The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1855, Page 2

2 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1635. Ulizedethan and c¢veral other styles, Jooks in the distance more like an almshouse than anything else; and yet it isone ef the most expen- sive houses in Newport. The grounds are, however, very fine, and the location a most excellent one. Singular to say, the beach road has become slight- ly disroputable, and there are several cottages “to yarge and substantial house of the modern Italian | let” apon it, David Sears, the millionaire of Bos ‘tyke of architecture, somewhat varied to suit the | ton, tus a cottage in thia vicinity. His estate here taste of the owner. The grand entrance faces to | ismach admired. Mr. H. Allen Wright, of New ‘the west, and is a square tower of three stories, sux” | York,.has built a first clasa stone house oppo -mennted by an observatory. There is a sea view | site to that of Mr. Sear, Mr. W. H. King, of New fom every side; that to the southwest is particularly | York, occupies the house formerly owned by Mr. ‘five. The firet floor is devoted to the library, draw- | Samuel Ward. fag and dining rooms. ‘The latter is a very interest- Mr. J. Prescott Hall, formerly United States At- tag apartment, and al! its arrangements, including | torney for the Southern district of New York, enjoys the means of communication with the cuisine, are of | Lis of. cum dig. in what ig called the Malvone House, the latest and most approved style. The first story } abouta mile and a half northeast of the Ocean ef the tower being the grand entrance, is guarded | House. Mr. Hall isa winter as wellaa a summer ay a knight in armor, pleasant recognition of the | resident. Indeed, the people who have cottages at dogend that this island was once inhabited by a race | Newport do not leave before November. The cli- ‘antecedent to the “ Injines,” and that white men | mate is very mild, end the autumn is qaite as plea east their linea in these pieasaut places long before | sant ax midsummer, the frienda of Sir Harry Vane and Anne Hatebin- Mr, Myers, a well known Germon merchant of #on were cast out from the elect of Massachusetts { New York, is building a fine house at Fort Green. Bay Colony. ‘The second story of the Reefs tower | Mr. Duncan Pell, a leader of the fashion in New Wa pleasant rendezvous for ladies’ sewing partics | York, lives in the stately old fashioned mansion, aad after breakfast chats, while the third and fourth | owned by the Perry family, and inherited from the Vroprietor, who brings to hia retirement thoag active ‘wasinees habits which laid t ¢ foundation of hiv well earned fortune. A merrier man thax this same Mr. ‘Wolfe we never had an hoar’s talk withal, and his saccess is 2 complete verification of the Hibernicism ‘Met if you want any one to do apything well for yea yoo must do it yourself, The Reefs Villa ‘se ‘are made equally useful. The same remark will ap | Van Rei erie Mr. Robert M. Maitland has a ply to every room in the house, The hall flooring is | fine house on what is called the “Dyer farm.” Mr. @ white warble, the grand staircase is solid black | Livingston, of New York, resides in Mrs, Devhy’s ‘walnut, and the house throughout is fitted and far- { cottage during her absence abroad. Mr. W. B. Rus- nd Wi mithed in the most snperb manner, and with “ai! the am Jones, have pleasant ‘Modern improvements.” Water iscarried to the top | Louse here. families of M. Sebieff (french) ef the house by a force pamp, and thence distribat- | and Mr. Bayord, have bired cottages for the sea: ry apartment. Gas, which has [ Mr. Pr ‘arker, of Boston, has a house here. fately heen introduced in Newyport, will soon be sup- | We have (lus endeayored to set forth ihe Piied to all the houres on this road. At the rour of the Reefs Castle is a !awn sioping to the sea. The Righ binff has been sloped and godded, and a sea ‘wall informs ojd ocean, “ thus far shalt thon ge phase of stripped tion, T me farther.’ A carriage road encircles the entire | W! , and that is, t @omain, whiic the public path has been widened and 1e. With this desideratum secu improved. thout donbt, the most enj Th tmosphere is, upon ra! h sali pors, which thing aud are very The soil atthe souther: sandy loam, very fertile; farther in clayey, but stil very good. Ther! and one mey have the produce ot the b to his own door by the prodcoer, and thus he ha pay only ore profit. The taxation is li b placed at the rate of thir There is a little i which is worth repeating, When Miantonomi @anonicus, chiefs of the Araphoe, Pokanoke Marre gansett Indions, sold this island to the whites for six coats and nine hoes, they stipulated that the wight to hunt, to walk, and to fish, all along the shore; should remain to them and their people for ever. Tho Indian ef Newport still i fhe shore; and a delicious promenade it ia, too. ‘Wiliam Beach Lawrence has protested agai and walled his lands down to the sea. The wall ‘has, however, been mysteriously thrown down ay goon as put up. It is tothe credit of the ovher Wealthy residents here that, so far from attempting ‘to close up this pathway, they have generally im- Proved ft, aud the proprietor of the “Reefs” has Placed comfortable seats, where the weary ped trians may restand enjoy the delicious se: Phe gentieman who obstructed the path, the Probably right according to law, has only succeeded ® making himself detested by both rich and poor, stranger and ¢! 5 The description of the “R answer forall. The marine vil quite equal in elegance and convenience to th Teridences in town. They are, in many cases, ished from the best manufactories in Paris, and Blorious in the manutactures of Lyons, Brasse Austria. Next south of the Reefs we have the ‘honses of Mr. Daniel Parish and Mr. B. ¢ rican people ly prefer what is practica) and useful, rather that which is beautiful, elegant, tasteful and Telined. Tere, however, there seer the dawn of the dey of better things. Ata’ Prigon and Lunatte ents run towards ihe modern Vewport 2 lien so much, th but this isa fault which will remedy itself every year. When a few minor mat- h ver, and that new beach r d will really b e paradise of 4 rented la ibe season g from five red dollara ed. Thisis a good ren’ aQyoar, 5 two or three our, of Mew York city. General Cadwallader, of Phila. | but it is paid for o @elphia, celebrated for his gallant conduct in | months. This style of the riots and the Mexican war, has a large quantity } sive, but much m ef land hero on which ke has made preparations for | & tashion: : 8 PI building. In the meantime, he occupies a couye- | 8° to the fushionable hotels, which are better nien? although small house. Still following the ayo- | formerly. almost as full, an mue to the sea we come to the residence of M, ter, of Boston, and Mrs. Cleveland, of Ne Seok, while on the extreme point are the chiteaur of Messrs. Phalen and Payne. We have referred above to Mr. James Phalen’s ‘onse, and it merits a still longer description than ‘the limits of a newspaper article will admit. Op J site to Mr. Phalen’s we sce the pretty cottage .4 Messrs. Rhodes and Mason, of Providence. Mr=” Rhodes is a true disciple of Izaak Walton, and he ja probably anxiously awaiting a cloudy day anda storm to bring the thirty pound bass within reach of the rocks at Land’s End. A little further on to the south-west we notice a sort of rocky nest—a small eottage built by Mrs. Harper of New York, and founded npona rock, The lady isa devout Roman Catholic, and has a chapel aitached to her house. Up the road again, and adjacent to the Reefs, the Hhon. George Bancroft, historian and politician, has @ neat and spacious house. Mr. Everett has been here lately, and political quarrels have probs ‘buried by literary affinities, Professor Longfellor4, sometimes called the Tennyson of America, makes tropes and hexameters in the immediate ne! dood. Mrs, Parkman, of Boston, widow of Dr. Park- man, has a house in front of Mr. Bancroft, and next to her we find the mansions of Mry. Ritchie of Bos- ton and Mr. Ludiam, of New York, agent for the Southenn steamers. Now we have arrived at the port dge and splendid arched gateway of one of the finest and most extensive houses in Ameri Mr. William C. Wetmore, the we China merchant, of New York city. proprietors jus the height of th pondents will sho HIGHLANDS OF NAVES Tuomrson’s HIGHLAND PAVILION HIGHLANDS 0. ‘ASINE, August 11, 16 Enjoyrente of Nev Ball at the Metropor g Branch—Grand Regatla—The B Club—Ancient Chivairy Revived—Noi Se, $e. The hoiels here are now crowded, and we a the fall enjoyznent of the pleasures peeal place. Fishing, bathing, rambles in the woo templotive walks along the beach, apleasant aud concert pow and then, huckle and ing, &e., &c., fill ont the plegsant hours away £0 smoothly down here. We have 1 sea, spaugled with pouting white sails and the wooded highlands, fragrant, slaly aud mo ng high in our rear. The two steamboats—the James Christopher and Occana—arrive al our dock, daily, with crowds of happy looking holiday peopl The gentlemen glistening in clean shirts, end p white vests— the soap-polish on the enda of their happy looking noses harmonizing well with the smile of enjoy- met, cailed forth by the lovely scenery and pare air. The } the lethargy and wilted a)» The place ii 8 the letters our corres: jred TESPCCtADUTEY, Sods the per an to be imbucd with a bap, Tt is built Hotel, at Long Branch t, to which many ir two yearsago. The drawing are furnished from the money has been la ed on the Tangements of the hous the most mer. There is a fine conservatory attached, ond the sea sir is « tempered with the odors of the s The liberal proprietor of this house, w finer than movy royal re give ten thousand doll tinnous roud around t thorities did not accept the proposition to pay the Bost. The money expended on this house, with ils marble floors, oaken stairways, and ma niture, would be a fortune for any six d receptios French ate & nd enjoyir ably disposed individuals, Beyond Me. Wet ye vat :~ Se area we find the houses of Mr, Lyman, of Boston ie making hay Charles H. Russell, of New York ; and Mr. C. ty all who wili fayor them with a call. As ce of their courtesy and gallantry, | may "ged of ladies and gentlemen were irewsbnry river, and being over Sandy Hook for shelter, : yoy, fed to their De Rham, of Wew York. The last na man has long been one of tic lea, Opposite to Mr. De Rham, whose chateaa is th south of the Ocean House, Mr. Brown, a wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, has com C and will pu atine house. The peculia ra about this part of the town is, that the proper t all held by wealthy men, and there are no h entertainment I looking houses to interfere with the beauty of prospect, The reader is now supposed to have retarned to the breezy colonnade of the Ocean House, and he re will notice several fine residences on the other side | ing at of the str he property of Mesurs. Jones, Robe been and wife ai gon and Powell. 7 suey are among the finest houses | many other no in Newport. In the rear and towards the " ii the south, are the mansion und extensive grounds of arie Mr. Raward King. Mr. King leaves his gates open, and thus makes a pleasant drive throu, Mr. John G. Weaver has a neat ond next to the Ocean House. It is his winter and is rented during the summer. It is, at present, ov- cupied by Mr. W. W. De Forrest, of New York. On the same street we have the New York Yacht Club House, a great resort for the aristocratic Newport” era, and opposite Engs’ house, at present occupied by Mr. Dudley Persse, the famous paper maker, who occasionally astonishes the natives by driving the | the Jersey pines to Camden, where they have pro- finest four-in-hand team ever seen in these parts. | cured free tickets on the two hour express train for Taking a sweep through a pleasant road, oversha- | the great Atlantic city. But our celebrated Cape is dowed by trees, towards the beach, we come to the exempt from this great annoyance, Visiters at night Gibbes’ mansion, which isin a most pleasant and | enjoy the most luxuriant repose, ambrageous spot. Farther on the beach road we | Correspondents seldom dilate on the numerical re- come to Delancy Kane's failure, a mongrel of the } lation of the two populating colors. At te height AY. y fay, August 7, 1855. Mosquite Nigger Impertinence—~Scrimmages with Hotel Waiters—Row at Miller's—Nigger Magnanimity, &¢., §¢- This island may be regarded as the best sea- bathing place any one could desire. The lofty breakers amply compensate for the tedions steam- boat ride, and the mosquitoes have travelled through nttage sidence the qna'ticiations, quite Amit og shad tendant ‘at the laces, ; ‘This should On the waiter ust now solely depend to attention and. discreet, be ior 80 pot and requisite to bring hotels into Last season, at the United States, Saratoga, the waiters engaged in, shocking ions at the very of goeates. Ido not know whet season. poets thie ware seis te motel ma, an noses, er i ap- pendages to the human frame, mutilated. ‘There isa well known peg nigger who works in a house in Front street. thinks it great Nemes cee part to allow mankind to bree Althongi may 3) iT stran, t stranger are the freaksof the vemmen’ au e island. There is a famous bootblack at one of the houses who car- ries the stilts to that degree that he actually terrifies his customers into his own notions of liberal remn- ‘ALOR. His plan might be copied with success at Wash- ington. It is original, and is given to exhibit the recklessness and effrontery of the waiters here. Ac- cordivg to their theory anippainanee is freedom, which persoades ns that our inatitution of slavery is correct. iT. As Gur Montreal Correspondence. Monrnwat, Aagust 4, 1855, Departure of the French Naval Officers—Wind up of the Festivitiee—The Grand Dinner-—The City Press and Codfish Avistocrats—A Military Visit * Bepected—Visit of New York Citizens— Thea Trade, Money and Crope. “rench visiters of La Capricieuse have ieft us, aud Montreal tg once more itself again. The pollic festivities in honor of Commander De Bel terminated on Thursday evening last, by a 0 e instrumental concert on the Champ de which the demoe mustered in full force, and Young Canada was particularly exuberant in noisy demonstrations of welcome to the naval repre- e of fa belle France. A constant fire of Chi- crackers, reminding one of a fourth of July celebration, was kept up, and an attempt ut fireworks terminated the demonstration. nese At the recent pnblic dinner to the officers of La Capricieuse, the usnal courtesy of an invitation to the Press was not extended to the corps editorial, conse’ quently the leading city papers were spared the trou- ile and expense of putting into readable shape the unmitigated twaddle that escaped on the occasion. A gentleman here who is, or pretends to be “quite ” and a -who certainly can- d of underrating his own importance— on that the press is bound to report all the atter-dinner nonsense tha porates on such occa- sions, and th " i the report the fleshes of brilliant oratory, ten dollars The members of the ‘fourth es- ifferent view of the matter, joined in the demonstration of welcome to the city’s guest, ab their own expense, refrained, 0 it appears to me, from inflicting npou ne speeches of the evening; and the was a low fig tate,” B id 30) therefore, profoundly ignorant of the artling eloquence that ¢ dd the solons of St. ‘¢ Hall, or the witticisms that kept the table Montgomery Guard, from your city, are short- cted on a yisit of pleasure, bane ly invited by the Young Men's St. Patric! On this oceasion Know Nothingism will vally knocked inte a cocked hat, and 3 will be oratorically demolished by i ying” of some of our Hibervian «\t - ) ™ of w strongly advocate a regalar ypede of the Roman Irish from the United States to this bliestul provinee, Canada East. Some two thousand citizens of Vlattslurg, N. Y., visited Montreal on Thursday last, and were re- ceived at the railroad depot by the Mayor of the y, end thence escorted into town by the firemen, preceded by Decompte’s band. ‘the visiters were well received, the day ex edingly fine, and the iy returned the same evening, It is to be hoped, i) pleased with their excursion; althongh, J opine, some few might require on the following morning the aid of Congress water to obliterate the reminis- eences of occasional visits to ovr restaurants, within whose nets the prohibitory jaw has notas yet intruded. The theatrical season,all things considered, has heen jy ty fair, so far, this summer. Mra. Buck- land. an off established favorite, has lost none of her attractions with a Montreal audience. We have had likewise fessional visite from Davidge,a great card here; Mr. and Mrs. Conway, and Brougham; and next week two cirens companies ay . Business of all kinds is excessively dull fust now, and the money market tight, although the appear- ance of a most abundant crop of all descriptions of grain tends to revive the drooping spirits of our mer- chants, and to afford grounds for the anticipation of a healtny autumn or fall trade.‘ So mote it be.” Kxow Noraixe. Spain Rinar, Miss, July 27, 185. Population of Hinds County--Churches, Academie and Common Schools--The Liquor Law-—Pobiti- ca! Preparations for a Cumpaign—A Plentiful Haz vest. mninent among the characteristics of Hinds is its deservedly high reputation for intelli- d refinement. While for fertility and pro- s it may not compare with many other cornties in the State, yet its soil is admirably adapt edto the maintenance of a large population, and sufficiently ful to repay their well directed forts in agriculture. Hence it is settled Dy a class of people for the most part in comfortable circun§ stances, ond with leisure to devote to the perusal of the current news of the day. Many citizens of the State, who enjoy a national reputation, ave residents of this county. No little attention is paid to education, as is evidenced by the number of academies and schoo!- ea which dot the country, giving substanti I which follow wherever the ained and patronized; and hurches, erceted for the conve- ‘y neighborhood, is any evidence » of morality and religion among surely the citizens of Hinds may moral and religious community— f ings—humble or more pretending, according to the umstances of the cormnmuaity in which they are located—may be seen occupying beautiful and eligible sights at ew intervals the country. itants eeem to enjoy a high state of pros- are surrounding themselves with niany comforta calculated to heighten their social ments. The capitol of the State, Coopers’ , Holmes’ Infirmary, and the Mississippi Springs, attracting large sof visiters at certain ecasons of the year, uf revery surplus article of consumption they cau raise, whieh gives them a very decided advantage over other commnu- nities, which do not have a market at their doors for those commodities they have for sale. The liquor law seems to work admirably. After a sojourn "te the State of several weeks, during that time mingling with large crowds brought together npon political and other occasions, where there was no lack of tement, I have seen only two or three men at all into ted. T have seen no grog sho; those sinks of iniquity from which liave issaed those pestiferons streams which have polluted and corrupt- ed the whole current of society for so many lon, years in this and other States. They are all close: up, at least } have seen none, and the people of this State are, so far as liquor is concerned, disenthralled and free. Political excitement is beginning to ran very high, and the si of the times hetoken another Harrison campaign. The democrats and Know Nothings are organising their forces diligently for a aon ance of vigorons defence of their respective Hoth parties have called to the hustings and most el try is thoron; are the sui After a ns ee and al the coun- upon the which Bed tuperencd beteeos ners and almost tnd Its now almont wwe that thers a tll be no incl of bread In the faad the nese year, Sosovares. Cag pieten The Season— Musical Property—Female Medical College—U. 8. Agri- cultural Exhibition—Camp Meeting—Bradfard's History—Te Mquor Low—Mr. Lawrence— Population of Lynn—Cape Cod Telegraph— The President “Coming North’—An Old Sermon road Damages— Buildings on Boston Wharves— Charlestown Improvements—An Arrest for Bri- tish Recruiting— Politics, &c, We aré. drawing toward the close of summer, without having had any such season. From the be- ginning of Jnne’ until now, s period of more than ten weeks, we have not had more than ten hot days. A milder season was never known. Colder sammers we have occasionally seen and felt, but this has been mild, as distinguished from either extreme of heat or cold. The towns that are usually distinguished for their heat have this summer been moat remark- able for their coolness, Of rain, we have, perhaps, had a trifle too much, and any addition to it, for some time to come, would be rather inconvenient than otherwise. The appearance of the country re- minds one rather of Old England than of New Eng- land, the verdure is so deep and 90 dense, aud there is altogether so fresh and so wet a look about it, quite unlike that harsh, dry and disagreeable aspect that it usually presents in the fiery month of August. Ofthe crops I shall say nothing, as the gentleman whose writings on agricultural subjects from this partof the country you have occasionally and so usefully published, is now on an extended tour through some of the most important parte of New England, and will, I presume, communicate the re- sults of his intelligent observations to your columns. His writings are much read here, and approved. The 14th annual Boston Musical Convention and Philharmonic Institute will be held at Music Hall, from the 15th to the 25th of August, day and eve- ing inclusive. It will be under the direction of Mr. B.F. Baker, who will be assisted by a number of gentlemen of reputation. The concert series will commence with a performance of Haydn's “Crea- tion,” on the evening of the 19th of August. Our Board of Assessors are deserving of great praise. ‘They have been very indefatigable in their searches after taxable property, and their honest labors have been rewarded by the discovery of thirteen million dollars’ worth of it, that has heretofore been un- taxed. Only about a quarter of this is real estate, the remainder being personal property. The directors of the New England Female Medica! College have issued a circular calling for subscrip- tions, The Legislature granted to this institution $10,000, on condition that an equal sum should be raised from other sources. One-fifth of the amouut of private subscriptions has been raised. The United States Agricultural Society's Exhi_ bition, in October, promises to be the grandest affair of the kind ever known in Boston, by a great deal: Mr. Wilder, the president, has made application for the use of a vacant lot of city land, 40 acres, at the south end, for the place of exhibition. Ten thousand dollars have been guaranteed to meet any excess of expenditure, which is double what Philadelphia offered. No doubt is entertained of the use of the land being granted by the Board of Aldermen. A grand horse show is to form a part of the display, and a vast concourse of visiters is anticipated. It will be a great time. The Choate family are to havea grand meeting next summer, on Hog Island, in the town of Essex, where the Choate—that is, Rufus—was born, some five and fifty years since. This family has al- ways been respectable, and now it is distinguished. The annnal Methodist camp meeting will com- Mence on Martha's Vineyard on Tuesday, August 2ist. This is one of those institutions which have long survived their uses. The manuscript copy of Bradford's History, which has long been supposed to be in limbo, was present- ed to our Historical Society on the 9th inst. by Mr. Deane. It is to be published immediately, and will be found valuable, as it contains matter bearing up- on the transactions of the Pilgrims while in Hol- land, and on our early colonial history. ‘he remark in one of our country papers that all parties ought to be satisfied with the liquor law—its foes because it can’t be enforced, and its friends be- cause it is all that they asked for—is hardly borne out by the facts. Tt has heen enforced several times this week. Three persons were sent to the House of Correction from Norfolk county for violating it, and seized liquors have been “spilt” in various places. In Middlesex county, every case tried under the law resulted in convictions, I am told. The trouble is in Boston, and as the law was made more with re- ference to the city than to the country, the disap- pointment with theultrasisall the greater. Their intention now ia, to have the law so altered as to be able to bring the sellers of Boston under the harrow without mach regard to those great principles that permeate the laws of all free countries. They will probably act politically to that end in the next elec: tion, and their five or six thousand votes will be bid for by patriotic parties. Meantime, the foes of the law are about to act Im earnest, and will hold a pre- liminary meeting in « few days. I have not the least doubt of their ability to throw three times as many votes as their immediate opponents can con- trol. Mr. Lawrence's condition continues to finctuate. Two days since he was expected to die from hour to hour, but yesterday he was so much better that his more sanguine friends bad hopes of his recovery. The mnlation of Lynn, the first of our shoe towns, increased in five years from 12,500 to 16,000, “There's nothing like leather,” as the deal- er in that article said on an interesting occasion. The Cape Cod Telegraph Company have contract- ed to extend their wires to Nantucket, taking var! ous marine stations on Martha’s Viseyard on their way to that once famons whaling island. The line is to be completed on the Ist of November. The story that President Pierce is coming “north” yoeans that he is coming as far in that direction a¢ Cape May. Nothing more. Sunday the Rev. Mr. Streeter will preach at his church in Hanover street the same sermon that he delivered just fifty years ago, at Richmond, N. H. It would rather frighten him if his original congre- gation were all to ‘come up” (or down) to hear it. The number of immigrants that arrived in this city for the six months ending June 30th, 1855, was 5,997, showing a falling off of 5,053 as compared with the corresponding period of 1854. The arrivals this year have been of a hetter class than thore of for- mer years, scarcely any of them being likely to become a public charge, and many of them having money. e number of Italians was larger than usual, and they were all in tolerably good circumstances. ‘he town of Dorchesier has been sued for $30,009 for damages received on the New York Central Railroad. The railroad company neglected to pro- tect their crossings of highways as the law reqnires, and as the injared parties have no faith in the com- pany’s power to pay, they have proceeded against the i wn. The town has a paid damages in one case, without going to law, but it will resist the present demand. E Paul R. George sailed for Europe in the last steam- er, from this port. He will afford tothe Eny” ia specimen of a genuine Yankee. [ rather think he'll astonish Hawthorne when he geta to Liverpool. Mrs. George accompanies him, and will be a good repre- sentative of American beauty. Several of our wealthy citizens are building great warehouses on lots laid out, last spring, by the Mer- cantile Wharf Co. They are equal to most ware- houses of the kind in Reston, They are five stories high, and are 974 feet by 25. Eleven more lots have just been laid by the same company, on all of which build are to be erected immediately, con- tracts for the foundation of which have already been made. Five warehouses are pow ong wp on the city wharf property, purchased by Mr. Quincy, who, at more than 80 years, retains all his interest in Bos- ton affairs. Twenty-nine warehouses have already been built on this property, eleven of which Mr. Quincy owns. Mr. Qui superintends the work Rimeelf. The Long Wharf corporation have plans in view for the improvement of their property. They think of building several blocks of warehouses, but I believe that nothing definite has yet been fixed ni p16400 in improving their streets, Iretbucr & Pel Wa was arrested here, harged with Rereiiing for the Bate rs ‘The political field continues barren as ever of in- terest. What little feeling was excited by the meet- Boston, August 13, 1655. [ E if gk i i FLEPTTET: piss tdge i nie F ay i 5 i 5 i 3 g. 322 I it Ere i aL ei aie dH i 3 its gift, has declared that he will sand free goilers to his support, all of e for Governor Gardner last year. I do not peed to be able to of the real character of this story, which may be a piece of mere moonshine, butinthese days all js of reports get into circulation—show- ing that these days are very much like othor days. 1 do not think the whig gentleman named is likely to allow himself to be He is an able and a man, but has always belon; to that class of paliitene who hate “any thing yw,” as heartily asthe bear warden in Goldsmith’s play, and who “never dances except to the genteclest of tunes.” Yet he may be our next Governor. ALGomA. Our Florida Correspondence. Ocaua, Marion, c0., Flo., Aug. 7, 1855. The Know Nothing Party—-Necessity for its Ov- ganization—The Slavery Plank of the Philutel- phia Platform—Abolitionist Funatice—The Ne- braska-Kansas Bill—Fugitive Slaves—Southern Know Nothingiem. From iny reading of the Hurap I take it to be clearly an independent sheet, disposed to give pub- licity to every thing that tends to public good, whe- ther or not it be just the idea of the editor, and not afraid to meet any and every issue, great or small. And thongh J differ with you in many things, I fiud we have the game paramount object in view, “the preservation of the Union and the constitation.” I ask the privilege, through your paper, a8 your fellow citizen, living in the other extreme of the republic from you, and as a fair representative of the feeling» and opinions of the mass of our population, to com- pare notes with yon, and through you, with our Northern conservative brethren. First then as to points of difference between us. The Harp advocates the acquisition of Cuba. think this incompatible with the continuation of the Union of the States, After hearing al! the arguments, the difference is as above stated; und T think you may rely upon it, the conservative portion of cur population think and feel as I do. The Heraup has ever leaned towards democracy, and sided with it in general principles. I, as before stated, have ever been a whig, but for a consideray tion above all party tenets and successes, i find we doth have sunk our party differences in our sympa- thy for the great American party. Jt is about that lofty consideration, the’ American party, and the necessity for its organization and its purification, union and final triumph, I wish to arge a word ortwo. Thisisno time for high sou praises of the Union, but the time to come up t support with a strong arm and a heart pledgal to do or die. This is the point of contact between us, Mr Heraup. Union men everywhere love Union men and whilst the Union is in danger all that might have once divided them is forgotten or forgiven. In this spirit, as I conceive it, and for the preservation of the Union and the constitution, the American party has been organized. One evil of great mag- nitude that had grown upon the country, and incor- porated itself with the administration of the govern- ment, was foreign population, votes and influencee The old parties have vied with each other in doing reverence to the foreign vote as a balance of power and influence; and in their madness have added in- ducements for foreigners to immigrate, until the floods which for the last several years have been poured upon our shores have alarmed all sobér minded citizens, whether American born or nataralized. Sir, the land ing of half a million of foreigners on our shoves in one year,and they mostly grown and vigorous young men, if long continaed, with the privilege of becoming voters without a proper termof provation: bids fair soon to revolutionize our republic. All Union men and all sober-minded citizens saw and acknowledge the evil, and determined to provide a remedy; therefore, the American plank in the plat- form of the American party. The cry of proscrip- tion raised against the party is too hypocritical to merit any but a passing notice. You know, Mr. Hn- RALD, what we, as old partisans of the whig and de- mocratic parties, used to be pledged to: not to vote for any man not of our politics; and as office holders, not to place any man of opposite politics in any of- fice within our gift, and to turm out all the opposi- tion that held office. Was it doing God and our country’s service ax whigs and democrats thus to proscribe the opposition, whether native born or na- toralized? And is it only damnable in native Aine ricans to proscribe from office aud participation in ruling foreigners who have nothing in common with onr people, and know nothing of our institutions? And what is the administration now doing but ery- ing shame on proscription with one breath, aud with the next issuing a mandate to strike off some American's head for believing Americans should rule America? Do men deceive themselves, or are they merely striving to deceive others ? The names and examples of many of the Revolu- tionary fathers, who were foreigneiy by birth, are paraded before us to awaken our eympathies for fo: reigners. Thatis pitiful gammon. All the fi of the Revolution were of foreign birth or foreign descent, and in that sense we are all foreigners; but does that compel us in grat 0 invite all the 2 § scendants of these who ht against usto cone and oceupy our inheritance? Those who urge ‘t see no argument in it, but catch at ft as drowning men catch a Of the anti-Cath sentiment of the American party, I think with you; and I hope for the good «f the country, the party will promptly modify its views to allow all native Catholies who regard the Pope merely as the head of the church, to become members. Ag it now stands, it cannot be charged asan anti-Christian spirit, or asa desire to create religious tests; but it evidently is the determination to prevent the establishment by law of auy religion. Another of the rs objects of the American party, and ove not the least of the causes which re- wired ita organization, was to eradicate party hate. ‘e had been set together by the ears by demagogues for the last twenty ,, until father and son, as whigs and democrats, we loathed each other almost av much as different nations and races of people ; till there was but little hope of our resting on anything good. And out of this par- re) ty rancour and struggle for ascendancy, the great ev of all Oy has grove ae slavery aS asso: Sectional jealous of ness, and & patrio- tiem imited to ones birthplace, or th jects of his @ home that E of the free States? If it does ly safe; if it does not, and of the and democratic are or 8, and Senator kee a Wilos, Gov. Gardner, present jority of the “4 tn the fies ates, only the hand ta Tee van nil can save the Union. Criminatio: e ms about who is to blame for the threaten ing aspect of the slavery agitation, are useless aud the North and the South are to blame. The North, for interfering with a subject could not mend by meddling. The South, for fly- ing into a st ovary Westie Oe See piniect by fanatics of the Ni But the subject never could have assumed @ dangerons aspect ontaide of party politics; and, therefore, a old political kop, er oly can all to com teh 8 pT for ane ing danger. The shaver nestion is one about which the North and the ith cannot and remain friends. It is need- leas for us of the South to call the abolitionists R by hard names, Suppose this is false phi- Findhropy, does not weaken ita force to call it by the Inst of power and the desire for sece tional dominion. Bat the South cannot submit to either in houor or in safety, Whether or not slayery is a moral evil, and was and is a moral wrong, the South nicy not, nor will not, stop to argue. To enaucipate and expatriate the slives would be a much greater wrong than to hoid then intheir present bondage; to liberate them amoug og would result in a deeper bondage or in the desiruc- tion of both races. There is but one way for Northern philanthropista to emancipate our slaves, and that is to overran the South aud murder thejr masters, Are Northern philanthropists ready for this? or do they purpose to wait until they can alter the constitution and abolish slavery by law? Defore that conld happen, this and the next generation of slaves will have passed to the world of spirits after living ont their lifetime in unredeemed bondage, This would be crue} to them as well as unjnst to ny Besides, however, in minority, the Sonth could, nor would not, submit but with expiring life. There so many slaves in the Soath; e except by birth. The philanthropists do not with to stop their natural increase. It ig the val f the interest they com i State which 5 slaves legislative in respect. Suppose there were not more tho ve hundred slaves in the great State of Virginia, how long wonld the institution exist there? eny longer then it would require to alter the constitation? Ther does it pot weaken the influence and reanect of the institution as much in the State from whence slaves are carried as it strengthens it im the State to which they are carried? Bevides, as & matter of mercy to the slave, the larger the territory over which a given number of slaves are spread, the milder must be the form of elavery. Then why the necessity, in the first place, of limiting slavery, asin the case of the Missouri compromise, and why the continued desire to limit it as to territory? The re- peal of the Missouri compromise did tl material good, nor the North any p e harm. its restoration would be the infliction of an insult upon the Se nd to subinit lo it would, az allcam see, be inviting to furthér and threatened wrong, to which the South could never submit in honor or iz safety. The Nebreska-Kansas law wos not pessed at the instance of the South; yet as it did only simple jus- tice to her, her delegation in Congress could not re- fuse to enpport it. It was a piece of political trickery tor which politicians alone ure responsible, Jt did violence to public sentiment more as a violation off party pledges, than as a violation of justice to either section. ‘Lhe furor gotten ap on account of it, is of a sort with its passage, the work of politiclana and. demagogues. The creation of territorial governments in Nebraska end Kansas was premature, and the after immigration was factitions. The aid society immigrants of the North and the counter proslay migration from the South were sent there ag the ] mirhers by the ultra and disunion wen ef eack, section, to begin the sional war.’ No_ sensitie Union sympathise with either. The South has not the sl. to make a slave State of either of And the North has no right to co: Southern ultras, by sending there a be throats than her a'd societies could r able to occupy them for the Haier oa thing for the country if all the ultra men with: he political ya ee of both sections could be; gent there to fight itoutas a sortof Sebastopol;! whilst the sober, well-ncaning citizens were allow-. ed to pursue their lawful vocations iu peace and; brotherly unity. I admit the rendition of fagitive slaves is no douté , trying the ‘celings ef the freemen of the North. It is because slavery, as practiced at the South, is! slandered; but they ehould take into consideration those fugitives are mostly cunning rescala who have" only received half the punishment due their crimes * and misdemeanors; a little firmness in sending ; them back will soon remedy the necessity of meet-. ing the trial. Some of the features of the late fu-+ gitive slave law are harsh—these features would , never have been necestary to the satety of thes South if the North had returned fugitives aa contem- 7 yaaa by the constitution. The South can never re- inquish that law until the North re(arne in good faith to the fulfilment of its constitutional Guty. The execution of that act by the conseut of ihe peo j ple of the fiee States under existing Gifll- culties, is an act of high moral courage, for which the conservative men of the South, award them more credit than partizan papers have dared to publish, fntit all will not save the Union Mr. Hera, if they permit abolition oad freesoll , sentiments to carry then to consent te abolition: of slavery Mm the Dis’ public grounds in the slave trade between the States, or the admission of } any more slave States, or to the restoration of the Missouri compron ata) the probibition a only 347,525 slave ow in o popu 415,0n the shove puivis, If force the constitution sitered so as to mak tutional, the Sovth woud Le found a tance, the platform of the Am He and subscribed ity of the di ates, meets this subje; to the people of the South. Tue Hes approves it. it is to wu ih di ith abotii as weil k the privilege of elan cs,and giving the certainly 4 pursy many of the he ». fel free roil dictation, is anything but caleulated t crease its stoength at the South; nor is it possible with such sentiments there countenanced by the? party for ¢ wuhern iz of * With it ina x North and Sonth, of the slavery quest general eympatts & could it “triumph w dispute, ond eectional et hate unabated, it would be good man wight plory-—a trlumph in tle good obtained would be «wept owa tional storm that mnet soon follow; a have prevented, not only did not the only time tly ned for the and wasted in mi to its prevention. With my thanks for your firm and eontix ned vocacy of the just rights of the South, I remain, ,. Lewis ©. Org astzen Sys Line OF Steam: E some time past merchandi-e brought from New to this city has been etolen from the boate, be such an adroit manner that it has baffled the ek: the officers of the boats and the agents here to ¢ tect the guilty porties. The property stolen has al-; weys been that which was valuable and most bnlky,e such as packages of lrieh Hinen. About two weeks» since two picces were stolen, and a reward offered! for their restoration. Yesterday morning it was dis-~ covered after bet eo had left the boat, that+ another piece, weighing about 195 pounds, had beon* stolen. Col. Harcourt at once determined to ferrets out the thieves, and brenk up the system. He ac raion conferred with Chief Morgan and Captain} McDuffie, and measures wero adopted to secure thas property and arrest of the Une parties. They visit- ed each of the railroad depots in the city, and made! te from the attachés whether or not they had iced any one pt = 3 a ge anewering thes description. At the Hudson River depot they “got! on the trail,” one of the station men having noticeds two Germans, who took an early train for New York," with a bundle which to be very heavy., An Rog in ecaakenen en’ weit these u ari St the train did so. ‘There tana donte rat what there who travel om steamers fore their vocation. fo break up thi orpmanin. jon. * oy Sore bog es |, Aug. 1 ;