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Plfßireirthma will always be carrH»un.l award ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Ratefl: Citations on letters of Administration &c. $2 75 do do dismissory from Adminis tration, 4 50 Citation on dismissory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 square 1 50 Sales of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a man'advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. FRIDA Y, .1 IJNET»7 1855. ~ THE PLATFORM OF 1855? We re-publish to-day, the platform erected by the Convention which assembled in Milledgeville on Tuesday last. It is a conservative, constitu tional, comprehensive platform—one to which hut few Southern men can object, and which we hope will be received by thousands in Georgia, formerly opposed to the progress • democratic principles, without a word of dissent, or feeling of disapprobation. Eveiy party in this country should proclaim its creed. It must loose caste, and be viewed with distrust, when it fails to do so. For this, among other important reasons, the rep resentatives of the democracy, at Milledgeville, have put forth the platform to which wc refer.— Scan it who may, and it will bear the strictest test. The facts set forth in the preamble cannot be disputed. That the settled policy of the coun try, on all leading national questions involving 1 finance, taxation, appropriations of money, is the democratic policy, few Southern men will dispute; and that the issues therein involved, which for merly divided Southern Democrats and Whigs, no longer afford ground for separation and con tinued conflict, is equally undeniable. Other questions of practical and paramount importance, it is also true, are now monopolizing the atten tion of the people. And, such being the case.it was not only proper for the Convention to erect a platform, but so to frame it as to make it attrac tive and inviting to our people, regardless of all party distinctions. In the effort made, we are sanguine that the Convention has succeeded. We have carefully perused the platform, and, for the life of us, we cannot see where the Convention has failed to assert a principle, or where objection ; can be raised to a solitary one that has been as serted. Surely the old line Whigs of our State will not object to the “Georgia Platform” ! Nei ther will they object to the third resolution rela tive Kansas ; her rejection as a State because of the recognition of slavery in her Constitution ; and the emphatic declaration thaf her rejection ! would be a cause of disruption of all ties binding | Georgia to the Union. In fact, take the Resole-i tions all in all, or o.ne by one, and he must be u casuist indeed, if he boa Southern man at heart, that will not at once admit their conservative and constitutional spirit. As such wc commend them, not only to the democracy but to honest men of all parties. They form a strong, healthy platform —one upon which every true Southern man can j boldly stand or proudly point to —around it who 1 will not rally and fight to the end for the main-, tenance of every principle embraced by it 1 Who, when he is summoned to do his duty at the polls, will be found balloting for the candidate of the dark lantern party, and thus virtually repudia ting every principle embraced in that platform the most material of which is all, save the strong ' arms of Southern slaveholders, that can be relied upon to protect their rights ! But there is time enough, ere the day of con flict, to press thig subject upon the consideration j of the voters of Georgia. In the mean time, it would bo well for all of them to give this Plat-' form more than a passing attention. It turrits the carefid consideration of every voter, w hat; it will receive this from a large majority of the I people wc have no doubt; nor do we in the least ■ doubt that the result of such a consideration will be as cheering to them as was the result of the re cent contest in Virginia,to tQe Anti-Know Noth ings of that good old commonwealth. THE FEDERAL UNION For copies of the Official Proceedings of th*i Convention, recently held in Milledgeville, we ■ are indebted to the Editors ot the Federal Union, I who will please accept our thanks for th* sam . ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 15, 1855. VIRGINIA ELECTION. We learn from the Richmond Examiner that ■ all the counties save Wyoming have been heard ■ from, and that Wise’s majority is 10,213. j Wyoming polls, it is said, is a very small vote, l j and the result officially will not vary from the I i above more than one or two hundred votes. J It may, therefore, be set down that Virginia ' has triumphed over Know Nothingism by a clear ■ majority of ten thousand votes. “THE WATCHMAN.” ' We have read this interesting volume, and can i I recommend it to our readers. It is a story of * humble fife in the great city of New York where ■ I so much of wealth and pride, so much of humil i ity and poverty, prevail. The principal person-: ' ages in this story belong to the latter of these i two classes, or rather, to the humble and to the ; poor. The trials through which they passed; [ the temptations to which they were subjected ; the virtue and resistance made tod* mptation by some, and the foil of others Care depicted in plain though forcible language, simple, but reaching : the heart of the reader. Time car) truly be prof ; itably employed in a Aenisnl of this volume, ■ which can be found at the B09I; Store of Mr. ' Kay on White-hall Street. THE PfrBSS—A COMPLIMENT. ■. By the yonveiititm lately assembled at tfie i Capjtol of our State, a.cmrtpfiui<.i.t was paid to , ; the Press of Georgia, through the person of .oiie cl its arconiplishcd representatives, at which n j feel more than gratified. \»<i allude to its scleg-I ! tion of Col. JamjlS Gxnnxra, the Editor of the 1 “Constitutionalist & Republic, ’’ bl Augusta, as ' its chief presiding officer, or President. As a , journalist Col. Gardner is tAfeemcd and bis labors I for a long series of years property approeigted ar I home and abroad, not on fy. iii'liisi political frjends, I hut we have every reason tj fip’u.ve. by his polit ical.adversaries. ApaiJ therefore from his per-, ! son al merits, wo, take the liberty to assume, that, t the honor conferred upon him by file Convention, ■ was one, which, in the judgment of that Body, he had fairly earned by his able and fearless ad- I vocacy of the principles embraced in the platform ptit forth by it, and his chivalric bearing as an I Editor and gentleman. It is seldom that such au 1 honor in Georgia, at least, has been conferred I upon a member of the Corps Editorial by any po litical party. Indeed we do not know of a soli tary instance. “Hewers of wood and drawers of water,” if we may be indulged in such a com parison. they have always been, although the re sult of their labors has been the elevation of scores of politcal associates, who, but for the press, would be scarcely known to the political world in which some are now prominent and useful.— A lever so powerful as the Press is unknown in the school of politics or of literature. An able, independent, and high-toned journalist, deserves to share the honors so generally conferred upon others. And we again report thq gratification which wc felt, when, for President of the bate Convention, we saw selected our accomplished cotemporary, the Editor of the Constitutionalist and-Rcpublic. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have now before us a number of well writ ten communications, and more than one ably written communication, on Know Nothingism, transmitted to us for publication, but which on account of their great length, as much as we es teem these favors of our friends, wc are forced to forego tile pleasure of seeing in our columns. — With our limited space, we can only insert arti cle* of reasonable length. Wc would with pleas ure at any time yield a column or more to any one of the writers whose articles are now before us; but when two, three, and four columns are rcquirc'di wcrSrc compcnelTrtrttt'i line piiMieliing, notwithstanding we are authorized to abridge and condense to suit ourselves. The labor, it- 1 self, that this throws upon us is too great, aside ' from our fears that we would omit passages I deemed the ablest by the writers, and insert those less esteemed. We can, therefore, only request correspondents to ask of us the use of a column of our paper at I a dash, and to prepare their inanuseiipt as we do i our editorials—that is, to write on one side of a I sheet, and not to be too regardless ot punctuation. Favors so prepared we shall gladly insert- ATLANTA MEDICAL COLLEGE. We are gratified at being advised that this ■ School for the Medical Student, so recently es-' tablished, is succeeding far beyond the expecta tions of its most sanguine advocates. The num ber of young gentlemen now attending its first course of lectures, exceeds seventy ; and an in terest has recently been manifested in its success by our citizens generally, which bids fair to en sure its permanency as a school of high order in Medicine, and its eventual establishment with all the endowments, apparatus, and copveniences of the older Medical Institutions of the South. In one particular the Atlanta Medical College possesses an advantage over every other one in ; the South. The design is to make it a Summer i school. The student at Nashville, Charleston, or Augusta, at the close of his winter course, in- 1 stead of spending his time unprofitably at home, until the ensuing winter, may improve it by at tending the summer course of lectures at Atlanta —a point presenting all the advantages of health, ■ and free from yellow fever, cholera, and other ep- ■ idemics of the cities referred to. . But to this sub ject wo expect again to refer. From two of its able Professors, Doctor Buchanan, so favorably known at Nashville, and indeed all over the South; aid from Dr. Jones formerly, and for many years an eminent practitioner of Medicine at Griffin,.in our own State ;we have been favored with valuable information connected with this valuable enterprise—important, in the highest 1 degree to our own citizens and to our State—all of which, at a convenient season, we shall lay be fore our readers. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE; KNOW NOTHING COLUMBUS MOVE- j MENT. When in the midst of a healed canvass, a new issue is presented or a new movement made, it becomes the peopleto enquire from whence the, issue springs, or by whom the movement is made. I We consider the Columbus platform one which i particularly deserves the caution of the Demo cratic party. We have before expressed our con viction that it is a Know Nothing trap, disguised to catch those Southern rights men whose enthu siasm outruns their discretion, and as such, par ticularly dangerous to democrat*. The avowed object of the movement is the or ganization of a sectional party at the South. Dis. pirited at the prospect of failure in Georgia, ren dered as it is, still more certain by the Virginia defeat, and spurred into action by the Democrat ic lash which has whipped them into a tacit ad mission of their affiliation with abolitionism, the Know N othings have, with that convert ingenu ity so characteristic of their dark dealing, con structed-a flimsy platform, and gildedit with fea tures attractive to indiscreet Southern rights men, and with, a loud flourish of new Southern trum pets. invite Democrats to abandon their party’ and go into an untried sectional organisation.— Now. asiije from the distiust we have of anything concocted by these “back stair” gentry, we think there are sonic very serious objections to a sectional party, at this particular crisis, and we would again caution Democrats against any measure calculated to we an them from ol 1 party associations. When they are asked to abandon their organization for another, thev should reflect that the Democratic party is good enough for the true patriot, as has been proven by the repeated fiery ordeals through which it baa passed. “ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS. WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefferson. ' There can bo no doubt that the Democratic j parly is the only true constitutional phrty in <x | istencc. Every principle of its platform has •!>. ! rect reference to Constitutiona’ obligations, and | the moment a man is desirous of infringing these i that moment he cea.-es to boa Democr t. for rev | olmionizeM and Democats ha i no political . affinity. .And hence the r.roseviptiou of D. ne>-‘ i crats, North ajul South, by tlio uexv rovolutnui party yclept Know Nothings. Such being the | case, and considering all that the South I is the recognition of her constitutional riglils. it I will fie readily conceded -y reflecting men that ■ Democratic principles and the Democratic partv i are amply sufficient for Southern .Rights, mid [ are free from the objections inseparable to a sets, tioqgi organization thceflcc<s of which would he i to extinguish every hope for the preservation At ;.the Union, by driving from us those consen-iti'c I men at the North to whom abne we are indebted ' ; tor even the small share ot hop.- we have t,o jibe-j maintenance of the Union a-- 1 the recognition nt 1 Southern Rights. For ourselves, we are lor,th'- orz sepvatiiiiitof-rliy.l ' Union at the risk of everything' :\eopt what promises rs sensitive appreciation -nji under tue constitution, both in view of tiie^bljf^if : J tioijs of the Federal compact, .tud t i- ffoiigljt'ions j Mfe are Under to- those men st tile North who : Rave boldly thrown thcugpelves betworm us nud i the fanaticism which s'.ieks to destroy us. uml so long as there reiiiainsm spark of hope tor its pre- j seryatipii we are for cherish-itig -it with tenderest care 'To organize a sectional party at this par ticular time equid pot bptjlc{tfoy every hope, and - cut us oft'from even opr small Chance* o^preserva- : vation, uncertain ns it is, end add other and over ’ powerjpg burdens to our peculiarly delicate rela • tions to the Union. Are Southern Democratsprepared foi this—are ; ' they willing to cut off those manly spirits at the North Who have stood by ps amid storms which would have appalled hearts less Animated by the purest love of country and'zealous respect for con stitutional obligations and meanly abandon them to the ruthless madmen whom they hold at bay, with aims nerved with looalty to the Sooth and to the Union This is what the progenitors of the Columbus platform call upon us to do. Shall wo respond to the call! ’ Never! Rather let us drive it back to its ipiilnight cradle, and learn fiom it the character of the schemes with which the ever active Know Nothing serpent creeps in to the Eden of Democracy, and endeavors to; poison the unsuspecting mind. Let us rebuke this reflection upon our confidence in the all-sufii cient principles of the Democratic party, and show to these men that it is a Southern party—that while it cherishes an affection forthc Union com mensurate with the advantages to be enjoyed under its peaceful perpetuation, it will hold North ern men to a rigid recognition of, and respect for. Southern rights, and, doing so, it is sufficiently sectional for Southern men, who arc not ultra Secessionists. Wc know that the object of Northern fanati cism is revolution and the disruption of the Union, abd We'kllUW the BU-Cfttied American -party, is so bound to the national organization, by the most fearful oaths, that they cannot abandon their par ty without violating those oaths.’ When, then, we hear trom them such propositions, we natu rally distrust their profession of such over-wrought allFction for Southern rights, and suspect danger to the Union and the South in a movement so obviously sympathetic with the abolition-Free-! soil-disunion-Know Nothing party at the North. When. ’ • “ a smiling face doth cloak deceit iTisour duty to expose the cheat.” MR. BUCHANAN IN ENGLAND. At the- annual exhibition of the Royalj Adademy of Art in London, on the sth 1 final., our minister Mr. Buchanan, was • present, and in answer to a toast to “For eign Ministers,” made the following re-; .Pb- ! “ After what fell from my noble friend (Lord Palmerston) on a former occasion, ( who said I had no right to call myself a i foreign minister at all, (a laugh,) I am 1 inclined to .think I have no right to ad dress you; but although I might plead this privilege, lam not disposed to do it on this occasion. The Foreign Ministers who represent the different nations of the world at this court must be very ungrateful indeed, if they did not feel sentiments of deep gratitude towards; the British people and the numerous no- j ble societies that adorn this country.—; We have received the kindest attentions from all, and it is a natural consequence that this should produce feelings of re-' sponse, not only on our part, but also on . the part of the countries we represent. i (Cheers.) For my own part, not having had an opportunity in my own country of seeing expensive galleries, or many spec- i imens of the perfection to which the arts ; have been brought in this country, every’- i thing wears an air of novelty in this exhi bition that has inspired me with delight, and I shall remember the present evening when I return to my native land as one of j the most agreeable and instructive of my whole life (eheers.) But, although the taste and imagination may be gratified by the specimens of art here collected, I can not help admiring the noble institution of, England—an English dinner—(cheers and ; laughter.) I return you the thanks of. my colleague and myself, and I am sure I may also thank yon in the name of eve- i ry member of the diplomatic corps”— (Cheers.) Soap made from Locusts.—The sev enteen year locusts, while in an under-. ground, grub state, are said to be a favor-, ite food of various species of animals. Immense numbers are destroyed by hogs ; before thev emerge from the ground ; they are also, -when in their perfect state, ea gerly devoured by chickens, squirrels, and I may of the larger birds. The Indian ; likewise consider than a ■ delicate food i when fried, and in New Jersey they have ■been turned to profitable account in mak ing soap ' tesTThe Seguin (Texas) Mercury fur nishes the following important infomation: Every body should know it—that the ' tincture of lobelia is a sovereign, certain ' and infallible remedy for a snake bite, no I inattter of what tribe. This is vouched i for by a physician of this country, and is ; worth remembering. ■ • DEMOCRATIC ANO ANTI-KNOW NOTKRjG PLAT- FORM Democrat!® ;>iiueiples and lb nx.ciaiic 11 measures on all ie-mling question- ot na : tiontil policy, involving the subjects o> li- J nance and taxation, and appropriations ol . ! money, and of constitutional power in re- J ference. have become the'fixed and ' set th Apolicy ot the country-. The issues - therein Involved wiiieti i'oi-iue<!;> divided ' : Smtrhern Democrats ami Whigs, ho longer ground for con-titiuedsepavation and i : conflict among' Now, othsr fpt'es. I tions of phicTletil an?? paramount iutpor ; rance are pressing upon the earnest a^ m I tion of Southern men. and are of such a - nature as r. ipwre t.ordtal and fraternal j ccncert of action among all who concur j i_t( sentiment, upon those tjtiesdohs. In view of these •bvious riuta.-. and |o I seeti-re this goneeit ot action, the. Denm ■j*ferati<: party as Georgia in ('onvetition as i fliiiubled, submit to their fqllow citizens ’ Ure'.fblhiwingpLrtibrni and 'rdirdiy and ear invito the oo’-operatiun of ! 1 citizens i' pf Georgia, regardless o 'ail par< v distinc who desire to see them- established a? the true basis of the constitutional and i Just action of this government. Ist, • fftuwlvetl, bi the language of the Georgia Convention of 1.550, that we hold ' the Ait'i- riihin Unpm secondary in impel i tance only to the rights and principle-- it 1 was designed to perpetuate; that past asso [ eiations. present.fruition, and future pros pects, will bihd us to it so long as it con tinues to be the safe guard of those rights ' and principles. ; 2d, liesolcerl. Tlial we hereby declare I our full and unqualified adhesion to the • following resoluti nos the Georgia Con -, j vention of 1850, and our unalterable de i termination to maintain it in its letter and ■ spirit. 4th Resolution—Georgia Platform That the State of Georgia, in the judg-' m- nt of this Convention, will and ought to; resist, even (as a last resort) to a disrnp- ' tion of every tie which binds Iter to the ■ ■ Union, any action of Congress' upon the subject of Slavery in the District of Co lumbia, or in places subject to the juris diction of Congress, incompatible with the ; safety; domestic tranquility, the rights and ; honor of the slave holding States, of any act suppressing the slave ' trade be- ‘ tween the slavebolding States ;'or any re- j fusa! to admit as a State any territory i hereafte applying, because of the exist- I ence of slavery therein; or any act prohib iting the introduction of slaves into the i territories of Utah and New Mexico; or' any act repealing or materially modifying the laws in force for the recovery of fugi-1 tive slaves. B<Z. Resolved, That we approve and en dorse the action of our last Congress in the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act and ' the principles, the people of Kansas have the right when, the number of their pop-! nlation justifies it, to form a Republican | State Constitution with or without slavery i as they may determine, and be admitted into the Union upon an equal footing with the other States, and that her rejection by Congress, on account of slavery, would be a just cause for the disruption of all the ties ' that bind the State of- Georg‘a to the ' i Union. I 4t/i, Resoled, That we adopt as our own : the following Resolution passed unani mously by the last Legislature of Geor- ■ gia. ; Resolved by the. General Assembly of \ , the State of Georgia. That opposition to ' the principles of the Nebraska Bill, in re ; lation to the subject of slavery, is regarded j as the people of the South and that all per- j ■ sons who partake in such opposition arc i unfit to be recognized as component parts ; ■ of any party or organization not hostile to I the South.’’ , SM. Resolved, That in accordance with I the above Resolution, whilst we are wil-; 1 Hug to act in party association with all sound and reliable men in every section of the Union, we are not willing to affiliate ■ with any party that shall not recognize, approve and carry out the principles an provisions of the Nebraska Kansas act,— and that the Democratic Party of Georgia l . will cut off all party connection with every < | man and party at the North or oisewhl-rc, | that does not come up fuliy and fairly to I this line of action. 6t/i Resolved, That the National Dem ocracy of the North, who have particular > ally fought for the Kansas and Nebraska ; Acts and the maintainance of the Fugi j five Slave Law, against the combined ; forces of Know Nothings and abolitionism which seek their repeal, and who stand i pledged to support the admission of Kan- I sas into the Union as a slave State, ! should she ask it, merit the hcartfet sym pathies, thanks and encouragement of Southern men in their patriotic position. ~th Resolved, That in the National j Democratic party of the North alone, . have been found those patriotic men who have thus stood by the lights of the South and judging the future, by the past, that ■ party is the only organization at the North , that now exists or can be formed, with j which the South can consistently co-oper /ate. 8//i Resolved, Shat we svpathize with • the friends of the slavery cause, in Kan- I sas, in tipfir manly efforts to maintain their rights and the rights and interests of the Southern people, and that we re joice at their "recent victories over the I paid adventurers and jesuitical herds of I northern abolitionism. That the deep interest felt and taken by the people of Missouri in the settlement of Kansas and ' the decision of the the slavery question in it, is both natural and proper, and that it is their right and duty to extend to their Southern brethren in that territory every legitimate and bonoiable sympathy and support. Sth. Resolved, That we are uncompro misingly opposed to the political organiza tion commonly called the Know Nothing Order, or American Party, having no . sympathy with their secresy, their oaths ! their nnstontitutional designs, their religi , ous intolerance, their political proscription [ and their abolition associations at the II North. , 9th. Resolved, That we bail with de- light the late signal triumph in Virginia it the J leni.icratie Party, and of the pa triotic Whigs, who co-operated in achiev ing that result ov-r the Know Nothing >’ganization. as conclusive evidence, that in the great procticai questions in volved in that contest, Southern men may honorably and successfully combine, with outr- gard to pjst political distinctions, to save the constitution from desecration, and the South from being prostrated be i fore the power of Northern fanaticism and misrule. Kith. Res'dced, That political necessity and the embarrassments constantly aris ing from our commercial relations with Spain, alike dictate the policy of the an nexation of Cuba to this country, at the earliest period, compatible with our n-i --'.tional honor and treaty obligations. llth Resolv'd, That the democratic and national principles declared and set forth in the inaugural address and annu al messages of President Pierce, meet our cordial approval, and that. he is entitled to the thanks of the country, for his en- ■ forcettieut of the Nebraska-Kansas bill, his laithful execution of the Fugitive Slave law, 1 is various vetoes, and other ineasures of adqrinistrative.policy in con- ■ formity to those principles. 12th. Resolved, That the administra tion of Gov. Johnson meets our decided approval, and we confidently recommend him to the people of Georgia for re-elec tion to the office he has so ably and faith fully filled. Resolved, That in view of the action of the Legislatures of Massachusetts and Vermont, and the threatened action of ; other Northern States, virtually repealing the fugitive slave law, and denying to the citizens of the South their constitutional rights, wo recommend to our next Legis lature the adoption of such retaliatory measures as their wisdom may suggest, and shall be in conformity with constitu ' tional obligations. [ U»»A. Correspondence Charleston Courier.] Washington, May 20. Mr. Wise has returned to the “old Vir : ginia shore,” after experiencing the hard ; ships of a Crimean campaign, in which his characteristic vigor and powers of en ‘ durance were taxed to their utmost ex ; tent, and as it must be admitted, he de- I fended the Sebastopol of democracy, with wonderful energy, resolution and success. The insults which Mr. Wise met in this i city, on the occasion of the coiuplimenta •ry demonstration made by the Democrats of the city in honor of his election, were from a mob—a mere mob neither the citi zens as a body, nor, as I would hope, the Know Nothings themselves, as a party, were responsible for it. Os the five thou sand people present, nine-tenths were very orderly and anxious to listen to Mr. Wise’s address The city is not responsible for that disturbance, though it may be true that there was no active interference on the part of the police or the city authori ties, for the preservation of order, for no preparatien is ever made h,erc in the ex pectation that disorder will occur. But . the treatment which Mr. Wise received | has, together with the fact that the pres tige of Know Nothingism has been de stroyed by the Virginia defeat, will have the effect, as is believed, to rally a deci ded majority of the voters of the city against the Know Nothing ticket, at the municipal election ; which is to come off £ _ ... __ . ;on Monday next. The Know Nothings I ■ carried tliisreity, a year ago, By a large 1 majority, but odds are now freely bet j 1 against their ticket for the coming elec- ; | tion. i The ascendancy of the new party was at one time, hailed with satisfaction by ; Union men, for the reason that it was be- I I lieved to have a future influence for the I preservation of the harmony of the Union. I But is evident that a secret organization j cannot command public confidence, and i I that the new erder has, on too many occa-. : sions, exhibited a turbulent spirit, and a disregard even of the purity of that very i ; elective franchise which they profess so I 'scrupulously to watch and defend. If i the integrity of the Union cannot be pre ' served by; better means than these, it is ; hardly worth preservation, The Union I men may well say to the new order; — • “Nbn taltauxilio. necdefens oribus istis Tempos eget.” It is the impression that the Northern , Know Nothings will now ally themselves j with the anti-slavery party, and seek for | power through that coalition. But it is also believed that they will signally fail in the attempt The tendency of the politi-i 1 cal current is to bring it into power, and i sustain, a great conservative party found-1 ed upon the States Rights democracy of 1 the united South. For the united South' and the sane North will take and keep the ; direction of national affairs AN OLD MAN'S SECRET. An Italian Bishop struggled’ through, great difficulties without repining, and! met with much opposition without even betraying the least impatience. An inti- j mate friend of his, who highly admired) these virtues which he thought impossible ; to imitate, one day asked the bishop if he I could communicate his secret of being al ways easy! •’Yes,” replied the old man, “I can i teach my secret with great facility: it con-. , sistsof nothing more than making a right use of my eyes.” ’ Hi« friend begged him to explain him-j self. ••Most willingly,” returned the Bishop; "in whatever state I am I first look up to ; heaven, and remember that my principal busines is to get there I then look down ’ on the earth, and call to mind how small ■ a place I shall occupy in it when I come to be interred. I then look abroad on the ■ world, and observe what multitudes there ■ are in all respects more unhappy than my ’ self. Thus I learn where true happiness > is placed, where all our cares must end, and how very little reason I have to repine • or complain.” ? United States ship Constitution is said to have lost only two men during -»the last year, one named James Sherry. . VIRGINIA ELECTIONS AND THE SOUTH. In the course of an argument on the re i cent glorious victory in the “Old Domin ion, ’’ the Richmond Euquiver makes the ■ following very just remarks : We haveauabiding and confident belief that the example ofself-sacrificihgdevotion I to principle which Virginians have furntsh ; ed, will not belost sight of by their political brethren of the Southern States who are to bestow their suffrages durins the sum mer and autumn of this year. We have cheering intelligence from North Carolina In several districts whiggery scornfully declines a recognition of Sam, while in others, ’democracy despises and defies him. Iff Georgia Stephens, the eloquent wins. > has denounced him as the veriest of im postors. and aided by Cobb and other de mocrats, has driven him beyond the con fines of the State Johnson is almost as good as elected in Tcnncsse. Alabama will take fresh courage from our signal i victory. Kentucky is putting forth all her energies, and the indications have not i been so encouraging since her departure ; from the Jeffersonian creed in 1832, that ; the daughter will again stand by the side of the mother. In Mississippi, Luusiana . and Maryland, the-canvass lias not yet 1 fairly opened: but our friends in each are i actively preparing for the contest. A distinguished statesman remarked, when reading the proceedings of the Hart i ford Convention, that the time would come. i when Constitutional Liberty at the North i would have to be lighted anew at the al - I tar of the institutions of the South. That ' period, if it has not arrived, is evidently ■ hastening. State after State, embracing > tho “Old Keystone,” beyond Mason & I Dixon’s line, seems in one way or another,, i to have become bewildered by unsubstan i tial but fascinating dogmas, until it has totally disregarded some of the most im j portant provisions of the national compact. ■ To those provisions, to every provision of that instrument, Virginia has steadfastly adhered and intends hereafter to adhere. ; With the aid of her southern sisters, upon ; which she knows she will not reckon in I vain, she is determined to make no more | sacrifices to the North. The compromises lof 1787 must be rigorously observed in letter and in spirit. As administered, the South has been the victim, not the bene ficiary, of the Constitution The so-called Missouri Compromise was a palpable viola tion of its rights. Lt was in direct oppo sition to the sentiments of the concession and forbearance which animated the Con- 1 i vention, as stated by Washington in his ■ letter to that body recommending the : adoption of the Constitution. Moreover, , the territory excluded from slavery came I into the Union as slave territory, just as I Texas territory came in as slave territory. The entire free soil movement, beginning ■ with the Missouri Compromise, has been a disgraceful transgression upou the rights of ■ the South, and must be resisted in its op ' eration. ' We again solemnly appeal to every slave ■ State to be true’lo itself in its approach ing election—to leave no portion of its i duty undone—and to be prepared for the ! worst questions that can arise for the South. We are for the Union—for the Union, now and for ever—but not at the price of bondage and dishonor. If such an Union as eur ancestors gave us is to be perverted so as to accord with the selfish I designs and intolerant machinations of free-soilers, then it is not worth preserv ing; and this fact for the good of all con cerned, cannot be too soon or too general-1 ly known. COL. JAMES M. SMITH. To-day, we run up our banner, and nail our flag-staff to the mast head ; upon that banner is inscribed the name of James Milton Smith, of the county of Upson,— Our motto shall be, “untrammelled suf frage, religious toleTation, liberal princi ples, the union of the States, as long as compatible with the rights of the States.” For these great principles, we expect to contend, and by the side -of the gallant standard-bearer, whom we have chosen for our leader, wo are prepared to stand oi fall We will not anticipate our fellow-citizens of the Third Congressional District, in making theifi acquainted with the nomi nee of our Convention. lie designs seeing -them in person, at an early day, when they will have an opportunity of judging for themselves, as to his wor thiness to occupy the station to which he has been called, by the unsought, unsolic ited, spontaneous voice of his political friends. We have no fears as to the re-, suit of that acquaintance. We feel con fident that when the clarion notes of his eloquence, shall resound through the hills and vales of this District, in defence of our cherished principles, the yeomanry of the country will flock to his standard, and elect him triumphantly. The architect of his own fortune, the builder of his own reputation; coming from the ranks of the people, his feelings, his sympathies, his attachments, are with them, and he is the mtm to rally them in the coming contest. And while he wields the sword of argu ment in this Congressional District, he will be strengthened and encouraged by the recollection that on other political battle fields, in this EuipireState, a Toombs and a Stephens, a Jenkins and a Miller, a Johnson and an Iverson, a Cobb and a Welborn, and a host of other patriotic Whigs and Democrats, are fighting in the same glorious cause. With such leaders, and such principles, the First Monday in October will tell a more doleful tale to the followers of the “Dark Lantern,” than that which has just saluted their ears from tho plains and mountains of the glorious Old Dominion. — Empire State. Railroad Accident.—The Express train from New York to Boston was thrown off the track by obstructions placed on the track—supposed to have been placed there by robbers, who designed seizing half a million of dollars in the possession of Ad ! ams & Co.’s messenger. Several persons were injured and the cars smashed. Sailing of the America The Amer ica sailed for Liverpool with over a million I of dollars in specie. PROPRIETOR NUMBER 42. AMPUTATION! W. don't know when we have been more I slaiei d than in perusing the fbllwing. It ! oceurreu in St. Lawrence county in this : Stat -, and :s given on the authority “of a j gentleman sf undoubted veracity.” ■‘A young man addicted to intemperate habis, during one of his periodical ’sprees’ took a sudeb n notion to pay a visit to his : tsweetheart.' On the evening alluded to, the young lady and a female associate were I the only occupants of the house where she ■ resided ••About ten o'clock,in the evening the young matt arrived at the house considera bly worse from the use of ‘beverages.’— IDs strange mannerin approaching thedoor excited the suspicion of the young lidies, who supposed the house was attacked by robbers. He knocked at the door and demanded admisson; but his voice not being recognized from the thickness of his tongue, the ladies refused tocomply with the de mand. “Determined to force an entrrnee, he commenced a series of assaults upon the barred and bolted door by kicking and and pounding. After a number of des perate kicks, tac paunel of the door gave way, and the leg of the besieger went ' through the aperture, and was immediate ly seized by one of the ladies and firmly held, while the other, armed with a saw, commenced the work of amputation. ' “The grasp was firmly maintained; and the saw vigorously plied until the leg was completely severed from the bo dy. "With the loss of his leg, the intoxica ted wretch fell upon his back, and in that condition lay the remainder of the night. “In the meantime the ladies were frigh tened almost to death. With the dawn ■of morning the revelaton was made that one of the ladies had participated in the amputation of the leg of her lover! “The wretched man was still alive.— His friends were immediately sent for, and he was conveyed to his home, where, with proper treatment, he gradually and miraculou tly recovered, and is now alive and well. “We hardly credited,’’ says the editor as the journal from which we quote, “the latter part of the story, and contended that the man must have bled to death on the spot, insisting, indeed, that it could not be otherwise. But we were tnista en. “The leg was a wooden one.” Harper's Mayazine. LATER FROM EL PASO, The mail train from El Pasio arrived at San Antonio on the 25th ult., having been only fifteen days on the trip. No Indians were seen, but there were reports of much Indian disturbance in Mexico.— The San Antonio Ledger has the following letter, dated El Paso, May 9th: The town was thrown into great excite ment last evening, by the arrival of Col. Sanches, out four days from Chihuahua, with orders from Santa Anna to arrest Mr. Salizar, the Mexican Commissioner. The work on the line has been, in conseqence, suspended until the new Commissioner, who has lately left Mexico arrives. Mr. Salizar, it is understood, will be allowed a few days for preparation and then, under a strong guard, taken to the city of Mexico. The charges against Mr. Salizar are, I understand 1 , disrespect towards his superi or, and want of energy or neglect in push ing the work to a conclusion. It is noto rious here, that the Government did not supply him with means to take the field, and that he borrowed money on his own private account to carry on the work on the part of Mexico. Mr. Salizer is one of the most talented and gentlemanly men in all Mexico.— During his previous sojourn and the pre sent he has gained the respect and confi, dence of all. Santa Anna has directed his thunder dcr against this gentleman How it will end there is no telling. No honest, virtu ous man is allowed to hold office. Under these circumstances, can Mexico prosper? The situation of affairs here will affect the I’. S. Commissioner, Col. W. H. Em ory, who, with his usual energy, is push ing the work to a conclusion It would not surprise us to sec him back here soon. £&y-A chap out in Louisiana recently took a notion for a bath in an inviting gtream, which flowed through a field he was engaged in ploughing, and divesting himself of his clothes for the purpose, hung up his unmentionables upon the limb of a locust tree hard by: He had luxur iated for some half hour, and swam back to his starting point, when he perceived a bevy of young damsels approaching with their flower baskets. He scampered up the bank and into his breeches, but alas! unhappy man; not soon enough. They were occupied. A small colony of bees Were in possession. lie reports that he got home; but how. he knows not.— “Thinks he ran;’ 2 knows he halloc’d and is sure the girls laughed. His friends found in his pantaloons a number of dead bees, some angry ones, and the biggest half of a very soar youth. A Fish Story.—A species of perch, found in Tranquebar, on the Coromandel Coast, East Indies, it is said, not onlj creeps on shore, but actually climbs up tall fan palms, in pursuit of certain shell fish, which form its favorite food. Covered with viscid slime, he glides smoothly over the rough bark; spines, which he may sheath and unfold at will, serve him like hands to hang by, and with the aid of’side fins and a powerful tail, he pushes himself upward, thus completing the strange pic ture of fish and shell fish dwelling high on lofty trees. ■ Concealed Weapons.ln the Maine ; Liquor Law is the following clause against carrying concealed weapons: “If any man carries in his own baggage Lor about his person a flask or any other vessel containing liquor of any sort to bo used by him, the party doing so is made liable to a fine of thirty dollars and j thirty days’ imprisonment.”