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tics would be willing to throw cold wa-x ter on a great popular movement which promised to inure to the benefit of them or their cause? Have they ever been guilty of such folly before. Such down right .stupidity ? Such lack of common | sense and common sagacity ? Why, who doubts the shrewdness, the pene- Prom tl»e Ihuiavilte Journal. ARE THE KNOW-NOTH1N ABOLITIONISTS ? The standing charge,the daily charge, r urn- made by the Southern anti-Know-No- traiion, the political foresight of William thin* organs against the Know-Notliin* H. Seward ? Who, in a ! the South, inrly of the North, is that it is an aboli-J takes Greely tobe a fool? Whocon- tion or frecsoil party. Throughout the | aiders Weed wanting to cunning ? Who whole South there is not a single anti- regards either silly enough not to per- Know-Nothing organ that does not press ceive when a movement or a party is this -barge upon all possible occasions, calculated to promote the progress of in season and out of season. It is the aoolitionism ? And who has ever known main charge,indeed the one charge ,op- either of them not to catch eagerly at on which the Southern anti-Know-No- any and everything which could be used thing leaders rely for success. Take it to advance their schemes, and inflict in- awav from them, and they have little jury upon the South ? This being so, left And it should be taken away why have they not caught convulsively from them. It is as false and calumrious at Know-Nothingism, if, as alleged, the a chanae as the very genius of mendaci- Know-Nothing movement is an aboh- ly and malice could invent. Whatever non movement? Is not their conduct sins the mass of the Know-Nothing m this respect totally and utterly m- partv of the North may have to answer comprehensible? Can it be accounted for here or hereafter, abolitionism is not for upon any hypothesis whatever, con- the General Assembly shall elect im-i THE NEXT CONGRESS mediately a Gov'eruorbyjomt ba ot; The ^ Messenger of and in all cases of election of a uo% er s nor by the General Assembly, a majon-| last week contains an article in regard ty of the votes of the members present to the complexion of the next Congress, Con- r„— following ex shall be necessary for a choice, tested elections shall be determined by both Houles of the General Assembly, in such manner as shall be prescribed j by law.—Jour. & Mess. foutljmi ‘Mdjnuin. from which we make the tract: But the complexion of the House upon the question of slavery, is a matter of more importance to the South than partisan character, whatever that its LAW, ORDER, AI»D THE COBITITPTIOS. ATHENS, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1855. may be. It will not repeal the Nebras ka Bill—perhaps not attempt it, hut it may refuse to admit Kansas as a slave State, thus disregarding the principles of that Bill, and making it practically a nullity. The admission of ibis Terri tory into the Union, with a State Con stitution permitting slavery—this is the next great test question between the North and the South, and it is exceed ingly doubtful whether it can be carried before the next House of Representa tives. ‘‘Will the people of Georgia blink the fact that a determined effort will he TO ADVERTISERS. The Watchman is the paper in which I made at the next Congress to exclude a t vn ill** vm.L. , I • . . 1 /• 1 1 I A HU »» dlUimidll la UIO *** " I IUC UCAt vav.mxav one of them. Undoubtedly there are swtent with the^stale and far fetch. ul- , ;r vou wish your advertise- territory applying to be admitted into abolitionists among them, and undoubl-legation of the Democratic press a e ’ •• t» h-,* i lareer ,Ills Union as a Stale, because it applies cdly in some few localities the abolition- South ? ments “ read of all men. It has a larger ^ ^ # afape S(afe ? Qr wil| lhey edly in some few localities the abolition-j •' aivnia i« u »■ «»» 1 to come in as a slave Slate ? or will they ists predominate among them, but take There may be errors, and important circulation than any paper ever before j t S | e adily in the face, and be pre- *thc whole of the Know-Nothing party of ones, in the creed ol the Know-Nothing en ; ove( j j n this place, and large as it is, pared to resist this exteme outrage upon *he North together, and it is rounder at or American party, but we again say - SW elled by daily accessions! the rights of slaveholders and of ihe heart, sounder in principle, and sounder I that a party of sounder nationality does ° • I South ? Will they permit the tone of the in action upon the great slavery is-ues »ot exist. Some of the Democratic or- rvoniMENTS t State, upon the subject of northern ag than any other party in that section has gans and leaders in Kentucky denounce CIRCULA , * gressions, to be lowered, and its position •ever been known to be. Its strong ef-1U as an abolition party, but this is al- giv in reference to these aggressions tobe forts to nationalize itself by sinking the waj s the one great weapon of their ,war- The speech of Mr. Smith (Democra- a j, a ndoned ? or will they hold all parties slavery agitation so as to be able to liar- fare against any and every man or party tic Representative in Congress from Ala-1 w i, 0 sec k their suffrages to a firm, un monize with the Know-Nothingism of that they think proper to oppose. They de i ivere d in the House of the South have been to be very great. Repre-1 yielding, open adherence to ihe princi pies of their Platform ofl®50? That is the strong, and still continue I denonneed Gen. Harrison as an aboli- . . ■ k«»lDles ot’tl been ana sun c IC L.-, ■ | 84 n thev denounced Mr sentatives in January last, will soon be P‘ es 0111 . and the degree of its u° n,s > 1 in io4u, mey nenounceu iir. - _ ,. ' platform is the strong, tenable, lust •success is chcerin*to the entire patriot- Clay as an abolitionist in 1844, they ready for distribution. Sen in )o ground of all conservative men who are ism of the nation. 0 If the slaveryagita-1 denounced Gencra^Tay^QrasanaboU- derSf as we w j s h to ascertain the num- care f u i of t]ie Union, and of the rights of her needed to supply the demand . | the South in the Union; and it would bi; end. A Georgia Democrat, standing upon the Georgia Platform, proclaims to the world that under certain contin gencies (the repeal of the fugitive slave act. refusing admission to a slave State, &c.) he is in favor of the “ disruption of the Union.” A member of the same party in Ohio replies, in the language of his late State Convention; “ The people of Ohio, now as they have al ways done, look upon slavery AS AN EVIL, and unfavorable to the develop ment of the spirit and practical benefit of free institutions, and that entertaining these sentiments,they will at all times feel it to be their duty, to use all power clearly given by the terms of the nation al compact, to prevent its increase, to mitigate, and finally to eradicate its evil.” Now, what hope is there • f benefiting the South by joining a party whose views, as promulgated by solemn State conventions, North and South, are so diametrically opposite ? It is but to countenance, encourage and forever keep up this abominable anti-slavery agitation, the great maelstrom which threatens to eugulf our noble ship of State, and leave us a divided and dissevered people! There is but one course left for the people of the S->uth to pursue—and we call the especial attention of our Atlanta cotemporary to the fact—and that is, to join the only national party in existence —a party which not only refuses to on courage this anti-slavery crusade, but which, for the sake of peace and the preservation of the Union, ignores this exciting and dangerous question—thus demand tion is destined ever to be allayed, that tionist in 1848, they denouncedGener mighty work is certainly to be accom- M Scott as an abolitionist in 18oi, they p . §3 Der hundred cash Inglorious consummation, if it could he plifhed by whit is called the American denounced the whole Whig party as a » reaffirmed, in substance, by every party party whcli, if we are correctly inform- mass of abolitionists each and all of those a c man , ,1 which enters our Gubernatorial canvass, id. now requires of ,.!l its members a yea™ a " d !‘ a y e bee" thus denouncing May 10, 1855. \ and thus be adopted as the common , K solemn obligation to adhere to the Con- * until within the last few weeks, and fc#* Will our Georgia cotemporaries I f u i t t, and the common policy of the peo- onmnlvinn ,viih stitution and the Union in any and every they would denouce Christianity notice the above? The favor will be pi e of this State.” * > P) g mu irUo as abolitionism if they believed that they ... , , , made yearsagobytheSouth.andreit emergen .> that tnay arise. .. . h i ,u • dutches unon cheerfully reciprocated. We most heartily concur in the views of . 3 . ° . If the Northern Know Nothing-* were could thereby nx tneir ciutcnes upon r T _ . . . abolitionists or frec-soilers, they would »he political spoils of the nation. I ^ Severa , communications intend- our cotemporary in reference to the im- not, ns they are accused of doing, seek ed for this week’s issue—among the P ortanc e °f united action tn Georgia at .to discourage immigration of foreign THE GOVERNOR—HOW HE IS „ lim Kor a cmr.tpd ippnnnt of the doin*s t,lis time ’ and the abso,ute necessity of horde, into .hi. country. They know. a. ELECTED. . f maintaining the high ground which onr everybody else doe., that nme-tciuhs of | m, probable that there will be three of the great an i-Kno»uN« l g I s ,„ e hls ass . ulne ,, ... „ ferenC e to .he WHAT WILL THEY SAY NOW? What will the Federal Union, Consti tutionalist & Republic,and kindred prints in Georgia, who have affected to believe that th e American party is not sound on the slavery question, say to the following resolution unanimously adopted by the late Statn Convention in Macon, com posed of 600 delegates, selected from all the old parties among us, and which was ordered to he published ? Will they— can they any longer pretend that they are unsound? Resolved, That slavery and slave in stitutions are protected by the Consti tution of the United States, and the obli gation to maintain them is not sectional but national; that the right to establish them in the organization of State govern ments belongs to the native and natura lized citizens; and that Congress has no constitutional power to intervene, by excluding a new State applying for ad mission into the Union, upon the ground that the constitution of such State re cognizes slavery. FAST TIME. The sporting world is a good deal excited just now in reference to the fast running of certain race-horses. This is a matter in which we must confess we feel as little interest as it is possible for any one to feel in regard to any thing. As many of our readers, however, are of a different way of thinking, we pub lish for their benefit the annexed para graph, setting forth the fact that the fastest one-mile,three-mile^ind four-mile time cn record has been made within the. present year. ^ The following brief summary of the time made at the late races in New Orleans,is from the Charleston Mercury. To the triumphs, there recorded must now be added the fastest mile upon record. run by the Henry Peritt on the same course in the unexampled time of 1,42J. The races upon the Meta'ric Course, jnst over, conclude a season unexampled iu the annals of the Turf. When Henry Let erated a thousand times since us alone !” To ask Whigs to join the Democratic parly, or Democrats to go over to the Whigs, is simply ridiculous. If the the immigrants who land in armies on| or f our candidates for ihe office of Gov- stration at Lexington, (which, of course, i *“ I parties were not both essentially dead, our shores are abolitionists, and if they ernor of the State at the ensuing elec- was an entire failure)—are necessarily wrongs contemplated by Northern * a * | „ia „ri,=oir 9n were looking around them for flic most t' Ion> an d possible that there will be no | a j d oyer unt jj next week, | naticism. We cannot perceive, how -effectual means of promoting abolition-j choice by the people. We have heard * The Central promoting abolition-1 choice by the people. We have heard I ever, the necessity of re-affirming the iism,they would hail with joy the coming frequent inquiries of late,as to the mode T he Central Georgian.—This G ; P | f . - . • evpr ° here • of these foreign allies, and promote it to h n which, in that event, our Chief M a- . - h .. k„ r ni out at the ereat ® \ the extent of their power. If they were gistrate is tobe selected ; and we there- pap .’ !, c " ' ° recognized as the unanimous voice of abolitionists, they would throw no con- fore publish below the provisions of the ^ re ,n SandersviHe, has again ma e i s| ^ State. It was originally adopted ceivable impediment iu the way of the Constitution in relation to this subject, appearance, issued simultaneously at rushing stream by which the foul lake for the benefit of those who will not take SandersviHe, Sparta and Eatonton. It of abolitionism in this country has re- thr trouble to inform themselves. . Qwned . Messrs Pend i e ton & Pope, ceived and is receiving its chief supply. Georgia has adopted at different J , . They would stretch forth their arras to times three Constitutions; the first one and bas an ed,tor rcs, dwg at eac p ace the people of foreign lands, all of whom on the 5th day of February, 1777 ; the of publication—Joseph A. Turner, Esq. are abolitionists, to come over and aid second in 178.5, and the last, on the ] a t eo f the •* Independent Press,” which in the destruction of slavery. To fay j 30th day ofMay.1798. By the Constitu- ! eBta t>n s hment has been united with the Central Georgian, being the Eatonton that the American party is an abolition i tion of 1798, it was appointed, (as in .party, and that it is struggling at the those of 1777 and 1798)that the Gover- same time to shut out the tremendous nor should be elected by the General tide of for -ign abolitionists setting upon Assembly, at their second annual ses- our shores, is nothing less than a tnon-1 sion after its adoption, and at every se- .strous absurdity. Icond annual session thereafter, on the We have repeatedly stated the fact, a I second day after the two houses ahall f:.ct which defies contradiction, that all be organized and competent to proceed of the regular free-soil organs, which to business. George M. Troup was the surely ought to know who their own last person elected Governor of the friends are, and nineteen-twentieths of State by this mode, he having been all the frec-soil leaders of the North, chosen by the General Assembly for •whocertainly know whotheir co-workers that office, on the 6th ^ay of November, arc, denounce the know-Nothing party 11823—in opposition to Captain Mathew of the North as a pro-slavery pany even Talbot—bo.h of them belonging to the .more vehemently and violently if possi- Republican or Crawford Party. At the hie than its southern enemies denounce same Legislature an act was passed it tis a free-soil party. Take up the I changing the Constitution, and giving violent, bitter, and influential tree-soil the election of Governor to the people, ‘Organs of the country, take up the vvhic'i act “was asreedto” by the Le- tMVaihingion National Tira, the Neu I gislalure of 18*24. Under the Constitu- ' York Tribune, the New Yor’t Evening tion so amended, Governor Troup was Post, the Albany Evening Journal, the I re-elected by the people on the 1st Buffalo Express, the Cleveland Leader, Monday in October, 1825, by a majori- the Cleveland Plaindealer, &c., &c , ty of 683 votes over his opponent, John -&c, from alpha to omega ; take up the Clark. Since that time there has been : speeches, and letters of the abolition no instance of a failure to elect by po- •or 'tors, and demagogues, take up those pular vote. If, among the three or four •of Seward and Wade, and Giddings, candidates for the Gubernatorial office, and Chase, and Sumner, and you will which it would seem wc are to have at find that all these frec-soil newspaper the approaching election,neither of them •organs and all these free-soil orators obtains a majority of the whole vote pol- and letter-writers are fierce in their de- led, the election of our next Executive nunciations of the Know-Nothing party will devolve upon the two houses of the of the North, not only as an ally of slave Legislature in General Assembly. Look ry and a foe of free-sciiism, hut as the to the Legislature! that it may be com- dircst and most dangerous foe that nor- posed of men competent,wisely to per- thern frec-soilism kas ever been called form, this and every other duty which on to encounter. We have before us j may be required of them : extracts from the declarations of the e] “ The Governor shall be elected by Aioithcrn free-soil newspapers and lea- the persons qualified to vote for mem- -ders, to prove all, and more than all, hers of the General Assembly, on the that wc have here said ; but we .could first Monday in October, in the year of not publish them without making this our Lord 1825; and on the first Mon article much too long >lo he generally day in October in every second year read. thereafter, until such time be altered by Theoverwhe?ming -mass Aen of Nor- law; which election shall be held at the thorn Abolitionism is deadly in its hos- place of holding general elections, in tility to the Know- Nothing American I the several Counties of this State,in the party. And say with the distinguished j same manner as is prescribed for the editor of the Richmond (Va.) Whig,that election of members «.f the General As hy an overwhelming majority of the peo ple, and the small minority who did not at first cordially embrace it, have since declared their adhesion to it. To talk, therefore, of re-affirming this plat form at this time, would indicate to per sons at a distance—at least it so strikes us—that there is a difference of opinion pride of opinim would of itself prove an insuperable barrier to such a consum mation. The American party, however based as it is upon correct principles, bat making war upon neither of the old parties, as such—offers a safe, honora ble, independent and patriotic medium ground, upon which all true patriots— Democrats. Whigs, Southern Rights and Union men, may stand in common; and, Heaven be praised ! all patriotism is not yet extinct in the land, for thou sands of honest citizens of all parties, who know-nothing but the best interests of their country, are flockin* to its GREAT DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS! To read in the seaboard papers the glowing accounts of the county meetings held in this county, in Habersham and elsewhere’, one would think that there was a general upheaving of the masses in this region in favor of the foreign Catholic party. We were present at the *• great mass meeting"’ (as the Savannah Georgian tei ms the little gathering of some 60 to 75 persons in Clarkesville) in Habersham,composed chiefl > of persons friendly to the American order. The meeting in this place was a'still greater failure. We understand that one of the delegates to the Gubernatorial Conven tion, appointed by that meeting, kep; count, and insists that there were actn ally forty-nine persons in the Hall during the meeting ; but a friend who was present assured us that ten or twelve of the number were hoys under age, and some fifteen or sixteen more were Know Nothings! This is the nature and character of the great “ mass meetings’’ being held in the different counties of this district. editor. This is certainly a new feature .... the publication of a Georgia newspa. j ilm0D 8 our people on this subject If per. We trust the Georgian may meet tbere ’ s an y sucb diffidence, we are not | ran k s . Already it numbers within the with great success. aware of il - If U exis ' 8 . at aU ’ il is in ° the ranks of the disorganized Democra cy. organization(so we have been informed) considerably more than one-half the voters of the State, whilst the outsiders who are with it in principle and will vote with it, (we have reason to know) are numbered by thousands. If our At lanta cotemporary is really in earnest, in Fine Chewing Tobacco.—Mr. Win. J. Morton, (at the old stand of I After copying the above fiom the Louis J. Lampkin) has a lot of the finest Macon Journal & Messenger, the At- chewing tobacco we have seen lately. lanta Intelligencer, in commenting up- By the way, he keeps a general as- on use s the following language : sortment of staple and fancy dry goods, „ For our part we re j oice to liear such I deg j. tQ br - the people of Georgia groceries, &c., (as will be seen by lus I ti nie iy and ehcering counsels from this . , 4 . . w ua advertisement in another column,) which hiffhly respectable quarter. We trust to g® tber , let tm mare ‘ 1 h-is e.er ready to «11 on eccommo- Georgia Whig, will be widely inflnene- orer and join Sam. The people are detin— tern... Onr renders mill always «* *»/ «■"#*« fi " " s » ith cha S ri " ““P 1 ,he fe ' v wh ° h ” e , b **“ “ ; ? ...... . and distrust if the Democracy shall beguiled into the ridiculous attitude of find it good policy to trade with those Drove insensible to this patriotic appeal. A , who advertise. “ The Prohibitionist” is the title of new temperance paper just received from Marietta. Our copy of it has got mislaid, and wc are unable to give the names of the editors and proprietors. It advocates the election of B. H. Overby, Esq. prove insensible to this patriotic appea... watcherg aroutld the detunct carcases We have no hesitancy in declaring our willingness as individuals to see the next j tbe e ff e * e parties of other days. Convention of the Democratic party in rtniR^rTTOM this State throwing open the door of t ^UK,K,R.^iiwiN. conciliation, and inviting, by every | We understand that some of the per- weare at a loss to conceive how aoyjsomhly. The returns for every elec- ‘honcst Southern min. with this fact lion of Governor shall be sealed up by -staring bira broadly iu the face, can I the presiding Justices, separately from -unite with the Northern enemies J other returns, and directed to the Pre- of the South in deiiounc ug for aliolt-1 sident of the Senate and the Speaker of tionism a party which those enemies 1 the House of Representatives, and trans- dUcribea- tending to repress agitation,to rnitted to his Excellency, the Governor, put down fanaticism, and blast the hopes or the person exercising the duties of of the Abolition party. This ground Governor for the time being, who shall .they all Jake, from Seward down to the without opening the said returns, cause fieti est of Seward’s flunkeys ; and urge the same to be laid before the Senate, it upon the Northern pe.»plu with all the on the day after the two Houses shall zeal and fury characteristic of abolition haVe been organized, and they shall be madmen. W-- have in former numbers transmitted by the Senate to the House quoted from Seward, from Greely, from of Representatives. The members of Adams, from Weed,and a host of others each branch of the General Assembly known to be determined and inveterate shall convene in the Representative enemies of the South and Suit hern in- chamber, and the President of the stitutions, an 1 they al'.as wc have said, Senate, and the Speaker of the House without a solitary exception, concur in of Representatives, shall open and pub- denouncing the Know-Nothing.move- li<h the returns in presence of the Gen- ment as inimical to abolitionism .and eral Assembly ; and the person having favorable to the South, and agree in the the majority i f the whole number of policy of opposing It at all hazards mid votes given iu, shall be declared duly to the last extremity, elected Governor of this Statu ; but if Is this a policy importing uothing on no person have such majority, from flip part of the aboli'ionists at the North? the persons having ihe two highest num Has it indeed no important significance? bar of votes who shall be in life, and motive,? No object? Is it reasons-1 shall not decline an election at the time to suppose that these ahojjtion fana- appointed for, the Legislature to elect RAIN! RAIN! We have been blessed in this section with a series of rains since our last issue —amounting (in Georgia vernacular) to a season.” Small grain will, we trust, “ come out of the kinks.” while corn will be greatly benefited. Another effect of these copious showers will be, we presume, to bring breadstuff’s within reach of the poor—who, in several sen- tions of our State, have actually suffered for bread. The rain here on Friday was‘ accom panied by hail, which did no damage just in this immediate neighborhood, hut which, we understand, was very de structive in its effects some four or five miles from town. Mr. Hull informs us that his cotton was entirely ruined by it, whilst wheat and oats suffered a great deal. He assures us that the hail was lying two feet deep in gullies, by actual measurement, the uext day at eleven o’clock! We observe by our exchanges from different portions of the State that the rain of Thursday was general, and, in some sections, quite heavy. GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY, We understand that the prisoners in our county jail, allsave one, made their escape on Friday night last. Thomas Gunnels, who was imprisoned for killing his wife—John Epps for the murder of his father—and Jesse M. Garner, for selling a hired horse. See description in Sheriff’s advertisement in another column. honorable concession, a “ union of all sons f rom the up-country who, on Mon- , can fM ' he *** ° f G ° 0r ' morning l.„, were hern with .heir j ° “ We may hope on that something fa ' ni,ie8 < to take lhe cars for the annuaI “ may yet turn up,” and that things may convention at Augusta, reported around yet come right for the South, looking town that they were beguiled into this for some sort of an accident to save us; premature start by a paragraph in a late hut till common sense makes a fool or a of the Watchman, to the effect man no one can honestly believe that m , , _ , any Southern State will ever accomplish Tuesday, the 8th, was the day fixed anything really valuable for the cause of for the meeting of the convention. Now, the South, while that State is divided t j, e Watchman has never published any in.o ho.lile parries. We care not how h parng „ ph! W e do ten,ember to small the minority party may be, it will, J . f , under any circumstances, embody bave read m anotber p a per some dog- enough ol respectability and power to gerel lines on the subject ofthe conven- undo and demoralize all that the majori- j i, a t have published nothing what- ty could possibly do. Upou the Slavery ... .. issue, to divide, is to conquer and , uib ever ourse, ‘ concern,n S the JSouth. Why, in Heaven’s name, The Georgia Railroad is not a pauper cannot we unite in Georgia, and unite establishment, it is able to pay for such now ? .Let any man name the political a nnoucem ents, and until it docs pay for measure or principle, that is now a part fog™ no man w ;n see one Q f them in of the avowed policy of the Democratic , ... ... partv, that National Whigs, standing on the Watchman. We believe that at the Georgia Platform cannot go for. Augusta, Atlanta, and everywhere else AU the cause of division is merely per- (except Athens) along the line of the sonal, and that could be easily overcome, L oad h ere there are newspapers, the but for a false pride and stubborn self- . ’ , , • • , . love. If there is not patriotism enough time tbe aunua l meeting is regularly in Georgia to put these under foot for advertised. We know not why thisdis- the salvation of Southern honor and our I crimination against this section of the verv social existence, then if we fall it C . • , . , . y ■ „ . f ’ „ , State is so persevermgly exercised, is all well enough, for we deserved no , , J better fate.” Perhaps the Directors below regard us Our Atlanta cotemporary, it would a N as “ crackers.’ seeing is determined to invite every body I Some years ago, as editor of a paper to join the Democratic party—broken in this place, we had free tickets on the down, bursted up,demoralized, denalion- South Carolina railroad—indeed, all alized and abolitiouized as it is—at their the way t«» New York—except from this approaching State Convention 1 What place to Augusta. We had free transit upon the face of the earth would induce all the way to Savannah, and also to any 6ane man to join that defunct party Chattanooga, Tenn., except from here at this time? An invitation to join in to Atlanta. its funeral procession we could under-1 We trust we have succeeded in stand ; but an invitation to join a dead I “ making out a case,” and that our party is preposterous. We will, how- readers are fully satisfied by this time ever, waive the fact that as a national I that we have abundant cause for not organization it is dead, and see how publishing gratuiteusly any notices for joining it for the purpose of protecting the Georgia Railroad until its manage- Southern rights will work towards that' ment exhibits some degree of liberality. LEADERS WANTED! We learn from the foreign organ in this place, that the American party stands greatly in need of leaders ! This is but giving publicity to a sort of un dercurrent opinion frequently expressed in private circles in this place, by cer tain “stuck up” individuals, or as our friend, the late Representative from — county, used to say of similar persons, ‘‘ little jumped-up fellows,"’ whose ideas of propriety are dreadfully shocked at rhe bare contemplation of the fact that the people—whom they regard as inert mass of stupidity, fit only to be set in motion on election days, when they are expected io vote as their leaders may dictate—should dare go into any great movement like the American party, without l aving acknowledged leadets to direct their operations. These ex quisite little gentlemen have not yet learned that * Sam” wages an unrelent ing warfare against so-called party lea ders. This is-ene of the nuisances he feels called upon to abate. The foreign organ here need be in no “ pucker” about the lack of a leader in this District. “ Sam” will, in due season place a nag upon the turt’ that lead” the said organ’s leader in made his beat of four miles in 7 minutes and 37 seconds, it was thought that he had achieved wonders. When Fashion ran the same distance in her great race in 7.32 the sporting world stood still in mute amazement and admiration. Years rolled by, and still 7,32 enjoyed unques tioned victory. But it was proper that a “ fast age” should produce fast horses, and in the spring of 1854 two racers ap peared, sons of' that great horse, old Boston, who were destined to pluck in turn from each brother the Olympic cro’wn, and surpass in speed anything before heard of. Those were Lexington and Lecomte At their first meeting, xington bore off the palm, but under such circumstances as to embolden the owner of Lecomte to try it again. Ac- cordinglyibey met a year ago on the Metairie Course, and Lecomte was the victor, in ihe almost fabulous time of 7.27 Henry’s and Fashion’s stars paled before bis rising sun. This was too much for Lexington’s pluck, and ac cordingly his owner offered a wager of twenty thousand dollars, that h*- could equal Lecomte’s time. The bet was taken, and the raee came off three weeks ago on the Metairie Course. Lexington made good his wager, and beat the world in 7,19£. With fortune thus coquetting between the rivals, there was but one thing to be done. They must meet again; the thing must be set tled. What intense excitem nt rung through the sporting gentry, when it was announced that Lexington and Lecomte were to meet again. And they did meet, a week ago, on the field of their former contests, and Lexington bore off the palm, making the first heat in 7.234, after v\ hich Lecomte withdrew. As a four mile horse Lexington then stands unrivalled. All honor to the noble horse and his glorious stock. But if Lexington leads the'list of four- milers, Brown Dick, the hero of the Washington turf this year, is equally pre-eminent as a three-mile horse. At our recent races he ran two successive, heats of three miles in 5,43 and 5,42, the best ever done here ; and recenlly, on the Metairie Course he made three miles in 5.28£, which is not only the greatest time on record, but is three seconds quicker than Lexington’s speed in the fastest three miles of his great race against time. The passing year lias thus excelled all preceding in the achievements of the turf. 7.19J and 5.28£ are now gazetted to excite theemu- lation of coming times. Who shall be the aspirant ? The foreign organ in this place in its issue of last week, intimated that if Clay and Webster, and the lament ed DoiiGHEitTY were alive, they would all oppose the American party. Clay and Webster have placed themselves right upon the record, as the editor of that sheet ought to have known; whilst all men here who knew Jadge Dough erty at all—and there were none who did not know him—must feel fully satis fied, from his known patriotism, his unfaltering devotion to right, and his unswerving honesty of purpose, that he could not possibly have been anything else than an American. By the way, it is in bad taste for a paper which never named him while living but to villify and abuse him, to pollute the memory of the good and just, by dragging his name into its columns now that he sleeps “ the sleep that knows no waking;” and least of all, should it insinuate that he would if living, be found in the ranks of for eign Jesuit priests, convicts and pau pers, battling against his own country men 1 For mercy’s sake, if that sheet feels no respect for the living, let it at least exhibit some regard for the honor ed dead ! . Empire State.—This is the title of a new paper, (successor to the Jeffer sonian) the publication of which was Gov. Reeder, of Kansas, the Free Soiler who is it said bent all bis energies to the defeat of the pro-slavery candidal, for the Legislature,addressed the people at Easton, Pa., the other day, and exhibited all that .ferocious malevolence towards the people of the South which usually characterises every t ing uttered by the poor deluded fann ies. If the President suffers him to return as Governor of Kansas, his posi tion cannot be considered as doubtful any longer. commenced in Griffin last week, by Mr. A. Gaulding. It is a handsomely printed, and promises to be an ably con ducted sheet—at least, so we think from an examination of tlm first number. Ii will, we judge from what we have seen, espouse the cause of the foreign. Catho lic party. READING-ROOM AND LIBRARY. With pleasure we give place to the following suggestion from a young man of this place. We think it a good one, and hope that some public spirited indi vidual who can command the necessary time to test their feelings on the subject, will present the matte* to qut Qitizeqs. TO Ihe Southern Watch me*. How frequently am we reminded by paragraphs in your valuable columns, on improvements, &c, (hat wc have a Watchman indeed in our midst, who is ever ready to speak, whenever the in terest of the People or Place requires it? It is this that has led me to refer to you the formation of a citizens' associa tion, as an addition to your list above named—the object to establish a Read ing Room and Library, both of which are much required—the first as a place of resort for useful information when-, ever a leisure moment occurs.—the latter for family reading. Also, during ihe n.ng winter evenings, to have leo* tures upon popular and scientific sub jects, (the expenses of which to be de-^ frayed by the sale of tickets) where gentlemen end ladies, or families, can sit and hear with pleasure and profit, without beiug disturbed as they are else where. I think this would be au improve- 1 ment—will not some of our infl citizens take the matter in hand M.