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THE t'fSON’ EIEOT. g. A. MILLER,’ Editor. Thotnaston, Thursday, April 21, Democracy ami the Union. During the Last Presidential canvass, Kansas, bleeding*Kansas, was flic cry, and the oookoo note —“ vote for Buchanan and save (he South'’ —was sweetly warbled by JJi'tuoctntic demagogues of all colors in every Southern bush and grove. The hon est, confiding people listened to these po litical syrens, and the result is recorded in a bankrupt treasury, in official corruption, in sectional agitation, in Presidential usur pation, in Congressional extravagance, in party servility and in placing the vested rights of our “ peculiar ” domestic institu tion in the territories, to the tender guar dianship of aliens and squatter black Re publicans, flushed with their many and re cent victories. Our flag is insulted upon the ocean—our rights in Central America are treated with contempt—our finances are deranged—our postal arrangements are ruined—our laws are evaded or violated with impunity, and every department of the government exhibits signs of that do- j crcpitudc characteristic of the worn out civilization in portions of Europe and Asia. The bloodshed and sectional dis cord seen in 1850 by the prophetic eyes of Clay, Calhoun, Webster and other patri ots, in the subsequent feeble and corrupt at tempt to improve their wisdom ant l undo their work, is now a stubborn fact, proved by historical evidence and demonstrated and confirmed by a daily sad and unavail ing experience and regret. Political, ncr more than personal evils, spring by chance from the ground. They j have a cause, patent oftimes, to tho least : observant eye, and then again their poison root is hid deep below the surface, and en twined amid the mysteries of our being and enveloped in silence and darkness. The laughing mountain rivulet over which the wild deer leaps, is not at once transformed * into an ocean whose maddened billows en- j gorge whole navies. It is not from every . drop of rain, but from windtpand vapor; slowly and imperceptibly collected, that : the tempest of desolation comes at last in ! its fury. It was not by a single assault— but by force and stratagem combined after a ten years’ siege that the proud towers ! of Troy and her mighty walls were top pled down and trampled in tlie dust. What j Troy was, we are, —a nation governed at present by leaders full of pride and reck less of consequences—what Troy is, we may become—a sheep walk, where the ga- j ping tourist, or perchance the graver his torian, may, amid broken columns and i shattered arches and temples, sit down and meditate on the rise, progress and de cay of an empire once of limitless extent and surrounded by every evidence of pros perity and perpetuity, but now infested, like Mexico, with wandering banditti, and crushed beneath the iron heel of each suc cessive military usurper. We, as a nation, possess no peculiar tal-1 isman to ward oil’ the evils which have i either suddenly or gradually overwhelmed i others. If we practice their vices, we will. ; sooner or later, be visited with tlieir pun ishments. That our rulers have degener- i ated in wisdom and patriotism, is beyond question. That our people exercise loss oi ! that vigilance which can alone preserve our liberties than in the earlier and purer davs of our Republic, is now every where appa- j rent. c need no better evidence of these j truths—no clearer conviction of the deep- | seated corruption of public opinion, than the fact that the now oft-repeated asser- 1 tion, *• the l nion must perish unless De mocracy triumphs /” is not universally met with that scorn and contempt which the folly, madness and wickedness of the sentiment implies. “ The Union must per ish, unless Democracy triumphs”! The sentiment is only equaled in that ignorance and barbarity which formerlv consigned a suspected witch to either water or the flames:—lf thrown into the one and she perished by drowning, she was pronounced innocent; if she floated, she was consid ered guilty and burnt! If Democracy triumphs the Union must be flooded and at last go down unknelled and imeoffined into a sea of corruption—it the Democracy triumphs not, then the torch must be ap plied and the Union must writhe and twist in consuming fire. Poor Union! yours is infeed a sad fate! We pity you from our inmost soul! We believe you are the innocent victim of the frauds, conspiracies and false-swearing of those who are now willing to plunge you. tied neck and heels, into the deep water, or bind you. with cords iron to the fatal stake. You eertainlv have been “more sinned against, tha.fi sin ning.'’ Next to justice and liberty you were considered by the fathers of the Con j stitution as the mother of peace and the ! great conservator of prosperity at home and strength and protection from abroad. What has reduced you to the dreadful al ternative of being either drowned as a witch by Black Republicans, or burned by Southern fire-eaters ? The victim, when the latest bubble shall arise to tell its fate, |or the last spark of that funeral pile be quenched in its agonizing blood, might an swer in the nervous language of Mr. Cal houn—“ Hug ues and J loyalists — held to gether under the name of Democracy, by the cohesive principles of public plunder” ! —you are the deceivers and betrayers—let my blood and the crushed hopes of the op pressed throughout the world and for ! countless generations, rest on your own heads. You have eaten, and drank, and slept, and cheated and flattered with Black Republicans and Disunionists, until cor ruption has become a virtue and loyalty to country a reproach. You, my execution ers, first pour the “ leprous distilmcnt” into the ears of the people, and then fuss and threaten, and back out, when they arc given up to domestic emaciation, sectional convulsions and national death, “ merely that a few may enjoy the spoils/’ Is there no rescue for the captive—no healing balm for the sick and dying vic tim ? We say there is, without a resort to that last, most degrading and worn out of political quackeries—the Union, with the Democracy. The hair of the dog might prove in this instance and at this time more fatal than the bite. We prescribe a more direct and certain remedy. Let hon est Democrats, Whigs and Americans be aroused to the perilous condition of our common country. Let them remember the broken promises and unredeemed pledges of our rulers. Let them ask why it is that our treasury is bankrupted—that sectional agitation has increased—our rights in the territories have been bartered away—the L nion threatened and Congressional cor ruption and Presidential usurpation stalk unreproved in our midst. These evils, up on enquiry, will be found to have had their origin in that most treacherous of all or ganizations, mis-called Democracy. Let tlie Stars and Stripes be once more unfurl ed, and the mist which lias gathered on the plumage of our eagle, will be scattered in his upward and sunward flight. The chains of Ihe captive—Union—will be severed, and the sick and doomed victim—the Con stitution—will be supported by millions of patriots, and borne aloft the heads of mis erable demagogues with firm hearts and, if needs be. with strong arms. Let the peo ple awake, and so long as the virtues, the wisdom, the valor and sufferings of a com mon ancestry are worthy of remembrance, we will have one country, one Constitu tion, and one glorious destiny, in spite of foreign and domestic foes. Old Guilford, Savannah and King’s Mountain will speak —York Town will cateli up the joyful sound —Brandywine and Saratoga will prolong ♦he strain, and the echo will bo thrown back louder than the artillery of the clouds from Lexington and Bunker Hill— “the Union must and shall be preserved” !— either with or without the Democracy. Perish Democracy, let the Union live!” lion. Jerc. Clemens’ Speech. On the tirst page of our paper this week will be found the classical and powerful Speech of the Hon. Jere. Clemens, (now Editor of the Memphis Enquirer) deliver ed before the Opposition State Convention of Tennessee. Mr. Clemens’ pen possesses all the keenness of Salad in’s scimitar, con joined with the strength of the battle-axe wielded by “Richard of the Lion Heart.” He severs the leaders of modern mis-called Democracy, even to the dividing asunder of the joints and marrow. He lays bare their secret corruptions until you sec each nerve and muscle of their putrid limbs. You watch at each lick the decaying flesh fly from the diseased bones, until shapeless skeletons stand before you in all their hid eous deformity—rank with the fetid odors of tlie charnel-house. You wonder that such things can be and not excite our spe cial wonder, and if you have the spirit of an Ameritan citizen you will turn your back on the horrid spectacle with loathing arid disgust, and throw over it a covering and bury it from sight soon as civilization and decency will permit. A New Southern Book. We would call the particular attention of our readers to the prospectus -of Dr. Blackburn, published in another column. The Dr. deserves, whether he will, or will not, in*• t with success. THE l/PSON PILOT, THURSDAY MORAINE, APRIL 21, 1859. i Gov. Brown and him friends making months and looking cross-eyed at each other. v At a late Democratic meeting in Stew art county, the Hon. James Clarke, the Chairman, is reported to have passed the following compliment upon his Democrat ic friends : •‘Joseph E. Brown, at the commencement of the last political campaign, was called, in derision. “ the Cherokee Cote Driver ;” he has approved himself the driver out of the plunderers of your country; the dri rer out ot dishonesty in high places; ihe driver out. by liis intrepid vetoes, of vicious aud corrupt legislation, and the driver out of those exclusive privileges by which one set ot men are enabled to enslave another.” This is what we call “piling up the ago ny” pretty strong on ex-Governor Johnson and the Democratic friends of the Banks. | To he called “plunderers, dishonest, vi i cions, corrupt and enslavers,” is (except I among Democrats) considered a direct as j sault on character. They, however, al | ways speak in a Pickwickian sense—provi- I ded the spoils can he secured—for see how nobly (as an old friend of ours once said) they can “swear to the controverscand re fund the matter on the other side.” The Atlanta Confederacy (Democratic) says of this “driver out of plunderers” : “ We venture the assertion, and in face of it.s conse quences, that when the secret history of Joseph E. Brown is exposed, (as it soon will be.) his party will loathe him, and his Church disavow him. He never made a profession that was not designed for a traj)— nor did he ever seriously and with honestr purpose re deem a promise made to anybody but himself.” Again listen to Democratic authority : “ Since the days of the Yazoo fraud and tho treason of Arnold, there has been no event public or private more villianous, unprincipled and corrupt than the fa mous Dalton Plot originated by Joseph E. Brown, ac cepted by Howell Cobb, and endorsed by John 11. Lumpkin.” Now, honest reader, you may imagine that the “plunderers” on one side, and the “villianous, unprincipled and corrupt” Arnolds on the other, never could agree ex cept on the principle that “birds of a feath er,” Ac., &c., ; but you are as much mis taken as if you had burnt your shirt. Let us illustrate Ly no fancy picture. We once had two friends who, for short and by \ way of distinction, we will call big Ugly j and little Ugly. They were mutually jeal- j ous of each other’s beauty, and consequent- ! ly the one hated the other with a right I good will. Big Ugly’s mouth looked like j a large piece of cleft raw beef stuck on ac cidentally between Lis nose and chin. It i was as elastic as India-Rubber and twisted ; at times like a corkscrew. Little Ugly’s j eyes were so crossed that they could sec at j the same time every point of the coin pass. j We need not add that he was a modern i Democratic leader. Big Ugly and Little Ugly met one day ! on the street. Each wanted to insult the ! other without speaking. Big Ugly inline- j diately crossed his fingers in front of the j eves of his rival beau tv. Little Uglv gazed at him a moment as straight as the nature of his eyes would permit, and without ut tering a word, deliberately placed his fin gers in his mouth and twisted it into a horrible proportion. The by-standers broke inro a most uproarious laugh—Big j and Little Ugly embraced and kissed, and ever after, they seemed delighted with each other’s deformities. Moved. All must see tho resemblance between the conduct of Big and Little Ugly and the leaders of Demonacy—except the j flapper-mouthed, cross-eyed political dupes ! who, deceived themselves, wish to deceive ! tlieir neighbors. . National Democracy. Gen. Bethune, the honest and faithful Editor of the Columbus Corner Stone, draws the following life-like portait of a National Democrat : “We know no principle which a national democrat may not advocate, no measure for which lie may not vote, and lind in the party a sufficient power and re spectability of support to maintain him in full fellow ship and communion. There is but one unerring test of the soundness of his democracy, and that is, to vote for the nominee of the party. For all other sins there is a ready absolution : to fail to do this, is the only sin that admits of no pardon.” Southern Convention. “\\ o see from the address of the commit tee, that the next “Debating Society” (as the late Southern Convention at Montsrom o ery was somewhat facetiously called by Breckinridge of La.,) will assemble in Vicksburg, Miss., on the ninth of next May. Our pocket has a somewhat feeling recollection that a high tariff on the per pendicular system was levied on the dele gates at Montgomery. Will the Montgom ery Editors please inform many afflicted Southern rights men what disposition was made of that assessment ? We hope the Convention at Vicksburg will do some thing else than discuss niggers, African slave trade and French Brandy and Wines. We annex the follow ing sensible sugges tions to one ol tlie Southern Commercial Conventions, taken from a paper of old date, but still pertinent to the present | subject: i “if the delegates to the Southern Convention will i take note of a few particulars on their way. perhaps •hey may find food f<>r tT<>ll nt<re wthnbU’ than ha* hitherto been submitted in resolutions aud mani festos. They will start in some stage or rail road coach made .injhe North; an engine ot Northern manufacture will take their train and boat along, at every meal they will sit down in Yankee chairs to a Yankee table, spread with a Yankee cloth. With a Yankee spoon they will take from Yankee dishes sugar, salt and coffee which have paid tribute to a Yankee trade and with Yankee knives and forks they will put into their mouths the only thing Southern they will get on the trip. At night they will pull off a pair of boots with a Yan kee boot jack: and throwing a lot of Yankee toggery on a Yankee chair, lie down to dream of Southern in dependence in a Yankee bed with not even a thread of cotton aii uml them that has not gone through a Yan kee loom, or come out of a Yankee shop. In the morning they will get up to fix themselves by a 12 to 14 looking-glass, with a Yankee brush and comb, after perhaps washing ofl’ a little of the soil of the South from their faces with water drawn in a Yankee bucket, and put in a Yankee washstand, the partner in honor aide exile with a lot of Yankee wares that make up the sum of the furniture. Think of these things, gentlemen, and ask yourselves is there no remedy for this dependence! Ask your selves if there be not some mode of action which will bring about a change and keep your cotton, wheat and tobacco crops from going out of the South to buy for you the tilings you must have to be up with the age ? ‘ Columbus Sun. The proprietors of the Columbus Sun have disposed of one third interest in their daily to Mr. R. J. Yarrington, of Barbour county, Alabama, who will soon enter upon his new duties. The Daily and Weekly Sun are to he enlarged ere long, to about double tlieir present size. Success to the Sun, and may it never be shorn of a single beam, or its light obscured for a single day. For the Upson Pilot. ANSWER TO I, liY LKOI.A. “lamia! breathe again thy Muse’s witching lay, From rosy bower, thou singest in youth’s entrancing May, You sing so sweet of friendship, that lured by the theme, My heart but answers to the strain, and echoes back thy dream.” And do the simple whisperings, the dreams of idle ■ hem s, The garlands culled by youthful hands from Poesy’s sweet bowers. E’er find within one unknown breast a kind and ans wering strain, Which feels their love of Nature's soul, and echoes back again ! Alt! would they were more beautiful, more worthy of thy lay, The gentle muse within my soul would hold a higher sway! I'd sing then of the purling rills, that from their foun- I tains glide, Os nature’s landscape, fair and bright, -when decked in vernal pride. I'd be at times a twinkling star, to watch o’er those I love, To cast a light o'er sorrow’s dearth, and sing of bliss above, And oil ! I’d tell them of tho charms that moot tho ’raptured eye, When borne by silver moonbeams, to their home be yond the sky. And then I’d bo the summer breeze, that softly fans j the brow, Os affection true, and girlhood friends, that throng around me now, I'd whisper low a dream of Love, of Love that never ; fades, But ever blooms within tho heart ‘mid amaranthine shades. I'd be a Fairy, pure and fair, an elfin form of light, To tlii about this beauteous world, and sing of all that's bright, I’d nurse my favorite pleasure then, and touch my Harp once more, And breathe the wildest measure there, that Fancy could explore. I'd be a lute, a silvery lute with soft enchanting tone, And sing a lay of Hope and Joy, to cheer the spirit ’lone, And when its whispers once so gay, with grief and woe is prest, I'd kindly thank the generous friend, v.ho'd soothe their chords to rest. But alas! ‘tis vain, and worse than vain to sigh for Na ture's gift Os Genius bright, and dreams that high the sordid spir it lift, Far, far from common earthly scenes to Poesy's fair home, When hand in hand with Muses, I should ever love to roam. Then away ! ye working dreams of Fame, and let me careless sing, In simple strains a cheerful song, fur those who round me cling, I envy not the victor's wreath, nor would I have them bow. With flattery, and artful smiles to place it on my brow. Amid tho cool and fragrant dells of Upson’s spreading shades, Its brooks so dear in childhood hours, its soft and slop ing glades. Where oft my fervent evening prayers with child-like faith ascend, I’ll scatter flowers here and there, for those who call me friend. And if among them one should touch some heart afar from mine, A stranger heart, that echoed e'en with -trains so soft as thine, Then sweet twill ever be for me, to cull these simple flowers, x Till they form a never fading wreath in Eternity's bright bowers ! Bel!wood Farm, Epson county, Ga.. For the Upson Pilot. Woman and lier Influences on 31 an. PA PE It NO. 1. The writer projfoses, in a plain straight forward manner to write a few papers on “Woman and her influence on Man.” He does not intend to go (it he were compe tent) into a metaphysical disquisition on woman, hut merely to notice the most glaring of her faults ; at the si me time, he will endeavor to mete out just praise to her many virtues—her many noble and en dearing traits of character.* Jn short, in these articles, his aim will Ih\ to “■ Shoot Folly as if flios Amt < the planners living as thev rise.'’ Perhaps it will be best to notice singly, the different—the distinct—characters which belong pre-eminently to the women of this age. Let ns then draw aside the curtain and take a peep at our ‘'drcnnalis persona First then there is your ordinary novel reader ; by intruding ourselves into her reading room (for which we beg her to ex cuse us.) we find that her chief—perhaps only—books are what, are usually and very appropriately styled “yellow back” novels; over this trash she spends hours upon hours of her time ; time,which Young tells us, * “Is dealt out by par tides, and each Mingled with ihe streaming sands ot life.” Now we are rather inclined, to cast in a great degree, the blame for this kind of reading on the parents ; in nine cases out of ten, it certainly lies in their power, if not to form, at least to prevent their daugh ters from forming, a taste for this kind of trashy literature ; if indeed such stuff be worthy the honorable name of literature. It is no excuse for them (the parents) to plead ignorance or what is more plausible business, in their defence; because, if they are ignorant of what are proper books to be put into the hands of their daughters, there is always some person in the com munity who is able and willing to tell them what works would be proper and profita ble for young ladies to read. But let us return to the young lady her self. Behold her eyes redening over the pages of an unheard of and unreasonable romance, perhaps it is of that species of tales which are found in such journals as the New York Ledger or the Golden Prize. She reads on ; her imagination becomes j distorted, in her fancy she is following, and vainly endeavoring to clasp an “empty shadow ;” a shadow, which in the world of reason or the moral world, never had a , moment's existence. In a short time she i becomes wedded to this sort of reading ; nothing else will suit her ; her mind is con tinually wandering in the regions of a wild and dangerous fancy ; soon she becomes a ready prey to some villain who can talk a little sentimentality—such sentimentality as is found only in “'yellow back” novels : some heartless rascal sees her, converses with her, and in a short time elopes with her ; the consequence is a broken heart, and a miserable and disgraceful life, tin suffering of which, death alone can termi nate. However it is not the villain alone that marries this class of women ; in the course of this article they will be duly con- j sidered. • But what “Influence” says the reader j has-this character “on Man The ans i wer is two fold. First, it encourages (by | giving “aid and comfort” to) the publish er in issuing such works, and fu-nce gene rates an evil, that is scattered broadcast in the country as fast as steam can carry it. Second, if young ladies will read such “nov els, (trash would be more proper) and form such ridiculous notions from the reading | ot them, they thereby encourage the young ! men of the land, in the reading of such ef i fetniuo sentimentality in order to make their taste —their conversation—congenial to that of the ladies, that they may win | their smiles ; now such a man as this is not fit for a life-companion for a woman to whose temperament he has formed his own, or iii fact for any woman; indeed he is a pest to society ; and I do not believe it would be too much to write in this con nection et vice versa. Such men in nine | ty-ninc cases out of every hundred areper ! lect drones to society ; in the event that. | they marry (which is usually the case with ■ such characters,) poverty, disgrace, and i wretchedness are their sure companions. | So far I have spoken of this evil per sc : J let us endeavor to find the remedy. We | arc essentially a reading people ; “there is i scarcely (comparatively speaking) a house i in this land but what has the benefit of a | weekly newspaper of some sort; the far mer, the mechanic, the professional man— all have concluded that they cannot do without a newspaper. It is “through the Press then that we can most easily and ef fectually reach this growing evil. Then let the Press with a unanimous voice, in clarion tones, condemn such deleterious reading. Say to parents “your daughters are in the paths of vice, soon if they do not retrace their steps their morals will be ruined, their character destroyed and their : happiness—their peace—forever blasted.” Say to the young ladies “you know nt what mighty dangers threaten you ; you are not aware of the awful precipice or. which you stand ; around the base of that precipice, roll the turbid waters of ruin and despair ; young lady only glance at the angry waves as they furiously lave the rocks below ; see your giddy height, only ; glance at it, do not stop to” look; already you arc tottering to fall ; fly! fly !or you will bo hopelessly lost.” Young ladies— readers of such novels as I have told you | of—ii you persist in your course, soon. ; very soon, you will feel” the truth of these 1 words. In view of all tin's, it is astonishing that i the Press—as well the guardian of morals ; as ot liberty—is silent, has not one word |of condemnation to utter. Oh ! where is the high tone, the independence and the love ot virtue which once characterized the journals of this country. I say to the press, it you would have the people rc i form, it you would have pure morals, if you would perpetuate that liberty, that freedom, which our patriot forefathers so nobly bequeathed to us. you must crush this hydra-headed monster; raise vour voice so loud in condcrnnatorv tones, that a publishing house that cares*anything for its name, will n<>t dare to bon* a nov-l. j unless it is front the best writers and con ’ tains wholesome and moral lessons, that will elevate morality and lit woman for that honorable, responsible and important position for which she was created. JE UN ESSE. Social Corner, April 15th 1559. From the Baltimore Clipper. The .TTectins of tlse State Council. The meeting of the American State Council of Maryland, held at Temperance Temple yesterday, was largely attended. Full delegations from nearly all the coun ties in the State were present. No politi cal convention ever assembled in our State has brought together more intelligence and experience and ability than characterized the body of delegates in this Council. It was composed of men of whom the State of Maryland is justly proud. Actuated by motives of purest patriotism, and by high souled devotion to principle, these repre sentatives of the American party address ed themselves earnestly and seriously to the purposes of the meeting. Their delib erations were marked with strict decorum and most charming harmony and enthusi astic zeal. They were assembled to make arrangements for the complete organization of the opposition to tne Federal adminis tration in the State, and to take such ac tion as shall keep our gallant old common wealth in the proud position she has won, as the staunch and unwavering champion of national, conservative American princi ples. The meeting was called to order by Hon. >J. B. Kicaud, President, by whom a state ment of the object of the call of the Coun cil was made in a brief, but eloquent and impressive address. . After the reports of the state of the counties, which wore most cheering and gratifying, upon motion of Mr. Schley, oi Frederick, a committee on resolutions was appointed by the chair consisting of one from each congressional district, as follows:—From the first, dis trict, Dr. 11. G. Grieves, of Dorchester; second district, Edwin IP \\ ebster, of Har ford ; third district, l’eter G. Cockev, of Baltimore* county ; fourth district, Win. 11. Hayward, of Baltimore city ; fifth dis trict, E.G. Hall, of Montgomery ;and sixth district, Frederick Eehlev, of Frederick, chairman of the committee. The Council then proceeded to the elec tion of’oftlcera. Hon. J. B. Kicaud, who has lailhtully and zealously discharged the duties of President for more than three years, declined a re-election to that office. The following’ were elected by unanimous acclamation: Edwin H. Webster, of Har ford, President ; Dr. 11. G. Grieves,of Dor chester, Vice President ; Win. 11. Vanno strand, ot Baltimore, Treasurer ; and F. A. Supplvo, ot Baltimore, Secretary. Upon assuming the chair MY Webster addressed the assemblage in eloquent and appropriate terms. Hon. J. B. Kicaud, of Kent, was added to the Committee on Res olutions in the place of Mr. Webster. The following resolutions were unanimously re ported, anff, alter several spirited and en thusiastic speeches, adopted by the coun cil : Jlcsolved , i hat 1 lie State Council of the American party of Maiyland, repudiating sectionalism in every shape and form, whether as abolitionism at 1 lie North or secession at the South, congratulate the country on the auspicious prospect of the union id all the conservative elements of opposition to the present Democratic ad ministration. And. inspired by this'prospect, the peo ple ot Maryland, whilst they re-affirm and hereby express, their unalterable attach ment to the principles which have hitherto* characterized the American ] arty, invite the whole body of Conservative Opposition in all the States of the Union, to co-oper ate with them in selecting hereafter dele gates to a National Convention, to be char ged with the sole duty ot nominating can didates for the offices of President and \ ice President of the United States, to be voted for by the whole body of the Oppo sition in 1860, and whose past life, emi nent fitness, and unquestionable nationali ty, snail entitle them to the conservative vote oi the whole country. Unsolved, That it is recommended that all the elements of opposition to the present corrupt Dem ocrat ie xl dministration be in vited cordially to unite with the American Party in the State in sending Delegates to. the Conventions to be called, for the nom ination of candidates fir flic various offices to bo filled by the popular elections of the* coming Fall. And, whereas the State of Mankind, ia the contest of 1850, evinced her loyalty to the T nion, her stern repudiation of allsec tionalism, whether South or North, and her unfaltering devotion to those princi ples of a broad and earnest nationality, in tended to be perpetuated by the Federal Constitution, in adherence to which aluoo rests the safety and honor of the country in ihe strife ot factions and tlie struggles of geographical parties ; therefore Jlcsolved , That we will enter upon the coining State elections with an unwaver ing faith in our ability to maintain the high position hitherto held by our State, and determined to devote our best ener gies personally and collectively to the ac complishment oi such results “as will keep Maryland in the vanguard of a triumphant national movement. . After the adoption of a resolution pro viding for the appointment of a State Cen tral Committee, the meeting adjourn'd sine die. Ni:w Yohk, April HI, —Two thousand bales cotton wore sold to-day tmarketquid* Pread Muff’ firm,