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2 bi»»t, but his barn lost part of the roof. An hundred yards from his house it unroofed a atone school house, ahd taking a trip of the finest timber we know of. belonging to Col. Bute, it se»me to have let loose all its fury. The rosd running along its side was literally choked up with treesand brush. The Colonel thinks be has come in for more than his full share of the storm. For him it des royed eight buildings, composed of etables, occupied by his eons and various granaries and outhouses. His main dwelling house and large barn escaped. A grand child of Mrs. Archibald, had us skull fractured—another was slightly injured. One horse was killed and twelve others crippled or injured more or less. Col. Bute estimates his loss at $3.°00. Crossing the next hill and the road to Laurel Hill meeting house it came down upon the premises of Zachariah Ball. His large frame barn was destroyed His dwelling was a sub ■tantial brick, with 19 inch waits. Th* /•“’"J was on the firs, floor in a room fronting the East. The roof and upper story were earrie away, and the east front fell outward, expo* ng the liamily to the open air, but the fl ®-’ ' bead protected them from above, and they e caped unhurt. , a There .. . gentle rise, mostly open field, to * the next batch of buildings, belonging to Gen. H W. Beeson First the storm took the house, carrying away the upper story, and uprooting BT The General's barn was sis y-two feet square, framed of large timbers, and double stone foun dations, one within the other. It stood on the very apex °f ,he hill ’ we 9aw lae foundation, but wh >t has become of the barn is yet unas certained. Pursuing i'a course toward the mountains, it destroyed the barn and brick dwelling 01 Mr Jones, on the old Connelaville road. I e last act before rising to the mountains was to unroof a bouse occupied by Mr. Kinail, and he stepping out of his doorat tne lime, fonnd bimseli on the top of a fa len tree, some hundred steps from h a house, occasionally touching the ground on his way, but being unable to stay bls course until be lodged in the tree. Several other houses were deetro ed who ly or in pari before the storm took the mountain, but w» eandot give particulars. Cro-aiug the top of the mountain, it blew down a large log barn belonging to Levi Down er of thia p ace. We next bear ol it at Mr Sebastian Kush’s, on the National Road, twelve miles ea,t of this, where it blew the roof oil bis new barn, just finished and partly unroofed his store. Discussion In Elbert. Mr. Editor:—An account ol the politics! discussion, which came off at the Camp Ground, in ths county, on lhe Ist inst, may afford some interest to your readers, in these times of excitement. At an early hiur of lhe day, between 1500 and 2000 people assembled, anxious to gel light upon the great questions whicn divide the country. Toombs, Ste phens, and A J Mdler, of your city, appear ed as adrooates of the Union cause. Judge Dougherty and McMillan as champions, hot of the McDona'd Preambie and Resolutions, bat of their own peculiar opinions Verily, this anonymous party, or parly of many ■smes as you like, present every phase of doctrine. Based upon no common principles, they are animated by but one feeling, which is common to them all ; and that is, opposi tion to the Union party. And what makes their conduct pasting strange in this section, is, that they propo-e to stand upon the platform, for wbica the Union party is battling. There was none here to raise an arm in defence of that exposition of principles put forth by the Convention, which nominated McDonald. That contemptible offspring of a nameless party was left to the mercy of lhe winds and waves of the political elements. But I will no longer keep you io suspense. Each speak er was confined to one hour. Miller led off in a close, argumentative speech, demonstrating most conclusively, that Georgia, according to her own position, as set forth by her Legislatu e in '49, had bus taioed no wroog from lhe General Govern merit, upon lhe subject of slavery ; and that, therefore, she ought m be satisfied with the measures of adjustment. So well fortified was his position by established facts and sound arguments, that the gentleman who followed was forced to admit, by refusing to attack it. He declared it to be bis opinion that the real issue in Georgia was Union or Disunion. Upon no other hypothesis could he explain the conduct of the other party in continuing to assail the Compromise measures, after the solemn verdict rendered by the peo- P of the Stale in Convention assembled. It v.m their policy to make the people hate their government, so that they might be en abled, when they got power, to induce tha country to exercise this right of secession, for which, they were now clamoring so loud ly. Ke gave his views upon this right While he admitted that a State might for sufficient cause, to be judged of by herself, withdraw from the Union, he denied that it was a Constitutional right. Neither was it a reserved right. A State could not reserve a right, which she had not before she entered the Union. Until she became a party to the Gene-al Government, there was no Union from wh ch she could secede ; therefore, to say that she had thia right before she entered the Union, would involve lhe sbsurdity oi contending, that a Slate had lhe rignt to do that, which, from the very nature ol the case, it was impossible lo do. Tuia rishi therefore •vtdenily results from lhe new relations estab lished by the Union of lhe Slates. Judge Dougherty next took the stand. He avowed lhal he was there to advance the claims of no man, he stood upon his own principles, neither did be desire anything at lhe hands of the people. He approved the principle of the Union par y in the main, declaring that they went a little too far for him lo one or two of the points of reeivtance, he did not agree with them. The burden of his speech was the wrongs endured by the South upon ihe slavery question. He refused to en dorse the principles of which McDonald was declared, by the Convention lhal nominated bini, io be the exponent; yetatrangeto coll, sig nified his mien ion to vole for him on account of the doctrine of Stale rights. 11 O judgment, thou art Bed lo brutish beasts And men tiara loal their reason." The Judge was not bim«elf on this occasion. He seamed lo be performing a task irksome in the ex.reme. He labored like Sisyphus ol old, and with about lhe same success He has cone himseli great injustice by assuming tbe falre position which he now occupies, i have heard him in other days, under other circuin tancea when he ,ad a cause to sup port ol which be was not ashamed, and a standard bearer to follow, whom he delighted to honor. He then stood forth another man. A conscious rectitude of purpose, a clear oonvicton of duly nerved his arm and atuaia tsd bis heart. Ido not mean lo impunge his honesty, but I cannot rid myself of the im pression, lhal bis better judgment, in his cool- , er moments, must condemn his course. His speech fell still born ‘rom his lipa, producing hole or no etfaci upon his auditory, save that of sorrow for tbe man and surprise at hie po sition. The Judge was followed by Mr. Toombs, lhe Put of America. He opened his speech with a noble and manly vindication of bis io- , laliuu to Uie people, as a candidate for otfice. | 1 bia was provoked by some remarks which , fall from me gentleman who had preceded him ' When I beheld him, bold, independent as a freeman should be, indignantly repelling lhe ( idea, lhal be was a "beggar for otlice,” 1 fell proud of the man. And I thank God that io | these perilous times, it is our privilege, to be reprea. uted io Cong re re by such a man—a man unawed by power and unappalied by , Ivar," who * “ ■ knows our rights. 1 ttiK. And knowing will dare maintain them.” * Who, as long as the Union is work preserv. ing *>H cling to it and baule for it, as lhe 1 sheet ancl or of our safety. Hie eflorton this occasion was worthy of his great nsme. Hi* blows fell in rapid sue- I cession, well directed and forcibly sent, and I I am no judre if t.ey were not sene Wy fell. I Judge Dougherty, I lake it, will beauate be- ’ fore he again ventures to preach State Rigi in connection with M. Donald where To<- as has the reply. The severe rebuke, wk >mbs bis rashness and folly be called down .ich, by h»sd, will doubtless hum him *" upon his day lo some. \V hat piesi- .or many a Toombs, to byteg McDonald .mption, said grown gray in per<ed Jackson’s * mo* —* man who sup opposed to hill—a man who was inai iaw u p U u o> .lairation of our own crim re- gin l» aroen soil, in lhe Tassel’s .vorof the jurisdiction of tbe .ur“ Court—what presumption to w°*b‘ na manto teach the people of Old ..Can Elbert the doctrines of States ,ta I It would be a curious subject of in •fury to aocerain when thia neephyte had changed, and by what process tbe chants had been wrought. Il w.s the belief of Mr. Craw ford that it a man changed his political opin ioae slier he was thirty he was a rascal. Mo- Donald was twice thirty. Why, said Toombs, he will profess any opinion to get votes —he will even profess Mermeaum. 1 believe it. Mr. T. dissected with a masterly band the Southern Kights platform, and laid bare Ibat system el baud end fdsebot d. by which a eor rupt party are seeking to delude an honest and confiding people. He showed, beyond a cavil, that Georg a obtained by the late settlement, all .hat she had demanded upon lhe slavery qaeauoa. and more besides. Ard that, being uiua m sinet con oi miiy with her wishes as ox pressed by her people, it was by no means un reasonable to pronuunco that settlement, so far asabe was concerned. *• w se, liberal and jaat- ’ He c< Deluded in a most eloquent ap 10’‘and by ihe •• stare and stripes.” Mr. McMillan next came forward. A great part ol this gentleman's speech was composed of ‘ slaver ~ now and then interspersed with extravagant noMeree On one OCCM1O „ b# mcenied his Peguus and pitched off into I “ould Ireland, where ha exhibited himself lo bia aaditoce as a baby toddling around hie Caddy 's knees, end listening to the strains of liberty, as they lloa ed across tbe broad Arlan tic. He also gave an account of some of his sage redeclioua. at that early period of his h: a Ho mused <u make a fair fight in au open field, upon lhe principles cf hia party ; but look g-'od ears io aku.k behind tbe ” masked ba.tery ” of the Union. lie lashed himself up to a perfect fury ol simulated passion and feeing and swore “ By all the gods above w all ttw powers below," that he was second to none in bis love for the glorious Union. After a urns, however, be " screwed fits courage up to tbe sucking place” and •sorter ” faced ihe musie. He proposed to show that according to Mr. Toombs a opus- ion, as expressed in Congress, the admission of California was a fraud upon the South. I*o you suppose lhal 1 was green enough to prick up my ears at this and stand on lhe qui W with the expectation ol hearing something new 7 No such thing. I anticipated ihe kind cf de monstration which followed. He adopted these stereo.yped absurdities with which Mr. bmy the flooded tbe country last fall A’. h ? he grew bolder, and actually joined issue with Mr Toombs upon one propo«i.on, He denied that Georgia hsd got all thatshe had de manded. in connection with the slavery question. Th”s’me I expectation was ’ v„r I was anxious to witness an expe- Onll nt°which I had never seen directly at tempted before, and amply was I repaid by the novelty of lhe argument. Whatever merit at taches to it belongs exc'usively to my friend Me , for in my judgment it must have origina ted with him. But to the argument. He con tended that because Mr. Toombs, believing the Mexican laws which prohibited slavery from the Territories, were in fores, demanded lheir repeal, therefore tbe state of Georgia de manded lheir repeal. Asllivethisis rue; and he *' loomed" upon it. He really seemed to be of the opinion that he bad his opponent under, and was giving him thunder; while at the same time he was in lhe condition of Longstreet’s Lincoln county bully, beating and tearing the ground in a whirlwind of assumed passion to the injury of nobody but himself. Why sure ly Me. you must have drank of the waters o’ Lethe and the past had become a blank to you ; cr even your hard face would have mantled with a b u-h. when you assumed such a posi lion. Don't you remember lhe ‘ hue and cry’’ that was raised agaiust Toombs and Stephens on account of that very position 7 And don't you remember that yea were one of lhe pack that thirsted for their blond 7 Don’t you know that an overwhelming majority of the people of Georgia condemned their position? Why do you then stan 1 up before an enlightened peop e and with unblushing effrontery declare .hat Georgia spoke through Mr. Toombs? Verily “ whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Me. surely did not bethink himself, that Stephens was sitting behind him. and would follow, or he would not thus have exposed bis broadside to the mercy ofa raking tire. But all things have an end. Mc’s. hour came to its end, and with it his speech, much to the gratification of most of tbe audience whose anxiety had reached the highest pitch to hear one who hal filled the laud with bis fame Amid the deafening shouts of the multitude', Sepbensrose. But when bia voice, soft as musi., clear and distinct as a silver bell, fell upon that vast assembly, every other sound was hushed to the stillness of death, and eager expectation sat upon every face. This was his first visit among us, and many were listen ing to him for the first time. He commenced by telling the people he was there lo give them ■he truth, and lhe truth they should have. He defied any one to deny a single fact, that he should allege ;he had the proof at hand. It was not long ere he came down in such a manner upon some gentlenen present as no doubt, to make them earnestly desire the pow er of rendering themselves invisible. McMil lan caught it, and Dougherty caught it, and McDona'd caugh' it, and last, though not least, the Southern Rights platform eame in for its full share. Mr. S. was equal to lhe occasion, as he always is. Eloquent, yet calm, enthuai astic, yet c rllected, his skillful weapon d.d exe cution at every stroke. There is a marked difference between Stephens and Toombs, two of Georgia’s greatest sons. Each is alike formidable to his foes. While the one may be compared to Richtrd the lion-hearted, with his strong arm and ponderous battleaxe; the other reminds us o' the great Saladin with his we I tempered Damascus blade, so skillful as to sever ihe finest down. Mr. S. said that less than two years ago, after the defeat of the Clayton compromise bill, he bad been denounced as a traitor lo the South, fromt’ie mountains to the seaboard, oo account of the position which he had taken, in relation to the Mexican slavery laws; that those men who bsd thus denounced him held lhe doctrine that these law die not exist, and that if they did, Congress had no power to re move them, that to advocate the exercise of such a power was equivalent to urging the adoption of the Wilmot proviso. And that now, strange to say, these very men who had hunted him down and heaped upon him every abusive epithet, bad abandoned lheir former position, and become the advocates of ths ve'y doctrines, for supporting which, they had per secuted him ; and again found fault with him because, tn compliance with these expressed views, he bad forborne to insist upon the re peal of the Mexican slave laws, as a sine qua non, at a time when he couldd > it in safety to the principle. Verily, said Mr. 8. this is a etrangt world. If but a little more than a year ago, an angel from above ba d appealedto these men, and revealed to them like the prophet of old did to Hacael, what has now become his'ory, would they not, said he (turning to Me with one of his most withe ing looks) been coostratned to say, with H iaael, * is thy servant a dog tha'he should do these things?” He said that he hoped to live to see the day when the tru'h of his posit on would be as kcowledged by lhe country. In truth, that dav has come; but with eharacteria’ic ingrati tude these same men are di-posed to tear lhe hand that has done them a kindness. Mr. 8. took up that libel upon the General Governmen*, the Southern Righ's preamble and reeolutiors; said ho, I have not yet found one man who will stand by them. Nor did he think that any man, who bad anv regard for hie character for truth and veracity, would say that he believed them to be true. He read the first clause in tbe preamble, and turning to Me. desired that gentleman to tell him by what ant of the General Government, the South had been deprived of all their interest in the terri tories acquired from Mexico. Me. was mum. Mr. S. insisted; finally an answer was dragged oui; but such an answer I li was thia : ‘‘The decision of ihe Supreme Court tha' lhe Mexican oonetimtionAl.” This was the best, 1 suppose, that could be done.” Mr. 8. next proved, from the record, that the territorial bills, of which the McDonald party so loudly complained were voted for by a majority of the .South, and voted against by a m»j >rity of tbe North. Yet, notwithstanding this, that party are seeking <o impress lhe country with the belief, that, by these measures, the North baa wronged tne South. This discussion has been productive of much good I have heard ofaotre who have already abandoned lhe McDonald flag and come over 'o the Union parly. 1 speak moderately and advisedly, when I say that you may expect a majority of at least 6UO voles for Cobb in Old Elbkrt. To tbs Voters of Klbart CoMuaty, Fbllow-Citizbns: In the Chronicle & Sentiuel, of the 9ih inst., I find some questions propounded by a portion cf the citizens of this county, to ths candidates for tha Legislature. Believing it to be the privilege of the citi zens to know of those who wish to serve thorn, their views upon lhe exciting quest one of the day, I take pleasure in responding to the questions propounded, if not in the order in which they come, in such a manner as to be understood. In the Adjustment or Compromise of lhe Slavery question, by the last Congress, I do not consider that the South obtained justice, or in other words, the Compromise was not (as ha« been said by some,) fair, liberal, and just, and do not approve it, but for lhe cake of p.iace mot’, harmony. 1 believe we should abide by it. Should I be elected to the Legislature, and any effort should be made to dissolve the Compromise or Adjustment measures of the last Congress. I ebou d vole against such effort, being in favor of abiding by it, so long as i| so carried out in good faith. I am opposed to all farther agitation of the question ot slavery, provided the Compromise meteures are carried out and enforced. lam satisfied with, and sm willing t o abide by lhe Union as uie, and it is ihe dut-. o f e ve ry good citizen to use every effort in po Wer to preserve it so lorg as we c, a ll¥e £ U on terms of equality ; and wfir o# „ r H cea<e , t 0 piomote that end and aby' ct then and ln that case, each State baa lb- r j„hi io its sovereign UXL* P«c..b!y from L I te'” * Citizens, are my vtew. .nd y -ev aie in unison with your vie vs ery respectfully, your ob’l. serv’t. j , 8. D. BLACKWXI.t.. .y 23rd, 1851. Small Pox —Some excitement and many rumors have prevailed in our village (Penfield) and vicinity, fr s verai daye, in relat on ro this dreaded d sense. We have taken some pains to get at the facts iu ibis case, aud bslieve they ere about these: —-Mrs Trenchard, <ihe wile of Mr. Jahn A. Trenchard. who has a School in the vicinity of Sir. Hawkins, Lear Salem meeting house. Ogletb one county. 15 miles from Penfield) is lhe first case of Sickness, as far as we can trace the matter. She was visited by many friends before ber ease was suspected to be Small Pox. A noog these visitors, was Mre. Crenshaw, who lives sbou‘ a half a mile from lhe Woodvilla Depot on the A hens Branch of tie Railroad, and within five mile* ol Penfield. Mrs. C took -he disease, and Dre. Herron and Edwards intorms us, that it is a case of “Drstinel Small Pm,’’ wbicn is considered a modified form of that loathsome d sease- A Mi's M’Common, who resides near Salem meeting bouse, and wnose mother vi.tted Mrs. Trane ard dan -g ber afflict on tamed at tie house of Mrs. English, in this vicinity on Tuesday night, ana on Wednesday the 30th alt. visited our place, and was io tne Chapel daring t e College exercises of that day- She complained of b.ing sick on Tuesday at Mrs. E> glub’s. Alter tha exercises were over >a WeJue day she got as far as Bairdstown, on ner return ho r»e» acd became unable to pro ceed. Ou Fn lay. her d sea-e developed itself a: d was pronoun edto be Small Pox Sue is now bi ths bouse of a tneud iu Bairdstown. Many rumors are afloat as to lhe prevalence of the cisease and its fat titty, iu lhe neighbor hood of Sa em. which ws believe, in tbe main, to be without f. utida ion. Mrs. Crentha- is convalescent, and the last accounts we bad from Miss M’Commou she was do ng well. How lhe disease get to Salem, we base io account lo be relied upon. The people are generally re orttng 'o vaccination and we trust tbe disease will not sprea . We have given 'his hasty and rough sketch, tha too fade, as tar s»e coul gather them should be known. Our friends ata distance shall be kep informed upon tbe subject Temperance Sanner, Stk inst- Nbw Stkam Ship Linb. —Wo poreiere that I a company has been reco»tly organtzid, and I nas eetabasßed a new line ol steamships, to t isoded to run. as regular packets, between I Boston aod L verpool. Ilia under tbe name and style of tbe “Ucean Ste motup Company of New England.’' and is to have lonr large steamh pa. the pioneer of wb>ch nimed tbe Samuel S. Lavis, baa recently been laueehed at Pniladolpbia, and is in course of preparation to lake ber placo on the Ino to Liverpoil. Sbe is o noble veseol, aaa is to be coanmaodod by Wm. C. Barstow, who has long been favor ably known as an intelligent gentleman and an accomplished Navigator, and Commander of alinepack't bo ween New York and Liver pool.—'Ch Cour. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL BY WILLIAM S. JONEF. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY & WEEKLY. Officein Railroad Bank Buildingt. DAILY PAPER,perannum(sentby mail,) 00 TRIWEEKLY “ “ 400 WEEKLY PAPER •• 200 SAMUEL BARNETT, Associate Kdi tor. AUGUSTA, GA. : WKDNKSDAY MORNING*... AUG. 13. Constitutional Union Nomination* FOR GOVERNOR. H°N. HOWELL COBB CONGRESS. For Repreaentotlve from Btlx District, HON. ROBERT TOOMBS. TIIE FOR THE CAMPAIGN. As we are disposed to contribute all in our power to the establishment of sound principles in the success of "Tax Cosstitctioial Uniox Pabtv,” we propose to send the WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, till the 15;h of October, on the following TERMS, For 100 copies, (each mailed to the address designated) 25 Dollars. “ 50 ■« ” “ ....15 •• ” 30 “ “ “ ....10 “ “ 15 *• “ •• .... 6 « “ 9 “ «• .... 3 “ “ 3 “ •• •< .... 1 “ ** Single c0pie5........ .... ....50 Cents. Vf' The Cash must always accompany lhe order. This will afford our friends throughout the State an opportunity to place the paper in tbe hands of thousands of voters, who would not otherwise probably read a paper. And if they estimate, as we do, tbe importance of the pre sent canvass, they will promptly adopt the ne cessary measure* to aid us in our effort to en lighten the voters of Georgia as to 'he dangers which threaten the Constitution and Union. TRAVELLING AGENTS? Mr. J. E. Waxes and Mr. A. P. Boas, will se as Travelling Agents for the CaaoNtcxa & Sxmti nsx and Southssn Cuxtivatob. Any assistance that our friends in the various counties may furnish tbe segemlemen, toward increasing our circu sTion, will be thankfully received. Jj" A Free fiarbaoue— Will be given at Ap pliuy on SATURDAY the Ibthinst,, to which the public are invited. Hon. Howell Cobb, Mr. Toombs, Mr. Miller, and other distinguished persons are ex pected to address the people. •A2 _ Tbs Commit tbb. Public Discussion,— At a meeting of the citisens of this place, held to-day, irrespective of parties, it was agreed, that a public political discus sion should take place on SATURDAY, the 23d inst, *1 waich time Judge Doi'OHBBTr, Judge Htx xraa, Hon. W. □. D.wsom, Hon. A. H.SrxpHsrra, T. P. Jones, Esq, W. Habbis, Esq., Hon. R. Toombs, and perhaps Judge McDoxaxd, are ex pected to be present, to take part in thediecuesion. There will be a BARBEQUE prepared. All are invited to come. Joux ?COTT, P. A. Gaxvsa, J. A. Cxabk, J. L. GaasuAM, H. H. Cxarr, Com. of Invitation. Social Circle, Ga , August I], 1851. Mr. Cobb in Warrenton, Wb take great pleasure in giving place to the following antiounoement that lhe Hon. Howbll Cobb will address the people at War renion on Fr.day, the 15:h inst To Tub Peseta.—The public are notified, that the Hon. Howbu. Cobb, lhe Cjnstituilooal Union can didate for Governor, will aldress the Citizens of Wai ran county, and all others who will attend, at Warrenton, on Friday, lhe loihinat.. at 10 o’clock, A. M. ” ’ Mr. Cobb In Green a, Mr. Cobb will addre<a ths citix-ns ol Greene, and all others who may attend at Greensboro’, on Monday next, lhe 18ih inst The public are invited to atteoß. IN COLUMBIA. The Hon. Howxll Conn will also address the people of Columbia c-ouoty at Appling on moruiug, the l&b inst. IN AUGUSTA. He will also address die citizens of Augus ta on Satcrdat eveauig, the 16ih instant, at 8 o’clock. To Correspondents. You must exercise a little of that virtue de nominated patience. We are eparing no effort to serve you, by introducing your reflections to ihe public aa rapidly as the demand upon our columns for the current news ot lhe day, will permit. We have on file quite a number of articles from highly valued correspondents, and will take pleasure iu laying them before our read' rs at an early day. One word more. Allow us to suggest the prop'iety of condensing as much as pass ble What we desire and eur res ders most approve, are well coudenaed, perspicuous an J spicy ar ticles. These will always attract attention and be lure to be read, while a long one will be passed over in consequence of its very length. And above all, let us entreat you lo write in a clear, legMe band. It is no excuse to say that you have written in a harry. All of you have more time to devol e to your articles than we have to deeyphering tbe hieroglyphics we of'en receive. CouHZNDABLB Mo dbstt. —Those valued Correspondents, who are in the habit ol sending us Comtnunic aliens through the Post Office or otherwise, m inccompaniad by * name in consequence of tfieir excessive modesty, are moat respectfully informed that we can not take time to read, them, and would suggest to all such very retiring gentleman io keep them at home. We would then be saved lhe trouble and sem.ttimes expense of taking them out of the Post Office. In short, we have no use for a Communica tion of which the author is ashamed, or too modest to send bis name. Mr. Stell In Favor at Repeal t It will be seen by refer. >nce to our McDox oucn correspondence, that Col. John D. Still, the disunion caudi date for Congress in the 4.h Congressional dia trict, baa declared him self in favor of the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law. Veri’y, he is a nice man to represent Georgia in Congress ! What think you of it, voters of the 4th Die’riet ? When, immediately after the pas age of the law, the Fieesoifors and Abolitionists of tbe North, announced that lheir watch wird wou'd be "Repost.’’ " Repeal,' we litlla thought that the Ruxttitbs of Georgia wou.d so soon re-echo the cry. But we here been deceived. Like Mr. Rhbtt, they seem disposed lo stand shoulder to shoulder wiJ> Szwabd. Halb, Giddings A C>., in their opposition to lhe Compromise, and like them they proclaim ihrir readiness to 'repeal.'’ aye. io the Isnguage of Mr. Barksdaub, to “expunge” the Fugi tive Slave La w I Appointments of Judge II ill yer. Hos. Jcnius Hilltxr, the Constitutional Union candidate for Congress from the 6th District, will address the people— At Watkinsville, on Wednesday of Court week, being the 13tb A'lgoat. Al tbe Circle. Newton county, on Saturday of Court week, being 23d August. AlJetfereon, Jackson county, on Wednesday of Cou-t week, being 31K August. At Danielsville, Madison e-untv, on the Saturday before tbe Superior Court, being 6tb September. At Claytos, Rabun county, on Tuesday after tbe 2d Moodey in September, being lhe Sth day ol the month. At Clsrksvile on Thursday, 1 Itb September, At Mt. Yonah on Saturday, 13tb September. Al Gainesville, Hall comity, on Tuesday cf Court week, baing 16U> September. Thb Crops.—Tho letter from onr corres pondent “Meydeld'’ will attract attention. Tbe writer is an intelligent observant planter and bia statements may be relied on implicitly. Rost. P. Tmrrß and Jso. L. Woodwax*, Eeqr*., have been nominated by the Unioa party for the Representative branch of the Legislature, from Monroe Co. Mr. Clat.—Tho Paducah Journal says that it is hi hly probable that Mr. Clay will re sign bia seat in th* United State* Senate soon. Mr. Uoderwooc’s term expiree in 1853, so that the Legislature just chosen, which holds for two year* under tbe new constitution, will bare to elect one United Statee Senator atoll events, and two in lb* event of Mr. Clay e resigna tion. A sals or nbw Cottos ba* been received in Columbus, Georgia. The Southern Rights Platform. This instrument is completely felo di to No fate m n ro severe can befall ti e party which sustains it, than to be ‘‘judged out of its own mouth.” The great fact set for h in their platform is the Dogradatum of tbe South. The great rRiNctPLx proposed is tubnitrion —at best no manly and avowed resistance. The degradation of the South is the open burden of their tale. Resistance is not to be found within its lim'ts. No one can deny that they assert in express terms the degradation ol the Southern States. Who can say that they propose a remedy ? If they do propose one, what is it? Let any upholder of their plat form point to that resolution, or that line, which proposes redress for the past, or a soli tary point of resistance for the fature. We make no reckless requext —we pass no indis criminate censure. We have examined lhe platform closely. If redress is there, we were unable to find it. If a point of future resis tance is there, it escaped our keenest observa tion. The charge of degradation of the South is potent —gross as a mounts n—open —pal- pable. That such an abortion should have been be gotten by thegreat sachemsand wise msnof the Southern Rights party in council, is a special wonder. If degradation was to be thsir fate, rooiotance lay open to them as their remedy It was as absurd to couple deg'adation with submissi >n, as it would have been had the Union party associated their denial of dishonor, with the declaration that it intended to ruist it. Acquiescence io an honorable settlement, or resistance to a degrading one, were the two grounds tenable. The Union party took the former. The Southern Rights psrty chose as its position, not resistance to, but acquiescence in a degrading settlement. How, standing on this paltry plalfoltn, can it hope to escape a raking fire? Silent upon the position it occupies as to the Union, it must say ouoof two thingi in its defence. Il it proclaims itself* Disunion,” the honesty and good faith of the party is at stake. A score of presses and a thousand voices at once deny tbe imputation. They ask, and ask unanswer ably, “could we honestly intend to carry so momentous an issue, without avowing what we were after, before the country 7 Would it not bo the basest, assassin like skulking, thus to attack the Union ?” If, on the contrary, silence meant acquies cence, and was equivalent to tbe cry "we, too, sreforthe Union,” to what a pitiable condi tion does this reduce those who are willing to stand on such a platform. This io openly to avow “submission,” and glory in their shame. How can they escape this stinging charge, who set forth ouch wrongs, and propose no remedy ? Degradation and Disunionseem to harmon ize very well Degradation and pitsivo no quuscance form a platform which cannot hold the weight of intelligent freemen. If the party says “we propose redress” then we ask “what redress ?” tell us its name ? It is not disunion. That baa been disposed of. That includes each and both of the measurei sometimes spoken of—before the late election—a Southern Confederacy—and Secession. Each of these implies disunion, and if disunion i> disavowed, these go by the board with it. Is it a measure of redress for past wrongs 7 Is it a repeal of Mexican laws 1 No. Go through the whole catalogue of remedies pro posed in the past aud the answer still is “no ” It is not "non intercourse.” It is not a “Southern Congress." It is not to got back the Territory of which the South has (accord ing to tneir declaration.) * been deprived by bighhand.” It is nd to take back the bribe irom Texas, nor to drive Ca ifornia out of tbe Union. But enough of negations. Not a syllable can be p< iuted cutin all their resolu lions which proposes redress, or revenge for the past. But by its provision for tha future, perhaps, the platform makes atonement for its neglect of the past. It asserts ihe invaluable right ol secession. After a list of wrongs which fairly makes one - hudder, it proceeds to as sert the right of secession. Invaluable, and most apropos right I Whet an excellent and well timed thought I How admirable the oc casion for its exercise! “ But we do not mean to exercise it — we do not propose to make any use of it at the present time.” What do you want with it then, gentlemen ? If you wont fire your pistol at him, when a man insul a, robs and degrades you, of what use to you is that weapon 7 This is one of lhe few occasions for its use. What wrongs do you thick would furnish a justifiable reason for the app'ication of this invaluable remedy, styled ‘ secession?” Would it baa sufficient wrong if you should he plundered by your copartners in the Con federacy 7 That wr ng is no longer to be waited for, "the Southern States have been deprived by high hand of all their interests in ihe Territories acquired fom Mexico” Bji there may have been a doubt as to their title ? “They have been forced lo surrender Terri lory unquestionably and legitimately their own to lhe use and erjoymsnt of the hireling States” Perhaps you are waitin; however for vio latinos of the Constitution. Bays your Con vention in its7th Resolution: “ The principles of Constitutional equality enun ciate Hn these twa foregoing resuluti ns were vo laud in the several sets of the last session of Con gress. for lhe admission of California into th * Union as a Stale for the formation of Territorial Govern ments for New Mexico and Utah, and in the 10l abolishing the Slave Trade io the District of Colom bia.” You are waiting for the time when you shall be degraded Irom your eq-iality in the Union 7 That time has arrived. Says your Convention. “ lhe Southern Stales have been degraded from lheir condition of equality in tne Union.” But perhaps the government has relented, and you have great confidence in its disposi tion to do you justice for ihe future. That hope is no longer fel', for the South “ has been compelled to witness and endure the in sidious act of the abolition of the slave trade it. the District of Columbia, which can only be re garded as an entering Wedge to measures in landed to end in the overthrow of btr cherished institutions.” Weil, gentlemen, what can you possibly be waiting for? Pray tell us tbe use of tbe inval uablo right of secesston. If the past has been a history of aggression and outrage, of repeat ed viola ionsoi the Constitution, and the future is yet more hopeless, what rema ns lor a free people to do, but to exercise the right they as sert I Perhaps, however, as a last reason, you may believe lhe General Government sound on other questions, and be willing ■' to pretermit” its unaoundoess on thia iuaiguificant question of slavery. Notso. “ The government is under going changes equally marked and momentous in the assumption of powers touching Finance and Revenue, the eollecuon aod disbursement of th* public monies, the schemes of Internal Improvement, and squandering of the public lands, tending dtrecty to a corruption and consolidation of the Government, and utterly unknown to the Constitution, as understood by the makers of that instrument, and as here tofore interpreted by a.I par’iss at tbe South.” For what. Uen. gentleman, do you wait? Are you cowards? Are you traitors? Yin have the right to revolutionize—nay, even to use the peaceable remedy otsecession. Haven’t you the hearts, gentl men, io go even peacea bly out of such a Union as you describe 7 Perhaps degradation and plunder, unconsti tutional legislation in the past and worse designs for the future, “ outrages committed on your rights.” are insufficient, because ycu have been robbed, plundered, and so forth, ignorantly and without any intentional violation of good faith. Yourcsndidato.Gov. McDonald thiaks otherwise. “It is claimed for them,” says he “that they are a Compromise. It is * fraud npon an injured people to call them so.” Perhaps, however, Congress has so seted but once, or a lew times at far hast Nay, it is the habitual violation of these principles by the Federal Authorities whenever the interest of the Southern planter is to be afleeted by their action, which makes Gov. McDonald as sume tbe bold position oi asserting the right he does not propose exercising—the inestimable right, in such bands as bis and theirs, of seces sion. In reasoning against such a platform, the great difficulty is its very enormitv. The calm est reasoner is suspected of exaggeration—the dearest inference is distrustful —lhe plainest argument is questioned. Shell men be tbougbi capable of building such a structure I We eau only say, let facts answer. Attacking not tha outworks, but the very citadel behind which the leaders lie entrenched —not ths unauthor ized dictum of a single man or press—but the deliberately wrought fabric of a party conven tion —we are amazed to find it made of such unsubstantial stuff. To be satisfied that it is utterly untenable by freemen who understand and investigate it, he who examines it has bn' to believe the evidence of hi* senses. A very large proportion of those who act with ths organization of which that nameless platform is tbe croed, would spurn it* fundamental prin ] ctples did they but know themto be what they are. To give a candid exposition of these principles, as a thorough study of the platform has led us to understand them, has been the object of this, and will be the object of a sue eeeding article. The Southern Rights Platform. Thb political principles set for h by the Southern Rights party in Conven ion, ware the following; Ist. The principles contained in lhe Vir ginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '99 and '99, one of which principles is NuxLiricA tion, as wi|| appear by the following extract from the Kentucky Remlutions of 1799 : “ That tbe several Stiles who forired that in strument (tbeCooali ution) being sovereign and in dep-ndent, have the unq estionable right o judge of the infraction, and that a Nollisioatiox of all unauthorised Bc t a dnna under color of that instru ment, m the rightful remedy." 2d. Tha right of secossion, in tirtus of ths indspen lence, and sovereignty of each State. Os this right, its basis and extent, we shall tay more in a future article. 31 The nnconstitutionality of the Un.ted States Bank, of Protective Tariffs, and of Internal Improvements. The Convention de clared its opposition to these several measures on the ground that it is “for tho Constitution as it is," basing i:a objections, not on grounds of expedietcy, but of constiluti tnality. 4 h. Tbe necessity and Constitutionality of inltrcsnltea, by Congress, on the subject of slavery in the Territories. This principle is not avowed in terms, bit is necessarily in volved in the assertion that we "have been deprived, by high hind, of all onr interests in the Territories acquired from Mexico." In relation to New Mexico and Utah, Congress undeniably pursued the non-intervention policy. If we were thereby “deprived by high hand, of our interests in those Terri tories," it is because it was necessary aud Constitutional that Congress should in er vene. Unless it had both the power and able gaiion to intenene, the assertion is untrue. These prin iples (with some others; were adopted bv tbe Convention with but one dis senting voice. The Whig members of the Convention asserted the unconstitutionality of a United States Bank, of Protective Tariffs and Internal Improvemen's They di J not simply declare them inexpedient. Tie politi cal day of Pentecost was fully come, and each of them was miraculously converted in a moment from the del.berate convictions of his former life. Such was the whig con-jri bution to the common treasury of principle. What was the Democratic “Consideration ?’’ Or did they get lhe Whigs to swallow the Democratic creed, free gratis and for nought ? Not so. Democracy paid down her quota in ike coin. Thia quota was paid partly in "Nullification” and partly in * Intervention ” Like a house holder, she brought forth from her treas-.ry things new and old. We marvel that lhe sim ple expedient had not occurred to both par'tes to waive their points of d ffarence. The corner stone of the old Democratic party wa« opposition to Nullification. Ax drew Jackson was its Magnus Apollo- Since the slavery question has risen to i e present momentous importance, lhe great principl? of the Democratic parly has bean ‘‘non intervention ” O t this doct ine one Na'i'inal and two S'a'e campaigns h’ve been fought. The State campaigns were gained. Recreant to the platform of their own build ing and lheir own triumph, the Democrats in the Southern Rights Convention virtually asser that ‘ non-intervention” has violently deprived us of New Mexico and Utah. Those who so eagerly demanded nvn-tNlarssxtum, are now dying for lack of intervention. The modern fa lters of Democracy have been re pudtated, and even tbe Ghost of Old llicKort insulted. The Convention having thus set forth its principles, proceeds to pass the following re solution : “ Heroized, That this Convention, composed ol Southern men, D mocraut an.l Wntgs, and m-enng on ths foregoing platform of c.m-non principles necessary as we believe to-hs xiji a and 1 barlies of ihe Snub, do nomi ate aul rec-.mmeod Charles J. McDonald, of th. County of Coho, ns tbetr can didate for Governor of lhe S aloof Georgia, and ihe exponent and standard bearer of their principles in the approaching cauvaaa." Observe the use of tbe words “common principles” Wa Southern men, “Democrats and Whigs,” meeting on the loregoing plat form of “common principles Nullification—.be unconstitutionality of the United States Bank—of Protective Tariffs and Internal Improvements, are among the prin cplee referred to. if these be ‘ common principles” to “Democ'its aud Whigs.” what principles are not common, aod wherein have tho»e part es differed 7 But what Ard the Convention do for South ern Rights 7 It will be seen that it found time to dsclare its position on that agitating and distracting question, the National Bank. It found limo to inveigh against tariffs, though the present Tariff was pa-aed by the low i'ariff party, and no alteration of it is proposed. Internal Improvements lelt the weight of its arm. But the rights of the South—the much talked of rig to of the ci t:th—what pointe did it make for tl em 7 Severs! abstract issuesit has spun on'. Seve ral ohsole'e ones, it dug from their graves Tho riving issues it has buried alive. Os tho rights it arserts to have been lost by tho South, two only are irremediable—thore connected with tee California and Texas bills The remaining three are siill wiihin the pow er of Congress. Why has no issue been made for their reiteration ? If the Territorial governments provided lor New Mexico and Utrh deprive us by high hand of our inte reais iu tboxe Territories, why was not their alteration made au issue 7 Congress has un qut-rtinnnble power to alter them, if the com plaint bo just. The law aboli-hing ilhe Slave Trade in the District of Columbia is perfectly susceptible of repeal. Tbe restoration of our righ’s is - oaaible in three cases of violatior, out of five, upon lheir own principles. Hava they mads either one of the three issues 7 So much (or the redress it proposes for the pas'. The Georgia Convention of 1859, whose platform is thatof the Union party, made cer tain issues for the future. The Union party stands pledged to maintain the rights ol the South, and specifies the occasions of its ac tion. What has the Southern lights pa rty done for the fulnre ! Whatl It is a molt nmirkabU f<ut that not even so much as the exietenos of the Georgia Con vention of 1350, is hinted at in the whole Southern R. ghls platform. The action of that Convention, the Southern Rights party does not accept, nor does it reject it It is silent as the grave. There is not a solitary point of future aggression which that party stands pledged to resist. It has not adopted the pledges es the Union party. It has made none ol its own. And yet it is called the Soi'THCar Rights Party I and the proceedings ot their Conven tion, the Sontlun RtgfiU platform! We do not wonder that it ie repudiated by the very men who sent heir delegates to build it. The csndi fates in various coonties dare not avow it. At the c'oee of the campaign there p*obably will not be one candi a'e in five, who will no*, openly repudiate it. Let the builders of the platform tremble, and look out for a stampede. We wish evary intelligent man in Georgia no better text book in order to his cure of that organization, than heir own platform. It is an enumeration of wrongs, without the propo sition to redress them—a without oven a goptr consequence. Tao only rights it as sorts it does not propose to exercise. We hare done wi'h it We wish hones:, patriotic men, who co-operate with that party, to examine their platform, convinced that they need but understand in order to detest it. Wo have not gone to some remote outworks of the Southern Rights lort iiation and attacked this or that petty doctrine or petty sheet. Wo have gone to the fountain head for their fun damental principles Let little .ssues and local frauds be forgotten. The whola platform is rot ten It is fa'ee in faeL But its tru has to facts would but furnish the beavier condemnation of its principles—for, as we stated in t ia out set, its great /act is “ degradation,” and its great principle, suisstssion. Ilia no*, less false in detail than in general outline. Wtness its catalogue of “ common principles.” L requires of its Wnig adherents to forego moat of the political principles they have held dear in she past. The same requisition does it make of its Democratic adherents. Yet this is the platform which this party pro poses to substitute for the Georg’a patlorm Without a solitary new reason or new light afforded her. they des re Georgia to stultify herself and repudiate her deliberate judgment of last year. She will put no trust in the pre sent professions of men who have abandoned their own principles, and who now either counsel submission o wrong, or make a covert attack upon a Union they profess to uphold, though an engine of fraud and an instrument of oppression. Tax Fizst Bat-s of new Cotton was reeeiv «d in Montgomery, Alabama, on the sth ium. The Texas Boundary. The Disunion st. are exceedingly chagrined at the adjustment of the Texas boundary in the Compromise measures, and particularly indignant that Texas should hare “ accepted the bribe.” The reason of all this indignation is easily accounted for. They hoped to make an issue with the General Government on that question, by which they would accomplish that, to them, dearest of all objects, the dissolution of the Union. But when Texas, in the exer cise of her sovereign right as a member of the confederacy, determined to adjust her claim to New Mexico, or if you please, sell a portion of her territory, which she had a perfect right to do, they saw all their fond hopes vanish like a morning vapor. Hence their disappoint merit and their indignation. Now that the question is settle 1, and to the entire sadefection of Texas, it may be well to ascertain what some of her citizens think ol that settlement. And as there is probably nc better index of nubtic sentiment in that Slate than Gen. Bam Hoobton, we may be pardoner for introducing the following extract from th* sketch of a recent speech made by him in Gal veston: “He alluded to the sale of the Sants Pe territory, and thought if there was any thing wrong in tin trade, it was that Texas bad got a little more than the country was worth; but as be acted only in lb, capacity of agent of the people, that responsibility must rest on their consciences. Texas, he said, hue but a claim to bants Fe, and that the government of Texas, from 1638 to 1841, had weakened ibat claim by ottering, i«i substance, to treat with New Mexico aa a foreign power.” Not only did Texas •' weaken her claim ’ by proposing to negotiate with New Mexico as a foreign power, but the government of the Uui ted States also acknowledged the validity ol the claim of Mex co to the Territory in quos ■ioo, and our minister to Mexico was instiuced and authorised by the Polk administration, previous to the war, to pu-chase the Territory The authority cf Mexico over the territory was farther acknowledged by the action ot Congress in allowing drawbacks on goods im ported into this country to be re-exported to Santa Fe, the Capitol of New Mexico. An act which conc'usive'y established, so far as the opinion of Congress was concerned, not only the authority of Mexico, but attested how much value that body and President Polk, who signed the Bill, attached to tho ** claim” ol Texas. Notwi'hstanding all this, however, for ths purposes of conquest, he afterwards as sumed (having fuldto produce it) that the whole territory belonged to the Unfed S ates and on that assumption predicated and sought to justify the war. There facta, in connection with the declaration of Gen. Houston, prove most conclusively that Texas was not wronged by the adjustment, nor the rights of the South assailed or violated by the transfer of the terri tory to the United Sates “We *o'l/ the Constitution nnd the Un : on | ei —we will hive both or we wilt have neither. This cry of the Union is the masked battery from be hind which the righ's ot the are o be assail ed. Let (he South mark the man vh >is fo* the Union at every haavrd and to the <ast extremity; when the «lav of her peril comes he will be the iiui tator of mat historical character to whom the gentle man from Pennsylvanii referred, “ the bu-e Julean who, tor thirty pie es of diver, threw away a pearl richer than all h ; .t» tribe.” How very prophetic is tho above extract from a speech ‘ f Mr. Toombs, delivered in Congress on the 27th February. 1850. It deserves to be inst hbed in letters of gold, that every Southern voter might read and reflect upon the lan guage, and apply it to that class of men who are now proclaiming to the war’d that the South has been “ disgraced and degraded ’* by the Compromise, and yet affect to be en’busi astic in their devotion to the Union—that Union whieh they pronounce “corrupt, dishonest, extravagant and oppressive,” and which they assert has “disgraced and degraded ” their sec tion! How important that the South shou d mark (be man who is for the Union under so ch circumstances. He lures but to deceive and betray, not on’y the peop’e, but his country. Pbwnsvlvanis.— Col. Bgler, ths Democratic candidate for Governor has c ;me tut lite a man in fiver of the Compromise in all its parts; the Compromise «• : ic is If the Pennsylvanians do not give him 30 000 ui joriiy over Johnson, the Whig Abolitionist or Seuii-Abolilioii's’. who declares tha? he would not here voted for the Fugitive Slave Law had ho been in Congress,—which is nb >ut equiva lent to saying he would have voted for a dissoi tion of the ('mon, —th y are unworthy cf the name which they bear, of Key Stone to the arch of the Union.”— J ur. Commerce Wk have not seen the avowal of Col. Bio lkr, referred to by the Journal cf Commence, but from 'he character of that journal, ite known conservatism and soalous support of the Cetnpromixe measures, we have no reason to doubt that his position is correctly stated. And we confess that we are gratifisd, truly gratified, that, he has taken such a position upon this important question. Heretofore we have felt no interest in the success of either of the candidate, (or G.ocrnnr io th.t S-.1., because wo believed them equally unsound on thia subject. Now, however we cannot but h pe that Bislkr will succeed, biciuse it will attest tho sincerity of the professions of Penn sylvania and the extent of her devotion to he Cooetitu'ion and Union. Secession.—The Ittw Ponse, In the early history of the R public, those who advocated the right of a Siste to secede or withdraw from the Union, maintained that secession could only be resorted to for “plain and palpable tnfraelioes rs the Constitution. ’ Tnis was the doctrine ofJxrrxßS-jx and Mad tsox, and their compatrio's of the Republican oarty. Tho same doctrine was maintained by Calhoun, Me Derm and the State Rights Republicans of a late period. During th', latter period, Charles J. McDonald figured in the Legislature of Georgia, and contended before that body, that such an act on the part of a sovereign State, would be “either treason or rebellion ” Therefore the Federal Govern ment would b. justified in the employment of force to repel the t ailors and put down the rebellion. This deduction is irresistable. Now, however, a party has sprung up at 'he South, wh ch seeks the establishment of a Southern Confederacy, and aa this can only he accomplished through a dissolution of the Union, the right of secession is made to as sume a new phase, and instead of requiring “ a plain and pa'pMe uialation of the Consti tution ” to authorize its exercise it may be re sor ed to, according to the prescriptions of the modern political quacks, ‘ IVeentrer the Slate plea es." And strange as it may seem, it is never haless true that prominent among these quacks and venders of p ihtical nostrums, is Charles J McDonald the same who, in the Legislature of Georgia, asserted that it woo d be “either treason or rebellion” Should any man doubt this, let him read the following ex tract from Grv. McDonald's letter accepting the nomination to his present candidacy : • The right of a Stale, in virtue of its independ, enee and vavereigaty, to secede from the Union whenever the people thereof, in their sovereign ca piety, soalt determine such a step to be nece’sary to effect their zahty and happiness, fl >ws necessarily from the nature r.f r> ur goreuimental orginix itions.” This, then, is Gov. Me Dos sin's latest enun ciation of the principles of our government What a change has come over the spirit of his dream. According to this exposition of the principles of the government, that Union which the pa triots and sages who formed it, rerirded as in tssoluble, so lung as the Constitution was executed in good faith, has not the birding in fluence nf an ordinary contract among individ uals—it is a mere “rope of sand.” which may be severed al the option of any member of the confederacy, whether the compact has been viola ed or not. The advocacy of a principle of such enor mity, so revolting to the practieil sense nd common un iarstandiog of every intelligent, r< fleeting man exposes at cnce 'he purpose of those who proclaim it. That purpose is disun ion aou the formation of a Southern Confed eracy, and as they cannot shield themselves behind a violation of the constitution, they base their right upon their wishes. If this position be correct, of what value is a compact, a constipation, or indeed any chart of government, where a mere fraction of the people who compose the government can de em y that compact, constitution or chart, sim ply because they have become dissati-fied with their connect ? Establish such a p-inciple, and no government that human wisdom can devise, would last five years, certainly not ten. Can it be possible, that the intelligent, re fleeting voters of Georgia, can by any appeals to their passions and sectional prejudices, be seduced into the support and advocacy of such monstrous absurdities? We think not—we know not. and on the first Monday in October, they wdl vindicate themselves from any such suspicion even. A correspondent of the Scientific American says, there is a billot pure carbonate of magne sia. about one hundred feet high, on Pitch (or Pill) River, the principal all lent of the Sacra mento. A thiusand wagons could be loaded in a very short time, and there is enough to supply the wh -le world. For three days’ travel below, the soil seems to be impregnated with it, and the banks of the river formed of it. Killxd by Lightsino—Abros Sxwxr, a tin and copper workman, a native of Tennes see, we believe, was killed by lightning in Atlanta on Wednesday evening. He had just stepped out of the shop with an umbrella ele vated in his hand, when the flaid shivered the handle ax his bstd, and he fell dead. Mexican L.rlb x * Perhaps furnish a “ muAd blwtry ’* to , more people than the “ cry of Union ” itself. ’ Ask a good Southern Rights man, whether we can go into New Mexico and Utah? and be t will probably tell you “No.” Why? Because j of the Mexican Laws. i Ask him if he be ieves such laws seer were of force iu Mcricof He will tell you he doubts 1 whether they ever were. I Ask him if he does not believe that such ' laws, if they ever were of force, were instantly abrogated by the conqueat of the Territories 1 ' He will tell you they assuredly were. That to 1 say the contrary is an absurdity. Ask him now, putting the questions together, ( whether there can be aoy difficulty by reason of laws, which probably never were of force, and whose abroga ion is certain? He will . orobably ecratch his head, and say that some men have thought their abrogation doubtful. , \re you one of those men 7 No. Has there ‘ >een any judicial decision to change anybody’s mind 7 None. Supposing the laws to exist, has Congress he right to legislate 7 “It has no constitu ional right in the premises," most Southern Rights men have at some time said. Were you in favor of the Clayton Compro mise 7 Yea. Did not that leave the quo*lion to the courts? Yea. Da not the present Ter ritorial laws 7 Yea. Are you in favor of the present settlement 7 No. If the Mexican laws were decided by the courts to be of force, did not the Clayton Com promise expressly take away from Congress and from the T rritorial Legislature the right to legislate 7 Yea. Under the present Com promise they are capable of repeal 7 Yea. Still you peter tho Clayton to the present Compro mise 7 Yea. Were Messrs. Toostxs and Stephens wrong for defeatin the Clayton Compromise 7 They were. Why? Bee use by that the South would pr< bably have got the territories. Were they wrong for assisting to pass the present Perrit'rial laws 7 Yea. Why 7 Because by hem the South wilt probably lose all the terri lories. But were not the two Compromises squally silent as to any actual repeal of Mexican l-.ws? Yta. What advantage then, had the Clayton Compromise in reference to Naw Mexico and Utah 7 The honest Southern R.ghis man must answer—“ none.” Who said the South only nested “ Non In tervention 7” It would be ea<ier to aniwer the question, who did not f The name of the Non Intervention” party was Legion. There were, let. The Clayton Compromise men, who asked for nothing but “the Courts.” 2d. The overwhelmiug majority of Southern Congressmen of both parlies. 31. T ie State legislatures of nearly all the Southern States. 4th. The State leg : slaturee of nearly all the Northern Slates, for they considered the “Wilmot” necessary. s:h. We believe all the Sonthern Whig Con ventions which expressed themselves. 6th. The Democratic Convention of ’47. 7th. The Democratic Convention of’49. Btb The National Democratic party which run Cass in ’4B. 9th Perhaps every solitary press in Geor gia, which now clamors against it. 10:b. The Nashville Convention, in June, 1850. Was not it sound 7 11th. The Legislature of Georgia in 1849, which, not demanding intervention, simply declared against the proviso. 12th. Gov. Towns, Mr. McMillan, of El bert, Mr. Gardner of Richmond, aud the oth ers members cf the Cass electoral ticket. I. is perhaps use'ess to enume ate farther, for the number of men loft iu Georgia, after setting aside those to be found in the above classes, would be small indeed. The Sou'll wishing “non-intervention” in relation to N*w Mexico and Utah, what did the Souiiiget? Non-Intervention. What say tho “ Non-Intervention ” men now 7 Those who have gone over to the Southern Rights party say the South “ has been deprived, by high hand, of a I her inte rests in tho territories derived from Mexico of course nchidiug New Mexico and Utah. Democrats who supported “non-interven tion ” in '47, '4B, ’49 and a part of 'SO, sub scribe to the same assertion The Nashville Convention of Nov., 1850, considers the territories lost to toe South—not by the laws of nature, bat by the act of Con gress. Os the Dresses, the Constitutionalist env» “ the South has been swindled out of every foot of the territory now and forever.” The Republic asks—“ Show us the foot the South got?” Ai-d mu fcoei tbe uen«p« per cry. Mr. Robert McMillan desires an answer to the question “ Is there aa acre ” the South got 7 Tell those gentlemen of their former post tions and arguments, and you drive them out of Now Mexico and Utah. They take refuge, some in California —some in Texas —others in the District of Columbia. How many men are there in Georgia v ho can with the smallest show of cousi.tency, complain of the Terri o rial Governments of New Mexico and Utah 7 Those who did he ievo the Mexican laws to exist—few in number—cannot subscribe to tbe assertion of the Southern Rights party that we have been deprived “by high hand,” of our interests in these territories. The mvs of mon who now grumble, is composed of those who got what they asked. The Priu-lple* ct the Union Party. Some small wi>, who loves alliteration better than truth, has said that “ the party has princtp'es but no nsme—the Union party, a name but no principles.” He is doubtless one of that class of persons (by Sidney Smith, fe licitously lenominated “Noodle-,”) who have no idea that such things can exist as principles, unless fouude I upon the Bank or Tariff. The principles of the Union Pir y are em bodied in the Georgia Pla form of D> cember, 1850. That platform is eminently, in fact, wha the platform ot the opposing party is in name, only “a Southern Rights Platform” The issues which t e so called Southern R ghts party magnified into a present importance— the am q-ia'ed issue »f a National Bank—the compare' vely unimportant issues of Tariff and Internal Improvemen s—the Union Parly en tirely passed by. Being in earnest in its effort “ to unite the South, for the sake of the Union,” (the pretended object of the other party) it waived the issues calculated to divide her. She had been for many years divided on them The Union par'y had nt hope to unite her upon them in an hour. The folly of attempt ing this wis perpetrated by the Southern Rights Convention. The result is that, while Whigs and Democrats may cordially and consistently unite upon the ground of the Georgia Plat form, neither Whig nor Democrat can endorse the Southern Rights platform without a dis tinct repudiation ot his former political princi ples. Waiving these either antiquated, or com paratively unimportant issues—there was an other issue on which it expressed no opinion- That issue was “ the right of Secession.”— Convinced that there was no n ceasity of divi ding the South and frittering away her strength on the settlement of a verbal controversy and adoption of a name, she wisely secured the sub.taoce by uniting her supporters in the pledge upon the occurrence of certain cintin geucies, to resist the Federal Government even (as a lav tesort) to a disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union.” Whether this disruption wou d be properly entitled “Se cession —or whe’her “Revolution”—she did not take the pains to decide. Those who de sire to promote division at the South instead of Union, may make the name of a right, a party test. Like the Lilfioattans of old, they may divide into tig Endian* and little Endian*. What Georgia d.d, was simply te decide on wnat contingency the egg must be broken. So much for tie issues on which the Ger.y. gia Platform prescribed no tests. The testa which she did mejte, were r,pon those very issues on which Southern Fights me-t talk so much and act so li’tie—“ ths. rights of the South.” Nor did the Conven lion, io making tee's upon these issues, there by build up a Sectional party. The tests were National. The party does not refuse co epo ration wiih Northern men. The issues it makes need offend no just man at the Norta. Itasserti principles, the violation of which any Northern man may see “ nothing enriches him, but ma tes us poor indeed.” The constitutional rights and equal ity of the South—in a word, “no sectional aggression ” —forms the snm of her demand. The chief feet set forth by the Convention was the compatibility of the Compromise Measures with the honor of the Souih. The princ pies set forth by the Georgia Con vention. and adopted by the Union party as the basis of its organisation, were the following : I. The determination to maintain the exiaing Union, abiding by the Co npromlse measures “ as a permanent adj ivtaient of this sectional controversy.” 11. The principle set forth in the following reooln tion, viz: '* That the Stats of Georgia, in the lodg ment of this Convention, will and ought to resist even (as a last resort) to a disruption of every lie which binds her to tho Uaiou — Ist. Any nation cf Congress upon the subject ot the Dwirict oi Columbia, or in phMggj 1 ■ubJecrWthe lurfwt clion of Congrufe, incompatible with tbe safety, domestic tranquillity, the rights and tbe honor of the slaveholding Statea. 21. Or any act suppressing the Slave Trade be tween elaveholding S'aiee. 3d. Or any ref .sal to admit as a State any Ter ritory hereafter applying, because of the existence of slavery therein. ' 4th Or any set probibitfne th* introduction of slaves in'o 'he Terril riesof Utah and b'ew Mexi-o bth. Or any act repealing or materially modify, ing 'he lews now in fores lor the recovery of fugi tiva slaves. 111. The sovereignty of the States. This prin ciple is inv IveJ by necessary imulication in the fol lowing sentence : “The Constitution of the United States is, in its terms, a bond of political Union between separate sovereignties, and involves a high moral obligation.’ It is re ixp-essed by the Convention of the Union part/in June, as well as re-alfirmed in the following resolution: " Re-o'ved, That the Constitutional Union p-rty of Georgia, devoted to the Union of tbe Stales, and the s.vereignty of the Stales, hereby re-affirm the r- p >rt nut resolutions of the Georgia Conven tion of 1850.” The for going are the prirciples of the Union party. What pretensions has the anonymous platform to compare with them in true devotion either to Southern Rights 7 or to the Union of the States 7—a Union not inconsistent with those rights. When the Southern Rights speakers and presses cried ‘ perish old party issues—this issue swallows all the rest,” were they iu earnest 7 Did they do what they professed—make of thia issue “an Aaron’s rod." On tho contrary, they h’ve exalted points ol difference, and raised trivial, antiquated and abstract issues. The Southern Rights Con vention, for oxamp e, proclaimed its opposi tion to tne a'most forgotten National Bmk— would it not havo been equally practical had it declared its opinions on the origin of evil or the perseverance of thi Saints? Os what present concern is that question 7 Comp ire the two policies. We invite every honest Southern Rigli’s man to do so—putting them side by side. Duty and patriotism de mand of him, and of all, not lightly to act in this emergency, but deliberately and laborious ly to examine a question on which so much hangs. The platform of the Union party is true perspicuous and consistent—asserting the sovereignty of the Stales—the relation of Georgia to tho Uoioo, and the true grounds ol Sou'bern R. ghta. It is a noble monument t<> illustrate tha “Wtso >M, Jubtick and Modi ration,” of our Slate. It shows that Geor via has not forgotten and is not unworthy ol her mot o. The Southern Rights platform is fake in fact. 1. ut if not—;hen the more base in principle, for if Georgia be degraded aa the pla fortnchvgss. whit worthy son would noi propose l eans to elevate her from her degra dation ? Inconsistent in detail, it is silent when it onght to spank, and talkatire when rilence would hive been better. Il requires of its adherents the desertion of principles formerly cherished and s ill entertained (impossible to be cut off in an uoor); it ten ?s to di vide the South, exalting points of difference, and proposing no practical punts of agreement—wink* at the existence of a Union deceiving its hate, yet nominally sustained by men who plot its down'all, and nullifies the doctrine it announces of Secession and even of State sovereignty , by refusing to exer cise it on a proper occasion. Who is ou it I We mean on the States Rights platform*l If the course of events elsewhere be as it is, within our own observation, by October it will have fewer oc cupants than it had builders. In the queer incon gruous party which nominally stands upon it, there seems to be but one element of unity. That element is not the endorsement of their cwn p'at'orm! It is not even opposition to the Union platform. It is hostility to Union men. Having no bond of Union in its platfrrm, it has none in its name. We believe Gov. McDonald stands upon it etill. If he continues to do so, he will grow lent some before ths election. His only com pany will probably ba “high privates.” The can didates cannot afford to hin company. We under. Und that Ju‘gc PoraBEBTY, if ever on it, walked <ff the platform in Elbert. Is Mr. McMil lan on it? We hope some friend who heard the Elbert discussion will locate him for us. We shall be glad to tbe names cf any of th) candidates faithtai to their platform (\iithful amidst the faithless) that we may give them ere lit for their consisten*y. We understand Go/. *McDonald to be quite an hilarious and sociable gentleman. Stand upon your platform, caudidr.ss lor office, and let net the Go ern r, through the tedious and hopeles? watch, stand ‘ sole sentinel.” Vlf not for shaiue, for pity’s sake, at least, keep down on the platform beside him stand to your colors ! Virulent Poison* Mr. Toombs’ letter of acceptance contains a powerful vindication of tbe late Compromise measures, and of the Georgia Platform, which eecctspi* theui ‘ a peruisneuc adjuanuoni ol thi. aeclional cant-oversy.” The Constiiu lionalist If Repub’ic evidently considers it a very dangerous document. It veu urea, how ever, to give 'o its readers, diluted at about the ra e of a column of editorial to one, two or hree paragraphs of the letter—an intolera ble deal of sack 'o such a peony worth of bread Evan io this dilute form, it fears the letter might prove fa'al, il adioiniste. ed all at once, so it doles it out io small quantities, duly ap portioned and mixed. Tne main positions of the letter are impregnable, and we are happy to seo it before the readers ot that paper, wi h any character or amount of comment. The poison they will take—the antidote (.very good writing, but in such excess.) may prove more than “ quantum suff. ” for their appetites. Voters of Wilke, and Lincoln, Wx commend to your especial considera tion the following notice of a speech made by Nicholai Barksdale, at a meeting in Wilkes county, in which he dec'ared that “the fugi tive slave law was unconslttutional and ought to be eznunged ” Mr. Barksuilx is a candt date for Senator in your district, and it remains to be seen whether you will endorse such sen timents, by electing him. Recollect that Sb ward Rhctt, Halb, Giddinos, Greeley, and all the Freesoilers entertain the rams opinion as Mr. Barksdale. Those who app-ove the sentiment ol Air. Barksdale will vote for him, and those who do not, should vole for bis op ponent : Ma Barksdalb’s Seesen. —As one of the im portant events 01 the campaign, we designed giving in this “ little sheet,” a sketch of the very little speech of our very big friend, the Uar'esdale candi date for Senator from Ibis District, made at Inde pendence, on Saturday last; but the public will have to forego the pleasure, as wc have not room in our present number. Mr. Bark-dale was brought into the field by the Southern R glits party, (if there be eucli a party here,) aud, we leeru, addre-red the people al tbo time and place aforesaid. Hie positions, as we un derstsud were two fold, viz: he was opposed to the Southern Kights party, lotheir Milledgeville plat form in particular, anil to the news of the candidate liw the House from this county, who preceded him in th* deb le. We heard or nothing he waa parlic ulvrly in favor of except the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, which he mainlained was uncoiisu'tu lional, and ought to be “expunged.” Tbia is a cu rious eenlimeat, and would le received by Garrieou and Wright as an amp e passport into the ranks of the Abolition party at tbr Norm. It is a notorious fact, tbat this is the only aentiment required Io be held in common by that piny, and whatever may be the not ons ot ocr old friend Irom Lincoln, it must be confessed that be has chosen r. very bad crowd for his company. This law was drafted by Southern men, demanded by the Legislature ol nearly every Southern Slats voted lor by every Southern member of Congr* M * we believe, without an exception, end deal**- J protect the right- and props ty of the Somb tn j _ el it remained tor thia new-fledged orator to’discover tbat it was unconstitutional and wrong Wonderful indeed I The idea that the Cour.il>' 4 ,jj n ig , u flj cl , ut is the worst of nons nsi Those old dolts, Washington, Jefferson, - und Mjdi.-on, didn’t think eo, but Mr. Barksdale oeB ; The comtitution, in Ike m inner, fu.ituntew a Trial ay Jury —bow would you extend it io tb e Eitzen except by leeiela 'ion organism the of our Courts? Il says a lug live stave BhdU be gj Ten U p_b.,w could you gel him excejs warrant aud arres', and proof ihat be is your pr o (erty; end how would jou puuivb the man who v xreled or forcibly wrested him from you, unless r_ penally were prescribed : y law I Who ever heard o p such uncona’itutional « otiseuse ? And yet thia -, nan aspires to baa law maker for the great and gio ci.,ng oil commonwealth of Georgia. Our old ir, eu( j may te clever enough ia hia war, end we kiv.w he is but we doubt if Milledgeville could hold b' m. — FFush. Gazelle. Alabama Elbctiom. —The reports fr-m Mon'- gomery are so contradictory that we know not wbi:h to re'y on ns correct, Wc believe, however, it is certain th-I Basco, Dia.; esesCROMBiB, Wmitb and Coss, Union men, arc elected to Congrois. From the other three districts we bare not reliable information. Texnbsbzb. —A few returns from Middle Ten nessee, are very favorable to the success of Camp* bull, the Whig and Compromise candidate for Gov ernor. A Fatal Malady —We learn, says the Washington Gazette, that a malignant diaea.de, hearing many of the characteristic* of Small Pox, prevails to a considerable ex’ent in a neighborhood of Oglethorpe County, bat little distant from the line of this (Wilkes) county. Several persons have died under it* effects, and, in some instances, whole families are down with the disease As it seems 'o partake of a contagious nature, we hearthat every precaution has been taken to preven t its spreading. Union Nominations. — Job* L. Bran, Esq , of Crawfordville, has been nominated as thi » Union candidate for Senator from Warren and Taliaferro counties. Thomas L. Latimxr, and Coiru G. Lowe Esqrs. bare been nominated for F,apreee u.a uvea from Warren aotiaty. Fur the Ch-onicle 8f Sentinel. ' in. Editor: Having jnst noticed an edito rial in the Constitutionalist reviewing the no tice I gave your readers of the discussion in Warren, I propose to make a brief reply. 1 he wri'er is no doubt the quondam Editor of tho defunct Republic. 1 think he will acknowledge tbe paternity of the editorial, as “the Junior " is now out of the way. Mr. Smythe is a shrewd man tn Ais own woy, his blunders he always •addled upon'he pot r ‘ Junior Editor," whom he used as a “ little batterybut when As imagined be had made a “ fine bit,” he was instantly upon stilts with ears erect, th. fancied “ observed of all observers. ’’ But to the mailer. The Editor remarks: M| “X” goes to My, 'hat after order was restored, Mr. . tephens spoke ey-io, , nd chargeti Mr. McMil lan with ruonmg Th., i. p,„ ly aod co ntemp.iblo. We have been mtormeO ta a , lh ,. diiorder wa , tamu l. luou*, ana lasted lro.n a half hour to an hoar. Such a scene has wldom been wi InBWM , d . Under those circumstances of excitement, b a ,i c , ing , bat ,he minds of the people were not prepared calm de liberation, having wailed a long i iule f<)r th „ leßto . rattan of order without ita • dug effected Mr Mo- Millan retarded to Warrenton.” ’ This labored apology of a disunion editor for a disunion candidate, who exhibited so much running ch\u try. while it looks well on paper, quite amuses those who witnessed the /ele. Possibly the nerves of the editor’s iu* formant had been so o uoh disturbed by the great tumult over a woman fight, that hia pow er of computing time was destroyed, hence •he exaggerated statement. It is a pity to mar this plausible story, but the trut i must be told. In the midst of the trmult Mr. McM.llan de tended from thestend and asked Mr. Stephens to let him off as he supposed tbe crowd could i ot bo assembled again, which Mr. 8. refus'd •nd insisted upon hia finishing his speech. Certainly not more than a htlf hour had e ape ed from the outbreak until ord ir wag restored, when Mr McMillan wax searched for and could not be found And it is a little remarks* ble that he and his friend, who seems s o occu py tho relation of "bottle holder” io the cam pain, were tbe only two persons known to have left. Mr. Stephens then took the s’snd and, feeble as was bis voice, found no d ft -ul | ty in obtaining a patient hear'ng—and 1 think made an impression hat will to lasting. This effort to bolster up a running candi date is an uphid business, for the people, die hi rd- fitted yomanry wont appreciate such a trait. , He would doubtless have made a similar exit from Warreruon on Tuesday, but the chal lenge (at the rtbgjesnon of Mr. Toombs) was v ■4O direct *««d pcraonaf, thtVMe. e.nald not a place to bolt, especially rs his particular friend Mr. Gartrell h<td declined any further ar icipation in the deba e. But the Rhett and McDonald Editor, stung it the defeat, which his informant doubtless admitted (for who d d not!) seeks tn win a lit de favor with ihe good people of Douly dis rict, by charging me with ridiculing them. Tnis is an exc edingly shadow ;r»ck, Mr. Smythe—they know you too we.l—have ?een tour Uickx before, and you can’t gam mon them in that way. You know, Mr. Editor, friend Smythe is a very vain min, and swallows without difficulty any amount «»f flattery, hence ttae ease with wh*cb the Rhettites secured him by a toast at the disu nion dinner in Carolina. Mr Smythe says: u We hare nothing *o say about X*s account of the discussing at these t<o meetings, except that, in Ilk opinion, Mr. Gartrell aud Col. McMillan, two of •he must intelligent gundem-'n in the State, and elo quent speakers besides, lowered themseDes by a display oft! eir ignorance, while Mr. Toombs and Mr. Stephens c iue very n-ar taking the peop’e’s breath from them, iu their eager anxiety to ca.ch< every sound of eloquence. Mr. Stephens ought to have given a brief lecture on the 4*h of July.” Aud concludes: ‘ We are gratified to learn that our Southern Rights friends were satit-fied with the encounters and results.” As to what Mr. Stephens ought to lißvedone Mr. Smythe seems so know better thsn “El hek” himself. But if he had concluded to make such a s eech, would it not have been ap propriate -o have read an extract I rem the •ration delive*pd by James M Stuythe on (he 4 h of July 1934, in vhich semtlking was said about sxcexston and the right of the government to coerce a . tale “nt the pnnl cf she bnyuntt V 9 Have you any recoikcu hi ol that speech Mr. Smythe* or do you desiro io plead “the baby act” in reference to it? As to the -two mos: intelligent gentlemen of the State.” or the “most eivq :ent Speakers," I have only to remark that I they ever enjoyed •tuch a reputation i .s news to me, and I am certain i. wi.l no; be acknowledged because Mr. Smythe says so For evory man knows, who ha* paid any anention to the 'Republic'* which hai so recenty fin'ed out and been swallowed by the ( dnstitutionslisl, that every diauniomst in Georgia who fad acquired noto riety even, aud not a few ousr th-i r>Tot, have been rdetki'd over wrb the same k’tid of so/l soap. 1 rather guess, therefore, that Me. and G. will not have their »-kins much distended by -uch au inflation. If so, (hey are easily blown X * Crops anti Polities* VVai.to.w Co., Aug 2. 1851, Denr Chronicle Sentinrl: Having, in my passage though M>dde Georgia, w thin the last ten days, had an oppos'tuniiy of seeing the crops on the road, aud carefully examining quite a number where I have s*opped, and: converted with p antera and polriciara frnmi • various sections, I propose giving you the re e>uii of my own vbserva iun, and the informa tion derived from others, iu a letter an tho crops of Middle Georgia, wiih barely a suffi ciency of politics to make it readable by those of your subscribers who may be so engrossed with the latter as to care but liule for the agri cul nral interests of the State. For more f :.-n i quarter of a century, I havo been in the habit of making annual visits to- Upper Georgia about this season of the year, and although the years 1826 and 45. were years of uncommon drought, and each of them was succeeded by great scarcity, high prices of provisions and want, yet I have never witness ed any thing that would at all compare with the poverty of tho crops of Co*n and Cotton which ar3 now Io be seen standing, but not growing, in the fields. From Augusta to this* place, a distance of one hundred and twenty— s.x miles, is not to be seen a single field of corn’ that, in my judgment, wilt yield ten bushels of corn to the acre. 1 have seen on tho margin* of creeks and branches, a few small patches hat are green, and which will produea more, but generally, it is burned io tno her to v> here the ear should be, many, very many fields canrot produce while thou sands of acres may bo considered a to al fail ure. In this neighborhood, a cumber of planter* are engag d cutii g down the stalks that ha- a no ears, for the purpose of curing them, and the uamber of such is found to exceed one half, whi'e the ears on (he remainder are very small. The drought in most places has been of thirteen weeks du ration. There are some neighborhoods that have been more favored, however, but these are “few and far between.” Upon the whole I cannot but conclude that ths c rrn crop mast fall below 01 e-half of an ave rage yield. Nur is'he cotton much better. In all the distance before mentioned, not a single field that would average knee I igh.hae met my • eye. Notwithstanding this plant ia so hardy,-, and that moder’tely dry weather suits it so well, yet ths severity of a thirteen weeks: drought is more than it can bear; and yield ing to a hard necessity, it bows its head, droops, and oasts off its fruit. In the morning may oe seen a beautiful white bloom —in the ev , u i n g it is red, the next day about noon, it b faded and dropped, carrying with it tho y oung form of tie boll which it has enclosed in | lg embrace. I have this moment returned I'tor,, a c , )[tl , n field and send you enclosed a few Specimens of the aoove, which dropped at m y touch Under one etalk 1 gathered ihirtev no s t fi ßln that had fallen, and could count only nine remaining, inciuuing blousns aud squares—a por'ion of which urns', also (aft. It i* still dry, and but little fruit on the stalks; and when it is rememb' re d that there are only thirty eight days., counting from to day, in which tho * > l r _,om» tn tappear cm bo safely relied upon to make cotton,gaud that all bluouis that show themselves hereafter, must appear upon a new growth of the p ant, we may satelv calculate ihat the crop must be a very thorl one through out the region of co-.ntry that has thus snller ed from drought. With the moat favorable weather from tins time fbrwar-f, and (rust about the usual time, be plantation at wMti 1 write, which is as good as the ave ago laud of .diddle Georgia, has Been well cultivated, and lhecrop looking rather betier ti.su an average, cannot produce over a half crop. The politic:*! accounts are not so alarming. 1 met, at he com me nee moot of Mercer Uni versity, with gentleman Irom various parts of the State, ana from all that 1 could learn, am satisfied that the Constitutional Union party will carry the State by a large major ty. Judge Dougherty addressed a meeting of about lour bu udred {a majorey of whom are said to te Union man) at Cnaney’s Store, Mor gan county, on the 3d;h alt- li ia reported t» have been a failure, arid the Judge » said to have lost bis fuzurer power acd pa bos Tai* is attributable to U.e cauee he eapouee*. When a speaker advocates principles and measures, he tendency of which us to produce a disrup tion of the lair .et governaaent on ear h. and to bring upon us a civil war so terrible tbat the hardships am horrors ol the Revolution would M bear no c mparisou to its n seem* to me that nothing could be more natural than that he Should lalter and oven fail. Very truly yours, MarnuLß. The JSordosA Springs. Ma. Editor : Having recently returned from a sh-rt visit to the above mentioned watering place, I should be glad to boar my testimony, through your columts, to the advantages they efier to those who seek health or recreation, ly a visit lo the “up country." The acocmmodatioas at Gordon Springs are sufioant for two hundred and fifty peo; le, end no boet can be more »Ue Lre an i geßdeiLanly to w»fdt> tie gueeia thai) General Gobdoa. i never re eived wore polite and coandente aiie ntion ficm a iaudlurd tuau lrou> bjm. The excellent and amia ule lady who presides crer the female def artinntj won a.any golden cpintons from her guests of boih eexes, by her winamj maoners aud a* iduous at teat:so* to their comfort. The different springs offer 1 their pure, tool, and healthful wateis to the taste of each. A bowling alley aflurds opportunity for a ra tional and invigorating exercise, and the neighboring meuntain summit gives a fine laudscape to (be eye, while its sides are filled wuh game, for the pursuit ot the spur smau. For families, especially those who dislike great words and iastronanle etiquette and formality, and prefer a quiet rational way of spending their season of rest aid recreation, few places present greater attractions than the ordjn bprings. TuviWMk