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2 l)c Itome courier Rome, ga. Tl t.SDA r MORNING, JUNE 12, 1855. Good Old Blackwood, with his thoughtful trow and shaggy face is cordially welcomed to a place among the Literati of our table* In bis monthly visits, he gladdens the hearts of thousands of our intelligent countrymen, with his pleasant sayings, sage instructions and in teresting chronicles.—Those wishing to receive visits from him, can do so, by dropping a ($3) Note, with their address, to L. Scott A Co., 70, at> N. York. Tub Knickerbocker, for June, is another "ship from the old block." In mechanical ex ecution, this magaaineia inferior to none pub lished In the United States, while in purity and elegance of original Literature, essays and judicious criticisms it excels any we hare the pleasure of perusing.—Published by Sam uel Rueeton, 343 Broadway, X. York at $3,00 per annum. tiTSHtciiW.—V* would respectfully call the attention of our readers to a series of ex tracts found on the first page of this paper, headed. "The Spirit of the Romish Press."— Vaikt it is remembered that these Presses are Wttdef the strict surveillance of the heads of tie Church, their editors licensed and delegated to defend the folth : and, as one of them says, they **ne»er think of publishing any thing in regard to the Church without submitting their UrHfles to,the bishop fo: inspection, approval aadrundocscwicnt." no one will d»nbt bnt that their concessions and avowals Indicate the real policy of Romanism in this country. Tmmv Ctra.—We bad the pleasure, and when we nr pleasure. we mean it. for it really was a rich treat, t-> attend the exhibition of this clwb. on last Tuesday night. The Dranafi* jsecef irwt "acted well their parts." and gave not only ntufarOM. but great pleasure to their ro sy geo tael and large audience. In Knowle’s celebrated tragedy of the Wife, difficult though U he, and the players for most part inexperien ced, a deep interest eras awakened and kept ap throughout the entire play. The parts were well memorised and the corps showed that they had rcryjast conceptions of the characters they were playing. Such beariy langhter. as was provoked in all by the "Jacobite." tends greatly to good health, and to the establishment of a pleasant and gen erous state of feeling. The proceeds of their next exhibition, the time .of which is yet uncer tain. will he devoted -to .eharitabU purposes.— The plays, we understand, knll benew, and wc bespeak for them a liheraLpatronage. The t•Iambus Platform. In oar last issue wo published a series of res olutions adopted hr a large meeting recently held in the eity of Columbus. A circular was sent as expressive of the desire that we should fiwitteoBcarrent with our views to sanction these resolutions. A t thc time the circular came to hand, we had so little time and apace allot ted as as. to obviate the possibility of editorial mssili upon the subject in tbs Courier of last week. Tbs most objectionable feature to the Colnm- bas-Platform is eeetionality, and bow mueh so ever there may be a necessity of organising a pasty with sneh principles, still wc cannot hut believe this movement is somewhat premature. It her been oar hope. nay. our expectation, that when the convention of the American party should take place at Philadelphia, there would be enough true and conservative men in that convention, to set forth a national platform, np- cn which the true men of the North would meet the people p£ the South in the support ofcoa- stitntioaa] principles, and in the defence of onr mediations against the encroachments of fanat ics sad Abolitionists. It was. in vain to look to any other source for conramation of such an and. The two old parries afford no grounds of eactmrsgement. They have already become un reliable on the slavery question. They afford ao guaranty whatever that their cooperation maybe expected in effecting the perpetuity of our sectional rights. The American party is the onlv one which is endeavoring to stay the career of Abolition’*™, and even the question of its triumph is one which is yet unsolved. There will no d*oht be a strong effort made in the Philadelphia convention, by Northern delegates, to exclude from the platform ail provisions against the aggression of Abolitionism. Should snob an effort he crowned with success, the ccm- s qiems wllfbe an inmrdiitie ri-oiganizatirn of tbs American party in the South, and a re-or ganization upon a sectional platform. In snch on event, we should be prepared to adopt the Colombo* Resolutions, and should consider it die doty of every Southern man to uphold and maintain them. The proceedings of the Convention now in session win reach us in a few days: We shall bide tbe tim» with patience. Upon them hangs the destiny of the American party in the South. It will repudiate an alliance with abolitionists. Would that the same could he said of Democra cy- Uttar-(fetation. The following, which we elip from the Sou- fliorner of Way 31. if not absolutely untrue, is likely to lead to an erroneous conclusion. " The right to vote is a State regulation alto gether. with whieh Congress cannot interfere. Therefore, to f -nod a ere at party nnon a modi fication of the naturalization law, which onlv throw* tb» protection of our Flag aronnd the - adopted ritizen. and gives him no right to vote at all. *»ems to u» to h« snpremelv ridienlons. And-thoic who state that a modification of the B*iorc!?z»t J ofi lew extend* or shortena. or in ssvvb* epee's, th* e!<w»tive frae*Vso. which is guarded and confr-’todt by the State—is a Statp R?on-*— utr display their ignorance of our fo-nts of government.” Now to naturalize ?« ** to confer on an alien th* right* and prigtlev-. of a native eohjuet or citizen: to adopt for"5<m**» into a nation or S'V* a*d r. : ae* them on tbe condition «.f nat- nrel v. rn citlzr-ns.” Art. 1. See. S. of tbe eon sittetion 'provides that Oongre** shell have power "to establish an uniform rale «f natu ralization, and. "although ltba*becn*» mootod question, whether Cnngreio; possessesthe cxcltt- •<«v power to.naturalize, yet Chancellor Kent save, and we pre*umc nr, one will question the tititlifu!fi<;*«of bis statement, "that the weight of authority as »-!! as reason may be consid ered a* clearly in f-.ror <*f the construction, that the power in Congress to establish n uni form role of naturalization is exclusive, on tbe ground of their being a direct repugnance or incompatibility in the exercise of it by the 6ta te's.* One object of. the Ameiean parly Is to bring Congress to exercise thie power given it by the constitution, and then the various States may with soma consistency ebenge their laws in relation to the bestow went of the elective firan chiee. As it Is* there has been, as it would seem, a rivalry; especially between the new States in the awth west, as to which would narrow down its period of naturalization to tbe shortest spacei hoping by this policy, suicidal though it be, to induce the migration of foreigners to buy ibcir public lands and otherwise enrich tbe 1 “The elocliVe franchise is not given to any except native born or natnrnliized citizens, and if Congress should make a uniform rule re quiring a residence of twenty-one years in this country before the naturalisation of aliens or foreigners, then they could not enjoy tbe ular liberty;—tho terror of usurpers, tyrants and demagogues. He, who dares not utter, or publish his free thoughts, through fear that “ Offended MajtHy'' and its minions, may de nounce him as corrupt, for denouncing corrup tion. is unworthy of citizenship in this repnb- eleetivo franchise before thattime hud expired, i lie. " He who ie not trusted with his own ae- and it would stilt be optional with the States whether they should receive It at all or not. So it is very evident that the naturalization law may defer and establish a uniform period within which the elective cannot be bestowed by the several States* And only by taking this view, can the different parts of the constitution be made to harmonise; lor art. 4, sec. 3, pro vides, that "the citizens of each State shall ho entitled to all the privileges and immunities of cititen* in the several States." Now suppose one Statenaturaliies and gives tho right to exer cise the elective franchise on a residence of six months, and an a^ioininv State requires a res idence often years; an alien way reside in the former six months, receive the elective fran chise and move to the latter and she is con- stitutionallyhound to receive him on the same ground that she would a native born Ameri can citizen, though it bo iu violation of the statute: for, be it remembered, the constitution is the supreme law of the land. tiottr, his drift not being known to bo evil, and standing to the hazard of law and penalty, has no great argument to think himself reputed in the commonwealth wherein he vu born for other than a fool or a foreigner." ONE OP THE PEOPLE. [For the Coarior.] Mr- Dwixkll: Speaking of the series or principles avowed by the American Party of this city, tbe Editor of the Southerner, iu his paper of the Slet alt, moved by that amiable spirit of Chris tian charity and gentlemanly urbanity, for which he is so desirous of being regarded as a mode), said "it was framed /or the purport of deceiving wen into the belief that it embodies the principles of the Know Nothing organiza tion in tot lento. It is also designed to mislead ■tea into the error that there is a party in this country opposed to the resolves they have pub lished touching Catholic and Foreign influence in onr Government-*’ Having attempted to deter democrats from joining that party by the cry of “whig trick,” be has recourse to abnse when be finds nothing in its avowed principles he dares controvert be fore the people. But he can deny to his neigh bors the ordinary right of proclaiming their own principles, after taunting them with con ctoling them. He can say they were designed to mislead—framed for the purport of deceiving men. This is a mean, unmanly subterfuge.— Not a man. of those thus impudently charged with intentional deception but may confidently challenge a comparison with this immaculate searcher of human heart*—this adept In finding out hate motives—in any point of character whatever. A majority of those who framed the platform of tbe American party in this city are democrats, as true to their, principles and the rights of their section as this perfunctory edi tor ; aod more to be relied upon than any par ty led by men who have voted for the Wilmot Proviso, refused to sign the Southern address, and deserted their party and their country in the hourfft trial, and defend Cass sinee the de livery of his Chicago speech. Let the public pote well and hear in mind, that (his very editor has distinctly admitted that be and his party, notwithstanding all the fass they have been making, sonenr with the American Party in’favor of native bom Protest• ante ruling America:—that they two are oppos ed to “Catholic n nd Foreign influence." 8neb is tbe strength of American principles that they require only to he distinctly enunci ated to challenge the assent of almost all can did minds, and strike tenor into the hearts of those who seek to ride into power by the aid of Catholic and Foreign influence. There la no other way of Recounting for the opposition to tbe American party, if the Editor speaks the truth when he declares that he and his party are opposed to those inflnences. He stands be fore the public in the unenviable attitude of a calomnator of the motive* and detign* of his neighbors, while he is forced to do homage to tbe soundness and truth of their principles. Tt is not true that we designed to deceive any man. It is not true that we undertook to speak for anybody bnt ourselves. To deny onr authority to do so, and assert that onr action amounts to nothing, proves nothing bnt this Editor’s exalt ed ideas of the sovereignty of leaders—ideas characteristic of the followers of tbe Regency. The American party have rejected the slavish doctrine with the con tempt it deserves. It hat authority to tpeakfor ittelf. It has spoken. It will stand by its principles, defying all dicta tors upon the one hand, and all calmnnator* up on tbe other. Nothing can prevent its success bnt infidelity to the principles it has avowed, and an imitation of the profligate practices of the Regency. The day it stoops thus low, it will contract a leprosy more fetal than the dry* rot that has seized upon the once potent demo cracy of thie district. Is it not edifying to observe the Editor of tbe Organ, after having uttered the wholesale abase of tbe motive* and detign* of bis neigh bors above alluded to:—in the very article in which be tells the Know Nothings that they know they have in tbeir order “corrupt politi cal demagogues, trickster* and gambler*;”—nay in the very next paragraph; declaring his dis- gnstat this practice of abasing men for bolding opinions adverse to onr own! Snch language, from any body else would be pronounced, .Bil lingsgate. It is most shocking and deplorable when directed at these eminent and popular gentlemen whose canse he has espoused. To charge men “because prominent party leader* with corruption;”—“the imputation to thnte of the most hateful motives”—“theexciting against thnte the contempt of unreflecting, ex- citablepeople”—all teitd* to tap the foundation* of society!" It is the .worst of crimes ! 8o thought Caligula and other tyrants who spilt rivers of the best blood of ancient Rome for thi* very crime. It was known in that age and country as the crime “ Lett* Majettati*—or of offended mojeety. In Inter times, and other despotisms, ft was called Scandal urn Magnatnm, —scandalizing the great;—“exciting against th'tn the contempt of “unreflecting excitable people” It was severely punishable bylaw, ns a crime of the first magnitude, tending “to r.n tbe foundations of society.” In this eonntrv. we can. os yet, (God be praised!) freely scan the conduct even of “prominent party leaders” and the highest official*. We can through the medium of a press yet free* arraign the loftiest among them, at the bar of public opinion, and bring them to trio! before tbe people, “unreflecting” and “excitable” a« they may be, in the opinion of these admirers of the great. They are subject to pnblic scrutiny, end the people may, and ought to try, and pass sentence upon them at tbe ballot box. None but tbe corrupt, or meanly ambitions,' need fear the scrutiny, or dread tho consequences of tbe popular judg ment “For this Is not tbe liberty which we can hope,—that no grievance ever should arise in tbe commonwealth j—that let no man in this world expect;—but when complaints a re freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reform ed, then i* : the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.” A free press, freely uted, is tbe most formidable check upon it expedient I should cortainly move my man- ufeeturing business np the country. And I do think that a cotton fectory would not only pay well but add greatly to the com merce of yonreity. I would not attempt to disguise fact the that there are Factories in the State that have failed to give satisfaction to tbeir owners, but all such are Factories propelled by itenm and in every ease condueted badly, j could men tion one or two oompaniea th..t have gone into operation with a great deal more capital (I mean money) than brains, and have either been influenced by indifference or favoritism in tbe selection of tbeir most important officers, and all Factories whether propelled by steam or Mr. Pwinell: The thing is now utterly useless! Aleck’s protector and defender under tho cognomen of “Pillicnddy” has dealt out roost merciless flag- 1 wnt * r ' thl * t h “ vc b * < ‘ n wc11 n » ann * 0<, ‘ »•*** citations amongst the small fry of seribblera.- : * ,ven "“ ,f " ct,on ‘ 1 tb,nk U n ^ 8M nt Emergingln Neptunian majesty Trom his “barna- I time to ,,M< ‘ ,be •**▼«"**«:•«*' wafer over steam power, and will therefore close by a few re» i marks upon tho eost of creoting such works as olo and tea-weed" abode, he drives his aquatic steeds over the troubled waves and bids them Aeolus has bridled the winds and the i 1 think wouM M,it J^rplnee. commotion has Ceased. No “knight of the birch en rod” could have ensured a more passive obe dience by bis unwhi pt urchins. I fear an at tempt to attenuate the power and the greatness of this most potent Pillieoddy. Like tho liver of Prometheus, tho more he is consumed the more will he grow. Pillieoddy has come to Aleck’s defence, and ho is safe. Pillieoddy In doing so, has perilled his own corporate and physical existence. Pillieoddy is exalted to a god. yndwill, of course, drink catnip with Jupi ter. He has virtually and effectually said “I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark.” Pniox. ("For the Courier.l STRIKING ILLUSTRATIONS. OF MORAL SUBLIMITY. Eulogy upon truth by a lawyer and politician of more than twenty years practice in both trader! When he dies let the constitution be his winding sheet, and the world go into mourning at the extinction of all the virtues ! OF MODESTY. A renegade from the whig party, known to he in a minority, who has spent much of his life, and his patriotic breath in eloquent abuse of democrats and democracy, and in sycophan tic adulation of whigs and whigerv. sneaking out of the Tugalo faction into the democratic party, and immediately setting himself np for a leader! T am unablo to say what the dam or canal would cost, as it would nil depend on *he length and nature of their sites. A Factory of 6000 spindles and 100 looms with all the necessary buildings will cost about eighty thousand Dol lars. I do not deem it necessary to go Into minutia at this time. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, B. J WILSON. OF DISINTERESTED PATRIOTISM. Desertion of friends in a minority to make friends of a majority, without tbe least suspicion of desiring to be mRde Judge or member of Con gress before any vacancy occurs! OF V A N I T T. Presuming to speak or write any thing for the .pnplic, when yon are neither an office holder, 'lawyer nor member of Congress. These illus trious classes being the only mortals who are presumed to be endowed with the faculty of thought, or who may address tbe vnltrnr mass of common men. without the imputation of ex treme rnn tty. See new ideas of democracy by philosopher Pillieoddy in the Journal of Jews- harp melodies, edited bv tbe strawberry poet.— There is much more philosophy and democracy of the same sort to be learned by a diligent po- rusal of the lucubrations of the Poet himself and bis tquad of. scribbler*. Utah. P. S.—Can not “Sam McCrackin” favor the world with the biography of some of the illus trious converts to democracy who flourish in this vicinity ? OF EXTRAORDINARY CONStSTENCY. Voting with Daniel Webster while alive, and denouncing him as r federalist as soon as he died. Rnnningagainst Cobb, and adulating him upon failing to supersede him. Denouncing tho fire-eaters asdisnnionists& traitors, denouncing the Tugalo faction from extreme hatred of them, and then joining them, raying they were a no ble band of patriots whose only fault was an ex cess of patriotism! Failing to get a judgeship and have Cobb sent to the Senate, denouncing them again and ready to quit, if he only knew where to go. Wanting to join the Know-Noth ings to fight the Regency whose principles and practices he professed to hate most cordially, hat failing to get in, joining tho Regency to fight the Know Nothings, whose principles he approved. Denouncing the Regency and threat- ning determined, eternal and implacable hos tility.' to the whole concern, and yet laboring diligently to master and turn to profit the “New Science” said to be as inscrutable and imprac ticable aa a tt po»*nm three day* dead !” “Prove ail things bold fast that which is good.” This being interpreted, means join all parties, try all religions, and stick to that that pays best! For the Courier. “ Scriptor*Lilliputiu*,” “ Pseudonymous,” “Nicrnmega* I” That so mnchwitand learn ing as goes to the invention of these words of learned length and thundering sound, may not be lost npon tbe ignorant and unreflecting peo ple, we beg that the Poet, get some word- monger or philologist to give an explanation of them. Common people can't understand philosopher Pillieoddy without an interpreter. ^ VOX. ROCK MILLS, Ga., Juno 8th. 1855. Editors of the Courier, Gentlemen : My views upon cotton manufacturing have been requested by some citizens of yonr county, with a view, I presume, of establishing a Cot ton Factory a - the city of Romo, and should yon think proper you can give them a place in yonr paper. Although an occasional visitor of your coun ty and city. I really am ignorant of what the chances would be for a good wator power at Rome, Jmt am informed by a gentleman in whose word I have the utmost confidence, though do not know much about his ability to judge such matters, that a first rate Wator Pow cr (I use his own words) can be had by cutting a canal commencing somewhere about where Mr. W. R. Smith’s Bridge stood on the Etownb River, and running through lands that will pre sent no obstructions in the way of hills or rocks, furnishing a power of some 8 or 10 feet fall within about one fouith of a mile of the city, j Now should such be a fact, I would say that | I know of no point in the 8tate, that offers j For tbe Courier. A Short Notice on the Georgia Locusts or Cicada. The insect which is at present attracting somo attention in Georgia and known there by the above name, is a very different animal from the real locust of naturalists. This last is a species of grasshopper and one of the most ter rible scourges with which the incensed majesty of heaven chastises a guilty world; it appears in innumerable hands whose approach causes a noise like the rushing of a torrent and dark ens the horizon. So enormous is their multi tude that they bide the light of tbe sun and oast an awful gloom like that of an eclipse over the earth. Major Moore when at Poonah had the opportunity of seeing an immense army of locusts “ the column they composed” says he “extended five hundred miles and so compact was it when on the wing that it completely hid the sun so that no shadow was cast by any ob ject and that lofty tombs distant not two hun dred yards were rendered invisible! The noise they made in browsing on the trees andherbage might be heard at a great distance and resem bled the rattling of hnil or the noise of an army foraging in secret.”—What a difference between the habits of this creature and those of the harmless denizen of our woods and copses! The true locust is a large species of the grass hopper tribe having powerful jaws and the hind legs fitted for leaping, the Georgia locust belongs to quite a different Order, it is a kind of hemipterous insect provided with a probo scis or sucker and belongs to the genus cicada. Many speces of cicada are known, most of which are proper to tropical climates; all pos sess a shrill or monotonous stridnlation. The name of cicada is probably derived from ciccus (acock or winged animal that sings) of which cicada is a diminutive, or perhaps from cito cadet (which falls soon) in allusion of its short existence in a perfect state. One species of cicada was well known to the ancients who ad mired its sont/and made of the singer an em blem of music, placingitupot, a musical instru ment, the cithara. It was said that two musician? Eunome and Aristo were one day attempting to compete on this instrument, when suddenly one of the cords of Eunome’s cithara broke: at this mo ment a cicada alighted on it and striking np a harmonic note made him win the victory. Modern ears have become so much accustom ed to tbe melodies of Bethoven, Megerbeer, Rossini and other great compositors that a re cent traveller speaks irreverently of the “aw ful squalling” of these insects instead of tell ing ns of its “delightful” song. Anacreon in a beautiful ode, speaks thus of the cicada: “We call thee happy O'cicada, be cause after havinesipped t e dew on the snm- mit of trees, thou sinsrest as a queen. AH that thon seest in the fields and all that the seasons produce in succession are thine. Thou art the friend of tbe labourer to whom thou doest no barm. Thon art worthy of the homage of mor tals, thou charming harbinger of summer. The mu»ea iove thee; Phebus loves thee also, he gave thee thy noisy song. Old age reaches thee not. 0 sage. O daughter of the earth, 0 friend of mnsic, 0 thon who s-fferest not. thou who hast neither flesh nor blood. Thou art verily similar to the Gods!” According to the ancient Greeks, the cicadas were men who horn from dust, had tnught tho Muses how to sine: they had such a passion for singing that they forgot to eat or to drink until they died of starvation: the muses out of gratitude transformed them into animals who could live without eating and who had no other oecupation hut singing. Among the Athcncnns tho cicada was a symbol of nobility: those who boasted of the antiquity of their race used to say that they were native horn of the country of the cicadas and they wore a golden one in tbeir hair. Tbe Egyptians placed the cicada amid their hyero- glyphics symbolic of musie. Aristotle tells ns that his countrymen, not content with keeping them caged np to enjoy the harmony of their song, considered them also as a delicate dainty and served them up on tbeir tables. The malo only of the cicada is musical, the female being destitute of the organs for produ cing sound. Tho hotter tho day the louder and moro stunning is the noise these insects make. Virgil makes allusion to this when be snys (Ecloga II.V.10.) “Thestilis bruise? tho aro matic thyme and gnrlic for the harvesters pan ting under tho infiuenco of tho heat, whilo I nm ronming in the rays of tho burningsun and with the cicndns making the woods resound ns I seek for thee.” “ Sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadit,” The peculiar sound of these animals is pro duced by a complicated nppnrntus which was first carefully described by Reaumur; it con sists in a cavity situnted on either side of the anterior part of tho abdomen which communi cates with several othors and with divrse mem branes. A full description of this organ would be incompehensihle to the general render without the help of good ongr <vings. The fe- wings folded up, but its integuments soon har den in the sun and its wings expand. The adult cicada feeds on tho sap of the plants it is found oti, it drinks but does not eat having a trunk or proboscis only and no real mouth. We are at present studying the habits of the Goorgia cicada, which are unknown to the scientific world and hopo soon to have it in our power to communicate some interesting Dicta concerning its habits and the causes of its reg ular periodicity. J. M. DEBY. Rome, June, ’55. Bcrselim, Columbia eo., June 9th 1855. Editors or the Rome Courier, Gentlemen:—At a meeting of tho members of Council No 110, this day, by more accident, your excellent paper issued on Mny 29th containing a reply to tho letter of A. II. Stephexo to J. W. Thomas, by Col. 8. FottcnB,' was received. On motion, the reply was read by the secretary when it was resolved by the Council, that the enclo sed sum bo forwarded to yon for its valno in the extras containing the reply. Also it was resolved requesting you through your paper to acknowledge the thanks of this Council to Col. S. Fouchb' for his abloand manly reply to Mr. Stephens' letter. By the Committee. Public Sleet Inf In Harris. In pursuance of a short notice, a very large and respectable portion of the citizens of Har ris county assembled in tho Court-house, on yesterday, (5th inst.) irrespective of old party distinctions, to take into consideration tbe Re solutions passed in Columbus, at Temperance Hall on the evening of the 2Sth ult. The following resolutions, supported by Mes srs. Mobley, Hill, Bedell Gibbs and Hudson, were nnanimonsly adopted. Whereas, wo believe that the citizens of each county should regard the request made them by their friends of Muscogee, and duly consider the said Resolutions, Therefore be it resolved by the citizens of Harris, irrespective of Old Party Lines, that we hold a meeting at tbe Court-house in Ham ilton, on Saturday the 16th of June, to consider moro definitely upon said Resolutions, and es pecially upon the propriety of sendingdeiegates to a Convention to meet in Millcdgeville on tbe 4th day of July next, to nominate a candidate for Governor, who shall not be tbe candidate of any of the old political parties, but the people’* candidate. Resolved, also, That we request all the Coun ties in the State to take action upon tbe said Resolutions of our friends in Muscogee, as ear ly as possible.—Organ. We clip the followiug, in relation to the con vention held in Millcdgeville last Tuesday, from the Chronicle & Sentinel. Johnson was nomi nated for re-election with great unanimity.— Not having room this week, the publication of tbe Platform and comments upon it, is deferred until another issue. Demaeiatle Convention. Our readers have been already apprised of the nomination made by this body, and os a part, of the history of the times, doubtless desire to see a report of the proceedings, which we subjoin. Tho platform (the Democrats are great at plat forms) will attract attention and elicit comment every where. It is a very unique structure, and like all democratic platforms, is designed to be “all things to all men,” and to catch all sorts of voters. Hence tbe party readily introduce a pbink which they rejected four years ago, and mount the Georgia platform with as much non chalance ns the original constructors and build ers could possible do. Nor is tbatall, while they affect to be willing, and resolve to cut loose from all parties that will not stand upon this, to them new platform, tbeir hankering for the spoils pre- v iis, and they profess a willingness to strike hands with the National Democracy, (which in cludes tbe Van Burens, Kings, Dixes, and t eir Freesoil associates,) as “the only organization at the North that now exist* or can he formed, with which the South can consistently co-operate!” Wonderful!! What think you of that, original Georgia platform men ? Are you willing, after having refused all fellowship with Seward and his freesoil associates, to embrace the Van Burens and their followers? . Are you ready to step upon this rickety platform, to be transferred to the National Democracy, with all its freesoil associations and affinities, that you muy hug to your bosoms such good national Democrats as Martin and John Van Buren and Prston King? We presume not. Wc imagine you are quite too circumspect in your political asso ciations to be caught in any such snare, how ever veiled. The intrigue is too patent, tbe veil too thin, the trick too apparent to deceive any intelligent, patriotic mind at the South. Nor is the quasi endorsement of the Pierce Administration less amusing. The Convention had not the cool hardihood to go before the Southern people with a full and broad endorse ment of the Administration, with all its freesoil enormities standing out in bold characters be fore the American people; but they must say something. The spoils were suspended hefore their eager gaze anti longing eyes, and it would not do to be wht lly silent. Hence the resolu tion. Tb<.re are other points to which we might re fer. but as we shall doubtless have frequent oc casion to refer to this remarkable piece of patch work, we will not now trespass longer upon the reader with our comments: and submit for his careful study and consideration the proceedings. There were seventy three counties (about two-thirds <>f the State) represented by one hun dred and seventy-four delegates. The Con vention was permanently organized by the ap pointment of the following officers. James Gardner. Jr., of Richmond, Presi dent. Geo. D. Philips, of Tlahershnin: M. J. Cam den. of Cherokee; W. L.-Mitchell, of Clarke; K. Jordan, of Jasper? and Geo. Wilcox, of Ir win, Vice Presidents. L. H. Briscoe, of Walton, and E. D. Tracy, of Bibb, Secretaries THE AMERICAN QUESTION. Letter from Rev. Dr. Breckinridge. some at the stake, and drove tbe rest out of all lands into this wilderness. Now it is priests and mobs and demagogues, who have followed us into onr place of rsfuge—nay, our last place of refuge—to renew here tbe combat of centu ries, in a form at once degrading and detesta* My Dear Sir : You are aware that I have j h|o, and more likoly to be fetal to us than in received two communications, both of them i ®*ther of its preceding forms. Shall we sne- signedbya number of the most respectable 1 cumb? Or shall we turn npon our relentless citizons of your town, amongst whom I recog- I poixoovs ? They have followed the lion to his si friends, urging me to i * a8t den, and brought him to bay ! Did they From the Franklin Commonwealth. Danville, Kt., April 28, 1855. nize many old personal friends, urging me address the people nt the capital of the State upon that great American ‘question which so deeply engage the attention of the whole com munity. I may add, that many similar invita tions have been sent to me, and still continue to be sent, from various and widely-separated portion* of tbe Commonwealth, signed in tbe aggregate by a very large number of persons. And it is, no doubt, known to you that within this month, I have been prevailed on, under particularcircumstances, in both instances, to speak on this subject in Cyntbinna and in Lex ington. Tbe object of this communication is, in tho first place, to say in this public manner, that it does not appear to me to be my duty to accept these invitations; and. in the second expect him to die like a stag in his lair ? The revolt of the country w«s wholly unex. pected by those who supposed they had already secured its final subjugation, and like every other great retribution, it takes those it fells on by surprise It is not, Therefore, to be won dered at that they execrate with peculiar hor ror tbe special means of success against them which tbeir own perfidy and ferocity had ren dered absolutely indispensable. The country organises itself for tbe great conflict, which, to those who first embarked in it, seemed well nigh desperate, in silence and without observa tion. That is the way in which alj grand move ments occur; even the Kingdom of Heaveit does not come with observation. Bnt tbedem- place. to perform the duty which they, and ! agogues, the priests, the mobs, the foreign many other considerations, do seem to me to! p*p>*ts and infidels, are shocked beyond en require, in the distinct expression of my prin cipies on the subject itself. In doing this, it may save the necessity of future explanation to say, that I avail myself of the proof-sheets of an article written by me for a periodical, pub lished in unother State, which has not yet been issued ; and to add. that if I supposed there was the smallest doubt of tbe issue of the con test in Kentucky, or that my services were comparable in value to tbe estimate put on them by partial friends, I should pnrsue a very dif ferent course from the one I have now adop ted. Politics have assumed a new, and to the old managers of parties and elections, ti most un expected phase. Many tnings have conspired to produce this result; and men will, no doubt, give this or that explanation of tbe movement we are witnessing, according to the point of view from which they consider it. Many ef fects may he produced by the movement itself, and men will appreciate those effects, and en deavor to promote or prevent them, according to their views of general politics, of the inter ests of society, and of the proper destiny of onr great country. Tho intense andpervadingpower of the move ment itself can no longer be a matter of doubt. And to the calm observer various elements are manitest which render its future progress alto gether inevitable. Amongst these decisive elements may be stated tbe augmented force of tbe movement itself, acquired by its own previ ous tritimpDB ; and the greater homogeneous ness of the spirit of it, to the portions of that country remaining to be subdued, than to tbe portions already conquered. It will encounter no difficulty equal to tkpn intense Democracy of New Hampshire, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Michigan ; the wide-spread political immorali ty of New York, the Democracy of Virginia, and the settled anti-slavery sentiment of Mas sachusetts ; the hereditary VThigism of Ken tucky. Yet all of these are mastered by the grander spirit of the new movement. Wbat harrier remains to arrest its irresistible career ? It is infinitely absurd for the opponents of this vast movement of the human mind, to at tribute it to unworthy or insignificant causes. It is utterly ridiculons for its friends to ima gine that it caD exhaust itself npon rabjects that are feeble and distinct. It may aim at what is wrong, or what is unattainable : but it cannot avoid aiming at what is great and per manent any more than it could hare been pro duced by anything that was feeble, indirect, or base. A great people does not receive each shocks from such causes : nor when received do they terminate without immense results. What we behold is a vast and apparently spontaneous uprising of the spirit of American nationality. Beneath that we behold tbe re storation of that primeval spirit of Protestant cirilizntion. in which the eonntrv itself was originally created. And still beneath that we behold the renewal of that profound sense of the overwhelming necessity of onr National Union—whieh was the grandest onthirth of oiir National Revolution. These are the life and heart and sottl df this ?isrnnfic movement.— American Nationality. Protestant Civilization. National Union. The eonntrv believes all three of these are in dansrpr. Men mav say the country is deluded But that does not alter thf case so Ions as the eonntrv thinks other wise. The eonntrv is resolved that aft danger to al-of them «hnll he thoroughly removed.— Men mav say the eonntrv i* misled but what of that, so long as the eonntrv is Tesolved to he National. Protestant and United? The country is thoronrhlv ennvmee<1 that it cannot trust the perpetuation of its nationality, its protestnnt eiviliration. and its Union ns one people anv lone n r. to th" keeping of existing parMes.i their ordinary -prion: and so the country has. for the time at least, set aside all parties. Men may say thisi« mere fanaticism ; hot what does the eonntrv eare for the savings of men whom it r'>ieets as unworthy of being trusted with’ts destiny In so groat a crisis?— The eonntrv resolves-fn pornetnate the union of these States. Th'-v who :»r» faithful f,> the Un durance, because tbe handful of devpted men who first combined to save tbe country if that were any longer possible did not call tho whole of them into council! For what ? In order to be murdered ; or, if not murdered, traduced and tbe very end for which they were willing to be traduced and if necessary, murdered— utterly defeated ? Were they called into coun cil when their enemies bongbt and sold them. Were they notified, when corrupt bargains were ■truck, in which tbe liberties of tne people were pat up at an infamous price? Were they consulted when the atrocious schemes to break np the Union of these States were concocted ? Were they advertised when the overthrow of our nationality? of our institutions, and of onr religion together, was deliberately undertaken by the Popish despots and prelates of Europe ? Was counsel asked of them by foreign Papists and iudfidels, when throughout the whole land they conspired with the Dill assent of dema gogues to overthrow tbe Protestant civilization of tbe country? Were the secrets of the con fessional made known to them? Were the se cret oaths binding every Papal ecclesiastic with unlimited allegianceto a foreign temporal prince submitted to their scrutiny ? The safety of tho State is the supreme law. And surely it is the first necessity of a State that is endugered, and they who wonld save it must consult, must com bine. If the perfidy and ferosity of their ene mies compel them to observe unusual, caution it only proves the greatness of tbeir danger.— Iu point of morality, it stands precisely on the same footing as voting by ballot The object of it determines Its lawlessness; and it is its success, not its future, which makes it so hate ful. If the nationality of America is to he sustain ed. if her protestant civilizatong is to be per petuated, if the Federal Union is to be preserv ed, there is but one possible method of dealing with tbe subject The organized power of so ciety must be taken ont of tbe hands of those who have betrayed these vast interests, and must be pat into tbe hands of those who wfll cherish them. Pnblic opinion is the only in strument by whieh this great change can be ef fected. That enlightened, the first step of tile revolution is political; the second is legal,— The first step involves the organization, and tbe triumph of a party commensurate with the country, the American party; and thatinvolves the overthrow of every party that resists its ul timate objects, or resists the necessary means of obtaining those objects. Indeed, if this step were folly achieved, it wonld be of less conse quence to take a second one, since the laws, though bad. are endurable, and society is safe, ns soon as it has finally put out of power all men and parties hostile to our nationality, to onr Protestant civilization, and to onr Federal Un-. ion: ont of power, with an overthrow incapable of being repair d. And this is the reason why this great move ment excites snch excruciation'bitterness of hnte, in its political aspectftp* the part-of all against whom it is direanq,. ^ Its success is seen to he a finality and a fararny to them. For na tions do not immediately incur the same peril twice, nor do profound national movements, / speedily exhaust the force. Tbe American par ty. strong enough to swallow tip not only Dem- oercy itself, but every other feeble excitement, will lire forever. The legal revolntion, there fore, which will consumate the political, will he only but necessarily tbe out-birth of Its spirit.— Assaults upon the Union of these States, whe ther from the North or the South, must cease. Conspiracies against the Protestant civilization of the'conntry, between demagogues on one side - and papal andTnfidel foreigners on the other, must terminate. Attacks npon onr nationality, by treaties made between foreign dispots and prelates, under tbe sanction of the conrtofRome, and executed by millions of foreign papists and infidels cast into onr bosom must ^ to an end. Foreigners mustbe content to joy here the blessings of freedom denied to them everywhere else f the benefits of a civili zation more exalted than any they can en- j joy elsewhere; the same civil and religions , ,, , ,, rights which we onrselves enjoy. They must ion had bett»r take „ P the great pspbte : , eea , e f „ Americans mutt rule Ameri ca•” I cannot be insearibly that many virtuous, enlightened, and patriotic men, view this sub ject in a light widely different from that in which it strikes me. I bareno allusion to them in anything I have uttered. I do not forget the blindin influence of party ties. I admit also that not a few of those who are personally near to me are found arrayed against what-1 believe to be the very highest interests of the eonntry, That makes my duty painful, bnt not nneer- th‘‘V who arc not. on<zbt*?n the ftidge-nenf of the eonntry be irdis-iiminately crushed. The eonntrv determines tbnt ?'* Protestant civili zation is its most precious, ard its most vital inheritance: and. believing it to have been be trnyed. it purposes to surround it with ndeqnate safe guards. Tbev who participate in these opinions will onntnud this profound purpose ; they wlm conspire to destroy that Protestnnt civilization, or who abet, or sell themselves to tho.se who do. must abide the noli*ieal over throw which so justly and nermauentlr awaits ; fcjn. Nor conld I help being folly aware of them. The country cherishes it? glonons na- .1 :* ;.i I• --rti v,s- tionnlitv. and hollering it to he endangered, it New InVeNTIoN.—‘An exhibition of new in ventions was recently opened in London, un der the patronage of n scientific society. Among tbe most curious diseoverios may be named a leather cement, so strong nnd adhesive that boots and shoes ore made with it, in which not a single stitch is seen or required, and the pro cess of mending so simple, that every man may bo if not his own boot maker, at all events bis own boot-mender. Washington, June 5, 1855. Tbe municipal election in this city hns resul ted in tho success of the entiro Know Nothing was constantly threatened? has risen np in its maie*tv—to assert, to vindi cate, nnd to derelope still more powerfully the nationality without whieh the country itselfhas no destiny—no mission on the face of the earth. They who are ?•> lost to every exalted instinct, a» to he inse- sihie to the grandeur of sneh hopes as God has set hefore ns. may also des pise all the efforts by which those hopes ore to be realized. Nevertheless, the country will guard and asanre its nationality in spite of its recreant children n‘s well ns its open foes. This is mv version of this grand movement ; one point of view from whieh its rise, its progress, and its aims are distinctly manifest. Let the country execute a work in such a spirit, and she will be launched ffneyr upoq her high ca reer. It may he of less importance to determine by what means this great spirit hns been arous ed and concentrated. Yet this is not difficult. Manifestly*whatever those means were, they mnst have worked long nnd worked deeply.— Was it, nothing that in all parts of the eonntry, and for years together, and npon the most op posite pretexts, the dissolution of the Union the a rncity with which the pnblic press • times assail those from whom, it is su| no personal peril is to be apprehended. But I have felt long ago the whole force of Papal and Infidel bitterness, and have survived all that I th eir co-laborers could personally attempt.^* For anything more, it would be strange indeed, if I should look with indifference upon a struggle', > at the moment of its independing triumph, af ter having watched its progress longer and more eagerly, and vindicated tbe most detested principles on which it proceeds more tenacious ly than one in ten thousand of my countrymen. All I ask is, that when the triumph comes, it may be used as wisely and as generonsly as it was heroically won. Your friend and“servant, RO. J. BRECKENRIDGE. Col. A. G. Hodges, Frankfort. »•»»*►«. Ticket, by 550 majority. Majority in Council fifteen. Three cheets for the noble Americans of Washington city! “Sam” u not “dead” Where the Foreigners are.—Giddings of Ohio, the notorious abolitionist, in his letter de claring war against Sam, declares that there are 30,fiP0 naturalised foreigners in the Aboli tion party of Ohio. Giddings is violent in op* position to the American movement—he con demns it for exhibiting pro-slavery proclivities. Was it nothing j But. Southern anti Americans Philadelphia. June 5, P. M.—There was nothing of a definite character leaked out of tho proceedings of tho convention to-day. Outside rumors state that the Massachusetts delegation were not ndmitted on account of their refusal to adopt the third degree, to standby the Union at all hazards. that political corruption, grown gigantic in the j to believe Mr. Giddings, their NorUiern land, bad shocked all honest men? Was it ; Oh, no I—it wonld injure their cause. And A Symptom.—Three hundred of Sharpe’s ri fles have been sent out from Massachusetts to Kansas, at tbe request ef the New England em igrants, to enable them to defend themselves against aggression. such facilities ns your city. lour place is healthy, nnd surrounded by a male hns an ovo-positor formed of a sharp sti- country well adapted to tbe raising of Brend- i ] etfo 6 „ c i 0) ,ed between two valves; with this stuffs, as a general thing provi sions are from 20 imminent she bores a hole in tho branches of to 50 per cent, lower in Rome, than with us of Eastern nnd Middle Georgia. Then yon are con nected by water with a large portion of cotton growing Alabama where cotton can be procured two or three cents per lb. lower than we can get it here, as it will take nearly that amount to satisfy Agents and pay freight, then that very useful class Speculator* have to ronko a little, this Item of Itself would furnish a very hand some profit, tbe manufactured article also com mands a higher price in those sections of coun try I bare alluded to, yarns from me to one and a half cents per lb. and cloths in proportion, this is also owing to tbo freight on tl\pse arti cles. I make those statements from experience, for I have bought cotton and sold goods in both trees and deposits therein her eggs, which she carefully covers up. In the Enropean specios the egg only hatch es In the ensuing year and produces a six- leggod larva (grub) without wings this larva when grown buries itself in the ground and during the ensning winter changes into tbe pupa state. Tho pupa has tho two anterior logs fitted for digging in tbo soil in whieh it remains i for a period of time which has not yet been de termined. At last it creeps out of tho ground nnd climbs slowly up the stem of plants or the branches of trees where it soon loses its outer skin. Thoso empty skins of the pupa of cicada are to bo mot with on every fence rail nnd stump in tbe vicinity. The cicada has now attained tbe perfeet or The Negro suffrngo amendment to tho consti tution of Connecticut was defeated in the lower house of the Legislature yesterday. ^50"Ninety-four thousand dollars havo been subscibed for erection of n College in Greensbo ro, Ala., and it is confidently oxpected that tbo sutn will boinereased to a hundred thousand. ^S-Bleckwoll, who choked the lady in the cars nnd robbed her of a servant girl, has been married to Lucy Stone. Justico is sometimes slow but nlwnys sure! Yesterday tho Jury in the-case of Thomas Hatcher, indicted for shooting Stephen Saucer, in this.city, on tho first of January last, rend ered a verdiot of guilty. Tho extreme ponalty, for tbe offence is, we believe, 10 years in the Penitentiary. Hatcher will probably receive his sentince next Suurday.—Albany Courier June 7th. nothin?, that a stream of foreign paupers nnd felons flowed eenselesslv into the bosom of the Republic ? Was it nothing, that millions of foreign Papists and Infidels, inundating the country like a flood of locusts, were openly or ganized into political power* directed against the lihcriy, the religion, nnd the nationality of the people ? Was it nothing, that political par ties openly bought and sold the support of these fearful powers, contracting always for such payments, in return, as were the most humilia ting nnd the most fatnl? Wns it nothing, that the voice of patriots, the power of the press, the importunities of the pulpit were directed, each in its own sphere and for years together, against this frightful and enormous wicked ness? Was it nothing, that at length, men could neither vote, nor speak, nor preach, nor pray, nor tench, without being liable to insult and" violence—unless they wonld do all in such a manner ns suited the tastes of foreign mobs, composed of foreign Infidels and Papists ? Yea, verity, they were deep causes, and they worked long, which wrought, the American people to that earnest and fervid, but yet calm and set tled enthusiasm, which porvades the nation. j No donht religion is an element of this wide spread excitement. Bnt it is not the only ele ment nor. with all men. the chief one. Either of the other elements, by itsolf— or this one by itself—ought to have been sufficient to have snvod the country from the peril which now demands tho power of all three to avert it. Beosnse* it is an element at all, they over whom long-delayed retribution is impending scream nt the bare mention of it, as the demo niacs did when they saw Christ approach them, will tell you, too, with the greatest cool Gen. Pierce did not know he was appointing an Abolitionist, when he appointed Reeder,—Al bany Courier. , ' ' Michael L. Sullivan, an Illinois former, it is said, has planted 10,000 acres of land in corn. He was formerly one of the largest formers in the State of Ohio for many years. He could ride in a direct conrs fifteen miles through his own corn fields. ROME FRIGES CURRENT. Corrected Weekly by J. L» LOG AY ArPLEs— Molasses— . 40o-45o Dried, bu.. . . $2 2J5Naiis—per !b. 6J-7Ao •250-300.’Nail Rod ao. «_>?-. Green, Bacon— Hams pr lb Hog round, Bagging— Hemp, lb, . Gunny, . . Bale Rope— 12|-15i Beef— .... 4i- 5 Beeswax—20c-25 Blue Sfonb— 20c! Butter— 6ic-7o $1 85 llo-12c Oil—Linseed OJ-ll^OSNABUBGS— 9c-llj£ Train,.... Pork—per lb. 6-6$ Potatoes— Sweet, ... 75c-00o Irish country • - “ northern, 300 Powder—Gun 35c-40c Blasting, . . 25-35c Rice—per lb. 6$o-7o ISc Fish Propagation Upwards of 50,000 young trout, (salmon trout from the Swiss lakes, nnd ordinary trout,) have, within the last few days, been placed in the basin in the Bois de Boulogno. They were hatchod in the College do France, by the new system of artificial pro duction, and though only about three months eonntry, . . 20-25c/Salt—pr sack 260-75 Candles— ? per bu. 120 Tallow, . . 20c-25cCShot—prlb. . 11-12Jo Adamantine, 33c-40c\Solb Leather— Sperm, . . . 50ci Country, lb. 25c-2S« Coffee—Rio, 14c) Northern, . -2Se Java, .... 16J-18c/Steel— -■ H ^ „.„ r , Ccpi*eras— . 5c? Blistered,lb. 10c-15o It is a persecution for conscience sake, in theTr C° RIf PI ^ u * German, . . 15c-18o - Cotton Yarn— 90cs Spring,. . . -10 c Eggs—prdez. 10-12$c> Cast, . . . 33c-23c old are perfoctly formed, nearly three quarters . „. - . . . r of an inch long on an average, and arc capable progress of corruption. It is the mgia of pop- J North Alabama and Cberokso Georgia, and was | mature state; it was at first soft and had its [ of providing for themselves. vlow. that wo hesitate to surrender onr country, our liberty nnd onr religion to the guidance of j corrupt mon banded with foreigners; and what makes it a persecution is. that these foreigners happen to ho Papists nhd infidels. If they had happened to be Chinese, or Mnhomedans, the nntion “would have revolted much ponnei.— And yet without reason ; for wo and our fath ers have an unsettled aceonnt with Popery many centuries old. At first it was the Empe ror and tho Popo who trod ns into the dust— Thon it* was kings and bishops, who burned Cast, Feathers—lb. 40c)Scgar— Flour—pr lb. 4-4£? Crashed, . Glass—8x10, $2$-$3? N. Orleans, Indigo—pr lb, $I$-160£Syrup—- Iron—Sweed, 6Ic-7cn N.O.pr, Georgia, . . STallow—I Lard— .... 12-14c)Tea—per lb, Mackerel—1>1$17-$18?Wheat— * 7c-l $ Madder—lb. . 20c-25< Meal—per ha. 135-151 l per bushel, . $150 aVooL—lb, 25c-50