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(Timts avfo Sttrtiitf l. ~ “COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG, 1, FOR GOVERNOR. IIERSCIfEL V. JOHWSOIV. FOR CONGRESS- IT Ist District—James L. Seward, of i homas. 2d, <• ill. J. Crawford, of llnscojee, 3d, “ James M. Smith, of I i>son. 4th: | *. Hiram Warner, of Meriwether. sth “ Jno. 11. Lumpkin, of ,Floyd. 6th Howell Cobb, ol Clarke. Circulate the Documents—Know Nothingism Revealed. We have on hand several Tracts for the Times whioh we will sell low for cash. 1. Tract of 20 pages containing A. 11. Stephens’ speeches at Augusta and Sparta, Wm. Moseley’s letter, the vote upon the Nebraska-Kansas Bill, the Democrat ic Platform, &o.: $8 per hundred. 2. Tract of eight pages containing the Constitution and By Laws, oaths, grips, pass words, et cetera, of the Order of Know Nothingism ; $5 a hundred. Religious Intolerance—John Wesley. It is generally believed that persecution on account of religious opinions .has, from the foundation of the world, been confined to the Catholic Church. This is a very great error. Bigotry is a common property of our poor humanity. History proves that every sect has persecuted its opponents according to its ability. This we could easily establish as to all of them, but our limits fsrbid us to enter so wide a field. We rest our cause upon the persecution of Irish Catholic? by the Protes tants of England. By the treaty of Limerick, the Protestant King of England, William the 111, of blessed memory, agreed to restore the Catholics of Ireland to their estates, pri vileges and immunities, as they enjoyed them in the time of Charles II ; to allow them to carry arms, and to exact from them no oath except the oath of allegiance. This treaty was signed on the 3d October, 1691. Let us see how faithfully it was kept. On the 22d October following, Irish Catholics were excluded from the Irish Houses of Lords and Commons unless they would take the oaths of supremacy ; viz. that the King was the head of the Church. In 1695, Catholios were deprived of all means of educating their children, both at home and abroad • they were also disarmed and all their Priests banished. In 1704 it was enaoted that any son of a Catholic who would turn Protestant, should succeed to the fami ly estates. In the same year Catholic fathers were de barred the privilege of being guardians to their own ohildren: Protestants were forbidden to marry Catho lies : Catholics were forbidden to purchase land, or to take a lease for more than 31 years: Catholics were forbidden to hold any offioe, civil or military : or to vote at elections. Inl7o§, Priests were forbidden to teach school: rewards were offered for the discovery of Catholio Priests : and any two Justices of the Peace were al lowed to compell any Catholio to answer any questions they might put to him respecting Priests, celebration of mass, or catholic schools. Imprisonment for life if he refuses to answer. No body was allowed to hold property in trust for a Catholio. No Catholic allowed to sit on a jury when these statutes were involved.— Catholics were forbidden to serve on Grand Juries. During the next reign, Catholio horses were allowed to be seized for the use of the militia. Catholics were also prohibited from voting at elections, or to be con stables. In the succeeding reign of George 11, Catholios were prohibited from being lawyers, and if a Protetes tant lawyer married a Catholio, he was considered a a Catholic and punished accordingly. A Catholio was prohibited from marrying a Protestant, and the Priest who oelebrated the marriage was condemned to hanged. See, History of the Penal Laws against the Irish Catho lios. By Henry Parnell, Esq., M. P. Such were the barbarious laws imposed by the freest and most tolerant Government on earth, one hundred years ago, on a portion of its subjects, on ac oouut of their religion. But with the dawn of the American Revolution, new views began to be entertain ed on this as well as other subjects. Religion began to be considered a matter with which Government had nothing to do, and when the Constitution.of the United States, was framed, by our revolutionary fathers, they guaranteed to every citizen the free exercise of his re ligion by declaring in the Ist amendment, that “Con gress shall make no law respecting an establishment of relion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” and in the 6th amendment that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or publio trust under the United States.” These sacred guarantees were given to the persecuted of all religious creeds Catholics included, just 20 years after Juha Wesley wrote his celebrated letter against the toleration of Ro man Catholics by Protestant Governments, and which the Columbus Enquirer of the 31st July parades before the publio. Were our revolutionary fathers right and John Wesls wrong ? Or was John Wesley right and our revolutionary fathers wrong? Does the Columbus Enquirer forget, or did it never know the politics of John Wesley ? He was a great and a good man un questionably and as a teacher of practical piety, did in valuable setvice to mankind. We are ourselves quasi members of the church he founded and are ready to delend its creed and Government against the world. But as a political teacher we have no confidence in John Wesley. He was a member of the tory party in England, and wrote and spoke against the American Revolution. Now let the Enquire r answer one plain quesuon. Does it accept John Wesley as a political guide, as well as a religious teacher ? If it does not why does it quoto him as authority in a political dis cussion ? Mr. Wesley shared the prejudices of his age and country against the Catholic subjects of Great Brittain. In the hundred years that have since elapsed, the questions mooted in his letter have been settled by a pracfeal experiment. All lawa against Catholics have been repealed in Great Brittain -and the Catholic now I9 the e qua i of the Pretes|ant hl that Island Th fill any and all offices; they command armies and na vies ; they sit in the House of Commons; they sit in e ouse of Lords ; and in every station have proved lemselues to be loyal subjects. So overwhelming is k proo furnished by this practical test, that it would Jr” y ,mpoßßlble to reinstate upon the statute book of England the odious laws agains Catholics which were repealed, near thirty years ago, under the lead of Lord John RusseM, Sir Robert P ee l, and other enlightened statesmen of Great Brittain. In the United States, the Catholio and Protestant ave always enjoyed equal privileges. What harm has omeo it? a Catholio signed the Declaration of Iq epen enoe. A Catholio this Jay Resides over the Supreme Court of the United SWT General Scott himself is believed to have strong leanings to the Cath olic Church : At least, his daughters were educated V Catholic Schools and are members of the Catholi6 Church. What harm has come of it,? Are not the principles of the Declaration of Independence as liberal as if they had been enunciated by Protestants alone ? Are not the laws as well administered as if none but Protestants presided over the Supreme Courts?— Would ©ur army have been more efficient, if it had been led by a hater instead of a friend of the Catholic Church ? Away with this folly then of religious intoler anee. Religion of any kind is better than none. — There are sinners enough in the world to engage the | attention of all denominations. The subjects of the Devil are greater enemies of good government than the communicants of any Church, which acknowledges the Lord Jesus Christ as the Chief Corner Stone. Let Know Nothing zeal be expended upon his Satanic ma jesty. Letter of the Rev. John Wesley. Our neighbor of the Times & Sentinel a short time since brought forword the authority of the Rev. Sidney Smith, as a protestant minister of the Church of England, to prove the tolerance of the Catholic creed. Mr. Smith, we believe, belonged to that class of Protestants who have for years leaned towards the doctrines of the church of Rome, and the most of whom have late'y embraced that faith to the full extent. “Mr. Smith is, therefore, very in dif ferent authority on the point presented by our neighbor. It is the dictate of common sense as well as the law of the land, that no man is to be deemed a very credible wit ness when testifying to his own behalf ?—Columbus En- quirer. Has the editor of the Columbus Enquirer ever read the works of Sidney Smith ? Does it know who he was and what he did ? We hope not —we believe not. Upon no other supposition an we account for the gross injustice done in the foregoing paragraph to one of the bravest and brighest advooates of civil and religious freedom the world ever saw. Sidney Smith “leaned towards the doctrines of the ohurch at Rome The idea is preposterous. Let the Reverend gentleman speaks for himself. In the preface to his “works” pub lished by Carey & Hart, 1844, he says: “The idea of danger from the extension of the Catho lio religion in England, I utterly deride. The Catholic faith is a misfortune to the world , but those whose faith it conscientiously is, are quite right in professing it boldly, and promoting it by all means which the law allows.” And in harmony with this paragraph is every word he ever wrote or spoke to his dying day—he is dead— and we defy the Enquirer to produoe a tittle of testi mony to the contrary. But there is no need to appeal to the authority of any man as to the loyalty of our Catholic fellow citizens. The common observation of every man in the Republic/ satisfies him that the profession of the Catholic does not detract from the worth of a fellow citizen, and that both as men and citizens the Catholic is a good and true as the Protestant, and that both are much bet ter than he who has no religion, and is the slave of his apetites and lusts, as very many of the persecutors of the Catholic ohurch are known to be. The abuse of any church by suofi men is indecent as well as imperti nent, and every good citizen ought to set the seal of disapprobation upon such heartless demagogues “who steal the livery of heaven, to serve the devil in.” Democratic Nominations. Dougherty County. —For the Senate, W. J. Law ton : for the House, A. E. Harris. Harris County. —For the Senate, J. N. Ramsay : for the House, Messrs. Moss and Tramnel. j — The Crops. —We have never, says the Cassville Standard , seen Corn crops look better than they do in this and some of the adjoining counties. We had oc casion, a few days since, to travel through a good por tion of this country and Cherokee, and noticed all along the road the best looking Corn erops we have ever seen. Cotton is also promising well. Excitement and Trouble in Kentucky. A letter from a Richmond (Ky.,) paper, dated July 2d, states that in consequence of a mob of pro-slavery men having prevented the Rev. John G. Fee from preaching in Rock Castle county, Cassius M Clay had publicly an nounced his intention of going to the scene of the banee, and enforcing the freedom of speech ; and that K* large number of persons volunteered to accompany him, armed, lor the same purpose. In the Cincinnati Gazettm j we find a letter from Mr. Clay, dated the 19th, addressea to the editors of that paper, apparently written under great excitement. £V| Kentucky Anti'-Slavery Know Nothings. —The Louis ville Democrat says it is informed, upon good authority, that the Know Nothing Council for Gilman’s and flarrodsburg precincts have adopted a resolution in laver of repealing the Nebraska bill and the restoration of the Missouri Com-'- promise line—thus declaring for no more slave States north of that line. LFor the Times &. Sentinel.] / Bth Messrs. Eds. —The Bth District is right side up, at ail events, old Columbia is. On the lltli Col. Thomas spoke at Appling to a large and attentive collection and with unmistakable effect. On the 14th at Dearing, the Democra cy convened, and were addressed by James Gardner Jr-, of the Constitutionalist, with power and eloquence, to the breaking down many of the rotten planks in the K. N. fab ric. After which, Gov. Cobb spoke for near two hours in one of the ablest speeches ever delivered in this country.—- It was a cooler to the Lanterns-, they pulled up stakes and moved from these ‘diggins.’ This indomitable ocrat is a well tried soldier and a splendid man. After he had concluded the people adjourned to a sumptuous/dim- 1, tier, put up in teal old democratic style. The afternoon services were opened by Mr. John Phini zy Jr., in a very appropjjaUynid beautiful address, and he ! was followed by in one of those Dem ocratic exhortations man, save Cowart, can make. It told to a letter on tho audience and rendered him immaculate here. The crowd being anxious yet to 5 hear, the night was passed in speaking. Mr. Walker of Augusta, made a su- perior address, and it placed him in the front rank as a pro mising young man. Col. Phinizy was loudly called for again. He came forward and gave a cogent and impres sive account of the rise and progress of the “ Bantline ” party. lie was followed by Dr. Beggs in a regular and amusing series of anecdotes, for which he is so renowned. Then Dr. Ramsay, late of the Examiner, was long and repeatedly called for. He spoke brieflly, in his usual free, vigorous and bold style, which places him in the front rank of stumpers in the State, while his high character and sterling Democracy secures him the f respect of all Dem crats, and the venom of all jealous and discomfited ones. Ramsay does us as much good iu the Eighth District as any man in it. He is an active and working man and a man of decided talent. We say the Bth is all right. Proclaim it to the world and tell it in Gath and all along the shore, Stephens is elected. S, P. S.—On the 17th the Lanterns tried to have a meeting and failed—Garnett would not come, i A New, but perfectly Legitimate Phase of K. Nothingism—A War of Races—The Celts and Anglo-Saxons. It is nothing difficult for a presumptuous writer after having assumed premises, to deduce conclusions suitable to his designs. A correspondent of the South iern Recorder of the 3d inst., has pandered to the pre | vailing fanaticism by using the following language; /f Another objection to the naturalization of foreigners may be found in the contrariety of races, it is undeniable that the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races can never be har monized. The latter must invariably become the “hewers of wood and the drawers of water” to the former. A Celt is regarded as an inferior being, and he cannot hope to acquire a bona fide equality with the Anglo Saxon.— There is, too, a profound and inveterate hatred, both civil and religious, on the part of the Celt, which would for ever divide the two races. In lact, the Celt himself prac ticably acknowledges this superiority in the Anglo Saxon l race, by his submissive demeanor in his intercourse with the latter race. This is a matter of every day^pbserva- tion .— Cor. Southern Recorder, July It seems to be the object of suph-'seriliblers to pre sume upon the ignorance of FfteTmasses in order to kin dle a bigoted and fanatia(prejudice. The question of superiority between the Celts aud Anglo Saxons has been mooted almost from time immemorial. History has given the advocates of each strong grounds of assumption, but if the faots be properly collated, and carefully investigated, will leave each far apart from the other so far as the isolated question of superiorly may be concerned. It is the generally received opinion of historians that the original inhabitants of Europe were Celts. The Celts and Gauls are used as synominous, when the ear ly inhabitants are referred to. We have their history from the earliest times, as warriors, statesmen, agri culturalists, scholars, artists &c. Aristotle declares that Greece derived her philosophy from the Gauls. In the Roman Empire many Celts obtained elevated and dis tinguished positions. Many of the most distinguished names of antiquity are of Celtic origin. The most learn ed men of the ninth contury were Scotsmen, among whom, at this day, rests the purest remains of the orig inal Celtic character, and the Emperor Charlemagne bestowed upon them the most responsible and dignified trusts as they were “pre eminent for their fidelity and valor.” As Christian missionaries they ranked among the most zealous, “establishing Churches and religious houses in Germany, France, and even Italy.” The valor of the Celts is spoken of, and lauded by all the early writers. We are told that they invaded Asia, they overspread and enriched themselves with the plunder of the Temples of Greece. In the fourth century before Christ, they reduced Rome to ash- es —made terrible inroads upon neighboring nations — . and received tributes of the most powerful. For the early 1 history of this renowned race, tho pages of Herodotus, Strabo, Plutarch, Plipy, and Tacitus, may be consult ed, and before such writers as the correspondent of the Southern Recorder stoops to a course of detraction, which involves a majority, we may safely say, of the people of this country, it would be advisable for them to become informed upon a subject about which they pro fess to teach. ) Ciesar in his us an account of the t native 15mains at the time of'the Roman invasion, B. C. The same population still held possession of the country when abandoned by the Romans five hundred years after. The English historians give a full account of the Britons during this era, as does Tacitus in his Agricola who acquaints us with the first one hundred and fifty years after the landing of Caesar. Their fierce warfare, indomitable courage, and intense love of liber ty are corroborated by all Tacitus in speaking of the* Gauls, Germans, and Bata/ians, Gauls, (Celts) were prompted to fight by liberty—the Germans by the allurements of spoils—the Batavians by glory.— The Celts carried their rights on the points of their swords, and said all things belonged to the brave who had the courage to seize them. With the well disciplined Roman army, the Celts contended to the last. Although defeated at various times, yet they would always rally. A writer, por traying them, says, the youth, and even the old men to the army from all quarters, and undismayed by rormer losses, they posted themselves with firm de termination, to stand for their country and their liberties at the foot of the Grampians. Though defeated, they jould not submit to their victors. They drove the .Romans southward, and eventually saw the country free from their enemies. They scorned the offers of citizenship, and notwithstanding their repeated losses, obstinately preferred a life of freedom to an existence branded with the mark of subjection. Such was the character of the Celts inhabiting Caledonia, now Sect land, when the Romans had overrun the Southern parts of Britain. At this day, no more noble specimens of , humanity exists than in the high-lands of Scotland— distinguished now, as they ever liavo been, for an in domitable love of liberty, self-reliance and heroic cour age. The same spirit characterize/the warfare between the Saxons and Celts, for,says Hume, the“ Anglo-Saxons rather exterminated than subdued the ancient inhabit ants.” The same spirit characted all the Celtic tribes of Briton, and Henry 11. said the Welsh were so warlike it were easier to tame wild beasts, than daunt their •murage. The descendants of such a people are those whom the Recorder's correspondent describes as “acknowl edging their inferiority to the Anglo Saxons by their submissive demeanor in their intercourse with the latter race.” The ignorance which such an assertion exhib its would screen it from an answer, were it not that it beo/me involved as one of the many despicable means to by which a war of races is instigated in this country—civil and religious^p^?cution —and a proscriptive policy at variance w'rfn every dictate of re publicanism, truth, or honorable antagonism. If the writer be such an acute ethnologist, as his sweeping ti rade would induce one to think he imagined himself to be, let him answer by stating what proportion of the peo ple of the Unted States are descendants of the Celts and what of the Anglo-Saxons. Let him illustrate his assertion by pointing to either individual instances or general classes, to excuse himself for his unwarranted assault upon so large a body of his countrymen. If he can show, (I have shown that down to our time his assettions are gratuitous,) in the history of our own Country, commencing with the revolutionary era, and extending through every department of the government, in what respect the Celtic descendants have become “hewers of wood and drawers of water’ to tho descen dants of tho Anglo-Saxons, I will yield the question.— It will be something new to every reader to learn that the Scotch, Irish, Welch, and their descendants, and the races of lower Europe, South of the Rhine, have been less ardent, or less brave, in defence of their lib erties, or have been more submissive than their com patriots of Anglo-Saxon descent, to the unjust demands of his Royal majesty, George lll,or his successors. I im agine, also, that in the political annals of the country, since the achievement of our independence, the des cendants of this inferior race will be found as high up on the roll of statesmanship, in the field, and the judi ciary, as his superior idols. It would be too protracted a discussion to enter more freely, at this time, upon a comparison of the two races in this country. It is anew feature in our his tory to hear demagogues, and ignorant bigots, proclaim ing a necessary antagonism between peoples, who, com bined together, have labored for one great end, emu lous only in their exertions in securing it, and having secured it, extort the admiration and plaudits of the civilized world. This new fangled compound of fool ishness and fanaticism, not content to ignore the first principles of our Constitution, by precipitating the most diabolical political heresy that ever clursed a republican people, would go further, and aftpr proscribing good and true citizeus for their religion and birth, would es tablish a secret book of heraldry, by which, unless the object of their fanatical conspiracy could trace his an cestry to the Anglo-Saxon stock, he would be put un der the ban of inequality and made an “hev. er of wood and drawer of water.” Far be it from me to detract ought from the Anglo- Saxon character. They were sworn enemies to the Celts for centuries. Long did the latter contend for their liberties, and although suffering every deprivation and persecution, arms could not subdue them. They were foes worthy of their steel. Whatever of animos ity and hatred suoh a protracted contest may have en gendered, it ill] becomes any one, least of all any por tion of the citizens of this country, to attempt to re-kin dle old flames, and excite old feuds, when the ocoasjion no longer exists, and which could only emenate fromjthe most mischieviouß and dangerous sp r rit. However, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales may have settled their hereditary feuds, we thank God that upon this hemisphere, and under the benign iniluencies of a Re publican Government, we, their descendants, can, with fraternal accord, stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our common safety and independence. None but the worst foes to our institutions would dare revile the memory of the noblest men that ever lived, by casting the foulest and falsest imputations upon their descen dants. No one, though he were as black a soeial trai tor as Erebus could not hide, would dare commit the sacrilege, were he not enboldened by the fanaticism with which the temporary existence of a secret conclave has spawned its fungus upon the publio* burkfhc in secret phices,tfi dark vile, conspiracy has been > to show its dangerolte brow by night, WVhenevils are more free BuWiigirU thou lurking fiend, has been . Susppedvf'rom you as a covering ; “o,Jin*n, nkday, find a cavern dark enough To markihy nrfynstrous vissagdJ” \ \ \ \ \UBLIUS. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Castle Rock, Dade Cos. Ga., July 16,1855. Messrs. Editors: —Permit me to invite attention to a section of Georgia which has been but little explored and which is but little known. This beautiful and romantic place is in the extreme northern part of our State, on a spur of Sand Mountain, which rises from > the valley of the Tennessee river, and extends for many miles into the State of Alabama. It is about five miles from the Nash ville & Chattanooga Railroad, and about three miles from ‘Nickojack Cove. The name of the place was suggested by the castellated appearance it presents to the beholder as it looms up from the valley below. Immense masses of rock, like a great wall, girt the entire gorge of the moun tain and seem to bid defiance to all approach. The ap pearances here would indicate that some tremendous con vulsion of nature had rent the mountain asunder, for the purpose of disclosing to the eye of man the valuable trea -1 ures concealed in its bowels. Not far ’from the summit are inexhaustible beds of Bituminous coal, and their prox imity to the railroad promises a rich reward to those who are engaged in extracting this valuable mineral from its deep and hidden recesses. An association was formed, last year, under the name of Castle Rock Mining Compa ny, for the purpose of working these coal beds, and though they have much, yet sufficient developments have been made to warrant enlarged operations the ensuing year. There are several other coal beds in this vicinity, and the neighboring States of Tennessee and Alabama, most of which (where not too far from the rail road) may be min ed with profit. The beds of coal are generally about 3 j feet in thickness, some thicker and some less so. The ! Castle Rock Mining Company have it in contemplation to construct a wooden track railroad from a point near their coal pit to Shell Mound on the N. & C. Railroad. In addition to the mineral resources of this region, we have a climate unsurpassed for health and comfort. The atmosphere is pure and salubrious, and the water is clear as crystal, cold enough, and delicious as the nectar of the gods. The nights are so cool that it is a pleasure to sleep. Copld one of the denizens of your sultry clime be sudden ly translated to this place, he could well say with Sancho Panza, “blessed be the man who invented sleep.” No need of taking a fan to bed with you here; no courting of “tired nature’s sweet restorer;” it comes unbidden, and you rise in the morning gay as a lark nnd vigorous as a giant. This region of our State has been hitherto an almost ‘‘ ter- Ta incognita;” cut off from the great body of its territory by mountain barriers, it hardly assumed to be a part of our noble commonwealth. The completion of that stupen- dous work, the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, has made it quite accessable, and it is now beginning to be ap preciated. The outlet opened by this great avenue for the transportation of its mineral wealth and its grain, has great ly enhanced the value of the land and given anew impetus , to the farming community. The crops of wheat here are I beyond precedent, and the prospect of the corn is so j fine, that it is thought this great and indispensable article, ; which has been so scarce the past year, will not he worth ! more than 20 or 25 cents per bushel. The land on the mountain top here 13 quite level. The soil seems to be well adapted to the production of all kinds of fruits and vegetables, and is peculiarly favorable to the growth of the vine. When this part of Georgia is more fully developed, it is believed that it will be one of the most desirable portions of our great and beloved State. F. Crops Destroyed. —St. Louis, July 26.—The grasshop pers have destroyed all the crops at Salt Lake. The Yellow Fever. —New Orleans, July 28.—There have been 101 deaths in this city this week of Yellow Fever. The disease has, also, broken out at Baton Rouge. A Brutal Murder.—The; body of A. J. Orr, of Macon, a contractor of the Savannah and Albany Railroad, was found yesterday morning, about eight miles from Hinesville, where he had been most brutally murdered. Mr. Assistant Secretary of State, Hunter, has been ap pointed by the President acting Secretary of State, during the temporary absence of Secretary Marcy.atOJd Point j Comfort. Commissioner under the Massachusetts Personal Liber ty Act. —Nineteen of the twenty-three persons apponted bv Governor Gardner to execute the above law have accepted their commissions. Failed to Nominate. —The convention ol the American party in the Eighth Congressional District, which met in Augusta, on last Wednesday, 25th ult., jailed to make a nomination. It is said the convention was not over harmo nious. It is uncertain whether they will bring forward a candidate. Anti-Know Nothing Meeting in Harris. According to a previous noMce, a large number of tie voters of Harris, opposed to the Know Nothing party, met this day at the Court House in Hamilton. Dr. Gibbs was called to the chair, declined and proposed the name of Col. J. N. Ramsey, who was unanimously elected to preside over the meeting. On motion of Col. J. M. Mobley, the following gentle men were appointed Vice Presidens: Judge A. B. limy, flCol. C. B. Black, Brittain Williams, James Pollard, Dr. T. Tramel. Judge M. C. Farley, Dr. Thomas P. Park, Ames Walker, A. Ilunly, Wm. E. Farley, Samuel Hen derson, Win. S. Henry and Dr. C. C. Gibbs. And the following gentlemen Secretaries: A. B. Seals, Joel C. Henry and A. G. Bedell. The Chairman stated the object of the meeting in a veiy able speech of about an hour, dearly showing the necessi ty of the South being united in opposition to this Know Nothing organization. Dr. C. C. Gibbs in an able and fearless speech exposed the Know Nothings, and announced as lie was the first in the field, he should be the last to quit the fight until victory perched upon our standard. Then, on motion of Col. Robt. A. Crawford,a committee of three was appointed from each district to prepare busi ness for the action of the meeting. # The several districts were then called and the following gentlemen chosen ; C. Bedell, Samuel Henderson, 11. Tho mas, Aaron Goodman, John McGee, Wm. Nelson, M. W. llattox, Wm. A. Truit, Samuel Moore, R. A. Crawford, Alvin Myhrand, Green Welden, Joel Denis, James M. Whitten, O. 11. Smith, Stephen L. Hanks, A. B. Seals, Wm. T. Stniih, John W. Smith, R. W. Robinson,George Lynch, David Hutchins, Benj. Bucbannan, —. Parkerson, Thomas. M. Clower, Henry Lowe, S. Brown, C. B. Black, T. J. Dozier, Win. M. Blackwell, Wm. J. Henry, 11. Mil- ner, Robert Winfrey, T. N. Sparks, R. E. Benning, Mo- Calla. James Pollard and Brittain Williams, for the coun ty at large. The committee retired to report matter for the considera* tion of the meeting. During their aDsence, the large au dience was entertained by speeches from Messrs. G. A. B. Dozier, of Harris, and James Hamilton, Esq., of Columbus. The people listened with much interest and manifested their approbation of the sentiments advanced by frequent enthu siastic bursts of applause. The committee after mature deliberation, returned, and, through their chairman, Dr. Bedelk recommended to the Convention the following names: Col. James N. Ramsey for the Senate, and Judge Henry E. Moss and Dr. P. T. Tramel, for the House of Representatives—also the accom paning Resolutions ,* which report was unanimously adopted by the House: The citizens of Harris county, without regard to past dif ferences of opinion, adopt the following resolutions: Ist. Resolved, That we arc opposed to all secret oath bound political associations in a Republican Government, in times of peace. 2d. Resolved, That the pretension with which the self styled American party attempts .to palm off its dangerous doctrines, is unworthy of any party claiming the support of an intelligent constituency : Adopting as it does, at the same time, the Philadelphia and Georgia PJaiforms, (he one declaring the union oi the States the paramount politi cal good, the other asserting, in unequivocal terms, the Un ion to be secondary in importance to the rights it was in tended to protect, and denying in their resolutions a pro scription of men on account oi their religious faith, while they swear in their seeret councils by honid oaths, not to vote for men for office, and to remove them from office when in their power, on account of their religious faith, thereby making a test, which the constitution declares never shall be made. 3j. Resolved, That Congress has no light to abolish or restrict slavery in the States or Territories, nor to interfere with the slave trade between the States, nor to reject a State applying for admission because of slavery. 4th. Resolved, In the opinion of this Convention, no Government like ours, founded on just piincipies,can divest a man of his title to property without remuneration, hence we conclude, Congress has no more power to deprive a citizen of the District ©1 Columbia of his slave than of his house or land, and the same principle applies in the States, even should a majority desire the abolition of slavery, other wise the minority have no security for their property. sth. Resolved, Georgia Platform of 1850 adopted. 6th. Resolved,.“That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to the general Government; but that by a compact under the style and title ot a constitution of the United States and of amendments thereto, they con stituted a general Government for special purposes—dele- I gated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self government, that whensoever the general Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and ol no force ; that to this compact each State ae ceeded as a State, and is an integral parly, ils co-Slates form ing as to it.-elf the other party; that the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it—since that would have made its discretion and not the constitution, the mea sure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself as well ol infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.” 7th. Resolved, In the opinion of this meeting, the native Freesoilers, Know Nothings and Abolitionists ot the North, are the worst and most dangerous enemies of the Constitu tion, the Union and our rights, and that vye are ready to strike hands with natives or loreign born, Whigs or Demo crats, North and South, to defend that Constitution against j the assaults of Abolitionism in the North and fanaticism in ; tiie South. . -UrtaA Bth Resolved, That while on the one hand this conven j tiori cannot point to a single instance of Catholic interler | ence with the institution of slavery in the States,'l eiritories ; or District of Columbia ; on the other, we find the enemy ; of our own household comport-d of 2000 Protestant Clergy I of the North, Know Nothings, Abolitionists and Freesoilers, who make common cause against the South, and against whom we urge and beg our Southern Know Nothing friends to turn their arms, and cease their war against an iu offending leligious sect who have not joined in a crusade against the South. j Cos. Ramsey and Dr. Tramel being present rose and ac j cepted the nomination in an appropriate manner, pledging j themselves to support the principles of the party. Col. Mobley having been selected as 011 c to be recom mended to the county by the committee, declined on ac count of his private affairs, pledging himself, however, to give his entire support to the cause, as he was acting for the good of the country and not for himself. On motion, Resolved that the Times & Sentinel and Hamiliton Organ publish our proceedings. Meeting then adjourned sine die. J. N. RAMSEY, President. A. B. Seals, ( J. C. Henry, < Sec’s. A. G. Bedell, ( Illness of Abbot Lawrence. — 80.-ton, July 26, 1855 Abbot Lawrence is at the point of death. The Philadelphia Slave Case. — Philadelphia, July 27, 1855. —Judge Kane has committed Williamson, charged with stealing the slaves of the lion. Mr. Wheeler, for eon j tempt of court, and also authorised the Grand Jury to indict him for perjury. Annexation of Kansas. — Washington, Lily 27. —The Kansas Herald says, a project is on foot to annex the Piatle connty to Kansas, by purchase. Editorial Withdrawal.—We find in the Georgian (he announcement of the withdrawal of B. R. Darnell, Esq., from the editorial connection with ilia! journal. It is now under the sole control af Messrs.’ Punch and Perry. The Litchfield (Conn.) Republican hoists the name of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson for President, and lion. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, lor Vice President. Code of Alabama — Page t ; 6.— Section *2ll. At the Elections for Governor, Representatives in Congress and Members of ihe General Assembly, the ballot? given for each ul such officer*, must be deposited ju separate boxes*