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(Bminrr. < : ‘ I 1 : ATLANTA, NOVEMBER 2, 1855. Third and Fourth Pages. Democratic Anti Know Nothing Mass Meeting. The Federal Union suggests Tuesday eve ning, Nov. 6th as the time, and the Represen tative Chamber at Milledgeville as the place for the proposed meeting. Let us have a “rou ser.” Go everybody—and carry all your friends. Letter of Gov. Johnson. The New York Daily News, of the 24th in stant, contains a letter written by Gov. John son, in reply to an invitation extended to him to attend the Democratic Mass Meeting, recent ly held in New York. We transfer the letter to our columns to-day; and invite the atten tion of our readers to it. If it does not breathe, in its every line, the true Southern doctrine then nothing can, and paper and ink are wast* cd in all attempts to defend Southern Rights. The Shades. Lovers of good things who v’sit Augusta arc advised to give Messrs. Plumb & Hatch, whose card will be found in another column, a call. We confess our inability to do justice to their popular establishment except in a practi cal way ; but we can assure those interested tliat in catering for the inner man, the proprie tors of the “Shades” lay everything like com petition completely “in the shade.” Drugs and Medicines. It is hardly ncccssa'y for us to do more than . refer the reader to the card' of Messrs. D. B. Plumb & Co., of Augusta. They are so well and so favorably known as dealers in pure Drugs and Medicines that commendation from us would be superrogation. This much we will say, however, they are as liberal as ever, in their advertising favors—the very best evidence possible that they will be liberal with patrons. Cyclopedia of American Literature. We have been favored with specimen advan ced sheets of this work, which promises to be a valuable acquisition to the American Library. Its biographies, solar as wc have examined, are of unusual interest, and arc not the trashy rehashes of old and stale incidents thrown loose ly and without order together; but, on the con trary, the work shows much industrious re search, and is a collection of historical and bi ographical data which make up a work of far ' more than ordinary value to the American rea der. See advertisement in another column. Southern Literary Messenger. We see a notice in the last Messenger that the close of the 21st volume will, in all proba bility, close the issue of the work altogether, which wo cannot but regard os a great calami ty ; bnt fop which wc can naturally enough ac count in the universal indifference manifested by the Southern public in home literary enterprises. Putnam flourishes upon the patronage of the South, while its pages teem with hostility to slavery, and trash a la Stowe, but the Messen ger, whose purity of morals, and Southern sen timent hsis never been questioned, falls from its high position, the last prop of Southern litera ture, and languishes and dies in order that our slavish dependence upon Northern publishers may bo incontrovertably established. Enough now has been done by Southern men against Soutcrn literary enterprises; in Gori’s name let the work of destruction cease. Henry Vernon. Tire newspapers teem with laudatory notices of this work, aud recommend it to Southern readers in tones of earnest eloquence. There is something about the idea of a home production of this character, which, even were the work of no merit—which is far from being the case— makes it particularly interesting. That a literary production, purely Southern in its get ting up should succeed, is something so unusual as to bo unaccountable, except from the fact that the reputation of the author is sufficient to break down the musty barrier of indifference which has yearly grown higher and more for midable betw.cn Southern patronage and South ern genius. Mr. Smythe has succeeded in ma king a breach in the heretofore impregnable wall which we hope will not be closed after him, and through which we hope to see him again effectually besiege the Malikoff of indifference which so many before him have attempted in vain. A few more such projectiles as Henry Vernon might arouse the garrison, and taking it by storm, turn the current of its patronage ito inta legitimate channel. Infirmary for Negroes. Among the many handsome and commodi ous buildings of which our sister city Augusta boasts, none struck us with such peculiar pleas urc ’n cx.auutimr, as the Infirmary for negroes, erected by the Drs. Campbell, on Jackson street. We were shown through the building by one of the proprietors and were not less sur prised than gratified with its arrangement and the conveniences which it affords patients. It would seem that invention has been taxed to its utmost to supply the wants of the unfortunates for whose accommodation these philanthropic gentlemen have incurred snch heavy expense.— The buildings and fixtures have cost these gen . tiemen $21,000, a round sum for such a pur pose, and one that will open the eyes of those bogus philanthropists at the North who com plain so zealously of the horrid treatment of Southern slave's. When they show such a build ing for unfortunate white men in their midst, their sincerity will be less questioned, The Infirmary is capable of accommodating fifty patients, comfortably without being at all crowded, and the arrangement for ventilation obviates entirely the bad effect incident to bo large a number of patients, by keeping each room supplied with an abundance of fresh air Water, hot and cold, with bathing facilities are supplied each room, by an admirable ar rangement. and arc ready at al! times. The opcratmg rt>„m is Inrge with all the modern ap pliances, and well lighted. Indeed the whole establishment reflects credii upon the intelli grace and humanity of the proprietors, whose reputation as experienced practitioners and sur geons are coequal with the fume of the Audits, ta Medical College, of.Which they have Veen for a long series of years Professors in the au- Utuietxl and surgical departments. W? take pleasure in inviting attention to their card ffi oar weakly paper. The Navy Retired List. In another column will be found an article ’ upon this subject which strikes us as being the most liberal and just of all the comments we have seen. It is to be regretted that in the ap plication of a general rule, imperative demand ed by the cxegencies of the service, that some individual cases should have occurred in which the application has proven a hard-ship, and none more than ourselves, sympathise .with such cases, or would sooner repair the injury thus done them; but we question that sort of pa triotism which, in view of the imperative neces sity for the rule, would overthrow it, and con temn the commissioners merely because its op eration, in isolated cases—which could not be provided against without just cause of com plaint. to others—has proven disasterous to per sonal interests. If there is any way in wvhieh to repair such personal hardships, without prej udice to the board, wc say let it be done; if not they must make the most of it—the interests of the service must never be made to succomb to private interests, aud a pare patriotism will not demand it Savannah and Charleston Merchants. It will be seen by reference to our advertising columns that the Savannah and Charleston merchants are making renewed efforts to secure the great northwest trade which divides at this point, throwing into the expectant bauds of both the wealth of upper Georgia, North Ala bama, and East Tennessee. Those who make the greatest efforts secure the largest trade, and deserve it, too. Upon our first page will be * found the card of Messrs. Lynn & Snider, Forwarding and gen eral Commission Merchants, Savannah, Georgia, who will promptly respond to orders for their services. Messrs. Copper & Frasier, are en gaged in the same business, in the same place, and deserve their full share of patronage. See advertisement on inside. Ogden & S arr, Shipping and Commission Merchants, will be found prompt and attentive i to the wants of patrons. All these houses are entirely reliable, and I th >se who prefer the Savannah market, will do - well to select from the list. Those who visit, i and trade with Charleston will find I Messrs. Heriot & Petit, in the Forwarding i and Commission business ; Messrs. Caldwell & Pagan in the same; and . Messrs. Mordecai & Co in the Auction and Commission line—they are also agents for the Steamer Isabel, between Charleston and Ha vana, a fine boat and a safe one. See the advertisements of each, and remem ber those who advertise most always stand the ’ test of trial best. Men who are afraid to bring themselves into notice generally dodge investi gation. ■ Fall of a Building—Miraculous Escape of Four Persons. Oct. Wth—9 o’oclook p. m. The interior of a largo three story building, on Peachtree street, the first floor of which was occupied by J, R. High & Co., as a Gro cery store, fell in this evening about half past eight o'clock, covering in the ruins four persons who were in the store, and young Ed. Cal ' honn who was in his father’s office, up stairs. It is gratifying to state that all escaped with out serious injury. The excitement created, was intense, aud for a short time the anxiety of friends of those in the horse was indeed heart , rendering to witness. A crowd collected in stantly, and the efforts of several noble spirits in extricating those inside from their perilous position, were particularly commendable. It is believed that there is now no one in the ruins. The building was the property of Messrs- Grant and Williams. Up to the time of writing no satisfactory cause is assigned for the calamity. The loss is heavy both upon tlie owners’ and occupants. Miss Eliza Logan. This distinguished lady is playing to crowd ed houses in Boston. The clip the following notice from the Boston Dispatch, which we cannot say we altogether endorse, for wo are far from considering Lucretia Borgia, and the other characters cxceptioned, as “beyond the reach’’ of Miss Txtgan. The compliment to her ocoentation is altogether just, and will be reiterated by every one who has ever heard her. “We always dislike to criticise Eliza Logan, from fear that our partiality for her may lead us into extravagance. She has faults, but her impersonations are so impassioned, so earnest, so delightful, that even when sheattempts charac ters beyond her reach, like Lady Teazle, Lu cretia Botgia and Adelgia, the spectator goes away perfectly satisfied. If a foreigner were to ask our advice as to whom l:e should take les sons of, to obtain the best pronunciation of the English language, we should suggest a study Miss Logan's enunciation. The words fall from her lips like beautiful diamonds. Every conso nant and vowel receives its duo weight,"the ac cent and emphasis are always laid in the right place, mid her action, tho' wanting in intensity w hich characterizes the representations of some other tragediennes that might be named. U, invariably pleasing. No one will re gret an evening at the Museum, during her cn gamcment.” Miss Logan willjacccpt our thanks for her attention and our assurance that nothing would gratify our public more than to see her again in our little Athamcum during the season, a wish which finds an echo from every city South. Know Nothingism in Virginia. I, was in Virginia that Know Nothingism wa* first attempted to be transplanted into Southern sou—it was that noble old State that first sot its ,sal of condemnation upon the en ter; rise ; and now every other State, true to the interest:- of the South, lias folk wed her ex. mple, it is iu Virginia that the leaders of th? ’ randed order endeavor to inveigle the peo ple into its support by patching up the dama ged h. .: tad removing what they fondly imag ined wits the most objectionable feature of the order. At a recent State Convention in that State they adopted the following: “ Resolved, (as the judgment of this Conven tion.) That all ceremonies of initiation into the American party should be disccnt nued and al! obligations es secrecy removed : that its meet ings should bo open and public, and its pro ceedings conducted in accordance with the 1 or dinary usages of political bodies: and that we invite the co operation of all good men who ap prove the principles and objects of the partv." Hereafter, in Virginia, all the "ceremonies and obligations " are to be removed, and “its proceedings conducted in accordance with the ordinary usages of political bodi s!” Good 1 Here is a tacit admission that the secrccv fea ture is a barn fide objection, an. that all the arguments against it heretofore urged by the opponents of the order, and «o earnestly com batted by its otgans, arc sound, and should be yielded to. Being tt'Jpped into this concess on, they de serve but little credit for its making, but we expect soon to hear every State Council adept •ug thia resolution, and its organs peit'ng ' a hearty approval, and holding up"the party as I being without spot or blemish after the lopping 1 off of the secret feature. Men who are virtuous from necessity generally get little credit for it, and we imagine this repenting and forsaking of one of their many sins will not strike the peo ple of the South as particularly commendable in the leaders of the party, since that repent ance ecema to have resulted more from punish ment for, than conviction of, sin. These death bed repentances are sometimes preached against from the pulpit, and the doctrine may, in this particular instance, be appropriately applied politically. But the removal of secrecy is far from clear ing the skirts of the order entirely from sin.— Its poscriptive feature is worse, if possible, than its secrecy, but we see nothing in the Virgin ia meeting that looks like repentance for this sin. And there are others which demand the pruning knife, quite as much as the secret fea ture—indeed we cannot see whore the knife could be better applied than at the root, and the Virginia Council would have better enti tled itself to the applause of the people of that State, and theentire South, if they had at once, and good humoredly, “acknowledged the corn" and come out of the order altogether instead' of compromising and intriguing for a lost posi tion. When the order is purged of all its sins we expect to open our arms to grasp, in affec tionate embrace nothing ; for there will be nothing left. • . Jonse Hooper on the Scent at Last. If there is one man in the editorial fraternity whose coolness has impressed us more particu larly than any other it is friend Hooper of the Montgomery Mail. He is one of those phleg matic genuiscs whose cquanamities are seldom disturbed by anything less than an earthquake, when ho manifests any considerable degree of excitement, it may safely be set down as re sult ing from some very startling cause, indeed. He met “Yellow Jack” with the familiarity of an old friend, and actually stared that usually terror-producing individual out of countenance, and camo out of the fight with scarcely a scratch. Yet with all his coolness he seems to be ‘powerfully exercised” by the defeat of his pet American scheme, and day after day at tempts to wriggle out of it, by speculating up lon its causes. Yellow Jack, with him, is a i fool to Democracy—the former only attacked his attenuated corporosity, but the latter laid violent hands upon his political divinity, and while he can magnanimously let the vanquished alone, the conqueror of his worshipped scheme, comes in for a daily quantum of abuse, which is not less significant of his political soreness, than surprising to those who, like ourselves, have before entertained such flattering ideas of his good nature. We wouldn’t of course, pre i tend to solve a problem which not all his in vention can unravel (were our Senior at home, he might assist him,) bnt we venture to suggest ■ that Jonse has stumbled inadvertently upon the i real cause of all his troubles, in an article in his issue of the 29 th. He seem astonish (Jonse Hooper astonished—just think of it!) tliat the 1 Ameican party, with all its beanties, didn’t take with the dear people, and amongst other things, - exclaims “ There was the American Platform, sounder and more constitutional and more favorable to ' the South, than ever was National Platform be fore Now, Jonse, how does it happen that, if it ■ was really so sound and favorable to the South, those same dear people couldn’t be marie to ap- 1 preciate it? That's the question! You see 1 they didn't believe it, but, on the contrary, at- ■ ter discussing it thoroughly and hearing your ■ arguments for it, and those of your cotempora ries, urged with unusual eloquence, and listen- ■ ing to the respectful, if not less earnest argu- I merits of your opponents, they calmly, firmly, ami in terms not to be misunderstood, decided that you were wrong—that there were some very serious objections to this model platform of yours, which, with all your foresight, yon , had failed to discover. Now, which is wrong, , you, or the people? Does’ut it strike you as possible —mind, wc don't say it is so—but isn’t it possible that your , glorification spectacles were screwed up to such , a “sight” that you saw nothing else in the doc ument you laud so extravagantly, but the ac knowledgement of the existence of a supreme being, aud the axiom that “Americans only shall rule America?’’ Come now, the people have adjusted those glasses to a “plain sight,” look again and perhaps you may find such pas sages as this : “the preservation of the union is the primary object of patriotic desire;” the avowal “that all doubtful or disputed points, may only be legally ascertained aud expounded by the judicial power of the Un ted States,"— these may assist yon in accounting for this won derful defeat, and relieve unoflvnding Democra cy from the awful charges you heap upon it.— Be reasonable dear fellow, aud think whether snch federal doctrines are “favorable to the South?” You remember what the Georgia platform said was the primary object—not the union itself, but the rights it was intended to perpetuate. The dear ]>eople were already committed to that platform, all over the South, and you couid'nt reasonably expect them to swallow both. But we are glad to see our friend pushing his investigations in this matter, for he cannot fai] to see the cause if he pursues the subject far enough, and we heartily concur with him in the prediction that “it will al! come right." A New Cotton Country. The Liverpool Times, of Sept. 29th, contains an article on the cultivation of Cotton on the West coast of Africa. A lot of eighteen bales was recently received in Liverpool, and sold by a Manchester broker at 7d. per pound, while Orleans of the same class was selling at 6 r 6 l-2d. The Times says that Mahommedanism is greatly on the increase in that part of Africa, its missionaries being Moors from the shores of the Mediterranean, who assume the two-fold character of merchants and followers of the Prophet, and have been much more successful than the English missionaries. A new company has been formed for the pur pose of extending the culture of cotton in that country, and the Times thinks it will enlist the support of a large part of the religious public, who think that the introduction of British cap ital is the surest way to extend Christianity, ■ on the principle of tire worthy citizen who was said to build churches for the glory of God and ten per cent.’’ T.ere is. says the Savannah News, “some importance iu this movement, as it has a bear ing upon the production of our great staple.— The coast of Africa will have a great advan tage over India in the production of cotton, and we may yet find in it a formidable compe tition.’' There are now sixty orphans In the House of Refuge tit Norfolk, with none to claim tiiem, besides those that have been provided for in families in the city. Richmond and Peters burg r_su nave charge of a considerable num bsr. 1 From the New York Daily Times. , Important Letter from the lion. > Herschel V. Johnson. Executive Chamber, ) Milledgeville, Ga., Oct., 17,1855. ( Gentlemen : I have this day received your invitation “to attend and address a mass meet ing of the National Democratic party of the City aud County of New York, to be held at the'Metropolitan Theater on Monday evening, the 22d instant, at 7 1-2 o’clock, for the pur pose of ratifying the proceedings of our [your] late State and County Conventions, and the tickets nominated by them. 1 regret that official engagements deny me the honor of ac cepting your invitation;’for there are circum stances connected with the political condition of our country which would render it exceed ingly agreeable to mingle in the ‘interesting scenes of the occasion. As it is, I must be permitted to substitute, in the form of a hasty communication, a few of the many reflections that are suggested by the signs of the times. As the results of the war with Mexico wc acquired extensive territorial possessions on the Pacific coast. The. Southern States contribut ed their full proportion of blood and treasure, and consequently thought they were justly en titled to a fair participation in the fruits of the contest. Bnt they were denied it. A Briga dier General ol the United .States Army, with out authority of law, assumed civil power in California, and constituting himself Territorial Executive, proclaimed an election fer a Con vention, and prescribed the time, place and manner of holding the ejections, lie ordered the Convention to form a State, and conferred the elective franchise upon every type and shade of people who had squatted upon the publie domain, to plunder its golden treasures. There were but few inhabitants from the Southern States. They had been deterred from emigra tion thither by Free Soil counsels which pre vailed in Congress. The Convention met. or ganized a State, with a constitution prohibiting slavery, and against the protest of the slave holding States, California was admitted into the Union—the usurpation of the Brigadier General was ratified —and the South deprived of ail participation in a scope of territory sui ' ficient for ten States as large as Georgia. Was thafjust? This was one of the aggressive fea tures of the “Compromise Measures” of 1850. There was another. It was necessary to or ganize Territorial Governments for Utah aud • New Mexico. The latter lies adjacent to Tex as. a slaveholding State. Lynx-eyed Free ’ Soilism discovered that fog and’dust’could be thrown over tlie question of boundary between 1 Texas and New Mexico. Its fiendish myrmi i dons insisted that a large portion of the former . properly belonged to the latter; and therefore forty thousand square miles were carved out ol Texas, given to New Nexico, and converted 1 into Free Soil. And, as if to add insult to I injury, the public treasury was taxed to the I tune of 810,000,000, as a bonus to Texas to I Uribe her into tho arrangement. Was that just? 1 And what were the compensatory features ol , the Compromise of 1850? The South obtained i the enactment of the “F. gitive Slave Law,’ but she has, to a great extent, failed to realize ’ its peaceful and bona fide execution. This is ' one. The other consists in the recognition o! i the principle, that hereafter the people of the . Territories should determine the question oi slavery for themselves, independently of Con gressional intervention. ’ Well, in 1850 the Southern States were put to the test of acquiescence vd non in these ■ ‘Compromise Measures,” as a final settlement i of the slavery agitation. Georgia acted in , Sovereign Convention, and for the sake of her devotion to the Union—in consideration of the memories of the past, the fruition of the pres ' ent, and the hopes of the future—she solemnly , resolved to acquiesce. Can the non-slavehold ing States ask her to make further snrrendt r? Can it be possible that they will so far forget , the justice and disregard the sacred guarantees . of the Constitution, as to require her and her Southern sisters cither to submit to degrada tion, or resort to the most appaiiug altermi tives? Yes: Georgia acquiesced, but she did it upon terms. She put the world upon notice, that she had yielded the last inch to the encroach ments of Abolition fanaticism. The South was then, as now, threatened with theabolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, with the inhibition of the iuter-State slave-trade, with the extension of the Wilmot Proviso over th: Territories, with the repeal of the “Fugitive Slave law,” and with the refusal to admit any other slave holding State into the Union.— Still, with these threats starin: her in the face, she acquiesced, but proudly defied the execut ion of a single one of them. She solemnly an nounced, "That the State of Georgia, in the judgment of this Convention, will and ought to resist, even (as a last resort) to a disruption ol every tie which binds her to the Union, any ac tion "of Congress upon the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia, or in places subject tc the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatibh with the safety, domestic tranquility, the rights and honor of the slave holding States; or any refusal to admit as a State any Territory here after applying, because of the existence ol slavery therein; or any act prohibiting the in troduction of slaves into the Territories of Utah and New Mexico; or any act repealing or ma terially modifying the laws in force lor the re covery of fugitive slaves. Such was the posi tion she took in 1850, with all the dignity that appertains to her inviolable sovereignity and her unsullied honor. It is her position to-duy. rc-annonnced and re-affirmed, by the same ac tion of both political parties, in their respective platforms; and true to her fame, her interests aud her rights, if she shall be put to the test, painful though it Ik, she will maintain it “at all hazards and to the last extremity." Tho last Congress organized Territorial Governments for Kansas and Nebraska. That act repealed the Missouri restriction, of which the South has complained lor more than thirty years, and applied practically the principle ol the Compromise of 1850, that the people of the Territories should determine the question of slavery for themselves. A large majority in Kansas seem to be in favor of tolerating slave ry, aud it Is probable that, at no distant period, they will apply fur admission into the Union as a slaveholding State. This brings up the par amount question of the day, compared with which all others sink into insignificance. On the one hand, the Abolitionists and Freesoilers threaten the rejection of Kansas as a slavehold ing State; on the other. Georgia, in the lead of her Southern confederates, who have generally indorsed her position, stands pledged, if reject ed on that account, "to resist even (as a last re sort) to a disruption of every tie that binds her to tne Union." The question is. how to secure her admission ii she so apply, and at the same time preserve the integrity of the Union? The answer is simplb. The thing can be accom plished if patriotism shall rise superior to fac tion, and passion be silenced by the voice of truth. The late elections in" the Southern States demonstrate that the great majority of their j>eop'e are willing to cooperate with" and stand bv the sound constitutional men of the North and West, if they, eschewing all affilia tion with Abolitionists and Free toilers, will reciprorate with firmnes aud fidelity. The Union can be preserved in no other way." Events* are precipitating the crisis. It is wed that the North and South should understand each other and look the issue full in the face. I think I can speak for Georgia. She does not intend to submit to the rejection of Kansas “on account of slavery therein." She loves the Union: sir. loves lier rights and she earnestly desires«to preserve both. But she is immovably resolved to maintain her rights in the Union i f she can. out of the Union if she must. She will not act rashly or hastily. She feels and knows that the true men of the North can save the Con fed racy by maintaining the constitutional rights of the South if they will come to the rescue. To them she otto their fears by threats, nor to their sympathies by lachrv mos? supplication, but to their sens,? of justice aud patriotism, by the timely aunuunctm nt of her standing ultima’.ion of 1850. There is hope that the appeal will not be in vain. Georgia remembers with gratitude the forty-four North ern Democrats who voted for the’ Kansas-Ne braska bill, sue is greatly encouraged by the s»c®t dß»nH<re*cT» cf popular serittnaot, u exhibited by the late elections in Pennsylvania and other ncn-slaveholding States; while the resolutions adopted by the late Convention ol the National Democratic of parly of New York, are well calculated to strengthen her confidence. In a word, the beacon light ol hope begins to throw its beams again over ;he political sea, whose waves seemed to threatin with wreck aud ruin the ship of State. I cannot close this communication without inviting special attention to one other view suggested by the result of the late Georgia elections. In a popular government, political parties must needs exist; it is inevitable. In ours, such parties, to be efficient, must not onl) be national, but to be safe anil useful, they must be sound—sound in their principles and sound in their component elements. The Whig pat ty. as a national organization, has passed nw’ay ; it is succeeded by the Know Nothing brother hood, which possesses neither nationality nor soundness, lienee it is impotent for good, and tested by its fruits is prolific of evil. The De mocratic party remains, it is National; it i souud in political creed; but in its comp sitioi. are to be found unsound elements. These an the Abolitionists and Free Soilers. They must be excluded. North and South, let the motto oftevery true Democrat and conservative mm be, utter and eternal non-fellowship with each and all, who will not recognize aud maintai: the rights of the States—restrain the Federal Government within its legitimate sphere, and adhere to the Constitution according to a true, fair aud honest interpretation. Thus purged, the National Democracy will preserve the con lederacy iu its integrity, for the simple reason that it will not permit infringement upon the rights of the States which compose it. It will move on with harmony, "like the music of tin spheres," and work out the glorious mission as signed it by Providence. Just such a purification of the National party is expected and required by the Democracy of Georgia—aye, by a larg< majority of the people of Georgia. As evidenci of this, 1 extract the following resolutions from the platform upon which we entered into tin late State canvass: “Resolved by the General Assembly of the Slate of Georgia, That opposition to the prin ciples of the Nebraska bill, in relation to the subject of slavery, is regarded by the people of Georgia as hostility to the people of the South and that all persons who partake in such oppo sition are unfit to be recognized as component parts of any party or organization not hostile to the South.” That iu accordance with the above resolution ! while we are willing to act in party association with all sound and reliable meu in every section of the Union, we are not willing to affiliate with any party that shall not recognize, approve and carry out the principles aud provisions oi the Nebraska-Kansas act: and that the Demo cratic party of Georgia will cut off all parti connection with cve»y man and party at the North or elsewhere, that does not come up fully ' and fairly to this line of action. The first of these resolutions was unanimous ( ly passed by both branches of our last Legisla ; ture, and both have been affirmed by the peo ' pie at the ballot box. The South, tn self pre servation, must make the principle on which they are based, a test of party affiliation. It ’ will be welcomed by all the sound meu of the ■ uon-slaveuvlding States, and drive the Aboli ■ tiouists and Free Boilers to their deus. Let tin ‘ Dejnocratic party of every section indorse it. • and-they will attract to their ranks all trui friends of the Constitution and the Union. Tin r South will watch with deep solicitude the re- ■ ceptioq which it shall meet at tho hands of thi I Democrats of the North. ; Nor is it enough that the principle of party - affiliation, laid down by Georgia, should be re > cognized by iu a few conventions and count} . meetings. It must find its way into the ap- ■ preaching National Democratic Convention . aud, being sanctioned there, constitute the invi- > olable bond of the entire organization. If thi ; shall be done, the nationality of the party wil, ,be preserved and the the Union saved;’if not - the former will certainly be destroyed, and the . latter more than jeopardized. If the National Democracy intend to con form, iu good faith, to tho resolution of the Bal timore platform, touching tlie subject, they wii: not hesitate, at their next Convention in Cin cinnati, “to eonie up fully and fairly to the lira of action proposed.” in that resolution they ’ declare that “they will abide by and adhere to ; a faithful execution of the acts known as tin Compromise measure.” Ope of tho principle; established by those measures, as 1 have previ , ously remarked, is that the people of tho Terri tories, like those of the States, shall settle for themselves the question of slavery, aud be ad niitted into the Union, with or without it, a.- they may determine. Iu the Kansas-Nebraska act this doctrine has reeviyed a practical appli cation. The repeal of the Missouri Prohibition opens all tile territory ol theU. ion to the egress 1 of the slaveholder, with his property, uutram meied by Con ressioual iutei veution, and undei its operation Kansas may or may not become a slaveholding estate. Hence, the Nationa Democratic Convention of 1852 having indorsee lx principle, it will be an easy and reasonabli uuty for t.e Conveulion’of 1856 to make that indorsement effectual by excluding from party affiliation “every man and party at the Norte or elsewhere,” who will not recognize, approvi aud carry it out.” The Democracy of Neu York will not hesitate, if they are true to tin third resolution of their State Convention, a. amended by Mr. J. B. Haskin. True Nation al Democrats of every section will cheerfully aud cordially co-operate upon this line of poli cy. It is due to consistency. It is due tu till South. It is due to the Union. I beg pardon, gentlemen, for so large a draft upon your patience. My zeal has betrayed me into tiresome prolixity. I close by expressing the fervent hope that the perils which threat en our Union may bring to the rescue the conservative patriotism of all who love it, and save it frem dissolution by upholding and main taining the rights of the States that compose it. I have the honor to be, Respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t. HERSCHEL V JOHNSON. Messrs. Alex. C. Morton, L. I*. Glover, E. W. Clover, William Sinclair, John King. From the Charlatan Courier. Serious Rail Road Accident. The train that left Augusta for this city yes terday morning, did not arrive at the depot un til near 7 o'clock last evening, in consequence of a second class car having been crushed to atoms by one of the rails ha ing given way, at about half-past 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon a mile and a half above Branchville." The car was crowded, mostly with negroes, and every one was cut more or less. Capt. Crews, the conductor, was badly bruised about the face and body. Mr. W. England, the baggage master, was also badly bruised. Mr. G. Hoffman, of Lowry’s Turn Out, was bad'y cut about the face and arms, and Mr. J. S. Jenkins received bruises on his head. We are gratified to learn, however, that none of these gentlemen are considered to be seriously injured. Four negroes, two women, aud a boy and a child, belonging, we batoc, to A. Ma zyek, Esq., of St. Janies. "Santee, were hurt more er less, but none seriously. A train hand named Miller, had his leg bro ken above the ancle, and seemed much injured. I Margaret, the stewardness of the train, wus like wise bruised. One buy. about thirteen years of agf was so mueh injured that he cannot ’ live.— He aud thirty others had been liberated by their late owner in Tennessee, aud were in charge of, the executor to the estate, on their way to Bal- j timore. from which city they arc to take pas- i sage to Liberia. The scene, we are informed, was horrible in i the extreme. The car was literally smashed to I pieces, and some thirty or thirty-five people' were mixed up with the broken fragments.— ■ The accident was unavoidable, and had it not 1 been for the presence <>f mind of Mr. Rabb, the' engineer, in immediately reversing the engine, • ' ‘h? loss of life Lave been great. Great praise is due this gentlemen. Mr. Eng-, land, the baggage master, and Mr. Matherson,' messenger ol Adams A Co's Express, for their I promptness in assisting the injured. Mrs. Partington says that a sentleman iaugbed so heartily, that she feared he would have “bam hie jocular vsfn.'' I The Navy Retired List. Amongst the many admirable articles with which we have met in defence of tlie navy reform, which ha ; of late excited n good deal pnblicdis cussion, we have seen none which presents the subject more intelligibly mid reasonably tlinn Use following from the Daily New London (Con necticut) Ohronicle. “The naval retired list.—For many years past the voice of the whole country ivas loud .uid incessant in favor of reform in the navy— loud not only among the officers of that arm, but equally loud, or louder still, among those who took any interest in it outside of the i-stabllshnient. The press was especially vehe ment In its denunciations of the abuses that had •rept into its management, particularly with re to the long list of superanuated- and ’incompe tent officers who were retained without thcabil ity to render any equivalent for the j>ay they received, besides doing great Injustice to juniors by standing between them and their chance of promotion in the service. When a movement was made in Congress to remove these abuses, uid to place the navy upon a more efficient foot :ng by winnowing the navy list of tlie inefficient men who incumbered it, it was hailed as thi harbinger of better times: and when the bill actually passed, and a board was appointed for the purpose of selecting certain ineumberents o be placed upon a retired list, in order to give a chance to younger and better men to rise in profession and perform more acceptable service :or the country, there was a universal approved oxpreised, and none more emphatic that of the ditorial brotherhood. They looked npon it as the only salvation of our navy, and sure to re vive its drooping honors, already greatly deteri orated, and quite certain, without thts remedy, to sink to perdition. “The board met and discharged its duties, and, through the general justice of its own de cisions was acknowledged' particular cases ol hardship occured; certaui mistakes were believed to have been made; some officers were placid upon the retired list who, their friends thought ought not to hove been thus dealt by; and now. for sooth, another loud cutcry comes from thi people and the press against the proceedings ol the board. The navy is now to De ruined by cutting off those very excrescences whose reten tion was sure to destroy its honor aud its effi ciency! Among the presses thus complaining, it mortifies us to see the New York Courier and r.nquirer, a journal of which we thought better things, and which we believed above basi ’g gen eral opinion upon particular and isolated cases, and incapable of permitting its personal par tialities to bias its judgement on great questions of national iifterests: but, for this or some othet substantial reason, that paper has actually taken grouud against the action of the naval board, and talks as solemnly about ‘Star Chamber piactice,’ the horrid crue ty of condemning people unheard, &e., &c., as the shallowest and most flippant whipster of the newspaper press, Nay, the Courier, like the rest of them, is de sirous oi seeing Congress inter ’ere, and reinstate all the officers who have been dropped or placed nut of the line of promotion. Thus, the nation al legislature is to be asked to undo its owl work, which it had bceu’so loug and so urgently pressed to perform! \Ye protest against afi ■.his. It is unworthy of the press ami unwor thy of the people of the United States, w ho Lave arrived at years of discretion. It is the merest boy’s play. It is only excusable in schoolboy archills, who cry over the accomplishment oi ;iie very objects lor which they have been pre viously crying because they could not reach them soon enough. They have got their wish, aud are weeping because they have got it. -We certainly lament some of the results of this retormatiou. There have been removals which has caused us some personal pain, and which seem to us unjust: but we do not hold ourselves at liberty to oppose a measure of high general interest aud importance merely because i few ol its details aiiect our private ielittgs.— We think our contemporaries ol the press and ill others wpuid do well to act upon the same principle, instead of permitting their impulses to impair the sounder dictates of judgement. Il there are indiviual cases of mistake, let Congress be appealed to to cmrect them: but let not the zeueral result of this salutary movement be dis turbed. We have great respect for the opin <ms and the ieeiings of Commodore out even he cannot convince us that the action of tho navy board wus not conducted upon honorable principles,or that tlie principle which governed it was not tiic correct one. If the navy list never were to be weeded till each •in dividual case is acted upon in open court, with an tlie paraphe'rmdia of counsel, witnesses, &e. iccvmpanied by all the technicalities aud delays incident to that mode of trial, that list would go on enlarging in numbers aud abuses till doomsday. If the ■ roceedings o, the board in tins case arc to be set aside, the navy will never be improved, and it will not only be useless but utter folly to attempt it. Dr.-Kane. having demonstrated the ex istence <>( an vjieii Polar Sea, scientific deduc tion is at work to find out the cause of thp ano maly. A correspondent of the New York Times thinks that these causes will be found in the centrifugal force and the internal heating power of earth. The centrifugal force has a tendency to heap up the waters under the Equa tor, thereby producing a continual surface cur rent towards the South, and a consequent uli wnce of water from tlie polar regions, which must be supplied, and is, undoubtedly, by a sub marine current. The waters descend in the ’enqierate regions of the earth, where they are much above the freezing point; their heat is re tained and probably increased at the vast depths in which they move, and when they emerge at and about the Pole they produce a warm and o;>en sea. and a warm atmosphere about it.— But in their flow to the South, the superabun dant caloric of the water is continually being given off uutil they are fina ly reduced to the freezing point, and ultimately become vast fields of ice. Cedar Paper.—We have before us a speci men of paper manufactured from the bark of the cedar tree. It was made at Waterville, Maine, where a mill has been established to manufac ture paper from the bark of all kinds of trees.— The value of this cedur paper, however, as an article to be laid on floors which are to be cov ered with carpets, to protect them from moths, is such, that thus far, the mill has been chiefly employed on this kind of bark paper.— Boston Transcript. Niepece, the co-laborer of Daguerre has. after years of study aud experience, suc ceeded in almost perfecting the art which his associate discovered. "I have begun, ’ says he. "with reproducing in the camera obscura col oral engravings, then artificial and natural flow ers. and lastly, dead nature, a doll dressed iu stuffs of different colors, and always trimmed with gold aud silver luce. I have obtained all the colors, and, what is more extraordinary and curious, the gold and silver are depicted with their metallic lustre, and rock crystal, porcelain and alabaster, are depicted with the lustre nat ural to them. The American inaentors, repn*ent«ri at the Paris exhibition, have received about twen ty gold and silver medals, which gives a medal to every eighth exhibitor—a higher proportion of first "class medals than will be received bvany other nation. McCormick's reaping and Pitts' threshing machines. Blanchard s for bending wood, Singer's sewing machine. Goodyear's vul canized itidia rubber, Fowler and Preterre for artificial teeth, Richmond's machine for cutting iron for steam boilers, and Maury's maps and charts, are among the articles which took the medals. Colt's guns and pistols met with srreat opposition and many competitors from France and Botaium. and he. in consequence, gets but e third cla»s medal. Fairbairn, the celebrated en gineer. before the British Association, paid a marked compliment to the many new aud useful. inventions which lie found at the Paris exhibi -1 iou by American contributors. Ges Scott axd tub Back Pat.—A des patch from New York announces that the Cabinet has decided Gen. to be entitled to back pay as Lieut Gracral »iace 1847—n0 further particulars From the Owego (N. Y.) Gazette, Oct. 10. Letter from President Pierce. The letter which we publish below was writ ten, as its date imports, something more than a year ago. It bad reference, of course to the of things then existing, but is not less ap plicable to that of the present time. _ Through written only for the persual of the individual addressed, it so briefly ami plainly, and so well. ■ xpresscs the -views of the President upon ones tions of interest to the public, and 6pon which we have differed from a portion of those in this State with whom we have acted politically, that ve deem its publication at this time us not only proper, hut due to the cause with which we are engaged—the nause, as we believe, of our com mon country. The letter shows most explicitly tho Presi dent’s firm udHerence to 4lie doctrine of non-in tervention, his patriotic determination to stand openly upon the same platform of correct prin ciples ut the North and at the South, whatever may be the consequence to himself or to hi l party, and ut the same time his perfect faith that the “intelligence aud patriotism of tin people” will appreciate and approve tlie right whenever it is fearlessly presented to them: We commend the letter to the attention ol Ihoae who Lave sometimes charged upon the ad administration free-soil proc ivitics. as well as those who wish to cater for abolition support by “significant silence,” or, worse still, by mil king platforms substantially like that made at Buffalo in 1848, or, at least, capable of being so understood : Washington, (D. C.,) Aug. 261854. Mr dear sir : Accept my thanks for your kind letter of the 22d Inst., in tlie general views of which I heartily concur. Tho members of our party can only act together cordially and efficiently when they can cordially recognise a common platform. The principle of “non-intervention,” wine l, constitutes the leading feature of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, received the sanction of the de mocracy of the republic in 1852. It was real firmed by more than seven-tenths of the democ racy of the House and Senate upon the passage of the bill referred to; and will within eighteen months furnish, from its inherent soundness, the strongest issue wo can tender to our oppo nents. But even if'it were otherwise, are we to abandon the the right, or manifest our want of faith in the intelligence and jiatriotism of the ■ people, by significant silence ? If we of the northern aud middle States are ; unable to sustain ourselves upon the ground of maintaining for and securing to the people oi every State and Territory of this Union all ■ their constitutional tights and immunities, our nominal ascendency would eease to be either honorable to oars Ives or useful to tlie country. 1 Besides, so far as the democratic party is cou- ■ cerned, all experience proves that every appa rent advantage gained by a temporizing pi.-llei or by concessions to error and fanaticism, lias I only rcsultixl in ultimate distraction weakness. Individuals who de ire to retain nominally n po -1 sition in tlie democratic ranks, but who are m> willing to stand upon a national platform, should understand that, while the masses can well dispense with their co-operation, they cau ’ not, by silence, silence, occupy a doubtful po- • sition upon fundamental'quest ions affecting ti’. r cordial and permanent union of these States without losing public confidence, and with it • sili-respect 1 am, with high esteem, your friend. • FRANKLIN PIERCE. Hon. J. J. Taylor, Owego, N. Y. Shall the People Choose the next President. Tlie late movement of the Virginia Know Nothings lias revived the hopes of the N. Y Herald as to the defeat of the next Detnocrath uoniinee for the Presidency. The Herald look; to the Know Nothing party as the means o! defeating an'clectioii by the people, and oi throwing the choice of President into tne 11. of Represeutativi 8 In view of the knowt strength of the enemies of Southern rights ii tliat body, the hypocrisy of the Herald in pr<- tending to oppose the new republican move ment is apparent. The following is tbb article in the Herald to which we allude: • “The American Party —Important Move ment —the President.—Among the resolu tions aiftpted by the late State Convention party of Virginia, held at Lynchburg, was tin following : “ Reesolved, That, in the judgment of this Convention, all ceremonies of initiation into the American party be discontinued, mid ni’ obligations of secrecy be removed; that its meetings should be open and public, and it; proceedings conducted in accordance with th* usages of political bodies ; aud we invite tlie co operation of all gnod men who approve the principles and objects of the party.’ “This is an important movement, and fore shailows the complete reconstruction of the A merican party throughout the Union ; and ti work may yet be done upon a sound, practical progressive, matter-of-fact, constitutional, and Union platform in time for the Presidentia! election. There are two parties , now actively in the field for 1856—the Democratic and thi Seward black republican party—but scattered between these two parties there is an abun dance of floating materials, North and Soutl. for a great national third party sufficiently strong to slip in between the Democracy anil the Black republicans, or, at least, powerfu enough to carry the election up to tlie House.— Let the Union aud the Constitutiou, a new ad ministration, a bold foreign policy, an efficient navy, and general retrenchment and reform it. the dispensation of the spoils, be the curd, ami tlie new party, in carrying the election to thi House, may win the day. “Let the Virginia movement be followed up. The mysteries and novelties of the Knownoth ing organization are worn out. The true poli cy of all the various elements of all parties op posed to this Pierce administration is the for mation of a new, practical U nion party upon the living issues essenti 1 to a good and useful dministration, Nothing else will do for u th rd party in the battle for the Presidency.” Trading Too Mueh. From a late pamphlet on “the Currency," at tributed to Mr. Robrt Hooper, of Boston, we extract the following lemurks on the fallacy ol running into the debt for foreign fabrics : “The loans negotiated abroad may have beet, convenient at the time to the parties who bor rowed the money; but all that was received for them and all that was brought into the countr in consequence of them, and all that was an in creased quantity of foreign merchandise to be sold in competition with the products of our domestic industry. All that remains now ol those loans is the obligation to send back th' amount of them at some future time. In the interim we must transmit an 'annual tribute for the interest on them. It is estimated that this annual tribute now amounts to about twi n ty millions of dollars; and an examination ol the official tables of the annual imports aud exports will prove this to be not far from the truth." Mr. Branwood according to the London Quarterly Review, bus stated his belief that, by lung exposure to heat, not much exceeding that of boiling water, or 215 degrees, timber if brought into such a condition that it will ig nite without a light. The time during which the process of dislocation is going on, until ii ends in spontaneous combustion, is, he think from eight to ten years. Pipes for beating burnt ings by steam should, therefore, be clear of al wood work, and rest on metal brackets only. The Last Theatrical Novelty.—The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday says: “A company of sixteen girls and boys, va y ing in age from four to ten years, make thei: appearance at the Walnut this evening, in tin extravaganza of Beauty and the Beast, and the farce ot the Rough Diamond. These precociou actora have delighted the citizens of western New Pork, and other places; are said to be ful ly versed in the requirements of the drumatu art. The pieces arc played by them witl oat the aid os adults, aud this will be a no ,' and attractive fisaton ra their perfoneetroe?.’ Visit ofthc Lutheran synod tothe President. In accordance with a resolution unanimously tuloped, the m< miters of tlie Evangelic*! Lu theran Hytial of Maryland, wlio had been bold ing their session in this citv for several days, called in a body at the White House on Tub day for the purpose of paying their respects to President Pieree. They were received by him with manifest gratification, and tlie Union sava tlie members of tlie Synod were highly pleased with their visit. The Rev. Mr. McCron in troduced his brethren of tlie President in the following appropriate remarks: Mr. President: It affords me much pleasure to introduce to your excellency the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland, and assure you of our high appreciation ot your distinguislud service® on la-hall of tho great republic which Ims, witli confidence in nor ability and integrity, placed the ndministntion of its executive gov ernment in our hands. As Germans, natively or by descent, ottr pro found and sincere regard has always liecn mani fested to our noble and generous ’ institutions; and while we congratulate- you on the prosperi ty and peace which cminetly distinguish our grand national confederacy, we shall continue to osier our prapera for a perpetuation of tlie same benedict) n. The President responded as follows : Sir: lam very much gratified to meet tlie Lutheran Synod of Mayrland, now convened in this city, several of whose ministers it has been my pleasure to hear preach; and 1 feel nmeh obliged to yon. sir, and the body which you repesent, for the favorable semi men's in regard to my services as Pr sident ofthis gnist country, just expressed. Whatever merit nu ? attach to those services must be ascribed to a sincere and honest purpose faithfully Is discharge the res ponslble duties imposed upon me by the people And it affords me very gnat pleasure to be as sured that 1 am remembered by the clergy in their prayers to a Throne of Grace; for I regard them as a class of men whoso services are of great importance to the welfare of onr country, and I am always gratified to meet them iu so ciid intercourse. lam gratified to bear testi mony to the civil value of Gu-mans, whose national character your Synod represents. In ail the relations which they sustain to our gov rnmeut, I have always found them to be hon est, sincere' in their attachment to our country, loyal, and perfectly reliable. A Man Forbidden to Burn the dead Body of His.M ife. —'Hie Milwaukee American says, that city was thrown into the greatest exefto ment on the 19fli instant by an attempt of* man there to burn the dead body of his wife.— I'he story was ns follows: A Russian by tlie name of Pfeil man kd a woman who was a Brahmin in belief. He was possessed of wealth, and both were persons of culture. She sickened and died, and requested, according to the faith of her fathers, that her body should be burned. Pfeil had collected sixteen cords of wood, arranged It properly, and was abnnt to jierlomi tho deed, when news of tho sacs was circulated, creating intense excite ment Sheriff Conover proceeded at once to Pfeil'a house and forbade the net. The Russian ns s' rtcd his right and duty to burn tlie body of his wife. “No law forbids,” said he, “my reli gion commands; 1 will do it” The body wa* in its shrouds, tlx* torches prepared, and all was ready to place it on tlie funeral pyre. “Let it be borne to its plow.” continued the Russitui. ‘thereis no law against it in Wisconsin. But the sheriff took possession of the body, ordered u coffin, and made preparation Ibr * Christian I mrinl. The crowd grew, and throng. •<1 round the house. Alarmed or afraid to per sist, Pfeil gave his consent t > a Christian burial. ‘ You may order or have w hat ceremonies you please over the body,” said Sheriff Conover.— "Gentleman,” replied Pfeil, “it makes no dif ference with us, if we cannot go on in our own way." Thereupon the body was buried— piongh the American intimates that the woman had been foully dealt with, and demands the fullest Investigation of the matter. Fatal Railroad Accident.—Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, the engine Alert imrsther boiler, while engaged in making up a train at tlie Michigan Central Railroad depot. She was one of tlie old engines purchased from the State, and was only used in tlie yard for making up trains. She lind been find up. but bud not st mid. when she blew up with a noiso like thunder. The engineer, who goes by the name of Dutch Jake, and the firemnn, whose name we could not learn, were instantly killed. Ihe former was mutiliated in a most shocking manner, while the latter was apparently killed by a blow on the head. Tlie I rag meats of the engine were scattered over the yawl in every di rection. und so he vy was the explosion thut a ! .’■ amount ol glass wus broken ont of the Johnson House. A new stage coach, intend ed for some western city, that stood near, was completely destroyed. Tlie tender of a train iust coming in whs also considerably damaged, hut we are unable to estimate the entire loss.— D< trail Adv. Si'EXE in a Gilive Yard at Norfolk.—A ( eorrespoudent of the Baltimore American, writes: I was out at the cemetery last evening, and saw three graves open, waiting for occupants, , out there was fortunately none for them. The ■emetery presents a sight sufficient to make the tout heart feel sad to see tlie immense space of broken ground. More than half the lots have each three or four newly made graves in them, and in other places you will see twenty or thir ty together. There were a ntimlMT of Indies present, weeping over the graves of lelidives, and sprinkling them with flowers, plating beau tiful boquets upon them. Jl was. mdecd, n mel ancholy sight, and though a stranger among them, with no other friend or relative to mourn, it was difficult to withhold the tear of sympa thy. The New Orleans Commissioners hMve made another report in favor of the partition of the McDouogh estate. The sale of the estate, says the Picayune, is regard'd by them us the only practicable way tu accomplish the proposed partition, should it be resolved on, and to facik itate—in fact, to make pussible-»-the settlement of the will according to the testators design. The Picayune, however, adds: “It would appear that thkCommitsioners on the part ot Baltimore, and tne Council of that city us well, do not concur with them iu tbit view. We suppose we must therefore wait for time, the great solver of difficult problems, to disclose a feasible plan of compromise.” American Svboeons in the Russian Army. —By a letter from Dr. J. B. Stoddard, Jr., of Baltimore, says the Clipper, we learn tliut there urc eight American surgeops utt&hcd to tho liussiaii army iu the Cnuiea—Drs. Eldridge, Junes, Johnson, and himself, from Maryland; Drs. Reid and Deuuinger, of I’< uusyivuuiu; Dr. Holt, of aoutii Caroliuu; und Dr. Smith, from Louisiana. He states that they are treated with great consideration by the officers of the Russian army, lie states further, that lie wit nessed the assault on Sebustopol, which resulted in the taking of the southern portioiu und the retreatoi two hundred thousand Ruwiiinsucrot** the bridge to the iiortiicru »iuc which from what be) slatis, attended as it was by the conflagra tion of Sebastopol, the explosion of mines, hur rying thousands into eternity, and the sinking of a navy, was u scene too iearfully tragic to be depicted in language. The Fever at Vk ksbvry.&c.—Vicksburg, Oct. 15, 1855.—This city is slid suilering with the fever. It is now geueraly admitted that the epidemic has liecu raging with more violence than ever before known here, attacking a veiy dificrent class of citizens os a general thing, strik ing doqu some of »iic best and most uses ul men in the city. The frost of the 9th October bus uccotnplishbd no apparent good. The disease is now. however, sonicubat abating. It is on a staud ut Jackson, but prevails iu a much milder style than elsdwhere m the State. Vt Canton the fever low killed many valuable citizens, aud among the dead are ux re«,W phynwaß-