The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1852, Page 2

al A Model Diplomatic Note, an and 0 AMES GORDON BENNETT. Nothing but the bustle and turmoil PROPRIWTOB AND BDITOR, tial clestion would have prevents” onee referring to the corresp: SUNCR ¥. W CORNER OF FULTON AND MASEAU ETB. | place, at the close of the Ir AR, Law,: Erq, President aatence which took # Hronth, between Geo. of Uho United States Mail 7 oawance. ite fs ie Buy HERALD oot per ‘oye rapes a bt vompe”” | amd Mr..Conrad, Acting Secre- meorpin tore crams Bettany Rit, Sae | try SCSI: she ontrage ofere tothe Americnn ‘Gontinent born ss iattode the postage. anv 70" ef We | flag, 0” '"4¢ proprietors of the Cressent City, by the tO NOTICE taker of Snemymons Yor munications, We | cO¥or'.al authorities of Cuba, are quite fresh in the OR PRINTING ‘mecuted Pi, neatnens, oheasner, and } ‘memory of our readers None of them have forgot- ten how the Captain General deliberately assumed jurisdiction over an American citizen, and punished him in Cuba, for acts commitied in the United contrast between his manly despatches, breathing the purest 2 @ Prosidea- | honor, and the con! 4 ur more than | the signature of © M Conrad. “AMUEEMEN 7S TU-MORAOW EVENING. 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Deauen La Picke pu Keener Tt Yours Winow. anv Evesine, CHRISTY'S 0 Menernetay By Cunisry's MINSTRELS. woop's way. —E rn M ANSTRELS, Wood's Musical Hall. 444 Broad #9 pian MiNSTRELSY. fork, Sanday, November 7, 1852 New’ The News. ‘The ¢ amp and disagreeable weathcr of the past | Sow da” jy appears toThave operated with as much force apon the electrical wires as upon the nerves of the F sople—at all events, the unfavorable atmos” phe: has materially reduced the quantity of tele- 88 = phie news, and rendered it wholly impossible to s® ; a word of information from some quarters. WH prertucless, this momentary failure of the light- B’ mg machines is more than overbalanced by tho Y mususily varied and entertaining intelligence with mhieh the columns of this sheet are supplied The Crescent City arrived at New Orleans om Bhiday, with the important announcement that the @iffieulty with the Cuban government was not by any means settled, and that although, on the last wip, the authorities permitted her to land her pas- aengersand mails, such courtesy would not again be granted. This is precisely what might hav PERA MOUSE, 472 Broadway.—Ermiorian | | it did not amownt to an offence of which any | passengers on board the Crescent City. {SEUM.—Axvsine Punronstancne a | of State, reciting the outrage, and inquiring wheth- States. Wo necd remind no one that the gentleman thus persecuted partially denied the charges mads against him. Nor need wo appeal to the sciense of a lawyer to show that oven had the acon- eation—the publishing in the United States of news collected at Havana—bveen substantiated, legal tribunal in a civilized country could nave taken cognizance. It isnot necessary that we should explain how this atrocious act ef tyrauny, though levelled at a single individual, was in reality most injurious to the owners of a line of steam- ers plying between Havana and this port, and the On the Gth October, the agent of tho steamship company addressed a letter to the Acting Socrotary er “whilst, the steamers of, other natioas are al- lowed freely to enter the port of Havana, and to maintain their commercial relations and busi, nets intercourse unmolested, the Caban antho- rities are authorized to forcibly exslude or eject American vessels, and especially those employed in the postal servize of tho United States, upon idle assumptions, without contravening the treaty or postal arrangements between the two goveraments and the maritime rights of our citizens.” The let- ter remained unanswered. It was a small matter perhaps to the Consul, but Mr. Law and his asse- ciates had embarked their capital in an enterprise, on the faith of public treaties, and ia full reliaace on the protection of this government, and our citizens, whose business required their presence in Cuba, were from Havana But, as we said, these wore very trifling inconveniences when compared with the iaterrap- tion of Mr. Conrad’s silken leisure, or his partisipa- tien in the sbsorbing turmoil of a political stragglo. A fortnight elapsed, and, a3 the next steamer was to sail on the 27th, the president of the company again sorely embarrassed by the exclusion of the stesmor | and the most sterling sense of temptible effusion which besrs ‘ ‘There is some satisfaction in the thought, that if he is for ever taken yy from us, the gentlemanly language which wo are sure to find in Mr. Byerett’s the coarseness of his immediate predecessor. Tue Bscinwin@ oF THR Sroar.—The artfa dodgers of the Express, having given in their oxpla. pation of the Presidentia?. ¢lection, and having coa- soled themselves with tee reservation that ‘* all is lost exceyt honor,” tae Albany Evening Journal aays:— ©This ‘dodge? of the New York Express will not do. It cannot escape its just respoumbilities by raising false | issues, Having labored for years to divide, distrast aad weaken the wing party, it muy net, when the destruction ef the party bas been accomplishad, east the blame on others. ‘The hopetat brothers who manage the Express, were concerned in disorganizing two whig State oonvea- tions, by means of which logofoco State officers wi ‘Taey were couspicuous. also, in oreanix Castle Garden fuctions, the objest and effect of whi after obtsining ‘forty dollars s year subsoribers,” was to paralyze the whix party.” * * * “6 All is lost exeept honer,’ exclaims the min who ob tained his nomination for Congress by a fraud which would have shamed a serab race thimbieriggor. ‘All ix lost except honer,’ says a priat which, if it ever porsoxed any. reld ic out years ago “Phe general crash. howsver, fs relieved by a few of its features Some of the betrayers of the whig) party havo their reward, The pillars which they 60 auccesstuily un- dermined, have fallen upon and orvshed them.” This is beautiful! How charming it is for breth- ren to dwell together in unity. But how are the Fillmore men, and the Sewardites, to say nothiag of the Webster men—how are they to be blended te- gether into a harmonioas chowder party agaia? Can such a split be reconciled te The fact is, that the Fillmore party, such as they are, are just as free | mow to take their own course as the Webster men. The idea of again attempting a reunion with the | dead carcass of Sewardism is tho most absurd | stupidity. Thurlow Weed soos this. He kaows | that the game isup, aud that the whig party is riven | into fragments. Why not, then, settle ao all the outstanding accounts ef the late firm of Fillmore, Seward and Gompany. wre 8 Tur Bassness or tue Party Press.—The Fourierite Zribwne is horrified, now that the elace tion is over, at the “brutalitios of tho party press” It is thunderstruck at the immenre amount of false accusations which have boen fulmiaated, all over the country against Gen. Scott, and says :—‘‘Suach dehberate and systematic lying by Governors, U. 8. Benators, ex Senators, ex-heads of departmonts, &o., &e , with regard to General Scott’s suggestion { | addressed Mr. Conrad, soliciting a repty to the sto hare roused the Act- nee Wag, pevbape, hoth the most ing Secretary. § been anticipated. The administration at Washing ton having evinced a truckling dis to push the matter still farther, and compe! eren | ‘the withdrawal of the obnoxious vessel from their | Law ;— port. They may yet carry their antipathy a little | toe far for their own comfort. | By way of New Orleans we have some late and vory interesting advices from Mexice, from which we learn that an extra session of Congress was con- | vened on the 15th ult , and that several of the cabi- | met aftachés had been impeached. Revolutionary | schewés wore in progress in all directions; the go- vernment was trombiing at the terrible excitement | of the people, and what was worse than all a French | aqradron was daily expected at Vera Craz to sup port the domands ‘fer payment of the French {| ereditors, and a Spanish man-of- war wasalso looked for et San Francisco to cuforce the payment of the deb s due to the government oi Her Cathelic Majes- ty. Everything denotes that the Mexican States are about drojiping to pieces, and that the United States should be ready to receive them, one by one, as | they become detaehed from the main stem. A despatch from Albany states that Gov. Hunt | jemn treatics, suddenly, without provocation, ex bas dismiseed the complaint made against the State | eludes an American vessel from its ports; and the Prison Inspectors, in whieh they were charged with Department of State does not know, aud appareatly permitting the infliction of the cracl punishment of | does not eare, anything about the matter. Our Tae | treatics with Spain are openly, notoriously violated, | the shower bath upon refractory convicts. Governor ra he officials overjthe knuckles, by re- | marking that be does not doubt that they have been | Law whether the violation is a more acsidental oc- wanting in vigilance, and that some sbuses have | currence, or whether we are he been tolerated that eught to have b a dismissal from office would be harsher treatment than their case requires. There must be something | Conrad fancied Mr. Law had taken an wnwarrant- wrong about this matter; but the difficulty is to asoertain where the wrong is situated. Perhaps lyze the subject. The address of Gov,-Lane, on the oceasion of his inavguration as the Executive of New Mexico, seems to bea very sensible, straightforward doca ment. By it we are informed that tho discontented | ty do to aseertain what is tho nature ef our | dsys. Much interest was felt in England about the feeling which recently existed among the iuha- bitants of the territoay had subsided, and that the | general government had amply provided for their | protect gainst the depredations of the Indians. This b bounteous harvests, and it will not be a great while ere New Mexico is found knocking at the door of the Union for admission to the glorious sisterhood of States. Some very interesting intelligence is to-day givea from South Carolina, viz.: the message of Gov, Means on the opening ef the extra session of the } prudent and the least tcoudiesyme ec tion, inthe | Lawput the matterin cach alight transfer of Capt Porter from the Crescent City, | have eccome even more expressive than words, Mr the Spanish Governor and his aidsare determined | Gonred was forced to & | beon sap. | the treaty as waste paper, and the United States at pressed—yet, at the same time, he thinks that | war with Spain. There isa tone of pettish anney- - | “What can we tell you,” says Mr. Conrad, “ about the next Logielature will take the trouble to ana- | the relatigns between the United States and fereiga arse; but Mr. something, and the fol- letter was accordingly addressed to Mr. Deranrment or State. Wastmcros, Oetober 25, 1852. 1.) New York letter of the 3d instant has been received, As no intelligence has reached this department frown Cuba since that which was brought by your steamor, it has no means of knowing the intentions of the authorities d. other than what you possess yourself and cannot, fore, inform you whether mails or passengers will be permitted to land there or not [t may, howeve: be inferred, from ths past proceedings of the authori (bat mails and presengers conveyed in the steamer Cres cent City will mot be permitted to jaud there im cas the individual named William Sniih should remaia on board of ler, Iam sir, yery respecifally, your ovedient <ervaat, (Signed) C M. OONAD, Acting Secretary. This, we beg to assure our readers, is a bona fide despatch, addreesed by the Acting Secretary of State to an American eitizen, who solicited infor- mation which the department was bound to possess amd protestien which the State was bound to afford . We hardly know whether to admire the matter or the etyle the most. A petty colonial authority, ia | @ country with which we are ullied by the most so” and the Department of State “‘eannet inform” Mr. eeforth to consider ance in the despateh, which looks as though Mr. able liberty in referring to him at ali on the matter. of a ehange iu the naturalization laws, in behalf of old soldiers—euch base appeals to the friends of Clay and Webster to vote against Gen. Svott in or- General D. Carlon de Alvear Minister Plenipotentiary 4» thir government, Wer’, oi brated yesterday evening ia “Veneral of His Excellency, Gen’ 0). car- Jos de Alvear. The religious rites and eeremon' at, preparatory to the nierment of the remains of B’ , Excelleney, Brigadser 4 Bavoy Extraordinary and the Argentine Republie, to Saint Patrick's O° ‘negra Phe funcral was without pa- political papers will soon obliterate all memory of | rade or pomp” 4 any kind, according with the. unostenta- tiout life Lethe deceased. At four o'clock, in the after- 2000, *, large number of gentlemen, with many ladies (he private friends, or official sequaintances of the de censed minitter, occupied seats in the church. At the extreme end of the aisle im front of the grand altar, a lofcy bier was erected, having six towering tapers ranged on cither ride, The bier was covered with » flowing drapery of black velvet The altar was lighted wito twelve tapers, Previous to the arrival of the body at the eburch, the choir cecasionally chaunted verses of @ 90- Jemp grand requiem, which Were responded to by the rubdued notes of the great organ The body arrived from the late residence of the General Broadway, toward five o'clock. the hearse being atteoded by only a few carriages containing the son of the General. the pall bearers, sad chief mourners The vergers of the cathedral met the | cortige at the gate, and led the way to the bior where the hedy wae depositedand the eottia covered with magni- figent pall of black velvet, having # cross of white silx ia the centre Immediately on its being placed upoa the bier, the choir, nesompanted by the organ, rent forth one loud slow, end thriliing note which concluded the ro- quium hymn, and had s most melancholy, yet phasing effect. ‘Tbe Right Reverend Archbishop Hughos, at'ired with mitre ans a@ebiepiroopal robes, and attended by oav priest and #ix neophytes, camo upon the altar in a fow moments, aud kneeling, with the entire congrsgation, made bis memento for the dead. He then desvended from the altar. and standing at the head of tne coffin, read the peculiar exercises suited to tho rad occasion the olier attendants dispevsing incense around the coffin, Having concluded, the Archbishop led the way for po certlon. which was formed, and the body was borns feom the church. The procession marched in the following order; ‘The Right Reverend Archbisho; (with attendant prioat. ‘The sons and relatives of tho deceased. The coffia, With the pall, supported by Vis Excellency, the Portuguese Ambassador; Wis Excellency, General Mosquera, and His Bxeellemsy, General Herran, Ex-Presidents of New Granada; His Exeullescy, General Pacz, Ex President of Venesucla; His Excellency, M. de Marcolete, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister MP aniposiatiany feom Niearagaa: Schuyler Livingston, Keq., argentine counsel ; C, Marie, Esq. ; Jobn C. Zimmermann, Esq Having reached the outside of the church, the body was borne to ihe vaults underneath. and there deposi‘ed 7 Hughes, government of the United Stutes, has been of many yeats standing, whilst his military. official, and Sena- tcrial services im South America, commenced at » very early period of life--so early, that at the age of tweaty- one bo had attained the rank of Brigadier General and hag Giled the important offices of Secretary of State, Minister of War, avd Governor of one of the chiet cities of the repubile. previous to his leaving home to join tho corps of legation ina foreign land. General Alvear was dercended from a family of high reputation ana name fa Spain, but he himeelf was born in the territory of South America, ond ranked amongst the first, if not the first, of the chiefs of the year 1816. His great military achieve ments, at this peried, are cbronicled and told by all who sre Well informed upon the importaut evente of the time, The runguinary battle of Istusango eommensed in the morning ef the 20th of February, 1827, amd der to wreak their vengeance on Governor Sewari— | such persistent and shameless efforts to persuade the | ignorant new comers from Europe that tho triumph of the whiga would be followed by their privation of | the right of suffrage, &c., &¢.—were never equalled | hereafter ” Here is an outbreak of pious indigaa- tion. A stranger to our Sewardite philosopaer would imagine thathe was an innocent man, a virtuous, pure, and incorruptible man, such @ maa as nothing could induce to misrepresent, or blackon, or vilify. the character, especially the private charac- ter, of any political candidate. But what are the facts? Let the published abuge and misrepresenta- tions in the greater Seward organ answer—such as the charges of drunkenness und cowardice, and the Cooney and Robinson inventions on the Qatholic question, ageinst General Pieree; or such as the | desperate attempt to identify an adopted citizen with on imaginury Austrian conspiracy agaiust our republican institutions. The indignation of the | Tribune philosopkers comes too late, but thorg is | now a good opening fog their own repentance and reformation. | \ { | Lanprne or Wintian Penn.—Tho Pennsylvania Historical Society are to celebrate the anniversary of the’landing of the great Quaker on the 8th of November, by an address and public dianer. Wo understand that the Hon. James W. Beekman, State Senator, is to represent the New York Historical So- ciety on this occasion—very appropriately, too, a our Senator is a lineal descendant of one of the ear- liest Dutch governors on tbe Delaware. Marine Affairs, Fex Brinrx.—The steamship Washingtoa, Captain Fite, left her dock at neon yesterday, for Bremen via Bouthempten. | powers Tho Acting Secretery of State is the last | ing pergon in the world to know anythiog abeut foreiga treaties. You may send your steamer to Havana, or not, as you like; but really, we have toa mach relations with Spain.” The couclading senteace @ Mr. Conrad's letter sounds more like a friendly counsel than a piece of offivial informetioa. The Secretary of State “cannot inform” Sr. Law whether ng the case, the prolifiefields of the agri- | Arerican vessels can entsr Cuban ports, but Mr. eulturists and miners may be expected to yield | Conrad shrewdly gue s that as the Crescent City had been turned out before, she would be turned ou, agein. That is his private opinion, and knowing, as he did, the supinences of his government, it was entitled to every weight. If the harbor authorities of Liverpool, on the strength of private informatio™ | | to the effect that Captain Comstock or Captain Nye had been heard to express decided opinions on tke | Legislature for the purpose of casting the vote of | yascally custem house of that port, were to refuse the State for Presidentiul electors; another message apnouncing the loss to the mation in the deaths of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster; the resolutions ef bereavement adopted by the Legislature; a epsech from Senator Rhett, in which he feelingly alludes to the eminent character and talents of Mr. W.and a letter from the same gentlemaa in which he eff tually repudiates and puts to rest the gross insin tion that Mr. W. “ made ne pretenzions to piet, Whatever my have been hitherto said concerning | jp the secersion principles of the South Corolinians, these worthy marks of respect for our departed | statemmen speak volumes for their patriotic love of | country. While yet in mourning for the loss of Calhoun, they are trebly grieved at the departure | of bie great compatriots in the nation’s couneils— Clay and Webster. An interoeting case of the alleged purchase and | dooming to bondage of eight free born psople of oolor, is pending before Judge Paine, in the Supreme Court. The parties arrived in this city from Virginia, and their release is demanded ao- cording to the law of ISi1. The claimant swears they are slaves, the property of his wife, whilst tho philanthropiets ineiat that they were free born, and sold to slavery ; and also, that even if born slaves, they are entitled to their freedom in this State, when they are not fi ves from labor. SEwaRD AND THE PLat Btate, it is possible that it may be larger than the | majority of General Pierce over Goncral Scott, for | painful to refer to the fact—but it would be worse fin the single county of Oswego the vote for Hale wos over 2,000. It would be remarkable if, not- | wijhstanding the heavy plurality of General Pierco, | their onM.—Though we hare | ight their own battles, with the prospect of being received very few returns of Hale’s vote in tts | apprehended as fil/busteros if they defended their | amarticle, in which certain nameless parties were jt should be overbulanced by the vote for Ifale. In 1844, she abolition vote for Birney of 15,000 was, | the administration had not evinced a proper degree of doubtiow, the defeat of Mr. Clay, so, in 1418, was | spirit on the Cuban affuir, and it was gravely as- the freoud,' vote for Van Buren the defeat of Venera’ Cass. But, betwes 2 Seward and the Baltimore whig platform, Genes ‘@! Scott has been singularly unfor- | ¢unate. His hig. standing with the Seward pariy plead alienated the Sout », in spite of the Baltimore form, while bis acce, *400% of the nomination, “with the resolutions annexad,” killed him with the Lonost abolitionists. In the same way, while his native American documents deo ve of the aliens, his late attempts to covciliate “that rich jIrish brogue” | alienated the natives. Carrying eprulettes and | carrying water, on bouh shoulders, are two different | things, cepecially when the atiompt is made to carry | the loss we have suffered in the death of Mr. Webster. Gomera’ | Had that great man till Ged the ch ) @ ecuple of back 3 op cach shoulder. \ to allow the Collins steamers to land their mails and passengers, My. Acting Secretary Courad would, in all probability, tell the indigaant company that he “could not inform” them what wore the commercial relations between this country and Great Britain, and would guess that the offending captains had / | better not * ry it qgain.” We need to assure foreigners that eur Seoretaries of State do not usually speak of respectable citizens the impertinent language uscd by the Acting Seo- retary withrespect to Mr. Smith. Mr. Conrad may claim the honor of having been the firs’ to designate, | in an official despatch, a worthy man and a gentleman as “the individual named William Smith.” If we were to characterize this language as indisputable | evidence of the ill broedmg of “tho individual | named ©. M. Conrad,” the Acting Secretary would conceive himself ill-used, and we should be justly | ecasured for our waut of courtesy. Wo shou however, be guilty of no greater breach of deooram than Mr. Oourad himeelf. To pass from these trivial matters to consider. | ations of more importance, Mr. Villmore’s adminis- tration plainly declined, en the 25: October, to afford that protection to her citizens which Great Britain, France, and Austria, have never denied to | The Secretary deliberately let the country know, on that day, that our merchant navy must | own rights and che honor of the mational flag. Itis to allow the country to remain in ignorance of it. On the 27th the Washingtom Republic pablishel severely handled for having dared to sappose that eerted that ‘‘ high ground had been taken” by the cabinet. On Monday, the Acting Sceretary of Btate not only shirks the responsibility of his office, and declines to protect our citizens, but absolutely ignorance of the whole matter. On Wednos- day the government organ protests, indignantly, that the same Acting Secretary has taken “high ground” on the aispute. Between the two, our readers will not have much dificulty in deciding which is ex to the groater weight. If the Republic was the most politic, Mr. Conrad was, wa- questionably, the most honest. Every day furnishes new grounds for lamenting arn Fwott Les fallen, and his plasivem Was wot broad | when Mr. Law appliod for protection and redross, Gurugh ape bo pieces. how diffescut would hayg born bis ecj'y. Waata ’ | and carrying out of a ratiway in Broadway should hay Tue Stramsuir Sournenwen, Captain Fester, arrived | yoeterday morming from Charleston, in 60 hours, bring- us files of late Charleston papers. - Tnx Curren Race.—The British clipper Chrysolite was | reported by the iast European steamer to have arrived | off Liverpool on the 22nd October, from China, in 105 | passages of eeveral clippers which left Chine about the same time. They were the American clippers Surprise | and Racehose, and the British clippers Stormaway and Chrysolite, The two latter lefcon the 9th July, the | Stormaway bound to London. The Racchorse left on the 15th, for Liverpool, and the Surprise om the 19:h, for London, It is likely our next traszatlantic news may | give the arrival of one or both of the American versels. | It #0, they will have beaten their competitors by sevaral days. Dratn or aw Oun Sea Cartarx.—Captain James 1, Wilson, for great many years eniling out of this port, died on Thursday, aged 54 years, His serviees com- menced with the establishment of the first line of Livers | pool packets, by the late firm of Isase Wright and Co., | | at the termination of the Inst war with England. lis the evening saw the army of General Alycar tri- umphant over a large force of the best disciplined troops of the Portugaese army remeining ia 6razil, Upen the 22d of May, 1827, he fought the importavt aad | well-contested battle of Camacua, and was rewarded wich aroiber gold medal for bis valor upon the ovcasion, Upon the 12tt of June, 1827, he carried the strongly fortitied, aud neatly impregnable, city of Montividyo by assanit, before, and we trust will never be paralleled | heading bis troops in perron, For thishe revived a gold | | medal and clasp the medal bearing the name and date of the victory. Ilia personal prowoas, at Istuseago, Was rewarded by & third massive inedal of gold, whilst bis ha- mave conduct, unassuming demeanor, and religious al tenticm co @ number of Spsnich ‘prisoners, in his power, endeated him to the natives of tbat country, aud Clevated his character, as a Christian philanthropist and warrior, to the highest pitch. The first offfsial conueo- tion which General Alvear had wich the goverament of thie republic commenced in the year of elghteen hundred and twenty-four, when he was appointed to the same high | offtee he lately held. He bad previously acted as repre- tentative of the Argentize confederation ia London. After an absence of come years, spent in the service of hie country, Hie Excellency returned. with the same ofll- cial rank. in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and diveharged the duties of his office up to the time of his lamented decease. His diplomatic eervioes were 80 appreciated by the present government of the Argea tine Republic, that, upon the 23d of last August, a letter was forwarded to him here, accrediting him as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordiaary to the Court of France, the bighest and most confideatial post of Icgation waich it could appoint to. This letter arrived too lute, a8 death-sickness had Inid Bold of the geliamt coldier and grave councillor of the State, at that time. Ils Excellency died, after # tedious illness, upen Tuesday last, and the news of his decease prodused a profound sensation of griefin the diplomatie circle at Warhivgton, which has found expression in leiters of condolence, ‘addreteed by euch member, to his family. ‘The Argentine Minister, in that city, His Excelloncy ¥, Molina, writes. oxpressing “his estegm™for the (General's public abd rivate character, his doeg sorrow for his loss, and regrets his inability, from ill . to attend his funeral.” His Excellency, Genem Mosquera, regrets the denth of the “illustrious welder,” and Lis Excelieacy. P. A. Herran, says. “we have lost a glorious monument of South Americas independence” The Spasish minister, His Excetlency, Calderom de la Daren. “regrets him for his many virtucs, whieh he admired, and depiores the losa of the aid of his talent aud tact to the corps.” The Peru- vien minister, II. Y de Orma, ‘regrets the death of the ilvustrious General. and the loss of ro distinguished a coun- cillor.” The deseased minister was about sixty-five years of age, amd ali agree in representing him as a man of the most profound piety, humble in manner, brave in the battle fleid, and cool and discriminating in the cour- cilehamber. A Ned general feeling of sympathy was expressed towards his family yesterday. Case of alleged Slavery. SUPERIOR COURT—IN CHAMBERS. Before Hon Jadge Paine, EIGHT COLORED PERSONS, ALLEGED TO BE FASE BORN, SOLD TO SLAVERY —EXOITING SCENE Noy, 6—This day, about 12 e’clock, eight eolored per- some, one men shout 18 yenrs of age, twe women, net more (ban 18 or 19, with an infant each at the breast, and three children, the oldest about seven years old, were brought betore Judge Paine on Aabcos, grauted under the following eircumstances :—It appears, frou the statemen; of the petitioner, whose name, strange to say, is Lonis Nepoleen, that those eight colored persoms arrived at this port frem Virginia in the steamer Rishmond City, whence Uney were taken Coe boarding house, No, 8 Uarlisie street ‘The petitioner rays that they are held under pretence that they are slaves, and that they have, as the petitioner is informed and believes, been bought up by a negro trader or specuiator called Lemmon, by whom, toget- e with the aid of the man keeping the house whose name is unknown, and waois an agent of said Lemmon, they are held and confined therein; and that said negro trader intends very shortly to ship them to exes, and teere to rell and reduce them to elayery ; that the ille career for thirty years was very successfal, never having | had to call upon bis uudereriters for indemnity for | damage to any of bis vessels during all that time. Lavxensen At Warren, Me 90th ult , | Spear, « fine bark of abouy 36 | Star, by Mr Anron | 1) tons, called the Morning | City Intelligence. Tae Wratien during yesterday was wet from early | morning, witm very slight intermission, up to late at night. A cold, chilling biast reeompanied the rain, The thermometer at the Mrnatn bul'ding ranged at neon 6335 degrees; at 3 P.M. 63 degrees, and at 5 P.M 63 degrees. A heavy atmosphore hamgs around the city, At night, late hour, wet strects sloppy. and disacroe. able There is wo appemamce of clear weather, but the health of the city remains good Tie Broanway Rarcway —Tho comaittee of the B of Aldermen appeinted to conrider of the Broudway rail ‘Way proposition. amet in the City Wail, per adjourn yesterday morning. Mr Whiting addresed the ¢ in opposition to the railway; and after that tleiman hed concladed his remaske, Mr. Davis request that the petitions of the persons, (himself amo | the number.) who had made | ioe | ouet @ Mere for the construction | equal consideration with the original | | ing for bimeelf he was prepared to g | rit roporition, Spo ve all propsr nd to allow every property owner to come that agreement on the fair busis he had set forth | Snemer to a question as to which waa ¢ | to address tition to, Mr. Alderman Sturtevant re- | | plied that the Common Council was the only body that | | could take those offers. He (Mr. Sturtevant) would, be | | very happy to prerent the petition. Some farther oon. | yervation took place relative to this mater, aftor which Mr. Field rose, on bebalt of the original applicants. and in | the course of a long speech made several sarcastic allue | sions to the inconsistency of the remonstrants, in con. | demning in toto the idea of a railway in Broadway, ani | then making large offers for the privilege of constrdesing | what they 80 much deprecated. Ie argued thet | should not have that grant accorded to them ia pr ence to the original petitioners, because it was n pu mentary rule to acoord such favors to those persons who | first mide claim, and who followed that claim up at the | fuctifice of time and money. Mr. Field then went over the general question of the advisability of a railway in Broadway, and. in taking all the objections serie'éin took ccoasion to reiterate the facts and figures brought for- ward by Mr. Sullivan, When Mr. Field had eonsluded, tome eoaversation took place between the chairman uad | Mr Davis, relativo to the time when the committee would male their report, for which no tite could be specified, after afew words from Alderman Sturtevant, tho com, mittee rose, : into | In he proper quarter they | | | q | retained; and that as ne | enuse to the contrary, and would wait a little time to see | eidenee for themeeives and the eal gailty of their restraime and detencion consists in the fact, as petitioner is advised aud believes. that they are not slaves but free persons and ensitied to their fresdom ; | that the petitioner cannot have ecoss to tham to have them sign a petition, but they dosice their fceedom and | are unwilling to be taken to Texas or into slavery, and that their place of destination has been changed since the | Proceedings in this cave were evinmenced, The habeas was exeeated by off of the Recond ward police, by whom they were conducted into court, Mr. Culver. wko appeared as counsel for the alleged alayes, moved their discharge, on the ground that, having been brought into thie Stace by (heir master, thay ware free by thet ect; that by the act of 1841 slavery in this State was abolished even for the nine months term; that these persous rere not fugitives from labor under the United Stas constitution, aad hence not Liable to be Javery was recognized by New York ...ws theese persons wore entitied to theic freedom, Judge Paine said be should certatuly hold then en- titled to their liberty unless come ene apperred to chow if the clsimast would come forth and shew auything againet their discharge. ‘The claimant having been served with notice, appeared shortly afterwards in court and consulted ‘with Mr. Henry D. Japangh. his counsel, who proceeded to draw up a return to the holeas, The claimant, in the moan. time asked the females whether they would rather go to Texes or remain here, They both answered that they would rather be cet free Mr. Lapaugh thea putin the following return, sworn Jonathan Lemmon, the respondent, who states that the eight persons named in the writ of haheus corpus, are the property of Juliet Lemmon, the wife of the res- pendent, for whom they are now held and retataed hy this respondent, ‘That the said Juliet Lemmon has been the owner of the enid porrons, or thoir parenta, for about four years last puet, eud she is now on her way to Texas, to which place, or State the deponent and his wifo are now going for the purpose of taking up a permavent re- Persons above men- tioned, who are now owned by the eaid Julict as her slaves: that the aid Juliet is not a negro trader; that the raid slaves wore inherited by heras heir and descend- ant of William Doagias, late of Thath county, in the State of Virgimia; that it is not the intention of the said Juliet to roll the seid tlaves, as alleged in the petition of the relator. This Teepondent therefore denies that the sald persons are free; but on the contrary, states that they are tlavos, of Whom the said Julict i entitled to the cus- William Thomp:on, | A aicoourse coveted by the sath of Rev. J. Addle formerly partor of. thé West Reformed Daioh Shhich iw Bleecker ‘street, will bo delivered by the Rev. Jos. WeKee, the present pastor, this atterneon. Rev. mes aes aint — e vi soy thie evening at apel on 2.48 Ipre’ in connection wih the death of the lion. Daniel Webster, Right Rev. Bishop Wainwright, of this dloeess, will de. Jiver a diroouree this evening, in the Free Chureh of the Holy Martyrs Ludiow siseet. pear Grand, The usual | quarterly collection will be take up. ! Rev. PB. 11. Chapia’s cocis'y will hold their retigloas | services hereafter in the eburch of the Divine Unity, in | Broadway. afternoons aud evenings. INVITATION. j Rev Jobn Eiliot bas been called to the 0. 8. church in Wihiameburg, Pa. ACCEPTANCES. Rev George 8 Wiewell, agent of the Union Theologt eal Geminsry has accepted a call from the Second Pres- byterian church in Peekrkill, Mr. W. will retaim eon- nection with the Seminary until the lst of January. Rey. John Davis, late sgent of ths American and Fo reign Bible Scciety bas accep'ed the invitation of the First Baptiss church, Yarmoath, Nova Scotia, to labor among them ia» co-psstorate, aud enters immediately upon the duties of hie new sphere, Rev. Dr, Long, late of Western Reserve College. bis ncoepted the appoiutment as Riehards Professor in the Theciogical Seminary at Aubarn, N.Y, and entered upon bis duties. Rev. Israel 8. Twombly. Intely a student of Lane Se- mimary. has accepted a cali to the churel in 8t, Cisries, Misscuri The Rey Tertius S. Clarke, late of Stockbridge, Mass. has accepted a call to the pastorate of thy First Orthodox Congregational eburch of Franklin. Rey. 8. White, of Brookiyn. has accepted the esti of Zion's Baptiet church of this city, to become their pastor, and entered upon his labors. INSTALLATIONS ‘The Rev. E. Y. Switt, lace of Northampton, was imstall- ed pactor of the Firet Congregational chureh in south Hadiey on the 8d of November. Rey. Hiram Eddy was installed as byterian chureh in Ehioottville, N. bytery, September 220 ‘The Rey. R. B. Westbrook was installed pastor of the astor of the P: +) by Buffalo Py Presbyterian church in the city of Burlington, N. J, on the evening of the 28th ult, Rev. Henry M. Parsons was installed as pastor of the 0.8 church in Warrior Run, Pa. the 18th ult. Rev, Thomas 8. Hastiogs, of the Yourth Presbytery of New York. was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church in Mendham, N. J., by the Rockaway Presbytery, on the 27th ult. ORDINATIONS. Mr. R. J, Wilson was recently ordained to the work ef | the ministry at Stenington, Comn., and installed at pas- | tor of the Baptist church in that town. RESIGNATIONS. Rev. Dr. Cummings has resigned the Presidency of M‘Kendree College. Il bosith and domestic affiietions are the reasons assigned. The trustees will ill the vaoaz- cy as soon as poseible The Rev G. 6 Perry, B.D. has resigned the reetor- ship of St, Paul’s, Cleveland, Ohio. ‘The Rey. T. L. Breckenridge has resigned the pastoral care of the Baptist Church in Sreeport, aud is now leea- ted at La Bulle, Tl ‘The Rey. Edwin ©. Brown, of Wabash, Ind, om ac- ‘count of ill Beulth, has been reluctantly compelled to ra- tire from the Wesiern field, upoa which he had so re- cently re-entered. The Rey Charles H. Disbrow, having reeeived and ac- cepted weal to the rectorship of All Suints parish. Cal vert county, Md, has resigned the charge of St. Mury’s pariech The Rev. FE. Waslen, baving resigned the charge of Wigton, N. B. ‘been received into the diovess sylvania, by letiers dimiseory from the Bishep of gow. Je DISMISSED. The Rey. G W. Coons has been dismissed from the torate of thechureh in Memphis, Tenn. Rov. Win. Rove, from Bethiehem, Pa. ev. H. R, Uannoivk, frose Fulton, Pa. Rev J.T, Umste¢, from Muscat RELEASED. ‘The Rey. Dr. Murgrave hax hy» volvaced feom the pos \timore, toral charge of thiré (0. $] ch ‘The Rev. Dr. D. McKinney Deen released from the past | that place. idaysburg, Pa, he { the O. 8. chuveb in DEATHS IN THE MINISTRY. Rev. 7.8, Hict, of the Methou: Episcopal Chureh. formerly of Wasbington County. Md. died in Mount Morris, Ogle Councy, Iinois, on the 232 of September. Rev, Henry Beiden, of Porichester, died om the 27th ult., of consamption, in the 68th year of his age. The Rev. Ernest Glaamac, of the Congregation of the | terist Convent in Detroit, Mich., of cholera, om the 19: a NEW CHURCHES. ‘The corner stone of the new south Baptist Church, im Hartford, Comn., was laid on the 3d inst. 8t. Paul's church, in Detroit, Mish. will soon be in | Readiness for occupancy. There ix no more tasteful, and few more imposing churches in the country. amd itis onownoed by its worthy rector, Bishop McUoskrey, to | have few cuperiors among the parish ehurches, even of tho | great city of London. The Presbyterian society in Woleott, New Yerk, have nearly completed tasteful and comumodious house of worship ‘The Presbyterian church of Newark, New York, have commenced the erection of a large and elegant brick | house of worship | _ A new Presbyterian church. gathered by the laborers 0” | | Rev Mr. Dermot, is avout to be orgualzed te Philadel- phia. MISCELLANEOWS. ‘The loeation of the Baptist Theological Seminary fer | the northwest has beem ixed at Galesia, whereas son iterable sum of inowey has been pledged for igs wxe. ‘The probabilities are that it will be renay fer opera:ion at no distant day. | he Right Rev. Bichop Eostburm held an ordiaation on the lst inst. (the Festival of All Saints) at Trinity Chureh, Besten, when the Rev. Charles F, Homer way | admitted te the holy order ot priesthood, | A new order of Methodists, eomposad of presehers and | people formerly belonging te the Methedist Episcopal , Church, coming wp in Virgimia. They adhere to Me | thedist dostrimes, bat adopt the Congrogational form of | government. They object to the govermment of the | Methodist Episeopai Church. b cause it possesses not the lements of a republican term ef govermment. | | The wext annual conference of, the MW. Church will | be held in Lynchburg, Va.. on the 19th of Oetober, 1663. The Sywod of South Carolina have received, by an | almost unanimous vote, the Chazlestom Unioa Prosbytezy @ into their connexion. Rev. J. L as was formally recognised as pastor of the Wasbiagton Avenwe Baptist church, Breoklyn, on the 2d inst. | The Vermont Bible Society held ita anniversary at Montpelier the Jost week in October. The mocting was | one ef unusual harmony und interest. | Phe services connected with the reoognition of Mr. Burlipgham se pastor of the Harvard street chureh in | Boston. were heid last Sumday evening, in the precence | ofa large and deeply interested audience, Rev. L, Rathbun bas teken the pastoral eare of the Baptist church at Wesifield, Chautauque county, W. ¥., | and not Jamestown, as reported. | Superior Court—Special Torm, Decisions Ey eee Judge Boswerth. Nov. 6.—Gould vs ‘arty. — Motion to strike out anewer on account of defendant's refusal to comply with an order directing bim to furnish eopies of eertain papers, | granted. : Rich at als vs. Hassen et als.--The plaintiff! , having re- eovered im an action of assumpsit, pending when the code took effect. the precise sum of $60, it is held thet the | defendant was entitied to fal! costs, and that the demages end $20 costs, which have been awarded to the plainsiff on motions, be offset against the costs of the defendant, and the residue of defendant's costs be collested om ex- | ecution | Ray vs. Thompeon.—Motion to dimnise complain’ granted, unless plaimtifl in ten days file security for co-ts, and serve copy bond, according to ate, om devundant’s attorney, and psy $10 costs of this motion | De Mier vs Andrews et al.--Motion for apy tment of receiver, with usual powers of receivers appointed on pro ceedings supplementary to execution, grauted. Boyer to | be enjeiaed from disposing of newigned prepeity uniil appointment of receiver can be effecved and suit brought to recover the property Van Dyke vs Betton — Motion for reoetver gonied with | $10 costa. to abide the event. Morand vs. Goudet et als --Motion to yacate order of arrest granted, with $10 costs, to abide the event, om defendants stipulating not to bring avy action in con- fequence of any arrest under the ¢ | Hichards vs O'Brien —Defendant may have ten days in which to notice and present for retilement, on pay. ment of $10 costs of motion; unless such notice be given and costs paid, motion to vacate order staying proceed- ings fr granted, with $10 costs. St John vs. Jenkins Motion for tnjauetion granted restraining defendant until the 16th of November, inst., from excavating soil on No. 22 Franklin street, or tnter- fering in any manner with the buildiags thereon, or with the enjoyment by plaintiff of privilege of acoeas to and uve of the vard and Croton water. Costs of the motion to abide the event. Drummond § Co. vs. Hassan § Co,--Order on decision at General Terma seitled Plaintiffs to have ton days to reply to the portion of the answer demurred to, on pay- mcnt of $10 costs, Coak vs. Cook et als —Demvurrer overruled, with libert: to plaintiff to amend her complaint as she may be ad- yired; and if she do not eloct to amend, with Iberty to defendants to answer the compleint within twenty days. or the amended complaint, if one be sorved. Costs ‘on demurrer to ubide the event, Wood, receiver, vs Lambut et als —This action will be set tody and possession Mr. Lapangh then arked for aa adjournment of tho | ease until Monday morning | ‘The Court said it was an important care, and one of considerable intcrest. 1% would be better therefore, that | Neds Py | there should be no haste used in the matter, and he ae pe alte af ab tying child which had | would direct it to stand adjourned until Monday morn. puree, at elate hour on Eridwy ake en dererted by tts | jog. at 12 o'clock, the parties to remain in the care of the sare, oO lete howe on BesGay Right, and Jeftatthehouse | officer. aud ample provision to ve provided for thom by y y Ag ndlage fo ery of tho | the claimant. pret ge He bead Ue [iad ene. es “thet | ‘We understand that the fomates are not married; but | Brith. 406 ‘Tenth avenue, the sue ight, whore It lund. | Goes tice the mother of tare of thew, ay = been abandoned by some heartless pe: known. The officers of the same Alinshouse, psccinet—A young man. named Lewis loyed ina grocery store at the corner of Fulton and | Gold strecte, asa clerk, sustaine] « tad a | leg, Friday afvernoon, b; wee sf Goes satdog reOa OF persons un- ward took it to the | Righer, om: men who were buried the other the mother of threo of them. The ciroumstance | of thelr arrest was not mupb known, and there were con- sequently but few persons ineourt amovgst whom there were only three colored perrone. 0 —The bodies of the three he caving {a of an ore mine in | | Bones Recover Y Means of & barrel of flour rolling | Whitehall, Pa. were found on Wednesday week, afver upon him. “He was conveyed to the City Hospital, digging falthfuily for thom since the me of the accident. Farat Fatt—A carpenter, named Robert Marshall, | They were all near together, and so crushed that it ie employed upon a new building on Fifth w between wenty sixth ond Tan'y covenib cstroost, wo iSomeabs fell from the fifth story to the sesond. at balf part twelve o'etock yesterday morning He wow killed instaat'y, The Corus Woe WOLICE 10 bold an inguset, fuppored they were killed instantly, From the fn Whldb they were fan. and ran a* soon aa they raw the earth moving and {t ie faid that Sf one of them could have got four fost facthur Ie wie Wonka Dave been eure d. tion tbh hy rered J, is io vi idea! ina | reepond to the popolar down for some in third week of term, sulting con- venience of the parties. for a final hearing on all the ques- tions arieing in {t, Hither party on the hearing will make such as be deems expetient, as to materinl allega- tions controverted by the pleadings and mot embraced in the issue already passed upon by a jury Williams vs. Astor Mutual Insurance Company ~ Motion to strike ont parte of the complaint granted. with liberty pedo to amend complaint in — dvys. as he may be advined, Exumrtion or Inpustry or ALL.NATIONS AT New Yoru —On Saturday last, Mr Solicitor General Chauveaa, metaber for the county of Quebeo, introduced memorial, very extensively and respectably vigned by the inhabitants of this city, praying the Legixtature to Cory’ loudly expressed on this subject, by assisting, with» provincial grant of money, the attempts now making for the representation of Ca. nada on the above occasion, favorably recommending the prayer ot such petition ina well conridered speech. Wo understand the matter ie favorably looked upen by the ha ‘issoat universal pt m of mMgbio.t doubt but that steps wil! be taken Im arcord | | | | the Wroueet oe LP ened Th wae pe of business now posondit Chronicle, Now, Most Holy Redeemer departed this life 1a the Kedemp- — MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR ON THE OFBHING OF TBR Gentlenenof the Sonate and L have deemed it wy duty to occasion, to enubie the Sta'e co cast of President aud Vice Presiarmt of Some doubts beve beew en «1. the constitutional power of the govern! Legislature tegethes tor the por le to constitution autlerizes the Gover goaveae Legislaiwe on es'racrdinsry oceasi na has been keriously mooted whether Div ts am extraordimasy Os- carion. as the Legis avure were awa e of the that would bappes and vu.d* o have This may be tbe cuse, but it ts evident that mo tion was made avd that the state wi ite vote: io care I were to negiot or refuse to call you together. Ithink that any deun. which may baye arisen en the subject bas no tes) foned4-ion 1 truth, It seems) me~ that the clear mesuiuy of the constitution it that the: Governor ehenld beve power tee avene the to transact any busines: ‘or the good of the wealih, which could not bs tranmsoted a: its régeler se3- sion Acting uncer vie beliet of the sorrectness ef this | con-truction I bare oviled soa together Lam emstalned: F t | | | | in the propriety of this cours» by che precedeas set by | that phe juriss ex Governor Johawa The agt ef Gon- | grose, requiring the vo eo tor eecters to be eat en the | fame duy thsoughous the Usted States, was pased om | opuary 2 ist8. aud Governor Jobasen convened the Legisiagure on the fret Yomtey of November, 1848. So. you Will perceive ibal two rovulur sessions Rad imter- Yened between the date of ie ach of Comgress and the | convening of ihe Legiixtars which cercalaly, made that. extraordinary town this, Tthiak I acy | els tustwined Mm tbe course I have pursued by the genie of the, Legisial aie iteelt; for bas any doubts been emter- +f she Governor to eonvene like thin the Touare to make other pro- eof Che state, would tavolve a neglect of ducy too Gagran® even (0 suppose thom of, [beresih traurinst to you «report from the decre~ tary of the Interior, which shows chat by the sevem:h ernens our Btsie wit a us umber to Congres. This will involve the necessity of reedfetricting the State. Whether you will perforc: thi: daty mow, or a¥ your re- gular restion, is a matior for your Owa considerawien at discretion. MESSAGE OF GOV. MEANS IN RELATION 30 THB DEATH OF HENRY CLAY ASD DANIEL WHBSFER. Jo: ummia, Nov, 2, 1852, Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatiees t— | tained hy ir #s to the power it for a purport Visions for casing she 1 foel it my duty officialiy to sauounce to yos the deaths of two of out mest illustrieus «tviemen, Henry Cay end Daniel Webster. which bave occu tines your last meeting ‘Thue in she epacs of «ree short years, have parred away fcom tle stage of aviion, three of the great- est pames that bave ever adorned ube hisiery of eur country. Calhoun, Ciay end Webscer, were names which were upon every lip for pratae or blames, te the peewliar political tenets of those who prenoi then. ‘Vhey were the ehinivg stars of vur republic. @neby one they have been extinguished, 2s though they were mot permitted to chine bui ty conjurcsion. While we mourned the loss of our own Calhoun we should not withhold eur homege to the intellectnal power and worth of bis great com prers—cr refuse to mingle our tears with Kentacky or Mareachusetts. o'er the tombs of their faverite sons. Differing, it is true. upom the agivating sabjests ef the dey, now that the grave hae clo-ed over them, we forget whatever of fiailly was incident te their mortality, and only remember them ae ths great intellesteal Nights which rhed a halo of glory around the history ef our oom- mon country. RESOULTIONS PASSED BY THE LEGISLAPURA OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN RESPONSE 70 Fit @@~ VERNOR'S MASSAGE Be it resol Chet the General Assembly ef South Carolina deplores the bereavemects which have fallen datacy st large. in the decease ef these il- d eminent orators amd statesmen, Henry Clay end Daniel Webster; and that whilst we have recslied to us the memory of sorrows meaver home, it bub adds to the pognauey ot our grief te kmow that others mourn a8 We bave mouraed. Retolved, Tbat we oiler, wich fraternal feelings, our condolence to our eo Stator of the Union on this sonrow— ful eccasion. sad mure particalarly do we tender it te the Commonwealth: of Kentacky end Massachusetts Resolved, That his Exovilenoy the Govermor be re- quested to eommunics:c a copy of bis meaags te the General Arrembiy. tegether wih the foregoimg resolu- tions, to the Executives of Kentucky and bmsetts. ‘A similar action was bad in tie Senate, where te reao~ | lutions, seconded by Hon F. J, Moses, were adopted, | SPEECH OF R B RUETT ON THR DEATH OF MR. | g fi vn The following elo. Hon, RB. Rhett at the inceting eonve din to pay a tribute erresp: to Me Webster:— vr Mayer—wy distinguished friend who offered the rerolutions, remarked tbat bet few of these prosent had | had the opp tunity :f knowing Mr Webster tn society, | or had heard bis grea: eiforts inthe Senate. TI lear, sir, that Iam the only peicon preseat who has had the op- portunity be aludes to, and it way, therefore, net be im~ proper for me (0 address a fow words te this meeting ex- | pressive ot my esteem of ihe great dead. One whe saw | deep into the responsibilities of our being has asid:— | SNe maz liveta uoto himself or dieth unte bimselt > This is true of the hatablest as well as the greatest oftus. Iu the usual couree of things. every human being must: be in association with others; and every human being, therefore, must exerci-e rome influence for good or evil upon the conduct, character, or destiny of oles. But this great trath is more 63; fisgrant in public men # cee government fests epom virtue end iatejligence of the people ; and ip repal | their public mom are their epieries, Known and sead of | mon. Not merely in the splendors of oratery, or the de- yelopement of mizBty thonughte, cr the measures of mas- terly statesmenrhip but in ibe humbler, but net less potent influences of privaie character and private duties, the public man lives for his country, Mr. Webster was | aetriking exempiification of these truths His influence ‘was very great. Avastatesman, for forty years he stood the unrivalled inteilectual leader of the constitutional policy he advocatei—a policy. whether for good or evil, estiaed, I. believe. to be the mtded policy of the con- federacy. As ®+ceuker of Engli bh heeurpaseed, I think, ali his cotempcrasies. either iu this eountry or in Euro As an orator, be leaves in his sperch om Foo! tione, the greatest oratorical cMort ever made by am Ameri- can statesman Not only im bis «pseckes, but in all the effusions of bis mind, there iva dignity, purity, aud moral elevation, which filing the mid with aréent adaira- tion, indueed the pardonable appeliation of being god- like. In his private chara hatever may have beem his failings, his death i: 1, as it his atonement. Free of every stain of our frail humanity, he doubtless now enjoys # biissfal immortalicy. the heat and dast of the courre is behind bim, and he has won the prize—the only prize wor'h living or dying for—the glorious prise of acceptance with God. Doubilees he had frailties; but with all his fraiities he had but little of thet greatest of sll our infirmitics—peronal reltichners. No man ever hada more jree and genercus nature. His heart was open as day to meitivg charity His hand was ever ex- tended to relieve misfortupe. or comfort the miserable im calamity. Living as I did, in the same community with bim for rcveral years, mony invtences of his unknown: and unostentstious Rindness and charities to the ve humble come tomy knowledge. Cfhis domestie habi- tudes, I know but little; but Lam sure, from what I know, that he was of a very rincere. affectionate and moble temper in all hix private tions. He buricd his daughter near bis house ab Marchfeld, as he said to « friend, ‘that I might every day look upom the place where the lies”? Public life abe: rbiag and exhaustit as it is to the gentier affections of our natare, had a turned his heart from its oply seuree of happiness—tho- love we receive or trer to others But, Mr. Mayor, it is not our purpose, hor is it the privilege ofany of us to eu- logize the great man whore departure we are assembled. to commemorate. Tbat will be dons by others who knew him far more intimately, and therefore can far better per+ | form ro grateful a (ark. We come to disebarge a duty to the illustricus dead. In republics publle lite must al- ways be the most srdtous, as it ty but too often the most thankless, of services. Did rot Mr. Webster fool thie in the silent depths of a rlighted and wounded eprit? Liberty was never won, and eonnot bo preserved without irs mertyrs The Presidential lau- rel has not adorned the brows of Webster, Olay, or Oal- boun; but 4s each of them has cropped from amor us, thousands beve felt asif the fabric of the eonfederacy st ook to its fonndations, Each of them stood, in the ea timation of millions. a mighty clement of power and pas triotiem, which would Mit up and avsare the heart im all | Cifficult emergencies. They are gone —each as ho depart- ed looking with anxious snd patriotic solieitude at the black clouds which lower over the destinies of the Union. We assemble this day to cust uponthe grave of the last of these filuetrious men @ public teotimonial ef our pro- found sente of his long avd laoorious pabiic services, his noble genius, bis qwetuers, and f' «spread renown, Af the response of even @ hoatben oracle is corrext, that » Man's death is the criterion of a heppy life, the country ) aloe has canes to mourn Mr Webster was bnppy in life nnd hoppy in death. Yet to him to die was doubtless reat gain. LECTER OF MR. RHETT IN RELATION To DANIDG WEDSTSR’S RELIGIOUS VIEWS. To tHe Epiioas ov te CHanneston Mexcuny:— Gentlemen—Your Washington dent is ob- viously wey, far from being an impartial sates ef Mr. Webster's character How great is bis impartiaity will be obvious from o single statement made in his letter published yesterday morning, He eays of him:—* ie ‘Was © meteber of no religious denomination—he made no pretensions to piety? Now the fact Is, that for several years past, Mr. Webster did make con‘inual pretensions to piety by being a reguiar member of the Prot-stant Episcopal Uburch 1 myreif, for the last two winters, have scen him very often in Washington in attendance on public worship Inthe Rey Dr Butler's church; aud T have, moreover, repeatedly seen him partake of the com- munion at the hands of Dr Buvier, and on one occasion at the hands, I think, of Bienop Meade, of Virginia, Every one acquainted with Dr. Butler, must know that be would administer the sacrament to no man, high or low, of whose picty he doubted. Kno ving these facts. it. is due to troth, avd the inemory of a deceased Christian, that I should etate them, Relieve me, genilemen, your most obedhnt servant. f. B, ROBIE. BE HEALTH OF CHARLESTON. To rie Epivons or me Covrinn = Dear Sire Having received, during the prevalence of tho Jate epidemic, numerour letiers from pereons resid- ing in differant ports of the couatry, requesting me to fa- form them. at the earl: oment. when it would be safe to virit our city. L hove this method, which I trust will not trespass too pee re your columns, of giving ‘8 gene! ewer totbem T consider the epidemic at an end: end, as is usually the case. after such visitation as that from which we maith ‘throvgheut ait clames ‘off eet schon: wealth throughout ali ¢ - pity. 1s {4 my opinion that those desiring to visit the. city for business or other purpores, cam now do #0 with hb truly, entize safety. Yours, very iT ROBERTSON, M.D. Charleetcm, Nov, 3, 1852 Frwaces 1x Jaran.—Tho best proof of the reat civilization of the Japanese is to be found in their troat- ment of the femole sex, Their condition is unquestiona- bly superior to that of the women of any ether Orientiat by enp fl “They are subjected to no seclusion, and hold ‘a fair station in society’ Their manners are kind, po- Nie endl ehacte end thels prrity: roverbial, % 4 faith. lees Wife.’ seys n worl lotermen Writer, “is, We ace wate versely a.arued, & phenowenon vekuows in Japan "—~ Monthly Chris ian Spectator,