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• Edttfr. Vol. 2. THE EMPIRE STATE IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, 33y A A. GrauldLins riutus:—two dollars in advance, or three dol lars AFTER SIX MONTHS, PER ANNUM. a®*Bffice up-stairs over W. It. Phillips & Co.®t Advertisements tire inserted at One Dollar per square for lie first insertion, and Fifty Cents per square for each in ertiou thereafter. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who adver tise ><y the j f ear. All Advertisements not otherwise ordered trill be continu ed till forbid. Sales of Lands .by Administrators, Executors or Guar dians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county in which the Land is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public Garette forty days previous to the day of sale. Sales of Negroes must he made at public auction on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hoius of sale, at the place of public sales in tbs county where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may have been granted—first giving forty days notice thereof in one of the public Gazettes of the State, and at the Court He use where such sale is to be held. , . . Notice for the sale of Personal Property must he given in like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be published forty days. . Notice that application will he made to the Co.urt of Or dinary for leave to sell Laud, must be published for two hientlis. Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two . oritbs before any order absolute shall be made thereon by lie Court. .Citations for Letters of Administration must l e publish ed thirty dAVs - for Dismission from Administration, month ly sii mourns ; ’{(ft Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Notice for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months ; for publishing Lost Pa pers. for the full space of three months ; for compelling ti ls* from Executors and Admiaistrafors, where a bond Ims l eeu given by the deceased, for the spiiie of thre® months J. A. 23. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. . “ITTILL practice in the Counties composing the Flint Y\ Circuit. By permission, refers to Hon. Hiram War ner, Greenville ; Levi M. Adams, Greenville ; Hon. G. J Green, Griffin ; Hon. James H. Stark, Griffin ; Rev. Will iam Moseley, Griffin. June 2nd, 1856 6 ly. JOSEPH A. THRASHER, JAMES M. HAMBRICK THRASHER & HAMBRICK, A.TTORNEYS AT LAW McD-mouglt, Georgia. April 30, 1856 1 ly V. W. A. DOYLE, K. R. KANSONE. HOYLE & RANSONE, ATTORNEYS A T L A W, Griffin,. Georgia. April 16, 1856 50 3m L- T. DOYAL O. M. NOLAN. ROYAL & NOLAN, ATTORNEYS A T L A W, McDonough,. . .* Georgia., WILL practice iu the counties of Henry, Fulton, Fay ette, Coweta, Spalding, Butts, Monroe and Newton *3” RhfEUKNCE—THcmsclv April 3, 1856 48....1y Q . C . GRICE, ATTORNEY AT LA W, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA. May 15,1856 3 ts. JAMES H. STARK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Griffin, Georgia.^ WILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon. Feb. 13, 1856... 41... ly JARED IRWIN WHITAKER, ATTORNEY AT LA W, ■Office front Room*, over John R. Wallace & Bros., corner of White Hall and Alabama streets, ATLASTA, GEORGIA. January 30,1856 ts W. L. GORDON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN,. GEORGIA January 30, 1856 39 ly lIENRY HENDRICK, AT TOR NE Y AT LA W, Jackson, Butts County, Georgia. May 3, 1855. ts DANIEL & DISMUKE, Attorneys at Law, Will practice in the District Court of the United States at Marietta. _ Griffin, Georgia. L. R. DANIEL, V. D. DISMUKE. May 3, 1855. tf_ w. POPE JORDAN, Attorney at Law, Georgia. WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit. May 3,1855. ts J. 11. MANGHAM, Attorney at Law, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. May 3, 1855-ly 1 WM. H. F. HALL, attorney at law, ZEBULON GEORGIA. July 4, 1855. 9 ts A. D. NUNNALLY, ATTORNEY at law, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. June, 27,1855. Dj UNDERWOObj HAMMOND & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WILL give personal attention to all business entrusted to their management, aud attend the Sixth Circuit Courtof the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court at Mahon and Decatur, and the Superior Courts in Cobb, Morgan, Newton, DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, Pike, Cass, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup, Whitfield and (Jordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county, {Chattanooga,) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. ts W. L. GRICE w‘. WM. S. WALLACE. GRICE & WALLACE, ATTORFEYS AT LAW , BUTLER, GEORGIA. PERSONS intrtmting business to them may rely on their fidelity, promptness and care. Dec. 10, ’56-33-Iy. GARTRELL&. GLENN, “ attorneys at law, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, De- Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car ■MlfHepry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding; Lucius J. Gartkell, I Luther J. Glenn, formerly of Washington, 6a. | Formerly of MeDontugh.Ga May 16, 155§. 3tf (Mfipirc fHH DR. KNOTT HAS changed his residence and, office to the first lot be loiv Mrsj RefeVes’ Boarding House, on the east side of the Railroad, nearly opposite the Freight Depot, where he may be found at all times ready to attend to culls, except when professionally engagedi Griffin, Ga., May 3,1856’ *ly DR. DROWN HAVING associated himself in the practice of Medicine and Surgery, with Dr. WM. M. HARDWICK, would, by this means, introduce him to the confidence and patron age of the community, satisfied that they will find him wor thy and well qualified to fulfil all the duties incumbent on him as a physician—under the firm, name and style of HARDWICK & BROWN, S3” During the absence of Dr. Brown, Di. Hardwick wAT always be found in the Office, unless professionally engaged WM. M. HARDWICK,. .. H. W. BROWN. Griffin, May 14, 1856 3 ts DR. I). M. WILLIAMS, RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, GRIFFIN, .. .'rVTTT;.. . GEORGIA. tS>Officeon Hill-Street, over Banks’Boot fc Shoe Store. May 3, tf DR DANIEL TENDERS his professional sendees as a Physician and Surgeon, to the citizens of Griffin and vicinity. *3*Office on the same floor with the Empire State,“©ft Griffin, March 5, 1856..... .44 ly SCIRRHtfS BREAST can be CURED Let the Public Read! IN niercy to the afflicted, and the gratitude and high opin i<|ii 1 entertain of DIL MOSELEY as a Surgeon and l’hy siciap, I deem it my duty to mention the case of my wilt, honing at the same time that all persons similarly afflicted, may be benefitted by it. In the first part of this year, my wife had several small lumps make their appearance in her breast; they continued to increase in size, until the whole breast became a diseased mass, and very painful. I procured ‘the best medical aid in the city of Home,and notwithstanding the earnest and faithful attention of our most skillful physi cians, she continued to grow worse and worse, until they gave tiie case l up sis incurable, and advised amputation. *1 was advised by many of my u'tCT.fK ty visit Dr. Moseley, of Griflln, Ga., which idid, and, astonishing a.-? it may seem, he had her entirely cured within one month, and she is now in “ocd health! 1 would advise all who are afflicted with Seirrbus, and Cancerous affections to visit the Doctor with out delay, as I am satisfied by experience and observation, that he is the most skillful physician in theSoiithem States, in the treatment of that horrible disease—cancer. WM. H. MITCHELL, M. E. MITCHELL, Daughter of J. W. Bradbury, ROme, Ga. Rome, Ga.. October 25, 1854. * 5-ly GRIFFIN HOTEL. mJTHIS large and commodious Hotelis now open for the accommodation of the public. The furniture is new, and the rooms comfortable and well ventilated. The table will at all times be supplied with the best the market affords, and no pains will be spared to render the fjtte st comfortable. 1 also haveiu connection with tlie house, the large and roomy stable, formerly occupied by W. S. Birge, by wliieh stock can and will be well taken care of. E. F. M. MANX, Proprietor. Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856 41 ts Hacls. Tiines. The undersigned being the Con tractor to transport tlie U. States Mail on routes, Nos. 6339 and 6340, ■--.ffL-ijjjstakes this method of informing the public generally, that he will run his Hack as follows : Leave (b iffin Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays via Erin, Wamet-vilie, Jones’ Mills, Greenville and Mountville—ar rive at LuGrange the same days. Leave LaGrange Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays via the places above men tioned—arrive at Griffin the same days. Leave Griffin Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays via Zebulon and Flat Shoals, and arrive* at Greenville the same days. Leave Greenville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays via tlie pla ces above mentioned,and arriveat Griffin the same days. 1 will further add, that 1 have good teams and sober dri vers, who will spare no pains in making passengers com sortable, aud put them through in good time, at very mode rate prices. R. F. M. MANN, Proprietorand Contractor Feb. 13, 1856 ....41... .ts c a NET AND SASH MAKING!! THE subscriber takes pleasure in cing to tlie citizens of Griffin and snr-KBSji3qigg. rounding country, that be still continues ibeVTvy xxJ business of CARRIAGE and CABINET Making. CARRIA GES, BUGGIES, and WAGONS made to order at short no tice, A few of the best made Buggies always on hand. He lias recently added to his establishment the business of SASII MAKlNG—cheap, and good as the best. ses, newstyle. He will be found at bis old stand, always ready towait upon his customers. Give him a call. J A. BELLAMY. Griffin, Aug. 29,1855... .18... .ts J,. K. WILLIAMS, JNO. RHEA,. WM. M. WILLIAMS. J. E. WILLIAMS & CO., Successors to J. E. JVilliams, General Commission Merchants, AND DEALERS IN GRAIN, BACON, LARD, FEATHERS, and TEN NESSEE PRODUCE, GENERALLY, Decatur Street, near the “Trout House,” Atlanta, Ga. Letters of inquiry, iu relation to the Markets, &c., promptly answered. May 16,1855.-3tf U. lu. WRIGHT, EXCHANGE BROKER , ATLANTA, GEO. WILL attend to Collections entrusted to him, and remit promptly, at current rates of Exchange: buy and sell uncnrrent. Bank Notes, Coin, &c. The highest cash price paid for Bounty Land Warrants, ear Apply; W. C. Wright, Griffin, Ga., for sale of Land Warrants. REFERENCES.—John Thomson, Banker, ‘No. 2, Wall street, and Caiihart, Biio. & Cos., New York ; Converse & Cos., New Orleans. Atlanta, May 10, ’55 tt MARSHALL COLLEGE. BEING left alone in the managemet of this Institution for the present, the rates of tuition will be as follows : Ist Term. 2d Term. For Spelling, Reading, Writing, &c 10 00 8 00 For Arithmetic, Geography,Grammar, &c. .12 00 10 00 For Algebra, Philosophy, Geometry,&c 14 00 12 00 For Latin, Greek, Trigonometry, &c sl6 00 sl4 00 o®,No extra charges, except for damage to the College Building , . , „, , The first term will close about the 4th of July. The second term will begin on the 4th of August, and close about the last of November. J. M. CAMPBELL. Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856... .41.. ■ -ts Fulton House. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. D. L. GORDON, Proprietor. January 30th, 1856. .39. .ly. Tlx© Best BUSINESS STAND IN ATLANTA FOB SALE. I will sell my store and stand, at the corner of Wnite Hal and Mitchell Streets, at a fair price, for cash, or on rea sonable terms, to a prompt and punctual purchaser. Call and look,as lam making a change in my business. If I was troincr to continue in the mercantile business, I would not dispose of it at any price. W. W. ROARK. Atlanta, March 19, 1856 45 ts LUMBER! LUMBER H GAULDING'S STEAM MILL. THE subscriber having leased the above Mill, being an experienced Machinest, and having supplied himseW ■ with a learge quantity of the best pine timber, hoping to e able at short notice, to furnish those with lumber, who may favor him with their olders—orders left with A, A- Gabiding, or A. B. Dulin, at Griffin, will receive prompt . attention. Jan. Btb. 1856. JAMES W. MOORE. ” Ho psnf I|f> tlfci) oi|l- ?otoel-r~<Tl)e toljole MuOles? confined is oi|ls.” GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1856. [For the Empire State.] The Know Nothing Meeting in Barnesville. Mr. Editor : While a great sectional party is marshaling its mighty hosts under the black banner of Republicanism at the North and waging a relentless war upon the Constitution of the country, and the institutions of the South, it may be well forJSoutheri* men to exercise a wise precaution, and trace <uit any disaffection that may exist in the ranks of the great na tional-army, battling upon Southern soil for , the union and equality 6fthe States as they ex*! isted in tlie days of Washington. From what ever quarter this disaffection may come, till will agree that itdeservesin the highest degree the indignation of a free and offended people. In whatsoever party this infidelity to the equal rights and privileges of every section of the Union is found to obtain, that party should most summarily receive the merited rebuke and condemnation of an enlightened and right eous public opinion. Whatever virtues it may possess, yet if unsound upon the great leading question of the day, upon the proper settle ment of which depend the perpetuity of the Government, and the salvation of the Ameri can people, it should be condemned by the up lifted unanimous voice of sovereign voters throughout the Union. If such a party seek to evade tlie direct point at issue, and under take lo mystify the real status of the question itself, it becomes obnoxious to the charge of trifling with the most vital interests of the country, and recklessly hazarding upon mere promotion of party, the brightest hopes of lib erty, and the richest inheritance that could be bequeathed to posterity. Such, Mr. Editor, I mo.it reluctantly con fess I believe to be the present condition of the American Party. While the great masses of that Party, however much deluded, are as ho nest, and I will add as patriotic as any other men the sun ever shone upon, yet their leaders are certainly untrue to them, and false to the high and noble Impulses of duty. But as I am unwilling to indulge in the use of vituper ative language towards this cla.-s of politicians, 1 will leave them to speak for themselves thro’ Messrs. Hill and Poe, two of the Electors up on the Georgia Fillmore Ticket. After the pell-mell assemblage of tho Sam ites on the 31st of July, from various parts of the country around our hitherto quiet aud peaceable little village, and when the Chair man had concluded a few brief remarks in opening the meeting, Mr. B. H Hill, of Troup county, being introduced to the audience, pro ceeded in a somewhat lengthy address, to take about the following positions, among others equally untenable. I report to the best of my memory, and without any wilful design to mis construe the speaker. After a few general remarks, Mr. Hill an nounced tlie startling fact that instead of the contest being between Mr Buchanan and'J. C. Fremont, the real issue lay between the latter candidate and Mr. Fillmore, thereby leaving the former entirely out of the field.— This announcement, backed by the speaker’s pledge that he would prove its verity in the course of his remarks, did not fail to awaken curiosity and arouse a lively attention. Ex pecting some new light, some revelation in re ference to some recent change, some new de velopment in the field of politics, you may well imagine our disappointment when lie burned away from this interesting topic without ad ducing a single argument (may he not have forgotten to do so ?) in fulfilment of his pro mise, and commenced a random fire upon the Cincinnati Platform, the modern Magna Charta of American rights. He undertook to magnify to an exceeding extent the importance of the foreign policy of the Democratic Party, without showing its detrimental tendencies, and seemed to think that like. Aaron’s rod, it should swallow up all other questions ; and then because forsooth Mr. Buchanan gave a qualified reply in h s let ter of acceptance relative to the very same po licy without distinctly endorsing it, denounced him as unworthy of the suffrages of the Amer ican people, and therefore deserving to be re pudiated. The inconsistencies and paradoxes of the American Party are sometimes remarkably strange ! Mr. Hill seemed to have forgotten that his own party for the last two months have been moving all the power they have on earth to arouse in the minds of our fellow-citi zens a spirit of opposition and hatred to the Democracy because of its principles avowed in this respect. And yet for the simple reason that Mr. Buchanan thought it not the safest course to pre determine such questions, not knowing what the future may briug forth - the measures themselves being the subjects of dai ly abuse by the American Party, he has stig matised as unworthy of our support. This is logic after anew fashion to which I must con fess myself an entire stranger. He undertook in the next place to show that the Democratic Party is not reliable be cause of the fact that the Internal Improve ment Bills vetoed by a Democratic President, were recently re-passed by a Democratic Sen ate, with the requisite constitutional majority, Because our Platform declares our opposition to “a general system of Internal Improve ments,” we are in no case to pass special bills in certain urgent cases where great interests are involved, and large numbers of our fellow eitizens likely to suffer for the want of them. Now this position, and the gentleman’s argu ments supporting it, are simply ridiculous, and too futile to entitle them to serious notice.— Wherever in the wisdom of the legislative de partment of our Government, the passage of certain laws has been deemed necessary, the Constitution, that charter of our liberties, has provided a remedy which even supercedes the veto of the Executive ; and our Democratic members in both branches of Congress have availed themselves of its benefits in different cases, and demonstrated to the world that they are not willing to sacrifice upon* the altar of party consistency the great interests of their sovereign constituencies. The fact that the speaker essayed to manufacture capital from this “inconsistency,” is certainly more highly indicative of the weakness of his owu cause, than of any want of reliability in the princi ples of the invincible Democracy. Mr. Hill next proceeded in a tirade of abuse against the pacification bill of Messrs. Toombs ant: Douglas, alleging with great stress that it repealed those provisions in tlie Kan-as and Nebraska Bill so favorable to the rights of the South. He Uncertainly either entirely un acquainted with the last named instrument, or willfully misrepresents its plain and positive meaning, when he affirms that the bill recent ly introduced into the Senate by this distin guished Chairman of the Committee on Ter ritories, was not made iu the strictest, conform ity with the provisions'of the original act.— alien suffrage feature expung ed by .a Demoemic vote, there is nothing iri either bill iniipicalT&mnything in the other-- and the gentleman aft&L mystifying the true state of the case to the utmost extent of his ability, seemed studiously direful to institute no rigid comparison between \hetn, expressly avoiding any indication or enumeration of their conflicting elements. He attached a oteat degree :£ *•**■■- ‘..as tie importance <to the alien suffrage amendment, sufficient to arouse the slumbering sensibilities of his very patient au dience, and enkindle a singular snple upon their otherwise somewhat somnolent physiognomies. In regard to the antagonism existing between the two bins, I think his hearers will agree with me, that his allusion evidently was to that clause in the original Kansas act declar ing that “the true intent and meaning of this act, is not to legislate slavery into any Terri tory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly freaAo form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution i of the United States. ‘ 7 The reader should par ticularly notice the last clause in the above ex tract, for upon it turns the whole point at issue. Now in the late bill reported from, the com mittee on territories, and passed by thh Senate, we find a prohibitory enactment substantially repealing those territorial law’s establishing test oaths, and abridging freedom of speech and discussion on every subject of legislation in the territory. Is there any thing in this repeal by the United State? Senate of these anti-repub lican laws, enacted by the Kansas Legislature, in violation of the very spirit of our free insti tutions, amounting in the slightest degree to a repeal of the original organic act of the terri tory which declares that the people shall regu late their institutions in their own w r ay, except so far as they are subject to the Constitution of the United States ? We think not, and challenge the combined power of the whole American Party from the “Demosthenes of the mountains*’ to the lowest biped upon our coast for the proof, Mr. Hill then stated that the Baltimore Platform of 1852, pledged the Democracy against the further agitation of slavery, and he attempted to show its infidelity to that pledge. His argument on this point was certainly hyp ocritical, and amounts to nothing more nor less than a thrust at the Kansas Bill, needing no argument lo prove that its tendency is in fa vor of the old and'exploded doctrines or tutr Missouri Compromise, under whose galling re straints the South suffered for more than 30 years. He is welcome to all the thunder he can manufacture iu this quarter, and may ful minate his anathemas against the best party organization the world ever beheld until every hair in his head turns white, without ever ef fecting the slightest breach in the impenetra ble phalanx of. brave soldiers enlisted under the banner of the mighty “unterrified.” In the position Mr. Hill next assumed, he appeared to'have made a wonderful discovery; and proceeded in a lengthy argument lo prove what everylintelligeut advocate of the Kansas Bill knew before, viz : That the object of that bill was not to make Kansas a slave State, but to locate the question of slavery with the people of the territory. So far so good, and we agree with the gentleman to the full exteut he goes, for as far as he went he made a correct state ment of one of the provisions of that bill, and if he had only added “subject only to the Con stitution of the United States,” we could not have objected to any deductions legitimately derived from such premises. But the suppres sion of this important clause, whatever other merits his argument may have possessed, de stroys all its claims upon our serious attention. The questions relative to foreigners were then introduced and discussed in their usual stereotyped method ; but really, Mr Editor, they are of so little interest to the country at this time, that I will not waste time to rehearse them here. The “ten cent” charge, and that of “squat ter sovereignty,” a favorite hobby with onr Know Nothing friends, received a large share of the speaker's attention ; but as they have been sufficiently answered over and over again by able pens, I will hurry on to other points so as to hasten as much as possible the con clusion of this cursory review. Mr. Hill made a beautiful peroration with Mr. Fillmore himself, as a theme. He said that he felt sometimes as if “suspended in the air ,” when reading his recent speeches at A1 bany and elsewhere. To these speeches he looked for “Millard Fillmoi’e’sPlatform,’’and he really seemed to forget that Mr. F. was not dependent upon such feeble efforts for the security cf a Platform, inasmuch as his Know Nothing friends gave him one at Philadelphia in February last, which he has most cordially endorsed, and upon which he has embarked his destiuies in the contest now beginning to agitate the country The memory of the American Party appears to have grown re markably treacherous of late in regard to the action of their in National Convention, who announced the prin ciples and nominated the standard-bearer their party now take so much delight in glorifying. Mr. Poe, the second speaker introduced to the auditory, took accasion to magnify the compromise measures of 1850 as having restor ed peace and quiet to an agitated eountry, and to abuse Mr. Pierce for the part his Ad ministration took in re-opening sectional agi tation by the repeal of the Missouri Compro mise. This speaker seems to take peculiar pleasure in ridiculing our Chief Magistrate, and enjoys such sport with great gusto on ev ery occasion when speaking of him. Not ma ny months since, before a similar body, he so lemnly declared that Mr. Pierce was no better qualified to discharge the duties of President than he himself. Mr. Poe entertains great veneration for the time-honored restriction upon the territorial rights of the South , and thinks if a ruthless hand that would tear away such a shield from off the peace and happiness of the Union. He regards it as a most “solemn compact” entered into with the North, which should in no ease be violated by the South, however much repudiated by the othef 1 con tracting party. It was truly ludicrous to hear him speak of the little importance the people should attach to Platforms, when not longer than cwelve months ago under the same roof, and before the same auditory, he glorified the Philadelphia Platform of June, 1855, to the skies ! Mr. Poe is a very shrewd stump ora tor. When his party has a good Platform, it should not lose the benefit of it ; but when a bad one, why then Platforms are of course but little service. Mr. Kdito , let me relate a solemn fact, and briefly, as this p ece has already grown to P'o rreot length. The bulk of Mr. Poe’s speech teas directed against the Kansas Nebraska Bill. He affirmed that no new enactments were ne cessary for those ten itorics, and did himself the credit of opposing the great measure of ter ritorial equality to the South, openly and boid- Iv ! Notwithstanding the fact that 3000 New England clergymen had by petition solemnly remonstrated with Congress against its pas sage—notwithstanding abolitionism has raised its huge front in the halls of our National Leg islature in threatening and united opposition to it - notwithstanding every hill and dale at the North had resounded with its denunciations, yet this speaker undertook to stultify his hoar ders by telling them that it was a ‘ northern 1 measure carried by northern votes !” He de nounced Mr. Douglas, the father of the bill, as an “arch fiend” and an enemy to the South, andjthe bill itself as a movement gotten up express')’ for the promotion of party, “con ceived in fraud and brought forth in iniquity.” ignored the fact that it was sup ported and finally successfully carried through Congress by the votes of Southern Democrats amMSouthern Whigs, aided by 44 Northern Democrats. • Notwithstanding the long and glorious re gard of Mr. Buchanan’s votes on the slavery during his protracted career in Con gross, his opinions on tlie annexation of Texas were made the subject of perversion, and he denounced as the “arch enemy of the South !” Iu the document where those opinions are to be found, he states in substance most distinct ly, that no consideration whatever could in duce him to withhold from the South her rights under the Constitution ; and this statement is verified to the fullest extent by every action of his life whilst a member of Congress, and oc cupying a leading position in the councils of his country. Bbth Speakers took special Cate, although occasionally alluding to the subject, not to con trast the rccorJ of the two candidates on the slavery question. Mr. Fillmore’s Erie Letter was entirely overlooked , w vote to <Whu-f> slaves’free when out upon the high seas, was forgotten ; ahd those in favor of abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, and forev er excluding it from the territories of the Uni ted States, were passed by in sileniie. And well they were, for the contrast taken from the record would have proved as striking as that between midnight and noon, and altogether against them. The broad light of Mr Buchanan’s lofty mind, lias ever shone over the whole extent of the Union, and illumined every part of the Constitution of his country, whilst the flicker ing torch of y>. Fillmore’s intellect, with but one exception, lias never sent is feeble light beyond the limits of the hazy atmosphere en veloping our Northern horizon. Mr Poe denounced Mr. Buchanan most un qualifiedly as the “arch enemy of the South,” and ventured so far into the field of fiction and hyperbole as to assert seriously that if Mr B. was elected President, slavery would speedily be abolished “throughout the Union.” This statement, I think, with many others he utter ed on the occasion, furnishing convinCifig evi dence that his thoughts were either not digest ed at all, or that Col. Hill, who preceded him,- “stole his thunder” by occupying most of his grounds, and -thereby left him under the neces sity for want of something new of firing impul sively and at random, like boys shooting birds in a brush-heap. Finally, Mr. Editor, the last speaker had Mr. Buchanan advising our Government in the celebrated Ostend Circular, if Spain would not sell Cuba for a just equivrdent, to take uncon ditional possession of that Island at once, and by force. We will not do Mr P. the injustice to suppose that he has ever read that Circular carefully, for if he had, notwithstanding the great cloud of prejudices overhanging his mind, he would never have made such a statement in such unqualified terms. The leading princi ple euunciated in the document referred to, when properly, understood, is so elevated in the patriotism of its sentiment, as that no true American, whether native born or adopted, can refuse to endorse it ; and we shall be un willing even to believe that the patriot sons of our revolutionary sires will stand inactive and silently by, when the very existence of their country is periled by movements set on foot in an adjacent country, the province ot a distant Empire in close alliance with the enemies of human freedom. Such, Mr Editor, are the chief positions ta ken by these distinguished speakers before their audience in Barnesville. If we have miscon strued, or iu any manner mil-interpreted either of them, we are sincerely sorry for it. Having no personal acquaintance with either, and en tertaining for each that high respect due to their positions, we are influenced to pen this criticism by no other motive than the love of the truth Other speakers followed them, and the day passed off quietly, a hopeful indication, I take it, of a peaceable and agreeable campaign. After surveying the ground occupied by the enemy, the Democratic hosts of Georgia have nothing to fear in the coming contest. Victo ry will inevitably perch upon our banner, and to effect a complete rout, and forever break up the camps of Know Nothingism in our midst, we have only to ‘spread ourselves'a few short months longer. BARNLSVILLL- August, 1856. Jel-liKS-HSS.OO.Iii | I’ rum the Atlanta Intelligencer. Democratic JWeefidg on Saturday. At a very late hour on going to press we have but a moment left to say to our distant readers that this meeting was a very auspi- I C , IO,JS a,ul . gratifying one. Indeed, from the very short notice made of it we feared that it would have been a failure as to numbers—but at an early hour in the day the crowds of men and women and the great number of vehicles in our streets removed all apprehensions on that score. l S f!i V 7°ri Ca 10W miiUy were P res ent, and our h lends differ among themselves as to that. no speaker of experience in such guesses puts the crowd down at 6,000, but we will wive oor opinion, which i5 nearer than any nner ical calculation: There were two Ughills full of people, and the most of them good listeners. Judge lllllyer opened the meeting after its organization. His speech was a ‘ calm and statesman-like view of our present political troubles, and a complete refutation of all the charges brought against the candidates of the democratic party. He was followed by Judge T. W. Thcmas, of Elbert, who was lis tened to for nearly two hours with rapt atten tion, while he delivered as forcible, as connect ed and as fair an argument as we ever heard from the stump ’I hose of our readers who have been so fortunate as to have heard Judge Thomas and see his manly and noble presence animated by a theme that fully engaged his powi rs, will, as a matter of course, expect that he was powerful and happy in his effort—and so we believe all who heard him Saturday will agree in saying. We defy any Southern man to answer his temperate atid Coniiritifig argu ment against the ruinous impolicy of dividing and frittering away our strength by running Mr Fdlmore for the Presidency. We do hope that every patriotic objector and opponent who heard Judge Thomas will ponder well the argument lie addressed with so much fairness and respect to their Judgement. Mr. Hull, of Athens, followed Judge Thom as in a compact andßeautiful address. Asa speaker he is as full of thought as an egg is of meat and has as little slip-slop about his style as any speaker we ever heard. We would re joice if we could be as hopeful of the Republic as the eloquent speaker. Democratic policy and success we believe with him, however, will save us if indeed it is the wdl of Heaven to spare us from the horrors of the wicked wil fullness of northern fanatics. Our old friend Mr. Ramsey, of Harris, next took the stand. .He is something better than a game cock, lie belongs to the higher typo of pluck found in the Silver Pheasant and gaf fed with a sarcasm keener than, a lancet; he drew blood every lick. Poor Rarfisay, if the abolitionists get us at last what will become of you ? You have the worst shape nck for a collar that we ever saw. We for one would not be your master for all that could be made out of you by the sturdiest nigger worshipper ■An earth „ Rut We fear your memory of the good old days of 6is most too vtvwTvvhen the very last that Georgians were tame enough to concede was the “Missouri line.' 1 ' 1 Now wfe tell you, our good fellow, there can be found, and got together SO,OOO men in Georgia who will fight you upon the issue of nigger or no nigger. All that is wanted is a leader with his banner inscribed upon it “death, to the democrats.” Judge Wright, of Rome, concluded the speaking and that’s enough to say. Judge Wright never yet disappointed an audience for he could speak, and no doubt does speak in his sleep a better speech than one hears from live know nothings wide awake. We say to the ‘black belt,” to the wire grass, to mankind geuerally, that the Cherokees ate on the hunt for Millard Fillmore’s voolly scalp, tomahawk in hand. Letter of U. S. Senator [Whig] in fa rorofßuchanan. Hon. Thos G Pratt, one of the Senators fiom Maryland in Congress of the United States, has addressed a powerful appeal to the Whigs in behalf of the democratic Presidential ticket. Asserting that the very life of the Union-is in danger from the Black Republican party, apd that the two organizations in opposition to it are those headed by Buchanan and Fillmore, he says the only question which Whigs should ask themselves is, which of these “offers the the best guarranicc of success in crushing out of existence this new and monstrous sectional party, which threatens the life of our country. He expresses the opinion that in most of the Northern States Fillmore will have, no electoral ticket, and states it as his ‘deliber ate judgement,’ that he cannot carry a single non-slaveholding State. His electoral votes, then, can come alone from the South; and should hi-- friends carry all that they claim for him—Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee—they at most do no more than car ry the election into the House of Representa tives, where his sueress is altogether out of the question.— Georgian <|* Journal. — flgy-At a recent meeting of the Connecticut Fillmore State Convention,Mr. Sumners, Presi dent of the Know Nothing State Council of N. York, made a speech, in which he denounced the Know Nothings who had goftfc 6ver to Fre mont, and highly eulogized Mr. Fillmore, de claring that he had the best freesoil reputation of any man in the country. lie asserted that every act of his political life was just what it should have been, except singning the fugitive slave law, and that it was his duty to do under the Constitution. These are the reasons why Fillmore is supported by the few in the’ Nortfc who will vote for him. ■ -4< ♦ Wonderful Discovry at the Mammoth Cave —On the 11th Inst., Stephen Bishop, the guide, and three students, Robert Taylor, Clarence Bate and WmL Stone., while rambling 1 iu the’ cave, discovered an entirely Unknown passage of some 2 miles in length. By this important discovery the cave, already the largest in the world is found to extend eleven miles instead of nine miles, as lias Hitherto bee* supposed This passage was found by the party to lead to chambers far surpassing all those formerly known • both in extent and magnificence. It is supposed that this discovery will lead to others of still greater importance, —Louisville Jour %al. Ko. 10.