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THE STANDARD. WILLIAM T. WOFFORD, ) „ nlTnl ,_ THOMAS A. BURKE, i H,IW1 ‘ S '_ CASSVILLE, GEO. THURSDAY MORNING : SEPTEMLER 20. 1855. FOR GOVERNOR, HERSCHEL Y. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS, lat Dist., JAS. L. SEWARD of Thomas. 2nd “ M. J. CR AWFOIID of Muscogee 3d “ JAMES M, SMTI'H of Upson. 4th 14 11. WARNER of Meriwether. Sth “ JOHN H. LUMPKIN of Floyd. 6th HOWELL CORD of Clarke. 7th 44 LINTON STEPHENS, Hancock. Sth 44 A. 11. STEPHENS of Taliaferro. FOR SENATOR, HAWKINS F. PRICE, FOR REPRESENTATIVES, ALFRED M. LINN, Z. G. TURNER. An. Appeal. We are not in the habit of troubling our patrons with editorial duns, but circumstan ces compel us to depart from our usual rule We want money, and are compelled to have it. Our books shew an indebtedness in our favor of between five and six thousand dol lars, while our collections are really less than the weekly expenses of the office Is it fair that we should be constantly pressed for money, when so much is due us ? Many of the most responsible men in the country owe us for three years subscription, and others for a shorter time. Their delay has nut resulted from asiy desire to do us an in justice, but from inattention and forgetful ness. We cannst call, either in person or through an agent , on all of these gentlemen, but we beg that each one of them, who knows himself to be indebted, will at once respond to tliis appeal by sending us the money Where they are ignorant of the amount due, let them make us a remittance, and we will either return the over-plus or credit them in advance, and in every case, send a receipt for the amount paid. We propose to atteud the Superior Courts of Gordon, Cherokee., Fannin, Gilmer and Pickens, and earnestly entreat our friends in those counties to come to court prepared to pay w'aat they owe us. Wc have already been indulgent to our injury, and ncocssity compels us either to collect up or quit the business. Wc trust, therefore, that no one will think hard of us for insisting on settle nients at this time. Col. Tumiin. There still appears to be some doubt jus to I thepositioD of this aspirant for Congrossion al honors upon the Know Nothing question, notwithstanding bis notorious and public association with that party. We are inform ed upon good authority that Col. Tumiin ! denies to some of his old friends that he is a j Know Nothing, and says that he never was I in a secret couuoil in hits life, and that he j knows nothing about them. What does he mean by thus denying the j truth ? Does he desire to be elected by de- J ception and fraud ? Docs he seek the sup- | port of men whom he deceives? His own 1 nets convict him of this dirty work ! Now ) we charge that. Col Tumiin has belonged, ! and is now a member of the Know’ Nothing ! council at Cartersville ; that the Southern j Statesman at Calhoun, a Know Nothing • paper, is published by his authority, and the < expenses paid with his money ; that his meet- | ingsin this district were Know Nothing ones ; that Cols. Milner, Chisolm and Parrott were i his advocates and mouth pieces at those pla- j ces ; that he is committed to their views by : repeatedly soliciting them to speak for him. If lie or any of his friends think that we j have done him injustice in the above state- j nients, we are ready to prove the truth of . what we have said. We object to any man , who seeks the suffrages of his fellow citizens, going about the country (lenyiug his party associations to one man, and advocating its candidates to another. It is an attempt at deception, unworthy of oue who desires Con gressional honors, and we tell Col. Tumlin’s friends that this trick of hie is seen and well understood, and that the honest voters des pise such conduct. ” Measures—not Men.” This is an old motto of the Democratic party, and never has there been a time in ! the hibtory of our country when it should ho 1 more fully carried out than in the prescut contest. The political questions now agita ting the public mind are probably of more importance than any that have heretofore eoue before the people, since the days of the Revolution. In view of this fact we would urge upon our political friends throughout the State the great importance and necesiity of harmony and concert of action. Remem ber that * in union there is strength,’’ and in division nothing but weakness sod defeat. Our opponents are the best organized party that ever existed iu this couutry, and if we should divide our strength, we voluntarily give them the victory. The K. Ns. have a regularly nominated ticket in nearly every eouuty in the State, and every one belonging to the order will vote it. Let our friends leoollec* and bear in mind that there is not a single oue of our opponents who can vote a split ticket. And in order to succeed, we must stick to our regular ticket, and forget ting all personal friendships, look with an eye single to the success of our principles Recollect that the success or defeat of a man is this contest is of little importance, but that oar principles are all absorbing, and fer their triumph we should sacrifice all personal feeling* and preferences. jfcsrUt the democrats be at work. . Governor Johnson Will address the citizens of Cass at Kingston on next Monday, the 24th instant, Let there be a full turn out. He will also speak at Villa Rica, Carroll Coun ty, on Saturday, the 22d, at Calhoun, on Tues* day, the 2:3th, and at Dalton, on Wednesday, the 20th. Onr County Ticket. As the day of the election is near at hand, ! we hope all Democrats nnd opponents of the Know Nothings will rally to our regular i ticket for the Legislature. If we are fight i ing for principles, let. us show it by our acts. Recollect that every vote taken from any : one of our candidates, is that much given to ! our opponents. If we really are opposed to j the Know Nothings, there is but one way to .-how it, and that is by giving our ticket n united support. Let none of our party vote a spl.t ticket, for it is for the principles, not the men, that we are voting. Let no per sonal feeling drive us from the support of our pi iociples, for if we do we are untrue to ourselves and the cause we advocate. Tiie present contest is very different that two years ago Then there was no es sential d.fference in the two parties, but now there are new and grave questions, to be de cided by the result. The decision will bean important one, and will be felt for years to come. Then let every man vote in the man nor that he thiuks will benefit his country most. If he is against the Know Nothings, let him support the whole anti-K. N. ticket, and leave no name off. We are fortunate in having men for our candidates in whose truthfulness and honesty the people have confidence. We know them to be true and firm rueu, governed by prin ciple and actuated alone by a desire to pro mote their country’s welfare. Let Price, Linn and Turner be on every ticket cast against the Know Nothings, and our triumph is certain Know Nothing Documents. We would inform our friends that the whole country is now being flooded with elec tioneering publications Our opponents knowing the weakness of their cause aro at tempting to carry the election by circulating irresponsible documents. We have seen one which purports to be a conversation between a Know Nothing and an anti K- N., and of all such things we think it tho lowest we have ever seen. It contains every conceiva ble assertion that has ever been urged to tho prejudice of the Catholics : even a list of in dulgences to commit sins of every kind known to the laws of the country. Such docvmcnts will never injure the Democrats, for our party are not Catholics, and not responsible for the errors of that or any other church, even if the enormities asserted be true. The Democrats leave the subject of religion with the conscience of every man, and most loud ly protest against its ever becoming a ques tion in a political race. - The Brag Game. We understand that the Know Nothings report that they will carry this county by a m ijority of from four to seven hundred ‘Otes. Now we tell their friends that the majority will be against them, and the first Monday in October will custain our asser tion. It is too late in the day to brag them selves into a majority; the people are against ; them, and the world will soon know it. Correction. We published last week a letter from Fair mount, signed J lathcw McCoclit. The name ought to have been printed Mathew M. Ouch, the error haA ing occured in consequence of the peculiar manner in which the name was written. Wo have received a letter from a committee I of the Fairmount Council, denying some ot the j statements contained in the letter —that they | had refused to hold meetings, or reported the ; kev lost. Os course wc know nothing of the ; facts in the case. Wc only published what wus i sent us. The letter of the committee is crowded 1 <mt or we would publish it. New Know Nothing Ritual. We invite especial attention to the exposi- i tion to be found in this week’s paper, of a i new Know Nothing ordov. We are not ap-1 prised of the manner in which the New York ; Times obtained it, but its authenticity is vouched for. Read the oaths, free voters of ! Georgia, and then say whether you will act with such a party or,not. m | A New Book. <. We are glad to,. team that T. B. Peterson, of Philadelphia, tho indefatigable publisher, is about to re-issue one of Mrs. Soutliworth's most interesting no v eh---THE Deserted Wjkk. it w ill be handsomely bound and furnished at SI.OO. ♦ Removal of the Capitol. We desire to call the attention of the vo ters of the fifth Congressional district to the fact that they are expected on the first Mon day in October next, to express themselves either for or against the removal of the Cap itol from Milledgeville. We need not repeat what we have already said in favor of its removal to Atlanta. Our views are well known, and we have no doubt that nineteen twentieths of the voters of this district are with us in opinion. Don't forget therefore to see that .* Removal—to Atlanta’’ is on yonr ticket. New Publications. W have on our desk a number of late is sues of the Magazines and Periodicals of the dsy—Godey's Lady’s Book, Graham’s Mag azine, the Knickerbocker, Frank Leslie’s Gazette of Fashion, Harper’s end Putnam’s Magazines, Blackwood and the Reviews, &e. The pressure of political matter on our col umns has compelled us to neglect our literary j exchanges, but we will make up for lost time after the election Ai* Cass Superior eourt. The fall term or Cass Superior Court com menced its sitting on Monday, the 10th inst hie honor. Turner H. Trwfk, presiding. A large amount of business baa been tran sacted, up to the time we go to press. In the case of tbe State**#. Andrew McMicken, indicted for murder, tbe prisoner wa# found gailty of voluntary manslaughter, and sen tenced to four years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Jason Frinoe, charged with larceny from the house , plead guilty, and was sentenced to three years in tbs Peni ten tiary. 1 , ‘-A. t - ’pptpw *i ‘ * On Thursday last, 3. A. Howard,'W? Jacobus and B. H. Leeke, Bsqrs. were ad* ! mi tied to plead end practice law. Judge Irwin's Nomination. We published last week the certificate of Dn Pcntiington, who Was a delegate to the Know Nothing convention which nominated Judge Ir win. The luet Cedar Town JltpuhliCan Union contains the certificate of three members of the Cedar Town council, Whil'ti throws a little more light ou the subject, We copy it to Show the Voters of the Blue Bidgc Circuit how much of a no party candidate the Judge is i Cedar Town, Polk Cos., Ga.* September 10, 1855 We, the undersigned, certify that wc wore members of a Council of the Know Nothing party at Cedar Town. That the Council of the order at the place appointed delegates to a Judicial convention to be held at Mariet ta, during the last March term of CoDb Su perior court. That Col. E. D. Chisolm and Jas. D. Waddell, who were appointed as del egates, returned from said convention aud reported to the Council that Judge Irwin was unanimously nominated as the candi date of the party. But that it wns neces sary that this be kept a profound secret , as the design was to run him as a no party man with those who were not members of the order, and that it would not do for the peop/etoknow that he was nominated by a Know Nothing convention, or that he took part in politics. Some of the members of the council objected to the nomination, on the ground that Judge Irwin was not a member of the order. To this the delegates replied, that Judge Irwin was with the or der in feeling, sympathised with it and fully endorsed all of its principles, and offered to join the order, but that be was told by mem bers of the order not to do it, as he could run a stronger race as the caudidate of the order, by keeping out and telling people that he had not joined it. This explanation was re garded satisfactory to the Cedar Town Coun cil, nnd no further objection was made to the nomination. G. D. HARMON, T. G. W. McMEEKIN, D. N. C RAT ON. Dirty Work. ..IT IS TRUE that Mark A. Cooper, when called upon to supply one of his workmen with provisions, to sustain his little children, Cooper refused him provisions. ~IT IS TRUE when the same man (old Mark A. Cooper that he could not attend the Democratic Mass Meeting, because he had no shoes, furnished him the shoes.” We find the above precious bit of slander in the last issue of the Southern Statesman, the Know Nothing organ published at Cal houn. We fear that any attention paid to such a charge in such t. paper will dignify it into public notice. We only say therefore that we are authorized to pronounce it ut terly, vilely and meanly false. The same paper also charges the lion. J. 11. Lumpkin with stealing five hundred dol lars ! These are only samples of the many false assertions put forth in that paper. It is high time that these slanderous attacks upon the private character of individuals, Should be indignantly frowned down by the honest and virtuous of all parties ihey are circulated only to gain votes. We call upon the people of Cherokee to put down forever a party who thus insults their intelligence, by using no other argument than whole col umns of false personal vituperations. FOR THE STANDARD. Too Late! CABS COUNTY, GEORGIA, ? September 18, 1555. 3 Mess. Editors: Owing to the numerous withdrawals in this coun’y for the past two woeks, one can imagine from the sad features of the Know Nothings that they too late begin to Know Somothing. Once In but now Out FOR THE STANDARD. EUIIARLEE, CASS.COUNTY, GEO., > September 17, 1855. 3 Gestuemek: I wish you to state in your paper that I : havo applied for an honorable discharge | from the Euharlec Lodge, in this county, ! and am no longer a member of the Know ! Nothing order. W. 0. SI’ENCE Republican Union, (Cedar Town,) . aud Atlanta Examiner will please copy. FOR THE STANDARD. Oh! Oh! Oh! In Cass county some Know Nothings are now members of the order who have not been, nor do they intend to be, sworn in all its hideous oaths, and still they cry out a gainst those who are coming out. ONCE IN AND NOW OUT. For the Standard. To the Friends of Temperance in Cass County. You recollect that some time since we were brought out as candidates for the legislature. It was with reluctance we accepted the nom ination, but having the temperance cause much at heart, gave our cousent. Since that time the two great political parties have so excited the community generally, that it would seem impracticable for the friends of teinperanco to urgo its claims at this time, as there are many friends of the cause in each of these parties. Wo are, therefore, candidates no longer. We return our grate ful acknowledgements to the friends of tem perance for their kind feelings towards us at all times; and whenever they shall think it necessary to bring up the question again, we will give it our oordial support. Respectfully, A J. WEEMS, S ZANT, C P. WALDUUP, CassviUe, Sept. 18, 1855. For the Standard. Another Withdrawal. KINGSTON, GKO., SEPT. 10, IMS. Editors Oaßsvu.lk Standard: Please announce that I wish an honorable withdrawal from tho Know Nothing Council at Kingston, os 1 am done with it, and forewarn all others to have nothing to do frith the order. SAJUkt SI'MNC*. Still Another! Jb the President of Omncil No. 28, ot Mr- UrsviUe, (100/ * mm p| Sib, —You will please erase my name from the books of the order known aa Know Noth ings, m I have always been a Democrat and in tend to vote that ticket. Sept. 19, 1860. , Rcsmt JJB.ax. jfcgrGur enemies are busy, night and day— /et the democracy be equally vigilant. Every vote counts. *•’ A Letter from Col. Lewis Tumlin I CARTERSVILLE, AUG. 24, ’55. RfiV. JosHUAJloVVlioiN J Jbear Sir: As I llavC not had the pleas ure of seSjllg you in Bom# time, I thought i j Would take the liberty of dropping yoli a line. I thought that I tvould have called atid seeli yoti bfefbrc! faofrj hilt tny efagdge meiits have hfieh BtttJh that it has beett out of my power to do so. tam ahxiotis to hear hoW matters ate frorkiiig itl yottr section. You must write me upon the reception of this, nnd give me all the nefrß ill regard to my prospects, &c. in your section. I hope that you will use every exertion in my be half. I know that my success greatly depends upon the exertion of my frieuds. If they are industrious from now until the Ist Monday in October next, all will be right. I have just return from Pickins and Fan nin ; I am very much pleased with my pros pects in those counties. I have letters from every county in the district; news very fa vorable. I start to-dny to Gilmer county ; will be absent four or five days. Hoping to have the pleasure of receiving a letter from you on my return from Gilmer, I remain your friend, LEWIS TUMLIN. ; (•REPLY.] ADAIRSVILLE, SEPT. 17, ’55. Cor, Lewis Tjmlin, and the Sons of Freedom : Gentlemen : No politician, though, for a long time, one who has believed that the kingdom of Christ is not of this world, nnd as many brethren have asked for my views, and Col. Lewis Tumlin has written to me on the subject, and hearing there is a groat di vision of opinion among the people of this State, and for fear it will cause distress, I shall without reserve answer my part, and give my opinions. For many years I have been thoroughly ! convinced in my own mind, from reading and careful observation, that this republican government has its prototype in the new Testament church. The latter is a govern ment set up in the people : it is with the people, and it secures equality to ail its members It disfranchises none, but extends its protection to all, and it can be said, with as much correctness arid truth, of the former government that it is with the body of the ! people, and every thing connected with the j welfare of both should be done openly. That j secret organizations are suspicious all men j of sense admit, when they are of a political ; nature. And I say no liberal minded man ought to have any connection with a party j whose avowed object is to withhold just aud ! equal immunities and privileges from any ‘ citizen or class of citizens, on account of re j ligious opinion. My mind tells me you will j not give them a helping hand to paralyze the right of any citizen, whatever the pre text, or cousent that our laws should be so i modified as to proscribe any who, from a : love of liberty and obedience to our laws. : may seek a home among us. Ours is strict ly a government of equality. Where would ! equality be if our Constitution is changed ? > Could it be for the better ? The times an swer, No ! Why is it then urged ? Is not ; its former history pregnant with good ? Why , not believe its future will be equally bright j and auspicious ? i Christ says >.I am the light of the world,” i and men have light and knowledge only as they arc manifested to them. In private he said nothing. What his disciples learned from him was not of a private interpretation or character. All of his teachings were to be proclaimed from the house top. When 1 examine this Nation il Saviour, I fii and it not entirely destitute of understanding. Its conception was in secret, in prejudice, in ig norance and in darkness; therefore it is not a good gift from the father of lights.— Christ’s disciples are not of the night but of the day. While sonic of the human family arc lovers aud friends of light, there are others that .. love darkness rather than light,” and they will not come to the light lest their deeds be exposed. But some say, have wo not the privilege to vote as we wish? It is not questionable in iny mind that we havo not the liberty to do wrong, religious ly or politically, and escape punishment. Adam, Nebuchadnezzar aud the fallen An | gels, who kept not their first estate, arc examples of those who claimed to have the power to do as they wish. What became of them the soquel shows. They had the power, but not tho right. Long have I promulga ted, according to the Scriptures, that light has no fellowship for the unfruitful works of darkness, and I have always reproved and 1 ! shall condemn them. Know Nothingism declares itself to be a society containing secrets, secured from tho observation of the people, by solemn oaths. It holds its sessions when the ravenous beasts come forth — when the bat and owl commit their depredations — when innocence is slum bering in the hands of Him who upholds all things. In the dead of night, this political reformer and ecclesiastical regulator posts up his signs, that he may accomplish his vile purposes of darkness. The fruit of righteousuess and equality is peace, and the effect of them i3 quietness and assurance.— Has this .. intense American feeling”—., the primary object of patriotic desire,” such proof? The answer is returned, No! It has gathered the fag ends of the Whig and Democratic parties in its midnight cells, and it comes out of them, saying to us that our civil nnd religious rights aro in danger from the Catholic and Foreigner; they must be smitten at the ballot box and put down and crushed forever, or this land of giants will ultimately fall under Popish dominion. This is all gammon, and it seems to me there is uot any less despotism in it than in Popery. Popery is not established over ua nor among us, and I believe there is no great danger of it under the present Constitution. Should we not as niuoh dread this element of our political system"—this lamb-like beast—as the hand full es Catholics in our country t This American party manifests a zeal for religion which appears to be different from the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apos tles. It is something similar to the princi ple that caused our first parents to experi meat in the garden. They seem, from their anxiety, to entertain the opinion that God will not succeed in o&rryibg on his purposes in this Government, so they want to call in the aid of the civil authority* or rather the religious prejudices of the people, to give him more character and respectability a mong us. Paul says of suoh , they have a zeal, but not according to knowledge,” and it is further said God will not give bis glory to another,” nor the advancement of his kingdom to Know Nothings. He will Attend to his oWn business. . Matters and things ftte working” With me ns they always have done. lam oh tlie Constitution otli* fathers Won ill the revolt!- tifid And Sealed Witii thbir hlbod. Arid it makes me truly glad ih hbaft that the great pririciple3 of ouf Codstitutifin places all Cf our citizens, of whatever religious persua sion, on the broad basis of equality : this is the place for rue and all the Sons of Free* dOiti. YoUr friend, JOSlttfA DOwDOIN. Judge iidiigstreet’s Letter to Know* Nothing Methodist iPreatibePs Con eluded. --But by concession all Catholics and foreigners vote under the dictation of the Pope.” And what do you gain by that— you who are sworn to vote according to the dictation of any scamp who may happen to worm himself up to tba dictatorship in your lodges? I presume you will admit, that a vote cast under a dictation, need not neces sarily be wrong. This you must admit or condemn yourselves. The Catholic must vote for some candidate of self or Protestant nom ination ; and as the Pope can have no inter est in the success of either party, it is likely that he would order an impartial vote —that which best promotes the interests of the coun try in which his people reside. But you cast j a strictly party vote, in utter disregard of the merits of candidates. Will your candi date oppose Catholics and foreigners : That is all you demand of him. If he says .yea,’ you support him ; though he be the veriest jackass that ever brayed in the councils of the nation. He may by his stupidity un settle the most wholesome laws, overleap the barriers of the Constitution, oppose the best measures, advocate the worst, in short, play the fool at large. No matter ;heis a Know Nothing, and opposed to Catholics and for eigners, and that is enough for your repub licanism ! Unless Catholics were as often candidates for office as Protestants, the Pope's dictation could not peril the liberty of the country; but iu five hundred elections you will not find on an average one Catholic can dicate. Unless religion was involved in the election the Pope's dictation could not possi bly peril our religious liberty; but as we have said, if the Constitution be not disre garded, religion can never be involved in any election. Your Order have the honor of mix ing religion with politics, for the first time in the history of the country, right in the teeth of the Constitution; and now if the Pope's powei perils your religious liberty, blame yourselves for it, and not the Pope. | Thus you see, under the most extravagant ! admissions, your principles are wrong Your ! practices are worse, as we have already i shown in part, and as we now proceed to | show more clearly. The most shocking f'ea : ture of your Order is its numerous and pro | sane oaths. Upon this head I shall take your published ritual as true, Nothing j more easy than ;o prove it true in substance , ; from your conduct and admissions Thus, when you charge a member who exposes | your proceedings with perjury, you admit , that he was sworn. When you vote in a i solid body, you show that there is a solemn j obligation among you to vote alike. When i uo member will tell who are his fellows, you show that all are bound to keep that matter secret. When you admit the obligation of the 8d degree, you admit there are two de grees. When you expose the one, and sup press the two, you admit that the last will uot bear the light as well as the first, kc l have not time or space to extend this rea soning. Lately you have agreed to acknowl edge your membership; but it was not so originally; not so when most, if not all of you, joined the delectable fraternity. ! You observed (speaking figuratively) a closed door with a sign over it: • • Opposition to Foreigners and Catholics .Manufactured within.” What sort of opposition, how and i by whom conducted, on what conditions, at I what expense of time and money ; how you I were to be worked in factory, what the mor ; al character of your co-workers, how health : ful or pestilential the business, were matters |of not the least concern to you. You liked ! the sign, and that was all-sufficient lor you. You knocked and the door was opened by a man who demanded an oath of you, and you i took it. It was an oath of secrecy, and not \ very republican, but you took it. You ad- I vanced to tlio council chamber, and there, in the presence of many, you took another oath j more stringent than the first. In this you swore, among other things, that you would ..respond to the claim of a sign or cry of the Order unless it be physically impossible.” Mark that word ..cry,” If in the pulpit, or at a dying bed, when you hear it, you must drop your holy services and obey it.— Obey it, for what? Why to fight for the brother, if need be, of course ! After taking the oath, you were turned over to the instructor in grips, and pass words ; (suppose Wesley at your side.) Y< u remained in the body n short time ai,d then took another oath, reaffirming the two first, and ascended in regular climax of monstrosity. Another set of instructions followed. You received the first with your hand on the Bible. The second, with the left hand ou your breast, and the right hand raised to the flag of your country. The fourth, in a group of five or more formed in a circle around your country's flag ; with arms crossed on the breast, and hands grasp ed, right and left. Thus you become a mem ber of tho midnight fraternity of high de gree. -fttlw] ‘■■■’- <•+J- j U ! - ’ ‘ ; All these oaths save the first, are called degrees, (and rightly in one souse.) A de gree conferred on one's self, by simple swear ing ! A Methodist Preaoher's word not to be trusted by Know Nothings without an oath 1 He proves faithful to one and yet he oaunot be trusted without a second, and a | third 1 A Methodist Preacher pursuing . himself unbidden into this distrustful coterie, and taking lessons in grips, signs and pass words, whereby he and the children of dark ness are to rocognlse each other as ..broth era” (!) at all times, and in all places; and whereby they may rally to tbe support of each other, weapon in hand, in times of dan ger and oonfliot 1! The honorary titles ac quired by these degrees, Know Nothing and Sam! Elder Know Nothing ! Dea con Sam ! While you were stepping from oath to oath and lesson to lesson, through all the solemn mockery of tbe Order, did tbe thought ftever occur to you-where Is the necessity of all this, to signify my opposition to Catholics ( and foreigners ? Are not all to oppose them opehly ? Why must 1, and those who think with me Upon these tflattbrs, be skulking Iffifre in the dark, aiid taking sdletnn oaths about them ? Why Swear to Conceal my ffidfliberShip and thiit of iby fellows ? Whs eVer siicli ah oath tfifecn by and Sfibrfct sCSiety befbre ? Why this parade of degfea* ? What have they to do with Catholics ? And grips ? What haVe they to do With foreigners ? What dll this binding together in the bonds of eternal brotherhood i simply to Sbcfire a united toto ? Butely there must be some thing deeper and darker ih all this thnh I Can See.” Bid Vott go 3tliihblihg on through all this Know Nothing flummery and pro fanity Without afiy misgiving of conscience, or fear of consequences ? You should feel alarmed at your situation ? Did you feel j any uneasiness ? You should have with ; drawn. j ..Swear not at all,” says our Saviour.— .Swear not at all,” says St. James.’ .Swear not at all,’ says your discipline in another Lru\ .Because of swearing the land mourn eth,’says Jeremiah. .Thou shalt not take | | the name of the Lord thy God in vain,’ saith ; ! the Decalogue .Have you as little to do as ; possible with oaths,’ says Clark. Wesley speaks at large upon this head (vol. vi. p j 106 and on ) He deprecates the number of i oaths required by law ; what would he think of this kind of swearing? Adopting the j language of Mr. Desney as bisowD, he says, ■ •Can there be anything in the world more i sacred than an oath ?’ Head him. I have ’ extended this article too far to allow further quotations from him. My comments upon these oaths I reserve for my address to the Church at large. For j the present 1 have only to say, that whatso- j ever may be found objectionable in them, ; you will please remember applies to you with double force. And now, brethren, have I or Mr. Wesley Jut upon one good reason why you should not have joined the Know Nothings? If either J of us have, then 1 beseech you to come from , among them. If we have not, yet, there is another in reserve, which, if it does not pre vail, will show or prove to my satisfaction at least—that if an angel from heaven were to denounce your Order, you would cleave to it still. The last appeal to you is from Paul: -Be ye nut unequally yoked togeth er with unbelievers.’ This has nothing to do with marriages, save by implication.— Paul was not upon tliat subject at all. The word here rendered -yoked’ .signifies,’ says 1 ! Clarke, .to leave one's own rank, place, or j i order , and go to another.’ It is never used : lin the Bible to express marriage. How ! i pointed is it to your case ! j .-Be ye not unequally yoked together with i unbelievers: for what fellowship hath right eousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness ? and wlmt concord hath Christ with Belial ? or i what part hath lie that believeth with an ; infidel ? And what agreement hath thetein ] pie of God with idols, for ye are the temple !of the living God, kc Wherefore come out | from among them and be ye sryaratc saith J the Lord ; and touch net the unclean thing ; 1 and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sous and j ; daughters, saith the Lord Almighty ” What j jdo you do with these scriptures? Ido not | j ask what tlit know nothing laity of our j Church, (at least some of them,) do with i them, for that I kuow experimentally ; but j what do you ministers of the Gospel do with them ? I think I can answer the questions i for a goodly number of them. .Why accord ing to this wo must quit every oatu bound | secret society.’ Then quit them all, I im plore you, if you can jerceive no distinction ■ between them. .Let God be true and every man a liar.’ None of them are essential to salvation tr good government, I am well sat isfied • .But Dr. Bond’'—the man who did more to inflame the two divisions of our Church against each other than all other members put together ; who villified the Southern di vision more than any man living ever villi fied it, he, from a slavo State too; who, ns editor of the leading organ of the Church, opened its columns to every thing vitupera tive from the North, and closed them to eve ry thing defensive from the South. *Dr. Bond” says .that the Know Nothing Order is no worse than the Order of Tammany.’— This is very much like Pr. Bond ; and very much like the resolution of the Conference of 1844 which split our church : So stated, that it mny mean oue thiug or another, as may best suit its father's purposes As I understand the Doctor's notions of the last Order, is it a rebuke to the Know Nothings; ns all who have copied his piece, understand it, it is an encouragement to them; and so it was doubtless intended to be. The ques tion is submitted to you with God on one side, and Dr Bond on the other. Choose ye between them. A. B. Longstreet. From the .1 Hffunta Conetitutumaliet. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 11,1855. Mr. Editor; On my arrival in this city on yesterday, I saw the Rome Courier of the 4th inst , containing a letter from the Ret. C W, Howard addressed to me, dated July 25th, on the subject of freight upon Lime. Also a certificate signed by sundry citiieus of Kiugstoa and vicinity on the same subject, together with a letter from Mr. Howard to the Editors of tbo Courier, in which he com plains that I had not replied to his letter of the 25th July. In reference to myself he uses the following language : uMy letter to Gov. Johnson is dated July 25th. Nearly thirty days have now e! and no notice has been taken of i*v to be presumed that the Governor of Georgia is so long absent from his post—or if absent on tho business of the Stato, it is to be sup posed that his letters are transmitted to him, I cannot thorcfore consider his silence as other than intentional. If there wero any thing discourteous in ray manner—if I asked any thing improper for me to ask, or for him to consider, there would be a reason for the silenoe of the Governor. But I cannot see auything offensive either in the manner or matter of the letter. It refers to a Bubject j of much pecuniary interest to myself. The j silence of the Governor is therefore both an j incivility and an injustice to all parties concerned.” ’ On my return from oommencemeat at; Athens, I received Mr. H’s letter among a . large package of letters which had reached Milledgeville since the 27th—the day I left | for Athens. Engagements previously made j called me away from Milledgeville, on the Gth of August, the very day ou which I ar- j rived home frbta Athefas. Heface I bfaly M . plied to shell letters as appeared to be bf pi-easing importance, I deferred a reply t c Mr. HoWahTs letter, because there totild be, finder the Circumstances, no immediate bhafige of the freights, and delay therefore Os reply could do him no injustice. it is true, as stated by Mr. HtJtvatd, there is nothing offensive either in the manner of matter of his letter. Blit I confess, I tho't then and still thiiik, that finder the dir Cum. stances, the request of Mr. HoWard, contain ed in his letter was efctrtmely ihdelicate.-- It seemed to ffie, that put forth nt that par ticular jfihcttife, it Was toaihly designed to embarass me. and the singular production now Under consideration is not calculated to remove such an impression. Mr. Howard well knew that for a modification of the freight at the Etowah Depot, upon a princi ple which he alledged to be similar to that wh.ch he claimed in his behalf, I was charg ed with having made a corrupt arrangement with the Hon. M A. Cooper. If I had yield ed to his demand, Mr. Howard and myself both would have been subjected to the samo imputation which has been so freely and lalsely cast upon Maj. Cooper and myself. I returned to Milledgeville on the 24th of August, and at my earliest convenience re plied to Mr. Howard's letter of the 25th of July. I said substantially, that whilst I agreed with Mr. How..ri iu many of his views, 1 would not undertake to investigate the subject of his letter till after the election. And I assigned as a reason for this postpone ment, the fact alluded to in the proccding paragraph, in reference to the Hon. Mark A. Cooper and myself. I regret that Mr. Howard did not see proper to publish my re ply, ns he must have received it before the 4th of September, the day on which the Borne Courier published his communications. The appearance ot Mr. Howard before the public under the circumstances, would seem to evince rather intemperate haste to exhibit himself as an aggrieved party, for his letter of tlie 20th of July is the first intimation that 1 ever had from him or any one else, that he was dissatisfied with the rates upon lime. It is the first intimation that I ever had that he ever had an arrangement with the Railroads, in reference to the freights from his kiln; and therefore the first that l ever had that that arrangement has been, if iudeed it was interfered with by the pre sent Superintendent of the W & A. Railroad. Even, therefore, if the had uot been pending, how unreasonablTwas it for him to demand my peremptory interference with out examining into the facts and consult ing with the Superintendaut. Kei-p-tt ally, &c , Herschel V. Johnson. New Know Nothing Organization. ITS OBJECTS , PL ASS, OA TIfS AM) XU AL BERS! KILL AND AUTHENTIC EXPOSITION OT ITS RITI AL. From the New York Times, Sept. .'tb. In the various notices published fiorn tirn to time of the nominating councils of th Know Nothings, and the Independent Orde of Americans, it lias been mentioned that *.l result seemed to be controlled and broumt about by an organized clique of person within the order,—who acted together, \ui were thus always able to accomplish tibaf purposes. By the action of this inlak clique, many nominations have been fommi upon the Know Nothing Councils, not atltll acceptable to the great body of the membwSf and as its organization is net known bcjMtdi its own limits, many of the know notbtßM have been greatly puzzled to understand Bm cause of the movements they have not MtA around them. The new party, which has been careHsfly j and deliberately got up on the same pi la if ; the know nothing party, and with the dings of controlling that just as that has conftrol ; led others, is called the • •Chicaroons.W-W j more properly ‘.The Templars,” and ia ir lieved to comprise at the present time sass 5,000 to 6,000 voters in the city and eoufctj of New York. By opersting inside of lit order of know nothings, they have succeejW in influencing the action of the Eigwk Eleventh, Sixteenth and Twentieth Wlafi Councils. The entire know nothing Exclst i live is controlled by the j they have thirteen members in the Gr|d Council of the State of New York. Pm Aw i to the late Convention at Binghamptoa, • 1 Grand Temple was opened in Syracuse b/ Messrs. Bacon, Bullock and Williams, ft* the purpose of controlling the action oft& I successful, and the entire ‘American ticks!,* j as it is called, is merely the ticket soppe^ ti on upon the Order of United ‘AmwicsM. | this organisation rendered itself obnoxiff* its members, they were enabled to I measures which that party deemed esscuMfil to its welfare. The following are the officers ot n! Ik ; V