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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
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SATURDAY EVENING, AUG. 4, 1855.
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FOR GOVERNOR.
HERBCUEL V. JOHSSOU.
FOR CONGRESS. .
I*l District** Janie* JL. Seward, of Thomas*
2d, • iff. J- Crawford, of Xuscogee,
3d, “ Jame* X. Smith, of I'pson.
4th • Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
sth ** Jno. H Lumpkin, of .Floyd.
Sth ** Howell Cobh, of Clarke.
7th *• Linton Stephens, of Hancock.
Bth tl A. 11. Stephens, of Taliaferro.
Circulate the Documents—Know Nothingism
Revealed.
We have on hand several Tracts for the Times
whioh we will sell low for cash.
1. Tract of SO pages containing A. H. Stephens’
speeches at Augusta and Sparta, Wm. Moseley’s letter,
the vote npon the Nebraska Kansas Bill, the Democrat*
io Platform, &o.: $8 per hundred.
2. Traot of eight pages containing the Constitution
and By Laws, oaths, grips, pass words, et cetera, of the
Order of Know Nothingism ; $5 a hundred.
Garnett Andrews’ Letter of Acceptance—-The
Democratic and Know Nothing Parties com
pared.
The next point in this remarkable letter of acceptance
is an attempt to prove that the South can gain more
strength in the Northern States by joining with the
American party than by adhering to the Democracy.
He makes that point in the following paragradh :
The war waging aeainst the National American party
lately organied at Philadelphia, to bring the needed aid,
from the North, whence only it can be had, is anything
el*e than an effort to meet the crisis awaiting Kansas, and
which we are approaching with the sleepless tread of Time.
We have had much figuring, showing how the Democrat
ic party haa voted, but none how it will be able and will
ing to vote. Others more patriotic or vigilant, seeing the
old Whig party delunct { the Democratic powerless, and
the Abolitionists and treesoilers with a controlling ma
jority in the next Congress, have combined in organising a
new party, the American, with the hope that it possesses
principles of Nationality equal to the exigencies of the im
portant occasion. The unpopularity of the Nebraska and
Kansas bill which, like an avalanche, swept over the North
overtopping horse and rider, “captain and cattle,” dimin
ishing and corrupting all parties, has left the fate of the ad
mission of Kansas at the mercy of the Freesoil power.
He does not indulge in any “figuring” to show
how this can be done. He says the Philadelphia
Platform is “an accession of strength against that con
tr-'lling majority dspricated by Governor Johnson”
but we are not informed by his Honor, nor can we
conceive, how that Platform can vote on the bill for the
admission of Kansas into the Union.
Now upon this issue the Democracy are impregnable.
The Nebraskn.Kansas act was passed, over the heads
of Northern Whigs and Freesoilers and Know Nothings,
by the South, with the aid of the Northern Democracy,
all of whom in the Senate, exoept two, and 44 in the
Hour© of Representatives, voted for the bill. Every
Northern Whig and Know Nothing, in both houses,
voted against the bill. If we expect to get Kansas into
the Union as a slave holding State, it is absolutely es
sential that the Know Nothings should be put down in
the Northern States and the Democrats elected to fill
their places. But says the would be Governor of Geor
gia : “we have had muoh figuring, showing how the
Democratic party haa voted, but none how it will be
able and willing to vote.’’ Now we know that every
Democrat in the Senate except two, will vote for the
admission of Kansas, and that 21 Northern Democrats
have already been elected to the House who will also
vote for jt, while 28 have been defeated by Know
Nothings who would have voted for it. Now if these
2S Know Nothing* were not abolitionists, or if they
had been beaten by the Democracy, there would have
been no difficulty in admitting Kansas into the Union
as a slave State. Garnett Andrews thinks the sound
Know Nothings will be quite as numerous as the sound
Democrats, North, by the time Kansas applies for ad
mission. Thia may be so, but we never like to put a
hen to setting on less than one nest egg; and so we
have very little hope of a sound brood of Northern Know
Nothings unless we arc shown one single sound mem
ber of Congress from the Northern States who is a
Know Nothing. “But it matters not,” says Garnett
Andrews, “whether it may be ten or thirty : one vote
made decide the question upon which the fate of millions
may depend.” Well, but stop, my dear sir : we have
a round dozen Northern Democratic eggs in the Senate
and 21 in the House already hatched. Why in the
name of common sense will you desert this hopeful
Demooratio brood for the doubtful prospect of hatching
one egg (vote) in the Know Nothing nest? A bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush is a very old saw ;
but Garnett Andrews seems to think one bird in the
bush is worth 33 in the hand.
To be Continued.
North Carolina and Tennessee .Elections,
In both of the States, the contest is between the
Demooratio party and the Know Nothings, and in North
Carolina the latter have adopted the policy of taking
four of their candidates for Congress from the renegade
Democrats and four from the ambitious Whigs. There
is no election for Governor in this State. The
Democratic candidates for Congress are the following,
for the Districts in the order ©f their names, (with the
exception of the sth District, where no Democrat has
been nominated, but where Hon. John Kerr, Whig,
and the representative in the las; Congress, is runing as
an independent anti-Know Nothing candidate): Demo
crats, H. M. Shaw, Thomas Ruffin, Warren Winslow,
L. O’B. Branch, Albert M. Scales, Burton S. Craige,
Thomas L. Cliugman. Their Know Nothing opponents
are Robert T. Paine. Thomas J. Latham, David Reid,
James B. Shepard, Edwin G. Reade, R. C. Puryear,
Samuel N. Stowe, L. B. Carmichael. In Tennessee,
the Democratic candidate for Governor is the Hon.
Andrew Johnson, the prescut occupant of the chair
gubernatorial, and his rival for office is M. P. Gentry,
Esq , Know Nothing, The Democratic candidates for
Congress, (with the exception of those for the fourth,
fifth and ninth districts) are A. G. Graham, D. H.
Cummings, Samuel A. Smith, Geo. W. Jones, John
V. Wright, Granville G. Torbitt, David M. Cullms.—
The Know Nothing candidates (with the exception oi
those for the fourth, fifth and sixth districts) are Na
thaniel G. Taylor, Wm. H. Sneed, Wm. H. Polk, Wm.
J. Strayhorn, Felix K. Zolliooffer, Emerson Etheridge,
Thomas Rivers.
Death of Dr. John Gorrie.— This learned and ex
cellent man died at Apalachicola on the 29th Junj,
aged 51 years. He was justly regarded as one of th
profoundest scholars in the State. lie was the anchor
of many scientific essays and the inventor of an ice
making machine which promises to be of incalculable
benefit to the South. He was hurried a. bis own re
quest on the shore of Apalachicola bay.
Another False’. Issue.
The advocates of Know Nothingism will not meet
the issues before the country fairly and squarely. The
last issue of the Columbus Enquirer contains the fol
lowing paragraph :
“The power, in the representative branch of Congress,
has for years been against us. And how was the power
obtained ? Was the equality destroyed and the South
placed in her present condition, by the natural greater
increase of the native population in the North than in the
South ? Not at all. It has resulted from the faot that
the great mass of foreigners who emigrate to this coun
try settle, and have eottled, in the free States—thereby
increasing the number of thbir representative population
and giving them an undue and dangerous preponder
ance in the National Legislature.”
This i* all very true. But how does Know Noth
ingism propose to remedy this evil ? By depriving for
eign immigrants of their privilege of voting for 21 years.
This is their only proposed remedy. Now we charge
that this is no remedy at all, and, both the orators and
editors of the Know Nothings know this as well as wo
do. Is it fair or honest then for them to attempt to
make the people believe that the remedy they propose
is adequate to the emergency ? They know that in
apportioning representation in Congress, a resident is
counted whether he is a voter or not. Let us see what
the Constitution provides- on this subjeot. It may be
found in Article I. Section 2., and is in these words:
“Representatives and direot Taxes shall be appor
tioned-among the several 9tates which may be included
within this Union, according to their respective num
bers,’’ &o.
“Numbers’’ therefore, is the only element that en
ters into the of Representatives in Con
gress. Men, women and children, whether native or
foreign, voters or not voters, are counted in the assess
ment. It will not, therefore, diminish the power of the
North one solitary vote in Congress, if every foreign
born citizen in the United States were disfranchised.
If Southern Kuow Nothings are so anxious to protect
the South agaiust Northern ascendanoy in Congress,
why did they not insert an article in their Platform
against the admission of foreigners into the United
States ? Or if this is too much like the exclusiveness of
the Chinese, why did they not insert one against count
ing foreigners when apportioning Representatives in Con
gress ? These were remedies for the evil they com
plain of, and are the only adequate remedies. The
disfranchisement of foreigners is no remedy at all.—
Now, we had rather place the political power of th©
North-west in the hands of adopted citizens, so far as
the question of Slavery isconqerned, than in the hands
of the New England emigrant. Asa general thing
the Yankee is a born Abolitionist; his instincts, preju
dices and education are all opposed to slavery and the
South ; he is the father of Abolition and its wetnurse :
the South has nothing to expect from him while he re
mains in the free States. It is not so with the foreign
er ; he may or may not be an abolitionist; at any rate
the antagonism between him and the Yankee upon the
issues now raging at the North places him in antago
nism to the native abolitionists and gives assurance that,
in the future, the South will find her best friends among
the foreign born citizens at the North, if the Southern
people are true to the great prioiples of liberty now put
in peril by the Order of Know Nothings.
The Temponal Power of the Pope*
The Columbus Enquirer accepts the issue we tender
as to the Catholic question in the following paragraph :
Like our neighbor, we care not what the Pope did six
centuries ago, if it was not for what the successors of those
old time vicegerents of the Almighty are still attempting to
do. It is with the present that we deal; and dealing with
the present, we can find but little difference between the
powers over the governments of the earth and’the conscien
ces of men, claimed by His Holiness six centuries ago, and
those assumed in the present age. To he sure, the spirit of
a more liberal faith, and the determination of mankind to
shake off the shackles of political and religious slavery,
have rendered the Pope somewhat more cautious now than
then, in the audacity of his pretensions, But in what has
he abated the insolence of his pretended prerogatives ? or
what less does he claim now, of those who believe in his
spiritual and temporal dominion, than he did six centuries
ago ? and what portion of those who emigrate to this coun
try do not believe in that spiritual and temporal suprem
acy ?
That is honest and fair. Now we deny that th©
Pope claims any temporal power in these States; we
deny that any American Archbishop, Bishop or Priest
of the Catholic ohuroh concedes to the Pope any temporal
power in these States. In proof of this assertion we refer
the public to the Pastoral letter of the Catholic Aroh
bishop of Baltimore, hi 9 Bishops and Clergy, heretofore
published by us, in which all temporal power is denied
to the Pope, and the Catholio laity are expressly charged
to obey the civil authority in all temporal matters. But
we are ahead of the music. By all oorreot rules of rea
soning the burthen of proof is upon the Columbus En
quirer. We, therefore, call for the evidenoe upon whioh
lie accuses one million of his fellow oilizens, among
whom are many of our most distinguished soldiers,
statesmen, judges, lawyers, et cetera } of want of loyalty
to the country of their birth or adoption. If he cannot
furnish it, he will be convicted either of a reckless or
thoughtless slander of a large body of bis fellow citizens,
unless he retracts it. We call then for their proof,
the moor. Give it to us, or take bak the charge.
It rankles like poison in the hearts of as good and true
men as live under the protection of our flag and have
time and again periled life and fortune in its defence.
Abolitionists and Foreigners.
The Northern Know Nothings hate ns of the South
worse than they do foreigners and Catholios. How do
we know ? Because the Southern Know Nothings
were willing to join them to put down the “furriners’’
and Catholics who troubled them, and not us, if they
would let us alone—but they would’ut agree to that,
because they hated us worse than the others.
Why do the Northern Know Nothings hate the for*
signers and Catholics ? Is it because they are aboli
tionists ? hardly. If the foreigners and Catholios at
the North are not abolitionists, we know of no reason
why we of the South should help Northern abolitionists
to put them down—if they are abolitionists the Northern
abolitionists will not help us to put them down. The
Southern foreigners and Catholics we kow are not ab
olitionsts—let us keep them to help us fight Northern
abolitionistists.— Corner Slone.
Mobile Register. —John A. Middleton, Esq., has
retired'Yrom the Mobile Register , of which our own
gallant Forsyth 1b editor. Mr. Middleton was a busi
ness partner. His connection with the Know Nothings
was not known at th© time the copartnership was
formed.
Recruiting in Georgia. —Lieutenant Iverson of
the Ist Cavalry Regiment has been ordered to reoruit
in Georgia. He has opened a reoruiting office at At
lanta Geo. He has 50 men to recruit and then will be
off for the plains.
South Carolina Episcopal Church. —The Bishop
of South Carolina reported having confirmed during
the year 756 persons—236 whites and 520 colored.
He a •> consecrated 6 obnrehes and ordained 3 deacons
and l priest: There ore are at present 9 candidate*
for holy order*.
The Canvass in Alabama*
W© had the pleasure pf hearing Winaton and Short
ridge at Crawford on Thursday the 2d inat.
Governor Winaton it not an orator, but has few
equals as a forcible apeakei. He drives right to his
point with the precision of a rifle ball. lie dispises
all the graoes of rhetorio ; is not always careful of hie
grammar ; but there is erushing logic, biting sarcasm,
or bitter irony, and frequently a combination es all, iu
every sentence he utters. He never arouses his au
dience to enthusiasm, but he holds them spell bound
from the beginning to the end of his discourse, and
exoites in them many and varied emotions, thdugh he
never seems to feel any change in the deep depths of
his own heart. He is a stern, upright and uncompro
man. These qualities are, we presume, the basis of
his popularity. He made two points in bis address spe
cially worthy of attention. Ist. That the Union wae
in no danger if th© South would tak© s position and
maintain it. 2d. That the denial of the elective fran
chise to foreign immigrants would have no beneficial
effect upon the South as they would be counted in ap
portioning representation in Congress whether they were
voters or not. He made many other points upon the
Know Nothing Order with which onr readers are famil
iar, and we will not repeat them.
In reply Judge Shortridge occupied an hour and a
half, but failed to meet the points of his opponent’s
logical address or to make any of hie own. He is a
graceful speaker, and apparently a very polite and ami
able man.
He dwelt at great length upon the perpetuity, happi
ness and glory of the American people, all of which
he attributed to the Union. He deprecated its desola
tion as the greatest political evil. The American Par
ty, he said, was organized to maintian it. Its platform
he contended, was sound, and if the South could be
united upon it, together with New York, Penn., and
three or four other Northern States, there would be no
danger to the Union. He failed, however, to show that
there was any reasonable prospect of carrying any
Northern State. If the party failed, he said, no harm
would be done. In this we agreed with him.
He drew a frightful pioture of the extent of foreign
immigration ; and showed by the statistics that the great
body of the immigrants settled in the Northern States.
The tendency of this was to increase Northern ascend
ancy in Congress. Hs admitted, however, that the
Know Nothings did not propose to exclude foreigners
from the country, and that they were counted in ap
portioning representation in Congress whether they
were voters or not. He thought, however, that the
adoption of th© Passport system would remedy the evil,
but he did not tell how it would do it.
There was much in the bye-play of the diseussiou
that amused us. We give one or two as specimens.
Governor Winston ohsrged that Shortridge had ob
jected to him solely because he was not nominated by
a Demooratio Convention, and had promised to vote for
him if he were thus nominated.
Shortridge admitted the charge, and said further
more, that such was his loyalty to his party, that if
Winston had been nominated by a Convention he
would have supported him, and this too, in the Whig
county of Russell. He, however, went on to say, that
he did not know at the time that Sam’s boys would bo
in th© field.
charged that Winston had advocated a
dissolution of the Union on account of the Compro
mise measures.
Winston.—That is not so,
Shortridge—Well, I don’t Know.
Winston—Then yon ought not to have said it.
Shortridge-—I will read what he did say. (Shortridge
then read from the journals a set of resolutions offered
by Governor Winston in the Alabama Legislature.—
They did not sustain the oharge.) Now, ©aid he, the
people can judge for themselves. If 1 have misstated
Governor Winston’s position I have now corrected it
and no harm is done.
Winston—No, nothing of me woald
do me any harm.
Shortridge in another part of his speech read an ac
count of the destruction of a Protestant settlement in
Florida by the Spanish Catholics two hundred years
ago, and intimated that the time had oome to pay baok
old sooras.
Winston—That account is barred by th© statue of
limitations. Before yo pay back these old scores, you
had better ©sttle some debts nearer home, and are not
sojold.
There is no comparison between the two men in
point of foroe of character or strength of intellect.—
It would have been better for Shortridge, we think, if
he had remained at home. He is not eqsal to th© task
of competing with Winston on the stump. He seems
painfully aware of this, and takes the meroiless castiga
tion which is inflicted npon him with * Christian for
bearance that surprised us.
There is no doubt but that Winston will be elected
by a very large majority. H will get the usual ma
jority in North Alabama.
New Cotton. —AJ>ale ofnswootton from the plan
tation of Mrs. A. E. Shepherd, consigned to Messrs.
Hughes & Daniel, was sold in our market this day by
Messrs. Harrison <fc McGhee at public outcry, at 13 ots.
per lb. It was forwarded by Railroad to Messrs. Church
& Moses, Savannah, Geo. The cotton was classed Good
Middling.
Grand American or Know Nothinglßally.
The Know Nothings attempted to have a grand rally in
this city on th* 4th inst. They made extensive preparations
and extended invitations to a number of Know Nothing
advocates. The turn out was respectable and Willis A.
Hawkins and Eugeniuß A. Nisbet were the orators of the
occasion. There was very little enthusiasm at the meet
ing. We may notice the efforts of their orators at some
length hereafter.
North Carolina and Tennessee Elections.— The elec
tions in these States came off on Thursday last. No re
liable returns have yet come in.
The Prospect in Cherokee Georgia.
A stranger, would think, to hear the Know Nothings
talk, that the democracy of Cherokee Georgia were dying
out so fast that there would scarcely be a Corporal’s Guard
left on the day of the election. At every meeting of their
Councils, say they, from twenty to fifty ate initiated into
the secret order, and nearly all are Democrats.
Our opinion is that the number leaving the order in this
county, at each meeting of their councils, is much larger
than that attaching themselves to it. We have a personal
knowledge of a large number who hae withdrawn, and
are now bitterly opposed to the concern. One council—at
Alatoona—has been disbanded, for want of members, and
we learn th*t several others in the county are likely to die
out soon. We have accounts from other counties, quite as
flattering to the Democracy, and can assure our friend, in
the middle and lower counties, that Cherokee Georgia will
be all right on the day oi the election. We shall carry this
county by from 200 to 250 votes, and.the district by a large
majority. Gov. Johnson’s vote in this district will be large
ly increased.— Cassville Standard, Aug. 2.
ftT” The freesoilere have selected W. R.
Marsham as their Candidate for Delegate to Congress, and.
the Democrats have nominated H. M. Rtee for the ea ne
ornee.
For the Times & Sentinel.
Cherokee——Crops and Politics—Fijhting at
Ringgold f etc., etc*
Messrs. Editors: —Having recently been transposed
from the sultry heat of Columbus to the mountains and be
ing refreshed by the cool water, .enlivening breezes and
other blessings of this corn raising, engine snorting coun
try, I sit me down to write yon something of qn epistle.
The crops were never better in this country. Corn is
expected next fell to sell at 25 cents. Wheat by thousands
of bushels is shipped to New York for sale. One dollar
per bushel would seem an extravagant price, but better pro
fit can be made elsewhere.
In this country of common sense, on© would expect the
jams of the day excluded, and in fact most of them are;
that slave labor,>Jn the absence of demagogues,. which
has put a quietus oh sq*many humbugs of those Northern
fanatics, would probably keep them out. Spiritualism and
Know Nothingism have, however, made their way into
this country, and the fruits of them are manifest, especial
ly of the latter, that worst of all isms—the attempt to
combine spiritual with temporal matters in this goverment
the boast of religions liberty.
A row occurred last Saturday at a political meeting at
Ringgold, Catoosa county, in which f sty men (I put it
down at the lowest figure I have heard) were engaged.—
Methodist and Baptist Clergymen, ‘Hindoos/ “Thugs,”
Know Nothings, Sams, Americans and Democrats pitched
into each other on theexieting question. The affair origi
nated, as I heard it, about as follows:
Judge Lumpkin spoke an hour. Judge Cone followed
him and had spoken au hour,when the democrats requested
hie withdrawal. The Know Nothings would’nt hear to it.
A few angry words and bloody noses, blue eyes, &c. were
the consequences. I have conversed.with intelligent men on
the subject of politics, and they say the democracy will be
triumphant in this section at the coming election. In a
few places enough of the poison of Hindoo extract has
been administered to make the Know Nothing ticket vic
torious; but, taking the country on the whole, the people
are all right. This will be sore news to those Know No
things who continually fell back on Cherokee Georgia as
the Palladium of their political strength. The people aro
beginning to see that some foreigners, such for instance as
John Mitchel, Thomas F. Meagher, Jas. Shields,with oth
ers and their followers, are far better republicans than ma
ny “native Americans.” They ‘sought shelter under the
tree of liberty when .the blighting, withering sun of op
pression pored its hot rays upon them, and now in the
language of the song they exclaim,” Woodman, spare that
tree.”
I shall write you from other points in relation to politics,
Catoosa and Montvale Springs, crops, &c.
Yours Truly, B.
To the Voters of Randolph County*
To correct misrepresentations which have been circulat*
od against me, and that I may be fully understood by my
fellow citizens, I make the following statement:
Some two years ago, my name was used in connection
with the office of Tax Collector for this couniy, but 1
gave way for our friend N. J. Jones. On the organiza
tion of the order of Know Nothings or American Party
in this county, I was frequently importuned to join, which
I refused to do, as I knew nothing about the order, and
ao informed those who spoke to me about it. I was next
told that if I did not join them I should not be elected to
office in this county. It is also circulated that I
approve of their platform and will vote with the organiza
tion. I now publicly declare that I do not approve of
their platform, neither will I vote for their nomination, and
that I will aot with the Democratic Party, to put down
this secret oath-bound organization. I have been a Whig
ever since I could vote. lam informed by some that this
is the old Whig party, but I cannot believe it. For these
reasons I will vote against them, and advise all my friends,
Whigs and Democrats, to come out from this organization
and be free men.
JOHN ATWELL.
Are they Sworn (
When Mr. Dowdell spoke here, he asked the question
whether any of the members were sworn. A considerable
amount of indignation was excited by this question. Be
low we give an extract from Brawnloxc’s Whig, in which
that high priest of Tennessee Know Nothings declares
that he took a solemn oath on the Bible, binding him to
obey the behests of the Order in all tilings political and
social:
‘•Besides, when we were initiated into the Order, we took
the following obligation, or oath, administered upon the
Holy Bible, and not having withdrawn from the Oraer, and
not intending to do so, we leei bound by every considera
tion ol honor and duty, to support Rogers:
‘You do solemnly swear before Almighty God, and these
witnesses, that so long as you are connected with this or
ganization, if not regularly dismissed from it, you will, in
all things, political or social, so far as this Order is con
cerned, comply with the will of the majority, when express
ed in a lawiul manner, though it may conflict with your
personal preference.’ ”
Is any thing more shameful than for American freemen
to be sworn to obey the political will of the majority I Can
they not be trusted ? Are they serfs— unworthy of belief,
that random swearing must be called in to bind them 1
But there is a feature in this oath which awakens dire
foiebodings. The will of the order is to be obeyed in all
things social. Men of Alabama, will you tolerate this
sect thus bound by an oath, the essence of Jesuitism ? It
is inconceivable how any man of independence can remain
in the order one half hour. It would seem to us that its
tyranny would be a chain which freemen would ill brook
>o wear upon their limbs.
Again, we say to those who have unwarily joined this
unhallowed league, “Come out from among them and once
more be free !’’—Advertiser Gazette.
[Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.]
Ifegro Biot at Saratoga Springs-
Saratoga, July 27, 1855.
For some time past there has been quite a time among
the fashionables, in regard to liberties taken by the negroes
of this place. The rules of the Springs prohibit the
blacks from using; glasses used by the white folks. The
negroes, as I am informed, are prompted by some of the
Seward stripe, that they have the # same right as the white
folks. A few evenings ago one of the “gemmen” was
banded out of the grounds. The same afternoon a 1 irge
building, belonging to Clark & White, was burned, for
which the owners offer a reward of S2OO lor any infor
mation of th person who committed to deed. On yes
terday there was quite a rough and tumble fight while
Clarke fc W bite’s men were ejecting the negroes, and
the greatest oonfussion prevailed. This morning, about
7 o’clock, the niggers from the different hotels mustered,
and came down to the Congress Spring and mixed in with
the Shanghais. When they were told to disperse they
refused. A Mr. Sheppard, a lawer of New York, pulled
out a shooter aud swore he would shoot the first nigger
that would dare attempt to drink out of the glasses. In u
lew minutes Mr. Pike, a justice of the peace, arrived,
whose presence settled the affair for the present. A dis
turbance is anticipated every day. There are a great
many Southern gentlemen here at present. I hope the
niggers will not resort to the same means they did in St.
Domingo about fifty years ago. When the French es
tablished a republic the niggers poisoned the springs.
The result was that thousands died from the effects ol
drinking the water. 1 will post you up on the events ol
the day if anything occurs worthy of note.
Philo.
From Mexico we are informed that Santa Anna’s father
in-law is appointed Mioister to Washington, m place of
Almonte, aud that the family of his Supreme Highness
would leavo on the 2th nit. m the war steamer Iturbide
Mercer University.
We find the following complimentary notice of an ad
dress, delivered at Mercer University by one of our fellow
citizens, in an exchange. *
“B. A. Thornton, Esq., of Columbus, spoke before the
two Literary Societies, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Hi*
effort was to demonstrate the proposition that ‘‘Republics
can only axist where the people are sparsely settled, or in
States maintaining the institution of domestic slavery.” It
was a bold and manly production, forcibly delivered, and
highly applauded.”
Mr. Wise’s Majority.
We are in possession, at last, of Mr. Wise’s majority,
and the official returns toot us as follows:
Aggregate vote, 156,191
For Wise, 83,311>
For Flournoy, 72,872
Wise’s majority, 10,44 T
The Eastern Railroad Company—The Recent DeCalea
tion of the Treasurer.
Boston, July 30, 1855.
At the adjourned meeting of the stockholders of the
Eastern Railroad to day, the report of the Speoal Com
mittee was read, warmly debated, and finally adopted.—
The defalcation of Tuekerman, the late Treasurer of the
Company, is found to amount to $245,300. The Com
mittee speak encouragingly of the prospects of the Road,
make various suggestions for a more economical manage
ment, to guard against fraud, &o. Anew Board of Di
rectors was chosen, and the meeting adjourned.
The Emigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts.
Boston, July 30,1855.
The Secretaries of the New England Association of
Clergymen have issued a second circular exhibiting the
most encouraging success toward the object contemplated.
The purpose of the Association is to embrace the three
thousand clergymen of New England as life members of
‘the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society on paying twenty dol
lars, making a general fund of s6o,ooo—this sum to be
expended in settling Kansas with Christain men and wo
men from New England.
Gov. Reeder and his Alleged Land Speculations.
St. Louis, July 30, 1855.
Gov. Reeder, furnishes a copy of his answer to Secreta
ry Marcy’s last letter to him, to The Lawrence Tribune.
He Bays, in relation to the charge of having purchased
half-breed Kansas lands, that he purchased no such lands;
and he thinks he has been treated unfairly, because the
President has oalled on him for a defence against the
charge of violating rules which are not specified, and he
asks for a specification.
Progress of the Mexican Revolution.
New Orleans, July 30.
The Nautilus has arrived with later dates from Brazos.
The revolution is progressing. Gen. Wool is falling back
upon Matamoras; while the revolutionists are following
him up from Monterey, under the lead of Gen. Vidaury.
The fall of Matamoras is looked upon as inevitable.
Fever Epidemic in New Orleans.
New Orleans, August 1.
Dr. ‘Macfarland, a distinguished physician of this city,
writes to the True Delta, expressing his opinion that the
Yellow Fever is epidemic.
The Yellow Fever at Gosport, Va.
Baltimore, Monday, July 30, 1855.
New Orleans papers of Monday last are received, but
the latest mail is still due. Up to Saturday night the to
tal number of yellow fever cases at Gosport, Y r a., was 34,
while the deaths were 18.
Yellow Fever at Norfolk.
Norfolk, Monday July 30, 1855.
There have been seventeen new cases of yellow lever
here to-day, and two deaths. They are all traceable to
Gosport.
Atlanta Bank —A call for Change. —A man by the
name of Wasburn called attho Atlanta Bank on Monday
last, the 30th ult., and presented notes of said Bank, to the
amount of one hundred and forty-seven thousand nine hun
dred dollars,(sl47,9oo,)tor which the hard chink was readily
counted out. We are informed by observation that there
is a plenty more of the same sort left. In any other place
but Atlanta, such a call might produce a small scale panic.
—Atlanta Rep., 2d.
Resolved to “ Disolce .”—The Rough and Ready couu*
cU,K. N., No. 231, of Kentucky, met July 18, according
to previous appointment; resolved first to dissolve ; so
ootid, that the order was “daDgerous to this government,
and w'ell calculated to dissolve the union of these States ;”
and third, recommended to Whigs and Democrats to do
the same.
Friend of Doeiticks—lnstigated by Damphool and the
Devil —Joins the Know Nothings in Georgia.
Knowing more about selling groceries than about poli
tics or religion, was scared to death by Damphool and
others of his kin aud name; told me if I didn : t join the
K. N’s., be burst up, broiled od gridirons by the Catholics,
also that the Irish burked natives, then fricaseed them a
a choice foreign lunch; didn’t like to bo burnt or fricaseed
told him I’d join.
Started, 12 o’clock at night, went down town, then up
town, met watchman, Damphool and he turned round
three times; then stood on one Jeg, Damphool then said
“Horum Soorum,” watchman said, “Righcatalarum, go
ahead,” Damphool said, watchman was “one of ’em.”—
Went through seven back streets, then along cross street
to near where we started; dived down cellar steps, door*
Damphool whoo-whooed like an owl three times, knocked
door nine times, somebody inside squailed like a tom-cat
twice, knocked door three times, door opened; dark as
Egypt, tied haudkerchief over my eyes, another door
opened, rating of chains and strong smell of sulphur*
thought my time had come and tried ty pray, but couldn’t
think of anything but “now I lay me down to sleep.”
They led me in, threw nte down on ail fours, hit me nine
cracks with a paddle on unmentionable place, stuck two
. . , • r‘“ vv ) mu
pius id the same, blated like a billy goat, when general
caterwauling by the whole company. Raised me up and
took otf handkerchief, saw large crowd with fools caps on.
big ears sticking up. Big picture hanging on the wall
Ctinst crucihed ; undernealh in large ietiers the words!
Ihe work of Catholics;” thought before ’twas the Jews
wasn’t certain now; Damphool led me up to man with
biggest ears ol any, behind a table, made me kneel down
man with biggest ears said,“Fuu Solemnly swear *” told
him I’d swear to anything; don’t know what'l did
swear, was so sacred. Man with big ears told me I was
a member of the transient and honsrable Order of Know
Nothings—made him a bow, and told him I was much
obliged, and took a seat. Song by the whole bouse—
“ Poseuum up a gum stump,
Raccoon in a holler,” &c.
After the song, the man with the big ears offered up a
short prayer, that “the.land might be delivered from the
i ope, the devil, and from furriners in general,” to which
some said, amen, some bravo, and a few, encore. Man
with the .big'ears then*siated that the business for that
night was to decide upon a candidate for Congress • said
‘ibey had nine hundred members, and there were nine
hundred and twenty-seven candidates. Didn’t know how
it was, didn’t understand it; but one thing he kuowed, he
wern i going to give up liis claim, wished he might be
tetotally exflumieated if .ho did.” Several with smaller
ears then said, “them was exactly their sentiments,” but
thought a little delay wouldn’t hurt, better count nosos
first.
Meeting then broke up; went home, and 6ent to apothe
cary’s for Jew David’s Hebrew plaster; couldn’t set down
for three days, effects of the puddle.
. Damphool called fc to see me; talked politics ; told him
I should vote for SSttpheus. lie said I shouldn’t, had
sworn not to ; told him I’d quit; said if I did I'd lose my
custom, K- N.’s wouldn’t trade with me, call me “traitor,
perjurer,” and all that. Don’t kn ow whal to do ; recon
I ll have to stick to ’em.-- Georgia Constitutionalist and
Republic.