The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1853, Page 2

their are fami to the police—snd there Late and Interesting from Cuba. MORE IMPORTANT POLITICAL DOCUMENTS, no ae eae the objects for which they made , OUB HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE. nentene ane their appearance at Syracuse. Several of Havana, October 6, 1853. The War of the National Democrats | us bave personal know! of these men, | 4 Cored American Citizen held in Slavery in Cuba—A Ou- P their course of life, and the occurrences at Syracuse, vteullina ne upon the Free Soilers, and we have stated no fact which, if so fortunate as Interesting Case—Military Review, de. . ‘s ER. a to be called on to prove, we contd et perenne Nota be Lar apis. mee ay ba is Me hie in a court of justice. We conceive suc! upon my of the slave trade, of the past or the ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE, | these eral comment And if they do, that no | present. New developements of crime come tous with &e.. %o., ko. one can make or apply a just and indiguaut Com | every day's experience, and a case of most extraordi- the Democracy of the State of New York. —Allow us to address you a truth on the eve of this moat Feiiow Dswocns few words of earnes important political contest. The events of the pest month are all before you. The high and urgent grounds of duty and of fidelity to the democratic which impelled the sever- ance of a false and cslusive coalition, have been fully presented by the Demo ratic State Convention, and you are familiar with them. erata—ajl who preier to stand upon the old plat- form, and to ab'de by the ancient and well-de- fined landmarks—the ap;cals of the delegated de- mocracy of the State ha» been heard with emotion, and will be respordes to with fervor, A high and right spirit is abrood—sn barnest and fearless tone pervades our ranks—the tree men of the national democracy have rallied as they ever rally at the call of duty and the appeals of patriotism; and they have only to do and w act to insure a proud and viotorious result. The Democratic Party is a party of glorious na- tionality. Atal! times, and under all the agitations and trials of the past, it has maintained that high and distinctive grownd. It has asserted it always, aud proved and established it. That party encoun- tere vow, in this Sratv, the same leaders and the same ruffian coadjutors it has met and foiled in past times. The same apo-tle and agitator from the Ll and free soil catmp, ix the chiet actagonist leader an orator now. Exvept a few interested leaders, aud a few seeking or holding offive, in various localities, tne same factions aud tie sane men are arrayed against it. It and its unchanged friends receive now the same obloquy and asper-ion at the same hands. The theme and the preachers are the same, save the politic omission of the denunciation of the com- romise acts, the declaration of war against the Wiattive lave law, its asserted unconstitutionality, and the demand for its iustant and unconditional repeal, the eulogy over the ‘ Buffalo movement,” aad the ‘ing over the triumph it gave to the whig national and State canvidates, the proclaimed disso- of the national democratic party, and the shiv- of the Baltimore platform into fragments. topics—witu which the speeches of the a were garnished scarcely more than a twelvemonth since—are avoided now, it silence of a c.leulating political mendacity, which hopes to conceal the past for the designs the present, and to render the imposture, and the aims of its chief actors and agents, the more @ffective. But no ove can doubt that the spirit object, not less than the actors, are the Every intellgeot jadge of the aspirations the designs and ‘the resentmeats cf men, must see that ‘under the specious pretence of “ harmony,” oe of a sudden seorecen Satie core platform ,they so rocently i an rs) it is the ideatical free soil leadership, reversed banuers and new devices, perhaps, but the same standard-besrers and the same clan, so far as the lat‘er can be rullied to the ee pone which convict then of political dishonesty then, or insincerity now. We cesire, fellow democrats, to ish between the leaders of the free soil part, and sincere, but, as we think, mistaken ran. and file of that faith, who have heretsfore followed alice La and corfided iu them. The latter must ‘ive that the position of their leaders, after ettte! a death- Jess devotion to a pretended great principle of “hu- maa freedom,” “‘free sil,” ‘free speech,” and free everything; api the easy virtue with which they lenly abandon their past position and ali their Senne under pretexts which no one cre- , but really because they hope to ministerto their personal ag; dizement, and more effectually to Secure official favor aud political rewards, was crafty and insincere then, or is bypoeritical now; and that, it be one or the other, ought to deprive the confidexes, aud leave them to the just , of all parties. Look back through the re years from 1847 to moment, and tell us when this fell spirit hatred and desire of dominion, have not been maa. fested. Tell us which of your emisent friends,whose a record of consistent devotion to the princi ’ national demoeracy, has escaped the cul- wnny and Crewe of the free soil leaders and presees. Tell us when “harmony” or “anion,” how- ver honied their accents, have failed to denounce and proscribe every democrat who hesitated to min- ister ¢o their ambition or their malice. Tell us when “harmony” has not meant perfidy to the old cause and its friends, and when “union” bs not been signalized 8 vindictiveness of assault that has rendered af istion intolerable. Ali know, who know anything of eur political his- tory, that the causes which led at last to a separation of the national democrats of the State from these meck harmoniste, have been operative and active during all the period of pretended union. That they were exhibited at the late State convention, in a manner that rendered further association inadmissa- ble, was only a natural saqoenee of acts and events. It would have beena sufficient reason for renouncing the coalition, that a minority cf the fairly chosen delegates, had resolved to control the organization ‘and action of the convention, through the machinery of ous delegates, aud the official influence, by intimidation or promises, of their allies in the State government. The extraordinary and unprecedented appearance of the Exeou- tive at Syracuve, wil cers of State, and five promivent officers of the fede- ral government, all throwing the weight of their officlal stations and the power of official rewards into the scale of the free seil effort to obtain the mastery in the convention, through contested seats and the rocured defection of delegetes from those by whom dhey had been chosen, would have afforded ample cause for separation. But when to these exhibitions of the temper and ypirit with which “ harmony” was invoked, and “union” enforced, was added the determination to carry the convention by force, if artifice, intimidation, or the persuasive power of the “spoils” should prove unequal to the task, the act which has signal'zed the high resolve of the present | e years in which associated opposites | ear, over Lage been tolerated, and harmonious persecution and obloquy endured, became an imperative duty. How this scheme of forcible control was attempted; with what violence its instigators and agents burst into the convention; how the delegates were surrounded by @ body of armed bullies; what were the scenes of | uproar and obviousiy intended intimidation, have been already decribed. But we present you now with \dditional facts and statements of these occurrences, n the certificates of residents of the city of New Tork, of credibility, character, and well knowa re- ibility, which accompany this paper. It is @ notorious fact that some thirty persons, well mown in the bully and short bey circles in the cities wf New York aud Albany, were picked from the everal wards, chiefly in the former city, and em- jloyed to go to Syracuse; that they were telegraphed fo come, and that they went; that in passing from New York to Syracuse in a body, on one of the railroad trains, their conduct was indicative of their ckaracter and object. That while in Syra- cuse they not only enjoyed the association of the free soil contestants from the city of New York, the Surveyor and Postmaster, and their friends, but were acoompanied by some of the rominent frae soil leaders when they rushed into the convention, and were evidently acting ander their direction during the excited — Roe boar. a fe also, that the principals incursion, 9898 who are known to act only from a single impulse— the impulze of violence and force, at the instigation of their employers were engaged in the memorable outrage in the Albany County Convention, and in the murderous assauit npon the chairman and mem- bers of the — Democratic General Committee Tammany Hall, and that several of them were from their conviction for the latter outrage— no doubt of the — for which they were brought to 8; se, OF rervice they were ex- pected to le Of the Chiefs in the “short boy’ force were Isaac H. Austin, Thomas Wallace, Patrick Matthews, James Irwin, and James Kerrigan. Wallace, Austin, and Mathews were convicted for the riot and assault in Tammany Hall in December last. Matthews sub- sequently made an affidavit, which was transmitted to Gov. our, in aid of the application for the pardon of John S. Austin, another of the convicts for that offence, in which he stated that he gave the blow which endangered the life of the chairman of General Committee. By a natural transition the performance ef one service to another, the same general direstion, Wallace received from Mr. Cochrane, surveyor of the Kerrigan bas, since the Syracuse Conven- 4 a sppotiied by Mr. fowler, the postmaster, ‘aware that inthe peacefal communities are ‘hrovg! State, It is difficult to conceive canenee of such & condition of things—to be- . an wn empioyed, By allo men can age i searcely less desperate services, in deflance y cal i Hi lt i characters and localities. But these men are York—their acts of disorder, the out- which they habitnally shore, and of which them d couvicles, sre ae wellknowa as! t ; i } 2 By all true demo- | three of the chief offi- | notorious ia the | | mextary more forcibly than the orderloving and in- | telligerit communities, which are the pride of our | safeguard of its free institutions. It pected that politicians, who resort to es and instruments to overawe and ob- State, and th ought to be such auxiliar | tain forcible control of gencral committees, or of town, county and State conventions, would seruple at no means te counteract the general feeling of re- would hesitate to ewploy any artifice or effort to ob- tain votes for the ticket they have nominated. But the peacefu) citizens of the interior will not fail to see that by encouraging an organization whose ele- | ment is force, and whose associates are rowdies, they invite similar interferences everywhere and on all oc- ns; and that, if successful now, they may be expected to encounter violeace instead of the or. derly ballot, their own quiet meetings and neighborboods, | No one will have the hardihood to deny that the cabinct at Washington, so far as it can be held acconntable for its official employees, was largely represented in the affairs of the Syracuse convention; nor will it be denied, we think, that such employees merit the distinction, however unenviable the meaus, of having caused the separation there. {fit shall seem surprising to the national democracy of this State, who have ever stood with consistent firmness and unquestionable fidelity to the support of the sound natioaal princi- | ples on which rest the foundations of the democratic | party and the cause of free government, and have | been foremost smong those who have ever vindicated | both against the ruthless assaults of sinister agitators | | { probation which their condact has produced, or | | digniteri government as objects of censure in the scenes we bave dessribed, are not only al lowed to pass unrebuked, but claim official immunit; and approval—let it be remembered that truth an justice travel slow, and shat itis no new thing for power, remote from localities and surrounded by misinformation and perversion—by the artfal false- hoods of the defgning speesh-maker, or the inter- ested ta‘es of hungry eee of oftice—to fall into mistakes which, altnongh they may work prejudice and evil for the momeat, time will assuredly correct. The facts which we state—the extraordinary coa- dition of things under which the national democracy offer to the electors a sound national ticket—the ticket of able and irreproachable citizens, with a Clinton at its head, will eonvince every sincere de- mocrat of the bigh necessity of the most active and evergetic effort in the approaching canvass. We ap- a to you, then, by every consideration of duty— ry rey impulse of justice to yourselves and your cause—by an icdignant repugnance to the tyranny of demagognism and a determination to resist the unscrupulous despotism of the instigators and em- ployers of convict violence, to give to this contest your undivided personal attention. 1; is of the first importance that you complete your organizations in the towns and counties—visit, address, and in- form tke people—freely circulate the facts—inspirit and apimate your friends—see that the truth fads | its way into every man’s hand, and spare no labor, nor any proper means, to place the vindication of our course, through the votes of the electors, proud- ly before the country. One of two alternatives remains to the national democracy of this State. They must either yield all position, all cae right, all they bave struggled | tomaintain in the past, and all just results for th ments of factious leaders, between whom and them affinity and association are impossible—or they must arise in their might, and rescue their cause and their | party from the degradation and vasswlage with which they are threatened. Choose pe this day be- | tween your exemies and your frien: Choose be- | tween the iron rule of the convict domination of the | free soil leaders—between despotic hatred, under the mask of ‘‘ harmony”—between annihilation asa naticma! and time-honered party—and a prompt, ener- | Ceo manly and victorious assertion of your rights. | We doubt not you will rightly choose mie vigorously act. We doubt neither your resolution nor your devo- | | tion. Thus armed, and thus doing battle, you will | carry terror into the ranks of a motley array of fac- | tious ; you will overthrow the calculating combina- tion of interested and office-seeking leaders ; | will thwart the designs of men who dared the a tempt, for the tirst time in the history of the Repub- lic, to control a democratic State Convention by hired bullies and convicts ; you will retrieve the re- | trograde course of a four years unnatural and de- moralizing coalition; you will win back tea cordial and sincere cooperation all who desire to stand and | act, in consistent ‘raternity, upon the liberal consti- | tational principles of the national democratic party; your union will be real, and your harmony complete; you will be invincible. Avevustvs SCHELL, R. T. Mviuiean, JounB Hasgr. C. F. Be .; A. Epw UFFERN, + Second District. W. B. Howarp. J.8. Narew, J. R Foxpa, L. Trewain. C. M. Davison, A.D. War, Fourth District. T. B. Mircugu.. if Squire Ut.ey, ] T. P. Saunpers, pan Rue § RGE CLARK, C. L. Grant, B. B. AxpREws, W. B.Cvyier, R. L. Baunpaces, E. Darwine Sara. Avexis Warp, | W. G. Bryan, H. 8. Currine. Democratic State Committee. New York, October 18, 1853. | To the Democratic Republican State Com- mittee. CrntLemen—We, the undersigned, were delegates First District. Third District. Fifth District. Sixth District. Seventh District. ' j Eighth District. | to the late Democratic Convention held at Syracuse, | | and perceiving that Mr. John Van Buren, with an a dacity which has no parallel save in his own past histo- ry, and the ireesojl papers of the State, with one ho- norable exception, have denied that bullies and fight- | ing men were introduced into the convention ; but | that’ on the contrary, the convention was one of the most quiet and peaceful assemblages ever held ; we | feel it incumbent upon us as a public duty to expose | the mendacity of these statements, and to report to | you, who ha | facts of which we were eye-witnesses. We were at Brintnall Hall immediately after it was opened, and after most of the elected delegates had assembled a numerous band of ballies and fighting cen, most of whom were from the city of New York, | rushed into the hall, mounted the platform aranged | for the officers of the convention, surrounded the | Chairman of the State Committee, Hon. Minor C. | Story, while attempting to organize the convention, and by their violent threats and boisterous noises prevented, for a time, anything like organization. General Aaron Ward, a delegate from Westchester county, then addreseed Messrs. Cochrane and Van Buren, and requested them to withdraw these men to the other part of the room, which they declined to do, ard from that time until the convention left the hall the bullies and fighting men kept their places among the delegates, at times abusing and insulting , and no one there present could doubt that they came there for the ern of controlling the convention by violene>. We further certify to you that those men were sbout thirty in number, one- half of whom were on the platform—ihat among them, we recognized several who are notorious cha- racters in the city of New York, to wit :——Jim Ir- win, Ike Austen, Tom Wallace, ‘Pat Matthews, Aaron Benay, and James Kerrigan, all of whom ap- peared to act by direction and under the peep of Jobn Cochrane, Sarveyor of the port, Isaac V. Fowler, Postmaster, and John Van Buren. We far- ther certify that Ike Austen, Tom Wallace and Pat Matthews, were three of the rioters who were con- victed for the riot and assault on the chairman of the Democratic Gencral Committee at Tammany Hall, in December last, and that Tom Wallace has since that time been appointed to an office by said Coch- rane in his department, and that Kerrigan has been likewise appointed by Fowler in his department. These facts can be proved by hundreds of respecta- ble citizens, and we stand ready to substantiate the same whenever legally called upon to do so. Taos J. Barr, Second Assembly district. Srernen D. Layaway, Seventh Assembly district. E. W. Guover, Ninth Assembly district. Tos. ReinLy, Fifteenth Assembly district. Apranam Moore, First Assembly district. Josnen T. Sweer, Third Assembly district. New York, Oct. 15, 1853, From Porro Rico. to the Ath ult, annow n business dom in avgar upon what litth band, | c | hac ns howe car i operations in consey, re bh hoi t ine for & week of nas come lered to Be at bt hee p oduse nothing and infaguated fanatics, that the prominent friends | of those Spey have been singled out by high | é | and threatened dismissal, while other officials, actors | firm and sincere friends of our canal system—the | fature, end consent to become the vassals and instru- | yu | “es called the convention together, the | nary character, of the many that undoubtedly exist, is | now being exposed to the light, after a concealment of | forty years. A few days since a negro man found his way | to the cflice of the American Con: and there clained protection as a free-born citizen of the United States. His deportment and the singularity of bis story, which sur- parsed the power of inyention, attracted the most re ful attention, and bis tongue was evidently touched | the fire of truth, for all that heard believed. He solicited | in terms that could not be resisted, that his case might be investigated, and that he might be restored to the free. dom for which he had been waiting in chains for forty years. He represents that he was born in Charleston, S.C., gives the names of father, mother, one brother, and two uncies, and states that they were all free, | that they emigrated from Charleston in 1808, or near that time, went to Florida, and subsequently went to Nassau, New Providence; that he was quite small, but that he remembers every occurrence with the greater distictness for having had nothing else to’ reflect: upon from his youth to old age; and that he had early made up his mind to struggle for the freedom of which be had been deprived by robbers, He remembers, and thinks he was about twelve years of age, when his mother, seeking something for him to do, hired him to the captain of a small trading sloop, as a cabin boy, by whom he was care- fully treated, and Me thinks he (tlie captain) wasin no way accessory to his being kiduapped. That in the course of his | voyages among the islands, the business of ‘Captain Jim’? took him to Havana with a small cargo of shells and goods bought at Nassau. That being ashore at the village | of Regla, at the head of the bay, and waiting by the boat for the return of the captain, or some of the men, to go on board the sloop, he ruddenly seized by @ | man, of the class of boatmen of the harbor, and ¢ off with viclence. That when he endeavored to make an outery, he found such violent pressure that it seemed ike death, and he was afraid to attempt it more, under | the impression that if he persisted in it, he would certainly be killed, as he had heard many sto ries of tho pirates’ of Havana and of their’ cruel- ties. That he was carried apparently to the back part of the town, into a house of low and disagreeable eppearance, where he ‘was placed in the stocks for safe keeping, in the back part of the premises. In this posi- tion he remained some hours, when he was taken out, he thinks near mMnight following Lis capture, and placed upon a horse, with another man, which was’ put to his speed for the country; that in this way, at a slow pace when the roads were bad, and fast when good, they tra- yelled until the dawn of day, when they reached: some fara houses, where he was taken oif the horse and placed | in a cabin, chained; that he was put at work the fullow- | ing day, urder the Immodinie eye of his master, and that | when ‘here was not an armed white force over him suili- | cient to keep him from getting away, he has always worm | chains—and they were scarcely an iaconvenience to him, | 80 accustomed had he become to them; that as Boon as | he bad acquired language, he explained to his pretended | master how he had been taken, that he was free, and de» manced that he might go to Havana to make application | for his release, Finding this only increased their vigi- lance, he made no more efforts, but determined to wait quietly until an opportunity should occur, which he Delieved would come sooner or Ister, and that he would | have justice. He says he has kept himself from j losing "the, Inowledge of the English language he | had at twelve years, by constantly repeating tho story of is life, to himself ie English, enumerating every incident | and all the names of his family and friends. That hia master, residing near Canasi, about eighteen or twonty | miles from Havana, died in 1846, and that his estate was only distributed among the heirs some few weeks since, | when he was brought to Havana by parties having no | knowledge of his former history, having been puichased | or apportioned to them, he knows not which Boing here, the past seems to have aroused the sleeping energy | of the man, and bis first business was to find out “the America,” which being finally understood and explained meant the American consulate. His remarkable case will | be brought to the immediate attention of General Canedo, | end under the auspices of the acting commercial agent, | will undoubtedly have favorable issue for the poor negro. The sinal planter who bought “Ben,” was known as Don Antonia Catejeno, and the person who carried him from | Regla to Canasi, was his nephew, who is now living in this | vieinity and has been recognized by “Ben,”” who took him | to the office of the American consul, where his admissions | were quite sufiicient to establish ‘the truth of “Bea's” story, without implicating himself in the crime of kidnap- | ping. | _Areview of the troops took place the other day in honor of the husband of the Queen. It was a most magniticent | diaplay in quality—and a beggarly account of empty ranks in quantity. Some eighteen or nineteen hundred were dragged upon sarade, many of them looking as they had escaped from the grave yard. The Captain Gen- ever appeared to more advantage; but ‘asco wag the parade ground, close to the crowd ef curious spectators was unusu- nd very'few people from the city took the trouble to zo out and witness it. troops are always well drerred. Weare preparing to have good times about the 10. h— royal times—to be seasoned with bull fights and ken fixens,”” theatres and dancing, fire- Works and processions, Our Justice is still the hand- maiden of the three Yankce sailors. Havana, Oct. 3-934 A. M. Die George Law Steamer—An Execution—State of Socidy in the Island. The George Law came in this morning from New Orleans; | 9 most magnificent steamer she is, and her new machin- ery has attracted great attention from the novelty, beauty and compactness of its form. Both the French and Eng- lish engineers are never tired of examining it, and the general appearance and beauty of the steamer has made a great sensation here. But the news. ‘A poor fellow, eighteen years old, was garoted for mur- der here on the 30th of September, at 7o’clock A.M. The ceremony reminded me of some of the auto de fé exeen- tions of the Inquisition we read of in the last century. The mock mourners, some six or eight negroes, dressed in black, and one carrying the cross, marched behind the prisoner, who was dressed in white, with a white cap on his head. ‘The priest walked by his side, and gave him all the religious consclation the Catholic Church affords. | As he mounted the steps, some six or eight to the plat- form on which the garote was set up, (a staging some six th | | feet square, surrounded by a lowiron railing,) the doomed man repeated the creed, and the moment he said “Tbe lieve in God, the birth of his only son by the Holy Virgin Mary, and in the Holy Ghost,” ‘the dreadful screw was turned, bis head fell forw kis limbs trembled like one under the effects of an electric shock, and life was extinct. ‘The crowd dispersed, and he was left until three o'clock | in the afternoon as a terror to evil doers. Some four or | five thousand persons were present, and two hundred soldiers to guard a poor defenceless man, bound hand and foot. Many wurders have been committed in different parts of the island, but the newspapers never say a word about them, and then comment upon the notices of murders and robberies in the United States, published im the | pes and ask their readers to see the effects of a repub- » form of government—its disorders, murders, &e., &¢.. | in contrast to the good order and morals of their own, | The fact is, one dare not go cut two leagues from any eity | or village on the irland without arms; for he is liable to | get robbed, and in many parts of the island letters are sent to certain persons, politely asking them to leave sums of money at places indicated if they wish to sa lives. These wre facts, and no one a resident on the ean deny them. In answer to their abuse of us, I can say no one need carry arms in the United States, amind to; and that most of the famous r been foreigners, and most of the murders have been com- mitted by them, and not a few by the Spanish themselves, moral, upright, and religious as they say they are. The London Times is prohibited by a royal order to be kept outeftheisland. The Herat we get now and then, | and learn romewhat that is going on at home. CARDENAS. AWFUL FATALITY AT HAVANA, MATANZAS AND ELSE- . WHERE—VIOL STORM, ETC. [From the New Orleans Picayune, Oct. 11.] ‘The steamship United States, with advices from New York, via Havana arrived yesterday with advices from the latter city to the evening of the 7th inst. She left New York on the 30th ult., and during the first two days Cxperienced very heavy weather. A correspondent of the Diario dela Marina, writing from zas on the 2d inst., states that from the begivnis: ¢ previous month the cholera had been making «a ges in that place and ite vicinity increasing in viru- lence and fatality from day to day, till within the last few days, when a able change had beon observed and it was hoped the epidemic would cease. No account of the mortality caused is given, The north wind had com- menced to blow on the evening of the Ist, and some rain had also fallen, It was hoped these’ meteorological changes would improve the eauitary state of the atmos- here, Pithe returns of the charity hospital in Havans, at :he lntest accounts, still continue at the very small rates of mortality of less than two per cent, But we perceive from the returns for last month, that the mortality exeseded twelve per cent. Returns from St. Jago de Cubs show thatduring the montha of June July and Augast, there were 308 baptisms, and only 256 deaths, The Diario d+ la’ Marina quotes from the Hoja, of Sag: In Grande, a statement that the hoalth of that pl mained remarkably good, folloed by a prayer that as it had been preserved from the terrible scourge that had d nearly all the adjacent districts, it might be pro: from the fatal plague that was venting ite fury in various points about the island. On the 224 ult , a hurricane of brief duration was expe- rienced in Remedios, by whieh houses and trees were damaged ; and at about half past 5 . M., on the same day, the Spanish brigantine Nervion was struck by light- ning and very much shattered. One man was killed, and id , a storm of wind carried away the roofs of some houses and upset a boat in the harbor; but fortunately no lives were lost. At St. Jago de Cuba, on the «ame day, while, as it is believed, in a state ef mental aberration, D. Joaquin del Risco cut his wife’s throat and afterwards slew himeelf in a similar manner, No cause could be ascertained for the acts, A soldier named Francisco Sener was executed at St. Jago de Cuba, for having assaulted and wounded a ser- geant on the 25th of July last, A bridge over the Yabu, near Sagua la Grande, had just been completed, much to the satisfaction of travellers who had occasion to cross that dangerous river, i¢ inhabi- tants are now ising themselves a railway. wana, of the 29th ult ‘officially de- conspiracy or signs of disaffection discovered among the troopn at Cuecel A celebrated ectress, named Matilda Dirs, had lately ac- rived and was the Havanese with it. are Ekin ect torsetfon pence A decree is published offering a prize of $50 for the best f means of arresting it. The Diario de la Marina simply notices the publication of Mr. Everette’ letter and the statement of the Union that the letter of Lord John Russel! which called it forth was net likely to be officially replied to from Wash- ington. Another experiment, with a method for improving the mode of manufacturing sugar, proposed by Dr. Stolle, had been tried. It resulted in failure, nders for the erection of two iron lighthouses on Cayou Cruz and Cayo Padre y Paderon, or Grande, ou the north end of the island, were called for. The Spanish brig Mozart eailed for this port gp the Sth instant, and the schooners Alice und Midas on tlie 2d, Interesting from Buenos Ayres. We have received files of Buenos Ayres papers to the 20th of August. The political news is not of much im- portance, bui we extract a few items of much geueral | intereet. The British Packet of August 18 says:—In a series of mectings of the Chamber of Representatives which have teken place during the past week, we have had an extra amount of animated discussion, with rather meagre re- suits, in our bumble cpinicn. The project of, the Kxecu- tive ‘wih regard to the pending State trials has been trimmed into a sort of negative authorizution to employ the ordinary means at their disposal; in doing which they may reckon on the sywpathy aad moral countenance of the Cham ber. The point now under discussion ts the total or partial renovation of the Chamber itself—its existence having been prolonged beyond the prescribed term, by the cir- cumstances in which the province has latterly veen placed. It is proposed that the new Legislature shall be installed on the 11th of Septem ber; in which case the time appears nothing too long for’ the preliminary ar- rapgements. The Minister of Finance has presented the account of the expenses of the late rebellion, amounting to $254,921 4, metallic, and $74,620,680 334 rials curren ey—a much fess sum than we, in’common with many others, expected. Such are the direct expenses; but the immediate and prospective lesses to the community who can caleu ate? The State trials iad eommenced, and parties aggrieved are called upon by the respective Judges to present their reclamutions and evidence. passenger who had arrived at Buenos Ayres from Mendoza confirmed the report that the constitution pro- mulgated by the Congress of Santa Fe had in general been accepted and sworn to by the interior provinces. Another passenger arrived from the Rosario, reported that Lagos, Carpinteros, and various others of the refa- gees, were residing there in a strictly private capacity. Also that the Mendozino Contingents had been embarked at the Rosario, and were believed to have passed to the territory of Entre Rios, ‘The general wish apparently pre- dominant in Santa Fe, was in favor of peace and alli- ance with Buenos Ayres. In the judiciary of Buenos Ayres, Doetor: Gamboa, and Velez Sarsfeld, had declined their ments as President and members of the Suprem Justice. In the House of Representatives, Deputy Montesdeoca alse presented a draft of law declaring the sessions of the present Legislature of Buenos Ayres terminated; providing for the entire renovation of the chamber and fixing the opening of the new Legislature for the 11th of September, which was duly seconded and referred to the Committee of Constitutional Affairs. ‘A decree, published in the Progreso, fixes the monthly pay of soldiers in active service a: $200, ani another, of the came date, assigns the troops of the garrison $20 por month additional, on account of the present dearth of rovisions, In a note addressed to the authorities, Senor ‘alentin Cardoso resigns hia office as Commandant of the Parque de Artilleria, which was admitted, with thanks for a estimable manner in which he had discharged his uty. Speaking of the aspect of social and political affairs, the British Packet, of August.6, says:—‘‘After a surfeit of pelities, war ard diplomacy, the time has arrived when our thoughts and lacubrations must be directed to the more ordinary concerns of fife. The organizing visit of the Provisional Director has left the Province of Buenos Ayres pretty much in the situation of a banquet room after a night of ¢eep carousals; everything displaced, some valuables broken or missing, and all in need of cleaning and arrangement. We need not stop to depict the scene; there it is, a storn reality to be grappled with; and the practical question is, where are we to begin?” Speaking of the state of the weather, the British Pac- Ket, of August 6, remarks:—“'Yesterday, day of ‘Our La. dy of the Snow, [Nuestra Senora de las’ Niews,} we had actually a fall of snow; a sight rarely seen, and that has, perbaps,not been seen for the last twenty years in the city of Buenos Ayres! THE DIPLOMACY OF URQUIZA, [From the British Packet, Aug. 6.] By a treaty signed and sealed with Sir Charles Hotham and M. St Georges, it appears that General Urquiza has ceded to England and France the possession of the Islaad of Martin Garcia, as ‘a guarantee for the free navization of the interior rivers of the confederation.” ame, shame to the dastard traitor; and shame to the sneaking sycophants who dared 10 moot or entertain such a propo- sition, in the name and on behalf of two great and civil- ized nations. Will they ratify the foul transaction? We cannot and will not believe it; it is hard even to believe that two bipeds could have ben found mean enough, or depraved énough, to negotiate it. Will Brazil and the United States submit to this? Will not every republic in South America raise its voice ina chorus of indignant condemnation? Had Urquiza any shadow of right to the territory thus ceded? The same that we should have to cede or sell the Island of Jamaica to the United States, or the Isle of Men to the Cvar of Russia. Of this the Envoys Fxtraordinary were perfectly aware; and no buyers or re- sellers of stolen property, knowing it to be stolan, ever incurred so overwhelming a load of guilt and infamy—a guilt and infamy in which, we feel assi their respec- lve countries and governments will never consent to bo- come participants, and which the honest and independent of all countries are bound to decry and denounce. Isina, point: tof The Lost Ship Southerner. The following letter from Capt. Russell, of the lost ship Southerner, to bis owners, details the manner in which he and bis shipwrecked crew were treated by the Ameri- can Consul after they were rescued by the Marshfield and carried to London:— Lonpow, Oct. 4, 1853. Messrs. Stanton & THOMSON :- GrvrisoreN—Enclosed in a duplicate of my last [parti- culars of the lots of the ahip,] since when the Marshfield arrived at this port on the 30th ult, Iimmediately called upon the United States Consul at th's port and noted my protest. We were in a mest destitute conditicn, and he could scarce credit J was what I represented myself to be. Fortunately for me, whilst lying in the Downs, Capt. Dag- gett, of Glasgow, learnt our situation, and on my arrival ere I found a letter from him with an offer of assistance, with power to draw on him for my immediate necessities. After showing this to the Consul he reluctantly accepted my draft for just sufficient to partly clothe myself, and would not make any advarces to pay off my crew, urging asa reason that he was about winding up his business to make way for his successor, who is expected to-day. My crew he sent to lodgings, ard only yesterday did he, at my most urgent demands, give them aby clothing, although I had repeatedly shown him their condition. Without money or clothes, they bave been a great source of annoyance to me, shough I can hardly blawe them, for they’ w miserable indeed. I expect to receive some funds from Capt. Daggett to-day to pay them off; he writes to me that it has been the custom in New York to pay them un- til the ship was losi, although teey canvot legally claim aftor the last port of delivery—of this latter Lam aware, and therefore shall pay them only to the last day of load- ing at Glasgow, not wishing to go beyond the statute, yet to pacify them, and leaving the balance of time to your own judgment.’ I shall give them a certificate that they Gid their duty until the foundering of the ship, which I hope will prove satisfactory. I have an oiler of a passage home from Glasgow, and shall avail myself of it, and hops to get through here to-day. Yesterday, after strong por- snasion, I got the Consul to extend my ‘protest, which is acccmpli-Led, and T rhall bring with me a cerlified copy. Here Lhave met with no one whol could advise with, therefore had to proceed according to my own judg- ment, and sincerely doI hope that I have done right; should euch not be the case, I trust it will be attrivut to an error of the head and’ not of the heart. I individ- ually can get no relief from the Consul, not even my small stipend for beard; for aegording to his theory, T am not in € destitute condition, when I have a letter ‘empowering me to draw funds in my possession; in fact, gentlemen, the neglect of my ch{pwrecked erew by the one to whom they look for relief has been shameful, and as an Ameri- can J can barely look upon the conduct of the official but with scorn and contempt. My men were true to their duty until he Jast, and thus it was that none of their ef- fects were raved. It was pitiful indeed to see them for three days begging fer clothes, and looked upon with scorn; put off trom day to day’ with promises. By the next mail I hope to have all seitled, and will write again. Little, when I left Glasgow, did I think that I should be placed in this awkward pre ticament, and I rhall alw Attribute our loss solely to the burceane; for 1 am can- didly of opinion that, with ordinary weather, we could have got her vafe in somewhere. 47, M—I hove settled with the orew, and shall leave or Glasgow ‘o-night. Ke-pectfully, in haste, your obedient rervant, BENJ, RUSSELL, Treatics with the Argentine States. (From the Washington Intelligencer, Ost, 18. We mentioned not long ago that our energetic and able representatives at Brazil and Buenos Ayres, Messrs. Schenck and Pendleton, had conjointly ne- gotiated and concluded two treaties with the Argen- tine States. which will open to our navigation and commerce the rich countries of the Rio de la Plata and its extensive tributaries. Mr. Coxe, our late Secretary of Legation at Brazil, has arrived in Wash’ , bringing with him, as we learn, the treaties alluded to. One of them was signed on the 10th of July, at San José de Flores, in Buenos Ayres, with the Ar- gentine Confederation, es to the flags of all nations the free navigation of the Rio de Ia Plata and its tributaries, the Uruguay, Parana, &c. A similor treaty was signed on the same day with the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and France. ‘The second treaty was one of friendship, commerce, and navigation with the confederation, and was signed on the 27th of July, at San Jose, in the State of Entre Rios. Sir Charles Hotham for England, the Chevalier St. Georges'for France, and Messrs. Schenck and Pendleton for the United States, all acted unitedly and barmoniously in the negotiation of these treaties. We had the advantage of being represented by very able as well as firm men in the persons of our Minister at Brazil and oor Charge at Buevos Ayres; and to their en wo have no doubt that mach is due in eccomplishing these import int troat’ Sir Charles Hotham and Mr. henes were the mediators who effected the adjus*ment whict: ied ty er te bat rammuating’ the i jent. . Je s explorir tteamer Water Witch, and aan Onrter, accont panied the Commissioners up the fiver Eatre Rigs. on the decay of the colored race and the best © ‘Triennial Convention of the Protestant Miplscopal Church, ELEVENTH. DAY. A very small audience of the delegates were present this morning at the opening of the Convention. ‘The Rev. Dr. Proal, of Western New York, read the morning prayer, assisted by the Rey. Dr. Chase, of Illi- nois, who read the lessons. The Rev. Dr. Creighton was in the chair; but, on ac- count of the small number of delegates present, it was near 12 o'clock before the house proceeded to business. ‘The minutes of Saturday were read, and a discussion arose in regard to striking out the memorial relating to Grace church, Chicago, Ilinois. At about half-past 12 o'clock the vote was taken upen this question, and the memorial was stricken out. The minutes were then adopted. ‘The Chair eaid the reports of committees were next in oréer. The Committee on Expenses then reported that the ex- pense: of the delegates should be defrayed by the several dioceses represented in the Con vention, ‘A message was then read from the House of Bishops, as follows :— Resolved, That the House of Clerical and Lay Deputios be informed that, if they concur, the House of Bishops have Appointed Bishop Votwr, rev. Dr. Coleman, and Rev. De. Dulachet, a committee, with power to add to thelr nuabor if necessary, tv makes translation of tho common Vrayer Book into the Spanish language. ‘The Rev. Dr. Srxvens then made a few remarks, depre- cating the waste of the time of the Convention by long and useless debates. ‘The Committee on the Prayer Bock then reported, but, with the permission of the House, withdrew it for a special purpose. The Committee on Canons then reported that they deemed the proposed amendment ef canon eighth, of 1844, unnecessary. This committee was discharged. Mr. Newton, of Mi husetts, then offered the follow- ing: Resolved, ‘That a mosmage be sent to the House of Bishops, requesting them to transmit to this House the report uf the Lard of Missions, if convenient to them. This resolution was earried. The Rev. Dr. Porm then offered a preamble and resolu- tions, recommending that some means be devised in our achcols and co'leges, insuring an increase of earnust and zealous youth for the duties of the ministry. The rever- end gentleman addressed the Convention upon this sub- ject. +r, Hicm followed. Tam glad to hoar the suggestions which have just fallen from Dr. Potter. I would move an addition to the resolutions he has offered. It is that some means be devised for the better remuneration of the clergy. In proposing this, I know I pl in the precincts of the lowest spirit which heaven, the,spirit of mammon. I speak,plainly, and in so doing, I tell ‘the Inity that the clergy of this country are starved. They are literally in want, This is why tho sspiranta for the ministry are so few. Let the clergy be fed, and their numbers will increase. Rev. Dr. Purter, of Massachusotts—I call the atton- tion of the Convention to a single fact. Although our Lord hath said, send forth the laborer into tho harvest, yet we do not obey this injunction. Tshall vote for the resolution of Dr. Potter, but nevertheless I do not think it fully meets the case, and befere we adjourn, I ho some course will be devised to touch the hearts of the praying community. I would like to have it entered into the Litany, “we pray ye Lord of the harvest, send forth laborers into the harvest,”” and I would have’ the people respond, ‘ We besech thee to her us, good Lord.” Dr. Porn said he should prefer his resolution should stand alone. Rey. D, Vistox said he hoped the gentleman would ac- cept the amendment of Dr Higbee, masmuch as the Lord said, the laborer was worthy of his hire. . Pending the discussion, the repert_was taken up of the Committee on the Standard Haition of the Bible, which is as follows : REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OM THE STANDARD BIMLE. The committee appointed at the last General Convention to procure and supervise the publication of a standard edition respectfully report, that, to the important subject assigned them, they bave given a careful consideration. ‘At the last Goneral Convention a proposal was submitted by the New York Bibe and Prayer Book Society to become the publishers of the Standard Bible in contemplation; and the Standing Committeoon the r Boox, to whom was referred the proposal, Eeperte favor ly, with certain con- ditions, to the prayer of the petitioners. ‘To your committee was Ged gos the duty of contracting with the New York Bible and Prayer Bouk Society, under those conditions, and of reporting o the present Convention the result of our ors. Ot these labors, the first, and not lesst important, a) rod to your Committtee to ‘hat of ascertaining on w! ion of the Holy Scriptures in the English tongue now exietin; most reliance could be placed for correctness of text an accuracy of typography. The princeps edition in folio, A. D. 1611, is that which ap- eared from the hands of tho translators appointed by King james I. of Englard, and is the text of the Holy Scriptures ured in our churches, and as widely as the English tongue is diffused, Of this edition, a fac simile was published at Ox- ford, not more than twenty years ago, in the Roman instead of the black letter type. It has given assurance to the world that any variation from the original text of the trans- lators others than that affecting typographical errors, and that which the modern c ‘spelling have created, has not taken place in subsequ jitions from that toxt. ‘But the errors of the press in 1) Bible were becoming so numerous as to c1 the Lower House of Sonvoostien in England, and for the royal interference. Nor was the evilto any great extent arrested till, in 1707, a complete revision was made by Dr. Blaney, uncer the direction of the Vico-Chi gsts of the Clarendon press. ral revision or collation of the knowledge of your committe op this rove heads of columns, the contents of chapters, the chronolozy, and marginal readings and references, have boon basod those editio: ‘hich in England or this country In our own country, wh at every wan's option, too many ave been found crowded with typographical errors, aud tau! numerous other net unimportant 5 whi on. England, where, by the Jaws f the Iand, from four sources alone, under royal authority, can editions of the Holy Scrip- ¢, variations, though slight, are apparent be- ‘copies bearing the impress of those sourc orrsctuoss of wo many 6 itions, and the ble d with the duty of our church as its hereditary jian to protect the integrity of the English Scriptures, attracted, so early asthe year I5i7, the atten tig: f our General Convention to the subject; and in 1523 thoeMtion’of Eyrie & Strahan, published in England, and then considered the most perfect extant, was recommended as the standard to be rooog- nized by our church till such time as she thought proper to put forth a At subsequent triennial meetings, ti id again ‘brought before both houses appointmett of your som- k sible Society in the man- ner which has been mentioned. In the course of action under their oppoiatenent, your com- mittee have received from the socicty known as the British for the notice of and Foreign Bible Society, the inform: present standard text recognized by them, i edium quarto printed at Oxford; and th ‘om, that society a copy of that edition, the courtesy of which gift qe committee estem it a duty and @ pleasure to acknow- ledge. ey have also to acknowledge on the subjoct of a standard Bible, the epee of a letter from the present Primate and Metropolitan of ail England; the Archbishop of Ggatorbury, which your committee may be pormitted to consffer a3 an evidence of the interest taken by the Church ‘of England in whatever concerns the Church in tl United States, and of the common bond of Christian and Catholic fellowship be- tween the churches; s bond which that eminont prelate has 50 reely contributed to cement.2The letter of the Archbish- op is as follows:— “Lamuern, April 17, 1351. “Dear Sin—I am happy to have it in my’ power to answor Your letter of inquiry concerning the text of the Bible. “ During the years 1S!4, 1535 and 1836, the delegates of tho Oxford and the Syndics of the Cambridge pros had a long and elnborate correspondence on the state of the text of the Bible as then pr Comb, the superintendent of the ¢ : * “The text of all the Oxford editions of the Bible is now the same, ad is in contormity wish the edition of 1611, which is, and bes Leon for many years, adopted for the standard text The medium quarto hook is stereotyped, which protects it from easual errors; and having been long in uso without the detecti have reason to thin that it may be conride: ed as perfect as a book can be, aud may therefore be fairly received ns the standnrd Book of the Society.” “It isa mort gratifying thought, that the English Bible be circulated over your vast continent, and that our native language should bé employed as the vehicle of Eternal Truth to an increasing multitude faders; and we may justly pray, that the purity whic to the text, may be extended also to the doctr red from the 'text and Dropounded to the hearers of the world “Ttyives me much pleasure to world. have had thisppportunity of and I remain, CANTUAR. communicating with an American brother, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant, Jb. ‘Rev. Henny M. Mason.” Upon’ euch authority, your committeo eannot hesitate to Fecognize the above medium quarto sterestyped edition. pub lished st Oxford, as the «tandard Bible of the Church of Eng- land. ‘Ihe New York Bible and Prayer Book Society, in its communications, appear to await the determination of this Convention before aching as publishers on their former peti- tion, and your eommittee recommend the adoption of the edition mained in the Archbishop of Canterbary’s Isttor, as ti at from which a republication in this country by our church shall ba made, An examination of it has resulted in tho dis- covery of but very fow particulars which your co.aittee would decidedly profer to change, not one which would im- portantly affeet the sonse, and but few of whieh a doubt might not Le entertained whether thoy are oven typographical errors, Your committee conclude with the recommendation of tho Passage of the following resolutions :— Rea ‘of Bishops concurring, That the me- dium quar otyped at bo ‘the recognized standard of tie Church, uatil am American reprint be made ond adopted as hereipalter, oe ah ated. Reaolved, That the New York Bible and Prayer Book So. ciety be th nublishors from that stendard of the reprint aboté menticned: provided, in making a8 oon commmittee shall not excedd the prico at whi publication can be contracted for with other publishers. Resolved. That x joint committee of five be appointed to vito the iat aforewaid, with authority to nd roport te the next General Convention , for ite adoption wmoriean fuper r " (Signed) HENRY M. MASON, Chairmen, M.A. DE WOLPE Howes. G. M. WHARTON, Dr. Mason, of Maryland, took the floor in support of the resolution presented in the report, The Rev. Dr. ANprews, of Va., followed in opposition to the resolution. Hon. Letier Pranten—tI do not intend to speak at any length upon this subject, because it is a subject so solemn and important that it demands the consideration ef grester talent than what falls to my humble lot. We are called Spon to adopt a certain edition of the Bible as the standard edition of this church. 1 will ask the members of this Cenvontion, have you, individually or collectively, a sufficient knowledge of the Bible to warrant you to throw it aside, and adopt another in its stead. If you have not, then I conjure you to pause and reflect before you take this step. “I trast that we have all lived long enough to know that all change ® not reform. The Bible anit is hae become famuliar to us all, and its present language has become inwoven with our very spiritual nature; and I should hold on to it with the greatest tenacity. I cannor sit silently and hoar gentlemen say that the Bible Society is a stranger to the chureb, AS an’ unworthy member and officer of that society, I should be recreant to her were I not to eay a word in her defence. Her missions of love sent all over the world is a sufficient defence for her, and I shall attempt mope other. Her Biple has always been the text book of church, and I hopo it ever may re- main #0. ‘The Rev. Dr. Bernovans, of New Hampshire, moved to or the whole subject to a committee, which was carried. It was then moved and carried that to the Special Com- mittee on the Standard Edition of the Bible be added Rev. Dr, Turner and Rev. Dr. Coit. Tt yaw {hen moved that the Rev, Dr, Andrews be qlee! a en Rec sr SS Ss RS Sr SSS SSS SS SS ST SSCS to the Committee, and it be instructed te preseat a perms was Several _ ee mere beregranted leave of absence. tthe Convention assomble at nine o'clock in the morning daring the remainder of the The Rev. Dr. Broox then effer d, That (the House of Bi: vention adjourn die om Frid; ‘This resolution was laid upon ‘the ‘The Convention then adjourned. concurring) this Oen- at tem o’clook A. M. table. Theatrical and Musical. Poweny Timarne.—Thts establishment is at present in = very prosperous career, the house being every night well filled, and the performances seems to give general satia- faction. Mrs. M. Jones and Mr. Eddy appear to-night in the play of “Ingomar.” Mr. Eddy a8 Ingomar, and Mrs, Jones as Parthenia. ‘The equestrian drama of “ Mareppa’? will conclude The part of Mazeppa by Mr. Derr, and Abdar Khan by Johnston. Broapway THRATEE.—The new local drama entitled “Pick the Newsboy’ will be the commencing feature of this evening's sinusement. Mra, Barney Williams will sustain the character of Dick. Miss Price will dance a seul, after which Mr. Williams appears as Paddy Miles the petite comedy of © The Limerick Boy,” and the extertainments wili close with ‘‘Law for Ladies,” Mra. Williams in five characters. Nuiio’s GaxpEy.—Verdi’s grand opera of “1 Lombardi,” which was received with enthusiasm on its first repre- sentation, is the attractive feature of this evening. The cast of characters is excellent. Siguorina Stellanone ae Ginelda, Signor Salvi as Oronte, Renpeventano aa Pagano, Resi as Pirro, and Quinto as Arvino. There can be little doubt but that Niblo’s will present a brilliant array of fashionables to-night. Bunron’s Tuxa1zk,—The bill of entertainment for this evening is one which can hardly fail to fill the Chambers street theatre. The amusements commence with the comedy called the “Two Friends.” Messrs. Barret, John- ston, and Fisher, and Miss Raymond in the principal eha- racters. The drama of “Paris and Loudon’ will conclude the performances. Balancing by Messrs. Runnells and Aymar. bea Dats Uae Tom’s Cabin’? still in the ascendant, and consequently the mai ie note it again this evening. Mrs. pent who Tights character ot Topsy, during the indisposition of Mis. Howard, does not support the character well, and consequently there ia great duiness in the piece. Wansaci’s Tuxania.—This entablishment is crowded every night, and the manager is cons quentl mosy very’ fast. ‘The new Grama of. “Bleak House!” offered again for this evening, with ihe same cast, The orchestra, which is composed of several eminent musi- cians, will play the overture to Felsenmuble, and the en- tertainments will te:minate with the comedietta entitled “Trying it on.” JouIN’s CoxcenTs.—The receipts of this evening sre for the benefit of M. Wuille. ‘The programme contains fine selection of overtures, quadrilles, waltzes, &c, ‘There will be solos on the oboe, clarionet and fluto, together with some beautiful ballads. This being the last night but two of Jullien’s concerts, the howe will Likely be crowded. AmEnicaN MusruM.—The domestic drama, entitled the “Old Folks at Home,’’ is to be represented in the lecture room of this establishment, both this afternoon and evening. The east ombraces the namos of the entire company. Francont’s Hirpopromz.—Several very attractive eques- trian features are announced for thia afternoon ana evening at the Hippodrome. Cuusry’s American Orrra Hovsr.—Christy’s Minstrels are doing a good business, as usual. Woov’s Minstrxt Hatt.—Wood’s Minstrels offer good vocal and instrumental pieces for to night. Buckixy’s Ermorian Orera Hovse.—Buckley’s New Or- leans Serenaders are drawing full houses every night ‘SIGNOR Buri advertises @ fiwe programme for this even- ing. rmuram’s Seve ‘Mitx Minor is still on exhibition at the Chinese Room. T t San nm pied * Several companies belonging to the standing arm: New York were out in full force on Monday, as will be seen by the annexed accounts of their excursions for tat- get practice:— The Tompkins Guard, composed of the members aad friends of Hose Company 16, numbering one hundred and thirty men, officers and privates, and commanded by Issaa F, Tilotson, passed our office on’ their return from target ractice at Bull’s Ferry. The prizes were awarded as fol- [Ows:—ist, massive slver pitcher, John Watkins; superb silver watch, Jacob Dlillor; 8d, magnificent locket, Thomas Young; 4th, beautiful silver watch, Fred- erick Smith; 5th, silver cake basket, Jacob Wiley; do., John Martin, Jr.; 7th, miniature gold firecap, idan Shurley; 8th, splendid set silver spoons Wm. Coleman; ncilease, Richard W. Taylor; 10th, do., Charles 9th, gol Lyons 1}th, order for pants, T. Connor: 12th, gold. pia, J Peacock; 13th, complete shaving apparatus, Jacob Ken- ley; 14th, silver medal, John Sprague; 15th, order for hae, Charles Alphonse; 16th, miniature firecap, Joha Brown; 17th, order for firecap, Charles Dougherty; 16th, order for hat, J. Brandt. The weather was fine, and the Old Humphs looked well. They carried a beautiful set of uide colors, prevented by Miss M. V. and Miss E, V., of Pasex street. The Hester Light Guard, Capt. Everhard, went on thele first apnual target excursion, to the River House, Tue following prizes were awarded to the crack shota>— Ist, silver cup, W. Dean; 24, silver cake busket, M. Freil; “8d, gold fire cap, Floyd Graham; 4th. gold pencil, C. Burke; cth, silver cup, W. Maganse; 6th, gold pin, C. Miller; 7th, Love dollar hat, W. Kiernan; th, box of vegars; M: MeDon- ough; 9th, five dollar hat, 'W. Gurney; 10th, gold locket, ‘7, Davis; 11th, four doilar bat, W. Leslie; 12th, do. do., J. Sullivan, 13th, silver watsh, J. Begg; 14th, gold pencil, 1. Meaning: 15th, gold pencil, 'W. Web; 18th, five dollar gold plece, H. Weed; 17th, 254 dollar gold piece, Capt. N. vorhard. The Quintard Light Guard, composed of men from the Morgan Iron Works, numbering sixty muskets, contended for the prizes, which were awarded to the best marksmen, follows:—Ist, gold watch, Moses Leroy; 24, order for hes, Charles Atkinson; 3d, gold pencil, Capt. P. fay; 4th, gold pencil, S. Gelston; Sth, silver castor, W. Cousinn; 6th, silver fruit basket; 7h, $10 gold piece, HE. Rodman; 11th, silver goblet, John Briggs; 12th, $10 gold piece; 13th, $10 gold piece; Zoth and 16th, two gold lock. ets; I7th and 18th, two silk velvet vests.” Went toJ. L Snediker’s, Union Course, L. I. The Centre Guard, numbering seventy-five muskets,and commanded by M. C. Donoho, proceeded to Mott Haven om their fourth annual target excursion, accompanied by thirty-five pieces of Dodworth’s band.’ They looked. ex ceedingly well. The prizes shot for were as followa:—Lat, set of jewelry, Daniel O’Brien; 2d, cake basket, Th McKeon; 34, gold locket, Wm. Kane; 4th, silver cw Landwhe $ be y old locket, J Harkin ou silver & jadden; th, gold pencil, J. Lawlor; & 1d ‘pencil, T, Manricld; Oth, gold peneil, J. lice: 10th “fre cap, M. Gillian; 11th, gold cros4, T. MoGrath} 12th, $5 hat, W. Esseter; 13th, wreath, P.’ Connelly. Gayte, tal + ‘The first Company Gouverneur Blues, Capt. Wm. enn on their ninth annual target excursion vid Pollock's, Hoboken. The following prizes were} awarded —Ist, fob chain, presented by George Brown,| won by George White; 3d, gold pened, do. Henry Vi Yelsen, do. H. Sloan; 3d, musket, do, Isaae B. Fowler, do. F. Anspake; 4th, gold pencil, do. R. B. Connolly, do. J, Fagan; bth, do. do., W. P. McCormick, do, M. ond; 6th, sliver cup, do, Alderman T. Woodward, do. J. J. Reilly; 7th, $5 gold piece, do, John Hinchman, do. A, Oliver; &th, $5 bill, do. @ friend, do. J. McKenzie; 9th, bat, do. Capt. Darrow, do, J. Langdon; 10th, do. Georg Ogden, do. J..8. Sickles; 11th, breastpin, do. H. F. Ma Caftry, do. John Kinnens; 12th, $5 hat, do. F. H Fe do. Garet Braisted; 13th, card case, d Pollock, do ¥ Anspake; 14th, a medal, do, John Burk, do. R. Kimmert Our Own Independent Guard, Capt. James Glass, con. tended Wed which were arsed as follow: Michael Gilligan, cake basket; 24, Luke Cavenon, fo piece; 2d, James Kibby, $12 overcoat; 4th, Peter intire, silver cup; 5th, Samuel Williams, $10; 6th, Pat Ward, gold pencil; 7th, James MoCullen, a pair of pants 8th, A. Canavah, $5 pants; 9th, T. Loitus, $5 gold pieoe| 10th, R. Dorsey, do.; 11th, J. Potsford, gold pencil; 12th, R. Conway, $5;'13th, J. Flyan, $5 vest; 14th, M. Wai do.; 15th, M. Conely, $5; 16th, J. Wier, $7 fire hat; 17 ‘eth’ R. Hart, $5; 10th, 0. Melamy J. Glass, $5 ‘boots; 18th, R. do.; 20th, G. Gilleroy, do. The Force Guard, Capt. Farrell Logan, accompanied by Adkins’ Band, marched to the eaptain’s residence, they received a new and beautiful silk ensign, fro thence they proceeded to Staten Island, accompanied a number of ladies, They numbered forty mus! distributed eighteen prizes to the crack shooters. this, a handsome gold breastpin was presented in a appropriate speech to Capt. Logan, for which he mos} gracefully returned thanks, The Mechanics’ Guard, of Williamsburg, Capt. R. Mf Steele, and accompanied by the Williamsburg Band, pao ceeded upon an excursion. They numbered forty-sigh| muskets, and distributed twenty-nine prize Feveral more companies paraded yesterday, amo which were the Follow! u ue The Harrieon Guard, Captain Peter J, Waters, acon panied by Adking’ band, 4 upon their fourth nual excursion, Dnring the day they shot for seven prizes, which were awarded an follows:—First prise, Joh Gilmartin; second, James Garvey; third, James Martin ourth, Teter Ryan; fifth, Hart; sixth, Owe th Mreanis; ninth Martin Feeny; ‘tenth, Charles Foley; eleventh, Way Gilmartin; twelfth, B, Fiteskipers; thirteenth, ' Jom Gillerlan; fourteenth, James Costello; fifteenth,’ Willian Gilmartin; sixteenth, John Kivelan;’ seventeenth, J. Waters. ‘The Water Witch Guards, of Brooklyn, Captain Geo M. Grove, numbering forty-seven muskets, proceeded @ Fort Lee, where'they contended for twelve prizes, target was well riddied, and the company was one of handsomest that we liave seen from our sister city weason, Horry Conley’; seventh, John Teomy, elghth, J. Fine in Tne Woops 1x Micuroan.—Our citiz can judge something of the extent of the fire in woods in the vicinity of Detroit, by the dense cloud smoke which filled the whole atmosphere this mornin It is said that thousands of acres of meadow and wood land have been burned over. In the town of Greenfiel several dwellings and barns have been consumed, cropa destroyed and withered. The whole of the Marsh” is burned over, ard has been smoking an a ary weather and total ab blazing fe veek te rrain for the last two made everthing as ‘di of rain for the last two months asa powder honse.”” The fire is now reported to be with! four miles of Detroit, running towards Flat Rock. It not yet crossed the railros mut keops & southerly dis tion, We hear of one man who succeeded only in savin a horse and buggy from his barn, which, together his house and contents, were burned to ashes. This ne case out of s score of others, for several are the edicament. It we do not have rain #00) there is ne knowing where the firos willend, Cattle ai said to be wandering about the country in search of f and water, and many splendid iarms and timbered lan ined. The smoke and fog fliled the air ich der 8 that cron could see but! few feet iad Dero Towne, at Faward alias Hammond, the Stamford porta nu Bon tatancd thes you wel poy Rncesdenl Court now in session at D a ‘ ‘ : :