have been found not sufficient
ly pliant to the executive will ; have
seen ir too often exerted to control the
auction of the Co-ordinate departments of
government ; arid still oftener to enforce
a servile submission, in all subordinates,
to the worst designs of party leaders.
We believe, therefore, that an up
right administration of government de
mands that honest, faithful and capable
public.servants, .at home and abroad,
should (ill places of honor, profit and
trust—that they should not bo dismissed
particulars in reference to the initiation partizan aspect—we speak in reference
of the “American
where Democracy
in the ascendancy, claim that
Whiggery revived,” and “a trap
to catch green Democrats.” If this be
so, it has signally failed in its object; So
wo can safely say ,th at it has assumed no
ready lo print to order, ol short notice. appreciatlr>n on lhe p „, of , he b
oil kmds of le«al blanks. Send in your lio „ f our hllml ,| e clr .rt» to make our
paper useful, we can but promise renew
ed diligence on our part and an earnest-
zealous persistence in our independent
course in the honest advocacy of what
we believe to be correct principles, and
a constant endeavor to make onr paper
a welcome visitor at the firesides of Us
readers. •
We trust we will be pardoned by those
who are not interested in what we are
about to say, for calling the attention
WELL DONE, HALL"! of that portion of our readers who have
We spent a portion of two days at neglected to pay up, to the fact that our
Gainsville last week,and had the pleasure heavy expenses absolutely require
of adding to our list the names of seven- prompt payments on the part of our
fy-eigAf‘good men.and true.! If Court had subscribers. We trust this hint-will in-
only “hold on” a little longer, there is I duce every one in arrears to “fork over”
no telling how tnany more we might 1 at once,
have added. We trust our friends in \ 1
Hall will not “weary in well doing,”!THE BLACK WARRIOR CASE
but that those who have kindly consent-
from employment for the exercise of a
commendable independence, so long as
by their conduct they shall not impair
the of tlTeir Scffled.
ed to present the matter to their neigh
bors, will do as our friends in Wait* n,
G ivianeit,Jackson, Madison, Clarke, and
elsewhere, are doing—send, us in scores
of nnc subscribers eccry week.
SETTLED.
Mr: Gnillardet, formerly editor of the
Courier (les Etats Unis, writes from
Paris to that paper as follows;
“ The telegraph assures us that the
Spanish Cabinet, has admitted tl\at the
1 two principal demands of the American
We were pleased to observe in that! Government in the affair of the Black
portion of the county which we saw,
and to learn from reliable sources, that
!
Hall to >, exhibits those evidences of
Warrior were founded injustice : and
that’punishment would be inflicted upon
the agents at the port of Havana -who
have violated lhe laws.”
The correspondent of Galignani’s
Messenger, writing from Madrid on the
improvement which we have been re
joiced to note is all the counties we
have viaited during the spring ridiug.! same subject, says
Roads which; when we were familiar j “ It appears that' the Spanish govern-
with them,(say some seven years ago,); ™ent has decided on proclaiming tint the
, ., ,, , , j,, ■ ~ „ . i authorises of Cuba exceeded their
led for miles through trackless forests, ... - ~ , ,, r .. .
°., j powers m the affair of the Black Warn
arc now studded with handsome farm or ,^ s the two principal points of
liou.-es, new plantations, and all .the • it—-the description of the carge and the
evidences of material comfort which d'n-’allowed ibr the production of the
are s » pleasing to the eye-of the travel
ler ; and not only so, but School houses
and Churches h.-fte been erected by the
— . r - . wayside the one teaching men _ho\y to • sa-vs that-it has'reason 'to know - that the
mtri.ouTd be ''exereUeJ^vithTcrepu ^charge their duties to society, and information is- correct.. From this we
the oiher preparing them for the enjoy-
of, new members, which we commend
to the especial attention of the Banner
If it does not think the matter of suffi
cient moment to justify the issuing of an
extra, it surely will publish it as a sort
of “addenda” to the “revelations” which
it appears nobody else in Georgia has
been green enough to publish—as.every
one knew it was a “ cock and bull sto
ry” got up with the special view of influ
encing the Virginia elections.
‘ Whenever any person exprer-ses, in
the presence of a Know . Nothing, a
stronc desire to become a member of the
Order, he is privately informed that he
must be at a oertaln corner at the hour
of twelve, whistling Yankee Doodle out
of one corner of bis mouth and Hail
Columbia out of the other then he must
have a copy of the Constitution of the
United States in one of his boots, (or
shoes, as the case may be!) and the De
claration of Independence .in the other;
that^vhen a person in a slouch hut passes
him, whistling the S‘nr Spangled Ban
ner” he (the candidate.) must follow.
He will be led up a dark stairway-, into
a dark room, he will then be sworn by
some person's whom the darkness con
ceals, never to reveal anything that he
may-hear or see during the meeting.
After taking this oath, a light suddenly
illuminates the *rootn, and five men in
masks approach the candidate, holding in
their hands the American flag, made
but of twelve hundred yards of Ameri
can silk, which they roll about the can
didate, completely encasing him, after
the fashion of an Egyptian mummy.
The five then shoulder the candidate
and carry him into the lodge. Though
he cannot see he can hear, and the
Great Gran! Flum—the highest officer
admin sters a terrible oath, swearing the
caqdiilate never to reveal any- of the
pakswords, signs, tokens,grips, principles,
designs or private works of th - Order,
on penalty cf being sent to title Peni
tentiary or the State Legislature ! If
the. case is not too aggravated, t lie viola
tion would only be visited upon lhe viola
tor by sendjng him to the Penitentiary,
but the extremest penalty 'for violation
is the Legislature.
“ After this oath the candidate is roll
ed around the room, this being the speedi
est,way of unwinding the flag. lie sees
the members standing him all masks.—>
The five principles are then read to him,
and after helias sworn to observe them .
Ije is compelled to run a splinter—pre
viously taken from a liberty pole—into
the index finger of h‘s left hand, and
with the splinter and his own blood, lie
signs the Constitution and By Laws ot
the Order. Thysicians-on being admit
ted into the Order, are competed to take
an additional oath, to the effect pliat they
will mistake str.ycbrine for calomel in
administering medicine to Dutch and
Irish Catholics. Lawyers have to swear
that they wflj abandon the''habit oilying
and deception in dealing with native
born American clients. Many Lawyers
have left lhe Order.”
ship’s manifest; In consequence, it
disposed to accord a just indemnity.”
. Commenting on this last letter the
Washington Union, as it were -officially,
ment snouta oe exercised with scrupu
lous care to prevent the patronage of
government from ever being brought in
to conflict with the freedom of elections.
And, finally, we believe that the dig
nity and prosperity of government are
most surely sustained and promoted by
a "wise and kindly toleration of honest
difference of opinion, and by the ac
knowledgement of this right as the true
national American feeling.
10. Resolved, That the American
party, m recalling the government of
the Union to the principles of its foun
ders, revert with affectionate concern to
the precepts of Washington, as the sa
fest and wisest guide, both for onr
foreign and domestic policy, and in con
currence avith these, adopt his warning
against all intervention in the affairs of
foreign States, and especially in those
°f European natiorisr—rebuking all de
magogues of every class arid name, who
would lower the standard of tried moral
and intellectual training for the high
places of trust in the public service; who
would ba rter a vvajr their birth rights for the
emoluments of office, or desecrate our
flag by placing it in the hands of restless
and demoralized propagandists, to plun
der in the narah’of liberty ; preserving
pure and uncorrupled" the public con-
scicnde—-by confining ourselves to just
and peaceful relations with all nations,
as fSr as their conduct towards us will
permit, but no further, and not refusing
the expressiotf of that sympathy, which
is natural to the historical'‘memories
and_ hatiorial sentiments of our people.’
DESTituOrn
Tbe town of Sandervsille was visited
by a destructive fire on Saturday, last.
A large amount ofjproperty was dest roy-
ed, and uumbers of the citizens left
The court house and jail,
house!
ment of that heaven fo which their-spirea
point! These agencies—religion and
education, aided by .the press, as the
great disseminator of light—are the
meana which, in the Providence ofGod,
have done more for us as a.people than
all other things combined. -Every hum
ble school house, therefore, or unpre
tending country church erected by the
wayside, is a silent witness, bat bears
unmistakeable evidence of the real ad
vancement of a people.
We expect to visit our friends
in Habersham^ Franklin. Lumpkin and
Forsyth—at their ‘respective Courts—
and hope to be able to give a good acr
count of them on onr return.
may infer that tbe Government is in
“osicssion C? advices that so far as pecu
niary satisfaction goes full indemnity has
been granted by the Spanish. Govern
ment for the Black Warrior outrage.
to old parties—that there are as many
Democrats as Whigs in the movement,
but that so far from being “green,” they
are intelligent ,patriotic gentlemen-the
green ones still remain with the office—*
hunting squad 1 who with tho “green”
Democrats and “green” Whigs they
may pick up between this time and t he
election can scarcely form a corporal’s
guard in some of the counties.
SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
The ConstUutionilist informs us that
Judge Starnes, whose term of office ex^
piresnext winter,will not be a candid ate
for re-election. lie will resume his prac
tice at the bar. Judge Lumpkin having
been appointed one of the Commissioners
of Claims, there will, of course, be two
.vacancies in the Supreme Court to be
filled at the next session of the Legisla
ture. Wouid it be too much to hope,
that for the honor of the State, Judge
Berrien might be indneed to accept ths
place of chief Justice ?
If, by doubling the salary, his pre-
eriiineiit legal abilities eould be secured
on that bench there would be reason
for rejoicing. We might then anticipate
legal opinions, for which, as they find
their way through the Union, Georgians
would not have to blush with shame.
We clip the above from the Savannah
XAirnal and Courier, and take pleasure
in according our entire and cordial ap
proval of its suggestion. Judge Ber
rien would give a character to the Geor
gia Repor.s that would rank them
among the first of American decisions.
For the second vacancy we would
suggest the Hon. Francis II. Cone,
than whom no man in Georgia has
higher qualifications for that important
post.—Wilkes Rep.
BANK ROBBERY.
Thq branch- of the Bank of the State
at Washington, Wilkes Co., was robbed
of upwards of fifteen thousand dollars
on Wednesday bif last week. The Tel
ler, we lea m froth'the Wilkes Republi
can, had deposited in a drawer in the
counter, the amount which'he thought
would be required for the day’s transac
tions. When the hell rang for break
fast, the robber, who was secreted near
the premises, walked in at the f. ont
door, which was usually kept locked un
til after breakfast, but which, on this
occasion, he had hired the negro‘boy
whose duty it was to sweep, make fires
1 &c., to unlock. The bills stolen are all
payable at the Branch at Washington
A reward of one thousand dollars has
been offered for the apprehension of the
thief. ’ •
The Know Nothings of Virginia have
made the following nominations, which
have beep -accepted :
For Governor—ThotnaS S. Floor-
noy—Whig.
For Lieut. Governor—J. M. H,
Beale—Democrat.
For Attorney General—J. M- Pat
ton—Democrat.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The Democratic press generally of this
State advocate tiie lioWing.of a State
Conventional Milledgeville on the 5th
of June. Why Uwjs needless haste ? Are: ? ndlD
:r V'
Ralph Metcalf,
Governor of New Hampshire, by the
Know Nothings, is^a Democrat
- -*isSr V^ 1
CONGRESSIONAL ASPIRANTS-
We are likely to have a scrub race in
several of our Congressional Districts,
(says the Macon Citizen,) if the early
announcement of numerous names is to
be taken as an index of the .prevailing
idea on the subject. In the first district
Bartow, Hopkins and Seward have keen
spoken of. In the 2d, Hawkins, Perkins,
Colquitt, Moore, McDotigald and sundry-
others. In the 3d, Parson Mosely,Ram
sey, Green, Trippc, Poe, Warren and
Bailey. Very clever gentlemen, one and
all, we believe, but no one can tell, - at
this early day, who will be the lucky fel
lows that will win the prize.”
In this District, wc understand it has
been settled that there is to be a w scrub
race”—the course perfectly free to all
gentlemen who may wish to enter.. Some
of our exchanges who have congratulated
Mr. Cobb upon his eminent success In
that difficult task of “ spelling up,” will
perceive that their felicitations were ra- A SIGN
ther premature. Now, we do not under- The .« American. Party” has carried
take to say positively that the remnant *jf the municipal elections which have
of the once powerful Democratic party in * ■' 5
ihi, District will not hold a Convention, ntajotitiea.- :*rba ten-
r* mm
PACIFIC REPUBLIC.
The New York Herald says there is
a. project on foot among certain malcon
tents in California—“ ramshackle*we
suppose—to dissolve their connection
with Unele Sam and set up an indepen
dent Republic of their own on the Pa
cific. California, Oregon and Washing
ton—each to be r divided into several
States—together with the Sandwich Is
lands, to constitute the new Republic.
We know not whether the story is wor
thy of credence. We have thought,
however, that the people of-tha: remote
region of our vast Republic might some
day determine to “set up for thein-
THE NEW BOUNTY LAND BILL.
It is enacted, &c. That each of the
surviving commissioned and non-com
missioned officers, musicians aud pri-
va:es, whether of regulars, v-duulecrs,
rangers or militia, who were regubirly;
mustered into the service of the United^
States, and every officer, commissioned
and non-commissioned, seaman, marine,
clerk and laudsman in the navy, in any
of the wars in which this country has
been engaged since 1790, and each of
the survivors of the militia,or volunteers,
or State troops of any State or Terri
tory, called into military service, and
rbg.ilarly mustered therein, and whose
services h ive been paid by thje U. .States,
shall be entitled to receive a certificate
or warrant from the Department of the
Interjor for-one hundred and sixty acres
of land; and where any of these who
have been so mustered into service and
paid, shall have received a certificate of
warrant* hr shall he entitled to a certi
ficate or warrant for such quantity of
land as will make, in the whole with
what he has heretofore received, one
hundred and sixty acres to each person
having served as aforesaid ; Provided,
the person so having been in service
shall not receive said land warrant if it
shall appear -by the muster-rolls of his
regiimnt or corps that he resigned, or
was dishonorably discharged from ser
vie;.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That in case of the death of any person
who if iiving, would be entitled to a cer
tificate or warrant as aforesaid, under
this act, leaving widow, or ifno widow,
a minor child or children, such widow,
or if no widow, such minor child or
children shall' be entitled to receive a
certificate or warrant fi»r the same quan
tity that such deceased persons would
be entitled to receive under the provi
sions of this act, if now living ; Provid
ed that a subsequent marriage shall not
impair the right of any such warrant, if
she be a widow at the time of making
her application; and provided, further,
that ttio<e shall be considered minors
who are so at the time this act shall take
effect.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That in no case shall any such certificate
or warrant be issued for any service
less than fourteen days, except where
the person shall actually have been en
gaged in batjle, and unless the party
claiming such certificate or wai rant,
shall establish his or her right thereto by
recorded evidence of said service.
® EC - And.be it fur: her enacted,
That said certificates or warrants may
be assigned, transferred and located by
the warrantees, their assignees or their
hen s at law, according to the provisions
of existing laws regulating the assign
ment, transfer and location of bouuty
land warrant--.
It is annouuced in reeen t Paris letters
immediately on the arrival of Ex Presi
dent Van Bum* in Paris, from Italy, Jw
; invitation from tfw
pay him a visit,
and tho two
Tiie Hon. Robeil
sr' to China,
t to Paris,
it is su'd,
with thQ
’airs.