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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, let.
Col. Calhoun,
The anti-Nebraska candidate for the Sen
ate, is in the habit of using, as his chief ar
gument, in his various speeches before the
voters of this county, the oft-quoted words
of Washington, “ I devoutly wish that we
had not a single foreigner among us except
the Marquis de Lafayette,” without appear
ing to have the faiutest conception of the
writer’s meaning. Col. C. will poorly sustain
his reputation ns a lawyer, when he con
strues in his public speeches the term for
eigner to mean an individual born in a for
eign country, and we protest against it as a
slander against him whom we delight to
call the Father of our Country, the impu
tation of such sentiments as Col. Calhoun
lias attributed to Washington.
There is no room for misunderstanding
Col. Calhoun’s remarks. The impression
that lie wishes to convey to the minds of his
hearers is, that Washington, in the extract
above quoted, expressed general dislike to
persons born without the limits of the Unit
ed States. There is no such intention in
the letter, and no candid man who will re
view the language willarive at such conclu
sion. Washington wished that we had not
a single foreigner among us. The questiou
turns entirely upon the ^ineuuiiig of the
term foreigner. Bouvier defines foreigners
to l>e “ aliens, persons horn in another
country than the United States, who hare
rut Item naturalized.” The same distiuctiun
is drawn by the United States Court in 1st
I Viters' Reports, page 349. The term for
eigner, whenever used by one understand
ing the sense of language, lias been invari
ably eo-signifieant with alien : tit the mean
ing of this hitter term there can he no doubt.
Its use lias always been in construction to
citizen whether native or adopted. Is Col.
Calhoun ignorant of these facts, which, as a
lawyer, it becomes him to know t Yet we
can hardly believe that the gentleman
would wilfully misconstrue the language
referred to. In cither dilemma his position is
no enviable one. Ignorance and wilful per
version being alike unbecoming one in the
position he now seeks to occupy. The his
tory of the times, with which Col. Calhouu
should be acquainted, will relieve all doubts
as to tin* meaning of Washington iti the
ipioted expression. The remark, it will be
readily perceived was intended to apply not
to the foreign born citizens ol the United
States, of which a large portion of her army
was composed, but to a uuinber of adven
turous foreigners, aliens, men who had no
interest in the country, nor an intention of
remaining in it. These men were, in one
respect, in the same category with the Co
lonel, rather importunate for office, and
were somewhat troublesome.
Atlanta Medical College.
To-day the first class graduates from this
institution. It numbers more than thirty,
which, in the history of similar schools, is
an unusually large number for the first
class. Iu fact, from the inception of the
enterprize, the founders of the College have
had the most cheering returns for all their
public spirit and interest in science. We
believe that there were as many as sev
enty-eight matriculation tickets issued at
the very first term. It. is thought that
next season the number will reach one hun
dred and fifty.
Dr. Flewellcu, of Columbus, delivers the
address to the graduating class, and we
hope the occasion will be improved by the
citizens of Atlanta in listening to one so
favorably distinguish as is Dr. Flewellen
throughout our State.
A Call to the Frlcali afire lead In Gr»r-
gfa.
IN ItEJ’X.V TO ONE WHO WOULD CO.
Fellow-Countryman :—The time for Ire
land’s independence has at last arrived.
England is now on the verge of destruction.
She has drafted the last man from the
shores of your dear native land, and has left
but a few thousand disloyal police to guard
Democracy and Knew Xothlngisiu on
tke Slavery tine if Ion
The only claim which the Know-Nothing
party has ever advanced, for securing the
good will of Southern men is, that it was
the only National party in the United States
that could protect the constitutional rights
of the South upon the question of Slavery.—
If it were able to achieve this great—this
her ports. Your unfortunate countrymen j paramount object, we Southern men might
at home, are ready and anxious for the mo- j be diajiosed to look upon its monstrous doc-
ment to arrive when they can hail you as i trines with some abatement of our present ab-
their deliverers, and unite their manly voices . borrence. But is it true ? Can this claim
with yours in sending up to the very portals ; be sustained ? Let us look to the record,
of high Heaven one wild hurrah for liberty The Northern delegates to the K. N. Con-
aod freedom! Remember the words of the ! ventiou seceded from this party at Philadel-
iminortal O’Connell:—“England’s difficulty : ohia in June last, because the platform
is Ireland’s opportunity.” Fcllow-couutry- adopted was not sufficiently anti-Slavery.—
ineu, Ireland’s op|Hirtunity is now at hand. These delegates went off and formed nu<ith-
She has never had a 1 totter oue; and if wc I Convention, where the stronger, bitterest,
arc to judge the future by the past, she | Abolition and Free-.Soil doctrines were suio|>-1
never will have a better opportunity than j ted. These were the representatives of all
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3.
Pacta tc be Remembered.
Messrs. Editor*: The sarcasm of Sheri-
. „ ... . , . . . < Another of Col. Calhoun’* Mistakes.
dan, very familiar to every bodv, which ..
, \ . . ", . .. t The candidate of the Know-Nothing par- ,
ne uttered agaiust an opponent, who be said : _ „ ,
„ , .. ? • f I • - . I ty for Senate, from this county, has stated
went to Ins imagination for his facts and to J ■ - -
|l'«riv*I*>ndenc?*>f t ' ,<? Atlanta Unity 1 nteUigeneer. |
Xtw Volk Affairs.
New York, August 24, 1855. !
Vie Adeem of Rachel- -Bread—New York j
Under -1 runs-— TVm City Census—Mustache
Theories—The Return of Swelldom—j
Itcuis.
Rachel, the long expected, lias made her
It was a bad
Indiana—same.
Michigan—-same.
the present, to strike for her freedom. ! the Northern States, with the exception
Then, for God’s sake, bury your dissensious,
-if
both religious and political, in one com
inon grave, and rally to your country’s de
liverance. Ask no man what his politics or
religion is. No! but ask him if he is a
friend to Ireland ? Tf he says he is, then
say to him :
“Come pledge again thy heart and hand;
One grasp that ne’er shall sever,
Our watchword be—Our Native Land!
Our motto—love forever!”
we remember aright—of New York and
Now Jersey, and even those who remained
failed, as it was afterwards shown, to speak
the will of their constituents. So that it
cannot be pretended that these States form
any portion of the K. N. party. Does this
seem very National or conservative /
Again, the K. N. party now in all of the
States of the North and West is being merg-
[ ed into a new party called the Republican
party, whose only doctrine avowedly is un-
Our affairs are to be so conducted as not to j dying hostility to the institution of slavery
compruinise the government that has shel
tered us with a home when tyranny drove
us from our heritage, and we roamed over
the earth friendless exiles, without a place
to lay our heads. Yes, Countrymen, Amer
ica reached forth her hand at this extremity
and welcomed us to a participation of all
the rights aud immunities of freemen and
it never shall be said that the laws that have
in general, and the principles of the Kan-
sas-Nebraska act in particular. This Re- I
publican party (so-called) is composed not i
only of the K. N’s. but also joined with j
them, of every political -ism—Whig, Free- I
Soil aud Abolition—that can swell the blood j
hound cry of fanaticism against the rights ■
of the South. For proof of this, refer to i
any Northern paper giving an account of |
, . » .. ... I that in no-instanoe, until the passage of the
his moiiiiiry for his tropes and figure?, wa9 ! .. , , , ... , e . , .
, , \ , » | Kansas-Nebraska bill, have foreigners been !
never more justly deserved than by the K. alWed to vote the Stories of the „
- organ t is p - er an ,, ®P® r j United States. We refer him first to the ! entree, into this empty city.
m . rer * ,i " ° ie ve or sixnum eis o ial i North-West Territory ordinance, 1787.— ] time to try tu get up an enthusiasm at the
print t at ave appeare , a sense o justice . Q HU UJiaith‘u of voters. “That a freehold 1 docks, and it was not tried on. But some ar-
orces us to say, that a more hitter, vitupe- ; j Q aereM 0 f i and , n the district, having i dent admirers had chartered a steamboat to
rotive and unfair spirit was never brought bee|1 a CIti2en
of one of the States, and be- ■ take them down the bav, and meet tho j
to the discussion of public affairs than that j iug a residem hl the district, or the like j steaiu0 , whic b bore the treasure. They
which actuates the clique which eouduct* j f ree j 10 jd aud two years residence in the dis- • were abundantly supplied with the material i
the American Discipline. Every number of ahft |l be necessary to qualify a man as ; fop a jollification, and were quite discom- [
that paper teems with revolting rnisrep re- Hll Sector of a representative.” fited when the steamer came in ahead oft
seutations. Some ot them are of so gross ; 179S . Mississippi-same as the above i tliuh . calculations, leaving them high and |
a ditcripUoii, that even tlie friends of that, ordinance 1787.
paper arc forced openly to disavow them.— . I860
Witness Mr. Jcnkius eontradictiqu of the 1805
Sandereville Roorback—Dr. Smiths’s also 1Soy Illinois—same.
—the charge of corrupt support oi Gov. Bv re f erenoc to iU1 aet of 1812, entitled,
Johnson by the Exauimer—the falsification «. Au Act for dividing Indiana into two sep-
of the letter you yourself received from the ; arale ffoTe ri,meats,” the following will be
Editor of the Citizen, which the clique de- f,, uu d with reference to the qualification of , ^ ,
clared they saw with their own eyes, and . voters. “ Each and every free white male . , , : . , , , .
which as they reported, proved all the Ger- ~ -L 3 i, a n j, ave attained the a»e of ? tu ' rou ^ 1 * ld - e . 01 1 ,e " or ^ t0 'propart her
mans abolitionists Still this secret iuido ^ ’ . , . ,, , -, . for almost any trials—enough ot prosperity i
mans abolitionists, sou inis secret.ynit/o, , tw en tv_ one years, and who shall liave paid , , , . . ,
0* ..„d .1.0 .hull
the back their betters, and when caught and j have re * sided
one year iu said territory pre
exposed m one misrepresentation make a- • VloUK to neral electiou> and be at the
mends by immediately perpetrating a doz- ^ of said elecdon a resident thereo f, sha il
en new ones of a more shameless character. , . . , , , » .. r „ .
... .. . . , • i be entitled to vote for members ot the Leg-
The laborious tissue of willful misstate- . , ,, , TT ,> .
, . . . . , r,- • i- i islature, Council and House of Representa-
ments in the last number of the Discipline ’ ,
1 tives for the said territory.
We bring the Colonel now to the territo
ry of Minnesota. The provision for the
qualification of voters he will find to be as
follows: “That the right of suffrage shall
drv on the -bore. Great Rachel is here •
The newspapers have teemed with her life 1
and her praise-, and if -he fails to create a
Sensation and a fortune, it will not lie be
cause the eireulusnihcOH •>!' her •letnit iu i
America, have not been propitious. From !
all that we hear of her life and character,
judge that she has seen enough .
afforded us such ample protection, will ever ! the proceedings of this new fusion party.—
be insulted by one disloyal act of ours. mfn Umk well to this before you by i
No—nor the banner, for whose glory and vnnr ^
honor we have so bravely fought to main
tain, ever blush at the cowardice of an Irish
adopted citizen. Then let the star spangled
banner float unsullied over the altar of her
own fair land, and may she there forever
wave, with orient pride and sublime digni
ty, over the land of the free, the seat of the
noble, and the home of the brave. But,
fellow-countrymen, let us rally once more
beneath the standard of Green, and unite in
one solid phalanx, aud in the majesty of
freemen, plunge boldly onward, for the re
demption of the Emeraid spot that gave us
birth. Let us at once amass and repair to
the altar of Liberty, and there beneath the
folds of the stars and stripes, light the torch
of freedom, and swear by the outrage of
murder and famine, that it never shall be
l your votes affiliate with such men and such
| a party!
Now turn the leaf and inquire what the !
National Democratic party has done for the i
rights of the South ! \Ve will answer from i
the records, and let the heart of every South- !
ern patriot swell with sympathy for the party j
that has dared to stand up amid such tor
rents of abuse from their neighbors aud al- i
lies, and defend our rights so nobly, so man
fully, so fearlessly—against this flood- tide ;
of Northern fanaticism.
Let Vermont speak first; poor Abolition
ridden Vermont; yet redeemed from utter
disgrace by the party that could adopt the |
following resolution:
Resolved, That we denounce and repudi- ,
ate all attempts of demagogues and misled !
philanthropists to form sectional parties,
headed “Important Things” we propose to
answer in these few words:—
Let it be remembered:
That no man has lost by discrimination in
favor of M. A. Cooper on Iron, and if wrong . , , .. , , T . ,
, , j . o. . . i «•! be exercised only by citizens ot tho United
has been committed, the statute Book of. „ , , .
„ . . , ... states, and those who shall hacc declared on
*^ m!TeOTi*r«? aSl * ' oatk iheir intention u ‘ romem ch, and shall
That R. A. Cowart fills the same office * h . ave taken ™ , oath to su PP° rt the C ' onstUu '
that his predessor did under Wadley and i t» on of the l nited States, and the provi- ree tly; not as though they were talking of;
Yonge. i siens of this act. In the territorial bills Laben’s daughter. Leah's sister and Jacob’s |
Let it be remembered * ^ ashiugton and Oregon, which we have hardly-obtained spouse, but as though the
That it is positively false what time and ; no10,1 han f wi11 be found substantiaHy the name was Bpelt R as hel, accenting tho last
again the Discipline has said, that §36,000 eame P rov ^ lon - We have no intention That name will he a Shibboleth
were lost in Tennessee by Cowart’s misman-
hat she has preserved its good a reputation!
as could be expected of a handsome French-.!
woman, in Iter ptLsition. Prettv soon, we ;
shall see for ourselves lion far New York is i
Frenchified. Almost every oiie in business; !
especially “f the rising generation, has a j
little smattering of French, and there are a
great many here, who not only read the lan- i
guage fluently, but are accustomed to use
it in common conversation. When Kossuth •
first eame to America, it was some time .
before his name was properly pronounced,
by the uuintormed million. Every man
had his own version of it. But New Yorkers
will be expected to pronouuee Rachel, cor-
agement. The cases were all in the power
same provision,
within the limits
the matter of suffrage in the territories.
within the limits of this article to discuss 0 f gentility for some time to come.
Flour is cheap in the country, so we hear, '
of the “locus.” Tennessee
have tried the cases by due course, and the disproving
arime of Cowart is that he preferred to pick
his jury. If the Discipline will dare to ut
ter one word in derogation of the probity
and honor of the two men that Cowart se
lected as arbitrators, will they have the
goodness to do it over the name of the author.
Let it be. remembered
That the reduced rates now charged Maj.
M. A. Cooper are the same precisely as
Juries would ' kave on ^ re ^ erre d 10 it f°r the purpose but doesj uol seem t( , make any difference
of disproving the assertions of Col. Calhoun i u the baker's loaves. This gives rise to dis-
extiuguished until it is applied to our dear relieving the government cannot be admin-
“r ki .-' sjc
died, that shall wrap the British Empire m ; g es and equal claims to protection. The
flames, ttud consume her corrupt carcass to ; coustitutiou cannot be construed so as to
ashes. For my own part, I am ready at a bestow special favors on any nortion of the
moments warning. I have no funds to con- ! confederacy, it being a federal compact, aud
. . r i ... sustaining ouly Federal relations to the seve-
tribute, but lean purchase my own outfat, j ra , living to the people of each
pay my own passage, and on my ^ country s j State or territory, the exclusive right to in-
altar, offer up my life as a sacrifice to the : stitute and regulate their own internal af-
charged by Superintendant Yonge, and do Don we also proved to be false and forced
not forget we beg of you, that the principle him to fly it. Truly, as the Colonel pro-
Editor of the Discipline, who was theu in a poses to iumselt the business of legislation,
that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was the first cussiun, aud many accuse the bakers of ex-;
and only instance when others than citizens tortion, while they declare that flour has
were allowed to vote in the territories of the . fallen in price to them but a trifle, and that !
United States. But certainly this is not the j if it had they ought to be posted a day or j
first and only instance where we have dis- two ago, up town, announcing a reduction !
proved the assertions of the Know-Nothing iu the price of bread at a certain bakery,;
candidate. That gentleman once stated that i and that these placards were all defaced
land was donated to foreigners iu the terri- and rendered illegible in a short time by un-'
tories of Kansas and Nebraska: that posi- known hands. This looks very like a com- j
hi nation.
What there was left of New York has 1
been out of town this week, visiting the !
position to judge and know all about things,
had norighteonsconscience totrouble him a
bout Cooper’s rates in those days.
That man had better look sharp, or it
will have
To be remembered
That men who live in glas6 houses had
he would do well to learu something of the
political history of the country.
Grant! Democratic Rally.
The mass meeting at Cartersville came oft'
on yesterday. Tho concourse of people was
immense, estimated generally at about 5,0tX>.
God of Liberty. Yos—
And thunk tiod tlmt ever I drew iuy '•tenth,
To triumph in such a noble death!
'•Oh ! Erin, shall it e’er he mine,
To wreak thy wrong in hnttle line!
To ruisc my victor head ttud see,
Thy hills, thy dales, thy valleys free!"
Oh! then friendR of Ireland in Georgia,
rally, and come to the rescue of five millions
of your starving, misruled, and oppressed
countrymen at home. They would strike
for their owu independence if they had the
fairs.
camp at Kingston. Jtwas a great sight,
when it could lie seen for the dust. The ;
place was unhappily chosen. The Maine ;
liquor law seems to have been superseded 1
by martial law in the camp. The authori- ;
. ties treated their genteel friends out of orig
inal packages, while Tom. Dick and llarry
. snigged rot-gut to their heart’s content
and stomach’s discomfort, from immovable 1
boots and tents around the field. The exhi-!
bition of citizen-soldierj was interesting;
The resolution was adopted by the State ■
Democratic Convention of Vermont, when
assembled to nominate candidates for Gov- !
ernor and Congress.
From the address of the Democratic State ,
Central Committee of Pensylvania, pubish- !
ed in our yesterday’s issue, we copy the fol
lowing : i
With us the coustitutiou is paramount to i
the laws, and it is disobedience and insub i
ordination of the worst kind, to strive, by
This is by far the largest mass meeting
better not use slings, and it may be shown that has been held in the State during the
yet that the good oldprayer, “that mercy I canvass. We have not time at this late
to others show, that mercy show to me”— hour to enter into details aud will therefore i a,, d quite commendable. But men do pre-
would have been prudence for him. content ourselves with an account of the seat r i at * ler Fiditmloiw appearance trying,
jr , ,, . . ., i i to look formulaole in uniforms and equip-'
Let it be iemcmbcied main incidents. Ihe train from this place,; ments to men who see theip miW j
Ihat the wiseacres ot the Discipline have . consisting of five cars crowded full, reached f aoes every day behind the counter or the i
never attempted to show the country how Cartersville at 9 o’clock, where we found a I desk. At heart they may be good soldiers, 1
it is that when I order a ton of M. A. Coop- large number of people already collected.— i but we hope the safety of the commonwealth
er’s iron he gets the benefit of the present After awaitin'* at the depot for some time. lua J never tle P elld on thl ' character of their 1
tariff, and not I who order it; or how the h arriva , of n the tra ; D from Chattanooga, ! demonstrations in the field.
. ® 1 lie city census doe* not give general sat- ?
which was unexpectedly delayed, the isfaction. It is said that the total ofinhab-
crowd, already assembled, marched to the | itauts as returned by the marshals
[For the Daily Intelligencer.]
Marietta, Aug. 31,1855,
Messrs. EditorsThe Know Nothings of
this county, haying failed to make the im
pression they had hoped by their hypocriti
cal cant against Catholics and -foreigners,
have now changed front, and levelled their
small yuns against the personal character
of the Democratic candidates. Gov. John
son they, charge with corruption; Warner
with cowardice and want of confidence in
his principles, because, say they “he is afraid
to meet Ben Hill on fair terms in discus
sion Brown is presumptuous, incompe
tent, too young, and a Democrat; T. H.
Moore, because he defeated M’Donnld, and
is the candidate of a corrupt—packed cau
cus. And in fact, slander aud detraction is
now the resort of the sinking fortunes of
this immaculate Viand of .conspirators, whose
avowed object was to purge and purify old
parties. A glance at these charges, which
are. contemptible, and only noticeable at
all because we would soothe the dying grasp
of those who desired so much yood and
whose means have been so ennobling to hu
man nature ’
Gov. Johnson lias been successfully vin
dicated by Hoik Mark A. Cooper, from the
foul asperations of bribery, &c.
Judge Warner afraid to meet Ben Hill!
Well, it is the first time we have heard of
mind’s being frightened at matter, when it
proposes no other injury than the explosion
of a little gas, which babbling dissipates,
and leaves again a serene surface.
Mr. Hill is doubtless a clever man, and
cleverness is pretty. On a dark, moist and
Saturday night the soft- rays of the little
lightning bug is pretty. The Sunny South
wants light in the next Congsess, which
will make her rights and interests clear and
unmistakable—a light which shines at noon
day, and reflects the impress of her power
and spirit upon the dark clouds of North
ern K. N. aggression : we want from the
4th District a polar star, always bright,
which will attract favor from all quarters.
The hand, heart and miud of the Republi
can States’-Rights man—such a man is
Judge Warner, and the people of Cobb want
him in Congress. Not indifferent however,
to the merit of Mr. Ilill; we will keep him
at home to recount on leisure Saturday eve
nings the horrors of the 10th century, that
we may be better prepared on the coming
Sabbath for the blessed privileges of civil and
religious liberty bequeathed by Revolvtion-
ary patviots to the oppressed of every clime
—and the birthright of every American—
be lie Hottentot or Jew, Greek or Gentile,
Catholic or Protestant.
We understand that it is reported that
the K - N’s. will carry Cobb: the Democrat
ic ticket throughout will be elected by an
increased vote. The foul calumnies against
Moore, and what is said of Brown I shall
notice in my next. Cobb strikes for the
Banner county.
Query.—'When did these sameK. N’s.be
come so much attached to Gov. McDonald ?
Characteristic with their party, they at
tempt to injure and lower Gov. McDonald
by the abominable falsehood that he was
beaten in his own county, and then cry out
shame! corruption ! May tho fair name of
Charles J. McDonald be saved from such
friends! ANTI-KNOW NOTHING.
Illia-Stlll.
The Boston Post contains the following
CLitton House, Niagha Falls, )
August, 18th, 1855. j
Editor Boston Dost.—Will you correct an
error which roocntlj occurred in your paper
to theCfffctt that I waamarried at thishouse.
The statement is entirely without founda
tion. By letting this feet be known through
the columns of your paper, you will oblige
Yours, very sincerely,
Eliza Logan.
Does it mean that the
‘Rather equivocal,
fair actress is not married, or simply that
she was not married at the Clifton House?
means to do it with: but they have them | political agitation, to subvert the one, and ;
J encroach upon the other.
not. IV e have the means, fellow-country- : “Like alf other questions of strictly local j
men. ( concern, that of slavery should be submitted ;
Let us then reach forth our hands and : to the exclusive jurisdiction of the people of :
grasp them with all the fury of revenge, ! the territory or place in which it is pro- ;
and with the holy enthusiasm of Patriots, j P. 08 ^d> to establish or reject it. This prin- ;
the genius and majesty of freemen, and the j Mour^tituS^Hesrential j
i litical freedom. -It may for a time be '
abused and trampled on, as other rights ,
have been, hut men, should not, because of
that, be deprived of it. It is for the corn-
vengeance of centuries of outrage and op
preseion, strike for liberty and justice
Yes Countrymen,
“Strike! ’till the lost armied foe expire? ;
Strike! for your altar? and your fires ;
Strike! for the green graves of our sires;
Hod, and your Native Land!”
present rates do not operate as favorably
upon all the consumers as upon one prodti
cer.
Jset it be remembered
That the sin of printing for the State
Road depends altogether upon the fact of-
who prints, and we had as well say under
the last head that what the Discipline says
about the “Park” is all gammon: for the
plat of ground in front of the Trout House
was given exclusively for R. R. purpeses,
and would have been forfeited if otherwise
appropriated. CATO.
lacks
speakers’ stand and received a speech from ; 100,000 of the number. The deficiency may
Hon. John A. Lumpkin. Scarcely had the | ll0t be s '\ la *'g e > b "> ” ip certainly great
speaker finished before the up country dele- !
gations, witli banners streaming and drums
beating, came pouring in. The mountain
boys moved in a mass astonishing to them
as it was alarming to Sant.
The crowd now gathered around the spea
ker’s stand, when they were addressed by
1 Col. L. J. Gartrell, and then, after adjourn-
! from various causes. It was taken at
time when New Yorkers are scattered to ;
the ends of the South, when there is scarce- j
ly a rural nook within 2*)" miles that does !
not contain one or more of our truant citi
zens. There are scrupulous young ladies
The Negro Law la Kansas
The following kill is before the Legislature of; [ n g a ],arbaeue worthy of the occasion
' mon interest of all that each and every citi
zen should freely and peacefully exercise \
j the right; and the principle and practice |
■ thus universally ordained and recommend-!
You will, therefore, without a moments ed by the founders of our government, will!
delay, organize yourselves into Irish emi- ! be firmly maintained by the Democratic par- j
grant Aid Societies iu every city and town ! ty*
iu Georgia, and draft your resolutions, and ^ e an J Southern man, can pen a j
send them on to the Irish Emigrant Aid j ^ e ^ er sentiment than that upon the ques- i
Society in the City of Boston from whom ! ^ on of slavery in the lerri tories? Perhaps j
you will receive a charter, accompanied with j onr ^ r * en< ^ 3 " ou *d like to try! We
all the necessary instructions for the future, j S‘ ve the “ th L e opportunity. Put it side
Arouse theu, ye hairy breasted and sinewy j b f aide wlth J the foUaw,r, g P lank iu thei r
multitude, and shake off the fatal lethargy j P^tform— and expressly pretermitting any
that paralyzes your noble energies. Arouse, ! « x P ress,0 “ of opinion upon the power of
ye high of heart and strong of arm-ye, to ; Congress to establish or prohibit Slavery m
whom danger and destruction, is buta scoff j an y territory ; and does not the cheek of
onward to the redemption of your dear, na- . a ^° utbern now *kothing, crimson with
tive land shame at the contrast ?
She is sinking deeper and deeper every ^ now u P° n tbe National Demoo-
day, in the putrid quagmire of infamy,'that j racy of New York for their opinions upon
her heartless oppressor has thrown around Gtis vital subject, and the following is the
her. She is now making her dying strug- response from the State Convention that
gle. Her noble Patriots at home, have done • ’
K s'ec af i. Every person, bond or free, convicted ' the Y returned to hear the speeches of the
of raiding a rebellion of slaves, free negroes or .
mulatoes, shall suffer death.
Sec. 2. Every free person who shall aid in any
rcbellion of slaves, Ac., or do any overt act in
furtherance thereof, shall suffer death.
See. 3. If tiny person shall, by speaking, writ
ing, or printing, advise, induce, Ac., any slaves to
rebel, eouspire against or murder any citizen of
Hon. Alf. Colquit and J. W. II. Underwood.
Esq. The greatest good-feeling prevailed ;
we saw but one man druuk : no fights, not
even a quarrel. And this from the Demo
cracy whom K. N.-isnt delights daily to
who don’t like to have a certificate of their
age hung up convenient for refenence, to
all time and n> all men. The census mar
shals have a large opportunity for observa
tion, and have developed some curious facts.
It is stated that no men of wealth wear mus
taches. Tnis is a new aud astounding de-
velopement, and will probably be the cause
of a general revolution of chin arid upper-
lip ornaments. The statement is plausible,
and confirmed by my own observation.—
Literary characters, who are invariably
poor aud penilessiless adventurers, are the
great patrons of mustache. This may be
because it is the cheapest of ornaments, and
therefore safely displayed in lieu of fine
broadeloath. Or it may be that it is worn
Terrible R. R. Accident*
New York, Aug. 30.— A terrible accident
occurred yesterday, near Burlington New
Jersey. The Philadelphia train going up,
heard the down train coming, reversed the
engine, and iu running hack ran into a
horse and carriage, which threw the whole
train off the track, killing twenty and woun
ding sixty persons. Among the killed are
Thos. J. Meredith and John B. Dallam,
merchants of Baltimore, the French consul
at Philadelphia and Capt. Boyce of the Na
vy. No Southerners are known to have
been killed, but a full list of casualties have
not yet been received.
gldaey Smith on. XUllstona Testa.
“ Many gentlemen now assembled at the
Tiger Inn at Beverley, believe that the
Catholics do not keep faith with heretics;
these gentlemen ought to know that Mr.
Pitt put this question to six of the leading
Catholic Universities in Europe. He in
quired of them whether this tenet did
or did not constitute any part of the
Catholic faith. The question received from
these universities the most decided negative.
They denied that Buch doctrine formed any
part of .the creed of Catholics. Such doc
trine, sir, is denied upon oath, in the bill
now pending in Parliament, a copy of which
I hold in my hand.
“ Look at the fact, sir. Do the Protes
tant cantons of Switzerland, living under
the same state with the Catholic cantons,
complain that no faith is kept with heretics?
Do not the Catholics and Protestants in the
kingdom of the Netherlands, meet in one
common Parliament ? Could they pursue a
common purpose, have common friends, and
common enemies, if there was a shadow of
truth in this doctrine imputed to the Catho
lics? The religious affairs of this last
kingdom are managed with the strictest im
partiality to both sects ? Ten Catholics and
ten Protestants (gentlemen need not look so
much surprised to hear it) positively meet
together, Bir, in the same room. They con
stitute what is called the religious commit
tee for the kingdom of the Netherlands, and
so extremely desirous are they of preserving
the strictest impartiality, that they have
chosen a Jew for their secretary. Their
conduct has been unimpeachable and unim-
peoched ; the two sects are at peace with
each other, and the doctrine that no faith is
kept with heritics, would, 1 assure you, be
very little credited at Amsterdam or the
Hague, cities as essentially Protestant as the
town of Beverly.
“Wretched is oar condition, and still
more wretched the condition of Ireland, if
the Catholic does not respect his oath. He
serves on grand and petty juries in both
countries; we trust our lives, our liberties,
and our properties, to his conscientious rev
erence of an oath, and yet when it suits the
purposes of a party to bring forth this argu
ment, we say ne has no respect for oaths.—
The right to a landed estate of £3,000 per
annum was decided last week in York by a
jury, the foreman of which was a Catholic ;
does any human being harbor a thought
that this gentleman whom we all know and
respect, would, under any circumstances,
have thought more lightly of the obligation
of an oath than his Protestant bretheren of
the box ? We all disbelieve these argu
ments of Mr. A., the Catholic, and Mr. B.,
the Catholic ; but we believe them of Cath
olics in general, of the abstract Catholics,
of the Catholics of the Tiger Inn, of Bever
ly, the formidable, unknown Catholics that
is so apt to haunt onr clerical meetings.
“It is not true that the CatholiG religi
lgion
isjwhat it was. I meet that assertion with
a plump denial. The Pope does not de
throne kings, nor give away kingdoms, does
not extort money; has given up, in many
instances, the nomination of bishops to Ca
tholic princes, in some, I believe, to Protes
tant princes; Protestant worship is now
carried on at Rome.
“In the Low Countries, the seat of the
Duke of Alva’s cruelties, the Catholic tole
rates the Protestant, and sits with him in
the same Parliament—the same in Hunga
ry—the same in France. The first use
which even the Spanish people made of
their ephemeral liberty, was to destroy the
Inquisition. It was destroyed also by the
mob of Portugal. I am so far from think
ing the Catholic not to be more tolerant than
be was, that I am much afraid the English,
who gave the first lesson of toleration to man
kind will very soon have a great deal tolearn
from their pupils.
slander. We gather front <>ur friends the
Kansas, or shall import, or ai»l in importing, such i most cheering prospect from all the ut*-couu-
documents, he shall suffer death. ... , . ,
Sec. 4. If any ]>erson shall entice, decoy, or try. 1\ C were assured that -ass county
carry out of Kansas any slave belonging to nnoth- will give 300 majority for Johnson. Know
er, with intent to deprive the owner thereof of Xothintiisin will find a grave where it expec- to hide a certain meekness with which pov
ofVuch *rve, hTs^JXE, re oX Sri” ted « home-in Cherokee Georgia. erty is apt to clothe the countenance of her
oned at hard labor for not less than ten years. P. S. Sam was in Council when doubtless adherents, that the i<al man ol wealth
Sec. 5. If any person shall assist in enticing, j he initiated, as usual, near half the crowd 1 shaves his lace clean. Perhaps he cannot
Ac., as above, shall suffer death, or he imprisoned; that was present. get through, the world so last with beard
at hard labor for not less than ten years. and mustache to carry : perhaps iieis more
Sec. 6. If any person shall entice or carry President Pierce at the White Sulphur trusted on'Change for having an unveiled,
We notice that in the Kansas legislature
a resolution 1ms been offered to the effect
that a convention be called to frame a Con
stitution prior to Kansas being admitted
into the Union. It sets the first Monday in
October, as the day on which the polls
should he opened, and the people are to
vote “Convention” or “no Convention,” on
that day. If the majority are in favor of a
convention,” provided this resolution passes,
we may expect a petition from Kansas to be
admitted as a State at the next session of
Congress.
K. N. Acceistous-
The Discipline requests us to notice that
seven, seventeen, or seventy, we quote from
memory, and cannot be now definite, joined
the K. N. lodg in this city on last evening.
Well, neighbor we will bear this iu mind.
But there is another incident *o closley con
nected with this that we find it impossible
to disconnect them. The K. N. papers m
Tennessee, claimed for their order, at the
time Gentry was nominated, 50000 members,
and that they were making accessions at the
Tate of 3000 a week. Well, after swel
led thei r order in this measure to some in-
calculable number of thousands, they, as
you will remember neighbor, were beaten.—
It is useless to “multiply words.”
Yellow Fever Is New Orleawa.
New-Orleaks, Aug. 28—The deaths from
the Yellow Fever in the hospitals are only
14 daily.
* . .... ,... „ „ Resolved, That we insist as an article of
all they can do to rescue her, and as a dying I our creed> upon the well e8tab i ished dein0 _
resort, have thrown a rope across the broad cra tj c doctrine of State Rights, of a strict
Atlantic, and in a voice of thunder, are now j construction of the Constitution and the
calling on their friends in America to lay i principle of non-intervention upon all State
hold and wrench them from the grasp of I questions and that the peace a nd quiet of
. ,, ... the country demand that it should be left to
their Monster Tyrant. Oh . then, fellow- , tbe people 0 f the Territories, as it pertains
countrymen, from East to West, from North ! to the State, to determine all local questions,
to South, around, above, below, come—come including the subject of slavery to the end,
all, lay hold—give a long pull, a strong pull, j that a subject so disturbing in its nature and
and a pull altogether, aud tear her from the I influence may be wholly excluded from the
, .. . , . . . . . action of the Government of the Union,
strangulating grasp of her butcher tyrant w<j ^ ^ Kuow
Then join the inspiring anthem of redeemed | Nothingg are sincere and honest in their
millions, and once more behold your beau- ; convictions—we know that they are patri-
tiful Island, pure and regenerated, an erne- 1 otic—we ask them then, as honest, patriotic
raid set in the ring of the Sea. : men all candor—to point us to a single
CHAS. GUMMING, M D instance in which the K. N. party North,
A«l„n*. September 1, 1855. j &
I Hence, we warn you against affiliation with
The Discipline. .
We have no reply to make to the Ram- this Northern Aliolition K. N. party
say-ical articles of the Amer. Discipline on So you—Democrats of the South—we say
Col. Collier and Capt. Nelson. We will ! hoM b y your dd Democratic faith. It will
treat them as we are sure the people will,
with the contempt they deserve. We con
fess the potency of the Discipline in mak
ing charges and in sustaining them; but
we think that the Discipline has underta
ken a charge too high for even itself in at
temptingtoimpeaeb the private characters of
men so well known and so universally re
peated as the candidates of the Democrat
ic party.
General Cass has published a letter in a
Detroit paper, defining folly eiearly his
views upon Know-Nothingum and the pow
er of Congress over the territories. He has
no sympathy with the Know-Nothing organ-
carry us through this storm, as it has car
ried us triumphantly through many a storm
before. Your Democratic Allies at the
North are not disbanded—are not wholly
Abolitionized. In Vermont, Pennsylvania,
New York, Iowa and other States, they have
spoken in favor of the Kansas Nebraska
bill, and of yonr constitutional rights. A
gallant band struggles nobly for yon there,
against the fearfuTodds of abolition fanati
cism—with your assistance, they will con
quer—without it, they must fall! Then
desert them not in the hour of their need.
Stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
Lot the wholf South follow in the glorious
wake of Yirgus^ North Carolina, Tennes
see; and Alahjma, and Abolitionism will be
oheokodt Union itmnvd, ^ in* tho
out of any State or Territory of the United States, Springs.—A public reception was given to
any slave, and shall bring such slave into this p res ident Pierce at the White Sulphur
Ter V t0 .T ti\' K C e 6 imprl3 ' Springs, Ya„ on Monday last. He was wel-
oned at hard labor for not less than ten rears. r j i • j i , . ,
Sec. 7. If any person shall entice iny slave ? omed by ex-President lvler, and m reply-
to escape from the service of his master or owner, b'g complimented that gentleman on the ]>u-
or shall aid any slave in escaping, he shall he iui- , rity of his administration - and its high pur-
prisoned at hard labor for not less than five yeurs. > pose, bravely and wisely executed.
Sec. 8. If any person in this Territory shall He indirecly denounced Know Nothing-
aid or harbor any escaped slave from another as antagonistic to the doctrines and
neras ™such sUi^had escapedussier principles of the constitution, and lie hoped must come home to repentance, bread and
in this Territory. that Done of the modernisms would be as po- water. Uow deceitful are appearances !
Sec. 9. If any person shall resist any officer ! tentfor evil as powerless for good. He urged Who that beheld Mrs. Swell’s triumphant
lUs> nHAmiitintr tn mitan? unv kIhva Ihat vnuu Kuvn i Ilia t/i avmil all linrooiov! U’liinli trora „1_ U a * n _
open face. Wc leave the enquiry for your
readers to pursue at their leizure.
The first of J.eptember is at hand, and
Vanity and Fashion will soon come troop
ing back with bag and baggage, from tho
sea-side and springs of fabulous virtue.—
The “swell” season is over, and snobbish
families who have spent two-thirds of their
annual income in ostentatious luxury,
while attempting to arrest any slave that may have j his hearers to avoid all heresies which were week at Saratoga, shall conceive of the pov-
eecaped, or shall rescue such slave, or aid snch j in directantagouism with the basis, doctrines eitv that shall rei’gu in herdomicile for time
slave to escape from the officer, the person so of- ; and nrineinles of the constitution. t OIH olntTl OO vlVtfl 11 ltO fiiwnnil nn/1
fending shallbe imprisoned at h a nnaW for not, m * j-*? “T, • ° ld <be turned, and
less than two years. The reception wa» in every respect, most the table shall be stinted, and the grocer
Sec. 10. If any marshal, sheriff, or constable, | enthusistic. shall go unpaid, or perhaps notes must be
or the deputy of any such officer, shall, when re- j v,mi..». j protested, and the bubble will burst. Ma-
quired, refuse to aid or assist in the arrest or cap-; — “ ~ '
ture of any slave that may have escaped,
thaif X l ,C fha " D, ‘ r , "” l ° 1 Pacific, states that the brave and skilful de- A Sabbath-school is about to beestablish-
estor cap- j The London corespondent of the commer- uy a butterfly has flit its last hour at Cape
I cial Advertiser, in his recent letter by the Map, Saratoga and Newport.
^ ’ Un .. . 4? . ,4 a, Ia. • lL,v I tli a l \ » • /-* n —. J '. 1—! 1 jTm — 1 J — A So VlVlO 4 Vl-UO V> AA1 ICO It Jill t Is, I ft a a . t ft-ft l.li ■ »L
Sec. 11. If any person print, write, introduce ‘ fender of Sevastopol, General Todtleden, is . ed on board the receiving ship North Caro-
nto, publish, or circulate, or cause to be brought j a Lithuanian Jew, who at the commence- lina, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for the
nto, printed, written, published, or circulated, or | ment of the siege was but a simple lieuten- maintenance of the naval apprentices, who
shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, i aut) alld } ia8 now achieved a world-wide number 100. There are uow 500 recruits
! rapfatatfOn for skill andvalor. Aohille Fould, on board the North Carolina. It is said
statements, doctrinist4^ ’calculated tTproduce i | late Minister of Finauce of Louis Napoleon, that a German was murdered in Canal St.
*Va a<* *—-T*— v_ i iind’vAf nnA (if hk sihlr»sfr DuiuKAllnra k « this morning. j\o particulars known.
disaffection among the slaves of this territory, he ' and yet one ot his ablest counsellors, is u this morning
shall be.punished by imprisonment at hard labor ! Jew, and is one of the house of Fould, Oppen- -
for not less than five years. i hiem & .Co bankers of Paris. It was through '— *
See. 12. If any free person, by speaking, or by i Mr. Fould’s sagacious suggestions that the Ueath Spring.—A late California paper
writing, assert or maintain that persons bhW L re d UC tion in:the<&encfai5 per cents to 4* mentions tho discovery of a spring in El
the right to hold slaves in the territory, or shall
introduce into Kansas, print, publish; writc,circn-
late, or cause to be introduced into the territory, — — -—- ...... ^ -
written, printed, published, or cirq uluted iu this j war loans to the people, instead of appeal- P 06Ite > s thirty leet thick, and crops out of
territory, any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet/ ingto the Stock Exchange for support. the surface ot the earth. 4 eins in it abound
or circular, containg any denial of the rights of
persons to hold slaves in this territory, such per
son shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punish
ed by imprisonment at hard lahor for a term not
less than two years.
Sec. 13. No person who is conscientiously: op
posed to holding slaves * * * shall sit as a juror
on the trial of any prosecution for any violation of
any of the sections of this act.
Act to be in force after September 15, 1855.
From the Nobile Register.
NT The Hon. Robert Toombs, will re
turn home from a visit to Europe, on the
9th proximo. The voice ef this Ablerad e 1-
oqnsNt'stotoinnisn will beheardYfttofest Nor
thern Sam, and in defonoeof tin _
icon idee of civil and religions liberty.—
per cento was so successfully effected, and ® 01 ' ado county in that ; btate, whose waters
advised the submission of the late various A° w f l ‘ orn a bed of arsenic. The mineral de-
Mr. B Disraeli as an author and politic- " g old - and specimens of the aurif-
ian is well known on lx>th sides of the At- 1 lerous ore have been shown to the editor of
Iantic. As leader in the House of Commons i tke P1 acer,ville American. The name of it
and Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has oc- !?® ath S P riu S> has been given to the stream,
cupied positions only granted to the first I ^be existence of ft is supposed to acoouut tor
minds in the British empire. He is also i Ae mortality among the gold miners at tho
a Jew and of pure blood. In the United j earl >' P enod of the California epidemic.
States, tile Senate has two of the children ' Ex-Senator Dickinson, of New York, has
of Jacob, viz: Senators Yulee aud Benjamin . i written a letter to the editor of the Florida Jour-
The latter, though but a short- time in the na! denouncing tho Know Nothings.
Senate, has already much influence in that ' The ab ° ve > taken fronl tllc Louisville Bulletin,
august body. Senator Yulee’s father was a j ll ? c . f paper ot the Louisville Journal,
4m oaodi rvF a _ plainly indicates tins view taken by a Kuow Noth-
£ W ® . “S of Mr. Dickinson’s letter, which was polished
aevc frsna Morocco. N, Y. Express. u few mornings since t>y the Eagle £ Enquirer, ns
jr K^RTUCXtElections.—Louisville August. ^*. t , co j d ?‘? ,ed 11 vast amount of “aid aud comfort ’
27.—The official majority for Morehead. for , d T. not s " r P« Be V* to
majority
Governor, is 4,403.
find our neighbor “catching at straws’’—drowning
nto will do that.—Memphis Appeal.
A Moat Gloomy Picture.
A most worthy citizen sends the Rich
mond Enquirer the following, which is
enough to make one’s heart bleed for the
sufferings of our brethren :
Norfolk, Aug. 18, 1855.
There is no abatement of the yellow fever
cither in this city or Portsmouth. During
this week, there has been a daily increase in
the burials at Norfolk, and from all I can
learn, the last twenty hours will show about
12 deaths, many of whom are our best and
most useful citizens.
Thousands of our people have left us, and
many more are daily going off to occupy
corn houses and stables, half frantic with
alarm. I learn to-day that cases have oc
curred three miles from this city, which
makes us poor mortals think that we here
should be better contented with our condi
tion. My heart sickens at the recital of our
sufferings, and hence I will say no more.—
This is decidedly the saddest day we have
as yet experienced in Norfolk. I trust in
God “this plague” may not visit Richmond.
It becomes every day more mysterious, and
truly it walketh in darkness.
Your friend, J. W.
[From the Washington Union.]
The Aagnat Election*
For the convenience of future reference,
we give below the result of the Augusteiec-
tion complete for members of Congress:
NORTH CAROLINA.
1. it. T. Payne. K. N. 5. E. G. Reade, K. N.
2. T. Ruffin, D. 0. R. C. Piiryear, K. N.
3. W. Winslow. It 7. B. S. Craige, D-
4. V,. O’B. Btjii • t,P. 8. T. L. Clingman, D.
KENTUCKY.
1. H. Burnett, t . t>. J. M. Elliot, D.
2. J. P. Cambi... K. N. 7. H. Marshall, K. N.
3. W. L. Underwood, K. N 8. A. K. Marshall, K. N.
4. A. G. Talbot, D. 9. L. M. Cox, K. N.
5. J. H. Jewett, D. 10. S. F. Swope, K. N.
TENNESSEE.
1. A. G. Watkins, D. 0. G. W. Jones, D.
2. W. H. Sneed, K. .V. 7. J. V. Wright, D.
3. S. A. Smith, D. 8. F. K. Zollicoffer, K. N.
4. J. H- Savage, I>. 9. E. F.thelridge, K. N.
5. C. Ready, K. X. 10. X. Rivers, K. N.
ALABAMA.
4. W. R. Smith, K. N.
5. G. S. Houston, D.
6. W. R. W. Cobb, D.
7. J. F. Dodwell, I>.
Texas.
Mathew Ward, P. S. P. H. Bell, D.
RECAFITULATION-
33d Congress. 34th Congress-
E. Walker, K. N.
E. Shorter, D.
S. W. Harris, D.
Whigs Dem. K.N. Dem:
North Caroliua 4
4
3
6
Kentucky 5
5
6
4
Tennessee tl
4
6
5
Alabama 2
6
2
5
Texas
2
2
•—
—
17
20
17
16
21
16
Democratic Maj.
2
&
Mary Williams and her American born
child, who were sent back from Boston to
Ireland some months sinoe against her will,
was brought back in the ship Chataworth,
arrived at Boston a few days since, she was
brought back at Mr Train’s expense, who
indignant that she was carried away in the
manner she was, and declared that]hereafter
his packets should not be turaed-into prison
ships.
The reports from Norfolk and Portsmouth
are really alarming. The fever seems to be
raging with no abatement from its violence.
On Sunday, the deaths in Portsmouth alone,
amounted to thirty, and on Monday the re
port is that the disease was rapidly increas
ing. There have been two hundred and
twelve deaths since the 9th inst. A pri
vate letter to the South Side Democrat, (Pe
tersburg) dated Saturday, says that there
were seven or eight hundred cases in the city.
Mayor Woodis who has been for some time
sick, died on Sunday morning, a victim to
his own benevolence and magnanimity. He
had abundant opportunities for leaving the
city, but he still remained for his own death.
The South Side Democrat says: “Since the
moment that the pestilence first visited the
city of Norfolk, he has walked the unceas
ing round of his responsible and dangerous
duly with a courage and a zeal which knew
neither fear nor fatigue. No remonstrance
could move him from the task to which he
had devoted himself. He offered his life a
willing sacrifice if Providence should see fit
to call him. Wherever the pestilence raged
most fiercely, and men shrank most in
terror from its approach, Woodis was seen
battling bravely against it, and throwing a
succoring arm aroand its trembling victims.
After weeks of heroic exertion, he fell at last
on Thursday evening, after a day we are
told, of nnparalleled effort, and was carried
to the hospital. Broken down with weari
ness and watching, his exhausted frame
sunk rapidly under the terrible scourge,
and Sunday morning, despite the prayers
and labors and love of a stricken people, he
died. His loss is an irreparable calamity—
the heaviest blow that has befallen the af
flicted cities. How heavy then to his poor
wife and four or five little children. Be the
widow’s husband and the orphan’s father a
friend to them, for there never was dropped
a tear over the grave of a nobler soul than
»
Hunter Woodis.
The Great Iron Steamship.—In the
construction of the great iron steamship now
building on the Thames, the whole of the
vessel has been formed of a double “skin”-
of iron, with an intervening space of three" 1
feet; the material is disposed of longitudirf- J
ally, by which the fabric is rendered stron
ger; and the outer“skin” might be rent or
torn against a rock without causing the
ship to leak, if the inner one remained un
broken. Not only is the ship divided trans
versely into ten compartments, but two lon
gitudinal bulkheads of iron run fore and aft,
about forty feet wide apart. By these iron
darty walla the whole ship is portioned out
into so many fire proof abartments, as to pe
good security agrinst fire.
Kansas.-—A letter to the St. Louis Repub
lican, dated Kansas, Aug. 14,says:
The Legislature is now laying off the coun
ties^ Squire Reeder is still at Shawnee,
bat is expected to leave very soon! W»
have just seen that Dawson has declined'the
’Goverment, and that Shannon, of Ohio, is
appointed, and has accepted the office.
We do not know mooh about Shannon, ex
cept that he is a Kenaae-Nebraska man, and
is an ex-Govenen butwe have fair hopes of
htm, adheis aWeetam man, and posessed
of goodl practical WM.
