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C|e dmyxxt jifatu GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Wednesday ’ior'lleSs|l|s|p’ Aus. 27Hi, 1556. FOR PRESIDENT : JAMES BUCHANAN. OF PENNSYLVANIA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT : J. C. BRECKENRIDGE. OP KENTUCKY - • Democratic Electoral Ticket. i FOR TIIE STATE AT LARGE. ELECTORS. , ALTERNATES. WM. W. STILE?, Henry G. Lamar. IVERSON L. HARRIS. A. B.Wright. ELECTORS. ALTERNATES. Ist Di.st. Thomas M. Foreman W M Nichqt.s. 2d “ Samuel Hall, I A Tucker. Oil “ J N Ramsey, E J McGeuee. 4th “ L J Gahtrell, J F Johnson. sth “ John W Lewis, L W Crook. Oth “ J I’ Simmons R McMillan. 7th “ T P Saffold, J S Hook. 6th “ A C Walker #“R G BYARS is our authorized Agent for the county o I'Butts. Consressioual. Washington, Aug. 23. The Senate having adhered to its amendment to the army bill, and the House having determined that the Kansas proviso shall be attached, the question on the passage of this bill is at an end.— Anew bill will be introduced on Monday, and may run the same fruitless course. Democratic Speaking. Hon. L. J. Gaktrei.l will address the citizens of Henry county, at McDonough, on the Ist Tuesday in September next. Go and hear him. Messrs. Cobb and Lumpkin will accept our thanks for valuable, public documents. ‘ • * Adjournment of Congress. Congress adjourned on the 18th inst. The bill’ appropriating money for the support of the Army,! was lost, on account of a disagreement between 1 the two Houses as to the proviso in reference to ‘ the employment of any portion of the Army in suppressing the rebellions movements of the fanat ics in Kansas. This proviso was tacked on to the bill reported by the committee of Ways and Means, as an amendment, in the House of Repre sentatives. The Senate struck it out, and the House refused to concur, and Congress adjourned without passing the Bill. The country is thus hit without tlie means of defence during the recess our sea coast exposed to attacks from foreign foes, and our frontier inhabitants to the merciless Indian’s tomahawk and scalping knife. And who is responsible for this unprecedented state of our public affairs ? The Black Republicans, who have the control of the House of Representatives. And why do they resort to this measure? To force -tiTC Dcmociatic party to abandon their policy’ in , regard to the Kansas and Nebraska Bill and the repeal of the Missouri Restriction. They are re solved upon making Kansas a free State, drive the South into their measures, or destroy the Govern ment. Kansas is the great bone of contention, between the two great opposing parties, the Dem ocrats and Black Republicans. This question, like the rod of the Jewish High Priest, has swal lowed up all others. And yet there are men at the South, yea, in Georgia, who are opposed to the Kansas and Nebraska Bill. And worse than that, there arelhousands at the South who are zealously supporting .a man for President, who is openly opposed to this measure, and thus throw ing the weight of his influence in favor of the Black Republicans, to aid them in defeating this great .measure of justice to the Southern people* Again WP ask, who is responsible for this deplorable .state of things which the action of the late Con gress has brought upon the country ? Again we answer, the Black Republicans. And. who put the Black Republicans in power? That great . champion of-the rights of American born citizens, who was to put down foreign influence, and check mate the Pope of Rome, we mean that mythologi cal genius, yclept S-a-m-u-e-l, alias Know Nofh ingism. By his aid, the Democrats of the North were beaten down and Abolitionists put in their places. This is “Americansruling America” with a vengance. I rom all such dominion may we ever he delivered. ■ ♦ • The Multiplatform Party. Ihe Know Nothing orators and presses some times manifest a great contempt for Platforms.— I his looks somewhat paradoxical, when w’e take into consideration the number of Platforms on which their candidates have placed “themselves since their nomination at Philadelphia. They pro less to be upon the Philadelphia Platform ; they accept the nomination made at Macon, and of course profess to be on that Platform ; and we have seen where they have accepted a nomination ten dered them from some other quarter. We are not surprised at the little regard which Mr.Fillmore’s friends have for Platforms, because one seems to suit their candidate about as well as another, and therefore they cannnot be expected to carry out the principles of any of their Platforms in good faith. Hence their horror for Platforms. They have a multiplicity of Platforms, and still denounce all. Oh what a consistent set of politicians ! # • •- . New Publications. The first number of the Cuthbcrt Reporter has reached us. It is published in Cuthbe r t, Ran dolph county, Ga., by B. F. White & Cos. The specimen plumber received, exhibits very respecta ble mechanical execution, and the contents promise much ability in its future management. It pro fesscs to t,e “independent in all things ; neutral in Ua f’ w e extend to our friend, the Major, the right hand of fellowship, and wish him abun dant success in his editorial labors. The-Educational Journal is’,'the'titlc of anew paper recently established in [Forsyth, Ga. It is printed in quarto form, and contains a large amount of reading matter. It is printed on good paper, wijb good type, and is devoted to the educational interests ol Georgia. Edited by Messrs. R. T. Aslmry A AV. C. Wilkes, and (published by B. R. Gi Linger A Cos. Price $2 per annum in advance. .Editorial Change. Col. Thomas C. Howard has withdrawn from the editorial chair of the Atlanta Intelligencer. The paper will for the present be conducted by Mr. it-’ former Editor and Proprietor. Fatal Accident. On Monday evening last, a young man and his wife, named Ogletree, from Monroe county, were dri ving down Hill street, when the horse suddenly stopped, commenced kicking and rearing, up. By some twitch or other of the reins, the horse was thrown upon his head and broke his neck. Buggy, damaged slightly; horse worth S2OO. It is suppos ed the horse became frightened at the evening train of car:. Tlie CatlioliC3 and Slavery. It is not our desire at this late day, to raise up the ghost of Know Nothingism, in all its hideous deformities, as exhibited in its oaths and rituals of last year. We know that many, very many of the members of that secret oath-bound political Order, who still adhere to the so-called Amcricau Party, are truly ashamed of many of the principles and practices of that Order ; and were it not that their presses occasionally permit their hostility to the Catholics to betray them into some indiscreet thrusts at that religious denomination, we would be content to let poor Ham sleep undisturbed in his grave, “unwept, unhonorcjl and unsung.” But their old enmity will not suffer them to do the Cath olics, in this country, justice, and they are frequent ly endeavoring to create the impression that the Catholics arc unsafe upon the slavery question.— They dare not charge upon those living South any want of fidelity to Southern Institutions, but re present this branch of the Christian Church, at the North, as wholly unsound upon the slavery question. We will not undertake to say that none of the members of that Church are tainted with Abolitionism ; we know there are some thus in fected. But we will say, that take them as a body, North and South, they are as true to the Consti tution of the country, and to the rights of the peo ple in every section of the Union, as any other re ligious denomination. And in the North we be lieve they are more so, with the exception of the Hard Shell Baptists. As an evidence of the truth of this position, it is only necessary to refer to those Three Thousand Christian!!! Ministers who signed the petition to Congress against the Kansas and Ne braska Bill ; among that vast number of professed Ministers of the various religious denominations of the country, it has been asserted, and we believe it to be true, that there was not to be found one Catholic or Herd Shell Baptist ! Does not this speak volumes in behalf of the soundness of these peo ple on the question of slavery ? Yet Kcow Noth ing stump orators and newspapers still tell us the Catholics are going to ruin the country ; ruin the South, because a large majority of them are for eigners who mostly settle at the North, and owe allegiance to the Pope of Rome. The Irish pop ulation in this country, are generally Catholics in their religious faith, and they are almost universal ly Democrats. The first political exclamation they learn to utter as soon as they laud in this country, is “Hurrah for General Jackson !” and walk right I * ° i into the Democratic ranks. At the North, the en emies of the South say Slavcocracy and Democra cy are identical. And the universal creed of the party is, “protection to the rights of all sections of the Union,” and therefore a true Democrat cannot be an Abolitionist ; hence it is clear that the great mass of the Catholics being Democrats, must ne cessarily be sound on the slavery question. We are no apologist for the religious tenets of this Or der of Christians. With many of them we are totally at variance. But we do profess to be the friend and advocate of religious toleration, and therefore our feeble arm shall ever be nerved in de fence of the political rights of Catholics as well as Protestauts. Public Speaking. j On Thursday evening last, the Hon. James 11. | Stark addressed the Buchanan and Breckenridge i Club, of this county, w ith much zeal and ability. | Ilis speech was a plain, common sense argument, | addressed to the reason and the judgment of his bearei’s, with a simplicity and cogency of reasoning which made it intelligible to all This is the kind of speaking which produces effect, when the voice of conscience whispers its admonitions, in the hour of cold and cool reflection. .We joyfully welcome the Judge again to the political rostrum from which he has long been a stranger on accouut of his position as the presiding officer of our Judicial District. E. W. Beck followed in a few remarks, pertinent, bold, convincing. Mr. B. is a young man of fine promise, and bids fair to excel in the art of public speaking. “Buck and Breck” are doing well in Spalding. Appointments by tlie Governor. . Jas M Spullock, Superintendent of the W. &A. Railroad, vice James F. Cooper, resigned. A. A. Gaulding. Auditor of the W. & A. Rail road, viee James M Spullock, promoted. HfeYTlead the advertisement of Messrs. Ragland & Gaulding in another column. Bargains—yes bargains may be had, both in regard to the quality and prices of goods. < > Dentistry. Wc have seen a very remarkable specimen of a late improvement in Dentistry. It was shown us by Messrs. Lunquest & Lavender, and was manu factured at their office. It was an upper and low er set of teeth, fixed in Gutta Percba instead of Gold. This is a recent invention, and has not yet been sufficiently tested to prove its durability.— Should it succeed, it will lessen the cost of artifi cial teeth at least one-half, and bring this great blessing (good teeth) within the’ means of many who are unable to afford the expensive work here tofore put up. Pomological Curiosity. Mrs. Hendley Varner, of Spalding county, a few days since, presented us with a specimeu ofap ples, which is very rare in this country. It is call ed the “Ladies’ Apple,” about the size of the com mon wild apple ; colored like the yellow plum, and shaped very much like the Marillo Cherry, and ve ry pleasant to the taste. The trees were brought from the North, and the fruit is indeed a curiosity. Mrs. Varner will accept our thanks for this mark of her kind regard, and our best wishes for her success in all her undertakings, and especially in fruit raising. Mr. A. Sledge will also accept our acknowledge ments for a large lot of fine soft peaches, and two large citrons. His appreciation’ of the good-will ol the printer, shows that he i man of sense and judgment. . Cupidity and envyV/uld not resist the ne ver-ebbiug, successful tjjfif “Dr. M’Lane’s Ver mifuge and Liver Pills” throughout the land. Se veral miserable imitations have already made their appearance, and whose mission, where they suc ceed in imposing upon the public, will.be to sick en and destroy. If any of our readers use the ar ticles, they had better'examine carefully, aud see that the outside wrapper of each box or vial be signed Fleming Bros. Without this signature they cannot be genuine. Fleming Bros., Pitts burg, Pa., are the sole pioprietors and manufac turers. That Ten Cents Charge. The opposition to Mr. Buchanan set out with a charge that he once had .declared “that he was in favor of reducing the wages of labor to ten cents a day.” This picayune game has been abandoned by all, except the most unscrupulous of the Ivuow Nothing and Abolition orators and presses, who still persist in repeating the charge, though the friends of Mr. Buchanan have hurled defiance in their teeth, and even pecuniary rewards have been offered to any one who would produce satis factory evidence of the truth of’ the charge. The rewards yet remain unclaimed while tlie slander is persisted in. Now all this slang about the “10 cents per day,” is manufactured out of a speech made by Mr. Buchanan in support of Gen. Jack son’s policy towards the United States Bank. The desperate struggle which that venerable patriot had with that hydra-headed monopoly* is yet fresh in the recollection of many of our readers. It was a leading feature in his Administration to check the arrogance of the overgrown monster, and establish a sound currency, founded upon a pure specie basis. The contest was long and bit ter. The responsibility way awful, yet the old pa triot boldly assumed it, and though opposed by the corrupted and paid minions of the Bank, as well as by many mistaken, though honest and pure pa triot-*, he finally triumphed. The sub-treasury sys tem was engrafted upon the financial policy of the Government, and the result has triumphantly de monstrated the wisdom and foresight of General Jackson in the course he pursued. When the fa tal deed (the veto of the United States Bank Char ter.) was clone, the country stood aghast at the ap parent rashness of the iron-nCrved patriot ; his foes raged with redoubled fury ; his friends trem bled with fearful apprehension for the consequen ces, and some of them fled from him in terror and dismay. But there were others who were made of sterner stuff They stuck the closer to their old Chief, and battled under his banner, till the victo ry was won. Among that number stood pre-emi nent in the front rank, James Buchanan, the nomi nee of the Democratic Party. He boldly and elo quently advocated every where the policy of Jack son's Administration, and in a speech in support of this measure, he used the language which his ene mies have tortured into advocacy of “ten cents a clay for labor.” He was illustrating tlie effects of a sound pure currency, upon the general interests of a country, by referring to the sounder circulat ing medium of other countries, and showed that its effect was to lessen the price of labor, and at the same time, and in tho same proportion, lessen the price of the articles consumed by the laboring classes, and by placing money in their pockets which would not depreciate, confer alasting benefit upon this class of community. This is the origin of the “ten cents” charge. Let those who are at this late day opposed to Gen. Jackson, and his po licy in regard to the currency, oppose Mr. Buchan an for the active part he took in sustaining Gen. Jackson and his Administration. Extra Session of Congress. A friend sent us a dispatch yesterday from Washington City, announcing that the Presi ’ dent has been compelled to call an extra ses ! sion of Congress. The failure of the Black ! Republican and Know Nothing majority, in | the Ilepresentave branch of Congress, to pass , important bills to sustain the government, has compelled the President to convene an extra session of Congress. Every patriotic citizen will applaud the promptness and energy displayed by the Presi dent in issniug his Proclamation for an Extra Session. It is a just rebuke to those disorgan izing- fanatics and demagogues, who, by then votes, insisting on the Kansas amendment to j the army bill, made, it necessary. They mis i took tlie Senate in supposing it would counte- I nance treason and rebellion by omitting to arm j the President with the necessarypporerw r er for en forcing law and order in Kansas. They mis took tin? President in supposing, that when the House insisted on embarrassing the army bill, with its prohibition of the use of the army in Kansas, thus causing its. loss, .he would shrink from compelling them to rc-assenible. The President has again nobly manifested his disre gard of anti-slavery clamor, and proved his fi delity to the Constitution and his oath of of fice. , The whole country will now have fair view of the factionists who are pursuing the game of rule or ruin. Even the fanatical constitu ents of these demagogues and traitors will have time to pause in their mad career, and weigh well the cost of their folly. There is conserv atism enough even in the most Abolition infect ed States, to cause some check to the disunion tendencies of their Congressmen, and an out side pressure will lie brought to bear on them even from home, that will force some of them to retrace fheir steps. Let the President and the Democratic party stand firm—let the uni ted South, in the Lou’er House,stand firmly up to the President and to the Senate, and all will be sa fe. —Const it iitiond list. Col Benton on Fremont.— The Hon. Thos. 11. Benton, in a letter dated the 10th inst. recommend ing the -withdrawal of the Benton electoral ticket in Missouri, thus refers to Col. Fremont. , “There is a design here, on the part of some, to put up an electoral ticket for Fremont, about which no one speaks to nic, as I have character enough to keep at a distance, all class of persons who, dishonorable themselves, could approach a man with a dishonorable proposition. But my sentiments are known, and that I should consider such a step injurious under any aspect—mortifying to Fremont himself, from the small vote the ticket would receive—and injurious to the public, by ag gravating the sectional feeling which now arrays each half of the Union against the other. I was opposing the bringing out of Fremont for nearly half a year before those who now charge me with promoting it, knew t>f any sach design. There are cases, in which, public duty rises above personal consideration, though there are a great many peo ple who cannot conceive it possible. Thus, when I supported Jackson, (with whom I had been on ill terms,) thirty years ago, the sordid motive of office was assigned for it; now, when* I support Buchanan, (with whom I am on ill terms) and support him against a number of my own family, the same class of people can see nothing in it but falsehood and treachery. Incapable; themselves, of anything disinterested and patriotic,they believe others to be equally so, and attack, with base mo tives, all the actions which are above the compre hension of their political morality. Then and Now. Who rose into political lifd upon the Anti-Ma sonic excitement in New York? Millard Fill more. Who, by the use ofa counterfeit Morgan, got in to Congress to invariably vote against the South ? Millard Fillmore. Who, after denouncing secret societies to ride into public life, afterwards took the seret oaths of Know Nothingism ? Millard Fillmore. Who was initiated in the K. N. Lodge, No. 177, in New York, with ull the mummery and oaths] bv Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs? MILLARD FILLMORE. l’eoplc of Georgia ! These are established facts. A 1 swer by your votes bow you like this character. - >')Hthern Banner. Political Meeting. W illiamsville, Pike co., Ga.,) August 16, 1856. | According to notice, a considerable crowd met at this place to-day, to hear a political speech from Col. G. A. Hall, an old line Whig. Upon motion of Judge Speer, W. D. Thomp son was called to the Chair, and J. A. ‘Wil liams requested to act as Secretary. Col. .Hall being introduced, took the position that the contest was alone between Buchanan • and Fremont, as Fillmore only run by the North as a blind. He argued and proved con clusively that the Whig Party no longer had an existence, and it behooved every conserva tive man to ally himself with the Democratic Party as the only National organization to which the South could look for safety. This party is for the principles of the Kansas Ne braska Act, in’ which are guaranteed the con stitutional rights of the South. He contrasted the Philadelphia Platforms, and asserted with out fear of contradiction, that an American of 1855, could not consistently support Mr. Fill more. He briefly alluded to the Cincinnati Platform, its principles of equal rights and non-intervention policy ; also the standard-bear er of that Platform, their capabilities, honesty, soundness, &c. I perceive that time and space will not allow following the speaker through the whole of his interesting and truly forcible speech of two hours, during which time he poured hot shot and bomb shells into the dilapidated ranks of Sam like a thousand of brick, scattering asun der every vestige of his claims to the Presiden cy, not leaving a greasy spot to mark his de mise, and in next November his epitaph will be indelibly written, tekel. So set down the Bloody Ninth almost a unit for Buchanan and Kansas. W. D. THOMPSON, Ch’n. J. A. Williams, Secretary. [F rom the Constitutionalist.] jgigf* Extract from a letter received by one of our large business houses, dated Boston, Aug. 13, 1856. Madness rules the hour with us, and politi cians of the Black Republican school arc ready and willing to risk the Union on the question of slavery extension. I have voted since 1818, and for nine Presidents, all of whom have been elected but three, and I expect to see our fa vorite of the Keystone State, triumphantly j elected. Under no circumstances could I touch that sacred instrument, the Constitution, not even as “Sumner” said, as “I understand it.” It was intended that the people should make their own laws in States, unrestricted, and the coustruction I would place upon the subject of noh-intervention, now and forever. I think much on this subject at tills time—and old Massachusetts (ever opposed to the govern ment,) may yet, in her divisions, be not sure for Fremont ; many are the chances to divide his party here; Rhode Island and Vermont will vote for him, and Ohio also—lowa possi bly, too. Thus in the greatest extreme Buch anan, I think, will get all but four States, and two of them uncertain. We consider now that New Hampshire is sure, Connecticut also, and Maine is fully or ganized, and the work is being done up in good order. Thus, for the opinions of a Northern man, who never flinches in liis duty, in spite of the anathemas, “dough-faces,” &c., which are daily hurled at us. Mr. Cobb, of Georgia, shelled them well in Portland, and Benjamin also gave them good points. Wc will not here accept of two hundred elec toral votes, for we feel certain that Buchanan will obtain more. The Ilider of The Army Bil3. The following is the provision which the Black Republican Know Nothings in the rep resentative branch of Congress, insist upon at taching to the army bill, and which the Senate by a large majority, declare shall not be added to the bill.— — [Ex. Provided, however, and it is hereby declared, that no part of the military force of the United States, for the support ofwhich appropriations are made by this act, shall be employed in aid of the inforcement of any enactment of the body claiming to be the Territorial Legislature of Kansas until such enactments shall have been affirmed and approved by Congress; but this proviso shall not be so construed as to pre vent the President from employing an adequate military force; but it shall be his duty to em ploy such force to prevent the invasion of said Territory by armed bands of non-residents, or any other body of non-residents, acting or claiming to act as a posse comitatus of any of ficer in said Territory, in the enforcement, of any such enactment, aud to protect the persons and property therein, and upon the national highways leading to said territory, from all un lawful searches and seizures; and it shad be his further duty to take efficient measures to j compel the return of and withhold all arms of the United States, distributed in or to said Territory, in pursuance of any law of the Uni ted States authorizing the distribution of arms to the States and Territories. The following are the items of apppropriations of the bill which thus hangs suspended upon this proviso: For the support of the army— Army proper $10,580,249 Armories arsenals and minutes of war. .935,040 Military academy 1t3,894 Fortifications and other works of de fence 1,745,300 Surveys, &c • 122,000 Miscellaneous objects 1,400,000 A rrearages 2,000 “What is to become of the Whites.” Such is the question which the Cincinnati En quirer urges very appropriately on the attention of the besotted and debauched idolaters of the ab olition dagon, who are lashing themselves into fa natical convulsions. From this article, we extract a passage of some interest aud value from snch a source. “Nothing is more easily demonstrated than that the North lias a greater interest in the continuance of slavery in the South, than the South itself. All the burden, blight and evil of slavery fall upon the South. The North quietly divides the products of the labor, washes its hands of all the sinfulness of it, and is protected from all its evils and incon veniences. Kvery pound of cotton raised in tie South adds to the wealth of the North. Boston makes more out of each bale shipped from New Qrleans than the latter city: she makes it .in the freight of cotton aboard ou her ships, in tbo sup ply of raw material for her manufactories, and iu the articles required by the planter to produce it, which are fabricated by Northern artisans. “No wonder tho North prospers so much more than the South. She lias all the benefits of slave ry and none of its evils. She taxes the South for her support and enrichment. Let slavery be abol ished in the South, mid you may reverse the rela tions of the two sections. The North will then have to support those whose consumption has so long burdened and weakened the South. We be lieve that the abolition of slavery would he a great evil to the country, but in the division of the evil the North would come in for the largest share.” Hurrah ! for Buck and Brock. Official. By the President of the U. S. of America. A PROCLAMATION. \ Whereas, whilst hostilities exist with various Indian tribes on the remote frontiers of the U. S., and whilst in other respect the public peace 5 is seriously threatened, Congress has adjoured ( without granting necessary supplies for the Ar- ‘ my, depriving the Executive of’ the power to perform his duty in relation to the common de fence and security, and an extraordinary occa sion has thus arisen for assembling the two Houses of Congress*: I do therefore, by this my proclamation, convene the said Houses to meet at the Capital, in the City of Washington, on Thursday, the 21st day of August, instant; hereby requiring the respective {Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble, to consult and determine on such measures as the state of the Union may seem to require. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto [l. s.] affixed and signed the same with my hand. Done at the City of ’Washington, the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord one; thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and the ! independence of the United States the eighty first. Franklin Fierce. By Order: W. L. Marey, Sc’ty. of State. President’s Message. FclloiO Clli-cvs of the Senate and House of lieprcscnlalivcs. In consequence of the failure of Congress at; its recent session, to make provision for the j support of the Army, it became imperatively , incumbent oi me to exercise the power which the Constitution confers on the Executive for 1 extraordinary occasions, and promptly to eon-j veue the two Houses iu order to afford them an j opportunity ol’ reconsidering a subject of such i vital iuterest to the peace and welfare of the j Union. With exceptions of a partial authority rest- 1 ed by law in the Secretary of War, to contract 1 for supply of clothing and subsistence, the Ar my is wholly dependent on the appropriations annually made by Congress. The omission of Congress to act, iu this respect, before the ter mination of the fiscal year, had already caused, i embarrassments io the service, which were over j come only in expectation of appropriations be ; fore the close of the present month. If the j requisite funds be not speedily provided, the j Executive will no longer be able to furnish the ■ transportations, equipments and munitions, which are essential to the-effectiveness of a mil- j itary force in the field. With no provision for ! the pay of troops, the contracts of enlistment j I would be broken, and the Army must in effect■ | be disbanded ; the consequence of which would ibe so disastrous as to demand all possible c-f- ; forts to avert the calamity. It is not merely that the officers and enlisted men of the Army are to be thus deprived of; the pay aud emoluments to.which they are en titled by standing laws ; that the construction of arms at the public armories, the repair and construction of ordnance at the arsenals, and the manufacture of military clothing and camp equipage must be discontinued ; and the persons connected with this branch of the pub lic service thus be deprived suddenly of the em ployment essential to their subsistence. Nor is li merely the waste consequent on the forced > abandonment of the sea board fortifications, ; and of the interior military posts ancUother es | tablislunents, and the enormous expense of re • cruiting and reorganizing the Army, and again distributing it over the vast regions which it now occupies. These are evils, which may, it is true, be repaired hereafter by taxes inqtosed on the country. But other evils arc involved, which no ex penditures however lavish, could remedy—in comparison with which local and personal inju ries and interests sink into insignificance. A great part of the army is situated on the remote frontier, or in the deserts and mountains of the interior. To discharge large bodies of men in such places, without the means of re gaining their homes, aud where few, if any, could obtain subsistence by honest industry, would be to subject them to suffering andtcinp tation, with disregard of justice and right most derogatory to the Government. In the Territories of Washington and Ore gon, numerous bands of Indians are in arms, and are waging a war of extermination against the white inhabitants ; and although our troops are already carrying on the campaign, we have no intelligence as yet of a’ successful result.— On the western plains, notwithstanding the im posing display of military force recently made there, and the chastisement inflicted cm the re bellious tribes, others, far from being dismayed, have manifested hostile intentions, aud been guilty of outrages, which, if not designed to provoke a conflict, serve to show that the ap prehension of it is insufficient wholly to restrain their vicious propensities. A strong force in the tState of Texas has produced the tempora ry suspension of hostilities there ; but in New Mexico, incessant activity on the part of the troops is required to keep in check the marau ding tribes which infest the Territory. The hostile Indians have not been removed from the State of Florida ; and the withdrawal of the troops therefrom, leaving the object unae- j complished, would be most injurious to the in-! habitants, and a breach of tho positive engage- j ment of the General Government. To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is to compel the complete cessation of all its ope rations, and its practical disbandment, and thus to invite hordes of predatory savages from the western plains and the Rocky Mountains to spread devastation along a frontier of more tiiau four thousand miles in extent, and to de liver up the sparse population of a vast tract of country to rapine and murder. Such, in substance, would be the direct and immediate effects of the refusal of Congress, for the first time in the history of the Govern ment, to grant supplies for the maintenance of the army ; the inevitable waste of millions of public t reasure—the infliction of extreme wrong upon all persons connected with the military establishment by service, employment or con tracts—the recall of forces from the field—the fearful sacrifice of life and incalculable destruc tion of property on the remote frontiers—the striking of our national flag on the battlements of the fortresses which defend our maritime ci ties against foreign invasion—the violation of public honor and good faith—and the discredit of the United States in the eyes of the civilized world. I confidently trust that these considerations, and others appertaining to the domestic peace of the country which cannot fail to suggest themselves to every patriotic mind, will, on re flection, be duly appreciated by both Houses of Congress, and induce the enactment of the requisite provisions of law for the support of the army of the United States. FRANKLIN PIERCE. Washington, August 21, 1856. 4®* We had a very good shower of rain, on Sunday evening, the 24th iost. Prospects in Maryland. Je friend now on a visit to Maryland writes us as follows in regard to the prospects of Buchanan in that State:— Gen. fy Journal When Fillmore accepted his nomination, I set down Maryland as probably good for his electorial ticket. I continued to be of this opiniomon until since my arrival here. Now, I have backed the oposite opinion by the venture ot a sombrero. This change is founded upon the tact that, with but one or two exceptions, eveiy prominent whig in the State is advoca ting the election ot James Buchanan. Ido not follow the example of a certain near neighbor ot yours, and make this assertion at hazard. - / can name the men. Besides the two U S Senators Pratt and Pearce, I name cx-Senator Merrick, Chambers and Johnson, Judge Ecles ton, of the Court of Appeals, Alex. Evans, late whig member of Congress from this district, Col. J (’. Goodin, an old Clay whig, well known throughout the State. In this county, I do not know a single lawyer of any standing who is now with the democratic party. And I be lieve I might almost say jhe same of every county in the State. | \\ ith these lads before me. I cannot believe i but that Maryland is safe for Buchanan and the Union. In Y\ ashiugton nobody is so ignorant as to talk of Fillmore’s prospects seriously. The contest is known to be between Buchanan and Fremont, and no democrat wishes Fillmore out of the field. The dcmocratis know that in the Northern States every vote cast for Fillmore is a vote taken from Fremont. Carroll. A gentleman writing to the editor of the Savannah Georgian,- from Carrollton, says, that Carroll will give Buchanan only one thou sand, or one thousand one hundred majority, in November, as three hundred votes were cutoff to the new county, Haralson, by the last Leg islature; two hundred and sevent y four of whom are for Buchanan. Only one thousand majori ty ! why did’nt he say only all ? Where is Mr. Benjamin Hill? —-Atlanta Intelligencer. Mr. Overby Declines rise Nomina* tion. This gentleman, says the Georgia Platform, who was last year the candidate of the Prohibi tionists, and who was recently nominated by the Fillmore Know Nothing party, as alternate for Presidential elector in the 4th Congßcssion al District, declines the nomination tendered him, as may be seen by the following extract from the Crusader : “He stated to the Convention, that he had recently been nominated as an elector in the | Presidential campaign, but he said he positive ly could not accept the nomination, assigning as his reasons, that he could not mix and com mingle with the evils and contaminating ele ments attendant upon a political campaign.” Buclsanan.on Slavery. lion. James Buchanan, in 1826, in a speech in the House of Representatives, uttered the following noble sentiment : “Is there an/ man in this Union who could, for one moment, indulge the horrid idea of abolishing slavery, by the massacre of the high minded, and the chivalrous race of men at the ! South ? 1 trust there is not one. FOR MY | OWN PART. I WOULD, WITHOUT | HESITATION, BUCKLE ONMYKNAP jSACK, AND MARCH, in company with my i friend from Massachusetts, (Mr. Everett,) IN I DEFENCE OF THEIR CAUSE.” The Germans in Connecticut. . There has been much said against the Bermans; land some Know Nothing papers, South, seem to i rejoice that some of them, instead of voting for : Buchanan, will go for Fremont. “When the South* has so much at stake, and the Democratic party alone has thrown itself into the breach, is not such, malignant rejoicings ill-timed and reprehensi ble ! But we are rejoiced to notice an immense mass I meeting’ of the Germans of Connecticut, at liart ; ford, who were unanimous for. Buchanan. Though I lie is there called by the Black Republicans the ; slavery candidate, the meeting passed the follow jig : • Rewired, That we approve of and adopt tho Plat fox m of the Democratic National Convention,, i recently assembled in Cineinnatti. This shows their national position to be right ;; ! for tlry are planted on a sound platform, which gutu sinti-es the Constitutinonal rights of every sec tion. Tbev stand firm, even in this land of “wood en nutmegs, though native Abolition Know Noth ings and Black Republicans howl in concert against us. Let us make an united charge upon the enenmy of the Constitution—upon the enemies of the Kiutsas bill—upon our enemies : “Oned more our glorious banner ont I pou the breeze we throw, IJcneath its folds with song or shout We ll charge upon the foe.’’ Southern Banner. Jit hern Defence. Speaking i>f tho threats of the free-soilers to ‘subjugating ihc South*” in ease she should” re sist tho execution of (heir purpose, the Rich mond Despatch makes some remarks which meet our hearty commendation:—[Ex. To such insults the south ought not to reply jin words. But one thing is certain—if she has ! any leading minis left, it she has statesmen in I W ashington and iu her State government ! worthy of the vast interests they represent, and they do not. consult together and calmly and fully prepare ,I‘or the future, they are false to their country pud will be. responsible for all the ruin and misery, that may conic upon her head. Let southern leaders, without distinc tion of party, prepare for any contingency that may come upon the South. The political horizon is full of signs of com ing hurricane, and the roar of the breakers is already in our ears. Woe, woe to the pilot who at such an horn* sleeps at his post! A punishment more terrible than that which the vilest abolitionist of them all deserves, is due i to Southern statesmen who in the face of such warnings as continually sound in their cars, neglect to provide for the safety of” their coun- • try. Reutou*s Electoral Ticket Taken Down. A dispatch from St. Louis, says the Georgia Platform, states that the Benton electoral tick et for Buchanan and Brcckenridge, has been withdrawn in Missouri. Before the recent election in that State, it was feared that this ticket might give Missouri to Fillmore. * Cholera.— The cholera is committing fear ful ravages at Guana, Porto Rico, among the blacks. The epidemic was more violent than usual, and had assumed the character of a plague. Elevated localities as well as habita tions upon low ground were severly attacked. Every expedient had been resorted to to prevent the spread of the contagion to other portions of jhe island. It's hot a few about these digs ins, fchure.