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fended, or made weak. Your opposition to Catholics and foreigners, I deem impolitic and unchristian ; but this will never disturb our peace, if you will not prosecute it in a way dangerous to the yeaco of the country, enervating to Protestantism, fostering to Ro manism, paralyzing to Methodism, humilia ting to her ministry, distracting to Her mem bership, encouraging to falsehood, smother ing to truth, and demoralising in all its as pects and movements. And here I beg you to bear in mind, that it is not your princi ples I object to (if a naked conspiracy a gainst two classes of men can be called prin ciples) so much as to your manner of propa gating them. But as I canuot hope to wean you from the order, without at least shak ing your confidence in your principles, I shall in the first place address myself to them. In what I have to say upon this head. I shall take it for granted that you nil weut over to the Know Nothings with good inten tions. That you sincerely believe that the Catholics arc about to take the country; and that foreigners are about to take it too; and that handled as it has been by Whigs and Democrats, it is even now, hardly worth hav ing ; and that without the interposition of Know Nothingiem, it will soon be bat a pu trid carcass upon any party that shoulders it. 1 cannot reconcile these suppositious with each other ; but they must be made to rec oncile the professions of your order with sin cerity. I will go still farther, and admit for the sake of the argument, that every emmigtatit who comes into the country, is a pauper nud a Catholic. That the Pope of Rome is fully advised of every election that comes off in this country, from California to Maine, and from Oregon to Florida. That every Catholic in the land feels himself bound to vote just ns the Pope orders him to vote, in eviry election that occur s in this country, front that of village constable, to that of President of the United States. Let this tissue of ab surdities be admitted ; and still I maintain that Know Nothiugism is not the remedy for the supposed evils ; and that if it were, it is a remedy with which you should have nothing to do. To the proof : Paupers are anually coming by multitudes into the country. Very well; and who are paupers ? Wby they are poor people. They are uot necessarily lazy or dishonest. So far from it, they are generally both honest and industrious. Certaiuly as honest and industrious as natives in their condition.— These, an oppressed, afflicted, downtrodden, over-wrought, enslaved people, seek a shelter and a living in your free country, where millions of idle capital are only waiting the hand of industry, to loom out in all that enriches, adorns, enables and strengthens a nation—these are the people which your order would drive from our shore* ; simply because they are poor! You tell us with more candor than self-respect, that the rich may come without opposition, but you will not have your country burdened with paupers. With you the old motto which you learned from the lips of your sires and grand sires, • America an asylum for the oppressed,” is changed to • America an asylum for the oppressor and a scourge to the oppressed 1” Your aims are as impolitic as they are inhu man. Hear the language of one who knew the effects of emmigr&tion upon a country, far better than the wisest man of your ordor: * A nation receiving a stray child ( fortio ri a grown man) ..into its bosom again, acquires a real treasuro; inasmuch as it receives in him, an addition to its popula tion, an accession to the profits of national industry, and acquisition of capital. It at the same time recovers a lost citizen, and the means for him to subsist upon. If the oxile bring back his industry only, at any rate the profits of industry are added to the national stock. It is true that a source of consumption is likewise superadded; but supposing it to counterbalance the advantage, there is no diminution of revenue while the moral and political strength of the country is actually augmented.” (Say's Pol. Econ. Book 11. Chap. X. Page 308.) In this short passage will be found the secret of our coun try’s unparalleled advancement iu wealth and greatness. The foreigners who nre now flocking to the country are precisely such as have always come to it—precisely such as have contributed so largely to our growth in agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the mechanic arts. Some who came hither paupers when I w:is a boy, died mil lionaires ; many died possessed of largo es tates, and almost all of them died iu easy circumstances. Few, very vew comparative ly, fell upon the parish. They enriched the country by the whole ainouut of their accu mulations—by just so much more than it would have possessed without them. Just so will it bo with those who are now coming into the country. If the amount oxponded iu support of the helpless be compared with the amounts raised by the industry of the sound, any three years together, the first would bo to the last less than one to a thousand. You would fling away the eagles to save the cents! You would retard the growth of the country a hundred years to save lands for your children upon which your children will uot be permitted to enter, unless they will consent to commit the keep : ng of your graves to their slaves ! Splendid statesmen nre coming out of tho Know Nothing factory, truly! Ihe last Massachusetts legislature exhibits to us the fabrics of this mnehino in tho highest perfection. In • hat body were fivo and twenty preachers, (one-fifth Metho dist,) Christians mauy, and Know Nothings almost all. Their acts ncod no comment.— They will remain buret into tho character of tho State in lines so deep and gangrenous, that even tho offspring of tho Hartford rebels and murderers of Batchcldcr will sicken at the sight of them. These hierarchul Know Nothing legislators arc your * brethren” iu a double sense, and the mirabile signum * that none but Americans should rule America!'’ Do you not blush to fraternise with such men? And can you believe that you ire favoring your country or your church iu espousing their principles ? But if these paupors boa nuisance, whom do they afflict ? \Yby Massachusetts, and her colicogucs in a war upon your constitution, rights and Christian character. With these people you could not as Methodists, harrao nise. They drove you away from them, by insults and injustice insufferable—wept cro codile tears when they saw you going—prom ised you a peaceful parting, and an outfit from the common fund ; and no sooner wore your backs turned ; than they denounced you asscismatics and ajnners, cabbaged all Ibu common property, und kept it, uutil at the end of seven long years, they were forc ed to disgorge a part of it under the wing of the law. But as Know Nothings you can, harmonize with them, join them in an on slaught upon Catholics nnd foreigners who never injured you, nay who nro your neigh< bors and friends—and even turn a cold shoulder to a native brother at your door, who protests against your mode of warfare ! Verily if you did not revive Catholic sins three huudred years’ old to justify your wrath against that Church, if you did not at times evince a higher regard for the sin ners of your order than for the saints of your Church, and chafe at opposition to you from any quarter, I should regard yours ns the master iustitution of the world, for teaching men to forgive injuries, and love their enemies. But however lawful it mnv bo for your confreres to repel tho poor from your bor ders it is not lawful for you nud me to do it. Much less lawful is it for you to complot with sinners to terrify them from the land, when the laws allow them to conic. Take cure brethren, I beseech you, how you prac tice your Know Nothing tactics upon this class of God's creatures. They are Uuder his peculiar care and ho will hold you re sponsible, if you do not take them under youi’s likewise. In Ids vocabulary, * the poor” means the poor of the world. So Paul understood it when he collected contribu tions in one country for the poor in another. So Christ teaches in the story of the good Samaritan, n Has not God chosen the poor of this world, in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him. But ye have despised the pocr. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgement seats? Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye nre called ? ’ Blessed bo ye poor; /or yours is the kingdom of God.”— *• But woe unto you that are rich ! for ye have received your consolation.” Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the af flicted nnd needy.” Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hands of the wicked.” i. He that oppresseth the poor re proaches bis maker.” *I know that the Lord will maintain the case of tho afflicted, and the right of poor.” • Thou slinlt neith er vex a stranger nor oppress him.” • But tho stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself.” But enough. Your Know Nothing doctrine is diroctly the re verse of the scripture dootrine in regard to foreigners, poor and rich. You nre bound, if need to be, to go to tho poor of distant lands with the gospel on your lips, and char ity in your hearts for them. Y'ou are bouud to do good to all men—to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and relieve the distressed, no matter where found or where born. If this be true, you should rejoice that the poor abroad save you the trouble of going to them by coming to you. Let law makers exclude them if they will; but you havo no business quitting your work to hunt up law makers to do it. Much less have you any business working under cover, with all sorts of characters, to put down all law makers hut those who will do it. I repeat it breth ren, take care how you trifle with this class of God's croatures. If you have experimeuts to mke in your Know Nothing laboratory, take caro that you do not put the souls of men in tho crucible, to blow up your own souls Ami what is your remedy for immigrant pauperism ? Why you will rote for no for eigner rich or poor for office! Does this remedy touch the disease, or even the person diseased ? Men come hither from Europe sick, and your medical colleges arc going to cure them, by prescibing strict regimen to all the sound who have come from the same country, through the first and second gen erations ! If the statement of such a case does not shock your understanding, I pray you in mercy to yourselves, and for the hon or of Methodism, surrender your parchments forthwith. You are either gulled, or you protend to be, and in cither case, you wound the character of our church. lam pained for ] the future destiny of our Heaven-blessed 1 country, when 1 see that the daring author |of this nonsense should have succeeded so | well. Turn if you ploase to Bascom’s sermons, (page 288) and read the letter which pre faces the sermon beginning at that page.— Many of you, with me heard it preached at j the first General Conference of the Metho : <list Church, South. We all admired it, but I we did not know the intent with which it was delivered. lie explains it in the intro ductory letter, from which the following is | an extract : “ The many virtues and Christian death of | your son, not to overlook the noble charity ho founded,by requesting and obtaining from h’s father twenty thousand dollars, with the addition of suitable grounds for tho estab lishment of an Orphan Asylum in his na tive city'* (Petersburg, Va,j <> must be to you, sources of consolation beyond any earth I can offer. The following thoughts on death i may enhance your estimate of this &c. For ■ the reasons &c , I ask permission, my dear Madam, to dedicate this discourse to you.” He bad previously said, that it was in tended to otter consolation to tho mother's ufflictod bosom, under her then recent be j reavemeut. Tho father of thatnoblo son, is one of the loveliest specimens of the Chris tian character that 1 ever saw. I have it . upon credible authority, that the magnifi cent donation inemtioucd by llascom, is only , about double the sum which he gives every iyoor to benevolent purposes; and •< when ho doctli alms, he lets not his loft hand know ; what his right band Ho will be offend at this exposure of bis virtues 1 know; but ho will pardon it I trust, when I assure him it is made only to save his Church from per il, and her ministry from discredit. That man is a uaturalizod foreigner. If that man were a candidate for an office requiring special trust and confidence—if ho were a candidate for any office—you would vote for the most abandoned profligate in the land in preference to him. Your vows to that effect are registered in heaven. Nay he was rocently a candidate for a petty of fice in his city and I suppose Methodist K. Nothings, perhaps proachcrs, walked round that Asylum and over those consecrated grounds, to rote from some competitor of his, at the sight of whom Koligiou would start and obarity shriek. “ have we not a right to rote u we please ?” No, gentlemen, you surrendered the right when you joined the Know Noth ing ; and 1 am ama?ed that you made the Surrender ; for when you did that, you rir m tually acknowledged yourselves incompetent to advocate any fittrtf of any measures. Y r ou can advocate the claims of fw matt, because you do not know that yott will be frertnittecf to vote for him yourselves i and Ho measures* because you have none—a beautiful predic ament fat a freemafa to place himself in ! When a preacher votes, it is to be presumed that he votes conscientiously and upon prin ciple, but you vote as you are ordered, nnd only according to a man's birthplace.—-- Know ye not to whom ye yield yourselves’ servants to obey ? His servants ye are to whom ye obey.” • But we love the brother, though we can not vote for the man.” Y'ou do ? What a stu pendous exhition of moral sublimity ! What a beautiful combination of religion and patriotism ! It lacks but three things to make it perfect; First, Religion demands that you not only lovo your brother, but that you do nothing to forestall his love to you. Secondly, Patriotism demands that you always vote for the most trustworthy. And thirdly, .< can—not” should refer to conscience, nnd not to a gratuitous oath. I proceed to the next head ; By concession all who come into the coun try are not only pnupers, but Catholics Suppose they were Methodists would you ob ject! Certainly not. Then you would de termine every foreigner’s privilege to come to the country, by his religion, would you ? And do you not perceive that this rule would bo impractible if you bad all power in your own hands ? Why then do you mislead the people by crying out against the influx of Catholics, ns though your party could and would stop it, if they were in authority ? And why are you doing this when, confess edly, you do not intend to exclude foreign ers altogether, nud therefore, you play a game iu such a way as to catch nil who wish them excluded entirely, without offen ding those who do not. You have .no office’ in your platform, nnd * no ingress* in your speeches ; and use one, or the other, or neith er. as best suits your purposes. Docs this comport with Christian sincerity? But surely, brethren, one short, year's fel lowship with your new companion has not taught you to hate Catholics—the men.— it Oh, no; we love the men but hate their re ligion ” Say .tlove the men, but oppose some articles of their creed,” nnd I am with you heart and hand. But to hate their religion, which they adorn, just now, much more than you do. ii No man that warreth,” says Paul, i< entangleth himself with the affairs of this life.” Tho Catholic priest obeys this precept strictly. But where are you? (Some of you at least.) Candidates for this, that and the other office—going from beat to beat, county to couuty, stumping it for votes— haranguing the multitude amidst thumps and screams and yells—firing at opposition and almost coming to blows—tell vulgar anecdotes —suppressing truth—encouraging, if not spreading falsehood. These things nre not done in a corner; and yet if any Bishop, any Elder, any Deacon, any Brother, any Press of our Church, lias raised a warning voice against them, except my poor solitary self and one old brother more, 1 have yet to learn who, when or where ? From the holi est chamber of my soul I lift a prayer to God to have mercy on us, and save <fhr Church front degradation and ruin. Breth ren, I am not near done with you ; but I must stop. My powers <f calm discussion arc suspended. My heart and eyes take up the cause of my periled Church in utter ances which you might appreciate, but which I cannot expose to the ridicule of an unfeeling world. A. B. Longstrikt. Gov. Johnson, and Maj. Cooper. It is charged against Gov. Johnson that he has bribed Maj. Cooper to vote for him by relieving him from the payment of freight on the State Road which he ought to pay. If this charge be true they mark down Gov. Johnson and Maj. Cooper as very co rupt men—the one as entirely unfit to con trol the management of the country- the other as wholly unworthy of tho high char acter for truth and integrity which ho hns heretofore maintained. Is there a man in Georgia who would refuse to give either of these men a letter of introduction to a dis tant friend as a gentleman ? Is there any man who would rofuse to in troduce either of these men to his family as a gentleman ? We doubt whether there is one ; and yet, if there is in tho whole State a single man, who, believing tlieso charges, would intro duce either of these men by letter to a dis tant friend as a gentleman and a scholar, or introduce him into his family as a gen tleman of character nnd integrity, he is no better than these men, ndmiting tho charge to be true. Now, so far as wo can get into tho merits of this thing, Gov Johnson's fault has been, notin reducing tho freights; not in chang ing. A letter from Maj. Cooper to Dr. Bran ham upon this subject has boon published, from which it appears that Major Cooper has been very unjustly treated by the Road; and that Governor Johnson has done him but sheer justice if that; venture the opinion now ; That since the attention of tho public has been called to tho subject the next Legislature, no matter which party may be in power, will not only authorize, but require the Rond to do in the future whnt Governor Johnson has now done, and that not a single paper in Georgia will op pose its doing or object to it ns wrong after it is done, Corner Slone. Sam’s Foothoid in the South. At the last presidential election Virginia gave a majority of 15,281 for General Pierco. Notwithstanding fusion nnd confusion, the i alliance of whigs nnd know nothings, and an increased vote 0f27,123, Wisos majority j was 10,180. North Carolina gavo Pierco a majority ot 080. Sho now gives about 8.000 democratic majority. Tennessee gave a majority of 1,880 for Scott Sho now gives about 2,000 majority j for that unwnvcring democrat, Audrew 1 Johnson. Alabama gave a majority of 11,843 for Piorco. Sho now givos upwards of 12,000 for Winston. Wo have not been advised of tho prociso majority of (joy, peaso in Texas, but wo have no doubt that know nothingUm has been repudiated in Togas as decidedly as it haa boon repudiated in any qf hep sister States of the South .— Washington Ut)ipn. pb’ Tho broker's board haa boon plauod off, the shavings were eaved. THE STASDAItI). WILLIAM T. WOt rOBD, ? EDITORS THOMAS A. BURKE, ) cassviLle; geo. THURSDAY MORNING: AUGUST 30, 1855. | FOR GOVERNOR, HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS. Ist Dist., JAS. L. SEWARD of Thomas. 2nd “ M. J. CRAWFORD of Muscogee 3d “ JAMES M, SMITH of Upson. 4th “ 11. WARNER of Meriwether. sth “ JOHN 11. LUMPKIN of Floyd. 6th “ HOWELL COBB of Clarke 7th “ LINTON STEPHENS, Hancock. I Bth “ A. 11. STEPHENS of Taliaferro. FOR SENATOR, HAWKINS F. PRICE, FOR REPRESENT ATI VES, ALFRED M. LINN, Z. G. TURNER. |f* To enable nil hands to go to the Car tcrsville Mass meeting, we issue the Stand ard a little earlier this week than usual. Ourself. It is due to myself, as well as to my friends, that I should correct the false report recently hunted up by the Know Nothings, as to what I should havo said iu 1851, in relation to the secession of South Carolina It was reported then, and now circulated by tho Know Nothings, that I proclaimed that I was ready to head a company and march to South Carolina, nnd whip her into sub mission This is not true, and wholly mis represents what I said on the subject Du ring the canvass of 1851. in a public conver sation with James C. Jones, in the 17th dis trict, of this county, lie asked me what I would do in case South Carolina seceded and a contest should take place between her and the General Government. I replied that 1 feared no such result, but if such an un hnppy state of circumstances was to take place, if called upon legally I should be , compelled to take sides with the General Government, because I and every other pa triot would be bound to do so as long as j Georgia remained iu the Union. It was then and now circulated by my opponents in politics, in a form to make people believe | that I was anxious and ready to take up [ arms against South Carolina in case she sc | ceded. To prove the utter falsity of this ; charge. I refor my friends to Mr. Jones, the gentleman with whom I had the conversa j (ion. I mentioned the subject in a speech but once, and that was subsequently to the conversation, at the Wolf Pen court ground, where I corrected the report, and stated that I would sincerely regret to see any state come in conflict with the General Govern ment, but that while Georgia remained in the Union her enemies were my enemies, her foes my foes—let them come from where they might, either foreign or internal. The man who now circulates this report against me, an huinblo member of the Democratic party, with the hope thereby to drive natives | of South Carolina into the ranks of the K. Nothings, can have little claim to common sense, and offers an insult to every son of tho Palmetto State. WM. T. WOFFORD. Col. Tumlin. This gentleman was among tho first set tlers of this county, and has held office with | only a few years’ exception, since its organ ization. He never has been elected by any party opposed to the Domocratic party, and consequently owes to them an everlasting dobt of gratitude, for taking him up, poor nnd unknown, and elevating him to positions of honor and profit. How is he now repay ing that debt of gratitude ? By running as an independent candidate, against the Dem ocratic party! Not only so, but lie has joined this new order of Know Nothings—an | organization whose avowed object is to put ■ down the Democratic party. Yet he tells j his old friends that he is still a Democrat— i a Jackson Democrat. Now let us see if lie is correct: that he belongs to the Know Nothing party, we understand he no longer denies, when closely questioned, which is tho only organization that now opposes his old party. Well, he does not deny that he now 1 opposes tho Democratic party, but attempts ! to evale his enmity to his old party by ns ; sorting that tho present Democratic party is not liko tho old Democratic party, and in J fact says that there is now no such party, i Wo here join issue with tho Colonel, and to ! prove that he is not correct, we bring such ; as Gov. Wilson Lumpkin, Joseph ‘Day, Judge Warner, Howell Cobb, Judge j Iverson, Judge Wellborn nnd Gov. McDon ald. These are Georgia Democrats, well known to her people, and in whom they havo confidence. Their testimony will outweigh the assertion of Col. Tumlin. Furthermore, two years ago Col. Tumlin was supported almost entirely by the friends of Mr. Jen kins, an avowed Whig. It is true ho said he voted for Gov. Johnson, nnd it is also true that all his particular friends and rela tions whom he could inllueuce to do so, voted for Mr, Jenkins, and thus Col. Tumlin played his favorite game—of voting for and : professing to ho tho frioud of one candidate, and nt tho snrno time electioneering for his opponent. This has been so oftou done by \ him that we suppose none of his friends will deny it. And if we look out of Georgia, tho old leaders of tho Democratic party oveiy where rise up as witnesses against him.— There are Cass, Buchanan, Douglass, Maroy, and a host of others, of well earned natioual reputation, who say that Know Nothingism is the oply pppqjjeßt of Democracy. Now, MfhQ righfr—ppl. Tifiqlii), QF *¥3 IhFgQ number of old, well tried Democrats, whom tfo hayo named ? Tho weight of testimony is overwhelmingly agaiust the Colonel, and ho should in a spirit of fuirpess and candor, ndmit thfU ho is gow a Know Nothing, and 1 doing all ho can to defeat his old party. Let Col. Trnmlin come owl fairly, and tell (lire people whose suffrages he seeks, bis princi ples and views; let them ttndorstand him; let no mntl bo deceived, and let him for his own self resfect quit telling the people he is a Jackson Democrat, when he i doing a ll in his power to defeat the party which once acknowledged, zwith pride, that old patriot to be one of its greatest leaders, Adam Hill, Esq. We take pleasure in calling attention to the letter of this gentleman in this week's pnper. Mr. 11. is one of our very best citi zens, nnd a thorough Democrat. He is an adopted citizen, but his devotion to the Con stitution and laws of the country have never been doubted. He will address the citizcrlS of Cass in the court house in this place, on Tuesday* the -lth inst.,on the political topics of the day. He particularly desires that the ladies will go out to hear him, and we hope they will uo so. The fair sex are generally on our side, now, but we hope to have every one of them convinced before the election. Professor Sofge. Wo announced last week to the friends and patrons of the Cassville Female College, that the President of that Insiitution had succeeded in securing the services of Prof. F. M. Sofge, for the Music department. We are not personally acquainted with this gentleman, but a friend of ours, on whose musical judgement we may safely rely, in forms us that the newly elected Professor is a musician of the highest order, and one of those few who played together with Ole Bull. In short, that his musical talents cannot be surpassed in the South, if even equalled. He has been in his profession from the tenderest year of his life, and brings consequently with him a large amount of experience, mu sical as well as practical. Our informaut observes that lie must have been born with the Violin and cradled with the Piano, which suggestion seems to us more than plausible, as his father, as well as his brothers, are all musicians of noted character. We are indeed glad to hear such news, for the prosperity of our Institution, as much as for own selfish interest, being an admirer of every art, particularly that of music, of which Luther has said : ... Music is the art of Prophets ; the only art whioh can calm the agitation of the soul and put the dtvil to flight.” Vote as you Please. Never has there been a political contest since our recollection, until the present one, in which we feared that an Americnn citizen 1 might not vote as he pleased. We have good reasons to believe that the Know Nothing organization will cause many men to vote against their judgement and personal pref erences. Our only hope for those who havo been deceived into the Know Nothing ranks, is that they will have moral courage to do us they please, regardless of any man or body of men. The right of voting according to our own wish and desire, is a privilege of inestimable value, and restraint upon that right endangers the very existence of our Government. Our advice to every voter is to exercise this highest of all privileges ac cording to his own judgement and feelings, uninfluenced by any other motivo than a desire to do his duty to his country. Let every man feel that he has the right to vote as he pleases, and he has an inward pleas ure which is the very height of political enjoyment. Any restraint upon the will of a voter is illegal, and is one step towards the destruction of the elective franchise, the very essence of freedom. Let the will of all men be free and untrammelled by any oath or obligation, and then wo may expect at each election a fair expression of tho public sentiment. Let no citizen of this, the freest of all governments, suffer his vote to be con trol led against his judgement by demagogues and office seskers who will make any prom ise to secure their election. Cass County Marble. We read some timo ago, in tho Atlnntn Intelligencer, quite a complimentary notice of some specimens from the marble quarry , of Col. J. T. Rowland, of this county. We havo before spoken of specimens of several beautiful varieties which have been left at our office. Since then we have visited the quarry, aud can fully testify to the truth of | all that has been said about it. There seems , to beau inexhaustible bed of the finest mar ble we we have ever seen, comprising a great variety of colors. A gentleman, well ac quainted with the marble business, who had visited many quarries iu Europe nnd this country, told us that he hnd uo where found in this country, such fine marble, uor had he ever seen it surpassed in any other part of tho world. We are glad to hear that Col. Howland is making arrangements to have this quarry fully developed. The Cherokee country is rich in minerals, j —rich in every thing that brings wealth to ! her people. It is the *• garden spot” of the j world. The fertility .of its doil cannot be surpassed in tho United States, while its climate, water, and ail other things desira ble in a place of residence nre unequalled. * . . Her citizeus, to make Cherokee Georgia iu reality the garden spot of tho world, havo only got to go to work and dovelopo her ag ricultural und mineral resources. When this is properly done, (and the acknowledged energy of hor people load us to hope that the day is not far distaut,) it will bo tho most dtsirnble couutry on tho faco of tho globe. Be on your Guard. Wo hope our friends every where will bo activo, cautious nn<l industrious; nothing but the untiring onergy of evory member of our party will enable us to beat the Know Nothings. Thoir organisation is the most perfect, and at the same time the most secret and deceitful, that evor had an existence. All their ineotings aro held with olosed doors, their acts and rosolves aro unknown to tho world, and they havo their (pies mixing and assooiuting with Democrats, denying their oonneotiou with the order, merely seeking to asoertain the feelingc and views of our friends. They have been highly entertained with the thought that they have dooeived Peipocpats by imposing members of their order on qa, without opr knowledge, hoping to asoertaiu some faptV by such an unmanly course, that would suable them to sqcoeed. We are willing for them to know all we do ; we have no secrets, nor aro wo boqnd by • solemn oaths to hold our tongues- We meet in open day, in the light of heaven, and let the people see what wo do, and know our principles. Bat on the other hand, they do. all their manoeuvring in secret, and it is fox this reason that we must be on our guard. They have their blind followers, ready to go at any hour, who have taken an oath to reveal nothing said or done by them in council. Then no one can know their de signs, and our only hope is to watch them. Let all men who ore opposed to this new or der be up and doing; let ns guard our pres ent glorious Constitution, nnd suffer no am bitious office seeker to alter one letter of that sacred instrument. FOR the standard. Col. Tumlin in Gilmer. ELLIJAY, GA., Aug. 22, 1855. Fbjknd Burke : Col. Tumlin left here yesterday, in the direction of SpriDg Place, having finished his tour IP this and Funnin county. lie left, I learn, ill high spirits— some of bis friends at this place .having told him that lie would beat Judge Limpkiri this coun ty. How any sane man couiJ reason ki m ’ self into such a belief, I am at a logs to conceive. I have been used to guessing at! the vote of Gilmer county these twenty years, j nnd if Lumpkin does not beat Tumlin 300 votes, or the rise, you may set me down ns n Know Nothing. Tumlin will not get ex ceeding 300 votes in the county —the friends may rely on that, certain. Yours truly, GILMER. rOR THE STANDARD. Communicated. There is a man of great renown, lie lives a quarter from this town; A lawyer is of high degree, From sin and folly always free; Takes cases all, of every’hue, No matter what—black, white or blue: He’ll save a negro if you pay him— If not, lie’ll turn and sure he’ll slay him. Now lie’s the man to plead for you, He’ll have his way, none else will do ; He’ll gain your cause, by law or random, No judge or jury can withstand him; He preaches some, or rather tries, The devils all before him flies — He vows that drinking is an evil, “ I’ll semi the grog shops to the devil; Poor whiskey drinkers 1 do hate. Good brandy’s for the rich and great; I’m now become a rich divine, I’ll drink my brandy and my wine— I’ll vote for him that’ll surely say I’ll take the license law away— Blit now I turn and say right face, We’ll have a man to till the place; Now is the man, Through storm and tempest sure to stand; lie’ll neither nuke, nor drink, nor sell, i All such vile men he’d send to h—II; Now all my friends, let’s right about, I’ll throw my keg of brandy out — We’ll drive all liquor from the land, And have a holv temperance band ; Then all that’s left will mind my word. I’ll teach them how to serve the Lord. This lawyer’s at the head of all, All men must answer at his call—■ lie’s at the head of every thing, Y'et to that cause he’d ruin bring; Except in law he nothing brings, | He’s addle in all other things. A. IIILL. for the standard. The Legislature. Mr.ss. Editors : When 1 became an independent candidate, : I had reasons to believe that the Know Noth | ings were few and far between, but recently | 1 discover they have crawled out of the ; ground, hollow trees nnd old barns in such alarming numbers, aud being urged on by unprincipled lawyers and demagogues, that it become* a matter of great importance to stop their mad career, and save this happy country from anarchy, civil war and ruin ; and 1 for one am determined to make sacri fices of any kind to put a stop to such fanat icism, and knowing as I do that every vote I get, will add so many to the Know Noth ings, consequently I am no ioDger a candi date-1 decline in favor of the democratic ticket, and will do all I can to promote its success. Here I make another sacrifice, be cause I like most of ihe Know Nothing can didates (as individuals) the best, but they are against the constitution and 1 am against them. Brethren of the Masonic ordor ! where hive you gone ? Are you blowing to a flame sedition aud civil war ? Would you sell the peace of this happy country for any consid eration ? Have you forgotten the first rudi ments of your obligation— to be true to the constitution nnd faithful to the laws? 1 beseech you then (as my oldest and best friends,) to examine the matter carefully 1 and decide like honest men. Y'ou certainly have not counted the cost. Oh, ye members of the church, professors of religion, follow ers of the humble Jesus, where havo you all gone to ? Have you forgotten your solemn promise, in presence of God and the church, that you would cherish harmony and broth erly love, and be obedient to the powers that be ? Remember Christ commanded you to love one another, fall not out by the way, j love your enemies; but ninny of you have gone alter strange things, you have created strife and ill feeling amongst your brethren, and for what? For even less than Esau sold his birthright. The ruin of the church, nnd if you succeed, the ruin of your happy country will be the result. I beseech you, , then, to repent, nnd do your first work over! Return, before it bo forever too late! This article is already too long. You may hear from mo ngniu. Respectfully, ADAM HILL. FOR THE STANDARD. Letter from Texas. Bus net Court House, Texas, ) August 4th, 1865. > Dear Tom : Leaving this place on a bright, beautiful Thursday evening, the west illumined by the brilliant rays of Old Sol, in company with nine others, all as clever and compan ionable as could bo desired, wo turned our course westward, to explore the Pecan Bayou couutry. On the same evening wo passed tho last settlements, and ontered a wild, uninhabited country. As nothing worthy of record transpired on this evening, I made no notes. After selecting a•• live Oak, suitable for a camping ground, wc unpacked and staked our horses, while our cook pro tern, busied himself in preparing an excel lent supper, oomposed of bacou and oorn bread, to which wo did ample justice. Up on examination it was ascertained that only four of the company were armed, whereupon the proposition was made that some of the company should return to the settlements and procure arms and overtake us on the morrow. No one being willing to do so, we commepocd our march early the next morn iug, all bauds willing to rely npon the arms in company. There was nothing ofi.u"” connected with the expedition T ** t day—the country passed through was*”* etnlly poor and much broken. OcewicSu we discovered a small, xich valley but \ dom, and for the next day or two’lhe conn.’ try wns uninteresting. On this day We ’ ehase to several bear, deer, antelopes & *d succeeded in killing one hear, and t w’ deer. On the fourth day we arrived at th mouth of Pecan river, and for a distance If ten or twelve miles up the stream, thecoun. try w broken, and my expectations con cerning it were beginning to fade anil f ße when my feelings were revived by suddenly entering one of the most interesting v a lli I had ever seen, broad end beantifnl beyond description, and from this time ei, as s„ up the stream as I traveled, nothing but Tallies were to be seen, and decidedly sape . rior to any lands I have ever seen. TANARUS/i fw vallies vary in size, from fovr to twenty mites long, und two to right wide, and level as any floor. Th* bottoms *f ty, stream are well timbered-cotton wood, burr oak, pecan, innequite, elm, &e., all grow abundantly here, and post oak snfbeiest tj> fence the whole river from head to month There were several old Texiani in company who .‘‘ad lived on Texas soil for 25 y cal , who bad seen the elephant in Texan, and who had been OTCf greater j oition of the State now settled, all oi ponitively affirm that it was superior to any portion of the State known to them. As sci myself, I am fully convinced that I have never seen 1 country equal to that on Pecan river. J U( | g . ing from the wild rye growing in the lot toms, I am convinced it is an excellent grain country. In places I could have reaped bushels of this rye, a natural growth of th* country, for miles. The bottoms are per fcctly weighed down with it nnd the i. nim bio nill” grass. The bottoms vary in width —in some places they are fully one mil* in width—in others not so w.de. They then strike off into level, smooth rallies, or rath er second bottoms, void of all tiu.Ler, save now and then u few musquite shrub#, and I candidly believe that I saw Severn! of tho* Tallies half as large as Cass county, an d u level as man or nature could have nude them. I saw no springs or running branch es after leaving the broken country. Th* river water is excellent, and said to be per fectly cool uine months in the year. I*n told that it was warmrr now than at sny other time, and 1 found it to drink fiusly. I think this country far superior to th*Col orado, with which 1 was so much dsligbWd, and wrote you concerning. It is impossible for a country to offer more advanUgts to settlers and emigrants than this does. The water good, the binds rich, timber conve nient, Hie range the best in the world—what more, 1 ask, could tnun desire ? Wlint more culd nature hnv* done ? Here she reposes in her most lovely form. The whole coon try spreads before you a field for i-ptculatioa and thought, only bounded by the limits of the human mind. And, while seated untie margin of the stream, 1 reflected that the : vast region of rich s< il that lay bef.r* me w*3 still the hunting grounds of tbs wild indian, and 1 was struck with astonishment. Here, the flower, the cream, the richest por tion of tiiis rich landed State, was a perfect wilderness, while so ninny in the aliliir States, both rich and poor, were toiling, striving and laboring, from Christmas to Christmas, endenvor : ng to make mouey by cultivating old, worn out fields or rocky hill sides, expending moro money in preparing for a crop than it would absolutely require here to make on**. Every spot indicates that this was on the abode of iudiaus, and is now ilieir hunt ing grounds. Some of them are now idly lounging about above the Leads of this stream, occasionally committing depreda tions on the frontier country, while othara of them are idling in the vale of eternity, where I trust they may all soon be gather ed. Were it not for the Indians this section i would have been settled long since. 1 think it would be rashness for a few settlers to move into it even at this time. The lands immediately on the stream and all the larger rallies, have been long since located, and could be bought at a very low price—from $1 to £2 per acre, probably for | a less amount. This is a country where I you can raise stock to any amount, without ever cutting any hay or fodder for then), ‘ aud it is unnecessary to house them *ny portion of the year. There are more in : duoeuients offered to stock raisers than in 1 any other portion of Texas. The whole couutry is one magnificent pnsturc, so form | ed by nature, cnpable of supporting count less numbers of entile, sheep, &c, while th* i winters, with the exception of an occasional j ..norther,” are so mild that stock of all kinds flourish on grass Ihe entire year. The stream is between thirty and forty yard* wide, and from twenty to fifty feet deep, aud where tho banks were fifty feat hist), the soil wns as rich at the bottom as ou the surface. This last assertion may be hard to swallow, but it is emphatically true. The soil has a clny foundation—there is some sand mixed with it, not more than enough, however k to keep a plough smooth and bright. This land is undoubtedly adapted to the cultivation of cotton—as yet it has never been tested. Ido not make this last asser tion on the strength of my own observation, alone : I have heard old and good farmer* say it was first rate cotton laud, ami taler stand that first rate cottou lands in Texas yield two bags of cotton per acre, and bear in mind that these first rate grain and cot ton lands can be bought for or $2 rr acre. I would not advise any of my Georgia friends to move to Texas, but I would mlvis them to come and see this country—at aH events the western part of the State, n i * particularly the Pecau Bayou, aud if J va returned dissatisfied, you would, accord'"!? to tny way of thiuking, stand in your own light, and the fault would be with you, so s 1 have written this fairly and without exr oration. Her rioh lands, her bcautif" 1 scenery, her many advantages and her wi<l fl fields, all urge and invito you to come Dll engage iu the enterprise, aud make Te** s what she deserves and one dny will b®> tb * •. Empire State” of the Union, and for yo ur selves overwhelming fortunes. Com* oD ’ Georgians, and look at tho country, nnd ® word for it you will be delighted and net* regret the step. As I remarked hefo* ’ don’t stop in the Eastern portion of State. Bear up manfully, until you r®* the Western world, the ocean of lnd, vale of flowers. In reading over c< * , munication I see that I have signally al