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toistituiiamilist K JUpnlilir BY JAMES GARDNER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2S. OFFICE ON MoINTOSH STREET, THIRD DOOR FROM THK NGRTH-VKBT CORNER OF BROAD-STREET. TERMS. Daily in advance per annum $6 00 If not in advance per annum 7 00 Tri-Weekly,in advance.per annum.. 400 ’'lf not in advance per annum 6 00 Weekly, in advance... .per annum 200 O’* No Discount for Clubs. No name entered upon our Books, unless the or der is accompanied by the cash. The El Dorado Outrage and the National Intelligenoer. Such, in late years, has been the proneness of the National Intelligencer in every case of diffi culty between our Government and a foreign power, to become the j istifier or apologist of the latter, that nothing of that kind now takes us by surprise. We do not think the designa tion it received from the Washington Union as “The organ of foreign influences” too harsh or unjust. The pernicious influence of that paper in this respect cannot be too heartily deprecated, for there are numbers of minor papers in the States, Georgia among the number,; ever ready to copy the editorials of the fHßNilftnctr and chime in with its when it promises a hope of creatrag a prejudice against or counteracting a measure of a Demo cratic administration. Some papers act as if the sole purpose of their existence was to oppose the Democrats. So strong is this feeling that even the sympathies of such papers will, mo mentarily at least, lean towards a foreign power if a cause of offence arise towards it during a Democratic administration. Hence the readi ness of the Intelligencer to apologize for and even justify the late firing.at the El Dorado by a Spanish vessel of war. Hence the alacrity with which the editorial of the Intelligencer is copied. The Washington Union thus happily replies: The El Dorado Outrage.—Facts of the Ca»k.— The briel allusion made by us on yester day to the late outrage upon the steamer El Dora do by a Spanish frigate was based upon unofficial intelligence, but so well authenticated that we felt authorized to rely upon its correctness. We have been favored by the State Department with a copy of a letter of Captain Cray, the commande; of the El Dorado, addressed to the acting American consul at Havana, which we publish below, and which fully sustains the ac count on which our comments of yesterday were made. The insult to our flag was flagrant, wholly unprovoked, and,without the shadow of pa'liation. An armed Spanish man-of-war de liberately Gres two shots at one of our regular mail steamers, stops her on her voyage by force, and compels her to submit to a search by a Spanish official! It is difficult to conceive of a grosser outrage upon our national flag, or a more deliberate insult to our national honor, or a bold er assertion of “ the right of search.” It the rase takes the usual course, the /acts wih be forwarded to Madrid, where the Spanish govern ment will he called upon lor reparation. The Spanish Government will claim time to send to Havana to procure evidence, and in the mean time, whilst this delay takes place, some other American vessel will be fired into and searched ' i'neorT’Vmt Injury are never of atoned for. We will not pursue the subject, but only remark that our flag and oui honor have been insulted and the right of search practically asserted. We have full confidence that the President will do his duty faithfully in the pre mises. The letter ot Capt. Gray is as follows: Steamship ElDorado,) Havana, March 8,1855. J Sir : 1 have to report to you that on the night of the 6th inst., while on my passage from As pinwall (N. G) towards this place, with the United States mails and California passengers, I was Gred at, and brought to, by the Spanish fri gate “Ferolona,” the circumstances of which are these: The night was beautifully clear, with a smooth sea and light breezes from the south and cast. At twenty minutes past midnight I made Cape Antonio light, bearing north by west, (per compass.) steering north by west } west, and a few minutes afterwards a ship was seen on our port bow, with her head to south and west and courses hauled up. At about 1,15, when she was two points forward of the beam, and distant from half to three-quarters of a mile, without signal of any description, she Gred a shot at us, which fell about twenty yards from the ship on port side, abreast of fore rigging. I immediate ly ordered the helm put a starboard, and ran down towards her, intending to pass under her | stern; but, when within three hundred yards of j her, she Gred a second shot, which passed but a j short distance over the port wheel-house from forward to aft The engines having been pre viously slowed, I stopped them, and ranging up under her stern, asked what he wished. He re plied by asking what ship it was, and where I Was from. I told him the United States mail steamship “El Dorado,” from Aspinwall, bound to Havana. He then told me to back and wait. After stopping some minutes I again hailed and asked him what he wanted, and to know if he was going to keep me there all night. He an swered by saying be wou'd send a boat along side, which he did. When the officer came on board, he requested Co see the papers. I show ed him the clearance from the United States con sulate at Aspinwall, and also the bill of health; after reading which, he told me I could proceed as soon as the boat got a short distance from the ship. The detention of stopping being about forty-five minutes, besides running out of my course. . I would further remark that during the whole night my signal lights were burning bright and clear, and that I was pursuing my course at a distance of fully eight or ten miles from any land, and without the intention of violating the laws of any country. I remain, with respect, your ob’t. serv : t. Alfred G. Gray- W. H. Robertson, Esq., U. S. Consul. We, William Brown, second mate, and Joshua H. Walcott, passenger, of the steamer “El Do rado,” which arrived yesterday morning at Ha vana, from Aspinwall, do hereby declare that the statements contained in the foregoing re port, signed by Alfred G. Gray, captain of the said steamer, are true and correct; said Brown was, when the occurrence took place, the officer of the deck, and said Walcott was also on deck part ot the time. William Brown, J. H. Walcott, As usual, and as if in duty bounty, the Intel ligencer is found on the foreign side oi the late El Dorado outiage. Its sensitive nerves are shocked at the idea of our calling it an “outrage.” It can see nothing unusual and nothing to con demn in firing cannon shots at and over our mail steamers when it is only done for the in rocent purpose of forcing them to “bring to,” that they may be boarded and searched, and when the shots do not happen to strike the ves sels or knock out anybody’s brains. We are tempted to ask what would have been the judg ment of the Intelligencer if one of the balls bad bored a hole in the El Dorado and sent her and I ail on board to the bottom? Its answer then would have been that the misfortune was the result of an unintentional bad shot, and, as it was purely accidental, the perpetrators < ught to be excused! But the case, as it occurred, is this: One of our regular mail steamers is sailing on her regular track, eight or ten miles from land, with her signal lights burning bright and clear, the night being beautifully clear, when a Spanish man-oi war, at the distance of half to three quarters of a mile, without signal of any descrip tion fired a shot at her—that is Capt. Gray’s language—which fell about twenty yards from the steamer on port side, abreast of the fore-rig ging. The captain of the steamer ordered the helm put a starboard, and ran down towards her, intending to pass under her stern; but when witbin three hundred yards of her she fired a second shot, which passed but a short distance over the port wheel-house from forward to aft. The engines of the steamer having been stopped, she was ranging up under the stern of the frigate, when the captain of the El Dorado asked what was wished. Upon being answered by the Spanish officer that he wanted to know what ship it was and where she was from, the captain informed him that it was the United States mail steamship, El Dorado from Aspinwall bound to Havana. This was not satisfactory to th Spanish officer; be went on board the steamer and called for her papers. These are the facts, as reported to our consul at Havana by Captain Gray. The Intelligencer, so far from seeing any outrage in this bigh-handed proceeding, actually gives Captain Gray a sharp rebuke for not stop ping his engines when the first shot was fired at him, or, as the Intelligencer has it, over him. It says, “in common courtesy the steamer ought at first to have stopped.” But more than that, the Intelligencer says the Spanish frigate was in “the exercise of a universally-acknowledged right.” We knew that the British government set up high claims to the right of search and the right of visitation on the high seas, and we knew that the Intelligencer was not lacking in ad miration for British rights; but that our govern ment ever has or ever will concede such a right we are far from admitting. But. that we may not be charged with misrepresenting the position taken by the Intelligencer, and takfii with all the confidence of one speaking by r. ithority for the Spanish government, we quote its remarks entire: “The last ‘outrage’ which the ‘Union’ has heralded is that of the shots fired by a Spanish cruiser over El Dorado, going in the night into Cuba. The armed ships of every independent government have from time immemorial exercis ed the right of ‘bringing to,’ as it is termed in n mtical phrase, any vessel at sea the character of which they desire to ascertain. This was the sole object ol the Spanish ship-of-ivar in the case of the El Dorado. The first shot, fired over the bows of the steamer, not having had the ex pected effect of arresting her course, a second was fired, but neither of them with the inten tion ot doing her injury. It was the exercise of a universally-acknowledged right, and in com mon courtesy the steamer ought at first to have stopped to satisfy the ship-ot-war that there was no ground of suspicion as to her real character. It was nothing more than the accustomed chal lenge which every sentinel is bound to make, ot ‘who goes there?’to one who is approaching or passing a military post.” We respectfully submit that our people ought not to be much surpused at the repeated ag gressions and insults ot Spanish officials in Cuha, when they have a guarantee in the past that they can commit no outrage so flagrant that it will not be promptly excused or justified by the Washington organ of one of our national parties We venture to predict, that when the organ of the Spanish government at Madrid comes to speak of the El Dorado affair, it will manifest quite as much respect tor American rights ai d American honor as are contained in these re marks of the Intelligencer. As that journal at tributes to us a “keen scent in winding national indignities,” it will pardon us for informing it that the sentiments of the extract above seem to us to smell strongly of a Spanish origin. The Intelligencer knows what the object of the Spanish officer was; it know that he had a sole object—that obj-ct was to “bring to” the American steamer; :t know* that the first shot was fired over the bows of the steamer,and net at her. as asserted by Capt. Gray ; it knows that neither shot was fired with any intention of doing any injury; and then.as if speaking so; the Span ishgovernment.it a -»ertsthat “it was the exercise high seas may be very acceptable to the Intelli gencer, but we shall be disappointed if the American sentiment does not regard it not only as an outrage, but one which calls for exempla ry reparation. If the armed vessels ot other countries have the “right” to fire cannon balls over and around our merchant ships to" the pur pose ol forcing them to submit visitation and search, the high seas are not as free as we had suppose them to be. But the right of “bringing to,” and visitation and search—all which aie in effect the same thing—so confidently claimed by the Intelligencer for the Spanish vessels on the coast of Cuba, is too important to be passed over without a more thorough examination than w*» are now able to give to the subject. We shall recur to it in our next, and at present con clude by warning the Spanish government against being deceived by the Intelligencer into the belief that her armed ships can commit such aggressions as that upon the El Dorado without disturbing the peaceful relations of the two countries. The Intelligencer prates much of its conservatism and its love of peace ; but its habitual course of apologizing for the ag gressions and insults of foreign governments is the most effectual mode that it could adopt for ] encouraging repetitions of outrages which must ultimately result in a resort for rediess to coer i cive measures. The Charleston papers announce the death oi two respectable citiiens of that city. James Lamb, for many years a leading and successful merchant, and E. C. Scott, a highly estimable citizen, who, lor the last nine years, held a re sponsible trust in the office of the Charleston Mercury- Mr. Scott was a native of that city, and died in bis fortieth year. The Present State of the Usury Laws in England. The March number ot Hunt's Merchant's Magazine is on our table, containing its usual va riety of interesting mercantile reading. We extract from its pages the following pro positions deduced from the report of a recent action on a Bill of Exchange, in the Court of Common Pleas, in London, and the deeision of the Judge. It furnishes a brief summary of the existing law ol Usury. 1. No person can legally take more than £5 por cent per annum interest on loans under £lO, except pawnbrokers,and except on bills of exchange and promissory notes at less than three months’ date, or having less than three months to run. 2. Any rate of interest may be taken on bills of exchange and promissory notes, although under £lO, at three months’ date, or not having more than three months to run; and there may also be collateral security on land for the payment ot such bills or notes. 3. Any rate of interest may be taken for sums above £lO on bills of exchange and promissory notes of moro than three and less than twelve months’ datoor time to run, and also on all other contracts of similar date, provided there bo no landed security. 4. In all other instances the old usury laws are all in force. There is said to be in Illinois at least twenty per cent, more wheat at the present time than in any previous year. T'ue winter has been exceedingly favorable. Lola Montez is about returning to the stage, in her double capacity of actress and danseuse. She has made an engagement with Mrs. Sinclair, and after a brief tonr of California, will return to “the States/' How to Stop the Brayino or a Ijo.neeY.— M. Hue, in his Travels in China, relates iowing amusing story : “ In IS4O, we were once making a jourr.ejf iD a wagon in the province ot P kin. Oureqf ip age was under of one of our 'V wh ists. and old schoolmaster, mounted on ? _nag nilicent ass, so lull of ardor and agility that the two mules who comi leted our team had all the difficulty in the world to keep up with him. This ass, however, was so filled with the sense of his own superiority, and so proud of it, that whenever he became aware ot the presence of any of nis brethren, let them be at ever so great a distance, he never failed to begin boasting o! it in such loud and sonorous tones, tbst bis folly became quite ’nsupportable. When we got to an inn instead ot trying to rest himself this in delatigable beast passed the whole night in prac tising his music; and there appeared to be some thing so peculiarly provoking in the tones of his voice that all the asses within hearing, influ enced, it would seem, by the power of some magnetic fluid, were quite sure to respond in a magnificent bra’ura, so that, altogether, it be came impossible to cioee our eyes. One evening when our catechist was vaunting the qualities of his ass, we could not help interrupting him. *• Your ass,” said we, •‘is an abominable brute. During the whole journey he has prevented our getting a wink ol sleep.” “Why did you not teil me so before ?” said the catechist: “I would soon have stopped his sinking.* As the ancient schoolmaster was somewhat of a wag, and in dulged occasionally in a small joke, *e took little notice of his reply, but that night we slept quite soundly. “Well, did the us make a noise last night ” said he, when we met in the morn ing. “Perhaps not; at all events we certainly did not hear him.” “No, no ; I thiok not.; I saw to that before I went to bed. You must have noticed,” be continued, “that when an ass is go ing to bray he always begins by raising bis tail, and he keeps it extended horizontally as long as bis song lasts. To ensure his silence, therefore, you have only to tie a large stone to the end of bis tail so that he cannot raise it.” We smiled, without reply, thinking this anotbe£.jjiece o< pleasantry; but he cried “Come you can easily convince yourselves.” And ac cordingly we followed him to the court-yard, were we beheld, sure enough, the poor ass with a large stone attached to his tail, and with the air of having entirely lost his accustomed spirits. Uie eyes were fixed on the ground, his ears hang down, his whole appearace denoted humility and dejection. We felt quite compassionate towards him and begged his master to untie the stone directly ; and as soon as ever he telt his musical appendage at liberty, the creature raised, first his head, then his ears, then his tail, at at last began to bray with all his wonted enthusiasm. Usury Laws in New York. The Committee on Commerce of the New York Legislature, to whom was referred sundry memorials, praying for a modification of the Usury Laws, have made a report favorable to the views of the memorialists, and concludes with the following statement of facts to sustain the argument of the report: First —That in tho richest and most comrercial countries, like England, Holland, ani the free city of Hamburg, for cxamplo the rates of interest rule at the lowest points. There the rates of interest have varied in tho -ixty years past from two and a half t“ six per cent Secondly The highest r.ites of practical interest rule in this State, where usury is made punishable with a tine of $ 1.000, impr sonment for si* months, and the loss of the whole debt, principal aad inter est, if more than seven per cent is received lor mo ney. The rich buyers ol notes at 2 per cent, a month in New York are the leading advocates of Usury Laws- Thirdly— Money is not cheapened to borrowers by stringent usury laws.nor can any Legislative acts fix permanent rates of interest for the uie of mo ney. Whore there is no contract for t'ic use of money, it is necessary and right for the Stote to es tablish a rate of interest The bill reported, how ever, only goes to the extent of modifying the ex istmg law 30 as to givo the bare principal, without interost, in cases of suit, to the lender. ' Fourth y— The rates of money will kltrtJS he according to the stringency of the money market, and the degree of confidence in business. Home tones it wiil be under seven per cent., a:, i some times above, and it is frequently loaned by the banks at five and six, and seven per cent ; but ,vh.u money is scarce, and the rates of interest capital, and this, without regsrd to the fF.tl nXed by law Fifthly— With an cxoepiion or two, of the two or three thousand meoiorinlists petitioning for a repeal of the law of 1837. all aro borrowers of mo ney, and your oommittee believe that the modifi cation they propose to the existing law, will result in benefiting this class of persona All of wh ch is respectfully submitted. (Signed) Bbastos Broom, l Commi tee Jas H. Hutchjns, ) Risk in the Western Rivers.— Subjoined is an extract from a letter published in the Savan. nah Republican, dated: “New Orleans, March 19.— Heavy rains have fallen throughout the city and country, and from recent advices received trom abroad a large and general rise in all the upper rivers and tribu taries is reported. The Arkansas river is said to have risen twenty-one feet. I think we mav, with some degree of certainty, da'e the opening ot navigation from this period, and the commencement of an active business season for the next two months.” We would add that the foregoing is corrobo rated by the last papers from the West It was believed that the rise of twenty-one feet in the Arkansas would produce a rise of at least six feet in the Mississippi. The Mobile Advertiser of Thursday says : ■‘We are at length enabled to announce the opening of navigation in our rivers with a fair prospect of its continuing long enough to bring to us a large amount of the cotton which has so long been waiting a ‘•rise” f«.r transportation hither. On Monday night ot last week the drought was broken in ’he country by a gene rous rain, and since then various sections bave been blessed with more or lees copious showers. On Saturday and Sunday we had some rain here, and are glad to bear that in the interior a good deal has fallen. The Alabama is high enough for any craft: the Bigbee is reported well up, and this evening despatches were received here stating that on Monday the Warrior had risen six teet at Tuscaloosa, and was still rising.— While we write too, the rain is coming down in torrents, with every prospect of an abundance ol the aqueous fluid.” A Washington despatch mentions a rumor that orders are about to go out to Havana for the naval force there to seek reparation for the El Dorado outrage. The steamer Princeton, with ten heavy guns, is already there; tne steamer Fulton, with five guns ; aud the sloop Falmouth, with twenty guns, are either there now, or will be very soon. On Saturday, a freight train vveigbing three hundred tons, and extending from town to town, passed over the suspension bridge, at Niagara Falls, settling it less than three inches. The Democracy of Rhode Island made their Sti.te Nominations on Wednesday, Potter, ol Providence, lor Governor, and Nicholas Brown, for Lieutenant. The Legislature of Massachusetts has passed an act, which has been approved by the Gov ernor, and is now a law, providing that either party to any libel for divorce now pending, or to be herealter commenced, may, at any time be fore the trial thereof is actually comnr.enced,de mand in writing a trial by jury. Heretofore di voice cases in that State bave been tried by the judges alone. Know-Nothing Triumph in New Hampshire ! Gov Metcalf s Platform. That Southern men may torm some idea of the triumph achieved by the Know-Nothings in New Hampshire and the principles that have there triumphed with them, we give an extract from the N. Y. Evening Pott —the most untiring assailant of the South to be found among the Free Soil Press. Shipwreck ik New Hampshire. —Our dis patches from New Hampshire proclaim the trium phant succoss of the combined forces of the Whigs, Free-Soilers, Know-Nothir.gs, and Anti-Nebraska Democrats, over the Pierce Nebraska party of that State. It will bo seen that the Whig and Frec- Soii parties made no attempt to sustain their can d dates, who, although regularly in nomination, received only the support of a small bandful of voters. The fusion against the Ncbraskaitcs was complete, and the route is as complete as was the combination. The last stronghold of the Sham Democracy has thus been utterly overthrown. The elements of opposition which the traitorous con duct and policy of the National Administration called into being, haTe been merged in New Hamp shire, as in Maine, and the result is the total dis comfiture of the hitherto invincible Democratic party of that State. Now Hampshire has, for the firsc time, gone over to the opposition. It is a memorable event in history of the New Eng land politics. Whatever may be pretended, this overwhelming victory is mainly owing to the aver sion of the masses to tbecourseof the Administration on the Nebraska bill. The popular disgust was everywhere excited; and, under cover of a new or ganization, much of it has manifested itself, that would never otherwise have been fully felt in the election. Yet, without any other issue than simple Anti-Nebraska, the route of the Administration in its stronghold in the N orth would hardly have been less complete. The great and damning sin which has prostrated it was the iniquity hatched by Atchison, Douglas, Pieroe and their agents and abettors. This is the weight that has pulled it down. Its little merits, like the veto of the Col lins, line, tor example, have been as nothing in the scale against the crowning infamy which it at tempted to establish and canonize in the Demo cratic ranks. As the Governor elect may be fairly consid ered the exponent of the opinions held by the Know-Nothings who elected him, and opposed by the Democracy, we append an extract from his letter of acceptance to the Know-Nothing Committee which notified him of his nomination. It bears date, Newport, Feb. 8, 1855. After expressing his views, advocating the ex clusion of foreigners and Catholics from office, he says: 11 X am docidedly opposed to tho lurther extension of slavery. I deem tho Missouri compromise, so called to have been a solemn compact between the free and the slaveholding Statos, and as solemnly and morally binding upon both, as treaties are binding upon foreign nations; and that the pas sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, so for as it re peals that compromise, was a violation of the com paot, and a great wrong upon tho free States, and that they will be fully justified in not yielding an aoquicseneo therein, and insisting upon its uncon ditional restoration.” The following letter from a friend and inti mate of his, is even more explicit. It is from Anthony Colby, formerly Whig Governor of Vermont. Nbw London, Feb., 14th, 1855. Doar Sir : Yours of the sth is received, and be fore this will reach you, you will have read Met calf’s letter of acceptance, and I have no doubt it will bo acceptable to you. He is stronger on the slavery and temperance questions than he has written, that is he is as strong against slavery as any of us, aad has found bad work to keep along with his party for several years ; he says he has never been in favor of the Nobraska rascality, and he should not be disappointed if the same old par ty should go for or ening the slave trade. It seem ed best to put up a democrat for the office of gov ernor, having all tho candidates for Congress of the right stamp. I think, on the whole, the nomination is a good one, and that he will be elected. You and I agree in all these matters,we could have carriod the state on the old issues without the new order of things, but with the tide rolling in upon us, there was no other way to save the state but tho same which has been taken, and now thoro is no way that I , can see for the old Loco party to save themselves 1 from destruction. . • , Should the election go, as we believe it will, there will be matters to follow after, which must be seen to with care. As you justly remark, we must have good and trap men for our public servers. - Very icso*— - A’.T'tONY Ooi.ttV. Thus it appears, Gov. Metcalf ha«- been a Democrat, but has found it hard work to keep along with bis party for several years, on ac count of its Southern leanings and advocacy of a pro-slavery policy. Therefore, he becomes a renegade—is pfltlod up by his former opponents, and is run in opposition to the Democratic party. Can Southern men rejoice in the election of such a man f Can Southern men join in the shout that goes up from the whole Free-soil host, in triumph over the defeat of the Administration in President Pierce’s native State ? Cotton Burned. —We learn from the Geor gia Herald, that Mr. L. M. Lamar, of Macon, whose plantation is situated about six miles from Hawkinsville, had 104 bales of cotton burned last week, which constituted his entire crop of that article. The cotton had been sent to a landing near by for the purpose of shipping on board the H. L. Cook, for Savannah,— Through the carelessness of the negro watch man, who had built a fire some 40 feet distant, it is supposed that it ignited from a spark j and before discovered burned up. (communicated.) Mr. Editor: —ln your remarks upon the ex position ol Know-Nothing doctrines, as original ly published in New York and reproduced in your issue of last Saturday, it seems to me that you have overlooked one of the most striking features of the document; I mean its decided hostility to the Democratic party, and conse quently to “the powers that be.” After ranting about “the hundreds and thous ands of Irish and Dutch who move about like hordes of Gipsies, from canal to canal and from railroad to railroa 1” and “have been the helots of the North, as the Africans have been ot the South,” the writer charges “unprincipled politi cal demagogues, who want nothing but votes,” w ith bargaining with “Catholic Priests and jesu its who stand ready to offer those votes and adds, “through these agencies several Presiden tial elections have been decided.” To which Presidential elections does he refer 1 We find the answer a little further on ; thus : “the fruits of this alarming state of things became apparent to the whole country, and when these evil cau ses had reached the hight of their influence, and brought the present Administration into power, the whole nation began to inquire bow this state of things had been brought about, and what should be the remedy. But the writer, as if afraid that his whiggish predilections might become too apparent strives to throw dust into the eyes of the reader by in troducing the name of the immortal Jackson in the following sentence : “And those hundreds of thousands of meu who sympathise with Henry Clay in his American policy, with Gen eral Jackson in the spirit of patriotism which always inspired him,” (not with his politica principles) “and with Daniel Webster, who was the octt exponent of the tpi it of the Federal Union, all combine together, either to give countenance or persona! aid to this vast organisation.” Is it not apparent that the sole object of this “vast organisation’’ is to overthrow the present Administration and to replace the defeated party in power? Every observing and reflecting man knows that in a canvass based upon legitimate party principles and honestly conducted, the Democratic party of this country will invariably be victorious. It has therefore become necessary to the success of their adversaries, that new is sues be sprung up from time to time, with a view to the distraction of party ties. The Whigs have thus succeeded under the banners of the “Hero of Tippecanoe and farmer of North bend.” With “Coon skins and Log Cabins” the floating vote was carried, anrd General Harrison elected. The “Hero of Monterey and of Buena Vista” entered the White House in the same way. And now that “Heroism” is at a discount we find the same party invoking the aid of bigo try and intolerance ; regardless of the danger of kindling a flame which has for centuries keen the bane ol European society ; regardless of the sacredness of our fundamental Law, and willing to sacrifice even domestic harmony and liberty of conscience, rather than be deleated in anoth er Presidential canvass. But, fully bent upon “the spoils,” which they envy the democrats, and apprehensive that even the combined influence of sectarian animosities and prejudices against foreigners, might prove insufficient, collateral issues are brought to bear in different sections of the country where Abo litionism and Free-soilism are rampant, thus partixans are invited to join the Know-Nothings, as the best way to get rid of an Administration confessedly hostile to them. At the South, where religious intolerance has hitherto been very generally opposed by men of sense, and is there fore unpopular, very little stress is laid upon this feature of Know-Nothingism. Their batteries are here directed mainly against the existing system of naturalization and the importation of foreign paupers—both of which subjects are well calculated to enlist the influence of men of all parties. If Democrats allow themselves to be thrown off their guard by such trickery, the triumph of their political opponents must necessarily be the result. Wherever the Know-Nothings have succeeded they have turned out of office all Dem ocrats and placed in their steed Whigs or rene gade Democrats who have deserted their party for the hope of “spoils.” Arshjs. From the Manta Intelligencer. The Augusta Constitutionalist on Know- Nothingism. We very much desired to give in full an edi torial of great merit that appeared in our cotem porary’s issue of the 21st. It is an excellent paper upon the great question to which it refers in its matter, and in a most especial manner is it to be commended for its spirit. We have fre quently been callpd upon to defend the course that the Constitutionalist has adopted in regard to the so styled American party when it has been assailed as too tender-footed in its attacks upon the new order. For the past we have ap proved the reasons of this forbearing and respect ful conduct and have incurred, in a great mea sure, ourselves the same censure that has been visited not only upon our friend of the Constitu tionalist. but also upon the Journal <sr Courier , and tor the same reasons. We could not believe it to be good policy to denounce any, and espe cially Democrats, with whom we once cordially affiliated, for their adhesion to a party of whose aims and organism we know absolutely noth ing. Much may be excused in men who blun der in their conclusions upon any question of first impression. And we submit, if it is not a hard thing, the hardest of all trials, to part from old political allies and confidents. These con siderations, added to the specious promise of some ot the first Know-Nothing victories, were well calculated to restrain the expression ot harsh and denunciatory language. But there is a limit to such forbearance, and we for one are sure that we have reached it. It W'll be seen by the extract we make th s morniiu from the Constitutionalist Republic that, one of the New York Lodges has given, by authority, the arti cles of the Know-Nothing faith, accompanied by an Exposition. It is thought ali the Lodges of the State will adopt the same platform. Is not this suggestive of every thing that is absurd, odious and dongerous 1 A common name is to give nationality to a party, as weli as na tional command and dictation, while every pri mary meeting and council as to the vital ques tion of duty and principle, each squad and clique has unbridled license to do just as they list.— Heretofore great parties have possessed some unity, some universal element common to every member, and which gave to party an unmis takeable individuality. Republican, Federalist, Whig, Democrat, Native American, Abolitionist, Free Soiler, and Morman all acknowledged the force or obligation of certain cardinal doctrines which constituted aline of partition between themselves and others. But here we have a party that seeks to bind together a tremendous cordon ot political agencies by a mere name. We will ask (and we do it most urgently,) lor information as to the excepted point, or points of difference between the creed of Northern and Southern Know-Nothings. Is notone of those excepted points as to which Know-Nothings North and South have agreed to differ the only one in which the Southern patriot can feel the least solicitude ? We were promised upon the advent of this new order of patriots, a general peace for the public mind or a tremendous agitation for peace. But, so far as overt demonstrations teach us any thing, Know-Nothings are only in favor of the repose of the dead. The bauk and tariff] questions and such faded, tattered para-phernalia of parties, the Subterraneans quietly reject, for the present, but when we come to ask their friendly offices in staying the approaches that the incendiary and conspirator are making to wards our ruin, their protestations, their vaunted power and deadly concert all go for nothing. And while we were taught to look to this American party par excellence, for the inaugura tion of a nsw reign of peace, fraternity and equality, we, so far from having the guarantee maintained as to one portentous danger, have another just as perilous added to it. We must now provide for the deadliest feud between members of our oum community, upon our soil, | as well as the united enmity of the Northern ■ States, that of itself was more than a match for us, and in every hour digging a pit for the liber ty and honor of the South. If the South—if this favored and proud commonwealth of ours can count among her sons men of heart and head that qualify them for command, let them prepare to take their places. We feel,that at this stage of its organization,it is worse than fool | ishness to address arguments of remonstrance to i Democrats who have attached themselves to the | Know-Nothing party. But it roust be seen be | fore it can be credited, that true Democrats will 1 commit themselves to a policy the spirit of ] which is grossly violative ot every principle to j which they ever adhered before. We car-nut ! believe that men, who for years stereotyped their maledictions against the spirit and tenden cy of the a! cn and sedition laws, can now sub mit to the open shame of transcending the bounds of injustice contemplated once by this spawn of Federalism and then going beyond the cruelty of this old outrage on the republican sentiment of our people in avenging the out bursts of passion on the part of the victims Look to the retorts of the press sympathizing with Know-Nothingism upon John Mitchell’s letter to the volunteer ccmpanies disbanded by that apostate son of Massachusetts,’Gov. Gard ner. We may search in vain in the records of Catholic oppression in the British Isles for any thing more acrimonious or more high-handed. Are Democrats, the professed defenders of equal rignts—the men who glory in the faith that merit makes the man, to be called upon to aid in placing burthens of ignominy on the heals of men too intolerable to be borne and then to au: in persecuting them with worse if they resist ? Are you ready for concealment—for sotial inqui. sition and espionage who used the glory at everv corner of the street, that Democracy had no concealments from the public eye—no use for mum candidates or a muzzled press? Where now is our and your once proud boast that “no error is dangerous when reason is left free hi combat it.” This whole thing, so far as we have been permitted to seek it, looks so mon strous in a moral point of view that sometimes we flatter ourselves that Southern Know Noth ings, particularly the Democrats among them conceal a profound stroke of policy for Me in terest of the South in the course they seem to have adopted. It is as sure as the day ot doom, that the dis franchisement of a foreign born citizens or dis qualifications imposed upon them on account of religion,must bring the Legislatures ot the States in violent collision with the Supreme Court; and after that will come the horrors of a bloody civil war. No man who knows the South, for a moment distrusts her conservative, magnani mous mind, so lar as to fear any probability that the bitter spirit of persecution for conscience sake, or for the sake of any thing else, can obtain a footing here. The fury of this new icligious and social war must break upon the North— There the mass of those mar. now devoted to the taboo are to be found, and the devisers of this scheme of degradation and outrage will be the first to eat the bitter fruits of it. Then will there be a truce to anti-slavery rage and aggies sion. The neck veins of others besides mer. South of the Potomac, will suddenly appear to be rather exposed for comfort; and even the Yankee capacity and versatility be a little over taxed in caring for two social wars. We sa we sometimes think that Southern Know Noth ings might have intended by their encoufige ment of their party something like this. Wheth er they did or not, however, it is none the lest inevitable in our judgment that so far as the Northern States are interested, that this is to be the grand finale of new light Americanism. But will the party respond to the enquiries that the Constitutionalist and every otder democrat!: L press are addressing to the “Secret Order fV* Will we be allowed to canvass the claims of tb new party to our respect, (and support i you will,) by having submitted to cur reason, patriotism and sense of public duty the claim! of the Know Nothing party after an authorita tive exgiose of them. This must rome sooner or later, and the success of those whose only s*. curity is in their concealment will only this consumation. Bank Robbery—Unparalleled Audacity The Branch of the Bank of the State of Ge>. • gia in this place, was entered through the front door, opening on the Public Square, between c . ven and eight o’clock Wednesday morning last, ,i and robbed of fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars , in bills, all of which are pay. able in this place. The Teller had justa.byen :r; the room and removed the till from the vault to its usual place in the counter preparatory to tne day’s business, and retired to breakfast, lockin' the side door leading into the passage after h?m, and supposing the front door secure, as it bail been locked the evening previous. A negro hoy whose business it is to sweep out the "bankin' room every morning while the Teller is present has been airested ami confesses, that by ago;, ment with a white man, the night before, he secretly turned the key in the front door while sweeping. The robber, all this while, was creted in the privy at the coiner of the boil '• ig and but a few steps from the door. As soo : as the bell rane for breakfast he emerged Iron: t.ie hiding place, entered the building, secured his booty, and effected his escape unseen. The robbery was discovered a little over an hour a;- ter it occurred, yet ail attempts to track ttV vil. lain failed. We doubt if the annals o'.. c.ur.i furnish a more daring adventure.— Hj'/Ai lu publican. Glass Globus Unsuitable for Fi-h.—ir. the first place the fish require abundance of " ; r Now,sca;cely any other shap. than a gl.yia' one contains sc much water with c-o little . sure to the air. Fish, too, require shale, ot when we choose to give it them. hW when ,<y feel the want of it; and it need sctiirely be ob served that ali day long a glass globe irf ir a b’ai? ot light. Still pnnre, the wafer in a tjlo l e he daily chat.geo. the K-h if ’>-t C ir lifted out either by the hand ot a small mt • attc it is utterly impossible, however careful v e may be, to handle or net these delicate Hlth. strug gling creatures without injuring them, at ocr time or another. —Family Friend. Influence or Marriage.—Habit aud lon life together are more necessary to bsfK-ine*. and even to love, than is generally imugire No one is happy with the ob ect ol bis atfac..- ment, until he has passed many days, aifdr.aboi.; all, many days of misfortune with her. The mariied pair must know each other to the centre of their souls—the mysterious veil wtiich covered the two spouses in the prinsitiv*-s.b’.rch, must be raised in its inmost folds, how closely soever it may be kept drawn to the rest o! the world. What! on account of a fit of caprice, or hurst of passion, am I to be exposed to the fear of los ing my wife and my children, and to renonce tie hope ot passing my declining days with them ’ Let r,o one imagine that fear will make me be come a better husband. No; we do not attach ourselves to a •mtifi sion of which we are not secure; we do not lova property which w« are in danger of losing The soul o! a titan, as well as his body, sa not complete without his wile; he has strength, she has beauty; he combats the enemy and labors in the field, but he understands nothing of domestic file; his companion is waiting to prepare his re past and sweeten his He has crosses. and the partner of his life is tjHh*ioft<!'r ) them , , his days, may be sad and in the chaste arms of his wife he finds eUWTort ar.d rs- Poa«2. Without woman, man would be rude? gross. I solitary. Woman spreads around him the flow ers of existence, as the creepers of the forest, which decorate the trunks of sturdy oak- with ther perfumed garlands. Finally, the Christian p»jr live and die uritec, together they rear the iruiWbf their union ; in the dust they lay side by side, and they are uni ted beyond the tomb. Mobile Cotton i race. —Some idea ray be formed of the genera! stagnation in b m«a here, by examining our cotton statistics .or the present season. The receipts of the staple from j ’ the first of September ISG4 up to last evening. i amount to only 200.142 bales, while for the same period last year they reached 420 607 hales, showing a falling off of 220,525 bales. This large deficiency operates heavily and injuriously upon ail branches of business", viz: weighing, draying, storing, compressing, wharfage, light erage, &c., &c. Persot s engaged in these pur suits made arrangements months ago lor the ne cessary labor for handling the usual quantity o: J cotton, and as it has not arrived, their losse. have ‘ kj necessarily been serious, i heir expenses must | whether they do anything or not. Besides U these drawbacks, the absence from circslation of the large amount of money that the-e >OO 52 ) bales would throw out. is felt in every ramifica tion of trade. —Mobile Tribune 17 th, inst. Serious Predicament. —A tew evening l since, a theatrical company were performing a play, the last scene of which was t‘ e hanging of a traitor, at Hornellsville, N. Y. The v>pe tva- J| adjusted, the drop fell, but the strap-work which was to prevent the rope pressing on the neck unfortunately gave way, and the poor actor was I jM actually hanging. After the curtain was lower ed, some person observed the blood gust ing from the mouth and nose of the suspended figure (Mr. 1§ Wm. H. Davis), and instantly cut him down, but many hours elapsed before ho was fully ras- fH tored to life arid consciousness. It is to be tt '.ted 7* public decency will not again be outraged by an exhibition ol this nature.