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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1855.
Cobb County Democratic Nominations
Senator,
THOMAS H. MOORE.
Representatives.
ALFRED MAYNER,
SAMUEL M. BRADFORD
Sheriff,
J. B. BLACKWELL.
Clerk Superior Court,
JAMES M. BARNWELL.
Clerk Inferior Court,
WILLIAM CARROLL.
Ordinary,
BIRDSONG TOLLESON.
' ‘Equal Rights.”
We call the reader’s attention to the commu
nication in this day’s paper over the signature
above. The opinions of such a man as William
Wirt?in times like these, arc well worth consul
ting, and, from them, there is no one who can
not be taught a valuable lesson.
Henry Vernon.
We are in the receipt of -Henry Vernon, or
the Dream," by “A Georgian,” but have not
yet given it a perusal. Our readers will remem
ber that this work is from the pen of a gentle
man favorably known to the litertuy circles ol
Georgia and the South, James M. Smythe,Esq.,
of Augusta. We anticipate pleasure in its pe
rusal, and shall not neglect, hereafter, to speak
of it
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The Drama.
We were agreably surprised, a day or two
since, by a call from Mr. A. T. Morton, oi
Crisp’s Dramatic Corps. We learn from him
that he has concluded an engagement with Mr.
C. for the coming season, which will be opened
at the Athenteum in this place on the place, on
the 10th pros. The Company, as re-organiz
ed, will be in full strength with most of the old
favorites, and the addition of quite a number ol
other players from the principal theatres of the
Union. Mr. Crisp is determined that this sea
son shall far outstrip any former one in Georgia,
lie has done more to elevate the taste of the
Georgia public for theaticals than any other
mau who has attempted the precarious operation,
and it is gratifying to his friends to learn that
the success that has attended his efforts has
induced him to place upon Georgia boards the
beat available talent of the country. We shall be
able, at an early day, to announce the Corps
in ftdl. and in the meantime, are warranted in
raising public anticipation to something extra
to Fair week
THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN TH SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Good Liquors Cigars &c.
At the “Holland House,” in the rear of this
office, Messrs. Craft & Cherry offer for sale,
by tetail or wholesale, a fine lot of Cigars and
Liquors of all kinds, including fine wines of ev-
I ery description.
The gentleman named are preparing to do a
business in the line referred to, which will ensure
the trade a choice in their selections rare in the
interior of our State. Purchasers will do well
to remember this. Particulars will appear in
their advertisement now' preparing for insertion
in our next w’eek’s issue.
Sparkling Catawba.
We are in receipt of a bottle of this success
ful candidate for public favors, from the Drug
establishment of Messrs Smith & Ezzard, who
have on hand a large supply of American Wines
and Brandy. Sparkling Catawba, Still ditto,
and Catawba Brandy, from Jno. D. Park, of
Cincinnati These beverages have attained a
popularity all over the Union, not second to the
choicest brands from French Vineyards, and.
while we set down naught against Foreign im
portations in malice, we must confess to a par
tiality for these American manufactures over
all others. There is do adulteration in them,
and we think the Overby men should make them
the exception to their proscription, instead of
the poisonous stuffs that come under the head
of “imported original packages” they will do in
finitely less harm. Call on these polite gentle
men, and yet a pure article, at an ad valorem
rate.
Watchman! What of the Night!
All’s well! The dawn is fact approaching,
and we reply, all is well! From every region
of the State good news reaches us. Our friends
necd’lmve no misgivings, no forebodings of the re
sult. Southwestern, and Middle Georgia ; the
Seaboard and the Mountains ; will roll up ma
jorities for JOHNSON, such as will aston
ish and confound his enemies. The war upon
civil and religions liberty will prove destruct
tive to those who have waged it; and Georgia,
like Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas,
will occupy the proud position of trampling
under its feet, the desperate effort made to place
her side by side with Massachusetts, Connecticut ,
and other Know Nothing States. It is with
confidence we say this to our friends every
where. But, while we do so, let us not be
idle! Every man, agreeing with us, has a duty
toperform. Work,every one of you! The
defeat of your enemy, it is true, is a settled
question. That, however, does not, ought not
to, suffice! The defeat should lie a Waterloo
one—one from which there should be no possi
bility left of recovery—no hope left to those
who assail the constitution, that success will
attend any future effort. Let us all work to
this end, and, to use a familiar phrase, “ there
will be glory enough for one day
Southern Central Agricultural Fair.
The arrangements for the Fair, which opens
on the 11th proximo, are now so nearly com
pleted that we are enabled to judge of their ca
pacity and adaptat ion to the purposes for which
they have been constructed, and we have no
hesitancy in saying that they are superior in
both these points, and indeed, in all others, to
anything of the kind we have ever seen in Geor
gia. The stalls, show-rooms, and the grounds
generally have been fitted up upon a scale of
extent and durability which indicates the
intention of the Committee to- make this the
permanent point for tlie annual meeting of the
Society, and if such is the design, we must say
the Committee have acted wisely, and for the
best intersts of the Society. Nothing has op
erated so much against the efficiency of the So
ciety as the frequent changes in its place of
meeting, and as Atlanta has subscribed so liber
ally, and affords such superior facilities for visi
tors coming aud returning we cannot |be why
this city should not be the penuaneut point of
exhibition. Were there no other arguments,
her Rail Roads would be .sufficient for the de
cision of the Society in favor of Atlanta.—
The Presidents of most of the Roads in the
State are in favor of Atlanta, on account of
the inconvenience they experience in transpor
ting passengers over their Roads to any other
point. When the Fair was held Augusta
the travel of the State, the LaGrange and the
Macon Roads all amtered upon the Georgia
Road, which Road found it onerous in
the extreme to put through the travel of these
three besides the increased travel of its own.—
The same was the case with the Macon Road,
when the Fair was held in that city. But lo
cate the Fair in Atlanta, and neither of the
four Roads will have more than its own share
of travel (increased, of course, by the occasion)
to transport, and visitors will experience none ol
the inconvenience which has heretofore kept so
many from these fairs who would otherwise
have attendal. The consequence will be a large
increase in the receipts of the treasury, and the
Society and visitorswill both feelkhisjmportaiit
advantage.
But to the Fair. Every possible arrange
ment will be made for the uecommolations of
visitors aud we learn that every house that can
accommodate them will be opened for the oc
casion. So none need stay away on this ac
count. Extra trains will be run semi-daily upon
all the Roads, and no pains will be spared by
the committee to make all as comfortable as
possible. Let all come who can. and we war
rant satisfaction.
Our exchanges will confer an obligation by
noticing the Fair, which we will cheerfully re
ciprocate whenever occasion offers.
Magnificent CnANDELtER.-The Messrs. Cor
nelius & Baker, of Philadelphia, have just com
pleted for the new State Capitol at Nashville.
Tennessee a magnifficent chandelier, twenty oue
feet long and forty-five feet in circumference
Nothing has yet emanated in America like it.
snd the citizens of Nashville, (when this reaches
its destination.) can boast not only of having
the largest chandelier in the world, btrt they can
say, with every degree of propriety, that they
have the baodsowest one.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA. I'IUDAY MORNING. AUGUST -31, 1555.
Judge Andrews’ Decision.
i At a period when the religious opinions of
men are fiercely assailed by a powerfully organ
ized political party, it is not remarkable that
I the decision of Judge Andrews, one of the can
; didates of that party, for the highest honor anil
: trust which the people of Georgia can bestow,
' by which Universalists were declared incompe
tent witnesses in our Courts of Justice, should
be subjected to the closest scrutiny, the most
rigid investigation. This is proper, it is natu
ral. Men should jealously guard the right guar
anteed to them by the Constitution, both of the
I State and the Union. The slightest assaults
! upon it, come from what quarter it may, should
lie frowned upon, and voted down at once. We
believe that Judge Andrews’ decision was an
innovation upon both the State and Federal
Constitution, and have repeatcully so declared.
But there is one point connected with it which
we do not remember to have seen published du
ring the present canvass; and to it we beg leave
to call the special attention of the voters of
Georgia.
In citing authority for his decision in the case
referred to, Judge Andrews has quoted Judge
Daggett’s decision of a similar question. The
reader by referring to the seventh volume of Con
necticut Reports will find this decision. To a part
of it only, Judge Andrews refers in his decision,
leaving out a principal feature of the same. It
is this—that while rejecting the testimony of
Universalists, Judge Daggett avers, that, upon
the same principle he would exclude the testimo
ny of that highly respectable body of Christians’
known in this, and other .States, as Hard Shell
Baptists! We have not the decision before us,
or we would give this Connecticut Judge’s de
cision in his own words. We present it, how
ever, in substance, and challenge a contradic
tion by the supporters of Judge Andrews.
Now, who cannot see in this, a crusade com
menced years ago, while Judge Andrews was on
the bench, against the “faith that is in many” of
the people ? But we have a more important
query to propose. Why was it that Judge An
drews omitted to refer to that portion of Judge
Daggett’s decision which referral to the Bap
tists ? Was it because the Universalists were a
weak body of Christians in the State, whom it
was easy, with impunity, to oppress; and that
the Baptists, on thccontrary, were strong, whom
it was dangerous to oppress, and render odious
by such an unholy decision? The time is
come when these questions should be answered.
Judge Andrews is now a candidate for the Chief
Magistracy of the State, and not only Univer
salists and Baptists desire and demand explana
tion, but every religious denomination demands
and requires it. Voters of Georgia, you too
demand it, ere you cast your votes for Garnett
Andrews.
For the Reader.
The reader will doubtless remember the fol
lowing article which appeared last, week in this
paper, and which, although we regretted the
cause that forced its publication upon us, yet
duty to others, as well as ousselves, made it a
matter, almost, of necessity.
Falsehood.
“A joint stock company paper, as it is report
ed, called the “Discipline,” and published in
this city, contains the following:
“It might be well enough also, for those who
are disposed to give extra weight and credit to
the evidence of the Examiner, when it undertake!;
to justify the Governor, to remember that the
said journal is in the pay of the State Govern
ment! That the printing office from which it is
issued enjoys certain State patronage, of con
siderable value; and that these favors arc the
result of special order from Governor John
son!”
The assertion that this journal “is in the pay
of the State Government,” is false; — that the
printing office “from which it is issued enjoys
certain State patronage of considerable value,”
is also false; — and “that these favors are the re
sult of a special order from Gov. Johnson.” is
deliberately false. Like its late assertion, in
which it used Mr. Jenkins' name, iu connection
with Gov. Johnson’s, not a woVd of truth is con
tained in the article; —the writer of the editorial
must have called upon a very fertile imagina
tion for his facts."
In reply to the foregoing the “Discipline” of
Wednesday last, contained the following elabor
ate statement. Wc publish it, at length, in or
der to give that paper a fair hearing with our
readers.
The ; ‘l7xauiiuer” and State Road
Patronage.
In order to account, in some degree, for the
Examiner's extraordinary zeal for the perpetu
ation of Gov. Johnson's corrupt Administration,
we ventured to assert, last week, that the estal>-
lishment from which that journal is issued, was
in lhe pay of the State Government. That it
enjoyed certain State Road patronage, by the
express direction of Gov. Jolmson himself. The
Examiner denied all these charges, aud pro
nounced them utterly false. Know; ng that they
were true, notwithstanding the editor's flat de
nial, we addressed the following note to the
“Master of Transportation,” confiideutly expect
ing tliat his answer would not only prove the
charge, but would even convince the Examiner
itself of the error into which it had fallen:
Discipline Office. Aug. 16. 1855.
Mr. E. B. Walker, Master Transportation. If ’.
A*. A. R. R.
Sir : The daily Examiner of this date, having
denied that it is in the pay of the State Govern
ment, either by the express order of the Gov
ernor or otherwise, I beg leave to inquire of you
respectfully, whether the Examiner office doe s
not receive a certain portion of State Road prin
ting, aud at whose instance the said patronage
is bestowed.
A full and explicit answer will much oblige
vour friend and ob’t. serv’t.,
A. M. ED LEMAN.
P. S.—Please give me the dates and amounts
paid that office, by the State Road, since tin
Examiner has been printed. A. M. E.
To the above fetter, the "Master of Transput
taiton" replied as follows, by direection of the
Superintendent, it seems :
T. 0.. W. 4. A. R. R.. t
Atlanta. August 15. 1855. j
Dear Sir : The Superintendent directs me to
say. that I have no time to pick and cull ac
counts. for the purpose of supplying food for
newspaper squabbles.
Verv Respectfullv. Jtc..
E." B. WALKER. M. T.
To A. M. Edleman. i
Ductpfinc Office,'Atlanta. j"
| This beiag a& entire evasion of the questions
asked, we induced four gentlemen, niemlsT- <>■'
the Association under whose patronage bis pa
per was established, to address the Superinten
dent a note, hoping that he could find time to
answer the questions asked. Tlie following is u
copy of that note:
Atlanta. August. 16. 1853. |
Maj. Jos. F. Cooper, Superintendent. fii. ■
Dear Sir.: Enclosed is a paragraph taken
from the daily Examiner of this date. The un
dersigned being members of the “Joint Stock !
Company” alluded to would respectfully in ■
quire of you whether, or not. the Examiner office ;
is. or has bam, the receipient of State Road pat-'
ronago: and we would also inquire, if it is not
the special request of Gov. Johnson, that a por-.
tion of the State Roaii printing should be given
to the Examiner office.
We have the honor to be.
Yours truly. t
C. HOWELL.
N. L. ANGIER.
A. W. MITCHELL.
h. d. McDaniel.
To the above note, the Superintendent, after
waiting a day or two, sent the following reply :
Atlanta, Ga., Ang. 18, 1855.
Gentlemen : I have your note of yesterday,
and I have read the article in your paper to
which the Examiner has replied". My testimo
ny will not avail you in making out your case.
In dividing our orders for the State Road print
ing. it happens for several months past, that Mr.
Hanleiter and the Intelligencer have received
each a larger amount of our custom than Mr.
Kay. The last has received too little to be call
ed by the name of patronage. You would place
the price of an Editor at a very low figure, if
you consider his zeal purchased.
V ery respectfully,
Your ob’t. serv’t.,
JAS.F. COOPER.
Messers Howell, Mitchell, and others.
Atlanta Ga.
Here is another complete evasion of the points
at issue. Howell and others asked if the Ex
aminer office, is now or has been, heretofore,
the recipient of State Road patronage. Also,
if it was not the special request of Gov. Johnson
that a portion of the State Road printing should
be given to that office. The Superintendent an
swers none but the first question, which is all
that would do for the public eye. He very well
knows that six or seven thousand dollars of the
public money has been lavished upon that Irish
establishment, in the way of printing and sta
tionery. That it was the exclusive recipient of
these favors until a few “months past,” when
the “division of his orders” commenced. Why
did he suppress any portion of the truth ? We
will explain the reasons. He could not do other
wise, without proving more than we have charg
ed. The Eaminer office received oil the State
Road patronage, in the way of printing and sta
tionery until "several months past,” when it
was discovered that its charges were unreasona
ble and exhorbitant, and the matter was
brought to the attention of the Superintendent,
when he very properly directed a change. When
tlie teat was thus shifted from his mouth, Mr.
Kay, and those around him, became exceedingly
wroth—wrote to the Governor and applied to
him personnally, to have it placed back. And
Johnson did sa u that half of the Sta te Road
printing should be given to the Examiner office
notwithstanding its exhorbitant charges. This,
and the charge, that it has received thousand.-
of dollars, (some six or seven at least) from the
State Road, in the shape of exhorbitant charges
for printing and stationery, we could easily
prove by Maj. James F. Cooper, on his cross
examination. No wonder his “testiino y will
not avail us anything in making out our case,”
when he declines to answer our questions—gives
the only answer that could possibly benefit the
defendant, and suppresses the mass of facts and
figues in his possession, that would make out
our case beyond all a doubt or cavil. Perhaps
the Superintendent had the saying of a certain
wise man of old, in his mind, when he replied
to the note of Howell and others :
“Whose keepeth his mouth and his tongue,
keepeth his soul from troubles."
Remarks on the foregoing.
We believe that the candid reader will admit
the the failure of the “Discipline,” “Joint
Stock Company,” and ail, to make out their
case, and we might stop here. But, apart from
the points at issue, there is that connected with
this controversy, on the part of the “Discipline”
which, wd think, merits rebuke. The design ol
that paper at the outset, was to discredit the
labors of those who controlled the Editorial col
umns of the "Examiner," by the reckless as
sertion in substance, that it was bought up, by
the State Government, and through a “ special
order of Governor Johnson. Hence the reply
we made, and the language used in that reply.
In order then to sustain its position, the Editor
of the ‘Discipline” resorts to Mr. Walker,
master of Transportation on the State Road, to
vindicate that paper in its gratuitous assertions.
Mr. Walker’s appropriate reply to such a call is
ueiore the reader. A resort is then had to
Major Cooper. His reply is also before the
reader. Surely the parties to all these culls,
must have hail a strange opinion of these ofiiar
of the Road and State, to resort to them, or
either oi them, for the purpose of procuring
testimony that this paper was bought up b)
the State Government through the "special or
der oj Governor Johnson ßut be this as it
may; answered by Major Cooper slud Mr.
Walker us they have been, and not satisfied
with the answer, the "Discipline" charges that
it is an “evasion of the points at issue." What
were the points at issue? First, that "in/s
journal (the Examiner) is u, tfic pay cj tin
State Government. Second, that "the printing
office from which it is issued enjoys certain
State patronage oj considerable value. Third,
that “these favors are the result of a special or
der from Governor Johnson." Arc the gentlemen
not answered when Major Cooper says—“ M>
testimony will not a rail you in making out iioar
case ?" Arc they not answered when he say
| -that Mr. Hanleiter and the Intelligencer have
received, each a. larger amount of our custom
than Mr. Kay ?" Are they not answered when
he says that •• the last. (Mr. Kay) has received
too Lttle to be called by the name of patronage '
Not so. tlie venue now must be changed: The
Discipline ” started out to discredit this papsr
><ecause it “ is in the pay of the State Govern
ment but its witnesses testifying to the contra
ry, it changes its tune, and says that it has been
that months ago it was &e. Had the"Discipline'
said this, in the first instance, its jxresent posi
tion wonld have been less contemptible. But
its every assertion was unwarranted i>v facts, a.-
well as the causes which it now assigns for the
little" patronage bestowed upon tin's Office.
We might pursue this subject farther, but for
good reasons decline doing so. We, therefore,
eave the reader to determine who is ri<ht —the
"Discipline.” > t the Examiner ? Or if that
paper prefers it. the •• Irish Concern " that has
regard for courtesy and truth ; or the “ Know
Nothing Establishment ” that has. in this con
troversy, displayed respect for neither.
1 Ji,.- t/.i D.dlif Ej'iiinint.r.\
)r,-:s-Rs Enrrolis With a view to solve
the p-.’liiiiTil qiv stiiHi- of the day. tbediiwt mid
incidental opinion- of thosi; great minds, which |
have illuminated 1 io path of irovermnental poll- [
ey. mid g.ive tone to liie public sentiment of the I
generation hi which they lived, have been care
fully collected and presumed to the people.—!
Washington and Jefterson, Madison ami Frank
lin. Macon, Gaston and Clay, stand prominent-i
ly firth in favor of a complete divorcement of:
Churcii and Stale, of political equality subject
io the Constitution, and of religious toleration;
under all circumstances, and subject to no res-'
traint. On the other hand are arranged the mod-1
ern lights of Cone and Rayner, Prentice and i
Pike, Nesbit and Miller. Between tlie teach- >
ings. of these mi n. the people are compelled to I
choose, but before doing so permit me to ad-i
duee the authority of one mere statesman, i
whose monitory lessons have slept thus far, yet
whose name was a tower of strength iu his pal
my days, suggestive as it wa' of varied accom
plishments, chivalrous bearingand matchless elo
quence. I refer to William Wirt.
Ou the general subject of religion, the exam
ple of this illustrious man should teach a lessons
of tolerance and charity to the present watchful
custodians of the human conscience, whose abuse
and persecution of the Catholic Church are on
ly equalled by then- hypoeriey and lust for pow
er. Mr. Kennedy in his Memoirs says, of Mr.
Wirt.
"Notwithstanding his devotion to theological
study, he seems to have attached but little im
portance to the shades of doctrine which dis
tinguish the various sects of the Christian
Church. Be judged religion by its duties more
than its dogmas, and was the most tolerant man
in matters of ■conscience. He says, somewhat
playluily—in reply to the question of a friend—
“l dout know about joining the Episcopalian
Church; I dont like to give up the Presbyterian
which was the church of my fathers. For I
was born u Presbyterian, I was baptized a Pres
byterian I was inoculated a Presbyterian, I was
educated a Presbyterian—old Parson Hunt
having performed the last three processes for me
—I married a Presbyterian; the ceremony was
performed by a Presbyterians ; all ray children
were born Presbyterians by right both of fath
er and mother, and they have all been baptized
Presbyterians by the same minister who marri ed
their parents. N ow, it is not an easy matter
to break all these ligaments. However.—if my
wife says the word—so be it. I can worship
God as sincerely and devoutly under one roof
as another, and have felt as much devotion in a
Roman Catholic Cathedral as in any other tem
ple of worship.”
In passing I might remark, that whilst Mr.
IV irt seems to have left the matter of church
membership to the discretion of his wife, histo
ry does not record the fact that he wished to
consult the same authority as to accepting
his nomination for President of die United
States, especialy Wore it was made, as did a
certain K. N. candidate for Governor in Geor
gia.
But to the point. In 1831 Mr. Wirt was
the candidate of the Anti-Masonic party for
President. It was suggested that the Presby
terians, as a sect, were coming to his aid, and
that this movement might be made complete by
a little management on his part. Though al
ways charged with overwaning ambition, his
discriminating mind saw the danger of such a
course; his conscience revolted at the thought
that religion, in any shape, should be dragged
upon the political arena, and he pours out to
his bosom friend, Judge Carr, the confidence of
a patriotic sou), in the following words.
"It has been suggested to me by a clergyman,
t’iat the Presbyterian.- are coming to my aid. I be
long to their Church. They are said to number
u hundred and twenty thousand votes. My ad
vice to them is to stick to their religion, and not
to sully it by mixing in political strife. They
will make more hypocrites than Christians by
such a course. This is bad advice as a politi
cian, but sound us a Christian. When 1 say
bad as a politician, 1 mean with regard to the
particular occasion and success of my election ;
for it is throwing away so much support which
I believe, uiy wish would command. But
on high political ground it is also sound:
lor tiie Church and State should be kept separ
ate, and religion should not be made a test for
political service. As a Christian, 1 would wish
to see the President a Christian, for his exam
ple migut do much good. But it would not do
to make it a Smc yuu non in such an office. If
otherwise honest and of superior capacity that
should be enough” Memors of IF. Hu t. by
Kennedy, 2 1 ol.pagc 314.
Milledgeville Ga. EQUAL RIGHTS.
1 Rom Kansas.— Ihe Kansas Legislature, a
joint sissiou, have appointed Lecompton the per
uiaueul seal of goveruiueut. A correspondent
oi tue Missouri Republican says:
it is situated oa the Kansas, River, near the
geographical centre oi the territory. Conve
nient as n is to aii portions of the territory, the
iucuUtai wilt doubtless give general satisfaction,
lhe town site is a oeautifui one Timber iiOounus.
aler is plenty. Both timber and water are
oi tiie most excellent quality* Yesterdav, shares
oi tiie Lecompton Town Company could have
been bought ter Si UO; to-day they cannot be
i '.'Oiigiit ter less than Si ,00b, except when a par-
I ty is couijieiiai to sell by a money pressure.—
liin> eveu.ng lueu are considered worth 310,000
i. no. last evening, were considered worth noth
ing. i o-day. men aie regarded us good for
:;<te.oUo. who, yesterday were regarded us good
I ter several aunorai iess tiian nothing. VV hat is
it that fickle fortune wiii not do lor. lucky peo
ple. Inis resuit adds much excitement and a
great deal of log-rolling, and splashes with cold
water many high hopes of fortune, some are
eluted: in..re aie depressed.
Health of Savannah.—By reference to the
Report of the Board of Health, to l>e found in
our columns thismorning.it will be-e.m that
our city is in the enjoyment of almost tmintcr
rnpted health, the inteaments for the weekending
Tuseday being only eleven, nine of whom were
whites and two blacks and colored. Os them fi mr
were infants, one drowned, one of dropsy and
two brought to the city in a dying state.
For the purpose of omparinon we have re
ferred to our files of hut year, and find then
were for the week ending 32d August, sixty
seven interments, of which forty-four were from
yellow fever, leaving a balance of twenty three
from other diseases.— Saa. Rep, 23d inst.
[From the Wushiug.'oi, i?th inst.j
Americans iiuiing America.
Tiie Louisville Jinirmd is engaged iu getting i
up bogus affidavits, pre;ending tu • inbrace reli-1
able accounts of th< ii«>ts of the 6th inst,, pre
pared, as that journal admits, in its office.' The |
point sought to be attiiiiwd by the Know Noth
ings engaged in perpetrating the fr.uuls. false
hoods, concealment of all HiHicrial portions of
the truth, and whin washings of the conduct of
the rowdy ruffians who, by order ol ii.e lodges,
brought on the work of Monday ingnt, the 6th
inst., is to forestall the publication of a full and
searching official examination into tlie causes
of these riots, and the part taken by the Know I
Nothings in them, which the county and city
authorities of Louisville, members of Know I
Nothing lodges to a man, are shirking. It
will, however, be impossible for- them to pre
vent such an investigation much longer, as is
evident from the tone of the newspapers of that
city generally, and from the rapidity with which
all who value the right to live w ithout being
subject to be murdered with impunity by rowdy
ruffians, are taking occasion to effectively mani
fest their disapprobation, in connection with
the Louisville Journal. Those engaged in the
work of trying to throw the responsibility off
the Know Nothiug organization, are taking due
care that no other affidavits shall see the light
through them, except those of persons who will
or can swear that they only saw the portions ol
the riots wherein the Know N othings got the
worst of it Thus, iu the case of young Rhodes,
they parade more than one affidavit to prove
that he was not shot by an Irishman, but have
no time to waste in taking the affidavits of any
of the large number of respectable persons who
saw him, a lew moments before he was killed,
murder an unoffending Irishman, and who also
saw an old man, named Barrett, killed under
the impression that he was the man who killed
this Rhodes; whereas, it turns out that he
(Rhodes) met his death at the hands of some I
other unknown individual.'
It seems that the affidavit concoctors around !
the Journal olfice have frightened some igno- ]
rant Irish women into swearing the affidavits
which they could not read and which were
doubtless falsely read to them, containing as J
they do, statements with reference to the riot
at and around Quinn's row, which tell of the '
defense the Irish made there of their lives when
assailed by stones, firearms and the torch, as'
though the Know Nothings were hunted lambs,;
rather than tiie hunters to burn innoa*ut and ;
helpless women and children.
It will probably be long, very long indeed,
'Delore Prentice and his busy corps ol affidavit
makers, will be able to find one. witnes to his
crowning act of Know N othing valor, gallantry,'
philanthropy, mercy, and patriotism, which was ■
performed in presence of hundreds. We refer |
particularly to the act of a leader of tlie Know i
Nothing mob in rushing out from the crowd of;
his companions, intercepting a woman tteeing |
from the llames of her homestead, in whic : the i
body of her husband was being consumed,;
snatching from her breast the infant, and brave- 1
ly blowing out its brains, with a revolver, in i
sight of his admiring and envious companions
and others. But we will detain our readei-s no
longer from our extracts, for to-day, from the
Louisville Courier of the 14th, as follows:
The Louisville Journal, of yesterday, con.
tains the threatened expose that was to be
made, proving that iu every instance foreigners
were the aggressors on bloody Monday. It is
entirely a partial allair, and throws no light ou
lhe doings of that accursed day. The witness
state what they saw at six o'clock iu the even
ing. Three Irishmen came along and com
menced tiring, without the least provocation.—
One witness only saw some slight shoving of
one Irishman. Then, without further provoca
cation, firing from the houses commenced; and
this the public are invited to believe is the be
ginning of the riot. The violence at the Eighth
Ward polls are ignored, where men were peace
ably knocked.down without resistance. Then
the rushing of lhe mob on Market, with clubs,
saying they were going round to Main to fight,
none of these witnesses saw. It is very cuwve
nient to begin iu the middle of the muss, and
publish only what occurred on u particulanaue
easiou. lhen there were anus iu the houses
occupied by Irishmen, and men moulded bullets,
and one man said he was ready. The reader
will reuiember that these houses were mobbed
ou the night of the May election. The outra
ges lhen committed met with no resistance.—
Americans would have prepared their houses
houses lor defence, unit the world would have
justified them; and although these witnesses
didn't see the immediate provocation, let the
public judge whether men are likely to shoot
wantonly without any provocation.
Thousands know that these event* on Main
street followed a whole day of outrages, and the
couuneucemeut of these affidavits at the late
hour of six o'clock, only shows that those who
got them up could ut go further back. We!
shall soon have a true history of this whole I
business, which agrees with the previous prepar-1
atious to carry the elections.
All was quiet at the polls we are ineuducious-1
ly informal. There was little disturbance, for
Irish and Germans were quietly knocked down, |
without offence and without resistance. The 1 ,
first resistance led to atrocities that were com-.
mined. It was a monstrous outrage lor ter-1
eiguers to vole, and intolerable lor them not to i
submit to insult, and bullying, and beating.— I
I'heir resentment wus nut to be tolerated.—
Who shot Rhodes or Graham, is not known,
but in revenge for their death tiie innocent and
the guilty were consigned to a general massa
cre.
It is well known that there wus plenty of
force ou tiie Know Nothing side of the question,
but what was lhe result ? Events show that
the mob wus already ou the ground, organized
lor outrage. It needed no turUier organization,
and the molders and burnings that followed,
showed a party ready for aggression and re
venge. The armed bullies from all parts of lhe
city were on baud to gratify their fiendish de
light iu blood and destruction. I'he sudden as
suu,. upon the houses, ami their Complete dc v
strucliuu iu their reign of terror, shows wmii a
condition of things existed iu this city, ami
proves more than any ex parte arlUicates
can.
immense Shipments of W heat.
We lea>n, says the Chattanooga Advertiser,
from the Superintendent of the Depot ai Chat
tanooga, that iu the month of July, there were
a hundred thousand bushels of wheat shipped over
the Western aud Atlantic Railroad to points
below—aud all these from East and Aliddle Ten
nessee, nut including the vast amount that comes
down the East Tennessee aud Georgia Railroad,
intersecting the Atlantic road at Dalton. And
the quantity that.will be shipped from Chatta
nooga for the mouth of August will reach oru
Hundred and fifty thouiaud bushels, the average
amount being over six thousand bushels daily
thus far for the present month. We were at tlie
Depot yesterday, aud were somewhat sur
prised to see the Depot so densely crammed with
this staff oi' life —and it was still pouring in and
bid great agricultural resources, and when once
developed. Sue will astonish some of her sister
wheat boasting States, The fanners of our Stale
are turning their attention to their pursuits by
adopting methods of enriching their soils gener
ally. Success to their noble calling.
The Louisville Journal contradicts the
reported death of Robinson, of Pelen Jewett
notoriety.
Uiuirwick and Florida Kailroad
—Statu Aid—Development ofi
Southern Georgia—No. IV.
Mr. Editor: In my previous communications,
I-have stated such facts and adduced such ar
guments. us were calculated to show, first, the
necessity for the building oftheabove road, and
secondly tiie artuinty of its proving a safe and
profitable investment of capital.
To carry out my original plan, it only remains
for me to sum up what may be said in favor ol
the State's assisting the enterprise ; and in or
der to do this, let us take a review of the results
which this work will accomplish.
Ist. It will build upon our seacoast a flour
ishing city, possessing a most excellent harbor,
which will give to our State an importance in
the commmercial would that she has never be
fore enjoyed.
2d. It will b’ the means of bringing through
our territory a large share of the great western
trade and travel, which advantage, Florida (by
her liberal appropriations to her public works)
will wrest from us. unless we anticipate her by
the speedy coifiplction of this road.
3d. It will add greatly to the value of land
ed property iu Southern Georgia, and there
by increase the revenue of the State from taxa
tion. ■
4th. It will give to the planters of that sec
tion, the facilities that they have long wanted
for reaching market, thus rendering them
contented and prosperous and preventing them
from removing to other parts of the country.
sth. It will induce emigrants to come in.
who will bring with them wealth, energy and
improvement.
6th. It will add to the production of the coun
try, open new sources of trade, and cause towns,
churches, schools and manufacturing establish
ments to spring up, where now reigns an almost
unbroken solitude.
These are some of the effects that will follow
the construction of the Brunswick Railroad.—
The people of Southern Georgia and the State
as a commonwealth will be the recipients of
these blessings. Therefore upon each should
fall a just proportion of the burthens.
Our Southern planters, we believe, will not
be wanting iu their exertions to help themselves;
and it is to be hoped that the state will not
suffer this important work to languish and die,
for the want of a little timely assistance on her
part.
What, we would ask, has given Georgia her
high rank in the confederacy—wliat has in
creased her population, added to her wealth, de
veloped her resources, built up her towns, and
given her a reputation for foresight and enter
prise second to none of her sister States?—
Manifestly her Railroads. 1 )eprive her of these
and the wheels of time will have gone back
with her half a century—she will stand where
she stood fifty years ago.
If then she owes so much to her works of in- i
ternal improvement, is it not her obvious policy |
and’ineumbent duty to cherish them, and if need
be assist m building them 1
A lew years since the Cherokee region was
a mere wllderdess. The State built there a
railroad, which has acted like an enchanter's
rod. This was a wise step, but let her not
weary in well doing. Let her remember that
“to stand still is to go backward." Let her do
lor Southern Georgia, one fourth of wiiat she
has done lor Northern and Middle Georgia, aud
she will never have cause to regret it.
Nothiug, absolutely nothiug, can be said
against a judicious plan of state aid. The peo
ple and the t imes alike demand it; and upon the
ensuing Legislature will devolve the duty of
devising such a plan.
Let us not hearken to those "penny-wise and I
pound-foolish” croakers, who would have us be-:
lieve that any and every system of State aid
must inevitably be attended with disaster.—
Aedia est in res— there is a meaning in all
things, and it is the part of wisdom for us to
adopt a moderate course iu this matter..
We want a system which, while it avoids
reckless extravigauce and indiscriminate assis
tance on the one hand, will at the same time
shun that close and over prudent policy, which
if pursued, will ever act as a hinderance to the
onward progress oftheState.. In steering clear
of the whiaipooi of Charybdis, let us take heed
lest we strike upon the rock of Scylla.
GEORGIAN.
From the Times 4' Bcntinel.
The Catholic Church and the
Holy Scriptures.
Those iK-rsotis who had the to
hear E. A. Nisbet's speech at the recent Know
Nothiug Barbecue, in this city, will remember
that he asserted roundly that the Catholic
Church forbade its membership from reading
the Holy Bible, and charged directly that those
who asserted the contrary were ignorant of
history or willingly falsified it. We were amaz
ed at "the unblushing effrontery of this assertion
We cannot lielieve that Judge Nisbet would
assert what he knew to be untrue. And yet
it is very difficult for us to account for his strange
iguoraua* of facts known to intelligent men ev
erywhere.
We have on our table, open to the inspection
of the world, a Catholic Bible, in the English
language, containing all the books of lhe Gid
and New Testament, publishal at 138 Market
St. Baltimore. Maryland, by Fielding Lucus,
jr., with the approbation of the Provinc.al
Conncii in the following woids :
“We hereby recommend to the faithful of
the United States, the new edition of the Do
way Bible, about to be printed by Fielding
Lucas, jr., Baltimore, under tiie inspection of a
Clergyman, appointed by the most Rev. Arch
bishop. ' Given at Baltimore, 22d day of
April 1837 and signed by the Archbishop ol
Baltimore, aud the Bishops of Charleston, St.
Louis, Boston, Arath, Cincinnati, Bolivia. Vin
cennes. Ohio and New Orleans.
On ally loaf oi this Bible, we find a letter
from Pope Pius the sixth, dated :u Rome on
the calends of April. 1778. directed to Anthony
Martini, afterwards Archbishop of Florence, ou
the event of his translation of the Holy Bible
into Italian, from which we make the following
extracts:
“At a time that a vast number of bad books,
which most grossly attack the Cathtlic religion
are circulated even among the unlearned, to
the great destruction of souls, you judge ex
ceedingly well, that the faithful should be ex
cited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures.—
For the most abundant sources which ought
to be left open to every one, to draw from them
purity ol morals aud of doctrines, to eradicate
the errors which are so widely disseminated in
these corrupt times. This you have seasonably
effected, as you declare, by publishing the Sa
cred Writings in the language of your country,
suitable to every one's capacity’; especially
when you show and set forth that you have
added explanatory notes, which being extract
ed from the Holy Fathers, preclude every [x>s
sible danger of abuse.”
Such is the language of the Pope of Rome
that great monster of iniquity, who, according
to Know Nothing orators and presses, bums
the Bible and forbids its use to the people.
If any of our Know Nothing friends feel any
reluctance in calling in the Times tr Sentinel
office, they can gratify their curiosity to see a
Catholic Bible by the calling on any respecta
ble Catholic family in town, who will take
great pleasure in showing it to them. They
will find it so nearly like the translation of Kiui;
James 1., that they will baldly be able to tell
one from the other.
WM. KA? PROPRIETOR
NUMBER -3.
EfTectsof Free Labor in the South
I’he Richmond Dispatch says, the impracti
cability of extensively cultivating Southern soil
by free labor has been demonstrated by repeat
ed experiments. Several of them, narrated in
a speech once delivered in Congress by Mr.
Holmes, of South Carolina, will bear repetition,
and ought to lie kept before the people. One
of these occurred iu our country, in South Car
olina, in Florida. A distinguished Methodist
clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Capers tried an ex
periment under circumstances peculiarly favor
able to its success. Before giving freedom to
his slaves, lie endeavored to prepare them for
their new position by moral and religious in
struction. He then liberated them, gave them
a plantation, and left it after harvest with the
barns full, stock of cattle and sheep, and a horse
to plough. He then delivered the estate into
their hands, giving them any quantity of good
advice and admonition, and took his departure
for his distant home. After a lapse of several
harvests, he returned to the scene of his philan
throphy, and instead of the pleasant spectacle
which he had expected, lie found uncultivated
fields, cattle eaten up, and empty barns. The
horse remained, but was used not for ploughing
and carting, but to aid in depredations on the
neighboring plantations.
Another case occurred in 1840, in Trinidad,
which bad flourished under slave labor, but the
estates, iu consequence of British West India
emancipation, had now been deserted by the la
borers, One of the planters came to this coun
try and induced many colored persons in Mary
land and the District of Columbia to go to
Trinidad and cultivate the lands upon the most
advantageous terms. This experiment also re
sulted in a complete failure; the free negroes
found the sun too hot, and either resorted to
the towns or returned to this country.
Another case related by Mr. Holmes is one
of white labor. The distinguished William
Wirt, having purchased land in Florida, and
having some scruples against the employment
of slave labor, carried down to his Florida plan
tation a large number of white men. They
commenced work in autumn, and during the
winter and spring seasons worked with such dil
igence and fidelity that Mr. Wirt began to con
ceive his brightest anticipations already real
ized. But summer came with its hot days and
moist nights, the sinews of the white Inliorers
were relaxed, their strength began to fail, and
finding the burning heat altogether too much
for them, they threw down their agricultural
implements, and in a body left the plantation.
Mr. Wirt would have lost his entire crop, but
for the fortunate circumstance that a gang of
negroes were in the neighborhood for sale, Whom
Mr. Wirt purchasetl, and thus his crop was
saved.
Another experiment with white men was
tried in Florida by a New York gentleman,
who took a large number of German laborers
to Florida, and began the cultivation of New
Smyrna which, says Mr. Holmes, was a tract of
land upon which a German colony once settled,
but finding free labor could not cultivate South
ern soil, had abandoned it. With true German
fidelity and industry, the new laborers began
their task, and after placing the ground in beau
tiful order, planted the crops. But they, too,
were abruptly driven off by the hot weather,
and there being no negroes for sale in the neigh
borhood to supply their places, the New York
gentleman lost Ins crop and abandoned bis es
tate.
These experiments prove that Southern soil
cannot be extensively cultivated by free labor.
You might as well abolish the soil, as abolish
the system by which alone it can lie made pro
ductive.
An India Rubber Calididate.
The rifle and progress of the Know-Nothing
faction, has brought to the surface of the political
pool some very curious specimens of politicans,
and has lieen the means of producing some rich
and rare specimens of composition, in the shape
of letters of acceptance, address's, curds, <te. In
the Know-Nothing .Museum of Literature, we
suspect it will be hard to find any thing more
deleetable, niore sui Giueris.in short, more com
pletely khow nothing in its principals and objects,
than the curd of otic Mr. Benj. 11. Hill, to the
people of the 4th Congressional District. We
have published it entire, for the amusement of
our readers, and for the benefit of all unfortu
nate politicians, who are seeking office under
discouraging circumstances. It seems that Mr.
Hill is one of those interesting young men, who
arc willing to serve their cuntry in Congress,
but can't get any body to nominate them, and
are therefore forced to the necessity of nomina
ting themselves. Like all the rest of those mod
est men. who are forced to blow their horn, Mr.
Hill bates politics and politicans—of course he
dose, he believes,also, that the old parties, if
sulfered to continue, would ruin thecuntry. A/r.
ffl// ioh/iI never be elected to ( loncress tr
the old faktv lines are kept LT; consequent
ly, he is sure they would ruin the Country. Mr.
Hill appears to be willing to shrink or to stretch
himself to almost any extent, to suit the exigen
cies of thecase. He says that he is not a Know-
Nothing. but he regards the Philadelphia Plat
form as the best that was ever made. He don't
ask the Know-Nothings to vote for him, but he
dots believe that America ns ought to rule Amer
ica. In short, Mr. Hill appears to be willing the
people should make any thing they phase ol iim.
provided they will make him a member of Con
gress, Mr. 1 till dislikes politics, and never sought
an oilice! !!! So he says.— Fed. union.
Type Setti.nu Maciii.se.—-The editor of the
Montreal Gazette is in Paris, looking at the
sights in tile great exhibition there. He writes
as follows:
The exhibition is most complete here, and is
admitted to be superior to the London exhibi
tion of 1851. A Western editor and myself
have returned from examining a type setting
and distributing machine. It docs its work
correctly and quickly, and will 1 have no doubt
supersede hand setting. Though it looks com
plicated. it is really a very simple construction,
and in eight or ten minutes 1 learned to set by
it. 1 could set this up in about an eighth of
the time I take to write it. I fear, however, 1
shall be uuable to give you a description that
will be intelligible to your readers. The type,
instead of being thrown into a box in case, as
for band-netting, are placed in groves of about
three quarters of an inch in depth, separat
ed from each other by brass rules like common
rulefl.
They require to be set up in these by hand be
fore commencing to compose. Then if you
want a letter you touch a key like that of a
piano, which tosses it into another inclined
groove in which it slides down a certain dis
tance, when it is lifted uprightly by a jerk from
a crank—so the types are dropped into a gal
ley below, which moves along sufficiently at
the same time to receive the next line.
So it goes on till the galley is full, when it is
removed to be proved and placed in the form.
In distributing, the reverse action is produced.
There can be no longer a doubt that, with gome
slight modifications, the machine will succeed.
Steps will immediately be taken to secure a
patent in Canada and the United States.
Boston, August 18.—A post mortem exami
nation of the body of Abbot laiwrence has been
held, to ascertain the cause of his death. It was
found that not only his liver, but his stomach,
kidneys and intestines, were greatly diseased,
flis burial will probably not take place until
Wednesday. The remains will be interred at
Mount Auburn.