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&tmes ant) SetrtitwL ~ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1855 FOR GOVERNOR. IIERSCUEL V. JOHNSON. FOR CONGRESS. Ist District—James L. Se ward, of Thomas. “ M. J • Crawford, of Muscogee* Jd. “ James M. Smith, of Upson. *th *• Hiram Warner, of Meriwether. Atk “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin. Oth “ Howell Cobb, of .Clarke. The South and the Future—National Parties, The signs of the times are ominous of evil. Northern fenatieism is at high water mark. It has swept Irom the face ol the earth every vestige of the old Whig party: It is dead and buried and almost forgotten among men. It has absorbed the Know Nothings in all the Northern State?. Hear what the N. Y. Herald, an organ of the order, says: “In the North, the anti-slavey fusioniets are riding rough shod over all obstructions. They have absorbed the new American party throughout the New England States.— They have reduced it to a capitulation in Pennsylvania.— They have swallowed it up at a mouthful iu Ohio and In diana ; and almost everywhere else throughout t’ N orthem Slate?, excepting tho State of New York, we had the Know Nothings playing second fiddle and acting as tide waters to the Sewaid Holy Allianceand again: “The Know Nothings of New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi ana have joined the anti slavery coalition, and in the re maining North western States they will probably pursue the same policy of making hostility to the extension ol slavery the base line of their operations.” Now, as to New York, the Know Nothings were deieated by Clark and helped to elect Seward. What can the South hope from the “American party” as a national organization— which is absorbed in New England, swallowed vp in Ohio and Indiana and almost every where else in the Northern States by the Abolitionist, and has capitulated in Pennsyl vania ? It is powerless for good as a national organization. Can the Southern branch be converted into an efficient Southern sectional party ? We think not. No party of a Sectional character can prove efficient which is pledged to the support of the Union “as the paramount political good” and to refer all difficult and doubtful questions to the Su preme Court of the United States and to abide by its de cisions. Is there auy other National party in the United States that can be trusted ou the slavery question \ We think there is. The great ia°ue before the country is the Nebraska-Kansas act. That act was passed by the National Democracy. A large majority of tho Northern Democratic Senators voted for the bill. A majority of the Democratic Representatives in Congress, from the North, voted for the bill. It is a fa vorito measure of the Administration. There is no sort of doubt but that the next National Convention of the Demo cratic party will endorse and ratify the Nebraska-Kansas act. Upon that the Democracy will sweep every S nithern State, carry California, Illinois, Indiana, Michi gan and Connecticut; and probably Pennsylvania, and New York even, if the unfortunate quarrel between the “hards” and the “softs” is reconciled. If this resuit iseffected, there can be no doubt but that the rights of the South will be pre served and tho Union saved. But if the National Democ racy fail to erect a sound Platform on the slavery question, the Georg a Democracy are pledged to ‘resist even, as a last resort, to a disruption of every tie that binds her to the Union” any action of Congress inimical to Southern Rights. They are States Rights men and believe in State remedies. ; Whether, therefore, we regard the Democracy as a ra* \ tional or State organization, they give sure guarantees to i the South. In either point of view, the Know Nothings are powerless for good. More Withdrawals. Messrs. Henry L. Battle, M- M. Holsey, James H. Mitchell, A. B. Buckner, Frank Burnet and J. W. Johnaon, all of Hancock county, Ga., have published a card in the Chronicle Sentinel announcing their withdrawal from tho Know Nothings. That is right. Confession is a proper atonement for wrong. Let all who with-* draw publish the fact to tho world. It encourages the timid to follow suit. It requires some nerve to brave the denunciations of the order. These gentlemen of Hancock say : “We deem it proper to state that on entering the Order we were assured that tvhenever we might be come dissatisfied with it, we could withdraw in good faith, and without hindranoe or obstruction. Without this assuranoe meu could never be induced to assume the obligations of the Order. This fiee privilege of quitting, is universally used by Know Nothings as an answer to the charge that the Order trammel*- the free dom of the elective franchise, by subjecting the individu al judgment of its members to the will of the Order. We, therefore, in withdrawing, considered that wo were exercising a right whioh had been guaranteed to us from the beginning, and which could not justly expose us to a charge of “treason” or ‘perjury/ It may be true in theory that any member may quit when he pleases, but, practically , it is false when he can obtain his discharge only by passing through the terrible ordeal of being denounced as a deserter, a ‘traitor’ and ‘per jured renegade,’ and as having signed ‘the manifest of his own infamy.’ Such denunciations, as illustrated in the newspapers and on the streets, and in the bye- ways and corners, are not so much intended to act upon those who have quit, as they are meant to play upon the fears of those who yet remain in. They are intended to throw an obstruction and hindrance and terror around the exercise of the right to quit—the right of exercis ing individual will and private judgment. They are not so much an insult to those who go out, as they are a tyranny over those who yet remain in. The theory is, you may pass out of the gate whenever you please ; the practice, as you learn it from the fearful experience of those who have gone out before you, is, that you must pa-s out under the laugh of derision and the finger of soom, through a phalanx of gate keepers, hissing into your ears the charge of ‘renegade,’ •traitor’ and ‘per jury/ This system of holding the faithful in the pen by the terrors of denunciation, is not confined to Mr. Short. Every fold has its gate keepers. They are held to their places by pride and interest. They seek to hold other people bv fear /’ i Counterfeits. —We understand, says the Atlanta In telligencer , i9ih, that a ne9tof counterfeiters was broken op, in Chattanooga, on Tuesday last, and that the prin cipal members of the fang were arrested. They had been engaged in counterfeiting the bills of ike Bank of Georgetown, S. C , to a larg- extent. nominations for Congress. — Macon, Joly 18—Col. N. Green Foster was yesterday nominated as the American candidate for Congress, from the 7th District, and Col. Robert F, Tripp* in the 3d District. The Caucus System Organise i. The great curse of all old party organisations has been uhd is tiew tho caucus system. The wire work ers would meet in little cabals and fix up the cards.— But the people always had the power to “call’’ befdre the hand was played, and thereby prevented the cati- : cus system from doing ffitieh harm. Open Conventions checked the evil tendencies of the system ; and if this remedy proved unavailing, every citizen could,at his op tion, refuse his support to the ticket. But Know Nothingism is the caucus system organ ized. The members of the Order meet in secret, con coct their plans in secret, and make their nominations in secret; public opinion exercises no restraint ; it is never felt, and never can be appealed to, because the members are sworn never to reveal to the publie the secrets of the lodge room, no matter how gross the corruption they may detect therein. Not only so : there are three degrees in the order ; the secrets os’ a higher degree are never revealed to a lower degree member ; the members of a higher degree are sworn to support higher degree members in preference to lower degree member. Now see how it can be worked. Suppose there are 1,000 members of tho Order in Muscogee : county. All of them are, of course, members of the first degree. 500 of them, say, are members of the ; second degree. 100 of them, say, are members of the third degree. An important election is, we will sup pose, about to come off. The 100 third degree mem bers meet and apportion out the offices. They are all given to the members of the third degree, of course, if they want them. They are, as we said before, sworn to support each other in preference to the members of the lower degrees. A Council of the second degree is then called. All the 100 third degree members go to the meeting of this Council. Tho second degree mem bers are totally ignorant of what has been done by the third degree members ; they are not even informed of the fact that they are members of the third degree ; but the 100 know what they are about—they are the leading men of the concern—they nominate the candi dates aud give him their 100 votes and as many more 3e they can get from the second degree members aDd thus decide tho election. A Council of the first degree, oomposed mostly of the wool hat boys, is then called, the same candidates are again put in nomination and get the five hundred votes of the second degree mem bers, and as many of the first degree members as they can oontrol. The candidates of the third and second degrees are thus nominated almost by acclamation, and tho 1,000 members of the first degree are surprised and delighted at the unanimity and harmony that prevails in the party ; but they clearly had no voice in the norn - ination. The secret council of 100 has done the work ’ for them. But the nornation has been made and the 1 whole crowd are sworn to abide hy it. We do not charge that this is the way nominations • have been made here heretofore : but we have no | ‘ i doubt they will be made just as we have described, if , Know Nothingism countinues to prevail amongst us. — | Was there ever a sytem so thoroughly organized as this j Order to concentrate power in the hands of the few and ! take it away from the hands of the people? Are we ■ not justified in saying that Know-Nothingism is the cau cus system organized into a party ? Is a man a free man who is bound in its meshes ‘? “But,’’ says our Know Nothing friend, “you know nothing about it.” You are mistaken friend, we know nil about it. We have your ritual in full and will pub lish it next week, God willing, and will show you se crets of the Order you yourself do not dream of, if you have taken only the first degree. It is you who are ignorant. To prove to you that we have given afair rep resentation of the way the nomination ol candidates may be managed, just listen to us a few moments. There are three degrees in the order. This you know.— There are many members of the first degree who can not get into the second degree. This you know too, if you are a member of the second degree. There are members of the second degree who cannot get into the third degree. This you know too, if you are a member of the third degree. The members of the third degree are sworn to support the third degree members in preference to first or second degree mem bers. This we will prove in the ritual. So are the second degree members sworn to support second de gree members in preference to first degree members This also we will prove in the same way. Taking these facts for granted, we would like to know what will prevent the members of the third degree, no matter how small their numbers, from dictating to all the balance of the order, especially if they are men of talents and influence, as they are sure to be ? And if they cau do it, don’t you know they they will do it, if it is to their interest ? “But” you say, “there are no third degree members in Muscogee.” How do you know ? “They ieil me so.’’ You don’t say so. So you told us you were not Know Nothings, and how much truth was there in what you said ? Suppose they do not call them selves third degree members ? Now we happen to know that there is one member of that degree residing in Columbus and that there are several more in the State. Every del. gate from Georgia to the Philadel phia Grand Council was a member of the third degree. But what do you know about it ? You are only a first degree man. Get to “crucifix” before you disputo with us about Know-Nothingism. Democratic Meeting at Milledgeville—lverson L. Hams. At a meeting of the Democracy of Baldwin county, held at Milledgeville on the 14th inst, to appoint dele gates to a Congressional Convention to be held at Ka tonton on the 24th inst., Iverson L. Harris, ono of the noblest and most talented Whigs in Georgia, arose and explained the reasons which had impelled him, as an old Whig, to aot, in the present condition of parties in Geor gia, with the Democratic party. He said he was not a Democrat, but believed that the Democratic party was the only sound National party now in existence; and to defeat the principles of Know Nothingism, he was ready to co operate with that party. In an able and eloquent speech, be investigated the principles of the so-called “American party,” and showed conclusively the dangers with which th s new party menaced the country, and particularly the insti tutions of the South. After addressing the meeting lor an hour, he closed amid great applause. A Question for Ship-Builders and other Mechan ics.—The K Nothings tell us that both the old partiesare unsound, “rotten to the core,” on the slavery question. The two old parties, be it r membered, embrace about ail the voters of the United States with the exception of a few of the extreme Abolitionists, who have adhe red to a distinct organization. Now we desire to know the process by which two rotten bodies can be re-con st raced so ns to form a perfectly sound one ? We sub mit the question to every mechanic, from the ship build er down lo the “rough carpenter” on a plantation. If none of them can retarn a satisfactory answer, we call on the Order to give the modus operandi. We have heard of new coats made for children out of their pa pa’s old otiea, but we never Understood that such new garments were laiger, of better, or more durable than the thread bare cues out of which they were cut. — Adv. <J- Gazette, Know Aothiugi-iti jit Lohisirtnd. W e see commended, in various quarters, by Know Noth ings, the platform adopted by the Louisiana State Council. Now, there are some facts connected with the matter, which they could do well to note. In the first place the Know Nothings of Louisiana do not belong to the party. They spit upon the party platform, by repudiating one of its most vital and odious principles. Their delegates were refused a place in the grand dramatics at Philadelphia, and went home cursing tho intolerance of their brethren. The delegation from that State, which was admitted, rep resented, we are informed, but a very small portion of the party. The Louisiana platform was, therefore, adopted by those who were excluded from the party .because they would • not consent to “the religious test,” and, to approve their ac tion, is to join with them against the decrees efthe Nation i al Council. That our readers may judge of the feeling i with which the Know Nothings of Louisiana regard ti e National Platform, we clip the following from the X. O. Bulletin,* Whig Know Nothing organ: “The eighth article of the national platform, written in i that sophistical and ambiguous language, which political tricksters know so well how to use, for the purpose ot de ception, has a convent, but palpable meaning, which can not be veiled by accompanying qualifications, or what lawyer? call, inuendoes. It first declares resistance to the aggressive policy aud corrupt tendencies of the Roman Catholic Church, and cuts them oft’from the enjoyment of ali political offices. It will not do to say, that this restric tion only applies to Roman Catholics who hold civil alle giance directly or indii ectiy to any foreign power. This saving clause is a pitiful blind, a miserable cheat; for the bigots who framed that section, contend strenuously that all Roman Catholics owe civil allegiance to the Pope, and this too, in the face of the most solemn protestations of those who from intelligence and position are capable of comprehending, and authorized to declare the tenets of that Church. It is a contemptible evasion of a palpable design, for them to say that any Roman Catholic who abjures civil allegiance to the Pope is, by this section, entitled to a lull fruition of all the rights and franchises of American citizen ship, because the lanatical majority who composed that Convention have no faith in any such abjuration, however solemnly made by a Catholic, for they believe or profess to believe that absolute allegiance to the Papal power, civil as well as spiritual, is a lundamental element of the Catholic faith. This construction of this article of the platform is further confirmed by the conduct of the Convention in re fusing admission to the Louisiana delegation, because they represented Catholic constituences; they were tabooed by their Know Nothing brethren, because they held commun ion with Catholics—the taint occasioned by such intercourse was sufficient to exclude them from the society of the faith ful. Out upon such miserable fanaticism!” But the Louisiana Platform was not only the work of men not belonging to the party, but of men who were de termined to prove their faith by their works. Their nomi nee for Governor, Charles Derbigny, is a Roman Catholie. Nor did they stop here. But they declare, as will be seen below, “that we shall oppose all who oppose us in the ad vocacy of these great American principles ” So that after denouncing the Philadelphia platform, striking out the l atholic restriction, and nominating a Catholie for tho highest office in the State, they swear war upon all who dare oppose them ! What heresy to the orthodox creed! Really we are lost in the mazes and entanglements of contradiction and inconsistency which envelope this Know Nothing party. In New York it is Unionism. In Virg nia it is Con olidation and rabid Whiggery ; in Tennessee it is abolition of the Slave Tiade in the District of Columbia ; in Georgia, Unionism in one breath and Disunion in the next. Everywhere anti-Catholicism, save in Louisiana, and there it is toleration to the knife! And it is from such a chaos as this, that the magic wand ol spoils and power is to bring forth a party which will protect all rights and redress all wrongs; a parly which, rising aloft, in the sub limity of its “disgust for the wild hunt after office which characterises the age,” shall dispense justice, and give peace to the warring elements which shake the Union! Still more, when the South, with all her bitter experiences of the past, is agaiu dragged through the mire of party pollu tion ; it is Irom such an organization that she is to derive new hope and life! — Charleston Mercury. Withdraivals from the Order. Our Alabama exchanges aro groaning under long lists of withdrawals from the secret councils of th© Know Nothings. We.notice a few of them. Autauga County, Ala. —The Advertiser Gas zeitee publishes a card signed by 40 men giving their reasons for quitting the Amerioan Party. They be longed to the Council at Chestnut Creek. They say they quit because they believe the Order “will have a bad effect both upon church and State, and is an aboli tion move of Northern Abolitionists, got up for the purpose of riding men into office, and of sapping the foundation of this government.” They ought to know. They have seen Sam. RANnoLrH County, Ala. —The Advertiser ts* Ga zette publishes a card signed by 17 gentlemen residing at Wesabulga, Ala., notifying the public of their with drawal from the Order. They “advise the friends of the Democracy to beware of the Know’ Nothing organ ization ; for in this part of the country their manifest intention is to overthrew the Democratic party of the country. There are but a few left in the Kennel say they, “say six or more, mostly Whigs.” Chandler Springs, Ala. —The same paper publish es the names and card of 25 gentlemen who left the ol der at Chandler Springs, Ala. The Council refused to let some of them withdraw, whereupon they met to gether and resolved themselves out of the order. Russell County, Ala. —We have it from good au thority that one hundred and twenty five members quit the order at Salem during the last month. Mobile County, A la.-.-The Mobile Register says the withdrawals are so numerous in that county that it has received an order for five hundred blanks, all of which will be used. Garnett Andrews Accetts^— The Know Nothing pa pers of the State publish Garnett Andrews’ letter of accep tance, We may notice it hereafter. There are some sen tences in it which we have not been able, as yet, to compre hend. We will take a day or two more to study them be fore we venture to review the letter. Communications —The demand upon our columns is go great, at present, that we are compelled to defer the publication of several communications until a subsequent issue. Be patient, friends ;we will give you all a showing in due time. Know Nothings in Illinois From a despatch, from Chicago, we learn that the K. N. State Council of J-iiinois, lately in session at Springfield, has closed its labors. A platform of principles was adopted. There was consider able difficulty >n the slavery question, but finally anti slavery resolutions, including the restoration of the Mis souri Compromise, were adopted by ayes 74, nay 6 35, General A. C Dodge.— Mr. Perry has written to friends in this city, saying that the Spanish ministry are exceedingly pleas and with Gen. Dodge, whose frankness, doutesy, and iutell'gence thus favorably impress them.— We notice the receipt of the letter, to which we refer above, with peculiaT pleasure, because it bears out all we have said ot General Dodge, in refutation of the absurd and malicious efforts of a portion of the press to create the impression that he is a mere ilhterature and vaunting western bore.— Washington Star. jFor tha Times &. Sentinel.] Messrs. Editors —Shortly before Mr. Calhoun’s death, h3 was heard frequently to declare that Herschel V. John- j son was the ablest man of his age then in the Congress of the United States. Such a commendation irom one who . understood so well what he was saying, entitles its recipi ent to the unanimous confidence of the people of Georgia, it was the “laying of hands’* which consecrated him to the j service of the South, and he has never given us any reason to doubt that the spirit of the old Apostle descended w ith j his blessing. And, sir, with this blessing of Calhoun on the head of our Governor, and with the mantle of Forsyth on the shoulders of our Senator, may we not hope that the old “Ebenezer” State will yet stand as a “rock of help” in the troublous times which are coming upon us. Teach the South that “Know Nothingism” is a mere political fire-brand thrown in among those whom to divide is to conquer. Teach them that their enemy is the “North,’ and that a calm, united, unbroken resistance there, will en list the sympathies of all other sections. Teach them that while the blood of the “Puritan” prevails, the South has nothing to fear from the Foreigner. Time may temper the Irish and materially enliven the Dutch, but the Yankee de fies the power of time and the attr tion of circumstances. Experience has narrowed his understanding, prosperity has hardened his heart, and kindness has corroded his temper. His religion has descended through Unitarianism to Infi delity, and his politics have extended through Federalism to Tyranny. The same svho fled from England to Holland because he could not govern the Government, who fled from Holland for the same reason, is devoting the same energies to the same purpose in the United Slates, and God j grant that the issue may be similar, j Teach these things and you will secure the gratitude as i well as the safety of the South. For myself, I commit my | share of the public horor and public interests to tho keeping and guidance of those from whose doctrine the“rights of the States” springs as freely as does the fungus of abolitionism from the old stump of VVhiggery. T. Emory College. Oxford, Ga., July 18,1855. j Messrs. Editors: —The Commencement Exercises of j Emory College have just closed. Among your readers theie j are many friends of education, and not a few of tha j friends of this Institution. To all such it will bo gratifying to hear of its continued prosperity, which has been so a- j bundantly furnished in the exercises which have just closed, j The attendance was large, made up of visitors from many : parts of our own and neighboring States, and I could not ■ perhaps, pay a better compliment to the occasion, than to j say that everybody seemed not only pleased,but gratified. I The Commencement Sermon, by Dr. A. L. P. Green, of i Nashville, Tenn., exceeded his already well-earned reputa- i tien Long will it He remembered by that large auditoiy, 1 as one of the ablest and most appropriate ever delivered on any similar occasion. It is also due to all the other invited public speakers to say, that their appropriate duties were ! well and eloquently performed. Theso gentlemen, how- ‘ ever, have already acquired lor themselves distinction, and need not the aid of my pen to record any new 7 laurels which they may have won on this occasion, and I shall, j therefore, occupy your space only to teli the feats of our young aspiumts upon the stage. On Monday night an interesting scene opened. The Faculty had selected seventeen declaimers from the Sopho more class, who were presented to coutend for a prize.— i For some two hours they entertained a very large and at tentive audience. Their parts were well played, and the j judgments of the Faculty vindicated in the selection of or ators for the evening. It was an animated and deeply ex citing contest, honorable to the class, and reflecting much credit upon their preceptors, and where all had done so well, it was no wonder that tho judges, through tho Hon. Win. C. Dawson as their chairman, should have confessed their embarrassment. The first prize was awarded to Rob j ert A. Chambers of your city, and the second *to G. W. I Yarborough of Oxford, Ga. This is one of the largest classes in College, and from present indications, very high honors await it in the future, if they continue to try. On Tuesday the Junior Exhibition came off. I send you the Programme of the Exercises of this and the Senior Class, by which you will iearn the names and residences of the Speakers, as well as the subjects upon which they had written,and the distribution of honors. The performances of this class were very fine. I could mention distinguished names, but another year brings them before the Faculty for the settlement of their relative merits, and I therefore refer the reader and the class also, to the Programme which will make its appearance next Commencement, when the ! public will be advised of how the honors stand. This is a 1 large class and h&3 in it much talent. The Exercises of the Graduating Class very fully sus tained public expectation. There are in it some young j men of a high order of talents, and not one who eau blame j any but himself, if he does not succeed in life. No class has gone out from this Institution, which has eairied with j it more of the good will of the Faculty and citizens of Ox- ; lord than this, and their parting tears gave evidence of at tachment to each other, as the valedictorian spoke so elo quently of their past harmony and brotherly kiudness, and pronounced that sad word, “ farewell ” J. T. DeJarnette, P. G. S., 2d Honor, Putnam Cos. G.,—• I Salutatory. E. 11. Bobo, F. S., Spartannurg, b. C.~War and its Consequences. G. W Dawson, P. G. S., Villula, Ala.— -The Progress of Republicanism. Win. A. Bass, P. G. S. Ist Honor, Newton,County,Ga. — u ße sure you're right, and go ahead.” G. W. Alien,F S.,Fort Valley, Ga.— Selfishness, the axis upon which the world turns. J. T. West, P. G. 8 , Cedartowa, Ga.— The dignity of labor. m _ J. F. Marshal, P.G. S. 2d Honor, Talbot County, Ga. —i Excused.] I'hos Seay, F. 8., Jackson County, Ga.— National Holidays. S. L. Florence, F. S , Oxford, Ga .—General Knowledge. J. E. Rylander, F. 8., Sumter county, Ga.— Objections to the Bible as a Text Book, considered BF. Perry, F. 8., Ist Honor, Auburn, Alabama.—" Di sguise and, lsee thou art a wickednesi .” J. T. Scott, F. S., Auburn, Alabama.— Alabama. J. T. Lin, F. S., Newton county Ga.— The Pulpit. J. H. Williams, P. G. 8., Meriwether Cos., Ga.—(Ex cused.) J. F. Izlar, F. S. It Honor, Orangeburg, S. C.—Vale dictory to the Trustees and Faculty.— Mutability, the watchword of Time. L. D. Palmer, F S. Ist Honor. Richmond Cos , Ga.— (Valedictory to the President and Class.— Trials decelope our Resources. The exercise* closed with the Baccalaureate addre-s of President Means,full of pathos and eloquence, calling up in vivid freshness the scenes of the past, and with paternal kindness pointing to. the future. It was man ifest, as this noble class retired, that they carried in their | bosoms the high resolve, to turn to good account all the j knowledge which they had derived from the instructions of . their honored President and the able 1 acuity. May their purposes never be forgotten. In consequence of conflicting duties, growing out of au engagement, at a number oi the Medical Faculty at Au gusta, Dr. Means tendered his resignation as President of this Institution, to take effect at the end of the next Fail term. The board of Trustees regret the necessity which impels a separation, which has subsisted as Professor and President for so mauy years. The Doctor has marfe many sicrifices and toiled hard for the prosperity of this Institu tion, and, in retiring, carries with him the thanks and good wishes of the board of Trustees, and is entitled to those of the church and country for what he has done. This resignation was accepted, and the Trustees unani mously elected the Hon. H. W. Hilliard, of Alabama, as President. Thera seemed bur, one sentiment in regard to this election. Every w here it has been hailed with delight. A wider and nobler field of usefulness is rarely presented for and dug good, and I hope Mr. Hilliard will so regard it, and Gel, m its acceptance, that he is moving up to a ntw post of honor. A \ ISII OR. FROM EUROPE. THREE DAYS LATER. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP CANADA. Cotton Market Depressed-No Important News. New York, July 18. | The British steamship Canada, with Liverpool dates to tie 7th inst., arrived this morning at Halifax, bringing three days’ later dates from Liverpool than thoie brought by the A rag o. Liverpool Cotton Market. Messrs. Brown <Y Shipley’s Liverpool Circular by the Aarago, noted a depressed market, which continuid in the same state during the remainder of the week, and ! closed dull on the evening of the 6th inst. The total salts | for the week comprise 45,000 bales, ol which speculators | took 13,000 bales. The sales on Friday were 4,000 baits. The quotations are as follows : Fair Orleans 7 id. Middling Orleans Cti. Fair Uplands 613- Middling Uplands (-id. The circular, however, of Messrs. Dennistoun & Cos., quotes Middling Orleans at 6 7-16d and Pair Uplands at 6 Jd. Provisions. —Breadstuff’s generally remained unchang ed, except Corn, which had experienced a decline of 1$ to 2s, and was dull. Ohio Flour is quoted at 42 £ to 435, and Western at 40 a 40£s. White Wheat 11J a 12s, and Red 10 a 11s. Y'ellow Corn 44$ a 455, and White 46s and dull. The rice market was dull. Rosin continued firm.^ London Money-Market. —Consols for money closed at 91U American'stocks'were steady and prices un changed. Money was easy but less so than btfore the publication for the new French loan. The Iron Market. —TheTron market was active and prices unchanged. Welch rails on board were quoted at 7-8. The weather throughout*Europe was favorable to the C.’op.s. From the Crimea. By this arrival wo have nothing important from the j seat of war. The Allies have made no new movement in 1 r j the Crimea. The English papers contain full accounts o* | the late repulse of the Allies. Further by the Arago. Destructive Fire at Constantinople*—lmportant from Russia. New York, July 17. A destructive fire has occurred at Constantinople which destroyed 3000 houses. i ; Accounts from St. Petersburg state that much dissatis* ! fiction exists in Russia, and that it is probable a revolt will j take place, and Constantine will be placed on the throne. Loss of Col, Kinney’s Schooner. New Yoik, July 18. Tho schooner Emma, which sailed from New Yuik for Central America, with Colonel Kinney’s men, was lost on the 19th of June, on Cuieo’s Reef. All on board were rescued, and taken to Turk’s Island. Kinney “Expedition— Court of Claims, Etc. Washington, July 16, 1855. A gentleman of distinction from Central America re ports that two-thirds of the people of that country will en thusiastically receive Col. Kinney. The Court of Claims have made a* rule providing for the procuring of papers from the fiits of the Executive de partments, by requisition, lor the preparation and trial of eausts —the fc paper to be under the custody of tho court. Ground was broken this afternoon for tho erection of the extension to the National Treasury building. The Opelika Branch. —The Montgomery Journal af ter mentioning the fact that th- President of the Mont j gomtry and West Point road has lately purchased T iron to relay that portion of it next to Montgomery, adds : The Opelika branch to Columbus, we learn, proves more profitable than was anticipated, and is doing a large share of businvss. The eredit and position ot the road stands deservedly high in the stock market, and we learn that transactions in its bonds were recently eas.ly i fleeted in New York at par. a value rareiy, if ever, attained by any new Southern roads. Revolution Movement in Mexico. Brow.nsville, July 10, 1855. Eds. Delia: There is_ no very reliable news of the present posi ion of the revolutionary, or rather the liberal, forces. All reports concur in giving them 2500 men of all arms, with IT pieces of artillery. Vadurti is chief, Carvajal second in command. At Laredo, Mier and Ca rnargo—a!! of the Rio Grande ports now in their hands —they have opened custom-houses under the old Cebailos tariff of 30 per cent ad valorem. General Wind Jett Metamoras on Saturday to meet the enemy at Reynoea, having about 500 men in the city un ’ der Col. Castro. As soon as anything occurs worthy of notice, we will j*ost the Delta up. “Circumstances Alter Case*.”- -Prominent among the charges against George the 111, and one ot the causes of the loss ot one of the fairest jewels of the British ciown, stands the following :—Tic has endeavored to prevent the population of these State ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalizttiori of .foreigners refu>'wg to pass others to encourage their migration thither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.” We have a good many “George the Thirds” among us at present. Second District Convention. The American Party of the 2nd District met in Con venlion at Americas on Wednesday last and nominnit-d Col. Willis A. Hawkins of Americas as their candidate for Congress. J is. Johnson and J. A. Jones Ksqrs of Columbus declined a nomination, leaving the race between Hon. W. C. Perkins and Col. Hawkins. The latter was nominated on the 3rd Ballot by a majority of 6 votes. At the same time and place, David A. Vason Esq., of Dougherty wos nominated as the candidate for Judge of the South Western Judeial District. — Geo. Citizen. Heath of Alexander Campbell. —The Cleveland Leader announces the death of the celebrated Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Virginia. He was the founder f the 6ect of Christ ans known as the “D'ciples,” now very numerous and powerful; was the President of a Theo logies! College at Bethany ; the editor of s D nomina tioual Magazine, and a man rs much learning and elo quence, Ho visited England some few years since, and