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K; . n Hf ' |j>c ' rapt hPw' ,: I" I ))>>'' TTi; ,;. ! ,1:: i ’ flljjf 1 f the i:i i! y 'luivi of IVs <'n*y. the un ’ ther.u-eivi : oft!„. op;., them, to expn ss t!.. :r in the choice made by the • 'on , you upon a result "• yourv.-if than country. ■2 ’ • 1 1 1 •, ('illdient ■■.ervants. ■■ HKi. Sx r*!;r. of iY .i El I'.WAin , ci I bv.. . 1 UitoiiKu. of New York, oi Kentucky, Bf Fames, of Massachusetts, Marsh, ot New Jersey. Grove, sear Nashville, ) WF March 30.1856. j EiiFN.- I diil not receive until yoster oflieial note of the 26th of February ■Ting nie of !HY nomination to the ,of ice President bv tlm American party, and asking my acceptance of the same.'" For the flattering terms in which you have •communicated this proceeding. I heir leave to offer you my sincere than ks. I accept the po sition assigned me by the American party, with at just sense, I trust, of the responsibility belong ing to it. I attended the convention with no r expectation that such an honor awaited me. and if iny own feelings and wishes con'd have been consulted, it would have fallen upon some oth er member of the American party, in whose ranks are so many distinguished individuals.; better known to the country and better prepar-! ed by experience for Ihe high duties of the stu-j tion. should the voice, of Ihe people lie in ac cord with that of which you arc the organ on this occasion. Hut acting upon tlie maxim left us by the great men of the earlier days of .our republic, that public office should be neith er sought nor declined, 1 yield to the judgment of those who have thought that my name might be of service ill advancing the important ob jects which constitute the American parly. Our leading idea is that the two old parties, j democratic and whig have ceased to exert ; their former healthful influence in the manage-j ment of the public interest, and that, without the intervention of reforms which they can m-v- j or effect, the beloved Constitution and Union. : bequeathed to us by our foreiathers, will not j long bo preserved. For the most of the evils with which we are: threatened at the present period, the adminis-j tration of President Pierce is evidently respon sible; but instead of finding lb.-;, party engaged in the prosecution of measures to avert the dan gers he lias brought upon the land, we see it more active than ever in scattering the seed of sectional strife and social anarchy. When Gen. Jackson came into the Presiden cy, lie acknowledged in his inaugural address the obligation of the Executive to restrain the patronage of the Federal Government; so that it should not be brought into conflict with the freedom of elections. But modern Democracy stands in direct antagonism to this obligation. There is scarcely an election precinct in the United States which has not witnessed the most shameful interference with elections by the I agents of the Federal Government acting in the name of Democracy. In former times when parlies were created by patriotic mid national sentiment upon meas ures of general interest in the whole country, we never heard that a measure could bo de clared Democratic in one place, and not in an other, by leading men professing to belong to this party. Yet we see this enormity exhibi ted daily by the party press in the pay of the present Executive. The necessary result of such corruption, il'l not successfully opposed, must be to destroy all political morality, and to continue power in unfaithful and incompetent hands by the mere! influence of the money derived from the taxes] which arc paid by the people for far different purposes. It is undeniable that the antagon ism now prevailing between the North and the! South, is mainly attributable to the political I artifice which has enabled men holding directly opposite opinions on the power of Congress over the institution of slavery in the Territo ries, but yet professing to belong to the same Democratic party. The Nebraska-Kunsas act i3 constantly called by one portion of Demo crats, a law which will prevent the extension of slavery to the Territories, and by another por tion, a law which will enable the South to car ry slavery to the Territories. By the same fal lacy secession, nullification, abolition, and all other ism*, have found a shelter under the flag of Democracy, explained as it is by modern in terpreters. In former times, also, our best patriots, with- ] out distinction of party, spoke of the necessity if guarding the ballot-box from the dangers of foreign influence, and of keeping separate the Church ami State; and of the advantage to be derived from a frequent recurrence to the earli er advice of our lathers, which inculcated a rev erence for the compacts of the Constitution, nod the abstinence from whatever tended to form geographical parties or array one section of the Union against another. Now, however, th ■ whole power of the Federal Government is brought to bear against any individual who has the independence to declare his attachment to these old-fashioned sentiments. Whole class es of men stand proscribed and ostracised for j no other offence than that of joining an asso-J ciu'.ion which seeks only to correct the excesses! of party spirit, and to restore the government, to the purity it possessed when we received it from the hands of those sages who founded and reformed it. Looking, gentlemen, upon (he American par-1 ty as destined to eradicate the evils to which 1! have thus briefly adverted, I am proud to be | called one of its members, and can only regret ] that in selecting its Hag-bearers, the choice lor the Vice President had not fallen upon one] L who could bring to the cause higher guarantees Bypr its success than can be drawn from the I services I have heretofore rendered my Imintry. • ‘Thanking you again for (lie kind manner in inch you have expressed your personal grati- Ixtion at the nominations, I subscribe myself. r Very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t, A, J. Donki.sox To Messrs. Alex. M. 11. Stuart, of Virginia; Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania; Erastus Brooks. of New York; E I!. Bartlett, of Ken tucky; Win. J. Eam<*. of il/assacliusetts; Eph raim Marsh, of New Jersy. American Council of Georgia. Macon. April 17. The following Resolutions were unanimously passed in the State Council of the American Party, which met in tins city on Wednesday lasi. Resolved 1, That the State Council now in possion abolish all obligations of secrecy which have heretofore characterised it as a secret po- : litical order, and that it do now resolve itself into an open Convention of the American Par ty. of Georgia. 2 That this Convention recommend to the Party', that in lieu of the Secret Councils which have heretofore been organized in the respec tive Counties, an Association be established and kept up in each County, whose object shall be to promote the interests of the American Party. Resolved. That the Stale Council having di%; solved, this Convention deem it inexpedient to [lake any action at this time in relation to the] ■rminations made by tlio National Convention! last, but we leave it to the Ameri-] I can Party**! this State to hold a Convention lat such, time as may be deemed expedient by I the Central Executive Committ e, to take such action in reference to said nominations r.s unity ; be deemed advisable. j Resolved. That this Convention express then thanks to 'William Hone, President, ami J. N. /Lewis,Secretary. of the late State Council of , (ho American Order in Georgia, for the aide land efficient manner in which they lmve dis charged the duties of their respective offices. I Re oived, That the thanks of this body be | also tendered to the Presiding Officer and Soc | rfitary of this Convention, for the satisfactory i manner in which they have performed their du ! tics. i On motion, it was ordered that the proceed ings of the Convention he published in the American papers in this State. The Convention then adjourned sine die. J. C. Ruse, President. Geo. Jones, Secretary. The Way American Citizens are Put Down. The town election in Lodkport, New York, took place on Tuesday. The Courier, in the following extracts, tells against what the Americans had to contend. We ask American-born tuen to think of these things, and to say whether or not the day and -the hour has not cemc when they rigmkl act as one man in .opposition to the foreign aftitv tliat threaten their liber ties j There was a-strike ou the cannal near Rochester on .Saturday , and a gang of j Irishmen came along the canal on Mon j day, forcing all in their track to quit work. They reached here in the evening, bringing with them over 200 excited mea. This j [occurrence doubtless swelled .the Irish] vote near a hundred. Indeed, the supply j ■of this vote was only graduated by the j demand and, if enough of them were not j polled to elect the Republican ticket, it is | because of the miscalculations of those linv- ] ing it in c'urge. But even Republican; hardihood became ashamed of the appear-] mice of the tiling, and by their direction tlie tide was stopped when tiny supposed ; they had enough to elect t her ticket. j We are glad to note that many Ameri- ] can men who came t.o the polls intending to vote the Republican ticket, changed ] their minds wliem they saw who were act- j ing with, and voted straight American i ballots. Wo heard tnan after man who I came in from the country, say that if “free- ] dom” was to be defended by such a crew, | and in such a manner, lie was not of the j pa ty. Indeed, the truculenty of the Rc publicans towards the Irish Catholics dis-! gusted every l onest man, and had it not i been for the fact that they came up as one j man to the support of that ticket, they could have been ignontiniously defeated. Florida Railroad. — A letter received in j Savannah from a distinguished citizen of Flor- j ida. contains the following items of railroad intelligence: ! “Wo have our road under contract from Tal- j ahassee to theSuwanec river, the contractors i ; all at work. ] “The road from Jacksonville to Alligator ; lis under contract, and will be graded by the middle of next year. By the end of the year' [ (next year) our road will also be graded to A1 . ligator. at which place we form acquaintance j with the Jacksonville road. The Fernandina ! road is piogrossing rapidly. ‘•The St. Murks Road u fil bo re-laid with ! heavy iron to Tallahassee by the Ist of Sept. [That we shall have a junction with the Atluu j tic by railroad, there is now no doubt. Our | resources are now limited, but will be increas ed as confidence is inspired. With our present means, we can grade ihe Road and build the ] bridges from St. Marks, via Tallakussce. to Ai ! ligator, 126 miles; and besides the St. Marks road, 21 miles, we shall be able to lay down the rails on 20 miles or more. The credit of the road, then, with the internal improvement j bonds, will enable us to complete it, without taking into consideration the addition to our subscriptions, which we may reasonably ex pect.” Gen. Pierce and the Northern Democ racy.—A Washington letter of the 15th iust says : The President is exceedingly annoyed |by the reports made to him by Col. Orr and others who were dispatched to the North to aid the democracy. Col. Orr. is reported to have told him that he was utterly without friends, even in his own New England. The impression has prevailed in the South that Gen. Pierce’s weakness in the North is the result of his adherence to the South. Col. Orr and Col. Weller should be forthwith summoned to give testimony upon this point. If the national senti ment of the free States is confined to the supporters of Gen Pierce, there are certain ly small hopes for the democracy in that direction ; and I have reason to believe that such have been the declarations of Gen. Pierce’s missionaries. Our Minister and Americans at Rome. According to the Boston Atlas, the A meriean residents and sjouniers in Rome | abandoned nn intended celebration of the 22(1 ot F bruery last, by a grand ball, on | account of the opjKisition of Air. Lewis | Cass, Jr., the American Minister, who, it | is alleged, informed them that the govern j rmnt would not allow dancing during Lent. This information, however, he ob : tained, it is sad, from some sub-officials ; and after the Americans passed a vote of censure upon him, he had an interview with Cardinal Antonelli, who informed him that the government had not, and would not, make any such objection. The Amer icans then resumed their project for a ball, j when Mr. Cass refused to allow his name to be used as one of the mana ers, and the affair was again abandoned. Some of the Americans, however, honored the day by a dinner party, and resolved to give no official invitation to Air Cass. Tun American Cause in Missouri.— The St. Louis Intelligencer publishes the following | cheering news: Missouri, our own noble State, will rol| up 1 a majority for the American ticket, that will astonish even (he natives. We have over 47.- 000 enrolled brethern. devoted to our principles in this State, with an average increase of 326 per week. New Councils are continually be ing organized, and the work is moving on glo riously. Thousands will vote our ticket who are unaffilia'tcd, and if the work continues as it is now progressing, wc shall not have to blush for a thousand native Americans in Mis souri. who ally themselves against their own countrymen. The Democracy o North Carolina have 1 nominated Gov. Bragg for reelection. REPIBLICiN & DISCIPLim ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Friday Horning, April 25, 1856. FOR PRE SWEA TANARUS, MILLARD FILLMORE. OF A'E IV YORE. FOR VICE-PRE SIDEJYT, ANDREW J, DONELSON, OF TEAWE S SEE. SO TICE. | Our paper will invariably bo discontinued when | the time expires for which payment is made. Our (terms require advanre payment, and they will Ire strictly atfiiercu iu. When flic “time is out,’* I the paper-will stop, and a remittance 'Vlt,!*) nc i ccssury t® set it in motion again, i We frequently have orders for our paper not I accompanied by the cash. In such cases, one ! copy will be sent, and if the terms are not cora plied with, the name will not be entered on our books. AROUSE ! M AKE IT ! I A meeting of the American party will] take place at the city Hall ‘this (Friday) evening at early candle light. A full at tendance is desired, as business -of impor tance will be under consideration. JSfS?“ 00l L. C. Simpson* was elected on Monday last Solicitor of the City Court. A majority of the whole number of legal votes polled being necessary to an election, and there being three cand dates in the field for Judge, there was no choice. * RALLY! RALLY!! ] “Samuel” will please attend at the Ci ;ty ITall to-morrow with all his friends to | assist in putting Judge UNDERWOOD ]in the “cradle of liberty” the bnllot-lox, — | Don’t forget or neglect to lie there. The j cradle will be rocked to the tune of 200 majority. , We are under renewed obligations to ihe Hon. Alfred Iverson for valuable public doc uments. Mr. Tonchois’s Acceptance. We publish in another column, the Letter of Maj. llonklson accepting the nomination ten dered him by the Philadelphia Convention, j It is just such a document as unexpected from! Mr. Dcneison, and is ccvtaii.ly ail tl at tlx pat ty could desire from him. Internal Commotion.— Serious convulsions among the printers in the Exantim r Office on Tuesday last, prevented the issue of that paper on Wednesday morning. By yesterday’s paper however, we arc happy to see that all difficul ties have been satisfactorily adjusted, and the work is again smoothly progressing. Ibid the publisher been initiated into the | arts and mysteries of typography by a five years’ aprentieehip, commencing at Devil’s de gree and regularly passed and raised, he would have known better how to manage t lie “craft.” Unpleasant—Bust. Last Saturday, Sunday and Monday were un pleasant days. The “North wind's chilly breath” whistled through our streets raising clouds ot dust, almost stifling those who had oc casion to be out. In fact, our city Assessors who are now “on duty.” came near ‘ tak ing the value” of several pedestrians as real es tate. Dry goods in houses unprotected suffered immensely; and here we would drop a word of caution to those contemplating building Store Rooms. Jet the front openings be large and filled with glass so that doors may be closed during windy or very coid weather. 3t would not only protect the goods but add greatly to the comfort of customers and salesmen, and also add beauty and elegance to our city. * The “Skkojaek” We noticed on Saturday evening last a fine specimen of locomotive machinery which had just arrived in our city, bearing the above name and disigned for the freighting business on the Western A Atlantic Rail Road. The Nicko jack is a first class engine from Messrs. Danforth & Cook; Patterson. N. J. The managers of the Road deserve credit for placing such mo tive power upon the Roud, and wc trust it may not share the fate of some of its illustrious predecessors. * The Intelhgcaccr in noticing the arrival of the "Niekojaek,” a splendid machine for the W. & A. R. R., winds up with a challange to all other Roads to show a better equipment, and says that they have “50 engines in working order.” We thought the story incredible at first, but finally concluded that the edito • meant that they had about 30 in “order" to work with, the remainder being in “order” to work on. * The State Council Os Georgia, met at Macon on the 16th inst. and'passed resolutions abolishing all signs, grips, pass-words ifcc., but made no expression as to the Philadelphia nominations. The attendance was not large, but nearly every part of the State was repusented. The members all ex pressed themselves satisfied with the nomina tions, and promised a warm support. The proceedings will be found in another col umn. * Kansas i.v the House. —The Tcfritorial Committee of the House of Representatives have matured a bill providing for the admission of Kansas into the Union with the free State constitution adopted at Toprka. Site Pickles, Ice. Gur tltcmks arc due Mrs. S. C. Elam of this city., for something very nice in the | way'Of pickles. We found a few days ago ! thvoe speciinens of her putting up in our sanctum, which consisted of one jar of Mixed Pickles, one-of Beets nnil a jar of Tomatoe saitee. They ure'C.tfjuisitgly nice in appearance, and fully equal if not supc #ol - i, flavo to aijy thing of the kind we have tried. It is roflreshmgly pleasant to be tho weipients of such kind donations, j they combine so many causes for appreciable merit. While they are valuable in themselves, they afford j incontestable evidence of a domestic enter-; prise that is worthy of all praise. With [ soil, seeds and genial showers most of the; “better fmlves” in the sunny south allow | the golden harvest to pass and leave thicr stores which should be full of “good things” i empty, depending upon Yankee land for their pickles and other extra’s which they might have in abundance. Mrs. E. will please cscqpt our thanks. * Atlanta Medical iollrgc. The second course of Lectures hi 'this new and flourishing institution will commence on Thursday next, the first day of May. The In troductory Lecture to he delivered ac the City Hall, at 10 o’clock A. M. oil that divjr, by Dr. Alexander Means, professor of Chemistry anil Pharmacy. The public generally is invited to attend. We are informed by one of the Faculty tlmt the prospects of the 'College are flattering be yond all anticipation, and that the class in at tendance during the approaching session will number between 150 and 200. Considering the many disadvantages under which Ihe Col lege has been placed, we cannot attribute this extraordinary success in the beginning, and the bright future that, awaits it, to anything but the unquestioned ability of the Faculty, and the uniting energy of the Board of Trustees.— It is true that its location is the most favora ble one South, hut this would be unavailable without a faculty such as it lias. Dr. Means brings with him an ability and influence of which ihe College may well be proud and by which it will be greatly benefitted. The College build ing is progressing, and though the Legislature refused the ineagre donation asked, success is written upon the future of the Institution. It will be a proud reflection for the citizens of At lanta, and particularly those under whose fos tering care it has been placed, when it shall have surmounted al! difficulties and lived down all prejudices, and taken a high and enviable position among its sister institutions, that it was done through its own merits, and not through the lavish pampering of Legislative ail. Wc say to it, Godspeed. * Die Savannah Rci iiblir.au This sterling and influential American paper, has hoisted the names of Fillmore and Dosndsou fur President nmrVicc Pres ident. In its issue of tit*'- 2lift 'lust', we ; fin I the following in relat’dii to its posi tion . This is right, and we trust that ev ery paper in the State, .friendly to the American cause, will at once hoist the names, buckle on their armor and enter the, contest enthusiastically. We have alrea dy seen in Georgia to much flinching and squirming, when such names as Fillmore and Donelson arc before he country. Let us have no more of it. Let every Ameri can gird himself for the battle, and never give up until Georgia is redeemed am] dis enthralled; and the country wrested from the clutches of a corrupt foreignism: * “Having received assurances from n soni-cp entitled to confidence, that Mr. Fillmore will accept the nomination which lias been tendered hint, and on terms en tirely safe and satisfactory to the South, i and just to every portion of the Union, we this mornihg run up t<Spur masthead, his name and that ot Mr Donolson, the latter having already signified his acceptance. ;We take .this step upon our own respousi- I bility and without a suggestion from any j quarter, our information being such as to leave ns no longer in doubt ns to to the course which Air. Fillmore will pursue.— We are satisfied, moreover, that the tick et, presented is acceptable, not only to the American party, but to conservative men, irrespective of party; whether at the South or the North. “We shall give hereafter the reasons which have inQueored us to this step.— For the present we would only say, we do not support Mr. Fillmore merely as the nominee of an American convention, nor yet ns an old Whig of the Clay and Webster slicool, but upon the broad and all-sufficient grounds of his tried ability, bis unflinching honesty of purpose, and his devotion to the Constitution and the Union, as shown and illustrated by his past model administration.” The Georgia Rail Road has raised the pas- 1 senger fare, through, 50 cents, making it $5,50 between Atlanta anil Augusta. Thus the tar iff which the up-c.olintry lias to pay on our sea board lines of Road is being raised by degrees as the ability to pay is increased by the indus try and labor of the people. f Atlanta .fferrnntUe Association! After some delay the Constitution adopted by the last meeting for the formation of this Association has been written ont by the Com mittee, or rather, one of the Committee, Mr. J. B. Peck, and is now ready for the signature of those who wish to become members. It will be carried around by (he members of the Com mittee. and we hope it will meet a general ap proval and response, and that we shall soon have another meeting, and soon have the op portunity of visiting a Reading Room which we learn is to be a visible and important sea-; tnre of the Institution. There is nothing bet ter in this world than joint action and co-oper ation in a good tiling, and we can imagine noth ing of the kind better adopted to the wants of our community at the present time than a Mercantile Association. f I Atwrieunsfivcr half and quarter dollars, by edict, are lienceforth to be worth only forty and twenty cents on tbe island of Cuba. | The Election on iflbnday. It may sound a little strange,’but’lt is nev erthoiess true that Know Notltlogisin Ims turn led upunew in the precincts of Democracy. — When‘President Gone issued his order for the “Croft” to assemble at Macon on the T6th inst, the Democratic press gave evident signs of tremble, anil wailed us if the horrible scenes ol 3t.’Bartholomew were to be re-enacted on the soil of'Georgia. At that time wc were not atvarc of the cause of alarm, but the 7 rick play ed off do Monday by life Democracy of this city ’shows conclusively that the “dark lantern” hail ‘been transl’ered to them, and that they are now led by its dim light. Somebody wnscom pletely "sold,” and we in the. plenitude of our hoiiusSty shared u part of it. We, as did the American party generally, eschewed party pre fercnce and as wc thought, magnanimously waived our power to t lie merits of the men and a clear field, supposing of course that if the De mocracy made a contest of it, they would not follow in the wake of those whom they had denounced time and again, as conspirators and midnight assassins. But such is the fact, and we now call upon the Americans to rally on Saturday next. Let Sam’s hoys come out. and show themselves and their power will be felt ‘by those who would not accept their maguamin ly. The election on Saturday for J udge is a strict party contest, and every American is ex pected to do his duty. Let none fail to vote. Hon. W. H. Underwood, who is the Ameri can candidate, is a cordial supporter of the American (principles—a venerable man whom the party is proud of and will delight to hon or. * Our City and its Future. A late number of the Intelligencer gives the following figures, showing the steady and rapid appreciation of the taxable property of our ] city. Value of 1852. ISSI. 1851. 1855. Iteal Estate. ,*653,894 J $1,044,292 I $1,872.45* I *2,101.358 I Merehan’m. 223,107 ] 281.752 j 843.490 J 371,252 jsi’el'rop’ty,! 249,903 J 349,910 ] 471.210 ] 530,916 This progress is certainly very gratifying.— ! linked, most remarkable! in view of the fact, that the last crop has been the only really good one for five years. The preceding short crops [ had acted as a serious check upon our Coni ! metre, and prevented that activity in every de partment of business which is always conse : quent upon a prosperous agricultural interest. Considering the vulue of Ileal Estate the same i tiiis year as last, (and some recent sales would I seem to indicate a considerable advance) and the above statistic* show that investments made I here in 1853 have paid thirty-seven per cent a i i/car in the enhanced value of the property.— This almost equals the stories told about the North-West! But satisfactory as has been our progress for ; the past four years, the future of Atlanta has lat no time held out such promises as at the i present moment. The organization of anew ; Bank in our midst, seeking exclusively a local j business—the establishment of new Bank Agon jcies in our city—the prospects for the AirL’ne ! Rail Road, with its Banking privileges—the number of persons of cultivation and property ; seeking here a permanent abode—ail point i most encouragingly and unmistakably to the i future prosperity and importance of our city. Middle Lrouml Rail-Road! A Meeting of the. citizens of Spaulding re specting tlie Middle Ground llail-road was lick! in Griffin on tlie 19th inst., and a Convention of its friends appointed to take place in Grif fin ou tlie 21st of May next. This line of Road is intended to extend from Covington to Grif fin, and from Griffin to Columbus, a distance of about 125 miles. The project is not without ils merits and claims and will probably, some : day, be carried out, Rai-roads are emphati cally tlie great leading enterprises of the day. and will lie so until all routes which promise a profit on tlie investment in them are filled up. Cur (toad 1 AVc have taken from time to time such notice of the management and affairs of the Western Sc Atlantic Rail-road as we thought just and proper, and nothing more. That there lias been gross mismanagement, emanating, as we be lieve, front political truckling, there cannot be the least doubt in ‘lie mind of any unprejudic ed man fully acquainted with the facts. Dis criminations, unjust and illiberal have been made. Proscription for opinion's sake lias been carried to a fearful and discreditable ex tent, Carlcssness, too, has been apparent, and resulted in some instances in injury to persons and property, and may or perhaps has involved the Road in interinineable difficulties. This lust is attributable to too close a watch, by the high officials, for the interests of the party , re gardless of the interests of the Road, and in this they have rendered themselves inexcusably culpable. But our present object is to correct an error into which the Intelligencer seems to have fal len. AVcek before last an article appeared in their Daily commenting upon a paragraph we published the week before, in relation to a “ big day’s work.” In the first place we would tnen j tion that it was not we that made out the day’s 1 work in question a big one, but the Intelligencer' J itself. In the article called forth by our para graph it says it was not a big day's work, and that it has been equulledjinore than once. If this he true, why did the Intelligencer take especial notice of it ? But, to the error. In all at tempts to repel our charges of corruption and mismanagement, and ward off the blows we have dealt the managers of the Road, this pa per has held up the increase of business on the Road. Now, we have never doubted the busi i ness would increase, and we think it will still increase; for this reason we have contended that the proceeds of the Road should be applied to its equipment, instead of going inio the ; Treasury for political purposes. Mr. Yonge i made and published in his Report of 1853, jsome very reasonable calculations in relation to j the increase of business on the State Road, and ;we were satisfied at the time that they could ■be realized under proper management. While we agree with our friends of the Intelligencer as to the increase, we can never be brought to ] believe that the interests of the Road dentand [ed the indiscriminate and immediate discharge j of all employees who voted against Gov. John son, but on the contrary, believe it operated detrimental to its interests. And in tiiis tve . have no doubt tbe Intelligencer will silently | agree with us. * Chickens coming Home to Roost! Tlie effect of Democratic catering to foreign influence lias been apparent to ns since the first loving embrace look place. Foreigners were very clever fellows, andquiteacceptable while they would‘help their uSpirittitS into dffice b'y their votes, and net precisely according to the iilcfiifos-offhe file-leaders— giving no orders but always obeying. Our Democratic friends, as we thought had committed a fatal blunder in their calculations of tlie foreign character and disposition and certainly made a wide mistake when they bbcorhe'foo loving. There are certain characters to wflirtrti'ifyOu show the least sign of friendship, you may expect 1o lie asked for the •loan of a punter, and though'you may have been'the cleverest fellow in all creation before, siiOliifl you refuse the Stnali'favor, you afe trans formed into a most unmitigated scamp. A lit tle fumiriurity frequently gives trouble, und we are quite certain that the Democratic parly will suffer more harm from their familiarity with foreigners than they can possibly be bene fitted by it. When the programme has been arranged by tlie “ fathers in I-rael” for the Democratic play, it. would not be very comfort able to have it knocked into “ pi ” hy foreign ers, ami we should reasonably expect to hear them denounced as troublesome fellows. We have thought, and still think, that the Democratic press are engaged in a work of su perogation in trying to prove that foreigners are not only as good citizens as native-born Americans, but really better, and while wo had our doubts about their convincing a single true hearted American* however Democratic ho may lie, that such was the fact, we never doubted that they would convince tlie foreigners gener ally of it. This idea of superority that t hey hax’e forced upon foreigners will give themselves more trouble than it ever has or ever can the American party. A foretaste of what will in evitably follow in large doses, may be found in tiie following extract from ihe Pennsylvania! i, a Buchanan paper. The foreigners are loyal cousins while they combine to defeat Ameri cans and no dangers are to bo apprehended from their influence, but when tlie Democratic ox is gored the matter must be looked into.— Mr. Buchanan attended a dinner given by the Lord Mayor of London, and expressed senti ments that don't set well ail Irish stomachs, especially when considered in connection with Americans sentiments uttered long ago by him, and recently at tlie primary elections in Phila delphia for delegates t-o the Cincinnati Conven tion. the aliens took the matter into their own hands and migatized the votes of the native Democracy, whereat tlie Pemisyliannm lets off; “ The two prominent causes which led to tlie organization of the Native party, and gave it great strength, were the placing of candidates in nomination, who possessed no one pre-requi site fur office, and tlie indignation occasioned by the moving of large gangs of unnaturalized persons from poll to poli to rob, by their votes, competent citizens of their rights. This latter evil, wc regret to say, still exists. We have been informed that it is the intention of a few depraved and worthless members of the Demo cratic party, to practice tiiis groat outrage at some of the polls to-night, If such a great wrong iie attempted, it should be resisted al every hazard. The Democratic party cannot be kept, intact, if tlie legal voters attached to it are to lmve their votes rendered nugatory, by the introduction of fraudulent tickets into the j ballot-boxes voted by aliens. We should have honesty at our primary elections, and wherever lan alien attempts to’vote h? should tic prosceut ed on the charge of inciting to a breach of the : peace. We hope that ail good Democrats will ] resent the degradation that must attach to our party, if unnaturalized voters attempt to con trol our delegate elections,” Time-Honored Democracy 1 Probably there is no word in any lan guage which' has been us si to cause such a multitude of wrongs, and under which, such stupendous crimes both moral and political have been committed as under the word De mocracy. It has been the practice of political knaves from the beginning of the world, when they wished to gain power or overthrow liberty itself to assume the word Democracy, or its equivalent, under which to carry oa their ne farious schemes. In the ancient. Greek Repub lics wlmre the word, as now used, originated, it was forever on the tongues of the conspirators against Republicanism and the established order of things, and no government, however mild, equitable, or just could offer a guarantee against its unhallowed use. Draco and I’issis tratus raised themselves to power, and establish ed their despotisms through its use and influ ence. And Sylla and Marius in the Roman Republic by its magic power up rooted Roman liberty, and paved ’be way for the Roman Em pire. Jnslius Caesar, when lie had conquered Pompey the then head of the Roman Repub lic, and when he had seized on the puolic treas ury, was considered the greatest Democrat of his age, and the diadem placed on his head by Antony was despangled all over with Demo cratic emblems, and for - more than three cen turies thereafter Emperors who ruled with despotic sway, seized and restrained the public treasury, made peace and war. and butchered the people of Rome by hcckatombs as Demo crats, Emperors rose and fell, were made and unmade as Democrats ; this was no fiction, but the legitimate result, of genuine Democra cy, in any large and populous country For its true and inevitable tendency is to over run and overthrow all Laws, all Constitutions, and concentrate all authority and power in or.o person. In a large and populous country it can express itself, or realise itself in no other way. Hence, it is the case, that the term is so popular with demagogues, both small and great. Hence, it becomes the term, and the catch word under which the most shocking crimes are committed, and the most stupendous wrongs in flicted on society. There is not a crime in the political calender which it has not sanctioned ; there is but one short step, if any, between genuine Democracy and genuine despotism, and that step, if any, is anarchy itself—the step ping stone to despotism. Louis Napoleon found Democracy and despotism one and the same. And yet it is through and by the use of this word that the people are constantly duped, deceived and hurried on from stage to stage until all true liberty, and all their just rights and privileges are overthrown, and all power over life, property and everything sacred is con centrated in the hands of despots; and it is hardly to bo supposed, that the people of this country are secure from such danger front such a cause. We have been led to refer to this defiinition, use and history of the word lienocrsrcy. from noticing the fierce J.iar tuw going On in and about Washington, between the different fac tions of what is termed the Democratic Party of the United States. Hero we find them cull ing ‘themselves Democrats, and tlie leaders of Democracy So-called with the term of time-hon ored Democracy constantly on their lips, wrang ling and disputing openly through their organs —their leading papers, and by public speeches— wrangling not for t!ic*prineiples‘oE true liberty, or for the rights of the.people to elliioSe whom they please for their rulers, but wrangling among themselves, they who arc enjoying tlie patronage of Government, who amongst them shall be put forward as their champion, simply to be registered and confirmed by their partt zans-us such. If this state of things taken in connection with the history of the crimes of commission and omission of this time honored Detnocracyol the United States is not evidence of a close assimulution to tlie ancient Democracy to which we have referred, and is not carrying the country to the sume end which ancient I)e --tmcracy carried Greece and Rome, it is because we have and may find a refuge and a support for true liberty, in quarters and causes which were never found in tlie ancient Republics. A Large Lumber .Market ! In tlie Bangor Whig ty Courier, we find the annual proceedings of the Mercantile Associa tion of that city, and make from them the fob lowing extract. From these statements, w 6 may form some idea of tlie sources of wealth in our Eastern towns. This immense amount of Lumber in Bangor is mostly used in enter prises in New England, and that part of the country which is said to have nothing for ejr port but ice and granite. We, of the South, however, are not unaware, and wc hope the people of Bangor are net, that it is the Cotton and Cotton business of the South, fat more than any one cause, gives life and activity to the industry of Bangor. We have not a doubt that tlie negro labor of tlie Soutli contributes quite as a much to the wealth of that city as to the city of Atlanta, in the heart of Georgia, We liopc the Whig If Courier will take this subject into consideration during the approach ing political campaign ■: f “ The amount of lumber surveyed the past sea son is as follows : I’inc, 123,026.15" feelt Spruce. 78.337.283 Hemlock, 10.305,753 211,669,193 Os this quantity, it is estimated there is now on hand, say 30.000,000 feet Fine, 2,000.000 feet Spruce, and 1,000.000 Hemlock, nail they estimate the amount of shipments from this port as follows : 93.026.157 ft Pine, valued at 5i.116.313 83 76,337,283 “ Spruce, 610.698 26 9,30-5,763 “ Hemlock, 65,1-10 27 174,669,193 $1.792-,652,41 116,449.000 Shingles, 402,235 89 6.789,675 Clapboards, 149,265 33 75,151,700 Laths, ](11,353 25 2,693,000 Pickets. 23.911 45 5,192 Tons Juniper Timber, 36 552 00 37.258 Ship Knees. 70.658 78 1,713 Tons Pine Timber, 10.992 0,0 Masts and Spars, ~20,3015 09 46,500 R. li. Sleepers, 11.625 00 30,359 Cedar Posts. 3.(ii7 82 6,734 Golds Hemlock Bark, 40.424 00 62,000 Fish Barrels, 38,088 24 11,470.000 Bricks, 58.250 00 95.204 .‘Silk's Sole Leal her, 261,769 00 1,740.T0ns Roofing Slate, 34.800 <0 1,278 Tons Pig Iron, 38,340 UO Making a total va’ne of $3,958 2-15 28 Although the articles placid in tins list' are the leading articles of export, they by no means constitute the total amount. To the list may be added Sugar Box Shooks. Hardwood ship timber and planks, Sash. Door and Blind stuff. Oars, Fish Drums. Dry Casks, Hoops, Steam Engines, Boilers and Machinery, Packed Beet, Hides, Sheep Pelts, Wool. Brew ed Sheep Skins, Furs, Shovel Handles, honk ing Class and Picture Frames, Bedsteads. 4*c., &c., the sales of which would very materially increase the aggregate of oar Exportations.” Atrfall We had never fully realized the weight of responsibility that rests upon our shoulders as a member of the American party, until we come across the following in the Empire State. Thia last deed of horror committed by the Americans is“awful.” The victim was a Mr. Dembrinski, who committed suicide in Savannah a short time ago. lie Was a foreigner by birth, a loaf er by profession, an ambitious adventurer by' choice, and a fool by instinct as the last act of his life proves beyond a donbt. But hear the melting strain of the Griffin Editor: “llow many melancholy reflections,” he asks, are awakened in every philanthropic bosom in contemplating the tragical end of this ill-l'atcd young man. Educated to the profession of arms, endowed with an instinctive love of lib erty, and hatred of oppression, ho stakes and loses his all in a doubtful contest. Invited by the inducements held out to the victims of des potism of all nations, he seeks an asylum on this \\ estern Continent. On his arrival, he finds his loudly cherished hopes of succor, blas ted in the realization, becoming destitute of the means ot honorable subsistence, unable to pro cure honorable employment, & too proud to beg, lie rushes into the arms of death as a refuge from the ills which overwhelmed his reason & dethroned his judgment. It seents to us that this ought to teach a wholesome lesson to the party which has for some time past been wag ing a war against our foreign-born population. This young man may have fallen a victim to that spirit ot prejudice which has been engen dered in the minds of our people by recent, po litical movements. If so, an awful responsibili ty is laid upon those who have fostered and en couraged this intolerant spirit among our fel low-citizens.” A\ hy this “unfortunate young man” shoo’d destroy himself in this country on account of proscription by the American party, we can’t lor the life of as divine; and if the Empire State did not get its conclusions from an infalli ble source, (the Dope of Rome) we shoatd con clude it was mistaken. This “unfortunate young man” “inspired by a love of liberty,” (a place where he could live without work and steal with impunity.) had emigrated to tins country, of which the foreign Democracy have control to a State where they are in power and to a city where they hold entire stvny and destoryed j himself for want of an office. Now in the face of the fuct that the American party l ad no of fices to bestow upon him. and the Democracy had all, who is responsible for this deed of hor ror? * North Carolina has instructed her delegates to the Cincinnati Convention to vote for Gen. Fierce for re-nomination and for Mr. Dobbin for A'ico President.