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FOR PRESIDENT,
HON. HENRY A. WISE,
OF VIRGINIA.
FOR CONGRESS,
HON, BURTON CRAIGE,
OF ROWAN.
Election 2d Day of August.
APPOINTMENTS.
Hon. Burton Craige will address his fellow
citizens of the 7th Congressional District, at the
following limes and places, to wit :
At Newtorj, Catawba county
July 7th.
10th.
12th.
' 13h.
1 14th.
Wndesboro', Anson "
f? Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus r
Atwell's, Rowan W
Litoittr's, S M
CHARLOTTE nABHET.
Charlotte, July 6, 1S5S.
Cotton Very liuic offered; market heavy
xttemes 9 a 10 J.
Flour Slight decline Rates according to qualr
jty, from 7i to 6L
Corn 00 a 95. Meal 90 a 95.
Bacon -91 a ip.
IfhI tl ft per bu-hcl.
rr
Union.
As we went along to Monroe on Monday morn
ing wa were mueh gratified to observe the fine
prospects there were for corn and cotton. There
is a much larger quantity cultivated this '
' Jf ....ig ana iimely ruins
gjv" promise that there will be an abundant yield.
The whent crop is now harvested, and the farmers
told us that more than the uiual amount was
made the grain is unusually good and heavy.
There is a very evident improvement going on in
all the country seen from the road. &ew houses
are going up, and since the emigration has ceased
the county is filling up with an industrious and
ih riving population.
It was Court week and the candidates for Con
gress were there and addressed the people. The
lateness of the hour of our reaching home pre
vents any more than a very brief allusion to the
discussion. The people turned out en masse and
a more attentve and interested auditory we never
Sir. Craige led off in a speech, of an hour's
length, in which be vindicated the positions of the
Democracy upon all tho issues in the last L'on
gress, and made one of the most telling arguments
against the aecret political party which is striving
In its cabals to array one religious denomination
gainst another. He advocated the broad doc
trine of religjous toleration, and went for standing
by the Constitution of the country as the bulwark
pf our snfety, framed as it uus by the fathers of
.he Revolution. lie showed that a s crel political
society was dangerous to the very existence of a
Republican Government, and called upon his op
ponent to tell the people what legislation by Con
cress he desired. lie was a native American
In f.milif u-na nna ! m . n rr lha firjf u h.i calling in '
i.iiiii j i. u j . m. i iii'ii inu ftiio, jl i ul j ill
the country he was a Protestajt, and did not
have a relation in the world who was not, &e.
Col. S:owe in reply approved Mr. Craige's
Course in Congress and could not be induced to
take issue with him on any -point, lie did not
desire any legislation ag'iinst the Catholics and
did not know what modification in the Naturali
zation fvws he wanted. lie said the Know No
thing party was no longer a secret sopiety, yet
refused to tell the names of the Committee who
Informed him of hi nomination. He said that
the old parties held secret caucuses, and in reply
to Mr. Craige's question did they swear their
members to secrecy replied that 'that was not ne
cessary among gentlemen.' The Know Nothings
do think it necessary to swear lhir neophytes
We Jeave the inference to our readers. Tin's is
Col. Stowe's position not ours.
Mr. prajge fully refuted and totally riddled the
Colonel, h has seldom been our fortune to hear
go able and ejoquent a speech as Mr. G made.
He is one cf the first men in the South and the
people feel it would be a shame to lurr him out
to put the Colonel in. He made a powerful im
pression. We heard a number of leading Whigs
talking openly for him. We may recur to this
jn our next.
The Iucontlfttcnle or Know -Xotliing-
To an honest, unprejudicicd mind tho most dis
tinguishing trait of the Know Nothing party since
jts formation, has been the inconsistency and hum
buggery which have characterized it. Born in a
, land where stained wood is manufactured and sold
jpr an aromatic frjit of the East Indies, and where
. successful hypocrisy in the varied dealings be
tween mat) and man is looked upon as a cardi
nal virtue, liule elss could indeed have been ex
pected than that it would be "racy of the soil."
But it is not to be denied that in many material
respects, it stands forth fur surpassing any pre
vious production of that land where the blue lights
blazed, and in its mammoth proportions throwing
Parnum and M Joyce Heath " and tqe Wooly
Horse " far in the back-ground.
It wa3 contended by true Southern men from
the beginning that it was anti-slavery that no
party could be successful in the Northern States
which was not openly or secretly opposed to the
slave interest, and that it was for the purpose of
deluding the Southern States into tho organization
that the abolition members of the order ceased for
a time their clamorous howl against slavery. How
prere tbey met by the Know Nothing members
fjerc ? 'O,' said they, it is all mistake it is
composed of the true men of both parties at the 1
North the old political parties are corrupt and
. if , i .;--n mi npw
defunct, and from the rums has nsen.lf.is new .
party which (as the Organ said) will sink" the
question of slavery for ever.' Well, thing did
nnr i;ir the were eoine on swimmingly for a
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time. But it was me cairn wincti p
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storm.
m "But," savs one, "there is Henry j
. the Senator from Massachusetts-Gardner- i
son
a word, all the leaders of the party Nor.h-they
in
are all abolitionists." These things were assert
ed, as all remember, by the Democratic party two
months ago. The Know Nothing politicians,
however, denied them most bitterly, nnd railed
her.ven and earth to witness the crying injustice
of such false accusation. What has the sequel
proved? Why Wilson, Gardner & Co., apply
for fellowship and full communion in the Platform
Convention at Philadelphia, and are refused ad
mittance why, does the reader suppose ! be
cuuse fAesj are afolUiotiists ! 'Shame where is
thy blush 1 To crown IBM pari o. tne comeoy
. . i i
(for so it may appear to some, but to others it
wears a more serious aspect.) to erown the whole,
after the expulsion of Wilson Ac Co. from the
Convention, they throw their hat9 into the air and
cill upon all men everywhere to njoice that Wil
son and Gardner the abolitionists have been ex
pelled and the party purified ! Here was a spe.
cies of consistency peculiar to the new party which
brawls so loudly about the enormities of Catholic
ism. The men who two months ago wanted Bi
bles brought that they might swear that Henry
Wilson and his crew were sound on the slavery
question, are the very men who are now tainting
tbe a.r with their huzzas that they have been ex-
pelled. nnd the parly purified from the leprosy of
abolition ! If tho annals of pol.t.cal History af-
ford a parallel to such shameless inconsistency
we have never seen it. There is " Danger in the
Dark.
A Know Nothing Resolution.
We ask the serious attention nf 7 Southern
.w .n. .1 111 iin n t tl . A !... I 1 1
man to to r b 1
t . 1 . - roi:. r . 1 it M-.t:
immaculate iMii'or 01 lira inow looming urgan,
before the late National AMition, Samalian,
Know Nothing Convention, which recently as
sembled at the City of Philadelphia :
Resolved, " That this National Council, without
expressing any opinion upon the constitutional v
of tho Missouri Compromise, as an original propo
sition, but, coosi jering the repeal of said Compro-
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It. JSC I III UW I I III, d m uuiv nr. a IU t ir C t'A 31 M UUUU 3
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as to the practihility and expediency of restoring
said Compromise by laic, this National Council
hereby declares, that the American party ought
not to either insist upon, urie, or require, the Ad
mission of any Territory i)ito the JJttion as a
slope Stute, which lies North of tlie Compromise
line ; and that, on the other hand, said party will
interpose no oljectiwn to tho admission of any
Territory into the Union as a slave Slate, which
lies South of said Compromise line ; ttus virtu
ally restoring, without legislation, the original
compact made between the North and Sputh m
1820,''
Now what dors the above resolution mean,
but that the Know Nothing. Organ, which is held
up for its devotion to the South, was and is wil
ling to surrender a ground of the most vital im
portance to the Suth. A critical question now
before the country, is tho admission of Kansas into
the Union as a State. Under the iead of Doug
las nnd other noble Northern men, the sectional
and degrading line of the Missouri Compromise
was blotted out, and thereby to Southerners was
conceded, as an ac; of simple justice, the right to
carry their property into the Territory. In the
progress of time, and in spite of the organized im
igration movements of New England Abolitionists,
ihe Southern men have acquired a foothold in
Kansas by the popular vote, with a bright pros
pect of establishing ihcir rights under the consti
tution which gives equal protection to all sorts of
property. Just at ihis important crisis, when the
South is about to have justice done to her citizens,
such friends of the South as Kenneth Rayner and
the American Organ, step forward and denounce
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as "ablun
der," and as "the most reckless act of legislation
recorded in American history."
The American Organ goes still farther and calls
upon the whole Know Nothing organization to
wipe out practically this awful M blunder," and to
virtually restoro without legislation the original
Compact made between the North and South in
1820 in other words to g(ve new life to the do.
grading Missouri Compromise, and to restore a
gross and unqualified act pf injustice and degra
dation to the South, and all this to conciliate the
abolitionists, and to give peace and harmony to
the great Know Nothing party. Bui the reasons
given are if possible more monstrous than the
proposition itself. They are that the whole ques
tion is a mere shadow of an abstraction ; that all
the Southern men in the Philadelphia Council arr
gupd that Kansas could pot be a slave State, and
that not one single member of the Cpuncil was
heard to express a wish that Kansas should be a
slave State.
What an extraordinary representation the South
had n the Council ; men who instead of standing j toWn, small pieces of red paper of a peculiar shape,
by the South in the hour of trial and danger, and i pa8terJ up on the lamp posts, sign posts, corners
when by tho Union of her sons the South might of the street, &c. I'he appearance of these pie
acquire practical justice and benefit, threw down ; ces of red paper cut in the shape of a heart, in so
their arms to the abolitionists, and surrendered at j many different places in our town at the same
discretion, all the rights of the South. Accord- ! limp muI arpi rl,,nl nf snecolatinn tn ihe
ing to tne Urgan, every representative of tho
South surrendered the whole question, and threw
the whole weight of his position into the aptj
slavery scale, so far as Kansas is concerned.
Is not the Organ condemned out of its own
mouth, in the opinion of every true Southern man.
when such sentiments as we have above quoted
are publicly proclaimed as the yo;ce of even the
Know Nothings of the South, how can they expect
to dupe the South by hollow platforms, into an
affiliation with so detestable a party ? Every
step taken to patch up the disjointed fragments of
"Sam," exposes the deception in a new and more
damning light The whole concern is a wretched
cheat, )nJ the wholo South will, like Virginia, re
pudiate and spit upon it."
Dr. A. J. Johnson, of Washington, and a gra
duate of the Maryland University, has gone to
Russia, to take a surgeons commission.
Death of illsij. jT. W. Hauiptou.
Mai. Juseph VVade Hahiton, lt editor and
.-' . 1 m - - r1 A',,. A a, k r
proprietor ol :ne lexas oe uuit, uiru m
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1 toiuv nub as i u -3 i
The above announcement from a late Texas
paper will gie peculiar pain to a number of warm
friends of Mai. Hampton in 'lit vicinity
where
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I I Ll.nro.l o of I hO I tf-r.L'iP n 1 1 'i r P
c "'"S - -
Jrffcrsonian. hich he rnnHucted with memorable
;' fficioncy. He was a poltshed gman en-
lowed with one talents, n gooa unaersianuing.
and was a judicious and indefatigable writer.
For the Democrat.
Well, Mr. Elitor, strange things sometimes
happen in this world that surpass ?s all understand,
ing, and not among tho least astonishing events ol
the present day is the fact that Col. Sam'l. N.
Stowe, of Gaston County, should have been so
easily duped as to kaws given his consent to be
npd bv the Know Nothing as a renegade Demo-
defeating (he D mocraey of his
crat, to
District. Yes, Col. Sam'l. N. Stowe is really the
Know Nothing candidate, conceived and brought
forth in darknesi, some few weeks since in Rudi
sill's Planing Machine Shop. Ol course th
name of Gaston County will now have to le
changed, as it will by no means do for the Sam
ahun Represeniaiive of the 7th Congressional
District to hail from a County named after the
degraded Roman Catholic, Judg3 Gaston. It
smells loo strongly of Popery to suit tne sensitive
i.erves of a Know Nothing member of Congress.
But whv should the Democrats of tins District
! iheir m fahh.
, frf R j h lon Burfon Craige ?
; q merjt ?hejr displrasure ? h
; deceived kia constituents? Did he eer
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.... , . . , to (he ,e(ter?
Did he ever shrink from a bold and fearb-ss dis.
charge of his duty, when the in'erests of theSou'h
were in danger ? No sir! but on thf contrary
he has always deported himself as a faithful senti.
nel to the South. His position has always been
in the front rank of the Southern army, fighting
j against the Abolitionists of the North. Not only
so, but even Col. Stowe himself has expressed
himself and still is fully satisfied with Mr. Craige's
course in Congref-s.
Then why should the Democrats abandon their
j trjej R.-r. resentative for one who professes the
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Mr.
Cruig in Congress. What would they gain
by the change? Besides all this Mr. Stowe is a
Know Nothing, one of thes dark lantern gentle
men, who love to meet with his brethren in the
dark hours ot the night and there concoct plans
to carry out their nefarious purposes by making
men take a secret oath that they will vote as they
are commanded to do by this durk, secret, oath
bound society ; whose principal signal for a rally
is a little piece of red paper cut in the shape of a
heart and pasted up at every corner of the street ;
how ridiculous, and contemptible, for grown, in
telligent men poor dupes.
And yet, this party afraid to be seen by the
light of the sun, summoned at midnight by a little
senseless red pnper heart, have tho presumption
to call themselves 'The American Party.' Amer
icans, upon American soil, afraid to meet together
in open daylight, to consult with each other: for
the general good. Americans substituting the
Owl. as an emblem of iheir faith, instead of the
proud Eagle, the National emblem of American
liberty. Americans meeting in some secluded
corner at the hour of midnight prohibited even
the lihtof a candle and there in the dark take
an illegal oath to deceive his neighbor, and vote
as he is directed to do by an irresponsible secret
seciety.
But, perhaps I am dreaming. Is it all imaginary
with me, that there lived once a man by the name
of George Washington, who was a great General
and commanded the American army and led them
to victory in a war between the United States and
Great Britain called the Revolutionary War ?
And that there was a Constitution of the United
States which guaranteed to every man the right
to worship God according to the dictates of his
own conscience, and to vote as he pleased without
fear or molestation from any man or set of men ?
Suppose the great and good Washington was
permitted to return to eanh again, and see men
! prowling about the country wearing around their
necks collars upon which was inscribed the name
of "Sam," and was told that these men had sur
rendered their right to vote as they pleased and
had bound themselves with an oath to sub
mit to the dictation of an irresponsible, midnight,
secret society. What would be his feelings when
he learned that these collar men claimed to be the
true American party of his beloved, independent
America. LIBERTYi
For the Western Democrat.
Mr. Editor : Our citizens no doubt have observ
ed within the last few davs in various nart.s of the
k r - ' -w v
meaning. It was generally considered that it was
ihe work of the Know Nothing?, and that it was
dqne in the dark hours of night. The following
is an explanation given by seventy members of the
order t,-ho have repudiated Know Noihingism in
i New England. He who dues not here behold
J the sure workings of demoralization and ruin of
Know Notijngism must indeed be a poor moral
ist : T.
"But all these are evils of small magnitude and
consideration when compared with some other gi
gantic wrongs with which it labors to curse our
land. The scattering of a few pieces of red pa
per of a peculiar shape obliges every "brother" to
arm himself with bowie knife and revolver or
other deadly weapons, and follow the beck of their
leaders even to the shedding of blood. The Cin
cinnati, Louisville, St.' Louis, and other fearful
and bloody know-nothing riots, are but the legiti
mate workings of the order, and but the beginning
of such scenes as were enacted on the soil off
France under red republican rule.
ThosH wdio control and manage the affairs ol 1
this corrupt concern nrs in 11 lor t!it spons 01
office ! and no means, however desperate, are left
untried to compass this end.
The order is engaged in a crusade against re.
ligion, it revives the old spirit of persecution for
opinion's sake, and of course rallies around its
standard thousands who are alnoya found more
willing la fight against Catholicism than to piac
tise 1 heir own profession. Odious religious tests
which have been successfully reasoued down and
removed from the statute of our State are speedily
drugged from their loathsome tomb and quickened
into life. No Catholic is to be tolerated, no mat
ter how sincerely he mV revere his Maker ; he
is to hold no office in the gift of the people, have
no part in the government nor interest in any of
its concerns, while the atheist, deist, debauchee,
infidcd. Morqjon, or buddhist, is recognised as a
good and worthy brother.
Others may choose to submit to such atrocious
despotism, but as for ourselves we denounce it as
contrary to the genius of our institutions, at war
with freedom of thought, and deserving the open
denunciation of every true American.
Resolved, That the officers and members of this
counc'l affix th ir names to the above.
Resolvfd, That the papers in this State opposed
to this organization are hereby requested to pub
lish the foregoing.
B. P. BILL, President.
T'ae Foreign Itews.
The Columbia South Carolinian says: "We
have received the details of the Baltic' news,
which confirm the previously reported 'suc
cesses" of the Allies, and so far as we can per
ceive, they are assuredly progressing in their
operations against Russia. Tile taking of Kertcb,
through which the Russians are said to have re
ceived the greater part of their supplies, was a
decided and serious blow to Russia.
General Pelissier, we are inclined to believe,
will yet reduce Sebastopol. It is obvious that
the French troops are now taking the lead, and
will doubtless maintain it throughout the future
nflnn,ivP ooomtmns
i Cotton was firm, but quiet
The New York Herald of Friday says : The
cotton market yesterday was unsettled by the ac
counts brought by the Baltic. The sales were
limited to 300 a 400 bales, but afforded no crite
rion by which to give established prices.
Will Sebastopol be Taken?
14 Ion, " the intelligent correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, takes the following sensible view
of things in the Crimea :
It is now ten months since the allies commenc
ed their operations in the Crimea, and the restdts,
so far, are very favorable to their success. Their
exultation at recent successes is quite dispropor
tionate to any advantage they have gained. They
have taken Kertsch, which they could have at any
time, because Russia did not want it, and have
therefore neglected to fortify and defend it. They
have simply used the fort as long as the allies
chose to let them have it, but it was by no means
rHRarded as neces.ry to their supplies. They
i have taken, with immense loss, two advanced
works of the Rnssians before Sebastopol, which
works have already answered their miliary pur
pose, and which can ho renewed on different lines
whenever it may be expedient.
The Ma melon, on a little round hill, was forti
fied by the Russians after the battle of Inkermann,
and, like their other advanced works, had given
the allies much trouble by infilading their advanc
ed works. All these victories are mere affairs of
out-posts, but which fritter away the strength of
the allies w-ithout giving them the least important
advnntage. They have brought the allies now to
the fearful trial of the months of July and August,
when pestilence must necessarily destroy them by
thousands, when action is impossible, and inac
tion is destruction. The Russian strength in the
Crimea has been increased, as ' we have every
reason to believe, to an extent rqual to that of the
allies, and their forces outside of Sebastopol are so
concentrated at fortified points as to be able to
open a communication with Sebastopol, to resist
any attack from the allies, and to be ready at the
critical moment to avail themselves of an oppor
tunity to strike a decisive blow. These circum
stances are unfavourable to the peace which the
allies expect to conquer before Christmas. Engl
and is fighting for the preservation of her military
prestige, and, as the London Times urges, for
England to be beaten in the Crimea, is to be bea
ten everywhere. We might, for the sake of our
own interests, of the interests of the world, wish
England such a victory as will enable her to make
peace.
Cholera In tbe South
We quote the following passage from a Iotter
written by a friend at Glenco, Mississippi, on the
16th inst : " I expected to travel North this month
and spend the summer, but am disappointed. The
cholera has appeared on some of the plantations
in ihis neighborhood, and I am afraid to leave
home. Gen. Polk, in Chicot county, Arkansas,
has lost twenty. three slaves in the last three days,
and I received a note this morning from the phy
sician attending on the sick, stating that there
were more new cases, but he thinks they will get
along, as he has taken them in time. My neigh
bor, Mr. Wilkessen, has just lost seveo slaves by
cholera. Wo had a good rain a few days ago.the
first since the 8ih of April."
Cincinnati Corner rial, 25th.
Outrage by Abolitionists in Kansas. The
Kunsas Herald of the 15th instant contains the
particulars of an outrage by abolitionists on the
Kansas River, which shows the justice of the cry
of persecution which their friends at the North
have raised. W. J. Osborne, a young man from
New York, was quietly working his claim on
Kansas River, when a band of Cincinnati abolition
ists, consisting of fifteen or twenty men, armed
with guns, came upon him and ordered him to
leave the neighborhood, otherwise they would
drown him in the river. He left, and after time
enough had elapsed, as he supposed, to let the
excitement go down, he went to Manhattan to ask
the leader of the band the cause of such treatment.
He was again Seized by the party aud kept pris
oner on board a steamboat several hours, and
his horse in the meantime was dreadfully beaten.
Mysterious. A large tree, which began to
show symptoms of decay, was chopped down last
Thursday, on the farm of Mr. C- zzens, in the
southern part of Campbell count, Ky when the
skeleton of a woman, w ith a little dried, shrivelled
flesh adhering to ihe bones, was found in a cleft
of the tree, about 20 feet from the ground. The
discovery caused a great sensation throughut the
neighborhood, but no one remembered of any per
son having been missed or disappearing from there
for many years.
An Irish girl, the other day, complained to her
mistress that tho cow would not eat her "mess."
She "scalded the male, and she salted it but devil
a bit would the old cow touch." On examination
it was found that Biddy'a " male was nothing but
s&wn-dust. The COW was evidently not use to aurh
fine board!
Billigcrent Asylum.
The following in regard to an anylum for belli
gerents has issu. d from the United States, Attorney
General: . .
1. Belligerent ships of-war, privateers, auu
prizes of either, are entitled, on the score ol hu
manity, to temporary refuge in neutral waters
from casualties ol the sea and war.
2. By the law ol nations beligerent ships-of-war
with their prizes, enjoy asylum in neutral ports
for the purpose of obtaining supplies or undergo
Ing repairs, according to the direction ol the neu
tral sovereign, who may refuse the asylum abso.
lutely, or grant it under such conditions, of dura
tion, place, and other circumstances, as he shall
see fit, provided that he must be strictly impartial
in this respect towards all the belligerent powers.
3. Where the neutral State has not signified its
determination to refuse the privilege of asylum to
belligerent ships of war, privateers or their prizes,
either belligerent has a right to assume its existence
and enter upon enjoyment, subject, to such regula
tions and limitations as the neutral State may
please to prescribe for its own security.
4. The United States have not, by treaty with
any of the present belligerents, bound themselves
to accord asylum to either ; but neither have tho
United States given notice that they will not do it,
and of course our ports are open, for lawful pur
poses, to the ships of war of either Great Britain,
France, Russia, Turkey, or Sardinia.
5. A foreign ship of war, or any prize of hers,
in command of a public officer, possesses, in the
ports of ihe United States, the right of exterritori
ality, and is not subject to the local jurisdiction.
6. A prisoner of war on board a foreign man-of-war,
or her prize, cannot be released by habeas
corpus issuing from courts either of the United
States or of a particular State.
7. But if such prisoner of war be taken on shore,
he becomes subject to the local jurisdiction or not,
according as it may be agreed between the politi
cal authorities of the belligerent and the neutral
power.
We scarcely think any Southern Rights man
(we use the term now in its party sense) could be
long to the Know Nothing Party. As there may
be, however, we should like to propound to any,
two questions :
1st. Do you recognise the maintainance of the
Union as the greatest political good?
2d. Do you profess a tender and sacred regard
for acts of statesmanship, contradistinguished from
ordinary legislation, as being in the nature of a
greement, and do you recognise such acts for
instance the Missouri Compromise as a fixed and
settled Nationnl policy ?
These are principles of the National Know No-
Mhing plaiform. Will some Southern Rights
member of the order, expound to us in what they
differ from the most abject federalism and how
any fire-eater can swallow such doctrine as this?
M We pause for a reply."
Montgomeiy Advertiser.
Georgia Know-Nothing Statistics. A
friend has been informed by a member ol the "Or
der" who, from the voluminous records with which
he was burdened, appeared to hold the rank of
"statistician" therein, lhat there are tso hundred
and eighty-eight K. N. lodges in Georgia, record
ing about 29,000 members. This, it will be re
membered, is a Know Nothing statement, which,
il judged by the well known statements in Virgin
ai, must be received with some degree of allow,
ance. But granted that it is true, and that all the
29,000 could be counted on at the polls, which,
confiding in the pow er of Democratic principles in
Georgia, we believe will not be the case, it makes
but a poor showing for the October election.
Our friend further learned that of the two
hundred and eighty-eight lodges in the State, but
one hundred and fifty-nine are represented at the
Council in Macon, a little over half, which shows
that there is backwardness and want of enthusiasm
somewhere. Georgian.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Pittsourg,
(Pa.,) which was consecrated on Sunday last, was
commenced four years ago, and will be, when
finished, says the Baltimore American, tho most
magnificent church building in this country. It is
esiimated that from 4,000 to 5,000 persons can be
seated within its walls, and if necessary, addition
al pews can be set upon the space now left free for
processions, etc. Among the many novel features
introduced into this church, is the invention of
Bishop O'Conner, by which the seats can be
changed without the occupants being required to
leave their pews, so that the congregation can face
either way.
The expected despatches of Mr. Mason, our
Minister to Paris, in relation to the alleged confis.
cations of neutral property by the allies in the
Baltic, and as instigated by Count Nessel rode, are
reported at Washington. The telegraphic corres
pondent of the New York Herald says they take
strong ground, and that they also call to account
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in refer
ence to the proceedings of Monsieur Dillon, the
French consul at San Francisco. This correspon
dent pretends to represent, moreover, their effect
upon the administration, and says that the Presi
dent was considerably excited, but that Seqjetary
Marcy took them more cooly.
What Know Nothingism has Done. First:
Every Congressman elected by the Know Noth
ings is pledged to repeal the Nebraska bill and to
modify or repeal the fugitive-slave law. Second :
The nine United States Senators elected so far by
Know Nothing legislatures are avowedly uncom
promising abolitionists. Third : Every governor
elected in the free States by the Know Nothings
is an abolitionist. Fourth : The negroes of the
North vote to one man with the Know Nothings,
and have been repeatedly complimented for their
patriotism in thus voting by the Know Nothing
organs. Fifth : The Know Nothing legislature of
Massachusetts has removed Judge Loring from
office for having returned the fugitive slave Burns
to his law'ul master in accordance with the requi
sites of the laws of the United States. Sixth ; The
grand councils of the Know Nothings in the Stales
of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Hamp
shire have passed strong anti-slavery resolution!.
Seventh : The Know Nothing legislature of Mas
sachusetts has passed a law admitting negroes to
the public schools. Eighth ; The Know Nothing
House of Representatives of Congress is thorough
ly abolitionist in tendencies and character. Mo-
bde Register.
Decimal Coinage. In the British Parliament
the movement in favor of a decimal coinage and'
decimal weights and measures, is progressing.
Mr. Browr? introduced resolutions to the effect that
the initiation of the decimal system of coinage bv
the issue of the florin, had been successful! and
that it be completed by the issue of .iker coins
representing the 100th, and Conner coin
sentiog the JOOOth part of one oouod aterlin
and coins to be called resrwwf;VAi. , 6 .
- mill.. ' Mr. J. B. Smith moved, amend,
mem, that a Congress of nations be invited to
se He a uniform rate of currency. After con
siderable debate, that part of the rL ion specif v
ing cent, and mill, was withdrawn and fhe r'e
mamder adopted.
DiMcouraginff Cblldhood
It is somewhere related that a poor soldier L
ing had his skull fractured, was told by the d
that his brains were visible. Do write to
he replied,' and tell him of it, for he alw8ys J,r
had no brains.' How many fathers and moi
tell their children such ; and how often doe! im
a remark contribute not a little to prevent
I velopment of the brain ! A grown up perioni
n child ne is orauuesa or louusn, or inatheufU
- wiantDl rr mnrit fnn.ti...
cini in souio iiis' " k.uiiy,
vi" iii - fj - " v wu
- ,, Af ton l hp statement in hoOo.j
CfincB " --v,CU) Qf
r,.Mr htdipved. the thought lhat ii mv i. "I
nu a -j ue p.
tiallv so, acts like an incubus to repres, ine Jv
J J L. nr llinl svlnilsf T-. 1
dence and energies of that child. Lt any o.-
. . . . .l:Ui J. J i V "
lOOK DaCK to Cllliuuwuu "".J", uu im can fJout
leas recall manv words and expressions
exerted such a discouraging or encouraging
ence over him as to tell on his whole future com,
of life. We knew an ambitious boy, who.i
age of ten years, had become so depreised fgA
fault-finding and reproof, not duly mingled .
. . I t T. I
encouraging woras, mat at an eariy age he lorn.
. l: . r u P
lor deatn to iskb mm uui ui mo worm, m kw
he conceived lie nao no aDinues to rise, il
while all thus appeared so dark around km,m
he had so often been told of his faults and a,;
ciencies that he seemed to himself the dullenj
worst of boys and while none of his good qU.
lies or capabilities had been mentioned, and 1$
believed he had none, a single word ol prauel(
appreciation, carelessly dropped in his hear.
changed his whole course of thought. We hit,
often heard him say that 'that word saved him.'
The moment he thought he could do well, he&
solved that he would and he has done well..
Parents, these are important considerations.
Sometimes encourage your children without an.
Do not tell them they can be good or can dott,
it uiy no mus or so wen, anu mat mere is not
ing to hinder them. American Agricultural
n t it, m i
the Washington Union, that Postmasters shm,, J
IVF.tilSTF.HED LiF.TTERS. W e 8T6 BO Vised . a
make no record or marks upon registered leitJl
by which the fact of their containing money
ni hop vnliinhlna mnv he misnpctpfl or miiL. m
If' III l . Ill MUUIV" " ' . . . V. IVIIUWH.
It has been ascertained that, in some instancy
postmasters are in the habit of marking the ort
"registered" on the outside of such letters, togeth.
er with the amount of money enclosed.
practice is unauthorized and impolitic, and ii for.
bidden by the department.
Creditable Appointment. We are glaji,
learn that President Pierce has conferred a 2oi
Lieutenancy in the U. States Army upon Thoam
Grey, a worthy Irishman, belonging to Connwv
cut, after 15 years of faithful service, as a priii:
in r no a nr uru i-arov wnu in irif wnir ti ..
in inv iiui iinvi r . " til in i
r a i - el 1 1 wai, diiu ilia uchhiwii uuu vi very Cltfif
i i n. In r f Ink a -. n iif f i n Pii rro nn sam al
t r. m . .! . r i . A Viia ilu iwil i,.n ami
u 1 1 1 1 r i ine uuar ri i w x-n . i . i. wv wn imirn insi
l . i : i .1 j .i
poiunJitMii art? miuijr'ui iu inr j remrm for U
.J.. - - 1 .Ultk 1 - Tf
Register, luesday.
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Foreign Orders f--r Floir The PliildP
phia Ledger has the following :
We learn that orders have been received basl
France to buy Flour in this Market the mnntu
prices fall to a certain limit, said to be 99 per bf
Our crop prospects indicate that thii limit will sc.:
be reached."
Common State Flour that sold a month an .
New York at $10.50 can now be had at $8.25-1
The decline in that city during the Inst twnwr?u
has been 62$ a 87 Jc. per bbl. in the lower gradti
and 37$ a 50 cents on tho better grades. 0(
Wheat is neglected, nnd has lollen in ihe Mm
time 5 a 15 cents per bushel.
Individual Responsibility. The monvntr
man parts with moral independence the motim
he judges of duty, not from the inward t oic, bu
from '.he int.- rest and will of a party, ihe nioinM!
he commits himself to a leader or a body,hewinb
at evil because divisions would hurt the cause
moment he shakes off his particular responsibility
because he is but one of a thousand or a m
by whom the evil is one that moment he pan
with his mornl power. He is shorn of the enerp
of single hearted faith in the right and the true
He hopes from man's policy what nothing but!oi
airy to God can accomplish. He subirituifl
coarse weapons, forgd by man's wisdom, for
testial power. Channing.
The Hero of San Jacinto ? It would sen
from what is now transpiring in Texas, that i
history of the battle of S in Jacinto is yet to
written. The materials are getting to he f
abundant, for which wc are indebted to Gen. &
Houston, more, it appears, for the facts whichm
corning out, than Texas was indebted to him '
the victory itself. In a late speech made on I
aniversary of the battle, he gave a version of i
history of its incidents, and his own ci nnecii
with them, which has brought out a host of indt
riant commentators, who not only deny the m
of his narrative, but accuse him of cowardice
incapacity. The first to reply was David K. Be
nett, formerly President of Texas, and by thenW
which arrived yesterday, we have two other
dresses one by Gen. Sidney Sherman, and sj
by Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar, also once Preside
of Texas. These gentlemen were officers darraj
the battle of San Jacinto, and they concur s
Burnett in declaring Gen. Houston's narriti
false throughout, and in affirming that the bi!'
mmm .mignr agamsr inn wisnea ano juagnw
Houston, who is accused, moreover, of behs'!
with personal cowardice as well as showing"'1
incapacity as a general. Gen. Sherman aaTi'!
when ever a full narrative of the battle is g"
truthfully to the world, Gen. Houston's J
room fame will rapidly decompose and sink
putrescence with the mass of lalsehooda af
which it rests,' and Gen. Lamar soys, 1 M f
opinion is that he, himself, (Houston) waathe
coward on that field. I can name no other, a
him I know as one.'
How to Prevent Plums from Fallijc- 1
S.," in the Ohio Farmer, say. : f
It has always been a very hard, and al
fruitless task, to raise plums, and have thei1
on the trees long enough to ripen without gc!
wormy. I thought last year, I would try
to raise some. I accordingly put chip
around them, which is the most natural m'
for them ; and by the time the trees were in
fixed several hen-coops under them. The eh
ens were fed there ; so they had no occasion 99
away from the trees ; and they would dtsT
manure, and keep it all the time loose, andf
up the insects ; so it was quite rare lhat e
saw one there.
ft is well to shake the trees every nornil!
evening, to get the insects down ; and the chic J
will take them as fast as they come. Trees ne
dry place, to do well.
A young girl named Mary Erdmann cornfttt
- j o y t
suicide by taking arsenic, in consequence ot
Inji. ri inn nt a vnnnn man In vlinm she WSS '
engf
U1.DVIIIVII w. w j ..'.'. .V III
ed to be married. The case is creating eo0lft
able excitement, for the " unfortunate gr' J
beloved by a large qircje qf friends aqd cIl,iW
acces.M