The New York Herald Newspaper, November 1, 1853, Page 2

aE ‘of the Collector. Singular as this may appear to you, it ‘ws the course which has uniformly beem pursued since tho foandation of the government. Weighers, measurers, guagers and inspectors have been appointed by the Col- lestor, with the approval of the Secretary; while clerks, porters, bargemen, laborers, and others, have been ap- pointed by the Collector alone. {t has not only been so ‘ander all former Secretaries of the Treasury, but during your own time. All uy clerka, porters, cartmen, labor ens, &o., have been appointed without consulting you in ‘any form; and you never intimated « doubt about the propristy of this course until you deemed it expedient to interfere in the local politics of New York Stil you insist that the clerks and other ageats of the Collector “ derive their appolnunent and their authority as public officers from the Secretary of the Treasury slows.” The reason you assign for this new and extrava- eat olaim will snow that it is wholly without any legal foundation. You place it upon the Constitution of the ‘United States, which provides that ‘Congress may, by faw, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as ‘they may think proper—ia the heads of Departments." You then add, that ‘Congress has not attempted, nor if it had, oould it hav- effected, any modification of this pro- vision of the ecustitution.”” And hence you conclude that the appoin'ment is in the Secretary. It is readily granted that Congres has not, and cannot, modify the constitution. But still your argument ameuats to no more than this—because Congress may by law, vest the ap poimtment of ceriain oflicers in the Secretary of the Treasury, and Cougress has not modidpd this constitu- tional provision, tuerefore the Secretary has the power of sppointment. In vtuer words—becuuse Congress may, if it pleases, confer « power on the Secretary, and Congress haa dome nothing on | ‘udject, therefore the Secretary as the power. is the law and the logic of your letter. Ihave thus far assumed that you are right in su ing that the clerk», pocters, laborers, &e., in the Uastom Bouse, are public wilicers within the meaning of the con- stitution in relation to appointments, But, in truth, they are mere agents of the Collector, to aid in the discharge of the duties which the law has imposed upon him. They are the hands by which he works and are no more officers im the sense of the constitution than are soliiers end sailors in the army and navy. They have never boon treated, or even montioned, by Congress as officers, appointed by the Collector or any one else; but only a+ persons employed by the Collector. [hazard nothing im saying that the claim which you Lave now set up has aot « shadow of foundation, either in the Inw of the land or in any former practice of the government. You speak of “‘unwarrantable assumptions,” and a “manifest spirit of insubordination” on my part, asa ground for the rem®val. But you have been wholly un- able to show that 1 assumed anything beyond my just eights, or that I was unwilling to act in obedience to ms. in all cases Jou eatherity todicect, Yon urust allow meta stereo sal tion in office does not necessarily prove info- ciority; and, between gentlemen, the relation of superior ‘and subordinate cc ulers uo right on the one to use int- pooner St aaa no duty on the other to You complain that the remarks in my former letter unpuge motives. Idid no more than state facts— which you have not attempted to coutrovert, and then said. ‘‘As to tie motive of this movement let others judge.” If your wotives have been impugned it is be enuse the facts themselves, and not any words of mine, oreate the impeachment. im your letter has amazod me more then what you sy ¢ my selecting free oilers for office. No man cam read wh«t wassaid in your first communication Suc without seeing that you called on me to appoint larger pertion of free soilers, or persons whe ned t the demoeratic party and followed Van Buren on the alavery question in 1848, than I had before done. You 4s] Of the party 4s being divided into ‘different sec- ”? and complained that my appointments had been | generally made from that portion of the party to which 1 | adhered. You was vet speaking of the recent division | at Syracuse, for 1 had made no nominations after that | ‘event You were speaking of the different sec tions as had existed ix the past. You kno: well that I adhered t: that caer of the rty whic had net the national +tandard im 1843; and no ‘ment, with resolutions nominating Mr. Clay for the Prest- @ friend, when Benton now asserts that he came as }, intending to bring them to Washington asco mach coma t Wee iit Ka testead. of, gotablish capital. These resolutions I defeated by oppos- | paper a 7 serood, ould ‘them in caucas, where! denounced Mr. Benton, and recommend as itor |, Benton says com im to Mage the sees of. getacnneat jn heme, ‘The beeen gel? Mes er He was A yy that if he remained ustil the Senate met om | thinking: of a as 08 ‘and pursuits. Saat tel tents Ttue'berion to | ogee of the State Circuit Court at the capital of his conduct. Im 1824 I pw from the peraan to ce ou oa es whom he had sold it the St. Louis Bnquirer organized & bony Le maid apc the ——- reptpe party in support of Gen. J , and carried the popular ‘lection of Laginlature, and proprie ot af vote of one district for him, in spite of Col. Benton, who | and slaves in that was devot came back to Missouri and made extraordinary efforts G Jackson and his measures, and did not hesita’ for Mr. Clay. It so happened that one of Mr. Clay’s half | to relinquish his secure advantages at home to engage brothers was the clerk cf one of the counties which gave | in business of editor at Washington, & majority for Gen. Jackson, an¢ by refusal to | All this is said by way of showing that such was the entire vote of the State was given to Mr. Clay, pular will ) nton was shrewd +nough to see that he would lose his seat in the Senate unless he could propitiate Gen. Jackson, and although he had been his bitter enemy, and unite: inan attempt upon his life, he became his servile pander and cringing parasite. * As the editor of the Telegraph, so far from permitting him to use my press to pufl and praise himself, as he was permitted \¢ do in the Gieve, when I became satisfied that the charges made against him by Bartonand Bates,of Mary - land, in the Senate of the U. S. were tr charges, and challenged contradiction, gi roborative facts, showing that his conduct ai tor and as Senator had b-en as dixgraceful if cine 9 nal as his conduct at Chapel Hill. He doubtless, believ- ed that J acted with the approbation, if not under the ad- vice «f Mr. Calhoun, and hence, instead of denying the charges and challenging the proof, he became Mr. Cal- houn’s bitter and relentless enemy, and now seeks to gratify bis personal malice, as well as his ambition, by a wilful, deliberate, and malicious falsification of the knowa and weil autbenticated truths. I proceed to prove this. I write without reference to memoranda, relying on my recollection of events, which seldom fails me. Limit- ed as lam both as to time sud space, a brief recurrence to the past ix necessary. I had sustained Gen. Jackson in 1824. I was then engaged in St. Louis in a lucrative professional career, which brought me to Washington in the winter of 1824-25. It so happened that I was a pas- senzer on the same boat with Gen, Jackson on the Ohio, and was earnestly entreated by him to remove to Wash- | ington and become the organ of his party. [ then de- clined, The reader must see, however, that, thus solici- ted, Lhad strooger claims upon his friendship when [ afterwards purchased the JZecgraph, and gare to him & support which contributed, a all admit, more than any other press, to build up bis popularity and influence. In the canvas of 1824, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Clay, Mr. Adams, and Gen. Jackson, were candidat Mr. Van Buren sustained Mr. Crawford, Mr. Benton sustained Mr. Clay. Mr. Calhoun was the the candidate for Vice President on both the Adams and the Jackson tickets, and took no part as between them, but it was well uu- derstood that all his influence was exerted against Mr. Crawford. Tu the vas of 1828 Mr. Calhoun was the candidate fer Vice President on the Jackson ticket, and, being at the,seat of government, exerted more influence than any other person in the organization and sucoess of the Mr. Van Buren wished to go to untl that mission had been giv: Jackson’s election was rendered certain, that he declared for Gen, Jackson. He then sent Mr. [amilton on a pil- grimnge to the Hermitage, who went with Gen. Jackson to New Orleans, and during that visit was told that Mr. Crawford had written to Mr. Balsh, of Nashville, that he and bis friends would sustain Jackson if he could be assured that Jackson’s election would not benefit Cal- houn. He also heard that Crawford had written to Bals that Calhoun, as a member of Monroe's Cabinet, ha advised Mr. Monroe to arrest Gen. Jackson for the inva- sion of Florida during the Seminole war. Hamilton deemed this information so important that he travelled all the way to Georgia, (and then there were no railroad: and such a journey was no small matter,) to see an consult Crawford. Yea, it was so important that Van Buren and Cambreleng made the same journey. Mr. Van Buren was appointed Secretary of State, but, being Governor of New York, he sent Mr. Hamilton to Washington as Secretary pro fem. The Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Ingraham, were known to be in Vax Bn- ren’s interest, and a combination, composed of influential office seekers favorable to his election as the successor of General Jackson at the end of his first term, was organ- ized. In one of their consultations Free Tom Meore, who was afterwards appointed Minister to Colombia, told them that he had known me at school, and that no influenee of money or patronsge could purchase my support. THe therefore advised that Kendall, who was then in Washing- ton under an ergagement with me as an assistant editor, = land, and it was not Van Buren, Keai pose. Tais wa: son’a inauguration. I immediately weat to General eckson, told him of the intrigue to make Van Buren his successor, and then proposed that he should select some one else to be his organ, telling him that, although I was one eam fail to sve that yeu intended I should give a larger share of the oftices to the free soil section and its al- | lies. Amd now you think st worthy of “animadversion’’ | that I have ‘selected tree avilers for ofice”” | rome orere under a quibble. Idid not inform | 1, a8 you now find it ecnvenient to state, thal I had | Irelected free sollers for office’’—meaning persons who | are now free soilers. Un the contrary, I spoke of appoint- | ing none but “sound democrats, alacerely attached to the seers ot the party, and firm supporters of the | cational adminisiration.’” ‘I spoke of ‘different sections’’ | of the Party, just as you had spoken of them; and told you, not that ‘free soilers,” but that ‘the free scil sic- tion” had got its full share of the offices. Your “ani- madversion” derives all ite force {rom misrepresenting the of your adversary. More be aid; but if in reviewing this branch of the subject, you can maintain your scifrespect, nothing | that Lean say would be likely to reach you. | Hat I trust, shown that the reasons which you | have are utterly worthless, it now remains to inquire st was the real grouad of oval. It was aot | antil after the recent break in the p: at Syracose thet | inst me. After thie | party had been resolved into its original elements, with. | out any agency of mine, and by means which I could net | rove—after I had been compelied to choose between | two sections, and had very naturally adhered to my old associations with the national democrats—after the | peper which professed, without rebule to spesk the sen | timents of the Cabinet had taken the side of the free #oil | weotion, and denounced as traitors those who adhered to | “ae which brought the administration into power—then it was that you first discovered that I had | aot been sullicieatly favorable to the free soil section. | Can any man of sense and cancer entertain a doubt con the motivs for your sotion? aot. You intenled to take goand i ‘oc e oat democrats, and throw the weight. of the imration into the opposite scale, The nen Bever swerved from the principles of ps but had stood fasi by the Union when it gtr ig gees were to be borne down by the strong arm ot past Sy | decause the Coll-ctor occupied a placeot some en”) 824 | the blow was to be ieniered the more signie — /Porance, king it fall on hita. You then wrote we’ cant by ma ter, and placed a copy in the hands ~~ #2 insulting let customs, who whispered it abovt Of an officer of tine | the pres# asa ineans of anp- — aul finally gave it tended the officer should = ying mo. Whether you in but 40 far as I have dence. so actia more than I can say; arned he still eojoys your confi And noy w* which yew wat was the nature party? “ . have made the nations) administration a | yy it was not a conflict between democrats and — of but between two sections of the demoeratic party. | -.0 Candidates for national offices were in the field; and | if the free soil section waa honest in proclaiming its con- | version to the principles of the Baltimore platform and | the toangural address, there were no national issues at | stake, It was purely a New York quarrel, involving | 4 of mere State policy, Insuch aquatrel amem- | ber of the Cabinet at Wasbington his taken sides, and | hes, in effect, told the democrats of this State whom they must select ‘for their local rulers, ani what should be | their policy tn relation to the cunals and other matters | of merely interest. Your denial on this es can | smount to nothing so long as the ‘acts remain unchanged. | Anide from the principle involve. the removal is a mat- ter of little moment. I shail leave the office at the close of this day with greater pleasure than I accepted it rix months ago. Bui 1 have been assailed without cause, and there has been a gross violation of the democratic doctrine which deaies to the feceral government the right te intermeddle with the purely internal affairs and licy of the States. For these reasons | have iberty to let your letter pass without some notice. Tam, respectfully yours, se ee) 8 GREENE C, BRONSON Hoo. Jamms Guianre, Seeretary of the Treasury. CURIOUS POLITICAL REMINISCENCES. General Duff Gree Reply to Col. Benton. A CARD TO THE PUBLIC. Col, Benton has published in the New York Evening Pod what purports to bean extract from his forthcoming book, which he calls history, giving the reason why Gen. Jackson established the Glo” newspaper. Thechief purpose of this extract is to charge upon Mr. Calhoun a eriminal ambition, and to weaken the force of wha’ have said, or may hereafter say, in his defence, by al loging that whilst | was to Gen. Jackson and to the pub Ue his confidential friend and organ, I was the active agent of & secret intrigue to organize an opposition to him and to his administra tion. Knowing Col. Benton, I was prepared to see a labored effort to gratify his malice and vindictive feelings by a deliberate misrepresentation of facts; but knowing him te bens artfalas he is malicious and wicked, I did not expect to see on the face of his publication proofs incon- trovertible of his reckless disregard of truth. If there be one erime which more than any other ¢e serves the execration of mankind, Ii is the wilful and de Kberate publication, as history, of what the writer knows to be untrae; and if such a crime can be rendered more heinous, it is when an eld man, himself upon the verge of the grave, has been permitted to occupy a seat in the Senate of the United States, forgetting the forbearance whioh, im pity for his widewed mother and erphan sis ‘ors, permitted him te escape the punishment due for his Mlemces, dares assume the pen of history that he may vith more effect assail the memory of the dead. Does the reader ask what is Col. Benton’s mo Te has @ sufficient motive. He aspires to the I’residency, sad, enoouraged by past euceose, seeks to gratify his ma lice and nerve his personal ambition by giving such coloring to past events ax will unite in his support the partisans of Gen. Jackson and Martin Van Baren. Know. ‘og that mo living person is so well qualified to speak of 1 events which it is his purpose to falsify, he seeks to ceak the force of my testimony by imputing to me con- ict 80 ¢ ishonorable. | Gest kaew Col Benton in St. Louia, in 1817, wher: or of the St, Louls Enquirer, be made himsel! | Cen, Clarke and th®. domingnt He was th oe and wn of Me. Clay £ the controversy to dhe Missoned conten veney, ant wr: the Dott a iii, < sone ' to nlace wo | y | flat | then the prin‘er to both houses of Congress, [ would give place to any person whom he mis ht select who would pay me the setual cost of my types and materials, without re- ference to my own porsonal services, and would return to Missouri and reeume my profession. General Jackson pledged himself to me that the patron- age of the government should not be used to promote Van Buren’s election, and declared that he shoald not remain in his Cabinet if he became a candidate. Asan earnest of bis sincerity, he declared that one of his first offi acts would be tocrder that the printing of the State Department should be done at my office, and Mr. Hamilton, under his instructions, did send me the print- ing. A few weeks after Mr. Van Buren came to Washington In Mr. Davis, who told me that he was to priat the laws, and was going to purchase a press and inaterials to yublish a paper. Iwent immediately to the State De yariment, and told Mr. Van uren what had pasred betweea General Jackson and myself, and that upon the iseue of the first number of Davis's paper ( would denounce him and his purpose. He endeavored to persuade me that the paper weald be an auxiliary. Failing to convince me of this the publication was aban- doned; but in the fallof that sear, and before the first meeting of Congress after General Jackson’s election, Yan Buren now inated for the next term inthe New York Courier and Enquirer. I have cause to believe that he t that nomina‘ion to be made. He endeavored t de me to let it past without comment. 1 oppo- r and that opposition led to the subsequent ren contre tetween Webb and myself. The temper manifested during the first session of that Congress satisiied Van Buren that he would not get tho noiination for that term. It was not until this trath was forced upon him that he and his partisans resolved eneral Jackson agaig in nomination, and shea = 1 te an OF tara te: with a view ® en dpen ruptam® ‘between vuckson apd Calhoun. Forsyth. *7, kuown partisan of Van | Buren, who W2* ifterwards rewarded with the State | ion that Calhon for the invasion of Florida. previously com- son's arr municated to General Jackson by Crawford, through | Balsh, of Nashville, General ‘Jachson hid then | refused to notice this charge, but he now made it of the hostile correspondence beca ic, he was persuaded that Cal- woun | to Benton's declaration that, in “ata Presidential levee, Tinvited « en a job printer in Washington, to call ‘i endeavored to engage his assistance ina revout General Jackson from becoming # can t 1 late for re-elevtion, and to bring forward Mr. Calhoun ia y on proceeded to say that I told Puncan rrespondence was then in priat, but its delayod until certain arrangements could »; that the democratic papers at the most pré i , and m ‘ats, but in the exclusive ap, placed in charge of them as know i editors; that as soon as these arrangements were com 0 Telegraph would startle the country with the of the diffic ‘kson and otive for it; aad that all the secured cue from the Telegraph, would in and cry out at the the storm would seem to be so universal, and thi ion against Mr. Van Buren would appear to 1, that even Gemeral Jackson's popularity wou uvable to save him. was invited to take part in the execution of this scheme, | and to take eharge of the Frankfort (Ky.) Argus; and | flattering inducements were beld out to encouraye him to in its columm and to the publiceye, the advocate and | supporter of General Jackson; but he knew what was to | happen, and quietly took his mearures to meet an | isable contingency.” | “He proeseds to ray that ‘in the summer of 1830 2 gen tleman in one of the public offices showed him (Jackson) a paper,—the Fraakfert (Ky ) Argus,— containing a power- ful and'spirited review of a nuliitication speoch in Con- grese:’’ and adde that the writer was Francis P’. Blair, and that he was therefere brought to Washington to os tablish the Aobe. It will be seen that Benton charges that! heda conver- sation with Puneancon im the winter of 150-31, and refers 1 mation as furnishing tre reason why Gen. Jackson brought Blair to Washington and yet he admits the in the summer of 180 ‘he knew what was to happen, and quietly took his messures to meet an inev- itable eontivgemey;"’ taus proving that (General Jackson, having in the sammer of 1850 resolve | to neanil Mr. Cul- houn, found it meeessary to establish the Glolz, and juietly’’ made his arramgonents wit Blair before the date of the alleged conversation with Duncanson. Can any one beHeve that pledged, as he was to me, efi- cient ae iny suppert ef him had been, General Jackson would have established the Glob if he could have reliet on the supporfof my press? His purpose wae to assail Mr, Calhoun, who had no fands to penwion presses, nor pa tronage te purehase mercenary support. My press had an extensive circniatien and great influence in the South, nnd the value of ita apport is demonstrated by the ad- mitted neces#ity for establishing another prese. 1 wax not only the organ of the aclininiatration, but of the par- ty, and as such bad the printing of the Departments and of both honses ef Congress. All must see that | was yarsonally deeply intereted in preventing any schism, which, by dividing the party, would embarrass Py, position an: jeopardive the patronage and profits which | t' en make the return, and an intrigue in the Legislature, the | necessity for establishing a new organ as to justify ‘Mr, Benton then proceeds to say, that Mr. Duacanson | rival candidate for the Presi- | ~ | feeling with which I shall be v« v and adds that the Z+l-graph “was still, (10 1930.) | na their service: and that General Jac! who visited the large cities and compelled the principal officehcliers to discontinue their subscriptions to my paper, many of them refusing to this day to pay the suns then due me, as facts which no falsification of the record can erase, believing that the im without stepping to think of tae hamb! in them evidence to vindicate Mr. Calhoun’s character | from the calamnies of his vindictive and malignant as- | whe sailant.- Men do not act without motives, and sn impar- | tial future must believe that mine were alixe honorable | to Mr, Calhoun and myself, im surrendering such “‘secure advan' the untried businers of editor at W: ;"’ intending to caston me the ter censure easier Pion the greater merit. Now, all who are liar with Blair's career know that he was the friend and confidant ef Mr. Clay—that he had been active in the controversy between the old and new courts and that bis appointments as clerk and President of the Commonwealth Bank were given him asa reward for partisan services; and that 4o far (rom be- ing a man of wealth, and having “secure advant his bank and{his court, were utterly and he pelessly —that he compromised with his creditors by paying a fe cents on the dollar, and lit begged his way to Wash- ington, where funds to establish his paper were advaneod by otbers, chietly by <flice holders, as « donation. So far from coming to Washington because he was 0 much de- voted to Gent ral Jacksou his measures that he might as editor of the Globe defend them against me, he came, s ofessing friendship for Mr. Calhoun and for me, avowed. ly seeking bread for himrelf and family, uot thon know- ing, as I verily believe, the duty to which he was called nor Co | believe that General Jackson then intended or ex- cted that he would assail me as he afterwaras did; for it waa not his interest to provoke the hostility of my ress, (and no one was wiser in his way than General Jackson,) and, therefore, long after he had established the Glolz, he sent his private secretary to me, and through him renewed his professions of friendship amd conii- deuce, After I had refused to visit him, altnoagh thus invited, he tendered me his hand, whith Irefased to take in the presence of his Cabinet and of both houses of Congrers, because, being convinced that he was exert ing his intiuence to establish and su:tain the Globe, which was then calumpiously assailing me, I was resolved that he and the world should know that’ there was one pres which he gould not purchase, and one editor whom he culd not intimidate, and therefore I bade him defiance, well knowing that I would, in consequence, lose the printing of Congress and of the Departments, then worth filty thousand dollars p r annum, It will therefore be seen that the pretended convergation with Duncanson is an ‘thought—the lie, with a circum- stance, introduced by of giving color to a deliberate falsehood. This will be more apparent as I proceed. Benton says that my plan was to place men well known to the people as democrats in charge of democratic pa- pers in prominent points in the States, and that I held Cut flattering inducements to Duncanson to take charge cf the Frankfort (Ky.) Argus. Now it is well known that Kendall was the oditor and proprietor of the Argus. We have scen that he was re- tained at Washington by the partisans of Van Buren, tg, to another, and Gen, | with a ralary of three thousand dellars per annum, with an understanding that if it became necessary he should establish a paper, Who can, therefore, beliove that he would permit me to place the Avgus in charge of son or apy one else? And, again, it is said that the editors thus to be employed were to have been persons ‘well known to the people as democrats. Who ever heard of Duncanson? He was thyn, and is now, an obscure in- dividual, without talents, education, friends cr influence to fit him for such a duty. Again, Benton says that I as- sured him that if he did not unite with me in assailing Geveral jackson, he would “lose the printing of the De- artments, and be sacrificed.’ Who can believe this? How was he to lose the printing and be sacriticed? I could not deprive him of the printing, and Gen. Jackson would not for such cause. ‘The statement ig a falsehood, palpable, deliberate amd wickod, on its fee; and itis with such stuff as this that Col. Benton assails Mr. Calhoun and me by calling it history. He quotes part of one of Mr, Calhoun’s leters, in which Mc. C. says that he, took no part for General’ Jackson against Mr. Adams in the ek ction of 1824, when Mr. Calhoun was sustained by the friends of both for the Vice Presidency, and applies it to the election of 1828, when, as he well knew, Mir Calhoun took a most active, decided and efficient part, in support of Jackson, hia purpose being to cbarge a criminal ambi- tion and insincerity and bad faith towards Gon. Jackson. This, again, is the lie circumstantial. The quotation is true, but ‘the date is false. The falsification of the date’ was necessary to make out the charge, and therefore it was wilfully and ¢oliberately inace. 0, alro, he proves that whilst General Jackson, Kendall, and Blair, were all prefessing confidence and friendship for me, they “quietly” made their arrangements to ¢s- tablish the (lobe, and by way of apology for their in: cerity and bad faith towards me, and of the calumnie which he and they have published against Mr. Calhoun and myself, he labor, by @ fabrication of dates and cir. warfare and conflict which divided and weakened the re publican party, and which occurred long afterwards, and was the consequence of the intriguea by which Mr. Yan Buren waselovated to the Presidency, ‘and to aid in which was the real purpose of establishing the Gute. Mir. Calhoun apd’ the legislature of ‘his State have committed the defence of his name and character to one who holds a much abler pen. Humble as I am I can ex. pect no one to vindicate my name and memory unless I protect myself. It has ever boen my desire te leave an untarnished reputation as the chief inheritance of my children, and hence I refer to the fact that although 1 i had the patronage of the Departments and of Congross Jeckson and Mr. Van Buren, when they resolved to as- of which I knew they could easily deprive me, Genera tail Mr. Calhoun, “quietly” made their arrangements to establish the Globe, and that J did sustain Mc. Calhoun, who had ne funda ‘to give and no patronage to Lestow, against General Jackson, Mr. Henton, Mr.’ Van Buren, and their corps of organized and pensioned presses, and without a murmur gave up the printing of the D:part- ments and of Congress rather than prostitute my pen to son employed agents rtial historian, oditor, will find DUEF GREEN. eee Judge Edmonds’ Reasons tor Not Being a Candidate at the Ensuing Election. New Yonx, Oct. 31, 1853. Deak Sir—As I have been a good deal blamed for net being a candidate at this election, I beg you to publisk in your columns the accompanying letter, as the best ex- tunity to make public, Yours, &c., . J. W. EDMONDS. J. G, Bawyerr, Esq. New Yous, Oct. 31, 1853, My Dear Sim—I have carefully deliberated om your re- marks in the interview between ns, in which you observed that you trusted that your nomination had not in‘erfered with any disposition on the part of the convention to no minate me, and expressed your willingness to withdraw in my favor if the convention were inclined to nominate me in your stead, and your conviction that in that event 1 could be elected. Before expressing to you the result at which I have arrived, allow me to convey to you, if I can, my sense of the kintness which prompted this offer on your part. It is no slight consolation to me, amid the difiiculties which have lately encircled me, to find one standing deservedly Wal in the profession, co willing in my behalf tomaks the sacrifice which you proffer. And it is the mere grateful to me because it induces me to hope th much will be the aby my vrethers of the profession on my return eimong them. But my opizion is not changed from what it wae when J gave it’ to you at the moment yeu made me that « end now, if you will allow it, | will detail more at large the reasons which inflnenced me then, and do now, to refure it. It was, cs T have been info: oncede? at the nomi ing conyentiona of both br of the democrati. rivate character aud my ju eputa, Beyoud mapeschment. , both conver tions agreed in rejecting me alone. while all the er judges, whore term of office expired th time mine does, have been renominated by one or the other of tae conventions. ow, it becomes important to inyuire why use it is reasonable to infer that the feelings which prevailed in those assemblages prevail also atroa! party, thet my tion were nlike in the eommunity, I can say notting of my own know- ledge, but only what has been told me. It is thus that I have learned that at both conventions, the objection to my spiritualism was strongly urge! alone, to be sure, but yet strongly : one of them publicly, though not mort at the other, where it was more concen ‘en. at the convention where you were nominated ft aesumed the form of a publi aaion, 60 that I could feel myself at liberty to it. I addressed a oarnestly—and in trenuously than 1 notice note to that Convention, ia which I intended to leave them, and did leave them, entirely at liberty to no roimate me if they thought it advisable; at tue same time [ assured thei tliat I should not complain if they dropped me. They did drcp me, and at the same time they nominated all the other judges of the same party, and admitted my fitvess for the ofice. Now, what is any rational mind to infer from these circwnstances / Why, simply, that the public prejudice against me is a0 strong that neither branch of the party te which I have Ween attached all my life dare put ine forward as a can- idate. Cannot every one see that the projudice aprings from iy religions belief, and that thus Ihave been pro- scribed for it and virtually denied the right of religious joyel. I could have had no inducement (0 such ap intrigue a4 Beaton imputes tome, 1 bad everything to fear apd nothicg te gain from it: Again, next to Gea- son, Mr. Calhoun was the most popular and in- fuientiel mezmber of the party. fidence and most sinccre friendship. enovgh to walt, hal no wish to Gen. Jackson, and he w taining the bormony dence of the nnited He was young to be a candidate in opposi deeply interested in main- and preserving the confi- ety. Je, therefore, did not assail General Jekgon, He acted on the defensive, Genera Jackson being the acseilant. It is preposterous, there- fore, to say that he or [ was enzagod in such an Intrigue ax Bepton alleges; whereas Benton himself saya that enh. Jackson ‘quietly’? mado his arrangements to en'ab- ligh the Glob long before I had seen or heard of the cor reepondence; and a reference to the publications, made at the time will prve that “s purpose of coming to Wash nounced ¢ by Kendall ina letter, ‘0 ia whi ored to persuade me that Blair was coming a6 ® od not as an-cuemy; and Benton } knew ch record, that Kendall, to induce ; ani not ‘ ro ¢ bee ‘ ranch hin ad Se and Thad his unlimited don- | thousands who t! wankind ? Why should J take office under such a state of public feeling’ My usefolness would he impaired, and my inde pondonee be destroyed, by doing so, T cannot consent to parchase the place at euch @ price. I cannot consent to herve my countrymen in nny ofticial position, until they shall be fully propared to award to nie,xnd to the tens of ink as I do, th enjoyment of religious profes-ion,”” which we our birthright. ‘Thon for, hear to complaints of the acsidce of this great principle which has been made. I hear, indeed, roany personal regrets at losing my vervices from the ench; bat no where do] hear any condemnation of the invasion of my right to religious freedom, with which the press, the poiptt, and now the political arena, have toomed. ‘Can Tfor a me nent suppore that my filling a high judicial position would be acceptable to a people in whose midst such things are allowed to exis.’ Amd if nut acceptable, seo how unhappy would be my position, Low wanting in that mutwal confidence without which the important duties of the place conlt pot properly be dixcharged—how fall it would be of trial aud didicalty— how unsatinfactorily to me and to others | nds, ftmnay not be. I cannot concent to such terme. Besides, 1 lave no desire for L have pot held it, in the past, for its en eo tence ant The nea Thy fini Le obsourity of the pract Welteve me that Thay of (ho office, but ouly Cor the cumstances, to throw upen us the responsibility for that | | shorer | steam blow; I ai porition of my motives which Ihave yet had an oppor: | fieetcin, which out constitution seeks to secure to ail | rous offer, y bright prejudice to which I 7h. EDMONDS. ‘ f Before Hon. Judge Ingersoll. Gor. 31.—The Uniled States wt. Thomas Colyer, John Fr Jas. , and Chas. Merrit, (Mr.’ Merrit has not appeared di the trial.] ‘TWELFTH The Court met at 12 o'clock, pursuant to adjournment. Philomel H. mined by be Mae mag 1 de- 501 mn the day she was burned, I met her on the North river, Tivoli, Upper Red Hook I was in the steamboat Mazeppa, of which 1 was Captain; I observed at the time sho was making about twenty-two revolutions; it was about a quarter past 10 o'clock; she my vessel, I shoul think, within two hundred feet; the Armenia was abreast of het: the Henry Clay was some twenty or thirty foot ahead of the Armenia, I thought; I think I have seen the Henry Clay make twenty-sevea turns of her wheel. Q. How far was she behind her time? A. Taking the ordi- nary time, I would meet her at Lower Red Hook; I waa behind my time, too; we were due at Malden at 10 o'clock; the distance between the two places is five or six miles; I was behird my time about fifteen minutes, e witness was not crosa-examined. John Squire, Jr., examined by Mr. McMahon—I am one of lhe firm of Wm. Radford & Co; Mr. Radford waa agent for the Henry Clay: Ihave etm the Inspector's certificate of that vessel, in the month of July, '62,it was in a frame in the Captain’s office, the ordinary place—on the right hand side fronting the ladies’ cabin. Q. Can you state how many pounds of steam she was allowed to carry by that certificate’ A. Thirty-five. ‘Addison W. Brown, examined by Mr. McMahon, do- posed—I live in Brooklyn, L. 1; I was om board the Henry Clay as passenger, the day of the fire; I was in the pilot house st the time the fire broke out; I had been in it the biggest part of the time coming from Newburg down; I timed the re- Yolutions of the wheels ofthe Henry Cley, on the passage down; they were twenty-two or twenty-two and a half, the highest time; I was in the pilot house when a person came up to say the vessel was on fire, Q. 1 mean the n who first came up? A. Yes, sir, I was; I did not ear the pilot make any such remark to that person as to ‘anind bis own business;”’ I was in a condition to hear it; I sat at the pilot house window. Q. What did the ilot do? A. He kept on his course; he told his assistant, r, Elnendorf, to go below and see what the matter was, Q, Who was thieref A. Mr. Hubbard, Mr Elmendorf, a lady and myself: I was introduced to the lady as Mrs. Elmendorf; I was standing close to the wheel house, on the upper deck, at the time the boat struck the shore; I was pri pete with about nine others; at the time I’ was precipitated £ heard the steam blow off; I could not aay that I heard the steam blow off before I was precipitated; I was busy etting my folks off; Isaw a number of buckets there; could not say if they were filled with water; I saw one boat there; Tsaw Mr. Hubbard at the water, shoving out boards, Cross-examined—Q, Why DAY. did you time the revolutions of the Clsy that day? A. Nothing particular; I had often fimed her before; 1 did not keep*any memorandum; I speak from memory; I counted her,at Haverstraw bay and at Stoney Point; there was nothing more than usual that day which induced me to count them; the second per- son who came to the pilot house to give the alarm, was Mr. Myers; he keeps @ hotel at Fishkill, 1 was not more than half a minute on board after the boat struck the shore; I was assisting my wife and daughter off; Iwas precipitated, with my wife and daughter, from where I was standing, down to the main deck; I jumped ashore, and then got my wife and daugh- ter ashore on planks. Mr. Wheaton said to the court, that it was ceded the ordinary duties of the engineer are to stay in the engine room, t the engine, obey the pilot’s signals, and watch its motions. Mr. Hall—And direct the firemen? Mr. Wheaton—Yer; and direct the firemen. Alexander Cunningham depose—I was on board the Henry Clay as passenger, the day she took fire; I was nitting from about fifteen to twenty feet from the ‘steam chimney when she took fire, on the starboard side of the oat, on the promenade deck; I think I was a little for- ward of the paddle boxes; 1 was very near abreast of the steam chimney; I was fitting ona settec, or some- thing of that description. Q. How was the place as to | comfort and heat? A. Where I was sitting was the oool- | est place I could find—right in a draught of air, and j sbaded from the san; it was pretty hot day; T got om shore; just before the vessel struck I a friend along | with tue; T walked aft, and he walked forward. Q. What did you say to the passengers Mr. Donning’ submitted that wha: tho witness said to | the passengers was not relevant. (Quostion not pressed.) | Witness—I got a beat and went out to assist the passengers; Captain Tallman came out with me | the second time ; we broaght the boat full of pas- | sengers every time; after the accond time I saw a | conple of gentlemen take Captain Talbnan down | to the railway cars; I saw Mr. Jessup in the water; | he wus all wet; I saw some buckets; saw Captain Tallman take them up and go down to where the flames were, and throw water down beside the steam chimney. (. Did | You see any beat on the apper deck’ A. 1 sam the boat ‘when it was in the water; I took particular notice of it. | _ Croas-examined by Mr. Dunning—I saw the boat when | I was in the water; it was on the promenide deck, on | the starboard tide; Trecollect looking at it when I'was standing in the water; I was pretty well aft whem the boat struck; I jumped {ato the water ani walked straight ashore; I walked along the promenade desk (starboard side) and then jumped off ; [ took off my coat and vest and jumped into the water; the first recollection I have of the steam blowing off is when J waa jumping off, (. Did you hear the steam blow off before you got on A. 1 was on the bow of the boat when I heard the positive of that, for I was surprised, at the time, that the er gineer could remain there so long to | blow off the steam; I was sitting aft the smoke pipe; Tse lected that place a8 cool; I was all over the boat that day re passengers usually go; I came on board at Newbu: Hazzard Moray examined ‘by Mr. McMahon—I got ou board the Henry Clay at Hudson, on the 27th of July—the day before she was burned, | Q. A=noss. named Wilkes, testified here that he saw t. Taliman on the deck at Jiudson, on the 27th of July. | Now, sir, was Capt, Tallman on deck when you went board at Hudson, on the 27th of July? A. No, sir. Q) Where was he ? The Girst tims 1 sav him Was about five minutes after ; he was in hisstate | room, wringing and twisting ; he was sick. | To Juror.—I do not know who was the commander ; | the only officer I saw was the bar-tender; he was assixt- ing passengers on deck. ‘To Mr. Dunning. —This was on the spatsage Up. Joseph Prarie, examined by Mr. Wheaton, deposed. —I live in New York; Lam a Canadian Frenchman; was on board the H. Clay the day she was burned; | was a fire- | man; J went on my watch at Poaghkeepsie; I remain ed on duty until she took fire; the fuel we used | on the boat that day was ‘Lackawanna coals ; no other kind of fuel atter I went on the watch ; there was xo more than usual, no extra, fire made that day; no more than the ordinary fire; | had no direction to | make more then theordinazy fire ; { received ne other di- rections more than usual,or different from those 1 received | on other daye; it was! who iret discovered the fire on | board the vessel; when I frst on the starboard : ship of the boiler; Imean the middle, speakin, boiler goos longthwayt (The model reproduced.) Wit- | neas describen where he first discovered the fire,and points it out to the jury. To the Judge,—In reference to the coal hole, it waa | near that. ‘To Mr. Wheaton.—The coal hole was covered with a | grating: I should think the opening between the bara of the grating was pretty nigh two inches—an inch and a | half, whon | rst «fscovered the fire it war a pretty good | Gre: i bad begun to flame; immediately before I disco- | yored the tire, 1 went down ‘to the fireroom and pat in shu: up the furnaces, started my blower and tried | the water: I had three cocks of water; we can do with one hree was very abundant; we had but three solid ono rising above the other; then I started to come w then L saw finme comealong, ts I before described; | thon I went back again down the leider I had got up the ladder about two steps when I first discovered the fire; I | then went back and halloed to Mr. Germain, the engineer, to hand me a bucket of water; he paseed me a bucket of | water, ana I threw if on the lire: then I passed the bucket | cp and called for another on took tlie second bucket and threw it on the jire again; in the fireroom there wer so much eicoke I could not stand it any longer; shen I saw Mr. Collyer coming down to the fireroom; when ted te come up Mr. Germain opened the steam cock, A. Kf there had been any fire : the boiler, it would have pnt it out; steam cock is ‘put there om purpoxe for Puising out fire there; afler | came up Mr. Ger main seked me if I wasn't scalded; I left Me. Germain | in theengine room; then I walked forward and went on | from the forward bow; before I wenton shore [ saw | e rest of the firemom and the deok hands throwing water arcund the chimney; a3 soon a4 the fire was dis y began to threw water, and continued till hed the shore; Erhould think that was about Q. You think it was about two'minutes # tor the fire was élicoverad you reached the shore? A. Yes, sir; there were about cight or nino of us throwing water ca the fire; after I came out of the fire room | Thad thrown about # couple of buckets before the boat | reached shore; was in tho fire room about ten or fifteen minutes before I discovered the fire; I had as goo! a chanee to discover the fire when Iwas going down as when | was comiug up; there way no fire there when I wat going down; ] am’ fireman for the Inst five yours; Ihave been two years firomon on board the Empire Cit; steamehip; ske used to rum at that time from New Yor! te Witnegs points on the model where tho as sitnated on which he came up whon ¢ fire.) Iwas ait the tire; Thad not dis- } coserca the sinoke when I started to come up; the dis- tance between the wood work and the boilor ranges from four feet to two and » half; a9 the boat was go- ing bead the smoke would be blown back immediately Into my fireroom; the back connection door was latched at that time, nid « wedgo on top of the Aatch; Lobsorved the steam guage about the time of the | accident; wo had seventeen pounds of team; | started for the shore after the vessel struck. . Did you at that time leave the engineer behind you in the fire room? A. Yer, #-i-r; after the vessel struck hie came up and struck tho ball and let off the steam, Toa Juror—At the time the fixe took place she bad seventeen pounds of steam. To Mr. Wheaton—I examined the boilers next morning } to see how much water was im them; there was three cocks of water in them; the boilers wore not thea under water. Cross examined by Mr. Dunning—The water hed not been up above the boiler; the water came np to the bottom of the be: ; there were four fremeon—fohn 4. Brooks, George Brooks, and anether navy ' on duty with 'n where he is now; he ws " Clcovéred the ‘fre ; 1 diseovere “e wpa noone ip the (re room with me; 1 Lad bow ten or fifteen minutes lore; before T went down 1 was up evol ing off; Conklin had come up to cook ot below T wont Gown, there was aything to taterrup! wy vi that | covered | thg by at ro: two minutes. | shore, some the’ bee hes I got on could see the lever when I was on shore; some of the water, some @: shoving plank x I got on shore as to ge me ; no part of the boilers wh the nearest portion of the wood is about one foot; it wi about two and a half to three feet from where I saw the flames; I had not been to the door of the back connec- tion after I left Albany until the fire. Q. You only know that the doors were fastened when you left Albany? A. Yes, sir, I did it myself; the boilers rest on iron, cast iron; when I came outof the fireroom Mr. Gera ain was in the fireroom;I could see him from the portion of the deck where I wae; afterwards I saw him on the deck, when he threw the ball off the safety valve; I was at that time on shore. Q. How far were you gone on shore? A. Well, I wasn’t gone two miles; I was at the bow; Ican’t tell whether I was ten rods or twenty rode from'the bow; some passengers were on and some ‘off the boat; they’ were principally off the boat. Q. There was nothing to obstruct your vision? A. There was smokg, but I could see; some of the passengers had gone ahead of me; I had seen baggage thrown olf atthat time; 1 saw Mr. Germain neat whon be got an axe; there was means from the sngine room to raise the safety valve; that is what he done. Q. Didn't you say he went on the deck and raised the ball? A. Well, of course he raised the valve; he wert on the promenade deck ani raised the ball. Q. Was there a rope leading down to the ea gine room which would raise the safety valve? A. Yes, sir. To the Judge—Of course, he pulled a rope and blew off steam, but the burned the rope, the safety valve souls fall; and he then went on deck and threw off the ball. 3 To Mr. Dunning—I did not see the rope on fire. Q. You don’t kxow of your own knowledge that it was burned? A. No, sir; the engincer went on deck through the grating over the engine room; I should think he raised the grating and went up. Q. Did you see him raise the grating? Of course, I did; there is no ladder; I didn’t lift him up; he got up the best way he could; the grating is not much above his hend when he stood upin the eagino raom; it was not three feet; it was not more thana fvot; Isaw him come upthrough the hole; I saw him lift the grating and go up; it was a wouden grating; he then ‘twok the of the lever and I didn’t see him afterwards till he came on shore; at the time the fire took place she had 17 lbs. of steam. Q. Have you not stated that at the time she took fire she was canying 30 Ibs.? A. No, sir; I have never srorn 60, Q. At what time that day had she 30 Ibs. of steam? A. Whon I went on board at Poughkeepsie; since the fire Ihave been three months on board the Georgia; then I made a voyage on board the Humboldt to Havre; then wear bank to the Georgia, and remained there five months; then I went on board a propeller as second .on- gineer; thea on board the Hero, and got a subpcena for this trial about three weeks ago. (. What was the condition of the furnace doors bf thi ry Clay? A. Very tight; as tight as any I have seen on any vessel. Q Suppose spark came out, would there be anything to bring back to where you saw the fire! A. It is all open around, but a spark could not go as far as that. Q. You have never seen a spark go as far as that? A, Not when the furnace doors was shut. ‘To Mr. Wheaton—There was a rope to raise the safety valve and another to jerk it back. To the Judge—A portion of the flooring was not over the hull, but was on the guaré. To Mr. Wheaton—There were ne figures on the board of the gauge, but marks which the engineer and I under- stood. wo person not acquainted with it could not under- stan To Mr. Dunoing—A stranger could not tel the number of, pounds on the gauge without taking a rule and mea- suring it; there were no figures on it. Q. Then if J, or any other stranger, looked at it, we could not tell by those marks what steam you wero car- rying? A. No, sir. To Mr. Wheaton—On the front of the engine there was asilvor plate; there was a patent gauge in froat of the epgive which I ¢ id not understand. ‘o Mr. Dunning.—A man would have to go inte the en- gine room to see it. To the Judge.—Any one who understands reading and writing could tell the number of pounds by the pateat uy eto Mr. Wheaton.—I do not read or write; I examined pis doors the next day and found them still fas tened. ‘The Judge.—What did you do with the ashes? Did you throw them out? A. No sir, they remained in the ash pit. To Mr. Jordan.—Mr. Coll; er did not give any directions that day about the fire. Mr. Belknap was recalled, and explained certain por- liens of the model te the Judge and jury—The rests oo which the boilers stand are cast iron; there are abot eight or ten inches of water under the boiler, between it and the flue; the irop pieces under the boiler wore open work, so that the air could circulate, To Mr. Betts—In this case the safety valve had in it thirty-two square inches; the whole length of the lever was iity-five inches, ard the fulcrum was five and a half inches, and the ball or weight was one hundred pounds; therefore, the valve would raise at a pressore cf thirty or thirty-one pounds of steam to the square inch; multi. plying the weight by the ratio between the fulcrum and the whole length of lever, and divide the product by the number of square izchos in the valve, and the qnotient ill be the pumber of pounls of steam to the x,0re inch. Juror—With twenty pounds shé would blow one- i ird of two hundred; this safety valve was raised by a block and fall, made fast on the upper deck with a rope rupning down to tho engine room, To Mr. Jordau—With ten to fifteen pounds on pressure it would blow off at one-thirty-third of one hunired of ten pounds, and on thirty third of one hundred and fifty of fitteen pounds. Mr. Prarie recalled said—We blew off steam that day. . Mr. Belknap to Mr. Dunning—The boilers werg twenty- one feet in length. Mr. Wheaton, addressing the Court, said—t velievs, sir, we rest our case for the defence here. RESUT! TRSTIMONY, James W. Simonton, examined by Mr, J. . Hall, de- poscd—I reside at Washington at present; in the month of Joly, 1552, I resided in this city; my oc cupation then assistant editor of | the New York Dutly Tines. Q. Were you present at the Astor House on July, 1952, in reference to the answer to Mr McMalon, Newburg and Cozvens’ Dock E calamity of the Henry Clay’ A.-J saw Mr. Ridder there, or, Tshouldsay, a genti¢man made a speech there who was roprescnted as Mr. Ri¢ Q—Did you hear Me, Ridder make these ren bstance? Mr. Hall was about to r objected. Witness—I thi ad them, when Mr. Wheaton n remember the substance of the I thiuk I remember, first, bis was on board, and hi ertions in resou passeng resoued his own danghte: pra! other he made some gsmoral remarks on the occasion, and clozed with a more full stater ‘tions to the contact of the officers on boar J on Ler ee Mr. Jorcan.—Tell us what he sai Witness —It would be impossible for me to tell now what any map sai? at that time, woless the pature ef bis remarks was very extiaordinary Q Did ke oxpross any opinion as to the ewase of the Bre? A. Yes, air. Q. What did he ascribe the cause of the fire to? A. Toon unnecessary ficing up—mahivg the Qre hot- ter than was necessary; | intend to be understood to say that that was the substance of his remarks on that point; ho said, in substance, that tho officers were remonstrated with for racing the beat, and for taking those undue im proper meens to whieh he ferred. Q. Did he say any thing ao to the bucketa A. Yes; that str me at the time—that here wore no fire on board to extin- | gulnb the flames; that wh he said im substance. Mr. Hall—May it please your Ionov, | propose to put this queetion to itweee. If read for it Ridder that t, ond aeled him if it waa cor war direotiy the opposite of pore to ack this witeess if + what Mr. Rid ‘er said. B's ont ine trae winter Jan objected Hiall—Tne point at 2 observations ° ia whether the 7émes re- how can! get unless i gak the wi torrectly reported or not. 1 think I hi parageaph to the witmess, and ask thor it is correat. ‘To the Juége—i repor'ed a part of that meeting, but not Mr Ridder’s speech. Mr. Wheaton obj He supposed that Uhia wae ouly the memory of the witness; if he hada memoran- dain be could produce it. I. wae no saatter to them what wae io the Times or the Herat The Judgo—I don’t think the question is a proper one. If Lerr, | qould rather err on the pide of the defendants. If the wituess was the roporter, or made & memorandum, LT should be inclined to think he could refer to that me- morandum to refresh his recollection; but it appesrs to me he stands procinely any speotaler etood who went the: hear what took place. Witness-—1 do not y made no methorandem; tood to say that I norandum, and f ide of the defen , ond susteir Hali—Then, plosse your uoner, tani a. Groas-examined by yniaa. Trat@ccasion at the Astor House was a meoting, galled, | think, by advectiae- mont; J understood the meeting wat called ae an indig- nation meeting; | do not recollect that any man was threatened to be thrown out of the window as am apolo- gist of the officers of the Henry Glay; but I do recollect Jone with this sory of “Turm him out—Tarn hi outy’ this contsion | Gid not oceur inuncdiately after Me Ridder spoke. Q Do youknow who thet person was that tho cry wav reieed to turn him outy A, They were all strangers to me; I know it was not the man reported as Mr. Ridder, Q. Ifow ean you say that the person they cried turn out was net Mr. Ridder’ A. 1 recollect that Mr. Iidder dit got claim to be a prectical engineer, nnd the manebjected to expressly said that ne was a practical ineer; | saw the wa who made the spesch as Mr. Ridder distinctly in another part of (he room when the ory of * turn him cut” was made; thore were about 160° persons there; } though’ the meeting was very orderly; I cannot say whie- mpartial or not, as T wae not on board considered, with the exception of one : 1 sew no band raised to anv one; turn him out’! jast asa man mace sn opposition to a resolution; it seemed to be at that instance ; the man did make any speech; he be was not on board of the steamer, but that asa practical engincer. Q. Was thiy men about to wen Sho gy was raied to tum hi here was a ory of raid itn tata thatthe Clay ‘was a faster boat than the Aree she had — posterous to say tre resolution stated that I do not know who Mr. Maverick, one of the o' ed besides me; the person objected to about tar being used. Q. Them the cry was turn A. Voices or pa are sent here harmonious; then the cry came recollect that any one caught he was about speaking; I heard no threats him; I did not write out that part of the report pears in our paper, but I did take mintues of it; there another persona who opposed the resolution; he was & senger. Augustus Maverick, examined by Mr. Hall, do reside in this city; 1 am assistant editor in tl Times office; my occupation in July, 1852, was the same jd tee Lwas at mosting deverived bP plored inaom- on; I wrote out a portion of § meeting; in the Times an I wrote it out; it ls correctly reported, te the best of my belief. Mr. Hall qubmitted that he had a right to ask if Mr. Ridder made the remark ascribed to him in the report. Mr. Jordan—TI propose to ask how the witness made the report. He submitted that they had a right to croas- examine the witness om the instrument Itself before he is examined on that. He wanted to knew whether his port was phonographte or otherwise, and how much the bes sy was to be depended upon. he Court admitted the witness to refer to the regert, Q. Did Mr. Ridder give any causes of the calanity? A. Yes, sir, three. Q. What are they? A. First, for firing up tos dangerous extent; second, for continuing to rum the boat after remonstrances; and, third, t there were no fire buckets on board to'extinguish’ the flamer; my recollection is perfect om that; Mr. Ridder came te the stand bt the meeting afterwards and said he bad been te Yonkers Sav morning and proffered his testimony. (@b- jected to. Cross-examined by Mr, Wheatoa—His name was aa- nounced; the chairman, (Mr. Romaine,) announced that Mr. T. B. Ridder, of New York, would address the meet- ing; apart from thia paper, I could recollect what Mr. Ridder said; 1 read it after I was subpoenaed on Saturday last; I think he was a tall man: but a reporter hag some- thing else to do but remark the personnel of a apeaker, es- pecially if he is a pretty rapid speaker. Q How many speakers were there’ A. (Looking at the report,) there were seven speakers: five or #ix before Mr. Ridder; there is something ,of a half column of the two speeches ef Mr. Ridder; a third of a column of the frat, and twenty: or thirty lines of the second. Mr. Hall said he bad no more witnesses in court, but he would call witnesses in the morning to prove that some «fthe passengers were lost before the vossel came to the shore, and that some of them did nat die till they had reached New York. Mr. Wheaton replied that the det had conceded at the onset that some of the passengers died in comsequemee of the burning of the bost. Mr. Hall—Had other witnesses to corroborate the testi- mony of Mr. Maverick; jbut if that was admitted they could finish to day. Mr. Wheaton assented, and wished the testimony te be closed to day. Mr. Hall then called Jas. Cochran, who deposed—I am an engineer; I was on the wreck of the Henry Olay the day after she was destroyed; ! saw her boiler and her le- yer. (Mr. Jordan objected. Admitted.| Witness eem- tinwed—Tho weight was on the lever, but not properiy im its place; it was hanging om the nitch; that would its coming to its proper place; it was ‘hangin on nail; Mr. Germain cvincided with me that t was the position the weight was in. Mr. Germain, to witness—I came away that night; it was so the next morning. Mr. Hall—I will call witnesses to another point, unless it is conceded. The defence have said they pulled off the boards, and went to the rescue of the passengers. I will call the people of the neighborhood to prove that theg acted so to rescue the ngers. Mr. Wheaton—We will concede that if you admit tae officers did so also, This was admitted, and the testimony closed on bets sides. The case was then adjourned to Tuesday morning, wi the evidence will be summed up on the part of the defendants. Z if itt 4 iit it 3 Crystal Palace. SERMON OF THE REV. H. W. BELLOWS. A very large audience assembled last Sunday evening at the Chureh of the Messiah, in Broadway, to hear the Rev. Dr. Bellows upon the “Moral Significance of the Crystal Palace.’’ The reverend divine took for his text the following words, from the twenty-first chapter of Revelations, 10th, llth, 18th, 24th, 26th and 27th verses:— 10. And he earried me away in the spizit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, Seecendi se cue of Heaven from 11. Having the glory of and her light was like ante 8 stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear ae crystal. 18. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper; and the eity was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 24. And the nations of them which are saved shail walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth de bring thetr glory and honor into it. ie gates ef it shall not be shut at all by day. ergs in nowise enter into it any These words are symbolic of the present time, The New Jerusalem Is fast approaching us. Our New Jorusa- sera is decorated by all that comes from the mines of earth or the treasures of kings, There ix no temple im it, for it is alla temple. It is full of the works of all nations nd governments, for kings and rulers all contribate te it, and behold the tabernacle of God iy with men. We should not translate the gospel too literally. While we look to a future world for our bliss and happiness; never- theless, this world is ope over wiish God presides, and im which tio Saviour first commenced his miaisrty.’ While weare in the flesh our iniluence in the Divine government is limited to the appearance of the world aroundus. We look to ree how much the world is doing to uaiversalise the goodness und happiness of the world. To save the world isto secure the happiness of all who shall enter into it. Iam led to these observations in reflecting upom that great exhibition now open in our city. Having beem a frequent visitor, | donet deem it even now tao lat em te look to its moral significance. I have beea struck the venderful indifference manifasted by our citizens to- wards that greateat collection of works ever displayed im the Western world. Ithink that huge temple of glass yonder teaches a creat moral !osson. Let us make an ex- @inination. Its first lesson is the union of man and man, ‘The fertility of the earth has been distinguished among the races of the globe, and the productions of any ome country are meagre in comparison with the wants and products of the world. This should not teach a sectional emulation. Jf any one flatters himsclf that Fremeh taste or Americam ingenuity ore transplantable instead of being only transportable, he ix very much mis- taken. What hope would China have if she wae not the exclusive tea producing country of the globo. Provi- dence haa divided he fertilities and products of the earth with a view of mating one in seme degree dependent upon theother. Tho poorest of all effects produced im observation of that which is beautiful is imitation. And, the American machinist, when he looks upom the Gobelin tapestry, desires not to weave better tapestry, but to make moze complete, more perfect machinery. Few things are so valuable as the experience of observa~ tion of the works of men. Providence is not so poor as te have only one type of man, or genius, or production, bat it seatters different wants and different production. "mat nations which buys and sells with ua is more valuable te us than that which surrenders its sovereignty to us, amd thus an honest commerce {s desired through an inter- nge of national feeling, and thos peace triumphs over war. A painful want of fratertal feeling botween the weticn of the earth is deleterious to the best interests of the globe, What is the opinion of a Frenchman towards an Englishman, and visa versa? This feeling is an evi- dence of ill cultare. Inthe second place let us look at the type of the union of man in natnre. The progress towards materialism i4 plainly indicated by this exhi- bition. Here is a direct betweon mind and matter. ‘The Palace i) but the show window of the workshopof the world. Through it we see what is to be sold fer our com- forts and Inxuries, increasing the materialiam of society. inle bles, delicious odora,gracetil dishes, water power, all tending to our happ! ieee comfort. And it might be asked, coes not thi toward the | tame effeminate luxury, and indolenes, an — which bas sunk nations before us’ i am sare the eyes of some would fll with tears at mae = and poets the appetites of men; and we | ought to «ympethize, to some exient, oae might sappose, with these thoughte that we are rushing towards Corrape tion and raip, and appercntly forgetting the simple road of life, by lavising the richness of this world upon the bedy. Jn answor to thie we should remember that the delicacies of the body centre in the soul, and the condi tion of tke uppetites affect the sensibilities of the mind. The mind in tte developement ae pace with the decen- cles ead usages ef civilized lige, © rude man spit ay the fivor, a carpet there, and he will think twice fore Redtoes tne Waleona aah again. If he whittles bie ead, make it of rovewood and satin, an’ he will hesitate betore be wees his jack-knife ft. Tuxuy is demo- ralizing only whon it is exclusive, In that case it le coupled with tyranny and oppression. Butin our coun- tay tuxury is didusive. Look et the Palace, and you wilt ace that those things are the finest which are the est. The Queen caunot use any better pine, or write ® Lotter quill, or ride on ® amoothor or grander railroad, or perhaps eat any better bread and butter, than the common housemaid. Then how diferent i¢ the luxury of this age to any which hax goue beioreit! Now the world are conmsuaners, and thee ore there is a demand for the whole world to be producer, The gokl watch isnot made for the prince or millionaire, but for the industrious an@ virtnous tradesman. The Crystal lalace itself is Drophe tho diflusion of luxury. It is not aehow for the idle ama the ourlous, but it iss crand world-wide advertisement. What a benefictor is the humblost inveator. Lenvy him who only rounded the eye of the needle, for the mother atiteher her children’s clothes, and by it Gnishew her labor and goes to bed half am hour earlier. folor, (I wish the young men of this city were here to n,) every idler iy a criminal and a clod upon tho so ‘field of the worki, Again, such an exhibition as ‘onde to link man to God. It awakens sentiments of piity, wonder, and appreciation of God's - ; and, farther, it suggests a grand idea of Ged’a for in thebend all things are from . ‘the marble, Le ere) the oppertunity and the invensor himself, are all of and from God himeelf. What can de more volike irom and than the ore and the sand? Amd who can doubt that the materials wore in- tepded fer str and tram oy, and God lefs it te the ipgenuity of man to find 1% out, Nature, vt teoagh and history, are: tg ion is — gt eal these avenues of trade chariot wl Gospel and end. What mean these t ne portner rel on towards its deatizy ‘these bands irom roa machinery, these wonderful im- ventions, but the fact that God is unfolding physically vhat he’ has done before morally? These new works {each the lesson of universal brotherhood. Ye vrethren, Christ shall come on the earth again. preaches his Gospel thr: “gh thee agencies to every Tomgue ant race, @ag Cod Tooks down Denigoanuly gpel