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AND CHEROKEE ADVOCATE
BY RUGGLES & HOWARD.
ATLANTA AND MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1855.
VOL. VII. NO. 16.
THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER
Dull}', Tri-Weekly and Weekly.
KY HI GGLES & HOWARD.
B. liUGOLES,!
Editor*.
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ill NT. Auoclale Editor
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.
,.ii, Intel!i"encei per annam, In advance. $6.00
[•ri-Weeklf. “ “ 4.00
■ ;el!y “ “ 2.00
II A TKSOK \ DVEBTISING.
iii ihe Daily Tntelligeneer will lie
i n: • It*.wing rate* per flquare of ten
Meeting In GrlfBn.
We have at last seen one of these meet
ings. The -Know-Nothings have never be
fore, during the whole campaign, given it
up fairly and squarely that the Democracy
have been able to get up a gathering that
ought to pass for a mass meeting. At Cal
houn, on the lltli of August, the crowd
thero was called a little squad of hungry
people from tiie districts in the neighbor
hood—the Cartersville multitude was a
slight sprinkle, when we thought the people
had met by thousands, and so all the way
down, our meetings have been characterized
by the opposition. But Thursday last the
experiment on the part of the Democracy
in getting up a Mass Meeting at Griffin was
i acknowledged to have been a stunner. The
* will lie wade for yearly adver- j Crowds came pouring into town in wagons
. npvins * quarter, half or whole col- ) of every size, from the little Jersey to those
! of six mule capacity—in carriages—in a
tvertu-cmeiii* Iroin transient persons I . . _ , . , ,
, ivanee. ! strin g of buggies that was the wonder of
1. ..-merit* published at the usual all eyes—they came horsemen and footmen
•••.•* exceeding ten lines ebarg- —the rail cars came freighted—and like
ri!f»ement«. Announcing candidates for ! ®
hi, t, be paid in advance. I the crop of Cadmus, they seemed to spring
• i crtiscweuls are ordered in all the is- ' from the very ground.
i i'l.i i)ai!v. Tri-Woekly and Weekly, ip . , , e
■ n il! be added to the above rates. Every account that we have yet made of
.1 yearly advertisers is strictly j the numbers at Democratic meetings, our en-
r wn immediate and regular busi- , cinics have asserted were exaggerated, and
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urd* not exceeding six lines, $15 I as we are g etti "g sensitive upon the matter,
! we have taken the minimum point, at which
d"'orfered i an ine *P®«encedyoungfriend, not much ac-
' cumstomed to seeing large numbers of white
ried in the Weekly paper : people together, has placed the number as-
liarifcd at former rates.
ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8.
sembled last Thursday at Griffin. Suffice it
to say then, that the smallest number said
to he on the ground was 4,000. Any way,
there was a whole ware-house full of the
sovereign people ; more than ire wanted, for
no mortal lungs worked by a feebler power
than steam could have been heard by that
vast assemblage. But it was the spirit—
<• WUo lias I,led I”
■ The same correspondent, among other
thing-, which we do not consider worthy of
notice, say* that we falsified the letter re-
eivod from an Irish editor in New York,
in stating that the writer charged the Ger
man j *pu atioii of i he free States, with he- j the spirit, that moved that heaving, cxultr
ing abolitionists. Now, if we did actually - ... , . , ,
nLrenre-ei.t any body in the case, why ln S “f 8 that appeared to us to make the
• j. n't the Intelligencer expose us by publish- : m0s * ; glorious auspice of the day. That no-
•ng the letter entire f That will set all par- ! hie old “heart of oak,” Charles J. Me Don-
ties rigii!. Nothing else will; and we have aid, was president, and in a few weighty
-aHe ! ; .n-.nr neighbors time and again to W ords, worthy of his intellect, he opened the
publish the letter in lull. >V ill they do it ? .• , . , , ’ r ,
L; tiii sc immunity see who has lied.”-^iM. “ cetln S and then introduced Alexander H.
Ijixrn>hne, S< pi. nth. j Stephens. This wonderful man attenuated
•f the “joint slock company,” jn i to the last degree of emaciation, worn down
,pli,i. of the 22d ultimo, asserted by hard work, and apparently incapable of
any but the feeblest physical effort, deliver-
One
c Du
undl;
- Tii
ed a speech that for many a day will be
marked as a sublime display of intellect, in
the memory of those who listened to it.—
this has seen the letter
i which tho Intelligencer copies, and
!e tho author (an Irishman) denies that
nd his countrymen arc identified with a - . , , ,
lreesi.il party, lie distinctly states that ! S,noe ths P alm / da * H of our lamentable and
i ieruiau p puiatiun in the Northern and 1 P cer lcss Colquitt, we have not witnessed the
tern States are ail abolitionists, almost 1 same evidence of mastery over a vast multi-
uiau. Why didn’t our neigiihor copy tude.
\\ ill it deny that the same j The crowd heaved to and fro, as the speaker
irs the Irish population , , ,, ,, . ’ , *
convicts the WI “ ot *> an o all seemed to he swayed hv an out-
pr
•ny it- flatl}-, unequivocally dc-
•itiirge was unhlushingly re-
i in the Discipline of the 29th.
dent of ours refers to tho awk-
i.-aiiient in which the “ Joint
ge of abolitionism, convicts the
i race, in the free States, of S usl) fron) “e orator, of resistless magnetic
ers ?” power. Mr. Stephens first took up the pe
culiar organism of the so-called American
Party. lie considered its structure both in
its exoteric, and esoteric characters—its out
side and its inside machinery. As to the
outside—the parts that the Order are wil-
placed itself, and in reply to : lin g t0 avow—he demonstrated that upon
we !ia\c the brazen challenge that ! tbe Kub -j° ct of Slavery the Philadelphia
article. We give all of the let- ' Platform was the weakest and most unsatis-
■ New York correspondent that the ' factory that had ever before been erected by
’ - has anv right to call for, and all . H « rcftt P art y> North or Souththat if ' lt
.'ir.il formtling this issue of verac- : was considered as a Southern Platform, it
■m neiglilsirs are so itcl.ingly dc- waa beneath the wauts > the di S nit y or the
1 raising. Our Northern friend honor of tbo South ? lf considered as a Na-
l. nscrupuluus ns the organs of the tional Platform, it was utterly worthless—
have always shown themseves to he, for no man North stood upon or defended
O'i have anticipated anything so * t- Incidentally to this branch of the dis-
o-kle as their statements to'the cussion, Mr. Stephens went into a review of
:u the foreigners who settle in the I tbe position of parties Nortji upon the gen
ii ''mtes become allies of the free- cral questiou of Slavery, and particularly
t\. h is exai-tlv the reverse and in relation to the Kansas Bill. lie affirmed
e only to look over the files of the many facts coming under his notice, as a
for a few years and you will find member of Congress, going to show the ut-
That ter futility of the trust which some in the
South profess to place in frp soundness of
Know-Nothings as regardsTSlavcry. He men
tioned Mike Walsh, among others in the
North worthy of our regards, for the stand
he had taken in behalf of our rights. He
said he almost felt like calling out for three
cheers for the gallant Mike, who had so no-
i ha! prevents most of the States going ! hly stood up upon the floor of Congress
oil. 1 dmi’t know a single Irish Ainer- in defence of the South,
urna! in the North that is edited by' The intimation was more than enough,
and had Mike Walsh at that hour of the
day been listening, if ho had not heard
those shouts that went up iu his honor, he
would at least have suspected that there
was a great noise of some sort in the South
about the latitude of Griffin. Upon the re
ligious test Mr. Stephens was very forcible.
rribuut for a few y
abundant testimony proving the fact.
f"nrnal. and indeed the Free-Soil press gen-
:rally, certainly reproach the Irish for going
m a nun' for slavery. This is so notorious,
rliat I am surprised that men pretending to
i knowledge <if the Northern States would
,eut«r<- to dispute it. Nothing is morecer-
taiu than that it is the Irish vote in the
\ Fret-.''oiler. 1 must candidly say that I
cauiioi. say so much for the other foreign-
n rn | ipulatiou. The English and French
are almost to a man Abolitionists. Tho
Pennine am probably equally divided.”—
fhe question of veracity is now settled : let
■ iii.ii.- determine who has lied. We
v that the Discpline has forced such
as thisupon us,andifitshould prove '■ IIc utterly denied and repudiated the boast-
rer in the trial it must abide by ed license claimed by Know-Nothings of
equem es of its own acts. Our con- voting as they pleased. He challenged the
ry. we hope, will acquire caution right, and proved that as regards religion,
j at least, all Americans who felt loyalty and
!4o Faminr reverence for the Constitution of the coun-
,:h- month ol August of this year try, this thing of a politico-religious party
bushels of wheat have been trans- W as tabooed and disallowed. He then took
he M ostern A Atlantic Railroad U p t hc political economy of immigration
!,,ls: and satisfied all who heard him that, so far
Augusta and Charleston. ; f rom foreign immigration being the bane of
the country, it had made much of our pres-
• the following j
150,.T71 Bu. t
145,121 “ •
27,195
Macon and Savannah.
Atlanta & Lagrange R. R.
Atlanta
-At
ent prosperity. So far from being a drain
upon us, it brought millions into the States,
and that with our vast wilderness of unre
claimed lands, the great want of the nation
was hands to work. The axe and the
spade, manual industry, were the grand re-
i liance and resource of our people. Mr.
n&th. and precluded from | Stephens declared, in reply to his rivilers
i tin- document* and f:u-t» who charged him with being a changeling,
[ileaned to mako public. Butvou • . ■> ■ /
»m. thin K else which i cannot men- that P° liuos wlth hlm always meant some-
•iit nil vour eccrotp aro coni* | thing real—names, men and mere sounds
i dullMp jiuhlic Mtatlajr, then re- might do for some, but as for his part, tak-
me ih«T , iirivMege t,,n,ft " Peat ° Ut 1 ! ittg the Georgia platform and the Kansas
hill as the real tests of true men in politics,
the anti-Know-No-
illv held in Thibodeaux, la.. Mr.
■ of the secret associa-
»*—“I have l*oen one of you ; I
Seasonable Rr.< ii*e.—The following for ^ ho affiliated with or disavowed parties and
n.iking ’-"mat< i catsup, is highly' spoken of: , » )ar ty men, as they squared with these great
l ake- ne bushel of tomatoes and boil them j . . TT ,, . . . .. ., , ,
... < . ,i _ „ i tests. lie alluded to the censures that had
until they me soft—squeeze them through i . . ,
a fine wire seive, and add half a gallon of ; been cast on him, and particularly by Judge
viuegar. three half pints ol salt, two ounces ; Neshit, for his vote on the Kansas bill, and
of cloves, quarter of a pound of allspice, three | said he was foroed to believe that the war
"unces- fea venne pepper, three table spoons- , wap more against tbe policy of that bill
Th*w-- »-*»?
l-.il about three .mrs. ., r until reduced to ' hl8 P art y sincerely delighted in the pracU-
ab-mt ono-half, t! ?n brittle without straining.
The following characteristic story is told
if the Cemuinnder-in-Chief of the French ar
my in the Crimea:
•*S line years ago, Pellissier on parade got
angry with a sous ofiiciere of a cavalry regi
ment, whose tenne seemed to him quite
defective, lie abused the man most vio-
lenly, and cut him acrors the face with his
whip. The man seized one ofhis pistols, aud
endeavored to fire at his commanding offi
cer, hut the pistol missed fire. Pellissier,
swearing a fearful oath, but otherwise quite
•■aim, said, “fellow! I order you a three
dav* arrest for not having your arms in bet
ter order!”
page.
■For foreign news, &c., see fourth
cal application of the doctrine of this bill, so
favorable to the rights and honor of his
section, how does it fall out that for the first
time, that now when we g<t Kansas, Judge
Nesbit denounces the principle of this bill
as to foreign born settlers, which has, with
hardly one exception, been included in ev
ery territorial bill passed since 1787 ? -
Washington himself sanctioned the prin
ciple. It was included in the bills providing
territorial governments for Indianna, Illinois
Michigan, Mississippi, Minessota, Oregon,
& Washington territory; and it has in short,
with hardly a deviation, been the policy of
the government to allow the actual settlers
tbe elective franchise, (hough foreign-bom,
and before naturalization. He theu warn
ed the country to look out for the storm
that was brewing against the Kansas-Ne-
braska hill in this State. He gave it as his
opinion that already had the Know Noth
ings beguu this war upon the principle of
tho bill as well as a war against the 4tb re
solution of the Georgia platform. He de
nounced the reckless and unauthorized
charge that those who voted for the Kansas
bill voted to give a 160 acres of land to for
eigners, while native-born citizens were for
ced to buy at government price. He chal
lenged any man to show a word in that bill
that gave land to any body at all; and he
showed that no man could obtain a patent
to land till he had taken the oath of allegi
ance, until in other words he was natural
ized. We write without notes, and will not
undertake to follow tho tread of this great
speech further. It is enongh to say that its
effect was overwhelming. We have no
doubt that many, very many were convinc
ed, who heard it, that Know-Notbingism
was an evil in its tendencies, and utterly
untenable in principle. After a recess for
dinner, Hon. John E. Ward, of Savannah,
took the stand for one hour, who was most
able and happy in his argument on the
Catholic question.
We have heard no speaker during the
campaign so full and satisfactory on this
topic as Mr. Ward. This gentleman is in
his manner the personification of manly
grace, and is one of the most finished speak
ers we ever saw. His effort was well re
ceived by the meeting, many of whom list
ened to Mr. Ward for the first time. The
Hon. W. E. Stiles followed Mr. W. in a speech
which all confessed evinced great research
and marked ability.
At the moment of breaking up, the crowd
would have one more word from “ little Al
eck.” Powers ! what a telling word it was!
The very ground shook under the plaudits
of the excited multitude, and the old enemy
saw that the “ unterrified ” were awake—
and awake all over. Sam, poor fellow, went
about as meek as a lamb. No bravado, no
swaggering bet was heard of by way of
keeping up his courage. All was subdued
and resigned, and though he looked pale
at the thought of the coming doom, he
seemed to think there was no use in fighting
against destiny, and that he had better die
and make no noise.”
From tho Federal Union, 4t.h instant.
Letter from Ex-Gov. Cobb—The Office
of Attorney for tbe State Road.
The following lettei from ex-Gov. Cobb has
been handed us for publication, by a gentle
man in this city, to whom it was addressed.
It iB a complete answer to the charges made
against Gov. Johnson, of having created an
office to reward a political friend:
Athens, August 27th, 18-55.
Dear Sir: On my return from Walton
county, I recieved your letter of the 20th inst.
inquiring into the cause of the original crea
tion of the office on the State Road held by
R. J. Cowart, Esq., and I reply at the earli
est moment.
When I went into office, I found numer
ous claims against the Road, which had been
accumulating for several years. I was satis
fied that it was impracticable for the Gene-
eral Superintendent to give his attention to
these claims, as his time would be wholy oc
cupied in the discharges of his regular and
ordinary duties. I tlierfore determinined
to appoint a commissioner to examine and
report upon these claims, and accordingly
appointed Col. Farris, and associated wtih
him Mr. Whittle, a lawyer. The duties of
that commission were faithfully preformed,
and both gentlemen earned every dollar that
was paid to them. When Gov. Johnson
eame into office, I informed him of what I
had done, and also stated to him that claims
were constantly arising against the Road—
that the Legislature had thrown open the
Courts of every county through which the Road
passed to claimants, and that similar claims
were being prosecuted in the Courts of
Tennessee—and that my experience and
observation satisfied me that there should
be some one appointed to attend to this class
of buisness. Whether the persons so ap-
S ointed should be called Attorney to the
load or Commissioner, or any thing eles,
was immaterial. It was necessary and prop
er that there should be some one who should
examine into these various claims, and pre
pare the defence against such as ought to be
resisted, and consult and advise with the
Superintendant on this branch of buisness.
I entertained no doubt either then or now
as to the power of the Executive to do this
thing. So far as that is concered, there is
no difference between the power I exercised
and the power exercised by Gov. Johnson,
and it was porfeotly legitimate in both cases
Anyother construction of the powerand duty
of the Executive in the premises would deny
him the power to employ a lawyer to defend
a case in Court—examine a claim, or render
any other similar duty in connection with
the road. As aquestion of constitutional pow
er, I am unable to discriminate between the
constituional rights of the Executive to em
ploy a lawyer to defend one case and to de
fend all cases—to examine one claim and to
examine all claims—and so on in reference
to all the duties of this particular appoint
ment.
Entertaining no doubt either of the pow
er or policy of making such an appointment
I exercised it when in office, and recom
mended my successor to do the same. It is
not the creation of an office, but as the mat
ter now stands, the employment of a lawyer
to protect and defend the interest of the
State.
I am very respectfully,
Yours &c.,
HOWELL COBB.
Sale of the White Sulphur.—We learn
from reliable authority, that the Greenbrier
White sulphur, together with the large tract
of Land attached to it, has bene sold for the
sum of ?750,000. Tbe names of the pur
chasers are not given, but it is conjectured
that the purchase is made by a Northern
Company. Our rumor is that some English
Capitalists have a hand in it. Messrs. Mc
Farland, R. C. Standard and H.L. Brooke,
were the Attorneys who negotiated the sale.
This is grateful news to the public. It is
to be hoped the White Sulphur will be revolu
tionized and made worthy of the incompar
able fountain which has kept the locality
famous and attractive under every disadvan
tage.—Richmond Dispatch.
jj^-The capital prizes drawn at Concert
Hall, in Macon, Ga., on the 3d September,
in the Jasper County Academy Lottery,
were distributed as follows :
2473,
$12,000 in
Macon, Ga.
1817,
5,000 in
Cleveland, Ohio.
2921,
3,000 in
Lynchburg, Va.
603,
1,200 in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
4772,
1,100 in
Vicksburg, Miss.
Taylor ■ Hat aud Cap Emporium.
We call the attention of our readere to the
advertisment of Mr. J. Taylor in another
column. Mr. Taylor has just opened his
stock of fall hats. All who are tired of old
hats and want the finest style and finish
will do well to pal) at Taylors Pat Empori*
Alarming.
The Democracy will read the following
with fear and trembling. The truthfulness
of the report cannot, of course, be im
peached ; the fact that Upson votes a-
bout 1000 votes not at all affecting it.
The letter is addressed to the Empire State.
Sam in Upson—The Dog Dead.—Mr. Ed
itor: I have no time to write, hot will
merely give you the statistics of Sam’s “state
ly steppings” in this country. You have
doubtless heard that his prospsets here are
growing dim by degrees, and beautifully
darker; but this is not true, and to prove
what I say, “let facts be submitted to a can
did world.” We had six hudred sworn hard
and fast, as early as the first of May, and
when Smith's Macon speech was published,
we initiated three hundred more into the
S enetralia of Know Nothings, Two hun-
red-joined on the 4th of July, and when
Nisbet and Poe spoke here, we swore in
seven hundred more, who will stick to their
oaths. On the day that ”Uncle Billey“
Mosley made his thnndeirng furrin speech,
eleven hundred an ninety-nine appeared in
person, and were duly sworn. We are in
creasing every day, and unless some acci
dent happens, we shall certainly carry the
county in October, as we have twenty-seven
hundred members now. Look oat for as loud
a gun as was fired when Gone acknowledg
ed the existence of a God, or when we heard
from the election in Pike county, Alabama.
Hurrah for Upson. She is safe for Sam.
Tliomaston, August 31, 1855.
The Discipline will please copy*
[From the Boston Post, Aug. J9.]
Senator Gaaa Againat Senator Houston.
Gen. Cass’ letter on Know-Nothingism
was called forth by the remark, in Gen.
Houston’s recent letter, that " Gen. Cass
had approved of the platform of the Know-
Nothing order a3 proclaimed by the conven
tion at Philadelphia.” So far from this be
ing true, Gen. Cass says:
“ I have no sympathy with this plan of
political organization—none whatever ; nei
ther with the means it employs, nor the ob
jects it seeks to attain. Its secrecy, its oath-
bound obligations, its control of the ballot
box, its system of proscription, striking both
at political rights and religious duties, and
its inevitable tendency to array one portion
of the community against another, and to
carry deadly feuds into every corner of the
of which we have just had a terrible proof,
written in characters of blood, and are doom
ed to have many more, if this money goes
on, for this Is but the first instalment of
death, and how many others are to follow,
and to what extent, and when the last is to
be paid, and after what lamenatable vicissi
tudes, is known only to Him who foresees
events and can oontrol them—these charac
teristics mark it as the most dangerous
scheme which has ever been introduced into
our country to regulate its public action or
its social condition.! jit is the Orangeism of
a republic, scarcely better in principle than
its monarchical prototype—of a republic
whose freedom ana equality justify as little
as they invite the introduction of a machine
ry whose operation is concealed from public
observation, but whose consequences are as
clear as they are alarming.”
Gen. Cass continues, and states a point in
which he does agree with the Know*Nothing
platform:
“ I am aware that changes have been
made, both in the name and in some of the
principles of this new organization. But
these changes do not remove my objections
to it. Its spirit of exclusion and intolerance
remains, and, with it, its evils and its dan
gers. It is a book to whioh I cannot be re
conciled, whatever edition, whether the new
one or the old one, is offered to me. There is,
indeed, one principle laid down in that con
vention which meets my concurrence, and
that is. the declaration that ‘Congress ought
not; to legislate upon the subject of slavery,
within the territory of the United States.’—
I regret, however, that the body which thus
pronounced against the exercise of the pow
er did not also pronounce against its exist
ence, but carefully pretermitted—to use its
own words—the expression of any opinion
upon that point. Still, I Approve its action
upon the subject, so far as it goes. It is a
step in therihgt direction, and I should re
joice to see it followed by every political par
ty in ourcountry.”
Gen. Cass goes on to argue, upon his old
ground, that the constitution confers no pow
er upon the general government of internal
interference in the affairs of the territories,
and, alluding to the recent letter of Gov.
Hunt, of New York, says he never heard
any man support the measure as based upon
the absurd theory of territorial sovereign
ty, and that Mr. Hunt mistakes the sneers
of its enemies for the views of its friends.
The letter of Gen. Cass concludes with a
note of warning and encouragement to the
true American party:
“I have never known the time when the
democratic party was called upon by higher
considerations to adhere, faithfully and zeal
ously, to their organization and their prin
ciples, than they ase at this day. Our con
federation is passing through the most se
vere trial it has yet undergone. Unceasing
efforts are making to excite hostile and sec
tional feelings, against which we were pro
phetically warned by thefathor ofhis coun
try; and if these are successful, the days of
this constitution are numbered. The con
tinual assaults upon the south, upon its char
acter, its constitutional right*, and its insti
tutions, and the systematio perseveranco
and the bitter spirit with which these are
pursued, while they warn the democrat par
ty of the danger, should also incite it to
renewed and vigorous action. They warn it,
too, that the time has come when all other
differences which may have divided it
should give way to the duty of defending
the constitution, and when that party, coe
val with the government, should be united
as one man for the accomplishment of the
work to which it is now called, and before
it is now called, for it has neither sectional
prejudices nor sectional preferences, and its
care and its efforts extend wherever the
country extends, and with equal regard to
the rights and interests of all. I believe
the fate of this great republic is now in its
hands, and, so believing, I earnestly hope
that its action will he firm, prompt and uni
ted, yielding not one hair’s breadth of its
time-honored principles, and resisting to the
last the dangerous efforts with which we
are menaced ; and if so, the victory of the
Constitution, I doubt not, will be achieved.”
Know-Nothing Nominations.—Wo un
derstand, that at a meeting of the Know-
Nothing Lodges of this city, held yester
day, for the purpose of nominating candi
dates for the Legislature, Col. John Milledge
was nominated for the Senate, and Gen. G.
W. Evans, and Dr. Jas. T. Barton, for the
House.
At a Convention of delegates of the dif
ferent Councils of the Eigth District, also
held in this city, yesterday, we understand
W. Lafayette Lamar, of Lincoln county,
was nominated for Congress, in opposition
to the Hon. A. H. Stephens.—Augusta Con
stitutionalist.
Louisiana.—The Richmond (Madison
parish) Journal, of FttidBJf last, says:
So far as our observation has extended,
we are^fttufied that the cotton crop will be
a short dffe. The weed has matured, and the
crop is now made. Usually at this season of
the year our cotton fields are white with
blooms in tbe morning; bnt now it is a rare
thing to find a field blooming to any extent.
The Boston Post says the meaning of the
telegraph phrase “Amerio'an Republicans’
is Know Nothings fusionutfl. ‘
[From the California Pioneer.]
One of John Phoenix’s Stories.
MONDAY, SEPT. iO.
Dr. Tushmaker was never regularly bred
as a physician or surgeon, but he possessed
naturally a mechanical genius and a fine ap
petite ; and finding his teeth of great service
in gratifying the latter propensity, he con
cluded he could do more good in the world,
and create moro real happiness therein by
putting the teeth of the inhabitants in good
order, than in any other way ; so Tushma-
ker came to be a dentist. He was the man
who first invented the method of placing
small cog wheels in tbe back teeth for the
more perfect mastication of food, and he
claimed to be the original discoverer of that
method of filling cavities with a a kind of
putty, which coming hard directly, causes
the tooth to ache so grievously, that it has to
be pulled, thereby giving the dentist two
fees for the samejob. Tushmaker was one
day seated in his office in the city of Boston,
Massachusetts, when a stout old fellow nam
ed Byles presented himself to have a tooth
drawn. Tbe dentist seated his patient in
the chair of torture, and opening his mouth
discovered there an enormous tooth, on the
right hand side, about as large, as he after
wards expressed it, “as a small Polyglot
Bible.” I shall have trouble with this tooth,
thought Tushmaker, but he clapped on his
heaviest forceps and pulled. It did’nt come.
Then he tried the turnscrew, exerting his
utmost strength, but the tooth wouldn’t
stir. “Go away from here,” said Tushma
ker, to Biles, “and return in a week, and I’ll
draw that tooth, or know the reason why.”
Biles got up, clapped a handkerchief to his
jaw, and put forth. Then the dentist went
to work, and in three days he invented an
instrument he felt confident would pull any
thing. It was a combination of the lever,
pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge
and screw. The castings were made, and
the machine put in the office, over an iron
chain rendered perfectly stationary by iron
rods going down into the foundations of the
granite buildings. In a week old Biles re
turned ; he’was clamped into the iron chair,
the forceps connected with the machine at
tached firmly to the tooth, and Tushmaker,
stationing himself in the rear, took hold of
a lever four feet in length. He turned it
slightly. Old Biles gave a groan, and lift
ed up his right leg. Another turn, another
groan, and up went the right leg again.—
“What do you raise your leg for ?” asked
the doctor. “I can’t help it,” said the pa
tient. “Well,” rejoined Tushmaker, “that
tooth is bound to come now.” He turned
the lever clear round with a sudden jirk,
and snapped off old Byles’ head clean and
clear from his shoulders, leaving a space of
four inches between the severed parts !—
They had a post mortem examination—
the roots of the tooth were found extending
down the right side, through the right leg.
and turning up in two prongs under the sole
of the right foot! “No wonder.” says Tush
maker, “he raised his right leg.” The ju
ry thought so too, but they found the roots
much decayed, and five surgeons swearing
that mortification would have ensued in a
few months, Tushmaker was cleared on a
verdict of “justifiable homicide.” He was
a little shy of that instrument for some time
afterward ; but one day an old lady feeble
and flaccid, came in to have a tooth drawn,
and thinking it would come out very easy,
Tushmaker concluded, just by way of varie
ty, to try the machine. He did so, and at
the first turn drew the old lady’s skeleton
completely and entirely from her body, leav
ing her a mass of quivering jelly in the
chair ! Tushmaker took her home in a pil
low case. She lived seven years after tha',
and they called her the “India-Rubber Wo
man.” She had suffered terribly, but
after this occurrence shejnever had a pain
in her bones. The dentist kopt them in a
glass case. Alter this, the machine was
sold to the contractor of the Boston Custom
House, and it was found that a child three
years of-age could, by a turn of the screw,
raise a stone weighing twenty-three tons.—
Smaller ones were made, on the same prin
ciple, and sold to the keepers of hotels and
restaurants. They were used for boning
turkeys. There is no moral to this story
whatever, and it is possible that the circum
stances may have become slightly exagera
ted. Of course there can be no doubt of
the truth of the main incidents.
! Hon. W. B. Heat.
| We have, just before going to press, received
information of the death of the Hon. W. B. W.
Dent, late member of Congress from this district.
He expired on yesterday, after a long illness, at his
residence in Ifeivnan. It is needless that we
should say anything here of the virtues, publio or
private, of our worthy representative. His death
will be deeply deplored by a community who know
him and will remember him as an honest man and
a faithful servant.
President Jefferson and the Ursuline
Nuns.—The Orleanian of the 20th, says
the Washington Union, publishes a letter
written by Mr. Jefferson, in reply to that of
the Sisters of St. Ursula, in relation to the
temporalities of that order under the new
government which followed the cession of
Louisiana. The letter is brief, but does
not fail to express the liberal and constitu
tional views of religious freedom, which are
entirely consonant with the profound mind
and universal character of that distinguish
ed statesman. We publish the letter, and
would ask attention to the contrast between
the unbounded tolerance and charity of
Jefferson and the political sages of this day,
who, by legislative enactment, pay ruffianly
and vulgar visits to nunneries ; who, even
in Louisiana, the late New Orleans platform
to the contrary, advocate a similar invasion
of those unprotected institutions by the civ
il authorities :
“ The President of the United States to the
Scaur Therese etc Xavier Farjon, Superior,
and the Nuns of the order of Si. Ursula,
at New Orleans.
“ I have received, holy sisters, the letter
you have written me, wherein you express
anxiety for the property vested in your in
stitution by the former government of Lou
isiana. The principles of the United States
are a sure guarantee to you that it will be
preserved as sacred and inviolate, and that
your institution will be permitted to govern
itself according to its own voluntary rules,
without interference from the civil authori
ty. Whatever diversity of shade may ap
pear in the religious opinions of our fellow-
citizens, the charitable objects of your in
stitution cannot be indifferent to any, and
its furtherance of the holy purposes, socie
ty, by training up the younger members in
the way they should go, cannot fail to in
sure it the patronage of the government it
is under. Be assured it will meet all the
protection my office will give it.
I salute you, holy sisters, with friendship
and respect. Tnos. Jefferson.”
Serious Accident.
Last Saturday morning the passenger
train of the Greenville Rail Road, bound
for Columbia, encountered serious difficul
ties in Capt. Cochran’s field, about 4 miles
below Cokesbury Depot, in consequence
of the intentional removal of a bar of iron
by some evil disposed person. The
spikes were drawn out with a crow bar,
the marks of which were visible on the
cross-ties. In consequence of the curve
in the road, ou approaching the place
the Engineer did not discover the break
until it was too late to save the train by
reversing the engine. The engine, tender,
platform, stock, mail and baggage cars,
and the. front trucks of tbe first passen-’
ger car, were thrown entirely off the track
Tbe Engineer was thrown to the ground,
and one of the firemen slightly hurt.
The track was very much torn up, but
no damage was done to the engine or cars.
AH tbe passengers fortunately escaped
injury.
From the foot prints observable about
tbe place, the conclusion is that the out
rage was the work of some black hearted
white akin scamp*
Double Dealing.
j If there was anything needed tc prove
j the utter unworthiness of Know Nothing-
| ingism, it is the recent action of that party
upon the Catholic question. It wiU be re*
membered that a large portion of the
Southern delegates in the Philadelphia Con
vention favored the introduction of Catho
lic members into that body, and after suf
fering themseves to be overridden by North-
j ern members, returned home to commence
a violent crusade against that very religion
which but a few days before they had de
fended. Let the people of tho South ask
of these men, why, if the Catholic religion
is dangerous to the country, they favored
the introduction of Catholics into their
body ? Let us come further down. After
Know-Nothingism had expended all its fury
on the proscribed sect, searched the records
of history for six hundred years gone by,
to prove the Catholics unworthy of trust or
power. After having solemnly pledged and
committed themselves to preserve the gov
ernment from the hands of the Catholics,
they—after the recent elections and the de
feat of their party on this plan—now sol
emnly declare that they hold no fur
ther opposition to them. The Know-
Nothings of Louisiana in the first instance
repudiated the platform by nominating a
Catholic for Governor. The party in South
Carolina have declared against the religious
test. We below give the recent action of
the Virginia State Council on this question:
An informal resolution, or rather a recom
mendation, was presented by Hon. John M.
Botts, embracing the sentiment that both the
secresy and the religious test of the party
ought to be abolished, and that the naturali
zation laws should be totally repealed. The
object was merely to ascertain the sense of
the Council on the question, and it was unan
imously in the affirmative.
The following, which we clip from the
Savannah Republican, will show the senti
ment of the party in one portion of our own
State:
The American Party of Chatham.—At
a meeting of the American party of this
city and county, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, the sentiment of the American
Party of Chatham County, as expressed in
the declaration of their Delegates at the
State Council of Georgia, which convened
at Macon in the month of June last, is op
posed to the introduction of the element of
religious proscription in any shape, either
expressly or by implication as an article of
their political creed—which sentiment, it.is
now considered proper solemnly to re-iterate,
aud to declare—And whereas, also, the late
National Council at Philadelphia has re
moved the veil of secresy, aud abolished
the Old Ritual requiring oath or affirmation
from members, adopted as expedient in the
early inception of the order; be it therefore
Resolved, By the several Councils com
posing the American Party of Chatham
County in mass meeting assembled.
1, That the American Party of Chatham
County do not recognize as a doctrine of
their political faith, any opposition to in
dividuals, on account of their rcligous creed,
nor the imposition of any civil disability,
nor the deprivation of any civil rights, on
that account or for that reason.
These facts manifestly prove the Ameri
can party have been guilty of great duplic
ity with regard to the religious feature of
their platform, and whatever sentiment they
may hereafter express ou this subject is ut
terly unworthy of respect, as they have
twico before attempted to deceive the peo
ple on this score, and have as many times
given the lie to their own protestations.
Bringing this matter nearer home we
may ask, what Messrs. Calhoun and Harris
and their organ, the Discipline, mean by
continuing their raillery against the Catho
lics, when their party elsewhere are opening
their arms to receive them. When the former
gentleman talks of rising up, if necessary,
sword in hand, to put down Catholicism,
does he mean that his constituency of Ful
ton alone shall undertake this terrible work?
Why has the worthy Know-Nothing candi
date for House armed himself with Brown-
son’s Review to arouse Protestant prejudice
against the Catholics, when he knows that
his party are dropping all objection to
them? Will the Discipline be kind enough
to tell us whether Judge Andrews favors
the views of the Chatham or the Fulton
Know-Nothings with regard to this matter?
Truly there is one thing on which Know-
Nothingism the country over has agreed
upon, and that is to use the most effective
means for accomplishing their designs.—
How long will the American people suffer
themselves to be so abused ?
Indiana Democracy.
‘ We publish in another column of our pa
per to-day, the proceedings of the Indiana
Democracy at a recent meeting of that body
in Indianopolis. This is but one among
numerous other evidences, which are con
tinually reaching us of the friendly disposi
tion of the Northern Democracy to the
South. Yewing the recent conventions in
Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsyl
vania, Iowa and Indiana, we may safely say
that never has the Democratic party been
firmer and purer than now, nor ever more
likely to triumph.
W. Herring & Co.—We call the atten
tion of our readers to tbe splendid FaU
Stock of Clothing just opened by W. Her
ring & Co. See advertisement in another
column.
Missifpi.—The Grenada Republican, of
Saturday last says:
The cotton crop is suffering dreadfuUy in
this region of country, from the rust, rot,
and drought. The rust has given many up
land fields the appearance qf having been
the victim of a victim of a killing frost.—
Matty planters with whom we have con
versed think there will not be more than
half a crop made this season.
*3jU;Know Nothing Lieutenant Governor
Brown, of Massachusetts, says the object to
be accomplished by the fusiouists is this:—
That the free states shall take possession of
the government by their united votes and ad
minister it. Iu brief, make vassals of the
fifteen states! A modest object, and when
the know-nothingB accomplish it, (heir gov
ernment will be very short*
BomtiI or th* Capitol*
There is a matter upon which men of all
parties, Democrats, Americans, Whigs and
“Furriners” may agree. We refer to the
removal of the Capitol. It will be remem
bered by our readers that the last Legisla
ture passed an act in terms as follows:
“That the question of removal and loca
tion of the seat of government of the State
of Georgia be referred to legal voters of said
State, and that they be required to endorse
on their election tickets “Removal,” or “No
Removal.”
That it is the will of a large majority of
the people that the capital should be remov
ed from Milledgeville there can he no possi
ble doubt; the only question that remains
to be settled is at what place should it be
located. Atlanta and Macon are the two
prominent rival claimants for this honor.—
Nothing but the apathy of the friends of At
lanta can defeat her on this trial, as the ad
vantages which she holds forth to every
section of the State must be confessed by ail
who will give them a moment’s considera
tion.
Most prominent among these is the fact
that here is the centre of the population of
the State, rendered acoessable to all sec
tions by railroads running in every direc
tion from it. Residents of Southern Geor.
gia, of Cherokee, the West and .along the
Georgia Railroad will find in Atlanta the
place most convenient for all.
The advantage of accessability in the
location of Capitols has always been consid
ered one of the most importance, and in this
respect Atlanta is certainly ahead of her ri
vals.
If this within itself should be considered
sufficient cause for removal, the same objec
tion applies to Macon that has bee a used
against Milledgeville; that the large mass of
the voting population of the State is too far
removed from either.
That these places claim to be near the
centre of territory will he received as but a
poor argument in their favor. The Pawnee
hunting grounds are about the centre of the
Territories of the United States, yet we pre
sume none would be so mad as to urge
the removal of the Capitol from Washing
ton hither. Let the people of Georgia look
well to this matter, and all who are in favor
of this location for the Capitol, should not
forget tc endorse on their tickets “Removal
to Atlanta.”
Twenty Thousand Democrats In the
Field—Indiana Against Fanaticism
and Disunion!
The democracy of Indiana held a mon
ster mass meeting at Indianapolis on the
28th of August, and the Indiana State Sen
tinel of the 30th comes to us filled with the
interesting proceedings. It is said to have
been the largest political demonstration ever
held in the State.
This great assemblage began its session
on the evening of the 28th, and continued
into the night of the 30th. At eleven o'
clock, after noticing the arrival of delega
tions from all parts of the State, (though
thousands came in after tho organization,)
the following proceeedings took place :
“ Hon. John W. Davis moved that Judge
Alvin P. Hovey, of Posey county, take the
chair, which was adopted.
“ The president, upon taking the chair,
said: I thank you for the compliment con
ferred. The assemblage of this vast mul
titude of representatives speaks a language
that cannot be misunderstood. It is tho up
heaval of the democratic principle of the
State, and no ordinary cause has produced
it. You have come from your homes for no
vain display—the democratic party delights
not in ostentation or parade—but you have
come well knowing that a nation’s preser
vation depends upon the party with which
you are connected. The annals of our coun
try present no parellel with the present.
“The dark pages of 1854 and 1855 must
the bigotry, record, treason, and degeneracy
of thousands of American-born freemen, the
oath, the torch, the knife, have been the ar
guments with which they have in some in
stances temporarily triumphed. Argument
is not required to show that the Know-Noth
ing party has trampled the constitution and
laws of our country under foot. To state
their principles and practice is to demon
strate this assertion.
“To the foreign-born citizen they deny
that equality which is emblazoned in living
light on the glorious Declaration of Amer
ican Independence, and, in violation of our
federal and State constitutions, they estab
lished religous tests for office. The leaders
of this unprincipled party in this State year
after year have vied with the democratic
party in establishing the constitution and
laws which they now spurn and despise.
The journals of our constitutional conven
tion and laws of our State will fully show
their former oourse and present baseness.
“They would now willingly fasten upon
our foreign-born citizens the bonds of po
litical serfdom.
“Another party not less dangerous to our
national existence is in our midst—a higher
law party, who spit upon and burn the con
stitution of onr republic, and steal, as they
conceive, with the approbation of God. No
promises or constitutional compacts in re
gard to the institution of slavery in the
Sooth is regarded by them. This mtmy-
headed party, ranging from the Bible-hating
Garrisonian to the wily Sewardite, are la
boring to dissever the Union. I cannot
dwell upon this subject. There may be
parts of this confederacy that might not im
mediately feel the whole force of the shock,
hut the separation, should it ever come can
not he bloodless. The fair banks of the
beautiful Ohio wonldb e stained with gore.
Our commerce would be paralyzed: our
lands would bo worthless; and we, a border
State, would be left to bear the brunt of in
testine war brought on by the illegal inter
meddling of the fanatics of the North.
The following resolutions were adopted
by acclamation:
“Where i . as we have assembled here to
day as a mass meeting of the national de
mocracy t T Indiana, we deem it more ap
propriate to postpone adopting any resolu
tions upon State policy until onr next State
convention Bhall be called to nominate can
didates for State offices.
“Resolved, That we claim with pride the
name of national democrats ; that we are
‘old liners,’ and always expect to follow the
old lines so plainly marked by the patriots
and sages oi the revolution in the Declara
tion of Independence and in the constitu
tion of the United States. Onr is as un
changeable as our principles, and our prin
ciples are as immutable as are the founda
tions of the universe.
“jResolved, That we announce our contin
ued hostility to all seoret political societies
and organisations, as being inimical to the
genius of our ‘institutions, and revolting to
to the pride and manly spirit of a free and
intelligent people; that we deeply deplore
the frequent scenes of riot, outrage, murder,
arson, and desolation, which have been oc
casioned by these worse than Jacobin or
ganisations; and that we appeal to evrey
man who values a good reputation and an
honorable name among his fellow-men jto
lose no time in separating himself from os
foul a conspiracy; for he tnat counsels and
associates with men who commit these most
guilt, and morally, if not legally, responsi
ble for their acts.
‘Resolved, That we hereby proclaim our
decided hostility to the principles and con
duct of that sectional and fanatical party,
known as abolitionists, who have so recent
ly unfurled their banner of abolitionism and
disunion throughout the northern States;
that we view their proceedings with increas
ing apprehension of great injury to the
peace and prosperity of our common coun
try, and as being diametrically opposed to
the provisions and requirements of the con
stitution of the United States, which, if vio
lated, as they propose, must bring the dread
ful result of disunion, civil war, the ruin of
our beloved country, and the destruction of
the last pillar which sustains the temple of
Liberty on earth.
“ Resolved, That we cordially reaffirm
the principles of the Democratic National
Conventions of 1848 and 1852, as imbodying
the only practical system of action which
can be taken on the great national questions
to which they refer, and as best tending to
perpetuate the peace, harmony and integri
ty of the Union.
“ Resolved, That we most positively and
unequivocally condemn and oppose all at
tempts to control by force and violence the
right of suffrage of citizens at the polls, ei
ther in the States or Territories of this Un
ion. The will of the people properly ex
pressed is the highest law, but,, if that ex
pression be stifled or defeated there is an
end of civil government, and a failure of the
power of the people to protect themselves.
“ Resolved, That we view with disgust
and dissapprohation the conduct of non-res
ident know-nothing bullies from Missouri,
or hired abolition fanatics from Massachu
setts and elsewhere, in their interference
with the legal rights of the actual settlers
of Kansas to vote as they please, or to de
prive them of the sacred and inestimable
privilege of deciding tho laws which are to
govern them as citzens of the Territory.
“ Resolved, That we cordially invite all
men of a national sentiment, and faith to co
operate with us in maintaining the sanctity
of the American constitution, the principles
of the Declaration of Independence, and the
integrity of the Union, against theattempts
of fanatical abolitionists and demagogues
who are aiming to array one section of the
confederacy against the other, and whose
ambition to possess political power would
induce them to sacrifice the dearest interests
of the country, and to entail the dreadful
consequences of civil war, bloodshed, disu-
ion, and anarchy upon the ruins of our
now happy, prospeious, and mighty nation.
“Resolved, That we will most strenuous
ly maintain the right of civil and religious
liberty, the right of tho citizen to worship
according to the dictates of his own con
science, the freedom of speech and of the
press, the offering the benefits of our laws
and institutions to men of every nation and
every clime, the equality of all good citi
zens, and the protection of government to ev
ery man who legally claims to be an Amer
ican citizen.”
Of Lieut. Governor Willard’s great speech,
the Sentinel says:
“ Three cheers for Willard, the great
champion of nationality. We love him for
all that he has said, and especially for his
noble vindication of our southern brethren,
and his indignant scorn and repudiation of
the vile and treasonable doctrines of aboli
tion. God bless Willard ! because he is not
afraid or ashamed, iu the presence of thir
ty thousand men, to say that the southern
States are true to tho Union and the eonsti
tution, and that the men of the South are
worthy descendants of our revolutionary
sires.
“ The Resolutions.—Our resolutions, it
will be observed,, say nothing on the subject
of temperance. The reason of this is self-
evident: the question is now before the su
preme court, and it would be indelicate to
expross sentiments which might- seem to
dictate the action of the judiciary. On all
other points they ring as clear as a bell.”
The Sentinel concludes its excellent re
port of this great day as follows :
“A number of trains, both regular and ex
tra, arrived after our reporter left the depot
to attend the meeting, and many incidents
aro omitted. The Shelby delegation car
ried numerous banners, with pictorial illus
trations, of which we cannot even give our
readers an idea.
“After tho meetings hud broken up, vari
ous delegates were seen inarching through
the streets with music, towards the depot
Most of the vast crowd left the city before
sunset, though a large number remained
Over to hear the speeches at night. The
number in attendance has been variouslyes-
timated. Most all, however, admit that there
were from 25,000 to 30,000 people present
—being undoubtedly tiie largest political
meeting ever convened in Indiana,”
“ Georgia.—Judging from our Georgia
exchanges, they are having a warm politi
cal campaign in that State. All parties
seem to be confident of victory. Georgia is
a great State. Step by step she has gone
on, with great strides, until she has distanc
ed her sisters in the developement of her
resources. We love her sunny hills, her
bright waters, her mountain scenery, and
the sterling worth of her gallant sons. We
have marked her politicians for great abili
ty, and they not- a few. Her legislatures
are grave bodies—councils of wise men —
And in this, we apprehend, is the secret of
her unparallelled success.”
The above sensible and well written par
agraph we clip from the Auburn Gazette.—
We feel proud to see so high a compli
ment paid to Georgia. We like her be
cause she ia such an enterprising State.—
She elects none to office but the ablest and
wisest of her men, and that- is in truth,
“ the secret of her uuparalled success.”—
How different is her case to that of Ala
bama. Here in many portions of this State
any little sharp-headed, hatchet-faced man
can be elected to office, if he is only oppos
ed to works of internal improvement.—
Selma Reporter.
Jews.—The next Lord Mayor of London
will be a Mr. Salomon, a Jewish merchant.
It is surprising how great an influence this
people exert by the strength, and especially
by the singular acuteness which they pos
sess. . Although, in a national sense, ^they
are .homeless, although hunted through ages
of wandering by the blood-hounds of bigot
ry, avarice and prejudice, we find them
at this day exercising vast control over tha
destinies of nations. That this is so is X-
pie proof that the intellectual powers of tne
dwellers in Judea were equal to those ot
any people in any ara of history, and that
Moses and Solomon, and Isaiah and Paul,
werq the representatives of a nation of un
surpassed intellectual culture. At present
scarcely a cuontry in the civilized world is
not proud to count an Israelite among its
master spirits. Two of the race, and we
believe of the faith, sit in our own lofty Sen
ate. The most brilliant orator in the En*
glish House of commons is not asham.ed of
the same descent, while the most brilliant
diplomatist of Europe, the veteran Mtoael-
rode owes to his parentage the unequalled
skill both in thought and expression, which
has enabled him to vanquish no jgMtf -able
opponents* - '*^55* y v
There must be a future for a pebj&s SoaeAaS.
ing such intellects as these. ■ *’—
Trenton, N. Sept. 5.—The Know- '
Nothing State Convention, after a long de
bate, deolared that the repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise is a national wrong and
molting crimes ia a partioipetor ia (heir ought to be restored.
S