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(Times Sentinel. COLUMBUS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING-, JUNE 13, Congressional Convention, 2d District. We 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 season at that time in Americas. What say our Demo cratic cotemporariee to this suggestion 1 The time and place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd. The Know Nothing National Conncil. For the first time in the history of the United States, a national Convention, including in its membership dele gatee from Maine to Texas, and from the Atlantio to the Pacifio, and representing a party wbioh aspires to govern the country, and dispose of the highest offices in the gift of the people, is now in secret session in the city of Philadelphia. Our readers will pardon ub if we fail, under the circumstances, to give them very reliable information as to the sayings and doings of this extra ordinary body of men. We are indebted to the pry ing eyes of the Now York Herald for all the informa mation wo have obtained. The Grand National Counoila of the “Americans” convened at 10 o’clock, June sth, at the Assembly Rooms in the oity of Philadelphia. New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Now Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, lowa, Wisconsin, California, Kentucky, District of Columbia, Missouri and Michigan, have sent their full quota. Those infamous Abolition leaders, Gardner and Wil son, of Massachusetts, are oloseted with closed doors, with Rayner, of North Carolina, Hopkins, of Alabama, Pike, of Arkansas. The Georgia delegates are not given. It is said that Washington Poe, Frank Cone, Josh Hill and L. F. W. Andrews, are the delegatee from Georgia. We eongratulote them on their national alliances ! Yet it is the constituency wbioh these men represent, in part, which set the famous Movement” going, and the Democracy of Georgia is denounced by the Whig press because they will not abandon Pierce, Douglass, Dickinson, Cass, Dallas and other true men at the North, to aid them in breaking down the national organization of the Democratic party, while they failed to give any assuranoes which could be relied on, that they would abandon their Know Nothing brethren of Massachusetts. There are three parties in the Convention, probably four. One headed by Wilson and Gardner, of Massa chusetts. which is aiming to introduce Abolition as one *of the principles of the Know Nothings. They will probably be foiled and will thereupon secede from the Order, followed by all the New England Councils, and many others in the North and West. Another beaded by Barker and Ullman, of New York, which aims to make the Order a grand conservator of the peace by forcing upon all the Connoils the oath of the third de gree. They are the “National Conservative men” and this degree is what is called the Union degree. That they will triumph over all the parties in the Order, wo never entertained a doabt. There is another party headed by Albert Pike, of Arkansas, and the extreme Southern delegates who will try to pledge the Order to the Nebr&eka-Kansas act and to the execution of the Fugitive Slave law. That they will fail is certain.— What then ? No one knows. There is also another party oompoeed of Kenneth Rayner, of N. C., whs pro poses to settle all difficulties between the North and the South by running 36 deg. 30 min. to the Pacific and giving to the North all the land North of that line and to th© South all bslow that line. This would drive the South out of Kansas and Utah, where slavery may ba regarded as permanently fixed. We hop© Mr. Ray nsr’s party will obtain no accessions and it seems to ne that any man who Would propose voluntarily to restore th© Missouri restriction after all we have endured under it and all it has cost us to repeal it is a born fool or knave. Barker, of New York, is President of the Conven tion. The first day was spent in appointing a committee on oredeutiais, and the organization had not been com* plated p to the hour of adjournment on the 6th. A great many exciting questions will come before the Convention. The question of slavery we have oN ready alluded to. The next in order will probably be that of secresy. The correspondent of the Herald says it is not the design, nor has Buoh a proposition ever had B supporter in the Order, to disclose the secrets of the Order to the public. The purpose simply is to publish the platform the Convention may adopt. It is even ru mored, upon good authority too, says the Herald , that the Convention passed a resolution, on the 2d day of its session, prohibiting tho communication of its acts and doings to outside members of the Order. They may well fear to expose to the public eye tho acts and do ings of ‘‘worthy brethren,” Gardner and W i’son, of Mass , Griswold, of Conn., Pierpont, of Vt., and Ste phens, of Maine. Persons familiar with the corruptions of secret political caucuses will alone appreciate the dreadful profligacy wbioh this stringent rnle of eecresy will engender in th§ Grand Council. Other difficult problems are pressing upon the atten tion of tb Grand Council. The delegates from the North-western States-—lndiana, Illinois, lowa, and Wisconsin, especially—say that as one half the voters there are naturalized eitizens, there must be some prun ing of #ur sibling Know Nothing impediments against that class, in order to make any headway in that quar ter. They say, too, that the vote of the great West is too important to be negleoted. So it is. The double set of delegates from California and Lou isiana, one set composed of Catholics and Protestants, and the other of simon-pure Protesfonts, give no little trouble to the Grand Council. The probability is that each State Council will be allowed to judge of the qualification of its membership, and tho Order thus be made to change front as the exigencies of the occasion may demand. There was a report that Barker was to be superseded by Gardner, of Mass., as President of the Council, was in circulation in the city, but it ie contradicted by the Herald. We owe an apology to our Ante-Know Nothing friends for giving so much space to the proceedings of this body. Our apology is that we are informed that two-thirds of our readers are Know Nothings. We gve this column for their Lenefit. Hope they like it. We will give more soon. Elections in New York. Canaxdaisua, June 5, 1835. Our charter election to-day resulted in the success of the American ticket, by a majority of 141. Tne vote was un usually large. Buffalo, June 5, 1835. Mr. Masten, the regular democratic candidate, is elected Judge over Houghton, th* Js>o\v Nothin* candidate* by two majority. The Know Nothing Press and the Georgia Democracy. One month ago, and every Whig press in Georgia was engaged in ebronioleing Know Nothing victories and commending Know Nothing principles to the Southern people as the political ark which alone could weather the deluge of fanatioism which threatened the South. Even the Chronicle Sentinel almost up to the day that Mr. Stephens’ letter appeared, was engaged in the task of oonoiliatiDg Know Nothing eapport by assuring the publio that its file leaders sympathised with the Know Nothings in certain great leading objects oi na tional policy. Conspicuous among the presses that played this hand was the Columbus Enquirer. Bat no sooner did these patriotic editors discover by the re sult of the Virginia elections that Know Nothiugism was a dead cock in the pit, than they began to coil lus tily for a reorganization of the Union Republican party, j la this lead followed hard on the heels of the Chronicle 4* Sentinel, onr distinguished cotemporariee of the Co lambue Enquirer. One*short week satisfied them that this was a losing hand and they all “passed out/'’ la the mean time the Know Nothings inaugurated tho Columbus Movement in order to break the fall from tb© windows es their Connoil ohambers, and foremost among those who threw up their hats and oried “hosanna/* are the editors of the Chronicle $ Sentinel and the Co lumbus Enquirer. Thee© things were not dene in a corner, but are known and read of all men—who read those papers. Now who are the leaders in the Colnm baa Movement ? Who composed the great mass es the 700 citizens who assembled in Temperanoe Hall on the night of the 25th nit., when this bastard Southern Rights bantling was born ? Will the Enquirer dare to deny that 10 to 2of them were Know Nothings, in fell fellowship with a national party which embraces in its membership Wilson and Gardner, of Mass., John P. Hale, es New Hampshire, Trumbull, of Illinois, Harlan, of Wisconsin, and a long roll of men who are avowed Abolitionists ? Arc they not now present by a delegation in the city of Philadelphia in a National Convention in which they are also represented ditccfs ing with them tho questions es most vital impertanco to the South in a room guarded by ssntinele to prevent the foul treason which will be uttered there from, reaching tho ears es their indignant fellow citizens ? We dare the Enquirer to deny either of these prepo sitions. It knows they are true, traoto the letter, and will net daro to meet them like men 5 but will slide round them with a facility of, wc had almost said, pre varication, only equalled by a Jeeuit or a Know Nothing. Yet in the face of these damning facts, it has the har dihood to charge the Slates Rights Democracy es Georgia with want of patriotism because it will not abandon those firm and true Democrats at the North who havo waged unequal war with our enemies at the North, and deceitful friends at home, and join with it in party affiliation with men whe are at this hour in National Council with the vilest Abolitionists that disgrace the earth—mea who even botst that in two short weeks they have initiated fifty Democrats into their accursed Order in the oity of Columbus, We make no war upon Southern men who are over zealous for Southern Righto—we aro willing to pardea much to the spirit of liberty—but we utterly loathe th© Sooth era man who makes a sh attic cook of Southern patriotism to display his own genius or advance bis own ends. If the men who stand sponsor to the Columbus Movement are sincere, why, ia th© same of God, do they not first abandon th© American party? Why are all their eye© now directed to Philadelphia la the bop© that something will turn up ? W charge Lease upon tho Enquirer that the large body of those who partici pated in the Colutnlma Movement are Know Nothings. Does It dare to deny U ? We further charge, upon Know Nothing authority, that not a tn an of them .has since withdrawn from the Order. Will it dare to 4©ny it ? With theee ohargea blazing upon its front ancon tradioted, how dare that paper to malign th© motives of tho Democracy in not abandoning their organization, which lifts within a twelve month repealed the Mis souri restriction, and joining an organisation which has nothing to eommeud it to their acceptance but empty professions of Southern zeal, which their daily acts con tradict What objeotkm has the Enquirer urged to the plat form of principles which the Democratic party recently erected at Milledgevillo ? We have foiled to discover the first one founded in truth ? If then it is anxious to effect Southern anion, why does it not stand by the Democracy instead of the Know Nothings 1 There is but one answer to this question. It is actuated by a bitter and malignant hostility to Demooratio men and measures; and is wiiling to aid in any movement to break them down. But the OBterrified Democracy laugh at the rage of its enemies. It is founded upon a rook and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it? Does it not know that by silence upon the subject of Know Nothingism, the Democracy could have absorbed sli the Know Nothings in the city worth having ? Bat such conduct was regarded by the Democracy as trea son to the people and they fearlessly turned them oat of its organization though they were thereby left in a mi nority of probably five hundred in the country. There is bat one chance for this Know Nothing movement to succeed. If the members of the Order at the Sonth are driven out of the organization by the Philadelphia Convention, they may, on foil repentance of their sins, form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Alexander H. Stephens and the noble remaant of Whigs who follow his lead. It will then become a respectable party and will probably honestly contend for Southern Rights. If such shall prove to be the ease, we will then be prepared to act in concert with them in the defence of the SoQtb, and it will really mat ter very little which party shall gain the aseendeney ia our State elections. But so long as the great bu Ik of the, so called, no party shall maintain their membership with the American or Know Nothing Order, the De mocracy will wage uncompromising war with them and their movement, oall it by what specious clap trap yen please to catch the oar cf groundlings. Mr. Toombs’ Letter. We publish, in another column, a strong letter from Senator Toombs against the Know Nothings, which we commend to the notree of our readers. The letter referred to by him has never come to hand. It was, doubtless stolen oat of the Post Office. It was mailed at Milledgeville about the 16th nit. Tfet bags are open ed but ocee, and then at Macon, between Milledgeville and Colembns. We hope the efficient Pest Masters at the three offices will investigate the matter. We en tirely agree with the distinguished Seßatoj in his views as to the importance es the union of the Sonthern States “for the preservation of their rights, the Constitution, and the Union,” audwe espeeial'y eommendthat touching appeal to Southern men t© uphold end support “that noble band of patriots, at the North, who have stood for the Constitution and the right against the tempest of fa naticism, folly and treason w hich has assailed them/ They are all Democrats. It is a remarkable fact in the history of the Senator, that though he is the Whig of \V bigs. he hrs never utte ’©d the first syllable ia fcis place in the Senate against the President or his administra tion. The reason why he has not done so is, as he has often stated, that Pierce and his administration are the present points of attack of Northern fanaticism and onght to be upheld by Southern men. We’ eomroenc the course of the Senator to the study and imitation of those of his followers lu Georgia who are eo very much outraged because the Democracy in Con vention have specially commend those specific acts of his administration which the Abolitionists condemn. The views of Senator Toombs upon the 6abject of of Kuow Nothingism have lost much of their interest and value, as it is generally understood that the Order is in applying condition from wounds Inflicted by Henry A. Wise in a recent struggle be had with H in the Old Dominion. We give them, however, as part es the history of the times. Secret History of t&e£Colmbus Movement- Mistakes of the Montgomery Maxi. A writer in the Montgomery Mail, in an article headed Georgia and tho Union tails Into some very sin golar errors. In describing the meeting held in Tem perance Hail on the 26th olt. t and which inaugurated the so called “Coiambus Movement,” he says : A Kuow Nothing presided ; among the ©ld Democratic and “Fire Ratios” leaders present we observe tho names ©1 Gen. J. N. Bethune, Seaborn Jones. Eaq., Hon. J as. John son, Ac.; and among the Whigs, Wm. Dougherty, Thos. Ragland, and Hines Holt, Esqre. It will be news hare, and to no on© more emphatically than to the honorable gentleman himself, that “Hon. James Johnson /’ was a firs-eating leader in 1856. At least, such was very (hr from being the opinion of Jno. H. Howard nod others who participated in that meeting. William Dougherty will be very much surprised to learn that he was present and participated in the i meeting. The published accounts state that he was absent from the oity. Dot the most singular anccnueemeat of all is that ! “aKnow Nothing presided” Os all the men in the j city, William H. Mitakel! Is the last man we weuld piek up fer a Know Nothing. He is one in no sense. We suppose the writer formed his estimate of his pot ities from the company he was in. There were a good many Know Nothings present nt that meeting and, in feet, the whole movement originated with them. The secret history es the “Columbus Movement*’ may be told in a few words. A good ®aay Democrats were from one cease or other lured Into the Knew Nothing Councils. About tho time the State Convention as sembled in Mason, H was ascertained that tho concern weald prove a failure in the South and especially in Georgia, Ga tho heels es this discovery the Union degree made its appearance. The fire-eating Demo crats, no longer stimulated by the? hope of office, grow restive, and began to enrse the thing and threatened to withdraw. But what was to be done ? ThesDem ooratie party had denounced the Kuow Nothings from Maine to Texas, and were ©2 the eve of a signal tri emph over them in Virginia. “If we go back into that party,” eo they reasoned, “we shall be doomed men ; at least, wo will have to go to the foot and spell op. What shall we do thens The Whig party i* dead 5 the Know Nothings me dying ; the Democracy proscribe us. What shall we de ? Start anew party,” answer ed some man of audacity and genius, and forthwith the “Coiambas movement” was brought forth. Well, it caught some fierce eld fire-eatsrs, who, like old war horses, snuffed the battle from afar, end a very respect able meeting was gotten up at Temperance Hall, and a good deal has been clone to excite the pnbiio mind, but we have yet to learn that the first Know Nothing has quit the National secret political Order to which ho be longs, It seems to us that that is a neoessary prelira ieary to Southern Union, and that those Democrats who have quit the Democratic party bad better see to it that their Kuow Nothing confederates aro free to act in good faith with them before t’uey co-operate with them in its dissolution. One of the supposed Know ITothing leaders, we know, has refused to advise the American Patty not to make a nomisatiefi for Gover nor of Georgia and has hopes that it will prove to be the very party tho South desires. Are there any more of the same sort participating iu tho Coiomkus Move ment ? We would really like to know. May not the Columbus Movement be a trap to catch the Democracy and induct them bodily into the secret ohambers of the Knew Nothings ? Are they more worthy of Party affiliation than the Democracy North or South ? We can’t think so. The Georgia© Platform. We publish this morning the reeofwtioas raoentiy pass ed by the Democratic Convention of Georgia. It will be seen that the party takes position upon the platform adopted by the Georgia Convention in 1850. It is the first declaration yet made In the present crisis, by any party in the South, of a determination to resist further aggressions upon her rights ; the first trumpet note of defiance to her exalting fees. While convention after convention, and party after party, at the North have been ringing in our ears the language of threat and hostility, no response had gone up from us, until Georgia uttered this solemn declaration. We must and will hope that the Democratic party ia that State will stand firm to their faith. It is the cause of Georgia ; the cause of the South ; the cause of every party which, comprehending the true perils of the country, aspires to the leadership. We do not doubt, therefore, that the Whig Convention will plant itself upon the same platform in regard to slave ry aggresakme.gfo do less would cot only be beneath the demands of the times, but would not and should not satisfy the people of Georgia, who seem to be now in earnest. It will be indeed a hopeful day for the South when par ties, once rival for office and powerful her midst, shall bo ry past differences, and emulate each other in asserting her rights. We see many evidences that such a spirit is animating the people of Georgia. And so long as the cause of the Senth is held paramount to every other consideration, we shall Dot despair even if our friends, loth to give op old associations, still cling hopefully to Wing and Democratic memories, aad imagine that there is defence for the South in their lifeless arms. It is a hope which abolition is every day driving farther off.— Events, stern and inevitable, will as assuredly drive South* era men from national idols, as their long idolatry to to them has certainly brought os to oar present position. Southern union for Southern ddenee may bring notes of terror to the lovers o i the Union 5 it may be an end to the schemes of selfish politicians ; k may dissolve the Union ; but come it will, in spite of tears, ol depreca tion f’nd party ambitions, ante the South is prepared f©r the horrible doom, which abolition has in store lor her.— Ch. Mer. Sale es the Canada* to the United States. The Philadelphia Times says it lias good reasons to believe that the sale of the Canadas to the Government of the United State* is about to be taken rnte considera tion by the British Cabinet, and to be submitted to Par liament. This important step, it says, has been suggested by the accumulating debt of England, now amounting te about e ; gh? hundred millions of pounds sterling, or four billions of dollars ; the amount of new burdens which the war is easting upon an already overtaxed people; the financial embarrassments entailed cn the mother country by unproductive colonies ; and the formidable attitude of opposition recently assumed by the commercial classes against the rule of the aristocracy, end the evils of their po'itiea! supremacy. It is stated that many of the lead ing statesmen and political economists of England ad vocate the sale of some of the principal eelcnics, with their own consent or the W)es:ea to them of national a d? £ endenc©. from Hon. Robert Toombs on Know Nothingism. Boston, Mass., June 6th, 1833. Dear Sib:— -More than three weeks ago, in compliance with my premise, I wrote to you, giving my opinions oi the new political organization, commonly known as “Know Nothings,” or the American party. I did not learn until 1 reached Augusta, on may here, that you had not receded it. If it should yet come to hand, I wish you to publish it, &g it was much fuller and more carefully prepared exposi tion of my opinions than this letter can be. I shall embara. to-day Liverpool, and, for want cl time, must confine myself to a very brief statement, rather than an argument on the subject. My first objection to the New Part? is one independent of its principles. I am opposed to it beccuea it is a secret political society. Society has a right to kuow ths men, and the principles, and the policy of the men, who seek to direct its affairs and oontrol its dastiny. Publicity is the life blood of a representative Republic. Without it, publio liberty rauet soon perish, and no necessity, short of that which would justify revolution, can justify the surrender of this great security of popular government. All party asso ciations are constantly liable to be used by the cunning, the unprincipled and enterprising members for the promotion of personal objects rather than the public inteiests, and it Boeds no argument to prove that secrecy greatly increases this tendency and facilitates the accomplishment of such unworthy ends. Secrecy is the natural covering of fraud, the natural ally of error and the enemy of truth. The pa triots who framed our constitution gave it a fatal blow, by provisions which secure the freedom of speech and ths liberty of the preaa. This objection to the New Pasty derives additional force from the obligation which is said to b imposed upon the applicant for admission, that he will carry out its decrees whether his judgment approves them or not. If this be ti us, it is a surrender of the dearest rights of freemen, and is a crime against society. My next objection to the American party is, that it pro poses, in some way, to invade the rights of conscience, or to call mea in question for the free exerciss thereof.— I am opposed to all religious tests of every sort and for every purpose. Our constitution protects us against the putting of suoh tests upon the statuet book, but the principle is founded on truth and justice, and ought to bo the rule of the individual action, as well as of the public conduct of every citizen. Centuries of unavailing persecu tion taught our {dikere the folly, as well as tho wickedness, of attempting to control men’s conscienoies by penal statutes, or civil disabilities; they, therefore, put the of disability Into the ‘temptation to disgrace our statuet book with this sort of legislation. We will deleat their noble objects, in part at enacting a different rule in the exercise of our political rights. It is charged that the Catholic polity is cruel, rotoierant and despotic. The charge is not wholly un founded. Hit bo trne.it £s greatly to be condemned and deplored, and, above all things, ws should avoid imitating Ifeeir vices, and thereby justly subjecting ourselves to this great condemnation. We can neither conquer nor eradi cate tho vices of Romanism, whatever they may be, by im itating them, or by persecution. The world has tried these remedies for centuries past, and tried them in vain. Let us rather oppose her cruelty with kindness, her intolerance with free toleration, (iu subalance as well as form) her dee pot ism with freedom, and then we may reasonably look for different and better results. The moment that the sim ple, yet sublime truth, got itself acknowledged by oar gov ernment, that the citizen is responsible to the State for his civil conduct, but to God only for his religious faith, th# unholy bonds which unite tho church to the State were broken,persecution for conscience sake became impossible here, and religious toleration entered upon its career of uni versal dominion. Its first great triumph waste strike th© fetters from the consciences of Irish Roman Catholics. It has began a similar good work for the Protestants in Spain and Sardinia, and for the Greek jq Turkey, and it will go on ‘'conquering and to conquer,” until the Demon of persecu tion—blind, deaf and stupid—shall have no more abiding place open the face of the earth. The Naturalization laws are greatly complained ofby the American Party. I think them foueded on just principles, and are, in the main, wise and good laws. To naturalize an intelligent foreigner of good moral character, and at tached to free government, and the principles cf our consti tution, and who has resided among ua long enough to test those qualifications, is a great benefit to the state, as well as to the individual who receives the high privilege. Thes are the conditions and safe guards which our laws seek to throw around tho right of citizenship. These laws are, no doubt, frequently {violated; they are, doubtless, imperfect, aad do not fully effeet the objects intended by them. Let alftpreperadditions and amendmete, necessary to carry oat thsee objects, be made, evad then let the law be administered, and these things can he dona without the aid of secret societies. There is another objection to this party, which ahould put ‘it under th© ban of Southern ©pinion. We have had a great | struggle, tor the last six years, upon an intensely exciting i sectional issue. Thi* issue has been settled by the wisdom iof the repreeentativea of the people. This isauo lound ita i solution in the legislation of 1830 {and 1854. The peace j end safety of the Republic demand that this legislation [ should not only be undisturbed, but vigorously upheld by th© ! nation. The American Party, in the north, whenever it i has had j*ower, has shown the most vigorous hostility to ! this legislation. The Know Nothings of Massachusetts • have attempted to nullify it, and have ahown a total disres <zard of their public oaths, and therefore, are wholly incapa ble of'giving any pledge, open or secret, that a man of honesty ought to accept. Political association with tho?o men is moral complicity with their crimes. The true policy cf the south ia to unite ; to lay aside all party divisions; Whigs, Democrat* and Know Nothings should come together, and combine for their common safe ty. It wo are wise enough to do this, to present one un broken column of fifteen States united for the preservation of their own rights, th* constitution and the Union, cndjto uphold and support that noble bend of patriots, at the North, who have stood for the constitution and the rights against the tempest of fanaticism, folly and treason which has as eaiied them, we shall succeed. We ehail then have con quered a peace which will be enduring, and by means which will not invite further aggression. i am, very respectfully, Your ob’t servant, ft. TOOMBS. , Col. T. Lomax, Editor Times & Sentinel, Columbus, Georgia. I— • The Grand National Council of the Kuovo Noth . ings at Phladelphie —This important gathering meets to-day. They will have a nice job of work before them. They must adopt the abolition Praise Godßarebonf* platform ©f Massachusetts, or the extreme Southern platform, or strike n bahnee or a compromise between them. The Virginia election has demonstrated that cy phers, signs, winks, blinks, nods, nudges, grips, p?ss words, hard swearing, rituals, constitutions and secret i circulars ane not sufficient to cover the exigencies ot a national campaign, but that principles for the public eve, as well as a system of discipline for the party lodges, are indispensable for the great approaching contest. What they will do at Philadelphia nobody knows. They will probably haven stormy, revolutionary time of it ; but if their deliberations shall result in revolutionizing the Know Nothing organization upon the practical issues of the day and the principles of eommen sense, then it may be fol lowed bygreat achievements. The issue ia with the del egates. The game i the aestt presidency, We must trait a day or f < JV. Y. J&rehr o4h, The Know Nothing Convention. The latest news which we bare from th© Knov I Nothing Convention in session at Philadelphia, is f ar . f nished in the following extracts from the correspondence ©ftbeiVsw York Herald. After a general ratio* 0 / the elements of the Convention, the reporter to speak of the difficulties which embarrass it, amoc? which, he allndea to tho difference of opinion which i prevails among the members upon th 9 subject of nata ralhwtion, and the Catholic religion, and finally to the ! slavery question ; But the great difficulty for the Council is the slavery question. There seems to bo but one possible mode of solving this difficulty, and that is to allow slavery, like re ligion, to be an open question to all parties in all sections; w> form a great national Know Nothing party on the busis of opposition to the indiscreet and corrupt policy of the present administration, and to allow each section to enter. Lain, unmolested, its local opinions ;n reference to slavery, just as it entertains its private view* on religion. Even this view, it must be admitted, would only b# temporary; the question must be met ultimately in Congress, and an understanding hod on the terms on which new States are to be admitted, whether free or slave, whether according to the constitution and the practice of former Congress or not. Several members of the convention, and others with whom 1 have conversed, consider this the only way of preserving in it* integrity our national organization. They say, let the slavery question be settled by Congress. If Congress, at a fiftare session, cannot agree on a praotica! compromise, Ist it dissolve, and adjourn; let th© question be referred to tho people, aud a convention called to rev se tho constitution and provide anew one, it the old one wilt not aaswer tho purpose. Il is very true that the presen; constitution was framed by wise aud practical men, at ths oloss of tha Revolutionary war, when every faculty of theire was in full play, and their wiUs roused to the utmost degree. But at the same time, the country then contain ed but three millions of people. Tbeir interests were of far less magnitude and less exciting than ours. We now count over twenty-five millions of people and States. Hence our ©iroumetanoes are very different froia j what they were at the present constitution w*s 5 adopted. Unless the s’avory' question is disposed of in some prac* j lical friendly way, by a revision of the constitution and 1 adapted to the growth and increase of the ceuntry, aDgry feelings at e euro to arise, alienation will take place between the North and the South, and the ultimate result will be insurrection and civil war. Hence the proposal we hats beard, if the diffioulty eannot be settled in any other way, to call a now convention of the States and form anew con stitution. If the representatives sf the various States can not agree upon a eompromise that will suit the present time sad give* promise of durability, then the North and th© Sooth had far better separate, amicably, and organise separata republics with asperate governments. F&eeESBING*—FOURTH DAV. Philadelphia, June B—2 r. u. Th© Convention assembled this morning at 9 o’clock. After some genera! discussion the hour for the election of permanent offieere was fixed at four P. M. The follow ing nominations were made:— For President. dames W. Barker, of New York. Jame* B. Ricard, of Maryland. Henry i. Gardner, of Massachusetts. - Bartlett, of Kentucky. Ex-Governor Colby, of New Hampshire. W, W. Danenhower, of Illinois. For|Fce Presidents. Henry J„ Gardner, of Massachusetts. Cone, of Georgia, N. D. Sperry, ot Connecticut. Matthews, of California. For Recording Secretary. Davidtß. Booth, of Connecticut. R, M. Guilford, of Vermont. For'Corresponding Secretary. C. D. Deshler, of New Jersey. There was no nomination of for Treasurer offered. After en animated debate, a resolution was adopted em powering the several delegations to nominate one each a* a wmlue on iLe prepwratiou of a platform, tire nomina tions to be made atjthe afternoon session. At 2P. M. the Convention adjourned tiil four o’clock. Maugro newspaper reports to the contrary, a more harmonious body nerer convened. Barring a sow mal contents, the entire body is strictly national and conserva tive. llalf-fast Six o'Clock. The Convention met *t the hour appointed. The ad ! drees of the late President was read, cmidst the most evi dent demonstrations of appl&un*. The election of officer* was now entered upon ; and ou the sixth balloting—Mr. . Barker having been ahead fiv© ballot* successively— | Me. BARTLETT, of Ksntucrv, i was chosen President, having received ninety vote*. Half-fast Eight o’Clocs. i The following is the result of the election for permanent officers:— President Bartlett, of Kentucky. Vice President C. D. Freeman, of Pennsylvania. Cor. Secretary. ..... C. D. Deshler, of New Jersey. Rec. Secretary Stephens, of Maryland. Tre&urer V, Crane, of Ohio. The following names were announced 03 the nomina tions for tba Committee on Platform. Gibsen, of Illinois, Ellis, of Dit. Columbia, Colfax, of Indiana, Foster, of Massachusetts, Lyons, of New York, Balling, of Virginia, Gamble, of Missouri, Deshler, of New Jersey, Colby, of Now Hampshire, Ricard, of Maryland, Ortle, of Indiana, Matthews, of California. Sperry, of Connecticut, The above is but a partial list of the nominees. It ia sufficient, however, to give an idea of tho character of tho platform whioh will bs presented. At the grand banquet which waa r given to the Conven tion on the 7th, speeches were made by the various States. Mr. Pee represented Georgia, and respon ded lor his State as follows; | lie said: That America had bean charged with boastful • ness, butany man who had such a State as Georgia is, to boast of, might not be ashamed ot indulging in the boast. They had in that State 900 miles of railroad, four colleges for males and four colleges for females, all in successful operation, and all under protestant influence. (Applause ) And be thought that without the Saxon Protestant religion the Saxou blood would bo no better than the Spanish : bood or the Mexican blood. Georgia, he said, was essen tially Protestant, and in a few years the State would com pare, in all the attainments of progress, with any other in the Union. She had some distinguished names in her his tory—such as Baldwin, Crawford, Upshur and others.— Even men who came there from other State? were improv ed by the sojourn. Mr. Seymour, of New York, was a Georgia schoolmaster. So was the Chief Justice cf Indi ana, and their success be ascribed in some degree to some thing peculiar in the air of Georgia. But she was celebra ted lor something more than great men—she was celebra ted for her devotion to the Union. (Applause) She had always stood as the champion of freedom and the champi on of the Union. In conclusion, and in reference to the Union, ha appealed to them in the language of that simple domestic song— Woodman, spare that tree! Tuch not a single bough! Io youth it sheltered me, And I’ll protect it now. (Applause.) Maryland Whigs Denouncing the Enow Nothings. Thi Whigs of St. Mary’s County met in Mass meeting at Leonardtown on Wednesday last, presided over by Col. James T. Biackistone. A series of resolutions were ad opted urging the Whig Party, “throughout the country to organize as heretofore, to disregard all appeals to disband their forces, whether the same conic Know Nothing?, Ab olitionists, or ’Democrats, and again unite, North and South, for the preservation of the Constitution and best in terests of our common country.” The following 13 among the resolutions unsiraously ad opted:— Resolved, That it would he a libel upon the intelligence, the patriotism and the honesty of the American people to suppose that a party organized under the sanction of an unholy oath to keep secret its purpose* and actions, and based upon the principle of exelu&icnof any citizen front •fttv© ©a the ground ©I ft jMtiiUiv&f j variety vt Cfer*fr‘..*a