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| I } 1 r T THE QUESTION SET I LED. The following letter of the lion. Kenneth Rayner, to Vespasian EHis, Esq., shows clearly that the appoint ment of a Pennsylvania Catholic to- a seat in the Cabinet, was the condition upon which Pierce got the Catholic vote for the Presidency, in 18i^L The re • suit of this corrupt bargain JM^cen the Pierce party anil the pretended Vice gerent of Heaven, was known to the villainous Nuncio before it was com municated to the American Minister at Madrid. But to the letter ; “ Raleigh, N. 0., July 19, 1855. “ My Dear Sir: I have received yours of the 16th insL, in which you re fer to the denial by the Union news paper, of the truth of the statement (first spoken'of by ine in my speech at Washington and .afterward-, by you. in your oration of the 4th) of Hoij. Daniel M. Barringer, our late Minister to Spain. •• Mr Barringer first mentioned.ihis matter to me last winter, in Raleigh. I have since taken occasion to allude to it several times, in delivering popular addresses. Jboqtfour weeks since, on ray return froih Philadelphia, I met Mr. Barringer in Bal.imore, and in the course of conversation with him, I men tioned the fact that I had taken occa sion to speak publicly of what he had ■said to me about the Pope’s Nuncio, at Madrid, having stated to him, before he (Mr. B.) had heard, and before the news of the same had reached Madrid, of the formation of Mr. Pierce’s cabi net, that he (thesaid Nuncio) could tell h'lnpne man that would be in the cabi net, to wit: Mr. Campbell, of Penn sylvania, a member of the Roman Catholic Church. “ This was as I had received the state ment from Mr. Barringer in the first instance, and it was thus that 1 had spoken of it. I asked Mr. Barringer, if 1 had repjeseuted him correctly, for that I should probably speak of it again, and J wished to he su o, that I might give the statement correctly. Mr. B. re plied that I had stated the matter cor rectly, and then went on to relate the occasion and incidents of this remark to him by the Pope’s Nuncio. “A few days since, I received a let ter from Mr. Barringer, dated ‘Niagara .Falls, July Oth, 1825,’ iu which, after alluding to Cite fact that he had Litely seen published a synopsis of my speech in Washingiion, in which I was report ed as having mentioned the matter in terms somewhat variant frpm those in which he stated it to me, and theu he /Mr, Barringer) goes on to reiterate •what lie had twice before Girted to one. “ 1 m ill quote to you, • verbatim, the language used by him, in nil extract from this letter, just received,(:o wit:) “ 1 Before I had any authentic and •certain news of the formation cf the Cabi j*rt, and while it urns still a subject rf •conjecture at the Court oj Madrid, tic .(the Pope’s Nuncio) told me that Judge «Campbell-, of Pennsylvania, tea's appoint ed, and that he teas a Catholic ; which jpus the first information I had, cither of Jiis appointment or of his rcligon. ■'•This is the statement, as L had given tir, when alluding to it in public; al though it might have been slighily vari- •od in the newspaper reports; and this, I think, establishes the charge, long since made, and believed by thousands, that there was an under standing, to cad it by no worse name, that the Roman Catholic vote should be given to Mr. Pierce, and that he, in turn, should give to that Church a seat in his Cabinet, as well as many other high positions. “You arc at liberty to make any use von please of this letter, in vindication of yotirscif against the charge of false hood by the Union newspaper, inasmuch as you based your statement on my .authority. Yours, very truly, “K. RAYNER “Vlsi*.\si.\n Ecus, Esq., Washington City.” FOREIGNERS VS. SLAVERY. It is the boast of the Democracy now that the foreigner is a more loj’al citizen to the interests of the South than our native-boryi soils of the North ; and they, cite ns a factAhe vptp, taken upon the a bill, wherein the North- Western States voted with more unity. for the bill that) the older Northern States They say, furthermore, that'the for eigners ijye more numerous in the West' than any where else. The forty-four who voted for that bill, and who by their votes aided in altering it as it came from the Senate, by engrafting upon it that odious feature of squatter sovereignty, were elected ip 1853, when that bill was not before the people. Their vote upon it was right-, so far as regards the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. But the democracy or foreigners thought differ ently, for those who advocated the bill Liverpool dates to July 28th, She reports a decline of 1-8 in Cot ton—sales of the week, 35,000 bales. Breadstufis unchanged. Consols 91. Accounts from the War unchanged. have nearly all been defeated. A have saul befere, wc have but little faith in the Administration democracy, and st ill less in the Northern foreigners. We give below, the letter of Dr. Thos. A. Anderson, of Tennessee, written in 1842, thirteen years ago, when he could have had no idea of the rise of the Know Nothing organization of 1.854-55. Dr. Anderson was a' Democrat. He went to London to sell lands, mid ndt to furth er any political part}'. He wrote home the facts that fell under his own obser vation. Read his letter; “London, England, Aug. 28, 1842. ‘'Dr. IV. B. Norton—Dear S.r: I have found it almost an impossibility to sell lands in Tennessee, to the Emigrants from this country. Nine-tenths of them have tire insuperable objection that it is laveholding State. Their prejudices in this respect are deep and rooted. They go to America with the fierce and fanatic feelings of the O'Connells, the Buck inghams and the Thompsons, on the subject of slavery, to sw.ll the ranks of the Abolitionists there. I have con versed with hundreds of the emigrants, going out from London and Liverpool to the United States, and find them for the most part an ignorant people. In fact, having no correct ideas or know ledge of our system of government—of our social and political state—-of ourcivil and religious liberty. They have beatd of America as a land, where every one in the non-slavtfholiling States does pretty much as be pleases} and were, in the ilnveholding States, the negroes work in chains for their white maters and are sulyected to starvation and con stant stripes^ftnd almost every cru treatment Thus Unbressed, fully nihe- tcnlhs of tbeso; emigrants go to America, thinking and feeing they have muission to aid in abolishing slavery here Texan and Mexican Revolutionary Movements—Gen. Houston. New Orleans, Aug 7. Later accounts from Texas bring reports contained in the San Antonio we Ledger of an extensive organization in Texas got up to aid the Mexican revolu tionists. The first portion of the ex peditionists arrived at Leom River Jflily 1st. Men were hourly coming in great numbers, and expected to cross the ^ureigu jfam. FROM LATER EUROPE. IRIVAL OF THE STEAMER §/ BALTIC. New York, Aug. 9th. The steamer Baltic has arrived with >rmtjjern ‘Mrjjtnnn. ATHENS, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, AUG 16. 1855. Fop Governor, GARNETT ANDREWS, OF WILKES. For Congress—Sixth District, For State Senate, CINCINNATI^ PEEPLES, For Representatives, JOS. B. CARLTON and THOS. F. LOWE. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MR. COBB’S I THE SPEAKING ON SATURDAY NIGHT. VOTE ON THE WILMOT PROVISO. . , _ In former times,when we charge Mr. Not ha *'"g be en present at the Town Cobb with having voted for “ the Wife Ha,, » on Saturday night last, a friend mot,” as embraced in the Oregon bill, bas fom'whed «Se following account of we were told he denied it fiercely. In tbe meeting: 1850, however, when he wished to show CimiSTY ; I had the privilege of his extreme tb.voliori to the Union. hej hearing our exceedingly deter towna- not only admitted that he had given this! matt and fellow-citizen, C. Peeples, on vote, hut in a speech delivered in the Saturday night last, upon the political Courthouse irr Walkinsville, (and which j issues now before the people. I lave we happened to hear) boastfully, as we heard every speech delivered in the thought, claimed that he had given Town Hail this season, commencing that vote! It may suit his purposes with Gov. fcobb’s; and I must confess now again to deny it. It matters not, that thereby I have been amused and however. The pec pie now know that mortified; pleased and chagrined ; and he and John II. Lumpkin both voted for indeed, have been in every other mood 'conceivable. I heard Gov. Johnson, Let us look into the nature of this. . . . ... TO ,. ~ . of course, when he threw down Whig vote. Every member of Congress is _ , „ 6 . ... r, ... . m, and Democratic bars, thereby allow sworn to support the Constitution. The . ’ J THE WATCHMAN tSTFOR THE CAMPAIGN!! river the 24th. Capt. Henry, late of j the Texan volunteers is their commander To meet the wishes of our friends, and He has issued addresses to the people of Texas and Mexico. To the former he says that it is his-intention to aid in the establishment of a republic under in the hope of aiding the great cause, we are induced to offer our paper for the campaign at FIFTY CENTS to sin gle subscribers, or TWELVE copies the protection of the United States. To for FIVE DOLLARS—the cash to ac- the latter, he says he wishes to see the company the order, in all cases Mexicans govern themselves. General Houston has written a letter publicly endorsing the Know Nothings. YELLOW FEVER. New Orleans, Aug. 6. The deaths of the last week were 336, of which 200 were from yellow fever. Liberty Council, No. 1C, of the American part;', meets in their Hall, over John I. Huggins' store, every Friday evening at 6 o’clock. The editor will be necessarily ab sent for the next three weeks. He hopes : — ; the paper will not suffer in interest in ADDITIONAL PER BALTIC. > the meantime, as kind friends have con On the night of the 13th ult.., the fire THE REMOVAL OF GOV. REED ER. The Eastern Argitt, publish.-d at Reeder’s former home, states that his re moval has elicited the^Mto^st expres sions or indiguatioia^^^^^^BMftrthe Argus, besides ilenrl ments.c unpleasant t dent. W “ Iav.nali: held in Kansas, oil Missouri invaders cabled ilpon* iJeUl T imd£l!ed their compin' tc G oYcrfiitff* cbanjl tig ~ li •st ei&tiou r another.* of the CfCi From the Sholhyvillc Expositor, Sint. 12ili, l«5t. JOHN MITCHELL ON THE PA PAL GOVERNMENT—A DOCU WENT FOR THE TIMES! John Mitchell, an Irish Refugee a man of distinguished talent, and a Catholic is publishing in the “Citizen, w a-series ofjetters addressed to Archbishop Hu ghes, of New York, in which he shows -up the great Prelate and the Govern ment ofRome in a most sriking man- net? Of the 1 latter he says : “Americans and those Irishmen who, in America, scornnd know what free dom and justice are, had better consid er a little the nature of the Papal gov ernment, in order that they may learn to regard it with utter execration as one of the worst and meanest despotisms that now deform Europe. ‘•Think, then,’ bf a government in which all offices of trust and emolument are filled hy clergymen and' monks? In which one of the ‘congregation,’ the congregation of the Index, with a Car dinal for a pr Pet, and a monk for sec retary, prescribes to every Roman what book he may read, and what not, un der pains and penalties ! In which an other congregation, called Inquisition or Holy Office, has cognizance of all heresies, blasphemies, bad books, pro fanations, abuse of sacrements, accusa tions of sorcery, and, in general, of eve rything that interests religion and the faith ? In wlMfeh the dungeons of San Angelo, and the galley, and the penal labor of the maTshes, and fines, and im prisonment, await those who may be convicted of reading any of the twenty thousand books named in the Index of prohibited literature, including the writ ings of Thomas Jefferson and Benja min Franklin ? In which certain bankers have a monopoly to sell some of the necessaries of life, in considera tion of lending ma aey to the Pope to pay foreign troops for Crushing his people? Need I say more l That these are the facts, neither your Grace, nor any one of your three Graces, can venture to dis pute ; asd, t»me, and to every Ameri can, and to every layman 1 have met w vWifh. they furnish the exact idea not on rvfty grr-hatl pjfc»yfAhe very worst Gov ernment of England and Ireland.” v/R IIIC nigm OI me lOlu ull^ Ul“ HI L eunlPtl tfl anrrn it Ir* 1 « l from the Russi.n halterie, iscojeJ ' ° 11 lils the new work, which ike French had j (y Superior Court for Clarke Coon- erected before S -bastopol. I. , . „ „ The German Diet accepts the propo- ^ commence its fa 1 session at Wat- sals of Austria concerning the three ad- kinsville on Monday last—bis honor dilional points submitted by Russia. Judge Jackson presiding. We believe The attitude of Austria causes con-, tbat the most imporlant ea5C likely to siderable uneasiness to the allies. • | ... .... „ ' Additional troops are being sent to come be ore ,l » 13 tbat ot ^ be State vs - Italy. General Tottleben is dead. ^ohn Epps, for the k'lling of hi The Turkish army at Kars is hemmed father. in by tbe Ru-sians, who ace preparing- — to attack and Erzeroum simultane- j EVERY BODY READ! ously. . j We shall endeavor to visit in person, Ihe revolt among the Arabs was or ibrough our agent, every county in caused by the scarcity of provisions. .. , - . . . .... * Turkish troops are constantly leaving | rt “ 3 ’ and sorae of those ,n ^joining. Ctr- Constaiuinople for Erzeroum, to assist ; cuits, at the Fall riding of our Courts, in the defence of the latter place. Ig it asking too much to request all our The Russians are fortifying the mouth ; _ . , ,. . . of the Don; nnd nhio placing obstroo- ! f " e!,ds who “d^d-oror, one of tions in the entrance. .them to pay without fail? Wc hope The French division will land at that not a single one will fail to respond Varna sometime during August, for the t0 t his call, campaign on the Danube. The general health of the allied Melancholy Accident.—On Friday ar xr CS i' 3 *f O0( *’ ,.. . , , morning Jasr, a melancholy accident oc Naples has prohibited the export of , , grain to tbe Crimea. i C8Tre ' 1 at Woodv.lle. Just as the train from this phti^e to Union Point was. put One of the most ludicrous efforts of j man) attempted to get oni board the tlic speakers and presses of the foreign cars, and missing his footing, fell upon party to strengthen it in the South is the attempt to fasten the charge of abo litionism upon the American Party. According to them, Wilson of Massa chusetts and Seward of New York are short time—notwithstanding the best in confederacy with the “ Know Nolls- ulC(]iCi j and s ^ ski „ was in atlea(] . ings” everywhere throughout the Union to abolish the institutions of slavery *and i,nce ' pull the constitution to pieces. Do j NEW CHURN, these very consideatc friends of for- . . . , " , , . cigners here ever say anything about 1 We have 1U3t tned-and therefore the fraternal bond existing between Sew-; s P e:ik knowingly—a new churn, (Till- ard and Archbishop Hughes? Do they inghast’s.patent) which is for sale by ever tell their hearers and readers about Suiumcy &, Jones, corner of Broad and the speeches of this man Hughes deliv- i *._ . rg,,. , . c ereJ in C.rroll Htdl in f,,o,!fSew,rd > ; Wa " 51 eel *- Tl " 3 cl,ur " ,s far 5 “l M " or Do they ever mention the fact that Sew- j to an y tb,n g wc h aTe ever seci * ,n tbat * ,ne ard and Hughes have been for years ‘‘as [ and will doubtless come into general thick as thieves,” and that it has been ^ use . L et our f rie nds give it a trial, the settled policy ol Seward to proni-1 .. ,, . T u i , . tiate the Catholic vote of this country for I Messrs * & J * have alw ^ s « h: ' nd the Presidency! Not they ! “Oh no, | a i ar g« and varied assortment of goods, they never mention” now the name of. both useful and ornamental, which they “the Nor:hem man with Southern prin-; arc aIwa *. b to exhi5it to , hcir ciples—they are as mule as the dead I r . , „ , , concerning the long array of Democratic ! fnen ‘ l3 ’ and atuxtremely low prices, uames upon the lists of the Abolitionists j 1 he public will do well to give them a and Free Soilers; it would never do to call. See advertisement in another col- give tha people “the truth, the whole Mt iViund, ‘I a a satisfied !?::: ll.-cdei* possesses lininit-s ; , honest^- and .-capacity, nnd a hi i.i who has these three q i ililies, don’t olWu^gut wrong.’ We li..p|K-u to know, ialtf that our Chief M igi>tr «te give (>ov6rnpr Reeder re pented perspiul assuTqifCre that ‘heap- proved of liis Cmuse, and would have acted precisely as lie did in the same poshihn.’’' 3 ••• Tile Hoi. A. II. SrHiuiK^s, in his letter to T. W. Thomas; ^latcd that the President sent Reeder 1 to Kansas to make it a free Stale, and the. declaration of iho Argiijt, that he give Reeder re-' phated personal a-surancei - that he (Pt^RCE) approved of hi* course, arid would have acted precisely dbhe- \did in the same position," proves conclusively the truth^T Mr. SrEftiENs’ position. — ('/iron. $ Sait. -*>< ■ — ^ihJIaitists in Georgia. — From the minntTP5*of the last Georgia Baptist Con veniion, we gathei the following statis tics of this largemnd re-p ctable denom nation: Npmber of Astoclation, 5g; Churches, 2*240, Of daided Ministers, 706 ; Licen tiates. 200; Communicant, 82,3000; (of •this number,21,000'are colored) Nett gain during the year, 1,148. As unassociated churches are not in Lduded in the minutes, and as the returns from eleven Associations are' taken from the minutes ofpreceding year the jicttial number^A'Brtptist imho State komewhat exi*«6d' tho number reported alwre. The increase in the last ten years has been 23,919 nt tins a lohg list of civilians to the army, we Unit -the names d AwhuV Siiaai; A Man who could help IIimself- A writer in the Christian Witness say bf the late Bi-hop' Griswold, tlrat not one an in a thousand ever gave so little P HNTMENTSi— The' Wash- 'trouble to his friends. Wimt lie could do for himself he allowed none to do for him. He was a hewer of wood and water, made his own fires, his own boots, carried his valise nd did bis own errands. RICH» in motion, Jeremiah Blackman, (fire- Wilmot Promo is either conslitotiooal I ia * <•«"•»«*, unp.rralleled ocoor- or it is unconstitutional. We will not insult Messrs. Cobb and Lumpkin by inquiring whether they believe the Proviso to be constitutional. Of course they do; for no honorable man will forswear himself; and if they believed it unconstitutional, they could not have voted for it without doing so! Are the people of the fifth and sixth districts willing, at this momentous crisis in our affairs, to send these men back to Congress ? If they beleire the Proviso to be constitutional, what se curity have we that they will not vote for it again ? rence with his party,) every roan to think and vote according to his conscience! Yes, he actually did say—and we would have every man calling himself a Demo crat, to bear in mind—that present issues are outside of the Democratic partys; l and of course that nobody was now | called upon to vote as a Democrat, that party being dead or forgotten, just as may suit the fancy. Bear in mind, we again say—there is uo Democratic party—active—now in existences ac cording even to the old “ coon-killer’s' admissions. Therefore, those who leave the former leaders of this party*, violate not their “sacred honors,” nor expose themselves to the horrors of a traitor’s doom. Gov. Johnson, as was clearly A MATTER OF TASTE. . We understand that the “ Fope’a Nun cio,” (who can bellow like the “ hulls I perceived, with his party, were on the ofBashan,”) speaks in all his public! Georgia Piatfom,so far as it regarded addresses of the patriotism and valor of] the “disrupting every tie,” past of it. Montgomery, Lafayette, Pulaski, De- And we would take ©ceasron, in this Kalb and Koskiusko, to whom be. says I connection, to warn every Union man, we are indebted for our liberties; ] that the so-called Democratic pattj-, while Washington, Green?, Knox, j with Johnson as its leader, is now at- Stark, Putnam, Sumpter, Marion, tempting to place our State in the pre- and the “embattled hosts of freedom” cise position he would have done had who were so Mn/brteuafe as to be native b * 3 P r,nc ‘P^ es been tr i um P^ aBt in the born, are never ntpntioned by him ! campaign between Cobb and McDcnald, No, no! Like his foreign coadjutors, I wbeB tbe ^ atter °* d gentleman was so THE DEMOCRACY OF GEORGIA ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Surely Satan himself never exhibit ed as nun ch impudence as the leaders, meu and presses of the Foreign- Catholic “ Dry-Rot” party of this State do, in charging the American Party with being unsound on the slarery question ; and this, too, in view of the fact that it has in national convention re cently adopted the only sound platform now before the country—a platform which the national Democracy cannot even attempt to adopt without bursting intotfragmems instantly. To add to the daring recklessness of their position on this question, these men have two individuals in the field for Congress, (Howell Cobb and John H. Lumpkin) who voted for the Wilmot proviso in ihe Oregon bill, and of course believe it constitutional. They are now begging the people of the fifth and sixth districts to send them back again!! What security can they give that they will not again vote for it, or for some other measures equally obnoxious ? And again, these “ Dry-Rot” gen tlemen are in full fellowship with and endorse the ftee-soil Pierce-Reeder ad ministration, which has made war up,»n, and endeavored to prostrate the New York “ Hards,” the only truly conser vative faction of the Democratic party at the North 11 And not only so; bat they are “ cheek by jowl ” with the Abo lition and Free-Soil fusionists of Ohio and all the free ^tates—ready to give the friendly grip and fraternal hug to Sumner, Chase, Ford, >Giddings, Sey mour, & Co-, and yet they denounce the he hates “the d d natives.” To such an extent is this carried, that we are told he never alludes to the splen did achievements of Scott,Taylor,Worth I effectually driven from the Cenrgia Platform—when, in his words— he“ did not want to stand on it.” It was said that this speech of Mr. the track; and before the cars could he stoped, was so badly crushed and mau- gled that he died of his injuries in a and others in Mexico, but can speak Johnson’s could not be answered •; and eloquently of “the patriotic Shields, the I so it has been remarked of every Anti s true Irishman V’ j speech delivered in that Town Hall.— His proposition, reduce! to plain j With peopte of common understanding. English, amounts »o this : That La- it would be useless to argue that mat- fayette, Pulaski and a few other distin- ter; for it is conceded by the candid, guished foreign adventurers, who loved that especially the coon- killer s military glory more than they did free- speech bore the impress of desperation , dom, achieved our independence, ahd an ^ worse than all, that he attempted that Gen. Shields fought the brilliant to deceive the people as to the character battles of Mexico! ! ! of the Philadelphia National Platform. This is a matter of taste. Mr. Cobb With all his professions of patriotism, has a right to prefer foreigners over '* demagogue” was w» itten on his foi c- and above his fellow countrymen, and I head, while his hands were stained with no man has a right to gainsay it. In | the Cooper contract. like manner, “the d d natives” Mr. Delony, a few evenings since may take it into their heads to prefer also addresse( j t h e good people. He is some gentleman over him as represen-1 a young man of promise and cleverness, 1 a tire in Congress; some one who, but we ° wou 'd exhort him to get better true to the instincts of his nature, loves em pi ovm ent than being a “ camp-fol- his own land and his own countrymen h ower >’ ofsuch a man and such a party better than all the world beside. The L s H. V. Johnson and his party. We man who does not is not safe to be trust- do not desire to wound his feelings, he ed with any thing. j cause we admire his energy and gener- lireathex there the man with seal so dead, American party, which is the only o::o a Who to himself hath never said This is my own, my native land 1 If such there be, let him go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung!” truth” in relation to the present political history of the country. Verily have we fallen upon evil times if s.ich men are suffered to control the destinies of the Union. D. L. R. Excitement in Kansas.—A gentle man just from Kansas, who left on the same boat with the bearer of the mem orial, praying for the removal of Gover nor Reeder, describes the state of affairs in and about Kansas, as exciting.—At Shawnee Mission there was a good deal of feeling on account of Gov. Reeder’s determination to ignore the so called Legislature.—The Editor of the Chicago Press, who met this gentleman, says: “Our informant had traveled through the greater portion of Northern Kansas, and given it as his opinion that before three months are over, every settlement of free state men in the Territory will have its rifle brigade. There is a fixed determination settling down upon them that “fighting” is to be the order of the day, and they are gjgparing themselves to meet the enemy af every point. They are not now excited, but are coolly at work fixing their fire-arms, running bul lets, making cartridges, and going through tbe drill exercise.” umn. We learn that our friend Bridge- man has a contract for the construction of a large number of these machines.— We don’t know how any body can keep hou-e comfortably without the churn and w.ashinjr machine. ANOTHER RIOT. At the late election in Kentucky, ano ther riot occurred. A number of Irish men attacked and shot down several natives. This sheddin'g of American blood by foreigners on American soil is a dangerous experiment to be tried, and no where more so than in Kentucky Some Irishmen were hung and several houses burnt. As a friend to law and order, we re gret—deeply regret—the occurence of scenes of violence; but if bad men will instigate ignorant foreigners to commit these high-handed acts, the sin be upon their own heads. When our fellow citizens are shot down by hirelings of the Pope for merely exercising one of the dearest rights for which Washingtoi Very sad.—A few months ago, an English family, consisting of a man, his wife, four children and aged mother, arrived at New Orleans, La., from Liv erpool. When the cholera came to that city soon after their arrival, the two elder children sickened and died, and fought and freemen died, we are weak enough to sympathise with them—albeit, we blush to say we have men among us unworthy of tie soil that gave them birth who are ever ready to take the side of the foriSgbers against their on the 28th ult, the man and his wife; countrymen. On two former occasions died within a few days of each other, of ^ — fouIldin America. Their black vomit, leaving the aged mother of the wife and two infant childreu, un provided, in a strange land. fate ought to bo a warning to their imi tators and followers of the present day which can- show clean hands in regard to this matter—which has been thorough ly purged of Us free soil . elements— with being dangerous to the South ! 1! Merciful Heaven! was such impu dence—such unblushing effrontery ever witnessed before! Let not the American party stop to defend itself againsufoese foul slanders, which none but a fool will believe, and none but a corrupt political trickster utter; but let il turn upon its traducers, let it charge frame upon them the fact that it is they who are guilty not only of selling, the birthright of the south for a mess of pottage in times past, but of an evident determination to do so again, provided they can secure temporay suc cess thereby. “Carry the war into Africa,” “ Cry aloud and spare not,” until the people are enlightened nr re gard to these matters. If, after having been properly informed, they still de termine again to trust those who have betrayed thorn, why then the sin will be upoti l heir own heads. But for Heav en’s sake, don’t let them be deceived by this most grossly slanderous and un founded charge against the only party which can possibly preserve our rights and the Union loo» al cleverness. Mr. Peeples has spoken twice. His effort on Saturday night, was far better than his previous one, and we may safely say—the best speech of the sea son. The answer of a candid audience, we feel very confident, will fully bear us out in the assertion. A number of An- RECENT ELECTIONS Kentucky,—“ Sam” has, as we ex pected he would do, swept every thing. ] ties were out, whose countenances will All his candidates are elected. do so, if their words do not. Tennessee.—We are sorry to say Without hesitation, and with a pas- tliat “ the young giajit,” our gallant na- Igionate fondness for truth, we do, with- tive State, lias disappointed our expec-1 out *• fear,favor or affection,” pronoune tations somewhat. It is true, we knew, Mr. Peeple’s, speech of Saturday night that Johnson was ten thousand stronger « unanswerable;” and any one denying than any man in the Foreign-Catholic it will have to do so at the imminent ranks, and that Gentry, although one of | peril of his reputation. the best men in the State, would lose a great many votes in consequence of his course in the last Presidential contest; hut notwithstanding these drawbacks, Success to Sa n and his mission. -'•-T-.A— '<■——; PUBLC DISCUSSIONS. Tbc people of Georgia are likely to be our confidence in the intelligence and 1 culightened(!) as far as stump-speaking virtue of the people was such, that we caR do it. We have heard of a great calculated on Gentry's election. In East many public addres6ses in litis section of Tennessee—glorious East Tennessee— the State within the last two or three the gains over Johnson were immense, weeks; and we presume it will he con- and had the same ratio of gain been tinued until the election, maintained throughout the State, the That a lree, fair and honest discussion American party would have triumphed Q f political questions is beneficial, we do by 20,000 majority, as it no doubt will not doubt; but that the consumption of do in the Presidential election—as in- barbecued meat and bad whiskey will dicated by the result of the Congression- prom ote the cause of good morals, re al election. ligion or politics, we do question ; and Alabama.—Full returns have not | f b at the abusive, heated, one-sided and been received; but it irpretty certain unfair 8pee ches, delivered for the pur- that Winston 1ms been re-elected. The p03e of deceiving honest voters, are an question of “ State aid” to railroad com- evilj and that continually, W e do know panies exercised a controlling influence, t0 be true> no doubt. North Carolina.—The election in | BARBECUE AND DISCUSSION, this State was for members of Congress There will be a barbecue and discus- alone. The Anti-American party elect- sion at the court ground in the Moun- ed a majority of the members. j tain district of Walton county, on the The recent elections—including Vir- Friday keforethe second Saturday in ginia—have clearly demonstrated that ] September, The public are invited to “ Sara” can carry all of them. attend. For tha Southern Watchman Mu. Editor: The Savannah Geor gian of June 19,contained the following base, lnw-fiung Roman Catholic libel against Hon. E. B. Bartlett’, of Kentucky, Grand President of the American order. It was copied by the Georgian and other Catholic organs in this State from that Pierce and Reed er, abolition reservoir, the Washington Star : Hz’s a Massachusetts Man —It seems that Senator Wilson & Ca’s new president of the Know Nothing National Council, Dr. Bartlett, is not a Kentuck ian, as alleged, but a Lowell Yankee, transpb^dtp Kentucky some ten years ago, wh® Ihe has been pursuing tbe businessot a theological and litera- i- rv teacher. He is in fact one of the ojflHfl|fe^unrigtiteoti*s and damnable” , class of Yankee deputy preachers or lecflHQPEof the class whose names are to be found upon the list of the three thousand abolition clergymen who anathematized the President, Congress, the South,' and Senator Douglas espe- cial'-j in hope of thus defeating the enactment of the Nebraska bill. This accounts for tbe fact that though from Kentucky, lie was a suppporter of the views of Senator Wilson in the conven tion, and the unanimity with which the Senator and all his abolition coadjutors there assembled sustained his preten sions, though a delegate from a slave holding State, over Barker, a pro-slavery New Yorker.— Wash. Star, On reading the above in the Geor gian, and other libels of the same sort, in other organs of tbe Toombs and Ste phens, Cobb and Johnson, and Kossuth “Dry-Rot” regency, I addressed the following note to Mr. Bartlett, in order to arrive at the true facts of the case : “ Hon. E. B. Bartlett : The South ern anti-American presses, orators, and party hacks are just at this time paying a good deal of attention to you, your political principles and affiliationsT As a matter of course, you are charged with being a Massachusetts Abolitionist, in full fellowship with Wilson, Grecly. and all-that crowd. Yon are charged alsq with having sympathised with the move ments of the New England clergymen who sent the anti Nebraska memorial to the Senate of the United Sates at the last session of Congress—you are de nounced, likewise, fur your opposition,