The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1853, Page 2

WEW FORE POLITICS. ee ee Speech of John Van Buren at Albany, September 27, 1853. f Me. Caamun anv Fevlow-crams—It gives me ‘ure te respond te your call to address you to-night. that after the democratic party was firuly power in this State, and in the United ursue the vocations ef le to my support. But, te my expectations, for the last two or three, or vatic etfort has been made to tra: character, and to hold me a @ disturber of peace, and a person who tating questions disturb (he community. at several hours in the Senate jing me up to public reprobation—waen | inquire of ‘Argus, which has thouglit it necessary for several months to do the same thing—when | inquire of the various candidates on the bolting ticket, and tse edi tors of papers in ditlerent portions of the State, why it is that I have thus been singled out for assault, I am ao gwered by the statement that | am a public charac’ hter.) Now, what constitutes ‘a public mow What the meaning of the term is, it is am indi ‘vidual who either bolis or seeks otlice. past, as you yery well know, | have confined myself to the simply duty of Voting at clections, and addressing the people aftet the tic! -t was mominated, in behalf of the gcratic ticket, and contributiag exertions to the success of the united democracy. yname has not been by my consent be- 1t has been in no degree con- J have repeatodly lua 1 desived to hold no oiice; and I al over again, that if my personal wishes were consulted, [should sever hold any vitice in the United States, great or small. Why, under all thesa las it been deemed necessary to treat one o far a public might have been left to the profession which is indis four months, a And when I ingu But for five yew. mected with vilice up to this time. eccasion to say U: have repeated, © Circumstance: who is strictly eharacter that to amail hin’? cause it diverts me from other pursuits. “ Pay More or lens attention to those who | thus thought fit to asswil me, and itealls upon we a bly do ovcasionady hereat' vd to the quest I say, therefore, that un! vilege to addross is considered to address muy fellow citizens in ¢ tating this community. these circumstances 1 consider’ it a p the citizens of this plaice where [have passed so large a Portion of my life, to ms rm of the city and eoiinty have been associ @ubjects of ditfere * unterritiod’? deu of Albany, with whose forcune sted in so many much darker punene with you veratic party aad Lu pects of our success at the approaching elect. T suppose it will not be disputed that the domocrst 'y was united, so far as to vote the saime Li profess the same faith, im the years 1S4y, * 962, and that while the elections were closely contested geme of those years, the clection of 1852 showed us @erdially united, end triumphantly victorious, by a ralleled in the histery led in any other State in the Univa. ‘Thirty thousand majority of the people of this State was given to Franklin Pierce and William it. King, fer President and Vice President; and nearly the samo majority to Horatio Seymour and Sandford & Church have lived together, aud, 0 far as I was concerne i had answered not one word to the va Flous assaults which were made upon me during this time. Yet we now find a portiun of our friends seceding from a z up & ticket of their own, declar- img that they cau no longer associate with ua, and de- tor the association of honorable aon. Let us look now, tor a few moments, to see what is the Feason of this divixion, because it isa permanent vision, and, rely of the State, ee Feo brethren. Beate Convention, sei. mouncing us as vn party of this Stave, | should be divided. y fair-minied democrat to in as well as of te United states, Tt is material for © quire why this was, deen put forth, I shall call your attention to o ‘two of them, and then briefly state te you w for this division, and what 1 honest demoe held a conven’ Btate of New York. said that a por: e convention alter an adjournment, because they eyo-witaess of the pgd- eeedings of that convention, having been a member of it, and I prepeseto state to you briefly what occurred. e@envention was « en the 13th of: @ated for the held on Tuesday Monday evening, a been occupie! ter veation—th:' @elutions directing that build the reseption of was to assemble the next da afraid of vielence: cuse, at 12 0'ch ‘ommon Couneil of iwied the place w! to the meeting of the « They passed re- b had usually the Market Hall. democratic convention, Handbills in the arket Hall, as Both the papers im the city was to be held at twelve o'elock, been heh the. your before. @f Syracuse—whig and democrat—announced that envention was to be then and there held. eircumsiances nearly everybody in the city of syr Dut myself supposed that the convention would assemble there; but I never hal the remote: a fMactine men icant to meet pose that they. did, when thoy went to Syracnse, and | so informed the delegates wit yu i [did not suppese Mr. Crosw added to meet in convention w’ ng of Tuesday I hi ) Shite vith us, it bas now his frienels ever i all. At ten o’elock « accidentally that they hat avs cus which th so far from going to M been given to tl to assemble ut su. writing, signed by Minor Story fact was communicated to members of the State ( Dean Richinond, Me. J. W: Platt Potter, > bolling with close Hall, private iastractions ina! ir friends not ty go to Market th tee who were th Mr. Horatio Ballard, State Central Conim were requested 1 was the fact. was not going | state where he members of tas cll ou Mir. Story an yaid so call, and Mr. story farket Hall; but he utterly ref intend to bold bis conventio # to ascertain where th \ circumstances, as it got 1 hour of 12 o'clock, we went to Market Hall maining there wotil Z brought down, purporting to be signed by Story and J gen, calling the convention te assemble At Brintnall Hall, at I2o'clock. There we were in Market [all, peacoably sf the members of the convention, and such spectators us were interested in our proceedi and about to transact our bu: was brought in. is a hoax—they do » im Brintnall fixil; stated, Edwin Crowell if assembled, two-third ess, when this haw persens immediately said: ** That intend to he t Market fia’ vd, was used asa decoy (Laugh Keretofere it was a novelty in a to use Croxwe ho true democ ever to Brintnali Js while Croswell ps li, we took our chance of getting i ‘o Market Hall and orga at mass of our friends said reaain here; but Mr. Madden, of Urange county, who was to move Mr. Skinner into the chair, being an honest hus anywhere where honest isu T said to him, “Madden, « He said, “I go to Brintnall Hall, We assembled at Brintuall nd some 50 0¢ 100 men and I having agreed te kers were to be f ed after him. When we got there wet oom, and Mr. Minor ( paring to organize the convention, aboat ten mi: onstrated with, he ck came, and most of the memvers @f the convention had assembled, it was dil him to organize the con Fise and call tem w order, and»nominated Mr. Barues Chairman. At the same moment Mr. Madden nc ‘Mr. Skinner. Both motions were put and decia: When this wis dene, fading there was to be somo conia sion, and that only momentary, Mr. Grover suggested that | should both act a» cliairmen, ly assented to without the slightest violense, peth gentlemen took their seats. aad unanimously carried, that each should appe vinted teller by the one, aud Mr. Tt was farther moved and carried Bhat each should appoint a secretary, snd Mr. Beebo was ted by one, and Mr. Russell, of Ulster, by the other. this was dove in entire peace and harmony, and with | t unanimity, aud all six of the men were hunkers, ; that the’ whole six officers of the cunvention were of the Cass section of the party, 1 stepped a» to one of them, and inquired whether thore #14 a. vse for s barnburner? (Laughter. ) could go and fetch some paper. some paper and ink, and returned to the conventioa. Las rel! was called, and nincty-seven uneontested delegates answered te their naues and were entered om tue Thirty one seais wore contested. peared and prevented their credentials, Then Gen. Wart ed thac as order had been restorwt, and aud as the Conveution was ory that a recess be taken until 4 o'clock, w uw rome opposition was’ im: t motion, but it was eventually declared cart beth the chairmen, aud we c dat when twelve.o'cl fiowever, he did dually which was uume Mr. Grant was Madden by the other. They told me yes, So went and ov Tke contestants 4: rose and annou: in at the same place. away they would nev t, that amy in: that convention that an angry word pa wed i @ threat was made was struck io positively and Btate Convention which ba Leen organized for the barnes is not coming back » and twenty men down to tue bo vow Hotel—aa $e Mr. Skinner— “tbat m this convention, nor are those th whore Me. Lares » uired of him whev! he would return to). understood pertertly whee | would be there at 4 u'elocl. hall, and after waiting «ne mmitter, consisting of Lt ers—so certilied by the Ai gus—ti Quaker, by the nanue of dabvlet i—certified by the argus hunker from ™ Orange—aiey au al and the next vine bas ween p that they were fend in a comer daughter by the « moore ebsui by (Great iaveliter a mere priest exsenator om ‘he when po mad par i whee no mud pireved, when idea of danger, ona v Fyracus, wh ordinary ¢ the passage of & law to Lonmtt slavery mito our newly acquired ng in resolutions that Esbould continue so to do, our frieads ef the Cass section, for the sake of the union of the party. resolved that all constituted no impediment to they union, and we could act cordially together. What more? your attention te that for a — In 1860 the compromie weasurce were passed. From the ‘instant that they were passed, every good democrat in ate ceased to agitate the subject. For aearle two | years prior to the assembling ef the last Baltimore Con vention, | had not written or spoken on the subject. We met im State Convention ‘a 1850, passed resolutions which were perfecily sutisfactory, an uominated a State ticket, the larger portion of wich was elected. In 1861 we sod resolutions entirely satisfactory to both sides. Mr. Conor, if my uemory serves me, either im 1899 or 1551, drew up and reported the resoltiions, awd they were That resolution was not passed by the convention of unanimously adopted by the convention, After he 1847. In consequence of the failure to pass it, and the had done that, after be had got bis own reso: fraudulent proceedings which touk place at that couvea- lutionx passed, aud his own ticket momiuated, he tion, a considerable portion of the party, amongst the Went straight down w York and formed rest myself, did uot regard ourselves bound by its pro- Union with the whigs at Castle Garden, by which he ceedings, and I stated it here in your presence that [threw overboard hal! of she State ticket, aad deavance? it should not vote the ticket, lt is a mistake to suppose 88 abolitionist and unfit to b ried. That is his that we nominated any other ticket, or that we ‘uniferm fidelity” to the democratic party ! (Laughter. ) passed any resolution om tie subject. 1 simply said Not only that, but he was in & congressional convention 1 would not vote the ticket, aad when we camo Which nominated Joha Cociran: Congress the very to count out the ballots it seemed that a majority of same fall, and went direetly out of that eonrontion down about forty thousand people in the State had eome tothe to Castle Garden and denocneed John inane ay an sane conclasion, In 148 we went into a Presidential abolitionist. and a man whew he could not support. tn election, some of us supporting Mr. Van Buren, and some regard to him, therefore, the present bolt is no aow move- of us supporting General Cass. We weat throagh that ment: bat in regard to some of the other gentlemen election, and the party was about equally divided in tae acting with him it is, In 1652 the democrats of this State. In Iso itr ‘Croswell sent us an invilstion to State were represented in the national convention at Bal- unite. His committee sent au invitation to the Demo- tinore. Resolutions were passed at Baltimore apon the © Committee here, requesting that a conyea- deme reiples geacratly and slavery in tion should be called, which would enable As unt those resolutions, they to act together. The’ allegation of my distin. Were un acquiescence in the measures upon the sub- guished friend Mr. Dickinson is that we have Jeet of slavery which had been passed by Cougrasa— imposed upon those gentlemen; that we have never re- Tesolutions that those measures were to staud for tracted our opinions, aud that they expected aa to retract the present as they were, an] that they were to them. Now lot us see how mich truth there is in tais be obeyed as laws of the land, On that platform 1 tov proposition, When they sent us that invitation, in isdy, constructed, I believed it we wrote them back that they mast know we were un iberal, to be just. Iv required no re- qualitiedly opposed to the extension of slavery. They had nunciation of opinion on my part any more than of any kuown that we had resulved that, over and over again, democrat who acted wich me. [ believed the safety, poace . knowing that, we took it as an act of geewt kia and Wanquillity of the country required that position io Liem, to propose to unite with us, aud we said we L believed, moreover, that they req rived that tae 5. culd do so with a great deal of pleasure, and wo ascot | cratic party should bo beoaght into power ia tuis em what they desired to have done They recoanmended | , xa in the Cniva to stop the scandalous frauts a t two conve afome. Yhe two cou- | thetts that were perpotrated by the whigs who were tix ntions did meet thore it b Linto election then perivetly united iter of discussion we should unite k Thad the pleasure to visit more Ogden has read to you the resolutions that wore of this se 1 wddress thir citi- Jat the Rome hunker convention by the section of the ns. Dat awa apon ali thos party with which he acted; they wore ia substance that a that thor was any- they were opposed to the extension of slayecy juss as | y position which made it disaseeeable for thesa out, sori said, but they did mot regird the | genilemen to act with me. Bat wa went into the sry question, in any form of it, as @ test in tas | and went Uiough it uicted and tei election, and they could act cordially with thov | pant, and General co wat olocted. — ( who didered from them in regard to i 1 wis. | pliuse.) And both the late conventions at Syra to call your attention to what were Mr. Dickinson's view. | cuse passed similar resolutions om the subject of that convention, because Mr. Dickinson is now re it not the balde.t hypocrisy possible for senting himself to the people of this State aya maa whe | le to slide back under the pretence that we dis- could uot act with what are called the opponents of — guised our views when wo united with them? Did we not slavery here, and as one who always oppuse! tae union of | tell them over and over again, in letters and resolutions, the party, becavse he thought we were not recanting our continually, what we thought? Did not they as continu- views. But tirst lot me take the liberty of reading agaia . ally tare us about the neck and hug us as full brothers the resolutions adopted by that convention of hunke: to them? (Laughter and applause.) Isuy, then, geatle- although they have already been read by Mr. Ogi men, it was neither violence nor was it anything {o re- ‘They were introduced by Sir. Chatueld, of Uteegy, aud are gard to slavery which brought about the present division in these words:— in the party; and that ings mo to cons idor ow it was, : pocuuse that ix a musterial thing for the democrats ¢ ered eae pated to the extension of #larery State to inquire. By se show fale and frivolous are gard te slavery question in auy form of its agitation, or any — the pretences upon which it rests, you will see exactly jon in relation theroto, ag a test of Sigal faitu, or as | what was and is the real m. It was i of party action. | | never intenied by certain men that Franklin Pierce should J, that the power of Congress over slavery ta the Le nominated for resident, bat when he was thus uomi- the pr & es agial. ne! > 1 Fee a i oe eae ia teers | nated it was supposed by @ parcel of wen that they could | ry, Oe, in Felacion, thereto, fudispaced — contrel him when he waselected, and that altaough he aad opinion, not regarding any yarticular mode «i eoa- pledged himself openly and p to recognize 4s iemo- wai construction question @ partofthedemo- — erats all who stoed upon the Baltimore platform, it was ed, or essential Liv with our demooratis 1 e, and when he came inte | ren in this State or im any sectiva of the Udon. | power he would jroseci n of the party, | 1 now let us at} ought at that rr the whole power to another, That waa | aid in how jon was conveyed to Gen. er he was noui- be | in 1849, u that conveation—aud you will ir impres ree, before he was elected, shortly af now know it bas boom suid. atten made, Tam in fa lose nu force pat in no Which trents ail tea as oat ant liberal platform, | ts who une im my sup- | fthe party which pat me in wguize all such as te, E should be tof the pub- da rascal for another mas.” lause.) Nor, ge simply a, Tue to no great source | nomi democrats and take th dishonest in my own estiv Vie; aud i the Baltimore Conven! Tresident they oug ce | (laughter ani app There | {iestatter af office whieh bas st calumnies, thas i am (Applause. cll he expressed himself at that ti — bure emoluments of ouice cons! procceds: j of revenue to the men to whom I presently refer. Llvok on democratic institutions as having zons out into | ‘Pho bare logal ednieibita ik Gere amall the earth on a great mission of light, disseminating kweW- | source of recer anh Se evens yor iciened shintin took a TAR | devil indeed who caunot rest Industry, make faver of slavery ia any to any be d Pecoud ouly im tueir fe: é benign spirit of the Christian ri L believe suas = Mewey tian he can 2 from the te tie Work of extending freedom to ail mao ind canavt de ae- almost any honorab! in the mi states. Besides, ‘ bed in man's Dried momst, bus tuat tac mission 4 there men, Wii ace slisappointed in olfice, arc surewd men, Sie Cottrols tue destin; 2 Sy position, thoa, ks Bd empty bellie +e ne tnvor of slavery ug tue ivstitution, I RYO Soi) Smee .o t laver its extension. iow ia all nda by Nord or ae be black or his lite, aud tie ab wos save the lives of democratic seade. Presiaents. ( 7 ‘a thea haye three years ts in a conven’ ito anda halt ai aud do you suppose’ that reed to Mr. Dickinsom thas afver that is mmaniine Presi- | Le cannot act with those ertaia siuniiac dx hatf will tiaish Let look further at his remarks, aod ign will deive t of the union of the purty, which he now hey will take tueir acy next Presidential pect that while we he thirty-one States of Into all this a iid tu all piano Tor the West, wiether too ba and whether the limi or the vowing these sentina 2 Wit jon, with the we talk vis Lation is ot, in “ ¥ cy well, for they are practiced pa Tt was aul and ave the ‘ tment as to ¢ 1 has driven net take the last aud nual leap, hein: img which they Tt was a heb go fartuer than i widl. Tao d aacly slandered, Itcan ne ladividwal merabers of rep in, upon the subject of ale ai at T stam | pred ose, Why dol say that itwas? The stor the last six months—le- denoancing Comptroll nouncing Teeasurer Welsh, denouncing all ti ne Legislature who signed tue Desaveratic smen as well as barubusaers, or wit’ jou choose to call t)em—enounving e—shows that the A:gus ucver iuteaded whom it 4 J.” The eourse of Mr. Cooley, last session voted ate: i pere to-day, in the spirit Whether here or eisew othe log tut beyond the meuntalss—to cums «, of demoeracy, and. Inying asiue aon-vse al prin spies of early isita, 9: to vicwory, On & itiou 19 tuiss—E aim, as au iudividual in favor of thy extension of slavery, but, out Up aud down, live or dic, Lam opposed to ity extem sion. (Appleuse.) Tiatis understood, 1 suppo He nen goes on to describe & he woul ies uf he lived there, in this » men who acted ith the whigs ‘mast that they 1 to act with ts uring the of the last id simpiy stand guard vu the irontier. { would not ive or fouriwen members voted steadily with elf nor ict any ue else act; L we perais laws on by Mi ve toeatcud, nor ask for laws ty proinit, bit lob inane he peop'e of the territury % care of it, ag tucy are 60 em seat Poon to'ly States. “I would Lot oppose slavery extede!oa im roawell went as delegate to the Sivance; hy law, oc. catend.iv ay law. Math execedins. of asive that se meyer meant to be in t Cpision ‘ean staud by and euder tus purple of thy terriry, house with me. He bad not the most distan Already a state except im power, to disyose of the question § goug intu a convention where Speaker Ludlow, Mai ¥ viely and ia peace. . und other such weanbly cc do in the 7 Weed. Do you suppose | b us this fall? 7 Again we Gnd:— If J seid anything I would say that I am not [a favor of the eateusion uf slavery. . * * * say furthor, that I would stand there, wn 01 the flaming sword, and Thad toetr ul to oatund slavery there I would opp wan with Us king goed. (Laughter.) Tho wany Seats Ware fraudulely and fool ed shows tut they uever invended any hon- you ploase, tetort waiel | ishly cur there ext iibunal pass Do you suppose 1 have now read fromm Mr. iakinson’s sp that t unies said the sulyect of the extension this ci ow of pretence, nover claiming fall the delegates, would lixe to 2 bonest Y Do you sappose that Stepheu | Glaske over invended to go to that convention, when he couli never even tind an oficial account oa paper of | the proceedings of t ason him as a dele- gaio? Lo you supp intonded to contest the debates | diciaade’s seat in th nt Lo you suppose that down to tue aiternoon of She trird day, * ee | those men who were outside of fammany lal, in New The speech of the Hop. D. 3. Dickinson, in today's rep York city—the vthers, dedicated to wemoeracy, Qill be road with attousion and grariteation -y his dearare) | the symj/.om aud »ymuol of reg ilarity—over inteaded to ie friv de iu aad out uf the Stave ble expotiti en ry a agitator | right t | touct sua separate convention. They started for that 6 cirey ‘tances our convent sed - r ou ar upauesieenty to Nuits wiih, These people, ney | predetermined purpose, wes, having started for it, they H heggees Tht gen have simply carried it out. Now, why have these mon | Pared a resvlution unqualinediy to aljourm, and roa delveraiviy aelormined te quit the democratic party? 1 Tae ine peor Me ne te elect delupates te the area, Will tell you why. It is because Franklin Piorce is an eae rien aiich was to nominaw s ticks: in uve ; Honest tan, contrary to their expectation. (Applause, Mee bins weil ea oberatet ike will not be @ party to stealing, contrary to their ex- fall of 1s40, took care to send such delegates as Lioratio fusion, Biv Wile) aneeck in events taereactablrs, weal Seymour aud others, who ausombled and adopted the very ae pron Bait pl cher tn Congress, Ooatek | resolutions passed by the Kome \ourention as @ basia © poe sion, Cockian uentiy nie union, and nominated four saga on their side, and im thes hy ration. og ngeeor di prorated swcrey his gone ted us to nominate foug men upen ours. We complied + i, His counsels Willian L. Sarey from this state, (ap 1 that invitauon. | We nominated four men to accom | Finis.) whose ability, bowever | may have devered from modate thos gentlemen, and in doing so we again took | Pius be , bow A 3 pains to apprise them of our views upon the subject of j “itt #t dierent thues, nobuly has dared todeny. I novor baieae: i jane é oF | did. No one can deny his signal ability, his unsworving aud speculation, and, above all, Lis iutinate, precise, and tnvary lig Knowledge of every rogue in tee otave of New York. (Rowrs of lan Horatio Seymour, with other enviable qu Wists us high incollostual quali fications, has kopt bit.lt alwayn oxempt trom apocula- tion, and was elected against the earnest opposition of George Law & Co., for the purpose of putting down U sclwines, and they know that be will doit. che seme is | true of Joba C. Wright, aod otiwr state odicers, who have been uaifurmly opposed by these poople, and in consequcace | ot whose clevation im the ranks ot the party they have seteriined to break tho prety down. Azariah U. Magy, in the cy of New York, sita to guard the trossucy there. ‘Ihe same schemes of plunder are rife in the eity we were forming the union of tl propose now to read three tines fr to show how cordially this net the asse Crooweil. 1 so Mir. Di from the Argus of Augus' 1549, where Mr. Cros | rays _ ‘Tne Denecratic Convention. —We bi vu of slavery, ipie is tue only vest ot New York, ten thousand times exaggerated, which [ievail here in the Legislacure, and prevailat Washington, to you | fie bas imsisted them. [Lis for thers things that the men ct to it? w contrary, | (y wivow J :eter lave said the democratic party mast be Mr. Crowwe the official September 0, 1449, wotiesd “ Aen down and the wuigs must be brougut {nto yawer ties Couv and settled scheme on their part, ceedings of 0 ion, copied the resolu the ticket, and then said with | and has been ever since they disco ered the integrity and to the resolutions which J have road :~ uv of the men wh have imentionod. As Judge ations of aevep! dovvtioss | Oe ie tm mm for the sentiment, and [ Lim )—'these are In making Us ark we teao | tend to im avs for plain «peaic- mvyeation | ing.’? Lagroe vim in that, and i purpose v do my apross individual | yhare of it. As i have alte 4, the result of this + wil nut be alvoupted to lung ve aay such | : cist we aittees sppuiuted to iufurm tae van | ComLErt Is just as is ; ry | wu As w privau A into thia ¢ wntair and growudless allusion of tho | cainpaigu, ana as a private nto go through tue Homovratic state Couveation wb | with it esl wpplieise.) : usiderdtions whiten prompted it4 itveral | yisiory is known to vyery is vane Le mabe ef both Conauloaatonn, | pierelore, that l de and to call him by “ow Jemueratie Siaty Guay jvus, bis we where be bemyg au ae. ant of the avecptaues of tue | tive, und mtellig propos t e convention at Uties, | ince Reverie: ot secu tuk #) €6 oui her +aidi— ! made, | ducted public atfaics tuat nobody tho: | Greco C. Brouson, wuiea buoks shall be added to | upon. | and dobn } mensioued in tie procod | ly, and correpily, 1 ‘law adopiod by Lim, wits a certain tru, by tae uns of | lumcer and simber, to wit, for duu’ feet of pine timber, | | ge mueb jess sulin per thousand oposite : ~ - Wing, and resales the Argus the’ morning. A: Ttold Mr. Weed, whe has wae go aah, what . ny other qualities he may be t in, (laughter,) ‘it strikes me there is @ li inconsistency in this; one of ur speech-makers shows that I do not stand on the fialo platform, and the other shows that I do not stand on the Baltimore platform, and I should bo glad to know where I do stand.” '(Renewod laughter.) “ Well,”’ said he, “I will look at that; there is an appa- rent inconsistency.” (Continued laughter.) ‘The canal lettings, to which I havo already referred, was the great source of plunder, and the most prominent goverameat officer in this State, Chief Justice Bronson, was the man whose shelter was sought to protect that wchome of plun- der, Chief Justice Bronson has receatly undertaken to write a letter to the deaoernts of the city of New York, in answer to an invitation waich they gave to him to attend their meeting, in wich he says that he cannot come to the meeting, and adils Although it must be kuown to habit of addvessiny po ition to add that 1 ticket. thing ‘{liat is a very moderate love for anything. (Laughter.) and of good order in society, I cannot approve of avminstio brought about by fraud aad viol ‘ho»d wie introduce eunvivts and bulli ny rpose of controlling events, must not expect that their proceedings Will be vauctioned by me, whatover course may be pursued by others. fs That Judge Bronson knows perfectly well is an unequi- voeal falsehood. Itis net only false, but he knows it is fale. He proceeds:— Although this is ground enough for declining your {nvita- tion, I will add that if all the aominees were otherwise un- exveptionable; they come before tue public under tiv leador- ship of men who ave boon striving for the last twa or 3urvo years to defeat the early completion of the publie works and, after the shamoless breaci waich wo have witueused o| Past pledges in relation to the canals, thors can be no Teasonable ground for hopo that new pro: 3s will be per- formed. ‘That is equally false. well known to be tho: The ticket was made up of men ughly devote. to the completion of the public works, and resolutions were passed pledging formance of that duty. He saya fur- them to the per \i-fashiouod republican party, which hiss -y, the constitutiva, and tuo laws, trough His uniform atta man who commenced lite at to the republican party! A a4 a Clintonian, who ran saa indey ing candidate fur the Constitutional Con vention, declaring that the Convention itself was uncon stitutional, who sold his opinions to the whig party upon the Canal bill, and who now bolts trom tho regular nowi- nations, announces to us, with the most consummate coolness, that the uniform teaor of his life is suflicient evidence of his devotion to democratic principles. (laughter.) The uext sentence ix more like the Juige tan any other— And the fact that I sccepted and contiaue to hold office under the President makus it equally unnecessary for me, as an honest aad honorable ini y that his administration of the governinsnt, in rmity with the prinviplos an- nounced in the Baltimore platform and his inaugural addeess, will at all times receive my cordial support. ‘That is, he will indicate his support of the administra- tion by continuing to hold efice under it. (Lauglitor.) He has served the democratic party in that way for ive and twenty years upon the Bench of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, and he proposes to continue serving the administration at the present time in the sume way. He proceods :-— . You say of the “State administration,” that it “must be sustained," J ain ata loss to know what yeu intend to dy by way of upholding the State officers ; fur they have 40 eon ducted public ailairs fur the past few Years, that not ous of them, (with the exceptivn of Mr, Mutaor,) was go mitch as mentioned for a nomination ia eithor branch o tha Coaven. tion The ouly Way in which yay cua custain thei is by pro- petuating their policy im relation to the caualy; and iu my judginent, nothing could be more injurious tu the best inter- ‘eof the city aud State of New York. fo deemed it proper, in these times of loudte dealin to speak plainly, but wituout any auteation of giving offen 1 forgot to add that, in regard to the remarks which I ughter,) le says that not one of ihe prosent State olficers was mentioned for renviaatioa. He knows thut letters were received by members of the Convention —and those letiers have beea published—feom tose gen- temen, expressly decliniug tu allow their names to be | wed, “He avoids stating that tact, but saya they s# con | th gut of reaomi- | wating them. | ow, Uhis is a gros evasiou, m gross equi- | vocation, on the pari of bis Honor Julge Bronson. i ae now hook, for a single inoiaent, to seo if i ca: iw now denounced, and down the administration of uous a member. | appeal to his whe have known h im so the administration of which he is #0 1 to you to support * ticket—to suppor administration of the State of New York, aud the adinia- istration of the United States. ears, to rally round ; late.” 1 throughout the ular demoera’ (Applause.) I do not, friend who preceded ine (Mr. Ogden) soe 40 much’ trouble in this canvass, or so much danger as to the result. I am willing to let these gentlemen rd them as an inhospitable set, am willing to let them go. us to unite with them in 1819. We went.’ They asked us to nominate half a ticket. We did it. ux into various conventions, and were willing to be We united with them and sup- ported them cordially from first to last. They invited us recently to Syracuse, and we went. ‘0 to Brintnall Hall. tu ort time, he and hia friends left u Teaving Syracuse a boy came to me with a bill : Baty, by John Vau Bur re bto: They invited elected by our vi Mr. Story invited us We went, and after staying there As Twas about The Democratic Brintnall Hall, To use of roora two day. suid I, Iwas invited th and he ought to have paid Yes, said the boy, he has gone, and who engaged your room T told him to go to No, aid he, they Well, suid I, Story only uxed the room half a day; he would not come back from the Globe Hotel, and, therefore, I will pay and send him the bill. So dollars, and had the bill re- ceipted, and sent it to Minor C. Story, and I believe a friend 6f mine has actually drawn upon him for money. I sent him a notice at the same time that he had got trusted for the Inst time in the namo of the (Great laughter and applause.) When he hired that room he was chairman of the regular Stato Comunitteo, and had a right to_speal party; but since that he has left our bed and board with- out any provocation or excuse. notice then, and I repeat the notice now, that more bills of his contracting. (Renewed low-citizens, we ave arrived at a uew era if the politics of the State, and it does appear to mo that it is important for every man, here by Mr. Stor; Why, said he, the democratic party. the democratic party and get his pay. told me to eome to you. we paid the boy his thirty democratic party. k in the name of the Laughter.) 1 the history of without reference to which he may’ have been heretofore carefully to take a position at the coming It is entirely clear that a ic party have gone out from its ranks. r, in my judgment, that a somewhat similar the name by tion of the the great and controlling question at thix election is to be:—Shall the Erie Canal be enlarged and the lateral ca- nuls be completed? Shall thjs be done by the proposed amendments to the constitution? In zegard to the pas- sage of those constitutional amendments, there will b } trust, no difference amengst the people. denied’ that very many of ux preferred to have the consti tution remain as it is; but those wishes were overruled, and the pont tat os anieniinents wore proposed ah mously by the legislature. They must be again. pro by another Segisistare, and then submitted to. the people, and I have no doubt that the people will almost unant- I believe they should do so. tly desire the success of those constitu- very man on the regular Yet some that profess to be more friendly to the canals than we are charge us with in- we are insincere about slavery insincere about the canals, and they have al the sincerity and ull the frankness.” Why is this? I have never been charged in other matters with insincerity. recolleet perfectly well that when I said in 1847 1 would not yote the ticket, nobody doubted my sincerity, Laughter.) When I said in 1848 that I should not support ‘ass, nobody questioned my sincerity. Why «ome of our old Cass: men should now undertake to deubt my sincerity when I say I am earnestly and constitutional amendments I But that every man on the regular ticket, from top to bottom, is frieridly to those amendments in earnest there is no earthly question. strongest resolutions that could be drawn, anc earnestly disposed to carry then not complete canals, Constitutional amendments do not It is to be done by men and state What then is the great issue sabmitted to people of the State at men who will pu the cinals, or will you elect men ‘This is the issue to be tr mously adopt them. dially and ear tional amend democratic ticket. friendly to these m at a loss to perceive. They are all so pled But resolutions do plete the canals. this election? It is, t this money in will put ‘it in Jat the coming tain what on earth could be the ‘ri that au had been upon the bench of the Court of Appoals since its | foundation, who had been upon the bench of the su- | peeme Court for sue Uiteen or twenty years, who | ai been Atterney-General of the State, should lend | his epinion to Washingiun Haunt to sustain tue Canal | | Vili ct isol, when the court, which he hed just Is : 1 unanino adjudged it to be uncuasti ational, and harliy gnu lawyer or an ordinary lay! | mau, with the capaciy to Tead a statute, hoi any doubt that the judgment of tae Court of Appeals was ! correct. I find that ou tae sane day Unat that canal bill | was passed, the 10th of Jal, , the supply bill was | passed containing the following section, w be touad in the session Laws of isi, p. Sub: ‘The Clerk of the Court of Appeals shall pay $2,000, out of the hurary fwad in his hands, tue the purchase uf 742 volumes vf jaw wouks, lugisintive journals aud documents from pursing Ww library, und go'to bis successor in tue oltice of Judge =f the Court Ut Appwais, porsuans ty the wet cunp., 32, Laws ‘Two thousand dollars for seven hundred and thirty-two Dooks, legislative joureals and doca:nents! L/yisla- Js and docdments which were sent to him as a public oticer, and which no man who bas them would think of parting with, if they were of any value tu any body, but who, if hw dows not consider st to be valuable, would be willing to part with th for the amerest nominal ‘consideration! Nearly $3 volume, on tee average, for 182 volumes, a very c’ siderable portion of which, as 1 am intormed, were legis- » journals and docun an can well aiford to ot his iw 1 favor of the of a wisig acnnnist course of Juc Bronson, in conneciion with Mr.Croswell and the other gentlemen, upon the subject of plunder. 1 come now to one, and only one other person, who shall indicate what is the condition of things which wo are asked to enter Talluue to the Hon. John C. Mather, wh» has been tried and cond by a vote of eigkcwen to fourtee: for his administration of the pabhe funds, as 4 Canal Commissioner of thix State. Judge Grouson, Mr. Croswell, father, are mow acing in periect harmony, and it therefore becomes somewhat desirable to see wa | John C, Mather is, according to the judgigeat of the Court of impeaciwent. | He was tried upon this charge — | Article 1X.—That the suid Jonn C. Mather, ss such Caual | Comnuissivier, is procuring the materials for the said work, | = Article, dis KiOWin i i UF wauss tO be ius Sxtravagaus Cor track ievtio materials nocesmury ty eonatruct illegaliy aud withost authority of id rk, on the pian » Rovowvert « sivaci, by which said recuive aud Lo pai taut price Loi wore to wus veru paid au uunstal aad oxorhi- sid matoriait, consisting of a large quantity of boara measure, Whew the said pine tuuber could wien ordina- Ty care ana dillgenes Lave toeu pevecred and purchased for aan tue saute Was so pur Chaveu, cud fur 700uX) feet of fecalock timer, buard moa sure, When the said Lemivex tuber could, with ordinary cary and diligence, bave been provured sad purchased for a | much loss suai than the snug Was so puretaved, whieh act of | the said Jolin C. Mather was currupt, neghigent, aud impro- per wasting of the public monyy, aud vevasivusd great loss Aud incomvenitace bo tue otate. kipiitecn members of the court voted guilty on ¢ charge of willully snd corruptly squandeing tae public money agatust Jolin C. Maiuer, the only one of the pres- ent Siate oticers who, according to Judge Bronson, was thought ef for renominativa, ‘The meubers of the court who Voted that ke was guilty were Messrs. Halcock, Bart- lett, beekinan, Conger, Corneil, Daveuport, Judge Jonuson, Messrs. Jones, Meilwain, Sidrgan, aforvoe, Newcomb, Fierce, Fresiadnt Chureh, Judge huggles, Mr. Taber, Judge Taggert, Mr. Word. Aud who do you suppove, when Mc. Miather turns rouns snd charges this to bea blassed and partial judgment, stalids ss the head of tose whe voted im gully? Chief Justice ( uarles H. Kaggles, wions they have put upon their tickes # ‘a good enough” adamantine hunker to head the ticket uomiussced in the Giobe Hotel parlor. Such ia the man who is ouw supported by Judge Prounin in the teeth of the judgwens of the court frou | yhich he has just descended, and way ix supported by hin ier the purpore of bringing te whig party into power. Everybody knows that the simple and only object of runing the bolting ticket was to-carry out tae foregone determination to defeat the demdcratic party, and pros te it im this Diste and im the Union. ‘This is a sample. shall probably have occasion, at some othor time, to ppeak of the Judge, who is on tie same ticket, and who yoted this genUeinan innecent—Mr. Cooley—and of the counsel, de. beady, who defendea him, snd is now on the sate ticket with him ; but fer the prevent it is sufficient vo call your sitention to these yeutiomen, just to show you what kusd ot people they ue tor tie purpose of breaking up the Gomovraiic party, how far they sre sleeped in corruption, and what tue coniest is that you lave to ince. Gentleiwen, such iv the condition in whiei che demoeraiic party wow linds iieelf. 1 is idle to disguise that we cow to have a conrest this fall of considerable severity, We wry to nay whether we will sustain the ad- Winistiation of Franklin Vierce ; we ace to say whethor we will sustain the admin: tion of = jluratio we wre to say whether we are to susiain it would be, iu my huimble yudg- ment, one at errors of the dyuimocrats of the Stateof New York, should they hesitate to rally on this occasion to the support of the only ticket whica can be ekevteu—the regular cemoeratic ticket. We guntle- men, in the aduunixtration ut the governu Marcy, a citizen of our own State. 1 forbear to give you wy views of Governor Marcy, because tuey are so very much better expre ved by a genileuan whose langaage 1 baye borwre we, aud I will, Wuerefure, in place of auy thi tsay of Governor Marcy, rowd you wing iy Sar. Lickin, avid Of him ih the Yention of Id, the convention eatied (harmonize the denocrmtic px Governor Marey wos iu tue enair, Me. Licamson w the flour, and en thas occasion, address" ing Governor darcy, he saido— And perusit me to «+ you, vir, you who have been selected Bkaniueely anew id wovlnin by Gh convention, mad iui bw wddeeseed verry mivate of its lug wid sy well utled Bien the dum yornie {waves A, aud election, and it is an issue which every honsst man is to | pass upon at the poll {not go over ox ar me out in it—that ull of them, to be mea Jui are to carry out these desire that the canals completo from their revenues, If the revenues of the canals are ap- y with those amemdments to that pur- will be sufii¢ient. indered upon political hacks, if they are sold at hack- have been under previous canal lettings, then you must make up the sain by taxation, and every man within the sound of my voici as the other citizens of the State, for the enlargement and completion of the canals. administration of the fuid to be applied to the canals, (, Mather, who has just been convicted of a corrupt ci the public funds be the man honestly to adiminisver it Would Greene C. Brousyn like to sell an opinion to Via! If he did, the whigs would buy it of him as thoy bought the other opinion, which he gave in reference to . Then’in regard to the only practical quention to be submitted at the polls this fall, I say that tore interested in the eompletion of the public works, without distinetion of party, hunker or barnburaer, wii’ or democrat, should see to it thut honest men ace electe:! State officers at the ensuin more honest set of men will of the people at the ap; ted now on the regu ilemen, this is not ail. ug bargains, as th must be taxed the canal lettings agrauty that no for the support roaching election than are pre ocratic ticket. The democratic party of tiie coun he great governing power of the State and of ti now in one of its most a! You have at the head upright, zealous and triotic President, truly representing the spirit of the age. The sentiments which he has declared in his inaugural address—ihe declaration which he has made in regard to the immunities of citizenship—his uniform professions of induess towards our adopted citizens—the elevated views ch he takes of the destiny of this republic—all these muke him the appropriate as he is the chosen great republican party of the country. tho@&h in a leas degree, ix true of the kxecutive lead of Are you to strike down that great party now just entering upon a career of usefulness, with hon- ext wien in the administration of the government, with destinies before the republic substitute—what ? presents itsel luring aspects. high boyes and high and before the State, the government of Governor Stward. eople of this State, without distinction of respond to this interrogutory as freemen and ‘They will come forward in my humble judgment, with s zeal, with a imity, which has been unsurpassed in After @ Presidential election there is generally a luil in the popular fecling, and generally a ¢ ib regard to exertion, ig which would create a sensatiou turvughout the State, anu bring out the old-fashioned, sound, honest pa- triotism of the State of New York. Rejvicing, as 1 do, in is great commonwealth of ours,the Stace of ¥ rejoicing as 1 do in ber past history, and looking forward to her destiny, wich can hardly be predicted—a desti of prosperity, growth and power—I never shall veli the vetes are counted out that the democratic party of will not then have achieved pled in all its previous history. ducing thew 6s liberal-hearted men should. Gay previous contest. nex requliced suime- victory unexam- (Great applause.) Our Boston Correspondence. Boston, Uctober, 1, 1853. The Whig Convention at Fitchburg—Nominations of Mr. Washturn and Mr. Phunkett-Whigs turned Reforsners— Barstow and his Movement— Declination of BMr. Dowley-The Maine Law before the Supreme Court—The Mechaniss’ Fair—Ice and Bricka— The Maine Lands—New Exition of Mr. Choate’s Eulogy on Webster—Mre. Stowe's New Work, ye. The Whig Convention at Fitchburg was quite a well got up affair, in epite of the dismalness ef the weather, the worst that we have had in this very bad season. Washburn and Mr. Gos eruor and Lieutenant-Governor, are as good as any that Leaving Mr. Choate and Mr. Ash- man aside, Mr. Washburn is aa able a man as had been apcken of in connection with the subject, and abler than wost of the other gentlemen. tarted overboard all the old whig ideas about the sacred ness of the constitution, and so forth. They adopted a ew ‘platform,’ and put into it a ‘reform’ plank, which shows that they have earned some wisdom from hose visitations of adverse fortune to which of Inte years hey have #© often been subjected. agoinst their singerity, that they iave, specifically, op posed every “ reform’? they now go for, until withia about the last four months, and that, after adopting the new plank, they gave three tremendous cheers for the old constitution, beiag the most heartily done thi course of the day, and given with & will. new constitution expressly thet the whigs ray they aro should not be adopted, the old for many yeers. and the old constitations, The whigs know this, ‘nnd lat t The Hooaie Tunnel—Mr. nominations of Mr. Plunkett for ould have bwen suade, The convention fairly for everything n favor of; and if that The choice ia really betwe: and cannot be anythi fo in adopting Mr. Washburais a Moin that he Fupported th law man, aud [have been | come and look for your s also an anti-Webster Websterinn had a ne law, sv that the opposed to the | tventy four burn represents Worcester posed to the tunnel lack ond Lkere a yeoen ap that account w « green to sore eyes Mogg, of Pittat a the thing been tabon Lold of In season ‘net (mpoasible that it weuld have done the whigs geed, cepecially a8 Mg, Kellogg would have Hog sptisactory te the tempéraites inén. But It was ‘too Iate,)) as the French said in 1848. The tunnel question made considera} {myrepeion on the caveat both for and against; and the rers were in (acon nate nating Mr. Upton for Governor; it they, too, were “too eness, a4 well as slowness, in a great whig fault in these days. wes ‘There will be a tunnel convention held at Fitchburg, om the 11th Ustober, at which great speeches are to be made by divers great men. The quostion of loaning the State credit in aid of the tunnel is about to have s prodigious effect on the election, obliterating old party lines in quite a large number of towns, and causing new parties to spri into existence. At present it seems to work in favor the coalition, the rush being against the whigs on this as on all other points. ‘They may be on the eve of « victory, for a great authority assures us that when things are at the worst they sometimes mond. . Several gentlemen who were placed on committees by the late hunker convention here have declined the honora conferred upon them. Whatever they may think of the coalition, they have no intention of countenancing « movement obviously directed, while pretending to attack the coalition, against the national adminstration. Among them are Mr. Dowley and Mr, Thaxter, who rank with our first merchants, and who were the democratic candidates for Congress in the two Boston districts a year ago; Mr. Rogers, Postmaster of Charlestown; and Mr. Allen, editor of the Pittsfield Sum, one of the very few democratic pa- rs in Massachusetts that have never aided the coalition, he attacks on the administration by Mr. Barstow, and the relish with which they were received by the leaders of the convention, have rather startled the mass of the hunkers, who have no desire to be converted into whigs because a dozen gentlemen or so have failed to got offiees. Mr. Barstow, the chief man in all this rather dangerous sport, is a young gentlemun of Salem, with an abundance of time and money at his dixposal, and a disposition to make himself generally useful in the destructive line of business. One of his Salem acquaintances describes hina to me, with more force than elegance, as being “a pla little devil, who, one way or another, manages to have own way.” He is one of those fortunate young men, 80 common in our age, who have had uncles provided for them by Providence. ' The late Andrew Dunlap was the un- cle appointed by heaven to provide for Mr. Barstow. Mr. Dunlap, twenty years since, was the first democrat im Massnchusetts, He had the ‘sagacity to 4ee that Gonoral Jackson was the winning horse, at a time when our old eratic party had pretty much all gone over to the ms family; and when the General came into power he d not forget the few who had supported him in Masaa- chusetts, and Mr. Dunlap was made District Attorney, then an office of much more profit than it now is. Had he lived he would have cut figure; but he died young. Mr. Barstow is understood to think ‘that his position the democratic party ix not aneh as should belong to “the nephew of his uncle.” Report saya that he went to Washington last spring, and that President Pierce did not appreciate him, and General Cushing did, results of a con- trary character; but which wnluckily converged to the anime focus. He is understood to huye desired a military appointment under Gov. Boutwell, which indicates ang- thing but a mercenary disposition, such appointments being notoriously costly affairs. They tell a good story of him, to the effect that he applied to Gov. Goutwell for — certificate that he had never asked office of him. The Governor, who takes everything philosophically, declined to make the necessary aliidayit, on the ground thet he should have his hands full of extra business if he went into that course. In his last move Mr. Barstow made a mistake by coupling his attack on the coalition with one on the administration, whereby he has campelled men who did not care for the former toaid it indirectly if th would not be regarded as foes to the President and his ad- visers, Such a result does not indicate a very large amount of political tact on the part of the man who Drought it about. Mr. Dowley has positively declined being the domoeratic candidate for Lieut.-Governor, and declares that if elected to the office he would not accept it. ‘The mutier is in the hands of the State Committee, who are to act on the question of accepting his declination at their next mest- ing. ‘The withdrawal of his name from tie ticket would be construed by the hunkers into an approval ef their conduct, but without truth, as he goes for the Worcester Convention proceedings. The Supreme Court will have the liquor question to decide upon next month, i Middlesex county. ‘The uicker the unconstitutionality of the law shall be settled the better, as the joke of playing at enforcing the law is geting to be the most costly one of the day. ‘The Mechanics’ Fair will close next Monday, after » very successful exhibition of three weeks. I had iatended to give you a couple of letters concerning it, but whenT aw how crowded were your columns with matter much more likely to interest the great mass of your readers than anything that could be sent from here, I reluctantly abandoned what would have been an agreeable labor. ‘The exhibition, to speak concisely, has been of a charac- ter to give a good idea of the industry and skill of our People, ani has been well conducted. Perhaps during the fourteen years that there exhibitions have been semi- annually held, there have been more brilliant shows tham that of 1863, but hardly any that hrve been more caleu- lated to leave on the mind of the intelligent observer @ better idea of our material well being—and upoo material rosperity largely depends the moral health and intel lectual supremacy of States. Mr. Russell’s orasion om ‘Tuesday evening was a capital production, having ail the characteristic of its very clever author, who is genecally considered to be one of the best of ovr orators, though his matter is decidedly superigr to his manner, which 1s uot the common failing of American speakers, A gentleman who is booked up on such subjects, gives ine the following details as to the amount of ice aud nura- ber of bricks taken over the Fitchburg Reiiroad during the three years previous to the present year, Of fee, there was transported, in 1850, to Charles.on, 70,854 ton's; in 1861, 107,225; in 1862, 126,753. It iv apposed thav tae amount the present year will wot be short of 150,000 tons, and most likely it will prove moch more. Of bricks, thare, were taken over the road, in 1 14,240,000; in 1651, 14,055,200; in 1852, 15,006,000. The number this year will no! be less than twenty’ millions, it ia supposed, aa never before was the article in sach demand. Maine haa purchased the lands of Massachusetts, that ie within her boandaries, rather because she has’a sur plus in her treasury than beca: whe wants them, She Will pay $112,600 in cash, and give six per cent boats for he romainder, $250,000. Massachusetts has received Lout two millions of dollars trom these lands since she Gcied them all to Maine for lost than « twelfth part of hat sum. Five thousand copies of Mr. Choate's evlogy on Webster have been sold, and a new edition is going through the press, Pifirs. Stowe's new work, ‘Records of Travel Abroad,” will be put to press immediately, by Jowett & Co. it will be in tw volumes, about the nize of those which eva- tained ‘ Uuele Tom’s Cabin,” and will be illustrated by the asthor’s own pencil, for it seems that this very able, Dut rather ugly woman, numbers exquisite powers of pictorial delineation among her numerous accomplish- ments. ALGO: News from the Fishing Grounds. {From the Boston Jourual, Oet. i.j It has been stated generally by Comsnodore Shubri and other officers connected with the squadron which has cruised on the fishing grounds during the paat er that there has been no troable in those waters, and that no just cause of complaint exints against the conduct of the Fritish government vessels on the coasts of the Pro- vinces. Th statements, however, do not accord with those of the American fishermen. Aithough there have been but few actual eeizures of our vessels this hardly a fishing vessel arrives in our ports the masterad- which does not report having been driven out of a harvor into which he had gone for shelter or tor wood and waver, ‘Yhese reports can hardly be, ali of them, without founda- tion, and, taken in connection with another statemeut made by many of our fishermen, viz., that they have not fallen in with any of our government vessels during theit cruise, we are compelled to beheve that, however vigilant our ehips of war may have been, yet our oificerd have obtained all the knowledge in relation to the grievat complained of which was desirable, and whica it was expected would have been obtained, in order that redress might have been demanded. The following lotter from the master of a fishing vessel shows soine of the grounds of compiaint which exist on the part of our fishermen, and the nature of the outrages and annoyances to which they are subjected:— Couccurno, P. E. I., Thursday, Sept. 15, 1853, Iwrite you the news.. There are about ninety sail of mackerel fishers at anchor in this harbor; they report mackerel to be very scarce, ‘The general complaint among the fishermen here is, that they now are and have beea left without one gun for protection—Com. Shubrick to the contrary notwithstanding. Capt. Pierco, of the schooner lant, of and from Southport, Maino, reports that on September 11, the schooner Winged Racer, Parker, of Gloucester, was towed into Douglas Town from Gas harbor by the Argus, (steamer,) and anchored under gun of a sloop-of-war. Captain Pierce said he was in- formed by Captain Parker that ho (Parker) was lying at anchor in Gaspe, when the Argus caine in and boarded the Winged Racer to knew why the W. &. did not show her colors on the appronch of the steamer in the harbor. Capt. Parker said that he did, on a pole run up over his oat, as his signal halliards were made fast at the cross trees. The boarding officer,on leaving Capt. Parker, told him toget under weigh and leave the harbor for not showing hia colors. Whereupon Captain Parker said he should nut obey his orders, Teaonush as be exbitited ils eolnee,. aie fea (the officer) failed to see them that was not bis fault. Presently twenty-five or thirty men came feow the steamer and got the Winged Racer under way and the steamer towed her down to Douglas Town and anchored aa above. Eeptember 7, the Argxs fired voveral shots among # fleet of about one hundied sail, aa they were cimning for Gaspe harbor. Some of the shot just cleared che vessels, and had the effeet to bring them to In the wind. The steamer ordered them all to sea, noiwithatan ling the threatening agpect of the weather, and said if th in he would take them or tow thom out again; he fused thoxe who said they were out of wood and water ad- mission into the harbor. But a few resol:te ones said that they were bound to go in, let what wor’! ¢ thorefore if He chose to take their vessels, #0 be it—! hey were bound in, with or without their vessel, after wood and water. Thus, while the steamer was stopping a part of the tleet, others feared neither him or his guns, but went ahead, #0 the whole like sheep followed and made » harbor. It ix thought that the Winge'! Racer will not be detained long. It is said that Captain Me(qui Hhovwerter, told the commander of the steamer that te w in or wood aud water, and he should go, not orders The cominauder said he would take hina, a. How do T know that you want wood and water ? MeQuin, in anawer, eal: “IY you don't believe me, e tho barrgs.”” The Whereupon Captain ube xsnid: Don't vou said: “i think that Lam insulted the aw aoubti 6 however, Jam bound ip, and th you wish to take my vessel, here ; if you take her, Pshall yo in without her if I can.” pn ge in,” said the over, “1 will tow sou out Bot, inding the vewels were going in, his ordere | to the contrary, the commancer of the steamer anid duet | they might go in to a ceriain one-sided place, and lay hours accepted by fishermen= » mach ao ‘lat tried to. lish for @bout a week. mi no weeks Wi very for # so cod as ’ aval m 1 Vi is well known aters, hoaee they nitty devour the bait oo teelfas Ww proven’ tho large herel rom obtaining © taste, over the bshing ron Hult, the gronn wae pants HL ews still falling At Gotham, N. fT.,on the overed with now, mud at laxt