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panto, all things includes not only all nun j Can animals, vegeubk-saudmiaerals. - Strange to tell, (but for the fact tfaa it would be -trtugc that an advocate of enoleas mise ry to be consistent,) you almost immediate ly assert that there appears then an invinci- i ble necessity, in tne context itself, for the re striction of tins’ Universal term ‘all things .’ Tins necessity exists not in the context, but in the nature of thing*. The context does, as you assert, embrace ‘all animal-*, vegetables and minerals.’ Then the very nature of > things requires us to limit the to pant>i, all things, of the text, so as to exclude ‘all ani mals, vegetables and minerals,’ for the rea s-m that they incapable of rebelling against G and. and hence cannot, in the very nature of thing*, need reconciliation. You were su anxious to teach me ‘the distinction between the 39 articles of the English Church, and the writings of Jeremy Taylor or Richard Hook er,’ that yon overlooked the distinction be tween the import of the language of the context and the nature of the subject embraced x i the context A critic, my dear sir, should keep both eyes open. As you seem anxious to disc-usss the sub ject of the Trinity, I now propose to discuse it with you after this discussion is through ; but it is out of jdacc here, and hence I can not follow you into a discussion of that point now-. Here is a chance for you to regain, on another Held, the laurels you are losing in this one. “It plessed the Father that in him should | all fullness dwell,” you say “is a distinct af firmation of the proper divinity of Christ.” j 1 cannot well help saying, tliat if this be , true, then Paul prayed, Eph. 3; 19, for the 1 Ephesians to be made very God, for he said, “that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God,” and here I find your same Greek term plerotna, rendered fullne.-*. That argument • of vours looks like it had been to the wars, and lost a limb in the battle. But let all you say of Christ be taken for granted, and what have you gained ? J ust nothing at all. | If he died as very God, he died, you say, i for all, and your creed says that -‘the otfer- ! ing of Christ once made, is that perfect re- ‘ demption, propitiation and satisfaction for alt the sin* of the whole world, both original and actual.” What is any man to be damn ed for t Because he will not believe, you will doubtless say. Unbelief is an actual, sin, and Christ has made perfect satis faction ‘ for it. Xow what is any man to be damned j for ? You are greatly agitated in reference j to the idea, that God is the author of siu, | and for fear, I suppooe, that I might not say j so, and thus give you au opportunity of vent ing your indignation agaiust such a wicked notion, you say that if I mean that he “has created untold millions of men under the necessity of sinning,” you “do not scruple to denounce it as a foul and atrocious libel upon the character of God.” Softly, my dear sir, if you please, and let “patience have her perfect work,” as James exhorts. 1 ou shall find out what I >nr an, fast enough for the prosperity of your own system of faith. If it be “a foul and atrocious libel upon the character of God.” to say that he created men under the necessity of sinning for a brief space, in order that he might work out a glorious end at last what lan guage could properly characterize a system that says, as yours d*oe, that he placed them here with a perfect knowledge that they would sin, ana for sinning, just as he knew they would, for a few brie?years upon earth, he will place them, after death, where they will b forced to *xn, on and on, to all eterni ty? Do yon catch my meaning ? An ad mirable system of faith is yours ! What a convenient way you have ot'ans wering an argument. It is “the merest twaddle,” is the magic word with which you sweep away a half a column of my argu ment. That beats Blitz or Anderson to death. Xeither of them could have done it in double the time. But I suppose spiritual magic ought to take precedence of natural magic. Again: “Four of your live argu ments have been refuted the thousandth time,” is a second magic phrase, by which you make short work of another batcJi of ®y arguments. Although it is rather un pleasant for gentlemen ofa large capital to do a retail business ; yet I am inclined to the opinion that our readers would rather see you retute my arguments once, than to hear you say that other* had done so a thousand time*. Be accommodating my dear sir, and try your hand a little, just to let our readers see how it can be done. You have time and space to quote doggerel verses from John Peck, and surely you can take time to ex amine for a scriptural argument. You will be, directly, trying to prove endless puni-li ment. W ill you please* point us to the place where the law is recorded that has endless punishment for a penalty ? One more request, and an easy one to comply with. w ill you be kind enough to give me true rendering of the phrase ton aiona kai ep’ aiona kai eti. I mean no harm by mak ing this request; but I find the phrase in the course of my reading, and I would like to , know if we agree as to w liat ought to be its 1 true rendering. You shall know what I mean in due time. A few words about your poetry. All the point it has about it is based upon the idea that temporal calamities are a blessing, if there is a state of happiness only which men enter after being taken out of time by .-uch calamities. 1 presume iny friend, Mr. Scott, feels sure of heaven were he to die to day. W hat a blessing lie must feel would be conferred upon him, should some miscre ant murder him and send him right off to heaven. Have you children, sir? If so, what a blessing would be conferred upon both you and them, if an incendiary should fire your dwelling, and wLile your babies slumber in unconscious innocence, sweeping them oft to heaven through the conflagra tion. Believitg, as you do, that infants, dying in infancy, are sure of heaven, while there are many chances against them, if they should pass the line of accountability, you could but praise God for permitting the incendiary to hurry your infants up to the mansions of the blessed ; and your neighbors would doubtless regard you, for so doing’ a paragon of piety. But once more, what a blessed thing it was for young Crockett that he murdered poor old humdrum. But for this act he might have gone on in his wick edness till he landed in perdition; but the murder brought him to his senses. In pri son he was visited by your brethren ; there he was hopefully converted ; your brother baptised him: and from the gallows he swung immediately into Heaven. His two colleagues ir. crime will doubtleas travel the same road; and there will be three murderers safely housed in heaven. Tins glorious re sult will he achieved only at the loss of poor Landrum ssoul; for he, I believe, is repre sented as having been given to intoxication, and he was hurried into eternity without be in allowed time to repent, and the aid of the clergy to prepare him for the journey. Your system saves nearly all the murderers, rr gurdless of the fate of their rietims. What an engine of salvation the gallows has be come in these latter days. The wicked murderers are too bad To stay in this fair land ; The hangs man therefore sends them up, lo dwell at God’s right hand. w- 1 these rascals are thus blessed, n> ltn homes in heaven above; Their i ictims down to hell are driven, By God, whose nature’s love. I am no poet, as your friend John Pock is; but my poetry is equally as true as his. and serves to show that this subject, like many others, has two sides to it. I have now attended to all which seems to be im portant in your second article: and shall proceed to introduce further aftirmativc tes tlmonv. I rei,-r you now to the oath of Jehovah. f^**** 1 in Isaiah **. 34: “ I have m. the wor< l is gone out of return th*t m ”S' lte °osness, and shall not Ind eVrv to? 10 knee shall bow. # ffS Kl.*,*, ■=£ —*.v ** strength,” You will tlmtT’w* 1 left out the word one which the r * J 1 * 1 ' 6 supplied. Here then is the record,-d‘oath of him who says: “I am God and there i! none else.” that every tongue ‘Shall say, i n the Lord have I righteousness and strength.” When every tongue takes this will they swear truly or falsely. If falsely, then God’s oath requires him to cause them to swear falsely; for he has sworn by himself that they shall bow their knees to Lim, and take this oath. If they shall swear truly, t en will their bo none finally unrighteous. Youmav undertake to limit this language by the phrase “seed of Israel,” in the next verse , but if so, you come in conflict with Pau!; for he quotes.in Philippi*™ 2; 9, 10, 11, as follows : “ W herefore God ha!* high ly exalted him, and gl ven him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things un der the earth ; and that every tongue Thould confess that Jesus Cerist is Lord, to the glo ry of God the Father.” Paul, you see, as serts that every tongUe shall make the tame c mfeesion, in tite tame way, to the same vii: nuaioxT or Gop ibs Txjam. When this language meets it* fulfillment, there will surely be no sinners in the uni verse. I shall close this article with Paul’s declar ation. 1 Tim. 4; 9, 11 : This is a faithful saving, and worthy of til acceptation, for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that bel.eve. These things command and tench.” Here is Paul’s explicit declaration that “the living God i* the Saviour of all : men.” How can this be true, and yet mil lions remain unsaved ? Will you tell me that faith is the condition of salvation. I grant that this special ‘declaration is conse quent upon, and enjoyed only through faith, as the means by which it is realized. But l the fact that believers enjoy a sjtecial salva tion, through faith, does not nullify the’olh- Cr great truth that God is the Saviour of all t men. All are not saved in this life, and hence, in order that Pant's declaration may I be verified, the great salvation must be con ferred in the immortal state. That “the ( living (iod is the Saviour of all men” is “a faithful saying, and worthy of all accepta tion:” hut it was acause of reproach, 18<>0 j years ago, to believe and preach this doctrine. Xotwithstanding the reproach, though, Paul says to Timothy : “ These things COMMAND AND TKACH.” Respectfully vours, ii. B. CLAYTOX. From the Jefferson (Texas* Herald. The African Slave Trade The constitutionality of this measure having been fully discussed by ihe Press since the appearance of Mr. Reagan's circular 1 find it useless to recur to it now. The grounds assumed by Mr. R. and by which he has seen fit to agitate and endeavor to distract the Democratic party have been proven without founda tion, aud dangerous, ceply dangerous to the interests ofHhe South and her institu tions. The Jefferson Gazette of the 20th ult., thoroughly overthrows the ‘‘late adopt’ ed position” of Mr. lieagan by argu ments and truths incontiovertable by that gentleman or his friends. 1 would here take occasion to state that the place allowed me will admit of no lengthy arguments, but I am com pelled to arrive at points by tin shortest conclusion. Let us then look at the present existing condition of the South, see what it will lead to, and then consul er the contrast to be r. ached by lhe re opening of the African slave trade. We now find negro property demanding such high figures as to entirely exclude pur chasers, save from ihe wealthy classes. From this fact we plainly see that the I institution will soon be in the hinds of a few men; and we are equally aware of . the fact that *‘.~e!f preservation and in terest is the first and highest law.” Ihe i cheaper is labor the mo-re valuable laud. ; Such is the reason why the lands of the North and West, inferior in quality, de mands so much greater price than the lands of Texts. The great influx of pop | ulation m ikes free labor cheap while the high and exhorbitaut price of negroes I make it unreasonable and hard to obtain , at the South.. A large portion >f the ; lands at the South (especially in Texas) are owned by inr.-sUv*-h<dders. These j ; lands have long been held buck forreinu- j , iterative prices, but instead of reaching I the point, they are even reduced in val lue by the high estimate of labor. With * this class of men forbearance w ill event ually cease to be a virtue, while necesai ’ ty and self preservation will torce them j to fail into the system now being advo cated by Cordova and others. Our large slaveholders take a very unwise view and unpatriotic course as regards their | i own and the public good, and are using themselves as the instruments of their J ; own destruction ! Such a conclusion ; . can only be the result of a deliberate de , sire and hope for self gain, without con i sidering the direful effects likely to ac company such a course. “A half loaf, is better than no bread” is a trite saying, ! and one in its moral should demand se- j rious attention at this time. What then can be done to direct the j tendency of things from such a course 1 ; Simply by tho re-opening of the slave trade which has so long been closed b) an unconstitutional law of Congress so j much’ to the detriment of the Southern States and Southern people ! By that means the pric*3 of negroes will be re duced from twelve and fifteen hundred * to six and seven hundred dollar.-. When this is done every man can and will be the owner of slave- - , and fir the sustalnance of the institution the South will be a unit. “In union there is strength.’ The landholder will be enabled to buy because cheap labor has increased the value of his lands and the heavy planter will he no loser (as he now think-) be- j ! cause ihe increase in his real-estate will j more than cover the deficit in the price jof his slave property. What is the re sult ia full ? We save the Union by demanding our just rights and privileges; | we help the National Treasury by in- i creased taxable property, the mechanic ; by giving him more to do, and the Fac- j tories and starving million of our North ern friends by furnishing more cotton to be manufactured ; and more than all we ! regenerate and elevate (as we are taught it is our duty by scripture) the brutish j negro of Africa and bring him from a state of degradation, to civilization and plenty. Lion. Cass’ Oi spalch to Foreign Hi ulsters. THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS. Washington, July 7. The important State paper as to the position of the United States upon tiie question of neu tral rights has been completed, and was .des patched to all our Ministers in Europe by the Persia on Wednesday. It will create a most profound impression, and demonstrate that the present administration will maintain the digni ty, character and moral position of the United Stales. As one of the first commercial nations of the earth, we can no longer permit the grave questions w hich may arise affecting commerce | to be disposed of without our voice and iuflu -1 ence being heard and felt in their adjustment. The present manifesto lays down orotid prin ciples which will govern us in the maintenance of our rights as neutral, and there is every rea -1 i-on to fe'.ieve that the positions now assumed will be adopted by all the great nations of Ku -1 rope. The pnDCipial points are of course with reference lo a limitation of articles which shall ibe deemed contraband of war. The United States holds that nothing should be embraced in this hst hut the direct and immediate muni tions cf warfare, such as powder, muskets, can non, lead and saltpetre, etc. Coal, which is the very foundation of manufacturing and com mercial transactions, is declared by the U. S. not to bo contraband of war, and any attempt to construe U otherwise will be viewed as an encroachment upon our commerce. So, also, are breadstufts not contraband of war. The bread doctrine is also reiterated that a tree flag covers the cargo. Whilst the despatch makes no allusion to privateering, it is well understood, as a set tled principle of the American “d.ictrine, that under no circumstances wll we abandon that right.— Cor. A’. Y. Herald, Stamped Envelopes.— G. P. Nesbit, of: isew A ork, the Government contractor for stamped envelopes, has received an order , from the Post Master General to suply the departnent with one-million such envelopes, 1 combining the new seil-ruling improvement, j These will be furnished aa they may be re quired, with those now in use, at the sim- i pie cost of manufacture—about five cents per hundred above the present prices. It is just as easy, and don't cost five cents a hundred, to have a piece of paper the size I of an envelope ruled iu heavy black lines to j slip within while directing your envelope. It does not strik us hower,as beginning ave- ‘ ry difficult feat in cbirography to put the addreea upon an envelope in a readable i style, without the assistance of lines. The Afrirau and luler-Stute Slave! rnde. Some days since, alluding to a sugges tive and forcibly written paragraph go ing the rounds of newspaperdoni, we oh served that its reference to the two trat fics was alike strong and logical—in fact, indisputable —and that if the one was wicked, no doubt could possibly exist as to the wickedness of the other. Referring to the article in qne-tion, and quoting Imm it, the Jackson (Miss.) Esyle of the 28th ult. says : et there are a class of croaking poli ticians throughout the South, who, wheth er sincerely or not, hold to the opinion that because Congress some forty years ago pas-ed an act in defiance of all just principles and truth, that to buy or ob tain a negro from Africa was piracy, and ! the penalty for being engaged in such piracy was death—it is, forsooth, not i competent for this age to say that it is not piracy—and if they do so, they are traitors. Now, it needs only a little common sense to perceive the gist of the whole question. Is not a negro from Virginia an African 1 Os course. Con- gress makes it piracy for a man to bring a negro from Africa. Where is the dif ference between the negro bought in \ irginia and the one bought in Africa— that is what is the difference in fact and in principle ? The difLrence does not exist. If it is robbery to steal in one place, it is robbery to steal in another. Very strongly put. The great point at issue—the morality or wickedness of the tradesllieinselves—cannot he evaded or misconstrued by the shrewdest casu- Ps. If it be the wickedness and piracy i to buy a slave from his owner in Af rica, it is wickedness and piracy to buy a slave from his owner in Vir ginia. A negro is a negro—ownership is ownership—slavery is slavery—and the slave trade, no matter where carried on, w hether between Africa and the Uni ted States, Cuba and Mississippi, or Vir ginia and Louisiana, is exactly the same thing in every important particular. If it is revolting to humanity in the one in stance, it must necessarily be revolting in the other. There is no line of demar cation betw’cen the tw - o propositions.— Laws at variance with truth—laws that ! countenance the slave trade under cer ’ tain circumstances—are but libels upon law, decency, truth and honor, j As to the expediency of re opening the African slave trade, honest men may differ widely. But on the scores of right and wrong, so far as the two traf fics are concerned, there can be no honest and intelligent differences of opinion.— The traffic, wherever practiced, is either proper and right, or it is wrong and wicked.— jV. O. Crescent. Everday Enjoyment. A great error of man is the common one of intending to enjoy life by-and-by, after the work of life is done. He is so busy, now, that he ha no leisure for en joyment !—as if the man of leisure <n joved life. No, no; if we enjoy life at all, it w ill be amidst the bustle and toil; its working days must bring its pleas ures ; its amusements must come, w hen needed in the intervals of business. Nobody has a right to give the whole day to toil : it he does it, he is false to himself and to his friends, as thus lie gleets great wants of his nature and un fit himself to do his work in the best ! manner. The sunshine is as bright, the wind is as gay, as if pleasure was their sole purpose. The trees and plants are as beautiful—they blossom as sweetly and play as gracefully with the cool i breeze—as if they developed and nurtur ed no fruit. Work and enjoyment are compatible. Portions of ever day should be given to recreation ; the mind being refreshed and the body relaxed by domestic or so ’ cial amusement. Then, the work w - ould be enjoyed as much as the play, it is a physical pleasure to exercsie the muscles after re-t, especially if one has been amused during rest. And how buoyant is the mind returning to its labor after a j frolic with the babies, or a cosy te tea te te with nature ! O holy Nature ! from | thy bosom one goes to his woik as a child, at morning, aw akes to the wonders of the world. If one cannot enjoy life, all along, as he passes through it he can never enjoy it. If he toil unremittingly, till he finds the leisure of life, he will find no enj< y inent in that leisure—nothing will exist to vitalize it. Life will be to him a fail ure, as respects earth. We shall not solve the problem of life till we learn to enjoy it as it flies. Then, it will solve itself. \Yiiv Not? —“Ain’t you ashamed, Julia, to climb over the ter.ee with the boys ? Oh, shame on you ! ’ said a mother. Ashamed of what? Why not breathe, the pure air, and lift her eyes toward ilie glorious sun ? “But she will tear her dress and soil her apron, and become so 3un-burnt that she will be a perfect fright ” Let h“r get over the fence, or crawl under it; let her get over the cherry, peach, or apple trees, and pelt her brother with ripe apples or the juicy peach. If she tears her dress, mend it. A torn dress is more easi ly mended than a broken constitution. A little soap and water will be far cheaper than drugs and medicines. “Ah, but she will be sun-burnt, and fat and course.'’ Well that would be a pity, to have your dear daughter conic bouncing into the room, her joyous laugh ringing out the like the sil ver tones of a beh, with her chubby, and dimpled and embrowned cheek and flashit g eye. with gleeful mirth gushing out of her young heart in a thousand streams, spark ling far moie brightly than Orient pearls, and more potions than rubies. Observe her elastic step and buoyant spirits. Health, the very perfection of beauty in tbe human form, mantles her check, ami throws its charm around her whole being. This would to all sensible people be vast ly interesting; of more value than much fine gold. But to the aristocratic, in their own opinion only, how very vulyar\ How much more interesting to them would be the little darling who could come with a languid air and weary step, with puny frame, pallid cluck, and glaring eye; and simper a few drawling words, and work off an apology lor a laugh, apparently drawn from the deepest Artisian well, as smooth and as chilling as an icicle! But she is white or sallow, lean, languid, heart and spirit bro ken, constitution in ruins, trembling upon the verge of the grave, and a most charm ing, interesting little dear. Yes, she is in teresting. gloomy prospects are before her, and terrible realities pre‘s upon her. Ob, mothers! which will you choose, glowing health upon the sun burnt cheeks, or tbe hectic Hush spreading over the lilly neck, face and biow? Lane for President. Washington, July 7. —A number of gentle men fiom different parts of the Union are ma king arrangements for an early private meeting at Washington to consult as to tbe best means of bringing General Lane, of Oregon prominent ly before tiio country as a candidate for the Presidency. Av Imposter. —A man calling himself Dr. Jones is circulating about East Florida, soliciting aid from the Masonic fraternity.— His pretensions to a knowledge of the heal ing art are but pretensions, and if he ever was a Alason lie has evidently been expell ed long since. Let the public in general, and the Masons iu particular, be on the look out for the scamp.— Jacksonville Repub lican, 9 th. GEORGIA CITIZEN. L. F. W. ANDREWS, Edik k. MACON, JULY 15, 1859 FOR CONGRESS, Thos. Hardeman, jr., OF iM^coisr. STATE OFFSip CONVENTION. By almost unanimous concurrence of th OPPOSITION PRESS of the State ti e proposed Gubernatorial Convention will be held in the City of Macon, oil Wednesday, the 20th JULY. Press please copy til! the day. Estate Advertisng. Our friends having the management of es tates, as Administrators and Executors, are entitled to have all advertisements.connect ed with their duties as such, through the Court of Ordinary, inserted in papers of their own selection—and they will oblige us by exercising this privilege in favor of the Georgia Citizen. Correct your Figures! —The Augusta Constitutionalist announces the meeting of the Opposition State Convention to be ou the 27tb, instead of the 20ih, and the Savannah Republican lias it on the 24th, which will be Sunday! Next Wednesday, the 20th, is the day and Macon the place Wesleyan Female College. The annual Commencement Exercises oj this Institution closed, Wednesday, with the usual ceremonies. Commencement Sermon by Rev. Joseph S. Key, of Augusta, on Sun day—said to be a good discourse, but nol pertineut to the occasion. On Monday, the exhibition of the Junior class in Music, &c n at the College. Tuesday and Wednesday, Exercises at the church —Concert at Ralston’s Hall on Tuesday night. We have not been able to attend any of these exercises, and cannot, therefore, enter into details. We learn, however, that Rev. 0. L. Smith, Pres ident, and Prof. Stanley vacate their places in the Institution, and are to be succeeded by Rev. John M. Bonnell as President, aud Rev. Win. C. Bass, of Madison, as Prtlessor. l>4‘iuo4‘i'ati‘ Nomination. The Democratic Convention, for the 3rd District, met in this city, on Tuesday last, and placed in nomination Col. Alex. M. Spear, of Bibb County, as their standard bearer, for Congressional honors. He was nominated on the otli ballot, being opposed by McGehee of Houston and Mobley of Harris. The nominee is a gentleman whom we highly esteem, personally, and whom w e would take pleasure in supporting for office, were not his politics objectionable, and had we not a candidate that we like a little bet ter. Our opposition to him will, therefore, be on the same principle that the Columbus Times has avowed will govern that print in opposition to Capt. Hardeman. We think, however, that the Convention has, in this nomination, spiked one of the guns aimed by Captain Colquitt against Hardeman ! Wonder if Mobley lias not been treated as bad as Pike 1111 l was by the Opposition Con vention ! If there be any force in the ar gument offered to prejudice the Western side of the District against the nominee on ac count of his locality, tho Democratic nom inee is in the same fix with Hardeman.— Wh at then, will you do about it, Captain ? The I*lce ol Holding (lie Con vention. Iu answer to the Columbus Enquirer, which paper suggests that the Chairman of the late Executive Committee of the American Party, designate the place for the assembling of the op position Convention, iu order to prevent auv confusion iu the matter, we have to say, thal the chaDge of place from Milledgevillo to Ala con has been made with the approbation and consent of that gentleman, who fully concides with the Opposition Press of the State in the opinion, that Macon is altogether the most cen tral and accessible place for the meeting of that body. We agree with tbe Recorder that the ques tion is not open for consideration. It is settled by the voice of the Chairman of tLo Executive Committee, by all the leading Opposition Press es of the State, and by the concurring sentiment of all tho Delegates who can reach Alacon as easily as they cau Milledgoville, as well as by other considerations of economy of time and expense to those who woul f have to come through Macon to get to Af illedgeville. This we conceive is not “slender authority,” but tbe highest and best authority which the case wil* admit of—the public convenience. It will cost each delegate from the lines of the Central, Ma con arid Western, Southwestern, and State Roads, three or four dollars more to attend a Convention at Milledgeville, while on the other hand, there is not a solitary good reason why the Convention should bo held at Alilledgeville, save that slender one of State prestige•! In stead of being “strengthened” by meeting there, we think our parly is in danger of being tceak sned thereby. Tue savory smell of the “flesh pots” of Joseph have such a witchery about them, with some weak stomachs, that we do not think it advisable to expose such to the temptations which cluster and flow around the capital, even though such temptations are not stronger than sour lemonade The Convention will therefore be held iu Alacon and we cor dially invite our friends to come up hither, next week, to aid us in putting a Candidate in the field, for Governor, and organize thoroughly for the campaign of 1859 and 1860. The Gubernatorial Convention. The Southern Recorder, Journal A Mes senger, and one or two other journals, seem disposed to play into the hands of the Dem ocracy, in reference to the matter of a Gu bernatorial Convention. They have virtu ally given in their adhesion to Gov. Brown, in advance, and are now laboring to make the impression thnt it will be bad policy to nominate any candidate in opposition to him. The Recorder says : “ Some two weeks since, in article of ours upon the policy of running an Opposition candidate for Governor, we advised that the Opposition party should make no nomina tion ; we are of the same opinion still, and from all the information we have from dif ferent parts of the State, we are inclined to the opinion that a majority of our party does not desire a nomination. Now is the time on our part for “masterly inactivity,” for by watching and waiting a twelve month longer, if we read the signs of the political zodiac aright, good will result to our party; the Democracy sees and feels it, and hence their anxiety for an Opposition Candidate. A* we have said before, and still pav, it is issless to endeavor to manufacture euthusi ism against Gov. Brown. We speak what we know, when we say, (for we have travel ed much in the State and conversed with the thinking men of our party,) thut Governor Brown’s Administration meets with the ap proval of very many of our party ; and who cannot and will not be controlled by any action in oppotion to him. We are glad to see that the Morgan county meeting takes the same view of the question as ourselves, thinking that it is inexpedient and unwise to take action. Our true policy is to look to the Congres sional Districts, and make issue with the Democracy upon national affairs. We have all the arguments on our side, and if we do not beat them, it will be because they will repudiate the National Administration, and the Cincinnati Platform, and run upon the name of Democracy, with loud and earnest declarations of “retrenchment” and “re form” as the last resort to save themselves. However, these declarations are now under stood, and will go for what they are worth.” it seems to us, that the Opposition party of Georgia might with as much consis tency and propriety inuke an issue now with the Democracy, on national affairs, in aeon test for the Gubernatorial chair, as well as for Congressional honors. Gov. Brown is the candidate of the Democracy. The Dem ocracy has endorsed the national adminis tration, and Brown has placed lumself upon the platform, and we should force him to an issue upon national affairs, at once, and to the end. But let the advice of the llecor der prevail, and the party is demoralized and broken up. By waiting a twelvemonth we shall forego all the advantages which the present corrupt administration has given us. The capital which it has furnished will be misimproved, and its certain results lost.— For one, we say, that we shall have no heart to go into the canvass for our candidates for Congress and Legislature, unless we have a full ticket in the held. We want a stand ard hearer for the State at large, and that, we take it, is the object of the approaching Convention. If gentlemen are not disposed to enter in to this measure, we do not sec what busi ness they can have in the Convention, at all, unless it be to distract our councils for the benefit of the Democracy! The course of the Recorder is specially in consistent in this matter. It has arrayed itself against the Opposition party of Bald win County, and has failed to call the party together, to send any Delegates to the State Convention. AVhat right then has the lie corder to object to the Convention being held in Macon, or to its making a nomination for Governor, if its own county is not represen ted in that body ? It has placed itself out side of the party, altogether, and with one leg inside the Brown party, except in the matter of the Congressional canvass for the 7th District, in which it seems to have great interest, though in a position directly antag onistic to the party of its own county. It has even gone so far as to call another coun ty meeting, to send Delegates to a Congres sional Convention, in face of the; fact that the county has already acted in that matter, and brought out their man! We confess that all this looks like the Ilecorder is not only disposed to be factious at home, but is also willing to aid the Journal & Messenger in preventing a thorough organization of the party throughout the State. We will see whether such schemes will receive any consideration at the hands of the represen tatives of the people, who will assemble hero on next Wednesday. Till District. A\ e have information of a reliable char acter from several of the lower counties of the 7th District, that incline us to believe that the prospects of Col. Kenan for election to Congress from that District are exceed ingly flattering to that distinguished gen tleman. Twiggs, Wilkinson, Hancock, Putnam, and Jones, will doubtless support the nominee which their sister Baldwin has, with so great unanimity, presented for the suffrages of the Opposition. We also learn that Col. KenaD, having accepted the nom ination on an independent platform, will shortly take the field in an active canvass of his District. His claims have hitherto been put aside, by the machinery of packed con ventions, and lie is determined for the future to submit only to the voice of the people as expressed at the ballot-box, whether heshall he their llepresentative or not. Without disparagement to the claims of any other aspirant for the place, we think that Col. Kenan, by a long devotion to correct prin ciples and long service in the ranks of the Whig and American parties, has earned a right to the support of the people of his District, while in point of eloquence and ability, none can surpass him. The rights of Georgia will have no abler advocate on the floor of Congress, should Col. K. be honored with a seat in that body. Have we any Ojmjlatt men amongst ns. We are too much accustomed to witness the strange twistings and turnings of politicians to wonder at any somersault or feat of “ground or lofty tumbling” whicli may be displayed be fore our eyes. But wo confess that we were not quite prepared to discover that Stephen Ar nold Douglass has found so many aiders and abetters, right here at home, in the Sunny j South ! It is, nevertheless, a fact, reader, that a portion of the Georgia Democracy have al ready taken the field for Douglass, for the next 1 Presidency of the United States ! The proof is at hand. AlexanJerC. Walker, Esq., recent ly nominated by the Democratic Congressional Convention of the Bth District, while he de clines the nomination teudered him, thus bold ly nanouuees himself in favor of Mr. Douglass : “If he (Mr. Buchanan) sees proper to attempt to castigate Senator Douglass for proving re fractory, ai.d “settingup” for Linnelf, I would do the same in his place, and yet in my judg ment, policy and patriotism , demands that Judge Douglass should be the next candidate for the Presidency.” And our fellow citizen, James A. Nisbet’ Esq., in his letter to the Committee of Invitation to the Stephens’ Dinner, at Augusta, proposed the following sentiment to “one of Mr. Stephens’ great co-laborers in Congressional measures,” as, he was pleased to designate the “Little Gi ant,” viz : “Stephen A. Douglass — The only man who can deteat the Black Republicans in 1860 as a candidate of tbe friends ot tbe Constitution and the Union.” Now, we thiuk it more than probable tbat Douglass will be tbe candidate of these very “Black Republicans,” that Mr. Nisbet thinks can only be beaten through his candidacy!— The Southern Rights Democracy will not touch him with a ten toot pole, and how Mr. Nisbet or Mr. Walker can expect him to be elected as the nominee of the Charleston Convention, • without their aid is a mystery to us. Even the Buchanan Northern Democracy, as already giv en out, would prefer Robt. J. Walker or some other man, ratter than Douglass. Read, also, what the “jAvalanche,” an able Democratic Journal, ol Memphis, has to say of Douglass Its article, in to-day’s paper, will show that the Democratic Party, South, will be split to piece.- on this rock of stumbling. Douglass has friends i we believe, in every Southern State, and the fact is one that we record with misgivings as to the future. It is preposterous to suppose that he can ever be the candidate of the “friends of the Constitution and of the Union,” after th3 re cent indications we have bad of bis views on these subjects. Sure are we that tbe South can have no greater enemy to her rights and inter ests thaa Stephen A. Douglass. Joseph E. Brown’s Claims. The Thumasvillo “Enterprise” has the following pithy and pungent exposition of the peculiar claims of Governor Brown to re election to the post he now occu pies. We endorse every word our eo-- teinporary says of the one single qualifica tion of Joe Brown to be re -elected—that of pacing over $.‘6.000 per month, as the earnings of the State lioad, which, after all, is only about one fourth whai the Central Hoad is now paying on its investment. From reports we hear, we think it quite likely that should Joe Brown be reelected, even tint little a mount will dwindle to nothing, as soon as he is snugly seated for a second term. It is stated that the immense supply of wood which Gov Johnson’s administra tion had accumulated all along the road has been nearly exhausted, and that this will make some difference in the nett profits. The people then shonld wait to see the end of the matter, before they imagine that the Governor has really done anything worthy of praise, in the management of the Hoad. For aught we know, he may, monthly, put $36,000 in to the State Treasury and as often take it out to pay some indebtedness of the road, merely to make a show of doing something, till alter the election! So little confidence have we in the ability and fidelity of his Excellency, that we should not be surprised if his successor will be able to develop quite as much corruption and favoritism in the manage ment of the State property as his friends profess to believe that he has found in that of his predecessor. At all events, we think with the “Enterprise” that the principal reason assigned by the Democ racy for the re-election of Mr. Brown ought not to weigh a feather with the op position. The “Enterprize”. says: “ In his speech accepting the nomina tion of the late Democratic Convention, Gov. Brown said : “I do not know who my opponent is to be. 1 hope he may he the strongest and best man of the party, for there is some credit in beating their best man thirty thousand votes, which 1 expect to do, if 1 live. Ido not feel that I could he very well satisfied with less.” If this is not a sickening and imperti nent boa't, then we have no longer any defence for modesty: Suppose this mighty giant, this valiant Quixotic Gov ernor of Georgia, should be elected by a meager majority, would his crest fall, his heart break and his dissatisfaction drive him, like the spirit of Belschazzar, into the fields upon his hands and knees to eat grass like the beasts of the field ? Doubt less, it would grieve him sorely. In the conclusion of his speech he speaks as foK lows : “And by necessary co-operation with the able, efficient and trustworthy officers of the State Hoad, I can assist them to pour into your State Treasury from thir’ ty-five to forty thousand dollars in cash per month, 1 shall feel that 1 am doing the State more service than I or any one who may be my opponent could by trav eling over the territory and making stump speeches. This monthly argu ment I expect to continue to repeat.— Thirty-five or forty thousand dollars per month is an argument in favor of Democ racy that will be felt in the election.” The closing words of this speech are true, aud it is confessedly all the argu ment Democracy can produce as area son why Gov. Brown should be re-elec ted. But for the State Iload, which Brown says he has made pay, the party in Georgia w’ould be flat, completely prostrated before the power of the oppo sition. Brown is determined, like the inn keeper, who staked his money against the two thieves, that he could follow the pendulum of a clock, repeating with each vibration, “ Here she goes, there she goes,” for the space of one hour. Like him, we say, he is determined to win , no matter who thinks he is crazy. To the screams and gesticulations oi all who feel concerned about his sanity, he only an swers “ forty thousand dollars!” Tell him the Democratic party has no plat form, he “exclaims forty thousand dol lars !” That his party is sectional, “for ty thousand dollars!” That the Union is about to he dissolved, “forty thousand dollars!” That his Bank policy has run off his followers, *• forty thousand dol lais!” That the Opposition are over whelming him, and still he exclaims at the top of his voice, “forty thousand dol lars !” Forty thousand dollars is his only argument, his watch word and his batiie cry. He does claim to possess 1 any other merit — asks to be elected on ; no other plea —it is sufficient if he can make the State Hoad pay ; all other in terests of the State, Legislative, Judicial wild political, may go by the board if he can only get to be Governor once more upon the merits of his “ forty thousand dollars ! ’ No one, we believe, pretends to give him credit f>r anything but hon \ esty and making the State Head pay into I the Treasury thirty or forty thousand dollars p>er month, and his honesty is acknowledged upon the presumption that he makes the State lioad pay all it is capable of paying. Now let us see what this presumption is worth. The Presi dent of the Central Rail Road, Mr. Cuy ler, makes that lioad pay, if we mistake not, about I<> per cent., whila Governor Brown makes the State Itoad pay a frac tion over 4 per cent. This enormous discrepancy appears between these two roads, although the State lioad is one of the very best [laying roads in Georgia.— Now if Mr. Cuyler can make the Central lioad pay 16 per cent., why cannot Gov. Brown make the State Road, in every respect equal to the Central Road, pay that amount? And yet the State Road pays only about onefourth of that amount. Grant that the State lioad cost even twice as much as the Central lioad, tr should then p>ay eight per cent, and would almost entirely relieve the State of taxation, it may well be questioned then whether Gov. Brown, with his boasted ‘•'•thirty or forty thousand dollars has yet done his duty to the State arid deserved the reputation of honesty. — According to these figures, ifMr. Cuyler makes the Central lioad pay 16 per Gent., as Governor of Georgia, he would make the State Road pay at least one million of dollars into the Treasury, and sink our swelled head Joe Brown. and his ‘•forty thousand” into utter and per petual insignificance.” Stewart Couul y. —The opposition par. ty of Stewart county at a late meeting in Lump kin, “Resolved that it is the desire of the oppo sition in Stewart that our Gubernatorial Con vention do nominate a candidate for Governor.’ The same meeting appointed the following delegates to said Convention:—John T. B. Tur ner, L. R. Redding, George Y. Banks, L. R. Parker, and Chas. H. Warren. To the Con gressional Convention—John M. Scott, E. R. Moore, William Watt, John D. Snelling, and E. H. Beall. Handsome Compliment. Hon. Foster Blodget, Jr., Mayor of Augusta, was on Monday last presented with a handsome service of plate, consisting of a massive sil ver pitcher, salver and two gobleti The plate is suitably inscribed, and was present ed to Mr. Blodget by a number of his friends and fellow-citizens, in token as well of their personal esteem as of their approbation of his official conduct as Mayor of Augusta. Execution. The Atlanta press seem to be of one opin ion as to the moral effects of public execu tions, and that is adverse to such exhibitions. Ou Friday last, John Cobb, jr., one of the murderers of Landrum, was executed at At lanta, in the presence of a large crowd of men, women, children and negroes, amount- i ing to several thousands of persons, most of whom apparently enjoyed the spectacle as much as au enthusiastic play-goer would en joy tbe representation of one of Shakspearc-’s tragedies! Well, we cannot say that we are dissatisfied with tLis result. It will proba bly work out better and more humane views in reference to capital punishment, one prin cipal argument in favor of which, is based upon the good example which hanging is supposed to have upon evil doers. This ad vantage is now seen to be worse than no ex ample at all—so the advocates of legal killing now ask that it be done in private, within the jail walls! But we shall insist upon hav ing all the publicity possible given to such demoralizing spectacles, till the public voice requires the abolition of the gallows, alto gether, as unwise, unchristian and unneces sary. But there is another feature in this case of Cobb, which requires notice. He, it seems, unlike his brother murderer, Crockett, died impenitent. He was not converted by the Clergy, and has, therefore, gone to “reap his reward ” in an endless hell, according to “Orthodoxy.” Would it not have bten bet ter to have allowed him to live on —in pris on, and in chains, a few weeks, months or years longer, if perchance, he might have been prepared for a different fate beyond the grave! If be was, in the judgment of the Christian people, unfit to live, was he not, also, unfit to die! Verily, it is time, we think, that Christian governments should learn that retaliation and revenge are incom patible with the teachings and principles of the Gospel they profess to believe, and by which they profess to be governed ! The Fly Leaf. —This beautiful quar terly for May has just reached us, a little be hind the time, but full of interesting matter from tbe pens of tbe gifted young ladies of Col lege Temple, Newnau, Ga. Some o r the contri butions of this number would do honor to tbe most'practised writers of the day and oviuce a high state of intellectual culture on the part of the alumnae and pupils of tbe college. We se lect a short article to show the general style of tbe publication, and would be glad to have it in our power to send on a large list of subscri bers thereto. For terms see Prospectus in tbe advertising column. The “Leaf” is published at the Banner Office of Newnan, and reflects much credit upon Mr. Welch for the skill dis played in its execution. Will not be a Candidate. The Savannah Republican of yester day, distinctly states, that under no cir cumstances, will R. R. Cuyler, Esq., consent to the use of his name, as a candi date for Governor. His existing obliga tions to the heavy interests of the Cen tral Road are. assigned as the cause. Mobile and Girard Rail Road. At an annual meeting of the Stockhol ders of the Mobile & Girard Rail Road Company, at Girard, Ala., on the 6th inst., Maj. John 11. Howard was unani mously re-elected President. Homer sth District. The Democratic Congressional Convention of this District, met at CalhouD, last week, and after 22 unsuccessful ballotings, nomina ted John W. H. Underwood, of Rome, as their candidate for Congress. Tumlin, Chas tain, Wright and Dabney all had warm supporters, Tumlin leading considerably on the first seven balfttings, but the friends of the other aspirants not yielding, Underwood was taken up as a Compromise man and run in. So the Hon. A. R. Wright has received his quietus ! All Apology. —We owe a public apol ogy to R. L. Oliver, Americus, for so pub licly reminding him, a week or two since, of his indebtedness to this office. We thought, at the time, that it was a different inan, altogether, and not our young friend Robert, or else we never would have “ put him in tbe papers.” We hope this will be eonsidered an ample “amende honorable ” for the error inadvertently committed, and make it all right with bin). He has made it all right with us. Opposition Convention. Bibb—J II R Washington, W R Phillip.® Seth Cason, L F W Andrews, John T Bartlett, Washington Poe, James Myrick, 0 G Sparks, James B Baily, Thomas Dough erty. Chattahoochee—J U Snapp, D H Burts, Benjamin Evans, D F Scarborough, Wm Parkman, W B Willis and D C Cody. Dougherty—Edwin T Jones, Lott Warren, D A Yason and P J Strozier. Decatur—M P Glass, John P Dickerson and Thomas Hines. Elbert—Robert Eberbarf, Thomas R Alexander, U A Tate, John W .llattox, and James M Willis. Floyd—John R Freeman, Geo. S Black, Dr James D McNair, Edward W Hell, J S McCarver, D E Booten, J H Gill, Thomas J Davis, Dr. N B Hall, Joseph Ford, W P Ware, Sanford Williamson, H Allen Smith, j Dr. II V M Md'er, John M Blount, Thomas W Alexander, Jno. F Mann, M Dsvinnell, ! Jno. H Walker, J B McCiong, John A Johns *ou, John Skinner, W F Ay re, Thoma- Lumpkin, Y 11 Moore and R H Zuber. Harris—D P Hill, D H Zachery, Henry Kimbrough, John McCurry, Wm M Griggs, Jeff. McCurry, James B'ggers. E C Dmrn ruond, Ilirem Williams, A G Jones, J I Da vid, Milton Roberts and P S W eds. Houston— Eli Warren, B T Ru-se!l and Edward L Felder. Polk—Abner Darden, W T Witcher, I N Jones, Reese McGregor, Micajah Wil son and John T Fulwood. Pike—Dr. G M McDowell, James B Staff ord and S R Reaves. Quitman —David L Rice, GB Pinkerston, Colson Guilford, James Tugg®, and L P Do zier. Taylor—W J F Michel, LQC McCrary. Elijah M Hicks, Jeremiah Wdchar, C F Ficklirg, D O Smith, James Griffith, Y H Caldwell, Andrew McCants, Willis Jenks ar.d W W Coibitt Talbot —J II Walton, Dr C B Leitner, James Z Dismukes, Cyras Robinson, R M Willis. Upson—Col. A G Fambro, Col.P W Alex ander, Thomas S Sharman, Jesse Stephens, and G A Miller. Sumpter—Dr. R C Black,Dr. Wm J Reese, Thomas P Redding, Rob’t. J Hodges, Dr. George M Mattox, Wm H C Dudley, David H Hill, George R Harper, Thomas D Spear, Wm A Bartlett, Wm J Patterson, S C Elam. Lee—Col. Wm A Maxwell, Chas. Y Craw ford, G M Stokes, Jno. C Floyd, and Fran cis W Forth. Terrel—Eli G Hill, C M Rolls, Mark Glass, Mathew Williams. Oglethorpe—Z H Clark, Thomas S Gres ham, Thomas H Hawkins, J M Brawner, C G Hargrove, T H Dozier, F J Robinson, W P Smith, (of Bowling Green), Parmenas Haynes, A J Hall, D H Johnson, J S Gres tiam, Woodson Daniel, J M Brightwell, H M Horton, William M Lane,Robert H Lump kin. Green —Col. R H Ward, R J Dawson, Col. M W Lewis, R L McWhorter and V D Gresham, Esqrs. Stewart—John T B Turner, L R Redding, George Y Banks, L R Parker, and Chas. H Warren. 1 Coweta —W F Wright, Green K Dennis J R Tolbort, John M Hill, and Charles Talil afero. Spalding—L R Brewer, John Q A Alford James Lavender, David H Johnson and B W Ferril. Henry—Geo. M Nolan, Daniel Ponder Henry C Merrit, Jno. Bryans, Jno. H Low Wesley C Welch, Jno. Austin, E B Arnold’ A J Cloud, Archibald Brown, Samuel Cook’ Beni. L Harper, A G Harris, S Mattox and J Bivens. Lincoln—B P O’Neal, John L Paschal] and R W Davie. Macon—James D. Frederick, A. W. Hicks J. E Bartlett, B. F. Fleming, Daniel Kleck’ ley. J. L. Parker, and 11. E. A. Candler. Butts—James M. Ne w ton, James S. Boyn ton, C. Lummus, Henry Fletcher, Dr P Williams, and Wm. M'Clellaod. DeKalb—B. F. Chamberlain, 0. Winning, ham, S. Alexander. Cass—A. M. Penn, B. 11. Conyers J. p Parrott, A. F. Wcoley, R. H. Jones. Ciaytou—Dr. J. B. Key, Branch Tanner J. CL Smith. ’ Meriwether—Jas. C. Freeman, Carver W Williams, F. M. Brandy, Green B Rollins, J Fuller, B K Gates, George L. Pervy. Monroe—Hiram Phinazee, R P Trir.pe J T Crowder, C Peeples, W. M. Clark, James H. Evans, Lewis A. Ponder, Wm. Harden Tboa. Battle, Thus. B Settle, W C Wooten B II Zeilner, W 11 Bankston, Ambrose Mur phey, Eden Taylor, John G. Willis J. B Ogletree, W L. Flint, C II Smith. Fulton— A W Stone, N. J Hammond. W A Wilson, Wm. Gilbert, E N Calhoun, L. C. Simpson, James M Calhoun, Jesse Cook, t! J Perkerson, O H Jones, Wm Eesard, C. B. Uauleiter, J. M Dorsey, W F Herring, Felix Hardeman. Troup—B H Bigham, Wm P. BeasLy J. S Hill, F A Frost, Seth Tatum, R. G Ilum ber. One Day Later from Europe. ARRIVAL OF TIIE -ETNA. New York, July 13th. The -E na arrived to-day, with Livetpool dates to the 2d inst. We have the following items of General Intelligence. It is believed in some quarters of Par's, that tbe loss of the French fore's in the battle of Solferino will reach 15,500 tnen, besides tbe death from casualties in the Ai tillery and other corps. The loss is estima ted as follows: In General Neil’s corps, 0,000 to 7.000, Baraguay de Hil.ier’s corps, 5.000; Marshal McMahon’s corps, 2,500, and Mar shal Canroberts corps, 1,000. The French people are dissatisfied at the meagre details of the engagements which have been furnished. The Paris “Patrie” says tht Napolecn had an epaulette shot away. Some French regiments were nearly cut to pieces. The Piedmontese troops suffered so se verely as to be unable to form a line of battle. A despatch from from Vienna, dated the 28th, says that some days must elapse be fore complete returns can be received from the Austrian army. The Italian regiments in the Austrian army have become very unmanageable and were deserting by scores and files. At Trieste a whole battallion declared in favor of Victor Emanuel. A vessel sailing under the American flag was detected taking deserters On board. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER. BREEMEN AND CANADA. New York, July 12. —The steamship Bremen was boarded off Caj>e Race on Sun day, and the steamship Canada reached Halifax this forenoon, with European dates as late as July 2nd. Commercial. Liverpool, July 2.—Sales of Cotton for the week, 57,000 bales. The lower grades declined 11. Breadstuff's had slightly declined. Provisions weredu'l and quotations nom inal. Consols, at London were quoted at 93|. Additional bv the Canada. Halifax, July 12.—The sales of Cotton at Live! pool for the week weres7,ooO bales, of winch speculators took 1000 and expor ters 11,500 bales. Holders offered their stocks freely, but showed no disposition to press sales. The sales on friday were 8000 bales and tbe market closed steady at the subjoined quotations: FOr Orleans. .. I Mid. Orleans 6* Fair Mobil- s 75 Mid. Mobiles f>s Fair Uplands. ...7J | Mid. Uplands.. ..6f The stock of Cotton on hand at Liverpool was 747,000 bah s, of which 054,000 bales were American. State of Trade.— Advices from the man ufacturing districts are favorahl". Tbe de mand was quiet, but prices were steady and firm. Havre Cotton Market. —Orleans ires Ordinaire was quoted at 107f., and all grades had slightly improved. London Money Market.— Consols closed at 93 1-8. The money market was slightly more stringent, and the bullion in the Bank of England had increased £211,000. GENERAL NEWS. No other battles are reported to have been fought by tbe Austrians and tbe allies. The allied army had continued to move unmolested across the Mincio. Louis Napoleon had moved his head quarter? from Volta to Volteggio, and had invested Pcschiem from Lago, aud the Sar dinians from Garda to the Mincio. The Emperor of Austria expected to re main in Austrian Italy. The new English Ministry had pronounc ed iu fvor of a strict neutrality. Mr. Cobden has declined accepting a seat in the recently organized Eng'ish Cabinet. From “ The Fly Leaf.” The Spirits of the Departed. How pleasant it is to know that the spirits of the “loved and lost” hover around u?, keeping us from committing wicked deeds, and protecting us from “danger seen and un seen.” Many a time when we are ready to do or say something we know to be wrong, the instructions of a dear departed friend, recur to our minds,and we banish all thoughts of the wicked purpose, as if one had spoken to us Dorn the dead. See that young inan who is about to.com mit a crime which will bring disgrace upon bis aged father and innocent sister. But while he awaits the approach of the person whose life he wishes to take, thoughis come into his mind which he cannot account for, and which be strives in vain to banish. He is again a boy, standing at bis mothers knee and listening to the words of admonition that fall from her lips. He hears her repeat the command, “Thou shaltnot kill,’ 'andre- members how she warned him never to let the fate of the murderer be his. Immediately all wicked thoughts and purposes are ban ished from his mind, and his name and honor are still unUimiehed. Who would deny that the spirit of his de parted mother was there, and was the instni ment of preventing him from committing that dreadful deed. And it is ever thus—the spirits of the de parted are constantly around us shielding us from evil aDd comforting us when in trouble. And though many doubt this piiociple, 1 uxruld not disbelieve it, for from it I derive much comfort Secretary Floyd. A W T aahington correspondent of the Louis Republican says: “ I regret to report the continued ill health of Secretary Floyd, who is now sojourning at the Military Asylum, near this city- H‘S late trip to Virginia seems to have had but little effect upon bis disease, and his frienos are seriously apprehensive he will not soon recover. A member of the Cabinet, who visited Gov. Floyd yesterday, in the country, expresses the opinion that his disease wd probably terminate fatally. His family are anxious for him to retire from the Cabinet, and be may do so at an early day should his residence in tbecountry not produce a change lot tbe better.”