The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1853, Page 1

et a WHOLE NO. 17375. DOUBLE SHEET NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. Brrr rrrrnnrnns HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. EXCITING DEBATE IN THE SENATE, RELATIVE TO THE CLAYTON AND BULWER TREAT Speeches of Messrs, Cass, Pearce, Seward, Soule, and others, Call for Documents Making Extraor- | dinary Revelations, The Burial of General Pierce’s Son Platform Adopted by the Ohio! Democratic Convention. Marine Disasters---Railroad Intelligence, | de, — Ke., Very Interesting from Washington. SPRCLAL OOKRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, &e, TMPORTANT DEBATE IN THE SENATE—THE SECRET TY X-MI- RELATIVE TO THE CLAYTON AND BULWER TR! —LIGHT THROWN UPON THE SUBJECT BY NISTER LAWRENCE—THE CONTEMPLATED FI GENERAL PIERCE—MR. HUNTER WILL NOT GO THE CABINET—RE-ORGANIZATION OF VY, ETC. DFO THE N. Wasuincroy, Jan. 10—7 P. M. The debate in the Senate, to-day, sufficiently demo strated the fact that Mr. Clayton, in publishing Mr. King’s nete aa evidence of that gentlemu: vequaintan on the subject of Sir Henry Bulwer’s conditions, did Mr. It is understood that Mr. Clayton had Beveral interviews with Mr. King, in which the latter fully agreed that Great Britain had the right to cut logwood on K. gross injury. the const of Honduras, and it was to this right alone. thi Mr. King referred, not to acknowledge the sovereignty of England over that country; and this was the understam ing of the Senators who were not Mr. Clayton’s familiars. The correspondence called for by Mr. Davis, between Mr. Lawrence and Lord Pulmerston, is very voluminous. It is a little rewarkuble that Mr. Clayton did not send in at the time, though he sent to the Senate the oth Correspondence connected with the Nicaraguan affair. was all copied at the Department at the time, and, I pre- ume, fs there now ready. Mr. Lawrence, upon his first arrival in London, commenced negotiations with Loi Palmerston on the subject of the inter-oceanic comm: nication through Central America. chives, to completely expose the fallacy of the claim Great Britain to any portion of Central America, exce} to cut logwood at Honduras. as regarded the right of the Mosquito Indians to decla themselves free of the Nicaraguan government, that almost convinced Lord Palmerston. Lawrence was unceremoniously told that the furth negotiation of the subject was transferred to Washin, ton. Sir Henry Bulwer and Mr. Clayton accordingly p their heads together, and the result was that precious | At « the time, the Intelligencer ade a great hurrah; but the | Dlunder known as the Clayton-Bulwer Convention. fact was carefully concealed that to Mr. Lawrence's i vestigation; the department was indebted for all its infor- mation—information which it used so badly. The fella’ npon, based upon Mr. Soulé’s sug; It will probably be offered in the to-morrow or the day after:— “ Zesolved, That a sum of ten millions of dollars be set apart out of any funds in the treasury, not otherwise a printed, and be placed at the dispo-al of the I’resident, for the parpose of enabling him, during the recess gress, to meet such exigencies as may arise out of ey Tmrmentous subjects eonpected with the prosent | state of tic relations of this country with the other pow- ers of the earth, so liable, on account of their character and complexity, to present themselves from hour to hour for practical and immediate consideraton.”” r Mr. Hunter hus declined the Secretary of Stateshi This you may depend upon as certain, “It is suppo: ‘that the arrangement of the cabinet with regard to New York, ws the chief cause. ‘The bill introduced into the Senate to-day, for the reor- TO | In the course of this correspondence, Mr. Lawrence was enabled, mainly by documents which he discovered among the British ar- So complete was his refu- tation of all the pretensions of the Mosquito protectorate, When matters had arrived at this condition—about December, 1849—Mr. g is the resolution which has been agreed stion to that eilect. use or Senate, either MORNING EDITION---TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1852. THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. Senate, Wasmvcron, Jan. 10, 1853. THE CLAYTON AND BULWER TREATY—EXPLANATIONS—SPEECH OF Mi. PEARCE, | Mr. Pearcy (whig,)of Maryland, said he was not present on Thursday Inst, when the debagp took place, or he would then have replied to the remarks made by the Senator from Louisiana, (Mr. Downs). That Senator said that he would never have voted for the treaty, nor would any other Senator have done so, had it beon understood that it did not include all Central America ; and also intima- ted that the Secretary of State had not communicated to the President the condition annexed to the ratification by Great Britain. He (Mr. Pearce,) for one, would have | voted for the treaty with that ieee and did so | Yote. The documents now made public showed that he | Was not alone in so understanding the treaty. He was | one of the many members of the Senate, to whom the | Secretary of State had shown the draft of the treaty, and he then understood it. to mean as it appeared Me, King and the Secretary of State did. Great Britain ob- tained a foothold in Central Amorica more than a bun- dred years ago. As early as 1763 Spain conceded her the right to cut certain dyewoods. In 1788 further conces- sions were obtained from the King of Spain, and in thi: | latter treaty are described some of the islands mentioned | here. ‘Those treaties with Spain gave to England certain special commercial privileges for a limited time, but Great Britain did not confine herself to the terms of the grant, but has gone on, doubtless, making encroachments upon the rights of Spain. Hostilities have several times broken out between the Spanish American people and the British authorities in Honduras. The British repulsed them, and have since set up a claim to these islands, of a title by conquest. For nearly century Spain has relaxed her claims to these possessions, or seemed to care very little about them, and Great’ Britain has continued her pos:essionx, consolidated its power, and has since then claimed and maintained dominion over these islands. In 1836 the British authorities issued a proclamation, for- inally declaring the islandy to be the possessions of 'Fng- land. In 1847 Mr. Polk appointed a consul at the Belize, who received his instructions from the British government; this government recognized the British dominion over these islands. The object of the treaty was not, as has been stated, to exclude Great Britain; its object and pur- port are clearly set forth in the preamble... to estab- A- | lish an inter-oceanic communication, and that neither | government was to exercise any exclusive power, &c., ver the territory connected with that canal. He’ read an article from the Union, to show that the object of the treaty wax not misunderstood at the time. It was to muke the territory in and about the canal neutral, and to lude Great Britain from exercising any command or ‘ontrol over it, He understood Central America, as named in the treaty, to mean political Central America, embracing within that description the five States—Guata- mala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Honduras. He considered the treaty as excluding Great Britain from Central America, ay thus defined in its political sense, and that the explanations of Messrs. Bulwer and Clayton in no wise defeated that object. He did not question the accuracy of Mr. Cass’ statement of the conversation he had held with Mr. King; nor could he doubt for a moment the purity or honor of Mr. King. But the health of the lntter gentleman was such, now that it was known, that no conversation upon public subjects could be had with him, for it would require him to refresh his memory upon events and circumstances occurring two years ago; but he felt confident that that gentleman would avouch the letter written by him, and published by Mr. Clayton. Mr. Clayton concealed nothing, and was gullty of no. duplicity. > He disclosed to Mr. King, the officialorgan of the Senate, and to the President and his cabinet. He disclosed everything to all those to whom it would have been right to do so. mal Y. | OR n- ce at d= it er It rd ‘| fications were submitted to the President and his cabi- net, and were approved by him and them. His object in now speaking was to show that the Secretary of State had not imposed a treaty upon the Senate with its ob- fects and purposes not disclosed. | He regretted to have eard the Senator from California say that he never knew Mr. Clayton to have been connected with any pub- Wc question thet ho did not show excessive stupidity, Ho did not believe there was another Senator present who would make such a statement. He had always regarded Mr. Clayton as a man of remarkable acuteness. SPEECH OF MR. SEWARD. Mr. Sewann, (free soil) of N. ¥. said, on the 19th of April, 1850, what is culled the Nicaraguan Convention was sigued at Washington, by Mr. Clayton, then Seere- | tary of State, and Sir Henry I. Bulwer, then Minister | here from Great Britain. A‘ approved by the Senate, | and s'gned by the negotiators and transmitted to Great | 1 | | of pt re it er e- ut | Britain, it contained, among others, the following pro- visions, viz — ‘Article 1—The governments of the United States and reat Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal, agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain med fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or colonize, or fis or exercise. any dominion over Nicaragua, sta Rica, the juito coast, or any part of Ce tral America; nor will either make use of am protection which either affords or may afford, or any allf- p. | ance which either has or may have to or with any state or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or coloniz- ing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same; nor will the United States or Great Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, con- nection, or influence, that either may possess with any State or government through whose territory the said anal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce and navi- ation through the said canal, which shall not be offered, in the same terms, to the citizens or subjects of the other.” in- 4 of Pp. d ganization of the wavy, ix understood to be from the pen | ONCC 1. 6 me vontracting parties in this convention folowing are the prinolp sa dee ot ibe bINS=It. creates engage toinvite every State with which elther or both have A mT? +, Commande : ily intercourss enter into stipulations wi em the gradet of Commodore, Lieutenant, Commanter, an | “\inilat to those which they have entered into with each (hese officers being commissioned Before any promotions are mad ‘ormed. Passed Midshipman. second eutenants.’ rt retired and a permanent furlough let ar yetire and furlough officers, a board of six each of the three highest grades, to be Provision is made for ascertaining (he professional stan ing of officers among their peers. Purser ix created, and Pursersare to 1 this grade. A bureau of the personnel of the Navy ant burean of Courts tial, at the head of which is to be civilian at salary of three thousand dollars per annw called a Judge Advooute General of the Navy, having charge the whole subject of courts martial, are estalis! ed. Officers are divid que tion of assimilated rank determined. Able seamen are a teighteen dollars and petty oificers twenty-fou amonth. ‘The naval academy and the cominised be opened to the sailor youth. x —EXOITING OUR FORE! s3—MO ‘onvened by the President, aud to sit not beyond six months, is provided. | the grade of Assistant | promoted ouly from | ™ other, to the end that all other States may share in the hon- | or andadvantage of having contributed to a work of such general interest and importance as the canal herein con templated; and the contracting parties likewise agree that each shall enter into treaty stipulations with such of the Central American States, as they may deem advisable, for | the purpose of more effectually ‘carrying out the great de sign of this convention, natnely, that of constructing and intuining the said canal as ‘a ship communication be- tween the two cecans for the benefit of mankind, on equal terms to all, and of protecting the same.”? Article 8.—The governments of the United States and at Britain baying not only desired, on entering this to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish # g) principle, yok rome agree to extend their protection by treaty stipulations to any other practi- cable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North with South America, and especially to the inter-oceanic communica: tions, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to ‘be estab- lished, by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.” as ail da) a m, in "1 hh. | convention 10 RE IMSCLOSURES: COIPATED—THE INJUNCTION OF On the 29th of June, 1850, Sir Henry Bulwer gave no- SECRESY AG Y SENATOR SOULE + KING'S | tice to Mr. Clayton that he was instructed to insist on HEALTH—SE. Wk HUNTER AND THE CABINET. ratifying the convention, in an explanatory declaration, Wasiixcrox, Jan. 10-9, | ‘The debate in the Senate to-day marks the commen: ynent of a new epoch in our foreign affairs. ‘The dis nion was intensely exciting. , were ignowunt, wt thi ing Mr. King’s lette Clayton's English co: Mr. Soule will probably obtain (ho privilege to-morrow isclosures. 1 was not removed to-day, because, under (he rules, the motion must le over, Objection was made ; but morning, important of making -ome further and mor ‘The injunction of secrosy against bxcept by unanhnous consent. the obstruction will be removed to-morrow when we suticipate a fullexplanation of Mr. King’s lett Mr. King is, hardly able now to converse upon diploma affairs, or, if he is, we may expect some further explana- eu fitted up at consi” desahle expense, to take him comfortably to Norfolk aud if he wil ever tion from bia, ‘Fhe Fulton has b the Havana stenmer: but it is doubtful I his eity alive. Mr. Bunter, we understand, has signified his resolution to decline a cabinet appointment ; but his friends are urging his acceptance, on the ground that otherwi xin will lose the » \dancy offered hee in the tretion, and New York may get it. Jove nor Cobb has written a letter to bis fri Yemon- trating against the geiting up a pe behwul, for a cabinet ploce nds hei ion in x the attention Avs ea is occupy ing to introduc: Gw ais pationtly wa 3a. soRU project. his gra TUF INJUNCTION OF SORESY—THE —THR PACIFIC RAILROAD PROJE OF GEN, PIER DENT FILLMORE, 21" LAR CORRIPONDENT. Waaitnoron, Jan. 10, 1853. t vession this afternoon, deb There will be no more sup- plimentary cancessions to British nsurpations. [t already | eppears that the majority of the “enate, notwithstand- jine, of Mr" Thi the subject of British usurpation in Central i the Senate, Mr. A Pact PORTH W178 Ce that the engagements as to neutral territory did not ap: ply to Her Majesty’s settlement at Honduras and its de- | pendencies. On the 4th of July, 1860, John M. Clayton replied, that the United States also understood that those engagements did not apply to British Honduras and its dependencies. And, with these mutual explanations, the conyention was ratified, and the ratifications were axcbanged. The British settlement at Honduras | and its dependencies consist of the town of Be- | lize, on the coast of the Caribbean sea, with a | treet of almost barren and uninhabited country, stretch- ing inward, containing about fifty thousand square miles, | and, ag is alleged,tof certain islands lying near by in that rea, named Roatan, Bonacca, Utilla, Barbarat. Helena, and Mooet, which territory and islands are marked in all British maps as colonies of Great Britain. On the 17th of July, 1852, the British authorities at the Belize issued a proclamation, announcing that the Queen had constituted those islands « distinet colony, by the.name of the Ba Islands. In January, 1853, the President of the Unite States sent to the Senate an answer to a previous call for information, and that answer contained the notes be- tween the late Secretary of State and the late British mi- nister, declaring the construction of the convention which I haye mentioned. The Senator from Michigan, therenpon, said that the papers diselosed » very extraordi nary fact, to wit ; that while on its face, as was under- Senate, the convention included British Hon endencies it was without the knowledge onsent of the Senate. explained ly the negotiations at the ratification to exclule them, and thus in derogation of the rights of the Senate, the construction of the treaty was changed in a ‘vital point, that, m the transaction, the Executive Department of General Taylor's administration had committed a great error, unpreceden- ted in diplomacy; and he protested that neither the Se- pate nor himself, in approving, understood the convention it was thus shown to have been understood by the ne- tiators in ratifying it; and that, if it had been so un. derstood by the Senate, tt would not have received a single vote and in this protest he included the honorable Sena- tor from Alabama, Mr. King, who at the time was chair. man of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and alleged that that gentleman hed told him that he bad supposed, until that day, that the project of accepting the Queen of England's qualification of the construction of the treaty had been abandoned, and that the convention stood with- er. tie till re, his ing the iajunotion of secrecy rela. | OUt S¥eh Qualification on its original provisions. | The omoving the injunction of seuresy rel honorable” Senator from Louisiana, (Mr. Downs,) tive to the Clayton ireaty, but came to ne decision, The aid that he (thought the whole object of the subject will probably be resumed to-morvow, with closed doors. ‘The Cuban debate will be open elaborate speech from Mr. Case, on Wednesday, Soule, Weller, Mason, Douglas in the Senate, by Meas: ly weeks for several days, possi : : ively and finally a Mir. Hunter has yo net appointment. Mr, Marshall, (t fe «aid, will # nity to roduee bir ten million fine portreit of ined any ca trom in the iow eward, Butler, and others wil follow, and continue the discussion from day co day, earliest opportu by Healey, convention was to get the British out of Central America, and that it was only on assurances given by Mr. Clayton himself, that this was the effect of the convention, that he and others, 0 far as he knew, voted for it, The Senator from Ohio quoted, from a geographical work, a description of Centwal America, and affirmed that he and the Senate understood that all the region thus described was included in the convention. The honorable Senator from California declared that he was astonished to hear the Senator from Louisiana say that he was surprised at anything, howev- er stupid, that might be done by the late Secretary of State, (Mr. Clayton;) and that he (Mr. Weller) had never known Mr, Clayton {o have any connection with any pub. lie affair, in which he had not sown himself excessively an rs. bi- for the Jackson Aysoc itod inthe vetunda | stupid, to say the least. Mr. President, I shall endeavor at the Capitol to ds, 1 mvel rvation | to show that these censures are groundless and uninten. and commeudation, portrait of st vill. | tionally unjust. First—granting, bat only for the sake of more, by Simpson, of this city, will ho ve to- | argument, that the facts stated are trae, I shall show morrow. A private meotin able to t 60 aud Gila ror to the Pae' wea held at the Co result of their deliberations has railro renspired W 1 this eveaing. The that the transaction is not unprecedented ie-diplomacy ‘The ninth article of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidaldgo, fae signed by the negotiators, was struok out by the Se nate, and another was substituted in its stead. ‘The ' Congress of Mexico refused to ratify it be rad He was authorized, by Mr. Clayton, to say that the rati- > cause it had thus been cha |, aa they say, ina vital part. The tae of state, (Me Buchanan) by ai of the President, (Mr. Polk,) without the consent g or knowledge of the , signed and delivered a protocol, declaring that the suppression and substitution was not understood by the United States to diminish what had been stipulated before, and thereupon the treaty was ratified, and the ratifications were e: |. I donot say here that that ratification was wrong, or that whether wrong or right, it justified Mr. Clayton. All do say is, that even if Mr. Clayton’s mixeonduct had been such as is alleged, it is, ‘nevertheless, not unprecedented in diplomacy. Se- condly—I shall attempt to show that-the memories of the complaining Senztora are at fault, and that neither the whole nor the chief object of the convention was, as they now suppose, to get the British out of Central Ainerica. The preamble declares its object to be to set forth and fix the ‘views and intentions of the two countries with reference to Ay means of communication by a ship canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua, and either or both the lakes of Ni- caragua. This preamble, together with the quotations from the convention before made, show that the United States had a very different object from that described by the Senators—unless we are to suppose that the United States had really in view # partial, narrow and selfish ob- ject, while they held out to'the other contracting parties, and to the world, that they had in view a different, broad, comprehensive and beneficient one, which, of course, is not to be admitted. Thirdly—I think the memories of tho honorable Senators are at fault again, and that they did not, when approving the convention, understand it to in- clude all Central America, as they have now described Central America. The region about the isthmus which divides North and South America is but thinly settled by Europeans und their descendants, and, therefore, as yet very impeifectly known to Europe and the United States and there iy an ever recurring confusion of names, a is apt to happen in such cases. The name Central America ax employed in the onvention, hasa double sense—a geo graphical sense anda political one, and they are widely dif ferent. America is divided, geographically, into North Amer- ica, South America and Central America. Central America geographically, is that part of this great continent which lies between, and connects, North and South America to gether. The name is applied in this view in the descrip tion quoted by the gentleman from Ohio, and so, - phically, Cenfral America does include not only fonda ras and the British coast, with the tive Central American States, but also the departments of Darien and Panama and Venequa in New G and the whole or parts of six of the united States of Mexico. Other geographies ap- ply the namo still more broadly, and embrace all the 15. gions extending from latitude seven north, to latitude twenty-six north, and so embrace not only the Isthmus of Tehuantepec but the capital of Mexico, Couhuila, and Tamaulipas, and even a part of Texas in our’ own republic. On: the other hand, the name of Central America has a political sense, and means five States on the Isthmus, lying between New Granada on the south, and Mexico on the north, which, under the names of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Solvader, Guatemala and Honduras, confederated themselves when they became independent of Spain. and established a republic, called the federal republic of Central America. In the convulsious of that region that omen has been displaced, but the name ac- quired by it still hangs around those States, and they alone are the States described politically, in books, geographies, and otherwise, as the States of Central Ameica. Now, did the convention use'the name of Cen- tral America in’ its geographical sense, or did they use it in its political sense? Certainly in its political sense— for if they used it in its geographical sense, then it may as well be insisted that the convention embraces all be- tween seven and twenty-six degrees of north latitude, as that it embraces all between seven and twenty-two de- grees of north latitude, and this would be to make it embrace a part of the United States, which: would be ab- surd. The geographical Central America, whether broad or narrow, embraces the regions which contain the three celebrated passages from ocean to ocean, Panama, aragua, and Tehuantepec ; and if that be the view in which the name Central America is used in the conyen- tion, then the stipulations are already made be- tween the two nations for the construction and maintenance of canals or railroad passages acroas all those routes. But the convention, on the contrary, confines its case to the Nicaragua route, and postpones to «future day the making of stipulations in regard to the two other routes of Panama and Tehuante- The use of the term Central American States, in the sixth article, is equivalent to, and illustrates the meaning of the term, Central America in the first article. The convention, in describing the territory which is to be made neutral, names two States of the Central American States, in the vicinity of the canal, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then adds, ‘or any part of Central’ America,” i ying that it was political Central America ‘. Itwas, then, not geographical hnt » political Central America that was included in the ¢ vention, and so the Senators must have understood it when they approved it, unless we suppose them so indif- ferently informed that’ their opinions are of no value, which ix not to be supposed for a moment. [ shall en- deavor to convince these honorable Senators that their memories are still further at fault, and that when they approved the convention, "they did not understand it to include British Honduras, or the Belize and its dependencies, which are the same. Like Central America, the name Hondaras also has a eographical sense and a political senso. onduras is all Honduras from the borders of thi vador to the Carribean Sea, and includes Spani Hon duras and British Honduras, just as the name Virginia long stood for the whele Atlantic border from Carolina to Canada; but political Honduras is the ancient province or intendancy of Spanish Honduras as it was when it sepa rated from Spain and became the State of Honduras, and entered the federal republic of Central America, and as it came out of the federal republic on its dissolution, and as it has remained hitherto, and is, the State of Honduras; and that State, in every book of geography, and on over} tas, wided and separated from British inly and_as broadly as Kentucky is , or Alabama from Georgia. While British Honduras is in every such book and a! marked and designated with the islands before mentioned as a British colony by the name of British Honduras, and sometimes by the name of the Delize, 1 know, indeed, that Spain, to the last, insisted that Great Britain had only @ partial and limited right of occupancy; but I know, also, that Spain still claims all Central America, and all Mexico, and all South America, and even Texas. 1 know that the State of Honduras set up the pretensions of Spain, and still insists upon them. shall be do not say that they are not just, | I glad if they prove so, but I know also, that Great Britain equally claims to own British Honduras by absolute right, and that, although she has two or three times been occa: sionally dispossessed, in the varying fortunes of war, she has so claimed since 1667, and has held it undisturbed since 1783, the period of our own acknowledged national inde pendence. The Belize is a British town of twenty-five hun- dred people, and, with its adjacent territory, is a colon; for near two hundred yearagoverned by British authority, and occupied by « British garrison. Tt_is ecclesiastically connected with the British diocess of Jamaica, and from 1847 to 1850 the United States maintained a consul there, who, with their consent, received his erequater from the Court of St. James. In short, practically, the Belize is as much a British town, and British Honduras is as much a British oolony, practically, and to the know- ledge of the whole ‘world, as Quebec and Canada, Now, who snpposes that Great Britain intended to inclide that town, port and colony under the vague and equivalent name of any part of Central America? No one, Who supposes that the United States anticipated such a proceeding, in terms go vague und un- certain? Noone. It is notao that Britain resigns, or the United States takes dominion, The terms “any part of Cen- tral America,” then, did not include British Honduras, and nators cannot have understood it, if shey knew the itieal condition of British Honduras as X have described ‘That condition was known here prior to the 10th of May, 1849, and a Senator stated in debate here that four companies of British troops had marched from the Belize, in Ynoatan, and that this was the act of the colonial au- thorities of Great Britain at the Belize—and he who made that statement was no other than the Senator from Michigan, (Mr. Cass). But, waiving, for argument’s sake, all the points thns far made, I shall’ next show that the Senators were not ignorant of the construction of: ficially given by Mr. Clayton to the conven tion “until the 6th of January, when they pro: claimed it as a disclosure then obtained through the the President's communication. ‘The ratification was made on the 4th of July, 1850. On the 1th of that month, the President transmitted to Congress a commu- nication which contained these words:—"A copy of the treaty concluded between Great Britain and the United States, in regard to Central America, ax herewith sub- mitted. Its engagements apply to all the five State which formerly composed the republic of Central America and their dependencies, of which the island of Tigre was apart.” It does not recognize, affirm, or deny the title of the British settlement at Belize, which is by the count, more than five hundred miles from the proposed canal at Nicaragua. ‘Tho question of the British title to this dis trict of country, commonly called British Honduras, and the small islands adjacent to it, named as its dependen- cies, Stands precisely as it stood before the treaty No tact of the President’s administration has, in wny manner, committed this government to’ the British title’ in that territory, or any part of t. This paper gave to the Senators, just two years, five months and twenty-two days 880, the same informa- tion which surprises, shocks, and alarms them now; but even that communication was only a reiteration of the some information before given; for, on the 8th of July, 1850, the official exposition appeared in the National In cer, together with the convention, {lien first offi ally promulgated. (Mr. S. here read the document to which he alluded.) Mr. SkWARD continued—Senators who accuse Secre taries of stupiaity, r suppression and fraud, cannot be allowed to plead ignorance of official expositions in the official journ: shall attempt to convince the Sena tors that they and the Senate did understand that the convention did not include British Honduras when they approved it. Mr. King, of Ala., was Chairman of ihe Committee on Foreign Relations, and so the proper medium of communication between the Senate and the Secretary of State. ‘The Senator from Michigan tells us that Mr. King haa stated to him, that, after the quasi ratification camo from England, on the 29th of June, he had an interview with Mr. Clayton, who desired’ to know whether the treaty onght to’ be sent back to the Senate, for its action on that conditional ratification. ‘The only reason of sending it back to the Senate was that the Senate might have not understood the conven tion as not including British Honduras, and so might ob ject to the ratification of it, as thus explained by the ne- yotiators, The corresponiience between Mr. Clayton and Mr. i tells the result. [He here read Clayton’s letter to King, dated July 4, 1860, and King’s reply of the same date, which have been published.) 80, the proper organ of the Senate represented that they perfectly understood that the convention did not include British Honduras. he accusing Senators will not impeach the Chairman, since they have so broadly assumed £0 e will not not now deny that they, “pe what we all perfectly underatdod. Just wit Mr. Ki was done by the Secretary. He took effectual not to use any expression which should som to 20- cognize the right of England to the portion of Hotiduras-- British Honduras—which she S. That right remained just as it was before. Good or ba., it is not made better or worse by the treaty. As to the Bay of Islands, if it was in fact a depencéney of British Hom duras on the 4th of July, 1850, then the formation of « colony there was not ‘a violation of the convention If it was not ther in fact a dependence then that trans. antion is a violation of the treaty; but in either cave i has nothing to do with the present question. The Sena tor from Louisiana, (Mr.Downs) in very wantonness of cen- sure, has supposed that not only the Seaate, but the late President, Gen. Taylor, was kept in ignorante of the condi. tions of ratifeation, and this upon the grovnd merely that Gen. ig ey sickened om the 4th and died om the 9th of July. But the Committee on Foreign Relntfons now ap- pears to have known the conditions on the 23th of June, and the Presilent may be presumed to have heen entrust: ed by thie Secretary with a fact that was oiticially com- municated to the Senate. Whatever else might have been the errors or misfortunes of that administration, want of mutual comfidence between the Secretary of Stato and his distinguished chief was not one of the. They tood together firmly, undivided and inseparable ‘to the last. Storms of foetion from within their own party, and from without, besct them—and combinations and'coali- tions in and out of Congress, assailed them with a degree of violence that no other administration has ever encoun- tered. But they never yielded, and never faltered for an instant—they went on firmly, united together in their great work of consolidating the then newly exténd ed republic upon the foundations of universal liberty, and establishing its continual power on the foundations of commercial interest and republican systems. ‘That ad. ininistration which they eonducted was not beaten down by human hands, nor human words, but it went down” oily under a providential visitation, that, if it had hap-> ned on the field of Monterey or Buena Vista, would have cither forever lost or longer postponed the extension of our borders to the shores of the Pacific ocean. Those who have profited by political changes consequent on this sad event, may listen unmoved to the calumniators who for two years past, have howled, and are still howling, around the Kecretary of State in his retirement, or the veteran and war-exhausted President in his grave. Let me,on the other hand, who had some humble portion of their con- fidence, and knew their fidelity to cach other and to thoir country, perform; though it may be alone, the duty of vindicating them against the clamors of prejudice and error, and let me say to the Senator from Louisiana, and to the Senator from Ohio, and even to the Senator” rom Michigan, that long as their careers, respectively, may be protracted, even as I hope they may, to the ends of their natural lives, in ripening age, and atrong and de voted asi know they are, yet that it will be happy for them und for us all, if even then they shall have estab- lished claims upon the affection of their country and the ratitude of makind, equal to those which were perfected in the administration broken off in its seventeent month, but conducted for that short‘period by John M. Cla; yton, the venerable statesman of Delaware, and presided over by Zachary Taylor, the hero: who indicated and opened the way of our armies to the conquest of Mexico. rr. Mason, (dem..) of Virginia, hoped the debate would be Toon till to-morrow. “ bere ee (Gaines OF THE Navy, Mr. Stockton, (dem.,) of New Jersey, by leave, report- ed a bill for the re-orgunivation of the navy. Pe SPEECH OF GENKRAT CASS, Mr. Cass, (dem.,) of Michigan, said he would not follow Mr, Seward into the merits of the eulogy, or elegy, which he had pronounced on the Clayton administration. ‘The Senator from New York said he would convince them that they did understand the treaty as Mr. Clayton did, not- withstanding they had asserted to the contrary. The Senator had no right to say this. He now again said to the Senate, that he did not understand the treaty, when he voted for it, as excluding from its provisions any part of Central America, and he thought the treaty stood so, und was understood so by all, till the publication of these papers. Great Britain lately had been making en- croachments in that quarter, and he had looked into the subject. He was not there to arraign Mr. Clayton—all he had said was that it was a strange diplomatic roceeding In the case of the protocol to the treaty with Mexico, cited by the Senator from New York, there was no change made in the obvious meaning, purpose, an intent of the treaty. He would like to know if the terms used in the treaty did not mean what they purported to mean?) Why not suy so? Why say Central_America, when it was only intended to embrace a part of it¥ If the term Germany was used in a treaty, no diplomatic note could limit that term to « few of its States. If Italy was used, no diplomatic note could exclude Milan, Naples, or Rome. By the term Central America, he understood Great Britain as ex- cluded from every part of it; and this morning he wa reminded of a reinark made by him when the treaty was under consideration, that this was the only instance in which he eyer new England to abandon claims to territory without a resort to war. He sw Mr. King, as he stated, on Thursday last, and was clear in his recollection ax to what took place. Mr. King understood the only claims of Great Brilain wei the undefined right to cut logwood, &e.;j but he ne supposed for an instant that Great Britain, was autho to establish any colony in any part of Central America. He also stated that he told Mr. Clayton to send back the quasi ratification, or it would neyer be ratified. As tothe letter which has beon published by Mr. Clayton, as having been received from Mr. King, he had nothing to say. He not understand the appointment of a Cousul as an ap- tment recognizing the independence of the nation to which the Consul is sent. A Consul was no diplomatic agent. IMPORTANT DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE WANTED. Mr. Davis, (whig) of Mass., offered a resolution calling for the correspondence between the Hon. Abbott Taw rence and Lord Palmerat United States, relative to Contral América, and also any other correspondence which relates to, th of iron, n to the Mosquito Coast, or to any portion of the territory of Honduras or Yucatan. Adopted. SPEECH OF MR. DOWNS. Mr. Dowss, (dem.) of La., said he did not intend to follow the Senators from New York and M arguinent, land in their means as his because be had not the nor he possess the like fa cilities for obtaining information, to enable him to defend British rights and interests. The Senator from New York had pronounced the intimation that this ratification of the treaty had been made without the Pre- ident’s knowledge, asa wanton assault. He made no wanton assault on any one, He had made no attack on any one. He had merely intimated that such a thing was probable, judging from the other circumstances. The Senator ought to be careful while repelling a wanton at tack, that he did not make one on others. The Senator contended that those who denied all knowledge of this construction placed on the treaty by Mr, Clayton, did so understand it. He would tell the Senator, that for one, he did not so understand it. When he said on Thursday, that no Senator had so understood the treaty, why did not the Senator then rise and say he had? Hail the Se nator’s memory been refreshed lately ? Mr. Skwarp said he end t the floor on Thursday, but failed. He relied on Mr. King’s letter, that the Senate so understood the treaty Mr, Downs said that if the Secretary of State did inform Mr. King of the circumstances, it did not follow that the whole Senate knew it. He differed from the Senator, who supposed the whole object of the treaty was in reference to the canal. He thought there was another object to be accomplished. He argued at length to show that the plain and obvious meaning of the words of the treaty was, that Great Britain was excluded from every part of Con tral America—Honduras and all. The Secretary of State had consulted him, with other Senators, before the treaty was signed. He doubted then whether those words, “Central America,” expressed fully the exe! at Britain, and so expressed himself; but the Secretary of State gave him such assurances on the point that he yielded his own opinion—otherwise, voted for the treaty. REJOINDER OF MK. PEARC Mr. Pearce said that had he been in the Senate on ‘Thursday, when the Senator from Louisiana addressed the Senate, he would have responded at the time. He was authorized now to say to the Senator, that the Secretary of State did submit the matter to the Presi dent and his eabinet, and his course was approved by them. He would like to know what the Sena tor meant by British authority? What British autho rity could he have had for what he said, except what was equally within the reach of the Senator? His authority was derived from the current publications of the day. He had not very great reverence for British power. He had perhaps as inuch cause as any one to feel bitterly towards British rule. It was unnecessary for him to refer to his private history. He knew no feelings but those of « lo, Kmerican, and he would yield to no man in the purity of his devotion to his country. Ho believed that the political and not geographical Central America was meant by the terms in the treaty, He read the com mission issued by Mr. Polk to Mr. ‘Hempstead, of New York, as consul at the Belize, in which the President prayed that her Majesty, the Queen of England, would admit the said Hempstead to all the rights, privileges, and immunities, granted to such officers. By this act of Mr. Polk, this government admitted and recognized the wht of government in the place to be in Great Dritain. SPEECH OF Mi, RORLAND. Mr. Bortaxp, (dem. ” of Ask, said that he alway tood the treaty to have been as was represen the Senators from’ Michigan and Lonivians, and had never heard otherwise until now. He voted st the treaty Yecause he believed it to be the duty ¢ ove! ent to carry out the Monroe doctrine, and, therefor not enter into any alliance with Great Jrfoin respecting any part of this continent, nor bind this na- tion against sequiring any territory in that direction or any other. SPEECH OF MR, SOULE—CURIOUS SYPREMENT—EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS —AMTHJPATED VOTE Mr. Sore, (dem.) of La., said he yoted for the treaty He considered there was something highly significant in the fact that two months after it was ratified by the enate it should have been deemed necessary, on the part of the British Minister, to have some explanations touching it. What was it’ that cause? thix unusual act? What was it roused the suspicions of the British Minister? ‘Yo his mind it appeared conclusively that something of the secret deliberations of the Sena'e had gone out, and reaching him had given rise to these suspicions in the mind of the British Minister. What was it? While this treaty was being negotiated, some ten or twelve Senators —he amongst them—at the requost of Mr. King, met at that gentleman's room to hear the treaty read, Some of his friends, supposing him to be acquainted with the lo calities of the country, requested him to pay particular attention to its provisions. He listened to ft, and w the obnoxious article was read, he could not but remar! that those words, in the ordinary transactions of life, would admit much of doubt as to theirimport;and as the object of the treaty was to divest England of ail her clnims and pretensions, it was best that it should be stated in expross terms, and he warued his colleagues tha he would never have | . or the government of the | it should not be suffered to remain i " ; They were assured that, whatever sheet "he article, as it stood, it Tem, ¢ 0 the part of the Briti Thonor from an: Appearance of havi fielded ms 4, and that th Beertary of State, willing to , . is, an nothing caleulated Gblige Bint m _ibilities of the British negotiator con ene the keen suscep“, edto it. Of course b? ocentnad cut logwood, was tet URCisposed treaty was sent fo this enate. the Senate whether occurred in Execstive scssion 90 that treaty. The Care said the injwnction of secrecy had not been removed, and the Senator was not xt liberty to stade what had occurred. Mr. Dovdtas (dem.) of Ill., hoped, by unanimons con- sent, the injunction of escresy should be removed. The Cua vaid, it could ‘on¥y be done in Executive session. Mensrs. Casand Gwrv were in fwror of an Exteutive seasion, with the coors open» fr. Mason said such a peecedent would perhaps be fou.mt hereafter iéonvenient. Mr; Buz, (dam.,) of, sion, which was agreed to. The doors openccn half an honr, and the Senate ad journed, moved am Executive ses- House of Represen iattves. Wasuncroy, Janwary 10, 1853, THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION 30CIRLY. The House refused to waspend the ruies, to admit a re- solution ptdposing to grant the use of the Hall for a meeting of the American Colonization Society, ou the 18th inst. CASEY OF CONTEMPT IN UNITED STATES COURTS. Mr. McLaraaay, of the Julleiary Committee, moved o suspension of the rules, to enable him to report a bili authorizing the: United States Courts to issue attach ments for contempt, in certain ca Negatived. NAME OF THE BAIP PRENTICE CHANGED TO LEON. On motion of Mr. Burr, the Honse took up and passod the Senate bill. authorizing the Seoretary of the Treasury to issue a new register to the ship Prentice, and change her name to that of Leoni. He said the ship had been burned three tims, and superstitions sailors would not ge to sea in her uader her old name: THE BIL. FOR THE RELIEF OF FREMONT. The House took up the Senate bill “or the relief of Col. Fremont, he being tow liable to arrest and imprisonment on account of certain bills of excharme, drawn by him while in California with the army. The bill was rred to the Committee on Militar: irs. VACANCIES IN TH ‘The House passed the » resolution filling the va cancies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti tution, with Alexander Dallas Bache and J. McPherson Berrien. MINISTER. Mr. Mrapg, (der made an in ineffectual effort to call on the Pr all the correspondence be- tween this government and that of Nicaragua, or her Minister, since the 4th of March last The House went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, nominally on es inal sha r obscurity there was fn was attributable entirely to a ish Minister to protect his right of Great Britain, to . Shortly after this the ex He would now submit to he 24 authority to speak of what ‘VUE DEMICIENCY RILE—THE CUBAN QU¥STION—TIE ACQUISITION Ov TERRITORY. Mr. Bett, (whig) of Obio, rose to protest against the doctrines avowed by honorable gentlemen in favor of the quisition of territory, which he said were not the senti- nts of the people of the country. and never have been and he trusted would never so become. ‘These gentlemen said it was our manifest destiny to acquire not only Cuba, but the remaining part of Mexico. But before acquiring that island, would it not be well to cast about first and settle the fact whether it is our mavifest destiny and in terest to acquire it. He asked whether gentlemen were in favor of departing from the doctrines practiced by Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, and other Presidents who have succeeded them, instead of confining themselves to our domestic interests? Cuba, he argued, can- not be annexed without @ war, and its acquisition would thus re-open the slivery agitation, and shake the Union to its cen But even if we should get Cuba without a war, with its advantages and disadvan- tages, it would be a curse and an injury to our institu- tions. If gentlemen want to annex, rather let them turn their attention to the British provinces north, the favora- Ule acquisition of which would strengthen our govern- ment. He, however, was opposed to the agitation of that subject now, conceiving it would not be productive of good. He said that with the anuoxation’of Cuba would come the question of annexing the British northern pro vinces. Slavery agitation would turn, because th compromise did not apply to territory not at that time in the Union, Mr, Srvrmexs, (whig,) of first time in our history, ¢ act, the principle that Union with or without slave tories nny decide. Mr. Petr did not 1 territory not then in t hi G ngre States ) as th , remarked that for the tled, by the compro way come into th ople of the terri pa as affectin would do justie e he must not b ing any thing p to him, or his merits or demerit preeedent in the poliey of the gr mmete folly ast on the heels of this is vy worthless av ‘on list, and support Ameriean people. This xt subject was th foreign mini ficient officers d out of the b it was not gourts ; it would be bett®: if display was the only obj be wlected to represent th had no dazzling trappings ¢ creditably or With more si play and gaudy dress to foolish ki of brai for them to shine at kingly end a golden calf at once, but let a_man of brains ablie min Franklin man. acted y. Leave and send abroad men Mr. Witcrmay, (delegate from New Mexico.) defended his terzitory against the suggestion in the Secretary of War's report, that it wo er to bay ont the peo ple of the territory, and ind to remove toa more favorable region, father than spend so much money for their defence. He was very indignant at this reeom imendation, but was somewhat relieved by the fact that it met with contempt in all quarters. He showed, con- trary to the libellous reports, that the New Mexicans are kind and hos; condemned Col after Goyernor Calhoun there, he said, standing on J titled to respect a5 though © were a Secretary of War. ‘The committee then rose, and the House as much en ry man in the territory arned, The New Jersey Legislature, &e. TRENTON, Jan. 10, 185 The Legislatuve of this State will meet here to-morr Alarge number of members have already arrived, and with them, as usual, a great number of eandidates for the subordinate stations in the two houses. Mr. Fenni- more, of Burlington, and My. Shum, of Middlesex, are urged for the Speaker's chi and Colonel Alexander, of Mercer, is spoken of as President of th te, Daniel Naar, the old Clerk, Captain Isaac W. Mitchel. of Cam den, and Mr. Delikee, of Somerset, are candidates for Clerk, An informal caueus was held thix evening, journed till 10 o'clock to-morrow morning The Pacific Insuranes Company, of this city, sunk twenty per cent of ita capital, with all of ceipts, for pramiums, has resolved to close busine: pay their debts. The Ohio Democratte Convention THE PARTY PLATFORS PMRITORIAL ACQUISITION RECOMMENDED—-CONFIDENCE IN @ PIERCE, § Civeaxwan, Jan. 10, 1853. ‘The Ohio Democratic Convention, at Columbus, passed resolutions re-affirming the platform of 1852; in fay the separation of the Stato moneys from the banking in stitutions, as indispensably necessary to the safety o the funds; also, in fayor of the independent treasury which has accomplished all that its friends expected from it, and asserting that the d of a similar arrangement for keepin, public funds; also, in favor of the banks that do not The resolutions 1 whole power of the feder#! government but ad. r of any exten: Enropean dynasties on any portion of the American con and serting that the tinent or its vicinity mocrsey of Ohio regard the annexation of adjacent provinces, at the covliert moment, consistent tional honor, as the munifest destiny of che Ame: ic. Full confidence {x expressed i ve, Prosi dost elect, and the democracy of Ohio wi ord to bis edmaialatration their cordial ¢uppert A metton to endorse the Balti latform, nfter se veral emendii ndan animated diseassion, wos laid on the table, the convention adjourned, sine di Later from the Cape of Good Hope. Bostoy, Jan, 10, 1852. The bark Ocean Wove, from the Cape of Good Hope November 23d, two days later, arrived to-day, There is no news From Pbiladelphta. WATER-GAP RATLROAD—INJUNCTION REFUSED —t S. STEAMER SARANAC—SHAMAN DROWNED. Prrapecrns, Jan. 10, 3. ‘Thomas 8. Fernon was elected to-da, lent of the Vhiladelpbia and Faston Water Gap Kailroad ( pany, of dollars have been subseribed te whien half a mill Operations will commence early in the »pr Es ‘Chief Justice Black: pronounced the decision of tho Su- peeme Court, to-day, age inst the injunction asked for by the Commonwealth, to restrain the Franklin Canal Com. 1any against proceeding with the Lakeshore Rnilroad ee Lourie and Woodward assented, and Judge Lewis jssented, giving his reasoms at some length. A letter received here by an arrival at Now Bedford, from Pernambuco, dat states that the Uni States steamer Sar Brazil, there, on the 27th November, ani sailed again oa the following day Albert Thomas mate of the schooner J. T. Tobing, was drowned last night at Race strect wharf, by falling from tho gang plank when going on board, ‘THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTS. "Phe Funeral of Gen. Pierce's Child, DESCRIPTION OF TLE Com anava— . [. 8. PIERCE, ETO. oe Bogron, January 10, 1868, The funeral services on thé son of General Franktin Pierce took place this morning, at the house of Mr. Aiken, in Andover. The attendance was fargo, embracing mang of the citizens of Andover, the professors ars atadents of the seminary, and Ravite number of the family rplatives of General rom this city. The pe rigs @ enclosed ts a rosewood coffin, lined with white satin, a7d cxnacoanted a wie toes studs. ‘ The corpse lookea’ very natural, pleasant expression, The head was surrounded with © wreath of laurel an@ white roses, one of which partially conceal “ed 4 scar on the soeaheot On the lid of the bin were two prettily wrought wreaths of laurel and wh ite T0#es. i ‘The Rev. Mr. Parker ot Concord, at whose churek Mr, Pibrae and his wife are regy lr attendants officiated’ services consisting of an add °*) PP® er, aa ae ye At half-past one o'clock thy * Tema Concord, itt a special train, for PYF Mrs. Pierce's triad tat tte, "1 restored to « degree of tome calmness and resignation, whi “D/enabled Ber te oot the services this morning, ai i in with ic 5 She will remain encouraging hopes of her friends, i . her sister, Sirs. Aiken, until her bh *alth ls sufficiently re stored to enable her to return to Ne Hampuhire, Benjamin Killeridge, of Pelham, N°; acoident, will pre- to the Andover Poor House aftor ‘of Dunbarton, N. bably die of his injuries. K. A, Bai - die of his injuries. HL, who is at Lawrence, will also probably Ras Coscoxn, Jan” poe aa thle The funeral cortege of young Bemjamir ‘700 On oy moment passed on its way to tho old ne Cemetery, where his remains will be deposh “°° The procession was simple and unoste jectorsl front was tie lssarse, on runners, flanked by1 90 7A OS either side, elateen years of age, as palf-be pn followed four eonshes on wheels, and six laty containing relatives, friends and neighbors of seer Pierce, and from a dozen to twenty of yoang . playmates and companions. General Pierce rode in the first coach, Mra.P.a ‘4 et como on with the remains of her child. She will m ™im at Andover with her sister, Mrs. Alken. Hor be tS is sufficiently restored to such a degree of quietnene ( resignation as to inspire the most encouraging hopes her friends. General Pierce, who was considerably lamed by the at nt, is much improved. His speedy and entire we covery is now beyond a doubt. He held Mra. Pierce: im his arms when the car turned completely over d3wn the bank; consequently she was not injured, even in the. most trifling manner. The cortege went to Andover this forenoon om @# special train, fi which they returned. I have visited: the place of interment. It is a small, oblong plot of groum@, inclosed by a plain iron fenco, perhaps twenty-five feet long and ten wide, shaded by a weeping willow ané skirted by rose bushes and snow berries. A: little whiter marble monument, of pyrimidical shape, perliaps three feet high, stands in the enclosure. On one side of it te the following inscription: — FRANK ROBERT, m of Franklin and Jane M. Pierce, Died, Noy. 14, 1843, aged 4 years and 2 months. “A loved and precious treasure, lost to us here, but sage in the Redeeraer’s cara.” On the reverse is inscribed simply the word— “Transplanted.”” Adjoining the enclosure is another of similar size, eur- rounded by a continuation of the same iron fence, prepar- ed by Gen. Pierce's direction. A handsome marble mena- ment bears the inseription:-— HENRY K. CARROLL, Died, Aug. 4, 1846, aged 38. Mr. Carroll was an intimate friend of Gen. Pierce, and was formerly editor of the New Hampshire Patriot. ‘The funeral exercises at Andover were conducted by Henry M. Parker, pastor of the Third Congregational this town, at which Gen. P. and family at- Concorp, Jan, 10—4%, P. ME The procession has just returned, and a single carriage has driven up to the Kagle Hotel, where Genera) Pieree has apartments. To these he has retired, leaning on the arm of Lis brother-in-law, Mr. Aiken, The parlors have been delicately draped in mourning, by the hand of Mrs. won, the ‘landlady, and i daughter. A cireular ematical of an end- less eternity, hange within the muslin curtains of cach window. A few additional stripes of crape, entwined om the candelabras on the mantels, compose the remaining drapery. It is not in form now to intrude further. Coxcorn, Jan, 10—6 P. ML ‘The sympathy exhibited by our citizens when the first news of the melancholy disaster reached here last Thurs- day, seems to have broken out.anew since the arrival of the funeral cortege this afternoon, There was an im- mense gathering at the cemetery, which was covered with. nearly a foot of wet snow, and the paths were yery bad. Still, hundreds of ladies and gentlemen thronged the western border, where the corpse was deposited. I havo never known a greater and more general sensation ex~ isting here. The circumstances are peculiar, and the 1 mourners is intense. The hearts of our citizen: all, old and young, beat responsively at the portals of their grie! Yesterday the event was generally notived by our clergymen. Tam told that Re: rker delivered a most affeet- in cid one ai ing discourse. He nood by saying that he came te talk and notto preach, and ilen proceeded in sucha man- ner as to draw tears from every eye, Mr. Parker is the Pastor of Gen, Pierce and family, and a very intimate friend. ‘The exercises at Andover were held at the house of Mr. Aiken. They were simple aud appropriate. After the reading of the «criptures, praye s offered by Rev. HL E. Parker, and a choir sang a hymn most sweetly. ‘The features of young Pierce appeared natural—the surgeon having ruccecded in arranging the head s0 aa te conceal the cause of his terrihl th. The coffin was of polished rosewood. On it lay two beautiful bouque + of flowers, sent by B. B. Massey, Bx, of Boston, and type of the little boy, ‘A silver plate bore th. “Benjamin Pierve, aged ‘on years and eight months.” Among the geatlemen who accompanied the cortege from Andover to this place, were Col. HN. Pierce, brother ef Gen, Pierce, Messrs. Jameson snd Aiken, brothren-in-law, Col. Steptoe, | the army, Charles G. Green and J. O Barnes, of Boston, and } "Cogswell, of Andover. They took rooms at te Eagle Hotel. Col. John H. George had general charge of the funeral arrangements, asiated by Jacob Carter, Esq. Messrs. Kittsidge, of Piham, ond Bailey, of Danbar- ton, who wer. injured by the a ut, will not live, I ‘The latter is am ereditably informed Burglary at Cooperstown. Coormnstowy, Jan. 10, 1898. The office of Dr. Byrom, surgeon dentist, of this village, fored last night by burglars, and robbed of gold rialy to the amount of $500, inelu th. The door of the jeweller’s store, ju: office, was secured with an iron rod, to pre- ug disturbed during their operations. w pl about 2,000 beneath th vent the robbers b Desperate Attempt at Highway Robbery. Troy, January 10, 1853. were attacked by two wburg road, a little north f this city, Inst evening. Mise Graham was severely would soon bave been killed but for the time ‘assistance. The ruffians who made the a taek, named Thornes Rolyon ond James Coullon, were verested and ladged in jail Thomas Graham sixters ‘ighway robbers oa th Mevine Disasters. Norrouk, Jan. 10, 1862 wt in hore yesterday:—The brig sali, for New York, leaky, and ‘The followinr voesels Aalin, fror rey w with loss © ara, &e ‘The briy Panaiwa, from St, Domingo for Boston, with m « «lek load, provisions, &e. cargo of rahogany—los: The schconer Joshua ‘ex cntirely dismasted and abandoned, was towed in Uy the schooner Mary A. Irwin. The hedron, fre F» Aericksburg for New Bedford, with a cago of corn—Koy, lost xnile, &o. ‘The vchoener R. J. Wa'ker, of New York, with a cary of lime. is ashore fiv +4 south of Cape Henry, and wi prove a total loss, The crew I enyed. The steamer Spr from W stou, Del., for Wit fhingtoa, N.C., has (ven ashore at New talet! She ag. rived here to-day, haying damaged ber wheel and sprang @ leak Baurvors:, Jan. 10, 1863. at Charleston, reports having parece , oli Cape Look-out, a hermophro: dite tig, lying on ber lnrboard side, abandoned, with masts unstepped—saw the word Belfast, on the stern. From the South. MISBISS(PP) PLANTERS’ BANK SONDS+-THE SEMINOLE INDIANS, UTC. BariMons, Or Brig Aleerous arriv Jan. 10, 1953. ns papers ag late ‘The sail thir evening br ae due. The High Court of Errors of Mississippi has given ordors to the \ vitor of the Sinte to pay the coupons of interest, on the Piwaters’ Bank Bonds, amounting (0 845,000, ‘The first holt million bonds had no coupons attached. The decision »pplics to interest on one million aml a baW leat issued The Governor of Florida has transmitted to the Terista~ ture information that the Seminole Indians refuse to emi- ad geks to be clothed with power to call ovt ext ree to protect the frouticrs ond to co-operate with: ora} Government in any measures which it mag adopt in the emergency ‘The weather is very fine and warn, the ¢