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Til STIIIUI 4. R. WIKLE, Editor. CASSVIH-E, 6E0. Wednesday Morning, AUGUST 1. I860. Valedictory. In dissolving our connection with the Standard, it is proper to inform our friends that it has been the result, solely, of dif ference ef political opinion. The Standard and Express hare always been Democrat ic, and up to the late unfortunate rupture in the party, the Editors and Proprietors harmonized in sentiment. The party, however, is hopelessly divided upon what we, the undersigned, deem of vital impor tance to the interests, honor and safety of our section. We, therefore, felt itour du- t j to advocate the election of Breckinridge and Lane as the representatives of the on ly party capable of giving the South her just and equal rights in the Union. Our friend, Mr. Wikle, with equal honesty and candor felt it to be his duty to support the Douglas and Johnson wing of the old par ly. We could not, therefore, harmonize; and as this division of opinion became em- bsrassing and liable to misconstruction, we have disposed of our interests in the Standard to Judge Wikle. In parting with our kind readers and patrons of the Standard, we can but ex press eur gratitude for the many acts of kindness and “ good will” shown us dur ing the connection. We bid them adieu, sorrowfully; but with less regret as our esteemed friend is to fill our places more ably and worthily. We part with our old companion and fellow-laborer, Judge Wikle, with reluc tance and regret—with feelings none oth- rr than the best. We wish him that suc cess and happiness to which his talent and merit so justly entitles him. W. T. GOLDSMITH, S. H. SMITH. Sons of Temperance. We ere pleased to know that the citi- sens of thie place are about organizing a Division of the Sons of Temqerance. At a meeting of those who had petitioned for a charter, on last Thursday, a full set of officers were elected. So soon as the charter is received, tha officers will be installed, and the Diviiion regularly organized. It will be known as - i ... Division” No. . We hop# this Division will meet with a success Hoary Clay and Mon-Interrantion. ' Whatever political opponents may hav# said of Henry Clay, in regard to his no tions of govern mental policy, none newer dared charge him with being actuated by other than the most patriotic motives.— The object nearest his heart was that the union of these States might be preserved, end that we might become the greatest, happiest and most prosperous people upon earth. The last official acts of his life was rendered in the passage af the Compromise Measures of 1880. It was his earnest de sire that tha slavery question might be forever removed from the halls of Cougreas He bad witnessed for near half a century, the baleful effects of the agitation of the slavery question by Congress. He there fore had the principle of non-intervention incorporated into the bills for the organi- nation ef Territorial Governments for U : tab and New Mexico, by which the peo ple of those Territories were lift “perfect ly free to regulate their domestic institu tions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.” Mr. Douglas visited Mr. Clay when on his death-bed, and he refers to that visit in a speech delivered at Bloomington, Ill., in 1858, during his canvass with Mr. Lin coln. After alluding to the right of every State and Territory to regulate their do mestic institutions in their own way. He commensurate with the object for which it is established, and that it may be the means of rescuing many from the insatiate jaws of drunkenness. says— “ These are my views and these are the principles to which I have devoted all my energies since 1850, when I acted side by side with the immortal Clay and the god like Webster in that memorable struggle in which Whigs and Democrats united upon a common platform of patriotism and the Constitution, throwing aside partisan feelings in order to restore peace and har mony to a distracted country. And when I stood beside the death-bed of Mr. Clay and heard him refer with feelings and emo tions of the deepest solicitude to the wel fare of the country, and saw that he look ed upon the principle embodied in the great Compromise measures of 1850, the principle of the Nebraska Bill, the doctrine of leaving each State and Territory free to decide ita institutions for itself, as the on ly means by which the peace of the coun try could be preserved, and the Union per petuated, I pledged him, on that death bed of his, that so long as I lived my en ergies should be devoted to the vindication of that principle, and of his fame connec ted with it. (‘ Hear, hear,’ and great en thusiasm.) I gave the same pledge to the great expounder of the Constitution, he who hus'Jbeen called the * godlike Web ster.’ I looked up to Clay and him as a son would to a father, and I call upon the people of Illinois, and the people of the whole Union to bear testimony that never since the sod has been laid upon the graves of those eminent statesmen have I failed on any occasion, to vindicate the principle with which the last great crowning acts of their lives were identified, or to vindicate their names whenever they hare been as sailed ; and now my life and energy are devoted to this great work ts the means of preserving the Union.” This is tho pledge made by Mr. Doug las to that greet stateeman and pure pa triot, Henry Clay; and nobly sad manly has he kept that pledge, yet for doing so, he is assailed With • bitterness unknown to political warfare. Where is the old Olay Whig, who reveres the memory and i great achievements of his political idol, For tho Richmond Nominees. We have received the third number of the “Southern Intelligencer,” published at Jackson, -Miss. The paper contains its prospectus, the first paragraph of which commences thus:—“ The Southern Intel ligencer, in polities, is devoted to the Con stitution and laws, and the rights of the Southern States, and will, with all its zeal and ability, support the nominees of the late Richmond Convention, in the distin guished personages of Hon. J. C. Breck inridge and Gen. Joe Lane.” This is the first paper, out of South Carolina, which we hare seen that is supporting the nom inees of the Richmond Convention. Most of tho Breckinridge papers of this State support him as the National Democratic nominee. In some sections he is suppor ted as the Southern Rights candidate—in others as a sectional candidate—and in some places as the Union candidate. The Legislature. The Constitutionalist of the 27th ult., says that it has received comparatively few letters yet from the various counties, giving the position of the members of the Legislature with reference to the^fesiden- tial election. It says—“From twenty five counties we have reliable and reported, and generally believed statements, and so for the position of parties in the Legisla ture stand thus— For Brockinridge and Lane, twenty six; for Douglas and Johnson, twenty; for Bell and Everett ten, and classed as doubt- fel three. - The Legislature is composed of throe hundred and one members. Gov. H. Y. Johnson, candidate for Vice President, was to have addressed the citi- mm of Savannah on last Monday evening. Hu arrived in Savannah on last Saturday. He want there at thesoliritftion ofa num ber of his friends of that city. Mr. John son » a powerful speaker, and we may ex pect to hear that his speech has had a good for the cause of National Dem- eeraey. HT Of the eight candidates for Presi dent and Vice President, they are all Sen- aton or Ex-Senators, except Lincoln, who would now hare been in the Senate could he have been elected, when a candidate i the attention of < t aard of Mrs. Isaacs to r advertising columns. who has it in his heart to denounce Steph en A. Douglas for keeping inviolate his pledge to that eying patriot ? It was the governing principle of all our leading statesmen, now no more, to remove forev er from the halls of Congress the agitation of the most exciting question that ever sprung up to distract our country. That was the leading feature ofthe compromise measures of 1850—it was the paramount idea with the Georgia Convention of 1850 in acquiescing in that Compromise—it was the leading feature of the Kansas Ne braska act, which recommended that act especially to the fevor of the South—it was the same principle embodied in the Cincinnati platform in 1856, and re-adop ted by both the Conventions at Baltimore. The Democratic party is pledged by that platform to crush out the agitation of the slavery question, both in Congress and out, in whatever shape or form it may ap pear. Our Candidates. We consider Douglas snd Johnson the regularly nominated candidates of the Democratic party. We have ever made it a rule to support the regular nominees of our party, and believing these gentlemen were nominated by the only regular Dem ocratic Convention, we will give them our feeble but earnest support. While we do this, we shall make no war upon any of the other candidates who reside in the South, as to their soundness on the slave ry question. Some of the opponents of Bell and Breckinridge may, and perhaps hare assailed them as nnsound on that who are really for disunion, believe that by destroying the Democratic party, that they can then accomplish tbeir long cher ished object. Whether they shall be per mit ted to do this, is for the Democratic masses to determine. By rallying to the National Democratic nominees, they can elect them over all opposition, and save the country and the Democratic party from destruction. Mr. Douglas and the 8upreme Court It is frequently charged that Judge Douglas had repudiated the decision of the Supreme Court, but it is well known to everyone who has taken the trouble to read his speeches, that nothing is farther from the truth than that charge. In his letter of acceptance he says that the judi cial authority must be maintained, and its decisions implicitly obeyed. He has ex pressed about the same sentiments in eve ry speech made by him in the United States Senate. We have heretofore pub lished his letter entire, but we again pub lish the following extract from it: “ If we now depart from that wise and just policy, (non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories) which produced these happy results and permit the country to be again distracted, if not precipitated into revolution by a sectional contest between pro-slavery and anti slavery interventionists, where shalj we look for another Clay, another Web ster, or another Cass to pilot the ship of State over the breakers into the haven of peace and safety ? The Federal Union must be preserved. The Constitution must be maintained inviolate in all its parts.— Every right guaranteed by the Constitu tion must be protected by law in all cases where legislation is necessary to its enjoy ment. The judicial authority, as provided in the Constitution, must be sustained, and its decisions implicitly obeyed and faithfully executed. The laws must be administered and the Constitutional au thorities upheld, and all unlawful resis tance suppressed. These things must all be done with firm ness, impartiality and fidelity, if wo ex pect to enjoy and transmit, unimpaired to our posterity that blessed inheritance which we have received in trust from the patriots and sages of the Revolution.” jy We are requested to state that there will be preaching at the Baptist Church in this place on Thursday morn ing next, by Rev. L. B. Fish, and singing for the children at five o’clock P. M. Also exercises of the same kind at night. The Grain Crop* at the South This is rather a sad subject to enter up on, as we can say nothing to cast a cheer ing ray upon the gloom that reigns almost universally throghout the Southern States. In Georgia nothing like the present drought has been known for many years, and dis astrous accounts reach us from nearly all the cottton-growing States. It is impos sible to say what proportion of our State involved in the calamity; in some Dis tricts the -wops were never better, while in middle, southwestern, and the grantor portion of tho Cherokee regions, corn is literally parched to a cinder, and that af ter a failure of the small grain crops in the spring. In some of these localities there has bean no rain of consequence since the first of April, and the prospectis utter- ly desperate, come what may hereafter.— Southwestern Georgia already drawing on the market for grain, and has no crop coming on. Many portions of South Carolina are al so suffering, but not to the same extent as in Gssrgia; the corn crop, though, will be very far below an average. In East Tennessee, the grain-growing region of the South, the wheat crop foiled and com is most unpromising from drought . Alabama has also suffered greatly, and in many places the destruction by drought and heat is complete. The middle and eastern portion are mostly affected and in these all hope of bread is given up. What we have said of Alabama is appli cable to Mississippi, while Louisiana has suffered to even a greater degree. In many of the parishes the streams are dried «P. and corn perfectly white in the fields. In Texas, though, the foilure is perhaps more universal than in any other State.— Every portion of that State seems to have been blighted, and bar difficulties in com municating withother portions ofthe conn try will greatly augment the distress of the population the coming year. Florida so for as wa have boon able to learn, is better off than any at her sisters though she too will be brought below an average in her crop. This is a sad story, but ita sequel will be seder still. Oar connection by railroads with the teeming Northwest will enable many to provide against absolute want, but the poor will be without means to buy, and their future is dark indeed. None ofthe accounts seem to warrant the conclusion that any material damage ; tne conclusion uuu may wuwgc question. We shall not do this, unless it j ^ beeQ b y the cotton crop.— be in defence of the position of our candi-1 fcfcjr ]ocalities which are most affec- dates. When they are assailed, we may j ^ w j t | 1 ^yght, it has drooped and present the records ef the ethers simply j ^ much ^ its fruit , bat generally it is to show that they all, at one time, stood well „ d promises an Abundant together. We know that Judge Douglas is assailed with a bitterness which has never been surpassed, if equalled, in any former political contest, and that those who support him, come in for their full yield.—Satanoh Republican. One of our eastern exchanges says': Tha report that Ex-President Pierce will not support Douglas isfidse. He furnished share of abuse. But we believe it to be the ammunkioo for the salute of fivehun- our duty, as a Southern man, to support -which was fired in Conwd in the great Statesman of the North West— j j, oa#r of Douglas’ nomination. a man who has stood by the South and j „ defended her rights and institutions, both! Sum** Dsam—Mrs. Geo. »• in Congress snd throughout the North, wife of one of our oldest etttsena and mcr- for the last twenty-five years. WeTully chants, died very suddenly m Cherokee believe that the opposition to him in the county Ala., on the 2oth inst, at tnerasi- pnrty is produced by Presidential aspirants dance efher brother. Dr. Rawls. Shehad on-the oneband^nd by disunionists on the been affiicted with asthma for many years, other His rivals were determined to kill H« remains were brought to this city on him off even at the expense of the disco- Thursday mid interred yesterday morn- lutien ofthe democratic party, and those Courier. 28fA. Fom Tn Standaeb. Ms. Editos :—Since I wrote my former communication to you, I have not seen, board or read anything from tha seoaders —from the heads of section, or tbs rank and file—that looks or tends to tho har mony of omr party. All, from Yancey "bright land of liberty, and I call upon the down, are abusing, denouncing Mr. Doug las and the eld Cincinnati platform. I have looked in vain in their organs for something that looks like old democracy, such as “ we have gained the great prin ciple of non-interference by Congress with slavery in the State, the Territory and the district of Columbia, which is worth an empire.” Let ns rally to the rescue of those Conservative Democrats or ths North, who are so noblt battling tor our rights. Let us with them plant our selves upon that platform constituted rob us at Cincinnati, and come what may let us stand firm.” Mr. Toombs and CoL Stiles could thus talk in 1856, but now they wish to throw aside these old phra ses, which, in days past, made true dem ocratic hearts throb with patriotism, and when the storm of battle raged, and dem ocrats, both North and South were falling before the foe, nerved democratic arms for the final charge and caused our old flag to wave high amidst shouts of victory. Now we hear discord, disruption, seces sion, abuse, vituperation thundering from all parts of our country. The Black Re publicans of the north are throwing their bomb shells into our old democratic fort, and scattering death destruction and ruin on every hand, and the disunienists are firing their deadly Dalgreen guns at its old walls, hoping to see its ramparts tum ble down. These sir, are sad times for democrats. It becomes the solemn duty of patriots to “ look well to their going.” Sir, there is some faction to blame for this, and let us enquire what clique this is, and who are its leaders, and shun them as we would those who would set fire to the temple of liberty. Who led theseceders at Charles ton and made the first rent in the demo cratic flag? The Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama. What are his antecedents? In 1848 he made war on the democratic party and assisted in defeating General Cass. In 1852 he was in the Baltimore Convention, trying to disturb its harmoni ous action, but the union, sentiment was overwhelming and he wa* powerless, anu General Pierce was nominated and elected. In 1856 he was in the Cincinnati Conven tion, and together with the balance of the Alabama delegation, demanded the adop tion of the great principle of “ non-inter vention" or “ non-interference” now called “popular” or “squatter sovereignty,” threatening that if this doctrine was not incorporated in the Cincinnati platform he and his delegation would withdraw from the Convention. And to his astonishment, the Convention unanimously adopted into its platform, all that the South, and even Mr. Yancey demanded, and again he foiled to break up the party. The Convention adopted this doctrine at the earnest request ofthe Southern del egatee, hut more especially Mr. Yancey. And Mr. Stiles says “ its leading object era* to de justice to tho injured South, by restoring to her again, her lost equality in the Union end to rattle forever, on * per manent basis, the vexed question of sla- ▼cry. In 1860 Mr. Yancey is again a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Charleston, and again he and bis delega tion have an ultimatum, and the conven tion is threatened that if it is not adopt ed they will secede and break up the par ty. At Cincinnatti he got his ultimatum, but foiled to break up the party. At Charleston his “Cincinnatti ultimatum” is denounced as a “cheat,” “swindle,” Ac., and “new tests” must be applied to de mocracy, and new “planks put into ths platform,” or the party divided, beaten and destroyed. Thera “new teste” and “new planks,” are voted down, snd he with his anti-democratic allies secede from the con vention, and he is jubilant over the down fall of democracy, snd the prospect of dis union. But he is not yet successful. Ths convention still continued to work for harmony. True patriots both North and South still strove to ssve the party and tha country. The friends of Mr. Douglas are lagely in the majority, and could nom inate him easily by abandoning the two- thirds rule, but patriotism forbid that course, and for the sake of the party and the country, they adjourn to Baltimore, and invite the people to send np delegates snd yet save the country. This is done and Mr. Yancey is ruled out, (no doubt to his great satis&ction,) the Georgia se- eeders are admitted, .but refuse to aid or do anything for harmony, and after get. ting seats against the “Nationals,” go out because Mr. Yancey and his delegation ■ml the Louisiana delegation ere ruled out. The convention is thus broken up and the party divided, and it may be destroyed, without an effort on the part of Mr. Yan cey or his friends from Georgia, (as it ap pears to me.) to avert thejdanger and pre vent our party’s ruin. Now, air, was all this right? What does it mean ? Mr. Yancey’s own wards will raise the veil and discover the dark clouds and lurid storms which howl behind. Listen, ohl my Union-loving democratic friends and “pot year house in coder.” He says:— »We ah*B fire the Southern heart, in struct the Southern mind, give courage to each other, an at the proper time, hyena concerted action, wx cam fbhcititatb the Cotton States into a mvoLunoN.” Sir, I fear the time has come, when these secedera are endeavoring “to firb Southern heart and precipitate the cotton into a Revolution.” The Hon. R. B. Rhett, of South Carolina, who has been out ef politics for years, and would affili ate with no party which had not for ita object a dissolution of the Union, and the ' Hon. John A. has cursed all parties, especially the Union for jeon, with hundred# ef avowed disu- niooista of the South, an in active co-op eration with the encoders, end supporting Breckinridge and Lane. 8ir, there are cir- cumatanoas which portend evfl to eur yeomanry of the land to come out and stifle the howling* of abolitionism on the one hand, and the gutteral croaking* of disunion on the other. Sir, if these seceders do precipitate us into a revolution and hurl ns into the vor tex of disunion, liberty—sweet blood bought liberty— “ Like the dew on the mountain; Like the foam on the river; Like the bubble on tho fountain, Will he gone; androaavBa!” Sir, when the horrid notes of intestine strife and civil war shall roll over our feir land; when our fields shall be saddened with fraternal blood; when the lurid light of burning cities, towns, villages and country homes, shall mark the path of internecine war; when the cry of the war made widow, and the wail of orphans shall greet our ears; when freedom’s sun shall have set forever behind the crimson clouds of disunion, and extinguished its last glorious ray in a sea of freemen’s gore; when the British lion shall roar in triumph over the torn and lifeless body of the American Eagle; when “liberty” and “freedom” shall be the bye-words of Eu ropean despots, and the sons of revolu tionary sires shall be compelled to wor ship crowned heads, and be kicked and cuffed as slaves, it will be too late to con demn these seceders and disunionists.— Now is the time to rebuke them. We can nip disunion in the bud. We can teach them that we know our rights and dare maintain them. We can drive these dis organizes back into private life, and learn them that secession movements are not popular, and let us rise in our might and by one united effort in N^Temb^r, con sign all thifce treasonable ideas and move ment§ to an early grave, and let the dark waters of oblivion settle over them so deep that no lead will ever sound them. Sir, there are two parties to be defeat ed, the Black Republicans and seceders or disunionists. The former led by Lincoln and Hamlin, and the latter by Breckin ridge and Lane. Who can do this?— Must it not be done either by Douglas and Johnson, or Bell and Everett. Who stands the best chance to defeat Lincoln ? The man who car get the most votes in the Northern States. Who is that man ?— Every one must admit that it is Stephen A. Douglas. Who are fighting Mr. Douglas, and who fear him most in the Northern States ?— The Black Republicans. ^Why do the abolitionists hate Stephen A. Douglas ? Because he has always been their enemy end the friend of the South, and because he has always whipped them in every fight.. Why do the seceders hate Stepheu A. Douglas now so badly? They used to praise and laud him to the skies. He still stands on the Cincinnatti platform, and is still fighting the abolitionists. It must be became ha will not leave hia old dem ocratic doctrine, or became he is opposed to disunion. Sir, if he, (as all must con fess,) stands the best chance to defeat the Black Republicans, shall we, as good and true democrats, forsake him because he will not forsake hi* old “ confession of feitb,” or because he is not for disunion ? I think the chances are at present, that by reason of the division of the democrat ic party in the South, Bell and Everett will carry a majority of the Southern States; but if they do it will not defeat the election of the Black Republicans, and will do no good, except the defeat of the disunionists. Therefore, I hope all good and true men of all parties in the South will unite on Mr. Douglas and savs the country. I see an able and patriotic article in your paper over the signature of “ Con senrative,” suggesting a fusion of the Bell and Douglas forces in Gcorgis. I appre ciate the motives of the. writer- snd am willing to concsde that Bell A Everett are good and true men, that their party is ac tuated by pure motives, and that the coun try would be safe in their hands, but am opposed to the fusion. First, because it is bad policy, and would probably weaken both parties in the State. Second, we differ from the opposition in principle.— We differ materially upon the teritorial policy of the government and many other material points. Iam in fevor of preserving the democratic party and her principles; and notwithstanding we may be defeated in this contest in Georgia, by the opposi tion and the seceders, (which I do not be lieve,) if we stand firm by our time-hon ored party snd principles, the broken frag ments which will be carried off by the seceders, and patriotic opposition men will come with us hereafter, and rally a- round the old democratic flag which has been borne aloft by Jackson, Polk, Cass, Pierce and other gallant chieftains, and future generations will glory in the suc cess of our party, and enjoy blessings which our principles will secure. 1 In the love and faith of old Democra cy,” I subscribe myself TAR HEEL DEMOCRAT. That Slates nr Moms Bat.—The sto ry going the rounds abouts cargo of slaves having beso landed in Mobile Bay, turns oat a hoax. Tha story sprung from the feet, that a planter from Alabama had bean to a more northern market, and while there had purehaeed a lot iff hands for his plantation, which he took borne, and lan ded from a small coasting vessel, chartered for the occasion., The negroes all talked good English, were &t and jolly, under stood how to do all kinds of work required upon a plantation, and, in feet, were true specimens of the Sambo race, ae beheld Jonee ef this Stats; who 'everywhere in OW Virginia On the Indiana and Cincinnati tefl wad a pleasure party rode * when they alighted, and etoed aronna the small platform covering tt«e^pW"*J waiting to era the can ssove before leev log for the woods. Just rathe tram atar- ted the skirt of one of the young who happened to be standing rinseto “*• train, caught on a not on the aide can, throwing her from her feet «*J fortunately the train n, ® rin * V* slowly at the time, or the conaeqw might have been more serious. As it 1 the young lady was pretty roughly used. A Stout man in the party, seeing her condition, at once raised her in bre arms and pulled with all his strength, endeavor ing to tear her loose but the skirt was both strong and firmly festened, and not untd all the girl's under-clothing was pulled from her body, and her dress torn toshn$> aid he succeed. All this transpired while the train was moving a distance of twen ty or thirty feet, when the conductor saw the danger and instantly checked its mo tion. Indeed, the girl was not entirely released until the train had stopped. Af ter the excitement of the moment had pass ed it was discovered that the soles of both the girl’s shoes by the resistance she had offered the train had been completely strip ped away, leaving the uppers upon her feet. Strange to say, she escaped any se- rious-injury. She was immediately encir cled by a riumber of her female friends, who conveyed her to the village, where her wfnts were properly attended to. mtlNB Mli IM* Tb « well-informed and reliable oorrws poodent ef the N. O. Delta, who, we be- fint to announce the candidacy of Horaten derate in the following etn jfcHtieatyk that the old Governor 1mm the Presidential ring: Araim* Tela# July 1*.—A statement has come tohand in the Louisville Jeur- that General Houston bra withdrawn cuirass for the the Presidency fdli now supporting Mr. Bell. This 11,1, * is untrue. Gen. Houston » still in the field and will remain ao. His friends an more enthusiastic than ever, and have assurances from abroad, which warrant tho belief that he will aocn have electoral tickets in many of the States.— So far frem his withdrawing and auppor tmg Mr. Bell it is now confidently be lieved that the friends of Mr. Ball, seeing that tho greet mass of those whom they hope will support him prefer Gen. Hous ton on account of his ability to overthrow Black Republicanism at tho North, and his prograesivo ideas, will unit* and with draw him and unite upon old Sand^^-ei Old San Jacinto-never KT» baen known to withdraw from any position which he bas assumed. He has no reason to wish to leavo this canvass. His fri ends in Tex as will go with him to the end of the race. A Boy’s Sight Strangle y Lost and Res tored. The editor of the Knoxville, (Tenn.,) “ Witness” tells the following remarkable story : A little bo» in that region waked up one Corning last winter and discovered that he was blind. He is twelve or thirteen years old and up to that morning his sight had been per fect When told the second time by bis farther to get up he replie i: “ Father, is it day light?’ 1 “Yes, long ago.” “Then father,” tbelftfle fellow sadly said, I am biind.’ And so he was. His aigbt was gone. The boy was recently taken to Nash ville for medical treatment The doctors declined to do anything for him, howev er. But during his stay in the city his his sight suddenly returnedwhen he threw his arms around his fathers neck and ex claimed : Oh, father, I can see." The Great Eastern.—Cargo or Cot ton.—The New York Herald of Monday says: “ We understand that arrangements are on the tapis with the directors ofthe Great Eastern to take her to Norfolk, Va., previous to her return to England, am there load her with thirty thousand ball of cotton for the British market. It is not stated where this cotton is to come from. The freight on cotton being a farth ing, British money, per pound, or about half a cent, this cargo would amount to little more than sixty thousand dollars freight money. This is no doubts move ment on the part of the votaries of direct Southern trade with Europe, that tho South is always threatening to inaugurate of which the Great Eastern is to be the en tering wedge, and it must be admitted that they have selected a pretty big wed| on this occasion.” Which i» the Rational Candidate ? In 1856, Mr. Buchanan receivtd one million, two hundred and twenty-six.thou sand three hundred and fifty-tjo votes in the North, and six hundred and eleren thousand eighty at the South. That ia, he received about .twice as many votas at the North, as he dicLat the South. Now, in November next Douglas will receive nearly the entire Democratic vote ofthe North—perhaps all of it—aa the Administration papers advocate the run ning of electoral tickets only in the South. It is also asserted, by authority that tke Bell men ef New York will support Mr. Douasa* {owr informant is an American. ) It is certain that Mr. Douglas will get at least a third of the southern Democratic, vote, and mere; probaly over half of it But to put the figures at the lowest possible point, Mr. Douglas win get a mil lion and a half of Democratic votes. Give, th«n Mr. Breckinridge the re maining four bundled thousand, which is all b* caa hope for, and then let the question at tha head of this article be an swered.—Conetitutionalut. .cir nd\ u Dangles in Virginia. Wm. G. Brown another of the Douglas delegates to the Baltimore Convention bas addressed a letter to his constituents con cluding as follows: In conclusion, I will say to you that 1 h'.vo no objection to Mr. Breckinridge; I supported him four years ago on the Cin- innati platform. I would have cheerfully pported him again on either the same the new one on which ho ia now placed ifhnhadbeen nominated by the regular Convention; but I cannot vote for him as the nominee of a soceders’ Coaventioa not called by tho people. If Douglas can not bo elected I will bo glad to aee Breck inridge dacted; if neither can bo elected I will than be glad to era Bell our President. If bower, -the brooking up of tho Demo shall result in the election of ticket, 1 trust those who it about will exercise under our common affiie- Political Chances in Illinois.—A respondent of the Cincinati Enqur, from Moor’s Prairie Precinct, in southern Illinois, after giving an account of a Douglas ratification meeting in that place says: “Many Fillmore men came out last night publicly for Douglas, and I assure you that more will do likewia# between f.tary in the Territories, is a violation of now and the November election. -- I learn that in Hamilton county, in the vicinity of Lovella there are many who voted for Mr. Fillmore, who have came out for Douglas and the Union, since read ing his last speech in reply to Mr. Davis; and so it goes.” Mr. Douglas’ majority in Illinois will be full twenty thousand. Will tort Believe Toombs?-—We be lieve tbdtall candid men now admit that there Were two hundred and twelve repre sentative votes in the National convention which nominated Douglas and as no man objected to the proposal to declare tbs nomination unanimous, there can be no. doubt that the regular two-thirds nomi nation was made. The only 'objection which Democrats can now have to Mr. Douglas is that his views of slavery are unsound. But Mr. Toombs, Georgia’s favorite Senator, has just declared that Mr. Douglas is as sound on slavery-as he is! Who doubts now ? The Contest in the North.—It is un- qestionably the truth that the contest in the free States, for the Presidency, is be tween Lincoln and Douglas. With whom do Southern men sympathise ? The open diaunionist will answer that he prefers the election of Lincoln—and the quiet, cautious, but hopeful diaunionist will asy that there is not much difference betwsM Lincoln and Douglas. Bnt the true pa triot, the sincere Southern man and all who revere the Constitution snd the Un ion will unite in the heart-frit declaration of ‘Stuccoes to Doogtea.” Ex-Gov. Winston.—This distinguished Democrat opened the Ball for Douglas and Johnson, at Huntsville, on the 25th inst. We learn says the Dadeville (Ala.) Ban ner, that it is hia intention to canvass ev ery county in the State. sf the National Demeetotfo County, held in the City of 14th, the following ml un adopted : '^Rtohed, That we believe the doctrine -^Congressional intervention, aa claimed anksaerted on the part of the secedera it Charleston and Baltimore in their de- cQuid for Congressional protection of ala- the Democratic party, a violation of the solemn compromises heretofore agreed up on, and consequently of. our plighted faith and we believe ia fraught with mischief ■nijgninrliiif only, and wall calculated to effect a dissolution of tho Union, if per- and which wo have too much believo is the ultimate object of then# who bavo sprung this us and unnecessary isssue upon tbe onal I&tblligbecer—An In- ie death of Mr. Galea revives a of tbe taly time Jiia paper, the National Intelligencer, ever snapen dad publication. It was a warm andablo adv^^ of the Madison war policy, ac»- / onding tha effort ofCtey and his < an&tso powerful was ita infiu whra General Ross; in command of tho Brmw troops, entered tha ’capital, after the unfortunate -affair of Bladoniburg, first inquiry was not for the Capitol, the Presi dent’s House, or the department, but for tho National Intelligencer office and it waa ths first establishment demolished, ceua- ing a short cessation in its regular publi cation. With this exception the Intelli- gaficer has been published regular for six ty years—Albany Evening Journal. A Don Over the Falls or Niagara.— An unfeeling fellow threw his dog in to the Niapra River, near Goat Island bridge tha other fey to teat the question wheth er it was possible for animals to be carried over tbe feQa and escape alive, and im mediately want to the foot af the ferry stain and found the dog but Htte injured by the tremendous leap.— The experiment wa# tried to convince incredulous parson. Tbe only exception to tbe rule “Delaye is on mmragefeya- The whole Wart, from the Ohio to the MMomi fe aid to be a vast grain field.— It is artiMted that th« State of Oh* wiU . bar* thirty mBUon bushels of wheat—five —wtn mere than it ha* ever produced before, and it la sf fee hart sf :