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(Times avfo Seniinel. ~ COLUMBIA, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 2, 1853. FOR GOVERNOR: HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: Ist. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. Hd. DISTRICT A. 11. COLQUITT. Illd. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY* lVth. DISTRICT W. H. W. DENT. Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. Railroad Meeting in Col umbos—#lso,ooo Sub scription to the Girard Road. We hare barely time to announce, that at a public meeting held in this city on Saturday evening, 30th ult., it was very unanimously resolved that the City of Columbus subscribe one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Girard Railroad, in addition to the sub scription heretofore made by the City Council. This subscription will insure the early completion of the Road to Union Springs, a distance of 52 miles. We hope the City Council will lose no time in issuing the bonds. There were but three votes in the negative. We are sure that there is but one voice in the city on this sub ject, and that is in favor of the subscription. In our next issue we will give a full account of the meeting. The Hall in Motion—First Democratic Rally— Hon. Walter T. Colquitt. Upon a notice of only a few hours the Democracy of this city assembled in considerable numbers in Tem perance Hall, on Wednesday (July 27) last, to hear an extempore address from Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, upon the principles involved in the present canvass. We were among “the hoys,” and although a quiet man in general, we could not keep our feet still, nor restrain our mirthfulncss within the hounds of decorum. In spite of ourselves our feet would thump the floor 5 and we could not help from joining in the chorus of loud ha-has, which very frequently rung through the Hall. It was a good time ; and every body went home satis fied with the speaker, satisfied with themselves, satis fied witli our candidates, and more than ever impressed with the truth and value of our political principles. We are very happy to state that Mr. Colquitt’s health has much improved, and that he will, if he continues to grow better, mingle freely with the people during the present canvass, and bear aloft the Democratic banner, now so proudly waving in triumph over this broad Union. We hope he will do so, as we are sure it is only necessary for the people to hear him to be con vinced of the insincerity and utter worthlessness of the attempt now being made by Messrs. Toombs and Jen kins to reconstruct a Southern Party out of the broken fragments of the once triumphant but now shattered and dishonored Union Whig organization. It is impossible for us to give even a synopsis of Mr. Colquitt’s address. lie made one or two points, how ever, which we will present to our readers. He made a short review of the political history of Georgia for the last ten years, by which lie very forcibly demonstrated that the leaders of the new party had proven themselves incompetent to perceive Hie true policy of the country or lacking in honesty to pursue it; in that they had earnestly advocated a Bank of the U. S., a Protective Tariff, and Internal Improvement by the* Federal Government, as absolutely essential to the well being of the country, and now abandoned them as obsolete and hurtful projects. We are satisfied that there is very great truth in this charge, and that it is not sufficiently insisted upon by the Democratic Press. These were once made para mount issues before the American people; they were discussed for ten years ; statesmen of large pretensions, if not of considerable merit, staked their statesmanship upon them ; and honest men actually believed, under whig teaching, that the prosperity, nay, *lhe very exis tence of the country was staked upon them. Yet, a few years of Democratic ascendency has completely demonstrated that this teaching was utterly fallacious, and they have been publicly repudiated by the Whig Party in convention assembled. Arc the apostles of these acknowledged heresies again to be trusted with the reins of Government ? The signs of apostleship do not follow them. They taught error and acknowledge that they so taught. What evidence can they give us that they are right now ? They deceived the people once; that was their fault. If they deceive us again it will be our fault. Upon the charge so often repeated by the Whig press of free soil appointments by Gen. Pierce, Mr. 0. took the high ground that no Democrat had been appointed to office by the President who has gone half as far as Webster in the advocacy of free soilism. Even Dix, the bug-bear of the Whigs, had not only conceded that the North had no right to interfere with slavery in the States, Lut boldly contended that the South was enti tled to protection .from the Federal Government in her property in slaves. Furthermore, he stated that Dix was an advocate of the annexation of Florida, Louisiana and Texas to the Union though slavery was recognized in them, and only contended for the application of the ‘ Wilmot Proviso to the Mexican Territory, because it was already Free Territory by the laws of Mexico, lie moreover advocated the compromise measures ; and is entitled to the forgiveness of the whigs for his free soil ism much more than Daniel Webster, Mr. Jenkins’ nominee lor President, who had no other claim to south ern support; and was known besides to have opposed the admission of Texas into the Union solely upon the ground that slavery existed there. The exposure of this hypocrisy of the Whigs in de nouncing Dix for his free soilism and praising and ac tually voting for Webster, who was a better free soiler, by the eloquent speaker, was utterly overwhelming and we are sure no Whig who heard him will ever again mention the name of Dix unless he has a face ol brass. Mr. Colquitt very feelingly alluded to his son, Mr Alfred 11. Colquitt, the gallant nominee of the party for Congress in this District, and while he acknowl edged his indebtedness and gratitude to his friends for the high honor they had conferred upon one so near to him, he pledged his own ardent republicanism and long public services for his fidelity to his country and his devotion to the principles of Democracy, both of which he had taught him to revere, and took occasion to re pel with some asperity the attempt to strip from his brow the green laurels he had won on the bloody field of Buena Vista, by the Columbus Knquiver. He stated that A. IT. Colquitt claimed no merit fol ios military services—he had but done his duty-but that lie was aid to Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista, and was equally exposed with the old hero during the two days of the battle. He also stated that as Paymaster he had paid out more money than any other officer of the army, and, what was mote, had accounted for every dol lar with the Government, and never was accused, as some other people had of using the public money. Mr. Colquitt closed with a splendid eulogy upon the character and administration of President Pierce, and urged upon his audience the duty of giving him a firm and unwavering support at the South, as lie had so faithlully stood up to our rights both in Congress and as President, amid long and loud applause from his de lighted auditory. Now that the ball is in motion, we hope it will be kept rolling. The victory is in our grasp if we will but resolve to win it. \\ e occupy an impregnable posi tion. Ihe party is in the ascendant in almost every btate iif the Union. The principles announced in the Inaugural have extorted praise even from our enemies. The country knows that the only hope of the Uniou aud of the South, is in Uteir triumph in Federal Councils, and that the Democracy is the only National Party in the country which has wisdom enough to appreciate them or honesty enough to adhere to them, “Up, Guards, and at them.” Rail Road Accident. As the ears were nearing Howard on the Muscogee Railroad on Thursday last, they accidentally ran over a cow and the baggage car was thrown off the track. The engine, tender aud passenger ears were not jostled. No one was injured. The baggage car was upset and badly damaged. No fault attaches to the engine dri ver, as the accident was unavoidable and was occasion ed by the cow’s jumping across the track unexpectedly. The World’s Fair. Gov. Collier has appointed Charles A. Peabody, Esq., a commissioner for Alabama to the World’s Fair. The Consistency of Whig opposition to Pierce’s Administration. In the last Journal tj- Messenger , we find the fol lowing jKtragraph : “The only issue which the Union party of Georgia makes with the Administration, is upon the policy of its appointments of Free Boilers and Abolitionists to of fices of honor, of profit and of trust.” The issue is a good one if it could be established. The South can give its confidence to no Administra tion which warms these reptiles in its bosom. We have recently exposed the falsity of the charge in our columns, aud do not propose to recur to the subject now. We have another purpose in view in this article. It is to expose the hypocrisy of the Conservative Whigs who make the charge: to draw them from be hind the sheep’s skins which cover their deformities ; to show to the public that they not only sustained a party whose chief made Free Soil and Abolition ap pointments, but actually voted for men for the highest office in the gift of the people, who proclaimed from every house top that they were themselves Free Soilers ; and co operated with a party until it was defeated , which, according to the oft-repeated declarations of its chiefs, was the original author of Freesoilism; and from which the Barnburners of New York stole this odious sentiment. We know what we say, and pledge ourselves to es tablish our position. Nor will we quote some mise rable party sheet or party man; we will prove our as sertions by the great leader of the Whig party; the candidate of the Journal &’ Mrsscngcr for President. Let then Daniel Webster take the stand. What say you, Mr. Webster? We rest our case upon his tes timony. In a speech delivered by him in 1848, he uses this remarkable language : “A party has arisen among us, calling itself the Free Soil party. The assumption of such a name by this party reminds ine of a joke made by Swift, or some other hu morist, on a person who had made not a very tasteful use of a Latin phrase— Dnlce et nutale solum. Fine words: I wonder when* he stole ’em. “Really the exclusive appropriation of the name of Free Boil by this party, was a very hold proceeding.— They have certainly stolen the. sentiment from the Whigs; it was a clear case of petit larceny. Are these men better lovers of liberty than we are? No! We are as good liberty men and anti-slavery nu n as they profess to be themselves. “But what is the history of this so called Free Soil par ty? Why, just this. Some years ago a schism broke out in the Democratic party of New York. This widen ed by degrees, and at length Mr. Van Buren put himself at the head of the smaller portion. When Silas Wright was nominated a second time for Governor of New York, the two parties had become very hostile to each other, and assumed the rival names of Hunkers and Barnbur*- ners, which appellation they continue to bear to this day. It appears therefrom, that the schism in the Democratic party is of rather long standing. There was an actual outbreak years ago among them, and all this before any other question of Free Soil rose in that quarter, and be fore the Wilmot Proviso or any opjmsition to slavery as a party principle. Down to the period of the annexation of Texas, all the Democratic party followed the party d<*e. trines, ami went for the annexation, slavery extension and all. The opposition to ibis measure proceeded in the first instance solely from the Whigs. I say, the Whigs alone, for it is notorious that nobody else, either in the East, West, North or South, raised a linger against it. If such an effort was made, it was so inconsiderable that it attracted no notice till, by the efforts of the Whigs, the people were roused to a sense of their danger, and a ferling of opposition to the extension of slave power.— Then , and not till then, the Barnburners seized upon this branch of Whig doctrine and attached it to their poli cy, merely to give them a certain predominancy over their rivals. “Originally, therefore, the Barnburners had no more to do with the doctrine of Free Soil than with the question of masonry or anti-uiasonrs. They only adopted it to secure an ml vantage over the Hunkers. But, having appropriated this just sentiment, though, still retaining all the rest of the thirty ‘••nine articles of the Ixx'ofoco ereed, they now call ujmn the Whigs of Massachusetts to enlist under them !—I had almost said to be subsidized by them, only to give them the ascendency in New York politics! For one, 1 propose to do no such thing. 1 do not like the service. “1 repeat, that this Buffalo platform, this collect of tin* Barburners, contains no new thing that is good ; it has nothing new which the Whigs of the Middle, and Nor thern States might not adopt. But is going too far for that party to ask the Whigs of Massachusetts to carry that matter into their State election.” “We well know,gentlemen, that the Buffalo platform contains nothing in relation to this matter which does not meet the approbation , and the unqualified appro bation, of the Whigs of the Northern States.''’ Here is the proof; it is ir refragible; it is from the mouth of the candidate of the Editor of the Journal <f- Messen ger. He says the sentiment of Free Soil was “certainly stolen from the Whigs;”that “no body East,West, North or South, raised a finger against the extension of the slave power, till by the efforts of the Whigs, the people were roused to a sense of their danger, and a feeling of op position to the extension of slavery that the Barn- | burners then, but not till then , “seized upon this branch of Whig doctrine and attached it to their policy, mere ly to give them a certain predominancy over their ri vals.” According to Mr. Webster, the Barnburners never were Free Boilers ; they only pretended to be in order to achieve a party triumph, by gulling the Whigs into their support. Furthermore, it is proven by Mr. Webster, that the Buffalo or Abolition Platform, “con tains nothing in relation to this matter, (slavery.) which does not meet the approbation, and the unqualified ap probation of the Whigs of the Northern States.” With this rotten Abolition Whig party, the Jour nal if- Messenger continued to act until lasl year, and then deserted it to aid in the election of this same Free Soiler, Daniel Webster, to the Presidency. Now Mr. Webster says, the Northern Whig party was a Free Soil party —therefore, all Northern Whigs were Free soilers, and consequently every officer from the North ap pointed to office during Mr. Fillmore’s term.of 4 years was a Free Soiler. Y et, the Journal ts- Messenger gave his Administration a cordial support, and never found out that there was danger to the South in these appoint ments until Mr. Pierce by accident, or mistake, or in advertence, appointed some of the Barnburners to little local offic. s. Nor is tlu* Journal Jf- Messenger alone in this inconsistency. Mr. Jenkins, the paragon can didate of the Conservative Whig party for Governor of Georgia, allowed his name to be run on the ticket with Webster for President, and Vice President; and thus gives the highest evidence that he had no appre hensions from a Free Soiler, even though he were Presi dent of the United States. VVc tiler* fore arraign the Conservative Whig party of Georgia before the country as insincere and hypo critical in its new born zeal for the South, and charge it with giving a cordial support to a Free Soil Adminis tration as long as it was in power, and of then trying to elect another in the person of Daniel Webster. Wo furthermore charge it with insincerity and hypoc risy in its factious opposition to President Piero: and his Administration—a man who stood beside Jons C. Calhoun in his brave defense of Southern Rights—who has surrounded himself with the chivalry of the South, and conferred almost every important office in his gift upon Southern men. We therefore call upon every Southern patriot to rally around his Administration ; to sustain the nominees ol his party for State offices, and thus show to the world that we can appreciate our friends and discover the tricks of our enemies. Second Congressional District in Alabama. Much interest is felt on this sale of the river in the contest in the adjoining District in Alabama. Capt. Abercrombie's friends tremble in their shoes in view of the prospect before them ; while Mr. Ci.opton’s friends arc buoyant with hope of success The result of the election is very doubtful. We think llie follow ing estimate is not far from the truth : Abercrombie’s Majorities. Clopton's .Majorities. Russel, 250 Barbour, 350 Henry, 150 Macon, 100 Covington, 100 Montgomery, 50 Coffee, 50 Pike, 100 Dale, 50 550 650 Abercrombie may get 300 in Russel and 1 50 in Cov ington. He can hardly increase the vote we give him in Henry and Coffee. Clopton may carry Barbour by 400, Pike by 150, and Dale by 100, and may lose Montgomery and Macon. It will thus be seen that the election is a very close one, and that success will depend upon the exertions of the friends of the candidates on the day of election. We hope our friends in the District will send us the returns of the election as early as possible. major’s Flection. Captain A. C. Kivlin was on Saturday, 23rd inst., elected Major of the First Battalion, 66th Regiment, Georgia Militia. ‘•The Rights of the States”—‘‘Secession”— “Disunion.” When these charmed words, so full of hope to the Republican, so full of terror to the* Conservative, fell from the mouth of attorney General Cushing, at Wilmington, Del., we expected to hear a howl of indignation from one end of the Union to the other. We have been very agreeably surprised at the profound silence of the Whig press in refe rence to the occurrence. We hope it is a sign that the public mind has revived from the terror inspir ed by their too frequent denunciation by corrupt, ignorant or timid politicians; and that it is begin ning to be understood that State interposition, instead of being a destructive and revolutionary principle, is the surest and only safe bond of Union. The great and unfortunate misapprehension which has so long prevailed upon this subject has resulted from a total misapprehension of the cardinal principles of American freedom. Our governments are built upon the doctrine that man is capable of self government, and necessarily renounce all reliance upon force as the ordinary agent of power. They therefore risk their success upon the blowings and benefits they confer, and not upon the bayo nets they can bring to back their authority. Hence we have no soldiers except upon the frontiers; and they are there only to defend the country from the aggres sions of foreign foes. And if we hold our lights independently of force, much more is our Union the* result of consent. The inde pendent and sovereign states now composing this proud confederacy, voluntarily entered into a compact to form a Federation, and delegated the exercise of certain powers to an agent for their mutual benefit; and limi ted and restricted its rights and powers by an instru ment of writing, called the Constitution. No pow er was conferred upon this agent to call the States to its tribunals; no power was conferred upon it to enforce them into submission to its decrees. Sovereignty was reserved to the States. “This is, in truth, the original cardinal spirit of the Constitution of the United States.” It interposes between the individual and the Federal power, the shield of State authority ; and by this barrier to tyranny insures the liberty of the citizen, and mode ration and equity in the administration of the Govern ment, by which its blessings will be universally diffused, like the dews of heaven, and every heart united in striving for its perpetuity. We arc very happy to have it in our power to forti fy this opinion by the authority of the great name of Ciianning, perhaps the ablest, certainly one of the ablest Divines who has ever adorned the American pulpit. In a sermon delivered at the annual election, May 26, 1830, he uses the following remarkable language: “Our Union is not like that of other nations, confirm ed by the habits of ages, and riveted by force. It is a recent, and still more, a voluntary Uniou. It is idle . to talk of force as binding us together. Nothing can retain a member of this confederacy, when resolv ed on separation. The only bonds that can permanent ly unite us, arc* moral ones. That there are repulsive I powers, prineiph-'s ol disc rd. in these States, we all j feel. Tin* attraction which is to counteract them, is only j to be found in a calm wisdom, controlling the passions, j in a spirit of equity and regard to the common weal, J and in virtuous patriotism, clinging to the Union as the j only pledge of freedom and peace.’* Then* is so just an appreciation of the cardinal prin ciples of American freedom in this paragraph, that we j may be pardoned if we wonder how it came to see the ! cold Federal atmosphere of New England. We now refer our s rt*nders to Mr. Cushing’s speech. It is worthy of Jefferson or Calhoun, and gives the j amplest assurance that the* present Administration is in the.old Republican track, and that tlu* Resolutions of *9B and ’39, laulv incorporated into the Democratic platform, are living realities. SPEECH of MU. cuts 111 NO AT WJLMIMGTmN, DELAWARE. Hon. Caleb Cushing was next introduced to the eiti* zcits, and spoke as follows : Fef low-citizens, I yield to your request that I •should I now address you, with the less reluctance, for the reason j that this State of Delaware, with one other of the States of I the Union—viz.: Rhode Island—affords the most perfect \ and admirable illustration of the most beautiful feature in the constitution of the United Slates, upon which the in- j tegriiy, nay upon which, in my judgment, the salvation j and existence of the Union depend. Gentlemen, those who framed the constitution of gov- j eminent under which we live, were wise, good men. ! They were the demi-gods of our country’s heroic age. ! They assembled amid burning towns, the roar of the can non of invading enemies—they, a feeble people, not even yet in the gristle of manhood, to arm themselves against the greatest and most powerful of-life governments of Christendom ; and then and there, in the presence of dan ger, under all apparent discouragement, that prophetic vision of the future that seemed rather an inspiration from j Heaven than the suggestion of a human heart—l say then and there to found this mighty fabric of the United States, they assembled, thirteen independent colonies, and by the blessing of God, pronounced the declaration of separation from England—each independent not only of Great Britain, but of each other. These thirteen independent States convened, not in a legislative body, but in a congress of the diplomatic repre sentatives of sovereign States, to hind their separate pow er and strength to fight that great war of independence to a successful issue They did so, each continuing an independent State, allied, confederated, not merged into ! one central government, hut confederated and represent ed by their agents in that confederation. We look around upon the Spanish American republics, upon Mexico and j the rest, with wonder that their history is but a history of | civil war : that in all but a generation of liberty they seem to have discovered nothing hut how to perpetuate disor- ; dor ; that they live, as it were, in a chronic distemper of j revolution, that their governments are hut a constituted ! anarchy : and that every year, as it revolves, brings around anew military insurrection and anew prouuncia- j ■mento to add to the long r. II of f.u-tion and civil carnage. We wonder at this, mid wc cannot fail to wonder at tin* marvellous contrast presented in the spectacle of our own peace,our own order, our own steadily advancing power and prosperity, our own universally diffused liber ty, our own possession of that spirit of manhood incarnate in the breast of every citizen, in virtue and by impulsion of which our institutions wo k by their own inherent energy —by the virtue ami patriotism of men, not by the wisdom or the skill of government. N<*. gentlemen, that govern ment which represents your greatness, which is the agent of your power, has been enabled, through long years of prosperity, to conduct this country from triumph to tri umph, mounting as it were, day after day, towards those imperial heights of greatness which we are destined to at tain. I say that government has done it first, because it is hut the imbodiment of your own spontaneous, self-acting wills; and, secondly, to go back to tiiu idea 1 desire to 1 present to you, booaus* of that wise provision of the fra mers ol live constitution which gave to the thirteen States co-equal representation in the Senate of the United States. That, gentlemen—that much abused and misunderstood doctiinc of the rights of the States; that glorious, grand, and sublime conception of the co-equal rights of the States, one in the presence of the other, which to-day is called secession, and tomorrow disunion, by whatever name of reproach a wise man may see lit to slander it, that which j is in truth the original cardinal spirit of the constitution of tin* United States. If gentlemen will go back once more to the formation of the constitution, and remember that of thirteen equal sovereigns stood Virginia, mighty in her population, i mighty in the intellect of her sons, mightier still in her relative weight and power, by reason of her magnitude ; that there stood opposite the State ot Massachusetts, not, as umv, shorn of five-sixths of her territory by the sep aration of Virginia—she, always great in her population and her representative wealth, great in the self-sacrifi- i eing devotion of her sons ; great, I may he permitted to say, in their wisdom—those States occupied nearly one half the territory of the then thirteen States : yet, by their sides stood the little States of Rhode Island anil Delaware, little only in territory. The Right of Secession among the Whigs. As the Whigs of Georgia have stolen Democratic planks to build their new Platform, so have the Whigs of Alabama. Mr. Lockwood, the very able and accom plished candidate of the Whig party in the Mobile dis trict, holds the following language in reference to the much abused doctrine of Secession : “Mr. L. said he believed a State for adequate cause had the right in the last resort to secede from the Union, and that the State was the judge of the sufficiency of the cause, and that the Federal Government had no right to coerce a Statisthus seceding. He attempted, however, by a jumble of words and confusion of ideas, to mystify the subject, and said that although a State had the right to judge of the sufficiency of the cause for secession, the oth er States who are parties to the compact, had an equal right to judge of the sufficiency of the cause, and that if the seceding State was wrong in the abstract, and had no good cause to secede, the other party to the compact had the right to prevent her from leaving the Union ; but if the seceding State was right in the abstract, and had adequate cause to secede, then in thatcase, the other par ty to the compact had no right to interfere or prevent her from seceding. A strange entanglement and contradic tion of ideas. Mr. L. read the Kentucky resolutions to sustain his views of the question, and as containing the true doctrine of State rights. Mr. L. also said, in reply to a question of Col. I\, that it the State of Alabama should determine to secede, although he might, as a citizen of the State, be opposed to the act, and think the cause inade quate, yet he would sustain the State in her act of seces sion, and would not in such a controversy lake sides with the Federal Government.” These endorsements of Democratic doctrine by the Whig leaders are the most cheering signs of tin* times. Universal Suffrage—The Algerine Law—ll. V. Johnson’s Address. We have not placed much stress upon Mr. Jenkins’ vote for the “Algerine Law,” by which the poor men of Augusta were in part disfranchised; because we regarded the doctrine of Universal Suffrage as so firmly fixed in the love and reverence of the American people that it was impossible to uproot it. But as som* persons—old Fogies—are bold enough, even at thL j day, to justify this indefensible and un-American vote of the candidate* of the Conservative party for Gover nor, vve feel hound, from time to time, to hold up to the people the grounds upon which the doctrine of Universal Suffrage is defended. We therefore re publish with great pleasure an extract from a speech delivered by Herschel V. Johnson, the Democratic can didate for Governor, before the Alumni Society, of Franklin College, in August 1842, a little prior to Mr. Jenkins’ famous vote for the Algerine Law.— Our readers will see that the Democratic candidate grounds his defence of Universal Suffrage upon the great fundamental principle of American freedom, to wit: that man is capable of self-government; and being j capable, he is entitled to the exercise of tlie elective ; franchise. This principle is admitted very generally in the Uni : ted States, but the policy is doubted by many Whigs, |in respect to our foreign population. The candidate of 1 the Democracy meets this issue like a true Democrat, i and with an overwhelming argument. He says truly, i that “the right of suffrage brings every citizen into a species of co-partnership affiance with the whole po ! litical mass *, gives him an interest in the concern, | whereby his affections will cluster with idolatrous de | vorion around the Government of Lis choice, and prompt him freely to pour out his blood as a libation upon its altars.” He illustrates this position by a very happy reference to a passage of Irish history, which the gal lant sons of the Eineral Isle will read with interest; and unless we have greatly mistaken their true char aeter, will treasure in their hearts, and on the day ot election, deposit their votes tor a man who cherishes so warm a love for their native land, and so deep a sym pathy for the noble men who have labored so long f r delivery from the thraldom of British tyranny. Let every voter read this speech of Judge Johnson. Ii shows him to he a man deeply imbued not only with the great cardinal principles of American freedom, but alive to the wants of the poorest citizen, whose equal right to vote with the proudest and richest aristocrat in the Union, he so nobly and successfully defends. The more we see of our candidate, the more we ad mire him. He is a Roman in the firmness of his priu- I ciples, a Christian and a true Democrat in his opin i ions, principle's and feelings. Wc arc proud of him, and ! hope, before the election comes on, that lie will visit this | section of the State, and give our people an opportuni jty of seeing and hearing him. We have other produe i tions of his pen which we will in good time give to our j readers. We intend that, the people shall know him ! before the election, and then we will laugh to scorn the I slanders of his enemies. Judge Johnson’s Address. We can hut lament over the proneness of the hu- j man mind, to find fault with all that a political oppo- j nent says or does aftei he is nominated for high office \ by his party. • This weakness is signally manifested in the com- ! | ments of the Recorder, upon Judge Johnson’s address j before the Wesleyan Female College at the late com- I | ineneeiinnt. lie looked at the address through th<* j ! colored glasses of a political pponent, and found there- 1 i fore much to condemn in the performance. How different is the estimate placed upon the ad- ’ I dress by an impartial spectator. Wo find in the last number of the Southern Christian Advocate , a paper { conducted with eminent ability, and devoted to the I dissemination of the highest and purest form of Chris tian doctrine, the following paragraph : : “The Hon. H. V. Johnson then addressed the audience j for nearly an hour and a hall, on tin* subject of Female | Education. This was a discourse full of great practical I truths, characterized by high moral tone, and d* I veivd 1 impressively.” Now a speech “full of great practical truths,” and characterized by “high moral tone,” ought to meet with some appreciation at least from one of the editors of the Recorder ; and unquestionably would have done so if he could have freed his mind from the bias of political prejudice. We are happy to believe from re ports from various sources, that he is peculiar in his condemnation. The enlightened and religious public, j who witnessed the performance are unanimous in its j praise. It is a melancholy spectacle to behold good men en gaged in the pitiful task of bespattering the fair fame of j good men. Herschel V. Johnson’s moral character is above reproach. If he errs at all, it is on the side ; of virtue. We know that his stern integrity in his ( high office, has made him some enemies, who oppose i his election solely on this ground. Yet. the Conserva tive press has teemed with articles injurious to his pri vate reputation. He is charged with being a spiritual ! rapper; the charge is as false as it is ridiculous. Once j | for all, we will state that Judge Johnson is an Elder j in the Presbyterian church, and exemplifies in his daily ; | life the justice, purity and eh.ai ity of the Christian char ; ajter. We make this statement in defence of Judge- Johnson, and as an offset to the opprobrious charges | which a reckless opposition press so freely lavishes up on his good name, while vve enter our solemn protest against this method of electioneering. It is the chief glory of our Republic that religious opinions are neither a recommendation nor disqualifica tion for office. It is a matter between the individual ! and his God : and no man is allowed to intermeddle ; therewith. This principle drove our fathers to this wes tern wild, and is dear to the descendants of the pilgrims. “Freedom to worship God” was the reward of their labors and sacrifices, and was preferred by them to ali the comforts of civilization. It is now too late to re vive the inquisition. That iniquity is abated. But zealots still try to force belief by branding with bet* re doxy an individual who dares to worship God according to the dictates of hi own conscience, Wahave no fear . that the freemen of Georgia will countenance this fanat icism. But they ought to do more. They owe it t< their fathers, to the tolerant spirit of our free institutions, to crush this attempt to ostrac.se an eminent citizen, whose whole life is a splendid exemplification of the Christian virtues, because he cannot bow the neck of his faith to the yoke of Knowles-doxy. The Algerine Law. This term is applied in Georgia politics to a ed by the Georgia Legislature disfranchising all citizens j of Augusta, in their municipal elections for Aldermen, j who did not possess a specific amount of property. The j bill was drawn up by Andrew J. Miller, on the pe- i tition of 89 persons, resident in that city, and was voted j for by Charles J. Jenkins, the candidate of the Con- ! servative party for Governor of Georgia, and was do- * fended bv him before the people of Augusta at the next election. lie was defeated upon this issue, and the law was repealed by the succeeding Legislature. In the United States of America, every citizen who j pays taxes is entitled to one vote, upon the general j principle that all men are entitled to say who shall govern them. This is the distinguishing characteristic of freedom, and is thought to be the corner stone of our liberties. The ballot is placed in the hands ‘ of each citizen in order to enable him to prevent any set of men from tyranising over him ; and hut one vote is given to the rich aud powerful, as it is supposed that wealth and talent will certainly be able to acquire a preponderating influence ovei the poor and ignorant, and thus be able to protect themselves from all depreda tions. Mr. Jenkins either overlooked these plain household American truths, or did not recognise them as such in his vote for the Algerine law. We have no fears that Mr. Jenkins will attempt to disfranchise the poor people of Georgia, even if he is elected Governor, of which there is very little fear, and have not, therefore, before specifically alluded to this un popular vote of his. As it is, however, making some stir in Georgia, we have thought it best to give a plain statement of facts to our readers, that they may know the truth in regard to the matter, and act in the premi ses as they may think best. It was a very unlucky vote, and will lose him the suffrages of many poor men in the coming election. Those Democrats who are with such facility deserting the Democratic standard, because they have been defeated by their rivals before nominal- j ing conventions, would do well to look into this mutter [ before they cast their votes. If they wish to he popu lar and secure office it would lie well for them to pause before they connect their fortunes with those of a politi cian who regards poverty as a disqualification for voting in municipal elections. Such treason to tlnr rights of the people will not soon be forgotten by the masses, and “Algerines” will have the felicity of occupying pri vate stations the balance of their lives. Proscription. A Washington letter writer for the Mobile Register , gives the following pointed refu at‘loll to the charge of proscription, so freely made by the Whig press against the Administration : “Now. upon the simple proposition of removals from office, if the practice be wrong in itself, the W bigs have a thousand fold more sins to answer for than our party have. Their removals have been on a larger scale, and under circumstances incomparably more aggravated. “Nothing was more confidently expected than that Gen. Pierce would place his political friends in office. A harmony of sentiment between him and his agents was indispensable to the success of these measures which he was elected to carry out. lie announced iu his inaugural that he would place men in office whose principles were in common with his own. Indeed, as before stated, noth** ing less was expected by men of all parties. ‘“Th.* present- Administration has been in pewft* four month-. The total number of removals during tins time, of whatsoever kind, is less than nine hundred How does thi compare with the removals made by the Whigs ? In 1841, in three weeks after the inauguration oi Gen. Harrison, there had been seventeen hundred removals of Postmasters alone. This was done, too, iu the face of pledges made by the Whigs during the canvass, that they would ‘proscribe proscription.’ “Again ; in the first month of Gen. Taylor's Adminis tration there were over three thousand removals. This. I tot>, in the most flagrant violation of solemn pledges vol untarily and repeatedly made by Gen. Taylor, that, in the event of his election, no one should he removed on politi cal grounds. With such facts as these staring them in the face, how preposterously absurd it is, and how insult ing to t!i-* popular intelligence of the country, for the Whigs to charge it as a fault upon this Administration, that it is proscriptive!” Georgia Items. Congressional. —John J, Jones, Esq., of Burke is recommended ns the candidate of the Democratic party in the eighth District. Hon. Y. P.Kinu.—The citizens of Greensboro have tendered a public dinner to Hon. Y. P. King, as an evi dence of their high appreciation of his public services, and of his character as a citizen and neighbor. % Emory College.—Dr. Alexander Means has re signed his professorship in Emory College, and lias ac cepted the Presidency of the Masonic Female College at Covington. Prof. Darby, of Ctillodcn, Ga., has been elected to (ill the professorship ill Emory College, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Means. ILT The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars was raised at the late commencement at Emory Col lege to complete the College buildings. Hon. Robert Toombs gave four hundred dollars. Candid sites in Randolph County. The Democratic Party in Randolph county has nomi nated the following very able ticket for the Legislature, which will unquestionably be elected by a very large majority. For the Senate—LeGrand Gukrry. “ u House—M. Hendrick and Noah Robison. j Georgia Home Gazelle. Having received the Georgia Home Gazette since | its commencement, wc take pleasure in commending it j to out'readers ns one of the best Literary and Family ! papers published in the country. It is furnished to single subscribers at $2 per annum , |in advance, and to clubs at $1 50. Published at All- ! ! gusta, Ga., by Smythk Wiiytk. New York Politicians. A resolution endorsing the Fugitive slave law lately passed the popular branch of the New York Legisla ture, by a vole of 46 to 23 ; among the ayes were 42 Democrats and 4 Whigs. We have no great eoidi-! deuce in the soundness of New York politicians of ei- j liter party ; but the vote in this ease, we believe, may be taken as a test of the comparative soundness of the | two parties in that State—42 to 4, or more than ten to j one in favor of the Democracy. Steamer Alabama Sunk. We regret to learn that this noble Steamer ha- recently , sunk at the Enfaula wharf in six feet water. The seams | are supposed to have opened under the scorching-rays of a j Southern sun, and admitted water into her hold. There I was a guard on board at the time, but. the vessel went down \ so gradually that he was not aware of it. The steamer I was principally owned wo believe by McCall & Johnson, ! of Eulaula, and was built last year at Pittsburg. \ not her Murder. A fair, but frail being, named Ber thenk Sweeten, and known for her beauty as Eliza Love, was on j Wednesday 20th inst., brutally murdered iu New Or- j leans by her paramour, a grocer on Poydras st., by the name of A. M. Ballow. She was killed in her own ! room while asleep, by blows upon the head with a hatches. Ballow has been arrested. The black hear- i ted villain gave information of her death to the police,; 1 but denied all participation in the deed. Corn in Charleston. We learn from the Mercury , of the 22d., that the stock of corn in Charleston was completely exhausted. There was not a bushel in the hands of dealers. The j last sales were at 90 cents. New Orleans. We regret to learn that the Yellow Fever is epidem- j ic in New Orleans. The disease is attributed to a j criminal neglect of the streets by the contractors. The Girard Rail Road. We are happy to announce that the first Engine for the Girard road has arrived at the Depot, and is ready to mount the iron track as soon as it is laid. It is call ed “Chunnenuggee” in honor of the intelligent and en terprising citizens of that lovely village. o*Dr. Chas. Caldwell, one of the most eminent physicians iu the West, died at Louisville on the 9th | instant. lie was nearly ninety years of age. He was a man of great intellectual vigor and of great learning. He was for many years a professor in one or more med* ieal colleges, and has left many reliable productions. llon. Wiley P. Harris, of Lawrence county, Miss., is the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 4th district. J. J. Skibels, Esq, American Consul to Belgium, ; arrived ill Charleston on the 21st inst., on his way to ; Washington, preparatory to leaving for Europe. Degrees. —The University of Alabama lias conferred I tin* degree of Doctor of Laws, upon Judge John A. | Campbell, and that of Divinity, upon Rev. Henry Tal berd. Col. Gadsden, of South Carolina, American Minis ter to Mexico, left Charleston on Saturday, inst., 4o enter upon the duties of his mission. Union Springs. —A meeting has been called in Montgomery, Ala., to consider the project of a Railroad JVom that city to Union Springs. Hon. James U. Wallace died of apoplexy, at his residence in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Monday 18th inst. Baltimore, July 24. R. G. Barnwell, Esq., of* S. C., one of the editors of Deßow’s Review, has been appointed Consul to Am sterdam. Mobile News . —Blanton McAlpin, for many years identified witli the interests of Mobile, of which city he was a well known unci popular resident, left on Tuesday the 19th for his adopted home in Cal ifornia. Mr. James M. Tarleton, of Mobile, Consul to Australia, is to leave New York on the loth if August in the new steamship Golden Age, for Melbourne. James F. Otis, for many years one of the editors of the N. V. Express , has become an assist ant editor of the Picayune. Judge Hubbell, of Wisconsin, has been unanimously acquitted of the charged that were brought agaiust him. . fFOK TIIE TIMES AND SENTINEL.! Columbus, Ga., July 23, 1853. To the Editor of the Times — Snt:—l respect fully offer to your correspondent, “A Southern Rights Democrat,” such acknowledgments as are due for the empty compliment In* has tendered pro posing my name to the convention shortly t* assemble, as a suitable candidate lor a scat in our State Legislature ; a position which I have never coveted, and which 1 would not deign to accept if offered with entire unanimity. 11l had ever possessed such an ambition, and a nomination were given me now, as a free will offering, my attachment to our party is too strong, and my solicitude lor its success too sincere, to allow me to jeopardize it by striving for the interest of myself, or one who, like me, held “extreme opin ions” upon the issues which of late unhappily divided us. The policy of the party should he as shadowed forth in your editorial of the 13th of May, when you used this language: “Another and essential means of success is the character and position of the candidate selected. Men of ardent tern perament would of course prefer the nomination of a candi date. who holds extreme opinions; but this would guarantee defeat, as it would he asking too much of human nature to expect men who hold opposite opinions to give to such a nominee a cord ad support. Neither wing of the party ought to press the claims of men of extreme views. If a middle man can he found, who, during the late dissensions, laid one hand upon the one wing of the party,and the other upon the other wing, and byhis moderation lias secured tin* good will of both, without forfeiting the confidence of either, he ought to be the nominee of the party for Governor. We certainly could not expect Union Democrats to give a hearty support o him of ‘Goblin Glen/ and wp claim for our prejudices the same consideration which we extend to them. VVc hope wc are understood.” M y course during the excitement upon the compromise question was un mist ahi ugly extreme and ultra. Upon a like issue being presented, it shall prove the same. A re trospect of my action then, but convinces me of its correct ness, and endears to me the grounds I then assumed Dur ing the canvasses consequent upon that division, I was forced to personal issues with many of those with whom, , since my majority, 1 had acted in concert in political af fairs. Many ot these personal differences have not been healed : they never shall be by an advance upon my park 1 would avoid having thrust upon those gentlemen with whom lam now in party alliance, the mortification of supporting me, not feeling that I can give them the credit 1 that I assume and practice, of magnanimity, and not deem ing that they would “ cordially ” support any one whoso lately was politically and personally obnoxious to them. To the nominees whom the Democracy have selected, and to those whom they may select, f shall give a warm and zealous support. Ido so the more readily, because satisfied that, it elected, they will be confined to the pale of the principles laid down by our convention at Baltimore, and while so confined they cannot materially err, and by their election, the National Democracy will be exalted. Whoever they may be, personally, I care not; with me principles have more weight than men, and lu* who will forestall me iu his advocacy ofthose principles aud the elec tion ol the agents who have been, and may be, selected to carry them out, shall be entitled to his seat above mein our national church. l! I have a solitary friend remaining among *tlie many who have shared my‘fortunes, I exhort him to an active and vigilant support of our nominees, for the reason assign ed. Let him remember, too, that at the division of our forces, the smallest number rallied to the flag of “Union Democracy.” YVecau freely then, give to our late politi cal enemies, what low positions we have to bestow, as it will doubtless prove a salvo for their mortified feelings, and may heal the rent caused by the scramble to reach our Na tional Flat form. All with whom I acted should be satis fied, as I am, that it is a reward sufficient for all our trials that the correctness of our position in the past, has been as serted by that tribunal from which there is no successful earthly appeal— th * National Democracy. As victors let us be generous. More gratification has been afforded me, by the endorsement of the compromise by our National Convention, than a life time seat in the Legislature could have secured. Respectfully, yours, ALEX. C. MORTON. I FOR TIIE TIMES AND SENTINEL.J Mr. Editor : You know that I was first in furnishing ; reliable and incontrovertible evidence of the superiority of , the Railroad route front Columbus to West Point, over all i others in Georgia, so far as the cost of grading, bridging, ; &c., is concerned. You know, also, that I have lor sev j eral years been almost constant in my endeavors to bring | the people of Columbus to a consideration of the vast ad vantages which would certainly be reaped by them if that Railroad were constructed. But during all this time, 1 did not dream that the people of Harris, Meriwether and Cow . eta, could be prevailed upon to undertake, in such force, ; and with such an amount of means as would ensure the completion of, within any reasonable time, the new propos i ed Railroad from this place via. Hamilton and Greenville ! Gr; utsville, connecting at the latter point with tire Rail j road from Atlanta through Newnan. Within the last week, however, in addition to your notice of the subject, I ; heard from several sources, that the project is, not only iu j j contemplation, hut that there is no doubt that the people of j Harris and Meriwether are ready for the undertaking, if j I assured that Columbus will pledge herself, to build so much | I of the road as may he iu ‘Muscogee county. You have I done right in tendering this pledge in behalf 01 our city. I j have yei to find the first citizen who is not warmly in favor i of the earliest possible action on the part ot all concerned, j Now, it what we hear respecting the temper and determin ; at ion of the people of the three counties named upon this 1 subject,many,il not all the warmest advocates of tlu* im mediate construction of the Columbus and West Point I road, will be content to abandon that project lor the present I (unless the people of Troup county are. willing to come iu i largely to its aid) and to concentrate the means, credit and j energies of the city, upon what may he called the Pine I Mountain and ColumhuH Railroad. With respect to trade, tin* largest portion of the dheus ! sions of the advantages of a road from Columbus to West i Point may be referred to and adopted as applicable to this j new route ; hut the latter offers additional inducements to the up country and the lower country, but more especially ; to those residing or owning lands on, or contiguous to the Pine Mountain, or at,or in the vicinity,of any of the Mineral ; Springs. Let these but reflect, that it would be delightful ! o thousands of the low country people to dwell in the I ‘shadow ol that mountain during tne summer season—to I adorn it with hundreds of summer residences, if they could j reach it by Railroad. With respect to others who may I own the land on or near the line, it is enough to refer them : to the foil unate experience of thousands who, before a Rail I road passed near their land, could not get three dollars per i acre for it, and who would not now. take ten. Should the necessary arrangements be made to secure j the beginning and completion of this road, it is “devoutly to be wished” that time—short time, will be. an important ! element in that arrangement. This old Fogie way of j being three or four years in building fifty or sixty miles of . Railroad, cannot he countenanced in this progressive age. It lias been the case, that the interest lost on the expeudi i lures on a long delayed work of the kind, was equal in amount, to half the cost of the whole work, to say nothing [ of lost profits. Now the most economical mode of getting I through with this work, is to complete it in time for carry ing to market the crop of next year. If fifteen thousand dollars, under the control of one man, cart be made to com- | pi etc. one mile in >ix months (an easy job) it is just as easy i ior sixty men, with the same amount each (in all $900,000) l to complete sixty miles within the same time, ft must not ho the expectation of planters who pay for their stock in work to make full crops and work on the road at idle times. Paying for stock in work is in itself a vastly profit able crop, and men in this neighborhood are getting rich at it. The plan is, to plant hut very little cotton next year, and what work a planter may do on the road, let him do it in one season and have done with it. Nor should the tact, that there is no charter lor this l oad, occasion the least delay. That can he obtained as soon as the Legislature meets without tho least doubt or difficulty. Let meetings he held, and the company formed and stock subscribed for to be held under the charter to be obtained. If after all, however, an investigation shall satisfy the people of Columbus, that those of Harris and Meriwether are not-fully prepared to engage in this enterprise, or that the support they are ready to give, to it, will hut be sufficient to begin it, allowing it to linger for several years, “drag ging its slow length along/’they can fall back upon, and organise under the charter already granted for the Colum bus and West Point road, and go to work. MORE ANON. [FOR TIIF. TIMES A FID SENTINEL.] Emory College* Messrs. Editors : The commencement exercises of this Institution have just closed. Ii would be, great presump tion to attempt to sketch with the pen,a picture which loses ! so much of its vividness and its intore t, by a separation ! from its associations. I shall not therefore take upon my i self more than a simple repital of the prominent events of ! the occasion. ! At 11 o’clock of Sunday morning, Bishop Capers preach ed a sermon, appropriate to the occasion, to a very large 1 and interested audience, in the new Chapel. At the clow? | of this service, this large and beautiful building was dedi- I cated by the Bishop to Almighty God. The occasion was solemn and impressive. ; At 3 o’clock, Dr. L. Pierce followed in a sermon char acterized by great ability and unction, lie is indeed a great i man, with an intellect standing up in all its majesty and I clearness, against the wear and tear of Well nigh three i score years and ten. j On Monday the Board ol Trustees met for the transac j tion of the business connected with the interests of the Col • lege. Professor Means tendered his resignation of the chair ol natural sciences. This was a source of mutual regret to I the Doctor and the Board of Trustees. Ilis private interest j demanded the change, and the Board, however reluctant, j ! were left no other alternative but to accept. But Emory j seems to have been the child of Providence. Just when j i the darkness and the gloom were spreading over lie** pros j poets, from the loss of Prof. Means, a worthy and very j competent successor was found, in the person of Professor Darby. This latter gentleman was elected, and the Board are permitted to say, accepts the appointment. Professor Darby has a wide spread reputation for general scholarship, and ability in imparting instruction, but liis strong forte and inclinations are tor the natural sciences. At night, on Monday, we were entertained by like,on prize dec 1 aimers from the Sophomore class. They all did well. The Judges awarded the first premium to Thomas 11. Muse, of Midway, S. C., and the second to John In - lander, of Macon, Ga. ! On Tuesday morning, thirteen of the Junior class deliv ered original speeches. There was much ability indicated by this exhibition, and the parents and friends were very justly proud of this debut of their sons on the rostrum. A irreat treat may he looked for from tliis class, at the next Commencement. In the afternoon, President Pierce made an address in behalf ot the pecuniary interests ol the College, growing out ol expenditures in the erection of the large new College building. It is needless to say anything more about this speech than to exhibit its truits. In response, twenty thrr.e hundred dollars were deposited, subject to the Presi dent's order, l'his was doing nobly ; would that all the Methodists ot Georgia could have been there, to have heard for themselves, and seen what this noble enterprise is doing for the church and lire country ; then the cry ol want ot means and poverty of endowment would have been heard no more. it is to l>e regretted, that the church as a whole, do not acquaint themselves more generally with the merits of tliis Institution. It has struggled through embarru.-smer.ts the most extraordinary, and in its crippled state failed to im part all the benefits which could have been desired. Many have stood aloof waiting to see it die, but the seed were sown in faith, and have been watered and nourished by ihe tears and prayers of a few good and self-sacrificing friends, until it now stands forth redeemed from its embarrassments; still poor, but confident of success. It can never die, while God is ils friend. Withhold r.ot therefore yonr rnenn-; or your patronage any longer. At night, Henry R Harris, H-.q., the Alumni orator, made an address. Emory was proud to own him as a specimen of her work. It was a good speeeh, and delivered with much grace and ease* Wednesday was Commencement day. At 9 o’clock, the Seniors commenced speaking. The composition and declamation reflected credit upon the young gentlemen and tlu* faculty. The class was uniform ly good, as an evidence of which, half of them received honors,und probably all deserved them. The prizes to the Sophomores were then delivered by Prof. Smith, preceded by an eloquent speech on oratory. The Baccalaureate by the President was necessarily short, hut appropriate and able, and if these young gentlemen are true to themselves, they will never cease to remember its instructions, or jail to lie guided by its counsels. Degrees were then conferred, and the young men sent forth to play their part in the great drama of life. How well or how successfully they may do it, will depend upon themselves. But the big gun is yet to be fired. Four o’clock, the large Chape! is filled to its utmost capacity, when Col. Toombs is introduced to the audience as the selected orator of the two literary societies. Rather anew theatre for our Geor gia Senator. The Colonel is however at perfect ease ; de lighted as he had been from day U* day with ail that was transpiring, he seemed to feci as if he was in “his father’s home,” and moved off with Ids accustomed eloquence, greatly to the delight and edification of his large and intel ligent audience. Here, the programme-of arrangements ended, and a vast crowd which inad shared the hospitali ties of this delightful rural village, and been entertained with the feasts of reason for four days, dispersed to their homes again, favorably impressed by the evidences every where exhibited, that the heart and the head are alike edu cated here —that moral and religious sentiments pervade tlu* community and the institution, giving the best guaran tee of protection to those who may be placed under their fostering care. Below you have a programme of the exer cises of the junior and senior classes. WYN NTON. JUNIOR EXHIBITION. S. D. Clements, Moral Courage. J. W. Solomons, Popular Enlightenment. G. L. Johnson, “ ’Tis vain to seek in man for more than man.” J. R. Drake, There is nothing Beautiful or Sweet, or (lrand,in Life or Nature, but in their Mysteries. J. M. Chambers, Truth crushed to earth will rise again. John Turner, Southern People should Patronize South ern Institutions. Wm. L. C Hunnicmt, A Christian is the Highest Style of Man. John Patillo, Nothing in Nature, much le*s Conscious Being, was e’er created for Itself alone. James F. Harley, Fanaticism. James M. Page, The Human Mind Prone to Supersti tion. James CL Shockley, Equo Ne Gredin*. Charles A. McDaniel, Utility. Wm. A. Tignor, (sick) Excused. SENIOR EXHIBITION. John W. Rush, (2d Honor,) Salutatory—lndependence of Thought. Wm. H. Gaither, Napoleon. John F. Ellison, The Power of the Pulpit. Robert M. McNair, Human Happiness is founded up on Wisdom and Virtue. Olio S. Means, The Literature of America. J. R. Mason, Josephine. John S. Bigby, (2d Honor.) “Truth, ever lovely since time began, The foe of Tyrants and the friend of Man.” Irby G. Hudson. America, her Destiny. S. W. Glass, (2d Honor,) Acquisition of Territory. D. W. Seay, (Ist Honor,) Everyman the architect of his own Fortune. John S. McLaughlin, (Ist Honor.) Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids, Her Monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall. T. G. Scott, (Ist Honor.) ‘J he early Jesuits, examples of self-denial and perseverance. Valedictory to the Facul ty, Trustees and Audience. John W. Glenn, (Ist Honor.) The mind that takes an eagle aim Will find an eagle's wing. Valedictory to the President and class. An address to the Sophomore prize declaimers, b\ 01. L. M. Smith. Baccalaureate address, Rev. G. F Pierce. An address at 4 o’clock to tin* Literary Socicti lion. R. Toombs. District Meeting. Agreeably to previous notice, a portion of the Demo** eratie Party of Muscogee County, met to-day at the Court House for the purp sc* of selecting Delegates from the two Town Districts, to attend a county Convention to be held in the city of Columbus on the 2d Tuesday in August next to nominate Democratic candidates for the Legislature. The meeting was organized by calling the lion. Al fred Iverson to the Chair, and requesting Francis M. Brooks to act as Secretar . On motion of Dr. A.J. Robifom,a committee of three from each of the Town Districts was appointed by the Chair, to select suitable delegates to attend said Con veil doff* \\ hereupon the Chairman appointed the following per sons as that committee, viz. : A. J. Robison, Porter In gram, Samuel Hatcher, A. C. Morton, A. M. Robinson and G. W. Cherry. The committee after retiring for a few minutes repor ted the following named persons :is delegates, viz : from the Upper District, A. I>. Kagan, Dr. S. A. Billing and B. V. Iverson ; from the Lower District, John Quin, George J. Fitts and A. C. Morton. On motion of the lion. A. G. Morton, the delegation from each district were cm (towered to fill any vacancy. On motion of Tennent Ixunnx, Esq., the meeting now adjourned. ALFRED IVERSON, Chairman. Francis M. Brooks, Secretary. Columbus, Ga., July 271 h, 1853. Later from California. New York, July 25. The Northern Light has arrived from Aspinwall, with San Francisco dates to the Ist July. Among her passengers was Patrick O’Donahoe, the Irish Exile, who recently escaped from the English Pena! Colonies. The steamship Oregon, which left San Francisco on the Ist, brought down $1,750,000 in gold, §400,000 of which was forwarded to this port. Shasta City has been completely destroyed by fire—loss half a million ot dollars. The town of Rough and Ready was also consumed. The accounts from the Mining Districts are favorable. Arrival of the Pampero. New Orleans, July 26. f I lie steamship Pampero has arrived at this port from San Juan, bringing San Francisco dates to the lstinst. i I’Doiiahoe, who sailed in the Northern Light for New York, reached San Francisco on the 22d of June, and published the particulars of his escape. Gov. Bigler had been nominated for re-election. Counterfeit gold bars had been put into circulation in California. The clipper ship Typhoon had been run aground. The San Francisco markets were quiet. Flour sl3 a sl4. Rio Codec 12 cents. Boston Pork, clean, $27 a S2B •, Mess Pork $25 ; slams lb a 18 cents. Lard 13 a 14 ctn. jj The schooner Flying Dart and ship Mystery of Bos ton had both arrived at San Francisco. Later from Oregon. New Orleans, July 26. The Pampero also brings later dates from Oregon. Gen. Lane had been elected a delegate to Congress from the Territory. Good coal mines have been dis covered near St. Helena. Gold has also been found in Sautrain river. The event had caused considerable excitement at Portland Later from Mexico. New Orleans, July 25. The Texas brings dates from the city of Mexico to the Kith inst. The papers are filled with discussions about the Spanish Protectorate, which is said to he fa vored by the Government. A commission has been appointed to adopt rub and regulations for the Jesuits, who have been invo •! to return to Mexico. Santa Anna is said to oc i of a union of Church and State. Count. Boulqou, the French invader of Sonora, had arrived in Mexico, and had an interview with the Presi dent. A decree has been issued, declaring the penalty of death shall be inflicted on persons who defraud the trea sury. The Diligence from Vera Cruz for Mexico had been robbed, and one of the passengers killed. Fifteen of the robbers arrested. A terrible inundation had taken place in Jalisco, and the town of Ilua Jasca had been destroyed, and many lives lost. * U. S. Marshal sent to Jail. PiHi.ADEi.miA, July 25. The United States Marshal, Winkoop, lias been sent to Jail to-day for refusing to surrender a fugitive slave, on a writ of habeas corpus. Much excitement exists upon the subject. For the Fishing Grounds. New York, July 21. The steamers Fulton and Princeton left yesterday for the fishing ground*—instructions not made public. New Orleans, July 27. The Falcon has arrived. She brings no later intelligence. The Georgia left Aspinwall on the 20th for Nev Y ork direct. She has on loard two millions in gold. The Em |>ire City on Tuesday. The Yellow Fever has a milder type. The deaths for the past week were 429.