The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1855, Page 8

t THE BLACK REPUBLICANS IN COUNCIL, Great Gathering of the Preston King Party Last Night. The Whig Party Sold Out, and the Con- cern Closed Up. B. F. Butler and Horace Greeley in the Same Boat, Speeches of Gen. Nye, Senator Wilken, Hon. Lyman Sherwood and Others, NOT A WORD ABOUT THE MAINE LAW, &0., &ec., &e. accordance with the subjoined cail, a meeting was held in the Tabernacle last evening :— na) Baremasens or THE City or New Yonx—Will meet at 0 Biriieegirauizing te: pladorm apd ‘nominstios ine By ublican State Convention at Syracuse, tember 27. Lion, Henry Wilson, Gen. Nye, Sudge Culver, and one exh: eee ee ner oe TT KENNEDY,? Committee of T. 8. BERRY, Pe reemeea ‘There was the usual Tabernacle audience in attendance, including many respectable old whigs on the floor, and a large number of fast young men from the Broadway House in the gallery. Tlie Inst named individuals com- menced 8 rattling fire of applause when the time arrived for calling the meeting to order. There were some twelve hundred people in attendance. ‘The meeting was called to order by Dr. Kennedy, and the following named persons were nominated as officers of the meeting, which nominations were ratified :— Pausipxnt, EDGAR A. KETCHUM. VICB-PRESIDESTS. W. D. Murphy, Dr. A. §. Ball, L. B. Wara, Cyrus Curtis, SECRETARIES, M. G. Hart, J. O, Bennett. ‘These gentlemen appeared and took their seats on the platform. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, was the star of the occasion. The Presi¢ent said: Feutow Crrzmxs—This mecting of the republicins of the city and county of New York, is held to ratify the proceedings of the State Couvention, which was holden at Syracuse on the 27th September last. Mr. William BD, Mur, has a resolution which he will now offer for the consideration of the mecting. Mc, Mcrpay then read his resolution, aa follows:— Resolved, That the resol:tions adopted at Syracuse, Septem- ber 27th, by the Republican State Convention, as the pla‘form of principles, meets our hearty approbation. solved, That the following Ucket, nominated by sald con- vention, consisting of Preston King for Secretary of State, James M. Cook. * ‘Comptroller, Abijab Mann, Jr. Attorney General, Alexander B, Wil ‘* Treasurer, ‘i Ganal Contmlssionor, ‘ate Prison Inspector, Trach inion’ «* Judges of Court of Appeais, Perit) ate approval, and we pledge {t our en- The resolutions were generally applauded. Mr, Burry, one of the Secretaries of the Syrneuse Con- vention, read letters from Wesley Bailey, James M. Cook, Bradford R. Wood, and Abijah Mann, Jr., accepting the nominations which had been tendered them. The letters generally expressed strong abolition sentiments and were applauded, . ED. Morcay rend letters from Hon. Charles Sum- ner, of Massachusettr, Mr. William M. Evarts, and Hon. B. F. Butler, of this city. Mr. Butler says, that his sen- timents accord with those expressed by the Republican Convention, snd that the compact of 1820 was ‘‘wanton- 4y and wickedly repealed by the last Cougress, with the acsent of the Executive; but he has uniformly declined to “take oh in any meetings or other measures con- nected with the formation at this time, in this State, of a new political party.” Therefore, he will not attend gthe meeting, but as the Soft Convention failed to condemn the “Kansas and Nebraska iniquity,” he will give the republican candidates his hearty support. He hopes that the whole ticket will be elected by a vote which will be the prophecy and pledge ofa “more pertect triumph in Hoa, Loman Sumrwoop was then introduce, and after fome prefatory remarks, said that for years the politicdl daborers of the country had been divided into two great partes, through whose efforts many impcriant questions aad been settled, and to whom much of the country’s prosperity wasdue. The manner in which the financial affairs of the nation should be conducted was one of tyese questions, and there were mauy others which he reed not recount, which have divided the people. But ‘here are yet other questions to be settled, over which the parties hitherto existing have no control. How, then, shall we act at this juncture’ Shall we aduere to, +r echall we discard and repudiate these old parties, which were before alternately right, but which are alto- Kr her wrong now? The issue cow before the country prohibition or extension of slavery, and { would ect those zealota who are devoted to the old political ions to the Declaration of Independence, whis! ‘ains that “all men are born free aud equal, and endowed with certain inalienable rights, among which is Liberty ’’ I would direct them tothe precepts of Him who brought “peace on earth, and good will to men,” and who taught that “ whatsoever ye would that men should do to you. do ye even so to them.”’ I koow what has beep eaid upon thie subject of loyalty y, and I know what 4 brace of ex-Governors i ; but 1 believe that the 1e de Not all these can conceal reatest crime—the sin of slavery. These men i us to the frrewell letter of General Wash- fagton, and have made use of that document as an argu- ment in favor of their position. But I would direct them last will and testament of that great man, in which ected that all bis slaves were to be set fece at the hia wife, and expressed his regret that his own not be the source of liberty to them, since it with her rights in them. He counselled his teach the slaves to read and write; and the ed God that the good man died ere the State ‘ginia had made this deed a crime, punishable by oment, The will concludes witn the legacy of anda life pension to the testator’s private ser- 5 the speaker would contrast with the conduct of the present administration and its supporters in Con- gress, who Lave refused a pension to a man who fought in Cus last war on account of the color of his skin. If General Washington were alive at nay eed day he could not set his slave free in Virginia. He was a repub- ican, aud the principles that he inculcated and main- tained in bis will are the principles that actuate the resent republican party. Let gabernatorial Tammany lai speakers hark their thunders at the republicans, let thea fulminate and write lelters, = can but littie, 1 do wrong to couple the names of those great and good men with these of modern aspirants to the Presidency; with thoee of the defenders of the wires eae | ‘inst search and seizure, I think Lere in calling the latter aspirvats to the Presidency ; T ought to have said aspi- rants to the Cincinnati Convention. The speaker then quoted from a fpeec’ of Danfel Webster which referred to slavery 4a national blot, and which was responded to with twenty-six cheers, one for every State in the Cnion—and commended the sentiments contained therein to the Uaion-savers, and to others who opposed the prin- ciples of the meeting he addressed. Constitution Hall in this city was once the place of meeting of a body of men who supported the views of Henry Clay, one of the (camers ‘of the Treaty of Ghent, an instrument which d pounce’ slavery asa crime, and which contained ex- @ provisions probibiting the slave traffic. Does the Henry Clay still live in, and are his views still "the ‘ay and dark lantern whigs who now meet ‘at Constitution Hall? A parallel was here @rawn between the North and the South, and the speaker inquired why there is now so great disparity between the two rections, in point of population, manafactures, cot merce, general education, & and thought it was be- rause the Thomas Jeffersons, the Patrick Henrys, the John Randolpbs, and other Virginia republicans and great men ore no more. Trial by jury, and the habeas corpus, those imy nt elements of constitutional lib- erty, a:0 yet to he restored to everybody, and New York is vet to be redeemed. The Pamepeyr then introduced Hon. Henry Wilson, as “the noble son of Massachusetts,’ who was received with great applause:— Senator Wusox said, I thank you, Mr. Presi- dent, ani yon, tlemen, for your kind and cordial greeting. the denunciations which are heaped upon me, fam always thankful for a kind word, but pi prom in this great Cee eget no ep 1 — to congratulate you w ing inaugurated a republican Fo inn party which is intended to at out the princi- £ advocated by Thomas Jefferson in 1784—the prohibi- ‘ion cf alavery. “I ccngratulate you on the favorable au- Spices under which you have begun the work, on hav- ing secured such candidates as you have, and assure you ' that they are worthy of your su] You do not pro- pose to wage wat upon any section of the country; you embrace in your ‘tions every foot of ita keg fo and men of every race and color on the earth. You donot South on account of her institutions; you have go wish for war upon the South; bat you resist the encroachments of slavery upon free and you intend todethrone American slavery and American freedom We accept the Geclaration of Jackson, “The Union—it must and also accept the be preserved ;” and we weatiment of that cot pn gly lie in Marshfiold, inion, now at Samat, ee Choate ‘recently maid that he no iD E PL eepey’ party which did not carry the s : 3 2 4 = . We do not ‘the principle of State princi Stal it human slavery in the pe bene feat, Sa s - NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1855. in the k of Gov. Hunt, It is in the hands of twenty- three millions of men. The object of this party is not ) Franklin Pierce wants us to believe that he ia a national politician—Franklin Pierce, who was taken from the rocks of New Ham) re, of popular favor to Washington, to ‘vootlo . He has opened a vast ex- tent of eee to the inroads of slavery, a purely sec- ont eee on. bet nationality Ui) Samoecatie party is also paraded before us. , that party bas entire head in the South, and only ifs tail in the North, and heavy iron heels are upon it tail already. The whig has from earth. Whether it has been trans! or not, I canno: tell; but it is no more. There is no ‘of the resurrection of the whig party of the United States. It bowed down to slavery, and it has died. Within the lust year anda half a new party has epru g to existence, and, aided by the anti-Nebraska eenti- ment of the country, it has succceded in sending to Con- ress mxty or seventy members opposed to the extension of slavery. But the South demanded that the American party should be a pro-slavery organization, 1 saw last winter, in Washington, that an effort was to be made to force the Americin ‘party to bow down ia absolute submission to the slave power, and I then made up my mind, as a member of that organization, that if it undertook to be » pro-slavery organization, I would, it! had the power, shiver it into ten thousai nts. (Great applause.) I left Washington re- solved to do what I could to save'the American purty from becoming a pro-slavery organization, Early in May last I warned the people that such an effort was to be made, and I said then, in all candor, that the anti-slavery men of the country’ ought to resolve, and to proclaim that resolve at the rising and at the setting of the sun, and in the broad light of noonday, thet whenever the American party laid its hand upon the anti-lavecy move- ment of the country, in that day it should begin to die. In June last we went to Philadelphia. The slave party came there, and demanded that the American party should sanction all the pro-slavery legislation of the country, from the organization of the government up to the’consummation of the Nebraska iniquity, and the dele- ‘tes from New York stood by and sustained them. The tate of New York was attempted to be sold to slavery by its Barkers and its Lyons; and I would say to every man who loves liberty, that he owes it to himself, to his coun- try and to his God, to repudiate that baffled, ‘and defeated and disgraced pro-slavery faction herein the State of New York, (Great applause.) Your Grat duty is to Leave tue American organization, and join the gathering hosts of the freemen of New York. (Renewed applause.) ‘The fundamental ideas of that party that are in. perfect harmony with the Declaration of Independence I believe every man of whatever party ought to sustain; but I say that the American organization here in New York is mo- thing more nor leas than @ pro-slavery organization. Now, I have referred to the principlos upon whicn the republican organization was formed. Let us allin the free States unite to resist the extension and domination of the slave power in this country. _(Applause.) Lat us prepare for the canvass of 1866, and then nominate for the Presicency a man with a backbone, who will carry out those principles. (Cheers.) I believe, after tra- ‘yeraing thirteen of the States of this Union, that if we stand by the platiorm of the republican party, as pro claimed in Massachusetts and in New York, we can carry the free States of this Union in 1856, (Loud chews.) Ia 1854, for the first time in the history ef the country, we carriod the House of Representatives by three huntrei and fifty thousend majority; and it did mot shake the Union; andI tell you that the election of an anti-Nebraska President in “1858 will notdo it. (Lond applause.) “We may not succeed in 1858. It may bé that the people of the free States are not yet wise enough to forget their little differences and unite togethec; but wo shall unite in the fature and come together, and feel our hearts beat responsive to the glowing words of liberty. We may fail in 1856, but it we do we shall only fall to rise gain, Tre advancing waves of civilization, Chris- tinnity, and humanity, will bear ua forward. The hand of Almighty God will sustain us, All the hepes and in- stincts of the human race are with us, and in the end we shall overthrow the slave ‘power aad enthrone free’om. (Applause.) We shall abolish slavery in the Territories of the United States, and then when we have put the nation, in the words of Mr, Van Buren, “ openly, actively, and effective- ly on the side of freedom,” we shall find glorious friends in the South. We shall find men like Cassius M. Clay ‘applause), generous and high-souled men, who will, in their own ‘time and in their own way, lay the foundation ofa policy ‘of emancipation that will give freedom to three anda half millions of human beings. (Applause.) These are our objects. We intend to carry them out under the constitution and within the Union. We shall free the Presidency gf the Union and the Supreme Court of the United Staf€s from their present subserviency to the slave wer. We shall free the Courts of the United States om your Judge Kanes. And here Iet me say, that there “is a public sentiment Growing up in’ this country that regards Passmore Williamson, ia his prison in Philadelphia, as a martyr to the holy cause of personal liberty. (Lond applause.) And that will brand on the brow of Saige Kano a mark that wiil make him exclaim with the elder Cain, ‘My punishment is greater thanI can bear.” (Vehementand continued ap- planse and laughter.) Our duty §s to banish from public life the men who have been false to lierty, and I say to our friends who are so much alarmed about the Uuion, that we republicans have this idea of the boat mode of saving the Union, to banish for ever from public lite every Northern man who has been false to liberty, and every Southern man who threatens to destroy the Union Loud and continued a pplause.) Tirust that the repub- lican ticket in this State will be triumphant. I trust that Preston King, that noble and true democrat who heads the column, will be sustained by the true democrats of New York. (Loud cheers.) I hope that the mer chants of New York—this great commercial emporium— will respond to the declaration made by one of them- selves five years ago, when he announced that his goods were for sale, not his principles. (Applause.) I hope we shall all of ua respond to the words of the American poet, John G. Whittier — Let us then uniteand bury All our idle feuds in dust, And to future couflicts carry Mutual faith and common trust; Alwaye he who forgiveth most, 10 his brother is mos: just. (Loud and long continued applause, during which tho speaker resumed his seat.) General Jaues W, Nys was then introduced by the Chairman, and was 1e-cived with tremendous applause. He said:—Mr. President, I feel unwilling to mar the beauty of the subject as it now stands, and I would be greatly obliged to you and to this aud‘ence if you would excuse me, confident as I am that the question on which this issue is based will stand as well when I have done as it does now, and were it nod for the peculiar position | occupy I should be mute before the grandeur of the scene which surrounds me. {am always glad to mingle with my fellow citizens, to aid in perpetuati the great and leading principles ‘of the government, an: in securing its freedom, but 1 feel embarrassed at being called upon just at this time, (A laugh.) I know, how: ever, that you can't make a good building out ‘of alt largé timber, and if can fill the place of the rafters and supports in ‘this great republican building, I shall be content. (Laughter.) My political associations from early life to past’ its meridian have been with other men than those with whom I am now acting. In the retrospect of the past I can look back over many a well ty Se field, when Nyy 4 perched — our banner, and when! was opposed to those with whom I now as- sociate. Away back in the pathway of time the poli- tical party with whom | associated split. (Roara of laughter.) It was literally sundered and torn a part on the very fgsue on which we now stand. I buckled on my youthful armor and took sides with the free soil or- ganization of this State. (Applause) And if ever I felt any doubt of the justice of the cause, 1 had plenty of men to sustain me and back-me up. I remember. in 1848, when a hundred thousand were marshalled for this fight. 1 remember too that I was urged, on to the conflict, when the last star of hope grow pale, by the clarion voice of a Van Buren, and the rich, sonorous tones of a Cochrane. (Roars of laughter.) I went into battle, and I confess that in that contest felt armed with a little of the power of the stripling of Is. real, when he went out to war with the giant of Gath- (Lavghter.) Hemet the enemy and, as General Taylor said after the famous battle of Buena Vista, ‘‘we were enabled to maintain our position®’ (Roars of laughter an great cheering.) We were commanded then to sleep by our arms, to encamp upon the battle ground, no matter how wild the elements that surrounded us, ready for ano- ther conflict, should the enemy return. (Laughter.) I lay me down with the rest, in the quiet repose which the soldier fuels after the hour of battle. Well, we slept long, but our officers’ sleep was more profound than that of the solifers, and, when we awoke, from some unex lained cause, 10, the limbs of our officers were Pound with withes; (Laughter.) ‘They had latd their heads in the laps of Delilahs, and they awoke as powor- less as Samson when shorn of his locks. (Roars of laughter.) When I looked upon them, 1 f, can these dry vones live? (Laughter.)’ Ani while { was et speaking, lo! they began to move, and the question is now fully solved; thoze dry bones could live and have lived. Lacte? with that organization from the most hon- est convictions of my heart. I beliered the truths we then asserted. Ihave done so ever since (Applause), and | went to the late democratic convention at Syra- cue with no desire but an honest one, to bring about the resurrection of the democratic party, but they would not. The effort most signally failed. I endeavored to get them to speak in the | os which the recent outrages de- manded, Said J, why should you acquieice in these out- upon our Fights? ‘Why, mext year is the National Convention at Cincinnati, was the reply.” Said I, whatdo Teare for that? What is that to me, unless 1 can go into it a+ a man’ (Cheers.) 'I toll some of my astute friend, it isan he! thing to have great con- ventions and no party, and itis just as easy to ha: great party and no convention (Laughter and sauce.) Still I stayed in that convention till it expired. 3 the ticket nominated there, is the name of a Tilden; with him I co-operated in 1845, and of a Stetson, and a Thurston, both of whom J app: ; bat the diffi sulty ie they are in bad company. (Iaughter.) I want to go to-bed with myzelf, and not to be sick of my bedfellow. (Langhter.) Feliow citizens, it is well for us occasion. ally to pause and take an observation, to find out our exact ition, anc see which way we must steer to reach ar and here I want to remark in reference a na to what I ; the great difficulty in the political world, We, individually, do not think of the consequences that hang on the sit ballot that we cast. We that we are res; le for the manner in which our publis officers perform their duty. The busy that crowd the deck of this republican ship of State, forget that she is freigh with the world’s best hope—‘ freetom. that priceless jewel,’ (cheers,) and that a wreek wou! bur t world’s best hope, Bold action ani —s zeal are necessary to the Fag ve} dance of this ship ot State. I make the assertion a. that there never was atime when the ineficiency of our leaders was more visible than it is now, (applause,) and J am not one to charge corruption or want of — ity on any man with- out cause, Now I assert that the great leading feature of the American constitution is freedom. na bat were age.) To to the it devolves you and upon me, eee da it uel nt with on erpeatsotion fiat tare their duty and do it not; that will condema the results ees not Gon: demn the power that is ted. (Applause.) 1 will not support an administration, the chief of which holds the pen that can check the incursions on freedom and yet neglects todo it, Had I the power, I would blow this administration so high that galvanism or gravitation, should rever act on ay ye it. (Laughter and ap- plause.) But we shal saved that necessity, for it seems to be selfdestro; . [assert that when the hand at the hela rds the honest calls of freemen, it is time that the helm should be | wrested from his hands; and thea the inquiry comes up, has not that time arrived? (Vehement applause.) One of the first acts of the American ‘88 ae fo gam, he ordinance consecrating rey inch of territory to free- dom. The noble bear's of the revolutionary patriots were not yet still. must be active, Hence the adoption of one of the great, ‘‘compromisea”—a word that I wish had never been introduced, for it has occa- sioned more difficulty than any other word ia the bn lish language. (Laughter and cheers.) Compromise al ways implies that something is wrong, and that the right must yield; and Iam against the word. (Applause snd laughter.) ’ After a time new slave States sought admit- tance inte the Union, whose advent had not been an- ticipated. Slavery entreated, and the North, in her magnanimity, yielded and gové, vntil at last slavery be- caine, through her expansion, arrogant and strong: and now, in her stres . Bhe demands what before she begged. Thatisthe plain English of the whole of it. (Applause.) That was a fatal concession. Itwas a fatal thrust at the constitution. It was a blow strnck at free. dom, from the é@ffects of which she has never recovered. It shows this it truth, that in all governmental affairs. theonly time to ta wrongis when itoccurs. (Cheers.) You may compromise as much as you please, but those compromises will be broken. Im 1848 we reared our crests a little and went down to Baltimore and there we met the politest set of men I have ever seen. (Laughter.) ‘They asked us into the convention, and it certainly was not ten minutes before they asked us out again. (Re- newed laughter.) They hardly let us get warm in our seata, and I believe our old chieftain, C. C, Cambreling, did not sit down at all. They put him on to the stand makea speech, and before he got through they told us that our presence was not longer needed there. In 1852 I went down to Baltimore again, and there was a grand Tenge Age and we compromised the whole concern. they us there—althoagh on looking at the record you will find there was one vote aguinst it, and that vote was mine. (Loud applause.) They made us agree that we would pot ‘agitate this ques- tion of slavery either in Congress or out of it. I entered my protest against this proceeding, and told them that my constituents wouldn’t stand it. But they told me they must; and I, ia my childlike innocence (a laugh) went home and took the stump for Gen. Pierce. ‘The slavery question was supposed to be settled, and it was my duty to convince the free soilers in my section of the country that General Pierce was all sound. (Great laughter.) I was told by those who had visited him that was true. (Laughter and applause.) And I was also told that he resembled the late Daniel D. Tompkins. iegisive: laughter.) There was about as much resem- lance as there is between the full orbed sun and the country lightning bug. { was told that ho had written a scarlet letter approving of free soil principles, which letter is, 1 believe, in the possession ot his friend Hallett. * Well, he was clected, and I thought we had gained a great triumph over Cass, Marcy and Buchanan. He was july inaugurated, and he solemnly promised in that in- | augural address to stand by the compromixes as firmly as he would by the constitution itself. Scarce- ly had be got warm in his seat before the | Kauaas-Nebraska infamy, which was conceived in iniqui- ty and brought forth by the throes of vaultiog ambition, was born of a Douglas, and the present Executive was the midwife cn the occasion. (Laughter aud applause.) Freemen remonstrated against it everywhere. ‘There were remonstrances enough sent from New York alone to have built a tower whose top would have pterced the skies, but they were all thrown under the tables at Wash- ington, and Douglas) rushed madly on, atded by thead- ministration. Fidelity t» the bill was made the test of democracy. A new principle had been discovered, aad it was rescrved for Douglas to find out that for sixty years our territorial government had been all a mistake. Gen. Nye then alluded to the case of Mr. Miller, of Utica, who was refued an appointment, although favore} by Governor Seymour, because he was the author of a re- monstrance against the Nebraska bill, to show that no appointanents were made of persons who did net first swear fealty to the Nebraska-Kansas ast. He then proceeded to describe the state of things in Kansas, and attacked Senator Atchison and the people of Missouri, and sati- rized Governor Seymour’s late specch at Tammany Hall, The General thought it was wrong that Indians should be allowed to vote when bluck men were denied the right of suffrage, Thus, he continued, we see that although General Fieree promised to support all the compromises, he broke down the only one that was a barrier to the ex- tension of slavery. t act every foot of soil in the pega the battle ground between slavery aud freedom; and I asked the democrats at Syracuse to cen- sure it.’ They refused to do £0, and I cannot act or vote ith them any longer. (Ruthusiastic applause.) But we are told we are duing a great wrong when we vote for igs. We have been fold that before; and I reme that old Father Ritchie was once in terrible agony for fear some whig candidates would get some democratic votes. I will tell you what suthority we bad for it: At owe first meeting, in Herkimer-the names of Michael Hoffman, Abijab Manu and other great men, whose acts have lustre on the State of New York. [The speaker quoted from the ayeech of Hon. John Van Buren, who urgued that in times of great trial party lines were always bro- ken down, and both whigs and democrats fraternized— worked and fought together for the safety of the coun- try.] The fact is, suid Mr. Nye, I vote with every body tht thinks as Ido, if they vote with me, (Laughter and applause.) [will not ask whether you were democrats oF whige—t will only inquire what you are now? T am told that I shull be swallowed by Seward and Weed, (Laughter.) Well, as little ehes must always be swallow -d by great ones, I suppose I must be swallowed by some ons, and I should prefer Seward and Weed to Pioree and Cochrane, (Laughter and applause.) T intend, however, that free- jom +hall swallow us all up. I intend to keep this priny ciple always in view and whem you lose sight, of it, 1 wou’t vote with you. There is some talk about dissolv- ing the Union. Don't bo atraid of that. ‘The Union will take care of itself, It is cemented by revolutionary blood, and it never can be destroyed. | (Applause,) Why, Lean Gnd women enough on Long idan, who, wit’ ord fash. ioned pudding sticks, would drive every man that talked of such a thing into the sea. (Renewed laughter.) ‘The question is, shall liberty be preserved? That is the only thing we have to look to. Mr. Nye closed with a strong recommendation of the ticket. and urged the people to work hard for its election, He then resumed his ecat, amid enthusiastic and long continued applause. Hon. E. D. Cuter, of Brooklyn, next adresse’ the He called on the old whigs to remember: that Mr. Fillmore turned up in an anti-Masonic fusion in 1808-9; also, that Washington Hunt was made by a fusion on the currency question, which’ firat elected him to Congress. The Know Nothings themselves, whe com- plain so loudly of fusion, have nominated a State ticket containing hard shell democrats, old whigs and young whigs. Now, the Nnow Nothings have control of the committees, und their whig adherents did not vote the ticket last year and will not now. The democrata have fased often for the sake of the spoils, All these people are fusing to sustain slavery, and we are fusing for freo- dom. Mr. Culver then praised the convention, and claimed that the republican party stood upon the Jeffor- sonian Union platform. Mr. Culver expected that the movement would goa lit‘le hardin some of the cities, but it must triumph eventually. He thought the whigs would furnish 162,000 for the army of fusion, and if the other party gave 40,000 or 60,000 more,’ our victory will be sure. Aftor Mr. Culver had concluded his remarks, at 11 o'clock, the meeting adjourned. The Crescent City Affair—Statement of Capt. McGowan. [From the New Orleans Delta, Oct. 2.) ‘The New York papers have said so much about the steamship Crescent City having violated the quarantine regulations of that port, and as their statements have been a one-sided affair,we take great pleasu-e in placing before our readers the following facts of the case, under Captain MeGowan’s own signature:— ‘Unvimp States Matt Srzamsurp Crnaceyt Crry, ) New ORiEans, Oct. 1, 1865. ‘This steamer, under my command, from this port via Havana, arrived at Quarantine, New York,on the 13th ult., at A. M., and was immediately visited by the Health Officer, who, after making the necessary examina- tion, and receiving the report from the surgeon of the ship respecting the health of the passengers and crew, declined giving permission for the puarengers to tand until he consulted with the Health Commissioners. ‘As one case of yellow fever had been reported, (that of Mr. Nagle, the purser, who had been sick for five days of a slight bilious complaint, bnt had entirely recovered), at the Health Officer’s suggestion, I proceeded in compa- ny with him to the Ge and appeared before the Health Commissioners, who, after examining into the case, gave rmission for the passengers, with their baggage, to be landed and the ship to be di scharged in Quarantine. The passengers had accordingly landed at 5 P. M. un- der my superintendence; and I, with a pasa for the gate- keeper from the Health (ficer,'left the quarantine with a number of the passengers, went to New York, and from thence to my home at Elizabethtown, N. J. On the morning of the 14th I came to New York, and went immediately down to the sh where ( found that the cargo was being as rapidly discharged as possible, and was informed by the first officer that the ship had been fumigated. After remaining some time on board, I obtained permission from Dr. Martindale, Deputy dealth Officer, to land the waiters and such other persons as were discharged from the ship. 1 came on shore with a number of them, and obtained a pass to go through the gate. Ithen went home, and dil not retarn on board until Monday morning, the 17th, when I found the shi, lying at ber usual , at the foot of Warren street; ‘and There state that I had no communication with the thip, directly or indirectly, or with any person attached to her, from the time 1 left her on Friiay, until I found her at the wharf; ond J was so well satisfied that she came up with the permission of the Health Officer, that I never aaked a question as to how she came there. I was ar- rested at about ten o’clock, and taken before Judge Os ‘borne, where I gave ball in the sum of $5,000 for my ay pearance at court, for an alleged violation of the Qaar tne laws. ‘The ship in the meantime, was taken possession of by the Mayor's police, and carried to the Quarantine. At one, P. M., I cleared the ship at the Custom Honse, and recetved all of the necessary papers: and at 2:20 left the wharf with mails, ra and their bi ina steam tug, for the ship, never dreaming that the Health Officer would attempt to keep her from going to sea. When arriving within one hastred yards of the ship, we were bailed by a police officer, and told not to come along- side. As I had allofthe ships papers with me, having clear- ea necoring to law, and going to proceed immediately to sea, I told the captain of the tug to go alongside, and then invited the paseengers to come on board. In the meantime Dr. Thompson came on board and with a police officer and boatman seized me by the arms and collar and told me that 1 was their prisoner, and that they intended to take me on shore, to which measure I strenuously ob. jected, and sy, taped that he had no authority to take me from the ship, as he had not exhibited any, and until he did, 1 would not be taken out of the snp ‘alive; firmly believing then as I do now, that! was doing pe nor dng fe law in Sing to sea with the shi e doetor PP rome officer, finding that I was nt depoved to go with , left the ship, when I or- dered ‘anchor hove ap, and piloted the ship to sea myrelf, 2 JOHN McGOWAN, Commanding U.S. M. Steamship Cresent City. ‘The Naval Board—Protest of “Old Lronsides.” SOLEMN DECLARATION AND PROTEST OF COMMO- DORE STEWART, AGAINST THE PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF NAVAL OFFICERS ASSEMBLED AT WASHINGTON, ON JULY 21, 1846. ‘The Hon. Secretary of the Navy, in & communication to me, dated July 11, 1846, directed me to repair to Wash- ington, “to enable the department to avail itself of the advice of officers of experience.’’ On the assembling of the convention of officers on the 21st inst., he addressed a communication to us indl- vidually and collectively, requiring us to “express your (our) opinion, whether is your (our) judgment, promo- tions in the navy ehould be made with exclusive refer- ence to seniority,” Be. On considering the form and language of these coumu_ Naty requiced. our individual opinions is roped ts the Navy req’ our re o the matters submitted to us in his communication of the Qist inst Fully impressed with this conviction, I sug- sted to this convention, that each officer present should be required to give his individual opinion on all matters then before it; which proposition this convention did not accede to, but proceeded to constitute iteelf a board or tribunal, wherein the voices of the minorit) should be stifled and the vote of the ty of the off- cers assembled should decide all questions that were to be acted upon by it. If anything were wanting to render this proceeding on the part of the Board more objectionable, it may be found in the fact that the efforts that were made to de- feat it were not in some cases considered, and in no case were they placed on the record; and no where'is there to be found an indication of the opinion or vote of « single member on the subject. ‘Yat this course was not in conformity with tie views or wishes of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy is mage mani- fest by a reference to his subsequent communication on other’ matters submitted for our opinions, wherein I am addressed singly as the presiding officer of the Board, and in language which required me to express our joint opinion expressly as a Board. Had the Hon. Secretary so required our joint opinions onthe matter first submitted to us, he would have ex- pressed himself equally explicit. His requirements, then, ‘as communicated to ua in his letter of the 21st inst., not having been complied with, I feel it my duty to meet them, so far as: it shall tie in my power, and after the manner which to me shall seem most proper. No board of officers, however pure, is competent to pass upon the professional and moral qualifications of any offi cer, whether for promotion or for any other arpore, ua less under all the solemn obligutions of oath to do justice —a close and steady investigation into whatever demerits may be alleged, aided by all the lights of testimony in his. behulf as well ‘as against him, ond a patient hearing of whelever he may have to advanee in exteuuation or de- nce. Our naval organization is puch that it is hardly posai- ble that the officers com ‘® board could have much rsonal knowledge of the qualifications or disqualifica- Hous of those whose for promotion are to be considered. To illustrate this remark I ° will state that, of the fifteen officers whosemames have been passed upon by this Board, [ have no personal knowledge of the qualifications of more than: twoof them, although I have numbered more than forty-eight years of service. twenty-three of whieh have been passed at sea. Most of them were unknown to meeven by name; and as the re- muunder of the officers composing this Board average a sea service of but eighteen anda half yeass, it is highly probable that a majority of the Board’never had an op- portunity of forming am opinion of thensfrom personal nowledge in any one case. Yet notwithstanding this, this Board, by a joint and secret ballot, has recommend. ed the promotion of certain’ officers, to the injury of others, and that certain other officers should be consid- “ered unworthy of promotion alt together. ‘The adoption of this joint and secret ballot has gone far to render the proceedings of this Board justly obnoxious. It bas assumed for itaolf the detestable ‘attritates of the Stur Chamber. Not recognized by any law, nor under the protection of any law—without even the obligation of an oath to do justice to the officer on whose claims it has passed, or to the service—without any evidence of their merits ox disqualifications, or without assigning any rea- sons for its opinions, either individually or collectively— it bas given condemnatory ju it on the reputations of men long in the service ot their country, (yne of whom is now abroad serving with distinction,) emphatically in- timating that they shall not be promoted, and thus vir- tually disgracing them forever in public estimation. ‘There is nothing so precious to an officer as his repu- tation. When arraigned for alleged offences: before a court martial, he carnestly, and at a great cost, seeks his vindication. He confronts his accusers, he objects to his judges, be offers his witnesses, his explanations of defence, and the truth is sifted. ‘The judges are un- der oath to decide according to law, the evidence and their consciences; and after @ fair and impartial trial, fhe punishment, if any, falls upon iim sanctioned by law. And yet such punishment by court martial can rarely surpass in severity, and in. its effects, the judg- nent pronougced by this Hoard—a board sitt conelave—their victim abrond, and unheard: in bis de- fence; without cl against him, without evidence of any kind, acting on suspicion or hearsay; without per- ronal knowledge of hia qualifications, and many of its merabera perbaps influenced by personal prejadices and enmitics. re such a tribunal’no one weuld be safe. Aclique, or even » single member of a board, might bring irreparable injury upon the prospects of any officer in the service. Seb pr 18, 80 contrary to all re- ceived notions of»propriety and public justice, and #0 opposed to the principles of our government, I, for one, could never countenance or be a party to.’ No other course was, therefore, left tome, in the various ballots for the selection of officers for promotion, than to mark on every ballot—I decline to vote. In further illustration of this hasty and obnoxious mode of despatebing officers and disposing of their rep tations, 1 will here state that in one case papers w presented from the filer of the: Departmeat calculated to create prejudice against the offirer whose fate was to be 'upon—papers having no claim to the eharacter of evidence in any court of honor or justice—and: yet, at the game time, other papers and testimonials of charac- ter highly favorable to the individaal, and designated as sach in the synopsis accompanying the case, wero never presented to the-Board. Yet so desirous do J find myself to comply, so far as it is within my competence, with the requisitions of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, that I feel it my duty to state explicitly my opinion ‘upon. the chief inguiry pro- pounded, on the decision of which rests his subsequeat requirements, These, also, I conceive fully responded to im the opinion. have now the honor to give. ‘The Hon. Secretary’s main proposition, upon which depend all others embodied in his letter of the 2ist July, 1846, is in the following words:— “You will express your opinion whether, in your judg- ment, promotion in the Navy should be made with exclu- sive reference to seniority *”” In obedience to the injunction contained im this para- graph I give its my opinion that promotion should al- ways be made with exclusive reference to seniority, ex- cept where great gallantry before nn enemy shall entitle the officer to the exalted distinction of a preference over his peers, or where immediate guilt or incompetence shall be doclared to exist by a tribunal logally and ex- prossly constituted to determine the question. CHARLES STEWART, Presiding Officer. Wasmxcrox Cry, D. C., July 23, 1846, The officer referred to by Com. Stewart was Commander Henry, of the United States steamer Plymouth, who was furloughed by the Board then in session, and the follow- in the paper withheld :— Lacanion ov Tae Usiten States, ) Rio pr Janzino, Dec. 26, 1845. My Dgar Sin—Since my visit to the Plymouth with His Excellency Holanda Cavaleanti, Minister and Secretary of State for the Affairs of the Marino of the Imperal gov- ernment of Brazil, on Monday, the 22d inst., Ihave not had the opportunity until now to make the proper and due acknowl t of the pride I felt as an American citizen—as e public fanctionary of my country, and as one ever alive to the improvement an: pabec nh of our navy, in the exhibition of the perfectly beautiful and efti- cient’ ship under your command. You, your officers, crew and corvette are entitioa to my testimonial, and you shall have it. For beauty of naval architecture; for order, system and comfort of internal arrangements; for man-of-warlike ap- pearance: for apparent efliciency; for battery, and parti- cularly its preservation; for cleanliness; for space to yht or work; for ventilation by ports or pumps; for adaptation, especially inall respects to a warm climate; for total absence of afl gimcrackery;”’ for lightness and yet strength; for elogance without one extravagant or useless ornament; for quiet discipline, and for the sweet and cordial shipsbape entertainment which makes so favorable an impression of our country upon strangers abroad, I have never seen a ship of our own or any other nation to surpass, and in some essential respects to equal, ¢ game- looking Plymouth. His Excellency the Minister’of Marine, who has a eye, looked inquiringly about him; and was so struck with admiration at the naval model he was Inspecting that he will doubtless seek of you further information to enable him to cause its imitation by the service of waich he is the distinguished head. Ttrust you wil furnish him with drafts, (required, ort Race So etast homer er Sootans eda tional ‘acter, your obedient nt, have done our na‘ y arn wie To Captain Hever Hevny, U. 8. §, Plymouth, Harbor of Rio de Janeiro. neice Extensive Conflagration in Twenty-ninth Street. PAPER HANGING MANUFACTORY TOTALLY DESTROY- ED—LO8S ABOUT $35,000. About half past seven o’clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the basement of the extensive paper hanging manufactory ¢f Thomas Faye & Co., Nos. 152, 164and 146 West Twenty-ninth street. It spread with great rapidity, and in « short time the whole building was enveloped in flames. Soon after, the boiler of the team engine exploded, tearing away the walls, when the oof fell in, leaving the entire factory one mass of burn- a of three small frame buildings, (Nos. PAT ico and Took were tly burned * pulled three story brick build ings ‘on the east side of the factory, on the rear and of lot No. 150, were partly damaged. They belonged to Mr. Michael Green, ‘and are insured in the Atma Insurance Koenig Fed New York fer $2,400; the damage will be about $200. The three email frame buildings, Nos. 158, 160 and 1603;, be- to Mr. Theodore Martine. They are damaged about $200. We did not learn Sone f were insured. "There were a number of poor families in Nos. 150, 158, 160 and 16034, all of whom suffered damage, more or less, by water and breakage. No. 162, a two story frame Awelling, was occupied by G. Schimmel, on the first floor, a6 chor He down. store. sustaimed damage to his furnitur: to the amount of $40. He bad an insurance of pany for . Thomas Devugherty, who kept a Mquor store at iy Ws Tock nan tarhiture to the about $0. No insu Puase Faye B. Co. bad a stock of ved in tye tactory, worth about i on which 4 | Nelaon Place, of few York, has been sti to 7 "ts thetblnping companies” Morchase s1,0, | "etandsn pores toome” metsdyrartots es? 1,500, ee Ee, $1,759. Sebr Maury Clark, built M Ne in 1840, of 97 tons, pa es iaures Mr. Tho was sold on the Sth tnst In Ue oity for @1L00 cash. , and were valmed hich Ship List repor'a the fullowing sales; an insurance of $9,000 in the folio oe ee oe eS | alia ne oe ibs t 8 per tou; ship Nor $2,500; Excelsior, $1,750; Merchants “FL 00; Brooklyn Lb tons, tear old, built’ at Bate, on private [Sa ty acre ee ito el a Ra ¢ factory also to Mr. Fi , " ws etn ‘worth $11,000. Ew 8 Tscee' Brot g Aeneid ia Kew, ek, 8 Bees sche. Dolphin, 3 years old, built in wing com} :—Parl ; Excelaios , $0080, Cab, Atlantic, (of lyn,) $3,000. Merchants” “ot Ne The ship recent York,) $2,750. There was consideratte excitement at the time, as there wero upwards of two hundred hands at work in the factory. Fortunately, they all escaped with- out any injury. Jauncbed Williams & Arey, Eranktor’ ai purchased by J ueney Pause, nad thane Provincetown, is called the A‘ Gilbert, as at frat Tt was atone time intended (o call ber the Race Poim, by mame she wos known at Frankfort. owned in New Rnd iv Bunt Gon stoe ras tatichee at Newburyport Bth inst Geo W Jackman,'Jt, Esq. NEW ORLEANS. Oct 9—Arr ships John enon Octam Home, Boston; Zenobia, Ly 3 Also arr s Ei Brooklyn City Politics. Son Cases “Wickaraeee Proce hort Ia Pasi DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTIO?E. Middiesex, ‘lows, {rom Boston; Waa fetnersed frome ‘The Democratic Convention for the nomination of can. | ™Fei Faumy Btirley, Elvira, Owens, from Philadelphia. didates to be supported at the ensuing election, assem- Herald Marine Correspondence. bled at Jones’ Hotel, in Fiatlands, yesterday afternoon, mules Mork: Gare Wicgiae Mee wre Niniaee Sette and orgenized by sppointing Martan Kalbfeisch, Presi- eo Washington. Frisby, Boston; President Ta; dent, on ames Sante Senotary. fact, Me; schra Rescue, Bacon, ‘Yori; cehtnist Green and Thilip Hamilton were appointed Bademitk, Baecassn, Cousiie, Providence; Governor, Bait. fe “ a N Gromer ‘The vomination for Sheriff was frst taken up, ‘Three eon TL Miller’ Paddeek Matic = The origin of yet unknowa, but will un- dergo, no coubt, tigation by the Fire Mac- 1. ‘There has beem fre twice before im the premises— the last time on a Sunday morning, about the middle of August last, , C1; Telegraph, ballots were hac—the last of which resulted in the momi- | Norwich. nation of Jerome Ryerson, by the following vote:— pack Reumnee M Benford, Hand. N¥ork; ship Lombard. Lows : geek, ROrieana, acing Hale alin "Raita Ses banat Ie Se Th Norges theket; WL Cogencli, Slwood) Nore, ssa aes Whole numter. ....... re, dic. An informal baliot for Register was then entered into, ‘The whole number of votes cast was 69,—many of the de a having left ou the wsnouncement of the result for: er: ig For loss of ship Wnt’ Ponn se news cotumms, Banx Lycrkpa, Tarr, from Cardiff for Bosto: Reck- land 6th inst, leaky; no’ particulars. npeie eg 3 Bric Mevauax, from Savannab, of aod! for Bat, Henry A. Moore... ‘e+e 26 | porteddercliet; drifted ashore 2ath tlt about 9: alles Net ie Wm. G. Lawrence ‘ag’s Head. Her hull was badly broken ries Tenny, $16 |' Bato Cuarzes Stewanr, from Betfast, Me, bound to Phita- Jacob Messerole delphia, which ‘aabore on the Pic of Gay Lott....... was got off b; falker, wreckmaster, on ‘a Tu Anst, and left the Breakwater on Monday evening. for Sour Warre Savate, from Lavacen for New und in Matagorda Bay on the 23uh-ult, oon a Scur Ruopr Is.any, Spencer, from Middle U; Hyde Oo, Pants Bore A motion was then mate to journ, which was car- ried, amid much tumult, Ly @ sma ty. The Convention will re-assembie at Holder’s Hotel, in ° loaded with wheatand corn, spring aloal itr the Ninth ward, on Tuesday next, at 2o’clock P. M., to | Andout back to Wr i oi . complete the ticket. fect water in ber old and would {Mave discherge wegen eng A.LARGE FORE AND AFTECHR of bout 200 t WAIG PROMARY WEETINGS. ‘one, bound's, bowsprit gone and itb stay aet up to the knight homeprit goue and ith 9 Rta he Knight ‘heads breeze, The old line whigs,.of Brooklyn, held their primary meetings last evening, for the selection of delegates to | sit! the Whig County Convention, Alt passed off peaceably } ,.itQnAumetoxpon, ot New London. was In the Third ward the charter nominations were made, | and leaking badiy: Vesnel was aby and the following candidates were selected:— taken Of by achr Lysander, which srrived! ‘7th inst. rvisor—John J, Studwell. ro lerman—Danl, P. Barnard. Sreamer Honteess. from ‘New York-for" inst, 6 PM. Wind about west, blowing = ; with o raft ef spars in tow, lost 42 of them in a gale off. oe 0 Elizabeth, Om Assessor—Robert J. Luckey. 7th inst she anchored the rati in the Roads: La Constuble-—John Pearsall. went out in search of those adrift. en Corey A Vessrt of about 250 tons, bottom up, re atm ME mca eee in, Was on the Ist inst, é 5 brig Maria, at Bristol. hapten eee ‘Wrrcx—Capt Lewis. of achr Mozart, at- Newport from-Onrfte~ bean Bea, reports 23d ult; 40 milen BOC Cape Henry, the wreck of'a vessel, upparently a herm brig of 160 oF 200 toms BROOKLYN REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The republicans of Kings county met in convention ast evening, in Tillory street, for the purpose of nomft nating a county ticket, &..N. Holt, President, and. A. Smith acted as Secretary, ‘Aimotion was made that all: who were not delegates | burthen, dismasted,” waterlogged and abandoned, She. wan should leave the room. An amendment was carried | lumber fouded, pained cream ecorloade and bad n ght ew that the reporters migit rearain, Alter considerasle | lored trunk ‘cabin; jibboom and bowspri’ standing, with ter cross firing between the members of the Eastern and | {rPwing loot, Had apparently been but a abort tne: ier Westera districts, Mr, Burdett Stryker, of the Fourth | weertaithecaane: ward, was nominated as the republican candidate for Spates; tess Sheriff, when some of thefastern district delegates left = bo ger ee Pee courses then voted 0 nomination for County Judge, Henr; , of ‘the Fourth ward, and Rdwara ‘Seymour, of Yue font ward, were nominated; but before going into ballot the convention adjourned until Monday naght next. Our Relations with China. THE NEW COMMISSIONER TO TBE MERCHANTS OF BOSTON. New. York, Oct. 1, 1855. GrartEMgN—On my arrival in this city I have the honor to be in receipt of your communication of the Ist ult., conveying an expression: of the sentiments with which you have been pleased to netice my oppoiatment to the office of United States commissioner 10 China, and ex- tending a cordial invitation to moet you at a public din- ner in , prior to my embarkation for that country. Thave, unexpectedly been long. detained at the seat of ernment by the number and mene of the sub- fects affecting our commercial, polltical and amicable relations with China, which: have roquired and received grave consideration on'the-part of the executive: end e brief period that now remains, and the multiplicity of private and public dutios demaading my affention priar to embarkation, will necessarily.deprive me of the plesrure ot necepting'the invitation tonseet you at a pub- inner However, as I anticipate embeskiag from Boston, I cherish the hope of meeting-you itiformally, when I sball be most happy in renewing our acqusintance after years of separation, and of conferring wi! uu freely upon all matters affecting your commercial. ateresta and those A.clipper ship steering —, ahi nal with Diack crows, was phesed Sept 2], of-Double Hoste Aci with a Shot Ke Truxi10, Sept 17—No Aur vesse] in port. Heme Port. yAPALACHIOOLA, Oct 1—Arr scht Ralph Pest, Conklin, 1 In ‘port schrs Ralph Post Conklin, trom: N¥¢ % Hecker, Manduet for SYork, td’ Series of our government generally with the empire of China. PPONAUG (Warwick), Oct 6—Arr schr Calvin Stevens, In the mean time, permit me to advert toa single to- | Dunn, Baltimore, pic suggested by the communication. tefore me. Yeu ex- | , BOSTON, Octé—Arr steamer Palmetto, Baker, o ress the feelings of congratulationsrith which you look | Park jedo, Kendrick, Charleston: brigs Helen Jane, Neues: forward to the manner in which yow-are to be represent- | tington, NC: MB Davis, Baker: Alexandrig; Aun Bitsbeday ed at the imperial court of Chica. a Hecrioix “M Washing nce has | Ts a DC; Belle P Mo coor, | ton Lemans Bicsa, Bowoingsd Nicwertoos Niseareces kate Davis; feols, Gritiny, ake, ShuterP tion 384 sgtatedieant 3 shown what diplomacy alone can bo, expea lish with government liko-thatof China, and that it : the fs from influenaes more potent. than those of the ablest | :chrs Northern Light. Rurrill, Cape Hay = diplomatist, that any important changes are to be looked Em, Witmingion, iC; “Ges Brooks Huishtnann, Yamnae m for in the relations subsisting between China and west- | Byron, Ford; Wailer. & Lemuel, ; WA Dresser, ern nations, which influences now. exist, and are operat- | Hatch; Sarah Elizabeth, Phillips; ‘Firm, Steelman;, Algomas ing to important ends, The moat your representative | Pearson: K & H Estell, Gilman; uA Shropshire shropebire. can oxpect, is to study and wately and, so far as practi- | Glenview, Partridge: Caroline beat me og Mt iss > cable, direct amd avail himself those agencies to the Oem irene Coe TO Pin ba ees at of purposes. ratt, Cobb; Narragansett, Hall, , Crowell, Phila — ‘One of your own philosophers.aas resently laid down ara; Taner, jelawane Oye eC nee F the prinzipl, which cannot be controverted, that ‘The York; sloop Masy ‘Brush, Young, do. At Quaraas outbreak of a revolution is but the pulsation of the age, up JB, Thayer, Sainpeon, Liverpool. Signal for three healthful.or spasmodic, azcordiog to ita harmony with | Prigs. (ds sine Mariba Waltmore. Whitmore, favannals 5 the sum of humen knowledgo-ut the time.” Had his | fon, Smyrna: Mareo Pooh), Skinners Pugwash, teload for mind, on the ozcasion of utt the sentiment, been | Liverpool; Kaika Tira (ir tikenmie “Miramichi, to load tor directed {0 China, » more striking illustration of the } Helfant: 1; beige Helen Marla, Church, Maretiiee’ ly, .: soun ines of his phalosoph could scarcely have been se. | Haskell, Wilmington, ‘NC; schrs Leo, Snow, @ape lected. "The revolution im that empire, which has within | Lucy, Gtindle, Agr Caves; "Theresa Set Fours = the past three years cost the sacrifice of « million of people in ways most revolting to humanity, has been in perfect harmony with the vory limited um of human nowledge possessed by the leaders and their adherents. They know and feel that the government that has ruled over the empire for mere than two centurias, whatever it be in theory, in practice is oppressive and unjust, and unmodified it is no langor endurable. This is about the sum total of their knowledge upon the subject. Of all administrative knowledge and talent they are deplorably destitute and consequently the “pulsation of the age ”” gohie has mot been “healthful,” but pre-eminently “ spss- | GHRLastON, (Oct oO ster modic.’” sid bel, Tt is under this condition of the empire that Western | “gna bri eiosiasine ence ey wate diplomacy (i. ¢. of England, France and the United | N WSmitb, Wyatt, do. Beaten) | tac led to me aa and % a érae friends to ee we Dg oar Wek, Turner, wd 6 interests of the w people of China, we Rove » Newark; 6b. Dean, Cook, olpbia. under the internal pressure {that has #0 Dalatally been | a RASTFORT, Supt 28—Arr achra Ove, Harvey, Nw PIP x ia. TEALTIMOR Oct 8—Arr schr Gold. Cotmer (Br), Herman, rr ir 4 Hallux, "Cid steamer Jackson, Tarteid, Yon Dien Abie ri a wannah; eo Emily Kerr Tass Rg eat Taio Storm King, Babel, Rio Janeiro; barge J'A Shriver, Mockian fork. BRISTOL, Oct 6—Arr brig Ma: Mar oe satel) ya a % : Faglet, Walker, Jacksonville; Feru, Thonas, NYorey Lane = tine, Philaderphia for Augusia. = Ta Below urie Keying, Cook, trom Cady a oe eat, 27th bark Eliza. felt, obtain access to the Manchow court, and appeali: EDGARTOWN, Oct §—Arr ‘Trial, to fts eclf-interest and desite of self:preservation, preva | PALL RIVER: Octave cents Laney akaee esse on it to modify its ancient policy, so as to afford a gov- | phit; Paragon, NYork, Sid 7ihochrs Texas, Baker, — Tipadel- ornament that shall meet the popular demand, and. cor- Pet NOTne, MeNCRieneR, Femme SN) sce. respond to the progress of the nineteenth century, you : may thas look forward to a termination, at no distant | qi intennene ooo ar eee FT Grloe, fern Lavncen day, of the state of revolution and anarchy, and the in- | TEOLMES'S HOLE, Get 7. PMc-Arr bulge Gur anguration of more extended social, eommercial, political | Pendleton, Darien, Ga, for Hostony Potmaate ARS and friendly foreign intercourse with that empire, im- | Ga; fordo, Sid schrs Lexingtan, and Banaet. sisi pAb grt r ant eg Oct &—Arr briga Be jort 1 mense in extent of territory and population, and inex- | yet Arr pgs Beronde, Morton, Dever y sland, Ga, for haustible in commercial resources. iea?, Tanateeed, ae yacht Sarria Accept my most cordial thanks for the honor you have for db; waier, do for gs, Baker, Phila done me, and with the assurance of my best endeavors to ‘ondont, for Bangor; James Bly — 2rtjuas Ceuta discharge with fidelliy and to the best of my ability and Ehiledelphis, according 10 Ww! od); Kate’ Skid opportunities, the high trast confided to me, I have the | mare, Boston, for Novihport. UE; Bdwin AT ase, Lincs, oso to be, ith souk osoatie oF (ne wg and esteem, ying Cloud, Nieanor, Chas H Re 10m, Bay Stale, omen, your friend and fellow citizen, ‘on, Triumph, Jew, Fi a “4 PETER PARKER, ‘ ph Jew, Fane Ye eee re bell, E A Luce, and James Bliss. in port at 10 AM, wind light from NW, een Esther, Polnset!, J eronda, and My rutus, repg; R G Porter, do; Huntress,” in. HYANNIS, Oct 8—Arr aches Victor, 7 $ xandria fe To the Hon. Wa. Stcrar and others, merchants of Bos- ‘ton, engaged in commercs with China. MARITIME INTELLIGENCE. Port of New York, October 9, 1855. Bch ehe Se rors nore ‘and wrecked 6th — ILEHEAD, = Ul CLEARED. Oct 2, Francis Ni a he, 4 Fiadetpates ship AZ, Chandler, Liverpool Zeregs. & Co. PORP UREEAMS, Gettin. Pea ern crea gilt Sir Robert Peel iam), Visser, Movowan, New Zor vin Viavane fitamahip Grescent, City, Sbip A B Kimball, Davis, Antworp—W F Selmi & Co, Nulfora Mabier bak jue Wea 20. New York: Taaac Belle Bark Gat), Minute, Giok 4 & Hincken, | Mejro;,schr GH 3 :e, Havanese" Bio do der Brig Florence, Nonvi Oven & Bans. Ga'veston, 30th inst; Nantiing,’ -2re0n, Towleas, Indianola Schr American Chief, Presay, ‘Duncaa. Galveston; a, Talbot} few York; ‘ship Helen Schr Rasex, Post, Mobile—Post, Fucker, New York via Mobile Span ship Concepeton (A), tases Schr RL Meyers Weeks, Wasblazion—J lt Mathews. Havana; bark Chaaticleer, Forte, Rio de J ‘slow: Schr JS Wilson, Hallock, Witmingion—B Blossom &Son. | Coming Gr—schr Major Bard our "4 Phen ‘ten Gortine Cinta Sehr Jobn Boston. Lingo, Yon Tallman. Soeeaa bark? idainp Memphis Boia Havre. Sehr New Regulus, Saitériy, Alexandria—Mot! Bedell. NEWPORT Dats yuk; 38x0ny and brig Mary Elizabeu. Sehr Margaret, Hebson, Cl Potut—das Hunter & Co. POAEWEORT OOGS TM or achry rig Moy egBcht, Mary Brame, “Hoichies, Ciiy Polot—Van Brunt & | Yue y vi folio, Bem, Hochland or" New Sir J D Garmo, Harrison, Sulfolk, Va—Master. Bostcg for Philndelshia; ' rendrick audada Gromer Sloop Thomas Hall, Hult Providente—Master. fon; Mary Jane Nlek°t# on. ‘and Perseverance, Rogets de for Propeller Locust Polat, French, Baltimore—cromwell's Line | Albany: Rex Ta) all River for do. ‘Chri ¥ h and Sih, exce snes. Frovieence for New York, (and Steamship Alabama, id brigs Jenny PYts Mace? Lady of the and paseengers, to 8 1, Mitch Beano O Herz” gyre lady oe openers eR dary B Pierce, Coean Ware, J ras bearing SW, previa java, S 1 Crocker, bot hence for Bavannab. xe os an Marion, Foster, Charleston, 85 hours, with mdse et ‘Orator. and err, 10 Tih ‘0. , Oct Bm Arr echrs J Wm Ship Mary Ann (of Boston 5 and Elizabeth, a 2 marble, rags and straw eo, a a 3, Fee Siig "Al vy resigns weather for Ube last 3) Oct TLArr soar PA Pafboner Hicrell, Fort and 10 PRD, 7—Arr bark Robert Pennell, Tarner, oh U soni ¥ » sp i o. ia hs , Baker q ‘death and one aeons Daseengers. tie orig Renauin (Br), Watlington, Bermods, 8 days, in ballast, Brig Zoara, Parritt, Doboy Inland, 8 days, with lumber, to S 1 Roken Schr Pai § 2d (Port), Popa, Madeira, 45 days, with wine bey my to order. ‘chr © 21, arith tte AMA ha See, ca kp up fo the edge of the Gulf Stream, since ded. strong N winds. ATSMOUTH, Oct 6—Arr schrs Clarendon, NYork; Cams PROVIDENCE, Oct &—Arr schre 8 B 4 i 4 Seite: car D8 Miler Lowrope Freak Bolivar, Sept 16, with, Wiliam, SALEM, Oct 6@—Art j sobre = Arica; hips Ontario, Liverpool: Splendid, favre; Mary, Sen Pran- cisco. ‘Wind ai sunrise, NW; meridian, BW; sunsel, 887,