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(limed ant) Sentinel. COLUMBUS, CLOKCIA. SATURDAY EVIKIKG. JURE 2, 1855 Congressional Convention* 2d District. We suggest that the Democratic Ct igiessional Convert tion o: the Second District be held at Americus, on Wed’ nesday, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will he in se&fion at that time in Americue. What pay our Demo cratic cotemporarie* to this suggestion ? ‘1 he time and place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd. The Muscogee Ciicular—A Sectional Pty. The response of the Georgia press to the T* mper once Hall movement will be road *ith interest in this section of the State. Vi e shall pub! eh extracts from the l< ading journals ns tlu-y come in. The hr*', that comes to hand is ibe Savannah News, an ind. | end< in paper. The News, in an article headed New South ern Parly , says : “ i’ue cU-m vjr.itic p *rty of Georgia having a!g> adopted the Convinlion plalfotm, the qutttion pr s* nted to the people is whether it is better to maintain there principles in a nation and or section and organ’zition. It is adinited by all that there are so ne men at tbj N nth who are faithful to tile Cottsti uiion anti the Union. Is it polity, thin, ’or th South to abandon tlio.-e who h ve battled and are slilj bailing for constitutional principles, by renouncing all po lititical association with tlieni ? It is indeed time that tin tiouth should be thoroughly united in defence of hei rights, but wl ile she contends for only her just rights, unler the C institution, may she not look for the co.ope ration and support of the constitutional men of the Nord) ?” The rext in order is the Atlanta Intelligencer , a Southern Rights Democratic paper, which iu an article headod The Muscogee Circular , sa>s: “We confess to the weakness, it it be one, to loving the South, the safety ol our social condilion, more than we love any party, any man or set of men. We would, tor this tea son, accept any subsidies Irom any quarter, at h< me or abroad, that would likely aid ub in the coming day ol need [Jut we can see no wi-dom tn incumbeiitig any organize tion wi:h r emits that bring into a general Southern alliance, othtr and higher obligatons th n they are willing to as sume for the came and interests of that alliance. Can a Know Nothing who e strongest political cha*ac- Uristic iu his nationality, with the awful sanctions now tl rown arout and his paity allegiance, be a Southern man to the death ? Can he, with that thundering oath of the 3d degree in his throat, swear to stand by Georgia, “even to a dt. ruptirn of the ties that bind her to this Union?’ lire thir g is imp< stible, unless his grand lodges and his grea t g and ir.qui.-itor generals give him a dispensation before t o act, or unless thry can give absolution irom his oath after wards. No ;if Democrats and V\ higs proclaim an amnes ty and rob up their old flags and all fall into the line ot a sacred band, fogetting the past, forgetting eveiythmg nut the c’r* adtnl p< rii ol their homes, it is asking a small thing of a Georgia Know Nothing to demand that he too sho id make these terms reciptocal, befoie we agree to act with him. We say again that all we wish is to see the path of di y to the SjU h in the present conjuncture, 1 1 fin'y painted ot , and we will pursue u if we niu.-t do so by turning our b cks upon the dearest, political friends we have on eanh. Ur t Gotmnon sense teaches us that he I a-is of an amalgamittk n ol ail parties here, for the purpose of resitting the attaiks upon us fiotn the anti slave States, must be that ol an un selfish brotherhood that will take an equal chance in all that is to be endured as well in what may he enjoyed.” i’ne next in order is the Constitutionalist Repub lie,a Democratic organ having a larger circulation, pei> haps, than any otln r Democratic paper in the Slate. — In an article headed, A Sectional Party, tins paper says : “The proceedings of a meeting of thee tizens oi Column bus in which several leading Know Nothings of tfiat plaie, take a prominent part, held at Temperance Ilali, on Sat urday, 26th ult.,have been sent us in a circular; they have also been published in the Columbus Enquiier. Our co operation i? a ked in the movement therein proposed— which, as we understand one of the Resolutions, propOfea to us to repudiate all fellowship and connection with the present national organizations. This we respectfully de cline to do. We shall adhere t > ths National Dem >catic orga fixation, as one sound in its principles, its aims and purposes. Upon it, and its action, and upon the conserva tive influences it will rally to its support at the North where with to defeat and checkmate Free oilism and Know Nothing demagogueistn, we base our hopes of its being able, the South co operating, to preserve the Constitution and the U.iion. When we give up that hope and abandon that Northern organization, the National Democracy of the Noith, that has never abandoned us, and resort to a merely sectional and Southern organization to defend the South, we see plainly that it must result in disunion. This result may commend it to some who participated in that Colum bus meeting. We have no doubt it did. One at least among them, the gentleman who moved for the appoint ment of the committee‘'to draft and report suitable matter for the consideration of the meeting,” is, avowedly, and per se a di-unionist. We do not yet despair of the Union.” The uext in order is the Savannah Republican, u Whig and, probably, Know Nothing organ. The Re publican says: ‘•The object of the met ting is most praiseworthy. It the whole {$ uih could be brought to occupy the same position, we might then bid di fiance to our enemies llut can this be doiu- ? Is it practicable, even in Geor gia? We must be permitted to doubt it. The reve lations of the past two weeks had us to the unpiea-ant conclusion, that the people of Georgia were never teally more devidtd than they are at tins moment. Tin letwr of Mr. Stephens, the bitter denunciations of tin American party fey the Johnson press, the proceedings even of the Democratic meeting in Columbus, held only a few days before that of which we are now speaking, all satisfy us that the country is not yet prepared for tin pod ieal millennium so patriotically urgtd by uur friends in Columbus.” The next io order is the Chornicle $• Sentinel, a Union Repobloan, Whig organ, of large cii dilation, and supposed, by m.ir.v, tonfUet the s*-ntiii,eß!s ot Mr Stephens. The Chronicle <J- Sentinel in an artici* headed National Party - Columbus Meeting, says : “Lfitle r.i I we imagine, when penning our article ol yesti iday, urging the importance of organ z : ng a nation al conservative pany, that we should so soon rect-ivt such a cordial response to our l*>ng cherished vie as, the patriotic tnun of Columbus, composed of ail parties have sent forth to the world in the subjoined proceed ings of a pubhu nu cling. The readers of this journa 1 need no assurance that this move meets our hearty oo operation, tad that we hid tin m God spe*d in the g<*>< and patriotic work. We know many of the neiors ii this scene pctaobolly, have kuuwu some of item iya*, and intimately, and it ; ffrds us sireete plensute to *• them engaged in tine woik. because We know tin in to be good men and true—as devoted and sincere patrio s as live. They are American patriots of the r’ght stamp, sincerely and earnestly devoted to the Constitution and Un on, and their highest purpose is to prt serve b ih in the r purity—which will secure to every section of this broad land of liberty equal and stricWjustice, together with all their rights.*’ The Savannah Republican. In the daily issue of the Ist inat., the Republican satisfactorily accounts for the omission of the Dili reso lution of the Muscogee Democracy in its notice of the meeting, and makes ample reparation hy inserting it in full. We, therefore, withdraw the charge that it re viewed the proceedings “with a set purpose to con demn.*’ We have a’ready said all that we d*-em necessary to justify the Democracy of Muscogee in their denuncia tmn of the Know Nothing Organ’zttion.. There is nothing in the attack of the Republican upon the course the Muscogee Democracy felt it their duty to i pursue, which has not been fully answered in preceding issues of our* paper. We will not waste time by re peating ourselves. We are sorry that the Republican continues to de fend the oath of the thiid degree of the Order as giv en by us. “It dots not pleogc the Know Nothings against a dissolution of the Union,” says the Repub i can, ‘‘or bind him to maintain it under all eircumstan ces ; it requires him only to discountenance whatever is intended to overthrow it or that is calculated to bring about its subversion ?’’ •JVe are sorry we cannot see the force of thi3 sen tence. If Georg'a resolves to “disrupt every tie that binds her to the Union/’ in the language of the fourth resolution of the Platform, will not such action be in tended to overthrow the Union? Is not such action “calculated to bring about its subversion ?” The concluding portion of the article under review gives us unalloyed satifaction. Unlike our neighbor of the Columbus Enquirer, the Savannah Republican boldly responds to our enquiries and places itself on the fighting line upon the Kansas question. However, much we rnry differ with the Republican on minor is sues, we lock shields with it on this paramount is.-u**, and hope, when the time cornea, to prove our valor by our works. The Republican says : But that we may not be mHunde-stond, we now declare for the informati >n of the Times, that we. and so far as we know', the American paity in Georgia, will stand by and maintain the Georgia P;at'o m in its fit 1 Nay further, —should the North p event the admc-imi ot Kansas or any other teiritory into the Union a-a slave State, we should fed that the time had ar ived when the Noith and the South, like Abraham and Lot, should take difi* rent paths, and thu-* believing, we should fed it to be our solemn duty to advocate a dissolution of the Union. Spoken like a man, btother Al-xander, and. howev er much we may d< precate your Know Nothing here sies, we feel that with such sentiments and purpos* s as are avowed in the foregoing paragraph, you are nut far from the kingdom of heaven The Savannah Republican is mistaken in the suppo si i'n that it was the purpose of the Muscogee Democ racy to insult “a large and resp ctable portion of the people of Georgia, known as the American I arty.”— Like good Christians they hated th** s n but loved the sinner; and hoped by an exposure of the hetesits of the Order, to induce all good and true iru-n to abandon it. Want of room prevents us from republishing the et lire at tide of the Rpub!iran at length, as icquestvd. The Ba timuie Catholic Council and the Pope of . oat?, The pastoral letter of the Aid bishop of BiHirnort* and the bishops and pi tl m sos the Catholic province of Baltimore, which incluaes marly half the United Sates east of the Mississippi river, is chiefly devoted to a learn ed exposition of the new dogma of the Imimenlale Conception of the Most Bh-sted Virgin Mary, which can certainly do no harm There is, howtver, a secondary branch of this pasto rial letter which chall uges our special attention. It re lates to that interesting and important political question of the t xtent of tile temporal power of the Pope uvei his flock in the United States. The B.dtimore Arch bishop and his subordinates expressly and. dare to :lu faithful upon this subject, “that we have never exacted of jou, as we ourselves have never made, even to the highest ecclesiastical authority, any engagements incoii sistent with thedutus we owe to the country and its aws. On iVery op(ortune occasion we have avowed these principles; and evt n in our communications to the late Pontiff we r> j ettd as a calumny the imputation that we were, in civil matters, subject to his authority.” This a surely as emphatic as eojid be dcsir and ; hut, to it perfectly plain, they further say that “to the i g neral and S ate governments you owe sdltgiance in all that regards the civil order ” This is worthy the successor of the Catholic founders of .Mary -1 itid and is a point Mane refutation of the charge, so often made by the Know Nothings, that the Catholic church lays claim toumporal power and ought, there fore, to be opposed as a political orginization. in hat tnony with this dedaration of the Archbishop*. B shops and Clergy of the province of Baltimore, was that of the late lamented Bishop England, of Charhston, S. C, that if the prince of Rome, the Pope, were to declare war against the United States, he would take up arms agaist the Pope, With suih assurances from the high est diguitaries of the church of Rome, with what consis tency can a portion of our fdlow citizens make war upon the members of the Catholic church. Good News from Apalachicola for Columbus, via Savannah. We noticed yesteiday the arrival at this port of the i schooner Ralph Post, from Apalachicola, consigned to F. J. Ogden, K-q She has on b_>ard an assorted car go of goods destined to Columbus, ju this State.— Sav News, 31s/ nit. Sol. General, Eastern Circuit. Thomas Teifait Long. Esq., having resigned the office of Solicitor Gt n eral of the Eistern Circuit, we learn that the vacancy has been tilled by Guv Johnson, by the appointment of George Gordon, Esq ,ofth a eity. Mr. Got don b a genii-man of high character, and no one who know.- him will and >ubt that hi* tab n:s uni energies will b laithfully devoted to the discharg- of the rtsponsib * luties thus imposed upou him. Journal Courier May 31. St. Marks Railroad.— The Talla! assee Floridian states that the Directors of the set. Maras K. R. hav completed the necessary 7 arrangements for making th provisions of the general act applicable to their benefli rhecoairact for the earth works has been given to G* n R. A. Shine, who has !ft for N. Orh ans with the view f procuring the requisite labor, and contract* for th ross tie*. &e., ar* also be ng given out. It :s cxpec *>d that by the first of December, the entire wdi oe completed and put in first rate order. SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL 0F Tlifc: STEAMSHIP PACIFIC. Cotton Advanced. New York, May 3L The American steamship Paei c. with Liverpool •IH J e to the 19 h inst,. has arrived at New V o:k, bring ing seven days later dates than the America. Liverpool Cotton Market- During the w,ck end it.g on the 18th instant, the cotton nmkt has been buoyant, with an active specu h live dimand Prices have advanced from 1 8 to 3 16d. The market closed active and firm. The -ales for the week e* mprise 112,000 hale- - , of which speculators took 49,1 OU, and exporters 5,000 bale*’. The following are the official quotations : Fair Orleans, Old. Middling Orleans i 1. F; i Uplands Oil. Middling Uplands, 51 J. Provisions —Breadstuff's ate dull and prices un chaug* and. The prospects of the new crop are good. Money Market. —Consols have advanced toB9 3-4. Money was eatie , \ Pclitical I itelligence, Theseige of Sevastopol, u. the 12th of May, remained unchanged. An expedition of 15,000 al ies which embarked for Kauderck put to sea in the direction of Azuff, had re >u> n< and without la id mg. Omer Pachas f .rce had returned to Eupator a. Large reinforce nei ts to the Allies were expected in ten day s. The negotiate is l etween Austria and the Western Powets were unchanged, but between Prussia and Aus tria relations were more intimate. Russia notifies the Gcrrnat States that the Cztr only holds the firet two guarantees on condition of the neu trality of Germany. Russia has also presented its ultimatum to Sweden which S wet den is inclined to rtject. ✓ The* French Exhibition had opened. The ceremony w 7 as rather dull Pian >ri, the would be assassin of the Emperor, was executed. Th* lanst news from the Crimea states that Conro bert has r> signed on Recount of ill health, lie ia to te succeeded by General P His*-ier. — Tlie results in Virginia. One hundred end twn nty two counties heard from. Wise’s majority in these counties, 10G17. This would leave v 0 counties to In ar from, which gave President P erce a sni 41 majority. The last returns, says the Richmond Enquirer <f the 29th, indicate the election of L w.s to Congress— thus completing the return of al! the old members.— she Senate and House of and legates will e uitinue as rongly and mneratie, at least, as before. This will se cere the election of a Democrat to the Senate of the lli ited Slates. The victory of the Demoer n y s, therefore, complete in the Old Dominion.’ 1 TO THE EDITORS OF THE TIMES AND SENTINEL Messrs Editors ; —-L*t me ask you to publish the law of Massachusetts, and through the tindium of your columns to a-k tfie people of the State of Geor gia, if they are not no-v prepa>ed to piss q law, taxing ihe products of the S a e of Massachusetts in the hands of the retailers? and also to pass a law refusing the aid of our Courts in the collection of their debts and in die protection of their persons and property. Let not any one d.-ter you from this course by tell ing you that it is unconstitut utial. The trst law i dearly not so. The other may be doubtful —but the old adage to * fight the Devd with fire,” is a good one. The anti-slav*!) men never enquire whether the law they wish le unconstitutional. They will pass it and let the Court determine the Constitutional quistion.— Fleet your members of the next Legislature fir that purpose. CIYIS. NULLIFICATION L\W OF MtS-ACIJ SETTS. We clip the following svnop-H of the, main provisio ?s of the nullification law of Massachusetts from the Boston 7 lines : “Nullification in Massachusetts —The so-called ‘act to protect the tights and liberties of the people of ALi-sa chusetts,’ which ha- been reported to the sen ite of that State, H ot the tankest ouliiti -.anon eh ir.it-ler. it p ovider th iteveiy alleged fugitive from service shall be entitled t. tiie*heneiil of the writ oi'habeas cor, us. which may he tsstt ed by ‘hes preme cc rt. court <t conun >n pleas, and j is Mce ; or police couit •>} any city or town : ny any couit ol record, judge of probate, or by any justice ot the peace even : provided such magistrates are known to he within five miles ot the place where the i arty is imprisoned. No person holding any Sta’e office is allowed to issue any warrant or grant any certificates und< r the fugitive slave law, under the penalty ot toif iting his office and being foiever inelig b'e to m,y office of trust or emilument un der the laws of the Comm mwealth. Shcntis. constable-, po ice officers, and the volunteer militia, ate forbidden to aid in any way in ca Tying out the provisions ol trie fugitive slave law of 185 ) under p nalty of a fine of not less than 81.000, nor more than $2 000 ansd imprisonment in the 8t ite pti-ou tor a term ol from one to two years. A’ y person w 7 ho shall act a j c nnsel or attorney f r any ciai mant of an alleged fugit ve shall be deemed to have re sign- and any comini-sion he may h(>ld from the S ate, and shall thereafter be incopncita ed Jrom appearing as counsel or nUorn*y in any of the courts of the State. No State jail, is to he used as a place fjr the detention oi an alleged fugitive.” Drought in ihe West. —The Arkansas rivc-r having nearly dried up, the Lt ie Rock Gazette says, there is not, in that place, a barrel of flour, a lushel of rne.il, or a pound of coffee or sug:ir for sale. Flour would go iff readily at sls a barrel, and corn meal at $2 a ■i bushel ; sugar and coffee vvouid sell for any price.— There is the greaUst scarcity of every article of pro visions or family grncere*. A Political Hoax. Bangor, May 23. The announcement that Samuel C Gaze had been nominated for governor-of Maine, by the Know Noth* ngs :n a State Convention is a hoax. No Convention has yet been held. Eruption of Mr. Vesuvius — On the m >rning of the ii*t. May there was a r port ft >m the summit of the mountain as of a thousand cannon, immediately fellow, and by a discharge of r<d hot stones. Democratic Me ling in Stewart County. In par uanoe to n published call, a Democratic meeting was held in the Con t House, at Lumpkin, May 29th. On notion, D. -v y nour Catching was elected to the chai% tnd John B. Richard-on, Sectary ottha meeting. The inject of the meeting being exp allied hy the cha r O i mol on of G J \\ aiker, the meeting p.oee ded to eie- t delegates to represent the Detnociatic Party of .-tew- 1 rt in the Gubernatorial Convention, to be held nt Mill- I -dgeville, on the sth lu e next. Messrs. C. J Walker, j ‘aines Graham, Joel F. I ort* r, Janie* P. Lowe and Benj j day, were elected delegate? t > said Convention. t >n motion, the meeting adjourned until the rir-t Tuesday I n July ne v t,at which time the Democrats of the old line I iot m a-iv manner affiliate 1 with the n j w o geniz uions and • -ms ot th* dais are specially invited to attend in mas-* to J take into consideration, rnat'ers of vital importance to the i -KiitV. Catcui.nuS, Ch’ui. John B. Richard on. Sec‘y Fourth District. —l’. J. Morgan, Ee-] . of LiGranrc.da* | line* the u~e ot his natue a- a candidate to rep •ti • ! t jptrict in Congies# Hi? sympathies and t.ffijini;p ; j i uQS&yv, are, however, with the Araeiicau Order. Large and Enthusias io Meeting - Speeches of Messrs Mepans, Toambi, and I'homis. An immense cot.con sent our citizens assembled on Monday evening at the G ty Hall tohear an ad res* from the Hon. A. 11, Siephene Not with tm,ding the shot tne-s ■ f the notice, h being announced only on that day, by placards at public places, thcie being no papers issued Mon lay morning, that Mr. Stephens would addie-e ht feltow citizens, the pe<>j,le turuetl out, eu mass, to he ir liieii di*lingui-htd and patriotic Representative. The Half ua crowded to ulf.cation, and hundiels w?ere standing out -ide, unable to get m, and clamnrou-for Mr. S epitens to come out on the steps This being suggested to the.-peaker hortiv aftet he opened hi-add e.-.-, Mr. .Stephens said fie j would acquie-ce cheertully in the general wi-h, and pro- 1 ceeden to tho northern portal of the Hall. Here onr citi- j zens, to the number of two thousand, were comp* lid to j -tami on the damp ground lor want of a suitable plait” >rm. ! Thanks are due, for Hits advantage, we suppose, to our I Know Nothing Council, who have thus earned out this I Know Nothing principle of stiff ng dtseuA-ion We have 1 never se. n an orator Jieak under -uch di-agreeable cKcum stances, but we have yet to a more patient and atica tive audience. Mr. Stephens commenced his remarks by expressing his regret at being compelled to speak in the dark, for it was always his plea-ure when he spoke, to look the people in the eye. He said that he had traveled ov. r more than halt the State, in order to meet the people ol Agu ta to night. aiuce his communication to Mr. Thomas had been pub lished, it ha I been said that the reason of his rc iremetit from the canvas- in this Di-trict, was his fear of being bea ten For himself he was afraid of nothing—of nothing’ under nor abov the eartii, but to do wrong, Os that he was afraid; hut of being beaten, he wonld’iit g ve a fig for a man who was not willinj to i e beaten in de!> nee of what he believed to be tight He had come -there then, he said, iu response to various calls, to announce that he was'agnin a candidate lor Congress from this Di-trict. Nominated, j ?aid he, not by a two thi ds rule, but here, upon this si tnd, j I nominate myself tor Congress from the Bdi Congression al District Mr. Stephens was here int rrupted by a deep an f onihu sia-tie shunt of approbalion from the great crowd he was add essing. tie continued, that this Know Nothing older had been created, it was said, tor tlie purpose of putting down demagogues, small men, tricksters, For himself he was no trickster. ‘Tricksters never walk in open day 1 hey skulk in lading places, and lie warned the people to beware of leaders who resulted to the daik in order to co.i , coct their schemes. It had Gen said by some who had commented upon his j letter, but none of whom had had the boldness to come out i by tho.-e who were shooting at him in tlie da k, that Da vid and his adherents tonmd a t-ectet organization, and that Sarnutl Adams and others formed a eecet clique for the purpose of striking a blow lor American liberty. ‘I it s object,said he, was revolution, and u*e objects of tue Know Nothings wa-revolution. It is to oveithrow the Con?fflu ion of the country; to create a religious te.-t,when the cmi stitution sad that there should be tio religious test. ‘The Know Nothings knew that their object was revolution; hey knew that they had taken an oati) not to suppoit any eatfiolio for office. 1 hey 7 might deny it, arid explain away tne denial bv some casuistical, shppe y, Know Noth ing construction, but there was a monitor Within, wh ch told them they had taken it. Mr Stephens continued for sometime in an eFq lent strain on the sublimity of truth, the foundation ot all Hon or and integrity among men; a want ol which, as bad as tbe Know Nothings charged the catholics to be, could not he pref r ed against them, and then introduced a beautiful passage of sacred history; “it was afier Judas ha i be trayed Christ with a kis>, and Pet* r had dented him thiic*-, that our Lord what is truth?” He called upon all Know Nothings hut e pecially all Mini-t rsot the Go al, wno might have joined the order, to repent in s-a-. k cloth and a.-hes,a *d to go about and preach truni the pui pit on that text, *.vhat is tiuth!” He here eloquently appi aled to Know Nothings to burst asunder th-se oat,is,which t ound.them down a.- with cords, and anandon this s. pivvaricatiou which they had ad opted tor the purpo eof violating the Constitutt.m ot tir country! He pout and so. th glow ng, | atrtoitc and forcible appeal- in b had ot th*’ print- pies laid down ,n hi- late let t*-ragutistK ow Nolhmgism He depicted, in masteily style, the < o rupt ng and dis.ot ous influences to re?u!t to ocietv from the deceitful, equivocating aid t andnh-nt practices of Know ivothiugi nr—tlie anti Am-in an— anti Republican, aid ut manly ct araciei ot st- seen t orgamza tio.i the danger to t erty.to the peace 4 communities, and to ?ociai ora* r.of sectei politic, ! c* n lave- plotting in tue darkness of midnight tor t le advancema .t of pu p i->es not di closed to the public they soiiglujo govern, and who=e ights they aimed to ■contioi and dt.-po-e ol iu tins cut .lie— tuiHinode. lie held lb tt-ech conduct was unwo.thy ot men and freemen who raid prine pies worthy of succ -s. Tr .til ru-vei sknlki and hour the light of day and hid i sell in daik corner-, afraid ol dscu-sio i and investigation, it was the characteristic ot < rror ands and -ehoo S thus to hide, and there to work out their bad purpo es Truth was tile rouiidarion sto.ie otkyvil order—th? ve y life a id all social ititeg ity. Yet Know No huigism bowd to a -pell and influence m >repotent than truih, and .eeone.led me con eieuces ot men to lesoit to eq livocatto t and slip pery coii-lruction i< deceive the public. But there was a monitor from on high iu the breast of every honest man, ih it mast at times whisper to him that this was wrong. Know Notfitngisin bound its votaries u der the tin and de gree of its ritual by a solemn oaih to maintain the Union at all hazards, aga n-t ail edb ts oi factio lists uud oi seees ioi isis. Bit it nowhere bound its numbers to maintain the C-oiifct tution ; y* t that Constitution was tlie very life and oul, ot the Union, it could only have t’eeu ua!e by it,aim th ought! and the priucipi s itco isecrates. Without i , tfs*- Cos stitution woul i be valu.-le s or worse tha i valu -less There was tlie & loktiomsm ol this order m disguise. He calied o:i Southern men to notice it. He, Mr. Stephens, tood upon the Georgia platform. ShouiJ Km-as, be re jected on account of slavery, he w 7 ;-,s for resistance. Send mm to Congress and he would resist it ther-; if u ‘success lul, he would leiurii to tlie people and leli them to rcsi-t it It hui been said th it the toreigneis who came to tu:- conntiy joi ned the abohtioui ts in liieir crusades u; on our rglit- it was not so ; lie knew that it was not .-o. The foreigner.-who came h ue, came with a reverence for the Constitution. Where did these foreignt rs mostly settle ? In the No th We t And from the Noith W est came the be-t friend* of the South, from Indiana, Illinoi, and lowa, tlie last, die only State which had ue*er bowed to ab.di tionistn, and now, for the fir t tint**, to ho represented by a r-e soifer, when K iow Noihingism had spiuug into exia tence. Every Know Nothing took an oath, tint he would sup port i-.o Roman t'atho ic lor office l'lns was striking at one ot the fund amental principles of the Constitution, which declares there Miall be no religions t -st. as a qua! fi atiori tor office He, theref.*r •, who took that oath, took an oath inconsistent with the support of the Cou-tituioa. it was an oath in Violation of ihe fetter, a id spirit of mat sacred en ter a rnnei t. Upon the exclusion from office, and disfranchisement of foreign born citizens, the ora.or was no less emphatic and forciMe in his denunciation ot this featuie of Know Noth iiigism. Upon the foeial evil?, th** injustice and disastrous con.-eq ences, threatening sirik-sand olood and civil war, of making men aliens at hea:t to a government, wTiie.h thus made w r ar upon t.neir religion, and iet them apart, on Recount of their nativity as a degraded cla-s, the speaker was eloquent and convincing, and the ie edited plaudits, which greeted hint fiorrs the beginning to the clo-e of his address rising up irom ‘he whole mass, and Irom ev* ry -iie of this dense assemblage, wrapt in eager, and earnest alien tion, proved now thoroughly he ha 1 enlisted ths let-hugs and convinced the judgment of his auditors. U e could scarcely realize tn such deinen tratious that there we e, in ail ptobab.lity, hundreds ot Know Nothings among ! them. Know Noth ngs came away wi:h the scales torn from their ey. s. convinced of the inise able oefusions which had be gui ded their leasou and, pat i**tieaiiy r-solved never more j to ei.ter tiieir midnight councds, and n*ver more io bow i down to ihe molten calt. which domag >gets and bigots J had erected ioi their worship. | In this hurried i-k ten we have not attempted even an j outline of the wnolo cour.-e ot argument of .Vlr. Stephen#, ‘ or to give a.I the strong points on which he expatiated.— ’ Did time and space permit, it would tie impossible to t a is | pose to i aper all the strong, common sense, and patriot o views he presented,.or th *. felicitous rilu-tra ions hy which he enforced them. Still !e-*s would it be practicable .to give to the reader an impression of the earnest tone, the impas sioned manner, ami the patnotic iervor with which Mr. Stephens appealed to his fellow citizen-to bewaie of die mad lolly of continuing iii t i Know Nothing organiza tion. tie stood l.kea Prophet, waning them of the evils to their countiy, their whole country, bir e-peeially to the Soutti, that iiui.-t result trom the | rejoin n me 1 1 Know Nothmgism He paid aju t and el.q lent tribute toih *.-e true in nos the Norm who hai so i<n,g ami o> patriot c if. ly sto and by the South in her struggle’ wi h .Vbolitio.iism. He point and <iur win u w.i- Mat h id voted in Ceng e'-* with tue fto them delegation, to spare the South from the Wn mot Proviso; th .t buig* o. idteri *; lty an J deg a latioa, with which she wa- th eat-ned—that had ie icved her trom *.ne Missouri compr int! e !e-M< iton, and opened Kansas t > the influx of he. *i; zen —ami aided h-r in the enact men! oi tna Fugitive S ave Law. He rsterred by name to the noble exertion- ol Douglass- and Richa;d-ou, oi I li nois, f> project the Con-tnutio and the righrs of the South under it, and who had .-at * u w.th hi n tw * and ys and fW .j t ighUi w thout rest to recti o ihe passage f the K tnsas Bid He rtated that these are tie en at the No.t.i tnat ! iSoither < K ow Nothings we e endeavoring to best down —th <t < i alt t.ie N-Ti'ii r i iiic-it ttierud to G i,g U a sec© the piss .geo; tnat 811. the e was nor .. aT{ v Nothi g who had voted lor the re—not on# who was not hoi ! tile io it—;nat of the 41 Norihiiu mea who had voted ior ’ it, 2d had been defeated on accou .t ot thai v.a t , lt ; tte2lth it were ie t were tue liienu -ot the csoiaui i|, ui w 7 as oar duty to stand by to e.ieou a'e a J t<• eh. er tm- Tne danger to our lights was not at tlie Ni riii, ,\ * w , wouid be drm to oar ire id • tue e, and iru* to u.u> selves -IT vVehad friends in eveiy Noiihe n Btatw—patriotic and t U ; m-n, who won and stand iyu* 4we would stand by ~ r selves, audj e true to o ir*i4 principle-, i’lieie e;c t, , L . men even ill .Vlar-achu-i-tis. j heie wero iOd cu.is p t .g oi Boston Gommoii when ihe Governor recently vitu.d the bill ty remove Judge Lo ing bom office lor i-sninu :t wgrra.it to resto e a I gitive slave to hi- owmr. Bui tiui u was not a K tow Nothing guu among them. Tney weie fired by the true then of that chaie, who'still lelt me f p Ml ot ’76 that blazed on Bunker Hill. Tue.e wtre true m n —national jfireu in New Hrmpsbi.'e, m ConnecticLi, ns New York, in Lovva, many m illinoi-, and that our. pu!,// was n>t to join the Know Noming-, who vvvie lignin. ‘- these men, but to jpiatfd by our Ircluis tin-ie, and .-oon tin v would tally again, strength. From 21 th.-y \\uuid swell up to 3J, to 40, to 50, to ldt> in U uiigicss *1 lit.v wou ri stand t>y us and our rithis, and with us cave the bui stitution and td'e tiie, couutiy. Mr. bu-phens cohClutUd by saying that a re\uvvr *,f hs letter Imd said h.s late leticf vvud prove h.s |oi*i:t i winding sheet. li the people ot t.be bm O . gr- tsua.al D Stii l so vvillid it, he was ivt ciy to g.j down to h s no* litieal grave, in doing so,- llfeie was only one winning** sh.eet he pre err.d nb *ve all others te be wrapped amu/d him. T*i:*t was the ConsatiU ou oi lib e..uni; v. Nbxi to tin*, he desired no bct.cr vviuduig -ii et to be ur.inind around him than the pr ueipks of tint fetter, and he wisu ed h s epitaph to be, “Licic fies one who never deccivvd a trend or be rayed even an.enemy.” Mr. Stephens beautifully compared the cntr. ncv of IM j order from the North into tin* buuih to the tutrai.ee Shan in the form of the subtle serpent into the g.u.au of E len, with a fie in h s im uih, calupg ou E.e to eat ol Um fruit, for in that day she shou.d mu suivfy die. iie concluded amid great cheering. Buell is an impernct sketch ul this eloquent speech, in which we have been compedej to p; une away mat y * t its beauties, and hi anabr.dgtli r< p* i t t<> in pa r the s.utig.h of its arguments. We were toreibly retioiided, vvln.e Ajr. Btepheui was speaking of an event tu the nte f the gr*:u Rom ill orator, to whoa there is ab au fiul a lusiuu m a recent literary ad.tiess ly the U*u F. fi • i'lcku.s, ~f s>.>u;h Carolina. It was at the lime when Antliohy n,. s attempt tig a great chuige m th. form ot the I;. u; Goverum ut, which es.-apM the üb-ei vw.ton o. tiu* j i,...; t . tint G.cero came forth Irom Ins reliietu tit to warn iuui of their dangt r. Unaided atid al use lie p fiuted it out, iu; they heed and not los warning vb.c-, ail I me desau. t on , i the R >in in Republic vv'.is thecdtisoque.ice. Let file rc.ukr make the appl.eation to our ovvu mu s anfi ca\ uais.au-> ces. Mr. Toombs was then called for and respond, and in a most ek q tent and itnpr. s-ive speech and in Ins hupphs: matith r. lie fully eothei'kd in Mr. Bicpfu-us* scutiiiums .uni ut.ercd a spleiid.d euiogium u, *n the priuopksof i American liberty, e.vii and religious —upon the iiob.ei.a lure **l ivligous twleranee uh.cn ebar.ieienze our u.siitu • ions ami .he v.is.’ pokey ol invilii.g ;o our shor.s tore a emigration. y rep ret our spaa.ee \v il n*>? enable us ties inornin* to give a ski teh <* h s vety 7 tut* resting speeeu. Mr. Iho uas, ** E her , i* spomled i.* im l calls fur him in a lev appropti t e r. ill ir;ts, \v!i ell were w’tll received, alter w h en the in efiug *li.-pe sed m h gh s -n iis, and m good di del’ 8 >me called out for Sam tog* t up, bat Sa:,i f It s * com pletely dein uisbed lie e u and n>! r,s *, and hi I not u word to sty. ile had prob.tb y heard ut the Virginia eieC nous. The Virginia Election—Very Inte estiug to tha K ow Idotliiajs. According to our 1 itest dt spiteh from Washington 1 . tiiglii, th*-K i *vv Noth.lias in iu.it pul.t eat r* mi* zv**u.-give P the V.r.in a * laeti* t:—Go.-* rii..!, State < fik t ts. v”. u pressmen, * Very tiling; Ex ra Bly Smiili. a son ol i aiid-iialt administration Demoer *i and Know Nothing, be* ing the o isy p- five suee* >s o the Ain*Ti<*a i Tiek*t. Ii .’■■ppe ns tint in se/ nty-fiv.* eouuii s \V < • -it ill iiisaild 111 Jui ity, wh.ell i- pi;t (low n re, our \ V oi. - mgton comspuudeiit at ],j(k) bd w ih,-’ in j ri v of Pi roe in di>* sum eouri!!.--, whieh murt. th r*l r.’, h ve been 7,b‘)tk ‘i he lie jin'ity ol P.ercc ,n tiie,S te via- . vt-r 1.1.0UU I’, then lore, Wise has only lost i.GiltJ ins*v*ir* >’ 7 five rou iiites, he can afford t > lose ,n th same t .tio in ihe remaining s.x'y-two counties, ml still b<- ri-eie.l by 10,0(10 illuj *;ity. \\ e are not surpi s-. and, t.icr i*jr< , tliat the K low Nothings ( f Wa.-hii gi**u gv< n up, no wth - s and.tig their niter. m—over one’ hundred h*>-a* and dol larss. it is said—h.z tided ou the result. — iV. Y. Herald 2 sth. Krcw Nothing- Elscticn Liots d’ho Loui v.lle (Ky ) Democrat of the 7th inst wa th it | at the recent election ni that efiy a cio'wd *>l jackals, hy | enas.and bawdy -house bul.ies look post-os loi.ot the ju i's i in the hr-t and reeoiid wytos, sweaii* g that t o anti Know : Nothing,lntriguer or hot,Humid he aiiowid to vote or v ---| eu app.oaeh the polls, ‘i lie Deiiiociat says hollar tin* j tuty kept ill ir w. rd fa : tl;fudy,;.i.d pr reeds theieupou to l r jeord 1. o*n ot e liund.ed tu pi e hundred at.d liny inslan j ces ol violence, by fi-ts, stone-, and ciubs I t ioi- ai-o 1 were tu eiy nred. llud it ndt I teii tor file activity of i fii- I cers, many would S ave been killed, i !.< -** ire the hist ! fruits ot an * rder that cell’s not only to coi.liol the bail A j box but individual <q.> nioiis. ; Asa stiii more .-t* iking Must! alien of th? reign <1 Ruf 1 fiat i.-rti lnangiiiaud by them w oid-. r. we make ifie i* h w- t om card- } übli h and in the New .Ai .liany [ia ! Ledger. 1 heijrst i-from iVlr. Win. M. Weir, wiio led been riomim.ied lor the office of Mayor. He decfii.es in; nomination an 1 as.-i.gtis his rea-ons h>. so doing. He -a> - F.om a conviction ol and love of principle, I am a Whig. 1 have retired to turn traitor to my party and * principles by going off mto Know NothiHg.sm or ai.y . th en lrn 1 haveihoiigfitand yet think, that although /.ir. Clay # and Mr. Web.ter have dud, the principles which they loved ant! cherished y*-i live, and vvi:i live lorever hor this f am (jeii ‘Uiieed a..d a msefi by tfio-e wiio liavo | heretofore pretended to be Whig- becau-e they belt, veil iu i the doctrines ol that party lam now and h, ve ever Leu I anxious loi the defeat ot the Dctnocratic pary; L.t l ;.m i not Wiiliug to bring a#out that result t y the saei.rice of ( paity and all principle and sub turning in its place * <>- j fence had b.oodst.ed and a di-iegaul ol ;.!! law. Lock, i for one nioni*.‘Ut, at the scencsof the J.-i-t October election, I and their continuation Irom time to t.me ever since. On J a lull and fair vote ol the city, I believe that 1 could be • elected, hut owingfothe v.o euce and ontr tge- petpt lr;.!> and ! by a set ot men banded tog. trier hy .-cc:el oalln, t. at a t- 11 I and fair vote cannot be had without a corresponding vi i lenee on ill j other hand, I will not be a candidate, and | thereby endanger the p/rsons and lives <d my tiiruds Itl Ime not be mi-ufiderstood Ido not charge that all who i belong to the K iow Nothing or* auization are in lav or of *liiv 7 iug ail tiom the polls w tio do not v.*te with th m There a e many good men connected with that o.d’r, who have gone there tor good and pure pu po-e.-; but it doer strike hie that against, tilts ti ne they ought at iea-t to begin to see that luey have made a mistake, iinJ th t trie sooner they get out of it th r better they w.ii be A di-ie garu of law and the rights of otic r*. l -gi;imate!y spring from oaih bound secret political societies It ha-'ev* rint ti so. and will continue to be so; and the veiy cxt-le .te of such organization-, iu a fr*e countiy like our.-, is danger ous alike to the peace of -oceiy and i.berty itself. 1 am respectfully, &c., WM. M WEIR. Tiie nett ist'u carJ of M;a tel’C. K* rr It is us fo’- | low : Mrs ‘ntTOK—Having been announced a- a candidate l |’**the office oi_i.ity Auotney a. the :. r*aeiung *-U-e ton j to be Ini l m thi-city , it is due io my i iend- to-tate hr'efly i ih-* lesson wuicii now impels nn to request vo i to w h ; draw my name. 1 T rotn wiiattianspiied at the fa-t October d<• ion, as ; well as at.thejrecenl electmn. in the pre-c.t’ mm th, and , 1 t ie mt* rveifi *g p nod, it is upiui e t that the freedom oi elections i-f r the present at Hu end in this city and dint i naturalized citizens, especially, cannot * r vent ‘th e ;:i-> !v s |at the polls for the purpo-e of *xerei ing the r gh: ot - rag *, except at tht hazard of their | vcs. or at [en t of *:< - ; f.berate and unuiTipd ;*-r.-o al m-n t I .ieed. igi. | be.n citizen? aie not exempt from hum iiatim’ insult-a: J | th eat- of viol* n e. I i ‘ siteii a state ot things, it i 5 rvM-nt that a ca-ididafe I rmimiig m to one imini .a.vl i> a reer*t .-o*-*-.-r> wfifeti ha< a io; te • the m-a-nre ot sunou: daig t e p. 1 s j wit i arm dor desper t- nie i, to intmuda ean i * et* r * ;- I e;> from approaching, and io and iw away by violence u.li a- they do not ch *o-e t) permit to Vote, can on!. I**pe ! i Dbtuni hts rights by p epati *g to m et force Ty ?**:c* f h* -4 1 h iV *- no to do. Ido not de- ire • fi.ee Kuffi ieritly to run su h ii.-k of involving cither my to or opponent-* in per-o .ai s; i e m:.: bio- i •* i p-’ e*r with Jtawuig cisiir* !y Uic e criest i h p* i r ;• h - or of our co mt.y th a <ho -ober sense .-l” tu * • a>’ * m*y fpeedi y re-to. e a period mo o aaspivio lof a ;r picsciou oi the pubbe p eLreiice. Rceptwi-fiiy,