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&in xts ant) Sfntmcl. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT, 12. FOR GOVERNOR. lIKKSCHEL V. .1011*30*. FOR CONGRESS, Ist District—James JL. Seward, of Thomas. 3d. “ M. J. Crawford, of Muscogee. :id. “ James HI. Smith, of Upson. 4th *• Hiram Warner, of Meriwether. sth “ Jao. If. Lumpkin, of Floyd. flth “ Howell Cobb, of Clarke. 7th *• Linton|Stepheits, of Hancock. Sth ♦♦ A. 11, Stephens, of Taliaferro. MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS. FOR THE SENATE. ALEXANDER J. ROBISON. FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JOHN B. DOZIER. GEORGE J. PITTS. •♦Two Roorbacks Nailed” upon Ihe Columbus Enquirer, When men take their facts second hand, it is not sur prising that they should he guilty of the grossest mis representation. This the Columhvs Enquirer has done most glaringly in a recent article headed “Two Roorbacks Nailed,” as we shall proceed to show. Second Roorkack. —We quote the Enquirer at length ; The second “roorback” which these “dry-rot” orators are throwing out, is said to be a denial that foreigners are allowed to enter land in the territories referred to. But the laws of the United States happen to be against ail such attempts to impose upon|the credulity of the people. From the same volume, (Congressional Globe,) vol. 28, page 2238, section 2, we read : Six. 2. And he it further enacted, That*to every white male citizen of the United States, or white male above the age ol 21 years who has declared his intention to become a citizen, and who was residing in said territory prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and who may be still residing there, there shall be. and hereby is, donated one-quarter section or 160 ac res ol land. And to every white male citizen of the United States, or every white male above the age of twenty-one years who has declared, his intention to become a citizen, and who shall have removed or shall remove to and settle in said Territory between the first day of January, eighteen hun dred and lifty-three, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, there shail in like manner be do nated one quarter section, or one hundred and sixty acres, on condition of actual settlement and cultivation for not lees than four years. From these two sections of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, it will be seen that foreigners just from the alms houses of Europe, immediately after their arrival in the territories named, are entitled to all the rights of the soil and ail the political privileges which native bom Americans are per mitted to enjoy! Well, reader, there is no such Bection as that quo ted above by the Columbus Enquirer in the Kansas- Nebraska act! The whole section is extracted from “an act to establish ihe office of Surveyor General of New Mexico , Kansas and Nebraska , to grant dona tions to actual settlers therein and for other purposes ,” and is applicable to New Mexico, and not to Kansas. See United States Statutes, Ist session, 33d Congress, chap. 103, page 308. We speak by the book and de fy contradiction. In giving the foregoing Sec. 2, as a section of the Nebraska-Kansas act, the Columbus En quirer has unwillingly, we hope, given currency to a base fabrication and forgery. There is no such section ‘ in the Nebraska-Kansas act. Rut still w’orse. The second section of the “act to establish the offices of Surveyor General’* fco., from which the Columbus Enquirer does really quote and affects to believe is a portion of the Nebraska-Kansas act, has no reference to Kansas or Nebraska. The “Territory” referred to in the act is the Territory of New Mexico, as any one can see by referring to the act. All the 9 first sections of the act indeed apper tain to New Mexico. See. 10 is the first section that refers to Kansas and Nebraska, and confers upon the President power to appoint a Surveyor General for Ne braska and Kansas, and defines his powers and duties. Seo. 11 orders standard meredian and other lines to be surveyed. Sec. 12 contains the provisions of the law in relation to premption in Kansas and Nebraska, aud is in these words ; Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That ail the lands to which the Indian title has been or shall be extinguished within said Territories of Nebraska aud Kansas shall be subject to the operations of the Pre-emption act of fourth September, 1841, and under the conditions, restrictions, and stipulations therein mentioned, &.c. It will thus he seen that the Enquirer has not only inserted a section in the Nebraska-Kansas act which is not in it, but applies a clause of “the act to establish the offices ot'Surveyor General of New Mexico” &c, to Kansas, which is only applicable to New Mexico. It is thus guilty of a double attempt to impose upon the credulity of the people, or else exhibits gross ignorance of a sHhject opon which it professes to be well posted. We cannot better characterise such conduct than by and adopting the following paragraph from the Columbus Enquirer : “How any man who reads the papers at all, can have the effrontery to concoct such an unblushing as sertion, surprises us beyond measure. It shows one of two things, that the person guilty of such errors, is too grossly iguorant to attempt to leach the freemen of Georgia or else he is foolish enough to think they are ; more iguoraut thun himself. The first, supposition, if j true, would prove that party spirit is at a low state of ; degradation if voters can be found willing to bestow of- I ticial honors upon such men ; and if we are compelled i to admit the correctness of the second supposition, the > man who would so impose upon the ignorance of the : people by not informing them better, is an unsafe and ‘ dangerous man to trust with official power.” What makes ttris gross misrepresentation the more inexcusable is, that it quotes volume, page and section to give point to its fabrication. First Roorback ok thk Columbus Enquire:*.-—This is not so bad as the second. We again quote the Co lumbus Enquirer at length : See Congressional Globe, vol. 2d, part 3, page 2229. Section 3 and 23, reads tiius: •‘That the richt of suffrage, and of holding office, shall be exercised only jiy citizens of tile Cuityd States, and those who shall hare declared on oath their intention to lie come such, and shall have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the provision.- of this •10 L • By the section above eifeu, a native born citizen of 20 years and nine iftid a half mouths can have no voice in the political destiny of Kansas and Nebraska* while a foreign born refugee, who may not be able to tell one letter of tile alphabet from another, if three months older than the American, can legister his intention, take the oath, and everei e all the rights and privileges of an American free man T—although 30 or 48 days prior to the election, he was a loyal subject of the Queen ot England or Pope of Rome! The Coi'imbas Enquirer quoted the Kansas- Nebraska set this time correctly, but takes, care to leave out an important qualification and limitation of the rights and privileges of foreigu bore citizens. The whole sechoti is in these words : See. 29. Aud be •*. further enacted, That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years* who shall be an actual resident of said Territory, and ehati ppa seso tha qualifications herwe after prescribed, 6haii be enti tled to vote at the tret eicciion, and shall* be eligible to •cuy office ‘*trnio the said territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office, at all subsequent elections, shall be such as shall be prescribed by the Legislative as sembly ; Provided, That the right oi suffrage, and of hold ing office, shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States, and those who shall have declared on oath their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the pro visions of this act. And provided further, That no officer, soldier, seamen, or marine, or other person in the army or navy of the United States, shall be avowed to vote, or hold office in said Territory by reason of being on service therein. It will thus appear that the rights conferred cm for eign residents by the Nebraska-Kansas act was tempo rary and did not extend beyond the first election. The Legislative assembly of Kansas have power at any time to deprive them of the rights to vote and of holding of fice. The Legislative assembly of Kansas have not ex ercised this right and the fair presumption is that the foreign residents in Kansas have been true to the South and that the charge of the Columbus Enquirer , con tained in this same article, that they “invariably cast their votes with free soilers and abolitionists,” is un true. We close this article with the following pertiuent ex tract from a speech of Hon. A. H. Stephens, recent ly delivered at Griffin, in which he exposes with just severity this insidious attack and gross misrepresenta tion of the prineioles of the Nebraska-Kansas bill: Mr. Stephens declared, in reply to his rivilers who charg ed him with being a changeling, that politics with him al ways meant something real—names, men and mere sounds might do lor .some, but as for his part, taking the Georgia platform and the Kansas bill as the real tests of true men in politics, he affiliated with or disavowed parties and party men, as they squared, with these great tests. He alluded to the censures, that had been cast on him, and particular ly by Judge Nisbet, for his vote on the Kansas hill, and said he was forced to believe that the war was more against the policy of that hill than against him. 11 not, if Judge N. and his party sincerely delighted in the practical appli cation of the doctrine of this bill, so favorable to the rights and honor of his section, hosv does it fall out that for the first time, that now when we get Kansas, Judge Nesbit de nounces the principle of this bill as to foreign born se'.tlers, which has, with hardly one exception, been included in eve ry tenitorial bill passed since 1787 ! Washington himself sanctioned the principle. It was in chided in the bills providing territorial governments for In diatina, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington territory ; and it has in short, with hardly a deviation, been the policy of the government to allow’ the actual settlers the elective franchise, though foreign born, and before naturalization. He then warned the country to look out forthestorm that was brewing against the Kansa s bill in this State, lie gave it as his opinion that already had the Know’ Nothings begun this war upon the principle of the bill as well as w’ar against the 4th reso lution of the Gergia platform. He denounced the reckless and unauthorized charge that those who voted for the Kan sas bill voted to give a ICO acres of land to foreigners, while native born citizens w'ere forced to buy at govermneut price. He challenged any man to show a word in that bill that gave land to any body at all; and he showed that mo man could obtain a patent to land till he had taken the oath of allegiance, until, in other words, he was naturalized. Management of the State Itoad. Withiu the last two years, or since the State Road has been under the supervision of Governor Johnsou, one hundred thousand dollars have been paid into the State Treasury ; two hundred and forty-nine thousand two hun dred and eight dojlars and six cents have been paid out tor constructing Depot buildings and equipments, on ac count iueurred under previous administrations ; two hundred thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-one cents have been paid on account since, including purchase of sixteen hundred ions new rails ; and ail cur rent expenses for working the Road have been promptly met. These are facts which show that ail the clamor about the ‘mismanagement of the State Road is fabricated for political effect, especially when it is remembered that never before has the State Road paid one dollar into the State Treasury. _ Won’t Stand It any Longer l We have all along thought there were many mem bers of the Know Nothing Order, sick and tired of the oaths, obligations and secrecy of their Order, and who have often wished they had never connected themselves with such an Order. Pride, and an indisposition to acknowledge that they have done wrong, have kept many from coming out and acknowledging their error. But here is a whole Council, that will not stand it any longer. It does not, like the Muscogee and other Lodges, attempt to justify their past errors, but, having seen the error of ‘ their way, the come out like honest men, and say they are opposed to secret oath bound political organizations, &e. We from the Washington (Wilkes County) Republican, a Know Nothing paper. Washington, Ga., Sept. 4. At a meeting of Dickinson Couueii No. 76, held this day, tho following resolutions were adopted : Whereas, vve are opposed to secret oath-bound po litical organizations, believing them contrary to the ge nius of our republican institution. It is therefore resolved by Dickinson Council No. 76, that our worthy President be instructed to return the charter of this Council to tho President of the State Council. Ouv Catholic Ancestors. Our neighbor of the Columbus Enquirer in much troub led because we reported sometime since that “all that is valuable in our constitution or holy in our religion, we de xive from our Catholic Ancestors,” but never so much as attempts to refute our assertion. We now assert that the i Holy Bible was coiiected and published and preserved and taught, by the Catliolie Church for over a thousand years before Protestantism was inaug urated by Martin Luther. Now, as the Holy Bible con tains all that is holy in our religion, are we wrong when we that “all that is holy in our religion, we derive from our Catholic Ancestors.” Does the Columbus En quirer deny this proof • We fui ther assert that trial by jury, the right of represen tation in Parliament, aud Magna Charta were bequeathed to us by our Catholic Ancestors, in England, and were in full force centuries before the Protestant Reformation.— Does the Columbus Enquirer deny this proof ? Our Catholic Ancestors were not such bugaboos after all, as the American party (God save the mark!) would make them. We think we Protestants have improved up on the good works ot our Catholic Ancestors, and have a purer laith and worship, and a better government than they enjoVed; but that is no reason why we should spit into the pit whence we were'digged. There is no name in British History dearer to the Anglo-Saxon heart, than that of the Catholic Alfred. Alt nations revetenee the Bruce of Bannockburn, and he wus a Catholic. Langiun, Catholic Archbishop of Cauterbery, at the head of the Catholic Barons, extorted Magna Charta from the tyrant -John. j The genuine freesoil character of the conclusion of the j last resolution, which Was oflerdd by John Van Bureu, if ! it were not too apparent oa its lace, might easily be in*er ! red from the chuckling of those tree soil organs.’the N. Y. ; Piibun© and the N. Y. E- Poet, the latter ot which re j joices that’ last the Democratic Party of the State of New York has got back again upon the Corner Stone.— That stone which the builders unaer Polk and i'dlmoreand Pierce rejected, and which even the Albany At!at round a stumbling block and a rock of offence, has again become tne head of the cufnfer.” It is further tube remarked that the objectionable rsso- j iufton, uow referred to by ps, is in ‘he same language of I tfce famous “Corner Stone” resolution w’hieh was offered in the New York Conveatiou in 1847 by Field, and which, 1 having been tabled by the “Hards,” led to the great freesoil boll ot that year and the next. It is hardly necessary for j us to add that the “Softs” of New York, by their madness ; in flaunting the banner of freesoilism in the face of the South, have cut themseves off from an affiliation with the j National Democracy. The “Hards” are the only organized party in New York I that have assumed a national position. The boasted “Na tional” party of Know Nothings, or Americans, have re j cently, also, held a Convention in New Yoik, have repu diated the platform of the Philadelphia Convention ou the slavery question, and have adopted the following resolu : lions, which breathe a sufficiently strong anti-slavery spirit to call forth their denunciation by the South. Here follow the Free soil resolutions of the New York Know Nothing State Convention. They have already ap i peared in our columns. Let the Southern press speak out. The New York “Hards” alone,of the N. Y. politicians, ‘ are worthy of Southern confidence. The “Softs” have forfeited all claim to the confidence and affiliation ol Sou thern Democrats. The Know Nothing ot New’ York have repudiated even the Philadelphia Platform.— Ens. Times ! & Sentinel. Freights on the Muscogee Railroad. —We are glad to learn that the receipts from freights and passengers for the ten days of September J 855, have been SIOBO more than for the same time last year on the Muscogee Railroad. The present season promises to be the most profitable the Road has yet enjoyed. Letter from Mr. E. C. Bullock. Eufaula, Ala., Aug. 28, 1855. Gentlemen: —I regret that other engagements will deny me the pleasure of accepting your kind invitation to attend the dinner to be given to the Hon. .T. F. Dowdell, on the 31st inst. At the same time, I cannot forbear offering my humble tribute to the distinguished services w'hieh he haß rendered to sound principles in the recent struggle. In’the face of heavy odds and an able adversary, he learltssly en countered, in its supposed stronghold, the ,most dangerous party ever organized in the South. Had he been a time server or place lumtor, he would have declined a contest which promised nothing but defeat. Fortunately, he was neither, but a true man, strong in the consciousness of a good cause. Watching the canvass with intense interest, I hardly dared hope for his success; but nobly upheld by the intelligence of the people, he has fought a good fight and won a glorious victory. With you, 1 honor his courage, admire his ability and rejoice at his success. Know Nothiugism, assuming to guard us against foreign influence, has introduced, for the first time in the polities oi this country, the odious machinery ol French Jacobinism. Affecting to be profoundly American, it has borrowed from the Old World the anti-republican sentiment that a man’s position should be determined not by Ins own merit, but by the aceident of his birth or the complexion of his religious opinions. Reversing the wheels of civilization, u lias gone back more than a century in the history of the world, to renew’ the long abandoned attack on the sacred doctrine of religious toleration. Professing peculiar devotion to the in stitutions of the South, it inculcates through the Philadel phia Platform and the ritual of the third degree, thoe sla vish federal doctrines which would leave us naked in the hands of our enemies. ‘l’he people of the 3d Congressional District arid their gallant representative elect have laid their brethren in other sections of the State under heavy obligations for their ov erwhelming rebuke of this intolerant and proscriptive fac* lion. Regretting my inability to participate personally in your rejoicings oyer so glorious a triumph, I beg leave, if it is in order, to offer the annexed sentiment. Very truly yours, E. C. BULLOCK. Messrs. Samford, Thomas, and others. “Sam”-— An enterprising young man from the North, selected for his sharpness to palm off upon us, as a genuine article, the wooden nutmegs of New’ England Federalism. The signal failure of his mission proves that, deep as is Yankee shrew’dness, there are some ends that it cannot compass, and great as is Southern credulity, theie are some things it cannot swallow. Governor Shannon. To show the Southern people how Wilson Shannon, the newly appointed Governor of Kansas, is regarded by the Abolitionists, w'e quote the following language of that ar rant tree soiler, .John Wentworth of Chicago : “Those who know Wilson Shannon, know that he is a Southerner in all his notions—as much so as any one of the firm of Douglas, Atchison, String-fellow and Cos. He j goes to Kansas to make Kansas a slave State. His ante- ! cedents must be known to Gen. Pierce. He was an old Tyler man. Although elected to the office of Governor of Ohio by the Democrats, he came out with a letter en dorsing John Tyler, aud by the same John Tyler he was given a foreign mission. “By a strange combination of circumstances he was elected to Congress for one term, and for one only.— During his Congressional career he was a Southerner in | ail Ills notions and ail his votes. His record is right, and, what is better, his heart is right for Douglas and slavery. ! He goes to Kansas to inflict a deadly blight upon its rising hopes, and to curse its people with bondage. It remains to be seen who lias the brighter future, Reeder or Shan non ; th patriot or traitor 1 “Let Shannon recognize this mob of Douglasites that now professes to be the Legislaiure of Kansas, and the next House of Representatives will pin a clause to the next appropriation bill that will declare all such infamy void.— i There is hope in the next Congress !” Bring out.the Pope. On the evening after the polls were closed at this place, and the result announced, the friends of Col. Shorter were rather boisterous, from the ‘fact, of the vote being consid erably larger than was anticipated. Soon after, the friends of Col. Alford came forward and took possession of the steps of the Court house, and made the “welkin ring” with their loud huzzas. Just about that time, we, as a quiet spectator, observed quite a burly fellow making considerable gestures, and occasionally crying out at the top of his voice, “G —and d—n the Pope--bring out the Pope—and I will whip the Pope—l have children, and the Pope shall not rule over them. Alter a few minutes of fruitless effort to get the Pope out from the Court house, he pitched into rather a diminitive specimen of the Genus Homo , who thrashed him instantly. We thereafter heard no more of the Pope for that evening, it being generally conceded that as they wore both Alford men, the Pope got the best of the fight by setting them together after .the manner of the “Kilkenny Cats.” —Clayton (Ala.) Ban ner. Death of an Army Officer. Baltimore, Sept. 6. Capt. Charles G. Merchant, of the United States Army, died at Pensacola, Florida, on the 4th inst. More Trouble.among the. Politicians. Recent events would seem to indicate that “that same : old coon” is not yet dead, but that be is alive and kicking in Pennsylvania, to give fight again *n the Democrats ! and mar the calculations of Sam. We notice that county j conventions of what are called the “old line Whigs” have recently been held in several of the cotmiies of PeunsyK vania, who have elected delegates to a Whig State con vention to be held in Harrisburg. At the convention of the party held in Philadelphia on Tuesday last, a resolu tion was introduced which characterizes the territorial bill of the last congress ;.s “the Nebraska iniquity.” Enter taining such principles the “old line Whigs” of Pennsyl vania can hardly expect the co-operation of the “old line Whigs” of Georgia.— Sav. News. Die Murder of the Captain of the Bhip “Clt A R LF.STpN, Sept. 5. *1 j At the Coroner's inquest, on the death of the captain of 4 %e ship Ariel, the jury found a verdict of murder against ; Nicholas T\ heatou, the first mate and now acting captain of the ves3eT~*aud Henry Girard and Geo ge Andqrson, the apprentices. —!*> Fatal Accident at Cape May. Philadelteu, -Sept. 6 At Capa May, yesterday, a boat containirg a party of three men on a fishing excursion, accidentally Lq set, and oa6 of them. Samuel M. Fogg of Camden, ves drowned :in attempting to swim ashore. The other- saved them | selves by clinging to the boat. Muscogee Democratic Anti-K* N. Convention; We notice in the Times and Sentinel of the Ist instant, acall numerously signed, for a Convention in Muscogee county, to nominate candidates for the next Legislature. Among the names, we see that of an old friend, and one as true to’the South and the Constitution, as ever man was or can he—Peterson Thweatt, Esq., a States Rights whig of the old line. If we be not misinformed, the gentleman referred to, is the author of certain articles which have a wide reputation in Georgia, originally published in the ‘Constitutionalist,’ of Augusta,over'the signature, “An Old Line Whig ” We have no other authority lor this than rumor, a jade that deceives many. But be this as it may, in the advocacy of Constitutional principles, and m oppo sition to the reverse, our friend Thweatt, may always be counted as a sure one. May he live long to tight the foes of States Right*, and the Constitution, bequeathed to us by our Revolutionary sires. —Atlanta Examiner. [From the Richmond Enquirer.] The New York “Softs” and “Know-Nothings.” A few days since we published the platform of resolu tions adopted by the New \ ork Democratic Convention of “Hards,” and avowed our gratification at the national and conservative character of their action on the slavery question. At the same time we expressed our hope that the Democratic State Convention of “Softs,” which as sembled last week at Syracuse, would take up and adopt the same platform, and thus not only secure the ascenden cy of the party in the Empire State, but, more vital than everything else, give a death blow to anti-slavery agitation and peaee to the Union Our hopes have been wofully disappointed, as will be seen from a perusal of the three last resolutions of the following platform adopted by the “Softs.” Here follow the resolutions. We omit them as they have already appeared m our columns. — Eds. Times & Sen. Wisconsin “Republican” State Convention. Madibon, Wie., Thursday. Sppt. 6, 1555. The Wisconsin “Republican” State Convention nomi nated Coles Bashford as their candidate for Governor, the vote being, Bashford 124, E. D, llolton 87, scattering 3. The resolutions of the Know Nothing party were adopt ed. C. C. Shoeles of Kenosha was nominated for Lieuten ant'Goveruor on the third ballot. From Kansas. Chicago, Sept. 5,1855. In the Kansas House of Representatives on the 27th ult., the bill to exempt slaves from sale under execution was rejected. Kansas Intelligence. Sr. Loins, Sept, A The Kansas Legislature adjourned on the 30th of Aug. They adopted such portions of the Missouri oode of laws se were not locally inapplicable or inconsistent with the laws of Kansas already passed. The Pro-Slavery Convention nominated Gen. Whitfield as Delegate to Congress. Hon. W. B. Dent* We have, just before going to ‘press, received informa tion of the death of the lion. W. B. W. Dent, late mem ber of Congress from this District. lie expired on yester day, after a~long illness, at his residence in Newnan. It is needless that we should say anything here of the virtues, public or private, of our worthy representative. His death will be deeply deplored by a community who know him and will remember him as an honest man aud a faithful servant. —Atlanta Jnt., 10 th inst. Who Rules America ? —“Maryland, the first State in the Union,” says the Boston Transcript, “where the Ro man Catholic Church gained a footing, now contains 807 Protestant churches, and only 65 Catholic congregations.” In Florida the Catholics early made settlement; now 7 there are 170 Protestant and only 5 Catholic churches.— Louisiana was settled by the Catholics, who now have 55 churches in the State, while the Protestants have 247 congregations. In Texas the Catholics were the first sect iu point of time; they now have 13 churches, but the Protestants report 307 societies in the State. The num ber of Episcopal, Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches are nearly the same throughout the country; but each of the three denominations have about one-eleventh of the number of Methodists, scarcely one..eighth that of the Baptists, and not one-fourth that of the Presbyterians.— The entire Protestant population of the country, compared with that of the Catholic, is about 12 to I.— Citizen. A Ring from the Bottom of the Ocean. —We learn that Captain Hughes, of the schr. D. B Warner, on his pas sage from New York to Charleston, in about 29 fathoms water, 40 miles northeast of Frysuf Pan Sholes, in hauling up the deep sea lead, found attached to the bottom of it a gold ring, set with red stone, which he now has in his pos session. An American in Luck .—.fames C. Thompson, of Al bany, New York, has received the appointment, of Chief Engineer of the Russian Navy and is now in Washington, making the necessary arrangements w 7 ith the Russian Min ister. The offer is made for three years, at a salary of S6OOO per annum, with house rent free. Personal.— James J. Sylvester, Esq., formerly Profes sor of the Chair of Mathematics in the University of Vir ginia, has been appointed to the responsible office of Exam iner in Chief to the Artillery and Royal Engineers, at Woolwich, Eng. It is said that Lord Brougham and oth er gentlemen, high in the literary and scientific world, were very urgent tor his appointment, as the appointee was con sidered as having peculiar qualifications in this department of military science. sth District. —The Hon. John A. Jones, of Paulding, a well known politician, has been started as a independent Candidate for Congress. We do not understand Mr. Jones to run upon the platform of either of the two parties, but simply upon the Georgia, (or as it may now be called,) the Southern Rights Platform. Going back to Europe. —There eeems to be a steady stream of emigration horn the United States to Europe. The packet ship Tonawanda sailed from Philadelphia for Liverpool on Saturday with ten cabin and two hundred and sixty-seven steerage passengets. Kansas. —The legislature of this Tertitorv, in arranging the machinery of popular elections, has established the viva voce system of voting, and allowed but one precinct in each county. One of these counties is said to be as large as the whole State of Kentucky. Preparations for Slave Trading in Cuba. —lt is stated that contracts have been made lor the introduction this year into the island of Cuba of large numbers of African slaves. One party alone has contracted for the supply of 7,(X)0. Portuguese agents, it is said, are now in New- York making arrangements. The Athens Council. —We are informed that the Know Nothing Council in this place, at their meeting last Friday night, passed a preliminary resolution to disband, or to consult the other Councils in the county on the subject.— They are to have another meeting to morrow night, which it is said will be the last. We also b arn that the declara tion of a number of members of their intention to withdraw', lead them to the step. — Southern Banner, 6th. Knots Nothingism in Georgia. —The Know Nothing Councils at Columbus, Georgia, met in Convention on the 23d ult., and unanimously agreed “to cease the use of ob ligations, signs and passwords, and to surrender their char ter, books and papers to the State Council.” The organi zation is attempted to be maintained under the name of “American party,” which means —disguise being thrown oft— tiie old Federal party in its naked deformity !—JV. Y. Times, (Hard.) General Lund Office — The Survey of New Mexico. — By a letter irom a deputy surveyor, dated Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 8, we learn that ninety-six miles of the prin cipal nie.idian for that Territory has been completed and returned to the office of the surveyor general. Serious dif ficulties are experienced in pushing forward the surveys in consequence of the scarcity of -pecie in that section of coun try. It is stated to be very difficult to get cash od drafts. Montgomery —The Montgomery Mail contain* a list of buildings recently erected in that city. Some of the items show- a liberality of espediture not to be parallelled we fancy id any city of the same size at the South. Thus one private dwcdiug ie put down at $50,000 one at ft3cT -000, one at *25,000, two at $20,000, two at SIO,OOO, and the Mali informs ua that it hae not noticed any under thw figure. The capital of our Hstor State can boast not only a very unusual amount of wealth, but the taste and liberali ty to make its expenditure result in the sdditfon cfmea* beauty to the city. * Th© Yellow Fever .in Norfolk and Portsmouth. Baltimore, Sept. 7, 185>. There is great excitement on account of the Yellow le ver at Norfolk, which is increasing. The Merchants of Boston have sent S-4,000, those of New York $6,000, and Philadelphia $16,000. $3,000 have been received at the American office this morning. r I here is almost a famine in the infected cities. The deaths are increasing. Passmore Williamson. Philadelphia, Sept. 7,1855. Passmore Williamson, who is now for refusing to make return to the habeas corpus for the slaves of Mr. Wheeler, has seen nominated in Pittsburg, Pa , by the Know Nothing and Abolition fusion Convention for L’enal Commissioner. Removal of the Norfolk Sufferers. • Washington, Bept. Bth. Surgeon General Lawson leaves to-tfiorrow for tort Monroe, to report on the subject of the evacuation of the fort by the troops for the purpose of admitting the yellow fever refugees from Norfolk and Portsmouth. Cuba. —The New York Herald learns from an au thentic source, that contracts have been made, for the introduction this year into the jblaud of CuLa of large numbers of African slaves. One party alone lias con* ‘ traoted for the supply of seveu thousand. Portugese f agents are now in that oity making arrangements. We had the pleasure of a call in our sanctum a lew days since from our old friend, Walton B. Harris, Esq , of Ala t>oian Timn hq marl aita Irii upon Him an Weil 3S Upon | ourselves, but it was pleasant by a sight ol his familiar tace * to revet hack to boyish days. By the by, he has been a constant reader of the Recorder for thirty-odd years. Among our list of subscribers we also recognize many such tried friends who have stood by us since the commencement of the Recorder, now upwards of thirty-six years, and let ; ns assure them that it is no common bond ol Union that j unites us in friendship, differing as we may sometimes have done iu politics.— Southern Recorder. THE DOWDELL FESTIVAL. Letter from Mr. Wise. Only, near On acock, Va , ) August, 23, 1855 jj Gentlemen :—Yours of the 13th iust., came to Laud yesterday. I stand on the shore of mv “Ocean home,” and m s? Alabama, coming greetiug, with arms and besom opee, with expaning chest aud diluting nostril, as I have c\‘xa met Heaven’s sweet airs aud Ocean’s waves a* they came with inspiring and invigorating treshnesb. XL* blessed child State seems to rush to the arms of the Mother State, and Virginia takes Alabama eloee home to her busom, and embraces her with motherly pride and a!- fectionate jov. I did not for a moment doubt or distrust her. She is too Southern, too conservative, too Const!* ! tution-loving, too true to State Rights, and too fondlv | cherishes the most precious of State Rights —the Unvj*. j of the States —and prizes to.) inestimably the itialien. j able rights of individual man —his finite rights of j property aud rights of person, and above all his infinite ! right—the only one not “of the earth eurthij” - the wi jlv right of poor humanity pertaining to immortality—th* | i Heaven-high right of Religious Liberty—the soul .saving i right of Freedom of Conscience ! She is too true to tin- American Revolution and to the memories and faith of < the Fathers of the Republic, ever to have betrayed the I great cause, the holy mission of America upon Knrth! § She wis too intelligent to be duped by a worse than veil- I ed prophet : she had too much integrity to countenance j political imposture ; she was too Protestant and too Chris* | tiau to allow the ways of God to be barred and bolttd hv ‘ : sectarian bigotry and intolerance ; she loved the Church- | |es of her faith too well to allow thorn to be corrupted j by a touch of party political power, and by leaving the j spiritual for the carnal kingdom ; and she was too patn i otic to permit the liberties of the State to be destroyed J by a Union of Church and State brought about by h ! Priestcraft Power ambitiously aspiring to lay its hand* | on temporal things, and to control conscience, and will I and refusal and to make laws, and to debate “what we shall eat and what we shall drink, and wherewithal we shall clothed !” The hypocrites who skulked in the shad’ between “midnight and one hour before day-break,” with “dark lantern” in hand, making night hideous with howl* of “down with the Pope!” were dragging the robes (Am Christ’s righteousuess through the mire of party publics™ to set up a Protestant Popery here, in America, instead ol leaving Catholie Popery to die of itself iu Italy ! The ’ impostors who exultingly boast that “Americans Bhu* i rule America”—-as if, from Washington’s days down .• ! these days of “ isms ,” America has not beer, all the tin - | ruled by Anuricans—exclaim against Foreign Inflvniee i and are letting in that European, that Brithh-born in truder whom they call Sam —the most insidious foreign foe who has ever entered the hack door of our country like a thief in the night. The Old World is ravaged by war, and yet we ncei no standing armies, no navy, and to pay taxes for none.— Why ? It is in three words, because— Cotton is Kuv’ Uncle Sam, not Sam, holds the British Lion, and ts Gallic Cock and Russian Black Eagle hy cotton string 4 which he may pull at any time. Cotton is Power, Cotta is Peace-Maker,cotton is the iiair of the Sninpsou of tliel S. of North America, and Cotton can be planted,and bet-: and gathered, and ginned, and packed and sent to market in the land of the Southern sun, by African slave l&ber alone. Hence the cry that “African slavery shall b* abolished or the Americau Union shall be dissolved! Exeter Hall has so whispered to Williams Hall of Bos ton, and New England Preachers of Christian Politics have joined the British, the ©ld England policy aud pa’ 1 ty cry that the Nebraska bill shal be repealtd—no territory shall be abolished, or the Union shall be •hea ved ! Either alternative would shavo our tjampson ■ his strength. The Kansas and Nebraska bill repealed the Compromise, which was the first aci to violate Washing ton’s injunction not to recognise geographical iint-e — whicli was the first to make a border between the North., and the South —which was the first to beg in a separau of the States ! Now 7, the Kansas and Nebraska bill sin 1 ply restores us to statu quo ante 1819 ’2O, when Wadjj ington and Hancock, Adams aud Jefferson, Virginia ad Massachusetts, and the old Thirteen stood, it brough | us back to the Constitution. The question is, shall it tr Ij repealed, and a heart burning statute be restored to ti-1 place of the Constitution ? Virginia votes no, Not I Carolina no, Georgia, glorious Georgia, no, Alabama, r E The entire slaveholding States will, notwithstanding u* Si nesitauev of gallant but blood-stained Kentucky, all ud ! 1 in shouting as a host of Freedom, as friends of Am 1 nca— { “African slavery skull not be abolished ‘. i “The American Union of States ‘shall not be din* ! ved i There let us abide, under the of the Gmstiiu’ 1 and the Laws, To defend these, 1 will stake “lift, “ L ! tune and sacred hone.-,” against internal as well nal foes. The toouth is full of emissaries fiotn abroad, and ts-) I must be guarded against. \\ e have a host of paTrio’ “ y friends in the North, and they must be cherished as “ I beloved brothers. There are patriots there who will r-i’ ly to rescue and restore the saertd things which are danger, aDd 1 implore you, for th<rir sakes, for our >wo | to favor no sectional war, to countenance no aheoatk'D teeliug from the North, bu* to rely on reason and h t'"-* ral sense of right, and toadhete ourselves to *be Cot'-- tutional compact. This Hill save us and save nil. I • ! l thing will ; atid if nothing will, \ve will l>e innocent - I M e will not bear the world’s curse of aiding to dc*> :r ‘i I the only hopts of mankind for the light and love charity of human Freedom. And if the worst cottic the worst, “God will speed the right.” I canuot leave home before January next, and ‘•’ not tn tune for your feast to your gallant llepresena^ l ' e * ] the I?on. J. F- Dowdell. F east him we!!, and let h I roil the people’s good cheer like a sweet morse! ,jn ’ / k his tongue, aDd let that tongue ever speak the mrrMv f w of Truth and Justice to the People, and let tlum • j| repay’ him with their “sweet voices."* I cordially greet you back, and air Yours devotedly, * henry a. ttse To Wa. F. Samford, John H. Thom a#, Christ rr 1 -’ Tc vie, and others, Committee.