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TITK GKOKGIA TKLKGRAl’lI News Summary. 4rritnl of ibc **rr*in.— tin- Persia si Nf* '..a <.11 the lltli, brought Liverpool date* to the 1st ioHtHiit Cotton on'hanged. Sail s of the week o<o bales. AiilM from tin- Manufacturing r, i" favorable. Nochange inthomoney market. firuernl liiti-Uigr-nrc bjr llic I’rrain.—D'Is re cUTs resolution, declaring it inexpedient to ve.-t tha government of India in the British Crown, hail pas* ej tha House ot Commons. The Oovemment was in a very unsettled rondi lion, and there waan probability of a dissolution of the Derby Ministry,In caseof a defeat. The India bill also acted unfavorably towards it. The Herald, however, says: ‘’The opposition last night to the Ministerial plan did not present appear ancns favorable to its success The Daily News says: “There is not the slightest doubt that if the Derby Ministry is defeated on any question of importance, it will dissolve the Cabinet. 1 The Continental news is unimportant. A week’s later intelligence has been received from India. The capture of Jhansi, a fortified town in liundecuiid, was effected by tlie troops under Sir II Koss. It was accompanied with great slaughter of the natives. The town of Kotah had also been as saulted and occupied. The operation of taking on the Atlantic Submarine Cable was progressing finely. Over 9,000 miles had been coiled on board the Niagara and Agamemnon The machinery for laying has been completed and work* perfectly. The Plenipotentiaries of the Powers interested had held a conference to ratify the boundary lx>tween Russia and Turkey. Also, to consider the claims of Professor Morse on Europe for indemnification for the use of his tele graphic invention. The prospect!* favorable to the auccetu of bis claim. Admission omiinrusotn.—The Senate bill ad mitting Minessota, passed fhejlouse on Wednesday, with hot thirty-eight opposing votes. Messrs. Rice and Shields were on the same day sworn In as Sena, ton from the new State, the bill for admission ha ving been signed by the President- Nrnntor from Mouth Curolinn.—Gen. A. 1*. llaynehas been appointed Senator by the Governor of South Carolina, to fill the nnexpired term of the lion. Mr. Evans,deceased. Heavy Theft.—The Adams Express Company have ofTered a reward of 92,500 for information that will lead to the recovery of a package containing •10,000 in bills, on the Planters’ * Mechanics’ Bank of Charleston. It was stolen on the 20th April, be tween Atlanta and Montgomery. Fraud in Wall Street.—Henry Dwight, a Wall street broker, has been arrested on a charge of de frauding to the amount of a million of dollars. He is connected with the Chicago, Alton and St. Lonis Railway Co. Others are implicated. General Conference ofiheIS'oriliern .Hclli- oniai Church ou Mlnvcry,—The Methodist Gen era] Conference have resolved that slavery is a sin, for whose extirpation all proper measures should be taken. Apnlnctiiroln Bar.—The “Advertiser’’ of the 5th inst. says: “Our citisens generally were consid erably excited on Friday and Saturday of last week, on being informed by several gentlemen, who had returned from a short trip on board the Coast Sur vey steamer Vixen, to the eastward of Dog Island' that the channel, as laid down in the old Spanish maps, and often spoken of in the early history of Florida, had actually been found.and that thirty-one feet of water was found on the bar running into a safe anchorage of twenty-four feet under Dog Is land.” Cation Plnutrr’a Association.—It should be kept in recollection by oar Cotton Planters, that this Convention is to re-aasemble in Macon on the 2d Tuesday in Jnne. Houston county has already ap pointed 30 Delegates. The Convention, when as sembled, is I o be regularly organiz ed. Each county in the State is entitled to three votes, bnt may be r«. road, i- t" be under I nk.-.l Stat.-s protection, Mini ntaneralee ,>1 hrr )jlo-i*;il siL.mt.ig'-s ■*'* attained, whi, h.tnki-n toe.-iliei Amount nlin.'-t to a huh annex ation. The South - tould take adv an take of the immunitlea and tiiak . the mo»t of tln-m. Nothing the kind in that directin'! lias ever been obtained lie- fore. Gruruil, It nitrone! himI Banking i y.—The Heport of t; >• rn-idrmt to the Annual Meeting,,| Stockholders) 1 :tli iu-Unt, make' tbe wing exhibit of eaniitg- From the Roai,... 9i,o: Charge.! with ..rdin.-trj operating , \ . peases 314,7.i» e * . r .*l. Charged also with new track,new build, ings, Ac X7S 43 193,814 20 Nett income from rend.deducting all expenditures From bank, interest.dUcountB,diyidends on st'k, prem’ma, rents, Ac.e. v™ Charged with salaries, taxes, interest pawT*e 6 ” 11J 01 v.,i nMitna frmtl linllk.. - •.326,172 27 33,972 4 Nett income from alt sources 360,143 77 Front these profits two dividends have been cleared of 83 per share each -.. 249,360 00 heaving applicable to reserved fnnd... Add reserved fund, 31st March, 1857... 120,784 74 514,306 57 Reserved fund on 3lat March, 1859. 9635,000 31 Uniting,■* by tlie lUiniMiiqii Overflow.— The New Orleaus Delta says, the damage by the Bell crevasse, now and eventual, to the sugar crop alone, is estimated by good judges at three million dollars, at least! In addition to this disastrous item, the destruction to corn, other produce, stock and fixtnres, the floods from that crevasse have inundated the the country some twenty-five miles down river, over flowing between thirty and forty plantations, and is crawling on down toward the Gulf. How much far ther the flood may spread, who.can tell ? It may go to meet the Gulf making a clean sweep to the Balize. The Money Plethora.—The proposed five mill ion instalment of treasury notes, which bad been ad vertiaed for, and which were opened on the 10th in stant by the Secretary of the Treasury, disclosed a very large offering. The biddings amounted to the enormous sum of 924,131,000; of which 94,595,000 was offered at rates of interest below five per cent., 916,471,000 at the rate of five per cent., and 94,265,- 000 at rates exceeding that percentage. The lowest rate of interest proposed (or was 3j. A verysmalj amonnt was proposed for at as high a rate a* aix per cent. MACON, GJ±., Tuesday Morning, May 18, 1858 Tlie Young.Christian Asso ciation of this city, have made arrangements to have Union Meetings, and a series of Ser mons delivered, on the afternoon of each Sab bath, for one mouth. The first sermon of the series was delivered on hist Sabbath, 1*. M., to a very large and attentive congregation, in Ralston’s Hall, by the Rev. R. L. Bieek. Subject-r Prov., v:n, “ And thou mourn at the last.” The discourse was instructive, solemn, and impressive. It was estimated that there were five hundred persons present on the occasion. We arc informed that the second sermon of the series will be delivered by the Rev. S. Landrum on nest Sabbath afternoon. To the Dim Sighted.—We have been re quested to say tint this is the last week which Mr. Kahn will he able to spend in Macon. All desiring his aid must therefore call at once. Colkman’s Mill.—We tested some of the Flour ground by Coleman’s new Patent Mill, advertised a week ago, and found to our sur prise, that it was of very superior quality. The corn meal was also as good as could be desired. Concert. The Macon public were very successfully entertained on Friday evening at Ralston’s Hall, with a Vocal and Instrumental Concert, in which the burden of performance was sus tained by the Young Ladies composing the Musical Classes of the Messrs. H. L. & S. A Schreiner, assisted by Prol. A. Waldau, on the Violin, and by a German Musical Club, under the name of “ Macon Liedertafel.” We arc sure we speak the unanimous voice of a large and brilliant audience, when we say the Young Ladies sustained themselves admirably throughout, and did themselves and their mu sical instructors great credit. The Programme which we append, shows a selection of pieces ••The Kei'oustructlon of Parlies.” This is the topic now with the opposition 'vise- acres anil fuglemen—it greeis your eye under al most every editorial head, and turnishes an inex haustible theme of speculation and discourse. Hut iliil we not have a ''reconxtrurtion only a fe" years ago y Yes! a thorough one, (taking their Tlie illiicon stud Western K. It. RIIOI’S, At'. Upon invitation of Thomas Dol’oiiert Esq., the Master Machinist and Factotum ot the Macon ‘and Western Railroad, as geni aud pleasant a gentleman as he is a scientifi mechanic, we passed an hour or two last week no reader , , ,, c . . supply—of finally manufactunn requiring no little proficiency in execution and Kn*« TcucnMnuil Virginia Railroad.— | accuracy in time. The lovely Vocalists, too were The Bristol News has the following in regard to the early completion of this road.- “ We are gratified in being able to announce that this great work is almost consumated, and if no accident happens, the last rail will be laid this week. Then the great thorough fare from New Orleans to New York will be open, and the route being to direct and the time so short from one point to the other, such a stream of travel will be along tlie road this summer will astonish oven the most sanguine.” The I.nrgrat Raft ever Floated on the Upper Mississippi.—Tlie largest raft oflumber ever floated on the Upper Mississippi, passed La Crosse, on its way from Black River Falls to St. Lonis, on the 25tb nit. “It was the greatest sight,” says the Democrat, “ever seen in these waters.”— The raft was manned by twenty-four “red shirts”— every man at hia oar and every oar doing its work. The size of the raft was five hundred and sixty feet long, by two hundred wide, and the amount of lum > ber it contained full a million feet, together with two hundred and.fifty thousand laths and two hundred and fifty thousand shingles. There were two good sized homes erected on board and the crew and offi cers consisted of captain, twenty-four oarsmen, two cooks, one clerk aud a bottle-washer, which, to gether with a black bear aud a bull dog, made up all the occupants. Athnuy, Georgia.—According to the Patriot, the City Tax Digest and Census for 1858, show a white population of 911. Total population 1,458.— presented by as many delegates as the county may Taxable property of all kinds 91,628,120 4fi. Gross think Droner to send. Let earlv action be taken in amount of taxes, 94,525 20. think proper to send. Let early action be taken in tha matter.—[So. Recorder. Urnth of Hon. C’ltnrlra Fenton Mercer.— Gen. Charles F. Mercer, a gentleman widely known throughout Virginia and the coontry, died at Howard Fairfax county, Va, on 'Tuesday last, in the dOtlt year of hia age. The L’nirersltjr ot the Month.—Bishop Otey, of Tennessee, has issued a call to the Trustees of the new “ University of tlie South,” to meet at Beersho- ba. Grand/ county, Tennessee, for tlie purpose of or ganizing the institution. Frout California—-The steamer Star of the West, arrived at New York last Thursday, with Cal Uotala mailt. She brings 91,600,000 in specie. Forest City, a town in Navada county, California, has been entirely destroyed by fire. Whnt’a lu a IVnmr.—The United States Post- office Directory of the present year contains many oddities in the way of names of Pott offices. We capy a few of the more whimsical: Bad Track, Bail Ground, Ball Play. Basin Knob, Blue Black, Yellow Red, Benevolence, Broken Road, Coffin Grove, Con venience, Cowakin, Cut-off, Good Intent, Happy Home, Horae Shoe, Long Tom, Lucky Hit, Marrow bone, Pigeon Mouth, Wolf Mouth, Non-Interven tion, Nomber One, Old Hickory, Onion Grove, Oys ter, Romance, Sabbath Rest, Sorrel Horse. Three Tuns, Veto. Wild Cat, and Dead Man’s Hollow. Judge Dougina.—The Tribune’s Washington correspondent of 9th lost., says:—The intimations in tin- Democratio newspapers that Judge Douglasis Keeking r.-oonciliation with the Administration were pronounced false by Judge Douglas himself to-day. He affirm! that be maintains his position upon Kan sas to the fullest ezteut, but at the same time he stands with his party in Illinois on a platform not os. tenslbly opposed to the Administration, though openly hostile to the Republican party. From Washington.—Washington, May 14.— In the Senate a communication was received frotr the President relative to thereeent outrages on Am erican commerce by foreign cruisers ; also one fron the Naval Department recommending tbe establish uient of a naval depot in tbe State of Georgia. Official advices from Tampico were laid before tlie Senate, from which it appears that Garza has des troyed property of American citizens to the amoun; of half million dollars. He has promised Captain Almy to bebavo better in future. Gen. Robles saya bis government in indignant at Garza's acts and promises to pnnish him when the city is taken. The House has been engaged on private bills, and is still in session. Unfortunate Affray nt llic Military Acade- uiy.—Tlie Augusta Despatch learns that a difficulty occurred a few days ago between Cadets Beall anil Maiming, of the Georgia Military Institute, at Mari etta, in which Mr. Manning was severely stabbed with a knife, intlicting one or more wounds, from which it is thought to be impossible for him to re cover. Young Beall left the place immediately, but some of his fellow students are said to bo in pursuit of him, and will take him back to Marietta, if over taken. Young lleall is from Baldwin county, in this State, and Manning from Mississipui. A sirnugr J uilicinl Functionary.—We have before bad occasion to note some remarkable derie- .-ion-1 by Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts.— Lately he decided that places for selling liquor in vi olation of law are common nuisances, ami may be abated by anybody. He therefore expressed theJJu. ilteial opinion that a mob of men and women who destroyed a liquor store at Salem were justified in their ac Jon. Law in Massachusetts seems to be a strangt contrivance for confusing the rights of pro perty r ,ud imperilling the peace of society. It is easy to see tbe consequences of such judicial Jfcia as this. It will lead Inevitably to repeated riot, out rage and bloodshed. itruih by Fire.—Tho Amerirus News of last Wednesday says:—Wo are extremely pained to learn that .Mrs. Jno. W. Dupree, of this county, was burned to death on Friday last. Her dross caught fire, and before any assistance could be rendered she was to severely burned as to survive but twenty-four hours. This is another it stance of the fatal consequences of \> earing hoops unit-" with great caution, and cir cumspection. A* much as wo admire them, we pre fer to see them abandoned rather than they should cause such a sacrifice of human life. The Yvsnrri Treaty.—It lots been alleged .hat the ratification of the Cass-Yssarri treaty is received with much satisfaction on all si dee. It is a capital thing for us and will be promptly ratified by the Sen- Me. It will inaugurate a new policy with Spanish America, and aid us Immensely In extending our In terests. Colonizers who buy land and settle In N’i- c urn qua can be protected by tlie United States, if tlie former neglects or fail* to do so. We can land maintain naval stations, and can take them . Our merchants are put upona par with native merchants, the transit route is opened and nil- p,. r our protection, San Juan del Norte and Sanjuau del t>ur are to he free ports; the ship canal or mil. Accident on the IVeiv York Central Itnil- road.—Utica, May 11.—A dreadful accident bos oc curred on the Central Railroad by the crushing of the bridge over Sanquirt creek, seven or eight per sons are dead, aud some five or six more dreadfully hurt that are borelyalive. Over fifty are injured. Convicted of Murder.—In the Supreme Court of Muscogee last week, Samuel Hinch was convict ed of the murder of Michael Tracy, and James Thompson, of the murder of young Calhoun, last December. Hinch and Thompson were both sen tenced to be banged on the 2d July next. The stolen Money.—We learn that tbe sum of 910,000 was paid this morning by the Adams Ex press Company, to the party, Drake & Moses, of this city, which was stolen while in transit from Charleston to Columbus, Gs., for which payment we have seen the receipt This prompt reimbursement of a loss incurred under tlie circumstance* stated, imparts additional confidence as regards the puuc tuality and ability of tbe Company, iu regard to tbeir obligations.—[Char. News, 14th inst. Washington New*.—Washington, May 15,-Tlie Senate was occupied to-day in transacting business connected with the District of Columbia. In tbe House, several private bills were passed but the bill to refund the duties paid on goods de stroyed by fire iu New York in 1845, was defeated, Market Report*—New York, May 15.—Sales of Cotton to-day, 500 bales, with a depressed mark et. Middling Uplands 12}. . Flour firm, sales 11,000 barrels. Wheat steady, sales 30,000 bushels; Wes tern White 91 03 a 91 05. Corn dull, sales 14,000 bushels. Spirits of Turpentine dull, at 47 a 47 j.— Rosin steady. Rice quiet....New Orleans, May 14. — Sates of Cotton to-day 4,500 bales, and sale of the week 26,000 bales. Tbe stock is 287,000 bales, The receipts for the last week are 20,000, and the increas ed receipts at this port 68,300 bales, aud at all ports 25,000 bales Mobile, May 14.—Bales of Cotton for tbe week 1,500 bales; Middling 11} cents. Sales of tbe week 8,900 bales. The receipts are 7,000 bales against 4,600 bales last year. The increased receipts at this port 21,860 bales; and the stock 78,320 bales- Freights unchanged.....New York, May 14—Sales of cotton 800 bales. Wheat declining—sales 40, 000 bushels. Navals heavy and declining Rice ateady at 3} a 4} cents. Freights ou cotton to Liv erpool 7-32d Savannah, May 14.—Sales of cot ton 529 bales. Middling fair 12} cents, with a qniet market.... Charleston, May 14.—Sales of cotton 1,300 hales, at prices ranging from 12 to 12} cents. Tbe market is firm and unchanged....Augusts May 15— The sales of cotton to-dayreach 448 bales, which were made in three lots—57 at 10}; 39 at 11} cents... .The receipts are 629 bales....Savannah, May 15.—The cotton market continues unchanged and tbe demand ofa limited character. Thu transactions to day were follows;—131 at 10}; 6 at 11; 160 at 12{, aud C bales at 12} cents. The Island or Cuba.— 1 There are sixty sea-ports in Cub*, and last year there were 3680 coastwise ar rivals and 3653 clearances. This will give an idea ofthetrado of this beautiful Island, which is not more than half cultivated under the present regime. troojx* to i Tlie Mississippi Bottom—Lessons OF THE OVERFLOW. The present is an important period to the Valley of the Mississippi. A poiut lias been reached nt which it may be safely claimed that tlie practicability of reclaiming the whole of the immense tract of this alluvial soil, and subjecting it to tbe productiveness of cul tivation, has been demonstrated beyoud cavil. With this demonstration is connected the re- vealment of future industrial resources of al most fabulous magnitude. The wildest im agination can scarcely extend tlie bounds to winch production my be brought, when this gigantic natural hot bed shall have all been subjected to the plow, as it all may be by a proper system of drainages. As if the hand of Providence, had, with special designs traced them out for the use of the engineer, there is all over its surface, a net work of bayous, de pressions and reservoirs, which have but to be followed and perfected by the industry of science to fit millions of acres for the theatre of agricultural industry* richer in its rewards to the husbandman than the mines of Peru. But with the revelation of our possession of this incalculable treasure, baa come also the dcmou-lration of the inadequacy m the means heretofore adopted for its protection and pie- sen ation. Tbe high stage of water of the pres ent season has shown, beyond a doubt, that the plan of Levees now in use will not give securi ty against the pressure of the floods that may be expected at intervails. The Levee system has not proven a failure; but the overflow has taught us that we must reconstruct and improve tbe system.—.Mernjdt>s Built i>n. fortunate iu overcoming the embarrassment of so large an audience, andsung with great taste and effect. The “ Liedertafel” took the bouse by storm. Encore! Prof. Waldau is a re markably fine Violinist, and his performances were received with marked applause. We con gratulate the Messrs. Schreiner on a marked success. The profits of the Concert were an uouuced to be applied to a benevolent purpose PROGRAMME : part 1. 1. “ Overture—“La Muettedi Portici."—Four Pi auos. eightper formersMrs. Boyken ; Misses Poe, Nisbit, Gaines, Bass, Towns, Macarthy, Maxwell— Ausxit. -• “Drift my Bark,"—Duett—Misses Collins aud Nisbet—Keukin. 3. Solo— Violin Fautasie—From “Somnambula’ Prof. A. Waldau—Artot. 4. “ Holy Mother."—Duett from Maritana—Mrs, Boyken, Miss Collins—Wallace. 5. Grand Duett for two Piauot.—“ Belisario.”— Miss Napier, M. Schreiner.—Gokia. 6. Sony—“ When Fortune o'er me Darkly Frorcnt. —From tho Rose of Castile, Miss Rebecca Dessau— Balfz. 7. “ ConcordatUia."—Two Pianos, four performers, Mrs. Boyken, Misses Napier, Poe, M. Schreiner— Asher. 8. The Chapel (Die Kaprlle.)—Macon Liedertafel —Kreutzek. The Heartn* are Telling."—Chorus from the Presbyterian Choir, Pupils, 4e , Macon Liedertafel Hatden. part 2. 1. Font a tie Caprice,—Prof. A. Waldau—ViIUX- TE.vrs. 2. “ Come U hello.”—Lucretia Borgia.—Miss Anna L. Nisbet—Donnizktti. 3. Grand Duett,—FTom Norma-Ttvo Pianos.—Mrs. Boyken, Mr. Schreiner—Rosellev. 4. Song—•' Hark the Clarion."—From Rose of Cas tile, Miss Rebecca Dessau—Halve. 5. March.—From Lucia di Lammermore.—I Pianos, 9 performers, Misses Napier, .Monroe, Gaines, Max well, Towns, Armstrong, Payne, Nottingham—Don EIZXTTI. Serenade Duett,—Mrs. Boyken. Miss Collins— Schubert. 7. “ Home, Street Home,"—Composed aud dedi cated as a slight tribute of regard to Mrs. Dr. Col fins, Mrs. Nathan Monroe, Mrs. Washington Poe— Bchreikgr. 8. Trio—“ Betuario,”—Mrs. Boyken, Miss Nisbet, Mr. Schreiner—Doxnizetti. 9. Yankee Doodle,—Expressly composed for his little pnpiis aud most respectfully dedicated to the Ladies of Macon.—I Pianos, 9 performers. Misses Payne, Macarthy, Parker, Holt. McMullin, Wyehe, Harris, and Master Napier and Mr. Schreiner— Schreiner. 10. Duett—’’ Gently tight the Orerze.”—Miss Nisbet and Dessau—Glover. Kimiscy’s and Afcncombs’s Camp. bell Minstrels. This troupe numbering eighteen performers, whose reputation stands without a rival as vocalists and negro delineators, will give three of their laughter provoking entertainments at Ralston’s Hall, Thursday, Friday and Satur day Evenings of this week. We clip from an exchange, the following: The Campbell Minstrels—Rouse's Hall was fill ed to overflowing on Saturday evening, with au in telligent and appreciative audience, and we doubt whether there was a lady or gentleman in that vast crowd, bnt went to their homes delighted with the entertainment. To-night there will be another ex citing performance by this unrivalled troupe, with an entire change of programme, giving another op portnnity of enjoyment to all those, who have a taste for exquisite melody, combined with fnn, humor and novelty. Master Bobby is certainly the most precocious lit tie gonins we have over seeu in a concert room, and “ You'd scarce expect one of bis age, To appear to veil npon the stage,” nor believe it either, unless yon had witnessed bis ease, self-possession and grace, and listened to his beautiful ballads, sang with so much skill and feel ing. Unlike many bauds of professional singers iu this r.ouutry, the members of the Campbell tronpe are themselves gentlemen, skilful in their vocation, and nothing is allowed in tlwir performances that would injure the feelings of the most fastidious. But we are exceeding our limits, and have only to advise our-fnends to secure their tickets early. Arrangements will bo made for sealing the ladies, so that the crowd who will undoubtedly bo present can all be comfortably accommodated. Spiritual Bappings. We notice some talk about “ Spiritual Rappings among our contemporaries, and, content with the glimmerings of thefuture to be obtained from other sources, we will leave the matter with a single rc- m.trk. Such things in times past have been heard of, as deep wounds inflicted upon the feelings and sensibilities, by gossip over these alleged revelations from deceased friends. Doubtless they were not conceived in wantonness or malice—surely no one would willingly poison the rankling shafts front the quiver of divine Providence; bnt suck results, as faets and effects of these alleged revolutions from the spirit land, will hardly be denied. Pray avoid them; avoid any course of questioning or rapping or gossip which can add a solitary grief to the bit terness of bereavement. Bibb Superior Court. Judge Lamar organized the Coart on Monday the 10th, and commenced the call of the various dockets. A large amount of business has been dispatched, anil it is quite probable we may have au unusually short session. The present Grand Jury, it kbits very efficient Foreman, Saml. B. Hunter, Esq., is a 'cork ing body. On Thursday last, the case of the State vs. George Knight, charged with tho murder of Willinm Holt, was taken up and late at night the Jury found a ver dict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Judge Powers and Clifford Anderson, Esqrs., addressed the jury for tlie State, and John Hill nud L. N. Whittle, Esqrs., for the defense. On Friday morning after a well timed and elo quent exhortation from Judge Lamar, tbe prisoner was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the IYi.Herniary. At the same time, George Cole hav ing plead guilty to Larceny, was sentenced to one year’s service in the Penitentiary. During the last w< < k the Dockets have been called as cases were ripe ami ready, hut this week the Dockets are to be ailed regularly and cases must be tried or continued as called. Ou account of the Illness of Judge Cole, many of the most important cases before tlie Court will ho Continned. It is thought that the Court will adjourn during lie next week. ord for it,) from the debris of “all oldcflcte political j n examining the workshops and arrangement of the Matson and Western Rail Road. Tlie Company is directing its views and move nts to the ultimate point of perfect self- ill their otv motive power mid rolling stock, with the ex ception of car wheels; aud that they will able to attain this result at last, economically to themselves aud with great benefit to the public, few will doubt, after an inspection of their shops and machinery and seeing what they have done and are doing. Their shops comprise three large brick structures, planned with eminent taste and judgment. The first of these is a car man ufactory, pattern shop and upholstery, which are all the power machines for planing, boring, morticing nnd turning; the second is forging shop, where a blast of any power upplied to numerous forges of every shape, by a steam fan driven 2,200 revolutions per minute and the smoke is carried off through sub tcranean fines until it finds outlet into a mon umental chimney outside, standing majestical ly alone, and rising over 100 feet in height.— The third is the machine shop, with all the lathes, planes, presses, screws aud ponderous cranes for handling aud shaping the massive pieces of iron which make up the locomotive One of them is, as the children say, “a sure enough press,” for forcing tho driving wheels upon the axles with seventy thousand pounds pressure. Tho machinery of these three shops is driven by a noiseless engine of twenty-fiv, horse power in beautiful order. Directly in the rear of them is another majestic structure whose imposing interior is particularly interesting. This is the great circular car shop, with twenty-four tracks, ra diatiug to a huge turn table, as a common ccn tre; aud here were almost as many iron steeds in stable, as it were, some at rest with tenders supplied, clean aud shining, watting for the word and vital spark to start them into furious life; others hissing out their fiery energies and still others smoking and snapping and warming up for the strife with time and dis tance. Upon a pillar near the’ centre was posted the last monthly record of each one’s performances—the distance run and the pro rata consumption of fuel and oil. This is to stimulate a wholesome and economical rivalry among the engineers. Just outside of this car house is a i; rge oc tagonal reservoir, from which a great main describing the circle of the house, carries to eaeh of the iron horses his draught if J600 gallons of water. This reservoir, receives its constant supply from a running stream not far distant, the water being thrown up by force pumps driven by the stationary engine. Near the reservoir are the gas works where the Company manufacture their entire sup ply of gas at a cost not exceeding two dollars per one thousand feet. Pine-wood,chips, oily cotton waste, which has been used in cleaning machinery—in fact almost any trash, (for we saw old hoots aud shoes in the pile,) serves to make this gas. A charge of sixty pounds weight produces between seven and eight hun dred feet of gas. In the second story of the Machine shop are the store rooms for all the little supplies and appliances used in the man ufacture, repair or running of the cars, and the offices of the master machinist, whose re sponsible care is not alone the management of the operative details of this large establish ment, but the furnishing of all plans and spec ifications for work, and some active interest in every mechanical concernment of tbe road.— Here we saw a draft of a new locomotive which is shortly to be undertaken, and called the “Emerson Foote,” in compliment to the late Superintendent, to whose skill and judgment tbe Company arc iu a great part indebted for the convenient arrangements of their shops.— Mr. Foote, it will bo recollected, was more than a year since prevailed upon to accept the Superintendence of the Central Rail Road, and his late position is now filled by A. L. Tyler, Esq., a very active and energetic officer.— Here, also, we examined models for a combina tion Switch, invented by Mr. Dougherty, which obviates all danger from misplacement, aud a car lock, the perfection of simplicity and secure as Hobbe’s. We hope lie may get a patent and make a fortune on them both.— With it good deal of observation among estab lishments of this character, wc do not see how this could bo improved upon cither in arrange ment or in perfect order, neatness and efitcien Lastly wc rau out into the country. “The Messenger,” a car and engine combined—i beautiful little steam carriage, constructed for the accommodation of the officers of the road from designs of Mr. Dougherty and under his direction, was kindly fired up to give us a ride. We flew along twenty miles, sometimes at the rate of twice that number per hour, heating the birds, and John Gilpin himself. It was a beautiful, bright afternoon, breezcless, but what a hurricane we raised 1 Tlie country looks fine. The stand of cotton, though small and backward, is good. So of the corn. Warm weather and genial rains will give us tine crops. The peach trees must be denuded of half their fruit or they will he broken-down'. organizations.” It rose, as we were gravely in. formed, “like tha fabled Pin as* from the taken of old defunct portits!” and that it rose suddenly and j boldly, and soared loftily for a whil needs assurance. Hut it is gone. The Phoenix is dead. “Chaos Inis come again”—come, certainly, so far as the “Phoenix” aforesaid is concerned; for the very plea for reconstruction is an admission of ruin and disorder. They are estopped henceforth from further denial. Yes l the American organi zation is at length confessedly dead. Its opponents believed as much a long time ago, and earnestly begged their friends of the other side to act with them In a vital organization which might by possi bility contribute something towards sustaining con stitutional government in the United States. But it wits denied, and a year or two of a flickering, partial, galvanic vitality has been wasted and mis applied in factious opposition to the only organiza tion which could he of public service. But they tell us the democratic party is dead, too. Ah, they arc not competent witnesses on that point. lYe see how widely mistaken they were up on it, when they “reconstructed” some few years ago. The democratic party was then just as tho roughly dead in their judgment, as it is now or ev er will be. It was more titan dead—it was effete They even saw its ashes, and rose out of that oshe; like the Phcenix. Every one of their Conventions held in succession inquests on the old party and declared it dead! dead!! dead!!! If the most solemn assurances of their most distinguished pub lic men—their highest Councils—their most intel ligent orators, writers and newspaper organs could establish any fact beyond controversy, then the democratic party was dead five years ago, But that Fremont is not now the President of the U. States, or a part of them, and Seward aud Gree ley, the master spirits of the Federal administra tion, is wholly owing to the fact that the verdict of our friends was erroneous. They were mistaken— The democratic party was not dead. It lived to encounter sectionalism in a mighty grapple—In an almost even handed struggle—without their aid— without their sympathy; aye, and so far do some of them permit old time prejudices to carry them, that they omit no means of factious annoyance, where it would seem that their real interests and oflinities could not possibly allow them an election. Now another “reconstruction” is called for, and the democratic party is “dead” again, and again are our friends of the opposition just as wide of the mark. The democratic party will live to see their successive reconstructions arise from their suc cessive ruins—take their successive fancy flights and sink successively into night and chaos. It will live to embody the great mass of conservative sen timent in tills country and wield it for the preser vation of Constitutional land marks and to curb sectional intolerance or aggression, or will live to see the Republic go to wreck in spite of its earnest struggles to maintain it in its legitimate character and functions. 'When the opposition answer this and like declarations with sneers and carping at this, that or the other fancied or real pccadillo of this, that or the other public man or section of the party, still tbe great fact stares them in the face, and appeals with unanswerable force to the candid mind of the country, that its nationalism is mainly embodied in that party, and its sectionalism ar rayed against it. Outside of it, there is no power which can offer any hopeful antagonism to the Black Republican organization. What good can this proposed “restruction” ac complish ? If there were demand for it, the peo ple might well distrust a ,l recotutruction n under such auspices; and surely experience should teach our opponents some distrust of their skill in the construction of partitfe. The machinery from their establishment is not good—it don’t teear—it is ev er coming to pieces—it is always needing “recon struction.” Then again there is really no adequate supply of material for the construction. There arc only two great opposing forces in the country—one is an aggressire, sectional, fanatic opinion, which is seeking to pervert the power of the Federal Gov ernment to its own ends; and the other is a con stitutional, conservative party, striving to preserve the rights of the States, and restrict the Federal Government within its lawful purposes. The one or the other must necessarily embody tho great mass of the people of the United States, and the one or tbe other must be final victor in the strug gle. Whenever these two giant forces grapple in conflict, a dust will be raised—offensive, perhaps, to the nostrils of our quandant “American” oppo nents, and they may change about from side to side as the wind blows, and complain very much of the annoyance aud strife ; but the strife is bound to be and cannot be avoided. It is a conflict forced upon the conservative mind of the country, and the alternative is to fight or abandon the field and the country to the enemy. Now the basis of tills proposed “reconstruction,” if we understand it, is that of “ignoring slavery ag itation.” When the reconstructionists can per suade the ffec-soilers and black republicans to “ig nore,” pretermit or abandon their attempts to dis franchise the slaveholder and prostitute the Feder al Government itselrinto an Instrument of destruc tion to his rights, they will remove all cause of “sla very agitation but they will not purchase peace by any endurable concession. If a race of “ig nore rs”.had “reconstructed” ‘ a new party in revo lutionary times to restore peace to the colonics, by refusing to entertain tlie questions raised or the demands made by Great Britain, they would have found themselves powerless except to aggravate tbe demands, and increase tin: cause of grievance. So in the South, a party against “slavery agitation” can have no other weight than to encourage the very aggressions which are the cause of strife, and so increase the strife unless peace he purchased by unconditional surrender. The fair minded, conservative men of the coun try must conquer a peace, by putting down section alism, and it is to be done by the strong bands and loyal hearts of men not afraid to strike for the right, and careless of tlie dust of controversy in the effort to maintain it Tlie party of “ignorers” may, ostrich-like, hide their own heads in sand, and fancy they are quieting controversy, because they do not see it, but peace is not to be restored iu that way. If done at all, it must be done by the democratic party, in a manly, open, unflinching, defiant strug gle for sound Constitutional, doctriue, with the hordes of sectionalism, and by thoroughly vanquish ing them upon every issue they may successively set up. Tlie Northern and Southern views OF PARTY RECONSTRUCTION. An important circular has recently emana ted from Buffalo, signed, among others, by leading Fillmore men in that section of New York—among them by Hon. S. G. Havf.ns, a prominent member ot Congress during Mr. Fillmore’s administration, and at one time, we think, his partner in law practice, urging a new organization, “without regard to former political associations,” to oppose the “princi ples and policy of the administration.” Wo copy a passage of the circular for the purpose of showing the ground of that opposition : “Tho absolute and unconditional surrender of the national government into tlie hands of tho aggres sive and intolerant slave jiov,-or of the country by tho national administration, as exemplified in its at tempt to impose a repulsive constitution upon the people of Kansas in defiance of their expressed wish es, makes it the imperative duty of all good citizens who desire to preserve the institutions inherited from tlioir fathers to ignore all considerations of a selfish character, and to unite at the polls for tho purpose of deposing an administration at once so faithless and despotic.” Now, note that the call for reorganization to prostrate Mr. Buchanan’s administration, is based in the South upon precisely opposite reasons. We will take for illustration aud example, thefirst “Southern American” paper we can find in a promiscuous pile before us, and it happens to be the Richmond Whig of the Gth instant. In this number we find, un der the editorial head, an article styled “ The. Poptdar Conviction," in which the Whig copies and endorses the opinions of the Louisville Journal, and we presume no two papers could be selected from the whole South American list, having a greater hold upon the confidence of the late party. The Whig in this article starts oat with the declaration :— That Fremont’s election would have resulted in better things for the South than Buchanan's has done, or is likely to do, we have not the Siiadow of a doubt.” Aud then winds up its bill of indictment against Mr. Buchanan, as follows : “The South has beeu swiudied out of Kansas by the present Administration, iu the open face of day. and tbe Southern supporters of it have been its most active aiders and abettors iu the unholy work.” Here, then, we have these busy reorganizers and recoustructors, North and South, and men, too, who have heretofore acted together for years, first in the Whig, and then in the Know-nothing Administration, directly at log gerheads in the complaints they prefer and the grievances to be remedied by the proposed re construction. The one part charge that Mr. Buchanan has surrendered Kansas and the National Government, absolutely and uncon ditionally into the hands of the slave power, and the other allege that he has cheated Ihe South out of Kansas and acted so falsely to the slave power that an abolitionist would have done better! The “reconstruction” is there fore felo de se in its very first enunciation of fact and purpose. That “Phoenix” flying at such cross purposes, will never “rise” above the barn-yard enclosure. How can the candid reader—bow can any man willing to leave his mind open to the sun light of a just idea, fail to see in this and all the contradictory clamor against the adminis tration, the strongest evidence that it is doing right—acting fairly, patriotically, judiciously! The Southern Con V c WI This body adjourned on Friday j ‘ n session of live days, in w*iii-h •„ j ”!* f ’ ’ :t '“ thj meagre report's we s, !c , alriJo'f'T U topic of debate was certain mola,* ". vor of re-opening the slave trad* J- , n ! ‘- finally laid on the table and ordern"' printed. In this discussion thep r j.. t,J s q-, of eve were; L. W. Sprat!, E ami Hon. Win. L. Yai ■ and Roger A d Wni. B. Preston and Robert ft o'* r J°r, ■ 1 ancey, of Alaba- rl ? to, > vor of the resolutions, and Rogers' Robert G q ", ginia: George E. Hunter, Esc,! ‘ and Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of A1 i, ^ opposition to the resolutions. \YhT ^^ ** gratified to see that this project met* great support, wc are disappointed “ 3 Convention did not rather devote it th( friendly, free and informal inteichJL, to * timent upon the matter c f South a * • duty and policy in vindication ot ? against its Northern enemies. j t • 5*^ to discover how the question of n ' 3 . Eo! ‘ slave trade came properly before^T-o'’ 6 tion in any capacity. As a whom did it represent in theb Usin a solitary meeting of the people-,,,,?' Xo! any Legislature can be claimed in the matter. No body has proposed tf certain newspaper editors. If j t -v e,ce ? t right, as a primary body, to dbcua?,* 11 ' orate the measure, on all hands it Wls 77 ■ to be impracticable except uiMn!, ,v cf the Union. The first thing i non £jj« mission, then, was the preliminary, olution. ^Pofdu. The pertinacity with which this < i pressed in the absence of the first eyi/' 11 ^ popular sympathy with it in the Souil T** deed a marvel, unless it finds an etni^ in a willingness on the part of some t!!? Northern fanaticism to even shar ^ and more relentless endeaver for thf of precipitating the result of dia^atk??, this be not the object, we see no other tu ' pears comprehensible. W ^ There was some able sifting 0 fth- lct in all its attitudes. The Editor of the W Mr. Pryor, made a pithy speech upon it 2 took the right view of it as an «onomJ ject, the practical results of which would £ alize the institution as it now o , “Sts in d, bouth—cheapen cotton and sugar to the has of our enemies—with no f MM| Banks In flic olden time. Anti-Bank feeling has lmrdly made much pro gress in the last half century, to judge from the lollotviug “John Adams, In a letter dated Quincy, 10th February, 1809, says; ‘Our medium is depreciated by the multitude of swindling banks, which have emitod bank bills to The American Tract Society Contrary to all our expectations Cheever, Beecher & Co., were floored last week in tlieir effort to abolitionizc the American Tract So ciety by a largo majorty. After a rousing debate in which no little sarcasm and temper found vent, the old Executive Committee were sustained, and the Horublowers, Beechers, Tyngs, Bacons, Clicevers, Tappans aud all the other apostles of negrophily big and little, driven from the field. This is astonishing.— Dr. Bethuue was the Ajax of the conserva tives, aud acewered all the abolitionists on the piercing, sharp and glittering shaft of his rid icule. Terrible Tornados in Hie West. St. Louis, May 15.—A violent tornado 0C‘ - , ,| currcd on Wednesday last. It blew the train an immense amount beyond the deposits of gold off the Chicago & Alton road, seriously inju- mill RllVPr in tlioir vnnltc hv whWMi tliftnna tnn I ° * - / » and silver in their vaults, by which mean* the price of labor and land and merchandize and pro duce is doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in many red many persons in the town of Lexington, Ill., and prostrated half the houses in several instances. Every (Mar ofa bank bill that bis- neighboring towns, killing a number of per- sued beyond the quantity of gold and silver in the J vaults represents nothing, and is therefore a cheat j upon somebody.’ In another letter to Dr. Rush, dated ”Sth A.ug. 1811, Mr. Adams says: ‘My opinion is that a circulating medium of gold and silver only ought to be introduced and estab lished ; that a national bank of deposit only, with a branch in each State, should be allowed; that every bank in the Union ought to be annihilated, and every bank of discount pioliibited to all eter nity. Not one farthing of profit should ever be al lowed on any money deposited in the banks.”’ Tm: editor of the Salem, Ala., Daily Re porter lias been favored with one half of an oyster shell, twenty-seven inches in length, seventeen inches broad and weighing seventy- six pounds. Rather fishy ! Another tornado occurred on Friday, be tween Bloomington and Springfield, by which many houses were demolished. Latest from the Utah Army——The MORMONS DESERTING SALT LAKE. St. Louis, May 15.—Intelligence from Camp Scott to the 10th of April ha^ reached Leaven worth. The Mormons were leaving Salt Lake City, and Gov. Gumming bad gone there, by instructions from the Government. Result of Gen. Twiggs’ Trial.— Dispatches from Newport state that tlie court martial found Gen. Twiggs guilty, but the sentence had been remitted, aud tha General has been restored to his command in Tcixas. Dreadful Conditou of the Whites in SAN DOMINGO. Dispatches have been received from our com- mericial agent at San Domingo, which will, undoubtedly, confirm all that we have stated hertofore of the critical condition of Americans and of the whites as a race iu that doomed islaud. The negro leader. Baez, is shut up in the walled city of San Domingo, where he vents his ferocity on the white citizens, whom he retains amid the horrors of siege and famine, some sort, as hostages for his own final es cape. Mr. Elliott, the American consul, and his lady, Dona Merced de la Roche, (daughter one the noblest old white families of the is land,) are daily subjected to base and studied insults. The United States flag has been repeatedly dragged through the streets and trampled up- by negro mobs ; the Consul’s lady hissed in the streets, and followed home from church with language too vile to be repeated; American seamen and vessels have been ille gally sacrificed; and, in brief, every form of outrage that negro spile could invent has been heaped upon our citizens, for the single crime of being white men and Americans, and not a ship of war shows itself for their relief. The deplorable confession of weakness made by our Government in 1854, when it suffered tlie French and British to cancel a made treaty, and prohibit diplomatic relations by tlie white party in Domingo, is now bearing its fruits. The inaction of this Government has sealed, to a bloody end, the only while spot in the West Indies which is covered by a free and American flag. This Government has been notified that the negroes of Hayti are levying en masse for the invasion of the Dominican Re public, and that they proclaim, in every vil lage, “Death to the whites” and “Down with Americans." If the Government would send down one of our ornamental frigates to demand satisfaction of Soloucjuc for the American merchantmen the Haytien cruisers have robbed on the Mona passage, it would give him something better to think of than exterminating the whites. These negro savages have plundered our ships and citizens to the tunc of three hundred thousand dollars, for which they have not been brought to account in any shape; and now they threat en to invade the Domican Republic, aud mur der or drive out all the whites except those who are the subject of the European powers friendly to Hayti—[Slates. The Mt. Vernon Sale.—TiieCharlottesviila Ad vocate expresses its regret for a paragraph imputing extortion to Mr. Washington, owner of AIL Vernon, in his sale to the ladios, and says: We arc glad to learn, and now make the state ment as the only reparation we have in oar power to make to Col. Washington, that he is a gentleman of unblemished diameter, whose high-toned feelings would scorn to toko advantage of his position to im pose extortionate charges upon any man, much less upon such a society as that comprising the Alt. Ver non Association. We are told upon undoubted au thority, that he was some time ago offered 8300,000 for his estate, aud that, iu his pecuniary embarrass ments, and with a large and dependent family, he could not, injustice to himself and family, have ta ken less tliau he did from the Mt. Vernon Associa tion, which was less, by 9100,000 than his offer from a northern company. In justice to ourselves and to Co). Washington, we make the above statement, ho ping that it may reach each reader of tho Advocate who has perused our urticle in the last week’s pa per.” y A Kentucky preacher, named Ividwell was about to discourse to a large audience in a wild part of Illinois, and announced for his text, “In my Father’s are many mansions.” He had read the words, when an old man look ed up ami said: “I tell j’ou folks that is a lie! I know his father well. lie lives about fifteen miles from Lexington, in Kentucky, in an old cabin, aud thar ain’t but one room iu the house." That sermon was lost to the audience and its heirs forever.—A burst of laughter broke loose on that prairie so startling and vehement, that the people in the adjoining State of Missouri supposed they were visited by au earthquake, and the papers published it accordingly. They had no idea of the power of the human voice to make the earth tremble. The meeting ad journed incontincutly. Youn house is on fire,” said u stranger, rushing into the parlor of a sober citizen.“Well, sir,' was the answer of tlie latter,“to what cause am I indebted for the extraordinary interest which you take in the affairs of my boose!" Doubling thb Cape ?—“Jim did you ever double the Cape of Good Hope ?” “i expect 1 have.'“When !" “Last night, when l put my arm around the cape that belongs to the dress of the young lady that I have good hopes ot making Mrs. Dusenbury.” more speedy exhaustion of Southern \uh without any ratable increase in the profits d their culture. We find in the limes & Set tinel of Saturday a note from one of the Gw- gia delegates, which, to our mind, eipresji! correct view of the matter: MoNTGOMiRy. Ala., Mai li m, Mr. Editor—Dear Sir: By common —1-. . tho request of Mr. Spratt of South Csrolku, whk. traduced the Slave lYsde project in the Commercial Convention, the reports of the Cor,-- tee were to-day laid upon the table, andor-krrtu to be printed. Thu motion, it is undent 4 " poses of thesubject during the present Conv M i 3 7 aud it is to be hoped that before any simiUr - vention be again held, the people of the S, - , so express themselves, that this unprc£t»hl e f mischievous subject, will not hereafter find b- i ers among men who desire either the velfire'etej South, or the quietand value of the Union. Soai believes for a moment that a repeal of the* trade laws will ever be made, and its sdvocicr nothing more nor less than an advoctry for un ion per te,’ ’—or at least no sane maacxa 'ts '.j to accomplish such a thing without dhauoa. it tho other hand, it is hardly to be supposed r evenif those laws could be repealed, thatSoaks men and Southern slave holders can desire tin: be repealed, that Yankee slave traders mijhl lr- untntored savages and barbarians into the So ohm States to compete with, and bring down tt orx-t7 price of our own slaves to one-fourth or ow-in their present value—to make the products c! it South valueless by over production, and finllri, make slavery a burthen rather than a bitasogba as its present condition really is. No compnisk of political influence can, or ever would, ;tp>r u, South for snch a stroke on her prosperity ud id beiug. Apart then, from its Disunion tended and l look upon it as only to add fuel to the doort ant and disunion spirit of the day—u t in, i), and having no care for the Union, urtiii affects the South and her interests, I think if i. South could accomplish what the inlhmofL- resolutions desire, it would not be long before a people of the South wonld curse the d»y that anj s her sons ever thought of such an evil for her. A Georgia Dtutia Southern Commercial Convention. Montgomery, May loth, lit-. The Southern Commercial Convention «ssaW to-day. Hon. W. L- Yancey, on the put of I*- gomery, welcomed the delegates in a short but. quent speech. He was made temporary ciuimn until a permanent organization could be effnV- The following States were represented in the l-:• vention; to wit: Virginia, North Carofim, N-d Carolina, Georgia, Alaoama, Tennessee, IL.-iaiif 1 Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Delaware. A te mittee of two from each State were appointed!-’ se lect permanent officers; I’resident AndrewP* hounof S. C„ (son of J. C. Calhoun, |—Vke-fc- deuts: Hon. Alark A. Cooper of Gs. “ Geo. P. Elliott of S. C. “ Geo. W. Sanitle of Va. “ Jesse H. Lindsay of N.C. “ C.T. Pollard of Ala. “ Thomas Coopwcn of Miss. “ Maunsel White of La. “ Paul McCormick of Fla , I D. C. Page of Ala., chief Secretary—Dr- Iff I Blackburn of Geo., Assistant Secretiry, witn j from each of the other States. . I The President was escorted to the chsir hr Si^ I Jackson of Ala., P. H. Colquitt, of Ga., ' I Pryor, of Va. Upon taking his seat, J acknowledged the honor in a few eloquent R* 1 - After which the Convention adjourned ttatu • * ‘ P ’ ■ to Montgomery, Ala., May 11.—'The Tlie convention met this morning al 9 o after a prayer, the minutes of yesterday were - sidered. The Delegates this morning are and amonw them are someot re in number, and among them are eloqueut men in the South. . ,r'. A report and resolutions for the revivals • ri -an Slave trade, were submitted by L- ’ • - r Esq., of Charleston. The Hon. Edmnnd Ruffin, of ''‘•’“•"jr™!,-. tions recommending the South to Woptj ing discriminations .agaimst the Noun taxes and licences. The resolutions ,rer ? r fj r Gen. Wm. Walker, of Nicaragua and »'■ Mitchell, editor of the Southern b*tta<a. p ville, Tennessee, were tendered sealsmt Mr. Roger A. Pryor, of Va., (editor of tie , mond South) spoke very lengthily Spratt’s resolution for re-opening tuesre ^ CoL Yancey, ot Montgomery will foUo h ,’ topic is one expected to bring out some a®> e i ^ ] Ir. Pryor’s speech lasted fully » W s received withmnchattention, to*- replying to it very eloquently, thecon journed to tho afternoon, when Cot- HP® 1 jjr.l&M and spoke for two hours on slavery top fin, of Va., and Mr. Gaskin made sh ^L.-Sfluttf I Mr. Gaskiu declared it to be his cf 0 "”Xl'ii# re-opening of the slave trade w' 0 . . M r. It. D. Scott made a resolution 1^7 ,, steamer* to Europe with a disenmma ^ ^ ^ I Europe from the South. KesoluLda* yi-rU Col. Nelson Tift, of Albany, Ga, ^ South Carolina, and from others, which are to various committees • miaine*'* 1 * The Convention then adjourned till to-morrow. . Montgomery, May 12 —The Conven o’clock, aud opened with prayer. Several resolutions introduced and re Business Committee. , n .daT The principal nutter of interest to jittlsF speech ot it. G. Scott, ot Alabaais, Hey of agitating the subject of re- P trade. — er « in att* 0 "*" Nearly three thousand persons to-day, some hundreds of whom w a Montgomery, May session lust night until1* cjo ' _ delivered by Messrs. Hilliard. of Alabama, and Hunter, r licj of re-opening the Afric*? s l‘ . f 0 Uowed t*' This morning Preston, of ' position to tho slave trade, and ■ . j4 0 odtf-‘ in favor of tlie measure. spratt, of South Carolina, »m l davatrt^^&i in favor of reopening thoAfncan ^pjJ^ Thera appears to be a <* i the Convention in favor ot a on , Union. — ] lint:" the Rest.”—A 1' : ''. n^e was asked who made him. : : fend leveled afoot above the floor replied—“God made me a htttc . | and I grew the rest.'' “My German friend, how lout. j C , s married?” “Vel.disating I W™,,,-: to talk abouts, hut ven I dus,n - about so long as it never vas.