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C|e €mpxt Stale. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Wednesday Mor ? Oct. 8, 1856. FOR PRESIDENT : JAMES BUCHANAN. OF PBSSSYLVANIA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT : J. C. BRECKENRIDGE. OF KENTUCKY .■ . • Democratic Electoral Ticket. FOR TIIE STATE AT LARGE. ELECTORS. ALTERNATES. WM. 11. STILES, llknry G. LaMar. IVERSON L. HARRIS. A. It. Wright. ELECTORS. ALTERNATES. Ist Dist. Thomas M. Foreman W M Nichols. 2d “ Samuel Hall J A Tucker. 3d “ J N Ramsey, E J McGehke. 4th “ L J Gaktkell, J F Johnson. Oth *• John W Lewis, L W Crook. Oth “ J P Simmons It McMillan. 7th “TP Safkold, J S Hook. Bth “ T W Thomas, A C Walker. It G BYARS is our authorized Agent for the county ofßutts. •=—i -i . . ■ . ■ Democrats! To tlic Rescue!!! The time appointed for the great rally of the De mocratic Masses, at Atlanta, is rapidly approach ing. The lAth and 18th days of October must be made memorable in the aniials of the Democratic Party. We must present a Crowd on that occasion in comparison with which, the Fillmore pow-wow on Thursday last, will be as nothing ! We have the men, if they will turn out. Gov. Andrew John son, ot Tennessee, and Ron. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama, have both accepted the invitation to be present, and one of our Atlanta exchanges tells us that Gov. Wise, of Virginia, will certainly be there. And Toombs and Stephens will be there, and what Democrat will stay away, when the ablest and most eloquent orators of the age propose to address you, upon subjects of vital interests to you and your country? Come then from the mountains and the sea-board, from the east, and from the west, from the uplands, the middle lands, and th& low-lands, come with banners flying, in your; wa gons, on horse back, on the Rail Road—-by every possible mode of conveyance—let us Congregate in Atlanta, and have a joyous coiniGUuion and consul tation about the great interests of our common country. Fusion. in Pennsylvania. It appears from recent accounts, that a complete .‘.fusion has been effected between the Freinonters nd Fillmourners for the purpose of carrying the clcctiou for State Officers in Pennsylvania, which election takes place on the 14th inst. What will Mr. Fillmore’s Southern supporters say to this ? They were very indignant a short time since when it was charged that a fusion of the Fremont and Fillmore parties had been effected in Indiana.— But wc presume that in reference to the late move ments in Pennsylvania, they will be as mild as “sucking doves.” There seems to be throughout the entire North, a strong affinity existing be tween these two-parties, which ought to.open the eyes of all Southern men. The proclivities of the Black Republicans and the Northern Know Noth ings,- are strongly towards each other, and the pro babilities are,that before the Presidential election, in all that region . except one or two States, the Union will be complete for the purpose of defeat ing Mr. Buchanan. This ought to satisfy any rea sonable man, which party at the Nortli is most re fliable for the South. We hear of no coalition any where between the Fremont and Buchanan par ties. In fact, the thing is impossible. Oil and water could as readily unite as she Black Republi cans and the Democrats. We can't see how any man who has a drop of Southern blood in his weius, can continue his advocacy of Mr. Fillmore •with a knowledge of these things, before his eyes. Tlte Great Fill more IPow-tyoTV. This great gathering of the scattered remnants of Sam’s mighty host, so long looked for and so much talked of, took place at the city of Atlan ta, on Thursday last, the 2d inst. The most assid uous efforts and the most skilful means have for weeks been put in daily and constant requisition to get up the largest po -ble crowd. And right well they succeeded. As to the numbers present, apart from the resident population of Atlanta, we are not prepared to fix even an approximate estimate. W e profess but little skill in determining the num bers of tlios ‘-who usually congregate on such oc casions. And where the opinions of others, as an nounced through the public Press, differ so widely, (ranging from 4.000 to 25,000) we will not hazard a guess even. Suffice it to say, they were very nu merous. And we are right glad they were. If this aitempt to raise a crowd had failed, the effect might have been to have occasioned an apathy on the- part of the Democratic party, and reduced the majority for Buchanan in Georgia so as to made it less than overwhelming. As it is, the re spectable demonstration made on this occasion, will have the effect of arousing the energies of the lion-hearted Democracy and whenever that is done, we have nothing to fear. Wc wish the Fillmorenes to push on their columns and make a desperate fight. Then our strength will be fully b rought out and our victory be complete. We want the result of tlis election to be so overwhelming this year, that Know Nothingism will never be able to kick in Georgia again. Sam’s influence, ever since he planted his foot upon our soil in Georgia, has been blighting and withering to our moral, social and polical interests, and peace, harmony and brotherly kindness will never be effectually restor ed till his hideous carcass shall be banished far be yond our borders. But to return to the subject of the meeting. We eay it was respectable in point of numbers—the accommodations were ample, and they succeeded in manufacturing a reasonable show of enthusiasm. But we could not keep from our thoughts the re flection “that they were laboring for the meat that perisheth,” “and spending their labor for naught. ’ But that is their business; not ours. If they arc content to waste their time, and labor and money in efforts to sustain a sinking, hopedess cause, we have no right to complain. Many of them, we opine, will look back at the efforts made on the oc casion under consideration, as labor which might have been much more usefully and profitably em ployed. We heard a number of the speeches made on the occasion, but none of those masterly efforts which we were wont to hear from Toombs, Steph ens, Jenkins and Berrien in the palmy days of the old Whig party. “The sceptre has departed from Judah,” and there remains but a feeble few of speakers to fill the places of those mighty men who are lost to them forever. A Practical Issue. In this d.%y of abstractions, men are apt to lose sight of the practical issues presented for their de termination. While the Fillmore men of the South are wearing out their Ittngs in denouncing tiie abstraction of Squatter Sovereignty, about which the people know little and care less, they are seemingly indifferent to the only practical issue on the subject of the slavery question, now claiming immediate action. The removal of the Missourii Restriction estirl>lisl%d n great principle :—it re stored the South teener equality in the l imm.—•• But this “boon” m;})’ be lost to us forever by neg lecting tiie necessary means to secure its practical benefits. Kansas is’’presented to us with the oiler of making it a Slavcholding Stat'e, if we so will and determine. Men and mop/ey are needed for. this purpose, and every Southern man should lend his aid to this work, regardless’ of the visionary abstractions with which third and tenth rate poli ticians are trying to divert the public mind from the only question that now most immediately con cerns us. Settle that, and then blow your brains out in fighting Squatter Sovereignty, if you wish. A Suggestion. Iu order that wc may be enabled fully to carry QVit the object of our State Mass Meeting, we pro pose to tiie people of Spalding county, and the counties contiguous, to hold district meetings at an early day for the purpose of making the neces sary arrangements for going to Atlanta on the 17th and 18th inst. By pursuing this course, many may be induced to go who would not otherwise attend, and some may be assisted in going who might not be in a situation to go without aid. It this suggestion is adopted, we would further sug gest that all the localities convenient to Griffin, as a place of general lendezvous, when the number is ascertained, that will meet here to take the cars, to report the same to the Empire State Office, in or der that the Rail Road Company may be pre pared with the necessary accommodations to trans port all who inay.v, ish to go by that conveyance. Go to work, friends, in good earnest, and we will have the largest crowd that has been seen together in this State for many years past! Let your watchword be rally ! rally ! ! rally ! ! ! and give Bucli ahd Breck 25,000 majority on the 4th of NQvember. Mr. Fillmore and the Missouri Com promise. The restoration of the Missouri restriction has for some time been a source of much annoyance to the Southern friends of Mr. Fillmore. The bold and unequivocal manner in which he condemned the repeal, in his late speeches, in the State of New York, left but little doubt as to what course he would pursue in reference to the restoration of this iniquitous measure, provided lie should be again accidentally put in power. They were not author ized to say he was not in favor of the restoration, and in order to preserve tlieir consistency, some of them were ready to defend him in this position. This state of things was giving them much trou ble, when behold Mr. Foster and others receive certain newspaper editorials from Mr. Fillmore, from which they pretend to make the wonderful discovery that Mr. F. is all right upon this ques tion. And hence there is great rejoicing in the Fillmore camps. But the vague and unequivocal manner in which lie lias attempted to define his po sition on this question, may satisfy those who were content any way ; but we presume it will be hard to find one single true friend of the Kansas and Ne braska Bill, who had hitherto been opposed to Mr. Fillmore, who will lie willing to take such assu rances as he has given. Why did he not answer the question directly, by saying 1 am. or f. am not in favor of the restoration of the Missouri restri'e- j tion ? This would have put the matter ut rest, j and would also, if answered in oithoi nay, pul a : quietus to his prospects for the IT.-.-.mem >!’ lie I has any. lienee ilia equivocation, A Call iro tine Friends ©I Kuii -.-.a. We perceive from the Atlanta Examine, , that the convention which assembled on the Ist inst., to adopt suitable measures to promote the cause of Kansas Emigration, failed to take any efficient steps for the accomplishment of the intended ob ject. The numbers in attendance were so few that it was deemed advisable to postpone any decisive action at that time, and made a call for another { meeting to be held in Atlanta, on Thursday, the I 30th day of October, inst. It is recommended that early action be taken in all the. counties of Geor gia to have a full meeting. Let delegates be ap pointed in each county at an early day, to assem ble on the 30th, and take counsel together in refer ence to the best means of sustaining Southern in terests in Kansas. Meiancliolly Casuality. The festivities of the late Fillmore Mass Mcet ■ ing, on Thursday last, in Atlanta, were seriously marred by a fatal accident which happened in the morning of that day. A man by the name of Mc- Gahran from Morgun county having ascended the flag pole some sixty feet for the purpose of freeing the haiyards, which by some means had become en tangled in the guy ropes, lost his hold and fell to the ground, from the effects of which he died in a few minutes. This distressing calamity, so sudden and unexpected, cast a gloom of sadness over the feelings of the large crowd assembled around the pole. A collection was taken up for the benefit of the bereaved family of the unfortunate man, and liberal contributions were made, in which we felt , a heartfelt gratification to see the Buchanan men . freely participate. For the Empire State. Mr. Editor—Sir : I am repeatedly asked how lam going to vote. Now, sir, my vote is sure for James Buchanan—not altogether that I give him tiie preference in every respect for President of the United States, by no means ; but my object is to tote in such a way as will tend to bring about the best possible result to our common interest and welfare, burying in the dust all party feelings and prejudices, to the advancement of our common Southern good ; and further, I am not wilfully blind to the fact that where one chance exists to the defeat of Fremont, and the election of Fillmore, ten fa vor the election of Buchanan ; and to back my opinion, I will give Fillmore 30,000 votes, and bet any man SI,OOO to $750 that Buchan an gets the majority of the popular vote, pro vided both run. Money on hand at this office. Walk up and face the music. Southern True Policy. # # • llon. Alfered Iverson.—Wc arc happy to announce the return of Senator I verson. Ho is looking oxtremeiy well and brings the most cheering accounts for the Democracy.— Timm (J* Sentinel. Whoop! Ilooray for Buck and Brcek. Misrepresentation. It is not true as we learn it has been stated, that Mr Hunter, Senator from Virginia, pledged his State for Fillmore. Deis represented as saying in New York, that if the vote of Virginia was necessary to defeat Fremont, and it could not be done otherwise, Virginia would go for Fillmore. — He however anticipated no such contingency, - and no calculations need be made on Virginia going for Fillmore. This is about the true statement of the ease. ... .. Mr. T. J. Bacou’s Letter. We invite attention to the* kitbeHw Mr. Bacon, which we extract from the LuGrangc Reporter.— Mr. B. has for several years been the Editor of that paper, a firm Whig, and a member of tiie American Party of last year. But ho can’t go Fillmore and Donelson, and like Jenkins and Ncs bit, and a host of other independent voters of that party, comes out with a manly independence,, wor thy of all praise, and declares his determination to vote with the Democratic Party in the pending election. From the LaGrange Reporter. LaGrange, Sept. 29th, 1856. W B. Jones— Dear Sir : In your paper of last week I find my name published among the delegates to the Fillmore Massmeeting in Allanta. As I had declined acting as one of the corresponding committc of the Fillmore Club in this place, not being a member of that body, and having never attended one of its meetings, I had hoped that my friends had ceased to regard me as a Fillmore man. To avoid any further misappre hension on this point, I will here say to those who have used my name in the connection above referred to, ('which they were Varrti?:t?d in doing by my post political assosciations,) that I cannot act with tiie American party in tiie present contest. With the lights before me, if I vote at all, I must vote for Buchanan. As you have refused to publish a communi tion from me setting forth my reasons for taking this position, I shall have to content myself with this simple announcement. Very truly, your friend, Thos. J. Bacon. For the Empire State. The “American” Pole. The leaders of the American Party assembled to-day at “Council” Hall for the purpose of raising their Flag ; and after repeated efforts to shoot off the head of the pole, by their best marksmen, they failed, and John H. Cherry, a Democrat, being present, took one fire, and down came the Fillmore head, leaving a small portion of the neck, when Young Wright, ano ther Democrat, fired, and off eajne the neck, leaving the pole like the party, without either head, neck or principle ! They then hoisted a kite with a black tail, which I thought would have answered better for a Fremont emblem It sailed a short distance,and down it came in the dust; just like Fillmore and Fremont will do in November next They too will bite the dust to rise no more ! Come, boys, give it up, and go for Buchanan, and instead of leaving in dis gust, as you did that tall pole, you will be able to leave with glory and victory wreathing your brows. Observer. Griffin, Oct, 6, 1856. N. B. Since the above was written, by the help of some boys, the K.N’s managed to raise their flag, which will doubtless be razed indeed in November next. O. For tiie Empire Stnte. Mr. Editor : The Know Nothing Party of Georgia resolved in their platform of principles adopted at Macon last year, that opposition to the Kansas Bill would be considered hostility to the constitutional rights of the South, and all persons opposed to that measure, were unfit to be members of the American Party. This year we hear the Kansas Nebraska Act de nounced in unmeasured terms by the same par ty —that is, since the nomination of Mr. Buch anan. Knowing that it would be next to impos sible to beat old Buch in the race, they have conjured up every thing that a set of political ! demagogues could think of, to defeat him. But let us see what an awful dilemma they have gotten themselves into. They say the Kansas Bill is worse than the Missouri Compromise, because the Squatter Sovereignty and Alien Suffrage features of the Bill, will make Kansas a free State. Well, now listen at their stump orators and Editors. They are daily and hour ly making war upon Buchanan because lie ap proves of the measure ; and urge the people to drop Buchanan and support Fillmore. Why is it ? Because lie is sounder than Mr. Buch anan upon the slavery question ? Oh no, that can’t be the reason. Is Mr.-Fillmore opposed to the Kansas Nebraska Act; or is he in favor of it ? What does he say upon this subject ? What does his friends say in Georgia ? They ({note Douglas in his speech at Chicago, and numbers of other National Democrats, going to show that the Kansas Bill is a Freesoil mea sure, and at the same .time the Editor of the American Uuion says if any man will prove that Fillmore is opposed to the Kansas Bill, that he will abandon his support. The truth is, they have convicted themselves of falsehood and consistency. If they are honest iu the construction they place upon the Kansas Bill, they are in a dreadful close place. Mr. Fill more says it is the Pandora’s box out of which sprang all of the evils that now afflict the coun try. Thy say Fillmore is in favor of a mea sure, and they oppose it ; but still they ask the people to elect him. And I call upon their leaders to come out and tell the truth like men, and say if this is not the precise position of their party in Georgia. The truth is, there is not a member of the party in Georgia that can consistently vote for Fillmore on the posi tion they have assigned him, and according to their construction of the Kansas Act, It is simply the w'ork of such political renegades and hypocritical office-seeking men as B. 11. Hill, Dr. Miller, and a few others, who care just nothing at all about the preservation of the Union or the rights of the South—their sole object being to swindle the Democrats out of the reins of the Government, and thereby slide into the offices of the country, and reap the spoils. One word about the evils that now afflict the country, that the so-called American Party have raised such a great hue and cry about. That is, the troubles in Kansas. The only dis order in the whole Union, is in the Territory of Kansas ; the country is at peace every where else, and with all Nations. And how happens it that we have disturbances in Kansas. It grew out of the repeal of the unconstitutional, odious and abominable Missouri Restriction, the repeal of which was long*iesired by all par ties South, and the adoption of the Kansas Bill in its place, thereby giving the South an equal chance to settle up the Territory, which she is attempting to dq ; and it has brought the Abolitionists and the slave-holders in con tact, the very position wc have- been seeking for years, ever since the adoption of the Mis souri Restriction ; prior to this wc had equal privileges with the non-slavcholding States in going into the Territories, and taking our slave property with us ; and if wc fail to make Kan sas a slave State, it is our own fault, for the Kansas Bill gives us all of the advantages vve possibly could have, unless Congress takes ac tion upon the subject of slavery, and legislate the institution into the Territory, a power that she cannot constitutionally exercise. So no more about evils. Jonathan. Buchanan vs Abuniion hsu. It was not until the session of 1835-6 that the spirit of Abolition fairly invaded Congress. The compromise of 1833 had silenced agita tionon the subject of the Tariff,and the northern mind now poured out its intensity upon tiiequcs tion,which from that day to this has absorbed all others. Petitions for the obolition of slavery in the District of Columbia—for abolition of the slave trade between the States—petitions • agaiilsU the ‘admission of more slave States,’ flooded Congress, while incendiary publications transmitted through the mails, brought insult and denunciation to Southern homes. Early in the session a bill was introduced by Mr. Calhoun, ‘prohibiting deputy post-masters from receiving or transmitting through the mail, to any State, Territory’ or District, cer tain papers therein mentioned, the circulation of which, by the laws of said State, Territory or District, may be prohibited.” It was warm ly opposed by Mr. Webster and others. Mr. Buchanan, from the begining, took the firmest ground in favor of it. Even before the bill was reported, he expressed himself willing “to do all that can be done, to prevent the circulation of incendiary publications in the South.” Subse quently the bill was amended, and Mr. Buch again came forward as its champian, against Mr. Webster. He spoke at length and ably, upon the question; and. when the final vote was taken, recorded his name in favor of the measure, and Mr. Calhoun, King of Alabama, Preston, and others. Thus began Mr. B’s ca reer in the IT. S. Senate upon the subject. Petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, was the next point of agitation. Mr. Calhoun took the ground that Congress had no right to receive such petitions and his policy was to lay them on the table without considering them. Mr. Buchanan dif fered with Mr Calhoun. lie considered such a course inconsistent with the right of petition and as likely on that very account to intensify agitation upon the subject of slavery. His po licy was simply to receive the petitions, and then promptly reject them. Between these two lines of policy the Senate was for a long time divided. But Mr. Buchanan, in order that there might be no doubts as to his sincer ity or determination in the matter, on the Ith of July, 1856, spoke as follows. We commend his remarks to the South: —Banner of Liber ty. “As I entirely dissent from the opinion which they express, that we ought to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, I feel it to be due to them, to myself and to the Senate, re spectfully, but firmly, to state the reasons why I cannot advocate their views or acquiesce in their conclusions. “If any one principle of constitutional law can, at this day, be considered as settled, it is that Congress has no right, no power, over the question of slavery within those States where it exists. The property of the master in his slave existed in its sud force before the Federal Constitution was adopted. It was a subject which then belonged, as it still belongs to the exclusive jurisdiction of the several States. These States, by the adoption of the Constitu tion, never yielded to the General Government any right to interfere with the question. It remains where it was previous to the est ablish ment of our confederacy. “The Constitution has, in the clearest terms, recognized the right of property in slaves. It prohibits any State into which a slave may have fled, from passing any laws to discliar e him from slavery, and declares tliai he shall 1 .• delivered up by the authorities oi -atm ohv to his master. Nay, More, it makes the ex;-- tence of slavery the foundation of political ‘pow er, by giving to those States within which it exists, Representatives in Congress, not only in proportion to the whole number of free par sons, but also iu proportion to three-fifths of the number of slaves. “An occasion very fofttfnately arose in the first Congress to settle this question forever. The society for the abolition of slavery in Penn sylvania, brought it before that Congress bv a memorial, Which was presented on the 15th, of February, 1190. After the subject had been discussed for several days, and after solemn de liberation, the House of Representatives, Com mittee of the whole, on the 23d day of March, 1190, resolved: That Congress lias no author ity to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them, within any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require. “I have thought it would be proper to pre sent this discussion, which was made almost half a century ago, distinctly to the view of the American people. The language of the resolu tion is clear, precise, and definite. It leaves the question where the Constitution left it, and where, so far as I am concerned, it ever shall remain. The Constitution of the United States never would have been called into existance; instead of the innumerable blessings which have flowed from our happy union, we should have had anarchy, jealousy, and civil war, among the sister republes of which our confederacy is com posed, had not the free States abandoned all control over this question. For one, whatever may be my opinions upon the abstract question of slavery, (and I am free to confess they are those of the people of Pennsylvania,) I shall never attempt to violate this fundamental com pact. The Union will be dissolved and incalcu lable evils will rise from its ashes the moment any such attempt is seriously made by the free states in congress. “What, then, are the circnmstances under which these memorials are now presented? A number of fanatics, led on by foreign incendia ries, have been scattering ‘arrows, firebrands and death,’ throughout the southern states.” For the Empire State. Comparative Strength of the Baptist and Methodist Churches in Georgia. Mr. Editor : It might be interesting to the friends of morality and religion, to know the comparative strength of the two largest De nominations of Christians in the State. Hav ing before me the statistics of both, I will give them as they appear by tin? authority of the same. According to the Minutes of the Bap tist Convention of the State of Georgia, for the year 1856, there are what are designated the Missionary Baptists, and which constitute the Convention 85,847 whites, and 22,605 colored, making 67,581. This return is not as full as it should be. Then there are what is designat ed “Anti-Missionary Baptists,” which I under stand are distinct from the former, and hold no connection with them, except on the subject of the mode of baptism, 11,923 whites and color ed without distinction. Then there are 6,389 of what are put down as Baptists “that, have not passed resolutions of ‘non-fellowship,’ but are not connected with the Convention.”— Whether they are considered as distinct as the two former, 1 cannot say. Then there are 808 of what are called “United Baptists,” making the sum total of these four divisions to be 86,701. From this sum total there are to be subtai/cted 4,721 who live “in adjoining States,” but hold connection with Churches and Associ ations in Georgia, leaving, according to the Minutes; 81,980 communicants in the four divi | sions of the Baptist Churches in the State. From the Minutes of the Georgia Confer | unco for J 855, we find that.there are 50,360 whites, and 21,957 colored, making 72,317 in the Episcopal Methodist Church within the bounds of the Georgia Conference. Then it is said that there arc in the twenty-tV'o or three counties in Georgia, embraced in the Florida, and not numbered in the Georgia Conference, 5,000 whites and colored. Then there are said to be over 12,000 Protestant and Congrega tional Methodist, bearing the same relation to the Episcopal Methodists that the Anti-Mis sionary Baptists do to the Missionary, and which may be. number'd with them with the same propriety, making in all 89.317. Then tne relative number are as follows : In the Bap tist Church, 5 1 J,37?> whites, and 22,605 color ed ;in the Methodist Church, 07,5C0 whites, and 21,957 colored. Tims we have the nu merical strength of these two large Denomina tions of Christian.; in the Stah\ Mow, if the Ministers and Members of these mege Christian bodies were to cultivate more of tiie fph'it of the Redeemer, and less of sectarian bigotry ; were they to be more Christian and less denomi national ; were they to preach, and talk, and labor more for the conversion of sinners, and the moral and spirit,uni improvement of them selves and others, and less about modes and go vernment ; were they to direct th'ir energies j more to demolish Satan’s kingdom, and for the! peace and unify of society, and less for the pul- j ling down of eaeii other’s Churches, thereby j stirring up strife and divisions, and disseminat ing prejudice and hatred, their influence would be most powerful for good throughout the length and breadth of the land. To see this harmonious effort among all the branches of the Christian Church, is an object most'ardently desired by every true Christian. So mote it be. Griffin, Ga,,* 1856. * * * For the Empire State- A Charmed Life. A Remarkable Adventure with Indians. The last war with the Creek Indians in East Alabama h.-.d already broken out, and a com pany of Georgians were encamped on the bank of the Chatahoochee, iu Stewart county for the protection of the frontier. An over seer of a plantation some two miles from this encampment, accompanied by Mr. B took a few hands and repaired to the farm for the purpose of trying to save the crop. At noon day they went to the overseer’s house to get dinner. It was a double-log-pen house, with a passage. The two gentlemen were sitting in one of the rooms after dinner, when Mr B. go ing out into the passage, saw a man squatted hehind a fence only ten or twelve paces distant. It proved to be an Indian, who took deliber ate aim and fired, the ball passing between the left arm and his body, and inflicting a severe flesh wound under the arm. Springing back into the room, lie found the overseer had al j ready fled. He essayed to follow, but, seeing j some eight or ten Indians were in hot pursuit, and that they must be either nv rt ikon or shot in the back, he suddenly turned off from the overseer, aud attempted to gain a swamp 1 not far distant. (The overseer was soon kill :ed ‘) In Ins course, Mr. B. had to pass the negro-cabins. As he neared these, he found that a powerful Indian was rapidly gaining on nun. He opened a large pocket knife, and turning around, faced the Indian. The latter drew up his rifle, at only a few paces distant, mid took deliberate aim. At the instant Mr. Ik thought he was draw’ng the trigger, he i sprung suddenly behind a negro cabin, near watch he was and was missed. Run ‘rng round the cabin, lie saw several Indians 1 approaching in that direction, which turned him iu front of the cabins again. Here lie ! again encountered the same Indian who had just fired his rifle at him, and who now pointed j a pistol at bis breast. He could not run and j be shot in the back; so he faced his foe once | more, looking as steadily into his eyes as lie j could. The first cap bursted, he put on the j second, aud that bursted, and then a third, i when the pistol went off, and that charmed life | was still preserved, he having received no injn- Iry from this last discharge. From that mo ment lie felt mysteriously assured that he would not be killed. Having turned and ran some forty or fifty yards,he looked back and saw the Indian, standing where lie had last fired gazing after him, as if bewildered. He soon entered the swamp, five or six of his enemies but a short distance behind. But he knew the localities— the bushes were very thick, and there was a pond not far off, which was high and flowed out into the surrounding bushes He soon reached this, and going in where the water was two or three feet deep he sat down, leaving only his face out. Soon his pursuers were in sight again, when he drew his face under, all except his nose, and there lay still until they gave up the search. In the mean time, the negroes had gone to the encampment of the whites and given the alarm. A detachment came out and at tacked the Indians, when a smart skirmish en sued —the whites driving them again into the swamp where Mr. B. lay concealed. lie made his way around them, and running up to his friends, came near being shot, at again, they having taken him for an Indian. Mr. B. says he was much alarmed when first fired upon, but that his presence of mind never forsook him, and that this adventure has lmd this effect upon him— he has never known fear since, that he lias been in several battles and passed through many dangers, both by land and sea. This remarkable adventure might lose much of its interest, should I fail to add that Mr. Bowen, the Missionary from Africa, whose re cent lectures in this city have so much interest ed our citizens, is the gent leman whose life was so Providentially preserved. A physician of high standing in this city was knowing to these facts at the time of their occurence. I publish them without the knowledge or consent of Mr B. J. 11. C. Griffin, Oct. 6, 1856. Fatal Duel in ! CharlestonDeath of the Editor of the Mercury. Augusta, Sent. 30. A duel took place in Charleston yesterday after noon. between \Vm. It. Tahc", Jr , Esq., editor of the Mercury, and Edward Miurrath, Esq. At the third fire a ball entered Mr. Tuber's head, and he died an hour after- The difficulty originated from articles which have been published in the Mercury relative to lion. A. G. Magrath, since his nomi nation for Congress.— Sav. News. msgr” Old Buck ’ll be next President, sortin'. For the Empire State. Mr. Editor .—I have frequently heard the re mark made by citizens of your beautiful town,that Griffin was one of the most moral and orderly com munities in Ga. That for these points of charac ter, it was rather celebrated. A stranger making a brief sojourn among you. would not be so inf pressed, especially, if he were to visit your church es on Sabbath evenings aud witness the scenes which meet the eye immediately out of doors. The number of boys—lbeg your pardon, I believe there are no boys those days, they are all men—that as semble at the hohr oi Divine Service at the church es, to romp and run after each other; to wrestle; to talk aud laugh,,to the annoyance of the congre gation, do not agree with the remarks referred to There must be a criminal defect'some where, either with parents m home instruction, or teachers in school instruction, or with your municipal regula tion*; Oi it may be that the Marshal, whose duty j it seems to a sirauger, ought to be to keep order in , m streets at such a time and place as the Worship of GoJ, “iay not be cognizant of these’ scenes. Could you have witnessed what some of us did bc ; lore your clmreli doors recently, 1 think you would agree with the write*. I heard a highly intelligent Lady, who lives at a dis'ouce, but a visitor here, remark lh..t she came near being knocked down before one of your clinches by one of these full grown chitdre t who . coined to be in hot j ur.-uit of another of the same class. This is not very repu table for a place of high moral character; at least, it shows the moral character lias a downward ten dency. To arrest this downward progress, I will | venture to recommend to parents to pay a little | more attention to the out-door conduct .of theii% I children, ami to your city authorities that they be a little more rigid m their municipal regulations, especially about the churches, that, strangers visit ing your city may not have their moral sense so shocked with such unbecoming conduct as may b witnessed on sabbath evenings around your house* of Worship.. . ’ ORDER. P- 8-—Understanding that ydur Marshal is a man ot character and standing in your community, we would recommend him to turn his attention in that direction and tor the future endeavor to cor rect the evil. r From the Savannah Georgian.] The Fillmore and Fremont Coalition ia Philadelphia. Pim.ADKt.PHIA. Sept. 17. A meeting was held last evening at the Nation al Hall, called by Lewis C. Levin, to repudiate tho Union tioket. Mr. Levin was hooted down and hustled out of the ball, and subsequently the Union ticket was heartily approved and Levin denounced. Fhe meeting then formed a procession and march- - ed to the Fillmore meeting in Spring garden, „ where similar resolutions were adopted. ‘1 lie Union ticket here alluded to, is a ticket for r State officers in Pennsylvania, nominated jointly/ ; by the friends ot Fi.lrnore and Fremont. Fillmore’s •* j supporters, in Pennsylvania are leagued together v with tli” Fremonters in behalf of the same ticket,'., ami that is the way they “are fighting our battlee-* in the North!” The election comes off on llwhr 14th of October. Patriotic Southerners in thtiie j Know Nothing ranks, are requested to mnk<k*a j note ot this coalition. Should the Democrats be defeated, the victory, of course, will redound to the benefit and go to the encouragement of the Black Republicans. In Philadelphia, Mr. Levin and others, called a. meeting to repudiate the coalition Here is theiir call for the meeting mentioned iu the foregoing dis patch : “-\ nierieans ! Fillmore ! The friends of our glo rious Union, rally ! All opposed to the Black lte | publican Union ticket, taken up by certain mem -1 tiers ot the Legislature of Pennsylvania, are invit j ed to attend a mass meeting at National Hall, Market street, below Thirteenth street, on Tuesday J evening, Sept. 16th, at 8 o’clock. Come up, boy* of 44; you are about to build up your gloriou* | party-! The Hon. Henry M. Fuller,* lion. L. lb j Levin, Isaac Ilazlehurst and others, will address i t he meeting, and point out the true path to Amer ican glory iu the election of Millard Fillmore.” I In response to the foregoing, ({another call for a meeting at the same place was issued a* fol ! lows : j “CHERILY 110 ! THE NINTH WARD I FREMONT CLUB will meet THIS EVEN ING at NATIONAL HALL. Come early. “JACOB L. GOSSLER, Pres’t. “K. 11. Coggins, Sec’v.” This brought together such a crowd of the gup ; porters of the coalition—that is to say, oi Fillmore \ and Fremont — as completely overpowered Levin and his company. A friend* of the fusion, oruws it is termed, the union ticket, Col. Warner, was made Chairman, amid a scene of indescribable confusion. From the following remark which fell from him, it would seem that the joint supporters of Fremont and Fillmore have as hearty a horror of “sq’iatter sovereignty” as our neighbor : “The union ticket, in the field, is the only ticket to dish squatter sonereignty and all these miserable nominations in modern polities.” Levin was refused a hearing, and narrowly es caped with his life. The following resolution was adopted with great enthusiasm : *'Resolved, ‘Phot we; as the friends and support ers of Millard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson, do hereby endorse the union .State ticket, and will give it our earnest and undivided support at the coming election ” Southern voters ! are you prepared to co-ope rute with the friends of Fremont, Fillmore & Cos., to defeat the Pennsylvania Democracy and James Buchanan ?—for that is the game in the old “Key stone State,” as it was in Maine, and as it was im lowa. Is any party whose organization through out a large portion of the North is itcoalition with the Black Republicans, a party worthy of your membership ? What is it that now gives the Fremontars their confidence ? The result in Maine and lowa. What brought about that result 1 The union between the friends of Fillmore and Fremont. In Pennsyl vania and Indiana, (in both of which elections oc cur in October,) there is a similar coalition. Sup pose it successful, who can say how much it will in crease the chances of a Black Republican triumph, in November? lias any Southern Know Nothing paper rebuk ed these coalitions between their Northern associ ates and the Black Republicans? We think not- Still they expect you, Southern voters, to follow them, and sustain a party in Georgia whose mem bers in Pennsylvania, Indiana and other Northern States are leagued with the Black Republicans! Will you do it ? The Electoral Vote for President. The following is a list of the electoral votes to which each State is entitled, under the last census, at the election for President in November : Maine, 8 New Hampshire,.... 5 Vermont, 5 Massachusetts, 13 Rhode Island, 4 Connecticut, 6 New York 35 New Jersey,. 7 Pennsylvania 27 Delaware 3 Maryland, 8 Virginia, 15 North Carolina, 10 South Carolina, 7 Georgia, 10 Florida, 3 Ohio 23 I Indiana,. 13 | Burning ok a Piano ManufactouY.-—A Wo man lvii.i.m—Buffalo, Sep. 27.—A. J. Keogh’s . extensive Piano Manufactory in this city, was . totally destroyed by fire this morning, at four, o’clock. The building was now, and owned by the occupants. Loss $23,000 —insured in se veral companies $9,000. The falling wall crushed an adjoining wooden building, killing one woman.- — Scr, Republican. Illinois,... 11 lowa 4 Wisconsin, 5> Michigan, 6'* Kentucky, ..12', Missouri, 9 Alabama,... 9 Louisiana, 6 Tennessee, 12 Mississippi, 7 Arkansas,.;. 4 Texas, £ California, ? Whole number of votes, 295 I Necessary to a j choice,... 149,