The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1850, Page 2

[| Dedication of Mi CITY BURIALS. tain Grove Cemetery, at Bridgeport, and Mr. Lester's Oration. We have been unable till now, to give Mr. Lester's effective and eloquent oration, in conse- quence of the press of matter which could not be | deferred. It is now offered to our readers as it was | delivered. The sebject of city bunals is now ex- | citing universal attention throughout the couatry, | and we perceive in all quarters cheering indications are appearing, Which lead us to hope that it will not be long before the barbarous custom ef intra-mural interments will be regarded with horror by all our citizens. Probably no man has bestowed more attention on this subject than Mr. Lester, or treated it with greater ability. When | look upon so vast an assembly, gathered im such a place, and for such a purpose—an assem- bly made up of the free-born men and women of New England—gathered on the genial soil of my native State, to consecrate a Garden Tomb for yourselves and your children for ever, I tind so many feelings in my heart struggling for utterance, | that | hardly know what to say. Those words | which have hitherto filled the measure of my emo- tions, seem to have lost their sigeificance, their | earnestness and power. | ‘This day will mark a period in your history— this dedication will be an event which will be long remembered. When the last hours of this cen- | tury are sounding, a few gray-headed men will | come here, and hold a sacred festival, to recal an event which will have b 1 50 years ago; and | as they walk slowly arc mounds and time-worn monuments which will then whiten these | now virgin fields, they will lean tremblingly on their staves, and tell sore happy{groups of children, playing among the » What hap, ed on this day. Some of those futy ay-haired men have this morning mingled their youthful | Voices with the music of the birds, who have | already consecrated this leafy temple to the praise | of the great Creator. | In the solemn act of dedicating a sepulchre like | in the presence of fu- | ture generations—to be surrounded by the guar- dian angels of those who will hereafter come here for a resting place—to be basking under the bene- ficent light of the all-seeing eye of the Universal Father. With such a consciousness, what man | would lightly assume se solemn a task as I am | now called on todo? ButI have a duty to per- form, and I will try to discharge it as best [ may. Sut although I cannot, and [ wish not, to escape from this soleron consciousness, yet it may not tinge my words with gloom; for imagss of life and beauty always come over my fancy When I think of burying loved ones in a garden, as the Sercom was buried, where sweet flowers | send their fragrance all through the air, where the rich grass grows luxuriantly, where waiving | boughs spread their sheltering arms over the sleeper, and the kind birds chant his requiem; and | may and do thank you, withal, for the be which ¢ ed me this duty, since rejoice to lend even my poor aid to what I esteem one of the test, noblest, end most salu- tary reforms of our age—that of establishing every- where rural cemeteries, for the burial and protec- tion of the dead. There are other reforms, about which men may and do difier; but there can be no contention here. And yet, the great work of | founding rural cemeteries in the neighborhoods of all our cities, towns and villages, has but just be- often mistakes the object «fits search, and garner the remsins of strangers. I nN depict best illustrate the subject. in general terms, re will wot here details which would 1 will what wil not be con! 5 In the language of the Special Commitiee of the Common Council of New York, on the subject of intra-mural interments,. {afer sealing of one of the large grave yards of New York,) the coroner said that his investigations resulted in the discovery of trenches, about 100 feet long, 20 feet deep, and Twide. Into these trenches the coffins are placed in layers, and not covered with earth until the trenchen are filled, Hundreds, if not thousands, of these coffins Were exposed to public view. This tuok place above the ground, and was easily visi- ble ; but what takes place below the ground evades the pubhe eye. ‘The close proximity of coffins, the tiers above tiers, the strata of the dead, the heart- less dismemberment of bodies by the spade of the digger, as new abodes are excavated for the recent dead, the breaking of coflins, the intermingling of the xemains of dillereat individuals, the impossi- bility, after a few months, of telling Where any par- those revolting ticular body sleeps—if sleep it may be called, amidst such disturbance and unrest, the inabilit of 4s any remains, for want of identiti- fication and other details are the secrets of the grave, which are seen only by the eye of the grave er, and are not blazoned to the public. Nothing is more self-evident than that there can be no security for the dead, in erowded and grow- ing towns—for in all our cities it has become al- ni a daily witnessed spectacle, to see grave yards “cut through,” for opening of new streets, ihe or digging of cellars, or by other cireumstan- ces incident to the growth of population. I will not dwell upon the subject: for there is nothing so shocking to the sensibilities of a Chris- tain man as the thought of such irreverence and outrage on the human form—a form made in God’s image, for whom the Son of man suffered and died, and which he will one day clothe with im- mortality. But hone worse than barbarous practices are fast giving way to the spirit of humanity and reli- gion; men are beginning to learn that if they would rest quietly in their graves when life is over, they must make provision for a sepulchre while living. Hence, rural cemeteries are being laid out and embellished in every part of the country. ‘The laws of the diflerent States throw their protec- ting wgis around the hallowed spots; they cannot be assessed for taxes, nor sold for debt—they can- not be disturbed forever. The great lesson is at last being learned by christians which the Savior tavght the world 1800 years ago—that the body of man is sacred as well as his soul, and that Christ died for both. This ennobling and sublime revela- tion of Heaven adds to the form of the poorest and obscurest child of earth, a dignity which was never conferred vs princes—and a sacredness which should shield it from profanation. Like the other sublime truths of Christianity, too, ppeals to man’s better nature—it is adapted to the highest and most earnest aspirations of the human soul; for, amidst the sufferings and the sor- rows of earth, who has not sometimes, when the image of death came fall on the vision, sent forth | from his weary heart a sigh for rest, which the poor, broken hearted Henry Kirke White breathed in those touching lines, where he says, as he look- | ed on a quiet, rural spot:— “Here would I wish to sleep. This is the spot Which I have long marked out to lay my bones in; Tired out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot! The sun, Trem bia maridinn bsg case vainly while the zephyr ‘To pierce the shadowy folly Comes wafting o'er the gently rippling And plays about my wan cheek!” on. The heart of the nation is not yet stirred, but it seon will be, and to the very centre. In thi country it does not take Jong to ‘produce result conviction is flashed on the minds of men, by th same electric conductor which carries intelligence. Before a generation goes by, the inhabitants of our cities and large towns, will recoil from the mere the living, as one recoils from the touch of an ad- der. Even now, every man of keen and rapid. per- | tion, who has bestowed an hour's thought on ect, regards the practice with unutterable hasilready been done. I had the honor of address- ing « few words to you last summer, when a meet- ing of your citizens resolved to found a rural ceme- tery in this neighborhood, and to day | have had the pleasure of contemplating your plan complete. All honor, then, to those who began the movement —all honor to those who aided it in its progress— | and honor to all who assist in the celebration for its successful achievement. to yourselves in this beautiful Thanatopsis, a monument which will insure the gratitude of your children, and excite the admiration of all coming time. The traveller, who once hurried through your city, will hereafter stop an hour to visit Mountain Grove Cemetery ; and he will bear | away with him, new images of taste, beauty, and Tefinement ; and higher sentiments of humanity | and religion. Nor should I allow this opportunit to pass without a well-merited, but inadequate tri- bute to the genivs of the gifted artist to whom you are indebted for what I regard as one of the most exquisitely conceived and executed rural cemete- | Ties in the world. With some facilities for obser- vation at home and abroad, Lam free to say, that, | in my judgment, Horatio Stone is gifted with a higher genius, and a purer classic and christian | taste in monumental sculpture and rural cemete- | ries, than any men [ haveeverknown. Asafriend | of art Lam happy to record fe grateful reeognition | of your appreciation of his talents and services. I | hope, too, that his labors among you have not ceaeed in the laying out of this landscape garden, but that he may yet embellish it with some of his own breathing marbles. Above all, do I hope that ‘over the ashes of one of your most illustrious citi- zens, he may ta monument worthy to perpetu- ate his fume. The art of Christian Sculpture, yet in its infancy in America, could find no fitter aub- ject for a triumph, than in illustrating the virtues and achievements of the lamented bishop. But | amadmonished, by the fatiques incident to all such occasions, t h i subject; and Ishall, with great brevity, the objects and advantages of raral cemeteri 1. Tue Prorserion or tue Livive—Is, per hape, the most palpable; it is, certainly, an in- untary motive for the establishment of rural edical men have Jong known and Jeconsequen » the living of interring midst their habitations. tions of antiquity, the dead were interr: the walls of cities. The Roman law prohibited the burial or burning of the dead within Eternal Ci Two ye tw There whose and #0, », With Jerusalem. Hence, the New Testament tells us that the eaints, who me out of their rs at the crucifixion of our Savi went into mito Mary. Sach of twenty centurie tery Ww peared e Holy City unve f Sach, r the mow ctice of nations. United owever, hay excep tions. And how eurtom hay could so long able then even in the r dis deavors, however, will hable to have our atmos i tid exhalations of dead Brodie, in hil ith admixture of one part of it ) parts atmoepheric air, is ly ta It was 5 before the same committee, thot frightfal mor raged in mmediate neighborhood of ail ve athe city of London; and a lay ament, prohibiting borials within ¥ or populous te in Great he honor of riea, through ns of Dect » who has lon been the health offi A similar law is ¢ e action of the ‘ommon Council ¢ where the reports memorials also of f which at n of wel on this subject, which no man . bility could listen t 7 esion of sh ders; and be itr “re this princig hold@ froe, even of the vill graveya Where the dead are buried ar z iving, the livi nmst breathe the i poisonous gasses which are ceasele eve ‘ We shail, many of time when we would no soe y the dead in our midst than we would keep them in « or expose them in the open streets. 2. Tue Prorseriox or Dra we have shown little respect to the ashes of th dead, for we have give protection—no security. In all our crowded cities, and in many of our country es urehyards th boried whore ereyes ost—ond when we are @ailed to perform the melencholy duty of removing the bones of an ancestor, ora friend, Glial piety veande have been | | thought of burying the dead amidst the homes of | “ Here are the dead respected. The poor hind, Unlettered as he is, would scorn to invade The silent resting place of death. I've seen ‘The laborer returning from his toil, Here stay his steps. and call his children round, And slowly spell the rudely sculptured rhymes, And, in his rustic manner, moralize—"? And what spot on earth’s green bosom wakes 80 many tender and holy feelings, as a sweet land- seape garden, where the dead are so peacefully sleeping the last sleep? It divests death of all the false and consentimal terrors with which we have Sridgeport this good work | clothed it. It spreads over the tomb the go TZeOUs and Nts rapery which was flung, by the hands of the Redeemer, around the resting place of his brother man; and, looking up through its glo- rious foldings, we “See truth, love and mercy in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom— On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending, You have erected | And beauty, immortal, awakes from the tomb.” Tf, then, the Bible be true, and the creed of the Christian came from heaven—if this mortal shall ee on immortality—if over the tomb of man Christ uth inscribed these words, “He is not dead but po 1 ” if the Saviour himself was buried in the garden, and angels were sent as sentinels to pro- leet his tomb, why should not we imitate that touching example, and goed the sepulchre of a friend with vigilance, and clothe it with the vest- ments of beauty. If death be the gate to heaven, why should we not adorn it with flowers? The grene of England's Lyric poets, in i ing the end of the blessed, has borrowed all his imagery from Hebrew prophets:— “Oh! the ccaueporting rapturous scone ri my igh ‘That omy vin Sweet fields arrayed in Hving green, ‘And rivers of delight.”” “There generous fruits that never fail, ‘On trees immortal grow, And rocks. and brooks, and hills, and vales, With milk and honey flow.” l confess that neither from my experience, my observation, the Christian faith, or the promptings of my own heart, can I draw a single image of gicem that cast: hadow over a rural cemetery. ‘To my fancy, it a place of sweet recreation to the meditative soul ; these sacred enclosures, where faith, with her white wings, may sit brooding with eyes full of prayer; and where a hallowed sanctity shelters in her arms so kindly the departed. It isa poor and pitifal alarm which hovers over many of our brightest moments like a phantom of coldness, and datkness and torpor. Let us have everywhere pleces where the living may come and commune with the dend—list to their solemn voices—hearken, to their eloquent tones with benediction and soft im- ploration. Let their earnest calls teach us to plume our souls for a flight into the sweet celestial country. With velvet verdure let the green hills be crowned, and the purest flowers breathe forth their ‘oma, and let there gather here all the avish decorations which art and nature can s ¢ together. Here let the seulptor bring call from the marble forms thoughts divine. Then tenderly will lie the silvery shadows on the green homes of the dead— d mantles of inefleble lustre, woven, as if by hands inv ‘The bright sun will glance emilingly emid t shed statues. 1a moonlight eve, the air will see 1 with echoes from the land. Hee ¢ filled with fife, tumul- and beating with } then will speak, in ), to living hearts, and this that ub aly live, while we are the shadows of the echoes. These beautiful grounds have been dedicated, and they are hereafter sscred—but the work of on for ages. Every he Ines, to commit the form of he earth, will make the spot ery sigh of syn part a fresh cons has breathed prayer, oF wept, J, or suffered, where he stood becomes sacred. Long », this 2 city of th ud will be : yn its hermoniou r he venerable pastor to lay the walis of Z pired words, And in this y her ewe but by the nted mother come herself, at last, to ele of her tender bat Iw n her aved children, who { Lieaven, which her evening dows, may put ¢ i'none holy en 1 of that ge infancy say wh h to in- and ex- Heftme only know that she re in the undis- , Will be seen, ravel Worn stranger, who im ed be ng who reeke her ng is my rdian angel now ! turbe not 4 has cor ng const of the Pacific, in heart, to the spot * siveping, and over the rave he would barter awny all his trea- e could once more hear that tender voice, a ded in hie ear when she gave her boy her | Th are friends, too, in the world | w for one another ; such an one will . his companion, years gone by, wiil le # mound at sunset, and lingering still rewell, will whisper the melting words rave of his friend Thompeon,neat ond Chorch, on the banks of the Thames soe, the fairy valleys tade Dan Night } velle , lear par Child, again adiew tple hands. thy raral tomb long may it be; but it will come at last, more tender, perhapa, than all sed. There are beings too long on the earth. 1 # lende its ange | sweetest forme of the earth, to | i vot dare to | her monu- | inhabit for a few years, wit fying all sround them; and grow more fisil, gentle, and and at last, when some poet of * St. hie adoretion, 6! breathes ing, sancti- that every day they iritualls beautiful Agnes’ Eve” e who must not be wor- hipped, reiuins to Heaven. Her grave will be the sweetest epotin the moonligi 1 Muntain grove, and over it, in will the t of St: Agnes rec. the only words ever wilnen which express sentiment such a ecene could inspire -— To fair Fidele’s grassy tomb Soft maids and hinds ¢! Eech perning sweet of earliest bloom, And rifte Now 1 the breathing rpring. ing ghost sball dere appear, & with shrieks this eral grove; Te But shepherd lads assemble And melting virgins own th No wither’a jh shall here be ‘No gobli their nightly erew; The femal shall haunt the green, And deck y grave with pearly dew, ‘The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid, When howling winds und beating rain, In Or, ‘midst the a The tender thoug peste sh ake the sylvan cell; on every plain, ton thee shall dwell o Each lonely scene shail thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed; Beloved, till life could charm no more, And mourn’d Yes, hither shall mounds with tears of sympathy, and confide to these spares the holy plant of love and sorrow. 1 and to all the spot will hence- All, a forth be sacred. exce| at will come, ii till pity’s self be dead. they all come, to moisten these ut all will be sure of sympathy, pt one 7 He will be ‘+ the stranger within th) * who died in the midst of his journey, - is eyes turned towards his beloved Oriental nations have a tender blessing to bestow on all they part with, whether friend or stranger— **May you die among your kindred.” I hoy some quiet nook of this cemetery will dust you knew nothing of, to plant a flower, an breathe for you a prayer which the “ stranger’s G that green spot, and those who dedicate it to the repose of the wanderer who died away from home. And you may sweeten the bitterness of his dying thing in his ear those soothing words sure to listen to. hour, by br of Bryant ——And what if those withdraw Unheeded by the living. ad no friend Take note of thy departure.—all that breathe Will share thy destiny. 1 When thou art gor Pied on, and each ‘Their mirth and their einployme And make their b of slid favorite phantom ; yet ail thes gay will laugh, me, the solemn brood of care one as before will chase hall leave nd shall come ed with thee, As the long train , the sons of men, (c's green spring, and he who goes nth of y babe, matron an a grey-headed man, r Bhall one by one be pea te thy side, By those who in the In leaving these hallswed grounds, let us bear turn shall follow them, with us the great moral ef the scene :— So live, that when The innumerable carn To that mysterious r ber in the silent halls of death, not like the quarry Scourged to his dungeon, His Ry an unfaltering Like one who wri thy summons come te join n, that moves . where each shall take t night, ‘ut sustained and soothed trust, approach thy gr s the drapery of his coue! About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. The Democratic an at Tammany jail, On Wednesday evening, pursuant to adjourn- ment, the Democratic Convention met at Tam- Lorenzo 1. Shepard, Esq., President, many Hall. in the chair. The roll having been called over, 46 out of 9) | befo pe tant be de- dicated to strangers who die in your midst. There should be such a spo! it should be beautiful—and sooner or later over all its graves, some one will come to weep over the in every cemetery— ven will be ” will bless on that subject. In this case, but that Congress have power to le- Saiehe, bas it should only be exercised when the people ay pirat = gerbera ar ry to reiterate the determined queen, the Tomocreey of this city to a high tariff system; to » system which seeks to restriet our foreign commerce, by levying protective nibitery duties on impor is ‘contume more of the agrieulti Gusts of the country tban all the of the six New England Siates, To cut off ourtrade with the or restriet it by bigh duties, to fill the pockets few capitalists, would do more to depreciate the e of agricultural produce than the total annibila- 7 factory in New England. im portant question, t the Convention de- to rpeak plainly upon, is the treedom of the great pational domain toll who wish to till the soil fora Hivelihood, Perhaps this question ranks first in point ofimportanee. Adopt this principle. and in time shall have a great landed democracy in this country, ‘which Will iusure the perpetuity of our Union. Captain Rynpers then rose and said, that he understood 4 part of the address was to be stricken out—the portions relating to the French Assembly and the District of Columbia, as the address was long and dignitied enough without these portions. Dr. Incranam said he no aushority tostrike out those portions, except from two or three of the ee. ain Rynpers then asked the chairman if he was in order, for a cowardly wretch the other night took advantage of his position to throw an indlg: nity upon him. ‘he Presipent said the Captain was in order. Captain Ryxpers then proceeded to introduce his resolutions as a pertion of the report of the committee. He said in regard to the power of the democracy to meddle with controverted ques- tions, almost ¢very great question was controverted at one time or another. The questions at issue be- tween the whigs and democrats were all contro- verted questions. 1t was sufficient that the gress majority of democrats agreed in the truth of those if questions that we@e said to be controverted. The democratic party, through whose guidance this country has become equal to any other in the uni- verse in affluence and power, must decide for or against any principle that is to be en- grafted upon the ancient creed of democracy, for hey cannot serve God and Mammon. The Cap- ain concluded by reading the following resolu- ions:— 1, The constitution of_the United States sacred and nyiclable. 2. The blessings we enjoy attributable to the Union, end the people will therefore cherish and maintain it. 3, The constitution has not delegated to Congress the right te establish or prohibit slavery in the terri- tories of the United States, 4, The territories are the joint property of the seve- ra} States. and they have the same right as the States to enact their own domestic laws, 5. The States are sovereign, and no power is given to Congress to impose any restrictions or qualifications upon the admission of any State into the confederacy, except what is required by the constitution, 6. The several States bound to carry eut the provi- sions of the constitution. 7. The people of California, having adopted a repub- lican form of government, gre entitled to admission into the Union as a sovereign State. 8. The insidious efforts of abolitionists to be discoun- tenaneed. ’ 9. The thanks of the American people are due to members of Congress for standing by the Union in opposition to the Northern fanatics and the ultraists of the South. 10. The permaneney of the Union depends upon the ascendancy of the democratic principle, and a rigid construction of the constiontinn, na eateias i 11. We urge upon Congress the necessity of disposing of the exciting Geestion of slavery, and prefer the plan of the Committee of Thirteen from the Senate, of which Bir. Olay is chatrman. 12. We are the steadfast advocates of the tariff of 1846, with its ad valorem principle. 13. The question of making the public lands free, in reasonable quantities, to American citizens, the greatest question of the age. we adopt it into our creed, and urge it upon the democracy throughout the country, with a view to speedy legislation by Congress, Ex-Alderman Purpy said there was one reso- lution there that he had never seen or heard of It was that relating to land. Rynpers said there was one that he had answered to their names, and the President de- added, and had not time to see all the gentlemen clared that a quorum was present. A considerable time was occupied in settling a contested seat for the seventh district of the Eleventh ward, it being contested by Mr. Andrews It was at length decided in favor avd Mr. Cook. of the latter. It was near 10 o’cloék before any of the real bu- siness of the meetii Captain Rynpers, the chairman of the commit- tee on resolutions and address, stated that the com- mittee were ready ing was disposed of. to make their report. Upon motion that the report be read, Dr. Incranam, the author of the address, then :—The committee consisted of seven; six Were present, and one was absent. rose and sa’ six present, one, who undoubtedly holds a high po sition inthe democratic party, dissented from a portion of the address and resolutions. With thes» convention. two be rte, hare mh and resolutions were unauimeuely by the committee. ‘The gen- u who dissented had @ minority report, whic! he believed it was his intention to submit to the Dr. Incranam then read the addresa, of which extra Your Convention, alter (he most mature deliberation | fo ature of the unfortunate dissensions refer: | ble tt eevee saunter rcp is i support to fou caneideeen, to question of slavery. That slavery is an f the b ubcir condition werre.| of consequ and events, from great Let us ceare, th slonary enthurt equality of sock our patu nd rey race. If, in the future, we © that rome plan ean be devis« ery Melity to the gr an beart—one that has but fe ve lli, - ets are the pith and marrow:— ‘jon that the fut oerat, 0 Long as he t principles of the p: its fairly and regularly entertain his cwu views upon the institution repugnant to t! minds—will not be denied. isn cial obser thet vai give countenance to those vi- ho insist upon fraternization. an and political rights, so contrary to uiguant tothe feelings of the white see some ground of hope, d. by which we can sever the connexion between our otherwive democratic in- nd the th itt iberty question of #h property of t nati of the government, tle, and of great pur citizens te fonn f slavery. et ¢ nd arent which ive Legti rice.” nt, most cond | to dispose of th may deem b Th +e. one best for @ dive: remedy ls not so not to be applied by jrubmit. Though th | for or against ite ad question relee | treverted itee | eale en the bende th thirty independ | end in the diesobutio nat | that tothe peop liberty of beth races We are in favor of Congress of ail new Sta constitatioval requirements. av provirions of their const! of slavery Tn relation to Jeptore ite ex power. to abolt be the character of t depreeate eongressl Providence may have y, in the United Stat of liberty we enjey ‘oy have an analog of Cong staterinen, & in opposite views « distingutehed for th ich men wm right to t ie part, t, one dificult t undation ur in ond (bem only, whether iu the states of ia the Territo. ater, the happiness of ople £ of seelety, t0 leave the to people question of African for their own intere ur opinion, would be the wiser and safer an abstract qu oppesed to it as much as we are oppoted inease deformity. viec me niversally wuderstoc iow onelnston. fthen. te aor ry to the p { *. They showld be t they will have it oF not, and t believing each exe to alieniate from us ovr Southern brethren, Institution of Afrk be arrival of that of the 8¢ rs bat that an all- ue quite ce in the United 8 ‘over the w slate upon the the common men ¢ dingut a ity of eh in the privote walk regardiag th gistation ap; It is palpably controv y honestiy diff usidered members of it in the mind prineiple, prom diate, one that ly to that of e them ects affecting says: “To th power on | accordance with this principle. your eonvemtion the opinion that it would be the wisest policy, one the most in barmony with the theery o | jucive te P the territories lavery aa they and wellare Il sections of the Union, We all stion, slavery i# wrong, or crime; but the thore having ne co the should ail fe power of Congress te logish mlesion into territories i @ eon et, If It existe. we wre opposed to ise inexpedient, and at bind iu one common brovher- tent States. aud might ultimately n of the Union, and endanger the the admis misrion tuto the Unton, by z complied with the at any reference utions on the eubjeet in the Dietet ere t of Columbia, we but upon the principle * belongs the right, or tablish slavery, to say what ahall ir lowe! institutions, we should Jegidation adverse to the Out of the best interssts: ily flow sudden changes in the xocial and po- litteal condition of eommaniticr, t of the committee, but felt confident they would all agree to it. ‘Mr. Cocurans then proceeded to introduce the minority report. He said he did not represent any party or set this convention. Ile appeared as an indiv te, belonging to a.great party reposing in union; and as arepresentative of the united S morvatic party he had done his best for the interests of that party in the course he felt it his duty to adopt in the committee. The commit- tee had all acted together in the greatest good tem nd good spirit. The differences that ex- isted among them were only differences of opinion and judgment. There was no excitement, no feel- ing of enimosity. All was calm—all was delibe- rate. For his own part, he came to the conclusion that if they wished to achieve a triumph in the preservation of union and harmony, they should do fo in the words of a toast given on a Jate occasion, “upon a union of principle, and not the dictations of expediency.” Mr. Cochrane concluded by sub- —a hi nority report, of which the following 1! = “Te may doubted, whether convention re- full ractically operative union of the ge- h | tod with epeciet powers ite re-organization, is authorized to revise theelements ly wiedou Would dictate that its basis be permittedto remain undisturbed. The con- vention have judged otherwise, and a series of resolu- tions. and en address, are re} ed for its consideration. their parts,that asa whol ble to agree with their re reports, that the power territories, is @ controverted question, the assertion is without parallel. «ave in its very ob- vious nature, The mejority of your committee, then, furthet report, that whether Congress have the power. or not, over slavery in the territories, they are opposed to itsexercise. Now, I am at a loss to perceive how the power of Congress can continue a controverted ques- tion, while [ declare that { am opposed to its exercise. But the majority of the committee proceed still fur- ther. Having emasculated Congress, they seck for a depesitory of its departed power, and declare, that to the people of the territories, should be relinquished the settlement of a question proper to be decided by them alone, Let me now ask, if anything is wanting to the full and distinet vtterance, by the address, of the broadest constitutional doctrine contended for by the immediate friends of the late Baltimore nominee, or to en unmitigated denuveiation of that profersed by their opponents, within the democratic party, But these who-e convictions are thus summarily distmiased, compose a majerity of the demoeratic party of the State. Their efforts have achieved recent victories, apd their voices deseribed to us their trinmphs. Could the determination of the people, already ex- pressed, be necepted by the con ‘ the versel of our political eate of debate, nor be overwhelmed by its bitterest waters Other counties have harmonized in their political ac- tion, by a course of conciliation adapted to the emer. gency. The rame path is open to us. The constitutional power of the territorier, and the necessity end the extent of our di been, on the one baud affirm: other, a common consent that this thall not affect the arty, bas pro jealection. Th poke the & sided ever by the lion, William 1. Marey * Resolved, That we are oppored to e: very to the free territ: he Unit regard the slavery question, nin relation would ride on t! ona over slavery in a jiversity of opinion sition of individuals in thelr armoay of polit- Rome, pre- power of Congress d the particular mode among democrats, controverte corde to every one, in rel d right ot opinion, not regarding 1 to fellowship with our democratic brethren in hia State, or in any rection of the Union, And thus declared the Mass Convention at Syracuse, b Wilkinson. ¢ District of Columbia, and hjeet inthe States, That it possesses, in our opinion. full erthe subject | the territeries of the United States, and should exe eron all occasions of atte: to iatroda constitutional power is questioned, wlerate the free exercise of individu- al op that quertion. among members of the democratic femily who are willing to tally under one stendard and support the ticket nominated by the ro- cent Sta ention Thus is proposed fe sanetioned by 8 people. A coalition ups Uban be deeeptive and transient, To reject thi T submit to the co opposite theory will but court ith defeat pointe of the foregoing In the oppored to the extension of 10 the territories of the United States, and to ewpts to introduce it there. rived, That the power which the constitution hi y very in the territories ted question, and creates among democrate it other cannot otherwise j is to rt Hesol¥ed. That a serios of congressional enactments executive als, from the ordinance of 1787 tanctioned by precedent the . but whether it should be exercieed the people of the territories, are marers or by questions whore decision should be referred to the cir. cumstances which hem Kesolved, T ould be Immediately admitted Into ate, with her present poundaries and constitution It was then moved that the majority report, com- prising the address and resolutions, be accepted. This was objected to by several members, who contended that the minerity report ough! also to be rr ed, a8 this was but the parliamentary term for receiving them preliminary to adoption or re- jection. Jt was then agreed that both reports be accepted. Mr. ©. Pogannes here rose to speak, but was ob- jected to by several persons, as not being a mem- ber. Preement—His name is still on the roll. Detxeate--I move that we proceed to try the validity of hiv election ts. " commerce that bas built this Gen city, Presipent—You are out of order. We now the reports of the committee before us. Mr. Joun 8. Avstix, of the Sixth ward, then moved the following resolution The Board of Education, ‘We have received a copy of the annual report ef the Board of Education for the City and County of ‘New York, and from which we make a féw ex- tracts that will be interesting to our readers. The whole number ot schools within the jutris- diction of the Board of for the city and if county of New York, during the past year, was ‘earnest d to : Seana: if every measure thal the be ey or us 199. : ‘adopted, and every sentiment that we have-en- dorred, had been the spontaneous and personal act of ‘The Ward Schools. . Corporate Schools, . Behools of the Public School Society number 115 . + & This resolution created considerable commotion. Mr. Kenney protested against being led blind- fold by a resolution of that kind. t the late Baltimore Cenvenuon, a resolution was pro; to refused to be bound bind the members. The South “ . by it. Alabama was the strongest in her hostility. En thocshosiest ibe Publi tot mer Mr. Cocinane thought that resolution ought not “+ so ckiabohoel "getaintemness say be tpi ie setting | zine ane van. eR was impracticable, though he oe Foe he sin ceclenpdycgh ge grerinnar tard oe a ‘They were not acting for the State, but the city; Total........e004 102974 35,907 and who would have the hardihood to say, that eight-tenths of the democracy were not in favor of the resolutions presented by him? He did not be- lieve in binding, by a resolution, this gentleman or that, if he thought different): asa man thiok- eth, 80 is he. So said the ‘ure, Which the; all knew he sometimes quoted. Claaghier.) The vote was then taken on the resolution. it was found that nineteen voted for and twenty- two against it. It was, therefore, declared to lost. Ex-Alderman Purpy moved that the reports be taken up. A DeLeoare move that the majority report be taken up. Anothe: For the yesr ending February 1, 1848, 1849, and’ 1850, the number of schools, the whole number taught, the actual average attendance, and the gregate cost of imstruction for current expenses, . were as follows :— t Detzcate moved that the convention now adjourn. A number of delegates here left the room. Mr. Beastey, Sergeant-at-Arms and Represen- tive of the Fourth ward, made several ineffectual attempts to be heard. At length, Mr. Kennepy moved that the dele- gate Pt the “Banner ward” do make his speech. Mr. Beastey then came forward, and in a style of eloquence peculiar to himself, stood up for the ri ee of the South, and for the white slaves of the ‘orth. [Here there was a scene of confusion, and loud cries of “ Sit down,” and “Go on,” were heard from many parts of the room. Mr. Kenepy—I hope he will be heard. Captain Ryxpers—I hope the gentleman from the Fifth ward will be heard. is just es elo- ent as Mr. Beasley. He has called for a hearing lor him, because he knows it will produce confu- sion. A division of the subject was then called, in order to separate the address from the resolutions. Mr. Currixng—This is to give the go-by to [the resolutions. Colonel Mixa—I call to order. Mr. Currixng—Who is that who calls everybody to order? 35,998 $248,300 51 $687 Taking the average for the three years, the *ctual om per scholar, for tuition for 240 full days cf a year, including books, stationery, fuel, &c., was 96 51. ‘The amount expended for sites for Ward Schools, for the erection and fitting up of the buildings ty which schools were taught during the past yeas; ber about. 362.962 46, ‘the value of pr iy. of the Public School Society, ov: above t! jount of the encumbrances, on which interest is pald out of the school fund, as estimated by the society, is. . Amount leased y for Ward Sch Colonel Mixe—I am not aware that I call every- — we $42,173 35 body to order; but I have a right to call you to zed upon tual ave atten- order, when I see you travelling out of it. dance upon these schools, the past year, gives per scholar, the sum of...... +. Adding to this the averaze pei three years, for all other expenses, viz, . Shows that The Presipent decided Mr. Cutting was in order. Mr. Currixe then went on to say that he ob- jected to the address being taken up and acted =e now, and the resoluions at some future day. ‘he address would never have been agreed to by itself, and he therefore insisted that both should stand or fall together. It any other course be adopted, it ,will lead to heart-burnings, and leave matters worse than they are. (Great and pro- tracted cheering.) Mr. Ferxanvo Woop then rose and said he heard eh greet pleasure the; remarks of the last speaker, and he was glad to see the conciliatory spirit he evinced in agreeing to non-essential mat- ters, for the sake of peace and union. But surely the gentleman did not imagine that the convention could swallow, wholesale, twelve resolutions, with- out discussing them and taking them seriatim. i was then moved that the resolutions be taken up first. Capt. Rynpers seconded the motion. sixteen years. This weeks, of full five days each, The sums apportioned fer the pui of educa- tion for the year ending February P 1850, were follows:— The amount received from the State fund. An equal amount raived by tax..... One-twentieth of one per cent on the ‘and pexconal property of the city, (less $2.600 deducted for clerk hire, and other expenses of the Deard of Edi Total... on The board complain of the diversity of school books, on the same subjects, in our schools, which Mr. Woop—I have an objection to this course. | they justly say is an obstacle to the progress of the I think there are three distinct reports and three | scholars. As often as a change in the residence of distinct issues—the address proposed by Dr. Iagra- | their parents obliges them to enter a different ham, the resolutions ty Rynders, and the | school, they may have an entire set of books minority report by Mr. hrane. The address | in their hands, unlike any they have ly comes first in order. I hope the question will be taken upon the address. Ceptain Rynpers threatened to move the pre- vious question. E -Aiarean Purvy—If you do, then I'll move an adjournment. A Dexroate from the 17th.—The address and the resolutions do not correspond. (Loud cries of “Adjourn.”) Col. Mine--If this was a convivial party, and the studied. This is undoabiraly * great met to Cg ee baa Being Pagar be of merit. are, all ol a a uniformity is at once obviated. Itthey differ in merit, those using the poorer sort are unneces- sarily studying at a disadvantage. = evening schools, twelve for males, five for females and one for colored males, have beer kept open from the first of October, 1849, seventeen. weeks, exclusive of two weeks vacation in champaigne corks were tlying, you would not wish | holidays. In the male departments 53 age til daylight. * were cemployed 5 in the female departments 27; all A motion to adjourn was then pvt and lost of whom were females, and three in the colored Mr. Currix@ again strenuously opposed the ta- | schools. The whole number taught wae 7,68, of hing up of the without the resolutions. _ whom there were males, 2,166 fe: and Cuptain Ryxpers said he was of the same opin- | in the schools for colored persons 217. The whole ion, : amount expended was $14,358 67, being pe Mr. Ti.0v—This is @ convention on the basis of | cents per scholar for the actual average atte compromise. If you go through the resolutions | during the seventeen weeks, servatim, and through that uddirece Tue Fi A by para , analysing its ils down to its malidnag phraseology, not a moath nor a year would suffice. theif attend he question is, what is the broad ‘priaciple in Sor eS the documents, what the cardinal points and bee gh 2% he soy sd = bast he ard win Loe peg 3 py # ce, of demoerac; so let them be adopted as a 3 yrs. & 3 mos. whole. J 2yre&10mos, 18 The pupils of the Free Academy (we are in- Dr. Ixoranam said an erroneous impressi nd ‘address | formed by this report) are prosecuting their studies had gone abroad, that the resolutions and address differed. That wes not the fact. with commendable industry, and are making good Col. Mixe urged the division of the subject in a | progress. The admirable discipline order long speech. He held that the men of the South | Which prevoiled at the outset, are still maintained. were as much opposed to the extension of slavery | The profeseors and teachers are faithful and. effici- barnburners, and he hoped the address woul be taken up first. If ever there was an attempt to put the gag law upon a public body, it was present one to force some dozen resolutions down the throats of this convention wholesale. Ex-Alderman Purpy—If it is insisted that the resolutions be taken first up and acted on asa whole, T shall not give my vote to-night. ‘Purdy here left the roem. Captain Ryxpers—We only lose one vote, and not much atthat, either. Mr. Kexnepy said he objected to the first part of the address. It assured that the whole democratic performance of their duties. The sults of their labors have confirmed the favorable opinions which induced their selection and intment. As much freedom of choice in select. ing the studies to be pursued or omitted has been allowed to the parents and guardians of Se, 8 18 compatible with the nequeney dis them into classes or sections. Thas far it has been entirely optional with the pupils, whether they would study either of the ancient or modern jan- guegee, or neither of them. Various important ranches will, at all times, undoubtedly eontinue to be taught, with respect to which, it will be left 45% party once held abolition doctrines. ‘This was not | to the parents and guardians of the children to de- _ true ; they never voted for abolition. Le acted for | termine whether they shall ng oy Syme or not. mony years with the barnburners, and they never | The entire range of studies to be hereafter prose~ believed in abolition. He objected to the introduc tion in the address of the satirical petition to the French Legislature. He objected to one of the resolutions, that which would pin hie to Leary Clay. (Cheers.) Captain Ryxprexs—I have no objection to strike that pert out. Mr. Kexxepy—! am glad of it, and I hope that it will net Fe, forth to the South that Tammany Hall endersed Henry Clay. ‘The question was then taken upon taking up the addrees first, and was declared Tost, 20 voung for, and 20 against it. At & subsequent period, when a quorum was sup- posed to be summoned to the seratch from the bar Toom outside, the question was taken upon taking up the resolutions and address, when 43 voted for, and 42 against. The Presipent declared that a quoram had uot voted for the motion, and it was, therefore, lost. Captain{iyspers seid a quorum had voted. The qvorum was not 46,08 had been stated, for the convention did not consist of 90. There were not 85 members in it. ‘The Sroretary then counted the roll, when it was found to contain 87 members, and that 44 was therefore a quorum. ‘he convention, for want of a quorum, then ad- journed, at half-past one o'clock, till Wedaesday evening. cuted, the extent to which they may be pursued, the variety and degree of scientific attainments which the Acodemy shall secure to its students, de- gout entirely upon the future action of this Board. t has exclusive control over all these subjects, and must be held responsible for the results. INCREASE OF TRACHERS LN COMMON SCHOOLS. ‘The report states :—Efficient instruction requires that the number of teachers should be increased.— In most, if not all, of the schools, the higher and more advanced classes receive, relatively, the time of the principal end superior ossistants. It is im- possible, with the present number of teachers, to give that time to each scholar which is required 1 receive thorough teaching and efficient . sere f the Committee of Visitation for the istrict, made after a laborious and minute tion into the condition of the schools with- in it, in which the chsirman was occupied twenty- _ entire — assisted by the labors of one of is associates during fourteen fall da that the results, natural to crowded po are a too limited number of teachers, were strikingly manifest in those schools. The most ring un common defects were in rending and spelling. Iti believed that on equally critical examination would have disclosed very limited attainments an gress in writing, and in the principles of English SCHOOL HOUSES. grammar. There con be no doubt, (say the Board of Fe. cation.) that the school-rooms are too much crow: ed, and the classrooms too few and too small. While it is believed to be the common judgment, that buildings recently erected are an improvement upon those of former i yet the conviction is as general, that the health and progress of the students require rooms better ventilated, and with fewer in- mates. The must languid and the mind listless, after being confined for months, dur- ing six hours of the C34 in a poorly ventilated room, containing several hundreds, and crowded to its utmost enpacity. If, as is the case with manyot | the se! houses, the seats are without backs, the inevitable tendency is to occupy a st ing posture, than which nothing can be more deleterioustoa =~ + physical developement, or to the general alth in subsequent life. Law Intell! ees Count oF Arreate—Atrany, dune 18.—The calendar contains 160 cases. All the Judges were preseut, ex- cept Judge Ruggles, The Court were occupied during the day in hearing motions, A motion for areargu- ment in the case of James Mason vs. Ianac Jones and others (commonly known as the Mason will ease) oc- cupled most of the time, and was not coneinded until the afternoon session. This motion involves the ques- tion of the jurisdiction et the Court, under the consti tution a atutes. to order a judgment of affirmance, where (he Court are equally divided in opiaion Jose 19.—Present all the Jadgee—The Chief Judgo announced. at the opentng of the Court, thet to cnable the Judges to have time for consultation, for the pre- sent there would be but one session a day, com meneing at 10 o'clock A.M., and adjourning at 3 P.M. ‘The calendar was then taken up. No. Leatled. It was stated by counsel that th! would be submitted | Guring the term upon. pel arguments, No. 2 - ' ‘allied an eae ‘o. a Argu parti a 7 >, pened to enable the appellant to procure Mivtiet Mon. | ppp tiE Ixterticescr—Rev. C. if. Fay and ceptions 11, Bell for appellant: S.W. Rosevelt | dy, of New York, by§ advice of a physician, i for respondent. No 4. Judgm od, with sin. | too! pesseae on Tuesday evening, at ‘clock, on f gle cont Bullock board the stesmer Bay State, for a visit to their friends in Roxbury. Ta about an hour after leav~ ing the wharf, Mrs. Fay had occasion to leave the —. company of her band for a short time. In the lapse of a few minutes, Mr. Fay feeling somewhat uneasy that she did not return, sent a chambermaid tolook after her. But she soon retarned with ao answer that she was not there. Search was im- aagumente counsel, } miited upon N. Howard, jr., counsel 7 arrangement of connse) of adjonrn. ment,8 P.M. B. P. Butler for appeil cha Wal- | Mediately made throughout the boat, bat. without lis for respondents avail. Mrs. Pay had been sick, by confioement i -_ - some two months since, and before entire recovery Twrontation of Wier rrow tay eo Srares she was attacked by a paralytic shock, which un- her instance. in which the repealed navigation- bie for the importation of ace of Kurope, from the country, bas just taken American New York line of packet ship en. arrived in the docks ftom New York, fe verg larg ntity of 102 pipes, 24 , and 24 Finalier oi pert Wine, bs'n por: Gen ot 8 very large gener consisting other. doubtedly affected the brain. It was thought that her health had been improving for the past two weeks, and on Tuesday, the day they left New York, she appeared better than she had doring het tickners. ev Mr. Fay arrived in Roxbury, where he formerly resided, yesterday rmorning. and is now atthe tesidence of his brother-in-law, ; Char. Mateh, Mra. was a lady of the most Pay yee of provis me and geveral mercha: sthe pro | estimable character, and waa beloved ee : nee Aw Hafacture of the United States eriea | Very large circle © waintances.— Landen Paper nited St America pd circle of eequaintances.~Desten '»