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Newspaper Page Text80UGBTOX, NISBET& BAKNES, Publishers and Proprietors. n. Kdilors. JO*. II. XINBBT. > TK B MS. THE rSDS&AZ. UNION, 1$ published If'ctkly. in the Darit n Bunk Building, At *52 00 per Annum, payable in advance, 1S2’30 it' not paid within three months, and 00 it' not paid before the end of the year. It.lTEM OF ADVERTISING, Per sijuarc of tirelre lines. ime insertion $1 O''!, and Fifty Cents foreae.h sub sequent continuance. ,. Those M-nt without a s]>ecilication of the number * alitorma 0 f insertions, will he published till forbid, and charged accordingly. Business or Professional Cards, per year, where thev do not exceed one square - - - $10 00 j lihirul contract vill he wade tri.th those tcho tri.ih to Adrcrtise by the year, occupying a specif cd space. VOLUME XXVL] M IL L E D G E VI L L E. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. JU LY 24. 1855. [NUMBER 8. thev LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, f.v-cutors or Guardians, are required by law to be 1i on the First Tuesday in the month, between hoars of 10 in the forenoon and 11 in the nfter- fiuoii.at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. \ ,ricc of these sales must be given in a public r.i/.ctte 1 1 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be j,i ve n in like manner lli days previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate niii-t also he published -111 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must he published for two months. i itations for letters of Administration, Guardian ship, Ac., must he published 111) days—for dismis sion from Administration, monthly sir months—for dismission from Guardianship, 4u days. Hubs for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub- d monthly for four months—for establishing lost pup •• for the. full space of three, months—for com- titles from Executors or Administrators, bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will alway's be continued according to tlo-se, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, at the following HATE Si (' rations on letters of Administration, Ac. $2 75 “ dismissory from Admr’on. 4 50 “ “ “ Guardianship Leave to sell Land or Negroes Notice to debtors and creditors Sales of persponal property, ton days, 1 sqr. Sal of land or negroes by Executors, Ac. 1’strays, two weeks I'or a man advertising his wife (in advance) I .otters on business must be Post Paid to entitle them to attention. were worth more there than in Flour, wheat, barlv, oats and potatoes, are also going in large quantities from California to Australia. Seven large ships are mentioned in the San Francisco papers as loading with the products of Cal ifornia, destined for New York and Aus tralia. These anomalies of trade show how well founded is the. old established law in political economy, relating to de mand and supply. A producing country may for years export its products, and yet be. compelled, without a failure of its crops, to import similar products. It is not two years since, says a contemporary, it was stated hv political economists, by the press generally, and on the door of Congress, that California would always be a great outlet for our breadstuffs; and-that she could never become an agricultural country. :t oo 4 oo :i oo 1 50 5 (Ml 1 50 5 00 }\\ istflianfous. .'squire appose you hissing. von are older than I lie, and I will think all this sort of thing is clear sheer nonsense, but depend upon it a kiss isa great mystery. There is many a thing we know we can’t explain, still we are sure it is a fact for all that.— Whv should there he a sort of magic in shaking hands, which seems only a mere form, and sometimes a painful one too, for some folks wring your fingers off almost ami make you fairly dance with pain, they hurt you so. It don’t give much pleasure at any time. What the magic of it is, we can’t tell, hut so it is for all that. It seems only a custom like bowing, and nothing else, still there is more in it than meets tin* e^e. But a kiss fairly electrifies you, it warms your blood and sets your heart to heatin’ like a Lass drum, and makes your eyes twinkle like stars on a frosty night. It ain’t a thing ever to be forgot. No language can express it; no letters will give the sound. Then what in nature is equal to the flavor of it? What an aroma it lias! It ain’t gross, for you can't feed on it. It don’t cloy, for the pa late ain’t required to test its taste. It is neither visible, nor tangable, nor portable, nor transable. It is not a substance, nor a liquid, nor a vapor. It has neither color nor form. Imagination can’t conceive it. It can’t he imitated nor forged. It is confined to no dime or country, hut its ttb- Lpfi ■•till exists and always will exist. It per vades all nature. The breeze as it piasses kisses the rose, and the pendent vine stoops down and hides with it tendrils its Mushes, as it kisses the limpid stream that waits in an eddy to meet it and raises •' tiny waves, like anxious lips to receive it. Depend upon it Eve 1 learned it in Par adise, and was taught ifs beauties, virtues and varieties hy an angel, there is some thing so transeendant in it. How it is adapted to all circumstances! There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the bug, lingering, loving present one, the Solon or the mutual one, the kiss of love, •f joy, and of sorrow, the seal of promise, si the receipt of fulfilment. Is it strange rofore that a woman is invincible whose armory consists of kisses, smiles, sighs and tears? Is it any wonder that poor old Adam was first tempted, and then ruined? It is very easy for preachers to get up with mug faces and tell us that he ought to have hepn more of a man. My opinion is, it in* had been less of a man, he would have been better for him. But I am not agoin' to preach; so 1 will get back to my story; but, Squire, I shall always main tain to inv dying day, that kissing isa sublime mystery.—Sam Slick. Primitive Baptists.—The Georgia Citi zen-a Know Nthing paper and in great fa- v,: r with the Dark Lantern party, uses the following language about the Primitive Baptists: Clerical Politicians.—The country is cursed with this class of bipeds, from Maine to California. Every where the pulpit is profaned dy rampant political 1 emonstration and the lambs of the Hock arc fed on poisonous diet. For example, Go re is parson Billy Mosely and parson louinty Trice, up in Henry and Pike, • ho are figuring largely on the political ■aids—or rather we should say, trying t" figure largely, without making much ' l *t of the unprofitable business. They di belong to the “Daddy Dunk” tribe of lien, (lass on the Fourth. The Nation a l Intelligencer introduces the subjoined excellent address of the Michigan statesman, delivered on the 4th of July, with the following remarks : W e find in the Detroit papers a short address delivered by (we had, from having known him so long, nearly written venera ble) General Cass at the celebration of the recent National Anniversary at Detroit.— Besides being, from the characteristic beauty and vigor of expression of the dis tinguished orator and its patriotic senti ments, worthy of being spread before our readers, we think it due to our elder states men, when they come forward on national occasions and speak to tlieir countrymen, away from the topics and trammels of par ty, that what they say should receive the respect of general dissemination and peru sal. General fass’s Remarks. My Fellow-Citizens : If the birthday of a warrior or a statesman distinguished for eminent services is celebrated with de monstrations of public rejoicing, surely the birthday of a Republic ought not to be tor- gotten. This day was our Republic born. This day, seventy -nine years ago, a feeble confederation of thirteen remote and al most unknown colonies, shut in between the mountains and the ocean, containing scarcely three million of people, decreed their separation from the mightiest power on the face of the globe, and asserted their right, both hy deeds and by words, to en ter, as an independent member, into the family of nations—by deeds of patriotism and valor whose memory will never die, and by words of wisdom and power whose truth can never be gainsaid, and which are embodied in that renowned declaration of principles and purposes you have just heard read, and which to-day everywhere finds listening ears and responsive hearts throughout the vast congregations of American citizens. It is the table of our political law, not written upon stone, but inscribed in characters of living light upon the memory and the understanding of a great people, who proclaimed it in their weakness and maintain it in tlieir strength. And now those seventy-nine years have passed away—years of strange vicissitude in human affairs, both in the old world and in the new; and this returning anniversary finds the feeble confederation a great re- ’• publican empire, numbering nearly thirty It is disembodied when completed hut millions of people, with nothing to trouble instantly reproducted, and .mo is immortal. ; them hut themselves, and with nothing to It is as old as the creation, and yet is as fear hut the just judgment of God—an eni- yoimg and fresh as ever. It pre-existed, j pire stretching across the continent, from the coasts that look out upon Europe to the shores of the great ocean of the West which separates us from the time-worn kingdoms of China and Japan, and exten ding almost from the northern tropic to the arctic circle—and with all the elements of power and prosperity in full operation, such as no nation ever possessed before, and whose magnificent results, while they startle the imagination, are far beyond the reach ofliuman sagacity to estimate. And through these immense regions free institu tions rule both rulers and people, and ex ert tlieir benign influence like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The Government is founded upon the will of all, administered by the power of all, pro tecting the rights of all, while all have equal access to its honors and its rewards. Never, in the long history of man, since the dispersion of the human family upon the plains of Shinar, never was such a sys tem of self-government before committed to any people. And if we would only re alize its value and the inestimable privil eges it secures; if we would compare our lot with that of any other country, not in a spirit of ostentations rivalry, hut of truth and thankfulness, we should he far better and wiser than we are. We hare waxed fat, and prosperity lias made us presump tuous; and, like the Jews of old, our prede cessors iii national ingratitude, we are for ever murmuring when we should be bless ing and complaining when we should be enjoying. Let us survey the other na tions of the earth, and leam contentment and humility. It is good for us to be here. It is good for us to meet in this great family party.— It is good for the American people, to come togetlier in their primary assemblies upon this their festival of freedom, and to re joice with exceeding great jot), hut with de vout acknowledgments to Him who holds in his hand the. fate of nations, and who led us from aland of oppression, through many a weary way, to tnis beautiful land, not of promise, but of performance. And while \ round upon or to draw it becomes us to recall the noble band of patriots who purchased the heritage we possess by suf ferings, and blood, and death, and bless tlieir deeds and tlieir memory. Great events have tlieir monuments to strength en and perpetuate tlieir remembrance.— When the. children of Israel passed on dry ground through .Jordan, they were com manded to set up twelve stones upon its hank in commemoration of their wonderful deliverance. We, too, have a monument to commemorate our deliverance—ior we also have safely passed through troubled waters—and that monument is the recur ring anniversary of the day, the American day, when the delegated fathers of the Confederation announced to tjie world the determination of their countrymen to he free, and put their hands to the declara tion, with the memorable pledge that for tune, and honor, and life were staked upon the issue. r 1 ~,, , j „ • . iiumibc, mil m uenui uiauic. r i anbergut preachers, who go against j 1 , 1 , , , , . . 1 ,,, „ ! we review tire past, and look roi Liole Societies, Missionary ditto, J ract j , , *, , , .. , *q. , , 11 the present, ami tlienoe endeavo - 1 '", 1 einperaiice ditto, .Masonry, Odd . 1 , ,■ , i * .. . , , , lessons ot wisdom tor the future, l Fellows, Ac., as wiles of the devil, and r faith in this latter personage is that “I the last century in the back settlements, same which adorned his Satanic ma- .11(4}' with eyes like a saucer, tail like an Elephant's and cloven foot like an ox!— Wrilv they are fit instruments in the Funds of tlie Foreign party leaders to jireach Republicanism and anti-American- lMl1 '—Georgia Citizen , M hy i s such language used? Simply ot-causc this denomination of Christians re- ' u ' ( ‘ to join the Know Nothing ranks, and ■'mu men against its proscriptive prinei- I’ti'i. Would not the man who would .‘iinkc use of such words, proscribe Frim- 1 Baptists, as soon as Catholic*.— Troy Bullet i "ilehn. The Marvels of the California Trade. ■~lhc ship Charmer has sailed from San Iraiicisco fur New York, with more than M * te en hundred tons of freight, mostly ''Feat and flour. She has also some 25, FdU shovels, sent there for the gold dig- ^ erK . and now returned to New York, as Sternly and solemnly was that pledge given, and faithfully was it redeem ed. The works of man will perish. On Jor dan’s lonely hank no memorial now re mains to tell the story of a nation’s pas sage. and to withdraw the thoughts ot the solitary pilgrim from the desolate scenes around him to the contemplation of tlie great events, deeply interesting to the whole human race, which followed the mi raculous entrance of the Jewish people in to the land which had been promised to their patriarchs as a birth-place for the Sa viour. But while the earth remains—so we are told by Him wlio made and will de stroy it—while the earth remains day and night shall not cease; and thus our monu mental day, exempt from the frailty of human structures, will periodically come to summon us togetlier, and to call us from the busy occupations oflife to the indul gence of those higher aspirations which exalt human nature, and of that faculty of association which withdraws us from the objects around and carries us Imck to the glorious deeds and bright examples of oth er days, thus adding stability to our prin ciples and hope and confidence to our ex ertions. This national' jubilee has its duties as well as its pleasures. Though it is a sea son for enjoyment, it should not the less be a season for reflection. The millions of free men it brings together, while they may well interchange congratulations, should also interchange firm resolutions of conciliation and of moderation. Forever he it devoted to generous sentiment, to proud recollections, to inspiring hopes, and to patriotic assurances! Let old and young, the whole body of our countrymen, unite in its celebration ! Let them open their ears and their hearts to the wondrous tale of the Revolution—that romantic epij sode in human annals which, from the ine quality of the contest and its strange alter- being the correct rendering of the original, as it appears in Tynsdale’s and Cranmer’s translations, both of which have “strained out.” It was the custom of the. stricter Jews to strain tlieir wine, vinegar, and others, potables, through linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink down some little, unclean insect as a gnat, and thus transgress the Leviticallaw. It was to this custom the Saviour alluded, intend ing to say that the Scribes and Pharisees, while they strain out a gnat from tlieit drink, would yet swallow a camel at a gulph. Pulriotic and lkniocruiif. The Philadelphia Democracy, in ac cordance with a time honored custom, as sembled in Independence square at eight, o’clock on the morning of the fourth of July. Hon. John Cadwallader, the retir ing president, after making some patriotic remarks, introduced George M. Martin, Esq., as president of the. meeting. Mr. Martin made a brief address; at the con clusion of which, Ignatius Donnelly, Esq., delivered an eloquent oration. Isaac Moore, £sq., from the Committee of arrangements, then reported a series of resolutions, which were unanimously adopt ed. AVe subjoin four of these resolutions, which refer to the prominent topics of the day. They are as follows: Resolved, That to tho Union of the States under the Constitution of the Gen eral Government, we attribute the pros perity of this highly favored land. In the future influence of this blessed Union, we foresee the augmentation of our own hap piness as a nation, and an amelioration of the moral, social, and political condition of our fellow-inen in less favored countries. For the maintenance of the Union of the tanee of freedom. Nor does it fail toj an d the Islands. This destruction of strengthen our firm purpose to maintain i Greek property onlv serves to increase that inheritence unimpaired, within the j the hatred of that ignorant, fanatical, and great bulwark specially devised by its vilely revengeful' people. Thev (the venerated authors for its preservation, j Greeks) are to a man in favor of the Ros- Need I tell you what that bulwark is? ; sians. Some French troops, with tlieir of- what that only untailing and infallible | fivers, recently went in an American clip per from Constantinople, and a colonel citadel of security is? It is the constitu tional union of the sovereign States.— That is the. sacred conservary within which the fruits of liberty, order, progress, valor, and law have germinated, bloom ed and ripened. told the captain that whilst they were en camped, one hundred of his men were I Globe same session, page 1821 taken sick, and forty of them died, and that lie had no doubt the water had been poisoned by the Greeks. One day they States togetlier we got but three volet for it. In the Senate, on the final passage of bill, the yeas were 35, and nays 13—of these 35 yeas, Broadhead of Pa., Cass of Michigan, Douglass of Illinois, Gwin of California, Jones of Iowa, Norris of New Hampshire, Pettit of Indiana, Shields of Illinois, Stuart of Michigan, Thompson of New Jersey, Toncey of Connecticut, Wel ler of California, AYilliams of New Hamp shire, and Wright of New Jersey, were Northern Democrats; and to these may be added the names of Bright of Indiana, A ice President pro teni, and Dodge of Io wa, absent at the time, but known to be a warm friend of the bill—making sixteen Northern Democrats in the Senate for the bill; while of 13 votes against it but two Northern Democrats in that body were in the number to-wit: Hamlin ofMaine, and AValker of Wisconsin. See Congressional Out of the 35 votes for the "bill in the Senate, there was not one Northern AVTiig or Northern Know Nothing, And out of the 113 votes in the House for the bill, there And you, Pennsylvanians, in whose j seized on three Greeks in the camp, and midst still stands the hallowed edifice on searching them, found poison concealed i was not one Northern Know Nothing.— in tlieir clothes, and they were instantly Bad, therefore as a portion of the Demo- shot. crats are, (such men for instance, as Dix, The French officers assure me that the Van Buren & Co.,) justice to such of them engineers in the Russian army are equal us are true to the Constitution, requires it to any in Europe. Their army in the known, that a majority of them ~ ‘ ~ in both Houses of Congress, including good and had together, stood by the rights of the South on this great question. And whence came both the oracle of Indepen dence and the organic frame of our Gov ernment you, the central sustaining power of the great arch, are you not, as heretofore, heart, soul, and hand, devoted as well to the principles of the Revolu-1 Crimea is composed of the finest troops be found who love tlieir country and glob al her institutions! If we cannot pay the debt of gratitude we owe to the founders of the Republic, we can learn to appreciate its value and to acknowledge its obliga tions. And forever, hereafter, may this revolv ing period find us a prosperous, and happy, and united people, whose God shall he the Lord! My fellow-citizens, I trust you will not consider me obtrusive in the public expres sion of these sentiments, under the circum stances of our present convocation. 1 rose for the purpose of introducing to you Air. Shearman, the orator of the day, who has been fortunately selected to address you at this time, and whose acquirements and intelligencejustify the anticipation that he will fulfil the trust to his own honor, and to your entire satisfaction. But I could not rise even for that purpose, upon this occasion and in this place of my home— my home for forty years, bringing with them both joys and sorrows—and surroun ded by my friends and neighbors, without avowing the deep interest I feel in the per petuation of this glorious Confederation, and of the free, and equal institutions it se cures to us. Born during the war of inde pendence, I am among the few surviving links which connect the men of the Revo lution with the generation now upon the theatre of action. Many of the distin guished patriots of our heroic age I have seen, and some of them I have known, and it is among the most grateful recollections of my life that I have seen him whose name I need not name, for it is in your hearts and upon your lips—the, HERO pa triot, who first led our armies to victory, and then guided our councils to stability and prosperity. The fruits of his labor lie left to his country. His example belongs to the world. I have heard from the actors in the scenes the stories of those days of trial and of trouble, when, after the Revolution was accomplished, brave men were in fear and wise men in despair, and when all men saw that the inefficient Government—league it may he called—which, with the aid of ex ternal pressure, had kept us together and carried us through the contest, had num bered its days and when want of respect abroad and of obedience at home announ ced that its death-struggle was approach ing. It was then that the present Consti tution was formed, in a spirit of patriotic devotion and concession, and we entered upon that glorious career to which the his tory of the world can furnish no parallel. He who believes that if this fabric of wis dom were now demolished it could ever be rebuilt, must reject all the lessons of hu man experience and shut his eves to the passions of human nature. For two-thirds of a century this Government of freedom and law lias secured to its people, individu- allv and collectively, a greater measure of prosperity and happiness than was ever be fore meted out hy political institutions to the descendants of Adam. It has protec ted me and mine from external aggression a'nd from internal violence; and hy its no ble equality, joined to the undeserved fa vor of my fellow-citizens, it has opened to me positions of public honor and confidence to which the circumstances of my youth gave me no right to look forward, and which my brightest day-dreams, that sometimes came to soften the harsh reali ties of a frontier struggle, never even pre sented to my imagination; and what it has done for me it has offered to all. AV ell, then, may 1 he proud to acknowledge the hold it possesses upon my gratitude and af fection, and the intensity of the feeling of attachment with which 1 treasure it in my heart. AIv personal interest in it, indeed, is fast passing away. Of that I am suffi ciently warned by the long period during which I have secured its protection; but 1 pray not the less earnestly for its preserva tion; for when, in the providence of God, my connection with it shall he dissolved with the dissolution of all earthly ties, 1 can leave to those who are dearest to me no legacy more precious than their share in its enjoyment. I finish my task by presenting to you AH. Shearman. * Curious Typographical Error.—Prof. Trench, in his latest work on the English language, points out a curious typographi cal error in the 20th verse of the 13d chap ter of Matthew. The words “which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel,” the pro fessor thinks contain a misprint, which having been passed over in the edition ot 1611, has held its ground ever since. The translators intended to say “which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel,” that m a strict interpretation of the Constitu tion, and a constant adherence to the Democratic principle that the General Government should never assume an ex ercise of any doubtful power, and should exercise acknowledged powers no farther than imperative necessity may require. Resolved, That the States of the Union and our Territorial dependencies are not less entitled to exemption from interfer ence of the Federal Government in their internal concerns, than the Colonies who declared tlieir independence on the fourth of July, 1776, were entitled to exemption from unauthorized interference of the Gov ernment of England. The States, under the constitutional compact, are distinct and independent sovereignites, except in their federal relations alone; and the spir it of this compact, according to Democrat ic principles, should be carried into effect in organizing temporary dependent gov ernments of settlers in our Territorial do minion. AVe recognize, therefore, with unqualified approbation, as sound, practi cal expositions of this principle, the Con gressional enactment of the year 1850, and the subsequent act organizing territo rial governments for Kansas and Nebras ka. Resolved, That the Democracy will ad here undeviatingly to tlieir uniform princi ples in maintaining inviolate the rights of property guarantied by the Constitution of the General Government, in sustaining the right of expatriation as a privilege of all who seek within our land a refuge from foreign oppression, in recognizing the per fect political equality of naturalized and native citizens, in resisting all attempts at either direct or indirect disfranchisement of any man for his religious profession or creed, and in reprobating all secret politi cal associations as detestable in a land of freedom. Tho resolution which we have publish i ed in italics is a bold, manly, and une quivocal declaration of true constitutional; and State-rights doctrines. The meaning of it, in a few words, is, that the Federal! Government has no right to interfere with the institutions and domestic concerns of* the States or Territories, (slavery, for in stance,) and that such interference is as j oppressive and tyrannical, as was the un authorized interference of the Govern ment of England with the domestic affairs | of the colonies. It puts the rights of the States on im-. pregnable groundsill its emphatic declara tion—“The States under the constitution al compact are distinct and independent I sovereignties, except in their Federal re lations alone.” It approve* distinctly the j Nebraska Kansas bill. This resolution,, taken in connection with tlie one that pro- , cedes it, presents in a few words, and in a complete and satisfactory form the fun damental doctrines of the Democratic par ty. The chairman then introduced to tlie 1 meeting George AI. Dallas, late A'ice Bresi-' dent of the United States, with appropri-1 ate commendatory observations. Air. Dallas said: That having been kindly invited, he would venture to ex press a few thoughts suggested by the oc casion. Our object in celebrating this day, should be not merely to recall the names ” and eulogize the exploits of those who gave it universality of interest and immortality of renown, but at the same time, under the inspirations of tho time, to lay upon the altar of our beloved country some votive sentiment applicable to her existing condition and harmonizing with the les sons and aims of her founders. The people of America, over their vast domain, in all their countless cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and settlements, are, at this moment, spontaneously and simulta neously, rendering grateful homage to the! Faith and tlie Fathers of ’76. \\ hat mil lions of voices, on the heights of our our mountains, in the depths of our valleys, on the boundless expanse of our waters, and the shades of unnumbered forests or the sunshine of endless praries, are repeating, with never-dying sympathy, the solemn and sublime truths of the Dec laration of Independence! Nay, this political hallelujah rises in every land; it beats the earth, not with an idle drum beat, hut with an anthem of national exultation; for, into what unknown corner has the en terprising genius of our citizens failed to penetrate? And where, and when, can he he found unmindful to hail and glorify the fourth of July? It is in contemplating this exact, unex aggerated, yet vivid, picture of a world wide choir, that we are made to feel and realize the value of our immense inheri- tion as to the sanctuary reared for tlieir perpetual protection? Yes, I know you are; and therefore it is that I remind you if ^thc Kansas Bill had been left to the Northern Democrats, only, including sound and unsound, the measure would have beeu carried in both Utilises of Congress with- and tight with great skill and desperation. Their riflemen are equal to the “Chas- . . seurs de Vincennes,” and are ‘dead shots,’ that you possess a quiet, latent, but re- as all admit. sistless force which, justly and appropri- i The sufferings of tlie Allies have re- atelv exerted, may go far to arrest the ; commenced. There is even a want of ruthless assaults of fanatic and fantastic j water, and, under a burning sun to which out another vote either for or against it ethics; may awe back tlie aggressor and j they arc exposed, the cholera has re-ap-1 the North or South. These are im- teacli him, however reluctant to learn, the j peared, and several distinguished officers! portant facts for the South to be informed wisdom of loyalty to our common cove- ’ mints, and loyalty to the peace, honor and ancestry, loyalty to the common hap piness of our common country. It is the proud mission of our noble Commonwealth to be ever vigilant as guardian of the Union; and it would he well for her, in the spirit of preventive and admonitory pa triotism, to announce her pre-detenuined purpose to live under no other than the existing federative Constitution; to ap prise, in advance, the rash invaders of that palladium that she can never link her destiny with any sovereignty or section stained with tlie opprobrium of unfaithful ness to recorded obligations; to point sig nificantly to the current of her rivers, the direction of her highways of trade; the tributary sources whence comes the ali ment of her industry, and to let it be un derstood, finally and forever, that what ever may be the cheerless fate of the bigo try, proscriptive, disorganizing, and dis rupted portions of a violated compact, she (Pennsylvania) will seek her prosperity in alliance with those only who remain true to the past, under the old matehless and masterly Constitution, and with the star- spangled flag oating Hover her, an unsul lied emblem of unbroken faith and uncor rupted honor. At the conclusion of Air. Dallas’ address, the meeting adjourned with nine hearty cheers. Letter from an American in France to his friend in Washington. Paris, June 21, 1855. The telegraphic advices from Sebasto pol as regards the attempt at assault on the 18tli, and the decided and dreadful repulse, created a great sensation here.— The details are awaited with the most in tense anxiety, particularly as to the extent of the loss, of which as yet we have no in formation, but which doubtless lias been most dreadfully severe, and the worst an ticipations are entertained. I will not say say that this repulse renders more cer tain the final capture of Sebastopol, (for to take it may he an impossibility,) but it certainly assures a more extensive and de termined effort on part of the Allies to ef fect that object; for the pride both of Eng land and France will now he still more deeply involved in the issue, and the most gigantic efforts will be made to accomplish the desired end. It is really horrible to think of the destruction of human life which has already taken place, and the worst is not yet. The French army of reserve, as it was called that was near Constantinople, has main objects is to “crush out” and “put down” those men at the North who have proved themselves true. not only to the Union, hut to the Constitution and our rights under it, even if they do call them selves Democrats. Parties should he characterized and known by their princi/des and not their names. Respect full}', Alexander H. Stephens. P. S.—Alost of the seven Southern AARiigs who voted against the Kansas Bill, are Know Nothings and to the best of my belief, every one of them are. Crawfordville, Ga., July 12, 1855. TACTS FO&Tffii FBOFZiB! Who can read the following facts, and then deny that the Nothem Know-Noth ings are Abolitionists—enemies to the South—the Federal Constitution, and the have died of it. Typhus and other fevers, j u P on ;ll) d to consider tcell before they with dysentery, are all very prevalent, j j oi « a ny national party, one of whose and opthalmia is also making progress ! among them. They say the same evils exist among the Russians, but I should J doubt very much if any thing like to the j same extent, as the Russians are hy no means so much exposed, and particularly J injthe city, where they have tiue comforta-1 hie quarters and are well fed and pro- perly clothed. Even if their field service is equally severe and exposed as that of the Allies, the Russians, having free ac cess between their outside camps and the city, can relieve tlieir different divisions, and give them alternately camp and gar rison duty, and thus allow them to rest and recruit. Under tlie most favorable circum stances, however, the daily waste oflife from exposure and fatigue on both sides, exclusive of the loss in battle, must he very great. In battle, however, the loss oflife is also very great. On the 22d and 23d of May . . the allies suffered severely. A body of! Bnion. three thousand of the Imperial Guard that 11 I were sent to support a retreating division, were twice obliged to fall back; but, on the third advance they succeeded, with tlie loss of eight hundred and fifty men hors de combat. It is even said that the Zouaves fired upon them, as there is a bitter hatred between those two corps, for the reason, as the Zouaves pretend, that in a former battle they were abandoned hy the Guards, and were, in consequence, cut to pieces hy the Russians. The Zouaves are also jealous, as the Guard lias various advant ages and a higher position, being consider ed as the elite of the anny. The Zouaves and tlie Scotch troops fraternize in a most wonderful manner. In the fighting of the 7tli instant the French acknowledge four thousand men hors de combat. Private letters state that the loss was even greater er than that. The sudden change in send ing oft' more troops, material, &c., indi cates that the losses must have been very great. In my last I mentioned various Ameri can clippers that were embarking troops, material, &c., since which most of them have sailed from Toulon and Marseilles. The Great Republic was towed by the Nava lino, of 100 guns, a screw three-deck er the Queen of Clippers, by the steam frigate Eldorado. The Monarch of the Sea, the Guantlet, the Nonpareil, and the Alleganian, all went under their own can vass. The above six vessels took on the aggregate 1,000 horses, 2,800 troops, and more than 10,000 tons of military stores and supplies, besides what was on board oeen forwarded to Sebastopol, but a new,, reserve will be sent immediatelv f m m ^e two slaps of war, both of which were of 45 000 to 50 000 *°aded down with similar articles. Une ot the above vessels had on board 500 tons if bombs; and an officer connected with except in case of great necessity. France, consisting of 45,000 to 50,000 men, who will he entrenchednearConstan- tinople, and will not be sent to Sebastopol | £ , , . . Tho ■ “tat branch ot the service told me that full force before that place will be kept up i within the last sixty days more than 8,000 hy other troops, which will he forwarded ! tons °f mls8I e . s (bombshells, balls, &c direct from Toulon, Marsielles and Alge- have . been , sbl PP e< * to th « p r ! me “- , this is exclusive ot 500,000 bombshells that had been previously sent. I ask from whence came all these missiles for ria. Arrangements are also making, and will no doubt he promptly concluded, for the embarkation of another contingent of 15,000 Sardinian troops. To show how great are the exertions of Russia, it is now said that they have by the most incredible exertions so far ad vanced with a railroad from AIoscow to Perekop, that it will be completed and in full operation in the autumn. This will enable them to put into the Crimea soldiers and supplies without limit. The French are so well aware of this that they are fortifying Kameisch and w ill render it the strongest fortress in Europe, and sooner or later they will probable retire to it. They are also strongly fortifying A'arna, and everything indicates that they do not intend to quit Constantinople, where they are constructing buildings on the most ex tensive scale and of a very massive nature, which will require years to complete. These structures are intended for defence and protection, as well as for accommoda tions for troops and material. The French will take the lion’s share by holding the European coast of Turkey, whilst the English may take the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. ~ England will hereafter regret the alliance with France, as it lias not only estranged her from the other great Euro pean Powers, but has and will injure her greatly in other ways. All agree that the Turks are fully con vinced that they never again will he the masters of “Stainboul,” as they call the city of Constantine. They decidedly would prefer the Russians as rulers, and those returning from thence say they shall not be at all surprised, if, in the course of a vear, the Turks should be on the side of Russia, and the Allies forced to entrench themselves. The stronghold of the latter will he at Constantinople, which, being open to them on the sea, could never be taken, nor could Kameisch, and perhaps one or two other points on the Black Sea, which would, in like manner, be strongly fortified and held by them. Strange re sults may grow ont of this unnatural al liance of France and England, with the bitter and eternal enemy of the Christian religion. Every step of it makes it more unpopular, not to say unjust, under the new svstem of destroying defenceless’trad ing towns and private property. Of the vessels captured in the Black Sea, nine cut of ten belonged to the Greeks of Con stantinople, Smyrna, or Greece proper and the destruction of human life, and was answered, “From the arsenals; not an item manufactured since the war.” The saying of Lucnllus, “poor is that house where plenty has not stores that miss the master’s eye,” has been cele brated for nineteen centuries, but what will be said of the stores in the house of Napoleon III? I dread to think what may he the na ture of this war of giants, hut fear it will be most disastrous for the human race, and particularly for the lives, happiness, and property of the people of those nations already engaged in it, and for those that may he drawn into the horrible mael- stroom. Vole on the Nebraska Bill—Another Letter from Hon. A. H. Stephens. Air. Stephens has written a letter which appears in the last issne of the Chronicle & Sentinel, giving a thorough analysis of the vote on the Kansas Nebraska Bill. Asa matter of political history ot interest to the whole public, but especially to our Demo cratic friends, we copy the concluding por tion of it: RECAPITULATION AFFIRMATIVE. Democrats from the Northern States..44 1 lemocrats from the Southern Statcs.,55 AVhigs from the Northern States — Whigs from the Southern States 14 1 113 NEGATIVES. Democrats from theNorthem States..46 Democrats from the Southern States.. 2 AVhigs from the Northern States 48 AA r hi<rs from the Southern States 7 100 ABSENTEES AND THOSE NOT VOTING. Democrats from the Northern States.. 5 Democrats from the Southern States.. 8 Wdiigs from the Northern States 4 A\ T higs from the Southern States 4 e 21 From this it will be seen that in the six North-western States, Ohio, Indiana, Illi nois, AVisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan, where it is said the foreign population con trols the election, there were 25 votes giv en on the bill, of which there were 13 for it and 12 against it, giving us a majority of one, while in the six New England IS A FACT—That the AVliig and Know-Nothing papers in the South are unable to designate a Representative elec ted to the Congress or Senate of the Uni ted States, in any one of the free States hy the Know-Nothings, that is not an Abolitionist or Freesniler. IT IS A FACT—That every repres- entative from the free States in the Con gress or Senate in the United States that the Know-Nothings have elected, or as sisted to elect, is in favor of the repeal of the Nebraska bill, and the repeal or modification of the Fugitive slave law. IT IS A FACT—That the Know- Nothing Legislature of Massachusetts have removed Judge Loring an able and upright Judge, from office, because he de cided that tlie fugitive slave Burns should be delivered up under the Fugitive slave-law—and this same Know-Nothing Legislature elected Henry Wilson, to tlie Senate of the United States—and the said Henry Wilson voted in the Senate of the United States to repeal the Fugitive slave IT IS A FACT—-That the Know-Noth ings of Wisconsin elected Dorkee, an ultra Abolitionist, to the Senate of the United States. IT IS A FACT—That the Know-Noth ing legislature of Michigan passed resolu tions instructing Gen. Cass and Air. Straut, the Senators from Alichigan, to vote for the repeal of the Fugitive slave law—the Nebraska and Kansas bill. And the same Know-Nothing Legislature of Michigan passed a law refusing the use of the prisons of the State of Michigan to the officers of the United States government to secure Fugitive slaves. IT IS A FACT—That the Know-Noth ing Senate of Maine passed resolutions de claring the Fugitive slave law unconstitu tional, and demanding its immediate repeal —and in favor of abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia—and declaring that thev should never consent to the admis sion in to the Federal Union of any more States with constitutions authorizing Sla very. IT IS A FACT—That every govenor elected by the Know-Nothings in the free States is an Abolitionist. IT IS A FACT—That the grandcoun- cilsof the Know-Nothings in Alassachu- setts, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire have passed strong Abolition and anti-sla very resolutions. IT IS A FACT—That the Know- Nothings of the North are in favor of pro scribing all white foreigners and Catholics from office, and are at the same time in fa vor of full civil liberty to all Free Ne groes. IT IS A FACT—That the negroes of the North vote with the Know-Nothings, and have been repeatedly complimented for their patriotism in thus voting, by the Know- Nothing organs. IT IS A FACT—That the leaders of The Know-Nothings in Kentucky are, or have been, Emancipationists, wherever that question lias been agitated, and that they dare not deny this statement. IT IS A FACT—That the Know- Nothing Legislature of New-Hamshire have just elected that notorious Abolition ist John P. Hale to the United States Senate—and his colleague, Bell, equally as strong an enemy to the South. IT IS A FACT—That a committee of the New Hampshire Legislature, to whom were referred the resolutions of the Maine Legislature on the subject of slavery, has reported in favor of a union of the Free States to demand the restoration of the Alissouri Compromise, tho abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, and a- gainst the admission of any more slave States into the Union. IT IS A FAC A -And a damning one, that in the face of all these facts, the South ern Know-Nothings have the effrontery to claim that their party is Nation 'l, and friendly to the South! IT IS A FACT—That not one of the facts above stated can be truthfully denied by any Know-Nothing or Know- Nothing organ of the South. General Wilson, of Massachusetts, whose con science is sorely troubled on the question of sla very, makes his living by selling brogans to our southern slaves.

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The federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1830-1861, July 24, 1855, Image 1