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Iti-KfccMg (f/mritt, mo>ssm H. UvVftfBfcl't Editor dc Proprietor. GEO. T. STOVALL, Associate Editor Thursday Morning, July 10,1800. FOR PRESIDENT. JOHN BELL of Tennessee, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. Edward Everett of Mass. An Unholy Alliance. On last Tues day, an article, headed “The Union of the South,” and signed “Conservative,” proposing a ooalition between the Bell and Douglas parties in Georgia, appear ed in the Chronicle & Sentinel and Consti tutionalist, and in the latter paper accom- pa tiied with approbatory editorial re marks. The oty'ect sought to bo ac complished, is the defeat of Lincoln and Breckinridge: the plan is to nominate a combination electoral ticket, com posed of five Bell, and five Douglas electors, with the understanding that the vote of the State is to be cast for the one or the other of those candidates according as it may elect either, and if neither, then the vote is to be equally divided between the two. Had this proposition been attended with circumstances of no greater sig nificance than usually belong to anony mous articles, we would have consid ered it too absurd to deserve the slight est notice. But it has received the emphatic endorsement of the Douglas organ in this State, which controls and marks ouc the policy of its party and always speaks by authority ; and more than this, its appearance simultaneous ly in that paper and in the Chronicle tfe Sentinel, creates a probability of com plicity between them amounting almost to a, certainty. It therefore assumes an attitude of importance, which imperatively de mands the attention of the opposition press. Should we remain silent, our very silence would be construed into approbation, and a few individuals might enter into a combination which would disgrace the party, demoralize our influence, paralyze our strength and betray our principles. It has ex cited our most unqualified condemna tion. Such a shameless, unprincipled, insulting proposition was never before made to honest men. We look in vain for suitablo terms with which to de nounce it. Upon the part of the Douglas faction it is a confession of their utter imbecili ty, is prompted by the fear of the over whelming and merited defeat which awaits them,and evinces adis’egord y • a contempt for our honor, honesty and fidelity to principle, which should meet with nothing but indignation and scorn. * We could not agree to such a coalition without surrendering those principles for which we have contended for years, and which we have regarded as essen tial to our interests, our safety, and our equality in the Union. We could not prove so faithless to our section, so re creant to our duty, as to join those whom we have always denounced as our worst enemies, and who are striving to put in power a party whose political heresies are more dangerous to the South that the doctrines of the Black Republicans. To the propagation and maintenance of the principles which our party first promulgated in Georgia, and have ad vocated for years, and compelled the Democracy finally to adopt, wo have been warmly, sincerely and consistent ly devoted; and for them we intend to fight as long ns the war shall last, or un til death shall end our struggles. If we ever forget them or forsake them, “let our right hand forget her cunning, and our tongue cleave to the roof of our mouth.” They are the principles of the Constitution. Upon that rook have we planted ourselves, and it shall fly from its firm base so $gon as we. Neither of forty thousand true Southern pa triots, a prompt and emphatic denun ciation of the treacherous scheme. By its inconsistent course for weeks past, bolstering up the cause of Squatter Sov ereignty in Georgia, and the suspicious circumstances attending the publica tion of the communication of “Conser vative,” it has compromised our party, and inflicted a blow under which we fear it will stagger through this cam paign. The honest men of the parly, who are devoted to its principles, have right to know whether it approves of the scheme which has been concocted. We hope, therefore, the Chronicle will, throw off its ominous silence and speak out.thnt we may understand its position and act accordingly. And we call up on the press, generally, of our party to denounce the affair as it deserves.— There is no time for delay. Procrastina tion is death; prompt action may save us. To the Atlanta Locomotive. Our steam engine friend of Atlanta, in his issue of the 16th inst., charges us with turning a summersault, changing front, taking counsel with the Squatters, etc., etc. We do not believe he intend ed to wilfully misrepresent us, but he has made a reckless assertion without the slightest foundation in fact. We defy it, or anybody else, to point to one word we have ever written, which the most ingenious, double-construction Democrat could distort into a vindica tion of the charge. Wo refer the Loco motive to our issue of the 14<li, and our leader of to-day, and demand a retrac tion. It will readily comply, if its mo tive is not a loco-motive, and we now advise our fast friend to “put down the brakes,” and not to whistle hereafter, until it secs something on the track. Price, O. P. Fannin, Esq., Col. D. S. Frintup, J. M. Spullock, Hon. J. W.H. Underwood, David B. Hamilton, Chas. H. Smith, Thos. G. Watters, A. E. Ross, John R. Hart, J. T. Riley, and L. W Dean. On motion of Hon. J. W. H. Under wood the resolutions introduced by Col. Fouche' were unanimously adopt ed. Col. Underwood, in moving the adop tion of the resolutions, made a few spirited and pointed remarks. He charge that Squatter Sovereignty was a foul heresy, calculated to degrade the South and deprive her of her equality, and declared his intention to take the field at an early day to do battle against it and its advocates. On motion of W. B. Terhune, Esq., the city papers were requested to pub lish the proceedings of this meeting. On motion of W. B. Terhune, Esq., the meeting adjourned, sine die. D. S. PR1NTUP, Ch’n. Rout. T. Fouche', Soc’y. Breckinridge and Lane Uatificntion Meeting. , It 'me, G.\., July 17tli, 1800. In obedience to a previous call, a portion of the Democratic party of Floyd county met in the Court House for the purpose of ratifying the nomi nations of Brcckcnridgc and Lnne, and appointing delegates to the State Con vention to be held at Milledgeville, on the 8th of August next, for the purpose of nominating a Breckinridge and Lane electoral ticket. On motion of W. B. Terhune, Esq., Col. D. S. Printup was called to the chair. On motion of Hon. J. W. H. Under wood, Robt. T. Fouche' was appointed secretary of the meeting. Col. S. Foucho' read and submitted to the consideration of the meeting the following resolutions, viz: Resolved, 1st, That the principles adopted by the Democratic Convention which convened at the Maryland Insti tute in the city of Baltimore in June last, recognizing the equality of the States, and of all citizens everywhere,in legal and political rights, and liarmon izing with truth, justico and the Consti tution, are therefore eminently conser vative- and national, and while they meet our cordial approval, they will command our earnest and unwavering support. SJnrf, That the letter of the Hon. John C. Breckinridge, accepting the nomina tion for the Presidency, explicitly and fully adopting and ably defending these principles, presents him to the whole country in an attitude worthy of the great party of Ecpiality and the Constitu tions and this, takon in connection with his high personal character, his marked ability, and tho circumstances of his nomination, without solicitation, without intrigue, without dictation, without sectional combination, entitles him to receive, as ho shall, our enthu siastic support. 3rd, That Gen. Joseph Lane, “the Marion of the Mexican war,” is emi nently worthy of tho nomination foi tite Vice Presidency, and will receive our cordial support for that high po sition. 4th, That tho assemblage which con vened in Front Street Theatre in Bal timore, was sectional in its composition and organization, dictatorial in its spirit and purposes, und nnti-dempernt io and auti-Southcrn in its policy, pvin ciples and practices, all which it plainly demonstrated by excluding the regu- larly appointed delegations from sever al of the Southern States. 5th, That we invite all the friends of tho Constitutional equality of the States, and people, regardless of past party differences, to unite with us in selecting and supporting an electoral tioket in favor of Breckinridge and Lane. 6th, That the loll owing gentlemen be, and they are hereby appointed to attend a Convention to be hold at Mil- ledgevillo on the eighth day of August next, for tho purpose of putting in nomination a Breckinridge and Lane eleotoral tioket for the State of Georgia, and that said delegation have power to select substitutes in place of such as may not be able to attend said Conven tion: Col. S. Fouclio', A. H. Davis, jr., Rufus Barker, N. Yarbrough, Wal lace Warren, T. J. Smith, Alg. S. Ham ilton, D. M. Hood, Esq., W. J. Barrett, W. G. Foster, Houston Aycock, T. 8. Letter from Hon. Jcre Clemens. TIbstsvii.i.e, July 6, I860. My Dear Hooper: Your letter of the 10th ult. was only received to-day, hav ing reached Memphis after I left there, I do not recol.ect the exact language of the letter of which you make complaint, but I am sure it was written in a spirit of personal kindness, although it may have expressed both anxiety and regret al the course which you and others of my friends thought proper tp take in the pending presidential election. Never for one moment allowing my self to question the purity of your mo tives, I have yet thought, for more than two years past, that you were gradually adopting political opinions which could be productive of nothing but evil to the f tarty in whose ranks you had battled so ong and so faithfully ; of nothing but disaster to that Republic to which your attachment I am sure, is ns strong as mine; and of nothing but discord and desolation to that- South which I claim to be as ready to defend ns the most un compromising fire-eater in the land. I certainly did believe that the annuncia tion of these opinions (by you and him) caused the detent of Tom Judge in the Montgomery District, last August, and so thinking I have doubtless referred to your course in terms of deep and serious regret. It is this to which 1 suppose you alluded in referring to my readiness to give you “a punch whenever the op portunity occurs.” You must pardon me, my dear sir, for suggesting that there is a wide difference between punching a man’s political principles, and punching him. • You are, nnd have been, doing my party in the State ot Alabama more harm than all the Democratic editors within its limits, nnd it \rould have been unreasonable to expect mo io stand by and witness nil this without making some effort to palliate or correct it.. You have led thousands of true and tried op ponents of a corrupt and corrupting De mocracy into a position which compels them to become tho allies of spoilsmen, and forces them to suppress the expres sion of their honest indignation at the frauds, bribing, interference with State elections, speculations, low intrigues, nnd sordid meauncss by which this ad ministration has been distinguished.— You nra yourself in a state of mental vassalage. You have given up every thing to the one idea of slavery protec tion ; nnd the public interest, nnd the national honor, claim your care only so far as they are affected by this useless, senseless, and mischievous dogma.— Worse still, it has so far blinded your reason that you accept ns holy truth, when coming from tho Seceding Con vention at Charleston, tho very doctrine which you rejected with scorn when coming from Mr. Bell. The following is thosecond resolution adopted by the seceders nt Charleston, and reaffirmed at Baltimore: “Resolved, That it is the duty of the Federal Government in all its depart ments to protect, when necessarv. the rights of persons and property in tho Territories, and wherever else its consti tutional authority extends.” Now, this is precisely tho position ta ken by Mr. Bell more than ten years ago. it was restated by mo in a letter to Mr. Inge, of Eutaw, Ala., in language loo plain to admit of doubt or miscon struction, which letter was published weeks before thefCliavleston Convention assembled. - ltdid notthen attractyour iavoruble notice. I am not aware of any peculiar sanctity which has been thrown around it by the endorsement of the Charleston seceders, and 1 find myself wholly unable to understand what excuse it can furnish to you for deserting your own party, by whose chief it was first enunciated, and ranging yourself under the bannerof a man who has never approved it in the past, and who gives to it now only that qualified approval which is to be implied from his acceptance of tiro Baltimore Con vention. Mr. Breckinridge was the advocato of .Squatter Sovereignty in its most of fensive shape, in ’54 and in ’50. In the latter year, ho said in a speech at Tip pecanoe : "The people in the the Territories un der the Kansas-Nebraska act, have tho full right to establish or prohibit slave ry, just as a State woui.n, which prin ciple is as old as Republican Government itself,” You will concede that this language is capable of but one construction ; and if Mr. Breckinridge has ever repented its uttcruncc ho has never confessed it. In several other speeches nud letters he used words ot the same import. It is ulso stated upon authority I do not ques tion, that he was an emancipationist when that question was agitated in Ken tucky, and that last winter he signed a petition for the pardon of John Brown. This is a curious record for the candi date of an extreme Southern Rights’ party, and places you in a position for which your best friends (and 1 claim to bo one of them) can offer no apology, except that under the influence of high political excitement you have refused to look the truth in the face, and blind ly followed the lead of those who have arrogantly assumed the guardianship of Southern honor. You regret that I should be found among the advocates of Bell and Ever ett. Where else could I got You would not have me to support Lincoln -, I repudiate Squatter Sovereignty, as ad vocated both by Douglas and Breckin ridge. If I could be induced to vote for either it would surely be Douglas. He at least is a statesman whose fame extends beyond the continent. It is conceded on all hands that the. South owes him a debt of gratitude for zealous and effective services in the past; and the only sin now imputed to him is one that is shared to its full extent by Breck inridge ; or, if he has now abjured it, he only did so when the temptation of high office was placed before him. Such changes are liable to grievous suspicions nnd ns I can find nothiug else which es pecially commends Mr. Breckinridge to me, he cannot get my vote. He is a clever, high-toned gentleman, with ma ny excellent qualities, fair ability, nnd tolerable education. But all these nre possessed by thousands of others who never dreamed of tho Presidency It is doing him no injustice to say that he has rendered no extraordinary service to the nation. He lias originated no great measure, nor has he been identi fied with any except as an advocate in the third degree ot the identical here sy which you esteem a sufficient cause for disunion. 1 do not agree with Mr. Bell in oil things, hut I do agree with him upon those questions which I esteem of vital importance. I know him to be sound, safe, able and conservative; and should hail his election as the dawn of a better und brighter day for tho Re public. You are right in supposing that if the worst comes I shall be found on the sidoof the South. I am there now. I atn laboring for her interests with a zeal quite as fervent as your own, and, as I think, better directed. If, however, fail, and you, and those who are acting with you, "precipitate the cotton States into revolution,” I wish it dislinetly un derstood, that I am not a non-combat- tnnt, and whatever privations we are ■called upon to undergo, whatever per ils wo are required to face, I shall meet them as frankly us the boldest among you. There are other topics suggested by your letter which I should bo glad to notice, but I iiave not the leisure to do so, and I conclude by assuring you that your expressions of personal regard ur fully and warmly reciprocated. I ex- f ect to take little part in this canvass, am a private citizen, seeking nothing, wanting nothing, that Presidents or parties can give; but, even if it were otherwise, I should lie very far from al lowing any present difference to oblite rate the memory of those kindnesses which hnve a-rcumulated through so ma ny by-gone years. Very truly and sincerely your friend, JERE. CLEMENS. Rome Railroad. OrriCE Roue Railroad, 1 Rome, Ga., July 12, 186(1. j A T an Annual Meeting of the Stockhold ers of this Company held in thsir office to-uuy. the followiig directors wero elected ta manage the affairs of tho Company for the ensuing year, viz: Wm. R. Smith, John P. King, Allred Shorter, John P. Eve, Wade S. Cothran. Warren Akin and John C. Evo. At a subsequent meeting of the dirretors : Wm. R- Smith was re-elected President, and Wade S. Cothran Gen'l Sunt. JulylD-Ulm W. 8. COTHRAN, Sec'y. ^feto fldbetfiscftienfs. NEGROLABORERS WANTED. I WISH to hire 40 or 50 negro fellows for which I will pay from 20 to 26 dollars p.r mouth, to work on tho Ga. A Ala. Rail Road. Apply at my ofll e on the works near Rome, Geo. JOHN D. GRAY. &fl-Thc Cartcrsville Express, and Rome Southerner copy 4 times. Rume, Ga., julyl9triaw4w 1st JANUARY, 1861. ja*- We are continuing to sell our Goods on time III mm OWT AM JUNES, Which we did the first six months of the year, Payable 1st January 1861. Our Summer Goods at very Low Prices. E. S. NORTON & SON. july17—twawtf Southerner copy. * THURSDAY, July 19,1860. Special Notice from Headquarters. A. BAUM, At the People’s Saving Store, Will commence his first semi-annual REDUCTION SALE, On Thursday, the 19th inst., for the next 30 days. As he is determined to make this a permanent place of business, will therefore .•**.- ‘W si f And will give those a chance, Who never chanced before, And those who have chanced, Will only chance the more. The Store will bo closed on Wednesday, tho 18th, in order to mark down the Goods. Tho Ladies of Romo and vicinity will bear in mind that there is No Humbug in what I say for 30 days 1 shall give the public the benefit of this sale at the very lowest prioes. Beautiful assortment of 1 &JB88'* Y*SOY GOODS, Embroideries and White Goods, AT GREATLV REDUCED PRICES. I am bound to give Bargains To all who favor me with a cal', and goods will be shown with pleasure. Bank Notice. Bark or tiie Eucirb State, 1 Romo, July 17, I860. ) A T a meeting of the Board of Directors to-day, Charles O Stillwell wus elected Cashier, in place of John MeBride. reslsmd. W. S. COTHRAN, julylfftwlm President. Polk Sheriff Sales. W ILL be sold b fore the Court House door in Cedar Town, on the first Tues day in August next, the following property, to wit: Three Negroes, Marindn, a woman, about 47yesrsold; Martha, a girl about 10 years old, and Edinbar, a boy abuut 5 years old : Levied on as the property of Berrien Wil liams. to satisfy five fi faB,'issuing from a Jus- t ces Court. In-Id in tho 84Dth District G. M., in favor of John C. Hall vs Berrian Williams, principal, and John Junes and A. D. White, Securiti- s on Stay—tlirco fi fas in favor of Ephraim Thompson vs Berrian Williams, ob tained in tbo Justices Court for the 839ill Dis. G. M.— four fi fas in favor of C. S. Williams vs Berrian Williams, issuod from the Justi ces court for tho 847th district G. M.,—also, six fi fas in favor of David Cloptou vs Ber rian Williams, issued from tho Justices court for the 839th district G. M. t and sundry oth er fi fas in my hands aguinst Bcrriun Wil liams. Levied and returned to me by a Con stable. july7 J. C. YORK, Sh’ff. NEGROESl'ORSALEAT AUCTION. B Y orderor tho City Council, will bo sold at tho Court H- use, in Rome, on the first Tuesday in August next, two negro men, the property of the city. Terms,- CASH. July 17triGt Hillsboro Female School. rpirE Exercises of this school, under the A superintendence of the undersigned, will commence on Monday, Juno 23rd inst., where will be taught\lf branches of on English education. Those parents or guardians who intend to avail themsolvcs of the public school funds, appropriated fur that purpose can do so, with tho distinct understanding that if the amount so appropriated does not pay (kill tuition, thoy will be hold responsible for tho balance. Small boys received. Thu terms of tuition as follows, for a term of twenty weeks. Reading, Writing and Geography, $ 8 00 Rending. Geography, and Grammar, 10 00 Philosophy, Rbotor.c and History. 12 00 july!7tw4t) MRS. A. A. MASSENGALE. Astonishing how cheap, _A_. 33 A. LJ AT, • SELLS HIS FANCY SILKS, Lace Points, SHAWLS, MANTILLAS, AND TRAVELING COVERINGS. Having a largo stock on hand he will sell them at prices never before known in Roma Every ono that wishes to ravo money must buy at the People’s Saving Store. Sales commence positively on Thursday, July the 19th, and continues for 30 days. Parcels sent to all parts of the city free of charge. Positively Terms Cash and One Price only. A. BAUM, At the People's Saving Store, near Etowah Housp julyli-tw3tu>tf ”■ v * 1MI1 & BOOV3B&8, GREAT CLEARING OUT SALE. In order to make room for our Fall and Winter Stock Wo are offering all our Stock of SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT NEW YORK COST. All our printed Lawns and Jaconets, AU our Organdie Muslim, All our Plain and English Bcregei and Tissues, All our Frenoh Cambrics, Printed Brilliants, Ac. All our Grenadine and Foulard Bilks. All our Lace Points, Mantillas, Shawls, Dusters, and Summer Covering* generally. All our Parasols and Ladles’ Umbrellas, AU our stock of Gentlemen’s Summer Hats, All our etock of Spring and Summer Clothing, The above mentioned goods will’all positively bo told at New York «... goods at very reasonable prices. Glvo us an early call. Cost ’ *" • l ' ie july7 SLOAN A HOOPERS.