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Journal & Iflfsscngcr. J. KNOWLES and S. ROSE, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. mb. HILLIARD IH HEW YORK A meeLDg of ihc friends of the Uoiou and the opponents of Black Republicanism was held at. Cooper’s Institute, New York, on the night of thej 17th inst. The Journal f Cotnmrree says it wail Urge and enthusiastic. Among the distinguisheifl f|.eakers was the Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama! We give his speech below* 1 Hun. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama, was the speaker. On coining forward, he was receiv with a *tonr. of applause and choeen for klabam? hjlliaro’s sprrcn. He said that the contest now going on is not an ordinary can rasa, it wears an aspect of far higher significance, and more momentous resnlu lift thn—rim to view in the background. (Ap plause.) Bodies of men—disciplined, drilled, inarching to the sound of martial music, bearing not arms as yet, but torches—tread the street* ol this great national emporium, and range their col umns under the very sliadows of the statne of Washington. For what purpose ate they trained* Against what enemy are they to march ? One sentiment pervades the whole body. They are handed together for one purpose. They hat* the f4outb, and thev will seek to overthrow the insti tutions of the South. At this mom, nt an extraor dinary number of citizens from the Southern States Jare in JXew York ; they fill the hotels, they throng the street* : they are in your great trading establishments ; they come with the confidence of a kindred people to visit and trade with a kindred people, (great cheering), and yet torches, borne by men who denounce their insti unions ami seek to turn all the power of a com mon government against them, glare upon them at midnight, and the tread of disciplined battal ions shakes the very paring stones as ibev march in their training to prepare for a resistless assault upon the rights and the honor of our section.— Whatother object can they nave in view? It is said that tliey desire to exclude slavery from the Territories, when there is not a Territory open to it to-day. Their object lies far beyond that—they intend to crush oc: slavery in the States where it exists. They procUim through the lips of their great leader the ** irrepressible conflict.” They in tend to trample the Constitution under their feet, and to spread devastation through the slavehold ing States. Tbcir war cry is as furious as that which was tbuudercd by the legions who marched under their banner* upon which was inscribed Iftltwla ttt Carthago. This distinguishes the present Presidential canvass from any that has preceded it. The speaker proceeded to examine the assertion that our republican system is a failure, and refuted it on all grounds. He also defined the distinction between State rights and the rights of the general government, and showed that the Slate rights theory was the only one upon which the govern ment could be administered. With reference to the Republican party, the speaker said that the South sees this mighty orga nization spreading it* battalions all thfWugh the Northern and Northwestern Staten. She bears the tramp of men mustering to the overthrow of her institutions. But she stand* undismayed, con fident yet in the patriotic instincts of the Ameri can people ; confident in the fraternal regard of her Northern friends ; hot confident still in her own self-respect and courage—for she never will submit to be wronged and degraded, nor live to see her institutions brought under the ban of the government (Applause.) She borrows the spirit of the national song of England, her mother, and exclaims— O Lord, oar God, arise, Scatter our enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Prostrate their knavish tricks— On Thee our hearts w w fix — God save the State! (enthusiastic cbeeriDg.) We mu*t defeat this fierce, sectional league, and save the government from tbeir grasp. Why should the North be arrayed against the South ♦— There is ample room on this continent for the ex pansion and working of our system of civilization ; systems which are not conflicting, but which are admirably adapted to each other ; for we consume vonr products, and we supply you with the materi al for your iu Justry. (Applause.) Let the two evsrems work side by side ; the North is already powerful, and your population k rapidly increasing by a steady stream of emigration which spreads ail over your vast territory. Slavery will not go where it *a not wanted ; it is governed by natural laws— of soil and climate, and we are content to leave it to it* natural expansion. Above a well and, Sued parallel of latitude it cannot be profitably employed. It is madness then, to seek to limit it bv legislation, by usurpation, and inflaming the North against the Sooth, and by proclaiming hu manitarian doctrines, a? shallow as they are dan gerous. To God’s providence this great interest must Ire committed. He see* the sublime march ot nations —He alone cau guide our steps ; and it ia stupendous folly, as well as audacity, for onr brethren of the North to pass away from the line? of their own social system in the vain hope of perfecting ours. I have said that it woold lie a gross violation of the constitution to engralt upon the government a policy hostile to slavery. It would ■* more than this—it would be a flagrant breach n* good faith. Does any man believe that the federal government could have been construc ted If it had been understood that it* power* were to be directed against slavery in the State-. Why, it was expressly stipulated in the constitution that the foreign slave trade should not be prohibited by the government for twenty years after its adop tion * Why stipulate for the continued importa tion of slaves for J ear *- if B *■ to Be the policy of the government in future to eradicate that institution in the States ? Why not forth with cut off all further supply of slave* from abroad ? Bo resolute were the framers of the Constitution upon this point that the power to re gulate commerce by a bare majority of the two Houses of Congress was not granted until that clause .0 reference to the importation of person* from abroad was first secured. If, then, the gov ernment could not have been constructed with a distinct understanding at the time that it* policy was to be directed against slavery, is if not both unconstitutional and a flagrant breach of good faith to seize the department* of that government a govern mint common to all the State-—ami turn - them against that system of labor in the Footberu State? ? The Constitution provides for the representation of slaves as an elementary part of the machinery of the government; and it pro hibit* the cutting off a still larger supply of slaves from Africa for twenty years. How, then, can it be asserted that thi* is oa anli-lavery government in its nature, and that it was put upon the wrong track forty years since i> admitting a slavehold ing Mate into the Union ? Ought net the people of the State to enjoy the privilege of framing their own domestic institutions ? Can hostility to slavery, upon the ground of it* being a moral wrong,a* Mr. Siramonds asserts it to be, authorize a statesman to direct the energies of a common government against it, when the Cooctitutiton not only confer* no suck power, but when Us provis ions actually are made to perpetuate it ? I* not this a direct appeal to the higher law f AH that the South asks is that the Constitution be upheld , she demand* nothing but that the government be administered in tbe spirit of that instrument.— (Cheers.) Her enemies are the enemies of the t onaututUw, and they can reach her institutions only by trampling that under foot. Nhc does not envy fiie prosperity of tbe North. She rejoices in the increasing wealth and power of a kindred people; she witnesses your rapid advancement, y,Mir wonderful growth, with just pride, and she bids you go on iu your course of expansion and civilization ; she sees your splendid cities with heartv satisfaction, and glories in your commerce which” bear* the flag of tbe Republic to the remo test seas of tbe globe ; she is content with her om lot ; *be ask* no special legislation for her benefit • all that she demands is a full participa tion in the benefit* of a common government. * lull recognition of her rights, and a dear vindica tion of her honor. (Great applau-c.) Wronged, degraded, excluded from the full benefit of her own government, she will never consent to be, nor will zhe suffer tier institutions to lie brought un der lb* ban of that government. (Cheer*.) — When we twrrcy the wide picture of national power and glory and happtoeas, that spread* out before us, we can hardly repreea our indignation against tbo*e wild and wicked agitator*, who seek to destroy it—and we exclaim in the language of Milton’s nervous and earnest prayer, against the enemies of the people of England, “ Leave n not a prey to these unfortunate wolves, that wait and think long till they devour thy tender flock- ; these wild ixtar* that have broke into thy vine yard, and left the print of their poHuting hoofs on the souls of thy servant*. O let them not bring about their wicked designs, that stand noa at the bottmnksi pit, expecting the watchword to open aud let out those dreadful locusts snd scorpions, I U rein valve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness, where we shall never more see the light of tby truth again, never hope for the cheerful dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing.’’ This is a grand struggle between nationalism and sectionalism. The very existence of the I'nion is involved in it; men of extreme opinions seek to grasp the reins of government, and if they suc ceed they will plunge the country into irretrieva ble ruin. They must lie put down. (Tremendous cheer*.) National men—statesmen —who stand | tty the Constitution and lore the Union, and de l.-ire to K-e the law enforced, they must be sustain |e 1. and to their hands we must commit the gov loruuient. (Renewed applause.! Hash men of see [tiond views cannot govern this great country. A (perfect illustration of what would follow is found fin the clas-ics. Ph.'vton desired but for one day to drive the chariot of the Sun ; he seized the reins —in hu feeble bands tbe wild steeds flew from their accustomed track. The universe wa* threat ened with destruction, and not until a bolt flew from the uplifted hand of Jupiter, hurling the im petuous driver fuom his scat, could order be re stored to nature. Better far to keep rash, section al, incompetent men otU. of the scat of power, than risk the task to the aroused majesty of the American people ol restoring order and hurling them from their place®. It is not the first time, it is true, that the candidates for tlte highest offices iu the republic have been taken from one section of the Union, but it must be remembered that this election is made to turn on a sectional issue ; everv question ot legitimate national policy is ig nored, and slavery is the ouly question discussed. To take candidates now from one section —to pro cUim war against another section —to renounce the institutions of co-ordinate States —this is the issue fie loro the country ; this the policy exhibited to our view ; and it has never till now threatened to take control of the government. It they come into power it will be tin* beginning of the c-nd; this government cannot be administered upon that plan. The day that witnesses the ejection of Mr. Lincoln, if that calamity i* to be visited upon us, wilt witness a convulsion which shakes the institutions of this country to their deepest foun dations. Public contidcnee will expire-—stocks aid go down—property of every description fall -uddenly in value—commerce will feel the shock .is if a storm had swept the sea and rent the fails of mighty ships—and this grand republican sys tem—this glorious confederacy of free and pow erful St ales, seated in friendly alliance u{*ou a con tinent over which the gorgeous ensign of the Re pnhlic streams to-day, the symbol of peace, of un ion, and of strength, will rock as under the throes of an earthquake. The mariucr can discover with his practiced eye the signs of tbe rising temptest, and even in far upon the land a bird is sometimes -een flying before the fury of the coming storm, which threatens to sweep its billow y home ; and I do not doubt that men of experience, sweeping the horizon with their glasses begin even now to read the signs of danger in sonic of those aspects which the times disclose to their view, while they escape the observation of a casual observer. I have always been for the Union—l am for the l"u ----ion to-day ; but the beat friends of the Union may be overwhelmed, as a faithful helmsman is some times driven from his post by the fury of a resist less tempest. Let us put down now, and forever, sectional men ; they exult in the hope of victory; they spread their fierce legions all about us, as lieslie’s army shut in Cromwell ; let us, like that grand old Christian soldier, rise in our impetuous strength and cut their lines to pieces. The Union must lie preserved ; glorious objects lie before us ; our destiny as a nation is not yet fulfilled.— Mexico, Cuba—those great problems—can only be solved by us. Europe is just now rising under the inspiring teaching of our example. Let us accomplish the grand and beneficent objects of our destiny as a nation (loud applause). Upon you, gentlemen of the State of New York, de pends everything at this crisis ; do not be dismay ed by the magnitude of the task which lies before you : think of your vast strength ; think of the glory which will crown you, if, meeting the surg ing billows which have just broken over the State of Maine, you say to them, “ Hitherto shall thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.’’ It is glorious to see great strength displayed in the beneficent work of sav ing, and not of destroying. You can save a na tion—you ean rescue the republic—you can cover yourselves all over with glory. The|Lacedemonians stood at the pas* of Thermopyi.w, and, dying, earn ed iinmoiuiity ; they perished because they were feeble ; they counted but hundreds against a host. But you are mighty—you are invincible; rise to the full grandeur of your position. Friends of the Constitution, friends of libertv, friend* of tbe republic, rise in the full majesty of your strength and crush the enemies of your country. (Long and loud continued cheering.) Severe storm Fire. There was a furions pale at New Orlerns on •Saturday last. Nearly every, house in lialise was carried away, and several lives lost, including C'apt. Kinney, pilot of the New York and Havana Steam -hip Company. The tearn-hip Galveston, and ships Galena, Sliellield, and lirig India, and schooner Toucey, hound out, weic all blown as hore at the Passes.—Several tow boats are lying high and dry at Milneburg. The terminus of the Ponchartrain railway was submerged, and wharves damaged. It is reported that all the wharves and both houses on the Lake shore between New Orleans and Mobile were swept away. The town ot Biloxi is a mass of ruin. At Mobile the storm was severely felt. All the wharves in the lower portion of the city were sub merged. Duriug the gale Messrs. Pomeroy and Marshall’s Lime Warehouse was burned. Several steamboats were blown ashore. The brig Leghorn, front Mobile to Pensacola, was also washed ashore. The loss by fire and storm is estimated at live hundred thousand dollars. T be WldfAwakci, n *lilll:trj Organiza tion. Mr. Horace Greeley delivered a speech, reported in the Tribune, at the dedication of the new Wide- Awake Hall, in New York, on the 10th inst. Mr. Greeley speaks of the Wide-Awake organization as follows: He bad been much interested in the Wide-Awake movement from the first, for the great lack of the Republican party h&sbeeu practical, active working men. This was die most hopeful political move ment of this country. The young men are begin ing to feel their true power, and it shows them what they arc able to do for their country, lit looked on thi i at inaugurating a true military ni of this country. It is time that the free men of this country had learned to protect them selves. Our standing army is composed mostly of foreigners, aud Officered in most aristocratic man ner, and he wanted to see this replaced by (hi* new organization, and let the free and voluntary military of this country have fair play; aud when Government needs a half a raillllon of inen, let her call for them ; with the same money aud the same prospect that an army now have, and we shall soon need no standing army. He felt more hope for this organization because it comprises the young men, and they have Liberty inscribed on their ban ners. The great work of the Revolution was not for a day but for years; and he believed the time would yet come when thit work trout J be fully accom plished, and man tc c/toil to hi* brother mat i eve rywhere, and justice aud right prevail. In this belief, he bid them God speed in their work. Thosk Qces*uk3. —The probabilities are that Mnj. Breckinridge will take longer to reply to the Norfolk questions than to the letter informing him ot bis nomination by the Richmond Conven tion. In his Ltc speech, it was hoped by his friends that he would reply in a manly, straight forward way, ala Douglas. But not so. With the questions staring him daily in tho face in all the papers for nearly a week before his speech, with his Virginia electors’ pledge that he would answer them anxiously awaiting to be redeemed, Mj. Breckinridge waded through three mortal hours, talking about everything aud nothing and still failed to even so much as allude to Ine Norfolk questions. Are we to have any answer to these queries or not ? if not, then let the secession prints at the South turn their batteries on tlieir own leader, who virtually, by his silence, endorses the answer made by Douglas at Not folk. We charge that Breckinridge’s open refusal to reply must l*e taken as au endorsement ot the position ot’ Judge Douglas.— Washington Hi a ten. Vov. Ulw Fighting in I lie Fnlon. Nrw Yors, Sept. 15.—Governor Wise’s letter in response to the imitation to attend the late barbecue at Raleigh, is published. He sars:— **For my own part I will not concede; 1 will not secede; I will not acquiesce; I will not submit; I will not compromise any more but I will fight in the l uiuit as long as I can get a respectable or hopeful plurality, or minority even, of firm, true uieu to by me and with me for the Consti tution and the country. In my negroes 1 have property rights; iu the Buioi 1 hare political rights, aud 1 will not be the coward or the slave to give up the one in older to preserve the other, and 1 will give up neither, but fight to the last rather than eithei shall lie assailed or destroyed. In any event, we are on the eve of a dissolution, and the question is, simply, shall it lie peaceful, only by our base submission to insult and outrage ? if you will fight, the Union will be saved.” „ A !Vrw Political Organization. During the progress of the present Presidential campaign we have frequently called attention to the very cool way in which it ha* been carried on. The divided democracy are working like men who swim against the tide, and hope to keep their heads above the water only. Thcl nion movement is after the manner of an undercurrent, and will find its ex pression at the polls, rather than in any noisy de monstrations before election. I pto a late (*eriod we have heard little of political clubs, like the “ Log Cabin' 1 hoys in IMti, the “ Young Hickory'’ ar.d “ Henry Clay” associations of 1844. the “ Buena Vistas” of 1848, the “Scott” and “Granite” clubs of 1852, or the “ Keystone*” and “ Rooky Moun tains ‘ of lßrt. Latterly, however, the new re publican organization, “the Wide Awakes, have gained largely in numbers —a circumstance due rather to their unique equipment than to any par tisan enthusiasm. The Wide A wakes originated in Hartford Conn., about a year ago. A number of young men re solved to keep “ wide awake” until the arrival of Mr. C. SI. Clay, who was to speak in their city.— They escorted the Kentucky “ martyr to his hotel by torchlight, and alterward* fttfiued themselves into a political club, adopting an a uniform a leath er cajte, with caps to match. The Wide Awakes parade only at night; those in the ranks carry torches, while the officers have lanterns. The Wide Awakes differ from other political chibs in tire respect that t hey are regularly drilled in the school of the soldier, and can at any moment ex change their torches for muskets. Thus they have two distinct organizations, and two sets of officers, civil and military. After the nomination of Lin coln some of the Wide Awake companies changed their name and now’ call themselves “ Rail Split ters” or “ Rail Maulers.” They are all alike, how ever ; all drilled in the same way, and all wear the same livery, looking like a cross between an insurance patrolman and a policeman. The effect of the drill of the Wide Aatvkes is perceptible in the regularity of their marching and the uniformi ty of their lines, which combine the light of their torches and give a most picturesque appearance to tueir parades, something like what we read of the “ Feasts of the Lanterns” among the Chinese. A* to the number of the Wide Awakes, we can not form, ju-it now, even an approximate idea.— Au eastern paper before us states that they para ded i \ thousand men in Portland last Tuesday.— At the Syracuse Convention some four thousand Wide Awake* turned out to serenade Mr. Thurlow Weed, ami in every considerable town throughout the North and West the new fraternity flourishes to a greater or less extent. In the South, we ap prehend, Wide Awakes are not nuflfi*rous. In fact, the Feast of Lanterns that their leaders would probably assist at in that line of country would probably be such as those the Paris sansculottes treated the head monopolists to during the Reign of Terror. It was understood, in the first place, that the Wide Awakes were organized only for the cam paign, but now it is reported that they have been drilled with a view to support Lincoln in case there should be any interference from the South to to preveut his inauguration, and that they intend to consolidate themselves en permanence, like the Know Nothings. Such an organization in the hands of bad men, might do a great deal of harm, and therefore it is well that partisan clubs always carry within themselves the germs of dissolution. Their members are composed of two classes ot per sons—veteran partisans, who seek office, and youug men, who join the chib from curiosity.— Directly after election the first named class fall to fighting among themselves, and, the novelty of the thing having worn oft', the young men with draw altogether. That the Wide Awakes will meet the fate of their illustrious predecessors there cau be no reasonable doubt. In the meantime, as a guide to the future historian, we intend to keep the public fully posted as to the rise nnd pro gress of the new organization, and will throw some light upon the doings of the Wide Awakes in a few days.— X. Y. Herald. It is a revolting reflection that Ashland, with ail it* hallowed memories clustering around it, was, P tUo occasion of John C. Breckinridge’s late speech made the site or a >mrticcu „„<i n f the Locofoeo party, that party, which, for more than a quarter of a century, poured from its mouth for the distruction of Ashland's great nnd immor tal statesman, a torrent of lies equal in volume to the flood sent forth from the mouth of the great red dragon of the Apocalypse. We wonder whether the old Locofoeo enemies and villificrs of Henry ('lav gathering upon the spot onced hallowed by his living presence, did not un der the influence of the combined power of guilty consciences and diseased fancies behold him stand ing in the midst of them as they were in the habit of seeing him pictured in 1844 in their newspaper organs and electioneering handbill* a tall and frightful image, with a demijohn as a head a couple of gambling cards as ears, a quart bottle as a neck, duelling pistols as arms, bowie-knives as fingers, a whiskey-barrel as a belly, and a couple of sign-post as legs, the latter convered all over with printed enumerations of the crime* imputed to the immortal man of Ashland. How many of those, who ate this barbecue at Ashland, would have ventured to open the gate in the lifetime of Henry Clay ? The mass of them would no more have dared to open it than the l’al - ien Adam would have dared to open the gate oj l'den, guarded by the eherubin and a flaming sword that turned every way. —Louisville Journal. ■iou tat rukh out *Sectionalism.” At tbe return of each quadrennial period in our political history our Democratic friends were wont to be very earnest in their adjurations against the growth of the “ anti-slavery sentiment” at the North, and to invoke the co-operation of all in be half of the Democratic party, which they asserted was the only party capable of “putting down Northern sectionalism.” These appeals have very sensibly diminished in fervor and frequency during the present canvass, thus evincing on the part of the Democracy a sense of modesty which, however proper under the cir cumstances, deserves to be signalized for its rarity. It is suggested by some of our contemporaries that the former assurance practised by Democrats under this head has declined in consequence of the little success which has been found to accompany their efforts in crushing out “ Freesoilism,” as witnessed by the following statistic* : In the Presidential election of 1840 the anti slavery vote was a littje over 7,000. In four year* under President Tyler’* Adminis tration, it increased to more than 62,000. In four years under President Polk, it arose, in the name of “ Frecsoil Democracy,” to 280,000. In four years, under Presidents Taylor and Fill more, notwithstanding all the agitations created by the passage of the compromise measures, the fugi tive slave law included, the Freesoil vote declined to 158,000 in the w hole United States. In Four years under President Tierce, the “ Free soil Democracy” were superseded by the “ Repub lican party,” which, for some canse was enabled to poll 1,341,000 in the same States where Messrs. Half and Jri.iAN, the Frecsoil candidates of 1852, received little more than 150,000 votes. The above from the National Intelligencer, pre sents a strong argument in favor of Bell and Ever ett. Active TloveiikcntM of the ItepiiblicniiM. The Republicans are “ moving heaven and earth” to carry New York city. They had a procession there Thursday night which was, singularly for a political parade, composed of drilled men. The Herald says: No lees than forty-six hundred men paraded in millitary array, each clothed in uniform, and each bearing a blazing torch. As the procession passed up Broadway, between eleven o’clock and midnight, the scene presented was a most extraordinary one. As far as the eye could reach there was a line of livid light, not straggling here and there, as is frequently the case with torchlight parades, but as straight and regular as the company parts ot a crack regiment of citizen soldiers. The Wide Awakes have evidently been drilled by capable officers, and were handled by their commanders with thorough military precision. The turnout of Thurs day was, however, a small affair, coir pa red with the Wide Awake demonstration which is to take place in this city on the evening of the third of October. There are in the Northern and Eastern States over four huudred and tweuty thousand voters enrolled in the ranks of the Wide Awakes, and it is purposed to have a general re union of the dubs, and a grand parade, in which delegations from all the principal cities and towns will partici pate. • Atrocious. —“ Betsy, my dear,” said Mr. fltubbs, giving hi* wife a pair of damaged unmentionables, “ have the goodness to mend these trowsers ; it will be as good as going to the play to-night.”— Mrs. Stubbs took her needle, but confessed she couldn’t see the point. “How so?” said she.— Why, my dear, you will see the wouderful ravels in the faint -o'mint.” Mrs. Stubbs finished the job and handing back the trowsers, told Stubbs, “that’s darned good.” Buy Ayer’s Ague Cure for Intermittenta, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for a Cough, and Ayer’s Pills for all the purposes of a Family Physic. MACON, GEORGIA : Wednesday, September 26, 1860. Constitutional Union Ticket. FOR PRFNIDENT, JO J J N B.K la Is, OF TBHNKWEE. for vicE-pf:siirjrr, KI)AVA li I) EV R a IST TANARUS, OF MASSACHUSETTS. PL A T F OHM: “Tlie Constitution of the Connlry, the Union 01 iite Mutes and (he Uutorceinent ot the Lit tv*.” ELECTORAL TICKET. KOR THE STATE AT LARGE t WILLIAM LAW, of Chatham. If. 11. HILL, of Troup. ALTERNATES: II IN US IIUI T. ot Muscogee. UA It NUTT A N Dlt U tVS, of Wilke*. FIRST DISTRICT. Samuel B. Spencer, of Thomas, Eleclor. Edward B. Way, of Liberty, Ist. Alternate. Dr. T. A. Parsons, of Johnson, Snd. Alternate. SECOND DISTRICT. Marcellus Douglas, of Randolph, Elector. W. H. Robinson, of Macon, Ist. Alternate. P. J. Strozier, of Dougherty, 2nd. Alternate. THIRD DISTRICT. L. T. Doyal, of Spalding, Elector. John T. Stephens, of Monroe, Ist. Alternate. Charles Goode, ol Houston, 2nd. Alternate. FOURTH DISTRICT. W. F. Wright, of Coweta, F.lector. W. C. Mabry, of Heard, Ist. Alternate. John M. Edge, of Campbell, 2nd Alternate. FIFTH DISTRICT. Jonah R. Parrot, of Cass, Elector. Thos. G. McFarland, of Walker, Ist. Alternate. Rich'll. W. Jones, of Whitfield, 2nd. Alternate. SIXTH DISTRICT. 11. P. Bell, of Forsyth, Elector. McDaniel, of Walton, Ist. Alternate. S. J. Winn, of Gwinnett, 2nd. Alternate. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Dr. I. E. Dupree, of Twiggs, Elector. B. T. Harris, of Hancock, Ist. Alternate. M. W. Lewis, of Greene, 2nd. Alternate. EIGHT DISTRICT. LaFayptte Lamar, of Liucoln, Elector. John K. Jackson, of Ricbmoad, Ist. Alternate. Daniel E. Roberts, of Scrivcn, 2nd. Alternate. COTTON MARKET. A good deal of cotton is coming in. Trices range from Bto 10$ cents. Demand good. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. The “contest between the Doctors” for Mayor, to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Sparks, resign ed, resulted in the triumph of Dr. M. S. Thomson. The vote stood : For Thomson, (deni) BTT ; For Harrison, (Bell) 348—majority, 20. Mr. Boardman will accept our thanks for a copy of the new nnd improved edition of Reese’s Manual, for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators and Guardians. It is a very useful volume. Go and get it. He has also placed upon our table Ilarper’sMonth ly for October—a capital number. THE COSMOPLITAN ART JOURNAL, Fr September, has come to hand with its ele‘ gant illustrations, engravings and choice reading. We have also received the October number of the Eclectic, which has a superb engraving of Gen. Garibaldi, the man who is now shaking the despo tisms of the old world. Let them shake. THE PRINCE OF WALES I* creating quite a sensation at the North, par ticularly among the snobs. He received an invi tation to visit the South, by several Southern gen tlemen who were in New York, but in a graceful letter, through Lord Lyon*, declined for want of time. THE CANVASS In some portions of Georgia and in other States, is progressing with considerable animation. At the South we think Bell and Everett are steadily gaining strength. Unless there is a Union of the opponents of black republicanism at the north and west, we see not how either Bell or Breckinridge can carry a single free State. No cordial lusion, we fear, can be affected in New York. It has failed elsewhere. It is gratifying to observe that, with few excep tions, the canvass in our State has been conducted in the spirit of moderation. We hope this spirit will continue. MR HILLIARD. It has been announced that tt>is eloquent gen tleman will address the citizens of Bibb to-morrow night. Those who read his speech in onr paper to-day, w ill want to hear more from the same gif ted orator. That bold and telling speech in the very camp of sectionalism, onght to give Mr. 11. access to every Southetn heart. andE 1 ” We are indebted to the liberality of the Adams Express Company, for copies of the N. Y. Evening Express, and the New York Herald of the 20th instant. Many thanks for their continued kindness. Tlie Chuuecllor ol (he State University. Rev. Dr. Lipscomb, the newly elected Chancellor of the University of Georgia, says the Athens Ban ner, has entered upon the discharge of his duties. lie preached in the Methodist Church last Sun day morning to a large audience. His text was, “lie that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad.” I)r L. possesses the rare faculty of mingling the sterner truths of Christianity and the attractive flowers of rhetoric iu an eminent degree. We trust his labors will be crowned with success, both in the University and among our citizens. MACON COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT. The fall term of this Court took place last week, and, as usual, occupied but a few days. There were but few civil eases on the docket—and no criminal cases of any consequence. Thos. P. Lorn wa? admitted to practice at the Bar, after standing a first, rate examination. 11c is a young man of talent, and gives favorable pro mise of future distinction. SUB-ELECTORS. The following gentlemen have been appointed Sub-Electors, for the county of Crawford ; Maxwell’s District —A. J. McAffee. Webb’s “ B. 11. Stroud. Castleberry’s “ J. W. Robinson. Beaseley’s “ (’ol. T. Raines. 7th “ Jonathan Ross. fith “ . Jefferson Saunders. 3d “ Pickens Yarborough. Hammock’s “ fc*. T. Feagin. Citizen please copy. A correspondent of the Augusta < hronicle, of Talbot County, says that the negro, owned by J. Wilkinson, who murdered Isaac Darden near Gcueva, some time siuce and who wa* erroneously reported to have been burnt by a mob, was tried this week in Talbot Superior Court, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on the 19th October. On Monday last, by vote of the citizens of Gris. fin, the city subscription of s2f>,Goo to the Griffin and Covington Road was transferred to the con templated Madison Road. The “ Old Gentlemen” of the Bell and Everett stamp, whose heart is in the right place, have formed a “Fossil Club” at New Orleans. Mr. Bar nett, 83 years of aye, who done noble service in the war of 1812, was elected one of the Yice-Pres ideuts of the Club, THE PROSPECT BEFORE US. We are not alarmists. Our temperament is not desponding, but hopeful. We confess, however, to a growing apprehension for the stability of our institutions. Nothing, we believe, but Divine in terposition can save them from frightful disaster. An overwhelming defeat of Lincoln and his re tainers, may act as a temporary check or btake upon the spirit of sectionalism, but like a pent up flood or locomotive on an inclined plane, we fear it is destined still to rush on with acceleiated and maddened momentum to its awfully disastrous con summation — the wreck oi the Republic and the extinguishment of rational liberty. Our apprehensions chiefly arise from the de rooralization of our public men and the corruption of the masses. In our own favored section, we believe the people are sufficiently honest and pa triotic to sustain the right, if their leaders would permit them to do so. The freemen of the South are instinctively conservative. Their pursuits are those of independent husbandmen, who thrive most under few and simple laws and stable govern ment. As yet they have not become largely in fected by those political and moral dogmas which arc working gradually but certainly the most sedi tious and agrarian results through the heterogene ous elements that are pouring into the great free West, which teems with desperate adventurers from every part of the globe. An omen of no favorable significance, is the uprising of a quasi military organization, at the North, under the cog nomen of “ Wide Awakes.” The simultaneous appearance of this order, with the lawless avowals of the Black Republican leaders, in regard to the potency of the popular voice over the decrees of the Supreme Tribunal of the country—rendering its decisions powerless, unless sanctioned by the popular will—is a very dark sign of the times. In view of the present aspect of the country we believe it to be the imperative duty of the Consti tutional Union men—and they are found in all parties—of Christian men and patriots, to discour age and discountenance all undue party excitement and bitterness, and band together, it possible, to secure the defeat of Lincoln—or failing to do this, to restrain his administration within strictly Con stitutional limits or eject it from power. This, it is true, might involve the country in temporary civil strife—but it would be a lawful struggle for the supremacy and perpetuity of the Government which we received from our patriot fathers, as a priceless legacy to descend to us and our children —a struggle in the Union for the Un ion and the Constitution. Whilst we believe the election of the Union ticket will best conserve and perpetuate good gov ernment, by allaying sectionalism, we have no quarrel with our fellow-citizens who honestly differ from us in sentiment and feeling. SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. There are many open advocates of a dissolution of the Union in the event of Lincoln’s election.— The Breckinridge presses and leaders are particu larly desirous of committing the people to this movement. Should the secession ticket get a plu rality in Georgia, our good old Union State will be set down in favor of disunion. Let the people look well to this. A writer in the Atlanta Intel liyencer closes an article as follows : “ How, it may be asked, is this Southern Con federacy to be established, so easily, and so peace ably ? The answer is easy ; the course is a very plain one, and easily pursued. On the ides of November next, when Jupiter j hurls bis angry lightning along the wires and an nounces the election of Lincoln, let the Southern Senators and th Southern people at once declare the fact, for it will then tie a fact, that John C. Breckinridge is chosen the First president of the Southern Confederacy. Let him select his cabinet of Southern men, at once ; let him establish his government ; the Senators and Representatives of the South are already chosen for the time being ; let an honest declaration of the causes that have led to the separation he put forth to the world ; let the South hold the North, as she holds the rest of mankind—enemies in war, in peace, friends. — Let this he done, boldly—immediately and with determination ; and to mipport and maintain such a confederacy the people of the South will pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor; to defend it against attack or invasion from any quarter they will yield up the last drop of their life-blood. Let Mr. Lincoln be the President of the people who elected him. Let him discharge the onerous duties of his office in peace ; and we of the South shall respect him and his administration the same as any other foreign court or power. LAMBDA. Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 21, 1860. The Kingston itlavH IWectinfr. Monday, the 17th, was the day set apart for a grand masss meeting at Kingston, Cass county. — Hon. William L. Yancey was present, and spoke for three hours. We are informed, says the At lanta Confederacy , by a supporter of Breckin ridge, who was present, that the crowd was very small—a mere squad—and that the speech of the great Precipitator, fell like a shower hath upon his disconsolate hearers. The course of Breckin ridge and disunioD, all over Georgia, is like the last key notes of the auctioneer— going , gone ! Such is flesh ! Dkmagogpkism —pure and simple demagogneisin, says the New York Courier il’ Enquirer , never had a more perfect exemplification than in Stephen A. Douglas stumping it through the country begging the people to vote for him. The clown tumbling into the. i ing of a circus, and shouting as he lands upon his feet, “ Here I am, how do you like me?” does not excel, in physical contortion to gain the applause of the multitude, Stephen A. Douglas in moral contortion for the same end, when he turns up ou the stump, shouting in effect, “ Here J am, the Little Giant, about whom you have heard so much ; how do you like me ; am I not just the man for President. Gen. WalKcr nutl Col. Hudler Shot. Late advices from New Orleans state that Gen- Win. Walker and Col. Rudler had been shot by the Honduras government. General Walker’s men were allowed to depart unmolested. So ends an other act in this wretched fillibustering drama. IVegrocM ami Lincoln. A young friend informs us, says the Eufaula Ex press, that some nights since, he overheard a crowd of negroes talking together, iu one of the alleys of this place, in which frequent allusions were made to the present contest for the Presidency. He says that one of them remarked, “ that a man who ran for President before, was in favor of freeing the slaves, and came near being elected ; aud that one who is now running was in favor of the same thing, and he would be], elected certain.” Our informant could not make out who these negroes were, but thinks they were Rail Road hands. The New York Correspondent of the Charleston Courier thus notices the meeting in that city ou the 17th : “ The great speeches last evening were made by Mayor Wood, who really surpassed him self, the Hon. H. W. Hilliard of Alabama, and ex- Gov. Morehead, of Kentucky. Mr. Hilliard was particularly down ou Senator Seward of the North, and the disunionists of the South. When lie re marked with much warmth of expression, “ Leave us of the South to deal with the Secessionists, aDd you of the North take care of the Abolitionists,” the whole immense assembly rose, cheered, waved their hats and handkerchiefs, presenting a scene that was startlingly grand and exciting. It was all clap-trap, however, THE NATIONAL AMERICAN, Published at Atlanta, has become a Daily and Weekly. Terms for the Daily, #6,00 per annum— for the Weekly, $2,00. It is an able paper and we wish it success. Still They Com* !— Hon. William A. Ashley, ofCouecuh, one of the Montgomery Mail’s Breeik-1 inridge mep, is out for Hell and Everett. • (Csl'o\W,\CE OF THE JOTRAAL AS) MERGER. Nkvv York, Sept. 21, 18C0. The excitement of the week has been the mass meeting of all opposed to sectionalism. Follow ing close upon the demonstration of the Republi cans, it has effectually silenced the boasting re ports of that demonstration. Obliged to acknowl edge the success of our meeting, it is amusing to observe ihe Tribune, with apparent candor, states that it was the largest political meeting held yet, tree pi the Republican gatheiing of the previous week. Tliis may do to tell the simple minded Re publicans of New England, but to those who know the overwhelming anti-sectional sentiments of New York city such candor is ridiculous. The speeches Monday evening were marked by a sense impossible to be overlooked of the impor tance of the present campaign and the responsi bility resting upon the conservative masses. The teachings of the Republican leaders were analyzed and shown to be utterly subversive of the compro mises that underlie our Union. In particular the recent unmasked declarations of Wm. 11. Seward, duriug his western electioneering trip, were exam ined and held up to the public iu their naked radi calism. The effect of that meeting has been very marked. It had been apprehended that the fail ure of the State Committees of the Douglas and Breckinridge parties, respectively, to agree upon a joint electoral ticket, might prove disastrous to the Uuion cause. But the public confidence is restored. For the President of the meeting Monday night, Johnson J. Henry, having been impowered to elect a committee of fifteen who should seek to arrange a satisfactory fusion ticket, has appointed the com mittee and the gentlemen upon it have already be gun their labor. They are men in whom the citi zens of New York have implicit confidence, aud what ever may be the result of their deliberations will be concurred in harmoniously. Thus the pol* iticians are likely to be overwhelmed in the rising of the people. The probability is that such a tic ket will now be formed as wili secure the support aud influence of the Breckinridge strength, and thus the Republican success be materially damaged. The Administration at Washington are greatly to blame ia this matter. Let it be understood among the Federal office-holders here that they may vote as they please, without fear of being discharged from employment, and the entire anti-Lincoln strength could be at once concentrated on a single ticket. If the administration persists in its pres ent course, we shall have to work harder, but as we shall have the influence of the leading Breck inridge merchants to support us, we expect in any event to defeat Republicanism. It is well, howev er, to note bow plainly the Adrn inistration is now playing into the hands of the Republican party. As I have already said, the effect of the meet ing Monday night has been very marked. Promi nent Republicans have been heard since then to declare that they were not altogether satisfied w ith the course of the Republican leaders. What Seward preaches to the radicals of the North West w ill not add to Republican strength in conservative New York. So that we may not unreasonably expect a re action to set in, which will eventually draw off those conservative men who have been beguiled by the fair representations of New York Republi canism into support of principles that need only to be upmasked (as Seward has himself now done) to be abandoned. CRACKER. CORRESPONDENCE. We have been requested to publish the follow ing correspondence, between Col. Bass, the Doug las Elector, and Mr. Gibson, the Breckinridge Elec tor, for this District, which will show why those gentlemen do not canvass the District together : Macon, Hth Sept., 1860. Hon. 0. C. Gibson : Dear Sir :—l met you at Perry, on yesterday, 7th inst., at your invitation, for the purpose of dis cussiug the political issues of the day, and to make further arrangements for canvassing the third Congressional district. lof course expected the canvass to be couducted on fair and equal terms —such as are usual on such occasions, and was, and am willing to adopt your appointments as joint appointments. You stated in substance, that they were your appointments, and that you had, and would claim the right to control them, and would expect to open and conclude at all of them, Bhould you consent to a joint debate, and proposed these as the teims of debate on yester day, but said that yon would not make even that arrangement for any other day. Now it is usual on such occasions, to alternate as to the opening and conclusion of the debate. — I am willing to continue the canvass with you, on these terms, aud if you accept them, please advise me immediately, aud I will meet you, in that event, in debate at Concert Hall, this evening, and shall expect to open and conclude, as you had the open ing and conclusion at Perry, on yesterday. Respectfully, Yours Ac. N. BASS. Macon, Sept. Bth, 1860. lion. N. Bass : Lear Sir: —As I told you on yesterday, your proposition to make my appointments alike yours, changes my plan, and to which I could not then give my consent. Several reasons exist for such a course ; it is not in my power again to visit the counties, and as you must have seen plainly on yesterday the discussion defeated me in cauvass ing the questions with the completeness due both to my friends and myself— again it does not enable me to carry out the ouly purpose which induced me to accept the appointment, and that was so fully to discuss the graver issues before the coun try as to do all in my power to promote Union in the South, in defence of the rights of the South, and which I regard to be desired above every thing else. Under these circumstances my sense of duty is that I ought to continue to hold control of the ap pointments I have made ; but in doing this it is dup botli you and myself for me to declare my own will to conform to your wishes upon all occasions when I can do so, as I believe properly; and lam pleased to be able to say it meets my approbation, for you to open to-night with an hour, I will follow w ith an hour and a half, and you close with half an hour. Very respectfully, yours, O. C. GIBSON. Macon , Bth Sept., 1860. lion. 0. C. Gibson : Lear Sir :—Your note of this date is before me and in reply I have to say, that I accept your terms ns to the debate this evening, but respectfully de cline them as to future debates, as I am unwilling to rely upon contingencies in pelatjqn tbpreto sub ject to your, control alone. Ido not consider such terms fair and liberal. Respectfully yours, Ac. N. BASS. Mr. Douglas is perfectly willing to stand on the same platform upon which Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Breckinridge were elected in 1856, aud as they construed it. He said: “I have great difficulty with my political friends in harmonizing upon platforms, and have tendered them various pro positions. 1 have tendered them the Florida plat form of 1847, and they would not take it; the Georgia platform of 1854, and they would not it; the Alabama ultimatum of 1856, and they would* not take it. I tender them now Mr. Buchanans letter of acceptance of 1856,1; let it construe itself, and see if we can harmonize on that; or I tender Mr. Breckinridge’s speech of acceptance in Le xing ton, in 185$, and let It construe itself. I will not dot an i or cores a t. A Lane with a Very Short TrRN in It.—Gen Joe Lane, iu a speech at Concord, N. IL, during the Presidential canvass of 1856, said; “ The question of slavery is a most perplexing one, and should not be agitated. \Ve should leave it with the States where it constitutionally exists and the people of the Territories to prohibit or establish, as to them may seein right and proper.” Gen. Joe Lane in his late sppeph iu the Senate of the United States, said : “ I do not believe the people of a Territory have a right to exclude, or establish, or abolish slavery. No such right is conferred on them by the Consti tution.” Mr. Marsh, the census-taker of Hardeman comity, in this State, reports that in tfcp districts which he has canvassed there are five Douglas men to ope Breckinridge man.— Nashville Pat. Later From Europe. Viuporlnut Neu. New York, Sept. 24.—The steamer Adriatic with Liverpool dates to the 12th inst., has arrived Liverpool Coitem Market. —Sales of three davs including Wednesday the 12th 46000 bales Markets bouyant with an advaxce of @ jd. The General intelligence by the Adriatic is high ly important and exciting. Garibaldi with bis staff made a triumphal entrv into Naples on Saturday, the Bth instant, araid the joyful acclamation of the people. The excitement and enthusiasm were intense. A Provisional Government was immediately termed and the Fleet and Arsenal placed under the command of Admiral Bersano. Victor Ktnannal King of Sardinia, was then proclaimed “ King of Italy.” Naples continued tranpuil up to the latesi dates. The Capitulation of all the Neapolitan ports was expected immediately. The insurrectionary movements were rapidly extending. Ancona was in a state of seige. Garabaldi found eighty millions of levres in the Bank of Naples. Russia has notified the powers that she desires perfect concilliation and good understanding with Austria. France has given notice that as .piotec tor of the temporal authority of ihe Pope, she will withdraw her protection ftom Sardinia, if Victor Emauual lends his sanction to the scheme of Italian unity and the acquisition of papal territories. Latest. —The Sardinia Hag was flying in the Neapolitan ports. A great panic prevailed at Rome. FOR THE JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. Fashions of tlie lllsanionists. The overwhelming passions of Disunion men are growing almost uncontrolable ; the nearer the election approaches the higher their passions grow. They foresee that they are ultimately compelled to yield to conservation. They have endeavored by numerous tricks and clap-traps to deceive the people—and by painting what they term the oppressions of the Southern people, in the most horrible and tragical manner to the peo ple of this Union, but this will not do, the people of this Union bold the farewell address of ihe Great Founder of our Liberties in too great esteem to be misled by such follies and absurdities as they pretend to preach. Being foiled iu their cunning and farcical tricks to deceive and delude the people, they have now come to the last and hopeless re sort of branding and calling men traitors, who will not join with them in their acts of conspiracy. Branding Southern men—men born, reared and educated in the “ Sunny South”—men who never trod any other soil, but a Southern soil —men who would stand by the South in her darkest days of adversity—men who would not yield one inch or surrender one right, that would clash with the in terest of the South —men, who know no danger, and fear no hardships, when the interest of their coutry is at stake ; if such men as these are to be branded as traitors, for advocating the principles of the Union, the Constitution and the Enforce ment of the Laws, the English language fails, and the immortal lexicographer fails in endeavoring to furnish an appellation adequate to describe men who are ready and willing to disrupt the Union, erase the glorious articles of the Constitution, cast the Judiciary into oblivion, and involve this mighty colossal and glorious Republic in bloodshed war rapine and devastation. May a just God, who pre sides over the destinies of nations, avert such an aw - ful calamity, and may the Union, the Enforcement of the Laws and the Constitution come under the administration of the “ Noble and True” —John Bell and Edward Everett. PRO PATRIA. Death of 1.. O. Sliuimon, Evq. This gentleman, whose illness we mentioned in our last, died at his residence in this city, says the Atlanta American, at about half-past 9 o’clock last night. His funeral will take place this afternoon at 4 o’clock. Mr. Simpson was one of our oldest citizens, and was honored by bis fellow citizens with various public offices. He leaves a widow and five children to the care and protection of those who survive him. Douglas Ticket In the Field. Breckinridge’s last hope of Florida is gone, says the Florida Sentinel. Messrs. Peden, Culpepper and Jones, are announced as Electors for the “ Little Giant” iu this State. Gen. Peden has opened the canvass in good earnest in the East.— “ Alas ! poor Yorick.” Breck’s friends have’do ted on little Florida, but now she slips from his grasp. The tables are tu ued. It’s the Giant kil ling Jack—no longer “ Jack the Giant killer.”— The Douglas men of the State so long bullied an and brow-beaten by the Yancey-Breckeuridge men, have at last asserted their independence, and the ides of November will show many a voter for the Popular Sovereign. This ticket gives the State to Bell without doubt. So much for Buckingham!” Crops in Texas.— The West —A great deal of misconception prevails throughout the old States in regard to the condition of the people of Texas. It has been reported generally that in consequence of the failure of crops our people are lacking the necessaries of life, while in fact enough grain has been gathered for the use of our population, and the late heavy rains ensure a crop of cotton. We believe no portion of the Union is more prosper ous than ours.— Austin State Gazette. The Savannah Republican reports that Senator Toombs made a furious speech in that city on Fri day night last, which was condemned by men of all parties. He was particqtyrly severe on the Irish, and said : for Hat, J never asked you to vote for me ; you go for Douglas, go on.” Arrou Root. We have received from Mesars. Zelin and Hunt a package of Arrow Root, manufactured by Col. Hallowes, of St. Mary’s Georgia. According to the examination of several distin tinguished chemists, it contains a large quantity of nutritious matter, and is equal to the best quality of the same article obtained from Bermuda, it is an invaluable article for invalids and children. Xo doubt this is a pure article, “ though it is home manufacture,” Messrs. Zelin & Hunt have a large supply on band for sale. The Union Ticket in New York. New York, Sept. 24.—1 tis understood that the Union Ticket against Lincoln has been finally arranged. There are to be six Breckinridge District Electors, and Henry Randall for the State at large in place of R. H. Walworth er “ Qrestes A. Browuson,’’ says the New York Evening Post , “one of the profoundest thinkers and ablest writers of the country, and who has always heretofore acted with the Demo cratic parijf made a thorough-going Republican speech at Elizabethport, New Jersey, on Thursday evening. He not only commended the policy of the party in regard to the freedom of the Terri tories, but he eulogized the honest backwoodsman ot Illinois.” From the Scientific American, September 8,1559. Spaj.mno’s prepared ti li e.— We have receired several samples of prepared liquid glue, put up in small bottles, by Mr. H. C. Spalding, 30 Platt-strcct, Xew-York, anil have tried it in mending old fur niture. It is a very convenient article for domestic use, and deserves to be kept constantly on hand in every household. It is also a convenient article for pattern-makers and inventors in constructing and repairing their models. Four Breckinridge Electors in North Caro lina have declined. Three of them (Haywood, Keen and Bouldin,) have declared for Douglas, and one (Henry W. Miller) for Bell. HIARRIED, In the Episcopal Church iu Atlanta, on the 13th inst., by Kev Mr. Freeman, Dr. G. McDonald, of Macon, Ga., amt Mrs. S. M LARQCffK, of Aiken, S. C. At the residence of the bride s father, in Tails - poosa county, Ala , on the evening of the fith inst., Mr. Francis A. JOBSON, of Perry, Houston co., Ga., and M iss Fidelia E. Hiooiss. WANTED, A SITUATION as Overseer on a large plantation M South-Western Georgia. I have an experience of 10 years in the business Address V. A. CREECH, Herndon, Ga- References : Col. 8. Newson, D. A. Jnman,jp * Ga. sep