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or MARTIN VAN BUREN, Aceepting the Free Soi! Nomination. LINDsNWaLD, Augnst 22, 1848, Grntixwex—I have had the honor to receive your letter, giving me efficial information of the proceed- s s the Boffaio Convention. The com osition. character and proceedings of that body, as described by you, and the concessions of fecling. and, to some extent, of opinions also,on the part of its members, which enabled them to unite their exertions upon a common, and, to the country, a vitally important question, show it to have been governed by a pure 4 lofty patriotism. and demand from me a gratefal knowledgment, for the expression of confidence you ve communicated My position. in regard to the Presidential election, is a peculiar one; and it is due to me that the know- ledge of it, should be co-extensive with that of every material step | take in the canyase. In 1844, 1 an- mounced my determination to continue in retirement for the revt of my life, and my earnest desire to do so has been undiminished and invariable, from that mo- ment to the present I declined, respectfully but ex- dlicitly, numerous offers from friends in other States, to promote my nomination at the late Baltimore Con- vention; snd.in the same spirit, refased permission to the New York delegates to present my name to that body. under any circumstances whatsoever, ‘This refusal would have been equally decisive, if it had been certain, that they would e had itin their wer. to carry their friendly wishes intoeffect. The ew York delegation to the Utica Convention re- quested my opinions, in regard to the obligations im- pored upon them: by the Baltimore nominations. and the constitutionali'y and expediency of a prohibition, by Congress. of the introduction of slavery into terri: tories now free from it. They also asked my consent to the ure of my name. by the convention, as its candi- date forthe Presidency. I cheerfully gave them the Opinions they desired, but declined the last requestab- aolutely. ‘That they sincerely desired to respect y wishes in this regurd.[ bave never doubted. But the convention were of opinion. that the use of my mame was necessary ell to enable the democracy of New York to curry forward, with a reasonable prose ct of ultimate success, the great principle for which ey contended as to sustain themseives in the extra ordinary position to which they had been driven. by the injustice of others; and that the relations whic hed £0 long existed between vs, gave them a right +0 Zo use it, not only without my consent, but against wy known withes Entertaining these views, they de- cided to nominate me, and omitted to give me tho usual notice of their proceedings, ‘The reasons why I did vot feel at liberty to interpose any further obstacles to their wishes. have been given to the public. aud need not be repeated 'tisin this form that my name. as a candidate for the idency bas been brought before the people. Occupying this position, I shall feel myself honored by the support of an assemblage eo enlightened and pa- triotic, and so devoted to the maintenance of the great rinciple we contend for, as that in whose bebalf you ave addressed me. | have examined and considered the platform adopt- ed by the Buffalo Convention. as defining the political creed of the + Free Democracy.” with the attention due to the grave subjects which it embraces, and the in- teresting circumstances under which it is presented it breathes the right spirit, and presents ‘a political ebart which. with the explanations I am about to make J can. in good faith, adopt and sustain In regard to the chief topic of the resolutions, it is not to be doubted, that the present unprecedented movement of the public mind in the nou-slaveholding States, upon the subject of slavery, is caused mainly by an carnest desire to uphold and enforce the policy ia regard to it. established by the founders of the Repub- lic. That policy. in addition to the prospective prohi- bition of the foreign slave-tradc, was— Ist. Adequate. efficient. and certain security against theextension of slavery into territories where it did | not practically exist zd. That, in the language of your own condensed and excellent resolution, “Slavery, in the several u f this Union which recognize its existenc shevld depend upon State laws, which cannot be repealed or modified by the federal government;’' and od A Fpirit of conriderate forbearance towards the institution. ip loralities where it was placed under the ce ‘ol of Congress By a wire observance of this policy, we have, uatil recently, been enabled to neutralize the injurious ten- dencies of an element of discord, more difficult to deal h than any to which our free institutions are ex: But, unhappily for the present harmony, and ly for the future welfare, of our beloved country, recently set up by our brethren ave holdingiStates in regard to the first branch policy. so inadmissible upon principle, and so revolting to Our feelings, as to produce a rush of pub. lic senoment towards the point of resistance, which, With # population so considerate and so staid as ours, is never seen, except when a conviction exists that the honor and ratety of the country are at stake, and then, alweys. A train of occurrences, all tending to the sams general end, which have, for a few years past. followed each other in rapid succession, has raised this feeling to an elevation hitherto unknown, and produced ree solves which it is not in the power of individuals to in- duce the people to recede from. The constitutionality, the justice. the humanity and the expediency of the ground they have taken. are ail so clear as to preclude the possibility of a continued diversity of opinion or action ip the pon-slave-holding stat The consequences that may result from this conflict cf cpinion between ux and those who are, unhappily. either re right to inate slavery im ter ii pored. First, because the constitution does not give Congress the power to prohibit slavery in the territo ries; and that. consequently, the great number ef acts for that purpose which bave been passe sixty years. with general assent, were but so many in- fractions of the constitution. which State alter State, at the South, in succession, announced this doctrine, and the acrimonious vehe- menee with which their conventions denounced po- litical proscription, in the form of exelusion from the offices of President and Vice President, of all who re fused to adopt it. But it is already pparent that differ- fnees of opinion upon this important subject capnet be settled by vehement assumptions, nor coneiliation in regard to it,prompted by denunciation, In our tothe tests provided by the constitution. For the departure from it bas been greatest on the part of our southern brethren. No one will venture to insist that it is, at this day, that are free from it, if it can be proper, ed. Dat it ts tusisted that. thls caumor be done © case under consideration. and in che form pro- for the last All will remember the solemnity and rapidity with country such difficuities must be solved by appeals rectitude of our motives, and the correctness of our conduct, we are responsible, on earth.to the opinion of the civilized world, and eafter to a power that greater and wiser than all, The question of coustitutionality, the gravest of all objections that can be made against'a public measure, bas just pasted through the ordeal of public diseus- sion. and the doctrine in question has been so thor- oughly rejected and condemned by the voice of the nation, that it is mo longer necessary to spend words in refating it, Two circumstances have, however, occurred, which though not necessary to its overthrow, give to that overthrow @ sanction that entitles them to notices It now appears, that twenty-eight years since, at the time of the Mirsouri compromise, Mr. Monroe, then Tresident, a slavebolder, and elected froma slavehold- ing State, submitted this very question, save only ‘that it was then applied to slave territory, to a cabinet composed, among other great men, of such giant in- tellects from the slaveholdiag States, as Crawford, Calhoun and Wirt, the latter the law officer of the government; that they were unanimously of opinion Uhat Congress did possess the power in question; and that the then President, a man who was on the scene of action when the constitution was formed, concurring in that opinion, approved the bill. The documents which attest these interesting circumstan- ces are befere the country,and every one will jud; for himselt of their claims to credence, considered in connection with what has been said upon the subject by the survivor of the cabinet referred to. ‘To bring the matter nearer to our own times, within a few days, upon the very hecl of the recent’ discus. sions upon this point, a bill containing this restriction —the very bill which has, in part, produced this dis- cussion—bas parsed both branches of the national legisiature, and received the constitutional approval of the present executive—an approval which it was his sworn duty to witbhold, if he had not been satisfied that all the provisions of the bill were in conformity to the constitution. The present President, also & flaveholder, elected from a siaveholding State, with » alarge portion of his cabinet in the same has given the highest eanction to the doctri: tend for that is known to our institutions; and al- though he felt himself called upon to make an extra messuge, setting forth his reasons for believing that the restriction ought not to be applied to our Mexican territories, he does not take the slightest notice of the constitutional objection on which so many southern States had based their opposition to the general mea- sure. ‘This branch of the subject has been thus, ani we hope for ever, disposed of. It is further contended, that slaves are go far to be regarded as property, as to authorize their owners to carry then into any of the territories and to hold them there, notwithstanding an7 act which Congress may pass upon the subject. If Congress have the consti- tutional power to prohibit slavery in the torritories, its laws piace the subject on the same footing there a8 the State laws do in the States As well, therefore, might the slaveholder contend that he can bring his slaves into a State which prohibits slavery, as that he can bring theny into territories where slavery is prohi- bited by Congress, If his slave runs away, and enters oue of the non-slaveholding States, he does not there. by become free. but shall be delivered up, upon the claim: of the person entitled to his cervices. But this is not in consequence of the recognition of the right of property in such person, notwithstanding the State i but in virtue of an express article of the consti- tution. which constitutes one of its compromises upon the subject of slavery. This view of the matter was placed in a clear light in the recent debates, by one of the oldest and most distinguished members of the Se- nate, when he insisted that the claim, on the part of the slaveholders, though nominally to remove their property, wae, in reality, to transport their laws into the territories. One has, therefore, only to imagine a territory governed by the various and conflicting laws of thirty independent States, to appreciate the absur- Gity of the pretension, But itis insisted that the prohibition carries with it a reproach to the slaveholding states, and that sub. mission to it would degrade them. This is obviously the principal, if not the material, ground of opposition to the measure that is persisted in; and most assured- ly, if it were well founded, we would have no just ground to take exception to the earnestness with which it is sustained. Let the objection, therefore, be fairly and dispassionately considered. Very erroncous Opinio‘ s of the dispositions of the northern people are entertained by those, who think them capabie of de- siring the degradation of any of the states of the con- federacy, whether they be slavehoiding or otherwice, ‘They entertain too enlightened a sense of ther own in- tererts; they have too just a conception of the true glory of the confederacy, and of the extent to which cur oppenents—if their pretensions are persisted in are Kyown only to that omniscient and kind Provi- uence which bas hitherto protected our country and - eee from the dangers which have threaten- ed them, The claim set up by our southern brethren. is a de parture fiom the platform raised by our common an cesters, at a period when the chain of our Union was the brightest. and the fraternal fe ling between the States that composed it, the strongest. It comes up the back of a series of events well calculated to awaken, at the north, that deep. and, as it respects ourrelves, overwhelming sensation in the public mind to which I have referred. A brief review of them, at a moment £0 critica! cannot fail to be useful. ‘The future condition of the respective States, in re- gard to the probable continuance or abolition of gla. very, were correctly foreseen at the formation of the government. Those of the old thirteen which are bow exempt from it. acted under a confident antici- pation that they would soon hecome so; whilst those of the’ number where tlavery still exists. could not look forward to an equally favorable result in regard to themselves, It was, therefore, well understood at the adoption of the Constitution. that although a large and highly reepectable portion of the members of the coufederscy would probably for a long. certainly for sn indefinite period, remain eholding States, @ majority of the States would be non-slaveholding: ari that a constitutional preponderance in the fede. ral government would be thus secured to the latter, ‘To make assurance of this result doubly sure, the cho'ding Stutes themselves were prominently ac- tive in # messure—the ordinance of 1787— by which cix vew States were first derigoed to be. and five actu- aly vere, orrayed on the same side These, added to ven in which slavery had been, or was expected to be, abolished, would make the division in this ra- “twelve to tix The evidence we possers of the \rcumstances and dirpositions of the times, warrante us ip asruming that no one, at that day. anticipated that this diffeyence ip the respective conditions of the State, in regard to slavery. would ever be overcome or nevtralized, by the accession to the confederacy, of new slaveholding States. Yet. in the brief period which has elapsed—we may well say brief, when viewed in connection with such great results—we have wit- uersed the addition of nine slaveholding. and only three non-tlaveholding. States to the confederacy, be youd those which were provided for before the adop- Uon of the constitution. making them to stand fifteen to Gfteen. The preponderance originally secured to © von-slavebolding States, and with the knowledge of which they arsisted in investing the institution of slavery in the States with the privtleges and guaran- teesof the constitution, bas thus been annihilated ‘There facts cannot be controverted or concealed, and When onee fully understood and appreciated by the prople of the non-rlaveholding States, they must have & controlling influence over their future course. ‘The enu tins they bave already excited. ought not to aur. pris: intellyent and ingenuous minds in anyquarter Lut this is not the only, nor even the most repulsive view which we are compelled to take of the present pre- tensions of our brethren of the sixveholding States. Slavery is now presented ina livery which it sever wore before. On every previous occasion, when there has been a conflict of opinion in regard to it. the ques. tion bas only been, how far the policy of 1787 should be carried out by prohibiting or restricting the exten sion of slavery in territory which was, at the tim ject to its introduction, Most of the territory o nited States. which was thus situated, save the of lowa which was excepted by the Missouri Compromise, has been converted into slave States, and admitted into the Union as such, Now, for the first time, the attempt is made, to permit the introduction of slavery into territories which are now fre from it territories from which it was expelled, within the last fifteen or twenty years. by the xptessand solemn act ©} their former rnment and peo} and people with whom. in fre dom, ours could not br a ure Inannex- slave Stat formed into many ved in @ war with in yeing an area capable of bein mere euch States. we became in Mexico, which claimed continu State, The territories in regard tc ion w made, are among the conquests of this war, It Is. therefore. in effet, whatever why have been the criginal objects of the war, tents of the non-slaveholding anotio ext rinstrumentality, of slavery but which others had relieve Such a proposition need only ‘prompt rejection by the non- alarehotding St Upon what gr unds is it attempted to sustain « pria- ciple, 80 repugnont to our feelings, so destructive in cour view. to our national character, « ow culated, if successful, toe he glory of this g republic? That there should bo diversities of opine jon and feeling upon the sudject of slavery between and our routhern brethren, is certainly natural he rtrength of northern aversion tothe inatitee been recently very traly stated on the floor nate, by @ very distinguished southern eople of the north could not over- cone this aversion. if they would; wud they cannot Gerire to dose beeanse they religiously believe that the highest earthly interests of man are based on its pevimanency and ultimate universality, At the south foollog is very different, becnuse the culture of ds and'di-positions, and the force of ba’ ab opposite tendency, This known, and OP. wt least, inourable diversity of opinion ing should beret a epiritof conciliation inculcate mutual forbearance in apeech nied ths ‘This duty bas dour s been oocasios of om both sides; but it canmot be f government | to the attributes of | p the humiliation of a part would tarnish the lustre of the whole: and they are, above all, too national in their feelings, not to cherish a deep solicitude for the honor and welfsre of all its members, If they could, there- fore, believe that the success of this measure would draw after ic such grave consequences, they would be among the last to uphold it. If it can have such a tendency, it will certainly not be owing to any want of generality in its application ‘The re-triction will. of course, be obligatory on all who settle in the territories. from whatever state or country they may have emigrated. They will all. in this respect, stand upon an equal footing. If any in- hatitant of any of the non-slaveholdin, states, who removes to the territories has his capital invested in business transactions which are not permitted by the laws of the territory, he must change the investment. Ifa slave holder desires to remove there, he must dis. pose of his slaves, and employ free labor as his coun‘ry- men and neighbors did, when they removed to differ- ent portions of the northwestern territory, and in do- ing so made themselves prosperous, contented, and apPy. Let us fora moment look at the character ef this measure, and compare it with others that have gone -before it, It is a re-enactment of the ordinance of 1787, vhich prohibited the introduction of slavery into territories which had been ceded by several of the States to the United States. The difference be- tween the effects of the two measures, consists only in the fact, that the territory to which the ordinance of °S7 was applied, was, previous to its cession, aub- ject to the introduction of siavery; whilat the terri- tories to which it is now sought to be applied, had, at the time of the cession to us, been already exempted from it by law. Who first proclaimed the principle which triumphed in the enaccment of the ordinance of 1787? Thomas Jefferson. Who promoted and se- cured its pas-age through the Continental Congress ? All the distinguished and patriotic men who that year represented the slave holding States in that body, without a solitary e: eption. Who gave to the measure his official sanction, by approving a bill tocarry it into effect, under the new government ?— George Washington. | Within| the last sixty years, and down to 1838, the same enactment has been again and again repeated, with the general concur- rence of the Southern membefs, and often through their particular instrumentality.’ A full fifth of the States of the Union has been ofganized as territories under its restrictions. In reapdet to Ohio, the oldest of them, conformity to this prideiple in the ordinance of *S7, was required, even in the State constitution and government, aud the bill giving to the ordinance this application, was reported by a committee of which William B. Giles, of Virginia, was chairman, and John Rutledge, of South Carolina, a member. It was passed in the Senate by a vote of sixteer to five, and among the ayes will be found the respected names of Baliwin and Jackson, of Georgia; Brecken- ridge and Brown of Leese Franklin and Stone, of North Carolina; Stevens Wilson Cary Nicholas, of Virgini South Carolina. and Wright oF States which have grown up under in conformity to that ordinance have, in a very great degree, been fettied by emigrants from the slaveholding states. Thousands of these hardy and enterprising pioneers. many of them among the most respectable of thelr fel. low citizens, for @ series of years in succession, left their friends and neighbors in the slaveholding States for what was then the far West, accompanied by their prayers and benedictions ; it never entering into the imagination of either that in doing so they submitted to any personal or sectional reproach or Tearedation, Prosperous avd happy in their new abode, they and their uesociates, and the great enterprise they accom- lished have been honored and admired by all who ave witnessed their succers, One of those very set- tlere, after assuming and for many years discharging the responsibility of enforcing the ordinance of 1787, end after enjoying # lange share of bis country's cor fidence and respect in other forms, was finally vated to the Presidency, and died in that exalted s tion, Another highly distinguished inhabitant of on of the territories, subject to the same restriction or having also, for a long series of years, borne the responsibility of seeing to the exeeution of this now derided ordinance, as Govenor of the territory, is. at Pretent the favored candidate for the same high office, of portions ¢f the citizens of the sluveholding as well a8 of the othor Slates In the face of fucts like there, is it ible that the Mexico and ‘agement of our laveholding States? No impartial mind { thin’, regard it in this light; and ff there “ty cther objections insisted on that are worthy of notice, | si uot apprised of them, Non+ that wre tenable, can, in my judgement, be offered ‘The messure ts vight in itself ; and what te right may always be done with ultimate eafety, The present ge- neration stand in the same relation towards there Yory extensive territories, in which the sages of 1787 stood towards the northwestorn territory, If we act as wise- ly as they did, results not less glorious than those which reflect such undying honor on the pottey of that day, will follow the labors and perpetuate the memories of those by whom it is now upheld ‘The sixth resolution embraces the gubject of slavery in the District of Columbia; and I obser: ite generality of expression, in srmees to the time when, and the circumstances under which, it was the opin of the Convention that it should be abolished, whi has not been usual on the part of the friends of im. mediate action, Most reflecting and phi minds live in the hope that ti °F wi y slavery aboliebed, not only im that Distriot, but in the Stater also; in latter, of the a wisely Catitorn! brethren agen State governments, to whom the conatitati leaves exclusive power in the matter, and im the former by Congress. I may be mistaken, bat I think I see in the guarded language of the resolution, evidence of ¢ m the part of the Convention, that nee in opinion, to some extent at least. ex- among its members upon the point referied and of an colightened and truly patriotic resolve nm fuffer that sinpmuenene- 1 f Py spool ymson the moral power of t unanimity on ques- tion which had brought them together. My opinion, in favor of the power of Congress to abolieh slavery in the District of Columbia, has been repeatedly avowed. ax well whea a can lidate, as whil president ; very day’s reflection bas but serv to confiri conviction of its correctness, J, at the fame time, express myself strongly against the ex- pediency of exercising it ; and. in a recent lotter to the New York delegstion Utica, I referred to my continued opposition to that measure. The subject was only incidentally introduced, and there was. con- pan c but little eare taken in regard to the terms in which the suggestion was made ‘The form of expression which | employed has, it a) ars, led many honest and intelligent men to assume at the remark related. ast, and on the matter. This construction. though, perhaps, not un- warranted by the words employed, is, in fact, erroneous; and itis due to truth to fair dealing. and to all who take an interest in the matter. that the subject should now be placed in its true light. It is not to be denied that many of the reasons which. in 1757 and before, operated to produce the convictions I then expressed, no longer exist; and if, when writing to the New York delegation at Utica, I could have an- ticipated what bus since occurred, | should have felt it my duty to dircriminate between the reasons which bad passed away, and those which yet remain. But when my letter to them was written, nothing could have been further from my expectations than that [ should ever again be a candidate for the presidency; and, of courre, it was not my intention to say what my conduct would be on this or any other matter, if again an incumbent ofthat place. have spoken, in a former part of this lettor, of the three leading features of the policy. in regard to slave- ry, adopted by the fathers of the republic History, if true, must record the fact. that the north has hitherto faithfolly sustained her part in the maintenance of this policy. and in none more ro than in that whieh inculcates forbearance on the point now referred to. I wish to see the forbearance which has so long charac- terized ber conduct in this matter, still farther con- tinued Approving of the platform which the conven tion has adopted, and conscious, from my impressions of right and duty in regard to it, that I shall be among the last to abandon it, I prefer not to connict our efforts to sustain it, with an issue which all must admit to in some degree at least, affected by different consider; tions In my judgment, all that is necessary to insure suc- cess.is dispassionate but eteady and firm action. Let the great acne we are now contending for, be once more re-established in the councils ofthe nation, and the institution of slavery in the District of Columbia willfall ofitself. Other and more important intorosts will intervene, and induce the inhabitants themselves to lsbor for its removal. I must not, however, be understood, either by what Inoweay.orby what was said in my letter to the New York delegation at Utica, as repeating the declaration that I would, ifelected, withhold my approval from bill for the abolition of slavery in the Distzict. I could not now give any euch assurance, for the reason, that the circumstances by which the question is now surrounded are widely and materially different from what they were when the declaration was made; and Decause, pons question of expediency. circumstances must control. At that time, the apprehension was nestly entertained that there was danger of a servile war, in consequence of the extent to which the agita- tion of this question had been pressed. Participating in this apprehension, and believing that such a declaration. in advance of any action of Congr: ss upon the subject. would have a salutary in- fluence in allaying excitement, and warding off the danger which menaced the peace of the slave-holding States, I did not hesitate to make it. Whilst, on the one hand. all grounds for this apprehension have pass- ed away, we are, on the other, threatened with a sub- version of the spirit and character of our government, through the successful encroachments of the slave power. If, under such circumstances, two branches of the national legislature should decide that a due re. gard for the public interest requires the passace of such w, Ithould not, if President, thiok it within the line of my duty toatrest its passage by the exer- | cise of the veto power, Amorg the difficult subjects that occupied the tention of my illustrious predeceseor, whilst I was a member of his cabinet, and of myself whilst President, that of river and harbor improvements by the aid of the federal government, occupied a prominent position. Whilst the conviction was very general with our- selves and others, that a large class ef them was de- serving of aid from that quarter, and that it could be extended to them without exceeding the prescribed powers of the government, all were strongly impressed. with a deep sense of the liabilities to abuse to which the legislation of Congress upon the subject was un- avoidably exposed. The matter was one of frequent andearnest conference between President Jackson and myeelf, during the first two years of his first. and the whole of his last term. The result was a convic- tion that no better course could be adopted than to approve such bills as we were satisfied came within the class referred to, and to do all that could be right. fully done by the Executive, to prevent abuses by ap- propriations for objects that were not entitled to the aid of the federal government. The appropriatio for river and harbor improvements contained in acts of Congress approved during our respective adminis. trations, will chow the results of that conviction; and 1 know of nothing that would prevent me from pur- suing the same course if I should again occupy the office of President. The subject is one of vast importance, and well de- serving the attention bestowed upon it by the Chicago Convention of last year. I have not before me the letter addressed by my lamented friend, Governor ‘Wright, to that body, but I was strongly and favor- ably impressed by the views he expressed upon the general subject. The views which I have for many years entertained in regard to the best disposition by Congress of the public lands, have been recently set forth.in my pub- jished letter to the “Industrial Congress,” They were— First. That Congress ought to act upon the princi- ple thet the United States have a greater interest in the carly settlement and substantial improvement of the public lands, than in the amount of revenue which may be derived from them, Secordiy. That the accumulation of large tracts in few hands, shculd be discountenenced; aud Thirdly. That liberal facilities ought to be afforded for the acquisition of small portions, by such of our citizens, wherever residing. as are in good faith, desi- rous of possessing them as homes for themselves aad their families. These opinions were announced ar far back as 1835, whilst a candidate for the Presidency. I set forth, also, in my letter to the Industrial Congress, the recommendations I had. whilst President, made to Congress. and the acts I had approved to promote the policy [bad avowed. Tho general principles | have sustained upon the subject of the disposition of the public lands, arein barmony with the resolotion of the convention, with this difference—that whilst the convention propo-e free grants of limited quantities, for actual ecttlewent, the furtherest that I had gone, was to recommend grants of portions of them, at prices little, if anything, more than sufficient to defray the expenses of survey and location. The policy to which I have co long adbered, and for the success of which I have been sincerely solicitous, makes the early, and, as far ns practicable, rubstantial settlement of the ublic lands. the Lathe and the revenue derived from the rales of t em, & secondary, and comparative- ly unimportant object. I regard the question of revenue’ as only important because it afford: Prospect of securing regularity, and a greater degree of stability in she settlements. Ifa plan can be devised by which these objects would, in all reasonable probability, be as well effucted a3 they can be by the exaction of a pecuniary consider: tion from the settlers, the relinquishment of that con. sideration would, with me. be nqobjection to the mea. gure. From a report of the Committee on Public Lands, which has lately beon forwarded to me. it. ap- pears that the sales of the public lands have been pledged tothe public creditors for one of the loans of the last year. If this is so, Congress will, without doubt. if any plan for the free gift of any portions of the public lands to actual settlers, should hereafter find favor in their eyes, see that the objection arising from this cause, be, in some proper way, obviated Come what may, the good faith ofthe nation must al- ways be scrupulously maintained. My cpinions in regard to protective duties, and the best sources of revenue, were veryifully given in my let- ter to the Indiana Convention in 1843. ‘hich wasexten- tively publirhed ; and they are the same now. I, on that cecasion. gave my rensons for regarding the ‘sys- tem of taxation in force in the States, viz : @ direct lax Upon assessed property, as more equal and equitable than a system of duties on imports. Igave also my reaxons for believing that duties on imports would for along time continue to be used. as the mode by which the federal government would collect its revenues, in preference toa resort to direct taxation Although the latter policy is, I believe, steadily gaining in the pub- lic mind, its advance has not yet been sufficient to au- thorive ur to expect its early adoption In the mean time, the government must have reve- nue for ite support. and the very heavy debt which it hee recently incurred onght to be paid as soon as prac- ticable. Under these circumstances, I acquiesce In the resolve of the convention, that the means for there puxporcs should be rnined by w rev tariff, 1 have deemed it due to the convention, and to the cccation, to depart thus much from the rule which I prereribed to myrelf in my letter to the Industrial Congress, in regard to farther expositions of my opin- ions upon public questions, fiaving done 60, 1 shall for the rest of the canvass, adhere to that rule, an leave the whole matter in the hands of the peopl with whose disposition of it all rhould be, and I cer- tainly will be, satisfied 1am, Gentlemen, very respectfully your friend, M. VAN BUR TennGrarnic.—Professor Samuel F. B. Morse and lady, arrived in our city on the 17th. We be- lieve that the right in contest betwoen the Professor and Mr. O'Reiley ts to be tried before some one of the courts of Kentucky within a short period, which is yey the object of the present visit to the Wert. hether this decision can or cannot affect the ixeue in other States, we know not. It may derange the routes already estab'iched. and create some confusion in carrying out contracts now in progross, We learn that Mr, O’Reiley has tendeerd toffrof Morre one- fourth of the who € stock of the Western line. accord- ing toan agreenen made between the parties long since. and that ‘he ‘atter gontieman denies the right of Mr O'Relley to proceed under that contract. from a failure to comply with its conditior No legal de- cision has yet teon hd on the quest former suit Bot was ruled out of court, th: informality in the proceedings.— Ci lanati fenguiren, Ang. 20. Troops ror Carrrornta,—A detachment of U.S. ag to the command of Captain y service, be trained and A finer looking 6 Gaaette, INTELLIGENCE BY THE MAILS, ‘Wasutnaton, August 23, 1848. The Intelligencer—A Good Speculatom—Cam- paign Journals—General Lane. The amount of stock issued, so far this week, on foreign account, greatly exceeds that of the previous week, the Barings being the principal the morning market. the tore market triumphed, notwithstanding the young lawyer, at the solicitation of his friend=, nearly two weeks at Fort McHenry, will be The Intellzgencer of this morning contains some charged to-day. eighteen or nineteen columns ef Senate speeches, published under the resolution giving $9 50 a column for theynews. This system of reporting, in the Union and Intelligencer, will never answer, In the first place, it will cost twice as much as Dr. Houston’s plan, without giving a more extend- ed circulation ; and im the next place, Senators will not be satisfied with verbatim reports, unless first subjected to their revision. Last session pt back for weeks, so as to be tered to suit the times. The idea of voting some thirty or forty thousand dol- that much—to publish speeches totally diflerent from those delivered, is rather barefaced. ‘The public will not, of course, rely on such reports—they will know that those paid publishers will not dare to print anything ich their masters in the Senate disapprove of. nt reports will consequently State, I had a fair opportunity of acquainting my- self with the political feelings of the inhabitants. Gatherings of the different parties are being held everywhere, and lies propagated by both, without fear of contradiction from the ignorant portion. It is amusing to see the same weapons used by both parties, and the results produced. Each decries the Northern candidate on the ticket of the other, asan abolitionist, and holds up to the assemblage the fearful consequences of placing in power one who will create a law forcing them to take a low valuation for their slaves, thereby rendering their lands valueless for the production of cane or cot- ton. In the sugar districts, one party preaches the necessity of a protective tariff; the other party preaches the certainty that the exigencies of the government will secure them the same duty. In | the cotton districts, both express themselves satis- fied with the ability of their hearers to supply them- selves with foreign goods under the present tariff, and pledge their candidate to the support of the same tanff. In the meantime, loads of documents, mailed at the expense of either party, are scattere through the country, to onli hen them as to the opinions of the candidates. | truckling to party, this continued lying and misre- qeeaiasicn, by men standing high in professional speeches were ke; re-written, and al w ‘The Herald’s independe: be doubly valuable. , There are two campaign papers published here— the Battery,(whig,) and the Campargn,(democrat.) Well, these papers are weekly filled with columns of trash, from which it might easily be inferred, believing but a small modicum of each to be true, that both General Taylor and General Cass are two of the greatest rascals on the face of the earth. Now, this 13 all unmitigated humbug, and no one better understands it than the publishers of the papers aforesaid. No sensible man believes that General Cass, for instance, personally, is not a izen: nor can they believe The battles should very good, honest c' aught else of General ‘Taylor. be fought upon principles alone, and not upon the personal characters of the aspirants. If they be- ieve thut ultra democratic principles alone will save the Union, let them be advo: believe that four-fitths of the avowed party men are mere cormorants for place, let them say so. youhave, in two words, the respective platforms of Taylor and Cass, and 11 is in this light the people will view it next Novembet, notwithstanding the | dust endeavored to be thrown in their eyes by | the disinterested gentlemen who publish” cam- ws| will have the effect to damn any man hereafter, who builds his pretensions to office on mere party grounds. ted ; or if they made by Gen. Taylor, in regard to the policy to be pursued towards the gift of offices under the adim- nistration, if he is elected. It is so. much like the old man, it is so purely Washingtonian in its pria- ciple and justice, that i i n here, knowing of it, do not make it public. As often as itis mentioned, it meets the hearty con- currence of the mass. It cannot, though, well pleaze office-holders, or those who ply pen and tongue daily in laudations of the old hero, with the prospective remuneration of a fat o: wee h friends, on the subject of the probable pension list for the sufferers by the Mexican war, Gen, Taylor remarked that he not only thought it expedient, but just, that all the subordinate offices in the gift of the executive house officer a report about town that General Lane will refuse the governorship of Oregon, when it is There 1s no foundation for it whatsoever, as General Lane has not_expressed himself in any way upon the subject. People who start such reports do so upon the ground that they must sometimes be right. | r oflered the appointment he will accept it. proflered him, If General Lane is N, August 23, 1848. The Van Ness Restdence—Commodore DeKay— Whipping in the Navy—Exports of Domestic Products, ete. Standing near the Treasury Department, and looking in a southwardly direction, you behold a retired, umbrageous, and aquatic retreat, in prox- imity to the canal. A stranger could not resist the inquiry as to whose it is, nor suppress his admi- ration of the /ocale. It is just such a place asa man who desires repose from business cares would seek, It is beautiful, by general consent. General J.P. Van Ness there resided, and there he died. His father-in-law, David Burns, (one of the four origmal proprietors of the land, then cornfields, now the city of Washington,) lived there before the General came to the capital as a member of Congress from New York. « dious dwelling, ata cost of thirty thousand dol- | the appendages which such an establishment required. In the settlement of the estate of the deceased sold to Commedore DeKa thousand dollars, an exceedin; i The Commodore left us, yesterday, for New York, with an intention to return late im the autumn, when, itis said, he will no longer occupy rented quarters, but take up his abode on his own pre- bestowing pensions upon them ; thereby making a great saving to the cou try, and bestowing a due prevent them from following the pursuits of life engaged in by them previous to their taking up arms for their country;—this, of course, irrespec- tive of all dirty party feelings. Such a neble sen- timent does konor to the old man,and were this alone his platform, 1t speaks worlds of patriousm and sense of justice. Such was the course of our earlier Presid ; election of Gen. Jackson, when the gratitude of the republic became at a discount, and old men, who had bound up their wounds alongside of their | massacred sons, on the fields of the late war, were driven frem their petty situations, which barely supporteddhem, because they dared to adhere to the administrauon from which they had been re- ceiving their bread for years previous. In this age of revolutions, let us hope that the people are open- ing their eyes to the wireworkers and spoil gather- ers, and that we will, ag one people, be “redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled” from this detesta- ble servility to party. W.XY. He erected a commo- ‘operty was last week ‘or the sum of ten sly great bargain.— The subject of flogging in the navy is a matter As‘a single instance how the work is carried on, within two months of this year, forty-eight men were catted on board the’ ship Jamestown—the lashes on the bare buff of the sailor being from three to twelve. ten lashes for ‘urinating in a spit-box in the berth ;”* another, twelve for © sus ot liquor, and treating the captain and officers of the deck with contempt.” | the offences of poor of drunkenness, produced by the liquor gi them by order of the government. C.L. Coltman, who has a brick-yard and gardens near the city, employed an Irishman. nained his property. ‘The boys tof going thi- troops now concentrated at Jefferson barracks, neer this city, who have recently returned from fighting the bates of their country in Mexico— sun-burnt, honest-looking fellows, every one of whom, probably, would as readily obey the call of their covatry to-morrow as they have already done. Some of their uniforms were not of the newest, nor did they present the tinsel and trappmgs of the gala-day soldier ; but cleanliness and order mark- ed their cyery equipment, and no veteren soldiery could have been more pertect in the evolutions they performed. Thi fi thousand, and the re: veteran General Kearny. A large number of citi- zens were present, who, as may well be supposed, evinced much gratification. One received picious smuggling ‘he larger portion of Jack are in consequence Bryan Fraile, to guard | from the city have been in the habi ther on Sunday to bathe in the pond, ani mit depredations. On the 30t into a difficulty with Fraile, whu ling an orphan bey named Morris Connelly, triking him with a brick. At the term ot't criminal court he was found guilty, sentenced to two years’ in the district penitentiary. Yesterday, I sent you the amount of exports of our domestic produce, from the yeur 1824 to the 81st of March of the present year, since which time I have seen a document with reference to the sub- Ject, and the following is an extract :— Anticies Exronten a of July they got ch resulted in aia of the result of our State election. The proba- and was to-day imprisonment and labor | te? thousand. This, however, 1s scarcely a fair indication of the vote of November, since it can- not be denied that the cause of the * Little Magi- cian” is making some headway among the faithful. Yet the State must be given up for Cass, however diminished the majority. In our owncount » there was a fierce struggle—the democratic ticket pre- vailing by a few vation of our harbor-an stands St. Louis to the rest of the Unien, who i i gree ?. works, accomplished by our city, in cutting off the channel of the river from the Illinois shore, and throwing the current entirely on the rock-bound front of our city, entirely meet .he purpose desired. A dike bas been formed trom the foot of Bloody Island to the Illinois shore, thus stopping that chan- nel, and diverting the river to the late deserted channel on the western side. Skins and fure. Ginseng... .. wb.dorics os Staves, shingles, boards. hewn Other lumber. Masts and spars. Oak bark and other dy Sry ufactures of wood... .. Naval Stores, tar. and turpentine, . ee, potand pearl... thonities of our sister State laid an injunction on Beef, tallow,bides horned cattle it and a parley was commenced as to the validity ° Butter and cheese... . Pork. (plekled) baco: all appearance ceased for a ume ; yet, somehow or other the dike continued to rise, until it abso- Iutely revealed itself abov. 1 e water. At this, the “Suckers” cried out foul play, and ordered out a regiment of the valorous militia to enforce the authority of the State. Yes, men Vista and Monterey, were required to lay their bones along the damp shores of “ Suckerdom,” to guard the sacred frog-poads of our neighbors from invasion. The campat, the Missovrians having edad their sacred honor that the aforesaid dike is ful 3 had ever designed it to be, and that they will not cep the climax of their outrage by laying thereon another stone. Rye. oats. and other small grain Bircuit or ship brea Brown sugar. . of ireland, last night, at the Rotunda. Eloquent speeches were made, but little was done. When is action to take the place of talking among us ?— Like our friends over the water, we appear waiting for something—we know not what. Anavs. Totals... .6606 ee... $185,108,800 General Bennett Riley has returned ington. He has not yet been informed by the War Department what time he 1s to start for Califor- says the Allany Atlas, ot the 23d inst., that the reception of General Woolin Troy, this morning, was a grand affair. Thousands assembled from the ad. joining towns, Waterford, Cohoes, Schenectady, &o., ‘and Albany was represonted in the persons of the State officers, 2 or. ko, together Washington rifle corps. Capte ede i ir. Major General J. ele, marshal, in ihe Procession moved at half past 11. Having form. | terk Edward, Gu ed in review order before the hruso of General Wool, Gon, J, J. Viel delivered, in a few appropriate re- marks.a congratulation on the part of the citizens of Troy and its vicinity He alluded briefly to the past services of General Wool at Queenstown and Platta- burgh, his deep interest in preserving the honor of his country. That his fellow citizens felt at onetime anxious for its honor and fame,but that they had learn- ed that both were gate in his hands, Though the re- crvits that he had were raw and undisciplined, yet with them he overcame all obstacles. On behalf of the militery of Albany, Troy, New York, &c , he then re- turned thanks, wishing him all success and prosperity, id. President Polk 1s somewhat i the King of Austria at Innspruck. pital. Messages are repeatedly sent to ord, to transact such business as re- lates to his executive duties, in the condition of He is away BaLtimorg, August 24, 1848, Mass Meeting of the Friends of Ireland—The Free Soil Convention—Probable Dissolution of the Party--The Voltiguers, §c. Another giand mass meeting of the frends of ireland has been called at Carroll Hall, to-morrow evening, at which time, it is expected, later news from Kurope will have been received. be a second edition of the fight at Ballingary, the lemplighter will be the only one that will be pre- ‘The hopes and fears for the truth of the we wore unable to give it verbatim. After the speeches, , and all are trying to taking up the line of march, the procession, with Gen. ‘Wool at the head, the strects, windows, and balconies lined with people, moved through the following streets: = € Down Second street to Division, up Division to First, Up First to State, down State to Second, up Seoond to Tribune letter are intense, believe it; but the yarn ts a tough one, and cannot easily be digested. The free coil convention is to meet on Mond next; but many of those who we inthe movement are now backing out, on account of two of the five members of the committee of correspondence appointed being Fadical abolition- i these gentlemen, although an or derly and good ettizen, is a Tegular dissolu- lenst, 9 sherdy disnolgi to every movement with which his name 1s con- nected, and it has become a standard rule in our city to oppose everything the doctor advocates, A short time since a question as to whether the Bell-air market should be held in the morning or afternoon agitated the neighborhood 1n which the doctor resides. The doctor was for the lawyer, residing close by, ¢ morning market, pened, in this instance, that the friends and { with the doctor, and to find the lawyer op- On questioning him on the subject, his reply was thathe “did not known Te disposed to jou tionist, or, ut ion follows Roman, but rather longer. The aca vbe' veautifully worked in gold; the blade is Ly strongly adv posing their views, thing about the ments of the question ; but as the mat Sosa of. the evem pr ae ne wi oy net Daeavee the frie: of joined the doctor's side of the question. In short, is advocacy is certain and speedy death to every thing he touches, and such will now be the fate of the free soil organizition in Maryland. The Voltiguer regiment, after being sacatnped LS = New Onurans, Aug. 15, 1348. General Taylor--His Plan of Distribution of Offices—Politics, §c. On a recent visit through several parishes of our ‘ake it all in all, this ife, has sickened the sober-minded to disgust, and An important developement is said to have been am astonished that the press n a e. Some ks since, in conversation with some of his such as light-house keepers, custom- even to collectors—should be given to the maimed and wounded, according to their several capacities for those situations, ins of reward to many whose wounds or want of limbs lents, and adhered to by all, up to the Sx. Lours, August 17, 1848, Grand Revicw—Missouri State Election— General Cass—St. Lowis Harbor—Irish Meeting There was a grand review, yesterday, of the T number was about four lew was conducted by the The lightning has, of course. long since informed le majority for Governor King is rising of four- undred, ’ To those of your readers interested in the preser- c not, in a certain de- it may be gratitying to know that recent Shortly after this work was commenced, the au- said injunction. The progress of the work to he surface of the vho had fought, bled, and (almost) died at Buena n, however, 1s now over, ly as high in air as they ‘There was an enthusiastic meeting ot the friends ‘Tne: Recrrtion or Genera Woor.—We learn, ir. Fillmore, the Attorney General, Treasur- fh the republican artillery and Fredendall and Tri- ‘Tbe reply of General Wool was spoken so low that , . Stark, Albany; Levi Lonk, Dorman, Salem, Fam River to Federal and Fourth, down Fourth to Wash- | ctd® Sts otk, tad to Boston; 3 ‘Doughey an” ington Viace, around Washington Park to Third, up | Wrinalt bud to Protdocoe, Her atau peak Marpty. ‘Third to State, up State to Second; down Second to , i hi The sword is in shape, that resomblin “hilt are ngre' uisitely fine, descriptive of the battic of Buens Viste, he following is the inscription in m+dallion, on the ti — and cast off, ing at Nantucket about Nai ing the vess1, bu total lors, Some sai tress, ghers chains, jib and ty sail, false keel, Ke, and received othor hour, when she came off with rudder unh inte Ne haul her up. North river, in ballast, to take'in cargo, capsized off the Battery on Monday mori: bya sudden flaw of wind. Sho was righted wathout receiving any Ii jury. PEt iB to repair daninges sustained ia a gale March 12, in which Susper, Lope, NB, 36 +p OW whe at Isle of France, torepair demaze: sho loxt boats, rails, tbulwarks, sprung foreiaass, &o, 'SI'd from Isle of France, May 5, bark Jesper, Pope, NB, 300'xp, 600 wh, sher at Fayal, July 17, with 30 oil. 8; Bint, en nek Dr Fraud: Hvzard, Wos port, 130 ap-at Tl, Int 82'N, lon 57 Elizabeth, Flan Vesta, Mayhew, Edgartown, 190 # i 8, Jats 50, lon 46, J; Ploiades, Center, for do Frost, Cronstadt) June 12, phia. ux, Aug 22—Arr, brig Dr Hitchoock, Elwell. Norwich; schre Company, Burt, Tausten: Aan Mosele Moy es Albany, down Albany to Third, up Third to River, up | Gorde, do; Carilia, Horton, Taunton; Ben, Wnitely, NY ork; At- - | ache Dart, Lester. wed ex- | achr o Distressina Casuauvy.—A young man, by the name of Charles Howell, formerly empl aga painter at our railroad depot, but of late acting as asristant conductor on the Camden road, was instan ly killed Saturday, by being knocked from the cars, when coming cut Nankang of the road at Columbia. —Charleston Mercury, Aug. 21. Lane Walueeansays pr nase pomeee has formed at Mered: ge. N. H., for — vigating the Winnipisoogce lake with MARITIME ISTELLUIGEROS SUI? NEWS NOTICE. Commanders of vessels bound to this port, will cor fer a favor upon us by having all parcels, papers, reports. intended for the New York Hevald, ready for immediate delivery to our news steamer, the News Bor. She will board inward bound vossels in the vi- cinity of Sandy Hook. Those bound to other ports whether foreign or domestic, will confer an additio: favor by forwarding to the Herald, through tho mail or otherwise, ship news or papers that may be deem- ed of interest to the cemmunity. We will gladly re- ciprocate the favor. Port of New Vork, August 25, 1848 6 2 |aaoe RISES . 6 57 | waa ware OOK arses... Grmsers... Clearea. Shipe—Colombus, MeCerran, Liverpool, D & A Kingsland & Co: "Neier, Ramsey, Baltimore. arke—-Junny Lind, (-w) Wengren, Lisbon, W Weisser; 1 dustrial, (Fr) rere, Bordvacx, Boyd & Hincken; Claris Per- kone, Pomiee, Mak ind de Cuba, Chartelain & Ponvert; Spartan. ik, Philsdelphia, i erick teen Te seanty Glless Tretia) Neil's Wikis Gor. gea, Bates, Surinam, § Hayward; John Kendall, Boyd, Rio Ja. elk, RAW Trundy; Abraham, Coleman, Curzeoa, SW lewis Vidow, (Br) Grevier St Johns, NF, P ‘aroham: Emily, Hasty, Chaviedion; busbar Dituone Topi’ Thee ee ee ; Mathilde, feed ber Ba'timore, Curlew, (Br) Kenny, Halifax, Ns; John Jor Smith, Richmond; Marietta Barr Kuapp, do; Sylph, Lawrence, do; La- marino, Dur: ier, Charleston; Daul Barclay, Schuyk nto and Pl Penfie'd, A'cxandria aud (ie ‘tee: ‘own; Brace, Cole, Georgetown. SC; Maria, Birsooway, Thaltimores Mary Eliza Ketcham; Sally, Wheaton, aud Dusotahy Smith, Pu Iadelphia, Sloop—Artist, Davis, Providence. Arrived. Br ship Forest Monarch, Richardson, Liverpool, 46 days, im ballast and passongera, to R Irvin. Ship Charlotre teed, (of Bath)——~, Bremen, 44 days, wit mdse and passengers, to Honschen & Unkhart. Itth inst Ine 4% 80. lon 57. spoke packet ship Montezums, Louler, from Liverpool for New York. Ship Sultana, Barret, New Orleans, 16 days, with mice to W Nelson, 12th inst, cif Key Wet, spoke ship Galena, hence for NOrleans. i3:h inst, at3 PM, saw alarse ship with Bainted porta shore on Florida Reef, 9 miles north of the light ship-—s o hed all sailsct. ‘There were 13 wreckors outside the Reef, and one along sideof her. Belgian bark Virgin Mary, Zooleluf, Antwerp, 48 days, im ballast and pas-engers, to A Nottebohmn, Bark Martin W Brett, Cook, River Gambia, 90 days, to Brott & Vose. Br brig Margaret, Montgomery, Newry, Ire, 5th ult, with irom, Ke, 0G Miloe Tothult, of Gaps Cl ‘spoke, 8x bark Witliam Botsford, from Qucbeo” for Liverpool.” 221 ult, lat 50.5), lo 15, exchanged signals with Am ship Atvum, of Thomaston, bound W, was in co with herd days. iUth ult, tat 45. 16, to Brschr Hanah Grayson, 26 days from Liverpool for Newfoun Iand. Sth inst, lat 40 40, "ton 98 49, spoke ship Harvest, of and for Balt more from Liverpool, 25 days out. 14th inst, lat 42 00, Jon 5320, epoke brig Cambria, from St Join, NB, for Hull. 7 de gue: same day, apobe Br brig Acheab, of Sunderland, fom St y cpore B John, NF, for 8: Brig Dah'ia, Pine to Brett & Vore, Brig Marchand, ns Cold spring for an Kastera port, ¢, Gowrnuce, Kochell, 50 days, with Fr vohr Perseverani brandy, to Cazet & Astoin, Sld in co’ with Mr bark Eagle, for N FOF echr Richard Cobden, Morrison, Maitland, N3, 10 dave, Below. Ship Columbia, Galloway, from Charleston, Blin Palestine, Muuuford, from New Orleaie, and 10 day? from Vorfolk, Bark Averon, from St Marti Bark tdwark, Bulkley, 10 di mah, Bark Condor, Tikiol, duys from St Cro x. Brig Tybee, from Chalreston. Sallea. Ship Bowditch, Boston; bark Duley Seldea,—; brig Artuae Pickering, Norfolk, Avouer 2i--Wind, at Sun-rice, SE; Meridian, SE; Saa-cet, BE, light. Herald Marine Correspondence. ARTOWN, Ms, Aug 2—Arrived—Schra Fuctor, Handy, NYork; for Fortemouth: Haskall, do, for Steuben; Union, do, for Portland; Ric ard, Packard, do, for do; Ann i 2ist, a mak arcat this d reports a brie belonging to East Machias, lying Croes Rip, with foremast gune, Prutapetrnta, Aug 2i—4 P, M.—Arrivod—Ships Konongahe- Js, Whipple, Liverpool; “Lehigh, Yonng, do; schrs Sea Flower, Dukes, Baltimors, it C'Wilson. 'MeCloeister, do; Stephen Call aries H Appleton, Bridges, Mar- well, Wat-on, Milton; brig Dlebi m Charles & Hu ner. NYork: Antares. Gandy, adiana, Hoffman, Blackwell's Island; Liberty, Weeks, Dighton; 1 Bridgeport; Rambow, Tuthill, Dighton: Julius Pringle, Crogken, NYork; Florio, Kellcck, Fynn; brig ellis, Tarner, Bostons Bole Howland, Rio de Janeiro; Eli- rigs Mail, Bake hrs John Gi\pin, De » Alexandria: Belle, Pin moe ‘eurese, do; Chares 1, Hulse, , Lynn; Solomon An- orews, Tocker, Sog Harbor; Antares, Gandy, Providenoe; Indi. ane, Hoffman, Hartford: Liberty, Weeks, Nfedford; Whito Oak, Gibbs, Newbury port: Florio, Killock, Boston; steamer Vulcan, Gruen, NYork. Misceltancous. Sup Waxowa, lost on her passage from Liverpool for B a, eight years old, and valued at ab . Paine, of Brews er, the master, owned i was inured at the New England oflice far $1,500; he alo had $700 insured at the Fquitable Safety, on frt money: creargo. Another quarter ‘s ineured at the Equitable office for $5000, ene eighth at tho New England, tor $2), another eig ith ™, and the remaining quarter is” aid stern office, protahiylat the Kennebeo Mue wal Guardian, Bw1c Hunox—In addition to the tologrrphic report of the Jows of this vericl, we have sineo received the fullowing extract uf A letter dated Chatham 2:d:—Tho Limecn was bound from Bo-ton to Wilmii ny in ballast, Bagle Aft rleaving Bos- ton, sprig a teak of the ‘Cape, and they tri d to keep her free, Lut’ failing. they stood for Idud, and” when in 5" fathoms water anchored. Chatham Ligh*s bearing weater'y She imme: diately rolled upon her beam ends; the orew seceded in getting into the boat, with nothing bat what they. stood teed oes ne bout 2 As. Sunday morning. and suceeded ia land: eniay they arr t, which tock them over in hu dragged ashore, and will ben Tigging have been saved. ‘MAnLOTTY, (of Portland,) Sherwood. from Portsmouth delphia, in Wallast, pot into Nantucket I8th fast, in ing been thrown Gn her beam same afternoon, lost. wa- ucket via steam: Br ae. Barc Many Sranrow, Rider, sailed from Boston on Sunday, for Baltimore. About S'o'clock P. ML, same d Ly, struck on the { about halt an unhung leaking, and put w London on the 224 for repaiss, It will be mecessary to Nantucket South Shoals, where ‘she’ rem: Bure Gen. Marien, Linscott, from Savannah, for Portsmouth, (before reported put snto Stoningtop, crew all sick,) remained at S.Zist. One of her crew had died, aud was decently buried at Stonington on Sunday. His nawe was Richard Collins, of Con: cord, NH, suppose to be about 21 years of age, Four others sick on board, but doing well, and the brig would sail wer: the first fair wind. Br. scun Ospray, Conrad, while going round from + to Sonn Spr, pip, from Machias, for Mitord, Conn., hefore ra- rred-at anchor in Vineyard Sound, with foremast cut away, wae toed into Edgartown on the Zot fast, by steamer Teles graph, S10or Dorruin, hence for Key Weet, putia to Clarleston om the 2th for a harbor, Whalemen, Sailod from New Bedford, 224 inst, ships South Carolina and java, ‘Arr at Nantucket, 19th, ship Naut'con, (new, At Isle of Fra‘ ce, May 6, Koscoe, Tobey, Ni ) Mattapoisett. sp 50 why ost boats, sailxand bulworks, sprung forem: w&e. Sid May 5, A letter,from bark Roscoe, Tobey, of New Bedford, reports her iy 6, with 750 bhis ep, 600 do wh oil. Pat in justsined in agale on the 12th March, in whiok A letter from the tirst officer of brig March, of Yarmouth, rae 5] ke, June 13, brig Mattapoisett, Brigus, do, Gap: bark Fe, Mattoporsutt, 0p 108 why Tareas ei ‘A letter trom Capt Cray, of ship Florida, of New Redford, dated St Helena, July Lith,’ anys —"We arrived here this afvor- noon from New ‘Bolland, which piace we loft May Lith, on so. count of boing ron into, on the night of May 703, by tho ship John & Edward, of New Bedford, staving all our boats and out ting usdown considerably, We saw the Congrasn, Little, Now Redford May Ist, with 2000 bbl and the Iris, Weeks, do, with GO bla. We have 1000 tals wh 700 sm oll. Took a 76 bbl apm whale yosterday, Spoken. Steamship, supposed the America, honce f4e Liverpool and Ha- fax, Ang 19, Int 45, lon 50) Bark a Fellow, of Beata, from Havana for Hamburg. Aug Worelgn Ports, Loxnonnenny, July 1—Ship Aehland, Ward, for Philad, abt 10 days; Br bark Messenger, Moore, de do. Sy Ais Am duy 22—Brigs Agenoria, Day. for Glouosster, Se Wg: Amazon, Davis, fro do Juno M, Home Bosron, Avg 25— Arr oy Joshus Mauran, (of Providence, " ar ner 24th; Arvum, (of Thomaston, ardiff. Mth ult; Exoelsir, Willi i ust arr, Laverpool, June 6; Br 2a Pleton, 14 rigs Jane, Marmaud. de, forest, Sydne nat; brig Kllsworth, Keon,’ Charlestou, 19th inst: Br aches Jas. Parker, duey, CB, 18th inst: Shannon, Boudrot, Pictou, 7th Geri Warren. (s) Knight, Portland; Susan rics. Nothing eld. Sid stoamship Ava- Winthrop; brig Der arte) “lin the ‘Roads; bark Rio Gran Went to sea 15h.) Adnw, Albatross, wud two other brigs are in Nantucket Koad: TSt Domingo, is supposed to be atid bolo Aug 2—Arr sohirs Sasan, Kelly, Newport R % bark Maryland, Dj and William, Appleton, Alta ston; scht Henry, Reed, NYot testo, Aug $1—Arr, stoamsbip Columbus, Peok, Phila, 20th, sloop Dolphin, Pent, NYork, vin Smiciticld No Crip Medorm, taiainer, Liverprol. Side tay ahip St ‘oofrrey, Savannah, 2ch, slip Samoset, Tuoxer, Liver: 18—SI4 ship Otornoco, (new) Brown, Cadiz. 9—Arr brig Charlotte, Portamout il h pated Belio, NYork, ican ‘Aug 2—Sld soh Tromont, Keone, Philadel- Pictou, 14 inet; Br bri s B, pool, Kernwanunx, A r tre > bad wks rah E Merrill, Strong, d mil to NY irk Jon Bro: Hirigns, do do: Gen the Court Louse. Scott, Edwardr, NYork, to York riv neg reoket When our reporter left, Mr. Gould was delivering | Nansimend, vsiito Yor. Hien Theoutwand briny ONE, and the address on the art of the citizens of Troy. Which tere cannot bo loss thai 160 to 209 sail etal od, ene THE swoR tt Romer ann. Ate 22, Are wig Voues, Soule, Cadis, Sirnal far motent | a ship which put into Harpewo Ricniwonny Ave.22—Arr, sehr Greenway, Couch, NYork. $i, Post Boy, 4 : pecs NO Crowloy, NYork; 18th, brig Sa1.xm, Aug 21—Arr ach Globo, Small, NYork, HT ‘Twomasron, Aug 72—Cl4 brig New York. Siospar, Mobile, r ‘Aug 2i—Are bark "At ARE ob ei AR te, ted by the : Coranoil Of ‘tre ba? ¥ adiot toate of Brewen—Ship Ch mutts Kw d—A sui er, A Sancr, A Pa tobe L® 0 4 EHiervimas, 3 Rowland, 9h 10 im tho wpeersgge” A Baw » B ‘