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Uli: OLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER. -w e; js bl x. "su oin c u Xji a? i o jxt of* the ans tsc.a jaze x eh, x oo o c;o r> tpi m• JOHN H. STEELE, I -CHAS. l. barbocr. j 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. £3§«* No subscription taken for less than six months. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in the Weekly Examixkb at the-following rates; Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square tor each sub sequent insertion. 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E?* All Advertisements not specified as to time will bo published until forbid and - charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements. Sales as Land and Negroes, by Administra tors, Executors or Gurdians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 lin ttto afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub ic gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in hke manner 10 days previous to salo day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an es tate must also bo published 40 days. Notice that application will bo made to the ; Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or No groos, must be published for two months. Citations for’letters of Administration, Guar- j dianship dec., 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 ot three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, whore bond has been given by' the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always bo continued accord- j 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, 4 00 I Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 I Balos of personal property, ten days, 1 square 1 50 Bales of land or negroes by Executors, Ac. 5 00 ; Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a his wife,(in advance.) 500 Letters on business must be (post paid) to on-; title them to attention. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1855. Something New. There is no better comment upon thegrowthund prosjxirity of our city than the inducements it offers tff capitalists to embark in now lines of business. .Messrs. Dimick & Joyce have recent, ly opened, in the Hayden block, one of the most • elegant shoe establishments in the .Southern country, with the linestand most extensive stock over opened in Atlauta. The tasty arrange ment of their store, and the variety of their stock in trade together with the cheapness of their goods, should entitle them to the attention of purchasers in their line. We like to sec these handsome establishments in our city ; they give an air of elegance to the place which makes a favorable impression upon the minds of visitors, and attract many to our city who would, but for them, make their purchases elsewhere. Messisj. ll,i J. know how to please the public, and from a hasty examination of their stock we can onestly say that their labors are not for the eye alone. A call will repay the trouble. The State Road Again. The Chronicle & Sentinel contains a lengthy article on the subject of the sale of the Stock Cara, at Chattanooga, and although Major Cooper the Superintendent of the Hoad, has, over his own signature, explained the whole transaction to the, people, it adduces testimony satisfactory to itself, but to no one else, save the enemies of Gov. Johnson, that the state ment of the Superintendent is false. Now that paper must certainly be demented if it thinks, for one moment, that its rigmarole will have any effect upon the people save that of con tempt for its slander of Gov. Johnson. Its ••Roorbacks" have been so numerous, iff late,' that all confidence is lost in it. Let it • tip." It can do Governor J olmson no harm 1 Qualification of Voters. The following, from the Constitution of the State of Georgia, are the only qualifications re quisite for voting. •■The electors of members of the general as sembly. shall be citizens and inhabitants of this State.’ ;uid shall have attained the age of twen ty-one wnrs. and have paid till taxes#which may have been required of them, and which they have had an opportunity of paying, agree ably to law. for tin*year preceding the election, and shall have resided six months witihin the county." ••Trvk .u> Prsachixo. - ’—- A man famous tor hunting up enigmas, philosophises thus: “What strange creatures girls are; offer one of them good wages to work for you. and ten chances to one if the old woman can spare any of her girl*—but Just propose matrimony, and see if they don't jump at the chance of working a life-time just for their victuals and clothes." THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AHO NEWS PAPER IN THE SOBTH--A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. Those Charges. We do not propose, under this caption, to devote any considerable space to the refutation of the charges which fill the columns of the or gans, and the mouths of the orators of the Know Nothing party, but simply desire to call the attention of our friends to a few facts in this connection, which are indisputable. It is this : every charge as yet brought against Gov. Johnson has been proven false, and there is not a man. who utters or writes them, who himself believes a word of what he so utters or writes. Let us trace these charges back to the, first one—they are so few, it is easily done—and we find that the declaration was first made that “Gov. Johnson paid Mark As Cooper 86000 for his vote and influence!” Now this charge was so apparently absurd that no one cared to refute it until it was found that the constant declamation of the speakers of the Order had actually induced some people to believe that such .corruption was really possible. Maj. Cooper then found it necessary to vindicate his name from any such nefarious transaction,; and to pronounce the aharge entirely false which he did at the Cartersville meeting. Dr. Miller, who had before so industriously circu lated this report, was present at that meeting and heard Maj. Cooper's statement. When lie rose to make his speech, it was evident he was ata loss for something to say upon this topic, which had liefore formeel so largo a portion of his speech. He dared not reiterate the charge that “Gov. Johnson had bought the Major's vote,” so he dropped that lie and distorted the Major's explanation into a charge of “favorit ism,” against the Superintendent. Well, Maj. Cooper then wrote a letter in which he set forth the facts as they existed, and satisfied every unprejudiced man in Georgia that he claimed nothing but what was fair, and that he got nothing which was unfair either to the Road or to other shippers having equal claims—in fact that he was not more favored than any other man upon the Roffd who was engaged in the same business. No man who read this vin dication of the State Road from the charge of “favoritism" could honestly say that it did not; entirely disprove the charge; and yet there are! newspaper men and stump speakers so lost to ; common decency us to still proclaim that Mark ' A. Cooper's vote was purchased with §6OOO of the State’s money, aud that he receives • <th- j criminating favors, unjust to other shippers I — I The worst feature of the mutter is, these men ' know the charges are false when they utter I them! Next came the charge that Gov. Johnson had appointed an insufficient officer without authority of Law, to manage the legal affairs of the State Road ; that that officer, Colonel Cowart, done nothing to earn his two thousand dollars, and the office itself was a sinecure, cre ated by Gov. Johnson for the sole purpose of rewarding a favorite. In answer, it was first shown that there was no such an office as “At torney for the State Road;” that Col. Cowart acted as "Commissioner” for the State Road, an office created by statute, and that had been lilli-d by an appointee of Gov. Cobb, before Johnson came into office; that Col. Cowart, so far from having nothing to do, was constant, ly employed, and that he bad saved the State thousands of dollars in the settlement of the business of the Road, proving not only that the office was not a sinecure, but that Col. Cow art well earned his §2OOO 1 All this has been proven, and yet we still see the charges tilling the columns of the Know Nothing organs, and find the Chronicle & Sentinel office issuing cir culars to that effect, when thesy editors, and the editor of the Chronicle A Sentinel all know that these proofs have been piiule 1 Well, next comes the charge that Governor Johnson had allowed fifteen box cars, valuable property of the State, to be put up and sold at Sheriff's sale, and that they were purchased bv an Agent of the Nashville Hoad to the detri ment of the Shite; that the Chattanooga De pot was levied upon, and that there were other executions hanging over the Road in Tennessee. In the first place it has been proven that ample arrangements had been mafic to satisfy the judgment of Toole A CO., under which the sale of several cars, out of the service of the Ruud, had been made, and that but fur the ab sence of the parties with whom the settlement had been left, the sale would never have been made. Second, it was proven that the cars were purchased by a gentleman acting- as agent for the Road, and that the cars never leit the Road a moment ; that they never went into the possession of lite Nashville Road or any of its agents. It was further proven that the Depot at Ciurttauoogu was nut levied upon, and that there was no outstanding judgments against the Road in Tennessee. All these things were proven by reliable men; but we see no abatement of the lies and misrepresenta tions the charges gave birth to. These are the gin vest cluuges as yet brought against Gov. Johnson, and his administration. Tlx'tv ure sonic other minor ones, equally groundless, which were promptly met aud null ed down as false— all have been proven bv gen tlemen of unquestioned reliability as ulteily false. Ami yet we see them ami hear them ev ery where 1 What are the jieople to think of a jiarty that seeks its only capital from lies, and attempts to build itself upon charges, eve ry one of which ure untrue —and its leaders know it. Ix't the jxxiple knock from under the order this fabric of falsehoods and the whole mass will tumble into hopeless ruins. Thev will do this, and the, -intense American fccHug*> which can ptopogate such fal-diooth. will give place to a feeling of pure Americanism which scorns the subterfuges nnd falsifica tions which characterize the American jiarty. There are farmers, it is said, within one mile of Nebraska City, who will bet handsome stuns that tliey have fields of corn which w ill vield one hundred bushels to the acre. i The abetruet of the will of the late Abbott Lawrence, which has been extensively publish ed. is said to be incorrect iu almost every j»ar ticular, In many cu»n men trust# w«» racor ded as gifts. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1855. ! The Law in Reference to the Qualifica tion to Vote. We hope that the following letter from FRANCIS if. CONE. Esq., the leader of ! the “American Party" in Georgia, and author i of its Platform of principles, will put a stop to i the extravagant notions of many of that party, I when the requirements of the LA W as to the i qualification to vote. There can now be no ' question on the subject, we hojie. To the Editor oj the Chronicle if Sentinel:— | “I have received various letters inquiring my ! opinion as to what evidence tho Superinten ; dants can require as to the qualifications of a ■ voter. * Tn my opinion, the oidy evidence that can | be required is the oath of tile person offering to I vote, as prescribed by the act of 1835—Cobb’s I Digest 239-40. If he complies with the pro i visions of that act, nothing further can be rc i quired bf him. If he swears falsely, of course ; he is subject to the penalties of the'law. ! AU persons who have written to me, will I consider this an answer to their letters.” FRANCIS 11. CONE. ; &&• Tho following article appeared in our pa per of yesterday, but, in the absence of the wri : ter, the proof was so carclessiy read, that, in jus i tiee to the parties referred to, wo re-piiblish it, ' corrected. Anti-Know Nothing Meeting in Baldwin County. A meeting of the anti-Know Nothing Party of Baldwin, was held in Milledgeville, on the i 22d inst, at which Col. Miller Grieve was nom inated us the candidate for Senator, and Jo ’ seph H. Nesbit; 'Esq., for Representative. This meeting, it gratified us greatly to i perceive was attended by several old and influ ential Whigs, who have rallied to the support ! of the Constitution, and in opposition to the : “Secret Order.” The Hot;. Seaton Grantland, so long, so favorably known. to the people of Georgia; tho Hon. Iverson L. J larris, an iuflu- • ential member of the Senate and House of Rcp j resautativos, of our State legislature, for imi i tiy years, anda lawyer of eminence in our State; ; Col. Miller Grieve, the nominee of tho meet ; ing, for over twenty years the editor of the ; “Southern Recorder,” the leading Whig paper ' of tho State ; and John W. L. Daniel, Esq., : than whom a more worthy citizen, and hon- ■ cst man lives in no community; all appear. > in the front rank of that meeting as oppo- j nents of Know Notbingism. We njoicol at I i seeing this public demonstration of the faithj i that is in these gentlemen, and hail it as the ‘ i b ! harbinger of success to their cause in Old Bald : win. Endy- The kind attention of Mr. Bci.ki.ey, Agent of Adams & Co's Express, at this place, is gratefully appreciated. To the Voters of the Coweta Circuit. Fellow-Citizens :—lt is some months since > I announced, through the press, that I was a 1 candidate for tho offiqe of Judge of the Coweta I Judicial Circuit of this State. I did so after mature delilieration, while a change wua going i on in parties in Georgia, and during an excite- i ment in the public mind which a few days, I trust, will terminate, but which can never be i forgotten by the people of Georgia. At the j time to which I refer, two now political jiarties ) were being organized, neither of which could > receive my support. The first, the Temperance Party, as far as I could, or can, understand their ‘ principles, I was, and am thoroughly opposed ■ to, because 1 believe, /irst, what they desire to : effect by law, can only be accomplished by: •■moral suasion,” and, secondly,, that I then per ceived, aud now clearly perceive, an innovation upon the constitutional privileges of the citizen, which will do more to add to, than suppress, the evil complained of; much inure than even enemies of Temperance, if there lie such, cun by any ingenuity devise. The other organization was the "Know-noth ing.' since styled the ••American Party. ’ A more dangerous party to the Constitution and ; the South than this, in my humble opinion, never did exist. Its secrecy, its oaths, its grips, its passwords, and at a latcdatc, its platform ot principles, ail, in my humble opinion, is a re proach to its members, and a ifouble reproach to those who sympathize with and sustain it; who would draw support |)oiu it, but who have not the manliness und boldness to assume all the responsibility of being members of the -Order.'' These were my opinions, briefly expressed, of the two new parties that luul introduced tliein selvesinto our State, and who called upm tiic jieople to rally to their support. 1 was uot, nor cuunot be, one of the jieople, or a candidate be fore them, that could conseieuciously respond to their call. As an individual, 1 determined to oppose, and, as a candidate. I also determined to announce jiublicly. turough the press uufi be fore the people, that opjaisition. 11 is then, therefore, as an Anti-Kuuw Nothing, Anti" Uvurby candidate tor J udge of this Circuit ; and as a supporter of the cause of the LK.mo cratic Anti-Know Nothing i’arly of Georgia.; tiiat 1 uppear before the independent voters oi the Coweta circuit, it is well known to most of the voters ot this circuit, that most willingly 1 would have submitted to a nomination of any ether individual by the party with which 1 ain now identified, had it thought jiroper to make such nomination; but it lias not thought projier to do so. although nominations have been made in other Judicial Circuits, and i am stilt a can didate for your suffrages. My opponent you well know. Personally 1 cast uo reliectivus upou. or at him. -Is a Judicial Officer, he lias had every ojqiortunity of displaying to you his qualifications for the station to which lie wa~ apjiointed. Judge him for yourselves. But at this particular crisis. wh«m tho polit ical Issues liefore the country imfeit by every man to be all important; wlien freedom ot speech, the press, ami tho right of fair trial bv jury, are assailed: die political opinions and sympathies of your candidates for Jndrciarv honors, are uot to lie passed by as nnimportant: and no man should be tolerated as a candidate, who would treat with cuuteuiptnous sileuce a call from any portion es a free people, for his political opimous. I do not charge Judge BaU with being a Know Nothing; bat I charge that Know Nothings believe him to b one, and that he not only sympathizes with the ••Order." but that be is run by them, hilly ap proved, as their candidate for election to the office he now holds by appointment. Ou this subject, I have observed that the press has up io this time, been silent, ft is right, it u but just to every voter, that not only my, but that Judge Bulls opinions should be known to them. On tho Democratic Anti-Know Noth ing Platform 1 stand. As the Know Nothing candidate, though silent himself, und as a pro claimed sympathizer with tho “Secret Order” Judge Bull stands. Certainly he will not de ny that he has refused to avow publicly his po sition in reference to the parties now contend ing for success in Georgia, after having been called upon to do so. by a respectable portion of the Democratic Anti-Know Nothing Party. Under the circumstances, therefore, fellow-citi zens, I address to you these lines. My position before you is defined. As far as I can ascer tain that of my opponent, I have also placed it before you. Justice to myself required, in this election, that I should not appear as opposing an avowed member of the party—one entertain ing an undying hostility to Know Nothingisiu. —with which lam identified. 1 supjiort. J obn son for Governor, in preference to Andrews 1 — I support Warner for Congress, in preference to Hill! I vote tbo Democratic Anti-Know Nothing ticket all the way through I Does or will, Judge Bull ? If he does, the people ought to know it. If he does not, the Anti-Know Nothing Democracy of the Circuit should not be deluded into the belief that he does. JOHN L. STEPHENS. [COMMUXICATKD.] To tlxe True Democrats of Georgia. The election is close at hand and misrepre sentation, slander, and übu.se will assail your cause from every quarter, in order to primiote your enemy to a position to weaken aud destroy your manhood, by the vsurpation of incossti tvtiox.il rpwEit. If you but “resist the devil, he will flee from : you." Let principle lie your watchword, and ' Patriotism tho emotion prompting noble action ! tx iivrv bound, for the quiet, good order and ■ prosperity of our common country, in opposi ‘ tioti to the wanton aggressions of Know Noth png ism which is striking an owiduotM blow at i the very foundation of true Americanism. Be • not decci veil— Know Nothingism LsTHE MON ; STER EVIL of the age—preying upon the ■ vital life blood of American liberty. Its specious pretences is a mockery—an ab. ' surdity, in the midst of its violent antagonisms .to our free government—the Northern wing of ■ this insatiable VuHufe flaps in the nauseous at i mosphere of Abolitionism ■■ while its Southern j icing, being out of ts congenial climate, is droop ; ing and perishing away ; in Virginia, North 1 Carolina. Texas, Tennessee and Alabama, it is I folded forever; and in Georgia it is attempting ! to spread itself like some deadly U/kl«, but if | you will only be manly in the defence of your ; sacred and time-honored princijilcs, it will be cut off entirely at the Baij.ot Box 1 So mote :it be. With ils one wing at the North, it ean never fly and overspread this proud country with ! the dark cloud of religious intolerance’and op ! pression which enshrouds it in its full sweep; ' but crippled, and shorn of its strength, it will dwindle, und lingering, die—actually die with the "dry rot" — while DEMOCRACY, the day ! star of liberty, unoltscureil by the portentous ■ cloud of Know Nothingism, shall shine forth in i the political sky of Freedom with resplendent glory. This is no fancy sketch, it is the simple story of true Patriotism. Know Nothingism already has become a word of reproach—the defeat of its leader in Georgia is conceded—but the peace, the well being of society, dennimls that its overthrow should l>e final ; let its bane ful agitation cease, never let it. lie said that you gave it comfort in the day of its decline ; let ■it die in dhspaik! V chimes might be written I against the Hydra-headed Munster, but it be longs alone to the untrammelled voters to drive it from the land. .Ictioii. action, is now the sjtell-word, the mandate of duty. In the language of General Cass let me conclude this appeal: ••I have never known the time when the Democratic party was called upon by higher considerat ions to adhere, faithfully and zealous ev, to their organization and their principles, than they are at this day. Our confederation is passing through the most severe trial it has j yet undergone. I nceasing eflbrLs are making to excite hostile and sectional feeling, against which we were prophetically warned by the father of his country aud if these arc successful, the days of this Constitution ure numbered. 'Hie continued assaults iqtou the south, ujion its character, its constitutional rights and its institutions, and the systematic preeeveranee and the bitter spirit with which tbese are pur sued, while they warn the 1 temoeratic party of the danger, should also incite it to muted and vigorous action. They warn it, too, the time has come what all other differences which may have divided it should give way to the duty ot defending the Constitution, and when tliatgleat party, coeval with the government, should be united as one man for the accomplishment of the work to which it is now called, and liefore it is too late. It Is the American party, for it has neither sectional prejudices nor sectional prefer ences, and its care aud its efforts extenu wher ever the Constitution of its country extends, ami with equal regard to tlie rights aud inte rests ot all. 1 believe the fate of this great republic is now in its hands, and. so believing, 1 earnestly hojie that its action will be firm, prompt and united, yielding not one hair's breadth of its time-honored principles, and resisting to the last the dangerous efforts with which we are menaced: and, if so, the victory ofthe Constitution Idoubt not will be achieved.” DUTY. James Broadwell. Esq., an old citizen of Cin cinnati. died on the 17th instant He was at the battle of Cladeusburg. where he was one ol the few brave men who halted at tbc White House and saw the President conveyed to a plaee of safety. Hevoted for every President conveyed to u place of safety. He voted lor every President from Jefferson to Pierce. A dispatch from Baltimore, dated the list instant, says: "The Grand L-xlge of Odd Fellows rejected, by a twu-third# vote, the amendment to the constitution, which hail been offered last year, proposing to strike out all reference to encamjx iaaoU. Other important anMudmeau also were rejected, and meeting till to-merrow." [f'/iimfhe Constitutiunalut 4' Republic!} ' Can ote as they Please ! This question implies a doubt that ought to ;'bo humiliating to every right-minded American j citizen. Yet the oaths and obligations by : which Know Nothings are fettered, justify the i inquiry and challenge the investigation. It is ; said that for some weeks past in many—per i hups most-—of the Lodges, the oaths have been j dispensed with. In some cases prominent and ; leading Know Nothings, have stated to the 1 public that they were never sworn, though it ’ was notorious they had been for months members !of the midnight Order. These gentlmen of the • Upper Ten" are, of course privileged to vote as i they please. Then, as to the rank and file-—the weak ves- I seis of the fraternity—swearing in whom Judge Andrews justifies on the ground that they ought to have this check imposed on them on the same principle as the gambler and the drunkard need an oath to protect them from backsliding. We hold that an oath of this kind, taken by them, is not morally binding. No conscientious man can feel that he is doing right in voting for a Know Nothing against his convictions of patri | otic duty, simply because be has been sworn in a Know Nothing lodge, to do so. A tnancom ! mits a wrong who thus votes against his con viction. He is derilict in his duty to himself, to his family, to society, his country, thus to vote. It is every man’s duty—his sacred duty, to vote in the way his reason and conscience tell him will best promote the welfare of society and of his country. But the oath, the oath. A voice may come up from the sepulchral depths and darkness of the I /><lge in which he was initiated, thundering in his ears, -‘Remember your Oath," and the awful denunciation may be called up to his mem ory. “Binding yourself in the penalty of excommu nication from the Order, the forfeiture of all in tercourse with its members, and being denounc ed in all the societies _of the s.same, as a wilful traitor to your God and you country."— A’. A’, Rilual. Wo hold that these oaths are but mummeries and frauds. They have uo moral sanction.— They were imposed without authority, legal or moral, and were taken without consideration- They were taken under the delusions of false promises and and Ix'guiling sophistries—taken in .haste , in darkness, and under circumstances of surprise and bewilderment which deprived j the noviciate of his self-possession aud free agen-1 cy. It is in the language of tho law, nudum | pactum, a naked contract, without consideration aud void. It was obtained under eircumstan stauces, in very many cases, amounting morally to extortion. It would require a degree of nerve and self possession, under the imposing 1 forms and ceremonials of administering oaths in j Know Nothing Lodges, in which many quiet; and humble citizens would bo wanting in self- j possessiqp to refuse, to take the oath thus sprung] upon them. Many honest men, illiterate and ; ignorant, have thus been imposed upon and over-1 awed, ftwill doubtless be observed that among the withdrawals from the Know Notliings,pub lished in the papers, are mazy that cannot write, and therefore sign by their marks. Such as these, are the victims, not the confederates of the Know Nothing humbug. They have been deceived into these night Lodges, aud they de serve the respect of their fellow-citizens for com ing out as soon as they detected the disgraceful imposture. Many, disliking the publicity of a withdraw-1 al. but equally disgusted with Know Nothing ism, are hesitating whether they are at liberty to vote in away to express their condemnation of it. To all such, we say, vote as you please. Vote for the party you think right. Vote against the party you think the jieople ought to condemn. Thus, and only thus, can you discharge your duty as jiatriots and good citizens. Henry Clay’s Opinion oftke Cath olics. Washington. March 23, 1850. Dear Sir : —1 have received and attentively jierused the letter, which, at the instance of the President and Faculty ofthe University of Notre Dame du Lac; you addressed to me on the 14th instant. Iu that letter they have done me the honor to express their approbation of a sjxceh of mine in the Senate of the United States, the object of which was to heal all dif ferences, and amicably to adjust all controver sies arising out of the existence of slavery in the United .states. Such testimony proceeding from a highly resjtectuble body of gentlemen, retired from the world, and regarding justly the interests which belong to another and future state of cxietcnce as paramount to all others af ford.-' me an inexpressible degree of satisfaction. Nor is this at alt diminished by the fact that we hajtpen to profess different religious creeds. Fori have never believed that of “the Catho lic was anti-American and hostile to civil lib erty.” <hi the contrary, 1 have with great pleasure, and with sincere conviction, on sever al public occasions, borne testimony to my pub lic persuasion that Catholics were as much de voted to civil liberty and as much animated by jiatriotism, as those who belong to the Protest ant creed I am surpriserl tlmt, in the seclusion of those whom you represent, great solicitude should be felt for the safety and preservation of that Un ion which is our surest guarantly of jieace, or der, liberty and public happinness. 1 hojx: aud believe that the dangers which appeared to threaten it have diminished, but there is still great occasion for the exercise of a spirit of concord, mutual concession and harmony. 1 request you to present to the President and Faculty’assurances of my respectful ac knowledgments and accept yonrself those ot vour resjxtctful and obedient servant, H. CLAY. Gardner Jones, President, Ac. Know Nothing Mishit, r.—The Know Nothings have only to be placed in jxjwer in order to demonstrate their want of comjieteiicy, a well as want of correct principle. The Philadelphia ixxlger thus notices a few ot tlie effects of Know Nothing misrule in that city: -Every depaUueut of that city government seems to the laboring under the same difficulty —waut of money. Even, the courts of law are unable to jxiy their officers tor want of it.— Twenty-seven thousand dollars were appropria ted for the year’s exjienscs of the county, but when they call for the money, they are told it has all been expended the first six months ot of the year. J ustice, has to stop its progress, or run a few mouths longer on tick." IKA. Tbc know-nothings, in their National Platform, profess great admiration for the ear lier and “purer days of our national existence.” We suppose, of course, they can only refer to those days when Washington called to his aid the services of Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaratiion of Independence, and a foreigner . when he called Alexander Hamilton, afore :gn er. to preside over the Treasury Department— to those -purer days,' when Albert Gallatin, a foreigner, held a seat in the Cabinet, and when the fathers of the rejxiblic made no distinctions between native and adopted citizens, provided thev bad proved v® true patriate,. and d*voted to the institutions es country. The Lying Pamphlet. There is a lying pamphlet being industri ously circulated, by the Know-Nothings, throuhont the State, called “The appointment of Cowart, —the Cooper and Johnson Bargain &c. &c.” This vile calumny had its origin in the Chronicle & Sentinel office at Augusta, the fountain head of most of the slanderous stories raised against Gov. Johnson, during the present canvass. Why did not the Chronicle & Senti nel publish Hon. Mark A. Cooper's letter refu ting the slanderous charge of a bargain between him and Gov. Johnson?—And why did that paper not publish Gov. Cobb's letter showing how Mr. Cowart came to be appointed? No, the Know-Nothing Press in Georgia, having been whipped fairly on their party principles, are turning their undivided attention to the manufacture of base lies; —having failed to con vince the people by argument, they are now seeking to accomplish their object, by the most dishonorable and disgraceful ajjfifices. People, of Georgia, beware of these eleventh hour lies. Be not misled by trickery. Gov. Johnson has done his whole duty well and his enemies know it; hence their low arts to defeat him. He has made the Western & Atlantic' Rail Road profitable to the State; hence the efforts of his enemies to mislead and misinform the public as to thcyeal operations of the State Road. He is the only Governor who has yot made the State Road pay largo dividends, and for this very reason, his political ojiponents are coining base fabrications to prevent the Truth from going into the minds and hearts of the People. Look out for the lying pamphlet we have refered to. It comes out just at this time, to jtredjudicc the public mind when it is too late to correct its evil tendencies. An Agent from Macon went into Wilkinson county with these pamphlets last Friday. Look out for the fel low.—Fed. Union. Keep it before the People. That every naturalized citizen takes an oath to support the Constitution of tho country, while every Know-Nothings, takes an oath to violate the same constitution. Keep it before the peojile, that the Kenneth Rayner, tho leader of the Southern Know- Nothings, says that the Kansas and Ne braska bill was “an outrage on the North.” 1 ! Keep it before the people; that the leaders and white kid gentry among the Know-Noth ings, are not required to take the oath to be come members of the order but all the wool hat boys are made to swear to get iu. Keep it before the people, that their Judges are many of them Know-Nothings, and under oath to respond to the “red paper” call, armed to meet “trouble.” Keep it before the people, that the Know- Nothings are publiclv denouncing tho Kansas Bill. Keep it before the people, that the Know- Nothing Order is creating a religious war in the laud, arraying son against father, brother against brother and friend against, thereby in stigating CIVIL WAR iu the land. Keep it before the jieople, that Garnett An drews has proscribed two religious sects, the Uuiversalists and the Catholics, and that, the organ of Ute Andrews party in Georgia, de nounced the ablest of the Primitive Baptist ministers; all going to show that the Know Nothing order is determined to erect a dominant church in this country. Keep it before the jieople, that tho Know- ] Nothings ofthe North refuse to let Foreigners > and Catholics vote, but at the same time give I the free negroes the right to vote. One Vote. A great measure is often carried by one vote. —One Vote has decided the destinies of Nations and oftener the fate of Individuals. One vote in the Senate of the last Legislature saved the life of a human being, when nothing but that coidd have saved it. One vote give ou iinjietus to the Revolution, and w;us directly instrumental in producing that great event. The celebrated Resistance Resolution introduced by Patrick Henry in the Virginia Assembly of 1765, over which such a bloody debate ensued, was passed by but one vote. It is related of Peyton Ran dolph who opposed Henry's Resolution, that after the resolution had passed, he came out of the house saying, ■ By God. I would have given 500 Guineas for a single vote,” One vote might defeat a choice of Governor by the Peojile. Remember that. To the Polls, to the Polls, Anti-Know-Notliirgs! Come out ‘in sjiite oi wind orweather." The Constitution of these United States is threatened with overthrow by the Know-Nothings, who wish to make it snb servent Io the Constitution of the National Council of the Know-Nothing Order. Ix?t no man stay away from the Polls at such a crisis. Thcro is more danger to*the Country now than there has been since the origin of the Govern ment. For never before has there been started in this Union a Party, that assumes power to set aside the Constitution. Old men who love TRUTH and revere the teachings of Washing ton, und the Patriots who made our Great Constitution, come to the rescue! Young men, who do not wish, in the outset of Life, to tie a mill-stone about there necks , wliich will bear them down to politicial destruction all their mortal days, come out and cast your vote aginst the secret oateibound Order of polit i cial Jesuits. Patriots, devote the Ist Monday in October to your Country. Take a concerted stand for the "Constitution” just as Washington left it, and your consciences and your God will apjirove the act. Be vigilant, be energetic and leave the result to Him "who doeth all thing, well."— Fed: Union. Quarantine at Boston. A Know Nothjpg order was jiassed yesterday by the Mayor and Aldermen, ordering all vessels from Baltimore or Portsmouth to stop at quar antine station; and if they have come up to town, to rctnn. there lor a physician s jiermit. It is true that an epidemic is raging in our sister cities of Norfolk and New Orleans, but no one has heard of it in any other city; yet tho order covers all southern ]>orts‘ although Charleston, Savannah, Wilmington, and, other places hav?. during the present and past two montns, shown a better degree of health than even Boston itself. A reference to ncwspajiers of either of these cit ies will show their morality to be exceedingly small. We cannot conceive the object in view by the board. It looks as though they were interested in tow boats or wanted to increase pilot's pay. It cannot be to prevent the impor tation of disease, for none exists, (witljthe two exceptions named) and we did think "tiiat the idea of yellow fever being contagious had jiassed away. If anything was necessary it might have been confined to infected ports, and nor have em braced places healthier than our own city.— Post. J Queen Victoria's visit to Paris, it Is said, brought 741.345 strangers into the city. If we place the expenditure of each individual during a stay of ton days at tlie low average of fifty dollars, we arrive at a profit for Paris of over thirtv seven millions. It is stated that for the jewelers the week was more profitable than any whole year during the reign of Louis Philiite. Every branch of trade was immensely benefitted. Ths marriage of the Prince Regent of Baden with the of the Prince of Prussia is now considered as a thing decided on. It is stated ti at before hia manage the Prince Regret 1 will be invested with all the iighte of his older □rotiwr. who contiaaea ill, and will Mm take the tiQetffttnmd Duke of Bedeo. I Gram! Lodge of Odd Fellows, j This bo y met in Baltimore on Monday hist. The jiroceedings on the first day were confined to organization, installation of officers and aj>- pointnieiil of committees. The report of the retiring Grand Sir, W. (!• DeSassure, Esq., ot Charleston, is an able anti interesting exhibit of the condition and pros pects of the Order in the United States. W illiam Ellison, Esq., of Massachusetts, was duly installed as Grand Sire for tho current year. On the second day the Legislative Commit tee made a report on the proposition to merge the Encampment degrees into the subordinate lodges. They take the ground that, although it is desirable the time has not arrived for specific action on the subject. On Wednesday, the Grand Lodge rejected the atnendtn nts to the larger jurisdictions in creased representation in that body The amendment to charge from annual tobkuial ses sion was also rejected. The sum of §3OO was appropriated for the suffering brethren in Nor folk and Portsmouth. In tlie evening a complimentary festival was •given to the Grand Representatives by the brethren of Maryland. Iho official reports of last year show that tho organization consisted or more than two hundred thousand members, and that the year's revenue was merely one and a half millions of dollars.—.Jugits/a Con. (r Rep. Tho Chicago Tribune has the following account of a game played by one of the Presi dent’s former law clients, which is about the coolest specimen of impudence extant. It says: “Some years ago, a fellow by the name oi Brown was arrested for forgery iu New Hamp shire, and retained -Frank Pierce’ to defend him. After a lull iu, estimation of the aflair, it was ascertained pretty definitely that it would go hard with Brown, aud that with all the abil ity of his advocate, a trial would pretty surely end in a conviction. In this dilemma, he emi grated to the west, leaving his bail to foot the bonds, aud his lawyer to whistle for his pay.— A while ago, a mao by the name of Walker, being about to visit Washington in connection with some rail road project in Minnesota, Brown, on the strength of claiming an acquaintance with the President, volunteered a letter of in troduction, to the bottom of which he added, as a P. 8., ‘Give me a fat office and 1 will'pay up the old score.' The letter was handed to the President, who, after reading it* and remarking upon tho peculiar coolness of the request for an office, explained to Walker his acquaintance with Brown.” 'l'kxas Election.—Returns in the Galveston Civilian from 81 counties out of 97 voting counties (Uvalde and Kinney voting- with Bex ar) foot uji as follows : For governor—Elisha M. Pease, dem., 22;- 497 ; David C. Dixon, know-nothing, 15,699. Pease's majority thus far, 6-798. For lieuten ant-governor, in same counties—ll. Richard Runnels, dem., has a majority of 2,692 over Jowers, know-nothing. For luud commission er, in ail the counties but nine—Crosby, know nothing, is 952 ahead of Fields, democrat. Peter 11. Bell’s democratic majority for Con gress in the western district is about 5,000. Ihe eastern district is close between Matthew Ward, dem., and Evans know-nothing. In all thc counties but three the vote stood—Ward, 9,671; Evans, 9,503. Ward s majority thus fur 168. The Galveston News of the Bth inst., says there is a strong probability that Ward is elected. Both branches of the legislature are demo cratic. Os 77 members of the lower house as certained to be elected, 48 are democrats, or anti-know-nothing whigs, elected by democratic votes, 22 are kiiow-uotliings, and of seven the politics are not known. Os 33 senators, 30 or 21 are democrats, 4 arc know-nothings, and of the rest politics not known.—BWi. Union. Warrenton and Macon Railroad. \\ e perceive that the attention of Augusta has been directed to this Railroad, inasmuch as their contribution of §500,000 to Savannah \ alley Railroad with certain conditions was considered illiberal and unjust. The Constitu tionalist concludes one article on the subject in the following language : “Let the subscription (500,000) be used to aid the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad, Charleston, -Macon, and South-western Georgia interest in building the Warrenton und Macon Railroad. Tlie opeuing of this route is only needed to turn an immense atuouut ot trade ami travel iu this direction.” Let the City Council ot Augusta, magnani mously tender this amount to tue Railroad as suggested by the Constitutionalist, und the Road will be built. Hancock will do her jturt, and Baldwin will, no doubt, do hers. Augus ta will receive more benefit than any other point. What say you, gentlemen of Augusta. Ceidral Georgian 23d inst. In Louisville, men have been beheaded by the mob—there heads stuck upon stakes uuu borne in the streets.— Chattanooga Advertiser. Everybody in the vicinity knows that the above is entirely iulso—false iu every particu lar. there were none beheaded—no heads stuck upon stakes and carried through the streets. We deem this notice of the above, but justice to injured Louisville. All the mob done was to hang a man, shoot down men, stick pitchforks mto them—shoot them as they tried to escape from the burning buddings - roast in u horrid manner women and children— throw a man into the flames aud roast him— burn u]> men. burn houses, threaten churches, Ac., A-c. But uo man was beheaded; God for bid that in this Christian age men's heads should be carried through the streets, upou stakes. There were charred and burnt bodies carried through the streets in carts the day al ter the riot, without heads and legs, but no head was carried upon a pole. No, not one ! New Ntbauy Ledger. Origin os Foolscaf Parer.—lt is well known that Charles IL of England, granted nu merous mviiojiolies for the support of his gov ernment. Among others was the privilege ol manufacturing pujK'r. The water-iiiurk of the finest was the royal arms of England. The con sumption of this article was great at this time, and large foctuues were made by those who hud purchased the exclusive right to vend it. This, among other monojxmin, was set aside by the parliament that brought Charles to the scaffold; and byway of showing their contempt lor the king, they ordered the royal arms to be taken from tlie paper, aud a fool, with hia caji and bells, to lx: substituted. It is now more than a handled and seventy-live years since the fool's caji and bells were takcu from the paper, but still, paper of the size which the Rump Parlia ment ordered for their journals, bears the name of the water-mark then ordered a- nn indignity to Charles. Queen Maria Christina, whose ordinary residence in France is Mahnaison, left for Dicppo some short time liefore the arrival of the Queen of England in Paris. The Queen Mother, no doubt, remembered her own visit to England some years ago. when she had not the advantage of seeing the Sovereign, who was unavoidably but most conveniently absent in Scotland Maria Christina returned to Mahnaison after the Queau's departure. Ths Duchess de Riannres aried with Bor usual tar. on thfa oomfo n . WM. KA/ PROPRIETOR NUMBED 8. ' M AIL » T E Al s. It is said that the Hon. Junies Buchanan, Minister to England, is about to lead to the al tar the widow of the late James K. Polk. Ihe King of Naples is getting into such dis favor with his subjects tlmt there is a talk of dethroning him and replacing the Murat dynas ty. Ii so, one ol oi.r country women, the Pirn cess Alurat, will be Queen ot Najzles. ihc Peach Trade of Cincinnati, Ohio, is con siderable, l.i average number of baskets re ceived daily through the season hus been Lh-- tweeu 800 ami 1,000. The average price *s one dollar jier casket. On Ihuisday, Cluvalier Joseph Bert in pre sented his credentials to the Secretary oi iatute, at VV ashing ton, and was received us Ckuige d Affairs ol the King oi Sardiniat<, tbeguvwn» meut ol tue United btulcs. There is a w. ate shiji now lying aUm m, a<; says the Nantucket (hia.-s.) Inquirer,wi„c„ ..us just acconqiusiau ucr u.nu voyage iuiu ii.< J a citic as a wuuter uml sue Lus tuuueuoeuuy eaur to her owners, over atm above an luleiesi ac count, the snug little sum oi §bO,LOO. Jacob Kellogg was murSered by Andrew Siu in Gtusteub.iry, Cull., on Mumjuy evemu*'. Sm loved a German gin wm Lad bestowed her uiieetioiis upon Kellogg, ui.d while the latter was returning item a visit to the girl, Sin way laid him und stubbed hnu to the heart, bin then find, was jzuisued, ai.d, to escape, plunged into the factory pond, where he stuck iu the mud aud perished. It is estimated that there are ten thousand daguerrootyjxi establishments iu the Uultcd States; these taking daily twenty picturestaoh, at an average ol §2.50 euch, giving two hun dred thousand pictures each, at an expense of over half a million of dollars. The amount of money paid annually for daguerreotypes is thought to exceed one huudred aud titty millions. Still the business is increasing. A tetter to the Philadeljibia Inquirer, dated New York, Thursday evening, says: "The flour market has been quite excited to day, and prices ol common and medium grades have advanced 1a 2 shillings. Considerable orders came out by the Baltic, and over lU,OOO barrels were jiurcbased by shippers. Six thou sand barrels of common State were bought, to arrive next week, audd2,ooo barrels Cino, to arrive within two weeks, the former at §8 aud the latter at §8.12 1-2. At tbo close holders were firm, and insisted upon still higher prices." \V illiam Tuckerman, Esq., for many years a hardware merchant iu Boston, died on Thurs day. I tie 1 raveller says ho hud no particular disease, but the dishonesty of his sou, the de faulting Treasurer of the Eastern rail loud, weighed very heavily on hie mind, aud the mor tification und distress which it caused was, it is said, one oi the causes ot his death. French returns show tnat, up to September 1, 208,0U0 officers, iion-comunsoioiied officers and privates, with 38,000 horses, had been em barked ut Marseilles aud ut Toulon, for the East, since tlie commencement of the war. Euharlee Cass County, Ga., j .September 17,1855. | Gentlemen:—l wish you to state in hour paper that 1 applied lor an honorable dieearge Irom the Euhurice Ledge, iu this county und ani no longer a member ol the Know Nothing wJ«r. W.C. SPENCE. Hear Younu Carroll.—John Carroll, Esq, the great-grandson of Charles Carroll, of Car. rollton, who is now running on the Democratic anti-Know Nothing ticket in Howard county, Maryland, mudc his first sjieech on Saturday lust ut a meeting ol both parties. Alter speak ing of tho j oitiou of parties in the State aud the country, he declared to the Know Nothings: “1 am a Catholic; but if you must proscrioe, do not commence upon so humble uti individual as myself. Go back to the past, and erase Irom the record ol the 1 federation of Independence the name ol my ancestgjjfc aud the oouqiauiou of your forefather, Charles Carroll, ol Vurroliton.” liie Kansas-Nebraska Law.—The Journal ol Commerce thinks the Nebraska law is about as iikeiy to Ijcrejivuled by the present Congress, winch continues untih the 4th ol March, tooi, as the sublieusury act is, or us tue \V iiuiot proviso is likely to tie enacted into u law. Nor I is it miy more nkely to be repealed by tho next Cougiess. Thu iuct is, lucre is no such thrngs as u retrograug movement possible. N o single one ol tue great measures ol* the democruuc p-u’ty hus ever yet been repeated, and it is us idle to talk oi reoioriug tue -iiissouri Vumpioni isc us to urge tue restoration oi the tui.n ol 42, or theivestublishmeut ol u United States Bank, jknitution is a madness and a follx. Secret Associations in Tuscany. —A letter from 1- loreiicc says: "Uu the 20th August com menced the trial oi u secret society, which hud been detec led in correspondence with the rejiub ncan committee in Lonuou. Ihe trial Las not jircscnted any leumres worthy oi purticmur io uuiK, oxcejiliug lliu oalu aumimstered to the members, wnicu is us follows: in the name ol God and ol the jieople, 1 swear luilh to Italy, which is to term iiseu mto one republic; continu al wgr against ah its enemies, Wuetuer toreignera or Italians, und above ad, against the X'ope- Kmg, who is its worst enemy. 1 swear to con form to the instructions which shah be trans mitted to me by the delegates oi the Triumvir ate, who direct tins association; 1 swear to keep secret the laws and ojieruHous ot the association, whenever J cannot inyseii take part in those operations lor the triumph of the good cause. Bo lx: it, and lorever!" besu"- The Louisville Democrat has the follow ing good hit. Bcknk— Hack Room of a Know-nothing dwel ling—Enter little buy much excited. Little Boy—Oh, pup, get your gun quick, und come out here. 1 here's a great big Irish man down iu the alley, eating u watermellon. The prettiest shot you ever saw; couie quick. Know N othing—Hush, sonny, don’t make a noise ; there’s two great Dutchmen coming down the street, and 1 tlnnk 1 cun get them in range and tumble them both with one shot. A Letter from Madrid of the 30th ult., in the Coustitutiouucl, says; "The French in this city having inserted, u tew days ago, a malavoleut article on England, on the occasion of the visit ol the Queen to 1 uris, Mr. Otway, English charge d'affaires, complained to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject; but the matter has been dropped in consequence of the journalist having yesterday publislicd exjilauations in which he disavows any intention of offending the Queen or the people of England." New York, September 24.—Cctton is dull with declining tendency, and 1000 bales chan ged hands at 10 3-Bc. for Middling Orleans und 19 1-Bc. for Middling Uplands. Flour is unset tled. The sales have comprised 15,000 bbls at §8.68 3-f. for .Southern. Wheat is firm an §2. 10 bushel for White and §l. 95 for Red. Corn is firm at from 87c. to 88 l-2c. per bushel. Groceries are dull. Spirits of Turpentine is is steady, and 350 bbls, found purchasers at 47c. fier gallon. Tobacco is firm Rice is steady, and 150 tierces changed hands at from §5.37 1-2 to 5.62 1-4 per 100 lbs. A purehaM of 40,000 bushels of barley was recently made in Jefferson county, N. Y., to be deMvered at Aihaoy, at