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ft. ft. ©iiolr. Vol. 2. THE EMPIRE STATE IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, By A A. Graulding. VsttXS: TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE, OR THREE DOL LARS AFTER SIX .MONTHS, PER Ifcftt'M. ‘WrOffice ap-slairs ever W. IU Phillips & ’ Advertisements ifs lAWslSfea at Oii’e Dollar per .quaie for he Ui-4t insertion, and Fifty Ceuta per square for each in ertiou thereafter. . A reasonable deductWfi will be made to thos'e who adver tise by the year. All Adoerliaements not otherwise draertd will be continu ed till forbid. ■ Bales of Lauda 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 Gazette forty days previous .to the day of Vl>Je, Ji of Negroes must ho made at public auction on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual ttouAs of sale, jt the place of public sales in the county where the Letters -.Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may nave been granted—first giving forty days notice thereof in jjne of the public Gazettes of the State, and at the Court Meuse where such sale is to be held, i , Noticfe for the sale of Personal Property must be given in Tij® Viiahner, forty days previous to the day of sale, j. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be published forty days. f Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for two months. Notice for leaVe to Sell Negroes must be published two 5 ontlis before any order absolute shall be nlad'c thereon by he Court. r .Citations for Letters Os Administration must l publish isd thirty days ; for Dismission from Administration, month W iik months ; for 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 las frorfi ExeCutOrs and Administrators, where a bond has leen given by the deceased, for tlVe space of three months DANIEL&.DISMUKE, Attorneys at Law, Will practice in the District Court of the United States •at Marietta. Airiitin, Georgia. L. U. DANIEL, R. b. bXS&UKK. May 3,1855. ts W. POPE JORDAN, Attorney at Law, ’SCcbuiou, tlcorjgla. WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit. May 3,1855. ts J. 11. MANGHAM, Attorney at Law, (iIUVFIK, GEOIUiU. May 3, 1855-1 y 1 WM. 11. F. HALL, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, . ZEBULON GEORGIA. July 4, 1855. fi-tf A. B. WiI.LIAMS, Attorney at law, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. “tXyiLL practice in the Counties composing the Flint VV Circuit. By permission, refers to Hon. Hiram War ner, ‘Greenville \ Uevi M. Adams, Greenville ; Hon. G. J Ween, Griffin : Hon. James It. Stark, Griffin ; llcv. Will iam Moseley, Griffin* June 2nd, 1856...-. . 6 ly. nu— : rr ■-.vatrrm.r". —— —- *o3Bl*ll A. THRAS&fefc,. .*.v •. .v. .t . .JAMES M. HAMBKICK ‘Til It AS HER k IIAMBRICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW McDaiiongh, x \ *, Georgia. April 30, 1856 1 ly V. W. A. DOYLE, K. R. KANSONB. DOYLE k RAN SON E, ATTORNEYS A t LAW , Griffin ................ .Gbofglsh April 16, 1856 50.... 3m A- T. DOYAL, 0. Mi NOLAN. DOYAL k NOLAN > ATTORNEYS AT LAW) McDonough, ; Goovgla., WILL practice in the counties of Henry, Fulttth, Fay ette, Coweta, Spalding, Butts, Monroe and Newton *®-Rkfjebencb— I Themselves,-£S April 2, 1856 48....1y Q . C . GRICE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA. May 15,1856......3 if. JAMES H. STARK, ATTORNEY AT L AW, Griffin, Borgia. 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 WH IT AKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW , ‘Offiee front Rooms, over John R. Wallace & Bros., corner of White Hall and Alabama streets, ATLANTA, GEOIIG.A. January 30,1856... .ts W. L. GORDON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA January 30, 1856 39 ly HENRY HENDRICK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jackson, Butts County, Georgia May 3, 1855. ts A D. NUNN ALLY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. June, 27,1855. W- UNDERWOOD, HAMMOND & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WILL give personal attention to all business entrusted to their management, and attend the Sixth Circuit Courtof the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court at Macon and Decatur, and the Superior Courts in Cobb, Morgan, Newton, DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, Pike, Caw, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup, Whitfield and Gordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county, tOhattanooga,) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. tt V, L. GBICK, WM. S. WALLACE; GRICE & WALLACE, ATTORNEYS AT L AW, BUTLER, GEORGIA. PERSONS intrusting business to them may rely on their fidelity, promptness and care. Dec. 10, ’55-33-ly. GARTRELL & GLENN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. WILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, De- Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car nil, Hnry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding. lArjius J. Gartrell, | Luther J. Glenn, Formerly of Washington, Ga. | FormerlyofMcDoncugh,Ga. May 16, 1855. 3tf T* WHITE LEAD! ~ lAn KRGS No. 1, Extra and Pure White Lead, just re lUU ceived and for sale by HILL & SMITH. Griffin, B@pt 19, oo ts M. M. LOCKHART AGAIN resumes the practice of PHYSIC and SURGE RY. Griffin, Ga., September 24, 1856 22....tf bit. danteL TENDERS bis professional services as a Physician and Surgeon, to the citizens of Griffin and vicinity. g®"Office on the same floor with the Empire State, Griffin, March 5, 1856..... .44 .. .ly DR. KNOTT HAS changed hi* residence and office to the first lot be low Mrs. Reeves’ 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 calls, except when professionally engaged. Griffin, Ga.. May 3,1855- ly DR. BROWN HAYING associated himself in the practice of Medicine and Surgery, with Dr. WM. M. HARDWICK, would, by this menus'! 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 til's firm, name and stvl'e'rff HARDWICK & BROWN, ®”During the absence of Dr. Brown, Di. Hardwick wil always be found in the Office, unless professionally engaged WM. M. HARDWICK,. H. W. BUOWN. Grifflu. May 14, 1856 3... ts DR. D. 317 WILJLI A3IS, II E S 1 I) EX T P HYSICIA N, GHIEFIN, •. GEORGIA. ®3„Officeon Hill Street, over Banks’Boot & Shoe Store. May 3, 1855. ts J. & W. J. Kelly, Commission and Fo near ding “MO 37 o ld. €Xld , Chattanooga, TERNESsEfe. September 10, 1856 20....tf A Card. DR. LEROY SNEED respectfully calls the attention ‘Of those who are afflicted with ChronicDisteasfes, hiale and female, to hi* practice. After fourteen years of constant practice, he feels assured that he is able to cure all dis eases that can be relieved by the aid of medicine in a chronic form, such as Liver Complaints, Dyspepsia, Infla ination of the Spleen, Rheumatism, Piles in every form, Scrofula, Scald-Head, Tetter, Retention of ‘the Menses, Suppression of the Mensbs, painful and imperfect Mens truation, Flouralbus, and all other diseases peculiar to females. Medicine can be sent by mail to any part of the State or joining States at the shortest notice and very little cost, by sending me all tile symptoms of the disease and five dollars, on the receipt of which, I will send medi cine for one month with full directions. Persons that wish to come and be with me, can get board from tfen to twelve dollars per month. I could give a hundred certificates if it was necessary, of mv success in chronic diseases: Reference, lion. James H.Stark, Wm. R. Mosely, M. D. A Gray, Judge A. A. Gaulding, L. W. Cooper, Esq, Col. W. li.Phillips, Col. J. H. Logan. Aug. PS, 185 G 16.... ts INFIRMARY. THE undersigned have opened, in the city of Atlanta, an Infirmary, for the reception of patients laboring under medical or surgicaltreatment. An intelligent nurse and faithful servants will be in con stant attendance, and will give their attention to the sick at all hours, day or night, when required. The surgical department will be under the control of W. F. WESTMORELAND, who will give prompt attention to injuries,and every variety of disease requiring surgical operations. The usual fees adopted by the physicians of tire city will be charged, with fifteen cents per day for board, &c. Planters and others sending negroes may rest assured that they will be properly attended to, and, if after an ex amination it be determined that there is no prospect of re ef, they will be sent home without any charge. W.F. WESTMORELAND, M.D. J. G. WESTMORELAND, M. D. Atlanta, May 16,’55. 3 ts SURGICAL INFIRMARY, DR. W. R. MOSELEY, has removed to his old stand on Eighth Street, and will give prompt attention to the ‘ pP j PRACTICE OF SURGERY, US and all Chronic Diseases. His skill, for the past ten years, in the treatment of Cancers, Cancerous Affections, Tumors of all kinds, Schirrhus Breasts, Disease of the Ear and Eyes, Gonorrhoea, Syphilis,Stricture,Ulcers of old standing. Rheumatism,Dyspepsia. Liver disease. Spinal affections, Fistula, Hemorrhoids, together with all FEMALE DISEAS ES, is not excelled by any Physician in the South. Patients boarded at $1 per day, or sls per month. All communications strictly confidential. Persons desiring in formation will address W. R. MOSELEY, M. D. Griffin,Ga. Grilfin, Feb. 4th, 1856.. .40. .ly. SOIRRHUS BREAST can be CURED Let the Public Read! IN mercy to the afflicted, and the gratitude and high opin ion 1 entertain of DR. MOSELEY as a Surgeon and Phy sician, I deem it my duty to mention the case of my wife, hoping 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 thfeir 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 Rome,and notwithstanding tin earnest and faithful attention of our most skillful physi cians, she continued to grow worse and Worsfe, until they gave the case up as incurable, and advised ainputatidh. 1 was advised by many of my friends, to visit Dr. Moseley, of Griffin, Ga., which 1 did, and, astonishing as it may seem, he had her entirely cured xcithin one month, And sht i.s now in goid health! I would advise ail who are, alSlcied with Seirrhas, and Cancerous affections to visit the Doctor with out demy, as I am satisfied by experience and observation, that he is the most skillful physician in the Southern States, in the treatment of that horrible disease—cancer. WM. H. MITCHELL, M. E. MITCHELL, Daughter of J. W. Bradbury, ROnie, Ga. Rome, Ga.. October 25, 1854. 5-ly READ!READ! DR. W. R. MOSELEY—Dear Sir: Having last year been treated by you for a Cancer on my face, I feel it a duty I owe to you, as well as the afflicted, to state to the public generally, that I am entirely cured of that loathsome dis ease which troubled me so long. The Cancer was on my face near the left eye, and it has, by the application of your medicine, been effectually cured without the use of the knife. lam confident from experience, and from what I have seen of other cases, that your remedies are the least painful, and the most effectual in removing Cancer, of any other known in this country. Respectfully yours, Witnessed by COLBERT GENTLE. James Edmondson,) F B Morris, f Spring Place, Murray co., Ga., May 28, 1856. Toth eTu b 1 i c. WITH great pleasure I embrace the opportunity of ad ding my testimony to that of others in favor of the treatment of Cancerous Ulcers, byDrW RMoseley, of Grif fin, Ga. Ido certify that I had an Ulcer on my cheek for Bor 10 months I became alarmed and consulted several Physicians, some of wlmm pronounced it Cancer 1 tried various remedies, but all failed to effect a cure I believed it a Cancer, and hearing of Dr Moseley’s skill in the treat ment of them, I visited him in October, 1855. ad was en tirely cured in a few months. W HUDNALL. Gadsden county, Flai, June, 1856 9...,tf Lluch’s Anll-ltlicumntic Powders. A safe, speedy and radical cure for Rheumatism, a heumat ic Govt and Sciatica. We the undersigned citizens of Putnam Cos. Ga. cheerful ly bear testiinoriey to the efficacy of Linch’s Anti-Rheumat ic Powders in the treatment of acute or chronic Rheuma tism, many cases having been successfully treated by Dr. J. G. Gibson, within our personal knowledge in which these Powders were principally used. Joel Branham, M. D. Wm B. Carter, Stephen B. Marshall, D. It. Adams, T. B. Harwell, Thomas Respcss, Daniel Slade, Michael Dennis G. R.Thomas, J, Nichleson & others, Any reasonable number of individual certificates can be given in attestation of their efficacy. . Prepared and sold by J. G. Gibson, M. D., Eatonton, Ga. at $5 per Box. All orders directed to him, with the above sum enclosed and a disdription of the case, shell receive , with the Medi cine such advice as may suit any peculiarity thereof. For sale by Brawner & Duffey, Griffin Ga. and J. G. Gib son, Eatonton, Ga. May, 20th 1850 4....1y. “ jjfo peril up t|lic,i coi)fri)cf? ot|l- Coiners —Jijc tobtlc 6<X|ndless Conlincpl is Ours.” GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1856. For the Empire State. Mr. Editor : I have just been reading an article in the Chronicle Sentinel of the 10th inst., over the signature of “Observer,” in re feTehee to the political discussion which took place in McDonough on the Ist inst,, between Col. L J Gartrell and Col. L T. Doyal.— From the import of the signature subscribed to the article, one might, suppose it a fair and impartial commentary on the respective speech es of the competitors. I take the liberty of a-serting, however, that such is not the case. So for indeed is it from being Ail impartial no tice* of the discussion, it is indeed an elaborate effort to disparage the able anrnment of Col. G. and magnify the effort of Col D. The wri ter; true to the insrincts of his party, would fa;h mislead his readers, and make the imi res >i’ U that Col. G. failed to so tify his positions with farts, while With characteristic impod'ehice he very e-oily insinuates that the able advo cates of Sam, literally ruined ‘he Cincinnati Platform, and ably defended .Millard Fillmore, 1 the Philadelphia Platform, and K ow Noth ingism generally. Hear him actually eh rging Col. G with attempting* by sweej ing denuncia tions and empty declamation, to impose lipbn the credulity of the people of Henry, and cheat them out of their votes, and with assum ed wisdom and impudence to suit the occasion, asking if any mail in his Senses, does not know that lie (Col G.J cannot sustain the first po sition which lie to< k against Millard Fillmore ! Now is it not a little surprising ‘O those* who heard the discussion alluded to ? Does not Observer very well know that the able cham pion of Democracy threw around his positions such a formidable array of incontrovertible facts ns wholly to deter his antagonist from at tacking them ? Foes tie not also know that he ablv defended the Cincinnati Platform against the petty assaults < f Sam —exposing the Squatter Sovere : gnty falacy. and with one bold stroke, demolishing the ingeniously wrought fabric of sophistry built upon the “marvelously mysterious” Dcmocrafie advo cacy of Free Sens ? Will life deny that he sl owed conclusively, not by quoting the “vul garisms of Democratic Journals,” but from his record, his undeniable chporiiion to the principles of the Kansas Nebraska Bill, that the nominee of the Philadel phia Convention is not the man for the suffra ges of the South? Empty declamation and sweeping denunciation indeed ! Whata mar velously wonderful perversion < f language ?- Will he deny that the able advocate of Sam, after consuming an hour and three quarters, talking about. Squatter Sovereignty, extrnva gance iii Democratic expenditure and Free Seas, attempted to excuse himself before the reading people of Henry, for failing to locate the eulogized Millard Fillmore on the slavery question—a question in comparison with which the obsolete questions which he discussed, (even were they at issue J would not weigh a feather in importance, by saying he hadn't time ! Surely not. Yet he is pleased to no tice this obvious subterfuge as a fair, manly and unanswerable speech ! We confess we are at a loss to know upon what Observer predicates the prophecy by which he promises himself two hundred and fifty majority for Sara. It certainly cannotbe the enthusiasm manifested by the friends of Samuel on the occasion alluded to, for indeed the manifestations of approbation Were over whelming in behalf of Democracy. Upon the whole, we think the sign right for the Anties, at least we shall not despair. We hope to have Col. G. with us again before the elec tion ; and by the way, we Anties have no ob jection to Ben Hill coming along too. Col. Gartidl is just the man to expose his sophis try. He’s a bard hand on Samuel, and no mistake. In conclusion, I may say that notwithstand ing the observations of Observer, Col. G.’s ef fort was not a futile one. It will be long ere the enemy recovers from the blows inflicted by the able champion of Democracy in the con flict. His broad blade and Herculean arm did ample execution on the head of Sam. It was indeed a glorious triumph of Democracy. Behold. Mr Editor, the wounded agonies of the doomed party, as she marshals her forces and rallies to the conflict. See her driven from position to posit on, until atlas', clinging to the ricke y bark of Knd Nothingism, de nouncing (in a Southern dime,) the policy which repealed the odious Missouri Restric tioh, and restored the SOutli to equality in the Union, and then tell me if there is not yet hope for the Democracy of Henry. ANTi-KNOW nothing. Locust Grove, Ga., Jsep. 14, 1856. New Minister leom England —There is said io be very little doubt that the Hon. C. P. Yilliers has been appointed to.succeed Mr. Crumpton as British Mini.-tei at Washington. It is even stated that he lias accepted the of fice, and is preparing to leave London at an early day. ?r. Viiliers is a tip mber of Par liament, was President of the Crimean Com mission, and is a member of the Board of Trade. Mr. Yilliers, though of a very indolent na ture, is a man of remarkable ability strong in telligence, and must courtly grace and gentle ness of manner. Except that he is careless in dress, he bears a singular resemblance to his brother, Lord Clarendon, having his peculiar l:qmd blue eye, and expression of languid courtliness. Lke Mi Crumpton, he is a wan derer on the dreary buchalorial shore, but Ins t.istes, though illegitimate, are far mure gal laut. Btfoie receiving Ids | resent office of Judge advocate, he was an able debater and active Commit tee man in the House of Com mons His annual motions on the corn laws, first awakened that t übiic <>, inio.i in Knglaud which swept them down, and in the agitation and advo acy of tlie ballot, he has always ta ken an eagef part. Since nis appointment, he has been doomed to the lucrative taciturnity of the Treasury bench, but his views have al ways bi en of a breadth and free ora approach ing, if not touching Republicanism.— Exchangt. S@T New York, Sept. 22. M niste • Cor wiue reports that the government of New ; Granada is utterly unable to maintain law and ! order, and ecommeml> ihe immediati and for cible occupation of the Isthmus from ocean to ocean. — Can, A Rq>. Fillmore Isis antecedents’*— Important Testimony from a Re sponsible Person. Hiram Kfetchura, one of the most prominent men in New York, the friend and ardent ad mirer of Mr. Fillmore, has lately written a letter justifying his support of that gentleman. Its statements are not without interest—in Georgia as well as New York. The argument of Mr Fillmore’s friends in the South is that his views on the subject of her peculiar institut'on have undergone a change since the c nelusion of his congressional career They do not- they cannot deny that in Con gress he uniformly vote ; with the hi eh most hostile to our section. They ‘cannot deny that when the question was slavery in any of its bearings the list of ayes or nays headed by J Q Adams contained the name Os Millard Fill more in the immediate association with that of Joshua Giddiugs. This is history which no man dare impugn. Biit years nave elapsed since those votes were given And l\lr. Fillmore’s Southern friends are attempting to convince themselves that those years have wrought a change in his opinions on the subject most vitally affecting our interests. Has such a change oceured. Mr. Ketchum, who doubtless knows his sen timents as well as we do those of our most in timate personal and political friends, thus an swers the question ; I support Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency, because of his well known antecedents as o, pub lic man. because I have seen no evidence that he rejects those antecedents, and because I am satisfied that he abides by those antecedents , and distinct ly places himself upon them before the county. W hat are his antece ‘euts upon the subject of the extension of slavery? You know them, gentlemen, as well as I do—they have ever and always been opposite to the extension of slave ry. vVhile he was in public life, that was a settled question under the Missouri Compro raise. By this Compromise, all territory north of 36 deg. 30 min. Was made free territory, and all south might be slave territory. The onl questions-, therefore, upon which his prin ciples upOn the subject of the extension of slavery could be tested, were questions as to the acquisition of territory which must become -lave territory. 1 o such acquisitions Mr. Fillmore and the whole whig party of the North were opposed. I have shown above what were Mr. Fillmore’s opinions of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Now the only question is—has he changed the well known opinions ? Has he altered his pos-rion ? He has accepted the nomination of the Amer ican parly. I have never been a member of any party but the Whig party. When he receiv ed the nomination, he was in Europe, where lie had been many months previously. The platform of the principles of that party accom panied the letter informing him of his nomina tion, and requesting his acceptance of the same. He replied to that letter while in Europe. He must, I admit, be regarded as giving his gener al approval of the platform upon which his friends nominated him Ncic Gentlemen, I ask you to publish that platform, or any clause or paragraph in it, in which, by a fair construc tion, Mr Fillmore has repudiated any of his an tecedents upon the extension of slavery. You did not quote that platform, but one of a prior date, and with the history of which I have no knowledge. HIRAM KETCHUM. If any reader wishes to know the ‘antece dents of Mr. Fil more, which his friend so posi tively asserts that he has not repudiated, let him read the following extracts from one of his letters, written during the period Os his service in Congress; ‘ I believe that petitions to Congress on the sub ject of slavery or the slave trade ought to be received, read and respectfully considered by the Representatives of the people. lam opposed to the annexation of Texas to the Union, yonder any circumstances , so long as slaves a. < e held therein ! “/ am in favo> of Congress exercising all its Constit u tional power it possesses to abolish the internal slave trade between the Stales ! “1 AMI N F A Vols OF IVIM EDI ATE LEGISLATION FOR ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF CO LUMBIA—Sav. Georgian Ohio in a Blaze !—25,000 Democrats iii Council. The following telegraphicdi spatch, says the Oh'o Statesman of the 10th, received last even ing from Seneca county, is another evidence of the monster demo, ratio meetings that are tak ing place ali over Ohio, and cheering to the hearts of the friends of our great and noble Union. Let no one hereafter doubt the patriotic de votion of the people of Ohio to the Union of these States. Such a universal outpouring of the Democracy as is witnessed day after day in Ohio, has had no parallel in the history of our politics We have seen good, great and enthusiastic meetings, but nothing equal to what is now witnessed in every part of the State ; Tiffin, Ohio, Sep. 10, 1856. “S Medary : Immense Democratic assem blage here, estimated full 25,000 present ! Pugh, Yallandigharn and Gaston all speaking —live stands. First procession one hour and three-quarters passing the Shawhan House ; afterwards a procession of two miles in length on road from >andusky and the north The city is it orally overflowing with people.— i Great exc.tement. D'em. Central Committee Illinois. —Speaking of the jirdspects of the Democracy in that Mate, the Rock Island Ar gus says : “It is uo trouble to get up a meet ing anywhere, iwo or three days’ notice is enough io attract thousands, and in three week more, almost all kinds of business will be suspended, and men, women and children will do nothing else but attend to politics.— The Democracy are away ahead of both branches of the Know Nothings, and are growing every day. Pitch in, gentlemen The yll is on our side now, and an Unheard of triumph awaits us Sober people are not going to trust the fate of this Union in the hands of n set of mad fanatics —not this time, j and wc trust never.” Democratic Celebration of the Adop tion of the Federal Constitution. Philadelpaia, Sept. 17. —The democratic celebration of the adoption of the federal Con stitution to-day has rendered our city the scene of the greatest excitement. Every train and boat ti ronghout the early part of the day brought delegates and visiters from a distance, including a delegation from New York city, the Union Democratic Club. The meeting was called to order at 2 o’clock and George M. Wharton was called upon to preside, assisted by many vice presidents and secretaries. Mr. Wparton made an elo quent address; after which a series of resolu tions appropriate to the occasion were adopt ed. Gov. Johnson, of Georgia, made an interes ting speech ot two hours duration, giving a history of the federal constitution, and declar ing that its most important feature was the equa ity given to every State in the Union. Speeches followed by ex-Governor Floyd, of Virginia, and Hon. Howell Cobb, of Geor gia. at the main stand, and by Messrs. Riddle, of Massachusetts, and Moore, of Texas, at the southern stand. Speaking continued through out the evening by other speakers at various points. At 8 o’clock the procession was formed in Arch street, headed by the Keystone Club, with a huge bell mounted upon a wagon, and placarded “we are tolling the knell of the black republicans ’ Following the Keystone Club came the delegations from New York, Trenton, Bever ly, New Jersey, Montgomery, and Willington. I he various counties and < ity wards followed each accompanied by bands of music, innumer able torches and lanterns of every description, having mottoes depictory of black republican ism and the unpardonable sin, and the success of that party entailing dishonor and disunion. The procession was a most imposing affair, and the Streets through which it passed were blazing with light The procession will not complete its route before midnight. It passed around Indepen dence Squate in its progress, which was mag nificently illuminated with brilliant and showv flrewOiks.— Was. Union. •* - * ► *~Ti Ttoe Prospect m Indiana. The Cincinnati Enquirer states on the au thority of a prominent politician in Indiana, who has been all over the State, within the last two or three months, and who knows the Indiana public sentunciits as well as any man, that there is no doubt of a great democratic triumph, both at the October ami November elections The Democrats are well organized, and are working with a vigor and effect that will tell happily upon the result. Never be fore were the Iloosier Democracy so thor oughly aroused as they are now. Never be lure were their meetings so numerously attend ed and so enthusiastic. Crowds of ten, twen ty an d thirty thousand people are collected on the shortest possible nolice, to hear Democrats discuss the issues involved in this campaign. I lie Indiana farmers, loyal and devoted to the Union, ure awake to the treasonable designs ot the Black Republicans to subvert it, and our friends abroad may rely upou a glorious Democratic victory at the corning election.— Willard will be chosen in October Governor ot the State, and Buchanan will carry it in November by an increased majority.— Evening Argus. Pennsylvania; The Philadelphia Argus gives the following glowing account of the progress of the fight in Pensylvania : “Tut People Moving.—The series of mass meetings now being held in different sections of the State, finder the auspices of the State Central Committee, give promise of the best i\suits, in aiousii.g the people to the impor tance of the great issues involved in the con test, and exposing the treasonable designs of the opposition. 1 hese meetings have so far been attended by immense masses of the Dem ocratic citizens, and in no former campaign has a greater degree of zeal been manifested among all classes. On Wednesday there was an im mense mass meeting at Honesdale, at which addresses were delivered by ex-Governor Big ler, Senator Broadhead, Ellis B. Schnabel, Bsq., and others. Throughout the western counties the greatest enthusiasm prevails, and in many, series of county meetings arc being held, which are telling with force upon the ab olition hordes.” Pennsylvania safe for Buchaiiaii. i The Pennsylvania papers are filled with glowing accounts of the great Democratic gathering in that city on the 17th, the anni versary of the adoption of the Federal Con stitution. The torch light procession is said to have been live miles long, and contained at the lowest estimate twenty thousand people ! I he crowd around the two Aands were immense and were eloquently addressed by various dis tinguished gentlemen, among whom were Gov. Johnson, oi Georgia; <ov. Floyd, of Virginia, Ex-Gov. Cobb, of Georgia; Mr MeKcon, ot N. Y. and others 1 lie whole display was ex ceedingly imposing; the entliusaisiu unbound ed. In a notice of Ihe meeting. the Pennsyl vanian remarks, “There were delegates in this city from nearly every portion of the £tate.— From all the facts we have learned from them and from other reliable sources, we can assure our democratic friends, that Pennsylvania will give her electoral vote for Buchanan,beyond all doubt, by an overwhelming majority, They may rest perfectly assured of this fact."—ln tell gcnccr. Wheeling, Sept. 18—The Republican State Convention of Virginia came off here to day. A Fremont electoral ticket was nomi nated. There was no disturbance as was an ticipated. Gov. Geary delivered his Inaugural Address at Leeompton on the 11th inst. He depre cates the continuance of strife caused by the inter! ere nee of citizens of other States, promises “justice, irrespective of party, expects obedience to the laws of the legislature until repealed, aud issued a proclamation discharging volun teers in the Miliiia, and commanding armed bands to disperse or quit the Territory,—(Ex. Jelrtyg—s2,oo, fa fidb^ce. lion. Is. F. llullet. X. li. Vaikd to tli© Count©! 1 . Tlic following letter from lion. B. F. Hal lett to the Nashville Union, nails to the coun ter two favorite falsehoods of the Know Noth ing- papers and orators of the South, to-wit: that he was a member of the Buffalo Conven tion that nominated Mr. Yau Buren in 1848, and that he declared on that occasion “hell was too comfortable a place for a slaveholder.” An improvement h?is been made on the lie that he was a member t>f the Buffalo Convention by Some of the gang, who how say, that he was actually the author of the Buffalo Plat form. We trust that the democratic press generally will give publicity to Mr. Hallet’s letter, and let the nails be clinched that pin these infamous Know Nothing lies to the coun ter: Boston, Sept. 6, 1856. Dear Sir: In your letter of Aug. 24th, which 1 have just received, you say, “The Know Nothing paper here (at Nashville) quote Mr. Haliett as having once declared that‘hell is too comfortable a place for a slaveholder,’ and they use this story to show that the author of the democratic platform is an abolitionist.” And you wish me to tell you if there is any foundation for the story, and if not; furnish you with a denial to brand it false That 1 can do very emphatically. It is an unmitigated falsehood. The profanity it con tains is no less abhorrent to my habits of utter ance, than its malignancy is to mv feelings for my feilowcitizeus of the South. The atrocious sentiment you have quoted from the libellous and reckless papers you refer to, would consign to the regions of the damned, Abraham 4 Isaac, Jacob, David, the man after God’s own heart, Solomon, the wiseman, all the Patriarchs of the Old Testament, with many of the holy and inspired men of the New, none of whom ever interfered with the domestic institution of slavery, except to return the fugitive to his master. I am sorry that you have such liars as those you name at the South. Here at the North lying- is the breath of life of our Abolitionists and Black Republicans, and we treat it as qn epidemic disease in the body politic, like the witchcraft delusion from which it is decended, and which must have its course till it runs out. Know Nothingism must be worse than a politi cal heresy at the South, if it so terribly effects the moral health of its victims. I am surprised that the Tennessee Know Nothings have not added to this falsehood the “lie circumstantial” as it has been uttered in Covington, Kentucky, where a Know Nothing orator declared on his personal responsibility, that the Hon. B. F. Haliett, of Boston, was a member of the Freesoil Buffalo Convention of 1848, that nominated Mr Yan Buren ! Yet that man if be knew any thing of the political history of the day, should have known that Mr Haliett was in the Baltimore Convention of 1848, which nominated Gen. Cass, and there reported the Resolutions of the platform do nouncing Abolitionism as treason. I send you my speech of July 22, 1848, at Syracuse, New York, which denounced the Buffalo Convention in advance, and also my speech at Reading, Penn., in 1852, and at Keene, New- Hampshire, in July last. Pray teach this sort of Abolitionism to your South ern Know- Nothings, and w-e at the North w-ho defend the constitutional rights of the South shall be relieved from the ‘aid and comfort’ w-hich the Fillmore men of the South are giving the Nuow Nothing Freesoilism of the North. Very truly, Your friend, B. F. HALLET. E. G. Eastman, Esq., Nashville. Wlsig Candidate for Vico Presidency in favor of Buchanan. Me find the following paragraph in our ex changes. Among a multitude of kindred in dications, the fact (if it be one, as vre oappcca it is, ! ) that the Whig candidate for the Vice Presidency, on the ticket with Mr Clay in 1844, is now the supporter of Buchanan, Is worthy of consideration : We arc reliably informed, says the Plainfield Union, that the Hon Theodore Frelinghuysen, one of the purest of statesmen, and a candidate for the Vice Presidency under the lamented Clay, now supports Buchanan. This is a mat ter well worthy of the : consideration of alt Fremont men. Mr. Frelinghuysen now occu pies exactly the same position that ITenry C) ay would occupy were he now living The best, men of our country, of all parties, are now with us.— Sav. Geo S'dou,r, Mr. Belser, a prominent know nothing in Alabama, when appointed in that State, in 1848, as one of the whig electors on the Tay-r lor and Fillmore ticket, declined, because he regarded Fillmore a Wilmot proviso man. lie is now cl supporter of Fillmore—a zealous sup porter —but, as he is a Know Nothing, he may consider that he is not at liberty to de cline to support him for any such cause as lie urged in 1848. — Con. 4* llep. C The Washington Union, oi 17th inst. says: • “I’he count which we make for November is, that Mr Buchanan will certainly get— New Jersey. 8 Pennsylvania. 27 Indiana. 13 Illinois. 11 California. 4 Making in all 63 votes certain in the non slaveholdiug States, and 120 Southern votes. This sums a total strength of 183. Our friends in New Hampshire, Conneticut, New York and Ohio are fighting with such earnest zeal that we feel assured that we have a probability of gaining some of them.” New York, Sept. 18. —Four new cases of fever occurred at the Relief Hospital at Fort Hamilton to-day, among them Dr. F. 11. Bai ley, of the U. S. Army. No new cases havo occured at the Military Hospital. All the previously reported cases are doing well. Ono new case occured at Brooklyn. h on. D M Barringer, of North Caro lina, announces his intention to vote for Buch anan and Breckinridge. No. 23.