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by THOMAS A. BURKE, PROPRIETOR. VOL- VII. THE CASSVILLE STANDARD, IS Published every Thursday.— LaJ Office, north-east corner ol the LjO m tpublic square.—Terms, Two Dol- m sa'rs a-vearif paid in advance, two ‘and a “half after three months, ’jliree dollars at the end of •Vear. No paper discontiuned until all arrearages are Ipaid, except at the option of the publisher. Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at $1 Wr square (twelve lines,') for the first insertion, fend 50 cents for each weekly continuance. “Legal advertisements published at the usual Advertisements not marked will be published ’(:ntil forbid, and charged accordingly. Letters on business mast be p re-paid, and ad dressed to the Proprietor. i- 1 - : Business JtefoHj. Milner & alsabrook, attorneys at Law, Morgan ton, Geo. —Practice in the Counties of Union, Fannin, Gilmer and Pick ens. James Milner, Cassville; J. F,. Alsabrook, Morganton. may 17, 185. V -ly CIRAWFORD k CRAWFORD, Attorney* at i Late, Cassville, Ga.—As a firm under the :\lu>ve name John A. & M. J. Crawford will promptly and faithfully attend to all business intrusted to their care in any of the counties of thel'herokceor Blue Ridge Circuits. M. J. Craw ford will give particular attention to the collec ting of all claims and debts, and will spare no pains to put cl ients in speedy possession of their money. m h l ly 17 W. CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor ganton, Ga.—Practices in all the coun ties of the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5 TAMES MILNER, Attorney at Law, Cass villc, Geo. Practises in the counties of the Cherokee circuit. mh 4. TANARUS) 0. CRAWEORI), Attorney at Law, Cal l>. houn, Get).—Practice in the counties of Jje Cherokee circuit. H l ,r 24. RJI. TATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton, . Ga. —Business entrusted to hi*care in any ~f the counties of the Clicrokeecircuit. will meet with prompt attention. Nov, 21. SWF, IL, Attorney at Law. Canton, Geor • gia. Business entrusted to his care in anvof the counties of the Blue ltidgecircuit, will meet with faithful attention. Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov. McDonald, Marietta; Col. Joseph E. Brown, Canton; Capt. W. T. Wofford, Cassville; Col. Geo. N. Lester, Cos mining. Feb 10,1855 —ts f'l J. FAIN, Attorney at Lair, Calhoun, Ga. X* Will ’ptM'tice in all the counties of the OcrokeetUYcftit. Partwular attention will be paid to the collecting bXesiness. mil l*. Air T. WOFFORD, Attorney at Lnr, Cass \V • ville, Ga,—Firactices in all the counties i,nfw Cherokee circuit, and will attend faithful ly to all business entrusted to bis care. Office tast rtt the rottrt house. aug 18—ts n()(i PER & RICE, Attorney* at Lnr, Cass ville, Geo.—Practice m the counties of Cass. Cobb, Chattooga, Cat-ousa, Cherokee, Dade Vlovd, Gordon, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, Walk er ami Whitfield. Jons H- KtOE will, as here tofore, continue to give his personal ami almost Exclusive attention to tSfce collecting business, april 2\ 1854. j /"i L. HARBOUR, .Attorney at Lnr, Atlan \ ‘* ta, Georgia.—Will practice ill Ihe Jiffer <■ll Courts of Fulton and Contiguous counties. Pxrticular attention given to the execution of • ■ nterrogntorics, and draughting legal instru- HfUtfe Cla’.ns in the city of Atlanta will be rwvmptiv attended to. Office in the Holland House, up stairs. —Entrance first door above Whitney A Hunt. Feb iff, ’55-ly WIKLE & WIKT.E, Dealers in Uri; tioods, Groceries, kc. kc. South west corner of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga. 26, 1854. rl). CARPENTER, Dealer in fancy, stapl e • and domestic dry goods, sugar, coffee, mo* /isses, kc.; hardware, cutlery, it., at Erwin s aid stand, Cassville, Ga. iin TW. HOOPER &CO., Dealers in Staple and • Fancv Goods, Groceries, Iron. Hats, Caps, Hoots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at the Brick store, Cassville, Ga. *<* 2, 185A HIRSCIIBERG k DAVIDSON, CassciUe, Ga. —Manufacturers of clothing, and deal ers in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen s Furnishing Goods, Fancy Goods, and Jewelry, Wholesale and Retail, at Patton’s olb stand Cassville, Ga. June 23 185-1. IOCKETT A SPELLINGS, Fn •tor* and j General Commission Merchant*, will attend strictly to Receiving and Forwarding aud Selling everything sent to our uddress. sept o—6 m* WM. M. PEEPLES, Dealer in Dry Goods. Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,, Boots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, kc., kc. Cal houn, Ga. May 5, 1854. —ly G. COURTENAY, A CO. No. 3, Broad lO* Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Books, Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and ."Newspapers. The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman ces, Ac., in the Southern country. 23f* Near the Post Office. mh 16 -s. p. COURTENAY. w. A. COIJHTKXAY. HYATT McBURNEY A CO., Direct Im porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Dor .estic Dry Goods, No. 37 Hayne Street, Cbarleawn, S. C. Jan 12, 18.m—49—ly lIITAKD a BURCHARD, Augusta Ga., ,VV would inform their friends and the puU lie generally, tl#it anticipating a change in their business, the coming season, they are disposed “o make large concessions from their former low Scales of prices, in order to reduce tlieir stock to ‘".he lowest possible point- The attention of ‘wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res iieofeftHy solicited. Augusta, Dec 22 I>ARR & McKENZlE.—Factors and Conimis* sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries* Produce and Merchandise generally, Atlanta. Ua. Particular attention given to consignments of Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce.’ t. J. PARR. K. MCKENZIE. aug. 11.—ly. W INSHIPS IRON WORKS.—The subscri ber is now prepared to receive and exe cute orders for anv kind of Castings, or Ma chine work, and all persons favoring him with orders may rely upon having them executed in tfe* best manner, and with despatch. Orders lor Sash-blinds and doors promptly attended to .at his Car Establishment. Cash paid for old (Copper, Brags I)<J Iron Castings. JOSEPH WIN,SHIP. Atlanta, Oa.,’June 30, V*s4, J< T^bACKSMITIIINO,— The Subscriber I) is prepared to do all kinds of work his liue, such as Ironing Carriages, making and repairing Farming imple I melts, edge-tools,, horseshoeing, Ac, in the best I voiinec, mid on, tJm most reasonable terms.— ’j-dde tools, lyurranted’, A share of patronage is solicited-. ft, GRlFFlN £p>syilfe, Gp., Feb,. 16,1855.—2—1 j.. W msim, BObeHLs t’ioeiiis. HAVANA plan LOTTERY! Jasper County Academy Lottery! By authority of ihe State of Georgia. CLASS E. THE Subscriber having been appointed man ager of the Jasper County Academy Lotte ry, intends conducting the same on the Havana plan of single numbers, and has located his Os lice in the city of Macon, Georgia. lie now offers the following— GRAM) SCHEME FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 1855: When prizes will be distributed as follows, a mounting to THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!! CAPITAL, SS,OOO. 1 Prize of SB,OOO I 1 Prize of $5,000 1 “ 2,000 I 2 “ 1,000 2,000 5 “ 500 2,500 110 “ 200 2,000 20 “ 100 2,000 178 “ 50 3,900 120 “ 25 3,000 jlB Approx, prizes, GOO 256 Prizes amounting to $31,000. Only 10,000 numbers. Remember every Prize drawn at each draw ing, under the superintendence of Col. Geo. M. Logan and Jus. A. Nisbet, Esq., gentlemen who are sworn to a faithful performance of their du ty. Prizes paid when due without discount. All orders, rely on it, strictly confidential.— Bills on all solvent Banks taken at par. Whole Tickets $5, Halves $2,50, Quarters $1,25. Address JAS. F. WINTER, Manager, Sept 6 Macon, Geo. Charleston Weekly Standard, CONTAINS ALL TTIE MATTER PUB- Lislicd in the Daily, Together with the Local, I>ou\£*tic and Foreign Markets —The Prices Current, Including the rales of sale for stock. Exchange, ami Domes tic Produce A- The Shipping in Port—The La test Telegraphic information, ifcc. dkc. cfee. The STANDARD is the only morning paper in Charleston which issues a WEEKLY EDI TION. This Edition is published every Wednesday Morning, aud bv the evening of the next day can be received in every section of the State. Price $2 —payable invariable in advance. L. W. SPRATT A CO. . ||gT| . (A EORGE VOGT’S Piano and vyg \ T Music Store, No. 148 Arch rHf Philadelphia. Constantly * *** u on hand Pianos, Melodeons, Musi cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu sic, Ac. Ac. Vogt’s Pianos are pronounced superior to all others in sweetness, power and beauty of tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt ed excellence, at a very moderate price, will do well to give them a trial. sept 1 1 NOTICE TO LAND OWNERS! The under signed having removed from Albany to Troiipville, Lowndes county, Ga. Will in addition to the practice of Law examine and report the value of land in the counties of Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware, Appaling and Irwin. lie will, when requested, examine Lands personally, and give full information, as to * ilue, location and probability of immediate sal j. Having no connection whatever with land speculation he will engage to act as agent, in the sale or purchase of lands, in any of the aforesaid counties for a fee often per cent, up on tlte amount received or paid out, His char ges for examining land will be five dollars per lot, for lands in the 12th district of Ixnvndes, in all the other districts, he will charge ten dol lars. Additional will he charged for an exami nation of title upon record. EPHRIAM H. PLATT, Attorney at Law, Troupville, Lowndes Cos. Ga. Nov 17—ly JL House and Commission Meu c„A NTS, Augusta, Ga. —Continue the business in ail its branches, and will give fcheir personal attention to the Sale of COTTON and other prwduce. Cash advances made when required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies purchased at the lowest market rates. Com mission for selling CotfiiH 25 cents per bale, auglß OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of JL Congress, all persons who have served in any War since 1790, are entitled to 160 acres of Land —and those who have received Warrants for a less number, are entitled to a sufficient number of acres to mi> 4 e that amount. The undersigned will ‘attend to the collection of such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD. Cassv'We, mh B—ts \ GENCY AT WASHINGTON.—The un- A dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims against the United States, before Congress, be fore Commissioners, and before all the Public Departments, and especially claims for bounty land under the act of Congress just passed, pen sions, back-pay, half-pay, adjustment of amounts of disbursing “officers, settlement of post mas ters and contractors accounts, and every other business requiring the prompt and efficient ser vices of an attorney or agent. A residence of twenty years at the seat of the Federal Government, with a thorough and fa miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the public business at the different offices, added to his free access to consul’ Hie ablest legal advi sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch to those who may entrust their business to his care. Being well known to the greater portion of the citizens of Washington, as well as to many gentlemen who have been members of both Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it is deemed unnecessary to extend this notice by special references. A full power of attorney should accompany all cases. Communications must he pre-paid in all cases. Fees regulated by nature and extent of the business, but al ways moderate. H. C. SPALDING, Attorney. Washington, D. C. mh 15 — T>OUNTY LANDS. —The undersigned hay- I J ing long been engaged in the prosecution of Revolutionary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen sion Claims, Bounty Land Claims Ac., against the General Government, now tenders his ser vices to all such claimants, especially to Bounty Tjtind, Claimant* for the procurements of their Claims, as there are many such Claims under the late law of Congress, which gives an addi* tionul Bounty of Land to the soldiers of all the wars in whicn the United States has engaged since 1790, who have not received as much as ICO acres. ELISHA KING. Adairsville Ga. mh 22—2 m rflUft _ AT CARTERSVILLE, GEO.! J. P- White, respectfully informs **TMwir the citizens of Cass and surround ing counties that he has located in Cartersville, and will attend promptly to all orders in the line of PLASTERING. All work warranted, may 17, 1855 —ly T AND WARRANTS WANTED— The un- I j dersigned will pay the highest cash prices for Land Warrants. He can always be found at his store in Cassville. _ . „ MADISON McMURRAY. june 28—21 ts READY-MAHE CLOTHING, PuCl. Stuff, C'hambrav,. and* a fine assortment of Jew elry,, at “ LEVY’S CASH STOftE. ajw 2j>;—tf; ® Ertili) KetMspaper—SeboieO so Wlotol gi)C>,ir,c JolificjPWJiWe,’ W’ Foreign niid &oftie.sfic Ketos, &e. CASSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1855. Cjjaite My Pets. Dark eyed Fannie ! five years old, With a foot of fairy mould And a tone that can beguile Like the wood note of a bird, Or the strain Ulysses heard Floating from Calypso’s isle, Joy stood, hand in hand, with Hope When was cast thy horoscope. Blue eyed Mary ! on thy head Summers three have blossoms shed, And thy cheek puts on a bloom That sceme caught from sunset skies; And thy soft, love-darting eyes Can make Grief forget her gloom ; Weary of the world, I long, ,< Mamy - ’ for thy voice of song. Dark eyed Fannie! unto thee Summer always life will be, For thy fancy can invest Common things with beauty rare, And the raven, dark despair. Near thee will not build her nest: Joy and Hope a moasure light Danced when born thy beauty bright. Mary of the radiant face, Sunny tress and neck of grace ! Often through a happy dream, With a rose wreath round thy head, Glidest thou with .airy tread Shedding an Elysian gleam; Charmed and holy was the hour Os thy birth, thou peerless flower! (Drigmal liainidlettr. Written expressly for the Cassville Standard.* II): 11)1*:: GolOei) ILiuljs.* LINK THE SECOND. LOVE: Or the Adventures of an American Student. BY MISS C. W. BARBER. CHAPTER IX. THE LITTLE MAN. By noon that day, an armed force-, consisting of two hundred men or more, had been collected, and were earnestly searching through mountain passes, rocky defiles and lowly vallies, for the lost travellers. Not a trace of them or of the desperate men who without doubt held them in custody, could be found. Two miles or more above Crag’s End, there was the trace of wheels and horses feet, which it seemed had at some peri od turned, or been turned abruptly from the main road into the thick wood. For a rod or two these marks could be dis tinctly traced: they then disappeared entirely. Not a vestige of them could be seen. Old leaves and brush wood were scattered about —if wheels bad in deed passed up there, great pains bad been taken to obliterate tlie tracks they must have left behind them. These faint marks were all that could be dis covered, as affording any clue to the fate —tln> mysterious fate of the travellers. They were pursued again and again that day, and for a month afterwards, by the excited inhabitants, but they faded out, and could not be followed far. For more than a month, the armed mountaineers in a body, scoured the country. Butin vain : nothing could be seen indicating even that Bob Clinch and bis land bad returned. The country seemed perfectly quiet —no ken-roosts bad been robbed — no houses broken open or entered by means of false keys —no murder or theft had anywhere been committed. A veil of mystery —dense, dark and impenetra Me, hung over the fate of those ill-starred travellers, who had set out on that hap py morning after the Commencement in the University at B—, so ardent and flushed with expectation —so eager and animated by hope. As we have before intimated, there were two hearts in the brown house on the hill, which beat during all of that time, and for many successive days after the search had been relinquished as en tirely fruitless, with an anxious thrill. — Julia White and Gertrude Smith felt and knew what it was, during that pe riod, to be utterly miserable. They moved through the richly furnished rooms, pale, silent and abstracted. Nei ther bad known before the deep and abiding interest in the welfare of the lost, which had somehow crept in and gained strong foot-hold in her heart.— They listened eagerly for coming feet, and turned away heart sick, when told that there were no tidings as yet of the missing, and when at length Smith came in, pale, exhausted and soiled with dust, saying in a low and melancholy voice so unusual to him that the search had been given up by all parties as useless, both swooned, and were carried to their chambers. The mountaineers, when they heard of this excessive emotion, at tributed it to the feeling which comes over us all when wo feel, know and re alize that we have ourselves escaped, barely escaped, some great dire calamity, “No wonder,” said they, “ that the young ladies at ’Squire White’s wCrc deeply affected. What if the}/ had 1 beeh attacked by the robbers instead of their friends !• I l t was enough to make any I *Gopy right secured.. 44 PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.” body’s flesh crawl on their bones to think about falling into the hands of Bob Clinch and his gang, and the young people up there in the white house had, according to all that could be gathered, made a narrow escape of it—a very nar row escape indeed ! They reckoned that they wouldn’t go to any more Com mencements soon, or be starting off to the Springs again.” They had all sup posed, when they saw the white house closed, that its owner had gone into the low country, but it seemed the whole family had only been to the Springs. Sol, the dwarf, had been the first to commence the pursuit-j —he was also the last to relinquish it. lie lingered and loitered for days aboutj|Crag’s End, and traced and re-traced the wheel marks, until they disappeared in the wood. At length he came in exhausted, and sat down among the leather and waxed ends, on his bench by the little window. Dora came and stood behind him, and stroked the yellowish coarse hair hack from his sweaty, anxious forehead, with her pale, tiny Angers. “ Don’t he sorry, Sol,” she said, sooth ingly —“ Mamma sorry too!” The dwarf took the little thing to his bosom and kissed her soft cheek passionately. “I wanted to find him'’ he said, as if speaking to himself, “so that I might toll him how thankful we all felt for this dear precious lamb’s life, which he was instrumental in saving, and I wanted morcover-to show him the Book—the Book beyond all price, which he sent to me —it is without a spot, and a leaf in it has never been turned down. I read it morning and evening. In it is the mystery of mysteries. 4 God manifest in the flesh.’ From its sacred pages may be learned that great lesson of Love, Love to the humblest and meanest, who show themselves worthy of belonging to our Brotherhood.” “ non’t talk in that way, Sol,” said Mrs. A lice, quite melted into tears; “don’t talk in that way ! it makes me think of the night in which I turned him away, and then to think that he came back and paid me for my unkindness by sav ing the life of my child! Itjs too much! Entirely too much ! I cannot stand it.” Just then Daddy Logan came in and sat down before the fire. Dora left Sol’s knee and went to him. The dwarf picked up his work and commenced stitching away industriously. “Can I get a pair of shoes here?” said a small, squeaking voice, near the threshold. The whole family turned simultane ously to look at the speaker. A little weazen faced old man stood there, clad in dusty black clothes, of an ancient make, and carrying a huge walnut walking stick in his hand. lie nodded familiarly to the honest mountaineer and then repeated his question. “ Can I buy a pair of shoes here ? I’ve walked mine entirely out, and the people who live in the house on the hill said that it mought be I could get a pair here.” Daddy Logan surveyed him from head to foot, and then told him to walk in; maybe he could he accommodated. “ 1 want a pair,” continued the little old man in the same squeaking voice, while coming forward and looking at his feet, with which he walked a little lame, “ I want a pair high in the instep, and with monstrous thick soles. You see I live up here in Woburn county, and I started to see my darter, who is married and settled in the low country. My cre tur hit died before I got half way, and I’m obleeged to take it on foot. I've just riddled my shoes all out, and a very de cent sort of gentleman, who lives just hack, told me that Daddy Logan could either make or sell me anew pair— you’ve seen him, I suppose.” The mountaineer bowed. “ Well, if that fellow there,” bowing towards Sol, “ will just take my measure, I’ll wait here until they are done, and then pay him what he axes.” Sol had laid down both awl and leather, at the first sound of the man’s squeaking voice. lie had looked him over and over from head to foot, while lie had been seating himself in the chair, which Daddy Logan placed for him, and a st'-ange kind of expression had set tled down upon his coarse, ungainly features. The black eye of the little man now glanced at him furtively but keenly. Sol did not like its expression. There was a vicious light in it, so ho imagined. “Do you think you have a pair which will suit, Sol ?” asked Daddy Logan, turning towards the dwarf. “ You see the size of his feet.” Sol arose and measured the traveller, lie then brought forward a pair from a drawer beneath his bench, which he said might answer. The little man stamped and swore while trying them on. They were not high enough in the instep lie said—they must be stretched. Daddy Logan’s eye was upon him a good deal while this process was going forward. There Was something about him whicti reminded him of somebody whom he had Mj'eff beffom —of somebody to Wards’ WlVonV he felt an aversion. Ho could not keep now from, regarding him; with’ antipathy, althbUgfr lib appeared’ I to be a Vcfy decent soft of old 1 gentleman 1 . |,Neither ooukl lib recall’ the’ spot and time where and when he had seen any body like him. The shoes at length were stretched to fit. The little man concluded that they would do very well, hut lie demurred a long time over the price.* He was a poor man lie said, going to the low country to see his darter. IBs crctur had died too. It was outrageous to ax a man like him such a price. But he reckoned that he had money enough to pay it. He would see. He drew forth from one of his pockets a greasy wallet, and from the wallet a clean two dollar hill. The en gravings on it were some what dim, although the money was apparently new. Sol took it without doubting aloud, its genuineness, however. The fiery little old man picked up his stick—bade them good day, and left. Sol stood by the window a moment, in specting his money. “It is a counterfeit hill,” at length he said quietly, while handing it to Daddy Logan. “That little old nan is Boh Clirch. I’d bet my head on the fact. I shall follow him at any rate.” Daddy Logan started. 4 ’ You will not follow him alone,” he said. .“ He will not pay you the money, even if you overtake him.” “ 1 do not care for the hill,” said Sol. “ 1 saw it was counterfeit before he left. I want to find out where he and his gang stay.” The dwarf took his hat and started out. He followed the sus picious character at a distance, warily and well. But he had a tedious day’s work of it. The man in black took the circuit of the neighborhood. He had an excuse for going into every house, and for finding out what every body was about. At the blacksmith’s he wanted an iron end fastened on to the tip of his staff. At the miller’s he begged for bread—at the farm house for fruit—at the hrowu house on the hill he stopped for water. He every where told the some tale, viz: that lie was on his way to the low country, to see his darter, but his idea of directions seemed to be con fused in the extreme. The longer Sol followed him the more convinced lie be came that he was any thing rattier than what he pretended to be. Towards night-fall the old man struck into a wild mountain path. Out of the way cf observation, he now suddenly for got his lameness. lie scaled high rocks and mountain paths with the agility of a deer, and the hardihood of an Indian. The dwarf found it a difficult matter to follow him and at the same time elude his observation. Twice he thought he had lost track of him entirely, but in a few minutes he discovered that he was still upon it. Onward and onward he plunged, uutil the moon was high up in the sky, and the blue concave above was thickly studded with stars. Near what the dwarf judged must be mid night, he stopped before what seemed to be the smooth surface of a perpendicu lar rock. With the iron end of his cane he struck three measured strokes, and, to Sol's surprise, the side of the rock opened silently and took him into its subterranean cavern. There was no noise made —no voice spoke—the little man who stood a few minutes before, like Moses of old, smiting the granite barrier had disappeared, almost as mys teiiously as though the rock had ab sorbed him. Where had he gone? — what had become of him ? Sol could follow him no longer. There rose the high, steep surface of the rock, towering up majestically in the moonlight, and showing on its even front no crack or crevice. The dwarf approached it and laid his ear to the ground. No sound was to be heard save the voice of a cricket, chirruping in the long grass near. No light was to be seen—no an imated object was visible. Sol was baf fled. lie stood irresolute—uncertain what he had best do. But perseverance had marked bis character from a child. So lie stuck his crooked, waxy hands in to his pockets and commenced rambling about the cliff, and surveying it upon all sides. In vain the effort—it stood there like an iron shrine, or a dumb sen tinel, refusing to yield up one iota of a charge committed to its trust. But there is no place so hidden in its recesses—so enshrined, and shut out of view, that its guilty secrets may not leak out. Oh ! it is a fearful thing to sin. Every the Eye of the All- Seking penetrates, and when we think we have enshrouded ourselves in deep est, darkest night, we find that the eye of a mortal, short-sighted as ourselves, has perhaps pierced and read the arcana of our hiding places. Opposite to where Sol first stopped, ho discovered, after a long and thorough search, a ray of light penetrating through what seemed to boa crevice in the rock. It was so faint, as at first make him un certain wliother it might not bo the reflection of a moon-beam, but after he had removed a loose rock or two and dug a little with his hands, he paw that it was no mppiishino which had cheated him. Slowly, cautiqusly, arpl wearily, did lie work on, until ho had removed a pile of brush wood, ami forced hmyself into an aperture, whefo ho felt confident he might obtain some, knowledge of what was jpaWrVg inkido.dr the,cave, which lie knew must lie within', lie was right. He could see (jibtinctiy by tfie light of, a latnjV Which’ was tVonV tfiW I‘obf pf tlii?’ CaVern’ by fro if TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE. chains, the inside of this subterranean abode, and the people and things which it contained. His attention was first ar rested by two miserable looking men, who were fastened by chains to iron hasps driven into the wall. Tln-y lay upon the hard rock floor beneath them and slept. In the lamp-ligiit they look ed haggard and care worn—their beards were uncut, and their hair straggled in uncombed locks down the sides of their faces. Sol came near screaming out- j right, w’hen he recognised in one of these : beings, Marchmont, the handsome stu dent. The other, he had no doubt, was Professor M . Not far from them, ranged in rows, were rough looking robbers, also fast asleep. One only was awake. Sol re cognized in him the little man whose footsteps lie had been dogging so long, j This man sat in the light of the lamp, j and worked upon what seemed to he an injured fire lock, lie had thrown aside j his disguises, and seemed to be a small, j good looking Frenchman, forty-five or fifty years of age. In one corner of the cave stood the vehicle iu which March mont and liis companion w’ere riding a! the time of the capture. Their trunks j had been unlocked or broken open — tlieir money and wearing apparel had doubtless all been appropriated. The horses and driver were no where visible. The former had doubtless been sold, to I avoid detection, but w hat had become of the latter ? Sol could not solve the query, and lie dared not continue his observations too long. He crept hack ; to the fresh air, on liis hands and knees, ■ and then carefully replaced the rocks j and brush wood which he had removed. I This done, lie noted as keenly as an In dian, every thing around him, and then silently and stealthily pursued his back ward course. (Concluded next week.) From the Detroit Free Pres*, A wj. i-'S. Letter of Gen. Cass on Know Nothing lsm and the Power of Congress in the Territories. Detroit, Aug 22, 1855. To the Editor of the Free Press : Sir —The public journals contain a letter dated July 24th, written by Gen Houston, which has just met my eye, and in which he says he perceives, by the papers of the day, that <i General Cass has approved the plat form of the American Order, as proclaimed to the world by the Convention at Philadel phia ” I had observed the statements to which Gen. Houston alludes, and had let them pass unnoticed, for it would be a hope less task to endeavor to correct all the mis apprehensions and misrepresentations to which it is my lot, as well as that of all oth er public men, to be exposed in these days of party strife. And, indeed, I could not suppose that such assertions would deceive anyone who had heard or had read my re marks in the Senate of the United States, on the fifth ofFebruary last, upmi the present ation of the resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, instructing the Senators of that State to vote for an act of Congress prohibit ing the introduction of slavery into the Ter ritories of the United States. Upon that oc- j casion, while declining to comply with those instructions, I took the opportunity to ex- i press my sentiments in relation to the new i political movement, which sought to acquire ! and exercise power by secret combinations ! bouud together by the sanctions of an oath, j which, it is said, made it the duty of its j members to surrender their individual con- ■ victions to the expressed will of a majority of their associates. I then observed;— * Strange doctrines are abroad, and strange organizations are employed to promulgate and enforce them. Our political history con tains no such chapter in the progress of oar country, as that which is now opening. The questions of constitutionality and policy, which have been so long the battle cry of i parties, arc contemptuously rejected, anil ] intolerance, religious and political, finds zealous, and it may be they will prove sue- | cessful, advocates in this middle of the nine- j teeuth century, boasting with much self complacency of its intelligence, and in this ! free country, founded upon immigration, j and growu prosperous and powerful by tole- i ration. * * * * j We want no new parties, no uew platforms, 1 no new organizations, and the sooner these j dangerous efforts are abandoned, the better j will it bo for us, and for those who are to follow us in this heritage of freedom.” I might well suppose. after the expression of these views upon the floor of the Senate, and under circumstances of peculiar respon- j sibility, that any further action on my part | would be uunecessary to prove my consist- j ency, as a disciple of the school of Washing ton, and Jefferson, and Mad son, and Jack- ] son, in tho rejection of a dangerous innova- j tion, inconsistent with all the principles : those patriots taught, and which, in cfl'oot, | aims to transfer the great politionl duty of : an American citizen from tho light of day, where it should bo exeroisrd in this land of freedom, to secret conclaves, as unfriendly to calm investigation, ns to wise and patriot ic decision. But tho extract from the letter of Gen • Houston has shown me that these re- j fiorts have received more credit tlmn I had j believed, and this consideration lias induced | me thus publicly to notice and to contradict them. My opinions, indeed, upon any sub ject are of bdt little consequence, except'to ‘ myself; but if they arc worth referring to, no. 3i. •% -t -i •• tlioy me worth the trouble of making the reference a clear one. ( J have no sympathy with this plan of po litical organization—none whatever, neither with the means it employs, nor the objects it seeks to attain. Its secrecy, it oath-bound obligations, Rs control of the ballot box, its system of proscription, striking both at po litical rights and religious duties, and its inevitable tendency to array one portion of ; the community against another, and to car ry deadly feuds into every corner of the land, : of which we have just had a terrible proof, written in characters of blood, and are doomed to have many more, if this movement goes on, for this is but the first instalment of death, and how many others are to follow, and to what ex-tent, and when the last is to . be paid, aud after what lamentable vicissi tudes, is known only to Him who foresees ; events, and can control them—these charaG- teristics mark it as the most dangerous scheme which has ever been introduced into ! <ur country to regulate its public action or j its social condition. It is the Orangeism of a republic, scarcely better in principle than its monarchical prototype—of a republic whose freedom and equality, justify as little as they invite the introduction of n machinc j ry whose operation is concealed from public observation, but whose consequences are as clear as they are alarming. Geu. Houston gives credence to the report that I approve the platform of the Ameri j can Order, as proclaimed to the world by the Convention at Philadelphia.” lam a ware that changes have been made, both in toe name and in some of the principles of | this new organization. But these changes ‘do not remove my objections to it. Its spirit : of exclusion aud iutolerauce remains, and , with it, its evils and its dangers. It is a book to which I cannot be reconciled, what ever addition, whether the new one or the old one is offered to me. There is, indeed, one principle laid down in that convention which meets my concurrence, and that ic, the declaration that Congress ought not to legislate upon the subject of slavery, within the territories of the United States.” I re gret, however, that the body which thus pro nounced against the exercise of the power, did not also pronounce against its existence, hut carefully pretermited—to use its own words—the expression of any opinion upon t..at point. Still, 1 .approve it's action upon the subject, so far as its goes. It is a step ii the rigli<t direction, and I should rejoice to see it followed by every political party in our country. It is a step, too, towards the security of political rights—this opposition to the legislation of Congress over the inter nal affairs of the people of thy Territories, anil anioiig others, over the rellUion of mas ter and servant, or that of fAband and wi e, or parent and child,, of thtfje matters of domestic policy are subjects which should be lett to the Territorial communities, and to divest them of tiie power to regulate them, is an act of unmitigated despotism. The ne gation of nil power of interference by Con | gress ‘ll tiie internal government of the Ter ! I'ltori'.'s, is the true constitutional doctrine, and the only safe and practicable one, and I am rejoiced that after years of opposition —ot obloquy, indeed—it is fast, establishing itsell upon impregnable grounds. The mis apprehension which lias prevailed upon this grave subject, is among tiie most extraordi nary political events of my time. One would naturally suppose that in this coun try. the dogma of the right ot internal government by an irresponsible legislature over a distant community, unrepresented in the ruli'-g b dy, would find but little favor, nltha* •1 16 power to establish and put in operation, a government might well be de fended, while the jower to control all tho concerns of human life* would be left without unalvocate. The difference is broad and practical, and should be dearer to us, as it was the very consideration urged by our revolutionary fathers in their contest with the mother country, which began by argu ment, but ended by arms. It was asserted as early as 1774, wlun the Continental Con gress declared that the English colonists i* are entitled to a free aud exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial le gislatures, where their right of representa tion can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, &c.” In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it, conceded to the British Parliament the authority to organize colonial governments, but denied their right to touch the internal polity of the people ; and for the support of the great principle, denied and derided as it is now, they went to war. I observe that a highly respectable and intelligent gentleman,, Hunt, of New York, ifi a letter just speaks of the Nebraska bill ns •• lm3yd 1 oil the absurd theory of territorial sovereignty.’’, I never heard a man support that measure, or ap prove it tor such a reason. Gov. Hunt has mistaken tl e sneers of its enemies for the views of its frieuds Tho Nebraska bill rests upon no such theory —upon no theory at all, hut upon tho stable foundation of the s*eue j nil Constitution, and of tho natural rights of man. 1 know of no one who claims sovereignty for tho Territories. All concede thuit* do pondeuoe upon tho United States. But within this relation thoro lire mutual rights and duties, and the questions—what power may Congress,lawfully exercise, and nro tilt) people of the Territories divested of all rights —must be doterjninp'd, uot by politico-met uphysioal ionsidcrd/ltinß arising out of the. attribute of sovereignty, but by tho Consti tution of tho United States. To tho law to (ho testimony. By that Constitution, the. General Government is a Government, npt only of a grauted, but ortimited powers, md^