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(Times Aitir SnttittfL ” COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1853- FOR GOVERNOR: lIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: J*. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. lid. DISTRICT A.. COLQUITT. Uld. DISTRICT DAVID J. BAILEY IVih. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT. Vtb. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. Jndge Johnson’s Address. We can Lot lament over the pronenesa of the hu man mind, to find fault wi h all that a political onp< Kent say* or does alter he is nominated for high offi* by hie party. This wcakneaa ie aicrnnlly manifested in the coir inenta of the Recorder, upon Judge Johnson’s addres before the Wesleyan Female College at thy late eon menoemer.t. He looked at the address throuzh tl colored glavaee of a political pponer.t, and found thcr< fore much to condemn in tho performance. How different is the estimate placed upon the ad dress by an impartial spectator. We find in the las number of the Southern Christian Advocate , a pspt* conducted with eminent ability, and devoted to th dissemination of the highest and purest form of chris tian doctrine, the following paragraph : “The Hon. H. V. Johnson then addressed the audiene lor nearly an hour and a nail, on the subject of Femal Education. This was a diaoocifo full of great praotil. truths, characterized by high moral lone, and deliver impressively. Now 3 speech “full of great practical truths,” an eharacterized by “high moral tone,” ought to me with some appreciation at least from one of the edito* of the Recorder ; and unquestionably would have doi so if he couid have freed his mind from the bias political prejudice. We are happy to believe from r< ports from various sources, that he is peculiar in h condemnation. The enlightened and religious publi* who witnessed tho performance are unanimous ia i praise. lv is a melancholy spectacle to behold good men en gaged in the pitiful task of bespattering the fair fame < good men. IJkrschsll V. Johnson’s moral enaract* te above reproach. If he errs at all, it is on the ai<* of virtue. We know that his stern integrity in hi high office, has mads him some enemies, who oppop his election solely on this ground. Yet. the Conserve live press has teemed with ariisfeu injurious to his pr vate reputation. ll® is charged with being a opiritu; rapper ; the charge is as false as it is redioiilous. One for all, we wiil state thnt Judge Johnson is an Eld* in the Presbyterian church, and exemplifies in his aail life the justice, purity and charity of the ohristisn ehai *Mer. We make this statement in defence of Judg Johnson, and sa an offset to the approbions charm which a reckless opposition press so freely lavishes up oa his good name, while we enter our solemn proles agninst this method of electioneering. It is the chief glory of onr Republic that religion opinions are neither a recommendation nor disqualifies* tion for office. It is a matter between the individu and his God; and no man te allowed to intermeddl therewith. This principle drove our fathers to this wes tern wild, and is dear to the descendants of the pilgrim* “Freedom to worship God” was the reward sf thei labors and sacrifices, and was preferred by them to a ! the onmforts of civilization. It is now too late to r* vive the inquisition. That iniquity ia abated. Be zealots still try to force belief by branding with het- r doxy an individual who dares to worship God accord in to the dictates of his own conscieno , We have no fe; that the freemen of Georgia will countenance this fann icism. But they ought to do more. They owe it t their fathers, to the tolerant spirit of oar free institution’ to crush this attempt, to oatrac sc an eminent citizen whose whole life is a splendid exempiifioati nos th* Christian virtues, because he cannot bow the neck o his faith to the yoke of Knotcles-doxy. The Algerine Taw. This term is applied in Georgia politics to a law pass ?d by the Georgia Legislature disfranchising a!! eitiaen of Augusta, in their municipal elections for Aldermen who did not possess a specific amount of property. Th< bill was drawn up by Andrew J. Milder, on the p.- titioo of 89 persons, resident in that city, and was vote for by Charles J. Jenkins, the candidate of the Con servatire party fur Governor of Georgia, and was d< fended by him before the people of Augusta at th next election. He was defeated upon this issue, and the law was repealed by the succeeding Legislature. In the United States of America, every citizen wh pays taxes is entitled to one vote, upon the genera’ principle that sH men are entitled to say who sha! govern them. This is the distinguishing oharaeteristu of American freedom, and is thought to be the cornel stone of our liberties. The ballot is placed iu the hanffi of each citizen in order to enable him to prevent am set of men from tyranising over him ; and bat on vote is given to the rich and powerful as it is suppose that wealth and talent will certainly be abl<* to sequir a preponderating influence ovet the poor and ignorant, and thus be able to protect themselves from all depreda tions. Mr. Jcnkins either overlooked these plaiD household American truths, or did not recognise them ;.* such ir his vote for the Algerine law. We have no fears that Mr. Jenkins will attempt t* disfranchise the poor people of Georgia, even if he b elected Governor, of which there is very little fear, an< have not, therefore, before specifically alluded to this un popular vote of his. As it is, however, making some sti* in Georgia, we have thought it best to give a plait statement of facta to our readers, that they may knv. the truth in regard to the matter, and act in tho premi ses as they may think beat. It was a very uniuck vote, and will lose him the suffrages of many poor me in the coming election. Those Democrats who are wit! such facility deserting the Democratic standard, beeeut they have been deieated by their rivals before noininat ing conventions, wouid do well to look into this matte before they cast their votes If they w ish to be popu lar and secure offioe it would be well for them to paue before they connect their fortune* with those of a poiitt cian who regards poverty as a disqualification so-- voting in municipal elections. Bnoh treason to the right of the people will not soon be forgotten by the masses und “Algerines” will hare the felicity of occupying pri vate stations tho balance of their lives. Blew Orleans. Ws regret * learn that the Yellow tfever b epidem la New Orleans. The disease is attributed to a nfls<t of the street* by the sontraotors. Georgia Items. Congressional. — John J, Jones, Esq., of Burke i recommended as the candidate of the Democratic part in the eighth District. Hon. Y. P.King —The citizens of Greensboro hav endered a public dinner to Hon. Y. P. King, as an ev fence of their high appreciation of his public service md of his character as a citizen and neighbor. Euort Colleoe.—Dr. Alexander Means has r* igned hia professorship in Emory College, and hasa •epted the Presidency of the Masonic Female Colkg it Covington. Prof. Darbv, of Culioden, Ga., has been elected t fili the professorship in Emory College, made vacant b he resignation of Dr. Means. HT The sum of two thousand five hundred dollai vas raised at the late commencement at Emory C* ego to complete the College buildings. Hon. Rgbei: Toombs gave four hundred dollars*. Cauuiu<ne! hr fiiibuut, n v utility. The Democratic Party in Randolph county has nomi ated the following very able ticket for the Legislature vhioh will unquestionably be elected by a very larg najority. For t'ne Senate—LsGrand Guerrv. “ “ House—M. Hendrick and Noah Robison. Georgia Home Gazette. Having received the Georgia Home Gazette sine ts commencement, wo take pleasure in commending i < our readers as one of the best Literary and Famil; •apers published in the country. It is furnished to single subscribers at $2 per unnun i advance, and to clubs ut $1 JO. Published at Au usta, Ga., by Smytkb & Whyte. The Girard Kail Koad. We are happy to announce that the first Engine ft i be Girard road has arrived at the Depot, and is read *> mount the iron track as soon as it is laid. It is call <1 “Chunncnuggee” in honor of the intelligent and en citizens of that lovely village. Another Murder. A fair, but frail being, named Brrthsnu Swsetf.j nd known for her beauty as Eliza Love, was >• Vedne&dny 20th inst., brutally murdered in New Oi •;*ns by her paramour, a grocer on Poydras st., by th •nine of A. M. Ballow. She was killed in her ow. min while asleep, by blows upon the head with . atche.. Ballow has been arreßtcd. The black heat -d villain gave information of her death to the police ut denied all participation in tho deed. Major’*! Election. Captain A. C Kivlin was on Saturday, 23rd inst eeted Major of the First Battalion, 66th Regiment Jeorgia Militia. The World’s Fair. Gov. Collier has appointed Charles A. Peabody Ssq., a commissioner for Alabama to the World’s Fair Corn in Charleston. We learn from the Mercury, *f the 22d., that th* took of corn in Charleston was completely exhausted i'hera was not a bushel in the hands of dealers. Tht ist sales were at 90 cents. o*Dv. Chas. Caldwell, one of the most eminent ihvaici&ns in the West, died at Louisville oa the 9th ‘istant. He was nearly ninety years of ago. He was * nian ofqjreat intellectual vigor and of great learning, le was for many years a professor in one or more med cal colleges, and haa left many reliable productions. J. J. Seibels, Esq., American Consul to Belgium, •rrived in Charleston on the 21st inst., on his way to Yashingion, preparatory to “■ ■ >l)e> llox. James B. VV allace died oi apoplexy, at his esidenee in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Monday 18th inst. The (tight of Secession among the Whigs. As the Whigs of Georgia have stolen Democratic •tanks to build their new Platform, so are have Whigs of tlabama. Mr. Lockwood, the very able and aecom oliahed candidate of the Whig party in the Mobile dis- Met, holds the following language in reference to the nueh abused doctrine of Secession : “Mr. L. said he believed a State for adequate cause had he right in the last resort to secede from the Union, and hat the State was the judge of the sufficiency of the cause, nid that the Federal Government had no right to coeree’ ’ State thus seceding. He attempted, however, by a umble of words and confusion of ideas, to mystifv tin -object, ana said that, although a State had the right to ldgc of the sufficiency of the cause for secession, theoth r States who are parties to the compact, had an equal ‘glit to judge of the sufficiency of the cause, and that if ;<e seceding State was wrong in the abstract, and had no rood cause to secede, the other party to the compact had he right to prevent her from leaving the Union ; but if he seceding State was right in the abstract, and had lequate cause to secede, then in that case, the other par V to the compact had bo right to interfere or prevent her mm seceding. A strange-entanglement and eontradic. r on of ideas. Mr. L. read the Kentucky resolutions to ■sustain his views of the question, and as containing the rue doctrine of State rights. Mr. L. al*o said, in reply to i question of Col. P., that if the State of Alabama should tetermine to secede, although he might, as a citizen of the ‘tate, be opposed to the act, and think the cause inade quate, yet he would sustain the State in her act of seces.. -ion, and would not in such a controversy take sides with he Federal Government.” These endorsements of Democratic doctrine by the Whig leaders are tho most cheering signs of the times, j Proscription. A Washington letter writer for the Mobile Register , ] gives the following pointed refu ation to the charge of ! •roscription, so freely made by tho Whig press against ! ‘ll* Administration : “Now, upon the simple proposition of removals from j iffice, if the practice be wrong in itself, the Whigs have a J lousand fold more sins to answer for than our party have, i Their removals have been on a larger eeile, and under j •ircumstances incomparably more aggravated. “Nothing was more confidently expected than that | Jen. Pierce would place his political friends in office. A i rirmony of sentiment between him and his agents was i ndispensable to the success of those measures which ht | vas elected to carry out. He announced in his inaugural hat he would place men in office whose principles were I n common with his own. Indeed, as before stated, noth og ie6 was expected by men of ail parties. “The present Adm.uistration has been in power four nonths. The total number of removals during this time, >f whatsoever kind, is less than nine hundred. How ioes this compare with the removals made by the Whies ? u 1841, in three weeks after the inauguration of Gen* larrison, there had been seventeen hundred removals ot ’ostmaeters alone. Tine was done, too. in the face ot •ledges made by the Whigs during the eanva.s, that ihe\ vould ‘proscribe proscription.’ “Again ; in the first month of Gen. Taylor’s Adminis tration there were over three thousand removals. This, •o, iu the roost flagrant violation of sulen n pledges voi mtarily and repeatedly made by Gen. Taylor, that, in th. vent of his election, no one should ba removed on poliii* •al grounds. With such facte as these staring them in n* fkos, how preposterously absurd it is, and how iusuli ng to th* popular intelligence of the country, for th Vhigs to charge it as e {salt upon thie Administration, thrt it m proßwiptiT* P* fFOn THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.* Columbus, Ga., July 23, 1853. To the Editor of the Time — Sir: —l respectfully oiler to your correspondent, “A >uthern Rights Democrat,” such acknowledgments as are le for the empty compliment he has tendered me, by pro •sing my name to tho convention shortly to assemble, as mtable candidate for a seat is our State Legislature ; a osition which I have never coveted, and which I would >t deign to accept ff offered with entire unanimity. If’ id ever possessed such an ambition, and a nomination vere given me now, as a free will offering, my attachment o our party is too strong, and my solicitude for its success •o sincere, to allow me to jeopardize it by striving for th terest of myseif, or one who, iike me, held “extreme opin ma” upon the issues which of late unhappily divided u>. he policy of the party should be as shadowed forth in your ditorial oi the 13th of May. when yqu used this language: “Another and essential means of success is the character t-id position of the candidate selected. Men ofardeut tem • rarnem would of course prefer the nomination of a candi ato who holds extreme opinions; but mis would guarantee efe <t, as it would be asking too much of hurnau nature to xpe t men who hold oppo ile opinions to give to such a o.uinee a cordial support. Neither wing of the party ught to press the claims of men of extreme views. If a ii Idle man can be found, who,during the late dissensions, iid one hand upon tho one wing of the party, and the other pon the other wing, and byhis m< deration has secured the ; >od will ofboth, without forfeiting the confidence of either, ie ought to be the nominee of the party lor Governor. We •ertaujly could not expect Union Democrats to give a learty support iO him of ‘Goblin Glen,’ and we claim sot >ur prejudices the same consideration which we extend to iem. We hope we are understood.” My course during the excitement upon the compromise ucstionwas uwnistakingly extreme and ultra. Upon a •ke issue being presented, it shall prove the same. A re ospect of my action then, but convinces me of its correct less, and endears to mo the grounds I then assumed Dur ■g the canvasses consequent upon that division, I wa* ■reed to personal issues with many of those with whom, •uce my majority, I had acted in concert in political al drs. Many ol these personal differences have not been ealed ; they never shall be by an advance upon my pari would avoid having thrust upon those gentlemen with .'hc-m lam now in party alliance, the mortification ol ipport.ng me, not feeling that I can give them the credii ia! I assume and practice, of magnanimity, and not doern ig that they would “ cordially ” support any one who so itely was politically and personally obnoxious to them. To the nominees whom the Democracy have selected, id to those whom they may select, I shall give a warm nd zealous support. Ido so tho more readily, becaus* itisfied that, ii elected, they will be confined to tho pale o’ he principles laid down by our convention at Baltimore, md while au confined they cannot materially err, and by leir election, the National Democracy will be exalted Vhoever they may be, personally, I care not; with in* rinciples have more weight than men, and he who will b r esta!l me in his advocacy of those priciples and the elec* ion ot the agents who have been, and may be, selected t< •arry them out, shad be entitled to his seat above me in >ur national church. It I nave a solitary friund remaining among the manj •vho have shared my fortunes, I exhort him to an aetiv* ino vigilant support ot our nominees, for the reason assign 'd. Let him remember, too, that at the division of oui orces, the smallest number rallied to the flag of “Unioi Democracy.’ .Wo can freely then, give to our late politi v*.ai enemies, what few positions we have to bestow, as ii wifi aoubiiess prove a salve for then’ mortified feelings, and may heal the rent caused by the scramble to reach our Na ionai Platform. All with whom I acted should be satis fled, as I am, that it is a reward sufficient for all oar trial? hat tne correctness of our position in the past, has been as serted by that tribunal from which there is no successful earthly appeal— the National Democracy. As victors lei us be generous. More gratification has been afforded me, by the endorsement of the compromise by our National Convention, than a life time seat in the Legislature could have secured. Respectfully, yours, ALEX. C. MORTON. I FOR THE TIME* AND SENTINEL. J Mr. Editor : You know that I was first in furnishing ] reliable and incontrovertible evidence of the superiority o! [ the Rakrofid route from Columbus to West Point, over a'l j others in Georgia, so fs.r as the cost of grading, bridging, I &c.,is concerned. You know, also, that I have for sev | eral years been almost constant in my endeavors to brine j the people ofColumbus to a consideration of the vast ad - I vantages which would certainly be reaped by thorn if that Railroad were constructed. But during ail this time, laid 1 not droain that the people of Harris, Meriwether and Cow eta, could be prevailed upon to undertake, in such force, and with such an amount of means as would ensure the completion of, within any reasonable time, the now propos ed Railroad from this place via. Hamilton and Greenville to Grtr.tsville, connecting at the latter point with the Rail road from Atlanta through Newnan. Within the last week, however, in addition to your notice of the subject, 1 heard from several sources, that the project is, not only in contemplation, but that there is no doubt that the people of j Harris and Meriwether are ready for the undertaking, it assured that Columbus will piodge herself, to build so much j of the road as may be in Muscogee county. You have ! done right in tendering this pledge in behalf of our city. I j havo yet to find the first citizen w ho is not warmly in favor j of the earliest possible action oa the part of all concerned j Now, if what we hear respecting tne temper and determin- ■ ation of the people of tho three count ies named upon th ,= I subject, many, if not all tho warmest advocates of the im- i mediate construction of the Columbus and West Point j road, will be content to abandon that project for the present j (unless the peopie of Troup county are willing to come in ! largely to its aid) and to concentrate tho means, credit and i energies of the city, upon what may be called the Pine ! Mountain and Columbus Railroad. With respect to trade, tho largest portion of tho discus sions of the advantages ot a road from Columbus to West Point may bo - referred to and adopted as applicable to this new route ; but the latter offers additional inducements to the up country and the lower country but more eepeciailv to those residing or owning lands on, or contiguous to the Pine Mountain, or at, or in the vicinity,oi any of the Mineral Springs. Let these but reflect, that it would be delightful to thousands of the low country people to dwell in the shadow ot that mountain during the summer season—to adorn it w ith hundreds of summer residences, ii they eouid reacn it by Railroad. With respect to others who may ow n the land on or near the line, ii is enough to refer them to the fortunate experience of thousands who, before a Rail road passed near their land, eouid not get three dollars per acre for it, and who wouid not now take ton. Should the necessary arrangements bo made to secure the beginning and completion of this road, it is “devoutly to be wished ‘that tiroo—short time, will be an important element in that arrangement. This old Fegie way of being three ot four years la building fifty cr euty miles oi Railroad, cannot b* countenanced in this progressive age. It has been th© cass, that the interest lost on the expendi tafee c* along delayed work of *he kind, wae equal i Q imonnt.to half the cost ol foe whole work, to say nothin; -if lost profits. Now the most economical mode of gettim through with this work, is to complete it in time for carry •ng to market the crop of next year. If fifteen thousan* loliars, under the control of one man, can be made to com :ilele one mile in six months (an easy job) it is just aseas for sixty men, with the same amount each (in ail ($900,001) to complete sixty miles within the same time. It must n<v ! >c the expectation of planters who pay for their stock i work to make full crops and work on the road at idl times. Paying for stock ia work is in itself a vastly profit able crop, and men in this neighborhood are getting rich a it. The plan is. to plant but very little cotton next yea .nd what work a planter may do on the road, lei him dt it in one season and have done with it. Nor should th fact, that mere is no charter for this road, occasion the lea: i delay. That can be obtained as soon aa the Legislate e noet without the least doubt or difficulty. Let meeting? he held, and the company formed and stock subscribed lot to be held under the charter toi.>e obtained. If after all, however, an investigation shall satisfy tht people of Columbus, that those of Harris and Meriwctht i are not fully prepared to engage in this enterprise, orthai the support they arc ready to give to it, wiil but be sufficiei t to begin it, allowing it to linger for several years, ‘‘drag ging its slow iength along,” they can Jail back upon, am organise under the charter already granted for the Coium bus and West Point road, and go to work. MOKE ANON. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Examination ot the Griffin Collegiate Seminary j Mr. Editor : 1 wish to say a word or two in your co arms about the above named Institution. This is one* he most flourishing and ably conducted Institutions of tl find in the South. It haa been for the last four and aha /ears under the supervision of Mr. Hugh E. Morrow, wh •ias won for himself, both here and elsewhere in this Stat a lasting and well deserved reputation as a successful gov ernor and faithful instructor of young ladies. The Semi nary closed its fourth scholastic year with a thorough ex i ami nation, which was continued through nearly the who!- i d the first week in July. The writer was present durhu ; the whole ol the exercise®. A large crowd oi delight* * • spectators were in constant attendance. One hundred an* I twenty-five pupils wore examined on tho numerous studie ;to which they had attended. Tl e examination was no ! confined to any set portion of the works studied ; but ex tended, in a promiscuous way, from beginning to en ! of the various brandies to which they had given attentioi 1 Pho result was in the highest degree satisfactory to the an ! lienee, and creditable to the school. All gave evidence * : thorough teaching and devoted study. The young ladie | Winced that they had not only been trained to study an | instructed in tiie sciences, but that they had been exercised i ! vocal music, to an extent we have never seen equalled ! I’helr performances in this respect were above ail prais-t j Phe graduating class., six in number, did honor to them- I elves, their teachers, their families, and their country, j We could fcay much more about these performances, an* j then the half would not be told, but we arc afraid ofbein* J edious : and v/iil only add a word about the placo when .his Seminary is located. Griffin is unsurpassed in Gcorgi; for good society, pure morality and good health. On!\ >ne death has occurred among the pupi sos this schoo ince its establishment, four years and a half ago; and al though Griffin contains a population of 3070 souls, only on grown white person has died here in nearly twelve month and not much above a dozen have died, including al classes. We mention these things in order that parents and guar dians may know where to send their daughters and wards o as to secure to them every facility for improvement anc ■very security for health. A SPEC I'ATOii. Griffin, July 23, 1853. J Attacks upon the Administrpt on. —The able edi | ors of ihe W shiugton Union, h ve dope well u | formally repudiating the New York Evening Post, j s a Democratic journal, aid we thank them so j : he plain and positive manner in which it has beei lone, it is time that such newspapers shouh | learn that they cannot fasten themselves upon th. ; Democratic party. It is time that they should I s spurned with indignation and .-corn, as the instru ments and echoes of the worst factions of the das. President Pierce, We have good reason t> know ully appreciates ihe position and purposes of th Post, and will not fail to answer to the demand of th. Democratic party, that a paper, which is not onl\ Ins enemy, hutiheifs, should forthwith besiript o dl disguises and exposed to the world in all its d-- formity. In itself the Post is no nvre than anv oth r organ of faction or fanaticism, but as it assumes !<• speak for others, it is right that it should bo stern- V repudiated. Its chief employment now. as it has be.-fi heretofore, is to supply the materials of an agonism and misrepresentation to the Vv bigs.— And this may bo said to be its favorite weapon <o overthrow the Democratic party, in order that Ab.<- , litionism may securely build up a great organiza- i tion hostile to the Constitution of the United States. i j lon, of the Baltimore Sun, learns that im* | Missouri and Pacific and railway loan offered b\ | Mr. Thomas Allen, the pres.dent of that company, ! amounting- to three millions of doila.s, has been ta ken by an English banking h use. English bank ers sent an agent to New York to take the loan, though it is not known on what t rms. This loan i founde ) on the lands granted io Missouri by Uoncress and by that State so this private company. It is thus, remarks the writer, that that Congress is the great Almoner of private speculation. The Pensacola Hoad. —We understand that the c ups of engineers dispatched by Mr. Holcombe. • Mid -r charge of McPherson B. Miilen, to suivey the route from this city to Tallahassee and the Chattahoochee, has proceeded us far aa VVaresbo ro’, a distance of about three handled miles, ami ! found the route quite favorable. The country level, tiie grading comparatively Jigh', and timber abun- I dant and of the best quality.— Sac. Cour. An Extraordinary Discovery., —The attention of men of science, m Paris, has been drawn to an ex raordinary discovery made in a neighboring de partment. A grave-digger, in throwing up som earth, came upon a body in a state of perfect pres ervation. On examination ii proved th-.t of an in dividual bur'cd years ago. He had ded trom the effects of'the bite ot a mad dog. The s iroud and the coffin had lal-'en to dust, but ihe oody rem ined intac;. This is tne third exhuroa ion made within twenty years, of bodies of die vic ims of hydropiiobia, under similar circumstaices; itul it would really seem that *hey are beyond the reach of decomposition. Tho registry of deaths was consulted, and g- mention of the embalmment j wf the uody was found. Stale Fair. — The next State Fair will be* ; held on the 1 Ttli, ISth, 19ih, and 20th days ol : Oo ober, in the city-of Augusta. Ample p ©para* j tions for its success are making, and vve have no I doubt but it will prove to be as interesting an! occasion and as produetivefof beneficial results,! 9% any Fair ths? h3 preceded it- The Fisheries 1 Change hi qfaiis -The Colt tiists Petitioning f rr °f Restrictions Against America , T tshermen. Boston, July 20. The schooner L. McKenzie from the Bav oi St Lawrence, the first of the markeral fleet arrived ai iloucester, reporta that the fish have not hetn 1 entiful ’his season. The Captain also s’ates that most of tho people •flSt. John’s Island ; Cape Breton and Gut ol Cars o who formerly petitioned for official ve>B* Is to rive oft the American fishermen, ;.re now signing etiiion* to have the restrictions removed, as for*. ieriy the presence o> American fishermen brought onsiderable business to these points, whilst ii w hey will soon be in a starving condition, and obli ged to call upon the Government for pecuniary aid. Arrest of an alleged Fugitive Slave. Philadelphia, July 21. A colored man, named William Brown, was iought before Commissioner Ingraham to day, barged with being a fugitive slave, having nin way from his owner, Mr. J. C. Howard, of Cecil ounty, Maryland. If seems that he owns a small irm in tho State of New Jersey. His case will >e more fully investigated to-morrow. Albany, N. Y., July 21. The Legislature of New York has passed through T 1 msc the bill to provide against railroad ac cidents. j...c iVla ne Liquor Law hill has been defeated in ic Hou.-e by a majority ol 54 yeas to 56 nays. The Legislature will adjourn nine die to-night. ’onservativk—Whig—Union—Republican -Citizen Convention, at Holmesville.- Ve have verbal intelligence of the action of iis Convention, which met at Holmesville, on le 2J st instant. It was presided over By Mr. ‘urrency, of Tattnal : Dr. Cohen, ofTellair.and lr. Anderson, of Laurens, acting as Secretaries. Fifteen counties were, we understand, repre ented. Eight of these—simply a majority— *>ted for Mr. Bartow thereby securing his nomi nation on the first ballot. On the announcement I* the vote the delegates from one of the coun ts withdrew, determined not to support the lominee. Tho representative from another, wo ire told, took tho same position, after the ad lurnment of the Convention. Yet, we suppose iat the excuse to be given for Mr. Bartow’s inning, after having publicly declined the hon r, is the spontaneous, unanimous, and irresisti le desire, on the part of the people of the dis > ict, to have him run.— Savannah Georgian Death of a Captain of Artillery.—Cap tin Rowland A. Luther, of 2d Artillery, died on le 9th inst,, of wounds received at the battle of ’alo Alto, from which he was subsequently u onstant invalid. The demise of this gallant •tficer took place at the residence of his mother a New Holland, Lancaster country, Pa. Hon. John Boatman Keer, our late Minister o Nicaragua, is spoken of as the Whig candi kite for Congress in the first district of Mary and. Mr. Keer is about to take up his re3P lence again in Easton.— Baltimore Sun. j A Chinaman in San Francisco, California, I ias offered i52,000 to Rev. W. Speer, Presbyte | ian Chaplain to the Chinese, towards | building Si church for his countrymen. The Hon N, P. Tailmadge was invited by the ■itizens of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to address hem on the subject of spiritual rappings—an ovitation which he accepted, E. D. Culver, an Abolition lawyer of Williams* iurg, near the city of New York, has been sev *ra! days missing, and fears are entertained for iis safety. •S. B. Grafton, Esq., editor of fho Central Georgian, is the Democratic candidate for tho Senate in Washington county. The Air Line Rail Road between New \ ork md Boston, by way of New Heaven.it is said, 13 rapidly approaching its completion. The World’s Temperance Convention as sembles in New 5 ork on the Ist and 2d ol Sep tember. COLUMBUS PRICES CURRENT. CORHSCTED TKI-WKCKIV BY J. K. 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