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Another Shot nl the Enow Nothings.
Through oviI and through good report, we
have battled against the order of Know
Nothings. In the midst of overwhelming
defeat, we have hurled defiance at then), in
spite of the warnings of friends and the
threats of enemies, and time has vindicated
the wisdom of our course much sooner than
we anticipated. Know Nothingism is dead
at the South, whatever it may he at the
North. Gardner and Wilson of Massachu
setts, Pollock, of Pennsylvania, and last, of
all, Wiliam H. Seward, of New York, whom
it has elevated to office, are the mill-stones
which have sunk it in the sea of public
odium from which there is no deliverance.—
It is dead; stone dead; and w e rejoice in its
death.
Without pretending to know more about
it thau any other well informed citizen, we
knew enough of it to loathe and detest it.—
It was a secret political organization, con
trolled by a grand council located at tlie
North and under abolition influences; or in
other words, a secret oligarchy which pro
posed to take the powqr out of the hands of
the people and give it to a few chosen lea
ders. If successful it would have rev..-
lulionized the American system, and sub
stituted for our free institutions the govern
ment of Venice. This was enough to
brand the order with infamy. Hut when
it was announced that the object of
this radical change in our form of govern
ment was to make the accident of birth a
political crime, and a man’s religion a test
of offical qualification, we would have been
recreant to the memory of our fathers, and
traitor to the land of our birth, if we had not
denounced the order as inimical to lib
erty and the best interests of country.—
And now that the tree has brought
forth fruit and shows Gardner and Wil
son, Pollock and Seward in high po
litical stations as its idols and Represen
tatives, we feel that we are justified in our
worst fears, and are sorry that we have not
been more efficient in our opposition to the
order.
One word in explanation. We are con
vinced that good men and true, both at the
North and the South have been lured into
the lodges of the order by a misrepresenta
tion of its purposes and aims. They owe
it to themselves and the country to abandon
them at once.— Times if Sent/not.
Tlie Pfrmanfiiry of t ie banner s Property,
The following remarks from Holcomb’s
address before the Montgomery County
Agricultural Society in Maryland, is de
signed to exhibit the superiority of the
farmer’s property, so far at least as its per-
mauence is concerned, as compared with
other kinds of investments;
“The value of a fund depends upon its
perpetuity; the continuance of its exis
tence. A man seeks to earn what will
support and serve him and his posterity.
He w'ould desire to have the estate or pro
perty descend, as well as his name, to his
lineage, to his children, grandchildren, and
great grandchildren for generations. This
is the object of his toil. What then is the
safest fund in which to invest in this coun
try? What is the only fund that experi
ence of the last fifty* years has shown,
with very few exceptions, would not be
quite unsafe as a provision for heirs? Sup
pose the most prudent man in the country,
fifty years ago, had assumed a trust to him
and his heirs of fifty tnousand dollars, to
be kept invested in stocks of any descrip
tion for fifty years, the trustee and his
heirs, at the expiration of his trust, to ac
count for the fund. Can any one doubt
that the chances are ninety-nine in a hun
dred that the fund would be lo6t, and the
trustee and his family ruined? Or, if a
like proposition was to be made to a res
ponsible trustee now, with a handsome com
mission for the rise, a prudent man would
probably decline the trust and avoid the
responsibility. Y et many are willing to
trust themselves during their lifetime to
manage this description of property for
themselves, and they may, with good luck
he equal to the task. But the question
still occurs: What is the probable dura
tion of such a fund in families? What is
the safety cf the fund itself invested in the
current stocks of the country, and next,
what is the safety of so available, tangible,
transmutable a fund in the hands of heirs?
There are no statistics that 1 am aware of,
showing the probable continuance of es
tates in personal property, such as stocks.
But the remark of a gentleman connected
with a large hanking institution show
practically how it works. He observed
that he had noticed that an heir was n
sooner left stock in the hank than the firs
thing he generally did was to sell and
transfer it, and it was often the first notice
they had of the decease of the former hold
er.
“Real estate—lands in preference—or a
fund secured by real estate, is unquestion-
al ly not only the highest security, hut in
the hands of heirs it is the only one likely
to serve a single generation. Hence tin
wisdom of the common law, that neither
permits the guardian to sell the lands a. * 1
his ward, or even the court, in its discre
tion, to grant the authority for their sale
but only upon good and sufficient grounds
shown, as a necessity for raising a fund fo.
the education and support of the ward.—
Even a Lord Chancellor can only touch so
sacred a fund for this or similar reasons.—
And the common law is wise on this sub
ject as most others. It is the experience
and observation of mankind that such :•
fund is the safest, and hence the provisiot
of the law.
“Those who acquire personal property
then, acquire only what will last about r
generation, longer or shorter; it perishes, i
passes away, and is gone. There is un
doubtedly more permanency in real estate
It is not so easily transferred; it is not s<
secretly transferred; the law has its cere
monies to be observed before it can b<
transferred, and often the consent ofmor<
than one person in necessary, and often
too, when all other guards fail, early me
mories will come in—memories of
The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wood,
And every loved spot which our infancy knew
that will make even the prodigal pause be
fore parting with his portion of his inheri
tauce.”
Morgan turned up.—The Masonic Mi'
ror says: Morgan, who, it was alleged, wa »
murdered by the Free Masons for disclos
ing their secrets, has been found in Smyrnr,
in Turkey ; that he now goes bv the name
of Mustadha. and is engaged in teaching
the English language. The authority, is
oue Joseph A Bloom.. Bloom met Morgan
at a house in Smyrna to whom the latter
f ave a detailed account of his adventures,
le ieft the country in the ship Metvine
which sailed from Boston to Smyrna, ami
belonged to the firm of Langdon & Co.
The Hon. Robert Toombs having been
called home some two weeks ago by the
illness of a daughter, is still at his resi
dence in this place, her improvement not
being sufficient to admit of his return to
the seat of Government. He hopes how
ever to he able to resume his seat in the
Senate during the coming week.— Wilkes
ftep. ,
From the A’. Y. Courier and Enquirer.
To the election to the United States
Senate of Henrv Wilson in Massachusetts,
James Harlan in Iowa, Charles Hurkee
in Wiscohsin, now succeeds the re-election
of William H. Seward in New York.—
Whatever may he said of the personal
merits or demerits of these men, however
different may have been their previous par
ty associations, they all have one conspicu
ous characteristic in common, and that is
their strenuous and un compromising oppo
sition to slavery. This it is which has
caused their election, in spite of all other
considerations and aii other influences.—
Know-Nothing or Anti-Know-Nothing,
\\ big. Democrat, orFrcesoil it has matter
ed iittle; they have been selected to go to
Washington first of all as Anti-slavery
men, out-and-out, through-and-through.—
Had they not been that, every man ot
them would have foiled. To hide this is
weakness, and to deny it is falsehood.
What are the thoughts forced upon the
calm and truthful lovers of the peace and
harmony of the country, and steadfast
friends of the compromises of the Constitu
tion, bv such a spectacle as this? W ho is
responsible for this successive detailing of
men especially obnoxious to the South to
do service in the field of national legisla
tion? Whence comes this unconciliatory
spirit, this belligerent attitude? 1 he an
swer is plain to every Northern observer.
There is no possibility of mistaking it. I t j
is the Nebraska Bill of the last Session of i
Congress that lias wrought the change.— j
It is useless to argue whether it ought to
have done this or not. It is enough that
it lias done it. and that the, most discern
ing men in the country knew, and publi
cly warned Congress, that it mould do it.
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
east a fatal blight upon the Compromising
spirit which took such a deep hold upon
the North after the passage of the acts of
1850. It destroyed tlie very vitality of
this spirit, bv ruining that confidence in
mutual good faitli w ithout which all com
promises are hut a name. It implanted a
sense of injury, and from that naturally
came resentment and antagonism. Con
servation of the old-fasliioned Clay and
Webster stamp lost its influence; and al
most every Northern legislature chosen in
1854, was, in respect to the policy to he
pursued tow ards the South, the direct op
posite of its predecessor in 185J. Thus it
| is that these four senatorial elections, so
Anti-Southern in their hearings, have been
made. Thus it is that Anti-Nebraska
elections, if any, are to be made by the
Legislatures of Illinois, Indiana, Pennsyl
vania, and New Hampshire. Thus it is
that the Legislature of Illinois and the
Legislature of Michigan have by formal
resolutions pronounced a heavy rebuke up
on their Senators in Congress, and instruc
ted them to .use their efforts to undo their
work of mischief. And thus it is that the
next Federal House of Representatives
will, as is already settled by elections, he
not only strongly Anti-Nebraska in senti
ment, but will partake of an Anti-Slavexy
spirit in threefold greater degree than it
ever has in all its history before. No snore
gigantic blunder was ever committed in
American legislation, than that of the re
peal of the Missouri Compromise by
Southern men and those who styled them
selves their peculiar friends.
The mistake is the more grievous be
cause it is doubtful whether it can ever he
repaired. Even though the Missouri Com
promise should he restored in form, how
could it regain the moral power it had be
fore? What binding sanction could it
have without trust in plighted faith, and
how can faith once broken be made w;Iiole
again? And yet is there any reason to be
lieve that Kansas and Nebraska can he
admitted into the Union as new slave
States without an agitation that would
shake it to its centre! Kansas, at least,
will in .all probability apply for admission
before the close of the next Congress, and
appearances now strongly indicate that it
will make that application as a slave State.
If we are to judge of the temper of the
next House of Representatives by the
character of the Northern men w ho have
been elected to it, such an application will
he repelled with a spirit which nothing can
bend. This must.excite-hot anger at the
South, and thus our country will be
thrown hack again into all those fierce
sectional animosities which raged with
such direful power five years ago. Thus
it is that those who forced the Nebraska
bill upon the country sowed the wind and
will reap the whirlwind. Had the war
nings of the great mass of the truly na
tional men of the North, and the counsels
of the wisest statesmen of the South—wi
sest though few—prevailed, all the dark
prospect that now hangs upon tlte fu
ture would have been averted. But such,
as it now seems, must he the price the
country will pay for mistaken‘and unfaith
ful legislation.
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From the Petersburg (Va.) South Side Democrat.
Snbrianre of Hr. Meade's Remnrk*
At the Democratic Meeting in Petersburg on the tren-
ingof the Jfitft ultimo:
Mr. Chairman: If the meeting will hear with
me, I will say a few words in support of these res
olutions.
I should regret the introduction of any topic at
this time upon which the democratic party was di
vided; for there never was apeiiodin the history of
this, our country, which required a more thorough
union of every iiieud of it. Heretofore, but two
great parties divided the country, each advocating
antagonistical principles, hut both general and
national in their character. We have for some
time seen a proclivity, in a sectional division of
one ot those parties, towards a sectional organiza
tion vriiich would necessarily drive the other par
ty front it.
Our whig friends of the Smith, though fore
warned, were slow to believe that their brethemof
the North were less to be relied upon than their
adversaries. Evidences of their hostile feelings'
towards the t-cuth have of late so rapidly accu
mulated that few can now be found who will not
say that the time has come for a total separation
front them. The determination has been formally
announced ,a:id now we have no national whig par
ty. The tlmussnd fragments into which it lias
been'broken have been, however, lately gath
ered up, and under a cabalistic name, signifying
nothing in itself, an organization has been effect
ed which, to some extent, has reunited the old
opponents ot’ democracy at die South, and we have
now for the first time an ism introduced from the
North more baneful in its effects and more threat
ening to the peace of the country and our well-
tried constitution than ail the excrescences with
which that unhappy region of the country has
been afflicted. “Knim-notliingism” is declarative
of no end or principles. Its harmless name has
enlisted not only a large portion ot the whig party,
but sorry am ! to say members of our own party,
(idler disappointed in their aspirations, or allured
by tlm charm of secrecy, have (tor a short time I
hope) enrolled themselves with tlu-ir vanquished
adversaries, have turned their weapons upon their
long-tried friends, and are now assisting to destroy
t lie work of their own bands, at the very moment
when if was supposed by some a lasting peace be
tween North and South bad, after much labor, been
firmly established.
I do not mean, Mr. Chairman* to charge South
ern men who are members of this new party of
Know-Nothings with a premeditated purpose of
making war upon and destroying the peace and
happiness of their own section of country, i do
not mean to say that they are knowingly assist
ing the abolitionists in tlu-ir fell purposes. No, sir,
that charge must be withheld until, after having
contemplated and reflected upon the work of their
brother “know-nothings” at the North, they still
shall maintain their relations with them, and ac
knowledge their fraternity. We must, then, rank
northern ;ind southern “know-nothings” in o:.e
brotherhood. We must, then, regard them and
denounce them alike us enejuiics to the South, and
to the southern branch of that organization avwird
the unenviable distinction of being traitors to
their kindred. While this party keep their prin
ciples and objects a secret we must judge them by
their works.
I will not allow myself to believe that the south
ern portion of that party hoped for or anticipated
the results which have been brought about by their
brethren at the North. I will state these results;
and when I shall lie satisfied that they regard them
with complacency, or even with indifference, I
shall, for one, look upon every member of that
party south of Mason and Dixon’s line as a thou
sand times more odious than the worst abolition
ist that ever spuing from the hot bed of fanaticism.
There is not one within the limits of Massachusetts
to whom I had not rather extend the right hand of
fellowship than such a miscreant.
Sir, for some years back, a noble band of patri
ots in the North, among whom we have recognis
ed a ti w members of tlie whig party, have devoted
themselves to the patriotic task of arresting the
progress of a feeling which threatens the safety of
the Union by making war upon the rights of a
portion of it. It was hoped that such men as
Buchanan, Cass, Douglas, Dickinson, Bright, and
others, would ultimately clu.ke down the abolition
sentiment which was rapidly gaining ground at the
Northland when the Whig Convention in 1 -Ci2 fol
lowed the goodly example of the Democratic Con
vention in tiie passage of conservative resolutions
breathing future peace and harmony between
North and South, it was believed by many, espe
cially by southern w liigs, that the ravings of abo
lition would never again be heard beyond tiie bars
of its prison-house. That hope has now vanished,
and the whips themselves have now declared they
have no longer any confidence in tlu-ir northern
allies.
The resolutions of their convention in 1852, were
but counterfeited coin, issued for the purpose
merely of purchasing southern votes. The fraud
having been detected, wc were congratulating our
selves that once again the South would present a
united front to their foes, and by an energetic and
harmonious action save-themselves at least, if not
their whole country. There was not a true south
ern heart that did not rejoice at this prospect of
harmony and concert at the South; each felt bis in
dividual strength multiplied at seeing his brother
by his side. This happy illusion passed away as a
night dream. The sound of “know-nothing” vic
tories waked up the southern dreamer from Lis
fancied security, and in place of the friend and
brother whom he had first embraced as a new ele
ment of southern strength, he beheld a maniac re
joicing over victories that had ^truek down our
best friends at the North; and in places where the
banner of the constitution had always waved in
proud defiance, we now behold the black tlag of
abolition; which in a few short months will sum
mon to the capital of this Union a House of Rep
resentatives pledged to a course of legislation that
will sweep from the statute-book all the laws re
cently passed for the protection of southern rights.
Yes. sir, Ohio is thoroughly ablitionizcd by
“know-nothing” victories; faithful Indiana can
lend no further aid to her sisters of the South; her
neck is now pressed by the heels of abolitionists
and their “know-nothing” allies. The old Key
stone State will feebly speak through five only of
her numerous delegation. New Jersey, lately re
generated, falls back again into the slough of abo
lition. Unhappy New York has lately done exe
cution upon every national patriot she could ever
boast of. These are the consequences of “know-
nothing” victories. “Know-nothings” of the South
are these your friends and allies' Do you still ac
knowledge the connexion!
Mr. Chairman, I will undertake to speak for
Virginia, There is no such a party in Virginia
proper. I speak for the country, for the .planta
tions, where you and 1 were born. You may find
it here, sir. You may find it in other cities of the
State. Their population is made up of people
from every State.
In the country you may always find tiie true
Virginia feeling,arid there w hen the trial comes the
hopes of the South must rest.
—-WMMWWMM-
Know Nothingism and Abolitionism.
When then the N. Y. Herald, sounds the alarm
to the South, by admitting the abolition proclivi
ties of the Know-Nothing party, those who arc
familiar with the tone of that journal for the last
three months, should no longer hesitate as to their
course, if they are in the least attached to south
ern institutions. Bead the following article which
we take from the Herald of a late date, which
we command to the serious attention of Slate-
holders:
“Read the proceedings, in another part of this
paper of a late anti-slavery meeting in Boston—
the speech of Anson Burlingame- and its full en
dorsement by General Henry Wilson—and it will
he manifest to every ntiu J that the first man elect
ed by the Know-Nothings to the U. >S. Senate is
the most fanatical and implacable abolitionist ever
sent to that body. He endorses all that Garrison
or Abby Kelly Foster could urge in opposition to
Southern slavery excepting the immediate disso
lution of the Union.
What does this mean.’ It looks like on alliance
bctieecn the Knoir-Nothings ami the abolitionists. Is
it so! What say S'the State Council of Massachu
setts! Let them speak, or forever hereafter keep
to the north of Mason & Dixon’s line. This man
ifesto of Wilson, as Senator of the Massachuseets
Knoic-Nothings, mokes litem a sectional party at once.
The south can have nothing to do with them.
The Know-Nothing State Councils of the North
must speak on the slavery question, or he ranked
with the anti-slavery coalition. Tliev must re
pudiate Wilson, or be themselves repudiated. The
existence of the Know-Nothings as a national par
ty hangs upon this question of slavery. Their
first tint ft! Senator is a boastful abolitionist of the
Giddings stripe. Ls he a good and accepted Know-
Nothing. or has he deceived them! The Presi
dency is closed to the order if they permit this
Wilson to stand as their exponent in the Senate
at Washington. His manifesto will be a bombshell in
Virginia. Let Henry A. Wise read it to the peo
ple as the proclamation of the Know-Nothing
Senator elect from Massachusetts to the .South.
“What say the Massachusetts State Council,
and other Northern Councils! If they are in lea
gue. with the anti-slarery factions, their rorc is
run.''
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| THE LIEUTENANT-GENERALSHIP.
The Washington Union furnishes the following
, information regarding the revival of the grade of
Lientenant-General in our army, as reward to
| Major-General Scott for bis military services in
! Mexico:
The following is a copy of the joint resolution
which passed the House of Representatives Qn
Monday, and which is at present exciting some at
tention;
i A RESOLUTION authorizing the President of
i the United States to confer the Utile of Lieutenant-
General by brerrt for eminent services.
1 Resolved, by the Senate and House of Represen-
! tatives of the United States of America in Congress
I assembled, That the grade of lieutenant-general
' be, and the same is hereby revived in the army of
the United States, in order that when, in the opin
ion of the President and Senate, it shall be deem-
h! proper to acknowledge eminent services of a
major-general of the army in the late war with
Mexico, in the mode already provided for in sub
ordinate grades, the grade of lieutenant-general
ma v be specially conferred by brevet, and by bre
vet only, to take rank from the date of such ser
vice or services: Provided, however, That when
the said grade of lieutenant-general by brevet shall
have once heen filled and have become vacant, this
oint resolution shall thereafter expire and be of no
•ffect
The section of the act of Congress which estab
lished the grade of lieutenant-general was passed
on the 2* th of May, 1798, and is as follows, (Fifth
Congress, session 2, chapter 47, 1798;)
See. 5. And he it further enacted, That when
ever the President shall deem it expedient, he is
hereby empowered to apjtoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, a commander
>f the army which may be. raised by virtue of
this act, and who, being commissioned as lieuten
ant-general, may be authorized to command the
armies of the Fnited States, and shall be entitled
to the following pay and emoluments: viz. $250
monthly pay, $50 monthly allowance for forage,
when th • same shall not be provided by tin' United
States, and forty rations per day, or money in lion
thereof at the current price—who shall have, au
thority to appoint, from time To time, such num
ber of aids, .not exceeding four, and secretaries,
not exceeding two, as he may judge proper, each
*0 have the rank, pay and emoluments of a lien-
tenant-colonel.
The Mexican war transpired in the year 1847,
• and the pay of an officer with the rank of lieuten
ant-general. as provided in the act of 1798, from
that date to the present, wohld amount to more
• than five thousand dollars. It will be seen that
there is attached to the grade of lieutenant-general
a staff'of six persons—four lieutenant-colonels, and
• two secretaries, each with the rank and pay of a
i lieutenant-colonel.
' Know-Nothingism Painted by a Whig Pencil.—
■ The Lewisburg(Va.) Chronicle, disgusted at
the surrender of the Whig party to the “dark-lan-
j tern" party, continues to tire hot shell into its he-
i terogeneous ranks. Its description of the “ereep-
1 ing, dodging,” Order applies with great fidelity
i to the wretched spectacle exhibited in the Know-
Nothing gathering in our own city the last week.
The reason alleged for the presence of so many of
the Know-Nothings was, that they were upon rail
road bjUsiness. They might well have said tliut it
was an “underground railroad,” which will never
pay expenses! Hear what the Lewisburg Chroni
cle, an honest and consistent organ of Wltiggery,
replies with force and truth to its Whig neighbor
of the Kanawha Republican;
I>o you know that they (the Know Nothings)
propose to do anything for Virginia, her railroads,
or her credit! We would like to see the man who
had the liberty or the courage to stand up in the
face of day and say that he knows their principles—
knows what they propose to do for Virginia. And
we think the people of Virginia ought to know—
ought to have some assurance other than that
given by some outsider of an invisible, irresponsi
ble party—what they ntay expect to be done for
them in ease they put the Know-Nothings into
power. Their interests require that they should
know, and unless we are mistaken in their charac
ter, they will require to be informed. Virginia is
at least a century behind the times, and if she falls
into the meshes of Know-Nothingism, she will
show that she is but little removed from the dark
ages. We, then, as one of the people, call upon
the Know-Nothings to proclaim their principles,
to give us responsible endorsers of them, that we
may know what to expect front them; give us
light, gentlemen. Your national principles are
had and unnecessary, your State principles may Vie
worse. Keep us no longer in the dark. We de
mand to know more of your purposes. Light,
gentlemen, light.
New England Daguerreotyped.—In 1813. while
ambassador at the Russian Court, John Quincy
Adams, who knew Iter well, thus daguerreotyped
New England. At the present time, when she
leads the threatening column of Know-Nothings
and Abolitionists, the words come home with un
usual force:
“If New England loses her influence in the
councils of the Union, it will not be owing to any
(limitfutiun of her population, owing to these emi
grations [to the West.] It will lie from the par
tial. sectarian, or, as Hamilton called it, clannish
spirit, winch makes so many of her political lead
ers jealous and envious of the South. This spirit
is in its nature narrow and contracted, and it al
ways works by means like itself. Its natural ten
dency is to excite and provoke a counteracting
spirit oftho same character; and it has actually
produced that effect in our country. It lias com
bined the Southern and Western portions of the
United States, not in a league, but in a concert
of political views adverse to those of New England.
The fame of all the great legislators of antiquity
is sounded upon their contrivances to strongbteu
and multiply the principles of attraction jn civil
society. Our Legislators seem to delight in
multiplying and fomenting the principles of repul
sion.”
From the Providence Post.
The nationality of the American party has made
itself quite conspicuous. That party has been in
power in Massachusetts for five weeks, and during
that time has done two tilings, both of which forc
ibly illustrate its national tendencies. One of
these was the disbanding of five military compan
ies, for no fault and no reason, except that some
of the members were of foreign birth, or suspected
of being so. The other is the election of Henry
Willson, as United States Senator. The former
was the achievement of Gov. Gardner, unassisted
save by the accomodating gentlemen who com
pose his council, and who would have been most
censurable bad they prevented hint from making
his accession to military power, by such nu ex
ploit. The other is the work of the legislature,
some four hundred representatives of the people of
Massachusetts, unanimously proclaiming the
selves to he the great supporters of the American
Union, advocates of a party just alike to north
and south, and yet hy a large majority agreeing
to send to the U. 8. Senate the very founder of
the freesoil party, a man as obnoxious for his sec
tional opiuions as could be found among northern
abolitionists! This is the opening career of know-
notliingism when intrusted with full and uncon
trolled power.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
THE SEAL OF BLOOD!
Mr C. C Leigh received the following missive
a day or two since. The letter of intimidation
sent to him previous to the election of L’. S. Sena
tor, had a blue seal. The seal upon this document
is blood red:
Now York, Feb. 13, 1855.
lira. Chs. 0. Leigh—Dear Sin At a meeting
of Jasper,’Chapter No. 35,0' U. A. held Mon
day evening, Feb. 12,1855, the following named
Brothers: B. C. Bogert, Ru Ton, Feller, Brinker-
hoff and Brower, were appointed a committee to
investigate charges preferred by Bro. A. H. Bo
gert against yon, a copy of which you will fiud
below; and you are hereby notified to appear be
fore said committee on Friday, Feb. 15, 4 o'clock
p. in. at Jasper Chapter Rooms, corner Hudson
and Christopncr-streets.
Truly yours, in the bonds of the Order.
[l. s.] CHS. RU TON, Sec. Committee.
No. 104 West-street, New York.
To the Sachem and Members of Jasper Chapter,
No. 35 O. U. A.
The undesigned charges Charles C. Leigh, a
member of this Chapter, with having violated his
obligations to this Order, taken by him at his ini
tiation, by revealing the transactions of Jasper
Chaper, and endeavoring to bring the same into
contempt, to the in jury of the Order at large, and
especially the members of Jasper Chapter.
specification.
First, That on or about the 3d day of February,
to the instant, the C. C. Leigh did exhibit, to the
members of the Legislature, itt its open session,
a certain latter addressed officially by a Com
mittee of Jasper Chapter to said C. C. Leigh, con
veying to him the views and wishes of this Chap
ter, in regard to his vote, on the election of a
Cnic.d States Senator, about to be held in the Le
gislature of this State.
Second. By his personal denunciation of the
Order of United Americans on the said occa
sion.
(Signed) A. A. BOGERT.
New York, Feb. 12, 1855.
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
Boston, February 19.—Adjutant General Stone
was arrested on Saturday at Worcester, tor forcing
the Armory of the Jackson Guards, which had
been ordered by the Governor to disband, and
would not deliver up their arms. The adjutant
General was permitted to return here without giv
ing bail, that lie might advise with the State au
thorities.
Bangor, Me., February 19.—There was a violent
shock of an earthquake experienced here at five
o’clock this morning.
Portsmouth, Feb. 19.—The frigate Santee was
launched this morning.
Washington, Fo]t. 19.—The Senate debated to-
dav the Pacific Railroad bill. Mr. Clayton
thought that the scheme was impracticable. Mr.
Butler was of the same opinion. Mr. Gevcr and
Mr. Pearce also opposed it. Mr. Seward was in
favor of it.
The House sustained the President’s veto of the
French Spoliation Bill by a vote of 113 to 80.
A resolution to meet at j I o'clock was adopted.
In Committee of the Whole on the Diplomatic
bill, it wag unsuccessfully moved that the French
Spoliation bill be attached as an amendment to the
Diplomatic bill.
The House then adjourned.
New Orleans, February 19.—The Black Warrior
has arrived from New York, v ith advices from
Havana to the 15th inst.
There was great excitement throughout the Is
land.
The new Militia system had been established.
The whole Island had been declared in a state of
siege, and the forts in a state of blockade.
A proclamation had been issued ordering the
enlistment of all volunteers between 18 and ;»«>,
callable of bearing arms.
A Military Commission had been created for the
Eastern District.
The telegraph was under control of govern
ment.
It was rumored that Concha had sent to Porto
Rico for more troops.
The British ship-ot-war Boseawcn had left Ha
vana.
The British steamer Merlin was engaged in con
veying troops.
Ail the British vessels carried the Spanish flag.
The British Rear Admiral reviewed the troops
with Concha.
The democrats who may have been entrapped
into Know Nothingism, will do well to remember
that they have, an undoubted right to withdraw
from it. * *A little document in the following form,
will answer the purpose.
“ To the President, Officers and members of Coun
cil No.
I hereby withdraw from the council and the or
der which said council represents.
• Suites Rights, arid United States' Rights.
1 ‘ ’Tin lhf» SSjuinglet! Banner* oli, lung may il wave,
• OVrth** Land of live I- ree. niui ll»e Home of the Bravo.**
Burnt to Death.—A negro child the pro
perty of Sam’l Barnett, Esq., of this place
fell into the tire while its mother was tem
porarily absent, a few days ago, and was
so badly burned that it died in a short
time after being taken out.— Wilkes Rep.
nai2>i.s2>az:vxx.&s, oeorcha.
Tuesday .Morning, February il, 1855,
j Z~W~ An Agent from this Office will be in attend-
] aitce at the Superior Courts of Monroe, Sumter,
j Coweta, Morgan, Butts, Fayette and Talbot, we
j hope our patrons will be ready to respond to his
call.
Dated ”
After such notice lias been left with the Secre
tary of the Council to which the person leaving it
belongs, all his obligations to the order cease, ex
cept so far as he may feel bound by the extra judi
cal oaths he has taken, to keep its operations secret.
He will then have a right to his own political opin
ions, without asking the consent of the Know
Nothing Councils, subordinate, state or national.
Coos Democrat.
Products if Southern Georgia.—The Tlininnsville
Watchman ascertains from the census report that
the counties of Clinch, Lowndes, Thomas and De
catur,in Southern Georgia, Hamilton, Madison,
Jefferson, Leon, Gadsden and Jackson, in North
ern Florida, produced 57,507 bales of ginned cot
ton (400 pounds to the bale,) 81,170 pounds of
wool, and 991,440 pounds of tobacco,besides a most
ample provision and fruit crop, from 4; 3,954 acres
of cultivated land. At the present time the Watch
man thinks the exports exceed by 59 per cent, the
cotton, wool and tobacco produced in 1850.
Some idea of the expense, peril and delay to
which the produce of these counties is now expos
ed in its transit to market, may be conceived from
the following statistics of the Key West Custom
House.—The amount of salvage paid by the Court
for 1854, was $88/100 on §8)ti,rt00 worth of prop
erty saved by the wreckers. The total value of
vessel and property wrecked and in distress was
$2,250,00.
Sudden death.—It pains us to record the-death of
our young friend Air. F. W. Polhill, of McIntosh,
Kinchafoonee county. He died on Tuesday, the 2' Ith
inst., almost without a moments warning. He
was a young man of excellent qualities, and
much beloved by those who knew him best. A
few days asro lie was in our office as healthy and
bid as fair for a long life, as any of our acquain
tances, but is now sleeping the sleep of death.
What a striking example of that passage of Holy
Writ, which says. “In the midst of life, we are in
death." In a few more days, young Polhill,
would have reached bis 2'ith year. His remains
passed through this place this morning, for Macon
to be deposited in the family burial ground. A
widowed mother's heart is made to bleed at this
dispensation of Divine Providence. May God
sanctify this affliction to the good of all.—Sumter
IlipubliruH,
An Irish Know-Nothing'—One of our citizens
was on the train last Friday, a few miles east of
• Dunkirk, when a serious smash-up occurred. An
Irishman was found among the rubbish of a brok
en car, knocked into insensibility; and taken to
a neighboring house, where he soon after returned
to consciousness. The first words he tittered
were, “By the powers! an’ wasn’t it a Know-Noth
ing 1 was for a few moments, gintlemen!” The
ludicrous remark dissipated for the time being the
gloom occasioned by the sad disaster.—Lafayette.
[Pa.] Courier.
■
The Land Office at Huntsritle, Ala.—The Advo
cate of the 15t It says that from the 1.5th of Sep
tember, 1-54, to the 1st instant, (four and a half
months,) 409,000 acres of laud have been entered
at the Huntsville Land Office, under the gradua
tion law, and $52,990 paid into the Office for the
same.—The officers and clerks are still kept very
busy, and bard at work, dispatching those wanting
cheap land from the Government.
The abolitionists in this State have al
most to a man joined the K. Ns. or favor
the order. At their last national conven
tion. held at Pittsburg, in 1N52, and which
nominated John 1*. Hale as their candidate
for President, a resolution was adopted de
claring that “emigrants and exiles from the
Old W orld should find a cordial welcome
to homes of comfort and fields of enterprise
in the New; and every attempt to abridge
their jtrii'tlige of becoming citizens and
tamers of the soil among tts, ought to be
resisted with inflexible determination."—A.
Gazette.
Reverend Mr. Baker of Carroll, we are
informed, was a few days since present at
a democratic meeting there, and repeated
ly charged with belonging to the know
nothings. He for some time bore the
charge in silence, but at length rose and in
the most positive manner declared that he
was not a know nothing and knew nothing
about any such society. And yet he al
most immediately afterwards, went down
to Manchester and acted as a delegate in
the Know Nothing Convention!—Coos
Democrat.
Hollowly* News Room.
Go where, you will, whether to the confines of
India, the diggings of Australia and California,
the wilds of Oregon, the empire of the Sun and
Moon, or the metropolis of Europe, Holloway’s
medicines arc Yvcil known and their virtues prop
erly appreciated. This is entirely owing to the
extensive and judicious system of advertising or
ganized hy Dr. Holloway. In every newspaper of
the world of any note, his Pills and Ointment arc
properly advertised and as a necessary conse
quence their excellent curative propertives have
been fairly tested and have acquired for them a
popularity never yet equalled hy any popular
medicine. Every day, indeed, seems to produce
new evidence of their value to suffering humanity.
I)r. Holloway’s establishment in the Strand is
one of the lions of London, and should he visited
by cY-ery sojourner in the modem Babylon. Not
the least attractive feature in the establishment is
the extensive Reading room attached thereto,
which is open to the public, and ill which there is
kept regularly filed almost every newspaper in the
world. In even exceeds Lloyd’s reading room,
and is said to be the most complete collection i f
newspapers ever got together.—“Commercial Ad
vertiser' Journal, Kingston, Canada West.
A. B.— The Anrs Room is open ilai/y for the ac
commodation of visitors, free of charge, from 9 a. m.
until e p. mi.
Professor Holloway’s Establishment is at 38,
Corner of Annand Nassau-street. New York, where
his popular Pills and Ointment, which have enjoy
ed snch reputation for a number of years in every
part of the world are sold; particulars of the cures
they have effected throng the papers in this coun
try, and there Ls no question hut that they are ex
actly the kind of medicine our citizens require.—
\Ye would strongly advise our friends to give them
a trial, and there is no fear but that they would
continue to use them whenever any medicine
might ho requisite. 3>*
Almost a not lirr Conflagration.
On Friday morning last about 1 o’clock A. M.,
a fire was accidentally discovered in the centre of
the wooden block on Wayne Street. The fire
originated front the most reprehensible habit of
putting ashes in barrels or wooden boxes, and but
for timely discovery made, at a time, too, when
all our citizens might be supposed to be asleep,
one half our *ity would have been laid in ashes.
\V_> trust this narrow escape w ill produce great
er caution, and save ils from the horrors of another
conflagration.
A just roi»i>!>Uft'nt.
The Journal of Commerce, a paper of high
standing, speaking of the Administration, says:
The Executive power of the United States is
vigorously exercised in every department of ser
vice, to keep the government clear of frauds of
every description. A sense ofltigh integrity and
honor in all money concerns governs and controls
the Cabinet. The country is extremely fortunate
in this respect, at the present juncture, when the
example is so different from what we know of
many local governments. The influence of this
state of things is doubtless potent over tiie exer
cise of the general legislative power.
Gen. Jack-on nn Abolitionist.
The Republican, published at Cedar Town Polk
county Geo. makes out Gen'l. Jackson an Aboli
tionist of the Sumner stamp. What do the Jack-
son Democrats of Polk think of a paper that can
make snch a charge against Andrew Jackson.
Onr “Tcry good Governor.”
Our renders will remember that the Journal Sf
Messenger, four or five weeks ago, acknowledged,
with great candor, that Judge Johnson had made
“a very good Governor.” This confession sur
prised us at first, on account of its sincerity. But
he re-iterated the confession, and told us that lie
was entitled to more “candor than the Federal
Union was ever guilty of.” Well, we gave him
the proper credit. We knew the friends of the
Governor would thank him for it; and we also
knew the Whigs would receive it with many a
•‘shrug" of the shoulder, and many a silent re
buke. Some, we felt, would attribute the blunder
to indiscretion, others to downright stupidity.
But we expected, after the sly lectures our contem
porary received, he would take the first opportu
nity to mollify his broad assertion. Iu referring to
Gov. Johnson in his paper of last Wednesday, the
editor of the Journal if Messenger uses this lan
guage—“Our very good Governor, very to be read
with a shrug of the shoulder.” Now is this not
laughable. After committing himself, in sober
earnest, the editor would make believe that he was
only joking; and that he was indulging in a little
irony, instead of making a clean breast of it. Ah,
neighbor, we don’t envy your wit; it has cost you
dear, and you are welcome to it all.
A Give Know-Nothing-
Jas. R. Smith, editor of the Atlanta Republican
says, in a letter to the editors of the Intelli
gencer, be is a member of* the Know-Nothing Or
der. Banutin here’s a chance for you. Come out
and exhibit a live Southern Know-Nothing at five
cents a head. A fortune awaits you. Ye Massa
chusetts Know-Nothings—ye Seward Know-Noth
ings—ve Free Nigger Know-Nothings of Elmira,
New York, rejoice! You have got one mem
ber in Georgia, and Smith is the man.
Post-niorlt'in ludijenuliau.
Now that Know-Nothingism is proved beyond
question to be Abolitionism under anew name, the
moderate Know-Nothings are getting quite indig
nant at several of their brethren for voting for
Seward for Senator. They arc burning in effigy,
and doing other like terrible tilings to the Know-
Nothing Members of the Legislature who voted
for S'ward. But what a fuss for nothing. Did’nt
the Know-Nothings do ten times worse in Massa
chusetts. They had perfect control of the Legisla
ture, and they elected Wilson, a more dangerous
man than Seward, because destitute of principle.
Why did the Southern Know-Nothings burn no
effigies when Wilson was elected!
True there were fewer to burn in Seward’s
ease, but why in the name of consistency was
Wilson permitted to pass without one mani
festation of your vengeance! The truth is you be
gin to see the effects of these elections on the con
test in Virginia, and on the Southern mind every
where, and you foci the necessity of doing some-
tiling fo appease the offended and incensed South.
But it is too late. Littlejohn has got his reward—
the horse is stolen, the dog is dead, and Know-
Nothingism at the South is in a fix.
Know Xolhiuy Mot-nitty.
The Recorder of last week copied from t lie Geor
gia Citizen without a word of comment, au article
stating in substance, that Gen’l. Cass had been in -
strueted by the Democrats of the Michigan Legisla
ture to procure the passage of an net prohibiting
Slavery in the territories Ac. or resign his seat in
the Senate of the United States, also stating in
substance that the Democrats in the Legisla
tures of Wisconsin and Illinois had- elected,
Durkee and Trumbull, two freesoilers to the U. S.
Senate. Now we can prove from the files of the
Recorder that these statements are not true, and
the conductor^ of the Recorder knew it. In the
Recorder published the 14th of last November, the
Recorder exults over the fact that the Democracy
had been overwhelmingly defeated in Wisconsin, Michi
gan and Illinois. Had this news proved false, as
wc hoped it would at the time, it would have al
tered the case, but unfortunately for the country, it
proved true. But now behold a specimen of Know
Nothing morality; when last fall it was necessary
to magnify and exalt the Know Nothing victories,
tiie Democrats were overwhelmingly defeated in
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois, but now when it
is necessary to shield the Know Nothings in these
States from the responsibility of their conduct, they
charge tlu-ir conduct in these same States to the
Democrats. Besides the testimony of the Recor
der and every other Whig paper in the State, we
have the published testimony of Gen’l. Cass, him
self denying that the Democrats of Michigan had in
structed hint, and the published report of the sena
torial election hi Illinois shows that every Demo
crat in the Illinois Legislature rated fur Gen'l.
Shields. Perhaps we should not consider Know
Nothing Editors morally responsible for any thing
they say! they ar.; Said to be bound by u-dreadful
oath to obey their masters in the second degree;
these masters in the second degree live tn New
York or Boston, and send out their orders which
are imperative. The poor Know Nothing Editor
in this ease is like a speaking trumpet through
which orders pass, nothing but sounding brass. \Y e
hope our Neighbors of the Recorder are not vet
in this humiliating condition; why then should
they contradict themselves for the sake of shield
ing from deserved obloquy and contempt, an or
ganization whose leaders are .according to the tes
timony of the Richmond Whig, a set of petjured
villians, and who according to the testimony of
their friends ought uow to l>e safely guarded with
in the walls of a penitentiary.
■*** event 1mm—tkc >t«mm
«ke Bttmmuk Patty
asast taert it.
We invite the careful perusal, hy every reader of
this paper, of an article taken from the New York
Courier Sf Enquirer, a paper called by Georgia
Whigs, conserratice (!) The Courier Sr Enqui„ r
we may add, is a violent exponent of Know-Noth
ingism. The South is told by this tonsrrratin
sheet, that the election of Wilson, Darker, and
Seward are the fruits of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise—that these men, whether elected b •
Know-Nothings or not, are representatives of the
anti-slavery sentiment, ‘out-and-out, “through-nod
through.” The anti-Nebraska party, made up of
every ism of fanaticism, is the embodiment of the
anti-slavery sentiment. And we here invite the
attention of Southern men, who opposed the N,>
hraska bill, to the confession of the Courier if
quircr. That party of isms already boast of their
strength in the next House of Representatives, and
swear no more Since States shall come into tins Chios
This is the position of the Courier Sf Enquirer ■,
paper which, if wc do not err, h as endorsed last
week by the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer as timsrrra-
tire. This issue of no more Shirt States, is to he the
great battle ground in the next Presidential con-
test; and the signs of the times point to Win. H
Seward as the great Northern leader of the anti-
slavery forces, for the Presidency.
It is a fact which cannot be denied or disguised
that the enemies of the Union and the Rights of the
States are found harmoniously fighting torrpther
against the Democratic Party. Side by side stand
Seward and Wilson, one the representative of the
Abolition sentiment, the other that of Kno-.v-Noth-
ingism. Both elected with direct reference to their
anti-slavery sentiments.
Throughout the North this same tiling is seen
In Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and I u .
(liana, side by side are found the Abolitionist and
the Know-Nothing. Wc care not how different
their policy assumes to be, practically the result is
the same. To make war upon the Democratic
Party for passing the Nebraska bill, is the great
mission of Abolitionism; and Know-Nothingism. m
order to make war upon the Democratic Party, a:»l
its national head, for its own political advance
ment, makes common cause with it. Together
they have triumphed at the North and West, and
to the South their eyes are now turned for aid and
comfort. Every Abolitionist and Know-Nothing,
North of Mason A Dixon's line, will shout with un
controllable joy if Henry A. Wise, is beaten in Yir-
ginia. Their watchwords are, down with Slavery!
down with Democracy! In Massachusetts, atiti-
slavery gave the Know-Nothings a push, aud Wil
son, a Know-Nothing, goes to the U. S. Senate.
In New York, turn about being fair play, Know-
Nothingism gives anti-slavery a push, and Wm.
H. Seward goes to the U. S. Senate. These recip
rocal courtesies and kindnesses are being enacted
throughout the whole North, by Abolitionists
andKnow-Notliings, aud in every case their
united energies are directed against Democrats
and the Democratic Party. How then, can
the South look for assistance from either of these
blind, infuriated conspiracies. There is hope,there
is safety in the National Democratic Party. Hun
dreds of thousands of sound national Democrats
at the North will rally, at the proper time, to crush
these rabitl fanatics, come in what guise they mar.
With such bold, able and incorruptible leaders us
Pierce, Buchanan, Douglass, Cass, Dickinson,
Bright, Dallas, Marcv, Shields, and numbers of
others equally sound, the South need not despair.
Know-Nothingism and Abolitionism will be strong
enough in the next House of Representatives to
prevent the admission of Kansas with a Consti
tution tolerating .Slavery; hut, while Pierce is
Prcside.ut. and while the Senate has so many noble
souls in it, thank God, these traitors w ill never be
able to place hack upon the South that mark of
degradation which the Nebraska hill wiped out.
To the national Democrats, as on many a like oc
casion, the people look for the vindication of their
honor, the preservation of their rights, and the
union of these .States.
The warning Voice of Virginia lVhigii
It is well known that the Whig Party of Virgin
ia has been sold hy its leaders to Know Nothing-
ism. There are, however thousands of patriotic,
chivalric Whigs iu Virginia, w ho scorn tiie dark
alliance, and who will give tlieir cordial snpiiortto
Henry A. Wise for Governor. That the Whig! of
Georgia may know the opinion this class of
Whigs entertain for the new ally of Virginia
Whigs, yvc take tYvo extracts front Whig papers
published in Virginia. The first is from the War-
ronton Ya. Flag, of the 10th inst. It is .addressed
to the Whigs of the South. It says:
“The Whig party of the South withdrew from
the National Whig party because of the abolition
affinities and proclivities of its northern Yving.—
They evinced thereby a patriotism and devotion
to principle, commendable iu the individual and
honorable, to the party. Their only rettson for
non-association with the Whig party of the North
was, because*it had gone over to the Abolition
party. Because the whigs assisted in the election
of abolition governors, senators, representatives;
because their platforms embraced abolition prin
ciples! and their every act tended to the agitation
of the slavery question, and ultimately to the dis
solution of the Union. For these reasons south
ern whigs considered it incumbent upon them to
disconnect themselves from their northern breth
ren, and if they could not belong to a party whose
patriotism was unsuspected, aud of whose princi
ples aud men they approved, to remain unconnect
ed Yvitli any. This was the brightest day in the
annals of the Southern Whig party. By this pat
riotic act they struck a death blow to the Whig
party, for it immediately dissolved. Know-Noth-
ingism soon after arose in Massachusetts, and soon
absorbed the northern Yvh.'gs; men with whom
southern whigs had refused to associate. It
spread its nets, and in a short time found them fill
ed with birds of every plumage from the old poll
tical parties of the North, but by far the most nn-
III.'COUS in this partieolored-triho were the Aboli
tionists.
“The‘fruits’of this new fusion are ooyv devel
oping its true character, and exhibiting Kno'V-
Notliingism to be thoroughly abolition.
The same reason notv exists for tiie whigs to
.again leave this new phase of Abolitionism and
once more assert their devotion to the constitution
and the rights of their section.
“Will they do so! We fear not! The found? 0
of Know-Nothingism profitted by the action of th*
southern whigs, towards their northern brethren
and they determined to prevent a similar division
of their party. This could only be done by th*
destruction of the right of individual opinion: by
denying to eaclt member the right to vote acco*d'
ing to their “personal preference,” by compclhug,
each member, on oath, to ‘comply wi h the will of
the majority, though it may couffict with their per
sonal preference”—all of which they accomplish
by nn oath which binds, iu the most solemn man
ner, each individual- member to vote for the man,
to advocate the measure, to espouse the principle,
the order may “express in lawful manner.
The following, front the Lewisburg (Va) Chroni
cle, another Whig paper, is still stronger in it® ’k*
nuneiation of the secret Abolition order.
“Candidly, we think Know Nothtngism an ' n '
suit to Virginia intelligence, and a reproach to the
fame of her noble sons. To see the F. F. Ys. o
Y’irginia tiie sons of noble sires—creep'll
through alleys, dodging around corners, and w"
ncing th- ir connection with a political pari. 1 '
makes ns feel for the departed chivalry of'-''
ginia. Perhaps the editor of the Kanawha ”'"
publican, not, we believe a Y’irginiau by bin- 1 -
does not partake of the sympythy. Know N 1,1 .‘
ingism is suited to Yankee land—to bigoted nm^' 1
—-but is a slur upon the noble boldness of Y inn- 1 *
ians. The day will yet come when they will car 4,
the hour they joined it. This tve verily believe-—
Time will s.ioyv how correct we are in our opin ' 111 -
Another Know--Vothina Victory-
Seward Know-Nothings.—At the late electionsi in
Elmira, N. Y., the very hot bed of Sewardism, 1 ;
Know-Nothings polled two-thirds ot the "
number of votes cast, electing tlieir entire tic
by majorities of front 399 to 490 over the univs
vote of the whig and democratic parties. *
Georgian. ,.
From the intelligence given above, it
seen that the Know-Nothings have parried ah ^
fore them in the town of Elmira, in YYesteru - ' ^
York. Elmira has for many years been a f ”
resort of free negroes, and our readers will rt nl ^ (
her, a few mouths ago, yvg published the fact * ^
the free negroes in Elmira had established a
and flourishing Know-Nothing council; au
behold tiie fruits. They have carried a * oca * * ^
tion by several hundred majority over tuecom
forces of the YVhigs and Democrats. KnOYu- j’
ings of Georgia, behold your allies, and ^
this free negro victory, in thia strong 01
Seward; cut