The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1855, Page 2

t deal of exeoutiona-the Minie rifle. You have heard it spoken of in but tts value ag an imstrument of war has never of in terms too high. We lose a great many men from them; and these French know so well how to take advantage of every Lit- tle rise in the ground to make a rife pit. Four or five of them get in here, and one shoots while the others load for him, and they doa vast dea! of execution to artil- Jerymen. These pits are thick all around the city, and 7a may shoot at them with a cannon, but with little ef- t, for as soon ag he fires his rifle he dips down in his hole, and you seo nothing more until you hear the evack ‘of his rile again. und they are pretty sure to get & man, ‘and the balls, which are conical and very heavy for a ne! o through and through. You never find Derm foaged Pithout they had strua ‘that does a a bone, which is gure to be broken and shattered in every direction, ren- ering amputation necessary. But Kussia has the best soldiery in the world, They have no fear about them in this particular. They are different from the soldiery ef all countries. It is impos- sible to get up @ panic in the Russian army ; they will stand with the stubbornness of « mule, and be shotdown by thousands, and never think of running, without they ure ordered to do #0. They know nothing but to obey. You might order out a thousand of them against @ mil- ion and teli them to stand and fight ; if they bad an offi- eer with them that would stand, 1 believe the Jast one might be shot down, and you would never see the least movement towards running. ‘Although we lose a good many men, I do not think ‘more than the enemy when they make an assault upon ‘as; then we rake them down—yes, by thousands, I have seen two assaults made with the attempt to take the Malakoff hill, or tower as it is called, (the tower that stood on it has been koocked to pieces some time ago, but ‘it is now fortified with bastions,) on the 16th of June. You have long since read accounts of it inthe newspa- . They made two desperate attempts to take it, dur- Tog which their loss must have been traly immense. I never witnessed such a sight before. One of them took A Inatod senstt. steht atalanke, Panes, ake Rh WAPAWS Vous high It. was as dark aw mike night. We rather got them though, drove them back over their dead, which lay in heaps all over the hillsides. ‘This must have been a badday for them. We lost a, it many men, but we can afford to lose a hundred where France can one, The Russian soldiers are like flies; kill ‘one and ten will come and take his place. ‘By the sinking of the ships, thereby forming a barri- cade, we have no use for but two of our fortresses, those nearest the sea. By this means we can take the cannon from the others to fortify from the land side, which we have done; but the cannon of the fortresses are most too heavy is the only fault one could have to using them on Jand. But, although we have taken a great many can- non from the fortresses for this purpose, there is enough Jeft here to sink the whole of the immonse fleet that 1s lying out here if they were to attempt to enter the har- Bor. The fortifications for this purpose, I think, are on @ scale too grand. You can form no idea from engray- imgs what an appearance these Gne fortresses make. A cannon bail makes but little impression on them; in fact, none of importance. ‘On the north side of the bay is also a succession of hills, tome of which are very high, and running in every direc tion. Fou find on them all bastions facing in every diree- tion. These Vasiions and redoubls extend up the bay for a ‘mile or so from the city, and some of them are very effective, pouring niarly a continual stream of balls acrois the bay Yndo the enemy’s Lattery which 13 nearest the baye I think Gt wery dowful wheher the h would be able to hold is ry could ge! possession on the north side are taller than those of the south, and the city and the batteries on them, (think, would force them to leave it. In the main ‘they have been attempting this from the land on the south side, I will finish this by saying that it is the best fortified place Lever saw. There is no. a hill or mound where a cannon could be placed with advantage but you find them. Aman naturally feels a little lonesome here when be is by himself ina place like this, with no other Amevi- ap. Iam the ovly man left. ‘Those who have been here are either dead or left for home, When J arrived here found two American physicians, but they left soon after. They were not weli pleased, and before I saw anything ef the benefits to be derived by being here they preju- diced me a great deal against the place; but I tear it was tacle own fault; in fact I know it was, if they had anything to complain of. It is true things here are not aa one could expect to find at Paris. Everything is very dear bere; you pay twenty-five cents for every plate or portion of your soup, yee beef, your bread, mutton, butter, &c. “Coffee and every time you order is twenty-five cents, They pay aman, however, enough for him to live onthe cheap scale and to make his dinner off of two plates; but an American must not do that. The officers of the Russian army are the nobility, and, although they receive but Astle pay from the government, they spend a great deal Seg. And another thing, they are all educated men, You find scarcely any of them who do not speak fluently ‘two oF three different languages besides their own. In this respect they are superior to us. The Polish officers x ifany thing, superior to the Russians. They speak the European languages except the English. 1 cannot secount for this fully that so few of them speak Englisn, ‘There is one Pole who occupied a bed in my room that speaks well six different languages. For a description of Sebastopol it is impossible for me ‘to giveyou it in full. It is avery pretty place even now, ugh it has had a shower of bombs and balls poured into it for the last ten months; but you know that this ‘would alter the appearance of any city. One of our cities ‘would have ory fo ‘been in ruins, from the fret tikat we usea great deal of wood in the construction of our houses, which is not the case in Russia. 1 have no idea there iv 4 bouse in the place covered with anything made of wood. Tin and brick are used for that purpose alto- getter. Ifit was otherwise the place would be burnt up day; for when the rocket falls iv a house every thing of a combustible nature goes. ‘There are some beautiful buildings here, both private ‘and public; some fine churches, ove magniticent one. ‘The library building, which is situated on the highest point of the city proper, is a beautiful edifice, It con tains many valuable things, models of vessels, &e The books are all taken out at present, but you find them in most of the newspapers of the day. ‘the Maison Noblique isanother beautiful building, situated near this port. it is a kind of assembly or club building. I roomed in it for a while. ‘The buildings of the place are mostly made of a kind of stone that abounds here to a great extent— & white soft stone ‘that resembles marble much, and which can be dressed up very easy. Sebastopol is situated on three hills, or rather covers ‘one hill and the sides of two others, and an the south ride of the bar or harbor, and about two iniles from the wea. The harbor is about a mile wide, with several in- Jets, one of which runs out between the two hills and se- tes Karabelnai, as this portion of the city is called, the city proper. Acroas this inlet is a temporary bridge; a little sonth of east from the marine barracks, and abont a verst, or three-quarters of a mile from then, ip the hill on which stood Malakoff tower, and which is now defended by a bastion on a grand scale. The Maison buildings are ituated, as it were, at the foot of the bill, ‘and from them to the tower is the portion of thecity call- ed Karabelnai. A ridge runs down from the Malakoff hill to the bay. On thi ize we have two excellent bastions; dut the ground where they are situated ix considerably Jower than the hills fronting them, whish are held by the French, and on which they have some excellent guns. From the Malakoff tower, running all round the city, is a guceession of smaller hills, those immediately adjoining the city being held by us and the others by the enemy. ‘We have ten bastions besiaes the Malakoff tower on this wide of the bay. These form a complete semicircle, or encircle the city on this side. Amportant Diplomatic Note from Count Nes- selrode. ‘The Frankfort correspondent of the Jnlépendance Belge gives the following as a full analysis of the last Russian circular. It was addressed by Count Nesselrode, under date 6th June, to Prince Gortschakoff (Russian Am- Dassador at Viennn), in reply to the communications made to the Governments of Europe, and consequently to ‘the Imperial Cabinet of St. Petersburg, the Austrian Government, afver the rupture of the Vienna Confer- .— “The despatch refers to the communications of Cou Fsterhazy, Austrian Envoy at St. Petersbargh, consist of two despatches: the first relates to ‘the eumstances which led to the rupture of the Vienna neg: Hiations; the second defines the actaal position of Aus- tria. The exposé of Count Buol did not require any reply from Russia; nevertheloss, to satisfy tho wish verbally expressed by Count Esterhazy to know the impression made by hit communications, the present dispatch un- dertakee to embody the reflections which the Emperor of Russia ordered Count Nesselrode to communicate yo Prince Gortschakoff to serve as a rule for his langaage. The actual attitude of Austria confirms the conviction of the Emperor of Russia, founded upon assurances re- ceived directly by Prince Gortschakoff from His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, It is a moral certainty that the causes of disagreement and complication are set aside in @ manner to assure the maintenance of the pacific rela- tions betwee @ two countries. To characterize the ition distinctly taken (neilement pris’) by Austria, the lespatch quotes Count Buol’s despatch in which it is stated that the Emperor of Austria does not even admit the chance of # provication which might force it to aban- don that attite approves of this, She testi- flies to the comp! unanimity in the sentiments of the two Monarchs as regards the conservation and consolida- tion of the direct relations of good understanding ant accordance between the two nations, In this moral con- vietion Central Europe will be safe fron the vielesitules of the struggle which the Westera Powers prolong wi an implacableness which did not even diminish during the Vienna deliberations. ‘These hostile dispositions of the Cabinets of Paris and «fLondon nesessarily led to the failure of the attempt at yAeification. On this point Russia shares the sentim f regret of Austria, and appreciates the justice with which Count Buol, in his despatch of the 10th June, de elares on whom the responsibility of the ruptare of the conferences must fall. Count Nesselrote dwells on this point, that Count Buol hing rendered fall justice to the acts of Prince Gortschakoff, In fact, Count Baol said in is despatch, just qunted, that the efforts of Austria failed in consequence of the precise instractions of the Plenipotentiaries of France and England. Those of said Count Baol, Mh dad jas? not to admit ft, even if they had been willing to enter into « deeper examination of oar proposals.) were paralycet by the unconciliatéry manifestations of the other members of the conference. the causes which loi to th with that of Rassia. enits therefrom that new steps taken b; overcome the obstacles which the Cabinets « of London opposes to a pacifle arrange fruitless. And each pr: mn on the part of Russia would only emboldea tal faccerce the exactions of the Maritime Powers. The trath that Peace is only possible if France and England will loyally concur in ft was well felt by the Cabinet of Viena, which, in the despatch of the 10th Jaae, deplores that ‘the interpretation of the prinetples, which seomot just Gnd equitable to Anstria. should haye decom the sigaal for the abrupt ‘oterraption of the deliberations, and that that cireumstance prevents actually the pi al da- oo — f ‘ten which emanated fr rount Bnol added, thet the Cabinet of 7 i tls Statb of things to derma few mreene ever 8 pi derstay belligerent Powers will meet 6 ¢) a serious understanding. Count Nesselrode ignation agrees ent Rasda to Paria and ald be rn too jus! NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1855. tern Powers shail @ disposition, to quote Count , favorable to a serious Moreover, Austria is thoroughly acquainted with the idea which presided over Ihe instructions of the Russian Plen- ipotentiary; thw iden, which belonged in principle to the late Emperor Nicholas, traced the line followed by the actual Emperor. The four guarantees as inierpreted by Russia continue to form the basis upon which a general ifleation may be founded. The first two have, aecord- Ing to Russian views, beep acquired to the work of pea:e, ‘The engagement taken inthis respect, and which results from a mutual agreement previously established, as re- gards those guarantees, between the interested parities, will remain in force as Jong as Austria and Germany take no part in the war. ‘As regards the third guarantee, Russia, pointing out again that the rupture of the negotiations is due to the Western Power, reserves her liberty of decision, Like ‘Austria, she will wait until these Powers, whose inten- tions Russia cannot prejudge, shall show themselves fa- vorable to a serious and loyal understanding. As regards the fourth guarantee, Russia counts upon the union of the efforts of the two Imperial Courts to bring this grave question of a general interest to a large and eificacious solution, ag stated in Count Buol’s despatch. But Russia foresees duWeulties which this solution ma present. The last Parliamentary debates have given it the proof of the repugnance’ of the parties interested the Ottoman Forte) to touch upon this point of dis- cussion, Hence algo the refusal of the plenipotentiaries of France and England to examine confidentially this question, as proposed by Prince Gortschakoff, after the sixth conie- Propenet td the expected replios had been received. ‘The Gespatch expresses Russia’s convictions that, even should an ngreement have been come to, respecting the revision of the treaty of 1844, the fourth guarantee would have of- fered new obstacles,’ As long as the Western Powers, the hostile intentions of which the Russian despateh qualifies fax indicated above, persevere in this line, opposed to the ‘nterest ote general pacification, the Cabinet of 3t, Pe tersburg must renounce the hopé of exercising any influ- ence in thelr policy which is beyond tho limits of any sound reasons of State. Agreeing with the opinion of the Court of Austria, she will await the favorable moment to resume a negotiation so abrubtly broken off to-day by the Mantime Powers. Prince Gortschakoff’s Generalship- We have seen a short sketch in the Paris Debais of Col. St. Ango’s analysis of the despatch in which Prince Gort- ott ex) is and excuses his late defeat on the Tehernaya. The gallant writer does ample justice to the conduct of Gen. Read, so unhandsomely dealt with by one who, plared by accident or favor above him in tlie military system of Russia, was surpassed by him inevery qualification of a commander. Colonel St. Ange says :-— Prince Gortschakoff throws all the blame of his want of success on General Read, commander of the 34 corps @armée, who was killed, and cannot now defend himselt. According to the general-in-chief, Gen. Rend ought to have established a numerous artillery before the bridge of Traktir, to command the Fodukhine hills, whilst an attack was made on Tchorgoun, and to have deployed in line of battle under the protection of his artillery, but not to have attacked the positious before recolving orders. Could, however, Prince Gortschakof® reasonably im that, on hearing the eannonade, the French and Sardin ians would remain in their tents? Has all initiative been ever interdicted to the genera) of a corps @armis of from 25,000 to £0,000, who, when ina situation to appreciate favorable circumstances, can seize on them and profit by them? Moments are precious in war, Prince Gortschakoff was then ata distance of two kilometres (2s miles) towards Tehorgoun, | General Rend consi fered the moment opportune for attack, before the French were fully prepared; and, besides, by marching on the Mamelons, his altack accorded with the plan of the gene- ral-in chief. Read, in fact, might evidently have possessed himself of the Mamelon, since he obtained the summit of it. It was for the general-in-chief to support that at- tack, which was a brilliant one, although repulsed by the impetuous bravery of our soldiers. Read returned to the charge, and the general-in-chief did not cause him to be supported with suflcient forces, General Ouschakof! also redoubled his efforts against the other Mamelon, but there also the general-in-chief adopted no decisive inea- sure. Instead of making a diversion on our right, by throwing the corps d'armée of General Laprandi a alnst Teho;gom and Hasfort ({he key of the battle), he allowed —it is not known why—his left to remain unprotected, in order to send, but too late, one of the divisions of Gon. Liprandi to the support of the attacks on the centre. Dis- posing of a reserve of 80,000 men, he made no use of it though the moment was one of those crises which served to decide victory, or to disengage compromised troops. Finally Prince Gértschakof! possessed an immense artil- lery, but be only made use of it as a demonstration, and it ‘Was the artillery of the allies which horribly doci- mated his columns. By his indectson he left them to be crushed, losing more 5,000 men killed or wounded, amongst whom were eight generals, three of whom ex: pired on the hanks of the Tehernaya. | Ihe general, in ct, showed himself, as It were, completely disconcerted on ‘seeing the affair tako what he calls an unexpected turn, as {fa general could always count on infallibio success, and as if it were not the duty of a general-in- chiet to provide for unforeseen incidents, He triumphs at the French not haying gone toattack him on the other side of the river, where he awaited them, he soya, for four hours; but he feigns to forget that we have another task lo lulfil—the siege of Sebastopol. It is for him to cause us to raise the slege, if he can, with his reliovin, army. The day will arrive on which the allied army wil be fice in its turn to'give him battle in the heart of The Crimea.’’ The Baltic Campaign. [From the London Press, Sept. 10. The operations of tho Baltic flect'are conclitded for the season, ‘the campaign of ’65 ix over, and it is proba- ble that ina short time Admiral Dundas and his liners will return to Engiand. In summing up the operations of the fleet, it is imposstble to avoid expressiag the utter disappointinent felt by all classes at the futile and trivo- lous result of the campaign. With an enormous flee’, with a vast profusion of means, ani with the whole exps- rience of $4, both the Admiralty and their admiral have contrived to'acbieve, in a four months’ cruise, at bost but one partial success. ‘The triumphs of the year com- prise the solitary bombardment of an arsenal, the bura- ing of a few balks of timber, and the capture of a dozen or two «mall trading vessels. It may be that the home government are seriously to blame for neither supplying mortar vessels in time, nor for providing the necessary reserves of artillery and ammunition. Butin the imanago- ment of the campaign, and particularly with regard to the attack on Sweaborg, we had a right to expect from from Admiral Dundas successes more proportionate to the vast force at his disposal. It is now no longer doubt- ed nor denied that the conduet of Admiral Dundas was reprehensible to a degree in personally keeping out of the fire during the bombardment, and in de-linfag on the second day to attack the fortress. The henor of the service and of the country imperatively demand a searching inquiry into conduct so unbccoming a British admiral. “Of all faults in a commander the least excusable is timidity. There may have been cir- cumstances which readered necessary such excessive caution, If so, for the honor of the fleet, and for the sake of his own reputation, such circumstances mast be made known, or never again can Admiral Dundas re- hoist his flag. With regird to Sweaborg, the gallant Ad miral cbserves in his despatches that ‘no attack was contemplated against the fortifications of the place.” But in the name of common sense, for what purpose was he placed in command of that vast fleet, if not to destroy every link of that chain of fortifications steetehed by Russia along the shcres of Finlan and the Baltic? The reliminary bombardment, he asserts, destroyed buill- Ings, burnt stores, blew up arsenals and committe every havoc, Jf such wore his impression, it was glearly his duty to have brought up the body of the fleet lying idle out of range, and at least to have attempted, if not to have achieved, the complete destruction of the fortress. But his sole object was, it appears, like that of his name- sake in the Black Sea, to keep with his liners out of fire. It ix not even stated that to inspect operations he ono» during the action shifted his flag. Like Nelson's com manders at Copenbagen, Admiral Dundas lay off oat of range during the bombardment. When the work was half done, he retired to Nargen. This is, we believe, about the first time—and we hope it may be the last—in the naval history of our country, that a British Admiral was ever known to retire with’ an wainjured fleet from before an attacked but comparatively uninjared enomy. What would have been thought of such conduct by Jervis, Nelson, Sydney Smith, Exmouth or any of the heroic men whose glories yet shed lustre uponoureruntry? Would they have believed in it? Was this the conduct of Nelson at Copenhagen? Of Sydney Smith in Eaypt? Of Cochrane at Martinique? Of Exmouth at Algiors? In the pre sent day the dread of stone walls and granite battories sits like a nightmare upon the minis of somo of our na- val commanders-in-chief. Their main object appears to be triumph without risk. Danger is deemed an ample plea for inaction. Their attempts at engagements and apologies for victories seem intended more for tho struction of our enemies than for the destruction of their strongholds. We correct their errors rather than pnieh their enmity, for we neither complete what we have undertaken nor follow up any advantage we have ined, Str Charles Napier last year was dismissed from is command because he had done less than it was bs- lieved his means enabled him to do, butcau it be permit- ted Admiral Dundas to retain his flag in the face of the dilatory, indecisive, and paltry results of his eampaign ? The last’ summer was the period for decisive measures and bold action, even on so easyin opportunity as Swea- borg. ‘The application of means to an end does not ear to have engaged the attention of Admiral Dun t we must have more decisive and immediate results rom the tremendous forces wo place at the disposal of cur Admirals, or we must haye some satisfactory re afforded us why those results were not obtained. nation would readily forgive a daring error, but it will nover pardon timid indezision, We say with great pain but very deliberately, that it is impossible long er to ‘intrust our ‘fleets to the command men who seem to look more to the of the enemy than to the honor of our arm, and their own reputation. Discretion is an excellent virtue in a commander when combined with the more active and enterprising qualities; but a comminder all discretion, and nothing else, must needs cut @ ridicul yas figure. If the present system isto last we shall need a new nomenclature for our navy, and for such names ay the Daring, Fury, Terrible and Bulldog, must subsistate the milder terms of the Discretion, the Caution, the Pra- dence and the Cur, We do not want commanders 9 op- Pressed by asonse of their responsibility as to shrink from that noble daring without which nothing great ia war can be achieved. All London lately witneswed with emotion Mr. Stanfeld’s fine picture of the Victory, off Gibraltar, bearing the dead body of Nelson. ‘The shat tered ship toll of the deadly strife which won the hero's triumph. ‘That hull was a’ spectacle tor Englishmen to look om with welling hearts, (f with tearfal eyes, It te & with othe: ings that we shall regard the pollshet sites ot returning Baltic ships. The contrast will be as great as between the sentiment felt for Dandes living and Nelson dead. We repeat, we have no desice te juige the Admiral unheard. His conduct may admit of satis- factory explanation. But at present our public eango! understand what {¢ the ossontial difference botwaoa the guns of Sweaborgand the guns of Copenhagen and Algiers. they are impatient to learn whether that mark trast between the naval tactics of the last and the pre- sont war fs to be attributed toa change in the relativ value of the forces nom pepe altogether favorable wo the for, or ta the increased caution of our Admirals, This is a uéstion to be submitted to the deciston of a court maar Relations of Austria with the Belligercnt Powers. the Vienna Lon- [From Conmmraammnee (lope. ») @ the The Wanderer of the 5th contains an account of the Political situation which is well calculated to mislead the ublic, as itis, to my certain knowledge, wrong on more one inn it point. The Vienna ere tells us that the relations between Austria and belligerent Powers are ‘‘on the whole” what they were when the Powers and Russia are now exert- “to induce Austria to lay aside her em of expectation and proceed to action.” England and France would naturally be well pleased to have Austria for an active ally, but their dignity would be seriously compromised if they continued to urge a Power to action which har recently given such an unequivocal proof of its resolve not to take part in the war. The British and French governments are not exerting themselves to ob- tain the active assistance of Austria, and the Russian Cabinet is not attempting to force her to break with her allies. The Wanderer is also mistaken wher it states that the Western Powers have communicated to this rnment their intention to make,the counieies on the Lower Danube the theatre of war as soon as Sebastopol is taken. We are told that the re; of the Imperial Cabinet to the communication was, it after fallo Sebastopol the third point would necessarily be discussed. However, if ¥ngland and France should think fit to make the Lower Danube the theatre of war, Aus- tria could raise no objection, although she should main- tain her own right of free action in as far as she could 80 do, without violating the conditions of the treaties con- cluded with Turkey and the Western Powers. At the same time, esntinues the Wanderer, the Imperial Govern- ment declared that everything would be to induce Germany to adopt the jour points with the interpreta- tion given to them by Austria. We are next told thet Russia is endeavorig to bring about 4n understandi between Austria and Prussia, in order when unit they may win over France, ‘ Should macceed, Russia would not be disinclined to conclude peace, as it entertains the conviction that the interests of Russia, ‘Austria and France may easily be reconciled.” ‘The foregoing communication, we are told, ‘‘were made by Russia to Austria in the most friendly tone.’’ It is pos- sible that Russia may have made some communica- tion like the — to this Government, but still persons who oug it to know something of what pipe to profess not to have heard anything about it. ‘That the Russian diplomatists are as active as everjis certain, but their eloquence is not likely ta produce any great eflect on the Austrian government whose great Object now seems to be to keep on decent terms with both parties, and to persuade Germany to believe that her interests on the Lower Danube and those of Austria are identical. The Fremden Blatt, which prides itself on its Russian news, states that the St. Petersburg Cabinet jias made new propositions for peace, “though in a most confidential manner.’? Nothing. of these proposals is known to me, and it is very doubtful whether the Rus- sian government has done more than repeat in a general way its desire to see peace restored on the basis of the four points, The Austrians are so extremely averse to the interven- tion of England and France in the internal affairs of Moldavia and Wallachia, that one is almost induced to be- lieve they imagine they have already acquired a sort of vested right in those Provinees. Several of the Vienna pa- pers haye expressed their disapproval of the suggestions whichwere recently made by the 7imesfor pettering the condition of the Danubian Principalities, but the Oesterr. Zeitung is far more violent than its contemporaries, and makes an attnck onthe hohor of the representatives of and in the countries in question, which is too direct to be passed over in silence. After observing that the march of Austrian troops into Moldavia and Wallachia was something more than a simple promenade, the Oesterr. Zeitung says — “The popularity of Austria in the Principalities fs far greater (meilenwei! erheben uber) than thatot the English ents there. Among those agents are some who are IMghly paid, whose private character is such that they deserve to be expelled from all good society, and whoso mode of life, both as private persons aud a3 employés, is well calculated to call for the application seas minal code (das Strafgeset: je 2u allarmiren). The Hos- poderiote ought not to fo an eyesore to those gentlemen, as in former times it always managed to setile matters with them in tarster Weise, (The three words quoted cannot be translated literally, but their meaning is ‘in hard cash.’) The present Hospodar has Dep pally of the crime of aepending more on the firman of the Porte and on the Austrian army of occupation, under the pro- tection of which the laws stand, than on’ the easily por: chased support of the English agents, who draw up their reports according to the fee they receive.” ‘The Last Expedition Against Petropautowski. ENGLAND ALWAYS “(A DAY 700 LATE FOR THE FAIR. [From the London Times, Sept, 12.f Frgland during the whole of this’ war has always been “a day too late for the fair.” Cwsar mate it his con- stant boast that he arrived at his destinatlyn ate expects tum diem; we are equally proud of the dignifl.d pace which brings us to the spot the day after. A calm and philosophical leisure has distinguished our proceo ings in all pices and times, and under all eirewnstances. At home and abroad, in our offices and our dockyards, ia the Baltic and the Black Sea, under sunand frost, by sea, by land, in the tropics and under the arctic clrele, it is always the same. When the occasion requires the ut- most secrecy and despatch, when halGa-dozga men at the most should huvw whet te’ brewing, and wim it iv anol a race between us and our nimble toe that! {wenty-four hours are all-important, we proclaim our dire intent, marshal a solemn procession, march across the earth or sea with drums beating and colors flying, and then—are too inte. What an allair is this at Petropaulowski! The failure of last September was bad enoung’, but as the admiral had evidently lost his head, and as his ex- traordinary suicide very naturally’ caused great confusion, we could only deplore the result. Bat that was warning enough for both sides. It was the signal for a race across the earth, between the Russians by land and the allies by sea, which could reach the deyoted capital of Kamschatka first—the Cuar’s messengers over Siberia or ours on the ocean. There was one thing evidently in our favor, and that was the severity of the winter, which retarded cominunica- tion over the lend, but interfered little with movements over the seas that lay in our way. In justice to the British Admiralty, we are bound to say that we have no information of te time when their orders were trans- mitted to the squadron in the Pacifle, or when or where the Commander-in Chief received them. On these points the despatch which informs us of the result is silent We only know that on the 17th of April last, while thers lay within a fow miles of Petropaulowskt two British war steamers waiting for more ships ani the Commanier-in- Chief, the garrison of the threatened tortress quietly em- barked with guns and stores on board five sailing ships, and without fet or hindrance sailed to another position, where they are held to be safe from our guns. ‘The fleet which effected its rendezvous with su-” promptitude and zeal on the coast of Kamtschatka, tivo weeks after the bird had flown, consisted of the steaine”: Encounter, 14, and Barracouta, 6; the frigate Prostlen 5A; the Pique, 40; the Trincomalee, 24; the Amphitri } the Dido, 18; ‘the screw steamer Brisk, 14—in all, 1 uns, The French squadron consisted of four ships a: is4 guns. Here was an immense armament, capable coing anything that the thinly peopled Pacific could give them to do, and speaking much for the immense strength ‘of the two nations that could detach such fleets on so dis- tant a service. The French squadron consisted entirely of sailing vessels, and could not be expected to take the lead and set the time of the expedition. That lay with the much more effective British squadron. Our remarks, therefore, are confined to our own navy. We wish to know whether this is a fair sample of thé servieo to be expected from our war steamers, with their costly en- giues, their vast consumption of coal, and their long guns. Ave they meant rimply to steam races agains, time across the Pacific from one latrtade and Longitude to another? Unfortunately, there is only too fair a sample of what fs done rally elsewhere. ‘ould never understand why ft was impossible to pri sians from collecting their sbips from Swoxbor secondary ports into Cronstadt fa the interval between the seagon of 1 d 1855, and why thoir kailing yossols could move freely about when our steamers coull not. What is the use of steam it it must always be beaten, and if it serves us no better than sailing vessels? Had these pompous and abortive operations provoked a censure we might hope for improvement, but the less our offi era ao the more they are praised, and if the Burracoata, with the Encounter, had steamed straight up to Petropaa’ vw ski, and compelled the gacrison to sucrenter, har oom mander could not have been more prated thin be ha been for losing the Russian fleet, and accidentally flatin himself withlur sight of Petropaulowakt after the Russians had gone. The Danish Sound Daes. [From the London Gazette, September 8.} We have before us an official copy ot the last agreemony between Great Britain and Denmar! yy aston the Sound dues. The agreement was signed at Elsinore in August, {1, and ratified at Copenhagen in the month of Ostobe ‘lowing. The terms of it are, that the tariff of Chris- cianople, settled fn the year 1645, i+ to remain in full force for the space of ten years, and farther until the end of twelve months after either of the respective govern- ments shall have given notice to the other of its intention no longer to abide by the agceement then eutered into. Thus it willbe seen that in the month of November, 1851, her Majesty’s governmont might have given notice to Denmark of the intention of England ne longer to abide by the treaty of 1841, and in 1852such treaty, as between England and Denmark, would have been legally ant for- mally at an end. The mercantile interests of this coun- try have a right to ask why such a notiot was not given, and is but ill content to receive asananswer from our wwernment, that.suce a notice was notgiven ‘ because Denmark is harrassed by domestic feuds, and her exche- quer is low.”” ‘We have no desire to be hard upon Denmark, much less any desire to be unjust. Although qe do not admit that she has such a vested right in the imposition of the Sound dues, that she can claim by custom and preserip- tion what she has hitherto secured by treaty, yet we should advise, in any arrangement being entered into for the entire abolition of the Sound dues that her claim should be impartially considered, and, if found to exist, compromised with no niggard hand. What wo princi- pally couplain of in the conduct of Denmark is, the bad faith with which she has always entered into abe ay in reference to her claims—a striking exemplification of which is ted in her treatmont of the overtures of the United States, It is because we condder the United States, usly to their notice to abrogate their treaty with Denmark, to have taken all means fn their power to come to a fair arrangement with the Dasish government as to the dues; becwuse year after year they bore with pa- tience a vacillation which they must have seen through; decause the United States were always honest and ear- nest in their negotiations, and Denmark was always insincere in hers; beeause the notice which the United States have now given to Denmark, though harsh and im- perative, is just and deserved—it ts for reasons that we do not feel inclined to atep in to the rescue of Den- mark rather than justify the poly, of the Cabinet of Washington. The laxt thing mark ought to heye courte, if rhe wished to retain the Dnes, was an agica- tion by such « power as the United States as to the legal- v of bs imposition, Now the 1 pee bl bo ogton has taken up the not be sufiere so reat nid the eafaas Of Benmsaek are fkily site, aa her right to shackle the navigation and commerce of the world proved or disproved beyond doubt. No middle course is open, and we hope no compromise of the main | question will be avespted. Let it onee for all be ngear> | tained what are the elaims or rights of Denmark, {f she has apy. if any such claims can be esta! or rights praved to the satisfaction of the powers i in the question, and assembled to dispose of it, them let them be fairly acknowledged, and, in a liberal spirit, compromised aud put an end to forever; but, whatever may bo the iseue of the inquiries that are entered into, let not the resent opportunity be lost of relieving commerce from The innporition of a tax which has so long and #0 unjustly impeded her freedom. Fashions for . must begin to renounce the ze] the grenadines, the muslins— have worn with so much pleasure—for moires; in a word, for tissues more solid rte Se ahnancl replacing fees she lighiar watecele wigh velvet, rej materials, The euital modiste, Rasteat of rape flowers with Cad leaves, caeaeneeee those ae ich, although pep t, are equally, ifnot sur ly vel poten Sack lace will be much employed in trimmings, both for ma.telets and dresses, mixed with velvet. As to canezous and vestes Algerines for indoor dress, they are alrendy bogipping to remme their place in the favor of their falr wearers, forming, at the same time, a com- fortable and clegant addition to the toilette, There is an effort to re-introduce the large square shawls, trimmed with’a very wide chenille fringe; but this, we think, wil- Searcely be accomplished at present, as the weather, al- though occasionally chilly, is far too much like summer tomuake us willing to assume a garment which, however gracetul, is too winterly for the present bright season, Velvet mantelets are, however, beginning to be worn in the carriage with good taste. For the promenade, mantelets of the greatest elegance and variety are displayed. One of great richness was composed of three flounees of eee in medallions; the edge of , which was ae scalloy waa trimm: with narrow luce fulles ons” These threo Hounses formes the martle, Round the neck was placed a ruche of lace. The medallions arranged in three rows, one over the other, were surrounded with a narrow lace, to match that on the edge, and also flied slightly. Real straw bonnets have become this year a fiction; and yet one sees many that are so called. They are no longer the straw bonnets of which we heard formerly, but straw is only an accessory to the flowers, lace and ribbon of which the bonnet is formed; and very elegant creations they are. Upon the bodies called Mediets, three ruches of lace or poullionnes of blonde, or trimming of the same material as the dress, arra! in fours on each side of the front, and enlarging towards the shoulders. The waist has a rounded point in front, and no basques. The body is closed in front by buttons of rich passementerie. These buttons are eitl oval, square, or triangular; small bells, acorns or banded fringe is suspended from most of them, and they increase in size gradually towards the top. Sometimes they are placed between the ruches, making thus five rows upon the chest, The sleeves arc triple xabots, each of which is cut out in such a manner as to allow three puflings of tulle or Ince to be seen; at the extremity is a button similar to those on the body. At the bottom of the last sabot, which reaches to the el- bow, is a wide trimming of lace. Round the throat is a ruche of lace, The back of the waist is made also in a rounded point. We have seen a body of this deseription made of rose colored moire, white blonde andpearl but- tons; the skirt was of moire, made with three white al- balas, covered with flounces’ of white blonde. On each side of the skirt these albalasy were drawn up by three bows of ribbon, forming # tablier on the feont of the rt. Evening dresses claim some attention, from their ele- gance as well as simplicity; of those which we have seen, one was of plain white grenadine, double skirt. Above the Lem, which was about an inch and a half in width was a wide band of moire antique, cut on the bias, and edged with a moss trimming, so fall that it resembled a feather trimming. |The band on the top skirt was a third narrower than that on the bottom. These bands wore placed in the front en (atilier, and between them the same moss trimming was placed in echelles, very close to each other. Upon the body, low and square, was ceinture bretelle, composed of bias of moire, edged on each side with the moss trimming. The ceinture was very wide onthe shoulder, entirely covering the, sleoves, and brought quite narrow to the waist, where it was joined under six coques of moire ribbon drawn very close together and edged; as were also the two wide ends which came to the bottom of the first skirt. ‘The coiffure that accompanied this charming dress wat a résille composed of small lilac flowers, lilies of the valley and heath. ‘These résillesare so made that the flowers are fixed upon threads as fine as hair, and of the same color, thus giving the effect of being merely sprinkled over the hatr, We have seen the same mako of dress in rose-colored organdi, trimmed with moire, of the same color; but in- stead of the échelle trimming in tront of the skirt, wore placed five rosettes ‘of moire, ‘trimmed with the light mossy fringe. Emibroidered muslins are still greatly in favor. Bank of England Returns. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Debit. Credit. Notes isstied...,...£27,688,005 Government debt. .£11,015,109 Other securities... 2,984,900 Gold coin & bullion. 18,668,005 Silver bullion, nil, Total... 807 600,008 LET. OOK00R—Potmdeves BANKING DEPARTMENT, it Credit. ta £14,588,400 Gov't securities....£13,081,088 tases 3.637 Other securitie: 16,637,227 Public depos! 591,837 Notes. 7,625,000, Other depostis 191970/363 Gold & silver 819,371 Seven day & other balla... 901,556 TOtAd «+ s+ e+ + 37,743,586 Total...seeee 1 SBT TAB BBS Bept. 7, 1865. Markets, Loxpox Moxey Manca, Thursday Evening, Sept, 13.— The Bank of England to-day have increasod their rate of discount from 4 per cent, at which it was fixed on Thurs- day last, to 436 per cent. e step has taken the public by surprise, since, al. though it was known that the demand during the past week for discount at the bank, as well as the withdraws! of gold, had been much greater even than was antici rated, it was assumed that the recent sales of stock sup- posed to have been made by them were intended tempo- rarily to obviate the necesnity for ft. Within the last ten years there has been only one previous instance of an advance of the rate in two consecutive woeks, and that was in January, 1847, when the thréatenings of tho approaching panic were suddenly “becoming | plain, Between the two periods there fs no resemblance, for at the present moment the trade of the country is as sound and healthy us at anytime on record. Neverthe- less, there is quite enong! stify a repetition of the unusual course. Tne Gazette returns of the last and pre- sent week will doubtless exhibit diminutions in the mount of no!es unemployed and in the stock bullion, calculated to excite anxicty, but for the knowledge now afforded, previously to their appearance, that a vigorous check has been applied. Little question seems to be en- tertained that the instalment of £1,000,000 sterling paid yesterday on the Turkish loan will forthwith be seat in sovereigns to Constantinople, and that durint the next five months the remaining £3,000,000 will be des- tched in a similar manner, ‘The Austra ian arrivals, moreover, are till delayed, only £176,000 having beon received ont of ,000 that may be considered due; and, finally, the extraordi- nary firmness of the corn market in the face of a satts- factory harvest at home and of an unusual surplus in the United States and Canada has disappointed all ex- pectations, and led to tke transmission ‘of large orders, accompanied by specie, to the Danube and elsewhere. Under these circumstance, the bank had no alternative in deciding upon a further and immediate rise, opecially \' there was not the remotest prospect of its sudden- ness causing panic or even inconvenience in any quarter. Although commerce has lately assume increased activity, there are no signs of undue spect- lation either in’the manufacturing towns or on the London Stock Exchange, and the news of the fall of Sebastopol has imparted a feeling of confidence, the effect of which will be much more tpowerful in sustaining trade than that of the present notification iu depressing it. There is, consequently, no resson to depart from the conviction that everything will go ou smoothly, and that, even if further measures should be requisite, they will not produce any disturbance. Some rsons are disposed to believe thata retarn to five per nt will be adopted before the close of the year, but the drain of specie just witnessed has been so sudden, ani has so evidently resulted from a combination of unusual causes, that it will be against all experience if an early reaction is not witnessed. Consols opened this morning at the improved prices of t evening, but market was not strong, and a partial relapse occurred before the fresh rise in the Bank of England rate of discount wus made known. Aftewards there was « further slight decline, an@ heaviness prevailed uo to the ter- mination of business, Unexpected ax the measure was, it produced, however, nothing like agitation or distrust, and the genera! transactions of the day were not important. In the stock exchange the demand for loans was less active, The first quotations of console was 905% to 7%, for money, whence they went to 9044 to 4;. Tne notice from the Hank, which was rather late—the resolution of the Court having apparently been preceded by considerable discussion—then caused a fall to 9034, and from this there was no alteration. For the account the latest official bargains were at 90% to 44, but after regular hours some operations were entered into at a re- covery of an eighth, Omnium closed at 4 to 1¢ premi- um, and India stock, 230 to 232, The unfunded seeurt- ties were not much affected, and India bonds were quo 238. 10 278. premium; Exchequer bonds, 10054 to 34; an! Exchequer bills, 10s. to 148. premiam. Foreign securities opened with firmness, but sabse quently there was a general tendency to decline. Hovltten ape?2% a 3 38, 33222 BESSESSSBNBEE. 33323 & Totabsseees 490,988, From Hoyd’s forthcoming Steamboat Diseetory we Jearn that since the application of steam on the western waters, there have been 49,672 lives loxt by steambont Aisastere, 81 boats and cargoes lost, and 70 boats seri- ously injure’, amounting in the aggregate to the enor- ote stiey of $07,000, 0006 WHIG AND ABOLITION STATE CONVENTIONS. AMALGAMATION INTO AN ABOLITION LEAGUE. Solemnization of the Marriage Ceremony. Feelings of Horace Grecley and the Bride’s Friends, Greeley, Culver and the Temperance Men Repudiating the Maine Law, How Some Young Aspirants Had Their Gas Shut Off, JOE BLUNT THE VICTIM OF PETTY LARCENY. ABOLITION AND MAINE LAW SPEECHES, &e., &e., &e. THE WHIG CONVENTION. FIRST DAY—APTERNOON SESSION. ‘Syracuse, Sept. 26, 1855. The convention resumed ip session at one o'clock. Mr, Horkrye, from the Committee on the Contested Seat trom Renvaelaer, made a report in fayor of allowing the seat to Mr. Flood as their regularly elected delegate. ‘The committee, also, upon the contested seat from the county of Steuben, made a report in favor of allowing the seat to George F, Swift, as the regularly clected delegate. The Committee on the Contested Seat from Oneida, re- ported in favor of allowing the seat from the Fourth dis- trict of that county to Mr. Bates, ‘The reports of the committees were severally adopted, and the delegates admitted to their seats. Mr. Davrox, from the Committee on Permanent Or- ganization, made a report, recommending the following individuals as officers of the convention:— President. JOHN A. KING, of Queens. Vice Presidents. Moses H. Grinnell, of N. Y. J, C, Hurlbnt, of Saratoga, A. 8. Murray, of Orange, H, Sherman, of Oneida, Peter Crispell, of Ulster. W. E. Lansing, ‘of Madison. Walter L. Sessions, of Chatauque. Secretaries. W. H. Ghubbuck, Madison. 1 8, Wilson, Albany. John H. Kimberly, Genesee. » Mr. Hopsixs moved that the report of the committee be adopted, ‘The motion was agreed to, and Messrs, Monroo of On- ondaga and Dodd of Washington were appointed to con- duct the President to the chair. ‘The Present, on taking the chair, addressed the con- vention substantially as follows:— Gentlemen of the Convention—I hardly know in what terms to express to you my sense of the honor which you have conferred upon me, J am an old soldier inthe Whigranks. (Cheers.) “I have endeavored to be true to whig principles, to do my duty whenever my fellow- countrymen have thought proper to trast me. But I am now, late in life, honored as the presiding officer of this body—a body of intelligent men, who think, reflect, compare and decide intelligently, and wjth a view to the best interests of this great republic. 1 am, therefore, truly honored in being presented as your presiding officer upon this occasion, and I return’ you my thanks, my best and my dutiful acknowledgments. Wo are assem-. bled here to perform the duties which fall from time to time upon the great parties of this State in the nomina- tion of its State officers. This is one of those occasions. We sball perform that anty, and we shall do it, I trust, with intelligence, with liberality, and with a proper senre of the condition of things which exist in the coun- try atthis moment. Having discharged that duty, wo have yet another great duty to perform—which is to ex- press’ the sentiments of this great free State, of the mighty people of this commonwealth, intelligent and fall essere, ppoe the great question which the national Is have counci ought proper to present to the le of the United States, Cheers.) It if therefore, teocampe- tion with the ordinary duties of a whig convention, that we have to pronounce upon those measures which we think wrong; und which the free people, not only of this land, but of every Jand where freedom is, denounce as a great and unmiiigated wrong. (Loud applause.) The legislation of Congress has foreed these questions upon us, amdithey have been parties to the violation of a great, time-honored compact of the people of the United States—a compact made in 1820, and which, though foreed upon the freemen of’ this land, they have honorably, on their side, maintained. Thus Te stood, ai we Lave Gove what we sould to vindicate the rights of that compact. I bel to the people of that day, who did not think it best to have acompact upon that’ question, and that upon the ad- mission of Missouri, was the time to make this issue. Cheers.) He whose blood I inherit occupied that posi- tion, standing in the national councils under the reselu- tions of this great Stato, in the performance of a great duty upon that occasion. ’ New York, by her resolution of 1820, which is unrevoked and unrepealed at this’ mo- ment upon the statute book of this State, declared that it was the duty of Congress, as they had’ the right, to refuse the admission of Missouri, leas she came in free. (Cheers.) A compromise was the result. That compro- mise we have done our part to maintain. Now, then, we are solemnly called upon, as the representatives of a great tion of the intelligent and thinks mon of this great te, tosay what is proper and right for them to so in reference to this great question. are to speak not only for ourselves now, but for those are to come after us. We are lo put the seal of New York upon the sentiment which agitates and which has controlled the election of all the States of this Union, and to declare whether our independence was achieved and our consti- tution established for liberty or for slavery. (Applause.) And we are the men to do it. (Good, good.) Tels by virtue of that constitution that we have become what we are, one of the great, if not the greatest States in this Union. We are a liberty loving people. We abide by the rivileges of the constitution, and by its compromises. It our duty upon this occasion to say, out and out, like freemen, what we think, what we would have, and how long we would stand by it. We have now ‘and then amung us freemen who forgot their duty, who are oblivi- ous of their obligations, and who sometimes depart from the faith we desire them to walk in. Those are the men, and such the sentiment, which have brought these issues upon us, If the free men of the free States had asserted for themselves, and in their places, as representatives of freemen, those doctrinea bog’ belong to bakin we should not now be called upon to express our sentimentsupon the outrages which hive occurred in Kansas, and which have been the re- sult of the violation of a solemn compact. 1am not the man to invite you to do what is rash. Iam too old for that, and I tiust, too wise. It is not necessary. We who’ feel and enjoy the blessings of liberty, can miko some allowance for those who are not as well offin this great confederacy ax we are, but we owe it to ourselves, quietly but firmly to aaert’ the right of the free people of this nation to a proper representation of their piston and sentiments in the national councils, and in the gene- ral government. (Applause.) We have had but a small share and portion of the inheritance which our fathers fought for, and we snust now quietly and firmly take our stand; we must now put our foot down, and say, thus far shall you go and no farther. (Cheers.) What is left belongs to freedom; what you have got, maintain. We will not touch it, but don’t ask to take that which is consecrated to freedom, to desecrate it to slavery. You have got a large and fertile portion of this great coun- try. You have now one-halt of one branch of the coun- cils of the nation. Be content with that, but what re- mains is liberty’s, and belongs to freedom. We shall be wanting in our duty to the true sense of New York, if we do not say that we stand by that question, « New York has a vote to give, aud declare tha shall prevail and slavery shall have its limits as it now stands. Every man who hears me must agree to the sentiment that slavery is a curse, that it isa blot upon the fairest country, und the noblest republic in world. All good men regret its existence and desire its extinction. That cannot, perhaps, be accompli: ; bat we have the power to limitit to where it exists, and that is the doctrine I desire to assert. In order to attain this great, noble, and beneficent object, we must use, not only our own strength, but we must ask the co-operation and aid of all those who agree with us. It ig the great and the overriding issue before the people of the United States, It appeals directly to every man in this convention. He ip a con: all that belongs to liberty. Its com- merce, its ractures, its agriculture appeal to you to stand fast upon this question, and that you should not swerve from your duty, Ifyou feel as you should, you will unite with all who are right upon ‘this great ques. tion, in order to rescue the country and the constitution from the further encroachments of slavery. Upon all other questions | have nothing to say. I ‘Teapect men who honestly hold opinions, no matter what they aro, adverse to wy own. I find no fault with them and wage no war. It is not now the time to linger upon any ques- tions other than those invelved in this great issue. Lat it stand ont in all its length and breadth; let it stand ont aa a pillar of fire to te usonour way. Let every true disciple come up, and stand by and protect it; let other Issues stand on their own merits: upon this let the bone and sinew of New York—its whole intelligence and power come in aid of this great question. Thaye but little more to xay. But for this question I should not have been in this convegtion. 1 did not want to come; I thought I was not the Man for the occasion. 1 thomas there were abler, but not truer men, who should have been in my place in this convention, but as Tam here I will go thraugh it, and will sand by you fa thove grent Principles which 1 have indicated, which m; own fathers have bequeathed tome. Humble as Tam, am proud to be the representative of those noble sent ments, and so far as J can, T will communicate them to every man in the State of New York. Let your course de right, and the country will stand by it. (Great ap- plause.) The Presipeyt then announced the presence in the convention, of a committee from the Repablican Con- ai, which desired to make a communication from t On motion the committee was allowed to communicate, through it# chairman, to the convention, whereapon— Mr. Gopwin, from Westchester, announced that the Re- ‘blicam Convention now assembled in this city, eonceiv- Rouen might be a sufficient coincidence of opinion be- tween themselves and this body to enable them, to form either a body of princ!p! selection of candidates for offtce, have appofnt ‘ommittce of Canference to meet a Felect Commitiee from this body, if it shall con- cur in their action, ond that they had appolntet Mr. Sherwood and himself as a sub-committee of a Committeo of Sixteen, to communicate the action of body this convention. esate, ane - Aleit disteets wan appoiaed to meet uch comttes Was 4 meet the Republican Convention, vis.-— mee st district, Messrs. Grinnell and Herrick; 2d, Messrs, Murray and Sensi; 3d, Messrs. Spek and School- craft; 4th, Messrs. Foot and Upham; 5th, Messrs, Little john and J, A. Sherman; 6th, Cherehill and Ja- us, nd; 7th, Messrs. Hall and Dickinson; 8th, Messrs, Up- ham and Spaulsi ‘The coramittee then retired to moet the committee of the Republican Convention, and, On motion of Mr. Dayrox, the conyention took a recess until 3 o'clock, ‘The convention resumed its session at three o'clock, at which time— the ine oF Oon- ittee had instructed Mr. Larmwoux, of Oswego, from ference, reported that such commit their chairman to report that the committee on the part of this convention met the Committee of Sixteen on the part of the Republican Convention, and it was there unani- mously agreed that a plan be submitted, as follows:— That eich convention should appolat a Committee of Six- teen, two from each Judicial district, upon resolutions; and and another cominittee of thirty-two, one from eack Senatorial district, upon nominations. ‘The report was received with great applause, and adopted unanimously, ir. HOPKINS, of Washington, moved that the commit- tees be appointed by the Chair, Mr. Rice, of Cattaraugus, moved to amend so as ide that the committees should be appointed by the from the respective Jusical and Senatorial districts. imi le discussion ensued on the amendment, when Mr, Brows, of Lewis, moved to amend the amendment, so as toprovide that the Committee on Nominations be appointed by the delegates from the respective Senatorial districts, and the Committee on Resolutions by the Chair. Mr. Rice accepted the ainendment to. the admendmont, The amendment, as modified, was thea rejected, and the original motion was agreed to, ie Vresikxt thereupon appointed the following com- mittees -— Committee on Nominations. First distriet, N.D. Thayer; 2d, James Humphreys; 4, James B, ‘Taylor; 4th, E. W. Morgan; 5th, John J. Silvock; 6th, Moses H. Grinnell; 7th, Joha 8. Wandle; 8th, Albert Van Kleck; 9th, A. 8.’ Murray; 10th, Erastus Cook; 11th, John L. Schoolcraft; 12th, P. A. Flood; 13th, Faward Doda; 14th, J. C. Clark; 15th, B, Usher; 16th, Harvey Doolittle; 17th, H. M. Buckley: 18th, Wm, Com- stock; 10th, J. A. Shearman; 20th, A. 2. MeCarthy; 2st, C. P. Granger; 224, Allen Monroe; 254, P, H. McGraw; 24th, L.R. Rose; 25th, J. D. Scott; 26th, AB, Dickinson; 27th, §. P. Allen; 28B, R. S. Hill; 20th, Chas.Colt; 30th, Martin Butts; lst, Caristian Metz; 52d, A. 8. Rice. Committee on Resolutions, First district, E. D. Morgan ana Chas, 8. Tappan; 24, J. H. Jennings ’and A. Hadden; 3d, A. M. Vedder-and J. M. Kamuny; “4th, (©. Schuyler and 8, Foot; 5th, D. W. ©. Littlejohn and £.'A. Brown; 6th, 8. A, Northrup and ‘A. Churchill; 7th, B. F. Hall ‘and’ W. Clark; 8th, E, G, Spaulding and W.'E, Keep. Mr. Foorr, of St. Lawrence, moved that a committee of two be appointed to notify the Republican Convention that committeos have been appointed by this couvention in pursuance to the plan proposed by the Joint Commit- tec of the two bodies. The motion waa agree to, and Mestrs, Woot, of St Lawrence, and Littlejohn, of Oswego, were appointed such committee, On motion of Mr. Mowror, of Onondaga, the following communication from the Secretary of State was read:— SyRaouse, Sept. 20, 1855. Wang Stare Convention: 1 and political friends have been y noratnation 10 the ofiles which I now oc- Tam not insenai>le ‘o their kindness, nor to the honors: osition which has been conferred upon me it peed ul for all their mani artinfity, and 1 shail ever feel most g Fistations'of confidence nnd regard, But, realizing most deeply, as I do, the Pony tnohmegia tance of the proper decision Uy the people of this. the rreat iasties about to. be presented for their consideration, and jelng most anxious to relieve the convention from all embar- rvasement in what relates personally to myself, I have deter- mained, with sentiments of ‘he highest rexpeot for the conven- ‘ion, ahd with feelings of dhe warmest interest for the success of te cause in which they are engaged, to withdraw my name from the pending canvass, and to leave the convention at full Mberty to pas oe choice of a candidate to s' r swith seuliezente of the highest edicnt sentiment ect, your obedient servant Meee te LEAVENWORTH: E. G. Spavipiva, State Treasurer, remarked;—I take occasion to say thet I with the sentiments contain- edin the letter which just been read from Mr. Lea- venworth, Secretary of State. Iam Feo at the una- nimity of sentiment and feeling which prevails in this convention upon the great and ee juestion which be ide the public mind. I feel deeply ‘the importance of carrying forward this t movement to a successful termination, 1 in sentiments expressed by the Secretary of State, and, therefore, desire to place myself in the same position he has before this convention. (Loud hes wera . |. U, Migs, of New York—This convention has re- solved to fuse itself with other than whigs. In justice to constituents I desire to offer a protest to such action. he protest was read as follows :— We the undersigned, members of a Whig State Convention, elected by our copsiitien's to take whig nominations, and 16 act a6 whigs only in @ whig conven! ‘hereby Neat against the abandonment or destruction of the whig 1, OF “ihe Clay. Hartloon and Wabels of thie Gtate, have reftmed ai couildion or action with svelitonists for at teen years, and we ® coalition with now, >» » \ \ Sowa have ascombied to nonbinate e whig tckot of well KBOW', whigs. In our belief, no mere perty can long exist in thi eonieger eeu inaciicae fre! poles ser against changing the whig party bf this into, or tray it ever, to any party which s not, nor cannot, from ite I, bea! Party. Sut a6 a majority assembled in this con- well-being of ihe wilg party: we reepectally dectie ay Tur {her partictpadion In the Mdoiude of the 4 if TWENEY 0, MILLEN, de to Fifteenth district. BENEDICT LEWIS, Jn. dologate Twelfth distict, WM, H, RPARKS, delegate Third district. M. 6. FORDHAM: delegate First district, Mr. Ssssions, of Chatanque.—As that, is a very im- portant communication I par that it be referred to the * committee having charge of Governor Hunt’s letter. (Great laughter and chook) Moses H. Gnixnett, of New York.—I second the motion made by the gentleman on the opposite side of the room. Idoitasa of the city of New York. While those gentlemen were nominated to come here to a whig con- Yentlon, before that protest should have been presented should have had the magnanimity at least to wail and see what kind of nominations should be made. But, gentlemen, time is too Fags to us. The tideis rolling with us, Amen! and let them go. (Cheers.) I hope the name of Mr, Tappan, of New York, will be stricken from this committee of ‘sixteen which has just been ap- pointed, because be is no longer a member of this con- vention, He was placed upon that committee, and he now rises here, or rather places his name upon @ paper @ action of to be presented here, protesting against this convention. Why, sir, did he ot doe manly act, and withdraw from the convention quietly, and say, *“gen- tlemen pursue your own couse, T to anol party,” Timove that the name of Mr. Tappan be strick rom the committee of sixteen, and that taere be sul tuted the name of some other person who is true to the principles of this convention. (Applause.) Mr. Tarrax—I desire to say one word to this conyon- tion. T was , when the lst of names of that committee was read over, that mine was among them. I inquired of several members if that was so, and] was told by them that I was mistaken, Had I known the fact, should have got up-and declined to act upon that committee. I desire merely to say this, that I may be put right upon the record, and thatit may not be insinu- ated that 1 was desirous to get upon a committee when Twas opposed to the action of the convention. The motion of Mr. Sessions was and the name of Mr. Tappan was struck from the committee. ‘The President thereupon appointed Moses H. Grinnell, of New York, to eupply the vacancy. Mr. Foote, of St. Lawrence, from the committee of two appointed to wait upon the Republican Convention and announce to them the action of this convention, report- ed that they had discharged the duties imposed on them, and that an invitation was extended by that convention to the Nominating Committee of this convention to mect their committee at their place of meeting, and that the republican Committee on Resolutions will meet the com- mittee of this body at this hall. Messrs, Joseph A. Blunt and Preston King, as a com- mittee of the Republican Convention, then announced that committees had been appointel by their body, in pursuance to the recommendation of the joint cominit- tes of the two bodies, and that those committees were ready to act. On motion of Mr. Morror, the convention then ad journed until 7 o'clock P. M. EVENING SESSION. convention resumed its session at 7 o'clock. pwix, of Madison, addrewed the couvention, upon the call of the President, and said:— Taeem to be called upon to fill up a space in the pro- ceedings of this convention, and would endeavor to do so by calling attention te the great question. which will soon be presented, especially to the people of New York, for their decision. From his earliest youth and en- trance into political life, he had been a whig, and under that banner he bad always fought, whether in prosperit or adversity. A portion of the prinefples upon whic that party formerly battled have for the present away, and he was now ag to unite with any class & men who agreed with hin in principle, and can stant upon the same platform and battle in bebalf of thé same great political creed, and “not that he loved Cesar less, but that he loved Rome'more."” In considering. the position which the Empire State was to occupy in thir contest it was well to look to history, and carry the mind back through the corridors of the past, and see what informa- tion can be gathered in regard to those great issues now foreed upon them. They hed to do with actual and living principles, and issues eet t It is true the com- promise of 1820 bas been ted, but history will show that there has been a grosser violation ot a still more sacred compact, and which dates farther back than the compact of that is a compromise oa which the very constitution itself was it was called into being. was established the several States Ne domain and territories, which they ceded to the gene~ sal severe mse and be Hoge) constituted the only ‘sole possessions he general government. founders of our free institution had no idea of bs additional territory. stitution or laws for it, Louisiana by purchase, Jefferson said that it was done ‘without the Ee of the constitution.” Our fathers embraced the idea that we bad ai} the territory we were ever to have. ‘The speaker then proceeded to show that « solemn com- tered into on the formation of the eonstita- ch itself had been violated. There was a marked and distinct understending and co-operation between the Congress which enacted the law for the government of the northwestern territory and the convention which framed the constitution. ‘Im 1847, Mr. Webster, in the United States Senate, declare! that there was so-opera- tion and unity of action between those two hodies, Mr. Celnoun declared the eame thing, and the rewl\of that understanding was that slavery ahould be forever exela- ded from the northwestern territory, which wae all the goverpmrent possessed or expetied to powwat; and the South got in return the right of slave representation, and the reclamation of fugitives. That setion. had Feference to all the territory which it was expect ’ ‘