The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1854, Page 3

—EE_ CHE NEW NORTHERN PARTY. to, dow! resolyes adopt d; apd we dare say fiers seta Hes antes ‘aud sound headed voter in Btate te oun Cai his stand ww bog platform, and yie! no" candidate that” does not fu come Peo ite ated ing’ the errors that cistgured. as sepacved by errors Gi it ae y wfegraph in the journals aati, it Ce by a vote of a mi- ‘lected fo the House, bes delib. Te opéved the eintroversy respec- our Whereas, The of the mem! and want on extension — whieh a malerita, sbe: poeple had eutod ine forever by the successive compromines of 31820 snd 1860; and wherecs, thi: aided and impelled by the , ren! F ; f Seeted through every sbannel of- 16) sar and tag ase ‘every channel islative ection their determined and olaabatic parpose that ‘the extension sath sbsil: be forbidden, obstructed, and prevented by posi ive law; therefore Reselved, ihat the State of New York, now as ever, affirms and msintaine the right and the duty of the fede- val to prehibit and de the extension, or a paseo buman slavery in any ané every Territory of the United States, and in any tar- Is er country over which the Usion now Des, or mey hereafter acquire exclusive jurisdiction; ané le support of this pesition we appeal to the uniform opinions, expressions an’ acts of our statesmen, legisla- yg rE from 1784 to this day. 8 Rerolyed, That the doctrine affirmed by the Nebrasks DM, and gilded over by its advocates with tho specious phrases of ‘ non-ixtervdntion” ani Mere to transfer their human chattels to any par: of bk oat pe ed enon estas Saves po tere on wo. and force ico thealissicas A |, That unbroken experience attests that free Resolved, Inbor en slave labor cauno’ 6o-exist on the same soil—that ‘Wherever slavery is Sootneatene! free labor dies out @rsinks into | mere satellite, and convenience of the and ite managers— so that the admisaion of inte Ksn<as and Nebraska invo wee tha practical there/ rom of ourselves and our children th: Fe pone Aroma ‘with thet paralyals of inveation, inter- ‘‘@ation of industrial progress, and degradstion of labor, ‘whieh are the inevitable attendants of the slaveholding system, Revelved, That against the doctrines, tendencies and natural consequences invelved ia the Nebrasko bill, 20 ealeulated to dishonor our couatry in the eyes of man- Bind. and to discourege and confound the champions of Bherty and progress the world, we declare wreemprising war, ond in the spirit and faith of our farbere will straggte to the last for the recoastruction of | Nebraska and Kansas to the ennobling oocupation and FE é Hi a z & = \t man’s sovereignty bimself. Resolved, That the deliberate repudiation by the Slave peck lorced ured our Stlonce by'las open for upon our fat representatives, ‘whereby the Territories now kaown as Nebraske and Kan” ‘he were consecrated for ever 10 freedom, hasabsolved us al} compacts or agreements outside of the federal @enatitution with reference to slavery, and we now take i $Rr Hand disUinctiy on the princi that all territory of | least United States must henceforth be free territory, and all Mates hereafter admitted mast come into the Union foshedst That we heartfl the the we heartily OTe eourse of t an, in poxtpoaing’ or : (heir minor differences of opinion or preference, a asteg eordilty and trustiogly in tae sacrsd euwe of of free labor and free soil; sn i we com- wend their spir!: to the freemen of this and uther States ¢ech io maintain old orgenizatious or supplant er we ee eee Beare) oa Laees sik be Dee hebe on 4 the in hy re- io whenever and wherever party party to our Senators, and the grest majority tives in 3 nee Be z i E | 3 sy i fl if aER. avEE et 4 i ih fl : He a constitutional'and unobje: Territories to freedem. 1. The restoration of the anti slavery proviso in Kansan and Nebraska. ~ scion the Territories of the United Statas shall $. No more Slave States shall be admitted Into ber ei icy shall be held pertor to al 80) all pai const ‘and every party shall be nbendoud which does not make the same its first object. Buch ia the basis of action pared upon by this ik wit when we ‘that it pe eutbaaiestically and permanent; aah a: great. mass of ‘voters in the State, i More influential’ fn charactér than 4 : tts i ves to the gene al :ommon sense of and to express the conyi tions ef at M proyee portion of those who are seriously to resist the extenston of slivery and ip wisdom of # eling to restore the law ™ in Keneas and ‘Nebraska has, bowever, reason that {t is impracticable. eit we sre told. But is the Post not aware that a de- FE be composed of the members from the porthern Stater, and the Senato and Presizent must yield, just 06 in the British government, the Jo-ds and the have had to yield to the iower House. Jt ds steady and resolute majority, which Paes nO ayprepriation bill without that proviso amncxed,to carry the polnt and restore the rights One noble no! feature of this platform is its fa> reaching character, It is not temporary and short- Ived, bus enlists soldiers for the war, and declares per mr to the entrance into the Union of we State. This is nothing more than the duty of ail who love freedom and would not see the inbumanities and crimes of bondage more wido- read-—it is a duty to Which every sit zen devote himeeif, for all compromises ai its to the contrary have been anoulled by and gratnitous act of the s'ave pow. and it sete up a safeguard against the national 2 ' are otherwise constantiy and increasingly ex, No more tlaveftates! may henceforth be reckoned to be s fixed first principle with the freemen of Now York, and indeed of all the uncaslayed poition= of | the repub! Hie, (From the Albany Eventug Jonenal, Angast 17 THE SARATOGA CONVENTION. ‘The deliberations of thie convention, and the results to which these de fherations brought its members, with a unanimity alike gratifyiag and ble, were such as its constitation promised. Pome | the delozates, from city and country were men of large experience in piblic affairs, of high cbaracter, aud of uniform, ardent devotion cause of freedom. Snob, indeed, is the class which the violation of fait, in the repeal of the compromteen of 1820 and 1950, hay arroused, The Pg a gpg in oboracter and pumbers, was rived from. delegates who havo hitherto stood with the Soath in defence of all the rigbta cleimed, directly or by impiieation, under te cons itution. In truth, moat of tie #1 mon of this convention have ever been more than jnet — Hey hav: Mics teaginsidous towards the doth. ' on must be a very smali pintrity, i io nt the citizens of the whole te | Goss ago, when urstion:d by the Keening Post, aud for the | o-slavery mvjority of the Serate, and the | President with his a veto, stand in te way | | varicns directions, These passages are sufi | Jarge te admit a four horse wagon. On arriving at of filibuster land Jar.enies, to which we | four years. rE foe ~ the enjoymen portion, ah yt brnging ito the Union two slave States, viz., Missouriand Arkansas. Freedom’ partion of this inre:itance, daring tho log intervening c persed. comprising nearly half the sge of the republic, has been a wilderness and @ v rien! however, of the approaching settlement of Nebraska and Kansas, law which secares these Territories to freedom is, by the united efforts of slave States, aided by the power and patronage of s devgbface administration, suddenly and auex- peste: repealed. faa brosoh of faith—this violation of a compart —vas alike perfidious and dishonest. All men of honey and. hanesty ervdarstand, aad regard it asa ‘a hay And this itie thet stirs the people, earnestly and deeply. It ie this that moves the masies; this that brought Conne-tiout and Rhode Island back to daty; this that ls revolutionizing Maine and New Hamp- sive; and this that assembled the Saratoga Con- vention. The unanimity which characterized the proceed- wae at Se convention furnishes further evidence t-mixded devotion to the cause. As euds be attained without means, many went to Reratoge desirous of & State ticket. poo en geangeto eel g a the ster abi al} can accomplished through an existing cage equally sound on this vital We have Tahesitating rut in the Itherty lovi sentiments apd sympathies of the whig party New. York... It wil, we doubt not, fulfill every duty and fon, hewing up, in ite nominations platform, close to freedom’s line. And in thus Laban to ao pervading sentiment, ite saccess etability will be certain and eaduriag, Supreme Coart—Special Tera. Before Hon. Judge Roosevelt. Ava. 1%,—Jn the Matter of Widening Whitehal’ atreet.—RoosEvELT, J.— Om looking over the list o parties assessed for alleged benefit from the pro posed widening of the street {n question, I find several names indicative of relationship or affluity to the prealding Judge. By one of the chapters o the Revised Statutes, (2 R.S., 275), it is enacted among other things that “no judge of any court can sit as such inany cause to waich he is a party, or in which be Is interested, or {nu which he would be excluded from being a juror by reason of con- sadguinity or affinity to either of the parties.” Now, aliboogh not personally interested, unless the Kiability to contribute in the form of taxation to make up that part of the sssesement which ia cparged upon the city treasury, can he deemed to copstitute such interest, I am connected by blood or marriage within the ninth degree—the boundary prescribed for jarora—with several of the persons ‘whose property is assessed, and who, by every just rule of interpretation, must be domme. “ parties to the cause.” Unless, therefore, the secon above quoted, however inconvenient in practice it may’ be, hes been modified or tepasing by subsequent enactment, I am prohibited from slitiog asa Judge this cate. The new constitution of [846 having entirely revolutionized. the. judiciary system, further legislation aijapted to the change be- came th and accordingly, on the 12th of May, 1847, a statute, commonly called the Jndicary act, was. passed, the 8ist. section of which, parting from the of the previous ce seansten. BG) thet “no j of any court shail havea in the decision of any cause in which he bas been counsel, attorney, or solicitor, or in the subject matter of which he is interested”—thus cropping Sige tke objection ot consanguinity The question then. arises, was that clause of the Revised Statutes (thus iberately omitted in the act of 1847, while the rest of the section containing it was expressly reenacted) intended to be, or con- sidered as, repealed? In the case of Oukley and Aspinwall, before the Court of Ap » (3 Comst. R.) the difftculty arising out of the statute of '47 seems not to have been considered, or even adverted to. The decision, fore, a3 an antioritative Precedent, ean hardly be said to be conclusive, es: as the court was ually divided, resemente resultin, seribed in the Revised Statutes, megporinct ty 4 toa : bx i & ; ), tO at one perzon in an extended assesement list, ie almost inevitable. Inthe present instance, for ex- ample, I discover two names of third or fourth cousins—the precise bo ad I do not know—by blood; and ope-neme, (the party the husband of slady whose sister, now » Was, when living, mother ef the lady whose hu band is the presiding pe ra of an uncle iu some sense 0 she. it epee on te e argument, nor was the Fin a tee te Seer u A ever, in- wall case ia an authority, even an actual req to sit, made by the unsuccessful Fe roca Bob anre the it from the charge of iavalidity, aniess, as slready remarked, the act of 1847 is to be deemed fp that respect 3 modification of the previous law. As the point was not discussed on the asgument, I shall & decision until the counsel on both sides shall have had an opportunity of submitting apy , Oral or written, regard to it Court of Common Pleas, Bofore Hon. Judge Daly. IMPORTANT TO APPRENTICES, Avever 18,— Habeas Corpus—Tnia was sn appli- cation to have James Mahood, an indented appren tice to Mr. Eling, brass faucet muker, discharged from imprisonment in the City Prison, conmistted a8 itive. The apprentice was | bound eg er September 1852, at the | age of 16 yeara 6 month, and was to serve for four earsand eix months, or until he would bet ver*y- years of age. Tne indentures were executed the master rentice under seal, and wit } by James Nesbitt” On the back was endorsed the folowing :— ‘The undersigned, a police justice in and for the city and county of New York bar certifies thas the | mia tame a entice TRO! Appeared fore a acknow! ed the wi contract to be made by him freely. A. BOGART, Police Justice, New York, fept. 2, 1862. The master claimed him under the indentures, Mr. Daniel Major, for the apprentice, contended first, tbat a minor could not bind himself, except by the father or motier, or as the atatate provides; second, thet the indentures weie void witbout re- ference to the certificate,on the ground that he was @ minor; tl ird, that the certificate of the pr lice just! was insufficient, in this, that he did nut | certify that the boy had a private examination. necessary to add a word in support of | Apprentice discharged and indentures cancelled. points, for they would seem to com- | A Movusrary Caves Vireria Exrcorav.—A curious cave on the top of the Loog Lick Moua ain, mar Purgettsville, Hampsbire ecco hasfro.n time immemo ial been known to exist, but no one has ever had the to explore it, until a fow Prof. Gccege Jordan, in the pre- fexce of a number of gentlemen, baviag ket down a caxdle, ond fastened one end of a rope to a-sapliag, snd the other end sround his body, deacended into its wysterions regione. "The Romney 4rgus say3:— ‘The entrance bears some resemblance to the srai:r of a volcano, ovly smaller. The aperture et the mined House of Represeutatives can ovesoom> | mou his not more than three or four feot ia diame: obstscles? Give us such a majority as would | 4, ter, bat enlarges 6s you desrend, like an inverted wnel, the descent being perpendicular the whole Gistonce. Mr. J. descended some sixty-four or sixty- five feet, when be came to the bottom of a spacious chamber, from which several passages led off in atly the bottom, seys Mr. J., and taking on upward view, tbo scene is traly appaliiog. Lacze crag: | Tocka seem resdy to tamble down upon your head, | ano 80 terrific is he sight that unlyersal tremor im perce; tibly creeps over the whole system. This cavern dots not seem to be inhabited by any living | being save a race of cheirsptera (the common bat) wee set these Lg Mince eae and, ae aught we krow, wi Messenge"s Puuto. “They uttered & hordd ory, and soomed dis yored to ite the right of unwelsome and | Cuclons adventurer. We learn that P ‘of. J. intends | mokiog amore minute exam ination of this wonder- cave. Faroe ov rae Corn py eterheh be stated that the corn a in Middle So 4 Illinois, and Southern Indiana too, was likely to Prove an almost total failure. It now seems almost Certain that fears were well grounded. The following extract from the Chester Herald (iil. tella the Li not only for that vicinity, bat for al- most the entire region south of Springfleld:— Last Satureay we went up to Sparta and Fiat Pratrie, and had an opportonity of seeing the corn in that quarter. Nothing»« be more pitable thon the aspect the fields presented. Field after field and farm after farm showed the rnias of the crop w on whieh the farmer bai expended no amall smount of labor; ecorched and shi ivelled@ta'ks, and silks, and taseels dried up pre. rely and before they had left the promise of a harvest field, told the dismel story; and although we travelied some 20 miles and retarued the same distance by a differen; ronte, and through the most fertile ard best on- tivated Jand in Southern lilinois, we saw no room to ie for @ crop, or even part of one. in i view or the Erobable lous tn the stein ' Ftates, our farmers should bring la tLeir cora iu gadision—Milwikie Wisconsin, Aug. 14. The Chincha Islinds—J. Rando!ph Clay. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. New Yoru, August 17, 1854. Sin—Reading an article in your paper of yester- dey, over the signature of J. Randolph Cisy, dated » May 11, 1854, whereim he states “a friend, has handed me a elip from one of the New York pepers, sent to him in @ letter from the United States, containing the proceedings of an ‘indigna tion meeting of shipmasters recently arrived (from the Chinchas’"--1, as one of the shipmasters com- posing the meeting above alluded to, beg of yeu to give place im your psper to the “altp from one of the New York papers,” that the friendof Mr. J. R. Clay banded to him :— Mxrrixe or Auentoan Suurmastens—A meet ing was beld at the Astor House on Saturday last, bed pe OM the shipmasters ey Sete the Islands. The meetii or- nen Co,t. S. A. Fabens in the PW. nhallow was appointed a committee of one to fartuer the measures deemed necessary to make the proper representations of their grievances to the government at Washington. A document for the signators of merchants and others (the Board of Underwriters) was read and app: 5 The following resolution wag adopted : — ved, That, whereas we have reason to sq; pose that the letter expressing our tude Admiral Morseby, which was sent Oo our Minieter, J.B. Clay, was not duly |, it be ordered to be published fn the gr papers. ‘The meeting then adjourned to the 15th inst, It was yoted to have a copy.of the above mentioned letter published in the capers of New York. The following is the letter referred to :— Cancun Isuanpa, Sept, 9, 1858. To Hex Rarraxyio Masesty’s Coanog D'AFFAIRS at Lina— Sim—The American shipmasters here, feeling under infinite obligation to Admiral Moresby for his Kind attenstun to thelr representations, and bia ge each {n demanding for them reavect be paid to their by the ies of these islands, beg leave, through to tender | their heartfelt thanks, and also add the assurance that we ebell ever retain sentiments of the liveliest grat tude towards him—the conviction that, at the side of our own “banner” floata the British flag, a suce pledge of protection to us. (Signed by many shipmasters.) Now, if Mr. J. Randolph Olay ot his friends can ses anything in the above that would justify either of Set thoy plas none St alotfatei , of discrimination patient the general run of Ministers and their friends. Mr. Clay says in his defence:—‘‘ Then fol- lows a letter dated September 9, 1853, addressed to ber Britannic Majesty’s Charge.d’ Affaires at Lima, end the article conctudes with. observation that “it ie said that the ooncuet of Mr. Clay, in thig case, Jost." Teo not wish to nooupy too mush rpace a 'o not w! to occup; 8 bah ord by going into details-of the case between ir. Clay and the American shipmasters; but, allow me to ask what article Mr. Clay has reference to, when he saya, “ At the conclusion of the article it is said,” &c.; can it be that our letter of thanks to Admizal Moresby concludes with the observation that, ‘‘ Itis said that the condact of Mr. Clay will Tead to efforts for bis removal ?”” Mr. J. Randolph Clay, United States Minister at Lima, was not Ug energetic in seeking for dae Tepasation from the Peruvians—for reparation has to be made—nor did Mr. Clay state the case of masters to the British Admiral, The masters stated their case in tothe Admiral. In fa:t, the whole tenor of the article in your paper of the 16th, from Mr. Clay, is intended to place the stip- mastera in a {alee position; bat shi) , Of all nations, who were at the Chin Islands last August, tember, and October, know of the in- triguing Mr. Clay and the Peruvians. the absence of Captains Fabens and Penhallow, T have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Yours, truly, Epuvunp Bearry, ate Master of Ship John Baring, from Chincha Islands, Interesting from South Africa, [From the Sasem (Atase.) Register, August 17.) By a letter fiom John G. Wits, -, Unite States Consul at Loanda, 8. W. coast of Africa, to a friend in this eity, we have some interesting icfor- mation conning, a interior explovation of that portion of Africa, to the follwing effect:— the let of June, Dr. Livingston, of England, errived at Loanda, all the way from the Oape of Goog Hope, throagh the centre of Africa, He start- ed from one of the miasicna in the vicinity of the Cape, sbout twenty-seven months before, and has ‘been given up for lost, as no news of him had been received from the time he lett up to the day thathe arrived at Loanda. He bea the interior as very Ley gaoe with a good climate, the land be- eB! hi a 7 route was north antii he got into the latitude of Loands, when he shaped his course for that place. Asbort time after so doing, he found the height of Jane was de g—#0 mach so that in a few days be descended 2,000 feet. His health was good un- til be ee os 00 1st, yt Ag a was unwell a en time, Up to the 71 of June (the ‘Sate the letter) te was confided to the house, but was improvin, prety fay. Dr. Livingston brought to ae twenty-seven ne; who were given to hinas ® “guard” by one of the chiefs in the interisr, and his intention ia to retarn to the Cape by land-—partly to endeavor to make further disvovarier, and partly to re‘urn the D For many days he waa in a forest so dense that the —es ha diy be discerned, and he was obliged sey the guard to work catting down the trees, so that be could see the stars to take ap observation. He started with many cat- tle, bu; lost all by flies. He waa obliged for man: days to live on the fruit of some of the trees, whic! fruit resembled the gourd. He has the latitudeand longitude of every place of importance that he has seen; butas regards the country being a second Ric ape of California or Australia, he does not sey muc! Be was attacked by wild beasts only once during the route, That encoun‘er was with a lion, which, assoon ae he got the Doctor's arm between his teeth, was wounded by one of the guard. The lion immediately left. the Dr. and attacked the guard, ‘woun jing one in the lrg and another ia the arm; but after his third spring he fell down and died. Dr. Livingston was not much more fortanate {n his intercourse with the natives, some of whom; as he approached the coast took all his clothes, with exe; a single Necessary garment, and he in obliged to use all bis influence aud make @ great many promises, in order to retain that. the ioterior, where a white man had, probibly, never been hefore, he was received by the difivrent chiefs in great state, and was offered much ~~ tality. He ks the ‘of the natives of interior, which is entiely different from that of those about Loands. It is understood that a report of his travels will be forwarded to the Geographical Society of London, 28 soon a8 ap opporton!:y offers, and the Doctor ia able to put bis notes in a p-oper shape. A Monsrmm.—We heard yesterday of an act atrocions beyond deecription, and which might well condemn the fiend who perpetrated it to the tender mercies of Lynch law witnout exciting one parti- cle of commisseration for him, let that iaw be a1. ministe:ed with what severity it might. The facts, as We are informed are these:—Ow Monday eveving @ lit'le girl, aged about nine years, daughter o’ dr. Lather Simpson, who resides pear tac trenty mite stond, In Warren county, was hastening froma veigbboring termer’s house, at which she hal been passing the afiersoon, when she was met by a moa who wis carrying a bundle, and who asked her how tar it was to the next puble house. This op the tarvpike road, near a etre, ani b: cbild could anawer the question, the brate, peroaiv- mg no one near, placed one hand upon ber mouth, and eatching ber under bis arm, bore her to a neigh: boring we where be succeeded in pa tially av complishing@ ble hellish design. Tao child’ was fuund a short time afterward inseastbie, and con- veyed to ber home. After she was restored to coa- eciousness and gave thé above account, her father end brother started in pursuit of the fiend, ba’ after a four honrs’ search, in which they g'ear ed no intelligence of the monster, they returned. Con- siderable excitement prevaiis in neighborhood, the more especieily as it is feared tue vil'sia has entirely eacaped.—Cincinnati rier, Aug. 16. Drernvetive Free ty Guripern ann —Prr rer Buxpasp Conps or Woon Destaoven.—A destruc- tive fle was raging all lest night in the town of Guiléerland, Albany county, consnming some 1,500 cords of pine wood. For the purpose of cltar- ing rome new land, a gosntity of brushwood wasaet on fire on the farm belonging to ex-Sheriff Batter- man. The fire was closely watehed until yester- day, when it was supposed that ao harm could come fiom it, but was still burning, The violent ale hich sping up about noon yesterday rz- Eindtea the baraing faggos, which set on fire some 1,200 cords of wood belonging to Mr. Elias Demelt, on the adjotning farm of Mr. Wendell Bender. Ina short time it wae all ina light blaze, and extend’d to eome 500 cords belenglag to Mosera. Peacock dg) Bancoft, which was piled on the farm adjoining, belonging to Mr. Vedder. The progress of the dames was so rapid and the heat so intense thit all aflorin to check its progress were naayailing. Oar inform: ant Jeft at an carly hour this merving, when the fire ‘was still burning. Thepiles of wood occupied about twent: acres of lan/, aud when he left this en'ie plot of groand wos ecvered with cous of flre from three to four feet in height. It was an awfal and slorming sight. She lose is from $10,000 to $12,000, Mr. Demelt ia inanred for $4,000; and it | Was reported that Mesara. Peacock & Kancrott were not insured. —A/Lany Evening Journal, Aug. 16. eee Gar Boston Corresponden -, Boston, Aug. 17, 1854, | The Whig State Convention— (ts Numbers, } Proceedings, Opinions. and N.minutions— Meeting of the Democratic State Con- mittee— The Congressional Elections—Mr. Gardners-Ladws’ Faw at Marshfield | Miscellaneous. The Mass Convention of the Marsachusetts AFaml y of Ptivds, Under this head the Lewisburg (Greenbrier) Evra, of Saturday last, contains the following notice of the fiendish and marderous doings of @ family of | Grabame res'ding in that pari of te Stete:— inia, on Greenbrier river, below Lewisbarg, lives a | map bamed Joseph Graham, He has three or four | ving beneath his roof, and (until | one unmarried di ter, Miss Jane | Grabom, aged about forty-five. Thi illegitimate daugliter by ® man who recen! died in Missouri, leaving the sum of $3 000 to tl child, who is now marriee toa M>. Miller, of Ni- cholas county. Quarrels of the mes: violen ter aie represented to haye been common in thie fomily. A recent quarrel had taken place, and one | of the brothers sought to injure the chars ter of his Jeaving anonymous and defama*ory letters and also by writi ack as and rotton 96 carrion,” sreariiag that her daughter (Miuer’s wife) waa any knowledge of this, Miss Jane Graham went to Nicholas county to visit | found the: she and her hasband had apart, and learned that the letter whioh Miller had m, full of the violence and de- termiration which characterized her, immediately returned home. A violent quarrel ensued bet seen her and the brother who wrot the old man and woman were drawn (they with the son)—the upshot of which wae the forcible ejectment of Miss Grahaw from the house. went to the house of a brotheria law—one Mr. Nolan, who lives hard by—who gave her she:ter and protection, On the n! and wife went to visi Grabam to take care of the children. After shey e— (about nine o'clock, and as the children -one or two of whom are comycteat iss Graham dressed herse}f a: out. She took a bonnet belonging to her niece, and & pair of stockings belonging either to her niece or toher sister. (Kemember this) Nolan and wife soon returned, and were surprised to fiud Miss G-a- ham gone. Ata little past ten o’vlock they were of fire, caused by the burning of foreph Graham. From her well known vindictive temper it was at one suspected that ste burned the barn, and hence her absence was Lot noted as anything remarkable afver such om up sons he 27th ultimo) upon the highwa: Jer, of Nicvolase ogprated, Dh living received. Miss G. the letter, lato which | it of the 27th of Jub aneighbor, kay aroused by the c the bara of Mr. ‘The Grahams made no effort to learn anytuing of the absent member of their family—never even suz- gested pursuit or reven; Their conduct in this res the rumor that was Tumor charging the famil; hem “‘out of the way.” that on Friday last, 4th inst., a p gathered together for the purpose ofthe absent women. They went to the Grabam to aek bis permission to search for the body on the premises; his avawer was, “Go | look in’ the ashes of the barn—if her bones ain't | there, they ate in hell.” The party went forward A few rods be'ow the ruins of the | barn they found indications of as ufle—tuen of a rupning fight—then, again, of a more severe sonitie, | @ person appeared to have been thrown round was imprinted thickly with | footmar ks of human beings and of adog. From thia | ace they de tected such signs as indicated the draw: | g of a human body along creek. This trail they followed to the creck, whe re | it was lost; but on the other side they re-ciscovered | it. Here dark stains, which appeared to be of blood, | ashes, were occasionally de- | is trail was followed with tolerable ease | urtil they reached the bank of brocklet beyond.. Here there were sach ap) anc«s.as induced the searching party to thin! been rested a moment, |. The print of a person's kaees | and the toes of two booted feet were seen plainly imprinted im the soft earth, exactly as they would aon got down upon his knees. beginn’ to fiod tongues--a ith putting Miss Gra- rumor grew so strong The vice presidents were twenty-seven ia | Dumber, being two from each county, ex- | more than one. Jusiak Quincy, Sen, was the first Vice President and the oldest of the num- | Mr. Quincy made a speech, in which be avnounced that he should not again attend a public meeting, which we are bound to believe, seeing that he bas made the same announce- ment half a dozen times betore, and always reat fervency. We shall, by and by, | t in the calls for public meetings that | the venerable Quincy, who was counsel in the first Shadrach case that occurred in Massachu- tetts, now some sixty years since, will “ posi- | tively and absolutely” make his last sppear- | he other vices were of the usual whig stamp—stiff, rabid, and incurable. The balloting for a canuidate for Governor was as follows :-— Whole number of votes Necessary to a choice, op their search. the ground towards a | covered over with fresh another creek or | ance, and speech. have been bad a From this $ the leaves two or three feet from the ground—s1- ding ng ial sthop to th For Julius Rockwe) icions of the party Ashes . M. Rockwell’s strength wi be scattered along convention than had been expe vote he received shows what might have been effected bad the movement in commenced at an early aay and vigorously pressed. Lieutenant-Governor nominated for re-election by @ vote of < The resolutions adopted are fifteen in num- | * ber, amd have a good deal of flavor of which our whigs are they form a part of the :ationul oppositiod, but | of which there is nothing left a3 soon as they get hold of the ofives. ‘The repeal of the No- bre: ka bill and the modilication of che Fugitive Slave law are ipsisted upon, though there is not amen of intelligence io the whi, believes that either is possible of attaiament. Some df the resolves are pretty hi with doctrines that are supposed to with the Know Notbings, but who are too sen- sible to be caught with such chuif. Very little is said about State affairs, imperial politigs bo- ing all the rage now. The cbanges made by the legislature, in its Jast session, fo our ‘“per- fect oonsti‘ution” are endorsed. There was the aeual amount of speechifying and glorification. Although the whig ber of delegates as bumber that voted was but 935, being 841 short | of the highest figure, while for Lieutenant Go- | vernor there were but 569 votes. I should think that 1,000 was the full mark of the con- | vention, and it would nothave been that had it been held anywhere out of Boston. Now that the State contest has been fairly opened by the action of the whigs, we may look ‘ied on vigorously Jor the next three months, the election not occurring until the 13th of November, and Legislative legal until the 27th of that mocratic State Committee are to bave a meeting on the 23d inst, whens day for the meeting of a State Convention will of what earthly use tho areembling of euch a body coald be, Iam ata lors to know. Jf the democrats are wise, they will not pursue a course that cannot fail te ex- hibit their weakness In very The Fost has laid it down as law that the de- moerscy of Massachusetts must endoree all the acts of the administration, wheress such @ piece of consummate folly conld not fail toe rout what little there is left of the party. However, it would then be a trifle lurger than the Post would like to see it, that paper being at democratic votes in it is pleased with in the nation. The “Republican” Convention will be held on the 7th of will be followed by thatof the free soilers, The Kzow Nothings will then be alone to act, and thry will act as they sec fit; but it is supposed that their nomination will not be made long before the day of election. Mayor Smith is said to be Jaboring hard to get their nomina- tion; bot his chances are very slim, a3 he showed the white feather too plainly at the time of the Burns affair to be very popular with the members of a brsve and energetic organi- zation, who do not admire men who exviblt the the reverse sense thas Tenry of Navarre did at Ivoy, Bravery is as necessary in politic { to well for the Governorship as Mr. Smith on the 26th of May last; no man stauds worse for it ut the present moment than the same gen ige Washbura; but then still occasionally seen to path. But about a half @ dozen rods from tne p'ace ‘where the body was supposed to have been shoul- dered, all traces of the trail were lost. Ouse of the jo the direction of the sun, saw an r of blue or carrion files fly! He took it a3 an indication, and by using a awit sh sic- ceeded in establishing a line of a blown down tree, below, on the bank of the creek, Th of the flies wassuperior to that of man, and enabled them to detect signs that might hare otherwise escaped them. Coming to the tree, they fonndfootst«ps leading into the water, and by g ving into the water and followin view into the thick tcp of the tree and scrrounding hedge, they discovered the dead body of Miss Jane ‘The body was extri:ated from the bashes after It wae considerably putreacent. Tho dre+s «he wore had been taken of’, and | side ber, having the appearance of having washed and thron up with the body without being Pome signs of blood were sti!! detected and it wee mach torn as by adog. Her sh7e3 were also tasen off and throwa u a8 was 2lso the bonnet before sp ings before mentioned were upon her feet. There were signs of violence about the neck, s8 though the body bad heen dragged by a rope. A rope about eight feet long was afte:wa of concealment. Some signs of her having been were aleo upon her person; but the blood is supposed .o have come from Ler nose or The family of Grahsms showed nosigns of favor or affection for the murdered, and looked with an eye upon tie searchers, whom they deemed meddling with « matter that was “none of their business.” est was held upon the body last Monday,7:h evidence then given in on the par! of the party was in accoréance with tze above ne witness spoke of being on the ground ly morning, and saw a large negro, who be- to the family, coming from the direction whee ly waa found with a bucket on his arm—made him retarn to search for tracks of the #aw where some one, (supposed to be t scattered fresh ashes along, the body. After bearing came to the concinsion that Miss Jone Graham fired the barn—that in coing 20 she roused the Gerce dog belonging to the family—that the dog folio ved her, and that some of the fami y pursued in the same direction—that some ef them came up with her where the first indications of a@.s-ufiie occurred that stie then escaped but was overtaken where the indications of a second scuffle wer2 fonnd and there murdered. The jury, we understand, mouely of a conviction that this was t ber death; yet, (will it be believed in the land of , and in the nineteenth century?) they In « verdict on paper that she ‘came to her some unknown meaas!” One of the jury- a friend of ours cox versed with, sald Mmore—the Grahams were such a desperate set that the whole neighborhood ing fliea toward hat abolition | down s0 a8 t) geta much difficulty. found nea: the plice 1,776, the highest | to see the baitle ¢, elections bein, teamnothing thea ef | Pe Selected, thon the evidence, the jury strong colors. Bt. Jo Shackle disgusted with the State, as men, they dared do notin, On the morning after the murder one of the Gra- bams and the negro man before spoken of, earl to build a hay stack near the house, and al le, inquiry and contasioa about the premises did pota moment delay their work us til it was done. ‘The circumstance has given rise to a suspicion tuat th re is something connected there. termipatir n has been exp essed ty hb moved. If anytiinz more of tis affar transpires our reade: 8 shall hear the particulars. A Movsrer ix Hiwan named Jacob Brenigar, is now nty, in this Sate, chaged with a se ves that surpass in horror any of the cld wives tell bad children to keep vet of giants whe lived ‘‘once upon a time.” reniger was formerly & Baotist preacher in While residing there dan ontrage noon his own daugh.e made the fact known, and Brenigar, with his fa- mily, moved over into Wioming. There he made apother attempt to rape his daughter. Sho.tly ef: terwarda, being desirous of obtaining a renewal of reach, which had been taken from ‘arolina, he applied to hia wife to re- tract the eharge abe had bro admit that she had sworn falsely. ‘This she to do, notwithstanding he infiicted re vere beatings upon her. At last, finding neither | would have_any in- wife out of bed, “ th man, unless it be J he hos it for the time. The Congressional nominations are attract In the first district, Mr. Eliot will be re-elected. it is supposed, as he will get many free soil and abolition vo' being satisfactory to gentlemen Mr. Banks’ chances of 0 should be up for something lent, and would hardé Mr. Upham is not so well situated, and his de- feat ia confidently predicted. The Know No- posed to him, and one of their earliest victories—that of Salem—-was won over the tet to which he belongs, He fs of foreign birth, being the son of a distinguished tory of our Revolution, who went to the Bri- tish provinces, where Mr. Upham was born many yeera later, wut who from choice took up his residence in Masachuretts, very torry to sec hiro defeated. He is one of the few men that have maintained the charae- ter of the Marsachusetta delegation for sound and accurate and elegant learning, and at the same time he hes high business qualities. I opponents, nw that Mr. Rantoul is | can bring forwerd no man who can be flingame is very commonly spoken of as the snecessor of Mr. Appleton, iv the Boston and Cambridge districts, as he i the favorite of the Know Notolngs, who | Very strong there, and also of the free so}h and the democrats. Tt would ex to see bim el ected by a heavy m Lo one ¢ cag es 4 for the mae age Mr. house the night before erren, an excellent man. but who can > afford to wait. Mr. Burlingame has boen epoken North Carclira. | to the mother dhat bore her.” better, are excel- bear improvement, persuasion, threats finence, one night dragged her ever @ piece of new stumps, injuring her, #0 seriously that she died a short time after giving premature birth toa child. refused to tell the mode o? Injuries; bot, findin, inevitable, made some of the neighbors acquainted with all the facta. The busband was arrested, released on bail, While under bonds, he attempt to decoy his niece, married woman, into the woods at the buck of her residence, but she told her busbond, who pnrsued the ruffi have killed him, but his gun missed fire. This ts cognizant of all the fa ough fur a0 vile a croa- igfon Democrat. statement we have o siding in Tazewell, What punishment is bad ture a¢ this monster i fvrrosep Munnen.—My, Knight, a well known | Englishman, a weaver, of bad babite, who lived | alone, (save a black women who did his honsekesp- | ing.) in a house near the Young Ladies’ in Pirtefiel}, was fonvd dead in His Weeneedas mornirg. One of his arms was and severe injuries were apparent upon hia head. | He ja enppesed to have been mardered, ada mis | who was seen i> cr about the # suspected of the crime—Springfield Repub | of for the United State: se torship, ae hia Everett’s suce sor. Mr. We stworth’s ro spectd of @re-election are pot+o gvod as they wert | before the whigs showed so much determins | tion to have all things their own way, like thé | marrow and bigoted fuction that they are. | Should not Gen, Wilson be run for Governor, he will probably be Mr. Wentworth’s eucoca- sor. Mr. De Witt will be re-elected from the | Worcester district, and Mr. Goodrich, from the | Berkshire, if nominated. Mr. Griswold, who is whigs, appointed for yesterday, was not quite | in the last district, isa Know Ne having 80 massive an effair as it was intended it should | The 2,200 members and over were found | to have fallen off from that number to lees than | 1,000. It was not possible to bring the men | broke his political neck. In most of the other up to the work in the great numbers thatit } had been resolved they should come. were called, and even chosen, but they would not leave their private business for the transac- tion ef publ c business, probably because most of their pumber are of opinion that the whigs are not likely to have avy business with our government for some time af er the meeting of the next Legislature. The statement was very common yesterday that many of the delegates were active members of the Know Nothing lodges, for it is a fact that the Know Nothings do not consider themselves bound to leave the old parties on joining the new one. The presidency of the convention was confer- red on Mr. Franklin Dexter, a_gentleman who used to be very prominent among our whigs, but of Jate years has been Iittie heard of in par- ty warfare. He has been out of the country for some time past, and is apparently not very well bo ked upin existing facts. He spoke like a man who had been asleep for some years and had waked vp in a whig meeting, Nebraska bill was especially denounced, and Mr. Dexter expressed the opinion that it would not be safe to open up New England to the ef forts of the slavebolders, or of those who would be slavehotders if they could; a sentiment which shows that he understands the state of society here thoroughly. There are thousands who would gladly see the “peculiar institution” 80 far divested of its peculiarity as to have an open chance to become established in New Eng- joined one of the Boston lodges ; and Mr. Whit- ney, of Conway, who hus been spoken of as the democratic candidate, mare a false step on the Nebraska resolves of the lass Legislatare, which districts, the present members are of such utter | obscurity, so entirely of no sccount, that, a3 yet, it is hardly possitl- to aay what their fate is tobe. Mr. Walley is exception to the remark, and but littl is said o' his prospects. pont egicl Nothings are numerous fu‘his dis- trict. A gentleman, who ought to know all about the matter, assures me that Mr. H. J. Gardnee is a Know Nothing inreabsolut- good faith, sud that he has as little sympathy with fogie whig- giem as any man in Masrachusetts, I am glal of it, for he has talents, character, energy, and experience, and could not be better employed than in aiding to tear dows the remipants of tha | strongholds of political flunkeyi+m. Mr. Morton is said to ve better, and there is a story that his physician says he wili recover. Tam sorry to be compelled to say that the story cannot be true, and it is probably a pure invention. A sort of faint denial of the ‘sick corn’? charge has been made. unofficially, by soma oficer or other of the State prison. [¢ is not said that the corn was not purchased, but thas for two days previous to the breaking out vf the cholera in the in+titution no beet of any hind bad been served out’ Toere is no way of arcertaining the correctoess of this assertion, as all the ba! ogi partics are interested ia preventing the exposure of abuses, and will stick by one another. The ravages of the disease, unprecedented 1n the medical histovy of the country, (about one fourth of the wheles number of the prisoners were more or lea afilicsed,) is now attributed to the atmosphere. A likely story, when we consider that the disease did not extend beyond the prison; or, if true, what a nasty, fon! place the prison musé be. They must bave, if not ‘sick beef,” bad air, which is too bad, seciug that good air is just as cheap as bad. There is to be a fair at Marshield next Wednesday, August 23. for the parpose of putting in order the old village cemetery, where lies buried the first white man born li New England, Peregrine White, and some of the Pilgrims, and where repose the ashes of Daniel Webster. Arrangements are to be made | to accommodate a large number of people, and | it is supposed that the Webster estate aud 0 mansion house will be open to visiters,. Those of your city people who think of coming taia way the present season could not do better than to visit Marshfield un tue 23d. ALGowa. Horiible Tragydy in Missourt. TWO MEN KILLED—-THRER OTOERO HANGED. We take the following frum the Parkville Lui nary of the 8th inst;— Just as we were getting ready for Fae par- ticular of a most shockiug «ff »y an dara heen varrated to us. The ovcariense was aS he ville, Clay county, on Mnduy afternoon. One man, John W. Douglas, was kiiled; Wa. Ros and Squire John Ress—father spd sou—were dangerously stabbed, not expested t recover; ako Ira Tri t, badly stabbed. The rerpetrat:1s, 8am Sha_kieferi,, Wn. Bhacklef ord and John W, Callaway, have beem hanged by the enraged citiaens, The 3 raid e been conpected with @ ua s that were commbting ia neighborhood; great indiguation existed, ee far to pase resolutions ordering them to Jeave the ace, which they refuseo to do, Prior to this Doug- jas had b<en instrome: tal i trecing 9 mule to Sam Shsckleford, who ccnsequently owed Douglas a g@udge, and on Monday lust the Gao met and an alter-aticn at Smithville, which ended so fataliy. We uncerstand that Duugles shot at Shacklefora, wightly wounding him, and thas | is brother Willi1a stabbed Douglas, The Rosses interfered, bat wore overpowered by the Shackicfords and Ca loway, aud ent down—they will not provably gurvive, Sawa Shackleford stabbed tho man Tritt, Cillaway ana the Shack)efords subzeqneaty took refuge in beg - Loose houses. An immebse crowd of citlans speedily collected at the ; lace, surrounding tie houses; and about dusk WiJliam Sha Kieford wos brought ont and forthwith haoged. ‘Shortly a!- teracrds Rte & was banged ‘Toate bin, bay- ing previousl: esed bis com Hoity wish the ot l- ers in horse stealle, Samuel Suackieford, who hud been wourded b a pistol shot, was gad to-be daa- gerously hurt; but this not beg true, about eleven o'clock at night ho too was dragged out and hanged. in thil esday) morning the bodies were ont down. The most inten-e excitement. prevails thronghout the vicinity. In tbe meantime, we ab- stain from comments, having slmply stated the facta as they were given ur. An extia from the Western Argus of the {th eaye:— ‘A fatal rencontre tock place at Smithland, Clip county, on Monday last, between a band of horce thieves, beaded by one “am Stuckleford and seven citizens of Clay, vames not known. Shackleford, who was still living, havin been shot throogh the neck, was hung up, togeth-r with two of his com- rades, a few hours after the frecas. It eeems that William Ross accused Shackleford of baving stolem moles in the county, whereupon Shackleford drew a pistol and shot Ross through tie bevd and stomach, of which be scon after died, rat, however, until he had mortally wounded Svacsleford. Another gen- tlemam, name not known, attempted to separate the parties, when he was stabbed by one John Callaway, who algo died of his wound-. Cal'away and Joha Shackleford then took refuge in s drug store, drag- ing Sam Shackleford a'ter them. who was still liv- ing. The citizens surrounded the st reand wok to men prisovers. Judge Linch rot bein, nt, they were all hung on the first limb, rH oon fessed that he belorged to vhs g«ng, and bed stolen inules, and his brother Bill had ran them off to aps Callaway was a mere boy, and. the two da were quite young men. Tt is reported when the election took place on Mondsy, these mea ee upon ® tree in fall view of the Beop. A Srxavtan Ixcrprnt—tn relation to the sv death ofa child whieh was1ua over by the care af Salem on Thursday evening, the Newburyport Hevatd saya: “The child bemg unknown, 68 the report spread abroad, hundreds rushed to the Bpty mothers and fathers e:quiripng wh:tber ft wag theirs; and muuy, like the wouun in New York wha was seked why be iisked ber life for ap unknowa child, did not full to remember tha! it was sore mother’s child, if it wes vot tb-fes. Most slogular of oll, however, was this: Nehemiah Brown, Hoy. who is @ coroner, was iu the c.o vd, and seeibg that the ‘bila waa dead, saic he wouls go home to ob- tain a blank for the holcisg of an inquest. As he was attending to that, the imrression came upon ba mind that be might Le more cl sely inte-estea inthe a cident, and on reaching the house, inquired where sn idopted child of that age, nomed Adams, might Le. He was informed that sue had been seat upon an erand into the neighborboca of the depot. He ickiy return wdat once recoguized the chiid selis. Ske was a beautiful, bright girl, thatche tak edo, ted from one of the Boeton iustitutions, whos last thought, Hike the thought of us atl, went backs JmrontANt ARRKST.—A not-rions forget of ‘ard warrants, from [inois, wus a rested in thig uty jo terday by Deputy Marshot James, HH» gors by r- ricus names, bot it is snpposed that bis proo*r name is Tobias Creig, and his aliases are W. Henderson, J, L, Keanan, W. Keanan, W, Neijaon and Wm. H. Heas, He waa pursucd to thie ity by M Bogess, of Monmouth, Warren county, Lil., who the actistance of Marshal James, by whom id Was scon caught, Mr. James wan concealed.ia tha Poet Office, when the man ho was 1s caliod for a letter, and be ing track of the fellow torongh various places ia city, until he finally sabbead him in the Pump Horse, in the First ward, and on searching him @ number of letters and papers were fouad; amoog them a quantity of forged e ale of the United States fd asf a seals of the Stave of Il nola, , This map fa supposed to be the head of a gang of land warrant forgers, aud from the letters found om bis person, haz at least teh sgents ia various so- tions of the conntry, and was dotoga bosine 4 He is also said to be a fugitive from jus ice iu Obi», haying escaped from the prisoa in Cinsinnad. Ha Wasivken west yesterday afternoon, ia chargo of ofil ver Bogese. racuse Standard, Aug. 18. Wiorrsare Borcarny av Gasenvinee,— Wwe have been shown @ Jetter from Greenville, Batle county, which states that in a general melée, om Monday Jost, Fetix Gafford bad bis throat cut avd died the day alter, J, Williams avd John Caldwell, were both cut op Fhe chingly are probably desd, and Wm, Wilteme, Prank Gofford aud Henry C.)4. well were all rerious'y wounded—Mobile 2\ dung an gust 12.