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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER, wr Wt TC -R T. Y CI2RCUIJA.TION O JF’ T H jES Ei 3L AM INTER, 8000 JOHN H. STEELE, 1 CHAS. L. BARBOUR, J J ° rS VOLUME 1. TERMS. i.irr - I THE WEEKLY “ EXAMINER, I a Published every Friday Morning, at. 7wo Doi- I lars per annum, payable in advance. [y No subscription taken for less than six ! months. RATES OF ADVERTISING-. I Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly ] Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five | cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the. firstl insertions, and 37| cents per square for each sub | sequent insertion. 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Citations for "letters of Administration, Guar dianship Ac., must bo 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 &.<'• $2 75 do do dismissory from Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land qr Negroes, Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 square t 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a man-advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 > Letters on business must be (post paid) to en- ‘ title them to attention. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1855. STEAM FIRE ENGINE. The frequent occurrence of fire alarms, and the amount of property destroyed in our city last winter, by the devastating element, should be suf ficient warning to the. “powers that be” to pro vide some additional security against its ravages during the coming winter. The noble band of clever follows who man “dor merchine,” v hila they glory in showing its power over the Fire King, can but admit that their pot is insufficient to subdue him, when once he gets fairly the start of them. Let him once e attack Whitehall street, which so particularly invites his attention, ami not all the efforts of the company can check him in his exulting inarch through the entire street, which literally offers a premium to incendiarism. The piculiar situation of affairs, and the suspi cious circumstances attending last winter's fires, appeal strongly, not only for the protection of city property, but for the relief of those whose eflorts in behalf of the city entitle them to such consid eration, for increased efficiency of the Fire De partment. The engines now in use in our principal cities are rapidly being superceded by the Steam ma chine, of recent invention, which has been proven the most efiectivej“firc annihilator" yet discovered, and it does not need the tongue of prophecy to induce the conviction that it will eventually en tirely supercede tile ordinary engine, and turn the services of the “B’hoys” into other channels equally commanding public admiration. To pur chase any other would be an unprofitable invest ment; and besides we think anything less than a steam engine would be inconsistent with the progressive character of our fast city. W e hope the subject will receive an attention commensu rate with its importance. The New Orleans Picayune, in its account of the recent destructive fire in that qity (of which our readers are already advised) diseourseth of the steam fire engine after this manner: We have left till tho last all notice of the steam lire engine which did essential i service on the occasion, and more than t polished off the slight tarnish that the ac-| cidents which occurred to her yesterday j had put upon her. As soon as the fire | broke out, immediate efforts were made to! put her in workingotder, notwithstanding j the engineer had cut his foot badly with! a piece of broken bottle ; and there was i considerable doubt with many whether she j could be put into safe and working order i at ail within any reasonable time. After about two hours effort, however.! she was put into such a trim that, she j could be used, and she was ready to go ] out shortly after 4 o’clock. Iler own hor ses not being here, however, others from the various companies had to be picked I up to send for her ; and this being done. 1 it took 23 minutes to get her from the 1 engine house on St. John-street to the lire, to get the steam up, and to get three | streams forced from her on the fire —one i of the streams being 1J inch, and the; other two an inch each—exactly 23 min utes. She was on the ground by half-past 4 1 o'clock, and shortly afterwards relieved alll the hand engines, and kept the. tire under herself, ultimately working four streams. (The engine worked admirably, and threw ! her streams with a force and steadiness | most gratifying and effective, although she I had on a steam pressure of only forty-four i pounds to the square inch, instead of one i hundred and twenty pounds, her regular power; the small power being used for fear of bursting the hose, &c. As it was I the old hose repeatedly burst with the I force of the stream sent through them, ami the strength of them was something al - most startling, though not likely exactly |to break a leg on striking against it.— | Yet indirectly it was not far from caus- I ing such an incident here as it did in ] Cincinnati. Here, as there, the pipe once slipped I from the hands of those holding it, and away it swung with a force that sent some thirty or perhaps fifty sprawling in the gutters! and one of them on rising was actually thrown off his legs again by the force with which the stream struck him, and he again fell. The engineer who managed her deserves credit for the constancy with which he worked her from the moment he set about getting her repaired till 11 o’clock this morning, when the engine stopped play ing. The injury on his foot was such as might have excused him ; but he worked on to the end. Altogether, the steam fire engine has, therefore, this morning achieved great success. We may have further particulars in the morning. The origin of the fire is variously sup posed tohave been caused by leakage of the gas in the servant’s apartment, or t hrough an inaccessible place in the kitchen chim neys. WHY THEY WITHDRAW. The best test outsiders have of the purity of a secret organization is the estimation in which it is held by its own members, and when we see them publicly denouncing it, it is fair to conclude that it is really corrupt. In addition to the count less other proofs of the rottenness of the Know Nothing organization, the frequency of the with drawal of large and respectable bodies of its adhe rents, furnish the most conclusive evidence of its unworthincss. From every section they come; first we are startled by the announcement that the order has lost, in our own place, a large num ber of its members; then the accounts reach us from remote sections. The dissatisfaction seems universal. The Amcric.au public are excitable and may be, for the moment, carried away by the specious reasonings of demagogues, but the “lu cid interval,” the “sober second thought” will come, and with it, tho consequent abandonment of their insane fancies. Such has been the mos marked feature of the history ot the Know Noth ing order. One moment it seemed to ride re sistlessly over the land, and the very next elec tion proved it in a hopeless minority. And why I Because the first excitement had died away, and the second proved unequal to the task of obliter ating the effect which the interim furnished for reflection. The people had time to look about them, and discover beneath the paint and tinsel which first allured them, the utter rottenness of the fabric they sustained; and stung with the re flection that they had been duped by designing men, they indignantly withdrew, and came over to the unvarnished cause ot truth, with hearts steeled against tho impressions thus obliterated by tho first, rays of reason which fell upon them. And such will be the end of the party. The gaudy drapery will wear away, and leave naked the purposes that originated the order. It cannot bear tho daylight test to which the American people put every proposition submitted to them. It has no argument to sustain it, but is built upon a foundation of sophistry and must fall by its own weight. Every member it makes but adds to the amount of reason which it holds, ]and which is its worst foe. What objection one mind does •not suggest, another will, and thus the accession of every additional member infuses more of the deadly poison which will destroy it. The opposition press, too, have poured upon it an incessant storm of argument, and the rotten timbers begin to crack and bend under the charge. The closed shutters have been wrenched from their hinges; the barred doors fall in, and an ir rcsistable and destructive stream of light pours into the dark closets, revealing to those w ho groped there,; the pitfalls and trap doors that abound throughout the building, and they leave it like, rats from a doomed ship. The following address, which we clip from the Yazoo (Miss) Democrat, signed by forty-one of the leading members of the council in that place, seven of whom are whigs, illustrates the effect of these combined influences upon the organization. TO THE PUBLIC, Being convinced from our connection, with what is commonly called the Know Nothing party, that we have been deluded as to its aims and purpose, we therefore publish to the world, and particularly to the so-called Know Nothing party that we are no longer members us that organ ization. As to the secrets and obligations connected with the order we shall hold them inviolate, and in dissolving our con nection with it, we do so with a conscien tious belief that the operations of the order are dangerous to the practical workings of this Republican Government —danger- ous to the liberties of the people—and that they trammel tho free exercise of the elective franchise. CORRESPONDENTS. Our lair correspondent Jlv.in. will pardon us fertile ouuuissiou other article to-day, unavoid able ci r:u nisi anc.'s prevent, i; its publication. It will appear to-iuorrow. W< arc really grate ful for the "kind interest manifested in your high ly flattering letter; but we beg to deprecate the modesty it evinces. Success is certain. With such I ability, and a commensurate self confidence, you ] will laugh at the idea of failure. We hope to | hear from you often. ISaltie has placed us under obligations for a hearty laugh, but a decent regard for licks and eves, and vest buttons, prevents its pub!.cation. | Thank you fortho wish; it dees cred c to your heart. We don’t think thev w.ll quite murder 1 us, e.lbeit they look savage. Should we appie | bend danger, however, we will give them a few extracts from your letter, wiiicli cannot fail to put | them in :i good humor. I [Fo.-.i-' Ath.da Daily Examiner.] I Judge Wanwr's Appointments. lion. Hiram Warner, will addre.-s I the people of th? Fourth Congressional | District at the following times and places : , Newnan, Coweta co. Saturday Ju y 2>- I Atlanta, Fulton co, Saturday, Aug 4th i McDonough, Henry co, Tuesday, Aug 7. Decatur, DeKalb co, Sau.day, •• 11, Marietta, Wednesday. August 15th Franklin. Saturday, Aug IS. • Campbellton. Tuesday, Aug 21. ' Greenville, Saturday, Aug 25. Fayetteville, Tuesday, Sept IS. . LaGrange, Saturday, Sept 22. j .... The Telegraph relay will be moved to Augusta as soon as the line is completed from | Wtlmmton to KmsviUe. “ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”— Jefferson. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3. 1855. THE ARGUMENT. It lias been said by a p. litical leader of this State, distinguished lor sagacity, at least, that “Georgia always goes with the argument,' This l was the result of his long observation, elicited by i the defeat ot his candidate in the last gubema j loriai election. He was right; Georgia does go with the argument. Fanaticism finds in Georgia soil no nutritious elements. The peo ple of Georgia weigh well every question before they act, and when they do act, their action is on the side of reason. They cannot b- delud ed by sophistry; hut cooiy and camly de liberate upon the great questions which agitate the public mind, and there is too much wisdom in their deliberations to allow fa natics, religious or political, to control them. - Demagogues may spring new and strange issues upon them; men may attempt to poison the public mind wilh revolutionary doctrines: by clothing them in garbs of plausibility; but all to no purpose—the people will think; they will reason- Once arouse them to action, and every thing is safe. It is this quality which has placed Georgia in the lead of Southern States. Her action upon all the great questions of the day, is looked to with intense interest, and her platforms are erected in every section as soon as they are made. She marks out a line of action, and straightway her sisters fall in and join her; for what she does is right. The position is a proud one, and to the qualities which have won it, we look for ward for success. With our full hand exposed, we challenge the investigation of the poo pie.— Democracy has nothing to congeal, her foes may skulk in midnight, or show false lights to delude the people, but they will be driven into their true position by the iron will of the Georgia pub lic, which sifts the grain from the chaff, and stores the former only. Wo have but to continue our, so far, unsullied course, and when the day oftrialcome -when the case is placed upon its merits, the verdict will be a triumphant vindica tion of our principles our the specious preten tions of the foe. The excitable North may run wild after the chimerical creations ot diseased brains, or the wild schemes of designing men; her people may be deluded into allegiance to “higher law;’’ but Georgians are above such influences. They discriminate between true and false doctrines by the great controlling spirit of investigation which so marks their character; and it is not the cause that most dazzles tho eye they espouse, but the one whose predicates are truth and reason. The wild vagaries of the opposition may for a while distract the attention of the people; but when the time comes for action, they will sub ject everything to the crucible of truth, and the gilt and tinsel of the new doctrines will melt away, leaving the Democracy unscathed by the refining process. Our’s must be the triumph, for “ Georgia always goes with the argument OUR T*HANKS Are due Mr. C. H. Bulkley, and other agents of ADAMS & CO.’S EXPRESS, for their con tinued polite attentions. Tn these close-fisted times, when the rush after dimes approximates in impetuosity to the “wild chase after office” of a certain party we wot of, itis really refreshing to be the recipients of such handsome favors as come to us “free gratis for nothing,” from the Agents of this world-renowned company. We don’t care to excite the envy of our neighbors by a description of the last favor by which we are laid under a mountain load of obligation, but if ei ther one of them had been sociable enough to drop into our sanctum Wednesday morning an aroma would have saluted their olfactories, the like of which seldom drives away the scent of musty pa pers. Only think of Magnolias, etc., fresh and fragrant, away up here amongst the mountains. Thank you gentlemen, thankyou! E D. A few days ago, a query,'over the signature of “Native American ” appeared in the columns of the Augusta Chronicle <fc Sentinel, in which it was asked, “whether any Catholic Priest ever took the oath of allegiance to the United States.” We responded at once that the late Bishop Eng land of Charleston, South Carolina, always exer ercised the right of suffrage in that State, and that was conclusive of the fact, that he had taken the oath of allegiance. On Saturday, however, we published a communication over the signature of “Georgian,” the author of which is a respect ble citizen of Macon, one whose word in all his transactions with men, is considered as good as his band, in which the query refered to, mentions others of foreign birth, who have taken that oath which made them citizens of this Republic, and by and through which, they became entitled to all the privileges of a “native born,” not excepting the inestimable one of croiZ and religious rights. So much then for this clap-trap, and silly que ry- But it is to warn our readers of the true object of this queiy that we now again refer to it. careful reading of our Know Nothing exchanges, North and South, has revealed to us an important fact, and trick of the enemy. Twelve months ago, it crept into the Know Nothing press of the North, that the Pope’s Nuncio had told Mr. Bar ringer that he had been advised while in the United States, that President Pierce had contract ed with the Catholic heads of their Church, to bestow the office of Post Master General ujSon Judge Campbell,he being a Roman Catholic; and that ti e clergy, in their turn, had contracted to give the Catholic vote to Mr. Pierce. Now this Nuncio is esteemed to be a man of great sagacity ; of some learning, and experience. No one will deny him all these characteristics. But did he display any of them, when he told Mr. Barringer, an opponent of General Pierce, so important a sact 1 . Why the statement carried conviction of its falsity upon its very face. More than this, it was indignantly repelled as false. in the erga of the President, at Washington, and in other anti-Know Nothing presses; and yet, it is reitera ted here, there, and everywhere. Just so. will it be with the query referred to. It will be, and has i been answered, but it will be put again and I again, and at last it will assume the form of an assertion that Catholic priests of foreign birth, do not swear allegiance to this country. Mark our ! prediction, gentle reader, and think, when you ; see it fuifdled, how far error at the start will lead men astray. Minister From Spain.— Alfonso Es i calnate has l»eeii named by the cabinet of the I Duke De la V ictoria, minister plenipotentiary to to the United States, vice Senor Cueto removed. The nomination has not yet been approved by the Cortes, of which Escahnle is a member. .In Improved Microscope.— (t is stated that Mr Hinds, of Ohio tormerty of New York, has re c- ntly constructed a compound micioscope, which i<>r magnifying power; is not equalled by any in j the world. In 1851 he constructed a microscope capable of magnifying objects 17,000.000 times The one just completed has a diamond lens, with a power surpassing bv nearlv 2,000.000 that of I 1851. Old Generals.— The London papers arc ron ■ gratulating themselves on having got nd of all ! the old Generals in the Crimea, and younger men have now been appointed to till their places they look i.poq victory ascertain. Col. Pakenham who has just been appointed to the command of a division, is but 36; he is a nephew of General 1 Pakenham who. at the same age. was killed while in in command of the English forces at New Orleans. .... Cidonei Bissell, who has been detained * tor more than two years from his home by serious illness has so far recovered as to be able to pro ceed upon his return to Illinois. 1 .... The ca'thquake which was recently felt in Baltimore and Wilmington was also felt Jin Fradicksburg, Ya., it is said, very sensibly. The I fall of the Falmouth bridge occurred the same j night, and about the same hour. [For the Atlanta Daily Examiner.] Nightfall Reveries.’ BY MONA. How oft, when twilight hour is nigh. And stars begem the glowing sky. Kind mem'ry with a silver wand. Invites me to the “Fairy Land.’ The past, with all its bygone joys, Its sweets, combined with its alloys, Presents such forms as make us sigh Tothink those charms have all flown by- While hurrying through the thick'ning maze. Methinks I meet some friendly gaze; Some loved one, who has gone before., Smiles on mo as he did <>l Sweet Hope was there, the soul’s delight. The guiding star, the beacon light. That still, with ever-speaking eyes, Points onward, upward, to the skies. The crystal streams and waving flow'rs. The graceful trees and vine-clad bow rs. Seem but too truly “Fairy Land.’ Too frail for touch of mortal hand. And over all this beautious scene The rainbow shod its softening sheen, Till fancy’s self evinced surprise That magic should produce such dyes. But soon the dream had ceased to be. Like scenes that only charm to flee. And earth, all dewy, charmed the sight, Just waking from the embrace ot night. Newnan, Ga. My Brother. Oh, briar-rose, clamber, And cover the chamber— The chamber, so dreary and lone — Where, with meekly closed lips. And eyes in eclipse, My brother lies under the stone. Oh, violets, cover The narrow roof over, Oh, cover the window and door! For never the lights, Through the long days and nights, Make shadows across the floor! The lilies are blooming— The lilies are white. Where his play-haunts used to be; And the sweet cherry blossoms Blow over the bosoms Os birds, in tho old roof tree. When I hear on the hills The shout of the storm in the valley, the roar of the river* I shiver and shake On the hearth stone warm, As I think of his cold —“forever!” His white hands are folded, And never again, With song of the robin or plover, When the summer has come, With her bees and her grain, Will he play in the meadow-clover. Oh, dear little brother. My sweet little brother, In the place above the sun. Oh! I pray the good angels. The glorious evangels, To take me —when life is done. Emma Alice Browne. COMMUNICATED. Macon, Ga., July 16, 1855. Editor Daily Examiner:— ln reply to “Native merican," inquiring “whether any Catholic Priest ever took the oath of allegiance to the United States.” I am gratified to say that such fact has come under iny limited observation repeatedly. I perceive that you have cited the case of Bishop John England, formerly of Charles ton, but who now slumbers beneath Anter-, ican soil. Permit me to enlighten “Na tive American’s” on this subject still further. Bishop Reynolds, uow de ceased, and late Bishop of South Carolina, a Kentuckian by birth; Bishop Fitzpatrick, of New York ; Bishop Hendrick, of Phil adelphia ; and last, but not least, the late Bishop of our own State, the ever to be remembered and long to be lamented Gartland, who fell a victim to that dire disease, the Y'ellow Fever, while battling against it as a messenger of God and as a true philanthropist. More particularly do I vindicate the cause of the dead—they are silenced forever. Archbishop Hughes will rank among the above. True, they have sworn allegi ance to this government, yet they do not harangue the public with their notions of a Higher Law, or a Lower Law ; they have a destiny to fulfil, and never cau it be said with truth, that they have forsaken the altar of their God, in order to stand in the footsteps of a political demagogue.— Were it required of me, I would mention hundreds of the clergy to satisfy “Native American,” but I think itis unnecessary at present, as I have given a list of the leaders of the church in this country. One word more and 1 have done. Let not “Native merican” imagine for a-- moment that I have penned these line for the purpose of entering into contro ■ versy,nor “aughtin maliceset down;’’ but simply endeavored to reply to his “query,” which, 1 hope, has beeu elucidated to his satisfaction. lam no Catdolic, nor have I ever been. If Lam a foreigner, I have become so by living in the State of Geor gia under whose flag I was born, of Ameri can parents. The stars and stripes 1 pro tect, and the home of my birth, Jhe “gude ould" State of Georgia, I revere; yet whenever 1 know religion to be mingled with politics, on account of its I forms and ceremonies, I shall then deem it my duty, and every honest man’s duty, j to protect it also. GEORG I AN. ! A New Phase of the Kinney Expe ' niTiON. —The New Y'ork Mirror has the i following: Kinney and his followers lost everything i —ship, stores, arms, and munition, and all j —on Caicos Reef. They are said to be en j gaged in fitting themselves out anew. Now, Turks island is a dependency of Britain.and if that CovernmeLt permits them to arm at and embark from that point for an in vasion of Nicaragua, they, rather than the United States, will be the responsible fiili bustering government. The case has gone • beyond the jurisdiction of this Govern ! ment, at least for time being, and we shall i watch the measnres in the matter by the | British colonial authorities with no little I interest. I Flour from this year’s wheat has been for | warded from Augusta county, Virginia, to New IYork. It wm purchased at the mills at $9 per atreb Formal Union of tHc knowNotlHngs and AboliDo .i <- ■. f dlana. The proceedings of the Convention of Abolitionists and Know-nothings of Indi ana, held at Indianapolis on the same day that witnessed the nuptials Iffttween the same combinations at Columbus, Ohio, are more emphatic and significant than any event we have been called upon to notice for sonic months. In order to show the completeness-of the fusion, we give the following from theCincinnatti Columbian. The resolutions, which w« have not yet received, are of the most ultra abolition stamp. Union. From the Cincinnati Columbian. The long heralded Indiana State Con vention assembled yesterday morning at Indianapolis. Not content with sending their delegates, the people seemed to have turned out en vrasse. The greatest en thusiasm prevailed, and banners with stir ring mottoes and devices were apparent, in every hand. FORENOON SESSION. The convention assembled in the grove in front of the State house, where the speeches were made and the resolutions read and adopted. The seats were intended to accommo date three thousand persons, but, though they were filled to their utmost capacity, scarcely a respectable moiety of the crowd was aeeomodatH. Two fine bands of music were in attendance, and their stir ring strains were interspersed through the proceedings with fine effect. A tremendous delegation numbering no less that seventeen hundied, were present from Shelby county. The ladies (Heaven bless their souls) were around in profus on, and by their sweet smiles and showy calico added much to the cnlivenment of the scene. Among the more prominent mottoes displayed were the following : There is a North ; Itinerant Vagabonds, Beware ; Down with the Pope ; and America for Americans. One, borne by a German, was not mal-apropos : I have Come to Live, but not to Rule. The committee then retired to prepare the resolutions. There beiug loud calls for Judge Mor ton, Wayne county, he took the stand and proceeded in an earnest manner to express his sentiments touching the nature of the questions which had called them together. He remarked that the enemies of the great American movement had prophesied that the excitemeet would all die away in a short time. He was glad it was not so, and thought that the presence of so en thusiastic a host proved the prophecy a false one. No, it was no temporary ex citement which prompted the movement, but a love of liberty and a desire to have it perpetuated ' into posterity. Look at Kansas. Have not her minions, backed by Missouri ruffians, trampled out what little of popular sovereignty there was in the Nebraska bill ? Can it be said that there is no excuse for the existence of the American party in Indiana ?—here, where a foreigner,. no matter how degraded or how ignorant, can vote and participate in ail the rights of citizenship after a six months residence, only having declared his intention to be come a citizen'( No, we of Indiana have greater cause of complaint than the people of other States, where a five years resi dence is the shortest probation. General Wilson, of Massachusetts, then took the stand amidst enthusiastic ap plause. Adverting to the occasion as one of great interest and Joyousness, he spoke of the beauty of the day, ( the sun pouring down his intensest rays full in our face, we couldn’t appreciate it!) and said na ture herself, seemed to sympathize with the occasion, lie adverted to the slavery question, treating it in precisely the same manner and language nearly identical as in his recent lecture at the Mechanic's In stitute Hall. Alluding to a rumor that southern senators intend going to the;Cap itol at the next session of Congress “armed to the teeth,” he said northern senators would not shrinS from any issue; personal or political. His speech throughout was well received. The Testimony of Another. The Griffin Empire State publishes the withdrawal of Mr. Jacob McLenden, an old substantial farmer of Pike county, who was lured into the embracec of “Sam” but became disgusted with the first sight of the monster, and, like other gook patriots “came out from amongst them,” and adds his testimony to the bad character of the political oath bound Order. He says : Iu a thoughless hour, I was induced to join the Know Nothings. Their orgies appeared to me like the witchcraft of olden times. No one can be a member of the Order without falsifying the truth. By al kind of play upon names, lies are con-1 stantly to-d—a practice ttiat must soon i prove subsersive of all confidence between . man and man. I have to request the Or der to erase m_ name from their records .so completely, that no trace of it will re-j main ! The jl<7roc<i6? of the South says twenty ] nine persons quit the order at Buena 5 is-1 ta, Marion county. Ga., on Saturday the! 21st inst. What makes this defection] the more galling, is the fact that it was' publicly announced at the Court House | •ust one week before, that there would be I a meeting of the order on that day to ini- ] tit. 'iftynew members. They initiated] oh*, says the .'Wrocrtfr, and lost twenty- j nine. "We are satisfied with the results] of that meeting, iwenty or tb’rty more] are expected to quit at the next meet-1 ing We are informed that more than a dozen i members of the order in Muscogee county have already retired and that many more will follow suit. They are, however, so heartily ashamed of having joined the order that we fear they will not publish eir cards. be far more successful than one held in Eng land in 1851. _ .... Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary of State left Washington, on Saturday last for a short ojeurn at Old Point Comfort, LATEST NEWS., LATER FROM EPKOPEi ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP | i ATLANTIC. Sandy Hook, N. Y., July 25. The steamer Atlantic, with dates from Liverpool to the 13th inst., arrived this afternoon. SEVASTOPOL BOMBARDED. Sevastopol had again b’een bombarded by the Allies for two days, but withojt success. The Allies were erecting immense works against the Malakoff and Redan Towers, and the Russians were erecting formidable works commanding those posi tions. ENGLAND. A ministerial crisis had taken place in England, in consequence of Sir John Russell’s bungling expiration of his con - duct at the Vienna Conferrcnce On the 16th, Sir Bulwar Lytton moved in Parliament, that the ministry contain ing Sir John Russell, was unworthy the confidence of the nation. It was expected that Lord Palmerston would either throw Russell overboard, dissolve Parliament, or resign. Parliament would be prorogued in Au gust The bullion in the Bank of England had decreased .£500,000. The steamer Union arrived onton the 12th inst. THE BALTIC. There had been some trifling operation in the Baltic. LIVERPOOL MARKET. Cotton dull and declined |d. Wheat and Flour firm, owing to some small stock in hand. Corn declined 4s. Pro- i visions dull. Consols 91. American securities ac-l tive. CHARLESTON MARKET. Friday, July 27. Cotton —A sale of one lot was made to day of 190 bales, at 11 cents, for the Spanish market. Later from California.—Arrival of the Star of the West. The village of Camp Angei has been burned. The steamer America, with three com panies of Government troops on board, took fire and was destroyed at Crescent city. No lives were lost. A warrant had been issued at San Francirco for the arrest of David D. Page, but he escaped in one of the steam ers. A naval battle is reported to have oc curred off San Diego between the Russian frigate Wichcimona and the French cor vette Egalite. The French commanded rather than strike, jumped into his maga zine and blew up the ship, and all on board perished. The Russian frigate re ported 60 killed and 150 wounded. So runs the story, but it is generally pro nounced a hoax. Alvin Adams, of San Francisco, has made a charge of fraud against his partners Wood & Haskell. An order has been issued against Mr. Cohen, the receiver of Messrs. Adams A Co., in consequence of incorret accounts. It is reported that assets amounting to 8170,000 are missing. It is also reported that serious charges of fraud were found in the account of Messrs. Page & Bacon, and warrants were issued for the arrest of Mr. Page, on the day of the sailing of the previous steam er The Fremont ease is to be taken back to the Supreme Court on a bill of excep tions. Alarming Indian difficulties have oc-; curred in Illinois valley—volunteer coin-: panies were out in pursuit of the Indi ans. The government steamer Massachusetts left for San Francisco on the 21st, on a cruise. J. T. Stiles, associated justice and J. ‘ L. Hayward, Marshall of Utah, and Or-i son Hyde, had arrived at Placerville. I The loss by the burning of the steamer i America, is estimated at 8150,000. The Oregon Legislature is democratic ■ throughout. Lane’s majority, for Con gress, is 2,200. Dates from the Sandwich Island to the i 22d of June have been received. The U. S. sloop of war Doctor was lying at ] Honolulu. Advices from Washington and Oregon I Territories report the mining and agricul-' tutal prospects as generally encouraging, j Later accounts of the Walker expedi tion say that Walker was beaten at Kias, | leaving twenty men, and the native se crites all deserted him. In his fight be ing hotly pursuied, he threw off his coat! containing all his documents and letters.! A meet: ig of Know Nothing had beeu ] held at Sacramento, at which Dr. Meders, i the State Treasurer presided. Speeches ] were made by Henry S Foote Edward : C. Marshall, Baillie Peyton, and others. I LATER rRDN CALIFORNIA.. The Star of the West arrived at New York Wednesday, with dates from San Francisco to the Ist inst. She brings! near a million of dollars. It is reported that frauds have been developed in the affairs of Adams & Co., and Page, Bacon & Co. The Democratic Convention has nomi nated Rigler for Governor, and denounced the K. N.’s. The K- N.’s are to meet at Sacramento and will be addressed byex-Governor Foote | and others FROM KANSAS, j The latest advices from Kansas state i i that Reeder refuses to recognise the Leg-1 ' islature as a legal body. ’1 lie Legislature has adopted the code of l I Missouri. A meeting of the people, has denounced the action as illegal. fWhat action, ■ whether the Governor’s or Legislatures, [ we know not ] REEDER RETAINED, The Cabinet had not come to a. decision in Reeder’s case at latest dates LATER FROM MEXICO. New Oilcans, July 25. The steamer Orizaba has arrived with dates from Mexico to the 19th inst. All was quiet at the Capital. It was said that Santa Anna’s father-in-law had been appointed Minister to the U. S. in place of Almonte. Santa Anna’s family would leave in the war steamer Iturbide It was reported that Santa Anna would make concessions. FROM NICARAGUA. Capt. Walker was defeated at Rivas, — having lost 20 men, he fled, leaving im i portant documents. He passed through I gan Juan on the night of the Ist instant, I burnt the barracks, and escaped on board i of a schooner for parts unknown. FROM SANTA FE. Advices from Santa Fe state that Capt. I Fauntleroy had defeated the Utahs killing ! forty and capturing five. Maj. Brooks I bad one man killed. Indian depredations | continue. CHOLErA IN CONNECTICUT!. The cholera has made its appearance in ■ Middletown, Connecticutt. New Orleans, July 25. There were two hundred and thirty nine deaths for the week ending yester day—including one hundred and nine een from Yellow Fever. Il ■moved THE ALLIES IN THE WESTERN WATERS. FRENCH CORVETTE BLOWN UP!—GREAT SACRIFICE ; OF HUMAN LIFE. The Los Angelos Star of June 17th, i ives an account of a naval battle off San I Diego, June 12th, between the Russian ; frigate and a French corvette. The for I mer charged the latter, and the captain : of the latter, whose name is said to have ■ beeu Capt. Duschcr, seeing no hope of I escape, rather than strike his flag, and see ; ing most of his crew cut to pieces, jumped * down into the magazine, and blew his snip ’ and all on board to externity. She was i called Egatile, mounted with 32 guns, and i had a complement of 320 men. The Russian frigate came into San Diego disablod, with 68 men killed and 1 150 wounded. She is a 74, and mounted !83 guns, and carried 900 men. Her ■ name is the Wilhelmend. The South ! ern Californian announces the whole o' the ; story as being false, and that it has been tiumped up at San Diego. Col. Kinney ' and his party hud not arrived at Nicara gua. CONTEMVLATED ANNEXATION. St. Louis, July 26. There is a project afoot in Kansas to ; purchase Platte County, Mo., and annex I it to Kansas. CROPS DESTROYED, St. L ouis, i )1 (I The grasshoppers have destroyed all the I crops at Salt Lake. Middletown, Conn., July 26. ! Three cases of genuine Asiatic cholera I were reported yesterday at Portlaud, and I one in this town. Baltimore, Ju 1 ; 26. Eighteen cases of Yellow Fever bad occurred at Portsmouth, Va The dis ease was brought there by th» steamer, .! Franklin, and thus far has been confined , to tho vicinity of the Navy yards. DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF ABB9TI LAWRENCE. I Boston, July 26. i Abbott Lawrence is at the point of! I death. LATER FROM KANSAS. New York, July 25. | ; Gov. Reeder, we learn, has vetoed all i I the acts of the Kansas Legislature, on the ■ ' ground that it was not a legal body. The | i bills, however, were passed over his veto j ! by large majorities. THE SLAVE ABDUCTION CASE- Philadelphia, July 27. i Judge Kane has committed Williamson I i charged with stealing Mr. Wheeler’s I I slaves, for contempt of Court, and, also, authorized the Grand Jury to indict him | for perjury. Elections to take Plitre..— Alabama, Arkansas I lowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas, hold their elections on the first Mopdtiy in August; ’i arines-! see on the first Thursday and North Carolina, ! oa the first Thursday of the s one month. Mure Withdrawals Jrum the Know Nothings.: | —The Advertiser Gazette of the 24th inst., contains the card of F. M. T. Tankersley and 28 ■ others, who have withdrawn from the Council; lat Butlers Springs, Montgomery comity, Ala.— ! Thev s.jy they "believe the American or Know I Nothing party is apolitical fraud.” Thev ought i to know. fly* A petition for lief has been for warded to President i n -cc by a party of I . Germansnow imprisoned at Melville Island j : Nova Seotia. They state they were hired ! in New York to go that place to work, but : on arrival they were offered the alternative I of enlisting lor the Crimea or imprisonment. ■ They choose the latter. A Lovf.lv Spectacle.—The New York! ■ Times of the 11th instant says: | “A colored military company called the “Tinker Guard,” headed by a white band, I passed our office yesterday, on its return I from a target excursion. They made a sol ! dier-like appearance'” i Know Nothing ;m ix Mississippi.—' 'We count in a lat< number of the Mem . I phis Appeal, names and numbers of C 2 I persons belonging to four different lodges, who have repudiated and left—several of i whom are whi* o s. WM. KA / PROPRIETOR NUMBER 49. [Correspondence of the London News, July 13. J RUHSIA. St. PetKiisbUc, June 2'—The peacea ble and bloodless conquest of the exten sive territory to the north of the river Amur—a territory e<jual in size to the whole of Germany—is now officially con firmed by the I’kutzk correspondent of the Northern Bee, and is considered as an event, of great impootance for the future ; for, though at the present moment there exists only one solitary “winter house,” there are two most excellent harbors, ca pable of becoming, when fortified, what. Sebastopol is now in the Black Sea with reference to Turkey, as it will give Russia the command of the Sea of Japan, and open the door for the aggressive spirit of the Muscovites to pick a quarrel with, and finally subjugate the vast empire of Japan, and possibly China. Lt cannot be denied that the policy of j Russia may emphatically be called the policy of the future. Though she has both her eyes attentively turned towards Europe, and watches narrowly the march of events in every country—and nothing escapes the observation of her well-paid diplomatic servants; yet she turns with a keen glance to the East as a fruitful field for the future employment of her milita ! ry arms and diplomatic tajent in extend- I ing her possessions and realizing the unre i taxed dreams of the Czar—the possession of the whole world. Under these circumstances, and in the ; present citical state of affairs, an event of I great importance in itself that has just I occurred here obtains a significance that has just occurred here obtains a signifi | cance that makes it worth recording. Tn the annual report of the St. Petersburg University, just published, wo find that, whilst iu every other department of the State the greatest retrenchments are car ried out, and appointments and offices suppressed and abolished, a new profess orship of the Oriental languages has been created in additional to those already in existence. From the report in question we further learn that the students of the university amount to 459, of whom 300 pay their ex penses, while the rest arc bursars receiv ing fixed stipends from the church and different departments of the State. In the army a great want of subaltern officers and military surgeons is beginning to be sensibly felt. The different military colleges arc now little better than schools of primary instruction, as all the boys are less than sixteen years old All above that age have been sent off to the army, and are distributed among the different regiments where they have obtained com missions without having undergone the usual examination required by the regula tions of the service. The same may be said with regard to the schools of medicine and surgery, seve ral of which are completely closed, both professors and pupils beiug sent off to the army, whilst those that are still open are nearly deserted. The want of army sur geons is so very great that in many in stances dentists, accoucheurs, and even farriers and veterinary surgeons have been engaged, with the rank and pay of regular army doctors, for service in the military hospitals at the seat of wat in the South. Russians at the Bkookltn Navy Yard.—While the officials of the Czar are doing the handsome thing toward our military representatives in Russia, our authorities are returning the compliment to similar Russian representatives. On Monday, the Russian consul general, AlexisEustaphicve, Captain I. K.Teernsh tein, engineer in the Russian Imperial Navy, and Captain Alexander Sokoloff, of the Russian Imperial service, visited the Brooklyn Navy Yard. After inspecting the various works in progress, they went on board of the North Carolina, as the guests of Captain Calhoun and officers, by whom they were most cordially received. In honor to their rank and nation, the Russian flag was hoisted at the foretruck, and saluted with eleven guns. After ex amining the ship, the party enjoyed a lunch; with exercises on the light fantas tic toe”—a number of charming young ladies being present—with some 600 hand somely clad sailors, as happy spectators. Captains Teernshtein and Sokoloff came to this country about two years ago to super intend the construction of several war steamers for the Russian Government, but. in consequence of the war the work was uot proceeded with. Both gentlemen having familiarized themselves with the industrial resources of the United States, will return to St. Petersburg in the fall, and enter into active service in the war against the Allies.— New York Mirror, " Democratic Prospects in Upper Georgia.—We have been shown a letter from a distinguished gentleman iu Chore kcc, says the West Point Heaeon, repre senting the political sky as bright and brightening in all that region. Lumpkin and Cobb, the Democratic candidates for Congress, are addressing the people at every point, and Know Nothings every where, Whig and Democrat, are abandon ing, in disgust, the odious Order into which they were unwittingly reduced. In Floyd county alone, where a large number of Democrats had joined the oatn ,?ound society, over one hundred have withdrawn, and others are determined to follow suit it an early day. The wnter, who is well advised as to the precise state of feeling among the people, declares that by the first Monday in October not a corporal’s guard will have been left behind, and that, we shall sweep the mountain districts overwhelmingly.— Exchange. .... A western paper speaks of a man who “died with the aid of a physician.” .... The car of a friend i» the sanctuary of evil reports; there alone they arc safely preserv ed. .... A generous soul never losses the remem brance of the lienefilK ir has received, but easily forgets those its hand dispenses. .... Three most difficult things an to keep secrc', to forget an injury, and to •well employ one’s leisure time.