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From the Sivannah R ‘pubi.an. The Atlanta Bank. In oar paper of the 16th inst. we pre sented to our readers some statements of the condition and prospects of this Bank, as they were detailed to us by Mr. S. C. Higginson, its President. In doing this, we did not verify any facts stated by Mr. Higginson. Having published on the 21st of May, a pretty caustic article a bout this bank, from the Chronicle ($• Sen tinel, wo thought it but justice to Mr. llig ginson to present his statements to the people, that they might judge for them selves, of the degree of credit to which the Bank entitled. The Chronicle & Sentinel bases upon these statements, some remarks which we append below. Like its editor, we have no interest, direct nor indirect, in this In stitution, not common to every citizen; and if it be the deliberate intention of any parties to use the charter “for fraudulent purposes,” we will promptly and with pleasure expose any such intention, when made apparent'to us. At present, we must confess, that notwithstanding Mr. Hig ginsou’s statements to us, we regard with much suspicion the circumstances connect ed with thorganization of this Bank, and the whole history of its charter, so far as they have been developed. And w r e would here remark, that if a fraud is per petrated upon the people, through the in strumentality of this charter, the corpora tors and original proprietors of it, cannot escape the charge of having participated in such fraud. In order that the public may be advised of the alledgcd circumstances and repre sentations, under which this charter was applied for and obtained from the Legis lature, and also the names of the original proprietors, we annex the preamble, and a part of the first section of the act of in corporation, as follows: “Whereas a number of persons in the city of Atlanta and its vicinity, interested in the welfare of that place, have capital, which they are desirous of employing in facilitating its business, advancing its in terests, lessening its- dependence on the Banks of other places, by whose orders discounts are controlled, and often stopped when they most wanted and needed, in prder to purchase the produce brought tto this market, and owing to the accessi bility of said city, by means of the many TRailroads which converge at this place, a Bank would be a public convenience. “Section Ist. Be it enacted, That John F. Mims, Wm. Ezzard, E. W. Holland, J. O. McDaniel Clark Howell, J. Nor cross, B. 0. Jones, J. A. Hayden, Rich ard-Peters, Wm. M. Butt, Lemuel P. Grant, Ezekiel Mason, James A. Collins, Joseph Winship, Barrington King, Willis F. Menifee, C. W. Arnold, John D. Stell, T. M. Jones, N. L. Angier, James P. Humphries, Stephen Terry, J. Thomp *lson, and J. F. Loj r d, and such persons as they may procure to take stock under this act be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body corporate, under the name and style of the “Atlanta Bank” with banking privileges, located at Atlan ta, and so shall continue,” &e. We repeat, that If, under the circum stances and representations contained in the preamble of this act, these corporators did not use and employ the “capital” which they said they had, for the purposes there in stated, bat have obtained these char tered privileges and sold them to irres ponsible third parties as a speculation, they have falsified their representations and have “used deceitful means aud artful practices” whereby the public may be de frauded; aud thersfore they cannot escape the indignant rebuke of the people, if they suffer this charter to be used for “fraudu lent purposes.” We then say to the peo ple, beware! In remarking upon our article the Chron icle tj* Sentinel says: Before proceeding, however, it may not be improper to remark, that we know none of the parties owning stock in the Bank of Atlanta, (except Mr. Higginson, the President, who yesterday called on us and introduced himself,) and as we have no interest direct nor indirect (except that common to every citizen J in any Banking institution in the State, we have no object to subserve, but to warn the people a gainst what we believe to be a deliberate purpose to defraud them by mean3 and through the agency of this Bank. It is not remarkable, that the inter view with Mr. Higginson should have con firmed all our former suspicions of the de liberate design of George Smith & Cos. to usp the bank charter for fraudulent purpo ses, while they entirely removed all suspi cion from the mind of the Republican; it is only an evidence of the different impress ions made upon different minds by the same facts. Mr. Higginson seems to be an amiable, pleasant, plausible man, and it is not to be supposed that he would not “assure” the Republican, as he did us, that the opera tions of the Bank of Atlanta would be in accordance with the “best and strictest rules of banking,” in short altogether le gitimate. Os course he would say all this, (and in charity, we sincerely hope he thinks so, and means to do so as far as he can J for no sane man would go into a strange community, or even one in which he was known, and proclaim his purpose to commit a fraud upon the people. Let us then see how far Mr. Higginson can control the action of the bank, even) supposing him determined to act as he proposes, and to ascertain his power, it will be necessary to briefly review the short but significant history of this institu tion. It was chartered by the last legislature, the name of one of the corporators (per haps more) having been introduced into the charter without his knowledge, privity or consent. A year or more after the charter was granted, George Smfth & Cos. of Chicago, Illinois, suddenly appear at Atlanta, just at the time the subscription for the stock was to be made, and when the books were opened, they took all but ten shares. A board of directors is formed, not one of whom, Mr. Higginson Storms us, lives in Atlanta, and they elect it Pre- Bident and Cashier, neither of whom reside in or are known there, and the first issue of their bills is made before any officer of the Bank has reached Atlanta, in Chica go, Illinois, and other points in Wisconsin and the Northwest. Mr. Higginson is just now on his way to Atlanta to” com mence the banking business there, weeks, perhaps months, after the bills of the bank nave been circulated in Illinois and Wis consin. “Smith & Cos. own all the stock but ten shares,” these ten shares are owned by persons who constitute the bos.rd of directors. * Mr. Higginson, the President, owns one share. The board of directors, 1 therefore, are tub meke creatures of Smith & Cos., whom they can make and uumake by a nod or vote; they are there fore, compelled to do the bidding of Smith Cos. or lose their places, and they may be parties to the contemplated fraudulent use of the Bank charter. Mr. Higginson, too, who only owns one share, comes to Atlan ta, not because of any interest he has in the bank, or other property, for he lias none there, but simply to obtain his salary I as President, which Smith & Cos. agree to j pay him. lie is, therefore, virtually an 1 employee of Smith & Cos., and must do j their bidding or lose his place. What power, then, has he to control the bank within legitimate bounds. The board of direction, not one of whom lives in Atlan ta or have any interest there, will control the institution, so long as they conform to the requirements of Messrs. Smith & Cos., and when they disobey, they must give place to more obedient creatures. This is a brief and fair statement of the state of things according to the admissions of Mr. Higginson to us. It is, therefore, clearly not within his power to pursue a legitimate banking business, were he so disposed, if Smith & Cos. will otherwise. And to show that they entertain no such purpose, it is ouly necessary to state that, if such was their desire they could easily have obtained a charter under the General Banking Law of Illinois, which authorizes any man to bank who deposites the proper securities with the State Treasurer or the Comptroller. Fayette Ratification Meeting. Fayetteville, June 21, 1853. According to previous notice, a respect able portion of the Democracy assembled at the Courthouse, in Fayetteville, to rat ify the proceedings had in the two late De mocratic Conventions at Newnan and Milledgeville. The meeting was organized by calling the Hon. J. I. Whitaker to the Chair and Jssee L. Blalock requestad to act as Se cretary, after which able, lengthy and elo quent addresses were deliverod by Messrs. James F. Johnson and V. A. Gaskill. The following resolutions were then of fered by Y. A. Gaskill, which were unani mously adopted: Whereas it is good for us to express our opinions in primary assemblages of the people, both concerning the National polity and State affairs, to keep always in our memory the cardinal doctrines of our party as well as to choose and support our pub lic officers, who faithfully execute the trusts committed unto them— 1. Be it therefore Resolved, That we still retain undiminished confidence in the integrity and wisdom of the administration of Franklin Pierce. 2- Resolved, That we rejoice in the re union of the just now divided Democracy of Georgia and sincerely hope that the reign of discord is all over, and that at our next general election the Democracy of our State will march hand in hand to the bal lot box, forgetting past dissensions in the good old ways of the Democratic faith. 3. Resolved, That the nominee of this Goagressional district is worthy of our confidence and shall havo our support. 4. Resolved, That the Convention just adjourned at Milledgeville have acted no bly, done the work assigned them and have given the Democracy of Georgia a standard bearer, in our next campaign, worthy our foemen’s sternest steel, and if our opponents desire a combat in the po litical arena, to try the temper of our lea der and weapons, or contest his views with those of his adversary, we tender to them, in advance, with honest pride, Herschel Y. Johnson, a Democrat, a patriot and states man of whom we are- not ashamed, and with him the piatforjn and resolutions of said Convention as otir political creed. On motion of James F. Johnson it was ordered that the proceedings of this meet ing be published in the Georgia Banner, and Jeffersonian. The meeting then adjourned. JOHN I. WHITAKER, Chra’n. Jesse L. Blalock, Seer’y. European and American Agitation. The energy with which the abolition- j ist at-home and abroad attracts general attention- Prof. Stowe is laboring to convince the Engliah capitalist and abo litionist to do without “slave-grown cot ton,” and several of the Brtish papers are trying to demonstrate the practicability of growing cotton in ludia, Africa, and Australia. Meanwhile the domestic agi tators take up the same idea, and elabor ate it according to the most approved standard of fanaticism. France is soon to be appealed to by Mr. and Mrs. Stowe, and a sort of moral crusade is to be a roused in the diffierent monarchies of Europe against the peace of the Ameri can Union. We have already seen the nobility of England embarking under the lead of abolition champions; and doubtless before many months have elapsed, such model monarchsas Francis Joseph of Aus tria, ahd Ferdinand of Naples, will have enlisted their very pious and humane sympathies on the side of the author and abvocates of Uncle Tom. Nothing short of a general war among the despots and rulers of the Old World will prevent the success of their plans, so far as the ex penditure of good wishes for abolitionism and bitter curses against the United States are concerned. The movement is 1 curious and suggestive; and though not ‘quite so formidable as a declaration of war, it is valuable as showing the vigi lance and virulence of the foreign and domestic enemies of our institutions. Asa stimulant to those who are more directly engaged in this labor of love, Groat Britain is appearently trying to in duce the Spanish Government to liberate the slaves of Cuba, so ns to make of that island a sort of headquaters for operations against this Union, while her echoes up on these shores labor with desperation to excite servile insurrection among the negroes bond and free, in th southern Slates. Such is the aspect of agitation, as con fined to the more violent farmtics at home and to their transatlantic masters. In the meanwhile, what is the spirit of tne whig press of the United Statesf So far from attempting to arouse the people to a sense of the real designs of our for eign and domestic opponents, they have combined in an effort against an adminis tration which is the surest bulwark of the South after the co-nstitution, and the most energetic instruroeoi in the promo tion of tranquility among the people of the beloved Union. To such organs as these, the question assumes a chief in terest, inasmuch as it inspires the hope that it may be used to overthrow an ad ministration so esseutitl to the peace and i prosperity of the people, and to erect a | dynasty founded upon the principles o the obolitionists, and publicly dedicated to the success of their deep-seated aud wide-spread schemes.— Exchange. Rail Rod Meeting. The Board of Directors of the Carroll ton and Newnan Railroad, convened at Newnan, Coweta county, on the 21st of June, pursuant to public notice, R. R. Cuyler, President, presiding, U. B. Wil kinson was requested to act as Secre tary. Present—lsaac Scott, J. B. Reid J. F. Tomlinson, A. Mandeville, Capt. U. J. Sargent, H. P. Wooten, B. M. Long, VY. Mailer. On motion it was Resolved, That Henry Funnel and J. N. Simmons he appointed Directors in place of J. W. Garth and. E. P. Daniel, declined* The following nmonnts to aid u sur veying the Railroad route from Griffin, Ga., to Decatur, Ala , reported to have been subscription: In SaßPrftti and Macon, $1,500 “ Coweta county, 1,000 “Carroll “ - 1,000 “ Griffin 505 “ Morgan county, Ala., 1,000 On motion of 11. P. Wooten, Resolved, That R. R. Cuyler, Isaac Scott and J. N. Simmons be appointed a committee to engage a suitable engineer to survey said Rail Road route. On motion Isaac Scott was appointed Treasurer of the Board of Directors. Passed the following resolution. Resolved, That nil individuals and committees having the care and charge of funds raised for defraying the cost of the survey, be and aie requested to gather and remit the same at once to Isaac Scott Treasurei, at Macon, Ga. On motion, the following gentlemen, viz: R. R. Cuyler, J. B Reid, R. W. McCune, H. P. Wooten, A. J. Bugguss, John Robinson, A. B. Calhoun, John Ray and J. N. Simmons, were appointed a committee to apply to the next Legis lature of Georgia for a charter for said Railroad, and W. Mailer and Henry Fun nel of Alabama, together witft such per sons as they may associate with them, to seoure from the Legislature of Alabama a charter to run through that State. Mr. VV. Mailer, of Alabama, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the contem.dated Rail road, to run from Griffin, Georgia, to De catur, Alabama, be called the South At lantic-and North Alabama Railroad. On motion of Dr. Simmons, Resolved, That the Board of Director.** meet next in Griffin, at the call of the President. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the papers of Newnan, Griffin, Macon, Savannah, Jack sonville and Decatur, and that all others friendly to the project be requested to copy. After hearing addresses from Gen. E. P. Daniel, Mr. R R. Cuyler and others, the meeting adjourned, subject to the call of the President. R. R. CUYLER, President. U. B. Wilkinson, Sec’ry. From the following, which we find in the Newnan Banner , it will he seen that the Hon. Charles Murphy, who was re cently slaughtered, by the Southern Rghts Democracy in the Congressional convent ion of the Fourth District, will he an independant candidale.for Congress He doubtless looks to the whig party of the District for support. VVe trust he may never receive it. Col. Murphy ad vocated the reorganization of the democ racy, knowing that there was no principle upon which such a reorganiza tion could be effected, and trusting his chance, of a return to Congress, to men to whom he was bitterly opposed in 1850. He submitted himself to their power. Ilesubmited his elands to them, and was uncermoniously thrown aside as a useless peace of lumber and a disunion ist was prefered before him What right has he to complain? Who has he to blame hut himself. And to what can he attribute his defeat, but to his own abandonment of his position as a union and fraternization with a party vriili whom, upon principles, he could not act? It 15 now with an exceedingly bad grace that he can pcr.v appeal to bis Union allies for support, WtiO.7) he a bandoned in hot hast, when, as ho imag ined, the alliance was no longer prof fitable. The whigs and union democrats who has never surrendered himself , the Southern Bigots democracy, aad with him suffer defeat, rather than take up one who returns to them, because ha is forced to do it, and by supporting him, offered a premium for political tergiver sation and in consistency.— Jour, Mes senger. By private advices from New Orleans, we learn that the steamer which left for Vera Cruz on the Ist took out an agent from New York, whose object was to make a bargain with Santa Anna for the sale of thq famous lot of Law muskets, and to furnish other warlike materials, powder, &c. We further learn that this gentle man was prepared to offer Santa Anna all he might want in that way for the equip ment of an army of 100,000 men—the matter of payment or security for it, he, the agent was to see about. His instruc tions were to be accommodating if there was good will in Santa Anna, and to close the bargain if there was anything substan tial tendered in payment or barter. The source from which we obtain this information is reliable.— N. Y. Freeman's Journal.’ The Tune Changed. The whig press us Georgia hud raised so loud a lamentotion over the presum tion of Union Democrats, that we had just taken out our handkerchief to cry, when their tune changed and they waxed warm and seemed angry at the change which they have originated that Howell Cobb, in consideration of his alleged support of Johnson for Governor, is to receive the the tote of the party for United States Senator. Realy the whig party is hard to please. They are angry that the Union democrats are not elevated to. every office, and out raged at the sugostion that one of them will received the vote of the party for an office. Southern Railroad. — I’he citizens of Vicksburg have voted to tax themselves $160,000 for the purpose of continuing the Southern Railroad, from Brandon, its present terminus in Mississippi, eastward to Greensboro, and Selma, in Alabama. THE JEFFERSONIAN griffin, june 30,1853. FOR GOVERNOR HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. OR CONGRESS DAVID J. BAILEY, Third District. W. B. W. DENT, Fourth District. Hon. H. V. Johnson. We publish to-day, the letter of this gentleman accep’iug the nomination ten dered him by the late Democratic Con vention. .This document speaks for it- be read with proud satis faction by the many thousands of his ad mirals and supporters throughout the Slate. It is every way worthy the men and the party whose standard bearer he is. It is emphatically multum in parvo. It embraces every subject, which it was necessary to notice in such a document. Buhl, frank and perspicuous, in the few est wc ,T, ds possible, this letter affords a clear index to the principles upon which the present canvass is to be conducted. It may truly be said to be a model letter, as Judge Johnson is indeed, a model can didate. Hon. Charles Murphy. We regret, very much, the coarse which this gentieman has thought proper to pur sue, in reference to the pending congress ional election in the 4th district. Having submitted his claims to a convention of the Democratic party of his district, it seems to jus that he is esto{iped, by his own act, from resisting the action of that convention. Wc are yet to learn that any fraud or un fairness was practiced, either in getting up the convention, in its organization or in its mode of Ao&on. The object of party con- ioo reconcile difficulties, dispose of the claims of riVal candidates for office, and„ harmonize party action so as to se cure success in the elections. In doing this, disappointment to some is inevitable. But we hold it to be the duty of every De mocrat, when tits voice of his party speaks through its convention, to obey that voice, whether his favorite is the chosen one or not. Every Democrat who is such, from principle, will pursue this course. When a different result follows, the object of holding conventions is defeated and party organization at an end. We are not of those who are resolved to make war upon Col. Murphy. This we shall not do, unless he abandons Democratic principles aud throws himself into the arms of Whiggery. We look upon his course more in sorrow than in anger, and truly hope that he will review the ground he has taken, and place himself in line with his former friends and do the good old cause, as he has so valiantly done in days of yore. TChg 3oa. M. J. “Welburn. We m fell regret to leant from the Col umbus Times ihat the Hon. Gentleman whose name heads this paragraph, declines permitting his friends to use his name in the Congressional nominating Convention of the Second District. Judge Weibura has borne many a lau rel from the bloody battle-ground of the Democracy. We know of no man, who could mow* effectually harmonize the past estrangements, and bear aloft more suc cessfully the Stars and Stripes of our proud and ancient banner. Such a nomination would fail as a spell upon our countrymen, it would be a balm and a victory. WSiig; CoJivsnticn. On Wednesday the ?2d inst. the Whig tdi*.s Union, alias Conservative Men, alia? i Republican Citizens party, assembled in Miiitfdgeviile for the purpose of nomina ting a candidate for Governor. About half the counties in the Stale were rep resented. Hon. Robert Toombs and Hon. A. were delegates, and, of course bad fbings their own way. The old line Whigs who stood up to the an cient land marks of the party, and sup posed the regular Whig nominee for President in the late election, had but a poor showing. Charles J. Jenkins, tho’ having run on tho ticket, with Mr. Web ter,aa the candidate for Vice President, and contributed largely to the overwhel ming defeat of Gen. Scott, was nomina ted, without a respectable show of oppo sition. But it could not have been otherwise where Toombs and Stephens ruled the hour. So far as Mr. Jenkins’ character as a man is concerned, we have nought to sny in opposition. He is a gentleman and a scholar, and possessed of many virtues. But as a politician* we have many thing? to say in opposition to his election, which we shall take occa sion to do freely and frankly, from time to time as circumstances may render ne cessary. Travel Accommodation, We observe by advertisement, that the indefati tof the State Road hits smarted a daily Extra Train from Marietta to Atlanta and back the same day, baying Atlanta at 6P. M. and arriving at Marietta at a quarter past 8. By this arrangement passengers can start at Macon, on the accommodation train at 8 A. M. and go through to Marietta the same day by early candle lighting. liion for the Brunswick Road. —The New York Post says: “ The Georgia and Florida Railroad Company have received advices by the Pacific, from their Presi dent. Mr. Senator Foot, that he has suc cessfully negotiated the bonds of the company at par for railroaj iron; which has already been shipped, and is oa the way to Georgia. ’ ‘The Convention o i Republican Citizens.” This conservative republican filius nul- \ lius convention has just risen, and after a i travail of four and twenty hours, their la- \ hois consisted in purloining from the Dem cratic text book a couple of its favorite paragraphs of faith, to-wit: one in oppo sition to internal improvements by the General Government, and the other in opposition to a corrupt and prodigal outlay ot the public treasury. Neither of these two principles were ever heretofore indoctrinated into the Whig platform, or advocated by any of its members whose position gave tone to their organization. Thus, yon perceive, that the long vaunted and ancient platform of Wkigge ry, upon which they have achieved occa sional 1 Victories and many defeats, has j been openly repudiated and trampl'd un - j dtrfoot as false and exploded doctrines, or hopeless mediums to future power and distinction. And no sooner are they driven from one spurious position, their j restive, reckless condition seeks some other expedient, with the hope thet if it is not more successful than the first, it cannot be more disastrous. And in order to conceal the deformity of their position from a guileless Democracy, and to in duce those who had recently temporarily acted with them, they present conspicu ously, these two items of the Democratic creed as their eountersign, with the hope it may decoy them from their true alle giance into their rotten bastard organiza tion. What a marvelous commentary i* this upon the pastl What a lesson for the future! That magnificent and noble structure of Whiggery, conceived, ma tured and consummate)} by the joint wis dom and patriotism of Clay, Webster, Harrison, Fillmore, and their numerous tribe of co-workers , fizzled ofT, by a petit larceny, into two slabs from the Demo cratic platform—against which they had taught them to swear eternal hostility. What is the moral of this abandonment of the old Whig ship, and lighting upofi the spurs and rafts adrift from the refit tings of tha Democracy? Is itr,to oppose the administration of Gen. Pierce? This cannoit be. They have-, in full and swell ing tones, pronounced his policy as the daguerreoli/pe of the model admini&tration of Millard Fillmore*. They have declared their approval of his foreign and domestic policy; and the only paint thst they now make an issue with the present p*)wers is, that the administration has not made every appointment within hfi's control suitable and favorable to Southern viewi, upon the slavery question. Bow could this be possible, unless Gen. Pierce wag to withhold his patronage from the entire Northern Democracy, and who warmly and enthusiastically rallied to his support in common with the South. All who stood fairly and firmly upon the National] Platform, have equsrl claim* upon the] Government r and the President was bound to believe they would act it out, until they should give him some subsequent reason to forfeit bis confidence. But what a ludicrous thought I Scott men, Webster men, lampooning Franklin Pierce for misplacing the honors and offi ces of the Government upon men un sound and anti-Southern: when they di , vided upon their respecter* candidates for the Presidency, charging each other’s . leader with freesoil proclivities. What a titter for the monkeys! No, gentleman, thesecensurers of the Government are only alarmed at the mighty hold that the President so justlj has upon the confidence and love of the American people. It may be ominous ! ‘t!ial their days are numbered and that Othello’s occupation is gone.” ’ They know that the Administrative stands pledged to maintain and vindicate tha South in her peculiar institutions,and that, to oppose this avowal of his initiation vronld be to strike the dagger into our own vitidsjjxbd hence this sickly llattery and fawning sycophancy of his Inaugural Address , this hypocritical and treacherous assault upon his appointments. If Gen. Pierce has chosen agents of this nation not congenial with our tastes and predilections, are we to abandon him? Aae we to make an appointment of one or two, or three individuals paramount to those great and predominant principles that secured us the “Administration, and which he has so far emphatically illustra ted? Assuredly not. If so w,e would re main in no administration long enongh to install it into office. The gangrene of mortification and wrecked hopes prey upon those green hearts that venture so puny an assault upon the purity and p*- triotism of a man that towers beyond their reach, and whose brilliant record 1 finds an echo in the heacts of his coun trymen . T!io Sova;mail Republican and Millcdgc villq Recorder both say they are well, pleased at the nomination of Judge John son, yet they have kept up an incessant and interminable croaking about it ever since the happy evont. Satisfaction usu ally begets quiet. We cannot beJievo they aro overmuch rejoiced, o c tlvey would sub mit with a bettor grace. We hope, how ever, they* may survive it, and like Jacob Faithful, trust for “better luck next tigie.” This nomination, they are aware, mortga ges the executive chair for the present.— But they say the Democrats aro not well pleased. That may possibly be; appearan ces are sometimes very deceptive. These gentleman may have keener optic and au ricular nerves than we have; wo haver beard.of seme being so sharp-sighted as tof see What was not to be seen; but untiljwe see and hear something of this Democratic discontent odfsclf; which we have not yet geeu or heavd, we shall not entertain the full faith of Abraham in the matter. We have heard some few, who called them selves Democrats two or three years ago, but have not been recognized as such since, “mouth” about Johnson’s nomination, but as they were already prepared with stick and wallet to march over to the Whigs, no other nomination could have prevented the elopement. Further than these wor thy gentlemen, every whole-souled genuine Democrat appears to be well satisfied. Third District Convention. | We copy the following proceedings of i the Third Congressional District Conven- 1 tiou from the Columbus Corner Stone, be ing the first copy we received at this of fice, which came to hand on Friday eve ning last, being the thirteenth day after the Convention was held. This Convention met at Forsyth, on Monday, the 13th of June 1853, for the purpose, of nominating a Democratic can- , didate for Congress, from the Third Con gressional District. The following coun ties were represented in the Convention, to wit: Bibb—Messrs. Dailey, Newsom, Green, Speer and Cary. Houston —Messrs. Pringle and Ilarde son. Monroe —Messrs. Pinckard, Cochran, Lasseter and Poe. Pike s *—Messrs. Green and Gibson. Spalding—Messrs. McCuno, Lockhart, Crittenden. iTpson—Messrs. Moore and Welborn. On motion of Alexander M. Speer, Esq. John Bailey, Esq. of Bibb, was called to the Chair, and O. C. Gibson, Esq. ap pointed Secretary. Mr. Cary offered the following resolu tion which was adopted: Resolved, That the convention proceed to nominate a candidate for the Third Congressional District by ballot, and that it take two thirds of the votes cast, to make a nomination. Alter two ballottings, Col. David J. Bailey, of Butts, was unanimously nomi nated the Democratic candidate for this District. On motion of Mr. Speer, The Chair appointed a committee of three, to inform Col. Bailey of his nomination, and Messrs. Speer, Cochran and McCunc, were appointed that committee. On motion of Mr. Pringle, A committee of three were appointed by the Chair to draft resolutions, and Messrs. Pringle, Green, of Bibb, and McCuae, were appointed that committee—who af ter retiring reported the following pream ble and resolutions: Whereas, the. Democratic party of the Third District, having this day met in con vention, to nominate a Representative to and that duty being performed with s unanimity, which gives promise of certain success to our cause and candidate, there remains little else for us to do, than to reiterate those principles under which we have so often contended and triumph ed. Be it therefore Resolved, That the principles of the Democratic party, as c n wanted in Baltimore in 1852, are adopt ed by this Convention,, and that to acqui esce In them, is all that is necessary to constitute a true Democrat. 2. Resolved, That in our nominee, Col. David J. Dailey, of Butts, we find a man df irreproachable character, both public and private, and one in every way entitled to the support of the Democratic party of the Third District, With such a candi date 1 and such principles, we / feel an abi ding confidence in our cause, and there fore present them to the public, claiming only that they should be approved or con demned, as they may bo found most wor thy of the one or the other. On motion of Mr. Newsom, it Was Resolved, That the report of the com mittee be adopted by the convention. On motion of Mr. Lockhart, the Geor gia Telegraph and Georgia Jeffersonian, are requested to publish these proceed ings. On motion of Mr. Cary, the thanks of the convention were returned to the Chair man and Secretary. The convention then adjourned sine die. JOHN BAILEY, Ch’ran. 0. C. Ginsox, Sec’ry. From the Christian Index. Baptist Priccplee. Dear Bro. Dagtj. —Permit me, through the medium of the Index, to remark that our banner as Baptist,s has ever been un furled to the breeze in every land, in every clime where an advocate of our principles could be found. On the one side, has been inscribed, one Lord, one faith, and one Baptism. On the other, God and liberty, liberty civil and Relig ious, are principles for which the Baptist have ever uncompromisingly contended, especially from the day Roger Williams, the founder of the denomination in the United States, to the present time. It was my happiness but a year or two since, to witness one of many very striking demonstrations of this fact.— It was the celebration of the day that give birth to our nations greatness, to our national glory, the birthday of American independence,, in a plensent village in our own beloved Georgia, by the array of children of Baptist parents as a Sabbath school, with a beautiful little white satin banaer, neatly painted and trimmed with scarlet ribbon. On one side, the Bible aed with these words “Glory to God Tn the highest; on earth, peace, good will to- wards men.” On the other, “Liberty, and religious, 1776.” As remarked by Dr. Belcher, the Baptists have ever seemed to have perceived the truth upon this subject. Whether they derived it from particular texts, or from the general principles of the Bible, it is not now for us to inquire. Their knowledge on this subject is coeval with their existence as a distinct people. Religious liberty is a Baptist watch word, a kind of talisman which operates like a charm and nerves i every man for action. Every thing re- • lating to the history of the Baptist in eve ry portion of the United States, justified the testimony of Washington in his reply to a letter from the Virginia Baptist in 1759, that the denomination have been throughout America, uniformly and al most unaminously, the firm friends of civil liberty and the persevering promot ers of our glorious revolution. I \ Involuntary respect goes forth to the(,< man who brings to light some great anil useful truth in the sciences or in the arts. Such were the discoverers of the art of printing, the power and use of steam, the true theory of the solar-system. But what are these in comparison with the great moral truth which the Baptists have held forth to the public gaze for ceatu j ries, a truth without which life would , be a burden and civil liberty but a mock ery. Nor is this all, while the Baptists have always defended tha principles of religious liberty, they have never viola ted them. Roger Williams was the first man to contend, the first who pleaded for liberty of conscience in the United States of .\meiica, and who became the pioneer of religions libeity for the world. By the first Baptists of this country was the precious spark of civil liberty kindled and to them America owes the whole freedom of her Constitution. To the Baptists was Thomas Jefferson indebted for the idea of the mode of our present happy form ot Government. With the light before us, we are irresistibly forced to the conclusion, that the Baptists are and ever have been, the uncompromis ing friends of civil and religious liberty. As such, in the exercise of this principle they have never been willing to disguise or secrete from the world their faith or practice. Their form of church govern ment is a firm unadulterate democracy, or purely democratic. They are willing, yea anxious, that the world should know, understand, and adopt; their arti ciea of faith or abstract of principles. That the world may know what thev conceive to be the fundamental doctrines of the gospel, they are and ever have been, 1 may add, scrupulously particular to publish them from time to time, as sot forth by Dr. Stell in the Pastor’s Assis tant, and various other publications— That it is their privilege, ihat it is their right, to publish to the world their Con fession of Faith, might, wore it necessary be argued not only from their right to exercise religious liberty but from their church sovereignty, nor are they unpre cedented in this particular. The first creed of which Buck in his Theological work gives an account is called the“A postle’s Creed,” which was a formula or summary of the christin faith, drawn up according to Euffinus, by the apostles themselves, though it is questioned by some whether or not the apostles wrote it. Besides this there are several other ancient forms and scattered remnants of creeds to be met with in the primitive records of the church. Ist., The form opostolieal doctrine collected by “Drigen. 2d., A fragment of a creed preserved by I’srtullian. 3d., A remnant of a creed in works of Cyprian. 4th. One by Gre gory. sth. One by Lucian the martyr. The creed of the apostolical cons titutions. Besides these scattered re mains of the ancient creels there are ex tant some perfect forms as those of Jerus alem, Cearea, Antioch, &c. He further adds the Nice.ie creed, a formulary of Christian f.iith, sc called, because it is a paraphrase of that creed which made at the first general council of Nice. This latter creed was drawn up by the second general council of C mstantir.ople, A D. 3SI. Again, as authority unquestionable up pon this subject, the reader is referred to the case of tha YYa Id eases, as laid down in Jones’ Church History, pp. 270.—275. The first of which Sir Samuel Moreland has fixed the date to be in the year 112, in Moreland’s History of jhe Church “of 1 — Piedmont, p. 30. Yet, in the face of all this, and much more that might very per tinently be'said upon these subject*, there are those who repudiate our form of church government, with all its republi can principles. Yet, at the same time, these very persons, in a political point of view, as they ought to be, are ever ready with becoming firmness to put down any principle anti-republican. O consistency thou art indeed e ; ewel. Is it not passing strange, too, that amidst tha many marks or tokens of divine approval that a?? pal pable to nil with our present Confession of Faith or abstract of principles, creed, or whatever you are pleased to term it, there are those that oppose it with g r eat vehemence and a bitterness wholly unbe coming religious discussion, and that too in the face of the many evils that would grow out of its abolition: not more inti mately connected is vice ar and misery, or virtue and happiness, than is cause and effect and it is natural for the same cause to produce the 3a;ne or similar effects.— The same cause still exists that existed in the days of the Waldenses, which led to the declaration of their faith, and by which they were enabled to disabuse tho public mind in reference to the doctrines held by them. It is the only way that is clear to my mind by which we as Bap ! tisfs can disabuse the public mind in ref erence to the doctrines held by us, who, as the ApoJa remarked, have been ev ery where spoken ft '?inst, and especially do we conceive that it is th* best possible means, if we do not fail to discharge our duty in requiring ail that unite with our churches to subscribe to it, to rid cur churches of all discordant elements, of all members who oppose the doctrines taught in the New Testament as held and sub scribed to by all orthodox Baptists, so that peace, happiness and prosperity may he enjoyed by all our churches through out the entire length and breadth of all this mighty land. Rfthold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell togther in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s ber rd that “ went down to the skirts of his garments; as the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life for ever more. Ps. 133: I—3. A Hard Hit. The following retort of the Macon Tel egraph, upon the Savannah Republican , though rather too hard a hit for a joke as poor Tyrone Powers would say, is deci dedly palpable. The Republican charged Judge Johnson, with being a Spiritual Rapper; to this, the Telegraph responds as follows: We are authorised to slate distinctly ,■< that Judqe Johnson is no more a believer .in Spirtunl Hoppings , than the Editor of the. Republican ts the author of the famous article , entitled Spring, Let his epider mis open and receive the truth. If Judge Johnson had ever given his sanction totha miserable folly known as Spiritual Rap pings, we should be -among the first to warn the people of Georgia against his alteration. We repeat authoritatively that there is no truth whaterer in the chaige.— San. Courier.