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«w 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*. \V I <HOWARD, \ 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 $i oe I 26 i 60 One month. Two <• Three u Four •• 8ix “ One year, $5 00 S 00 10 00 12 00 16 00 26 00 Pr- er at Adv 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