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iimts avfo ffircthttl. COLtfMBPS, GEORGIA.” WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, Congressional Convention, 2d District. VVe suggest that the Democratic Congressional Conven tion for the Second District be held at Americus, on Wed nesday, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will be in cession at that time in Americus. What say our Demo cratic cotemporariee to this suggestion] The time and place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd. The Meeting Saturday Night. The Know Nothing Democrats, who retired from the Democratic party on Wednesday previous, and others, oalUd a meeting of all parties at Temperance Hall on Satnrday night, 2Gth inst. The objeot of the call, as wc understand it, was to break down all the old parties and to form anew Southern party for the protection of the South against the encroachments of the North. The meeting was a very large one—in deed the house was full to overflowing—but not more than a fourth of the audience seemed to participate actively in the business or to join in the applause. The meeting was called to order by Gen. James N. Be thune, a known Disunionist. The President of the meeting was Col. William H. Mitchell, and the Secretary was D. P. Ellis, both of whom were ardent Southern Rights Democrats. We, therefore, rea sonably expected that the resolutions reported would glow with scotional fire. We were quite surprised, therefore, to find tlyit they hardly came up to the fight ing line laid down in the recent Convention of the Muscogee Democracy. We were still more astonished when the Hon. James Johnson, the Union leader of 1850, arose to advocate the passage of the resolutions and declared that he was not in favor of disunion, nor was he opposed to afiiliation with sound Northern men, but simply to old political organizations. It is, therefore, evident that the new Southern party movement does not go one step beyond the Democratic party either in prinoiple or purpose in the defense of Southern Rights, and we are quite at a loss to find what particular charm it possesses over the Democratic party for Southern Rights men. It seems to us that all the objeots pro posed eould have been more certainly attained by means of the Democratic party. It is a recognized political organization in party affiliation with, end possessing the confidence of, all the sound men of the North, who certainly will not desert their old friends to join this new party, especially as the leaders in tho new party •re, many of them, Know Nothings, in affiliation with men in the North who have j ust come out of a contest in whioh they beat down nearly every Northern Demo crat who voted for the Nebraska act. Another singular feature in the proceedings of the meeting was that while the Whig party and the Demo cratic party were invited to disband, no such courtesy was extended to the, so ealled, Amerioan party. One of the speakers, Mr. John A. Jones, suggested that the issues raised by that organization could be deferred to a future day, and we infer from strict conversations with a number of gentlemen supposed to bo Know Nothings, as well as others, who took part in the meeting, that it is not the purpose of a large number of the new South ern party to insist upon the breaking up of the Knew Nothing oounoils as a preliminary to Southern union. This we think will be fatal to the success of the move ment. In nearly all the primary meetings of the Demo ♦b* Hoita. oqoosition tn the Know Nothings is a very prominent leature, and we are quite sure that an article will be inserted in the platform of principles ereoted by the Democracy in State Convention expressly repudiating the piinoiplesof the Amerioan party. We wish it however distinctly understood that the Demooraoy of Muscogee oounty have duly considered the importance of Southern union and had matured a plan of effecting this object long before the 26th inst., whioh they will submit to and urge upon the Demo* oratio Convention shortly to assemble in Milledgoville. This purpose was foreshadowed in the 9th resolution of their late Convention. The same policy was urged some time since in the Constitutionalist Republic, and endorsed by the Atlanta Intelligencer. We know too that it has been engaging the attention of the leading minds of the Demooratio party for some time past, and we firmly believe that suoh a policy will be adopted by the Democratic State Convention as will meet the oordial sanction of ail men of all parties, ex cept those few who are determined to rule or ruin, or allow party prejudice to stand in the way of duty. It is but justice for us to add that the proceedings of the meeting at Temperanoe Hall were characterized great moderation and that nothing occurred to wound the sensibilities of any of the spectators, of whom there was a large number present. It was especially gratifying to us to see so many Union men present, cordially re-endorsing the fourth resolution of the Georgia Platform and thereby pledging themselves to disunion, as a last resort, if Kansas should be denied admission into the Union on aooount of slavery, It gives assurance that whatever differences of opinion there may be among Georgians upon domestio polioy, we are, as it respeots the paramount question of the day, already one people and one party. P. S. Since the foregoing was in type we have re ceived the proceeding* of the meeting. The commit tee have requested the Know Nothings also to disband. This is well, for until they do disband it would be as profitable to sing psalms to a dead horse a9 to talk to the Democracy about Southern union. We notice, how ever, that the name of Col. Holt is not attached to the request. What does this mean ? W ithdrwal. —We are requested by Mr. Warren U. Gibson, of Ellerslie, Ga., to publish, that on the Bth iust., he withdrew from the order known by outsiders as the Know Nothings. He warns Southern men and. particularly, Southern Rights men, to beware of the organization. He says other members of the order have since followed his example. Cm Light Guards.— At a late meeting of the City Light Guards, Capt Colquitt, Private B. A. Thornton was eleoted Ist Lieutenant, and W. T. Blackford 2d Lieutenant. Beautiful Flower.— We are indebted to Mrs. Crenshaw for a brilliant wild flowering plant, which would well repay the trouble of cultivation. It is a graceful shrub and is covered at the top with a profu sion of brilliant soarlet flowers. It may be seen at our office. What is the name of it ? Mormon Emigrants. —The ship Curling arrived at New York the 22d from Liverpool, with 578 Mormon emigrants on board. Slow rut Sure. —We will pay our respects to the Enquirer in oar next The Republican was first M the mill. Our respects to the Savannah Republican. In their zeal for Know Nothingism, the editors of the Savannah Republican have been betrayed into a very illiberal commentary upon the proceedings of the meeting of the Democratic party of Muscogee county. In order to convict “certain leaders and journalists” of incincerity in their professions of anxiety to unite Southern men as one party, it gives prominence to the resolutions rejected by the meeting, and omits all men tion of the 9th resolution adopted by the meeting, though the object and design of that resolution is to perfect Southern union. In a previous issue we have fully set forth the motives which influenced the De mocracy in pursuing the lino of policy adopted by the meeting in preference to that recommended by Maj. John H. Howard. Until the Republican can show the people that the 9th resolution was not adopted in good faith, it behoves it to be more chary of its denun ciations. We are authorized, by the fact that it fore bore all allusion to that resolution, to conclude that its editors reviewed them with a set purpose to condemn. The comments of the Republican upon the 3d or union degree are singularly well timed, and we append them as are implied admission that our version of the obligation is the true one , and as and defense of ourselves against the charge, which some of our friends make, that we are lukewarm in the defense of Southern Rights: From the Savannah Republican. The Columbus Times affects to have discovered a Gre cian horse in the alleged third degree of the American par ty. The fourth resolution of the Georgia Platform de clares that the people of Georgia ought to resist certain enumerated wrongs even to a disruption of the Union ; whereas those who take the third degree of the American party, according to the Times, undertake “to uphold, main tain and defend the Union ; to discountenance every attempt, coming from any and every quarter, which is designed or calculated to destroy or subvert it, or to weaken its bonds.” The Times contends that the obligations oi the citizeo(N. N.) i to the State are incompatible with those to hispaity and is guilty of the folly of indirectly charging the members of the latter with “treason to the State of Georgia.” We had given the editor of the Times credit for greater capacity than he displays in this matter. Supposing that the third degree (a copy of which was stolen from a man’s pocket book) is correctly given, does not our contemporary see that the pledge to uphold the Union, and discountenance all efforts to destroy it or weaken its bonds, is directed against all such schemes as evil minded persons may start, such as the aggressions of the North upon the South, where by the peace and harmony of the country are put in jeo paidy ? If we understand the English language, the obli gation requres the Know Nothing to strive to remove all causes and to oppose all measures which can endanger the Union. Should a cause ari:e, notwithstanding their efforts, justifying the dissolution of the government, then Southern Know Nothings at least, and the editor of the Times knows it, would cut loose from the Union as soon as he j would. VVe opine, however, that ho is still laboring for tho ! separation of the States, and hence his desire to take posi ’ tion on the Georgia Platform, once a stench in his nostrils. Should the North resist the admission mt Kansas as a Slave State, then he would hope to realize his long desired dream, —the dissolution of the Union. While we deny that we are “laboring for the sepa ration of the States,” we boldly avow our purpose to advooate a “dissolution of the Union,” “should the North resist the admission of Kansas as a slave State.” We Infer that the Republican would not, and are now convinced that in the advocacy of the Georgia Platform in 1850 it was praoticing a trick upon the people of Georgia, as charged at tho time by the Southern Rights party. We have never allowed ourselves to doubt but that the vilest submissions in the South would “cut loose | from the Union” as soon as we would, should a cause ! arise, justifying, in his opinion, the dissolution of the Government. Suoh is not our complaint of the Know Nothings of the Union Degree. W© set forth that the people of Georg - I —"'letrm Convention, rledc-ed even to a disruption of tho Union certain actions of the General Government, among which was the refusal of Congress to admit a State into the Union because of slavery. We showed that such an emergency would probably arise in the case of Kansas within the two next years, and denounced the third or Union degree because the members of that degree took a solemn oath to “uphold, maintain and defend the Union; to discountenance every attempt, coming from any and every quarter , to destroy or sub vert it, or to weaken its bonds.” Instead of denying that we correotly published the oath of the third degree, the Republican , like the Lou isville Journal, justifies and defends the oath as emi nently right and proper, and still has the hardihood to assert that the Know Nothing of the Union Degree “would cut loose from the Union as soon as we would, should a case arise, justifying the dissolution of the Government.” Perhaps he w’ould, but the brand of purjury would blaze in his forehead like the mark God set on Cain, for he swears to “uphold, maintain and defend the Union ; to discountenance every attempt, coming from any and every quarter , whioh is designed or calculated to destroy orsubvert it, or weaken its bonda/’ We can very well understand that if all the aboli tionists of the North were members of the Union De gree and all the pro-slavery men of the South were also members of the Union Degree, that it would be per fectly consistent for the Northern brethren to abolish slavery in the States, and for the Southern brethren to submit, for the dread of dissolution would be removed from the Northern brethren by the oath of the Southern brethren to “discountenance every attempt, coming from any and every quarter, which is designed or cal culated to destroy or subvert it or to weaken its bonds/’ Cannot the Republican understand this position ? Then, the editors, we will not say have less “oapaoity’’ than we gave them credit for, but are tighter bound by the oaths of the Know Nothings than we supposed. Whether our capacity be greater or smaller is a matter of little consequence, so far as this issue is con cerned. This we know, that this third degree is a bombshell in the Order, and that all Know Nothings in this sectiou, with whom we have conversed on the sub jeot, profess to abhor and spit upon it, and if it is forced upon them by their Savannah brethren will break the order to pieces, and if Kansas is refused admission into the Union, “because of slavery,” will join us in the ef fort to “realize (our) long desired dream—the dissolu tion of the Union.’’ See the prsceedings of the meet ing of citizens of this place on Saturday night last. Three-fourths of those who participated in the meeting were Know Nothings. One word to our Know Nothing Southern Rights friends. It is not time to quit an organization which inculcates the submission sentiments contained in the above extract from the Savannah Republican. Is it tolerable that one of your brother Kdow Nothings should taunt us with being a disuuiouists, because we counsel resistance, even to a dissolution of the LTnion, should Kansas be refused admittance to the Union be cause of slavery ? Are we not all Disunionist in this Bense ? If not, what was your meeting Saturday night but a cheat and a lie. “Put him out.” Mr. Mason. —Private letters received by the Baltic , announce the return to Paris, from Nice, of Mr. Mason, our Minister to the Court of France. Fire in Natchez. —There was an extensive fire in Natchez on the 18th inst, caused by the burning of the large and well-known “Natchez Foundry,*’ owned by Maurice Lisle. Virginia Election. It is with no ordinary feelings of gratitude that we announce the election of Honry A. Wise as the Gov ernor of Virginia, the election, in ? all probability, of 12 out of the 13 members of Congress, and that the Legisla ture of the State is largely Democratic, which seoures the election of a Democratic U. S. Senator to Congress. This is the first contest in whioh the, so called, Ameri can party has locked horns with the Southern Demoo • raoy and the result of the fight has been to drive the Northern bull to his native pastures beyond tho Po tomao. We have reported majorities from sixty-three counties which give Wise 3,255 over Flournoy, as follows: WISE’S MAJORITIES. Greensville, .170 Madison, 565 Isle of VV right 507 Orange, 38 Prince George, 280 Prince William,.... .417 Southampton, *. .80 Rappahannock. 9 Sussex, 295 Spottsylvama, 14 Caroline, -40 Stafford, 100 Chesterfield ...560 Berkeley, 5 Goochland, ....169 Clarke, 34 Hanover 200 Frederick 135 King William, 280 Page, 961 Louisa, 150 Warren, 229 Brunswick, 350 Rockingham, 2,200 Charlotte, 25 Shenandoah, 2,000 Dinwiddie, 252 Marion, 704 Lunenburg, 200 Tyler,. 50 Mecklenburg, 400 Harrison, 100 Prince Edward, 77 Montgomery, 125 Appomattox,...... .267 Roanoke, 292 Franklin, 150 Pulaski, .50 Halifax, 575 Wythe, 200 FLOURNOY’S MAJORITIES. Williamsburg, 17 Alexandria, 494 Charles City, 85 Culpeper, 35 Nansemond, 150 Fairfax, 100 Norfolk City 420 Fauquier 90 Norfolk Cos., 200 Lowdon, 1,328 t Henrico, 212 Augusta, 1,300 Richmond City, 978 Pendleton, 500 Cumberland, 25 Brooke, 174 I Campbell, 619 Marshall, .500 Pittsylvania, 350 Ohio, 700 Albemarle, 144 W00d,... .........600 Buckingham, 70 Alabama Matters. There are four candidates for Congress in the Seoond Congressional Distriot. Col. E. S. Shorter is the most prominent candidate and will probably be elected, as both the Democratic, Southern Rights and anti-Know Nothing vote will probably center upon him. His op ponents are Alford, of Pike, Robinson, of Butler, and Crenshaw, of Conecuh. Col. Seth Mabry has probably been elected Major General of the Southern division. lie resides in Bar bour county. His opponents were A. Seale, of Macon, and M. C. Browder, of Barbour county. Judge Sam F. Rice is mentioned in the Spirit of the South as a suitable person to be run for the Senate of the Uuited States. He is a man of decided ability. Hon. Geo. W. Williams has been elected Judge of Probate in Henry county. A good selection. More Rain.-— On Monday, 28th, we were again visited by a shower of rain. The crops in this section are a little backward, but decidedly promising. Constitutional Amendments in Massachusetts. — i The vote on the amendments to the Constitution is I very light, but the returns iudicate that all have been I adopted. The amendments proposed establish the plu | rality system ; change the day of the State election in the Presidential years; provide for tho eleotion of councillors in districts by the people ; the eleotion of all State offioera by the people, and prohibits appropriations of the public money to support sectarian sohools. Democratic Meeting in Muscogee. We bespeak for the resolutions of this meeting, the se rious consideration of every Democrat who reads our pa per. They are worthy of their draughtsman, Judge Iverson, and the unselfish and high-toned policy which they commend is worthy of the character of the party. It was with deep regret that we learn that certain gentle men, once favorably known as Demociats in Columbus, after withdrawing from the ranks of their old friends, should have claimed a participation in the oounoils of a party to which they had made themselves and enemies. is nothing in the Democratic senti ment—nothing in its cardinal principles that will force us to regard Know Nothingism not only as incongruous, but irreconcilable with the whole scope and essence of Democracy, then do we confess that we have mistaken the pew that for so long a time we have occupied most devoutly. The Muscogee meeting would not have been such a meeting of the Democratic party, had it allowed this commingling of adverse elements, as would have had a binding authority upon us.Forsome who advocated in that assemblage the policy of a fusion of K. Nothings Vv’ith Democrats, we entertain the most profound respect and regard. It has been a pleasure and pride heretofore to act with them, and we have been so confiding in their patriotism as to believe they could hardly do wrong or mistake the right. But when they call on us to believe ; that a national organization, fettered and spied upon, as I the Know Nothings are, bound by awful oaths to abide I by what the majority shall decide, as we hear the Order i is—we say, when we are importuned by these friends to believe that this new party can possibly aid us on the slavery issue, we must demur. So far from it, that very I organization is the great stumbling block in our way at j this very hour to a complete fusion of all other parties ] in Georgia for our common defence. The Kuow Noth- j ings cannot, if they would, pledge an unconditional sup* ; port to our oause, their cause, the cause of the South, so long as there is honor in men and so long as an oath is a tie that binds a gentleman. This is too plain to argue about. We say all this upon the postulate that a chain of intercommunication and obligation holds all the Lodges together, and if it be a fact that he will support the can* didate of a majority of his party. If this is all true, how plain, how inevitable is the inference, that a Southern Know Nothing can do Nothing in aid of his brethren here, who are fighting for life and death a majority of his ! party to which ho is held by hooks of steel. It is too j plain an implication to allow any one to mistake, j As desirable as the union of all true hearts in our State | really is at this critical juncture, we must think our friends ! in Muscogee did right in rejecting in a peremtory man ner, all connection with so hurtful an incumbrance as K. Nothing help. We have some weeks ago taken open i ground in favor of the most important suggestions of the ! Muscogee resolutions, and we will take an early opportu- j nity next week of expressing ourselves more fully.— At- j la/ita Intelligencer. (From the Platte Argus extra.) Arrival of Col. Vaughn—War Declared by 3,000 Indians. St. Joseph, May 10. Col. Vaughn. Indian agent from Fort Pierre, arrived in town yesterday evening. He states that the Indians on the plains are in a very unsettled condition ; in fact, assuming a hostile attitude. The Black Feet, Apaches, and |Sioux, Manacunques, Sansare, and Yanctnos, bau ded in a mighty host, and scoffing existing treaties, have unburied the hatchet, and bid defiance to the powers that be. These tribes combined with the Brulays and Ogala ! lies of the Piatte, numbering at a small calculation, three thousand warriors, have thrown up fortifications on Dra ming Bull, at the source of Grand River, and are not only ready but anxious to meet any force that the Gov ernment may send against them !—emboldened by the ease which they massacred our soldiers in the late skir mishes, and remarking the terror ever since manifested by the whites in their necessary intercourse with them, and are scoffing at the power of the United State# to dis charge them of their s rong hold. The Asinabianes, Ric caries, and Mandatnes, having fear the four new re giments before their eyes, have told their agent, Col. Vaughn, in Council, that they will not only aid and abet, but furnish materia) BK#is!anc# in iubduing their refrac tory brethren. Meeting at Temperance Hall. Saturday Evening, May 26, 1855. Agreeably to previous notice, aa unusually large num ber of our fellow citizens, irrespective of ail party consid erations, met at Temperance Hall. On motion, Wm.H. Mitchell, Esq. was called to the Chair, and Davenport P. Ellis, E.sq. requested to act as Secretary. The object of the meeting being explained by the Chairman/ On motion of Gen. James N. Bethune, the chairman appointed as a committee to draft and report suitable sub ject matter for the consideration of the meeting: Col. John Woolfolk, Col. Seaborn Jones, Mai. S. A. Wales, Dr. S. A. Billing R. M. Gunby, Col. Van Leonard, Dr. Henry Lockhart, David J. Barber, Wm. F. Luckie, James C. Cook, S. R. Andrews, Hon. Hines Holt, Wm. Dougherty, Esq. Maj. Jno. H. Howard, B. Y. Martin, Esq. James A. Bradford, \ R. L. Mott, Charles Cleghorn, Sam’l Rutherford, Joseph B. Hill, Thomas 0. Douglass. i The Committee returned alter a short absence, and ro | ported to the meeting for its action, tho following PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS, j Whereas, the history of the past has convinced us, that we ; whose interest aud affection attach us to the South, have ; nothing to hope but every thing to fear at the hands of the i political organizations of the Non. Slavehelding Stales, i from’the spirit of Abolitionism which, to a large and fear ful extent, pervades and controls all of them: Andjwhereas, the action of these States upon the question of slavery con clusively shows that a large majority of the people thereof are actuated by one common sentiment of hostility to the institutions of the South: And whereas, the gallant band of Patriots within those States who are friends to the South and faithful to the Constitution, and whom we remember with gratitude, have been routed, disbanded and almost an nihilated, we believe the exigency imperatively requires us to be one people and one party. Therefore, be it Resolv ed— 1. That we hold the American Union secondary in im portance only to the rights and’principlesjit was designed to perpetuate. That past associations, present fruition, and future prospects, will bind us to it so long as it continues to be the safeguard of those rights and principles. 2. That the State of Georgia,in the judgment of this meeting, will and ought to resist, even (as a last resort) to a disruption of every tie which binds her to tho Union, any action of Congress upon the subject of Slavery in the District of Columbia, or in places subject to I the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the safety, j domestic tranquility, the rights and honor of the slavehold ing States; or .any act suppressing the slave trade between the slaveholding States; or any refusal to admit as a State any territory hereafter applying, because of the exis tence of slavery therein; or any act prohibiting the in* I troduction of slaves into the territories of Utah and New Mexico; .or any act repealing or materially modifying the laws in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves. 3. That,in the opinion of this meeting, the time has ar rived when our fellow-citizens should cease from their dis sensions, and forget the differences which have separated them; and that a common danger and common enemy should unite us for our common defence and safety. 4. That wo hereby repudiate all fellowship and ‘ connec tion with the present national political organizations, or any that may he hereafter formed, unless based upon the principles and policy of the foregoing resolutions; and re commend to our fellow citizens of each county of all classes, whether native or naturalized, without distinction of party, to assemble together, and send delegates to Mil ledgeville on the 4th of July next, for the purpose of nom inating a candidate for Governor, and framing and pub lishing a basis of action upon which we may all stand and all co-operate. 5. That we hereby respectfully request the Democratic aud whig parties to postpone a nomination for Governor, and to call upon the people of the State, without distinc tion of party, to meet together in their primary assemblies, to select delegates to make a nomination for Governor, who shall be the of the People and not of a Party. And he it further resolved, That the chairman appoint a committee of seven, to transmit a copy of the proceedings of this meeting to the several counties in this State. Messrs. Thomas Ragland, James N. Bethune, A. S. Rutherford, John A. Jones,F. M. Brooks, James K. Redd, and John I. Ridgeway, were appointed that committee. The meeting was addressed by Hon. James Johnson, John A. Jones, Esq., and Hon. Hines Holt, with their usu al ability and fairness, in support of the preamble and reso* lutions. The preamble and resolutions were then voted upon by the meeting and heartily adopted—there being but one dis senting voice. It was further Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and copies be furnished to the editors of the city papers, with a request to publish the same. On motion, the meeting then adjourned. WM. ii. MITCHELL, Chairman. D. P. Ellis, Secretary. Maj. John H. Howard, who was one of the committee to draft the above resolutions, and who being absent from home did not see them until after their adoption, suggests to the committee that the Know Nothings be also request ed to make no nomination for Governor: Which is con curred in by the undersigned: Sam’l Rutherford, Van Leonard, Thus. O. Douglass, John Woolfolk, B. Y. Martin, S. A. Wales, Wm. F. Luckie, D. J. Barber, R. M. Gunby, R. L. Mott. J. C. Cook, Seaborn Jones, John H. Howard/ J. A. Bradford, Charles Cleghorn, J. B. Dili,- S. R. Andrews, Henry Lockhart. S. A. Billing, William Doughertyr absent from the city. The Massachusetts Nullification Act. i In this nullification bill we find: 1. The bill of habeas corpus in behalf of fugitive slaves and a trial by jury. 2. Heavy lines and the State prison for five years against any person who shall attempt to carry off, unlawfully, or come into the State for the purpose of so carrying off, an alleged fugitive slave, who is no fugitive accordinjfto Mas* sachusetts law. 3. No State officer allowed to do anything in behalf of the return of a fugitive to his master. Judge Loring corn- : pel led expressly to resigu his office of United States Com missioner or his office of Judge under the State. 4. State officers who may aare to assist in arresting, im prisoning, or detaining a fugitive slave, are subject to heavy lines and the State prison. 5. Closes the jails and prisons .'of the State against the , act of Congress in to fugitive slaves. This act is now in operation, lit nullifies an act of Con- ; gress—it repudiates the obligations of the constitution—it is rank sedition. When the most solemn compacts are thus brazenly set at defiance, to what can we look but se cession and pdisunion? A fearful crisis is upon us when such things as this Massachusetts nullification bill are pas sed by a two thirds vote.— New York Herald. Negotiations of Gen. Gadsden—Santa Anna in the Field against Highwaymen. Washington, May 17. A bearer of despatches from General Gadsden, is en gaged in a negotiation, in conformity with his instructions, for a commercial treaty, and lor the paymeDt of a large sum due our citizens from the Mexican government on 1 account of spoliations and other injuries, since the date of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. We learn that Santa Anna was m the saddle and facing his enemies on the 14th ultimo., instead of being sick in bed, as his ene mies reported through the press of the United States. lie has gone on another expedition to the pass of Chel pinzenigo to clear the public roads on the way of the bands of highway robbers iufecting them, and acting in the name and under the protection of Alvarez. These bands scatter and abscond on his approach, and can sel dom be brought to a conflict. Beyond the pass which I named, Santa Anna cannot go, as I suppose, without much danger, for it is a long and narrow defile, in which he might be, with his troops, cut off. Isthmus of Suez. The State Department at Washington has received in formation that the V iceroy of Egypt ha* adopted the pro ject to cut through the Isthmus of Suez, aDd to constitute a universal company for the performance of the work, in which capitalists of all nations may take part. The pro posed canal will shorten the commercial highway from New York to the ludian oee ip §,439 league*. Summary oi the News. The sixth California adjourned on the Ist of May after a session of 120 days, during which time numerous ber efieial and highly popular laws h;,ve been enacted 1- Among these is one prohibiting gambling throughout tho State, under the most stringent principles. Vigorous at tempts, both by influence and money,’ have been mads to procure the repeal or modification of this law but to no purpose. Another bill for the construction of a wa<n>n road from Sacramento to Carson Valley has also passed both branches of the Legislature. The bill which passed the Senate, exculpating Me : ggs, the defaulter, provided he should make his appearance iu California within one year, and expose his confederates in villainy, did not be come a law. Anew charter foj the city of San Francis co passed both brant lies of the Legislature. The Senatorial question still remains unsettled, and California will remain partially unrepresented for another year. The Know Nothings are to be represented by an in San Francisco,entitled The Citizen ; the prospectus has been published, and the paper will shortly be issued. Preparations were being made for a grand school cele bration in San Francisco on the Ist of May. The question of the division o! California into three Con gressional Districts, was agitated at the close of the ses sion, but no definite result was obtained in relation to* tho matter. This will doubtless be a leading question in tho next Legislature- The bill extending the Statute of Limitations five year* was signed by the Governor ou the 13th inst. - 1* ;r - From Washington. Appointments by the President—Patent Cases De cided. Washington, May 25. The Union of this morning announces the following army appointments :—Brevet Mf-jor Sedgwick, Major of Cavalry, vice McCullough, declined : Brevet Major Robt. S. Garnett, Major Ninth Infantry, vice Bcnham decli ned. ,J udge Moreell to-day confirmed the decision of Com missioner Mason in favor of K. C. Salisbury, versus Ste j yens. President, and Van Rensselaer, Superintendent, of | the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. This de cision secures to Salisbury a patent for excluding duit from Railroad cars. From Boston. Arrest of Hotel Landlords-in Boston for Violations of the New Liquor Law. * Boston, May 25. In the Police Court to-day, Moses Williams, Parsn Stevens, Lewis Rice, Ilarvty D. Parker, Samuel Q. Cochran, and John Corthell, prominent landlords—all li quor dealers—were arraigned under the new law. Tho government witnesses not being present, the several ea ses were postponed till Tuesday next. The Pro-Slavery Ticket Elected in every District. St. Louis, May 24, 1855. Q A despatch from Kansas says:—The Leavenworth dis trict pro-slavery ticket is elected by sixty one majority, aud pro*slavery men are elected in every district. Opposition to Know Nothings in Warren. At a preliminary meeting, held in the town of Warren ton, on the 24th inst., it was Resolved, That all those opposed to that secret order, called Know Nothings, in this county, be requested to meet in tho town of Warrenton, on the second Tue day in June next, for the purpose of holding a meeting of ail the citizens in this county, opposed to said organization, without distinction of party. M. 11. “Wellborn, Cbm’n. Andrew Jackson, Secretary. Death of a Former Citizen of Georgia. We perceive, with regret, the following, under tbo Obituary head of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce of the 23d inst. Died, On the 22d instant, at the residence of hisTm* ther, Col. Casey, U. S. A., in Oxford street Brooklyn, Thos. G. Casey, Esq., in the 56tb year of his age. 11? remains will be taken this evening to Rhode Island for in* terment. Mr. Casey, was for many years a citizen of Augusta, and subsequent of Columbus, Ga. lie was au accom plished gentleman and an intelligent and upright merchant, and as such wa9 much admired and esteemed. The Muscogee Democratic Meeting. We have not room, to-day, for the very interesting proceedings, and the forcible resolutions of the Muscogee Democrats, adopted at their recent meeting. We will endeavor to give place to them in our next weekly. The resolutions adopted were presented by the lion. Alfred Iverson, and passed unanimously. Prior to their pustaae, a point of order was raised by Senator Iverson, whether a Know Nothing was entitled to participate in the pro ceedings, though claiming to be a democrat. Pending the discutsion, Mr. John A. Jones, and a few other Know- Nothings, withdrew from tho meeting.— Con. R'p- Tilh. American Nomination for Governor of Maine. Augusts, Me.. May 25, 1855. The Know Nothing State Council ol Maine, in in this city, yesterday nominated Samuel C. Gage, of Au gusta, as their candidate for Governor. One thousand del egates were present. Resignation of the French Minister of War. M. De L’Huys, French Minister'of Foreign has resigned, and Count Welenski (?) has been appointed in his place. CH Lewis Sanders Noble, a soldier of the Revolution, and a trooper in Marion’s legion, died recently in Clinch coun ty, Ga., Bged 104 years. The Wheat Crop of Michigan. —The Detriot Demo* erat states that the sight of the wheat fields in the north l ern part of the State is. perfectly glorious. The breadth sown is unusually great, and the staple is a deep green, almost to blackness, rank, strong, thick and high. W i;h all allowance for casualties, it may be most confidently predicted that the wheat crop will he most unusually abundant and excellent. Drought and Crops in Florida. —A letter from an ex tensive commercial house in Tallahassee, under date of the 21st, states : “The drought in the western part of our State is woful—can wade the Chattahoochee river at its junction with the Flint river. The wells thereabouts arc dry and people find it difficult to supply their stock. In “Old Lion” wo are more highly favored—crops look fine. On Saturday’ last we had a fine rain in this city, which continued for three hours.” — Sac. Journal , 2S ih. Eleven Hundred Tons. —The President of the Mont gomery & West Point Railroad Company,we understand, has purchased eleven hundred tons of an excellent T iron; three hundred of which will be laid almost immediately, I and the balance sometime during next fa!!. The aggre gate will lay about 14 miles, and the smaller quantity ui 11 I enable the company to replace the defective flat rails with bars which, though old, are not injured. It is the intention of the company to make additional purchases and continue the work of relaving as rapidly as possible.— Montgomery Mail, 22rf. Seventh Congressional District of Alabama. —We learn from a slip from the Watehtower office, that on the ITth inst. the Hon. S.W.Harris was renominated a candidate ior Congress, by acclamation, in the Democratic Convention for the Seventh Congressional District of Alabama. Santa Anna, it is said b\ r writers from Havana, has made a tender of naval aid from Mexico to Gen. Concha in case of any actual war difficulty between Spain and the United States, and hence the arrival of the steamer Santa Anna on the 6th inst. True Generosity.— The Marietta (Ohio 1 ’ Advocatesa’ - that many tanners in that section have refused to sell their corn to speculators at Si 40, and have chosen to divide r among their poorer neighbors at SI per bushel. Such f nevolene* deserves to be recorded.