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dxmts rnifc dirctML COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. _ ft * . SATURDAY EVENING, AUG. 4, 1855. gv- 1 ~ ■ ‘.r ■ ■ 1 ~~™~ 7 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.