The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-16
F,om the Columbus (Ga,) Sentinel.
KNOW NOTHING LEADERS,

As time rolls on the people are being made acquainted
with the real leaders of the know-uothng party. They
will be found to consist in general of old spawned and
brokendown leaders of the democratic and wing parties
who have lost position with the people, and try
ing make themselves leaders in organization,
ambitious young who are not content to remain Mt
Jericho until their boards grow
In Georgia there Frank Cone and Garnett Andrews
both disseminated democrats who could rise higher
in the democratic party than judgeshp Of the superior
court They now hope the one TO be governor and the
other Judge OF the supreme court There, also, is f. A.
Nsbet defeated wing candidate for Judge Of the supreme
court There others here at home, but il Is useless TO
name them In Alabama there is }ere Clemens who bar
gained with the wings and elected senator One term
satisfied the democracy that would do trust and
he was superseded by Benjamin Fitzpatrick. lie now at
empts to retaate by joining the knownothngs. There
is also George d. Shortridgc, ambitious young man.
who thought he had moulded long enough the circuit
bench and seeing chance for further promotion for
long time to in the democratic party caught at the
doubtful chance Of being governor which the know
nothpgs held to him. and has paid the penalty of his
rashness by being most gloriously beaten.
In Tennessee we have the aspiring Donelson who i'm
agined that because he named Andrew jackson any
Office he chose claim his by divine right He as
pred foreign mission, flor his sonn-awl and because
he did not get it. he too turned knownotbng, and de-
nounces with the choicest bngsgae the party of which
his adopted father the peculiar idol
In California there Foote who sold out the party that
elected him to Senate and yet failed TO the
fdence of the opposition lie left Mississippi in disgust
and hopes to retrieve his fallen fortunes in the golden West
by turning knownothng lie at least find free use Of
his sanderous tongue, and CRAFTY his malignant revenge,
by abusing the party he has betrayed
These arc a sample of know nothng leaders Nice spec-
mems are they not of the American people, whose exclu
sive leaders they affect TO bel
Now look at home in each county and say not these
larger fish very fair specimen of the smaller fry who
have for the last three months swarmed around the gates
of the council chambers Of the knownohings They had
no sympathy the principles Of the party miscaled
American until they thought il had majority. Where
the is there will buzzards be gathered together
THE SIEGE OF SEaAsroPoI~--A letter from St Peters.
burgh of July I4th, says
The combats of the nth and 18th of June doubt
less the and most desperate that have yet taken
place before Sebastopo. From private correspondence
this appears much than from mere official reports
In one stated the following namely Ii impossible TO
form an idea except by personal inspection Of the amount
OF iron and Iced which Ia used. The ground where tho
combat took place is entirely covered with shot and she'll
From The 3lst May up the 9th june soldiers have
picked up Ts400 pounds Of lead and l0l5 bombs of so
hounds not exploded and this is not one-thrd part of
what has been used by the enemy great part Of their
ammunition Is buried in the walls OF the town rappartsR