Republican Vindicator

Editorial Convention.--As there seems to be a general desire that a Convention of the editors and publishers of Virginia be held, and as by common consent, Staunton has been selected as the place, we approve of the suggestion that the time named (15th of August) be abandoned, and Tuesday, the 2d day of October be substituted. We are induced to this suggestion by the rumors which have been spread broadcast over the country, in regard to the health of this place, which would doubtless prevent many persons attending who would otherwise be present. By the first of October, we are almost sure, every vestige of small-pox will have disappeared. Because the cases which are now under treatment are all from contagion; and the further spread of the disease is almost impossible, because of the very active and efficient means employed by the proper authorities to prevent it.

We hope the press of the State will at once adopt the suggestion here made, or some one more suitable, and have the place and time definitely fixed upon, that no difficulty may interfere to a large attendance.

We devote much of the space usually occupied by editorial matter to the publication of the doings of the Know Nothings North, and also to the violation of individual rights by the abolitionists in the case of Mr. Wheeler. We are sure our readers will be much more enlightened by the facts as given, than by anything we could write. Volumes are contained in the matter we publish to-day.