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Tri Ki T< T ■ CIRCUL. A.TIONT OF" THE JS XTV JVX I JXT ES JEt, 4360 COFIES! WILLIAM KA/ VOLUME 1. TERMS. THE WEEKLY “ EXAMINEE,” $ Published every Friday Morning, at Two Doi- j lar 8 per annum,payable in advance. t I3P* No subscription taken for less than six ( months. jj RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five | cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first , insertions, and 37) cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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Citations for'letters of Administration, Guar di mship &.C., must be published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly nix months —for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months—for establish ing lost papers, for the full space of throe months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. e Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rates: Citations on letters of Administration &c. $2 75 do do disiniasory from Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1855. mrTtoombs’ LETTER. From the “Times & Sentinel,”- we take the letter of Mr. Toombs which will be found in to day’s paper. We have no space for comment, and therefore leave it to speak for itself. Doubt less it will command the attention of the people. Like the Editor of the Times & Sentinel, we should like very much to know what become of Mr. Toombs’ first letter. It was mailed.it seems, at Milledgeville, and the mail bags should have bten opened but once (at Macon) between there and Columbus. As the editor of the Times & Sentinel remarks, so do we—“We hope the effici ent Post Masters at the three offices will investi gate the matter.” MARIA GERTr’iJDE BUCHANAN. I We perceive that a volume of Poems from the I pen of thia gifted lady, once so favorably known to us as Miss Kyle, is about to be published, the prospectus for which, with several extracts from the forthcoming volume, is now before us. From one of her poems, “Columbia and Erin,” we have liberally extracted, that our readers may, with us, enjoy a foretaste of the high-toned enthusiasm and philosophy that pervade her poetry. Geor gia, may well be proud of this gifted authoress— Tierself a daughter of the Emerald Isle, she has yet made this, our State, her residence, and for many, many years, our sister of the sea-lward, ; Savannah, has been her home. On the ancient greatness of her native land she deiights to dwell, while she depicts the gloomy era of its later his tory in strains so touching that every patriot heart is reached and fired at the proud oppressor’s treachery and tyranny. The heart, however, of the Irishman will swell with peculiar pride as he reads of the genius of Erin’s eons and their glory, unobscuted by oppression ; while that of the American will glow as he reads the happier story of American Liberty, which the genius of this lady has contributed to the literature of her own State, and adopted country. On our first page will be found the extrat-ts to which we have referred. Side by side with the Poem referred to, will stand the "vision of Erin,” and the “vision of America.” The whole volume wili contain four hundred pages duodecimo; will be bound in col ored morocco; and will be presented to subscri bers, at $3, per volume. A prospectus is at this office, and we will lie pleased to receive the names of subscribers. KANSAS WEEKLY HERALD. This paper published at Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, reached us several days since. It yields an unflinching support to the pro-slavery cause in Kansas, and, at this time when ’it is so impor tant that Southern people should keep posted of transpiring events there, will prove a valuable ad dition to our exchange list. We wish the propri etors success. Eastan A Adams publishers. $2.00 per annum. ... Ex-Governor Jones, of Tennesqf’, has written a letter in which he declares himself in favor of the main principles of ths k. n. order. . . A Woihen’s State Temperance Conven tion was held at Auburn. N. Y. last week, at which the strong minded rallied in respectable numbers. .... lai Cronica. the Spanish paper published in New York, which sustained the loyalists, has been discontinued. THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. “SKIN THE CAT”—KNOW NOTHINGS ’ OF ATLANTA. Most of our readers have heard of one “Ma-. jor Jones,” and the lovely “Miss Sally Stallings” to whom the gallant Major pai4 his devoir^.— One particular feat which the author of the Ma jor’s “courtship” facetiously relates, we desire briefly to notice. It was performed in this wise* The Major was taking a walk with Miss Sally on the banks of a certain creek, when his attention was directed to large bunches of delicious grapes which clung to vines that had crept to the high est branches of a tall tree on the verge of the aforesaid creek. Anxious to please Miss Sally,i whose mouth watered for a taste of the luxurious 1 fruit, he hastily ascended the tall oak, and, in a ■ very short space of time, fdled to overflowing his L lady love’s apron with the choicest bunches there- I o£ when she implored him to desist, and with the sweetest smiles invited his return to terra firnut- Enchanted at his success, the Major concluded , to display his agility and daring a little further. Never had he been favored with so fine an op -1 portunity. There stood Miss Stallings to gaze upon his prowess, her large check. apron filled with Muscadines, while drops of the delicious i juice from more than one of them were escaping at the corners of her lovely mouth I What a pro pitious time for the Major! To “skin the cat" on a branch of the tree that overhung the creek, he was revived. In a twinkling, he seized the limb, and made the effort; but alas ! for the gal lant Major, just as he was at that particular part of the feat which required the passage of his low er extremities between his arms, one hand re laxed its hold of the limb, and down through the branches of the tree, to the bottom of the creek I went poor Major Jones! Wc leave the reader; to think of the screams of Miss Stallings, and the | mortification depicted upon every feature of her I beau as he ascended “from the lower deep” the banks of the creek. But doubly mortified he must have been whyi he afterwards heard that Miss Stallings declared him an awkward fellow, for he had failed in doing that which she had ex ecuted, while on a hunt for grapes with the girls many and many a time. Now, pretty much in the same position, polit ically, as Major Jones placed himself with Miss Stallings by over-doing the thing, have the Know Nothings of Atlanta placed themselves by meeting together yesterday, and ratifying the nomination of Judge Warner. In endeavoring to do some” thing smart, they have made a skin the cat busi ness of it and quite overdone themselves. No one is dull enough to be deceived as to the mo tive which actuated the exploit, and like Major Jones they will not only suffer Mortification at a failure to perform it well, but will be doubly so at being informed hereafter that it has been suc successfully performed by others less awkward than themselves. It was one of the early tricks of Know Nothing adepts, and has had its run.— A child in political warfare cannot be deceived by it? Nous Perrons • KNOW NOTHINGS IN THE FREE STATES. That the Know Nothingsin the free States are free-soilers and abolitionists, few who examine the record will be. bold or reckless enough to de ny. Enemies of the Federal Constitution, lie cause they are our enemies—enemies of the South —they have elected none but abolitionists and ! free-soilers to the next Congress, all of whom stand pledged to wage a deadly war against sla very. If this be denied, we here call upon the Know Nothing, or any other press, to designate a representative elected to the next Congress, or Senate of the United States, in any free States, by the Know Nothings, that is not one, or the other—an abolitionist or a free-soiler ! But we stop not here. We charge, from the record before us, that every representative from the free Slates, in the Congress or Senate of the United States, whom the Know Nothings have elected, or aided to elect, favors the repeal of the Nebraska bill, and a repeal or modification, of the Fugitive Slave Law. And that each and every one of them is pledged to exert his utmost ener gies to effect said repeal or modification. So universally known are the facts, that the Legislature of Massachusetts removed Judge Lo ring from office, because he decided that the fu gitive slave, Burns, should be delivered to his master; and that they elected Henry Wilson, a I notorious abolitionist to the Senate of the United States, where he voted to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law; that we deem it scarcely worth the ink it costs to again place upon our record of the times and men, what is so well known to the peo ple. But v hen to these links in the chain we connect others of equal import, they are sufficient, if not to alarm the boldest Southern hbart, to, at least, prepare it for an issue, in the event of : Know Nothing success, as inevitable as it is, in our opinion to plate. Who have the Know Nothings of Wisconsin elected to the . Senate of the United States? Why no less a ■ person than Durkee, an avowed, ultra. Abolition, j ist! What instructions have been given by the Know Nothing Legislature of Michigan to Sen i atorsUass and Stewart? That they must vote ' for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the * repeal of the Nebraska and Kansas bill! And i * in addition, the same Know Nothing Legislature ► I have passed a law refusing the use of the prisons I of that State to the officers of the United States I* Government to secure fugitive slaves. The Know r i Nothing Legislature of Maine have not been be •' hind their compeers of Michigan. They too have ’ I declared the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitution- J al; have demanded its immediate* repeal • have dec'ared in favor of abolishing slavery in the Dis trict of Columbia; and have averred that they will never consent to the admission into the Fed ’ J eral Union of any more States with Constitu s tions authorizing slavery. We might stop-here, ? but too much would be left untold. Every South- * ern man should know that firry Governor elected 1 by the Know Nothingsin the free States, is an Abolitionist. ’That the Grand Councils of the Order in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New '* j Hampshire, have passed strong abolition and an ti-slavery resolutions. That while the Know s Nothings of the North are proscribing all white n foreigners and Catholics from office, they are. al the same time, in favor of full civil liberty to al {- free negroes. That the negroes of the North lt vote with the Know Nothings there, and have e been complimented for this evidence of their pa triotism, by Northern K. N. organs. And last j though not least, that the leading Know Noth • ings in Kentucky, are, or have been Emancipa I ft’onifto, wherever that question has been agita “ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”— Jefferson. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 22, 1K55. I ted, toadenialof which, the Richmond Enquirer 1 dared the Know Nothings of Virginia, as well as ' to the other facts to-which we have referred. We ask if better evidence is wanted of Know , ' Nothing hostility, North, to Southern Institutions. ! and Southern Rights! If it be, we will confess i the task hard indeed to convince one who doubts : before such an array of facts, e must leave ! him to bis hardness of heart, perverted judgment, and Io that defeat which will inevitably overtake him. (For the Examiner.) LaGrange, Ga., June 11th 1855. i Dear .Sir: — This morning I received the en-i i closed letter from the Editor of the Atlanta Re-' I publican, returning the enclosed communication i which he refuses to publish. You will please do fine the kindness to publish my communication to them, as also their letter refusing to publish the I same, and oblige yours truly, JOHN L. STEPHENS. JUDGESHIP OF THE COWETA CIRCUIT. J.aGrangb, June 9th, 1855. Messrs. Editors;— ln your paper of the 7th . inst., I find an article,headed “Judicial Platform,” I signed “Atlanta,” and containing allusions highly \ injurious to myself as a man and to my position j as candidate for Judge of the Coweta circuit.— , Your paper having been made the medium of i the injurious reflections, becomes the appropriate I channel through which to convey to the public, i my correction and vindication : —And the Exam-, iner having been the first to announce my position ; as candidate, will please do me the favor Io copy | this article as a “definition” of my position and | as a security, once for always, against any future ; misapprehension or misrepresentation concerning ' it. | The only “platform” on which I have chosen ; to appear before the v.oters of the Coweta circuit, jis thaX contained in my card announcing my candidacy for the Judgeship, and consisting of these simple words, —“Mr. Editor,you will please ; announce my name as the Anti-Know Nothing I candidate for Judge of the Coweta Circuit.” 1 have placed myself upon this platform, because 1 stand opposed to the Order of Know Nothings, on account of their “secresy, their oaths, their un constitutional designs, their religious intolerance, their political proscription, and their Abolition as sociations at the North”; and because I regard these reasons as sufficient to unite all branches of the government, the legislative, the judicial and the executive, in one common effort to put down a dangerous organization and save the institutions of the country. If it constitutes a platform, tor me to announce that in any official station to which I may be called, I shall maintain the Republican institu tions under which America has prospered be-, yond the prosperity of all other nations, and that; I shall oppose my strength personal and official, to any organization in its tendencies hostile to I those institutions, then indeed 1 do stand upon a "■platform" which may be denominated “judicial” | or political, but which shall govern my actions : in every position wherein I may lie required to discharge the duties of a citizens. Standing on this •‘platform” I can inform your | correspondent and all others concerned, that 11 desire no “nomination” from any “judicial nomi. | nating caucus of this circuit.” Standing on this | platform, I do not conceive that 1 “degrade our ; judiciary” by holding it aloof from considerations ■ of “political popularity” or mere ordinary “politi , cal principles.” If “Atlanta” thinks that “our judiciary” would be elevated and purified by throwing questions of j “political popularity” and “political principles” into the election of our judges, he is welcome to his opinion and need not be surprised to find himself singular in it. I have assumed no plat form upon the subject of “any law prohibiting the sale of liquors,” nor do I intend so pre-judge any law upon that subject or any other subject, “sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Let i me repeat that the “platform” which I have above stated ; the platform which asserts fealty to the Republican institutions under Which our country has grown great and which proclaims opposition to all hostile tendencies ; is the only platform on which I choose to appear before the voters of the I Coweta circuit, and the platform on which I am willing to commit my election to the people, with out asking the permission of any judicial nomi nating caucus of this circuit, or appealing to anv considerations of “political popularity.” This platform may not be able to “push the Bull oft the bridge” but it is one which may excite a very natural desire among the people, to know wheth er or not “the Bull” stands on the bridge, and whether or not the various aspirants to the office of Judge, are standing on this platform of fealty to the Constitution and unceasing op|>osition to its foes. JOHN L. STEPHENS. Atlanta, Ga., June 9th, 1855. i John L. .Stephens, Esq.,—Dear .Sir.-— Your' letter, of to-day, intended for publication in the I Republican is at hand. The position you assume in your card is in- ' compatible with the views that now govern the i Republiban and we cannot admit of a defense of I that position in our columns. It might be done , as a matter of accommodation if there was no j other paper published in our city, and the district; I : 1 must decline publishing your letter, Very respectfully your ob'dt ser’vt, , i ’ J. NORCROSS. NEUTRALITY LAWS. We find the following piece of news in ' our Northern exchanges: I “A company of Canadian volunteer ri- 1 flemen, armed and equipped, bound for j 1 the Crimea, recently passed over the Cen-! tral Railroad. The company number! ' about sixty young men, and were in high : 1 spirits. At Boston they go on board a! - packet ship bound for Constantinople.” I ’: This is reported as coolly as if it were ; ■' only a visit of one military company to : ■ another, and there is no intimation that' p! there could possibly be an objection to a I j British army marching through the Uni-1 e! ted States to attack Russia. Y'et that is | s | the amount of it. Why is our territory s ' made the marching ground—the conveni ' enee—of one of the parties to the present J European war ? When Napoleon 1., tra , i versed the Prussian dominions, because they afforded the most convenient road to the seat of war, it was considered a great ‘ outrage, and was only approved on the ” i same principle as Nero’s performance on ' ' the lyre —that the master of forty legions ! was irresisiable. *‘l We have before called the attention of e ’l the Government towhat we considered the : unwarrantable use of American shipping ll ! in the transport of the Allied troops and n munitions of war to the Crimea. We e have seen no explanation of it, and now w we have the transport of armed companies i- from Canada, for the Crimea. Is this w maintaining our position as neutrals ? te Charleston Mercury. ... The printers of Cincinnati have formed a H military company. It! 5&~0f504 deaths in New, Orleans for the ,c, week ending the 4th inst., 276 were from chol it . . .. M Jullien is about to revisit the United h : States. ■ The water in the Ohio river at Pittsburg u : on the Bth inst., measured six feet, and was ri- B ' i ,ln S' COLUMBIA AND ERIN. BV MARIA ur.HTRI l>E BI'CHANAN, FOHMKRLV MAIHA C.HRTRtDE KYLE. Once, o’er Columbia s favored land, Oppression’s cloud in darkness bung. While Tyranny's ensanguined hand Around her sons strong fetters flung; Beauteous as now looked Nature s brow Beneath young Spring’s half-opened Bowers, As brightly beamed the sunny glow That wanned her cheek in Summer hours; As rich the tints that Autumn wove To deck her ’mid the fading grove, As pure the smoky robe that lay Around her form in Winter’s day :■— As grandly free Niagara swept:— His waters o’er the rocks’ dead side, As fair the “Thousand Islands” slept On road St. Laurence’s tranquil tide; As Queenlight lay far famed Chamalain Einbosamed ’mid her mountains vast, As fairy like rapt Music’s strain O’er Seneca’s calm bosom past ; As proudly Mississippi rushed Right onward to his ocean bed ; As sweetly dewy morning blushed, Where Hudson his blue walers spread; Yes! Beateous was our much-loved land. From Plymouth’s rock to Sable's strand. But to the eye where lurks the glow, That’s kindled at the Soule’s dread lire. When the proud knee is forced to bow Beneath oppression's mandates dire. What matter if the sun looks bright Upon a thousand beauties round ’ Dimmed is the pure, the peerless light. In Liberty’s high Temple found ; And round its sacred altar stand Where every knee should freely bow— The red ranks of a foreign land, Guarding its fa int, expiring glow, With wrathtul looks, as if they fear Some dauntless hand will yet draw nigh. To light anew the flame so dear, Or by its waning splendor die. And see ! behind the altar kneeling. Where day’s declining beam is stealing, Like eagle cow’ring 'neath the storm Which his bold wing no more can brave, Fair Freedom’s self—her singing form Is seen beside an open grave, Dug by th’ Invaders swords to hide Her glory in its vioceless gloom, When Tyranny, with mocking pride, Should seal her fated children’s doom- Crushed is her amaranthine crown. And dimmed the lustre of th it eye. Whose light led Roman Brutus on. Fearless to conquer or to die. Ah, Freedom! in this mighty land, The Stab wrested from the night of ages By him whose high, heroic hand, Enrolled its name on Time’s vast pages. Thou once didst fondly ho]>e l > raise A Temple, whose foundation sure (Os every age the boast and praise,l Should to earth’s latest hour endure. Vain hope ! for even in this clime, Over whose virgin, dazzling brow. So lightly moved the wing of Time, It seemed as if its beauty now, Fresh from creation’s fingers burst, Nor felt, as yet, earth’s doom accurst. Even HERE the Oppressor’s voice is heard. Even HC«K is felt his withering sway— While the sort’s deepest founts are stirred. And madentiing pulses wildly play Beneath the galling chains t, at rest. Disgraceful on the free-hom breast. THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN BANNER. “Wait, wait," the enraptured Goddess cries, “I’d weave for you a banner bright, Whose folds beneath Columbia’s skies Shall ever prove a Beacon light To all, whose struggling, sinking bark— Is wildly tossed upon that sea, Whose treacherous waters chill and dark. Bear the fell name of Tyranny. To guide them o’er its whelming wave. Where Tyranny has found a grare — In this unrivalled, glorious Land.” With kindling eye and eager hand Her altar’s spotless d rapery She took, and on her bended knee She dipped it in her children’s gore,— Her flowing Veil in “Stripes” she tore, And from the dazzling crown she wore. She caught each “Star Gem” flashing bight Then from the rich braids of her hair (As bright as morning sunbeams are) She plucked some threads of purest gold. And wove them both crimsoned fold. "This i» Columbia’s Flag or Light,” She cried in loud, exulting tone, And thine oh ! peerless Washington. Thine is the hand this Flag to hold— For thine the sori, to guard its fold Ah! once in Erin’s lovely Isle Fair Freedom's Temple reared its head. While streaming from the sacret pile— Its source her ever radiant smile— A brilliant light was shed Over those sunny vales tha' lie. Beneath Hibernia’s weeping sky; And warmed by that ennobling light Proud Science opened his wonderous page. Yes ! when the clouds of mental night. Hung o’er the world, Hibernia’s sage It secrets scanned with kindling eye, And waved aloft the torch whose gleam. Bright as the sun-god’s noonday beam, Can never, never die. But now .that Temple prostrate lies, And the lone night-wind’s fitful sighs Around the broken altars stealing Awakes the Patriot’s saddest feeling. But, oh ! within those ruins dark. Amid that desolation dire. Glows yet a faint but living spark Os Liberty’s celestial fire; And by that pale and trembling light. Hibernia her sad watch has kept. While age on age. in rapid flight. Has o'er her beauteous island swept; And still beside that sacred fire. Heart-sick she yet her vigil keeps. While o'er the chords of her sweet lyre. Her hand in fitful fancy sweeps, And wakes such tender, burning strains. That floating o’er the emerald'plains. They reach the spirits inmost cells. While high the patriot /errer swells. Mammoth Strawberries. —The cab i bages of California are famous for their ! size; they have had their day in items ' ' The Sacramento Union is now giving ! California strawberries a turn. It chroni cles a basket of big ones that was held ■ before the editor on Wednesday. It says: “The largest specimen of the many presented is of the shape of a tig leaf, and measures exactly six inches in circumfer ence latitudinally, and five and a half inches longitudinally. This is by far the most enormous strawberry we have ever seen or even heard of, and we challenge ! the world to produce its equal. Only I think of a strawberry measuring over half j a foot in circumference Other speci mens in the basket, of pine-apple shape, measure from three to five inches in cir ' cumference, and ten of the largest weigh , ‘one quarter of a pound.’ These huge ■ ’ samples of our most luscious fruit were • raised in the famous garden of A. P. Smith, on the American river, three miles above I Sacramento.” ... The British government are about voting ’ money to assist in the establishment of free pub lic, libraries in Ireland. [A'rowi the Vollimbus Times d A'en/<n<>/.] LETTER FROM HON- ROBERT TOOMBS ON KNOW NOTHINGISM. Bosion, Mass., .June tith, Dear Sir :—More than time weeks ago, in compliance with my promise, L wrote to you, giving my opinions of the new political organization, commonly known as •‘Know Nothings," oi the American party. I did not learn until I reached Augusta, on my way here, that you had not received it. If it should yet come to hand, I wish you to publish it, as it was much fuller and more carefully pre pared exposition of my opinions than this letter can be. 1 shall embark to-day for Liverpool, and, for want of time, must confine myself to a very brief statement, rather than an argument on the sebject. Mv first objection to the New Party is one independent of its principles. 1 am opposed to it because it is a xecref po litical society. Society has a right to know the men, and the principles, and the policy of the men, who seek to direct its affairs and control its destiny. Public ity is the life-blood of a representative Republic. 'Without it, public liberty must soon perish, and no necessity, short of that which would justify revolution, can justify the surrender of this great securi ty of popular government. All party as sociations are constantly liable to be used by the cunning, the unprincipled and en terprising members for the promotion of personal objects rather than the public interests, and it needs no argument to prove that secrecy greatly increases this tendency and facilitates the accomplish ment of such unworthy ends. Secrecy is | the natural covering of fraud, the natural error and the enemy of truth. The pa triots who framed our constitution gave it a La tai blow, by provisions which secure the freedom of speech and the liberty of I the press. This objection of the New Party de ' rives additional force from the obligation ; which is said to be imposed upon the ap > plieant for admission, that he will carry out its decrees whether his judgment ap proves them or not. If this be true, it is a surrender of the dearest rights of free men, and is a crime against society. My next objection to the American par ty is, that it proposes, in some way. to in vade the rights of conscience, or to call men in question for the free exercise there ' of. lam opposed to all religious tests of every sort and for every purpose. Our ■ constitution protects us against the putting of such tests upon the statnte book, but i the principle is founded on truth and | justice, and ought to be the rule of the individual action, as well as of the public conduct of every citizen. Centuries of unavailing persecution taught our fathers the folly, as well as the wickedness, of at j tempting to control men’s consciences by ’. penal statutes, or civil disabilities ; they, therefore, put the sting of disability into the temptation to disgrace our statute book with this sort of legislation. We will de- ■ feat their noble objects, in part at least, j by enacting a different rule in the exercise : of our political rights. It is charged that the Roman Catholic polity is cruel, intolerant and despotic.—- The charge is not wholly unfounded. If ! it be true, it is greatly to be condetned 1 and deplored, and, above all things, we i should avoid imitating their vices, and ; thereby justly subjecting ourselves to this ! great condemnation. We can neithercon ' quer nor eradicate the vices of Romanism ! whatever they may be, by imitating them, !or by persecution. The world has tried these remedies for centuries past, and tried them in vain Let us rather oppose her with kindness, her intolerance with free toleration, (in substance as well as form) her despotism with freedom, and then we ! may reasonably look for different and bet ! ter results. The moment that the simple . yet sublime truth, got itself acknowledged by our government, that the citizen is re sponsible to the State for his civil conduct, but to God only for his religious faith, the unholy bonds which unite the church to the State were broken, persecution for con science sake became impossible here, and religious toleration entered upon its career of universal dominion. Its first great tri umph was to strike the fetters from the consciences of Ir sh Roman Catholics. It has begun a similar good work for the Protestants in Spain and Sardinia, and for the Greek in Turkey, and it will go on “conquering and to conquer,” until the Demon of persecution—blind, deaf and stupid—shall have no more abiding i place upon the face of the earth. The naturalization laws arc greatly com plained of by the American Party. I think them founded on just principles, and are. in the main, wise and good laws. To naturalize an intelligent foreigner of good moral character, and attached to free gov ernment, and the principles of our consti tution, and who has resided among us long enough to test these qualifications, is a great benefit to the state, as well as to the individual who receives the high priv ilege. These are the conditions and safe guards which our laws seek to throw around the right of citizenship. These laws are, no doubt, frequently violated; they are, doubtless, imperfect, and do not fully effect the objects intended by them. Let all proper additions and amendments, necessary to carry out these objects, be made, and then let the law be faithfully administered, and these things can be done without the aid of secret societies. There is another objection to this party, which should put it under the ban of Southern opinion. We have had a great struggle, for the last six years, upon an j intensely exciting sectional issue. This issue has been settled by the wisdom of the representatives of the people. This • issue found its solution in the legislation • of 1850 and 1854 The peace and safety 1 ! of the Republic demand that this legisla !. tion should not only be undisturbed, but '■ vigorously upheld by the nation. The » American Party, in the north, whenevei J ; it has had power, has shown the most vig i orous hostility to this legislation. The ..Know Nothings of Massachusetts hav< attempted to nullify it, and have shown : ; total disregard of their publ : .z oaths, ant therefore, are wholly incapable of giving any pledge, open or secret, that a man of honesty ought to accept Political asso ciation with these men is moral complici ty with their crimes The true policy of thesotith is to unite ; to lav aside all party divisions; Whigs, Democrats and Know Nothings should come to-gether, and combine for their common safety. If we are wise enough . to do this, to present one unbroken eol - umn of fifteen States united for the pres-! ervation of their own rights, the constitu-. tion and the Union, and to uphold and support that noble band of patriots, at the i North, who have stood for the constitution I and the rights against the tempest of fa-! naticism, folly and treason which has as- ’ sailed them, we shall succeed. We shall then have conquered a peace which will be enduring, and by means which will not | invite further aggression. I am, very respectfully, Your ob’t servant, R. TOOMBS. Coi,. T. Lomax, Editor Times & Sentinel, Columbus Georgia PATERNITY OF THE KNOW NOTHING CHIEF. note from cot.. tHOMas. Elberton, GEo:,9th .June, 1855. * Editor of tn. .Savannah Republican ■ Dear Sir : I see in the last weekly i Chronicle ft- Sentinel un extract from a let-; ter published in your paper, in which I > ’ am reported assaying in Augusta, on Mon-' day night the 28th May, “that it was sus ceptible of proof in a court of justice, that' the chief officer of the Know Nothings in Georgia was the son of an Irishman, who who was sold to pay his passage .to this country. What I did say, ! to the best of my recollect : on, was literal- ; jly this: “lam told it is susceptilde q/J proof in a court of justice, that the father : of one of the head Know Nothings in Gear- \ j ;/ia was an Irishman, and was sold to pay i \ h<spassage to this country’’— adding as | correctly observed by the Chronicle <1- • ! course I know nothing of the i \ facts myself." I am positively certain I said nothing ; about any “chief officer, ’’ for I never heard ! even a who the chief officer i is. I should like very much to know. I 1 was certainly informed as above stat ed, and if any gentleman feels that he is entitled, under, the description, “one of the head K,now Nothings,’’ to call for an explanation, I will prove “the truth of what I said, or take it back. I did not intend it as a slur on any one’s I lineage, but only as a reason why we j should be kindly disposed towards Irish- i men, instead of persecuting them; for ! they are the near kith and kin of many of us. I also said on the saineoccasion, that of one would never hide myself, in a back room in the dark hours, to defend those ! rights, and liberties against foreigners, i which my ancestors had wrested j from foreigners sword in hand on the bat | tic field, —and I believe in this short let | ter you have a pretty full report of all I J did say. 1 did not dream that I was putting the | “chief of the Know Nothings in danger,” j and to relieve bis fears, please say to him 'if you know him, that I have nothing against him, and would not barm a hair of his head for the world. As an act of justice, please publish this ; note V’ery respectfully, Titos. W. Thomas. Why Don’t Lawyers Advertise. — ■ We ask the membe.s of the bai why their business cards arc not found in our jour nals? Apropos to the question—wc saw a paragraph in a Virginia paper the other day to this effect: A gentleman went to a printing office to examine an exchange paper, coming from a place some fifty or I one hundred miles distant, with the view i to discover the name of some lawyers there to whom he wished to confide the trans- j action of some business matters of pressing; importance. After running his eyes care fully over the paper, he laid it aside and remarked—“ Well, 1 can’t find the name of a single Attorney in the paper ; and . any member of the profession at the place < alluded to, could have obtained a fee of fifty dollars from me by having a card in that paper, and I would have paid the amount rather than take the trip at this particular time.” Later from Liberia—Advices from; Monrovia to the 13th of April state that; President Roberts, accompanied by a party of 75 men, had gone on a visit to Cape; Mount, to commence a new there. Each man received 88 from the . government. Mr. David Moore, one of the most re- > spectable residents of Monrovia, died on the 4th of March. Mrs. Brown, wife of Rev. George S. Brown, died on the 18th of March, Mr.; Brown is now on a visit to the T’nited States. Latest from Sevastopol.—Another Sanguinary Battle. —A postscript to a letter from a prominent merchant in Liv erpool, addressed to Messrs. Duncan, Sher man & Co., dated Saturday, May 26, states ‘ that a telegraph despatch had just been posted in the Liverpool Exchange, stating that a serious engagement had taken place' on the day previous, in front of Sebastopol i between the Russians and allies. The fight was a long and bloody one, a large number of troops being engaged ; and af ter a heavy loss on both sides, the battle terminated in the decisive success of the allies. We have no notice of this battle from any other source.—-V. Y. Tribune, June 9. .... The Knoxville Whig has an account Os some exceedingly rich specimens of copper ore recently discovered in Blount county, Tenn. .... A Whig Stale Convention for nominating Governor, &c. is to be held in Maine on the 28th insant. Uli tJelegrnpl). Seven Days Later From Europe. , ARKIYAL OF THE ATLANTIC- COTTON ADVANCED HALFPENNY. New York, June 12. The steamer Atlantic has arrived with one week's later advices from Europe. Milligan’s Circular says the War nows is important. Liverpool Market— Cotton.— There was an active speculative demand, and pri ces had advanced half-penny. The sales of the week reach one hundred and fifty two thousand five hundred bales, of which eighty-one thousand five hundred bales were on speculation, and five thousand for exportation. The sales on Friday were twenty thousand bales, half of which were to the trade. The stock in port was five hundred and twenty-nine thousand bales including three ! hundred and thirty-two thousand of Amer ican Bread-stuffs, generally, were unchanged ; and closed dull. Provisions were, steady •it a slight advance. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The allies had taken Kertch, on the ; ■ ! straits between Azoff and the Black Sea. ; > Also the Russian camp on Tcherneya. 1 , On the night of the 22d and 23d j; i the French drove the Russians from an ', important position before Sevastopol, call-1 1 ed Place Dearmee. The killed and!, Wounded on both sides amount to eight I, j thousand. The French retained the posi- ) ; tion. ! The allies seized and retained the Rus- : j sian line of defences of the Tchernaya with j i scarcely a battle. The Russian retreated ' ; to the hills. A secret expedition, composed of twen- ; ity men and fourteen steamers, took the ! ‘ fortress of Kerch The Russians blew up ■ ; their own Magazines on both sides of the ■ i Strait, sunk four steamers, thirty trans- j ! ports and destroyed half a million sacks | ' of breadstuff's. The allies now have fourteen steamers j in the Sea of Azoft'. The allies destroyed the Russian maga-1 sines at the inland town of Arabat, the ] shot, shell and foundry near Kerch, a gar-j rison near Sevastopol, and drew most of ; ■ the supplies from the Sea of Azoff'. The fall of Kertchand its occupation by j ' the allies will have a speedy influence up- ’ | on the siege It was rumored at Paris that Peliasier | had attacked and routed Liprandi, that 1 Canrobert and other French generals were ’ wounded. The allies have completed the fourth ; parllel and the British were mounting | heavy guns upon it. The Venna Conference has not been re- i opened It was rumored that England and France had refused the proposition of Aus tria. Re-inforcement were daily arriving at Constantinople. The Sardinia Contin gent landed iff excellent condition and well supplied with the material of war. Large convoys had entered Sebastopol The Russians were vigorously erecting ! defences on the north side of the Bal ‘ tic. _ ', It was reported at 1 lautzic that the first I division of Russian gun boats had moved |, in the direction of Riga. • | ( The French squadron had sailed from j j Keil. The English squadron was last re-1. ported at Nargin. , A British Steamer boarded an Ameri- j. can Ship and found by her bills of lading ! , that she had just discharged thirty thou-j sand rifles and ten thousand revolvers in I j I a Russian port. It is rumored that the Grande Duke I, ! Constantine had resigned the Command of j , j the Russian Navy, and that the peace | ( I party of St. Petersburg is in the ascend-1 ent. The British East India Fleet would J, rendezvous in Japan, and then proceed to ; the Russian settlements northward. It! ! is said that Belgium would furnish twen- !. i ty thousand men. FROM CHINA. The Shanghai insurgents are making l such advances in the interior as to lead to j the belief that it might affect the export | trade of Shanghai. i Canton was threatened with famine, i Bombay letters state that a formidable; English expedition was aboutto commence ‘ ; offensive operations against Shay of Per- i I sin. SAILING OF THE PACIFIC. i The Pacific sailed to-day with over a! I million and a half in tpecie. KNOW NOTHING CONVENTION. Philadelphia, June 12. ; The Know Nothing Platform Commit ; tee reported two Pla.forms. The majori 'ty declares that the American party are not responsible lor the past legislation, and that the best guarantee for peace is to i abide by existing laws—that Congress has ■ no right to legislate on slavery, or exclude any slave State from the Union, and that i interference with slavery in the District of Columbia would be a violation of the com-1 pact with Maryland and Virginia. The minority resolutions declare that ' ; the Nebraska act is an infraction of the I i plighted faith, and should jbe re-1 ’ j pealed, and that no new State tolerating I ! I slavery, formed of any portion of that, ’ I territory, should be admitted into the I ! l Union. New York, June 18. | The Know Nothings of New Hampshire , have elected John P. Hale United States! i Senator. f LATER FROM MEXICO, e! New Orleans, June 12. The steamer OrizabaJ has with g advices from Mexico to the 2d inst. h Santa Anna had taken possession of ! Sonoria, which the insurrectionists left on PROPRIETOR NUMBER 43. his approach. The fugitives were pursued and routed, and 2000 prisoners taken Santa Anna returned to Morelia on the 21st, and left on the 23d for Rio Comfort with 2500 men. Several smaller bands of revolutionists have been routed hy government troops. The Empire City arrived from Havana wtih dates to the II th. Her news is unimportant. CHARLESTON COTTON MARKET. Charleston, June 13. The sales to-day were only 300 hales, at 11J to 12J cents. The market has l>een inactive.— Operators are waiting the Atlantic’s accounts. THE STEPHENiToF KENTUCKY, The lion. W. Preston the able Clay Whig representative of the Lousisville, (Ky.,) District, in the last Congress, has written the following letter to the Louis ville Times. It was called out ty the urgent request of a large and intelli gent constituency that he would canvass the District, in opposition to Hon. Hum phrey Marshall, the candidate of the Know Nothings. Showing as it does that the Conservative Whigs of Kentucky have taken the same ground as their political friends of Georgia, it hits surpassing in terest : — Sar. Giorgian. Louisville, June 1, 1855. To the Editors of the Daily Eouisrille Times: Gentlemen: Many friends, irrespec tive of party, knowing my views to be op posed to the organization and policy of the know nothings, have warmly urged me to become a candidate for re-election to Con gress from this district. I have stated that I would consider the proposition and give them an answer by the first of June. After reflecton upon the subject, I do not think 1 am the appropriate person to make the canvass, and therefore decline the in vitation. The old whig party by which I was se lected is disbanded. A new organization which proposes to introduce questions of religious belief as criterions for office and to repeal the naturalization laws under which wc have lived from the beginning of our government, with the single excep tion of the federal interregnum under Ad ams, when they were extended to fourteen years, has arrayed itself in the field ot politics. In addition, we find that the new party maintains an ominous silence in relation to the rights of the Southern States which should till every patriotic heart with fear. I have ever been, and yet am inflexibly opposed to such princi ples. The' regularly nominated democratic ticket is the only opponent in the field against this new party. It is clear that it cannot achieve success unless, as in Vir ginia, by the aid of honest and fearless Southern whigs, who will not be absorbed in secret fraternities, and who desire no ambiguous alliance with northern know nothings. Their aid has given the first check to this new party, and annihilated its prestige ot victory. But with these facts before us, it cannot be concealed that the main body of the opponents of the know-nothings is composed of democrats. It is natural they should desire their can didate not only to be the representative of their sentiments upon the topics, in oppo sition to the know-nothings, but also to coincide with them upon the general poli cy of the democratic party, and to yield aequiesence upon the issues of the past.— I do not mean to say that this would be required as the terms of support, but I have heard it suggested as requisite to con centrate the full energy of opposition.— Indeed it has been intimated that an ac quiescence in the policy of the democratic administration might be necessary to give force and coherence to the movement.— Standing in the attitude I occupy, I could only consent to make the nice as an inde pendent candidate, free from all pledges whatever. For these reasons, 1 am convinced thal in order to achieve success and com bine the party, it is better for the demo cracy to select a candidate from their own ranks, and intrust to him the advocacy o 1 their cause. For my own part, my beliel is decided that the know nothing move inent is as transient as its growth has beer sudden. As between the democracy an< itself, my choice is quickly made ; but I feel that I best consult my own dignit) and relieve myself from all suspicions o unworthy motives, if, at the same tim that I avow my determination to suppoi: the principles of the party, 1 decline it honors. All that I ask is to sustain b my vote the wise, great, and nobly liber:; principles upon which I know the repub lie is founded, and by the faithful obsei vance of which I am profoundly consciou the social repose and political prosperity < the nation can alone be secured. Permit me to return my to those friends, both whigs and democrat who have so generally offered to give n their warm support. I remain with respect, W. PRESTON. Another Weapon of War.—o '•< Bee says that a gentleman in Ipswich 1 invented a machine which is capable > . throwing, with great force one hundi cannon balls in a minute ; and this with • the use of powder or any other explo; agent. Contrigual motion is the pri: pie by which the power is obtained, : i the inventor is confident that the inst ■; ment would be very efficacious in repel! • assaults, defending forts, and in throv red hot shot at a vesse.l or into a towi i llbwA/fr Tibgraph. .... Buckingham Smith, the new ■ retary of Legation to Spain, is said t< lan accomplished Spanish scholar, \ I great tact and experience as a dipl<> | having been Secretary of Legation to . ico under Mr. Letcher, and for a \, ... performed the duties of the Minisb i > the entire satisfaction of his govern:. 4<sy Different sounds travel with dis. velocity. A call to dinner will run a ten-acrc lot in a minute and a half, a summons to work will take from 1 ten minute.