The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1853, Page 2

oe ree tare mnie NT of and majesty? j h for a maturity full of strength and majesty’ (the nals AMERICAN INSTITUTE. ADDRESS OF WILLIAM H. SEW: His Ideas of What Forms National In- dependence, dio. . The annual address before the American Institute was delivered last night at the Broadway Tabernacle, by Wim. H, Seward. The building was crowded to excess by the admirers of that gentleman and those who were attracted | ® there more from curiosity than from any feeling of sym- Pathy with his chsracter or politics. The platform was Occupied by the members of the Institute and invited friends, The speaker was introduced by the President, Dr. Rees, in a few remarks. When the applause with which he was received had subsided, he spoke as follows ME. SEWARD'S ADDRESS. PRLLOW Crrmmns :-—I do not know how lightly you, who are hurried so fast through the ever-changing panorama of metropolitan life, may regard the quiet scenes of this unpretending festival, appointed and arranged with so much care, by the American Institute; but I confess for myself, that coming froma distant and rural home, and 80 being never more than oecasional spectator here, I find always the same first freshness in these autumnal shows of flowers and fruits, ani animals of subsistence, fleece and burden, trained and perfected by hard yet gentle bands; and that these annual trials of the skill of emulous, yet unsmbitious men and women, in the use of the spade and the plougl, the forge and the furnace, the dairy and the needle, the spindle and the loom—inneceat in their mature, yet Leneticeat in their effect, by stimula- ting invention and enterprise, while they faithfully mark, as years roll on, the progress which our country is making in arts and civilization, never fail to excite with- im me sympathies and emotions more profound and pleas ing than any State pageant which | have witnessed at home, or the most imposing demonstration of military power that can be seen in any other and less favored land, Seciety divides concerning that progress Those whe are occupied with their owm personal cares, and apprehen sive of evil in every change, look upon it with indifference or distrust; others, knowing that in a republic comstituted as thés is, there is always a restless activity towards either peace or war, virtue or vice, greatness or shame, devote themselves to the duty of regulating that activity, and giving it a right direction. The members of the Amezican Institute are of this class. Having constantly sympath ed with them heretofore, whem their unremitted labors secured neither rewhrds nor favor, I rejoice in movti them now, under more propitious circumstances. loom Ene you, Messrs, Rees, Livingston and Hall, Stillman, and Chandler, and ‘associates, that your in. stitution has been adopted as a model by many towns, and by all the counties in this State, by the State itself, and by mamy ether States; and that your instructions and ex- ample, patiently continued through so many years, have at last induced the nation iteelf to consent to appear, and to win some significant trophies, in the Exhibition of U versal Industry, already held in London, and. to inaug: rate another and brilliamt one in the world’s new capital, which we are founding on this yet rude coast of a recently impassable ocean. Nevertheless, 1 bave been for many reasons, habitually averse from mingling in the sometimes excited debates which crowd upon each other im a it city. There was, however, am authority which I could not disobey, in the veneravle name, and almost paternal = the eminent citizen who so recently presided here with dignity and serenity all his own; and who trans- mitted the invitation of the Institute, and persuaded ita acceptance. How sudden his death! 0: three weeks age the m mail brought to me his anaounce- ment of his arrival to arrange this exhibition, and his ——e to join him here, and the evening dis- patch, on he self same day, bore the painful intelligence that the lofty genius which bad communed with kindred spirita so long on the interests ef bis country had departed from the earth, and that the majestic form which had ‘been animated by i: had disappeared forever from among living men. disciplined myself when coming here ‘aa to purpose to speak no word fer the cause of human “Fenton io hit might seem too persistent an advo- cacy mi fend. But must I therefore abridge of its just proportions the eulogium which the occasion and the character of the honored dead alike demand’ The first ballot which I cast for the chief magistracy of my native and most beloved State bore the name of James Tallmadge as the alternate of De Witt Clinton. If I have never fal- tered in pursuing the policy ef that immortal man, through loud reproach and vindictive opposition during his life, and amid clamors and contentions often amount: img almost to faction since his death, | have found as lit- tle occasion to hesitate or waver in adhering to the coun- sels and examples of the illustrious compeer, who, aft. surviving him so many years. has now been removed, in ripened age, to the companionship of the just. How does not time vindicate fidelity to truth and to our ceun- try! Avote for Clinton and Tallmadge in 1824, what cepeures did it not bring then’ Who will impeach that ballot now? A statesmax’s claims to the gratitude of his country rests on what were, or what would have deen, the reeults of the poles he has recommended. [f the counsels of James Tatlmadge had completely preva: ed, then not only would American forests, mines, soil, in vention, and industry, have rencered our country now and forever, independent of all cther vations except for what climate forbids; but then, also, no menial hand would have ever guided a plough, and no footstep of a+lave would have ever b en part of our national domain, that stretches away from the banks of the Mississippi to the far western ocean. This was tbe policy of James Tallmadge. It was worthy of New York, im whose name it wa: promulgated. [t | would have been noble even to have‘altogether ailed in establishing it. He was successful in part, though only | through unwise delays and unnecessary compromises | which be strenuously opposed, and which, therefore, have | vot impaired his just fame. And so in the end, he more nearly than any other citizen of our time, realized the | description of the happiest man in the world, given to | the frivolous Croesus, by the great Athenian. ‘He saw his ofispring and they al survived him. At the close of an ‘and prosperous life, on the fleld of civic vic , he was rewarded with the honors of a public funer- | al by the State that he had enriched, adorced, and ea Gentlemen of the American Institute, Dr. Joha- son truly said—that the first msn who balanced a straw on his nose; the first man who rode three horses at ime; im short, all such men deserved the applause of mankind, on account, not of the use of what they did, but of the dexterity which they exhibited, for that every- thing which enlarged the sphere of human powers, and showed mau that he could d not do, waa valuable I apprehend that this is a true ex- ition of the philosophy of your own most useful labors. Fite inervase of personal power and skiM diminishes indi vidual dependance; and individual independenee, when it pervades the whole State, is national independence. It is only when through such individuality of its members, a nation attains a certain independen from that condition of society, ia which it thinks, moves and acts, whether for peace er for war, for right or for wrong, according to the interests or caprices of ono or of a few persons (a cendition which detines monarchy or aristocracy) to that better eondition in which it thinks, mores and acts, in all things under the direction of one common interest, ascertained and determined, by the intelligent consent of a majority, or all of its members, whieh con ition constit republic or democracy. So democracy wherever it ¢: , is more or less perfect, aud of course more or less safe and strong, according to the tone of individuality maintained by its citizens. Of all men and of all nations, it seems to me that Americans ané this republic, have at once the least excase for a want of independence and the mort need for assuming and maintaining it. No other nation has equal elements of society and of empire. Charle- magne, when founding his kingdom, saw or might have seen, that while it was confined by the ocean and by the Mediterranean on the west on the south, it was equally shut in northerly am@ emetwardly by mver and mountain barriers, which wouki be successfully main- tained forever, by races as vigorous and as independent as the Franks themselves. Alfred the Great saw so clearly how his country was circumscribed by the seas that he never once thought of contivental empire. The future careers of France and England may, like the past, be filled up with spasmodic efforts to enlarge fixed dominions by military conquests, and agricultural and commercial colonies, but all such attempts, even if they should be as igadtic, as those which haye heretofore boen made, will ike them, be followed by disastrous reactions, bringing the nations back again and eontining them at last, within 1" system spending their nataral and earliest borders. No pol can be held together permanentl, 4 fort or overpowering the laws of politieal affinity and gcavita- tion. Unlike thone nations, we homogeneous pe ple, occupying s compest and indivisible domain, peculi- arly to internal commerce, seventeen times greater than that of Franee, ‘and am hundred times more extended than that of (reat Bri taim. While it sprends eastward and westward | across the continent, nature has not interposed, nor has man erected, nor cam he raise, a barrier on the north or om the south, that can prevent any expansion that shall be found necessary, provided only that our ef. forts to effect it shail be, as they ought to be, wise, peace fal, and magnanimous. Only Kustia excels ua in terri total greatness. But while ail of her vast population are ot merely willing, but even superstitions subjects of an more than foar-tifths of them are ‘slaves. ch a population eould within any short period rise up to a state of comparative social cle vation, such a change would immediately load to sedition: that must inevitably result in dismemberment of the em Why thould we 0 abroad for mineral materials, or metallic treasures, oe this broad domain of ours is even mere plentifully than any bag portion of the with marl, gypsum, salt, ooal, quicksilver, earth stored lead, iron, and geld? Where shall we find quar Hea end forseta producing more amply the materials for architecture, whether for the purposes of peace or of war on-land or on sea? Our cities may be built of our own free. | our southern costs are | stone, marble, and ite; a1 $4 with pine and live oak, while timber and lumber, di ie and exhaustiess, crewn our northern mountains < and plains. Why should we resort to other soil: snd climates | if, we except spices, dyes, and = ‘or supplies of su ed on the soil of all that vast | | men ob! what he thought he could | @ that it passes | bsistemoe, le ti 1 fruits, since we have | some net indispensable tropical uatthe doce et | circumstances of the age are tou. thoe existing on the other, areeither lying in| de- Peepmenhes ave to com! ofan fear? What power, if we were in , could yield us Tea egies pos Wills curoserssuces int lone eatabl iti ity, they o) juce socia! sataity can hy preventing mobopolies of fond abd great afford incentives to accumulations of wealth; and so universal activity and emulation. the American citizen, and the American republic, be con. sciously independent’ in all things, as in all things they safe and Such independence sould be attained and preserved, not by a few only, but, as far as possible, by ee i Tt is not less essential that farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer shall enjoy it, than that ii shall regulate the action of the merchant, the lawyer, aud the stateeman. Every member of the State may become a soldier and even a senator. de can never be less than an elector, What does not the republic owe to Sherman and Franklin ? Yet they were mechanics. What would not have been its fate but for the independence of the captors of Andre? Yet Paulding, Williams and Van Wart were mere laboring men. Virtue is confessedly the vital principle of the republic; but virtue caunot exist without courage, which is only the consciousness of independence. We are bound to commend rapublican institutions to the acceptance of other nations. Can we do so if we are content to be no wiser, no more virtuous, xo more useful to humanity, than those to whom such institutions are denied? Responsibility is always im pro- portion to the talents enjoyed. Neither mau nor aation can be wise or really virtuous, or useful, when dependent on the caprice or even the favorof another, Is there one among the tens of thousands of inventions ia the Patent Office that was made by a slave or eyen by one whose blood had been recently attainted by slavery? Peter the Great, master of so many millions of slaves, resorted to the shop of a free mechanic of Saardam to learn the mys- tery of ship building. His successor, Nicholas, employs Whistler, a Massachusetts engineer, to project his rail- roads; Ross Winans, a Baltimore mechanic, te construct his locomotives, and Orsamus Eaton, a carriage maker of Trey, to construct his cars. Do you wonder that loving freedom for such fruits, I also have set my face firmly against slavery? If we act hereafter, a3 we have acted hitherto, we shall be continually changing old things, old laws, old customs, amd even old constitutfons, for new ones. Does any one doubt this! Have we not already a third constitution im this State’ Has any one of the States a constitution older than twenty-five years? But political progress, if not regulated wit! eration, may move toe fast; and if not wirely guided will lead to rua. It is the people themselves, and not any power above or aside from them, that alone must regulate and direct that pro- gress. Be they never so honest, they cannot discharge 80 great ® political trust wisely, except they act on such nerous impulses, and with such lofty purposes, as only 1d und independent men ean conceive, ‘the people must be independent, or this republic, likeall republics that have fone before it, must be ruled and ruined by demagogues. am far from supposing that we are signally deficient in independence. I know that itis a national, a heredita- ry and a popular sentiment, that we annually celebrate, and always glory in our independence. We do so justly, for no where else does even a form or a shadow of popular independance exist, while here it is the very on which our institutions rest. Nevertheless, occasions for the exercise of this virtue may be neglected. We hold in contempt, equally just and profound, him who imposes, aad him who wears a menial livery; and yet I think that we are accustomed to regard with no great severity the employer who exacts, or the mechanic, clerk or laborer who yields, political conformity in consideration of wages. We insist, as we ought, that every citizen in the State shall be qualified by education for citizenship; but we are by no means unanimous that one citizen, or class of citi- zens, shall not prescribe its own creed in the iastraction of the children of others. We construct and remodel par- tisam formulas and platforms with changing circum- stances, with almost,as mueh diligence and versatility as the Mexicans, and we attempt to enforce conformity them with searccly less of zeal and intolerance, not, in aad; Uy the votre Wet by tim greater taser ct proscription. We.resist argument not always with arga- ment, but often with personal denunciation, and som times even with combined viclence. We differ, indeed, as to the particular errors of political faith, that shall’ be corrected by this extreme remedy; but, theless, the number of those who altogether de its necessity and suitableness in some casos is very small. We justly maintain that a free press is the palladium of liberty, and yet mutually proscribing all | editorial independence that is manifested by opposition to our own opinions, we have ouly attained a press that is free in the sense that every interest, party, faction, or | sect, can have its owm independent organ. ‘If it be still | maintained, notwithstanding these illustrations to the contrary, that entize social independesce provails, then, Lask, why is it so necessary to preserve with jealousy, aa we justly do, the ballot, in lieu of of open suifrage; for | if every citizen is really free from all fear and danger, why should be mask his vote more than his face ? | Believe me, fellow citizens, independence always | languishes in the very degree that intolerance prevails. | We smile at the vanity of the factory girl at Lowell, who, having spent the secular part of the week im making ca:icoes far the use of her unsophisticated countrywomen, disdainfully arrays hersclf on Sundays exclusively in the tints of European dyes, and yet we are indifferent to the fact that besides a universal consumption of foreign , excluding the silkworm from eur country, we pur- chase in England alone a handred and fifty millions of yards of the same stained muslins. We sustain here and | there a rickety, or at best contracted iron manufac. | tory; while we import iren to make railroads over our | own endless ore fields, and we earry our prejudices against | our struggling manufacturers and mechanics so far as | to fastidiously avoid wearing on our persons, or using om our tables, or displaying im our drawing rooms, any fabric, of whatsoever material, texture, or color, that, in the eourse of its manufacture, has, to | our best knowledge and belief, ever come in contact | with the honest hand of am American citizen. In al this, we are less independent than the Englishman, the , or even the Siberian. It is painful to confess | | Frenche | the sume infirmity in regard to intellectual productions. We despise, deeply and universally, the spoiled child of pretension, who, going abroad fer education or observa tion, with a mind destitute of the philosophy of travel, returns to us with an affected tone and gait, sure indica tions ofa craven spirit and a disloyal heart. ‘And yet how intently do we watch to see whether one of our conntry ins in Europe the honor of an aristocratic dia ner or of @ presentation, in a grotesque costume, at cwurt! How do we not suspead our judgment on the merits of the mative artist. be he dancer, singer, actor, limner, or sculptor—and even of the gnative author, | inventor, orator, bishop, orstate-man—uatil oy flattering those who habitually depreciate this courtry, le passes safely the ordeal of foreign criticism, and so commends | | himself to our most cautious approbation! How do we | net consult foreign mirrors for our very virtues and | vices, not less than for our fashions, and think ignorance, bribery and slavery quite justified at home, Y they can be ped against oppressfon, pauperism and crime in On occasions, too, we are bold in ap- planding heroic struggles for freedom abroad; and we certainly have hailed with enthusiasm every re- publican revolution im South America, in France, ia Poland, in Germany, and im Hungary. And yet, how does not our sympathy rise and {all withgverr | change of the political temperature in ® In just this extent we are not only not independ- ent, but we are actually governed by the monarchies and aristceracies of the Old World. You msy ask impatiently | if T require the American citizen to throw off all submis- sion to law, all deference to authority, and all respect to | the opinions of mankind, and that the American repablic | shall constantly wage an aggressive war against all for | eign systems! There in here, as every- where, a widdle and a safe way. I would have the Ame- rican citizen yield always a cheerful acquiescence, and never a servile a¢berence, to the opinions of the majority | of his countrymen and of mankind, whether they be en- | grossed in the forms of jaw or not, on all questions in | velving no meral principle; and even in regard to such ag do affect the conseience, I would have him avoid not only | faction, but even the appearance of it. But I demand, at | the same time, that he hall have his own matured and | independent convictions, the result not of any authority, | domestic or foreign, om every measure of public policy, | and so, that while always teraperate and courteous, ho shall always be a free amd ontspeaking censor, upon not only opinions, custei administrations, but even upon laws and constituti themselies. What I thus require of the citizen, I insist, also, that he shall allow to eve: one of his fellow-eitizens. | would have the nation, als hough moderate and pacifie, yet always frank, decided d firm, in bearing its testimony agaiast error ‘and op pression; and while abstaining from forcible intervention in foreign disputes, yet 8 fearlessly rendering to the cause of republicanism everywhere, by influence and example, all the aid that the laws of nations do not peremyterily, or in their true spirit, forbid, Do I propose im this a heretical, or even a new standard of public or private duty? All agreo that the customary, and even the legal standards in other coun- tries are too low. Must we then abide by them now and forever? That would be to yield owr independenee, and to be false towards mankind. Who will maintain that the standard established at any one time by a majocity in our own country is infallable, and therefore final’ If it be 50, why have we reserved by our eonstitution freedom of speech, press, and of suffrage, to reverse it? No, we may ehange everything, frst complying, however, with eonstitutienal eonditions. Sterms anc commotion’ must indeed be avoided, but the political waters must they will stagnate, Lot no one suppose that the human mind will consent to rest in error. {t vibrates, however, only that it may | settle at last in immutable truth and justies. Nor reed | we fear that we shall be too bold. Conformit: | easier tham contention, aud imitation is alw | than innevation. There are many who delight in ease, | where there i ome who chooser and fearlessly pursuos | the path of herole duty. Moreover, while we are. ex: cting hopefully to see foreign customs and institutions | rouge by the imfluenee of commerce into conformity | with our own, it is quite manifest that commerce has re | ciprocating influenees, tending to demoralize ourselves, and 0 te assimilate our opinions, mammers and customs ultimately to these ef aristocracy and despotism pot afferd to err at all om that side. as a free people only by force of our | very peculiarities, They are the legitimate pecu- | liarities of republienniam ; as such, are the | test of natio It is as just as it is po- pular. Whatever poliey, interest or institution is local, sectional or foreign, must be zealously watched and teracted: for it tends direetly to social deri ko to the subversion of oar democratic cou it ix seen at once that this mationality is identical with that very political independence which results from high tone of individuality on the part of the citizen. Let it hiave free play then, and so let overy citizen value him self at his just worth, im body and soul; namely, not a nd, he fe Lo Camera ky ranges, such as those of Virginia | serf or a subjeet of any human anthority, or the inferior and Vermont, declivities in which the vine delights, of any lass, however cat or wise, but a freeman, who the ‘of the Ohio, and the endless prairies, fer- in so because ‘‘ frath jax made him free;’ whe not only tile ‘all cereal grains, tobaceo, flax and homp, that | equally with all others rules in the republic, but is also border the lakes and the Mississippi, and their widely. bound eqnally with any other to exercise designing wis and far-reaching inlets and tributaries. If | dom and exeeutive rigor and efficleney in the eternal duty there is in bl what nation traces its lineage to | of naving and perfeeting the State, When this nation- purer and geatler stocks? Amd what nation increases in | ality shall prevail, we shall no more see fashion, wealth, Gumbers, by cither immigration er by native births, more social rank, polities! combination, or even official pro- ; and what nation, mereover, has risen in intelli- | scription, effective in suppressing the utter ature r 0 4 opinions and trae convictions; and so enforcing for brief ; - o1 fast? If it be asked whether we vitor, pre toned to our natural re- y T answer, at thi-teon original States, ia mot anim; but it Is increasing. at the others, cots of those stocks. b— 3 are even more elastic and thri'ty. Consider how ‘and how recently pianted wers the gsr of all uriance, and to wat early hardsinipa and pened, «Cana ve axl veasonally tov riode, with long reaetion: Bocard of the public welfare, and at the cost of blic virtue. Tet this nationality prevail, and ther instead of keenly watching, aot without sinister wishes, for war or famine, the fitful skies, or the eveu more capricious diplomacy of Furope; and instead of be | ing hurried Into unwise commercial expaasion by t Ul cacdit tae, and tage political conformity af the tie sat hs that lasteed of po-patvay nvying large and exaust and exhausting armies like Russia, and without wasting wealth in emula, ting the naval power of England, and without practising a servile conformity to the diplomacy of courts, aad with out captiously seeking frivolous occasions for making the world sensible of our importance, we shall, by the force of our own genius and virtue, and the dignity of freedom, take, with the free consent of mankind, the first place in great family of mations. Gentlemen of the Ixstitute, from the earnestness with which the theory of free trade is perpetually urged in some quarters, one wight suppose that it was thought that the cardinal interest of the country lay in mere exchanging of merchandise, Oa the contrary, of the three great wheels of nstional prosperity, agriculture js the main ona maufac ture second, and trad® is the last. The cardinal interest of ‘this and every country is, and always must be, production, It is not trafic, but labor alone, that converts the resources of the country into wealth. The world has yet to see any State become great by mere trade. It has seen many beceme so by the exercise of industry. Where there are divenified re sources, and industry is applied to only a fev staples, three great interests are neglected, viz :—nstural re- sourees, which are loft unimproved; labor that s left un- employed; and internal exchanges, which a diversity of industry would render necessary. ‘The foreign commerce which is based on such a narrow system of praduction, obliges the nation to sell its staples at prices reduced by competition in foreign markets; and to buy fabrics at ices established by monopoly in the same markets. is false economy crowds the culture of the few staples with excessive industry: thus rendering labor dependent at home, while it brings the whole nation tributary to the moaopolizing manufacturer abroad. When all, or any of the nations of Europe shall, as well as ourdlves, be found successfully competing with England inmanufac- tures, then, and not till then, will the free trade she re- commends be as wise for others as she now insists. But when that time shall come, I venttre to predict that Ing- land will cease to inculcate that di 4 importance of maintaining such a policy as will result ina diversitied application of industry, seems to rest on these impregna- grounds, viz:—Ist, That the use of indigenous mate- rials does not diminish, but on the contrary, increases the public wealth. 2d, That soclety is constituted so that individuals voluntarily classify themselves in all, and not in a few, departments of industry, by reason of a dis tributive congenis ity of tastes and adaptation of power and that while labor so distributed is more profitable, th general contentment and independence of the people is secured and preserved, and their enterprise is stimulated and sustained. 1 think it musi be confessed now, by all can‘ id observers within our country, that manufactures have become ina degree the exclusive employment of the citizens of the Eastern States ; and yet that they are pre- carious, and comparatively unprofitable, because our own patronage, so generally discrimixating in favor of Euro- in manufactures, enables them to make the desired fa- rica sometimes at less cost. That the citizens of the Middle and Western States, are confined chiefly to the raising of staple breadstuifs, for which, while they have a great excess above the home consumption, xesulting from che neglect of domestic manufactures, they find a market almost overstocked with similar productions, raised in countries as peculiarly agricultiral ss our, own; and that the citizens of the Southern States restrict themselves chiefly to the culture of cotton, of which, practically, they have the monopoly; that the anaual enlargement of the cotton culture tends to depress its price, and that they pay more dearly for the fabrict, which’ they use, than would be necessary if our own manufactures could better maintain a ecmpetition with those of Europe. These inconveniences would indeed become in- tolerable evils, if they were not compensated in some measure by thc great increase of waulth re- sulting from the immigration of foreign labor ; and from the establishment of & new and prosperous’ gold trade between the Atlantic States and California. Why should those inconveniences be endured? Certainly not “At the eonclusign of Mr. Seward’s address, Bloomfeld’s band performed some excellent airs, after which the audi- ence dispersed. Destruction of Steamboats on the Western (From the St. Louis Intelligencer, Oct. tt On the 13th inst., a fire ‘was discovered in the after deck room of the new steamer Montauk, and in a very short time the entire boat was wrapped in flames. The passengers, officers, and crew, barely escaped with their ives, #0 rap! idly and suddenly, did the flames progress in the work of destruction, They, however, succeeded in esca ’ ft all their personal effects, uninjured, bu’ baggage, Xc., to theirfate. From the Montauk the fire very soon communicated to tne Robert Campbell, which was lying immediately below, and to the Lunetie, next above, and in about an hour’all three boats were con sumed to the water's edge. The fire, as has been stated, originated on the Montauk, She was running in the Missowi river trade, and was then receiving freight, but owing to the scarcity of shipments to the Missouri, “she had on board but @ very small portion of a cargo, ut thirty tons, more or ess. N. Corwith & Co., were the owners of the boat. She was built at Pittsburg during the present sea- son, and cost about $22,000 She was insured fer only $10,000. By the exertions of Captain E. Gleim and the offigers the books and papers were saved; but they lost all their clothing and baggage, and nothing else belonging to the boat was saved. The Robert Campbell, lying below the Montauk, and burnt almort at tne same time, was also a Missouri river boat, and she, too, fortunately had but little cargo on board, | The greater part of what she had taken was consigned to the firm of Impey & Walker, of Elizabethtown, The amount of freight would not ex: ceed thirty tons, a small portion of which was for Kansas and St. Joseph. ‘Captain McCloy, Mr. McIntyre, and one of the engineers of the boat, owned her. She was lately purchased by them for $9,500, but had been refitted and repaired at a cost of an additional $2,500 or $3,000, The amount of her insurance is $10,000, being insured in four offices and agencies of this city—the tna, Columbia, Lumbermen’s and Citizens, $2,500 each. ‘Very little was saved from the burning boat, the books and papers being among the ses. The Lunette, lying immediately above the Montauk, 8 the last of the three steam to take fire. She was in the Upper Mississippi trade, and had on board over one hundred and twenty tons of freight, the greater part of which was consigned to different persons in St. Paul. Capt. John B, Davis both owned and was master of the boat, and we understand is insured for $6,000. She was just from the dock, where she had undergone’a_ thorough repairing and painting, and was nearly ready for Galena and St, Paul. “The loss on her cargo will be fur more than that of both the others together. After the three boats had bu to the water’s edge, they were severally taken and towed over by the New St. Paul to the bar on the opposite side of the river, where the hulls sunk, This saves the city an expense of $15,000 or $20,000, as it would have cost in the neighborhood o that amount to remove them, had they been suifered to sink at the Levee. There were some additional incidents connected with the fire, which we will now relate :—Such a catastrophe, as will be readily conceived, was atiended with some danger to passengers and others on the boats, and some persons were in imminent danger of losing their lives. Among this number was Mr. H. L. Merrill, of Connecticut, who taken passage 01 the Robert Campbell for the Missouri river. At the fi alarm of fire he endeavored to save his trunk and ot! baggage, and in the attempt had his arms and hands severely burned. In addition to this misfortune he re- ctived a severe wound on the head by the falling of a heavy piece of timber. He however succeeded in getting his trunk safely ashore, but it was stolen directly after: wards by one of those fire sharks who follow in the wake of such calamities and enrich themselves by all they can lay hold of. A deseription of the trunk and contents was left at the Police oflice. Mr, Merrill was 0 much injured by the fire and falling timber, thet it was considered ad- visable to send him to the Sisters’ Hospital. The mate onthe same boat made exertions to rescue a lady pas- renger, who had been nearly suffocated in the cabin, and in so doing his coat was burned olf, and his hands beceuse wo do not know that they are annecessary. We jealously guard our culture ef breadstufls and sugar | inst the competition of the foreign farmer end planter | in our own markets. Practically, our gold mining is | | equally protected. We also give an exclasive preference in our internal commerce to our own shipping. No one questions the advantage of these great departments of production. But it is not easy to ses how the equally successful o ening of other domestic resources should not be equally beneficial. Why should it be less protitable to supply ourselves with copper, iron, glass and paper, from our own resources, and by our own industry, than | it is to supply ourselves in the same way with flour, su- gar, and gold? Why should it not beas economical to | manufacture our own cotton, wool, iron and gold, as it ia | to manufacture our own furniture, wooden clocks, and ships’ If mining, and manufactures, generally, were not profitable in England, they would not be prosecuted there. If they are profitable there, they would be pro- fitable here. You reply that manufacturing labor is cheaper there. Yes, because you leave it there. I you offer inducements, it will come here, just as freely a cultural labor now comes. The ocean is re- duced to a ferry. If you must depend on foreign skill for fabrics, I pray you bring that skill here, where, you can’ sustain it with greater economy. The advocates of dependerce on foreign manufactures tell us that it is as well to sell gold and buy iron, as it | would be to sell iron to buy gold. I reply, ist. That to the extent of our own necessary consumption, having ex- haustless rescurces and adequate industry or ability to procure it, we ought to buy neither. 2d. When Boulton, | the asscciate of the t Watt, showed his iron manufac- tory, hesaid, “I sell here, what all men are anxious to buy. Power.” It has beep proved that a nation may sell gold for iron, without gaining power as many aration has bought i on, without securing it. But it is clear that the nation that makes its own iron, creates its own power. It seems to be understood by the advocates of foreign manu: ‘actures here, that enly those brarches languish which lace not sufficient vigor to be brought to maturity by never £0 much protection. This is opposed to the experi- ence of all mankind. ‘There is not in france or in Englani, a successful culture or manufacture, that has not been made so by the application of national protection apd pa- tronage. “The manufacturers of England are sustained, even now, by the racrifice of agricultural labor there. The decline of agriculture i+ proved by a rapidly increas- ing emigration from the British gslands. What England calls free trade, is indeed a new frm of protection, but it is protection nevertheless. She finds it equally effective and expensive, British commerce and British manufactures do indeed flourish, but British empire declines. The de- cline is seen in the tameness of England now towards Russia, France, and ovr own country, compared with the different attitude she maintained against all offending powers, in the age of the elder Pitt and the younger Pitt. It is insisted, however, that encouragement yielded to the industry of one class of citizens, is partial and injurious to that of others. This cannot be. in any just sense, true, since the prosperity and vigor of each class de} 1 a great degree on the prosperity and vigor of all the | industrial classes. But all experience shows that if a | government do not favor domestic enterprise, its negative policy will benefit some foreign monopoly, which, of all | clas:-Iegislation is most injurious and least excusable. | Once more it is said that the present system must be | right, because predictions of disasters that should result | from it have been falsified. Ido not dwell on the signs | which seem now to portend a fearful fulfilment, never- theless, of those predictions. het it suffice to say that it | is ae commen an error to look prematurely for the blights | which must follow erroneous culture, as it is to expect | fruits from that which is judicious. This ma- thful and vigorous, It cannot now suffer long from any cause for it has great recuperative is net destined to an immediate fall, or even toenarly decline. Itis the part of wisdom, nevertheless, not to try how much of erroneous administration it can bear, but to adapt our policy always so as to favor the most complete and lastirg success of the republic. Gentlemen cf the Institute, I refrain from diseussing the details of pol reumstances are hastening necessity for an examination of them, in another place, where action follows debate and is effective, I shail not be absent nor idle there. But I will not attempt to de- Inde either myself or you into the belief that the opinions 1 have expressed, which I trust in some degree correspond with your owz, will soon become fully engrafted into the policy of the government, I shall perform my duty bet- ter by showing you that it is not wise to expect, nor even absolntely necessary to depend on the exercise of a just patronage of our industry by the government, This re- public, although constituting one nation, partakes of the form of a confederation of many States, and for the pur- pose of securing acquiescence allows great power to mino- ities, Although there is no real antagonism of interests, there is, nevertheless, a wide divergence of opinion con- cerning those interests, resulting from the different de- grees of maturity and developement reached in the seve- ral States. Maxsachuretts and Virgiuia, New York and South Carolina, scarcely differ in their ages; but, never. theiess, they differ in their industrial «ystems as widely as Pennsylvania and Arkansas, The old free States have passed through the stages at which the merely agricul tural and planting States have only arrived. It would practically be as impossible to bring these latter states immediately up to our proper policy, as it would be to carry us backward to the system which they are pursuing. ‘They will resist all such efforts earne. tly and persevering: ly so Jong as they shall feel that they are unable, like us, to distribute their industry, and so to share in the bene- fits of that policy. All that we can expect, under such circumstances, from the government, is some occasional and partial modification of its Gnancial policy, s0 as to vor the suecess of the efforts of the friends of home indus- try in establishing it on a safe basis, without the immedi- ate and direct aid of Congress. And this will be sufficient. It ix not yet forty years since New York applied in vain to the United States to construct the Erie canal, which was* acknowledged to be the incipient measure in 'a system of internal improvements to be coextensive with tue repub- lic. Now, not only that canal has been built, but the whole system is in a train of accomplishment. Although Congress has not only never adepted, but has almost con- stantly repudiated it. Private and ‘corporate enterprise, sustained by the States, has worked out what the federal government has refused to undertake. The same agencies Willestablish the American system. Capital, labor, scl eaugmenting here. Power is daily becoming per, avd consumption more extensi New Hamp- shire, Massachusetts, Khode Island, Connecticut, Vermont! New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaw: and Ohio, have become manufacturing States. tages resulting from that policy are indicated not more b; the univer ral improvement of the agricultural districts if these States, than by the prosperity and growth of their towns and cities. Here are Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, Springfield, Providence, New Haven, Ratland, Bennington, New York, Albany, Troy, Rochester and Buffalo, Philadel phia and Pittsburg, Newark and Paterson, Wilmington ond Baltimore, Cincinnati and Cloveland; contrast with them the towns and cities of those States which practi- cally adhere to the policy of employing foreign industry; and you see plainly the resuits of error. That contrast excites inquiry, and {inquiry wiil go on until it shall cor- rect the great error introduce universal emulation. Persevere then, Gentlemen of the Institute, for while you are represented as hindering the prosperity of the coun- try, you, and none so much as you, are securing it and rendering it universal. While you are regarded as favor. ing privil , you, and none so much as ‘ou, are counteracting | gto and class legislation. hile you are censured for op} the interests of com: merce, you, and none so much as , are laying sare foundations for & commerce that Il be broad as the I'mits of the earth, and lasting an the necessities and the cargo. | Island, and arms badly injured. The lady was’ finally rescued from death by a steamboat runner, who seized her in his arms—ran through the boat’ and brought her safely to shore. The clerk of the Montauk, in getting the books and money from the office, was considerably singed by the flames. Captain Gleim, of the same boat, was ecruck by a falling derrigk, but his injuries were not serious, Captain Gleim once befere had command of a Doat called the Montauk, which was destroyed by fire a few years ago; but Captain MeCoy, ‘of the Robert Camp. bell, had been still more unfortunate. His last misfor- tune by fire was the burning of the fine steamer Bluff City, which was one of the boats destroyed by fire last July. ‘The fire reached @ considerable quantity of dry goods, &e., lying on the levee, which was much damaged, and a portion of it destroyed. ‘The goods were designed to go on board the steamer Brunette, for Keokuk, aad the Houduras, for the Missouri river. A considerable smount of property was carried off by thieves, some of whom were seen in the act of plundering a box of hats, each furnishing himself with a new hat. About one hurdred tons of the cargo of the unfortunate Lunette belonged to two persons of St. Paul—Mr. Ray and Mr. Farrington, representing different firms. Ray was insured, but there was no insurance on Farrington’s freight. We will now turn to the list of sunken boats, of which the first and probably the most valuable is the Golden Fra, bound from this city to Koekuk, with alight She ran upon a snag at the head of Amaranth x miles below Clarksville, at 4 o'clock on Wednes- day morning, and sunk in eight feet water. Capt. Dawley and s portion of the crew arrived in the ity yesterda moining. The Captain is of opinion that she can be raised, and Messrs. Fads & Nelsen have determined to go up and inspect her condition. The boat is owned as follows:— One-half by Capt. Bersie—not insured; seven-sixteenths by James Carter & Co., of Galens , on which there is $5,000 insurance; and one-sixteenth by 1). V. Dawley, on which there is $1,000 insurance, making the whole ‘insurance on the boat 66,000. Of this amount $6,000 is in the Phoe: nix Insarance Company of this city. Captain Bersie is the regular commsnder of the boat, but he being on the Envoy, above the rapids, the boat was in charge of Cap- tain Dawley, at the time of sinking. The Golden Era was valued at from $18,000 to $20,000, The freight on board is light, and is all saved on deck, exeept about 320 sacks of salt, and a quantity of sugar, and of which the greater portion dissoived. The New St: Paul, from Keo- kuk yesterday morning, bronght news of the loss of the steamer R. H. Lec, on the upper rapids. Her stern is sunk in eight feet of water, and her bow is on the rocks. The R. H. Lee is insured for $3,500 The telegraph brings intelligence of the sinking of the steamer Flag, at Flint Island, in the Ohio. Tho freight is damaged; the boat will be raised. She was on her way from Cincinnati Daara ov 4 Hewsan asp Wire —Coroner O'Donnell Inst Wednesday that 2 German named Frederick Offer’ and ‘his wife Caruariae, were No, 46 Lewis lying dead at their late residence, street. On to the house, the coroner learned that Offer had poia ned his wife with arsenic, and then destroyed himself with the same nm. Drs. Lewis and Aschenbruner were called in; and made a ee sorte ex- amination of the bodies, but they were unable to detect the presence of any poe. They, however, determined te test more Soe ly the contents of the stomach, and for that purpose tool em to Dr. Uhl’s office, and stated that they would be prepared to testify in the matter at 3 o’clock im the afternoon. In the meantime a jury was empannejled by the coroner, and the affidavit of Mary Klee, a sister of the deceased womah, was taken, She stated that the deceased had been married about ten months; that they had lived unhappily togother, the husband having deceived her as to the amount of proper- y he was worth and being of dissipated and intemperate bits, had ill treaved her. She gave birth toa child about eight days ago, and when some leeches were re- quired by her physician, he shook his fist in her face and threatened her for age 3 him to the expense of urchasing them. She died at nine o'clock on Reig morning, and her husband at nine o'clock the saine evening. He was taken sick on Monday last. At three o'clock the ‘jans returned, and stated that they had pannel detecting poison in the sto: mach of Mrs. Offer. Further tests are yet to be applic and in order to give time to make them, the Coroner a: journed the inquisition to yesterday morning. Oller was ) twenty-three years of age, and had been in this country about a year. His wife was twenty-nine years old, and had lived in this city about seven years. Coroner O'Donnell yesterday continued his investiga- tion relative to the cause of death of Frederick Offer, and his wife Ca‘harine, who died suddenly on Tuesday last. The evidence adduced, w ith the exception of the medical testimony, was substantially the same as the statement we published yesterday morning. The husband, a wo! less fellow, induced a young German womin, whe had about $200 to marry him, by representing that his friends were rich, and would establish him in business. Shortly after they were married he squandered her money ani commenced treating her very cruelly, and continued his course during: the eight months previous to her death. ‘The two deaths happening on the same day, suspicion was created that he had poisoned her and afterwards himself. This proved to be the case, as the physicians who examin- ed the contents of the stomach of each have found arsenic therein, and they testified before the coroner's jury that death in each case was caused by that polon. e jury, in the case of the husband, reudered the following ver- dict :—‘‘ We find that Frederick Offer came to his death from the eflects of arsenic ; and we are of the opinion, from the history of the case, that eaid arsenic wa! ministered by his own hands.’ In the case of the wife the followiog verdict was rendered :—‘We find that Catharine Offer came to her death from the effects of arsenic, and we believe, from the circumstances and his- tory of the death of her husband, that said arsenic was administered to her by the hands of her husband, Frederick Offer.” Frederick Oifer was a native of Germany, and teenty-three years of age ; his wife was twenty-nine years of age. ‘Tex Lars Farat Srapninc Casa rv Water Sreger.—An inquest was held last Wednesday by Coroner Hilton, at the New York Hespital, on the body of James Davis, the sailor who was fatally wounded en Sunday afternoon, by another ssilor, named Smith. The following evidence was taken:— George Allen sworn, says—I am barkeeper at the sailor boarding house No. 14 Dover street; the deceayed boarded at the house, and at two o’clock on Sunday afternoon went to the east corner of Water and Dover streets to take a drink; about fifteen minutes after there was fight- ing in the street, and 1 saw Davis and Smith fightin, Davis was trying to get away, and did not want to.quarrel; Smith followed and struck him; Davis struck they were t! separated, and Davis walked te the door of the boarding house; Smith followed, and while doing drew a knife from his pocket, saying the time—‘‘ You G—d d—n sen of a b—h, I'll hay ‘our life;”’ he them made a side blow at Davis with the Knife, but missed him; he raised the knife again and plunged it into his chest; Davia did not move during the time, and scemed paralyzed with fright; both seemed to be sober at the time, and Ido not know what they quar- relled about. Oliver Farrington, of No. 283 Water street, testified to having witnessed the fight upon the sidewalk, but knew not what occasioned the dispute; Smith struck the firat blow, and after being separated from Davis, he renewed the Sight and was again separated; Davis repeatedly told him that he did not want either to quarrel or dgh:. The account of the stabbing, as given by this witness, was similar to that of the former witaess. Dr. McComb, of the New York Hospital, testified that in his opiaion the wound was the cause of the death of deceased. ‘The case was then given to the jury, who rendered the following verdict:—‘‘That James Davis came to his death frem a stab inflicted by a knife in the hand of James Smith.’’ Upon the rendition of the verdict, Smith was committed to await the action of the GrandJury. He was present during the inquisition, seemed to de plore deeply the commission of the ‘The de- ceased wad a native of Ireland, twenty-eight years of age. The prisoner is also a native of Ireland. AccipEeNt at THE Hovston Srreer Frrny.—Coroner Wilhelm on Wednesday held an inquest at No. 14 Avenue A, upon the body of Andrew Senger, a carpenter by trade, lately residing at No. 201 Second street. The deceased, it appears, wan drowned on Tuesday afterncon, while jumping after a boat at the Houston atreet ferry.’ Eagar ot Cae the assistant ferry master, saw the deceased and another person running te get to the boat after it was several feet from the bridge, and called to them to stop, but neither did stop, and the deceased jumped after the beat, but fell into the dock. Mr. Car: threw the float to kim’ immediately, and otherwize exerted himself to rescue him, but was unsuccessful. The body was recovered about an hour afterwards. The jury rendered the following verdict:—‘‘That deceased came to his death by drowning whilst attempting to jump on the Houston street ferry boat when it left the bridge. The jury deem it their duty strongly to recom mend to the proper authorities that some arrangements ‘be made to prevent persons from trying to reach the boat when it bas once left the bridge.’ The deceased was a German by birth, twenty-eight years of ago. Fornp ix Tax Warsr.—The body of a man, who, from » paper in his pocket, is supposed to be George Thompson, a sailor, frqgm Maine, was yesterday found in the dock « pier No.,6 North river. Coroner Wilhelm held an inqu: upon the body, but, as it had been in the water several weeks and was much decomposed, the jury were unable to determine what was the cause of death. The paper re- ferred to was dated July 14, 1853, and was signed by Col- lector Peaseley, of Boston. The deceased was about twenty-seven years of age, and was dressed in a suit of black cloth, with black satin vest. Fouxp Drowxep.—Coroner Gamble held an inquest on to this city. The steamer Georgetown, Capt. McPherson, bound from St. Louis to New Orleans, sunk on the 14th just., at Grand | Tower, about one hundred-miles below St. Louis, and will prove a total loss. Interesting from Genoa. NEW COMMERCIAL ENTERPRIZE—THK NAVAL FORCE! OF AMERICA AND AUSTRIA—THE KOSZTA AF- FAIR, BTC. (Correspondence of the Newark Daily Advertiser.) Guxoa, Sept. 23, 1 Avother commercial enterprise of much promise has just been organized here under government approbation— a joint stock company for the purpose of opening periodi- | cal steam communications w.th the ports of the East. The Oriental Company is organized with a capital of eight millions, to establish two lines of steamers, one between this port and Alexandria, and another between Genoa and Constantinople and intermediate points, for the trans- port of merchandise and passengers, and the postal ser vice of the Sardinian States. The steamers are to be not levs than 1,000 tons each, and of at least two hundred ver. The company can more confidently calou- ss than the Trans-atlantic Company, inas- much as Sardinia bas already an extensive trade with the Orient. Its eastern trade is, in truth, scarcely inferior to that of England, of Austria, or of Russia, and is actually thirty times greater than that of France. The revival of this old metropolitan mart is among the frnits of peace and genial political institutions; it has abundant capital—no city of its size has more, and few fo much—and its enterprizing capitalists seem deter- mined to recover their ancient dominion in the Mediter- ranean. Isee no obstacle in the way, unless a war be- tween Russia and the Sultan should’ once more threw Europe into convulsions, ‘The Municipality has issued an invitation to the manu- facturers and other producers of the kingdom to send specimens of their labors to an exhibition, which is to be | openeé here at the inauguration of the railway to Turin —which will be opened with eclat during the present season, The United Stater ship St. Louis, Captain Ingraham, is still at Spezia; but the Cumberland, Com. Stringham’s fing ship, is outon aeruize. Austria is increasing her paval force in this sea. Her official journal speaks omi nonsly of the presence of “ an unusual number of United States sbips of war’ along the shores of the Mediterranean, “amounting in ell to some twelve or fifteen of different sizes,” whereas there are not in fact five. By the way, the officers of the St. Louis speak approv. ingly of the gentlemanly conduct of the Austrian naval oflicers in the recent unpleasant affair at Smyrna. The Captain and officers of their brig—whose armament was altogether superior to that of the St. Louis—showec every diepoxition to avoid and prevent a collision in faldlling the requisitions of their national consul in relation to Korzta, and when the matter was finally ace mmodated, nifested their gratification by the most friendly conr: is is the more creditable, inasmuch as with uperior armament and the presence of an Austrian steamer and another vessel, they would have had the advantage in a hostile contest, They ¢emeaned themselves in rhort as Tam asured, like gallant men, er may be said of the policy of the Austrian go- t—which probably could ccarcely be worse it ix only fair to confess that many of its officers are gentlemen of the noblest instinct Yours, &e. Affairs In Newfoundland. We have received files of Newfoundland journals dited | to the 6th instant. The news is more of local than gene- | ral importance. We extract the most interesting items: The steamer Ellen Gisborne was disposed of at publie auction*at Saint Johns upon the{fth instant, and vas bought by the Bank of British North America for the sum | of £1,625. The Lord Bishop of the diocess of Newfoundland, who had been engaged for several months in visiting the mis- sionary stations and many other settlements on the La- brador and northeast shores, had returned to St. John’s io the “Church ship.”” Alluding to the danger which Tarrahan’s town would ron in case of fire, owing to the deficient supply of water, the Morning Poet remarks :—“The only preventive mea: sure that we } now of, which could be effectually adopted, would be the fitting up of a reservoir at the head of Gar: uison Hill, Wherein could be collected » sufficient quantity of water fo supply @ tank or two, by means of pipes, in the eentre of Turrahan’s town.’ Speaking ef the observance of ‘ law and order’? there, the rame journal says :—“‘A subscription list, we are hap: By to find, haw been set om foot, for the purpose of raising a sufficient sum to obtain the government grant for es- tablishing a night watch in this town. which exists for the adoption of a protective measure of this kind we have before called attention to, and it la now too evident to be doubted by ony one who has his eyes and tars about him that the necessity is nightly ing greater, We under.tand that on Sunday olght necessity aors Wednesday upon the body of an unknown man, found in the East river, near Peck slip. ‘The deceased bore the ap- pearance of having been a sailor. He was about five feet eight inches in height, had large black whiskers, and wore the dress of a sailor or ’long-shoreman. A pieco of red fannel was tied about his neck. The body appeared to have been about two days in the water. Verdict, death by drowning. Fovxp Deap.—A woman named Bridget Kelly, but known as Hot Corn Biddy, was found Tuesday night lying on the | sidewalk, in front of 877 Water street, by a policeman who, wed her in a hand cart, and took her to the station house, supposing her to be drunk. Dr. Traphagen was culled in, who, on examination, found the woman to be An inquest was held on the body next day, anda of “ Death from intemperance’’ returned. Scppkw Dearu.—Tuesday night Margaret McCann, resid- ing at 681Grand street, was taken suddenly ill im the street, in front of her own door, and before medical aid be procured, dropped down dead, Verdict—“Death delirium tremens.” Police Intelligence. Tidal Roblery.—Jeremiak Belane, a waiter at the Bond Street House, was om Wednday arrested by Otlicer Walsh, of the Fifteenth ward, on suspicion of breaking open a trunk in the room of one of the boarders, and stealing there- from $470 in gold esgles. A lot of skeleton keys but no money, was found in the pessession of the accused, who was locked up by Justice Stuart to await examination. Passing Counterfeit Morey.—A man named Hugh Daley was on Wedne-day arrested, charged with attempting to $ a $5 counterfeit bill, on the Vall River Bank, State of laxsachusetts, to W. Coyle, clothier, doing business at He was detained by Justice Stuart to await examination. Arret for Grand Larceny.—Capt. Rakielewits, of the River police, last Aude perey 3 arrested a man, named Frederick jon. arged with breaking open a trunk im the house ward Billing, No. 32 Grand street, Williamsburg, and stealing therefrom $80 in silver coin. The money was found in pessession ef the prisoner, and he was sent to Williamsburg for trial. Stealing @ Horse and Wagon.—A man, named James Mooney, was arrested by officer Maroney, of the Third ward, charged with stealing a horse and wagon, valued at $300,’ belonging to Mr. William. Mulley, who had left the team tied im front of the store of Mr. Boyd, No. 15414 Fulton street, at eleven o'clock on Tuescay night. The accused was seen to drive the horse and wagon away, and on his arrest, he was eormitted by Just.ce Usborne for examination. Buying Stolen Goods —Margare Concklin, a dealer in seeondhund clothing, at 67 Division street, was arrested on Wednedsy by officer Brown, of tho Chief’s office, charged with purchasing a sable tippet, which had been stolen from the house of Mrs. 2. W. Bridge, 40 Kast Fourtoonth street. The premises of Mrs, B, were entered by burglars at the time, and robbed of about $1,000 worth of pro- perty. The tippet was recently bought of the accused for 5, by Mrs. HE. Wells, of Upper Morrisania, who sold it tov. J. Taylor, a clerk at Genin’s store, for $140. He tooh it to Gunther & Sens, in Maiden land, the manufac- turers, who informed him that it was stolen property The woman Concklin denies that she knew it to be stolen at the time she purchased it; but the Mayor, before whom she was taken, thought differently, and committed her to await examination At the time ‘the burglary on Mra. Bridge’s house was committed, several other dwellings in the vicinity were broken epen, and thus far the rogues have not been detected. ‘This’ arrest may, however, feed te their disedvery. More Stalhing.—Oficer O'Connor, of the Sixth ward, ar- rested, at1 o'clock, on Wednesday morning a man named John Shehan, who stands charged with assaulting and stabbing John Curren, ar he was passing through Orange street, inflicting injuries which renderod it necessary that he should be conveyed to the Tlospital. Shehan was taken before Justice Osborne, and locked up to await exa- minations Pa:sing Broken Bank Bills.—A man named Terence Creighan, was on Wednesday arrested, charged with’passing three $5 bills on the Hamilton Bank, Scituate, R. L., at the grocery of Thomas Bannin, No, 215 Uizabevh street. It is charged that he represented the bills to be good, when he knew them to be worthless, t ak having fong since been out of existence, He was hold to await examina- on, Theft a) a Gold Watch.—A woman named Ann McIntyre, was arrested for stealing a gold watch, valued at $85, from John Bradley, of No. 64 Willian street. It appears that officer McGuire, of the Foureenth ward, caught the two lying together under a vegetable stand at Contro Market, and Joc} ed them up in the station house, While there, Bradley misced hia watch, and stated that he thought the woman had atolengt. She was searched, and it was found concealed in her hood. She was then taken before Justice Welsh and committed to privy» for trial. Pradley was required to give bonds in $500 to ape and rosecute, The prisoner Ie a widow, and has five children yuo waa stabbed in the body in three places, | enterprive of markid. While you are represeated ax bac’s agsin usta , chectua othe chicg greatness of tre gation, yuu, andouly , Ly were immediatel, deeasmd aad Lue pacty wie in em talc iato c.atwy.”” iving at No. 111 Anthony street. Charge of Burgiary.~A maa named Patrick Torry was acrested co Wedaenday aig 5S, 7 ofbcer Kinnayly, of the niously three promissory Justice Osborne, and Mr. Fisher The Late Murder in Water Street.—Ezamination caye of the Murderer.—Jamen Smith, the sailor who om Wednesday was charged by ® coroner's jury with the murder of James Davis, by stabbing him ia the abdemen on Sunday last, while in Water street, was teccaht tom bis cell and taken to the lower paliee oneene for examination. stated that he was born im New Haven; is seventeen years of age, and that he was drunk when be stabbed Davis, with whom he had long before been on friendly terms. After tle close of his examing- tion the prisoner started, in company with the Coroner’a clerk,§ to¢return to his cell, but as they reached the bottom of the stairs on the Franklia street side of the Tombs, he suddenly darted out of the door and ran to White street, then across erage and though hotly pursued by theclerk, who calied ‘ Watehl’” “Murder!” “Stop thief,” Ke., he managed to escape. Corouer Hilton was soon’ informed of the occurrence, with policeman Rice, went in search of him, but re unsuccessful. A reward will be offered for his apprehen- sion. He is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches in height, has afull face, sallow complexion, with dark eyes. He was in a light blue frock coat, dark pants, light browa vest, with» red figure, and blue cap, City Intelligence. Tur Cuivamex GoinG Hosm.—We learn that the unfoe- tunate members of the Tung-Hook-Tong dramatic o ee have been offered a free passage to China, in one of ships belonging to G. G. Dennis, Esq. of Boston, provided that the New York Commissioners of Emigration will supply them with provisions for the voyage. Those terma are reported to have been acceded to by the board, amd consequently, it is probable that the helpless Chicamea will leave for their own country in a week or ten days. ‘THE PROPOSED SHRRNADE TO JouN Mrrcinmt..—A\ jourm- ed meeting held on Monday evening, it was ibe adie ‘that the military companies intending to serenade John Mitehal and present him with an address; should aasemble at the Fagle drill rooms at half past eight o'clock on the of the Sess oe on bal ‘the hegre 9 of his ari appears in the morning papers, instead of ten o’elook, the Park, aa formerly suosaiced. - ‘Tne Rexcve or a Lavy From DROWNING.—Woe are informed that Mr. John De Pear is entitled to the credit of j y= ing into the water and resouing Maria Dugrenaka, whe attempted to drown herself by leaping from one of tne Peck slip ferry boats on Monday morning. Accent ox Board a Srkasier.—Yesterday after George Prentice and (Cornelius Connor were precipitated down the hold of the steamer Star of the South, lying at pier 12 East river, while employed in lowering the . it appears that some of the tackling became accident unhooked while they wore working if, by which thoy were precipitated into the hold from the deck overhead, They were both conveyed to the City Hospital, Prentice baring one of his ribs broken, his head cut, and badl; about the body. Connor had one of his legaprobeny the ankle joint, by the fall. Crry Ratrroap Accipgnt.—On Wednesday a woman named. Margaret Thunly, residing at 64 Centre street, was rum over and injured by a car of the Kighth Avenue Railread, at the corner of Church and Barclay streets. She was conveyed home by officer Toneyck, of the Third ward— the railroad’company paying the expenses, Ratroap Accipgnt.—A woman named Mifgaret Phuiiey, while carelessly crossing the railroad track at the cormec of Barclay and Church streots, yesterday morning, was accidently knocked Jown by an Kighth avenue car and severely injured. She was taken to her residence, No. 64 Centre street. ACCIDENT WHILE Biasrina.—On Tuesday a man named Michael Gilhain, while blasting on o farm at Spring Val- ley, Rockland éounty, had the fingers of one of his handa blown off, by the suddem explosion of the powder befere he was aware of his danger. Over AND Ki.txp,—Owon O’Donnelly, a man about 65 years of age, who lived at No. 107 Thirteenth atreaty was accidentally run over by # coal cart on Wednes- day, while he was shovelling coal into the cellar in front of ‘a store in Fulton street, »nd died soon after at the New York Hespital, of the injury he received. He has left a wife axd two children. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday, whon a verdict of “Accidental death,” waa returned, Fines,—On Wednesday morning a fire broke out in the dwelling portion of the porter house 159 Wert Broadway, kept by George Leone, but was speedily extinguished Uyfthe fire department, with a loss of about $250 dollars. No in- suranc It was occasie: by @ spark from a falling on a bed which Mrs. Leese had just prepared for the bar. ose Pay On Tuesday a fire broke out in the amoke house of Charles Lines, Forty-third street, between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues, which was totally consumed. Loss about $300. No instrance. The carpenter's shop in the rear of Eldridge street, which was burnt down Wednesday morn- ing, was occupied by Newman & Drummond, binders; the building, a valuable house, was destroyed. ‘Stock insured for $70) in the Stuyvesant Insurance Company. The building No. 122 was considerably damaged. Insured im the Bowery Insurance Company. No. 124 was considerably injured; belonged to Mr. Rowland. Insured. Fat From 4 Bur.pinc.—On Wednesday afternoon, James Kelly, who was employed on anew building belonging to Jones's Brewery, at the corner of Sixth street and avenue C, fell from the scaffold inside on. to the upper floor, the building being nearly complete, by which his arm was broken. Fortunately, by the intervention of the floor, the fall was only three or four feet, or else more injuries might Lave been sustained. « Mnsrary Foxxrars —The foneral of Francis Lackey took place last Wednesday from his late residence, No. 86 Spring street. The deceased was a momber of the Ninth Regiment, N. Y.S. M., a private in Captain Patrick Kerri- gan’s Company of Irish Dragoons, who attended the body ‘0 Celvary Cemetery where it was interred. In addition to the above, a long cortege of carriages followe't te hoarse, ontaining the friends of the deceased. Manahan’s Brass Pand formed part of the funeral procossion, aud played a 5 ion of solemn airs during the march. The route ‘ahen was down the Bowery to Grand street, and Grand street to the Williamsburg ferry, from whence the hearse containing the remains of the deceased was com- veyed over to Williamsburg, and from there to Calvary Ceqetery, where it was interred. : e City Guard attended yesterday the funeral of a mem- ber of their corps, who was buried at Greenwood. A Sruxer Incipext.—On Wednesday night, about 9 0’- clock, a young woman named Eliza Middel’ was delivered of a child in Houston street, opposite the station-house— the child having actually fallen into the gutter as she ralked along! Soon after this the woman fell down from ain and exhaustion, and was brought into the station- oure by some citizens who witnessed the oecurrenee, The child was picked up, covered with mud and placed in charge of nurse for the night. It was ascertained that the mother was a servant in a family in the neighbor- hood. Both mother and child are doing well. Attempt at Svicinr.—On Wednesday a man went on the dock at the foot of Burling slip, and undressed himself, with the apparent intent ef drowning, when be was ar- rested by t police, or aN EMBANKMENT.—On Tuesday a man named ‘arthy-was severely injured by the sudden caving in of an embankment which he was excavating for the purpose of building a sewer, inthe Fourth avenue, near Forty-ninth street. He was taken to the New York Hospital, where he now lies in a very dangerous stat having been badly injured about the side, and ribs having been broken, Lignan ovr Darknuss.—The Police lately reported that the gas lamps in Trinity place had not been lighted for the last three months. The merchants in Broadway and others are continually complaining about it. It is fur- ther stated by the Captain of the First ward that it isa wonder the stores in the vicinity have not been rebbed before this time, for there is no part of the Firat ward where burglars and thieves can operate with less fear of being caught. Line of Battle Ship for the Czar. The following statements we find in a letter from this sity to the Newark Daily Advertiver:— me three months since, W. H. Webb, the eminent ship builder of this city, was found unexpectedly by every one to have departed in the Collins steamer for Furope. Much curiosity was felt by business men and others, to know the object of his journey, particularly as Me. Mokay and other well known ship architects were also in Europe at that time. Some supposed that it was to seek informa. tion respecting the immense balance dock, for which he bas the contract, With his return the secret may be di- yulged, the success of which might have been projudloed by ta announcement, but which, now that the plan is entirely successful, it is not only a matter of public inte- rest, but also, a just opportunity for national exultation. Mr. Webb, some year or two since conceived the design of constructing a +hip of the line upon an improved medel, gombiniog the swiftness of the clipper of our days with the strength of the old fogy battle-ship. The stupidity, as well as the rs ekless extravagance of our own goverament,, is so wellknown that it was futile to attempt to mego- tiate with it. The Russian Emperor arpearad the most feasible potentate of Europe, who conld give Mr. Webb the desired opportunity, especially since it was known from authentic rources, that he was desirous of obtaining a versel constructed after our progressive Amorican ideas. 1524 a vossel, (in many respects proved satix{no:01y,) was built for Russia at Philadelphia; and within a few years a steamer was constructed for that government at Jerrey City, which, although the engines were poor, by the excellence of her model and wood-work generally, has been very acceptable te the Emperor.. The dificulty of gaining ihe ear of the dignitaries of Kurope generally and of Russia particularly, has not been over estima by travellers. The particulars of Mr. Webb’s negotiation would make very interesting article, had I the time to narrate it, Suffice it to say, U his propositions were roferred to a commission of w dosen admirals and high officers of the realm, who informed him that Mr. Webb's roposition, made through an agent, had been nogatived a the Emperor, but they would listen to his views, a] parently, however, only a matter of courtesy. The ing of ‘this aper was followed by a recommendation tothe Grand Admiral Constantine, second son of the ‘Emperor, with whore Mr. Webb had numerous interviews—who re- ferred to the Emperor, who reconsidered his previous de- cision, and ultimately gave Mr, Webb the commission de- sired, 'vig-:—{o build in ‘New York @ hundred gua. ship furnished with a steam propeller as auxiliary to deliver her within reasonable time at St. teraberat The Grand Duke declared that the government had fol- lowed English models long enough, and now meant te take a higher standard, Interesting to Merchants. ConsuLatr oF THE Untrep SrATRS, Rio de Janeiro, August 27, 1863. Merehanta and owners of ships trading with the ports of Brail areoarnestly requested to be very cautious in having everyarticle shipped t» any of the ports in the Brasilian em- pire ineerted in the ship's manifest; for, however the bills of lading may accurately show everything imported, Ifany goods be omitted: from the manifost, the omi article is forfeited, and the vessel in which it is imported 's Hable to a fine to the government equal to one-half of the value of the confisoated godda. forfeiture of the omitted a: ticle is most rigidly enforced, although it mag most manifestly appear the omission has arisen from ne design to do wrong. Two cases of a very striking charac- tee have recently occurred hore in which the forfeitures have heen stringently enforced, and ia one, I fear, netoniyy Jona of the gooda, but t efines may aimeane ¢@