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LETTER FROM SENATOR BOR-
LAND—AMERICA FOR AMERI
CANS—THE RIGHTS OF THE
SOUTH!
Hon. Solon Borland, late United
States Senator from Arkansas and Mr.
Pierce’s Minister,to .Central America,
is now the senior editor of the Little
Rock Slate Gazetl ■ and Democrat. We
have received intimations that he w’tSs
with the American party in the great
national movement which is broaden
ing, deepening, and gathering strength
from day to day throughout the Union ;
but until the reception of his Inst paper,
we had not seen a full exposition of his
views. That number, however, sup
plies the expected nnnjfestd, in the
shape of a'mnnly, elhqtieiit arid perfectly
convincing lender which we nppsnc. 1:
is beyond doubt, one of the strongest
documents we have yet seen. We ask
all men of nil parties togivo it a candid
perusal; but especially call upon the
Democratic brethren of the able ex-
Senatorlrt give him a fair hearing.—
From thisnew development, °»r Ameri
can friends everywhere will perceive
‘that the good cause continues to prosper
and make substantial and valuable ac
cessions. Senator Borland’ 15 influence
ns powerful in Arkansas, and his name
'will be ‘ a whole team’ in the cause
'throughout the South and over the
Union, The following document should
‘be republished by every American news
paper in the South. Let the report of
"this ** signal gun for ‘ 56”reveb era * e the
.length and breadth of the land.
“ 0;ie blast upon the bugle-ho^n
Were worth a thousand mrn !
From ihf Little Rook Gazette an I De m osrat %
Our Position.—Born and reared in
the Democratic faith, and experienced
in the duties it enjoins, we have aban
doned none of its principles, but firmly
adhere to them all. And that we have
bpen faithful in the service we have
rendered in support of thqse principles,
we confidently appeal to till of whatever
party, who have known us, from our
first connection with public affairs, alike
in individual, official, and editorial
capacities; ns we are fully conscious of
having been actuated, in all we have
said or done, by a sense of public duty,
and a sentiment of devotion to the wel
fare of our country.
We have not yielded to th’s convic
tion hastily, or without regret. Indeed
we resisted it long; and even obsinate-,
ly ; for, with us, the ties of party asso
ciations, which had bound us for a life
time, were as strong as they could be
with any one, and were given up with
reluctance. But the signs of the times
were passin<z daily before us, and facts
were constan ly lorced upon our obser
vation, whose existence could not be
questioned, and whose portentous signi
ficance could not be disregarded. The
alternative presented to us was our at
tachment to the traditions and organi-
zations of a party, which had once been
sound in principle, national in its scope,
and efficient for good, but was so no long
er,on the one hand,—and our duty to our
country, on the other. Unlike a certain
would-be politician, and at present a
Democratic office holder in this State,
we loved OUT country more than p.nrty;
and in conformity with that sentiment,
we gave up the latter and adhered to the
firmer.
But while we ardently 7 cherish and
firmly maintain these principles, fact;
have forced upon ns the conviction that
the old party organization, called De
mocratic, which was originally formed
for their support, and for which, alone,
we belonged to it, has so far changed its
character as to be utterly incapable of
answering that purpose—to maintain the
constitutional rights of the several
States, and thereby preserve the federal
Union; indeed has not only become
thus incapable of good, but, by th^
abandonment of principle, by schism in
its ranks, and corruption in its practices,
is fast degenerating into an engine of
evil which, unless its career be speedily
arrested, must end in the subversion of
the Constitution and the ruin of the
country.
This is intended, not .as argument
or illustration, hut merely as an an
nouncement of our position, in respect
to the political parties now befo-e the
country. B it. as we alluded to the facts
which have forced us into this position,
it may not be inappropriate, even here,
to mention some one nr two of them,
which cannot be considered otherwise
than of a leading signification and im
portance.
Among these, is the fact that, since
the passage of the Katisas-Nebraska bill,
in all the Northern States, especially in
those called Democratic, where elec
tions have been held, or legislation had.
the nati nulity of the Democratic party
' is abandoned, and the sectional aboli
tion, element is trow in the ascendant.
For proof of this, look through all New
England, (including even President
Pierre's own New Hampshire.) wher*-,
in 1852, titer.'were but two anti-Dcmo
cratic States. What is their position ?
Democratic still—O yes! Yet abolition
to the core, and led on by Henry Wil
son, Chas. Summer, and John P. Hale !
1 hen look to Wisconsin, Iowa, and
even to Mr. * Douglas’, own Illinnis!—
Belonging to the Democratic party still
—Oyes! and boasting of it; yet tho
roughly abolitionized, and headed by
such men as Durkce, II .rlaud, and
Trumbull !
Aga.n, it is a fact, that the De:n crut-
ic party, in its State organizations, in
the North, so far as it has met in Con
vention, announced its position, and
put candidates in the field. Ins a bin
doned its nationality, repudiated its. Id
Constitutional principles, and in corpo-
rated abolition as an ehonant in its
creed. For p’oof of this, look to Oh o
and Pennsylvania, heretofore re
gar-led as the citadel of Democracy, in
(North, where, in their recent Qenits
itic Stute Conventions, the former
and the latter, which merely recognized
those States rights,'without which the
soothers State could not exist in tbe
Un ion, voted them down almo.-t unani
mously. ■" *'
Does ibis same Democratic organiza
tion in he.pther Stated north of Mason’s
and DiStm’s line, hold out any better
promise, or encourag■> any better hope l
If so we have been unable to discover
it. For, even in New York, where
once existed'the element:* and seemingly
the disposition, for harmonious reor
ganization of party upon national princi
ples, certain malign influences, said to
have emanated from Washington, have
so brok-n it into fragments, and arrayed
it into hostile factions, as to destroy ail
hope of Union.
Be ides tjvo other elements have been
interpolated into the creed of the so-
called Democratic party, which not only
did not originally belong to it, but are
repugnant to its principles, inconsistent
with its legitimate purpose, and danger
ous to the welfare of our community.—
Yet these elements are recognized and
proclaimed as part of the true faith, by
those who occupy the position of leaders
and teachers in that party organization.
The objecti< nable elements we allude to,
are, first—the advocacy of increase of
foreign born population, and the encour
agement of their growing importance,
until they are making rapid strides,
both morally jind politically, towards
an influence, which cannot be otherwise
tharr unwholesome an 1 dangerous, even
if it should not become actually para
mount in our country, unless firmly re
sisted ; rn:l second—that the members
of a Church essentially political in its
organization, and owing civil allegiance
to a foreign ecclesiastical Prince, should
be entitled to equal rights and privileges,
and should receive equal favor and en
couragement in all the relations of lift*,
public as well as private, with our own
native born citizens, whose religion is
between their God and themselves, and
whose civil allegi :nce is given, undi
vided to our government.
Tollie.ve doctrines as part of our polit
ic.tl creed, we could never essent, and
we could not belong, for an hour to any
party which admits them. But that they
are admitted—and earnestly insi-led up
on by the so-called Democratic party, no.
one can question, who has read its re
cognised organs within the last few
months,’or observed the course of its
high official leaders. Indeed, not only
do all the nevvspap. r organs of that party
proclaim these doctrines, but it might he
legitim uely inferred, from the teeming
contents oft heir columns/ ha they thought
from the time of the revolution down to
the present day, that virtue, patriotism,
intelligence, usefulness as citizens, and
piety as Christians, in our country, had
belonged, almost exclusively, to foreign
ers and Roman Catholics. Then what
is more notorious—more the subject o.
every day observation and experience,
than that to ignore those doctrines is so
grave a misdemeanor in federal office,
that instant dismissal is tho uncondition
al punishment.
We have no prejudice against for-
eigners, or eat holies—certainly not to tin*
extent of doing them any injustice. We
would 1 itoi exclude either from our coun
try—we would not deprive any who are
already here of any <>f the rights of
privileges they have acquired under our
Constitution and laws; vve would not
withhold from those, of go.d character,
who may hereafter come, any protection
or privilege, which may be necessary,
for their true interest and welfare, and
at the same lime compatible with tin:
safety of our institutions. But, while
we admit- that the lime was when bur
country needed and was benefit!e,d by
the coming in of the foreign population,
vve believe that time has pns-sJ, and we
need it no more. Especially do vve
believe that, instead ci'a benefit, it will
prove an injury to our country, if vve
continue to receive and admit to tbe
rights of citizenship the hordes of half a
million a year, a large proportion of
which are cuimiuals and paupers, that it
has now become the settled policy of
several countries of Europe to pour out
prisons and poor houses upon our
shores.
We believe this, as citizens of the
United States at large, when we regard
such a population in the twofold aspect
of iYs character-moral and political. In
its moral aspect, when we behold the
masses of German iofidt-ls. ignoring all
re’igton, who, with their anti-religious
and agrarian organizations are begin-
ing, already, to encumber tin social
system, disturb the quiet, and threaten
the safety of many large communities.
In its political aspect, when we find that
before many of them have learned our
language, studied our constitution and
laws, or become experienced in the
working of ont* institutions, they are
h'aifofed together?; clamorously demand
ing changes—radical changes—in our
form of government, vyhirh, if ever at
tempted, would d stroy the harmony
and benifi cnee of its operation, and
throw, wii it is now the palladium of our
liberties and happiness, into hopeless
anarchy and ruin. But not only do we
take this v iew of the case as national
citizens. It is as citizens of the South
as Southern men—that this immense
immigration of foreigners into the Unit
ed States, no matter from what countries
they may come, nor what may be their
religious belief, appears to us most
objectionable, and is hreatening the
most immediate and imminent danger.
We know that, as a rule, this population
does not come into the Southern States
The bulk of it—perhaps in the propor
tion of ten to one—settles, in some in
stances actually colon ze, the new
Northwestern territory, as last, almost
as it can be brought into market Take
this well known fact in connection with
the open and bold avowals of the leading
abolitionists, that in this foreign immi
gration, which lb ?y zealously encourage
lies the main hope of atiii-.-hivery, to | er
and inerea-e the already fearfn
rtion of the live over the
;es, and its hideous features of danger
to the South, are at .once disclosed.—
Who shall disregard them ?
In view of the foregoing objectionable
things, which we'find in the present creed
of the so-called Democatie party, as now-
organized, and which have been in
terpolated among its original doctrine#,
we can no longer consent »o be a mem
ber of it, and do not hesitate to say so.
But besides these grounds of positive
objection to it, as a party, there arc other
objections, of ^negative character, which,
even in the absence of positive ones,
would, in our opinion, leave it no longer
necessary, in deed, absolutely worthless
for the attainment of any good ends of u
public nature. We hold it to be thus
effete, for the reason, that while its prin
ciples, as the foundation of all good
government, are unquestionably sound
and will ever remain valuable, ail tbe
practical issues, of legislation, or of Ex
ecutive administration, which, since its
origin, have been in controversy between
it and the only other party, its great
antagonist, the old Whig party, have
been settled and disposed of, and are no
longer before tbe country. As a useful
political organzation, therefore, it has
answered all the good purposes it was
capable of—its porper mission is ended ;
and, like all other things which have
fully performed their functions, and lived
out their day, it will be continued only
to encumber the ground, or be perverted
to mischievous ends. And that it is
thus very rapidly falling a prey to such
perversions, we have already sufficiently
indicated our belief.
In the language of Daniel Webster,
then, when he found his old party as
sociations to be no longer a safe depo -i-
tion for bis principles, we have looked
about us and inquired. Where are w<*
to go ? For an answer, we have looked
in vain to our old antagonist, the old
Whig party ; for, from them, even while
they had up existence and an organiza
tion, we differed widely and. now. as they
themselves admit they have no longer ‘ - a
local habitation or a name.”
Where then are toe to go ? This inqui
ry is answered by the American Party,
which we find, though almost full grown,
like Minerva when she leaped into life
from the brain of Jove, yet y«»ung fresh
from the people, vigorous and untainted
with corruption; and, better than the
rest, with a political creed, leaving out
of view all the old issues which, having
formerly divided preceding parties, were
either, long since settled, or are effete,
and presenting a platform of principles
upon which every patriot may stand and
feel that, in laboring for their establish
ment, he is at the same time laboring for
the moral, social, and political welfare o!
bis country. Upon this platform
have taken our stand.
As this is intended only as the gener
al announcement of oar position, in te-
speet to the political organizations of the
country, with the sketch as we have
given it, of a mere outline of the con
siderations which have induced us to
assume that position ; and as this article
has already extended to a much greater
length than we intended for it, we shall
not go into detail here as to what we
h >ld to he the excellent features and
high merits of tho American organiza
tion, which have won oui con-eientou?
approval, and will command our undivi
ded support. Content with remarking,
for the present, that while, for the whole
Union, its principles, in respect to all
practicul issues now before the country,
whether moral, social, or political, are
better than any which can be found else
where ; they are, in reference to the
great and vital question of slavery, truer
to the constitution, and therefore better
for the South than any other party,
pretending to be national in its organiza
tion, ever has put forth or ever will
propose. Besides, it is the only organi
zation which, in our opinion, now exist;,
or can be formed, upon which it i# proba
ble, or even practicable, lo tflt-ct that
union of the Southern States, for the
safety of the South, which is indispensa
ble ; but which, once effected, as we be
lieve it may,and will b?,tipon this foun
dation, will command enough co-opera
lion in the sensible portions of the North
to s.vc our country from the dangers
which are impending over it from the
vandalism of Abolition. We cannot ask
Whigs to become Democrats, or Demo
ernts to become Whigs, front a feeling
which all men will understand and ap
pTeciate. But the appeal ought not to
be vain, and, in our opinion, will not be,
when we ask all to stand forward and
together, as Americans.
in disseminating here in Irelands LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Pope has not a more efficient or
free-handed institution at his beck than
the Imperial Parliament of this United
Kingdom, which spares no expense to
furnish his holiness with zealous and
well-informed agents for spreading his
dominion over the face of the globe.—
Does he require priests to establish and
extend it wherever the English lan
guage is spoken, the halls and dormito
ries of Maynooth are enlarged and the
larder abundantly replenished, to keep
up a constant supply of young ecclesias
tics for his service. Do these in turn
send home a requisition for teasers to
assist them in the work, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer adds some'ttflttj^tf
yearly estimate ior no-v
n Ireland; and contin
its of propagandists are
in readiness to move in
:he$all wherever Rome,
Heir services. It is high
thousands to;
tiohal edu
ua! rein for^
thus maint',
obedience^
may neei
time for American nation and peo
ple, if tlre^lo not desire to see their
institutions of learning transferred and
subjected wholly to the jurisdiction of
the Roman Pontiff, to reject such alien
importations, and keep their schools
under their own control and manage
ment.
ROMANISM—AN IRISHMANSPEAKING
FROM EXPERIENCE!
The Dublin Evening Mail, one of the
most powerful periodicals in the United
Kingdom, does not think at all badly of
the unwillingness of the American par
ty of this country to elect Papal Roman
Catholics to office; The following par
agraph from the Evening Mail we find
in the Dublin Warder, another paper of
distinguished talent and influence :
“ Know Nothings —The people of
America, alarmed by the overweening
assumptions of the Church of Rome
and no doubt warned by tbe power she
has acquired over popular education in
Europe, are taking energetic proceed
ings to exclude the influence of the
priests from their national schooll
throughout the Union. By the last mas!
we learn that the “ School Trustees of
Louisville Ky., have decided on dismis
sing several teachers in the public
schools, on account of their foreign
birth and their attachment to the Cath
olic faith.” The wisdom of this decis
ion is apparent for the reasons assigned
fur it. The fore’gu birth and Rom
ish predilictions of the teachers thus
dismissed are sufficient evidence that
they have been imported into the United
States by the Church of Rome, with a
view to pervert the secular education of
the country to purposes of proselytism
They are, in fact, emissaries of the Col
lege de Propagande Fide, and have
been trained and qualified, no d >u’»t, ft
the must part under our National Board
of Education, to carry ont abroad thi
principles which it has been so success-
HEALTHOF CITIES.
As a general rule, when 4%e body is
examined after death, whether of a child
or adalt, one or more organs are found
in a ottafis of disease’; a fact which in
duced a physician to state that he
looked upon every adult which he met
in the streets of London as a walking
museum of morbid anatomy. Out of
49,039 people who died in London in
the year 1840,22,275 were carried off
before they reached the 15th year ; and
only 2,241 died of old age, which Bo -r-
havc stated to be the only disease natu
ral to man. In addition to this, it must
be known that out of the number of
deaths thus mentioned, 14,368 were
from diseases of the organs of respira
tion, and the great source of the e dis
eases was the respiration of impure air.
One grand means to prevent such
diseases is to have well ventilated hou-
and to keep the air in motion, for
in warm weather the always con
tains a large quantity of animal and veg-
table matter, in the form of the ova < r
infusoria and the seeds of the lower
vegetable organisms. The act of breath
ing, too, is a great cause of rendering
tho air impure. The air in the lungs
is exposed to 170,009,000 of cells, hav
ing n surface equal to thirty times that
of the body ; so that during respiration
the air is deprived of oxygen and be-
" e comes loaded with deadly carbonic acid
gas,.and is rendered totally unfit for a
second respiration, being, in reality, no
longer atmospheric air, but a poisonous
gas. A second cause of the deteriora-
on of the air, is the combustion of
lamps, gas lights, candles. &c. A single
ca-dlets nearly as injurious to the air as
a human being ; two fourteen hole ar-
gand burners consume as much air a?
eleven men. A third source of atmos
pheric impurity is the vapor, loaded
with animal matter, given off from the
lungs anc^the skin-; each of these parts
pour out an ounce of fluid every hour;
so that, in a church containing five hun
dred people, twelve gallons of noxious
fluid are given -off in two hours. A
fourh source of bad air in towns is the
large quantity ol decomposing animal
matte left to give off its effluvia ; and
the difficulty there is in the renewal of
the air in towns by mean; of the wi ids,
>n account of the vicious mode of their
con- tract ion. and their large size.
Certain diseases are traceable to the
want oftfresh air; such as fiver, con
sumption, scrofula, deafness, and the fer
tile origin of numerous diseases the
common ‘cold.’ In England and Wales
120,000 people die annually of consump
tion, nnd the greater amount of case3
is among indoor laborers , and in the
city of New York about 3300 die
of con umption per annum, most of
these being confined within doors.
One grand means of promoting health
would be the construction of better
ventilated houses. No living, sleeping
or working room should contain less
than 144 superficial feet, nor be less than
eight feet high, and it should have one
window at least, opening at the top,
“also an open fireplace to the chimney.
Every building»in which gas is used,
Itould have plans to carry off the pro
ducts of combustion, and not to allow
them to escape in the room and also to
supply fresh air.
Diseases that arise from want of veil
tilntion, are a scourge to society.—
Those who are merciful to animals,
should not forget that they need plenty
of fresh air likewise. This, we are sor
ry to say is but little thought of by the
maj rity; horses are housed most mis
erably in our cities, and this is one
great cause of a disease called the heaves,
(the- Jiorse consumption.) The high
rents for both dwelling houses among
the poor, and for stables of our carmen,
are, no doubt, the reasons of putting up
with small apartments. What the reme
dy of this evil i; we are not able to di
vine, and a great and growing evil it is.
Scientific American.
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ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER\
N
imtlieni
turn.
WASHINGTON.
EIDER« AND THE CONSTITUTION.
SEBASTOPOL TAKEN.
AUlliD LOSS THIRTY THOUSAND.
'* ——
The American steamer W ashington
lias arrived.
SebMStO[M>l was taken on the 8th, after
three days bombardment a id six re-
puls,-s..
Tile Allies lost thirty thousand.
Tbe Russians evacuated the place af
ter blowing up the defences, sinking the
ships and firing the buildings.
Five French Generals were killed, in
cluding Bosquet.
A large quantity of munitions of war
were captured
A large force of the Allies were
marching along the coast for the purpose
of cutting off the retreat of the Russians
by land.
It is reported that the Allies have or
ders to demand the unconditional sur-
render of all troops and military stores , an( * Thursday?,
and defences, including those at Odessa.
Another attempt had been made to
assassinate Napoleon.
The Cotton market is easier, owing to
the advanced rates of interest.
Breadstuff’s unchanged.
ATHENS, GA.
THU*9AT MORNING, 0€T 4, 1855.
ST. TAMMANY BEATEN AT HIS
OWN PRECINCT!
IIIS OWN COUNTY AGAINST HIM !
Whatever may be the result else-
where, there is one thing that affords u9
unalloyed pleasure—we mean the beat
ing of the “Knight of St. Tammany’*
at his own precinct and in his own
county. A man’s own immediate
neighbors are the best judges of his fit
ness for office. A large majority of the
unbought and unpurchasable voters of
Clarke county—a large majority of fifr,
Cobh’s immediate neighbors—regara-
less alike of the anathemas of the “Ath
ens Junta” and the thunders of the
AGRICULTURAL LECTURES.
The regular course of Lectures by
Dr. Lee, will be resumed on Tuesday
next. They are free to the public, and
we hope our agricultural friends will j Vatican _ have solehmlv proclaimed his
avaifehemsel ves of the opportunity thus unfilnesa to represent ihem in Congress,
presented of gaining much usefulinfor- This rebuke to hU vanity wil |, we trust,
mat.on in regard to the most important if he should be eIected> restrain him
branch of human mdustry. ; f rom
any further Wilmot votes, and
These lecures ere delivered m the makehim eIer mi „ dfu | „ f the fact that
old Presh,.er.an church on Tuesday, how „„ mucll his 0o „ ilituems maJ r0 .
\ spect him in the social relations of life
CORRECTION.
We are informed by tbe postmaster
at this place that we were wrong in stat
ing last week that our papers were
ways in the office on Wednesday night,
as on one occasion he had to send for
bt
FURTHER PER WASHINGTON.
All accounts concerning the fall of^ them'bn S Thursday morning. We thru
Sebastopol contained in the Govern- we were right—as we know they are al-
rnent despatches, generally concede , P ...
that the allies bold the city proper and " a ^ s 11,1 y mai in S seems
all fortifications therein; that the Rus- that the “ devil” neglected his duty one
sians have retreated across the bay, and time. We make this correction cheer-
now occupy the promontory and forts fully—but that one failure of the devil ^' gn
north of the city. , „ ^
The Paris pap rs are discu-sinir the ^ ['° mta | 13 accounts, ot the almost in
question whether Sebastopol will be var * ! tble failure of our paper to reach its
tenable long, as the Russians, are mas- destination at offices within a hundred
ters of the forts on the north side of the mii^ of this place. We know not who
It is rumored in London that the Rus- '° ^ ,me » hut trust tln-re may be no
sians are falling back on B iksha Serai ; c? ause complaint in future.
but the French rumors s.iy the Russians —— • :
will certainly hold the north side to the CLARKE COUN I’Y.
last extremity. j Below we give an official statement the,r res,dence —where they are both
—however much they may admire his
talents—they will not consent to be
bought and sold like sheep in the sham-
bles—they Will not support the preten
sions of those who barter away their
rights for the sake of a national reputa
tion.
The result in Clarke demonstrates
how easily Col. Franklin would have
beaten him in the District had he taken
the field at the beginning of the cam-
Here he was as well known as
Mr Cobb, and highly esteemed as any
man, notwithstanding insinuations to
the contrary. Nobly have the citizens
of old Clarke responded to these vile
insinuations, and whether successful in
the District or not, our worthy and gal
lant standard-bearer pjsses*es the proud
consciousness ;that in the county of
Loss on both sides upwards of thirty ofthevote of thig county on Monday best known—the people have nobly
ousand. . j i ast . I sustained him, and covered the St.
No news of the America yet. :
_ I We cannot suffer this occasion to pass 1 anaman y. ‘^ag-Nicht cohorts with con
Columbia, Sept. 28, p. ra. ; without a suitable commentary on the
has arrived, extraordinary course pursued by the
: leaders, whippers-in and minions of the
The steamer America
Mistake was made in Washington.
fusion and defeat.
We repeat, that whatever adverse
news we may receive from other por-
additional per America.^ Foreign Catholic party. Their conduct; ‘i 005 °f the District or Slate, the defeat
Admiral Bruat telegraphs on .... ........
inst.. that he cannot, in his mind, form on the day of election was worthy of the j of the Tammany Knight in his own pre-
an exact picture on the victory gained most zealous followers of Loyola. As
by the Allies. The multiplicity of j we , ast weok advii3ed our ft . ien Js would
works and defences, exceed bv far any-; . , ...
thing seen in a history of the war. ! ,,e the case ’ the J resci nd to the lowest
The capture of the Malakeff placed and Vilest trickery that has ever disgra-
in the hands of the Allies a large amount j ced any party within our recollection,
of materials. On the 12th; he says the Not onl did «. raean whUk » fli>w like
Allies are hastening preparations to pre-; ’ . , J
vent Gortschakoff from retreating in—j u a er ’ but brute f° rc ® was employed—
land. timid voters were gathered by the lap-
The Paris Moniteur says forty-five pels a:.d skirts of their coats, draped up
hundred French were wounded and two 1 jq the ballot-box, and forced to vote,
thousand killed. Th" English loss is two
thousand killed and wounded.
Gortsehakofl says five hundred 'RbsV
sians were wounded in the attack, and
with a>rear-guard of blackguards to pre-
Vetat interference in these high-hand'-d
measure*! Poor and ignorant
one hundred killed in crossing the harbor j whose hearts tlirob T >ed f or America and
The accounts are very indefinite.
A Brussels paper, Du Nnrd, says j ber sons > a * ler being brutalized with
that Sebastopol of the South is replac liquor, were bribed to vote the Foreign
ed by Sebastopol of the North, a formi- j ticket! Some were promised land rent-
dable position with innumerable guns U n _ som( , were
which a compact Russian army will I
henceforward defend.
Gortschakoff, by a momentary sacri
fice, avoided the useless effusion of blood,
preserved bis army, and placed it in n
situation enabling him to command the
south si !e of Sebastopol.
“ In carving a partridge,” says Sidney
Smith, “I splashed Miss Markham from
head tQ foot; and though I saw three
distinct brown rills of animal juice trick
ling down her cheek, she had the com
plaisance to declare that not a drop had
reached her. Such circumstances.are the
triumphs of civilized life.”
Indian Battle.—St Louis, Mon
day 7 , Sept. 28.—Intelligence has been
received here of a battle between Gen.
Harney’s force and the Sioux Indian^
on the North Fork, of the Platte river,
which lasted several hours. The-In
dians were routed with the loss of 100
killed, nnd fifteen women and children
prisoners. Harney had six killed and
six wounded.
fia
TirtEN and Now.—‘When Solon Bort
land was a prominent actor in a no-
very creditable disturbance at Grey town,
the Washington Union, was one of his
sturdiest defenders. And, to avenge
the insult of having a bottle threw- at his
bead, (by mistake,) did not the Admin
istration send off Com. Hoskins, to lay
Greytown in ashes?
All that was fifteen or eighteen
months since.
Borland, as it now appears, has man
fully resolved on- atoning for past dere
Actions, by repudiating sham Demo
cracy,” and confessing the creed of the
American party. The “ Union”
yesterday, therefore, turns upon him and
calls him all sortsof names—“ ingrate, 1
“ deserter,” &c., &c. Just like the
Union!—AT. Y. Express.
C^Europeans and Americans are
accustomed to regardthe Chinese as
novices in the arts and'science;, and yet
tbe imperial canal is one of of tbe most
gigantic works in the whole universe,
dLplnyjng eminent practical engineering
skill and genius in its construction.
- Somebody says that our pastions are
older than our rea-on, because passions
are born with us, but reason don’t follow
till a long time after. This is a slander
upon all babies. When a baby is spanked,
don’t he holler? Yes, and has’nt ho
got a reason!
year—some were promised
quarters of fresh beef—others were of
fered overseers’ places; and we heard
of one poor lialf-witted fellow, (a
resident of another county, at that,) who
was hired to vote tbe entire Foreign
ticket by the promise of a hat and coaH !!
In spite of all this trickery, bribery
sntl COtriiplicr., and a thousand other
low devices too mean to mention, our
Foreign enemies have met with a perfect
Waterloo defeat in good old Clarke
county, as the figures below will indi
cate.
Ordinarily we are not disposed to ex
ult ovel the party opposed to us-w.e nave
heretofore always found enough manli
ness in political opponents to command
our respect at least; but there is so lit
tle of that element in the organization
against which we have lately battled,
that we can scarcely repress those jubi
lant manifestations whicb such a victory
achieved under such circumstances, is
calculated to call forth. Let all the true
sons and friends of America reverently
return to the Supreme Ruler of the
Universe their heart-felt thanks for their
signal victory. '
Where now is the enemy’s proud
boast of the 150 majority by which they
predicted they would carry the county ?
Where is the money they spent in treat
ing—in paying taxes, and in bribing
voters ? Gone—gone ! And above all,
where is the money they have staked on
the result of the election ? It is in their
adversaries’ pockets !
cinct and his own county—where it was
expected his personal popularity would
effect wonders for him—will afford us
unalloyed pleasure.
OUR LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
We specially congratulate our fellow-^
citizens upon the triumphant election \
of the entire American ticket in this '
county. Notwithstanding the three
gentlemen are as worthy of the confi
dence of the people as any others in the
county, from their nomination to the
closing of the polls on Monday evening,
a systematic attack upon them, person
ally , was kept up by the myrmidons of
4he Foreign party. No calumny, how
ever base—no abusive epithets , how
ever low an I contemptible—were spared
during the canvass; and on the day of
election, treating, brute force and bribe
ry were resorted to, for the purpose of
defeating them. But all—all—without
avail! Most nobly have the free
men: of old Clarke vindicated their
CiHhcteM against the vindictive and
envenomed slenders with which the pub
lic mind was poisoned. Let our ad-
rersaries learn in future to conduct them
selves in a different manner.
In the discharge of our duties as a.
journalist and an advocate ofihe princi
ples "of the American party, we have at
times handled our adversaries wiihbut
gloves—but we have never descended,
and never shall, to personal attacks in
our columns upon the private characters
of their candidates for office. We have
at nil times endeavored to treat them
like gentlemen ; and in the exercise of
that charity v»hich “ thinketh no evil,”
we have never impugned their motives
nor called in question their patriotism?.
This was the course we marled out foi*
our guidance at the beginning. How
far we have been euabled to act in ac-r
cordance wiih it, we leave an intelligent
public to judge.
One thing is certain. We would now,*
or at any other time, prefer an honora
ble defeat to the most overwhelming-
victory, purchased by questionable
means.
Yes. and a mighty good
reason, too.
■ !
In an obituary notice of a lad twelve
years old, the writer says: “ Munroe
was a very bright, proud, active boy ;
he was very anxious to be a man—
always wanted to wear a standing col
lar.”
CLARKE COUNTY OFFICIAL.
> Sr* F* *
“ 8*1 5
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An ingenious Londoner has taken out_
a patent for tipping cigars with an ig-
nitable composition capable of being
fired by friction, so that when a smoker
wishes to light a cigar, he has only to
rub the end of it against any jiart\ sub
stance.
Andrews,
Johnson,
Overby,
Franklin,
Cobb,
•Peeples,-
Billups,
Carlton, )
Lowe, j
Delony, >
Dicken, j
No removal,
Ti> Atlanta,
Scattering.
163 242 11 51 11 478
118 234 3 28 10 393
4i 97 14 4 7 162
205 291 18 55 17 586
117 269 5 25 8 424
1-81 287 20 52 14 554
132 248 3 25 12 420
191 SOS 20 53 14 586
183 256 19 53 "22 530
128 290 4 25 5 45-*
12g 221 825 5 376
244 13.6 10 71 16 477
7 94 15 Q 122
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SENATOR BORLAND’S LETTER.
Read attentively the letter of Ex-
Senator Borlaud, of Arkansas. Always a
prominent Democrat, we would particu
larly commend it to the atten'ion of
ttfose who still persist in calling, them
selves by that once honored name, not
withstanding they have departed from?
the ancient principles of Democracy.
NEWS;-
In these election times, we trust our'
readers will not expect any thing in the?
shape of news, farther than election rc-'
turns and the taking of Sebastopo?.-^-'
Indeed, we have searched diligently ini
our exchanges, and the result, ihougUl
meagre, 13 r"^