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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 14, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR.
IKERSCIIEL V. JOHi\SOX.
FOR CONGRESS
-Ist District—James L. Seward, of Thomas.
a iii. j. Crawford of Muscogee.
3,1. a James M. Smith, of Upson.
4th • Iliram Warner, of Meriwether.
sth “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin, of Floyd.
(Hh “ Howell Cobb, of Clarke.
7th *• JLintongStephens, of Hancock.
Hth “ A. H. Stephens, of Taliaferro.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
* FOR THE SENATE.
ALEXANDER J. ROBISON.
FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
JOHN P. DOZIER.
GEORGE J. FITTS.
The Know Nothings and the Kansas-Nebraska
Act.
We went a little too far the Know Noth
ings ofGerorgia with hostility,as a party, to the Nebrasha-
Kansas act. We are, however, fully satisfied that there
are large numbers of the party in the State who cherish
hostility to the act in secret. They affect to confine
their opposition to the act to that clause which confers
upon foreigners, who settle in Kansas and take the oath
of intention and swear to support the constitution of the
United States, the right to enter land, and the elective
franchise. So hostile is the Georgia Citizen to this
clause that it denounces the whole act as a fraud upon
the South. The Southern Recorder is hardly behind
the Georgia Citizen in hostility to the act.
In Louisiana, however, a bolder game is being played.
Col. T. G. Hunt is the candidate of the order for re
election. He voted against the bill, because it would
operate as a repeal of the Missouri Compromise ! It
is, therefore, necessary for his friends to place his de
fence upon other grounds than his hostility to foreign
ers. Hear what the New Orleans Bee says in his de
fence :
Col.,Hunt's opposition to the Kwnsas-Nebraska bill was
based on the soundest and most patriotic motives. He had
seen and experienced the immense benefit conferred upon
the country by the adoption ot the Missouri Compromise.
It had silenced the intemperate outcries of faction, quieted
agitation, and restored calmness and tranquility to the coun
try. It had been accepted by both North and South, as a
compact, whereby something was yielded by the two sec
tions for the sake of restoring peace to a distracted Con
gross, and repose to a deeply agitated and violently irrita
ted community. It was a settlement of the slavery ques
tion, was received as such, and operated as such for a quar
ter of century, respected and faithfully observed by both
sections.
When, therefore, a Northern demagogue, with a view of
catering fur popularity in the South, proposed to strike oik
the Missouri Compromise from the Nebraka bill, a large
number of able, honest, and patrotic members refused to
acquiesce in a project which, with good reason, was deem
ed fatal to the peace and harmony of the Union. They
thought, and the result proves how truly, that the repeal of
the Compromise would re open the flood gates of agitation,
add vigor arid.energy to the cause of Abolition, engender
violent sectional hostilities, and tend to create geographical
parties. They believed that a question of abstract right
should not be violently pressed in the face of paramount
considerations dear to every friend of the Union. Some of
those Southern members who reasoned thus, yielded finally
to executive blandishments, and sustained the bill. Others
acted with consistent manliness, and opposed it to the last.
Among the later was Theodore G. Hunt, and instead of
meriting reproach, he is entitled to the grateful remembrance
of Ins constituents for his bold, upright and independent
conduct. Had the repeal of the Missouri Compromise fail
ed, we should now behold the gririy phantom of disunion
looming in the distance.
Are Georgians willing to sustain a party which thus
makes war, in the South, upon that great measure of
justice, the Nebiaska-Kansas act, by means of which
Sautbern institutions have gained a foot hold in Kansas,
and through which there is every probability that the
South will regain her ascendency in the Union? It
pains us to ask such a question. Two years ago tbe
Nebraska-Kansas aot was brought before the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, and a resolution was
unanimously adopted denouncing all opposition to it as j
treason to the South. Whigs and Democrats were un
animous in their sanction of the principles of the mea
sure. The honor of denouncing it is reserved to the
Know Nothing order in Georgia. What better could be
expected of a party which was elosited at Philadelphia
for a week, with closed doors, with such recreant
scoundrels as Wilson, of Mass., Ford, of Ohio, John
ston, of Pa., and other worthy brethreu of the abolition
crew ?
Protestantism and Popery.
Malignant Know Nothings have endeavored to break
the force of Democratic arguments in favor of religious
freedom by affecting to believe that the most distin
guished advocates of this cause lean towards Popery,
Tlte charge is absurd and ridiculous. The most emi
nent q(‘ Protestant divines in all contries have been the
most zealous advocates of religious freedom. It is be
cause they are Protestant and Christian that they are
so earnest in their opposition to proscription on account
of religious belief. They would not give Popery the
benefit of persection. In, an open field the truth can,
will and always has conquered error. But if Protestant
truth is cumbered with State, or part} aid, it will have !
achieved its last victory.
This truth is attested by the history of the church in
all ages. The zeal and purity of the Apostles and their
successors found no enemy they could not overcome •
they went forth conquering and to conquer, and in an
incredibly short space of time, the mild precepts of the
Gospel overran Europe, subdued Africa, and had
penetrated into tho heart ol Asia. But no sooner was
Christianity adopted as the religion of the Roman Em
}ir° by Constantine, than its triumphs ceased : the clergy
became corrupt; the people indifferent. So it was with
the Reformation. So it was in Ireland.
By tile Catholic test, the Know Nothings have iden
tified 1 rotestantism with religious intolerance, and given
I opery the advantage by identifying it with religious
Ireedom. The association is unnatural and contrary to
the spirit of Christianity, whose weapons are not carnal,
according to St. Paul, but spiritual.
True religion scorns the use of the ballot box as much
as it does the use of the sword and battle,ax.
These sentiments, have been endowed by all the
great lights of the Protestant Church. ?Ve publish
below the opinions of the distinguished Dr. Chalmers,
the founder of the Free Church of Scotland, and the
most eminent of the Presbyterian clergy ot this genera
tion. They were uttered at Edenburg in 1829. upon the
discussion of the policy of removing Catholic disabilities,
in Ireland :
PH. CHALMERS ON THE RELIGIOUS TEST.
I he truth is, that the se disabilities have huug as a dead
mr!, the IJr r lost J ant for more than a cen
tuiy ihe> have enlisted m opposition to it some ot the
moit uneonqueranlo piineiples of nature; leseptmeut be,’
cause ot mjurjf, and the pride ol adherence to a auSrin®
<;du-e ny have transform *d the wlujje nature of the
f oV e V ,nn ’ ‘ r <he?liave iWed and given- ten
fo * cb,:nscv <’ nor. They have gnvn to mu side the
hateful aspect of tyranny; while on theirs we behold a
gencrous-and high-minded resistance to what they deem
oppression. They have transformed a nation* of heretics
into a nation of heroes.
“It has ever since been met by the unyielding defiance of
a people irritated, bqt not crushed, under a sense of indigni
ty and this notable expedient tor keeping down the Popery
of Ireland, has only compressed it into a firmness, and
closed it into a phalanx, which till opened up by emanci
pation, we s,hall find t ) be impenetrable.
“ What have all the enactments of the Statute Book done
for the cause of Protestantism in Ireland? and how is it,
that when single-handed truth walked through our island
with the might and prowess *of a conqueror, so soon as
propped by the authority ot the State, tfic armor of intole
rance was given to her, the brilliant career of her victories
was ended 1 It was when she took up the carnal and laid
down the spiritual weapon—it was then that strength went
out o. her. She was struck with impotency on the instant
that from a warfare ol principle it became a warfare of
politics.
“VVlieri truth and lalsehoad enter into collision upon
equal terms, and do so with their appropriate weapons, the
result is infallible. Magna est veritas etprevalebit. But
il to strengthen the cause of truth you put the forces of the
Statute Book under her command, there instantly starts up
on the side of falsehood an auxiliary far more formidable.
You may lay an incapacity on the persons, or you may put
restraint and limitation on the property of Catholics ; but
the Catholic mind becomes tenfold more impregnable than
.before. We know the purpose of these disabilities. They
were meant to serve as a barrier of defence for Protestants
against the encroachments of Popery ; and they have turn
ed out a barrier of defence for Papists against the encroach
ments of Protestantism.
“I am sensible of one advantage which our opponents
have against us, and that is a certain command over the re
ligious feeling ot the population ; and yet I am not aware
oi any public topic on which the poplar and prevailing cry
ever ran so counter as it does at present to the whole drift
and spirit of Christianity. What other instruments do we
read of in the New Testament lor the defence and propa
gation ot the faith, hut the Word of God and the spirit of
God ? How does the Apostle explain the principle of its
triumphs in that age when the truth was so mighty to the
pulling down of strongholds ? It was because the weapons
ot his .warfare were not carnal. He confined himself to -tho
use of spiritual weapons, the only ones by which to assail
the stionghoids, either of Popery or paganism. The king
dom of God, which is not of this world, refuses to be indebt
ed lor its advancement to any oilier. Reason, and Scrip
ture, and Prayer—these compose, or ought to compose, the
whole army of Protestantism ; and it is by these alone that
the battles of the faith can be successfully fought. It is
since the admission of intolerance, that unseemly associate,
within our camp, that the cause ot the Reformation has
come down from its vantage ground ; and from the mo
ment it wrested this engine from the hands of its adversa
ries,and began to wield and brandish it itself, from that'mo
ment it has been at a dead stand. We want to be disen
cumbered of this weight, and to he restored thereby to our
own. free and proper energies. We want truth and force
to be dissevered from each other, the moral and spiritual to
be no longer implicated with the grossly physical; for never
shall we prosper, and never shall we prevail in Ireland, till
our cause be delivered from the outrage and the contamina
tion of so unholy an alliance.
“It is not because I am indifferent to the good of Protes
tantism, that I want to displace these artificial crutches
from under her; but because i want that, freed from every
symptom of decrepitude and decay, she Should stand forth
in her own native strength, and make manifest to all men
how firm a support she has on tne goodness of her cause,
and on the basis ot her orderly and well laid arguments. It is
becauseleount so much (and will any Protestant here say that
I count too much*?)’ on her Bible, and her evidences, and
the blessing'of God upon her Churches, and the force'of her
resistless appeals to tho conscience and the understandings
ot men, it is because of her strength and sufficiency in these
that I would disclaim the aids of the Statute Book, and
own no dependence ot obligation whatever on a system
of intolerance. These were enough for her in the days of
her suffering, and should be more than enough for her in the
days of her comparative salety. It is not by our fears and
our false alarms that we do honor to Protestantism. A far
more befitting honor to the great cause is the homage of
our confidence.
“Give the Catholics of Ireland their emancipation ; give
them a seat in the Parliament of their country ; give them a
tree and-equal participation in the politics of the realm ;give
them a place at the light ear of majesty, and a voice in his
counsels ; and give me the circulation of the Bible, and
with this mighty engine 1 will overthrow the tyranny of
Antichrist, and establish the fair and original form of Chris
tianity on its ruins.*
“The polities of the question I have left to other and
able Hands. I view it only in its religious bearings ; and I
give it as my honest conviction, and I believe the conviction
ot every true-hearted Protestant who knows wherein’it it
that the great strength of his cause lies, ihut wo have every
thing to hope from this proposed emancipation, and that
we have nothing to iear.”+
* “The delivery of this splendid passage, which, was given
with a prodigious force, elicited a burst of applause so deaf
ening and enthusiastic, that the effect was altogether sub
lime. The shouts and huzzas were thrice renewed, and it
was with difficulty the speaker could proceed.”
Caledonian Mercury, March, 1829.
+“The conclusion of the Reverend Doctor’s speech was
greeted with renewed shouts and huzzas, the whole audi
ence standing and waving their hats in the air. This
ed.several minutes, and it was not without difficulty that
the tumult of admiration was allayed.”’
Caledonian Mercury, March, 1829.
The Union Man of 1850: The American of 1855.
At a meeting of the Know Nothing party of Decatur
county, the following resolution was adopted :
3. Resolved, That we recognise the Hon. Garnett An
drews as the true Union man of 1850, and the American
of 1855 ; and,therefore, will give him our support: And
that we have not forgotten the arch disunionist of 1850, and
Anti-American of 1855,
This party very properly nominated Richard Sims,
Esq., as their candidate for Senator. In the State
Convention of 1850, Mr. Sims voted to strike out the
4th resolution from the Georgia Platform.
We beg leave to call the attention of Southern Rights
men, who belong to the, so called, American party, to
these portentous signs. Is this a proper time to raise
the Uniou standard in the South, when every breeze
that sweeps to us from the North is laden with the
curses of aboition ? And every sign of the political
sky portends, a fierce, and may be, bloody struggle
between the Nortli aDd tlte South, in which all that the
the South holds dear is at stake ? A firm and steady
resistance on the part of the South may avert the
coming flood. The time for uncomplaining submission
is past. Such, at least, is the language of the Georgia
Platform which all profess to reverence. Can it be that
there is a party at the South in favor of a still further
retreat before the threatening advance of Northern
fanaticism ?
Terrible Gas Explosion.
We learn from the Savannah Republican that a ter
rible gas explosion occurred in Savannah on tho 7th
inst., in the basement of a house on the corner of Jones
and Abercorn streets. The Republican gives the fol
lowing account of the catastrophe :
The basement of the house is used as a grocery store,
and the upper rooms being occupied as sleeping apartments
by the family. Mr. Daniels had been called in to examine
the gas fixtures in the basement, and to stop a leak in the
pipe passing under the lioor. Having taken up a plank
and ascertained that the gas was escaping from a joint in
thp pipe, he lighted a match for the purpose of soldering it
anew, when the gas which had accumulated between the
sleepers and under the floor exploded, tearing up the floor,
overturning chairs and tables, and greatly damaging the
goods in the store. i?o violent was the shock, that tire floor
overhead and the side walls of the basement were forced
from their places, and large nails driven half out of the
ceiling and joists. • The damage to the groceries is estimat
ed at §2,000, and to the house at §3OO. The store, after the
explosion, presented a scene of the utmost confusion: fur
niture, goods, shelves, planks, &e., having been tom from
their places and tumbled about in every possible direction.
Four persons, we regret to add, were seriously injured—
viz: the wife, child* ar, d mother of Mr. Barbee, and Mr.
James Daniels, of tlie firm of Headman &, Cos., gas litters.
Anti-Know Nothing Meeting in Augusta.
The Cohslitutiona'isf end Republic publishes a call
/or a county convention, s : gnei by over one hundred
names, to nominate oamidaus for the Legislature.—
The call is headed by Alex. C, Walker, and in the
list are the names of many and stinguished W’higs.
R.EPLY T _) THE CoLUMJUs j^SOU’RIR. A reply to
flie rejoinder of the Colunbvs Evquiier on tbe sub*
ieot of “R whacks” has b crowded out by matter
already in hand. It # wiH a/pear in our next issue.
Aid lo Kansas from the South.
We learn that Ih’rteen persons have pledged them
selves to General James N. Bethune of the Corner
Stone , to contribute SIOO each for the purpose of send
ing men and slaves to Kansas. The Corner Stone ,
says this is a very important movement ; one which,
taken hold of in the right spirit, would settle the ques
tion as to the condition of Kansas upon slavery. Let
the people of every County take hold of it, and the
thing will soon be done. When one hundred n3mes
are obtained, the company will be organized. Address
Jas. N. Bethune, Columbus, Ga.
War In tho Camp of the Enemy.
We learn from the Chronicle Sentinel of the
12th inst., that the, so-calied, American Party of Ogle
thorpe County, Ga., recently assembled in Convention
and denounced as “unwise and unpatriotic” the nomi
nation of LaFayette Lamar Esq., by the American
Party, as a candidate for Congress in the Bth Congres
sional District in opposition to Hon. Alexander 11. Ste
phens.
Re organization of the American Party. —The
American Convention of the Bth Congressional Dis
trict, which assembled at Augusta last week, adopted
a resolution, approving of the action of the various coun
cils in tbe State which had divested themselves of se
crecy and rituals, and recommending the subordinate
councils in the Eighth District to do the same.
We observe that similar action has already been
taken by the party in Jefferson, Hancock, Warren and
Elbert counties, and in other counties in the Seventh
and Eighth districts.
In Jefferson, the party endorsed the Resolutions
which were adopted some two weeks since by the sev
eral councils in Savannah. The same thing is being
done throughout the State. — Sav. Rep. 10 th.
A New Political Order. —The New York Tri
bune gives an extended account of the ‘Order of Tem
plars,’ a side order of the K. N. Party. It was born
in a stable in the Spring of 1854—the accoucher be
ing a youth named Patten. On the 14th May last,
there were 59 temples of the Order, in New York and
King counties. The Order now numbers about 10,000
voters in these counties. The order is subordinate to
James W. Barker. Its President is J. B. Bacon, (sal
ary $1,000;) Vice President, John Bullock, (salary
$860.) The other dignitaries are paid in nominations.
This order has endorsed the Know Nothing County
Ticket, headed Captain Toone, for Sheriff. The foun
der of the order—an infinitessimal Loyola—has gone
to California, to* start temples there.
[For the Times & Sentinel.]
TIIiM COTTON CROP.
Henry County, Ala., Sept. 10, 1855.
Messrs. Editors: —The period is at hand when the pub
lic press is interested to collect reliable data as to the pros
peets ol the cotton crop. This is our greatest of Southern
interests, as connected with agriculture. The antecedent
causes of injury to this crop would authorize the opinion,
which actual results now establish, that in .this section of
country, the yield will fall short fully’one third’below” last
year’s. Several months diouth, previous to the 18th June,
was unprecedented—but, commencing with a flooding rain
on that date, we had continous rains for seven weeks.
Therefore, imperfect stands of cotton, and a small weed,
was the condition of the crop3 up to the 18th June; and,
since that time the heavy incessant raius have produced a
rank, luxuriant, but sap weed —full of forms up to the 15th
ot August. After that date, warm, dry weather and the
boll worm combined, have done the wortk of destruction.
As these causes are natural and general throughout the
cotton region, there can be no doubt at all, but that the
crop will fall far short of last year’s. TANARUS,
For the Times &, Sentinel.
Hear one cf the People.
Opelika, Sept. 10, 1855.
Messrs. Editor: Someone lias sent me from your State 2
copies of the “Georgia Citizen Extra,” containing the
“Platform of the American Party,” and tho Address of
that Party “to the People of Georgia,” with the superscrip
tion “read this Platform and give it a fair trial before you
condemn it.”
I know that Georgia is deservedly called the “Empire
State of the South,” but this is one ’ subject on which we
of Alabama have saved our Georgia friends the trouble of
enlightening us. We have aready “read and condemned”
this Philadelphia Platform, with all the rest of the Federal
blue light doctrine ot this self-styled American party. As
to giving it a trial, as my friend requests, that we never in
intend to do. The very sheet that gives forth tiiig platform
and address to the country, is a fraud on the Post Office
laws. Primed, as it no doubt is, by a fund raised for that
purpose, it goes forth under .the caption “Georgia Citizen
Extra,” in order to swindle the country out of postage.—
And who is this L. F. W. Andrews, whose name figures
as editor?—himself a Universalist, if he possessed one spark
of the manliness and independence of the only Universal
ist editor in this State, he would scorn to give his support
to a man who had decided that all who held his religious
belief were not to be believed on oath.
Alabama has‘read and condemned,’ and for once we say
to Georgia “go and do likewise,” which we hope and be
lieve she will. Yours, &c, N.
For the Times & Sentinel.
How tho People are Cheated.
Hakdmoney, July 3d, 1855.
Messrs. Editors: —It will be recollected that Gov. John
son delivered an address to the citizens of this county on
the 11th ol last month, and immediately after Dr. Twinney
arose and proclaimed the Council of K. N. open for the
reception of members, at which time might be seen nine
assembled, in the form of Broxton’s and Prescott’s, around
whom were gathered a few of the faithful old members
hissing their doctrine (as they say) in their every ready ears’
and finally secured their membership by conferring upon
them those oaths calculated and intended to open the grave
if the South. But why was it that those very applicants
were presented one month previous to this time and had
not gained admittance before? Why, sir, they were held
back, that they might boastingly talk, (as they have done)
and assert that Gov. Johnson made nine know-nothings
out ol his audience. But, sir, such falsity should be hissed
down by men of respect. It is an assertion made only bv
men ot small means, one would think. For a proof of it,
1 am a convert of Gov. Johnson's, . and am not afraid of
publicly boasting of the facts and invincible arguments in
hi? speech ol two hours. Crawford lias not as yet visited
us, (but we hope he will shortly,Tyot his friends willsound
aloud liis triumph in Kinohafdouce, in October next, by
giving him about 100 majority or more.
Yours, &c. H. C.
Indiar. Bureau—Appointment of a Comm ssiomr. —
Colonel William Garrett, of Bradford. Coosa eomty, AJ i
,bama, has been appointed commis.-icuer to eiiger ntend the
rales of the Creek Indian reserved lands iu that State, ad
vertised to take place in December and January n< xt.
The Powers and Duties of Superintendents of
Elections.
(The following communication was voluntarily hand
ed to us by a young lawyer of this city, who is a mem
ber of the so-called, American Party. It is alike cred
itable to his head and heart. —Ed. Times <fe Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors. —As every one has the right to ex
press an opinion as to subjects of general interest, I
will take the liberty of handing you the following opin
ion upon the subject mentioned in your note to Messrs.
Johnson, Moses & Holt.
The powers and duties of Managers of Elections
are all prescribed by Statute, and must not be constru
ed to extend beyond the provisions of the Statute.—
They are briefly these :
Ist. Where any doubt shall be suggested as to the
legality of any vote offered at any Election it is the
duty of the Managers, before receiving such vote, to
administer to the person offering it, the prescribed
oaths.
2nd. When the Managers have reason to believe that
any vote offered is illegal it is their duty, before receiv
ing such vote to administer the prescribed oaths to the
person offering it, although no doubt has been sug
gested.
3d. That in every case, after the oath has been ta
ken as required, it is the duty of the Managers to re
ceive the vote, and mark it “sworn.”
I do not believe that the Mangers have any authority
to refuse a vote in any case after the oath has been ta
ken, and my reasons are •
Ist. That no such authority is give by Statute.
2nd. Because the Statute provides a remedy against
illegal voting, but none for persons who have been re
fused the privilege of voting.
These opinions may not have much weight but still they
are the opinions of •
A Young Lawyer.
From Texas.
We have later Texas papers, the dates being to the 7th
inst.
The recepts of cotton at Galveston from the new crop
had been quite large, amounting to 7.519 bales during the
week, and summing up 9,286 bales against 211 bales to the
corresponding date last year.
Galveston has thus far been perfectly healthy. There have
been two deaths from lever of transient persons, who ar
rived sick, in the hospital, but not a single case in town
practice.
Dr. Baker informs the editor of the Columbia Democrat
that twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars have been sub
scribed to Austin College, in Brazoria county.
The Electric Telegraph is now working from Galveston
to Houston, and ouly some trifling interruption beyond that
point prevents connection with New Orleans.
We understand that Gen. Rusk will visit Austin in Nov
ember, when the Legislature will bem in session. lie will
urge the acceptance of the Texas debt bill, as a prelimina
ry step to the construction of the Pacific Railroad.
The Galveston Civilian notices the revival of the sugar
business in Texas. Four new mills have been recently
built in Galveston.
Late advices refute the rumor of the arrest of Captain
Henry and command. There was a misunderstanding be
tween some of the party and the Mexicans concerning a
horse, which was adjusted, and the Captain continued his
march for General Vidauri’s camp.
A gentleman, who reached Au-tin on the22d ult. reports
everything as peaceful. The Indians on the reserve were
faithfully laboring in the fields, and behaving thems9l:es
well. Borne thefts had been committed of a petty charac
ter by the Northern Camanches who have not yet come in
A letter from Nueces Valley, dated Fort Mclntosh, on
the Bi.li instant, says the Indians crossed the liver 9 miles
above the Fort. They killed one Mexican and wounded
another, on this bank of the river. A party of Hoops were
sent after the Indians', but there was no expectation that
they would be caught.
There is a little that is new concerning elections. Ihe
majority ol Pease is now a little over 5000, and will be
6000; Bell’s majority will be fully 5000; Runriells is i ow
about 2000 ahead and may reach 3000; Fields is iow
about 2000 ahead of Crosby, and we think he is elec ed,
but his majority wdi be reduced consideiably. The ‘ ote
between Ward and Evans, in the east, is so close, that per
haps the official vote will have to be counted to detenu ine
The Battle of Tehernaya.
The battle of the Tehernaya, fought by the Russians
and the French and the Sardinians, on the 16th ult., is
in many respects the most important engagement that
has taken place since the commencement ol the war.—
Prince Gortscakuif took command of the army in the
field, and, exposed fearfully to the fire of the French,
led them where victory was almost impossible. Nothing
but the hope to escape famine, even by death, could have
warranted such a step. The Russians left nearly four
thousand men dead on the field, (three thousand three
hundred and twenty-nine bodies had been counted on
the second day of the armistice] and had 8,000 wounded
and 600 taken prisoners. The loss of the French and
Sardinians was limited to a few hundred men.
Every deserter from Sevastopol agrees in stating that
the soldiers are dying daily by hundreds of starvation,
and that the siege cannot much longer be sustained. It
is for this reason that the bombardment is delayed, as
General Pellisier is of opinion that famine is doing the
work far more effectually than the cannon can do. The
allied Generals had agreed to renew the assault on the
morning of the 17th, and General Simpson notified his
government to that effect, but suddenly the plan was al
tered, and the allies contente*d themselves with renewing
the fire of the artillery. As the French are now within
sixty yards of the Malakoff, the attack cannot, however,
be long delayed, and it is not improbable that ere this let
ter reaches you, the Southern portion of Sevastopol or
its ruins, may be given up to the allies.
letter from Mr. Overby.
Jefferson, 28th Aug. 1855.
Gentlemen: —Yours of the 24th instant is before me. I
was absent at the time it reached Atlanta which will ac
count for the delay of the answer. In that letter you pro
pounded the interrogatory: “We wish to know of you
distinctly, if you will stand to and abide, the fourth resolu
tion of the Georgia Platform.” I unhesitatingly answer
yes! And whether elected or not, I will exert, to the ut
most of my ability, the power which I now, or may hereaf
ter have, to eniorce and sustain all the rights of the South.
In effect, I thought I had said that much antecedent to the
‘garhled extracts’ which yousaw of my address at Waynes
boro’. Yoursverv respectfully,
B.H. OVERBY.
To Messrs. Thomas Turner, and others.
The Democracy of New York City.
The democracy of the city of New York repudiate, by
large and decided majorities, the action of the democratic
Soft’ State Convention of the 29th on the subject ol the
Nebraska Bill.
The Young Men’s Democratic General Committee have
declared as follows:
Resolved, That we hereby reaffirm our attachment to
the principles ol the Kansas-Nebraska bill, guarantying,
as it does, to the people of the Territories of the United
States, the right to regulate their own domestic affairs in
their own way, and the right to adopt or disavow slavery
according to their own conclusions of right or wrong.
And on Friday evening the general committtee at ram
many Hall passed resolutions fully endorsing the Nebras~
ka bill, and emphatically disapproving of Mr. >an Puren’s
amendment to the resolution ol the .State Convention on
the subject of the domestic institutions of the Sopth.
The democracy of the city of New York have always
been sound and true on great constitutional principles.
A New Political Order.
The New Yark Tribune gives an extended account
of the -.‘Order of Templars,” a side order of the Know
Nothin r party. It was born in a stable in the Spring of
1855—the accoucher being a youth named Patten. On
the ] 4;b of May last, there were 59 temples of the Or.
der. in New York and Kings Counties. The. order is
subordinate to Jas. W. Barker. Its President is J. B.
Bicon, (salary f 1.00(H) Vice President, John Bullock,
[salary sßoo.] The other dignitaries are paid ia nomina
tions. This order has endorsed the K. N. County tick
et. headed Captain Toone, for Sheriff. The founder of
the Order—an iofinitessimsi Loyola—has gone to Cali
;fornia, to start temples there.
[From the Daily Sud-1
SIX DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL 0F THK
STEAMSHIP AFRICA.
Columbia, Sept. 11,6. 15, r. m.
The stamship Africa has arrived at Halifax, with ad
vices six days later fiom Liverpool.
Cotton was stitfer, but not* higher, *and closed firm on
the 30th ult. Sales of the week, 51,000 bales.
Breadstufls dull—prices unchanged. Corn had decliued
one shilling ; some Circulars quote a slight advance.
Provisions unchanged.
Consols 91.
The war news is unimportant. Details of the battle of
tehernaya show that tho Allies have gained a dicided vie*
tory.
The Russians were preparing for the offensive —an at
tack was expected to take place near the Cemetery.
Omar Pasha has taken ‘command of the troopa in
Asia.
Further by the Africa.
Tho Very Latest.
Liverpool, Sept. 1.
£ The circular of Messrs. Bigland & Cos., reports ihe
weather as being favorable for the harvest. Cotton
was dull and unchanged. Breadstufls had slightly
declined—Wheat 3d. in four days—Flour 2s. 6d. per
bbl. and Corn Is. per quarter. Corn, however, closed
steady. Bacon had advanced Is. per cwt.
General News.
Generals Simpson and Pellissier report that the aG
tack of the Russians on the position of the Allies on
the Tehernay3 was a deliberate effort to raise the siege.
The Russian force was estimated at 55,000 infantry,
6,000 cavalry and 150 guns. The Allies had only
17,000 men, four field batteries, and 12# guns. The
Russians fought most bravely, and were repulsed three
times. The loss of the French was 17 officers killed,
and 50 wounded, and 1500 killed, missing or wounded.
The Russians bad nearly 12,600 killed, wounded and.
made prisoners. Private letters say that 2000 Rus
sians were killed. Prinoe Gortschakoff telegraphed
on the 27th ult., that the fire of the Allies was occa
sionally very strong. General Simpson says that ihe
bombardment commenced on the 17th ult., with as
much effect as had been anticipated. The Allies were
preparing to cross the Tehernaya.
The batteries at Sweaborg were uninjured.
Senator Toombs.
The lion. Robert Toombs passed through our city yes
terday, on his return front his European tour. He is
hastening on to Elberton, where he has an appointment
to address his fellow-citizens on the political issues of tho
present canvas l -'. lie comes in fine lteabh and spirits, pre
pared to give the full weight of his great talents and in*
fiuenee, in behalf ot the Constitution and civil and relig-*
ions liberty, and against the Kuow Nothing organization,
lie comes in time to deal this pestilent heresy some heavy
and effective blows before the close of the canvass, and
will do much to swell the proud triumph that soon will
crown the anti-Know Nothing banners.— Con. f- Rep.
12M.
Governor Johnson.
Our able standard bearer made a powerful! and effec
tive speech loan immense auditory, at th City Hall last
night. We will give a notice of it more at length in our
next issue.— Con. Rep ., 12/4.
Habeas Corpus Refused—Highly Important.
The Supreme (State) court have refused the application
of Passmore Williamson for a writ of habeas corpus , by
four to one, thus sustaining the decision of Chief Justice
Lewis. We understand the court stood as follows:
Lewis, Black, Woodward and Lowrie against, and Knox
iu favor of granting the writ.
Ihe opinion of the court was delivered yesterday by
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, and from his high lame as a
jurist and a scholar a poweiful production may be ex
pected.
—
Withdrawals in Carroll and Coweta.
Tlie following gentlemen publish their cards of with
drawal from the Know Nothing Order, in the Ncwnan
Banner, with their reasons, which we have not space to
insert.
Bowdon, Sept. 2, 1855.
Wm L Hilton, VVm Smith, John M Burt, D J Alex
ander, J R Turner, W W Robinsun, J W Brew, Wm J
Skinner, J II Johnson, Richard Aurn, Wm R Burt. L
W Miliias.
Haralson, Sept. 3, 1855.
Alfred Hancock, John Cuthbertson, C M Blalock, S A
Cruee, Wm L Mayo, Mieal Garrison, R J Chappell, Jor
dan Spivey, E M Culpeper, Josiah Allen.
Great Keeting in Griffin.
The friends o f the “Constitution as it is” held a glori
ous meeting at Grilfin Ga., on the 6th inst. ‘iliere were
4,000 persons present. The meeting was addressed by
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, Hon. J. M. Smith, lion. C. J.
McDonald, Hon. John E. Ward and lion. Wm. If. Stiles,
ft was a glorious meetiug, and presages the certain elec
tion of our nominees for Congress iu the 3d and 4tli Dis
tricts.
Board of Health.
Mobile, Sept. 8.
Since the last report by the Board of Health (4th instO
there has been hut one new case of yellow fever in tins
city.
Geo. E. Redwood, M. I).,
Secretary pro tern., Board of Health.
Terrible Accounts from Norfolk—Yellow Fever and
Small Pox.
Columbia, Sept. 10.
The intelligence from Norfolk is awful. The deaths
on Friday amounted to 40. Oh Saturday up to noon, 25
had died. The fever was spreading into the souitoutid
ing country. It is reported that the Small Pox hod afto
made its appearance, and that there were 10 eases on
Saturday.
Columbia, Sept. 11.
The deaths from yellow fever at Norfolk on Sunday,
were 40. it is sad that the number of new cases is de
creasing. Eight physicians have died.
The disease has appeared at Suffolk, and the people are
Hying from the place.
Aid for Norfolk.
Columbia, Sept. 11.
The City Council yesterday Subscribed SI,OOO for the
relief of Norfolk and Portsmouth. A committee “lias also
been appointed to solicit aid horn the citizens.
Yellow Fever at Cooper’s’ Wells.
The Picayune has a despatch.dated Vicksburg, 4th met.,
which stites that all the visitors at Cooper’s Wells have
left the place in coutequenco of yellow fever, which nu de
its appearance iheve some days previously. Dr. Pugh,
who was one of the first to take the disease, is dead
There were seveu deaths fn in yellow Ever in Vicks
bug last week.
Macon and Western Railroad, otal receipt# by th e
1 oadforthe season, 61,67/ bales. Total receipts Irst
jear, 44,088 —increase th s season, 17 589 bales.