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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1857. s
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For Governor,
HON. JOSEPH E. BROWN, I
OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.
For Congress. ,
Second District —MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
Ihud District.- 1). J. BAILEY.
Fourth, District. —L. J. GARTUELL.
FifthLH*trict. —A. R. WRIGHT.
%xth IMriat.— JAMES JACKSON.
Stoenth District. —LlNTON STEPHENS.
/Si.jhth District. -A. H. STEPHENS.
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State ol the Weather.
Monday, August 3—7, A. M.
St Savannah, warm aud rainy.
44 Macon, 4 ‘
“ Columbus, “
“ Montgomery, cioudy and damp.
“ Lower Peach Tree, rainy.
“ Mobile, cloudy and cool.
“ Gainesville, warm and cloudy.
** New Orleans, cloudy.
“ Augusta, raining.
Tuesday, Aug. 4—7, A. M.
At Savannah, rainy.
44 Macon,
“ Cohuuhus, “
M Montgomery, “
" liower Peach Tree, cloudy.
“ Mobile, “
“ Gainesville, ?»
M New (Jrlueua,
•* Augusta, "
Rains tu this Neighborhood.
For the last three necks this section, in common
vntli nearly ovety portion of the South, has been
wimto.l with rains every day. The grouud is quite
wet, and the creeks and larger, water courses are
manually full for the season.
On Sunday afternoon and Sunday night, rain fell
«n torrents in this neighborhood, aud we feel satis
fied must have caused considerable injury to the
farms.
Tbo river is gradually rising, and fears are en
trained that the rich producing lands on the Sa
vannah, now iu a high state of cultivation, will be
submerged by the rising water, and the growing
crops destroyed.
Gentlemen who have recently been in the inte
rior of the State, as well as in sections bordering
on the head-waters of the Savannah, tell us that
the rains have been very general wherever they
have been.
Several heavy showers of rain fell yesterday and
test night.
Rain Storm.
We learn from the Macon Gituern, of Saturday,
that rain fell in torrents in that city and neighbor
hood on Friday lasi. Iu another column we pub
tash the notice of the storm, taken from that pa
per.
We understand that the rain storm extended as
Sir as Montgomery, doing much damage to the
railroads, bridges, mills, as well as houses, fences
and other property. This storm will doubtless
prove very destructive to the growing crops.
Wheat Crop.
Planters in upper Georgia, and in Tennessee,
Saare been interrupted in thrashmgout their wheat,
ia consequence of the continued rains of the past
ien days or two weeks. In some cases much
wheat will be injured by the rains and the sprout
ing of the seed. Thrashing and cleaning wheat
will have to bo suspended until die weather be
oocues more favorable.
Freights on Grain.
The freight on wheat, peas or rye, from Nash
irUle or Knoxville to Augusta, is thirty cents per
bushel.
On corn, twenty-four cents per bushel.
On oats, twenty-one “ “ “
On wheat, from Memphis to Augusta, thirty
aeren cents per bushel.
The State Railroad.
A report was current iu this city yesterday, that
the recent heavy rains in the up-country had
caused some serious interruption on the State
railroad. We are pleased to state that there is no
foundation for any such report.
W heat and Flour.
The quantity of wheat brought to this city, on
the Georgia railroad, during the month of July,
was one hundred and fifty-one thousand three hun
dred and twenty-seven bushels.
The quantity of flour brought down in the same
time, was Seven thousand three hundred and twen
ty barrels.
And only about one thousand bushels of corn.
B. F. Hill, Esq., at Auburn, Ala.
The Montgomery (Ala. ) of Friday last,
•ays: “We are requested to mention that B. H.
Hiu., better known as <l Bex Hill, the present
candidate for Governor of Georgia, in opposition
to the Democracy, will speak in Auburn on Satur
day, the Ist pros.” j
Delegates to the Knoxville Convention.
• We are requested to state that delegates from
this city, to the Southern Commercial Convention
at Knoxville, can obtain railroad tickets by appli
cation to the Mayor. The fore is half price.
Savannah News Items.
Jackson Barnes, of Macon, and Edward Mun
rar, of Savannah, hare become the landlords of
the City Hotel, Savannah. Janes B. Foley, the
former landlord, has taken the Screven house.
A valuable negro man belonging to Judge R. A.
Allen, was crushed to death at his owner’s planing
mill in Savannah, on Saturday last.
Peaches are selling at retail in Savannah at three
dollars per bushel.
The steamer Augusta from Savannah to New
York, on Saturday, took out three thousand six
hundred and forty-six watermelons, besides other
freight.
The Know Nothing party in Savannah are in
trouble about their candidate for Congress for the
first Congressional District. The claims of Messrs.
Dawson and Bartow, for the nomination, are
urged with zeal and bitterness.
Elections in Texas.
An election took place Monday, the 3d August,
in Texas, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and
Commissioner of the General Land Office; for
Representatives to Congress; members to the
State Legislature, and Judges of the Judicial Dis
tricts of that State.
Tiw people of that State were also called upon
to vote for and against a proposed amendment of
the Constitution, proposed by a joint resolution of
tbc adjourned session of the Legislature, in Sep
tember, 1356.
University of Nashville.
We invite attention to the advertisement of the
University of Nashville. The Medical Department
opens on the 2d November next, and a free pre
liminary course on October sth.
Ccn. Win. Walker.
By a dispatch received from Macon, by Colonel
Riim.Eii, of this city, we learn that Gen. Walker
will reach Augusta during tins day—probably at
nine o’clock, P. M., on the Savannah aud Augusta
ruilroud train. He will address the citizens of
Augusta upon Nicaragua aftairs duriug his stay.
The time and place of the address will be an
nounced hercaf'er.
Jail at Crawfordville Hurnt.
We are informed by a gentleman who was pre
sent at the time in that village, that the jail at Craw
fordville was destroyed by fire, about twelve o’clock,
on Sunday night last. It was a strong wooden
structure, built mostly with logs. A negro man
confined in one of the rooms of the prison, was
burnt to death. Opinion is divided us to the cause
of the fire—some persons believe the negro who
was burnt up, set fire to the jail; and others think
that the fire was communicated by some incendia
ry outside of the prison walls. Efforts were made
to rescue the negro from the flames, but the lire
was so rapid in its progress, and tho building so
strong, that burs and axes could not force an open
ing soon enough. The jailor, with tho keys of the
jail, was in a remote portion of the village.
Bf The wife of ex-Postmaster General Camc
hell died in Philadelphia on Friday last.
nr The communication of “ A Farmer” is re
spectfully declined, as no name accompanies it.
|3f Andrew H. U. Dawson, Esq., is announced
as an independent candidate for Congress in the
first Congressional district of this State.
D. Rich, Esq., of Cobb county, has t
been appointed by bis Excellency, Governor Joux- j
son, Judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, iu place of y
lion. Jossea E. Brown resigned. t
l-if Nicholas Thompson, Esq., the father of the r,
preaeut Secretary of the Interior, died at heesburg, i
Caswell county. Miss., ou Wednesday, 29th July,
w, U»» Jktin ago. 1
1-0“ There were fifty-one interments in Colum
bus during the three months ending July 29. '
fST Ex-Got, C. J. McDonald passed through
our city this morning, tn route to the Springs i
in Virginia. _
IST On Saturday evening last, the Hull says,
the river at Montgomery was rising rather rapidly.
The Postmaster General has ordered that
hereafter no paper labels shall be used on any of
the mail bags, but only such as are made of met
al, wood or leather, which are not liable to bo de
faced or destroyed. This will prevent the misdi
rection of many a mail pouch or bag.
1-0" On tho 80th July, says the correspondent of
the Baltimore Hun, there was, in New York, “a
large auction salo of carpetings, and the biddings
tolerably spirited. Heavy super four quarter In
grains, all wool and worsted, brought forty-two to
fifty-one cents; double superfine English Ingrains
sixty-nine to seventy-four cents; Dutch hemp car
peting seventeen cents; six quarter superior print
ed druggets forty-three to forty-four cents; and
twelve quarter do. one dollar sixteen cents; green
baize forty-seven to forty-nine cents; mats next
sold at eight dollars and fifty cents for Crossi.kv’s
B patent velvet; four dollars and forty cents for
Crosslrt’s G patent velvet; two dollars and twen
ty-five to two dollars and fifty cents for velvet as
sorted patterns, and two dollars for Crosslkv’s ta
pestry Brussels. The English carpets were all
standard qualities, and the styles were all very
beautiful and varied. The first lot sold was four
pieces Ax. Brussels tapestry, slightly damaged, at
one dollar and ten cents; and three pieces Cross
lry's velvet tapestry also, damaged, at one dollar
and sixty cents.”
Col. F. B. Or.DKN, U. 8. Consul at Bristol, Eng
land, died on the 4th instant. He was appointed
by Gen. Jackson as Consul to Liverpool, where he
served eleven rears, and was then transferred to
Bristol. Mr. Or.DKN was one of the pioneers of
steam navigation. So early as ISII he was attract
ed to it by the successful experiments of Mr. Ful
ton, and in 1816 constructed the first double engine
that was ever placed on board a boat with expan
sive steam. With the boat thus equipped, he was
■ the first to venture on a sea voyage; lie proceeded
with her from New York to Norfolk, in Virginia,
and established her as » packet on the Janies
river. _
The Indian Tkodbi.es in Minnesota. —The Se
cretary of War received a dispatch from Fort
Snelling, Minnesota, to the 25th ult., informing
him that the Sioux Indians have acceded to every
' thing required of them by the general govern
! ment, and are now quiet.
) . m
An Important Decision. —An important case
has been decided by the Supreme Court of New
York, viz.: where the holder of a promissory note
1 sent it, when due, to the bank at which it was pay
. able, and the bank erroneously supposing the
- maker to be in funds, credited the holder with the
amount, on discovering its mistake next day, cor
- rectea it, and served the endorsers with notice of
■ non-payment. It was held by the Supreme Court
of New York, in an action on the note against the
• endorsers, that it had not been paid, and that due
steps had been taken to aiarge them, so as to render
them liable.
Salss op Wheat. — The Louisville Courier states
; that the proprietors of one of the largest flouring
i mills in that city, have closed contracts for up
wards of thirty thousand bushels of wheat, at one
dollar per bushel.
What will he do with it T
We do not mean Pisastratus Caxton, Esq., sad
bis serial with the above title, which is now being
published in the pages of Blackwood., bat the
Chronicle de Sentinel, and its article of yesterday
morning, in relation to a communication which ap
peared in the Savannah Georgian of Sunday.
That our readers may understand this article
and the communication to which it refers, both of
which we subjoin, we may premise that an anima
ted contest is going on just now in the First Dis
trict for the Congressional nomination of the
American party. Francis Baetow, Esq., and An
drew 11. H. Dawson, Esq., are the two gentlemen
whose claims to the nomination are urged by their
respective friends. Dawson’s chances were decid
edly the best, as long as it was supposed that the
candidate of the American party would be the
leader of a forlorn hope. No one was particular
ly anxious for the empty honor of a candidacy
with the certainty of defeat, and every body was
obligingly disposed to give Dawson an opportuni
ty to “ air his vocabulary.”
But, since the bad management of the Demo
cratic party of the District has resulted in bring
ing out two Democrats for Congress, and the pros
pect for the election of an American has brighten
ed by the anticipated division of the strength of
the Democracy between these two Democrats, Mr.
Baktow’s chances have improved. At least since
they think the nominee will be elected, the mana
gers of the party desire that Mr. Baiitow should
be the nominee. To accomplish this object, a cir
cular signed by three prominent members of
the American Executive Committee of Chatham
county, was addressed to various prominent gentle
men of the party throughout the District, recom
mending that meetings should be called in the
different counties, and that a gentleman whose
name is mentioned in the card, (who we suppose
is Mr. Bartow,; should be nominated for Congress.
Among the “various prominent gentlemen” to
whom this circular was addressed, was a person in
Darien, who immediately upon its receipt wrote a
communication to the Savannah Georgian, signed
“Mclntosh,” giving an unpleasant publicity to the
whole atrair. The tight for the American nomina
tion, in the First District, was a jery pretty fight
as it stood, and after the publication of “ Mcln
tosh,” the position of the signers of the card was
sufficiently awkward, hut now matters all round
are farther complicated by the Chronicle if- Senti
nel, who enters this fight of factions in the Ameri
can party of the First District, and in its issue of
yesterday “puts its foot into it” in this wise:
Political Intrigue.— We find in the Savannah
Georgian the following communication, exposing !
a most contemptible effort at political intrigue, i
We regret that the author did not expose the ,
names of the individuals signed lo the circular, as ,
well as the person to be recommended. Much an
exposure was equally due to good government, '
and to the pet pie of the district, to enable them to 1
protect themselves against such a fraud. ,
The American parly of the district owe it to •
themselves, to investigate and expose this transac
tion, and put down parties engaged in it. Wifi 1
not our contenipqyurv of the Jlepublioan unmask it, i
and unite in bringing forward a candidate worthy |
to represent the party and the district? Such a ,
candidate as was sought to be recommended, if he
were cognizant of the transaction, is not worthy to 1
represent any pai ty or people: t
1)a hi ex, Oa., July 29, 1857. •'
Mr. Elitor; A card signed by three prominent (
Americans, residing in Savannah, has been rcceiv
ed here requlstmg the American party to meet here
and pass resolutions recommending a gentleman 1
they therein mention for Congress. That card was 1
directed to me, and I wish to say to those gentle- 1
men that the man that they suggest is not oar ,
choice, uud I want them to’ send us instructions
how we are to pass the resolutions, when the peo- I
pie will uot vote for them. 1 have heard that the '
Slime request lias been sent to Telfair, Appling and I
Tatnull, and as 1 have just heard directly troin )
those counties, and knowing that ttie people in ,
those counties have already made up their minds '
to support another and a different man, we will '
wait down here to see how they treat these intruc- i
tious before we act. It niuy he wo can learn how ,
to play our part. But if the Savannah gentry have
no serious objections, we would be glad to know. '
if it would not do quite as well to allow us to ‘
speak for ourselves, us. to obey the dictation of ■
vmk mpk mmr -*“mctEjX?- 1
Our neighbor, everybody must admit, covncs ,
down upon this “contemptible effort at political
intrigue,” with the same elephantine flatness of
foot with which ho came dowu some time since
upon the “VVahoo Rank,” but unlike the elephant
who, when he puts his foot down is always sure of
his ground, gets his foot into it, as he got it into -
the Wahoo Rank. Into the “VVahoo Rank,”—then
into the “Burning Mountain”—and now into a
Wild (Kilkenny) Cat fight between two Americans
in the “wild hunt after ottice”—really our neigh
bor will acquire the reputation after a while of
always incontinently “putting his foot into it.”
The Savannah Republican , upon whom he called
to “expose this transaction and to put down
the parties engaged in it” puts itself deten
as one of the parties engaged in it, not as
the Chronicle if* Sentinel meant, that the par
ties to it should be “ put down,” 1. e., crushed, but
to acknowledge its complicity in the transaction—
to explain and to justify it. In the following arti
cle which appeared in its issue of Monday, the Sa
vannah Republican anticipates the request of the
Chronicle Sentinel iu its article of Tuesday, and
“unmasks” this transaction and “puts down” one
at least, of the parties engaged in it:
The Georgian's Darien American f?) Corres
pondent.—The Georgian of yesterday has a letter
from Darien, over the signature of “Mclntosh,”
written confessedly by a prominent member of
the American party of that county, which an
nounces to the world that “a card, signed by three
prominent Americans, residing m Savannah,” had
been received in that county, (one by the writer
himself,) dictating to the American party of Mcln
tosh whom they should nominate as a candidate
for Congress. The writer, in the outset, says the
authors of the card “requested,” Ac., but he after
wards charges them with dictation, and the whole
tenor and spirit of the letter is to the same effect.
We have no reply for the comments of the Geor
gian on this letter, for when the writer, an Ameri
can, brings such a charge and uses such language,
his organ is certainly justified in construing the
card as au attempt “to tamper with freemen.’" Os
the letter, however, and its writer, we have a word
to say.
There is nothing in this matter of the “card,”
as it is termed, which any one connected with it
has cause to conceal, though it was addressed as
confidential and to parties whom the writers con
sidered worthy of confidence, however badly mis
taken they may have beeu in taking such a fact
for granted. The name of the editor of this paper
was one of the three attached to the card, and we
are willing to assume the entire responsibility of
the same, Doth as regards “Mclntosh” and the
i American party of the First Congressional Dis
trict. There was no “dictation” in the letter to
any individual, or aught else to induce any to act
. in opposition to his own free will and choice. The
. facts are simply as follows:
During the last few weeks, a number of letters
* have been received in this city—many of them by
• ourselves —from Americans of character and prom
. ineuce iu many, if not a majority, of the counties
in the urging that some movement be
made for bringing out a candidate, in opposition
, to those of the Democratic parly, and stating, in
almost every instance, that a distinguished citizen
of Savanuah was their “ first choice” forthenom
' iuation, and would be cordially supported, provi
. ded he could be induced to enter the field. With
% this assurauce from a number of the strongest
counties iu the District, and thoroughly convinced
that the gentleman alluded to was, by long odds,
- the favorite of our political friends, a portion of
f the American Executive Committee of Chatham
t had au informal meeting, and concluded, in re
sponse to movements iu other counties, and for the
? more effectual earning out of the wishes of the
Americans in the District, to address au advisory
r note to various prominent gentlemen as to the
most practicable mode of effecting their object.
That letter or “card,” was short and entirely re
-5 spectful, dictating nothing, but simply suggesting
. that meetings be called in the various counties for
’ the purpose of making a nomination and recom
mending the gentleman already alluded to as pos
i sessing the highest claims to their consideration,
land as the most available man in the District.
This suggestion was accompanied with an expres
sion of tne belief that thus unanimously called
out, he would not refuse to his friends the use of
his name. We need hardly add that these letters
were written entirely without the knowledge of
the gentleman whose claims they were intended
to bring before the people.
Such is a true statement of the case, and the
reader will determine how far the “three promi
nent Americans residing in Savannah,” have at
tempted to dictate to the people of the district.
We would add but a word upon the character of
this, letter in the Georgian , as bearing upon the
subject of the honorable intercourse between poli
tical friends. Allowing that the writer did object
to the gentleman suggested as a candidate, and
preferred some one else—why did he not make it
known in a respectful manner to the gentlemen
who had so courteously addressed him? This
would seem the most fair and reasonable course
for him to have pursued. Why is it that he, pro
fessedly an American, should convert himseifjnto
an ally and correspondent of the enemy, koter
their camp, and from thence seek to direct his
missiles against his political friends? He may be
an American m name, but we envy not the quality
of his Americanism. It were better for our cause
that such men should atwnce desert, and go over,
bag and baggage, to our political foes, to whom
they properly belong.
The question now recurs, what will he do with it ?
We mean the Chronicle dk Sentinel and its article
of Monday. Will| he swallow it, or—what will
he do with it ? The latter part of the Republican's
article, “bearing upon the subject of the honorable
intercourse between political friends,” is particu
larly pointed. It says very decidedly that it does
not envy the quality of the Americanism of the man
who would act as Mclntosh has, and that it would
be better for the American cause if all such
men would desert it and go where they properly
belong—to the enemy. Rut the Chronicle d* Sen
timl denounces the transaction which Mclntosh ex
poses as “a most contemptible effort at political in
’ trigue,” and regrets that he did not give the names
of the parties to it, that the people of the first
district might be able to protect themselves
against “a fraud.” What will he (the Republican)
do with it (the Chronicle & Sentinel)'*
fCOUMUNCATKD.I
The Louisville Convention-Know Noth
iHgi*m«-Us Last Feature.
“Be thou a spirit of health, or gobiln damned.
Bring with the trira from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked, or charitable.
Thou coin'at in such a questionable shape,
That I will speak to thee.”
Mr. Editor: Now that the slow and tardy mail
lias brough to light the still more tardy, long
expected and much to be dreaded letter of ao
ceptance, under the proper sign manual of
the gallant American Knight Know Noth
iagism, who so inglonously brought up the
rear of the Fillmore ticket in Georgia last year,
and since the issue is now unmistakably made up
between the aforesaid Knight and the future Gov
ernor of the State, it becomes every good citizen,
having the good of his country at heart, to endeav
or to promote its interests and perpetuate its bless
ings. The origin, progress, defeat and latter day
movements of that great compound of putrefaction
and composition, the once great Know Nothing
party, afford to the careful observer of passing
events, a repast rich and dainty, w hich, when pro
perly digested, may contribute the safest example
ever yet recorded in the history of political morals.
Starting out at a point, where the Abolition party
of the North had raved, and its madness at repeat
ed defeat had, viper like, turned against itself; at
a juncture too, w hen the great Whig party of the
Uion had been disbanded, and its colors mourn
fully laid upon the tomb of its great Father; and
when the Democratic party had stamped its princi
ples indelibly upon the Government, we see this
new fangled machine bursting forth as an ava
lanche from the North, and belching forth its putrid
breath upon the South, leaving behind the sad ef
fects of its noxious principles and unholy proceed
ings. Commenced m mystery, yet boldly an
nouncing its doctrines, draped with the curtain
of darkness, yet walking incog, iu the light of
day, holding out as its beacon light a dark
hfctuern, yet professing to usher in the great
‘“wvrrf*** l Tocftt
village, hamlet, cross-roads and blacksmith
shop, yet leaving the world at largstoo wiser as to
the names and number of us members or the pre
cise location of its awakened in the
people of the country, especially the politicians ot
one horse towns and the Solomons* of the wire
grass, black jacks and pm?y woods, a teeliog of
curiosity, which induced them to lay aside, with
feigned pleasure, whilst their nerves tremoled, the
idea vis ghosts and hobgoblins, and in company
with others (as they supposed equally ignorant of
the matter as themselves,) to lake a huut after
Sam. The credulous, the iguorant, and in many
cases the lettered man, was drawn into the Council
by a faithful pilot ot the pure Samtvel order, who,
pretending ignorauce ot the matter and a desire
on his part also to see Sam, would lead his duped
victim through back-ways, by-ways and alleys, and
having ushered him into the Couucil room, would
there reveal himself as an officer of the institution,
the ball of Ins thumb comically placed upon the
extremity of his nasal organ and the four digits
extended wide—a fit emblem of the miserable
subterfuge resorted to, to entrap the unwary by
tricks and false pretences. Once in, the oath stuck
to them like the shirt of Nessus; aud wo to the
i ash youth who would tear it off', for as soon as he
bad asserted his freedom, the vultures of the den
would pounce upon his poor carcass and reputation,
social connection, fire side, and even business by
which he gaiued a livelihood for himself and fami
ly, were insidiously attacked by those honest fel
lows who, in their ceremonies of initiation, had
promised him a tree acquittal and discharge from
the Order, upon his bare request.
It is not necessary tor our present purpose to
give a detailed history of the epoch of oaths,
signs, grips, pass-words, and white and red pa
pers ; the day that ushered in these stupendous,
novel, and to the minds of freemen, odious and in
sulting doctrines, perished with the last ray of the
sun as it glimmered aud then faded away beneath
the western .horizon. The whole country had ta
ken ft sober, second thought, and had become
alarmed at the reality that the political machinery
of the government was to be operated in secret—
at the dead hour of night, when honest people
were asleep —secret hands were to turn a thousand
secret wheels—all operating upon a gigantic trun
dlehead that furnished rbe leviathan motive power
to the vast wheel of the government, which was
finally to wheel SSain into the Presidential chair.
The whole matter.was badly planned—bad work
men had laid off the work, aud before the vast,
complicated machinery made one revolution, a
cog burst loose here—there a wheel burst up into
splinters-—the momentum acquired by the ina
cuinery finally smashed ihe grand central wheel
upon which Sam was seated. The grand crash
came in Old Virginia, and Sam lay helpless upon
his back, and there he is yet. The lost key that
fitted the lock to the grand entrauce had been
found, and as the grated door turned slowly upon
its rusty, screaking hinges, aud the strong, omni
potent voice of public opiuion invited its deluded
inmates to come out from among them and the
breatfce once more the pure air of freedom's sacred
raleSjthe dry bones began to shake, and assuming
the foims of freemen, out of their mouths, ten thou
sand aliens echoed within its walls, aud Sam's
great irmy which had been likened to the grains
of sanj| on the sea shore and the stars that deex
the fimament, was beautifully lessened dowu to a
! corpoil’s guard. Successful at first particularly
in large cities before the real principles, issues and
tendencies of the party were underst<*od—at each
successive election, their arms were weakened and
their fbwer destroyed. For one struggle, one plat
. form \%is adopted—for the next, certain articles in
, the sake platform w’ere abrogated and others in
. trodue)d. At first they stood upon the original
l platfoiti made at Philadelphia, which contained
the iuwiortai l*2ih plank. At their uext Conven
f tion tijy struck out that section, and substituted
, one, dqiouncing Pierce aud his cabinet, the Kan
sas bil§ Ac. At first for Kansas and a squinting
» to slavk v; in a few months Kansas was converted
x into Pihdora’s box with the bottom (hope) knocked
' aid every feature in the platform iu reference
» to slaviry and >outhern rights and equality was
mercilfesly expunged, and with it the last, the
1 only Jjmmering speck of nationality that ever
r appertkned io the'rotten concern. It was their
r death-ilow—their political grave, from which they
. have uiver been resurrected. The whole plot and
. concert has been a masterly series of rich and
laughile blunders, such as have never been par
* aileiedj in the history of any party that has ever
flourished in any country. The result is recorded
of history. In the thirty-one States, they found a
fenerous response in but one. The friends of free
om throughout our now happy and prosperous
countrv had hoped that this signal rebuke, admin
istered so effectually through the medium of the
ballot box, would forever have silenced the batteries
of Know Nothingism and its cherisqed ally of Fre
mont memory, and that the few who had clung to
their faith till the latest hour, would have discover
ed an unanswerable argument against their prin
ciples in the nation’s voice and read in unmistaka
ble characters the proclamation of that general
truth, admitting of but few exceptions “ Voxpopuli,
vox Dei.” But we are deceived. The apparent
calm which has pervaded the country since the
route of the party in November, seems to be
the precursor of another cloud of like charac
ter which, forming its nucleus at Louisville, has
spread wider and wider, until its thunders have
vibrated in our midst ; and now we come to
the cream of the matter. In days of yore,
when Know Nothingism was running wild with
success, constitutions strong and binding—flashing
oat their pains and penalties, were riveted fast upon
the suppliant followers of Sam. The National
Council imperatively enjoined upon them to obey
their superiors, and fasten upon them duties and
obligations degrading to white men gifted with
the minds of freemen. Bat lo! the Louisville con
vention has turaedover a new leaf, and gives to the
faithful a latitude in their mode of operations far
more reprehensible and damnable, than the nar
row- contracted anti-American restrictions imposed
under the old of system # secrets, grips, Ac. Here is
one of the resolutions :
Resolved, That the American party in each State,
Territory and District of Columbia'be authorized
to adopt such plan of organization as respectively
they may think best suited to the views of the
members of the party in their several localities.
This resolution I take fresh from the Louisville
Journal, containing the proceedings of the Nation
al Know Nothing' convention. What does this
resolution mean? If it means anything at all, it
means this ; and we may regard the convention as
speaking through this resolution to the boys, in
thus wise: Now, boys, we have tried oaths, signs,
grips and secret councils, and we were defeated—
we then came out of our .owlerv, called uorselvcs
Americans, fought Catholics on a condition and
foreigners on a proviso, but this wouldn’t do ; we
were again defeated. We bound you up pretty
tight, and when we saw you flagging, told you,
“don’t you remember the oath you took up in the
house,” but all this wouldn’t do. We knock out
the twelfth plank and put in new timbers. The
new piece is as rotten as the old, and we have
stuck in another. Now, boys, you who live ia old
Whig counties, preach up Whiggery; in the old
Union counties, talk about the glorious Union ; in
Southern Rights counties, raise the standard of re
bellion and erv out fur revenge against those who
have trampled upon the rights of the South. In
Massachusetts, you may go it strong for Abolition
and freedom aud shrieking Kansas; in Georgia,
all you have to do is to tar and feather every Abo
litionist you meet, and go it strong for slavery ; in
Utah, resist the General Government and marry
twenty-live or fifty wtves if you want to, and
preach it up as good Bible doctrine; in Kansas,
uphold Lane and the Topeka Legislators; in a
word, boys, just do as you please, so that you carry
the day. If the people say they won t vote for
yotir candidates unless they belong to the devil’s
party, tell them right down that your candidates
are distinguished members of His Satanic Majes
ty’s party, aud as the proof of the pudding is the
chewing of the bag, just carry a little brimstone
in your pocket, and if they don’t believe it is
brimstone, poke it to their nasals and make them
smell it. This will be a settler, and ihe thing will
work well. By this policy we will get the power
in the North; in the South the other policy will
set up old Sam on his feet again: do it, if you
p ease, like old Sam Houston ; tell the people that
Know Nothingism is buried with its face down
wards, but be sure to work m any way for the
cause so it succeeds. Tell them, like the Rich
mond Whig, that the career of the American party
has been a series of blunders, and invite the party
to disband; but mind you get out the right kind
of Sam men aod call them any name you choose,
just so as you cau fool enough people to get
them to help with their votes. Once, in the
Treasury will be in our hands and “ Americans
will then rule America.” I tell you boys there is
work ahead for you. You must fool ail these old
Bierce Whigs, and these Union Whigs; you must
blarney these old Southern Rights Democrats and
tt II them the old line Wings will oust them, tell the
old line Whigs, that the old iron-ribbed wont pro
mote them, and that your party, (call it by any name
that suits the section or the man) will give them
| all offices. But mind you, boys, steer right straight
all Uie while for the port of Samivel.
Now, reader, take the resolution up one side and
oifwor Tne ««—t—* l ■ —a- r—■ —-.. .. .—^
mrag else out «>r it. it tneaus thin and nothing
else, an the printed proceedings of that Convention
will show.
Look at them and you will find that old Mary
land, the only Fillmore State in (he Union, at
tributed all her success to her secret councils ; and
organization, and when she endeavored to force
the same upon the convention, many demurred to
the plan, aod hence the resolution above was of
fered as a compromise, thus allowing each mem
ber to adopt any plan, doctrine, policy or creed, so
as to ensure success.
The Know Nothing party has become desperate
and will resort to any policy, however deceptive,
to wipe away defeat and disgrace. Citizens of the
South, that party will bear watching. New names
and new policy may he avowed, but when you
come to sift the whole of it you will find that op
position to the Democracy is at the bottom, and
that their sole object is to put the “ins out, and
the outs in.” Lincoln.
fcOUm’NICATKn.J
Starrsville Academy.
Mr. Editor: We, the undersigned committee,
selected by the Principal, to attend the examina
tion of the classes at Starrsville Academy, on the
16th and 17th of July, take great pleasure iu tes
tifying to the proficiency exhibited by the classes,
in the various departments of learning, from the
Elementary to those of the highest grades of
Mathematics and the Classics.
We cheerfully acknowledge, that we believe
that there is not a schoolin the State of Georgia
where knowledge is imparted with more force and
system than here. General principles are beauti
fully linked and thoroughly taught. The simple
Arithmetic Classes, composed of boys from ten to
fifteen years of age, taught upon the anolytieal
principle, an addition to the usual mode, exhibited
that ready knowledge, which must have been ex
tremely gratifying to parents. The class in Alge
bra and Trigonometry deserve special notice. The
most difficult problems, given promiscuouslv,
were deciphered with a correctness and ease which
unmistakably evinced the thorough training of
the pupil, as well as the skill and energy of the
Preoep tor.
On the 18th, the contest for the prize in Decla
mation came off. The crowd was unusnallv large,
gathered in from Covington, Oxford, and adjacent
counties. The number of competitors was twen
ty-six, each ambitions and full of hope, and nobly
did they fight for the honor. Young H. A. B.
Weldon proved himself the “noblest Roman of
them all,” aud very complacently pocketed the
gold medal. Mr. F. Mixon was chosen to award
the prize, and he done it gracefully and elegantly,
as is usual with him in all literary efforts. Profes
sor Jones, of the Masonic Female College, the
special orator of the day, an ardent friend of edu
cation, next arose and delighted the audience with
a speech of three-quarters of an hour. Although
it was entirely an extempore effort, the honorable
gentleman undoubtedly made his mark upon the
select and respectful crowd before him. Nothing
is more trae than that there is more in the man
than there is in the subject. This was a pleasant
day and all present evidently seemed to enjoy a
“feast of reason and a flow of soul.”
Mr. A. S. Franklin, the Principal, is a graduate
of Emory and Henry College of Virginia, and a
gentleman of the first order. Gifted naturally
with the best talent tor imparting instruction to
the young mind, he also possesses that urbanity
and ease of manner which never fail to attract
the attention and elicit the respect of the young.
He is assisted by Mrs. Jane Franklin, an honor
able graduate of the Masonic Female College at
Covington, and a lady of fine accomplishments.
She has charge of the female department, and the
splendid examination which her classes under
went, induces us to believe that the community
was peculiarly fortunate in having secured her
servioes.
I We cheerfully recommend this school to the fa
-1 vorahle consideration of parents who may desire
j tu give their children a thorough mental and moral
- education. We invite you to a community respetrt
: ed alike, at home and abroad, for its high toned
5 morality—where you will find good houses to
, board your sons and daughters, and as cheap aa
■ can be found in any section of the country ; goad
■ water and pure air, where there are no grog shops
j and none expected to be. And above all, where yoai*
children will be taught to read the Bible and not
t to use tobacco, swear, gamble or drink,
s The next term of this school will commence on
i the second Monday in August, 1857.
I John W. Pitts,
: Dr. C. Campbell,
• R. J. Henderson,
; Committee.
P Newton county, Ga., July. 1857.
[COMMUNICATED.]
• To the Democratic Party of Warreu
County.
\ Gentlemen : Since the disorganization of the De
. mocracy in Warren county, and the failure on the
• first Tuesday in July last to nominate candidates
• to represent the county in the next Georgia Legis
-1 lature, it is insisted by some of the party that I be
come a candidate for the Senate; which position I
publicly declined in June last, for the purpose of
keeping the party united by a nomination, if possi
ble. But in case of a failure to do this, I certainly
will not now become a candidate unless I am nomi
nated as a settlement man. If there are two Demo
cratic candidates in Warren county for the Senate,
i I will not be one of the number, unless some geu
: tleroan not entitled to the support of the party is
’ a candidate. If there can be a set of settlement
candidates, and I am run as such for the Senate, it
' will hare to be upon condition that I never again
run for that office, if elected. At the same time, I
am willing to vote for any Democrat in the county,
as a settlement man. who is entitled to the
same for past services; but I cannot support those
who arc not entitled. And if such a set of men are
run as Democratic candidates, I may be expected
to take sides against them under any circumstan
ces, and be they who they may; but if two seta of
Democratic candidates are run in the county, both
equally entitled, I need not be expected toact with
either, except to vote for particular friends who
may have chances of rising in the political world.
As to the excitement that prerails throughout the
county in relation to censuring the Administration
of James Buchanan ; Gov. Waiker’scoursein Kan
sas ; the resolutions passed by the Democratic
Convention, at Milledgeville, the -4th of June
iaft; and whether Mr. Buchanaa sent Gov. Walker
to Kansas with such instructions as, if carried out,
would make it a free State, or whether Gov. Walk
er got in sight of the Presidency iu 1860 by making
Kansas free, or was prompted by interest in land
speculation, or that he only intended to use every
effort in his power to settle the difficulties in Kan
sas, or whether the Milledgevilie Convention act
ed too hastily in condemning Walker’s course in
Kansas, are questions, gentlemen, in myjudgment,
not before the country for settlement at this time, and
will not be properly up before 1860, at which time
l will explain in full, if I am then m the country.
So I can believe that Warren county Democrats
will care but little about the differences that dis
tract the country at this time, in the election in Oc
tober next. Time, too, may soon tell the real in
tention of Gov. Walker ia giving his uncalled-for
advice to the free State party in Kansas, and these
differences may be removed, and the country be at
peace, before the disatisfied Democrats and the
American party have time to quarrel as much as
they wish on this subject.
I only request that the Democratic party in War
ren county remain united ; but whether they do or
not, I ask that seven hundred of us vote for Joseph
E. Brown for Governor, and aid in his election, and
see what be will do. We will vote for the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth Dis
trict, of course,
Tours, Ac., gentlemen, W. J. Wilchjw.
Cotoosa Springs, August 1, 1857.
The following lines were written by the lato
Governor Retd, of Florida, on a voyage from tbi*
city to St. Augustine, Florida, in the steamer Cale
donia. They have been furnished us for publica
tion by a lady, and may be interesting to those
who know the Savannah river, and knew the writer
when a citizen of Augusta,
O speed the well, my bonny boat
And hasten to the sea.
Ify care® and I araall afloat.
And would not tarried be;
On. by Fort Moor's high chalky bluff.
Beyond the Point—Farewell,
To where the waters foam so rough,
And boil In Itttle Hell.
Away with noise and sxooke;
By willow-swamps and brake,
To where our wheels with steady strike,
Glide o’er Heshman's bike !
Away ! Poor Robin-Tiger's Leap ,
And Hager Singer's shore—
Away— away—away we sweep,
And ne’er shall see them more!
• Farewell, ye tangled wood® of gloom,
Upon Savannah side:
The wild birds haunt—the serpent® home,
, Where the Cayman woes hi® bride !
The wanderer with uo lightsome heart.
And thought® he may oot tell;
From the winding river must not part,
Without a kind farewell.
To-morrow, wc shall onward speed—
Scene changing after scene ;
We follow where our fortune* lead.
To Cuu’d St. Augustine,
Where the stars of heaven burn brighter,
And the Orange grove are green ;
Where the heavy heart beats lighter
For famed St. Augustine!
And welcome the beacon tower
Upon it® sea-girt mound—
The waves that dash the skies that lower
O’er Calyloga's souwi—
Thrice welcome the sweet young moon.
That light® this little bay.
And music's voice that soft, and >oon
Can ch;ve regrets a_way.
Latest Indian News.—The mail from Fort
Myers, arrived at this place about 12 M., yester
day, bringing the gratifying intelligence of tha
capture of six squaws and nine children, near the
mouth of the Kissimmee river, by Captain Mick
er’s Company.
The express Lad but just reached Fort Myers
when the mail boat left, and consequently wc
: cannot publish the details of this affair until"nex*
, week.
Capt. Mickler was to have reached Fort Dey
naud on the night of the 21st inst., at which placo
a train was in readiness to convey the captives to
Fort Myers.
This news is truly refreshing. After so long a
season of comparative rest, on the part of the In
dians, to be stirred up in this manner, will give
them a surprise whicn now may greatly facilitate
the termination of the war. Capture all the squaws
and children and the warriors will soon lay down
their arms and sue for quarters.
Florida Peninsular , Tampa , July 25.
Serious and perhaps Fatal Accident.—As the
Hon. R. P. Tnppe was on his way to fill an ap
pointment at Talbotton, on Monday last, in com
pany with his nephew, Mr. Lockhart, the horse
which Mr. L. was ‘driving, ran away, about five
miles from Thomastoa, and threw him out of the
buggy on a pile of rocks, very seriously injuring
him. ’ These facts, says the Columbus Enquirer of
yesterday, were communicated to the people in
waiting at Talbotton, through a letter from r. W.
Alexander, Esq., of Upson, as an excuse for the
absence of Mr. Trippe. The meeting was address
ed by other gentlemen.— Macon Citizen , 31 st uU.
At a recent industrial exhibition of one of the
London societies, among other novelties, was some
curried leather from the skin of a white porpoise.
, A report says that ”it seems to possess the essen
tial requisite of toughness and softness, and has
been considered superior to the skins of land ani
' mals. The price is the same as that of the best
calf-skin, but a sample pair of boots shown is Stat
ed to have worn out seven soles,”