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. Hi. Farrryotor, G. 8. J THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 6641. INTERESTING POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. tMPORTANT WHIG MOVEMENT. THE SILVER GRAY STATE CONVENTION, Appeal of the Grand (Council of the Know Nothings, ADDRESS OF THE FREE DEMOCRACY. Meetings in the City and Suburbs, &e., &., ae STATE CONVENTION OF THE “3ILVER ” GRars.” ‘THE DELIBERATION 4X) THE CONCLUSIO! [From the Albany Fxpress, Oct 30) The gentleman who hands us the following, assures u: ‘that it is an authentic report of a private meeting of pro- mainent silver crays, held in this city early Inst week. It ‘ap importent item of political news, which we publish Mu. Eow.snve—The New Yorx Henan, anda number of other pxpers im this State, have buen’ speculating of late with reference to the actual position and probable action of the national whigs, or silver grays, as they are |, galled in the present canvass. They are all'in the dark, and very wide of the mark. J can inform you brie@y and authentically precisely where this class of whigs atand ow, and where they will be found on the 7th of Novem- ‘Der next. In view of the new issues of the present canvass, and the perplexities fuer mapient a number of the prom sent ‘conservative politicians of thi. 8: assembled early last sweek to talk over matters, aud decide upon the course that should be pursued. It was agreed upon all hands, that the national whigs should occupy precisely the position assumed by them at Utica, when they bolted the Syracuse nominations, and with Frank Granger at their head, laid down their memoreble platform. This being agreed upon unani- mously, the next question that presented itself wus— “When shall we act?” An emiuent New York city ‘sil- ver gray’? counseliled the immediate publication of an address, in order that the position assumed might exert all the weight it was capable of upon the issues of the t struggle. This proposition was voted down, and finally and unanimously resolved that an address should be prepared forthwith, setting forth in full the ‘views and position of the national wiigs of New. York, ‘and that it should be circulated simultaneously with the wesult of the coming election, and not in grder to inter- fere in any manner with the voting. Ido not doubt, from all this, but that this class of whigs ‘will repudiate the Syracuse nominations, and throw their votes in favor of Danil Ullman. The aoatiog: was held at Cougress Hall, and embraced the principle leading men among the national whigs. Tacace We say iu Use prover tikoe, teat tear’ dies’ ve solved upon to call a convention to assemble in Albany sa January, to reinstate the whig party on its old form. e address that will be issued will plainly declare the principles of the whig party; express a decided opposition to the Nebraska bill as a violation of the Mirsouri com- mise; stand by the whig principles established by the Rational Convention at Baltimore in 1852, and pledge the party to opposition to all propositions for the ‘fu- sion” of the whig party with any other for sectional party purposes, based upon the agitations of the day. Tt is thought by the fHlends of this important political movement, tliat the time for decision has arrived, and that the approaching winter will determine whether a Bational party shall cease to exist. Yours, truly, P. T. AuBany, Oct. 28, 1854. THE ATTEMPT TO REELECT WILLIAM H. SEWARD TO THE. UNITED STATES SE- NATE. 10 THE EDITOR OF THE RERALD. ‘There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that the Feward whigs are concentrating ull their energies upon the able issue of the return of their leader and chief to the United States Senate. His dofeat this winter would be the most disastrous blow which could possibly befall him, and would do more to darken his prospects for the Presidency than any other event. Noone knows the truth of this assertion or appreciates its force better than Mr. Seward himseff, and hence the concentration of all his force in the endeavor to secure a majority of the members of the ensuing Legislature favorable to his interests, and pledged to vote for his return to the United States Senate. To accomplish this end his condju- tors in this city have, by trading off the other offices, secured as the Assembly nominees men who are publicly known to be identified with his views. In the selection of their candidates they have, in a majority of cases, Drought forward their most popular men. In the Becond district, comprising the Third and Sixth wards, their candidate is Robert B. Coleman, one of the proprie- tors of the Astor House, a personal and political ad- mirer of Mr. Seward, and whose house has long been ‘known to be the headquarters of the Seward organiza- tion of this city. Now, few men (and certainly none within that district) possess a larger share of per- onal popularity than Captain Coleman; and but for his known fraternization with Wm. H. Seward, and his acknowledged identification with his views, beyond all -doubt his personal popularity would have gone far to- ward his election. But, sir, the time has now fully come to vindicate the honor of the State, and in the ensuing all personal preferences must be eschewed. The State of New York is at present represented in the Senate of the United States by William H. Seward and Hamilton Fish, both of whom are free soilers_and_aboli- tionists, and as a necessary consequence, the Empire Stato is classed among the free-soil States.’ This result das not been produced by the action of the people. The members of the Legislature, who six years ago violated their sacred trust, and made William H. Seward Senator, have, by the sentence of the people, long since been con- signed to the shades of political obscurity. Now, when it isknown that a lange majority of the peuple of this State are hostile to Mr. Seward, that they regard his views ‘as treasonable, and if carried Out, dangerous to the best interests and welfare of the country, yet in the very fs ‘of all this, the same trick iy about being and a stain inflicted upon the eseutcheon of our State, which will require six long years to wipe away. The union whigs of this city and State owe a duty to themselves, and by every principle of patriotivm should endeavor to avoid the ivipending calamity, For myself, though gray with years, I have never voted other than the whig tick- et, but my duty to my country is now pafamount to mere party allegiance. I can have no fellowship with any party of which Mr, Seward is the champion, As yet there isno national whig candidate nominated in this istrict, nor do I know that there will be any. My choice, therefore, must be between Robert B. Coleman, who re- nts the Seward interest, and Nicholas Quackenbos, ie candidate of the national democracy. With the former, I am on terms of friendly intercourse; with the latter I have never spoken. Now, as Mr Coleman is the champion of a cause, tomy way of thinking, dangerous to the reputation of ‘my native State, and as I believe, subversive to the honor and welfare of the country at Ia + my vote (unless a Union whig eandiiate is in the Geld) will be given for Mr. Quackenbos, the democratic who, if report be true, isa gentleman of edu- ~eation, high personal character, and sound and national in his views. To my brother national whigs I say, with all sincerity, “Go thou, and do likewise.” VER GRAY WHIG, Third ward. October 50, we! ‘THE KNOW NOTHING EXECUTIVE COM- MIC *EE. We stated yesterday, that tive of the nominees of this organization were members of the committee that nomi- pated them, thus virtually nvuminatiag themselves. ‘We were in error in regard to the candidate for Record- -er, John H. White. Mr. White, we have since learned, is not now, nor never has been, a member of that com- mittee, and therefore cannot be considered as a self-nom ‘inated candidate. He is the regular nominee of the whig party, and was adopted by the Know Nothing party without any agency +of his own. « momine AMERICAN STATE TICKET. At a meeting of the Grand Council of New York, held cat Odd Fellows’ Hall, in the city of New York, on the th day of October, 1854, it was unanimously— Resolved, That the president appoint » committee of Hfive, charged with the duty of preparing an address to *the Subordinate Councils of this State, setting forth the “zeasons that caused this Grand Council to ate in- be nat or icers, and ui upon brethren it their jurisdiction, the necesait cof giving to the tliet 40 nominated, hele united and v- gorous support, of electing 1 Legislature will faithfully carry out the principles of In accordance with the above resolutions, the follow- ing committee was appointed :— |. Sammoxs, Fonda, Mont- C. Smarran, Now York. bel Reeg A T. Scunxauer, ‘Brookly: ‘L. 8. Pansona, Albanye © a ‘To rar SuporDinaTe COUNCILS OF THE StaTE OF New Yorx: Tt has become the pleasure as well «# the duty, of ined, a committee appointed by the Grand Coun. il, to inform you, and throu; ou all the members of Our most trusty and well beloved Order, that an Ameri. MORNING EDITION—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31,. 1854. can ticket—the American ticket—has been put in nomi- nation for State officers, to be supported at the coming | general election. ‘That ticket for which is claimed, and which by no pos- sible contingency can fail to receive, your most cheerful, energetic and successful support, is For Governor: Daxter. Uiimay, of the city and county of New York. ; For Lieutenant Governor: Gestaves A. Scroads, of Buifalo, Erie county. For Canal Commissioner: Jostau B. Wiiiiams, of Ithaca, Tompkins county. For State Prison Inspector: Jaane: T. Sacxpens, of Peekskill, Westchester county. These vs minees are cach and all of them intelligent, trustworthy and patriotic citizens; faithful and truo to those great and vital principles the immediate and per- tmanent establishment of which are so essentially neces- sary to the perpetuity of a republican form of govern- ment, and the future safety and well being of society. A body of representatives, composed of over one thou- sand native born citizens, selected by yourselves, and in m your respective associations had and have the st confidence, after mature and earnest deliberation, selected equally from the two old political parties these candidates as future fraternal co-workers. With entire unity they concurred in the sentiment that honest, intelligent and patriotic officers in every | department of the government, selected from among | from birth, edueagion, habits of life and waem sympathies, though differing perhaps in some the mode of carrying on the mere inery overnment, Were safer depos political ‘power than the mere partisans, who: nations are the result of accident on. of corrupt political caucus combinations 0: In immediate and inseparable connecti: was that other equally important fact, wl be perfectly understood and fully appreciated the old political parties of every shade and were struggling with each other bitterly and w lously for the mastery, a common enemy, by distracting, controlling, owners ints first the then the other, was rapidly and certainly preparing t way for a final victory over all—sweeping the: principles, the old political landmarks, the old national sentiments, the very institutions themselves into com- mon isretrievable ruin. That power which is doing all this is a unit. one mighty head outside of our government. Its fol lowers, as unfortunately for themselves as for us, are commanded (and which command they implicitly obey,) to thi vte, and combat ouly as that sole and mighty head direets. Such is not the province of freemen, who though they may differ, yetin all things exercise the privilege of | thinking and acting independently, | Free specch, free conscience, free religious Protestant worship, were the great cardinal doctrines around which the founders of our republic stood, as an impenetrable | wall of fire. This belief in them inspired those founders with that gigantic faith which coull not in their day and generation be overcome. That faith led them and theirs to a certain vietory—a victory where no all absorb- ing church should be the head of @ persecuting State. Look ye now to that mighty foreign head, which is in the | full tide of successful experiment, dividing the old par- | ties into multitudinous fragmenta, that it may the more easily conquer, while with iron grasp it controls the every sentiment’ and action of its thoughtless de- yotees, who do not stop to think that unless this dread- ful purpose be stayed we and they are engulphed in a common destruction. Our mere politicans are rapidly by their policy consummating this inglorious end. That foreign policy seeks to slentroy our very form of overnment—we seek to save it for the commod good of he whole human family. It cries ‘peace, peace, but there is no peace,”’—we should prefer to live im bonds of charity with ail man- kind, and die with hope of peace beyond the grave. If indeed these thimgs be so, how can we have conf- dence in whoever may, le elected by any party which seeks to elect its candidates by such ‘anti-republican as- sistance? Are they not more or less chargeable with | this grave offence? If so, their candidates, when elected, cannot anti will not be entirely independent. We go, in all kindness and sincerity, but with uncom- promising firmness, for phicing none’ but Americans on guard. Such guardsmen, too, whose past lives are a guarontce for future conduct. Come, brothers, arouse—be firm, be ready, be steady. Stand ! the ground’s your own, my braves. Will ye give it up to slaves? Who would be a traitor knave, Let him turn and flee. The great American heart outside of the Order will come to the rescue, for it beats in unison with your own. Then advance, ‘Still as the breeze, Bat dreadful as the storm. olfok to the glorious past while hoping for the feazful future. Go to the graveyards of your venerated sires, and there think of what is to become of your children, and your children’s children. Commune with the dead. Go see How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their glorious honors blest. ‘Then strike one powerful, united, peaceful blow for y. ‘You can yet strike that blow through the ballot box. Brothers, we know we can conquer peaceably now. Let you this opportunity pass, and hereafter your chil- dren may sit by the dishonored graves, if even the graves themselves would be left of unworthy fathers. “The glory of the children are their fathers.” Shall be. Tt has Lives there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own my native land? Brothers, the issue is with you ! 8. . SAMMONS, C. SCHAFFER, L. 8. PARSONS, T. SCHNEBLEY, C. GARDNER. FREE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. In addressing you at this time on behalf of the free democracy of the Empire State, we cannot. but allude to the marvellous change which a few brief months have witnessed in the political aspect of our repub- lie. At the beginning of the current year, the two great | national parties are yet moving in consolidated masses, still professed to recognise the pledges they had given at Baltimore, in 1852, to discounteriance all further agi- tation of the slavery question, ‘whenever, wherever, or however made,’’ as ‘unnecessary, useless and danger- ous.” It was distinctly declared on their behalf that the last | concession had been demanded at our hands by South- ern slaveholders, and men hoped that slavery’ thence- forth would encroach no further upon freedom. President Pierce in his inaugural congratulated the country on ‘the existing sense of repose and security to the public mind throughout the confederacy,” and vo- lunteered his personal assurance to those who had himin his high office, that “it should suffer no shock during his official term if he had the power to avert it.”” ‘Thus much for the past—now for the present. That confidence, security, and, repose, those. eonven- tional pledges and inaugural oaths, have vanished into air before a breach of national faith, perpetrated by a Southern coalition of whigs and democrats, abetted "b Northern traitors, and Jed by the President himeett | armed with the executive patronage—a patronage, it | may be incidentally remarked, immeasurably greater | than ever belonged to Washington, and the control of | which in these days, by @ single man, is at variance with | the principles of our constitution, and hazardous to the Ubertien of the people. Already th voriied the prediction | of Jefferson of “the future tyranny of the executive power,” to which he might have added, its demoralizing | and degrading influence. The credit of the Nebraska perfidy belongs exclusively to neither whigs nor democrats. From its inception po- litical antagonists strove with each other for a share of the infamy that clings to those who trample on com- pacts. The violation of the Missourl Compromine origi- nally suggested in covert form by Stephen’ Arnold Doug: las, holuing # commission from a free State, but in fact an accomplice and tool of the slaveholders, with hom he is identified in interest, was presently proposed in bolder shape by a whig Senator from Kentucky, ‘The Southern whigs met in caucus, and sundering forever the national perty to which they belonged, reckless of their recorded promises—of the honor of the Sta of their own integrity, joined the Presifent and hi tors, and pledged theit support to the bill that was to | swindle the free laborers of the North, East and West | out of a territory ten times larger than New York; a ter- ritory which the slave power were honestly estopped from attempting to occupy either in whole or in part, since for a consideration long since granted by ua a accepted by them, they had given for every acre an im- mutable and eternal quit clam, Emboliened by the numerical strength thus acquired, the coalition resolved te consummate the fraud before | joined it. nd the should learn their design: day was insolently announced when they would arrest discussion in the Senate and push it to vote. That in- | tention, you will remember, was defeated by the vigi- Innce of ‘the free democratic Senators. Chase, Sumner and Wade—who were subsequently well sustained by our | they threaten. | which sims at the triumph of slaver The reverend clergy, headed by their bishops and. digni- taries, regardless ‘of vulgar aan, poe nen in the name of religion and humanity against the two-fold crime. The people everywhere in mass meetings, with- out regard to party, and under the lead of men venera- ble and trusted, give vent to their feelings in tones whose reverbera' ing thunder might have shaken Se caplet. But the Nebraska conspirators resolutely bra’ the storm. The popular sovereignty was defied, The ple’s protest wax unheeded, thelr resolves unread; Fenators, on presenting them, were insulted, and their sclema warnings were laughed to scorn, ‘Ihe slavery extensionints knew well the stake for which they played—they knew well that it was the cul- wiuating point of « series of triumphs over the free States, accomplished during fifty years, and that its au- premacy in the Territories, from which it had been ex- cluded by compact, once restored, the way was open for making America bgt en alave empire, and verify! the threat uttered by Wine of that “slavery would pour itself out without tt and find no limit bat the Pacific Ocean.’’ ‘The Nebraskn bill paxsed the Senate at midnight, amid ' oaths and dcunken imsolence,deseerating that once at chamber; and later it was passed in the House by » tion of its rules, #0 audacious that in an ordinary exse it would of itself have alarmed the country. But connect- el with the Nebraska swindle it attracted comparati litue attention, A contempt for the laws of the was a natural adjunct to a great outrage on the laws of the land; and it caused no that mon beat upon the jer, etration of & national traud, upon the betrays ot their country’s faith and their own honor, should &.1ip themselves of the outward ebaracteristies of gentle- mcn, and extend the perjury of the act to the very man- nv cf its consummation, With the passage of the bill that removed the land- wank of freedom, and opened pide ous Western territo- Hes to (he curse of slavery, At wax sup ular storm would be Inlled ik, we on former occasions of Teaser moment, grumblingly but «urely acquiesce. They judged of the freemen of the North by ts servile tutives at Washington, and naturally enough i that the indiviluals whom by tarns, on r of tl pitok they bullied and bribed, iavulted and cajoled, were sent thither by a constituency equally des- titute of conscience and of backbone. ‘they repeate! with scorn the declaration once reproachfully made By the New England statesman, “there fx no North.’? “They threaten us,” said the Charleston Mercury, “with a great Northern party. * ® If they were not mere Nucksters in polities, with only this pecullatity, that every man offers himself instead of some other com: modity for sale, we should surmise they might do what * * But they will dono such thing. ‘They wit bluster and utter a world of self-glorification, repre auppe | andend by knocking themselves under to the highest bidder.’’ It wax a mistaken reading of the times. The North.is not the craven that the South believed. The spirit of | our fathers is not extinct—their resistance to tyranny is not forgotten—their contempt for meanness and treachery still survives. great indignity may develope to their fullest extent senses that long have slumbered. It is recorded of gles, a Samian wrestler, who was born dumb, that see- ing unlawful measures pursued in a contest that would deprive him of his prize he had justly earned, his indig- nation gave him on a sudden the power of utterance, which bad been denied him from his birth, and he ever afterwards spoke with ease. The parallel will hold good for the future ax for the present, and the North hence forth, with quiet confidence, wilt declare its principles and pronounce its will. Its'resentment was slow to kin- dle, and it will be slower to abate. ‘The fall elections are now recording its sober Kecond thought. From Maine to Iowa, despite the struggling resistance of a desperate administration, the Nebraska perfidy is repudiated by an {ndignent people, ‘This result vindieates not only the manly spirit, but the intelligence of our fellow citizens, who refuse to be deluded for a moment by the empty sophistries in regard to the principle of the Dill, with which their understend- ings were insulted at the moment their liberties were be- trayed. ‘They have learned from the fathers of the republic their constitutional rights pver territories purchased by their treasures and subject to their control, ‘They have been taught by the framers of the ordinance of ’(7, the rexponsibility resting upon them in the protection and guardianship of their infant and de \t territories until they are organized into independent and sovereign States. ‘They will not consent to such a Ficlation of tis sacred trust and bounden duty, as the vefinquishment of that guardianship over the rights, destinies, and happi- hess of untold mi , until it is ‘resigned to the people of the territory constitutionally organized aa a State. The citizens of the free states have in times past, acted in many things weakly and credulously—they have fool- ishly given credence to the threat if dixunion repeated by North Carolina “as often as babies cry.” They have trusted—and for this none should Uhame t the ood faith of the South. But their weakness and credu- ity are at an end, and least of all at this time will they forget the lessons of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, to gather instruction in regard to popolar instruction in regard to popular sovereignty from Douglas or from Pierce. We need not dwell longer upon the character of the Nebiaska bill, Its unexampled bad faith—the falsehood it contains, that the Missouri compromise was defeated by the compromise act of 1850, while the Texan bill ex- pressly reaffirmed and reapplied the principle of the pro- Ribiticn of rlavery north at” 36 30-—the shallow pretence that it recognized the sovergjgnty of the people of the Territories, while it vested the appointment of their Gov- ernor, their Judges and other important offiees in the President and Senate, and refuted. to recognise the validity of any law passed by their Legislature unless “first approved by Congress, and various other quibbles equally contemptible, have been so thoroughly exploded that their repetition, as of late, by ex-respectable states- men, excites feeling chiefly of pitiful commiseration. ‘The obnoxious clause of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, so far from being entitled to respect as law, was in violation of all law, human and divine. Its intent was a crime—it is | saturated with fraud, and bears the impress of untruth. The true issue is before you—economically the policy of the slave power is to depreciate the value of labor, by multiplying laborers to whom no wages are to be aid: while your policy isto Deighton the value of Lites by: allaviog, ta. yuct ecsifertes, mo laborers icc cept those who may demand ‘a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.” ‘Politically, the slave power aims to rule the country by a slaveholding oligarchy—to extend their property representation through our western ex- panse—to away with despotic rule the general govern- ment, and devote its energies and resources to the con- version of the western continent into a slave empire. Already are efforts being made by Virginia to reverse the decision of our superior court in the Lemmon case, so that slaves may be brought into the free States—and New York be made a port of departure for the slave mar- kets of the South—and more southern States are seeking to re-open the African slave trade to supply wretched Ia- borers for the cultivation, not only of Texas, New Mexi- co and South California, but also as they hope of Kansas, in place of the free hands and stout hearts, whom helping us, will never permit that soil consecrated to freedom, to be desecrated by the lash of a master, or the abject submission of a slave. orally, the aim of the slave power tends to the ener- vation, the extinguishment of true liberty, to the degra- dation of man and the dethronement of God; and if it were possible their end should succeed, our western star of freedom on which the hopes of the world are resting, would set in a midnight of despair. Touching the manner in which, at the approaching State election you can declare your so will upon the present state of things, it is clear that both branches of the old democratic party have deserted their ancient faith, and joined themselves to the sectional coalition, over the corfatitu- the doctrines son, the one las. tion and the country. Open|; idin, and the practice of their great leader, J swears by Pierce, and the other by Douglas. Of the whig party, as such, nothing is to be expected. Although their present State’ candidates have to some extent acquired public confidence by their recognition of right principles, as a national party it is dissolved, nor again to be reinstated; for mutual confidence between its sections is gone forever. In fact, for years their union has been growing weaker, and the separation wider, despite compromise platforms, and all the chente- ry of resolutions intended to mean anything or noth- ing. It ix clear that the free democracy of the North— the men who intend to repel the aggressions of the slave power, and restore the national government to its origi- nal position on the side of freedom, have nothing to hope from the whig party, nor from any party that sceks conciliate and fraternize with the slavery eftensionists and repudintors of the South, Loop a, be, in fact, but two great national parties—the of faith and liom, and the party of repudiation ‘and slavery. The latter is fully organized, and the Southern whigs, with one or two noble exceptions, have cordially in be ‘The former is now rapidly organizing at the North. Of the Saratoga and Auburn conventions, which it was fondly hoped would unite the of this State under the broad banner of faith and we can onl; epeak with regret. We trusted that # generoun enthusi- asm in this common cause would supersede all desire own Senators, Seward and Fish—instantly sounded an | for the personal or political advancement of any set of alarm, well fitted to arouse the country. citizens of | men. while there was very much to commend in the free States, accustomed from chilahood to the ob- | the spirit and resolves of those , We are con- servance of good faith, were slow to believe it possible | strained to declare that our highest were that any Congress was base or bold enough to repudiate | disay ted in the omission to nominate 8 State 8 compromise which for thirty years tiad been regarded | which should represent not only the ana firm, inviolable, lable compact, consecrating preferences of the free democracy. It is an ne forever and without recall the territory north of 36 de- task to impeach the motives of those who, at Auburn, grees 30 minutes to perpetual, uni freedom—a com- | doubtless raw or faneis-! ‘ley raw e favorable ul r by the South, and approved | ; with whone name it was so in- | Cabinet, including pend Leen Le sina principles, Calhoun, Crawford and Wire of Southern As each morning’s telegraph, with confirmation dispelled their doubts revealed the dexign of Southern coalition, today wixtoc cere awoke to | spring tl their danger, ami the cl a upon a popular convulsion unparalleled in our | tory. The agitation was not confined to the abolitionists, | some of Shem slowed the Raamue-ebtesta bin aie | faction, as exhibiting on the part of the slave power, #0 distinguished for a subtlety, that madness | destruction. our | ith; the we: misers of 1860,” no had pledget South;’: 4 ror wi thomeelyes for the honor of the slaveholders, in regard- ing that compromise as a Legg 4 the merchants and mechanies of New York, who, in blunt phrase, held that | “a bargain was a bargain,” as one man revolted at such & breach of faith; and declared again and again from the | Tnbernacle, that with the repeal of the Missouri compro- | mise all compromises and all confidence were at an end. nity of reinstating in j+:1 ‘hat section of the whig party with which they ») mpathise, without diminishing the triumph of republican principles. But they should have remembered the original object of the convention, and while rebuking bad faith in others, they should carefully have avoited committing a breach of faith similar in kind, in repealing the rule of voting by districts, adopted at Saratoga, or in throwing Of the character of an ladependent convention by reject: ing the claim of the free heat te 9 to a representation, and nominating an entire whig ticket. The natural con: uence was the nomination by the free democracy of a ticket af their own. However much thia state of things may be regretted, it is now unavoidable. te Roi object pee R pce one if rebuke by ire State ie pe of the ME pag and the return to Songrete of teas men; and if by {he unfortunate errors at Auburn any find themselves embarrassed in voting for State o no such obstacle exists in relation to members of Con. gress and of our State Legislature. There you can ue Lhe e oe of the oe pea rue men an traitors, by vit person re. ferences, beast those po onl mie faitht among the faithlens. Touching the traitors, ove of your statesmen of the revolution when in a foreign Iand, refused to recognise a countryman and former frien¢ when he found him to be intimate with the traitor Arnold, and frankly wrote to Bim in terms that should be remembered in regard to the Arnolds of our day:—‘ The man who gives his hand to that man, in my opin on, poll it.” May God in his good providence guide and direct our counsels, that ui ting on the broad’ principles of freedom and justice to which our fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honors, we may restore our country to the moral eminence on whieh they placed her, but from which by treachery she has been hurled. That carefully avoiding all encroachment on the constitution. al rights of other States, we may succeesfully resist the increasing enercachments of the national government wielded by slavery upon our own; and utterly defeat the sectional coalition which has trampled ow the national faith, fmpaired the bonds of union, and brought infamy on the America name. Slavery is the ome element that ever disturbs our peace and threatens our stability. Originally vectiowal and lo- oy it eae at to become national and uaiversal; and now is turning point of our destiny. The power of deciding it is im your hands. Act, as the Seuth de- clare you will, as ‘‘hueksters in politics —“knosk un- der,’”'as they predict and hope, to the sectional coaiétion, which having betrayed and defrauded you, now oneers At your want of spiria, and all is Jost, and most of all, your honor, But act in the spirit of your fathers, dgive back toits bounds the wean tyranny that, overstepping cient landmark, seeks to lord it over the free citi- zens of free States; that is corrupting and degrading owr ‘litics and extinguishing all tht is noble and manly in land, and then freedom, honor; taith, will become, as of old, the moving prineiples of our republic. Let cach citizen who has felt the insult and the wrony of the Nebrarha perfidy, remember his personal responsi- bility, and swell by hin vote that record of condemaation which, gathering from State to State, is about to All ngress with honest representatives, who will convince the stave power that ‘ there is a North.’” JOHN P. HALE, HIRAM BARNEY,” JOHN JAY. CITY POLITICS. MEBTING OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN GENERAL COMMITTEE. Alarge and enthusiastic meeting of this committee was beld last night, at Tammany Hall—Lorenzo B- Shepard in the chair, and Charles H. Haswell acting as Secretary. The only action of the meeting was to pre- dq for the mass meeting of the s y at Tam- ony Halon ‘Thursday pa dint vas telfoast IL ofclock before the committee adjourned. WILLIAMSBURG POL ‘TICS. TEMPERANCE NOMINATIONS. Am adjourned meeting of citizens in favor of a pro- hibitory law was held last evening in Williamsburg, at whieh the following nominations were made:— Mayor—George Hall. Citp Judge—C. D. Culver. Comptroller—Wm. B. Lewis. e_iteanurer (endorsed)—J. 8. McKay and Crawford 0. mith. Auditors—Daniel L. Northrup. Collector—Horace Thayer. Chief of Police—John 8. Folk. iiatd Oficers Thirteenth ,—Alderman—John B, ells. Excise Commissioner—Joxeph H. Vandewater. Assessor—Jolin W. F. Smith. Fourteenth Ward.—Aldermen—Wm. H. Hiceocks, — Pink, Assessor—James Salter. Captain Police—James Gallaudett. Commissioner of Excise—Wm. A, Campbell. Censtable—George Young. The liquor dealers held a meeting last evening at the Odeon, at which addresses were delivered by J. H. Bowie, Chairman; Mr. French, of New York, and Col. Gardner. Kesolutions were also adopted in favor of sup- porting Go. Seymour for the gubernatorial chair. WHIG NOMINATIONS—FOUBTEENTHS WARD, Supervixor—Chas. H. Henry. Aldermen—" . Guischard, D, H. Brown. Assexsor—Zacat Police C; i G Excise—John New Youx, October, 1854. 3 Watson, ANDBEANDENT NOMINA: IONS—FIPTRRNTE WARD, Supervisor—Wm. Woodruff. Aldermen—Jox. W. Burden, J, Nesbitt ‘A —Mills P. Raker. ain of Police—Henry Boye table—Wm. Sheldrake, Lxcire—Gurdon H. Barter. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Sin—It is with great reluctance that I feel myself compelled to trespass upon your politeness fur an op- portunity to refute the calumny of Mr. Fitlmore’s organ, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. In that pa- per of the 284 instant, in an extract republished in your paper of the 26th, ocours the following paragraph :— In Brooklyn, C, J. Jack, a slippery sort of whig, offers himself as tin independent candidate for Congress, and is tully endorsed by the New York Times. This Jack was the'tool at the central clique in their operations at the Auburn Convention. He offered the resqyition to break up the district representation, and carried it by the voices of the bullies and State prison underlings, with which the Convention Hall were packed. Had the Advertiser consulted Mr. Havens, whom it expecially endorses, they would never have hazarded the putting forth the falsehood contained in this paragraph. Ideny that I was “the tool of the central clique in their operations at the Auburn Convention,” and brand it ax an Thfamous falschood, having no other foundation than the malice which invented it. Ideny that I car- ried the resolution referred to by the voices of bullies and State Prison underlings, and pronounce this asser- tion as false an the other; and I deny that there were any “bullies” in that convention, and assert, without the fear of contradiction, that the gentlemen composing that convention will compare, in regard to talents, in- tegrity and political and social influence, with any body Areata wis tare ever asematied (a opavection Ix’ this State in the last thirty years: And, in conchasion, I sert that in all I did, proposed and carried, I was no man’s, party’s, or clique’s tool or agent; any assertion to the contrary is utterly false. If it be any satisfaction to the friends of Mr. Fillmore to have been instrumental in defeating my nomination, and consequent election in this district, I wish them joy of it. €. J. JACK, Brooklyn, Oct. 28, 1854. Marine Affairs. Sanpy Hoox Piiots.—An advertisement will be found in another column, éntaining a summary of the annual report of the Pilot Commissioners to August, 1854. Some sections therein mentioned will be found particularly in- teresting to shipowners and masters. Naval Intelligenee. INVALIDS FROM THE MEDIPERRANEAN SQuADRON.—The ship Commonwealth, arrived at this port yesterday from Leghorn and Spezzia, brought home nineteen invalids in charge of an officer from the United States squadron in the Mediterranean. The following are their names:— George Harrison Hare, officer in charge; John Sadler, Mathew Basset, Wm. J. Morris, H. Brummel, Jas. Wat- son, John Munroe, Horace Robinson, Jno. Weyland, Wm. hite—the above from the Cumberland; Peter Pol- . Blake, Wm. Groves, Samuel Howard, from the St. Lo John Smith, Francis R. Swain, Jas. Knight, Jno. Stewart, Isaac Page, John Hazell, from the Saranace Slandering New Orleans. TO 1HB RDITOK OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. New York, Oct. 40, 1854. Some days since, the Tribune charged the New Orleans Felta with having made statements which never ap- cared in that paper. I corrected Greeley in this matter vy vending him the following note:— 54 New Yorw, Oct. 28, 1864. Honacr Grevusy, Esq., Epiron New Youx Tainune:— Jn your paper of this date, you make the reference to New Ori —"* Accor a will se it te falsehood. God knows, if 1 refer to the calendar of crime which appears daly Journal, modesty, if you have such @ virt Propriety, of saying ar little about New ( as 6. INO. P, HEISS, of the N. 0. Delta. the Zribune of. this morning, Gree! having received the above communication, but will not ich the same, on account of “its impertinence.’” He shifts the res ory eye the charge alluded to, on other paper published in New Orleans, and accuses it ‘with having declared some time since, that on the aver- age, one murder {x committed in New Orleans every eight kours.” Lam satisfied that in this instance Greeley las been ax unfortunate in shifting the responsibility of propagating such a lie upon another journal, as he was Inthe: first instance upon the Della. "A murler every eight hours, forsooth! Idefy Greeley to produce any paper, except his own, which ever contained such a foul and malignant slander on New Orleans. 1 will not charge his own brain with being the inventor of the calumny; but the principle—“‘a He well stuck to tx as good as the trath’’<-in this ease, will not answer, ipectfully, JOHN P. HEISS. ‘herefor that ou in'your dictate News From tHe Cars or Guop florz.—The sailing bark Springbok, Capt. Hurd, from Cape Town tept 1J, arrived here yesterday. We are indebted to Capt. Hurd for @ file of Cape Town papers, but they are exceedingly deficient in local affairs. The Legislature ‘was in , and there was some discussion with re- ard to the “ voluntary principle” in religious matters, fn being much opposition towards any goverament extablishment. The vexatious subject of the ‘masters and servants bill” had alvo been before the body, and a reference made to the home government as to the power of th Colonial government to repeal one of its propost- mn of the home government not to keep ication with the colovy war alluded to t. Two jackalls and a laughiag of the Springbok's oargo.— NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. ABOLITION RIOT AT WORCESTER, MASS. Vaprovoked Assault on an Officer. HIS MALTREATMENT AND FINAL ESCAPE. ‘FHE CASE OF BEALE, THE DENTIST. The Steam Frigate Contracts Awarded, &0i, &o., &, Outrage at Worcester, Mass=Great Excite. | mont. ‘Worosarmn, Oct. 30, 1854. Asa ©. Butman, the person who arrested Thomas Sima and Anthony Burns, was discovered’ booked at the American House in this city yesterday, and was imme- diately posted throughout the city. Im the evening a vigilance committee of citizens surrounded the hotel and watched Butman’s movements. He presented a pistol at them, and threatened to use it; whereupom a warean' was issued and he was immediately arrested, and thi forenoon brought before the police court, charged with carrying concealed weapons, The care was postponed two weeks, and he was required to give bonds for his PRICE TWO CENTS. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. SEBASTOPOL STILL RUSSIAN. | CONTINUATION OF THE SIEGE, Operations in the Baltic Ceased fer the Season.. THE JAPAN EXPEDITION. | The First American Merchant Vessel at Jedde and Simodi, THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. EXPEDITION TO SITKA, appearance. A large and excited crowd gathered around the court room, and it becoming evident that Butman’s life was in | danger, Mr. George F. Hoar, free soiler, and son of the | venerable Samuel Hoar, appealed to the crowd to let Mr. | Butman goin safety out of the city. The crowd gave way, | and Butman, accompanied by a strong guard, went to the depot, followed by the populace, where the colored men fell upon him, and would undoubtedly have taken his life but for the interference of Martin Stowell, James A. Howland, Mr. Hoar, Rev. T. 'T. V. Higginson, and Stephen 8. Foster, all abolitionists. Butman was placed in a: carriage, accompanied by Mr. Higginson, and thus escaped with his life. Mr. Higginson was censiderably cut by the missiles thrown at the earriage, and Butman was pelted with rotten eggs and stones, and was kicked'and beaten almost to death. Business Matters. COMMERCIAL BMBARRASSMENT. Bartimone, Oct. 30, 1954. Messrs. Hambleton & Son, an extensive dry goods house in this city, announce this morning that owing to the failure of other houses, and the stringency of the: money market, they have to ask an extension from holders of their paper, but hope eventually to meet all their obligations. During the day arrangements were made to meet all their liabilities, and they will continue business as heretofore. THE SACKETT’S HARBOR BANK. Burrato, October 30, 1854. The suspension of E. G. Merrick & Co., does not affect the Sackett’s Harbor Bank of this city, Merrick having | resigned the presidency before his suspension. THE CKEDITORS OF P. 8. MANCHESTER. Cincixsami, Oct. 29, 1854. The creditors of P. B, Manchester met to-day, and o pro rata dividend of five cents on the dollar was declared by them. From the South. THE YELLOW FEVEK—NEWS FROM FLORIDA, BTC. Bautmore, Oct. 30, 1854. The total number of denths in that city during the eek was 247, including 108 from yellow fever. | There were no deaths in Charleston, from any cause, | on Friday last. Intelligence from Tampa Bay to the 20th inst. men | tions that the Indians were porfeotly quiet. Billy Dow- legs had visited Fort Washington. The frigate Columbia was at Pensacola on the 22d instant. From Phifadelphi: THE ASE OF 8. T. LE—THE BODY OF A MAN FOUND IN A BOX. Puitapecruta, Oct. 30, 1854. David Paul Brown, Esq., counsel for Beale, the den- tist, filed to-day fifteen reasons for a new trial; amongst others, that the verdict was against the law and the evi dence; that the jury was prejudiced by irrelevant state ments, and did not find their verdict on the evidence duced before the Court; that they indulged in liquor | during the trial, and that some of the jury declared that | their minds were made up before hearing the evidence, | The argument of the counsel will commence on Friday | next, before the Court, in banc. This afternoon, the dead body of a colored man was detected in a box that had been shipped by Adams’ ex- press. The box was directed to a druggist in New Haven, and it is supposed it is intended for the Medical Univer- sity, as a subject for dissection. The Weather at the East. Boston, Oct. 30, 1854. The weather to-day has been exceeding unpleasant. ‘The city in now (7 P. 3.) enveloped in adense fog. Con- siderable rain has fallen at intervals during the day. The Machinery of the Steam Frigates. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 1854. The contract for the construction of the machinery of the remaining steam frigates has been awarded to Ader- son, Delany & Co., of Richmond, Va. Markets. CINCINNATI, Oct. 29, 1854, Some hogs are arriving here, but the weather is too warm for packing. The views of the packers range be- | low $4. ‘There is no relief in the money market. East | ern exchange is quoted at 13% per cent premium, and scarce. BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. Bauttmore, Oct. 30, 1864. At the cattle market to-day 2,100 head of beef cattle | were offered—1,100 were driven eastward, and 750 sold at | ices ranging from $2.50 to $4. The supply of hogs was | Tasge, and sales were made of fat ones at $575 a $6, and of stock at $475 a $5 25. Supreme Court—General Term. Oct. 80,—The deed from Nicholas W. Stuyvesant and wife to Reade and Hall conveyed the legal title. The rusts were good before the Revised Statutes. If a valid onveyance was not afterwards made by Reade to Hook- er, and by Hooker to Hall, and then by Hall to the cor- poration, then the legal title would remain in the heira of Reade and Hall, and the heirs of N. W. Stayvesa:$ would not be adjuged to have taken such title, as the thirty years have not expired. They, therefore, may be cajoined. If the deeds from Reade and Hall vested he legal title in the corporation, then there is an end of he matter, and the injunction should issue restraining he defendanty. n of dedication ix one of interest. If the Jax W. Stuyvesant and wife did not con- vey the legal title to Reade and Hall, or if such legal ti- | ligwas conveyed, aud afterwards on the of the | + Revised Statutes, reverted to Stuyvesant, still the o nal deed of Stuyvernnt is a very strong sive evidence of the intent of the grantors to dedicate or devote the property to public use. Mr. Stayvesant | lived eight years after the execution, delivery and record | ‘of that deed, and sevoral years after the passage of the revised statutes. It was executed simultancously with | other conveyances of large amounts of property by the { same grantors to the same grantees. In the partition ef the property of N. W. Stuywerant, after hin death, | among his heirs, the piece of ‘land in suit was laid down ax an epen space where two principal strects unite, and | such streets, and their union at such open space, are | Inid down on the partition map, This map was signed | by all the heirs in various places, and sealed, and was pitently an act of great dgliberation. ‘The subsequent «by the heirs appear to have been made by this map, which is referred to generally in their conveyances, on ed a part of them, This partition map was made nineteen years ago, and it seems to me should be considered «trong if not conclusive evidence of ratifiea- tien of the decd of the ancestor, if not of dedicatioa on the part of the heirs themselves. In each aspect of the case, therefore, we sce that there should be 8 perpetual injunction, If the deeds of Reade and Hull did not ecnvey the legal title, then such title would remain in their heirs. If the corporation became vested by reaxon of the conveyances from Reade and Hall, then such public use of the property has been or- dered by them ax was designed by the original grantors, | snd os speeised in euch criginal deed. If neither of the prepositions be currect, ancl the legal title vested in the | Jefendants on the death of the anerstor, then, we think it very manifest that the defendants devoted or dedicat- ed the pre ty themselves to the public use, We think | alto that the defendants are precluded by the proceed- ings in the Bupreme Syurt, taken foe opening this place | a8 & public square. judgment of the Special Term is affirmed with costs if not concla The War én the Crimea—The Last NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA. THE RECENT COMMERCIAL FAILURES, Improvement in &., Cotten’ and Breadstuf%. &0., ie. The Collins mail steamship Pacifte, Captain Nye, from Liverpool, where sho sailed at 9 o’cloek on the morning of Wednesday, the 18tli, arrived at this port at 10 o’clook yesterday morning. The steamship City of Manchester, from Philadelphia, arrived at Liverpool‘on the morning of the 14th, after run of 12 days and 1334 hours, mean time, The clipper ship Red Jacket arrived in the Mersey om the morning of Sunday, the 15th, with advices from Mel- bourne of August 1, having accomplished the return trip in 7334 days, notwithstanding having lost some time im the ice. The Red Jacket made the run out, from the Mersey to the anchorage at Melbourne, in 693 days, thus completing the voyage from Liverpool to Australia and back in five months and eleven days, Being the most rapid voyage ever made. On the voyage out her average day’s work was 2054, miles, the smallest progress 50 miles, and her greatest 400 miles im 24 hours. On her return, the average speed was 263 miles, smallest day’s run 31 miles, greatest 376 miles. The Red Jacket brought 45,000 ounces of gold and 28,000 sovereigns, She reports the Lightning and Cairngorm clippers arrived out, The Guiding Star had also arrived at Liverpool with 50,000 ounces of gold, and’ Melbourne dates of July 25. The Cunard steamer Arabia arrived off Holyhead at noon, and at Liverpool at seven o’clock evening of Satur- day, the 14th, bringing no news whatever of the unfor- tunate Arctic. ‘The Canadian mail steamer Ottawa arrived at Liver- pool at 5:15 P. M. of the 16th, also without intelligence of the Arctic. The following notice was posted in the Underwriters? rooms at Liverpool — ‘The royal mail steamer Canada, apoken on the morn- ing of the 5th inst., by the steamer Arabia, made great exertions to communicate with the latter, but the only word heard was ‘saved.”’ She then tel ped the Axetio's npsoher. ana asvacahceuer Kigpumes tat the res es were by that time too far apart for them to be made out. The arrival of the Hermann was looked for with anx- ety, in the hope that she might be the bearer of gratify - ng news. The Car has declared martial law in the governments of Charkow, Pultawa, and Kiew. The Couneil of Tanzimat has been appointed im aceor- dance with the decree of the Sultan, mentioned some time since. Ali Pasha is president, but Fuad Effendi te the ruling spirit. The Conneil consists of Alt Pasha, Mchemet Ruchdi, Rifaat and Hifai Pachas, Ruchti Molla, | Effendi, Fuad Effendi. Gortschakoff, it is said, is appointed Generalissimo o€ the forces on the Austrian border. At the recent great fire in Memel the whole place would have been burned down had it not been for the exertions of the American and English sailors then im port. Mr. Upton, an Englishman, settled in the Crimea, som of an engineer of fortifications in Sebastopol, has beem taken prisoner by the British, and is sent to Lord Rag- lan’s headquarters to have information extracted from him respecting the works, Advices from Portugal are very unfavorable, both as regard the wine districts and the general position of affairs commercially. At Lisbon numerous failures had occurred, including some of the French houses establish- ed there, as well as several native firms. Sir Edward Belcher was under trial by court martial at Sheerness, (Eng.,) for his mismanagement of the Pola® expedition. The inquiry ix pro forma merely. Prayers have been offered in some of the Irish Roman Catholic chapels for the souls of the brave who fell at Alma. Cholera continued to spread in Dublin. Despatches from Madrid, of October 11th, state that the foreign refugees have received orders to leave the city within eight days. Those only who can give good reasons for their residence, or can offer security for their good conduct, will be allowed to remain. ‘The Bulletin de Lois contains an imperial decree re- instating M. Jerome Bonaparte in his quality of French- man. His son, Lieutenant Bonaparte, has joined the army of the East. Henry Manning, an apprentice on board the bark Old Hickory, at London, fell from the main yard and was killed. The captain and crew of the Walter R. Jones, of Philadelphia, had arrived in London, and reported the hey were provided for by the consul. The ship Goodwin, in charge of a pilot, ran ashore on the Long Sands, (England,) and will become a wreck. The following telegraphic intelligence, of the Sth ult., from Constantinople, is from the Presse:—‘‘For the first time for four hundred yearn, a cross was publicly erected n the Turkish capital. It was while a funeral mass was read for Marshal St. Arnaud.”’ The London Times saya:=The accounts of the state of trade in the manufacturing towns during the past week. show some dulness, although, with the exception of Manchester, confidence is everywhere maintained. A’ that place the transactions have been limited, and th depression caused by the recent failures bas not paswe.! off. The Birmingham reports describe no alteration in the iron trade, The demand is generally steady, and in the manufacture of plates for shipbuilding there is im- creased activity, caused by the government orders for gunboats, to be completed by the spring. Notwithstand- ing the present maintenance of prices, some persons em- tertain doubts regarding its permanence, owing to the continued augmentation of furnaces. In the copper trade there is renewed firmness, and the business of the district altogether is still characterized by freedom from failure, claims being in almost all inetances well met. At Nottingham, although the American orders, in com- sequence of the embarrassments on that side, are unpre- | cedentedly small, quotations are steady, and the home demand is active. In the woollen districts prosperity still prevails. The Irish Hnen markets continue heavy. The Liverpool cotton market was firm, with stiffer prices. : Breudstuffe had advanced. A large failure had oc- curred in Ireland in the corn and provision trade, Consols were quoted at 0455 0 1494. , Our London Correspondence. ‘ Loxpon, Oct. 17, 1884. , Reports—General Vow Osten-Sacken—Reinforcements to the Alliee—The Ger. —Denmark—Turkey—Sprin— Musical Gossip—Cruret- Ui Abeconds from Paris—The Theatrical Season in Lon~ don—The Campaign in the Baltic. ‘There bas been a complete lull in the exc'ting news of the preceding week, and quite a dearth of intelligence ‘Wo have not received any further mews from the seat —_ ee