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ty and which utters not one word of remonstrance at the election of oppressors, and the servants of op pressors, to place of civil power. In the Quattlebum proceedings we find the fol lowing resolution : Resolved , That in view of the consequences which must follow the aggressive measures against the South, which Congress has lately passed, it be comes us, as a people, to humble ourselves before Almighty God, and seek divine aid and counsel. And to that end, we request his Excellency. Gov. Seabrook, to set apart a day of Fasting, Humilia tion and Prayer, on which he may invite the peo ple of our. State to unite their prayers and supplica tions for that wisdom from on High which may di rect their steps in the present emergency. Both factions are going to unite in prayer to Al mighty God for a little “wisdom from on High” to “direct their steps.” We have never known an occasion where wisdom was scarcer or more needed ! A day of fasting, humiliation and prayer is just the thing.— Raleigh Times. Ciirmipnfanrr. LETTER from COLUHBIS. COLUMBUS, Nov. 16,1850. Dear Sir: On Monday the 11th instant, it would have teemed to a stranger that Martial law was the order of the City—but it happened, fortunately for some of our carcasses, that there was naught but the tapping of the drum and the sound of the shrill fife. The first gun is yet to be fired. There were many strangers from abroad, and the Fire-eaters took the advantage of the compromise that the announced debate between Mr Toombs and the Salamanders should not goon. Mr. Toombs aceeeded to this, as it was the earnest desire of the public at large. It was however announced in the city and as far out of it as carriers could take it, by hand-bills, that the “Giraffe,” would hold forth, which he did (“determined to obey orders if he broke owners’') to a few convened in the Temperance Ilall, and strange to say they broke through the compromise before the ink they signed with wa3 dry. The Revd. Senator told them many things that never were and never would be, except he could, by some tort of legerdemain, make it so, which is as probable as see ing an alligator fly. The little boys with sticks and boards in each hand rewarded him for his efforts, and many a laugh was spent on the occasion. Lord Johu, who is to be the Chamberlain, has got back to that last state which all men fill twice in a life. It is wonderful that the Senator has nev er yet told the people how it was that he voted for the treaty annexing California and other Mexican territories with the Mexican laws against slavery in it, and thus making it the supreme law of the land. A man is a knave who knows the right and yet pursues the wrong, or a fool if he does not know it. On this occasion there were no coffins furnished, no cannons cast, no bullpts moulded, their threats are laughed at, aud their attempts are all failures. There are many amongst them who try to imitate a Walker or a May, in appearance and feeling, whiskered and dictatorial, “but those who cannot imitate must ape.” The b’hoys here have not got their consent yet, to exchange the ballot-box for the cartridge-box, nor to take the name of Aliens in this great Republic. Nor are they disposed to tear up the constitution, until they find men more loving, more honest, and more capable than either the nobility of this place or the Smith, alias Burn-up Rhett, of Quattlebum ; for surely a man who so dishonored his father and mother as to sell his name for three hundred baboon negroes is unworthy to be trusted with the rights of the people. The Court has been adjourned until the next regular term, which was strictly legal and prudent, according to the cir cumstances. The Fire-eaters are moving briskly, but the breezes which they fill their sails with, to waft them to their wished for har bor, will leave them hard up on a reef or a shoal, a total wreck. The Union is right side up in Muscogee! Respectfully yours Arc. LOOKER-ON. LETTER from COLiUBIS. COLUMBUS, SovT 18; Dear Doctor : Your able Citizen is more anxiously look ed for by the gentry as well as nobility of these parts, than any other paper of the State. It comes always freighted with the choicest of intellectual food, rich and spicy, breath ing indeed a chaste independence in all things, and neutrali ty in nothing. A few items of political occurrence during these exciting times and of this peculiarly excitable place, may not be uninteresting. Well to commence. The Ex-Clerical Senator Walter T. is sojourning in our midst, and is certainly an aptus omnibus. First Lawyer, then Preacher, then Senator from our Southern Empire State, and last but least, at present, Pot-house politician, seeking favor and popularity from the small fry, to destroy, by their vote, the great Institutions of the Model Republic. He was last seen with fat Jimmy the Butcher, expatiating most vehevently against the free institutions of his country, not a great ways north of Kit's Gin Palace. And as Kiv is the man that keeps always on hand much of the spirit, it might have been that his Reverence had been participating. Be that as it may, he was certainly imparting his spirit (if not Kiv’s) to an eager and gaping crowd, which judging from their appearance would make a recherche regiment of Grenadiers with loaded musket on one shoulder, coffin on the other, to ride over the constitution forsooth ! just to have a showing at the and n Yankees. How unworthy such conduct in a professed follower of the meek and lowly God man. What! to doff his clerical robe and assume the scarlet one of a reckless Red-hot, pot-house politician. Docs he not in this attitude, resemble that roaring lion of which he surely read, going about seeking whom he might politically devour ? On dit, that the Ex-Clerical Senator is to be con stituted the quasi Republican Emperor of this about to be newly-organized confederacy. I trust whenever the reins of Empire shall be passed over into his hands that his reign may be remarkable in the annals of future events for its wis dom justice, and moderation. May the Supreme Disposer of men and things in such a contingency, so temper his pres ent blazorious spirit, that history, on detailing the compara tive merit of the long lino of noble Emperors of this noble Southern Republic, may chronicle the fact, that Walter the Ist., during his whole reign never executed even a single U nion man. My Lord John clique is still master of the Times, and from his editorials, one might suppose he was living under a Ty rany and that Draco-like he wrote in letters of blood. Can the man be mad, or, does his ambition aspire to a Charge ship under the regiment of the New Republic for services rendered ? Ah John, John Forsyth, “qua: te dementia cepit ? ” Talent he certainly possesses in an eminent degree, and his pen deserves the opposite cause. Jacobinnieal as Robespierre, ’ revolutionary as Mirabeau, nature seems to have cut him out i par excellence for the Mountain party of this Paris of Geor- i gia. His great fault seems to consist in the commission of faux pas , and then a desperate attempt to bolster them up at the expense of that consistency, of which he unjustly accu ses poor little Elic and Robert Ilamilear. Poor C —wants to be considered not in the rear, in trying to demolish a government which secures life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and from the sorter blistering editorials against the constitution of his country, one might imagine that his mother was not aware that he was out and learning too “to despise the Union and hate the Yankees as Hell itself.” Little Boys should not learn to curse For if they do they will grow worse and worse. Wonder if those specs could have imparted any of their greenish tint to the mind within. Compared to these revolutionary and anarchical sheets how preeminently great docs the Enquirer stand. Like the huge pyramid of the desert, with the Constitution and U nion for its broad base, it rises in splendid beauty far above the dust of cliques and factions, until its head is elevated in the pure atmosphere of patriotism, and as if communing with the immortal spirits of the immortal dead of our coun try, it points out the evils of dissolution and sends forth to the world its saving motto “no North, no South, no East, no West.” Surely, Doctor, these are revolutionary times, and had I not a better opinion of the intelligence of my State I should be induced to think that a crisis was approaching which led a Roland to the Guilotine when she exclaimed “ah .’ liber ti quees maux sonteommis en totre nom .” At all events we should watch and pray, for surely the Devil is in our midst. Yours for our country in general, and the Union in PARTICULAR. LETTER from PALmETTODOM. Spartanburgii, C. 11. Nov. 15, 1850. Dear Citizen : W r ith heart elate I seat myself to inform you that this glorious old Union has found two advocates in our, so called, “Disunion State.” I speak of two papers a bout to be started at Greenville C. 11. Yes, tlie soul of a Marion, a Sumter, and a Jasper, though dead, still live. South Carolina has her patriots yet, and tho patriotic spirits that have long slumbered within her confines aro beginning to arouse, “to do noble deeds of daring valor.” Messrs. Perry A Elford, are the Editors of one of the papers of which I speak, and Mr. J. Powel, of the other. Our hearts are with them—we wish them success. Go on, gentlemen, you’re in a-noble cause. KRATA REPOA. JNft <?\)C Cn’ovqia Citizen. L. F. W. AXOItEWS, Editor. MACON, GA., NOV, 23. 1850. IM TICKET, FOR 8188 CO, Washington Poc, Itobt. Collins, A. P. Powers, Win. Scott. ————————3 BY TELEGRAPH. New York, November 22nd., lOo’clok A. M. The Steamship “Niagara” just arrived with dates from Liverpool, to the 9th inst. Cotton had declined 1-Sto l-4d, with sales of 25,000 Bales. Fair Mobile, quoted at 7 3-4d. To Correspondents.-“Pinckney” on file for in sertion, next week. Several other communications laid over, for examination. Election Returns.-We desire to receive Elec tion Returns from all parts of the State, as soon as possible. Will our friends see to it promptly ? We will reciprocate the favor, with interest. Fine Brandy.—ls people will drink liquor, let them get a pure article, such as Mr. Damour always keeps. Our family Physician has tested a bottle of his Brandy, and pronounces the same very superi .or:. ... ‘ The Nashville Convention.-- So Tnany contra dictory stathments have reached us regarding the late meeting of this body, that we know not what is the truth of the matter. Some accounts state that the Convention broke up in a row, on the 18th, and adjourned sink dtk, having adopted Union Resolu tions : other dispatches announce that there was no row, that the convention again met on the 19th, and passed Disunion Resolutions and recommended a Congress of Southern States, at Montgomery, Ala. The first statement is corroborated by a gentleman of Savannah, who arrived here direct from Nashville evening before last, who declares that they did break up in a row. And this is further confirmed by Mr. Rhett, himself, on his way down the Rail Road, who declared to Mr. Churchhill of Tenn. that a considerable ROAV did occur, and that a strong demonstration was made by the spectators, in the gallery, against the proceedings ? Sic transit gloria mundi ! w—aa—— Splitting Tickets. The man who votes a split Ticket, on Monday, would “sell his birthright for a mess of pottage.” It would be quite as well for him to stay at home and suck his paws, as to neutralize his own suffrage, in that way. ’Tis a device of the wicked Disunionists to destroy a Union vote against them. ’Tis a trick, a cheat, an imposition —disgraceful to those who pro pose and those who are duped into the measure. Our Candidates and their Principles. w c are called submissionists and our candidates are de clared by tho Fire Eaters to bo ready to give up every thing to Northern cupidity and insolence. But how stands the matter ? What man of sense can suppose that Dr. Robert Collins and Col. A. P. Powers, the extensive owners of slaves, arc more willing to submit to wrong on the slavery question, than Charles Collins and John Rutherford who own none to speak of? Who can suppose that Mr. Rutherford whose most intimate associations are of Northern tendencies, is a better Union man than either Dr. Collins or Col. Powers ? Or who can imagine that Leroy Napier is any better South ern man than Wm. Scott or Col. Poc, because ho chooses to educate his children at the North instead of at home ? We ask these questions, because it has been said, by the Bibb Disunionists, that Col. Powers and Dr. Collins are submis sionists and will not stand square yp to the interests of the South in any and every emergency. We are authorized to say that these gentlemen are pledged to resistance, not for existing causes, but for the following reasons : 1. When the fugitive slave bill is repealed or rendered in effectual ; 2. When a State is refused admittance because its consti tion admits slavery; 5. When slavery is abolished in the District of Columbia against tho will of Maryland. 4. When Congress attempts to regulate the slave trade between the States ; 5. When Congress interferes with slavery iu the States ; or, C. VI hen it imposes the Wilmot Proviso nn tho Territo ries. On this platform, the Union Candidates of Bibb, one and all will stand or fall—all rumors and reports to the contrary, notwithstanding. Baker Count y Candidates.— g. w. collier and John Colley, candidates for the Convention from Baker county, thus publicly avow themselves in the Albany Patriot. It they are honest in their professions, they will be good enough Union men for us: W e are opposed to disunion or secession for any existing causes, and on this question, if elected, we will vote in the negative. We do not think the admission of California j usti iPlble ground of secession or dissolution. We are strongly in favor of the Union, and would be pleased to acquiesce in any matter that might promote the interests of the whole Union ; yet we sliall vote for any Constitutional measure which in our opinion would prepare the State to meet future aggres sion by the North.” H ■ €!? M ®lf I S M o TO THE POLLS! TO THE POLLS!! We have a few “ last words ” to our readers, iu, view of the fact that this is our last issue before the opening of the polls, the closing of which will bring weal or woe to our be loved State. It is not to be denied tlxat on the result of the election on Monday next, hang, as it were by a thread, the destinies of this mighty Commonwealth and her sisterhood of States. If the men elected to the Convention are safe, pru dent counsellors —men of mature intellects and sound discre tion, who have an abiding love for the Constitutional Union of the Confederacy, the laws of the land and republican doc trines of our revolutionary fathers, wc have no fears that the approaching Convention will not sustain the honor of our people and perpetuate the blessings of government which we now enjoy. But if those of a contrary part are returned to that body —men “pledged to disunion,” until a few days or weeks past —men of reckless character and ultra opinions—men of factious spirit and unprincipled motives—who would delight in blood and carnage, and who talk of a bloody coffin line, as a desirable adjustment of difficulties among brethren and kiusinen—desperate men who would “rather reign in hell than serve in heaven”—why then we may prepare to num ber the days of our political prosperity, and, in sackcloth and ashes, to bewail the doom of desolation and blight which will surely be decreed against us as a free and independent peo ple. These at least are our solemn convictions, aud we, there fore, beg leave to make this our last appeal to men of all clas ses, andto suggest a few thoughts lor their remembrance, and perchance guidance, when about to exercise their glorious privilege of freemen at the Ballot Box, on Monday. BE IT THEN REMEMBERED, that the admission of California, the only existing ground for the call of the Con vention, was in accordance with the universally acknowledged principles of all parties in the South, two years ago, and espe cially of the Democratic party of Georgia, iu Convention re sembled. BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Secessionists, Resist ants aud ultras of every name are Disunionists and nothing else, which name they now deny, but to cajole the people out of their votes. BE IT REMEMBERED, that if a majority of these men gain by any means seats in the Convention, they will commit the State and people to dissolution as sure as the Sun shines in tho heavens. BE IT REMEMBERED, that if such an event is re solved on by that body, for existing causes, civil war and all its horrors will be the fate of this now happy people, and the blood of kindred will flow down the streets, as marked the period of the French Revolution, in the days of Danton, Marat and Robospiere. BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Institution of Slavery will then be hemmed in by a wall of fire on the one hand and a sea of storm on the other—with no safety to it except in close confinement within thelinuts of the States, unless oth er States on our Northern border, will join us, (which is not probable) in establishing a Southern Confederacy. BE IT REMEMBERED, that should the Disunionists succeed in their nefarious schemes to destroy the Union, the problem of man’s capability for self government and for sus taining republican institutions is solved unfavorably to the hopes of millions of the human race and to tho joy of des pots and tyrants wherever known of men. BE IT REMEMBERED, that the South American Re publics are in g a state of anarchy and confusion, because of the ambition of their unruly spirits, who would not rest until they had given the world example of the evils attendant upon disunion among themselves, that other republics might take the warning and avoid the calamity which lias trodden their people in the dust, and kept them there, for years. BE IT REMEMBERED, that our Fathers of the Revo lution were men and patriots of the most Godlike character, and that if their glorious work of a free government is madly destroyed by their degenerate children, the time will never come, when another Model Republic like that of the United States, can be erected on its ruins. Patriots and friends of peace and of tho Union, what say you ? Arc you ready for these momentous issues ? Do you prefer the ballot-box to the cartridge-box, as the arbiter of your destinies ? If so, do your duty, on Monday, and all is safe. Let every friend of the Union devote the day to the cause. Let no vote be lost, under the idea that one vote is for on ij, may .■“v'-tisG. cee;’ of the Union Ticket and the political salvation of the pi^Jfe. To our adopted fellow citizens, also, we would say, finally, BE IT REMEMBERED by every man of you, that not longer ago than the 22d of August, in this city, you were denounced as “d—d Irish,” Dutch, German, Ac. who were like the “and and Yankees,” intruders upon Southern soil, because of your supposed opposition to disunion. Remember this insult put upon you, by the speakers at the mass meeting of the disunionists on that occasion, and give such answer at the ballot-box, on Monday, as will become you, as adopted citizens, who, in your oath of naturalization, have sworn alle gianco to the government of the Union. A Word to the Democrats.— Wc ask the atten tion of our democratic friends to the following facts : Ist. In December, 1847, the Democracy of Georgia, in convention assembled, adopted the subjoined Resolution : “ Resolved, That the people of the South Jo not ask of Congress to establish the institution of slavery in any territo ry that may be acquired by the United States. They simply require that the inhabitants of each Territory shall be left free to determine for themselves whether the institution of slave ry sliall or shall not form a part of their social system.” 2d. In June of the next year, they re-affirmed their faith in the following : “ Resolved, That the opinions of the Democracy of Geor gia, on the question of slavery iu the territories, were correct ly set forth in the resolutions of the late Democratic Conven tion at Milledgcville, in December last, which declares that ‘ the people of the South do not ask Congress to establish the institution of slavery in any of the territories that may bo ac quired by the United States. They simply require that the inhabitants of each territory shall be left free to determine for themselves whether the institution of slavery shall or shall not form a part of their social system.’ ” 3d. On the principles here laid down the Democratic Press and party went into the contest for the Presidency, nnd gave to Gen. Cass their hearty support. 11 is letter to Mr. Nichol son was the text book of the party, and that letter avowed tho same principle of non-intervention. 4th. Subsequently, Mr. Calhoun offered the following reso lution in the Senate of the United States: “ Resolved, That it is a fundamental principle in our po litical creed, that a people, in forming a constitution, have the unconditional right to form and adopt the government which they may think best to secure their liberty, prosperity, and happiness; and that, in conformity thereto, no other condi tion is imposed by the federal constitution on a State in order to be admitted into this Union, except that its constitution shall be republican; aud that the imposition of any other by Congress, would not only bo iu violation of the constitution, but in direct conflict with the principle on which our political system rests.” sth. California has been admitted a State on the identical principle which the Democratic party have always advocated, that the people of a Territory havo tho right, when about to form a State Constitution to introduce or prohibit slavery, as may seem good unto them. 6th. Had California chosen to introduce Slavery—no South ern man would have, for a moment, thought of objecting to her admission as a State, but would have had just cause for seeking redress in measures of disunion or otherwise, if she had been refused admittance. Now, brother 1 )emocrats, are not all those undeniable facts? How then has it come about, that so many of our party have been led away from their principles, and now re pudiate the doctrines which they all advocated two years ago ? How happens it that Colquitt, Bcnning, McDonald nnd a few other leaders of the party have started such treasonable doc trines, as dissolution or secession, because Congress lias done precisely that ( and no more,) which they clamored for in 1847 and 1848 ? And why is it, that the Democratic Un ion men of Georgia, of whom we gave a long list, but very in complete one, in our kvst paper, are denounced as submission ists and traitors, because they will not change with the dis union portion of the demooraoy and prove recreant, as these latter have done, to their time-honored principles ? Demo crats? This is no time to allow the Robespierres of party to ride into power, on the whirlwind of an excitement which they havo artfullly raised, for the purpose of their own self aggrandizement! What are yon, men of the rank and file, to gain by voting for disunion men and secession men to go to the Convention? Wherein are the masses of the people the honest yeomanry —the strong-armed mechanic and tb ‘ wealthy planter to be benefitted by all this noise and agi t; on? Are not our people generally, as prosperous and happy as they ever were ? Is not our noble old Common wealth advancing rapidly in her career of improvement? — Why then dash all these blessings to the ground and destroy all present good in the revengeful chase after imaginary evils and in vain hope of greater good beyond the murky cloud and howling storm of dissolution ? It is a senseless, suicidal course for sane men to pursue. Go, then, fellow citizens, of whatever name \ Go to the polls on Monday next and save yourselves from the threatened calamities, by voting for the tried and faithful men on the Union Ticket, and agams; all disorgauizers, Jaeobius aud traitors. The Hypocrisy of the Disunionists.— The Con stitutional Union of Marietta has very efficiently shown that the profe&sionss, of the “ Advocate,” of love for the Union of the States, are on a par with the Devil’s love for “ holy wa j ter.” The Advocate has published the following as his own sentiment: “ The Union cannot be saved. It is not worth the saving though it could be done by turning on one’s heel. It is a con federacy of sections, not of States,—their bonds of affection are all burnt away, and the passions that have swept on this consuming course, now form an impassable gulf between them. No earthly power can save this Confederacy from j dissolution.” To which the Constitutional Union replies in the annexed | pertinent manner: “ Does he expect to 1 blow hot and cold ’ both in the same paper, telling the people that this Union ‘is not worth the saving, though it could be done by turning on one’s heel,’ and then crying out, ‘ I am no disunionist?’ They ‘ are not disunionists,’ yet their papers teem with abuse of the Union. They dare not avow themselves disun ionists, but they can promulgate sentiments of those who are, in the hope that the minds of the people may become embued with sentiments that will render them supple instruments in the hands of enemies of the Union. They ‘are not disunionists,’ yet words are not strong enough to express their hatred of those who speak in its be half. They ‘ are not disunionists,’ and yet they assert that the “ history of no age or country furnishes a more deplorable in stance of wrong, or unblushing fraud,” than the legislation of an American Congress! They ‘are not disunionists,’ yet it lias been publicly pro claimed in their papers, that they ’hate this Union like | h—l!’ They ‘ are not disunionists,’ yet they deny that the South lias received her ‘rights in the Union,’and are pledged to sustain those rights out of the Union !’ ” What will the Convention do ? A writer in the Chronicle & Sentinel thus classifies the grounds for the call for a Convention and the various phases of action proposed to be effected in that body : Tho chief grounds allodged to show tho necessity of a Con vention in Georgia are the following: 1. The admission of California. 2. The failure to repeal the old Mexican laws iu New Mex ico and Utah. ! 3. The settlement of the Texas boundary. * \ m „ 4. The probable repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill. 5. The dread of future encroachments. The action proposed (for remedies are not proposed) may be classified as follows : 1. Disunion, peaceable—or accompanied with war. 2. Secession, temporary or conditional. ; 3. Non-intercourse. 4. Taxation of Northern goods. 5. A demand of the repeal of Mexican laws. 6. An cxpiession of indignation. 7. The erection of a platform. 8. “ Something.” Os the first class —the admission of California is the only ground recognized in the action of the Legislature calling a Convention. W ell, what action of the Convention will re d‘* ssor reinedr this evil ? Crm ( Califoif jo- L<> Aw tfliMisJeJ to a territorial condition ? Asr'vtell miirJi.' 1 she think to bring Alabama and Mississippi back .der her jurisdiction and allegiance. The idea is absurd o imprao- 1 tieable. California is now one of the States of i. onfeder- I aey, lawfully united and constitutionally admitted. We can no more dissolve the connexion now than we can lawfully | separate- a young bridegroom from the bride whom be has just espoused for life. What then, will the Convention do? Evidently they must do nothing so far as California is con cerned. Secession, dissolution, non-intercourse, taxation, Ac. i are all remedies which cannot lu-al the malady complained of, ; because they cannot be applied to this ease. What then ? - The Action No. 8, in the above list must be adopted. The Con vention must “do something,” or the honor and dignity of i the State will be compromised. In our judgment, all that! can be done, is to adopt solemnly and religiously a formal ; Declaration of Independence, on the part of the people of Georgia, incase Congress shall hereafter adopt any measures which strike at the interests of the South —either in the rc- j peal of the Fugitive Slave Law—or the adoption of the Wil- ■ mot Proviso, or the abolition of Slavery in the District of Co- | lunibia— contrary to the wishes of the people of the District : and tho State of Maryland. Besides this, we know of noth- j ing that can be done, unless a plan can be devised to retaliate upon the State of Massachusetts and other Northern nullify ing States in a constitutional way, in the taxation of goods manufactured within their limits. Whether this can be ef fected is a matter of great doubt. But one thing else can be done, and that is to recommend the Legislature of Georgia to encourage domestic industry and establish or aid in establish ing a direct commerce between our own seaport and Euroj>e, and thus bring Northern men to feel, in their pocket nerves, that there is an absolute necessity for a cessation of Northern j hostilities against the South. This done and peace will be j the result. Union Meeting in Dooly. A large and respectable meeting of the friends of the Uu- ; ion, in Dooly county, met at Vienna, on the 4th inst., when, | on motion of Peter Adams, Esq., Ben. Wells and John B. I Lewis were appointed Chairmen, and Wm. Brown and S. P. Bond, Esqs. Secretaries. The object of the meeting being explained, Mr. Adams moved that the Bibb county resolu tions be adopted as the senso of the meeting, which was carr ried unanimously after being read by Col. T. C. Sullivan, w ho, with E. R. Brown, Esq. of Americus, made eloquent speeches, on the occasion. A committee of four was then appointed to wait on the candidates nominated at a previous county meeting, to see whether they would subscribe to tho aforesaid Resolutions, and to make report to an adjourned meeting on the lltli. Nov. 11.—Meeting met pursuant to adjournment, w hen James S. Beall was called to the chair. Same Secretaries present. The committee reported that the nominees of the previous meeting refused to sign or sanction the resolutions adopted on the 4th. Whereupon a committee was appoint ed to select suitable candidates to represent the Union party in the Convention. Said committee reported the names of Dr. I). J. Bothwell nnd Robt. R. Evans ns suitable candi dates, which nomination was confirmed. Wm. 11. Craw ford, Esq., of Sumpter, addressed the meeting in favor of the Union “as it is.” Proceedings ordered to be published in the Journal & Messenger and Georgia Citizen. [The fore going condensed account of the meeting is all we are able to publish.— Ed. Citizen.] Hard Run,— Some of the Fire Eaters profess to find an objection to the Union Ticket, because the gentlemen named ou it are large slaveholders, and therefore, more apt to be timid about taking strong ground against Northern agression ! If this argu ment has any sense in it, the converse of the propo sition is true, that it were better to send men to the convention, who have the least possible interest in slavery, and who would, therefore, be reckless of consequences to a species of property they do not possess. Fine logic, very, for a Professor of Science ! Lo?e for tho Negro.—Test votes in the Indiana Constitutional Convention indicate the insertion of a clause prohibiting the emigration of negroes, or pur chasing of property by them, by a large majority. So much for abolition sympathy for the colored race. The “ Koon Killer ” Abroad. The last Central Georgian contains a remarka!>lo epistle from the lion. 11. V. Johnson of Milledgeville, in favor of Dis union, in reply to a committee who addressed him soliciting his views, on the existing topics of the day. W e think it un fortunate for the fame of tho great “ Koon Killer,'’ as a man of truth and intelligence, that this letter has been given to the public. The mendacity of some of his statements is unwor thy of a Judge in the land. For instance he sets out with an untruth when he asserts that “ it is now almost universally admitted that the South has been grievously wronged by the late action of Congress, respecting the territories of the L ni ted States,” and that “the great mass of all parties admit the wrong.” This is a palpable misstatement which is noi borne out by the facts, as next Monday, we think, will abundantly prove. Mr. Johnson next indulges in much ungentlemanly abuse I of those who differ from him in opinion, by stigmatizirg them as suhniissionists who would kiss the hand that smites them, —as “ swine before whom it would be casting pearls to lay arguments, and much other slang-whangery ot the same un dignified character, which we cannot stop to particularize. The remedies proposed by him may thus be summed up: 1. The construction of a Southern Rights party Platform, whose watchword shall be uncompromising hostility to all. North and Smith, who are not only above suspicion, but who are not openly and unequivocally in favor of the constitution al rights of tho South. [\\ ho is to bs judge in this /natter. We could not find any such people in tho South, but you might see thousands.] t>d. A Protest against tho late action of Congress.— [Whew!] 3. A demand of Congress for a repeal of the Mexican Laws in Utah and New Mexico, against slavery. [Tho de mand of the abolitionists for the repeal of I ugitive Slave Law must then be allowed.] 4. A demand of the Northern States that they repeal leg- S islative acts obstructing the re-capture of fugitive slaves.— [This is nonsense, unless the Judge means that South Caro lina and Georgia should repeal their laws respecting free col ored persons coming South, kc. State rights would be no where, if such a demand were made and duly reciprocated ] 5. To demand of the Northern States that they suppress abolition agitation. [This would break down the great con stitutional principles of freedom of the speech and the press, even if practicable, which it is not.] 6. To demand on behalf of the South perpetual exemption from all future aggressions. [This would be asking the North to bind their posterity to a course of political action, which that posterity might not please to pursue, and to which they, ! not yet being conceived, much less born, could not easily be j compelled to pursue.] 7. To call a Southern Congress to co-operate in carrying } out these views, and to meet on the 4th day of July next at Milledgeville—“ not to dissolve the Union, but to preserve the rights of the South in the Union !’ > [The 2d edition of the Nashville Convention killed that idea.] There, gentle unsophisticated reader, what think you of the “ Koon Killer's ” mode of resistance? Is it almost as w ise and efficient an that proposed by Col. Hutchins, a rabid resis tance man of Gwinnett, who declared to Col. Irwin of Cobb, that u ice can petition Congress.” As Col. Irwin emphati cally said—“ Great God ! did you ever bear of such a mode of resistance ?” If that is the best the Fire-Eaters can do, or that Judge Johnson can do for them, we “ give it up.” _■ ‘•Southern Press.”—This rabid Washington City Journal, it is well known, is the political horn book of such Southern Newspapers as the Macon Telegraph, Columbus Times, Arc. They have great respect for the turbulent and disorganizing doctrines promulgated through its columns, and quote large ly, therefrom, its ‘Randolph” Epistles and other like fire-brand and revolutionary sentiments. Well, to show Southern men, what is the charac- I ter of this Magnus Apollo of the “Southern Press,” we annex tho following bit of biography of its princi : pa 1 Editor, Elwood Fisher, from the Aberdeen (Mis sissippi) “independent*’: — fond Fisher aa Abolitionist. fii’ n TANARUS) his course of debate last Monday with seeing him rend from the Southern Press- 1 to support hi* assertions, declared tl'ar five years ago ; Elwood Fisher, its principal editor, was a rank abolition ist and he could prove it ! In reading over this week an article written by Fisher in 1542, wp discover this most pregnant passage, which more than proves Gen. Foote’s assertion. “Whilst, however, 1 do not concur with Jefferson or the early Quakers, as the means by which slavery can he abolished, whilst I do not think it can be done by the act. of the master, or by law. I am as much opposed In it, | or the ol it, as any of them, or as the most enthu siastic abolitionist of the present day.” This is the man who caters for the entertainment of Southern slaveholders through the Southern Press, and endeavors to infuse into Southern minds a spirit ul hos tility and disloyalty to the Federal Government and the Constitution of the country—who preaches the gos pel of disunion to a Southern audience. He, like al otlier abolitionists, is a disunionist. We think it time for Southern men to see (hat Shis aboiitionisl does not ■ wax fat and kick from the provender they give ban.” More Avowals. Let the voters of Bibb County read the following extracts from late numbers of the Columbus Times | and the Georgia Telegraph, and see if the cloven foot of disunion does not peep out from under the cloak of “resistance,” notwithstanding their loud professions of being friends of the Union. Says the Times: “ Every day the cause of resistance is gaining ground j and we find daily cause to regret that the standard of i the mode of resistance lias been lowered, and that the mode of redress was not more boldly and distinctly mar ked out before the people. We judge of the feelings of the people among whom we were born and raised by our own. We are constituted like other men, and when the wrong and insults, the aggressions and the contume ly ol the north excite the devil of resistance in our heart, we cannot see for the life of us, why the same effect should not be produced in thebosomsof men having the j same nativity, the same birth rights, the same indepen- j dence, and the same sensibility to the stings of injustice. We verily believe that in an open field and a fair fight, the BOLD ISSUE OF SECESSION could be carried before the tribunal of the outraged people of Georgia.— The people were ahead of their representatives in Con gress during the last session, and they are ahead now, not of the hopes and wishes, but of the apprehensious of zealous resistance men, in the press and in the field.” ‘ The Telegraph has the following ; “What Southern Rights man in the State, who values the dignity and character, the rights and equality and safety of his own section or the Union, can vote for any ticket with the name of one submissionist noon it? Go i to the polls then and give the RESISTANCE ticket an j old fashioned majority. By doing this, you will dis- | arm your worst enemies, preserve the Union,and give a new lease to the life of the Constitution.” A Vile Slander. The Savannah “ News ” perpetrates tho following bit of, scandal against our fellow-citizen, Dr. Collins:—- “ We have heard it stated that Mr. Collins, who is a can didate for the Convention on the Union side, dispatched his agents to Boston with a view to recover his slaves, in the hope | of making electioneering capital out of their surrender under the new law.” Who stated so I The “ News ” would have been nearer the truth, if he had said, that Dr. Collins acted in this matter, according to his own judgment and convenience, and in op position to the wishes of his political frieuds, who foresaw that . the Fire-Eaters would make capital out of his failure to re-; cover his slave. This they have endeavored to do, but with no great success, as his action in the case lnus shown one thing very olearlv, that the negroes and abolitionists of Boston were afraid tolet the fugitives remain in that city. Why are *C rafts j and wife sent off or concealed, if there was no fear of the law being carried out? Wo might add, that it is rumored that his Excellency Governor Towns had used his influ ence with Dr. Collins to seek the reoovery of his slave at the time he did. If so, will the “ Nows ”be pleased to say whether the Governor hoped to make capital out of the mat- | ter, to the prejudice of the Union cause jn Georgia? That ( is probably “ a horse of jmotber color,” in the opinion of j this esndid print ! DOINGS IS BOSTON ! Thompson, the English Abolitionist hisses and put down! Tho New York Herald of the 16th gives particulars of t scene at l aneuil Hall, Boston, on the evening previous r the occasion of the public reception of George Thom/ * the English Abolitionist, tendered him by the Garrison trilj of fanatics, which was rich and peculiar. Edmund Onj presided, Mm. Lloyd Garrison read the address of r<e / tion recounting the history of Thompson's movements j n anti-slavery cause in England, Ac., and concluded |, y ting that just fifteen years ago he was obliged to fly eland/! finely from this country; “but,” said the speaker. God, the Boston of 1835 is not the Boston of 1850 7/ Massachusetts of 1850 is not tire Massachusetts of 185- >, (Loud cheers.) ‘ kK r I owards the close of Mr. Garrison’s remarks, the meet began to be disorderly, and when he finished, many <.[,// were given for Daniel Webster and the Union. ‘ Wendall Phillips next ascended the platform, but greeted with groans, hisses, and exclamations which com pletely drowned his voice. Loud cheers were again given for “the Union and Dm ;u , j Webster, and for Gov. Briggs, and Jenny Lind.” Mr. Phillips appealed to them to hear Mr. Thompson : and wipe off the stain of 1835, when Boston drove lifia 0 j a fugitive. Mr. P. then retired, and Mr. Thompson took the stand, bn instantly the llall became a perfect Bedlam of noi* and / uP . fusion—he tried to speak, but in vain; ‘ Cheers were reitec ated for “the Union and Daniel Webster ” intermingled with groans, catcalls and hisses. After remaining upon the stand for sometime, Mr. T. bow. ed to the audience arid was about to retire, but his would not permit him—a chair was handed him, and he down fronting the audience. ! From this time the anti-abolitionists had it all their our. ! way. Groans were given for John Bull, a ring was for**! j on the floor, and one or two commenced dancing. Abbey Kelly was called for and endeavored to speak; b after uttering a few sentence's stopped. The Rev. Wm. Ilenry Clianning next appeared, but fcs voice was drowned in hisses and outcries. The Rev. Theodore Parker next ascended the platform He mutely pointed to the pictures of Washington, - Adana and others, and endeavored to make himself heard— but tho cries were redoubled. The President of the meeting, at this point, came forward and shook hands w ith Mr. Thompson, when he bowed to the audience, and retired nmids; thunders of applause. During all this time there was no attempt at violence,and the ladies in the galleries remained quiet spectators of the scene. After a consultation between the getters-up of the mectinp, it was deemed proper to adjourn—which was declared hy the President; but the noise still continued. Frederick Douglas then ascended tliu platform, and ap pealed to them to hear a fugitive slave speaker. The audi ence would not hear him. The gas was then partially turned down, and the Ilal! be ing in a state of semi-darkness, the scene was quite pictu resque. Above stood the stalwart frame of Douglas, wa ving his hands aloft, and occasionally crying out to be li-ard —-and below was the vast audience, swaying about, and at teringcries of every description. Tli® officers of the meeting then began to retire, Mr. Thompson having previously left —Shouting and chteriu-; still continued, but the audience commenced dispersing. A police officer here sppeared on the platform, and paid that he was ordered by the city Marshal to r< quest lb au dience to retire. By half past nine, the llall was wholly cleared, but a large crowd waited outside. s’>p*rmtl_v f-*r Thom;>son. Asa carriage drove up, and a man got in sup posed to be TANARUS., three groans were given foi John Bull.— Some person added, “I.et him not interfere in enr affair/ ‘ . No threat was made, or violence offrrcd,| o ;nd the i-atriaf* drow off. It did I onntniil’ iwii nwni. 7bis ended the scene. was l ‘j* Ihe doors of Fanueil Hall vrtrre shut, the lights pat utit, and the crowd dispersed ; discussing, ns they went the serin* of the meeting.” This shows that there is some hope vet, even, of Boston, notwithstanding the unsuccessful mission of Mr-. -Hughes to ; recover the fugitives from this city. In addition we notice that the respectable Journals f Bos ton arc out in favor of the execution of the fugitive slsto law. The Advertiser says : “Me begin to observe in some of the journals at th 1 South, as might have been anticipated, severe com incuts prn the apparent triumph of opposition to legal authority in tb city. It is much to be regretted that the demonstrations <4 determination to resist the ex< eutiou of process trader the i 1* ugitive slave law, somewhat exaggerated ia the account* which have appeared in various quarters, together with tin fact that warrants known to have been issued from tin high est authority have not yet been executed, should give so much ground for these comments. However plausible may be the inferences discreditable to oar city which are drawn from the facts as they are stated, it is premature to judge, from the 1 delays which liave occurred, and the show of ir>ist.incc, w hen in fact none lias been made, that the law w ill not bo executed. There is no occasion for any precipitancy in meeting an issue of I chick those who know the peoplr ts the city of Boston cannot doubt the result. AVc have little fear that the law will be seriously resisted in Massachusetts, and, if forcibly resisted, it will, notwithstanding, surely be 1 executed.” W e have another fact bearing on this question, and that j* I that Mr. M ebstcr has declared that the Marshal, Coniniiaion ! ers, &c. of Boston will all be turned ont of office; unk-s* they can exhonerate themselves from the charge of neglect of duty sworn to by Air. Hughes. M e have no reason there fore, to suppose either that the people of Boston have nuUi ; tied the law, or tliat the President will sanction any derclie ; tion of duty on the part of his officials. Nor do we see how : the failure of Mr. Hughes under all the circumstances to get j the negroes, can be urged as an objection to the fugitive itself, or be made to tell against the Union candidate*, Monday next. Nosensillc man would thereby be justified 1 in voting for Disumonis'a. P. S- Since writing the forgoing, we have read a mani fest just published by Mr. Willis 11. Hughe*, in an extra | form, from the Telegraph office, and circulated, yesterday,. ; with a view doubtless, to affect the approaching election. M’s ! must therefore be excused for iatle more to in hand, from the fact that Mr. H. is a “willing witness” in favor of the disunionists. having been closeted all day, Thursday, with Sam Ray, and being himself of the same stripe, with that immaculate individual, the public will he prepared to place a proper estimate on the “Statement” h* has sanctioned and allow ed to be put forth in his name, at this particular juncture. The reader is specially requested to note the concluding paragraph of Mr. Hughe* document, lie “feels that every man who has a Southern heart in hi* bosom and would maintain the honor of his country, shou’d sustain the Southern Rights cause by every Censitutiansl measure, until our rights are acknowledged and justice ob tained.” The “Cloven foot” is here manifested. Mr. Hughe* wishes to do the disunion cause a service—but by using the word “constitutional” in the paragraph, he defeats himself, because those who have published his statement have no sle* of any remedy of that sort. Mr. 11. is also unfortunate in his inferences from the feet* given by himself. After saying that lie has found some friemb in Boston, among whom were Air. Thayer; Mr. M ill is: Ms Thompson; Air. Riley, one of the Marshals ; Mr. Draper Mr. I recount, a Deputy Sheriff, <fce., he declares there no protection of the city authorities offered him and none turned out in his favor, and that, in his opinion, the abolition sentiment there was too predominant, to be controlled. A* evidence of this, Mr. H. further states that the Mayor order ed the city officers to proteet the English AW***®* B*’ 8 *’ Thompson, from a threatened mob. Well, what of it, M r ’ Hughes 1 Mho does not know that aboliiiou sentiment vrr vails there to an alarming extent ? But why did yop ud lel ‘ us that the Mayor failed to protect the said Thompson *f' er all—-that the latter was pat down and treated with. # tng! contumely even as Mr. Hughes, The mob did no.t, it i* :ro<! ’ pull Thompson’s coal tail, but they did as *'■ civil authority in Boston eoulil ncH prevent uch