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iKttkiu AND CHEROKEE ADVOCATE. BY RUGGLES & HOWARD. ATLANTA AND MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1855. VOL. VH. NO. 14. TrI-Weekly and Weekly. by RUGGLES & HOWARD. W. B. RUGGLES,1 or . T. C. HOWARD. J W. H. HUNT. Associate Editor. $6.00 4.00 2.00 THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER ] down. Then ensued a terrible scene: the Irish firing from the windows of their houses on Main street repeated volleys.— Mr. Rhodes, a river man, was shot and kill ed by one in the upper story, and a Mr. Graham met with a similar fate. An Irish man who had discharged a pistol at the back of a man’s head was snot and then hung. He, however, survived both punish ments. John Hudson, a carpenter, was shot dead during the fracas. After dusk, a row' of frame houses on Main street, between 10th and 11th, the property of Mr. Quinn, a well-known Irish man, was Bet on fire. The flames extended across the street, and twelve buildings were destroyed. These houses were chiefly ten anted by Irish, and upon any of the ten ants venturing out to escape the flames they were immediately shot down. No idea could be formed of the number killed. We arc advised that five men were roasted to death, having been so badly wounded by gun shot wounds that they could not escape from the burning buildings. Of all the enormities and outrage com mitted by the American party yesterday and last night, we have not time now to write. The mob having satisfied its appetite for blood, repaired to Third street, and until midnight made demonstrations against the Times and Democrat offices. The furious 60 cts. One month, *5 00 $1 00 Two “ 8 00 1 25 Throe “ 10 00 1 :.0 Four “ 12 00 1 75 Six “ 15 00 2 00 One year, 25 00 TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Intelligencer per annum, In advance, Tri-Weekly, “ Weakly, “ 1 RATES OF ADVERTISING. 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The privilege of yearly advertisers is strictly limited to their own immediate and regular busi- D °Profossional Cards not exceeding six lines, $15 per annum. . ... , Advertisement* not specified as to time will be published till ordered out, nnd charged at regular Advertisements inserted in the Weekly paper only will be charged at former rates. Whig member of Congress from the city, and a gentleman of high character and standing, mounted the rostrum and implored them as good citizens to desist from such a course. He had, however, spoken but a few moments, when the Know Nothing sic- 1 f Vi. A - A I - . r The Prwapeet- From every quarter of the country we have glorious indications of the success of the success of the Democracy in the coming election. Georgia will end the matter as to THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. Term*$2 00 per annum, invariably in advance SATURDAY, AUGUST, 25. The Louisville Riots! Full Details Of tlie Bloody Trag edy !! THE KILLED AND WOUNDED !!! Exciting and Shocking Scenes MM The Louisville papers of Tuesday, receiv ed yesterday, brings us full accounts of the terrible riots which disgraced that city on Monday, and brought sorrow and distress upon numerous poor families. The Couri er, from which we copy at first, was a strong K. N. journal, until within a few weeks of the election, when it gave offence to that or der by opposing their candidate for Con gress: [From the Louisville Courier.] We passed yesterday through the forms of an election. As provided by the statue, the polls were opened, and privileges gran ted to such as were “right upon the goose question,” with a few exceptions, to exercise their elective franchise. Never, perhaps, was there a greater farce; or as we should term it, tragedy—enacted. Hundres and thousands were deterred from voting by direct acts of intimidation, others through fear of the con sequences, and a multitude from tho lock of proper facilities. The city, indeed, du ring the day was in possession of an armed mob, the base passions of which was infuri ated to tho highest pitch by the incendiary 1 appeals of the newspaper organ and the lea ders of the K. N. party. On Sunday night, large detachments of armed men were sent to tlie first and sec ond wards, to see that the polls were pro perly opened. These men tho “American Executive Committee” supplied with requi site refreshments, and as may be imagined, they were in a fit condition yesterday morn ing to see that the rights of freemen were respected. Indeed, they discharged the im portant trust committed to them in such a manner as to commend them for ever to the admiration of outlaws! They opened the polls; they provided ways and means for their own party to vote; they buffed and bullied all who could not show the sign; they in fact, converted the election into a perfect farce, without one redeeming phase. We do not know when or how their plan of operations was devised. Indeed we do not care to know when such a system of outrage—such perfidy—such dastardy—was conceived. We only blush for Kentucky— that her soil was the scene of such outrages, and that some of her sous were participants in the nefarious swindle. It would be impossible to know wlieu or b"-v this riot commenced. By day-break, polls were taken possession of by the American party, and iu pursuance of [tho preconcerted game, they used every strata gem and device to hiudor the vote of every man who could not manifest his soundness on the K. N. question to the “guardians of the polls.” Ivo were personally witness to the proceedure of the party in certain wards, and of these we feel authorized to speak.— At the seventh ward we discovered that for three hours in the outset in the morning it was impossible for those not “posted” to vote without the greatest difficulty. In tlie sixth ward a party of bullies were masters of the polls. We saw two foreigners driv en from the polls, forced to run a gauntlet, beat unmercifully, stoned and stabbed. In the case of one fellow, the Hon. W. Thoin- asson, formerly a member of Congress from this district, interfered, and while appeal ing to the maddened crowd to cease their acts of violence, Mr. Thomasson was struck from behind and beat. Ilis gray hairs, his long public service, his manly presence, and his thorough Americanism, availed nothing with the crazed mob. Other and serious fights occurred in the sixth ward, of which we have no time to make mention n&l for blood was raven, and be was instant Know Nothingiem. A correspondent of the ly knocked down by a club, in the hands of ! Constitutionalist from Kinchfoonee co. re- some assassin who approached him in the , ports seventeen withdrawalsfromtheorder in rear. About this tune, Col. Preston, the i V” , .. e , anta-Know-Nothing candidate for Congees, | that P 1 "* °“ the occasion of a public meet- appeared at the first, which is the large ; * n g» at which Gov. Johnson, Judge Wei- Democratic ward, composed chiefly of Ger- j born and others addressed the Democratic man naturalized citizens, and requested his j party. friends not to attempt to vote. He stated to! » ’ XT ... • , . * them that the polls were in the hands of the i Know ^thingism has almost ceased to Know-Nothing bullies, that his friends could 1 exist in South-Western Georgia. Not less not approach the polls in safety, and ad- ' encouraging are the prospects from other vised them to retire peaceably to their homes portions of the country. The same paper and submit to disfranchisement rather than j contains an extract from a letter from El- endanger their lives. The result was, that ! . ■ ... . .. , .. ., out of 6,500 votes in the city, only 4,500 ; berton ’ In which we are a8SUred *•"* old were polled. Two thousand Democratic Elbertou ‘w right aide up with care.’ There voters were by violence deprived of the right j will be a large Democratic gain. It is of suffrage. thought by some knowing ones that John- In the afternoon a fight occurred in tlie j 80n the county.” We have con- first ward, which ended in the discharge of ! , . - • i c fire arms, and the death of several peifons. i voraed Wlth a ver ? intelligent citizen of The Know Nothing mob then commenced ! Newton county, himself an Anti-Johnson The more serious and disgraceful disturb ances occurred in the upper wards. The vote cast was but a partial one, and nearly altogether on one siae. No show was given to the friends of Preston, who were largely in the majority, but who, in the face of can non, musket and revolvers, could not, being an unarmed aad quiet populace, confront the mad mob. So the vote was cast one way, and the result stands before the pub- lie. In the morning, George Berg, a carpen ter living on the corner of 9th and Market, was killed near Hancock street. A Ger man named Fitz, formerly a partner at the Gulf House, was severely, if not fatally, beaten. In the afternoon a genera! row occurred on Shelby street, extending from Main to Broadway. We are unable to ascertain the facts concerning the disturbance. Some fourteen or fifteen men were shot, including officer Williams, Joe Selvage, and others. Two or three were killed, and a number of houses, chiefly German coffee houses, brok en into and pillaged. About 4 o’clock, when the vast crowd, augmented by acces sions from every part of the city, and arm ed with shot guns, muskets and rifles, were proceeding to attack the Catholic Church on Shelby street, Mayor Barbee arrested them with a speech, and the mob returned to the first ward polls. Presently a large party arrived with a piece of brass ordnance, followed by a number of men and boys with muskets. In an hour afterwards the large brewery on Jefferson street, near the junc tion of Green, was set fire to. in the lower part of the eity the disturb ances were characterized by a greater de gree of bloody work Law in the afternoon crowd satisfied itself, however, with break ing a few window panes and ’ burning the sign of the Times office. At 1 o’clock this morning a large fire is raging in the upper part of the city. Upon the proceedings of yesterday and last night we have no time nor heart to comment. We are siokened with the very thought of men murdered, aud houses burn ed and pillaged, that signalized the Ameri can victory yesterday. Not less than twen ty corpses from the trophies of this wonder ful achievement. [From tho Louisville Democrat.] The election during yesterday was, as near as could be, all one sided, the most un fair means being resorted to by the Know- Nothings to crowd other voters from the polls. In the first ward the most intense excite ment prevailed for some time, and the polls were surrounded by a large crowd. When ever a Know-Nothing voter approached the crowd he was hoisted right over the heads of all and landed at the door, ready to de posit his vote. Several disgraceful fights occurred, and one man by the name of Burch, who had, with others, ehased an Irishman from the polls, was in turn beset, beaten nearly to death, and knocked sense less by the man he had been chasing.— Marshal Kidd, we learn, subsequently ar rested the Irishman. In tho sixth ward several disgraceful scenes occurred, such as six, eight, or a dozen men pitching into one poor Irishman and driving him from the polls. In tho eighth ward it was a one-sided matter none but yellow ticket chaps having any chance to get to the polls throughout the day. In the seventh ward four men were walk ing along the street when they were beset by a crowd, ran off, one of them taking re fuge in a house corner of 9th and Magazine streets. The house was stoned, a woman hurt, and finally one or two of the men were shot, one of them dangerously. One of tlie pursued party was the first to shoot, firing a pistol at the crowd who were ston ing him and his companions. Some one came out from*fibouse with a shot ram, and let drive at t^pragitive. The marshal sub sequently arrested two of them. No respectable man can think of the scenes of yesterday without shame. A complete system of terror and blood was established by the Know Nothing purity or faction. The details are disgusting. The lawlessness was provided for by the city authorities in allowing but one voting in a ward. The upper and lower wards were not exempt. We have had no election in any Ameri can sense of the word. Our city is govern ed, not by law, but by a set of hired scoun drels who obey the secret commands of lawless men. it is not worth while to try to disguise the character of this city.— There is no law, no police, no justice here. Our poll-books speak not the voice of the people but the dictates of a mob. We never heard of such sceues, much less have we seen them anywhere. Nor have such ever been witnessed in this coon- try. This sort of proceedings was antici pated. It came fully up to all that had been threatened, aud surpassed anything anticipated, unscrupulous as we know the secret party. If the election in Louisville yesterday was legal and is to stand, then the right of suffrage in Kentucky is mock- ry. There is no freedom here and no law. gcounderlism is triumphant. We have found means to subvert the laws of numbers at the polls by violence, and passed off as legal. If the example of Louis ville wore generally followed, the liberties of this country would be ended. The abovo are all the accounts we find in the Louisville papers. The reporters and printers seem to have been bo much frigh tened as to be unable to attend to their business. The Courier has the following apology: “Threats repeatedly made during yester day evening and last night that the mob would attack our office, created snob a stam pede among our printers (many of whom by the way are Know Nothings,) they could not be induced to work. We are consequen tly unable to give all the news we have col lected, this morning, and must throw our selves on the clemency of our readers.” Statement of an eye-witness. We find in the Indianapolis Sentinel the following letter from Louisville, Kentucky, written by a gentleman who was present during the dreadful scenes which he des cribes : Louisville, Aug. 7. 1855. Editors Sentinel:—It is with feelings of deep mortification that I set down to detail the horrible scenes of yesterday. If what I witnessed is a fair specimen of “Americans rulling America,” then the elective franchise is mockery and liberty and empty delu sion. The Know Nothing blacklegs and- pro fessional gamblers, who are all members of, the Order, had bet largely on the result of the election. To win their bets by fraud and violence, hundreds of, armed bullies were transported to the city. Their plans were concocted in Know Nothing lodges. Their signs and signals were all understood aud during the terrible day they were faithfully aud promptly executed. On Monday morning, at 4 o’clock, the places of voting in the 1st and 8th wards, which are the strong Democratic precincts, were taken possession of by the Know- Nothings. A few of the old Democratic citizens in these wards were permitted to vote in the morning, but all others, who were unable to give the signs were rudely thrust from the polls. This state of things pre vailed to a greater or less extent in all the wards. If an Irishman or German attempt ed to approach the polls, he was driven back with bloody missiles. Native-born Ameri can citizens who were unable to give the proper signs and signals, shared the same fate. To entitle a citizen to the privilege of a voter, he must, to use the Know-Nothing tearing down tho business houses, aud pri vate dwellings occupied by German citi zens. A rush was then made for the Cath olic Church, and the cry, fire their “damned Popish den,” rang out. The Mayor ap- man, who assures us that Johnson will gain largely in Newton county. And Cherokee, despite the wonderful representations of the Know Nothinge, will prove herself true in pealed to them, amFtlie mob deeistedL They j October. We learn from a gentleman thor- then made a rush for the large brewery i oughly acquainted with the county, that owned by a German citizen, and, after tear- there are but six Know Nothings in Rabun, ing out the mmde and distributing the beer, ; Habersham and Hall will .give an incroas- they fired the building, and it was burned to ashes. The Know-Nothing fire-companies appeared on the ground, but did nothing except to carry off the beer and ale casks.— , But the most terrible and heart-rending scene occurred in the lower part of the city, where the Irish population principally re side. About six o’clock in the evening, the K. N. bullies, armed to the teeth with muskets and a large brass cannon, under the control of Capt. Stone, proceeded to that part of the city. Every Irishman that made his ap pearance was assaulted and beaten. The groceries in that vieinity were broken in, their contents scattered over the streets, and the liquors divided among tho thirsty crowd. A general fight ensued, shots were fired from the houses that were being stoned, and a number on both sides were killed and wounded. The buildings on both sides of Main street, between 10th and 11th, were fired. Every Irishman who showed himself was shot down. Here followed a scene which neither tongue or pen can describe. My heart sickens at the recital. Men lying dead in the street, women who carried ont the bedding and household goods were assaulted, ana their agonizing cries for mercy were met by mocking groans of derision. I saw a poor Irish woman with an infant clinging to her neck, trying to save her bed, kicked across the street, and her bed burned, the Know-Nothing fiend crying in derision to her, “Worship the Pope, will you ?” “ We?U learn you that Americans will rule America.” It is im possible to tell the number of killed ; one man was hang, and five burned alive. About 11 o’clock the signal was given to demolish the Democrat and limes printing offices. A rush was then made, but Pren tice thinking it was time to stop, appealed to them to desist, which they did, after ed vote for Johnson. Did Tow Ever 1—A Golltwhopper. We cut the subjoined extract from a K. N. paper wet from the press. Such con founding, astounding and resounding argu mentation has had no parrallel since the days of the Brobdignags. If Mr. Hill should, by some funny mischance, get to Congress, it will be a na tional calamity that the extension wing of his end of the Capitol will be in an unfin ished state on his arrival at Washington.— Such an expansive genius can’t speak in the present cramped structure. Mercy, to think of the prodigious utterance of the man ? That we are taxed every year $400,- 000,000 to feed beggars—foreign beggars ! Sixteen dollars tax for each man, woman and baby in the land!! Then, O spirit of the departed Dabol, to think of that crowd of two hundred thirty-four millions of va grants that came here last year. Merciful cholera, redeeming black vomit, what would have saved us from this bloody horde if they had not been removed from this “ land of the brave and the home of the free,” thro’ yoor blessed agency, to Abraham’s bosom. What do these wild hunters mean ? Have they perverted even their type so that they can’t print the truth, or is blundering a real Know-Nothing right, imprescriptible and inalienable? One word to Mr. Hill. Will he be so good, as to allow us to ask in the most, re spectful manner, that be will never again suffer himself to declare that by the last act , . , . , r , . , of Congress, “Foreigneers may go to Kan- of r tho D fSl W offiJe WS S fllg “ S ■“« d 8* * grant, for nothing, to 160 acres At about 12 o’clock, a move was made for ! s0 ^* P a * d ^ or our money, while we, the German part of the oity, and as I re- j native Americans, can only get land there tired, sickened with the .scenes of the day, a 1 bv paying government price.” This, we large fire was raging in that direction. I have not learned this morning the result of their doings. This is a specimen of “Amer icans ruling America !” If it is to prevail, then there is no security for life, liberty, or property. Daring the scenes of bloodshed and riot in the 8tu ward, no attempt was made by the Know-Nothing Mayor to ar rest the mob or prevent bloodshed and mur der. No attempt was made by the police to arrest any one. Peaceable citizens were shot down, and their murderers permitted, with loaded guns, to stalk around, in search of more victims. But this letter is already too long. I have no comments. AN EYE-WITNESS. . The New York Mirror thinks Georgia and Virginia are earnestly preparing for a disso lution of the Union; while the Abolition press of the North, with its daily irritations, we are told, is goading even the cooler classes of the South in to a state of indignation, which will inevitably lead to rash and reckless action. The editor adds. “ A distinguished gentleman and statesman, who has just returned from a tour through the Southern States, informs us that the prevading feeling of the South is fearfully determined a- gainst the North; and that they are preparing, not only for an independent confederation, bat are looking towards a free trade alliance with En gland. And notwithstanding all the ravings of the British Abolitionists against American slave ry, should the day ever come, England wonld be the first to take the South by the hand, and court her for her cotton more than she has ever cursed her for her slaves.” Treatment of the Yellow Fever. Captain John P. Levy, late of the U. S. Trancs- port ship American, who has had hundreds of cases of yellow^ fever under treatment, says he never knew of a case terminating fatally after observing the following directions. Dissolve in a wine glass of water a table-spoonful of common salt, and poor the same into a tumbler, adding the juice ef a whole lemon, and two wine glasses of castor oil. The whole to be taken at one dose, (by an adult.) Then a hot [mustard foot-bath, with a hanfnl of salt in the water—the patient to be well wrapped in blan kets, until prespiration takes place freely. On removal to bed, the feet of the patient to be wrapped in the blanket. Afterwards, apply mustard plas ters to the abdomen, legs and soles of the feet. If the headache is very aente, apply mustard plas ters to the abdomen, legs and soles of the feet— If headache is very acute apply mustard plasters to the head and tomelps. After the fever has been broken, take forty grains of quinine and forty drops of elixir of vitriol to a quart of water. Dose —wineglass full three times a day. Barly water, lemonade, and ice water, may be used in moder ation. Female Medical Students.—The Now York Medical Time* says that seven young fair look ing woman may be daily seen at the New York hospital following the physicians and surgeons on their rounds, and are present at all operations on males and females. HORRIBLE.—We understand that about four o’clock yesterday evening, a woman and ten chil dren were found in the rains of Qninn’s house, on Main street, burned into cinders. On whose heads lie the deaths of these little abildreu ?—Lortitrille Times. The Cotton Crop in Mississippi.—A letter from Natchez, Mississippi, states that the cotton crop was suffering from rot and rust in that region, and that the prospects arc 15 to 20 per cent, worse than they were two weeks ago. ^^.We are requested to sta:e that persons who have not been to Norfolk, Portsmouth, or Gosport, within twenty days before arrival in Smithfield will not be excluded from visiting the said town by the sanitary regulations in force. Some of the papers in Missouri say they will raise more corn this yo&r than for any five years before. Mach of the wheat land there averages 40 bushel* to an acre. heard ourselves at the City Hall, and hoped never to hear again, but we learn the same statement has been made again and again by Mr. Hill. But we keep our readers from the extract: Ben. F. Hill, the candidate for Congress in the 4th District, made a speech of about two hours, length, in which, by arguments clear and unanswerable, he established the correctness of the American principles and the necessity of their adoption for the per petuity of our rights and institutions. He challenged oontradlction to the follo wing facts: That the United States are tax ed 400 millions dollars anually to support foreign paupers—234millions vagrants lan ded upon our shores in the year 1854 (by vagrants be means persons too lazy to work ana not too good to steal)—foreigners com mitted more than one-half of all the high crimes in the United States in 1854—only 269 millions foreigners settled in our coun try during the first 40 years of the existence of our government. His remarks upon those and other statistics that he read, and the legitimate conclusions he drew from them were highly edifying, aud cannot be successfully controverted.—Dome Courier. gigalficuit. It is a well-settled fact that Know Koth- ingism in Tennessee at least, is auti-Nebras- kaism. Four of the candidates of that par ty, Collum, Taylor, Etheridge and Bugg, had folly committed themselves on the pas sage of the bill by voting against it. The remainder, we suppose, like their leader, Gentry, were mum on the question. In vo ting for these men the Knew Nothings of Tennessee endorsed their opinions, and com mitted their party in opposition to the Kan- sas-Nebraska act. Another evidence that such is their posi tion is the fact that many of the most influ ential papers in the State are now advocat ing the claims of the Hon. John Bell, an other anti-Nebraska man, to the Presiden cy. Where do their friends in Georgia stand on this question ? slang, be “right on the goose question /” By ten o’clock, the city was under the control of a lawless Know-Nothing mob— neither life nor property was sab. At this able, Bob. WsT^TImbimob, bnui^t In Arkansas there is said to be an immense crop of cotton. In some places it is piled as high ss bills upon the banks of the rivers. It is romord that Hon.Wm. Preston, of Kentucky will be tendred the Mission to England, about to be vacated by Mr. Buchanan. Know Nothihgism n New Jeest.—The N. J. State council of know-nothings met at Trenton on Wednesday last—150 members being present. J. H. Lyon presided. - After a lengthy discussion, resolutions were aflopted protesting against the 12th section -(slavery) of the Philadelphia plat form as not being-apart ot know-nothing princi- ples. They sptest tho repeal of A Threat.—The Louisville (Ky.) Know Nothing Journal notices that a number of its subscribers have stopped their papers in consequence of its oourse on the recent riots in that city* and remarks: “We never censure men for withdrawing their names from our subecriptjpn books- Those, however, who choose to proscribe us because we will not throw upon oar party the American party, more blame than it de serves, may pardon us for suggesting to them, that, if we chose to publish their names, they might feel an incomparably heavier weight of proscription, than they are capab)$;of making us feel?” The Lord defend us!—We never^could see the reason why the gods declined destroying one till they made a fellow go mad. Yet we believe it is a fact that this is the way the thing is done. Prentice and all the rest of the Red Republicans of Kentucky, seem to be as wild as March hares. “An incomparably heavier weight of proscription,” what is that ? Burn their houses down, and their bodies with them— shoot a wife or two—blow a baby’s head offt ! or, is it a turning loose against your enemy that awful oath, that “in all things social and political,” the voice of the majority is to be inexorably obeyed. If an American citizen in all this land, can read this little extract from this trumpet of sedition and civil war, and not shudder at its daring, in fernal spirit, then we confess we have been mistaken in the temper of the timee. Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama, has declined the Presidency of Emory Col- to which be vh recently dcoted. Gen. ZoUieoWcr’a Speech. As shown in a former article, Gen. Zolli- coffer commences the proof of his assertion, that ‘‘foreign and Catholic influences have now almost got possession of the govern ment, and Americans are becoming politi cally proscribed in their own native land,” by affirming that of the “twenty-eight subordinate officers in the State Depart ment, all are foreign Roman Catholics, except onewhereas the official re cords prove, that oj the thirty-five pet sons employed in the State Department, five only are foreigners. This isone point. We pass on to others. Mr. Zollicoffer says: “Of the foreign Ministers, Consuls, and other diplomatic and commercial agents sent to represent us in foreign countries, the Bine Book showsthat fifty-three are foreign ers, and others are put down without any | description of birth-place, implying that j they were not born in the United States.— Among this latter class are J. J. Seibels, charge to Belgium, S. Medary, Minister to Chili; Max Steltemier, Consul to Wurtem- burg, D. E. Sickles, Secretary of Legation to London; H. Bedinger, Minister to Den mark ; P. D. Vroorn, Minister to Prussia, and other incumbents of high positions.” As to the number of agents employed in the foreign service of the United States, who are foreigners, the explanation is simple enough. All nations having wide aud ex tended commercial relations, of necessity, have many foreigners in their service. The enterprise and commerce of their people stretch into regions most remote, with which the traffic is exceedingly limited, and the commissioning of regular agents, a matter of expense by no means compensated in the advantages derived. The fees and salaries of Consuls at such stations, are, besides, so inconsiderable, that none but an established resident, having other employment, can af ford to accept of the position. It is there fore, the common custom among Govern ments, under these circumstances, to entrust the slight and occasional discharge of such duties as may arise, to citizens of the for eign country itself, whose business and character justify their confidence. It is, for the most part, a mere commercial ar rangement, and the duties which attachcan generally be best discharged by those who are fully acquainted with the laws and usages of the country, and have a personal interest in the maintenance and promotion of fair and peaceable relations. That this is the spirit in which such appointments are maae, we have ample illustration in the eases of citizens of this country, in many places acting as the agents of foreign na tions. There have been instances of it again and again in this city. So much for the principle. What, then, becomes of this astounding item in Mr. Zollicoffer’s charge, that “foreign and Catholic influences have almost got possession of the Government ?” But, “others are put down in the Blue Book, without any description of birth place ;” and hence, our worthy author, in his strong but indiscriminate scent after foreign game, marks these down for the hunt. Heitor, skelter he pitches in, and the first that brings him to a stand is Mr. Seibels, who happens to be a thorough American, and a native son of this State.— So much for Mr. Zollicoffer’s inferences.— We shall not pause to measure their justice as to the other gentlemen named. “ Seven-tenths of you army, officers and soldiers, are said to be foreigners, a fourth of the sailors in your navy.” Why does Mr. Zollicoffer deal in what are merely “ said to be ” facts ? He is a member of Congress, and can have every facility in ascertaining the truth, without resorting to the flimsy and unreliable state ments of rumor, put forth for mere party purposes, to deceive and excite ? Not hav ing at hand, however, the means of testing this allegation, thus based upon rumor, we will, for the sake of argument, admit it is true, and what does it amount to ? Is it a proof of the evil influence of foreigners, that they are willing to enlist in our army and navy, and for the meagre compensation given, bear the brunt and hardships of mil itary life ? that when enlistment is free to all, they alone, for the most part, can be found planting thomselves beneath the flag of the country, and, whether in the grim and terrible experiences of the Western frontiers, exposed to cold, want, and the mercies of savage hordes, or far away upon the broad and perilous deep, still defending the interests and honor of their adopted land? It is an unfortunate argument for those who use it; for, whatever have been the evil influences of foreigners in these United States, in other respects, certain it is, that, from the day when liberty first de fied oppression, in VJ1&, to the present time, they have borne their full and honor ed share in oar conflicts upon land and upon sea. Bat, as a conclusion to this braucli of foreign influence, Mr. Zollicoffer tells us that, “out of 4,304 officers in the various departments of the General Government in 1854,3,321 are foreigners. Now this charge had been repeatedly made before, and as often corrected by tne Administration Organ at Washington, and Mr. Zolliooffer must have known how utterly without foundation it was. But it serves the purpose in hand —it catches the popular ear, and excites a bitter sentiment, and hence, it is again put forth. Mr. Stephens, in his late speech at Sparta, sums up from the official register the following statement: “In all the departments of the Central Government, including the State Depart ment, Treasury, Interior, War, Navy, Post Office, Attorney-General’s Office and Judi ciary, there are 4,476 officers; of these, 3,- 677 are Americans by birth, and only 469 foreigners; the birthplace of the other, 630 is put down as unknown; and no one de partment are there more foreigners than Americans—or even one-third as many.” But that we may be more explicit, we give the abstract of the Washington Union, prepared from the records of the various departments, with the charge as originally made by the Know Nothings: Statement of the Know Nothings. and 332 foreign* born citizens employed, making about the same ratio. Can anything be more palpable and crushing than this simple statement ? And yet it is only the beginning. There are crimes,—deep, unpardonable crimes—which no earthly process can reach or punish, crimes which strike at all that is sacred and stable in society; and such we hold to be the act of him who, standing in a position of public truBt. and speaking at a time, with authority, when public ques tions are stirring the great public heart— nay, more, when prejudice and passion are unsheathing the sword, and lighting the torch, under the honored garb of truth, puts forth statements false in themselves, and inflammable in their tendency. It is the part of Marat and Robespierre.—Charles ton Mercury. “In Keeping.” It is no uncommon thing for men who ab jure moral principles as a guide of eondnet, to hold up some terrestrial object as a god, and not unfrequently a very detestable ob ject at that, and then attribute to that ob ject what is due to the Almighty alone.— Atlanta Republican. This far-fetched bit of sanctimonious stu pidity, it is well enough to say, is part of a comment of the Republican upon an article of ours exhibiting the hard work and good management of the Directoiy of the State Road for the month of July. If we were not fully persuaded that the habitual infor- mity of our neighbor was, to use words with the same judgment that a monkey does a razor, wo should feel inclined to regard the language we have quoted from his article as offensively personal. This would be un just, however, for when the flatulent peda gogue that bosses the Republican talks about “ abjuring moral principles as a guide of conduct,” he has not the least suspicion that he conveys anything more serious or offensive by this language than a refusal on our part to make a fool of ourselves about the liquor another man drinks. Perhaps this is intended for a second attack in the Republican upon our profanity. Now per mit us to tell the pragmatical blunderer of the Republican, that when a man abjures moral principles as a guide of conduct he is in a bad way. Permit us to say another thing that may be of more personal conse quence to oar neighbor than this sage prop- position, i. e., that a man never makes viru lent and indecent attacks upon a gentleman in his newspaper for no cause, or drags be fore the publio the fact of swearing; or of his absenting himself from church, or any such matter until he “ abjures ” some him self. What has the profanity of the Junior editor of this paper to do with facts we stated in reference to the business of the State Road for July. If the Republicun has no better answer for this than our morals it had better acknowledge that men may some times do their duty on a railroad without being in favor of stopping a man’s grog by force of law. It is a merry thought indeed, this discussion now raging in the Discipline and Republican upon the question, which of our set is the most deeply pious. Unless we are badly fooled, all of them have not more religion than wonld be suitable for one man, and that the least said about this little thing will best suit the public taste. Egyptian Oats. A valued friend in the interior, writes as follows: “I read with much interest in your excellent paper that there is a valuable va riety of tho oat cultivated in Mississippi, known as the Egyptian oats. I have been endeavoring for the last two years to ascer tain where it is to be procured, bat without success. I have thought a call in your pa per would bring it out, and I conld then take the necessary steps to obtain some seed. The heads, it is stated, have grown in that State, to the extraordinary length of eighteen inches.” Mr. Thomas Affleck, of Washington, Miss., was the first, webelieve, to introduce the Egyptian oats. He could probably fnr- nisb a few seeds to our correspondent, or at least inform him where they are to he pro cured. Will he address James Magoffin, Esq., St. Stephens ?—Mobile Tribune. We are satisfied this variety of oat de serves all the praise it lias received. We, last harvest, were shown by a distinguished agriculturist, a standing crop of this grain, and our opinion asked of it. We objected that the straw was too short for easy reap ing on uneven ground, but freely admitted the head to be unusually full and long. We pronounced it a first rate poor ground crop of oats. Our friend replied that he thought we wore right, but he requested ns to observe that the oats standing was a ratoon orop, from stalks that onee stood breast high. It may be no uncommon thing for onr ordinary varieties of oat to throw out a second growth from the old stubble, but it was something new to us.— Mr. Richard Peters of this place, has raised 73 bushels of clean Egpptian oats, to an acre, and from him we believe any quantity of seed may be procured. Another One. Henry Bedinger, of Virginia, Minister to Denmark, Judge P. D. Yroom, Minister to Prussia, S. Medany, Minister to Ohili, and Daniel Sickles, all of whom are so uncere moniously un-Americanized by Gen. Zolli coffer, we have the authority of Col. Smith, member of Congress from Tennessee, for stating, are native born. American. Foreign. State Department, 12 46 Treasury Department, Dept’ment of Interior, 139 338 278 500 Officers and agents in service of the Honse of Bepesentatirers 10 40 Postoffice Department 11 80 510 944 Statement from the official Records: 1. The Post-Office Department employs in Washington 100 persons. Of these, 88 are native born Americans, and 12 foreign born. Of the 12, five were appointed be fore the present administration came into power—leaving seven appointed by the pres ent Postmaster GeneraL 2. The Interior Department employs 798 persons. Of these, 604 are native and 88 foreign, and 106 whose birthplace is uu- known. 3. The State Department employs at Washington 35 persons. Of these, 30 are native and 5 foreign born. 4. The Treasury Department employs at Washington and in the custom houses, light houses and coast survey, 2,098 persons.— Of these 1,845 are native, 227 foreign born, and 26 whose birth place is unknown. We sum up the result as follows: By Mr. Zollicoffer’s statement; there, are, out of 4,303 persons in various employments by the Government, bat 982 natives. By the official register, there are 3,677 natives. According to Mr. Zollicoffer. the foreign ere stand as 3 to 1. According to the Record, stand only as 1 to 7: ana in the four * V there ue 2,667 native, Catholicism in the United States.— The Boston Transcript says: “Maryland, the first State where the Roman Catholic Church gained a footing, now contains eighthundred and seven Protestant churches and onlv sixty-five Catholic congregations. In Florida, the Catholics early made settle ment. Now there are one hundred and seventy Protestant, and only five Catholic Churches ! Louisiana was settled by the Catholics, who now have fifty-five churches in the State, while the Protestants have two hundred and forty-seven congregations. In Texas, the Catholics were the first sect in point of time; they now have thirteen churches, but the Protestants report three hundred and seven societies in the State.— The number of Episcopal, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Churches are nearly the same throughout the country, but eaeh of the three denominations have about one-deoentk of the number of the Metho dists, scarcely one-eighth that of the Bap tists, and not one-fourth that of the Presby terians. The entire Protestant population of the country, compared with that of the Catholic is about twelve to one.” And yet, in the face of these incontrover tible facte, Know Notbingiam tells us, that unless Catholics are proscribed they will Boon control this country and band it over to the Pope. MvIb| It Up. The Savannah Republican is oat in a lea der urging its party to give up its secrecy, oaths and cerimonies. The teasoa for the reform beats any Irish bull, while tesdfe and green, the order could bear theee dead weights, in foot they were marvelous helps, but now in manhood and fall maturity, they are “restraints to fetter and clog its pro gress.” The Republican in the progress of its review of the K. N. party, gives ns we suppose, “ex-cathedra,” a novel reading of the late Philadelphia platform. It says. The late Philadelphia Convention, im pressed with these convictions, took steps for the removal of these useless incumbran ces upon the order. It aboliehed the secre- oy feature in every particular in which the moat captious of our enemies have regarded it as obnoxious, and, at foe same tune, ohanged the form of all the obligations of order from an oath or affirmation to a sim ple pledge of honor, by the party taking it, to maintain and abide by the principles of the party as officially promulgated by that convention. Now if this is so, it is not in the copy of that platform that we have, nor in any other published one. Is there another proof that even among K. N.’s all things are not “ in common, and that in matters of most im portant and fundamental policy the workies are excluded from privity and concert. But the most singular part of our cotem porary’s article, is to be found in those re grets and complaint* that are urged against his own party, because the very thing as serted, as accomplished in the extract we have just given, was really not done at all. He says: We cannot help regretting that the Con vention did not go even farther, and divest the order entirely of all formB, ceremonies and obligations, and place it upon the same footing with all other political parties. If we do not construe this language cor rectly, when we say it contradicts the manumission of the K. N. laity as asserted above, we then do not comprehend its meaning. Bat the following from this extraordinary article is absolutely startling: Nor are we alone in these views. The order, in many portions of this State, have the inconvidhee, and, without waiting for authority from the “powers that be,” nave thrown aside the useless incumbrance, and organized upon the Philadelphia and Geor gia Platforms, preserving only enough of the origional forms to secure union among themselves and authority and harmony to their proceedings. With them the a who holds to American principles is a friend and co-worker, intitled to their sym pathies, and possessing all the rights and privileges of a member of the party. We approve of the change, having, long ago, witnessed the inconvenience, if not the im policy, of the old system, and its effects in restricting the perations of the parte, and retarding ite onward progress. We hope soon to see the order unfettered in this regard trroughout the State and country, and, in the mean time, wonld be glad to learn from our friends of the press elsewhere on the subject. Now what does all this amount to ? Why first, that the Philadelphia Convention did not “remove these useless incumbrances, out of which was drained “the stock in trade of the various presses and politicians of the opposition. Secondly, that free white men, in matters relating to the sacred right of voting, complain of the inconvenience of their political fetters, without daring to re dress themselves like freemen. Thirdly, that while some do not make this bold ven ture, others do, and heaven help them, with out waiting for “authority from the powers that be.” If this privilege never before asked for by the most abject in this free Government has been asserted, as the Re publican says, we do not see how that conld have been possible without the violation of onefs oath “or simplepledge of honor.’’ In either event, the state of the case is absolutely horrible. Cramped to death, complaining and reluctant, the alternative is, either to bear your galling yoke or for swear yourself and cast it from your neck. We mean no disrespect, we beg our friends of the Republican to believe, but it does seem to us that harsh and damaging as our conclusions may sound to them, they are yet inevitable and just. Then the enquiry comes up, why all this self imposed subor dination ? this is a term that but poorly expresses the idea, but why all this irritat ing and humiliating subordination to » com- plicated political organism about me simple a thing as voting to sustain principles that you believe are sound and good? Can any truthful mind see now any less call for secreey, oaths and “ ceremonies ” than existed six months, two or one month ago ? Will any honest man deolare his oonviotion that now or ever, the state of the Republic made all theee equivocal and dangerous expedients, a higher law *h*n the law of the land ? Nothing but necessi ty can ever be adduced to justify a politi cal policy as uncongenial and repugnant to the American sentiment as that aoted upon by the K. N. party, and where is that neces sity found. The Republican like the N. Y. Herald and its Alabama confreres gives op its party to the condemnation of the wholp country, when it avows that in its proscrip tion and secrecy, it is not to be defended longer. A party that sets ont by committing snob fatal blunder*, evinces either such a want of principle or such a want of judg ment as deprives it of publio confidence. [Fran the Charleston Moreary.] Oea. IsUlcsArU Speech. We pass now to the broader view of for eign influence; and that the whole subject may be perfectly clear before our readers, we nave prepared an accurate table from the census of 1850, which exhibits at a glance the question, so far as the figures are ooncerned. We have not taken Into con sideration the foreign accession since that date, for several reasons. First, because there does not exist any accurate statistical data, and we are unwilling to avail ourselves of Mr. Zollicoffer’s sliding scale. We are free to admit that since 1850 the emigration of foreigners has been very great; but there bring no reliable tables snowing what pro portion have survived disease and destitu tion, we are compelled to fall back upon the last authontio and official statements. Sec ondly, when it is remembered that the whole S iuestion is one of comparison, that if the oroign population has increased, the nathte has increased also, it will appear not only necessary, but just, that the census of 1850 should be the basis of discussion. The fol lowing is the table: White Population of the United States. The Hard Shell State Convention in New York will be holden on Thursday next, and the Soft State Convention six days after wards. Born in Aggregate, for. countries, white population. Maine, 31,695 581,813 New Hampshire, 14,257 317,456 Vermont, 33,688 313,402 Massachusetts, 163,598 985,450 Rhode Island, 23,832 143,875 Connecticut, 38,374 363,099 New York, 655,224 3,048,325 New Jersey, 59,804 565,509 Pennsylvania, 303,105 2,258,160 Delaware, 5,243 71,169 Maryland, 51,011 417,943 Disk Colombia, 4,913 37,941 Virginia, 22,953 894,800 North Carolina, 2,565 553,028 South Carolina, 8,508 274,563 Georgia, 6,452 521,572 Florida, 2,740 47,203 Alabama, 7,498 426,514 Murisssppi, 4,782 295,718 Louisiana, 67,308 255,491 Texas, 17,620 154.034 Arkansas, 1,468 162,189 Tennessee, 5,638 756,836 Kentucky, 31,401 761,413 Missouri, 76,570 592,004 Illinois, 111,860 846,034 Indiana, 55,537 977,154 Ohio, 218,099 1,955,050 Michigan, 32,593 395,071 Wisconsin, 110,471 304,756 Iowa, 20,968 191,881 California, 21,629 91,635 Minnesota Ter., 1,977 6,038 N. Mexico Ter. 2,151 61,525 Oregon Ter., 959 13,087 Utah Ter., 2,044 11,339 2,240,535 19,553,068 From Norfolk and Portsmouth.—We have very little farther intelligence from Norfolk and Portsmouth. Tbs Washington Star of Saturday evening learns through private letters, that there is no abatement in the ravages of the yellow fever in Norfolk, it having spread throughout the eity, and many of the most influential citizens have been or -ire down with it. For the 48 hoars ending r 1 P. M., there were 18 death* in the oity, 12 of them by yellow fever. Thi Mission to England.—The Wash ington Star notices a rumor as prevalent in that city, to the effect that the ■»«—««* to England, soon to be vacated by Mr. BoqJke- nan, will be tendered to Hon. William Pres ton of Lonisrille, Ky., a member of the leal Congress, aad lately defeated in the Louis ville district. DUMAS thx Author.—A Paris corres pondent says: Dumas’ oomplexkm is, I think, getting darker and darker every day. At any rats* his disrwpeotfalsonssidofhim not long ago: "My fewer isadreadfalprood man; I should not boastoaWMd tneetjifm mounted up behind hie own **" , *(* to make people believe ho fewpaa negro wr it will be seen by the above table, that of the total white population, native and for eign, in the United States in 1850, 13,368,- 591 were at the North, and 6,184,477 at the South. Of the foreign population 1,928,- 778 were at the North, and but 311,757 at the 8outh! And that in the South the ra tio of the foreign to the native population was as 1 to 18. This disparity will appear still more striking when- we examine the statistics of each State. In North Caroli na the foreigners are but 2,565 to 550,463 natives. In South Carolina, 8,508 to 266,- 055 natives. In Georgia, 6,452 to 515,120 natives. And so on through the South. Now. if it is impossible, with these facts before us, to stifle the question, what have we, what has the South, to do in this mat ter? Why should we enlist in this war up on foreigners, when they constitute a most trifling and insignificant item among us?— Stir to its bitter depths a national jealousy; array class against class, and race against race; excite the sense of danger, ana arm every city, village, and neighborhood for resistance; convert our peaceful communi ties into wrangling factions, and unite the whole South—6,000,000 ofpeople, in patri otic fury to put down 300,0O0 foreigners!—- And this, too, at a time when a crisis is ap proaching, in which onr institutions, life, honor, hopes, are all involved; when Abo lition has dissolved all parties, and mastered the new, and the entire North is animated with but the single idea of our destruction. What can be more absurd, what more un worthy and unsuicidal ? It is the cause of the North—the cause of our enemy. They have invited and pam pered in every way foreign emigration, and foreign labor has been the cheap instrument of their progress. Did they expect to es cape the common fate of all human efforts, and take no evil with the good ? But to call upon us, whose institutions they revile; npon the South, the object of their long cherished hate, to take up the reform in their midst, and to press onward with it at the eoet of domestic dissension, is the very sublimity of insolence. Let the North, if she can, purge herself. We are competent to effect onr own reforms. South Carolina, at least, has no part in this matter. It is easy, very easy, to wake the demon which slumbers in the soul of man; but once aroused, and violence and clood follow his steps. Already has human life been sacri ficed in a Southern city to this spirit, and Louisville mourns in her smoking ashes the advent of this domestic war. Let the peo ple of Kentucky, with these terrible memo rials fresh before them, pause and ask in whose behalf are they fighting; and an swer whether, in the influence of her 30,- 000 foreigners, there is terror to her 700,000 brave and sturdy sons, and whether all their recent triumph is worth the horri ble price which they have paid for it. Kansas.—Those who fancy that Governor Shannon will have mnch trouble in Kansas are greately mistaken. We predict for him a quiet, and, under the circumstances, pleas, ant administration of the stormy Governor ship of the Territory. His forte as a public man is “tract,” in which Gov. Reedir was constitntionallydefioient, though it was more needed in his position than any other requi site making op the successful executive offi cer. Doubtless many of Gov. Reeder’s dif ficulties with the people of the Territory grew out of little circumstances which be came disagreeable and dangerous to the pub lio pesos, because he failed to possess the fa culty of managing men. His talents, genius and legal abilities are more decided than those ofhis sucoessor; yet, in difficulties, and more especially in merely vexatious circum stances, Gov. Shannon will prove muoh the more disoreet of the two. He will be able to repress illegal interference with the af fairs of the Territory from any and all quar ters without giving ofienoe to the people under his charge, or we greatly mistake the man. The South only asks for a fair show in Kansas, aad if the people therefore reject slavery of their own aooord she will not oomplain or essay to “tabo” the new State. Washington Star. Tn Rothschild Family.—The Baron Solomon, whose funeral took place recently at Paris with somewhat of publio solemnity, was the fourth eon of , the founder oi me house, and was at his death aged 82. Anselm, the first son, who waa at the head of the Frankfort Home* has some time since passed away. Nathan, the second, who reigned over the great London Souse, is also gone; aad ef the eeoond generation of theee money • ed Mohicans, there are now left but James, also of Paris, aad Ohsrlss, of Naples.— H. T, Tribune. Mr. Donon, our new Miniate at Madrid, it la aaid, haa hinted at the acquisition of Cuba. The ha«$ anyininn that he ha* done *> haabroughtoul tfe whriaftnnish press, ing the official Giaatto, acrinat any