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Wklij (tanmtr. ---< 'W» ' atlantas El Traveling Agents for the Examiner. John H. James, T. Gorman, P. Gorman. H. A. Livingston, Joseph K. Burke. I3TSee Third and Fourth Pages. FOR GOVERNOR: H. V. JOHNSON, ov BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS. Ist District-Jas L. Seward of Thomas. 2nd “ M. J. Crawford, of Muscogee. 3rd “ J. M. Smith, of Upson. 4th “H. Warner, of Meriwether. sth “J. 11. Floy 6th “ Howell Cobb, of Clark. 7th “ Linton Stephens, of I ancock. Sth “A. 11. Stephens, of Taliaferro. Fulton County Nominations. F«R SENATOR : COL. JOHN COLLIER. FOR REPRESENTATIVE : CAPT. ALLISON NELSON. We would invite the attention of those desiring fits und refits to the card of Straus & Co., to be found in another column. Habersham County.—Hon. Roliert Mc- Millan is the Auti-Know Nothing Candidate for the Senate, und Dr. George Philips for the House. Home Work. At the Cabinet Warehouse of Morgan, Kirk patrick 4 Co., in this city, a large and superior lot of all articles in their line, will be found.— Visitors to the “Fair” would do well to pay this home establishment a visit, even if they have no desire to purchase. Bureaus, bedsteads, centre tables, chairs, and other articles of exquisite and plain workmanship will be found there. Its lo cation is in Hayden’s Block, on Peach Tree street. The “Expositior” at Dalton. This is a new aud ably conducted democratic paper published, weekly, and edited by Will iam Gordon, and 8. 8. Turner, Esqrs. Its zeal in the advocacy of democratic principles, meas ures, and men, as well as the ability with which it is conducted, place' it in the front rank of the press of our State, and commend it to the generous support of the Georgia Democracy every where. We wish it every possible suc cess, and earnestly hope that Gljerokee Georgia will suatain the Editors in their enterprize.— Dalton, and its vicinity, can now claim to have a good paper—will they not sustain it ? How they Keep Them. The following dialogue actually took place in a county of this district. We have the names of the parties in our office but suppress them. A gentleman, who had joined one of the lodges in the county, wrote to the presiding- officer of that lodge, and stated that he desired to with draw. “Why do you wish to withdraw ? asked the reluctant officer. “1 want to vote for Judge Warner." “Oh well, you need not withdraw, we'll give you permission to vote for Warner." ••But suppose 1 wish to vote for Johnson ; what then ?” “Why in that case, you would have to with draw.” Well, if it is the all the same to you, 1 believe I'll withdraw, so that 1 can vote for whom I wish, without first being forced to get your permission What a position for a freeman 1 To be com pelled to bend the knee to the president of a council, for permission to exercise si freeman's right' "The Old Hornet’s Nest” Speaks. Washington, Ga., Sept. 4. 1855. At a meeting of Dickenson Council No. 76, held this day. the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, wc arc opposed to secret oath-bound, political organizations, lielleving them contrary to the genius of our republican institutions, it is therefore— Resolved, By Dickinson Council No. 76. that our worthy President be instructed to return the charter of this Pouncil to the President of the State Council. The other resolutions are omitted at the re quest of the mover.— Ed. Rep. We have been pained for some time past, with the conviction that our old friends in Wilkes hud become infatuated by the specious reasonings of the Know Nothing platform, and as a natural consequence, entrapped into the lodge; but jre are gratified to learn from the above extract from the Wilkes ZlcpuWzrun. that tho scales are dropping from their eyes, and that tiiey have remembered the precepts of their fathers and are prepared to acknowledge their error and say, in the language of their resolution, that "secret, oath-bound, political as sociations are contrary to the genius of our its publican institutions." For those republican institutions, none of Georgia's sons ever fought more or suffered more than the sous of Wilkes. In the Revolutionary War. which gave birth to "the genius of our republican institutions." her ]>eoplc stood by the infant child und shed their best blood in its defence: and now when unot her foe menaces the full grown youth, her sons will rally again around their idol, und teach the Northern foe. that old Wilkes still is proud of the appellation. -the Hornet's A'cst" which she extorted from the British in the first war of independence. The only wonder with us is. how a Know Nothing Council could have existed so long among a people whose patriotism is daily refreshed by breezes fresh from Kettle Creek, a spot sacred to the American heart. A Southern Commercial Convention. — The next meeting of this body will take place in Richmond, on the 3d day of November.— The committee appointed by that body to de signate a suitable place for tiie holding of the Convention has accepted the invitation of the Richmond Board of Trade to make Richmond the place. I'uKr vn vtions for Slave. Trading in Cuba. the introduction this year into the island of Cu ba of large number of African slaves, tine par ty alone has contracted for the supply of 7.000. Portuguese agents, it is said are uow in New York making arrangements. Political Fraud Exposed. Our readers will doubtless remember that the Know Nothings have nominated their candi dates for Jndge in each of the circuits of mid dle and lower Georgia, where they hoped to be able to carry the elections. Mr. t ason and Gen eral Warren have received the nomination in their respectiue circuits, and the fact has been mode public. The Know Nothings of the Blue Ridge Circuit have not dealt so honorably • They met it now appears, in Convention, nearly ■ six months ago, and unanimously nominated Judge Irwin as their candidate, and have at-1 tempted to keep the fact a profound secret un-| til after the election ; and would have succeed- ■ ed had not Doctor Pennington withdrawn from | the ‘-Order,” and under a sense of duty exposed [ the secret to the public. At the political honesty of this transaction, let the people look! The Convention met at Marietta in May last, and unanimously nomi nated Judge Irwin as their candidate. The Know Nothings all rallied around their nomi nee. The Know Nothing presses, the “Dahlon ega Signal” and Marietta “Georgian,” and their numerous Know Nothing correspondents have constantly advocated his claims and urged even upon the democracy, his support, on the ground that politics should have nothing to do with the Judidial elections of the State—that Judge Irwin took no part in politics and .teas not the candidate of any political party. The object of all this was to hold the Know N oth ings on to his support as the nominee of the party, under the solemnity of their oaths, and by fraud and misrepresentation to gull demo crats and Ant -Know Nothing whigs enough into his support, when added to the Know Nothing vote, to carry the election, and defeat Col. Brown, the democratic candidate. But the curtain which shrouded this dark transac tion is drawn aside; the trick is exposed to the light of day ; and Judge Irwin stands before the country, the nominee of the Know Nothing Party for Judge. Democrats, aud Anti-Know Nothing Whigs will you support him? But read the following certificate of Doctor Penning ton. The Doctor is a gentleman of high respec tibility, and no one who knows him, will doubt his statement. Dallas. Paulding Co., Ga. 1 hereby certify that I was, heretofore, a member of a Council of the Order known as Know Nothings, at this place. That I was appointed a delegate from this county to a Con vention of the Order to lie held at Marietta during the last Term of Cobb Superior Court, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit. That I at tended that Convention as a delegate, and that the Hon. David Irwin was unanimously nomi nated as the candidate of that party. I make this certificate because I have" been informed that the fact has been denied. [Signed] E. M. Pennington.” Now, there is one thing connected with this ex posure. that every voter in Georgia should calm ly reflect upon. It is not that deception has been practised upon the voters ol the Blue Ridge Circuit, for nothing better could be hoped from-the Know Nothing Order there, after the “Hone Address” made its appearance in this and other papers. There is something far worse in it than this. It is, that secretly an effort has been made to control the Judi ciary of our State or 'to elect a Judge.— Not satisfied with juggling to control in poli tics, they would elect their Judges in the same way. The lives, liberties, and property, of the people are, to a certain extent, to lie decided upon, by men nominated to office, in secret, and in a lodge where the majority contorts, the minority being bound by an oath to submit and support such nomination. If there be no danger to the rights of the people, in conduct like this, then we live in times purer than our fathers before us did. Anti-Know Nothings, and Democrats, put your seal of condemnation upon conduct like this at the polls in October next I The Federal and State Constitutions vs. the Know Nothings and Judge An drews. If there is one characteric of oer noble Stalo which we, as Georgians, have reason to be proud of more, than any other, it is the respect her sons have ever evinced for Constitutional obli gations, Whatever sacrifices of interest those obligations have culled upon them to make have been made cheerfully and promptly ; und when goaded by oppression from their Northern brethren, they were driven into a convent ion of ways and means to check the encroachments of their uncompromising enemies, when it was but natural that a sense of their grievious in juries should have driven thorn into intemperate excesses, the people, instead of yielding to even just retaliation, still kept their eyes steadily fixed upon the constitution, and with full confi dence in its entire adequacy to their rights and necessities, erected a platform upon its firm ba sis, not u plank of which was inconsistent with its requirements at their hands. "Give us this Constitution unimpaired." said they, “and we ask no more." The hund that was raised against it, was their enemy, and for it they were willing to lay down every advantage their con nection with the Union brought. The very word -Constitution" carries with it an all-üb sorbing weight of reverence to the Georgian’s heart. Georgians are watchful of this their beticon light. But Georgians have so much confidence in the loyalty of Georgians, that they hesitate to believe that, by their own heartlis. sit men who are arrayed against the cherishetl bulwark of their liberties. We believe, and we have the proofs, that the effect of the new Order styling itself - American' is a direct blow at the Constitution, aud calculated to impair the con fidence of Georgians iu what it says is "iibnosf perfect." aud which we contend is entirely per fect. We notice this want of respect for the Constitution in every feature of the inside and outside platforms of the party, in their address es : aud indeed every where we see or hettr any thing of the objects desired to be affi'eted by the Order. This is a serious charge, aud it be hooves Georgians to investigate it. Read our case, and if it is not fully made out. let us fall by the decision. To the proofs. William Hone, the I’nsident of the State Council, who is supposed to express the senti ment of the Order, in speaking of the Consti tution and its framers, uses the following lan guage. Whether it evinces such rrspre? for the Constitution as Georgians have been accustom ed to pay it. remains with the reader to Not content with extending to the oppressed myriads of less favored lands the blessings aris ing from a free government, the happiness springing from free institutions, and the protec , tion flowing from merciful laws, not content with| , throwing the broad -Egis of our constitution I between the oppressors und suffering humanity i of the whole world ; not content with inviting starving millions to take refuge from famiy in the bountiful bosom of our beautiful county. —the original framers of our otherwise almob. perfect constitution, with an ill-advised Lin kraut y, extended to them also the highest hos. ors of man, and while relieving their necessities called on them to assume the august mantle o the legislator." Here are men who say that the framers of the Constitution were mistaken in their liberal policy. If they were mistaken iu this thing, as these men charge, is it not possible that they may have been in other matters connected with that cherished document ? The liberal offers they made foreigners in the Constitution, was. like every other clause of that paper, the result of mature deliberation. The combined intelli gence of the body framing it thought this liber al policy best, and if they lacked wisdom iu this thing, there is no suppose they were more wise in any other feature. But not only do these menziontend that the framers of the Constitution lacked intelligence in this particu lar ; they are dissatisfied with another clause which the framers of the Constitution thought it best to incorporate into it. They by ntimation, by expressed resolutions, by oaths, tell us that the clause prohibiting a re ligious test was wrong, was unwise. Hear what the Constitution says: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust under the United States.’' And there seems good reason for such a clause. It was the original intention of the founders of our government to place an in'sur mountable barrier between the Church und State. They felt that no government, the composition of which embraced these incogru ent elements, was secure, and to prevent the possibility of such un Union, they placed this clause conspicuously in the Constitution. But these men say that they were wrong—they did not understand the matter 1 Hear what they say aud judge if they are respectful; aye, see if our charge of direct opposition to the Constitution is not sustained. The Philadelphia Platform contains the fol lowing reflections upon the intelligence of the framers of the Constitution : “Resistance to the aggressive policy and j corrupting tendencies of the RoTnan Catholic Church in our country by the advancement to all political stations— executive, legislative, ju dical, or diplomatic —-of those only who do not hold civil allegiance, diriectly or indirectly, to any foreign power, whether civil or ecclesiasti cal, aud who are Americans by birth, education i and training—thus fulfilling the maxim: “A-1 mericaus only shall govern America." Now they contend that every member of the Catholic Church, by his membership, asumes an allegiance to the Pope. This allegiance t hey regard as part of the Catholic religion. No matter whether the Catholic be a foreigner who has thrown off every other allegiance and taken upon himself the obligation of a citizen of the United States, or whether he is a native “to the manor born"—if he be a Catholic they declare they will not vote for him for, or ap point him to, any political station, “executive, j legislative, judicial or diplomatic.” Is this not| virtually denying the wisdom of the founders of our government, and striking a blow at the l Constitution? But again, the Constitution declares that a foreign born citizen may after having been a citizen of the United States seven years, become a Representative in Congress, and after nine years a Senator. Whqt docs the Philadelphia Convention say in the above extract. Why that “ Americans only shall rule America 1" The framers of the constitution regarded the taking of the oath of allegiance, by a foreigner, as a compact, or bargain, by which he, in considera tion of certain privileges, agreed to throw off his former natural allegiance, and assume the obligations of an American citizen. 'They re garded his allegiance as a fair equivalent for the privileges they granted him. Now these men say that our fathers made a bad bargain, and by declaring that foreigners shall not hold offices, violate the contract made und ratified by the constitution. The right to hold office is guaranteed the foreigner by the constitution ; but the authority of that constitution is ex pressly denied by those who say he shall not.— What, wc ask* is wanted further to evidence a hostility to, and a want of respect for, the Con stitution. That declares there shall Ikj no test for office—they say there shall be a Catholic test 1 The. Constitution declares that foreigners may hold office; they say they shall not.' What more complete hostility can possibly exist? We re gard, then, that our charge of hostility to und disrespect for the Constitution, expressed by the Know Nothing party, is fully made out.— We have now to apply this charge to their can didate, Judge Andrews. Suppose, for a moment, that Judge Andrews is elected (which by-the-way. like some of his legal illustrations, is -not a supposable ease") As Governor of Georgia, before he assumed the duties of the Executive department, he would be required to take the following oath : "I do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as the ease may be) that I will faithfully execute the office of Governor of the State of Georgia ; and will, to the best of my abilities preserve, protect, and defend the said State, and cause justice to be executed iu mercy therein, according to the Constitution and laws thereof." Well, what says our State Constitution.— Here is section tenth : Sec. 10. No person within this State shall, upon any pretence, be deprived of the inestima ble privilege of worshipping God in a manner agreeable to his own conscience, nor be com pelled to attend any place of worship, contrary to bis own faith and judgement, nor shall he ever Ik* obliged to pay tithes, taxes, or any other rate, for the building or repairing any place of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he be lieves to be right, or what he hath voluntarily engaged to do. No one religious society shall ever be established in this State in preference to another, nor shall any person be denied the enjoyment of any civil right merely on account of his religious principle. If this means anything at all. it is clearly intended to prevent the same union provided against by the Federal Constitution. Accord ing to this Judge Andrews would have no more right to exclude a Catholic from the en joyment of a “civil right." than be would a Methodist. Baptist, Presbyterian or an Episco palian : for the language of the clause is -no religious society" shall have preference. Here all are upon a footing. But see what Judge Andrews thinks of the Constitution of his State. He has taken the three following oaths. In the first degree he swore thus: ••You will not vote, nor give your influence for any man for any office in the gift ofthepeo pie, unless he be an American born citizen in favor of Americans ruling America, nor >/ he ! be a Roman Catholic." I The Constitution of Georgia declares that neither of the two grounds amount to a disqual- ification. Yet, in face of the obligation he' would be compelled Io take to be governed by the constitution, he would be foreed by his for mer oath to refuse a commission to a foreign born officer elected by the people, or the Legis lature. If he did so he would clearly violate the oath taken upon his assumption of his exec utive dirties: if he did not he would violate the oaths he has taken in the second and third de grees, which read as follows : 2nd. ‘You will support in all political mat-' ters,/or all political oj/ices. members of this Or der in preference to other persons; that if it j may be done legally, you will, when elected or ; appointed to any official station conferring on ; you the power to do so, remove all foreign- | EKS, ALIENS OB ROMAN CATHOLICS FROM OFFICE I OR PLACE. AND THAT YOU WILL IN NO CASE AP- I POINT SUCH TO ANY OFFICE OR PLACE IN YOUR ! GIFT." 3d. ■■ You also promise und swear (or affirm) ! that this and all other obligations which you ' have previously taken in this Order, shall ever j be kept sacred and inviolate." He has thus, in the first place, sworn that he | will “remove all foreigners for office," when! the Constitution declares that they are entitled ! to hold office. Would this be executing “jus-[ tice in mercy" as his oath of office requires?! We think not: we see nothing but injustice in depriving any man of his Constitutional' right. But just or unjust, he is sworn to do it.' Another of the tests which he is sworn to make | is the religion of the candidate. If he is an ' infidel, or a Mormon he is not bound to exclude him. but if he be a Catholic, he is sworn to do! so. What though the Constitution declares there shall be no religious test, and he swears to support the Constitution : he has previously sworn to exclude the Catholic, and upon the presumption that he will do so and disregard Constitutional obligation, he has been elected ! ow can he reconcile the two oaths ? He cannot.' And yet the people of Geor gia are called upon to support him for an office, the prescribed duties of which, by his own oath, he has made himself incompetent to discharge ? It remains now to see if they will respond to the 'call. The Discipline. The complacency with which one of the out side Editors of the “Discipline” calls upon the Senior Editor of the “Examiner” to -answer jea or nay—waving all discussion as to the propriety" ’of expenditures alledged by him to have been made by the State Road, will hardly find a parallel in newspaper warfare.— Our opinion of the arrogance that characterizes the production we shall refrain expressing.— Nor shall we express any opinion upon its change of position, but will leave the reader to infer what he pleases after we are done. “Mark now, how a plain tale shall put" this writer down. At the outset of this controversy, the charges made through the columns of the "Discipline" were in number, three. First, that this journal, the "Examiner,” is in the pay of the State Government. Second, that the printing office “from which it is issued enjoys certain State patronage of : considerable value." i Third, that its being in the pay of the .State ' Government is the "result of a special order from Governor Johnson." : All these charges we pronounced false. — ; That we did this emphatically und not very 1 courteously, is true. And our justification for i so doing lies in the fact, apart from the untruth- I fulness of the charges, that the purpose of the wri | ter was to impair the influence of the “Exaniin- I er" by the perpetration of a libel upon the State Government and Governor Johnson, in the charges so recklessly preferred. Then followed the call by the “Editor” of the “Discipline" upon the “Master of Transpor tation.” Mr. E. B. Walker, for iifformation to sustain the charges which he published. Our readers are, doubtless, informed of his reply. To the aid of the disappointed publisher, cer tain members of the “Joint Stock Company,” to wit:—Messrs. Howel), Angier, Mitchell, and McDaniel—gentlemen who, we judge from the facts of the case, were doubtless deceived by representations made to them—stepped forward and, jointly, asked of the Superintendent the in formation coveted. In reply, the Superintendent tells them. “My testimony will not avail you in making out your case." *• Mr. Ilanleiter and the Intelligencer have each received a larger amount of our custom than Mr. Kay." •■The “lust (Mr. Kay) has received too little to be called by the name of patronage." Here, we presumed, for its own credit, the "Discipline” might have stopped, or rather the writer that preferred the charges of bribery and corruption, for to that complexion they all ten ded. But it is an old saying that “whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad"— and a fairer illustration of its truth cannot be found than what has followed in this controver. sy. In order to make a showing of some sort to sustain the charges preferred against the -Ex aminer." resort was had, as we are advised, to dishonorable stratagem, jit is denied at the office of the State Road, that the information, al though of no consequence at all. as far as this controversy is concerned, was given to the in dividual who obtained and has caused it to be published. It is also charged, we learn, that it was surreptitiously obtained—that there was in its acquisition an abuse of confidence. Be this as it may, the writer of Jhe article in the last "Discipline" can explain how be obtained it un<l thus relieve subordinate or other officers of the Road, from unjust suspicion. As for the bare fact, that in 1854, and up to August 1855, 85.000 and upwards had been paid Mr. Kav. we care not nor never did. Admit it, and the “Discipline " is just as far from maintaining the charges branded by us as false, as it was before. This we shall proceed to show. But ere we do so. that paper, its Editor, or the writer of tlie articles in it. ought, in common justice to the of ficers of the Road, at the depot, to state how the information was obtained, and from whom —for -thereby hangs a tale." Now. in answer to the call of the "Discipline" in tlje last issue of that paper, we state that since the connection of Col. Howard with the •Intelligencer" Office in this city, the State j Road patronage, as it is termed, has been taken from Mr. Kay. and given to that paper, and to Mr. Ilanleiter. as we are informed thioag.i the Superintendent's letter to Mr. Howell and oth ers. and as we were also informed by Mr. Kay. The -Examiner" itself, as a paper, ire will state, in addition, never was -in the ring " as the recipient of “ Government pap." True from its start, it has been published by Mr Kay : but there are many in this city who can i inform the “Discipline " that its columns were ; [ CJUtrolled, first, by Messrs. Daniell and Ramsay I —afterwards, by Dr. Ram<ay—and it was u o until the State Road patronage had been taken from Mr. Kay (iu violation of a certain con tract well known to the supposed writer of the charges, und last article in the Discipline, of which more hereafter; that Mr. Kay became its sole proprietor, and its present Editors took charge of its editorial department. We make this statement to give the yuietus to the three charges preferred by the “ Discipline." and which we pronounced false. And we cannot here refrain from saying, in Mr. Kay’s behalf, that when he, in the Job Office, which he pur chased from Messrs. Ware A Eddelman, execu ted work for the Road, no man was more bene fitted by that work, than Mr. Ware! We might, but have no desire to, be more explicit. All that we shall, therefore, say in reference to this matter is, that he. Mr. Kay. was betrayeil into the purchase of the Job Office, by induete ments held out, and promises that have been violated. So much for Mr. Kay's connection with the State Road and its patronage. The reader, and the "Discipline” will now, we hope, clearly perceive that we were right in pronouncing the charges made against tlio“Ex e aminer” false from first to last. From them w are not to be driven by the artifice and low cun ! ning of the writer in the “Discipline." We knew well what we wrote, when wc pronounced them j false. Neither were we then, nor are we igno -1 rant now, of the materials we had to contend : against, and the extent to which they would go i in their mad hunt after “Government pap,” and the offices on the State Road. It was exhilcr ating indeed to anticipate the defeat of Gov ernor Johnson, and the “turn out" that would ensue! Our vigilance, and watchfulness, and zeal, were all in their way. and they could ac count for it, in no other way, than, judging oth | era by themselves, a desire to hold on to what :we had not, the* “loaves and fishes.” But we tell these gentlemen, Editors, Joint Stock Gora pany, and all; not excluding sympathizer off, or on the Road : it won't do. Sirs 1 Traduce JOHNSON as you may. the jxjople will re elect him Governor of Georgia, and the “Disci pline" will have to look- elsewhere than to the State Road for patronage. It is what the “Ex aminer" now does, and we feel proud of it.— When it comes to thus, that upon the patronage alone, or in part, of the State Road, this paper can only be sustained, we are certain it will only be known as one among a thousand, that did have, hut no longer has, an existence. A word more to the reader and we are done with this matter. That word is regret for troubling him with this purely personal controversy. The great cause in which we are engaged admonish es us that time, and paper, and pen, and ink. and thought, are all lost—thrown away—inno ticingthe tiradesof the “Discipline," on this and other topics. We shall offend no more ; but wc ought not to promise, for -what trick, what device, what starting hole” can be found to help the “Discipline" in its meanderings after capital for political jugglery, we know not. God help the wicked, and preserve the country! For. as Jock Falstaff hath it. "if manhood, good manhood.be not forgotten on the face of the earth, then am I, a shotten herring." Visitors to the Fair. Are directed to the following places for ac commodation during the Fair. The Fulton House, on Alabama street, kept by the Messrs. Reeves—nn excellent House capable of accommodating some two hundred persons. The Temperance, or City Hotel, on Decatur Street, kept by Mr. J. F. Arnold, a quiet and good House, with an attentive and obliging landlord. At the private Boarding I louse of Mr. James M. Hudson on Peach Tree Street, near the Methodist Church, first rate accommodations will be found, as well as a ]>olite and attentive gentleman at its head. On White Hall Street is the “Johnson House,” kept by Dr. W. P. Parker. Here will be found good fare, and all that a reason able man should require to be comfortable. Then there are our first class Hotels. The Washington Hall, presided over by Messrs. Iz>yd & Pulliam, both well known to the travelling public. Hundreds can find ac commodation here. The "Atlanta Hotel" superintended by Mr. Hosier, a gentleman of experience, iu Hotel keeping, and a favorite with the public. I lore accommodation can be afforded to gentlemen with families, and to single persons without number. Excellent servants, excellent fare, and all that heart or appetite can desire, will be at the “Atlanta Hotel." And last the public will find the “Trout House." under’the Superintendence of Mr. Gage, a gentleman whose fame, as a landlord, is as wide spread, as it deserves. 1 lere again hun dreds can be accommodated and in a style not surpassed any where. North or South. Excel lent chambers, a bountiful table, attentive ser vants, and bountiful fare, will be found at this Hotel. The rule adopted, we learn, at all our Hotels, is “first come, first served.” At the Trout" I louse, under the Sujierintendence of Mr. Holland : at the Atlanta, under the Su perintendence of Mr. Ennis : at the 'Washing ton Hall, and Fulton House under the Super intendence of the proprietors; will be found Bar Rooms, supplied with the choicest Wines Liquors, and Cigars; all are prepared to accom modate visitors at the -Fair." Crisp's Athenseum. The excellent company which Mr. Crisp in trodneed last night to an Atlanta audience will we trust, draw full houses during their stay in our city. A- a whole, it embraces more talent than can l»e found in the most popular Theatres of the large cities of the Union, aud it really merits all the patronage which a generous and appreciating public can bestow upon it. Atlanta owes a great deal to the enterpise of Mr. Crisp. He has introduced here for the 1 gratification of its citizens an intellectual enter ■ tainment—one that is a school of itself, and from whence we derive a knowledge useful to man iu his every avocation, not imparted at i any other school. In crowds, our citizens pat ronize the Circus, Magicians. ,vc. Why not the Drama." which energy and enterprise , place within their reach ? I At the Theatre last night, tlic favorite Com edy of the 'Honeymoon” was played with a ' strong cost. Mrs. W.H.Crisp representing the i Duchess, and Mr. W. 11. Crisp, the Duke i Arauza. Mr. A. T. Morton personated Rolan i do. The acting was fine, the music excellent; and the audience delighted. We regret that time will not permit us to say more, in refer, ence to those we name, and other members of the corps. To night, that thrilling tragic play, the "STRANGER," will be played: Mrs. Crisp, as Mrs. Haller, aud Mr. Crisp, as the Strauger. If this does not draw a crowded house, we shall j l>e much deceived. It is an attraction few, we think, will resist. Not only the cast of its , leading characters, is well set, but it is so down to the lowest. We must not omit to remark that Mr. und Mrs. Rea have already many warm admirers,] and have made many warm friends in our city -, But more of these and other?, in the future. [Ear the Atlanta Daily Examinrri\ Rec. L. Pierce: f ■ } Sir : I see going the rounds of certain m-ws- j papers, an extract of a letter of yours purport ing to have been written to Editors of the Southern Recorder. I suppose you intended in that letter to give your influence to the new | sprung political party, self-styling itself the! American party—alias Know Nothings—anil: so the K. N. esteem it here, and boast of your; name and influence in their favor: as such I no tice it as well as to somewhat comment upon its weakness. In substance, you .say there are some “queer thing's" in this progressive age. Youpoint out one oftheseipieer things to be that ■ a minister cannot express any political opinion, without being made the subject of remark and periiaps censure too. -Truly that would lx? a queer thing; but it is peculiarly queer, for an aged minister to lx? engaged in writing letters on politics to aid a political party, instead of preaching the word to which he asserts he is called. No man would censure a minister for expressing any political opinion in his place. As a minister, yon say “I dont like this sort of pro scription, and especially as there is often much in political issues, so nearly in alliance with the morality of the Bible." Now, Rev. Sir. what political issue is now before the people in alli ance with that morality ? Is it that “intense American feeling” set forth in the second arti cle of the Philadelphia Platform ? or is it that "Resistance to the aggressive policy and cor rupting tendencies of the Roman Catholic Church," as set forth in the eighth article of that Platform ? If the first let me call your attention to the late bloody riots at Louisville and ask you to decide whether that intense American feeling is in alliance with the moral" ity of the Bible. If the latter, permit me to ask you if your letters, or the action and pro scription policy of your party is the best way to maintain that alliance. What, Sir. have all enactments of the Statute Books done as au ex pedient for keeping down Popery, they have only compressed it iuto firmness by them in Ireland. A nation of papists, have Ixx'n trans formed into a nation of heroes. When the truths of Protestantism enter into contest with i the errors of Catholicism on equal terms, and I with their own appropriate weapons, the result is infallibly magna est veretas et pievalebit.— ; You may lay restraints upon the persons, or ; limitations on the property of Catholics, but the I Catholic mind will become tenfold more impreg uable. What may be intended as a protection against the encroachments of papacy, and a ' protection of Protestantism, will turn out as a banner of defence for Popery. What other • instrument do we read of in the New Testa ment for a defence and propagation of the true faith but the word of God and the spirit o* Gal? How does the apostle explain the prin- ] ciples of its triumphs, in that age when truth ; was so mighty, to the. pulling down of the I strong holds ? It was because the weapons of 1 his warfare were not carnal. The kingdom of God. which is not of this world refuses to be •ndebted for its advancement to any other than spiritual weapons, dear sir, and you need not fear that the corrupt tendencies of the Roman Catholic's will ever injure the political issues which you seem to think is in alliance with the • morality of the Bible. These spiritual weapons ': prevailed in favor of Protestantism when wield ’ ed by the able hands of Luther, and other no ' - bles of the reformation—unaided they cut tlieir way successfully, and it is by admitting intolcr -1 ance and proscription, unseemly weapons, into the camp, that the cause of Protestantism, has ' fallen more within twelve months through the ; use of these in the bauds of the Know Nothings i than it has since the formation of our govern ment. It is not through our fears or false ’ alarms that we do honor to Protestantism? A far more befitting honor to the great cause, is the homage of our confidence. Braced with ’ that, Rev. Sir, we have no cause to disturb ' Catholics in their Constitutional privileges: give them a free participation in all the privileges, 1 duties and offices of the country if called thereto 1 by their fellow-citizens. Circulate, sir, the Bi ' ble, present its precepts, and with these mighty 1 engines, you may be part of the means to over -1 throw this alarming architect and establish the fair original form of Christianity on its ruins. But lam done with homilies. Yon say : “I am, by a sort of moral instinct, a native Amer, ican.". Strange, sir, that you have lately made known that you were, “by moral instinct" what I and your friends, years ago, believed you to be by birth. If this is not a recent discovery I you must mean by the term “Native American,” that you have recently, “bv moral instinct," become a Know Nothing. If you are writing letters to uid that party, us they boast your letter doe-, then you, as a minister, are liable to censure, equally as much as if you were to descend to the slang of the lowest hustings.— I Let me ask you how you can reconcile theoaths of the order to the article in the Methodist Dis cipline in regard to Christian men's oaths.— (Art. 25.) The words of the Saviour arc im perative: •■Swear not at all.” See St. James sth chapter sth to 12th verses. Also see Matt. s—34th. They are all' borne out by the clause referred to in the Disipline, and more stringent ly by Dr. Clarke in his commentaries. Hesays; "He who uses any oath, except when he is culled upon by a Magistrate to make one. so far from being a Christian, does not deserve the reputa tion of decency or common sense." How do you reconcile the constitution and ritual of the Order to your obligations as a minister of Christ ? When red paper is cut in a certain form and scattered, do you go to the Council room prepared for conflict ? When j you hear the "cry of distress," do you give the responsive answer and rush to the rescue ? Now. i sir. if you do these things, it looks a little queer. j By them you would be a good Know Nothing, . but a beat minister, and vice versa. Whether you are a Know Nothing, alias Native Amer ican. "by moral instinct," or not, your letter lias ‘ given you notoriety as such. If you are not yon can disavow the claim they set up of your iden ; itty. Tis to be hoped you will do this. I beg you to read Judge Longstreet's letter to the Methodist Ministers. If he is right' numliere of these ministers are wrong. Those who know him surely believe he thinks he is right, and most of them believe he is. Space will not admit of noticing your re marks on emigration. Let me only refer vou to a text or two; “If a stranger sojourn with you in your land. , ye shall not vex him; but- the stranger that dwelleth with you, shall be unto yon as one bom among you. and thou shult love him as j thyself, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. lam the Lord, your God."—Leviticus j 19 ehap. 13-14th verses. Such was, I suppose, the feeling of our tore fathers, when they threw open the gate of emi ; gration so wide. In conclusion, Rev. Sir, “be | easy.” fret not over some things seemingly I queer. Our country has had, and still has, un paralleled prosperity. So has had, und still I has, the Methodist Church. Int them alone. I There is no danger, and no necessity of chang ing the policy of the one or the Discipline of i the other. FREE DEMOCRAT. Religions Proscription in South Carolina—its Effects. A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury writes as follows, upon thesubjeet of established religions. 1 promised in my last number to bring still nearer to our own doors the examples of jfro | scription and religious intolerance. I find in I the introduction to Brevard's Digest, page 12, I the following account: “In 1700. the government (of South Caroli na) undertook to establish the Episcopal form of religious worship, and persevered in the pur suit of that object, with obstinate zeal, till it was attained in 1706. Au act against non-con formity was passed. These measures were ex tremely odious to a number of colonists, dis senters and others, who conscientiously refused the communion of thj English church. They complained and remonstrated, but all to no purpose. It was a strange but not an unpre cedented circumstance, that a weak colony, anxious to encourage emigrants from abroad of various Protestant sects, to strengthen itself against foreign enemies, should, nevertheless, at such a crisis, insult and persecute their fellow citizens aud Protestant Christian brethren, on account of slight differences in their religious dogmas and the external ceremonies of wor ship !” •.I udge Brevard adds, that “political and party . considerations laid probably no inconsiderable influence on this occasion.” “A profound his torian has remarked.” says he: “That tty religious spirit, when it mingles with faction, contains in it something supernat ural and unaccountable ; and, its operations on society, effects correspond less with their known causes, than in any other circumstance of gov ernment.” The act of 1706 was preceded by an act of 1696. granting liberty of conscience to all [ Christians except Papists. In immediate connection with the account above cited, there occurs the following para agraph in regard to the anti-foreign prejudice of the period: "The admission of French emigrants to equal privileges with the English, gave great offence, and was the cause of bitter revilings and con tests. The English considered them [the Hu guenots] as aliens, and entertained towards them the usual ungenerous prejudices and antip ; athies of Englishmen. At one time they were | excluded from the Legislature, but this illilx'ral ' spirit at length abated." A few words more on the subject of religious proscription. Let none hope that to tho spirit of intolerance he can say, “Thus fur shult thou |go and no farther.” The burning of convents and churches follows exclusion from civil office I and the denial of political equality on account of religious faith. We have already hail a re enactment, on a small scale, in the Ixmisvillc riots, of the famous Pojiish plot in regard to which Oates found so ready a credence. It will not be forgotten how many among our selves were deceived, and, being deceived, very naturally exasperated, by a transparent elec tioneering artifice, upon a recent occasion, when ' a printed placard was posted in our streets, ■ calling “Roman Catholics to the rally?" Poli tics and religion are potent enough when each acts separately and apart from the other, in dueing an excitement which is unfavorable to the exercise of a sound judgment, just discrim ination, and impartial estimate of truth. Unite these two powerful incentives to human ,pos- ’ sion, and reason is thrown prostrate before • them. i We plead for the Roman Catholics to-day.— There was a time when dissenters considered Prelacy and Popery equally obnoxious. The Church of England was, at one time, consid- ' cred as as equally dangerous to liberty with . the Church of Rome. May not Episcopalians t be next excluded from their equal right, as savoring of foreign connection, being uurepub ’ lican in their discipline, and not as "intensely ' American ” as some new standard may require, s Methodists have already been denounced in . some parts of the North, where Presbyterians most abound. It would not be new in history to charge Presbyterianism with ambition und a - proscriptive spirit. And I myself have heard j Raptists complained of, as exercising an undue ( influence in political affairs. And 1 have even heard it said that the Jews, few comparatively ’ as they are in numbers, are so clannish that, ! other things being equal, they have the advan , tagc of a Christian competition in the race for ( office. In all this, there is the germ of combi nation for persecution and proscripiitm against each in its turn ; while, rightly viewed, the con- ’ sideration of such facts should lead to the com . bination of all in favor of forbearance and uni , versa! toleration. Ix't the advocates of different creeds confine themselves to u strictly spiritual warfare. It is an abandonment of sound policy as well as of principle, to call in the aid of the secular arm. ] Above all, as it seems to me, is it as fatal iu ' policy as it is indefensible in morals, for the ad- - vocates of many conflicting creeds to unite in i temporary combination, and lend their aid to . godless politicians and self-seeking aspirants in . an attempt to crush one of the weakest of the Christian denominations—selected us objects of attack, I verily believe, not because they are strong, but for the very reason that they are . weak, and can make but feeble resistance. Let us not desert the ancient landmarks ; let us adhere to the principles of the Constitutions of State and the United States; to the princi ples of universal toleration and fair play which our fathers established, and which are our own richest inheritance. CHARLESTON. COLMUNICATED. A Suggestion. My boys, in the Bth District, having nomina ted LaFayette Iximar, as a candidate for Con gress, against A. 11. Stephens, 1 recommend that his name be at once changed to “ Tom ” “Dick"or "Harry" or some other good American name. There is no nativism at all about his name; it is all French from beginning to end. and I fear that many of my “ boys ” in the Btb will consider his nomination a trick of the enemy to impose a “real live Frenchman" upon them. Let your name be clianged at once, LaFayette.—l fear it will beat you— “SAM.” A Yot’NC lady arrived at Gilensburgh Mich, last week, to take the cars. While waiting she wm> grossly insulted. A warrent was is sued for the rascal. The moment the culprit reached the hotel, the citizens forcibly took him from the hands of the officers, stripped him of all his clothing, smeared him with tar from head to foot, coated him thoroughly with feathers, aud after trotting him through the streets strad dle of an old rail, gave the new plumed-bird four minutes to run five miles, which he accom plished satisfactorily to the express train, which arrived soon after, Going Back to Er rope.—There seems to be a steady stream of emigration from the United States to Europe The packet ship Tonawanda sailed from Philadelphia for Liverpool on Satur day with ten cabin aud two hundred und sixty seven steerage passengers. J Gov. Brown, of Mo., died on the I 27th ult. LATER FROM EUROPE. \ RRIVAL OFTHESTEAMER A TLJIFHC• New York, September C.—The U.S. Mail Steam Ship Atlantic, Capt. M Ist. hu-, urrivisl at this port from Liverpool, with advices to the 25th ult. The steam ship Aerial arrived out on the 23d ult.. and the H'ashington on the 24tli ult. CoiiiuM r< in! n< c. The Liverpool Cotton Market was easier but not quotably lower, and closed quiet, und steudy as 7 )-Bd. for Fair New Orleans, 6 7-16 d for Middling Orleans, 6 7-8 d for Fair Uplands, and 6 l-4d. for Middling Uplands. The sales during the week comprised 45,000 bales, of which speculators took 4.500. and exporters 4.500, leaving 36.000 bales of all description to the trade. The Liverpool Breaustuffs Market had advanced in consequence of the unfavorable weather. Wheat had improved from 2d. a 3d. per 70 lbs. Flour was 2s. better; and Western Canal wus worth from 40s. a 415., and Ohio from 40s. a 425. per bbl. of 196 lbs.— Corn had advanced 6d.. and White was quoted at from 445. 45., and Yellow 375. 6d. n 38s. per 480 lbs, The market closed steady and quiet without change. The Liverpool Rice Market was slightly lower. Naval Stores were unchanged, at steady rates. The lain don Money Market.— American Stocks were dull. The Bullion in the Bank of England has decreased £160.000 Sterling.— Consols closed at 91 1-8. General Intelligence. The news from the Crimen is unimportant, affairs are quiet and unchanged, and the Rus sians hold the same positions they did atthedate of the last advices. The English papers are filled with copious de tails the affairs that, had taken place on the banks of Chernaya and Svcaborg. The loss of the Russians at the latter was only 40 killed and 160 wounded. A portion of the fortifica tions were destroyed but the. Allies had made no further attack. Two British ships had fired on Riga without effect. The British in the Sea of Azoff. hud blown up the sunken Russian ships. The Russian ships in Bcrkiausk Buy, bad. al so. been burnt to secure that town. The Russian were investing Kars, but noth ing decisive had occurred. No authentic accounts had been received re lative to the Peace Conference. It was rumor ed, however, that a split had occurred in the Austrian Cabinet. A<I<IIHOII<II by 11i<j Atlantic. London, Aug. 25. Queen Victoria will embark on Monday from Bologna on her return to England. The Em peror will accompany her to Bologna. Advices from Paris state that additional re inforcement to the number of 50.000 men are to be sent to the Crimea. The Allied squadron on the White sea captured two Russian ships, one a steamer. The squadron are preparing to quit that sea. Berlin papers state that Austria has declared she will treat according to military law every peraon found tanipering with Austri an soldiers, with u view of inducing them to join the Anglo-Italian IjCglon. A Russian di vision between Kars and Erscroum having lieen re-inforced, had marched upon Kenprie Kerri and drove the Turkish troops from their posi tion, and finally encamped thiw leagues from Erscroum. Berlin, Aug. 23. Russian agents have hcen sent to the chief cities of Europe, to raise 11 loan for tho Russian Government. Dantzic, Aug. 23. All the, mortar vessels are sent home. Ad miral Hcymour has relieved Admiral Baynes off' Cronstradt. London, Aug. 24. The most interesting news is the details of the battles of Hweaborg and Tchernaya. Tho loss of life at Swcaborg was quite small, but the details thus far do not state how much of Sweaborg has been destroyed, nor how much remains. Rumors are afloat of new negotiations and to the effect that the accession of Spain to the western alliance is complete und that of Den mark and Sweden all but ratified. Austria is said to have submitted no projects of peace, and will come out decidedly for the allies. Another talk is that the allies will permanently occupy some portion of the Turkish terrirury, and re construct the map of Italy. According to the Russian Admiral's account of the bombardment of Swcaborg, the allies ap pear to have done but little damage beside the burning of the public stores. He says no dam age whatsoever has been done to the fortifica tions, batteries or the guns of the fort, and clo ses his despatch, on the evening of the 12th, thus : "The eneny remain at their old anchor age, and do not renew the attack on Riga.— They commenced at 4 o’clock, on the morning of the tenth, by two English steamers, one two decker and one frigate. The bombard ment continued till seven o'clock iu the evening doing apparently no damage. The attack upon Tchernaya was commanded by Gortschukoff.— The Russian force consisted of five divisions, six thousand cavalry and twenty batteries of artil lery. Three Russian Generals were killed. The French loss amounted to nearly 200 killed and over 800 wounded. The English Gen. Reed was killed. The Russians askisl an ar mistice to bury their dead. I’elissier says the whole number of Russians buried is 3,329. A dispatch of the 19th says the artillery liad opened fire upon Sevastopol.' bnt the bombard ment has not yet commenced. Four Russian steamers which were sunk in Berdiaas Bay had been blown up by the Eng lish und the suburbs of the town burned. One British gun-boat went ashore during the at tack, and was taken by the Russians, together with a complete code of the allies' signals. Gortschukoffs latest dispatch from Sevasto pol on the 21st says the fire of the allies has sensibly diminished, and does but little dam age. From’England there is nothing of political importance. Spain.—Senor Cocolante, the new Minister of Spain to the United States, left Madrid. Mexico. Referring to the late change of Government in the Republic ol Mexico the Washington cor respondent of the Baltimore Sun says : “Gen. Almonte, the present Minister, has not been recalled as yet, and it appears that he now remains, and is likely to continue, as the Minis ter. Ile is believed to be one of the ablest of the public men in Mexico, and it would not be surprising if he should at an early day be called to the hopeless task of the reconstruction of the Mexican Government. The deeply-seated disorders of Mexico are not within the reach of either statesmanship or soldiership. It is ab surd to talk of republicanism and good order where, out of a population of seven millions, six and a half millions ure socially degraded anil ignorant, and a half million arc the monopolists of wealth and power, which they use only to counteract and destroy the power of each oth er.” A KUC We learn that four nurses were sent to fo orfolk by the cars yesterday morning, and 3 ur by the cars of this morning. We would ' all attention to the advertisement of the Com mittee for female nurses.— Char. Cour., tlth inst. x s'l'lie Kansas legislature has passed a bill to appoint all officers in the territory for the term oi six years.