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ROME, GA.
Tuesday Harntag It) 29 1854.
JMT' Several communications designed for
the present number are necessarily laid over
until oar next Iwnc.
careful and attentive perusal of the
reply of Mr. Fouche' to Mr. Stephens oo the
flrat page will bo fraught with much interest
and instruction. Wo commend it to the con
sideration of all under whose eye this statement
nay &11. Injustice to the Col. we should say
that Mi reply was written by special request,
and that too at short notice and detached tn-
terrals of time, bis professional labors engross
ing sight hours of the day in the meanwhite.
Notwithstanding this, It is an able prodnetion
Opposition Proclivities*
It la well known that almost every paper in
Georgia opposed to the natire American party,
has, with nnblushing effrontery, affirmed and
reaffirmed that Knownothingism la only “ Whig-
fry is rfwyuise." Their otyect has been two-
Md Flrat, to smother the growth of the order
hy catting of an accession of members from
their own tanka; and secondly, to alienate the
minds of those who are already members. Ere-
ry plan that either ingenuity coaid dr rite, or
art facilitate, ha* been eagerly adopted, and
that too area at the sacrifice of candor and
trathfalnesa. The foulest aspersions, and the
moetahoriva epithets are instruments which
they hare' wielded with unmitigated severity.
The reason is palpable and obvious. In this
new organisation they hare discerned the ele
ments of a great, powerful and national party—
a party which, if permitted to carry out its an
ticipated and legitimate ends will crush the old
•wrapt political organisations and their mors
corrupt leaders. They have detected the sound
ness of the principles by which the American
party are to be actuated; and simultaneous with
that event, hare been convinced that those
principles are sueh'as will find a receptacle in
tiie mind of every true American—every lover
of Iris country. It has been no plearing phen
omenon to those who have strayed the sceptre
of power. They have discovered that the peo
ple are determined to wrest it from the grasp of
thoaa who pretend to serve, hat who in reality
eadeavar to rule the country. They have be
earns conscious that their own strength will be
came enfeebled in sa exact ratio as a retrover
sion to tire pure and genuine principles of re
publicanism, become popular. Thus tbe duty
of protecting the interests of self, rather than
thorn of co—fry has successfully denuded the
gorgoe-bead of demagogutsm.
For a longtime the organs and tee regents of
the foreign party labored hard, hut vainly, to
convince people thatKnownothingism is’actnal
ly and raally another form of .Whiggery. The
more they labored, the less their success. To
; add cogency ssd efficacy to tbe charge they ul
Innately coupled with it (bat of cJofstioassm.
We all see and realixe the effects it has produ
ced, notwithstanding raOlery, rebuke and mis-
nprsHBMiits, the American party has been
growing apaee. Marching with rapid stirdes,
It hasstopped not to listen to the voice of its
ealuminaton.„ Whig after whig, and democrat
after democrat^ engraves his name upon the nn-
- sallied tablet of Americanism^ He enters (he
councils of (he order where he finds himself in
tiie fall fruition of the right and the privilege,
in common with othen, to hear and to he heard.
He finds no sequestered clique mewed in aelois-
ter to prescribe or dictate hr others. He "Is
satisfied and will remcin there.
A change, a reluctant change, is now, like a
portentous cloud overshadowing the opposition
party. It Is a change for the better—not tor
the party, bat for the country. Those who have
been dinging most tenaciously to the cogno
men of democracy, have broken the cord that
bound them to that euphonious title, and hare
fallen beds over head Into absolute and exclu
sive Auti-Kuowsoihingism. The following is
the language of the Georgia Telegraph:’
"In the next campaign, Enow Nothingism will
he the prime israe before tbe people, and call
fbem by wbafnamc yon please. Enow Nothings
and Anti-Enow Nothings will be tbe parties
who fight the battles.”
Thus tiie watchword has been sounded. It
finds a responsive echo in the Federal Union,
audit will be but a* little wb3e ere all the les
ser oppositionwOl clap their little ha nds and
; cry amen /
It may have been choice, or it may have been
compulsion that led to this change of name"
Probably ths latter. It looks, however, when
considered in connexion with their recent car-
. esses of Mr. Stephens, like a disposition to meet
fhstgmtieinan bn compromising grounds.' 8nch
a policy eras a mistaken, if not a premature one.
’ Now the question is settled by the admission of
both parties that the definitives American and
Foreign have their respective application to
oaeh. On tbe strength of tills admission there
is fan ahead.
Good lews'Irma Alabama.
Tbe progress of the American party is onward.
The ball still keeps rolling. We are corrobor*
rated in this belief by intelligence received
from various sources all giving ns the cheering
assurance in regarefotheadoption of American
principles. We have recently received a letter
from a gentleman of Maeon county, in whose
judgement we place implicit reliance. It con
tains the following language.
“I do not know the exact number of members
that were represented in oar last State Connell,
bat/eel confident we bare enough already to
earjry the State at tbe ensuing elections. The
eauee it gaining ground and /
it certain."
JOT Since our last week's Issue we have re
ceived letters from persons in several sections
of the State expressive of a desire to see Col.
Fouche’’e reply. We take the liberty of pub
lishing the following one, addressed us by one
of the most respectable and intelligent citizen*
of Macon. It comports very well with various
similar ones which we have received j^^i* a
good criterion by which to judge the popular
feeling on the subject of Americanism.
Macon, M.y 25th, 1855.
Meters. Concur* A Dwinkll,
I am pleased to see a notice that Colonel
Fonehe* will, next week, answer the peevish
letter of Hon. A.H. Stephens against his coun
trymen. For the amount enclosed, please send
me the rains In your extras when they appear.
Although I deprecate the opposition of so
great a man as Mr. Stephens undoubtedly is,
to the American cause, yet I consider his letter
and the promised reply of Col. Foueho' as
God tend to the party. With tbe too great
leaders of Whiggery against it, and many nek
staunch democrats as the CoL in its favor, it
will require more effrontery hereafter than its
enemies can assume, to brand it as a whig trick.
Whatever may have been the opposition to
this party in tbe outset, (and indeed it hat been
very bitter) having been inaugurated, as it
was, without the advice of party leaden, it is
now a “fixed feet" that “Americans will role
America." ,
Very respectfully, yours, Ac.
■ i* 1 » w»-«*—' ■■ i-"
Virginia Elections*
Columbia, May 2fr.
The reports from the election which came off
in Virginia last Thursday, are favorable to the
Snow-Nothings. -
think our eueeete
“The more otm principles are promulgated,
tbe more eagerly and more generally (hey are
adopted.”—Courier of the lid.
This _
the Enow N<
„ of the “principles” of
ng party, of which 'the Editors
of fibs Courier admit themselves to be members,
Is somethingsbran new to us. It must be done
In back rooms and ehddy places. Tbe Courier's
statement needs explanation. Show yonr
bands. Let ns see in print the cardinal and “ta
king” “principles” of yonr secret order. Don't
be ashamed to put th em : n^your paper—to “pro
mulgate” them openly, like honest politicians,
as you wish to be.—Southerner, I.tag 24.
Our cotemporary and neighbor of the South
erner need have no apprehensions in regard to
onr being ashamed of our principles. We have
published them in several instances and now
we cite him to the principles authoritatively
published in to-day’s issue, as the - platform
which was unanimously adopted by tbe Rome
Council of the American party. Now friend
Myers we have done yon the courtesy to yield a
cempliance.witb yonr request Will you>ecipro-
cate and publish the principles of your party
in your next Issue? Come, out with them! If
they are better than ours they can have the
benefit of a fair comparison. Either publish or
respectfully “ cave in"
Tbe Family Visitor.
This journal will be conducted, as heretofore,
by Messrs. Sullivan and Liddon. Wo are led
to this announcement from the feet that there
was an intimation in the last issue of the Vis-,
itor, that the office had been sold. Owing to
some contingency in the trade the bargain was
revoked. Messrs. S. & L. Sill offer their office
far tale on reasonable terms.
PLATFORM OF THE AMERICAN PARTY,
ADDOPTBD BY THE ROME COUNCIL
AND ORDERED TO BE PUBLISHED.
1, That ettixens concurring in principles
and objects, may rightfully associate them
selves together in such form of organisation
as they may deem expedient, for giving effect
tothem; and thmtin adopting such organiza
tions, they tie under no obligations save such
as are imposed by the principles of justice,
the Constitution and the laws; and that
party which plainly avows its principles
and objects, and its determination to carry
them into effect only by peaceful and legal
means, is not jnstiy obnoxious to censure for
keeping its own counsel upon minor points.
2. That the American Party, rejecting the
despotism ofdemagoges. recognises tbe right
of all its members to know its whole counsel
and policy;and to participate fully npon terms
of perfect equality, in all its deliberations and
action.
8. That tbe despotisms of Europe are not
the proper semineries for acquiring a correct
knowledge of the principles of American Re
publicanism, whidt stand equally opposed to
the slavish doctrines of Aristocracy and Mon
archy npoo the one hand, and the licentious
extravagances of Red-Republicanism upon tbe
other.
4. That Vt* a general rule the political ad
ministration of American affairs should be con
fided to those only, who have been reared nn
der the influence of American Institutions, and
educated from infancy, in the fundamental
principles ofAmerican Republicanism.
5. That the American Republic, in com
mon with all other independent States, has
the right to proscribe the terms npon which
foreigners dull be admitted to a participation
in the civil rights or political privileges of its
citizens; and that a proper regard for the
preservation of it© institutions in their original
parity demands (bat all political power should
be scrupulously withheld from those wbo lie
under a well grounded suspicion of being eith-
, ignorant of them or hostile to them.
8. That , the volume of immigration into
the Repnblie has swollen to so vast an amount,
and has assumed such a character, as to demand
the serions attention and consideration of every
statesman and patriot in the Union; and that
it has become necessary to give a practical so
lution of the question, whether, those who have
proved incapable of establishing, or preserving
free institutions in their own countries, are the
proper depositories of the solemn trust of pre
serving them in ours.
7. That to claim for Americans, the right
to rule their own country, is no "proscription"
of foreigners; and can be so regarded by
those only wbo seek foreign aid to help them
to power.
8. Hat the most perfect freedom of religion
and worship, is one of the unalienable, im
prescriptible, and sacred rights of man; while
the right of voting for his rulers, according to
hie opinion of their principles, is also, an un
doubted right of every American freeman;
and that to decline to vote men into office,
not “proscription,” but simply the exer.
dse of the right of voting freely according
to conscience;—a sort of proscription which
has always been very prevalent in this conn
try, and freely indulged in by whigs and dem
ocrats reciprocally towards each other.
9. That believing Roman Catholicism to
have evil political proclivities and tendencies
—and that by keeping its voters ignorant of
the Bible, and discouraging all religious in
tercourse with protestant denominations, it
enslaves their minds, and subdues their will,
whereby they are made passive instruments
in the hands of their priests—we will decline
to vote for them ourselves, but will feel bound
to acquiesce, should their friends succeed in
in electing them th office.
10. That the Constitution of the United
States, stnucrLT construed, and faithfully
observed by all those in authority, not only
in the Federal Government, but in those of
the several States, and by the people of the
whole Union, and of the States respectively,
is the great charter of American liberty, the
source of tbe peace, harmony, prosperity and
power, of our country, and the only just and
stable bond of the Uuion; and that, therefore,
we have voluntarily pledged ourselves to up
hold, maintain, and defend it as the paramount
duty of all good citizens.
11. That the Sevreignty and reserved rights
of the States, should be scrupulously respec
ted by the Federal Authorities, and resolute-
ly maintained by the people; and that this
principle should be observed and held sacred
in all organizations of the American Party.
12. Hat .in seeking to emancipate our
selves, and our fellow-citizens, from the des
potism of demagogues and their corrupt or
ganizations; to strike the sceptre from the
hands of the selfish politicians and demago
gues who control them—and reform the poli
tics of our country—neutralize grog-shop in
fluence and make virtue and abilities, instead
of the low arts of tbe demagogue, the
passports to office, we expect, and are pre
pared to encounter the fierce hostility of all
those who have so long used and abused them,
and would continue to do so, for selfish ends#
The^beneficinries of all old and corrupt systems
have everywhere, and in all ages been, for
obvious reasons, the bitterest enemies of refor
mation.
18. Hat, a general diffusion of knowledge,
and ample means of mental and moral cul
ture in well desired systems of education, with
unrestricted and free use of the BiMe among
all ranks and denominations of the people, are
eminently conducive to the lionor, prosperity
and glory of our country, and the permennney
of its institutions; and that therefore we
(fledge ourselves to give onr most sealous
support and aid, to every measure calculate
to promote those objects.
14. That the abolitionists and froe-soiiers
having, by means of emigration societies and
frauds taken extraordinary measures to Impose
their schemes upon Kansas where the right of
voting by nnnaturalised foreigners had been
legalised by the organic law. We heartily ap
prove tbe decisive course of counteraction adop
ted hy the people of Missouri, and will cordi
ally sustain them by all the means in our pow
er.
15. That to present Spain the alternative of
“sale or seisure” of Cuba, while it would be
equally disgraceful tothe RcpubUo, and insult
ingto her, would be the surest way to prevent
the acquisition; but that we are in favor of
acquiring it hy honorable negotiation, and of
capture in open and manly war, whenever
there is satisfactory evidence that it is likely
to become, in the hands of any European gov
ernment, a point'from which to assail the in
terests, rights, br institutions of any portion
of out country.
For the Courier.
Mr. Coburn:—The profound genius, who
officiates as organ-grinder No. 1 in this city,
said, in hi^ paper of the 19th of April, if all
would “plaee their claims and wishes unreserv
edly at the disposal of their fellow-democrats,
they would not remain unappreciated and un-
KBWARDKD.” Hamden pointed to this merce
nary appeal saying it is such as none hut a
spoilsman should make, whon lie is conscious
that he is addressing himself to tho mercenary
legions who fight for pay, and whose sole prin
ciple is plunder!! Either wanting the sense to
understand, or merely determined to falsify
this plain language,—this worthy tells his
“democratic readers” that Hamden him
self pronounces the “Rome Regency together
with other gentlemen who act with these” mer
cenary legions Ac. Ac. Hamden did nothing
more than characterise the mean appeal. He
did not say that he who made it correctly ap
preciated those to whom he made it
“The whipper in and huntsman of the pack”
“With just enough of learning to misquote,
A mind only skilled to find or forge a fault,”
seises upon this as a pretext to misrepresent
Hamden to his democratic readers, applying
the character implied by his own appeal, fllo
bad been detected and corrected in a similar
misrepresentation of Aristides before; and
most have known that in perpetrating a similar
meanness against Hamden he was sinning
against light and knowledge. The man who
did this, is the same who gave currency to the
forgery of Jo’s correspondent, saying of.many
of its statements -of fact, that they were “ no
donbt true,” when, as Hamden and many others
“ have no doubt,” he knew the whole thing to be
a fabrication. The man who has done these
things—moved doubtless by similar instincts,—
and aiming at the same objects,—makes a step
ortwoin advance upon thia honorable line of con
duct, in his last issue. Professing to believe
he knows Hamden, he says that he “once plot
ted and managed in the most approved style of
the demagogue” and was the “ co-worker” of
the demagogues in the very practices he has
denounced. If he knows Hamden, be knows
this is untrue. If he does not know him he
had no right to make the cbnrge. He insinu»
ates that Hamden is actuated by ambition for
office. Hamden’s life belies the mean insinua
tion, and if he knows him he knows this too.
He is without evidence to' support his false
charge either as to the acts or motives of Ham
den.
Has ho ventured any where to deny the ex
istence of the practices, the wire-working, the
log-rolling, tho tricks of which Hamden has
complained ? Not he. Not hardy enough for
that, he yet had not candor enough to admit
their existence. It was more congenial
to his nature, and better suited to subserve the
interests of those to whose service he has ad
dressed himself—to indulge in calumnious
charges and insinuations against Hamden for
calling attention to them. To labor not to reform
abuses, but to asperse the character and motives
of an individual who has dared to point them
out.* The public knows that the evils, the anti
democratic,—the corrupt practices—denoun
ced by Hamden exist; nnd call for reformation.
They will understand the object of this attempt
to evade condemnation, by diverting attention
from them and diverting it to a mere individu
al. If the editor of the organ, has not sense
enough to perceive it, he will find ont that nei
ther he, nor the public have any legitimate
concern with the matters of Hamden. Hns the
country been abused, its interest trifled with and
sacrificed—and the wishes of the people disre
garded by a corrupt party organization, mana
ged by demagogues and tricksters f That is the
important qnestion which Hamden commends
to his consideration. He and his co-workers
must reform their organization, mend their
practices, and restore to the people full and
complete power over the machinery hy which
their affairs are managed. HAMDEN.
had bailed a meetin *nd had konpherred
with one anuther and held a inturvu and was
now givin things a pleasant dirokshun. A
Kommtty of 9 was appinted as a Ooosquill
kommittv of Rdeafto help Mr. Myers wage
a war. Hey seed Mr Myers kudnt keep his
pitch hot and so the kommittc was to exist
him. Mr. Sebyhill aris and sed as how he’d
hav indited a parngraf about the kno nutliins
karrym their prinsipals under thnr shirts that
ho that wood thro grat konstemnsion and the
koaunitty told him to puhlikate it, which he
didwhfnamttog cm. Mr Snipe ariz next
and sed as how Poetry had been akkumula
tin «fr swollen tip in him tike fur many a
month that he had picked out a heap of words
what would rytne together, and he kould
now make em fit most onny sulijek on very
short notis and be raised his poetic eyes to
Heaven. So ther kommiety appinted him to
writ a poetic apoetrophee to tittle Alek—all
of which Mr. Snipe did. I herd as how Mr.
Myers was powerful sot bak on akkount
of sum kommunykasions in his paper and af
ter he had red all the proof he signed most
mournfully and exklaimed in the langwaig of
Mr. Milton when he finished the Pilgramage
of Child Harold “What is writ is writ would
it were wortheir " I beam as how Mr. Myers
sedhekoud holdout agin em sum time yet,
enny how as long as tbar was enny Poatry in
Mr. Hudybrass. He's deth on Hudy Brass
Mr. Myers is shore He kin pib out a dosen
varsesand then fix up his proaz to fit em
most butiful and I allow as how its a good
way. But you see as how Mr. Myers kant
stand every thing and I want Mr. Snip to
greese his mashine reddy for nexst weak it
squeeked powerful while he was workin out
the last lot. As fur Mr. Zekyhill I allow as
how he ort to git the Solisiter Mr. Word to
prosekute the kno nuthins for karryin kom
sealed weapun*. I never beam before Mr
Zekyhill told me that tbay did karry thar
prinsipuls under thar shirts. It’s a mity shame
to be shore and I hoap Mr. Word will git at-
ter em amasin. He’s deth on konspirasy Mr.
Word is shore. I heain a good old Protest-
ent Methodist say as how he felt entirely sat
isfied on the katbolic question now that the
kno nuthins had appinted a vigelant kommitty
of 8 to watch over the protestent Religun in
cherakey Gorgy and that Mr. Word was cheer-
man. I allow as how the thing is mity sekure
now and the katholiks, had better leave the
kuntry. I didnt lam who was the tother
members of the kommitty but alluw as how
Col Kamefeon and the Tugalo Major is the
other two.
Mr.Kobumsur—I seed a feller surkula-
tin a paper kallin on the peeple to sine to
the Demokratik Assossissashun and 1 wood
a sined but Mr. Kobb’sshadder told me one
time that he was agio foaks takin Pallytikul
obligashuns and so I wouldnt sine. I beam
as how up to yistiddy tlia bad got 29 to sine
and I allow as how its pergresin mity rapid
I am sum tittle akwainted with Matby
Madiks and I figerd out os how if they koud
git 29 in a month tlia wood hav most 200 by
kristmus. So you better look out Mr. Ko
buu its a ragin like a epydemik.
Well Mr. kobun Things is goin mity well
all round I allow. Every body seems mity
well kontcnied—and so I’ll bring these few
diskourse to q. klose. But I have one faver
to ax ofybp jc&o nuthins. If the stage driver
what yensulied Mr. Myers was an Amerikin
I woodnt say a word But seem as how he’s a
Phorrainer and Mr. Myers says he haint got no
mannurs I want you kno nuthins to take the
matter in hand and require into it and do sum-
thin for Mr Myers proteksun a gin sich. I al
low as how Its a mity shame for a good clew
er man like MrvMyers to be yensultedby one
of my konntrymen. If Mr. Myers has to fight
itoutwithhimlwantyer all to divestygate
tbe matter for I allow as how the Domokratic
Assosyation wouldnt do it on no akkount—
its agin thar prinsipuls.
your feller citisen.
SAM McKRAKIN.
[For the Courier]
Mr KoBum Sur—It is most onakountable
ble how interestin Pollytix are gittin. Hey
have got to be an all purvadin subjek exten-
din into Litterture and Sience and kriticesim
and Poetry and religun. Thar is the kno
nuthins on 1 side and the Demokrats on the
tother and then thar is a few what stans oph
Poutin, mad at all of em for bein phools.
beam a man say that the demokrats was
runin atter little Alek and blakin his boots
for him cos he roat that letter and he sed now
he waz agin em all and be hoapd the demo
krats and kno nuthins wood eat one anuther
klean up. He’d stand oph and tak de tight
an exklaim in the emmortul langwaig of Tom
More. Lay on Makky Duf and damd be him
who faret kries hold—stop. He sed as how
little alek was a Federlist and koudnt stuph
enny of hiz letturs down him, and as how he
hadiit no moar patrioatik feelins than a snaik
—and wasnt nothin moar than a goat dressd
up, a icikul from the north poal, a hambitious
polytikul sagacity.
Well mr koburn 1 thot it a powerful letter
to be shore but he tuck' on mortully about
hellpin the kno nuthins reform the abuzez of
power by the prezent Hadminentrashun and T
dont see os how tbe Demokrats kin swoller
that onless thay hav maid up thar minds to
swaller enny kind of a Bait. Well Mr koBum
spose the Democrats take up Mr Stevens and
and alekthim what will he be in kongress a
Whig or a Demokrat, But may be as how
th-’yll inshore his pollytix afore they alekt
him. Thar is the Mutual Promo! in and Ro-
tatin inshorance kumpany. Hey inshored
Mr Chastain’s Rotatin in that offis and the
kumpany lost a power of munny by it
Mr. Chastain didnt Rota.to akkordin
to promiB. Ho rotated in well enugh
but he wouldnt Rotate out and so the
kumpany had to pay the Polisy; Folks eay
as how it will take a power of inshorance to.
make tbe Pollytix of them old Whig feeders
which is jinnin the Demokrats stik and I al
low as how thay had better git up a nuthcr
offis one to inshore their pollytix to stik and
the tother to inshore their Rotatin. In all
humon proberbility it wood brail: one offis to
ondertak boath.
But to return to the seat of war the sentur
of Diskord and excitement—to immortul
Roam, I beam a man
For the Courier.
“ Democrats carry their principles on their
foreheads. Why? because they are proud of
them ” i EZEKIEL.
We read in the Bible of a fellow called Cain,
who wore a hand in tho same place# Was he
too, a democrat?,
Stephens used to say democrats wore their
principles aronnd their necks—stamped upon a
collar. Truly this is a progressive age.
LACONIC.
For tho Courier.
To theEditor of tho Southerner—To repair
the injury done yon (unintentional on my
part) restore the wind to your sails, heal your
wounded pride, propitiate yonr vanity, concili
ate yonr indignation, and appease your wrath,
I take back all'that I said, in regard to that
Strawberry Editorial rhapsody—and hencefor
ward Milton shall be considered as the author
of “Pleasures of Hope.”
And now my long eared “ Cousin Gorman”
having made the amehde honorablo—I hope
you will not call me ugly names any more, will
you? Hoping you will not I remain yours,
TRYO.
To J. B, Powelj Stage Contractor, &e.
Cave Spring, Goo. May 241855.
Sir : Intho columns of tbe Southerner Of this
date. I find a complaint alleged against me by
the Editor, Mr. 0. A. Myers, in which it is sta
ted that the Rev. Mr. Fclwood and himself
“were insulted and threatened” by me because
of their insisting upon my driving them to their
hotel—that “tho public as well as your private
interest requires that I should be dismissed from
service,” and that if I am retained he “will seek
another mode of travel" Ae.
Inasmuch as he has seen fit to report roe
through the press, I fee! it due to myself ns an
individual, and to you as my employer ns well
as to the public to state tbe facts in the cose and
let the candid mind judge whether the course he
has pursued is either right or just toward my
self, toward yon as my employer, or toward the
line under yonr charge as contractor in my
c.ife as a driver.
While hard fortune and the fates, forco me to
follow an honest calling—though it bestage dri
ving, for a livelihood—I do not feel myself ei
ther a slave to “down at his bidding” or a serf
meekly and silently to be posted by a typo-edi
tor of a weakly journal because it suits his fan
cy or his passion to do so. I shall, therefore,
state fairly tho oircumstancesin connection with
the case; appeal to tbe Rev. Mr. Fulwood for
the truth of the statements, when both yourself
and tho public can judge of the affair, and you
can “dismiss mo from service” or not as yon
may doera right. Then to the foots of tho case.
On Saturday night lost, one gentleman enmo
up, a passenger from below, at this plnco, the
Rev. Mr. Fulwood and Mr. 0. A. Mrp.Rs took
passage for Rome. While on the way, Mr. M.
requested mo to drive up, that ho wished to get
to Rome as early as possible. In this I accom
modated him, as far as I could in justice to my
horses. We arrived at the’Ketoham Houso’ in
tbo city, between daylight and sunrise. Tho
“passengor from below” stopped here, and de
sired his baggage, whioh was taken off, and with
bis carpet bag, I handed out also tbe two small
carpet satchels belonging to Mr. M., and tho
Rev. Mr. F., supposing that they had gone out
lumens—*ui unmurtui i of tho stage. Mr. M. ordered his satchel into tho
.l., *i,_ »» . stage, I asked if they would get out there—Mr.
sa y that the Reggmsy | #pU#d that I should drive him u P to the
othor hotel. I observed that they had no bag*
gage and that passengers generally walked up
when they had no baggage, and I would have
to go up, rotum, await tho opening of the post
office, as 1 had arrived earlier than usual, and
go up again, that I bad not been at
the necessity of driving up to the other hotel in
four months, (passengers generally prefering to
walk when the street! were clean and they had
nobaggage, «s was the ease then) Ho observ
ed that he should remain in the stage until I
drove to tho other hotel. I then asked him if
ho intended to compel me to do it, and stated
that If /chose to be contrary, I would not drive
up; to thia he replied, “wo will eee about it,”
I drove him to the other hotel, arrived, I asked
him if be would get out then, and observed that
he was the flrstmoo wbo had asked to bo driven
up there in three or four mouths unless he had
baggage; I further observed that I might get
to drive him again, and I should remember
him. This all.thet transpired—nothing more—
nothing less; For the truth of which, I appeal
to tbe Rev. Mr. Fulwoou. What part ho takes
as an “insult,” I know not, nor am 1 able to rec
ognize in it the “threat” of which he speaks ;
there is but one thing to be construed into a
threat, that is, should I drive him again I would
remomber him. Going up I had made the trip
perhaps more rapidly as he requested it, which
I should not much trouble myself to do agtiin
after he had shown tbe contrary and contentious
disposition evinced on arrivingat the “Ketcbam
House.” If be was “insultedhe was “insul
ted unintentionally; if he was threatened I was
and am still unconscious of the aot, while I
know there wasnosucb intention.
Again, in his complaints Ae.. he couples tbe
Rev. Mr. Fulwood with himself: “the Rev. Mr.
Fulwood and myself were insulted,” Ac, This
is doing Mr. Fulwood, myself, and truth, an ins
justice, Mr. F. passed no words—he treated me
like a gentleman, and I hope I did not in action
or word treat him in any other way. I, though
a stage driver," have always endeavored to
demean myself as a gentleman towards all men,
to consult the convenience of tbe travelling
public and advance the interestof my employer;
such has been my course and conduct, and such
it shall over t>e. You have a fair statement of
the facts in tho ense and cause of complaint of
the “master Editor” whose high strong dignity
I have “insulted,” I have nothing farther to say
ir extenuatio of mj guilt; I only desire that
the public should judge between your driver
and their Editor, and “render unto Caesar the
things which are Caesar’s.”
Respectfully, your ob't serv’t,
DANIEL BRENNAN
P. S. I have sir, to regret much that I should
have “insulted” either intentionally or uninten
tionally, directly or indirectly, one of your pat
rons—particularly one who has been so good
customer, for it is possible that within the last
five years he has patronized the line to the am
out of ten (10) dollars, nnd in the next five years
wonld have paid it five or ten dollars more, had
it not been for the unfortunate occurrence re
fered to above, more especially if his fare
should be paid by bis friends as heretofore.
Respectfully, D. B.
• - —■— -~-
Sah in Oregon.—We noticed some time
since, that the ubiqnitous individual known as
“Sam” had peeped in upon tbe Californians, and
carried the election in Sacramento by a large
majority. We now learn by a late arrival from
the Pacific, that he continued his travels up to
Oregon, and that ho carried everything before
him at tbe municipal election in Portland in
that distant territory. Last year the Democrats
were triumphant at tbe city by a sweeping mn
jority.
[From the Soutbetn Recorder.]
Hon. k. H. Stephens.
“Quern Reus cult perdere prins dementat.
A careful and unprejudiced perusal of the
letter of Mr. Stephens, found in our paper to
day, would doubtless have called to mind this
Latin proverb, even had it not been so inap
propriately quoted by that gentleman. We
will not say that our late distinguished Rep
sentative is hopelessly mad. or that he will
be speedily and irremediably destroyed. We
hope a better fate awaits him. We have, it
is true, feared that the faint praise of democ
racy in conjunction with his own premature
and pertinarions fforts at self destruction,
might prove too much fer him. Still we will
hope for the best
The letter under consideration, was evident
ly written, as intimated by the distinguished
author, with hurried pen—perhaps in hasty
temper; and we think it would have well
accorded with the kind offices of personal
friendship, had the worthy and esteemed
Gentleman to whom it was addressed, with
field it from the public eye. at least, until re
vised and amended by its honored writer.
Here is no good reason, no apparent justifi
cation for its appear-nee at all. Written
without sufficient provocation, it has evident
ly been published without due consideration,
The candid but somewhat strange confession
of Mr. S., that be is literally a Know Nothing
in regard to the “principles, aims or objects’
of the American Party, should have sealed
his lips and stayed his pen, until informed
upon tbe subject He should, at least, after
such a confession, have spared himself the
injustice and injury, and his friends the stigj
ma. of a classification with Atheistical Jaco
bins, madmen, Ac.
Fortunately for the “aims and objects” of
the American Party, “history is of use.”
Whilst it instructs us that rational liberty and
free institutions can find no citadel of safety
in French and German Atheism, Jesuitism
and Rationalism in the old or new world, it
most impressively and happily teaches us
that in American Republicanism, they may
find a secure and refreshing a* ode
He American movement is a spontaneous
uprising of the people, who feel that the
country has long enough been the plaything
of politicians, who are willing to traffic in for
eign votes and influence, at the expense of
Amrriean rights and at the hazard of Ameri
can liberty. Whether it will be successful
is yet to be seen. As one of the people, we
are willing to entrust the destiny of our free
institutions to Ametican citizens.
But we have neither space nor inclination
to extend our comments upon the letter of
Mr. S. The intelligent reader will form his
own jqflge merits.
We may th our next issue show that there
is nothing in the principles and objects of the
American Party, so far as we understand them
at all in conflict with the principles embodied
in the Georgia Platform and the various reso
lutions passed by the Union Republicans
of Georgia since 1850.
A Meteorite.—The visitor tothe Smithso
nian Institute will notice in the large hall which
ie designed for the museum, a. piece of iron,
something in tbe shape of an anvil. This is a
remarkable specimen cf meteoric iron, and is
the largest mass in this country, with one ex
ception. It weighs 252, lbs. is highly crystal
line, quite malleable, and not difficult to cut with
a saw. It was brought to this country by Lieut.
Couch, U. S. A., from Satillo, Mexico. Vari
ous theories have been devised to account for
the origin of meteorites. One is that they are
small planetary bodies revolving around the
sun, nnd that at times they become entongied
in our atmosphere, loose their orbital velocity
by the resistence of tbe atmosphere, nnd are fi
nally attracted to the earth. They ore also sup
posed to bafe been ejected from the volcanoes
in the moon; and a third supposition is that
they are formed from particles floating in the
atmosphere. Dr. J. Lnwronco Smith who has
made tbe subject a special study, and has anal
ysed this meteorite and many others in the pos
session of tho Smithsonian Institute, concludes
that the moon is the only large body in space,
of which we have any knowledge possessina
the requisite conditions demanded by tho phys
ical und chemical properties of meteorites ; and
that they have been thrown off from that body
by volcanic action.— Washington Star.
Tbe American Party In Philadelphia.
ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMIT
TEE.
To the Americans Throughout th* United
States:—
It has been suggested by those opposed toour
party that the majority given for the A merican
nominees at the recent election, baa been great
ly reduced, and that this fact indicates a fel
ling off in our strength. To this, we reply, that
in the spring election of 1854, the Whigs, ns
a body, voted the American ticket, and this
fact increased the majority which was given
for us. In 1855, the whigs, as a party, repu
diated all connection with onr principles, nnd
united with the democrats and naturalized cit
izens in an effort to prevent onr success. The
combination proved wholly unavailing at the
recent election, and showed that onr strength
had increased sufficiently in a single year to
overcome the united opposition. We can con
fidently assert that onr nnmbers are sufficient
ly adequate to make the success of our ticket
in the city of Philadelphia hereafter certain
without reference to the com se that the oppo
nents of our doctrines may take.
We here state that we do not desire to be
understood as complaining of the coarse which
our opponents thought proper to pursue. It
was natural to suppose that, those who were
hostile to American sentiments would meet
upon common gronnd to prevent the success
of our condidates. It was, however, the first
instance in which the whigs had tmitedwith
the democratic party in open and -Avowed
hostility to onr principles. Tts result was
dtsR8trous to the alliance, and left the whigs
with scarcely a representative of their senti
ments anywhere in office. They seem to have
been instruments (without design on their
part,) to aid in fulfilling the prophecy of tbe
greatest and wisest of modern whigs, Daniel
Webster, a short time before his death, said of
the whigparty. “ that it wonld live only in his
tory.” The troth of his prediction is daily be
coming more manifest, and tbe result of the
last election in. Philadelphia is tbe strongest
evidence thus far given of its truth. To the
honor of the American name, be it said. Dan
iel Webster sympathized in heart and fad
ings with the American pnty. and was at the
the time of his death its nominee for President
of the United States. No efforts or persua
sion conld induce him to decline the nominar
tion given hint by the American convention;
and his example should not b** without its in-
fluerce npon the wise and patriotic of his own
party. His conductin endeavoring to advise
American principles in the commnnitv is in
strong contrast with tbe remnant of whigs in
this city, who at the recent election, endeav
ored to prostrate it by uniting with the for
eign voters.
It is not the object of this commnnication
to enter into any exposition of the principles
of the American party. Ifs cardinal design
is to place the government in the hands of na
tive born citizens. t>> tbe exclusion of all for
eigners from office, whether Catholics or Pro
testants. It does not sympathize with local
parties or feelings, hilt is attached to the con
stitution of the United States and the prefer
vation of our glorious Union. Hese it will
seek to preserve at all hazards, and under all
circumstances, believing that the dismember
ment of the Union would be the greatest cal
amity which could befall the human race. We
are advocates, therefore, of tbe doctrine that
Americans only shall rule America—that the
constitution of the United States, and every
part of it, shall,be recognized and regarded
throughout the land as tbe supreme law, and
that its unequivocal mandates are to be ebey-
ed in that spirit of honesty and sineerety so
necessary to its perpetuity and so essential to
i to effective action as the guardian of the rights
of earii individual citizen as weH as the sove-
riegn States composing the American Union.
We desire, therefore, in conclusion, toremin 1
you, in the language of the illustrious Wash
ington. that—
“It is of of infinite moment that you should
properly estimate the immense value of vour
national Union, to your collective and* indi
vidual happiness. Ton should cherish a cor
dial, habitual and immoveable attachment to
it; ae customi rig yourselves to think and spent
of it as the palladium of your political safety
and prosperity; watching for its preservation
with jealous anxiety; discountenancing what
ever may suggest even a suspicion that it can
in any event be abandoned; and indignantly
frowning upon thq first dawning of every at
tempt to aiienate.any portion of onr country
from tho rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties
which now bind together the various parts
JOHN W. ASHMEAD, **
JOSEPH H. CHURCH,
JOHN S. WILSON.
JOSEPH L. CHESTER,
JOSEPH WOOD. Jr,
GEO. P. PHEN’ZEY,
GEO. S. SHARP,
Committee.
Beautitul Consistency I—Ce rtain organs o
the Foreign party in Georgia, have boen sorely
exercised because the London Times has spoken
in favor of the American movement—albeit they
published with great satisfaction that paper’s
endorsement of Mr. Pierce, when a candidate
for the Presidency! Then it was good authori
ty, but now, tbo fact that it speaks favorably of *
tbe Know-Notbings, ought to according to the
teachings of these gentlemen, forever damn
that party 111
These same gentlemen ponneed upon Put
nam’s Magazine some twelve months ago and
very properly as we think, denounced it as a
rile abolition publication. Now, however, they
copy, with comendatory notices, rfn article den
unciatory of the Enow-Nothings, from its pol
luted abolition pages! We are not at all sur
prised that it should contain tbe article—as all
the Abolitionists denounce tbe Know-Nothings
—but it is a tittle strange that they should aps
provingly copy it into their papers, after war
ning tbeir readers against the circulation at tbe
South of snob an incendiary publication 1 l-Ez.
— »—* ■'
What abb we cobbing to?—A dispatch in
the New York Herald, dated Washington, May
9. says—I nnderstand, from good and reliable
authority,. that tbe President gives up the Vir
gin* election to the Enow Nothings, notwith
standing the vain boasting and humbugging of
tbe Richmond Enquirer, and other Virginia
Cabinet organs. In conversation with a Virg
inia gentleman, the other day, Mr. Pierce ex.
pressed bis fears in very eloquent terms. Said
he: “I don’t know what we are comming to.—
There is a'mystery about the progress of these
Know Nothings at the South which i* perfectly
inexplicable. And if they carry Virginia, that
last remaining bolwark of tbe democracy, God
only knows wbat is to become of ns.”
While Mrs. Bsnferth of Warren, Pa., was en
gaged last week, in housework, a lightning
stroke descended upon her, burning tbe hair
from the crown of the head-to the hock of the
neck, melting her hair pins, and proceeding
down her body—leaving ite mark as -it went—
until it passed through tbe floor. Strange to
say, the lady is rapidly recovering.
LATER FROH EUROPE.
The steamer America arrived at Halifax on
Thursday with one Weeks’s later news from Eu
rope.
Liverpool, May 12.—Cotton.—The market
has advanced id. during tbe week wi h safes of
over 105,000 bales. Breadstnfis are unchan
ged. Core slightly advanced. Provisions stea#
dy. Consols 88.
Several extensive failnres are reported in
Liverpool.
The news from the seat of War is meagre.
The state of affairs at Sevastopol is uneban.
ged. Some trivial success of the Allies is rep
orted.
The general belief is th« t the war will have a
long duration, without the hope of assistance
from Austria.
“Wife; wife, our cow’s dead—choked with a
turnip.”
“ I told you so. I always se>d she’d choke
herself with them turnips.”
“ But it was a pumpkin.”
“WeH, it’s all the same. I know'd all along
bow it would be. Nobody but a Q'oiiy like
you would ever feed a cow on pumpkins that
wasn't chopped.”
“They was chopped. And 'tw Ant the pump?
-kins neither tbat choked her.—’Twas tbe tray
—and the end on't is sticking out of her mouth
now.”
“Ugh! ugh! There goes my bread tray.
No longer than yesterday, I told you that she
would swallow thetray.”
a, n
Good is more esteemed for- having been long
desired, affeotion stronger for having been, on-
gratified.
MARRIED oh Thursday evening24th inst,
by the Rev. JESSE LAMBERTH, THOMAS
T. ARNOLD to AMANDA E., daughter of £.
J. Mulkey—all of this county.
On the morning of Thursday, the 17th inst,
By the Rev. C. A. FULWOOD, Mr. ROBERT
M. GREGORY and Miss MOLLIEE. HAR
DIN, both of this city.
On the I5tfc inst., Mr. WILLIAM GARRETT
and Miss NANCY KING, of Floyd county.
ROME PRICES CURRENT.
Corrected Weekly by J. L. LOGAN.
Apples— ' Molasses— 40c-45e
Dried, bu.... $2 2£;Nails—per ft. 6J-7{c
Green,.
Bacon—
.250-300
Nail Rod—
!Oil—Linseed
6£e-7c
$135
Hams pr lb .11-12}c<Osnaburgs— llc-12c
9e-ll £ j
Low .Spirits.—Luther says, when lam as
sailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among
my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. —
The human heart is tike a mill-stone in a mill;
when you put your wheat under it. it turns ard
grinds and bruises,tbe wheat to flour; if you
put no wheat in, it still grinds on, but then it
is itself that grinds and wears away.
After the 1st of July, a letter can he registered
and receipted for, on payment of five cents
additional, when extraordinary care wiU be ta
ken to ensure its delivery. The fetters are to
be entered in a book kept for the purpose. We
have long needed some better surety in sending
valuable letters through the post office than we
now have. It remains to be seen whether the
improvement now proposed will be attended
with advantage.
No Danger op Scarcity.—President Hitch
cock says that : the whole amount, in cubic
measure, of the coal o fthe United States, equals
at least 3,500 cubic miles.
Approach op the Cars !—The East Tennes
see and Georgia Railroad is rapidly progressing
towards completion. The trach is laid within
seven miles, and the Passenger cars are now
running to Kajor Heiskell’s, within ten miles of
our city, and leaveng but ten miles of staging,
run tho coaohes make in two hours and less.
Although the cars will be here in June, the
grand celebration is not'Oontomplated until the
4tb of July, as we are informed. Then “all the
world and rest of mankind” will be a good time
to organize a Council of Nnow Nothings. We
have long desired to see tho now order started
in Knoxville!—Brown low’s Whig.
More Truthful than Flattering.—A cor,
respondent of the Hillsdale (Mich.) Standard,
writing from Honolulu, speaks of the character
of tbe inhabitants of tbe Island in the following
brief paragraph:
New Season for Thanksgiving Day.—
Governor Price of Missouri, has appointed
Thursday, May 31. as a day of thanksgiving,
humiliation, and prayer. Among other evils,
when the Governor exhorts the people to pray
that they may not be visited, is c>vil strife.
Results op Negro Emancipation.—We
have had occason frequently to'publish fright
ful accounts of the results of negro emancipa
tion in the Britisb West. Indies. The subject
has recently been presented in a more authori
tative light by the’ Liverpool West India Asso
ciation. In a recent memorial, they stated
formally the well-known Tact that the cost of
production in most instances eqnals the value
of the sngor crop. On the other hand, Cuba,
by means of slave labor, has, within the short
period of eight years, increased her cultivation
from 810.463 boxes, to 1,245,554 boxes of sugar;
tbe shipments Tasl year alone hiving shown an
increase of 171,000 boxes over those of the
year preceding.
Hard Times.—The Dalton (N. C.) Times
says that in that region more thfm half of the
people are without corn or money and are suf
fering almost a famine.
Mr. Wise appears to be preparing himself
should he meet with defeat in tbe ooming Vir
ginia election, for that deepest degradation into
which the disappointed politician can fall—a
merited and unpitied overthrow. His har-
argurs are unparalleled in the virulent bitter
ness of their tone and character. The most
violent and abnsivo language alone suits his
utterance of the estimation in which he holds
his opponents. Pretending to be demoeratie
he calls those who take tbe liberty of thinking
differently from him a “lousy, Christless, god
less set,” “ fair specimens of the spawn of
blackguardism, Know Nothingism and rabble-
ism,” Ao. Such language would disgrace the
reeling besotted habiue of a groggery—coming
from a candidate for tbe governorship of Vir
ginia, the land heretofore of courtesy and re
finement, it is more than shooking. These eb
ullitions of bad temper and worse taste must
be regretted by Mr. Wise’s friends and can cer
tainly add nothing to the strength of his cause.
They are rather premonitions of defeat, and
will hereafter be retorted upon him by those
who now applaud, as among the causes contri
buting to his overthrow.— Baltimore American.
Tbe Cholera appears to be pretty thoroughly
developed on the Upper Mississippi, and deaths
have occurred not only among steamboat pas
sengers, bat in many of the towns between St.
Loais and St. Paul. Its early appearance at
othor points farther East, would not be all at
strange.
Hog round,
Bagging—
Hemp, lb, .
Gunny, . . 1
Bale Rope— 12J-1
Beef— .... 44-
Beeswax— . 20c-!
Blue Sfonb— 20c]
Butter—
country,
Candles—
Tallow, . . 20c-2.
Adamantine, 33c-40
Sperm, ... 50c]
Coffee—Rio, 14c,
Java, .... 164-1
Copperas— . 5<
Corn—pr bo. * 130-151
Cotton Yarn— 90c]
Eggs —pr df z. 10-124c (
Feathers—lb. 40<
Flour—pr ft. 44-54c
Glass—8x10, $24-$
Indigo—pr lb, $14-16
Iron—Sweed, ftje-7c]
Georgia, . .
Lard— . •. . . 12-14©
Mackerel—bl$l 7-$l&
Madder —lb.. 20c-25c'
Meal—per bn.135-150'
6-64
Train,.
Pork—per lb.
Potatoes—
Sweet, . . . 75c-00e
Irish country #
“ northern, 300
Powder—Gnn 35o-40c
Blasting, . . 25-35©
ice—per lb. ft}e-7e
20-25c?Salt—pr sack 210-75
per bn. 120
'Shot—pr lb. . 21-124c
Sole Leather—
Country, lb. 25c-28«
Northern, . -28«
Steel—
Blistered, lb. 10e-15e
German, . . 15c—18c
Spring,. . . -10c
Cast, -. • * •
Sugar—
Crushed, . .
N. Orleans,
Strup—
N. O. pr gal. 48c -50©
‘Tallow—lb. 10-12
'Tea—per lb, 11-15
Wheat— *
, per bushel, $170-17 5
Wool—lb, |V‘ 25c-5G
33c-25e
* I**
7c-10c
SPECIAL IV 0 T f C E S.
DR CULVER
Having procured tbo services of Dr. VAX
GIESEN, an experienced and practical-mechan
ical Dentist, is now prepared to aeeommodate
all who may favor him with a call; and being:
a permanent resident of Rome, may he retied
upon as a practitioner in whom oil may confide
who have occasion to require hUnprofessional
services.
Parts or fall sets of teeth pat np on gold plate
in a neat and* durable style, so as to render
them useful and beautiful.
Offioe at the “Choice Hotel.”
May 29 It
Sloan Advertises his celebrated medicines
He understands human nature-remakes articles
worth something—and takes all proper steps to
let the pnbtie know where they can he had.—
"His enterprise and integrity, have’secured him
universal confidence. [Wisconsin Argus
See Sloan’s advertisement in another column*
may 22
Among diseases, dyspepsia and liver com
plaint rank as most difficult to euro. We are
pleased to have it in onr power to point a rem
edy wnich has proved effectual in many cases,
and which, we can safely recommend" as a cer
tain and infallible cure ; it haabeen tho means
ofresoning thousands from an .untimely grave.
We mean the Hoofland’s German' Bitters, pre
pared by Dr. C M Jackson, at the German Med
icine Store, 120 Arch Street, Philadelphia.—
Soe advertisement.
ROME, GA., Feb. 1855;
The Stock Holders in the Geo. & Ala. R. -R
Company will take notice that at a meeting of
the Board of Directors, this day held the follow- ’
ing Resolution was passed:
That in consideration of the pressure in the
money market, the calling in of an assessment
upon the subscribed stock, and the employment
of an Engineer to survey the Road, he for the
present postponed. C. H. SMITH,
Feb 6 Sec’y Ga & Ala R R.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
SUMMER RE SORT!
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
T HE Hotel on Lookout Mountain (only five-
miles from Chattanooga,) IS NOW OfiEN
for the season, for the reception of company,—
Arrangements for amusements of various kinds
have beon made, and the undersigned wiU spare
no exertions for. the comfort of his guests. ■
may 29 Sm .GW A3HBURN. '