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GEORGIA^
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 4,
FOR GOVERNOR. „ _
IIEIIS€IIEL V. JOHNSON.
FOB CONGRESS
-Ist District—James L. Sewaril, of 1 homas.
3d, James M- Smith, of l pson.
4 t li <• Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
r,,h << Jno. 11. Lumpkin.
Cth “ Howell Cobb, ol Clarke.
Congressional Convention, 2d District.
We suggest that the Democratic Congressional Conven
tion for the Second District be held at Americus, on Wed
nesday, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will be in
session at that time in Americus. What say our Demo
cratic cotemporaries to this suggestion 1 The time and
place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd.
Democratic Itally !
There will be a Mass Meeting of the Democratic Party
of Muscogee county at Columbus, on Saturday 7th July.
Gov. Johnson has consented to be present and ad
dress the people. Other distinguished gentlemen will be
invited and are expected to attend. The citizens of Mus
cogee and the adjoining counties, without distinction of
parties, are respectfully invited to be present.
WILLIAM TENNILLE,3
J. F. BOZEMAN,
M. J. WELLBORN, }
ALFRED IVERSON, (Committee.
M. J CRAWFORD.
TEN N-fiNT LOMAX, J
Columbus, June 26. 1854.
Southern Delegates to the Philadelphia Con
vention.
We can scarcely find a place upon the body of Know
Notbingism to which we can apply the whip without
“touching the raiof It is really painful to us to han
dle the galled moster, it winces so painfully under the
touch. But wo may not shrink from duty however
painful the task may be.
It is known that on the passage of the Platform of
Principles, wishy-washy as it was on the subject of
slavery, twelve States withdrew from the Grand Coun
cil and two more protested against that part of it. New
York and California alone, of the hireling States, stood
by the Platform and it is almost certain that the State
Council of New York will repudiate the action of her
delegates. Very great merit is claimed for the
Southern delegates because they took, it is said,
such high ground on the slavery question that they
drove their Northern brethren out of the Grand Coun
cil. We have heretofore shown that, in several particu
lars, the Southern Know Nothings made fatal conces
sions to their abolition confederates to preserve their
Northern alliances ; namely, in pretermiting any expres
sion of opinion as to the power of Congress over slavery
in the Territories ; in declaring the Union of the United
States the paramount political good ; and in denying to
the States and conferring upon the Supreme Court the
sole power to interpret the constitution. We, there
fore, arrive at the conclusion that the schism in the
Grand Council arose, not from the soundness of the
Southern, but the rottenness of the Northern dele
gate, most of whom were Abolitionists and ought
never to have been met by loyal citizens of the South,
except as traitors to the constitution and enemies of the
South.
We propose to make this assertion apparent in this
article, so far as many of the Southern delegates are
concerned. Our authority for what we shall say about
them is the American Organ , a Know Nothing paper
published at Washington city and edited by Vespasian
Ellis, who was a delegate to the Grand Council and
knows whereof he affirms.
We charge Ist, That nearly every Southern man in
the National Council of Know Nothings admittted that,
as a question of policy, the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, by the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act, was
a blunder.
We charge 2d, That many of them denounced the
Nebraska-Kansas act as an outrage upon the North.
We charge 3d, That some of them advocated the
repeal of the Nebraska-Kansas act and the restora
tion of the Missouri line, whereby slaves was excluded
from all Territory es the United Spates lying North of
36 deg. 30 min. These are grave charges and would
damn any party in the South, if the public mind were
in a healthy State.
In proof of our first charge we quote the’language of
the American Organ. It sa\s :
“On this point we have first to say that nearly every
Southern man in the National Council, who expressed his
opinions on the subject, admitted that, as a question of
policy, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854 was
a blunder—that it was not theu demauded by the South,
and that it had re-opened the agitation of a questiou dan
gerous to the peace and harmony of the country. There
was no demand—no necessity —no occasion for any dis
urbance of the Compromise line of 1820. Its disturbance,
as a question of policy, (not of right,) was the most reck
less act of legislation recorded in American history.
In proof of our second charge, we quote the lan
guage of Mr. Ford, of Ohio, and Mr. Rayner of N.
C , delivered in the National Council:
Mr. Ford.—You acknowledge you have had the con
sideration—ypu admit the repeal to be unjust and an out
rage, and yet you refuse To right it.” Objection was
made by several Southern members to the assertion that
they admitted the righteousness of the repeal. “W e |]
then,” said Mr. Ford, “get up and tell us what you think
about it. Let us hear your confessions)”
Mr. Hopkins of Alabama, rose and defended the repeal
as that of an unconstitutional act.
Cunningham of South Carolina, said ditto, and so one or
two others.
“Go ahead,” said Mr. Ford, “let us hear you all.”
Kenneth Rayner.—“ls it expected that Southern gen •
tlemeu generally will give their mental experience ?
Ford.—“Yes,yes; let us hear you all.”
Ilayner.—“W ell, then, L have to say that the repeal of
tho Missouri Compromise was an uncalled for and unnec
essary a t, an outrage even, a violation of plighted faith ;
and I would have seen my right arm wither and my tongue
palsied before I would have votvd for it.”
Several other model ate men of the slave States agreed
with Mr. Rayner, hut were not prepared to aid in righting
the wrong, whose iniquity and injustice they freelv ad
mitted. ■*
The proof upon the third charge is not so clear. It
is known that Kenneth Rayner, of N. C., submitted a
distinct proposition to restore the Missouri line. ITow
much strength it had iu Convention is not known as the
call for the previous question prevented a vote upon it.
It is reasonable, however, to suppose that he had back
ers from the South or he would not have made so hold
a surrender of Southern R-ghts. Mr. Vespasian Ellis,
however, submitted a proposition of similar purport in
these words: (we quote from the American Organ.)
“Resolved, lha ths National Council, without ex
pressing any opinion upon the constitutionality of the
M ssomi Compromi-e, as an original proposition, but, con
sidering the rtpeal tfsaid Compromise impolitic and un
wise, : lid there ixistingdouh s as to the practicability and
expediency of restoring said compromise by laic, tl.is Na
tional Council lit-rebv declares, that the American party
ought not to either insist upon , urge, or require , the
vdmission of any Territory into the Union us a slave
State, which lies North of the Campromise line; and !
that, on the other hand, said party will interpose no ob
jections to the admission of any Territory into the Union
as a slave State, which lies South of said Compromise
line; thus virtually restoring, without legislation, the
original compact made between the North and South in
1820.”
We think the proof adduced is sufficient to convince
every honest man that our charges against the South
ern Delegates to the Know Nothing National Council
are true. We dare not trust ourselves with the liberty
of characterising the conduct of these faithless Southern
delegates. We, therefore, adopt the language of t'"’
Richmond Enquirer and comm >d it to the careful
consideration of Southern men. The Enquirer says :
“Now, what does all this mean, but that the Ameri
can Organ, which is held up for its devotion to the
South, was and is wjjling to surrender a ground of the
most vital importance to the South ? A critical ques
tion, now before the country, is tfi,e admission of Kansas
into the Union as a State. Under the lead of Douglas
and other noblo Northern men, the sectional and de
grading line of the Missouri Compromise waß blotted
out, and thereby to Southerners was conceded, as an
act of simple justice, the right to carry their own pro
perty into the territory. In the progress of time, and
in spite of the organized emigration movements of
New England Abolitionists, the Southern men have
acquired a foothold in Kansas by the popular vote, with
a bright prospect of establishing their right tha
constitution, which gives equal protection to all sorts of
property. Just at tliia important crisis, when the
South is about to have justice done to her citizens,
such friends of the South as Kenneth Rayner and the
American Organ step forward and denounce the repeal
of the Missouri Cemproinise as ‘a blunder,’ and as ‘the
most reckless act of legislation recorded in American
history/ The American Organ goes still father and
calls upon the whole ‘American’ organization to wipe
out practically this awful ‘blunder,’ and to ‘virtually re
store, without legislation, the original compact made be
tween the North and South in 1820’—in other words,
really to give new life to the degrading Missouri Com
promise, and to restore a gross and unqualified act of
injustice and degradation to the South. And all this
to conciliate the abolitionists and to give peace and
harmony to the great “American’ party !
“But the reasons given are, if possible, more mon
strous than the proposition itself. They are that the
whole question is a mere shadow of an abstraction ; that
all the Southern men in the Philadelphia Council ar
gued that Kansas could not be a slave State, and that
not one single member of the Council was heard to ex
press a wish that Kansas should be a slave State.—
What an extraordinary representation the South had in
the Council! Men who, instead of standing by the
South in the hour of trial, and when by the union of
her son3, the South might acquire practical justice and
benefit, threw down their arms to the abolitionists, and
surrendered at discretion all the real rights of the South !
According to the Organ, every representative of the
South surrendered the whole question and threw the
whole weight of his position into the anti-slavery scale,
so far as Kansas is concerned !
“Is not the Organ condemned out of its own mouth,
in the opinion of every true Southern man ? When
such sentiments as we have above quoted, are publicly
proclaimed as the voice of eren the Know Nothings ■ “
the South, how can they expect to dupe the South by
hollow platforms into an affiliation with so detestable a
party? Every step taken to patch up the disjointed
fragments of ‘Sam’ exposes the deception in anew and
more damning light. The whole concern is a wretched
cheat, and the whole South will, like Virginia, repudiate
and spit upon it.’’
Great Gathering of the New York Democracy.
In delightful contrast with the treasonable language
of a number of Southern delegates to the Grand Coun-
I cil of the Know Nothings recently held at Philadelphia,
and which we have noticed in another article, are the
resolu’’ ns and speeches of the Democracy of New
York made and adopted at a mass meeting of the hard
shells on the 27th uU. The following resolutions on
the subject of slavery were unanimously adopted by over
two thousand five hundred Democrats in the city of
New York:
Resolved , That Congress has no power to interfere
with, or attempt to dictate or control the domestic institu
tions of States or Territories, aud that its power to do so
in the District of Columbia, being gravely disputed, ought
not to be exeroised ; that we deprecate and oppose the
agitation of the subject of slavery in Congress, under any
shape or form ; and while we approve of. and will adhere
to, as just and constitu:onal, the existing legislation up
on the subject of the rendition of fugitive slaves, and the
principle of the acts organizing the Territories of Utah,
New Mex’co, Kansas and Nebraska, we demand, in the
name of the sound Union feeling of the country, that all
insane sectional prejudices—unfraternal agitations—and
hypocritical aggressions, fomented by designing and dan
gerous men. shall cease.
Resolved , That we utterly repupiate and disavow the
demand of Northern abolitionists —first enunciated by
the Buffalo Convention, which nominated Van Buren
and Adams in IS4B—that “no more slaveholding States”
shall be admitted into this Union ; believing that the
position thus assumed is one which finds no warrant in
the constitution, or in the example set us by our revolu
tionary fathers, and remembering that the first State ad
mitted by act of Congress, approved by George Wash
ington as President, w?s the slaveholding State of Ken
tucky.
They were pa ed by Northern votes alone—Demo
cratic votes alone, without the help of a solitary South
ern man. It will be seen that, unlike the Southern
branch of the Know Nothings at Philadelphia, the
New York Democracy unequivocally deny to Congress
the constitutional “power to interfere with or attempt
to dictate or control the domestic institutions of States
or Territories The Southern Know Nothings at
Philadelphia pretermitted any expression of opinion as
to the constitutional power of Congress over slavery in
the Territories, and yet 12 States, rather than swallow
their milk and water resolutions on the subject of slave
ry, retired from the Grand Council, and two more pro
tested against them, lias it not come to a pretty pass
when Northern men take higher ground than Southern
meu in defence of Southern Rights ?
In harmony with these resolutions were the speeches
of all who addressed the meeting.
Samuel Beardsley, the President of the meeting,
said :
When the constitution was formed, the States all agreed j
that this subject should be left to the determination of the
States. New York determined the question for herself.—
She was then a slave state, and she abolished slavery when
she pleased. Virginia aho as-anted to that doctrine. Sha
was then a slave state, and she is one now. She has tho
same right to be a slave state now as she had then, and it is
no concern of ours to inteifere. (Ciiesrs ) It is solely her
own concern. We in this State act as we please on the
subieet, and we should leave Virginia to do the same, and
the'peace and quiet of the country demand that each Ter
ritory should have the same privilege. (Loud cheers)
Oregon has chosen to say that she will not have slavery.
She had a light to do so, and no one has a right to com
plain of it. Ifother Territories hold different language and
adopt the opposite policy, it is their right to do so, and the j
quiet of the country will be best promoted by leaving to
each to govern that matter as they may think proper.—
(Cheers.)
Daniel E, Siekle6, late Secretary of Legation at Lon
don, said;
“We will b? obliged to meet and light once more the
slavcty question—Dr abolitionism is one ot the subdivis
ions of fanaticism at the North, and singularly enough,we
are obliged to meet it in the form of the Nebraska bill. 1
think that I can briefly relieve this question ot much of the
misrepresentation and mystification which have been
thrown around it by designing and corrupt presses, and
still more designing po'iticians. I affirm as a proposition,
that is susceptible ot the clearest proot, that the Nebraska
bill, so far from being a violation of any compact or agree*
ment existing between the States or an y of them, is an hon
est and faithful fulfilment of the agreement made by the
Compromise measures of 1850, when Webster, Clay, our
own Dickinson, (applause) and other eminent men, arrang
ed the plan for the adjustment of all future questions of tne
same kind upon the principle of territorial and popularsov
ereignty—that hereafter the question of slavery, in any
Slate or Territory, should be left entirely to the will of the
people occupying the. Territory. The Federal |Govern
ment had previously acted upon a different policy. [Mr.
Sickles proceeded to detail the circumstances attendant up
on the passage ot the Compromise ol 1820—the admis
sion ot Texas and Oregon— to show that Congress had
previously taken upoQ itself to settle all difficulties about
slavery.] The consequence of this policy was that every
time any new Tetritory was added to the Union, the slave
ry question was again revived, with all its attendant evils.
The statesmen of 1850 resolved that the question should be
settled at once, and lorever, by the affirmation of the prin
! ciple that the people of the Teiritory should settle the
; question—slavery or no slavery—for themselves. That de
j cidon is now one of the well settled principles of the demo
| cratic party. We hold that New York should not make
j laws lor Massachusetts; n>r Massachusetts for Kansas.—
■ The people of Nebraska should make laws for themeelves.
■ They are suppo ed to know their own business Congress,
1 in passing the Nebraska bill, only acted up to the Compro
mise measures of 1850, which had been sanctioned in the
election of ’52 by the votes of three fourths of the people
of the United States upon the platform as laid down by the
democratic Convention at Baltimore.
Competency of Witnesses—Um verbalists.
It is attempted to justify the decision of Judge An
drews as to the incompeteteney of a universalist as a
witness in of Justice by the assertion that it
was in accordance with the common Law of England.
That this is not true, we have abundant evidenoe.——
We quote from 1 GreaHleaf on Evidence, page 513,
note to see. 369. “The proper test of the competency
of a witness on the score of religious belief was settled,
upon great consideration, in the case of Omichund vs.
Barker, Willes, 545, 1 Atk. 21, S. C., to be the belief
of a God, and that he will reward and punish us ac
cording to our deserts. This rule (7 uglish) was re
cognized in Butts vs. Swartwood, 2 Cowen, 431 ; The
People vs. Matteson, 2 Cowen, 436, 573, note ; and by
Story, j. in Wakefield vs. Ross, 5 Mason, 18 ; 9 Dane’s
Abr. 317, S. P.; and in Brock vs. Milligan, 1 Wilcox,
125. Whether any belief in a future state of existence
is necessary, provided accountability to God in this life
is acknowledged, is not perfectly clear. In Common
wealth vs.l Bacheler, 4 Am. Jurest, ft 1, Thacher, j.
seemed to think it was. But in Ilunscom vs. Huns
corn, 15 Mass. 185, the Court held, that mere disbelief
in a future existence went only to the credibility. This
degree of disbelief is not inconsistent with the faith re
quired in Omichund vs. Barker (the leading English
case). The only case , clearly to the contrary, is At
wood vs. Welton, 7 Conn. 68. In Curtis vs. Strong,
4 Day, 51, the witness did lot believe in the obligation
of an oath ; aDd in Jackson vs. Gridley, 18 Johns. 98,
he was a mere atheist without any sense of religion
whatever. All that was snid in these two cases, be
yond the point in judgment, was extrajudicial. See
also, 3 Phil. Evid, by Cowen and Hill, p. 1503, note
53,55 : Fernandis and Hall vs. Henderson, Cor. Des
saussure Ch. Union Dist. S. Car., Aug. 1827, ib. cit.
In Maine, a belief in the existence of the Supreme Be
ing is rendered sufficient by 6tat., 1833, oh. 58, without
any reference to rewards or punishments. Smith vs.
Coffin 6 Sbaph. 157.”
By carefully examining the foregoing extract from
the highest legal authority in the United States it will be
seen that the decision of Judge Andrews is in the teeth
of the common law of England as declared in Omichund
vs. Barker during the last century and the whole cur
rent of American decision* except one solitary case in
Connecticut. How then can the supporters of the
Know Nothing nominee justify his outrageous wrong
upon the universalists ? He was either ignorant of law
or was governed by religious intolerance. In either
case he would seem to be eminently fitted to be the
candidate of the Know Nothings.
ible Repeal ot the Missouri Compromise.
Kenneth Rayner, a North Carolina Know Nothing,
is reported, in the New York Herald , to have de
nounced “the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as an
outrage upon the North.” Similr ■ language was held,
we arc told, by George N. Stewart, a prominent Ala
bama Know Nothing in the city of Montgomery, Ala
bama, on his return from the Philadelphia Convention.
In delightful contrast with these unsound sentiment,
we append the following extract from the New York
Daily Times, It was written in reply to the Courier
ts Enquirer which charged that every Union man at
the North was insulted and outraged by the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise.” The Nejo York Times
says:
We say, then, as one of the “Union men of the North,”
that they were not “insulted and outraged by the repeal of
the Missouri Compromisebut that they aided, abetted
and approved that repeal, and will resist the “restoration”
of that or any other line by whieh the territory ofthe Union
shall be divided, North and South, “by act of Congress.”
Does the Courier hear this l Did it hear the resolution
passed by acch nation through the National Democratic
State Convention last July, approving of “the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise,” and whieh was responded to by
one hundred thousand votes cast for Nebraska candidates
lor Congress in this State last Fall ? Or is it ignorant of
these things—of the sentiments of the“ Union men” it inso
lently assumes to speak for ?
Emory College. —The address before the Literary
Societies of Emoiy College, will be delivered by Dr.
W. 11. Felton, of Cass.
Arrival of Secretary Davis. —Washington, June 26.
Secretary Davis, arrived herefrom his visit from Micsir-ip
pi, this morning.
Wanted —By and ancient maden lady,
“A local habitation and a name.”
The real estate she is not pertieular about, so that the
title is good. Tho name she wishes to hand down to
posterity. _
Sambo, if de devil was to lose his tail, whar would he go
to get another one ? Why to de Grocery, ob course—
dat’s de only place what I knows on whar dey re-tail bad
sperrets. _ _
The East Alabama Female College.
It must be a source of regret to the friends es the College
that Prof. A. J. Battle’s connection with the Institution
will terminate with the pre-ent session. It will be difficult
to supply his place. A long and intimate acquaintance,be
-1 gan amidst College association, and fcontinued amidst the
sterner duties of life, justifies U3 in the public mention of
his name. With ample means at command, he spurned
the indolent habits of the majority of those born and rear
ed amidst the accidents of fortune, and voluntarily devo
ted himself s o the toilsome and thankless avocation of
teaching. His career has been eminently successful. But
a tew years alter his graduation, he was elected to an hon
orable position amongst the Faculty of his Alma Mater.—
Upon the organization of the Baptist College in
he w’as, by common consent, selected to till the Chair of
Lecturer on Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. Having
taken orders iu the Baptist Church, he has, we learn, been
lately called to the Pastoral charge of the congregation
in Tuskaloosa, a signal compliment to one of his years. A
careeer of usefulness awaits him, and our best wishes at
tend his steps. —Auburn Gazette.
Hon. Wm. L. Yancy —4 h 9 Autauga C'tizcn contains
a letter from this gentleman, in which he denies the rumor
th it he is or ever has been a Knaw Not ng, and expresses
h s disapprobation of the slavey and Catholic planks qf
heir platform.
The State Council.
The State Council of the American Party met, on the
call of the President, in this city, on Wednesday last, over
200 delegates being present, to take into consideration the
Platform of Principles recently adopted by the National
American Party, and to place in nomination a candidate
lor Governor, to be supported by the American Party of
Georgia, at the ensuing eleciion. On the first day a com
mi'tee of 16 was appointed to prepare business for the ac
tion of the Council, which committeo very elaborately dis
cussed the subject, and presented their repo: t on Thursday
morning, when, after an eloquent and full discussion, in
which many gentlemen participated, a Platform ot Princi
ples was considered, section by section, and adopted.—
The main question of difference on the Platform as passed,
was on the tenth section, which provided for the nomina*
tion of a candidate at this s?rffon. This being carried by a
very decided vote of two-thirds or more of the body, the
adoption of the whole platform was finally made unanimous.
On proceeding to carry out the Direction, the following
gentlemen were placed in nomination for the office of Gov
ernor: Hon. E. A. Nisbet, Dr. H. V. Miller, Col. Hines
Holt, Washington Poe, Esq., Hon. James Johnson, Hon.
R. V. Hardeman, B. H. Overby, Esq , Maj. J. H Howard
and Hon. C. J. Jenkins. Judge Nisbet and Dr. Miller, be
ing present, positively declined the honor, from considera
tions of a private nature which were too imperative to ad
mit of its acceptance. The Council then proceeded to the
ballot which resulted as follows:
Ist. Ballot: Hon. Garnett Andrews 97, 2d Ballot: 127
Hon. W. Poe 36, 33
Hon. R. V. Hardeman 19, 4
Hon. Jame Johnson 14, 6
Dr. H. V. Miller 7,
B. H. Overby, Esq., 7, 7
Maj. J. H. Howard 1,
Hon. C. J. Jenkins, 1, 2
Blank 1, 1
The nomination of Hon. G. Andrews was then declared
una'nimous with much enthusiasm. — Georgia Citizen.
E. B. Bartlett, of Kentucky, President of the Philadel
phia Council.
The name of this worthy is signed to the “pretermiting'’
platform as President of the conclave which adopted it.—
When we saw it announced that Wilson, Gardner &. Cos.,
voted for him in preference to Barker, a Silver Grey, con
servative Whig ot New York, we suspected that he was a
wolf in sheep’s clothing—an Abolitionist hailing from the
South, and therefore the more to be shunned and despised.
His antecedents are related in the following extract from
a late Washington Star :
He’s a Massachusetts man. It seems that Senator Wil
son & Co’s new president of the Know Nothing National
Council, Dr. Bartlett, is not a Kentuckian, as alleged, but
A LOWELL YANKEE, transplanted to Kentucky some
ten years ago, where he has been pursuing the business of a
theological and literary teacher. HE IS IN FACT ONE
OF THE “UNJUST, UNRIGHTEOUS AND DAM
NABLE” CLASS OF YANKEE DEBUTY PREA
CHERSOR LECTURERS-OFTHE CLASS WHOSE
NAMES ARE TO BE FOUND UPON THE LIST
OF THE THREE THOUSAND ABOLITION CLER
GYMEN WHO ANATHEMATIZED THE PRESI
DENT, CONGRESS, THE SOUTH, AND SENA
TOR DOUGLAS ESPECIALLY, IN THE HOPE
OF THUS DEFEATING THE ENACTMENT OF
THF NEBRASKA BILL. This accounts tor the fact
that though from Kentucky, he was a supporter of the
views of Senator Wilson in the convention, and the, una
nimity with which the Senator end his abolition coadjators
there assembled sustained his pretentions, though a dele
gate from a slave holding State, over Barker, a pro slavery
New Yorker.
Such is the man under whose seal the “pretermitting”
platform is commeuded to Southern favor.
New Hampshire Politics.
Senators Hale and Bell Defining their Positions.
t Concord, N. H. Juue2B, 1855.
The speech* es Senator Bell, last night, was strongly
whigaud Nebraska in tone, and advocated an attempt to
restore the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Bell’s Iriends con
sider his speech conservative enough, while the democrats
hold it identical with free soilism.
Mr. Hale’s speech was characteristic, and straight out
and outlreesoil.
The m 9ting was very large and enthusiastic.
Avery stringent anti-liquor bill ha3 been agreed on by
the House Committee.
The New Commissioner of Pensions.
Washhington, June 28,1855.
r.MCole, Chief Clerk in the Pension Office, it is believ
ed, will receive the appointment of Commissioner of Pen
sions, in place of Judge Waldo.
From the Plains.
Bloody and Successful Fights with the Indians.
St. Louis, June 28, 1855.
The Republican has advices from New Mexico to May
30th.
On the 29th, Colonel Fountleroy attacked a camp of
Ulah3 near Kansas river, twenty miles north of Breuchas
pass, killed toity and took six prisoners. The command
had one man slightly, and another mot tally wounded. All
the camp equipages, horses, sheep, provisions, &c. were
captured.
On the first of May, the same command attacked a camp
of thirty five Utahs in the Schonatch valley, killed lour,
and wounned four, and captured horses, provisions, &c.—
Among the piisoners taken is a chief, who is inclined to
sue for peace. The command returned to Fort Massa
chusetts on the9:h May.
Washington Affairs.
Jeff. Davis—Serious Illness of Mr. Dobbin—The new
Editor of the Organ- -Dismissal of Mr. Wilson, etc.
Washington, Juno 27,1855.
Mr. Davis, Secretary of War, has returned and resumed
the duties of his office.
The health of Mr. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, is
very poor, ile will leave the city in a few days, and be
absent some time. If hishealtn gets no better ne will be
compelled to resign.
The Organ is furious this evening. Ellis denies that he
has been displaced. Mr. Burwell, who takes his place, is,
it is said, a strong * Law” man. Straws show which way
the wind blow.
Mr. Wilson, Commissioner of the land office, received
his walking papers this m ning. The question now is,
what will Secretary McClelland do] It is rumored that'ho
will leave also.
Departure of the President—lllness of Mrs. Pierce, etc.
Washington, June 27, 1855.
Nothing is to be done with the personnel of the navy,
regarding promotions, &c., until after the report of the Na
vy Retiring Board shall have been made.
The impression to day is that Mr. Clayton, the Second
Auditor of the Treasury, will not be removed.
The President, with Mrs. Pierce, left this afternoon for
Baltimore. They will proceed from thence, privately, to
the Jersey shore or country, for the benefit of Mrs. P’s.
health, which has been feeble of late.
Mr. Wilson, Commissioner of the Land Office, ‘recived
his dismissal this afternoon, direct from the President.-
Mr. W. left the office immediately. It is thought Mr.
Shannon will succeed Mr. Wilson.
The President has appointed George C. Whiting,
Clerk of the Interior Department, acting Commissioner ad
interim. Mr, Wilson’s removal was solely for political
reasons. He is aK. N.
Gov. Cobb’s Speech at Cumming.—XVe had the pleas
ure ot hearing Gov. Cobb in one of his most powerful
speeches, at Cumming, on Wednesday, the 20th inst. It
was a groat speech, and its effects will be seen at the polls
in October next. It was a htavy blow upon tne Know
.Nothings ot Forsyth, who have never been iu a very Dros
perous condidion. From what we have seen and heard,
the sixth District will give Gov. Johnson an increased ma
jority, over his vote in the late canvass, of at least five hun
dred.—Cassville Standard.
Death of Bev. Capers.
We deeply regret to announce [savsthe Camden Jour
nal ot June 26th,] the death of the Rev. S’ W. Capers,
which occurred on Friday morning last, after a lew hours
illness. His general health has been failing for several
months, but his immediate dissolution was not apprehend
ed. Thus, it is, we know not the day nor the hour when
the summons will come, “Prepare to meet thy God.” Mr.
Capers had been long a zealous and acceptable Minister of
the Gospel of the Methodist Church.
Defining his Position, —Ex-Gov. Johnston, of Penn
sylvania, writes to the New York Tribune, warmly deny
nying ihat at the Grand Couoeil he voted for the pro sla
very Platform there adopted. He says:
“I did not vote for said platform and do not intend to do
so hereafier. 1 oppose lit in Convention, spoke against its
adoption in the Convention, protested against it, and re
fused all co-operation wi;h any National Organization
that recognized or adopted it. lam now what 1 have been
—a firm and consistent opponenud slavery extension.
Jail Delivery. —Easton, Pa., June 26th.—All the Pris
oners in jail here broke out last night and escaped.
Additional by the Baltic.
Cotton Market.
The Liverpool Cotton Market closed well, and prices
tending downwards. Os the sales lor the week, specula
tors took 17,00 J bales, and exporters 2,000 bales. The of
ficial quotations are:—Fair Orleans 71, Middling Orleans
6 11 16; Fair Uplands 7, and Middling Uplands 6 9 16d.
The Stock of Cotton in Liverpool - is 549,000 bales, of
which 361,000 bales are American.
The weather is favorable for the crops.
Provisions —Canal Flour is quoted at 40s 6d. a 41s. and
Ohio at 445. 6d. White Wheat 11 ‘9-10 a 12s. 4d. Yel
low Corn 525. a 525,6d. and White 50 a 51s.
London Money Market.— Consols 91 a 911. Money
was easy. Bank rate interest has been reduced to 31.
Failures. —The houses of Strachem, Paul & Cos., Lon
don, Bankers, and |Halford & Cos., Navy Agents, have,
failed.
Progress of the War.
In storming the Mamelon and White tower works 5,000
lives were 10.-t. The French took 62 guns and 500 prison;
ers. Their new position enables them to shell the shipping
in the harbor of Sebastopol.
The English have also captured ride pits in quarries, los
ing, however, 500 in killed.
Since the late desperate conflicts the firing of the Allies
ha 9 been slack.
The fleets have burnt the Russian stores atTgaury,Ma
ranop'e and Ginixhe. The Allies are about fitting out an
expedition against Perokop.
The Russians are reported to have evacuated Anapa.
There is no news lrom Tcheninga or the Baltic.
The latest news from Sebastopol is unimportant.
New York Markets.
New York, June 28.
The Cotton Market is unsettled. Flour is firm, and Ohio
commands $8 50 a§9 121. Coin has declined to 91 a95
cents per bushel.
Clialeston Cotton | Market.
Charleston, June 29.
The sales of Cotton to-day were 400 bales at 91 a lli
cents. Prices have declined from ito 2 ol a cent.
Spain.
A letter from Paris to the New York Times says :
“News has reached me, just in time for the steamer’s mail
of to day, that the Spanish Government had agreed to
dismiss the Governor of Sagua la Grande lrom his office,
and to punish the officer in command of the Ferrolana ,
if he has exceeded the orders in the affair of the El Do
rado, which orders, it seems, were explicit not to stop
vessels to make any search until they had entered the wa
ters under the jurisdiction of Cuba. The Spanish Govern
ment also makes a solemn declaration “that it has not
been the intention of Spain, nor d< es she pretend oven to
have any right to visit or search American vessels on the
h’gh sees.”
The Great Southern Mail.
On the Ist of July the great Southern Mail passed, for
the first time, liotn Augusta to Opelika, by way of Milieu,
Macon and Columbus instead of going by Atlanta and
West Point as hitherto.
Louisiana Election. —An election for Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court and an Associate Justice took place in
Louisiana on last Monday. We have heard only from
New Orleans and Algiers. The majority of Elgee, anti-
Know Nothing candidate for Chief Justice, was 1,178,
and that of Lea, candidate tor Associate of the same party,
was 894. *
The intolerance of the Philadelphia Council has broken
the Know Nothings completely down in Louisiana.
Withdrawal of Mr. Overby. — We understand that the
nomination of Judge Andrews, for .Governor, by the
Know Nothing Convection, is regarded as highly ac
ceptable to the Temperance Party, and that Mr. Overby,
the candidate of that party, will withdraw from the canvass
n favor of the former.— S'av. News , 2 6th.
[From the Sumter Republican Extra ]
Destructive Fire! Burning of the Variety Works.
Ftiday, June 29th, 1855.
j About half-past 2 o’clock, this morning, the alaim of fire
I was given, and it was soon ascerta ned that the extensive
, Variety Works of Messrs. G. W. & D. Smith were in
flames. Owing to the combustible nature of the materials,
the whole establishment was consumed, and nothing what
ever was saved. By the extraordinary efforts of our citi
] zens, the residence and furniture ot Mr. G. W. Smith were
( saved. We understand that two wagon loads of meal were
consumed, together with the blinds tor the new Baptist
Church, and a great deal of work which was on hand for
various parties, was destroyed, together with a great deal
of lumber. The fire is supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary. Loss estimated at from ten to twelve thousand
dollars.
Massachusetts Know Nothing State Council.
Boston, June 28,1855.
The Know Nothing State Council met atl o’clock p.m.
i to day. A preliminary meeting was held last night, which
was attended by about one hundred persons, including Sen
ator Wilson, Governor Gardiner, N. P. Banks, A. Burlin
game, and several other members of Congress. To the
meeting was submitted an Address, which puts the party
on the platform of the restoration of the M -ouri Com
promise—“till calling it the American party, and calling
for a Mass Convention, to beheld in some central place.
Some are in favor of calling the new party the Ameiiean
Republican. One or two men from Boston dissented from
the doctrines of the address. There is some opposition to
throwing off’the secresy and other machinery of the party.
Many of the leading politicians of the State are now
here.
The Know Nothings held a ratification meeting this ev
ening with open doors.
Dr. B. H. West presided. The following preamble and
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, the National Council recently ariembledin
Philadelphia, adopted as a part of its platform certain res
olutions upon the subject of slavery, which are utterly re
pugnant to the sentiments of the American party in Mas
sachusetts, and subversive of the plainest principles of jus
tice; and whereas, the delegates in ihat body from this
State Council, after endeavoring in vain to procure from
the National Council an expre sion of views that should be
just to the sentiments of Massachusetts and the lree States,
without being dishonorable to any portion of the Union,
were defeated in their purpose by the preponderance in that
body of sectional feelings and interests, and as a testimony
of their fidelity to the sentiments of their constituents,with
drew from the National Council, and refused to participate
further in its proceedings: Therefore
Resolved, That this State Council heartily approves the
course of its delegates, and emphatically protests against
that action of the National Council which made such
course necessary.
About three hundred delegates were present at the day
meeting of the Convention. John \V Foster presided.—
An address to the Country was adopted, setting forth a
platform of principles similar to the minority report in
Philadelphia, and a series of resolutions of a like tenor
were passed, The Convention adopted the name of Ame
rican party of Mas achuseits.and invited all persons in the
free States, of whatever political creed, to join them.
Speeches were made by Governor Gardiner, Henry Wil
son and others. The Convention and ratification meeting
were generally harmonious and enthusiastic. A
tee of one from each county, to further the objects of the
Convention, was appointed. A ratification meeting of the
piinciples ot the party will be held iu Norfolk county to
morrow.
Havana Items. —We take the following items of news
from the Havaua correspondence of the Charleston
Courier.
The military tribunal has pronounced a verdict of not
guilty against all the parties charged with political offene s,
except Senores Guiral, Iznaga and Pt rcz. The firmer of
these is sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in Spain,
and the two latter, who are citizens of the Lmited States,
to two years’ imprisonment in Spain. Toese sen
tences are, comparatively streaking, ?nild to what had
been anticipated.
There are letters in this city which state that three pro
vinces in Spain are in a state of revolt, and that the Mar*
quis de la I\zue!a is marching against Madrid at the head
of an army of upwards of 20,000 men ! This as ycu msy
suppose, causes some little excitement in this city.