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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. WEEKLY OKRCULATION OF TUES ES X -A- 3VTI3XT ES 3Ft, IQOOO COPIES! JOHN H. STEELE, ) CHAS. L. BARBOUR, j E(lltOrS ' VOLUME 11. THE WEEKLY EXAMINER Is Published every Friday Morning in the City of Atlanty, at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, To be paid strictly in advance. ty No subscription taken for less than six months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly Examiner at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 ) cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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Citations for "letters of Administration, Guar dianship &c., must bo published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly six months —for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months for establish ing lost papers, for the full space of three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rates: Citations on letters of Administration &c. $2 75 do do dismissory from Adminis tration, 4 50 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, SEPTEMBER 14, 1855. Cobb County Democratic Neminations 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. Ordinarii, BIRDSONG TOLLESON. Muscogee Democratic-Anti Know Noth ing Convention. We notice in the Times & Sentinel of the Ist. instant, a call numerously signed, for a Con vention in Muscogee County, to nominate can didates for the next Legislature. Among the names, wo see that of an old friend, and one as true to the South and the Constitution, as ever man was, or can be—Peter son Thweatt, Esq., u State Rights Whig, of the Old Line. If we be not misinformed, the gen tleman referred to, is the author of certain ar ticles which have a wide reputation in Georgia, originally published in the “Constitutionalist, of Augusta over the signature, “An Old Line Whig.” We have no other authority for this, than rumor, a jade that deceives many. But be this as it may, in the advocacy of Constitu tional principles, und in opposition to the re verse, our friend Thweatt may always be coun ted on as a .'•urc one. May he live long to fight the foes of State Rights, and the. Constitution bequeathed to us, by our Revolutionary sires. A Ring from the Bottom of the Ocean.— We learn that, Capt. Hughes, of the schr. D. B. Warner, on his passage from New York to Charleston, in about 29 fathoms water. 40 miles northeast of Frysuf Pan Sholes, in hauling up the deep sea lead, found attached to the bottom of it a gold ring, set with red stone, which he now has in his possession. An occurrence of the kind is seldom heard of. A southerner writes to the New York Daily Tribunk. calling attention to the following com parison In the year 1790 the population of Georgia was 82.090, and the year 1850 it was 906,000,an increase of eleven fold in sixty years. In 1790 the population of New York was 340.- 000. and in 1850 it was 3,097.000, being on in-1 creaae of nine fold in sixty ywn. THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLT FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. New Goods. We dropped in to see the new stock of Wm. Herring & Son, and found enough of interest to detain us some time. Their supply of clothing is the most complete we have seen, and persons desirious of re-fitting the “outer man” can be supplied with articles in that line at prices cor responding to the teste and pocket of the wear er. See advertisement in another column. Havana Plan Lottery. The Capital Prize S-drawn at Concert Hall, in Macon, Ga., on the 3d of September, in the Jasper County Academy Lottery, were distrib uted as follows: No. 2473 -- - sl2,ooo*in -- - Macon, Ga “ 1817 -- - 5,000 “ -- - Cleveland, O. “ 2921 -- - 3,000 “ - - Lynchburg Va- “ 603 -- - - 1,200 “ - Brooklyn, N. Y. “ 4772 -- - 1,100 “ - Vicksburg, Miss. Judicial Convention at Newnan. At a meeting of the Anti-Know Nothing, and Democratic Party of Fulton County held at the City Hall on yesterday, Dr. B. F. Bomar was called to the chair, and T. M. Cox Esq., appointed Secretary. The object of the meet ing was explained by the chairman, whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed dele* gates to represent this County, in the Judicial Convention, to nominate a candidate for Judge of this Circuit; which Convention is to be held in Newnan on Monday next. A. Batterree, J. I. Whitaker Sami. B. Hoyt, D. Mayer, E. B. Reynolds. New Music. Jeannie Marsh of Cherry Valley, song and Cho rus ; words by Gen. Morris; Music by Thos. Baker. When Morris suffers his name to be attached to a piece of Music, we are generally satisfied of its worth, without further examination; but we have felt enough interest in this piece, being aware that Jeannie is a bona fide Jeannie, and not the creation of the General's fancy, to in duce a lady friend to perform it for us, and are prepared to pronounce it entirely worthy the authors of the words and music. Enclose 25 cents to Horace Waters, 333 Broadway, N. Y., and secure a copy. “Our Boys" Polka, by James Beliak; Horace Waters, publisher, 333 Broadway, N. Y.— price 25 cents. This is a fine Polka, and should grace the portfolio of every performer who desires to keep up with the times. Fine Cigars. We have been presented with a selection of several brands of fine cigars, from the manufac tory of Mr. Simms, of Newnan, Ga., and after a fair trial are able to pronounce them altogeth er superior to many of the brands of more pop ular use. We have some curiosities in this line, at our office, yclept “ Bachelor’s Comforts,” which might interest some of our friends who appreciate the weed. Mr. Simms, imports his tobacco, and employs Cubans to manufacture it into cigars, and we cannot see why, under the circumstances, they should not receive the attention of smokers, more particularly as they are furnished at a much lower rate than the Havana article, while they are quite as good. A Handsome Present. If, like many of our brethren of the press, we were disposed to murmur at the hardness of our editorial lot, and the perplexities which beset our path, we could not, in justice to many of our friends, make a public expression of it; for, while we do not know that we are more favored than t|;e rest of the tribe, we are certainly the recipients of many substantial manifestations of the appreciation which our efforts to please our subscribers meet at their bands. This is par ticularly gratifying to us, at this time, when personal feeling enters so largely into the cam paign. and subjects us to so much vituperation from our opponents; but it is still more grati fying when these favors come from the ladies.— Just now we have to repeat our obligations to Mrs. M. E. Tench, of Coweta county, for an other present, which is not the less welcome from its invigorating qualities. We know she will approve our decision when we say that we have set it aside to discuss the night of John son’s election. We have no fears of the result in Coweta, all the ladies are Democrats. Mass Meeting at Griffin. We will not undertake to give a description of the Mass Meeting at Griffin, on Thursday last. We leave that to the “Empire State.’ satisfied that our brother Gaulding will do am ple justice to it. and to the distinguished gen tlemen, Messrs. Stephens, Ward, and Styles, who addressed the people on the occasion. Suffice it now to say that it was a grand de monstration of the power of. and enthusiasm ani mating the Anti-Know Nothing Democracy of that section of our State. The thousands who were present there as a unit will manifest their determination to maintain inviolate the Consti tution at the polls, and not only to defeat Know Nothingism at the ballot box. but to make that defeat a Waterloo one. “horse, foot and dragoons.” Our brother Gaulding's report of the meeting, we shall spread before our readers, as soon as it is received. Till then we hope they will be sat isfied with our simple assertion that the de mocracy of the third and fourth Congressional Districts need not be apprehensive of the result- All that is required from this to the day. and on the day of election, is that every man shall do his duty. That done, and WARNER, and SMITH, and JOHNSON, our State • “Standard Bearer,” will carry these districts by a majority larger than our friends, who are most sanguine, now anticipate. Hoes in Kentucky.—According to returns to the auditor of Kentucky, there are in that ' State, this year. 1.440.266 hogs over six months old. against 1.682.244 last year. This decrease in number is attributed to the short crop of corn last year, which compelled many to kill that I otherwise would have kept them a year'longer. I The quantity of pork raised in the State the | present season, however, will undoubtedly ex- ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBERS, 1855. TheTMeeting at the Athenanun. L We were most agreeably surprised on our return last Thursday night, from the Mass Meeting, at Griffin, to see the Athemeum crowd ed from “the top to the bottom." and our late distinguished representative in Congress from the sixth district, the Hon. J unius Hillyer ad dressing the audience. It would be hard to find a gentleman any where so capable of stripping Know Nothingism of all its covering, and ex posing it in its naked deformity to an enquirer after truth. We, however, were not permitted to hear only the closing remarks of this able champion of our cause, for from the out-door excitement and cheering of our friends who were escorting Mr. Stephens to the Athemeum, the speaker closed his remarks. We hope though he will again favor Atlanta by deliver ing another address to its citizens. As soon as the Hon. A. H. Stephens entered the Athenaeum, the audience rose, and cheer al ter cheer told how welcome he was, and what a hold he has upon the affections of the people. Although greatly fatigued, having spoken near ly four hours at Griffin in the morning and af ternoon of the same day, he yet for more than an hour enchained the attention of theaudienee with an exposition of the Secret Order, its as saults upon the Constitution—and its posi tion in reference to the Kansas Nebraska bill. In this hurried notice we shall have to passover much that we are compelled to omit. To sum up the whole, it was a powerful effort, and told against the “Order” upon the judgment of all who were present, save those who are determin ed not to be convinced. Upon the Anti-Know Nothing democracy of Fulton, this address of the gallant STEPHENS has had the effect of causing each man to redouble his exertions in the cause of the South and the Constitution— the result of which will be told at the polls. A Victim Found at Last. The Know Nothings of the Eighth Con gressional District, after soliciting many gen tlemen to accept their nomination for Congress, have at last induced Col. LaFayette Lamar, of Lincoln county to consent to receive the distin guished honor of opposing Mr. Stephens and taking, as a necessary consequence, the worst political drubbing upon record. The choice is an excellent one, and reflects credit upon the untiring perseverence of the order in the Eighth- They have at last found the only man in the District who would accept their nomination, and for the reason that he is the only man who has nothing to lose by it. Col. Lamar is a clev er enough gentleman; of second rate ability as a Lawyer, and never has before aspired to po litical distinction, for the admirable reason that he has never, before, fallen into hands that dared to tell him that he had any of the requisite qualities for success in that line No one will presume to say that Col. Lamar is Mr. Stephen’s equal in anything that goes to make a statesman. We have no disposition reflect upon his intelligence as a man, or his qualities as a gentleman, but we must say that the American party, in his nomination have insulted the good sense of the voters of the Eighth Congressional District by placing such a man before them in opposition to Mr. Ste phens. He will not receive the support of a single member of the order who feels the obli gation incumbent upon every voter to cast his ballot for men competent to legislate for the good of the country. They cannot, in view of this obligation throw away their votes upon Col. Lamar, and the nominating Council knew it when they placed his name before the peo ple. But there is another view of this matter.— the nomination of Col. Lamar is an act of tyr anny towards the members of the order sworn to support the nominee of the council, which is unparalleled in the history of Southern politics Here are then who have sufficient confidence in the leaders of the party to which they are at tached to swear that they will support any man whom they choose to place before them. How is that confidence abused by the nomina tion of a man unskilled in the affairs of govern ment and totally unequal to the task of their management! But, if they vote at all, they must vote for Lamar ; they cannot vote for Stephens! What an alternative to present to freemen. Not all the puffing they can give their candidate can delude the most ignorant man in the order into the belief that he is com petent to discharge the duties of the post to which he aspires, or that he approaches in hail ing distance of his opponent in the requisites of a Representative in Congress, and yet in a choice between the two, they arc compelled to vote for such a man as Lamar! They must cither give up their elective privilege, or pros titute it to the gratification of a malicious spite their leaders have against Mr. Stephens, who have put up Col. Lamar in a weak attempt to annoy him. This is not the first instance of the policy of the order to place men of small calibre in oppo sition to our candidates who have universally been selected from the front rank of talent and distinguished ability. Varnadoc, in the First, against Seward; Hill in the Fourth, against Warner; Tumlin, in the Fifth, against Lump kin ; and Lamar in the Eighth against Stephens! —“pigmies attempting to stride with giantsl” God help the South, if her interests are entrust ed into such hands. Jarni-s C. Thompson, of Albany. New York, has received the appointment of Chief Engineer of the Russian Navy and is now in Washington, making the necessary arrangements with the Russian Minister. The offer is made for three years, at a salary of S6OOO per annum, with house rent free. The Last of Rurgoyne'sArmy.—Alexander McCracken, a Scotchman by birth, and who came to this country during the revolution .with Bnrgoyne, and taken prisoner with his army,died at Colchester. Conn., ontne23 iust.. in the 124th year of his age. A man named Brown has been arrested at Galena on a charge of bigamy. “He loved not winly, but two walk" [ Communicate. J Messrs. Editors :— Gentlemen— l notice in the “Discipline” of the sth iust., an article hea ded, “The Mails, saying they had received letters from several of their subscribers, notify ing them that the American Discipline did not reach them regularly. The editor appears to be at a loss to know how this is. but they smell “something rotten in Denmark,” as they send their paper regularly to the Post Office, plainly directed. Now it is a w-ell known fact that the prin cipal asistant Post Master at this place and the one who distributes most of the mails is a Whig and a Know Nothing. The fault, then, must be somewhere else, as they would not charge one of their own party of acting in bad faith; and as I am somewhat connected with the mails, I hope the editor will give the public a list of the names who have been thus wronged, and their post offices, in or der that the fellow who struck their own es teemed friend, Billy Patterson, may be detected Should it fall on me, it is your duty, as good citizens and editors of a public journal to report the facts to the Post Master General, or so me one of the special agents, that the wrong may be righted. What we desire is that the.case be made out plainly, in order that the public may not censure all who are connected with the mails either as Post Masters or Route Agents.— Come out, gentlemen, as honorable, high-minded men should do, and let us have the names and Post Office, and we will be content with the re. suit. ROUTE AGENT, State Road. I [communicated.] “We give it as a sample of the hypocricy and base falsehood which characterises the editorial columns of Johnson’s home organ. There is falsehood and slander enough in the article from which we clip the paragraph, to render the wri ter insolvent, and incarcerate his body in prison for life.” The American Discipline, in noticing an ex tract from the Federal Union, disgorges itself of the above elegant combination of words.— The italics are ours, which we use for the pur pose of clearly illustrating the ability of that paper to properly observe fixed usages of gram mar. Then, how elegant his diction in refe rence to the editor of the L T nion! Whose body he would have incarcerated in prison Why. brother Discipline, you have never read much Latin, nor have you studied the English vocab ulary to much advantage, else you had not conceived such an idea as incarceration in pris on. Could you incarcerate elsewhere ? Web ster says incarcerated means “to confine in jail.” See the Latin word for prison. We are are not surprised that a writer, who, in six lines, will make three such blunders as above described, should be deemed a lit editor for Know Nothings. A. communicated. To the Editor of<the Examiner: Having listened attentively to the address of Mr. Glenn on Saturday evening, before the De mocratic Association, I unhesitatingly pro nounce it one of the best argumentative, brief and eloquent speeches, delivered before the Society, and would urge its publication for general dis tribution ; confident there is not a man, woman or child in the whole South, whose life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, are not identified in the great undeniable truths he invokes. Its publication by the Society can do much good and I would urge a general subscription, there fore, I subscribe ten dollars for a general dis tribution, and five dollars, to have it printed on Satin and presented to every Know Nothing lodge in the State, with the declaration to eve ry Know Nothing who denies its great truths, and disregards its behests, cannot, will not, prove a true friend to the best interests of the South. DO SOMETHING. COMMUNICATED. Vermont always Faithful. This State whose elections for the last forty years were al ways heralded with exultation by the opposition party of the South (alias Whig, alias Know Nothing, alias American) as being with us. She has never failed to send a full delegation of abolitionists to Congress. “The tree is known by its fruit.” What has been the result of this exultation of the South ? W hat has been the cncoura ge ment of Northern whigs in their wild hunt for office? When the writer left the Northern States there were 16 abolitionists in Congress ; now it numbers 121. Still keep the ball in mo tion my Know Nothing friends in your wild hunt for office and the last remaining prop of the North in support of Southern rights will have fallen. DO SOMETHING. COMMUNICATED. Abolition Villainy. There must exist in the Northern regions, a great proportion of villainy or a numerous class of citizens most naturally and philosophically Know Nothings, to reconcile the following pro ceedings of Indiana, with the inveterate, igno minious crusade of cut throat abolitionists. A Law exists iu Indiana prohibiting under a penalty, any negro or mulatto from entering the State. James P. Brow a free colored man. of Ohio travelling westward, stopped at Fort Waytie, when he was arrested, fined SlO and cost, and in default of payment, sent to jail.— Indiana is a free State. DO SOMETHING. COMMUNICATED. Mr. Editor : Has it ever occurred to you the probable cause why there exists in the breasts of some a cordial dislike and hatred to our foreign population ? Is it for any other cause than they are generally firm, unflinching Democrats ? In the days of Marion—History tells ns DeKalb. Pulaski, and a host of for eigners were hunted by a zealous band—are any of their descendants engaged in the same hunt? DO SOMETHING. Security Against Railroad Accidents.— In Great Britain all railroads pass under or over eommon roads, and the track is securely fenced in, so that no animal can stay before’a train which in this covnty a ths coansos oause of railroad [ Written for the Examiner.] The Sunny South. BY MONA. Land ol the South! my own dear home! The spot so fraught, with beauty’s light; There’s not beneath the heaven’s pure, dome A land so pleasing to the sight. The sun beams forth his softest rays. And gentlest zephyrs waft the breeze; A streamlet ’midst each meadow plays, And luscious fruits bedeck the trees. Great mountains raise their hoary heads Al! crowned with ever living green; Proud rivers rush o’er stony beds And add new bejuty to the scene. The jasmine spreads its fragrance round, While summer breezes softly play O’er every gently rising mound, With sweet and softly murm’ringriay The air seems laden with perfume, Far sweeter than from Ceylon’s isle; Here’s always beauty without gloom— On lovelier land, light ne’er will smile. There’s grandeur in each gentle swell Or steep of lofty green lull-side; There’s loveliness in every dell That lifts the soul with noblest pride The mighty torrents dash and foam, As down the mountain’s gorge they rush, And when I gaze upon my home My very life-throb seems to hush. r Sublimity ! aye thou art here, ’Midst craggy heights and waters foam ; I would not dwellbeyond thy sphere, Through other lands I 4 need not roam. Bright sunny South 1 Oh glorious land 1 Let other climes their tributes bring. Thy name may scandal’s tongues ne’er brand But all the earth tliy praises sing. Newnan Ga. [Written for the Examiner.] April and December. BY ADIE. In the valley, where the shadows Os the rock rest on the wave, Wild vines, with radient, flowers Cluster round the mountain cave; Where the silvery moonlight sleeping fin the gems the night is weeping And the holy stars above Their mute vigils keep of love; Where the wild birds sweetly Bing Where the gushing fountains spring. And the breeze sighs through the bowers Sweet with kisses from the flowers; There I dwelt, and dreamed of heaven. And upon that lakelets share, First embraced that earth-born angel My evangel, Elinore! In the valley where the shadow Os the gathering tempest frown, Ami the turbid wintry’ torrent Comes rebounding echoing dowon; Where the lightning’s luried glow Shows the inky flood below; Where witii crash like planets riven Rolls the thunder drum of heaven ; Where the footsteps of the storm Crush the giant oak-tree’s form, And spirits of by-gone days Sadly moan in gloomy lays; Where I roam and ponder sadly On the bliss that all is o'er, And at night sleep cold and lonely On the grave of Elinore ! White Path Ga. Hon. Alfred Iverson. In compliance with an invitation extended this distinguished gentleman, he addressed a very large and intelligent audience of our fel low citizens iu Concert Hall on Saturday morn ing last. It was indeed a splendid and power ful effort, worthy of the man and of his fame. Os imposing presence; graceful in action and manner ; a voice of great power and of singular sweetness, he impressed his hearers as much by the felicity of his style and appositeness of his illustrations, as by his broad and statesmanlike propositions and his logical and unanswerable deductions. We do not propose, for want of time and space, to follow him throughout his greaLargument, or his expositions and analysis of the various elements that have entered into all parties that have sought power from the times of Adams and Jefferson down to the present day. He showed that the same intol erance that characterized the administration of the elder Adams, was now raging in the Amer ican party, with the additional element of reli gious proscription, the most dangerous and de moralizing in its effects that had ever entered into American politics, always excepting the Abolition doctrines of the American party North. England, more than sixty years ago. had cast off, as unworthy of the age, the gar ments of religious proscription all seared by the fires of persecution; and the singular and mor tifying spectacle Was presented, without exam ple in our history, of a portion of the American people, in the 19th century, an age of civil and religious liberty, taking up the exploded dog mas of Monarchial England, and advocating them with more than fanatical zeal. In the language of Burke in a speech on similar is sues, “We are told that this is not a religious persecution, and its abettors are loud in dis claiming ail severities on account of conscience; ***** they are not perse cutors ; they are only tyrants.” Speaking of Sir George Savile's act for removing Catholic disabilities, the same great statesman and ora tor said that in its effects it was “an act for tolerating and protecting Protestantism through out Europe.” We must close our remarks by expressing the hope, that a speech so pregnant with profound and statesmanlike views, may be given to the public, that the Southern mind may lie made to understand and comprehend the' true and vital issues affecting its interests. —Georgia Telegraph, 28th. Thk Louisville Exodus.—The Chicago Demmocrat says that J. T. Speed. Esq., for sev eral years prior to the present, mayor of Louis ville, has removed to Chicago. The Democrat adds: “He'is one of a veryflarge number of weal thy and refined gentlemen who have recently come hither from Kintucky, or who, within the last ten days, have baen making arrangmonts for the removal of their familias and capital to tMs efty.” Madiboc, Aug. 30, 1855.—The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention to-day nominated Governor Barstow for iWectioa by 108 votes «m of a®. GeueraljCaf«s''on£Know Nothing ism and the Power of Congress over the Territories. Below will be found a letter from < Jcneral Cass, defining fully and clearly his views upon Know-nothingism and the powtfr of Congress over the Territories: Detroit, Aug. 22,1855. To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press :i Sir : The public journals contain a letter dat ed July 24th, written by General Houston, which has just met my eye, and in which he says he perceives, by the papers of the day, that “General Cass has approved the platform of the American Order, as proclaimed to the world by the convention at Philadelphia.” I had observed the statements to which General Houston alludes, and let them pass unnoticed, for it would be a hopeless task to endeavor to correct all the misapprehensions, and misrepre sentations to which it is my lot, as well as that of all other public men, to be exposed in these days of party strife. And, indeed, I could not suppose that such assertions would deceive any one who had heard or had read my re marks in the Senate of the United States, on the sth of February last upon the presenntation of the Legislature of Michigan instructing the senators of that State to vote au act of Congress prohibiting the introduction of slavery into the Territories of the Unital States. Upon that occasion, while declining to comply with those instructions, I took the op portunity to express my sentiments in relation to the new political movement, which sought to acquire and exercise power by secret com binations, bound together by the sanction of an oath, which, it is said, made it the duty of its members to surrender their individual con victions to the expressed will of a major ity of their associates. I then observed : '“Strange doctrines are abroad, and strange organizations are employed to promulgate and enforce them. Our political history contains no such chapter in the progress of our country, as that which is now opening. The questions of constitutionality and policy, which have been so long the battle-cry of parties, are con temptuously rejected, and intolerance, religious and political, feuds zealous, and it may be they will prove sucessful, advocates in this middle of the nineteenth century, boastiug with much self-complacency of its intelligence, and in this free country, founded upon immigration, and powerful by tolerations * * * We want no new parties, no new platforms, no new or ganizations, and the sooner these dangerous ef forts are abandoned, the better will it be for us, and for those who are to follow us in this herit age of freedom.” I might well suppose after the expression of these views upon the floor of the Senate, and under circumstances of peculiar responsibility, that any further action on my part would be unnecessary to prove my consistency, as a dis ciple of the school of Washington, and Jeffer son, and Madison, and Jackson, in the re jection of a dangerous innovation, inconsistent with all the principles those patriots taught, and which, in effect, aims to transfer the great political duty of an American citizen from the light of day, where it should be exercised in this land of freedom, to secret conclaves, as un friendly to calm investigation, as to wise and patriotic decision. But the extract from the letter of General Honston have shown me that these reports have received more credit than I had believed, and this consideration have in duced me thus publicly to notice and to contra dict them. My opinions, indeed, upon any subject are but of little consequence except to myself, but, if they are worth referring to, they are worth the trouble of making the reference a true one. 1 have no sympathy with this plan of polit ical organization—none whatever; neither with the means it employs, nor the objects it seeks to attain. Its secrecy, its oath-bound obligations, its control of the ballot-box, its system of pro scription; striking both at political rights and religious duties, and its inevitable tendency to array one portion of the community agaiust another, and to carry deadly feuds into every corner of the land, of which we have just had a terrible proof, written in characters of blood, and are doomed to have many more, if this movement goes on, for this is but the instal ment of death, and now many others are to fol low, and to what extent, and when the last is to be paid, and after what lamentable viscissi tudes, is known only to Him who foresees events and can control them—these character istics mark it as the most dangerous scheme which has ever been introduced into this country to regulate its public action or its social condi tion. It is the Orangeism of a republic, scarce ly better in principle than its monarchical pro totype—of a republic whose freedom and equality justily as little as they invite the in troduction of a machinery whose operation is concealed from public observation, but whose consequences are as clear as they are alarm ing. Gen. Houston gives credence to the report that I approve “the platform of the American order, as proclaimed to the world by the Con vention at Philadelphia.” I am aware that changes have been made, both in the name and in some of the principles of this new organiza tion. But these changes do not remove my objectiods to it Its spirit of exclusion and in tolerance remains, and, with it. its evils and dangers. It is a book to which I cannot be reconciled, whatever edition, whether the old one or the new one, is offered to me. There, is indeed, one principle laid down in that con vention which meets my concurrence, and that is, the declaration that “Congress ought not to legislate upon the subject of slavery, within the territory of the United States.’ I regret, however, that the body which thus pronounced agaiust the exercise of the power did not also pronunce its existence, but carefully pretermit ted—to use its own words —the expression of any opinion upon that point. Still. I approve its action upon the subject, so far as it goes.— It is a step in the right direction, and I should rejoice to see it followed by every political par ty in our country. It is a step, too, towards the security of political rights—this opposition to the legislation of Congress over the internal affairs of the people of the Territories, and, among others, over the relation of master and servant, or that of husband and wife, or parent and child ; for these matters of domestic policy are subjects which should lie left to the Ter ritorial communities, and to divest them of the power to regulate them, is an act of uumitigat. ed despotism. The negation of all power of interference by Congress in the internal govern ment of the Territories is the true constitution al doctrine, and the only safe and practical one, and I om rejoiced, that, after years of opposi tion—of obloquy, indeedi t is fast establishing itself upon impregnable grounds. The misapprehension which has prevailed upon this grave subject is among the most ex traordinary political events of my time. One would naturally suppose, that in this country, the dogma of internal government by an irre sponsible legislature over a distant community, unrepresented in the ruling body, would find but little favor, and that the power to establish and put in operation a government might well be defended, while the power to control all the concerns of human life would be left without an advocate. The difference is broad and prac tical and should be the dearer to us, as it was the very consideration urged by our Revolu tionary fathers in their contest with the mother country, which began by argument, but ended by ann». It «aa KMrtad m early at 1774, when the Continental Congress declared that the English colonists “ are entitled to free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of rep resentation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation apd internal policy, &c,” In that great struggle, the patriots who conducted it conceded to the British Parliament the author ity to organize colonial government. but de nied their right to touch the internal policy of the people. At.d for the support of that, great principle, denied and derided as it is now, they went to war. I observe that a highly respectable and intel ligent gentleman, Governor 11 unt, of New York, in a letter just published, speaks of the Nebras ka bill as “based on the bsurd theory of ter ritorial sovereignty.” I never heard a man support that measure or approve it for such a reason. Gov. Hunt has mistaken the sneers of its enemies for the views of its friends. The Nebraska bill rests upon no such theory—upon no theory at all, but upon the stanle foundation of the federal constitution, and of the natural rights of man. I know of no one who claims sovereignty for the Territories. All concede their dependence upon the United States. But within this rela tion, there are mutual rights and duties, and the questions—what power may Congress lawfully exercise, and are ti e people of the Territories divested of all rights—must be determined, not by politico-metaphysical considerations, arising out of the attribute of sovereignty, but by the Constitution of the United States. To the law, and to the testimony. By the Constitution, the general government is a government, not only of granted, but limited powers, and Con gress can exercise no authority which is not given by the great charter that brought it into existence. Let any man put his finger upon the clause of that instrument which confers this power of internal interference, and 1 will aban don the principle, as long as it has been cher ished by me, and that in many years, as will appear by reference to the Globe of March 31st, 1852, which contains an article written by me, and entitled, “ A Review of the Opinion of “the Supreme Court in the Cherokee case.” In that article I observe, that tho claus< of the Constitution authorizing Congress “ t# dis pose of and make all needful rules and regula tions respecting the Territory or other proper ty of the United States, refers to Territorial rights, and grants no jurisdiction over persons.” Among other things I say : “ The power to dispose of and make needful rules and regula tions respecting, the Territory and other prop erty of the United States, and the power to exercise general jurisdiction over persons upon it, arc essentially different and independent.— The former is general, and is given in the clause referred to, the latter is special and is found in another clause, and is confined to the federal tract, (the District of Columbia,) and to places purchased by consent of the Ilegislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erec tion of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.” This is the same doctrine subsequently advocated, and more fully developed, in my N icholson letter. I repeat that this power of internal legislation cannot be found in the Constitution, and vain have been the efforts, by pressing into its service a thousand and one expressions in that instrument, to prove it to be there; a diversity of reference which, of itself, furnishes a strong presumption against the authority, even if there were no other grounds of objection. ' Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court of the United Slates, in some considerations published by him upon this subject, and to which I have elsewhere referred, well remarked, that “ there is no specific power in the Constitution which authorizes the organization of Territorial gov ernments.” He adds; “If this power be im plied from the specific power to regulate the disposition of the public lands, it must, under the above rule, be limited to means suitable to the ends in view. If Congress go beyond this, in the organization of a Territorial government, they act without limitation, and may establish a monarchy. Admit that they inay organize a government which shall protect the land pur chased, and provide for the administration of justice among the settlers, it does by no means follow that they may establish slavery.” .1 udge McLean here brings the Constitution of the United States to the support of the good old revolutionary doctrine, that the right to estab lish Colonics or Territories does not carry with it the just power to interfere with and regulate the domestic concerns of the people who inhab it them. He pronounces slavery to be one of these concerns, saying that “it is a municipal relation of limited extent, and of an equally lim ited origin. It is a domestic relation over which the federal government can exercise no control. 1 have never known the time when the Demo cratic party was called upon by higher conside rations to adhere, faithfully and zealously, to their organization and their principles, than they are at this day. Our confederation is passing through the most severe trial that it has yet undergone. Unceasing efforts are making to excite hostile and sectional feelings, against which we were prophetically warmed by the Father of his Country, and if these are success ful, the days of the Constitution arc numbered. The continued assaults upon the South, upon its character, its constitutional rights, and its institutions, and the systematic jierscvcrance and the bitter spirit with which these are pur sued, while they warn the Democratic party of the danger should also incite it to united and vigorous action. They warn it, too, that the time has come when all other differences which may have divided it should give way to the du ty of defending the Constitution, and when that great party, coeval with the government, should be united as one man for the accom plishment of the work to which it is now called, and before it is too late. It is the American party, for it has neither sectional prejudices nor sectional preferences, and its care and its efforts extend wherever the Constitution of its country extends, with equal regard to the rightsand in terests of all. 1 believe the fate of this great republic is now in its hands, and, so believing, I earnestly hope that its action will be firm, prompt, and united, yielding not one hair’s breadth of its time honored principles, and resist ing to the last the dangerous eflbrts with which we are menaced; and, if so, the victory of the Constitution, 1 doubt not, will be achieved. I am. Sir, respectfully, Your obedient servant, LEWIS CASS. Hostility in Embryo. A correspondent of the Montgomery Mail, in a letter dated Livingston, Alabama, August 26th. says: Gov. Winston is likely to get into a “muss,” so says “Madam Rumor.” A gentleman in Gainesville remarked, during the absence of his Excellency, that “ John Anthony tried to join the Know Nothings.” The Governor pro nounced it “a he." The gentleman sent him a written communication. This the Governor declined, on the ground that he did not consider the writer a gentleman. The bearer of the commnnicatioii inquired of his Excellency, “Do you consider me a gentleman?” The reply was, “I do.” So far as heard from, the matter stands in statu quo. Mr. H. W. Watt is the gentleman from whom Col. W. refused to re ceive a written communication on the ground above stated. Dr. A. G. Weston was the bearer of the communication, and is the gentle man who now temahM bi statu quo with his ftaoUtacy. WM. KA/ PROPRIETOR NUMBER 5. To the Public. The last time the Proprietor of the Georgian had occasion to apjiear before the public in self defence, against mo«t malignant and libelous attacks in the Savannah Republican on his pri vate character, he respectfully stated to his friends and fellow citizens that knowing himself to be innocent, he would be able, within a rea sonable time, to bring satisfactory evidence that the grossly libellous charges made against him were without a shadow of foundation. It is in fulfilment of this promise and in deference to the people of .Savannah and of Georgia, among whom he has so long resided, that he hastens to lay before them the following dispatch re ceived yesterday morning: Charleston, Sept. 1,12 M. P. J. Punch, Esq.—Sir: We find a credit of three dollars paid by you for a Certificate of your Declaration of Intention to become a citi zen, on Mr. Horiheck’s Cash Book, dated sth July, 1850. Txiok for Certificate to this effect by mail. N ORTHRcr & Allkmonob, Att'ys. Since the above was written, the following additional dispatch has been received: Charleston, Sept. 1, 9.30 P. M. P. J. Punch, Esq.: Sir : We have found your original paper, de claring your intention to become a citizen, filed away m the name of Bunch. Expect letter by mail. Northrup & Allemonor, Att'vs. The Proprietor of the Georgian forbears comment on this singular transaction till the certified papers shall have arrived. He feels it his duty, however, hero to state that he has rea son to believe that a deep-laid conspiracy has been formed against him in the secret political organization of the Order of Know Notliings, the length and breadth of which the people do not even dream , but which will be fully exposed at the proper time.— Sav. Georgian. Drath of an Old Citizen,—Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis Gilmer died on Thursday morning in this county, at the residence of her son-in-law, B. 8. Bibb, nt the extreme age of 92 years. She was a.nativeof Virginia, and the year after her mar riage to Thomas M. Gilmer, moved to Broad River in Georgia. Peachy R. Gilmer md Charles L, Gilmer of this county, W. B. S. Gilmer of Chambers county, Gen. J. J. Gilmer of Tallassee, Thos. Lewis Gilmer of Columbus, Miss,, Mrs. Judge Bibb of this county, and Ex- Governor George R. Cilmer, arc among her Childern. The death of Charles L. Gilmer, her sixth son, was the first in her family for 50 years. Her husband died in 1817, and she consequently was a widow for 38 years. We extract the fol lowing notice of her from the recent work of her son, George R. Gilmer, of Georgia: •!She still cnioys the good things of life with a pleasant relish. She has endured its evils with unfailing patience. Maliceand envy seem never to have found a resting place with her for a mo ment. Cheerfulness constantly shines in her face, and is heard in her voice. Iler gentle spirit of her kindness. Charity covers the faults of others from her sight, w'hilst gratitude is ever filling her heart far fogiveness of her own.!’— Montgomery Advertiser. Ex-President Quincy.—A private letter from Boston, (says the New York Evening Post,) which has been put into our hands by a friend to whom it was addressed says: “Mr. mentioned to me yesterday a pleas- ant fact of recent occurrence connected witn our venerable friend, ex-Prcsident Quincy. It seems that the father of Mr. Quincy, who died in 1775, had made his will a boquest of S,OOO to Harvard College in case his only son Josiah, died before be attained his majority. This fact was recently brought to the notice of President Quincy by Mo. W inthorp, when Nr. Quincy remarked that he seould be sorry to have the college suffer becaus his wife was preserved and he immediately gave the college SIO,OO for the purpose of publishing the doings of the astrono mical observers at the college observatory. Each volume published from this fund is to be marked us having been published from the be quest of'Josiah Quincy, a patriot of the revolu tion.' The charming old gentleman, now in the 84 th year of his age, is as bright und active as a man of forty’ His long life hits been crowded with acts of patriotism and usefulness. May ho be still longer spared a noble example to the young men of the times I” Brtk,. The St. Ixmis Democrat contains an account of several daring attempts to swindle merchants in that, city, made by a man named Wm. Houser, who repesented himself to be the government agent for Creek Indians, and wished to purchase a lot of firearms and accoutrements for the use of the government. He also at tempted to sell $5(1,000 worth of bounty-land warrants issued to the Cherokee Indians. On inquiry at the office of Indian affairs, we learn that the statement in the St. Louis Daily Dem ocrat is correct, and also that this office had been telegrahed to for information as to whether Wm. Houser is agent for the Crock Indians, ami whether he is authorised to draw on the de partment. Subsequently a letter was received from the banking-house to whom he offered the bounty-land warrants. Mr. Mix, acting commis sioner, immediately placed the required informa tion in the hands of these parties, which has led to his arrest. His place of residence is Van Buren, Arkansas. Mr. Greeley, of the Tribune, sometimes for gets his isms, and confesses to a natural prejudice against the association of whites and negroes. In a recent letter, describing the Cremorn Garden at London, he says: “The English are not skilful in varnishing vice— at least I have seen no evidence of their tact in that line. I have endured the spectacle of men dancing with woman when rather berry und smoking, but at last the sight of a dark and by no means elegant mulatto, waltzing with a decent looking white girl, while puffing away ut a rather bud segar, proved too much for my Yankee prcjudiceand I started.” Dn. Stone. —We learn from the Norfolk Beacon that Dr. Warren Stone, of this city left Norfolk on the 21st hist, for Baftimore. The Beacon says: Ever since his arrival he has been engaged daily and nightly in visiting the sick in this city at the City Hospital, and has paid two visits to the Naval Hospital. He has given all our phy sicians the benefit of his professional experience and observation in yellow fever cases in New Orleans. His visit and that of Drs. Penniston and Freeman has had a most happy effect on our afflicted community, giving more confidence and allaying apprehension. We cut the following from the Shiawas see Democrat: Wheat after Corn.—Last year in this vic inity, a large amount of wheat'was sowed after corn. We have watched the result, and find that the wheat thus .put in is universally good: and will average better than the crop got in any other manner. As a general thing,, it is less injured by the insect,—-doubtless owing to its being sowed later, and it satnds very clean from font 4 iff. We recommend to our farmers to try agasn this fall, sowing wheat after corn Cowles' History of Plants notices the virWe of hemp thus laconically: “By this cordage, ships are guidod,Jbells are rung, and rogues kept tn nW.”