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(Timxs avfo Sentinel COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1855. FOR GOVERNOR. IIUISMIIFIj V. JOHNSON. * FOR CONGRESS- Ivt District--James G. Seward, of Thomas. 3*|, Jamies M. Smith, ol‘Upson* 4th “ Hiram Warner. sili “ Jno. If. l.umpkin. iitli “ Howell Cobh, ol Clarke. 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 session at that time in Americu?. What say our Demo cratic cotemporaries to this suggestion ? The time and place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwld. Democratic Hally ! There will he a Mass Meeting of the Democratic Party of Muscogee county at Columbus, on Saturday 7th July. Gov. Johnson has consented tube present and ad dress the people. Other distinguished gentlemen will be invited and are expected to attend. The citizens of Mus cogee and the adjoining counties, without distinction of parties, arc respectfully invited to be present. WILLIAM TEN NELL,') J. F. BOZEMAN, M. .1. WELLBORN, ALFRED IVERSON, f Committee. M. J CRAWFORD, TENNANT LOMAX, . Columbus, June 20,4,854. The Action of the Georgia Know Nothings. When wo heard that the Georgia Know Nothings were in Convention at Macon on tho 27th, we hoped they had met together for tho purposo of disbanding their organization. It never oceurred to us that any respectable body of men in the State of Georgia would attempt to build up a party on tho Philadelphia Platform, There is no accounting, however, for the actions of desperate men intent on the acquisition of the spoils. Tho ellort to dissolve the Democratic party having failed ; tho responses to the Columbus movement having shown the irreooneileable elements composing the American party ; the desperate political gamesters who met in Macon on the 27th inst., resolved, as a last chance to retrieve their desperate fourtunes, to stake them nil upon the Know Nothing card. Wo have a meagre account of tho proceedings of the Council in an extra from the office of tho Jour nal ij- Messenger. We publish it in full in another column. “The Platform and Principles of tho Ameri can Party of the State of Georgia/’ is a curious piece of mosaic work. The first resolution “ratifies and ap proves the Platform of Principles adopted by tho lato National Council , of the American party, at Philadel phia ’’ This precious document has already appeared in our columns. It declares that tho “Union of the United States is tho paramount political good;” that the Supreme Court is tho only tribunal to ascertain and expound constitutional questions ; and pretermits any expression of opinion as to the constitutional power of Congress over the subject of slavery in the Territo ries. These high federal doctrines wero no doubt dis tasteful to the Georgia Council and to avoid them, they have tacked on to them eight more resolutions, some of which are in tho teeth of the Philadelphia Platform, in the 4th resolve, they re-aflirm tho Georgia Platform of 1850 and pledgo themselves to stand by and carry out its principles. Now it is well known that the Georgia Platform expressly asserts that tho Union is secondary to the rights and principles it was designed to porpetualo ; and that in tho solemn resolve to resist tho notion af Congress upon four specified points, the Georgia Convention took the responsibility of inter preting tho constitution for itself in utter disregard of the decisions of tho Supremo Court of the United Slates. Thus it will be seen that tho two Platforms are wholy irieeoncileable and that no party can stand on both. The one is founded upon State Rights and looks to State remedies. The other is old Federalism revived and pledges the people of Georgia to submission to any outrage Congress may perpetrate upon Southern Rights, which the Supremo Court may sanction. Such du plicity as this is beneath contempt. It is a wretched at tempt to run wiih tho hare and hunt with the hounds. It can fool nobody who is not determined to be bam boozled. But this is hut one of many of the attempts made by this wretched council to deceive the people. In their seventh resolution they concur in the opinion ex pressed in the meeting of the citizens of Columbus, held on the 2Gth May, “that the tiino has arrived when our fellow citizens should cease from their dissensions and forgot the differences which have separated them” and pledge tho Know Nothings to 1 cheerfully eo operate with nil who may unite with (them) in tho en deavor to accomplish so noblo and patriotic an object.” Now it will be remembered that tho Columbus move ment looked to a dissolution of all connection with exist ing organizations and the formation of a party upon the Georgia Flatforin of 1850. We havo already shown how irreconcilcablo are the Georgia and Philadelphia Platforms. If wo aro right in our interpretation, then tho glaring insincerity of this 7th resolution is palpable. T 1 to truth of this position was felt and acknowledged by the citizens of Columbus who started the Columbus movement. They expressly advised the Know Nothing Skate Council to make no nomination for Governor.— They did so because the American party was an exist ing national organization, formed for other objects and purposes than the union of the South to resist “a com - mon danger and common enemy.” The second resolution of the Platform is equally insin cere and deceptive. It “utterly disclaims any intention to prescribe a religious test as a qualification for ofilce yet it is known that the members of the American party mo sworn not to vote for a Catholic for any oihee : nay, mot e ; the Catholic Know Nothings were excluded from scats in tho Philadelphia Grand Council solely on account of their religion. The sixth resolution denounces “all opposition to tho principles of the Nebraska-Kansas act, in relation to slavery, ns hostility to the constitutional rights of the South; anil all persons who partake in such opposi tiou as unfit to be recognized as members of the American party.” This all sounds very well. But what power has the Georgia Csunoil to road even such Southern traitors as Rayner, of N. C , and Stewart, of Ala., out of the party. They denounce the Nebraska- Kansas net as “an outrage upon the North” and yet tlmy are members of the National Grand Council which gives tin? law to the Council. But the most deceptive of all the series of resolutions embraced in the Platform of the Georgia Know Noth >ngs is tho 9th. “In the favor of the acquisition of Cuba M hat ? Add Foreigners and Catholics to t! e voting population of u.e United States by a dash of tie pen? It cannot be poWp* y ? Yet such is the! meaning of the resolution; 3 The denunciations of the Federal and State admin istrations are a matter of course. It is Buflioient that they were Democratio to secure Know Nothing hostili ty. In the last canvass fur Governor the appointments of the President were passed upon by the people of Georgia,and in the main approved. lie has done nothing since to outrage public sentiment. Would it not have been more patriotic to approve the great measure of the administration by which the Missouri restriction was repealed and the South enabled to appropriate Kansas to her own use ? Could they see nothing in tho enforcement of the Fugitive Sla law in Boston to approve ? Were not his vetoes worthy of commen dation ? Why then “unqualified condemn” the admin istration ? Even admitting that some objectionable men have been appointed to office, is not this a small matter when compared with the great measures of the admin istration ? Without wasting further space upon this matter, we affirm that under tho present adrnistration the South occupies a more controlling position than she has enjoyed under any other since Andrew Jackson sat in tho Presidential chair. The attack upon Governor Johnson’s administration is not made in direct terms : we presume, however, that the resolution about the State Road was intended to reflect upon him. The only objection we ever heard made to the management of the State Road is that freights were too high. Is it the purposo of tho Know Nothings to reduce them and thus mako this great work a charge upon jhe people ? Wo would like to meet that issue. We have now gone through with this Georgia Know Nothing Platform, and our judgment is, that it is a poor, weak, sickly concern, which must break down be fore the canvass is half over. Every body can see that it is a botch, constructed of all sorts of timber, and erec ted by ’prentice hands. It is a miserable effort to unite all persons, factions, cliques, orders and parties in opposition to tho Democracy, and is but another evi dence of “the wild hunt after office’’ that characterizes jhe age. With one breath they propose to check for eign immigration; with the next to add 1,000,000 foreigners to our population. With one breath they de nounce tho Catholics ; with the next they are anxious to add a-State to the Union in which the whole popula tion are Catholics. With one breath they assert that the Supreme Court of the United States is the only le gitimate tribunal to decido upon the constitutionality of laws ; with the next they adopt the Georgia Platform by which Georgia assumes the right to judge for her self of infractions of her constitutional rights. With one breath they declare “the Union to be the paramount political good ;’’ with the next they pledgo themselves to the Columbus Movement the princpal object of which was to preparo the people of Georgia for dissoluton un der certain contingencies. The statue at Rhodes strided tho harbor ; but this modern divinity like the American Eagle of 4th July orators, dips one wing in the Atlantic and tho other in the Paeifio, drinks out of the lakes, and flaps its tail in tho Gulf of Mexico. It plants one foot in Federalism, and the other on States Rights. It’s as double faced as Janus. It is all things to all men. We are ashamed of it. There is nothing in it to admire. The Chronicle & Sentinel on the Columbus Movement. In this connexion, it may not be improper to notice a very puerile effort of the Columbus Times to misrepie> sent the objects and purposes of the advocates of the movement, by publishing an extract from the Columbus Corner Stone , an open and avowed disunion, for the sake of disunion, organ, which declares it a sectional move ment, atid therefore favors it. If that was the purpose of the editor of the Corner Stone in participating in the meeting at Columbus, he will find when the convention meets, that he reckoned without his host, and was entire* ly out of place in that meeting. Else there is no judging of public sentiment, by the avowals of the people in their primary assemblies.— Chronicle Sentinel. Without stopping to rcpell tho charge of “misresenta tion,” which is false, contained in the foregoing extract-, we pass on to say that if the Columbus movement is not sectional it is utterly contemptible and cannot carry a county in the second congressional district. We de nounced it from the first because we believed it to be in attempt to perpetrate a fraud upon the people of til's dis trict by pretending to be sectional while in fact it was a mere reconstruction of tho old Whig parly under anew name. That our denunciations were well founded, the above extract from tho Chronicle Sentinel conclusive ly proves. The nmi-Knovv Nothing Democrats who joined the Columbus movement and made it respectable t were, and are, violent Southern Rights men, with strong Failings towards disunion. That their object and pur pose was the formation of a sectional party, we know, and respect them accordingly. Once prove to them tlmt the movement is national and not sectional, and they would ily Irom it as quick as from the plague. While wo dif’ for from these patriotic men as to the policy of the for mation of a sectional party at this time, wo have warned them against being carried off by the Columbus move ment into a national organization out side of the. Demo cratic party. Instead, therefore, of misrepresenting the Columbus movement as charged by the Chronicle Sentinel, our effort has been to kill it by showing that it was national and not sectional. If tho change of nation ality is established, there is an end of the Columbus move ment in this section, and we tender our thanks to the Chronicle Sentinel for its valuable aid in sustaining our charge. _ The Know Nothings and the Columbus Movement. Our readers will bear as witness that we have constant ly urged the Democrats of Muscogee county to insist as a preliminary to cot operating with Know Nothings in the Columbus movement that they come out of the order.— The wisdom of our advice is vindicated by the event. Many o! the leading members of the order, who participated ! in the Columbus movement, were delegates to the late Know Nothing convention at Macon and are ccmmittcd thereby to the support of the Philadelphia Platform und 1 the nominee of the party. Will the Bth August Convention be Held ? it was understood that if the Columbus movement fail ed to unite the people ts Georgia, the leading Democrats who participated in it were pledged to fall back upon the Democratic party. The object of the movement has fail ed, The light in Georgia will be between the Democ racy and the Know Nothings. It now becomes the duty of those men to take sides between these two parties. The body of tho people are on one side or the other. A third party will be crushed in the colisiou of these oppos ing hosts. We therefore hope that the Convention of the Bth of August will not be held, and that our fiiends who have gone off from us w ill come back and aid us in sus taining the Platform of Georgia Democracy against the Philadelphia reform pf the Know .Nothings. The Vote upon the Nebraska-Kansas Bill. As the soundness of parties upon the Nebraska- Kansas bill is a matter of daily disoussion, we give be low the votes by whioh it was carried in both houses of Congress. For the Bill in the Senate. Northern Democrats. 14 votes. Northern Whigs DO “ Southern Democrats 14 “ Southern Whigs ‘J “ —37 Against the Bill in the Senate. Northern Democrats 4 vote3. Northern Whigs 6 “ Democrats 1 “ tSouthern Whigs 1 “ Abolitionists 2 “ For the Bill in the House of Representatives. Northern Democrats 41 votes. Northern Whig* 00 “ Southern Democrats 54 “ Southern Whigs 14 “ —lO9 Against the Bill in tpe House of Representatives. Northern Democrats 38 votes. Northern Whigs 43 “ Southern Democrats. 1 “ Southern Whigs 6 “ —BB In the two Houses tho Northern Democracy east 55 votes for the bill : and 42 against it: the Northern Whigs cast 00 votes for the bill and 49 against it : the Southern Democrats oast 68 votes for the bill and 2 against: the Southern Whigs cast 23 votes for the bill and 7 against it. The above record is not pleasant to contemplate, but we think it well enough to keep it before those very patriotic citizens of Georgia who propose to form a na tional party out of the Northern elements opposed to the Democracy. On the Nebraska-lvansa9 bill there were only 00 Northern men in favor of the South out side the Democratio party. Take all of them and add them and their constituencies to the Columbus move ment men and it strikes us that the party would hardly bo “a national movement to crush seetiomd encroach ment.” What then do the admirers of the Columbus move ment mean by attempting to oonvert it into a national movement? Is not tho whole object and aim of the movement to organize all the elements of tho opposition to tho Democracy in Georgia into a party under a’ spe cious name for tho sake of the spoils ? Experience has proven that no other political organization, except that of the Democracy, can live “in the stiff current” of abolition excitement in tho Nothcrn States? Why then waste time and energy in attempting to construct a new one. There is but two ways by which tho De mocracy can be overcome, Ist by the formation of a submission party under the cry of Union. 2d “by a bo na fide disunion party. Tho Savannah Republican is evidently looking to the first alternative and the Cos lumbus Enquirer to the last. One word of council.— You must unite gentlemen upon one or the other line of policy if you expect to conquer tho Democracy. Di vided counsels will end in your utter overthrow. *The Southern Democrat who voted against the bill is old Sam Houston and he is now a Know Nothing. t I’he Southorn Whig who voted against the bill is Gov. Bell, of Tennessee, and he is now a Know Nothing. The Know Nothing Nominee for Governor. The lion. Garnett Andrews is n resident of Wilkes County, Ga. lie filled the office of Judge of the Su perior Court for some years and acquired very great notoriety for a decision by which Universahsts were prevented from giving evidence in a Court of justice, on account of their religious belief. He would seem to be a fit representative of a party which would ex clude Catholics from office on account of their religion and foreign born citizens from the polls, on account of their birth place. We are not aware that he ever held any political office. At any rate, the fame of his political acts has never reached us, and wo do not know where to find them. On the 31st August, 1850, ho wrote a letter which was published in the Columbus Enquirer, on the Bth October ISSO. By the kindness of the conductors of that journal, we have been favored with a re-perusal of that remaikable State paper. In these troublous times, when seciion is arrayed against section, and tho word resistance is upon the tongue, we had some curiosity to know how lion. Garnett Andrews felt during a similar period in our history. We regret to say that tho sen timents contained in his letter satisfy us that ho is the last man in Georgia who ought to be trusted with pow er in this momentous crisis in our affairs. There was a class of Union men in that day who differed with us as to the remedy for the evils with which the South was threatened ; but they looked tho North sternly in the face, and in the solemn language of the 4th resolu tion of the Georgia Flatform, pledged the State of Geor gia “to resist even, as a last resort, to a disruption of every tie that bound her to the the Union,” if the Con gress of the United States infringed certain specified constitutional rights of the South. We thought tho time had come for Georgia to act; we think so still ; but Georgia decided differently, and we, as loyal citi zens, submitted to her decision. We then took our stand upon the fighting line of the Georgia Platform, and are now willing to lock shields with all men, with out regard to former divisions, and die on that line. Is llou. Garnett Andrews on that line ? Was he ever on that line ? Can he ever get up to that line ? We fear not. Our only means of forming an opinion upon this interesting subject, is his aforesaid letter, from which we cull the following extracts : 110 says : “It has not yet been shown, or hardly attempted to be shown, that disunion would remedy any wrong, or give security to any right of the South. So far from it, it would remedy no evil , and would destroy the main se curity for slavery,” The Georgia Platform men did not think so. Read the 4th resolution and judge for yourselves. But hear the Know Nothing nominee again : “But, says rampant chivalry, shall we always submit to ag gression, outrage and inequality ? No. When an act of aggression shall bo committed that shall infringe our rights, I would recommend an appropriate resistance. IVhat appropriate resistance is, we are not so clearly informed. It is not disunion, however, in tho opinion of Judge Andrews. Hear him again ; “I consider a dissolution no remedy for, or resistance to anything. It the Wilmot Proviso were passed”— he would resist even, as a last resort, to a disruption of every tie that binds Georgia to the Union ? No, Sir. “I v.ould advise/’ says Judge Andrews, “a col onization of the country by force of arms, as a better remedy than a dissolution of the Union.” But we must close this sickening record. We are sorry Garnett Andrews was nominated by oven the Know Nothings. In the forcible language of Mr. Web ster, “it was a nomination not fit to bo made’’ in this cri sis of our affairs. We would be uuder many obligations to his supporters if they would ask him “what course ho would puisue as Governor of Georgia if Kansas were refused admission into the Union because of slavery.” Valedictort Address. —Dr. Win. W. Flewellen, of this city, has been chosen to deliver the \a'edictory Ad dress before the graduating elasj! in the Atlanta Medi cal College. A Southern Sectional Organization. We do not think there is any danger to the South or tbo Union in tho formation of a Southern sectional organization, provided the South could bo united in the movement. We have always contended, and now be lieve, that tho North would yield whatever tho South would demand with firmness and uuanmity. But tho danger is, that if tho Southern Democracy should form on a Southern line, tho opposition in tho South would raise the Union standard again, and conquer them ns they did iu ISSO. In order to avoid this calamity the Georgia Democracy formed upon tho 4th resolution of tho Georgia Platform, to which tho entire Union party in Georgia is committed. We place before them tho alternative of co-operating with us or of abandoning their own fighting line. If they co-operate witlv us, even in au opposing organization, all is well. If they back out, they forfeit public confidence and give us an easy victory. Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Hank. —Wo call the special attention of business men to tho advertise ment of this institution. E. T. Taylor, the President, is well known in this community as a gentleman of ca pacity and honesty. J. 11. Fonda , Cashier, is a com parative stranger, but brings with him the highest tes timonials from unquestionable sources as to his qualifi cations and character. We believe the public will be anti rely safe in dealing with the bank with its present ! organization. A Good Nomination. — Tho Democracy of Mobile, Alabama, have nominate lion. E. S. Dargan as the candidate of the party for State Senator. Judge Dnr gan has presided over the Supreme Court of Alabama with eminent ability. lie is a reliable man and would adorn any position. Garnett Andrews’ Nomination. The intelligence of the nomination of Garnett Andrews by the Know Nothings as their candidate for Governor of Georgia, was received, even by the Know Nothings in Co lumbus, with surprise and .mortification. It will probably result in the withrawal oi a large number from the order. It is conceded on all hands that he will be the best whipt man that ever ran lor Governor of the State. Tho major ity of Johnson, it is very generally conceded, will not be less than 20,000. University of Georgia, at Athens. Tho Commencement exorcisei of the University begin by a Commencement sermon on Sunday, July 2‘Jth, by the llev. W. G. Connor, of tho Georgia Conference. On Monday afternoon, (30th) the Sophomore Prize Ex hibition, in which are appointed the lollowing aspirants: Thus. E. Blaekshear, W. W. Belcher,! J. 11. Blount, Barna MeKinnie, A. D. Burns, W. A. McTycr, J. L. Couper, B. B. Parrot, T. W. Harris, George Striven, George Hill. Wm. Ward, B. L. Jones, K. A. Quarterman, J. P. C. Whitehead. On Tuesduay Uhe3lst) the Junior Exhibition—Speakers E. D. Betnan, James M. Hull, William Chase, John Lamar, vv . O. Flemming, J. W. Moure, John S. Hardee, Joseph Bou, Charles S. Hart, L. C. Wilson, After which the (.delivery of jthe Brize Medals with an ad dress by the lion. J. McPherson Berrien. Jn the ailer noon, meeting of the Alumni, and Literary Address. On Wednesday, August Ist, Commencement Exercises. Andley Maxwell, Ist Honor, W. A. Clark, Ist Honor, Geo. W. Philpott, 2d Honor, J. H Person, 3d “ W. S. Chisholm, 3d “ Alexander Atkinson, 4th “ SPEAKERS. K. G. Baxter, J. J. Norton, E. K. Bozeman, D. Scott, E. B. Brown, J. A. Stanley, It. 11. Fudge, 1). A. Walker, R.C. MeGough,’ W.D. Wash, J. 11. Neal, E 11. Wells, In the afternoon, Annual Celebration of the Demos then-* ian and Phi Kappa Societies. On Thursday, an address before tho two Societies, in the Chapel, closes the week’s Literary Carnival.— Athens Banner. New Hampshiro Legislature, Concord, N. 11. June 20. In the House today, addresses for the removal of Joshua Attwood, Sherifi’of Hillsboro county, and Adjutant Gen eral Wadleigh, were pased by large majorities. Mr. Tappan, of Bradford, gave notice that he should shortly introduce a personal liberty bill. Know Nothing Defeat in Norfolk. Norfolk, June 25. By a fusion of all parties, Hunter Woodis, Anti-Know Nothing, was elected Mayor to-day. The rest ol the tick ets are in doubt Repudiates the Secret, Order. —True to their spirit ol misrepresentation, the Know Nothings ot New York have recently stated that Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson was a mem ber of the order. Tho National Democrat lias been “autho rized to say he is not and never has been, and never will be, a member of the Know Nothing order. Those who make such an assertion either do not know the man or are hired to misrepresent him.” Later from Mexico. New York, June 25. The Steamer George Law has arrived here from Aspin vvall with later dates fiom California. She is now in quarantine. She lias onboard 81,052,000 in specie. From Washington—Wilson and Clayton certainly to bo Removed. Washington, June 22. The Bresidont has finally determined to remove Mr. Wilson, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Ex- Governor Shannon, of Ohio, who is now here, will be ten dered the appointment. Judge Young, of Illinois, I was informed this evening, will supersede Mr. Clayton as Second Auditor. Mr. M’Cleland, Secretary of tho Interior, told a friend 1 that if Wilson was removed, he would send in his resigna tion to the I‘re.sident. Hon. Jesse D. Bright arrived this evening. Princeton College Commencement. Princeton, June 22, 1355. The Commencement at Princeton College occurs on Wednesday next. The day previous, Itev. Dr. James \V. Alexander, of New Yotk, will deliver an address before the Literary Society. Departure of tho Africa from Halifax. Halifax, June 22,1855. The royal mail steamship Africa arrived at this port from Boston between twelve and one o’clock tin's morning, and sailed again for Liverpool at ihree. Weather fine. The[.Nicaragua Expedition. Washington, June 23,1855. The Consul Fabens and Fletcher Webster came hither for the purpose of getting a clearance for Colonel Kinney’s steamer is generally believed, but in the conferences with certain executive officers they did not bioach the subject. The present temper of the administration is decidedly against such action. The Ohio Republican State Convention. Cincinnati, June 23, 1855. A large convention was held hero to-day to nominate delegates to the lb-publican State Convention to be he'd at Columbus on the 13th July. Owing to the fact that two calls had been published—one for to-day, and another tor the 7th July -a good deal of excitement prevailed; but a compromise was finally eIF-cted, and it was finally agreed that there should be only one convention, and the Know Nothings, anti slavery men, and outsiders all united, and the list ol delegates reported by the compromise committee was confirmed almost unanimously. The Georgia Platform—State Action. The Georgia Democratic Convention, when it incor porated into its declaration of principles the solemn re solves of the Convention of the Sovereign People of the State in ISSO, struck a key note which has already awa kened the spirit of the Southern people, and is destined to give character and form to the contest now impending. The “Georgia Platform” is now the rallying ground ot the South. Tho New Orleans Bulletin, in a brief and pithy editorial, which we copy, refuses to acknowledge that this platform is Democratic property,and proudly and fairly claims that it belongs to the w hole South, —to all who acknowledge that our country is worth defending.— This feeling of brotherhood in the day of peril is so life thing to cherish ; it is in fact all that is needed to give us invincible strength, and save us from the very perils which the lovers of the Union are so fond of dwelling on, its a means of paralyzing all bo’d action of the South. Even tho Albany Argus, the organ of a division of the Democratic parly of Now York, tiuds in ti e resolu tions of the Georgia Convention, nothing adverse to sound. Democratic principles—nothing that tho true nun of tho whole Confederacy could not unite upon. And the Argus is right, for these principles aie based upon a lair interpretation of the Constitution, and contemplate no resistance except to a violation of the equal lights of the members of the Confederacy. This at least ought to be common ground. But wo take especial \ U nsure in presenting our read ers the following letter of Governor Johnson, of Georgia, written in reply to inquiries as to bis official course in a certain specified case. The Savanuah Georgian praises highly, but not too highly, the explicit, manly and bold po sition taken by the Governor, who is the candidate ol the Democratic party for re-election, and therefore writes with the strongest probability that he may be called on to redeem his pledges by his official acts. There is no evasion in this letter. It meets the threat ened issue in the face, and leaves no possibility of doubt as to the course the Governor will pursue, if the exigen cy occurs during his official term. The Georgia Platform was laid down, not by a party gathering, but by the high est power of the State ; a Constitutional Convention of the people. The Governor justly regards it ns a part of the organic law, equal in binding Ibrce to the State Consti tution. If its conditions shall be broken, he will ‘feel bound at once to convoke this supreme power to resist or avenge the violation. We seem to see before us now, firm ground, on which the South may hopefully and fearlessly take her stand. Let us put aside vain strifes about trifles, and with Georgia as our leader, wo may with perfect confi dence count upon passing through this trial without loss and without dishonor.— Charleston Mercury. Tho Democratic Platform. The Democratic Convention, which met at Baton Rouge in the beginning of the week, adopted a series of resolutions, which will be found in another place, and which may be considered as a formal and official profes sion of the political faith of the Democratic party of Lou isiana. The first resolution is what is called, and well known as, the “Georgia Platform the principal authorl which was Mr. Stephens, the then recognised leader of the Uni. on party of Georgia, in contradistinction from the Nulli fying or Secession party. The Georgia Blatfomi is wide and deep, and strong enough for every good patriot and Union man to stand upon, whether he livis on the Ken., m bee or on the Mirsifs ppi. It asks fur nothing um ea j siidable, or what is unconstitutional. It makes no ex travagant or novel exactions ; it simply declares that tho ,8 mill requires the faithful e.v euiii ii of already existing laws. She advances no new el unis, nor wishes to extort any eo!Mcssi>n*trom the North which is not warranted by the Constitution, and the !. v\already passed by Con gress. The South only asks of her Northern brethren to bo let alone ; non-intervention in ai! mallets relating to our peculiar instituting,so. far as it has 1> on recognized by the action of tile Na ioiial is what the South demands, ainl what she will and must have. So far as this first, res- hit on is concurred, it is not merely a standard or basis of I)timeiatie faith, but it is the cardinal doctrine of till parties in slave Slates. There is no party at the South that could exist a day that would dare renounce, repudiate or disclaim it ; or that would even give it the go by. It would be a fatal casus omissus, should any party omit to give it a forma) and mm served imprimatur. If our Dunocratic friends for a moment suppose, that they alone are going to nppr< priatc this platform b> thornseives, interposing on the rooiv of priori ty or pre-emption right to it,th*-y are much mist. ken.— It is common property in which we all have a common interest, and we are very sure to assert our right, and have it too, in and to it.—’ New Orleans Commercial Bulletin. Tho Massachusetts Know Nothings.* Host >n, June 23, 1855. A meeting of Know Nothings in the Eleventh ward of this city, 1: st night, was nddr s.-ed by St nab r Wilson and Governor Gardner. The’* former confined his speech to | the subject of theThii.-uh Iphia National Convention, as serting that it was the aim and desire of the Massachu setts delegation to avoid the question of slavery, which w.-is forced upon them by the South, and they were obliged to meet it then and there. In the Convention, Mr. Bowlin, of Virginia, said he in tended t > whip some Massachusetts man, and Judge Cow, of Georgia demanded, and would have a declare* tion from the North in favor of slavery; otherwise her delegates would leave. Mr. Wilson said that seventeen of the platform committee supported the majority resolu tions, principally corning from States where the American party had been defeated, and they were opposed by fuur < teen delegates, representing one hundred and twenty-six electoral votes in those States where the American party had triumphed. r lbe delegates from Georgia went in for George Law for President; also six from Pennsylva nia. Mr. Wilson said that G overnor Gardner told the South that not a city nor a town in Masnchusetts would support tho majority platform, and that Mr. Brooks, of the New York Express , had said that the whole North would spurn tho platform. It was attempted in the Council to put him (Wilson) down—to turn him out — when Governor Gardner declared that if such was the result he. too, would leave. Mr. Wilson was very severe • on the “doughfaced” New York delegation, whom lie j charged with keeping the Massachusetts delegation from the Council for twenty-four houis after the proceedings commenced. Suicide in Taylor County. —We regret to learn through a friend that Mr. William Lewis of Taylor coun ty, committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol on 24th hist. It is said that domestic misunderstanding was the moving cause of the fatal act. The deceased was 53 years of age.— Col. Eny. British Consul Held to Bail. New York, June 27. The British Consul at New York has been held to bail, on the charge of enlisting troops for the Crimea. Know Nothing Defeat. Norfolk, June 28. V ood the Anti-Know No hing candidate for Mayor has been elected in Norfolk. [Flournoy’s majority in that city over Wise was 395 votes.] Death of Ez-Governor Collier. —The Selma (Ala ] Reporter regrets to learn that Ex-Gev. Collier died a few days since, in Tuscaloosa county. He had been pre viously ill from an attack of jaundice, and had started to Blount Springs and died on the road from a sudden and violent attack of I lie disease. (Gov. Culler is not dead, but dangerously ill.)—Eds. State 1 empcrance Convention. —We are requested to say that the State Temperance Convention will inert iu Marietta on the second Wednesday in July.—Atlan ta Intelligencer. Tho Contrast. Democratic. Platform. —Ist. Resolved, In the lan guage of theGGeorgia. Cove. Convention of 1850, that we h"’d the American Union secondary in importance only to the f'giits and principles it was d< signed to j*erpetuafe : that past associations, present fruition, and luiure prospects, will bind us to it so long as it continues to be the safe-* guild of those rights and principles. Know Nothing Platfonn—\\l. —The mfiu’enanee of the Union of these United States as the paramount political good.