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The Sabmsston Platfom. Being file proceedings of a nameless Cos. • vpininn held in MilledgejriHe on ilie 28ih of May, 1851 —paraphrased, filled not, and done into Euulish by A Genuine Hon hern Rights man. Millkdgeville, Ga ) Wednesday, May 28th, 1851. \ The ( a —hem ! the a, no mat ter ha) U,invention to nominate a can didate lor the office of Governor, tins day assembled in lh>- Representativ e Hall. A roimiiittee of—— was appointed to examine the eredenlials of the delegates. They reported as follows, after a long sitting : The committee on credentials beg leave to report, that their task has Inen a 1110*1 arduous one. They so tod on examina tion, 156 delegates applying fur seut*, whom ol there were, Southern Rights Demnctatic Republicans . 4 Southern Rights Reptdilirans . . . . • 14 Democratic Southern Rights men ... 28 Democrats . . . . .17 Democratic and Southern Rights nten . 25 Southern Rights men 17 Scattering ... . . .15 In the enibnrrasing stale of things, your committee was at a loss how to act, and all their effints at deliberation were drowned in the noise and confusion, which prevailed among the advoeatps of the respective names above enumerated. At length, in the midst and smoke of this great doubt in which yotir committee ua* encompassed, a distinguished member a rose, and with great emphasis, demanded “What’s in a name ?” This startling interrogatory produced a decided lengthened discussion, (*ee Ed itorial correspondence of the Ga. Consti tutionalist.) concluded not to he governed by names, anil as there was nothing in a name to leave the Convention without one. It was here objected, however, that we *tj®nld have no banner undr which to figtlV This difficulty gave rise to some dtscsllsinn. It was at length decided that each Aldier should fight under the flag that s''iyA" , ii if in the beau of conflict, he found liimscffjai a; kn.*, lie { iiad merely to look tip, and wherever he saw the flag of ‘the Constitutional Union, hoisted, to make haste and get on the other side. (laving thus discharged their arduous duty, your committee would suggest that the plnuks sent up by the county meet ings are knotty, shapeless and crooked, so that it is utterly impossible to construct a decent platform out of them, and with this suggestion beg to he discharged. • • • • • • Te committee to whom yvas assigned the duty of reporting matter for the *ac lion (passion?) of this Convention, beg leave to submit [ominous word ! 1 die fol lowing Preamble and resolutions : The country is passing through an a larming cri*is. * • • • The go* vermneot is undergoing change equally marked and momentous in the open as sumption of powers touching finance and revenue, die collection and disbursement of the public money, the schemes of inter* nal improvement and squamf ring the public lands, (specific instances ol which assumptions of power we will not under, take to point out, for fear the records of the country will not sustain ns,) tending directlv to a corruption and consolidation of the Government, arid utterly unknown to the Constitution as understood bv the makers of that instrument, and as here tofore interpreted by all parties at the Sooth. He jt therefore. !</• Resolved. That we hereby re-nf firm, mag an chartn, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the Declaration ot Independence, the Constitution of the United Slates, and all other important Plate papers. 2 d. Resolved , That two and two are undoubtedly four. 2 d. Resolved, Thai as each State was free to reject the contract before enter ing it, it was therefore impossible for any State, by the forms of the contract, l< r> liiiqitish this freedom. In other words, “that as a man is not compelled to make a bargain, he cannot, by the very nature and constitution of things, be bound to Stick to it when mane. 4/A. Resolved, That each State, in vir tue of the doctrine so conclusively estah* lislied above, has the right to secede; hut that litis Convention has nut the remotest idea of exercising it. 5/A Resolved, That whenever a co partnership makes money, all the copart ners have a right to share the profits. 6/A Resolved, That withholding due protection is equivalent to hostile Legi* lion. 7 th. Resolved, That the principles o’ the two last resolutions, and the Cons'i* siituiion ofihe United States have been viol ‘led hy Congress in the admission of California —the e-tablismenl of Territory M G overnment for New Mexico and U tuli—and in tli Bill abolishing the slave trade in tit** District o( Cohnnhia. And V 1• ‘ * / . ; ‘ . i . all this, and more too, we believe (con sidering -that onr co-partners, the North, even had a right to a part of Texas) a I though we have always hrjd. and still bold that there is not now, and never wns oy obstruction in the wav of carrying ■ sjr -*> __ slave into New Mexico and Utah. And it any person should coii*ider incompatible and unreasonable, we,hereby ; declare our unalterable determination 1 that we will never submit to the tyranny ; of Reason—never never—never. S/h. Resfdvtd, That in tile spirit of WnwftitSis fotefalhers, wlirr their wnWSs in the Dedara-j tin’ll of Independence, we (their Only ( worthy descendants) as a picayune redress for oor past wrongs, amt in pursuance ol; a had bargain (or to speak more arc nr- I ati ly) declare it to he the duty of Con gress to obtain the consent ofCulifor'da to a division Os her Territory, and that the country below 36 deg. 30 min., he put under ilip provt*ion ot’ that compro mise, not so unit It to furnish laud for our negroes to colli* ate as by wav of a huge a|vn to ,mr feelings. Resolved, That those Southern Rights meetings which advocated non-inter course and all that sort of thing, were indiscreet and deserve to he ‘repndia* ted.’ Resolved , That we pass by with silent enniemnt the idea of discriminating a gainst Northern goods, wares and mer chandise. Resolved, That any procedure more decisive or practical than grumbling-, is injudicious in the extreme. Resolved, That discretion is the bet ter part of valor. 9 th. Resolveil, That if it costs more to get a ‘nigger’ than lie is worth after you get him, iltni it would be as well not to trv to get him at all. 10/A Resolved, That we are on the right side of all obsolete isstt s, lltA. Resolved, That th- U nion is ‘not 1 as it used 10 was, and that we don’t unit'll like it as it is now, though yve used to like it as it w as then. 12/A. Resolved, That in the spirit ol compr iinise we adopt (be candidate of die strong, lint the platform n| out weak er brethren. 13/A. Resolved, That this con*enii’*n the old Democratic or ganization, and’-- t&grels exceedingly it car.nnnt get the licuelii tf it; tb 0 agree ing as the grievances recited, it is firmly convinced of the effacacy of those jneans it has instituted for their redre-s; it does hereby recommend Charles J. Mr as the exponent and standard bearer of their principles in the approach ing canva*s, believing that tlii*, It s tiinin tenance of the same will he the more dis interested from die fact that the princi ples avowed are not his, ami having per feel confidence that he will never bring his own principles (expressed at Nash ville and elsewhere) into conflict with those ol this convention. Mr. Wiggins moved that the pre'imNe and resolitiions lie adopted. Mr. Schley moved Ik strike mil llie B'lt resiilntio'i, nil the jrmnii that i’ a practical redress (in a certain though limited ex tPllt) Hfthe grievances complained n| —a principle he Ir-ped i|ielmil\ would meek ly repudiate. Alter discus-ion, however, only 55 members ol tlm convenlinn felt quite meek enough, 79 being eontumn cious. Mr. Crawford moved to reconsider this tiling. He Imped the eiutveniinn was not prepared to present itself to tin world in t!te redirnlmi-altitude of seek ing redress for wrong. Alter c nisideia hie disrns-inn, the Convenlinn being con■ v inceil that it could d.i no harm to re. con-ider the matter, on second thoughts, truck out the iincliristain re-nlmimi. The question then recmed uimn the motion to adopt liteie soltillons, thus pur ged of all off n*ive iOeas of lie -inalle-i practical redress, and the report was ad opted with lint tine dis-pining voice, -dinwing an unprecedented nnaniiniiv m that laudable spirit, whirl) scolds, but -mites not. Singu'ar Geological Fact. —At Mod ena, in lily, wnlmi a circle of 4 miles a. round die city, wherever the earili is dug, and the workmen arrive at the distance of sixty-three feel they come In a lied of chalk* which they Imre iilh on anger, five feel deep.—They then withdraw from the pit before the anger is removed, and upon its extraction, the water hurst up with great vnilenre, and quickly fills the well thus made, the supply o| wil ier being affertd neither bv rains or droughts- At the depth ol fnurteen feet are found the ruins of a cilv; houses, pa ved streets, and nmsiae work. Below this, again, is a I tyer of earth, and at twenty, six Iset, walnut trees are found entire, anil with leaves and walnuts still upon llietn.- At twenty eight fiet, S'ft hoik found, and below this, vega tallies and trees as before (£/*’ Althogli the devil he ilip father of lies,* remarks Swili, ‘ he seems like other great inventors, to have lost nnichol Ins repniations by the continual improve ments that have been made upon him.’ (t/**No sooner is a law made, but an e vasion of it is found out. True pointless is perf< 11 ease and free dom. It simply consists in treating oth ers as you would love to be treated your self. TUB- SOUTH - TOTGEQRGIA&P j “ OGIi t|HC) UPK THURSDAY. JULY*, 1H51.~ fc&Jlß***** Tt) “gOV-EK i\QKv~ To N. H OWELL COB B, I OF CL ARK. F. COUNTY. ■ ‘o* - Audits for the South-West Georgian Spencer Caldwell, Fori Gaines, Ga Jf.tf.r Woavv., near Amerie.us, do. J P. Gal'i.dkn. lla\nbridge, do. Col. W'm. T Perkins, ('uthbert, do. (. Carithers. E.*q. ‘uthbert, do. GII.IiF.RT M. Stokes, Slade. Lee co. do. Di. ‘A m. ill. St. kes, Dooly co. do. M. L. HpLM.xN, firookyvilir. Ste.w'rt do A. A, Rlake \.\, Griffin, Pike co. do. John IV ‘Ghiffiw, Griffin. do. J. TANARUS, Mav, ’ Francisvitle, do. A. J. Williams, Agent for Sumter co. Mr. Cobb’s appointments. Mr. Cold) will address die people at Ilawkmsville, 011 Tuesday - - Ist July. Perry, on Thursday - - - - 2d “ Lanier, on Salurdav -• .. - - sth “ Buena Vista, on Monday - - 7dt “ Columhus, on Wednesday - 9ih “ Lumpkin, oil Ft id ay * - .• 11th “ Cmhhert, on Saturday - • 12i’i “ Fort Gains, on Monday - - 14th “ Blakely, on Tuesday - - 15th “ Bainlnidge, on Thursday - I7tlt “ Thotnasville, on Saturday -19 lli “ Newton, on Monday, - - - 21§ft “ Xlhiuv, on Tuesday - - -22 ml “ Stai kvtlle, on Wedaesda* - % 23m1 “ Ameiinis, 1111 Thmsday - 24ili “ Vienna, Dooly Cos. Sabnda* 26th “ 05 5 * The iron on the track pf dip S •nth Western Rail Road, is now laid down within the (’orpor.ition, and will he com pleted to the depot at this place to night, ready for the cars as soon ns the water ci*iern, switches, and turning table can he finished. Come one, come everybody! Tht* will arrive in Oglethorpe on Thursday m the Jlhh hist. The citizens are making great preparations to celebrate their anival, the) are preparing a futst for manv thousands, and a general invitation is extended to everybody, and we have no doubt Util it will be a day of interest to all who honor the occasion with their presence. Oy-We would call die attention of our subsrribers to our published Terms, and re quest those who have not complied, to do so without di lay, as our expenses are con stantly moving on, and without the means we cannot lessen them. If payment is not made bv the Ist of October, we will tie compelled to claim an additional Fifty Cents on each subscriber then in arrears. Wliiit is a Firc-Entcrl Our neighbor nvei the way, has reiterated his cliaitje dial vve vv- re once a fire-eater. ,Yivv we should like for him to iiilinm us fvliat constitutes a Fire-eatei? We have al vvavs umlersioiid tile term as applying to a c* rlain sect of political Demagogues, headed hy disappointed politicians who, having des paired ol ever being elevated Ip office by the National people, manufactured the party in order to secure ilieii own political aggran dizement, and ihi! only aim of that party was, and is now to dissolve the Union, establish a Southern confederacy and to declare total non fellowship with their brelhien of the North forever afterward. Now if the editor of the Southern Demo crat w ishes to convey the idea that we. ever entertained such sentiments as the above, we can inform hint that he cannot do it willmu* being gmliy of a palpable misrepresentation, There are but two issues before the country at the present lime and those Issues ai‘e Un ion and Disunion, not withstanding our neigh bor would he glad In occupy a middle grounn and has been laboring industriously to con vince the Dmmcralic-Soutfiern-Riglits-Se ressinn Parly that they had better gel on his platform. He has told them by his glory ing in “the course of South Carolina that it was not necessary to drop their Disunion principles to mount this platform, while, by ftis loud denials of the existence of a Disun ion parly in Georgia, he has given.them to ■md'-raiHiid that they had best keep a little dark on the subject But it is no use lor our neighbor to try to hide it, the simple fict of Ins hoisting the tonne of (’has. J. McDonald, whom everybody knows m be a Di-onioni-t, condemns him, and no matter how hard he may trv to corneal it the‘‘cloven foot” will stick out —Disunion is stamped upon his brow so plain that “lie who runs may read.” This being the case it is sufficient for our neighbor to know dial we are now and ever have been ditectly opposed to him politically. We are it Union mart and ever have been. Opr fa- —• —sa ;~~ nher taught us to love the Union in our youth and unlike our neighbor, we have continued to love it Mild to desire iisTpreservation. The Editoi of thf Democrat has no doubt forgotten the days of “Old Hickory,” when his party were all Union men. As regards lending our neighbor oor “file” we have nut one objection, and that is, we do not believe hint to be a man of sufficient truth to review anything lorrectlv. (political ly *ve mean,) and more especi illv that which he has a naniral desire to misrepresent. But we are willing at any time to exhibit nnr file to our Union friends, for we know they will do os justice. As for thp last clause of our neighbor’s sarcastic article, we ran assure the Editor of the democrat that we descended from a stork that were Union men in the davs of Nullifi ra'ion and they are Union men yet, Now how does vourstock compare with that neigh bor? Well, just about this wav: . Tli-y yveie Union men then and they ore not Union men yet! But we have said enough, iVe are not publishing a paper for the pni nfe of circulating personal slang—we puhlidpft for the people, it is llc-irs and we ajttffitd certain ly be doing them great to use it ‘n anv such way; besides, wfflßid not come here to stii up strife in the Symmuniiv by one continual haiangue of Jnirkguardism. 1’ is true, ami we to sav it, that the Georgian hnsfcnmlesrended to reply to some of productions of the Dcnio- I'rat, because it is compulsory sometimes to fight the Devil with his moo weapons-, But if our readers will pardon us for this insult to their better expectations we will try amide, sisl and if (he Democrat cannot bring itself iiiin notice and sustain itself without waging a war of low, vulgar hlacl gnardisnt against the Georgian, it must fall, for we do not de sire to pursue a controversy with its contam inated and obscene Editor (politically we mean,) anv farther. We are very certain thprp were no looking glasses near when our neighbor was penning the last cltnse of his sarcastic article, in te lation to claiming kin &r,, or he might have seen something a little darker and that smelt a little stronger of the nigger than lie im.. magined ns, (politically we mean.) Union Itlcrlins in Ulncon County. Lanier July Is/. ]SSL At a nipeiinti of the Constitutional (Jn ■ inn party of Macon cmiiv It- Id this day .-it tjie Court house. Dr. W N. L Crocker ‘ikiijvoo. motion elected Chair man, anil E. VV. Mien requested to act as secretary. The object of die meeting having been explained hy the motion of D. VV. Miller, E-q., a committee of five wa- a-.'pointed to select rle'egates to attend the Congressional Convention in be held at Americas on 29'h irtst, and also jo meet the delegate- of Marion county to nominate a candidate for Senator at such time and place as may be hereafter si gned on. That Committee consisted of Daniel W. Miller, J i-. S. Hollin-bed. &. R. Fel nm, Philip Cook and Asa Jolly- The committee retired a few minute-, and then -übmttied the following: viz The Committee appointed to select delegates to attend the Congressional and Senaloiial Conventions, beg leave I'b off-r the names of S F. Miller and Philip Conk to attend tile Congressional convention at Amorims; and In the Sen atorial, Cm i vein’ll in In nil Hamburg District, B>-njamin Harris. “ E. vv, A Men, 737 “ VV. R. H.ll, “ “ M. J. M. Mullan, Lanier “ D. W Miller, “ “ W. H. R ihiuson, 1002 “ A-a Jolly, “ “ Barrel Green, Patsaliga “ 11. h. Corbin, “ “ Gideon Smith, 743 “ Nathan Brvant, “ •* Jas. S. Ilollinshed, Lower 15 “ E- H. Admits, n ‘‘ Ichaliod Davis. Res Ived, That if any of the above ih legates cannot fill their appointments, dial they be empowered to send alter nates. Resolved. That the two counties of Vlaeon and Marion he equally represen ted, and if on the day of Domination ei ther county should have a greater dele gation than the mite , that the minor delegation shall he equalized with toe other by the votes ol persons present, not appointed ns delegates— All of which is respectfully submitted. On motion the report was received and oiiuniinouslv adopted. O i motion of VV. H. Robinsum—Poin di xtet, (A. C. Clerclait'l’s) was oroposed as the place, and Mr*.lues.lav 16dt iost. the time, for the meet nu of the S -nator ial convention, lint if Marion county should have selected any plaee and time previous to this day that our delegates acquiesce in the proposi'ioii- On motion of VV. W. Corbitt, Tues day s<h of Aiign.-t next was appointed as the day fur a nominating candidate for repiesetiiativp. D. VV. Mtllir, then made a motion for the Constitutional Union parly of Mtiron county to organize for the purpose of, unanimity, and better di*cipliue. Wheie upon lie offered the I ‘Rowing. resolutions, which wt re unanimously adopted. 1 Resolved, That there he an asso ciation of the Constitutional Union patty county to he sty led the “Ma- C’lii Union Association.” R shall be dr* ganizeil s follow* : r 2 Tnere shall be a President and Vice president elected for one year, and Secretatv for the same term. The Presrjj dent shall preside at all meeting* ol jhH association. The Secretary a minute of all proceedings at twit ttseeis ing\ There shall he a T,d* !, siirer a ! so elected lor the like term. <ilti* shall keep the funds of the Assoc'nqßMjgjand disburse thenT* as liereinaluMWpscrihetj. 3. There executive Com* iniitee atMflrftited by the president. It of seven members —one Ironi each Militia District. 4. The cnmtniitee shall elect one of pfteir own body chairman. The Chair man shall appoint acleik. Tlte Com mittee and their Clerk shall hull) I heir of fices a year. The Commit tee shall ad opt such measures as they shall deem best for the advancement of the Constitu tional Union party in Georgia. 5. The Association shall meet on the first 1 nesday in every month, at Lanier, anil at such uihei notices as the president shall anpoint. 6. The • xerulive Committee shall meet at such times as their i liaiunan shall de signate, at Lanier. The Treasurer shall Disburse, the funds as ordered by the • xecutive. Committee. 7. That before the acceptance of the Prejident is ascertained the executive Committee, shall consist of Wilkinson Frmire, Bnriel Green, William H. Rob in*nn, M. J- Mc.Mnllaii, Philip Cook, E. H. Adams. Nathan B'jani—who shall act until tLe Piesulent shall exeicise his power of appointment. Whereupon Maj John Young was elected President, W, \V. Corbitt, Vice President, and E. W. Allen, Sec’y and T rea*’r. W. H. Robinson, then moved that if the delegation Iron) Marion County have on m day nr previously appointed a time and place to hold the Senatorial Conven tion, that our delegates acquiesce in said appointment. VV VV. Corbin made a motion for the appointment of a committee to make ar rangements fur the reception of Hon. How. I Cnlih at this place tin Saturday next. Whereupon the seventh Revolu tion was adopted, anti added to the Res olutions of the “Macon Union Assticia lion,” and the Committee tin rein appnin ted, was for the purpose of making said arrangements. A vote of thanks w’as tendered the President and Secretary for the courteous services rendered this convention. It w >s then ordered that the “South- Wt.vl G tirt'ian, G nigia Journal &. Mes sengfju Mil l Columbus Enquirer, he re qiie*tun to publish these proceedings. Mtsejiiiu then adjourned, W. N. L. CROt K R, Pres’t. E. VV. ALLEN, Sec’y. Important KcvelatiOn*. A few nintitli.’ look, the argument vva< exhausted in the Palmetto Stale, and her champhiiis held themselves in readiness to consummate tlit- act ot secession. A change has come over them since. The leading politician, always excepting Mr. Klieit, have dist overd th u separate State action is no remedy. They are just re alising a truth, winch, if the South Caro lina mind had ever- been permitted In travel out of the limits ol’lhat Slate, would long sin<e have been apparent to it, I hat the seres sun of South Carolina would ifepopufate the State in five years. The true friends of the Slate are beginning to realize this fart, a id have proclaimed theinse ves against secession alone. In the meantime, the ultra secession party, a minority “I the people, have also diseov ered that the argument is not. exhausted. —The Mercury, the organ of this parly, has been engaged for weeks in a series of hopeless i atim inations. But one of is •ir'oments affects the people of the Sooth generally, and vve wish to call attention to it. In almost every copy of the Mer cury vve find a letter from some ‘distin guished gentleman’ from Georgia, Ala bama or Mississippi, urging the State ol Smith Carolina to secede, and off-ring assistance in men and monev. The Mercury relies upon the sympathy thus expressed, and the aid promised, in its ef forts urging on disunion. |t is positively certain, that if ttidividffals in the oilier Soul hern States were to cease urging South Carolina to acts of madness that sena’-ate State action would no more be spoken of in that State | n Alabama we know who are thus urging these misguided families. The Southern party therp acts without disguise. They hg>e proclaimed secession a question of time only. But in Georgia, though we identify the party, we cannot the individuals who are en.. gaged in this jacobin affiliation with the revolutionists of South Catolina. But we h-ive the sirouge-i circumstantial ev idence to guide us—The S hern Cnn vrntion f this State asserted die right of secession and affirmed dial the general, government has no right by focre or ojh erivise to prevent its exercise by a state. Gov. McDpiiald maintains this position. So 1 hat if all the n.ad spirit of the South concentrates their ifluence upon South Carolina and take her od of the Uoidii even against the wishes of a n ' a citizens, Georuia if she adopt ijj&pnti pie tjLjP“ v - McDonald, Bujffl sustain under stant! tltis matter. Under the specious clause iifaintainhig the right of secession Gov. Mrl onald and Ids party are seek ing to delude the people of Georgia into the very gull of revolution. They have but one step to take , if they carry the Slate,’ we are plunged in the vortex. An Admission Frankly made. The Columbus Seminel says:— ! The position of the two parties are, re j spectively, the starting points of disunion on I the one side and consolidation on the other. Mi. McDonald repels, and we believe sincere Iv, the charge that he is a disuniiinist, but the ■ tendency of his doctrines is to disunion. There can be no doubt with impartial minds where Mr. McDonald’s politics tend. They have led himself and party to the very brink of disunion, and all that saved the coun try front the fatal catastrophe was the patri.. otism and firmness of the Union party. As to Mr. Cobh being a roiisolidationisi, the charge is without rhyme 01 reason. He does not advocate a single measure which is not in pprfect accordance with conservatism of the General and State government in all their rights and his oponents have not the effronte ry to nitempt to prove that lie does. Wu take this admission, however, ns conifirtna tiou of onr own convictions with reference to Mr. McDonald’s position. We wish the peo ple to understand it—that one the leading McDonald papers in the Slate savs that ‘the. tendency of his doctrines is to disunion.’ From the American Union. ‘Charles J. McDonald has twice filled the. Gubernatorial chair, with the amp lest credit to himself and satisfaction to the people of the State.’— Augusta Re public. Aii ! Mr. Son 1 lip, when did you come to that conclii.ion ? How longe since the *cale dropped from your eyes ? Yon have chaneed spectacles / guess! It j k well von have two idrs to your mouth or you never could have uttered that sen* tence even in yourself, it would’nl ‘have gone off,’ We would advice you tn lie a little more moderate. Your Whig brethren of the fire-eating order in this sec tion, are of the opinion that yin are rath er lavish at the onNset of vour praises and recoil'cting the ‘days of old lang syne,’ when von and they did’nl exactly think as you do now about that ‘credit to himself’ and ‘satisfaction to the people.’ They are apprehensive the physic won’t work so well. Le’ the doses lip a little smaller nnli! the patient gpts strogner, and thru you can go it blind. Y. From the American Union. ‘As a scholar and an orator, McDonald has few equals arnang the public men of tie Union.’— Augusta Republic. You .all means Mr, Sinytlte aopl.v for a patent right to that discovery. F'hnore won’t give it to you, wait till Smith Carolina sets op for hersrll and I know yon will get it. ‘A scholar and an orator.’ in a horn. TO THE FRIENDS OE THE UNION IN DOOLY AND SUMTER.—At a meet ing id the Constitutional Union putty this day held in Atnericus, 1 was requested by u resolution “f said meeting to give notire that the day TF.y*u tlie/Vi'j.ids of the Union at a meeting ienna, being tlie first .Saturday in .%giwl nexKToTn'eet’aT*' - *- • D. avion, was accepted as tlw day for holding the Senatorial Convention for this district, JETF.R a. HOUGE, Ch’nt. June 6th, 1851. Prof. Page’s Electro .Magnetic Locomotive. Another trial ol Prof. Page’s Electro Mag netic Locomotive was made on the VVasli iiigton railroad on Tuesday 29ih ult. Th© Republic says. The progress of the locomotive when it slatted was so slow that a boy was enabled to keep pace with it for several hundred feet. But the speed was so increased, that Bladehshorg, a distance of, we believe, a bout five miles and a quarter, was reached in ihirtvnine minutes. When within two miles of that place, the nower of the battery being fully up, the locomotive began to run, on neatlv a level planetiit the rate of nine teen miles an hour miles faster than the greasiest speecß heretofore attained. This velocity wasrnlinued for a mile, when one of the cells craeJd entirely open, which caused the acids to i(p°rmi.x; and. as a cons© qiiHiice, the priipelliiif power was partially weakened. Two of the i)th.er . qoemly met,with a similar disaster, j The ptofeesor proceeded cautiously. fear ng obstruction on th’- way, such as the com ing of cars in the opposite direction and cattle on the road.—Seven halts were made occu pying in all forty minutes. But notwith standing these himlerances and delays, th© trips to and from Blundensbnrg was accom plished in one minute less than two hours. T lie cells wain made of light earthware, for the purpose of the experiment merely, without reference to diuaiiiliiy. This part of the apparatus can therefore easily b© gua ided Hgniniit'xMishap. The great point wyahlishud was; that a |o comolivjjon lite principle of Pi of. Page cam i be made to travel,nionte?h miles a* knur.