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ions relative to the government of the United States, and their deter mlnaiion to subvert it." But, Sir, after eulogizing Cath olics for their devotion to religious toleration in this country, you make two assertions, touching the Meth odist Church, for which I wish to arraign you, and for which the au thorities of said Church ought to arraign you, under that Section of our Discipline which forbids railing out against our Doctrim s and /U*- (ipline. Y'ou say: “And if I were to take the stump against you, I would say to the honest yeomanry of the country, ‘good people, if you think vour liberties will be any safer in the hands of Methodists than Catholics, you art vastly mis taken." “I would add, in humiliation but in candor, ‘yon have ten thousand times more to fear just at this time, from Methodists, than Catholics; simply because the first are more numerous than the last, because the first are actually in the field for of fice, while the last are not." If you have this opinion of the Methodist Church, you cannot be an honest man and remain within her jurisdiction. You ought to leave her communion forthwith, and go over to Rome, and doing this, you would not hare far to go ! Occu pying the position you do, I would not send a child to any school or col lege, over which you might preside. Nor do I think any Protestant pa rent or guardian, ought to patron ize any school under your care.— Your influence, whatever you may sPossess,5 Possess, is against the Protestant faith, and in favor of Catholicism. In a word, you are a dangerous man in a Republican Government. Upon the subject of religious fol eration by the Catholics, you seem to have fallen into the same error adopted by the lion. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a man for whom you have great regard now, but who, in the (lavs of Clay was a stench in your Locofoco nostrils! Mr. Stephens made the assertion in a public speech in Augusta, that “tne Catholic Colony, of Maryland, under the Lord Baltmore, was the first to establish the principle of free toleration in religious worship.’’ The Colony of Maryland was a Catholic Colony, and the “Tolera tion Act" was written by Lord Bal timore himself. The act is dated 21st April, 1649, when Lord Balti more was in the zenith of his glory. —Here is the language of that “Act’ of religious toleration: “Denying the Holy Trinity is to be punished with Death, and con fiscation of land and goods to the Lord Proprietory, (Lord Baltimore himself!) Persons using any re proachful words concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Holy Apostle or Evangelists, to be fined £5, or in default of payment to be publicly whipped and Imprisoned nt the pleasure of his Lordship,(Lord Baltimore himself!) or of his Lieu tenant General.” See Laics of Maryland at large, by T. Baeon, A. D., 1765. 16 and 17 Cecil ius Lord Baltimore. God deliver us from such tolera tion !— Death was the penalty for expressing certain religious opin ions, not acceptable to Lord Balti more and the Holy Catln die Church! Fines and whipping at the post, was the penalty for speaking the image worship of the Catholic Church.—• But I need not pursue this subject further —the ornes profundi is on your side. Speaking of Mr. Wesley, you say 1 “If Wesley were alive, what would he think of your midnight ■ plots, and open tirades against Pa pists? But a letter of his has been going the rounds of the newspapers, which the Know Nothings obvious ly think gives the sanction of that good man to their movement. Not so.—Mr. Wesley was not the man to write as inconsistently as their version of this letter makes him write.” Why, Sir, Mr. Wesley goes fur ther in his poltical opposition to Roman Catholics than the Ameri can party have ever proposed to go. The American party say only that they will not vote for Catholics, or put them in office, because their principles are antagonistic to the spirit of Republican institutions. Mr. Wesley lays down the compre hensive, but Z/w doctrine, in this very letter, that a no government not Homan Catholic ought to tolerate men of the Homan Catholic, ptersua sion. And to show fully and clear ly he sustains this position I quote _ .from his letter at length. You will “find the letter in Vol. 5, page 817, of Wesley’s Miscellaneous Works, dated January 12th, 17S0—it was originally addressed to the Dublin Freeman’s Journal. Here is what Mr. M esley says, in the very letter .you seek to deny out of: “I consider not whether the Ro mish religion is true or false ; build nothing on one or the other suppo sition. Therefore, away with all your common place declamation about intolerance and persecution for religion ! Suppose every word of Pope Pius’s creed be true ! Sup pose the Council of Trent to have been infallible; yet I insist upon it that no government not Roman Oath olic, ought to tolerate men of the Roman Catholic persuasion. “I prove this by a plain argument (let him answer it that can) —that no Roman Catholic does or can give security for his allegiance or peaceable behaviour, I prove it thus: It is a Roman Catholic max im, established not by private men, ’ but by public council, that “No ’ faith is to be kept with heretics.” This has been openly avowed by the council of Constance; but it lias never been openly disclaimed. Whether private persons avow or disavow it, it is a fixed maxim of the Church of Rome. But as long as it is so, nothing can be more plain, than that the members of that Church can give no reasonable security to any government for their allegiance and peaceable behaviour T herefore, they ought not to be tol erated by any government, Pro testant, Mohammedan or Pagan. You say, “nay, but thev take an oath of allegiance.” 'True, live hundred oaths ; but the maxim, “no faith is to be kept with heretics,” sweeps them all away as a spider’s web. So that still no governors that are not Roman Catholics can have any security of their allegi ance. “Again those who acknowledge the spiritual power of the Pope can give no security of their allegiance to any government; but all Roman Catholics acknowledge this; there fore they can give no security for their allegiance. The power of granting pardons for all sins, past, present, and to come—is, and has been for many centuries, one branch of his spiritual powers. Butthose who acknowledge him to have this spiritual powers can give no securi ty for their allegiance, since thev believe the Pope can pardon rebel lion, high treason and all other sins, whatever. The power of dis pensing with any promise, oath or vow, is another branch of the spir itual power of the Pope ; all who acknowledge his spiritual power must acknowledge this. But who ever acknowledges the dispensing power of the can give no security for his allegiance to any government. Oaths and promises are none ; they are as light as air ’—a dispensation makes them null and void. Nay, not only the Pope, but even a priest, has power to par don sins! This is au essential doc trine of the Church of Rome. But they that acknowledge this, cannot possibly give any security for their allegiance to any government. — Oatbs are no security at all; for the priest can pardon both perjury and high treason. Setting their religion aside, it is plain that upon princi ples of reason, no government ought to tolerate men who cannot give any security to that government for their allegiance and peaceful behaviour. But this, no Romanist can do, not only while he holds that “no faith is to be kept with heretics, but so long as he acknowledges either priestly absolution, or the spiritual power of the Pope. “If any one pleases to answer this, and set his name, I shall prob ably reply. But the productions of anonymous writers I do not prom ise to take any notice of. I “I am sir, your humble servant, ,i “John Wesley. “City Road, Jan. 12,1780.” But, Sir, you know as well as any living man, that the history of the Church, from the days of the j first Pope down to the iniquitous reign of Pius 9th, sustains Mr. Wes ley in his views of this subject, and justifies the steps taken by the American party. Notwithstand ing the oft-repeated profession of Catholic liberality am! Romish tol eration, so triumphantly paraded by you, and other interested aspi ' rants and unprincipled demagogues 1 —the Catholic Church has invaria bly shown herself to be destitute of . both, whenever she had the oppor tunity of using them.—Sir, intoler ance is an element of her faith, and persecution a specimen of her piety, and no man knows it better than yon do. In taking upon herself the obligation of “true obedience to the Pope,” the Catholic Church imposes upon herself a task that proves beyond all doubt, she can not, under any circumstances, re main faithful to that obligation, and yet maintain “allegiance” to such a government as ours! Sir, I have no patience with a Protestant Minister, who stands forth as the apologist of Catholi cism, nor have I any confidence in one who does it; provided he is a man oi intelligence, as I admit you to be. The only excuse I can ren der for your strange and inconsis tent conduct, is that you are in vour dotage—that you are a vio lent old partizau—and that you are the tool of designing demagogues, infamous disunionists, and unmiti gated repudiators. I shall not be at all surprised to hear that you have apostatized from the Metho dist Church, and gone over to the Roman Catholics. I learn from the Little Rock Gazette, a Demo cratic paper, that but the other day, Gov. E. N. Carway, of Arkansas, a member oftlie Methodist Church, had actually apostatized from Me thodism, and the Protestant faith, ami united with the Roman Cath olics. And what makes his defec tion, from the faith of his fathers, still more notorious, his organ is down upon the Protestant Clergy, in bitter and unrelenting denunci ations! I. believe that you are pre paring to go over to the Roman Catholics, and to justify your change when the time comes, you now as sert, “in humiliation but in can dor,” you say, that the people “have TEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE to fear from Methodists, than from Catho lics.” If you believe this, you ought to leave the Methodist Church instantly, even without the formal- ities of a withdrawal or expulsion ! even though you should be denied ad mittanceinto the Catholic Church ! I deny that we have “ten thousand times more to fear'' from the Devil than we have from the Catholics’ and according to your argument’ the Methodists are worse than the Devil! This, their most bitter re vilers and enemies, do not believe, and for obvious reasons. The Me thodist Church has no Bartholo mew’s Day, with its rivers of blood staining her garments—she never indiscriminately slaughtered the Albigenses, or Waldcnses, or Hu guenots—she never established an infernal Inquisition-—she never lit up the fires of Smithfield—never burned the Holy Bible, and pro hibited, upon pain of eternal death, the printing and circulating of God’s word— and last, but not least, she has not sought to keep the peo ple in ignorance. Wherever Me thodism has been planted, the peo ple have become great and happy. If you please, wherever Protestant ism has prevailed, the people have been prosperous and happy. But look to Ohl Spain, Italy, the Ger man Confederacies, Sardinia, Na ples, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Bavaria, Baden South America, and Mexico, where Romanism is the established religion, and the places of her influence, are a hiss ing and by-word in the eye® of the civilized world ! Protestantism has done more for the world in the last hundred years, than the Roman Catholic Church has for the eigh teen h undred years! Sir, the Puritans of New Eng land ; the Hollanders of New York; the Quakers, Lutherans, and Ger man Reformed of Pennsylvania; the Baptists of Rhode Island ; the Episcopalians and Presbyterians of Virginia; the Lutherans and fol lowers of Wesley and Whitfieid, of Georgia; the Ilugenots and Episco palians of the Carolinas; and the Secedcrs in several of the States, who were the religious pioneers of these States, were all Protestants and Know Nothings, and if they were living they would be asham ed of you and your teachings.— They selected this wilderness coun try, as their home, in order that they might enjoy those religious privileges from which they had been debarred in the old world, by the very Church and people you are seking to vindicate. But you will say, as you have done in substance, that this is no longer the char acteristic of Romanism. Why is it not? Has- she ever changed for the better ? When did she renounce her doctiines and practices ? Never! Rome is the same tyrannical system now, where she has the power, that she ever has been, and forever must be. Wo this land of ours, if ever Rome gets the ascendancy here ! Iler creed is the same here and now, in this respect, that it has everywhere been, and must al ways be. It is her boast that she is always right and knows no change. She practices her unholy inquisitorial and Jesuitical doc trines, in this country, as far as she can and dare act them out. Iler whole system is adverse to our republican institutions, and she hesitates not to declare it. She has publicly burned our Bible in different States in this Union, and recently in New York and Pennsylvania. Archbishop Hu ghes, the Head of the Catholic Church in this country, has taken an oath, adminis tered by the Pope of Rome, of which this is a part: “Heretics, schismatics ami rebels to our said Lord (the Pope) or his aforesaid suc cessors, I will, to my utmost power, perse cute and wage war with.” The Church of Rome declares all who are not its members to be heretics. It is painful, in view of all these things, to see an old Protestant Minister, whose head has been withered by the frosts of seventy winters, openly in the fields, advocating a Church whoso Bishops, Priests and mem bers, are “drunken with the blood of saints.” There is but one remaining feature of your singular address to Know Nothing Methodist Preachers, to be replied to, and lam through. You assail the now party on the score of its secrecy, and of its con cealment of its acts from the public. Had this objection come from any one but a Methodist Preacher, and a known advocate of Class-Meetings being held with closed doors, I would now dispose of it without occupying as much space as I shall do in my concluding remarks! Notwithstanding all the secresy in the now Order of Know’ Nothings has been set aside, by the act of the National Coun cil which created it, and notwithstanding our members tell all about their Councils, where and when they meet, and our ora tors read out, and publish to the world, our obligations, rules, and principles—it is still objected that ours is a secret Order, li able to be used for bad purposes—that we travel about with dark lanterns —that our proceedings are not restrained by the wholesome check of public opinion! Now, this, the great objection to our Order, comes from men who belong to Lod ges of Free Masons and Odd Fellows, and who have taken all the binding oaths at tached to the different degrees of these re spective Orders! The same objection is urged against the American party, by men who belong to the Order of Sons of Tem perance, who have deemed a rigid secret organization necessary to combat success fully, a domestic evil! It is urged in bit terness against the Order, by demagogues and partisans, who have acted for years with the secret political conclaves of their respective parties, who have held their meetings with closed doors— kept their places of meeting a profound secret—and when they have adjourned, they have en joined secresy upon all present! Last, but not least, this seccetfeature is urged against the American organization, by the vile apologists for the Catholic Church, and its corrupt Priesthood and membership, in this country. These demagogues know that the Roman Catholic Church, is a se cret society, directed by a talented, de signing,and villainous 111ERARCHY—ab solutely controlled by an anti-Republican Priesthood, to a degree which has never been exercised by any political party in the known world ! The Cbn/ewionaZ is a secret tribunal, before which every mem ber of that church is required to make known, not only immoral actions, but eve ry thought and purpose of the heart, and upon pain of incurring the anathema of the Church, which is equivalent to a sen tenco of eternal damnation ! The corrupt order of Jesuits, the infamous society of San Fedesti and the infinitely infernal so ciety of Irish Ribbon Men—these are all ! oath-bound societies of the Catholic Church I connected directly with the horrid opera i tions of the '•'Holy Inquisition.” I Now, I put the question to any man of . reason ami common sense, if Roman Cath olics ami their patriotic Demecratic ad ! mirers and advocates, in this country, are not the last men on earth, who should ob ject to the secret doings of the order of J Know Nothings, even if their secrecy were kept up? Every Roman Catholic in the known world, is under the absolute control of a secret society, by considerations not only of a temporal, but of an eternal weight I But 1 am not done with.these Democrat ic opposers of secrecy. The Convention which formed the Constitution of the United States, sat in the old State House in Philadelphia, with closed, Mmrsfrom the 2oth of May, to the 17 th. of September, wanting only eight days of four months.— That body of men, had a Door-keeper and Sergesnt-at-Arms, both under oath, to keep their doors barred, and all their pro ceedings a secret. So says Mr. Jefferson’s biography! And such men as Washing ton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Harrison, Hancock, Hopkins and others composed that body! During the war of the Revolution, Gen. Washington, Gener als Lee, Wayne, Marion, and others, organ ized a secret American Society, with its branches extending from North to South, having their passwords, signs and grips, and writing to each other in figures, and “an unknow tongue,” as the Know Noth ings have been doing, and all too, with a view to oppose Foreign intrigues and op pression ! It is as well known as any po litical truth, that Gen. Washington, at the time of bis death, was the President of the Cincinnati Society, a secret political socie ty, in which, we sec it stated on unques tionable authority, no man was eligible to membership unless he was a native Ameri can. The Columbian Order— known as the “Tammany Society,” was a secret po litical society and highly influential, and maintains its existence to this day, and without danger to the liberties of the coun try. Gen. Sam Houston publishes to the world that himself and Gen. Jackson were members of this Society. What say the anH-Americans to all these facts? Do they believe that Gen. Washington, or Jackson, would have united with any as sociation or order not purely American? Would either have entered into any polit ical league, when secrecy was enjoined, if he had not approved of the principle of secrecy in political associations ? Never! — From the characters of Washington and Jackson —the sacrifices they made fortheir country, united with their fervid patriot ism, and their known preference for eve rything American, Ido not doubt for one moment, that if they were both now living, they would unite with the veritable Order of Know Nothings! I believe the hand of God to be in this very movement, and as much in the secre cy of it, in the outset, as in any other fea ture. I regard the movement as one grow ing out of great crisis in the affairs of our country, and a precursor of a sound, healthful and vigorous nationality, and which will ultimately prevent the liberties of this country from being destroyed, by the machinations of such demagogues and factionists, as now seek to excuse Roman ism, and fellowship Foreign Pauperism. Secret societies are only dangerous to des pots and tyrants, and history shows that these above all others have made war up on them. They have denounced and pro scribed Masonry in every quarter of the globe, where they have had the power.— The Pope, with the aid of his Cardinals, have crushed the ancient order of Free Masons in his dominions. There is not a Masonic Lodge in Italy. In our own country, not a single Catholic is to be found associated with the order of Free Masons, anm why? Masonry is founded upon the Bible, ami requires the reading of the Protestantjßible in all its Lodges, and this don’t suit Romanism. We state these general and historical facts, without knowing anything of our own knowledge of Masonry. In the young and growing city of Knox ville, it is within our own knowledge, that many of the Irish Catholics attached them selves to the Order of the. Sons of Tem perance, with a view as they said, of throwing around them the wholesome re straints of the Order. On the first visit of a Priest to the city commonly called “Father Brown,” those Irish Catholics began to drop off one by one, until not one of them is now in the Order, and most of those who were, are daily seen drunk in our streets. Indeed, some of them in withdrrwing had the candor to acknow edge that the priest required tlu.a to do so! And why! Because, in all the Di visions of the Sons of Temperance here, we have the Protestant Scriptures read, and have Protestant prayers offered up.— This don’t suit the Church of Rome! I hare the honor to be, Very truly and frankly, W. G. BROWNLOW. Wrights an<! Measures. At the late session of the Illinois Legis lature a law passed regulating weights and mesures in the State, where no special con tract shall be made to the contrary. It ■ provides as follows: The weight of sheld corn shall be fifty- I six pounds per bushel. The weight of corn in the ear shall be seventy pounds per bushel. The weight of wheat shall be GO pounds per bushel. The weight of rye shall be 56 pounds per bushel. The weight of oats shall be 32 lbs. per ’ bushel. The weight of barley shall be 48 lbs. per bushel. | The weight of Irish potatoes shall be sixty pounds per bushel. The weight of sweet potatoes shall bo 55 pounds per bushel. The weight of beans shall be 60 lbs. per bushel. The weight es castor beans shall be 46 pounds per bushel. The weight of clover seed shall be 60 lbs, per bushel. The weight of Timothy seed shall be 45 lbs. per bushel. The weight of flax seed shall be 56 lbs. per bushel. The weight of hemp shall be 44 lbs. per bushel. I The weight of blue grass seed shall bo 14 lbs. per bushel. The weight of buckwheat shall be 52 lbs per bushel. The weight of dried peaches shall be 33 lbs. per bushel. The weigt of dried apples shall be 24 lbs , per bushel. The weight of onions shall be 57 lbs. per ; bushel. The weight of salt shall be 50 lbs. per i bushel. I The weight of stone coal shall be 80 lbs per bushel. The weight of malt shall be 38 lbs. per bushel. The weight of bran shall be 20 lbs. per < bushel. The weight of turnips shall be 55 lbs. per bushel. ' The weight of plastering hair shall be 8 | lbs. per bushel. The weight of unslacked lime shall be 80 lbs. per bushel. The weight of corn meal shall be 48 lbs. . I per bushel. j The weight of fine salt shall be 55 lbs. per bushel, All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the above are repealed. &l)t oa. Statesman. CALHOUN, «A. Thursday Morning, Oct. 11, 1855 TIIKJIS. gQpThe Southern Statesman is publish ed every Thursday morning at $2 strictly in advance, per annum; $2 50 if not paid within the year. Axreit* for She Statesman. The following named gentleman are our duly authorized Agents to receive sub scriptions and receipt for money: E. Barker, Calhoun, Ga. Elisha King, Adairsville, Ga. J. R. Parrot, Cartersville, Ga. J. L. Chapman, Fairmount, Ga. T. P. Fleming, Atlanta, Ga. C. W. Howard, Kingston, Ga. N. M. Howard, is our traveling Agent —authorized to take names and receipt for money, and Post Masters generally. . . . J-SgT” We are authorized, to announce the name ofTHOS. M. COMPTON, aaa Candidate for clerk of the Superior Court, at the ensuing election. NOTICE. On Thursday the 18th of October, the ladies of Calhoun purpose to furnish a sup per, and to offer a few fancy articles of their own making for sale. Tickets can be had forsocts. The prof its will be equally divided among the three churches in this place. V. ill not the citi zens aid the ladies in their laudable un dertaking? “CIRCLE OF INDUSTRY.” ■ I ■ (io noon, or not at nJ!!—We have been requested to say, that those wishing Daguerrean likenesses has only a few days left them to secure the same, as Mr. Mor gan intends leaving soon. His Gallery will be found over Jone’s Old Store, where he will remain but a short time longer to give good and durable pictures to all those who may desire them. In this week’s issue will be found a dissection of Rev. A. B. Longstreet’s Let ter. It is lengthy, we know, but it will remunerate all who will take time to read it. Election Returns. — Gov. John son is undoubtedly re-elected by an in creased majority. We shall be able to give the result in full next week. There is thus far a large majority against remov al. The Legislature largely Democratic. For Congress, Messrs. Foster and Trippe, Americans, are elected; and Messrs. Sew ard, Crawford, Warner, Lumpkin, Cobb and A. H. Stephens, on the Democratic side. Judges elected, Messrs. Powers for the Macon Circuit; Allen, for the South western; Bull, for the Coweta; Brown, for the Blue Ridge, and ’Sfcqmas, for the Northern. To ti*c Readers of the Southern Statesman. Frem circumstances beyond my control, the “Thirteenth Chapter of Chronicles” will not appear until the next week’s issue, when you will see a firm streak of LIGHTNING. ]Dr. A. I. Loiussberry.—Tn anoth er column, our readers will see the card of the above gentleman, patentee and proprietor of Abdominal Supporter and Hernia Truss. These health and life pre serving articles have been in use but for a short time, but with results the most gra tifying and satisfactory. In our vicinity, we might furnish a number of testimonials in its favor, but the modesty or diffidence of the inventor, or his great aversion to all Awr/zJvys, has prevented him from per mitting us so to do. We believe the Truss and Supporter are by far superior and the most valuable articles of the sort ever in vented. We have known the Doctor for some time past, during which time he has sustained the character of an honest, hon orable and Christian gentleman. For his sake, but more for the sake of afflicted hu manity, we wish him great success. We add the following from an eminent physi cian of our town : “Having examined Dr. A. I Lounsber ry’s Supporter, for the cure of Prolapsus Uteri, or falling of the womb, and having conversed with ladies of this place who I knew were thus afflicted, can, with confi dence, recommend it to the public as be ing the easiest, safest and surest supporter now offered to the public. Also his Truss for the cure of Hernia. This certainly is equal in all respects to the Supporter, and is superior to anything of the kind ever of fered to the public. Ladies and gentlemen would make life more comfortable to call and procure those instruments, while Dr. Lounsberry re mains in our place, with his accomplished lady, who will wait on the ladies at our old friend’s. Mr. Dunn’s. HENRY S. DAVENPORT. Calhhoun, Sept. 19, 1855, Additional References. 11. Owen, President, J. 0. Cooper, Di rector of Summerville Bank; E. Dickinson, Duke Williams, A. B. Washington. M. D., and Dr. Wilkerson, Sommerville, Tenn. Rev. Hall Morrison, M. D., Cottage Home, North Carolina. T. M. Patterson, Nashville, Tenn. Drs. Booth Guthrie, Dr. Gabbot, and S. Tate, Esq., Memphis, Tenn. Col. Boswell, Dunlap’s Springs, Bolivar, Tenn, Drs. Fenner, Snider and Harris, Jack son, Tenn. Dr. Tuthill, New York City. I®- Gov. Johnson's spittoon,—the “Georgia Platform.” “It is the misfortune of some men to be gifted with the faculty of exaggeration.— Georgia Platform." IST It is the misfortune of others not to be gifted with any faculty at all. Jia gazines.— Harper’s, for October, is upon our table, and we can but reiterate what has already been said of it over and again: that it is one of the most popular Monthlies in the world,as it well deserves to be. It has become one of the Literary wonders of this country, being almost ex clusively composed of the works of Ameri can authors and artists. It is a fact, wel known to its readers, that in all its pages its aim is the highest standard of Literature and the purest of Morals. Those of our lady friends, or gentlemen desiring this ex cellent„Magazine, can either leave their orders with us, or address Harper & Bros., Franklin Square, New York. Price: $3 per annum. Another good Magazine is Peterson’s, the October number of which we have also received. The reading mattar is, as usual, of the most interesting character. The fashion Plates far excel any contained in former numbers, and we notice, that like this progressive age, it improves at each ! successive issue, while every number seems to leave no room for anything superior, appearing to the most fastidious to have gained the “'top notch” in everything to which it is devoted. Next week, we in tend showing* through our advertising col umns, what Mr. Peterson proposes doing the year 1856, and we desire the ladies to read it and be convinced, that when they subscribe to bis Magazine, they get both an excellent and cheap one. Specimen ■ copies can be seen by calling on us. ‘•Windy.”— The Georgia Platform is a great paper—one of which th* “Sag Nichts,” the “pur furener,” and “Johnson ites” generally, can and ought to be proud. Its Editor is not only firm to his party, and an able advocate of those principles which take the “spoils,” but he is a real “scra per,” and with a little more practice and forethought, could be “tolerably funny.” In hi* last issue, he produces the following new end would-be chuckling suggestion: “that if it were possible for the Know- Nothings to have a more appropriate name, he would suggest that of “WINDY.”— Who would have thought of that but him? Who could have let it out “so nice,” even had it arisen in the knowledge-box of some others of the same opinion as himself? No one, and you deserve a complimentary notice for the same, Mr. Platform. Win dy '. We would suppose, that when you say the K. N’s., you have reference to the American Party, which some others of your firm, with equal suggestive propensi ties to that of your own, have seen fit to give that name. Well, if you don’t like that name, we are perfectly willing that you should try another, even “Windy”— but, do you know the only true title for your oion Party—an army of enemies to their country? I here propose, for your own benefit, to give it to you, and all oth ers belonging thereto. It is not “Windy,” but the '•'•Bogus Democratic Foreign Sag Nicht Tory Free Nigger Party.” Which sounds best, the above name or that of Windy ? Attention!—-Company.— O u r neighbor of the Platform last week, at tempted to give a facetious account of an epidemic prevailing in our midst, which he calls the “long faced” disease. We think that the editor of the Platform ought to be the last man to chuckle over a disease of the face. A man of his*rtraor dinary beauty should keep mute about the contortions of others’ faces. The disease that has seized upon his features is not ep idemic, but. is a chronic disease, and will likely carry him to his grave. How pain ful must be such a face! The Review.— It is needless to say that we regret the result of the election ■ just past, for we believe the principle* of the American Party to be the TRUE prin ciples of our country. The defeat of Americanism we regard as a great politi cal calamity. No one who has one drop of patriotic blood in his veins, can contem plate the great influx of Foreigners in our midst, without some apprehension of dan ger to the institutions of our country. Ev ery year 500,000 emigrants, almost as many as the white population of Georgia, arc landed upon our shores to swell the tide of abolitionism at the North, which is one day to roll down upon the South.— We desired that some discouragement should be given to this great influx of for eigners. According to the present laws of the country 500,000 foreigners may land at New York to-day—to-morrow they can proceed to Kansas, and in thirty days will be allowed to say whether or not Kansas shall be a slave State. We ask our Demo cratic friends if they can place their hands upon their hearts and pronounce this a just and righteous law? We are opposed to this feature of Squatter Sovereignty.— It is ruinous to the country, and must in evitably cause its downfall sooner or later. According to a law enacted at the last Congress, this distinction was made be tween natives and foreigners: a native can not sell his land and receive a donation of 160 acres of land by moving into the terri tories; whereas, millions of the rcriest serfs of Europe will be allowed 160 acres of land each, by moving here. Is this good political economy ? Every honest heart will answer—No! We have now aid-societies at the North, who are shov ing foreigners and abolitionists off to Kan sas as first as possible, to erect a free State : of that territory, and they will succeed, if ‘ we do not exercise a little more energy in populating Kansas with Southern men. > In view of these evils of which wc com plain, we repeat it, that the present elec tion affords us no grounds for rejoicing.— We have no hope that any reform will be brought about by the party at present in power at Washington. A party more con servative must get the ascendency. We believe there is material in the Union, yet, > to form such a party. The people upon [ the high-ways and hedges have not had ! time to understand and appreciate our principles. Great reforms must necessari ly be slow in their work. Under all the circumstances, our party has done well in I the State. We have endeavored to do our duty to our subscribersand our country in the canvass just over, for wo felt that prin ciples, without which American Indepen dence could scarcely be preserved, were at! stake. And we feel so still. We should not lay down outran nor because we have been temporarily defeated. Let us rally around our proud banner, till it shall float triumphantly over the whole Union.— Rome was not built in a day. Seven years was the cost of American indepen dence. He who falter* thus early in the action, is not worthy of the proud name which he bears— an AMERICAN. Judge Lumpkin** Letter.—We can now talk coolly and dispassionately about matters and things of importance, after passing through a heated election I canvass, and so we propose to notice brief ; ly the above gentleman’s letter, which ap ■ peared in the Rome Southerner some week !or two previous to the election. We no- I ticed in that paper, Lumpkin’s organ, an j elaborate letter, in vindication of himself I against the charges brought forth by some : of the citizens of the sth Congressional Dic : trict. It would seem that innocence would have elicited a letter from him before; but : the Southerner informs us that he appeared then only a at the earnest' solicitation of hi* friends—and from that we would suppose# it ha* not been the work of a clear con science. Why he delayed writing a letter till that late date, is very apparent: lie i knew very well that there would not be > time to di»prove his assertions before the election, and hence, to the satisfaction of . “his friends,” could make those false asser tions, and it being so near the time for vo ting, unintelligent citizen*, not being in formed to the contrary, would believe the same and vote for him. There was m great necessity one month previous, for the explanation he made, as at the time he made it. Ilia friends, however, were una ble to “draw him out" until upon the eve of the election. Truth ought never to fear discussion, and th* Judge should not have hesitated to defend hi* own good charac | ter, so soon as it was impeached. Whether the Judge is guilty of the charges made against him, we know not; but, from the statements of truthful men, and the assent given them by his long si lence, we were led to the conviction that he wa*. Why it was that he withheld his “explanation” to so late a period, we leave it to our readers to judge; from appear ances, we concluded that “there wa* some thing rotten in Denmark.” It was not our intention, at the outset, to discuss the merits or demerits of Judge Lumpkin’s let ter, so far as it related to the charges pre ferred against him, but to give a contra diction to the vile slander uttered by Judge Lumpkin, concerning ourself. Lumpkin spoke of the Statesman as the “hired agent of Col. will here inform His Satanic Majesty, that thia assertion is a base falsehood and the dictate of malice, uttered without regard even to the shadow of truth or justice. When we took charge of the Statesman, from the hands of its former editor and proprietor, Col. Dodd, we hoisted the name of Col. Tumlin, for Congress. We did so, because :he was our personal preference, and our I preference, because we knew him to be a man of principle, whose politics accorded with our own, and a worthy gentleman in every respect, as has never been proven to the contrary, while on the oth*r hand, we were aware of the fact, that Jndge Lumpkin had proven himself unfaithful and undeserving the support of honest m*n, in a great many of both his political and private actions. We advocated Tumlin** election farther, because we believed he would suit a majority of the people of thia District, just as any party paper wonld have done. Had any one else been select ed in Lis stead, we would have readily yielded our preference, for the good of the American Party. Tumlin has had nothing to do in the transfer of this paper from Col. Dodd to ourself. He brought th* pa per under no obligations to him. It is free and untrammelled. The assertion, then, of Judge Lumpkin, is/aisc and slanderous. Judge Lumpkin, no doubt, thought his d*- dcclaration would give credence, from tb* fact that Col. Tumlin was known through out the Cherokee country, and has always been known as a gentleman of great liber ality. Judge Lumpkin took advantage of this well known fact, to propagate a talse hood that would appear plausible to the reader. While we know this much of his letter to be so grossly incorrect, what opin ion are Meto form of the remainder ? If it be true, that Judge Lumpkin sub scribed to neither the Democratic Expositor or Georgia Platform — but we have seen no denial of the charge—we think we can, with propriety, compare him to the God serving hero; as presented in the fable: that a pious member of a Church once told the parson, that he had belonged to th* church for five and twenty years, and it had never cost him one cent. “May th* Lord have mercy on your poor stingy soul!” was the response of the minister of God. Judge Lumpkin has hold office for twenty years, and it is known, that up to 1854, it bad never cost him one cent, while it is also known, that so far from liberality or even justice to his political friends, he plead the Statute of Limitations, to avoid paying a just debt which he owed on* of his firm supporters— may the Lord have mercy on his poor stingy, dishonest, slan derous soul, and may the Devil nev*r draw closer to him than truth was when h* as serted the Statesman to be the “hired agent of Col. Lewis Tumlin,” is our sin cere prayer. mission of the American Party. The Louisville Journal is the prince of papers. It every issue is fraught with wholesome teaching of the true policy of our country. Think you not so, reader, after perusing the following article ? “The American party has a high and holy mission to perform. Its attributes ar* peculiar; they are such as have never be fore distinguished any political organiza tion in this country; It does not owe its origin to the crafty designs of vaunting demagoguos and unscrupulous tricksters seeking to build up for themselves a great hobby upon which to ride over the necks of the people into power and place. It is the result of a spontaneous uprising of • free people, in defence of their birth-plac* and their liberties. It wa* conceived by