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(Imts mtfc BevdxruL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 31, 18u5. ■r-TH-r-n —'■ + -~ ^ =-~—*- - r— *-7 FOR GOVERNOR. IIERSC’IIEE V. JOHNSON. J ""“ T /OR CONGRESS- , Ist District--Janies L. Seward - , of r i homas. Al. J. Crawford of Muscogee, ;{,j. * James M. Smith, ol I pson. 4lli *• Hiram Warner, ol Meriwether. sth “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin* of Floyd. Oth “ Howell Cobb, of Clarke. 7th . Linton Stephens, of Ilaneoek. gth a A. 11, Stephens, of Taliaferro. The Southern Know Nothings and the Nebraska Act. It is very difficult to believe that any party at the South could be so insane as to place itself in antagonism to the Nebraska-Kansas act—that great measure of justice by moans of which that odious feature of the Missouri Com promise whereby the Southern people when prohibited j by act of Congress from settling with their property up on the common Territory of UlO United States lying North of 110 deg. 30 min. But there is no limit to the violence of party animosity, and to this feeling we must •andiiave attributed the opposition of Know Nothing ora tors and presses to particular features of this act. • The Nebraska-Kansas act was an administration measure and is demonstration clear as proof of Holy writ of the falsity of all their .charges against the President of hos tility to the South. It is, therefore, necessary for the Know Nothing order to attack the act itself, before they can possibly hope to weaken the confidence of the South ern people in the soundness of the administration upon the slavery question. We have never been able until recently to lay our hands upon the proof that the Know Nothing order of Georgia, was, as a party, hostile to the Nebraska-Kansas bill. We now make the charge upon the most indubitable evidence and if wo can establish it, we will have shown conclusively that the order is not worthy of Southern support. The Republican Union of the 22d, charges that tho State Council of Georgia at its session in May last, at the city of Macon dodged an endorsement of the Ne hraska-Kansas -act. It gives the following proof in sup port of the charge: Edward 11. Pottle, a member of that Convention or Council offered tho following resolution which was re ferred among others to a committee : .Resolved, That while the American party of tho South and elaveholding States concede to its members resident in free States the right of entertaining opinions upon the ab stract question of negro slavery, yet holding acquiescence in the principles embraced in the Nebraska Kansas bill, passed by Congress, namely —the right of the. people form ing State Governments to determine for themselves whether or not slavery shall exist, in t heir limits as an es sential element in national organizations, the American party of the Slate of Georgia requires, as a condition prc cedent, to affiliation with the order orgrnized in non slave holding States, acquiescence in the above named mea sure. That committee, through their chairman, Nisbet, reported as follows: Resolved, That slavery and slave institutions are pro tected by the Constitution of the United Stales, and the ob ligation to maintain them is not sectional, but national. — That the right to establish it in the organization, of State governments belongs to the native and naturalized, citi zens thereof, ana that Congress has no constitutional power to intervene, by excluding anew State applying for admission into the Union upon the ground that tho consti tution of said State recognised slavciy. Now observe : the Nebraska and Kansas bill was spe cially referred in Mr. Pottle’s resolution and acquiescence in tho measure was made a condition precedent to affilia tion with tho order. The committee in their report make no reference to said bill, but content themselves with the general assertion of the powers of Congress over new States applying for admission into the Union. There was a studied avoidance of the Nebraska-Kansas not in their report. Tho dear inference is that while they dared not openly attack the act, they could not sanction it. The foregoing resolutions are taken from the “Proceedings of tho State Council,’’ published un der a resolution of the Council. There can be no doubt of their authenticity. We are now enabled to account for the singular phraseology and to fathom the meaning of the 12th artiolo of the Philadelphia Platform in which it is de clared that “the American party having arisen upon the ruins and in spite of the opposition of tho Whig and Democratic parties cannot be held in any manner re sponsible for tho obnoxious acts, or violated pledges of either,” and also of tho 2d-corrollary to the 4th article in which they avow “a tender and sacred regard for those acts of statesmanship which are to be contra dis tinguished from acts of ordinary legislation, by the fact of their being of the nature of compacts and agreements ; and bo to be considered a fixed and national policy.” The Nebraska Kansas act was a repeal of “one of those i acts of statesmanship’’ for which these gentlemen pro- ; less “a tender and sacred regaid,’’ and is, therefore, a j “violated pledge’’ of which they entertain so profound J a horror and for which they “are not responsible,’’ No wonder the Georgia State Council would not make “acquiescence in the Nebraska-Kansas act a con dition precedent to affiliation with the order.’’ But the proof of opposition to this act on the part of Southern Know Nothings docs not stop here. The last Georgia Citizen , tho leading organ of the Know Nothing party in Georgia contains a labored attack upon the Kaunas and Nebraska aot under the caption “Great Cry and Little Wool.” Jn his intense hostility to foreigners, who 3ro allowed by the act the right of suffrage and of holding office, uuder certain conditions in tho Territory, (a provision contained in all Territorial acts) the editor ! quite forgets that under the operation of tho act the ! South has gained admission iuto the Territory and will, in probability, hold it against every adversary, and un qualifiedly denouuoes it “as a vile fraud upon the country.’’ We have only room for the concluding sentences of this strange article: Is not this an outrage upon the rights of the whole peo ple l Is it not a ‘'secret blade olJoab” which is thrust into tho vitals ot the South, and intended to inflict a mortal wound upon Southern institutions l We can view it in no other light, and therefore repudiate the whole affair as a vile fraud upon the country. And our wonder is that Southern Senators and Representatives did not see the. per nicious Gleet of the provision pointed out, and reject the same with loathing and scorn. Far better that Nebraska and Kansas had remained unorganized, than that the whole South should be swindled out of her rights therein, by a provision which virtually opens wide the door to the same “foreign influence'* that has made Wisconsin a “Foreign State” in the America Confederacy I — Geo. Citizen. * Now we ask, in all sincerity, are these the senti ments of the, so called, American party of Georgia ? II they are, it is time the people of the South knew it. It will he in vain for us to hope to prevent the repeal ot this great measure if a large party at the South make war upon it. Speak out gentlemen and let us know whether the Georgia Citizen is a correct expo ponent of Know Nothing sentiment on this iiiterestitio subject. Are we to count on your aid in resisting tin eft.'He ot Northern Abolitionists to drive the Southern settlers out of Kansas, or will you aid our enemies in tin ropea! of the act under which they gained admission into it ? Is the act “a vile fraud upon the country ?’’ Do you reject the act with “loathing and scorn ?” Are foreigners more odious to you than native aboli tionists? Do you prefer that Kansas had remained unorganized rathqr than extend to foreigners who brave tho hazards of these western wilds the privileges of citizenship on their taking the oath of intention Jo be- . come citizens ? Would you prefer to surrender the rich fields of Kansas to native abolitionists and be fui ever prevented by an unconstitutional act of Congtess from settling in it with your property, rather than shaie the inheritance with foreigners? In othei words, are foreigners more odious to you than native abolitionists . The hostility of tho Georgia Citizen to foreigners has quite blindid its eyes to the facts of history. It asserts roundly that nine tenths of the foreigners who come to this country are abolitionists. We do not think so. The chief support of the South in Congress upon the slavery question is given by the North-western -States and California where there are the largest num ber of foreigners. Neither is that feature of the bill allowing foreigners the right of sttftrage any new thing. It is a provison inserted in all territorial bills, upon the same principle that our fathers extended to all foreigners who were in the country at the time of the adoption of the constitution all the rights of native born citizens. Nominating Convention. We ask the attention of our readers to the call for a. Convention of the people of this county to nominate candidates for the Legislature, which wo publish in J another column. We most heartily endorse tho move- j inefit. We believe there is no difficulty in gaining a complete victory over the Know Nothings in Muscogee if a ticket, composed of men of acknowledged talent, popular manners and known integrity of political prin ciple, is brought out, and zealously supported by all citizens who approve the Platform of principles adopted by the late State Convention of the Democratic party, and that very large and respectable class of eld Whigs I who are opposed to the proscriptive principles of the j Know Nothing order. There in the county sixteen ! hundred voters. We learn from good authority that | there were not over 800 members of the Know Noth | ing order in the county at the date of its dissolution. ; Since then a very large number of persons have publio ! ly expressed their disapproval of the principles and purposes of the order. We take it, therefore, that the forces of the two parties are very nearly balanced. — With bold, honest and popular leaders, the Democratic and anti-Know Nothing party can carry the contest. Every thing, however, will depend upon the character of the nominees of the Wednesday’s convention. Let the people, therefore, come up in mass, and fearlessly and honestly, and in open day, select their representa tives. Subscriptions to the call aro still in order. The lists may be found at tho Times dp Sentinel office. Send up your names friends and let us know each other. Hon. Alfred Iverson. In compliance with an invitation extended to this distinguished gentleman, he addressed a very large and intelligent audience of our fellow citizens in Con cert Hall on Saturday morning last. It was indeed a splendid and powerful effort, worthy of the man and of his fame. Os imposing presence ) graceful in action and manner ; a voico of great power and of singular sweetness, he impressed his hearers as much by tbe fe licity of his style and apposileness of bis illustrations, as by his broad and satesmanlike propositions and his logic al and unanswerable deductions. We do not propose, j for want of time and space, to follow him throughout his great argument, or his exposition and analysis of the various elements that have entered into all parties that have sought power from the times of Adams and Jefferson down to the present day. He showed that the same intolerance that characterized the administra tion of the elder Adams, was now raging in the Ame rican party, with the additional element of religious proscription, the most dangerous and demoralizing in its effects that had ever entered into American politics, al ways excepting the Abolition doctrines of the Ameri | can party North. England, more than sixty years ago, had cast off, as unworthy of the age, the garments of religious proscription all seared by the fires of persecu tion ; and tho singular and mortifying spectacle was presented, without example in our history, of a portion of the American people, in the 19th century, an age of civil and religious liberty, taking up the exploded dogmas of Monarcbial England, and advocating them with more than fanatical zeal. In the language of Burke in a speech 011 similar issues, “We are told that this is not a religious persecution, and its abettors are loud in disclaiming all severities on account of conscience ; * * * * * they aro not persecutors 5 they are only tyrants.” Speaking of Sir George Savile’s act for re moving Catholic disabilities, tho same great Statesman and orator said that in its effects it was “an act for toler ating and protecting Protestantism throughout Europe.” We must close our remarks by expressing the hope, that a speech so pregnant with profound and Statesmanlike views, may he given to the public, that the Southern mind may bo made to understand and eomprehnd tho true and vital issues affecting its interests. — Geo. Tele graph, 28 ih. Annual Report—Muscogee Railroad. W e are indebted to Daniel Griffin, Esq., for a copy of the Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Muscogeo Railroad company. The total cost of tho Road is about $910,000, or $18,200 per mile, including equipments. Tho Road has paid regularly, to the holders of the general stock, semi-annual dividends of four per cent during tho Presidency of Mr. Griffin. The Directors recommend an amalgamation of the Muscogee Railroad with tho South-western Railroad. If this project should fail, Mr. Griffin recommends the Muscogee Road to purchase the Fort Valley Branch of tlio South-western Road. Mr. Griffin declines a re election. Respited and Pardoned. We learn that John T. Boyd, under sentence of j c eath as principal in the second degree for the murder ot A.’M. Robinson, has been respited by the Governor. It is also reported that the boy, Bill, the slave of Messrs. Hatcher & Pitts, under sentence of death lor the mur der of his follow servant, has been pardoned. A respite only puls otV the execution until the Leg islature passes upon the case. It a majority ot that body shall decide that Boyd is not guilty as charged he will be released entirely. The Legislature has no right to commute punishments. # Miss KuzaLogan —We are gratified to'aunounce that thi accomplished Tragedienne is not married.— She writes to the Boston Post that the announcement of her marriage is entirely without foundation. Health of New Orleans. —The deaths in tbe Charity Hospital for the week ending August 25th, comprise! 12t<. The physicians say that the fever has aba’ted in private practice. The Texas Election—Yellow Fever. The Nautilus arrived at New Orleans on the 26th August, from Galveston, Texas. The Galveston Civilian has the election returns from most of the counties in the State, and says ; Pease’s majority for Governor, wo think, will be about 6,000 votes. It is now’ about 4700. Bunnells, for Lieutenant Governor, will have, it is reasonable to believe, over 2,000. Bell, for Congress, over four thousand. In the Eastern Congressional District W aid’s majo rity so far is 851, but the Civilian regards the result be tween Ward and Evans as extremely doubtlul, there being fifteen countits to hear from. The Houston Telegraph says cotton is sti'l arriving from the upper Brazos aud Trinity, as well as Red River. The Telegraph estimates the old crop in Mid dle and Eastern Texas, not yet sent forward, at one hundred thousand bales. . Three cases of yellow fever from the steamship Mex ico are in the Galveston hospital. Thfe fever has not yet attacked any of the citizens. Reports from Hous ton are to tho effect that there had been no new eases of fever fur two days. Tho health of tho country gen erally is said to be very good. In the early part of the season some sickness prevailed, but mid-summer brought healthfulness. Election Returns, —This morning’s mail brings fur ther returns of the election. In over sixty counties, 1 Pease’s majority for Governor is above three thousand. | Bell is a long way ahead Ibr Congress in the West, and Ward has about 1,000 majority for Congress in the East, as far as heard from. The race between Fields and Crosby, for Land Com missioner, is very close. The returns on the Debt Bill, are too scanty to enable us to judge from them whether it has been accepted or not. —Galveston flews, 21. The New Yoik Democracy. We call the especialy attention of our readers to the proceedings of the State Convention of tho Hard Shell Democracy ofNew York. Their resolves upon the sub ject of slavery are as sound as those of the Georgia De mocracy. There is conclusive evidence in the pro ceedings of tho Democracy of Vermont, New York and Pennsylvania that the high demands of the Southern Democracy will he maintained by a largo body of Northern Democrats in the next National Convention of the party, and that such a Platform will be erected as will meet the demands of tho warmest advooates of Southern Rights. We especially commend to tho Democracy of Mus cogee, the noble resolve of tbe New York Democracy not to coalesce with any faction for public plunder.— Defeat in a good cause is preferable to success, which is won by a corrupt combination. The Reign of Ruffianism at New Orleans. The daily True Delta of the 26th of August, gives a very melancholy picture of the state of society in Now Orleans. It says : Taking New Orleans as no unfair type ol its numerous sister cities, we are sure we are simply within the strict line of credibility when we state that the lives of its citizens, as well as their property, are as completely at the mercy of the mob, should the mob care to avail itself ol its acknowl edged supremacy, as if no city government existed, or men were elected or appointed to office solely that they might be supported at the public expense. As to die exercise of personal rights, or the performance of the duties pertaining to good citizenship at the ballot boxes, it is sheerly impos sible, unless you happen to be of the faction at present in the ascendent, or that the inspectors for other reason than your incontrovertible right to exercise the suffrage, think proper u> indulge you. It will not surprise the reader of this paragraph to learn that at the recent election in New Orleans the greatest outrages were perpetrated by the party in power. Tho True Delta gives the following account of them : At the recent judicial election in this place for the choice of a Judge to liil the judgment scat of the Court of Probate, or the Second District Court as it is called, many citizens, resident here lor twenty or more years past, were, upon one pretext or another, repelled from the polls, native and adopted alike, though not, of course, in equal proportions, their light to indicate their..preferences lor one or other of the candidates who is for some time to eonie to dispense justice in a court where, sooner or later* the affairs of almost every citizen have to be adjudicated, being rudely question, or disgracefully, wickedly and illegally denied. It is hardly necessary to add that New Orlc'atiß is under the control of tho Know Nothings. Telfair County —The democrats of Telfair couuty, have nominated Dr. M. A. Durr, for the House, and M. G. Wilcox, for the Senate, to represent them in the next Legislature of Georgia. Dreadful Accident. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 30—12 M. The Cars on tbe Camden and Amboy Rail Road, be* tween Philadelphia aud New V olk, were thrown oil’ the track this morning, and Twenty persons killed and Sixty wounded. No Southerners are known to be injured. Know Nothings not a Party but a Government. The Know Nothings are not a mere political party : their Constitution gives them all the powers of a civil Government. They have salaried officers, the members lo their Conventions or assemblies are paid in the same order as our incinbcisto Congress; each delegate receives from their Treasury per day, and five cents per mile, for going to and returning from their deliberations. Aud these assemblies have tho most arbitrary powers ; they are to decide upon all questions of national politics, have i the authority to punish oll’enders against their rules, to 1 levy t ixes, and power to exact from tho State councils j quarterly returns as to the members under their jurisdic™ tion ; in fact this national council have all the necessary elements of an independent government. And farther, they are held together by solemn “oaths, signs, grips, passwords, and such other secret work as may seem to them necessary.” There is something in their laudation of tiie Philadelphia platform, when they pronounce it a second Declaration of Independence. Os what or whom do they’ seek to be independent ?—of the Constitution and Government as it now stands ? That’s the natural and only inference. And although they dare not make public their intentions, and even deny that they seek to aha the constitution, it is no longer in their power to deceive the people. This powerful and dangerous organ ization lias awakened the old and true men of the coun try, and this would-be civil Government will be crushed by the voluntary action of a patriotic people.—■ Cassville Standard. • Where is Governor Johnson ? This question we see propounded in almost every Know Nothing sheet in Georgia, accompanied with a notice of ! the resignation of Judge Andrews, the Know Nothing j candidate for Governor, of the Judgeship of the Northern j Circuit. For their information, wo will state, that Gov. j Johnson has been found, that the resignation of Judge Andrews has been accept id, and that Thos, \V. Thomas, Esq., of Elbert, has* been appointed to till the vacancy.— We hope the Know Nothing papas who have been so industriously employed in informing their readers of the resignation of the Judge, aud t!*e difficulty of finding the Governor to receive it, will copy this paragraph. The appointment b a good one. and if not satisfactory to the Know Nothing?, will be acceptable to the people tit iarse in the Northern Circuit. — Von. if Rep. Ex-Gov. Metcalf.— We notice the death of this distin guished Kentuckian, at .the ripe age of fifty-six years.— Gov M hn? tilled many honorable public positions, and was always found equal to their respond!ties. I 1 = —— [From the Daily Sun.] FIVE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL . 0F THU STEAMSHIP CANADA. Eighth to a quarter advance in Cotton—Sweabourg Destroyed—Russian Attack Repulsed with Heavy Loss. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 29,5 p. m. The Steamer Canada has arrived at Halifax with dates from Liverpool to the 18th instant. She reports Cotton active, with an advance of an eighth to a quarter of a penny. Sales of the week 80,000 bales —last two days slightly easier, and market closed steady. Breadstuff’s dull and lower. Consols 911- Allies destroyed Sweabourg on the 11th inst., with an immense destruction of property. Loss of the Allies trifling. The Russians advanced on the allied line before Sevas topol, and were repulsed with heavy loss. Final bom bardment at Sevastopol fixed for the 17th inst. LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. By the steamer George Law, arrived at New York, wo have received our California files to the Ist inst. The Allies at work in the Pacific. Destruction of the Fortifications at Petropaulowski. The French brig of war Obligado, Capt. Resencourt, had arrived at San Francisco from Petropaulowski bring* ing intelligence of the destruction of the tonifications at that place by the Anglo-French squadron. The Alta California obtained the following details lrom Lieutenant l)e Juornel ot the Obligado : Destruction of the Forts and Flight of the Inhab itants. The allied fleet, consisting of eight war vessels and steamers, arrived off Petropaulowski on the 15th ot May, but the garrison had already left for the Amoor river, in tho Itussian frigate Aurora, corvette Dvvina and two merchant vessels. The escape of the garrison was a master stroke on the part of the Russians, who availed themselves of a dense fog which set in on the night ot the 17th of April, and so eluded the English war steam-*, ers Encounter (screw] of 14 guns, and Baraeounter [side wheel) ot 6 guns, which had been blockading the har bor for fifty days previous. The orders to evacuate were received from the Russian head quarters in Siberia. On anchoring in the harbor, a detachment was sent on shore by the commanders of the fleets—Rear-Admi ral Bruce, of the English, and Rear-admiral Fourichosen (a newly appointed and exceeding energetic man of only 45 years of age,) of the French. They landed and found the town deserted,save by about 100 Kamschatka dogs, a French naturalised American, and two Americans, who raised the stars and stripes over their houses when the for ces lauded claiming that as the Russians had abandoned the place and left it to them,they were the possessors of the soil. These men are engaged in trading, and are represented as doing a good business. The dogs were in a starving condition,and followed the invaders about town for bits of biscuit. One of them was brought away by commander Rursencoet of the Obligado. The parties were divided into companies, who pro ceeded to burn, blow up and destroy the arsenals, store houses and all government buildings- Not a vestage of any public work was left standing, except the hospital, which with the church and dwellings ot the poorer class es of the inhabitants, was left untouched. Tho inhabit ants commenced deserting the place shortly after the gar rison embarked: Accompanied by the authorities they started on or about the 20th of April towards Tohinsk ; but the Governor’s wife being enciente the fight contin ued only to the small fishing village of Avaclie, some 2U miles inland. The following day after the arrival of the allies, tb de struction of the fortifications commenced. These were facines constructed of immense logs—tho walls being sixteen feet in thickness. Such was their strength, they resisted all efforts for some time, and were finally razed to the ground by the agency ot powder. It appears that the policy of the Russian Government had changed rath er suddenly in this matter. After the battle of last year, orders came for strengthening the forts, and though at that time such a resistance was made as to repel the as sailants there being but une tier of guns, it was ordered to increase it to a double tier. The destroyers found em brasures for 51 guus of heavy calibre. Why this sudden change of policy took place, may perhaps be explained by that on which the Russians have always acted—of re* tiring into the interior lrom their invaders, and avoiding decisive engagements. This time, however, they have made nothing by the movement, aud with the increased strength of the place, it wouldseein that they might have made a more obstinate resistance than before. The fleets did not leave the place until the demolition was complete. New York Hard Shell Democratic Convention. This Convention assembled at Syracuse on the 23d inst. An informal meeting of the delegates was held in the mor ning for the purpose of selecting officers for the permanent organization ol the Convention. The Committee appoin ted for that purpose reported Henry W. Rodgers, f'isq., of Crie county, for President, with eight Vice Presidents, which report was unanimously adopted. In the afternoon on taking the chair, the President said: “It will be our duty to revise and perhaps reconstruct our platform, and show that we are a living, moving, na tional Democratic party, based on the principles ot Jetier son and Jackson. Let us stand by our creed, and while we invite those who agree with us to co-operate with us, let us reject with scorn every proposition to coalesce wdli any faction for public plunder. Let our motto be—“ U nion for principles; no coalition for spoils ” It difierence of opinion or clashing of views arise, let there be moderation, conciliation and forbearance. Let the Convention .stand by its principles, and so act as to show that the JN'atioual Democratic party still Jives, and tliat its council iires still burn. Let us so adhere to our principles as to insure, or at ! least deserve success.” ‘i’iic convention passed resolutions asserting their adhe rence to, and support of, the resolutions of the Democratic .National Conventions ot 1848 and 18b3; the doctrines of ►States Rights, a strict construction of the Constitution ; that it should he left to the people of the Territories, as it is to the States, to determine ail local questions, including the subject of slavery; tiiat the National Democracy is opposed to ali secret political societies that they believe it is me mission of Democracy to proclaim and maintain the great doctrines of civil and religious liberty, and to uphold and enforce the corictitution in us sublime principles of jus tiee and equality. Mr. Haskins moved, as an amendment to the third reso tion,“ 1 hat the Kausas-Nebraeka bill be approved, and ail efforts to restore the Missouri Compromise be discounten anced.” This amendment was adopted, and the resolutions as amended were passed. They also adopted resolutions denouncing the so-called Ma ine Liquor Law, passed at the la-t session of the Legl 5- lature, as an ‘act subversive of personal liverty and the lights of private property. Mr. Daniel L. Sickels, of New York, offered a resolu tion inviting the riolt Shells to unite in this platform, and to take half .the ritate offices, widen was lost by a vote of ‘J I to 10. Mr.llaskin.of New Yfork, offered a resolution highly denunciatory ot the present administration, upon which no action was taken. Important from Kansas. \ Frcesoil Convention for Forming a State Constituti/m. St. Louis, August 23. A mass meeting of freesoilers was held at Lawrence, Kansas, on the 14th instant, at which over 000 persons ■ were present. General Schuyler piesided, assisted by the usual number of vice presidents and other officers! Strong resolutions were passed denouncing the elPcHoubf the 13th of March as a great {outrage; denying the legality of the . Legislature now -ttting, and ita preteysiorutfo enact laws, and pledging themselves to resist its authority! reloinrneu- i ding the election ot delegates to a convention lor framing,! *a State Constitution, with a view to an. immediate Stf te I organization, and application to the next Congress tor ad mission into the Union as a State. Resolutions were also ; passed Gov. Reeder for hie administration of the i gubernatorial duties. The Yellow Fever in New Orleans. t New Orleans, Aug. 25. Deaths in the Charity Hospital for the week endin./to day, from Yellow Fever, amounted to 128. Physicians say the disease is abating in private practice. Later from the Rio Grande. New Orleans, Aug. 27. The steamer Nautilus has arrived with later advices from the Mexican border. Passengers say that nothing decisive has occurred. The Revolutionists are confident of the downfall of Santa Anna, Gen. Woll holds Mata, morns. Further from the Border. New Orleans, Aug. 27. Letters lrom Brownsville, state that Zacatecas would pronounce on the 10th in favor of the insurgents. San Luis Portosi had already pi onounced ; Yidauri with a re inforcement of 1500 men, would move on Matiunoias on the 10th. Superior Court. The Superior Count ior Marion county commenced its Fall Term on yesterday, present, His Honor E. 11. N\m - rill, presiding, Solicitor .lack Brown, and a goodly num ber of legal gentlemen from*a distance. Ihe docket, we understand, is quite voluminous, and will occupy Ike whole of the time allotted lor the session ot the Court, it indeed it shall be disposed ot in that time. Tho criminal docket is not large, there k one or two cases ul any importance before the Court; the principal one being the State agaiust a negro man slave for an assault with in tent to murder a white man. Judge M orrill is as expe ditious in the dispatch of business as the ends ot justice will allow, and it the docket be ii"t cleared during the session, it will not be his fault.— Advocate of the Haul 1,. [From the Ohio Statesman, August 23. J A Catholic Churoh Blown up in Ohio. The following letter to a gentleman in this city will in spire the mind of every good man with horror aud i alarm : Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, ) * August 19, 1855.. S Dear Sir: Last night, about 11 o’clock, the Catholic frame church of this place was made a pile ol ruins. A keg of powder was put under the building, with a train scattered along the street, which was filed with burning shavings. There is no doubt here that the incendiary deed was committed ny a set ol Know Nothing rowdies, such as have just wrought devastation in Louisville. 1 trust, for the welfare of our country, t:.at the better class of the American people will soon arouse to a proper sense of what this awful spirit of blind persecution tor opinion’s sake is fast leading to. The better class of Enow Nothings here appear to look with disgust upon these tel lable proceedings; but who can tell whether they arc sin cere ? The real friends of religious liberty in our corns munity charge, without reservation, that the destruction of the Catholjc church here is one ot the fruits of the ; Know .Nothing crusade. Yours, truly. We have also received the following front a prominent citizen ot the town : Sidney, August 20, 1855. Col. Medarv—Dear Sir : Our village has been in much j confusion since yesterday morning, caused by liie blowing I uj> of tbe Catholic church on Satuulay night. It was one ot the boldest and most daring acts that I i have known, being done about 10 o'clock on Saturday i night—the church only standing the width of a street ; from a dwelling house. ! No clue has yet been had to the fiends engaged in thi* -outrage. A reward has been oil red by the Council, and | a meeting of the citizens \vi:J to-day. 1 will ad ; vise you again. | . Yours, Ac., S, Tho Whole Thing Burs ted Up ! We understand that the’ Know Nothing Councils o Savannah met in gravid conference last evening, aud res olved to disband ! They passed resolutions to surrender -up their charters, papers, fists of enrolment, archives, Ac. 1 tfce., to whom ive could not learn, perhaps to the Mother Council of Massachusetts. W e sincerely hope, before they are shipped, that a curious public be permitted to see them. Our Know Nothing friends might thereby turn !an honest penny. We would give as much to see lhc.su documents as we would to see Barnuiu’s “Happy J*am** i ily.” i The National Constitution,’Ritual, oaths,* 1 obligations, initiation ceremonies and ali, likewise, wo understand | went by the board. As to the secrecy, Anti Nebraska ! Platform we are not so well informed. One thing is cer tain, however, Know Nothingism in Savannah lias com pletely burst up I We are not surprised. It lias held to gether now longer by far, than we had expected. In writing the obituary of this singular order, a few words will suffice. It was born of Abolitionism, nourished by intolerance and pruscriptioh, and died of tbe election’ in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. Savannah. Georgian , 28//r. Fish—A Phenomenon. On last Sunday moring the fish of Mobile Bay p i I their annual visit to the Eastern shore for the purpose 1 I enjoying the luxury of a snooze upon the sands ol tie I coast. This phenomenon of our waters lias been the womb r 1 I the oldest, as well as the youngest, litoral inhabitants 1 E Baldwin. Each aud every one of our oriental neighbor I has his several theory to account for this extraordinary I advent of these denizens of the deep to their very tlsre.-h ----holds, but no one a sufficient cause to justify its rationali ty. But the fact is so—known and unquestionabk ■— i Once a year, at least, the whole extent of the c< ast is no- ! tually covered and strewn at the water's edge with tmiiti- ; tudes of fish in a condition .-.o torpid that they mg 1 selected and taken up by the hand without difficulty. 1 ’ largest portion of them are flounders, but it is nut mu -i- | to find all other kinds, including crabs, and excepting i : j largest kind of fish of prey, among them. They cornu j? ashore at night, and remain upon tbe shore until the. ‘ rises upon their siesta, when they gradually regain th-’ \ wonted vivacity, and then away to the “op. n na.” | Mobile Tribune , 21 • Repeal of the Constitution at Hanover. The King ol Hanover has been taking a step which ‘ I surprised many and distressed more, lie has- upf’ I j the constitution which his father granted to the pc! j seven years back, and anticipating the uprising oi I Hanoverians, is said to have invoked the aid of the l al army to put down any disturbance which may os; 1 1 This movement may possibly lead to results ol a very jj 1 portant kind If the war do not ultimately merge w’ jl war of opinion, ii will clearly not bt the fault- <>l the ■< man Sovereigns.— European T;men, 111/t inst. j An Extraordinary I'adl. — A. citizen ol LouisvJ. ‘’ j ; forms the New York Courier that Louisville has no ;u“ : ’ j tary force, and that this was the caused lire little ehioitn ! ey shown by the Mayor of that city on the awful <!: ;• the riot. This certainly is a rather singular la ’ American city 7 like Loui-vile, of s-ine seventy tlioi.s-*- inhabitants, without a single military corps in reruns : Pinizatiun. It is at variance with all idea ol the -Imm character, it appears that some years ago military 1 j ings, required by a law of the IStale luid the tfiect ol 0: I ing up the volunteer companies, with the exceptn a ■ lew German organizations, and these, on the cm- ,ll gy meat ol the.Kiow ‘Nothing movement, also ! and surrendered their arms to the SS'.ate, so that * riot commenced it was found that whit the e.vt i’ . single piece of ordnance and twelve vi fourteen i to guard it, there was no military force iu the city. , u j-, ‘ ’ A South Carolina VVkpoinK-—Tho folio” kg; y ; Greenville (S. C.) Patriot, ol she Knit iu s ting to the ladies, and therefore wo copy it. ( t , 1 ‘lTtp veteran bachelor, miflionaire and known and incalculable wealth, W ill i -m | *’• . _... Edgefield, & C.. member ot the Legislatuic, 1 , .• j lonian ot* great moral worth and excellence. •'■!■:> last to the soft influence of love, and on 1 lUI 7 . led to the altar, aVnidzt a btigltt assemblage ■ V| , : ..., , beau tv, grave matrons and aged sire jug, fovely bride, Misa Martha C. Rut: eg**, oi S. C.