The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1853, Page 2

into the hacds of the whigs, should, if convinced of their error, return again to our camp without exacting conditions, and should then be treated with the utmost kindness. The party would then have been stron, and we should have heard no more about sections at a very different course was pursued; and the free soil leaders came back, so far as they came at all, under a leagae or treaty be tween them anda few |ridiug democrats, with no stronger bond of union th sn an agreement to divide the offices, The arreng-ment was based upon no principle. The free soit leaders were left at liberty to adopt the course w they pursued; and, instead Of again hoisting the »o'iooal bauner, they marched into the democratic «a» with their own sectional colors flying, ani thy- hesame an independent ele- ment in the party. | .ded, your letter proceeds upon the ground thar ‘h+ party has all along been di- vided into sections; #./ ° sequently that sccoants must be balanced te'xe-u them in the distri- bation of offices. All x -ence provesthat such a co- alition as was formed i) | 4) can never be thoroughly cemented. Svoner or | ter is will fallto pieces, The cohesive power of pst ze cannot long save that which has within iti’ the elements of dissolution It is not, therefore, any otter of astonishment that the reunion” was dso ved at the late Syracuse Convention. After the league of 15+) had been broken, and the two sections had agai. o-come separate parties in form as well as subst.ace, it beeame necessary for me, as @ citizen of New York, to make my choice | between the two ticke’s which had been nominated. ‘My reasoas for preferrins ue and rejecting the other are before the public; «wi no one has the right to im- pute to me any other motives than those which I hive avowed. I rejecte | oue ticket because the romiostion had beev eifected by means which no honest man could approve, and because the nominees had been brought forvard by men who had been hostile to what I deemed the best interests of the State in relation to tie cunats. I approved the other ticket because the now ees were right on the ques tion of State policy, and decause those who support ed it were “contendivx for the principles which re- stored the demosratic piriy to power, and placed Franklin Pierce at the read of the government.” I ™ presume there can be no objection at Washington to my maintaining now, »3 [ have always done before, | the principles on which tue national administration | stands; and with questi us of mere State policy you | | circuitous and argumentative form; it has never vea- “ the subject is a public one,” I shall give the same strength of what been stated, that Judge direction to the answer. — oe tod treated aa made, fee I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, same category myself. Gueang C. Bronson. pho me LJ pledge of kind in favor of the the 4 ibution was ever ined or could i- Hon. James Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury. — bly have been implied. To prove this, it will be From Mr. Charles O’Coner, United States yep — to review the rise and progress of Bastin Atte For more than a quarter of a century prior to A REPLY TO THE ‘ UNION. 1847, Martin Van Buren bad guided and controlled ‘The Washington Union, in its assumed character | the democratic party in this State. In that year op- of zevernment organ, gave to the public, on the 27th ition to him as # candidate fora second Presi- altimo, an elaborate article censuring the course of ntial term assumed a form and a force waich led port from ths second State ticket receatly nominated at Syracuse. It alleges that, in respect to appointments in this | aud drawn into his party. State, the general admiuistration had adopted the the Butfaie piatform, raised the staudard of the frea- polisy of dividing the offices in its gift between the freesoilers of 48 and the democrats ot that period, | “‘as a mode of obliterating all “pas schisms and divi- | cratic candidates. sions of the party,” and that Judge Bronson and my- | . Very soon after the general clection of 143, the ant, Sawing this fact, had accepted the offices | begun to return to their old associations, ‘The rauk “tendered” to us, under an implied promise that ws and file needed no leaders in this easy and natural would give our ‘influence and co-operation” in pro- movement. Neither Lat ap ete alg necessary; and if the leaders woa ve perm‘tted, par ae Succes of that policy. It asserts, 818, | the hovest masses who had inconsiderately gone ta political connection existed between us and into the revolt, would scon have been fouud side the leaders of the lave freesoil faction, ‘from which by side with, and undis‘ioguisaable from, their fel- we are enjoying high official honors and benefits,” | 10W democrats. No sections would then have been ally observing, in this connection, “how a | Known in the Gemocratic [eect it “pr have be- ? , come, as it was origival'y, umted and harmonious— puloasly conscientious” we “now are” in refusing to | one ae wl aa anaes egg pee Te continue the as: tion. consent thus to dis! heir section, and permit a Stripped fe vortaalh in whizh, for ua worthy | Beet Hee an Tene Cpae, fa the decent . iwi id i 08 held fast to ti purposes, the writer has clothed his out givings, the ith. ash. cane moult hieeg leit them to fen charge fairly and distinctly stated is, that fraudulent- Me tar he ere ny mere repay come ceali > i in a fair field of Individual competition, unai oy ly concealing ocr sentiments, and impliedly promis- | arty feuds or sectional divisions. They determina ing to aid the policy indicated, we led the President | upon a different policy—it was to keep up and ov1- to entrust us with office, and that, having by this dix | tinue their faction, mark and number its members, honest artifice secured a portion of « gpoils,” so that they might always be distiuguishubie, unite ii Bape. Oe, AOI We it by compact with the uncranged democracy, call are now betraying his confidence. it @ section of the democratic party, procure it3 re- Studiously insulting in its tone, replete with false- | cognition by authority as an integral portion 0: the hoods unsupported by even a shadow of plausibility, party and cane oe its poe and in its name a rate- ; : aS able proportion of the offices. and deeply inculpatory as this article is, it would | “"Whatever partial aud temporary success may seem have gone down to merited oblivion, along with the | to have attended this design, every atempt toward many anonymous libels of the day, wholly unnoticed | its execution has been met bya steady and deter- and unanswered by me, had no higher or better au- | Mined resi-tance. thority been vouched for its statements. The paper, it is true, claims to be the organ of the President; but it has never advanced tha’ claim, except in a him by the ties of polideul association, a considera It was evideut injustice and folly to amit into the bosom of the party. an usrepentant corps of political rebels, with its officers at its head, its drums beat- ing aud iw colors tiying. Instead of acknowledging its errors, dissolving its organization and mingling with the party, it was clear that the members of this section would keep up a line of separation between themse) ves aud etber democrats, and claim, not that they had received a pardon, but that they had tured directly to assert that it spoke by his authority, | and as I knew that it was not his organ, I felt free to | must allow me to say the s¢ministration has no right- ful concern. | What consequences wil! follow the recent break in | the party is more than I cau tell; bat I feel reasona~ bly confident that if the ustional democrats had a fair field, and the tree soi! Jemocra’s were not fight- qag under false colors, r ticket could not get votes enough to help the wigs through with their nominations. But we 5 gota fairfield. The | | | Wasbington Ussen, wh speak the sentiments of the: aiw throwa its weight on the side of the Te has ua dertaken to decide apo ¢ ventions, and to sitis ji ics ms of mere S:ate policy. It tases she side of those who bave once proved fa 4 to the pariy, and put the Union in jeopsriy, aod denounces thee who have all along +upported principles whish restored the party to power. It is now aco laborer with the free soil prints in this State, some of which it #0 lavely read out of the demo- cratic’ party. Though that print is not in itself of great importance, yet wien ‘t professes, without rebuke, to do these things as the organ of the ad- | ministration, much mischief may be done. it mat- ters little what dis:laimers there may be in private treat it as ‘he hireliog of a nameless libeller. 4 «, | achieved a victory, The leaders of such a section Subsequent events, however, have imparted to this | must necessarily be disturbers. Their claims to office charge a complexion whica may justify mein giving | and promotion would rest not upon their personal it this public refutation. A letter from the Hon. the | merits, but upon their intluen se Cvera faction baving Secretary of the Treasury, to Greene C. Bronson, | jistor z ~ ; 2 : ry of its ponticsl offences. True to its original Exq,, Collector of this Port, bearing date the 3d inst, | instinets und its antece ieuts, the section itself would transmitted to him aud other officers, and pro- | ever stand ready to renew its assaults upon Jugs wulgaied in the Union for general information, is Muthority. The project was justly denounced as da po | effort to organi-e a body of political Dalgettys with- now before the public, commsuding, as it justly de- | in the party, which the timid could be wring to serves, almost universal attentioa. That letter con- | provitiate, und wiib which knaves could deal tains expressions which are generally understood as | T ney i sppeinetistr| k . . jon, | Beverthele-s persever+a in, had @ partial suecéss, au her ae Raeegetiininl ae bere Sah emer thence to the pre-ent tine, the free soil ‘actin, and and which, if reid with no more than ordinary at- | some politicians whose interests are promoted there- tention. would de ikely s» to impress even the most by, have constantly struggled to imuiutain distinct reader, Considering the dish authority — sections in the dewiecratic party, thus seeking, under 2 letter emanates, wt cannot beexvect the false prétenve of a desire tor “ union and har- be - — ree oaaorrend a yi to give undying perpetuity to faction and mer the © ief of my Of | discord. d the charge pat fu e + en Charge pes o by in the antamn of 1849 men witnessed the singular i. bs : Spectacle of two conventions, composed ‘of delewates a hed pay song on the Bitudvally democratic, convened at Rome, opesly iia’ Suscntee ke eanae ue Gober oe Hoomitgel enceavering to form such a coalition; bat thee a acae secondly, that the charge itself is bodies separated without coming t> avy agreement. Miles and calainaioens = Toe a8 : Hers aimeo ~ em ane ia that in- = - tance failed to accomplish the union they desired. The Hon, Secretary says to Judge Brongon :— ag Fs 64 ‘Gon ave avare that ta ioe principies of the Biltmore | | Soou afterwards :hey passed, at a meeting of those convention, an‘ the policy intimated in th - | Who heppened to be present one day in an faterior dress, the President ana his constitutional adv | country town, certain resolutions affirming freesoi! pledged before the world. They have been and | doctrines, and through their presses announ that &s oLe Man upon these pri ciples and that upon the basis of tiese resvlutions a union between to his opposing, in 1848, all the democratic cand dates Judge Bronson and myself in withholding oar sup- | in the State aud the Unwn. Accustomed, as they were, to follow his Jead, and long counected with | ble number of democratic politicians were deceived His friends coustracted + Boil agitation, formed an allinace with the whig abo- lisiovists, ano obtained for ther mixed Stute ticket @ vote slizhtly exveediug that of the regular demo- cemocrats who bad supported the free soil ticket had reason te belicve that ALL gentlemen who consented to recept office under the ad ninistration, stoxd pledged to the same principles ané policy. The letter then proceeds to s'ate, in the present tense, that the admiuistratioa ie gro as existing in this State, disttuct sectious the democratic Let me now notice the time, manner, and motive party, and desires Judge Brouson to do justice to one of letter of those sections by also recognizing it, and allowing gunna d00n ali . | itashare in his distribution of the Castom House As totime; it was afver the rapture and nomi- | gpjciniments. It states that Judge Bronson has not vation of two tickets at Syracuse, and the two rati | hitherto ected on tis principle, and has made the fication meetings in this city; after thy Collector , sppeiniments generally from Bis owa section. It f | 1uither speaks in the following words :— had been denounced by the free soil leaders ani | 1. ticreskient um terstands the principles avowed as presees, and the President hed been called upom to | the platform of the party at Baltimore, all democrats who yen ht ssa Jolued in upholding and carrying out the same were en- remove him; sfter hungry office seekers and bitter titled to be recoguized as worthy of the confidence of the politio'ans had visited Washington to misrepreseut and traduce that officer, and to whose clamors, a3 you well know, he rever mate any reply: after the Union bad taken ground against the ticket of the national democrats, aud in favor of the ticket o their opponents; then it was that you first discon | i eee ect to theolfices under the latter.” vered cause for complaint of any kind against the The quotation first above made from the Hon. Collector. You had approved all his nominations, | Secretary's letter, when read ia connection w th with a single exception, - 2 » a3 to the import of the Baltimore platform, and was abolished. Down to the reeeipt of your letter of 1.5 iutentions of the paraluietration, might very the 3d inst. you bad never intimated to the Collec well, on a caswal readivg, appear to verily tor, in any form, that you disapproved of his sp. | the charge in question ;/ put a careful i i ey had sal apd scrutiny will satify any one that it oaly anes} (cr of tis manner in wile Bey been | asserts what none would think of denying—i.e., istriboted. | that the appointees of the President were, by the As tothe manner: you did not pursue the usual | very act of acceptance, pledged to support the prin- course, and issue a ci ciples and policy indicated in the Baltimore plattorm rule fur the government of all Cu:tom House ofleers | assert that Nah ios je Jnoge gS or to any other i ze to bes‘ow ; but confi ar in- | appointee of the edministration, i was ever, in any jecte 3 Sago om rl y abet a bebe | aay or shape, intimated vefure his acceptance taat ee sett PY gett habla pe! © he was expected to recognise distinct sections doctrine of the letter §, a sound one, itis obviously | of the party, or any section of the party, either proper that it should be applied in other places as | in epithe under bim be flncer kag y ited : eaniat he coadac net assert that auy one impart 0 udge well as here; and it should regulate the coadnet of Broveon, or to any other appointee of the gov- all classes of goverameut officers having patronage to | ernment, the fact that tuere existed in the State bestow. Marshals, postmasters, district atiorneys, | of New York, or elvewhere, distinct “sections,” and others, shonld act upon it in the selee their deputies, clerks, and other agents. yn of | “portiomp,” factions, or divisions of the demo- cratic party, which it was the polivy of the adminis- J will here mention another fact of no little signifi- cance. The next day after the letier was writ. tration to recoguise in its immediate appoint- ten, it was folloved by another requiring m> to | ’ 8 circles, a0 long as there is no public declaration that the papér speaks without authority. However un- fortunately the election may terminate, the responsi- bility will rest upon others, and not upon me. ld not obtaia oflice was manifest, and that Giilerent sections of the party was equally certain. Ye the wstribution was intended to be so made as to give just cause'e! complaint to no one section, and it is be lieved that this intention has been carried out, not only by the President himself but by most of his appointees, ments, or to require to be recognized by its appointees ; neither, to nse the language of the Union's anonymous article, does this letter as- sert, a8 that article does, that Judge Bronson, submit for your approval the names of al! clerks | oy any other appeintee of tue government, accepted proposed to be employed in tl bonded ware- | office uuder any pledge, promise or unders‘anding, jiestoces. {n this ma ou notonly express or implied, that he would give his iafla- houses and publiostoces. [ » seccadlavine ence and co operation in “ promoting the success of parted from the practice of ali forn ep ‘Treasury—who had left those appointments to Je sole discre‘ion of the Collector—but, so far as I bave learned, you sem sereed La tinge as it neither is asrertead nor could have been traiy yourse of issting a cirsular co all the collectors st | asserted, it is proper and decorous to say thas the + ports, singled out the Collector at New | Hon. Secretary never intended to convey any such vacate : a a new ral for him alone. | idea to the public. York, end prescribed # | Even truth itself may be stated in such a ‘These facts need no comment—they speak for them- | manner, and under such ap arrangement, as to any such policy, or, indeed, upon any understanding whatever in respect to the conferring of offices.’’ Nothing of the kind eould have besn asserted with pric: | deceive; thereby * assuming, the, nature dnd eu e ‘ ent, let others | geging in the guilt of falsehood.” Consequently, As to the motive of this movement, leh 0 | the adept in Mnisrepreventation, rather than risk @ judge | direct untrath in his details, geserally aims to. work This is, I believe, the first instance fa which a | outa false eee te ph the Union a Jani inte ith the dis- | framed upon rinciple. its author moves Ouwar member of the Capinet haa interfered with the | fone dengaive abies ih Ue ware tread OF ea cretion of a collector, marshal, post master, oF any: | habitual and practixed falsider. As nual in rach other government officer having patronage tg bestow, | compositions, (and eevera! specimens are now before and laid down a rule for his goveroment in the se- | the public,) the due coherence of language is want ection of his deputios, clerks, or other agents; and | ing, the regular sequence of ideas departed from, and : fe " the subjects under review, instead of being distinctly it certainly is the first instance in which a public raed. ae decribed by an obscure circumlo.ution, officer has been instracted to go into an inquiry 5 Ae 8 ae terms of doubtful or ambigaovs import. ju istributi f the most important acd mis. aboat sections, and see that a just distribution of | In this way many o! offices rd A | leading of its sentences, taken singly, are rendered was made between them. Youhave aright, | 55 tos a conterfeit presentment. of the fact, that by law, to give instractions on many subjects con- | while a simple denial would be an unsasistactory nected with the colle:tion of the revenue, and such | method of refoting them, a thorough diasection al would be iatolerably tedious. Nevertheless, the instructions it will be my duty to fol'ow. But when | Teeller rie on yt fe rectatenn ast, there you go beyond that, and andertake to direct in mat | fore, as the best method of avoidiag the obsca- ters which the law has confided to my discretion, no | rit é such obligation exists. piece! forms of iangoags |e ee i aire ‘Aa to some officers of the exstoms, the Collector | Ve tow tlre mar utelligible form. J pt bas the right of nominston and the Secretary oo : be New York appointments, inelading ope prov: sjection; and, % to other offi- Jickingon's and my own, tor the offites of Collector bef WL ee anteste bo Pode io the Col- | and Attorney, were vazet'ed on the same day, and cers, the power of appointment is ve °° | soon afterwards I bore to Washington, and delivered lecter alone. I shall not interfere with the exercise | t the President, the written deglinature of Mr. Dick- trast you will render the like | irson. Judge Bronson bad not then as vet been pel eae bie or ed other high officer of | Bymed in connection with the Collevtorship; but the government, desired the appointment of @ pat | (4. he was norainated by te President, and unani- ticular individual, I need not say that is would give | mously confirmed by the Senate. Tam morally oer- me great pleasure to comply with his wishes. But [| tain that from the ficst suggestion of bis high and respectfally deny that you have any, right to iseue | pag rs government of my conduc’ in jusking selections fur office. So far as relates to the mere dispensation of patron- tae, without regard to my responsibillty for the acts »f the persons appointed, I would gladly transfer tee cost to another. I have no taste for such matters, and my comfort—aspirations I haye none—woald be neither the President nor any member of the Cabinet Jodge Bronson, unless, indeed, it had wem thought fit to confer with me. He was at the time travell ng in Conzecticut, and bis exact whereabouts being uo- known, it wos impossible to have conferred with bimn- self, even by telegraph. From these circumstances, it will be seen that I am as competent to testify in respect to his acceptance of his appointment, a3 in respect to my own acceptance of that wich greatly promoted if some one elee would perform the | was conferred upon myself. No one concerned ia service for me. But the law and my commission | his appointment could ee inferred eer have east the burden upon me, and [ cannot surren- | *?¥, facta then appearing, that his politica Ger it to another without a dersliction of duty. As you have given your letter to the press, saying sentiments differed from mine; and, consequeatly, f shall hei speak only to exonerate myself fiom this scandalous imputation, claiming, on the and consequently eligible t official station. | the distribution could not be exactly equal ambngat th) | and in that case the office | What follows concersing sppointiments, opinions | pera- | ular laying down a uniform | and in the maugural address. The letter does not | truth as it respects Judge Bronson or myself; and, | ‘and misapprebension which might result from bis | within a few hours thereafter, and upou the same | honorable name antil his confirmation a4 Collector, | bad an opportunity of conferring with any friend of | | themrelves and the late Cass party—as they styled the democrate—hac been furmed and was in actual | existence. A falsehood well persisted ia sometimes | wins at Jast a degree of credit; and from this smell | beginning arose the union of the sections. In the same sutuma the democratic nominatin: | convention for State officers most unwisely authorize | 8 commnttes to withdraw one baif of the names upon | its ticket, and to torm, with the free svilers, a mixed | | one. This was done. The aim of the free soil leaders Bow appeared to be approachisg its accomplish- ment; they hencefcrth attended the primary eiec- tious, vent delegates to the democratic State conven- | tious, and introduced into the political yocabitsry that pernicious phrase, “ our section of tie demo- cratic party.”” In the State conveutions of °50, 561 and '52, a large number of delegates, calting themselves “ the section,” ard claiming to be recognized as such, at- | tended and were alowed seats As a consequence, | mixed tickets were nomiasted. At first the | democrats on such tickets were generally de- | fested ani the free soilers elected; but | after a short working of this aystem, the poison | | which it necessarily carried into the democratic | | party had its full operation—nearly ailthe important | nominations jell under the control of the tree soil | “section.” In all these conventions the national de- | mocrate elected a majority of the delegate: | a fixed and irrevocatle law of sucn associations that | @recognized minority faction caa always control, and that their control leads to the utter tion of the whele body, substituting a capacity sor | intrigue 1p place of all the virt which ehou'd com- | mand popularity and lead to eminence f'be me a- | bers ofa mjoority faction are hound to filelity to- werd each other by the ties of a common danger, and are per torce kept m nity by tre external pressure Of a superior opposing fore. The honors of official | station in the Convention itself as the presilevcy, | &e., and the cflives to be tilled, affurd thea ample | Ineane of temptation, and are in their hanos efflcient | Weapons of offence aid deleuce. Chey have but to | assign to the ives the livu’s share of tnese, and | enough wil til be left as a corraption fund where- | with gy purchase the »mall number of vores usdally required to ture the scale if the factions stand | as forty to sixty, itis only necessary to purcha-€ eleven votes; and wiese tour good offices, as is usually the | Case, can be oflired to the w | soft,’’ smong the sixty, it wili rarely be difficult for | the lesser faction to preveil. Tais moy seem para- | doxical; but, however covtradictory 1t seems to | theory, avery little reflection will convince any sound | thiker that at is practically trae. The political his- | tory of New York siuce 1549 illustrates and verifies | it to the letter. | Thave said that this eys'em of bringing togetser | and keeping up recognized opposing sections, within | the same political party, corrup's and demoralizes the whole body. Witness its ifect upon the fr soilers, Universally condemned os insincere professions of rertimental Loyalty to the principles adverse to those on which tacir section was “ounded, | they are subjecied to the contempt of all honest men, and to the derision of each other. What has heen its effect upon the democratic party, | or upon my section, a8 the nomenclature sought to | be legitimated by authority would require me to call it? Nominations to office at these conventions, | in which the free soil section had seats, could be ob- tained enly by an intrigue, except in rare and ex ceptional cases; wnd commonly the existence aud | consummation of that intrigue were demonstrably proved by the very fact and method of the nomina- ton. A democratic candidate was observed to have the entire and undivided vote of the free soil or minority faction ; this e’ected him, being added to a | mall corps of his own personal friends, aud those of two or three other democrats who, like himself, obtained nominations at the same time and by the same yote. A combisation with the free soil or minonty faction agvinst his own section was at once apparent, and was denounced accordingly. Driven by that devuncistion into the ranks of his former foes, now allied to him by the advantages resulting to Loth froa their successful intrigue, the nominee was soon found eroploying the power and inflnence of cflice in forwardiog the views of the faction whica elevated him—in securing office to its members, or wreeking vengeance upon the menbers of his origi- | nel section, wbo were hosest enough to become de | gusted with his intrigue, and “ bard” enough to oppore its consummation. These wen—to cap the climex of their demoralization—always claimed to be continu'‘ny members of their original section. They might be known by their continual use of the democracy,” union avd harmony,” “ the union of the party,” “ onr sectim of the party,” “ your seo tion of their party,” end the like All this is well exemplitied by the career and for- | ofiice under the State anu genera governments, | whore names will at once occur to every weil: inform- ed New Yorker. It is not necessary, and might be | thought invidious, to nome them. they are known, | What experience bas proved in this recognition of sections was apparent to me im | 1e49, From the instant the coalition wai first | propceed—from the first broaching of tho idea that | there might be two re ognized sections in the party, | down to the present hour—in all places where tae | «ubject came up, and to all persona before wiom I | have ever spoken upor either subject—with the most | once visting consistency, and in the stronges: terms | Of reprobation I could command, I have deasunced both the coalition itself and the pervicious policy of recognizing sections or sectional ¢ivisions in tie some party, This was known to every democrat who has ever had occasion to know an: opinions; it was known to x office upon me. In the State Convention of 1850, where for the first time freesoil members sat with democrats, they held themselves aloof as a section claiming to act as such; they defiounced the leading democrats of that day, tych as the Hon. William L. Marcy “ for their politi- cal conduct;”’ they voted agawst the democratic platform, and yet they were not ex; ed, tas 0 Oe contrary were awarded a share of tne offices; bat openly and most dist netly opposed the unballowed combination. In the same seasou I was a member of the so called democfatic convention for the district of my residence, which uomioated for Congress a notcrious treesoiler and abolitionist I pronounced both of these coriventions hetervdoxical, irregular, and possessed of no bincing authority; because they had in effect admitted the section “which the Hon. Secretary now requires to be formally and distinctly yecog) ized as a section, and as such fed from the public treasury. 1 declared my opinions, and an- nouneed in the most public mencer my determiua- tion to wage unceasing war against the policy of maintaining the sections. At the celebrated Castle Garden meeting, held just after these conventions, ane before the election, I delivered ap address which was circulated throughout the Union. Among ether remarks of like import, I there expressed myself as follows :— “In future elections, let us single out for preference those candidates, no matter of what uame or political sect, who are faithful to the Constitution, and devqted, before ajl other eartlily duties, to the preservation of the Union, Both of the existing great political partiss have allowed themselves to become more or less contaminated with the sin of supporting or tolerating these agents of sectional strife and disunion, the abolition or froe soil agitators. Between the free-soil managers aud the expe- wen of sound opimons, true, staunch, and reliable men Can with difficulty be found amongst the nominees for office. It may, consequently, be dificult to select; but the best must be done that the circumstances will admit, I shall single out, for my ticket, mea who are in favor of ures, fraternily with the South, and he Union, if I cannot tind sucks, I e who pretend to be so, and thus give my vineiple.’? voice for the In reference to that class of pretended democrats who are kcown as free soilers, “The tactics and purity of that class were well exemplified in the proeeedings of the lute Deioerat tion, held at Syracuse; nor did their rominal oppouents appear on the occasion in alight much more creuitable, 1 had the honor to present a set of resolutions. aftirming the principles of the national democratic party, and among them that of the non-intervention of Congress in the enti-slavery agitation, Those resolutions were adopt- ed by a great maj rity. Butlo! when the nominations came up, three noted free soilers, devoted advocates of the principles and practices denounced by the Conyen- tien, were recommenced to the people as: uitable candidates ovtan offices, It was said that the union of the party sland sunctioned this sacrifice of consistenoy. A ate Conven- | P | its origin m revolt, aud gistinguisxed only by the | te e effort to establish this kind of conlition was | | reselve to withhold our sulira | didate nominated. ide- . that policy. 3 but itis | jemoralina- »the wicked, or ‘the | | imputation on the motives ot the President. | folicwinw converrational phrases—t. ¢., “the mited | tunes of several distinguiehed citizens vow tigh in | By their deeds | respest to | | | ' method of ‘union of two political bodies entertaining opinious dismet- rically opposed upon the onl g mind, or affecting legislative action, was deemed law 1 and honorable; because it might ‘combine a suffi- vote to defeat the whigs. and secure a portion of the offices toeach of the temporarily united sections. To no such union have | ever been, or will I ever be, a party. ‘thy of both sections, amounts to a desertion s by ach, andcan serve no honest pur- ose. er & unicn cf all the friends of union throughout this menaced re two hostile political factions for temporary sucees snd a participation of spoils. rtheléss, these candidates were and in the congressional distric' . paced political abolitionist “has b pation by professing democrats these shall my vote be cast earnest of his Fellow-ci let us 8 fromany aud from every with the political purpos. which we rejoice, and who has thus gt-¢ devotion to his ce -untry? Never. candidate for office who fs tain tin of fo-te ing anti-slavery agitat iations—no matter wih what s observ forms of party nomination ha way have beea robed | for the canvas,” Sent by the same districtto the next State Conven- tion (1851), I avtended, and soon learned that the game policy was to be punued, The “secidon” openly beld its separate caucus, and, though in the minty, carned the organ)zation by the usoal in- | trivue. Shaking the Gust from my feet. 1 lett the convention betore any platform was adopted or can- question now agitating the | e | tution. | broke up soon after leaving the score. | three seconds. severed ties of axvociation, is NEW pora te A estas YORE COMMON COUNCIL. - even of, the moot din Ieaders Tals ster orrictan monstrate that eminent © — gen Gen'l Dix. He took a very ‘Dart in the Statea active part free soil movement, among utber things ranning for Governor of this State in criancticn with Gates, a whig abolitionist, against the democratic candidates. ‘The course of thst gentleman shows the path where- by even the foremort leaders of a rebelltous feated taction, may easily and quietly reiastate themselves in the confidence, and even in the affec- tions, of the original or parent party. From the close of the bey ill-starred campaign of the freesoil par- ty, he took no further past in that movemeot. He sought to return, and as far as depended on himself, he did quietly and unobtrasively return to the demo- cratic ranks. At the next general election, without atiempting to keep up avy faction or section, he dili- gevtly and faithfully worked wish the party avd ‘for the perty; and for its candidates, He fouxbt to cbliteraie from the memories of men all traces of his avrion asa freesoiler, aod evidently | dewred that the fact ot bis ever having been one | shoulé itself be forgotten, instead of making it, as others have done, a mark of distinction, and through the instrumentality of faction aud intrigue a pass- pest to favor. inthis rigbieous object, pursued by his just and proper line of conduct, he would have been periectly successful but for the lovers of “union and harmony.” By recognizing acd peroetuating the sections, they have kept fastened to nim, in des- pite of himself, the baoge of free soitism—the stigma of imputed membersbip in one of the New York sec- tions. The South could not be permitted to forget or even to forgive bis errors. Though his atonement bad been ample, his old associates could not let him escape. Day by day during the Pierce and King canvass, the free soil press recounted bis speeches and services as good works of their section. “Mr. J. C.,” said they, “and Gen. Dix, and Mr. J. B. made speeches last Tuesday night at, &c. all the work is dove by our section.” Thos was innecence crucified between two unre- entant thieves upon the fatal tree ¢of ee-roilism, and kept constantly bung up in that at- utnde before the public gaze. The conseqnences, }Fobably, were most injurious. Common fame reports that the President desired to give this gentieman a teat in bis cabinet, and was ouly deterred from so doing by information that in consequence of lis free soil arsociations he could not be confirmed in the Se pate. It is also stated that a desire existed to favor him iv reference tothe French mission, and that his preterment was here again prevented by similar means. Iknow nothing as to the truth of these supposi- tions; but assuming the fact, by way of illustration. we cee bow injuriously the policy of recogniziag rections in the party operates even upon the free: | soilers themselves. | No one of them eminent enough to be of value as an associate, will be permitted to separate himself | from bis faction, or to re-enter the ranks of the original party ina Remer and legitimate way. | _ We are told in the Hon. Secretary’s letter that the | President bas adopted this policy. “I -trust and be- | lieve thet the assertion is founded in as great a mis | apprehension of his real views as seems to exist in | relatier to the impor’ of the Baltimore platrorm. I | know him to be pure, upright and patriotic; I am | sure that under the embarrassments which have sur- | rounded him from the hour of his e’ection, he has exerted a high measure of ability; and if he has not | overcome them all, itis from the impracticable na- ¢ | ture of the task, and not from any failure on his part, | in diligence, mental power, or fidelity to th New York, October 17, 1853. The Turf. UNION COUKSK, L. l-—TROTTING. Monpay, Oct 17.—Match for $1,000, three mile heats, to wagons. H. Woodruff named b. g. Pet....... J. Nelson named b, m. Boston Girl Time, $200 First Heat.—Pet was the fave Girl won the pole. They had a pa 22 teat 100 to 60. Boston good send off, but both Boston Girl broke again, and Pet was first to the quarter pole, in forty- Pet led to the half three or four lengths in front, in 1:21./ Going round the lower turn Boston The Hon. Francis B Cutting, now a democratic | Tepresentative in Cougress, adopted the same | course. If anything connected with the political course of | wen ip this State was a fixed fact, known and con- Girl fell off more, and eppeared very unsteady. Pet broke again on the homestretch, but lost only a tride thereby. The mare closed up well coming to the score, Pet passing about three lengths ahead, in 2:41. The ceded on all hands, it was tha; I would not, either in ™are fell off on the upper turn.a couple of lengths, Pet convent:ons or at the polls, vote for any freesoiler of 1848 who continued to act with bis associates in maintaining @ distinct section of so-called demo- | crats. The chief Jeader of the freesoil party, in his speech at the Albany ratification meeting, held a few days ago, truly asserted that my course in opposing bis tichet hsrmonized perfectly with my whole previous political action toward his sect‘on, and that uotuing else coutd have been expected from me. So much for my connection with free soilers or free seiliem, or with sections of the democratic party. . oe tefer to the alleged vivlation of implied pleéves. Neither when I consented to accept office from the President, nor at any other time, had any human leing the slightest reason to suspect from any act, Word or acquiescence of mive, that | stood pledged to the principles and policy in relation to the distriba- tice of cflices between “ sections” or ‘ portions” of the democratic party, mentioned in the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, or that [ wou'ld give “ in- fluence or co-operation” in aid of the policy meation ed by the Unon. No one who ever spoke to me, or with me, on the subject, could possibly have doubted that Istocd pledged against those principles and | It 1s intimated that these principles and this policy are émbraced in the Baltimore plutform, and were indicated in the inaugural address. { cannot find that the slightest countenance is offered to them in either document. “ Privciple” it cannot he called; but if the “ policy” of keeping the democratic party, in this or any other Stste, for ever divided into con- tending aud jealous sections, by recoguizing such sec- tions and patronizing their leaders,conid be found in | the plavorm or in the address, I snould at once with- | draw from the former giy udbesion and trom tie latter py adniration. il, indeed, as a counterpoise to, and qualifying set- | off agaicst the true and trusty national democrat, at the head of their ticket, the baltimore Convention had nominated for the Vice Presidency Cassins M. Clay, Joshua R. Giedings, or even some noted free | soll democrat who was willing to reewnt his errors, | that body migit be charged with having approved the dietbution policy. That is said to be the only way ofre ognizing a section‘ shat will carry conviv- tion with it.” The courre o! the Convention was not marked by any sch gereliction of principle, Iris suid by the U.20m that the President's an- nounrement of his Cabnet was a distinct avowal of his policy. His enemies have often said so. I never ob, credit to their assaults, assertions or opinions. When the New York appointments were pablished, it wae suid that the names of Mr. Dickinson and my- eclf were merely used to whiten the sepulchre in whieh lay entombed the mutilated hopes of the na- tional Cemocratic party. I did not subscribe to this Neither the Balticore platform nor the inaugural addrers contained the slighte-t hint in favor of # dis: tribution of offices between the sections of the demo- cratic party, or ary recognition of such sections; with- out concurring in the reproach cast upon the Cabinet by its political enemies, and now for the first tine given on authority in the Union, I could not have supp sed that its very materiel and construction inaicated such a policy : my own ection had been unformly hostile to the policy ; my speech had al- woys been, and still was, openly, frankly and dis- tinetly adverge to it. What right, then, bad any one t imply that I would aid in or conform to it? I ceem it unjust in iteelf, and subversive of politi- cal morality; [ believe that an adoption of, and ad- hesion to it, would be mischievous, if not fatal to the democratic Lea If any man should sey public events gave good reaeon to fear that this pernicious policy might ob- t.in an as:endancy in the. councils of the admini- stration, and should ask why, in view of that fact, I Accepted office, I might be willlng to acquiesce in his juds ment and to assign that as the very reason of my acceptance. Apprehension that a friend may heve bearkered w evil coun-els—that be has erred in a degree, and an perchance err more seriously — furnishes no just reason for standing aleof. ty political and social morality is to adhere the more timly, in proportion to the degree in which }e nceive my party or my friend to be in danger. The true hearted mariner remains by his ship while asitgle hope remains. Willing to contribute my lit- tle stuck of intive toward prevevting what [ deemed a catastrophe, I stood by the President. He Lad been, I hoped he would remain, | still believe he wil! remaiv, the sheet anchor of the vemocratic party. The Union says that in judging the free soilers ty be insincere, there is ‘a severity which leaves no room for repeotance or reformation.’ This is evad- ing the question. No one objects, or ever can osject, to receiving into the ranks of the democratic party any cne who will vote for and support it. Bas the question i¢ whether, in pavty conventions, and in the cispenration of offices, honors, and rewards, we sholl espectally recognize a8 a section of the dem» cratic party the ses of men who revolted ayatast the party and defeated it in 748, whilst they evil! cvntinue to aot as @ distisct fection, and urrogate to them selves as & Merit, the Gisth ve charactor whivh re- suite trom the memory of their treason. [Lan oa ihe negusive of this question; others have taken tae offirmative. “Time, which st Jast brings ail tongs even,” will decide between vs.} The doc tine which repels from the democratic threshtold all orgavized bande of political opponents, presenta 1o opposition ty the renin or erring brethren, 1 have shown how the ma-ses who had gone off upon the Bufwlo plastorm could, and if permitted’ would have quietly returned, without form, ceremony, broke twice from the score to the half mile pole, and the mave drew up to within a few lengths of him, and lay there until she reached the homestretch, up which she forced Pes, and landed at the score head and head with him. Time, 4:21. Onthe upper turn he shook her off again three ivogths or more, after which she went along steadily until she reached the homestretch, but coming round the turn she made another bad break. Pet also broke up, but the mare was so far behind that she couid not reach him, He won by about three lengths, making tie heat in 8:03, Hiram tcove his horse very scientiA- cally the whole of the beat, not losing s point in any part of the game. Second HHeat.—There was no betting between heats. Buth horses came fresh to the score, and after one aitempt they were started, Pet leading, the mare taking a trailing position, Pet led around the turn two or three lengths, He went tothe quarter pole in forty seconds. Down to the halt mile pole Pet outtrotted the mare, and was at the half in 1:18. The mare then broke up, and fell cf a couple of lengths more, making in all about forty yards. When she reached the homestretch she trotted more steadily, and much faster, gaining rapidly; but | et was too fast for her, and well in hand all the way round. He passed the score in 2:40. Boston Girl fell off again on the upper turn, aad was fifty yards behind at the quarter, and did not seem to close until she reached the lower turn, As Pet swung on the homestretch he broke up, and the mars drew closer te him. Pet waa about three seconds ahead at the score, making the two miles in 6:20, He got away further from the mare again on the upper turn, but broke up en the backstretch, not lost much, ever, by the mishap. The mare sesmet inclined to give up on the lower turn, and notwithstand- ing every effort on the part of Nelson to force her along, she couid not be made togainan inch. Pet won by fifty yards or more, making the beat in 8:01, OHIO RACES. Quren Crry Covrsr, Crxcinnani, Oct. 13.—Pacing race for $200, mile heats, best three in five, between Joe Wilson, Frank Pieree, and a gray stallioa colt only four years okt. ‘The latter nag was “+prung in” by Major Murphy, of Kentucky. Annexed is # summary :-— Gray stallion colt... eee ae Yet Frank Pierce $2 8 Joe Wilson, 88 8.3 TEN) Warner Covrse, Vet. ile heate, 5. Fowler entered g. f. Gertrade Posley, by imp. agear, dun hy Richard, 6 years old........ i ach. c. by r, dam by Le vi 5 old Averson & Elliott entered g. by Leviathan, 4 years old Time, 8:08—$:0134. ion purse $400, four dis. Thentrical and Musical. Powny Tuxarks.—The attendance at this theatre is very good, and the selections by Manager Stevens seem to give general satisfaction. 'To-night Mrs. M. Jones will ap- pear as Mrs, Haller in the play of “ the Stranger,” Mr. Fédy as the Stranger, and Mr. R. Johnson as Baron Stein- fort: ‘The comedy of “the B'hoys,"’ and the dreama of “Lochinvar” will follow. Broapway Tikarne.—The new drama entitled “Dick the Newsboy” will be the commencing feature of this even. ing’s amusements—Mrs. B. Williams as Dick. Miss Rico will dance a pas seul; after which the popular Irish drama of “Born to Good Luck; and the whole will ter- minate with the new comedy, “Law for Ladies,” Mra, Williams sustaining five characters, Ninto’s GaxpEN.—The receipts of this evening aro for the benefit of Antoine Ravel. Tho pantomimes selected are “Robert Macaire,”’ “Medina,” and tho first aot of the wand ballet of “Giselle,” which will introduce Mile. Yrea Ab thias as Giselle, No doubt the house will be crowded in every department. ° Horron’s Tinarre —Shakspeare’s great comoily of “Twelfth Night,” with a fine cast, is the piece selected for this evening. Messrs, Placide, Burton, Fisher, Jor dan, Andrews, Miss E Raymond,’ Buekland, and ‘other eminent artists in the leading characters. The langhable farce of “My Unele’s Card” will conclude the entertain. ments of the evening. Nanionat, Tieavne.—The same piece, namely, the drama of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,’ is the only dramatic feature at this establishment, but it reema to be quite sufficient, as the theatre is every night crowded, From all appearances {1 is daama will continue to be played til the end of the month. Wartack’s Theatre. —Th 4 drama of “Bleak House” will be presented for the fith time this evening, with the fame cast of characters. The orchestra will play the overture to Feleenmuhle, and the am ments will close with the adinired faree of the ‘Rough Diamond.” The theatre is crowded nightly in every department, American Meveem —The amusements for this afternoon consist of the “Queen's Own,’ and the farce of “Somes- tic Feonomy.”” In the evering, the new comic drama called “Old Folks at Home.’’ Besides this amusement the visiters have the privilege of seeing the Bearded Lady, the living Giraffes, and the Happy Family. Juiniey’s Concxem.-—Thi \elightful entertainments are nearly at a close, there bring but three nights more, ‘The pregramme for this eveuing contains a variety of musical geins from Mondelaeoh, 99 also vasious solos on the flageolet, ophectide, cornet-’-piston, &e. Cemmry’s Ammugan Orwas Hove. —Christy’s Minstrels have provided a fine entertainment for this evening. Woor's Mixes Hatt.—Wood's Minstrels announve several of their most popular features for this evening. Pvextey's Enopuan Overs Hover.—Bucklay’s Now Or- lean Serenaders are to give another of the'x popula en- teriainments to-night. Sicxor Dusre advertiver an attractive programme for to-night. lyram’s Seven Mus Mirror continwes to aviract fall Louses. United States Marshal's Office, Cer. 11—Charge yf Cruel and Unusual Punisbmentm Willinm eeourcey, captain of the sbip Montecama, and — bisby, his mate, were arrested ona charge of oruel and unusual punishment on Jereminh Sinith, seaman, and held to answer Charge (f Cnmlerfeitivg.—Richard Siith and Ann Jynch were arrested hy Deputy Marshal D'Ang+lis, on a compact or coattion, The same peaceful heating @ifferences ani reuniting charge of counterfeldug twenty-five cont ond dime pieces, Heid to auawer. *Tait, ©’ Brien, Boaup oy Aven, 1868. Paesedt—Richard T. Compton, Esq Proctone: Al en Moore, Haley, Sturicyy it Oakey. iboyee, arr, tweed, S is, a Denmad, Cornell, Alvord, Dot and Peck, Bat; Ward, ‘The minutes of the last meeting Were road perinion and approved. By the Prxsipexa—Peti on Of W, TE. Mackeell, fo ftax. To Comumitteo on Finance. mike wne— Bill of Dr. John C, Cs First ward station house. ‘By Alderman ALvoro—l oJ certvin obstructions on Second avenue, between Twenty. pd gud Thirty-first streets, rewoved. To Committee om Street By Alderman Tiemann—Petition of Philip tension of time on contract mittee on by Alderman Tweev—!' ef from crroueous tax By Alderman Oan.e others, for a sewer in Duane and Roosevelt streets. rem Fohoy, for ex- ih ny for Fe des and between ers. ‘To Comunittee on INVITATION. itation was ror vived to visit the cattle show, to take Jismilton square, om the 1th, 20th, and Sse inst coupted, By Alderman Arvony—Petition of Ann Maria Clarkson, ot for privilege to bridge out thirty tive fect in feont of propert Letween ‘Morton sna Leroy ‘streets. To Commivice M4 Wharves. Piors and Slips. By Alderman Peausaus r Remonstrance of Abraham ‘Theall and others, against sewer in Ludlow street, batweem brown and Delancey streets, ‘To Comuitteo on Sowers, MOTION. Alderman Prox moved t» take up réfolution from Board of Acsistanto, Inid on table October Ld, 1503, fixing places {08 holding the polls of the Twenioth ward, which was carried. Tho same was then concurred in. ERSOLU TIO} Moonr—Keroly. ‘od Inspectors of 8. That. the following jon tor the First ward:— John B. Williams ‘Newman in place of — Dalton, and William G. Black; Second district, Samuel Auld, Jobn’C. Alistadt, Peter B. Van Houten; Tuird district Chas: Gannon, Vhemas Green, and William Thompson, im place of H. 't. Cieaveland, removed from the ted. By the same—Reselved, the Fir t ward be he trict, Broad Street House, corner of Broad aad Pearl streets! Secohd district, Atlantic Garden, No. 9 Broadway; Third ode By Alderman Buisiey—Resolvod, tion of the several districts of the Ninth First district, at 618, Greenwien at 275 Bleecker strect; Third distrie th district, northeast corner Grove and ashington street; Sixth district, a6 Fourth stre t; Seventh district, at corner of Twelfth strat ard Greenwich avenue; Eighth district, at 233 Yairte ath street; Ninth district, at southwest corner of Fourth and Horatio streets, Adopted By Alcerman Waup-Resolyed, That the poll of the Second election district of the Fifteenth ward be hald at the house on the ecuthesst corner of Broadway and Great Jones street. Resolved, That tho poll of the Sixth lection district of the Fifteenth ward be held at the house on the north west corner of Fr adway and E. Adopted. y ‘Phat tho foul be designated for h districts of the Seventh ward:—First distri street, ecrner of Market; Second district, 173 Mativon ‘Third distriet, 19 Jefferson strect; Fourth distcict, 6 Gouver: neur street, corner of East Fifth distriot, 174 Cherry street; Sixth éistrict, street, cormer of Jefferson, revonth district, 328 treet; Highth dis- trict, 68 "Water street, Adopted. By'the same—Resolved, That the following named gentle- men be, and are hereby, appointed Inspectors of Election for nih street. derman Tw ren—Resolve John’ Murphy, ‘Third district, Semuel D. Wi Fourth 1d, That the Stroct Commis- d to cause the obstructions wenty-cighth und Thirty- ted. in the Se erween first treets, to be re . Adop By tho Resolved, That the paving in Seventeenth street, between Fifty and’Sixth avenues, be repaired, and the = Commissioner of Repxire and Supplies is hereby directed to cause the same to ‘Adopted, By Alderman Ha the Second district, § Adopted lderman Tisanx—Resolved, That the property own- ers and residents on Sixty-titth street, between First and Second avenves, have the privilege of building a well at their own expense, wider the direction of the Steet Commissioner, ‘hat the election poll of ond ward, Le held at No. 63 Beckman ‘nat tho Strect Commis- snot contracted for the nth streot, in the ard to be built rs t the Commissioner of Repairs to this Board why he las not contracted f the house Jo. Now dy situated i Hy the sam and Supplies for the buildi Tenth stree By Alderman Srvurevawr—Resolved, That 12tst str from ‘Third avenue to the East river, ‘be lighted with Withont delay; and that the Commissioner of Stroets and Lamps cause lamp posts to be rected, and lamps to be Placed therein without delay. | Adopted. By the same—Rerolved, That West street, from the Battery ¢ Widened one hundred and twenty-five d its present width, under tho direction of ioner. To Committee on Strocta. By Alderman SsxorH—Resolved, That the Street Commis- sioner report to this Board why he has not contracted for the pavement ailowed to be laid in Fifteenth street, betweem avenues B. Adopted. Resolution relative to suspending the work of grading Fit- ty-third street, between Second and Third avenues. To Com- mittec on Ronds. MorTIONS. . On motion the report of the Committee on Salaries and Offices, Inid on the table June 16, 1883, fn favor of inc the pay of policemen, was taken up, csusidered, and amend- {ter discussion, the saiue Was referred to Commit- ries and Offices 7H moved to take up Report of Committee om ke., relative to bulkhead between piers 21 and 28, ¥. Re Carricd, ‘The same was then Inid on the table. On m: tion, the Board then adjourned until Wednesday, 19th inst., at 6 o'clock, P. M. D. T. Qrentine, Clerk. Boarp oy Assistant AuDERaen, Monpay, Ocr, 17, 1853. tant Ald. Barker, in the chair—Aast, Ald, aybee, Breaden, Woodward, Wells, Boutom, Wheelar, and MeConkey. ‘A quorum not being in attendarce, the Prosident anmowne- @ that the Board stood adjourned to Tuesday afternoon, a6 5 o'clock, From the minutes. C. T. MeCLENECHAN, Clerk, Proclamation by the President. Whereas it is provided by the second article of the com- vention of the 16th of June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia and other States of the Germanic con- federation, for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from jurtice in certain cases, that the stipulations of that convention shall be applied to any other State of the Ger- manic confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto : And whereas the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen has de- clared its accession to the said convention, and the change of the said declaration for my acceptance of the same was made at Washington on the 14th instant, by Rudolph Sehleiden, minister resident of the said Hanseatic city of Bremen, and William L. Marcy, Secre- tary of State of the United States, om behalf of their re- spective governments : Now, therefore, be it known that I, Franklin Pi President of the United States of America, have ca: this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the seid convention may be observed and fulfilled with good faith in t to the Free Hanseatie city of Bremen by the U ‘tates and the citisene thereof. In witness whereof, I_bave hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be allixed. Done at Washington, the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and of the independence of the United States the seventy-eighth, FRANKLIN PIERCE. Present—A Supreme Court—Special Term, ‘Before the Hon. Judge Mitchell. Ocr. 17.—DLecisions.—Petiee anil Mann vs. Price and Price.—This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage. ‘The defendant, Saruh G. Price, the mortgager, sets wy that the mortgage was given by her without any ber to herself, ax recurity for a debt of 25, alleged to be due by her brother, and under false misrepresentationa made by the plaintiti, which misled her. The Judge hav- ing elaborately reviewed the circumstrnees of the concluded by saying that “It is not intended to im, any intentional wrong to the plaintiffs in this ea personally madeno representations; but as honoral they must acknowledge that they ought not to wish to avail themselves of a security obtained by the eet of their attor- ney in misleading the person giving it. Nor is it supposed that the gentleman who acted as their attorney was con- scious that he was doing any wrong in what he stated to her; but the wrong was done, and she should not suffer - from it. The complaint is dismissed with costs, and the + bond and mortgage should be delivered to Mixs Prize to be cancelled. The sssignmeut made to her (contrary to what she insisted through her counsel was the agree- ment,) was made only to take offect if she paid the mort- gage. Are-assignment by her would not, under these circumstances, be strictly ueceasary; but still it is proper that she do so'relinquis any claim wader it, on the bond and mortgage being satiated. if received by the plaintiffs. Henry Erten ve, Peder Lorillard.—The plaintit sued the “efendant for services ‘a procuring the purchase of lands orhim, and claimed to recover the value of such ser- vices; yet, at the trial, he strove to get in proof, and did get in proof, that the defendant had virtually agreed to give him a lease for twenty-one years; and also proof of the value of such a lease, and gave no proof of the value. of his services... Tho onse was tried, and the jury ren- Gered a verdict for plaintiff, though the Judge told them to disregard certain testimony that was illegal. New trial granted—costs to abide the event. ute Common Pleas—Pars- Before Hon, Judge Woodraif. Ocr. 11.—Cobb and Tyler vs. the Onion Manufacturing, Company.—This was an action oa contract to recover $18,000, In 1861 the plaintif’ came from Ohio to New York and made a contract with the defendants’ agents to. deliver 20,000 pounds of woo! it. Ohio at 40 cents per Ib. for washed, and one-third deducted for unwashed. alleged that the wool whs offered for delivery, but the de fendant refused to accept it, and the platutit’s brought tt to New Yorb and sold itatn sooritice. For the defendants it was contended that the plaintitfs were told, previous to. their making the agreement with the detondanta’ agent, that the wool was not wanted. The ense was compro. mired in court, without submitting it te the jury. ACOIDENT ON THT H ynteM Rauwnoap.—The noom train on the Harlem road, whieh left this tty at 11 A. M. op Saturda: of. the track year Chatham Centre, in comsequence of the misplacemant of the swith. The locomotive, tender and baggage cars vere precipitated sown an embankmeny 28 feet igh. ‘Tho engineer, named Brown, was bad# injured. James Riley, brake: vauch mutilated about the head and neck, it is f ‘wally, Another angiseer, wpon the engine at the time, nd the fireman, exeaped with slight injuries. —Albany tagus, Oct. 17. WOOTING AFFRAY I GrorartowN.—On the lath res H. Southworth (who left this District for South ‘America in, March, 1844, and who retarned hither from Californig Inst month) (red three successive shots from ® pistol or revolver, Henry Hardy, of Warbington, at the corner of Lirgam a: | Prospect strocts, in this town. Fach shot was unsuccessful, aud was mado at a distemes ‘of more than twenty yards.” After the tiring, Southworth, i vetreated briskly, though no one pursued him. A war. rant was insuied hy Justice Reaver, for hia arrest.—Geonger 1 teen (9. C.) 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