Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-15

He will sweep the whole state. There ~, We be-
leye, no longer any doubt entertained on this
score by the knowing ones" whether Democrats
or wings. samuel" WILL beyond peradyenture,
carry the day on next Thursday week.
A NEW CIrY.--Morgansa is the name Of new
city projected by s. d. Morgan, at the mouth Of
Big Sandy river, in Western Virginia, and sumo
ton with the Ohio Three railroads will centre at
this point. Mr.. Morgan says the site is admirably
adapted for building purposes The Ohio river
bottom is four-hfths of mile wide and has water
front of two miles on the Ohio, and one and half
miles on the Sandy Rivers and ascends at the rate
Of twenty-five feet per mile as it recedes from the
Ohio river II has good landing at all stages Of
water. The location is healthy one, the latitude
and climate corresponding with those OF Louisville
KY The title is indisputable, the whole survey Of
800 acres having been the property Of the Morgan
family for eighty years.
Morgansa is $50 miles from Cincinnati, and 220
from Wheeling. 1t is doubtless destined to be-
come an important and populous city. The first
sale Of lots will be held on the 3Oth Of May.
Know NOTHING THIRD DEGREE--It is known
to all Know Nothings, and many outsiders besides,
that new Know Nothing ritual has been adopted,
in which there Is change Of signs signals, grips
and passwords, and that new degree has been
added For one or two months past the county
deputies have been busy introducing it into the
various Councils. The ''new work" costs each
subordinate lodge $l2 This sum is charged to
meet the heavy expenses of the "big bugs" and to
defray other demands. The obligations Of the first
and last degrees do not differ materially from those
in the old work but the new Third stands out
unique and peculiar. The Pittsburg Gazette, Of
Thursday, published the whole genuine rtual-the
passwords and signs excepted-from which we
copy.
We have often alluded to the pro-slavery char
acter Of the new degree, and now have the confr-
nation of it in black and white before us. The
great mass of the Know Nothings Of this city have
not yet taken it. and that they may not be entrap-
ped in the dark to take an obligation stultifying
their political sentiments, we place before them
the oath they will be required to take And here
let us ask them, and all honest men, what ques-
ton has ever disturbed the peace, or endangered
the perpetuity of the Union, save the Slavery
question: Under the pretext Of preserving the
Union" the members are really sworn to put down
Anti-Slavery agitation" And as to the descriptive
adjustment of all political dscontents or differen-
ces which they sworn to procure, what is it but
more compromises of the Fillmore and Fugitive
Slave Law? Every rational man understands what
the orignators of this degree were after when they
invented it. We all know that the grand object
was to ignore and crush out Northern opposition
to Slavery aggression under the old pretext Of ga
wing the Union.
The Shareholders who cooked up the degree,
with the aid Of New York Silver Greys, have but
one interruption for it, and that is, dagger with
which AntiSlavery men are expected to commit
political suicide, under the delusion that they
saving the Union!
We would also call the special attention ofthose
who have seen "Sam," but have not had sight at
this last wrinkle on his brow to that part of the
oath which binds them to support only Third de-
gree members of the Order--none but orthodox
Unfon-savers for office, and ask all honest men, in
or out Of the Order, wherein this degree is less
pro-slavery than the locofoco Baltimore platform
of '52, upon which General Pierce was nominated,
or the Wing platform, which killed Gen. Scott and
hin M rtu - (yIeaeEnnd (1Liol Leader