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der, of secret political conclaves plotting j in the darkness of midnight for the ad- 1 ▼ancoment of purposes not disclosed to the public they sought to govern, end whose rights they aimed to control and dispose of in this clandestine mode. lie held that such conduct was unworthy of men and freemen who held principles worthy of success. Truth never skulked from the light, of day and hid itself in dark corners, afraid of dis cussion and investigation It was the char acteristic of error and of falsehood thus to hide, and there to work out their bad pur poses. Truth was the foundation stone of civil order—t.hc very life and essence of all social integrity. Yet Know Nothingism bow ed to a spell and an influence more potent than truth, and reconciled the consciences of men to resort to equivocation and slippe ry construction to deceive the pu6lic. But there was a monitor from on high, in the breast of every honest man, that must at times whisper to him that this was wrong. Know-Nothingism bound its votaries un der the third degree of its ritual by a sol emn oath to maintain the Un ; on, at all haz ards, against all efforts of factionists and of secessiouists. But it nowhere bound them to maintain the Constitution ; yet that Con stitution was the very life and soul of the Union. It could only have been made by it, nnd through it, and the principles it consecrates. Without it the Constitution would be valueless or worse than value less. There wns the abolitionism of the order in disguise. lie called on Southern men to no tice it. lie, Mr. Stephens, stood upon the Georgia platform. Should Kansas, be re jected on account of slavery, he was for re sistance. Send him to Congress and he would resist it there; if unsuccessful, he would return to the people and tell them to resist it. It had been said that the foreigners who came to this country joined the abolitionists in their crusades upon our rights. It was not so. The foreigners who came 1e - e came here with a reverence for the Constitution. Where did these foreigners mostly settle ? In the North West And from the North West came the best friends of the South from Indiana, Illinois, and lowa, the last the on ly State which had never bowed to aboli tionism, nnd now, for the first time, to be represented by a free soikr when Know Nothingism had sprung in existence. Every Know-Kothing took an oath, that he would support no Roman Catholic for of fice this was striking at one of the funda mental principles of the Constitution, which declares there shall be no religious test, as ; qualification for office. He, therefore, who took that oath, took an oath inconsistent with the support of the Constitution It wa3 an oath in violation of the letter, nnd spirit of that sacred entertainment. Upon the exclusion from office, nnd dis franchisement of foreign born citizens, the orator was no less emphatic and forcible in his denunciation of this feature of Know- Nothingism. Upon the social evils, the in justice and disastrous consequences, threat ening strifes and bloodshed and civil war, of making men aliens at heart to a government which thus made war upon their religion, and set them apart on account of their na tivity as a degraded class, the speaker was eloquent and convincing, nnd the repeated plaudits, which greeted him from the begin ning to the close of his address rising up from the whole mass, and from every side of this dense assemblage, wrapt in eager, and earnest attention, proved Low thoroughly he had enlisted the feelings and convinced the judgment of his auditors. We could scarce ly realize in such demonstrations that there i were, in all probability, hundreds of Know- Nothings among them. It can scarcely be doubted that many who went there Know-Nothings tame away with the scales torn from their eyes, convinced of the miserable delusions which bad beguiled their reason and, patriotically resolved nev. er more to enter their midnight councils and never more to bow down to the molten calf, which demagogues and bigots had erected for j their worship. In this hurried sketch we hare not at tempted even an outline of the whole course j of argument of Mr. Stephens, or to'givc all • the strong points on which he expatiated j Did time and space permit, it would be im possible to transpose to paper all the strong, common sense, nnd patriotic views lie presen j ted, or the felicitous illustrations by which ! he enforced them. Still less would it be ! practicable to give to the reader an impre's sion of the earnest tone, the impassioned i manner,and the patrotic fervor with which i Mr. Stephens appealed to his fellow citizens 1 to beware of the mad folly of continuing in , this Know-Nothing organization. He stood like a Prophet, warning them of the evils to their country, their whole country, but es pecially to the South, that must result from the predominance of Know Nothingism. He paid a just and eloquent tribute to those true men of the North who had so long and so patriotically stood by the South in her I with Abolitionism. lie pointed I out who it was that had voted in Congress j with the Southern delegation, to spare the j South from the Wilmot Proviso; that badge of inferiority and degradation, with which she was threatened—that had relieved her from the Missouri compromise restriction, nnd opened Kansas to the influx of of her citizens and aided her in the enactment of | the Fugitive 81avc Law. He referred by name to the noble exertions of Douglass nnd i jtlohnrdson, of Illinois, to protect the Con-j stitutioß mtd tho rights of the South under it, and who had sat up with him two days j nnd two nights without rest to secure the passage of the Kansas Dill, Hu state! that theaa nr t? tU vtca at the Noth (lint Northern Know Nothings were endeavoring to heat down—that &f all the Norther* me* elected | ♦o Congress since the passage of that Dill., there was not one Know Nothing wire had; voted for the measure--not one who was not hostile to it—that of the forty-one Northern men who had voted for it, twenty had been defeated on account of tlrnt vote, and that the twentyone that were left were the friends of the South—that it was our duty to stand by to encourage and to cheer thorn. The danger to our rights was not at the North, if we would be firm to our friends thore, nnd true to ourselves. We had friends in every Northern State—patriotic and true tneu. who would stand by ourselves; nud be true to our own principles. There were true men even in Massachusetts were oue hundred guns fired on Ih>ston Common when the Governor recently vetoed Hie bill to re | move Judge Lori ng from office for issuing n | warrant to restore a fugitive slave to his 1 owner. But there was not a Know-Nothing gun among them They were fire! by the true men of that State, who still felt the spirit ot 70 that Hazed on Bunker hill.— There were true men—national men in New Hampshire, in Connecticut, in N. York in lowa, many in Illinois, nnd that our pol icy was not to join the Kuow Nothings, who i were fighting these men, but to stand by our ! friends there, and soon they would rally a | gain, and gain strength From twenty-one, I they would swell up to thirty, to forty, to ; fifty, to one hundred in Congress. They j would stand by us and our rights, nud with jus save*the Constitution and save the coun try. Mr. Stephens concluded by saying that a reviewer of his letter Jiad said his late letter would prove his political winding-sheet. If tho people of the Btli Congressional District so willed it, he was ready to go down to his political grave. On doing so, there wns on ly one winding sheet to be wrapped around him. That was the consiiu'ion of his coun try. Next to that he (lis'red no better win ding sheet to be wrapped around him than the principles of that letter, and he wished Ids epitaph to be, *. Here lies one who never deceived a friend or betrayed even an ene my.'” Mr Stephens beautifully compared the entrance of this order from the North into the South, to the entrance of Sitan in the form of the ?u’ tie serp •n't into tl e garden of Eden, with a lie in his mout , ‘ailing to Eve to eat of the fruit, for in that day si e should not surely die. He concluded amid great cheering. Sucli is an imperfect sketch of this elo quent speech, in which wi h ive been com pelled to prune away many of its beauties, and in an abridged report to impair the strength of its arguments We were forci bly reminded, while Mr. Stephens was speak ing, of an event in the life of the great Ho man o ator, te which there is a 1 eaut ful a’- lus ou in a recent literary address by the Hon F, W. Pickens, of South Carolina. It was at the time when An h ny was attempt ing a great change In tho form of the Ro mau Government, wh’cli escaped the obser ration of the people, that Cicero came forth from his retirement to warn them of their danger. Unaided and alone he pointed it out but they heeded not iiis warning voice, and the destruction ot the Homan Republic was the consequence. Let the reader make the application to our own times and circum stances. Mr Toombs was then called for and res ponded in a most eloquent mol impressive speech and in his happiest manner. He ful ly coincided in Mr. Stephens’ sentiments and uttered a splendid eulogiuui upon the prin ciples of American liberty, civil nnd relig ous —upon the noble feature of religious tol erance which characterize our institutions and the wise policy of inviting to our shores foreign emigration. We regret our space will not enable us this morning to give a sketch of his very in teresting speech. Mr. Thomas, ts Elbert, responded to loud calls for him in a few appropriate remarks, which were well received, after which the meeting dispersed in high spirits, and in good order. Some called out for Sam to get up, but Sam felt so completely demolished he cou!dt uot rise, and h:\d not a word to say. He had probably li* ard of the Virginia elections Const E) Rep. Minutes of Points. J'tcidcel by the Supreme Court of Geor g:a—at Milledgcville-May Term , 1855. Walker rt al, vs. The killin'rs of Woo len—from Wi Ikes. 1. Because a Defendant in an Equity case answered a bill, is no reason why his repre sentatives after his death may not set up de fences by way of plea, not insisted on in the answer of the original Defendant. 2. The administrator bolds adversely to a distributee from the time of a settlement and notice by the administrator, that lie holds no more in his hands for the distribu tee The fact that the administrator subse quently makes a return as administrator— ■setting forth his action as such prior to the time of settlement, does not make his such a continuing trust, as will take it out of the operation of the Statute of Limitations. G J Green for IM'ff—Toombs lor Del’t. Sutton vs. Cltenuull —fron Lincoln. 1 The act of 2lst January, 1852 in rela tion to the probate of wills of personality ap plies to wills executed prior to the passage of the act, where the testator d.d not depart this life until a period subseqmmt to June, 1852. Barnett for Pl'ff—Toombs. Reese, and Thomas for Deft. Reynolds ei at, vs, Inferior Court —from Eibert. 1. Under the act of 1821, authorizing the Inferior Court to levy an extraordinary tax for comity purposes—the Justices have no power to levy the tax, until recommended by two thirds of the Grand Jury. 2, The act of 1834. authorizing a special tax iu Elbert County, for the purpose of building a Jail, did not authorize the levy of a tax in 1840, the presumption of law be ing tliJft the act had effected its purpose. 5L An execution issued by the Justices against the tax Collector and his sureties lo recover the- amount of a tax so illegally as sessed. is void, ami tho’ the tax collector lias received the money, the Justices of the Inferior Court cannot recovcs it of him or his sureties Van Duzer ati l Toombs for PYflf--Thomas and Cobb for Dos t. Hawks vs Patton— -from Oglethorpe. 1- In an action fur slander, after a wit ness has stated the words used liy the Deft, | it is admissible for h’mv to state whnt his unrjerjitamjing of the intention of the Defen j ‘Lint, in the iuu of the words. 2 Under the nut of 1850, prescribing a form for qptisjiui for word* sppJifß, j t | g ft( j. inissiblo to. amend by adding a colloquium ami in uendoes, so ns to givo effect to words i which do not of themselves im. or* a slander- i ous intention, T. It It Ct-bb for Pl’ff—Tliomne W. Thom. 1 as for Deft. Tho Know Nothing State Counoil of Maine have nominated Samuel G. Gage of Augustn, ns th.oixr Candidate for Governor. Tim, Grand Jury o,f New Gridins. linvo re turned 1 n< time bill Bgpv'mst Mr. Kendall, charged with, having onpheuzled valuable letters, while poaniuatßjt; to, that oily. mwtaL'wm™*’ lED,TORl ED,TORS ’ CASSYIJ,T,E, GEO. THURSDAY MORNING: JUNE 7, 1855. We are authorized to announce the name of Col. Joseph E. Brown-, as a candidate for the office of Judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, at the election on tbe first Monday in October nett. may 17— tde* For the Campaign! We propose to furnish the Standard for the | Campaign, beginning say the 12th of June and ending on the 12th of November, (five months) at the following rates: One Copy - - - - - SOO 80 Two Copies 1 50 Five “ ..... 3 25 Ten “ 6 00 Fifteen “ ..... 8 00 Twenty “ 10 00 The money must, in every case, accompany the order. The approaching campaign promises to be one of unusual interest all cl importance, and we trust our Democratic friends in the different counties i of the Fifth Congressional District, will exert themselves to extend our circulation, A little effort will secure ten, fifteen or twenty names, To such as are unable to commence at the time above mentioned, we will continue the ‘ paper beyond the 12th of November, so as to give them the full complement of five months. Sec advertisement of ‘‘Scott’s Little Gi ant,” in another column. Our Nouvellette. We shall commence in our next issue, Lgve> or the Adventures of an American, Student, it being the second of the Three Golden Linds, by our talented contributor, Miss C. \V. Barber, It is A capital story and we advise new subscri bers to send in their orders in time to get the commencement of it. Crowded Out The proceedings of tho Democratic meeting ; in Catoosa, are unavoidably crowded out, ns are j also the communications of “Brutus,” and “Pu- j laski.” The two latter shall have a showing ; next week. The insertion of Mr. Stevens’ re*! marks at Augusta, and Got. McDonald's letter, j with communications and proceedings of Dem ocratic meetings, has left us but little room for ; ani'thing of our own. Several editorials intend ed for this issue arc, therefore, laid over until next week. School Notice. Please see the advertisement, in our adver tising columns, of Mr. A. S. Worrell, who pro poses to open a school in this place, iu the house now occupied by Rev. Mr. West. Mr. Worrell is a young man of talent, but lately graduated at Mercer University, is a Georgian and comes highly recommended, both ns a scholar and as a gentleman of moral worth. We hope ho may be properly encouraged. The Weather. Wc have had, within the week, a touch of rather unseasonable weather. It became sud-j dcnly cold on Saturday night and im Sunday ! and Monday winter eoatsand fire* were decided ly comfortable. Fortunately there was no frost, and the only effect will be to give cotton and corn a set lad- of a few days. Many of our planters have already commenced cutting wheat and the yield promises to be a very large one. We have heard of one field of a hundred acres on the Alatoona, which, it is confidently expect- ‘ ed, will yield thirty bushels to the acre. The Literature and Manners of the j Ancient Scandinavians. We invite especial attention to the series of I articles, bearing this title, commenced in this j week’s issue. They arc from the pen of a dis- 1 tinguished literary gentleman, and have been prepared with the greatest care, and will be found full of valuable information iu reference to a people of whom comparatively nothing is known. Leave the Sinking’ Ship. Wo have long desired to appeal to the good men of all the old parties, Democrats, Whigs and Temperance men, who have been deceived and humbugged into tbe Know Nothing ranks, to quit tli s secret and midnight order, and in doing so we do not intend to wound the feelings of any man. 1 on were told it was a pure party, opposed 16 demagogues and office seekers. In this you have been deceived. You find that the very leaders, are old office seekers and dema gogues, who have joined it from the worst of motives. Via beg all who have become con vinced of the fraud practiced to catch honest uml unsuspecting men into this Know Nothing order, to withdraw at once. Delay not, lest you get deeper nnd deeper into the practices of de ception. To the voters of Georgia wc say you nrc free; let no threats of perjury deter or fright en you into the support of men rank with bri bery and corruption. Such men wc know you detestand loath. You can withdraw honorably, but if you do not., you will bo forced either to support, the candidate of the order, no matter lK.w objectionable ho may be, or commit the Awful crime of perjury. You who ore determin ed to leave this party which is afraid to meet in drtylight, be Ann in your own mind, nnd do not permit office seekers to over persuade you, to your ruin and everlasting shame. Let every man who claims to bo free, vote as he pleases, net as he pleases and not be foroed by the obli gations of an ontli, taken under a false impres sion, to vote for men lie dotests, men without principle and without honor. To all of you who have a laudable desire to gain tho confi dence of your fellow-mon, wc say nguin, come out from among men who congregate in secret places and deserted houses at the dyad hours of the night, afraid to be seen by their fellow ; men, Why do they meet at such times nnd Iplaoos ? Their deeds are evil, hence “ they love darkness rather linn light.” Tho man that thirsts for office must wash his garments clean ( of this Know Nothing taint, before he ban bo j elevated to stations of honor or profit, The I Know Nothing party will bo abandoned and do- I sorted ere somo of its humbugged admirers dream of it,. The Millodgeville Union learns that be tween twenty and thirty mouibors of a Know Nothing lodge ia Macon county have reoent ly withdrawn, from the order. The Columbus Amalgamation Move ment; The whole State has bebft a a ton i <hed an and her wildered at the proceedings of a meeting held in Columbus on the night pf the 26lflnilj. The meeting was composed of ’DisuniouiSfs, Whigs and Know Nothings, or rather of every faction that is opposed to the Democratic party. Their Resolutions, save the one in favor of a sectional organization are unobjectionable. The very ma terial of which the meeting wns composed, proves to us thaf its object was to break up and d’solve the DemOcrilrc party, but in this they will be badly mistaken. Our organization, form ed for tbe purpose of carrying out great funda mental principles sot- the good of the whole country, will pursue its even course undis turbed by the ravings of the Disunionist, tbe moans of Whjggcry or the sferet working ot midnight conclaves. This meeting proves that Know Nothingism, unable to stand the shock of tho Virginia election, Mr. Stevens’ letter nnd the combined Democracy, „is about to give up the ghost. , . Virginia Election. Three cheers for the old dominion. Wise, tbe Democratic candidate for Governor is elected over Flournoy, the Know Nothing candidate by over 10,000 majority. Know Nothingism has been met, and after one of the most heated can vasses, disgracefully defeated. The battle of Know Nothingism has been fought in old Vir. ginia, the mother of Presidents, and well has she sustained her time-honored reputation, for firmness and consistency. Know Nothingism cannot flourish upon Southern soil. The ques tion has been met upon the borders of the free States, and the torrent that had swept the whole North, the home of fanaticism and all the sac-. turns and isms of the day, has been stayed by the honesty, firmness and patriotism of the Democracy of Virginia. The whole South should feel deeply grateful to Virginia for the I overthrow of this dangerous secret political or ganization, whose councils are held in secret and darkness. The Virginia election will be the death-knell of this midnight association.— They have raised their last shout. They have gained their last victory. Letter from Texas, Wc make the following extracts from a letter lately received from an old friend and class mate, now liv'ng in Austin, Texas. Many friends in Middle Georgia will recognise the initials and be pleased to hear from him. lie stands Know Nothing question, just where we expected to find him, rectus in curia. His remarks relative to the country will be found interesting to most of onr readers : Austin, Texas, May 8, 1855. * hear Tom :—l have at lust discovered your whereabouts, after keeping strict vigil for two or tlirec years—in fact since I left the “Red H.lls” of Georgia—to ascertain in what seques tered spot upon the surface of old mother earth | fortune had located yon. I was examining a j paper the other day entitled the “ Cassvilk \ Standard , n published iu Cassrillb Gn., when ! the thought occurred to me that T would notice j who was proprietor, thinking that possibly some ! of the boys of “Watkinsville memory” had as cended the Editorial Tripod, and to mv great gratification observed your name upon the first page, immediately preceding the word “pro i prietor.” * ****** I can but believe that the Constitution and Byc-laws of the Know Nothing Association are based on principles, in tot,,, repugnant to the spirit of a republican form of government, and destined, sooner or later, to work discord and confusion throughout the length and breadth of our great and growing Union, until the vital spark liberty, which is so essential to all republi can governments, and causes us at home to be happy, and abroad respected, shall itself be ex tinguished. “ Honor nnd fame from no corditiun rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies.” In addition to giving my views respecting the unflinching integrity exhibitied by you, in con tending C>r wi Kit you believe to be right, re j gardlcW of the result, I have thought it might | not be uninteresting to many of yotrr numerous , readers to know how we wlvo lire in the far West—ah tbe “ lame Star” State, are passing time. In point of salubrity of climate and productiveness of soil, we defy the world; the adaptation of our State lo the production of all kinds of grain, and the raising of cotton and sugar cane, cannot be equalled by any other [ State of the Union. Our increase of popula tion is unprecedented; only a few years ago we could speak of it as so many thousands, now we can with propriety speak of ouy hundreds of thousands. Three years ago our taxable prop erty only amounted in the aggregate to fifty j millions of dollars, since which time it has aug mented to the round sum of one hundred anil thirty millions, yet our uninhabited public do main is very extensive. Wc invite the emigrant j from every clime beneath God's broad canopy I to comb and locate amongst us, ns we have an I abundance of rich unappropriated soil—enough ! for all who mav desire homes in the far West. The only objection that can be successfully urged against Texas as a farming country is, that we have no means of transporting our pro duce to market as speedily as is desirable for j the interest of those pursuing that vocation. We want Railroads, and we will h ive them ; our broad level plains are so suited for railway purposes, that it is only necessary in some dis torts to lay the iron down, harness up the iron horse and bid him “move on.” Our Legislature at its last session, donated twenty sections of land of 610 acres each, for each mile of road, to any company undertaking the contract, requiring of them a deposit of three hundred thousand dollars into the State Treasury, ns security for the performance of the contract. This liberality on the part of Texas, however, has not, as was confidently expected, caused capitalists from abroad to come forward nnd assist us in the desired undertaking. If we possessed more of the spirit of tho citizens of Georgia, ours certainly would be, in u viry short time, tlie otUpiro State of the Union, in tho full moaning of the term. \\\ J, Jf. The Know Nothing’ Convention at Philadelphia. The great national Know Nothing Convention melon Tuesday, tho 29th ult., in Philadelphia. What will they do ? How eon a Georgian meet in party association with such men as Gardener and Wilson of Massachusetts ? No News from the Milledgevillo Convention up to tho time We go to press. Tho delegates to Calhoun from Polk comity are Dr. Mosses F. Tiddolt and Leonard 11. Wal thall. From Cotoosn, A. A. Barry nnd S. N. Burner. Tho Ptic'fic is in, but brought no news of in • portunee. Cotton had advanced slightly. Tho Home Courtier recommends Cul. R, Fouchc for Congross from this District. Tho State Department at Washington has received information that tho Viceroy of E gypt has adopted tho project to out through the Isthmus of Suez, and to constitute n uni versal oompnny for tho performance of the work, in which capitalists of all nations rnny tako part. The proposed canal will shorten tho oommorical highway from New York to the Indian Ocean 2,131’ lvgucs. WBITTEX FpR THE CASSVILLE STANDARD. The Xitetiiluyg and Manners of the Ancient Scandinavians—No. L ! “ Whence are the streamsof yeiihs? Wlfftlfer db they roll alongV Where have t!ior hid, ili 1 mist their many colored sides t “ I look into the’ times ‘of old, hut they seefri dim to Ossian’s eyes, like reflected moonb'-nim upon a distant hike. There rise the red bontriS of war. There si'ent dwells a feeble r:\Ci/* Thus sung Ossian, and how true Ids import, j We gaze hack into the obscurity of by-gone [ ages, and our minds are bewildered by its dark- f ness. In vain does* the student with longing, soul, q>ore o’er his hooks, in the endeavor to solve the problem of antiquity. All is chaos; all is mist—nil is darkness. Here and there he i , perceivos.silent monuments of ancient grandeur, or lie discovers a nation : living descendants of: those of whom he would know ; but they are as • ignorant of the deeds of their forefathers ns lie i is himself. They depend solely upon tradition, and to tradition the student reluctantly turns. The ldstorv of Ancient Scandinavia, is en-1 velopcd in mist and obscurity, All we certain- j lv know, is that about the year 900 there existed ; in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland, a nation of singular braverv, who extended their j depredatory excursions throughout Europe.— ; Both by sea and land they wereknown ands *ar- | ed. England, France, Germany and Russia j were in turn devastated by this people. Upon . the sea, they roamed, piracy their profession, j and rapine and slaughter tlieir delight. History has never recorded the annals of a nation which : has produced more revolutionary changes in | Europe than the Scandinavians. A celebrated tradition, verified by the poems of all the northern nations, by their chronicles, and bv their institutions, informs us that an ex traordinary individual, named Odin or Wodin, formerly reigned over the Scandinavian States ■ Denmark, Sweden nnd Norway. The prec : se i date of Ids arrival is not Certainly known. In about the year SO before Christ, when the Ro man empire had attained thesummitof its glory, an unexpected event raised enem'cs against it from Scytli'a. M'thralates YIT, King of Ron- j tus, and commander of the Scythians, gave bat tle to Pompcy, near the river Euphrates. The battle occurred in the night, and the troops of Mithridntes, laboring under every disadvan tage, were finally forced to yield to tlie genius of the great Roman warrior. Odin is said to t have been a Phoenician, one of the Captains of | the King of Poiitus. He was compelled to fly before the vengeance of the Romans to coun- ! tries unknown to his enemies, that lie might j ! find that safely, which li's native land could no ; longer afford. Odin was accompanied in his flight, by a body of his followers. .As he pro- ; ; ceeded to the, north ami west of Europe, he en listed under his banners the youth of tlie coun tries through which he passed, until Ills force swelled in numlx’rs sufficiently to make an im mense army. Those nations who dared to ob struct his passage, he conquered, and gave to his sons ns kingdoms, and it is said that many sovereign families now reigning in Europe, claim to he descendants from these princes. He en tered an island in Funefi, a hav of the Cattagat, near Denmark, and there founded a city, and named it Odensee. This city still preserves its name, and the memory of its founder. Hence, Odin extended Irs conquests throughout Nor way, Sweden and Denmark, until sated with victory and glory lie retired into Sweden, where lie assumed the dictatorsh'p, not only of the temporal, hut also the spiritual affairs of liis people. At length, finding himself at the point ( of death, and wishing to die more gloriously j than from disease or infirmity, he put an end to | j his own existence, in or near the year 50 before I i Christ. Odin’s sway over the Scandinavians i commenced inqy; about the year before Christ, and his imperial control over his people contin ued, until h : s death. Loved and feared during life, after death lie was deified. He was un doubtedly the founder of the religion of his na tion. In ancient Icelandic mythology, lie is termed “ The terrible and severe God ; the fa ther of battle ; he who nameth those who are to i be slain ; the father and creator of men, and ! husband of the earth. One day in the week was i set apart for his particular worship, and that day was called Oilinsday, or Wodinsday. The ! memory of this day is still perpetuated in its name, TTie principal Goddess among the an-1 cient Hcatidi uaviar.s was Frigga, who was stvled the mother of earth, and of the Gods. Iler par-1 ticular day of worship was called Frgga’s day, from whence is derived tlie word Friday. The ( next principal God to Odin was Thor. The ’ earth was Irs mother, and lie is named in the Ed da, as the most valiant son of Oclim IDs weapon was a mallet which as often as he cast it, returned to his grasp of its own accord. The day set apart for his worship was called Thor’s day. Tvr wis tlie god of warriors; Bragi pre sided over eloquence and poetry, nnd Loki was an evil spirit who was considered the great ; originator of falsehood and deceit. According to the prose Edda, Icelandic mythology enuntcr- j ates twelve gods and as many goddesses to whom ! worship was due. This mythology expressly ■ distinguishes two different abodes for the brave 1 | and pood, and as many for the wicked after ■ death. The courageous and those who died in I battle were received in the palace of Odin, and j allowed to commune with that grant hero, while ! all cowards Were punished with the wicked. To j attain the joys of Odin’s mansion, theScandi j navians were willing, nay, eager to encounter j death in its most fearful shapes, They died I ; laughing and singing. j- It is not necessary that we should look back I I further than the. supposed date of Odin's nrri ! val at the North. That tho Scandinavian eoun* tries were inhabited before that period there is no doubt. In history the inhabitants of *', c Northern countries, prior *r, Odin ore called Ciinbri; but fro*". all uocounts they Wore an ig norant and barbnr.„is people. They disappear *ed fr jin the earth, and left no sign. We have ] attempted to give an outline of the history of the origin ,of those strange unions, which at | ono period of tho world, suddenly towered above all other nations in Europe. And now wc will endeavor to prove that even to ns in the’ New World their history is of the til most in terest. We learn from old Icelandic sages that colonies of Scandinavians existed upon the shores of Greenland, from thcoloscof the tenth | to the beginning of the twelfth century, ltosi*i ding in a country so nearly situated to the | Western Hemisphere, it would be no stretch of the imagination to suppose that they must have visited this country prior to the advent of Co lumbus, And this supposition is nearly verified by the Icelandic chronicles relating to America. In order to remove any doubt upon this subject, j Prof. Roth of Copenhagen undertook the tod ions task of publishing the original narratives ot the voyagers ns related by the Icelandic chronicles which describe tho discovery of Vinland, and in our opinion, he has succeeded in substantiating the claims of the Scandinavians as the first dis coverers of America. This will appear more fully in tho Icelandic traditions relating to America, which we will refer to in the course of our articles. Lately there has been discovered at Martha’s Vinyard, ancient relics, whoso ori gin can be traced to tho Soaudumvvjuns, Near Newport, U. I. is an old building, familiarly i called “tlio old mite.” The earliest settlers, or tho “oldest inhabitant,”arc not acquainted with its origin. Neither aro there any traditions cither original, or otherwise, connected with it. The presumption is strong, therefore, that it was erected by the Scandinavianii: In ilie , &?fthern part of the State of New Yor KSdrt, ir | Jfetlflfec t County, theie is said to exist the i-u- | s§4f an ancient city. This citris said to be i of Considerable size, and is lohijed in the midst Os a 1 arcc forest, forming a hortion of an almost 1 entirely Unexplored region; known as * Brown’s j Traci.” Huge trees hafe forcecf their Wnyi tfi>ongh the pavements and the dilapidated Walls, prove that this silent city must have been erected long befofc tltc arrir.il of the Spaniards. ; These are but feT instances; tlie soHji y Sotith I and \Ycst of ouf coitnfrF contain Want similar vestiges of nations, which mttst liafc existed et'en before tlie arrival of the Indians, The i brain feels at tlie conlettipiatiotf of the events which caused such a total change in the goverr. - j ment, manners and CUsfofns of a nation. From i the ruins which Stiff exist in this Country, we fare obliged to infer that it Was o tide inhabited i by a people who were aa enligfitciieu as Were I ! the Romans in the height of their glory, Years ! , passed by. The cities arc deserted, theif in- j j habitants have disappeared, no otic fcnotvs i j whither, and in tlieir stead arises a people, sat ; age by nature and habit, gaining their scanty ! subsistence from forests which flourished in 1 places, once teeming with population, civilizn j tion and refinement. When a youth, it is said, Columbus was ap- ; j ] went iced to a sea-captain who traded between , Genoa and Iceland, and as a modern writer . ! *ys, is it not plausible to suppose that during I Ins visits at Iceland, Columbus heard, perhaps from the descendants of the very persons who discovered Vinland, of a Western continent • and that when he had attained the years of man hood, he profitted by that which lie had heard when a boy ? Most plausible, and we believe most true. Anil it is not alone on thesegTounds tliut our interest in the Rcandinaviifns must he awak ened. As descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, we must respect them ns our forefathers. From them we derive our language, and also that in. j doinitable spirit ot energy and perseverance which is the characteristic trait of both the Eng lish and the Americans. The Welch and Scpjch ; also claim tho Scandinavians as their ancestors, j j The Irish are undoubtedly of Fhoeniccan de | scent Tli is is proven more fully than even that j ;of tlie English or Scotch. Aside from the com- I moil use of the Fhocniceiui or Scythian language by the native Irish, to this very day, there are many other proofs of their descent iroin the ! Scandinavians, who, as before observed, first 1 came from Scythia. Tlie learned Colonel Ya | leney, himself an Irishman, has rendered his j researches into the antiquities of Ireland, most j useful to the public, lie has given an accurate i collation of the Punic with the Trish, ns now ; spoken, and proves that tliev differ little more than the.different dialects of the French, and j infinitely less, after a lapse of three thousand I years, than the modern English differs from that in use four centuries ago. FOR THE CASSVILLE STANDARD. The Q,nod Correspondence. Mr. Editor: —l enclose you a letter from my old friend, Patrick O’Shea, an enthusiastic Em alder, who is anxious to “ say his say” about matters and things. Patrick is as you will dis cover, dead fbrrienst the Know Nothings. Him self aiid two others, one a Dutchman and the other a Frenchman, have formed a kind of jun to, holding weekly meetings, at which they smoke tlieir pipes and discuss questions of State I have been permitted to attend tlieir meetings and have been much amused at tlieir quaint savings and comical doings. Ts the present j letter meets your approbation, T propose to send : others from the other members of this junto, at i future times, which you cau insert undtar the i caption of the Quod Correspondence . Dtblinto.v, Jinve T r 1855. Mistier Idiiur !■—Aftlu-r all the Mbrnoy that has come out in the peapers, divil u b f flUintion, will the sintimints of a poor Irishman, dhrnw ; from the public ill ginerel, or the paple in par- ! tieelar, uv coarse I can’t expict it, nnr do I sake j the att ill tion, but mv In v for Americky, lord , luv her—the ooiinthrv that has given a shclthcr ! to mesi’f and Biddy, and the land that has given j pratoes to mo frlze and gerris, commands ivory j mothers soil av ns, to kape her craiTintials—the Constitution—as clanc and unharmed, as the! chine pnrty Murphies barrin their jackets, before i the chilther have dug their durrty nails into I ’em—vis Misther lditur, sich is the deuty of! ivory pathriot, and the time has come to thry | the sowls of min, fur a pacvtliv have come to life—tlie divil take thlm—that darent only scratch avid tlieir durrty nails, the purrtv face of the Constitution, but profane—(the durrty spa!- j panes) the name of George Washington—lord i rest his sowl—and all the noble gintilmeii that j put their fist right under the Declaration of In- I dependence, and how’dly shook tlieir shelaleghs \ in the teeth of king George—the divil catch him > —vis they profane the names of the gintilinen that’s did and ghon, by savin and forgin Ethers , and sintiments, that they niver used at all—at ! all, and be that names desave the poor divils | that “ Knows Nothin.” Och ! why d'cTnt the | i gintilmeii die before they were borrn. Oh that I they could rise up, and give the’ desaven spal ! panes the lie—but they’r did, och liotie, —“and | no sound can awake tliim to glory agin.” Och, j lditur d.irlin, but wonld’nt it be glorious to | g ve tliim the lies, and save the sowl of many a j poor divil, who is desaved by the thrnturrs and | who’ll howl in purghathory:—l am a poor Irish | man, Misther lditur, so I am, and a hen ml j work in man too, but I would’nt have the sin av j the Know Nothin's on my sowl, not cveu to bo 1 j Misther Pudge hcmsilf, who they do say, is a [ j grand gint lman. I hare heard rrac' -v ; s and 1 [ Whi^:-say so, and th v sny, ihat tlielethers ; | that Col. I ufigC writes, are nqual to Misthur t Junius, enth’rely, who wrote nnrißen I can’t * sec Misther lditur, why the Col.—l mane Fudge | — eiid'nt take time, when ho wrote his compli mints to Misther Stavons, in fuix he might have taken time, while he was about it, and made a Junus letter av it, instead av foiu in the hurry, Misther Cowtnrn and Dwindle say he was, and t by that manes iHsappint the paple enthirely. j ! They do say that Col, Untbenvood made a glo- ; rious apache agin the Know Noihin’s, must have j been a jewel of a apache, for the Know Nothin's.! howl tirrible thunder agin him, that shows how pliiscd they arc wid it—flux and bejabers, Mis i ther lditur, 1 was guilthy of a great inthriscre. ’ tion the other tnohrning, 1 was a rnnnln to the ! lether ohffice, expeetin a scratch of flic pin, | from Nancy Doolan, Biddy’s ohwn sisthor. : whin I siuo n chrowd atncohrnernvthcsthrate, j and a gintilnmn in the cinter a radon nv the j newspoapor—divil a wink av the eye* did some j av the gintilmen give to l v .it, as they crawled hv moon that blissed inohrnin. OcUf Cushla, , what’s the mother now sea I, died a rason could I giro, at all, at nil, for the thransligiration nv , theg n’ilm* >, who nnie a time n*ct me, wid out j savin, “and ftrtr yoes it Pat , and u'hat do yet j think ar the Kaon’ M‘thins Paddy, and ain't ; they pUiyin */te divil wid jt* Paddy jvtvel, ” and the like o’ that—barrio a worrd of blarrncy, or J a mite nv a look met Pat, this bright motniu, from the diver ymtilwan—” sivinly-thray conn-1 thries hard from, and Wise a runnin nfornant the Know Nothing ennthidate!” fell on Pat’s ear jist, as some av the thransfigirated diver j yintitman shlipped nroun the chorncr, “ Och cushla ! and what do ye mane surr,” I seramed ; my sinses lavin mo enthirely.. “Why Pat, J Wise’ll be illected aid tin thowsand major- ! xaty.” Och ! wurther nn Irsh, you eau’t be a — desaven av prtjf Fat, sttrr; Oil., bet tCdbd a bit of tlmisi jef- tellifi sot, „t all, at all f„, •did’nt the Know Notliins promicethejianfo.il,,!. Misther Flounthdt# bobU) bate UliMlier Wi ‘by twintv thowsand at least—fjiril a oh* and ilid’nt Misther Cofrttfrn ahd Dtt itidje H baU in tlieif last that the ulliction fans inotist fetor blc sot- (fee Americin part by, oti, hut nr tfosavTn me enthihelj- wid the nctfS: “ HefJ Rathrick “ sefz he, “fade for yersilf/j ahli be the sotvl tI K -r u riglit beyaot me winkers—long life to ! em- Wa ] the nttfotint enlhife. Ocbj mlirther, fons'nt I gratoitS fo* the dicer gintuman, Who xr'oQtd’ut j toil Fat good hiobtnim Well, Misfhef lditur j 1 rnsbed homco tto I did, lifted tbe Intel, Wid fl, | slitting, ar.d phlfir.g little Far net fh, m | ljg ! “"fiber, *bo flrasr'a iritttitt at foifoj j) irelr j wideut look in oil tbe bir.cii—“ colne Iliddy d ar . Ilin/'get oil fef rtifrfsy-bendhefS, nh,i so S |,J ; :in< l tliefe tight oti the flolire, ire Went (lire* , a rale Iris’ll jig, I wns jist (ft'fflf, it fbcriSted in, f “tip, biu me paftlmet scrames, {* Och Fnt j Pat, sbtop, sbtoji, jet tilt tiff hurt Hi e n < libel v '’ i I tfifirned to tbe scraming ttoJnan, ai,d he “me ; sowl, she Was a pulliii Bari cy out v ibe mifoh pail, by the top av his tbnll, “ Och hone-wh hope, yeY innftFefed, yev me Dm -liey, ’, 1 dime tip to the kftt cboild, and looktlj in his dvm cortnthinince, whin the iT'.onai./rehd ! *paip-fine ponged a month fdl] „t mild, in m ? ; face, and laughed fight obf,.and Biddy tefHarrk , ed that Bmtfny had made av me, what 1 knit i so pert in 1 to a milch jmtnth i arrab Pat, hot y t f taken the Iditur’s time up entlnVelv, j Will o'/i/f say thin, that the dicer j/lntibn fn are not so fond av spakiu about, politicks as they used for to be. They did’nt nay much either Misther Staven*.* Tether to-bc-snre, but thin they tuk currag*- whin CoJ. Fudge yro-mist r.n aiisnr, .and il,i w they spoke a great deal about!, it, but be-dad. it thurns out that Col. Fudge was in labur, aid! divil a thing else lie brought for’ard but a mouse barrin the brain. That mouse, Misther Editur’ dUappintcd the diver ijintilmen entirely, and tnev thtirned their Know Nothin foces to so,. ginny— Lord bless her. Ocl,! cushla, but that was mi kindest cut av all. and they forsake jm>l . ticks enthirely for the prisint. Och, lditur jew j cl, the blissed day will soon come; oh! Le inu : faith and troth, and the noight too, when tho j iyitoramusses ’ell he iihbamcd, so they will av I savin that they iver stud oil the diril’s platform for did’t it originate wid the Africlian nnpr*’ and their buzzom friends, the übolishioiiutliK, divil catch ’em. Aye, not a mothers shkin ar tliim ’ell acknowledge sarvice to Lucifer no mor’en they’ll say they belonged to the Nntivy Americin paertliy, or the Barnburrners or any other paertliy that they are ashamed of. Ar course they deny it now tliro’ policev, go that they can crape into the company of the Dimi crats —long life and succ’ss to tliim. | Goodbye, Misther lditur, tuny the sun of I Dimocracy niver cease to shine, so that thj Know Notions, who inly tlir've in darknsg, will perish outh enthirely, and here’s -hopin that the liairrs of the Know Notions maight prove ns great a thraitur to their original color, as they have proven to the blissed Con .stiff,,e tion. I.org life nnd succiss to ye, Misther Id!- tur, until ye hare agin fron, PATRICK O'SHEA FOR THE CAASVILM! STANDARD. To Sam the great McKrakin. 0 ! Sammy, Sammy t yon great McKrukin— wonderful specimen of u wonderful age, grcal est of all nnsnulfed lumini, light in darkness, shade in the sun, true picture of the Emend,! j l- s le, w tl, native brogue by mistake; O’ tnagai. I ficerit statesman, trne patriot by inqfomfon, [ profonncT reasoner, Inexhaustible humorist, keen satirist, a Pascall in wit, Tlmcidides in talent, Ovid in beauty, and Bacon in elegance, Junius in power and a Johnson in crit'cs ; grant tl, grant, most noble Sum, the humble pctit i.n ( f ■me of your most devoted admirers. With all the noble aspirations filling your noble mind, to the contrary notwithstanding, you have ifoignt.l to immortalize me by your enchanting lyre; grant, 1, Sum, i,n sincere prayer, to continue | your exalted career, use your idt-ja.werful aid j chaste pen, to castigate the wicked demagog,,.* ; in office, and encourage the patriots out of it. hut above all things kick at those who are an?, hie 1 1 defend themselves. But, great Sam. t..k heed not to exhaust vour exalted fncw’t si t.*> rapidly, liven Iloiuer would sometimes slerp among his heroes. Buy a bottle of snnflrSi’in, o’ Grinders factory, kt>e*p it at y>r elbow t , refresh and inspire your flagging spirits. It wid make you sneeze, Ram, and on the wings of lixt sneeze, your soul will rise, onward, npwajd, to regions of glory and immortalitr. Lit? a sec ond Alexander these broad United States will he too small for your glory, yen, it wijf pwi.'- trale tl,rough the centre of gravity and give our antipodes fits. A o,tr friend nnd well-wisfccr, Fine Moxito Savaxto. Better known as BIG BLACK 808- P- S.—A few words more, Sam, and I sta done. In your greatness do not deny me, when at the height of your glory do not disown me. The foieigi er Stephens to!d of the NativaAnur can party, “I do not know them r< r nnytbirjj of them.” Happy those who take it as a con fession of ignorance. Let them turn to Matthew chapter 25, verse 12, and learn better. From ■ one who has no reputation 1 would not mind it. j from a friend however, who though an Irish i man, stands like you, high among the peers nf ■ this great country, as statesmen and advocate, j and almost unriruHed as Orator, it laris, for ’ your voice was heard, ar.d your words were felt | in the councils of the nation, and will ho heard j and felt again and again, when proven abuse* ! need reform, or pending evils an 1 to be evaded, j in spite >f long winded tirade.* fn m patriot*, j whose purity and patriotism arc alike self-cell’ i lorred, FOR THE CASSVULE S.TAXSAKJV Democratic Hcitirg 1 in Faoßiit. Ala Democratic meeting held ai the t'oyi* House in Moraanbm, on Saturday he27h ah., 11 M. Denton was calk'd to the chair, and M"m. Franklin requested to act as secretary. On motiu'A of J, E, Alsobrook, Esq.* Cob. E -11 • Chastain stated the object of tW’ MD'eUng t<> be tho appointment of delegates, to the tinker* nato-ial Convention for this State, and the Con gressional Convention for the Filth District. On motion of Col. li. \Y V Chastain, the chair appointed a committee ot five to draft and pre sent resolutions for the action of the Conven tion,, viz: James Kincaid, J. E. Alsobrook, 11 w* K. Query, 11. Addington, nnd 8. 11. Crawford. The Committee, hv their chairman, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which ! were adopted: Wiikkkas, according to the time-honored n- v g® | of the Democratic party of Georgia, there will [ be held at Milledgevillo, on thcothof June mat a Convention for the purpose of nominating* | candidate for the Executive otficc of the State; and wukrkas there has also been a call upon tho | various counties of this Congressional District to appoint delegates tc meet in Calhonn on the ! 12th instant, to nominate a candidate for Con gress, the Democracy of Fannin county, now assembled at JJorganton, this.occasion tn rc-aflinn their adherence to, and unshaken 6011 • fidence in the great-principles of the ltyn>f>C ri,I ‘ c party. Ik it therefore 1, Resolved, That we hereby re-affirm oip d* votion to the cardinal principles of Democracy, ns illustrated and carried out by Jefferson, J* c son and Polk; and that, in our opinion, the on y hope of the continued union of these States, * n (ho prosperity and glory of the country, i* 0 he found in a faithful adherence to those ?!?'• epics.