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From, the Remo Southerner. To the Voters of the sth Congress ional District. I have been mo3t bitterly and falsely as sailed by anonymous writers in the South ern Statesman, the hired agent of Colonel ! Lewis Tumlin, from the time that it was an- ! nounced that I had accepted the nomination j of the Democratic party as a candidate for Congress in this District- l have borne in j ejlenco all these base, slanderous assaults, i up to this time, against my character, and j have never even alluded to them in any of my public addresses to the people, except on qne occasion, at. Cave Spring, in Floyd county*. 1 see it announced that Col E- I>. ! Chisolm, of Cedar Town, in two of his public addresses has charged me with pleading the j statute of limitations, without giving nil the circumstances of the case, when he was too Well infoimed as a lawyer, not to know that it would be either right or wrong, according ! to the circumstances of each particular case. And in the .ast number of the Home Courier. I see that the name of Col. John J. Word, the Solictor General of the Cherokee Circuit, j is used to support the charge made against me by D. D Duke, that I had authorised ; him to go my brother E. F. B. Lumpkin's security cn a note of thirty dollars, pnya- • ble to the Solicitor General, for fines and : Costs, in the settlement of a criminal prose cutiou against him for gaming, and that I afterwards refused to pay the amount, and ; stood by and saw D. D Duke, the security 1 of my brother, pay the money. The official | character of these two gentlemen, and the prominent position they occupy in this can vass, make it necessary that I should notice ■ these charges, and put the public in posses- ! sion of the facts in regard to each of them. William Smith, John Smith, aud myself, signed a note as the securities of Hubert Ware, late of this county deceased, payable j to James Love. Win Smith, the first named security, notified James Love to sue Robert Ware, principal, under the provisions of the j statuto of the State of Georgia, passed for j the relief of securities. James Love failed i to sue Ware uutil after lie died insolvent. — : Several years after Robert Ware's death, suit ! was instituted against the Executors of \ Ware, and William Smith, John Smith and ; myself, the securities. The defendants filed j two pleas for their protection. One was no | tice to the holder to sue the principal, Rob- ■ ert Ware, and his failure to sue witiiiu throe ! mouths, as required by the statute; and. al- j so, the statute of limitations, which was to b? relied on in the evant o r a iailure toj ro ! cure the testimony of Gen. Win. X. Bishop, j the only then known witness of the fact ; that the notice had been given, who was at | that time a resident citizn of the Stute of J Texas. His testimony could not be obtained, ‘ and the defendants, William Smith, John Smith and myself insisted, through our at- ! torney, on the statute of limitations for our J protection; and we did so because we had j good legal defence to the note, which we ’ could not avail ourselves of, because of the J absence of material testimony to establish ! the facts of notico. Will any sane minded man iu this Congressional District say that Hie defendants acted improperly hi ins : sting on the statute of limitations for their pro- j tectiou under this state of facts? j But us conclusive evidence of the fact, that the pfoa of notice given by the securi- j tics to the bolder to sue the principal, was ! st that time insisted on in good faith, the j ease is still pending in Floyd Superior Court, j and the answer ol Gen’l Bishop to the inter rogatories is on file, proving the fact, that j Wm. Smith, the first security, gave the no- j tice to James Love to sue Robert Ware, and that ho failed to sue him according to the ; provisions of the statute ; aud this released } him and all the subsequent securities from all liabilty. ) Bui it is urged to. my prejudice that the! note was presented to me by Col. Julius M. > Patton, the Attorney of the plaintiff, aud’ that I agreed, if he would not suo iuo on i this note, to pay ail the balance of the note i that should remain unpaid, after Robert Ware's estate should be fully administered, j and the Executors should pay to him the pro ‘ rata dividend arising from the sale of Rob ! ert Ware's assets. Col. Patton admits that ! I toll him that he had misunderstood me. j and at the same time I told him that if su b was his understanding of our ugreemert. he i must sue on the note; asid he expressly j states that this last conversation between i vs occured before the nett uas bnrrtd by j the statute of limitations He cons<-quetly j was not defrauded of any legal 1 ight of rem edy by the temporary delay that grew out of this misunderstanding ; and it suit was! not brought within six years front the time the note was duo aud payable, it was uot my j fault, and 1 ain not responsible for it in si*y /Manner, shape, or form. 1 cheerfully ac cord to Col. Patton integrity, probity anil 1 high character, and I have nut the least doubt; that lie is sincere iu the belief that the ! agreement was iu the terms ct ted by, him; but all men are liable to inisunder- [ •stand, or even forget, the terms of an agree ment when not reduced to writting. I frank ly admit that 1 am just as liable to have i been in error of tbe terms of the agreement ! as he was. But lie does state that l j told him that there was a misunderstanding, 1 and that ho had then lost no legal right, and j he might have instituted suit at once. How : am Ito blame for all this ; If I had said! nothing of the misunderstanding until after i the uote had been barred by the statute of I limitations and then sought individually nud Beparately from the other two joint de fendants, to have protected myself by the statute of limitations, it would be evident that I had attempted to proteot myself agaiust] all liability, as security on this uote, at tho expense of the attorney Col. Patton. But; Win. Smith and John Smith were also scat- ! rhies to this note, and they were the two I first securities ; liny also sued, and though | tluir attorney made their defence, and they j had nu equal right tu control this defence. They were pieseut and insistiugon their v- ; qua! right to manage the case for tboir pro- ; tectioii, and it was not in my power to have ! prevented them from making this defence.-- ; Is it not, therefore, passing strange that ] should he held up to pub.ic execration be- ; cause the statute of limitations wus plead j and insisted on for their protection ? I am willing upon this statement of facts, derived from the record iu this case, to abide , the decision of an impartial public opinion. ; In regard to tbe charge brought forward ! by D D- Duke, and attempted to he suppor- j ted by John J Word. Esq., all I have io say , is, that I was not pfeswit at Floyd court j when the compromise- settlement between tho i Sol. General, and my’ brother, E. F. B. Lumpkin, was made. Judge Irwin presided at Rome during that term and I wna absent holding court for him in Carroll county at the time. 1 did not know anytliiog of the sett lement; and never did T know that D. D. Duke had any agency in its settlement, or was responsible as secuvity to the Sol. Gen eral for the money, until after my brother had left this county and State, and settled at ; Little Rock, iu the State of Arkansas. lie j then, for the first time, informed me that lie j was my 1 rotlu-r's security on the note ams j was likely to have the money to pay for him. j 1 told him that I was not in morals or law | ! bound to, pay my brother's debts, but that I , : understood he was making money, nnd that j i it was his purpose to pay every just debt lie j ‘owed; and if lie would send the claim out to him that 1 was satisfied he would pay it if he owed tlio money. f I had’ paid large sum? of money to relieve my brother from bis difficulties and eiubnr ; rutsmeuiß while he resided at Rome* and af ter asetrtaiirng from D. D. Duke, that lie j was niv brothers security on this small note, ; I then wrote to him nnd informed him what , were D. L Duke's statements and express ;ly stated to him in that letter, that if lie ; would write to tuc and let me know whether : lie was liable for the debt, I would pay it for him. He made no reply to my letter, and I -do not know to this day whether ho owes Duke ior Duke is indebted to him. My object was I :o shield my brother from being hnrrassed . his old debts in his new home, where he had ; commenced a prosperous busiucss, and at j the same time to pay Duke the amount and keep him from suffering loss on my brother's account There never was a promise ex i pressed or implied by me to pay to Duke this • debt, either before, or at tho time of, or since the m-ikdig of the contract, Now Col. j Word states a great deal that Duke did and said pending tin settlement of this case, to which I make no objections, but w r bat I com- I plain of iu tills statement, is that he appur ! antly states ns coming under his own knowl ’ edge facts which he kuows lie derived from j Duke's statement alone. I complaim of his i statement, also because he has carefully i ’ suppressed the fact, that I was absent from ; FJovd Sup tim Court at the time this com ; promise setilenient was made. Ho does ; know another tact in connectien with this ; ease, that was sufficient of itself to have sat ; intiod him that 1 was not concerned in its | compromise He, as Sol. Gen’l, at a pro ; ceedmg session of the Superior Court, had ! sought an interview with me on the Beuch | where 1 was then presiding, and he stated that lie was embarrassed and at a loss to I know what to do with the cases against my ] ! lrotlv?r. J distinctly told Col. Word in re ply, tlmt-1 was not competent to try my brother on any of the indictments. But while I was tho presiding officer of the Court that I could not and would not, have any thing to do with the compromisepf his cases He did know that fact, and it was his duty ro huve disclosed it, where my character was , involved in the issue that had been tendered. : Col Word was in intimate and friendly nsso- i elation with ma, both being officers of the j saint-Court. Ifhe had been informed that , l was to pay this debt, and he believed it to j be true, why did he sell this note, indorsing j it himself, without, over enquiring of me j whether 1 would pay it or not ? This he al- : so knows was never done, and yet I am upon j his statement, to be held up before the com- | munity as a man who is faithless to his prom- j iscs aud pledges. But a friend has called my attention to another charge, which has found its way to the public through the colbmns of tho last number of the * Southern Statesman.” The writer charges, that Gen. Hemphill, former ly of Floyd county, instituted suit against me to recover five hundred dollars, (and not $5150.) which he nlledged that he bad given }to me to pay over to the Central Bank, -on his liabilities, anl which he alledged, I had never accounted for to him John W. Hoop er Esq., represented me in my abseuce at Washington city, as my attorney, in the do fence of ibis case; and on the first trial, when the letter which I had^written to Gen. Hemphill, was read in support of his case, it took my attorney iu my absence, by sur prise. He was not prepared to explain it by proof on that trial, nnd the consequence was, ’ that a virdict was rendered against mo 1 Afterwards, when Judge Hooper was on the Bench, this case was agmu tried on appeal, | ; and a special Jury of Floyd county, vindica- j ; ted me. against the imputation of this suit, by returning a verdict in my favor. A mo rion was made for anew trial by Judge Wright, who was employed for that purpose by Dr .Montgomery, the son-iu law of Gen. j Gamp-hill and Judge Hooper granted anew ! trial upon the ground that he feared, an the presiding Judge, he had been influenced by ! his feelings in my favor, as an advocate, nnd ‘ had expressed himself too Etrongly in my favor, in his charge to the Jury. The cuso ] remained from that time until the last term |of tho Court, without auy motion on the ! part of counsel lor tho plaintiff to take it up At the last term of the Court, my coun sel insisted on some final disposition of the case. Judge Underwood, the original coun- j sol of Hemphill stated that he had aban- , ; doned the case, and Judge Wright tho coun- I ! set, who had been employed to move anew ! trial, stated distinctly in open Court, that ! he was unable to proceed with the ense, and , would therefore dismise it. Whether this j line been done or not, 1 cannot any, as 1 was compelled to he absent from the Court. But this much 1 do kuow, that a special Jury of ihe county of Floyd have vindicated me : from the imputation of this unjust charge. • I am now, nnd shall ever be willing to rely i upon tbe justice of my countrymen, to do ! c:dc my innocence iu this case, as in all oth* j er cases, where mere rights are involved l submit this statement of facts, to the goodseuso and iuielligeuco of a patriotic <P c, P le * confidently believing that they will ; vindicate me and my character from the ! reckless assaults of the base and malicious | slauderers, who have continued to assail me ! through tho columns of a hireling nowspn ! per press. JOHN 11, LUMPKIN. i Ji pob Andrews’ Amanuensis.—lt has been I thought by some a little singular that whenever I Judge Andrews goes Dr. U. V. M. Miller goes. 1 There is nothing singular about it. Dr. Miller | follows Judge Andrews orowud, and when tbo i Judge wants to have a speech written out, be , calls on his Amanuensis Miller, and Miller [ writos it out. Wonder, if the Judge should ac i cldeutly bu elected, if he wout manufacture uu j “dice to get Miller close by his arm chair.— i Federal Union, From the Times c£- Sentinel, Governor Johnson and his Eevilers* Whipped badly upon the great issues of tbe canvass, the Know Nothing press hopes to cover the retreat of the Order before the triumphant hosts of the Democracy under a cloud of low abuse and vindictive denuncin- j -tion of the administration of Gov. Johnson, j But the sunlight of troth has pierced these j clouds, and they are being rapidly dispersed j I like mists before tbe rising sun, and before i j the Ist Monday in October next, there will ! not be x • rack” flying above the horizon. We have neither time nor patience to fol ! low the slimy path of the slanderers of Gov j j Johnson Some of their charges are beneatli j j the notice of any oue : as for instance, that \ j Gov. Johnson cheated Mr. Jenkins in his , I appointments during the last canvass Mr (Jenkins himself denounces the change ns ‘false. Os a like’ chrracter is the charge ! that Gov. Johnson ordered the proprietors of | the Rome Southerner to do some printing during the last canvass, and then refused to i pay the bill. Mr. Dodd, at. the time propri etor of the Southerner, hns nailed this story to the counter, and pronounces it calumni ous. Os a like character is the charge that j Gov. Johnson cukated a Mr. Adams out of: a lot of land. The witness relied on to es- ‘ tablish tho charge has pronounced it falsi?: 1 as a’so has Mr Briscoe, who is tho party to ; whom the land was granted Still more j contemptible is the charge that Gov John j son bribed Lewis Tumlin to support his ; administration by awarding to him and an ‘other the contract to transport freights S across the Etowah river. Lewis Tumlin is ! now being run by the Know’ Nothing party ; for Congress in the Fifth district If John sou gave the bribe, Lewis Tuinliu took it, and his Know Nothing supporters are par ticipators in the crime, and ho himself has added bad faith to corruption. This charge however, lias been abandoned, we believe, since Lewis Tumlin was accepted by the Know Nothings as their standard bearer. | The next charge is that Gov. Johnson ) created the office of Attorney for the State j Railroad, in order to reward a political j friend in the person of R J. Cowart, Esq. | Gov. Cobb, in a receut letter, has shown j that the so-called office was created ly him, i and that Gov. Johnson continued it on his | reootnmeudatiou. At the last session of the j Legislature an act was passed allowing the I State Rond, as well as all other Railroads, to be sued in every county, as well as in ev ery justice's beat through which they pass. ; Tliiß act bus resulted in the bringing of a i ! multiplicity of suits against the Road. Un- ‘ i less the lload is represented by Counsel it; j must- be apparent that the State would be i j greatly the loser. It is conceded that the Governor has power to employ Couusel The question then comes up: is it better economy to employ a lawyer for every case, or retain one lawyer, whose business it shall be to represent the Road in all cases ? Governor Johnson has exercised wise discretion in eiu j ploying a lawyer by the year, upon the ! experience of Gov Cobb, who had tried the j experiment and found that it worked well, jlt is charged, however, that It. J. Cowart, j Esq , the appointee, is incompetent. Persons j who kuow the gentleman entertain a very j different opinion, and we happen to boos ! that number. He is universally regarded j by the Democracy as a most forcible speak j er, and has acquired the soubriquet of the Ii Thunderer of the Mountains.’* He is uot : a very polished gentleman, but is some in a bear fight Who ever heard of a Democrat who had any sense or decency in the opinion of the opposition ? The flext charge is that Gov Johnson had the freights reduced at Etowah depot in or der to bribe Hon. Mark A. Cooper to his support. Mr. Cooper lias denounced the charge as false, and where he is known this is sufficient Mark A. Cooper bribed ! The charge is ridiculous. He is alike incapable of accepting as Gov. Johnson is of offering a bribe; but Know Notiiingism, in its despor : ation, doc's not shrink from the vilest misrepresentation of the purest and best cit izens. No elevation of character, no amount of public service, can shield a man from its slanderous shafts who stands between it and success. j We have heretofore shown that the last \ ; Legislature of Georgia passed a resolution , j instructing the Governor to so conduct the i | State lload as to promote the developement of the iron interest, in which Mr. Cooper is | engaged. We have further shown that in j stead of lowering freights on iron, they had j boon actually raised by tho Superintendent !of tho State Road. We have heretofore j shown also, that in June, 1554, Gov. John j son directed the Superintendent to reduce ’ the freights cn iron, coal and flour at Etowah to tho rates imposed under tlie administra tion of Gov Cobb. This tho Superintendent failed to do until recently, when Gov John non, becoming aware of his disobedionce of his orders, reiterated them, perhaps, in a more peremptory manner. This is the sum and substance of this charge of corruption. We sec nothing in the evidence adduced to sustain it that is worthy of a moment's con jHjdcrntion. It would not convict a sheep I killing dog; and yet it ie flourished before j the people of Georgia as proof conclusive that our noblo Governor is a knave and Mark A. j Cooper a scoundrel. Out on suoli reckless ! slauderers! Have they no shame ? If this ! reduction of freights at Etowah had been I made when tho public mind was calm, it would hardly hare elicited a moment’s con sideration. We apprehend that thero is too general a disposition to hold the Governor responsible for Cvery littlo thiug that goes wrong on the State Road. He cun ouly exercise a general oversight over the work. Tho Superintend ent is mainly responsible for the management of the Road. Tbo Governor's duty in refipect to this great work is pretty well done wlicu he has nppointod n Superintendent; he ought not to interfere except on important occa sions. No competent Engineer would tnko charge of the Buperintondency of tho Road if the Governor were to muddle with its man agement. Governors, generally, know very little about Railroads, aud notwithstanding Garnett Andrews boasts of what ho would do with the Stato Road if ho were Governor, o| which thero is-, however, no probability, we doubt very much if lie could discharge creditably the humble office of Engiuo Dri ver. The Governor is responsible, however, for the competency of the Superintendent, and ought to removo him if he proves ineffi cient; otherwise, the less he has to do with tbs £oad tho better. Tho present Superin tendent le James F. Cooper, Esq., a gentls-’ man long and favorably known in Georgia ns a polished gentleman nnd scientific Engi neer. Ilis appointment to this responsible j post, by Governor Johnson, was hailed with delight by the whole State. We know that i he received the appointment over much more j j efficient party men, solely because of his j eminent fitness for the post; and we are j \ quite confident that the result of his manage* ; ment will justify his selection by the Gov ; eruor. During his administration, five bun- , dred thousand, six hundred and sixty dollars have been cleared by the Road after paving ■ all current expenses. This fact will repel 1 j a thousand slanders about its management, ! especially when it is taken into considera j tion that never before was there the first j surplus dollar in the Treasury of the Road. J There are other slanders in circulation about Governor Johnson. We may recur ; to the subject again. They are, however, ] upon a par with those already exposed, and : are hardly wo?th notice, but wo intend to j follow the Kuow Nothing party into every I hole they creep into, nod drive them out by the application of the torch of truth. They hate the light because their deeds are evil. Know Nothingism oft Tanglit in Council. i We want our unint-iated, but still hesit.-i ----ting readers, to study the following extracts from the address 9f President Ilone, deliver ed at Macon, iu Secret Council. We have ‘ seen the pamphlet ourselves, and expected I to have it iu possession by this time. Reap! Read!! i Kuow Nothingism illuminated by a dark lantern. Read and ponder on the italicised passages, and ask yourselves il’ freemen should countenance such things and submit to them. Extract from William Hone's address to the State Council of Georgia, held in Macon on the 2d and 3d of May 1855, and publish- j ed by the Older with the proceedings of the Council: j In regard to the spirit and object of the I Order, I need say nothing on the present oc j casion, nor would I be paying a proper de | gree of respect to your intelligence or sin cerity, did I proceed to vindicate the Order from the foul aspersions with which the dem agogue and foreigner assails us. One thing bower, I would recommend, let the most profound and inviolate seevesy shroud in utter darkness our movements, our plans, our members. It is to our alliance with mystery and uncertainty that we owe our great victories in the past, and on which |we must rest our hopes for the future. Un | mask our batteries tear away the veil which j shrouds our proceedings, nnd yon introduce ! the first great element of weakness and dis organization, you thereby shear the locks of this mighty Sampson aud leave him power less at the feet of his enemies. You thereby destroy the ability of your co-laborers to enter into the councils of the euemy and tlirwart his most skillfully planned mea sures. Heed not the reproaches of men who when desirous of breaking your phalanx, at tack this strong band of your power , let them animadvert upon this obnoxious fea ture, in a party under our free'govornmeut, doubtless they would take extreme pleasure in frightening you from the course that in sures your suoocss nud their defeat. Be se cret, vigilant and united, for thus and thus only shall you attain the high object of our enterprise aud build around the sacred tem ples of our institutions the barrier impreg nable to the attacks of all enem : es whether foreign or domestic.” Page 34 aud 35. — Pamphlet in possession of A. A. Gnulding. Griffin On page 27 nnd 28 ot the same ad dress occurs this passage : <i Among the many imperfections to which a government constituted as onr own is sub ject, the generosity with which it throws wide open the portals of citizenship to the members of all nation and all classes , is not by any moans the least to be deplored. Not content with extending to oppressed myriads of less favored lands, the blessing arising from a free government, the happiness springing from liberal institutions and the protection flowing from merciful laws; not content with throwing the broad mgisofour Constitution between the oppressed and the suffering humanity of the old world ; not j content with inviting starving millions to • take refuge from famine, in tho beautiful j bosom of our beautiful country, the original f framers of our otherwise almost perfect Con stitution, with an ill advised liberality, ex tended to them ; also the highest honors of man, and while relieving their necessities called on them to assume the august uiuutlu of the legislator.” Grffin. G .v., Aug. 25, 1855. I hereby certify that tho two foregoing pages are true copies of extracts taken from a pamphlet published iu Savannah in 1855, and now in my possession, the italics except ed. A. A. GUARDING. Keep it Before the People! That every naturalized citizen takes nn oath to support tho Constitution of the ‘ United States, while every Know Nothing | takes nn oath to violate the same Consti- | tutiou! KERB IT BEFORE THE PEOI’LE That j Kenneth Itnyuer, tho leader of the Southern j ; Know Nothings, says that the Kansas and Nebraska bill was a an ouyraue on the ! North !” KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE That tho lendors and whito kid gentry among the Know Nothings nro not required to take the ! oath to become members of tho order, but all the wool hat boys are made to swear to got in 1 KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE That their Judges are nmuy of them Know Noth ings, nnd under oath to respond to tho •< red paper ’ cull, armed to meet ** trouble !” KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE That | the Know Nothings are publicly denouncing the Kansas bill! KEEP IT BEFORE TUB PEOPLE That the Know Notbiug order is creating a rclig- j iqps war iu the land, arraying son against ! father, brother agaiust brother, and friend : against friend, thereby instigating CIVIL j WAR iu the land ! j KEEP IT BEFORE TIIE PEOPLE That j if Uaruott Andrews ie ulocted Governor of Goorgia, (of which there is uo probability,) be will lie required to take un oath to sup port the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits any religious test a& a qual ification for office, uud that ho now stands pledged to refuse to appoint any man who is a Catholic, to office, simply from the fact i . that he is a Catholic ! Ii From ilia Southerner , I The Boyd Case,. I learn that the Rome Courier, is attempt ing to make capital out of the reprieve of Jack Boyd by the Governor. The facts will j show that Governor Johnson hns acted wise ly and justly in granting the respite. Winter before last, the Deputy Marshal of the City of Columbus, A. M. Robinson, armed with a warrant for the arrest of David Wright anti Jack Boyd, who were nccused ; of a misdemeanor, proceeded to execute it. ’ ! He found Wright and Boyd standing in front l of the-. Pleasant House,” engaged in couver- ! sation with tbe Proprietor of the establish- : ment, Mr. A. P. Pryor, about 9 o'clock at j night. He approached them from behind, j accompanied by two of the city police, and, i before they wore awnre of it, laid hands up- j ; on their shoulders and proflounced them bis ‘ ; prisoners. V.'right immediately wheeled i ; and shot Robinson, killing Him instantly, j | and fled, pursued by tho police, who fired j ; several shots at him, and received one in re- : : turn from him. After a short race the po lice overtook him, and he was incarcerated, j ! At the report of Wright's pistol, Boyd also | i made off. One of the police swears that as ! : he was going off he turned and fired upon Robinson as he fell ; but Mr. Pryor and ev- ; 1 sry other person who was present (there ! i were four of them) swore that tlmy did not 1 | see or hear Boyd shoot. Upon the D'ial of! I tlio case, this exculpatory evidence was not I ! introduced, and M J. Wellborn, Esq., the only surviving counsel of Boyd, swears that he did uot kuow of its existence until after . his trial and conviction. Upon this state of j facts, how could Governor Johnson do other- : wise than respite the unfortunate man ? Wright broke jail, and was afterwards ar rested, after a desperate fight, in Florida. | lie was afterwards brought back to Coluni j bus and to avoid hanging, to which punish | ment he was sentenced, set fire to his cell aud j was suffocated by the heat and smoke. | Boyd never broke jail, nor made any at i tempt to do so He is a stranger in this Com i munity. His poor old. mother came from New York to atteud liis trial, and has enlist i ed some sympathy among our citizens in be | lialfof her unfortunate son; otherwise he lias no friends whose votes could be conciliated i by his respite. i On the other hand, the deceased Robinson, J j was a universal favorite and his family are ! i worthy and good citizens. It is therefore • clear that in granting the respite, Governor ! Johnson could not have hoped to gain votes ; he has lost them by it, and this fact was I ! communicated to him before lie exercised his • Executive clemency. You will therefore j3ee, Mr. Editors, that this charge upon the i official conduct of our excellent Governor is ! entirely destitute of foundation. If the pub ; lication of this article is deemed important ’ j by you, it is at your service ; otherwise con sign it to the flames. Yours Truly, Muvcogku. Freemen of Georgia! Prepare for the Contest! The first Monday in October is’ at hand, and we wish every voter in Georgia to re i member that this is an important day for i him and his children. The principles in : volved in this election are very different i from those for which we have contended in : i former years. We do not contend merely | for the success of our party and our candi dates, but iu contending for them, we contend for the great principles of civil nnd religmus freedom. A party has arisen iii our midst whose object it is to deprive a portion of our j fellow citizens of their civil and religious! privileges. This is contrary to the grcit ! j principles established by our fore fathers, i and to the great charter of our liberties, j This election will also decide whether our 1 laws shall be made by the Legislature cho sen by the people, or made by a council of Know Nothings. Whether hereafter out rulers shall be selected by the people in a fair election, or be appointed by the Grand Council of Know Nothings. The fate of Louisville proves that where these wicked; men rule the people mourn. Under such | circumstances, we ask, with confidence, eve- I ry good man in this State, to labor from this time until the day of election to avert this j i great calamity from our people. Many 1 i men have been led to attach themselves to 1 this fatal organization by the misrepresen tations of wicked men. It is the duty of | j every good man to investigate and find out; the truth, nnd then vote as his conscience tells him is his duty. Our constitution and laws, and the Know Nothing organization aro in direct opposition to each other. One of them must go down ; voters of Georgia, you must choose which you will have.—Fed. | Union. How they Keep Them. Tiie Atlanta Examiner says that . the j following dialogue actually took place in a county of this district. We havo the names of the parties in onr office but suppress them, i A gentleman, who had joined one of tbe ! lodges in the county, wrote to the presiding officer of that lodge, and staled that be do j sired to withdraw. 1 .Why do you wish to withdraw?’ asked j the roluctaut officer. . I want to vote for Judge Warner.’ Oh well, you need uot withdraw, we'll give you permission to vote for Warner.’ . But suppose I wish to vote for Johnson ; what then ?’ • Why iu that case you would have to j withdraw.’ . Well, if it is all tho sumo to you, I be-! i lieve 1 11 withdraw, so that I enn vote forj whom I wish, without first being forced to j i get your permission 1’ What a position for ft freeman ! To lo j compelled to bond tho kuoe to the President j of a Know Nothing Council for permission ! | to exercise a freeman's right!” | Get Out, While there is a Chance. From the seaboard to the luouutains, and 1 j from the Alabama to tiie Carolina side of j Georgia, tho cry is, STILL THEY COME \\ ; Still they withdraw from the Know Nothin'! Don ! The loaders, frightened at the numbers I that aro daily withdrawing, havo resolved j to dose tho lodges, and thereby keep others from withdrawing. But tho trick is of no use. Auy member of tho Know Nothing party oau withdraw without gottiug permis sion from liis council. All that is nocessary ! is, to write your application to the President of your counoil, drop it into the post office, ; and if he never gets it, is uot your fault., I You aro froo. Como out at once. Come out j and bes freeman.— Fed. Un. i WILLIAM T. WOFFORD, | THOMAS A. BURKE, I CASSVILIjE, geo. ! THURSDAY MORNING: SEPTEMBER 27, 1856. FOR GOVEKNOU, HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, j OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS. ~ : Ist piflt., JAR. L. REWARD of Thomas, j | 2ml “ M. J. f'H A WFOTtP of Muscogee !3d “ JAMES M, SMITH of Upson. 4th 11. WARNER of Meriwether, loth “ JOHN H. LUMPKIN of Fiord. | 6th •• IIOWELL COBB of Clarke. ‘ j 7th FI! CTnNr STEPHENS, Hancock. Bth “ a. 11. STEPHENS of Taliaferro.! ““for SENATOR, HAWKINS P. PRICE, FOR RF.PRESKNTATIVES, ALFRED M. LINN, Z. G. TURNER. JpZf’ This boing the last week of the cun- ; vass, we have crowded out a number of ad vertisements, to give place to polit'cnl mat- j ter. We will make it up. however, and give i such the regular number of insertions. Governor Johnson. Among the many ridiculous things urged ! against Governor Johnson by the opposition ‘ press, we notice nothing more ridiculous * than their efforts to make the impression that. ; | he is neglecting the people's interests while j canvassing the State. They know quite as | well as we da that there is na truth in this j charge—that he is not neglecting any busi- ‘ ness legitimately devolving upon him ns the ; States executive, notwithstanding the fact j that his enemies are doing everything in | their power to embarrass him by addressing j him on all sorts of subjects aud pretending j that their letters are not attended to.— Something of the.sort was the singular es- j fort of the Rev. C. W. Howard to get hiiuselt i j into notoriety and the Governor into disre- ! ! pute, but it was a most signal failure. The | Ilontrablt Garnett Andrews tried the same ! game, when he kept back his resignation so j | long iu the hope that Governor Johnson ‘ would not be able to fill the vacancy in time for Taliforro court. All this won't, answer your purposes, gentlemen. Your efforts to cripple and annoy the Governor have all j proved abortive—have, in fact, rebounded j and injured yourselves, and we tell 3'ou now i i that tho honest voters of Cherokee Georgia I are not to be bamboozled in any such a man- J uer. They kuow that Governor Johnson has i made an able and faithful executive—that ! i he has ever shown himself a true friend to j Cherokee Georgia and its interests—that the Stale Rond has been more prosperous under j I his administration than it ever was before ; i —that the credit of the State was never bet- i j ter and that iie hns been in all respects ones | of the very best Governors Georgia ever had, • i and they are not to be deceived into voting j , for a man who tells the people of South i \ Western Georgia that he is in favor of se 1 j ; ing the State Road, because he knows that ■ j position will give him popularity iu that f j region—to one who declared in a speech in j Lincoln county, a short time since, that j seoen-einhihs of the taxes of the people of j Georgia are paid for the support of the State ! road—thus trying to deceive the people of j j that section into the belief that their taxes j | would be merely nominal, if the road was ; I sold —to one whose votes prove him to have been in favor of the odious White basis of representation of which the Know Nothings of Georgia pretended to entertain such a { holy horror before the Tennessee election, ! because of the effort in *hat State to put Andrew Johnson on it. We tell our oppo- j units that their game is up, as next Monday j will show. Andrews has no right to exfect voteß in Cherokee Georgia, where all his acts nnd opinions prove him to be so much opposed to its interests. Judge Lumpkin's Letter. I Never, within our recolleetii u, bus a can i didate for any office, in any county. State or district been so villified and abused as the \ 1 democratic and anti Know Nothing candi- J ! date for Congress in this district. Knowing j well that the six years of his public life ‘ ; showed a clear record, and proved him to have been an able, faithful nnd energetic representative of the people of his district, the opposition have invaded the sanctity of private life and made tho falsest nnd most absurd attacks on ins character as a private citizen. The source from which these at tacks havo cuienated has been such ns to call forth no reply from Judge Lumpkin— -1 he preferring to leave his character in the ! hands of tho people of tho district, whom he j had served long and faithfully, both ns their j ! representative in Congress and Judge of the ; I Superior Court in this circuit. He is well j 1 known to the people whom he seeks to repre sent, and his confidence in their good sense I led hiui to fool confident that they would exouerate him from these infamous charges. But the appearauce in the field of one or two i responsible men who have attempted to give color to the charges, has nmdo it necessary I that the Judge should viudieato himself, ! for fear that sorno one might give credence to them. His letter in this week’s issue is a 1 most complete refutation of the entire oaU- j logue, and wo invito tbe especial attention i ‘of tlio voters of tho fifth district to it. A ! party whose accredited organs ani orators j wilt resort to such means to elevate its can- j didatos to office, as have been used by the j Know Nothings of this district, deserves the : reprobation of every true lover of liis coun try. A'ccp it before the people , that tho Know Nothings of tho North refuse to let For eigners aud Catholics vote, but at the same time give the Tree negroes the right to vote! i 1116 Cllronic ! e & Sentinet and Chnrch Statistics. The Chronicle & Sentinel of tbtgth in,* takes occasion to charge us with stating a falsehood, in relation to the number of tba religious denominations in the United States. This attempt to show an error on our part we will prove to be an utter failure ; anti’ not only lias the Editor failed in this but he has stated two wilful falsehoods, and sup’ I pressed a P° rtioD of table he purports to give. And in order to prove our charge we give the following extract from the artD cle alluded to, and all the comments of Mr Dcßow in introducing the table from U.e Baptist Almanac of 1850. The Chronicle & Sentinel says; •< The only table in the Census of 1850, that pretends to give the number es members in the different Churches in the IJ. Stites ia ; to be found at page 138 of the Compendium ! of the Census, which was copied by Mr. De- Bow from the . Baptial Almanac for 1860,’ ! with corrections by Dcßow himself. * Mr. Deßow says: .. \ stateaent taken from the Baptist Almanac of 1850 with c ; rections for Cumberland Predyterian*, . gives the following for all denominations.’’ This every word that Mr. He Bow says about this table, and we ask our renders if i the Chronicle & Scmine! state? the truth j when it says that it was .. copied by Dcßow ’ as the mo&t authentic and relink)? informa tion at liis command, with corrections ly himself.” No, neither of these assev lions are true Deßow does not s/.y one word about the reliableness of this table, nor that he corrected it himself We stated that a portion of the table the Chronicle & Sentinel pretends to give is suppressed, and our read | Ri’9, by referring to Deßow s Compendium, | P n gc 138, will see that the twenty thou | sand Wesleyan Methodists mentioned in the tulle are not given in the 3tatenent of that j paper. We have proved our charges ind we now proceed to show She correctness of what we i formerly stated : the only infornatidn given | by the Census takers, from which any esti ; mate of the numbers of tbe ditftreut denom inations cun be derived, is the table showing i the church accommodation*. Tle churches are built and the seats prepared in view of ! the regular attendants at all the protestant chtirches. Nearly cvery Catholic in princi j pie in the United States is a member of the church, while nearly all the regular atten ’ dauts at the Methodist, Presbyterian Baptist churches are Methodists, Prestyle riansor Baptists in faith, and, in estimating 1 the strength of those denominations, those | who attend their meetings ought to be coun ted, for they are just as much opposed to ; tho Catholics as regular communicant*, and our political opponents will certainly recog j uise this mode of calculation, for they look upon Frank Cone, John J. Word and Simp i son Fouche as good protestants aud as bitter ; enemies as the Catholics have In Georgia, although neither of them are members of any church, while they are making greater ef forts against the Catholics than the preach ers of any religious denomination iu Georgia. “A lie well stuck to is as good as the truth.*’ We suppose the editor of the Atlanta his ripline has adopted this motto iu reference to the present canvass. That paper has or iginated several ridiculous charges against ’ the present administration ol Georgia, all of which have been refuted clearly and tri umphantly. One of these ..grave charges” was that Goveruor Johnson had ordered tii# printing of a lot of Algerine documents st the Southerner office in Rome, for which he refused to pay. We published a few week* ago a loiter from J. W. Dodd, Esq , the gen tleman with whom they alledged the con tract had been made, denying, in most posi tive terms, that there was any truth iu it We also published a letter to the same effect from Judge Summers, of this county, a mem ber of their party and a man of undoulte veracity. Notwithstanding this triumpbart vindication of the Governor from this nillf fabrication, the .Discipline’ of the 19t) iust. (Hs last issue) reiterates the cliargß and asks .. Will the people of Georgia ecu mend and ratify such conduct by voting f ,r Johnson again ?” Was ever injustice ertriw to such an extent before ? Was tbereerer* party in existence before wliieh would resort to such menus to iurther its ends ? ffi *d> .. Will the people of Georgia commend stl ratify such conduct by voting for ..the cn didates of such a party : ’ We believe aot, and the result of the election next MondiJ will show that wo have not placed a wrong estimate upon their good sense and love ol justice. Rather Vote for a Negro. We arc credibly informed that Col. J n,es Milner, one of the Know Nothing nif® rs ! this county, declared publicly at AdairsviMe > j ou last Saturday, at the Know Notk'®o j meeting, thnt he would rather vote for fo’d* ’ Douglass than for the Hon. John H Lump kin I There, independent voters of tbe fk'h district, you see what sort of feeiings actuate the members of this new party H er ® ‘ s °® of their public speakers, one of Col. Tumlin * acknowledged mouth pieces, proclaiming publicly that he would rather vote for I red. Douglass, a black negro, and the pet oj < •< northern abolitionists, than for the B° n John 11. Lumpkin, a native born Georgian who has represented us six years iu Congrcs and a number of years on the bench. Qud* j complimentary to tlicgood sense of the voter: • of this district, that they should havesent ti i Congress, six years, a mau who is not asgoo< jas a black uegro ! Will you uphold a part. 1 whoso acknowledged mouth-pieces thus in suit your good sense r Will you give y oU I votes to a man whose public represent a! 11 on the stump proolaims in broad day lig* that lie would rather vote for a black neg* than for a native Georgian ? “ 9 not. Let your votea at the ballot box ** Monday express your honest iudignatiou J electing triumphantly the woB e ° r giun, whoso private character has oeeu shamefully traduced throughout this a 11 canvass. Our Prospects. Wc have seen and conversed, this wee , I well informed gentlemen from varum* P a j the District, and arc more tliau e'er euu ! that our triumph will be complete. I Lumpkin’s majority will be very ! ' ,r K c - Tumlin and his friends have been v bu • al) tbe oouuties of the District, but all purpose. He is immensely weaker note , | was*a mouth ago, and the p, § ber will give him a blow from never recover. . -