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The Baltimore Patriot and the Old Line Whigs.—This journal, in speaking of the efforts how being made by that conglomeration of priest-ridden foreigners, atheistical aliens, office holders, office seekers, rump factioni3ts, etc., etc., that, compose the present so-called Demo cratic party, and their efforts to secure tile rotes of Old Line Whigs, nse3 the subjoined truthful languag “Had they appealed to the patriotism of the Whigs, and proven to them it was a duty they owed their common country to sustain in pow- 1 er their ancient rivals, we should have respected 1 the invocation, even if we were not convinced I by the argument; hut to treat them as Wal- j pole treated his House of Commons, as Louis ! Napoleon treats his Senate, as a band of mer ccnaries, having no hi gher aim than office, j no motives a'n I of action stronger than ! its emoluments, is to place the lowest possible [ estimate upon Whig integrity, and to insult the fragment of a great party, while attempt ing to cajole it into an alliance. But what faith could the Whigs have in professions of friendship based upon grounds so mean and grovelling? If the Democrats succeeded by j these lures in entrapping the whigs into a snp-) port of a candidate who could not be elected ; without their aid, would the victory be ascrib ed to the power of the Democrats or to that of their allies? Fortunately we can answer this question by a recant example. The late fic tion hi Philadelphia was successful, by reason that the Whig vote, from local causes, was thrown in favor of the Democratic candidate. When the contest was over, and their men firm ly seated in power, the Democrats claimed the honor of the triumph, and awarded the Whigs the smallest possible modicum of praise for their co-operation. Presently, the offices were dis tributed and, ill the language of one of the journals, "Mayor Vaux lias got into trouble al ready. by giving part of the public plunder to the Old Line Whigs who voted for him—where at great dissatisfaction exists in the Democrat ic ranks.’ Comment is unnecessary. What old Bullion -ays. Col. Benton has been called on by many gen tlemcn, at hia parlor in the Broadway Hotel.— He is electioneering hard and hot for Buchan- j an, and is death and woe on Pierce and Dong-1 las. He says: “This Administration is most weak and cor rupt-sir—corrupt au-l weak, sir. The Presi dent. don’t know liis own mind for one hour, sir—not for one hour. Look at our Foreign relations. There is more danger of the peace of i the world being disturbed than you are aware Bir, more than you are aware of, sir. “The passions of the- people are fearfully ! aroused sir—fearfully areas- -d. Mention the name of Douglas and every bud passion is ; aroused —every one aroused, sT. He is a poi litica! fillibu9ter. sir. 11 • could not carry a; Free State. —The X-u-th is incensed, very just ly incensed tit his conduct, sir. This thing of Slavery agitation war all settled sir, until he broke it up. The' angry feeling of the North is very just, sir. •‘As for Buchanan—never a leading man in any high sense, sir—but a man of fair tal ents, and a very pure man in both his public and private life, sir. He is a man of peace,!' sir—eminently a man of peace. The effect, of his nomination would be to restore peace to the country, sir. "--Cm. Com. The Dcraorratk Aom'iiiatlon. Out readers will perceive, by the telekraphic accounts on the preceding page, that the con test in tbo Cincinnati Convention has resulted in the nomination of the Hon. James Buchan an, of Pennsylvania, as the Democratic candi date for the Presidency at the ensuing election. -The nomination of (his gentleman has. been ' confidently claimed by'nn political Mends for some time pu3t, notwithstanding the general, if not unanimous, favor which the re election of President Pierce was supposed to have obtai u od in the South by the tenor of Ins hist annual message. Strong as Mr. Buc-hara iwi a regar ded, we are not so much surprised at his ulti mate success as that, considering the formiduble uesa of his competitors, he should have receiv ed the required two-thirdi of the Convention ufter so brief a contest, lie is the choice of bis party, and it is not for us to praise or to blame their selection. But we may say. without offence, we suppose, that the party might, have done worse; we know not that it could have done better, although there are eminent men in it of equal ability and experience, if not of equal devotion to the party. Mr. Buchanan is a man of character, of stainless private life, and ot long and varied experience in public affairs. Asa gentleman we have nothing to object to him save his party politicls and party career, and although we trust that the ant.i- Deraocratic conservative power of the country will be able to beat him, yet if they shou'd fail they may still hope that his success will give to the country a President who will prove a ; friend to the Union and more conservative in his administration than is the political platform - upon which he has been placed by the Convci - "lion. — iVal. Intelligencer. I In-tinrt of Bird,. TVe Jihto fil our office an ingenious piece of bird metchanism. It. is a nest constructed by j the Goldfinch, regularly woven with threads, I all firmly knotted, filled in with wool, cotton, rags &c„ and completely lined with horse and other hair. It is the most comfortable, coosy | invention for the accommodation of baby birds imaginable. It hangs pendant from a small twig, around which the weaving process is commenced and continued until a complete bog with an opening at the top, is formed.-- Although we have frequently seen these nests hanging high up among the branches of tall tr®!s, we don’t knew that we have ever before had an opeortunity to inspect them closely, and wc must say they are worthy of examiaation, as illustrating the ingenuity, industry and par ental providence of the animal, and especially tbo bird creation. We are indebted to the kindness of Judge Grice for the nest which is now in our office, subject to the inspection of those who are curious in such matters.—Amer t a i Union. Credit.—Credit is one of the best things man has devised, and about the worst abused. Tiiousan is live on credit, who have no right to do any such thing. None but an honest man ought to be able to pass hia word instead of coin—a rogue's word is not worth its face no matter how rich he may be No one should have facility to run in debt for the means of i ostentations display or sensual gratification, or ! of haazardous adventure. “Earn before you ! spend" should be the general rule; the credit should be extended mainly to those who use it to fit them selves with means and implements of l useful, productive labor. Cr.ors in Vihoinm.—The Woodstock Tenth ! Legion says that within a few days, since the dry cold wratber commenced, many fields that looked exceedingly thrifty and promising, have been attacked by the fiy and joiut worm, and ' »o much injured as to be almost worthless. The Winchester Virginian says that, promis ing a3 was the first start, of the wheat this spring, the fly, weeds and dry weather have so injured it that more than half a crop, if that, \ cannot be expected in Frederick, Clarke or Hampshire, or, sq far as we can learn, in- any of the counties of the North Valley. What with the decline of price and 'decline of the yiled, ; farmers will be fortunate who dear from the j same breadth of land One fourth of what they did two years ago. The corn, which was gen erally gotten in late, is showing the need of rain, as so do the pasture? New Development in Irish Potatoes. A friend showed us some Irish Potatoes last • j Friday growing on the top of the vine, instead of the root—they were of good size, and well | formed, and is a proof that Irish Potatoes will | produce from the vine, like sweet potatoes, the | only difference being, that the former must have ' the advantages of the old root. To bo success- I ful in producing by this method, first plant your i potatoes in the usual way, and let ll e n remain • until the first crop is fit to use; then dig. re I placing the vines in the same bed and cover | their., leaving only a small portion of the top exposed ; this will cause the whole vine to turn 1 white, swell up, and bare fruit at every joint, | and thus produce a second crop more luxuriant than Die first. All this of course requires u favorable season, and in order to insure success, we suggest that the transplanted vines be well J watered soon after the planting. —Southern ! Enterprise. !ffr. Brooks’ Letter to Ibc Senate. 1 Monday last, the President of the Senate laid j before that bodya letter from Mr. Brooks, ns I follows: House of Representatives, ) May 29th, 1856. j | Sir: —l lmve seen in the public journals this morning, the Report of the Senate Committee ! to whom was referred the resolution of the Sen-' ■ ate directing an enquiry into an assault made ; by me on the 2'2d inst., on a Senator from Mas | sachusetts. It is with unfeigned regret I find in the Report that what I hud intended only as a redress for personal wrong, should have been construed or must necessarily be considered us a breach of the priviledge of the Senate. While making a full and explicit disclaimer of any such desire or purpose, I ask leave to say that for the occasion, considering myself on jlyas a gentleman in society, and under no po litical restraint as a member of the House ol j Representatives 2 did not advert to or consid j e-r there was any alternative or restraint impos ed upon me by reason that the offence came i from a member of the Senate. I had read care i fully and attentively the speech delivered in j the Senate on the 19th and 20th inst.—the I speedi delivered in the Sen te by the Senator from Massachusetts, and found therein lan guage which I regarded as unjustly reflecting, not only upon the history and character ol South Carolina, but also upon a friend and re lative. To such language I thought I had a just right to take exception under tho cirenm i stances, the Senator from Smith Carolina, who | was affected by those remarks, being absent from the Senate and city. 1 had reason to be i liore the Senator from Massachusetts did not : acknowledge that personal responsibility for j wrongs in personal deportment, which would I have saved me the painful necessity of the col I lision which I sought, and in my judgment, therefore, I had no alternative hut to act us 1 j did. That the assault was made in the Senate Chamber was caused only by the fact, that af ter a careful search elsewhere, on the previous as well as on the same day. the offender could not he found outside the walls of the Senate Chamber, and the Senate had adjourned for more than an hour previous to the assault.— I submit the foregoing statment from the high respect I have for the Senate of the United States, and that it may be received as a full disclaimer of any design or purpose to infract its privileges or offend its dignity. I cheerful ly add. should the facts, as reported by the Committee of the Senate, be, nevertheless, nec essarily considered as a breach of privilege, as a conclusion of law, my earnest desire is to j atone for it as far as may be by this unhesitat ing and unqualified apology,and that you will oblige me by communicating this to the Senate, as its presiding officer. I have the honor to remain. Sir, With great respect your servant, !'. S. Brooks. Tottoir. JrssrA Bright. Frisrdeni of the Senate. The letter was read, laid on the table, and I ordered to be printed. Taking Care of the South, Congress has voted a million and a half acres of lands for railroad purposes in lowa. And so, session after session, is the common domain j of the Union given away to buildup the free-j soil States, and Democracy so far from having! the power to prevent it actually contributes to; it, through the votes of many of its Western j and Northern members. All the Democracy I have the power to do. and really does, in this particular, is to prevent the slaveholding States i being put on an equality with the abolition ! States, by receiving the shares of public lands \ or their proceeds to which they are justly en-| titled. If Democrats would talk li-S3 about! state-rights, and do more to enable the States to take care of their rights, we should hear much less of Northern aggressions and south ern wrongs. For many years after tho adoj.-; tion of the federal constitution the Southern ] States held a majority in Congress, and exer ted a controlling influence in the federal gov j eminent. The census tables show that the in-j crease in native population since that time lias been greater in the slaveholding than the non slaveholding States. They would have main tained and increased their ascendency in the Union but for the Democratic policy that has encouraged the influx of an ocean-tide of anti slavery sentiment from Europe, that has not I merely been left free to follow its predisposi ; tion to settle in the free States and Territories,; but lias been encouraged to do so by bribes ol j public lands and immediate investment there l with the franchises and privileges of citizen ship. Yet the party to whom these things are so justly chargeable, that none have the hardi hood to defend themselves against them, claim to be tile party that take care of the rights and interests of the Southern States! —Lynch Vir ginian. Tiie Mississitpl Bottom.—The Memphis Appeal, of Wednesday last, remarks: Aside, from the slight damage which has re j suited from the late rise in the Mississippi, the i high water has been of great service in one im portant particular. It lias demonstrated that ! the overflowed lands may be reclaimed by the i leveeing system. In all those sections of eoun ! try where the levee has been completed, the 1 lands have been perfectly secure from the high water, and it is now regarded as a lixed fact that, all the Mississippi bottom may and will be reclaimed. This fact will add from one to five hundred per cent, to the value of the lands, and will serve to bring them soon into cultivation. How Hr, Buchanan was nominated. The editor of the “faithless phantom" thus disclosed in advance the process by which Mr. Buchanan would be nominated: -It is undeniably true that much of the ont side procure for hia nomination is the result of a disposition to bring iu the votes of men of Frue soii tendencies—anti-Nebraska-biil men—those who. while professing acquiescence in the ques tioned feature of the Kansas-Nebraska act, arc eternally disputing the propriety of its original enactment. I have no fancy for such Demo crats, and would prefer fighting the contest without them. Hence my earnest opposition to Mr. Buchanan's nomination. I deprecate the day when their counsels will have weight in those of the great Democratic paity. and do not comprehend as yet, how, after courting their votes iu making a nomination, we can with any degree of self-respect fail to accord to them frankly the weight in determining our future course as a party, legitimately due to their numbers as an integral portion of tho Demo cratic organization.” Sebastopol, it is said, will not be re-built. ; as it would cost as much to clear away the rub i bish of the old city as to build anew one.— There i« litterally nothing left of tho city but ' shapeless ruins. The I’ockkt Test.—ln tho debate in tie Massachusetts Legislature upon granting $20,- 000 in aid of Kansas settlers, a Mr. Rogers, of Boston, proposed to vote an additional appro priation of SSO from each member’s pay. Th is was rejec'etl almost unanimously. ipiiiFTiiiipii?. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: ' " Friday Morning, June 13, 1856. FOR PRESIDEN TANARUS, MILLARD FILLMORE, OF JYEW YORK. FOR VICE-PRE SIDEJYT, ANDREW J. DONELSON, OF TEJYJYESSEE. NOTICE* Our paper will invariably be discontinued when the time expires for which payment is made. Our terms require advance payment, and they will be strictly adhered to. When the “time In out, ?J the paper will stop, and a remittance will be ne cessary to set it in motion again. We frequently have orders for our paper not accompanied by the cash. In such cases, one copy will be sent, and if the terms are not com plied with, the name will not be entered on our books. Take Notice! The friends of FILLMORE and DOX ELSOX are requested to meet at the Court-house in this city, on the first Tues day in July next, for the purpose of ap pointing Delegates to the State Conven tion to assemble in Macon on the Bth of the same month. It is earnestly desired that each District in the County should be largely represented. Cross-Fire ! Tho Southern Sag-Nicht papers tell us that the N’ational American Convention “prostitu ted itself to Abolitionism,” while the Freesoil ers North tell us that the same Convention prostituted itself to slavery.” The truth is. the Convention prostituted itself, in the eyes of both, by sticking too close to the Constitution —too plain, straightforward a document for Southern Sag-Nichts, or Northern Freesoilers. Consistent}'! The Sag-Nichts South denounce Mr. Fill more as an Abolitionist, end. sustain their do*, nuneiations by producing his Erie letter writ ten in 1838. No complaint is made of liis Ad ministration on that score, but say they, “once an Abolitionist, always one,” To keep up con sistency and confirm their sincerity, they admit that the Softs of New York were Freesoilers in 1818, but soy they are perfectly sound note ! Now, if Mr. Fillmore is to be convicted upon his Erie letter, can the Softs be acquitted upon the Buffalo Platform ? The Tews. The latest news from Cincinnati, during the sitting of the Democratic Convention, was furnished to Georgia and Alabama through the Daily Atlanta Intelligencer. This is a fact worthy of .note, and clearly proves that the news can be communicated to a large scope of country through the Atlanta Dailers quicker linn from any other point. Much credit is due the enterprising proprie tors of the Intelligencer for their efforts and success in giving the latest news. * About! Fate !! ” On the Tariff Question, Internal Improve ments and State Rights 1 Mr. Buchanan looks inquiringly, and waits to know if he is expected to turn about, or whether the whole democratic party is to wheel. Stand still, Old Buck, close to the spoils, and the party will “ dress " iu that direction, and soon be in order. * The Cincinnati Convention did itself cred it in one particular, if no more. And that was by nominating a man for the Presidency whose I name was prominently before the country, and a man of fair Statesmanship, instead of scour ing the country over to find some little “ faint ing Brigadier," or third rate .village lawyer who nine-tenths of the people had never heard of. For a powerful party to foist upon the country a man for tho Presidency who is total" ly deficient in every requisite qualification for the office, and nin e only fort of availability is liis obscurity, is shamelul, and we are glad to see the policy rebuked and laid on the shelf by the late Cincinnati Convention. * I.at.ranee Female College. This is now, and lias been for several years, one of the most popular Institutions in the South, having received the largest amount of patronage of any at least in this Stutc. The Messrs. Montgomery, by whose enterprise and indomitable energy, as well as an immense'out lay of capital, it was built up, have devoted to it that fostering care which seldom tail to suc ceed. These gentlemen having more capital inves ted in the School than they desire, propose to sell the College to the M K. Church. The Quarterly conference which met a short time since, at LaGrange passed resolutions favoring the purchase, and having no funds, the follow ing plan was adopted to raise the means to place tho college in the hands of the Georgia Confer ence. Four thousand agents were to be ap pointed, and each agent requested to raise ten dollars, which would make Forty thousand dol lars. the amount requisite for the pureliaae.— The original cost of tnc College budding with all its appurtenances,we are informed issßs,ooo. It is one of the most commodious college build ings in the State and is located upon a high and beautiful eminence, in -one of the pleasant est village, {now city) in the State. We trust the plan will succeed and tho purchase be made by the t ext conference. 1 Although this College is owned by private individuals, no pupil lias been turned away on account of theirimibility to pay. and perhaps a larger number luiv.. -ceived an education at this iuslilutiorias hin-fic o. « * than at any Col fore iu Georgia. The magnates i y and libei alily of the proprietors entitle them to success ’ in their effurls to sell, and we hope they Huy meet with it. * The Pharasee Who does up things editorially, as no one elite could, (or perhaps would,) for that docu uent of immense circulation, powerful influence, and brilliant future prospects, the Examiner, of this city, seems to he riled about what we have been forced to say of him personally. He does live in a peculiar sort of building that neither protects him from view or shields him from stones. If we should hit “hard licks,”and the public gaze at his mural deformities, # ive would advise him to make an effort to hide himself b hind an honest heart, and upright and Secent manner of living. In his specimen of Bell-Lettres of June,7th, lie gives what a celebrated writer termed the six plagues of a village, and adds our paper as the seventh. As the seventh cup is the bitterest of all, so we suppose he thinks of Our paper, that it is the plaguedest plague of all plagues to him. The first plague mentioned by the cele brated writer, is the “La tri/Cr,With great knowl edge, great enphistry, and no sense of justice.” This, the editor of the Examiner once had some ambition for. but having none of the requisite qualifications except the tast.abandoned the idea that he had sufficient force of character to plague any body much in that line. The qual ification lie had, however, suited him to a nicety for another position in the plague line, and us he had no disposition to let what talent he had lie dormant, he Went about improving it. In | this attempt lie sttccceded admirably, as we are ! told that a certain distinguished man iu Geor gia told him on one occasion that lie must ••forage on the enemy ” and plague him no more. This old Pharisee seems to think he knows something of what Nature lias done for other people. We have never thought that X'ature trusted him with a great deal that would be likely to be coveted by any body else, but it is certain that if Nature designed him for any thing more than a grogshop loafer.the design was totally disregarded or awfully abused when the building was done. ---- - / * Southern Hasonir Female College, We have received, by tho hands of Rev. Greed Fulton, President, a copy of the cata logue of the above institution, for the scholas tic year ending 24th June, 1856. The total number of pupils in attendance is 151, which is sufficient evidence that the Masonic fratern ity have not forgotten their own College. We are assured by Mr. Fulton that the present of the institution is encouraging, and the future ■■right 11:0 next Annual Commencement will he on -the !Uth .hist. ’Hie Caawncncenient Sermon will be preached, by Dr. Talmage. on SnUtmth 22.1, and tho Junior Exhibition will come off' on Monday the 23.1. to be followed by an Or. ration before the two literary societies by L. j J. Glenn, Esq., of this city. The Annual j Address will he delivered on Tuesday 24th by ! David Clapton, lisq.. Past Grand Master of the ! Grand Lodge of the State of Alabama. At the las! meeting of Grand Lodge of this i Stat -, it was apparent that there was a dispo-! sitiou to secure by some means an endowment i for this College. Richard Lane, of Lafayette, i Ga., proposed to give one thousand dollars for t that purpose, and was followed by a number ol ! others. This is right, and we hope to see the i day when the Fraternity in Georgia will have ! a College of which they may we I be proud. ! and where the destitute daughters of Masons ! may receive an education that will St them for j any station in life. The Diplomas given at this College bear the ! symbol of the Master's Sublime Degree, which j will be recognised by any Master Mason, ren- j dering them valuable in more than a mere liter- ! ary point of view. Mr. Fulton informs .-s that every Lodge in the j State has been.invited to attend the Commence i meet Exercises on the 24th, and that 'lie pros- \ pect is good for a large turn-out on that occa sion. * The Democratic nominee! Hon. James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, received the unanimous vote of the Cincinnati Convention, on the 17tli ballot, and was, there fore, made the regular nominee of the Demo cratic party for the Presidency. Mr. Buchan an has been in public service most of his life, and though he has ever been considered a man of fair ability, he Ims, we believe, never been particularly connected with, or Instrumental in, carrying through any great and popnlar mea sure. No line of governmental policy is claim ed ns his own. In other worils. he has rather followed than lead. He lias been a public man with a sort of general character, no special act j ever having given him decisiveness of charac ter. lie is also one of the “old fogies,” and therefore, not so well suited to progressive, fili bustering democracy. Mr. Buchanan we believe ! to be a mild roan—a man of peace, though he was not always so, for he once said that “il he had one drop of democratic blood in his veins, he would open (Item and let it out.” The nomination of Mr. Buchanan may be I considered as a compromise upon the Kansas- Nebraska question. The Platform is to con ciliate the South, while the man, (the lion’s share.) is to conciliate the North. He having been absent from the country, had no part nor lot in that measure, and it was thought, no doubt, by the Convention that they could put on him such a face us would suit any section of the country, so far as tills great “ stroke of pol icy” is concerned. Mr. Buchanan was a Federalist, an out-and out Federalist, as late as 1823. This class of politicians have been dealt with severely by the ! democratic party, aud that they should consent to promote one, is very strange. | The following circular is a relic of the past, , and fully explains itself. Read it: * “Copy of the Circular issued by the Federal ists of Lancaster in the Election Campaign of 1823. between Shultz and G egg. — “WE as FEDERALISTS take the liberty of addressing you on the subject of the approach ing election fifr Governor. We wish to com municute our sentiments to you in confidence, and we arc anxious that you fhoT-Id call on any of us when you visit Lancaster and give us your opinion. We wish to lie united—we desire both to give and to take Counsel. The candidates have been brought into your notice; 'hey are competitors for the hieliest State office in the gilt of the people. Neither of them belong to our party. Mr. Shultz is emphatically the legislative can didate. Those men whom the people sent to Harrisburg to make laws, have attempted the power of making a Governor. It remains to be decided whether the freemen of I’ennsyl vania will yield up their sovereign right to a Legislative caucus. This candidate, thU3 nom inated. will he to excite all the rancorous I'e'el ings which heretofore existed against Federal ists. Mis notorious incapacity must in this manner be kept out of the view of the people, other wise his case is desperate. Mr. Gregg, although not a Federalist, lias al ways be ii considered an honest enlightened po litician. At the time when the Father of his country and of onr party, after having approv ed of Jay's Treaty, laid it before the Congress of the United States for their ratification, Mr. Gregg was found contending on the side of Washington against his own political friends. Experience has proved the wisdom of his con duct No enlightened politician of either par ty now condemns that treaty. It is the best We have ever been able to obtain. Mr. Gregg lias been long in public life, and has filled every station conferred upon him by ‘ the people, with integrity and ability. He has ! acted a leading part in the administration of Gov. I leister, and deserves much of the credit to which he is entitled. We are assured that he resisted with all his energy the adoption of the measure which just ly gave sO mupli offence to the* Federalists of I Lancaster 'county. Without enlarging on the subject, we are de cidedly of the opinion that whether we consider the public good or the interest of our party, there is hut one course left for us to pursue, arid that is to support Mr. Gregg. Should you he of the same opinion we calculate" much on your j exertions. We believe that in ease Mr. Gregg should be j successful, this will he the last party struggle in j Pennsylvania. After it. We trust the questions lot a candidate for offices will be. w he honest? is he capable?-and not what political name does he hear. This would be a consummation devoutly to be wished for by every honest and true patriot. JAMES BUCHANAN. Robert Coleman, Adam Roigart, Win. Montgomery, James Carpenter, George Ross, George Greafte, John Leonard, Wui. Norris. John Rucknian, John It. Montgomery. Edward Coleman. James Evans, Win. Ross, Emanuel Iteigart, George I lambrighf, Jacob Slough, Snsper Sluymaker, John Reynolds, John Stehiiiiin, Win. While, George Musser, Henry Carpenter, N. Lightner, B. Oder, Jasper T. Smith, Geo. W. Jacobs." Knoxville, June Sth, 1856. I presume a few notes from this Metropolis of East Tennessee will not be amiss in the “ Republican & Discipline.” Polities, a matter in which all this section seem to be well posted, do not run very high, at least as yet, and while nearly all concur that Fillmore and Donelson will carry the State, no! one appears to have any anxiety upon the sub-; ject. The Kansas war and the Brooks and 1 Sumner affair appear to be looked upon us dis-i graceful and disrijmtablo to ail . parties crt>> cernei Knoxviilo has two prominent Hotels, The Coleman House and the Beil House—the latter! at which I take up my abode, is well kept by Mr.William McTeer. formerly of .Maryville and Montvale .Spring'-. Mr. M and lady are well practised ill the business, and keep ail excellent House The city, under the influence of the late y obtained lt.iilro.id facilities, is rapidly improving. It lias also received a great, im pulse from the heavy crop of last year, which, as you are awa -e, has sold for large prices.— j The prospect is the crop of the surrounding | country wifi lie as heavy for the present as the! Inst year, hut I cannot say how it will be us to I prices. Under the influence of these causes, I the people appear to b - dipping into improve meat with great spirit, and if 1 can judge right-! ly with rather too great a rapidity for the! prospects abroad—for I cannot sec cause for any great increase of the trade of the city; when the line of roads is completed, through from Georgia to Virginia, yet the Roads will; be of vast benefit to East Tennessee as a whole, j When the Rabun Gap, Knoxville and Ken-! tacky Roads shall be completed, forming a transverse line and an intersection at this place the prospects and advantages for a growth will be decidedly favorable. These Roads will be to Knoxville what the Air-Line Railroad will be to Atlanta, namely : an independent and; competing line of Roads, or in the market for the business of the country, which, while they stimulate and encourage other enterprises and improvements operate as a check on each otlie,- to save the entire surplus wealth of the coun try from being absorbed by the Railroad' charges. Competition in transportation is as! necessary to the prosperity of the country as | competition in trade. Exclusive monopolies are exclusive monarchs of all they survey. This city is on a high lull, by the side of a river, and the ground is very broken. To get good streets is costing large sums of money.— The city tax are one per cent, which is worse I than ours, in Atlanta. I One day last week I passed up the valley of | the Holst jii River, on the Tennessee & Vir-: | gima Railroad as far as New Market. It is a ! beautiful section of the country—the people are j highly intelligent and orderly, having paid much attention to education, and enjoyed good schools, for lo ! these many years. I take it to be the most interesting part of the State, and must improve rapidly mow it hears the neigh ing of the Iron Horse. As you are aware, this section of Tennessee has been settled some six ty or seventy years. It has evidences of ener gy and industry in former days, but since Rail roads- were introduced nto other sections it seems to have declined, and many formerly good dwellings are in a dilapidated condition, but the crossing of the iron path in thi3 section is already causing signs of new animation ar.d life. It will eventually Ire one of the most in teresting parts of our entire country. As an illustration of the benefits expected from Rail, roads, I asked a gentleman what had been the enhancement of the valoe oflauds by Railroads, he replied, •• from nothing to fifty dollars per acres.” As some evidence of the impulse giv en to agricultural interests, I noticed every de pot along the Roads and almost every store house crunicd with agricultural implements such as Threshers, Fans, Coro-Shelters, Mow ing Machines, Horse Powers, &c., which are! brought mostly from the State of New York. Notwithstanding the great amount of grain ] carried to market from the last year's crop, | there are all along the Roads abundant evi-: donees of a plenty more of the saute sort left, and some Bacon to spare. The nomination of Buchanan and Breeker.- ridge excites considerable interest end satisfac tion among tiie democrats of this city. But the A tnericans say they being gentlemen there is no ciiance for their election, that the democ racy, in general, njt bei ig accustomed to vote for gentlemen, will not support them, f ClSClkxArrv—llalalugaH ! To my old friend riddle man, away over in Georgy. Hear friend : We've done things up brown here this session certain. We’ve elected our old friend and my cousin, Jim Buc' a an, President at last. If it had'nt been for me I dont believe they'd ov done it; but I knowed how the wind Mowed, and I told em how to work it. You see. we democrats are too smart for the rest ov em any way, and me and cousin Jim's been too smart for the party itself. Yon know how cousin Jim used to wear the black cockade, and read ihe news by a blue light—Well you see that’s made him popular with the Federalists ; and ho told em, too, that if he had a drap of democratic blood in his vains he’d openem and let it out. But this has been a long time ago, and every body's forgot it but the Federalists— (they never forget good friends like me and cousin Jim) so you miist'nt print this part of it, Aterwards you know, he took the demo cratic party under him, and made em abuse the Federalists like Uillin snakes, but kept his own name behind the hush, till the good souls | really thought he was true blue; and now they’d cuss any man that would intimate his federal ; ism. This, you understand, gives him ail the ! Federalists, all the Republicans, ami all the de mocrats, of coarse, because we nominated him, and they are bound to stand up to the rack, fodder ot Ho fodder—slavery or no slavery, tern ul improvements or no ternal improvements, filiybitsters or no fillybusters—the for all things and the against all things —Amen, the whole hash and hodge-podge of our own our glorious party and every body else that we can So'ft soap. By J:lly I'd like to fo'tgot the crownin glory of cousin Jim's prospects. Yon know he offered old Clay to make him Secre tary of State if he would vote' for Jackson, hilt the old fool got mad and talked about in- ; tegiity or some such'foolishness. So cousin | Jim gits Geoige Kramer to say that old Clay committed bargain, intrig and corruption witli! Mr. Adams, and slaved him out of the Way of democracy ; so now every huff of our party isj obleged to support him. And then to think how cute he worked it! After old Clay was slayed, and past redemption, you see cousin Jim lie comes out in a letter and says lie never be-! lieved the charge about that Bargain and cor ruption ! so all the old whigs were so much 1 obleged to him for snyin it that it would be! 'ingratitude to vote against him. I know you used to be a whig when me and i you ‘.rent to aw the gulr, together-, I'- . been in the commission, and you've been in the) , «i nctuin, old Clay and (he wings have died ,- so j now I can trust you same as when I used to! tell you about my sparkiu -keep dark! -j Good by till the next lime. CAPTAIN JOE SPIUGGINS. j Moke Snakes in tub Grass.—The Savan nah Republican ot the 6th inst. says: We are! informed that four persons besides Mr. Davis,: whose case we noticed some days since, have I been bitten by snakes in, Bulloch county within i the last few days, fwo cl them died—one a' 'young woman and the other a young mart; —! j the other two were still living at the last ac-i | counts. Os those who died, one was bitten by ! 'a rattle snake and the other by a moccasin. i ! The director of the United States mint, Pliil !adelppia, lias given notice that purchases of! silver for coinage will be made on the following j terms, payable in silver coins of the new issues, i ! Five franc pieces at 99 cents ; old Spanish dollars at 105 cents; Mexican and South Amer ican dollars at 106 1-4 cents ; half dollars of : the United States coined before 1837, at 52 1-4 1 cents; the sane from 1837 to 1853, at 52 I 2 I cents; German Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and old French crowns at 113 cents each ; Ger man florins 41 1-2 ceuts ; Prussian and Hanov erian thalers at 72 cents; American plate, best i manufacture, at 120 to 122 cents per ounce, and genuine British plate at 125 cents per ounce. Congress has just passed an act granting to | the Hebrew congregation in Washington all I the rights and privileges enjoyed by the Chris tian Churches in the same city. The disabili jty thus removed has been thoughtlessly per mi t j ted to exist since the foundation of the govern ment, until brought to the attention of the United States Senate, a few weeks ago, in some well timed remarks by Gen. Cass. From the topo-f Chiinbonzo to the bottom of i the Atlantic, at the deepest place yet reached . by the plummet in the Northern Atlantic, the; j distance in the vertical line is nine miles. The deepest part of the North Atlantic is probably! somewhere between the Bermudas and the Grand Banks. The waters of the Gulf of Mex ico are held in a basin about a mile deep in the deepest part. There is at the bottom of the sea, between Cape Race in Newfoundland and Cape Clear in Ireland, a remarkable stepee, which is already known as the telegraphic pla teau. The great circle distance between these two shore lines is 1,600 miles, and the sea along this route is probably no where more than 10,- 000 feet deep. A Raft, Indeed!— A modern traveller in Germany, gives a discription of one of the im mense rafts which occasionally descend the ! Rhine. He says: “It was nine hundred feet long and two hundred wide, on which was built a village for the accommodation of the boat-! men and the passengers, consisting of about one thousand persons. There were cattle, hogs, i and other animals on board—and also a shop’ where the passengers could be supplied with every necessary article.” The New Jersy American State council have) endorsed the nomination of Fillmore and Don j elson, by a vote of ope hundred to five. Fanatical Freak. In the Massachusetts House of Represent a j tives on the 26th ult.,n resolution whs introduced 1 instructing the Adjutant General of the State to ! furnish each of their Senators and Representa- I tives ill Congress two of Cdit’s six barrel re volvers. “If, instead of revolvers,” says tlie Baltimore Sun, “they were furnished with broad national views, and good common sense, uti mixed with fanaticism and narrow-minded big otry. it would be far better for themselves, and redound to the honor of the State of Massachu setts.” this is about equal to the negro demonstra tion in Columbia and quite as ridiculous Fanaticism, however, is everywhere the same, and never tails to make its dupes supremely rid iculous, As in Massachusetts, so in South Car olina, What an incalculable benefit it would be to both wings of the fanatics, to be able to sec themselves as others sec them. Such ex hibitions cannot fail to disgust intelligent con servative meu of all parties. The citizens of Erie are still excited upon tiie Railroad question. At a " meeting held a few days ago, the act of the Legislature which provides for the subscription of §400,000 by the Erie and North East Railroad to the Pitts burg and Erie Railroad, was particularly de nounced. The ultimatum of the citizens is that the roads entering the city shall terminate at the hai bor. Cowhides and Consistency.— Wo have a great deal in the Free Soil papers of the horrid cowhidings administered to Southern negroes. These cowhides-are manufactured entirely in Vankeedom. We believe there is not a single manufactory of cowhides in the Southern States. The cute New Englanders brought tiie negroes here originally, sell ns the cowhides to whip them with, and then make an awful snivelling over the horrors of slavery and the cruelty of cowhides! They are also the only North Americans engaged at this time in the African Slave Trade— Richmond Despatch. Prick of Poppies in England.— The pack of hounds of Mr. Richard Sutton were sod a few weeks sine, under the hammer at Quorn Kennels. Leicestershire. England. This hunt ing pack, consisting of thirty-nine dogs, from one to five years old, sold for §7,500. The puppies, 50 in number, were put up lets of five each, and brought altogether §2,300. Hon. Edward Everett on tile Slinkier affair. Hon. Edward Everett delivered his address on Washington in Taunton, eti Friday evening last, on which occasion after alluding to the distinguished fjVor with which the address had been received in various parts of the country, and stating that the character of Washington was the only subject which had the power to call him out from his retirement to address pub lic audiences, more frequently than is consistent with his health or the purposes of his life, he said: “But, with the satisfaction which I feel in addressing you at this time, are mingled feelings ;of the proloiindest anxiety and grief. A sad ness, which I strive in vain to repress, over whelms me at thought of the occurrences of the past week, and a serious apprehension for ces itself upon my mind that events are even now in train, with an impulse too mighty to bo resisted, which wid cause our beloved country to shed tears of blood through all her borders nir generations yet to tome. Tiie civil war, w'itli its horried train of tire and slaughter, ca« i tied on wit-lnut the slightest, provoeatiouaigainst (lie infant settlements of our bretbien on the ; frontier of the Union. Ihe worse that, civil war which, alter raging for months unrebtikcd at | the Union, has, at length, with a violence j which I know no examples in the aural ; constitutional government, stained the I of (lie Senate chamber wilh the blood ol !defenceless man, and lie a senator from .Mass i chusetts. “Old my good friends, those arc events which, for the good of name, the peace, the safety of the country.it were well worth all the gold of i California, to Mot from the record of. the past j week. ! “They sicken the heart of the patriot, of the ! good citizen, of the Christian ; they awaken a ’gloomy doubt whether the toils, the sacrifices j and the stiff rings oar lathers endured for the j sake of founding a brighter, a purer and a freer I civilization on this western continent than the world had yet seen, have not been endorsed in j vain. “For myself, my friends, they fill me with ! sorrow‘too deep for tears.’ lain not asham ed of the weakness, for 1 sorrow not for mv -3 If. “My few remaining years are running low rapidly to a close to allow me to attach much i importance to anything this side of the grave | which concerns me individually, but 1 sorrow, I beyond the power of the words, to express for the objects of affection which I shall leave be hind—for my children—for my country—and God is my witness, if by laying down my life' at this hour I could undo what has been done the last two years, beginning with the disas trous repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to embitter the different sections of country against each other, ami weaken the ties which unite them, I would willingly and cheerfully make the sacrifice. “ Did I not think there is a healing charm in the name of attachment I and veneration for his character is almost the only kindly sentiment that pervades, the whole country, and that, in the contemplation of that character, there is a spirit ol'wisdom to kindle, and of life to soothe and unite, I would cveir now throw myself upon your intelligence to’ excuse me from the duty of the evening.” Warmth of Colors. —Place upon the surface of snow, as upon the window sill, in bright day light or sunshine, pieces of doth of the same' size and quality but of different' colors, black, i blue, green, yellow, and white, the black cloth : will soon melt the snow beneatli it and sink downwards ; next the blue, and then the green, the yellow but slightly ; but the snow beneath' the White cloth will be as firm as at first. Senator Toombs. —The Editor of the Col umbus Corner Stone is a good judge of rven. as is conclusively proved by his hitting the hail so plumply on the head in the case of Mr. Toombs. In his last paper he says of that gen tleman. and says correctly: “He (Mr. Toombs) is naturally and constitu tionally a radical; and in fact, is the only real Democrat we have in Congress from Georgia, except Howell Cobb. The balance of them have just about democracy enough to enable them, without any difficulty, to guage it up or down to any temperature which personal or party interests may require; but Toombs ami j Cobb always do violence to their nature and consciences, (or at least they used to,) whenev er they are anything but real Democrats.” Payment of the Texas Creditors.—Mon day being the first day when, according to law, | payment could be made to the creditors of the late Republic of Texas, under the late act of I Congress, the business, we understand, was ' commenced at the Treasury, and at three o’elodv jon that day the Secretary had issued warranter (in two hundred and three eases) amounting to the sum 0f52.732.666. The payments will bo | continued without intermission, and as the j proofs shall be filed ami duly examined and" passed on by tho accounting- officers. —A ’al. i Intel.