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1 ■ ■ --- n$e ttjatdjman. i H. CHRISTY, EDITOR. KNOW-NOTHING ISM. The following letter on Know Notb- ingism, its origin, rise and progress, which we publish as a part of the event ful history of the times, appeared origin ally in the New York Courier 6s En quirer, and is said, by that journal, to have been written “ by authority'’ for a London newspaper : It is not strange that Europeans should be perplexed by the sudden ap pearance of a new and overwhelming party in the United States, which pro mises to revolutionize our domestic and foreign policy—for it is more than many •Americans can do, to exp* ,iin the curi ous phenomenon their.aelvcs. I have seen, in English journals, many partial and unsatisfac'ory accounts of the ori gin, progress, principles, and prospects of the Know Nothings; and as their policy and measures will be likely to affect European nations quite as serious ly as our own, it may be well for your statesmen to understand this mutter be fore things go any further. The Know Nothing party came up in in Us present form only about two years ago—it originated in causes which although often mistaken, lie upon the very surface of society. First. The increasing immigration from Europe, principally of the lower classes, hed thrown upon our shores within the period of t wenty years over two millions of foreigners. Few of them brought the means of subsistence lower still had ever been considered qualified to participate in the adminis tration of civil government, and not one in a hundred had any adequate compre hension of our social, religious, or po litical life. The evils which grew out of their presence increased from year to year, until at last they became in tolerable. Those few comers who went straight through ourseaportstothe broad and fertile lands of the West, became agriculturists, and at once began to con tribute to th- growth and prosperity of the communities where they settled.— Against this class, embracing nearly, and perhaps quite one-half of the entire number ef immigrants, no objcciion was or could be raised. They were peaceable citizens; and although Eu ropean peasants can contribute little to the establishment of social life in Ameri ca, yet they can, and do, contribute to the development of the material re sources of a new country ; and their children grow up under higher influ ences, and aspire to a higher life thau their fathers. With tlic second genera tion of Eu'opean peasantry in the Uni ted Statec we have no trouble. Butihe •hundreds of thousands, chiefly of Irish .and Dutch, who linger around our sea ports and great inland towns, and who move about like hordes of Gipsies, from canal to canal, and from raliroad to rail road, have constituted a floating mass of corruption.and proved a fruitful source of disturbance and trouble. They have been the llelots of the Norih, as the Africans have been of the South; and, had as African slavery may be, even in tlic United States, it might admit of a question, which of these two Helot clas ses had made the most rapid progress in the soci.il scale. By a close estimate, it has been discovered that wh&re the alms houses, and charitable foundations of American cities have expended one dol lar upon native Americans, they have expended one hundred dollars upon European paupers. The proportion is nearly as great between natives and foreigners who are arraigned for crime, drunkenness,outbreaks,and disturbances, and all sorts of infractions of statute and municipal law. But the evil did not stop with the trouble which these pauper classes brought directly upon the. country. Two other elements of danger must be taken into the calculation. Such is the loose ness of onr Naturalization Laws, that foreigners by the hundred thousand, of the lowest condition, are enabled to vote in our elections, almost as soon as they land upon our shores T wo inauspicious agencies here come into play. First, unprincipled political uv^agogucs, who want nothing but votes.to sccui'f power ; and second, intriguing Catholic priest and desuits, who stand ready to offer those votes, which they can control, to those demagogues, who. on being eleval cd to . power by such influences, are ♦ready, in return, to enact such laws, arid tptwh through such measures, ns best suit the purposes of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Through these agencies, several Presidential elections have been decided ; while local elections have thus been swayed in every State in the Union. Things ha l gone so far, two or throe years ago, that large portions of our very best citizens abstained from voting at all. They allowed every elections to go by vlefult; they were brow beaten and struck down by the shilleuli, when they appeared at the bnl!oi-!:ox. The dis trict, the village, the county, the State Caucuses, were scens of debauch and riot—of intimidation and bloodshed; and on election days, the whole country was reeking in the fumes of rum. The fruits of this alarming state of things be came apparent to the whole country, and when these evil cau>es had reached the height of their influence, and brought tho present Administration into power, the whole Nation began to inquire how Ibis statu of things had been brought about, and what should be the remedy. In addition to all the evils which this system of political corruption had for merly entailed upon the country, we found that under Gen. Pierce it had pervaded every department of the nat ional administration; and with but few exceptions, we learned with amuzeaent, that foreigners and demagogues of the lowest character, were Ailing posts of honor and influence abroad to the ex clusion of all those great mco whose cdu u . cation, social standing, and great public services had specially fitted them to re present the Republic at the Courts of civilized Nations. Pledges the most sacred—because they were voluntarily given—were broken, and men of the very highest reputation, who bad been requested to go ubroad, in the public service-men who had consented to do so at great personal sacrifices, were left in suspense, week alter week, and month after month, until they found themselves superceded by German Jews, Red Re publicans, Scotch Infidels, and French Fourieritcs. On close scrutiny, it turned out that the ontire policy of the Administration, at h >me and abroad, had been made to bend to the views, the feelings, and the selfish interest of these foreign adventurers. Here you have a solution of what would otherwise be an incomprehensible mystery—the sudden uprising of the nationality of the country, and these vehement and overwhelming assaults that have been everywhere made upon the National Administration. When the arm was lifted to smite it, it was not to fall until it had smitten its agents and accomplices. Then for the first time, the nation began to look around to see where it stood—what it had been doing —who were its friends, and who were its foes—and it learned, afier a brief in vestigation, that the causes of political corruption and degeneracy had been in operation long enough to threaten the prosperity of a great and vigorous Re public. Such was the origin of the Know Nothing party. The first associations that met upon the platform, assembled in secret, and they did all their work quietly. They admitted none within their enclosure except native born citi zens of the Protestant faith, and men who stood pledged to cast aside all for mer political ties, and give their support only to such American men, and such measures as were calculated to develop the expiring spirit of nationality, and annihilate the political and religious in fluence of foreigners in the United States. These associations spread from district to district, and from State to State, and before the Society had been two years in existence, its organizations had been formed in every State and Territory of the Union, until now they number, without a doubt upwards of two millions of able bodied men Will you now ask if these men have the element of cohesion; if they are likely to remain a compact and irresisti ble body ? Why should they not, at least, until they have accomplished the ob jects of their organization 1 They have common principles, and they are all in spired, more or less, by a common feeling. The enthusi istn which brings them together, aud now keeps so vast an army in discipline, cannot last for ever ; but it will last until they have achieved their purposes ; and that in nothing less than stripping foreigners Catholics, Jesuits, and demagogues of all parties of political power. They will either enact a national statute, greatly prolonging the time of residence, to en title the foreigner to full citizenship, or they will abolish the Naturalization Lnws altogether. They will not be sa tisfied while any man but a native born citizen, of Protestant faith,who is friend ly to this object, holds an office in the the conviction is all but universal, that he is a demagogue, rather than a states- man;whiie he is known to have built up the reputation he has achieved,chiefly by agitating those questions that threaten the permanent union of these States ; andnis chiefest coadjutors are known to be found within the pale of the Com pany of Jesus. In confirmation of all this, 1 may state, with entire safety, that 1 have not yet seen an intelligent European who was travelling in this country or living in the United States, who did not give his sympathies,and openly express them, in favor of the Know Nothing move ment. In all the elections through the various States, we have but one report on this subject; and that is that intelli gent foreigners universally take sides with the Know Nothings. They give good reasons for what they say and do. They see clearer even, perhaps, than we do ourselves, that the whole body politic of America has been infected by the most corrupt social influences that the Old World had festering in its bosom. They know well, what we know but imperfectly—that there is not a State in Europe, nor a Principality, with the single exception of Russia, that has not, during the last few years, sent to our shores its paupers and convicts. 1 know that is a high accusation to bring against European States; but I know myself from personal knowledge of many years on the Continent of Europe, that it is true. A strange aud very impolitic article has recently appeared in the Edinburgh Review for October, which adds an un necessarily strong confirmation of this fact, so far as Great Britian is con cerned. The article is entitled “ The management and disposal of our Crimin al population.” I trust that I hare thus given you a few clear indices of the causes which gave origin to the Know Nothing party, the spirit which guides it—the objects it has to accomplish, and the reason for believing that it has cohesive power enough to hold together in compact strength, until it has achieved its pur poses, Of course, in this correspondence, my own feelings are not allowed to en ter. My business is limited to giving your readers a transcript, by every steamer, of events which happen, of the causes of events which may be early discerned, and such expositions of them as will convey to Europeans, as nearly as I am able to, those impressions they would receive if they were themselves upon the spot. The moral of it all, for Europe, and its governments, I need not indicate. ATHENS, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1855 KrMr. William Doans, of Atlanta, ia our au- tnonxed Agent in Cherokee Georgia. 8CT Thi* paper ia filed. and mav at alt times bo aeon at too Reading Room of Prof Uollowat, 944 Strand, London e* Several communications unavoidably postponed till our next isane. CONCERT. Friday Evening, 20th inst. the Rasche Family will give one of their entertain ments, as perceived from their notice in another column. They come highly “ Noticed,” by the Press. 1^*“Sam,” has swept the city of Augusta. Our former townsman, W. E. Deal ing, has been chosen Mayor, by several hundred majority CS* In publishing the article, signed “ A Staunch Whig," in our last issue, we remarked thaf we published, without endorsing it.. That portion of it, as suming that Asbury Hull, Esq., would support Mr. B. H. Overby, for Govern or, we then thought, and still suppose, to have been unauthorized; as we have seen no intimation on that point, either for or against. We have no doubt but that Mr. Hull will, in due time, do as every honest, independent citizen will, make his choice among those who may be candidates—and so cast his vote as in his judgment will best promote the interest of the people and country. HANDSOMELY SAID Has not every one who read the ad dress of the American party, published last week—and we trust all have done so—been struck with the general sim plicity and beauty of that document ? particularly the reference to the “star- spangled banner,” at the conclusion of it. Lest some may have overlooked this, we re-publish it: The American party feels the respon sibility of the position it h*-, a-sunicu. It knows full well tue k.^-en opposition it h?.5 to encouvuer from the conglome- SSZLUZZSIa all fragments and faciona.of propose to accomplish, will not b" a ch- until more than half a million of men now administering offices of trust and power, are driven into private life, to give place to the Know Nothings. The first intellects of the country, in every community are giving all their might and powers to the accomplishment of this object. The Protestant clergy of all denominations are with the move ment, because it has pointed its lance against the Pope of Rome. The up- right, the honest, the unsophisticated— and above all the intelligent mass of the people, join in the crusade, because it has been proclaimed against demago gues. The virtuous, the temperate, and the sober, applaud the movement, because most of the evils of intemper ance, which degrade and disgust us, have grown up under the “Caucus Sys tem,” where, ,in a thouand different places in every Territory and State, de signing demagogues hare rallied around them in every rum-hole and gin-shop, the unprincipled portion of the communi ty, and ift their night revels of drunken ness, organized their political machine ry for the sccompliihmetit of their ob jects. National meii of all f'‘finer par ties—men who have lamented over the U" The Know Nothings have carr i- rd Connecticut and Vermont, at the re cent State elections, besides any num ber oi municipal elections in the various States since our last issue—among the number the State Capital of South Caro lina. & Certain editors in Georgia seem to be “in a pucker” because Gov. Met- call, of New Hampshire, and other prominent members of the American party in the Free States, liavejopenly ex pressed their disapproval of the institu tion of slavery! Can these gentlemen point to a single statesman of the North —Democrat, Whig, or what not—who is or ever has been, in favor of slavery ? On the contrary, have they not, them selves, time and again,said, when speak ing of the opposition of distinguished Democrats, that the people of the South could not ask their Northern brethren to become slavery propagandists—that all they demanded was to be ,l let alone 1 .” Is not this precisely what the American party proposes doing, by ignoring the slavery question as a national issue, and leaving it where it belongs, in the bands of the people of the several States ? And while we have these gentlemen on the stand, we would most respectful ly inquire, did they not, to a man, sup port one Lewis Cass in 1848, notwith standing he boldly declared,(speaking of slavery) “I deprecate its existence and pray for its abolition everywhere!” Now, in view of the fact that it is ijo as near a nom ’ nat * on 38 he sin for a Democrat to oppose slavery, is it not strange that these gentlemen are so shocked because a Northern member of the American party should differ with them on the abstract question of slavery ? The truth is, these gentlemen have in years gone by made much capital at the South by the constant cry of ‘Abolition ! abolition !’ while their party at the North has basely pandered to this vile fanati cisra and been ever foremost to coalesce with the Abolitionists, whenever, by so doing, they could secure place and power. Are they not pretty fellows to prate about abolition ? the old effete democratic and whig par ties, with their alien allies, names that were once hallowed and had a meaning. Errors it may commit—inferior men may attain elevation from its swelling ranks ; such matters are unavoidable in all 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 its 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 mountai 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 that 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 aud 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. Holms only to feel in his factions that have torn the country—J ow'.*> heart that he approves and adopts KF* There was a fearful riot at Cin cinnati at the late election. It origiori- ated, so far as we have been able to learn,in the fact that in one of the wards where the Dutch had great strength, native citizens were not permitted to vote! Things have reached a pretty pass, when the descendants of “ the Hessians”, by armed opposition, drive natives from the ballot-box! The Ame ricans mounted a cannon or two and bred into the Dutch—several lives lost. Of course, the blame will be laid by the foreigners and their abettors, upon “the d— d vulgar natives,” who had no busi ness to vote in this country, which is so free—to foreigners ! the isms which have disturbed the Na tionnl Councils, and scattered the virus of jealousy, animosity, and hatred through all the veins of Society—such m'6n bid' the Know-Nothings “God speed,” for they here see a remedy for those ill-mined agitations which have been nothing but agitations, although they have promised vast but impossible reforms. And those hundreds of thou sands of men who sympathize with Henry Clay in his American policy, with General Jackson in the spirit of partriotism which always inspired'him* and with Daniel Webster, who was the best exponent of the spirit of the Feder al Union—all combine together, either to give countenance or personal aid to this vast organization. A greater mistake could not be made, than to suppose that the Know Nothings, are waging a war against Foreigners, as such. Their chiefest hostility is, in fact, levelled against American native born demagogues, who are known to have intrigues with Jesuit leaders and Catholic Bishopj, to buy in foreign votes, and sell American institutions in payment therefor. At the present mo ment, when the Legislature of the State of New York is in Session, and must within a few days elect a Senator of; the United States, the whole country is agitated by the question. Mr. Seward, whose term expires on the 4th of next March, is a man of great political saga city and large public experience ; but -— our principles, and that he is ready, w hen the Star-spangled banner is un furled, to stand under it and by it. True it is but a piece of bunting. 3 painted rag—yet what hallowed associations cluster round it! It waved in glorious triumph when Baindridge, Decatur, Perry, Hull, broke the charm of British nvincibility on the ocean ; Stark had it at Bennington, Warren at Bunker Hill, Gates at Saratoga, 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 Yorktown. 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 and 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 whole power of the American party. ISSUE OF THE FOREIGN ORGAN IN THIS PLACE. IdP The last contains a paragraph, the obvious intention of which is to create the impression that ill this region the disorganized Democracy have lost noth ing by the political revolution which is sweeping this Union from one extremi ty to.the other! The avowal is not di ts nelly made, but it is clearly the writer's intension to create that impression. Such “ weak inventions of the enemy need no contradiction here ; but for the information of our friends at a distance, we state that we have freely “ mixed with the people,” (to borrow one of the favorite expressions of the day) and that wherever we have been—and we have visited more counties than the “ Banner man” has—a large majority of the peo ple of all parties believe in the “Ameri can platform.” We do not pretend to say that they have jonined the Know Nothings—for we Know of but one man in the State who acknowledges that he has—but they are with them in prfhcijple, heart and soul—thoroughly sick and disgusted with the effete or ganizations, and fully determined to act with the new party. The dashing 93 Highlanders, the pride of the English army, left Constan tinople 800 strong, and after their arri val in the Crimea received an addition of 150 men. This gallant regiment has recently returned to Constantinople, re duced to fourteen men and five officer*, though still bearing with them their glorious and unsullied banner. “SAVE, CASSIUS, OR I PERISH !” In view of the losses sustained by the National Era, in consequence of the Know-Nothings having’ “ crushed out” the anti-slavery excitement at the North, the editor of that print, in his issue of the 29th ult., publishes the following “ earnest cry and prayer" to the faith ful. Will not his Georgia coadjutors ex tend to him a helping hand ? “As we do not intend to suffer the Era to be run down by proscription, but to maintain in vigorous life,the only Press which, at the Capital of the Na tion, on slave-soil, advocates the Prin ciples and Ideas of Freedom, we have addressed a private circular to many of its subscribers who have shown an earnest disposition to sustain it, ex plaining to them the extent of the de fection occasioned by Know Nothingism, and the amount of subscribers required to replace those lost. May we not ex pect a generous response ?” GiT We have mislaid a number of the Boston Atlas, from which we wished to make some extracts, showing the estimation in which the Know Nothings are held by this ancient organ of the ef fete Whig party of old Federal, Aboli tion Massachusetts. Reader, if the Know Nothings are abolitionists, why should that paper—one of the vilest abolition sheets we know of—berate them soundly for not “taking a bold stand in favor of freedom," (or some such abolition clap-trap,) we believe we have quoted correctly. If they are Abolitionists, why is it that the central organ ofthat party—the National Era— should denounce them at a rate second only to the Federal Union, Atlanta Ex aminer, and one or two other papers “ofthat ilk.” (By the way—a word of advice to the Georgia Coadjutors of the National Era—they might improve their manners much by taking lessons from their Washington confrere. He nevei descends to billingsgate and “fish-mar ket vituperation :” is always dignified, argumentative, courteous and polite.) If they exhibit the least affinity foraboli tion, why does the organ of the Aboli tion, Red Republican Whigs of New York—the infamous Tribune—de nounce them daily ? The truth is. no sane man in Georgia can continue to reiterate this charge against them—in view of the accumu lating evidence of its utter falsity—and maintain his character for truth and veracity! TOOMBS AND STEPHENS ON KNOW NOTHINGISM. We are glad to learn that both of these distinguished gentleman are open and avowed in their opposition to this secret political organization—Know-Nothing j$m. With their well known influence with the great body of what once con- stitnted the Whig party, and the almost united opposition of the Democratic party, we have nothing to fear on this subject. We say more in sorrow than ir. anger, for we know that'many worthy Democrats have been, we would fain believe, misled into these, to them, “ for tunes strange and new'.” We are con fident that a thorough exposure of the tendencies of this organization, combin ed with the rapid march of events at the North, will compel our Democratic friends, at least, to return to the ancient fold. We copy the above from the Macon Telegraph. We are not aware that the editors of that paper enjoy the confi dence of Messrs Toombs and Stephens in a greater degree than any body else— and hence we question the reliability of 1 the announcement. But be this as it may, all we have to say is tLis : that it makes not the slightest difference ima ginable with “ Sam,” whether these gentlemen, or any other two or half dozen men oppose him or not. It is true, he could find work for them to do, if they desire it; if not, there will be no lack of able and willing hands to take their places. Whether the above is true or not, is of no consequence to “ Sam,” but it is of the utmost impor tance to the gentlemeu named. “ Sam” asks no favors and shrinks from no re- ; sponsibility. Dr. H. A. Ramsay has with drawn from the editorial management of the Atlanta Examiner. His successor has not been announced. For the Southern Watchman. Mr. Editor : Is it proper for the op ponents of the present corrupt and im becile, spoils-burrowingadministrations, State and Federal, to hold a convention, in the Sixth District, to nominate a candidate for Congress? Although “ tho voice of the party” has settled down in favor of Mr Cobb, yet I presume the “ reorganized” will call one, for form’s sake. mer^V to register the decree al ready issued fr*' un the Cobbham junto. And just here, being a kind-hearted, anti-intermeddling, communicative sort of animal, I will venture a sTuall piece of advice to the Banner, and those who have fixed up this business: Take care, gentlemen, that, in the appointment ot delegates, in the several county meet- ings, you do not fail to see to it tint the delegations are packed in fyvor of Mr. Colb's nomination ! If you leave “ the party”/rec to act as they please in this matter, I am keen to swear, in advance, that the ex-Governor will come about did of his election to the Senate of the United States, by the “ reorganized,” -in the Legislature, at its session, in 1853! Although the hatchet was buried in 1852, at Atlanta, between the two wings of the party, (Southern Rights and Union,) and a “ reorganization” effect ed, yet I know that the delegates from my county to the democratic, Guberna torial Convention in 1853;went instruct ed to vote against the nomination of How ell Cobb! Thissentimentstill prevails to an alarming extent,, and is now as viru lent as it was in 1851 and 1853! “Sam” is also about, numbering in my <( baili wick ’ not less than 650 voters, two hun dred and fifty of whom are old line De mocrats ! Wise, the candidate of the foreign party, in Virginia, for Governor, will be beaten by at least 25,000; and this, with the total overthrow of the miserable Pierce dynasty, in the old Dominion, will give just such an impe tus to “ Sam’s” progress that nothing— no power on this earth—can stop it! The result in Virginia will add to the American party in Georgia 30,000 good, true, valiant recruits! Fix up your ropes then well, you who are forcing Gov. Cobb before the people of the Sixth,against their feelings and wishes: for if you do not. I assure you the jig will not be as easily danced as you ima gine ! “Jordan,” at all times ** a hard road totravel,” will be found not to be in a forceable condition at all; and in attempting to reach the opposite bank, you will all be swallowed up and drown ed in its angry billows ! But I am clear away from the object of this communica tion. My notion is, and it is also that of a great many with whom I have con versed, that it is best for us to hold a convention, composed of delegates pro perly chosen from all the counties in the District. This course will prevent a multiplicity of candidates, and a scrub race, such as we had in 1853, and which brought about the defeat of Mr. Jenkins. Let the Delegates from each county be appointed without any restrictions what ever—let them be intelligent men— Union democrats and Union whigs, Southern Rights democrats and South ern Rights whigs, opposed to Pierce and Johnson, and their time-serving Jesuitical, anti-American, anti-Protest ant policy ; let them assemble at Jeffer son or Gainesville, on a given day, in May, and agree upon a candidate—one who is honest, capable, and who will prove fait! ful to those who support him ; and my word for it, that with “ Sam’s” help, added to the luke-warmness of the Cobb Democrats, and the deep-seated hatred of the Southern Rights, McDon- alit-uVingl Demacrats and Whigs, an easy victory will be the result of our efforts. I will guaranty a clean majori ty of 300 in my county over Howell Cobb, or any other the clique may bring out in opposition to the principles of the great American Party! Let us hear from you, Mr. Edftor, on the subject- Yours is the ouly out and out paper in the Distr; ct that advocates our principles, &n d from you we wish to hear on t«e subject of Convention.— Fhe Dahlouega Signal is wheeling into I'.ne, u n <j will doubtless be fully with us, i hearty co-operater in the glorious re form we intend carrying out. If no Conventions is held by us, and no one can be found to oppose him whom the “ voice of the party’’ has designat ed, then, in this event, you may con sider me “ in /” Mr. Cobb shall not walk unaccompanied over the track ! I shall, of course, travel at an immense distance before him, and will not, there- fore, have much chance to chat with him, or revive his drooping spirits in his fruitless, vain effort to get out of the woods, and reach the opposite banks of “Jordan!” I am, however, too kind- hearted—too thoroughly saturated with the milk of human kindness, to think - of seeing him start and go all the way of his lonesome journey by himself? Company—good, jolly, glorious com pany—he shall have!—mark it! SAMUEL. Noty Benney: One idea l had al-- most forgot to mention. It is this:— The democratic party of the Sixth Dis-- trict; and all democrats therein who now, or may hereafter have aspirations for a seat in Congress, may prepare themselves to be controlled and govern ed from Athens, in this and all subse-- quent elections! When you shall takeA it into your heads, any of you,to run for Congress, in this District, be sure you have yooFT pretensions endorsed by the- Cobbham Sanhedrim; for, unless you can show the documents granting you' the liberty, you may rest assured you* ‘ can’t come in f r That’s all, for this* time! SAMUEL.' For lb* So Bittern Watchman. THE PRESIDENCY. Mr. Editor : The next President may be a man of the American Party. The Pennsvl- yania Legislature, composed principally of s.'tch, have nominated Mr. Geo. Law, of New York, who, in an able and strong commonseosed letter, accepted. Whom the Democrats, as a party pro per, and the Whigs will put op, H is not yet known. As distinct parties, neither can succeed with their Lawyers, or those beautiful interludes of the military two castes that may act on our National fortunes, pretty much like Cmsar and Cicero, in antagonism on Rome, while Cato—the Farmer—the Censor, was un looked to and Roman Liberty fell with him 1 I shall vote for George Law—if a Ticket for his Election be gotten up in Georgia. Mr. Law is a mechanic and a self made genius This, with me, and ought to be with all Americans having any soul at all, suffipient:—inasmuch as it breaks the spell so long imposed upon the country, of nominations, and gives the people no body to elect, on either hand, but some Barrister or some Gene ral. I have no hostility towards the legal profession or its conductors; my only plea is that of Brutus:—I love my coun try more. It is a sign of despotism, eventually, to elect no one for ruler but out of a comparatively small class of the population. This makes them, in spite of themselves, (if they did resist the pride at all,) an overbearing body ia the State, as certainly as in the Courts. They can mould the successes and dis comfiture of cases, to suit their affection for, or detestation of, particular individ- ua ^ s • Gracchus. jfiireigu $l?m. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF~THE^STEAMER . BALTIC. The steamer Baltic arrived at New York on the 6th, with one week’s later news from Europe. LlVERrOOL MARKET. Liverfool, March 24.—Cotton has advanced 1-16 to £d. Sales of the week 87,000 bales, idcluding 14,000 to spe culators and 18,000 to exporters. The steamer St Louis arrived out on the 24th. s,e ^- M6 - e * -** 1 he \ ienna Conference have unani* mously adopted the first of the four points, placing the Danubian Principal!, ties under the joint protectorate of the four powers. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. We received yesterday our foreign letters and files of papers brought by the Asia to Boston, but find little news of importance in addition to that already published. We subjoin, however, the following items: The Independence 0 f Br^i* men Sper rr- pb . '«■« hmipercr of Austria to the Emperor of r - r enc.i, m which the disposition of Hussia is described as such as gives hopes of happy results, on condition that moderation be observed on both sides. The King of Prussia has, says tho Pans Constitutional, manifested a desire to supply, by an autograph letter ad dressed both to th B |Emperorof the , renc,1 > 33 d to the Queen of England, the want of the official notifications which the Emperor Alexander would have made to them directly, if the war had not interrupted the diplomatic relations 7,f 'w be Court ofSt ' Petersburg mid the Western powers. The Emperor Napoleon III, and Queen Victoria, jusHy appreciating this offer of King l< rederick William, appear not only dis posed to accede to it with the best grace, but even to order a court mourning as soon as the King of Prussia shall have notified to them by an autograph letter huv^ 6 d<iath ° f h ' 3 au ° ust brother-in London, Saturday Morning.—In binglatu peace is regarded as probable without the razeeing of Sevastopol being a preliminary step. . Pbe imports ot gold into England con tinue large. The bank was shortly ex pected to reduce the rate of discount* It " as rumored also that England was