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I \ I . i yet undergone. Unceasing efforts are ; .•••fc’.ng to excite hostile and sectional feel- ! • niainst we were prophetically 1 avii 1 t>y Mi father of his country ; and if ! rc successful, tiie days of this Con- j n ar” r oinhered. The continued as ■ por. the South, upon its character, .utional rights and its institutions, ,e .systematic perseverance and the t .c-v spirit with which these are pursued. 1 v. >ey warn the Democratic party of j the l.gar. should also incite it to united ami ‘■ ‘rous action. They warn it. h>o, the 1 tunc l.ns come when all other differences which may have divided it should give way to tic 1 duty of defending the Constitution, and when that great party, coeval with the g- * eminent, should l>e united as. one man for the accomplishment of the work to which it is now called, and before it is too late.— 1 is the American party, for it has neither r ational prejudices nor sectional preferen ces. and its care and its efforts extend wher- ‘ ever the Constitution and its country ex tends, and with equal regard to the rights r.nd interests of all. I believe the fate of this great republic is now in its bauds, and, f o believing, l earnestly hope that its action will be firm, prompt and united, yielding not one hair's breadth of its time honored principles, and resisting to the last the dan gerous efforts with which we are menaced; and, if so, the victory of the Constitution, I doubt not, will be achieved. I am, sir, respectfully, your oVt. serv't, Lewis Cass. From, the Wilkes Republican.. WASHINGTON,GA., SEPT. 4, ’S.V At a meeting of the Dickinson Council No. 79. held this day, the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, wo are opposed to secret oath hound political organizations, believing them contrary to the genius of our republican in stitutions, it is. therefore, Resolved, fly Dickinson Council No. 7fl, that our worthy President be instructed to return the charter of this Council ts>. the President of the Htato Council. The otlier resolutions are omitted at the request of the mover —Ed Rep. • Another One Tumbled to Pieces To-day the K N s. of Waynesboro’ sent back their charter to Win. Hone of Savannah. Thus has died Council No 141, killed by the Constitution, or rather the want of one. Havana Plan Lottery. The Capital Prizes drawn at Concert Hall, in Macon, (Ja., on the 3d of September, in the Jasper County Academy Lottery, were distributed ns follows : No 2473, $12,000 in Macon, tin ; No. 1817, SO,OOO in Cleveland, Ohio ; No. 2921, $3,000 in Lynchburg, V ; No, 003, $1,200 Brooklyn, N Y; No 4772, $l,lOO in Vicks-! burg, Miss. The thanks of tho Widow and Fatherless, , besides a pecuniary reward, will be #iven to ! any person who will inform Col. 11. F As tn.p, (by letter, directed to Crichton's store, l;ru us wick county. Virginia,) of the pi-open person and Post Office in Georgia, to which to direct a letter, to gain information con- ! cerning the estate ofc-Drury Ilarpcr, dec’d, late of Georgia, and formerly of Virginia. Congress can exercise no authority which is ! not given by the great charter that brought I it into existence. Let any man put hie fin- I ger upon *he clause of that instrument, which confers this power of internal interference, 1 and I will abandon tlie principle, long as it Las been cherished by me. And that is many years, as will appear by reference lo the Globe of March 31, 1832, which contains an article written by me. and entitled A Review of the Opinion of the Supreme Court in the Cherokee Case.” In that article, I observe that the clause of the Constitution authorizing Congress “to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations rer specting the torritor/ or other property of the United States, refers to the territorial rights, and grants no jurisdiction over per sons.” • Among other things 1 say : * The power to dispose of, and make needful rules arid regulations respecting the territory or other property of the United States, and the power to cxercis • general jurisdiction over persons upon it. me essentially different and independent. The former is general, and is given in the clause referred to ; the latter is special, and is found in another clause, and is confined to the federal tract, (the District of Columbia,) and to places purchased by consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings.” This is the same doctrine subsequently advocated, and more fully developed in my Nicholson letter. I repeat that this power of internal legisla tion cannot be found in the Constitution, nnd vain have been the efforts, by pressing into its service a thousand and one expressions in that instrument, to prove it to be there; a diversity of reference which, of itself, fur nishes a strong presumption against the authority, even if there were no other grounds of objection Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court of the United States, in some considerations published by him upon this subject, and to which I have elsewhere referred, well re marked, that “there is no specific power in the Constitution which authorizes the organ ization of Territorial governments.” He adds: *.lf(his p>ower be implied from the specific power to regulate the disposition of the public lands, it must, under the above xule, be limited to means suitable to the ends in view. 1. Congress go beyond this in the organization of a Territorial government, they act without limitation, and may estab lish a monarchy Admit that they may or ganize a government which shall protect the lands purchased, and provide for the ndm'n- Ltrat-icn of justice among the settlers, it does by no means follow that they may e- tablisli slavery,” Judge McLean here brings the Constitution of the United States to the support of the good old revolutionary doctrine, that the light to establish colonies or territories docs not carry with it the just i iwer to interfere with and regulate llio domestic concerns of the people who inhabit them. lie pronounces slavery to be one of these concerns saying that * It-is a munici pal relation <>f limited extent, and of an tonally limited origin. It is a domestic re lation, over which the Federal Government can cxerci°<s no control.” I have known the time when the Damo eratic parly-was called upon by higher con siderations to adhere, faithfully nnd zealous ly, lo their organization nnd their principles than they are at this daj’. Our confedera tion is passing through the most severe trial ! Another Letter from President Long ; street—To the Methodist Know-No thing Preachers. j When 1 closed my last address -to yon, 1 was speaking of your professed love of the i person, nnd opposition to the religion of the i Catholic. Now it so happens that all your J opposition is to the person, and nono of it to i the religion of the Catholic. Your whole - aim is to deprive him of office. How can keeping him out of office affect his religion ? jlt is opposition, in any one, dangerous and i unprovoked ; in you ( preachers ,) ignoble j and ungenerous. You know that your allies ;of the world care nothing about religion ; that theft- hostility is directed exclusively i against the members of that church. That many of them are intemperate, thoughtless, I indiscreet, desperate That eneournged by j your countenance, and inflamed by your i speeches, they will regard Catholics as the i enemies of tbo country ; as hypocrites and knaves ; and they will treat them accord i ‘ugly. They will assail their pcrsons.de j stroy their property, desecrate their church es and rot) them of their civil privileges I generally. This has been dune, to some ex ; tent, already ; nnd it will grow worse with every accession to yonr strength. The Catholics cannot bear this long. They will become desperate, arm in self defence, and all who love justice and hate oppression, will join them. These will he denounced by your clan, ns traitors to their country, and its religion, and slaves of the Pope. They will become enraged at such imputations only for espousing the cause of the innocent, and hurl back the charges Hot blood will soon produce blows, and blows merciless civil war. This is to be the end of your love for Catholics, and hatred of their religion, if history be worth anything. Are these things only possible j What are thon all the offices of the world, compared to such consequences? Have you not had signs terrific already, that they are not only possible but almost certain, if you keep up your organization ? Como out of it then, if you would be wise, and run r.o risks. You cannot surely be so weak as to suppose A’ou can crush Roman ism by Know Nothing agencies; but you have almost ruined Methodism by them al ready. You are bated by thousands who once respected you; and whether they be good or bad, l protest against your working these agencies against them. Your duty calls you to other and better work. Hear the venerated Wesley upon this head; Preaching on tho text, Mark IX,oB-9 (“ we j saw ono casting out devils in thy name, and : we forbade, because be followeth not us.— j Ami Josus said, forbid them not.” Mr. , Wesley proceed? upon the principle, that all sin is tho work of the devil in the hearts of men ; and that all who are instrumental in changing and purifying the heart, maybe said to cast out devils, and should not be forbidden in their work. He says, “Suppose then a man have no intercourse with us, sup \ pose he he net of our parly, suppose hesep ! orates from our church, yea, nnd widely j differs from us, both in judgment, practice | and affection ; yet if we see even this man casting out devils, Jesus saith, “forbid him not.” What if I were to see a Papist, an Arian, a Socinian, casting out devils? If I did, I con'd not forbid even him, without convicting myself of bigotry. Yea, if it could be supposed that I should see a Jew. a Deist, or a Turk doing the same, were I j to forbid him directly or indirectly , I should |be no better than a bigot still.” “There arc j ninny ways of doing this. You indirectly ! forbid him, if you either wholly deny, or j despise and make little account of the work • whicli God has wrought b.y his hands.”— i “When you discourage him in his work, by raising objections against it, or frightening him with consequences which very possibly will never be.” “ When you show an un : kindness towards him , either in language \or behavior. And much more when you | speak of him to others either in an unkind jor contemptuous manner. When you cn , deavor to represent him to any in an odious or despicable light.” Think not that the bigotry of another is. any excuse for you.— j If Wesley was alive, what would he think of your midnight plots and open tirades against Papists ? Mi, read his Letter to a Ro man Catholic, (Vol. v p. 7G1,) and ask yourselves as you read it, “did Wesley ever expect his followers to treat Catholics as I jam treating them How meek and Hea : venly tho spirit J How tender the language, how touching in sentiment! After enumer ating certain articles of the Protestant faith, ; and vindicating them from the work of God, lie concludes in this language, much abridg- | ed and much diluted by the abridgment: ! “Are we not thus far ngreed ? Lotus thank God for this, and receive it as a fresh : token of bis love. But if God still }ovetb us, wo ought also to love one another.” “Oh brethren, let us not fall out by the way. I hope to see you in heaven.” “In the name, then, and in the strength of God, let us re i solve. First, not to hurt one another ; to do , nothing unkind or unfriendly to each other; uotbiug which we would not have done to i ourselves.” “Let us resolve secondly, God being our helper, to speak nothing harsh or unkind l of each other. The sure way to avoid this is ‘ to say all the good wc can, both of and to one another —to use only the language of love ; to speak with all softness and tender ness ” • -Let us, thirdly, resolve toll arbor no u- , kiud thought, no unfriendly temper towards each oilier.” j wLct us. fourthly, endeavor to lwlp each i I otlier cm in whatever wc are agreed leads to j j the kingdom So far as wc can. let us al- j i ways rejoice to strengthen each other’s bauds lin God.” I could quota much more from Mr. i Wesley's works to the same effect. 1 But a letter of his bus boon going the rounds of the newspapers, which tho Kuow i J Nothings obviously think gives the sanction j lof that good man to their inovomeut. Not so. Mr. Wesley was not the man to write iwjowusteutly, as their version of this letter makes him write. That letter was writteu to show that Prctcstnuts would uot bo safe j from oppression under Catholic government, j jNo doubt of it in the world. Nor would | Catholics be safe under Methodist govern- ‘ , meat, as your plots againysi. them tiow, most ! clearly demonstrate. Xh* truth is, no reli gious sect is to be trusted with tho reins of ! \ government. And if l were to take the ‘ stump against you, l would say to tho lion- j , cst yeomanry of the country, “good people, ; if you think that your liberties will be any j safer iu the bauds of Methodist than Catho lics, you are mistakeu.” And, ia proof of tliis assertion, I would point to the outrages of the Methodist majority in 1844, ‘which split our church. I would add, in humilia tion, but in candor, <*you have ten thousand times more to fear just at this time, from Methodists than Catholics; simply because tho first are more numerous than tho last, because the first are actually in’ the field for office, tvhile the last are not; because the* first, by reason of their numbers, are the pets of the strongest political combinations that ever was formed in this country—secret and oath hound at that. And if you will take an old man’s advice, when churches get to'quarreling,’niin"politicians call on you to do justice between them, I would advise you to deal with them all, as the Indian magistrate did with the parties to a prose cution before him, for fighting, lie ordered the combatants to receive fifteen lashes, for a breach of order ; and the prosecutor to re ceive thirty, .because if it haden’t been for him, the court would not have been bothered with the ease.” This is the way I would talk to the people, in homely phrase, but sterling truth. History no case so strong to my purpose, as that which produced the letter just mentioned. In the reign of William 111, of England, a statute was passed which inflicted punishment “on Popish priests or Jesuits who should teach or officiate in the services of that Church ; which acts were felony in foreigners , and high treason in the natives of the kingdom The forfeitures of Popish heirs who hnd received their edu cation abroad, and whose estates went to the next Protestant heir. The power given to the son or other near relation, being a Pro testant, to take possession of the father or other relation's estate during the life of the proprietor. And the depriving of Papists of the power of acquiring any legal property by purchase-” Do the records of human legislation present any greater monstrosity than this act, with its horrible parade of forfeitures, disabilities and penalties upon a man, for no higher offence than teaching and preaching in his own church on British soil ? After the Catholics had groaned under it for about sixty-seven years, they meekly petitioned for a repeal of the act. To the honor of the Parliament of eighteen George 111, it was repealed without a dissenting voice. And now all Protestant England was in an uproar. Associations were formed to procure a restoration of the statutes of Wil. bam. Petitions poursd into Parliament, and beset the throne, ala abolitionism, fill ed with awful forebodings of the speedy rise and triumph of Catholicism; and still more awful forebodings of its consequences to Pro testantism. Even good old John Wesley caught the spirit of the times, and wrote that letter, ( but he did not join any of their as j satiations) from which it appears he thought I if the Catholics got into power they would abuse Protestants. What abuse they could have heaped upon them greater than they heaped on Catholics, short of cutting their throats, I cannot conceivo. Well, time has proved that all their fears were groundless. Catholics went on quietly and orderly, tho’ they still lay under heavy disabilities In 1820 most of these disabilities were removed, i Another Protestant uproar, of course ; but still Catholics are not within a thousand leagues of dominion in England. Now, with these facts before our eyes, what nre we to ! think of the pretended panic which has been I suddenly conjured up in this country against Catholics; and the abominable agencies i which are put in operation to curtail their | rights ? Think you that if Wesley was alive he would justify you iu yoking yourselves to political parties for any purpose? Never; as I can prove to you from his own words. Party spirit rau high in England in 1774. In that year he writes to his people as fol lows: i Y r ou were never in your lives in so critical a situation as you are at this time It is your part to be peace makers, to be lov ing and tender to ail, but to adict yourselves to no party. In spite of all solicitations of \ rough or snootli words, say not one word ; against one or the other side. Keep your selves pure; do all you can to help and soft ©n all; but beware how you adopt another's j .jars ” iMark all those who would set one j of you against another- Some such will j never be wanting. But give them no coun- | tcnance ; rather ferret them out, and drag j THEM INTO OPEN DAY.’ WaS Uot tile 111:111 ( inspired for the use of this day and genera tion ! “But arc you not iu the same cate- j gory with us.” No more than he was lie ! advises you not to go into party alliances ; ! and I advise you to. come out of them. But strange as it may seem, according to Wesley, I might preach against your Order, while you may uot preach iu favor of it. Iu his remarks upon the question, “llow ear it is THE DUTY OK A CHRISTIAN MINISTER TO preach politics, he admits that when the ruler of a people is spoken evil of, without any color of reason, and) when odium is cast on him by that means, <.e ought to preach politics; we ought publicly to confute those unjust ccnsurcrs.” Now the ruler of this nation is spoken evil of by your party con tinually, and therefore, in the judgment of j Wesley, 1 might stand up in the pulpit and . defend him. I shall uot avail myself of the privileges, but as it comes right in the way. j l will say, if the South.is uot satisfied with : the present Chief Magistrate of the nation, i she deserves to have a Seward put in his ‘ , place. Thank God no religious sect can tyrannise over another in this country, so long as they | all respect the Federal Constitution. Until ! we seo then, the Catholics treating that in strument will* disrespect, it is madness to I entertain fears of thorn; and worse than, tund- j ness to form combinations against thorn.— j But how shall wo characterize combinations agaiust them, when they are numerically I disabled from taking the reins of tho goveru ; ment iu their hands, if they were disposed Ito do it; and when they havo not yet mani fested tho slightest disposition tu do so, if they could? It is moustrous! And who . are your confederates? Why your “higher j law ’ gentry, who would shout hallelujahs, I if your slaves should become your masters | 0 I to-morrow. Theso have nearly gained the j control of the government already. They rose to power by their hostility to you.— LLioy are moving to the capitol iu solid phal j iuax, with the battle cry on their lips, “Down J w n.’.H Slavery !” And now when you must j be united 01 ruincd-*-whca you. need help ; from every quarter to oppose them; you are | , co operating with them, and making cucmios i |of your Catholic friends at home! Worse still! By doing iu. a wrong, unchristian* I unrepublican way, what, if done rightly, would have been harmlegp; you liayo set one half of our people against the other, in ! bitter, and 1 fear implacable hostility. May | God help us ! Bttt lam digressing. You are of pa id of the spread of Roman ism. Well, until themarks of the brickbats arc effaced from your own dliapels, I should suppose you would not forget that persecu tion is thOr, worst agency in the wrKrio prevent its spread. It is.-like hy &og&\ ton balloon; it 1> oth expands and elc votes it. 3m the pr'ests of the Catholic church in the Union would not have inspired amofig'Protestants, in twenty years, the re spect for it that Know Nothingism has in spired in one- Mr. Wesley speaks in point to the case. Hear him ; “I preached at the new chapel, on Luke ix 55, (Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of) and showed that, supposing the Papists to be heretics, wicked men, enemies to us and to our church and nation ; yot we ought not to persecute, to kill, hurt, or grieve them ; but barely to prevent their doing harm,’’ (vol. iv. p. 630 ) Wljat harm nre they doing you ? So much j for your mode of resisting Popery. Now > for Mr. Wesley's mode and mine : In his address, entitled A shout Method | of Converting am, the, Roman Catho- | flics of the Kingdom or Ireland, he says , “It is a melancholy’ consideration to those i who love the Protestant interest, that so small a part of this nation is yet reformed from Popery. They cannot observe, without a very sensible concern, that in many parts of tho Kingdom, there are still ten nay fifteen, perhaps upwards of twenty Pa pists to one Protestant. Nor can they see any prospects of its being otherwise not withstanding all the metheds which have been used, while many Protestants nre se duced from it ” Then enumerating discour agements which had paralyzed Protestant efforts, &c., &c., he proceeds: “But what way can the clergy take with any probabil ity of success ? There is one way, and one way only ; one that will (iiot probably ) but infallibly succeed. If this way be taken, I AM WILLING TO STAKE MY LIFE UPON the success of it. And it is a plain and simple wav ; such as may be taken by any man, though but of small capacity. For it requires no peculiar depth of understanding, n > extraordinary height of learning; but only a share of sense, and an honest, upright heart.” “It was observed that the grand difficulty of the work lies in the strong at tachment of the Papists to their clergy.— Here, therefore, we are to begin ; we are to stiike at the root, and if this bigotry be not removed, whatever error or superstition is built upon it will, of course, fall to the ground.” “Now, this may effectually be done thus : The Papists themselves allow that one set of clergy were holier, wiser than their own, namely, the Apostles. They allow these both to have lived and preached better than present clergy, even of the Roman church.” “Here, thcrefo“e, is the short and sure method. Let all the clergy of the church of Ireland only live like the Apostles and preach like the Apostles, and the thing is done.” There is plan; which was to make one Protestant succeed against twenty Catholics; how much more certain to suc ceed in a country where there are twenty Protestauts to one Catholic ! Now, ns tho’ God would remove every shadow of apology from you, for your confederation with the sons of darkness to accomplish this end, you are living witnesses that so far as this plan has been tried, it has succeeded. When you were little, humble, penniless, illiterate, but rich in faith, honest and upright in heart,’ self-sacrificing, patient in labor and abounding in love—when you dived like the Apostles, and preached like the Apostles,’ (for all your learning was from them) you gained over to your church more Irish and German Catholics, in one year, than the Ro mish church ever gained members from yours in twenty. You should, therefore, rejoice, ;if all immigrants were Catholics ; for the I Protestants are safe at home, and you have the means of converting all who come. But what would Mr. Wesley say to you, if he j was alive and saw you not only engaged in ! uucliristiau warfare against Catholics, but ! actually striking at them through the Cou- J stitution of your country ? Suppose their j religion does spread, with the unexampled j rapidity with which yours has, who has a I right to object? Will you forbid men to ■ choose their own religion ? In all the essen tials’ of Christianity, do they not agree with you ? Wesley thought so, and 1 think so. Do they differ from you wider in faith than your Unitarian confederates? Have any people on earth surpassed them as seriuon izers, tried by any test that you may choose ? Bossuet, Mascarou, Flccliier, Bourdalouc, ! Feuelon., Massilon, ltavignan, Lacordaire, Beautain—these are Catholic preachers.— Were they ever surpassed ? Will they ever be? Will some of them over be equalled ? Has Christianity ever had abler champions i than she has found in. Catholics ? Asa lec j turer upon tho evidences of Christianity, I I owe Cardinal Wiseinau a debt 1 can never j repay. What I should have done without him in this age of scientific infidelity, 1 do not know. I have been a pretty severe stu dent for near forty years, and a laborious, if not profound thinker for a long time ; but i when I compare myself in intellectual stat ure with that man, I shrink in my own, esti mation to-the insignificance of a mite. Ho will never hear of me, of course, but if ho could, it would gratify him to know that away here in the wild woods of the west, where, eighteen years ago, the wigwam stood, and the Indian s council fires blazed, his leuturos have reached and blessed. Would thnt 1 were as able an advocato of the rights ’ of his church, as lie is of the truths of ehirist- I ianity. I It is the roligiou of such men that yen; j would atop tho spread of, not by exposing ! j its fallacies, but by midnight plots ! Where | would you have been if this mode of dealing j had been adopted against your people, fifty ! years ago. [TO IIE CONCLUDED NEXT W EEU,} For tho Standard. More Withdrawals., Fairmount, Gordon Cos., Sept 2, ’6Sv Kda. Standard: We wish you to publish in your paper that wo have been members of tho Know Nothing or American Lodge, but have withdrawn from that body and want j [ the world, to know that we have done so in | good faith.. We expect to livo aud die dem ocrats. RILEY GENTRY. LANUON GENTRY. THE STANDARD. lmi7iYTi~E THOMAS A. BURKE, sra5 ra " AUI “ 5, CASSVIIjIjE, geo. THURSDAY MORNING : SEPTEMBER 13, 1855. FOR GOVERNOR, ! HERSCHEL Y. JOHNSON, OF P.ALDWI V. FOR CONGRESS. | Ist Hist.., JAS. L. SEWARD of Thomas. ! 2mT “ M. J. CRAWFORD of Muscogee i I Set “ .TAMES M, SMITH of Upson. | 4th “ H. WARNER of Meriwether, j sth “ JOHN 11. LUMPKIN of Floyd. ! 6th “ HOWELL COBB of Clarke 7th “ LINTON STEPHENS, Hancock. ! Bth “ A. 11. STEPHENS of Taliaferro. FOR SENATOR, HAWKINS jF. PRICE, FOR REPRESENTATIVES, ALFRED M. LINN, Z. G. TURNER. Col. Thomas IV. Thomas, of Elbert, i has been appointed Judge of the Northern 1 Circuit, vice Ron. Garnett Andrews, resign- j ed. ftS* We regret to hear of the death of Hon. W. B W. Dent, member of Congress from the 4th District, which occured at New nau, Friday last. Governor Johnson and the Algerine Documents. We published last week the letter of Judge ■ Summers, in relation to the charge made by the Atlanta Discipline, that Gov. Johnson | had refused to pay Mr. Dodd for printing a lot of Algerine documents which he had or dered That letter was sufficient to convince ; ! any one not wilfully blind to the truth of! the utter falsity of this charge. The follow- j j fng fiom the Atlanta Intelligencer, however, j ! sets the matter entirely at rest. What will j i the Discipline start up next? All of its; j terrible charges against Governor Johnsonj jso far, have been met and refuted. For its 1 I own sake we trust it will trump up no more : such stories. In the language of the Intelli j gencer i.wc fear, however, there is no ex- I haustirg the supply.” . But to the extract: j The following letter from Mr. Do 11, i ; with reference to these Algerine documents, 1 . ° about which the Discipline lias so much prated, will be received as a complete vindi cation of Gov. Johnson, from the charge brought against him in that paper. It is proper to add that the letter of Mr. Jenkins : referred to in the following communication, j was used openly by Gov. Johnson in his j speeches during the canvass. Rome, G a., Sept. 3d, 1855. • * Editor Intelligencer: j Dear Sir, I notice that the Discipline ; has made some charges against Gov. John- | son in regard to some extra Southerners, issued from the Southerner office during the j canvass for Governor in 1853, while I was | editor of that paper. My name has been I given as reference by the editor of the Dis I cipline. I never authorized him to give such j reference. It seems that if the editor of the ! Discipline really desired information on the : subject, he would have endeavored to pro- i j cure it from me, instead of getting the cer- j j tificate of Underwood, Starr and Black, as to i | what they had heard me say, during the i ; last two years. As my name has been free- j I ly used in the matter, by the Know Nothing I papers of the State, 1 feel constrained to , i make an explanation. When Gov. Johnson j was at Home in 1853., lie asked me to strike ! i off for circulation several extra Southerners, \ containing Mr. Jenkins’ famous Whig letter , ‘to the Savannah Republican. I did as be i requested, and in those extras were inserted j two or three editorials from Democratic pa- ; J pers concerning the Algerine Law, and Mr. , Jenkins’ connection wiili it Gov. Johnson t is not responsible for the Algerine portion | of those extras ; some other person is, if it f j is important that any one should be respon- j ! sible. 1 never had the remotest idea of sue- j ing Gov. Jobitsuaupon the account, although j I it is alleged that 1 * threatened ’ to do so.— I know that some of the Whigs of this place ; desired that i should do so. One of them a lawyer, a Know Nothing) proposed to , i prosecute the suit free of charge. I have j been joked a great deal about what the! ! Know Nothings are pleased to term the < Al- j I gerine Circulars,’ and I may haw, at some i ! time, carelessly said more than I intended to convey lam satisfied that what 1 did , ! say lias been given the most Intitudious con- ‘ ’ struction. Gov. Johnson did not refuse ’to pay the account. J presented it to* the Deni- ) ocrutic committee of Floyd county , nmd that : commit toe paid it. Yours truly, J. W. Dona*” Resignation of Judge Andrews. Judge Andrews (says the Federal I'nioni) sent in his resignation as Judge of the Northern Circuit, to the Governor last week, i 3 1 is a little singular that hu should have i I withheld his resignation until within a very , ’ low days of tho session of Taliaferro Superior I Court. What motivo could have induced 1 liilH to swell a delay ? Was it postponed to ; this late day, on tho eve of tho session of ft j ) Court in his Circuit, Ihmjumso ho knew Gov. | Johnson was distant from his post several ( hundred miles, aid could not, according to bis published appointments, reach the Capi tol, unit id i t was too late to anoint a successor, thereby causing a failure in- tho session of Tkliafcrro Superior Court ? Was | it to produce such a state of things, for tho sake of political capital, that this resigna tion was thus delayed ? If Judge Andrews is free from such unworthy suspicions, lie is ! tho victim of untoward circumstauccs. Per haps our neighbor can.give some satisfactory explanation, of this matter, ns it is shrewdly I suspected ho was with, or vory near Judge j Amdrews the same week, this letter of rosig | nation was penned. Read the following- We request, the attention of „tho reading public to the new advertisements in to-day's issue ; and particularly would wo call the attention of persons wishing to toy land to the advertisement of M. A. Leak. Persons desiring to buy good land, in a healthy sec tion of Georgia, where they can be fanned by the cool mountain breezes, and drink pure and pellucid spring water, n*id raise fine stock and produce for market, and live upon the fat of the land, would do well to call on Mr Leak at an early da}’. lie is determin ed to sell, and will sell cheap and no mistake. The New York; Know Nothings- Below we give the Resolutionc of the New York Know Nothing State Convention. It will he seen that they not only fail to en dorse the late Know Nothing platform adopted at Philadelphia, hut that they actu ally make war upon the repeal of the Missouri compromise, and Nebraska-Kunsas territorial bills. Thus has gone the last hope of the Know Nothings south, to build up a national party. Their brethren in every Northern and free State have and will wage war upon the in stitutions of the South by opposing the Nebraskn-Kansas bills. Southern Know Nothings must now oppose these measures, or admit that their party is sectional, and against ns upon the slavery question—the all-absorbing issue now agitating the public mind. The Know Nothings of the great State of New Vork.of whose nationality their breth ren of the South have so often boasted, have taken sides with Massachusetts in her uure lenting war against the Constitutional rights ; of the South. And in this meeting at their head was J. W. Barker, the former President of the national Know Nothings, and these Resolutions adopted at a Convention over which h| presided, it is fair to presume, ut ter his views and sentiments If so, then lias this pretended national party had ns its president for the twelve months before the fifth of last June, a secret enemy of the South and her institutions ? Can the South longer doubt that three-fourths of the Know Nothings in the Union are our worst and I most dangerous enemies ? While the Temper ats in no State have 1 made war upon the Nebraska-Kansas b*ll, 1 the Know Nothings in every single Northern ! and free State, openly take sides against it. We have repeatedly said that the Know ! Nothings could never triumph in the South. They have carried hut one Southern State, : and they can expect no other—how can they when we have such an abundance of proof that their success is the triumph of the North over the Constitutional rights of the South ? We are surprised to see Southern men so , blinded by party prejudice as still to adhere to this dangerous organization, born and nurtured i the hot bed of abolitionism.— What can Southern men expect if Know j Nothingism should triumph ? certainly no I favor to the South—no, not ever- the securi ty of her plain constitutional rights. RESOLUTION’S ON PRINCIPLES. Resolved, That the national administra tion, by its general course of official conduct, I together with nn attempt to destroy the re pose, harmony, and fraternal relations of the country in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the encouragement of ag gressions upon the government of the terri torial inhabitants of Kansas, deserves, and should received, the united condemnation of the American people, ami that the institu tion of slavery should derive no extension from such repeal. Resolved, That in tho organization of the American order, the institution of involun tary servitude was, and now h T regarded as local, and not national, in its character, a subject for the toleration of a difference of ’ opinion by the citizens of the northern and southern States, and ns such has no rightful place in the platform of tbe national Ameri can party. Judge Irwin’s Nomination. Below we giTe the certificate of Doct. E. M. Pennington, of Dallas, which shews that Judge Irwin, with all his pretended no-par ty-ism, is the regular nominee of a Know Nothing Caucus Convention. It has been > nearly six months since he was nominated i by the K N. party, and it has been kept a j profound secret, and would have remained j so, doubtless, until after the election, had not Doct. Pennington withdrawn from the order and made the nomination public. In j the meantime tbe cry has been* that lie was , a no party, man, and, old Whig as he has always been, we are told that, in some places, j where his former position was not known, j they have had the boldness to represent to j the people that he was a Democrat. Any tliiug to suit the times. But the mask is now torn away and all understand hisposi- j tion Remember it. Democrats and Auti-K. j Nothings. lie is the nominee of the Know Nothing party. nsd has been for nearly six months. l*id any of you know it before ? Vow all knew that the Know Nothings were sPl>orting him, and doing all iu their power to defeat Col. Brown, the Democratic and j j Auli-Kuow Nothing candidate, but did you ! know that Judgo Irwin was nominated by a Know Nothing Caucus in the month of March last ? They have protended to make their j i proceedings public since the meeting of the : Philadelphia Convention. ltet we find, as we have suspected all the white, that they sti!’. l try to keep n dutch ns possible of their proceedings in the <t<uk. But to the certificate No maa will ques tion Duct. Pennington's veracity. i ( IXvl.l. AS, I'-A-UaniNG Cos., Ga., September fiGi, IBSA J j I hereby certify that 1 was heretofore a member of a council of tte order usually ; known ns Know Nothings, nt this place; j | that 1 was a delegate from this county ton . Convention of the order, held at Marietta, during tho last March Thru* of Cobb Supc- ! ; rior Court, for tho purpose ot nominating ft ! candidate for Judgo of the Blue llidge Cir cuit; that I attended that Convention as a delegate, and that the lion. Duvid hwin was unanimously nominated tvs the candi date of that party. 1 make this certificate | because l have been informed! that the sacs , lwis been denied. E. M Pxjmunivbox. I j To the Voters of Cherokee Georgia. I Head the communication signed . Cosmop- ■ olito.’ and learn Judge Andrews’ views in , referenco to tho State ltoad. They were ne ver intended for the up-country but we beg | our friends to •• pass ’em. around..” A Georgia Book. Hritnr Verson, or the Dream bv a Georgian. Augusta, Geo. 1855. ’ ! „ We have . Henry Vernon, or tho Dream,” and a dream indeed has it been to us, one which proved a . well sp r i n ,, ot pleasure,’ and now ns we lay it regretfully j aside ’ its incidents so richly fraught with j interest, and its teachings so full of purity still hover around us, and we return strength” ! ened and renewed, to battle with life anfl its I realities. We took up the book, under most j unfavorable circumstances. Prejudices j stron g and dceplj rooted, were to be ovev- J come - fr'e have long condemned the daily ; manufacture of cotels, whose name is legion, and are strenuously arrayed against the in sipid food, which is catered oat hy the many aspirants for literary fame, ami these wh for gain, pander to the yitiated tastes of the romantic miss, and the beardless represen , tativc of YMi rig America. So popular has ; been this self-feeding novel manufactory, j tlia * Gie very sight of one sufficed to quench | our curiosity. Thus steeled and prepared, ’we the perusal of Henry Ver non.” We can scarcely eaJl it a jetusal for we .. walked, talked, aated” the parts assigned to the characters of the book. All the incidents are well connected, the; characters so artistically and naturally dis posed, tbe pleft so harmoniously developed, that the criticism which. the gifted *.tl**y so much dreads, =>? which we were, before hand, so ready and determined to inflict, proved utterly pointless, feeble and unfound ed. We will but add that few can read : - Henry Vernon’ without feelings of satisfac j tion, profit and pleasure. We have no ! as to its •* kindly reception,” and it* j^ad. ! ers eagerly await .. the kindred visitor,'’ ; from the pen of its author of which we hare the promise. ron THE STANDARD. GORDON COUNTY, GEORGIA, > * September G, 1855. j Mess. Editors: I beg to send yon a few lines for the 1 Standard, us it advocates the true Demo cratic doctrine. 1 have ever been a true Democrat until I was initiated into a Know i Nothing Lodge. I was initiated by an oath, j or a pledge, ns some of them term it, hut, I sirs, I take this occasion to say it is an oath, j and one of the ztrongest ever taken by mor tal man, as I will shew. When a candidate !is initiated and the pledge administeied, lie is told to put his left hand on his breast and raise his right hand towards the God who rules over and preserves our nation from evil, while at the same time he pledges him self to support the party, right or wrong. Sirs, I now inform the Lodge at Fairmount that I cannot face tho music, when 1 know it is wrong. I really believe this Kuow Nothingism to be wrong, and will tell you why : it binds me to support men who I be lieve to be unsound in principle und rottcu hearted, and I, for one, can not do it. I like the honest and patriotic flersclitl V. Johnson and the well tvie-1 statesman, John 11. Lumpkin too wel’ to be led astray hum them, and 1 call on all true Democrats to come out of the foul crowd and rally under the standard of Democracy. 1 hai the promise, Messrs. Editors, legal discharge whenever 1 became dissatis fied with the order. 1 ata dissatisfied, and have said so, but they report thwt the keys of Lodge No. at Fsurmount are hurt, un til after the October election, when it wid be re-opened, but 1 will inform them that they have not got me locked up in their dark room If they have lost tbeir keys at Fair mount, I hope you can and will report to the good old Democrats that I am done with the dark lantern crowd. Yours with respect, Matthew Mccocks. FOR THE STANB-VO*,. Judgs Andrews in Lincoln. Mr Editor ; The above named geutlenisn f—the Great, Grand Fluinof Know Nothing ism in Georgia, paid a hasty visit to Lincoln on the 14tli inst. As his mode of warfare is on the principle of busli-Sghtiug, he give* but a few days notice ®f his appointments— fearing opposition, and being driven to the necessity of repudiating free discussion. That don’t suit him. lie labored here for nearly , two hours and made one of the poorest, lamest efforts lever hcaid. He first revitw !ed the slavery question and said it was tho most important. Upc> this point bo mixed I and mystified every thing so much no one l could scarcely locate him. Next he slimed over the Catholic question and answered i tlsc Cuba argument in this way : lie wanted I Cuba forthe purpose of civilizing and evau ; geliiing its iuhabitawts. If that is his mo tive, 1 tlnuk k,is chance better for being “P ----! pointed missionary, that being elected Gov ernor hf Georgia. He boasted; that he w*> an Episcopalian because Washington piofcs -1 sed that faith- lie next came to the foreign question, and forgetting what lie had said about tho slavery question, he contended this was the most important. l-Io transcend ed the limits of the American platform h}’ arguing that emigration should bo stopped r and contending that if it was not, his child- I reu after awhile would not be able to buy . a potato patch. Next lie paid oil’ on the W. & A. Railroad—made a side wipe at | Cooper's letter, and contended that if lie did ! uot make the road pay seven per cent., he l wmthl sett it. lie bogged hard for overseer's place in Georgia, thought he could make tlis rood pay. But now listen te his argument against the road He asserted that the citizens of Georgia who paid eighty dollars taxes to tho | State paid seven eighths of it, or seventy dollars on account of the State road, thereby i creating the impression that if the road w ! sold, tho taxes of tho State would be but ’ nominal. Keep this before the people of upper Geor gia. Judge Andrews is hostile to the State road, and if ho and his party get into power at this election,. tb salo of the road is iuet * table. Kuow Nothimgism here is on the wane-' - true, Sam is looking up, but one thing know, he is bound to look up ; for he is h-t of his back and can’t look any other wa- Keep the ball moving nud wa will bdp J' 11 all wo can i the good cause. Yours truly, Cosmopolite i A Mr. Thompson, of Kansas *•*[£ has, it is said, just completed a F* 1 * 10 jV or wagon, to be propelled by wind, in wh he proposes, with thirty companions, to • 1 a voyage to tho Rocky Mountains soniot 1 iu J une next.