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(Lxmts avilf BtnfttuL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ’ SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 10,1855. Grand Rally of the Democracy—Platform of Principle?—Speeches. According so previous notice, a grand rally of the De mocracy took place on Thursday night last, in the Ilall of Representatives. Though the night was inclement, the house was full. The meeting was organized by calling lion. Howell Cobb to the chair. He opened the ceremonies in a rl o.'t address, replete with beauty, eloquence and powt. The Democratic party, during the late canvass, had encountered, he said, anew and dangerous enemy in the Know Nothing order or American party. This new party had entered the can vass without leaders and had come out of it without a party, aud if the contest had lashd a few months longer it would have been without voter*. They lacked two essential elements of success —men and measures. He apprehended no further trouble from this quarter. The true enemies of the South were to be found at the North. The time had come for decided action, and this meeting had assembled to mark out the liDe of polity the South would pursue in the future. The organization of the meeting was completed by appointing Ramsuy, of Harris, and Nelms, of Elbert, Secretaries. Upon the announcement of the chair that the meet ing was prepared for business, Hon. Alfred Iverson moved that a committee of ‘2l be appointed to report matter for the meeting. Committee. — Iverson, of Muscogee, chairman , Toombs, of Wilkes, Stephens, of Taliaferro, H. War ner, of Merriwether, Seward, of Thomas, Ilillyer, of Walton, Wright, of Floyd, Bailey, of Butts, Linton Stephens, I. T. Irvin, of Wilkes, 11. G. Lamar, of Bibb, Dabney, of Gordon, Mclntosh, of Elbert, Hutch ins, of Gwinnett, Lawton, of Dougherty, Scriven, of Chatham, I. L. Harris, of Baldwin, McGuire, of Floyd, Phillips, of Habersham, and Patterson, of Jefferson. After a short absence, the committee returned and submitted the following resolutions through their chair man. PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES. Ist. Resolved , That as a portion of the Democratic and j anti-Know Nothing Party of Georgia, we declare, in the ! language of the Georgia Convention of 1850, “That we • hold the American Union secondary in importance only i to the rights and principles it was designed to perpetuate;” | that past associations, present fruition, and future pros- ! pecte, will bind us to it so long sit continues to be the : safeguard of those rights and principles. 2d, Resolved , That we hereoy declare eur full and un- j qualified adhesion to the following Resolution of the Geor® j gia Convention of 1850, and our unalterable determina tion to maintain it in its letter and spirit, viz:—4th Reso lution, Georgia Platform : “That the State of Georgia, in the judgment of this Convention, will and ought to resist even (as a last resort) to a disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, any action of Congress upon the subject of Slavery in the District of Columbia, or in places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the safety, domestic tranquility, the rights and honor of the slaveliolding States; or any act suppressing the slave j trade between the slaveholdiug States ; or any refusal to i admit as a State any Territory hereafter applying, because of the existence of slavery therein, or any act prohibiting i the introduction of slaves into the Territories of l tah and I New Mexico ; or any act repealing or materially modify- j in the laws in force for the reo very of fugitive slaves.” 3d, Resolved , That we approve and endorse the action j of our last Cougress in the passage of the Nebraska-Kan- j sas act, and the principles therein established, and in con- i formity with these principles the people of Kansas, have ‘ the right, when the uumber of their population justifies j it, to form a Republican State Constitution, with or with- ! out slavery, as they may determine, and be admitted into j the Union up >n an equal footiug with the other States; ; and that her rejection by Congress, on account of slavery, j would be a just cause for the disruption of all the ties that bind the State of Georgia to the Union. 4th, Resolved , That we adopt and approve the follow- i ing Resolution passed unanimously by the last Legislature of Georgia : “Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That opposition to the principles of the Nebraska Bill, in elation to the subject of slavery, is re garded by the people of Georgia as hostility to the people of the South, and that all persons who partake ol such opposition are unfit to be recognized as component parts of any Party or ‘organization not hostile to the South.” sth, Resolved, That in accordance with the above reso lution, whilst we are willing to act in party association with all sound and reliable men in every section of the Union, wo are not williug to affiliate with any party that shall not recognize, approve and earry out the principles and professions of the Nebraska-Kansas act, and that the Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing party of Georgia, ought to cut off all party connection with every man and party at the North, or elsewhere, that does not come up fully and fairly to this line of action. 6th, Resolved, That those sound and reliable Demo crats at the North, who have patriotically fought for the Nebraska Kansas act, and the maintenance ol the fugitive slave law, against the combined forces ot Know Nothing ism and abolitionism, (which seek their repeal), and who stand pledged to support the admission of Kansas iuto the Union as a slave State, should she ask it, merit the heart felt sympathies, thanks and encouragement of all Southern men, in their patriotic position. 7th, Resolved , That iu the ranks of the Democratic party of the North alone have been found those patriotic men, who have stood by the rights ot the South, and, judging the future by the past, th • ‘party oniy contains the elements of soundness upon the slavery question, upon which a national party can be constructed with which the South can consistently co-operate. Bth, Resolved , That it is expedient and proper that the Democratic and Anti Know Nothing party of Geor gia, he represented in the National Convention of the Democratic party, which is to meet in Cincinnati next .Spring, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice President ; that the Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing members of the Legislature, to gether with such other members of the party as may be ehosen to attend, from their respective counties, be and are hereby requested to meet at some convenient time during the present session, and select twenty delegates to said Convention,-for this State. 2th, Resolved , That our delegates to said Convention ought, in our opinion, to be instructed by those who shall appoint them to insist upon the adoption of a platform of principles as the basis of a national organization, prior to the nomination of candidates, and that said platform shall, among-t other things, include in substance the following propositions : Ist, Ibe recognition and adoption of the principles es tablished in the Kansas Nebraska act. 21. That neither the Missouri Compromise, nor any oth* ei anti-slavery restriction shall hereafter be extended over ai, y Territory of the United States. 3J, Ihe prompt and faithful execution of the Fugitive •ive Law, and its perm tnent continuance upou the Stat ute Book. 10th, Resolved, That no man ought to be held and cons,, ered * member of the National Democratic party. Z do l* not rec *>t?nwo, approve and adopt the foregoing propositions, and that the Democratic and anti Know -Nothing party ot this State, through its said delegation ought nut to affiliate or act in said convention S ‘ d<?U ‘ galtS ’ Wh ° bhrtU di PPrve and vote against 1 Ih, Resolved , That if said propositus shall not in substance be incorporated in the platform adopted by said Convention, the delegates from Georgia ought, in the opinion of this meeting, to withdraw from the Convention and take no farther part in the nominations or other pro* ceedings of the ssiue; and that our delegates ought to be fenstructed so to act. t. **>£♦/#, Resoleed, That the Democratic and aDti Know ?'$ p’trtj’of this Hiate, ('Uglily au4 will support the nominee# of said Convention for President and \ President, provided the platform adopted by said Con vention be in accordance with the spirit and intent o t e foregoing propositions, and the nominees thereof.be pledg ed, if elected, to carry out the same in good fei h n tne administration of the Government, and in appointments to office under the administration. _ 13. Resolved , That we sympathize with the friends ol the slavery cause, in Kansas, in their mauly efforts to maintain their rights and intensta and the righie and interests of the Southern people, and that we rejoice at their recent victories over the paid adventu rers and jesuiticol hordes of northern abolitionism; that the deep interest felt and taken by the people of Missouri in the settlement of Kansas and the decision ol the slave ry question in it, is both natural and proper, and that it is their right and duty to extend to their Southern breth ren in that Territory every legitimate and honorable sym pathy and support. 14. Resolved , That we are uncompromisingly opposed to the political organization commonly called the Know Nothing Order, or American Party, having no sympa thy with their seeresy, their oaths, their unconstitutional designs, their religious intoieruoce, and their political pro scription. 15. Resolved , That we hail with delight the late signal triumph in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maine and other States including Georgia, of the Democratic Party, and of the patriotic Whigs, who co-operated in achieving these re sults over the Know Nothing organization, as conclusive evidence, that in the great practical questions involved iu that contest, Southern men may honorably and successfully combine, without regard to past political distinctions, to save the constitution from desecration, and the South from being prostrated before the power of Northern fanaticism and misrule. 16. Resolved , That the Democratic aud anti-Know Nothing patty in all our sister States, and especially of the Southern States are respectfully and earnestly request ed to take the forgoing resolutions into their early consid eration, and co-operate with us in the policy and objects intended to be thereby secured. The lion. Alfred Iverson moved the adoption of the resolutions, and supported them in a speech of some length. The argument was an able one, but the Hon. Senator was not himself, and those persons who judge of his oratorical powers by this effort, will do him great injustice. It is but just to him to add that b came from a sick bed to attend the meeting. Hon. Robert Toombs seconded the resolutions, be cause he approved not only the principles enunciated, but the form of words employed to express them, with a single exception. If he felt at liberty to do so he would move to strike out “anti-Know Nothing” from the designation of the party. This hit brought down the house, and for one hour the Honorable Senator enchain- ed the attention of his audience and kept them in an 1 uproar of applause. He was np to the occasion, and j satisfied all who heard him that he is not only An able j statesman, but a powerful orator, fully equal to his j fame t and worthy of the high position he occupied. He j gave his hearty sanction to the resolutions and would j stand on them, and by the men who stood qb them, ! no matter where they came from or what was their i party designation. Up to 1848 the Whigs and Demo- j orals of Georgia had differed upon questions of policy, j and he thought he and his friends had the beet of the j argument, but then he discovered that the Democracy I had the best men. In 1850 the Whig party had dis- j banded, lie had then taken position on the Georgia 1 Platform and had avowed his willingness as well as pur- j pose to stand by the men who stood by it. The 4th ! resolution of that Platform was the common property j of both the Southern Rights and Union parties of that j day, and was the test Georgia hod agreed to stand upon in her future affiliations with national parties.— During the last session of Congress this test was ap- j plied oD|the parties in the passage of the Nebraska- ; i Kansas act. At first the South was unanimous in de ! rnanding the repeal of the Missouri Restriction, but when the question came up before the Senate, there i i were found to be three traitors in the camp—two ; Whigs and one Democrat, Clayton, of Delaware, Bt 11, j of Tennessee, and Houston, of Texas, and upon eoquir- I ing as to the oause of their defection, he found out j that they had seen Sam. The Southern Senators held | frequent caucuses together upon the subject and invited all the Senators from the Northern States who conourred with them in opinion to meet with them —- Fourteen Northern Senators attended these caucuses and voted for the Nebraska-Kansas act. They were all Democrats. So you see, fellotv citizens, said the orator, this is not the first Democratic caucus I have attended. He had in these meetings pledged himself to stand by those Senators, whatever might be their politi cal designation, who stood the test of the Georgia Plat- I form. It was a hard test; there could bo no quibbling upou it; fourteen Democratic Senators and forty-four Democratic members of the House of Representatives : had stood the test, and sink or swim, live or die, sur* ! vive or perish, lie would stand by them. He knew of but two modes of saving the rights of the South. One ; was by the ballot box and the other was by the car tridge box. He was for trying tbs ballot box a while i loDger, and the only way to make this mode of detencs | effective, was to stand by the men who stand by ns. But I am trespassiug too much upon your columns. I It would be agreeable to me and profitable to your rea | ders to follow the line of argument of the Senator to the j end of his great effort; but your columns will not jus | tify me in doiDg so. It must suffice to add that he pass j ed easily and naturally from this branch of his subject to ! a consideration of the proscriptive features of Know Nothingism and utterly demolished the whole ooncern. lie treated it as a disturbing element to Southern union, I and by reference to the history of our oouotry, showed 1 that freedom of religious worship and the laws of natu ! ralization were the two main pillars upon which rested ; the stupendous fabric of American civilization. Indulge me while I narrate one of his wittioisms and 1 i close. He referred to the catholic religion, and said it I was a bad religion, very bad— almost as bud as his 1 oton —but he had no fear of it so long as it was not con nected with the State, and closed a very telling para ; gtaph by repeating the celebrated apothem of Thomas ’ Jefferson : There is no danger from error so long as truth is left free to combat it. After the applause ceased, at the elose of this mag nificent display ot oratorical power and the Senator had retired from the stand, on motion of Senator Iverson, the j question was taken on the passage of the resolutions J and they were unanimously adopted. Thus closed the ceremony of union between those j who fought as Allies in the ltte contest. They were j worthy of the occasion. We are now “on* part}’{ may we not hope that it will not be long before w# are “one people,” Brown’s Washing Machine. By reference to oar advertising columns our readers will find an advertisement in relation to this machine We have conversed with some of the gentlemen whose names are eobserihed, and they speak of it in highly recommendatory terms. We rdvise those in need of such an article and who wish to save labor and ex pense to call open Messrs. Clemons, Brown & Cos., at an early date. New Yoke, Nov. 7. Partial returns show that th American ticket has 40- Oou. and the Softs 3KGGO, the Fusionisf* 30 000 ond •he Ba-rde ?4 ? o£>o. The rosidt ■* 4onbM'nk | ‘‘Henry A Wise end ’JO*” This is the battle ery of our eloquent correspondent Zeno , and if the elans are rallied by it, no man will re echo the shout with more hearty good will or a more stentorian voice than we will. He is unquestionably a man of genius—a loyal son of the old Dominion, a re liable Southern man. and the country is under a weight of obligation to him for the death blow he gave to the foul fiend upon its first incursion into the Southern States which can never be repaid by honors and emoluments of office. Such service is only acknowl edged by grateful remembrance and “perennial brass.” : This, however, has but little to do with the policy of • urging him upon the Democracy as their candidate for ! the Presidency. There are other good and true men whose positions, geographical we mean, give assurance ,of greater strength in a Presidential contest. If, how | over, • man is to be taken from the South to run the raee, we go with Zeno for Henry A. Wise. As the principal fight is certain to eome off in the Northern States and the brunt of the battle is to be borne by our Northern allies, we think it but just to give them the ohoice of the captain of the host. We care very little who he is, so he is a true man and will not surrender the objects of the war to the enemy. In this respect we think onr position a much nure favorable one for a dispassionate judgment, than is that of our able corres pondent. In all other respects we acknowledge his toperiority. Mr. Wise “has stolen his heart” and he is a red hot partisan of the man of Accomao. Upon no other supposition can we account for his discovery and expose of the faults of the competitors of Mr. Wise for the Presidency. There are spots on the sun, but it is not seemly for us who bask in its genial rays to point them out and magnify them. We leave that for the molee and bats who have no use for the glad sunshine. So of our Northern allies in this great war for our rights and liberties with the fanatical and ever swelling hosts of abolitionism. They doubtless have spots upon the burning disk of their fame; but the enemy may enjoy the felicity of discovery. We covet no such re nown. We are at a loss to know the precise point of Zeno's objection to Mr. Buchanan. We gratefully re member that when the North was nearly uuanimoos for the Wilmot Proviso , James Buchanan, almost alone, among Northern statesmen, stood up for the extension of the Missouri line to the Pacific. This also was the demand of the Nashville Conventien. After the com promise measures were passed, he gave iu his adhesion |to the principle of non-intervention. So did Zeno ;so I did we all. True, his position has sealed his lips upon | the great pending issues ; but a long life of consistent ! devotion to the constitutional rights of every section of i the Union, and the recent emphatie condemnation of | all the iemo by the old Keystone State gives ample as : surance of the soundness of her favorite son. Neither do we find any pith iu the objection of Zeno to Judge Douglas. It is admitted that the repealing clause of the Nebraska-Kansas act waa first offered by Dixon, of Ky. It was, however, accepted cheerfully by Senator Douglas, and to him more than to any other man is the South indebted for its triumphant passage through both Houses of Congress. We can never for get the storm of opprobrium with which he was assail ed on his return to Illinois, after this great act of jus tice was consummated, nor the heroic manner in which he met and crushed it. The administration of President Pierce ueeds no de fence at our bands. It is sufficient eulogy that under and through it the South has regained her long lost I equality in the Union, and that Kansas is this day under ’ Southern domination. We still adhere to the opinion that Know Nothingism j is dead, notwithstanding the profuse discharge of flow ! era of rhetoric, in opposition, on the part of our cor | respondent. There never was any necessity for it in * the Southern States, and, it never wouid have been ad | vocated by Sontheru men, if the galiant old Whig party ; had not been in a state of disintegration at the moment |of its introduction. We have no idea we shall ever : have to fight it again. It was adopted at the South as : a temporary refuge by the opposition, and the over whelming defeat they have sustained in it will deter them from again staking their fortunes in so indefensi | ble a breastwork. At the North it is swallowed up I by “Fusion,” | For years our heart has yearned for Southern union, and we have an abiding confidence that if the Democ racy will do their whole duty at Cincinnati that this great result will be achieved. “A fig for your ‘platforms,’ unless you have a relia ble man,” says Zeno. So say we ; but what can a “re ; liable tr.ao” do without a sound party to back him ? j “We can never forget” that James K. Polk signed the | Oregon bill. | “A reliable man and a sound platform” is our battle ory for fifty-six ; but first of all, a sound platform. — This will be the first great object of the Georgia delega tion in the Cincinnati Convention, and until this is ob : tained they will postpone the claims of her own great men whose services have not been much inferior even to those rendered by Mr. Wise in the great struggle j through which we hatre just passed. We are willing, ; until the great sectional issues now pendiug between the j North and the South are settled, to forego all claims to * national honors ; and would indignantly spurn them if | they were offered by a party which failed to come up to j the line of political action marked out in the Platform S os the Georgia Democracy in their last State Conven * tiou. We feel that the time has passed for the loyal j *ons of the beleaguered South to chafer with the North about the disposition of the spoils of the Federal Gov ernment. Her rights, her interests, her honor are as sailed by a ruthless horde of Northern vandals, and they must first be conquered and driven back from our Rome, before we enter the cauvass fur consulships. He who leads the van in this sacred war will receive our “sut voices” for the Presidency, be he Virginian or Penn sylvanian, Illinoian or New Englander. Death of Wm. M. Murphy.—We regret to learn from ! a dispatch to Mr. Judge, of the decease of William M. i Murphy, Esq., of Selma, yesterday morning. He was extensively known, admired and beloved, and ; from his lofty magnanimi.y and many nobie traits of char- I aeter, justified the appellation which*has been given him. j of the Grand Man Asa lawyer he stood high among the leaders of the Bar in the South, and was still iu the bloom and vigor of his intellect and influence. The announcement of his tudden demise u ill carry poig- ; nant sorrow to the hearts of thousands who as it were ! revered him.— Ala. Journal , Sth. Boston, Nov. t. Gov. Gardner, the American candidate, has been re Reeled Governor of’ Massachusetts by 10,000 majority. —— The Circuit Conn of Montgomery county, Ala., ! cornrneno*d its session on yesterday—lion. John Gil Shorter (presiding—Marion A. B ldwin, Esq., Attorney- General, &e., &c. We undtrstand the business before the C urt is heavy, but we have no reason to donbt that Judge Shorter will “clear the docket” in due lima. Hi* j great legal abilities and promptness in despatching busi ness are well known and appreciated by the members of the Bar as well as by all who have business before oar Court. Os Col. Bi.ldwin, the Solicitor, we need say noth ing—bis ability is beyond question, and his zeal in the discharge of his duties equally 5b.-- irlr. Gazette EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. A. H. Stephens at Miliedferllle. At the request of a large number of political friends, the Hon. A. H. Stephens addressed his fellow citizens at length upon political subjects in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the night of the fith inst. The room was crowded almost to suffocation before the speaker took the stand, and his rousing welocme as he walked up the aisle, gave indication that he had a warm place in the hearts of his auditory. Expectation was on tip-toe, and the brilliant orator fully came up to it. It would be profitable to your readers and afford us pleasure to report his speech in full, but knowing the press npon your columns at this time, I must eontent myself with giving, and yon with printing, a very brief synopsis. He considered the last election one of the most im portant which had ever taken place in Georgia. The principles of civil and religious liberty embodied by our fathers in the constitution of the United States and put in peril by the organization of the Know Nothing order, ; were reaffirmed by the people of Georgia on the first Monday in October last. It was a fit oooasion for eon gratolations, and while be would celebrate the victory with song and timbrel, like Moses did when he crossed the Red Sea, he would also ereet monuments as Joshua j did when he had orossed over Jordan and entered the ! herders of the promised land, for the edification of our j childreu and their children’s children, i In support of the proposition first enunciated by him, :he passed rapidly in review the organization of the ; so ealled American order, and very conclusively proved j that if this misohievous party had attained power in the ! country, the constitution of the order would have been | substituted for the constitution of the United States, and j the Grand Council for the Congress of the United : States. He next analysed the principles of the order and showed that the proscription of foreigners and catholics, attempted by the organization, was in violation of the express provisions of the constitution, at war with the principles cherished by our fathers, anti-Anierioan and anti-Republican. This part of his speech was choks full of argument, illustration, wit, irony, sareasm and good humored raillery, with occasional touches of elo quence, and produeed a profound conviction on the mind of his auditory. He next turned his aueiitbn to the national aspect of the question. He held that by the defeat of the so called American party iu the Southern States, the South had been saved from a national alignment, dangerous, if not fatal to her dearest interests and powerless either to preserve the Union or protect the South. He pass ed in review, the history of the slavery agitation, and dwelt at some length upon the compromise measures of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska act. By the passage of these measures, the power to legislate upon the sub ject of slavery in the Territories was taken away from Congress and given to the people, and the whole Ter ritory of the United States. Upon the maintenance of the principle of nonintervention, the union of the States, and the safety of the South are involved. In forming national alliances, the South insist seek those men and that party which stood by this great constitu tional question. Sink or swim, he would We guided Wy this land mark, he eared not where it led him. Upon the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act, a majority of • the Northern Democratic members of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Northern 1 Democratic members of the Senate of the United States | voted in ths affirmative. It obtained no support from i the Northern members of either House of Congress.— ! There was then no man at the North except a Demo | crat, for whom the South could vote for Congress.— 1 Even Mr. Fillmore was opposed to the Nebraska-Kan sas act. He had no objection to sending delegates to the next National Convention if that party would carry out in good faith the principles enunciated by the party in Georgia at its June Convention. He believed the sound men of that party at the North would cordially eo-operate with the South in cutting off the unsound portion of its membership, and aid in the establishment of a sound conservative party. If they would do this, he was with them to the death. If they failed to do this, he would have no affiliation with them, neither ought nor would Southern Democrats. If the South was true I® herself, he believed she could preserve the Union and her rights in it; but if this hope proved delusive, he was for resistance to un constitutional aggressions at all hazard. Bull am drawing out this communication to an un reasonable length. The whole speech was received with rapturous applause and produced the happiest re sults. ft convinced us that the league formed during the last canvass between the Democrats and Whigs of Georgia is a permanent one and cannot be broken un less the Democracy are untrue to the principles adopted by them in their Jane Convention. Georgia Legislature. Milledgeville, Nov. 8, 1855. I shall not trouble you in future with an enumeration of the various bills introduced into the two branches of the General Assembly. It will be time enough to bring them ! before the notice of your leaders when they come up for ! consideration. If an apology for this course is necessary, it will be found in the multiplicity of the bills introduced. They are now flooding the two Houses ; and many of them j will never be heard of again. They will die in the Commit i tee Room?. i The two Houses met in the Hail of Representatives at • 12 M. and proceeded to elect an Attorney General for the j Middle Circuit. Ist. Ballot—Wm. R. McLav.-s received 68 votes. John !B. Miller 71. Alex. McKenzie 38. J. B. Ilayne 35. A. !M. Rogers 34. J. M. Cross 6. Shropshire 1. On the 4th Ballot, McLaws received a majority of all the vote? cast, and was declared duly elected Attorney Gene ra! for the Middle Circuit, alter which the Senate repaired to their chamber and the two Houses adjourned. The ! other elections for Solicitors General and State House of ficers will be resumed to-morrow. Senate Chamber, 3 o’clock P. M. The Senatu3 Academicus assembled at this hour in the Senate Chamber. This body is composed of the Governor ol the State, the President of the University, the Trustees of the University, and the members of the Senate. The Governor i? cx~officii President of the body. The venera ble Dr. Alonzo Church read a communication upon the subject of education, in which he urged upon the body the importance of a system of common school education as extensive as the State, and of enlarging the system of edu cation in trie University, so as to place it upon a footing with similar institutions in other States. Five hundred copies were ordered to be printed. Professor Venable, of Virginia, was elected by the Board ot 1 rustees to till the Professorship made vacant by the resignation of Professor LeConte. The Senator* were called on to make reports upon the subject of education in their respective counties, but it being very apparent that no one Senator had anything to say on the subject, the cell ot the eOttotfes was dispensed with, and a resolution adopted requesting Senators to submit their re* ports to the Secretary of the Senate. To-night the Democratic and anti-Know Nothing parties will hold their meeting for the purpose of agreeing upon a Platform of Principles, and marking out the future policy of the party. In my next, I will give you a full report of the proceedings of the meeting. Last night the Inauguration Ball came off at Newell’s Hall. It was a gala time and was graced by the presence of many fair women and brave men. The dancing was kept up until a late hour, and those who participated in it express unqualified approbation of the manner in which it was conducted, and speak in high praise of the excellent supper furnished by Mr. Robert McConib. Milledgeville, Nov. 9. The two Houses met in the Hall of Representatives and spent the day in electing Solicitors General. I give you the result iu brief as far as it has progressed. CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT. I#/ Ballot, id. 3 d. A. H. Cooper 84 101 83 } Thaddeus Oliver... 57 86 139 James Hamilton... 47 5*2 17 D. J. Harrell * *2*2 withdrawn. * J. M. Russell 19 5 withdrawn. j Hugh M. King 13 i withdrawn. * Scattering 3 L On the third ballot, Thaddeus Oliver having rcceiv ed the majority of all the votes cast, w’as declared duly elected. Chbrokee CiacuiT. —J. C. Longstreet was elected on j the first ballot. His principal competitors were Wm. T j Wofford and F. C. Shropshire. Eastern Circuit.—On the first ballot Julian Hartridge received 1*25 votes and George A. Gordon 114 votes. Thera i were no other candidates. Flint Circuit. —On the third ballot J. It. Lyons receiv ed 122 votes, J. C. Lamar 114 votes. Mr. Lyons, the suc cessful candidate, was last session the Senator from Butts county. Macon Circuit.—T. W. Monfort received 136 votes,E. D. Tracy 73 votes nnd J. A. Pringle 32 votes. Blue Ridge Circuit.— William Phillips, son of the venerable Senator from Habersham, was the successful candidate in this circuit. Northern Circuit. —Daniel, of Madison, was elected over Messrs. Landrum, Andrew Jackson and Van Dusen. After this last result the Senate retired and adjourned. For the Times A. Sentinel. Mr. Wise again—Buchanan—Douglas. | Messrs. Editors:—And you think we are to lmye no more of “Sam,” and, therefore, will not need Mr. Wise iu 1857—the rattle snake is dead and we can dispense with the rattle snake’s master 1 You grant that it Know Noth in giant is the enemy the true Democracy is called to fight, \ Henry A. Wise is the man to lead its hosts to the battle. | But a careful survey of the field has convinced you that i Fusion has taken place of Philadelphtaism— that the j platform has yielded to the pressure of the Abolition senti -1 ment of the North, and we shall want a Northern con?er j vative—Mr. Buchanan, for example. There is some ap parent force in this view ; is there not some delusion toe ? “Sam” is in ambuscade, and your careful survey of the field did not penetrate to his hiding place. Depend upon it, he will be at the bottom of all Northern fusion. It we could have surveyed the garden of Lden on the morning ©f the fatal temptation we should not have observed the devil.— We should have teen the beautiful groves of golden fruited trees, and heard the melody of singing birds; the enemy lay in a cozy corner of the garden digesting his scheme of ruin ; waiting his opportunity. So it is with Know Notli ! ingism. Whatever phase the contest shall assume, depend upon it. “Sam” will command the force* ol the Allies.— You had as well try to coerce Louis Napoleon from the Crimea as Know Nothingisrn from this field of contest.— “Sum” is asleep—not dead. He lias put off hi? “horns and boots they were unprofitable appendages. The animus remains;—subtilized, concentrated, it floats in nubibus, j like the invisible lightning. Nay, “Sam” is not asleep; j he only possinns. J ake care how you handle him. j Doubtless, Northern Abolitionism will make a stand, I hut it will be under the colors of Americanism. William I 11. Seward will not be the man. There are more chances j that it will be a Southern man. Mark what I say; tho j i?sue wi 11 be the repeal of the Nebraska-Kansas act, and i the restoration of the Missouri Restriction, and this, either | under the lead of u Southern man, or of a Northern con j 6ervative. ... j I meet the question fat issue between ue) in its three die- , j we have Wm. H. Seward and hia camp/ i followers to fight, could we do better than oppose hint I I and them with Mr. Wife, the republican? of the South 1 and the Democracy of the North? Would we not so sj out the sound elements el all parties and factions, and ts. unipli in the contest? I think so. The masses of both’ sections will shrink trom the precipice of tiisuniou, and William H. Seward weuld be defeated. *2d. Suppose we are opposed with a Southern Missouri I I Restrictionist, is there a man in America better adapted to I ! such a crisis than .Henry A. Y ? ise? No, sir. He is the I j Petrel to wing this storm. him •***• the eauee o I I the Constitution and the c U *trf IgainEt this reason, and I I ho lias the genius and the sou, ui n.o .u u.cc. the occasion. I 1 He would carry the banner of Southern equality to th: R ■ Heights of Abraham. 3. Suppose our adversaries unite on a Northern const - ; I vative Whig; then the abolitionists would divide, one fui; 1 going for the loaves and fishes with this movement, and I the other clinging to the desperate cause of fanatical at>- I litionism, and tunning a third candidate —Hale, SumrK I Chase or Giddiugs. Jn this emergency, Mr. Wise would ■ carry the South and North-West, Pennsylvania and Ne* I ; Hampshire. r i As to Mr. Buchanan, he cannot be nominated, and:’ I ; he should be, how are we to get along with his former p; I : sition on the Missouri Compromise? You and 1 migt, W j understand it; but have you considered how much capiu I i for our foes there is in it? Besides, who knows Mr. Buchanan is found and up f the Southern mark on the new issues? I confess, I W p much doubt it. He may be sound as old Mr. Marcy, K I that is too much lumber for our wagon. We want the man this time. The truth is, a Northtfi i ; man who is reliable with us—who commits himself to - | I deeply, as he must do, cannot get the North. A Southr I j man, lull of Southern sympathies, who does not belie’- I • slavery to be a social, moral or political .evil, can stand a I • a highly conservative platform, with more chances of sr I I cess, than any Northern man on the most Southern p- j form. A fig for your “platforms,” unless you have arr | able man; and I forewarn you, it is going to be the D-* of Hercules to persuade the South that any Northern 1 is reliable. It will be altogether easier to pcisuade r North that a Southern man is conscivative Let history teach us a lesson. We have almost alwC j lost the day under the command of Northern Confer* I I tists; —always won it when we have been led by So: ern Democrats. Remember Martin Van Buren! remei ber General Cass! I will not say remember Fiauk I Pierce, for I believe he has leen faithful: but 1 cannot f ,: > get Ostend and Cuba, Soule and the Inaugural. For oi-< j i I want no such man as Gov. Marcy, nor a man who wi. | keep him in hie Cabinet. \ Ido not blame the President. I have faith in him, ‘ l -1% j you will perceive I am for moving the Democracy itselfdl j little forward. I can never forget the amount ot outsw L pressure it took to bring Northern Democrats to the poi W ! of voting lor the rejieal of the Missouri Restriction. K The true issue is not between Wise and | anv other Northern Democrat. It is betweeu Wise at/ ? Douglas. Judge Douglas is the man, of all others, ni si ; likely to be defeated if nominated. In New Edgland.riwy ! can do nothing. In New York and Pennsylvania ali i “ ; cloudy. In his own north-west his chalices are exceftj Mngiy doubtful. At the South he has a strong, zeakM ; party, but is opposed by the old whig sentiment and * i the American organization, and is very vulnerable. Ih f I not the author of the repeal of the Missouri | This was accepted by him as an amendment— Amendment” it is,and not “Douglas’ Bill.” He lou well and bravely lor it, ar.d deserves the gratitude ol j Soutn, but his time has not come. , In a former article,l asserted tha the Democracy wa? -1 seated until Henry A. Wise took up the fight m *ir£ !r ” I thought so and still think so. It he had been dele* | and Know Nothingism had planted itseJt firmly ,n tlie Dominion, we should this day be in a very dineren r tion to the future. 1 will not attempt the picture, shudderingly away horn the spectacle. , Another view. Abolitionism cannot get along “'.I Know Nothingism Dissolve the connection to>'"“"MW and it will be powerless lor the present. Know i9defeatedbutnotutterlyeit.net. 1 1 retiree ffesolentn , judgment of the nation iu form t 0 ba ‘ . beats in if? ome. The South is uevr sate whoe react. The nomination ot Henry A. W-e keeps the is sue alive, and his election extinguishes ue last vital spark. If we do not make it the iue, h will fight us from an in ii we non i i go secure its own existence and STSumn i of Abolitionism. We have “scotched the 2i*?ES m m£%*•> i • toils rif w! 3 © so irilil I*o©*“