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2 SBtfklq (EintnintT. ( _ u, ATLANTA, MAY 1, 1856. !«.. To the Hon. Howell Cobb, and the I Hon. J. H. Lumpkin, we are indebted for val uable public documenta. They will please accept our thanks for their attention to this office. Election of City Court Judge for Atlanta. At the election for City Court Judge, which took place on Saturday, the following was the result: For Whitaker, (Dem.) 280. For Underwood, (K. N.) 273. Monthlies. We find on our table the following “Month lies” for May. “Household Words" a journal conducted by Charles Dicken’s. “Putnam’s Monthly,” a popular Magazine of literature, science, and art. “The School Fellows Magazine,” quite a mo dest affair, handsomely illustrated, and intended for boys and girls. Call at Burke’s Book Stores, (late Kay’s) and all who desire them will find most of the popular Magazines and Monthlies published in this Country. Job Printing It will be seen, by refering to our advertise iug columns, that, having secured the services of a first rate Job Printer, as foreman, the Proprietor of this paper is prepared to execute, with neatness and despatch, Job Printing of all kinds. We ask for a share of public pat ronage, and trust that we can satisfy, in price, execution and despatch, those who favor the Examiner with their orders. “The Irish News. ” We trust that the people of Georgia will subscribe liberally for this paper. It is the property of, and edited by Thomas Francis Mkaohir, the gentleman, patriot, and scholar, and were we to stop here, enough is said to com mend it to the patronage of a generous people. At our office, and at the saloons of Mr. John Ennis, at the Atlanta Hotel, specimen num bers of this valuable Weekly can be found.— We trust, at Atlanta, a large subscription list will be procured for it. It will afford us great pleasure to order it for any of onr friends. Lane’s Challenge Os Senator Douglass turns out to be a fa brication. The report was doubtless spread for effect. Had it been true, doubtless there would have been “pistols and coffee for two.’- The “Little Giant” is not to be frightened “off the track” from a'fear of consequences, the duello not excepted. He has already had point, ed at his breast, the deadly revolver, but his eagle glance caused the dastardly hands of the ‘would be” assassins to tremble and their knees to smite each other. Challenge Douglas?— i Why a rat may as well challenge a lion to combat! Arrival of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan was a passenger in the Ara- I bin, which arrived at Halifax on the 23d inst. His arrival in New York and Philadelphia | will be the cause of grand demonstrations on I the part of his friends, and will, doubtless to some extent, afford capital for them to work up on, aside from his acknowledged merits, lietweeu this and the meeting of the Convention at Cincinnati. Well, be it so. “ Old Buck ” has done the country good service both at home and abroad, and although our predilections are all for the “ Little Giant,” of Illinois, still we care not how many honors are paid the former, or how henrtliy he is welcomed in the Cities • referred to. Could we be in the crowd at ei-I ther place. we should shout as heartily at his j eception a« any “ out and out ” Buchanan i man ; but for al! that, we prefer him for the 1 candidate •!' our party, who has so gallantly defended Southern Rights, and who has done more to teach the doctrine of “ Non-Intcrven tion " to the people, than any statesman in the wide bounds of the Union—we mean, of course Stephen A. Douoi.au! Iftay-The advertisement of the “Bar and Bil liard Saloons, at the Atlanta Hotel.” which will be found in our paper to-day. we take pleasure in calling the attention of visitors to. We vouch for all that is stated therein, and doubt not that the gentlemanly superintendent of the establishment. Mr. John Ennis, will prove to his customers, by his works, the faith wc have in him. and in that which he prepares. We say this, fearing not the reproach of some of our temperance friends; for we feel satisfied were one of the delicious S/ierry Cobblers. or Claret Punches. or Mint Juleps, prepared at this bar. placed within their reach, on a hot summer's day. there would be some danger of a violation of the temperance pledge. As for t 'igars. and genuine Cognac, the moat fastidi ous taste can be satisfied. Gentle reader, or weary traveller, call at the “Atlanta Billiard and Bar Saloons" if you desire to refresh the! -inner mail." We say this in no disparage-' aient to similar resorts iu our city, but simple - in justice to the one of which we speak. Its! energetic Superintendent merits a share, and a ! large one. of public patronage w | JJkff' Mrs. Thomas Duffie, of Russell county, Ala., died on the 14th inst from sun stroke, experienced while fishing. European News- By the late arrivals but little news of impor-> tance was received. A slight advance 1-8 to I 1-4 in cotton ; a decline on wheat, corn, and | flour ; an advance in goods and yarns ; and an I advance in consuls; are all the items of com- ; mercial intelligence, which are reperted to us | by telegraph. And that the Plenipotentiaries j were about to leave Paris : the arrival of Mr. j Buchanan ; the raising of the blockade of the Russian ports ; the admission of merchantmen therein ; and the proposed reduction, to a large extent, of the French army ; are all the items of political interest, that we have yet received. We notice, also, that Ayres, Walker, & Co. ■ East India Merchants, have failed for over a I million of dollars, and this indicates a derange- ■ ment in monetary affairs in a quar ter, that, in the present state of the monied market in great Britain and France, promises no good for the future. Indeed, the peace just announced to the w-orld, we fear is to be followed on this, and the other side of the At lantic, by hard times. Dealers and specula tors in provisions, and bread stuffs, particularly, may look out for squalls. Too confidently did this class of our people calculate on a continu ance of the war in Europe, and, as a conse quence, they must pay the penalty. How se vere that penalty will be, we are not prepared to say, but that it_ must embarrass the com mercial world, there ean be no doubt. We rejoice, however, at the conclusion of peace. It must help the South, and prove, in the end, a benefit to our whole people. The Hiawassee Rail Road—Gov. John son’s Veto. The proceedings of a public meeting held recently in “ Towns County,” will be found in our paper to-day. We publish these proceed i ings by request, and for another important rea son to which we shall presently refer. Before we do so, however, we must protest against the language used iu the proceedings of the citizens of Towns county, as being intemperate and un just towards Gov. Johnson, and against the conclusions arrived at by that meeting, because of Dr. Young's statement, even admitting, that, word for word, the conversation that took place between the Governor and the Doctar, is cor rectly reported. We will go even further than this and say, we know Dr. Young too well to doubt for a moment the truth of all that was stated by him at the meeting; but for all this, the conclusions drawn are both uncharitable and unjust, and can be productive of no good results to the friends of the Hiawassee Rail Road. We shall now come to the other “ im portant reason ” why we publish ter day the proceedings of the meeting. During the late session of the Georgia le gislature, we were at Milledgeville, and watch ed with some, anxiety and interest the progress ; of the Bill, particularly in the House of Rep , resentatives. We did so on account mainly of I the indefatigable exertions of Col. Smith, the representative from Union county, and because of his manly and patriotic deportment upon all questions affecting the interests of his State.— He was ever at his post, and no member of the ■ House ean show a more creditable record upon i its Journal, than the representative from Union, j When, therefore, his favorite measure passed ! the House, wc plead guilty to the impeachment lof rejoicing ut it. as well as having advoca-' | ted it through the columns of the “ Examiner," j I previous to its passage. And it was not uutil' we bad carefully examined the Governor’s Veto, I ' that we became satisfied we had, before, been too j t precipitate in our conclusions. We make this I i statement to set ourself right with the advo-' cates of the Hiwassee RaiMload. and, in doing 1 so, have also to observe that we disclaim hav-; J ing, for the columns of this paper, written any j : article since the Governor vetoed the bill bear- j ing upon the subject, defending His Excellency, I or reflecting upon the good people of Union,! or their energetic und able representative. We have, uutil very recently, been absent from the j post we now occupy, and for what, iu refer- j pence to this matter, has appeared in this pa- j per, we do not hold ourself responsible. We are, however, dearly of the opinion that ■ the Governor exercised the veto power, advised- j i ly. and that the denunciationsheaped upon him i by the public meeting in "Towns County," are j | unwarranted, unjust, and discreditable to these j who participated iu it. And, having occupied in reference to this matter, pretty much the po sition which the Editor of the “Constitutional ist A Republic,” of Augusta, did. we would ; present for their consideration the following , taken from that paper, every line of which we : ’ adopt. [ “We respectfully suggest to the people of j Union and Towns counties that intemperate I i denunciations of Gov. Johnson, and of his mo- ■ | fives, will not streughten their cause, but may i have the opposite effect. The peeple have an abiding confidence iu the integrity and con scientiousness of Gov. Johnson, mid if an issue I is tendered to them on these points they will sustain him. even though to vindicate him be came necessary to defeat an enterprise which i sought a triumph at the expense of his good j name and popularity. •The disclosures of Doet. Young of his eon i versatiou with Gov. Johnson, accounts for the ‘ severity of the strictures indulged in by the j Union ami Towns county meetings, and may extenuate the temper which prompted their j expression. But that conversation does not 1 fix duplicity on the Governor, nor justify re i proach. Il required bat a little charity, it re-i ' quired but the exercise of a magnanimous liberality to concede that the subsequent re- < flections of the Governor in investigating the , subject, brought his mind to the conviction that his first impression in favor of the charter 1 were wrong—that while his sympathies and * good wishes were with the people who 1 the road, he could not indulge them at what he j beeame convinced would lie the sacrifice of j other interests, he felt bound by his position to protect. To have him go against his deli- ■ berate convictions of duty, in order to be eon- ' sistent with his first impression-, we are sure t no conscientious man would demand. Nor could a conscientious Chief Magistrate do this. I* A Vain Appeal. I The appeals made to the old line whigs who united with the Kansas and Nebraska Demo cracy to battle against Know Nothingism, and for the Constitutional Rights of the South, to support Mr. Fillmore, are made in vain.—j Not one in a thousand of them, who might j have supported Millard Fillmore as the Whig j nominee for President, ere the Know Nothing, or Kansas, issue was presented to the countrv, will do so now that he is committed in favor of the one and against the other. He is a deluded man who thinks otherwise : and all we wonder at, is, that so much ink is wasted by the falsely styled “ American Party ” in the vain effort to induce men to suppose that anti-Know Noth- I ing whigs will give aid or comfort to the late I nomination of Fillmore and Donelson, under existing circumstances. But apart from the determination of the old line whigs who acted with the democracy in the last campaign in Georgia, to stand firm in the maintenance of principles vital to the inter i ests of the whole South ; and to stand by the old line democrats in their defence of civil and religions liberty, and of the doctrine of “ non intervention ” on the part of Congress with States, or Territories, in the regulation of their domestic institutions ; a more serious objection to M r. Fillmore presents itself than Southern men j who once admired, and had confidence in him, ! could, two years ago, have anticipated. The i first act, that, in a great degree destroyed their j confidence in Mr. Fillaaore, was his connecting I himself with the “ Secret Order," and ns one of its sworn members, standing pledged to vio late certain provisions of the Constitution of the United States—a Constitution every pro vision of tvhich he had so recently sworn to maintain. By this act, he demonstrated to the I world that ambition, with all his apparent dis inclination for office, was doing its work, and that once more, the Presidential Chair was his aim ; the attainment of which it seems he has stooped to effect, through the influence of the Secret Order of Know Nothings. Upon this issue, the old line whigs of Georgia, to whom we have referred, will do battle against him, with as much of zeal and ofenergy, as ever they did in his behalf' for, and of this, the falsely styled “ American Party ” may be assured, they are not blind to the issues before them, nor to the result calculated upon by their antago nists, by there being “ three Richmonds in the field 1” This last is a consideration the whole people ■ of the South should look at with a suspicious eye, and, iu time, be warned of the consequen ces that may flow from it. In one of the lead ing Fillmore, or Know Nothing organs, wc al ready see signs ofa combination,'between Black I Republicanism and Know' Nothingism. to de- ■ feat the nnti-Know Nothing and democratic I candidate for the Presidency. We allude to the (Kentucky) Louisville Journal; a paper having as wide an influence and as extended a circulation, as any paper in the South. Wc have not by us, at present, the article to which we refer, but recently w have seen it clearly intimated by that Journal, that last of all the three parties in the contest for the Presidency, the democratic candidate should be supported —that “ Black Republicanism " should be per mitted to triumph, ere Pierce, or Buchanan, or Douglas, or any other democrat should be. This is the substance, if not the words used bv that paper. And it is “to this complexion," *t appears, from the “ signs of the times," many more of the Know Nothing organs “ will come at last." It may not be the ease within the limits of good Gid Georgia. God forbid that it should ; but with such lights held before the old line, anti-Know Nothing, whigs of Georgia, appeals to draw them to the support of Mil lard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson. are all made in vain. Independence Hall Closed Against Mr. Buchanan. In the Common Council of Phila lelphia (k. 1 x.) on Thursday afternoon, a resolution tender ' ing the use of Independence Hall to Mr. Buc hanan, on the occasion of his reception by the citizens, gave rise to a political debate of the most rabid character, and was finally defeated jby a vote of 33 to 20. In the Select Council a resolution of a similar character was presen ted and rejected. This act of disrespect to Mr. Buchanan caused much excitement among the citizens of Philadelphia. We clip the foregoing front the Savannah Daily News. This action of the Know Noth ing Common Council of Philadelphia, in refu sing the use of •• Independence Hall " to Mr. Buchanan, forcibly reminds us of the refusal, by a set of blackguard fanatics, of the use of Fan uel Hall to Daniel Webster, some three or four years ago. In the latter ease the refusal was the act of abolition influence, and intolerance. In the former, it is the act of Know Nothug influence, and is marked by all that intolerance which has made the Boston fanatics notorious and contemptible. We are not prepared to stop even here. The spirit which could influ ence the Know Nothing Common Council of Philadelphia, to refuse the use of Independence Hall to Mr. Buchanan, on account of his poli tics, must be influenced by abolition proclivi ties. It is useless to mince words in speaking of this act of intolerance. Were Mr. Buchan ; an a Black Republican—were he Win. H. Sew uni—or Horace Greely—lndependence Hall would have l>een thrown open to him at once. But Mr. Buchanan was a democrat a favorite of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, and j of the Union—was spoken of in every State of the Union, as a candidate for the Presidency— and, in every particular, an avowed antagonist of Know Nothingism. It wasa triumph to re fuse him the use of Independence Hall I Yes. just such a triumph as was achieved over Dan-1 iel Webster by a Boston mob. Shout over it I Northern Know Nothings, but we doubt much whether one of your brethren South will dare to echo your shout ! Business is said to be unusually active it Pittsburg in every branch of trade. Mount Vernon. We find in the Washington National Intel- J ligcncer of Friday, the subjoined letter, which will be perused with interest: Mount Vernon, April 14. Messrs. Gales <Y Seaton : Gentlemen—My attention has been called to the misapprehensions that appear to exist in different parts of the country respecting the sale of Mount Vernon. Will you permit me, through the columns of the National Intelligencer, to make the fol lowing statement, which I think will conduce to a proper understanding of the matter! Mount Vernon has never, in the true sense of the term, been for sale. Since it has been in my possession I have, at various times, in reply to the inquiries of persons connected with the Governments of the United States and of Virginia, informed them that only the United States or Virginia, if either desired it, could obtain possession of Mount Vernon. The proposition to purchase Mount Vernon by the United States has, as I understand,' been brought before Congress upon more than one occasion without any definite action in re lation to the subject having taken place. It seemed reasonable, then, to conclude that the* United States did not wish to acquire the prop erty. The late Governor of Virginia twice recom mended to the General Assembly of the State the purchase of Mount Vernon by Virginia.— In the first instance the committee appointed in the House of Delegates to inquire into the subject made no report. Upon the second oc casion the committee reported, and the Legis lature passed a bill respecting the purchase of Mount Vernon, and both were informed before hand I would not accept, because it was not in accordance with the terms on which I had in formed the Governor, in reply to his applica tion, that the State could obtain the property. It now became evident that the State of Vir ginia did not wish to purchase Mount Vernon. Thus the only parties to whom I would sell the property having in effect declined to pur chase. but one answer could be returned to the almost endless inquiries addressed to me upon the subject, namely, that Mount Vernon was not for sale. I am, gentlemen, most respectfully,your obe dient servant. JOHN A. WASHINGTON. A Theatrical Imposter Everybody in New Orleans knows Mr. George Jamison, the actor, who took a leading part in the Forrest tragedy, and in many other and less melancholly affairs. Mr. J. is some what of an author as well as an actor, and dabbles occassioually iu print. I We have received the programme of a piece entitled “The Fugitive Slave” from his pen which is being performed in Cleveland at pres ent, “a thrilling drama,” according to the bills, which is enjoying a very considerable share of success. From a private source wc learn that tbt play is an anti-slavery production, intended to illustrate the horrors of the “peculiar insti tution of the South, and founded on Mrs. ' Stowe's celebrated Black Republican novel, j The public of New Orleans may have some j recollection of a drama, melodrama or theatri- I cal nondescript, called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, i | from the pen of the same accommodating George, whieh was produced ut the St. Charles during the past season—a fssue of blarney and flattery for the Southern market, in which slavery was represented as a blessing and a boon for which the community could never be sufficiently grateful. It was an absurd ixag geration, without literary merit or stage eff et. I and drew nothing better than "gallery audien I ces" during its run. 1 But the piece, if not good, is convenient ut least. It has two sides to it, one white, the j other black, and it is all the same to Mr. Jam j ison, which l.c presents to the public. Such an i imposter as this should not lie permitted to go “unwhipt of justice." Xeu- Orleans Della. Elopement at M e*t Jliliord. A Strange Case.—Much excitement has I been created at West Milford by the elope j ment of Mrs. Sarah Courson, 'with David | White, of th ■ same place. This is the third i time this lady has figured as one of the parties lof an elopement. I ler first elopement oeeuned j at the age of 31) or thereabouts, when she left i her mother’s residence with her first lover and went to New York, staid a -pell, came back 1 home with a child in embryo, never having been married—or at least ft is so said. She I ' became a mother and resided at home about six months or a year, then went off on a tour with a man named Armstrong, a New Yoiker. ; She was afterwards married to a Courson, with whom she resided til! the 25th of March last, when she again left West Milford to meet the said David White, before spoken of. at Sloats burg, where the two took the cars and went West, since whieh time nothing more is known of them. She left her child by her companion at West Milford. This Sarah .lane Courson is one of a family of six sisters named Byerson, five of whom have left their husbands and eloped with other men. All six have been married, and not one of the six live with a lawful husband at the present day: five having eloped and the only remaining one deserting her husband, or refus ing to live with him. We doubt if a case of equal singularity can be found anywhere in the Union.— Pa terson Gua rd inn. Paris, April 3, 18.’>'l. Our Emperor Napoleon culminates magniti '' eently. The birth of a bouncing heir, and the 1 eonsumnation of his aims and hopes in the ' I war. have lighted up his countenance, which 1 : i had never seen radiant before. The weather , ’ has corresponded to the splendor of the milita ry reviews and spontaneous illuminations. In his march to the Camp de Mar' on Tuesday I last, the popular acclamations to an I fro, and on the ground, exceeded whatever 1 had wit nessed in 1807-1808 in the public appearances "f Napoleon 1. Next to the Emperor. Count Orloff, the Russian, with his martial port and , glittering helmet, was of the numerous and ; pompous escort, the “observed ofall observers." Paris is hung with the flags of the signing ! powers: the double-headed Eagle of the Czar lieittg the most conspicuous. In general, peo ple can. little about the terms of the defiinite! treat): peace was the main wish: throughout 1 France, the working classes in th" cities and the peasantry, take the had in th- nr.Hi'fi-sta tions of content. Savannah Georgian. Mr. J. i. Wright, the proprietor of the Georgian, publishes a card in whieh he states that daring hi- temporary aksence from Savannah, his office was closed by the Sheriff, not for any fault of his own. but . owing to circumstances over which his control did not extend. Subscribers are requested to remain quiescent until further alviees from head-quarters. We hope soon to learn tha tth difficulty has been overcome. I [ COMMUNICATED.] 1 Public Meeting in Towns County. Union County Preamble mid Resolutions adopted. A large proportion of the citizens of Towns county assembled on Tuesday, the Sth inst., for the purpose of expressing their unqualified dis approbation of that act of executive tyranny and despotism, which deprived them of the Hiwassee railroad charter, and doomed them to commercial isolation and seclusion. The meeting was organized by calling Rev. John Carr to t! Chair, and requesting M. L. Birch to aet a-- Secretary. Dr. A. V mng then moved that a committee ; of thirle. -u be appointed to report matter for the consideration of the meeting. In pursu ance of which consideration, the Chair announ . eed the following gentlemen, viz: Messrs. A. Young. James Cathey, L. 11. Kerby, E. Kinsey, J. Carter, R. A. Brown, J- Bryson, J. \V. Holmes, W. Wilson, A. Carr. M. G. Morgan, J. Russell, and John I Loyd; who retired and after an absence of , thirty minutes, retured, recommending to the consideration of the meeting the preamble and resolutions adopted by the citizens of Union I county, on the 17th ultimo. Pending the mo tion for their adoption, Dr. Young addressed the Chair, stating that it was due the meeting that he should say the preamble and resolu tions had been denounced by certain Georgia i papers as reflecting too hotly on the motives - and statesmanship of the Executive—ascon taming an implied charge of demagogueism as being .- string of billinsgate and vituperation. He then went into an elaborate end eloquent ■ vindication ol the preamble and resolutions— stated that, if they did contain an implied i charge of demagogue! m. he would state the substance of a conversat ion that occurred be tween himself and his Excellency, at the ses i sion of the Legislature immediately preceding the last and, leave it to the discretion of bis audience ■ aud the public, to determine whether or not he is I > obnoxious to the charge. The conversation i and the circumstances under which it occurred ,! are as follows: , I In the evening of the day that the tax bill . i was defeated, he (the Doctor) and his Exccllen : cy met in the street, and after the usual formal ities. his Excellency expressed much regret at the defeat of the tax bill, particularly as it was the hist of a series of bills reported and lost, and the final defeat ot that bill would stop the mac! jury of Government, and force him to call th General Assembly together every sixty , days, until j I ill should be passed, which would , raise a sufficient revenue for the political years | contemplated by the bill, and expressed a de _ I sire that he would make an effort the next . j morning lor its reconsideration aud passage.— ! He (the Doctor) replied that neither himself I nor his constituents were solicitous as to the ': fate ot the tax bill : that he, and those that he 1 represented, were opposed to the nd valorem j system of taxation ; that that system had •j been and was then being attempted to be forced I upon the State by city concentrated capital, I aud corporation influence, that these same in i fluences were arrayed in formidable opposition l to a. measure as great commercial importance :to his constituents, his excellency asked to ■ what measure he alluded." lie replied, to the Hiawassee Rail Ro.. 1 Bill. His Excellency . then wished to know where the contemplated ;i road would begin, and where il would termi j nate. I o which the Doctor replied, that it j would commence at or near Clayton, pass! I through the counties ot I nion, and terminate at or near Duck I’uwn, Tennessee. His Ex-j cellencv then expressed himself as being] dec.dedty in favor of the m -asure, and as not I being able to comprehend why any section of ' the State should place itself in opposition to ! I the enterprise. Now. .Mr. Chairman, continued the Doctoi, j his Excellency thus unequivocally expressed himself when informed that the contemplated mad would commence at Clayton and termin ate at 1 tuck town. The bill introduced by C 01. Smith did not specify cither of these point; as a beginning or terminus,•'yet his Excellency vetoes the bill from the mere apprehension that' the load would make the same connection dis- • tiuetiy specified in the original bill, of which he I : so emphatically declared himself in favor: thus i | violating the implied pledged of Executive! | sanction in the event the bill passed. If, eon-i ,i tinued he, Exeeutve sanction to the original bill 1 would have been compatible with public duty, then Executive sanction to this bill, introduced ; by his esteemed friend. Col. Smith, would not j have been incompatible with the same. He would leave it to those more skilled in ! Executive diplomacy, whether or not his Ex- t i eelhncy has redeemed his implied pledges; and ' . to his audience, to manife-t by their adoption or rejection of the preamble and resolutions, | , whether or not the alleged implied reflections I on his Excellency were well founded or other- , wise. He then proceeded to a review of the i first part ot the veto message, which he did I I with his usual eloquence and abilitv. , ■ Whilst we have not the ability to transmit , to paper the logical arguments, the soul-stirring i I appeals, nor foil. >w him in his lofty flights of! . eloquence, we may be permitted to say that his I ii position, his arguments, his eloquence, have I left a lasting impression upon the aroused hearts , and convinced judgments of our citizens. , Col. Smith then arose and stated that the , . great principles, free trade and equal rights, I contained in the preamble and resolutions had i >■ been so ably and triumphantly vindicated bv ! . | the able Chairman of the Committee (Dr. i 1 A oung), that he deemed it superflouous to say i more in relation to them. They met with his i hearty concurrence and warm appropriation. | I He then took up the veto message, and many . a mortal blow did his descending battle axe j . deal upon that boasted State paper. One ar I > gument after another was attacked and over- ! [ thrown—-weighed in the balances aud found; . wanting, - until his Excellency's magnificent' . system of internal improvement,’ tottering, fell! i beneath the argumentative zeal and convincing; ■ el< quenee of Col. Smith, burying itself in its I own ruins, amid the thunders’of applause which l greeted the Colonel as he took his seat. Ibe motion for the adoption <-f the resolutions ■ was then submitted to and unanimously adop- ! ted by the meeting. Muca enthusiasm pre vailed. On motion of Col. J. W. Holmes, the same 1 papers enumerated in the Union couutv reso lutions were requested to publish the proceed - > ings of this m eting. The meeting then nd-1, i journed. Jons t 'vKu Chairman. M. 1,. Braun, Secretary. t, - ♦ • Antidote for Pui-i>n.—A eorn-epondeut of the London Literary Gain th . alluding to the! numerous ca-es of death from accidental poi- : soning. add# : - I venture to affirm then is scarce even a cottage in this country that does notconta'm an invaluable, certain, immediate < remedy fur sueh events, nothing more than a ' de —rtsp a nful of mustard, mixed in a tumbler • of warm wa.tr and drank immediately. It ’ acts as an emetic, is always ready, and may . used with safety in any case where one is j 1 required- i, [From the Washington Union.] Mr. Buchanan’s Reception at New York. The arrival of Mr. Buchanan in advance of the time he was expected rendered it impossible to carry out the extensive arrangements made in New York for his reception. The commit tee of the common council met him on board the Arago, and tendered to him the hospi talities of the city. Mr. Buchanan replied as follows : “ Allow- me, sir, to express through you my thanks to the authorities of this great city for the honor which they have conferred upon me in inviting me to partake of their hospitalities. It is with feelings of justifiable pride that, in common with every American, I look upon the present greatness and the growing prosperity of our commercial metropolis. It already oc cupies a distinguished place among the great cities of the world, not only on account of the extent ot its vast commercial resources, but the numerous charitable and educational institu tions maintained by the public and private be nevolences of its citizens. Like all who, after a long absence, return at last to their native land. I rejoice, at again seeing my own country and at beholding the numerous evidences which surround me of the happiness and the prosperity ol its people. In conclusion, sir, I beg leave again to thank you for the generous hospitality which has been tendered to me, and express the pleasure I feel in complying with your friendly invitation.” The Herald proceeds as follows : Mr. Buchanan then, accompanied by Al derman Ely and the other members of common council, left the steamer, after taking a farewell of tne many friends he had made during the voyage. An open barouche was in readiness on the pier, in which, in company with some of the committee, he was conveyed to the hotel, the rest of the company following in carriages. On the arrival at the Everett House, the guest of the city again underwent the ceremony of introduction to a number of private and politi cal Iricnds, who, hearing of his arrival, had called at the earliest moment to pay him their respects. Among these were the Hon. Daniel S. Sickles, who was secretary of the legation under Mr. Buchanan, aud Mayor AVood. "AV hen this interesting’ ceremony was brought to a close, Aiderman Ely again ad dressed Mr. Buchanan, tendering him on behalf of the city a public dinner, and expressing his desire to show him any attention which might be in his power to make his stay in the citv agreeable and pleasant . “ Mr. Buchanan regretted that he was obli ged to decline the honor intended him, as he desired to leave the city, for Philadelphia, on Friday morning. But for this he would be glad he said, to comply with the wishes of the com mittee. To-morrow (to-day) he would be pleased to place himself at their disposal. ■Alderman Ely then said that, if agreeable to him, the citizens would like to have the opportunity of paying their respects to him at the fit j- Hall, and for that purpose the gover nor s room would be thrown open at any- time that he might select. After some little con versation, it was settled that Mr. Buchanan should receive his friends to day, the 24th inst., in the place designated.between the hours of twelve and two. Having made these arrangements the com mittee took their leave. Before leaving, how ever. they partook ofa collation provided for them by the proprietor of the hotel. *• To-day Mr. Buchanan is to visit the Astor Library at 10 o’clock, a. m., the City Hall be tween the hours of 12 and 2, take dinner with the mayor at 6, p. m., and will be serenaded at the time already specified." Ditlereut Destinies of tw o Broth ers, J. and Frank Fremont. The Montgomery Mail traces the history of the two brothers Fremont—one of whom stands a good chance of gaining the empty honor of the Black Republican nomination for the I’resdency. In the course of its sketch that paper says: ’ If Col. Fremont was not born in Charleston he was carried there at a very early age by his mother, and he certainly received there the education which fitted him for subsequent sue cess and distinction. He was the protege of the Radies' Benevolent Society of Charleston, some meml ers of which found the family in great, need and aided them. Young j. C. Fremont was discovered to have talent, and by the interest of these same ladies, became the beneficiary of a charity scholarship in Charles ton College. lie was graduated there, with distinction, having shown (as we always heard) decided mathematical talent. Subsequently through the influence already mentioned, Mr. Poinsett was induced to get’ him an appoint ment us a teacher of mathematics, on board a national vessel, thence he was transferred to I the corps of Topographical Engineers— not! very king afterwards married a daughter of Hon. Thos. H. Benton, and besran his brilliant! and rapid rise. Every- one knows his subse quent history. Col. Fremont had a brother, Frank, a year ; or two younger, who went on the stage very early. He was a bluff looking, hearty tello w, seeming very much more like a man destined' to military leadership, than his brother. For some little time, Frank made a sensation and got to he called the ‘-Charleston Roscius” - but gradually came to be considered merely a tolerable stock actor. After he had been on thestage some years he married—in New York as well as we recollect. Somewhere about 1838‘39 while playing an engagement in Buff alo, N. Y. begot into an abolition riot of some kind and, while fighting gallantly for I Southern principles, received a heavy blow on ! his head which affected his brain. From this i he never recovered—the injury finally settled I upon his lungs and he died of consumption. I • He continued to play, we believe, up to a few days before his death, which we think oc curred in Columbus, Ga ,in 1839. At any' rate, the writer of this found him there (with I some little trouble, as he was playing under an assumed name, (having been charged with a ■ message to him. by his mother—who. it may be ! remarked, was a quiet, melancholy woman, greatly devoted to her sous. It is u little striking, that these two broth ers, born and reared on -lave -oil. should, by the merest accidents, both have been so noar lyafll cted by abolitionism, personally The .one is knocked on the head and “done for" by fanaticism, while the other makes a name in famous which had else been truly famous, by giving his influence to the miscreants who wage an unholy war upon the institutions ol his own section and of a people who raised him from ..his lowliness and placed him on the high road to fame'and boundless wealth. If he ever thinks of his origin, he must see the depth <4 ’an ingratitude almost sublime. • EG;.= ’H:e Bentonites in Missouri have nomi nated Hon. Thos. AA". Benton, for Governor, and the Atchisonites, have nominated Hon. •Trusten Polk. So states telegraph reports.— The Convention recently met at Jefferson city, and we presume were not harmonious. A Business Sketch of a Business Man. AVe copy- the following sketch of the life of a very extraordinary mam from an editorial in the N. Y. Sun:— *• As an illustration of business tact and tai ent, we may point to the career of Professor Holi.owav, the proprietor of the most popular medicines of the age. The rise and progress of this extraordinary man have bad no parallel during the present century. He has visited nearly every Court, in Europe, and obtained permission for the sale of his preparations from most of the crowned heads of the Old AVorld. The Queens of Spain and Portugal, the Kings ol Naples and Sardinia, granted him audiences : and in St. Petersburg, which city he visited a short time before the commencement of the war. he was treated with marked consideration by the late Czar and the nobility. “ I ravelling in an elegant private carriage, attended by a courier, his equipage attracted attention in the towns and villages through which he passed. The hotels where he lodged were besieged by persons of the first distinction, and the best society on the continent courted his acquaintance. “ The subject of these remarks is unques tionably an ambitious man, and his skill and enterprise have placed him far in advance of all his predecessors and cotemporaries in the same profession, lie stands alone ; and the fact that he can maintain his high position, de spite the interested assaults of envy and pre sumption, proves that his medicines have an intrinsic value, which the world understands and appreciates. “ The sums expended in advertising by Pro lessor Holloway would be incredible if they were not authenticated by his books. His payments to the press range from §150,000 to §200.000 per annum. There is no printed lan guage in which his advertisements do not ap pear. Ihe ramifications of his business extend from a local point—his vast establishment in the Strand London over the whole face of the earth. “This extraordinary man is now in this country— in this city. The 'Tribune, in a just tribute to his matchless enterprise, says, that having, like Alexander, subdued the Old World, he is now prepared to conquer the New. ■■ Professor Holloway has not been tempted hither by a thirst for gain—for his wealth is sufficient to satisfy the must cxigeant worship per of mammon—but by a philanthropic desire to extend the benefit of his medicines among a people whose character he admires. Everybody is, of course, anxious to see the greatest adver tiser in the world. In a very short period, the American reputation of Holloway's Pills and Holloway s Ointment will rival their Europe an sane.” nea..Tbe prosecuting Attorney ut Cincinnat has issued an execution upon the United States Marshal, H. H. Robinson, for three hundred dollars and costs, which he was sentenced to pay by Jndge Burgoyno for contempt of court j in taking away the children of the slave Mar- I ffaret. contrary to the injunctions of the Pro bate Court. The Marshall has appealed to the United States District Court. BgSL-Mrs. Mason, wife of the American Min. j ister in Paris, recently gave the first of a series of receptions,at the saloons of the embassy. The number of guests present was about 200. Air. Buchanan and Lord Clarendon were a mong the number, and both of whom, a corres pondent of the New A’oik Times says, subse quently had a private unofficial interview in relation to the dispute between the United States and England. B®»lt has been rumored for several days that Roger A. Pryor, of the Richmond Enquir er, and R. AV. Hughes, of the Richmond Ex aminer, were about to engage in a duel, in conse quence of the comments of the latter (a Buch r anan man) upon a pamphlet published by the former, in favor of Gen. Pierce’s renomination. The affair, however, has been amicably adjust cd by the interposition of their friends. K-fG-Another United States Bank is about to show itsellf in New York. The Director.; of the Bank of Commerce in that city have re solved on doubling their present capital to make it 810,000,000. Succeeding their an nouncement, the Times says there is a rumo of a new twenty million bank, to be got up by the foreign bank interest. Senator Jones of Tennessee.—This gen tleman made a speech at the festival at the Slash Cottage in Virginia, in honor of the birth day of Henry Clay, lie embraced the occasion to define his political position thus.- I am no aspirant for high favors or for po litical place or honor. Thank God, lamina position to expect nothing. I hope for noth mg, I look for nothing. lam in common par lance an outsider. 1 do not belong to the democratic party, thank God! [ Laughter. | I do not belong to the so-called American party, and I thank God for that. [Continued Laugh ter.] 1 belong to the Henry Clay party. I have never waered to the right hand or to the left. I love the memory of Henry Clay; but I never worshipped any false Gods. 1 stand! now, Mr. President, where I have ever stood, aud where I mean to stand as long as I shall stand at. all. lam an old fashioned; old school Henry Clay, Heaven descended and consecra ted whig. [Great Laughter.| pcq. l/r. Joseph I’rotor, of Boston, will give SI .000 Im the best five act tragedy, and 8500 for the best drama furnished to him before the 1-t of (tetober. The judges arc to be selected —one from Philadelphia, one from New York and one from Boston. late legislature of Pennsylvania passed a uew libel law. The old niaxim was “the greater the truth the greater the libel.’’ This act reverses it. The greater the truth the less the libel. Under it malice is not to be inferred.