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THE .VI. VVI'A WEEKLY EXAMIAER. -*xr TRIT; TC t . CIRCULiATIONT OF* THE EJ 3sL .A. JXZT I JXT ES EL, 8000 JOHN 11. STEELE. ) ..... CHAS. L. BARBOUR, f KdltOrf ' VOLUME 1. TZESJFLJMDS. THE WEEKLY “EXAMINER,” s Published every Friday Morning, at Two Dol k lars per annum,payable in advance. No Hubscription taken for less than six months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Advertisements continuing three months or more are charged at the following rates: 1 Square 3 months $4 00 I « 6 “ 600 1 « 12 “ 10 00 2 « 3 “ 600 2 “ 6 “ 10 00 2 « 12 “ 15 00 3 “3 “ 8 00 3 « 6 “ 12 00 3 « 12 “ 20 00 4 « 3 “ 10 00 4 “ 6 . “ 15 00 4 •• 12 “ 25 00 i Col’n 3 “ 15 00 . 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Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administra tors, Executors or Gurdians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lic gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to salc- Notices to the debtors and creditors of an es tate must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published for two months. Citations for‘letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must be published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly six 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 three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. 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 dismissory from Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, Notice to debtors and creditors. • 300 Sales of personal property, ten days, I square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, &.C. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, ® For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. FRIDAY. JULY 20, 1855. “FOR A FEW DAYS.” There are some things that remain fixed, and are as lasting as earth itself. There are others that have a fleeting existence, and last only “For a few days A few days,” as is written in a very popular song. For in stance, Truth is eternal, and principles based thereupon live forever. Errbr however prevalent and successful for a time, will cease to prevail, when Truth reaches the minds and hearts of men. This is so in Science, Politics, and Reli gion. Hence we have no fear of the success of that political cause which wo advocate, because of our confidence in the truth and vitality of its principles. Know Nothing-ism msy prevail tor a time and load men astray— Frce-soilism may tri umph, and set aside such men as Shields and Dodge—Abolition may erect its deformed head, and successfully mislead a fanatical multitude to wage relentless war upon the South and the Constitu tion—Mormonism may baptise its converts, and its votaries may practice their licentious orgies for a generation —but Truth will at last resume its sway, and of all these, it eventually will be writ ten, that they were in existence only “For a few days, A few days.” The “Declaration of American Independence." | and the principles therein embraced will live and influence popularsentiinentwhen all men, parties, I or individuals, pre driven into oblivion who dared to encroach thereon, or assume to obliterate any one of its great and undying truths! Every principle written upon our Constitution, us ■‘with a pen of iron, and the point a diamond." provi ding for religious toleration, and every line defini tive of the powers, severally, ot the States, and Federal Government, will find millions of advo cates in the South. when Know Nothingism is numbered with the part, the historian's record ; telling that it existed only “For a lew days, A few days.” It is gratifying to every reflecting man that uch is the inevitable result of error, and such the overwhelming power of truth, that it alwaysbegets its like, and is lasting. Error begets error, and from its very nature, destruction, or annihilation follows. For instance, intolerance in religion progresses. and its fruit must be still more intol erance. He who persecutes to-day. will be the pers-cuted to-morrow. Ought he. can he, expect anything etoe. It is the fruit of his own vine, watered and cultured by himself. How impor tant then is it. in politics and religion that we avoids rock so pregnant with mischief, and that of our principles it may not be written, that they had existence only, “For a few days A few days.” A bevy of a hundred Roman state priso ners are now’ making excavations among the ruins of Ostra, the old mouth and port of the Tiber, which have revealed a statue ot f ortune and some sculptures eommemorat ve of the ex ploits of Hercules. It is a dreary deaerted region but probaly contains some monuments of the past that may reward the labor of the search. :"F* The census taker found a woman in Ma <• ■ HI, N. Y.. 23 years old. mother of four chil dran. the oldest of whom is 12 years, next 8 third 3. laat 1. The eldest was of course born when the mother was twelve years old. John Kidwell has eloped from Pittsburgh with a girl way sen oH. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. We learn that the Convention, which assem. bled at Americus on Wednesday last, nominated Marain J. Cbawfobd, Esq, of this city, as the candidate of the Democratic party for Congres 8 in the Second District. THE SAVANNAH GEORGIAN. We find the following in the Savannah Repub lican of Wednesday last: “We learn from the Georgian of yesterday that Messrs. Hiram H. Perry and Benj. R. Dan iell have connected themselves with the editorial department of that payer. Mr. Daniell was for sometime one of the editors of the Atlanta Ex aminer, and is well posted in the political history of the times.” We should have noticed this addition to the editorial department of the “Georgian” ere now, had the number of that paper, containing the an nouncement, reached our office. It, however, af fords us great pleasure to do so, in onr present is sue. Benjamin R. Daniell, Esq., was one of the founders of this paper. He is not only an able and fearless writer, but as the Republican remarks, is well posted in the political history of the times. We gladly welcome him into the corps editorial, and I ave every confidence that the cause which the Georgian advocates will be promoted by his labors as a journalist. TEMPERANCE ’cONVENTION AT MARIETTA. We were not present at the Convention of the Temperance, or Prohibition Party, which assem bled at Marietta, on Wednesday last. An ob server, however, informs us that it was there re solved not to withdraw Mr. Overby’s name from before the people, as a candidate for Governor.— Between the advocates of Know Nothingism and Judge Andrews, and the Prohibitionists, much dissatisfaction prevailed—the former charging the latter with having defeated the prospects of their candidate. This, the Prohibitionists repelled with indignation, and declared a settled deter mination tostand by Overby to the last, be the consequences to the Know Nothings what they may. The dictatorial spirit of the latter was re pelled with firmness and decision, and the Over by cause triumphed. The best course for the Know Nothings to pursue, at the present crisis, and we would advise it, if they will take our ad vice, would be, to hold another Convention and advise Governor Johnson to withdraw from the Canvass. Judge Andrews would then stand some chance against Overby, but as things now appear, he will scarcely fill the Executive Chair of Georgia, the ensuing gubernatorial term. CONTEMPTIBLE. In the Republican of yesterday we find one of the grossest outrages of professional courtesy we have ever been pained to witness and which from respect to the parties alluded to, we feel constrained to notice. By reference to our issue of the 6th it will be seen that the following paragraph oc curs in our notice of the “Fourth of July in At lanta.” We give it as it stands in type, it having fortunately escaped distribution. In the evening, before the Trout House, and Atlanta Hotel, a fine display of Ftre WbrX-s, was witnessed by a large number of our citizens.— Great good humor, and hilarity prevailed, and but few indeed of the large number there assem bled, were incapable of navigating, notwithstand ing the ardent had been freely used by many of the over-joyful, from early dawn till night. In publishing the extract, the Republican with an unfairness that surprised not less than it pained us, substituted the word "capable" for the word incapable, which appeared in the original, thus destroying the whole sense of the article, and ma king us say what we never intended, and what was entirely untrue. We have no other com ment to make, further than to inform the Repub lican that the Examiner has two editors, and the problem ot übiquity which seems to affect him so much, is easily soluble, when it is considered the editors are not Siamese twins. KNOW NOTHING WITHDRAWALS. We have from time to time published extracts from private letters, announcing the withdrawal of numbers of members from different Lodges of the secret order, and we are gratified to perceive that such blow, so oft repeated, have made some d the opposition papers irrascible and sore.— One of them, the Southern Watchman, which for tho information of our Cherokee readers we will say, is a rampant Know Nothing sheet pub hlished at Athens, Georgia, has “pitched into” us, about an announcement recently made in our columns of the withdrawal of a large proportion of the members of the Lodge in Tuskeega, Ala. That announcement was made upon the author ity of a letter from a reliable gentlemen of that place, and we have every confidence in its truth, the assertion of the Watchman’s corres pondent to the “contrary notwithstanding.” We should hove taken no notice of this attack from such a source, but that we felt it due our correspondent to say that our confidence in his statement is not the least impaired, nor can it be by any ol the Watclunaa’s correspondents. As for the insinuation of -‘our reckless charac ter” and proclivity for “garbled extracts,” we have simply to say it is entirely untrue and com ing from any other source would be treated as such charges deserve. But under the peculiar circumstances, we would prefer seeing some home matters of lhe. Watchman settled, before we accord it the respect of engaging in an hon orable controversy with it. We shall not trouble our readers with further notice of the Watch- man. 1 j?” At Lyons a very important discovery has been recently, made, by a Petot, of a means of impregnating silk by a chemical process, with gold, silver, brass, or iron,so that it can be wo ven with perfect flexibility, and, and thus form, as it wore stulls of those metals. Permission has been given to place a specimen in the Universal Exhibition. ■ VW/oU’ Fever.— it is stated that yellow fiver ; and black vomit prevail aiumgst tile j troops a t 1 Puerto Principle, Cuba, to a fearful extent.— [ Some Spanish officers of rank had died, and : nighty-six soldiers were carried otT from Ist of! ’■iy to 20th June. Some mild cases have ad-j ‘"’ed on board the ships al Nuevitaa. ity. Under an old building in Burlington. I Vermont, several bottles of green currants were I found lately which were quite fresh. From-! inquiries, it was ascertained that the families I were in the habit of burying bottles of this fruit I in the cellar, and that these must tie at least thir | ty years old. 1“ You are very stupid, Thomas," said a conn try teacher to a little boy eight years old.** “You j are like a donkey, and what do they do to curs i them of stupidity!’* *• They feed them better, and • kick them leas," said the arch little urchin. Columbia, July 10.— The Passenge Cars on ihe Wilmington and Manchester Rail Road, were thrown off the track last night at Fair Bluti'. in consequence of timber having been intention ally placed across it. Fortunately, howeveer, no njury was sustained by any one. Judge O.H. Kitu. — A letter receiv ed iu this city yesterday from Red Clay Whitefield eouuty, Ila. states that Judge I Kenan is not dead, as has been reported, iHe is better as to his bodily health, but lin mind has not improved. -—Sat. Mor. UViwK “ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON ISsLEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.’’— Jefferson. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1855. ERROR AND HUMBUG. When error is persisted in, the truth having been presented to correct it, misrepresentation is then the proper term to apply, and it being wil ful, a moral turpitude is the consequence from ■ which good men will alwajs shrink. In this cat egory political journalists ana speakers, are, we regret to say it, too often placed. To a stricter accountability all such should be helu by the public, otherwise we see no remedy for the evil. A short time since, we attended a public dis cussion, and were surprised to hear the charge advanced that the foreign born Catholics of the j United States, owed allegiance to the Pope of Rome, to the exclusion of their sworn allegiance I to this, their adopted country. Repeatedly as j this charge has been confuted; in the face of the published proceedings of a convocation of | Reverend Prelates of the Catholic Church, giving I positive denial to the charge, and proclaiming to 1 the world its falsity; it is yet raked up here and | there to mislead and prejudice the minds of hon"[ est men. We ask is this fair ?—is it honorable 1 | But more, a large popular assemblage is ad dressed, and gravely told that Washington, in j his farewell address, advised his countrymen to ‘ beware of “foreign influence,” and that this means nothing less than that they must beware of citizens of foreign birth and Catholics! All candid men must admit that such a thought, when he penned those lines, never entered Wash ington’s head. “Foreign influence” with him, was the influence of foreign Governments,- of the crowned heads of all Europe ; of potentates and kings, who. jealous of the growth of this Re public, and the advance Os republican principles, were, and would be, intriguing for their overthrow- It is detracting from the reputation of the illus trious Washington, and insulting to his memory’ to claim that he was warning his fellow-citizens against foreign born citizens of the United States —men, aye, patriots, who had either been driven by the oppressor from a distant land, to take ref uge on our shores; or voluntarily came hither, for reverence and attachment to our institutions.— Side by side with him in the revolutionary strug gle, were LaFayette, DeKalb, Pulaski and of all our Irish citizens, it was a “household word," that a tory could not be found amongst them.— Washington never forgot this. But of all the clap traps that have ever been advanced to gull an audience, the one contained in the proposition, “if Irishmen should wish to rule Ireland, why should not Americans rule Amearica,” beats creation. Barnum’s Fejee bier maid is thrown in the shade as a hambug, compared to this; and his Baby show is no where. In the name of all that is patriotic, who has ruled from the days of ’76, but Americans; and who denies the right which they claim to do this thing! Does th? Irishman who has sworn allegiance to the United States! Does any one ! What then is the force of the propo sition ! That a party, faction, clique, cr indi vidual, is opposed to America being governed by Americans !! —a proposition having not a particle of truth to sustain it. As for “Irishmen | ruling Ireland” would to God they could do so. I The Government, then, of that oppressed Isle ■: would approach nearer to our own, than what it | now does. And we feel confident that its stat-1 ute books would never be disgraced with enact- i ments restrictive of liberty of speech, conscience, i or the press. It, however, by “Americans ruling America” ! we are to understand Know Nothings ruling it, upon principles embraced in their Philadelphia Platform, we, in the name as we believe of a large majority of the American people, beg leave to enter our protest. We recognise no man as American in principle, who is opposed to Ameri can principles. The mere accident of birth does not make the patriot. He who opposes Whig j principles cannot be a Whig—he who opposes I republican, or democratic principles, can neither be a republican nor democrat—and he who op poses American principles; the principles of the American Declaration of Independence, and of | Republicanism embraced in the Constitution, I cannot be an American at heart, bom, though lie j may have been, in the heart of our own State I Will anyone deny the proposition! If not aw ay then with all this humbuggery of “Amer" icans ruling America”; the Dutch. Holland < the French, France ; or “the Irish, Ireland”. It is humbug of too common a stamp to catch the most ignorant, and will never do in the latitude of Georgia. . i For the Examiner. Xlggrr Baby,"or B. B. Party. This dark specimen of Political human- i ity has already caused some persecution, i proscription, and unfriendly feeling among ! men, but no one has yet undertaken the ! solution of the Black Problem. The facts of the case are these :—Be tween “Sam” and the fugitives, there was a certain “Nigger Baby’’ come to light in the North ; and with the paterni ty of which “Sam" was well pleased, but j with it* sooty hue, he was rather mortified, i The abolitionists, however, all kissed the thing without hesitation and pronounced | it a tit citizen for Kansas. To give his little black “ varmint" ai better start in the world, “Sam” took it | to a Catholic Priest for Church ordination, j and through that sacred channel, to polit-j ical recognition ; but when the Priest saw its color, he intimated that the brat might! be a fugitive slave ; and if so it would be rank injustice, to Mr. South—its owner,! to bestow on it all the rights, and prerog tives of a free citizen “Sam” has given that poor Priest particular thunder ever since. But when “Sam commenced his Southern Tour, he found it advisable to keep his offspring in the dark, excepting the occasional use of a small dark lantern when the baby was out of fix. On his ar rival in Virginia, Wise and others re .ed to kiss the little black cub in the dark, intimating that it might be a black j baby. This fired “Sam’s’’ greatest in- 1 I dignation ; hence the unrelenting perse-! eution and prosciption against Wise and all others who will not kiss his little I flat-nose darkey in the dark. All the fuss w about “Sam’s Nigger Baby.” And even some Southerners occasionally meet, between two days to nurse the black ras cal. Some mischievious wag has called j “Sam’s” friends the Blind-Bridle Party; ! and another has unkindly called them !the Black-Baby or B. B party. P. Y. M. Later from California. I New York, July 10.—The steamer J Illinois, from Aspinwall, arrived this even- I ing, bringing 450 passengers, and 8830 613 in gold. The Illinois connected with the Golden ! Golden Gate, which left San Fraacisco on i the evening of the 16th, passed the Gol i den Age on the 23d of June, and the * same day found the steamer Pacific at I Acaputco bound up, their passengers all in I good health. ! The sloop-of-war John Adams, was at i Panama on the 30th ult. . The steamer Eldorado, from Havana, I arrived at Aspinwall on the 29th ult I The rainy season was prevailing on the I Isthmus with much severity. i The Panama Railroad Company had re- I duced the wages of their laborers, and a I large number struck, who were joined by | some mechanics, machinists, on account l of the with the food furnish ■ ed - The United States ship Independence was at Parta on the 15th of June, but in i consequence of dispatches from Lima, sailed for Callao to enforce the settlement of the question between the United States Representative and the Government rela tive to the detention of the captain of the American vessels John Cummins. From Chili.—Dates from Chili have been received to the 31st of May. Con gress was to meet next week ; cattle were dying for want of pasture. From Peru.—Dates from Peru state i that an outbreak between the friends I of Castillo and Elias was anticipated. From Australia.—We have dates from Melborne to the 23d of April. The mining accounts are very satisfactory— The amount of gold shipped from Mel borne for the week ending April 21st was valued at nearly a million and a half of j dollars. The market are but little changed.— Gallego and Ha vail Flour was selling at £l6 per 2,000 lbs. Ikiiow Nothings Piety. The first clause solemnly acknowledges the existence of an “Almighty Being who rules the Universe,” which until we saw that confession of faith we suppose was acknowledged everywhere by all men and parties and factions—by the American party even, until this manifestation of a solicitude to show to the world that, what ever it maybe, it is not atheistical. This is an instance of overdoing a thing, of overacting a part; for this solemn annun- ' ciation seems to be as much the child j of hypocrisy as the child of religion. Why i assert so solemnly and so formally what' nobody would have questioned if they had j been silent, unless sacred things are to be i invoked for unhallowed purposes, or un less conscience, which makes cowards of all men, was not smiting then and there the know nothing oracles? The draughts man of that ’first clause must be a reader of Shakespeare, we think, and had in his mind that celebrated police officer Cap tain Dogberry, who, in Much Ado About Nothing, says some things singular co incidental with the first clause of the . platform: “ Dogb. Masters do you serve God? “ Con. Bora. Yea sir, we hope. “Dogb. Write down—they hope they serve God- -and write trod first; for God defend but God should go before such villians!” So the platform-makers wrote God first!! and, like Conrade and Borachio, would j' fain make the world believe they serve I ( him also. Turkey mid her Allies. An American in France writes as fol* < lows, to his friend in Washington : ■ dating from Paris on the 21st of June. ' “ The French army of reserve, as it i was called, that was near Constantinople, has been forwarded to Sevastopol, but a i new army of reserve will be sent imfnedi- i ately from France consisting of 45,000 to ! i 50,0v0 men, which will be entrenched; ■ near Constantinople, and will not be sent I ■ to Sevastopol, except in case of great ire- ] cessity. ' i “To show how great are the exertions i of Russia, it is now said that they have ' ' by the most incredible exertions so far i advanced with a Railroad from Moscow to 1 Perekop that it will be completed and in ' i full and in full operation by the autumn, i This will enable them to pour into the | ; I Crimea soldiers and supplies without lim- 1 I it. The French are so well aware of this ! . that they are fortifying Kamieschand will. require years to complete. These strnc- : tures are intended for defence and protec tion as well as for accommodations for' troops and material holding the European t I coast of Turkey, whilst the English may ! take the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. — ! I England will hereafter the regret alliance , i with France, as’it|hus notonly estrangedher, from the other great European Powers.' i but has and will injure her greatly in other; j ways. •‘All agree that the Turks are fully con- j 1 vinced that they never again will be the i ! master of “Stramboul,” as they called I I the city of Constantine. They decidedly ’ ' prefer the Russians as rulers, and those I returning from thence say they shall not i be at all surprised if in the course of a I year the Turks should be on the side • of Russia and the Allies forced to en entrench themselves. The stronghold oft the latter will be at Constantinople, which being open to them on the sea, could nev er be taken, nor could Kamiesch, and! perhaps one or two other point* on the I Black Sa. which would in like manner be strongly fortified and held by them.— 1' Strange results may grow out of the un natural alliance of France and England with the bitter and eternal enemy of the I Christian religion.” Halifax, July 10.—The Royal Artil ■ j lery, in garrison here, have been ordered i for the Crimea. r l The Foreign Legion, enlisted princi 1' pally iu the United States, at Melville Is -1 land, have revolted and complain very • I strongly of having been deceived. A 1 ; strong force of the 76th Regiment have i been sent to quell the mutiny, and to I bring the ringleaders to the Citadel Gov. Johnsen n1 Coliintbu*. ■ j We have been permitted by one of our I most intelligent citizens and firmest Dem | ocrats to whom it was addressed, to pub i lish the following letter from a respected | friend in Columbus —NarannaA Geor- I gian. Columbus, July 7. I Dear Sir: Gov. Jphnson was welcom ied here this morning, at the temperance I Hall, by one of the largest, most intelli* gent, and most enthusiastic audiences j I have ever seen assembled in this ; place. i Gov. J. spoke for two hours and a half, and was listened to upon all the questions which he discussed with unwearying in terest and attention. He entered into a full and minute analysis of the Columbus Movement, the Philadelphia Platform, and the resolutions of the Convention of rfhe sth of June. He showed that the Democratic platform was the only one of the two upon which the South could be united, her rights maintained, and the Union saved. This was the main effort of his speech, and he proved very conclusively that on this platform, and on this only, could the people of the South maintain their, equality in the Union. He discussed at I large the Catholic and foreign questions I as advocated and set forth in the Plat- I form, said that both were anti-American I in principle, and could not be sustain- j ed. . I have never before heard a speech; I which told so favorably on the opposition, j All parties agree that it was the ablest i speech which has ever been made in this I place. Gov. J.'s argument has unsettled j the faith of many a hitherto unwavering i K. N., and those who doubted are now i steadfast in the Democratic faith. I have never heard a speech so entirely : satisfactory in all its points and eonclu-1 sion’s. It was delivered ina calm, dispas- | sionate manner, without abuse, and yield- , ingtoallthe same patriotic impulses which he claimed for himself. Several K. N.’s, after the speech, de-1 clared their intention to vote for Gov. J., and as a anatter of course, dissolve their connection with the Order. Others say that if Judge Andrews cannot satisfy them in regard to the objections which were made by Gov. J. to the platform, they will withdraw. You may rest assured that Gov. J. will lose no strength, but gain over his last vote. After supper the Hall was again filled ; to hear Ramsay, of Harris, and Hall of I Macon. Both made tine speeches, which I were most enthusiastically cheered by the audience. We shall give the Know Noth- , ings a hard fight in Muscogee, if we do i not fairly whip them out in the end. Be ; vigilant and active, and my word for it.; our old friends will and leave the Order, I and return to the Democratic fold before I the election is over. Your truly. [From the European Times, Jun, 29.] I London ScUuylvrlllnv. An event has occurred itr London this week, which cannot fail to have a serious influence on the character of the existing banking establishments, and to cause a painful feeling of doubt and alarm in the public mind throughout the empire. At 217 in the Strand a banking establishment has long existed, conducted by Messrs. Strahan, Paul & Bates, which has smashed under circumstances more suspicious than the worst bubble company. Warrants j for the apprehension of these persons have 1 been issued, and they are now in custody I on a charge of felony —selling securities deposited with them in their capacity of bankers, without the knowledge or consent of their clients. Their liabil ities arc said to exceed £700,000 — some accounts say a million The Times; of yesterday draws a frightful picture Os I the misery which the dishonesty of these I persons will “produce “What is it to rob —aye, to rob and murder half a dozen people, put them out of pain at once, and ! dispose of their bodies where nobody will know anything about them—compared, with the act of scattering ruin over hun- J dreds of quiet, respectable and virtuous * households, the scene of sacred harmony , the sweet charities of domestic life .' How I many girls will go portionless —how many young ladies become governesses—how many young men go to Australia, or be hind counters, instead of the College or' the Guards, in consequence of this bank- ■ ruptcy?” One of the partners, Sir John Lean Paul, had a country house a short distance from London, whither the officers proceed ed to take him into custody. As it was I too late to return the same evening to London, they allowed him to go to bed, and kept watch during the night that he j did not escape In the morning they, ! proceeded with the prisoner to the railway I station, where he contrived to slip into a| : train that was moving, and left the officers j behind him ! He has, however, given I himself up since. The Times thus refers| i to the mode of life of this banking trium ' virate. “ Only think of a select society! |of gentlemen,’high in the fashionable, i and even the religious world, living in a | i magnificent style for years and years on i j the deposits ot a number of confiding, i j and even admiring noblemen. They have' I had good houses, costly furniture, splendid I ! establishments, sumptuous entertainments. ! and the best company up to the very last, ■ with the full consciousness that they were! I doing it all out of the money of some score j ;or rather some hundreds, of people who felt it an honor to put their money into ■ the hands of such men.” This explosion ! will so shock public opinion that, as in all ; such cases the innocent will suffer with the guilty. The whole business seems to be a slavish imitation of the career of Mr ■ Montagna Tigg. in Dickens’ Martin Chuz zlewit, with this difference, —that the ro- ’I mance of the reality exceeds the fiction. EF* Col. Jabe« Leftwich, a revolutionary »ol- ■ diet, died in the vicinity of Huntsville, Ala- on ! the 2let ult., in his 90th year. He was a native > of Virginia, and formerly represented Madison i county in the Alabama Legiekturv. | (From the Journal du Havre, June 18.] | Riot aiming Amer Joan Sailors at Havre. I Several times, of late, we have had tc | chronicle savage pugilastic encounters between American seamen ; but yesterdaj a part of our city was thrown into confu sion by a disturbance which took the form of a real battle, in which knives, marling spikes, hand-spikes, and other weapons were freely used, and which was only pul down bqjthe energetic and reiterated in tervent Aof the police. A new and sin gular feature was given to this melee by the fact in addition to the original cause lof the fight, it was further intensified by the tenacious hostility which reigns be tween the white and black crews. It is well known that the white and colored sailors keep entirely aloof from each other while on shore, and even take their meals in separate boarding houses. It will be easy to understand, then, the savage ardor with which they seize upon every occasion to display their mutual hate, and how, under such circumstances, a trifling quar rel may end in a bloody melee. The affair of yesterday is a case in point. It com menced as follows: An American sailor entered a case from the quay Casimir Dclavigne, with a por i tion of his dress disarranged. Inattempt i ing to pass from the back part of the shop ihe was opposed by the woman in attend i ance, whom he repulsed with violence.— ‘ Another sailor who was present took sides with the woman, and attempted to settle the matter. But the first continuing to maltreat the woman, the two seamen re paired to the street and fought. A colored man interferred, and the sailor thus op posed by superior numbers, was soon de feated. This happened as we have said io the morning; but at about one o’clock in the afternoon a number of white seamen, from the erews of several ships, collected to gether, armed with knives and stones, pro ceeded to the house of M. Roney Rue Dauphine, where the colored seamen take their meals. The negros, excited by the menaces of the whites, assailed them from the house, and followed them to the quay Casimir Delavigne. Ilerethe whites made a stand, and the combat took place at this point. It was carried on so warmly that the combatants seized iron bars from the merchants, who were shutting their stores in dread of this terrible scene. Unfortu nately the police force in this quarter was not strong, and the efforts of a few agents to separate the enraged combatants were, for a long time, entirely ineffective. Cor poral Opson, the marine gendarmerie, in his courageous endeavors to preserve the peace, received several wounds, and had his sword broken, although he did not call it into service. M. Lebevre, of the brig ade of Surete, was also energetic in his endeavors to arrest the progress of the fight. Among the white and colored sea men, many have received serious wounds, bruises and contusions; eyes, noses, Ac., bear witness to the fierceness of the battle. Among those most seriously hurt is an American, who was carried in a itate of insensibility to the house of M. Michan, a druggist, rue de la Crique. It has been rumored that he was killed on the spot, but it is certain, on the contrary, that his wound will not prove fatal. At about three o’clock, an additional police force having arrived on the ground, the fight was stopped and a number of ar rests were made. The affair then seemed terminated, but so fierce was the hatred of the combatants that a short time afterwards another bloody episode in the history of the day took place near the gate of Maria Theresa. — The combatants included some of those who had been engaged in the fight of the morning, recruited by the addition of oth ers, who had previously been inactive.— The police was upon its guard, but was not yet in sufficient force. It was not until after three hours fight that the agents of the police force, the marine gemlarnierle, aided by a company of Custom House offi cers who were returning from a procession, were able to put a final stop to this sue-; cession of deplorable scenes. In the latter phase of the combat a great deal of blood was again spilt. Police agent Bredcl re ceived a knife wound in the right ear and upon the hand, and was otherwise mal treated so severely that he is obliged to keep in bed. It is, however, believed that he will soon be on his feet again. Patrols of police have been organized in the quarter where the fight took place. Sixty-two arrests have been made, which shows that tho affair was a serious one. — A close inquiry into all the circumstances has been commenced. Pennsylvania, It will be seen, from the following ex tract from the report of the proceedings of the late democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania, that the first resolution was amended so as to recognise and eu ! dorse the great principle embodied in Ne braska-Kansas bill. “Mr. Ludlow. I wish to offer an amend ! rnent to the first resolution in the majority report. “The resolution now reads : TnYt the democratic party I need not, on old and settled issues; to de-1 i clare its principles in detail. It is suf- J ficient for us to say that we belong to the democracy of the Union, and recognise ■ no geographical lines between the North and South. The interests of all parts of i ! the country are the same to us, and, so j ■ far as in our power, we will maintain the ' constitutional rights of every State with uniform fidelity. ■‘My amendment is to insert after the word * State ’ the words, ‘ and recognise in its widest extent the principles of popu lar sovereignty in the Territories;’ so that ' the sentence will read : ‘ The interests .of all parts of the country are the con ' stitutional rights of every State, and re ' cognise in its widest extent the principle ■j of popular sovereignty in ihe Territo- ries.’ *i “On this amendment the yeas and ‘ nays were called for ; and being ordtr i! ed’, resulted —yeaa 71, nays 5. j "8o the amendment was agreed to.” LATEST NEWS. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP •L W-A PACIFIC. New York, July 11. i The steamer Pacific has arrived from i Liverpool, bringing later advices. She s reached her wharf at six o’clock this I morning. COTTON MARKET. i During the first three days tho market ! was dull and considerably lower, but on ■ Thursday, without any apparent cause, i the market was buoyant, and closed with an active demand at about one-sixteenth ; advance. Tho week’s sales reach forty three thousand bales, of which speculators ■ took seventeen thousand bales. The I sales on Friday reached twenty thousand ] j bales. Orleans Fair is quoted at seven 1 and a quarter, and Middling six nine six-1 I teenths. Upland Fair six fifteen-six- j j teenths Irregulars six three eights. The Manchester market had followed I | the Liverpool. I At Liverpool, Bread-stuffs had slightly I declined, and authorities vary in their 1 quotations. Maxwell reports wheat flour a trifle lower. Corn three shillings six ' pence lower—all steady. Provisions had advanced slightly. Ashes steady and prices unchanged. Rice dull, unchanged. The weather was favorable to the crops.; The money market was easier, and j Consols were quoted at ninety-one and i one-quarter. Baring & Brother quote the London i market as generally steady and unchang i ed. Coffee active. I The bullion in the Bank of England j had increased cue hundred and oigty ' thousand pounds. SECOND DESPATCH. Quotations, correct —Orleans Fair, se- ’ ven one-eight; Uplands Fair, six and se-; > ven-eigths. Charleston, July 11. P. M. The total majority for Carew is eight hundred and fifty-seven. FURTHER BY THE PACIFIC. Our files of papers by this arrival are : filled almost entirely with the detailsof the recent repulse of the Allied armies before Sebastopol. It having been reported IhatLordßAc lan was dangerously ill, and had been asked to be recalled, Lord Palmeeston stated that in the House of Commons, that his Lordship had been ill but was re covering, and denied that he had ever re quested to be relieved of his command in the Crimea. The total loss of the Allies on the 18th ; ult. was over 5000 men. The position of j affairs, however, was regarded as being sufficiently satisfactory, the forces being in good spirits and preparing fi r another assult. No other battles by land or sea had ta ken place. I The English and French are said recip ' rocally to blame each other for the late re -1 pulse. Gen Pellissieh states that Sebastopol will soon be ’completely invested, as the allies retain possession of the Round l Tower in the Cemetery and the Mamelon i Battery. It is stated that the cholera was prevail-1 ing among tin- F-ench troops. The allied forces which had crossed the , river Tchernya, had returned from their I raconnoissance- Advices from the Baltic, dated the sth | ult., state that Sveaborg had been bombard !ed and all the stores destroyed. Hango had, j ; also, been bombarded, and gieat move- I ments wera being made by the Allied | I Squadion. j A dispatch from Varna, dated Thursday j ; the 28th ult., state that Generals Brown, I i Pennefeather and Covington were sick.— i Part of the Foreign Legion had arrived at I Varna from England. | The London Times, of Saturday the; i 30th ult., states that the Czar of Russia 1 was dangerously ill. and the King of Prus- I sia probably at the point of death. Austria continued to disband her ar- I ,u r i The overland mail had arrived from ! India, bringing advices from Canton to j i the Btb, Hong Kong to the 10th., and j [ Calcutta to the 18th of May. They con-' j tain, however, no intelligence of any in- ■ {terest. Trade was dull and money tight. I i A famine existed in many parts of China, I and considerable fighting had occurred; j with varying success. FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.. The dates are to May 17. The French | friffate La Forte, and the Englis frigate i Amphytrite, arrived at Honolulu on the i tenth of May, en route for the Russian j settlements in Kamschatka. The 4 Legis-' lature of Hawaii was in session, and had , passed a new tariff act. Poughkeepsie, (N. Y.) July 11.— Mr. Berberrick, the German Lager Beer Saloon proprietor was tried yesterday be fore a Jury for the violation of the new act against selling Lager Beer, found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of 850 Hallowell Me, July 11.—A large Know Nothing Convention, embracing the Councils in Kenebec county, met here yesterday. Strong resolutions were adopt ed against the National Administration and slavery, and reeem met ding open nom inarioM. WM. KA/ PROPRIETOR NUMBER 47. •InMt (he Contrary* The Recorder of last Tuesday says : “ The nomination of Judge Andrews is well received in this region by all except the Cobb and Johnson men.’’ Now we can assure every one that takes any inter est in Know Nothing humbug, that the Cobb and Johnson men were better pleas ed with the nomination of Judge An drews than any one else. Indeed they were the only men that appeared to be pleased in the least. Know-Nothiugs looked very much as they did on the day after they heard from the Virginia elec tion. We never saw a more woe-begone, lantern-jawed, looking set in our life, and they were as ill-natured a« they were ill- Ipoking. Every man was ready to fight at the crook of a finger; they seemed to have corns, on every toe on their feet, and it was nearly impossible to pass one of them in the street, without hurting some of his corns. The editors of the of the Recorder most of the time kept out of sight: in the evening we happen ed to meet one of them, but oh, how changed. “Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, so dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, drew Priams curtain in the dead of night, and would have told him half his Troy was burned.’’ Pleased in deed I If men are pleased with a fit of cholic, then are the Know-Nothings about Milledgeville pleased witn the nomination of Judge Andrews.— Fed. Union. Red Mark of Athbns K. N.’s. — Sam in Danger.— On the handbills of the Know Nothings, stuck up about Ath ens, to notify the people of an address at the Town Hall, there was on the left side of each a red mark, some three or four inches long, aud as broad as your finger. Outsiders thought it was a private sign of this lodge. I n tho old Ritual of Barker, certain angular pieces of red paper drop ped about, was a sign of danger, and the faithful had to repair to the places desig nated. Likely this is the mark in Athens, and none will dare disobey the red sign which their President has given to the “sworn in.” A friend suggests that, in view of Sam’s dying agonies, it is intended to be typical of the “blood of martyrs.” Are not the manly 1100 voters of Clark greatly frightened at the two or three Catholics among us. “Save yourselves if you can, the Catholic Gyascutus is loose !” —AtAews Hanner. Distressing Railroad Accident.— On the 2nd inst., says the Dayton (Ohio) Empire, the train of Cars coming from Greenville was thrown off the track. Mr. John Dufore, the engineer, a man of won derful physical strength, was caught un der the engine, and the end of the boiler being broken out the boiling water poured on him. Great difficulty was experienced in getting him out, aud the poor man with stood the torture of a thousand deaths for above the space of an hour and a quarter until, by Hie greatest effort, and by slow degrees, the locomotive was raised from his body! During this time, persons were engaged in carrying cold water, pouring it upon him, and endeavoring to cool the boiling liquid which was gradually cooking him alive! Strange to say, he walked some distance after being gotten out, but died that evening. The Liquor Law. Judge Bridsall decided yesterday, that complaints under the Liquor Law can be tried only, at the Sessions, (Recorder and City Judge,) and that other Judges and Justices can only hold, as Justices of the Peace, preliminary examinations, —and send their cases to the Sessions, if they think proper. The eflect of this is to throw all the liquor cases for trial into the special aud and general sessions, —and these liquor cases there would swamp all other busi ness, if tried. But Recorder Smith has already pro nounced that the Law appliestnot to For eign Liquors, and sales of Domestic Li quors, must be seen, to be complained of. Thus the Liquor Law is no Law prac tically in New York City. Its “theory” is recognized,—but “practice upon it amounts to nothing. King Alcohol is yet King. Tha only portion of the law that mean while is really in force, is that which re lates to the apprehension of persons in a state of intoxication. Different magis trates. however, have different interpreta tions, even here,- —for, while the offender, at Jefferson Market Police Station, is con fined only till he gets sober, thendiseharg ged elsewhere, he is not only imprisoned, but is mulcted in the sum of 810. In Brooklyn, too, this mode of procedure is adhered to. That requirement of the Bill which insists upon the prisoner telling where he got drunk, doesjnot seem to work to a charm, —most of the cases being so drunk as to bo unable to remember where they procured the “fire-water.” Washington, July 11.—William L. Lee, Chief Justice and Chancellor of the .Sandwich Islands, has arrived, vested with power to negotiate a commercial treaty with this government. The United States Court of Claims will commence its session to-morrow in the Supreme Court Room. Mr. Wheeler, the American Minister to Nicaragua, has arrived, bringing two important treaties. Buon Winsfer, the new Charge d’Af fairs of Naples, will probably present his credentials to-day. The course to be pursued by the Fishe ry Commissioners under the Reciprocity Treaty has been concluded by the Respect ive parties to day. The Commissioners leave forthwith for the Fishing Grounds. Boston, July 11.—Late Halifax pa pers state that immense quantities of Mackerel have been caught, and that the prospect of the fishing business was never theless better. BcrlingtOn, N H., July 11.—A pow der mill near this place exploded on Mon day and killed one man.