The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1854, Page 6

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. ‘The New York East Methodist Episcopal Conference. This becy reassembled in the Methodist church in ‘Washington street, at the usual hour on Friday morning. Bishop Ames oceupied the chair, and the seasion was opened with prayer by the Rev. F. W. Smith, of Port- ehester, N.Y The minutes of the previous day’s proceedings were read and approved, when the following candidates for the travelling ministry were presented and received on trial —Thomas Littlewood and Thomas Stephenson. The following candidates, who were admitted to @eacon’s orders the day previous, were personally ex- amined and addressed by the Bishop :—John L. Peck, William Wake, John W. Leeke, and Samuel F. Johnson. On wotion, 11 o'clock A. M., on Tuesday next, was fixed for the ordination, The elders are to be ordained at the same time, A letter was received and read from the Board of Mana- gers of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, requesting the re-appointment of Rev. John Morris Pease, as the Corresponding Secretary of that Society; whereupon the Conference directed the Bishop to respond to the request. On motion, Nicholas Orchard was continued on trial as a travelling greacher. James R. Glover was, at his own request, discontinued as a travelling er. Dr. Holdich was introduced to the Conference, and pre. ented his credentials as © delogate from the New York Conference. He also presented resolutions from that body in reference to the Wesleyan University at Middle. town, Connecticut, which were referred to the Committee on Education. Resolutions from the Troy Conference, on the subject of slavery, were presented by the Bishop, and, on motion, were referred to the Committee on Slavery. Dr. Kipper presented the circular of the Sabbath ®chool Union for 1854, which was referred to the Com- mittee on Sunday Schools. ‘The Committee on Temperance presented the follow: ing resolutions as their report, and the dopted :— Keeolved, That we are x necessity for and excellene jo Pline relative te the manufacture, sale and wi eating drinks, and we hereby renew our mutual pledges to total abstinence from ail intoxica‘ing Leverages, as well xe toa firm out gentle improvement of the Discipline upon the subject as Kesolved, That we consider the legalized or tolerative sale of intoxicating drinks an enormous moral, eocial and political wrong, sainet which we hold it to be the duty of every Christiano minister to exert whatever influence he mey poreese Kesolved, That the movement now in progress, looking te she entire ‘uppression of the liquor traffc, bas onz cordial Fywpsthy, and have our countenance and ing to the best of our judgment and abiliti nie! Curry, Ho Husted, and R. M Alatield, com mitt The Committee on Slavery then submitted the follow- ing resolutions as their report upon the subject — 1. Resolved, That we are as much as ever convinced of ‘she gr il of Eerey and for i at it isour duty prodently ay extirpation.” though out homes are remote from the actual fslavery, yet we cannot but feel that as ci we bave the greatest interest: in this question. of thi th Reeponsibiliti ‘3. That we vi t concern, rts now being pe subjeot with th deterinined ef. lo this great evil, where it d ade to exten: ot at present oxist, will lend to the worst of sonsoquen and will, therefore, both pray and labor that the evil m: 0 further t that a difference of opinion exists as neral rule would exclude from cur com those who buy, sell, or hold slaves for the sake of to whet! seuvion ‘im, we do concur with th y the Troy Confe “The buying or Ke in explanation of the resolutions and in favor of their adoption. Ret. Dr, Banas said that the responsibility and great- ners of the subject made it necessary to look at it with ealmness and candor, and inasmuch as discussion ‘Would be elicited, some time would be required to allow ‘an expression of sentiment. He therefore moved that the subject be made the order of the day on Montay morning next, at 10 o’clock, which was carried. Recommendations of loeal preachers were then pre- sented and acted upon, and the Conference adjourned. The name of Rev. Nicholas White was inadvertently emitted yesterday, in the list of superannuated or worn out preachers. Protestant miplscorey Convention In Phila- le 5 DEBATE ON THE ADMISSION OF ST. THOMAS’ (AFRICAN) CHURCH. {From the Philadelphia Bulletin, May 18.) The convention was called to order precis¢l e’clock this morning, by Bishop Potter. The following rule of the regulations was called up, according to notice given to the convention yesterday, for the purpose of having it repealed:— itis hereby declared that the African Church of St. omas is not entitled to send a clergyman or deputies to the convention, or to interfere with the general goy- ernment of the church, this condition being made in | eorsideration of the peewliar elreamstances of such ehureb, at present —Journal, June, 1843. No church in this diocess, in like peculiar cireamstan- ees with the African Chureb of St. Thomas, shall be en titled to send a clergyman or deputies to the Convention, or to interfere with the general government of the church. —Journal, 1842, p. 83. The Rey Mr. Sraceway had always been opposed to the admission of this church, bat he had changed his Views in reference to the matter. He thought its mem- would be benefitted morally and as Christians by {ting them to seats in this convention. He did not believe they had an indefensible right to seats on this pr, and he would not therefore make an appeal to the mpatiies of the convention in their behalf, but he thought they would te greatly benefitted, He could | lic good was to be served by ari ly at @ i. ‘from St. Thomas's Chursh, as the repeal of the §th section, was then read. Rey, Dr. Howe op, repeal of the article. He wld not see how those ed to St. Taomas's church would suffer by being exeladed. He was fearfal that if they were her representation, they would suffer more than at present. He could not conceive that this Giocest should ve inflcenced by the convention of New York The Rev. Mr. Deasiey advocated the repeal of the arti- nd thought when a church complied with all ‘ue tions of the convention, it should be permitted to Bave a representation. é De Hows Lge — Hy ied with all the requisites. vine, in Hare thought th gighth rate which excl ded the clergyman of the St. Thomas church, was opposed to the ecclesiastical spirit of thr Epixcopal chure’. He sait by this ven white cfrgymen of that church bad been excluded and disfranchised. He was sorry to say that such was the fact. He said complaints %ve mule here of the want of moral and mental culture of this‘degraded race. He believed it to be a mere outward degradation, and there seemed to be no way open for them—no road to emolument or to positioa—and therefore they had no ineentive to do good. St. Thomas’ does not ask to come among us on an equality, but as members of Christ's church, and if we them this favor, they would feel elevated, and we would be less likely to find them cast away in chara ter. Noone could deny but that the tendency of the eighth rule was to prevent the erection of other African churches. They would go to other denominations. Tae teend the Methodists admitted them into an ec He was therefore in favor of the hat the church had com al equality. kev. Dr. Hows stated that six laymen could not hare seats in the convention unless they had parochial con- nectione with their churches. The six laymen of Thomes had no such connection. He said that the char ter of St. Thomas’ Church forbid the admission of any white man into the church, or for any white man to represent them; but it was high treason to adopt rules here fer their exclusion. ‘The Rev. J. M. Doverass addressed the conrention in favor of the repeal. He referred to the primitive church to show that colored men were admitted upon a perfect ality, and also to the Declaration of Independence, ich declares: et —— = — free and equal. ‘They proceeded from the same Father, and would be re deceived in the same way. They were admitted to the “game orders in the church, and partook of the same sa- ‘erament. Why, then, should they be excluded from seats im this body? He be ped all would vote for the admission. Cries of ‘question’ were now raised from alt parts of ‘the house. ‘The Rey. Mr. Nrwron considered it to be bis duty advocate the question of right, in the sight of \ Gentlemen might make @tinctions, but when they «1 finiahed they would discover that the groun! ov wh they are excleded is merely because of their pecu! + jon, and because they were morally degraded. tHe Neve they would ever rise toam equality with here; but was that any reason that wi in our corporate capacity, ang thing ievate their position’ The ac ndition more dark and damn. ing. He coukl not look upon that revised regulation without feeling shame that he belonged to a chur maid to (bis down-trodden race— You cannot ou shall not rise while we can keep you down.”” ve no rest here until this question is settled, for th are mombers here who feel it to be thetrduty to agitate i wntis the questicn takes a different course from here Gxo, M. Wuaxron, Esq , said that he felt it necess to go back to the organiation of the church that a number of white men ied in t 1785, and organized our eccle: al organization, and none but white men were admitted. In 1795, no ques tion arose in reference to the construction of th guage specifying white men, The question was, how ‘wens the matter settled when the question came up! It eame up upon an application granting a dispensation a colored man, who claimed ordination, which wis ranted, but with a distinet understanding that ne: nor successor in office should ever be admit to ecats in this convention. This, theres. settled the right without controversy. The exclusion then rested upon the point of expe ni ani it had abo teen Fo rega stion 0 expedioncy was a fair ¢ iseagsion. fl» sail the Rev. Ir. Hare bad asked the question whe ter they would be willing te admit the mem ver he St. Thomas Chareh to a perfect social equality, but he was sorry ° thore should withhotd, that would be likely to tion here is making their 5 R th © bad not answered it. For his part, he woul! Yelily that he would not. Would Dr. Hare say the «au thing? PRR Dr. Haun—t decline to amswer, as it {s irrelevant to the eneston. Rey. Dr. SeTn—Woull Mr. Whe salt every white man on a footing of ling toa Mr. Whanrrc I would not, a ofe diency.”” Fe continued by saylag th the diatkrias unfit to legisiate for thems-lve< bere we allow them to tog: em ap be NGed to take Douglass w: + wae not in un © in the we adtoit them bi qu tion. The real familiarity, as whether it were not for the advant the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, to admit col churches to equal privileges with our own, and there- fore to seats by their representatives. ‘Their participa. taon in the proceedings would never injure the legisia- tion of the church. It would elevate the colorei mem- bers in their own esteem, and in every way advance them morally, religiously, and intellectually. It was now expedient to do what way inexpedient formerly. udge Stroup contended that the extracts which had been read from the records of the Chnrch of St. Thomas proved that the church in question was ipso facto in union with the church, and therefore with the convention. The question ‘was taken in the afternoon, and the motion to rescind the regulation was lost, there being a majority of nine churches against it. Among the clergy there was a majority of forty in favor of repealing the regulation, and admitting the negro representatives of St. Thomas’ church into the convention. 'To His Grace, Archbishop Haghes, My Lorp ARrcHBISHOP:— I beg a thousand pardons for not hastening to present, at an earlier day, my felicitations and congratulations on your safe return from the ! “Queen of the Antilles.” In truth, it was in my | heart to do so as soon as you had fairly set foot at Savannch, on our glorious American soil; but my many engagements prevented. Again I beg you to pardon this great dereliction, and impute it to irresistible necessity. oh bien, me voice enfin. And first of all, allow me to say that I am most happy to hear that your eminence has returned in good health. This is a great thing. Your many and most pressing duties and cares, in not only managing the arch-diocess of New York, but also the vast anxieties which the six other ar veesses and the thirty-two diocesses of our great country must occasion you—to say no- thing of your occasional interest in politics—are quite enough to crush any man. It is absolutely necessary for you to make a voyage from time to time, for the purpose of recruiting your health and increasing your energies for the mighty labors and conflicts in which you are involved in your attempts to recover for his Holiness the vast domain which the pestilent heresies of Protestantism have created, and up to this day still holds, on this mighty conti- nent of North America. As you have returned from a Spanish island, 1 take the liberty of most respectfully, and in true Hidalgo style, expressing to you my wishes that you may “live a thousand years.” Dearest Archbishop, you must indeed be a pru- dent man, after the model given by the ‘‘wise man” of the Bible, who says that “the pradent man fore- seeth the evil, and hideth himself.” A few yes ago, when hard pressed by that obscure and con- temptible antagonist, as yorr'Grace considered him —one Kirwan—you made a hegira to Halifax. And a few months ago,when you foresaw the storm which the visit of Monsignor Bedini was likely to create in our country, you suddenly found yourself unwell and made a second hegira—not to the bleak coast of Nova Scotia, (for it was in the winter,) but very properly you took the opposite direction, and went down to the ‘Sunny South,’ and landed on the shores of that island which, like a jewel, so adorns the brows of the Queen of Spain. It was not only prudent, but wise, in you to take that course, for it has enabled you to discover that the Cubans— niards, Creoles, and negroes—are not only an i. ligent, moral, and religious people, but also indus- trious, enterprising, well-governed and happy, under the sway of Isabella Il. of Spain. This is a great discovery, and I, for one, heartily thank you for making it. Let me beg your Grace to lose no time, ut enter at once on a mission through ur Stat beginning at Washington city— for the pose of convincing our filibusters a} no need of their putting themselves to h trouble, and the expenditure of so much pre- cious sympathy and valuable treasure, in behaif o! a peoplo who reaily do not need cither their pity or their help. Dearest Archbishop, I pray you to’ un- dertake this good enterprise without a momwnt's lelay, for the case is urgent. Now is the moment for you to render immense service to our country and humanity. But, mon cner, permit me. to say that 1 think it was hardly kind in you to fly from your post and abandon your venerable Italian friend, the Arci- bishop of Thebes, in the hour of need. Has any one told your Grace, since your return, what dvead- ful troubles the poor old amiable gentleman fel! into—how he came on in disguise from_his fare- well visit to President Pierce and his other good friends at Washington city—including those com- passionate Seuators who, out of the purest kindness, tried to vindicate his character and his name -io the city of New York, and took refuge, not in yur archiepiscopal palace, but in obscure lodgings in the upper part of the city, a few days before the steamship Atlantic sailed? Have you learned the great difficulty our worthy Mayor, Mr. Westervelt had in finding the Archbishop's place of conceal. ment, and the still greater difficulty he had in quiet- ing his most distressing fears—the cogitations of both about the pest moje ef escape—the refusal of Mr. Collector Redfleld to allow a revenue entter to be used to take Monsignor do: to Staten Island—the chartering of a stea tug to bear the august representative of his Holiness in ignominious flight trom the city of New York, down our noble bay’ Has any one, my Lord Archbishop, among the *‘faithful” in this city, told you all these things? We all felt much cone>rned for the honor of the Holy See, which was so sh ume- fully contemned in the person of the illustrious Bedini, the first Nuncio, or quasi-Nuncio, whom the Pope has ever deigned to send us. Really it w+ too bad that Father Gavazzi and other Italian e¢ x- iles shoutd have been so naughty as toexpose the con- dact of Monsignor, when acting as Legate of the Pope at Bologna. But you know howit is, dearest Archbishop, with us in this wonderful country. Our people are sadly deficient in respect to mer: official dignity and pretension, unsustained by ac- knowledged merit. Mast I do not see much yeast of their mending their manners in this particular. My dear ‘Archbishop, 1 feel constrained to say that during your lordship’s absence, that strange 0; - zation of extraordit patriots—the “ know-no- things”—has been making great progress among us. I fear that we have not seen tr eee more than the commencement of this great movement. It is sad to think that all this is owing to the grow- ing insolence of certain persons who claim to speak for “Holy Mother Church’’ in this America of ours. 1 pray you, good Archbishop, to look after the editor of your own “organ”—the F ceman's Jour nal—as well as the Shepherd the organ of the Bishop of St. the Va'ley, which is ouis, bears his im v matur (notwithstanding the assertion of Senator Mallory to the contrary). Still more : I pray you to have a@ sharp eye upon Mr. Orestes A. Brownson. These proselytes of Protestantism often become ten fold more the votaries of Romanism than those w have had the honor of converting them. If you do | not take care, these neophytes, Phaton-like, will dvive the car of Rome to destruction. I pray you to lose no time in getting the reins and whip out o their hands. They are quite too impradent. Only think of their folly in broaching openly, and even advocating, all the most monstrous doctrines which Rome held in the middle ages, and maintaining that she holds them still! These gentlemen are going quite too fast. They glory in the essential, innate, indestructible intolerance of the Roman Catho!!> Cherch. Only think of their astounding rashne: as far as the editors of the U; ultramontane Journal of Paris. ou, deavest Archbishop, to look after th men and several other editors of Roman Ca- ic papers among us. They are endangering the old ship, whose pilots they have undertaken to be. | Look well efter them. And lastly, I hope that your G may find time to read Gene ‘ass’s fong speech of Monday ction dae to Americans when ia foreign lands, in their rights of conselence, and of worship. I am greatly concerned for you, most illustrious Archbishop; the old soldier-statesman has annibilated the sophi guments of your “Letter to the Edi Ys Journal” in tion to the persecuti disi and other ‘Tuscan Bible readers, dissenters from the Church of Rome. I fear that speech of the “d: ig old | dotard,” as the editor of yor (if Ll remem- | ber aright,) had the cour him, has ‘used | up’ your lordship. If r Grace should think pe to make a reply (which I hope you will) to Ligan Senator, let me beg you to take eave; y that almost every tim , you say some indis tures on Romanism,’ ous “speech you put your pen t thing. t wore time of the ‘Parsons’ ” were as Pesta cone and there discussed, and to some extent denounced in a manner prejudicial to the sentiments an‘ char- acter of that humble individual, he begs leave to claim it as the privilege of a citizen to appeal from any denunciation, however it, or from any hasty judgment, even of that ed assembly —which ranks in his mind, and as he thinks ought to rank in the mind of the world, as the most ho- norable and dignified deliberative assembly on the earth—to the common sense and common justice of its individual members and of his fellow-citizens, without the slightest intention on his part to bias ieee Fa ents one way or the other. e undersigned begs leave to Say that it is his intention to reply, through the medium of the pub- lic press, to the great speech, so called, of the dis- Sianien Senator from Michigan—the Hon. Mr. Jags. Mr. Cass enumerates several cases which appeal directly to the most sacred feelings of the haman heart. He is, as ht naturally be expected in these particulars, on the side of human rights and human feelings. But the whole tone of his speech is calculated to leave the impression in the minds of his hearers when he spoke, and of his readers when he published, that the humble individual who has so unworthily been the occasion of a waste of precious public time, is opposed to the humane views of General Cass. This would be an inference unwarranted by truth, and against which the undersigaed begs leave to enter beforehand an humble but tirm protest. There is only one question connected with this great speech of the honoraple Senator from Michi- gan which has given the undersigied the slightest ain. This is, that in reading the Senator's speech it has occurred to the mind of this writer that General Casa, so deservedly honored by his country, and so highly esteemed, as well for his patriotic virtues as for reasons of private courtesy extended to the undersigned when the General was our dis- tinguished representative at Paris, may have imagined that certain expressions in the letter on which he animadverts may have been intended for peronal application to himself. 1 would beg leave to say now, that in the sacred presence of that conscience for which he has so elo- quently pleaded, I must assure him that when the letter was written, or before or since, it would be, and has been, and I trust ever will be, impossible for the undersigned to speak or write one syllable disparaging to the high character, honor, public or private integrity of General Cass. At the same time, as a mark of the confidence of the undersigned in Senator Cass’s impartial justice, and, indeed, in imitation of the General’s own ivee course in the great speech to which reference has already been made, the undersigned begs leave to say that as far as God, and nature, and history, and philosophy, and the rights of nations, and the ex- riencee of human life may have enabled him to judge, and furnished him with means for analyzin, the speech of our distinguished Senator, he ‘sh: lresged to your own claim the liberty of applying the teste rigidly, but most respectfully. The undersigned, in addition, begs leave to say that he hopes, notwithstanding his numerous » ffic’ engagements and duties, to be able to publish his re- marks on Gen. Cass’s speech within ten, or : « most fifteen, days from this date. The undersigned feels most deeply the @ sadvan- tages under which he must necessarily a) >car in venturing to review the dicta of so eminent a states- man as General Cass. General cass is regarded, and I have no doubt deservedly, by almost a mort of the American people, as one of our most trie id. most worthy statesmen. The undersigned, on the contrary, if he is known at allto any considerable peter of his countrymen, is known—as far as cer- in (newspapers distribute knowledge—only asa narrow minded, illiberal, bigoted adversary of the progress of our age and the development of our in- stitutions. Under these circumstances, no one can feel more deeply than the subscriber, the disadvantageous po- sition, the necessity of occupying which, the long meditated and deliberately arranged of 4 Cass has imposed upon him, if he would not be for- getful of a reasonable measure of respect for himself and for his Catholic fellow-countrymen. For nearly ayear and a half General Cass has been shedding the iiluminations of hie experienced intellect and the concentrated powers of his brooding mind on the letter which forms the staple of his great speech; and the undersigned hopes that he may be lowed ihe reasonable period already referred to for an op- portunity to reply in answer to General Cass, to tatements, insinuations, inuendoes, and inferences, which he fears may be found in the Senator's speech, or deduced from it, calculated to lower the under- ed in the good opinion of his fellow countrymen, ther Senators or private citizens, + Jon» Hugues, Archbishop of New York. New York, May 17, 1854, sig whe Our Weekly Summery. Rev. John M. Macauley will deliver the last of his lectures on Life, in the South Dutch Church, Fitth avenue, corner of Twenty-first street, this evening at half-past seven o'clock. The Rey. I. Brash, from Glasgow, Scotland, will preach in the Presbyterian church, Jane street, this morning and afternoon. All strangers in the lower wards of New York ave respectfully informed that the Protestant Episcopal church on'the corner of Clit! and Beekman streets, is open for divine service every Sunda; The Rev. Joseph Fargher, wife and child, arrived from Liverpool on «yeti in the ship Jacob A. Wertervelt. Mr, Pargher has come to take charge of the astorshin of the Primitive Methodist h, Bridge street, Brooklyn. RESIGNATION. The venerable Dr. Nichols, of the Stone church (Unitarian) in Portland, Me., has resigned his toral connection with that church and society, a' a connection of nearly fifty years. That society uss had but three pastors for the last one hundre thirty or forty years—Rey. Messrs. Smith, Deane, and Nichols. DEATH IN THE MINISTRY. Rev. James Thompson, D. D., pastor of the Uni- who thus enter them, must be answerable for the bg psec ee ra a oe out long card, in the West Chester bd claiming th papers, e same meeting roperty as those who have closed the Pag in It Ee ped iy piace e formally separated, both have made use of the old meeting house at Kennet as a place of worship. From present indications, Sunday next will be a pretty hotday with them, as there appears ye ar on both sides to ‘carry the war into ica. The number of churches in Gloucester, Mass., is eleven, and they are as follows:—-Congregational or- thodox, 3; Universalist, 3; Methodist, 2; Unitarian, 1; Baptist, 1; Roman Catholic, 1. Rev. Mr. Roberts, pastor of the First Congres- sional Church in Fairhaven, on Sunday last requested a dismissal. Mr, Roberts has for many years been connected with this church, and has n highly successful in his ministry. The installation of the Rev. R. C. Shimeall, as pas- tor of the Presbyterian Save in Monticello, N. Y., took place on the 11th inst. Atthe First Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, the ai inst., ane held a moby ag for e special purpose of joining in marriage Mr. Frode. rick Tolhurst and Miss Laura Carr, who have re- cently been appointed by-the Baptist Home Mis- sionary Society as missionaries to New Mexico, and who leave very'soon for the field of their labors. THE KNOW-NOTHING CASE. end Examtmation and Discharge of Messrs. Allen, Sieight, and Morse. Before Mr. Justice Osborne. SECOND DAY. The examination of the persons above named was con tinued at the Court of Sessions room on Friday—for the people, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Morton, for the defend- ants, Mr. Shaffer, Mr. Russel] and Mr. Roome. The Court came in at three o’clock. The room was filled with spectators, though the interest of the public n the cage did not seem to be so intense as it was yes- terday. Mr. Shaffer wished to say that he had no intention to make anything more than a pleasant allusion to Mr. Carr yesterday, as anexample that suspicion might ex- tend to any body. He thought this was necessary, be- cause he had heard that some of Mr. Carr’s friends did not understand the matter as well as he (the counsel) and Mr. Carr did. The statement, ‘‘he looks like a criminal because he has held an office’? should have read, ‘he looks amiable and smiling, like a criminal.” On Thursday the first witness for the prosecution was examined, and the charge of burglary was abandoned by the prosecution, and the charge of larceny was brought. Mr. Martin, called and sworn—Examined by Mr. Phil- lips. x of the policemen of the Sixth patrol Q. You are one district? A. I am Q. Were you charged with the execution of warrants against defendants? A. I was. Q. When did you execute that warrant? A. When I went, I inquired where Sleight was, and was told he was up stairs; he came out of his room and came down 5 I told him I was & police officer, and hada warrant for his arrest; told him he was charged with the crime of burglary, and he must consider himself unter arrest, and to come to Tombs next at eleven. Q. What time of the day or night was this? A. About bays ery ies past eight in the evening. Q. What day was it? A. The 10th. Q. Have you seen him since? A. Yes: at eleven next day; the officer told him to bring with hia all the docu- ments he had; he smiled, and said he would be there, and bring all the roperty he had. Q—(by hater) ‘as he to bring his drug store slong? ‘A.—(by Phillips)—No; he would * throw them the id Q. Did he come alone? Objected to and waived. Q. Did you hear anything said in the police office as to the production of the property? A. No. Q. Did you see any property ? A. No. Q. What did he say when you told him be was charged with burglary? A. He smiled and said nothing. Q. Did he say he knew the others? A. ie said he knew Allen and Eliictt. Q. Did you arrest any of the others? A. No. By Shefler—Then it scems you found Mr. Sleight a very politeman? A. Yes. ffer—l'll take that as a proof of good character. That’s all. Ue Eubright, called and sworn—Examined by Mr. ipa. Q. Were dryou live A. In Nassau street, No. 81, with Mr. Ferris. Q Asa servant? A. Yes. Q. What is your age? A. About twenty-one. Q. How long have you lived there? "A. About six months. Q. Do you know Mr. Elliot? A. Yes. Q. Had he an office at §1 Nassau street? on the fourth floor, room 19. Q. Do you recollect havin, from that room with a tru: Q When? A. Ona Sut o'clock. hog Q. On what Saturday night was it A. Last Saturday night A. He had, seen any persons coming A. Yes. yrday night abont twelve Q. Do you see the persons in court who were carrying away thé trunk? A. Ido not know. Q Lock around within this ring and seeif you recog- nise them, or either of them? A. The men may be there, but ] couldn't swear to them. ° Shaffer—Then all those beautiful gestures go for nothing? Phillips—I must protest against this course of proceed- | Shaffer—Yon have no right to use your hands in any | way when you ask such a question. Phillips—I have. 1am not to be bullied. (Laughter outside the bar.) , | Q Would you know the men if you were tosee them again? A. No. @., Were these men who took away that trunk oceu- pants gcing out of the rooms in that house? A. No. @. Had you ever seen scape A, No. Q.!Was Mr. Ellictt there atHthat time? A, No. &. How could they obtain an entrance to Mr. Elliott's office ? Mr. Shaffer objected, and the question was put thus:— Do you,know ‘how they obtained an entrance? A. The Jock was-broken. Q. Howslong did they remain in the office? A. When | they went'in Keatled Mr. Ferris. . In what part of the building was Mr. Ferris sleop- ing? A. On the same floor, in the rear building. . When you informed Mr. Ferris, what did he do? A. He got out of bed, and went down a flight of stairs. |. Had either of you a light? A. T had. j Had'he alight? A. He had not; he came as quick tarian cherch in Barre, Mass., died very suddenly on Sunday, the I4th inst. A few months since, the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Dr. Thomy sou over the church in Barre was celebrated wi appropriate services. The deceased leaves seve ’:! children, among whom is Rey. Dr. Thompson, of Salem. NEW CHURCHES. St. Stephens’ church, in Twenty-eighth street, be- tween Lexington and Third avenues, will be de li- cated this morning, commencing at 10 o’clock. A Presbyterian church was organized in Hope, Warren county, N. J., on We dnesday, 17th instant. The Rey. Dr. Wilson, of Hackettstown, preached bn sermon, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Riely and Jeeves. The Second Presbyterian church of Lancaster, aa Loos Nevin's,) was dedicated on Sunday last, 4th inst. The Edwards Congregational church at Chicago, Il, was dedicated on the 14th inst. A new church, for the Methodist German mis- sion, is now in the course of construction in Bal- timore. The ceremony of laying the corner stone of a new Remen Catholic chuich, to be erected at Canton, Md., took place on the 14th inst. For nearly a year workmen have been engage in the erection of a most substantial and handsome Catholic church at Doughoregan Manor, the wei known country seat of Charles Carroll, Esq., near Baltimore, Md., who projected the enterprise, and at his own expense caused its erection. ‘The corner stone of Christ Church edifice was laid in fiw on the 13th inst. Bishop Potter of- ficiated on the interesting occasion. The new and elegant structure erected by the Baptist denomination, on Court street, in Montgo- mery, Ala., was dedicated on the 7th inst. with the appropriate ceremonies. The new and handsome edifice erected by the First Associate Presbyterian church, Galway, Sara- toga county, N. Y., was opened for divine worship on the 18th ult. The First Presbyterian church of Yonkers will be dedicated to the worship of God on Wedaes- day, May 24. A new Presbyterian church, 60 feet front by 80 feet deep, is about to be erected in Norristown, Pa. near the new prison in that borough. The style of architecture will be Roman. The corner stone of the First Presbyterian church of the borough of Darby, P laid on Satar- day, 27th inst. Several distinguished clergymen will take part in the exercises on the occasion. The location of this church ison the Darby plankvoad, half way between Darby and Pasealvilie. dicated on Thursday, May 25. ‘The corner stone of the new church erecting by the Central sqnare Baptist So in East Boston, was Jaid on the 18th inst. with appropriate services. | MISCELLANEOUS. right has been obli r the present, and some time may + bed, if m Vesieyan church in Soath Eliot, N. H., / as he could. Q. Was'there any light burning in the hall below? en. Q. What kind of Loony od A. Candle, in a lamp. Q Was ita hanging lamp? A. Yes. Q. When Mr. Ferris came from his room and went A down one flight of stairs, where wefe the men with the | trunk? A. were on the eo below. Did he to them? A. Yes. $ What did he say? A. He told them to stop, and asked if Mr. Elliott wae there, and they said all was ht. What did the men then do? A. They went out of | the door and around Fulton street. Q. Can you describe the appearance of those men? A. I cannot; they were good looking men. Phillipsp—So are all these defendants. Q. Can't you give us something nesrer than that? @. Do you know how they were dressed? A. I do not; | I was seared. Mr. Phillips—I promised the court and counsel yester- day, I ‘would do my duty in this matter, not only to the le but to them and their cliente; we have failed to establish the identity of these defendants, at leart to my satisfaction. As such is the case, we «bandon the pro-e- cution. Mr. Shaffer—I am glad that my learned friea 1 has ar rived at the conclusion we anticipated ; some time since; we think, however, that we bave a right to demand the presence of this man Elliott, and that we havea right to cross-examine! him, and if possible make him say upon what au- thority or suspicion, or motive, hoe made this aflidavit inst three gentlemen who holt high positions in the community; we have a right to know what our accuser is. Perhaps it is of no consequence what he.was—why he left Rhode Island, or certain transactions in the city” of New Haven; but we have a right to know who and what he is; the information is due to the public, if we can show that he has got into various orders—the Masonic fraternity as one—on false pretenses, and I suy this aca | good that I desire every brothern ell over the world to be warned against him. Mr. Philips—Perhaps if this matter had been thor- oughly looked into previous to yesterday, matters might have been arranged differently. I believe Mr. Elliott made this complaint in good faith. The Court cannot ut him on trial, and as the cas. is abandoned, the Court not more to do with it. If Mr. Elliott has of fended against any society to which he may be attached, I presume that the society will deal with him in its own way. We. Chatter—It ts proper to say the’. far as Mr, Morse was concerned, we can prove sy ~ dozen witnesses that be was not in town on that Saturday. Mr. Allen and Dr. Sleight were entertaining a party of friends from Baltimore, at a place three miles from the locality where this Jarceny is all to have taken place, until haf. past one o'clock in the morning. The Court said that counsel would easily see tha) its Jurisdiction was over as far as this complain’ was con- |. The prosecution had failed to show any proof as to the truth of the charge made against defendants, and they would accordi discharged. ‘The Court then dissolved. There was considerable applause outside the bar when the defendants were discharged, and when they lef: the court room with their ceunsel, the crowd gave them | | three cheers, : | Amrivas or Coouxs.—The Louisville Comrie: * says we saw on the United States mail, on Friday, y of ten coolies, & direct importation from | China, who are on the way to Keily’s irou_mills, on | put herself in the vanguard o! | Te the Cumberland river, below Eddyville. They were * 9 tell, healthy looking set of Celestials, and we learn that they have sold themselves for a term of years to work at the afyresaid iron works, The Dominican Republic. ‘ TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. | ‘When North America had displayed in her brilliant | progress the fruite of independence, and South America entered upon the path of liberty, the sons j of the Spanish portion of the island of Santo Do- | mingo desired to unite their voice to the enthusias | tle oxy of freedom then resounding through the | Starman New World. Unfortunately their efforts were fruit- habit the west end of the island invaded the Span- | ish settlements at that critical period of disorganiza- | tion when the bonds had just been broken with the | mother country. The Haytien invasion wasfollowed | that 'the by a term of infamous and irresponsible despotism. | These Vandals of the West, inferior in race and character to the Spanish colonists, and opposed to | us in language and social habitudes, and superior | onlyin brute force, satiated on the Spanish colonists | the hatred which vulgar minds feel when compelled | by the consciousness of their own moral impotence | and their vast inferiority in race. | The Spanish-Dominicans who did not emigrate, | some in the trust of saving their property, others in | the hope of a better order of things, and more be- | cause they would not live on the bread of charity | in strange lands, suffered under their Haytien op" preasors in the faith and spirit of martyrs, with their | eyes fixed on the future. | Twenty-two years passed by to the sound of their chains, only interrupted by scenes of slaughter, when the suspected or the calumniated suffered for weeping too incautiously the fate of their country. | Suddenly, and to their Franco-Atrican oppressors | most unexpectedly, on the 27th of February, 1844, the resolute and enthusiastic youth of the Spanish race proclaimed the independence and raised the | standard-cross of the Dominican republic. Since | then the white-cross of our regenerated eountry has | waved victorious on every field of battle.* Without | money, without arms, without the aid of any other | nation, the Dominican republic has solely, through | the patriotic devotion of her sons, reduced to a | grand and significant fact the destiny of the Island of St. Domingo—a problem which had long | been thought a difficult if not an impossible solu- | tion by other nations. Many years were exhausted in this terrible strug- gle of liberty against despotism—of civilization against barbarism; and through it all we have had to endure the ostracism of indifference from you of the United States. Our island has been to you as if blotted from the map of America; our grand and central Santo Domingo, the chosen of Columbus, the magnificent garden of America, seemed invisible | to American eyes, though the great political event | of our republican independence, and its probable consequences, was sufficient to fix the attention of Paeee and England on the Dominicans and their jestiny. ‘When (in 1849) the last Haytien invasion spread terror and desolation over the beautiful frontier districts of Azusa, General Santana again presented himself in the field of battle | at the head of a handful of brave citizens, and vic- toriously re-affirmed the independence of our coun- | try in the memorable field of Carreras—in that decisive battle Soulouque himself was completely routed, with a heavy loss in men and artillery, and forced to retire from the country, although his army | outnumbered the Dominicans ‘under Gen. Santana, | ‘et fer thi the its of Fy id En; r this the governments of France an > | land recognized the independence of the Dominican | republic, and entered into honorable treaties with | her. France, however, had made a treaty with the | Dominicans in 1848, though ratifications had not | been exchanged within the assigned time. Consuls n appointed to the young republic from the period of her independence, but the eat European | powers hesitated, like the United States—though not for so many years—whether they should dispense | the invaluable courtesies of a t uation toa young | people heroically struggling for existence ta! rutal and barbarous race of enemies. | The Dominicans have always believed in the friendship of France and England; but it sometimes occurs to them to reflect why those powerful nations, being the friends of the Dominican republic, and the representatives of the ideas of civilization and humanity of the age, do not make the Haytiens | cease this barbarous and unprofitable war of races in St. Domingo. Can there be any motive of policy to induce the European Powers to balance against each other the | adverte races which divide between them the | richest of the American islands? The medietion of France and England, from | which so much was expected, was notoriously defi- | cient inresults. It all ended in a year’s armi istice, | “to arrange a de initive peace or a ten years’ truce.” | Soulouque had need of this suspension of hostilities | for a year, to have himself proclaimed Emperor. | it is a curious exemplification of the culture ofthe | race occupying the weetern end of the island, thata defeat was worth a diadem to Soulouque. The battle of Las Carreras, in which he was vanquished, was the best title he had to seat himself on a throne and be calied his Majesty Faustin the First, It is an unjust mist to ee the people of | the Dominican republic are the same in race, | customs or ideas with the popoeee which | calls itself the empire of Hayti. The object of the | writer is to correct this erroneous impression, which perhaps explains the indifference with which the at republic of the North re; ‘ded the unequal it victorious struggle of the ominicans for the | | rights of independence and self-government. | We Delieve th pore is great and pores Union should | the nations of Ame- | rica, as the representative and defender of American | | interests, ard should not look with indifference on | , the fate of any member of the American nation- | | alities. | | Let us review the position of the Dominican re- ublic as a sister and neighbor of the United States. For twenty-two years the Frencli-Africans governed by brute force and military despotism the east, or Spanish part of the island. On the 27th of February, | 1844, the Dominicans declared their independence of | Hayti, and their freedom was victoriously crowned onthe field of battle. These events did not at first command the attention of civilized nations; but after the surprising victories of 1849, England and | France—and since then Denmark and Holland—have cognized and treated with our republic. Then the Dominicans solicited the intervention of the first named powers and the United States, to bring toa close the war with Hayti. The United States re mained indifferent, and the mediation of Bogland and France only amounted to the year of truce which Soulouque had occasion for and’ made use of for his coronation. The cold silence of the United States ma: ttri- buted to the mistaken idea that the ican people are the same in race with the Haytiens. This error arises from the unjust and inaccurate reports of those who have not examined fully into the facts. The colonists of Ew blood in the French part of the island, who did not perish when Dessalines | ised the African standard of | | | and his compeers rai extermination, had to fly the country, and leave it absolutely to the n 8. This was not the case with the Spanish coloni: They were not driven from their homes on the liberation of their slaves, for it was done so calmly that most of the freed men remained for years after in the houses of the:r old masters. Their descendants do not en- tertain this hostility of races which exists in Hayti, and in the Dominican republic all make common cause for the country. Neither has the soil of the Span- ish part of the ieland witnessed those scenes of can | nil al horrore——the effect also of the us war 0 which have been trated in Hayti from 1€s to Christophe, from Christophe to ue, their last and now tes iy ig And xi-ts this wide difference in race and clharecter of the two populations, what shall we say Cy No ir specned ie people a po ish and intelligence, were called Greeks, could have no ible ean with the stupid and yt tion of rie which can- not present to history ove pure and illustrious name. Which of their blo ined heroes can approach | the level of Sanchez Ramirez, Nunez de Caseres, Coneas, Caros, Rottigns, or lerez, or of the | Varonas, Heredias, Varelas, jas, and a thousand others, whoee he aad lives and brilliant genius have ata those who deem the independence of the Do- minian Be gr uncertain or illusive, our arms, triumphant in every battle-fleld—at Azna, Santiago, Beler, eta, , down to Soulougue’s last | shameful rout at Las Carreras—should be a sufficient | reply. Wine: entertain the idea that the Dominicans have not the eat, of self-government, let them examine our institutions and Jaws, our liberal con- stitution, the protection to strangers, the security of person and Raikes , the commercial freedom, and the responsibility of our public servants, guaranteed by the Dominican laws. Why, then, do not the Dominicans possess tie sympathies of the nation from whem it derived its icesons of constitutional liberty? The United States owes it to herself to extend the hand of friendship to the Dominican republic, if only from the position of their island in the centre of the great American group. We cannot but retarn the benefl- General Pedro Santana, the ‘ Liberator of his coun- try,” was the faithful and disinerosted Ws of the Dominican republic, and is now the second its constitutional President. He bas expended noble pri- vate fortune in creating and sustaining ite 5 Brave, cnergetic,. self-eaerificing, he isa by na ture, 0 sti y jon, awl o patrlot by every | less at this epoch. The French-Africans who in. | On, those | 5000 | fo straight; 100 bble. good fine cent recognition of the head of the gr Sie cr aeer ahaa tet she rei wit win ; ou of yon actence and the st 5 its fruite will be national to usall, for they will ‘Then the United States can say witl ns: “Pass not these front indred.”” ‘tiers are immense territories, 0 en ee , how desolated by the gav: Its hills cubosom eompetabe ares precious metals—gold an silver, coal; it has ne ports and tions, climate and natural beant, an thee ai hi is all open to you, brethren of the American conti nent, as to the native children of the island. person, in property, and in you are saf and free under our laws. You will not cease to b republicans and Americans in to our Ame! ican island, Manone dis Gavtur. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MONEY MARKET. SaTurpay, May 20—6 P. M. At the first board to-day, there were large sales of the leading fancies, but the tendency of prices downward. Buyer’s option, thirty and sixty days, pears to be the favorite mode of operating, and there evidently plenty of sellers on these terms. The fluct tionsto-day, were both’upwards and downwards. New Yerk| Central bonds advanced 34 per cent; Illinois Central bonds,| 44; New York Central Railroad, 14. Pennsylvania Coal, fell off 3 percent; Cumberland Coal, 34; Parker Vein, 34; Harlem, 3; Reading Railroad, 1;; Cleveland Toledo, 34; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 3. Several of the| fancies remain stationary, and are much neglected. Canton Company, Nicaragua Transit, Pennsylvania Coal, and most of.the old established railroad bonds.do not at- tract many operators, and the probability is that there; will beno speculative movement in them at present. 9% fact, we much doubt if there will be much speculation in anything for a time. The brokers have it all now to them- selves, and there are no indicatious of relief from any quarter. 4 The steamship Washington, from this port for South ampton and Bremen, to-day, carried out $733,745 in specie, most of which was in gold bars. ‘The Bowery Fire Insurance Company ‘have declared a a! | slaughter our’ g copper, iron t streams; | semi-annual dividend of ten per cent; the Knickerbock- er Fire Insurance Company, ten per cent; the James Steam Mills, Newburyport, four per cent, semi-annual. The anthracite coal trade is very active. The demand is so urgent at the eastward that higher freights than were almost ever before known are paid. Within the las! few days, we understand, as high as $3 40 per ton hag been paid from Port Richmond to Boston, where coal is selling at $8 a $8 50 per ton. On the Schuylkill Naviga- tion, for the week ending on Thursday, the shipments were 28,830 tons, and for the season, 211,702 tons, against 170,271 tons to the same time last year. The amount brought over the Reading Railroad for the week” reached 50,637 tons, and for the year, 701,175 tons, against 526,014 tous to the same time last year. Ship- ments of coal from the Lehigh -for the week ending Sat- urday last, 29,127 tons; for the season, 126,486 tons. Notwithstanding the general expectation that the Dela- ware division would be again navigable before this time, it appears that it is not yet in condition for the passage of loaded boats, and at the slow rate of progress making during the present week, there is reason to fear that it will not be ready beYore the beginning of next-week. In the meantime, three entire weeks have been lost to the, State amd to those whose business is dependent on the’ canal. The stock sales at the stock board and at private sales, by Hewson & Holmes, Cincinnati, for the week ending Wednesday, May 17, 1854, were as follows:—80 shares New Albany-and Salem Railroad stock, at 40; 35 do. Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville stock, at 743; 40 do, Little Miami Railroad stock, at 10944; 10do. Coving- ton and Lexington Railroad stock, interest same rate, 56;, 75 do. Eaton and Hamulton Railroad stock, at 50; 20 do. Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad stock, at , 983g; 100 do. Little Miami Railroad stock, at 10934; 15 ¢o. Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, at 98%; 80 do. Farmers’ Bank of Kentucky, at 106; 75 do. Cen- | tral Indiana Railroad, at 80;60 do. Covington and Lex-~ | ington Railroad, (new stock,) at 56; 200 do. Caton and Hamilton Railroad, at 60; 15 do. Northern Bank of Kentucky, at 114%; 50 do. Ohio Central Railroad, at 8435; 80 do. Little Miami Railroad, at 10034; 20 do. Cin- cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, a+ 98; 40 do. Covington and Lexington Railroad, at 56: 20'do. Little Miami Railread, at 109. Money rates for the past week on stocks as collaterals, two per cent per month. Stock 2000 Virginia 6’s... 106 €0€0 Erie Inc Bonds. 95 1000 Erie C Ba 71.b60 & 1 84 eeee82¢ 100 S8.Su88S8S8SSs 028 sbO0 253% 500 N Car Copper.s30 244 225 Penn Co..83 10435 200 do.......83 1045¢ Coal Co..560 250 Cum 800 do... 76 260 500 160 do. seed b8 ‘30 ‘60 o15 830 ue 960 “ec 630 83 60 360 080 SECOND BOARD. $600 NYCenRRBds. 883 200ahs 2000 NC RR Be priv.. 8334 100 8500 Cen RRBés.. 77 150 and Ohio, at $8 75 a $9; br Genesee, ; extra Indiana and Michigan, at $8 8734 a $9 75; Ohio, at $9 a $10 25; and extra Geneeee, at $100 ‘bbl. The movements in other kinds ¢om- ext Said 800 bbls. Canadian, at $7 75 @ $8 for common to- Pp a . Canadian, at ood; 2,000 bbis. South: at $8 60 a $8 8735, for mixed i vod flour, af 83; and $00: t was more Dols. Jersey meal, at $3 75. ‘The sales reached 1,600 bushels at $2 87%; 2,500 Southern do., at $2 15 vania do., on privete terms; and 4,400 in bond, at $106. $197. Sales bushels rye, at $1 1244; 3,000 and 75,060 bushels co: a €8c. for round yellow; ie. a 76e. for Southe: Hechipi = Fp sd latter been or one wanted for immediate in. cod found buyers at ‘articles were quiet at. and ingements at 80e. ‘of 1,500 SL eciecs were made at 16 Me. months. —Rastern ruled quiet at $2 per thousand. pe eg are bd et , at $1 for common and $1 36 for lump, per dbl. ‘REIGHTS.. ee es ae Se, Vat, rete fo ; and at F erpool steady at 6) @ 7d., for corm, in iar ym nt ee és of cotion flour. 500 bales compressed, at 14d. a 5-16d.; and 1 Tus rosin at 2s. 6d. To London, naval stores were taken at Be. To Marre, about 10,000 Ibs, bone were en- .