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Van Zilo’s 1 per cent above—making 31 per cent of favoritism. The reason for this favoritism may be found in Mr. Mather’s statement, that shortly before the work was let, he was informed his relative had an interest. He says:— * Tknow the firm of isher & Co.; they aro F. H. Fisher and Jacob Groat; they are mon of very moderate "roams; lock No. 0 was ied Lo Joase Van Zile, whose partuor is Danicl Wright; Wright married a sister of iny wife. who is now deceased; Benyunin Marshall, Jonas ©. Heartt, and other leading eit! ers of Troy, wished me to exert iny nence in favor of obisining work for Mr. Yaa “ile; unt for Mr. Marshall, stated that ho (Yan Zile) img. i ous mechanic, a most exec that he never under- with it; that he fot ld obtain’ some work at by exceedingly anxious that ti nt this letting. and thouyh be differed with me that wou! be ne obstacle to my int myst in inis bebadf for wor; Mr, Marshall was to be oue of his securities. 1 told i { should most certain persons being interesied nor was! aware of it act'l o sbort time before the work was declared off; Tthen larned for the first, that Mr. Wright was a partner with hitn that having b ‘rom me up to this ¢ by Mr. Wright; th: mueh ini ¢rcet maniferter ‘i of Me, Van Zile, to whom felt auxious to have amount thon was dnelly -d to him, but shat in eonsequcnes of his bid norally above the eati- mates of the engineen fact that Mr. Wright i «4 supposing that every was a pariner with h » that account, £ asked the would be misconstrued Board to award him bv one lock. Twill give the eom co one more illusivration of the most safe and advantageous terms of award- ing contracts :-- See, 1 to 56, J. Hgaley & Co..... 57, J. Jackson & Co 58.8. Brown GL. Van Horne $30.03 Estimate. See. 59, Gardinier....... $27,142 6z, Yawlenburgh ... ii P, Alexande W. C, Story... Here aro eight sectiona estimated at $258,789, four of which are let at one per cent below the esti- mato, and the other four at thirty-one per oent. ‘Vhiaie the result of making political ‘ points’ letting contracts. The sections awarded at $131,433 to favorites, might have been let, on safe and vantageous terms, ‘o contractors at $93,437, or a saving to the State of 253,000. This was the modus operand? by which the favorites and relatives wore provided for and taken care of by the contracting ard. In my judgmont, there has been a gross violation of official dury violation of law, and a contempt of the instructions of the Canal Board, solely to show favoritism: snd if that is not corrup- tion, when done in pecuniary transactions, I should tike to know whatis. Every defence or apology fails aa you oxamine it. Tho estimates were not quite a guide, and the terins of the bills wore not quite a guide, Was the ability of the parties a uide? { have a list of sone few of these ablo bid- tlers, aud the amount of work they are to do towards te complotion of the public works. Commencing at the west, I find allotted to such sturdy contrac- tors as Clark & Volt, See, 366. B67... 6 eee creer ee ee eens $125,990 v and A, Van Vechten. N.G. King, Col. Mather, i wiley & n JN. Slage, Sec. 239. 316. Nawin & Barns, Sec. 325... ‘Hollis White, 327 B, Pringle, See. 313, 807, 308, Orville Ciarke, Sec. 328, 280. H. U, Soper, Sec, 297, 298, 300, 381 W. €, Bioss, 278. liver Charlock, 262 NEP H. V. Colit.....06 tichardson, 1. B. Reid... for Col. Abel, for 251. $1," ‘fo theso men of ability may be added these holp- mates: a. Upton. of Albany, C’stable. Mr. Dimick. late Senator. A. G. Danby, of Utica. Mr. Spaulding, of BuiTalo. Gen. Nye, Madison. Mr. Schooleratt. of Alb'y. Bloses liatoh, Oawego. Mr, Matteson, of Oneida, &. M. Burroughs, Orleans. Mr. Kellogg, of Utica. These axe seme of tho experienced contractors, or rather tho band of political intriguers, the moa of ** ability,” to whom contracts were awarded from Tavoritism, and to whom tho rich revenues of the eanal have been transterred for an indofinite time to come, unless you annul these wastoful lettings. See. 366, for $69,400, was awarded to Palmeter & Wit- liams. Why? Because the terms proposed by thom ‘were ‘most safe and advantageous to the State, due xegard being had te price, the ability of tho parties and the security offered?’ By what'right or autho- rity could Mr. Cook compel them to transfer the eontract to Clark & Teft for the benefit of Spauld- ing? If the award to them was made conditional, then it was not legal. As to the contracts of N.S. King, the afidavit of Abram Van Vechten shows the motive of taking in Col. Mather, not as an equal partner, but ag a two-thirder. Van Vechten Tam acquainted with the different members of tho Canal and Letting Board ; T supposed that combinations must be made in order to be successful. Mr. King sup- posed his chances, a8 a silver. , to be very bad; Lama whig; T never had any conversation with any member of either board in regard to the best method of forming combinations to insure success; before the final award ‘was made. and after the first and second slates were broken up. L went to Mr. Calvin E. Mather, and told him that 7 bad an iaterest with Mr. King in certain bids, and that if he was a mind to,-he might have an interest also; there- upon Mr. King and-myself executed a transfer or as#ign- ancat of two-thirds of our joint interest in the bids in which we were interested, and of which we had the sole control, to Mr. Mather; our object in this was to fccure Mr, Mather’s interest with some members of the Board; 1 rade this proposition to Mr. Mather; Mr. Mather is, I believe. a brother of one of the Comnsssioners; Adid not suggest that Mr. John C. Mather should be spoken to, nor do I know that he was even acqainted with | bis brothers’s interest ; I never saw the bids in which I ‘was interested ; I have propored to take pay jfrom indi- TViduals in case they got contracts ; the consideration was that Iwas-to exert myself in the advancement of their + oaitions ; there were some so awarded. > Van Vechten’s testimony shows the corrupt practicns, the combinations, the brokering opera- 2ions going on during these lettings, in which it algo appears that a brother of one of the letting board darepls Agared with his law partner, who, ac- aording to Mather’s testimony, were here to aid Geo Law, and ready to take such small jobs as offered on their individual aeeounts. Seth C. Hawley is an- other “ oxperionced contractor,” editor of the Buffalo Mornag Express. His last appearance in political life was as a codifier, when his two colleagues, being ntlemen, resigned as soon as he was appointed. jatterly this Hawley has been better known as watch- jing areund the doors of tbe State Hall, with eagor, protruding cyes, lapping up the unclean drippings of official cor:iption which fell from the Canal Board. Now he has a contract for about $120,000. The in- Anence that procured $95,237 of work for J. N. Stage, at about three per cent below the estimate, je disclosed in Commissioner Follett’s affidavit, pages AM4, 155: The attention of the witness being likewise directed to seetiar ud S17, awarded to J, N. Stage. witueds was as ked- » democratic allotments ’ es. both of them. . Do you know ot any other person or persons being ircetly Ge indirectly interested with My. Stage in the contracts on these sections ? ppose that Mr. Orson Tousley aud John D. Lee ‘of AtKion. ove interested with him. Ff have been informed. thetmy xou has an interest inone or both of then, A tho tine Mr, Stage spoke to me about work, {told him as fae was an Gid friend of mine, if his propositions were right 1 felt stvongty disposed togive him w ‘Then, and for month: after, my eon was in California; he returned the dattcr part of Cetober, and after Mr, Stage’s propositions had heen put in, Dlearned, not from my son, or t think froin Siage. Uhat'my son was to be interested with Stage, ‘The first opportunity [got after this T spoke to my aon about if. and told him if !¢ was so, L was sorry forit, not that I consilered there was any wrong in it. as he was of end acted for himself, but that there were enough in the world (o fod fault, and soy it was wrong. as I was to Mave something to do with the awarding of the contracts. He said ho had some efmyverention with Mr. Stage, but did ‘not give me to understand what interest he was to have in the work E told him T hoped it would be none: Ido not now Imow what interest he has, ifany, From this it appears the propositions were pul in hefore My. Follett’s son retumed from California. Now, why did Mr n ine st? ‘Why mention the fact to the father? But, St impropriety of hisson's having an intere: I hoped d have no interest.” Why then give Mr. section¢ at such high prices? if he his gon should have no interest, he eould easily have let. this work to the numerous Power bid: and his hope would have been realized ids Sawin & Barnes, to whom a section was ried whon they did not bid, Sawin is « good them would be selected for tors. There was some other them the job. Hiram I. Mills, really wards wore made Twas called into the offles te Hall, whon the contracts on the western being del «Mr, Stilison, the divie , requested his clerk, Mr, Parker. to hand position made by Harwood and myself, on the dack of which there was an ave) written for section My Stiilvon had previo asked Mr, Parker dev had executed this aed Mr. Parker Thad not, Lt wos then pre yaign, asked Mr. Still sid the board had ¢ to Sawin & Barn reqnested me tosignit. Lata ary to pve th todo 4 Lhe COMLLACUE Wace a WRU AIMED Oo oe t Hellis Whito says Twas in Mr. tomn twice ; ho sent for me to know on what sections T first time I did not lat. for I bad second time I gave him u list. The bids L was in did not give my namo on tho canvass which ho mado out. T have an interest also with George Reyaall Co., on eection 234, and two culverts ; Sotomon Parmeiec, George Anthony, end myrelf form the company. About a week after clection I was sick at Buffalo, and sent for inst proy to to form a Pi why Nie vernisibe consented to assooiae mo with kim ‘on these bids. Mr. White ia a tavorn keeper, aad lato momber of Assombly, as ho swears. Ho has boon knowa around Albauy the last few yoars for his amiable at- tentions to members of Assembly, sacrificing hia for- tune and his social hours for the public goed ; butit remained for this astute Board to discover bis quali- fications as a canal contractor, Then comes B. Pringle, of Batavia—nobody before had discovored his quulifications as a contractor—in fact, nobody € before dreamed that in and around Batavia, tho residence of one of the Canal Commisaionors, that there lived so many capable contractors, whose valu- | both had 5 tl able services this State av far has been deprived | of. Oliver Charlick, I undorstaad to be a mere dummy of George Law. Noxt comos tho firm of N. KE. Payne & Co., ono of the half and half con- tract’—composed of a hunker editor, a son-in-law of Mr. Woed, of the Evening Journal, and varioua others of both parties. Jam at liberty to speak of this Hyatt, a6 ho had abused me for supporting tho canal till, being a democrat. Thank God, | did support tho Canal Enlargement*bill, but I never pledged myself to cover up the fraud aad corruption perpetrated under it. Ho is abusing me still, be- cause I am making an effort—it may bo a vain one-- to expose the frauds with which he and the othors were connected. On section 255 there wore 38 bid- ders lower than Georgo Law, among them N. KE. Payne. ‘The section was given to Mr. Law at NN. EB. Payne Did... .seccececereseeeee 7495 Ds $19,561 A71 Payne & Co. got section George Law offered tor it... 24.308, 4573 A sacrifice on these two sections as between these two parties, o : $24,334 H. V. Colt.—Who Mr. Colt is, and why ho was a frvorite, Commissioner Cook says—‘ I know H. V. Colt; he isa son of Senator Coit, of Geneseo; Ido not know he was ever a contracter beforo, but f should think him competent for a reasonable amount of work, particularly for section work.” D. H Richardson, contracts for Col. Abell. Canal Commis- sioner Cook says—‘‘David H. Abell was presont at Cagger’s while we were there; upon whose invita- tion he came I do not know; he seemed to participate and talk with the different members, of the qualifi- cations of the bidders, &e.; I think he had a sot of books containing the bids, and when we were at work at any particular piece of work, he would look at, or refer to these books, and he also helped to keep mutes, as did also a young man from Mr. C. ger’s office, sent up for that purpose.” Again- do not know where Abell is; I have not seen him since he was in Albany; Aboll was understood to be interested in the proposition of D. H. Richardson; he mane tome in relation to this, but not, to my recollection, for uny one else, or in regard to any other proposition.” Of the rest of the gentlemon of ability, I will refer to the testimony to show how they obtained contracts. Mr. Kellogg gives this account of the J. B. Rice contract :— Mesers. Utley, Bates, Howe and Webb obtained con- tracts which were, as far as I was intorosted in them, on sections 125, 126, 130 (Mr. Utley’s). 129 (Bates'),'140, 141 (Webb's assigned to Howe afterwards), 144, 143 (Howe's); there are some culverts also awarded to Mr. lowe on sections 139 and 141, Those interested with myvelf and Utley & Bates in their bids above, wero Mr. Mattison of Utica, and with myself and Howe and Webb, Judge Nye of Madison county: A, d. Duby of Utica, Delos De Wolf of Oswego, and Mr. Mattison. “These con- tracts wero awarded on the bids as put in; the latter were not altered to my Icnowledge; I have also an interest obtained since awards were made insections and culverts awarded to J. B. Rice on 149 and 150, and in culverts on section 151; J. B, Rice assigned the whole of his interest to John L. Schoolcraft, and he assigned two-thirds of the same to Willet H. Sherman of Vernon; I bought the half of Sherman’s interest, giving him therefor my note, payabloin one year from date, for $4,000, without in- terest. Mr, Rice's bids were first assigned to Schoolcraft and afterwards the contracts; these contracts amount to $92.000 or thereabouts; Mr. Mattison {a to have one-half of the interest purchased, from Sherman and my brother one-sixth, Of Messrs. Burroughs’ Commizsivner Follett pay He named Mr. Hatch, ef Oswego. Mr. Burroughs, of Medina, Mr. T. B. Barton, of Buffaio, and I think, one or twoothers. (I would say that neither Hatch’ nor Burroughs had contracts in their own names. but are supposed to be interested with othera.) He had tried on the slate; he undertook to exclude them, but could not, and did not now blame anybody Wm. Beldwin also says:— Lock No. 17 was awarded to Philo Storms, of Oswego; his bid was something less than ome thousand dollars higher than mine; I gave him a thousand dollars for his interest in his contract; the contract was made, prepared for him to sign; a new eontract. or the samg one. waa al tered for me to sign, at our joint request; Mr. Stevens a miller, and never, to my knowledge, engaged in any work of the kind; Mr. Moses P. Hatch, of Oswego, told me he had an interest in getting this contract for Stevens; {have known Stevens for about two yeara; he told me, I think, that he had never done any such work; my bid on locks 14 and 12, awarded to A. B. Dickinson, was about $9.000 less than his: I feel confident. from my experience and knowledge, that I could have made money ou iny ids. Task the reading again of G. W. Baldwin’s affi- davit, to show how this assignment of bids was ma- naged. I wish to show by this the modus operandi by which they forced me to assign contracts. I re- fer to it, too, to show the manner in which the taking of verbal bids would operate. Sealed propo- sals are received—they are opened ; and if collusion were possible to be credited in this Canal Board, it opened the way for collusion with favorite bid- ders. This is a thing never heard of. What, aver- bal bid in our public works? If there was nothing else, this would stamp fraud upon the contracts, such as to call for action on the part of this house. And yet we find the members of this Legislature coming here with a report, and placing it on file, approving of these verbal bids! Look at the testimo- ny of Baldwin. He had come down bere for a con- tract, but had returned, supposing that he had re- ceived none. A elt hic despatch from Kellog; brings him back. The Board has seen fit to award him acentract, but compels him to assign it to those “four or five worthy poor men”’—embracing George Law & Co.---a contract worth $10,000, for $75. Notice the fact of Follett coming into the private and locked up room of Law & @e., with an armful of contracts. What does this mean, if this innocent letting hoard are ignorant of all the out- side movements? With all this outside pressure--- with all this brokerage going on---will gentlemen tellus there was no fraud, no corruption? Is it strange the Canal Board pursued no system of ac- tion---lotting contracts at one time too high for the interest ofthe State, and another time too low for the interest of the State? Happy people, to have such accommodating State officers! It would seem that my friend from Columbia, ¢Mr. Van Sant- voord,) who seems anxious to see the ghost, and whose vision so far has not been blessed, might see in some of these transactions the shadew of guilt, or at least, the ghost of a fraud. Before I leave this branch of the subject, 1 must refer to the new theory in government. It soems that in this age of progress, fraud has found a new hiding ¢ under “political favo- ritism.” IJtis approved of by the majority report of the select committee, approved of by one of the minority reports, and now only waits the confirmation of the Legislature to be incorporated into the and Hatch’s interest Guide Book for State oficers, thus establishing a | safe basis for accepting proposals for sale of punlic stocks, or receiving contracts for publie works; aud also a safe rule for the disbursement of publ moneys; alwaye preserving the “half and halt” principle, cautiously guarding the pecuniary pro- portions between political partisans, always ‘seeing that proper compensations are made trom the dit- ferent columns when the bids are nixed, thirded, or halved. Novel docirine in political and moral phi- losophy. Soothing epithets tor violation of pu blie trusts. have, as it were, as protracted as this ex- amination of testimony on my p has been, only taker a glance at this mountain of guilt. Its dark and hidden recesses are yet unexplored—its towering height, its gigantic proportions, which startle belief and stagger imagination, have not yet been surveyed. But J am forced to quit these details, to come to the consideration of the conclusions which they force uponine. J now come to a summary of conclusions, The evils attending confirmation of the lettings, now that the public knows how and way they were made, no one of us can foresee. Ist. I have shown from the evidence now upon your table, that before the estimates were made or the proposals put in, an arrangement was entered into between Messrs. Pollet, Mather and Seymour, to divide the work equally between the two political parties, on condition that a large amount of work should be given to a particular individual, and from the facet that Mr. Seymour and that individual are largely connected in 9 western enterprise. 1 draw the jinference that Mr “ indinenced if not vovrupted in his offieial acti as Inivwn action mest he measured by an ad quatay Jotive, and re Was no attempt in his tes- nf to show that the motive to give Law three ve of contracts, and the large amount that wiv got in his own me and with otf- was, recuse it was advantageous to the erests of the State.” ce of this argu- ment and is ammistakeab A ronce logical ir.’ If you approve of the : regu if you approve of Mr. Seymour and Mr. Ls nection, say so, and do not shrink from the respousi- hility + I have shown from the evidence the er the letting board procecded in dividing the x equally hetwoen the two parties, exch side the m to have the ¢ ret, and » of his own political trier tho law, showing this wns ile, n from the me w yinour was improperly | instances to tho relatives letting board—that, estimates of the Kogincers are unifi price, there has been fraudulent an corrupt conduct in contra a Inrgo ion So ores ae ae « boa: tormin: ring the ag; ‘pee cent bolow, thus letting portions ee o work at pile 20 to x ahah) ts eid tee ostimatos. That | the lotting board did not pay a duo regard to prices, | nor to the ability of the parties or the securities ferod, a6 the law commanded thom ; that the whole sobemo of tho letting is a favoritism so groge a8 to | be undistinguishable from corruption. That it was tho duty of the lotting board to have adopted a uni- form rulo, ‘safe and advantagoous to State;” whioh would havo givon the work to the lowest com- petont responsible bidder ; that if in the exorcise of a sound discretion, the board judged tho Engineer's ostimates most safo and advantageous to the Stats, it should havo solocted tho bid noarest that osti mato ; if that it would bo * most safe and advan- tageous to tho Stato,” to let tho work 10 per cent bolow the oatimate, it should have adhqred uniformly to that standard as to tho price, and lot the work accordingly. It is for the hous) to decide whothor tho board acted with a propor dis- cretion in selecting biddors, giving an advance of thirty per cont to thoir frionda and rolatives, and to such parties a4 oould bring a strong influence to bear upon the board; if the house ia of tho opinion that this can bo done without fraud, it willofcourse ratify tho lettings 4th. I have shown that the board awarded contracts to porsons who did mt bid, and_to others who wore compelled to asaign them. If tho house ia of opinion that this was awarding tho contracts in pursuance of law, ard proper official conduct, it will ratify the awards and tho assignments. 5th. If the house is of opinion that the board acted proporly, in ae rpeen 3 the pro- gramme of John I. Clark, for the distribution of the work on the middle division of the rig Ca- nal and the Oswego locks, in order to gward contracts to J. B. Rice, Squire Utley, A. G. Dauby, Snges Nyo, A. R. Dickinson, Sqator Dimmick, M. C. Story, and othors of like alamp, at $217,590, highor paves thi Mr. Clark had awarded it, it will ratify those sora, and by implication, consure Mr. Clark for hidtem: rity and rashness. 6th. I have shown from tho evi- denco gross favoritism and collusion of the State officers in tho discharge of thoir official duly, b; which tho Stato must suffer from two to threo, mil- lions of dollars, by giving to their relatives, fronds, and favorites, under the color of an equal division botwoen politicians, this larger amount. Ivis for the house to decide whethor such favoritism br col- lusion is or is not a public fraud, and a miscmduot in office, Such are the propositions whieh the vote of tho house must decide, if it approves pf the report of the majority of the select oom- mittee and bill of the gontloman from Tomp- kins.. Is the house prepared to sustaiz those reports, and to logalize the lettings, by adopt- ing the amendmont of the gentlemen from Tomp- kins, against the gross favoritism, tho glaring frauds, and manifest corruptions so cleary esta- blished by the evidence? The question nov comes, can tho th ie canal be enlarged by these contactors? You have seen who they are. ‘hoir pursuts, their habits of life, their occupations, if thoy Inve any, are all inconsistent with that energy, and experience which is required in that class of men who have heretofore contracted for the completion ofour pub- lic works. —_[ will not include all in this alegation. There are some good experienced contradors asso- ciated with these political profligates, vyho have been enable to obtain theso canal lettings by their pena and political influence with tle letting oard. Why have they associated otlors with them? Because it was only through thesemediums that they could get contracts, and their loss from the association was to be compensated by jhe avail. ability of the “higher bids.” Does any om supposo the canal can be enlarged under this systen of fraud and favoritism? That the $9,000,000 canbe placed safely in such hands, and that the peple will take their bond as a guaranty for jhe com- pletion of this work? 1 have alroady slpwn that iuillions have been sacrificed in these lettings to fa- voritism and fraud, and that in the illegal mdfraudu- lent conditions of the contract there can ke no limit to the amount of the debt, except tho hovesty of a canal commissioner and an engineer, and;he length of the contractor’s purse. To what oxteat the in- tegrity of canal commissioners and engineers may be relied on, the testimony on your tables will demon- strate. I might here well ask, whore will the fraits of this conspiracy, if successful, to rob th» public works go, and whether it will be any wlief to the tax payer or consolation to labor, for labsrhas finally to pay all public debtsin some way! They will learn’ that the money thus squanderd goos to poy the accumulated debt of wickedness and folly for years past, contracted arousd the halls of legislation by a band of political profligates, formed from sections of both the great political parties in this State, and for moncys thrown in- tothe harlot’s lap, lost on the gambler’s table, or wasted in luxuries that their yampered and surfeited stomachs rejects, and wheh are thrown tothe dogs, but which toil must pay for, under scorching suns and through long wearisome days. Common honesty, common sense, tels us that the Erie Canal can never be enlarged under such a system—that the whole thing would end in the stoppage of the public works and the diversion of trade through other channels—trade that, otherwise, in a few years, would pour its rich and enrichin; tide through the enlarged Erie Canal. I have said we must get rid of these frauds which have fastened on this ane public improvement, or in the end they will and must destroy it--frands which have fastened like the barnacles which gather on the bottom and sides of the noble ship, eating out and rotting out her strength, until she, no longer able to rise on the mountain wave, sinksa miseradle hulk into the unfathomed depths of the ocean. The occasion is unworthy of rty refernce, but the gentleman from Tompkins forces the sub- ject on me. He referred to a recent election in uffalo. I would say that the defeated candidate for Mayor was an intimate friend of a contrac- tor, if not interested, and the ‘Seee democrat defeated was a contractor. If the gentleman could make top beat out of this, he wa welcome to it. The gentleman from Tompkins Ind said the democratic party was pledged to carryout the Canal bill. Inhis liberal constructionpf the ple we are also pledged to oyerlook all tle favoritism and frauds in the execution of the liw, especially if the allotments were ‘‘ half and hal/,” the D. and W. column is evidentiy footed, and the scales are kept in the centre. Sir, I admit tha pledge, and the democratic party is now willing, wt only to live up to that pledge, but also to the cinal resolution of the Syracuse Convention which Je me. Was that pledge-that * bond,’ if it suits the gentleman any better—to be held /n /avorem over the democratic party, to close their eyefand seal their lips to these official depredations on jhe Erie 2 If we acquiesce in theze frauds, we lecome accesso- ries— sink even below a political cmtractor, below his stool pigeon or his seupe-goat. Larly in January ldid say on this floor, in speaking of a portion ¢ poe present beard, who helonged to the Jetting board: tunity of correcting their error, removing all su of corruption, and doing justice to the State and them- sel If this opportunity is lost now. it is lost forever— the moments of time now passing before ws. once sell. it will be lost forever—once gone it can never re- turn: and they must stand by what has been done. and abide the eoneequence in ail future time as prineiyals, li Sir, that werning was in vain. Had they then eet and done their duty to the State them- selves, and vid the canal of these fraudulent le- tings, end annulled such portions of the lettings ws jolitical proftigates had sq: upon, and prompily re-let the work ‘o honest and experi- enced contractors. the lower competent and re- sponsible bidders. as law and honesty enjoined them to do, our public works would have been resumed in honest hands, and our forwarders aud our boatmen would have been emancipated from that iniquitous bond which not only pledged the revenue of the rie Canal, but bound them and the tax-payers of this State in all time to come in moral and political vassalage to them. The Erie Canal Enlargement inust be rescued—must be saved There is no other course to save it, and no other oh- ject inthis world could have induced me into my powerful and corrupt combination. Now, sir, J pro- test against the views of the gentleman from Tomp- kins, so far as the democratic party is concerned. tofore I have referred to the birth of t epring of the Erie Canal bill, its putative fathersand ties is held up to the altar of democracy by the gen- tleman from Tompkins. and waited upon” by some State officers, who ave equally determined it shall be christened, and who are its willing sponsors; and we wre called upon to baptise it in the name of ihe democratic party and adopt it into the de- mocratic family. Adopt what? The blackest has tard of the blackest portion of the whig party. 1 say God forbid! Shall we sa: nudiated so far even by a whig maje | was in the Canal Board’ before the Tst of which refused to acknowledge them y as there January, ted by | the courts so far-shall the democratic majority of the Canal Board, or of the democratic party in this House, by their votes, put the seal of the State of N ew York to these nefarious lettings--thus ratity- ng the frand- frauds from their conception to the present time accomplices to all the guilt which attaches to its creation, an whieh has followed it through all the tops of excention? TL haye before expressed the hope t the demoeratic party might act with wa- they have always done when this subject | | | nimity has heen presented to them==1 repeat that hope now ' is thispobably is the last time | shall addressth House on this question; and T will repeat, tao, what 1 have ke occasions, that if, when tl be found aay you on Ti { Vrind comos, there sh e bear trartur to demooraue present course to stand up here and heard such a | ofi= | | | | { | jon these lettings, | accouchers, but now this discarded child of all par- | thus become parties to all these | | | an sball affect the which wo roly for ihe completion provements; and without publio confidence in it thoy must stop. Sucha question, it ia au] ous for mo to say, doserves gravy consideration ; but time will not justify their disousion now by me. Howovor muoh we may value our public credit, and the loss of millions to be equaadérod on politioal profligacy, yot thia is inaigniticant whon Contenslnicg and estimating tho moral consoquonces Ww! must flow from tho ratification of theso illogul and fraudulent acts of our State officers. It concerns tho very porpotuity of our infant republic, and the gress of solf-govornment. In othor countrio: tho strongth of the goveramont lies in their aban ing armica, thoir fortressea—but our strongth lios in the intogrity of tho govornmont, tho purity and honoaty of public officers, and the virtue and intel- ligonce of tho peaple- When public officers booomo corrupt, and official delinquenoos go unpunishod, tho confidence of the people is withdraw from the go- vornment. What follows’—anarchy, anarohy. Al- though geopraphica!ly our Stato has boundarios, ‘et in tts moral influences, it has no boundarios in this republic, oxcept those two oceans which wash our shor Our voto to-night is to sot an examplo which will bo felt throughout tho Union, whother it is in aoquiosvence, or in con- demnation of official dishoueaty; whother it is in submission to the infamy of our State ov in vindication of hor honor. Sir, I will not follow thia subject. Tho lateness of the hour aa well as tho time I have oceupiod, adm me that I must bring my romarks to a clo In all contosts thera at he a boginning and an ond---a defeat or vielo- he conquered and conquorors--- and it matters the history of ovonts whether I shall be ¥ quishod or not, be fastened to the chariot wheel o some modern Achilles, and dragged from tho battlo- fiold—justico will be dono, and iny viotor, like his classic predecessor, will soon moat an ignoblo fate. It is not in my nature to forebode dangor. It is rather my temporamont to combat mistortuno, a fortuno as if shall rise in my psth---overcome it if Y can, submit to it passively if I must Tn tho oarly part of this session, under a high sense of duty I owed the State, | warned mombors of this House, that fa crisis was foreshadowing it- self. Isaw before mo this great Stato, horelof proud ofher commanding position in this Unior proud of her commerce, now whitening the sea; proud of hor internal improvements, unsurpassed in either past or modern history, and whioh in their wide-spread utility, were diflusing thoir blessing to tho countlessdhousands who throng our shoros saw hor so steeped in corruption, so degraded hor strong arm, heretofore potent to protect her, her defenders, dropping nervilessly by her s weak, so powerless, that although her dignities and honors were not sold in the market place, a3 in the last days of the Roman empire, yet 1 80 bor honor, her vestal honor was violated, pr tuted in sight of this capitol with shamelessness by the guardians chosen by ti people, and her treasury robbed by its y fessed protectors, without even that sometimes re- deeming courage, that dashing boldness, that saves the robber from the gallows. An honorablo gentie- man remarked the other day Uhat * the present is not all of time.” itis not all of time!—there is a future---a future for States as well a3 indivi- duals, but the future of individuals is of little ac- count in the events of time. They are but the bub- bles upon its dark, vast ourrent, which is hourly sweeping its countloss multitudes into the ocean of eternity, but the future of a State is unending, it is throngéd with unborn millions. It is on that future that your action to-night is to he felt is on that future you are called to-night to impross the seal of justice, honesty, and truth. What then shall be your vote, and what your action? Will you fuld your arms, and without an offort see the glorics of this great State sink down behind a night of da ness and dishonor? Will you ace placed, without a struggle, on the dome of this Capitol, the golden flag of'a corrupt moneyed combination, announein, to the people that that power has finally triumphe: over the integrity of the peoplo’s represontatives, or will you rise in the pride of your State redeomed, and proclaim from this Capitol to the people--- Fiat Justitia ! Justice has triumphed ! Record thon your names to-night on the side of the honor of your State. All other actions of your life shail soon be forgotton. The very tombstone erected by friendship, on which the names shall be registered, on which perhaps the hand of affection may inscribe some inemento to your virtues, in vain efforts at immortality. All-- all shall crumble into dust, and the grass shall grow over tho last vestage of you on earth, still your names shall stand recorded in the journals of this House undimmed by time, and tie actions to-night shall form part of the history of this great State. It will contain the memorial of your fidelity to justice. and the honor of your State in her darkest hour, or a damning record of your cowardice, your treachery and your corruption. Achieve then this triunph— your ambition noed seek no prouder monument in this world—for your names, your virtues, shall live in the hearts and memories of all true and good men who shall come after you--live--yes, live torever-- forever. New Militnry Telegraph, This is the telegraphic age. Our own countr wired over with telegraph lines, We may shortly ex- pect tosee our vast territory placed under an immense electric sieve, spreading from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Aurora Borealis to the Equa- tor. The eleetric wires, too, are extending in Europe, to all points, eonneeting despotisms with constitutional countries, and bringing all parts of the European Continent within a flash of London. Asia will next, we suppose, be brought under the finger of the telegraphic operator in London and New York. Then, the daily occurrences of Pekin, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Rome, Paris, London, Washingten, and San Fran- ciseo, will be published the next merning in the New York Herap. Since the discovery of the magnetic and electric telegraphs, anether mode of communication has started into existence for the exclusive use of armi This system of telegraph consists of two bases :-~ Ist. To use nothing but what the soldiers carry with them. 2d. To ask nothing of the men but a uniform and mechanical movement with which the minds of the soldiers have nothing todo. This system, which was invented and perfected by Mr. James Swaim, of Philadelphia, who lately return- ed in the Baltie from Europe, is simple and methodical in its operation, and renders all confusion and falso interpretation impossible. The speed is very satis- factory. and it has been shown that from thirteen to fifteen double signals can be made in a minute, over am extended field of military operations or evolutions. We lear that this telegraph has been tried, with the most satisfnetory results, by the military suthorities of Wurtemburg, France, and England. In Franee, many highly successful experiments were made between the forts of Vincennes and the surrounding forts, to the distance of seven miles, the distance depending upon the quality of the spy glass. Some will permit a correspondence betw Fort Nogent and Mount Valerien, which is the atest distance-~twelve miles--hetween the helts of forts around Paris; and in case the distance is too great, intermediate posts can be established. The men used for the experiments had no need of instruction beforehand: they were taken at Yandom from the suiny Whenever they Were wanted. A -tanding tele- graphic corps is not, therefore, mece Experi- ments with the night telegraph were made between Vincennes and Nogent (two and a half miles) with is q | simple tallow candles surrounded with paper, and notwithstanding the inconvenience of this kind of light, the experiments were suceessful. For a night telegraph it 18, of course, indispensable that the size of the light should be according to the distance. ‘This is a brief outline of the new telegraph. In all great military operations widely extended, it will he of considerable value in preventing mistakes, in giving information from extreme points to the cowmonder-in-chief, and saving time in the trans- mission of orders. The system is, of couwme, usele for any other purpose. Electricity annihilates ev thing else for the oceurrenees of every day life Elections of Governors of the Alms House. FO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The law pfovides that twe governors ave to be elected at the same time, but that no elector shall vote for more than one. The two candidates having the highest number of votes are declared duly cleeted. it necessarily follows, that the two candidates no- minted by the two great parties. respectively, must he the persons elected In other words, the whig nominating convention jas the absolute and unchecked appointment of one- halt the governors, and the democratic convention the other half, ‘The pretended election } chinea palpable fraud—eve Louis Napoleon elect This single board has the authori the taxes of the city of New York, at will, to any aunount, Ave the two political nominating conventions fit the people is all moon- greater than those of | depositories of the power of appointment 7 \ Haye ee mamas Late Omg ey | To whom, and to what extent, are thoy rosponsi- Hie for the exercise of this power Let the citizens who [vot the bills answer Oe Oe Tae Yiv Wsiy Waattinaton, March 31, 1852. TOK “@ILLY QUESTION’—~THI4 18 A PROTRETANT COUNTRY—THE OCOMBTITUTION AND GOVRUXMENT PROTE@TANT—BQUALITY OF RIGHTS TO ALINNG, A GRANT, &C.—MILITARY SERVICKS OF OATHOLICa ~-LIBERGY SHOURK ONLY IN A MULTIPLICITY OF SEOPH, &O.—TOLERATION A PROTHSTANT GRAWT— EQUIVOKR OF ALZCHMISHOR ivGHHA, 0. Mx. Bennerr :— In reference to tha religious liberty onjoyod by Romana Catholics in this country, Archbishop Hughos saya :—** It haa been asked why Catholica in Amor- ica do not procure, or at lenat petition for similar al- torations of tho laws in favor of Protestants, in such countries as Italy, Spain, aad Portugal.’” Ho thinks this, ho says, ‘*a very silly question” —as ‘* Catho- lios in America have no more to do with tho civil governments of Italy, Spain, aud Portugal, than they have to do with those of Hugiand, Russia, or Turkey.” Well, if thoy have nothing to do with the oivil gevornmeats they have someting to do with tho spiritual—all, in hia roapoot, having tho same head, and the chuch Roman Catholio being on Might not, thon, tho mombors of thst church it this country, without being guilty of anwarrantable in- ‘terforonce, ask tho spiritual head of their church, whom they may always approach o4 a common fa- ther, to use his infronce with, at loast the sovarcign rulorof the Papal Statos—and whioh, owing lo their intimacy, and tho friendy relations subsisting bo- tween the two, wo might suppose would be consid- erable—towards the accomplishment of tho object, in hisown domain? What objection can tho archbish ophaye tothia? True, it would not by doing muck but it would be better than nothing. The offo: might, indeed most probably would be, unsuecossful. The Pope might teil them ho had no influence with tho temporal sovereigns of the Papat States, much less with any other-—even his protsetor, Louis Napo- leon—and that, aa spiritual hoad of uroh, he could not with propriety intorfero with the civil ruler Rome. Such might bo the result of the applica still, though nothing at al! should bo efleoted, the effort would manifes! a liberal disposi- tion—a sympathy for those who are deprived by des- potic power of the freedom of speech, and of the pros, and of thought, and of conacienos, and would evinces, also, ® proper appreciation of that porfect liberty thoy here enjoy; and it would prove, also, to thoir Protestant fellow-citizens thal they do not merit the ing acousation of being friendly to cqual ighta only whero Protestant predominate. And, should the Pope givo such an answer as above is sup- , 1 think they might quits confound ‘His ness” by putting this question to him—When did the Popa relinquish hi rity over all temporal govornny sively established by Greg ht, however, confound thom sapien. reply—"My children, you question.” “But the Archbishop answer that silly quostion (that ry sill} might he says inl ich 5 been asked here) “by putting to thos who ask it another just as silly; Why do ants not indu yigland and tho Prote 24 of Northern rope, to iinitate the e le of this country?” &e. It might be replied to tho arohbi- shop's question:---if the Protestants of this « bore the samo re of those countries that the Roman Catholios here bear to the head of the churches in Tialy, Spain, and I tionably be commendable laud, or in tho colo: the head of their church a respectful memorial and argument, in favor of equal rights to Catholic civil and religious—throughout the empire, would Archbishop Faghen denominate that a silly thing ? But there ts not the slightest analogy now b the Protestants of this country in_ their the head of the Church of England, and the Roman Catholic their relation to the Pope of ome. But the Prot ats bere who are in the habit of petition- ing the head of their church—Jesus Christ—are vory remiss if they do not regularly and earnestly en- treat him to besow on Roman Catholics everywhere “that liberty wherewith he makes hig "people free.” He says that this is ‘neithora Catholic ora Protes- tant country. ft is a land of religious freedom and equality; and, ! hope, that, in this respeet, it shall remain just what it now is to the latest posterity.” Fortho moment when he wrote that sentencahe forgot New Hampshire, or doubtless ho would have mado a slight reservation. She must still stand aa an in- dex tor both Catholics and Protestants—to Catho- lies, to show them that, while they rejoice that this is a land of religious frocdom aad eral must not forget that for these things they a debted to the free will of the Protestant people of the States, and are depondent on the same for their ; and to Protestants, to warn them of the possibility—and without constant vigilance oxertion the probabil own dependoie al somo future day, for the same blessings, on a r ligious sect which never have allowed fr, A and equality where they could withhold them with im- punity. 1 know that this last assertion is controverted the archbishop, who,in his letter to Mr. G refers to France, and Belgium, and i. Catholic countries allowing equality of religious liberty to Protestants : to the proprictary government of Mary allowed the same. But, few p ’ ignorant of the fact that in France, Prot re indebtad for the imperfect liberty they have enjoyed there, to the infidel part of the population ; in Belgium, toa Protestant King and the influence of the British Empire; and in Bavaria, to Mrs. Heald (1 Montes); and I am credibly informed, that her expulsion and the dethronement of King Lewis by the Jesuits, Protestants have ceased to enjoy equality of rights—both civil and religious—in Ba- varia. I will advert to Maryland in the sequel. Countries take religious denominations trom the numerical superiority of sects. Thus, Mrance and Balgium, and Bavaria, are properly enough termed Catholic countries, because Roman Catholics are much more numerous there than Protostants. Ma- ryland, when first settled, was for the same reason called a Roman Catholic colony; and when the Protestants beeame the more numerous, it beeame Protestant. And so the kingdoms of England, Swe- den, Denmark and Prussia, and also the United States, are, tor the same reason, Protestant cou tries—the very learned argument of the archhisho to tlf contrary notwithstanding. He must deliye many more lectures before the people will believe otherwise ; and I trust in God none of those tant countries will ever be otherwise in r whatever they may be called. So far merely as the holding of office under the United States is concerned--no religious test boing required as # qualification th he federa' overnment is, perhaps, neither Christian, Jewish, Mahomedan, nor Pagan. | maintain, bow that the government and the constitution bot Protestant--both being founded on that gre inalienable right wh is natural toeve the right of each individual to judge for hivaself in all matters, whether of Chureh or State. This is the great principle of Protestantism—snnfortunately too often abandoned in matters of government by Protestants themselves—antagonistic to that great principle of Roman Catholic authority. Protost- antism in its purity acknowledges no authority under God, in Church or State, but. the sovereign will of the people--the only Inwfal sovereign and divinely constituted depositories of power on the earth. Roman Catholicism, on the ¢ in ii mirity, claims for the chireh absoly Timited authority over all churches, and all gore ments. If this claim has been reling the intelligence has not yet reached ¢his country The archbishop acknowtedges himself to be grat ful for the birthright of civil and political nativ which he admits are conferred ou him by the consti- tution and laws; the same applics to all naturalized citizens; and yet. in connection with the sam soys that, what Catholics are in this country. are not by favor, but © by positive rig it seoms to me, that when the poople of the States gave Congress the power to passnaturalization law. the iden was, that aliens could have no rights here without a grant. True, atter the laws ave made, and the terms complied with, the rights received in consequenee are then positive; still, if there is a posi- tive benefit conferred with the right, the latter doos not cancel the moral obligation; and the conferring of them was certainly a favor, be it was a spon- asnre, Which the granters were under no to perform. inks there are 3,500,000 Roman Catholics at this time in this country. The Catholic Metropoli- tan Almanac, for 1852---tho compiler of w). his mformation was derived from the moe! 1 ¢ sourees---puts down the whole number at 1.980.000, and this inelades 250,000 for the diocess of Boston, which was not from a report thence, but hiv own estimate. This Almona: ye there ave in all LAV churches. They will ave then, aecording to h necount, more than 3,300 to each chore, and hy ley red also ad, which ned cording te ihe estimate of Archbishop Hughes, neatly 2,500 for exch He dwells long and earnestly on the revolutionary and other military services of tho 1 nolies of this countr tt. after all, he fails entirely to prove any peculiar merit; and if that was not his Cty Why $0 mutch labor to present them in bold Fit has never been denied tha thay stood to shoulder with Pre ing times, and with thein braved the wing ofthe enemy on the battle : but th of the Protestants to # resistance of British oppres- sion wore not stronger than those of the Cathohie. with the exception of those members of the cetah- lished church who took sides with independence, ‘I same tyrannical measures that forced the Preshyte- riang, and Congregationalists, and Baptists t sistance, pressed the Catholies with equal seve among which there Was none more odious than th whith cow ial to pay triluate to a churel for whict his very reason px thoy ir commendation for their participation im that cerugso, it ts those of the cstablishe@ ureh, the in partioular, whe feed in elie: conten’ liberty. Unlike tho rest, oy must loge all Me ctor and gain nothing by victory. And asto of volunteers to fight tho battles of the prevent thoro is but little, 1 apprehend, to boaat of since rovolution. Vor fow, L think, would onlist if the reward hold out te rtion to the estimated labor— af pet phniy o Remar 5 oneris ot * aya he, ‘ thoro been one form Protestantism professed in all the col 1 fone much that, ovyon with Washington at thoir head, tho constitution would not have been whas it ia. That @ roligious doapotism would havo beon the cem- rome thoro ia not much reason to doubs. i if Roman Catholicism had been the only form religion profossed in all tho eolonise, he, and evecy one olso, knows that tho issue would not have boom Joaa disastrous to liborty, And yot Archhi Uughes, with his mind satisfied aa to the truth of this, will not dare to rejoice that they wore not all Roman Catholics. The Archbishop, thon, it rightly eonoludes that liberty has no security but in a multiplicity of religious seota. So far wa are of one mind, and 1 am happy to discover that wo aro suatainod in this opinion by so great a mam aa Mr. Madison, In ‘* the Fedoraliat,” No. 51, bo for vi aays:—*In a froo governmont, tho sseurit, civil righta muat be the samo as that for roli rights. {tconaistsin tho one caso in the multiplicity of intorosta, and in the other, in tho mules of seats. Tho dogroe of seourity in both cases will de- pend oo the number of interests and sects; snd Chia may be presumed to depond on tho oxtent of countay and the number ef people comprehonded under ime government,” And yat, though satisfied of all this, and aware of the otherwise disastrous oom- equences to liborty, Archbishop Hughes would ra- joivo to have overy man, womaa, and child, in this broad and glorioua Union, to acknowledge the supremacy of the Pops of Kome, which is pure despotism. ft is, thorefi & necessary BequONCE, that ho would prefer, for t uniry, that kind of ious despotism that ia practised’ at Romo, to that complete and univer asl liberty of conssionce which is practised hore. If not, lot! “Antagonism from without,” havo dofeated ail the purposes of tho ¢ of States, if the convention bad attempted ty favor any one of those forms’’--of religioa--"'at tho ax pense of the othors.’” Here he changes the ground ho took as hiv pool before an audience ignorant of our religio history, which was, that tha question of religious froedom camo up in the convoution, and that if wa established in consoquence of thoir not boing ablo to agroo on any one religion that should be pro- dominant, Now, aa such a thing nover took place im the convention, tt was highly proper in ‘Accabiai Hughes to vary his ground: Mo also said, ab the aim time and place, that he had ‘never found a single instance whore Protestantisin grantod religions freedom whore it waa in its powor to withhold it.” And now he admits that the great mon who framod the constitution of the United States—to which | fives exclusive credit for our religious freedom— * worg almost, if not altogether, exclusively Protea- tants ;’? and that the Catholics wore, in the whole country, in tho proportion of 40,000 to’ 3 000- 000, There was thon no power to hindor tho Pro- testants from excluding Roman Catholica from the onjoyment of religious freedom. And durely tho Protestants of tho #everal States-—which really have the control of tho whole matter-have never boom without power to do the samo thing. Tam not aware that Archbisho; Hunton has over unqualifiedly and unequivocally declared bimaolf im favor of the exorcise of the ay of conscionce hy all people everywhore, a3 froely and completoly as thoy are exercisod with I icnow ho haa said-- not in the lecture und ler consideration—-"" I have alwaya contended for the rights of oonscionce for ull mon, a3 universally as they are recognized in the Amorican Conatitution.” But this amounta to nothing, as they are not recognized at all in the constitution. Ho hee said alao—*‘ I have always proached that every de- nomination, Jews, Christians, Catholics, Protes- tants of every sect and shade, were all entitled to tho entire enjoyment of the freedom of conavionss, without let or hindrance from any other denomina- tion, no matter how small their number, or bow unpopular the doctrines thoy profess.” And this iv equivocal. It might pass very well if he would amond it, by adding after the word * conacionoe”” the words ‘‘in all countries and under all govora- ments, aa completely as it is enjoyed in the United States ;” and for the words ‘* other dedomination,”” aubstitute the words ‘power whatever.” But tho intended to bo understood in the broad and unequi- yoeal senso which the proposed amendments would conyey, 1 cannot understand how he can be a good and faithful Roman Catholic prelate ; for the Pops, in his evangelical letter in 1832. en cathedva, of the liberty of conscien that poluted fountain ‘of * indifference absurd and erroneous doctrine, or rather raving, favor and in defence of ‘liberty of conscience,’ for ich most pestilential error tie course is opened by { entire and wild liberty of opinion, which where attempting the overthrow of religious d civil institutions; and which the unblushiag pudence of some hasheld forth as an advantage of ” He speaks, also, in the same letter, of other of our dearest and most sacred rights, im euch terms as these That pest, of all othors most to be dreaded in a State, unbridled liberty of opinion, licentiousness of speech, and a lust of novelty, which, according to the sexperience of all ages, portend the downfall of the mo: eagle and flourishing empires.” ‘* Hi- ther tends that worst and neveraiticien Uy titie- execrated and detested liberty of the press.” ‘* Nor can we augur more consoling consequences to reli- gion and to government, from the zeal of soma te separate the Church from the Btate, and to burst the bond which unites the priesthood tothe empire. For it is clear that this union is dreaded by the profane lovers of liberty only because it has never failed to confer prosperity on both.” Now, how Archbishop Hughes can approve and swallow all this—as he is in duty bound as a papal relate to do—and be at the same time a sincere friend of our institutions, and wish them God-apeed throughout the world—as he is in duty bound to do as a republican citizen of the United States—is a question above my ability to solve. [ apprehend ib will puzzle the archbis himself. With geoat respect, your obedient servant, Jostan F. Pour. The Tarf. Monier Taces—Founts Dav—Paroar, March 23.— Jockey Club Purse $108, three mile heats. 7. B. Patterson's b. f, Bettie Oliver, by Wagner, dam Minstrel. ie 9 Col. 8. M. TE Llize Jenkins, 5 years obt.... tyre as © Time, 6.017( Sixrn Day—-Satvrvay, March eats, 5 20.—-Purse $100, anfle sch, g. Thunderbolt. by Thornhill, dam inthan, 5 years old 1t er ji of Queen of Diamonds, 4 years old at oe Col. RI. Long's b.g, Saranac, by Gray Hagte, dsm Medoc. 6 years 6 b Z hh of three miles. IL. French’s h ign, out of the dam of Ann Haya pees Col, #. H. Long's ch. by Tonson...... M. iLill's bom. Magie, by Before Reco: \ Arnit 6—The court reopened this morning at U2 o'clock, Joseph Thornton, who was convicted last term f wae called up for judgment. and yprisonment in the State prison, No cases being ‘ready to procead with, the court w- courned to 11 o'clock Wednesday morning Rev Jacket’s Grave.—A movement was lately started in Buffalo, having for its object the erection ofa monument over the grave of the celebrated Indian chief, Red Jucket. A meeting was held, and a proposition made to open a subscription for funds to pay for the monument. At the conclusion of au addices on this topic, oue of Red Jacket’s deseoad- ants, (Dr. Wilson.) arose aud said: Gy sins avy Lanine—I wish to detain you for a mo- ment. Tamone of the descendants of Ned Jacket. 1 } cneak for them. We have been romoved trom our homee » cunning trenchery of the pale faces, Red J et, though pot a prophet. nor the gon of & pro- phet. predieted that the pale faces would drive them fromthe homes of their fathers, and his bones would rest there, But let no pale face touch them, Le forbid, in his last moments, the pale face to follow his remaias when his spirit should leave them to unite with the Great Spirit. So let the white man not touch them. We, the few broken remnants of the Senecas, will bear them away with us, Ife wants no monument from the bands of the white man-he would pot have it, As he forbade the pale fw to follow him to bis resting place, so he 1 forbid (hem to desecrate his bones with their touch. not the white man bestow his unthanked benevo- there. Let not the philanthropist go there, Red Jacket wants no monument, No monument would pre- erve hisnawe. His name will not perish, though Ite have no monument. He lives. He lives in these hearts of ours, and will live as log asone heart beats in tie stofthe red man. ‘the white man has done some- m—he hay surrounded his remains wit 8 placed a marble slab over them. Wh ee by piece the curious visitor has carried ik away, till scarcely one is left, Should the pate faces build hima monument as bigh a they propow to build by 7 rl, it would 10 have placed over him, avd no other, No! Red nto his grave Washington at their © that those people of Bu’ stone would he found one upon t Jacket forbade the pate faces to foll Ked Jacket would not have them descerate his bones now resting there. His predictions that the pale fee iumi- gration would roll over (hese plains mud sweep away his and [a velative of his desoendants, a few say £0 You, white monand whites of Lite After a few days, we ur hands, from this Psatiog plane, weed {lol aot a white mse tough him h tribe is fuldille of whom rem: