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ATLANTA, JULY 27 1855.
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' FdR~GOVERNOR :
H. V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
r OR CONGRESS.
Ist District-Jas L. Seward of Thomas.
2nd “ M. J. Crawford, of Muscogee
3rd “ J. M. Smith,, of Upson.
4th “ H. Warner, of Meriwether.
sth “ J. H. Lumpkin, of Floyd.
6th “ Howel! Cobb, of Clarke.
Bth “ A. H. Stephens, of Taliaferro.
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GOV. TROUP ON KNOW NOTHINGIisM.
We publish to-day two letters written by the
distinguished man whose name heads this article,
to Doctor John G. iSlappey, of Newton, in this
Stalo. Ono of these letters was written in 1850.
and not intended for the public eye. The other
is of recent date, in which permission is given to
make the first named public, and in which, all
though reluctantly, the author, in pointed terms,
gives his views of Know Nothingism and (ienera-
Pierce’a administration of the Federal Govern
ment. Any, and every thing political emanating
from this patriotic son of Georgia, will be read
with interest by the people, and exercise, what it
ought to do, a due influence over them- Had
his counsels, in the past, overruled the old (State
Rights Party of Georgia, we feel confident We
would now be a united people, and much of thal
asperity and bitterness which has prevailed, and
is now prevailing, between the two parties within
its limits would never have had an existence, In
the retirement of this eminent statesman, ho has
not failed to observe with a jealous eve the en
croachments of the North upon Southern Rights
and the Constitution ; ami it is plain that be has
not failed also to observe, on the part of his old
friends a gradual departure from the doctuue o.
State Rights which he so valiantly am! ably
maintained in the days of “7>wp and the 'I na
il/." That was a proud era for Georgia, when,
undismayed, he defied the younger Adams, and
forced Northern Federalists to submit to the st,r
-ercigntj/ of Georgia. His position then was in
deed a proud, an enviable one. He had set an
example to the South, and to every Republican
within its bounds, which, it was thought would
be imitated, whenever necessity required it, in all
future time. And he now, in the letters we this
day publish, re-iterates principles upon which he
based State action, when he represented Georgia
in 1825. Now. in his eighty-fifth year, with all
the vigor of his earlier life, he warns the South.
He tells it, thal he “is amazed at the opposition
to the present administration, especiadu in the
Sm/Aern country. He compares it with \\ ash
ington's. J, tforson’s. and Polk’s, and savs that
it is “the least exceptionable” of the three, and.
indeed, “of all we have ever had.” fn sum. ing
Is (the adviinistr ition’s) whole course, tree iroiii
the excitement and thirst for office of demagogues |
■of all parties, h* tells the people, tha there is re-1
ally nothing to find fault with, and that opppsi-1
aion is being made to it. for mere oppositi m’
sake that the ''douthe»>: nni/n'e arc bound bi,\
honor, gratitude. and pat rid to sustain ;/
n-ith all their might.” Voters of Georgia, who
is it that Speaks to you. in language hke th •>,-<•. i
going 1 Is it tile language of ambition ; [
seeking alter popular favor; one on a “wtlu hum’
after office 1" Or is it the voice ot ~ patriot ■„d
and true ; of one who is l ist passing ..wav. and I
whose memory will live so long (s \ ,
State, and a Georgian live notes and hath
• being! We opine no man will be ■> b d,(, ee ;
audacious, as to ascribe to this enia e -.t p.n ~, I
either motives of amb lion, or ant ■tn,, ,nii>r
motive, in what he w rites. His is the !.«»<■-•
«vt' wisdom, and of truth, and assuredly t k
will profit by-it.
Nig only does Governor Troup tell :
n regard to the present administration of the
federal Goverbment, but lie tells the people that
he •'Catholic Church and Foreign Emigration
ire mew pretences of the opposition.” The true j
pounds are
“Ist. The very small number of ofiices at the
lisposal of the President, when compared with j
he very great number of those who seek them.” j
'“2nd. The faithful and unfaltering integrity |
vith which the public treasure is guarded against!
he thieves who prowl by night and by day to j
rreak in and steal.”
“3rd. The inflexible courage with which the >
("resident in defending the Constitution defendsj
lie dearest rights, ami most sacred interests of
die South.”
And he tells the people, also that the most tor- I
.nidable power again.-: tin administration is the •
oarty occupying the latter ground. Compare, he j
lavs’, President Pierce and Mr. Hale both from |
New Hampshirr—"the one, an hones', min ; the
other, a bigot, lima ic, and abolitionist’’ and we :
will add, the one a democrat, and anti Know I
Nothing; the other ah abolitionist, and a Know
Nothing. “What a contrast! What effulgence! j
What blackness 1” . . .
But we must close this notice of the opinions ol i
this glorious old man, whose genuine patriotism <
is not questioned, we feel confident, by any sane i
man within the bounds oi our State.
OSEPH E. BROWN, ESQ., OF CANTON
CHEROKEE.
This gentleman is guilty of an unpardonable
sin it seems, in the opinion ofsomo ot the Know-
Nothing friends of Judge Irwin. He has dared
to yield to the wishes of a large number of his
political associates, and to his own. if his ene
mies will have it so, we care not which, to be
come a candidate for .1 udge of the Superior i
Courts of the Blue Ridge Circuit, in opposition
to the present incumbent! What temerity is |
this! And how indignantly is it frowned upon !
by partizans and friends of Judge Irwin I What! I
oppose our Judge, our favorite, and our party’s I
great leader when divested of the robes of office!
And make the Judicial contest tn the Blue Ridge
Circuit, a political one 1 Fie upon it, Joseph E.
Brown! You and your friends "get out of the
way,” and surrender all independence, of thought
and action to the Know Nothings, and others of
Judge Irwin's friends! Besides, democrats and
anti-Know Nothings have nothing to do with
the office of Judge—all the talent, independence,
and integrity of the learned profession of the law
in the Blue Ridge Circuit, rest with your politi
cal adversaries, and u democratic .Judge would
be an imposition upon the people! Besides.
Judge Irwin is an honest man, a good man, and
a good judge—therefore, come down, Mr. Brown,
and let us alone !
Nqw we have a worn or two to say to all this
flummery and gammon in the mouths and press
of the Know Nothings in the Blue Ridge Cir
cuit- Against Judge Irwin, as Judge, we have
not a word in this article to say. But in favor of
Joseph E. Brown’s candidacy and election we
shall have a little now, and much to say ere that
event transpires. In Col. Brown’s case, it ap
pears, that the rule of “what is sauce for the
goose, is sauce for the gander,” must not apply.
Il is sin is, that he is a democrat and anti-know
Nothing. Hence, in the Blue Ridge Circuit, he
is assailed for being a candidate —his capability
and honesty, at thesame time, being admitted—
>n the ground that, in electing a Judge, politics
should not bear upon the contest. This, we say.
is the argument in the Blue Ridge Circuit. Il
is .sfzucc there for the Know Nothings. The rea
son is plain—the democrats andanti-Know Noth
ings are in the majority in that circuit, and can,
whenever they please, which we are sure they
will do, elect their candidate. Democrats, there
fore, and anti-Know Nothings are appealed to,
not to make the contest a party one, and sophis
try of every dcscirption to sustain their candidate
appears, column after column, in the press that
sustains Judge Irwin. Here, then, “m sauce for
the goose" (we beg pardon of both the candi
dates for using such terms as “goose” and “gan
der” — W e of course mean nothing disrespectful,)
but where ia the “«cuce for the gander" ? Un
less the Anti-Know Nothing Democrocy of the
Blue Ridge Circuit will it otherwise there will
no sauce be hit in the dish for them, nor their
candidate. It, (he dish, will be ns clean licked,
as ever was dish before.
The reader now will mind how odious it is
considered in the Blue Ridge Circuit, to make
party opposition to J udge Irwin. liemocrata and
Anti-Know Nothings must not du this, in that
circuit! Such conduct is altogether wrong, and
hath an evil tendency ! Well, be it ho, if they
will have it so; but what do we hear and see
elsewhere in our State ? Let us look at the fol
lowing for a moment, democrats and anti-Know
Nothings o' the Blue Ridge Circuit !
“The KNOW NOTHING PARTY have
nominated D. A. Vason, of Albany, as a candi
date for Judge of the South Western Circuit.—
They have also fixed upon Willis A. Hawkins,
Esq., ot Americus as the candidate for Congress
from the 2nd Congressional District.”
Now, here is a party, the Know Nothing Par»
ty, met for a political purpose, a party purpose.
It nominates its candidate for Congress—good!
Docsit step here? Not so! It nominates its
candidate for Judge*. More “sauce for the goose”!
But none for Judge Perkins, the presiding Judge
of that circuit.
We trust that the Anti-Know Nothings and
democrats of the Blue Ridge Circuit will see to
itrthat thuy ace not trapped into a false position
and seduced by the sophistry of their adversaries*
They can elect their candidate if they will, and
we doubt not that they will do so. Without any
disparagement of Judge Irwin. Joseph E Brown,
will administer the law. if elected Judge, us much
♦o tho satisfaction of the people, and as strictly in
accordance with justice and equity as Judge Ir
win, ot any other Judge. He is by them; with
thorn; of them; and one of them. That they
will rally around and sustain him. we have every
confidence.
A STRANGE QUERY.
We find the following in the Chronicle 4- Sen
tinel of the 22d inatant:
.Wr. Editor;— l desire, through the medium of
your paper, to ask the following question of any
one who may possess the information;—Has any
Catholic Priest (who has come to this country
from a ioreign laud) ever been known to take tiie
oath of Allegiance? U vea—who and when? If
not—why?” “NATIVE AMERICAN.”
If we arc net mistaken, the query will he.af
(irmathely answered al! over the Union. We
are advised that the late Bishop England always
exercised the right of suffrage in Charleston,
South Carolina. He wasnt ' fiin ign birth, and did
more for the maintenance of Southern Rights
than all tin* Know Nothings io the Union. His
defence of Southern Slavery, will live when the
t.dseiy styled “American Party” will be forgotten
or only referred to for its bigotry and intolerance.
| But wII “Native American” who puts the
query above, inform th<* Chronicle d- Sentinel
thutpublishes it. if native born Catholic Priests,
or any natives, were i ver required to lake the
oath ofallegi uh ' ? Did he, “Native American,’
ever take it? H s query serins to imply that
Catholic Prieats, native born, might have done so.
I ut those foreign born,or from a “foreign land”
never did. No wonder information is asked for.
if the writer’s meaning is. what his language
purports.
Honors to the French— The French corvette.
La Caprici- us has arrived at Quebec, and is mak
ing great “sensation.” The Capricieuse is the
first French vessel of war that has entered the
St. Lawrence since the cession of the country,
nearly r century ago. A grand reception is to
givt n »o Captain Balsizc and suit, by the an thor
ities of Quebec.
AThliili.inh Incident.—Ou Tuesday
the family es .Mr Daniel Warren, resid
ing in Boston, were thrown into a state of
considerable anxiety by missing their I
youngest child, a boy about D months j
I old. Shortly afterwards, the passers-bv !
in the street had tlicir attention attracted
by a chill's cries, and upon looking up
ward, there they sac the Hltie fellow sit-1
ting in the eave trough with l,i * L‘g s ‘|
over th • edge. mog ‘‘
perilous positi n The mother bein - j n ’
formed oi' the whereabouts of her child
without hesitation or emotion outwardly
ascend a the roof, walked deliberately
down the steep cud slippery plane, took
the boy in her arms, and conveyed him i n
wfetybaek tc the attie. But her' the
ecling and physi al exertion over- s
n . >nd her bein-j safe imniedi- 1
;. and it wa.> som • time before 1
.stored to consciousness , ?
HANGING WOMEN-
As our readers are already informed, the case ■
of Mrs. Robinson, the “veiled murderess” is the
occasion of considerable excitement, at the North,
upon the subject of hanging females ; and, for
once we have to say the excitement is predicated
upon a justifying basis. The idea of hanging a
woman by the neck, is disgusting to enlghtened
humanity, and utterly at variance with our j»osi
tion of advancement. We are not disposed to
innovate upon long established customs, but this
js a relic of barbarity so entirely inconsistent with .
the enlightened, liberal spirit of the age, that we ■
blush to sv»‘ it clinging to our garments.
The objects of Laws, and their penal conse
quences are to deter the evil disposed from crime;
but we are at a loss to know what possible good
can accrue from the execution of a female. On
the contrary, su far as our observation goes, there
is no doubt that it is an outrage of common de- j
rency, having a very questionable moral effect.— '
h is beginning to be understood that public exe- '
cutions have, decidedly an immoral tendency, and |
the practice of publicly executing females mus
be doubly injurious. And for this reason: all'
criminals excite more or less sympathy when
b ought out to suffer the extreme penalty of the
law, and the public mind naturally revolts at this
legalized murder, no matter how just, in the eyes
of the. law, the punishment may bp. The conse
quences, so far from inducing increased respect. i
for the law, are quite the reverse, for the respect
, is materially diminished by every such exhibition •
i How much more is it lessened when the object •
! of punishment is a weak female !
The death penalty is not administered, because
the Mosaic Law has said “an eye for an eye” ;
<&<*., but it is because murder is regarded as one;
of the grossest outrages, not only upon the per. i
son of the victim, but upon the community to .
which he belonged, and the perpetration of so hie*
nous an offence is considered as an emanation
from a heart so depraved as to be dangerous to
society. It is to protect society, not less than to
punish crime that men are hung. The idea that
a female can possibly be thus dangerous to a com
munity is simply absurd.
The crime of murder is so entirely repugnant
to the female mind that we can but regard its
commission by a woman as the result of a din
cased action of the brain; and in the degree it is
so diseased, it is, of course, in that degree irre
sponsible. Hud woman the strength of mind '
which men possess, and the consequent power (
to restrain its unnatural impulses, she would then 1
be equally responsible with him for the conse- |
quvnees of allowing herself to be. overcome by the
fierce passions which prompt such a crime; but
not possessing this strength and power of self
control natural to man, the application of the
same penalties to her that are applied to man,
we cannot regard as equitable. Her responsibil
ity should be graduated by her strength of mind—
any other rule is unjust, and oppressive. The very
rarity ofsuch cases, and the extraordinary cir
cumstances attending them, prove that the female
who commits such an offence against society doe s
so under an excitement which amounts to mad
ness, and in the proportion that she is insane, she
is not amenable tothe Law.
• And yet, in view of this, there is upon the
' Statute Book of Georgia (whose proudest boast
|is the attention paid to the protection and ad
vancement of her daughters,) no discrimination
between the man who, with fixed purpose, assas
sinates the victim of his hate, and the poor wo
man whose wrongs, real or fancied, have excited
her to an insane phrenzy in which she takes the
life of the foe to her happiness ! It is a burning
shame.
Physicians well know that nine out of every
ten cases of infanticide are directly traceable to
what they call eclampsia parturentium— a spe
cies of insanity ; and yet how many convictions
and executions do we hear of for this crime ! It
is true that many, many years have elapsed since
a woman has been hung in Georgia ; and it is
doubtless owing to the unfrequency of the occur
rence that public attention has not before l»een
directed to the enormity of the practice. But it is
time that the question was discussed, and we hope
to see some action taken upon the subject by the
next Legislature. What say our brethren of the
press ?
DEMOCRATIC ANTI-KNOW NOTHING
MEETING IN DeKALB.
We have hern requested to insert the commu
nication over the signature. “Many Citizens,”
which we do with pleasure.
The most important issue before the people is
that made by the self styled “American Party,”
and we want ail true Americans to rally and do
battle against them, and for the ( onstitution and
the country. It is certainly expedient and proper
to invite the aid and co-operation of all, call them
by what name we please, to effect the desired
object. We therefore cordially give place to the
! communication referred to, and believe that it
j will be approved by the democracy of DeKalb.—
i In so doing, however, it is not our intention to
reflect upon the notice to which the communica
tion refers, as being placed on the Court House
door. That was proper in itself; “Many Citi
zens” only embraces a wider range.
From V\ kshinoton.—The United States Court
of Claims was engaged on Thursday in perfec
ting the rules of proceedings. About 140 cases
have been docketed. The Court, it was thought,
would adjourn that day, to meet on the 17th o*
October, in one of the rooms of the new wing of
the Capitol.
On Friday Judge Gilchrist was ill, and no ses
sion of the Court of Claims was held.
The Government has been giving much atten
tion tjiis week to the subject of the protection of
Ironticrs, in order to prevent Indian hostilities
; Some difficulty has been experienced in selec-
■ ting a new Commissioner for the Land Office.— i
Hence the delay in filling the present vacancy. |
General Echinique, Ex-President of Peru, has
arrived al Washington.
I he thermometer on Friday was at ninety-one
; degrees.
The trustees of the Bank of the
• United Stases advertise—in order to make
. a final dividend from and out of the estate'
and assets in their hands, conveyed to
them by the deed of 1841, and to make
distribution of the surplus after payment
i of ail ‘.he notes and deposits secured there
! by, both principal and interest—for all
claimants to came forward and prove their '
debts by the 20th of September, 1855.—.
Persons are notified that no creditor can
■be entitled to receive such dividend who
j shall not have proved his debt before the
time appointed, and also that from and
after such final dividend no creditor shall '
or can have any claim upon the remaining I
fund, it any there be, nor upon the said
trustees. their successors or assigns.
’<«e I'irfe oj Virginia.— The following is th ‘
official vote' G? ‘ Wl ° r V ‘ r - in: ‘ in bu ‘:
six counties: 79.951 j
Kt Henry A. Mis,- ’
■>r 1 hniuas S. Flournov 1
Majority tor Wise .10 Q 73
Large Diamond.— new diamond, found b- i 1
a -i.gn ssin Brizfi.snJ ca || e(i tile-Star of B, ut h ”
and is pro duci n(t a '
•' ll Its weight 2 carats, wifi probablv lose ' 1
nffi ns wnght ln cutting. Koo-i-noor.’ I ’
-Vexv York <'orrest>oii«ten<-<‘ of Itie ISolly 1
Kxainiu.-r.
National Duard-—Royalty under Dijjieultu s
Beauty and the Beast—t'opulor Music—For
eign Artistes etc.
New York, July 20 1855.
Tiie growing importance of the •
United States, ;is a country, ami New
York as a city, is acknowledged by the Ire-•
quentarrivalsof celebrated characters—Ar- i
tistes, Singers, Actors, and others who.
make engagements here for the amuse-!
meat of our people first, and then lor the
secondary consideration, of stuffing their j
attenuated purses. The advent of MBo. i
Rachel, the French Tragediene is much
talked ot, in upperteudom, and in elite ;
circles amongst the newsboys. As every-1
thing was “Jenny Lind” so noir is every-I
thing “Mlle. Rachel;” and as her per-|
foruiance will consist entirely of pieces •
' written in the h'rench language, those who
I have only an imperfect knowledge of it
1 are hurrying to acquire what will enable •
I them to appreciate her recitations. A
, little trick of management has been re
i sorted to to give the affair a greater eclat:
an engagement is published as existing be
tween herself and her Brother by which he
is obligated to pay 81200 for each perform
ance, to the number of 200, to take place
in the United States, Havanna or South
i America; he paying all the traveling
i and incidental expenses. The whole as-
■ fair looks very like a humbug—more like
j a copartnership bait than a bona fide con-
I tract of management.
The late anniversary of our national
j Independence seems to have inspired
• some of our city Fathers with an unusual
i degree of veneration for defunct heroes,
' and a corresponding desire to build up
; monuments to their memory. A resolu
tion has passed the Board of Aidermen to
erect an obelisk to the memory of Gen.
Worth, to be placed in Fifth Avenue, at
; its intersection with Broadway. It is de
i signed to have a simple granite column,
I with the names of the battles in which the
General thus sought to be distinguished,
was engaged ; and an equestrian figure
representing him in uniform, cut in relief.
It will be a diminutive affair, some thirty
feet high perhaps, and likely to impress
j the stranger that the General lies hurried
i beneath the cobble stones Such a mon-
I ument would be appropriate for a ceme
[ tery, but will look but meanly in Fifth
Avenue, A bronze statue should have
been chosen, by all means—one worthy
the memory sought to be perpetuated; but
such a little shaft of granite is an insult
to his friends, and only a monument to the
pasimonious spirit of the Board.
Some of the members of the same body
favored the appropriation of a part of the
Battery to the erection of an obseavatory
by Mr. Latting who with a spirit of econ
omy, and patriotism commingled, propos,
ed to build an Iron Tower 600 feet high,
to be called a Washington Monument
where people can be hoisted up by Steam
to see this great country at 25 cents a
head, ice and lemons extra. “ Shades of
the almighty’’ &c.
The National Guard, our crack Military
Company, returned on Saturday from their
encampment at Kingston. It was their
intention to give a Grand Ball, but in con
sideration of a shocking accident which
happened while they were in camp, it was
deferred. They had been engaged in tar
get exercise, and afterwards tiring by vol
lies with blank cartridges. A woman
who was sitting some distance in front of
the line was severely wounded, and her
infant, in her arms, shot through the head
i by a ball which by accident had been mix
ed with the blank cartridges. A collec
tion of over a thousand dollars was iinme
. diately taken up, and presented to her hus
band, with expressions of regret. Os
course the wounds physical and mental
. are robbed of pain by its magnificent </o«-
, cer, and the soothing palliation of one of
the grossest pieces of carelessness on re
cord.
I During the latter part of the week, an
individual in military costume presented
himself at one of the police stations, and
gravely informed the captain, that he was
■ Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria,
and that he had just arrived in a packet,
having been obliged to fly from England
i in consequence of a revolution. He add
’ ed that the next steamer would bring news
, confirming his statement. The captain,
being'an ignorant fellow, and little ’ac
quainted with Royalty, was skeptical, and
refused to accord to the Prince the honors
due such a distinguished personage ; but
humanely gave him lodgings forthe night
in a dwelling once before occupied by an-
l other of the crowned heads of Europe.
The idea of having a daguerreotype
gallery of beauty is not an original one
with Barnum, as many have supposed.-*
Within a block of his, museum, there ln&
been a collection of pictures, (on a smaller
scale than he proposes) which cannot be
surpassed, on exhibition for three months.
Tastes differ very materially as to styZe of
beauty, some taking one model as a stan
dard, and others a widely different one;
. but all will agree that the chief beauty of
a picture is in naturalness of expression.
Nothing gives the daguerrotypist or the
painter more trouble than the assumption
of an unusual expression by the object
of the pictnje, and hence the large num
ber of tine daguerreotypes that have little
or no resemblance to their original. But
this gallery seems to have been gotten up
with especial reference to securing the
; happiest expression of the prettiest faces.
| Visitors to Barnum’s temple of humbug
before voting for the paemiums should see ;
this collection—which has this virtue ; i
they will not be blazoned to the world in
that vainest of all conceits, “The Book of i
Beauty
In the upper part of the same building
;is another collection not less interesting,
though, perhaps, less handsome, it is oc
cupied as the News Boys School and I
Lodging Rooms, where Mr. Tracy the
Superintendent, exhibits an unique col-1
lection of News Boys, in their natural I
j state affording a fine study for physiogno- ■
mists, and a fruitful field for philanthrop-:
ists- No charge for the entire exhibi-!
tion
Labor-saving machines always meet
with violent opposition from the ignorant.
• and the one in operation here for cleaning
I the streets has already been the occasion
j of the assemblage of one indignation meet- ’
I ing, composed of that usually phlegmatic ,
j class, yclept Street sweepers, who former- :
•ly devoted one third of th time paid for
j by the city, to sweeping, and the remain
, der to smoking dirty pipes foi the gratifi
-1 aaiivt* of passers The new broom sw t :eps
time!*] ones congratulate them
clean, s.. ortrosratives.
selves that their r ' -'•reeutih"
their pipes are still left them; a«.
more nervous however, predict the 1
not far distant when the city Fat’
“will be after getting up some d
and then faith, they increase the immi
gration and no mistake, for as Mr. Shake
speare, a mighty line jentieman, says i
“old fellow’s occupation gone intirely” and ,
ami will have to take up our pipes and j
trot.”
It is said that Revolutions commence
by introducing the revolutionizing ele
ment into popular music, if so we certainly
| have cause to fear for the safety standardof
i the Union. The uiuional strains, “Yan-
I kee Doodie,” “Hail Columbia,” “Old j
j Dog Tray,” etc., are giving place to pas
! sages from Italian operas, and instead of
the old familiar airs which once rung
! through the streets, we now hear passages
: from “Norma,” “Lucia di Lammermoor”
i and other operas. The K. N. Council,
however has taken the matter in hand,
I and foreign music, which has innovated
| so alarmingly upon the simon pure Amer
, ican, will be prohibited, and a grand ex
hibition is to be given at 25 cents a head
at which the gentlemen in slouched hats
and dirty linen will be required to depos
it their hand organs and monkeys in one
vast pile, to be set on fire for the edifica
tion of attending Americans. Proceeds
of the exhibition to go to the Kansas em
igration aid Society.
Health of the city comparatively good.
A few cases of sun-stroke reported at the
police offices
GEORGIA.
(For the Atlanta Daily Examiner.)
j igee.laij- In DeZ&Ub ou Sale Day
in next.
To the. Editors of the Examiner :
Gentlemen:—A call was made by a
publication posted up at tne Court House
Door in DeKalb county, on the -Ith of
July irist., for a meeting of the Demo
cratic Party of the county on the first
Tuesday in August next, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for the Legisla
ture at the ensuing election.
Now, in the present state of Parties in
Georgia, the above call is not considered
sufficient to include ail who intend to act
with us. The only organized Parties in
the State being the Democratic Party,
and the so called American Party, (alias
Know Nothing) and there are men who
were formerly whigs who do not intend to
join the Secret order, and yet do not feel
themselves included in the term Demo
cratic Party, and for the purpose of giving
all such an opportunity to act at once
with us, we cordially invite them to meet
with us on sale day in August next, at
Decatur, and participate in the meeting
to select candidates; requiring no other
test than that they Intend to vote for the
nominees; and with a view to an under
standing upon this subject you will
please give this a place in your paper and
oblige your friends
MANY CITIZENS.
::a<uv Fitzpatrick on Know Wohlitgimn*
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and
Gazette, in its issue of the 7th inst., pub
lishes an able letter from Senator Eitzpat
rickon the subject of Know Nothingism.
This letter was drawn out by a com muni
tion requesting Governor Fitzpatrick to
give publicity to his views. We extract
the following paragraphs from Governor
Fitzpatrick’s excellent letter:
In reference to the Know Nothing or
American party, I am ignorant of their
• aims and object, except as they have been
promulgated in the public press. If their
object is to maintain the rights of the
States, their equality in the Union, their
powers from consolidation, a strict con
strution of the Constitution, or to enforce
purity of administration, these are Dem
ocat'c arms, and 1 have no occasion to form
a new political connection under wew forms
for such purposes. If their object is to
introduce religion into politcal discussion,
and to make war upon any religious de
nomination, then I should regard this as
unconstitutional and dangerous to the
peace of society.
If their purpose is proscription, in any
form, of any class of persons, or to limit
the rights, actual or consequential, of any
citizen of the State; this, too, I consider
unconstitutional. It they wish merely to
modify existing laws, to suit an existing
evil, 1 see no reason to create a new party
on a basis so narrow. The foes of the
South now are not of the foreign popula
tion of the country. Gur enemies are of
our owu household—the Abolitionist ahd
Free soilers of the North. The South
has more to fear from the thousands of
preachers and abolition lecturers, banded
together in the free States, than from
pope and his College of Cardinals, with all
their proselytes in the Union.
The Message of Governor Reeder
to the Kansas Legislature announces that
the population of the Territory amounts
to 3,383 females and 5,133 males. The
Governor contends for the right of the
people to settle their own affairs, uninflu
enced by the other States, and says that'
the Territorial Legislature may act on the
question of slavery to a limited extent,:
and temporarily regulate it. He directs '
attention to the definition of the bounda- '
ries of the counties and the qualification I
of voters. He recommends that a strin-'
gent liquor law be adopted on account of
the Indians. He thinks that a light tax |
only is required, and contends that pre
emptions maybe taxed He recommends
the immediate establisment of the sent of
government. The Legislature fixed upon
the Shawnee Mission as the tetuporury
seat of government. The Governor vetoed
the measure, but the Legislature overruled
the veto and adjourned to meet at the !
Shawnee Mission.
Fort Gaines Academy Lottery
Class 4-—The following arc the localities i
where the principal prizes were drawn :'
8 12 Scull Shoals, Ga., Newberh, N. Y.. 1
815,000; 4624. Rochester, N. York and
Atlanta, Ga., $5,000; 3686, Lexins Ky.,
and Danville, Ya., $4,000; 9125, Galves
ton, Texas, and Memphis, Tenn., 83.000
70s], Americus. Ga., and Lewisburg, Va.
82.000; 6480, Richmonn, Va., 81,500;
8135, Alletou, Ala , 81.ICO; 4862, Port
land. Me., and Baltimore, Md., 81,000;
357, Mobile. Ala . and New Orleans. La., !
flaut Ind.. Ind., 'T.GOO; 3022. Cinein-j
nati. and Salisbury, N C.. 81.000; 4896. |
Wilmington, N. C , -81,00
Fading fop. want of Flattery.— |
Lady Blessingt rn once wr. te : -I ffiel
■Lai i j;;, 1 growing old for w.mt of some
” -« tbn, [am looking young as j
1 111 - There is a
r sing falseliov - |
from Gov. Troup.
Valdosta, July 4,1855.
Dear Sir:—Your arc quite welcome j
to do as you please with anything of mine I
you may have in possession, provided you ;
think good may come of it
I have neither taste, inclination or spir-1
its for controversial polities, but am not-'
withstanding, far from being indifferent'
to the welfare of our country. It'a word
from me could subserve its interest in ;
| any sense, it would not be wanting. We
I see with different eyes, or I would be amazed
i at the opposition to the present adminis
! (ration, especially in the Southern coun
! try.* The present is in truth the least
exceptionable of all the administrations
we have ever had, Gen. Washington’s, Mr.
Jefferson’s and Mr. Polk’s not ’excepted.
Peopie seem to be opposed to it because
there is really nothing to find fault with.
The Southern people are bound by honor
gratitude and patriotism to sustain it with
all their might. Catholic Church and
Eorehjn emigration are mere pretences;
the administration has nothing to do with
either. The first lias existed at all times
without complaint; thesccond has noton
ly existed, but has been almost uniformly
encouraged by people and government,
and now a party is formed to destroy the
administration because it will not destroy
the Roman Catholics and put down the
foreigners. This is not to be believed.
The true grounds of opposition are Ist.
The very small number of offices at the
disposal of the President, when compared
with the very great number of those who
seek them, 2d. The faithful and unfal
tering integrity with which the public
treasure is guarded against the thieves
who prowl by night and by day to break
in and steal; and 3d. The inflexible
courage with which the President, in de
fending the Constitution defends the dear
est rights and most sacred interest of the
South. The most formidable poweragainst
the administration, is the party occupying
the latter ground ; and what a spectacle
is here presented for the Southern country I
Mr. Pierce and Mr. Hale both from New
Hampshire; the one an honest man; the
other a bigot, fanatic and abolitionist' —
What a contrast! What effulgence!—
What blackness! And yet there are
Southern men acting with the latter to
humble and prostrate 'the former and with
scarcely any better pretext than that the for
mer had appointed to two conspicqous offices
twoprominentraen,ojiefailingin his duty,
and the other doing his with honor and
advantage to the country. Mistaken and
deluded men ! Our very safety depending
on union amongourse’v. s, they would sow
discord and division Our highest inter
est depending on the veto, they would take
the veto from Mr. Pierce to bestow it on
Mr. Hale, or Mr. Anybody. Such men
seek to restore the administration of the
past, when speculation and plunder, and
swindling were the order of the day in
every administrative department, and when
the only security of the public against ra
pine and spoliation, was the exhaustion
and beggary of the treasury.
Very respectfully, dear sir,
G M TROUP.
Dr John G Slappey, Newton, Ga.
P. 8 The President has had nothing
to do with the disgraceful bidding for the
Presidency going on for some time in the
Senate of the United States, where the
public lands and the public offices have
been offered to any or everybody who had
a vote to give, and any or everybody might
be qualified to vote.
* Elected a vast majority oi his countrymen, in
a manner most honorable to himself, he is threat
ened with overthrow by a majority almost as for
midable, for (as I think) not even plausible rea
sons.
11 This Church is more innocent now, in the
eyes of all Protestant sects, than it has been be
fore for two hundred years, and there is not be
neath the sun a finer people than the people of
Maryland, who are made to fall under the com
mon proscription.
Valdosta, Laurens Co, Ga, )
29th October, 1850. j
Dear Sir :—lt would have afforded tne
great pleasure to have been able to comply
with your very reasonable and patriotic re
quest, but it is rendered impossible for
the following reasons, which I trust will
prove satisfactory to you and my other
friends.
Ist I am decidedly averse to appearing
in the public prints.
2d I have repeatedly of late declined
compliance with similar applications.
3d With very great reluctance, I had
consented to the publication of a letter
to a gentleman of Mobile, on the same
subject, which I saw afterwards in the
newspapers, and which contained my de-
I liberate and unchangeable sentiments, both
in regard to the grievance and the remedy
—to which of course I would add or sub
tract nothing.
It is true, that since the date of that
letter, acts have been passed by Congress
which have been called a compromise of
the agitated questions, but still my opin
ions remain the same, and it would be idle
repetition and waste of words to offer you
the same substance dressed in different
language.
i Congress has merely consummated a
■ scheme conceived and begun by the Exe
i cutive, in fraud, falsehood and trickery,
and has effectually excluded you from ev-
I ery square foot of Territory acquired from
; Mexico, and 40,000 square miles taken
1 from Texas besides, as they had enacted
I the Wilmot Proviso, word for word, and
! they have done this without violating the
letter of the Constitution—nor would they
have forborne the Wilmot Proviso, word
for word, had they not believed that the
law of God and the law of Mexico had
effectually done the same thing without
it.
Now. if Congress had enacted the Wil
mot Proviso, and had aboisbsd slavery in
' the District and the slave trade between
■ the States, and had made the first move
to abolish slavery in the States I could
; have advised nothing more or less than I
' ! advised in that Mobile letter. I would
1 have rejoiced if I had had the power, to
call you to arms, but even in that case, you
would have had none. I therefore advis
ed the arming of the Southern States
without delay—a good musket and bayo-'
net in the hand of every man capable of!
using it, and good parks of atillerv, well
affinaneed and well trained, volunteers,
Ac., Ac-, in all of which yuuare deficient..
i know of but one State this side of the'
Potomac that is not so—it is South Caro-1
lina. If S. C shall unhappily resolve to
secede alone, she will be able to fight al
good fight—if cloven down she will fall!
with honor. If any one believes there
can be dissolution withoutthe most bloodv :
contests he deceives himself, and he who i
is best armed is likely to be most success- i
ful.
For dissolutiod, two things arc necessa
ry—lst. The WiU.—2d. ' The
Carolina is the only State having the
Will, and the only one having any pre
paredness to carry that will into effect. —
In every other State there i.- neither the
oue er the other. Some ol the States are
almost to a man satisfied with what Con
gress has done—all the rest are divided. j
Their Representatives and Senators have ;
divided ; with respect to Georgia, none
can tell on which side a uiajooity is, either
for submission or resistance. 1 would
consider it extremely unwise and impru- j
dent to dissolve, unless a majority ot the ,
States of coterminous boundaries could be
formed into a confederacy sufficiently
strong to resist all foreign aggression. I t
would be exceedingly desirable that all :
! the States having identical interests should j
join in the same Confederacy, but I would I
i not wail for this if the enemy continued to I
i force the separation.
All remedies short of force or conven
tional agreement 1 reject—every other
remedy, whether of non-intervention or
restrictive duties, or discriminative taxes
on trade and commerce, is unconstitution
al, and until weare driven to the last alter
native, I wish every unconstituional move
ment to proceed from the North. I wish
our people to be on the side oi' morality,
good foith and the Constitution, until that
alternative is offered. Violations of the
Constitution admit degrees,” uud 1 •
would abstain from following the example
of the North. Let her go on in the ca
reer of violation until she has heaped so
many coals of fire on her head, and then
present to her the bayonet with a good
■ conscience, and with an energy that will
make her, if not a friend, a better and .a
I more honest neighbor.
' Nothing is more easy, if you will per- j
! mit yourselves, than to be drawn into an i
I experiment of remedies that are extra cou-1
! siitutional- They exelude you from Ter
i ritories which are as much yours as theirs
' —may you not exclude Northern men
■ from Territories which are exclusively
: yours ? Northern men exclude your
property from California and the Territo
j ries—may not you exclude their property
| from the boundaries of Georgia ? On a
I principle of retaliation you would be justi
| liable, but you would not be justified by
! the Constirusion.
A voluntary non-intercourse would be
! trood and might bo remedial, but this
would require a unanimity forwhich there
lis no hope—less than unanimity would dc
i feat it—discriminating taxes violate the
| Conssitution, because Congress have ex
' elusive power to regulate commerce be
| tween the States, and the regulation of
commerce does not mean destruction, but
encouragement, and now, sir, I have only
to repeat, for the hundredth time, and for
all that time unheeded, there is no rem
edy for our present grievance but armed
States, bidding defiance and presenting
such array that the one party must with
draw from its unjust pretensions, or the
other assert its rights of equality and in
dependence. Whether continued aggres
sion—resistance to or repeal of the Fu-
I gitive Act, or something worse, will rally
! the people of the South and bring them to
i think and feel and act like brothers, rc
| mains for the future to disclose. In the
meantime we have thrown ourselves upon
a Convention, and it will become good cit
izens to abide its action.
[laving thus presented my general views
,in as few words as I could employ to
| make myself at all intelligible, I trust you
I will see in those few an additional reason
why they should not be published. They
proclaim our weakness by proclaiming our
divisions, and thus encouraging the North
Ito proceed in her course of aggression,
I which is what the enemies of the Union
• desire and the friends of Union deplore.
• No State can act with safety in the direc
| tion of dissolution without a majority
gtrong enough to expel the non-contents
and drive them into the arms of the
| enemy. Very respectfully, dear sir,
G. M. TROUP,
Dr. John G. Slappey, Newnan, Ga.
•The effects and consequences of different vio
lations may be very different, but whilst in the
Union, every wilful violation is criminal.
From the Pennsylmmian.
Another Scrap of History.
How we like to travel back through
the musty records of our own country, to
discover how every page makes against
the terrible innovations of Know Noth
ingism! In November, 1784, the Leg
islature of Maryland passed an act, the
I title of which is as follows:—An act to
I naturalize Major-General the Marquis de
Lafayette and his heirs male progeny for
ever ! A thousand years hence, there
may be a million of males living in Europe
with the blood of Layfayette in their veins.
What if they should all come over the
water and settle in Maryland, and claim te
be citizens, as they really would be, with
out the usual probation ? Thoughtless
Maryland—don’t you already tremble with
apprehonsion at the thought of such an
irruption of foreign Americans ? But
Virginia—she too has done the same
i thing I In fact her act of Assembly pre-
I ceded that of Maryland, and the two are
ostensibly the same. What is to become
of our country? The foreigners will take
it away from us, unless we repeal the two
acts alluded to, and substitute the doc
trines of the Secret Order!
But how supremely ridiculous it is for
an Order which puts foreign born citizens
that never have been naturalized upon their
tickets, and cry out other against citizens
of foreign birth; who have been natural
ized ! Let us sec what the Legislatures
of Virginia and Maryland did say The
preamble of the act we omit:
‘•Be it enaated by the General Assem
bly of Maryland, That the Marquis de
Lafayette, his mail heirs forever, shall be
and they and each of them are hereby
deemed, adjudged and taken to be natural
born citizens of this State, and shall
' henceforth be cniitlcd to all the immuni
ties, rights and privileges of natural born
i citizens thereof, they and every one of
i them conforming to the Constitution and
■ laws of this State, in the enjoyment and
I exercises of such immunities, rights and
■ privileges. ’
There, now what do you think of Vir-
I giniaand Maryland after that, ye Know
| Nothing croakers? Os course your wounds
are too recent, obtained in Virginia, to
think much of her. But what of Mary
land ? Watchmen, what of the night in
: which ye are shrouded ? Glorious old
j Guttenberg—thy types are the mirrors of
1 the past, and everywhere hold up for the
folly of Know Nothingisi*! Infidels of
the dark lantern—
(lo tell the Night th it hides thy face,
Thou saw’stthe last of Adain’a race.
On Earth’s s< pulcbral clod,
I The darkening universe defy,
To quench hia immortality,
Or shakcjlus trust in God. ;
i If a email l.oy be celled, « lad ieit propc i
( For the Daily Examiner.]
Khqulry from WlilUh-hl.
Messrs /i'/rtori: A How me to trouble
you with an enquiry or two, to be answered
for the benefit ol the voters of Whitfield
The first, enquiry is: Who j H this U. 15.
Wellbcurne,the KinVNothing Candidate
for the Semite ? Is he the Methodist
preacher who lives in Dalton ; who goes
to Church on Sabbath and asks the peo
ple for money for missionary purposes,
to spread the gospel and save poor sinners?
Who gives those wretched accounts of the
poor Roman Catholic Irish who arc wrap
ped in the chains of Popery, where the
true Protestant religion can never reach
them ? Ob ! how his heart bleeds at.the
thought of those poor sinners who are
subject to the tyrannical Pope ; who bow
to his will, wrapped in popish robes, from
which they cannot extricate themselves;
who are crush< d by the monster iron will
that coils itself around their consciences,
fusing into them the poison of its hatred
to this government! Ohl cruel thought!!
Well, what next will he have you to
do ? Oh ! for Heaven’s sake join the
Know Nothings! What for? Oh the
Catholics are ruining the country ! Have
nothing to do with them. He would swear
you to eternal hatred against these same
poor devils for whom he has so long been
asking you for money to enlighten and
save ! He would have you deprive them
•of all religious rights and liberties ! And
why, because they are guilty of the awful
sin of being born in Ireland, and of being
Catholics. Remarkable consistency !
There are some of his brethren who are
foreigners—he can meet them in the pul
pit, take them to his arms, and press them
to his bosom as dear brothers; can take
them in full fe lowship as Christians.—
And yet he will tell you not to trust these
righteous men; that they will swear to
untruths, and are unworthy to be trusted
with office ! He can live in full fellowship
with him, however, impure and intriguing
as they are! Save us from such political
religion I
Is C. B. Wellbourne the Mayor of the
city of Dalton ? Oh yes! He is a very
strong man, certainly—he must be—was
he not elected Mayor ? And a fine officer
he makes— for his party ! When Know
Nothings fight, and get drunk, and curse
upon the streets, he never hears of it. I
am sorry he never heard thut Bill Jolly
and Shields fought, as he has been a good,
faithful officer, and always inflicted proper
penalties, as some of our country friends
know. It is not surprising he did not,
however, as they arc all know nothings, and
of course say nothings !
1 would suggest that Mr. Wcllbourne
resign his office, while he is a candidate.
He has not. reported the state of the
Treasury yet, and it would consume too
much of the time his candidacy demands •
he will be too busy electioneering in this
exciting canvass, to keep good order—be.
sides he will be abs’ent so much.
I doubt not the people are often struck
with amazement to see Mr. Wellbourna
march out to a justice’s court with a crowd
of street bullies, from this place, in attend
ance as a body guard. The people of this
county are not so very riotous as to require
the assistance of constable McCarson, to
suppress them. If you cannot carry your
point by fair argument, you cannot by
fighting; you never can drive the boys.
Messrs. Wellbourne & J oily are a plenty to
fight the Catholics in this county. We
only have about twelve of them and they
are all very peaccble men. But I suppose
they are afraid of the shadow of the Irish
Catholic, as they* vi<»w it, magnified to
alarming seen by the light, of
•d dark lantern from some hole in the
ground. If half the county was Irish,
they could not muster more bullies. Will
the people of Whitfield vote for a man
who is afraid to leave town without a body
guard of fighting men ?
Oh yes I vote for Wellbournc. He is a
preacher, wears fine clothes, and carries a
fine cane. He stands upon his dignity
and will command respect. And, let me
whisper, he’ll flatter the Millcdgcvilliaus
into almost anything— when he is elected!
They say Treadwell is only an honest
farmer. For once they tell the truth, he
is an honest farmer, not familiar with the
tricks of the day, and may be relied upon
to do right. He is no office seeker, who
makes his living from party spoils. They
could not have complimented him more
highly than by saying “he is only an hon.
est farmer,’’ notwithstanding they applied
the term contemptuously. No doubt they
hold honesty in contempt, and regard far
mers as inferior to broad cloth and fine
cane gentry !
One more enquiry. Can the people of
Whitfield vote for such a man ; who won’t
trust a Church brother any more than a
negro ? “Render unto Caesar the things
that are Ctcsar’s !’’ He has them supplied
from an infant’s ■ SHROUD.
CijjrThe Hon. John H. Wheeler, U.
S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, while on
board the New York steamer, at Walnut
street wharf, Philadelphia, on Wednesday
on his way to Now York, had three of his
slaves seized and taken from him by a mob of
negros, on tiie ground that, having been
voluntarily brought to Philadelphia, they
were entitled to their freedom. L'assmorc
Williamson, a well known member of the
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, was
on Thursday, charged in the United
States District Court with heading the
mob, and Judge Kane issued a writ, re
quiring him to produce the slaves. Five
of the negroes engaged in the affair have
been arrested and committed to prison.
tyriT T. li. Goldsby, Esq., has been
elected 1 resident ol the Alabama and
Tennessee River Railroad. The Solms
Reporter learns that instructions Lave
been given to commence laying the track