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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY ->*fe - - VOLUME II. ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 25, 1855. NUMBER"!? PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY JOHN H. CHRISTY, EDITOR AKD r«OrKIETOS. T«rm* of Subscription. TWO DOLLARS per annum, if paid Ktrictly Ib ad aB6*:° l harwtaa,THREE DOLLARS will to charged 0®* Co order Jhattha price of the papei m»y not be in 'Sn^XLSxtvs^- £ ::: Kir'S# ■H Oitsc leie rates, (to Cor* mart accompany Ou order. Rates of Advertising* Transient advertisements will to inserted at One jV'lar par «qu ar« for t he d rst. and Fifty Con is per square Cor each subsequent Insertion. * Legal and yaarly ad rertisemont* at the usual rates Candidates will be charged SS for announcements, hnd obituary noticesexeeeaingsix lines in length will be cnargod as advertiseuwnts. When the number of insertions isnotmarkednn and advertisement, it will be publishod till forbid, and Charged accordingly. ^usineas anil 'professional Barits. '^joh5T^chTTsty~ plaix axd FJt.vcY Book and Job Printer, “Franklin Job Office,” Athens, Oa. *•« AU work entrusted to hie care faithfully, correctly and punctually executed, at prices corrsspond- janlS ing with the hardneseof the times. t C. B. LOMBARD, DENTIST, ATUEXS, GEORGIA. Riaomsnver the Store of Wilson St Veal. Jan3 PITNER & ENGLAND. Wholesale It Retail Dealers in (Groceries, Dry Goods, HARDWARE, SHOES AXD ROOTS, April 6 Athens, G.\ MOORE & CARLTON, DKAICU Uf SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS, HARDWARE AND CROCKERY. April No. 3, Granite Row. Athens,Ga LUCAS & BILLUPS, WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL DEALERS IX DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, <fcq. Ac. No. 2, Broad Street. Atheua. WILLIAM G. DELONY, ATTORNEY AT It AW, OSes over the store at Wm M. Morton & Son Will attend promptly to ail businesaeutrust «d to bis care. Athens, April 6 P. C. LANGSTON, Attorney at Ijaw, CARXESVILLE, U.t. KxrcaxNCKS.—C. Peeples, Esq. i , W. L. Mitchell, Esq. \ Athcu CoL BF-Hardeman, Lexington Samuel Freeman, Esq New nan Gabriel Nash, Esq. Danielsville Col. H. Hulsey, Americus. P. A. SUMMEY & BROTHER, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Staple Goods, Hardware, Crockery, AXD ALL KIXDS OF GROCERIES, Corner of Wall aud Broad streets, Athens. WILLIAM N. WHITE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, AndXtmspapcr and Magazine Agent DEALER IN MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LAMPS, VINE CUTLERY, FANCY GOODS, AC. No. 2, College Avenue, Newton House. Athene, Ga aignof " While’s University Book Store.” ' Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates. T. BISHOP & SON, Wholesale and Retail Grocers, Apnl 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens. JAMES M. ROYAL, HARNESS-31 AKER, H AS remored his shop to Mitchell’s old , Tavern, one door east of Grady A Nieh wlaou’s—where he keeps always on hand t t 'encral assortment of articles in his line, and s always ready to fill orders in the best style, Jan 28 tf T LOOK HERE! IUS undersigned have on hand a general assortment of STAPLE DRY GOODS GROCERIES AND HARDWARE. which they will sell low for cash or barter Oill and examino. April 13 P. A. SUMMEY & BRO Coach-Making and Repairing. JAMES bTbURPEE Jfikellatuf. RA- \ T the old stand recently occupied by R. S JJL Scbevcnell, offers for sale a lot of super! or articles of his own manufacture, at red a <ced prices—consisting of Carriages, Buggies, &c. Orders for any thing in hislinc thankfully received and promptly executed. JE9*Rcpairing done at shortnotice and on reasoflablu terms. NOTICE. T HE subscribers are prepared to fill orders fur all kinds of Spokes for Carriages and Wagons, Also, at the same establishment wc manufac ture all kinds of BOBBINS, commonly used in our cotton factories. All done as good and cheap as can be had from tho North. Address, P. A. SUMMEY & BRO. Athens,Ga. who will attend to all orders, and the ship ping if the same. March, 1854. SLOAN”& OATMAN, DEALERS IN Italian, Egyptian A American AND EAST TENNESSEE MARBLE. Monuments, Toinbo, Urns and Vases; Marble Mantels and Furnishing Marbl •.» 15T.UI or Jura promptly filled. . if *na ATLANTA. GA. Refer to Mr. Uo»s Crane. june!4 30 April 2*Jth r.T-~r s Flour fur*sale by Grady 4>«gtr>t.soN ELIZABETH, GRACE AND CHEL MARTIN. The daring exploit of two women in Ninety-Six District, furnisbesan instance courage as striking as any remem bered among the traditions of South Carolina. During the sieges of Augusta and Cambridge, the patriotic enthusiasm that prevailed among the people prompt ed to numerous acts of personal risk and sacrifice. This spirit, encouraged by the successes of Sumter and others over the British arms, was earnestly fostered by General Greene, whose directions marked at least the outline of every- un dertaking. In the efforts raa&r to-strike blow at the invader’s power, the son9 of the Martin family were among the most distinguished for active service rendered, and for injuries sustained at the enemy’s bands, The wives of the two eldest, during their absence, re mained at home with their mother-in- law. One evening intelligence came to them that a courier, conveying important despatches to one of the upper stations, was to pass that night along the road, guarded by two British officers. They determined to waylay the party, and at the risk of their lives, to obtain posses sion of the papers. For this purpose the two )'oung women disguised themselves in their husbands’ clothes and being well provided with arms, took their station at a poii.t on the road which they knew the escort must pass. It was already late, and they had not wailed - long before the tramp of horses was heard in the dis tance. It may be imagined with what anxious expectation the heroines await ed the approach of the critical moment on which so much depended. The ferest solitude around them, the silence of night, and the darkness, must have added ro the terrors conjured up by busy fancy. Presently the courier appeared, with his attendant guards. As they came close to the spot, the disguised women leaped from their covert in the bushes, presented their pistols at the officers, and demanded the instant sur render of the party and their despatch es. The men were completely taken by surprise, and in their alarm at the sudden attack, yielded a prompt sub mission. The seeming soldiers put them on their parole, and having taken posssession of the pape>s, hastened home by a short cut through the woods. No time was lost'in sending the impor tant documents by a trusty messenger to General Greene. The adventure had a singular termination. The pa roled officers, thus thwarted in their mission, returned by the road they had taken, and stopping at the house of Mr. Martin, asked accommodation as weary travellers, for the night. The hostess inquired the reason of their returning so soon after they had passed. They replied by showing their paroles, say ing they had been taken prisoners by two rebil lads. The ladies rallied them upon their want of intrepidity. “ Had you no arms ? was asked. The offi tars answered that they had arms, but had been suddenly taken off their guard, and were allowed no time to use their weapons. Tbey_ departed the next morning, having no suspicion that they owed their capture to the very women whose hospitality they had claimed. The mother of this patriotic family was a native of Caroline county, Vir ginia. Her name was Elizabeth Mar shall, and she was probably of the same family with Chief Justice Marshall, as she belonged to the same neighborhood. After her marriage to Abram Martin she removed to his settlement border ing on the Indian nation, in Ninety-Six, now Edgefield District, South Carolina. The country at that time was sparsely settled, most of its inhabitants being pioneers from other States, chiefly from Virginia; and their neighborhood to the Indians hnd caused the adoption of some of their savage habits. The name Edge- field is said to have been given because it was at that period the edge or bounda ry of the respectable settlers anu their cultivated fields. Civilization, howev er, increased with the population ; and ’.n the time of the Revolution, Ninety- Six was among the foremost in sending into the field its quota of hardy and enterprisiug troops to oppose the British and their savage allies. At the commencement of the contest, Mrs. Marlin had nine children, seven of whom were sons old enoagh to bear arms. These brave young men, under the tuition and example of their parent, had grown up in attachment to their country, and ardently devoted to its service, were ready on every occasion to encounter the dangers of border war fare. When the first call for volunteers sounded through the land, the mother encouraged their patriotic zeal. “ Go boys,” she said; *• fight for your coun try ! fight till death, if you must, but never let your country be dishonored.— Were I a man I would go with you.” At another time, when Col. Cruger commanded the British at Cambridge, and Col. Browne at Augusta, several British officers stopped at her house for refreshment; and one of them asked how many sons she had. She answer- ed—“Eight;’* and to ihe question where they all were, replied promptly:— ** Sevcii of them are engaged in the service of their country.” *• Really, madam,” observed the officer, snecring- ly, " you have enough of them.” " No sir,” said the matron, proudly, “ I wish I had fifty.” Her house, in the absence of her sons, was frequently exposed to the depredations of the Tories. On one oc casion they cut open her feather beds, and scattered the contents. When the young men returned shortly afterwards, their mother ba’de them pursue the ma rauders. One of the continental soldiers having been left at the houSe- badly wounded, Mrs. Martin kindly attended and nursed him till his recovery. A party of loyalists who heard of his being there, came with the intention of tak ing his life, but she found means to.bide him.from their search. Tro only daughter of Mrs. Martin, Letitia,married Captain Edmund Wade, of Virginia, who fell with his comman der, General Montgomery, at the siege of Quebec. At the time of the siege of Charleston by Sir Henry Clinton, the widow was residing with her mother at Ninety-Six. Her son Washington Wade was then five years old, and re members many occurrences connected with the war. The house was about one hundred miles in a direct line west of Charleston. He recollects walking in the piazza on a calm evening with his grandmother. A light breeze blew from the east, and the sound of heavy cannon was distinctly heard in that direc tion. The sound of cannon heard at that time, and in that part of the State, they knew must come from the besieged city. As report after report reached their ears the agitation of Mrs. Martin in creased. She knew not what evils might be announced ; she knew not but the sound might be the knell her sons, three of whom were then in Charleston. Their wives were with her, and partook of the same heart chilling fears. They stood still for a few minutes, each wrap ped in her own painful and silent reflec tions, till the mother at length, lifting her bands and eyes toward heaven—ex claimed fervently—“ Thank God, they ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE ReFUB LIC.” Of the seven patriot brothers, were spared through all the dangers of partisan warfare in the region of the “ dark and bloody ground.” The eldest William M. Martin, was a captain of artillery ; and after having served with distinction in the sieges of Savannah and Charleston, was killed at the siege of Augusta, just after he had obtained a favorable position for his cannon, by ele vating it on one of the towers constructed by Gen Pickens. It is related that not long after his death, a British officer passing to Fort Ninety-Six. then in pos- session of the English, rode out of his way to gratity his hatred to the whigs by carrying the fatal news to the mother of his gallant young man. He called at the house, and asked Mrs. Martin she had not a son in the army at Augus ta. She replied in the affirmative 44 Then I saw his brains blown out on the field.of battle,” said the monster who anticipated his triumph in the sight of a parent’s agony. But the effect of the startling announcement was other than be expected. Terrible as was the shock, and aggravated by the ruthless cruelty with which her bereavement was made known, no woman’s weakness was suffeied to appear. After listening to the dreadful recital, the only reply made by this American dame was, ‘He could not have died in a nobler cause !’ The evident chagrin of the officer as he turn ed and rode away, is still remembered in the family tradition. The eldest son married Grace War ing, of Dorchester, when she was but fourteen years of age. She was the daughter of Benjamin Waring, who af terwards became one of the earliest set tlers of Columbia when established as the seat of Government of the State.— The principles of the Revolution had been taught her from childhood; and her efforts to promote its advancement were joined by those of her husband’s family. She was one of the two who risked their lives to seize upon the de spatches as above related. Her hus band’s untimely death left her with three young children—two sons and a daugh ter; but she never married again. ELOQUENT AND PATRIOTIC. A Mr. G. Gallooiay, ed.tor of the Florence Gazette, recently came out upon Mr. J. Crawford, the editor of the Protestant American, published in Aberdeen, Miss., with great severity. Mr. Crawford is an Irishman by birth, a finished scholar, and formerly the President of the Jackson College. The following' is Mr. Crawford’s reply. It is an eloquent, powerful, overwhelming document: Here is no inconsiderable torrent of words, .but we must not become bewil dered. ‘ “ The two grains of wheat” must be found. The sting and -arro gance of the document, lie in the open ing sentences. Having; .disposed of them, the rest, which, 44 likeYlvounded snake, drags its slow length jpSon-gr” we can easily bury out ofour’sighi.' You charge against us, that we con duct a Know Nothing Jourr al. Did it ever strike you, sir, as possible, that the principles we advocate in this paper, and which you tear will arouse the in dignation of your readers, are the prin ciples we held many years before Know- Nothings had an existence? that we have not gone to them, but that they have come to us 1 that from the circumstance of our foreign birth, we knew the force and necessity, of one great vital doc trine of the American party, long be fore circumstances forced it upon their attention, so strongly tha- they cannot avoid it—they must meet it, and crush it, or be crushed by it. It would be of considerable advantage to you, sir, if, relinquishing y<»ur pre sent Qixotic battle against the Ameri can party, you would go and see your self what Popery is, where she has the power. You are now “ running a Muck’ with all the fury of an exasperated Thug, against Know’ Nothing newspapers— suppose you wipe your dripping brow, and let your panting system cool, and get a little information on the subject of Popery with power in her hands. It will teach you charity for the opiniens of those you oppose. It will give you time to practice your native politeness ; and you may cease to call us serf, slave sy ophant, because we chouse to set our face “ like a flint” against a system which enslaved, not the bodies, but worse, infinitely worse, the souls and minds, the hopes, the fears of its vota ries. You see, Sir, I am a cool man, a very cool man, (1 shall for the future use the singular number, it is more con venient and natural to me.) But let us look at the charge. What is my crime ? I, a foreigner, holdiug opinions which do not coincide with the views of Al. C. Galloway, am therefore a serf. I, an Irish Protestant, and found acting with a party, whose leading ob ject is to abolish the temporal power of Popery am therefore cru.-ading against my own couutrymen ! Shade of com mon sense, what ails the man 1 Did you expect me, Sir, to aid, either with my pen, or voice, a system which has hunt ed my fathers to the dungeon, and the gibbet. Which gave them the rack, for argument; which placed ou their legs the iron boot, and drove in wedge after wedge till the marrow over ran this Popish argument (!); which hud dling women and children into a house, applied the torch, and caught them as they ran madly out, on the heads of their iron pikes. With what party, pray, should I be?—Just where I am, Sir; with the American Party, because, it has raised its mighty arm, and sworn by Him that liveth forever and ever, that such scenes shall never be enact ed on American soil. THE PROSPECT. The American party has every rea son to be encouraged. According to tiie reports made in the Convention at Macon on the 17th ult. the party had nearly or quite doubled in the two months previous, and was then increas ing more rapidly than at any time before. Let every American be as earnest and active as his principles are pure and patriotic,—as vigilant and untiring as his opponents are crafty and unscrupu lous and he need have no fears but that the party will sweep the State with an overwhelming majority.-Rome Courier. RP 44 Plant a tree—a vine—deposit a flower seed and nurture its blossom— paint the fence—clean up the yard— fix the sidewalk—erect a tool-house— prune the orchard—make a hen-coop— in short, give heed to neatness and the little things that constitute the grand aggregate of health and public beauty.” State Teachers’ Association.— Tl’.e next annual meeting of the Geor gia State Teachers’ Association will be held iu M-icon on Wednesday, the-8th of August. What is my crime? That at a time when half a million Roman Catholics— the blind tools of designing foreign Priests, are pouring annually upon our shores ; I, an Irish Protestani, when the Press is placed at my disposal, should cry, “ There is danger, for God’s sake protect yourselves while you can. I knew them, where they had the pow er of numbers, and there they burned Bibles, they murdered heretics, they set the Law of the land at defiance, and would obey no law but the law of the Church.” This is my crime! This tiny only crime! And for this I am called, slave, sycophant and abject. And by whom? An American Protestant. A man whose ancestors periled all, for “ freedom to worship God.” How long will that freedom last, when Popery be comes, numerically, supreme ? Not an hour. How often would you, Mr. Gal loway, in beautiful Florence, visit the Methodist Chapel, if the Pope could prevent (and lie is only waiting nume rical strength.) Ah Sir, there would be no chapel there, the thunders of the Vatican would raze it ” from turret to foundation stone,” just as soon, as it had subjects enough to carry out its behests. Again 1 ask. What is my crime ? I entertain my own opinions. And for this, I am held up in this free land, as slave, serf, sycophant. And this cham pion of the freedom of thought!! This head of a party which professes to stand up like a Colossus, battling for freedom of opinion in the land. This excited Florentine, who goes about like another Old Mortality, with steeled chisel and incessant mallet, to keep fresh and legible, the principles of li berty of thought and speech, he calls me slave, and tool, because I do the very thing, for which his party fights! 1 I think for myself; but then it does not suit him. Sir I hrve resisted tyranny every where. I cannot submit to your ’ wards, dictation. I am an American citizen, registered before high heaven; and I hurl back your contemptuous sneer, with haughty indignation. Serf, slave, sycophant. Gracious heaven 1 Citizens of Aberdeen, amongst whom 1 havespent ten years of iny life, does my conduct justify the accusation ? Answer, for you know me. When did 1 sue for place ? When have the rich found me their humble servitor, or suppliant tool f What, in the midst of poverty, did I ever swerve from the direct forthright that I might thus mount a single round of the ladder of preferment. Never, never. I have been content with honest poverty, and honest toil; and rather than act the toady, 44 I’d be a toad, and live upon the vapor of the -dungeon.” Away then, with your impertinent in sinuation. Away, champion of freedom of. opinion! with your arrogant circum scription. You offer roe a compliment, and talk of ray talent, learning, honesty, patriot ism. Gramercy,. for|thy courtesy, good sir; but,in sooth.it comes in such doubt ful company that I care not to receive it Such qualities belong not to serfs, or sycophants. And one or the other I must be. I cannot be both. I fear, indeed, you write without thought. I fear, having early commit ted yourself, you are battling, for the sake of consistency, against your own habits of cool thought, till you are some what demented. The American jour nals, too, have so lashed and goaded you, that, like the angry bull m the am phitheatre, you shut your eyes and rush madly forward. No wonder, if you should occasionally dash against a rock, or tumble into a pit. And here, sir, 1 would dismiss you with kindness and sincere sympathy, did not the cause of the great Ameri can paity forbid me. You condescend to lecture your slave, and very eloquently tell me what I ought to do. Please except a return of the kindness, and let me suggest to you a wiser and more becoming course than you have been following. Iustcad of employing your time in maligning a party, which at least be lieves it sees danger to the cause of freedom lowering, and would strive to prevent it—instead of branding any Protestant foreigner, who chooses to assist in their holy work, as slaves, serfs, sycophants—first, pray for for giveness for the past, and then, armed in the might of a good cause, and with Heaven’s smile resting upon you, go forth, aud tell your countrymen that battle is approaching such as the world has never seen-thdt America is to 4 be the theatre—that Popery has planted her foot on your fathers’ soil, and says it is all her own—that she is filling it with cowled friar, and shaven monk, and slippery Jesuit—that frail women are imprisoned forever, iu this free land for the glory of god 1- Tell them that already freemen are commanded to disper-e from the polls, for the ballot- box is abolished forever—that the ships are coming over the ocean loaded, not with cannon, but with Papists, who will soon make the hour propitious—that Pius IX. already reaches out his hand to clutch the bell-rope, whose peal shajl ring the knell of American freedom !— Tell them to arise and flee to the ballot box, now, while the evil can be met there, or that hereafter they must meet it with cannon and bayonet, and blood and death. Tell them that freedom hunted from Europe by Popish tyrannv is pursued even here, and threatened in this her last abode. Do this, and you may help to consumate the glorious end. Do this, and you will gain peace of inind, in the discharge of yonr duty Do it, and your country will love you and posterity will call you blessed. But O, cease these furious onsets—abate your ludicrous contortions against the American party. Cease, above all, revile your fellow-mau for his ofin ions, and seek not to injure those who respect and desire not to annoy you. A JUST REBUKE. It will be peaceived from an article which we copy from the Rome Courier that the untimely and indelicate descent of Gov. Johnson upon that city met with a well-merited rebuke, in the unceremo nious withdrawal of the greater part the audience without hearing him. writer in the same paper further notices the occasion, as follows: “ For definite information on the sub ject, a count was made of those present and it was found that the American meeting numbered nearly, or quite, 450, while the Foreign parly, all told, could not number more than one-third that number. Whilst the ‘ Exodus’ was going on in their meeting, Judge Lumpkin paus ed until the noise and confusion should subside sufficiently to allow him to be heard. At the conclusion of his speech His Excellency arose and addressed the few who remained, and took occa sion to remark that * Those who left the call which was made, had sworn follow, and of course they must go.” A genius, with a face as long as a lad der, and about as narrow, solemnly as surts us, that whatever amount ‘cooing’there may be in a honeymoon,the party interested may be pretty 6u: having a fearful amount of 'billing after- [From the Charleston Mercury.] SOUTHERN FLOUR. A Liverpool paper by the last steamer has the following notice, which will be interesting to both our city and country- readers ~t BrEADSTOFTS FROM THE UNITED States.—The reports of the growing crops of breadsluffs in America are now favorable, and if the weather should be auspicious for the in-gathering, the quantity will exceed au average, as a greater breadth of land than usual has been sown. We are glad to find that Charleston (S. C.) is likely to be able to export flour, (which is very unusual.) for we have seen a very beautiful sam ple, branded Williams Bronson & Com pany, which will be sure to command a liberal price, as it possesses great strength, and is finely dressed. This flour, we learn on inquiry, was from Tennessee. We are also informed that samples of Sou.* from the mills of Knoxville have been received in this market equal in every respect to the best from any other quarter. Choice Georgiabrands have gained an establish ed reputation. The great difficulty with Southern flour has been in the imperfect milling and putting up. Remove this, and it will speedily take its place at the head of the market, at home and abroad. The flour of warm climates is strong er than that of the colder. It has more nutriment, and suffers less from trans portation. The flour of the Richmond Mills was especially favored in Califor nia. It was the only kind that could be depended on to bear the passage round Cape Horn without souring. Tennessee, Northern Georgia, and the Western Carolinas, thus promise to become one of the chief granaries of the world; and of a large part of this vast region Charleston is the natural market. It depends upon our merchants whether the advantages of their position shall be made tributary to the prosperity of the city. Wooden Nptmegs Outdone.— There is a Parrsian dandy, who, we think, rather outdoes Connecticut: 0. bad at hi? residence a complete costume groom. When offering an at tention to one of the fair sex, he tised to say, 4 Permit me to send you a Bduquet by my black servant.’ He then repaired to his garret, took out his blacking bottle, polished his face and hands, and knocked at the lady’s door. Here,* he said, 4 are some flowers sent hy my master to Madame.’ He had spent the last five fanes in the purchase. Madame was so delight ed with the present that she presented a louis to the bearer. That is a clear pocketing af three dollars and a lady’s favor in the bargain. Order of the Day.—The following Order of the Day was issued by Gener al Washington on tho 4tu of July, 1775, just eighty years ago, and one year be fore the Declaration of Independence made the day ever memorable : “ Camp at Cambridge, July 4, 1775. “ By His Excellency Geo. Wash ington, Commander-in-Chief:—Tfie General most earnestly requires and ex pects a due observance of those articles of war established for the government of the army which forbid cursing and swearing and dt unkennels ; and in like manner requires and expects of all of ficers and soldiers not engaged in actual service a punctual attendance on Divine service to implore the blessings of hea ven upon the means used for our safety and defence. THE TRUE POSITION. The following sentences close an article in the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel: “ As an outside Whig, we shall sup port in Georgia those men who aided id constructing the Georgia Platform, and who have always stood by it. We go for its early and fast friends. We have no idea of affiliating with or supporting those who **spit upon” and contemned it and its constructors in the outset, and who are now foroed to take position up on it, hoping to secure the public plunder. This we regard our duty, and the duty of all 44 Outside Whigs.” We will not only repudiate democra cy, but we will repudiate all who affiliate with it.” CATECHISM FOR THE SOUTH Who killed the New York hard de mocrats, the friends of the Constitution and the South? Franklin Pierce; Who sent Reeder to Kansas, as Governor, and who declines to try him for freesoilism ? Franklin Pierce. Who threatens to eut off the heads of those Southern Kansas officials, Judges Elmore, and Johnson, to gratify the abo liiionists ? Franklin’Pierce. Who sent Soule’ to Spain and then betrayed the Cuban patriot ? Franklin Pierce. Who killed the Cuban patriot, Pinto ? Franklin Pierce. Whom does that newspaper, which proposes to 44 ignore slavery,” recognize as its political chief? Franklin Pierce. For whom is the large majority of the anti-Americans working ? Franklin Pierce. Whom do the anti-American candida tes for Congress expect “ to go to,” if they should be elected ? Franklin PierUe. Who is it that the Montgomery Ad vertiser, is afraid to defend and ashamed to name ? Franklin Pierce. Whoappoints Free Soilism,(Reeder) to office, and turns Americanism (Wilson) out? Franklin Pierce. Montgomery Mail.] God’s people are like stars, that shine brightest in the darkest night; they are like gold, that is brighter for the fur nace ; like incense, that becomes fra grant from burning; like the camomile plant, that grows fastest when trumpled I on. tS^The opposition papers and oratory says the Athens Post, are continually parading the names of Layfayette, Mont gomery, Pulaski Kosciusko, DeKaib* - Baron Steuben, and u tew others equally distinguished, who, tired of despotism and enamored of liberty, came to thtX country and fought gallantly in the warof the Revolution. The memory of these will be revered and their deeds remem bered with gratitude as long as the Re public endures. But white the unties parade the names of the few who fought for American liberty—the right to think, to speak, and to act—why don’t they tell us of the many who came to this country and fought against American liberty in the same war? Why don’t they tell us of the ten thousand Hessians, who were not subjects of, and owed tio allegiance to, the government with which the American colonies were at war t These came to fight against liberty and for tyranny and oppression, and their deeds of inhumanity, bloodshed, and ra pine, cannot be recurred to even at this distant day, without calling up a thrill of horror. But few such as Layfayette and. his compatriots come to our country! while hundreds of thousads just like tho Hessians, are yearly landed upon ouf shores—-just as ignorant of our institu tions,and as prejudiced against us as those of their contrymen who fought on the side of despotism in the days of the Re volution. And £0 of the Catholic feature. They tell of a comparatively few good citizens who arc Catholics, some of whbni have already and would again peril their lives in defence of the country, but not a word have they to Say bf thb myriads yearly coming among us, nineteen-twen tieths of whom irremovably believe that their first allegiance is to the Pope df Rome, and would, were he to bid the’al to-morrow, attempt to tear id'otali tite 44 Stars and Stripes,” and flaunt tha ban ner of St. Peter in its place:' Away with all such arguments—they arc not worthy of serious notice. Benjatiiifr H. Hill, Esq, of La- Grange, publishes a card in the Repor ter in reply to his friends who from di& ferent portions oF thb Fotfrth District; have urge'd him to annoiiuce himself as an independent candidate for Congress. He gives his views at I'ebgth, upon t}ie different political organizations of the State, (repudiating the Dciriocrocy— sympathising with the American Party —and strongly favoring the SoiUk'eni Union Movement,) and expresses his willingness to serve the people if they desire to elect hitn, and will pbrffilt hlrri to act Upon his own convictions of tight and of duty, untrmnmelcd commit tals to any Party. Mr. Hill, is a able, independent, and fearless with all the qualifications.physical, mor al, and intellectual, which are necessai ry to success in the House of Repre sentatives, and nominated by the Ame rican Party, will give Judge WariLb a whipping race —-SoWherr. 'R.cior'je'r, FAILbRE OF Til E SAVANNA 11 MUTUAL INS.COMP. The Columbus Rnqu ; rc of tile t7tb inst., says ! , . . ; “ Hauing heard a rumor,a'uity or tun ago, that the above Insuitiitiuri had failed, we have some pains to ascertain the facts, as far as they have been mae public. From a circular addressed to two of our fellow-citizen.-, who had in sured in said office, we make the follow ing extract, which seems to cotoflriu tin; rumor alluded to. JVher^asj the losses of the Savan nah Mutual insurance Company have been such as to render the holder.- of its policies rib longer safe from I us-, the Trustees recommend to such holders to obtain other insurance. James MclIfcNRY, SecV,’* Pierce and Reeder !—IWo tried to make Kansas F.ee Soil !—Donut forget, that President Pierce sent that infamous Freesoiler, Reeder, to Kansas, as its Governor! Do not forget, that President Pierco keeps the Freesoiler, Reeder, iu Kansas, as its Governor! Do not forget, that the South has long complained to Pierce, against Reeder, without effect! Do not forget, that Reeder, the ap pointee and friend of fierce, has dono hard work against the South in Kansas, in his capacity as Governor 1 Do not forget, that it is a part of tile- policy of Pierce to disregard Reedo’s Free Soilism !—Mortgomery Mail. * I say,’ said a creditor to an easy debt- pr, * your note his been running a long time.’ 4 Ah!’ replied the other, 4 well. as the boy said of the Lnclassc!', l({ hi? »#