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The American Tieket.
„For Senate
D. P. HlfcL,
For Representatives,
Wm/I. HUDSON,
A. J. GORDON.
Hamilton, July 11, 1855. lfltd
Qy* of the Organ will please
excuse our occasional political documents
io our paper, we oflW'no sentiment on either
side, but work for tb panics as we are ems
•h9Jfin&AipacUaJit j fr. pnwh pro*
dilections.
tO* Our citizens trill please bear in
wind that the Male Academy will be open
for the reception of pupils on Monday next.
It being always desirable among teachers
to have all present at the commencement of
• school, who expect to become scholars,
we therefore hope the fricads of education
wit! show their appreciation of the talents
and services of their faithful Principal by
giving him a crowded bouse on opening, as
welt as throughout the term.
SOME POTATOE.
Rev. W. D. Atkinson, of this place,
presented us yesterday morning a sweet
Potatoe, Measuring 7 inches round, well
proportioned, and two others about the same
weight, but different dimentions.
Pretty good for this time of the year.
MUiICAL.
An article appeared in our last issue over
the signature of Holcombe, which the
writer offered in response to a short criti
cism on a piece of music of his own produce
tion, which cViticism was offered mote to
• attract his attention to some errors than any
thing else; but, like many others, rather
than acknowledge the errors, he makes a
labored effort to sustain himself; and to do
this effectually, he uses a host of examples,
for which there is not a written rule offered
by which te prove his positions to becor
rect. In a word— -he uses error to prove
error to be right. If those distinguished
musicians referred to in the article, intend
ed such to be pepetuated as a rule, why
have they not given us a rule for them ?
Because Messrs. Woodbury, Hastiugs. Ma
son and others, who are distinguished mu
sical writers, Introduce a custom without
uny rule for it, is no logical reason wny it
it correct.
There is no man with whom the opinions
of. thoae men (musically directed) have
more weight than with us; hot on the sub
ject of closing a piece of music on a part of
e measure, they have given no opinion, and
therefore we are not prepared to subscribe
to it. All figures set at the beginning of a
tune have a significant meaning, the under
figure dividing the semibreve into parts,
that each aliquot part of the semibreve may
be a part of the measure, and to close a
piece with a part, say sth of a measure,
would it appear to sound right ? Or, if
you please. I-16th; this is with the same
propriety as with Jth, or |ths, If you
may introduce oue of these examples, yots
way any of them, and unless there can be
some rule given for such examples, we are
stilt ready to decide that the tune was one
cootiaual round without any legal closing.
Next, we notice the iuitials D. C. When
these are placed at the end of tMuue, it
means to conclude the piece with a precede
iog strain. This rule is written, and uni
versally understood among musicians. But
let us ask, what wsre we to understand
when placed just preceding a word in poe_
try ? Were we to suppose the word occur
red previously, and to conclude (or cjojse)
on what wo might suppose did previously
exist whether it did or not? or what con
clusion shall we arrive at? We must ac
knowledge this the first example of the
kind we have ever seen, and feel at a loss
to adjust its principle. The writer set out
for the purpose of showing the criticism to
be a very trivial and nonsensical article, by
“ the Printer's Devil must have writ
iu the absence of the Superintendent.”
Whether he did or not, we suppose Mr. H.
will find devil enough to meet all such efforts
as hit last, to vindicate eiror, in self-justifi
cation, for such cannot be permitted to pass
without notice. We are still of the same
opinion, that he must be young in the cause
of Composition.
We are not in possession of the origi
nal copy of the proceedings of the) Anti-
Know Nothing Meeting, held in this place
on Saturday last. For a correct copy, we
refer our readers to the Times Sf Sentinel.
Communications*
For the Organ.
Cum Swamp. July, 1855.
Friend Georgia Bov—ln your farewell
commamcatinn, you saytbat,”“in my first
that l partially sustained a natural minor
scale, but have now sfid from that position.'’
If that is true, why did you come in contact
with me, and accuse me of being in a Gum
advancing strange ideas, &c., When your’
object too, was to sustaiu a natural minor
scale? No sir, every man whe read my
letter and can understand anything, knows
that I questioned our ability, to perform two
different distinct orders,—and that is the
grounds uton which the controversy rose
between yourself and me,—l am willing,
however, for the reading public to determ
ine whether ( have slid or not. Again you
say “the authors whom I quoted does not
sustaiu me in my position.” Do they sus
tain you ? why did you not quote something
from them in support of your position?—
When quotations are plain before the
lie from them in my letter, do you suppMH
that a bare or simple declaration
will oveirule theirowii language? Iql
those authors for the purpose ofcnrulenfl
your position, and any person who
amine them ee that they come in com
plete coutact With youj Again you enquire
—was it not convenient for mo to have
quoted Southern authors?—l would like to
say much to you on this point, provided it
was prudent for me to do so. 1 believe
Major White to be as prominent and scien
tific a man as you have refered to in your
letter. Do you think that he sustains you?
If I can make it appear that he is against
you, will you agree that the position you
have assumed are wrong? If you have the
theory of Mr. Woodbury, you see as plain
as language can express, or example can
show forth, that he comes in direct contact
with your position, and with your declara
tion, which was, “that no sound theorist
could say, that you must depress the medi
ant to produce the minor 3d.” Now sir, if
you will examine the Organ, a few numbers
back, you will see that Major White en
dorses Mr. Woodbury’s theory as wholely
scientific. Now if Mr. Woodbury is against
you, as plainly shown in my last letter, Mr.
White stands side by side with him, by im
plication or endorsement. Agaiu you say
—you think lam for quitting the discussion
from the challenge 1 made.—That must be
another one of your strange conclusions.—
Is a challenge for closer combat, an evi
dence of a disposition to withdraw ? Do
you think that olhers will view it in that
light? If they do. they will ntaview it as
it was intended. But this to be
about the depth efmany of your conclusion*.
My object was to bring the controversy to a
close, that there would be no room for slip
ping around, misconstruing, &c. Agaiu,— -J
you tiiink ; f 1 am not a used up man nowfl
1 soon will be,—l do not know how soon !
may be, but if I am now, I am insensible of
the ainart. Now, as you appear to be off
from the discussion, by submitting it into
the bauds of others, and biding me good
bye, 1 say to you, and readers of the Orgitn
generally, to take my first letter and read it,
then read your reply; then read my next,
and your reply; and so on, through the dis
cussion ; that is the way to test a controver
sy. Then it will he seen whether I have
slid from my first position, and showed a
disposition to quit the discussion or not.—
And now my friend, I bid you good-bye, if
you aro gone. M. Sikes.
For the Organ.
Mr. Superintendent.— For mv own
information, and perhaps for that of others,
also, I propose to propound through the
columns of the Organ, a few plain and sim
ple questions which I hope to have fully
answered by your owu or some other ready
pen :
Ist. Is the semibreve the measure note
in Buy but the two first moods of common
time ?
. 2d. Is not the semi-breve rest a mark of
silence, and if so, why is it excepted ?
3d. Is not Cotnpouud time the double of
Triple, and if sr is it proper to accent com
pound time on the first aud fourth, and Tri
ple on the first aud third ? Is there not an
inconsistency ?
4th. Do we accent music by the sentence
or strain, or only by the measure ?
sth. Should not the second accent in
Compound time be full ?
6 h. Is not auy pleasing sound music,
whether ia connection with ail other sounds
or not?
7tb. Is it correct to any—choosing notes
are set immediately over each other ?
Bth. How does the Cliff open the scale of
characters, and what scale is referred to?
and how does it determine their import?
9th Is the seventh the leading note in
the minor key ?
10th. Have we any reason for saying B
and E are natural sharp sounds, and F and
C natural flat sounds?
11th. Is there more than seven intervals
in an octave ?
12th. Is the Key more natural to the
voice thau any other souod in the scale ?
aud if so, cau we have the key on any letter
we please ?
13ih. Is not the tune Hebron, properly
common time?
Please to answer the above queetions iu
full qt an early day, and very much oblige
a number of inquirers, but more especially
a [uotusubscriber.] P. Hampton.
Dauville, Ga., July 13, 1855.
For the Organ.
Mr. Superintendent, —Please insert
the following question for answer:
Why is the seventh of the Minor scale
sharped 1
, Mason, Woodbury. Bradberry, Jones and
many other- authors agree that there are
two forms Os the minor scale. ob% Melodic,
the other Harmonic. They tell us that the
former has its sixth and seventh from the key
-—•- - ——■—
•harped, and .dip latter only its seventh,
(the former is eetdom used ) but they give
no reasoufor sltorpineiheseventh. Please
give a reason, MkogjßMuxild like to hear
(i-om you. you
know is &c.
1 I * s ‘
VDrgan.
Mr. Ebit#&— my commu
nication to have space hi the Organ ?
There seems to be a great excitement up
with some of the musical brethren in regard
to the keys. I shall endeavor to give my
opinion to the public, and only wish it to
receive the credit it merits.
Ist. What elect does flats and sharps
have on the performance of music?
1 answer, none! They are always used
as conductors lor the me, which every theo
rist of music knows; then they do not make
a tune any more unnatural in performing it
than when it is not transposed; that is, 1
say a compssition is as natural in the per
iMnuce when they are used mit is when
Phey are not. But to the keys:
F Ido not believe that the minor key is na
tural to the voice, whether assumed by a
natural or artific&iaVurositipn; because, it is
voice,—no, not
in any composition,‘nor in
aiiy musical the major is com
pletely full and agreeable to the voice.—
Now, I do not think that the voice can per
form but one natural order, and that it the
major order, or key. Do not understand
me as contending against the existence of
the minor key, for we have minor anueie,
and therefore we must have a minor key.—
I will come to a close, and subscribe my
name, with respect to the musical brethren,
K. H. Stanfield.
For the Organ.
North Craftsbury. Vermont, )
July 24,1855.’ $
Mr. Editor, —Remembering your special
favor, 1 now take pleasure in fulfilling my
promise to pen a few lines for your sheet.
Pefhaps your readers srtU be but little inter
ested in matters so far from home. Thete
is however a common interest which binds
together all parts of this Union, and that
bond is strongest where all the people are
best acquainted with the customs and the
institutions which prevail iu other parts.
Since leaving your place, uature has as
sumed various differing phases. The broad
fields of blooming cotton have entirely dis
appeared. and the tasseled corn has dwind
led to miuiaiurfipropnrtinns. On the other
have become broad
er, now for the
lu
oods and undulating
the the
and the vales” of New
K<l too, and the loving
On the uAjmftgtn your place and this,
there is rests the traveller ;
some horror and
disgust, rather y pleasant emotions.
No places whictHHpe ever seen are, more
gloomy than the swamps of the Carolinas.
the filthiest of water over ail the ground,
the rankest species of vegetation on every
side, and every branch above bung with
lone moss iu the most mournful drapery.—
Such places in a fabulous age
would have been the shades of the lower
regions. There is, however, much to please,
and at no place which 1 have ever visited
more than iu Washington. It is true that
the city, aside from the public works, will
not compare favorably with many others.
These, however, are of the deepest interest
to every American. They please by their
beauty, their symmetry, and their harmony
of propotTiefl, and by their grandeur and
sublimity. May the day be far distant
when auy sectional feeling, either North or
South, shall either lay waste those monu
ments of national greatness, or cause them
to be held iu any Tess esteem by any citizen
of this glorious republic.
Your’s truly,
Chab. A. J. Marsh.
Jtnti-JKnow Nothing Meet
ing—in Harris.
According to a previous colice a large
number of the voters of Harris county op
posed to the K. N. Party, met this day in
the Court House in Hamilton. Dr. C. C.
Gibbs was called to the Chair, declined
and proposed the name of Col. J. N. Ram
set, who was unanimously elected to pre
side over the meeting.
On motion of CSI V J. M. Mobley, the
following gentlemen were appointed Vice
Presidents: A. B. Huey, C. B. Black,
Brittain Williams, James Pollard, P.
T* Trammel, M. C. Farley, Thos. Park,
James Walker, A.Hunley, Wm. E. Far
ley, Samuel Henderson, Wm. J. Henry,
C. C. Gibbs, and the following gentlemen
Secretaries: A. B. Seals, J. C. Henry,
A. G. Bedell.
The Chairman stated the object of the
meeting in a very able speech of about one
hour, clearly showing the necessity of the
South being united in opposition to this
Know Nothing Organization.
Dr. Gibbs in au able and fearless speech
exposed the Know Nothings, and announc
ed that as he was tho first in the field, he
would be the last to quit the fight, until vic
tory perched upon our standard.
Theu, on motion of Col. R. A. Craw
ford, a Committee of three from each Dis
trict was appointed to prepare business for
tfce action of the meeting.
The several Districts were then called
and the following gentlemen chosen :
Samuel Heuderson, Charles Bedell, H.
Thomas,.
Aaron Goodman; John McGee, Willism
Nelson.
•fijU W. Ilattox, Samuel Moore, William
A. Trueft,’ “• *• • ~
ft.’ A. CrawfordrAlvin Mybaud, Green
Weldon.
Joel Dennis, James M. Whines, O. H-
Smith.
Stephen L. Hanks, A. B. Seals, William
T. Smith.
John W. Smith, R. W. Robinson, George
Lynch.
David Hutchins, Benj. Buchanan, Mr.
Parkerson.
Thomas M. Clowgr* Henry Lowe, S.
Brown.
C. B. Black, T. J. Dozier, William H.
Blackwell.
Wm. J. Henry, 11. Milner, Robert Win
frey.
T. N. Sparks, R. E. Bee mag, Hugh Mc-
Cauley.
The Committee retired, and during their
absence the large audience were entertain
ed by eloquent addresses from G. A. B. Do
zier, Esq., of Harris, aud James Hamil
ton, Esq., of Columbus. The crowd man
ifested their approbation of the sentiment*
put forth by frequent bursts of applause.
The Committtee having returned, re
ported the following ticket to the Conven
tion:
For Senate,
Col. JAMES N. RAMSEY,
For Representatives.
• Judge HENRY EL MOSS.-m-rin
Dr. P. T. TRABJIL.
Also—Reported the following Resolu
tious through their Chairman Dr. Bedell
all of which was unanimously adopted :
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas the citizens of Harris coun
ty. irrespective of old party distinctions,
have met for the purpose of consultation,
and being desirous that our principles upon
which we can agree may be made known.
Resolved —lst. That we are opposed to
all secret oath-bound political associations
in a Republican government iu times oi
peace.
2d. Resolved —That the pretensions with
which the self styled American Party at
tempts to palm off its dangerous doctrines,
is unworthy of any party claiming the sup
port of an enlightened people, professing as
they do, to stand upou the Philadelphia
Platform, which declares- the Uuion the
paramount political good, and at the same
time adopts the Georgia Platform, which
declares the Union to be secondary jn im
portance to the rights it was intended to
perpetuate, and denying a proscription ol
men on account of their religious faith out
side of their order in Resolutions, while they
swear by horrid oaths inside of their order
not to vote for, and to remove from office
men on account of their religious faith,
thereby making a test which the Constitu
tion of the United States declares shall nev
er be made.
3d. Resolved— That Congress has no
right to abolish or restrict slavery in the
States, the District of Columbia, or the Ter
ritories, nor to of a
State c<’to
sere ith
States. Jtk
4 th. m
ron ven
<>'l ju-t an ol
his title to his
ticn, and hence w-a concrtrae that Congress
has no more right to deprive a citizen of the
District of Columbia of his slave, than she
has to take from him his hoflse and lands,
and the same principle is applicable to the
slave Slates, even should a majority desire
its abolition, otherwise the minority have
no protection to this species of property, or
any other when under the ban.
sth. Resolved —That we adopt the Geor
gia Platform of 1850 in erlenso.
6th. Resolved —“ That the several States,
composing the United States of America,
are not united on the principle of unlimited
submission to the general government, but
that, by a compact under the style and title
of a Constitution of the United States, and
’of Amendments thereto, they constituted a
General Government foaspecial purposes;
delegated to that government certain defi
nite powers ; reserving, each State to itself,
the residuary mass of right to their own
self-government; that, whensoever the
General Government assumes undelegated
powers, its acts are unauth<>ritative, void,
and of no force; that to this compact each
State acceded as a State, and is an integral
party, —its co-States forming, as to itself,
the other party ; that tne Government crea
ted by this compact, was not made the ex
clusive or final judge of the extent of the
powers delegated to it. since that would
have made its discretion and not the Consti
tution. the measure of its powers; but that,
as in all other cases of compact among par
ties, having no common judge, each party
has an equal right to judge for itself, as well
of infractions as of the mode and measure
of redress.”
7th. Resolved— ln the opinion of this
meeting, the native free-soilers, Kuow
Nothings and Abolitionists of the North are
the worst enemies of the Constitution, Un
ion, and Government, and thus we are
ready to strike hands with Natives or For
eign born, Whig or Democrat, North or
South, to defend the Constitution from the
assaults of Abolitionism in the North and
Fanaticism in the South.
Bth. Resolved —That while on the one
band this Convention cannot point to a sin
gle instance of Catholic interference with
the institution of slavery in the States, Ter
ritories, or District of Columbia. On the
other hand, it finds the enemy to be of our
own household—composed of the 3000 me
morializing Protestant Clergy of the North,
the abolitionists, freereilers, and Know-
Nothings, who make common cause against
the interest and equality of the South, and
against whom we urge our Sonthern Know
Nothing friends to turn their arms and cease
their war against an inoffendiug religions
sect, who havo not joined in a crusade a
gainst-the South.
-CK Ramsey and Dr. Tramil, being
present; rose and accepted the nomination
in an appropriate manner, pledging them
selves to support the principles of the party.
Ctfl. Mobley was called to the stand,
and, although the meeting was ready to re
commend him as one of our standard bear
ers, but tie was for success of principle, and
would convince the world that he was not
for self but the good of the country.
Resolved, That the Times & Sentinel,
and the Organ, be requested to publish the
proceedings of this meeting.
On motion—The meeting adjourned sins
die. J. N. RAMSEY, Pres.
Joel C. Henry. 1
A. B. Seals, V Secretaries.
A. G. Bedell, j
General Intelligence*
[Correspondence of the N. Orleans Delta.)
REVOLUTION on the RIO GRAN DEN
Brownsville, Texas , July 10, ’55.
Editors Delta —The excitement grow
ing out of the revolutionary movements
among our Aztec neighbors continues una
bated. and we hourly look for news of a
decisive character from the scene of opera
tions.
To the joy of many persons who arc the
avowed friends of the revolution, the cu]t
ihroat, General Woll, left his den in Mata
■gmra£ on the 7tb insC., to a&surnatbe com
Tffand of his forcefc ip Reynosa, inhere iluv
have foriified themsalves with the deiertoi’ *
nation of making a stand. After WolPs ar
rival. the effective force will consist of some
twelve or thirteen hundred men.
General Castro, with some five hundred
men, commands in Matamoras, which place
will of c< urse surjender if, as it is universal
ly supposed, the hangman Woll is defeated
*t Reynosa. which is more than probable:
This man Castro is a brute, whose ignor-.
ance is only equaled by his proverbial cow
ardice.
The revolutionary forces after entering
Camargo, took up their line of march for
Reyuosa, and their advance guard, h is
said, was already within some six leagues
nf that place day before yesterday. If it be
so, they may intercept Woll with an over
powering force, in w hich case they would
make him dress himself in the uniform cf
he ‘* distinguished National Ordet of Gua
dalupe,” and hang the tascal to the highest
tree they can find.
The federal forces consist of some twenty
five hundred men and ilie necessary artille
ry. They are commanded by men of much
local reputation for their intelligenre and
valor. Among them are Vidaurri, who
captured Monterey ; Garza, who last year
made the gallant defence of Cuidad Vi to
ria, ( apistran, who was the second in eoni
maud at the Mogotes last year, when Gen
eral Cruz wag so shamefully beaten ; and
last, but not least, Caravajal, with many
other of less note, but who are known to be
“game to the backbone.” Be assured that
the days of misrule and corruption of that
Prince of Villains, Sauta Anna, and his
satraps in Northern Mexico, are forever
fover, and most terrible will be the account
■hey will have to give of theif it e wardship. ‘
r Morally speaking, Santa Anna’s Govern
ment has been tried and sentenced by the
Mex cau people, and from the depths of ev.
ery honest Mexican’s conscience a prote-t
issues against that tissue of cruelties, errors,
despotic measures and tyranny miscalled
administration of Justice. He will in vain
seek solace and comfort in the counsels of
his self-conceited and shallow-brained Pre
mier, the hypocritical traitor Bonilla, ‘i bis
sell-constituted leader of the *•
dores” or Monarchical party in Mexico,
will scarcely have more than time sufficient
to comply with his mission as the tool aud>
agent of the Spanish Court, to give an ac
count to the arrogant, imbecile aud prnfli-.
gate Court of Madrid of what has transpired;
in their ancient colony.
Ihe Federal Court for this district ad
journed yesterday without doing anything,
<>f consequence besides acquitting Carvajal,,
Norton, Rouudtrco, and some twenty six
others of the so-called filibusters, iu some
of which cases Mr. U. S. District entered a
nolle prostqui, and others were discharged
on account of the illegality of the
which was quashed. Thus ended a prose
cution which cost Brother Jouaihau some
of his loose change, properly enough distri
buted among many of his law-abiding chii
dren who were more in need of it thau the
old man was.
We continue to have abundant showers,
of rain, and with the change of rulers over
the way, things will improve for the better,,
and a very different state es affairs will be
the case ns tespects the'geueral trade and
traffic on the lower Rio Graude.
The river is in fiue navigable condition,
and in my next I hope to let you know oS
the defeat of Santa Anna’s minions.
Sancho-
Beyond the Pale of Civilization.
—ltis said that in consequence of the
late massacre at Aango. the Allied Gov
ernments will issue the following procla
mation, if satisfaction is refused by the
Russia : ’Colonel ‘of Russian.
army, havmg committed a cold-blooded,
cowardly, and brutal murder on the per
sons ol three officers and sixteen seamen
of Her Britannic Majesty’* Navy, who*
under a flag of truce, had, unarmed, in
trusted themselves to his honor and that
of the aoeW profession of arms, which
he has disgraced by the cowardly act of
an assassin and pirate, Colonel ■ -i*
hereby placed -without the pale of tho
law ol nations, which he has so disgrace
fully and it is hereby ordered
and whom, it may con
cern. that, upon his capture by any French
or British natal or military authority, he,
the 6aid Colonel — — shall, on being
idenified, be immediately hanged by the
neck until he be dead ; and that be us
ual reward for the apprehension of a com
mon murderer (J 250) be paid over to hie
captors.’