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Ctnws <mir Snrtitwl. GEORGIA^ WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, FOR GOVERNOR. „ _ IIEIIS€IIEL V. JOHNSON. FOB CONGRESS -Ist District—James L. Sewaril, of 1 homas. 3d, James M- Smith, of l pson. 4 t li <• Hiram Warner, of Meriwether. r,,h << Jno. 11. Lumpkin. Cth “ Howell Cobb, 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 Americus. What say our Demo cratic cotemporaries to this suggestion 1 The time and place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd. Democratic Itally ! There will be a Mass Meeting of the Democratic Party of Muscogee county at Columbus, on Saturday 7th July. Gov. Johnson has consented to be 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, are respectfully invited to be present. WILLIAM TENNILLE,3 J. F. BOZEMAN, M. J. WELLBORN, } ALFRED IVERSON, (Committee. M. J CRAWFORD. TEN N-fiNT LOMAX, J Columbus, June 26. 1854. Southern Delegates to the Philadelphia Con vention. We can scarcely find a place upon the body of Know Notbingism to which we can apply the whip without “touching the raiof It is really painful to us to han dle the galled moster, it winces so painfully under the touch. But wo may not shrink from duty however painful the task may be. It is known that on the passage of the Platform of Principles, wishy-washy as it was on the subject of slavery, twelve States withdrew from the Grand Coun cil and two more protested against that part of it. New York and California alone, of the hireling States, stood by the Platform and it is almost certain that the State Council of New York will repudiate the action of her delegates. Very great merit is claimed for the Southern delegates because they took, it is said, such high ground on the slavery question that they drove their Northern brethren out of the Grand Coun cil. We have heretofore shown that, in several particu lars, the Southern Know Nothings made fatal conces sions to their abolition confederates to preserve their Northern alliances ; namely, in pretermiting any expres sion of opinion as to the power of Congress over slavery in the Territories ; in declaring the Union of the United States the paramount political good ; and in denying to the States and conferring upon the Supreme Court the sole power to interpret the constitution. We, there fore, arrive at the conclusion that the schism in the Grand Council arose, not from the soundness of the Southern, but the rottenness of the Northern dele gate, most of whom were Abolitionists and ought never to have been met by loyal citizens of the South, except as traitors to the constitution and enemies of the South. We propose to make this assertion apparent in this article, so far as many of the Southern delegates are concerned. Our authority for what we shall say about them is the American Organ , a Know Nothing paper published at Washington city and edited by Vespasian Ellis, who was a delegate to the Grand Council and knows whereof he affirms. We charge Ist, That nearly every Southern man in the National Council of Know Nothings admittted that, as a question of policy, the repeal of the Missouri Com promise, by the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act, was a blunder. We charge 2d, That many of them denounced the Nebraska-Kansas act as an outrage upon the North. We charge 3d, That some of them advocated the repeal of the Nebraska-Kansas act and the restora tion of the Missouri line, whereby slaves was excluded from all Territory es the United Spates lying North of 36 deg. 30 min. These are grave charges and would damn any party in the South, if the public mind were in a healthy State. In proof of our first charge we quote the’language of the American Organ. It sa\s : “On this point we have first to say that nearly every Southern man in the National Council, who expressed his opinions on the subject, admitted that, as a question of policy, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854 was a blunder—that it was not theu demauded by the South, and that it had re-opened the agitation of a questiou dan gerous to the peace and harmony of the country. There was no demand—no necessity —no occasion for any dis urbance of the Compromise line of 1820. Its disturbance, as a question of policy, (not of right,) was the most reck less act of legislation recorded in American history. In proof of our second charge, we quote the lan guage of Mr. Ford, of Ohio, and Mr. Rayner of N. C , delivered in the National Council: Mr. Ford.—You acknowledge you have had the con sideration—ypu admit the repeal to be unjust and an out rage, and yet you refuse To right it.” Objection was made by several Southern members to the assertion that they admitted the righteousness of the repeal. “W e |] then,” said Mr. Ford, “get up and tell us what you think about it. Let us hear your confessions)” Mr. Hopkins of Alabama, rose and defended the repeal as that of an unconstitutional act. Cunningham of South Carolina, said ditto, and so one or two others. “Go ahead,” said Mr. Ford, “let us hear you all.” Kenneth Rayner.—“ls it expected that Southern gen • tlemeu generally will give their mental experience ? Ford.—“Yes,yes; let us hear you all.” Ilayner.—“W ell, then, L have to say that the repeal of tho Missouri Compromise was an uncalled for and unnec essary a t, an outrage even, a violation of plighted faith ; and I would have seen my right arm wither and my tongue palsied before I would have votvd for it.” Several other model ate men of the slave States agreed with Mr. Rayner, hut were not prepared to aid in righting the wrong, whose iniquity and injustice they freelv ad mitted. ■* The proof upon the third charge is not so clear. It is known that Kenneth Rayner, of N. C., submitted a distinct proposition to restore the Missouri line. ITow much strength it had iu Convention is not known as the call for the previous question prevented a vote upon it. It is reasonable, however, to suppose that he had back ers from the South or he would not have made so hold a surrender of Southern R-ghts. Mr. Vespasian Ellis, however, submitted a proposition of similar purport in these words: (we quote from the American Organ.) “Resolved, lha ths National Council, without ex pressing any opinion upon the constitutionality of the M ssomi Compromi-e, as an original proposition, but, con sidering the rtpeal tfsaid Compromise impolitic and un wise, : lid there ixistingdouh s as to the practicability and expediency of restoring said compromise by laic, tl.is Na tional Council lit-rebv declares, that the American party ought not to either insist upon , urge, or require , the vdmission of any Territory into the Union us a slave State, which lies North of the Campromise line; and ! that, on the other hand, said party will interpose no ob jections to the admission of any Territory into the Union as a slave State, which lies South of said Compromise line; thus virtually restoring, without legislation, the original compact made between the North and South in 1820.” We think the proof adduced is sufficient to convince every honest man that our charges against the South ern Delegates to the Know Nothing National Council are true. We dare not trust ourselves with the liberty of characterising the conduct of these faithless Southern delegates. We, therefore, adopt the language of t'"’ Richmond Enquirer and comm >d it to the careful consideration of Southern men. The Enquirer says : “Now, what does all this mean, but that the Ameri can Organ, which is held up for its devotion to the South, was and is wjjling to surrender a ground of the most vital importance to the South ? A critical ques tion, now before the country, is tfi,e admission of Kansas into the Union as a State. Under the lead of Douglas and other noblo Northern men, the sectional and de grading line of the Missouri Compromise waß blotted out, and thereby to Southerners was conceded, as an act of simple justice, the right to carry their own pro perty into the territory. In the progress of time, and in spite of the organized emigration movements of New England Abolitionists, the Southern men have acquired a foothold in Kansas by the popular vote, with a bright prospect of establishing their right tha constitution, which gives equal protection to all sorts of property. Just at tliia important crisis, when the South is about to have justice done to her citizens, such friends of the South as Kenneth Rayner and the American Organ step forward and denounce the repeal of the Missouri Cemproinise as ‘a blunder,’ and as ‘the most reckless act of legislation recorded in American history/ The American Organ goes still father and calls upon the whole ‘American’ organization to wipe out practically this awful ‘blunder,’ and to ‘virtually re store, without legislation, the original compact made be tween the North and South in 1820’—in other words, really to give new life to the degrading Missouri Com promise, and to restore a gross and unqualified act of injustice and degradation to the South. And all this to conciliate the abolitionists and to give peace and harmony to the great “American’ party ! “But the reasons given are, if possible, more mon strous than the proposition itself. They are that the whole question is a mere shadow of an abstraction ; that all the Southern men in the Philadelphia Council ar gued that Kansas could not be a slave State, and that not one single member of the Council was heard to ex press a wish that Kansas should be a slave State.— What an extraordinary representation the South had in the Council! Men who, instead of standing by the South in the hour of trial, and when by the union of her son3, the South might acquire practical justice and benefit, threw down their arms to the abolitionists, and surrendered at discretion all the real rights of the South ! According to the Organ, every representative of the South surrendered the whole question and threw the whole weight of his position into the anti-slavery scale, so far as Kansas is concerned ! “Is not the Organ condemned out of its own mouth, in the opinion of every true Southern man ? When such sentiments as we have above quoted, are publicly proclaimed as the voice of eren the Know Nothings ■ “ the South, how can they expect to dupe the South by hollow platforms into an affiliation with so detestable a party? Every step taken to patch up the disjointed fragments of ‘Sam’ exposes the deception in anew and more damning light. The whole concern is a wretched cheat, and the whole South will, like Virginia, repudiate and spit upon it.’’ Great Gathering of the New York Democracy. In delightful contrast with the treasonable language of a number of Southern delegates to the Grand Coun- I cil of the Know Nothings recently held at Philadelphia, and which we have noticed in another article, are the resolu’’ ns and speeches of the Democracy of New York made and adopted at a mass meeting of the hard shells on the 27th uU. The following resolutions on the subject of slavery were unanimously adopted by over two thousand five hundred Democrats in the city of New York: Resolved , That Congress has no power to interfere with, or attempt to dictate or control the domestic institu tions of States or Territories, aud that its power to do so in the District of Columbia, being gravely disputed, ought not to be exeroised ; that we deprecate and oppose the agitation of the subject of slavery in Congress, under any shape or form ; and while we approve of. and will adhere to, as just and constitu:onal, the existing legislation up on the subject of the rendition of fugitive slaves, and the principle of the acts organizing the Territories of Utah, New Mex’co, Kansas and Nebraska, we demand, in the name of the sound Union feeling of the country, that all insane sectional prejudices—unfraternal agitations—and hypocritical aggressions, fomented by designing and dan gerous men. shall cease. Resolved , That we utterly repupiate and disavow the demand of Northern abolitionists —first enunciated by the Buffalo Convention, which nominated Van Buren and Adams in IS4B—that “no more slaveholding States” shall be admitted into this Union ; believing that the position thus assumed is one which finds no warrant in the constitution, or in the example set us by our revolu tionary fathers, and remembering that the first State ad mitted by act of Congress, approved by George Wash ington as President, w?s the slaveholding State of Ken tucky. They were pa ed by Northern votes alone—Demo cratic votes alone, without the help of a solitary South ern man. It will be seen that, unlike the Southern branch of the Know Nothings at Philadelphia, the New York Democracy unequivocally deny to Congress the constitutional “power to interfere with or attempt to dictate or control the domestic institutions of States or Territories The Southern Know Nothings at Philadelphia pretermitted any expression of opinion as to the constitutional power of Congress over slavery in the Territories, and yet 12 States, rather than swallow their milk and water resolutions on the subject of slave ry, retired from the Grand Council, and two more pro tested against them, lias it not come to a pretty pass when Northern men take higher ground than Southern meu in defence of Southern Rights ? In harmony with these resolutions were the speeches of all who addressed the meeting. Samuel Beardsley, the President of the meeting, said : When the constitution was formed, the States all agreed j that this subject should be left to the determination of the States. New York determined the question for herself.— She was then a slave state, and she abolished slavery when she pleased. Virginia aho as-anted to that doctrine. Sha was then a slave state, and she is one now. She has tho same right to be a slave state now as she had then, and it is no concern of ours to inteifere. (Ciiesrs ) It is solely her own concern. We in this State act as we please on the subieet, and we should leave Virginia to do the same, and the'peace and quiet of the country demand that each Ter ritory should have the same privilege. (Loud cheers) Oregon has chosen to say that she will not have slavery. She had a light to do so, and no one has a right to com plain of it. Ifother Territories hold different language and adopt the opposite policy, it is their right to do so, and the j quiet of the country will be best promoted by leaving to each to govern that matter as they may think proper.— (Cheers.) Daniel E, Siekle6, late Secretary of Legation at Lon don, said; “We will b? obliged to meet and light once more the slavcty question—Dr abolitionism is one ot the subdivis ions of fanaticism at the North, and singularly enough,we are obliged to meet it in the form of the Nebraska bill. 1 think that I can briefly relieve this question ot much of the misrepresentation and mystification which have been thrown around it by designing and corrupt presses, and still more designing po'iticians. I affirm as a proposition, that is susceptible ot the clearest proot, that the Nebraska bill, so far from being a violation of any compact or agree* ment existing between the States or an y of them, is an hon est and faithful fulfilment of the agreement made by the Compromise measures of 1850, when Webster, Clay, our own Dickinson, (applause) and other eminent men, arrang ed the plan for the adjustment of all future questions of tne same kind upon the principle of territorial and popularsov ereignty—that hereafter the question of slavery, in any Slate or Territory, should be left entirely to the will of the people occupying the. Territory. The Federal |Govern ment had previously acted upon a different policy. [Mr. Sickles proceeded to detail the circumstances attendant up on the passage ot the Compromise ol 1820—the admis sion ot Texas and Oregon— to show that Congress had previously taken upoQ itself to settle all difficulties about slavery.] The consequence of this policy was that every time any new Tetritory was added to the Union, the slave ry question was again revived, with all its attendant evils. The statesmen of 1850 resolved that the question should be settled at once, and lorever, by the affirmation of the prin ! ciple that the people of the Teiritory should settle the ; question—slavery or no slavery—for themselves. That de j cidon is now one of the well settled principles of the demo | cratic party. We hold that New York should not make j laws lor Massachusetts; n>r Massachusetts for Kansas.— ■ The people of Nebraska should make laws for themeelves. ■ They are suppo ed to know their own business Congress, 1 in passing the Nebraska bill, only acted up to the Compro mise measures of 1850, which had been sanctioned in the election of ’52 by the votes of three fourths of the people of the United States upon the platform as laid down by the democratic Convention at Baltimore. Competency of Witnesses—Um verbalists. It is attempted to justify the decision of Judge An drews as to the incompeteteney of a universalist as a witness in of Justice by the assertion that it was in accordance with the common Law of England. That this is not true, we have abundant evidenoe.—— We quote from 1 GreaHleaf on Evidence, page 513, note to see. 369. “The proper test of the competency of a witness on the score of religious belief was settled, upon great consideration, in the case of Omichund vs. Barker, Willes, 545, 1 Atk. 21, S. C., to be the belief of a God, and that he will reward and punish us ac cording to our deserts. This rule (7 uglish) was re cognized in Butts vs. Swartwood, 2 Cowen, 431 ; The People vs. Matteson, 2 Cowen, 436, 573, note ; and by Story, j. in Wakefield vs. Ross, 5 Mason, 18 ; 9 Dane’s Abr. 317, S. P.; and in Brock vs. Milligan, 1 Wilcox, 125. Whether any belief in a future state of existence is necessary, provided accountability to God in this life is acknowledged, is not perfectly clear. In Common wealth vs.l Bacheler, 4 Am. Jurest, ft 1, Thacher, j. seemed to think it was. But in Ilunscom vs. Huns corn, 15 Mass. 185, the Court held, that mere disbelief in a future existence went only to the credibility. This degree of disbelief is not inconsistent with the faith re quired in Omichund vs. Barker (the leading English case). The only case , clearly to the contrary, is At wood vs. Welton, 7 Conn. 68. In Curtis vs. Strong, 4 Day, 51, the witness did lot believe in the obligation of an oath ; aDd in Jackson vs. Gridley, 18 Johns. 98, he was a mere atheist without any sense of religion whatever. All that was snid in these two cases, be yond the point in judgment, was extrajudicial. See also, 3 Phil. Evid, by Cowen and Hill, p. 1503, note 53,55 : Fernandis and Hall vs. Henderson, Cor. Des saussure Ch. Union Dist. S. Car., Aug. 1827, ib. cit. In Maine, a belief in the existence of the Supreme Be ing is rendered sufficient by 6tat., 1833, oh. 58, without any reference to rewards or punishments. Smith vs. Coffin 6 Sbaph. 157.” By carefully examining the foregoing extract from the highest legal authority in the United States it will be seen that the decision of Judge Andrews is in the teeth of the common law of England as declared in Omichund vs. Barker during the last century and the whole cur rent of American decision* except one solitary case in Connecticut. How then can the supporters of the Know Nothing nominee justify his outrageous wrong upon the universalists ? He was either ignorant of law or was governed by religious intolerance. In either case he would seem to be eminently fitted to be the candidate of the Know Nothings. ible Repeal ot the Missouri Compromise. Kenneth Rayner, a North Carolina Know Nothing, is reported, in the New York Herald , to have de nounced “the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as an outrage upon the North.” Similr ■ language was held, we arc told, by George N. Stewart, a prominent Ala bama Know Nothing in the city of Montgomery, Ala bama, on his return from the Philadelphia Convention. In delightful contrast with these unsound sentiment, we append the following extract from the New York Daily Times, It was written in reply to the Courier ts Enquirer which charged that every Union man at the North was insulted and outraged by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.” The Nejo York Times says: We say, then, as one of the “Union men of the North,” that they were not “insulted and outraged by the repeal of the Missouri Compromisebut that they aided, abetted and approved that repeal, and will resist the “restoration” of that or any other line by whieh the territory ofthe Union shall be divided, North and South, “by act of Congress.” Does the Courier hear this l Did it hear the resolution passed by acch nation through the National Democratic State Convention last July, approving of “the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,” and whieh was responded to by one hundred thousand votes cast for Nebraska candidates lor Congress in this State last Fall ? Or is it ignorant of these things—of the sentiments of the“ Union men” it inso lently assumes to speak for ? Emory College. —The address before the Literary Societies of Emoiy College, will be delivered by Dr. W. 11. Felton, of Cass. Arrival of Secretary Davis. —Washington, June 26. Secretary Davis, arrived herefrom his visit from Micsir-ip pi, this morning. Wanted —By and ancient maden lady, “A local habitation and a name.” The real estate she is not pertieular about, so that the title is good. Tho name she wishes to hand down to posterity. _ Sambo, if de devil was to lose his tail, whar would he go to get another one ? Why to de Grocery, ob course— dat’s de only place what I knows on whar dey re-tail bad sperrets. _ _ The East Alabama Female College. It must be a source of regret to the friends es the College that Prof. A. J. Battle’s connection with the Institution will terminate with the pre-ent session. It will be difficult to supply his place. A long and intimate acquaintance,be -1 gan amidst College association, and fcontinued amidst the sterner duties of life, justifies U3 in the public mention of his name. With ample means at command, he spurned the indolent habits of the majority of those born and rear ed amidst the accidents of fortune, and voluntarily devo ted himself s o the toilsome and thankless avocation of teaching. His career has been eminently successful. But a tew years alter his graduation, he was elected to an hon orable position amongst the Faculty of his Alma Mater.— Upon the organization of the Baptist College in he w’as, by common consent, selected to till the Chair of Lecturer on Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. Having taken orders iu the Baptist Church, he has, we learn, been lately called to the Pastoral charge of the congregation in Tuskaloosa, a signal compliment to one of his years. A careeer of usefulness awaits him, and our best wishes at tend his steps. —Auburn Gazette. Hon. Wm. L. Yancy —4 h 9 Autauga C'tizcn contains a letter from this gentleman, in which he denies the rumor th it he is or ever has been a Knaw Not ng, and expresses h s disapprobation of the slavey and Catholic planks qf heir platform. The State Council. The State Council of the American Party met, on the call of the President, in this city, on Wednesday last, over 200 delegates being present, to take into consideration the Platform of Principles recently adopted by the National American Party, and to place in nomination a candidate lor Governor, to be supported by the American Party of Georgia, at the ensuing eleciion. On the first day a com mi'tee of 16 was appointed to prepare business for the ac tion of the Council, which committeo very elaborately dis cussed the subject, and presented their repo: t on Thursday morning, when, after an eloquent and full discussion, in which many gentlemen participated, a Platform ot Princi ples was considered, section by section, and adopted.— The main question of difference on the Platform as passed, was on the tenth section, which provided for the nomina* tion of a candidate at this s?rffon. This being carried by a very decided vote of two-thirds or more of the body, the adoption of the whole platform was finally made unanimous. On proceeding to carry out the Direction, the following gentlemen were placed in nomination for the office of Gov ernor: Hon. E. A. Nisbet, Dr. H. V. Miller, Col. Hines Holt, Washington Poe, Esq., Hon. James Johnson, Hon. R. V. Hardeman, B. H. Overby, Esq , Maj. J. H Howard and Hon. C. J. Jenkins. Judge Nisbet and Dr. Miller, be ing present, positively declined the honor, from considera tions of a private nature which were too imperative to ad mit of its acceptance. The Council then proceeded to the ballot which resulted as follows: Ist. Ballot: Hon. Garnett Andrews 97, 2d Ballot: 127 Hon. W. Poe 36, 33 Hon. R. V. Hardeman 19, 4 Hon. Jame Johnson 14, 6 Dr. H. V. Miller 7, B. H. Overby, Esq., 7, 7 Maj. J. H. Howard 1, Hon. C. J. Jenkins, 1, 2 Blank 1, 1 The nomination of Hon. G. Andrews was then declared una'nimous with much enthusiasm. — Georgia Citizen. E. B. Bartlett, of Kentucky, President of the Philadel phia Council. The name of this worthy is signed to the “pretermiting'’ platform as President of the conclave which adopted it.— When we saw it announced that Wilson, Gardner &. Cos., voted for him in preference to Barker, a Silver Grey, con servative Whig ot New York, we suspected that he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing—an Abolitionist hailing from the South, and therefore the more to be shunned and despised. His antecedents are related in the following extract from a late Washington Star : He’s a Massachusetts man. It seems that Senator Wil son & Co’s new president of the Know Nothing National Council, Dr. Bartlett, is not a Kentuckian, as alleged, but A LOWELL YANKEE, transplanted to Kentucky some ten years ago, where he has been pursuing the business of a theological and literary teacher. HE IS IN FACT ONE OF THE “UNJUST, UNRIGHTEOUS AND DAM NABLE” CLASS OF YANKEE DEBUTY PREA CHERSOR LECTURERS-OFTHE CLASS WHOSE NAMES ARE TO BE FOUND UPON THE LIST OF THE THREE THOUSAND ABOLITION CLER GYMEN WHO ANATHEMATIZED THE PRESI DENT, CONGRESS, THE SOUTH, AND SENA TOR DOUGLAS ESPECIALLY, IN THE HOPE OF THUS DEFEATING THE ENACTMENT OF THF NEBRASKA BILL. This accounts tor the fact that though from Kentucky, he was a supporter of the views of Senator Wilson in the convention, and the, una nimity with which the Senator end his abolition coadjators there assembled sustained his pretentions, though a dele gate from a slave holding State, over Barker, a pro slavery New Yorker. Such is the man under whose seal the “pretermitting” platform is commeuded to Southern favor. New Hampshire Politics. Senators Hale and Bell Defining their Positions. t Concord, N. H. Juue2B, 1855. The speech* es Senator Bell, last night, was strongly whigaud Nebraska in tone, and advocated an attempt to restore the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Bell’s Iriends con sider his speech conservative enough, while the democrats hold it identical with free soilism. Mr. Hale’s speech was characteristic, and straight out and outlreesoil. The m 9ting was very large and enthusiastic. Avery stringent anti-liquor bill ha3 been agreed on by the House Committee. The New Commissioner of Pensions. Washhington, June 28,1855. r.MCole, Chief Clerk in the Pension Office, it is believ ed, will receive the appointment of Commissioner of Pen sions, in place of Judge Waldo. From the Plains. Bloody and Successful Fights with the Indians. St. Louis, June 28, 1855. The Republican has advices from New Mexico to May 30th. On the 29th, Colonel Fountleroy attacked a camp of Ulah3 near Kansas river, twenty miles north of Breuchas pass, killed toity and took six prisoners. The command had one man slightly, and another mot tally wounded. All the camp equipages, horses, sheep, provisions, &c. were captured. On the first of May, the same command attacked a camp of thirty five Utahs in the Schonatch valley, killed lour, and wounned four, and captured horses, provisions, &c.— Among the piisoners taken is a chief, who is inclined to sue for peace. The command returned to Fort Massa chusetts on the9:h May. Washington Affairs. Jeff. Davis—Serious Illness of Mr. Dobbin—The new Editor of the Organ- -Dismissal of Mr. Wilson, etc. Washington, Juno 27,1855. Mr. Davis, Secretary of War, has returned and resumed the duties of his office. The health of Mr. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, is very poor, ile will leave the city in a few days, and be absent some time. If hishealtn gets no better ne will be compelled to resign. The Organ is furious this evening. Ellis denies that he has been displaced. Mr. Burwell, who takes his place, is, it is said, a strong * Law” man. Straws show which way the wind blow. Mr. Wilson, Commissioner of the land office, received his walking papers this m ning. The question now is, what will Secretary McClelland do] It is rumored that'ho will leave also. Departure of the President—lllness of Mrs. Pierce, etc. Washington, June 27, 1855. Nothing is to be done with the personnel of the navy, regarding promotions, &c., until after the report of the Na vy Retiring Board shall have been made. The impression to day is that Mr. Clayton, the Second Auditor of the Treasury, will not be removed. The President, with Mrs. Pierce, left this afternoon for Baltimore. They will proceed from thence, privately, to the Jersey shore or country, for the benefit of Mrs. P’s. health, which has been feeble of late. Mr. Wilson, Commissioner of the Land Office, ‘recived his dismissal this afternoon, direct from the President.- Mr. W. left the office immediately. It is thought Mr. Shannon will succeed Mr. Wilson. The President has appointed George C. Whiting, Clerk of the Interior Department, acting Commissioner ad interim. Mr, Wilson’s removal was solely for political reasons. He is aK. N. Gov. Cobb’s Speech at Cumming.—XVe had the pleas ure ot hearing Gov. Cobb in one of his most powerful speeches, at Cumming, on Wednesday, the 20th inst. It was a groat speech, and its effects will be seen at the polls in October next. It was a htavy blow upon tne Know .Nothings ot Forsyth, who have never been iu a very Dros perous condidion. From what we have seen and heard, the sixth District will give Gov. Johnson an increased ma jority, over his vote in the late canvass, of at least five hun dred.—Cassville Standard. Death of Bev. Capers. We deeply regret to announce [savsthe Camden Jour nal ot June 26th,] the death of the Rev. S’ W. Capers, which occurred on Friday morning last, after a lew hours illness. His general health has been failing for several months, but his immediate dissolution was not apprehend ed. Thus, it is, we know not the day nor the hour when the summons will come, “Prepare to meet thy God.” Mr. Capers had been long a zealous and acceptable Minister of the Gospel of the Methodist Church. Defining his Position, —Ex-Gov. Johnston, of Penn sylvania, writes to the New York Tribune, warmly deny nying ihat at the Grand Couoeil he voted for the pro sla very Platform there adopted. He says: “I did not vote for said platform and do not intend to do so hereafier. 1 oppose lit in Convention, spoke against its adoption in the Convention, protested against it, and re fused all co-operation wi;h any National Organization that recognized or adopted it. lam now what 1 have been —a firm and consistent opponenud slavery extension. Jail Delivery. —Easton, Pa., June 26th.—All the Pris oners in jail here broke out last night and escaped. Additional by the Baltic. Cotton Market. The Liverpool Cotton Market closed well, and prices tending downwards. Os the sales lor the week, specula tors took 17,00 J bales, and exporters 2,000 bales. The of ficial quotations are:—Fair Orleans 71, Middling Orleans 6 11 16; Fair Uplands 7, and Middling Uplands 6 9 16d. The Stock of Cotton in Liverpool - is 549,000 bales, of which 361,000 bales are American. The weather is favorable for the crops. Provisions —Canal Flour is quoted at 40s 6d. a 41s. and Ohio at 445. 6d. White Wheat 11 ‘9-10 a 12s. 4d. Yel low Corn 525. a 525,6d. and White 50 a 51s. London Money Market.— Consols 91 a 911. Money was easy. Bank rate interest has been reduced to 31. Failures. —The houses of Strachem, Paul & Cos., Lon don, Bankers, and |Halford & Cos., Navy Agents, have, failed. Progress of the War. In storming the Mamelon and White tower works 5,000 lives were 10.-t. The French took 62 guns and 500 prison; ers. Their new position enables them to shell the shipping in the harbor of Sebastopol. The English have also captured ride pits in quarries, los ing, however, 500 in killed. Since the late desperate conflicts the firing of the Allies ha 9 been slack. The fleets have burnt the Russian stores atTgaury,Ma ranop'e and Ginixhe. The Allies are about fitting out an expedition against Perokop. The Russians are reported to have evacuated Anapa. There is no news lrom Tcheninga or the Baltic. The latest news from Sebastopol is unimportant. New York Markets. New York, June 28. The Cotton Market is unsettled. Flour is firm, and Ohio commands $8 50 a§9 121. Coin has declined to 91 a95 cents per bushel. Clialeston Cotton | Market. Charleston, June 29. The sales of Cotton to-day were 400 bales at 91 a lli cents. Prices have declined from ito 2 ol a cent. Spain. A letter from Paris to the New York Times says : “News has reached me, just in time for the steamer’s mail of to day, that the Spanish Government had agreed to dismiss the Governor of Sagua la Grande lrom his office, and to punish the officer in command of the Ferrolana , if he has exceeded the orders in the affair of the El Do rado, which orders, it seems, were explicit not to stop vessels to make any search until they had entered the wa ters under the jurisdiction of Cuba. The Spanish Govern ment also makes a solemn declaration “that it has not been the intention of Spain, nor d< es she pretend oven to have any right to visit or search American vessels on the h’gh sees.” The Great Southern Mail. On the Ist of July the great Southern Mail passed, for the first time, liotn Augusta to Opelika, by way of Milieu, Macon and Columbus instead of going by Atlanta and West Point as hitherto. Louisiana Election. —An election for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an Associate Justice took place in Louisiana on last Monday. We have heard only from New Orleans and Algiers. The majority of Elgee, anti- Know Nothing candidate for Chief Justice, was 1,178, and that of Lea, candidate tor Associate of the same party, was 894. * The intolerance of the Philadelphia Council has broken the Know Nothings completely down in Louisiana. Withdrawal of Mr. Overby. — We understand that the nomination of Judge Andrews, for .Governor, by the Know Nothing Convection, is regarded as highly ac ceptable to the Temperance Party, and that Mr. Overby, the candidate of that party, will withdraw from the canvass n favor of the former.— S'av. News , 2 6th. [From the Sumter Republican Extra ] Destructive Fire! Burning of the Variety Works. Ftiday, June 29th, 1855. j About half-past 2 o’clock, this morning, the alaim of fire I was given, and it was soon ascerta ned that the extensive , Variety Works of Messrs. G. W. & D. Smith were in flames. Owing to the combustible nature of the materials, the whole establishment was consumed, and nothing what ever was saved. By the extraordinary efforts of our citi ] zens, the residence and furniture ot Mr. G. W. Smith were ( saved. We understand that two wagon loads of meal were consumed, together with the blinds tor the new Baptist Church, and a great deal of work which was on hand for various parties, was destroyed, together with a great deal of lumber. The fire is supposed to be the work of an in cendiary. Loss estimated at from ten to twelve thousand dollars. Massachusetts Know Nothing State Council. Boston, June 28,1855. The Know Nothing State Council met atl o’clock p.m. i to day. A preliminary meeting was held last night, which was attended by about one hundred persons, including Sen ator Wilson, Governor Gardiner, N. P. Banks, A. Burlin game, and several other members of Congress. To the meeting was submitted an Address, which puts the party on the platform of the restoration of the M -ouri Com promise—“till calling it the American party, and calling for a Mass Convention, to beheld in some central place. Some are in favor of calling the new party the Ameiiean Republican. One or two men from Boston dissented from the doctrines of the address. There is some opposition to throwing off’the secresy and other machinery of the party. Many of the leading politicians of the State are now here. The Know Nothings held a ratification meeting this ev ening with open doors. Dr. B. H. West presided. The following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, the National Council recently ariembledin Philadelphia, adopted as a part of its platform certain res olutions upon the subject of slavery, which are utterly re pugnant to the sentiments of the American party in Mas sachusetts, and subversive of the plainest principles of jus tice; and whereas, the delegates in ihat body from this State Council, after endeavoring in vain to procure from the National Council an expre sion of views that should be just to the sentiments of Massachusetts and the lree States, without being dishonorable to any portion of the Union, were defeated in their purpose by the preponderance in that body of sectional feelings and interests, and as a testimony of their fidelity to the sentiments of their constituents,with drew from the National Council, and refused to participate further in its proceedings: Therefore Resolved, That this State Council heartily approves the course of its delegates, and emphatically protests against that action of the National Council which made such course necessary. About three hundred delegates were present at the day meeting of the Convention. John \V Foster presided.— An address to the Country was adopted, setting forth a platform of principles similar to the minority report in Philadelphia, and a series of resolutions of a like tenor were passed, The Convention adopted the name of Ame rican party of Mas achuseits.and invited all persons in the free States, of whatever political creed, to join them. Speeches were made by Governor Gardiner, Henry Wil son and others. The Convention and ratification meeting were generally harmonious and enthusiastic. A tee of one from each county, to further the objects of the Convention, was appointed. A ratification meeting of the piinciples ot the party will be held iu Norfolk county to morrow. Havana Items. —We take the following items of news from the Havaua correspondence of the Charleston Courier. The military tribunal has pronounced a verdict of not guilty against all the parties charged with political offene s, except Senores Guiral, Iznaga and Pt rcz. The firmer of these is sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in Spain, and the two latter, who are citizens of the Lmited States, to two years’ imprisonment in Spain. Toese sen tences are, comparatively streaking, ?nild to what had been anticipated. There are letters in this city which state that three pro vinces in Spain are in a state of revolt, and that the Mar* quis de la I\zue!a is marching against Madrid at the head of an army of upwards of 20,000 men ! This as ycu msy suppose, causes some little excitement in this city.