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THE VTLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. WEEKLY CIHCTJL ATIONT OF TE3 AM IIVER. S 3 O O COPIED! JOHN H. STEBLB, | CHAS. L. BARBOUR, f EdltOrS - VOLUME IL THE WEEKLY EXAMINER Is Published every Friday Morning in the City of Atlant y, at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, To be paid strictly in advance. QT No »üb*cription taken for less than six months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly Examinee at the following rates; Seventy-live cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per .square for each sub sequent insertion. 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Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be nublished for two months. Citations for’letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must be published 30 dayiv—for dis mission from Administration, monthly six months —for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months —for establish ing lost papers, for the full space of three months for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rates: Citations on letters of Administration Ac. $2 75 do do dismissory from Adminis tration, * Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 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 wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1855. Cobb County Democratic Nominations Senator, THOMAS H. MOORE. Representatives. ALFRED MAYNER. SAMUEL M. BRADFORD. Sheriff. J. B. BLACKWELL. Clerk Superior Court, JAMES M. Clerk Inferior Jwrt. WILLIAM CARfPLL. Ordinary, BIRDSONG TOLLESON. Newnan Post Office. We arc informed that the discontinuance of the Newnan Post Office was the result of a mistake, uml not intentional. The mails are now received there regularly, and persons hav ing correspondence with thai place will have no future difficulty in mail communication. We have not learned the origin of the mistake. I'eylor’s Concert. In these days when gas end humbug are substituted for merit in public amusements, we seldom feel any interest in commending exhibi tions Ac., to our readers. For once, however, we are enabled to speak conscientiously, but not iu terms sufficiently laudatory to express half the gratification we have experienced in attending the concerts giveu-by Prof. Taylor > and his Home Circle. Here we have the simon pure; no humbug; but real unpretending merit. The company has not been picked up here and there, without regard to character or talent, but it is a party of ladies and gentlemen from the first circles of a neighboring town, who propose spending a tgw weeks iu visiting the attractive features of upper Georgia. We know them well, their exalted worth, and their extraordinary talents, and would advise our readers who are so fortunate as to have an op portunity of hearing them, to do so without fail. We do not ask them to patronise the company, for we can’t for the life of us think but that the obligation is conferred, not receiv ed, by the company. For a critique of theii performance, we confess ourselves entirely inca pable. and can only say that we have nevei heard them excelled in Georgia. Havana Plan Lottery. The following are tiie Numbers that drew the Capitals on the 13th August at Concert Hull, Macon, Georgia. No. 3787. 88.0U0, Macon. Ga. No. 3198, 83.198, Deadfall, Ala. No. 9,399, 82.000, Richmond, Va. No. 655, 81,000, Charleston, S. C. No. 3368, 81,000, Nashville, Teas. THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN TH : SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR OHLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Major Cooper’s Letter. We yield much.of our spac to-day to the able letter of Major Cooper, which we extract from the Constitutionalist of yesterday. Le 1 those who have sought to make capital out o the subjects discussed in this letter, read it atten tively, and then answer in candor if the refuta tion of their assertions is not complete. Our sympathies are greatly excited for poor Dr. Miller, more than half of whose speech (we use the singular purposely) is cut off, and whose brilliant perorations upon the “damning dis crimination” all melt into air before the expo sition given the allegations he and his co-adju tors have so recklessly made. We imagine we can her him soliloquizing. ’Twas ever thus from childhood’s hour. I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay, &c. Thus his grounds of opposition to the Federa and State administrations are sliding from under him: The “ Pope’s nuncia” story proven false; Reeder removed ; the authority for “Cowarts 82,000” clearly established, and the justice of the “great bargain” triumphantly vindicated and no foothold left for the great Demosthenes No 1 we forgot: two things are left him—his Bible story and his abuse of the Examiner re mains, and we earnestly beg that no one will deprive him of these last two “grounds ofoppo- | sition” to the Federal and State administrations. I Do allow him the enjoyment of these. Book Notice. The Old Farm House : C. H. Davis Phila-, delphia. In Muslin, price 81.25; for sale at thej Cheap Book Store. We like this book, and can recommend it to 1 lovers of romance. In the first place, it is a ! book without a hero; a novel feature in a work of fiction ; then again, it has no particular he roine, but divides the interest very pleasantly between a grandmother, her daughter, and her grand daughter, making them all heroines.— j There is little blood and thunder, no murders, considerable sentiment, and a corresponding amount of rascality to bring it out. Altogeth er it is a very pleasant romance ; but may not suit our lady friends, as none of the character but the grandmother seems to have been par- i ticularly under the influence of the “boy God,” and the grand daughter docs not marry. A Glance at the Future. The Nationality of the “American Party,” is the theme of its stump orators, North and South. Let us look to its extravagant preten sions in this respect, and see where they all> end! In the South, Northern Know Nothingism is repudiated before the people, as well it may be, for any r<»ognitiou of affiliation with it, however justly the charge may be made, would be, not only a fatal, but a death blow to the Order here. In the North, per contra, Southern Know N othingism is denounced in bitter terms, and the Philadelphia Platform pointed at with the finger of scorn and derision. Without going farther, this state of things is sufficient to prove the utter failure of the so. called “American Party,” in its pretensions to be considered a National or conservative Party But we will not stop here. Much yet remains to be said. In the South, Virginia first repudiated, in decided terms, by its popular vote, tills so-called “American Party.” Tennessee, and Alabama, and North Carolina, and we are advised that Texas, also, have done the same. Georgia, we have every confidence, will tell a similar story, and where then will be the great National Know Nothing party, so vehemently urged upon the South by its advocates in Georgia ? At the best, had this bragging organization carried every Southern State,it could not have furn. ished one solitary Northern vote, to admit Kan sas into the Union, slavery being recognized in her Constitution. But what now is its condition when the South litis so emphatically declared against it? Where is its power to main tain Southern Rights, or Southern Institutions ? Alas! echo answers where I Upon this subject, the people of Georgia are not to be deceived. However plausible the orators of the Secret Order may be, there is a recklessness in their assertion, and an “asswma. cy" in their pretensions, that cannot fail to con vince the people of the gross deception attempt, od to be practised upon them. In it, they see nothing but that “wild hunt after office” so prominently repudiated by hunters themselves at Philadelphia, and at Macon. Reflecting men of both the old parties iu Georgia are not to be caught by such clap-trap. They are nei ther to be "pleased with a feather, nor tickled with a straw. They know too well that the rights and interests of the South cannot be maintained, by trusting them to Northern Know Nothings. That, in the • future, they have to look to the Anti-Know Nothing, Demo, cratic Party, North and South, for the presser, vatiou of the Constitution. and the maintenance of the rights of the States. And that, this failing, upon the Georgia Platform, they, in common witu the people, will have to stand “come weal or «w.” What Nationality, what conservatism then, can possibly exist in an organization, where North, one set of principles prevail, and South' another? The North for the restoration of the I Missouri Compromise, the repeal of the Kan sas. Nebraska bill, and the abolition of slavery ! The South for slavery, for, in the main, the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and against the re storation of the Misssouri Compromise! The North, for high protective tariffs, internal im provements by the Federal Government, and distribution of the proceeds of the public lands' The South, opposed to all these measures I How can the two, in the name of common sense, act together, when so divided ? True, they do meet upon one common ground—a wa r against Catholics and foreign born citizens a war against civil and religious liberty! We envy not the position either of the Northern phalanx or the Southern detachment, on these | important issues—issues subvertive of the con j stitution, and if successfully maintained by them, i the United States will no longer “be a refuge I for the opprewed of all nations.'’ nor -the home i of the free 1 ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 24, 1855. Does Judge Warner decline Discus sion ? Let the facts be known, mid then judge. The Chronicle if Sentinel, that “outsider,” in commenting upon the correspondence between Mr. Hill and Judge Warner, makes use of the following language 1 “Judge Warner the nominee of the Pierce and Reeder democracy, in the 4th Congressional dis trict. declines to discuss with his opponent, B. j H. Hill, the political questions of the day be i fore the people. This certainly indicates Itttle confidence iu the justice of his cause. ! “This is the most complete" back-out we have I ever seen or heard of. We never before knew I a candidate for Congress to decline meeting ‘ his opponent, if a respectable man, in disuenss ' ion.” i Now what “are the facts which go to prove this uparallelled “back-out.” After the nomination of Mr. Hill, he address ed Judge Warner a letter, proposing to canvass the District with him upon equal terms. At first sight, this seems fair enough; but when it is considered that Judge Warner's time for canvassing was limited by his professional en gagements, and that he had before the nomina tion of Mr. Hill, made and published a list of ap pointments which would occupy the entire time at his disposal; it looks somewhat uncourteous, not to say indelicate for Mr. Hill, with a full ; knowledge of these facts, to require of ourcandi | date that he should be allowed to canvass with I him upon equal terms. In reply to this letter, j Judge Warner addressed the following note to i Mr. Hill, the italics of which are our own, and will show why, and how far the proposition | of that gentleman was declined. Greenville, July 18th 1855. I Dear Sir : —I am in the receipt of your letter iof the 17 inst. Not anticipating a nominaton for Congress, my professional and other engage ments, made prior thereto, will necessarily com pel me to decline making any contract or agree ment to canvass, the District in the manner pro posed by you. My appointments have already i been made in view of my other engagements, and I shall endeavor to fulfill them by discus sing the merits of the Philadelphia platform to the best of iny humble ability, leaving you to do the same at such times and placed you may deem proper. Very respectfully your ob’t serv’t., . Hiram Waiu«ke. I B. 11. Hill, Esq., UGrange. The professional engagements which are here alluded to imperatively require all his time, not already appropriated to the canvass, at the time of the correspondence; and to have com plied with Mr. Hill’s request would have involv ed the necessity of abandoning those appoint ments, and his professional engagements; neith er of which he felt authorized to do. But it docs not necessarily follow that he declined dis cussion. At least, Mr. Hill did not seem to think so, for he has already attended two of Judge Warner’s meetings, and has been allow ed to discuss the issues of the campaign with him there. He has been met also, at Mcrri wether, by Judge W. at one of his own appoint ments. In addition to this Judge Warner dis tinctly told him at the meeting in Coweta, that, as he could not comply with his requirements, on account of his otter engagements, he would give him time at any of his meetings he desired to attend. Does this look like the “backing out” which the Chronicle charges ? We do not think so. But the friends of Hill complain that he is not allowed eipud time at these meetings, gotten up by Judge Warner's friends, and declare that he should not be allowed the conclusion at them. Wc never before heard of just such a requirement, and must confess ourselves sur prised that it should have been made. J udge Warner makes certain appointments, at which he proposes to explain to his friends his position upon the questions involved in the canvass, and Mr. Hill requires of him that he shall be allow, cd to reply to him, and no matter in what po sition he may place Judge Warner, he must not have the conclusion, in which he may cor rect any impressions he, Mr. Hill, may make! Is there any fairness in such a requirement ? Judge Warner has claimed no advantage which is not entirely fair. At Mr. Kill.-ap pointment, at Merriwether, Mr. Hill opened ix an address of one hour and a half, and Judge Warner responded iu two hours, Mr. Hill fol lowed iu one hour, making two hours for Judge Warner and two and a half for Mr. Hill. His opponent did not claim equal time, nor did he oiler it. Now sec the difference. At Coweta J udge Warner spoke one hour and a half; Hil; followed in two hours, and N\ uruer responded in one, uud then, not satisfied with the time allowed Hill, broke through tire rule, and, after Judge H aaner hud left hanougued the crowd for a considerable time! This is true, and the friends of Mr. Hill wih not deny it. Who ims reason to complain of injustice at tins meeting At the meeting m Henry, J udge Warner spoke two hours; Hili ruuvwed in two and ai i hair, and tire J udge concluded iu hall hour.— | \\ as not this equal timet W uat mure could Ihe asu’; And yet Mr. Hid cuiupiuius ul injus tice, and charges that Judge \\ aruer is afiuid to meet him! \\ here bus be ever tailed to do sol; We defy any one to show . Judge Warner would have acted strangely Indeed, had he broken his appointments, and ' submitted to the dictation of Mr. Hill; but a s ; iar as “backing-out ’ is concerned, we are au_ I tbor.zul to repeat that he will be allowed to : speak at any of Judge Warners meetings i\. I chooses to attend. J udge W inner cannot con I sent, however to break ins other ' professional and public, made prior to the uu ■ usual request oi Mr. Hili, and follow that gen I tlemau to every court-ground iu the District. : ev en though the Chronicle may regard his re i fusal to do so as the "most complete backou. |it ever heard of." He Las met men of greater i calibre than Mr. Hill, and in the discussions he has had with that gentleman, so far. his friends thave nothing to complain either of his abiiity oco]xi with this new political sprout, or of the results of the meetings. Ninth Congressional District. ; Mr. Ethridge is re-elected in the 9th district. ' H. is the only member from this State who voted against the Nebraska bill w ho is re-elect ed. Taylor aud Cullom were candidates for re election, and were defeated.— Nashville Union If American. The Grand Council. The following remarks we clip from an elab orate article in the lost issue of the Columbus Times He Sentinel, we commend to the careful perusal of our Know Nothing friends.—[Eds. Ex. Here there is a body organized, outside of the Constilutivn, with power to lew taxes, nominate candidates, for the highest offices, de cide all measures appertaining to National pol itics. punish delinquent memlxTS, and adopt any and every measure it may deem necessary to ensure success, with affiliated bodies in every county in every District, Territory and State iu the Union, with a membership embracing several millions of people, all of whom are sworn by the most solemn oaths to give a blind obedience to its decrees and forever to conceal from the people the actings and doings of the body. Is it not a featful organization to take power out of the hands of the people and con centrate it in the hands of a few? Ought such a club to be tolerated by a free people?— Can a member who is under its control and sub ject to its dictation be a freeman ? Let the peo ple answer. But who are the members of this Grand Council ? We answer first; “none but native born Protestant citizens;” (Art. 2.:) second none but members of the Third or Union de gree. See article 6, sec. 3, by which it is pro vided that “all officers and delegates of this Council, and of all State, District, Territorial and Subordinate Councils, must be invested with all the degress of this Order.” This set tles the quesiton. It is a very common opinion among mem bers of the lower degrees of the Order that there are very few persons in Georgia who are members of the U nion degree, and they take some credit to themselves for having refused to take the degree. Well, admit for the sake ol argument that this is true. What then ?<. Your rulers, the officers and delegates of the Grand Council, are all Union degree men. Are you not main members of the Order? How then do you claim any credit for having refused the Union degree ? You are the tail of the concern —the Union degree men are the head of it, aud give the law to you. But is it certain that there are not many Third degree members even in Georgia? Let us sec. Look at article 9, sec. 3. It is there provided that all delegates to a .State Council shall be invested with all the degrees of the Order. If the State and Subordinate Coun cils of Georgia have violated this fundamental law of the organization, they have laid them selves open to the “mode of punishment” the Grand Council may see proper to inflict “for a dereliction of duty.” See, also, article 1. sec. 1 of the “Constitution for the government of Subordinate Councils, by which it is provided that “each Subordinnte Council shall be com posed of not less than 13 members, all of whom shall have received all the degrees of the Or der ? If we are correctly informed, there are two Subordinate Councils of the Order, and there ought to be at least 26 members of the Union degree, in the county of Muscogee, and we verily believe there are a great many more. Yet the American party talks about the 4tb Resolution of the Georgia Platform I Why the whole machine was constructed with the set purpose to defeat the objects of that Platform, and to kill oil' all politicians who, in any event, looked to a dissolution of the Union, as we will show when we come to criticise, the obligations imposed in the Third degree. This, however, we will do in another article. The question most important to consider, now. is this : Are irresponsible and unknown men fit persons to be intrusted with the immense pow er conferred by the Constitution of the Grand Council upon the officers and delegates to that body 1 Who they arc is known to but a few. It was the object of the Order to keep their names eternally secret from all but the initiat ed ; but some leaky vessel let the secret out; and at the last Grand Council they made a mer it out of the necessity and allowed the names of the delegates to be published. Well who were they ? We know but a few. The Grand President was John W. Barker, of New York whose boast it was that he was as much of a Frecsoilcr as Wm. H. Seward. Governor Gard ner and Senator Wilson, of Mass,, were also leading members, both of whom are avowed abolitionists. Ex-Governor Johnson, of Pa., the deadly opponent of the Nebraska-Kansas act, was another. Thomas H. Ford, of Ohio, is another, and he is now a candidate for high office on the abolition ticket. But, say ’ the Southern Know Nothings, these men were driv en out of the Grand Council. We do not un derstand it. They voluntarily left the Phila delphia Convention, but are they thereby ex cluded from the order ? That is the question. Who can answer it ? Ex-Governor Johnson and Jno. W. Barker, however, did not secede. They are still “worthy brethren.” ami will in all probability, come back to the next Grand Council. But passing by this point—it is a one we know—in the confidence of the order? Kenneth Rayner of N. C., and George N. Stewart, of Alabama, and Albert Pike, of Ark. The first two denounced the Nebraska- Kansas act as an outrage upon the North, and the last proposed to ignore the question of slave ry in order to preserve fellowship between the slaveholder and the abolitionists. Are they fit to be trusted with the immense power conferred upon the Grand Council. Democratic and Anti-Know- Notliing Candidate for the Leg islature. Bitts—Senate, David J. Bailev; House, B. F. Ward. Coweta —Senate. Hugh Buchanan : House Wm. Amis and G. O. Wynn. Cherokee- —Senate, M. J. Camden; House Lawson Fields and Littleberry Holcomb. I Chattooga—Senate. Wesley Shropshire : ' House, L. W. Crook. Clay—Senate, Dr. B. F. Adams ; House. D. M. Drunner. Doighkbty—Senate. W. J. Lawton : House. A. E. Harris. Floyd—Senate. Francis Irwin ; House. M. H. Haynie and W. B. Terhune. Harris Cocxty—Senate. J. N. Ramsay; House. Judge Henrv Morse and Dr. Tramel. | Henry—Senate. Dr. L. M. Tye ; House, A. A. ! Lentous and S. C. Masters. ; Houston—Senate. Dr. Chas West; House. M. I M. Marshall and F. A. Hill i Liberty—Senate, Capt. Abiel Winn ; House. * Wm. Hughes- I Pike —Senate, O. C. Gibson ; House. J. J.I ! Caldwell. ! Pulaski—Senate. Thos. B. Howel!: House. ■ W. W. Harrell. i Stewart—Senate. Ahram Phillips ; House. B. : L. Kimborough and Jas. A. Fort. i Sumter —Senate. W. M. Brady : House. T. J. i Baisden and Thos. Daniel. 1 Talbot—Senate. L. B. Smith ; House, J. E. ! Barksdale and J. N. Carter. I Thomas—Senate. W. G. Ponder: House, J. C. s Browning. ’ Washington—Senate, John W. Rudisill : House. R. L. Warthen and H. A. Joiner. Wilkinson—Seuate. R. F. Rozar; House. Jas. W. Taylor. . Death of Charles Wallace.—Mr. Char les Wallack, the treasurer of his father's thea tre, died yesterday very suddenly. Flo Go I The inventive faculties'Hour Know Nothin" friends arc heavily taxed to cwivln the complete failure of their -iniins meetiim <>n Friday last and, among other things, tliey ciihipluin that there was no extra train run fur them upon the State Rond, that day. Now this is too bad! They have been powerfully exercised over what they call the iimivcr s,/, y • xpciise of the Road, and yet they •• iniplaht that there w. ; no extra train ! What did they want with it? We have enquired into the mat ter, and can hear of but uno man ami a boy wli'- wanted to com? and could not; and they were too late for the train. There are two regular passenger trains a day, each way, upon the road, and had there been any one to come, they would liave been afforded every opportunity. The truth is there was nobody to run an extra train for. The Atlanta i LaGrange Road, we learn, ran an extra train for the occusiou. and a gentleman who saw that train come in, informs us there were not more than twenty or thirty persons on board I What a pity the State was not put to the expense of running an extra, empty train for the Know Nothings, in order that they might hear Kenneth Rayner, and the other “big gups,” who didn't come! Try again gen tlemen—try again! COMMUNICATED. To the Editors: You will please grant me the privilege to say, through the columns of the "Examiner.” that the sentiment attributed to me by “A Georgian,” in your paper of this morning, does me injustice. lam no advocate for. or promo ter of, strife between any classes of our people. I have uniformly expressed myself opposed to the angry discussion, (indulged iu by a portion of our press:) of the causes which led to the re cent unfortunate riot in Louisville, because 1 believe no just conclusion can be formed until a judicial investigation of the facts is had, and that anything that might be said or written on the subject, at this time, would only tend to excite and exasperate one class of our citizens against another. I have never expressed my self “fully satisfied that there had to be an awful conflict here, either before or at the election.’- My remark was, that I feared, unless these dis cussions ceased, or were conducted in better temper, a similar scene to that which disgraced Louisville would be enacted here: and, if the present canvass must result in bloodshed—if nothing would satisfy our opponents but the sacrifice of life. I, for my part, would prefer that the fight should come off before the election, so that those who survived it might be enabled to exercise the elective framJhise—the dearest right of a freeman—calmly and quietly as freemen should. I have no reply to make to the remaindci of the article to which 1 refer. Very respectfully, C. R. HANLEITER. Atlanta, August 17th 1855. Sam caught—The constitution of 1 the National Council proven to ’ be true. We are informed that a gentleman, a citizen i of Pike county, a few days ago, came into the office of a Lawyer ia the town of Zebulon, i bringing with him two little yellow back bcoks. < containing the Constitution and Ritual of the National Council of Know Noteings. The , gentleman producing it, said he had found it in ; the Road. It had upon it no mark.: of owner- ] ship—it was not copyrighted. The Federal > Union, containing the published Constitution ( of the National Council was brought out aud , compared with the yellow book constitution.— , They were found to agree word for wonl. The j yellow books were deposited with a good De- < inocrat for safe keeping. In a short time as- | terwards, a President of a Know Nothing • Council came to the Democrat, who had the ] books, and inquired for two books and other papers he had lost, stating that they were the property of the American Council. They were given up to him readily by the Demo crat, who said he had no possible use for the < Original, having au exact copy in the Federal i Union.—Fed. Union. _ r ~r , .... 1 The Old Line Whigs of Mary land. ; The subjoined letter from Leonard town, St. 1 Mary's county, Maryland, appears in the Balti- s more Sun of yesterday. The old-line Whigs of ■ Maryland are nobly emulating the example ; set by their brethren throughout the entire ; South: _ 1 “The whig convention of this county assem- > bled iu this town on yesterday, and nominated i Edmund J. Plowden and Richard H. Reeder. ; esqs., for the house of delegates. Mr. Plowden | was a member of the house of delegates in 18-19 ; and is 0,.e of the most extensive planters in this i section. Mr. Reeder is at present judge of the j < orphans’ court. Both gentlemen are men of ■ , ability and deservedly popular. The convcn-| - tion tliat nominated them re-aflinned the strong anti-kuow-uotliing resolutions heretofore passed . by the whigs in this county, und both Messrs.• Plowden and Reeder, in their speeches before the ■ convention accepting their nominations, pledg-l. cd themselves, if elected, to co-operate in good ] i faith with the democratic or any other party ■ in the legislature, if they found no whig party i i there, in opposition to know-nothingism; and | in that contingency, if neecsary to defeat the. , know-nothings, to vote lor the election of a, I democratic United States senator, or any other! officer for whom their votes might be required j ; in their legislative capacity. ’ We understand that the Miner s fir Manufacturer's Bank, at Knoxville, has failed. The stock iu this Bank was owned. by citizens • in Philadelphia, and we regret tliat Col. Me- • Clung’s name apjiears as cashier on the face o! i the issues of the Bank. Col. Met lung is favor-, [ ablv known in Teunesee a.-, a banker. and we 1 are sure that the Bank would have been well I I managed if the stockholders iu the East had . ! acted properly. Col. McClung is also Presi- j ■ I dent of the Farmer's Bank.at Knoxville. We ' caution our readers not to sacrifice the notes I of this last named Bank, as ii has only a circ't • iatiou of 850.000, aud ha-a deposite ofSfiLOOO : in Tennessee bonds in the Comptroller's office for the redt mption of these notes. The Farm-j . er's Bank at Knoxville wiil pay all its issues.— , , The Miner's and Manufacturer's Bank will not jbe bought by the brokers. We have no idea ' what portion of its issues they wiil be able to I ! pay— Nasiiville Union if American. s&V“ Accounts from Fort Laramie to the* ; 16th ult. state that all was quiet in that region. I i Cholera was raging with that virulence at I IF-ort Riley. Major Ogden was among its j victims. I Democratic Convention of Fulton County. At a meeting of the Democratic Anti-Know Nothing Party of Fulton county, held nt the I’ity Hall, August 16th, 1855, John F. Mims, Esq.,-was apjxiintcd Chairman, and J. G. W. Mills. Secretary. All the districts were represented, except Oak Grove, and on motion it was curried that each Mib.tia Distr <-t be entitled to six votes ex cept the Atlanta District, and that was author ized tc easi twelve votes. It was further moved and adopt<*d that the Driegiitcs from Ifris-.-y's and Rnckhead District.-, b - entitled to cast the v>.t- >f Oak Grove District. The Delegates from the cliff-rent Districts re tired for the purpose of reporting business ; on then- return it w.-u, moved, and carried, that the Boily proceed to elect a Candidate by ballot, a majority of the votes cast to constitute an elec tion. Whereupon, the Chair appointed M. Col lier. E. N. Calhoun, and Enoch Morris, a Com mittee, to receive votes and superintend the bal lotting, who, alter having discharged that duty, reported that ’’John Collier, Esq., received 34 votes. Capt. Allison Nelson, “ 9 " Whereupon, the Chair declared John Collier duly nominated. On motion of Samuel B. Hoyt, Esq., the nomination was declared by the meeting as unanimous. It was moved and carried, that the body proceed to the election of a Candidate for Representative in the same manner and form. The ballotting having gone through with, the managers reported tluit Allison Nelson received - 38 votes. Thomas M. Darntill. “ - - 13 “ Jared I. Whitaker, “ - -1 “ Whereupon, the Chair announced that Alli son Nelson was duly elected, as the Candidate for Representative, and on motion of Jesse C. Farrar, Esq., the nomination was declared unanimous. On motion, the Chair was re quired to appoint a Committee of six to inform these gentlemen of their nomination and re quest their acceptance-—the Chair appointed : A. W. Jones, Samuel B. Hoyt. Richard Orme- Jesse Wood, Enoch Morris and Alexander Rnt terec, that Committee. On motion it was carried that the proceed ings of this meeting be published in the Demo cratic Anti-Know Nothing papers of this city. Meet ing adjourned. JOHN F.MIMS, CiiMRMAN. J. G. W. Mills, Secretary. [For the Examiner.} i Jfr.ssrs. Editors: That there isa studied effort, j on the part of some of the members of the Know ; Nothing party, to get up a difficulty with the foreign population of this City, there can be no doubt. One of the officers of the Council (Hauleiter) remarked, in the presence of several gentlemen that “he was fully satisfied that there had to lx: an awful conflict litre, either before, or at the election, and he wished it to come off before.” Another, and several members of the order have been industriously circulating the report that the Irish were arming and preparing to raise a riot (ce. The Discipline says the American party have stood abuse as long as they intend to, or lan guage to that eflect. Threats arc rife that the Know Nothings intend to take possession of the polls on the day of the election. What an ] effort to get up a panic, and what a pity it is these great Americans cant pick a quarrel with some drunken Irishman, to give color to this ' wicked attempt to stir up strife amongst a peaceable and quiet community. But thanks to the conservatim of this much abused city—l mean men of all parties— all such wickedness must fail. If these belligerent gentlemen must and will fight, why just “pitch in” and we will put in practice one of your tenets that “ Americans shall rule America,” and we will enforce law and order, at any and all hazards (w ithout any aid from our adopted citizens,) and protect the rights of all classes of citizens. These remarks arc made that the public may, in advance, see who are agitatorsand disturbers i of the public peace. t i» unnecessary to say a word to our adopt ed citizens, byway of advice, in reference to their course, for they have determined to give no possible excuse by any act of theirs to these anarchists to make capital out of; but to keep on the even tenor of their way, and leave this matter to the conservative and constitutional men of the city, having an abiding confidence in their ability to enforce the law, and by such conduct they will most effectually silence and put to shame the mendacious calumniators who are endeavoring to raise an excitement aud prejudice against them, for party ends. A GEORGIAN. Geit. Washington’s last Vote. | “I was present,” says a correspondent, “when I General Washington gave his last vote.” It was in the spring of 1799, in the town of Alexadria. lie died the 11 th of December following. The court house of Fairfaix coun ty was then over the market house, and imme diately frontingGadsby’s tavern. The entrance into it was by a slight flight of crazy steps on the outside. The election was progressing— several thousands of persons in the court house yard and immediately neighboring streets; and I was standing on Gadsby’s steps when the father of his country drove up, and immediate ly approacd the court house steps ; and when within a yard or two of them, 1 saw eight or ten good looking men, from different directions spring simultaneously, and place themselves in positions to uphold aud support the steps should they fall in the General's ascent of them. 1 was at his back, and in that position entered the court house with him—followed in his wake through a dense crowd to the polls-—heard him vote—returnwl with him to the outward crowd —heard him cheered by more than two thou sand persons as he entered his carriage—and saw his departure. There w;is five or six candidates on the bench sitting; and as the General approached them they rose iu a body, and bowed smilingly ; and the salutation having been returned very grace fully, the General immediately cast Lis eyes to wards the registry of the polls, when Col. D<-u-| cale (1 think it was)said: “Well General, how do you vote ?" The General looked at the candidates and I said : -Gentlemen, I vote for measures, not for men aud turning to the recording table, audi- • bly pronounceil his vote—saw it entered—made! a aran-fnl bow. and retired.— Charleston Cou-| ricr. We make the following extract from 1 the Ralcizh Register of June 30,1852: ■■ Gen. Scott is a Protestant, a rn<-mbcr, we' . leani. of the Episcopal Church. The mon 1 attempt which has been made to create a pre- i I judice in the minds of some, by charging him j with Roman (,'aholicism. is just of a piece with the i intolerant sport of locofoci'ism. DISGRACE FUL AND RUINOUS WILL BE THE 1 DAY WHEN THE RUINOUS “ TEST” SHALL BE APPLIED TO OFFICE IN THIS COUNTRY ! Who inquired the reli ' cions opinions of Gen. Scott when he was lea- I ding the armies of tiie Republic to victory and i glory ?” A Text for the Chaplain of the K.xow Nothings.—"lf a stranger sojourn with tbec in I your land, ye shall not vex him. ' -But the stranger that dwelleth with you I shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt' lam the Lord | your God.” — Leviticus xix, 33, 34. Church etiquette in New York A Southerner sojourning in Xew York writes j to the Richmond Enquirer the following account I of his experience in u fashionable New York! Church, where “crowded houses" render it nec- j essary to secure a seat in advance. A friend at our elbow suggests that when the owners of some of these fashionable pews get to Heaven, they may find the seats all “taken.” "Having for some time had a desire to hear the Rev. Stephen 11. Tyng. I went, in company with a friend, to St. Gi-orite’s Church, yesterday afternoon. The church is a magnificent one, and in the most Bishioiiable portion of the city. Ail the ‘Upja-r Tendom’ attend there. On opening a pew door to walk in, 1 saw a large printed curd (very ncutiy printed) with tills notice on it: ■STRANOEKK ARK RESPECTFULLY RBQUKsTBD NOT TO OCCUPY THIS PEW.' J ust then a gentleman sitting opposite remarked to nte ‘that that pew was taken.” There was sufficient room in his pew for us, but as he did not open the door, 1 could not help thinking of ■secured seats’ at the theatre. We passed on to another pew, and were hardly seated before a tallow-faced looking gentleman, with a voice as if his throat had just been oiled, touched me on the shoulder, and said that ‘he would have to occupy his pew with his famity.’ The tal low-faced gentleman's family consisted of him self, wife, wife's acquaintance, two grown daughters and two children. As the pew was only intended to seat five, we left at once, but thought it singular that a gentleman (?) who would crowd seven people into a pew and paj’ for only five, should look so very important when he spoke of his pew. “We would have left immediately then, but felt a curiosity to hear wliut kind of a sermon Dr. Tyng would preach to such u set. So we walked on a little further, when a gentleman pointed us to a pew which he said was ‘not ta ken.’ We took our seats, and congratulated ourselves that we had found one at last. After service was over, 1 went to the pew where wc found the printed proclamation, and taking it np, read it over carefully, and made a copy of it. The wife of the tallow-faced gentleman, and the flaxen-haired gentlemen, who bad just left the forbidden pew, looked at me very savegcly. The lady aforesaid looked as if she hud just taken a dose of castoroil, or something else nud to take." • Know Notliingism Retires from tliejSoutlt. The scattering column of Know Nothingism like a bruised serpent, trails its desponding length back to the caverns from whence it came. There is no longer a refuge for it in the South. Its only safety is in un immediate departure for the North. There, with its kindred calam ities of abolitionism and infidelity, it may be able to hibernate till the spring of 1856, when, with a new name and honest leaders, it may forage for a brief periixl on the credulous and unsuspecting. There, is no hope for it in the laud of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Macon and King. The people of the South have re ceived it like un invader, and repelled it like a pestilence. This concludes the boosted nationality of the Know Nothing party. Its nothern foliowigs have almost unanimously repudiated the Phila delphia platform ; and now its Southern dis ciples have not been able to escape a crushing defeat by the aid of that platform. Its only strength is in the strength of abolitionism. Its only hope is iu the success of the foes of the constitution and of the South. It has once more been resolved into its original shape and design, and will henceforward be doomed to the fate its southern idolaters heve soseduously la bored to avoid-—that of being a hewer of wood and a drawer of water for Greely, Garrison, Hale, Giddings, Chase, and their confederates. Washington Union. Tiie Canvass. A friend who takes considerable interest in the present great struggle of the South, and in the canvass iu Georgia, in the course of a pri vate letter, uses the following language. We take the liberty of quoting it, omitting a num ber of names mentioned: “Accounts from all sections of the State are favorable— but we must work. The press is do ing its duty, but our speakers are not. You should call, in your paper, upon * • * and all other speaking men, to come into the field. Some of our speakers are literally trav elling, day and night, whilst others are quietly enjoying their rest at home. They ought to be told by the public press that they are expected to lie heard from, at other times than when high offices are to be bestowed." There is more truth than poetry in this, and though the remarks are dropped tn a hasty letr ter, on business, our friend must excuse us for putting them in print. They are as much to the point as any thing we could say. The bat tle is more than half won already by our gal lant champions now in the field, and by the en ergetic corps of editors, and their many able correspondents. The canvass has brought out an unusual amount of vigorous writing from the pens of private citizens, of which these col umns, in purt, bear witness; and this is telling powerfully on the popular mind. But there are others who might be of essential service in the field, whose voices have not yet been heard.— Will they be as modest and unobtrusive after the battle is fought and the victory won Y Constitutionalist if Republic. The Dutch have taken Holland. There is about as much sense in this caption, as there is in the cry that foreigners rule Amer ica. A man who lias renounced all foreign al legiance and taken an oath to support the Con stitution of the United -States—who has invest ed his fortune in land and negroes among ua— who has a family growing up around him, is as much a citizen as if he were “to the manor born.” He lias been so regarded by our fath ers. Washington employed such men in the army and navy, appointed them to Cabinet offices, and sent them as M inisters to foreign courts. Arc we better patriots or wiser states men than Washington ? But how many adopt ed citizens hold office in the United States ? How many iu Georgia? Your Governor, your Judges, your legislators, are all native born citizens. Why then all this noise about Americans ruling America? Why raise fra ternal strife at home about a supposed evil, when the Union of the South is essential to the safety of the South against the wicked and un constitutional machinations of native Aboli tionists ? Divide and conquer, is the policy of our enemies; and for this purpose this apple of discord was thrown to Southern politicians by the Freesoilers of the North. We have no in terest in the issues presented by Know Noth ingism.—Col. Times, l\th inst. The Lake Superior Journal states that the “Cliff Maine” has shown a mass of pure copper which has been computed to contain five hundred tons. Two hund red tons have already been taken off of the , mass. There are about five hundred tons ■ of masses in sight besides this. BgMThe Paris Moniteur has taken advantage of the feeling in favor of England to publish -Martin Chuzzlewit," by Dickens, in its grave official columns. No French paper, however important, can exist without a novel. WM. KA / PROPRIETOR NUMBER 2. LATEST NEWS. LATER FROM EUROPE. ’ ARRIVAL OFTHEBTEAMER AMERICA. Halifax, August 15. The steamer America has arrived with stif later intelligence from Europe. Cotton.—Cotton is quoted at l-16d to l-2<5 lower. The market closed steady. Sales for the week thirty-five thousand bales. Breadstuff*.—The market is unchongod. Consols are quoted at 91 a 911-4. There is no news of importance from the Crimea. Additionul per Lebanon. The steamship Baltic arrived out on the 29th nit., and the Herman on the 30th ult. Sales of Cotton on Monday, eight thousand bales in cluding two thousand to Speculators. The weather has been favorable for the crops. The relation of the German States continues unsatisfactory. The T Attest dates from the Crimea were to the 27th ult They contain nothing new. Breadstuffs.—Tiie market is dull and un changed. Sugar is steady. Coffee is dull, and nothing whatever has occurred to alter the a» peet of affairs. From Washington. NVashington, Ang. 16. A primary meeting has been held for the formation of a Republican party. The object of the organization is to elect Seward Presi dent. A State Republican Convention is to be held in Boston on Thursday. The cull is signed by all the prominent of all parties. Washington, Angnst 13.—Colonel Steptoe, instead of being at Carson Valley, as the news papers recently stated, awaiting the reply of the President to his proposed conditional accep tance of the governorship of Utah, was, on the 12th of July at Benicio, California with his command. New York, August 13.—The weekly state ment of the City Banks, shows the increase of 86,055,000 in loans; 71,000 in circulation and a decrease of 817,000'in specie and of 8138,000 iu deposits. Albany. August 14.—D. Taft, of Charles ton S. 0., had his left ann cutoff this afternoon whilst riding in the express train on the Boston road. He had ininroridently put his arm out side the window whilst the cars were in rapid motion. Buffalo, Aug. 13.—-Yesterday a boat con taining five unknown men was swept over Niagara Falls. All perished. Chicago, Aug. 13.—Dennison, the mail rob ber, ha* been sentenced to ten years imprison ment. "He denied that Andrew Jackson, if alive would consent to be considered ns u Democrat of this school, and insisted that they should be styled the anti-American party.” This “denial” was, it seems, made before the K. Ns. of Thibodaux the day before yi*stcrday by the youthful and eloquent expoundcrofthat acct—George Eutis, Jr. We would like “ for the fun of the thing " to see Old Hickory once more in the flesh with our young friend before him uttering such language. We rather think the gift of speech would fail the orator under the terrible “denial" the stem old patriot would throw back to him. Are these K. Ns. determined to desecrate the mem ory of all the heroes and statesmen of the past, which is embalmed in the hearts of their grate ful countrymen, iu their efforts to effect their unhallowed purposes? The idea of Andrew Jackson being aK. N.I Bah! It is as con temptible as it is false to bis whole glorious ca reer. . The Result. In this portion of the State we arc beaten.— Our candidates are defeated, and Know-Noth ingism is triumphant But such a triumph 1 — A triumph of fire and blood 1 Decency and law and order have been trampled iu the dust The flag of the country, at which these Know- Nothings have pointed with such sacrilegious reverence, has been stained with innocent blood by an infuriated and organized mob. If this lie Americanism and Protestantism, we want none of it. If this be Americans ruling America, in God’s name give us the rule of somebody besides Americans. Any government, any rule is preferable to this. Several weeks ago we predicted the enactment of outrages as a conse quence of Know-Nothingimn. We warned our citizens of its similarity to Jacobinism. We urged good citizens to beware of secret, plotting, midnight associations, aud showed that no good could come of it, but the direst evils were to be apprehended. Our predictions have been ful filled, and the smouldering ruins of honsis and lifeless corpses of unoffending and iuoffensive citizens—the screaifis and tears of women and children—the deafening shouts of an iufuriaten but organized mob—the sad und horror-stricken countenances of all good citizens, and the ex ulting, demon-like visages of many Know Noth ings, must bring up in living .light and scenes of the French Revolution. When are we to have the guillotine ? To hung men by the toes, und stick them through with pitchforks, is too slow a process of extermination. Bnt we must ' stop. The thoughts of such deeds of villainy chills our blood.— Louisville Daily Democrat. The Election.--The counties reported In our tables to day, give for Johnson, 54,000; for Gentry, 53,448. The counties remaining to be heard from gave at the last election for Johnson 12,135; Henry, 11,107. If they vo ted the same this year, the aggregate vote would by for Johnson, 66,135; for Gentry, 64,555; majority for Johson, 1,580. But we have re ports from all the counties not included in our table, giving Johnson a net gain over Gentry's gains of 843. If these reports are correct, Johxson.s majority in the whole State is 1923 But wo hone it will reach 2000. For Congress, we elect four democrats the same as in the last Congrres. In the first district, W atkins, Nebraska whig beats Tay lor, anti-Nesraska know-nothing, 190 votes. E’or the Legislature, we elect 11 Senators and 37 Representatives, to 14 Senators and 38 Representatives of the opposition. On joint ballot, 48 denmocrats to 52 opposition. In the last Legislature, the whig majority on joint bal was j 2. We have made a net gain of 8, but lack 3 of a majority.— Nashville Union and American. conductors on the New York and Erie Rail Road have adopted a uniform. It is appropriate and becoming, not unlike that of the New York police. The buttons bear the emblem of a miniature locomotive, and the work “Conductor.”