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THE ITLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. -VKF yr; TCI Tgr T . -ST CIRC UL AT IONT OF* TELE SX AMINTE R., 8000 COPIES! JOHN H. STEELE, | R . CHAS. b. BARBOUR, j VOLUME IL THE WEEKLY EXAMINERj Is Published every Friday Morning in the City I of Atlant y, at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, ' To be paid strictly in advance. 1"?" No subscription taken for less than six i months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) tor the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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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 &e. $2 75 do do dismissory from Adminis tration, J Citation on dismissory from Guardianship. 3 00 Leave to sell Lund or N egroes, Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a man’advertising his wile,(in advance,) 500 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. 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.