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FRIDAY", AUGUST 17, 1855.
Candidates vor the Legislature.—The
American Party of this county have nominated
for
The Senate James M. Calhoun.
For Representative—John L. Harris.
Fine Tobacco.
Friend Muhlenbrink, over the way, has rig
ged up a queer looking us, with
a goodly supply of which we
are regaling ourselves mWFWrite. Perhaps
some folks don’t like a pipe, and will turn up
their noses at the puff of one; but to such we
will say if you do not like pipes, go to friend
M. and hi' will supply you with a Cigar, yclept
“ Rio Hondo.” which will reconcile you to
puffing, and put you in good humor with
the world at large. Those to whom pipes
arc not distasteful will find him abundantly
■applied withall patterns, and the genuine weed.
The "Canaster" can't be bent! There, “put
that in your pipe and smoke it,” ye whose tastes
run in that direction.
Election Returns.
Up to tlie time of going to pre* we have
nothing new from Tennessee. Johnson s ma
jority is considered between luOO ahd 2000. ,
Col. Smith of the Cattanooga Congressional
District is elected by COO majority.
North Carolina returns show 6 unties to 2
Know Nothings—a very handsome days work
for North Carolina.
We have no Kentucky papers, but. so far as
we can learn, there is little doubt the Know
* Nothings have carried the State. The accounts
from the Louisville riots are so meagre that we
defer any comment until we receive more au
thentic intelligence. The city seems to be in a
terrible state of excitement, and the number
of dead, wounded and arrested isjarge. We
hope the accounts are exaggerated.
Sol. Moses.
• Our facetious correspondent paraphrases tin
’• Can! ” of the Know Nothing Candidate for
Congress, in this District, with most happy
effect. We have his letter of acceptance, too.
which is equally rich, and wpieh we will give
place too, to-morrow. There is much truth hi
these burlesques, which show up the disinterest
ed no-party candidate iu good style.
Some Hove in Kentucky.—The first news
from Keutuckv was to the effect that the Know
Nothings would carry the State by 10.000 at
laest. More recent elites say they will carry
the State by 3,000—a letting down of tlie. peg
some. Clarke the Democratic candidate gains
largely in the country districts— gained in one
county over a thousand. From all that we
have been able to gather, we think the case a
doubtful one—wouldn't be surpiised at all to
Judge Andrews.
The feelings of this gentleman, excited by
i the result of the recent elections, must be pecu
liar. The American party has conferred upon
; him a distinction which every day becomes
I less and less flattering, as that party is routed,
I rank and file, from the land.
We know the man too well to think he would
have accepted the nomination of the American
party, had he not been induced to believe that
his success approximated as nearly to certainty
as possible under the circumstances. He knows
that defeat in this campaign will put a quie
tus to his political aspirations; and he must
now conclude that he has been deceived in his
party’s count, both as regards this State and
its neighbors. Farewell now to hopes of polit
ical preferment—to .the visions of fat offices he
has so long been chasing. Alabama took the
last straw from his drowning fingers, and he
must now go to the bottom of the political sea,
and no mistake.
I But there is another reflection, which, to a
man like J udge Andrews, must be particularly
mortifying. Not only has he been duped in the
figures of his party, but he has been deceived
in the light in which the people view the plat
form upon which he stands. A man of J udge
Andrews’ shrewdness could not possibly have
been deceived by the specious reasoning which
hide the federal enormities of the Philadelphia
platform, and he must have calculated largely
upon the credulity of Southern men, when he
imagined they could be so forgetful of their
cherished doctrine of State sovereignty as to
sustain him upon that platform. He now
must be satisfied that the flowery rhetoric of
the resolutions cannot withstand the analysis
to which it has been mercilessly subjected ; and
he doubtless bitterly rues the hour he so gra
ciously consented to command the Know Noth
ing forces of Georgia. The leaders of the oth
er States have met the ignominious fate they
. deserved, and their names will be blotted from
the public lists forever. Even their own party,
sickened by such overwhelming majorities
against them, turn upon them the cold shoul
der, and refuse to bind up the wounds they
have received. So will it be with the. Judge.
He caunot hope to escape the general ruin.—
He must fall ; and now, in the hour of his dis
solution, with every political sin haunting him
withdiorrid shapes, his reflections must be par
ticularly unpleasant. We caunot but regard
him as a victim of his own folly, not. less than
of the designs of fanatical men.
Flournoy, Gentry, Shobtridge, Andrews •
What u list of names for posterity! Won’t
somebody get up another book of martyrs in
which portraits of these distinguished gentle
men shall figure conspicuously ?
Great Meeting in Dalton.
We are requested to say that HON. AN
DREW JOHNSON, present and prospective
Governor of Tennessee, will address the citizens
of Georgia at Dalton, on Wednesday, the 15th
inst. Our friends iu that city desire us to say
that they confidently expect every town and I
city iu the State to send up a delegation, in
honor of the speaker, and to testify their ap
preciation of hjs eminent services in the cause
of Democracy against, the insidious and hurtful
influences of the secret order of Know Noth'
ings. Let the Democratic Anti-Know Noth
ing party of Georgia respond handsomely to
Hie call, and let us have such a mass meeting
at Dalton ns shall dilate the pupils of “Sam’s”
eyes with the intensity of astonishment. The
call is short, we know, but not too short if we
work properly. Exchanges who receive this in
time will please make the announcement.
The Republican.
We find the following in the Republican of
yesterday. Wecordially welcome Mr. Willing
ham into the corps Editorial.
“After this week Mr. C.11.C. Willingham,
a gentleman well known to many of our read
ers, will be an associate editor and partner in
this paper. Mr. W. is a printer, also, by pro
fession, and will add much, we trust, to the
value of the Republican.
J. NORCROSS.
Utay" It will be seen from the foregoing that
I have become associated with Mr. J. Nor
cross in the publication of the Atlanta Repub
lican. In coming before the public again as a
journalist. I deem it unnecessary ns others have
done, to make out a long catalogue of promises
never to be complied with; but. suffice it to
say, that it win lie our constant aim to render
the Republican an acceptable and welcome vis
itor to the hearthstones of its patrons, and the
medium and advocate of consistent and correct
principles. With these in view, we launch our
bark with the hope that we will be liberally
sustained by those with whom we have cast
our lot in the struggle for right, justice, and
the interest of the conununitv.
C. 11. C. WILLINGHAM.
Henry Clay on Fusion.
The following is an extract from a speech
delivered by Henry Clay, in tlie house of tepre
! seutatives of Ky., Nov. 19. 1850, and now ap
plicable to know-notingism:
••But if it (the whig party) is to tie merged
pito a contemptible abolition party, and if e6o-i
htiouism is to be engrafted upon the whig creed.]
from that moment 1 renounce the party and
cease to be a whig. Igo yet a step further :If
I am alive, I will give‘my humble support to
that num for the presidency who, to whatever
; party he may belong, is not contaminated by
(fanaticism, rather than to one who, crying out
all the time that he is a whig, maintains doe
trines utterly subversive of the constitution and
the L'hiou.”
CfeJs“The experience in the present War in Eu
rope of the superiority of tlie Minie rifle, has in
duced our government to order, at tlie National
Armories, an alteration of the old Harper’s
Ferry rifle to the Minie principle, and arranging
them for swon! bayonets. The Washington Star
says the arm itself undergoes, no change, except
the sight, which lias to be arranged for long
distances, from 100 to 1.000 yards, the great
difiernee in the range being due altogether to
i the winner of preparing the ammunition. The
elongated ball, adopted for our service, differs
from the Minie ball, but the principle is the same
I the ball being expanded to fill tlie grooves Os
j Urn barrel by lim upiutiai of the charge.
“ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS. WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."— .Teffeksos.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1855.
Louisville Riots.
| Wc had intended deferring any comments
i upon the bloody scenes which have distracted
| the city of Louisville, until we could get some
I reliable information from the papers of that
i place, which since the day of election, have not
i reached us. But we. regret to perceive that
I Sam is endeavoring to stir up an excitement, in
| this place, upon the strength of the diseotmeci
■ ed and vague reports which have reached us
of the Louisville, troubles. •‘•Drowning men
catch at straws.” and they seem to regard this
riot as a perfect-“ God-send” in their favor, with
which they can excite an agitation of the pub
lic mind against foreigners, who, they charge
originated the disturbance. They predicate
this charge upon the statement of the Louis-;
ville Journal, a bigoted, Know Nothing sheet..
that an Irishman fired the first gun. Now, in
matters of this kind, we are indisposed to cred
it the onesided statements of the Journal, until'
we see them corroborated by the rest of the ed- ■
itorial corps of the unfortunate city. We;
know that the first accounts we received of the
Cincinnatti and Chicago riots were precisely
similar to those we at present have from Louis
ville, but when the smoke and excitement clear
ed away, the onus of the instigation fell upon ;
the shoulders of the city bullies attached to
the American party; and we doubt not, when ;
the truth comes to be known, that the Louis- \
ville riots, will be found to originate in precise-]
Jy the same quarter. But suppose it did not— i
admit that an Irishman did fire the first gun— ■
did instigate the row. What myre could be |
expected from the feverish excitement which |
has pervaded the city for months ? There is
perhaps no city in the Union where there, has
been much effort made by the Know Noth
ing party to cultivate “an intensely American
feeling" as in Louisville—no place where pro
scription of foreigners has formed so large an
element in the canvass. We do not intend to
apologize for such acts of violence, under any
circumstances, but we would ask if such are
not the natural consequences of the system of
proscription the American party has so merci
lessly pursued in all our large cities ? How can
it be expected that so large a class of men will
submit tamely to the taunts and insults which
are heaped upon them, upon sueh occasions.
as election days, when political excitement over-!
rides every other consideration, and drowns the j
voice of reason—when both parties are wrought s
to a pitch which needs but a spark to kindle a ;
blaze, the consequences of which it would be :
most melancholy to contemplate. These men I
have, by their proscription, their insults, and in-1
flammatory speeches, driven the excitable for- [
eigner to desperation, and then, when he revolts. ■
lift their hands in holy horror at the enormity I
of his natural resentment, and point to it as I
another evidence that the foreignes are over- ’
running the country. What illiberality ’. Cease |
your ungenerous and unamerican proscription,,
and you will have no cause to complain of the
excitability of the foreign population. They
have, ever been a most peaceable and quiet
class of citizens at the South, until this new or
der sprang up in our midst; and now, when
they have been goaded to desperation by the
vituperation and abuse of its members; when
the relentless persecution which has followed
them has driven them to acts of violence, these
excesses hypocritical Know Nothing saints are
astounded at the in which the “d <1 foreign-
ers” will engage.
It lies but poorly in the mouth of members
of the proscriptive order to complain of the
natural consequences of the “intensely Ameri
can feeling” which it is their chief object to
attain. This is it—all this riot and blood-shed,
these sacked houses, these burnt churches—
this is your “intensely American feeling"—its
legitimate fruits. You were warned long ago;
that you were kindling a fire in the land, by
your anti-christian persecution of foreigners and
Roman Catholics. You have been told that
your order would cause a civil war in the laud,
and now perhaps you will begin to see the
fruits of your proscription and abuse. You
are gradually turning an orderly, peaceable
class of citizens, into outlaws and rioters. It
is not reasonable to suppose that they will pa
cifically submit to indignities which we, as
Americans, would feel bound, by every princi
of honor, to resent. Suppose, for a moment
there should be an attack upon our nativity
and our religion; would there not be a sponta
neous uprising of every American iu the
land ? Certainly there would ; and what more
can we expect from foreign born citizens, who
are subjected to precisely such an attack ?
Notliiug. Instead, then, of crying them down,
let these men remove the causes which necessa
rily produce such disastrous effects. Let them
cease this proscriptive crusade against the for
eigner and his religion, and we shall hear no
more of Irishmen firing first gnus —if indeed
they have done so at all, which we much ques
tion.
We repeat that we reprehend as much us any
I peace-loving citizens can, these disgraceful dis-
Iturbancee, and will not excuse the guilty par
ties ; but as causes are responsible for effects,
we like to see the blame properly divided. W e
shall lay before our readers an impartial account,
as soon as we can get at anything like a fair
one. properly authenticated.
N. B. Since writing the above, we have re
ceived a statement from the Louisville Courier,
which we give place to. and which will be
found to confirm our anticipations as to the
origin of the difficulties.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette. writing from Fort Smith. Arkansas, states
that letters have been received at that place
from authentic and reliable sources, that gives
the Arkansas gold bubble an effectual quietus
One gentleman, Lieut. N. B. Fierce, of the
7th United States infantry, writes that not fat
front Grand river he had met. with a party ol
near three hundred persons, having with then
eighty wagons and teams, on their return homt
to Missouri. They htui been to the •• Red Fork.'
and for miles along it had literally “ tore th<
earth open” in their fruitless search tor the yel
1 ow duot-
1 From the Inuisville Courier.
Tl«e flection Riots.
■ Woody Works—Murder and Arson—Twenty
Men Killed.
We passed, yesterday, through the forms of
•an election. As provided for by statue, the
polls were opened, and privilege grained to
■ such as were “right upon the goose,” with a
• few exceptions, to exorcise their elective fran
chise. Never, perhaps, was a greater farce, or
ias wc should term it tragedy, enacted, lluu-
• dreds and thousands were deterred from voting
• by direct acts of intimidation, others through
fear of consequences, and a multitude from the
■ lack of proper facilities. The city, indeed, was
■ during the day, in possession of an armed mob,
the base passions of which were infuriated to
the highest pitch by the incendiary appeals of
the newspaper organs and the popular leaders
of the Know Nothing party.
I On Sunday night, large detachments of men
I were sent to the First and Second Wards to see
• that the polls were properly opened. These
• men, the ‘American Executive Committee’wore
supplied with tlie requisite refreshments, and as |
! may be imagined they were iu very fit condi-.
; tion on yesterday morning to see that the rights i
lof freemen were respected. Indeed they dis
discharged the important trusts committeed to
them in such manner as to commend them for
ever to the admiration of out-laws! They open
ed the polls; they provided ways and means for
their own party to vote: they bluffed and bul
lied all who could not show the sign; they in
i fact converted the election into a perfect farce,
without one redeeming or qualifying phase.
i We do not know when or how their plan of
' operations was devised. Indeed we do not care
■ to know when such a system of outrage—such
I perfidy—hsuch dastardy—was conceived. We
: only blush for Kentucky that her soil was the
: scene of such outrages, and that some of her
1 sons were participants in the nefarious swindle.
' It would be impossible to state when or how
i this riot commenced. By day break the polls
were taken possession of by the American par
ty, and iu pursuance of their preconcerted
game, they used every stratagem or device to !
hinder the vote of every man who could not
manifest to the “guardians of the polls” his
soundness on the K. N. question. We were
personally witness to the procedure of the party
in certain wards, and of these we feel authorized
to speak. At the Seventh Ward we discover
ed that for three hours in the outset in the
morning it was impossible for those not ‘posted’
to vote, without the greatest difficulty. In the
Sixth Ward a party of bullies were masters of
i the polls. We saw two foreigners driven from
the polls, forced to run a gauntlet, beat unmer
cifully, stoned and stablied. In case of one
fellow, the Hon. Wm. Thomasson, formerly of
Congress from this district, interferred. and
while appealing to the maddened crowd to
cease their acts of disorder and violence Mr.
Thomasson was struck from behind and beat.
His gray hairs, his long public service, his
manly presence, and his thorough Ameriqanism i
availed nothing with a erased a mob. Other nd
more serious fights occurred in the Sixth Ward,
of which we. have no time to make mention
now.
The more serious and disgraceful disturban
ces occurred in the upper wards. The vote cast
was but a partial one, and that too, all on one
side. No show was given to the friends of
Preston, who were largely in the majority, bnt
who, in the face of cannon, muskets, and revol
vers, could not, being an unarmed and quiet
populace, confront the mad mob. So the vote
was cast one way, and the result stands before
the people.
In the morning, us we state elsewhere, George
Berg, a carpenter living on the corner offtthiind
Mai-ket. was killed near Hancock street. A Ger
man named Fritz, formerly a partner at the
Galt House, was severely, if not fatally beaten.
In the afternoon a general row occurred on
Shelby street; extending from Maine to Broad
way. ' We arc unable to ascertain the facts con
cerning the disturbance. Some fourteen or fif
teen men were shot, including officer Williams,
Joe Selvage, and others. Two or three were |
killed, and a number of houses, chiefly German i
coffee houses, broken into and pillaged. About]
4 o’clock, when the vast crowd, augmented by .
accessions from every' part of the city, and arm-!
ed with shot-guns, muskets and rifles, were pro-;
ceeding to attack the Catholic church on Shel- ]
by street, Mayor Barbee arrested them with a
speech, and the mob returned to the First Ward
polls. Presently a large party of men with a
piece of brass ordinance, followed by a number
of men and boys with muskets. In an hour af
terwards the large brewery on Jefferson street,
near the junction of Green was set tire to.
In the lower part of tlie city, the disturban
ces were characterised by a greater degree of
bloody work. Late in the afternoon three Irish
men going down Main street near Eleventh,
were attained, and one knocked down. Then
ensued a terrible scene, the Irish firing from
the windows of their houses, on Main street, re
peated volley’s. Mr. Rodes, a river-man, was
shot and killed by one in the upper story, and a
Mr. Graham met with a similar fate. An Irish
man who discharged a pistol at the back of a
man's head was shot and then hung He, how
ever. survived both punishments. John Hud
son, a cai'i>enter, was shot dead during the fra
cas.
After dusk, a row of frame houses of Main
street between Tenth ano Eleventh, the proper
ty of Mr. Quinn, a well known Irishman, were
set on fire. The flames extended across the
street and twelve buildings were destroyed.—
These houses were chiefly tenants venturing out
to escape the flames,Jthcy were immediately shot
down. No idea could be formed of the number
killed. We are advised that Jive men were roas
ted to death, having been so badly wounded by
guu shot wounds that they could not I'seape
from the burning buildings.
Os all theenormotiesand outrages committed
by the American party yesterday and lust night,
we have not time now to write. The mob have
ing satisfied its appetite for blood, repaired to
Third street, and until midnight made demonstra
tions against the “Times” and "Democrat" offi
ces. The furious crowd satisfied itself, however
with breaking a few window panes, and burn
ing the sign of the Times office.
At one o’clock this morning a large fire is
raging in the upper part of the city.
Upon the proceedings of yesterday aud last
night we have no time, nor heart now to com
ment. Weare sickened with the very thought
of the men murdered, and houses burned and
pillaged, that signalized the American victory
yesterday. Not less than twenty corpses form
the trophies of this wonderful achievement.
The Kaw Indians.—lnformation has been
received at the office of Indian Affairs that
these Indians positively refuse to go any fur
ther than St. Louis, giving, as a reason, that
tnev have been joined by a second party, that
' thev expect still another, and that, when they
• arc’all ready, they will make arrangements to
; leave St. Ixtuis. and join their tribe at Council
Grove. They wander abont the streets begging
and perhaps thieving. The superintendent
‘ complains of great difficulty in getting them
• together. The instructions from the Indian
I Beaurau to the supeinteudent at St. Louis are
to request the captains of steamboats not to
1 take any Indian on board without the proper,
•’ written permit, and. it’ they will not accept his
offer of sending them home, to torn them- over
e to the municipal authorities as vawants. He
also instructs agents not to allow Indians to
leave the bounds of their tribe without a per
mit,— Washington Union.
A Card.
Hungry Office Tows. 4th July, ’55.
Messrs. Editors:— For many days, solicita
tions have been made, of an overpowering char
acter, for me to become a dependent beggar
for the spoils of office"in the gift of the. people
of this Congressional District. Coming (ruin
sueh sources, it has induced me to enquire why
is this simultaneous, spontaneous, urgent appeal
made to me to occupy the exalted and noble
position—a member of Congress" 1 have
looked this way and that for solution, and
have, at last, come to the conclusion that it was
because 1 made such a magnificent display of
rhetoric, logic, and argument iu favor oi the
great, glorious, and never-to-be-forgotten “Col
umbus movement,” to save this gloriously glo
rious Union, (by a sectional party, with no
principles) from beiug crushed into an abolition
nonentity by the secret malice of Know Noth
ing fanatics, and time-serving politicians, who
love office rather than country. It is Swell
known that lam no politician; that. 1 hate
such business, and that I do hate politics. I
never sought an office, before this. J have felt
a deep interest in the government, and watched
it closely—more closely than any politician ; I
have been wiser, and seen with better eyes
than the most of them, for several years. 1 :
have seen that party organizations—such as ’
the high, chivalrous, noble-daring, whig party,
and the time-honored Democratic party, with
such men as Jefferson, Jackson. Polk aud Pierce,
who have led the country in glorious triumph
to sueh exalted destiny—would certainly ruin
the confederacy; that this fanatical, miserable !
crusade against religious toleration, would wrap
tlie beautiful fabric in flames! To stay this
horrid crusadev-this building of the funeral
pile by the fanatical hands of Know Nothings,
and put a stop to their work, we ot the South
must take tlie wood from their shoulders; snatch
the faggot from their hands, and tell them they
are traitors. This, in my opinion is paramount
to all other’issues/and’not incompatible with a
seat in Congress for myself. Now, if the peo
ple of this District think they can advance the
cause by using me, 1 am the man. To this
end, lam “clay in the hands of the potter; but
don’t make anything but a vessel of honor of
me—don’t turn me into a Scavenger's ves
sel!
If I go to Congress. I desire to do so free from
party. lam the great one who can settle this
great question—-Jam the David who can slay
the Goliah, unaided by the North, South, East
or West! lam the party— no party—that
can do this I—l—l
One thing more: 1 am not a member of the I
fanatical crew, the lie low and keep dark order..
But let me whisper in your ear—l am six foot
and an inch for your platform. I don’t hold
you bound to support me because 1 go for nig
gers, and against the Irish. Jews. French and
Germans, and will give the Roman Catholics
‘particular Jessie 1" No, no! But you can’t
get a man that will suit you half as well as 1
can. You have got no one in your order who
will answer your purpose. You have not a
single member worthy the honor. Don't you
know I will suit you exactly ? I have been on
all sides of even' question. I am so good a
Lawyer that I can’t stay on one side from;
Court to Court. 1 have been a Taylor Whig i
and a Polk Democrat ; a Fillmore Whig and a •
Pierce Democrat; an Anti-Know Nothing.;
and a Philadelphia platform Know Nothing ; [
a Columbus movement man, against them all; j
and now 1 am on all the platforms, against all i
creation, except myself, for a seat in Congress.:
1 love myself better than anybody else, aud I;
certainly think I ought to go to Congress. I,
do want to go there, and, bad as I hate politics ;
Ido hope you will send me there. 1 love the j
honors mere than 1 hate the business of politics. ’
Oh’. will you not gratify my “wild hunt after'
office ?”
Now you Know Nothings, who have no one '
iu your order fit to be nominated, just nomi-1
nate ntc. I can steady the ark; I'll stand in ■
the breach ; I II stop the the Hood ; ami I alone |
can pilot you through the wilderness of dark-1
ness which surrounds you. I will be about, and i
respond, as never man responded before, in the'
canvass.
Very respectfully yours, the begging cun- j
didate—depen lent on the people, not j
independent.
SOL MOSES. I
A Card.
LaGrange; Ga., July 4th, 1855.
Mr. Editor ■■ During the last" few weeks 1
have received almost daily solicitations to an
nounce myself an independent candidate for
Congress from this District.
I suppose these solicitations have been caus
ed by the part I have taken in the meeting of
the people of Troup county, and the sentiments ■
and principles avowed by me in those meetings
I come to this conclusion not only because I am
informed so, but also, and mainly, from the fact
that these solicitations are from men of every
sliadc of politics—Union Democrats. Southern
Rights Democrats, Americans, and anti-Ameri
cans.
It is well known to those who biouxme that
lam not a politician. Ido very much dislike
the business of politics. 1 can truly say I nev
er sought an office. Nevertheless, as a citizen.
I have felt an interest in the government, and
I have watched its workings closely. My
friends and neighbors know that it has been my
settled conviction for several years, that if the
policies of old party organizations as they have
existed ever since I have known them, were
suffered to continue they would certainly ruin
this confederacy. That fanaticism—is the ele
ment of destruction in the union of these
States, —that this fanaticism has been not only
tolerated, but flattered, cajoled aud pondered
to by these parties to enable them to get pow
er—that, therefore, though originally a small
faction and harmless, yet under the nursing
care of these foster mothers it lias grown to be
a pcncer, a very dangerous power, and will soon
lie able, us it has long been willing, to turn up
on the government and rend it. The only
prevention remedy is the union of a 11 conserva
tive patriots in every part of the repuclic to
war against it as -an enemy and proscribe it as
a treachery. This Union should begin at the
South, because her institutions have furnished
the occasion for the evil. To advance this
great end —paramount in my opinion to all
other issues—l have recently participated in
two meetings of my fellow-citizens of Troup
county, ami to the three first resolutions
of the last meeting, published in this issue of
your paper, I beg leave to refer as part of this
letter. They were drawn by me. and do can
didly and "without reserve, speak my poli
tics.
If my friends and the people of this district
believe that these views can lie advanced by
using me as a candidate for Congress, I shall
not feel at liberty to withhold my name. To
this end it is at their disposal aud awaits their
bidding. If another should lie deeemed more
suitable, I trust I shall be regarded as sincere
when I beg that that other shall be chosen. If
Igo to Congress I must go untrammelled by
party. If lam to make the race I shall can
vass the whole district and give the people tlie
reasons fur my faith ; and. therefore, I need not
lengthen this letter. On one subject perhaps. I
should say a few words, that I may be under
stood, and especially as it will answer a ques
tion frequently asked : I am not a member of
the American order, and the rumor to the con
trary is not correct. I have said on several
occasions and do now report, that I regard the
■ Philadelphia Platform as the safest and best
: declaration of principles made by any Nation
al party now existing, The principles s.-t forth
in the sth. 6th and 12th resolutions uot only
meet my approval, but shall receive my zealous
support whether in Congress or out of it. I
j make these remarks simply because they are
my convictions. Ido not hold the American
party under any obligations to support me any
further than diey shall deem it proper to do so
in order to sustain these great and true Ainer-
I lean principles. Ido love my own country
’ better than any and all others. 1 do believe
that " Americans ought to niie America,” and
othw things being equal, 1 shall so act, and
speak, and vote.
1 hope this will be regarded as th<> answer to
all communications asking “if 1 would be a can
didate,’'and if the people so desire they can
run up my name and J will respond in the can
vass.
Yours truly,
BENJ. D. HILL
Democratic aud Anti-Know Nothing
Association.
Atlanta, Ga., August 10th, 1855.
Pursuant to a call in the morning papers,
there was a meeting of the Democratic and
Anti-Know Nothing party in Crisp’s Athense
urn on Thursday night.
Col. Thomas C. Howard was called to the
Chair.
On motion, it was resolved: That an Associ
ation be organized, under the name of ‘■Demo
cratic and Anti-Know-Nothing Association
of Fulton County.”
The following gentlemen were unanimously
elected permanent officers of the Association:
John F. Mims, President.
Jas. E. Williams, Ist Vice President.
Dr. E. N. Calhoun, 2d “ “
Wm. Herring, Sen'r 3d “
Secretaries.—L. J.Glenn,Thomasll. Coop
er.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Messrs. John Collier, L. J. Gartreli, John
11. Steele, John Lynch, E. B. Reynolds, Jared
J. Whitaker, Thos. M. Daniel. Wm. W. Bald- 1
win, Wm. Barnes.
On motion, it was resolved. That the Exec
utive Committee be requesteil to make arrange
ments for Public Speaking in the city of Atlan-:
ta. on every Saturday night during the canvass.;
THOS. HOWARD. Cha m.
L. J. Glenn, I Secretaries.
1. L. t'OOPKR. j
North Carolina Election. j
We have received some additional returns
of the election in this State for Congressmen.- i
No Legislature was elected this year. M e
compare the returns now with the last Gover-1
nor’s election:
FIRST DISTRICT.
Bragg, d. Dock., w. Shaw. d. Paine, k. n. i
Pasquotank 331 496 274,
Northamp’n 641 490 231
Halifax, 583 55! 6
Tlie latest accounts state that Paine’s friends !
claim his election by 300 majority.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Hon. Thomas Ruffin, dem., is said to be re-:
elected by a large majority, over Latham, k. n.;
THIRD DISTRICT.
Warren Winslow, dem., is elected over Da- i
vid Reid. k. n., by a decided majority. lion. ■
W. S. Ashe, dem., was the late member. The I
vote in Wilmington was unusually large, and I
stood Winslow 383. Reid 445.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
L. O’Brien Branch, dem., is elected by a large j
majority over James B. Shepard, k. n. dem.-- ;
Rogers, whig, was the late member. The fol-:
owing arc the reported majorities of the whole ,
district :
Brag, Dockery. Branch, Shepard.;
Dem. Whig. Dem. K. N. ;
Wake. 1.541 1,167 466
Franklin. 713 339 331 ‘
Granville, 1,973 995 100 !
Warren. 754 163 666 '
Orange, 963 1,080 135
Nash. 1.115 95 1.000 •
Johnson, 936 744 200
7.100 4.583 2.813 135
Bragg's majority 2.517. Branch’s majority]
2,673.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
All that we have from this district is a re
port that Guilford county has given Ried, k. n.
1.550 majority over Kerr, anti k. n. whig, aud
the late member. The county gave Dockery
1.087, when his majority in the entire district
was 812. It is believed that Ried is elected.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Hon. Burton Craigc, dem., is reported to be I
re-elected in tlys district. It gave. Bragg 955 ;
majority.
THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
From the other districts wc have no returns,
but the probability is that the delegation will
stand six anti-know-nothings to 2 know not hings.
In the last Congress it stood 4 democrats
(counting my Clingman) to 3 whig*.
[From the Empire State.]
Revival Meeting.
Un Thursday evening, 2d inst., Concert Hall
was crowded to overflowing, to listen to politi
cal addresses by Col. L. J. Glenn, and the Rev.
V. A. Gaskill. The well deserved reputation
of these gentlemen as able and eloquent orators,
created quite an anxiety on the part of our people
to hear them on this occasion. Consequently a
large assemblage was convened, at an early
hour, in the Hall. Quite a number of ladies
graced the assembly with their presence, which
added very much to the interest of the occasion
Many of our Know Nothing friends were pres
ent, and listened with marked attention to the
speaking, we hope to good purpose. Col. Glenn
discanted largely and elaborately npon the libe
ral, unwise policy of the Know Nothings in
their hostile course to foreigners, and the reli
gious proscription which they are trying to en
force against the Catholic denomination. He
made a most powerful argument in favor of the
conservative, sound men of the North, and the
injustice with which they had been treated by
the new Order, most triumphantly vindicating
them against the foul aspersions which had been
heaped upon them by the disciples of Dark
Lanternism. We have not time to enlarge up
on the remarks of Mr. G. llis effort was a most
happy one; he was greeted by frequent applause,
and sat down amidst the enthusiastic cheers of
the audience. Col. Gaskill was called out after
Col. G. closed, and responded in a very feeling
and eloquent manner, fully sustaining his high
reputation a« an orator. He riddled the Plat
form of the Philadelphia Convention, exposed
rottenness and deformity, and made a powerful
appeal to the patriotic men of all parties to
come up to the rescue, and save the country from
the dangers of the midnight machinations of the
Dark Lantern Party. It was a late hoar when
Mr. Gaskill commenced speaking, and for want
of time, he was compelled to curtail his remarks.
The speeches made on this occasion, gave a new
impulse to the political revival now going on
with the anti-Know Nothing Party of Spaul
ding. Roll on the ball! We expect to con
tinue these meetings, and anticipate most happy
results.
4fey"Meyerber. the composer, is in London
where he has produced his L’Etoile du Nord
with great success. Bosio, Lablacae and Formes
are the principal singers.
: From Utah and the Plains.
> The writer left Salt Izilce City 29th of May
j at which time business was very dull, and the
I prospect for crops very poor, owing to the dry
j weather and tlie destruction of almost everything
|by the grasshopper. Many of thefields of wheat
! were entirely eaten off.
Mr. Hohuan. District Attorney of the Uni
' ted States for Utah, was loft at South Platte,
j He is on his way to \Vashington. and is bearer
I of dispatcher from Col. Steptoe. Io the War De-
I partment.
The roads were in a line condition, but the
I grass was very poor until the party got to Fort
Bridger, beyond the grasshopper region.
] No Indians or whites were met with on
I the road until the party reached Sweetwa
[ ter.
This is a portion of the Indian country where
| J would fear us many Indian troubles as any
other. In fact, a few miles below, at Devil's
! Gate and Independence Rock, the traders were
; very much alarmed, having had several threats
I from the Indians, about the time we passed,
j Every animal about Independence Kock had
I been stolen by the Sioux.
i Indians were first seen at Deer Creek, where
the party met Mr. John Richard, with a num
ber of mountaineers, half breeds and friendly
Sioux Indians, returning to Platte Bridge, to
build a port for the protection of his bridge.
At Leubontc Creek, about fifty miles above '
Laramie, near the trading post on that stream
] we met a small war party of Sioux, who let us
! pass without interruption. They were impa
! liently waiting for the United States troops to
I arrive, and had stated that if they did not ar
! rive in ten days they would nor come at all. or
I did not intend to come, and that they intended
I to kill every white man they found on the road
i from Fort Laramie to Devil's Gate. .1 men
tioned this threat to several of the old traders
i as I came down, who seeinei] to place but little
I confidence in their carrying it. into execu
: tion.
■ A Talk with the Sioux.—“We proceeded I
i towards Laramie on the upper road, and while I
we were encamped twenty miles tills side of
Leaboute, a party of Sioux came up to us and
professed to be friendly. They viewed our hor
s(>s very closely and proposed several trades
which we refused. We made them a small
present of flour. They then told us, that on
that day they had seen a portion of the savage
band in the vicinity who murdered the soldiers
of Laramie, and that they had dodged out of
their way. They warned us to be on our guard
as they were satisfied of the bad intentions of
that party. We took the hint. Fearing more
from those who were warning its than from
those whom we were warned against—having
no doubt it was the intention of the Indians to
come upon us that night and steal our horses—
we left and encamped until after dark, and al
ter a short rest we started and travelled all I
night, dodging their evil intention. Arrived at
# Fort Laramie on the 13th. found a few lodges
of friendly Sioux encamped near Waixi and
Garins. We were informed that sixty lodges
of Sioux were encamped at Ash Hollow, wait
ing until the troops came up, but did not see
them ; we saw only one at that point, who seem
ed to be watching the road.
A Lone Traveller. —We had with us a
man named Thompson, from San Francisco,
who said his home was in I ’hiladelphia, and
where he had a family. This man was alone I
when wc overtook him, bare of clothing, with-'
out money, or anything to cat. I first saw him I
at Salt Luke;just arrived from California ;hit j
the Vulley some time before, and up to the time I
we overtook him had travelled alone. Had|
eaten but a few times, going as much as three ;
days at a time without anything. This man we ;
took in as one of our party, he encamped with I
us at Asli I loltow, ami. as usual, when we were ,
about breaking up camp he .started in advance |
of us. After wc had started and travelled ai
short distance, seeing the single Indian on wuteh .
it caused inquiry for Thompson, We looked i
for his track and missed it; we went buck and |
found that he had taken a road which led to a
crossing lower down on the South Platte. We,
however, supposed that it led around the hill,
mid that it tell into the road a short distance
ahead ; alter this time we did not see or hear
anything of him, though we made every inquiry
possible,
The Emigrants.—We met emigrating par
ties at the crossing of South Platte, who were
from Illinois and Southwestern Missouri, get
ting on well. Met Maj. Eddy at O'Fallon's
Bluff, getting on well. The grass was good
from the head of Platte to that point. The
immense numbers of buffalo from there to
within five miles of Kearney, had eaten the
grass very bare. Mr. Woodward and Mar
shall’s corn train near Cottonwood spring: Ma
jors’ Russel’s first train thirty-live miles above
Fort Kearney, getting on well, and also Mr.
Patteiroii in charge of a train lor Messrs. Liv
ingston Ac Kincaid, Sait Luke City. Passed
Messrs. Ward <St Gunnier, and Maj. Graciot’s
train laden with furs, coming down same day ;
they were bound for Fort Ltmvenworth. Met
Majors’ A; Russel’s second train at Fort Kear
ney, where it_ hud been lying for ten days ;
a number of their cuttie stanqs'ded with the
buffalo.
Ijeft Fort Kearney on the 25th, met the
Dutch train of California and wagon emigrants
at a point 10 miles below, in good health. Be
tween Kearney and the Blues met several trains
of Mormon emigrants. No sickness on the
road except amongst the Mormons. One of the
Texas Trains had lost 30 by cholera. Met Gil
bert and Garish on the Little Blue; and T. S.
William's A Co.’s train at Big Blue, all
well.
The number of emigrants on the road this
year and cattle for Calforuia and Oregon are
very small, and the whole number ol cattle will
uot number four thousand head.
An Interesting Trial.—A singular trial
has just terminated in the Oneida circuit court
of New-York. It is that of Emily C. Day vs.
two brothers named Roth. By the testimony
adduced it appears that Volkert Roth wooed
and won the heart of Miss Day. in England,
which is her home, and formed an engagement
of marriage with her. She hud about £2.500
in money, which Volkert persuaded her to en
trust to his keeping, in order that he might come
to America aud establish himself sutliciently to
enable him to return and marry her, he engaging
to pay interest on the sum regularly. For a
time "he fulfilled this latter stipulations but
finally endeavored to get rid of the marriage
and the obligation to pay the money, by repre
senting to Miss Day that he had failed in busi
ness. He had also managed to mix up his
brother w ith the affairs so much that it was a
question which had the property. Miss Day,
getting alarmed for her little fortune, came to
fie United States to hunt her faithless swains.
She found him at Utica, N. Y., where he hud
bought, with his brother, the Museum, and was
carrying it on as a place of entertainment. She
sued them both, and claimed the Museum in
part payment of the money due her. After a
tedious and protracted trial, the jury has rendered
a ■verdict tor the plaintiff of 88,435 25, lining
tlie full value of the museum we presume. The
money taken from Miss Day constituted all the
property she had in the world.
Rainbow by Moonlight—The Lanca°ter In
land (Pa) Daily says that many of their cit
izens liad the pleasure, tlie other night, of wit
nessing that unusual phenomenon, a rainbow by
moonlight It is described as iiaviug been most
beantilul
W.M. KA / PROPRIETOR
NUMBEK I.
! LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
BALTIC'.
Cotton Declined One-Eighth.
The steamer Baltic has arrived at New Y •
with later dates from Europe.,
Cotton Market.
Cotton has declined one-eighth. The sales
of the week reach thirty-five thousand bales.
Advices from the scat of war give no im
portant change since the lust steamer.
Consols were quoted at 91.
Breadstuff, unchanged.
Additional per Baltic.
(’■ •■.■;nbin, Aug. 9.
Cotton.—Of sales for the week speculators
took four thousand bales: Exporters twenty
live Immlrcd. The market closed dull. Fair
Orleans 7d. Middling 6 1-4, Fair Upland 6 3-4;
Middling 6 1-16—market dull.
Breads!tills are unchanged, except for white
corn, which has advanced 3s; and yellow ad
vanced Is. (id.
Flour—Canal is quoted at 40s. a 40s, 6d.:
Ohio 435. White Corn being scarce, is quoted
at 445; Yellow 38s. 6d. to 38s. 9d.
Provisions unchanged. Lard had advanced
fid.
From tlio Criema.
It is reported that Gen. Simpson and Omar
I’asha have resigned.
The French continue their approaches against
Sevastopol. The. Russians are fortifying all
important points.
Hollisworth has been appointed Conolitd
Secretary.
The English had destroyed the bridge boat
at Genitsce.
The preparations for the campaign on the
Danube continued.
The Mexican Revolution.
The'Sun Antonia Texas Ledger has accounts
of the organization of a military expedition in
Texas to aid the Mexican Revolutionists. The
first part of the expedition arrived at Leon Riv
er July Ist, and mon were hourly coming in
great numbers. They expected to cross the
river on the 24th. [This should prol be
August instead of July.l
Capt. Henry, (late of the Texan Volunteers,)
the commander, hud issued addresses to the peo
ple ofTexns and Mexico. To the former he
says it is his intentioh to aid in the establish
ment cf a Republic under the protection of the
United States. To the Mexicans he declares it
is his wish to see Mexicans govern themselves,
Gen. Houston a know Nothing.
Gen. Houston has written a letter, publicly
endorsing the principles of the Know Notliings.
| This is the latest phase of a miserable, infla
ted. and artful demagogue.]
Health of New Orleans.
The number of deaths in this city for the
week ending to-day, were three hundred and
thirty-six, including two hundivd and twenty
from Yellow Fever.
How the Voters were AV hipped In
—Tyranny of Know-Nothing
isin.
Just bfore the election in Tenncssif, the
Knoxville Whig, fearing there might be mem*
tiers of the Know Nothing lodges, who on the
day they deposited their vote, would assert the
independence mid rights of freemen, published
the following oath, which during the. early purt
of the canvass, had been stoutly denied. There
can be no doubt of its authenticity now, us it
has been published to the world by Brownlow,
one of the high-priests of tlie order. He was
explaining why K. N s must support Rodgers
for the Senate.
‘•When we were initiated into the order, we
took the following obligation, or oath adminis
tered upon the holy Bible, and nut having with
drawn from the order, mid not intending to do
so, we feel bound by every consideration of hon
or and duty, to support Rodgers:
“You do solemnly swear before Almighty
(tod and these witnesses, that so far us you aru
connectol with this organization, if not rcgulaak
dismissed from it. you will, in all things, [siiiti
eal or social, so fur us this order is concerned,
comply with the will of the majority, when
expressed in a lawful manner, though it may
conflict with your personal preference.”
“Ail who aro members ol tlie order, mid con
tinue to be, have the. same obligation resting
upon them, and if they have any regard lor their
honor and a solemn duty, they will vote for
Rodgers, though be may not be I heir qiersonal
preference.”
All things Political and Social! Well might
Ex-Governor Brown, iu commenting on this
horrid oath, exclaim “what unbounded power 1”
Under this power it can pull down any mer
chant or business man that it does not like. Qt
cun pull down any mechanic or laboring man it
chooses. On any night, when the town or
neighborhood council shall meet, they can doom
to destruction every man of any profession or
culling which a majority, even of one, may not
like. Ail this can it do with perfect safety to
its members. They are ail sworn to secrecy.—
They will not testily in court or out of court,
anything against themselves or one another.—
The judge is a member and sworn to comply
with the will of a majority. The jury, who
may have to try any suit, which may be. brought
to recover damages, for loss of property of char
acter, are all members, and leagued and sworn
to carry out the unholy work of destruction.—
Now, what is this oath but an outrage on all
law, htnnun and divine—an outrage against all
the yrecepts and principles of true religion'! and
what mau had not lietter live at Constantinople
among the Turks, or among the roving Tartars
of the desert, than to live iu constant dread un
der the power and control of such a secret and
midnight order 1
Another horrid oath, said to have been muc'i
used during the canvass in Tennessee, was tlie
following:
••You do solemnly swear that we will support
in all political matters, for all political offices,
member of this order in preference toother per
suits; you do also promise and swear, that this
and all obligations which you have previously
taken in this order shall ever be kept through
Hie sacred and inviolate.”
No matter, says Ex-Governor Brown, how
worthless the candidate nominated in the order
may be, you must support him. If he be a
Benedict Arnold in the order, you must vote for
him, even against a George Woshington out of
the order—you must do so, too, through your
whole life ! No matter how corrupt and tyran
nical this order may become in after times, still
you must hold on to it in its corruption! Now,
what is all this but a conspiracy against the
ireeiloiu of election, and, tiierefore, indictable
and punishable by law? Is nut an election won
by such meauc morally null aud void ?— Sav.
Georgian.