The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1843, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. yn. Wednesday, November 1 1843. y the Britannia, and have for » at this office, all foreign papers, together with illustrated papers, all of the latest dates, Tur Resuct or ree reat Waa Meetinc.— Contrary to the anti tions of many, the whig meeting, last night, began, proceeded, and ended ia unbroken harm: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” appears to have been the salutery maximonwhich all were disposed for the time to act The friends of Mr. Webster were satisfied with tek- ing the modest but advantageous ground covered by Webb's resolutions; and those hostile to that saga- cious politician were unwilling to disturb the har- mony of party at present by any public display of opposition. The game is at present prettier and more exciting than ever. Sull, however, it is clear that the Webster party have made a good move. The movement of last night will be followed throughout the country. Our advice operates well. Repetitur dosis Repgat and Revowvrion in Evrore ap Amn- nica.—The efforts in favor of the Irish Repeal movements in the United States, appear to have slackened very much of late. Just before the elections, by way of conciliating the Irish voters, we had expected a very general demons'ration, but with the exception of an isolated effort in Albany, we have seen nothing worthy of notice. ‘The truth cannot be concealed. The extreme bitterness, prejudice, and injustice of Mr O’Connell and the Dublin Repeal Association towards the in- stitutions of the south, have paralyzed all extensive repeal movements on this side of the water. But while this sentiment prevails every day, it cannot be denied that there exists a strong sympathy among the people here towards the struggles of the reformers in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Spain, and other parts of Europe, whatever name these reformers may take. The Repealers of Ire- Jand—the Rebeccaites of Wales—the Anti Com- law leaguers of England—the new religious inde- pendents of Scotland—or the republicans throughout Europe, are so talked of and sympathized with, that it will probably create some general movement in this metropolis and throughout the republic. The sufferings of the masses throughout Europe are con- sidered as oppressive, and as much entitled to sym- pathy as those of Ireland. We have every reason to believe, therefore, that some general organiza- tion or association wil! soon be produced in this metropolis, having for its object the legal and con- stitutional reform of all the governments of Wes- tera Europe. Here will probably be the grand cen- tre of a great revolutionary movement, equally em- bracing England, France, Italy, and Spain. Such, at least, is our recent information. Important ARRIVAL.—We perceive that Captain Robert Tyler arrived in this city, per railroad from Philadelphia, on Sunday morning last. This dis unguished poet, politician, and philosopher, has not come here, just now, for nothing. Young Captain Tyler may be regarded as the Prime Mimister of the Pench and Judy cabinet, and has more impor- tant movements to look after,‘in this city, than those of General Bertrand. From the recent move ments of Mr Webster, and certain disclosures of instructive import, it really does appear that the whole of the government officers in this city are once more in danger; and we have every reason to believe that the object of Captain Bob’s visit at this juncture, is to examine the ground, and prosecute the interesting investigation of how far the adminis- tration at Washington hasbeen deceived and hum- bugged by their officials in this quarter. We could tell him a great deal, but he may as well find out all of his own accord. ForREST AND THE SyBrERRANEANS.—Mr. Forrest is a good actor—a very respectable man—a thrifty and prudeat citizen—and Jike many other original ge- uiuses who have risen {rom the lowest rank in so- ciety, he has conducted himself with great pro- priety in his new position. But Mr. Forrest is some- what lacking in good sense. In tact, discretion, judg: t, liberal! feeling, he 1s not very remarkably gitted It seems that his old friends amongst the pure demoeracy,who have been puffing and praising or several years pas'—telling him that he is the greatest man of the age—they who nominated him at Tatamany Hall as a member of Congress, and who have been heaping all their unsubstantial honors on his head, have become all at once im- pressed with the idea that because he lives in a very elegant house and gives very excellent suppers, he does not beloxg tothem, and they accordingly turn up their noddle# at the subject of their former idola- try, and threaten to hiss him off the stage. This feeling has recently been exaggerated considerably by statements respecting a private aflair between Forrest and the relict of the late William Leggett. ‘When we saw how this business was proceeding, we very properly took it up, for the purpose of pre- serving the public peace, and allowing Mr. Forrest an opportunity of effacing any injurious impressions which his democratic friends might have made.— We presented the whole matter in such a light as at once produced this desirable effect, and prevented riot or difficulty. For this special kindness— done gratis, as we have done a great many kind things—Mr. Forrest greedily embraces the first op- portunity to abuse us, and attempts to place us ona level with those who sought to excite the riot! A more remarkable instance of illiberality—want of tact—want of eense—we never recollect meeting. And so, doubtless, Mr. Forrest thought himself next noraing. an Great Movement in Lirerature axp Paizo- sorpny.—We uncersiand that Professor Maffit com- mences a series of lectures to-morrow evening, and that it is probable that in the course of them he will show up in a highly original and entertaining man- ner, the theories of the Fourierites—Transcen- dentalists—and all the other new philosophers of theday, including Brownson, Greeley, Brisbane, and the rest of them. If Mr. Maffit chooses, he may here find a rich field tor the exercise of his descrip: tive and sercastic powers. He might, in the course of his discussions, introduce with great propriety a deseription of the interesting movements of the ser- pent in the Garden of Eden—that personage, being the firet transcendentalist or Fourierite, having at that early epoch: atleu.pted to convert paradise into a “phalanx,” and make the children of men all “gods.” The nineteenth century philosophers are only reviviog this venerable movement. They talk ofthe dignuy of human nature—of its vast capa- citios and eleva\ion—and acknowledge, in fact, no God but the Ged human nature. The old serpent himself could not state the matter more plainly. He was, we believe, also the first water drinker, but whether he was an advocate of the Graham bread eystem in dietetics, we are not prepared to say with any degree of precision. We advise Bro» ther Maffic to take up this subject out-and-out. NavaL —The store ship Lexington, now at New York, will eail about the 8d inst., for the Mediter raneen; the store ship Consort, at Boston, will sail » 5th for the coast of Africa; and a store ship will sail trom Norfolk for Rio about the 15th. Those who have letters to send can act accordingly. Che frigate Cumberland, Captain 8. L. Breese, is wailing orders at Charlestown, Mass., and will sail sn atew days. She is destined for the Mediterra- about th mean, as the flag ship of Commodore J. Smith, who Boes oul iu her to relieve Commodore Morris, now 8 commend of the equadron, Orders have been re- ceived at Charlesiowa to have the new sloop ef war Piymouth fitted tor cea as soon as possible. A large number of the workmen at the Charlestown Navy Yard will be discharged without delay Aproinrment.—Oeptain Thos Moriarty, of this city, bas been appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to ‘he command of the light ship at San- dy Hook, in place oi Ca tain Ebenezer Foster, de- ceased ¢ Great Whig Meeting at Nat last night—The Evil Day Postponed—and the Starof Mike Webb and Daniel Web- ster at present in the ascendant. The waters of the Park Fountain shone like quicksilver in the brilliant moonshine lest night, and the National Hall was crammed with the élite—the bone and sinew—the Pank and file of the whig de- mocracy of this great city. It was a curious study to mark the contrast which that dense assemblage presented, to those which convene within the wails of old Tammany. The disinterested spectator, coo! enough to look quietly about him, could very rea- dily perceive evidences of soap, Croton water and U.S. Bank stock, not to be met with at the meet: ings of the great unwashed, unterrified democracy par excellence. The meeting was indeed a highly respectable one, and probably the most crowded which the whigs have had since the exciting cam- paign which resulted in'the election of Harrison.— Shorily before the hour at which the proceedings were to commence—eight o’clock—a fine band of music was heard in the street, and in a few minutes afterwards the whigs ef the 10th ward entered the Hall with a banner bearing these words— eococococ onc c ee 00ocC00 ° ° ° TENTH WARD ° ° ° ° WHIGS ° ° ° ° ALWAYS READY! ° ° ° e@2000000¢09000000000000 Then came another elegant silk banger with this motto emblazoned on it:— Bococococac00cc aos e0000 ° ° ° HENRY CLAY, ° ° ° ° OUR COUNTRY AND LIBERTY! 0 ° ° eoccoooceceo os ecoOC DCN This was placed over the chair amid the loud cheers of the assembled multitude. Atthe bottom of the Hall was suspended a very excellent like- ness of the statesman of the west. Just before the organization of the meeting, Colonel Webb was seen making his way towards the platform. He scrambled over the railing and took his seat at the reporter’s table. Mr. JH. Hawes now rose and said, { nominate Daniel Lord, Jr., as your chairman. This nomination was received with great ap- plause, and Mr. Lord took the chair amid thunders of applause. The following vice-presidents and secretaries were then nominated, and received by acclamation. Vice Presipents. Calvin Balis, Egbert Benson, James Kelly, Joshua Thurston, Robert Hyslop, Joseph P. Pirsson, Conrad Sweet, John W. Biainelt, Charles Oakley, George Eichell, Jacob Bell, Edgar Ketchum, Rodolphin Dearborn. James Van Norden, George W. Blunt, Floyd Smith, Gerard Stuyvesant, SECRETARIES. Charles H. Griffin, Morgan Morgans, Jr. Charles 8. Miller, J. W. Van Pelt, E. D. Hall. Davin Granam, Esq. then presented himself and was received with loud and long continued applause. He said—Mr. President and fellow-citizens, on be- half of your convention committee, [ nave been instructed to present a report of their proceedings, which with your permission | will proceed to read: The Convention appointed by the democratic whigs of the city and county of New York, to nominate county officers and members of Assembly, beg leave to report:— That they have discharged the duty entrusted to them by their fellow citizens with a view of presenting a tick- et that would command a majority of the suftrages of the electorsof New York In this hope they have selected citimens who epjoy awell deserved reputation for the qua. litieé which make private life respectable, and constitute a svfficient guarantee for the faithtul discharge of public duty. They respectfully submit the following nomina. tion For Sheriff—William Jones. For County Clerk—Joseph Weed. For Coroner—Dr. Alexander B. Whiting. For Assembly. Richard 8. Williams, ‘Wm. Mandeville, Elbridge G. Baldwin, Alonzo A. Alvord, John Martin, Alexander P. Fonda, Samuel Webster, William H. Sweet, William Turner, Adon’m Chandier,} Augustus L. Brown, Edward Dayton, Abraham R. Lawrence. In presenting this ticket to the suttrages of the electors of New York. your Convention not but entertain san- guine expectations of its success. They are well aware that the locoiecos have agcumulated unusual resources of expenditure for the approaching election, through the corrupt appropriation of the public money to party pur poses, under the flimay pretext of extra campensation to subordinate officers of the Corporation. No one can for @ moment doubt that a due proportion of extraordi- nary largess has found its way into the Treasury of Tam- many Hall, and will be employed for the uses of the p ty atthe polls. Your Convention cannot but anticipate a corrupt expenditure of moneygthat have been thus ab- stracted from the public treasury, in a snameless disregard of allthe decencies of legislation. The application of this large amount of moneys to the same fraudulent sys- tem of mu tiplying votes that distinguished the election of the last spring, may welt excite fears of a similar re- ; but the Convention entertain the confitent hope that the circumstances of that election, combined with the late official appropriation for the same disgraceful pur- es, will convince 4 large majority of the eleetors of New York that a party capable of such abuses of power can net suitable depository. Your Convention believe ute of the illegal votes with which they have every reason to apprehend the locofocos willoppress the ballot boxes, the cause of good morals and honest legis- lation will triumph in @ nal rebuke of the abus which we have referrs This result the Conv: would anticipate from the natural operation ofthe in question, even if there were go other elements of de. mocratic whig success in thecoming election. But when they look at the issues of the elections that huverecently taken place in other States—with the thunders from Georgia, Marylend, North Carolina, Tennessee, Obio and Pennsylvania still ringing and echoing ia their ears— they feel that the day is at hand when a grateful and awakened peopie are about torize in the majesty aud might of irresistible numbers, and to bestow their highest honors on an ever faithiul public servant in whose name these great victories have been achieved. Tothissubject however, we can only but aliude. It has been allotted to other bodies, the duty of selecting delegates to represent you inthe Coovention which will offer the name of Hen- ry Clay as the candidate for the Presidency of the United States; and which will present, no doubt, a candidate for the Vice Presidency true to the principles of the demo- cratie whi aman who shares the suoshine of our tri- shrinks from our companionship in i \d stormy fortunes; who believes with us, pes with us, consorts with us, and is ever willing to stand or fall with the democratic whig party, and in the democratic whig faith. D. GRAHAM, Jr., Chsirman. | Secretaries. oT Lewis, Jr. & Rowsaxn, The Cnatrman.—Is any gentleman disposed to make any remarks on this report? Here there arose loud cries of “Graham,” ‘‘Gra- ham.” Mr. Gramam then again stepped forward and was received with much enthusiagm. He spoke as follows :— Mr. Parsrpenr arp Fetiow Citizens :—I am surethat I will be excused from making formal address on this occasion, a8 | have only for a short time been released from the fatiguing labors of an arduous day of profes. sional toil. But calledon as I have been, 1 should regard myself as recreant to the great principles I profess if 1 should reiuse to respond in some way to your call. (Ap- plause.) Ihave just discharged, on the part of the con- vention over whose deliberations . nos been my pride and honor to preside, the duty which they conferred up. on me. In their name and in their behalf it duty to submit to you the names of the candidates of your choice at the ensuing election. They are the names cf men standing high in your confidence, and challenging boldly your favor and esteem. (Cheers.) In behal! of these men it is entirely unnecessary for any one to be- speak that confidence and support. They are all of them, gentlemen, known to you—they are of you—men, upon many o' whow you have heretofore showered unequivo- cal and merited proo's of your grateful regard and warm confidevce, and whose names are again presented for your approbation on the eve of an election, momentous in ite sequences, as involving not only the security and advancement of principles dear to us as citizens of this great State, but also the result of a still more importaut election. In such circumstances, the nomination of t candidates for your support becomes iavested with pecu- liar interest ond importance, and presents a hundred fold additional claims for your cordial and enthusi tion. (Cheers) We have, my fellow-citizens several recent occasions, that the whigs in other sections of this Union have not been willing to wait until the great contest should call them into action; on the contrary, w fiod from the triumphant notes which have reached from Tennessee, from Georgia, from Ohio, and from Pennsylvania, that the spirit hes already been awakened which tory in “44, (Great ep plause ictorious struggles carried on in these States are forerunners o! the success which is to crown thegreateffort. The battle in these States bas been fought upon broad whig principl under the gallant and glorious name of Henry C! (Tremendous applause) And the triumphs which h crowned the exertions of the noble whigsot other Stat are now speaking emphatically and in tones of thunder, the preference of these 8:ates for that illustrious man. It is for you now. eva portion of the whigsof the great State of New York, to say whether you wil be behind in thus manifesting your approbation of the course of that dis Unguished statesman. [tis for you vow to ‘say," whether Georgia, whether Tennessee, and the other States which I have named shall enter the lists end show you the way to victory, whilst you suffer their example to pass unimpro ved. 1 know~—I can read it in the countenance of every man around me—I can eee it in every demonstration which is pouring in upen us from every quarter of our noble State—that the example of these States will not be Jost upon us—and that even here—betrayed as we have }oen—cast to the wings as we have been, by one in whom w ne confidence—that even in these circumstances, #0 well calculated to have produced despondency and fear, the whigs of this great city are ready to buckle on their armor forthe eontest, and to march asa man to viotory. (Cheers) ‘ihe position of our party at this moment ents one of the most sublime spectacles ever exhibited by any political body. Betray by one who accidentally fills the place of the tlustrions man who was elected by our suffrages to the Presidency—we have ised the entice: laughed at ths frowns of-power, ments of office—we have ba “begone”—wo have with unshrinking filelity, elung like men to the principles we profess (Lond applause) Yes, my fellow citizens; and whatever bethe issue of this contest, nothing can shake thot fidelity, But defeat we have no reason to apprehend; no man Who keeps his eyes and ears open to passing events, can for a moment permit himself to dread that re sult, We have not merely the country with us —we havenot merely the voice of the people— with us—bat we have the right with us; with that right, and the glorious name under which we fight, we are sure of success—because we deserve success. (Cheers.) And, fellow citizens, the contest in which weare about to enter, more especially in this city, iseno which pre- eminently invites the attention ef every reflecting mao and of every patriotic whig. — By electing to the legisla ture of our State the delegation from the city of Now York, there is every reason to sup) that we will be assured of a majority in at least one branch of our legislature. We will thus be enabled effectually to check the destructive merch of locofocoism in the couscils of our State. (Cheers) We can begin as we began im 1830, by securing the House of Assembly. We can go on aswe did in the two succeeding years, and secure to ourselves the Senate and the Executive ot the Stote, and by a vigorous and united effort on the part of the whigs of our city—on the part of the whigs of this particular section of our State, this result is certain of attainment. tis in this point o! view, then, that the conteston which we are about to en ter, is invested with the utmost impcrtance, and must so impress itself on the mind of every whig. Here—in this city—in tormer years we b he work of victo ry. Here let it begin again. in let us pledge our- selves to the country—let us pledge ourselves to the Statr—let us pledge ourselves to the illustrious chief of our choice—that here again the regeneration of our country shall commence, (Great cheering) Let us but commence the work in this spirit, and the result must be the immediate regeneration of our now degraded State.— (Cheers) I can add nothing—I know I am unable to add anything, even if were in better physical frame to do it —to stimulate your energies in the coming contest. But let me appeal to you as whigs—as men who have already often triumphed in defending the great principles of your faith—as men who areready to pledge yourselves in the most solemn manner before your country to do justice to the illustrious and persecuted statesman ot the west.— (Great ap lause) Again come up in the might and ma jesty of freemen. Again swear before your country that you will shake off the shackles of tyranny and © pression—ond with this solemn pledge—may I speak Ke without irreverence—with this selemn oath, you will go forward armed to the contest, conquering and to conquer. (Mr. Graham here resumed his seat, apparently much exhausted. The Chairman of the Senatorial Convention then presented their report. It merely presented the name of the Hon. Morris Franklin as the candidate, and was adopted by acclamation. There were now loud and universal cries of “Thayer,” ‘* Thayer,” and that young gentleman immediately presented himself on the rostrum, amid great applause. Mr. Thayer isa great favo- rite with the party asa speaker, and very deservedly so. He spoke as follows:— Mr. President and Fellow Citizens—On behalf of the committee on reselutions, 1 heg leave to report :— Resolved, That in surveying the field of the coming contest, we find occasion for devout gratitude in the pre- sent complete development of the fact that the locoloco arty, destructive ip its whole nature, tendency and e/- fects, is also finally selt destructive; that having destroyed all good that came within its reach—hgving destroyed our national prosperity, credit, and honor—destroyed our currency, our commerce, our manufactures, our public works, our private enterprises—it has at las! begun to ; scorpion-like, turning its venomous and ing upon its own vitals. Resolved, That, however encouraging may be the con- templation of this result, we do not regard it as forestall- ing the neccssity of our redoubled and thrice devoted exertions for the universal disseminatien und permanent establishment of our principles, and the success of our measures; and that we will still go on to perfect our or- ganization and consolidate our strength, making the election of Henry Clay the mere beginning and not the end of our labors, and marching under his standard in long-continued, oft-repeated triumphs, from victory to victory, till, no enemy remaining, our peaceful and pros- fulfils her glorious destiny. Resolved, That we salute the gallant whigs of Tennes- sce, Maryland, Geors Pennsylv: snd Ohio, with hearty congratulations and praise, for their recent unex. pected successes, and do hereby pledge ourselves to abide by all the issues they have so triumphantly made, andto maintain the ground they have taken on every great na- tional question. Resolved, That we present our special congratulations totae victorious whigs of Baltimore on the late double triumph, by which they have taken a high pluce among the great whig cities of the Union—with Boston, Phila: delphia, St. Louis, Washington, Providence, Albany, and others—and that, emulous of their illustrious example, we assure them that New York, which slready gives more whig votes than any city or county in America, shall soon claim and take the highest place on that glo: rious list, shaking off the infamy of locofoco misrule, and ing to the same lofty eminence, in political purity ana fame, that it now holds in population, commerce, enter prize, and power. Resolved, That in response to the call ef the whigs of Baltimore, for a great national convention in that noble city, simultaneously with the Presidential Nomivating Convention, to ratify its proceedings, and open thecam paign of 1844 with mutual counsel and encouragement, we do hereby delegate one thousand whigs irom exch of the four Congressional Districts of New York, to meet the whigsof the Union thereon the second of May, 1844 Resolved, That now, in the very outset of our career of victory, with the shouts of triumphs animating us from more then half the Union, we here ren w our vows of fitelity to our fellow whigs every where, and pledge our gratciul and lasting remembrances to all those who have stood firm by us and our principles, in the dark hours now passed ; that we will be faithful to those who have heen faithful to us; faithful to Henry Clay, and those members of the Harrison cabinet, who preferred retire- ment and temporary obscurity to the retention of office; faithful to the inesrruptible and hereic whigs of the late Congress, faithfal to all proscribed whigs, never aban- ing them totheirenemies; faithful to them and their self sacrificing course ‘ul even unto death.” Resolved, Tnat animated by the indomitable spirit of eur great leader, spurning all propositions to disband, or form coalitions with any portion of our enemies, and scorning them asthe counselsol cowardice and treason, we answer in the language of never yielding, and ever active determination, the whigs of New York city are Uenry Clay's old guard. «The guard never surrenders ” Resolved, That protection to American industry and labor, in allits varied branches, is one of the most promi. nent aod cherished principles of whig policy ; and that in the returning prosperity of the country we b. holdthe first (ruits of the faithful legislation ofthe twenty-seventh j and that to give to all the laboring interests of ry—meckanical, ultural and commerciel— afuiler reward,shall be our tinued aim, until the great American system is perfected in the election of Henry Cis andthe establishment of a permanent protective taril Resolved, That although we know by incontestible evidence, and by the shameles blic avowals of the chief locofoco o' olders in this city, that the apparent majority against us at the last charter election, was mi up by morethan six thousand illegal votes, and false oaths, backed by violence and brutality, still as the intrepid whig democracy of New hake holding the elective franchiae asacred duty, to neglect which would be acrime, we will go to the polls in our full strength, selemnly appeal- ing against the suborners of those wholesale perjuries and awful profanitions, to the avenger of false oaths. ‘Resolved, That in our candidates for sheriff, Coroner, County Clerk, Senator and Assemblymen, we recogoise whigs of the right stamp, of long service and of trivd de. yotion ; men who will administer office with ea and legislate with ability and candor ; and that proudly lift ing up our banner, inscribed with the names of such men, we will move on with steady and determined steps to a complete triumph of the glorious whig cause in the city of New York. Reselved, That we hail with pride ond satisfection, the renomination of the Hon. Morris Franklin, as a candidate for the first senatorial district of this ape his uniform urbanity of manners, his stern integrity and distinguish- ed talents, and withall his ardent devotion to whig prin ples, are t! rest guaranties that he will continue faith- lully to represent the people of this district. We there fore pledge to him our warm and cordial support. I need not say, (Mr. THayee proceeded to remark: meet my full and hearty approv: there was no mistaking the meaning of the eviden which were given during the reading of nly @ faw words to say, because there ir summed up and embodied in that report, more then ] couid ay it I wereto speak for hours, But [have sim: ply this, with all good and true whigs, to say, that in looking at the present condition and prospects of our par: very reason to cherish hope and confidence. n indications that honesty, faith and patriot ism willat last meet the reward which comes from a grate ful people. It may take years sometimes, and sometimes only months, for the people to feel and app reciate them. But sure are they, as they see national prosperi ty returning and burdens of misrule taken off, to come up in joyous procession in order to crown with a nation’s gratitude and honor, the head of the good and faithful, ere yet he leave the field of his rewarded labor aud toil. (Loud applause.) And I do not believe that in the history ot this or any other country, so signal an instanceof the justice and truth of popular decision can be found as that which has been furnished here during the last four months What have we seen, or rather what heve we not seen? One short year ago, and to whatever point we looked, all was doubt and detection; and ea few chosen and faithful whigs, who threw themselves on the old whig altar, and swor either for the sacrifice or seemed lost. must be abandoned. We remembered that in the open field of 1819, nineteen whig States pitched their tents and hungout their banners. (Cheers.) All was then high hope and confidence and boundless anticipation A few months passed, and tl long line of States, as if to the music of muffled drums in funeral procession, moved off to fillup the ronks of a discomfitted army ! ‘Oh! w’ an hour for the true and faithiul! How many heerts that were brave in battle, exulting in the tvic. tory, quailed and sunk within them as they saw the treachery of their own men ond the rallying strength ofthe enemy! But all did not go. No, thank God, they did not all go—(cheors)—and what re ward?-—what honor shall be given tothose men, whe in that darkest and most porilons hour of donbt and of dis. may, still would not forsake the field of their former glory. (Great Minti They left not the whig lines; they kept up the flow pace of the sontinel around the ol! whig camp; they hung over the dying wateh firet ana tion had kindled,and preserved even amid the ashes emid which it smoul that spark which now beginning to rekindle,’ shall agein illumine this land of ours with brighter en | stronger light. on and long continued applause) I look to-day on 1) poe pense the past, be. cause for one, the part | take in politics has been chosen more from pession than from interest; I feel and think that Lean gee in such exampies of secrifice and re all that is illustrious im the glory of the post—all that is illustrious in the great seh done in days gone by. I know, indeed, many men of our day and generation are secustomed to talk as if there were none of this high and devoted spirit of patriotism in politics aud poli ticans. There is a 38 of men who can see nothing that goes beyond their own they are the men who have during the last three years inflicted the most cruel wrongs on the whig party by their desertion of 1t in sts hour ot need Tarn, then, I say, to the illustrious and memorable ox amples in the history of the , and which relieve it from the gloom and ark which overwhelm 1 believe that this great mass of the whi: preciate these examples—that great ma’ stituted not of men who boast thitt they are the pillars of the party, and that whenever they choose to alter their position the party must fall, but composed of thet great mechanical and laboring interest he country, who after all are the support, the trae genuine democrecy of the whigs.—(Cheers.) And these are the men who can see the real merits of any cause. You may strike out every measure of national policy—strike out a taritt—the regulation of national currency—the distrib of the proceeds of public lands—all that concerns our interest and prosperity nd these men would still see in the simple truth of their amoral grandeur that neither rises nor sinks with rying Auctustionsof party. High, majestic in its own elevation, it ci e the Mountain summit—tbe storm and the clouds below—the first end the last point on which the sun shines, (Cheers) And, fellow \citizens, 1 say that it is that class of men—ever true and ever devoted—men who never swerve or deviate from the atraight line of duty—which is now coming ii the fletd in support of Henry Clay. And here let me say what I understand—aside from naked eutogy—to be the true security of Henry Clay’s character and of the whig triumph of 1844. It is this—that Henry Clay is notonly the man o! the whig party for the last four years—for the list eight years—for the last twelve years—but the man ofthe whig party fora whole generation that has passed. And when we come into theopen field you will fina that every man will act under the knowledge of the fact, that hisown carecr a8 a whig has been identified with Mr. Clay and his cause. That is the true feeling, if 1 under- stand it right, of the whig party all over the Union. Clay is our man, and we are not to loose sight of the singleness Here let us take up our position. We are mistaken if we suppo e that the whole work isto be done next year—that we cam accomplish all during the year 1844—the ground must be ploughed, and the seed thrown in, if we would reap the harvest. The sentiment of the people is right every where, and we have but {9 aumion it and the spinite fromevery quarter of the Union, and they will come forth openly, nobly and bold. ly to the contest. And now, fellow citizens, in thesingle ness of our object what a contrast do we present to the led racted, with no one man on influence and interests, they ily overthrown and conquered. There we find two men embodying two gteat separate interests—the North and the Sout! are called—Mr. Van Buren and John C. Calhoun. have the old weasel face of Van Buren (great laughter) peeping out all over the Union ; we have the fiery spirit and impassioned eloquence of Calhoun thundering through the South, and rousing the chivalry of his sec- tion against Van Buren. Whilst out in the West they have, as they say,in good training asa sort of reserve, old Colonel Dick Johnson. (Laughter) They believe in deed very generally, that Dick Johnson would carry more vetes than any one man, but still he is not, they ac. knowledge, altogether fitted for the office. They say he will run well, and they will run him, therefore, if they cannot get any other ‘man who will run against Henry Clay with ny, chance of success. Their idea seems to be a good deal like that of the Irishman. (A laugh.) His master gent him for a game cock. Well, Pat knew his iter wanted the animal to fight, but he had no very inct ideas about the nature of the contest, so he f\ back aduck. “Why, you jackass,” &0 “thet is not a game-cock.” No of eur obje whom they can ei present that broken tront which 18 mi the Irishman, “ © © isn't—but whet a lo e has got—yeu c rip him upany way!” (Roars of laughter.) It veen well said thata great party with a good onject, )oliticalor religious, always has its great champion. ‘land had her Cromwell—and the 16th eentury had iis !.uther. And so at all important epochs in the history of our race, the movement party has had its leader, who embodied, as| it were, t) doctrines and views of the whole party. In this espe! contrast Henry Clay with Van Buren or Calhoun. oun is indeed a man of great powers; but if I un character ye right, he is a man who never idea in his head at one time powers of concentration—he can br a to a brilliant focus, and any subj he thus touches melts and runs away before im. Buthe wants the power of diffusion, He is fitted neither for legislative or executive office. Mr. Van Buren, on the other hand,is any Grea and every thing, just as you like, (leughter.) During the whole course of his life you cannot for the life of you detect him taking up any well- defined intelligable position on any great public question. In reading his letters recently addressed to Georgia and Indians, for the purpose of securing his nomination, you have a feast of the ridiculous, if you sit down and seo how they runin parallel columns. On the subject of the tariff he is sometimes as orthodox as you please, and agin he is directly the reverse. He reminds me of the anecdote of the gentleman who was reproved by 8 friend for his profane swearing, “ Why,” said he, “Ido swear a great deal, and you great deal, but I am sure neither of us mean anything by it.” (laughter.) But we have a champion who embodies our principles, and who has ever stood boldly in their defence. Let us never lose sight of our one object. (Tremendous applause.)— To achicve it I invoke the aidof all, eld and young—all good men and true; I say to the stirring scenes of 1840, come bae! ‘sin—come on with the rattling tread of pro cession—with music and songs—with trumpet and banner —come on with the device of honest labor—with all the glorious heraldry of workmenship—come on with all the mimic blazonry ef war, and show how peaceful, and yet how poweriul are the means of reform in this age of popular movements. (Loud and continued applause.) Here there was apparently a movement on the plaiform to procure an adjournment; but afew voices in the crowd called out ‘* Webb,” “* Webb;” and that individual rose for the purpose of making a speech. Great confusion followed. All sorts of cries were screamed out—* pnt him out,” ‘hear him,” ‘to h—Il_with him,” “adjourn, “‘no traitors,” “where's that $52,000?” The Chairman attemgted to speak, but was una- ble for some minutes. At length he procured si- lence, and said, ‘‘ giveevery man a hearing.” This had the eflect of procuring order, and Co.owe, Wes thus proceeded:—I was not pre- pared to heara hiss when! rose. I have met you often during eleven successive years, and I believe this is the firat occasien on which I have been greeted with a hiss. (A voice— ‘You're no whig.”) It has produced no other feeling here (striking his breast, with a theatrical air) than regret that deception has succeeded to a certain ex- tent—that there are men within the sound of my voice who honestly believe some very foolish and dled idle tales. Believing them, I am perfectly willing they should hiss; because I know that the time is soon coming «hen they will be ae well satisfied as myselfof the falsity of the representations by which they have been misled. I do not r.8e to inflict a speech upon you, but with the conviction that whet [ '@ got to say you ought to hear, ponder up- on, and if it meet your approbation, sdopt. If, on the con trary it do not meet your approbation—coming here as you do in your deliberative capa free and inde- pendent whigs—having a right at all times an: all oc. our sentiments above board, wherever din whatever presence you may if what I have to soy or suggest, or what re solutions] may think proper to offer do rot meet your ap- prebation, then vote it down fully, farrly end openly, and will be the last man in the world to take exception.— Gentlemen, Icome to speak to you on the importance ‘armony—of concilislion—(* good”— ‘The gentlemen whe haye slready inted out the evil influences of ‘anks of an opponent; and shall 1 this,suffer any disunion amongst our selves 7—(‘No”—“no.”)—I_ glory with them—I rejoice. with you inthe glorious victories achieved in Tenner see, in Georgia, in Ohio, in Maryland, and even in be- nighted Pennsylvania. But, fellow citizens—(a little an- easiness on the platform, which produced some confusion —cries of ‘go on” in the crowd)—I would not have you lulled to sleep by a recital ofthose victories. While were. joice in common with all the whigs in the country inthe glorious successes thus atteined,the effect of all should be to render us more vigilant; more careful—more anxious to secureevery inch of ground that we have already con- qnered from the enemy. It is an old saying among the boys —“ Keep what you get, and get more if you can.” So be it with ns—let us keep what we have got, and get more if wecan. (* Honestly” said an old gentleman neat Webb, in a loud tone, which produced a laugh.) Yes, honestly, honesly, said Webb. I believe that the whig party have always conducted themolves honestly. My preferences, you all know; for it has been my duty to state them re- peatedly in public. For twelve years those preferences have been for Harry of the Wert. It has ever been the course of our party to give the right of pre- ference. In.1889, nineteen-twentieths of the whigs of this State thought that Henry Clay should be elected President This they said open and above board. But it so happened, how or why I shall not now discuss, for let by.gones be by-gones, but I say, it so happened that he who was fully and justly entitled to that nomination did net receive it.— What then was our course 7? We bowed in submission to the Convention. We united heart and hand in support of the man presented to our suffrage And where was the man then who rose and said, “ you are not whigs, for you are for Henry Clay, and he is not nominated?” Were we less whigs because we were sorely disappointed that the man of onr choice was not nominated? No,gentlemen, and I shail for one ever contend that it is our duty as well os our interest to suffer every man in our ranks, freoly, at all times to have their preferenees for A, B,or ©. Let them express their opinions. Let them, if they, can get their candidates nominated. But once the nomination is made let all submit. But up te that time it is wrong, un. just, impolitic, for any set of men deliberately or acci- dentally to reproach any man for having @ preference for any candidate. (Cheera.) I propose now to embedy the fow remarks I have made in two or three resolutions to which Task your attention. They areas follows :— Resulved, That while in common with the great body of Whigs throughout the United States, we look upon Henny Cray as the only candidate of the Whig Party for the Presidency, and consider him already virtually nomi- nated by the people for that exalted station, we cheerful- ly concede to the minority in our ranks, the right of en- tertaining and freely pressing their preferences for other tig feep es Whigs-—not doubting but that when the final decision of the Whig Party shall be ac ‘ated through a National Convention, they will be found bat- tling by our site in the cause of sound principles. Resolved, That while we not only approve of, but cor dially unite, im the general enthusiasm which pervades the whig ranks in favor “Harry of the West,” we re pudiate the idea that this arises solely from personal devo- tion to the man, but perceive init an all pervading attach ment tothe principles of the whig party, exhibiting it- self in grati nde to the fearless and independent states. man, who, through a long life, has devoted himself to their support. Resolved, That proseription and intolerance, are at war with the interest, and contrary to the practice of the whig perty; and that the only recognised test of the politica) jolth of its members, is their devotion to, and earnest and Dinner to Marshal Bertrand at the Astor House. The dinner to Marchal Bertrand took place yesterday, and it had been our intention to have laid before the public a full report of the affair. ti however, ina degree out of our power, 1 consi quence of the decision of the committee, who showed themselves totally ignorant of the tone of good society which we have always presumed was the same in all countries—in New York and in Paris. We beliave their exclusion of gentlemen connected with the press is almost without a precedent ; and in this cage the affair has au especially bad appearance, inasmuch asin this country, Frenchmen, the compa- nions of Napoleon and of their illustrious guest, found weleome and that assylum denied to them by almost all the rest of the world; and here the memo- ry of Napoleon kas ever had as warm partizans as even inFrance. The reuson assigned for this ex- clusion was that the affair was entirely national. It did seem to us, however, aftera rather hasty glance, that the brawn and sinew exhibited by a portion of the guests, and that nota small portion, betokened -zealous support of, the great constitutional principles for which we contend. view ofthe great struggle in which Resolved, That we are about to embarl in eupport of our principles, by the election of Henry Clay to the Presidency, we recog” nize the necessity of union and harmony 1 our ranks, and would earnestly impress upon the whig National Convention, in its selection of a candidate forthe Vice Presidency, and uponall State and County Conventions, to evincea conciliation toward the minority in our ranks, as far as is consistent with the maintenance of eh honor, and the support of the great principles of our party. A good deal of impatience was manifested about the disposal of these resolutions, after which Col. Webb sat down. Some proposed to have them put separately Amid the conjusion Duptry Senpen rose and said—I wish to add another resolution to those just proposed. It has already received the approbation of a large portion of the Committee, who reported to this meeting, and therefore I offer it without much apprehension of its fate, It is this— Resolved, That the office of Vice President is teo lofty and too rasponsible to be lightly or inconsiderately be- stowed; and that while leaving with cheerfulness to the National Convention the designation of the individual, and to our immediate representatives there, in whom we repose entire confience, unfettered siberty‘of choice, it would seem superfluous to add, suffering a8 we are under the inflictions resulting from the unfortuoate selection b the Whig Convention of 1839, our earnestrecom- | some! admixture of Anglo-saxon blood. At eealeenian pose about six o'clock the hall was crowded integrity and fidelity to his princip party, which, | with spectators, and at nearly seven the in the event of the death of the President, will ensure ch an administration of the Government as will fully ain, and, inthe language of the lamented Harrison’ arry out those principles.” ; Mr. Epgar Karcuum here attempted to gain a hearing, but entirely failed. Webb's resolutions, with Sclden’s annexed, were then put and unanimously adopted. ~ wh ‘Three cheers were given tor ‘*Harry of the West,’ and the meeting dispersed with the greatest order and decorum. company passed into the gentlemen’s ordinary, where they were soon joined by the General and staff, accompanied by Governor Bouck, Mayor Morris, Commodore Stewart, an! a few naval effi- cers, and several persons in militia uniforms, among whom were Generals Morris and Sar.dford. Among the guests we noticed aleo M. Artot and Signor Giampetro, our fellow citizen Philip Hone, Esq., and others as well known. The General was re- ceived with: cheers of welcome, and the Mar. seillaise, and took his seat on the right of the Presi- dent, M. Henri Babat. On the prolongation of the table on the right, were the officers of militia, while onthe left were seated the civil authorities, and Commodore Stewart and his companions. The eatables which their gentlemanly host had go libe- rally provided, having been done justice to, and an approximation to silence obtained, the President announced the first regular toast :— 1. A Le Mémoire de L’Empereur—Lo Demi-Dieu de la France, dont limmortalité se refletera sur ceux quiont eu la religion de son genie et qui ont été les apotres de sa gloire ou les compegnons de son martyre. Which was drunk standing and in silence, and fol. lowed by Bonaparte’s Coronation March, well exe- cuted by the band. 2. Au Général Bertrand—Les populations Américaines en lui faisant de leurs hommages une marche triomphale uu delles, ont honoré en lui lune des plus belles é. Les Francais du No n Jui Pun des plus beaux noms de la The Park Meeting—Jack Westervelt in the Field for Sheriff-Fun Kxpected—Music— Poetry—Politics—and Mesmerism. The old saying that “politics is the proper atudy of man,” is about being verified this afternoon in the Park Pope said, “the proper study of mankind isman.” That may have been all very well in his day, when people were trying to write themselves upfor morality and the *‘ humanities.” But if that pleasant gentleman should come to life to-day, he would find himself assured in a jiffy that he ** didn’t know beans.” We shall have politics to-day. Just about four o’clock, er perhaps an hour or two before, our readers, numbering forty-two thousand, previous to the hour of breakfast and more than half a million by nine o’clock, City Hall chroneme- ter time, you may see the grand army of locofocos pouring down upon the Park, from all the avenues and vomitories of the city. First will come the in- domitable Eleventh—then the Seventh—then the Thirteenth—and then the Tenth. These are demo- cratic wards, every one of them, and so is the Se- venteenth when it sails under its real colors. About thirty-five minutes before four, the saucy Twelfth willbe booming down to the thirteen acres, (the areacf the Park,) and then, pell mell, the other wards will mix ia promiscuously. What is all this for! Why old Tammany isfound quite too emall for the demonstration to be made this day—and the democrats, the original locofo- cos, the young democracie, and the old hunkers, have united upon one thing for the firat time in their lives, and have agreed to adjourn beforehand to the Park, so that they can breathe deeper and freer, and go through their manipulations of knocking each other down, just for the pleasure of the thing, upon the old fashioned principle of mesmerizing the human body, and putting one another to sleep by a crack upon the sconce, instead of the gentle etroke of the modern mesmerieer- The great contest, as we hear, is to be upon the Sheriff question. Three candidates are in the field from Connecticut,—Jones from Connecticut—Hall from Connecticut—Attwood {rom Connecticut—all are opposed to Jack Westervelt, who claimsto be born upon the sod of New York—a regular built Knickerbocker and an out-and-outer. Well! Jack may floor them all. His popularity, indoors and out of doors, is unbounded. He isahandsome man withal, and knows the duties of his office ; which can hardly be said of any of the others. The wo- men are for him ; the ‘children are for him; for he never oppressed a human being in his life, and yet the members of the bar say he isa mest effective sheriff and will command all sorts of votes. Jack is good stuff, too—honorable stuff. He comeg up to the rack, fodder or no fodder. He goes the whole or nothing. He is‘right there. Warmer friends no man ever had. Here is his card—let it speak for itself. The soul of honoris init and him, and he must be supported at the coming election :— DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR SHERIFF. ‘This day, at 40’clock P. M.,1 shall, as I have already stated to the public, appeal te the yustice of my democrs- tic fellow citizens who will atsemble in the Park. I res- pectiully claim and submit, that the nomination for she- Tf was cast for mo in the County Convention on the eleventh ballot. The unintentional deposic of a single vote containing the name of a candidate for another of. fice, but which ballot was intended for me, made the re- quired number to place a candidate in nomination. My I understand, is not to be submitted by the commit- doy. The usages of my party, however, warrant mein making this anpeal for redress, and I have been taught that no nomination is final pproved by a county meeting. Tothat meeting I appeal; aad leave my cause in the hands aud epinions of honorable men. T republish to-day ‘he statement I published on the 16th of October, in erder that the friends of dewocratic usuges may recognise the position which I then took, aud which Ihave not departed from. JOHN J. V. WESTERVELT. Tne Nomimatina Committers ror County Orricens. To my Democratic Fellow Citizens: My namo having been placed in nomination, among others, beiere the democratic convention of delegates from the several wards, lately assembled at Tam: rad Hall for the purpose of nominsting county officers, I ay! leave to e a short statement for the consideration of my friends ond fellow-citizens. ‘On Friday evening last the convention assembled for the third time, tor the nomination of a sheriff, having been unable during the preceding sessions to make a selection. On that evening the votes cast in my favor, or intended go to be were forty-three, being a majority of the whole convention, which consisted of eighty-five delegates. On that vote I claim to be nominated as the candidate for the office of sheriff, according to the old and well known usages of the democratic party. The vote given for my name on the first ballot on that evening was twenty-seven; end it increased gradually until the eleventh ballot, when the tellers declared the following for Westervelt, forty for At- wood, two for Emmans, and one for Osgood. The one vote on that ballot for ‘Mr. Osgood, was given by Mr. Cernelius Lane, and was intended for me. It was hand ed in purely by mistoke; and, when the result was de- clared, the iact was so stated by Mr. Lene. The expla- nation made by him at the time was that be had provided himself with tickets with the name of Mr. Osgood written upon them, which he intended to use for that gentleman on a subsequent ballot for the county clerk, and that accidentally he used one of them upon the above ballot in the hurry of the moment, and thus his ticket became inadvertently changed. It will thus be perceived that, in justice, I am equitably entitled to the entire vote of forty three, which places me in nomination before the County meeting. I will not now speak of the means revorted to by the members of the Convention by which my friends were afterwards preven- ted from having the above unintentional error corrected; but I nevertheless cleim to have Leen duly nominated by a majority of the votes of that body, and I shall appesl to the justice of the County Fone + sii Harton hewchhonae low Pred Ae hee) ‘ausert, and will endea- in according to the » WESTERVELT. patri This was loudly cheered and followed by a beau- tiful composition, given with due effect, called the Departure of General Bertrand for St. Helena. 3. Au Roi Des Francais.—Ce sera une gloire impéris- sable pour son regne, que le grand acte de pié'e nationale qui a rendu a la France les reates du Grand tromme dont nous honorons aujourd’hui le plus fiddle compagnon. After the third toast, General Bertrand rose, and said with enthusiasi “Oui au roi des Francais— avaat hui peendant dix-neuf anness nousavions vai- nement demandés, qu’on rendut a la France, les cen- dres de Napoleon. Nous devons au patriotisme du roi le restoration du depot sacré.” After which was played the Parisienne. 4. Au Président des Etats-Unis —Le premier magistrat Wun peuple qui, né d’hier, west Glevés, en un jour, au niveau des plus grands peuples, et dont Vavenir est ré- servéa d’incomparables destinées. This was not received @ fa Ashburton, but as a toast to the first magietrate ef the nation shouldever be, with respect and due honor. After it came Hail Columbia. 5. AV Armée et ala Marine Franeaises.—Le génie qui congoit et lintrépidité qui exécute sont bérélitaires dans cette grande famille de braves. Les soldate de Constan- tine et de Mazagran, et les marins du Tage et de Saint- Jean d’Ulloa sont les dignes filsdes héros de la Répub lique et de 1’Empire. This toast, too, was loudly cheered, and followed by Bonaparte’s Grand March at the battle of Aus~ terlitz. The sixth was drank insolemn silence, excepting only a few volunteer cheers, soon repressed by the good taste of the company. 6.1 la Mémoire de Washington—Doublement grand comme capitaine et comme citoyen, son génie fera l’ad- miration de la postérité & laquelle ses vertus serviront @exemple. Washington’s March tollowed. ‘The next .— 7. A L’Armée Américaine—Son drapean et le drapeau frangais ont marché de conserve dans le chemin de Vhonneur et de la victoire. Puisye le souvenir de cette sainte alliance se perpé'uer dans Je cour des deux peu- ples et.leur rappeler qu’ils ontregu ensemble le baptéme durfeu et dela liberté! gor —was duly received. After it was played, “Hail, Columbia!” The next— Américaine—Ses anneles sont seunes jeilles de gloi Fiddle au double mandat qui lui est coufié, elle saura céfendre, & la fois, Vindépendance nationale et la Liberté des mers. —called forth more enthusiasm, or a better imita- tion of it, than almost any other, and the “Star- Spangled Banner” followed it. The toast— 9. A L’Etat de New York.—Membre dune confédéra- tion d’étate souverains, le titre d’Emrire State, que lui ont cécerné ges fréres en souveraiuté, révé.e le rang su- préme qu’il occupe parmi eux, et auquel l’nabileté de sea Governeurs saura tojours le maintenir. —was followed by the Strauss waltz. And lastly this toast:— 10, Aue Autorités Civiles et Militaires dela New York.—Si elles ont un égal droit a Ja reconna' de tous les habitang dela Grande Cité dont les int: la garde leur sont co! cial a la grat telivé si magnifiquement offerte au Vi de titres, Vorguueil de ses compatriot After this toast, the General rose and cried out, “Three cheers’more for Mayor Morris ;” after which was played Yankee Doodle, the company playing a symphony with knives, forks, and other articles of the table service. Afterthe regular toasts, Commodore Stewart rose, and said that he did not rise to make a speech, but to return thanks for the honor done to the American Navy, confident that its flag would still wave triumphantly on ehore and the ocean ; aad to express his gratitude for the assistance rendered itin the hour of need by France Gen. Bertand then drank “ Prosperity to the city of New York,” pretacing it with a few remarks, of which we could not heara word. Gov. Bouck gave— The Health of General Bertrand—Few men have posed through more trying scenes ; may his future life repose upon the pillow of ease. ; Mayor Moris rose and said—I am happy to rise, not only to thank you for the manner in which the last regular toast was received, but for the harpy end kind manner in which your guest has spoken of me. Icannot speak French; nay, I had almost eaid I do not understand it, but that would not have been true, forthe language of the heart is under- stood by both French and Americans. Your toast speaks of the hospitality of New York, but do not call hospitality, what is in fact but meagre justice. — What would New York have been, were is not for the aesistance weshave received from France? 1 am but forthe usages of thi showed by his conduct, that he wae not a Octover alone, but something more—a man. We have no: with usa veteran, endowed with qu whi Princes. may porsess, but God knows, rarely do: I will end with this sentiment— Bertrand—S8ynony mous with simplicity d gent with amiability and indomitable courege, sndis em tically gratitude and constancy. General Sandford returned thanks for the m tion made of the tary of New York, concludi with this toast :— ec Wi The virtuce of chivalry, courege, honor, virtue, fidelity, atl live in the person of the veteran Bertrand. ‘The affidavit of Mr. Cornelius Lane, a delegate from the Twelfth Ward, is subjoined :— City and County of New York, ss. iy avian Lane, ofthe said city, being duly sworn,doth depose and say, that he wes one of the delegates from the Twellth ward to the County Convention assembled at Tammany Hail on Friday evening of the 18th day of Octo- ber instant, when Jobn J. V. Westervelt was reported by the tellers to have received forty two votes, Henry C. At- wood forty votes, John@®mmans two votes, end Samuel Osgood one vote in the nomination for Sheriff, that the said one vote for Mr. Osgood was cast by this deponent by mistene, he, this dey t intending to cast the same for Mr. Westervelt; t his mistake occurred in conse. quence of his being provided with tickets which this de- ponent intended subsiquently to use for Mr. Osgood, for County Clerk, and by inadvertence used one of them in the bailot for Sheriff when he intended to use a bollot for Mr. Westervelt; and, had it been counted as intended, Mr. Westervelt would have hada clear majority of the whole convention, and would have been declared duly nomi- nated for the office of Sheriff. CORNEL)US LANE. Sworn to before me this 14th October, 1243. Epwarn W. Birror, Cemmissioneer of od a A morning poper furnishes the ballotings as follows, by which it will be perceived that Mr. Osgood received but ye vote throughout the evening; and that yote wor Avery French scene now took place. A young gentleman propesed to M. Bubat, that he, on the part of the Frenchmen present and all others ab- sent, embrace the Marshal, which was duly done. Alter an address from Alderman Tillou, and the toast— The French nation, ever gallent, ever true, and ever rendy for the Americans. General Bertrand here retired from the table. Captain Bertrand having been called to the seat vacated by the Marshal, rose and proposed this * toast :— La France, Ingloire da ses armes n’est pas rivolisee que par lu beanté de ses femmes. ‘ General Sandford proposed the health of Captain Bertrand, in these worde:— it Y ‘The health of Captain Bertrond, his histery ‘shows his righty in plain English, he is achipof the ol block. given tipon the cleventh bailot as ateted above. 12.3 4 6 6 7 990 1b 1218 1415 Westervelt. . .97 97 98 29 29 92 82 94 87 42 42 89 41 40 Attmood. &mmon 196 26 23 23 29 24 29 28 27 40 39 40 42 46 ii Jas 99 90 98 21:99:20 1816 2 25 4— 446—-—— 3—