The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1853, Page 4

4an * © ORDO BENNETT ‘ & AND TOR. rricy * Sncounmn OF 7UN 9 Sew Vork, Saturda Hetoher 22, 1850. Matis for Europe. W YORK WEEKLY HERALD, ss mail » Tes The Duited Adves, will leave Sampico and Bayre Pfabveriptions and ad amship Humbolit, Captain at noon te-cay, ior South this port ment for spy edition of the Raw Yous Hixca will be rece ved,at the following places te Buope — tvmroo1—John Hunter, No. 2 Paradine street. Lownon—Eawards, Sanford & Co., Cornhill, Wm. Thomas @ Co., No, % Cathorine street Pamm—Livingston, Wells &Co.,[8 Place de la Bourse, BH. Revoil, No. 17 Rue de la Banque, he Bureyennfmails will cloveTat half-past ten o'clock te the morning. The Woexry Hexarp.will be published at half-past nine welnck this morning. Single mixpence. copies, im wrappers, e Nhe Mews. Onur intelligence from Washington this morning is important. Ata meeting of the Cabinet yesterday afternoon it was decided to dismiss Mr. Bronson forthwith from the Collectorship of this port. Mr. O'Conor is expected to resign. We have commented oa this subject in another column. Wm, L, Hans- comb, of Portsmouth, N. Hi., bas been appoiuted ‘Maval Constracter. ‘A meeting of prominent business men, without @istinction of party, was held at Rochester, on Thurs- @ay night, Hon. Jonathan Childs presiding, The avowed objects are to elect good men, and taus pre- vent the plundering of the treasury. A State ticket, made up from the nominees of the whig national de- mocratic and free soil democratic parties, was pro- poced and adopted, as follows:—Clinton, for Secre- tary; Cook, for Comptroller; Hoffman, for Attorney General; Segur, for Treasurer; Clark, for Surveyor; Yates, for Canal Commissioner; Wood and Denio, for Judges; Bowne, for Clerk of the Court of Appeals; and M. W. Bennett, for State Prison Inspecsor. The address claims tat the movement is “ exten- sively and powerfully” supported. Here we havea streak of fat anda streak of lean, with a portion of the rbind of the animal. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a resolation was adopted directing the Street Commissioner to have 110th street, at the intersection of Eighth ave- nue, put in order for public use; also,‘to increase the salaries of doormen at the station houses to $700 per annum. The Committee on Ordinances were direct- ed to report an ordinance changing the time for making contracts for cleaning streets from one to free years, as it appears a considerable amount of money may be saved by the new contract system. ‘The semi-annual report of the Chief of Police was re- eeived. The report of the Committee on Ferries, in favor of reducing the rent of the Wall street ferry from twenty thousand to five thousand dollars, was concurred in by a vote of eleven to five, after a very animated debate, a sketch of which will be found ap- pended to the official report of the proceedings on the eighth page of to-day’s paper. ‘The Board of Assistant Aldermen met at six e’clock last evening, and transacted a variety of youtine business. The action of the Aldermen in saising the of the police department, was con- eurred ae Assistants after the words ‘detailed men” and “ patrolmen” were stricken from the re- port, and the words “sergeants” and “policemen” substituted in their stead, as being the legal expres- sions. Other matter relating to alterations in elec- tion districts, and the removal of the fire bell from the tower in Thirty-third street, to the City Hall, will be found in the official report. The Board ad- journed until six o'clock next Monday evening. We publish in another colamn an important tabu- Jarstatement, showing the number of deaths on board Sere ships arrived at this port, from the 9th of Sept erup to yesterday. Of 7,701 passengers, 359 hay@-died, and there is good reason to believe that, with few exceptions, they were victims o enolera. The ship Sigadahock,* which arrived at Boston yesterday, reports that seventy of her passen- gers died of the same dissase. ‘A meeting of “Irish Confederates of '45" was held jest night, and the preliminary steps taken to give John Mitchell an appropriate welcome on his arrival in this city. The cattle show of the American Institute closed yesterday, and the premiums were awarded to the exhibitord for the best specimens of farm stock of all kinds. The list of prizes is reported in full else- where. ‘A very destructive fire broke out in Louisvilie, Ky., yesterday morning. The block on Fifth street, half way from Bullett to Water street, was entirely consumed, including the Journal office, the rolling mills warehouse, Holbrook’s tobacco warehouse, and the drug establishment of Wilson, Starbird & Smith with their entire contents. The fire was raging fu- riously at last accounts. In the Protestant Episcopal Convention yesterday but little business of general interest was transacted. Rey. Mr. Kipp, of Albany, has been appointed Bishop of California, and Thomas F. Scott, of Georgia, Bishop of Oregon. In consequence of the crowded state of onr columns we are compelled to omit the report tor the present. ‘The Baltimore and Ohio Railrggd have decided to increase the rate of toll on coal, after the Ist of November, to $2 25 per ton. It is now $1 75. ‘Two men were killed and another severely wounded by a collision on the railroad at Coatsville, Pa., yes- terday. The passengers escaped without Injury. ‘An arrival at Boston brings a Jerusalem plough and other articles from the Holy Land for the Crystal Palace. ‘The trial of the officers and owners of the stean- boat Henry Clay was continued yesterday, a full re port of which may be found in our columns. The steamship Osprey, for Philadelphia, left Charleston on Saturday, sitce which time she has not been heard of. She had twenty-four passengers, and was amply supplied with provisions and coal. The letter of our Caraccas correspondent, although not of a later date than that of previous advices, wil! be read with interest, as it contains more particular @etails of the action of the Monagas dynasty and its effect upon the affairs of Venezuela. A list of the public buildivgs destroyed by the recent earthquakes at Cumana, is also published. Cuba, the United States, and England. The Washington Union, like other equally uninformed commentators on the diplomatic affairs of this country, in an article a day or two ago, foreshadowed a successful movement of Lord Howden in consummating an arrange- mont with the Spanish government, providing for the gradual abolition of slavery in the Island of Ouba, and introducing into that island a system of African apprenticeship. Ifthe Union had been tolerably well in- formed—if'that paper had not been intolerably ignorant of the negotiations in Madrid. having so important a bearing upon the United States —it might have toldus that in truth no such treaty has been negotiated by Lord Howden. The system of apprenticeship, it is believed, would receive an unqualified condemnation, as being neither more nor less than a legalized re- vival of the slave trade. The proposition to gradually abolish slavery in the island is all that has engaged the atten- tion of the British negotiator, and that is in no stage of forwardness. No one expects the Premier to understand much of European affairs; but Mr. Dudley Mann, thoroughly post- ed ep im the tactics pus movements of red-re, | publicar isa fit informant of the editors of the Cabinet organ. The truth of the case 's probably here. Lord Howden tas, for the last year, been engaged in extricating the emancipados of Cuba—ne- groes liberated under the mixed commission | sitting in Havana—about eight thousand in |‘ number. The arrangements made in Madrid | for the discharge of these men from servitude, | were arrested ty the Captain-General at Ha- vand, because of some supposed disturbance which their liberation might create in the island. This, we presume, is the only founda- tion for the stupid rumors circulated by the Union and its dependent co-laborers, culiar relations known to subsist between the affecting the material integ@sts of the Ame rican people. The Tripartite Treaty, so re- cently proposed by those cabinets, and rejected by Mr. Fillmore’s government, was a part of the original programme of operaftons having fn view the defeat of any design on the Cuba. We might go farther back, and refer to Powers, and intended by theCabinet of London to combine all the strong governments of Europe against this republic, to humble and cripple its maritime energies, and to array against us a force sufficient to overawe and paralyze our people. It is well understood that Mr. Cal- houn’s celebrated letter to Mr. King, then Ame- rican Minister in Paris, was written with a di- the political and economical bearings of the in- stitution of slavery upon the labor of the world, and to open their eyes to the designs of Great Britain in her persistent efforts to abolish slavery in the United States and in the West Indies. Mr. Calhoun saw in these designs only a purpose to affect injuriously the material in- terests of this continent—a purpose so steadily pursued by the British government, and every day rendered more and more apparent. The result of the Mexican war, which enabled us to extend our possessions to the Pacific, and to hold the vast increase of our power and its positive influence upon European diplomacy—the rejec- tion of the Tripartite Treaty and the probable absorption of Cuba at an early day; the weak- ness and almost certain decline of Mexico, and the consequent extension of our territory in that direction ; the close intimacy of the cabi- nets of London and Paris, render it extremly probable that there is in contemplation a treaty between England and Spain, by which the latter power proposes to abolish slavery in the Island of Cuba. We leave out of view all discussion of the effect upon the human family of the proposed abolition of slavery in Cuba. Whether its burthens are to be removed or not by it— whether Cuba itself is to be thus benefitted in its general industry--whether the people of that island are or are not in favor of such a plan of gradual emancipation, to be worked out under the existing Spanish rule—all these things have little bearing upon the question, so far as it is viewed by the American people. It is with us a political and not an economical preb- lem. It isa crisis in our foreign relations, in which is presented a proposition having the concurrence, in our judgment, of all the great Powers to interfere directly with the instita- tion of slavery in the United States. It isin yain that England tells us that such a treaty has no reference to the question of sovereignty in Cuba; that it has no bearing upon the insti- tutions of the United States. They might az well block up the Gulf of Mexico, and in- ward for our produce, by railroads and canals through the plains and the lakes. They might as well demand the possession of our forts on the seaboard, or attempt to convince us of the utter folly of maintaining our navy, on the plea that neither the one nor the other will ever be ne- cessary in defence or aggression. The gradual emancipation of Cuban slaves, under the pro- tection of England, is substantially the con- quest of that island by her. By it Spain sur- renders her sovereignty as surely as if she had ceded the territory itself. The practical effect of such a step, if recognized and permitted by the American people, is not only to place the island in the hands of a hostile power, but ac- | tually to build up upon our Southern borders a government whose very office it will be to as- sail the institutions of the United States. This question is not one strictly connected with American slavery. That institution, re- cognized by the constitution, is regarded as a salient pomt; and it is to it that our enemies have directed their batteries. The object to be affected is this great fabric of freedom, the | government of the United States; and it is be- lieved that it can be done more effectually—- and in that way only—through slavery than in any other. To this end Sir Robert Peel jus- tified the indemnification of proprietors in Ja- maica, in the emancipation project of that island. The sacrifice thus, even of British in- terests, became necessary, in order to reach the American government. Granting that Lord Howden has advanced the project of emancipa- tion in Cuba, as he and his government hada right to do, and that the second part of the Jamaica drama is about being acted in the former island, what have we to interpose against it? We have long enough dealt in protests and pronunciamentos. What the American people have accomplished that has any value, has resulted from action, and not from wordy proclamations. The institution of slavery is the point of as- sault by the combined governments of Europe. It enters into the productions of this continent ; and say what we will, it sustains to a great ex- tent that superior system of labor whieh is found in the United States. There is a happy equiii- brium between the two classes of production— slave and free. The rice, cotton, sugar, and tobacco of the South, strange to say, balance the books between us and all the great powers of the East at each recurring commercial settle- ment, The productions of slavery on this con- tinent are necessary to en'‘arge the influenee of freedom, and to give force and power to this government. As other governments turn their batteries to it, so should we give it strength by euch practical measures as will insure its safety against assaults from abroad. While we are threatened, then, in the direotion of Cuba, let us open New Mexico and Southern California to slavery—take possession of, the Mesilla Val- ley—and thus pave the way for the introduc- tion of slavery into Mexico, as the only means of regenerating and redeeming that people. Banta Anne ip unguestiopably ip league with That Lord Howden may have in view a plan for the gradual abolition of slavery in Cuba we think quite possible. The question 1s one of | vast consequence to the United States; but ad- ditional importance attaches to it from the pe- cabinets of London and Paris on all questions | part of the United States for the acquisition of | the Quintuple Treaty, proposed by the great | rect view of throwing before the French people | absolute commercial dominion on that ocean; | form us that we can find an easy outlet north- | | England, France, and other European govern- | ments, to assail and weaken the gigantic powers | of the republic. Asa check to his movements, cut off from the Mexican tree one or two of its | decayed branches. This would oppose a practi- cal idea to the mere theory of philanthropists— it would be American conquest and improve- ment against the theorizing, temporizing. long- winded diplomacy of Europe. It would essen- tially and surely defeat Great Britain in all her movements upon Cuba. It would at onge put down fanaticism and free soilism in this coun- try, by putting into operation a principle with which they are at war. It would do away with all sectional strife, by openimg new fields for enterprise, and by extending the sphere of the republic, et the Cabinet at Washington, then, instead of buying up free soilers and fanatios, at once recommend, as a defensive measure against tho machinations of Lord Howden and his diplo- matic associates on the other side of the wader, the immediate extension of slavery into New | Mexico and southern California, Let them order | our forces under Gen. Garland to seize and appr®- | priate Mesilla Valley, and negotiate for it af- | terwards. We have already outstanding ac. | counts of great magnitude with Mexico. There | is the Garay grant, and a thousand other mat- | ters, to settle; and all this can be closed up in one negotiation. The government of Mexico, like that of Spain, is a practical nonentity. What they possess is only abone of contention between rival States seeking to appropriate their jewels as they fall from the casket. Cutting the Gordian Knot. * As will be seen from our telegraphic despatch from Washington, the administration has extri- cated itself from the dilemma in which the re cent disclosures had placed it, by dismissing Collector Bronson. Some complacent friend had doubtless telegraphed on the substance of our yesterday’s remarks on the subject; and, with an alacrity which does them credit, our suggestion has been acted upon. We put Marcy in, and we have now put Bronson out. Both moves will, we trust, prove ultimately benefi- cial to the country. Marcy’s tenure of power will show what must be expected from politicians who are ever ready to sacri- fice principle to faction, and honor to place ; Bronson’s dismissal will illustrate the impos- sibility of fusing honest men and traitors toge- ther, in the hope of forming a homogeneous | government. Marcy has now fairly joined issue with those who postpone petty party interests to the broad welfare of the country. He has entered boldly upon a campaign, in which he and his faction figure as the cham- pions of the narrow doctrines of an obsolete faction, and the deliberate foes of all who realize the world’s progress, and look to the substance, not the form, of political questions. The dismissal of Collector Bronson is ample | evidence of the temper of the present adminis- traticn. A government that cannot retain the alliance of an honest man, whose only fault was his high regard for principle, and his unflinch- ing fidelity to the Union, cannot pretend to either of these claims to esteem. Their previous course had afforded inferential evidence of the fact; the dismissal of Collector Bronson confirms those inferences, and stamps the character of the Cabinet in indelible letters. The Rubicon is crossed. | Itis perhaps superfluous to add that Judge Bronson is to be replaced by Mr. Heman J. Redfield, an old friend of Marcy’s, whose name was formerly mentioned in connection both with the Collectorship and the Post Office. Candidly, we rather like the boldness which | this appointment betokens. Having resolved upon a course, it is creditable to Marcy, Guthrie, and their friends to follow it out with nerve. It is treacherous, false to the people, un- | principled, unpatrioti¢, to be sure; but it is open and straightforward. If the | United States are to be governed by free | soilers and disunionists, the sooner the people | know it the better. It would have been more | consistent, however, to have dismissed Mr. O’Co- | nor at the same time; he. too, is clearly guilty | of the crime of hating treason, and loving the | Union. Why spare him? Did Marcy’s hand | falter? Was one victim enough to appease the | free soilers, still smarting under the lash? Or was the administration so appalled at their own audacity in dismissing Judge Bronson, that | their courage failed them, and they dared do no more than appoint Redfield? Appress or Wittiam H. Sewarp—A Feeter ror 1856—That arch-agitator of free soil aboli- | tionism, W. H. Seward, is beginning to cast | about him to discover, if possible, the lay of the | land and the programme for 1856. The annual | address which he delivered for the American Institute, at the Tabernacle, the other evening, shows that he is considerably perplexed, amid | the prevailing “ noise and confusion,” where to | begin, when to stop, and what to do. The address in question was delivered before | a society whose object is the promotion and ex- tension of the useful arts. Ina circuitous and te- dious round about track, the orator seems to have labored for the same object. And | of the two free soil Seward organs of this city— the greater and the lesser Ajax of Sewardism— one might suppose that there never was sucha mass of wisdom delivered to an ignorant world from the first publication of the Koran down to the present day. The most, however, that we can make of this address at the Tabernacle. is a mass of verbiage, embracing everything “in the heavens and in the earth, and in the waters under the earth,” and a good deal of stale chop logic besides. The World’s Fair at London, Gen. James Tallmadge and De Witt Clinton, Cresus. Dr. Johnson, Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, France and England, Russia, the consti- tution and the laws, the higher law and the abominations of slavery, the Emperor Nicholas, the elder Pitt and the younger Pitt, are all in- terwoven in an interminable rigmarole upon that national .independence which will flow from the blessings of a high tariff. The great idea of this learned political econo- mist in this sophomore harangue, appears to be a prohibitory tariff, which, by excluding all foreign manufactures, will bring all the fac- tories of Europe over to the United States, and thus, by furnishing a market to our farmers and planters at their own doors, will enable us to dispense with the shipping interest almost entirely. How, in the meantime, the expenses of the government are to be paid, the orator does not inform us; but we presume that it will be by direct tax upon the consumers of manufactures, in addition to the bounty which is to call these required monopolies into exist- ence. Master Seward has a very poor opinion of commerce, but a very high opinion of a prohi- bitory tariff. This high tariff, and the policy of interven- tion ig Buropenn pifnire, together with pome to judge of his effort from the applatise | ., saa, the Katydid Polka, and the Prima Donna Waits, important reforms in the {independent press and public morals of the country, and, above all, eternal hostility to slavery, make up tho pith and substance of the whole argument, but so diffused and diluted in verbiage that to get at these results is like sifting a cart load of chaff for a few kernels of grain. As far as it goes, however, we may take it for granted that this oration at the Tabernacle indicates the pro gramme of W. H. Seward for 1856, resting upon the two pillars of a prohibitory tariff and the abolition of slavery. And the whig party hay- ing been revived upon the principles and policy of Seward, perhaps, in 1856, we may see the revival of the old American system, combined with land reform, socialism, and the extinction of the peculiar inftitutions of the South. Who knows? Himam Kercuum anp His Loan Rieuts— The following impudent note was received, the other day, at this office — 31 Wait Srreer, ' . James Gonnoy Bexert, Ex. ; Shaaeees cars Sin—I address you as the proprietor of the Nuw York Hera Jn that paper of the 4th inst. is published what purports to be a report of the proceedings of a meeting of the ¥, convened to testify their respect for th® memor; ora late Chief Justice pth . of his report contains a notice of my remarks made at that meeting, in the following words ~~ “ Hiram Ketchum next took the floor, and made a long speech, He spoke particularly of the admiration he (Ketchum) felt for Daniel Webster, and seemed to think that the \ jogerd act of Judge Jones’ life was his visit to Marshtield to attend the funeral of the great statesman. He dwelt particularly upon the pecuniary circumstances of Judge Jones, and thought it fortunate that he ‘was poor. Barons Humboldt and Rothschild also formed a principal topic in Mr. Ketehum's speech.” am informed that one of the secretaries of the meet- ing called immediately after the appearance of that re- | ad and remonstrated with one of the editors of the HunALp against its extreme injustice in respect to my re- marks, Very much to my regret I see the same report is copied in the L Observer of the present month—a work extensively read by my professional brethren. This fact compels me to notice it. Herewith I send you a report of my remarks, made by that accomplished reporter Mr, Richard Sutton. So far as I can judge it is very accurate. 1 need not say to you that my legal rights have been violated ; but ] am not willing, unless compelled to do so, to resort to the courts of Jaw for redress. I think you cannot fail to see the propriety of publishing a true re- port of my speech, and publicly rebuking your reporter for a shameful violation of the duty resting upon every member of his profession, to report accurately. Your obedient servant, HIRAM KETCHUM. On referring to the subject alluded to above, we find that our reporter simply gave the heads or leading points of the speech pronounced on the occasion by Mr. Ketchum. As far as that went, the sketch was as accurate as need be. Our reporter, knowing the value of space in the Hzratp, deemed it better and wiser to make a brief report, than to inflict zpon the commu- nity the punishment of being compelled to read nearly two columns of verbiage and trash pro- nounced on the occasion. Our reporter, who is a capital one when speeches are worth report- ing, did his duty to our satisfaction, and, we have no doubt to the satisfaction of a long suf: fering community. The threat of Mr. Hiram Ketchum about resorting to the courts of law for redress, we cast back in his teeth with contempt. We are ready to meet him ‘before a jury when he pleases. Come on. JuLuEN’s Farewetp Concent took place last evening. The house was full; no seats could be had in the balcony, and very few down stairs. It was his forty-ninth conse- cutive night. Ne man but Jullien, we will ventuye te say, could have drawn forty nine large audiences together on consecutive nights to hear concerts. It is a triumph worth noticing. Not that we would, in any way or man- ner, be understood to endorse the somewhat pompous farewell address published over the bills of last evening, we don’t think Jullien has succeeded, or even tried “to promote the growing taste for the highest order of classical composition in this country.”” On the contrary, by far his most successful pieces have been those of a simple and fa- miliar order, such as his national quadrilles, his Prima Donna Wallz, his polkas. His symphonies from Beethoven and his selections from Mendelssohn were heard with de- light by a few; but they were by ro means the charm which drew the crowd to Castle Garden for Metropolitan Hall. As justly might Herr Konig elaim the honor of the forty- nine nights for his remarkable execution on the cornet a piston. Jullien’s success was mainly due to the spirit ard vigor with which his orchestra executed airs that we have been accustomed from youth to hear played in a feeble or commonplace style. It was the extraordinary fire he contrived to infuse into bis bané whieh gave then their reputation, It was of his “Yankee Doodle,” of his “ Hail Columbia,” of his ‘household’ melodies, that people spoke when they asked their friends, ‘‘ Haye you been to Jullien’s?”” There are those who call him afhumbug. That is to say, there are people who, having eyes, ree that when Jullien applauds Mme. Zerr with his white gloves, and when he throws his head back in an exstacy of rapture at Herr Konig’s tours de force, he does not do so from any genuine feelisg of delight, but in order to prompt his audience. So when he tells us that such or sucha piece was played with great applause before the Queen | vf England or the Prince Royal of Timbuctoo, these peo- | ple say that he does not really attach any importance to royal favor, having, in fact, snubbed her Majesty Queen Victoria on a very notable occasion, but that he used the form to catch those snobs among us who never like anything till it has received the stamp of European and aristocratic approval. Into all these questions we care not to enter. Jullien may or may not be a humbug; and it may or may not bea very horrible and very shosking thing to be a humbug. All that we undertake to say is, that his music was very delightful to listen to, and that we never returned home from any one of his concerts with anything like a feeling of disappointment, The rest concerns imoralists, not critics. Last night, for instance, it was impossible to listen to his overture to “Der Freichutz”’ without an intense sensation of enjoyment. It is so often rattled through by orchestras without any perception of its unearthly, and atthe same time its sympathetic strains, that it was quite like waking a new acquaintance to hear old Weber so truly,’so feelingly rendered. Of Meldelssohn, whom Jul. lien has exhausted on previous occasions, we had a sym- phony in A minor, also divinely played, and ano- ther from Beethoven, looming out from its surroundiug rivals in all the grandeur of its author's geuius, Still, a8 were the public favorites, and received the honor of an encore. The American Quadrille was given for the forty- first time; and as usual, the andience—with the excep ion of some half dozen Ul-bred fellows, who ought not to ave been there—heard “ Hail Columbia ”’ standing We rust it will always be 60. Such a tribute of res) i ightly due to the air which is understood to s music’s thrilling language, the love we feel for our coun- try. However trivial such outward forms may appear at a superficial glance, they have in reality a very intimate connection with the sentiment they symbolize. If it be ver our fate, as men, to stand side by side under arms, to defend our homes and our national honor from a foreign exemy, ‘Hail Columbia’ will fill the air ay we advance, It will then be well if the soul-stirring appeal of that no ble a'r have not been so hacknied, or used to such disre- spect, that it can still rouse the faintest and encourage the bravest hearts, For our part, we look back with pride to the share we have been enabled to take in doing hozor to our national air.¥ When we first suggested that it should be heard standing, we certainly did not expect to find the hint so premptly acted upon; and though the fact is entirely due to the good taste and proper appreciation of New York- ers, {t is still gratifying to us to reflect that the idea was first conveyed to them through the medium of the Heraw, Marine Affairs. Lance ARrivat or Esiarast Siies,—Tae following emi- grant ships arrived yesterday from Europe: — No. of passengers. Ship New York, from Liverpool, 400 ship Benj. Adams, do 620 Ship Metropolis, do 49 thip Henry Pratt, do 45 ship Wm. Nelson, do 476 Ship Progress, do 428 Ship Devonshire, do 560 Ship Western Empire do 690 Ship Siate Rights do 361 Bark Charlotte, Bremen... DOM ies ove eresisivesvovdeneee vevee 8779 One or two had rather long passages, and report ex- yeriencing very heavy weather. Mors DuaTus BY CHOLERA ON BOARD SurP.—The ship Ben- jamin Adams arrived this morning from Liverpool. Lost Afteen pamrengers by cholera since leaving port. Political Intelligence. SENATORIAL NOMINATIONS. The following are the nominations for State Senators, as far as they have been completed. In the course of a few days, the list will no doutst be full — Dis. Democratic. Whig. 1~Josbus R. Smith, hard—J- G. Floyd, soft, Edwin Rose. Soros Ss hace batd—W. MoM soft, .R. 8. Williams. 4—Thomas P. St Joba, hard. nT i, Whitney. George B. Sickles, hard. 1 WG, Gronery. R. D. Barnard. $—J. D. Watkin, 1W—George Niebols, ne IW, Parmele, 13—Marinus Fairchild, . Jas,0.Hopkins. LCEIW. Rorers, soft Li obinson: IER Bhow, ard—gb, Churchill, com. L.Geame You Show, hard—} 00m, 1 W—Peter 8. Dantu facto 19—John E. Hfmman, soft. +g. G Dorranc 20-8. C. Hitohcook- BF Bret 2i— Robert Lansing, hard. 42-4. C, Parker, hard—A. H. Hovey, soft, .Jas Monroe. 24—Nathan B d. tol, hard. 24—Francis E. Cornwell, soft. . Wm, Clark. 25—M. Ii. Lawrence, sot 2%6—F. C. Fi oJ. B. Williams. Erwin, hard—Oltver Allen, soft ..A.B Dickinson. 2—M. W. Kirby, hard—Justus Yale, soft. a . Benj. Field, ae S1—J. Hascall, Jr., hard—F, C, Brunck,soft, .Jas. O- Putnam. 2 oA. H. Walker. In addition to the above, the reform By, of this city have nominated in the Third district, rk B., Wheeler; and in the Fourth, Sanford L. Macomber. The abolition- ists in the Twenty-second district have put up Charles A. Wheaton, and in the Thirtieth, N. V. Hull. The temper ance men will run Bradford R. Wood, in the Eleventh, and Gardner Towne in the Twenty-first. The politicdl complexion of the next Pennsylvania Le- slature will be as follows :—Senate, eighteen democr: fourteen whige, one native; House, seventy democrats, twenty-six whigs, four natives—democratic majority, on joint,ballot, forty-three, Hon. Archie Dixon’s name has been withdrawn from pefore the Legislature of Kentucky, as a candidate for U. §. Senator, and the contest will now be between Jutlge Robertson and Goy, Crittenden. Great Mortality in Emigrant Ships. Among the arrivals at this port of emigrant ships during the past few weeks, a very large number of deaths have been reported. In one vessel, the Chas, Sprague, the unusually large number of forty-five persons died on the passage from Bremen; and in another, the Winches- ter, from Liverpool, the number of fatal cases amounted to no less than seventy-nine. The following is the number of cases at this port from September 9th up to the present time :— No of Pas- Arrived. _ Ships. Where from. sengers. Deaths. Sept. 9—Zurich....... Havre........ 358 2 2 800 35 $249 88 13800045 2 237 14 + 463 79 + ag 1 : py 30—Talleyrand, a i 20—Louisiana , 3 5 6 14—Orphan. 4 14—Marmion, a4 1 4 1 2 6 3 21—Benjamin 15 > Total.. 359 Although the captains, eir reports, with one excep- tion, merely mentioned the fact of such a number having died, it is pretty certain that the disease which carried them off was cholera, that fatal malady which is making such havo among the shipping in Eurepe. Several, no doubt, died by the common diseases, but that cholera ‘was raging on board many of the above-named vessels is beyond all question, from the fact that thirty-three per- sons who were landed at Quarantine were suffering from that epidemic. The sickness on the Benjamin Adams was decidedly cholera; and, in addition, the ship Sagada- hock, from Gottenburg, which arrived at Boston yester- day, 1eports the loss of seventy passengers by the same- disease. In reference to this matter, a committee of the Ameri- can Medica! Association has drawn up a memorial to Congress,urging the necessity of compelling all emigrant vestels to carry a surgeon, in which they say— The introduction of surgeons into all emigrant vessels would be the means of saving many lives, while the towns and cities where emigrants are landed would thus be largely protected against the smallpox, ship fever, and other fearful diseases, The voice of humanity is in fa- vor of such ameasure, whether we allude to the poor emigrant from abroad or the citizen at home. It is little Jess than murder to fill a ship with emigrants, and thus to foment dlepese and promote death. ‘The phesistan on hipboard would combat the disease every inch of the way across the ocean; and by strict attention, diet, medi- cine, and purification, would do much toward fitting the vessel to approach the healthy shores of the republic. No physician can desire such practice, and hence it is nothing but a conscientious sense of right and duty that will induce a member of the medical profession to live among such patients, at sea or on land. But this sense of duty everywhere prevails, and it is an honor to the calling and to human nature. There is also another rea- son why such vessels should have surgeons. It is this— by close and constant attention to the multitude of cases that oceur in crowded vessels, the physician would daily become more and more uainted with the best mode of successfully treating ship fever, and thus of saving hu- man life. How many niedical gentlemen have already been carried off by this disease! It is, therefore, vastly important that it should be seen in all its phases, and then, eventually, it eould and would be mastered, just - certainly as our physicians now cure the intermittent ever. Tuaskscrvise Day.—The Governors of the following pained States have appointed Thursday, the 24th of No- vember, to be observed asa day of public thanksgiving and praise :—Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Alabama. The Governor of Maine hasappointed Thursday, Novem- ber 27, to be observed as thanksgiving day. A lurge majority of the States will no doubt hold their annual thanksgiving on the 24th proximo. City Intelligence. MEeTING oF THE IRISH ConFEDERATES OF ’48.—Last night a meeting of members of the Irish clubs of "48, who are now resicent in this city, was held at the Grand Street House, when it was resolved that a committee of five members, consisting of Messra. Sherlock, McBride, E. P. Wall, Corry and Carpenter, be formed to draw up an ad. dress to be presented to John Mitchell at the earliest moment possible that he can be seen after his arrival in this city. It was further resolved that a committee of three should be appointed to communicate with the organizations in this city respecting the public demon- stration that it has been proposed to offer on his ex- pected arrival. The following resolution and preamble were likewise agreed to:— ‘Whereas, information having heen received of the escape from exile of our true and trusted chief, John Mitchell, who in daily expected to arrive in tl ‘and whereas we, the Friendly Club ‘of Trish Conf ‘of °43, who received from bis pure lips the first te of true ‘republicanism, claim. him as our deacher and glory. in being his disciples, being proud of him in his bondage as we are joyful at his cape; therefore, ed, in anticipation of his arrival, ments whereby we can renew to him for bis person and confidence in his pri: made in Ireland in 1543, Frers.—Thursday night a fire was discovered in the gro- cery store of Jas. Ladd, at the corner of First avenue and Seventh street, which completely destroyed the contents of the store. ‘Loss about $1,000, supposed to be insured. Aman, named Michael Doherty, was rescued from the fismes by two policemen, who rusked in and brought him out. He was afterwards arrested on suspicion of having set fire to the place. Early verterday morning a fire was discovered in the bakery of Phillip Harsch, No. 182 Varick street. The damage to the building was trifling, but the loss on the stock is estimated at $1,500. Insured in the Lorillard Insurance Company for $800. Uykyvown May Deap,—An unknown man, about 38 years of age, war found on Tuesday night by a policeman, lying in the street, aud taken to the New York Hospital, where he died on Thursday night. Coroner Hilton yew terday held an inquest upon the body, when Dr. Swift held © post mortem examination upon it, and stated that in his opinion death was caused by apoplexy, and the jury rendered a verdict to that effect. ‘Tlie deceased was five feet five inches in height, dark ccmplexion, dark kair and whiskers, and was dressed in a black alpaca sack cont, sky blue satinet pants, mixed tweed vest, black cloth cap, and bregan shoes, ‘It is thought that ie lived in the country, and was on his way to the ears when he was taken sick, RamRoap ACcIDENT.—Two beys, named James and Wil- liam Brecken, aged ‘respectively, ten and twelve years, were seriously injured on Thursday by being thrown from the platform of the Harlem train, according to the boys’ account, by the conductor, while it was in motion, A doetor was sent for, Dr. Colby, who dressed the wounds that they had received, and they were afterwards taken home to their residence, at the corner of Third avenue and Fortieth street, by a police officer. Sinccrar Acctpent.—Yesterday afternoon, an elderly man, named Wm. McCullen, was very severly and nearly fatally injured ina very simple manner. In going along the street he stepped upon an orange peel, and was im- mediately tripped up, with his heely in the air, and fell, striking his head against the curbstone, by which a very deep wound was made, so that he has been since delirious; in fact, Fo dangerous was the accident, that it came near costing him his life; as it is, he is in a critical state. Boys Ixsvnen.—Two boys, ten and twelve years of age, named Wn. and James Breeckan, were severely injure’ yesterday, at Harlem, by falling from the platform of & _ train of cars just then put in motion, They were attended by Dr. Colby, and afterwards sent to the residence of their parents, in Third avenue, near Fortieth street. pic1D¥.—A servant in the employ of ex-Recorder Tall- ig, residing in Thirty first street, near Filth avenue, committed mateide yesterda noon, by swallowing poison. The Coroner was notified, and will hold an inquest upon the body this morning. Mammen ny A Tarexmma Macure.—On Thursday last, a man named Gilbert D. Morning, while employed about a threshing machine, at Paterson, N. J., the toe of his left foot cut off the butt of the threshing cylinder, against which he fallen by the down of a platiorm en wh be was sigeding while the machine wae jn- motion. © make arrange- pledges of love e8 which we first The and ' ne Rene ord acre cece wl INVESTIGATION PENDING AGAINST MICHAER M’CO¥ AND JAMES DUFFY, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER. Befores usti TURD Day, At ten o’clock on Friday morning, the legaliav sstiz 4- tion was continued in the case of murder pending again#t MeCoy and Duffy, the two prisoners-now undbr arrest,atd charged with the perpetration of the crime, An addition- al excitement was yesterday manifested in the villsgeta consequence of a letter appearing & the Henauo, over the signature of the Rey. Mr. McCarthy, in which he alluded ‘to the tobacco chewing durtmg the holding of thei nvesti- gation, Now, asthe two ustices hobling the court are liberal consumers of the weed, it became the general im. pression among the villagers that the allusions thus made- were directed towards the presifing magistrates, intimated that somel egal steps will be takent n the mat. tert or a contempt of courts, The following is the evidence taken yesterday, which. exhibits some very remarks ble facts n reference to the conduct and statements made by the pr@oners mors their arrest: — TESWIMONY? John Solon sworn, says—I resttie Yn the vi of Ja- maica ; I was acqui oth Daibanne, og ; ‘was a niece to my wi T recognized the body ; she was between 14 and 15 years en informed by 3 Loew of age ; sol have Michael McCoy by sight previous to hf arrest ;( had @ conversation with the prisoner for to the finding of the and I conversed wi ichael McCoy on the Monday night after the finding of the bedy ; theraska Mr. Denton’s kitchen ; after a general mearch for the deceased through the m Mr. Gunther's to Denton’s, I stonped at Denton’s, and there saw a irl; after my return to Jamaica, and not finding ody, I went to the blacksmith’s shop at the depot;' there saw the mer James ; Tasked him if he met a girl on Sunday evening from Denton’s to Jamaica ; he said he did not ; said I, “you did, because McCoy told Mr. Hults that he’ (2teCoy) and Daily met girl on the road om Stmday eveni Mackrel’s, and that McCoy made the remark that she was a niece of Jo nm ;’ Duily, in reply, said he but on recollection he thought’ he ms it Bef not, but that he had no recollection of it ; I thought his con- duct suspicious ; I then left, which ended the converaa- tion ; Iasked McCoy on the night of the inquest, if he met thie git] (Catharine Quigley) on the road on Sunday night, and he replied that he did ; that was all the eon- yersation that passed between us ; [ then left ; I asked him but the one question. Cross examination—At the time I had the conversation with McCoy I do not know whether he had been examined before the coroner’s jury: I believe that McCoy knew that the body had been recognized as that of Catharine Quigley; Iwas at Mr. Denton’s on Monday between one and two o’clock; I did not see McCoy then; I saw him on the farm at work.’as I returned from Mr. Skidmore’s; my conversation with Dufly was between four and five o’clock on Monday afternoon. I asked Duffy if he meta, 1 that night on the road from Mr. Denton’s to Jamaica; made no remark about the girl being missing; I don’¢ know if Duffy knew the girl was missing; Mr. Hults told me that McCoy had raid that he and Duify had passed = girlon {he road on Sunday night, between Denton’s and facktel’s house, and that he (McCoy) said as they passed, she was @ niece of John Solon; she was going towards Jamaica, and that was the reason why I asked Dufly the nestion; I did not state the conversation I had with ly before the coroner's jury, because I was not asked about it; I told Mr. W. S. Smith respecting the conversa- tion between myself and Duffy; I don’t know whether MoCoy was acquainted with the deceased. George C. McKee sworn, says—I reside at Jamaica; I know the prisoners; on Friday the ith inst. there were several of us together, anc my presence McCoy was asked where he had passed the girl on the road; we were standing near the barn at the time; he replied that he passed her just up the road there; we asked him to go with us and show where abouts; he went with us and point~ ed out the place; it was at the bend in the road,about see venty five or one hundred yards south of the pond; he said she was on the west side of the road and he was about the middle of the wagon track; she was towards Jamaica, and he was going the same way; I don’t think he men- tioned the name of any person, but expressed himself “We ere satis along here,”’ allu te the spot where he passed the girl; he did not state what time in the eve- ning {t was; the conversation was in reference to the San- evening; not speak to her; nothing was said an to whether he knew her; MoCoy then returned to is work. Crogs examination—John L. Denton was with us at the time; Mr. Denton told McCoy to go with us to point out the spot, and Mr. Denton came along also; there were . gent i B Holland, B. Hendrickson, H. 8. Hover, and O- . Lincoln. Lorenzo Hults recalled and examined by the prosecu- tion—I know the prisoner McCoy; on Monday, the 10th inst., between 1 and 2o’clock in the afternoon, I had ® conversation with him in Mr. Denton’s field; I asked him if he was about that part of Mr. Denton’s premises where Ifound him at work, on the Sunday night in question; this field in which we were, is nearly south of Mr. Skid: more’s house, a distance of some sixty rods southerly from the road; it was the third field from the road; he re- plied he was not; I then told him that a girl was missing, and stated that she had been at Mr. Skidmore’s, and they told me she left there at about half-past five; McCoy then informed me that on the Sunday evening,’ the day be- fore, that he, in company with another young ma: was’ coming to Jamaica, and that they saw a gig] passed her between Br. Denton’s and Mr, Mackre when they passed her the young man asked was; he told him he thought it was Mr. Solon’s neice; I cannot say whether I made any inquiry of Mctay about the girl’s dress; I told McCoy that the girl had not been, home, and he expressed fear of her safety; he expressed himself that he was afraid something had happened to her; MeCoy said they did not speak to her. Ctoss-examination--I informed MeCoy that ing for the girl that was missing; did not say was; I told Mr. Solon what McCoy informed me; Solon sooa after my interview with McCoy; I don’t recol- lect that McCoy mentioned the name of ile youug man who was with him when they passed the girl; I don’t think I asked him the name; the same day 1 learned the name of the young man, but from whom I cannot tell; I know it was not frem McCoy; the field in which I saw Me- Coy was east of the footpath leading from Skidmore’s to ee Black Stump road. nthia Potter, (a very pretty young lady.) was next called and affirmed—Sai ‘ i Firestte ane ino ate Stump road, town of Flushing; I was at the residence of Mr. John L. Denton on Monday, the 10th day of October; I left there at half-past six o'clock; the body of deceased waa thep found; on my way home { proceeded along the foot- path which leads towards Mr. Skidmore’s house; I was accompanied by Mr. Denton’s son John, and Michael McCoy, Mr. Denton’s man; McCoy said that he passed Catharine Quigley on Sunday evening, at half-past six o'clock, below Mr. Mackrel’s. Question by Mr. Hadden—In speaking of that locality, does the expression below, indicate to the north or south of Macarel’s? Objected to by counsel for defence. The Court sustained the objection, as the question, in their opinion, was ealculated to draw forth merely the opinion of the witness. Question—Is Mr. Denton’s house generally spoken of as above or below Mr. Mackrell’s! Answer—It in # ot indiscriminstely; I should say Mr. Denton’s was aVove Mr. Mackrel’s; some of the neighbors call it up to Jamaica, and some down to Jamaica. Witness continued—McCoy said there was some one with him, he did not say who it was; he said he did not know her when he first saw her, but as he passed he did; he asked me if 1 supposed slfe might have been run over; I told him that people were liable to accidents, but in this case if she bad been run over she would not have been fecreted in the pond; MeCoy made n>reply to my remarks; there were no other remarks made by McCoy. Cross-examination—I had been to Jamaica on that af- ternoon, and heard that the body had been found, before Tarrived at Mr. Denton’s; I was afraid to return home alone, and Mrs. Denton dirécted her son John and McCoy to go home with me; MeCoy called her Catharine, but her sirname he did not mention. Direct examination—Nothing farther was said by McCoy after my remarks, about running over, except that we were sorry, and the like; I had no further conversation with MoCoy: we were about half way across the Tots; my. conversation was directed to the boy, John Denton, ai McCoy replied, as T have already stated. At one o'clock @ recess was taken for dinner. AFT#R RECESS. Wmn,-Ryerson, being sworn, deposed—I reside in the village of Jamaica; on the Sunday evening in question Fv went up the Black stump road, and saw a wagon comit out of Mr. Denton’s, and another going in, as I passed; Mr. Roe was in the wagon going into Mr. Denton’e, and Mr. Spader was coming out; this was a little after six orelock on that evening; T'was going north, right up the hill; after I errived on the hill I saw a person nortl of me, coming towards Jamaica; it was a female; I met her between the two hills, and passed her there; «be was on the east side of the road, and I was on the opposite side; I did not know her. Cross-examination.—On that afternoon I left my som-in- Jaw’s, in Jamaica, to go to George Robertson's, at Black - stump; it was about sundown when I got to Mr. Weeks’s corner; I way walking; {t took me about fiftesn minutes to walk to where I met the girl; I did not, to my know- ledge, meet avy wagon on the road between Weeks’s cor- ner and Mr. Denton’s house, nor any footman. The wagon» which came from Mr. Denton’s proceeded towards Jamai- ca: the wagon that went into Mr. Denton’s mast hare come from the north, because the person in the wagon iives at the north; from what Mr. Denton said, | believe: it was Mr. Roe; I ‘met no wagon north of Mr. Denton’s house; I first saw the girl when I raised the first hill from Denton’s house; T_ could see her plain; from where I first: saw her to where I turned off to the foot path I did not meet any wagon; I could have heard the round of a wagon, on the road, when I crossed the lots, if ithad been going at ten or twelve miles an heur; I did not hear the sound of a wagon; when I arrived at’ Mr. Robinson’s it must have been near seven o'clock; from Weeks’ corner in Jamaica to Mr. Skidmore’s at Blackstump, is about twoand a halj” miles, and from Mr. Skidmore’s to Mr. Robinson’s is about two miles; my crossing the lots shortened the distance- about a quarter of a mile; Lwas walking pretty fast; 1° did not notice how fast the gicl was walking; when I firat saw the girlon the road she could not have been over fifty yards from the footpath which crosses the lots; wher: I yased this girl [had a curious feeling come over me. F felt something, but I could not tell what it was; I have ao words to describe it; akind of shock came over me T passed this female; I am positive I met no one else on the road; 1 did not mention my feelings before I heard the death of the girl; I then told Mrs Van Sickland about it; the girl looked «hort to me, like one not full grown; the moon was shining at the time . Fdwaré Magher sworn, says—I reside st Mr. Denton’s; Tam about twenty-one years of age; I have lived with Mr. Denton about three months; I work on the farm; I slept at Mr. Denton’s on the Sunday before Inst: 1 ws on that evening about half-past six o’elock home, about the house, all of that day; T had not been away from home; 1 went to bed on that, evening before supper; I had no supper; slept over the kitehen; there in ek eutrance to go up to my room without going througlr the kitchen; Michael McCoy slept with me; { milked the cows on that evening: 1did not see McCoy ‘on that atter- noon until six 0’ an} I cannot say where he wan: if he had been at home I should have seen him; I haw McCoy watering the mules at six o'clock, and did not xe him ‘that nbtil he came home at night, about ten o'clock; I I bad been asleep before came nome t hoard MoCoy any it was tep o'clock; J ank pity