The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1848, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. North-West Cornerof Fuiton and Nassau sta JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. pain Ry i vim BR ar “ETERNOON BDITIO} poms Beart rag ipee hope Fr Spiros? Seeloch. fuk WEEKLY HERALD—Bvery Saturday, for circulo- anaes Amerwan (ontinent—b rq conte copy. Slr cream for e a “ : ALL RS by mail, for bec |, or with: . themente, tobe 90:1 petd. i Gr reheoretrt See res the remitted. VOLUN RRESPONDENCE, containing important nese seliad from anyquarter of the world; Yue, willbe ADVERTISEMENTS (renewed every morning, and to be published in the morning and ‘ciltions,) af reasonable Pe eee We enter inns plait, lepiote manner} the proprietor not Pi mous communications, What- at be authenticated by thename easaruy for publication, bu! We cannot return rejected ever is intended for insertion Gnd address of the writer; not ard eaarennty of ha good faith comanunsc ations EMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. 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SOCIETY LIBRARY.—Camruens’s Miner eis, New York, Sunday, November 5, 1848, ‘Actual Circulation of the Herald, «21,880 copies , Saturday... r See aki, 29.980 tion of the Morning Edition of the Herald com aie —_. at 10 minutes past 8 o’clook, and finished at 15 minutes past 6 o'clock ; the Grst Afternoon Edition comm sanced et lo'clock, and finished at 15 minutes before 2 o'clock: the focond at 10) minutes before $ o'clock, and Snlsbed et 15 minutos Past 3 delock The Test of Popularity—The Best Abused Men of the Day. In this great, driving, bustling country, where men live more in a week than in any other country in a year—where the current ot events is constently rushing onward, like a rapid river—and where people are so much absorbed with their own affairs that they seldom think of those of anybody else—it requires influences of an extraordinary nature, unusual force of character, and great suc- cess, to present one in such a light as to render him the subject of iaudation or abuse. A man’s popularity can best be judged of by the number, frequency and force of the attacks made upon him. To arnve at any degree of eminence with- out being villified, is a matter of impossibility, It is a part of our social system—a slice, even, of our very religion. Adopting this maxim, we cannot but arrive at the conclusion that Lewis Cass, Zachary Taylor, and James Gordon Bennett are the most pro- minent, as well as the most popular, individuals in this country, at the present moment. No three men have been atthe same time the objects of ao much commendation and of such immoderate abuse. The whig papers—from the highest to the lowest—from the Tribune and Courier of this city, down to the National Intelligencer at Washing- ton—sll teem, day after day, with all sorts of in- vective, abuse, falsehood, and thodomontade against Gen. Cass. Gen. Taylor is the butt of the democratic papers of both sections; and in their efforts to drag him down they stop at no limt, ob- gerve no moderation, and fail not to utter the grossest calumnies. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor and chief conductor of the New York Herald, has been, for years, the target for the abafts of a portion of the press of each party. He has been as unfailing a theme of ribaldry to the amall fry of the press of all parties, ag Popery was to the Protestant parsons in the last age—the Cheehire cheese with which théy eked out their small meal, when every other dich fuiled. All this abuse 1s the natural consequence of the remarkable success which each of those three in- dividuals has attained tn his peculiar phere. The energy Which has enabled them to surmount all the difficulues in their way, and to keep steadily on their course, disregarding the counterblasts of obloquy which assailed them from all quarters, naturally provoked the bitterest malevolence and the strongest opposition from those whose insigni- ficance and mediocrity caused them to fail of that eucceseful career they so much envied, ‘There are few more remarkable instances of a man trivmphirg over early difficulties and disad- vantages, than Lewis Cass. Imbued with the no- tions of a federal-st from his cradle, he yet was Wavie to exercise such self-control as to master hig prejudices, and, at an early age, s0 to identity himself with the great democratic party of the country, that he has ever since been the recipient ‘of their confidence, and now stands before the country as the champion of their Principles, and their acknowledged favorite for the highest office in their gilt. He is the most popularman that the democrats could have chosen fora candidate, Zachary Taylor, bred from his youth yn camps, secluded trom the #228 of the world, working beg unobtrusive Way through the successive grades of military rank, WINN promotion, pot by poli- tical wtrigue, but by hard service, quetly biding his time, and then, when the great crisiy of his fate arrived, grapp!ing with difficulty, k > and “out of the nettle Danger plucking the flower Safety,” has achieved for his own Hume and for hig country one of the mest bulliant tumphs thar ever graced the records of @ nation; and still a greater tri- umph, by the magic of his name, without effort, and almost egatuet his will, compelling a great party, as a matter of self-preservation to them- selves, to inscribe his name on their banner, and preeent him to the people as a candidate for the Presidency. And lastly, James Gordon Bennett, unaided, alone, in the teeth of the most violent opposition, has produced such a revolution in the press of this country as it has taken centuries in other coun- tries to achieve—raising itfrom being the degrad- ed instrument of party, for the delusion of the people, to be the mighty voice ofa mighty nation, untrammelied, independent, making its impress upon the age, educating the masses, and producing an exalted tone »mong ail classes in this country. Such a triumph he could not achteve without making enemies by the hundred. The old Jumbering payers, Whore existence cannot be pro- longed in the healthy atmosphere which he has produced, are, of course, Dacurally lug most bitter revilers. He can say with Lear— “ the liccle doge and al), — Tray, Bi aud Sweetheart,—eee, they bark at me, But the uth of our frst position, that the best abveed men sre the most popular, is remarkably verified in the extraorcigary success that the pro- prictor ot this paper has attained, as well asthe other two distinguished individuals that share with him the abuse of a portion of the press of this-ccuntry, Lvery year the circulation of bis paper is inereasing; every year the appreciation of his eflorts by the puble is more and more manifest. He will yet achieve greater triumphs than he has yet attempted in newspaper enter- pnse, Wait ulluext Tuesday's sun sink behind the hills of Jersey, aud thea will begin a new carcer of genius and enterprise Tux Stxamenir Curnoxer, which left here on Wednerday atternoon, at 4 o'clock, we learn by telegraph, arrived at Savannah yesterday morning at3 e’clock, A. M., alter a rapid-run of 58 nours. Excellent Tux Exzction.—We are on the eve of the elec- tion. The nominations have all been made; the Opposing forces are drawn up in hostile-array, and. on the day after to-morrow, the great 4 which will decide who will be our next President, will take place. ‘We hope that our citizens will use the ballot with discrimination and a proper sense of its impor- tance. Although the right of suffrage 1s almost as free as the air we breathe, it is not, om that ac- count, to be the less valued. It is a privilege, the obtaining of which cost a great sacrifice of life and money by our ancestors, and one which ought to be considered of inestimable value. In the city of New York there is much confu, sion, caused principally by the injudicious selec- tuon of candidates in some of the districts. Thus, wir. James Brooks, editor ot the Express newspa- per, has been nominated in the sixth district, in di. Tect opposition, we are sure, to a large portion of his fellow citizens, boch native and adopted. How can it be expected that the Insh will vote for him after the terrible and outrageous abuse which he poured on them, during the agitation at Vauxhall Garden, some time since? From day to day, week to week, and month to month, his paper teemed with abuse of them and of Ireland. Their efforts to relieve their native country from slavery were sneered and laughed at, and they themselves were declared incapable of self-government. And yey this same Mr. Brooke 1s thrust upon the Irish as their candidate, and they are expected to contri- bute their share of votes to electhim. What non- sense it is to expect that they will not remem- ber Mr. Brooks on the day of election. It would be asking too much of human nature. But itis not with the Irish, alone, that Mr. Brooks is unpopular. He maligned and abused General Taylor for months previous to his being nominated, and even underrated his mulitary qualifications, He represented one of the best letters that ever came from the old heroa forgery, and, in arguing that he haa no qualification for the Presidency, went toa greater length than the veriest democratic journal in the country. Can it be expected that the independent friends of General Taylor can support him under those cir- cumstances? We shall see. Colonel Monroe, who has been selected by his friends as an independent candidate, in opposition tothe great anti-Inshman, Mr. Brooks, and the great Founerite, Mr. Greeley, 1s an able man, and, if justice were done him, he would have been regularly nominated. His friends, knowing the bad treatment he received, are determined to support him, and there 1s no doubt that he will receive a great many votes. He called on us, yesterday, and stated that he was desirous ot remaining 1m private life, but his friends ought not to allow him to do so. In Paris, recently, a deputation of editors waited upon General Cavaignac and protested against his order sus- pending the publication of their journals. © In reply, he said, 1t was perfectly right and proper for them to prctest as they did, but, on the other hand, he thought it right and proper for him to suppress their papers. Each party, therefore, adopted a right course, and, we suppose, Colonel Monroe and his friends will do the same in this case. It 1s perfectly right in the Colonel to say that he wishes to remain a private citizen, and It is equally so in his friends to say that they will support him as a candidate. There 18 some little difficulty in other districts, but it will probably be healed at the eleventh hour, previous to the election. Tur Catnoric Cuurcn In THe Unirep Srates. —We understand that a general convocation of the Catholic church in the United States has been called, and willsoon be held, in, we believe, the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. if our information 1s correct, we should think that the opening of such a convention would furnish an excellent opportunity for devising a remedy to relieve the Catholic clergy of this country of the serious inconveniences which arise from the ab- sence ofa hierarchy of that church, and the estab- lishment of canon law. As that church is at present constituted in the United States, the bishops of the se- veral dioceses are invested with powers that are almost despotic, much to the annoy- ance, and frequently to the injury, of the sub- ordinate priesthood. Under the régime at present existing, the Bishop of New York, for instance, has the power to suspend any clergyman against whom he entertains 11l-feeling, without showing any cause. He may issue his fiat, and no matter how innocent the party against whom it is directed may be, he 1s suspended from his functions, and 1s adegreded man. The world knows in what light a suspended piiest 18 regarded. He is looked upon as a fallen angel, and none are so poor as to do him reverence. Suppose, for instance, that the Bishop of the Diocese of New York were a man of abad disposition—one who never expected to be in possession of the vast power which his office as bishop would clothe him with ; suppose him to be of an arrogant and tyrannical disposition—a man who desired flattery, and expected to receive jt from the subordinate clergy, and who, if he did not get it, would not hesitate to exercise the power which is investedin him as bishop— what a deplorable condition, we ask, would not the clergy under him be in? Yet such a man might, at some time or other, reach the office of bishop in some one of the States. To be sure, an appe*] would lie to the Archbishop of the Court of Rome; but in case of an appeal being made, it would take a long time for it to be heard and a decision rendered. In addition to this, the appeilant would have opposed to him all the in- fluence of the bishopric, and the mere fact of his suspension might turn the scale against him ; for, after all, bishops are only men, and subject to the feelings of men. Again, even were he to succeed in his appeal, and be restored to the exercise of his functions, he never could reinstate himself in the position that he held prior to his suspension. His flock would take it for granted that his bishop would not suspend him without good cause; and were he to be restored by the Pope himself, he never could regain the affections of his people, nor enjoy the confidence which he once had. Unde these circumstances, the clergymen of the Catholic church in the United States, are placed in an ex tremely delicate and unpleasant situation. Les they might incur the displeasure of their bishop» they would, in a great degree, be compelled to toady to him, and be the mere seris and slaves o, en arietocratic master. Surely, such a state of things must detract a great deal from the inde- pendence and usefulness of the priesthood. This arises from the circumstance that the United States 1s only whatis called a missionary country. We forget the exact number of Catho- hes there are in the United States, although we published it a short time since; but we know that it is immense, and daily augment- ing by emigration frem Catholic countries—Ger- many, Ireland, Spain, &c. At all events, we are confident that their number 18 great enough to Justify the establishment or a regular hierarchy im the country. It is too bad that the priesthood should be placed in such an awkward and unplea- sant position as that which we have pictured’ Under these circumstances, therefore, we hope, for the sake of the clergy, in whose ranks are as pure and honett men as ever drew the breath of life, that a hierarchy will be established ere long in the United States, so that the numerous priest- hood may be released from their thraldom, and placed in a povition that will justify their acting for the good of the church, as their judgments may dictate, without fear of being suspended or de- graded at the option of one man, who might be of the character we have described. . Fasmonanix Soonery an tue Travian Orang —Morxz Furr Discrosvres.—The great commu- nity of this mighty metropolis are always in want of gome topic to about, to laugh at, and to furnish amusement by its oddities, its freaks, or its eccentricities. The recent attempt to reconstruct fashionable society in New York, and to establish Itahan Opera, promises to be fertile and luxu. tiant in furnishing thie species of entertainment. We have already given to the public a curious and unique card of the beautiful Truffi, containing some disclosures of the newspaper tactics lately adopted by Mr. Fry; and we have to-day, to add another card, dis¢losing some further details con- nected with this matter. It isa letter from Allegn, a celebrated artist, disclaiming any paternity in the scenic daubs at present exhibited in the Italian Opera, and commenting on Mr. Fry’s conduct, in using his name without due propriety and respect. Here it 18: New York, Nov. 4, 1848, Jas. Gonvow Bennett, Esqr :— My Dean Six:—Observing, in your journal of yes- terday, an editorial article regarding the Itallan Opera of New York, in the course of which you say, that “the scenery, the veriest daubs ever tuck up in a shilling thea! ‘ould not be tolerated at the Bowery,” 1am compelled, without attempting to dispute the justice of your criticism, to relieve myself from the diegrace of fathering the ‘‘daubs” which the indisore- tion of Mr. Fry has thrust upon me. In the grand bulletin announcing ¢ plan and -9, issued }, my name, and Sig. Mo- P on the list as the acenic artists of the establithment. This was done without authority from either of Our servises have not been, and are not likely to be, at the dispcsal of a manager who appropriates to his use the and the reputation of artists in order that he ma; parations never made, and munificence never exhibited, except in th language of bit manifesto. My fam painter, humble as it may be, is pre- cious to me; and I know, Mr. Bennett, that you would be as unwilling to encroach, yourself, upon a j theugh perhaps subordinate, claim to popular favor, as ‘ou will be to regard an imposition practised upon ive subsoribers to she Opera and the public, with an indifference unbecoming to the Herat the operatic circles of this metropolis. Very respeotfally, your ob’t serv't, G. ALLEGRI. This is a sad commentary on the magniloquen and pompous displays just made by Mr. Fry, and the claims he has put forth for preparing, arranging and perfecting the Italian Opera during the present season. It isa fit card to go side by side with that of Truffi; and we have no_doubt that both are but the avant couriers of turther funny and amusing disclosures, that will furnish the town during the coming winter with a rich fund of original and racy humor. Another point, we see, has not been forgotten in Mr. Fry’s programme. It seems this Napoleon of the green room 18 not satisfied with some of his other artiets. Heretotore, Benedetti, Truffi and Pico have been the principal objects of the newspaper critics, directed by the ‘sinister influence,” as Troffi correctly calls1t,coming from the green room: Thes ame tactics are beginning to be applied by the - penny-a-liners to Dubreul and Laborde. There is a penny-a-liner under the signature of “R.T.,” who made his appearance regularly last winter in the columns of the Des Etats Unis, and who has again appeared there during the present season. In his first effusions he begins to cut up Debreul and La~ borde, and even extends his threats towards Truffi for daring to come before the public in a card to state her grievances and to attribute them to “sinis- ter influences.” A! this isjaccording to the system of the new management. The artists are to be lashed into every requirement of the manager by the peny-a-line badgers whom he has employed to bite at their heels, and are compelled to submit, not only to the overbearing dictation of the green room» but to the open depreciation and attacks of the press, A management of this kind, composed of equal proportions of imbecility, despotism and trickery, cannot long hold together in this commu nity or permanently, establish the Italian Opera is thiscity, nor the reconstzuction ot fashionable society on such a basis as the ancients did the pyramids of Egypt. the organ of Tus Evxction or Recorper.—There are three candidates before the people of New York for the office of Recorder, viz: Frederick A. Tallmadge, John B. Scott, the present incumbent, and Lorenzo B. Shepard, each of whom, we believe, 1s compe- tent to discharge the duties, in case of his election. We had hoped that, at least as far as this city was concerned, the coming election would not be characterised with the disgraceful assaults on pri- vate and public character which have marked preceding ones. In this hope we have, however, been deceived. The opponents of Mr. Talmadge, we regret to eee, have made a furious onslaught on him; and if one half of what is charged against him is true, he is not a suitable person to be elect- ed to that responsible office ; 1n fact, he is fitter to Be sent to the State prison for his natural life, than to sentence others to that place. We rather think, however, that they have overshot the mark in their accusations against him, and that in their efforts to persecute and injure him in the estima- tion of the public, they will influenc? more votes in his faver than he would probably receive in case he had been let alone. But we do not see the jus- tice of these accusations against Mr. Tallmadge. We have known him for a great number of years, and we are satisfied that he is no worse than the rest of the world, and certainly better than a great many. Why abuse him at all? Why not abuse the convention which placed him in the position in which he now stands before the public? He has not assumed that position of his own volition, further than by accepting the nomination tendered to him by the convention; and if any one 18 to be blamed for his now occupying 1t, it is the conven- tion, and not him. This abuse, however, confirms usin the opinion, thatbefore long, these nominating conventions will be abandoned entirely; and the time, we think, will oon arrive when candidates ior all offices will be selected by the people themselves, not because of their influence among the wire pullers, but because of their own menits. Things are rapidly coming to this point, and the sooner nominating conven- tions be dispensed with, the better it will be for the public at large, and for the interests of the country. As to Mr. Tallmadge, the gross and brutal attacks on his character, put forth by pretended moralists, will most probably be the principal element of his sucess. Cnoiera New Yorn — informed that a case of cholera, resembling very much the Asiatic choleta, occurred at one of our hotels in Broadway, on Friday night last. There wassome doubt among the physicians whether it was the Teal cholera asphyxia or not; but at all events, i bore a great resemblance toit. Happily, however, the patient recovered, through judicious medical treatment. It1s quite immaterial whether this.case was really one of cholera aspnyzxva or not ; but it is full time that the public and the corporate authorities became really alarmed on this subject. It 1s raging with greater or Ira extent in England and Scot- jand, and may break out in New York at any mo- ment. What dreadful ravagas would it not com- mit among us, in the present awfully dirty condi- tion of our streets? The city is as filthy, if not more so, than it ever was, and on the heads of the Common Council be the responsibility, in case this scourge break out in our midst, and send a tenth, ora fourth part of our population to their final account. They are certainly justly chargeable with neglect for allowing the streets to remain it the very dirty state in which they have been for fome time past. Steamers vor Tue Sourn.—Three steamships sailed yesterday afternoon, for the Southern coast. The United States, Capt. Hackstaff, left at 3 o’clock, for New Orleans, with 150 passengers. The Galveston, Capt. Crave, sailed for the same place at 10 o’clock; and the Northerner, Capt. Budd, for Charleston, at 4 o'clock. HEETING OF THE DEMOCRACY ar TAMMANY HALL. ON FRIDAY NIGHT. on ane f A highly enthusiastic and respectable meeting 0 the demooracy was held on Friday night, at the above place, to receive the report of the convention for the nomination of city officers, and for other purposes, prerenata. Though Tammany was not quite so much crowded as usual, it nevertheless exhibited the same strong salient features of the bone and sinew, with al their energy, their ardor, their enthusiasm—and we may add, their good temper. There is one prominent p*rticular, too singular and too striking, both to the ‘y+, tothe ear, and to the thoughts of an observer, which distinguishes the meetings of the democracy, and which it would be a great omission ina public obronicler not to designate, and that is, the absence of musio in the room, playing at intervals between the peeches; t! beewce of glee clubs and singing songs, and rong singing, &o. &c., with all the various other clap-traps whieh pre-eminently shine forth at awhig meeting. The simplicity of the democratin meetings, aswe noticed it in last night’s meeting. seems to be more noble, more majestic, and more truly republican, than the gaudy shows, the tinsel drapery, and theat- rical congs of the whig meetings. At precirely bal‘-past seven, GH, Wapperr, Eaq., wae nominated Chairman, and took the chair amid loud plaudits. A number of Vice Presidents and Seo- retarien were then nominated, and unanimously con- firmed by the meeting. A report from the convention for the nomination of democratic city officers, &c. was then read to the meeting. The names of the nominees, as pronounced, were hailed with applause by the audi- tory. Resolutions expressive of the merits of the no- minees, of the duties of the Semosrecy, of the hopes apd prospects of the triumph of Lewis Casa, &o., of condemnation of factious demagogues, who seek to gratify their own passions only, of envy and ambition, were then offered and unanimously adopted, amid loud and animated applause. Loud cries of Van Buren. were bereraited in the crowd, (a young lawyer inthia city, no wayr, we un derstand, related to, or connected with. the great Kinderhook family. Joun D. Van t, Esq., then addressed the meeting, and said he bad been once a barnburner, end he was beguiled by the devil as far as Utica; but Buffalo found he was in bad company—in fact. there very bad odour there. (Cheers and laughter ] There is, said Mr. Van Buren, but one democratic candidate now before the people. Whoever could see apy democracy in Martin Van Buren must have very crooked eyes. Lewis Cass is the only democratic can- did: ‘or him, or else for a whig. or , striped streaked nomination [Cheers] All the speech , re the same thing. over and over again, All could ray against him was, he once praised Louis Philippe. But Louis Philippe humbugged many others besides Gen. Cat nd there are many humbugs be- sides him; John Van Buren might*find one near home [Laughter.] Another objection against Gen. Cars is, he does not greatly love England. [Lanehter and cheers.) Is that afault? [No.] Would you like him better if he did? [Ni would not like him at all ] As to the other candi: everybody reapected Gen, Taylor—be would eay wothing against him—but one thing was enough against him: that is, be was a whig. Mr V.B then proceeded to discuss the merits of the free soil question, and to show up Mr. Van Buren, He attacked him, pointedly, for inconsistency in the care ofthe District of Columbia. He maintained that Mr. Van Bureu had openly abandoned all demo- cratio principles to please his whig and abolition friends: sury, or made a compromise. to please his new friends, Butthere was no danger from this party - the ballot box would show their emptiness. They have only carried off from us our fussand feathers, and they will carry away as many whige as democrate The chairman then introduced to the mecting the Hon. Asnert Smith, of Texas, who said it was with diffidence and pleasure unfeigned that he addressed the old democracy ef Tammany. Entertaining the fame principles, purpores and hopes for General Cass, he was not astranger among them Mr S. then pro- ceeded to discuss the free soil question, It was a pure abstraction— temporary in its character—and the people are not going to jeopardize the Uniop by agitating « question to enure only to the benefit of a disappointed politician. (Cheers) The territory in dispute was made a slave territory by Spain; and yet no ali ever introduced. They never would be; for cotton ‘and tobacco, so far from market. would be of no value, The question, therefore. is a mere abstraction and has no practical interest. It is, also, temnorary ; for, when it bas population enough. it can establish slavery if it pleases’ Mr. 8 then proceeded to point out the in- consistency and changes of Mr. Van Buren. He cares no wore for the negroes of the South than he doe: for them in the interior of Africa. Mr. Webster rays the freo soil question does not belong to Mr Van Buren. He has stolen the whig thunder. after all, it is no thunder at all, The great ireue in between whiggery and democracy. General Taylor is a gallant officer ; but to select him, because he was a soldier, ie, infact,a bounty upon war. Mr. 8 th oceeded to defend General Cass from the charge of being belligerent. He 80 when the Ratoteag f wos at war. he surtained his country, when the whigs opposed their country. Mr. S. further roceeded to defend General Cass against the common items ot cha and accusation against him Mike Wa.sn, on being called upon. spoke for a few minutes After referring to the fact that no mention bas been made of his nomination, by the democratic ) he said he would not descant on t! ir, Van Buren, after what had been raid; but he would yee he would never support him until the time shall and patriotic to erecta monument to the memo! the traitor Arnold He then referred to the se: demooratic nominations, and rpoke of them in the high: et terme, He said that the free oil men are com- ing back te them fast, alone sndin equards ; and that after the election, they will be all back. He concluded, by hoping to meet his friends next week, and mingle his congratulations with them on the result of the election. Gx. Watanivor was the next speaker. He spoke of the importance of the coming election, not only to the existing race, but to posterity and the happiness of future generations, and then glanced at the frae 3 ral soil party. ich, he anid, wished to build itself up. by putting itrelf in hostility to the party which it on formed a part of, But the line which di- vides the two really great parties into which the country is divided, can be traced to the time of Hamilton and Jefferson. the former of whom of whom considered that the people were incapable of eclf-government, and the latter maintaining a con- trary position. ’ The country has been divided into two parties, maintaining these contrary opinions on this vital quertion, ever since, The policy of the one Las been well known, They enacted the alien and se- dition laws, and acted in hostility to the interests of the marser until they were thrust from power. This same federalism will now be revived in care of the eleo- tion of General Taylor, one who. according to his own showing, has never yet exercised the privilege of voting, and who. aride from his military reputation, is unknown, How different is General Cass Throvghout his whole life, he has exhibited sivic ta- Jent of the highest order. and has always occupied 4 ecmmanding position, not only in this country, bat in Europe Much is aid of the freedom of the soll; but for his part, he is as favorable to freedom of the sea. and he will upport the man who has always ad- vocated it ‘The meeting then adjourned. MEETING OF THE BARNBURNERS AT VAUXHALL, ON FRIDAY NIGHT, Confusion and Bnthusiasm. The opening of a series of meetings of the barnburn- ers took place on Friday, at Vauxhall, which turned out to be a perfect medley of confusion and enthu- sissm. At half-past seven o'clock, with about four hundred persons present, the meeting was called to order, and John 1, Morgan was appointed chairman. Mr. M. wont on to state that the Northern Light Assoclation had hired the room previously, but would join in the county meeting, and the two would be thrown into one. He then stated that the meeting would be to re- spond to the nomination of the county ticket, and the ci ional ticket of the sixth district. The names Ho vreeeionat candidates were then announced Feoeived with great demonstrations of applarse i which a series of resolutions relative to the sup port of the national and State tickets were read and ‘upvanimouely adopted, The Hon. Joux M Nives, of Ct., then appeared, and for rome time the people listened patiently to his tpeech ; but at the expiration of an hour and a half, began to groan, hire and cry, “ put that man out,’ all of which he commended as the right kind of epirit. He spoke In the strongest terms of approval of the cbarsoter and political standing of Mr Van Buren as the champion of freedom, and bis son John as the suc- cersful promulgator of that great principle. With re- gard to the candidat 'residenoy and Vice Presidency, Mr. VB’ too well known for tim to reiterate what waa familiar to every m: And who stood beside that champion in oe stroggle for freedom ? The con of Jobn Quincy Adams, & man who. while be would never interfere with the slavery of the South, ever kept oice raised against xtension into free territor: + man would not ery of the District of Columbi becavre he thought the people of that district shoul nthe subject. Speaking of oil movement, he said, what caured this party to pring up? In June last the mocracy of this great State sent a delegation to Balti- more, who were calcviated to protect the rights of the North; but that delegation was excluded, broaure they would not enter into a» written t to abide by the rules of, and support the nominee of, that convention, might. In this they had acted like would not be bound by # southern re: against the interests of the free democri hat was tie reewlt? The peo 1d there discussed the matte: of the State, that a great meeting of the people would be bel Buffalo The day arrived, Afty thou- rand freemen assembled toexpreea: inion upon treatment of He would have even given up the Sub Traa- | merits of | have arrived when it will he deemed pore | Congress Keep titutional, or enected in In sbort, all his answers had been very like Gen Cat letter to the Chicago Convention —very short, and expressive of nothing. He, too, had heard of Cass free soil men, but could not possibly see how thet could be Gen. Cass had said he would Wilmot Tip Aol and as tbat was the great principle for whioh they were ttruggling, he thought it was very much like Gen. Cass,— fall of inconsistency; and vary much like Gen. Taylor's free soll princi ere tl people begen to chow digsatisfaction, by hissing.) Wenton. The ‘ree soil movement sprung up in this elty; it had concentrated at Buffalo. and must eve: tually triumph. (Hisses and gro out.) Whatever might be 1 e’ection. the great o —n it, set down, d Well. now, said he, I am from the habitr, and it then pi which a free soil song was Tnomas B, Van B Hi been a whi ould ever vote for Mar! . Esq., of Albany, was next daiwa, 4 a y thing ele, He was in Albany 4 of the nomination of General Taylor, once repudiated. He was then told by several influential whigs that if he would keep cool, every thing woud be right He waited for some time to see the reply of General Taylor. but the letter con- taining the announcement had been refused by him, and returned to the dead letter office at Washington He afterwards got hold of it. and replied that he “oor- dially aceepted the nomination,” but would not atate any of his views; and when written to on the aubject of his pciitical principles, invariabiy referred his in- quirers to the Allison letter, Not long after that. convention somewhere down South, composed of slave holding demcerats, if he might use the term, tendered him a romination. and that he cordially accepted. He then thought, as Mose says, “he had been folleria’ long enough, and then he was goin’ in.”” (This was received with the greatest applause) He had always been op- posed.to slavery, though he would not intarfere with it where it existed; and hearing of the Buffalo conven- tion, he determined to hang on to the principle which he always thought belonged to the whig party, and went in with the free soilers, and thouch they might do nothing at the coming election, 1852 would come, and the principle would rise in power. notwithstanding all the opposition the South might array against it. He denounced General Cass ax the ally of slavery, and General Taylcr as the Southern man who, if elected, would do all for Southern slavery that he could. Brnsamin F. Burien. Eaq , next came forward, but the hour being late, he had spoken but a few minutes when the whole audience had moved off. ‘The meeting then adjourned until Saturday evening. THE FREE S0IL MASS MEETING aT VAUXHALL GARDEN, LAST EVENING. Notwithstanding the highly unfavorable state of the weather last night, there was a very respecta- | ble meeting at Vauxhall, of the friends of free soil, and of those in favor of the nomination of Martin Van Buren for the Presidency. The ex- pectation of seeing and hearing John Van Buren, who was expected to speak, no doubt tended to draw together a considerable number of the curiousin such matters. The fact is, there were other causes besides the inclomency of the weather, which have thrown a damper upon this movement. Mr. Webster has dene more to kill this party than any other man, and he has done it by a novel process; that ik, not by oppcsing and fighting against it, but by em- t g, and, asit were, hissing ft, Kisses are, in. ctimes More dangerous than daggers, Ever in his Marshfield speech, embraced the party, ed its one idea, and declared it to be the common But, | id: ofthe whigs, and that it was his own party's ler which Mr. Van Buren was thundering with, the free oil party seem sensibly to have faded away, andtobave been on the wane. Mr. Webster oon- trived to dissipate all the novelty, freshness and force of the one idea, by spreading it out over a wide furface, and thus de-troying that concentration which Mr. Van Buren was beginning to give it It is quite singular, that thongh this perty number men jn its ranks, yet no one smong them has met this argument of Mr. Webster. and weakened its 'y body d, indeed, almort no idesat all rty had porgeaved any able journalist to write port, they might not only the deadly effects of Mr Webster's narcotic dose againet them, but might even have turned it to their ‘own advantage, y might have urged and argued, that if the principle is received by all parties, nothing could be » better demonstration of ite truth ; that, therefore, being true, it ought ¢o be carried out; that thore who pretended it belonged to them, end that they received it, omly did #0 in order to absndon It, to weaken ft, to derert it, and kill it off, they were not sincere in withing to carry itout,&e &c.; therefore they were its enemies while they recognized its truth, &e. ko. Be this as it may, the idea put torth first we believe, by Mr. Webster. that every party in the North, eepectaily the whig was already and long ago for free- soil, bas tended to kill off this as distinct, separate, and independent party, by confounding its lines of demarcation Mr,Webrter, in fact, has puiled its fences down, and let the cattle in. We may. perhaps, on these grounds, account in some measure for th - ners cif the meeting Inst night, though that the wet Weather contributed greatly to aid in the coolaess of the mulitude, as weil ax its smallness, there can hardly bea doubt Asit is, t.e mecting within the taloon wea full as large, though not half 69 enthusias- tic, ax the last whig meeting at tbe same place, where they had fine weather on their side. Ata little before 8 o'clock, the meeting was oalled to order, and the ehair taken by the Hon. 8. J. Tilden. A number of Vice Presidents and Secretaries were then nominated ard appointed. ‘The report of the delegates of the convention for the bomination of county officers, reporting the names of the officers nominated--Emmet, Spence, and Scott— was then read by Mr. Doyle. The report was after- wards adopted unanimously. The Willismeburg glee club then came forward and sang » soog tn besutiful style—an appropriate political song. Ws voices inging at operas and the theat s0 sweet and beautiful as those of this little club. Mr. Tiipen congratulated the meeting on the large arermblage prevent, not #ithstanding the iaclemenoy er. The ti duct of Recorder{Scott, whose integrity and fidelity had been euch a8 to command the general praise and ad- miration of the people of New York (Loud applause ) Mr Tilden continued with a discusrion of the o of the other candidates whose names were bailed seve- rally with loud applause. Mr. Tildeo next proseeded to vindicate his own conduct from the aspersions of a city paper, in reference to the course he pursued on the school question, and was responded to by the as- fembled crowd with loud applause. In reference to adopted citizens, Mr. Tilden observed there was one aeprot of the free Foil question which was very impor- tant tethem. Where could ghey go if the territories were to be polluted with slavery? It degrades the white man to work side by side with slaves, In reference to this matter, Mr Tilden quoted the following eloquent parsege from an address by Robert Emmet, I'sq., of this city :— * The calamitovs condition ot the Trish people may be justly ascribed far more .o the monopoly of her soil by @ fow capitalists, than to the other upprossions of the British government, And yotitis a monopoly, im many re voluntarily to create in region Ireiand, xvd which teems to torm almost Ne ry Providence has left to her unhappy exiles, Formy part, until £ forget the 1 iatury of my Lative ounntey, writton in the #. fferings of ber jeuple, 1 ven never contribute, by my vote, oF any act of mine, to the infliction of @ indred ourse upon any portion of the Jard of our adoption ; atilt lesa upon our vast western ter. Fitory, which 1« capable of containing a population of « hund it the mi lions, and in which the children of tho emigrant and the tive born citizen are to mingle and to share the blessi aga whi fo the decision of this ‘we sooure to them, or de, eRe qavstion, gradation and wrong which we rhall inflict upon them.’ After vindicating the nomination of U. F. Adams on the free onl ticket, who, Mr. T. said. was a bette man as the grandson of a federalist, thaa Mr. who had been themselves, , T. congratulated the pects before them. He believed the chances of their success better than that of iy other ticket. (Loud applause) The free roll ticket would come out 100,000 ahead of the old hunker ticket. (Applause) | The friends of General Cass said they could do without New York—they would find, indeed, that they must do without New York It Taylor rhould be elro'ed, whi the bunkers togo? Gon, Cass ten years ago sald truly, that you cannot ertablich @ third pi The hunker party will have tojoin the regener: formed demoe tic party, whore flag, or the black slavery flag of Gi Tuylor, will be the only choice left them; for they will find that they are out of the democratic party. Trve and honest principles must prevail, and were the Reineiples of this party, a crate will have tojoio it Mr. T the: eloquent speech, receiv ith unbou by referring tothe position of David Wilmot of Penney and the me oy before th [o the late elect ons in Mr, Wilmot's district, Mr. Wilmot reorived 6000 votes and some odd handreds; Gen. Taylor 4000 and ditto, and Gon. Cass reovived 80 only! (Loudand thundering applause) In Onto, Mi. Giddings in 6pen opposition to Teylee, receiv 4,000 majonty over the Taylor candi Me. T. concluded by ® strong and earnest a to the meeting to use their utmost exerti at election on Tuesday next, and not to sone hole efforts. After another by the Williamaburg Glee Clad, Me. Scmarri 4 the assemblage for a few minutes. After ntertainment at Tammany Hall last evening, he did not expect to see #0 large an au- diexoe as was beforehim. Im respect to the candidates veto the | Baren. duceer, that because & man al to Mi or f-ated in 1840 that he should has risen, avd is now a @ candi: 7g pony parate ticket, ns if we wore suade us from [Dg 8 80) , ‘ hunkeres like them-elves in principle, and threatened, if we did so that it would be remembered as long as we should live. But we disregarded their threats, aad now they @ind that they have invoked « spirit which, they cannot quell After offering » fair compromise, as far as county offleers were concurned after we had formed s separation, they endeavor to perform a Polk operation on ovr candidat+; but they can’t do it. Like the man who was prayed out of Purgatory, we do not want to get into it agat Now we are in the field, and have the privilege of conteadiag | for agreac principle We be ivve the Congress which Pasted the be of Independence believed that | free and eqaul; and now behold | the beauty of adhering to principle. When tae bara- burners commenced operations, they ne | 98 much as they have already achieved; find ourselves compelled to te free, agai whigism and hunkerism Now, how Censhuah It 4 not slone in the United an effort is being made to spread freedom, Earope is full of barnburners, and kings are flying before toem. So it is in the West, where be has seen the stout in- habitants arm themsclves with rifles to shoot down the speculators, in case th fraud them of their homes | supposed that s lippe, or such men rood? Why , Cass w 1 chance than be t ocean on 8 Bi width. And now, having entered int: the coavest, We disclaim aii intention of interfering with slavery in the States where it is guaranteed by t titution; but we say. at the same time, that not permit them to drive freedom from the Tn continent, not an en- ast; but he cannot help thinking that, while the dof ‘the Almighty is evident in the raising up of martine to promote the cause of freedom im Europe, it is equutly evident that he has ratsed.up Van Buren for # similat miss on in America. Ifyou go to the three cent grog shops and tatk with the bunkers, they will tell you that they are as much in’ favor of freedom ay you but it was no later than last evening that they declaredin Tammany Hall, that tho Wilmot provise is an abstraction They cannot be trusted. Therefore, those who are not with us are against us, In conclusion, he advised the barnburn- ere not to trustthe hunkers. We stand, he said, on the Buffalo platform, the same as the Jeffursonian plat- form of 1798, which 'is broad enough for all the na- tions of the earth to stand upon. On that platform there are afew hickory plaute which will prevent it from falling; and all who wish to joinit must get on soon, for the plank is about to be drawa in, and after next Tuosday none will be admitttd. (Laught-r.) Now take your choice. Come in quick, or you wont be trusted. Benjamin F. Burien, Esq., was next called upon, and said that last night he omitted to speak, but he was sure they lost nothiag by it. This evening he Wished the younger speakers to address them first, He was always ready to speak on thisgreat question of tree soll; but he would prefer to be a listener to young men. He belonged as it were to a past generation, al- though he is not superannuated. Mr Butler then re- ferred te his early life, and his first connection with Mr. Ven Buren, and said that it is no small merit cf Mr. Van Buren that he enjoyed the friendship of tbat soul of honor, Emmet, the father of our candi- date for surrogate,’ The origin of the free soil party next occupied his attention. When the represents tives of New York were refused admiesion, Mr Van Buren, in his retirement. and hmseif in hie offive, re solved to bolt. Mr. V Buren, however, dows not aprak until the proper time comes, and when it does oe his bunker bis own State. have life io the miduts of tion. (Applause) Mr. Van Buren has been accused of nop. cemmittalism; but he was.known to meet every queetion that came before him at the proper ti Tt ‘Was so im the case of the Bauk of the United Stati well as on the sub-treasury system, Did he not then proclaim entire aration of bank and State? And 80 it bas been on every question, and so he has spoken on this great question of freedom, although he did not doso till atter the proceeding at Baitimore,and not then | till he was culled upon todoso. When he did speak, it | was in the form of that celebra’ed leiter, which, no doubt, all present have read He could not give to the Baltunore Convention or to its nominee, his support, not |} believing that he himself would ever be » candidate, |. oaus that some other man should be releowd. ut the convention at Buffalo considered they had » claim upon him, and had a right to call him trom re- tirement and head the hosts of freedom. He finally consented, and his name at once caused a seasation throughout the Union, andan examivation of the Principles of which he was the exponent When the convention saw thet no man dared to identify himself with the principles of free svii, they saw that he was the men for the honor, and now he is before the pespie asacandidate for the Presidency. Bus it ia ssid we are a third party, and great as our leader is, and grout @s our principles are, we cannot succeod Waat does the success of a party depend upon? What is @ party? It is @ combination of men to oarry out a principle, and to make it honorable as @ party, 1¢ must Dave principles, The success of » party, there- fore, is the success Of # great principle, and if our principle is such will promote the happine-s Qnd welfare of the people. then our parcy is @ good party, and if our principles be establish- ed ultimately, we shall succeed @ party. If we can get the Wilmot proviso inserted ia the te riterial bills of New Mexico and California by Con- gress, then we will be successful. If not before, we certainly shall in 1852 be successful. There are cir- cumstences connected with the present force of which cannot be estimated till a of this month; and as be knew that the cau: and good, he would not say that it will n even in this election. He is not one of those distrust the intelligence of the American peop! can eay that if each of us dohis duty we shall to carry the State of New York, to a certainty; it is apparent that nineteen-twenticths of the voters of all parties in this State a1 further extension of tlavery. With this State in our election will infailib yt ter for us; for the election will go by Stat have a majority’ These calculators, how: hing—that there are mill ons of free and intelli inthe country who will watoh the House of ves; and they who will shrow the election into the House, wil throw their eympathies into it too, and ff the House elect a man epposed to thos sympa: thies, he will be ® President without @ particle of mo- r, jd will not porsess the confidence of the how powerle er, forget At speaker, is not prepared to t back what he said at the Ballimore Convention He yet thinks too highly of him not to hope that he will look back with regret, in his hours of retirement, to the course which he, wi emembers chut he candidate again, aad would not interfere with th+ succession, and afterwards al- lowed his secret ed. and besides attempted to dragoon the democracy. and break down the free spirit of free men in this Stute—he will regret it before ten years, and weep for it in his retirement. The speaker tnen told aa anecdote which happened during Geoeral Jackson's administration. Ja the year 1535, there was great excitement caused by an apprehension that the adoli- tionists were exciting the siaves to an insurrection. During the heat of the excitement there were some meetings held in Washington, one of which was at- tended by a negro boy. the property of Mes, Thoraton, From what he heard ther¢ he determined to have his liberty, and arming bimeeif with an a; he proceed- ed to bis mistress’s room, saying he would have his | liberty or die. The boy’s mother, however, overheard | him and seized the axe from him. The noise awakened Mr. T . and the poy was arrested. By the old law of Maryland, to which this part of the District of Columbia formerly belonged. the attempt abie with death, although Mr Thornton jured, He was tried and found guiity. cession of the District of Columbis, however, Mary. land altered her penal la ud mitigated the puaish- ment insuch cases. The question urose whether che tlave should have the benefit of the al but the Court decided against hi was referred to General Jackson, who hi him, Mr. Batler, for examination. a 8 ’ thought the court decided properly ; but he kavw he was addressing his report to #man of humanity, and he teared not to auggest the exercise of h General Jackron bad not ti was punished y, give him a fall pardon. This was in the midst of the great negro excitement, oaused by the apprehi insurrection; sad when it was noise; to interfere, it oreated 008i upon. snd informed by aSouthern that if he interfered to prevent the that it would cause a groat exciteme he South General Jackson rore id said, “In the name of of God, is that any reason that this shail be No. rir be sball not be hanged, and there will be ne excitement in the South, either.” So it will bein regard to the free questi wit succeed, and there will be no excitement in the South. Siavery in New Mexico and California, hy ‘hou jouthern members may fret, 1d predict; yet there will ba tement im the South, They will subinit, for 'y knew it was, in the lave case in Warhington, ‘be in this; they will, on reflection, aay it. was righ d then this glorious Union will by encircled with @ bond of freedom. and be indisaoluble. Mr. Tirpen then announced, tl it ‘clock on Monday evening & mueting of freexotlers, under the auspices of the Northern Light Assocle- tion, will be held in Vauxhall, at which Mr Conger, Willis Hall, and J. L. White, will epeak. John Van Buren, he was happy to rtate, writes that if the city does its duty, the State is safe He, Mr. Van Burea, will epeak on Monday evening The meeting was then addressed by Mr. Heren, 6 whig, and adjourned rwon after. xwoution, a8 it will The New Rotterdam C:vrant given an acoi Giscovery of very rich tron mines in Borneo, Plating in stated to have beon ered, in larce quantiti the Alps, om the frontiers of the depart ment of sere. come he speaks with the most conclusive argumenta- | opposed to the |