The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1855, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNET®, PROPRIETOR AND DITOR, S7FicB 8. £. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 81S. Bis DaIey HERALD. 2 arenas Ly Ee. cunts A a THE WEERLY RAED, Set Sain a Oem pr ner $8 per anmams on eition, nmin to Seon row Hrilatn, o $0 %o any part oy the Continent, both ude bro VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCe, containing tpn. board colwetted from any quarter of the cork wet will be iy paid for. BH-OUR Poumon COmameromperts anh Farr (lsm.y RbgvesreD to Seat sil Lartaha ax PLoxaars OTIC taken of enomynows communications, We do not pen owe rejected. JOU PRINTING exccuted with neatness, cheapness and des "EDVERTISEMENTS renswed every day. nee eeeetenereesss NOs 3Q6 AMCSEMENTS THIS @VENING. SROADWAY THEATRE, Brondway— . wane—Two Seman a mp suleeaary SOWFRY TARATRE Dav Artem tun Wennin TUNE'S FROLIC. SOURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Litrie Tanssonn —VELUIKINS 45D mis DiNAM—BReEACB OF Promise. WALLACK’S THRATRE, Brosdway-Roie 4 Wire ay Have 4 Wick—Punrry Picce or Business, ‘ ~ Six Decrers or Crime— wooD's —} eee MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway—Ermorun Pes- BUCKIRYS BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 599 Broad- @ey—S vnTEsQUE Oren aNd Nrano MixsTHEIST, #@PIRE BALL, 696 Broadway-Tour or Ei rd on paes, ray--TouR or Evxore—8 a ork, Saterday, November 24, 1855, The News. Our political intelligence from Georgia is impor- tant. A bill has been introduced into the Legisla- ture of that State proposing to confiscate, for the benefit of owners of fugitive slaves, the debts due by citizens of Georgia to citizens of the State to which slaves msy have escaped, if the authorities of that State refuse to deliver up the slaves upon claim ef their rightful owners. Such a measure as this has been discussed by ihe press and at public meet- ings in various parts of the South for some time past, and it is quite likely it will soon assume the form of a legal enactment. The Legislature of Georgia has also lately had under consideration the qrestion as to what disposition should be made of the numerous insulting resolutions, ana other emana- tions of Northern feeling upon the affairs of the South, which the abolitionists have so systematically promutgated during the last few yeare. In regard to this subject there its evidently no difference of opinion in the minds of the people of the South, and i only remains for some one to embody the popular idea in suitable shape for it to obtain forcible ex- pression. We give from one of the Rio Janeiro papers a somplete narrative of the recent revolutionary events which took place in the city of Montevideo, and which ended, after a remarkably brief contest, ia the abdication of President Flores, and the in- stalment in the Chief Magistracy of the republic of Ureguay of Don Mannel Basilio Bustamente, Presi- dent of the Senate. The weather was cold, raw, blustery, and unmis- takably wintry yesterday. There was frost in the Morning, aud the ponds and lakelets in the vicinity of the city were frozen over, not, however, es yet, hard enough to skate upon, to the great annoyauce of the boys, who are anxiously looking ont fora ” good time.” The afternoon was milder, but un- comfortable from a cold east wind that was prevail- ing. Ina few weeks, if present appearances are to be relied upon, Jack Prost will take lodgings in the eity, and remain, perhaps, until March. Professor Hare's lecture on spiritualiem at the Broadway Tabernacle, iast evening, was attended by a large audience. We give a report of the Doctor's performance in another column, The Central Democratic Union Club, whereof John Cochrane is President, met at Tammany Hall Yast evening, and inangurated a movement for the ‘union of the tripartite shells into one harmonious agglomerate party, with aview possibly to the spoils to be won in the Presidential campaign of 1960. Tt is the early bird that catehes the worn. The time of the Board of Councilmen las! night was taken up in the third reading of reports, and beyond this nothing was done. A petition was received from the Magdalene Society, asking for $1,000. This was referred to Committee on Finance. The Board adjourned till Monday evening next. There was an immense Know Nothing torchligkt demonstration at Washington last night. Six bur- dred enthusiastic delegates from Baltimore swelled the ranks of the jubilant Americans. Pr. Stephen T. Beale, the Philadeiphia dentist, was yesterday released from his confinement in the Moyamensing prison. Dr. Beale was convicted in October, 1854, of the offence with which he was charged, and was sentenced to an imprisonment of four years and six months, When the news of his pardon was communicated to him, he was eo com- pletely overcome as to be unable to articulate a syl- lable. The seene of his meeting with his family is described as having been affecting in the extreme. We publish eleewhere an interesting statement of the reasons which induced Gov. Pollock to grant the pardon. Under the caption of “ The Coming Crisis” we publish an ably written letter from a Northern mau on the dangers threatening the stability of the Union from the increasing exasperation of the dissensions between the North and Sonth. He contends that the abolitionists are traitors to the constitution, and would lay the axe to everything to carry out their eviews. Were they, however, to succeed solving the Union, they would not be any nearer cdvaneed to thelr professed objects, The de- struction of our federal system would not release a lave or reseue the Territories from the slaveholder. They must be amicably divided or fought for, and when it comes to the point the people of the North will not fight the battles of the abolitionists. We recommend this communication to the careful con- sideration of the anti-slavery faction. It contains some wholesome truths, which, if properly digested, may have a sedative influence on their extravagance, Holders of cotton, yesterday, demanded an ad- vance of jc., which buyers, in the absence of the Canada’s letters, were indisposed to pay. The sales consequently were not of snflicient importance to establich a market. The flour market was excited, and free purshases were made, chiefly of common to extra e,to fill contracts, with lots for export. The market advanced 26c. per barrel, with irregu- lar sales as high as ST4e. over previous rates, Wheat wasup from 2e.a 5c. Indian corn advanced 3c, a 4c. Vork was heavy and prices irregular. Sugars were about j¢. higher, though transactions were moderate, a8 parties were waiting steamer’s letters, and coffee was steady. There was more tone in freights to Liverpool and London, while they were slightly easier for Havre. Several chartera for Havre and Falmouth were made to carry out flour and grain. Trvrtow Werv'’s Orcay Cyruerwa ror Cow rort.—The Albany Journal is sorely puzzled in a vain effort to classify the party lines and strength of parties respectively of the new Congress, It says that the Know Nothings claim 119 members of the House, the democrats 127, and that there are 123 republicans, which all added together, would make a House of 360 members, the real number of a full House being only Finally, for all practiea! pur- poses, Mr, Weed's fuefotum says that the Honse will stand— Republicons, AU others... We shall eee how it will stand in the practical business anity of this republican majority, of organizing the House. Another New York election, perhaps, Dog’t got excited. ‘The Cincinnat! Know Nothing Convention— Progress of the Union Sentiment with Parties. The Free Soil Know Nothing Convention at Cincinnati, which adjourned sine die on Thurs- day night, is an interesting episode in our poli- tice. It is far more remarkable as a slide from the general embankment of anti-slavery than for any intrinsic influence it is likely to exert upon the popular mind of the country. Two years and a half ago, General Pierce undertook the task of consolidating the Ameri- can people in a great uvion party—a party thai should be based upon the coustitution. He issued an inaugural address in which he avowed primary attachment to the conditions of the federal Union, and an unalterable purpose to stand by its compromises, He assumed execu- tive duties applauded by the democracy, praised by the whiga, and condemned oaly by the abolitionists, This was all very well. It gave high promise of a peaceful, national, con* servative and successful administration, The country had just issued from an agitating con- test. 1f that contest had served no other pur- pose, it advertised to Genel Pierce who might be relied upon as friends, and who should be distrusted and avoided as enemies. The Presi-. dent had his own way of serving his purposes —he determined to obliterate the landmarks of party, and to sweep the country into a kind of Monroe millenium. grity of those who had stood by the cause through good report and through evil report ; he had only to throw out the loaves and fishes to the free soil abolitionists to draw them iato his administration, surround them with its in- fluences and its rewards, and he would, of course, have everything his own wey. Without tracing out all the effects, it is enough to say that the utter disintegration and demoralization of the triumphant demo- cracy was the result, and the inevitable result, We predicted it at the time. We undertook, as the prudent friends of his administration and as the ardent well-wishera of its success, to point out to him that every aid be gave to the enemies of the Union, would ultimately be employed to cftect its overthrow. We warned him that the great party which placed him in power would be of his policy. dissolved by the influence of his insane policy, and that upon its ruins would be erected @ daring abolition organization, with the dis- tinct purpose of overthrowing the conatitu- tion. In this light General Pierce, more, even, than Mr. Seward, is responsible for the repub- lican abolition league. Without his aid Chase would never have been Governor of Ohio— without his aid the democracy must have tri- umphed in Wisconsin; Vermont, alone (and perhaps Massachusetts,) would have been the sole representative of disunion. The Nebraska-Kansas law was forced upon Congress. Its principles were quite in harmony with the spirit of the legislation of 1850, It was a strictly constitutional measure—it was a it re- ferred the whole question of slavery to the people whose character aud interests might bo effected by it—a measure giving practi- val effect to the democratic idea of the unity It withdrew a subject from Congress which, since the or- ganization of the government, had been « bone of contention and strife between the North measure of essential non-intervention. of representation and taxation. and the South, But the effect ef the policy of Gen. Pierce upon the democratic party had been such that even that party, with all its power, was unable to meet the siorm of denunciation which the abolitionists visited apon it. They denounced the Kansas act as a concession to slavery—the repeal of the Missouri compromise as a faith- less abandonment of a sacred compact. The moral position of the democracy had been lost. The administration was thrown upon the defensive. Its adherents disgusted by its policy, either remained quiet or sbandon- ed its ranks for some other association. It was manifest, strictly speaking, that there was no longer any party or any party obliga- tions, This was a period of chaos—of anarch § The elections nearly everywhere resulted in favor of the opposition. Fusion was the order of the day. solely upon that point. everywhere denounced slavery as a moral and political crime. Discussion followed. abandoned his issue and with all his party fell into the ranks of Garrison and Tappan. Meanwhile the Know Nothings came into ex- istence. They commenced operations in the midst of the Kansas controversy. In the North, eorly in the day the abolitionists got into their lodges, obtain public confidence upon that basis, Their first signal triumph as a Know Nothing party was in Massachu- setis, under Gardner and Wilson, but it promptly extended to tbe South, threatened Tennessee, carried Kentucky, and fought a hard battle in Virginia. They thus assumed a national aspect.and had national hopes and as- pirations. They held a convention in Philadel- phia and pnt forward a onion platform, which was adopted ; but it was denounced by the free soil Know Nothing leaders of the North. The cheat was then discovered, While alt this bas been going on, the public judgment has been rapidly moving towards the union of the States, to maintain which is regard- ed as the highest duty of an Ameri- ean citizen. Abolitioniem has been sink- ing. Northern Know Nothings are back- ing down; and that party to-day, both North and South, are contending for a constitutional basis. The Seward republicans are no where —of no account. The democracy, partially ro- lieved from the curse of their administration, are everywhere recovering. The contest for 1856 is likely therefore to be between them and (be Americans. The Cinecinsati Conven- tion was of the Northern Know Nothing States; and they threatened to repudiate the Philadel- phia repudiators and to unite that party upon anational platform. They failed as our des- patch indicates, but the effort shows the drift of Northern sentiment—the effect of the elec- tions of 1855—the ‘sober second thonght” of the people. It is not altogether clear, then, that the trea- eon of Pierce may not turn out ablessing. Ithas opened the eyes of the democracy to the nocos- eity of trusting only honest and faithful men. In order to effect this end he adopted the singular course of buying up traitors, [Me relied upon the iate- Mr. Seward and his friends mista- king the weakness of the democracy and the apparent defeat of the Union men all over the North for an expression of hostility to sla- very, promptly organized his republican party He made issue upon the repeal of the Missouri compromise, and He and, temporarily obtaining power, sought to lure them in ihe guise of Know Nothingiem into the republican ranks, and and endorsement It has given impetus to disunion, but has near- ly everywhere secured its defeat. It has con- solidated the public judgment of the country upon the necessity of preserving the compact of Union as the first duty of voters. It has il- lustrated the folly of trusting men whose past lives prove their superior fealty to self-interest ~-their devotion to sectional theories over na- tional obligations and faith. The Americans themselves may well take counsel of the follies of Gen. Pierce, His course has illustrated how little short of madness it is to seek the support of dishonest men—how much stronger ia the end is a good cause in the hands of a few true patriots than a bed one encompassed by trai- tors, Swindling in England. In another column we give a full report, aken from the London Times, of the trial of he London bankers, Paul, Strahan & Bates. Their offence was appropriating to their own use the produce of the eale of securities depo- sited in their hands for safe keeping. The pri- vate prosecutor was Dr. Griffith, the prebenda- ry of Rochester, who had at various times em- ployed the defendants to invest money for him in the Danish five per cents; it was clearly proved that the defendants had pledged and made away with these Denish bonds of Dr. Griffith’s, and kept the money. The defence was slight and trivial. The Judge charged against the prisoners, the jury found.a verdict of guilty, and the sentence was the utmost the law allows—fourteen years transportation. Parallels have been drawn between the cases of Schuyler and this London firm. They were only analogous in respect of the motive of the dishonest parties in each, and the result to their victims. Schuyler, being entrusted with power by a corporation whose agent he was, made use of that power to pledge the credit of the corporation to individuals, and thus create resources for his own use; the mischief he wrought only indirectly fell on the indivi- duals who took his fraudulent securities. Paut, Straban & Bates,-on the othergpand, were en- trusted not with power, but with the securities themselves, which they sold and pawned, just as a servant might sell or pawn the plate of his master. Between the two it is hard to say which act eyinced the greater moral corruptioa, or deserved the more severe punishment. The Eag- lish bankers, it will be noticed, were convicted on astatate passed as lately as 1828, (7 and 8 George IV. cap. 29), expressly framed to meet their case. One might have supposed that the common law wonld answer every purpose for so simple a species ef fraud as theirs; but it seems the English, with a high appreciation ot the danger and injury of allowing swindlers to escape, had this special act passed nearly thirty years ago, lest acase should ocour in which the common law might be found insufficient. The act, or rather the section of the act, which we publish elsewhere, will be fouad worth the notice of our Senate and Assembly. Our laws -on the subject of mercentile frauds certainly need re-trimming, and the sooner the better. Tt is not generally known that if Schuyler walked dowa Broadway to-morrow it is quite doubtful whether the District Attorney or the police could interfere with him. Such, how- ever, is the opinion of the best lawyers. Another peint to which it may be well to draw attention, is the feeling and temper evinced by the British peopte ia relation to the trial. With one voice, the entire press has commended the verdict; and on the occasion of some sympathy being expressed in a public quarter for the condemned, more than one journal has londly observed that a sentence to fourteen years hard labor was less severe than the doom to which these swindlers had, by their raseality, condemned many innocent per- sons. There is something very healthy in this indignation. In this.country, public sympathy is too apt to be on the wide of the culprit, no matter whet his offence, or however clear his guilt. If it were not for the case of Dr. Web- ster and one or two rare others, it would be quite questionable whether men of family, wealth and station, could, in the United States, be condemned for any crime or misdemeanor whatever. Even when the jury does perform its duty, the Judges often fail in theirs. We commend to the judiciary the charge and sen- tence of Baron Alderson; and we think the inbabitants of Wall street cannot do themselves much harm by giving the whole case a leisurely perusal, Werten your Cosr.--Most people take the weight of their coal upon trast; but fow know what the exact weight should be. Even the latter submit conteatedly'to be plundered by their coal merchants sooner than undertake the trouble and uncertainty of seeking a legal remedy. In Pennsylvania, howover, there are some adventurous spirits to be found who ap- pear to attach as much importance to the go!u- tion of the dificult problem of the precise weight of a ton of coal as to the discovery of the Northwest passoge. In a case lately bronght before the Supreme Court of that State, by one of those inquisitive and troublesome searchers after truth, Judge Grier, to the eus- prise of every one, decided that the legal weight of a ton of coal was 2,240 It quantity. Acéording to this dec coal dealer who gives but 2,090 Ibs. to the ton can be arrested and convicted on a charge of swindling. In this city and § the rule on the part of the coal dea been to give to the law the narrowest construe. tion possible. Two thousand pounds is the conventional standard of weight allowed to the ton hy these conscientious traders, Is there no one in this large and patriotic community who hos spirit enough to appeal to the law toknow what the weight of a ton of coal actually ts? Sovra Carcruisa Porrtres encn or Hoy, W. W. Boycr.—We publish this morning the interesting speech sof Hon. W. W. Boyce, of South Carolina, to his constituents, upon the question whether that State shonla or not be represented in the Cincinnati Democratic Con- vention. He is against tt, and in favor of standing aloof on the Calhoun ground of por- fect independence and armed neutrality. His views, though peculiar, are strong, and are strongly put. Opposed to him is his Congres. sional colleague, Colonel Orr, whose policy is to bring South Carolina regularly into the harness of the democratic party. Considering, too, the seventy-five millions a year of the federal government, and the “cohesive power of the public plunier,”’ we suspect that Col. Orr will win, and that South Carolina will go to Cincinnati. And why not? Let her come in, What's the nse of working with the demo- racy and refusing the spoils? Business is business, AxtrSiavery Fims—Tae Women Courect- 1sG Funps For THE Apotition DemMacocurs axp Acrrators.-—The National Anti-Slavery Standard, (ultra-abolition) published in this city is garnished with several conspicuous ad- vertisements of the anti-slavery State fairs for December. The first is the announcement of the Western Anti-Slavery Fair, to be held at Salem, Ohio, on the 24th and 25th December. ‘Contribu- tions of money and of every description of merchantable articles” are solicited, “with a hopeful confidence of a generous respoase from the friends of the slave.” Signed by Sarah Bowne, Laura Barnaby, Ann Pearson, Emily Robinson, Angelina S, Deming, and ten other ladies of the committee, The next is the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair, the twentigth anniversary, to be cele- brated at Philadelpbiain all December. of philanthropy. Signed by Sarah Pagh, Margaretta Forten, Lucretia Mott, (the inevi- table Lucretia,) Maria M. Davis, (a shining light,) Emma Parker, Abby Kimber, (another Abby,) and about fifty other benevolent anti- slavery ladies devoted to the cause, and anxious to do sometbing to relieve the sufferings of poor old uncle Tom, The third proclamation of the series is that of the “Twenty-second National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, to be held in Boston, Mass., during the The committee in this instance very fully, frankly, and cordially set forth their opinions, objects, and purgoses, Christmas week of 1855. to wit — Convinced «8 we sre that slavery is a sin and @ crime everywhere end under al! circumstances, that all com- pliclty or connivance with it implies moral gail: just in proportion to the extent of the sanction given, fiat com- juently al! political and especially all r dus fellow- Stlp with’ peak P chontontinns f4 eailosatly criminal and dangerous, it is our endeavor to promulgate so ‘far aa it may be in our power, ip with such a system of these sentiment: throughout the whole length and breadth of the land. We propore to do, this throagh tho medium of newspapors, lecturers and tracts, and-we call ugcn ail who fear G: or regard man to give us their sympathy and so-opera- won, but oh, how inadequately for the accomplishment of the great work that lies before it, and, in tov many cases, by tion, The country is stirred as it never yet bas what poor end insufficient motives. The.ladies of the committee further say, that the members of their society “refuse to be con- cerned in the administration of a government cemented by the blood of slaves, or to recog- nise as churches of Christ the apostate eccle- siastical bodies of our country, who consider as goods and chattels personal, subject to all the fluctuations that mark other preperty, the souls for which they profess to believe He died.” And the committee “solicit counsel and assistance from all friends of the slave, whether at bome or in Europe.’ Signed by Anne War- ren Westen, Mary May, Anne Greene Phillips, Louisa Loring, Abby Francis, (another Abby,) Helen 5. Garrison, Henrietta Sargent, Lydia D. Parker, and abont twenty other stroog minded women—Abby Kelly Foster and Abby Folsom being left out. , This Bosten establishment is the chief of all these philanthropic, negro-liberty-dispensing It has its business affinities with the Duchess of Sutherland and her Stafforé House and Harriet Beecher Stowe societies in Eng- Jand and Scotlgnd, and the coatributions re- ceived through these channels at this Boston bazaar, since the publication of the doleful story of Uncle Tom, have been large, and, we bazaars, preseme, are still kept up. The moral of this and ali these anti-slavery State fairs is readily suggested. From the fact thet they are under the exclusive man- agement of women, old and young, married and single, interested in the cause of aboli- tion, they show that whatever of hypocrisy, demagogreism and mercenary considerations may actuate the hoarded agitators of negro emancipation, the masses of this abolition league are self-sacrificingly devoted to the cause with the zeal of the intensest fanaticism. They have made the abelition of Southern slavery their duty, their labor of love and their religion, and they are but the advanced guard of the great Seward movement of the This movement has lately received some wholesome checks, but the decisive batile has yet ¢o be fought which is to determine the sufliciency or insufficiency of our federal Union for the peace and harmony of the two sections. North. The objects of these anti-slavery fairs are frankly stated. They are expedients for rais- ing funds to keep the fires of a disunion & tional agitition hotly burning. We hope, therefore, whatever the attractions of the ladies concerned, or their merchandise, that they will be left exclusively to the patronage of Lloyd Garrison’s advanced guard, and Seward's Holy Alliance. Tim Liqvor D: 3 CaLtuEn To Account.— The Albany soft shell John Van Buren free soil democratic organ, thus arraigns Colonel French and the Liquor Dealers’ party, before the bar of public opinion :— The direct votes of liquor dealers, and etill more the diversion of th cir soppert from Seymour to Vilawn Iasi year, elected Clark, the author of tue protvition bill, Governor. This year they place in the State department Headley and Whallon, who voted for the law. They also elect a majority of the Judges of the Sup.emo Couct, who fa jaw. The two honses which they also help to ropeal, though they muy fortify the law by ad- fogaards, Fora good deal of this, the New York r Colonel French, which gave its thou agaiast the op- Mueh of it, ave gor iato eis trades as well as their the secret onde personal liberty to its dietato Perhaps, if there had been loss of Soward’s free soil dootrines and more of the hard shell nationality in the soft shell platform the liquor dealers would have done better by them. Bat aa the choice was really between the Seward and the American ticket, it may be that the liquor dealers, as such, did the best that could he done, even if they did vote with the “secret order.” Those advertisements in the Tribune were probably but a stratagem to lull the Maine law party intoa false security. Perhaps Colonel French will explaia the real objects and results of his movements, including the cach account, and the balance remaining of the original liqnor fund of sixty thousand dollars, We know as little about it as of the fand of the Irish Directory, or the Kossuth collections, or the receipts of Father Mathew’s bonefit, Arcunisnor Hvar -Prestoest Prac soni.—A short article which we give today, Jrom the official organ of Archbishop Haghes, shows that bis Reverence has no very exalted opinion of the foreign policy of Mr. Fillmore’s administration, nor of the ex-President himself, asasiateeman, The Archbishop has a mach better opinion of Mr. Seward, notwithstanding his flock prefer to run with the democracy. What a pity that Mr, Pillaore bag taken the third degree. _Fenciv@ Ramroaps.—We so frequently hear of railroads fencing just claims that it gives us pleasure to be able to record an instance of one which only fences in complignce with the demands made upon it. It appears that at a late meeting of the Wilmington and Manches- ter Railroad, a resolntion was adepted direct- ing the Superintendent to make arrangements for fencing in the road wherever the same could be done at the joint expense of the com- pany and the owners of the land or other per- tons, We bave always been of opinion that “Con- tributions in money or goods will be very ac- ceptable,” and “in making contributions, it is earnestly hoped that the importance of the cause may be recognised. Not only is the aid given for the freedom of millions of slaves, but for the liberty of all the inhabitants of this Jand, and for promoting the cause of humanity throughout the world.” This is a large breadth when a charter is granted to a railroad com- pany it should contain an obligation to fence in the line. It ie somewhat of an infringe- ment upon the rights of property that railroad companies should not only Lave the right of cutting through people’s lands bat of killing people’s cattle. In Europe such a latitade of railroad discretion is not allowed. No com- pany can obtain a charter of incorporation without special provision being made against its running its trains at pleasure over the car- eases of man and beast. We trust that the creditable example of the Wilmington and Manchester railroad will, by compulsory legis- lation, be rendered the rule in this country in stead of the exception. THE LATEST HEWS. BY ELECTRIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Closing Proceedings of the Cincinnati! Free Soil Know Nothing Convention, THE PLATFORM OF THB BOLTRRS—REPORT OF THE MINORITY, ETC. Cixctnnatt, Nov. 28, 1855. ‘The National American Convention adjourned without day at midvight last night. ‘The Committeo on Resolutions presented two reports. Spooner, of Ohio. paramount issue; favors river and harbor improvements the table. tion of the Nationa! platform:— cluded by that compromise. the American party, 190h.day of February next. pays, 8 Rhoce Island—Yeas, 4. sylvania—Yeas, 27, Michigan—Yoas, 3; nays, 3. mont—Yeas, 5, Wisconsin—Yeas, 5, Naye, 1. questing the Grand Couneil to expange the twelfth ea- tion, and oxclude the slavery question from the platform altogether. Lost. wasa dopted:— d of the’obligation now required by the Order. lost— berance to the congtitution, was rather a dull affair, Ww. ton. Wasttisatox, Nov, 28, 1855. Anmericans here this evenivg. ments, on wheels. The line extended upwards of half a mile. Before reaching the Capitol, four to six hundred Baltimoreans joinet the procession Bonfires blazed ia various parts of the city, and cannon wore fired from different points on the route, From Buffalo. COLLISION O8 THE BUFFALO AND BRANTFORD RATL: KOAD—FOUR MEN KILLED AND OTHERS WOUNDSD. Berrato, Noy. 22, 1865. Last night’s express train on the Buffalo and Brantford Railroad ran into a wood train near Calodonta, smashing several cars and killing four German laborers, names un- known. A man named McCormick had both his logs broken, A Mr. Wilson had one leg broken ani the other badiy crushed. The schooner Pearl, with a cargozof wheat, bound to Dufialo, ran on the shoals of tlie Gast Sister istand, ta Lake Erie, during the late gale. Lhe vessel and cago will probably be a total lors, The Americans are now fring a hundred guns in honor of their victory in this State; also twenty guns in honor of Sevator Brooks, The glovification concludes with a banquet nt the St. James flotel to-night. From Boston, CANDIDATE POR MAYORALTY-—MYSTERIOUS DIeAP- PEAMANCK OF A BANK DIRECTOR. Bostox, Nov. 23, 1855. Alexander H. Rice has been nominated as the Cjit- zen's candidate for Muyor of this City, at the coming munictpal election, Josiah H. Kilthourn, of the firm of French, Wolls & Co., crockery dealers in Milk stect, i4 missing, under circumstances which lead to the supposition that ho has committed suicide, He was a Director in the Grocers’ Bank. His financial accounts are ald to be all correct, Murder by an Irish Mob, Lasaree, Il, Nov. 22, 1855. An Irish mob, at alate hour last night, sarromnded the house of the keopor of the ferry, at the old Contra Rail- road bridge. Several shuts were fired. when the ferry keeper came to the door and was instantly killed. The woh then fel. One man bas been a rested this morning charged with being engaged in the affair, ‘The Recent Fire at Macon, Ga. Curancasrox, Now, 22, 1855, The fire at Macon, Ga., yesterday, destroyed Ralyton’s entire range of stores, bat not the Floyd House, which is situated fn the same block, Ralston’s loss is $30,000, Mr. Ayres, a dry goods dealer, cecapiel one of the burnt stores, and his lors is $20,000, of which $12,000 i in- sured. Mr fta'ston ia {nsared for $6,000 ia the Aitna, of Hartford, and $5,000 in other Hartford offices, Fatal Affray at Mobtic, Moar, Noy, 22, 1855, Win, H. Toone, of Virginia, was shot last night by Thomas G. Panks, at Columbus, Mississippi. Toone died immediately, and Ranks has been srrested. Ratiway Bridge Burnt. Concuma, 8. C., Now. 28, 1855, Five spans of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railway bridge wore destroyed by fire on Weduoslay night. Schooner Hudson Ashore, Proviwertows, Nov. 23, 1855. ‘Tho schooner Hudson, from Philadtelplia, with a cargo of coal for Boston, went ashore bere (hiv afternoon, and will probably bilge, The minority report was signed only by Thomas It reaffirms the old principles of the free soil party, and insists on the non-exlen- sion of slavery, snd that the general government should not interfere with slavery in the States where it is now sanctioned. J+ also declares that proscriptionon account of birthplace is unwarranted, It recommends the party toact openly, regarding the slavery question os the and a generous foreign policy. The report was laid on The majority report was adopted, with amendments, as follows:—The Select Committee, to whish was referred various resolutions and proporitions mainly on the sub- ject of the differences existing between the North and South on the subject of slavery, has bad the same under con<deration, and has approvei the follawing resola- tions, and recommended their adoption at the proposed session of the Natioual Council to be held at Philadelphia on the 19th of February next, in lieu of the twelfch sec- That the repeal of tho Missonri compromise was an in- fraction of the plighted fith of the nation, and that it sheuld be restored; and if efforts to that end should fail, Congress should refuse to admit into the Union any State tolerating slavery which shall be formed ont of any por- tion of the Territory from which that institution was ox- That this convention protests against coalescing with any party which demands the postponement or abandon- ment of American principles or the disorganization of That this Convention recommend to the delegates of the States hore represented to the National Counctl to reynest the Prosident of the Notional Council to cell a meeting of the seme, to be held at Philadelphia on the ‘There was 8 noisy debate oa this, which was finally carried by a vote of States as follows:—Ohio—Yoas, 15; Massachusetis— Yeas, 13. [linois—Yeas, 11. Indiana—Yeas, 13, Pena- Ver- Total—Yeas, 96. Jir, Gosaure, of Pennsylvania, offered a resolution re- YELL, of Pennsylvania, offered the following, oIved, That we recommend the National Connetl to hh all ut one degree, and require the word of honor :. Corwin, of Ohio, offered the following, which was Resolved, That we are rendy to meet our brethren of other States in National Covention and nominate candi- dates for President and Vice President, whose claims are based vpon their patriotism, Jove of country and ad- With the exeoption of the last debate, the Convention Know Nothing Demonstration at Wazhing. There was a very large torchlight procession of the It was enlivened by bands of music, baaners bearing various devices, and monu- The Asta Outward Bound. Hauax, Nov, 23, 1855, ‘The Cunard steam+bip Asis arrived here from Boston at. ene o'clock this morning, an sailed again et half past ‘two for Liverpool, STUCK BOARD. Puavpauoma, Noy. 23, 1885. uy fret board today. Pennayl- Vania State fives suld #t fog RR. 465° Long Island RR, 123; Morcis Cuuel 1°, /courylvamta RR. 4224, PHILADELPE!\ [ON MARKET. Viabkurnia, Nov, 28, 1865, The tramactions is ison Cor ug the past week have: Deen emul, say 1270 iene, ©: 298 for No. 1; $26 for No. 2; ane $24 jor ho. wiit—« sale of 100 tona has been mace fur Cahite 1 in active request at $69. Nails steady at $44 y Oqunans, Nov. 24, 1865. Tbe sales to-day add uj middling. Sugar declias Voeiguts, evtton to Liver- PHRILADEL?' i Stocks were steady at Our cotton market is 10,000 hates at B3Z6. w De. fo. Age, Molasses 20c. w pool Sad, sT0N, Nov. 22, 1855. ook add up 14,009 bales at ‘The sales of cotton for the Aye. a 34g. ada ‘vod auid.ting quoted. ab 9340, Middting fair G30. a 0 cigtant the wet pari’ Vales, stock on baud 12°00 bales Rigo declined 3e. 08 the week. Freight» slcelining. TiovvaLo, Nov. 22, 1855. Flour has advanced: sates 9,000 narrels, at $8 35 a $8.75 for common ta extra Michigan: 3049 25 for chates to ixtra Ohio. Indiana w is drm ond improving; sales 22,000 bushels, at $1 $2. Milwaukie spring, $1 825 ed Jodlane, $1 86 0 $1 8755: Jliols and Kentucky, $216 & $2 + White Uli «1 Canadian corn ly firm; _ sales! Busha, 4 » ats arenominal. Rye 1. Whiskey is active . : Now. 20-12 007M Our market for tour is uns . An advance of one ~ ‘a two shillings on common grates is asked. Sales, only 500 bbls, Grain fuactive. Sales of 9,000 bushels four rowed barley at $125 for cash, Corn sells at 99c. afloat, and #1 03 delivered. - | From Washington. {Correspondence of the Courts and Enquizer Wasmnaton, Nov, 21, 1855, Mexican Indemnity—The New Plan o je the House. Mojor Emory, chet of the Mexican boundary survey, has arrived. He left an assistgut to complete some sma portion of the work not essential to the report which it will be his duty to make. Ine eondition of this affair is such, that if any State necesst'y required it, the last in- stalment of the indewnity might now be paid, Mr, Sala- zas has cigned the report o. the Commissioner condi- tionally, ‘Iho condition is, that the maps and other ay tions of the recordn shall contirm the written deseription, ‘That condition may be dispensed with by either govern- ment, or Sr. Salszar may bo directed, by the new administration, to withdraw the condition and make his signature positive. The new Minister, Sr. Maucigo, is hourly expected. He will bring instruc ions to protest vehement! against the payment of the érafts, mow by their bolocrs, upon the Treasury It also a strong cireumstance against the interest repre- sented by the holders cf these anipeoded drafts, that General Gadsden has entered the Geld against them, and has writien to the State Départmeat, that {f the balance of the Messilla indemniiy be not paid to the preesai - vernment, not another foot of cerritory will be csded te the United States, This intimation is of importance, be- cause it furnishes proot, or at least strong evidence, that the American Minister is even now negotiating with the overnment ef Alvarez for another strip of Mexico. This first communica‘ion goes far to confirm the rumor that whex Gen. Gadsden broke off his relations with the Osbi- net of Santa Anna, he was engaged in a tiation for a cession by Mexico to the United Sates of taat portion of territory lying between the present line and the 20th rallal, “As bis influence is very great with the adminis- tration of Alvarez, and 4s his porition makes him nearly independent (f bis own government, there is now a tyro pect that this scheme will be carried thi th; that the yarchase Will he made for twenty or fifty millions of dol- lors, and that the ecntemplated partition of the territory will provoke another destructive civil war in Mexico, In the meantime, however thore can searcely be @ donbt that our government will finally reject the drafta, and will pay the money, directly, to the Minister of Mexi- co, The subject, however, will not be disposed of until afier the meeting of Congress, whea it is not improbable that the advice of th senate wid be taken upon it, It is well to remember, in this connection, that during the lost cession General Rusk proposed to the Senate to give the excentive the power to pay this money whenever the public interests should appear to require it, which pro- position was rejected wilhout a count. Of #1 Eyres Tlearn that he was atone time Se~ cretary ot Legation at Faris, and afterwards Charge @ Affaires, For ceveral years past he has remained in re- tirenent. Many years ago one ot his brothers was Secre- tary of the Treasury. Jt is uocertain whether he now comes in the capacity of resident Minister or as a special Envoy to recelye the three williens, ‘The nativpal convention, for the formation of a new Mexican constitu ion, fs perhaps now in seon at Dolores, in the State of Guadalaxara, Tt was called the friends of the movement which placed Alvarez in Power, and f# Limited to modifications of the plan of Ayutla, which is that of tbe coniederation, ‘The new plan of organtzing the House by a union of the Pierce and Nebraska cemonats with what remaing of ibe old whigs, is’ under favorable consideration by the former Ps, Every eensinie man, of course, perceives that it is in'effect « pro} on to absorb the whigs fato vhe rival organization, finally destroy the identity” <fthe party, which, if nit dead beyond redemption, ta Geath-stricken, If this arrangement be now carried out, we shall witness a repetition of 1he process by which the federalists merged their politcal exiscence in that of the democrats. In conformity with what then happened, many whigs who ure now wandering blindly a the rains and reminiscensts of th ir party, will become ing democrats, and we may prepare ourselves to see Gov, Hunt, Senator Fish, Mr. Barnard, Mr, Winthrop and Mr. Choate fighting lustily under the same tlag with Pierce, Douglas, Cass and Dickiveon, d (Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. Wasntacrox, Noy, 21, 1855. Telegraph (o Charlestona Advices Mezizo, A direc line of telegraphte communication is now oxen with Chasleston. Tt wil in some, measure supp! the lack of egular mails. Testers mailed in New Orleans on the 12th did not seach this city till yesterday, We are getting back to the time of the slow mails, Acvices from Mextoo show that the revolution has not yot produced pélitical quiet, nor reconciled its leaders to- ony one system of government, or of internal or external policy. General Alvarez was chosen as President, provi- tionally, for six montas, Hefwre the end of that ume, an- assembly of deputies from the he two from each State, will meet at Polores, the place where the revolu- tion was begun, and adopt a pian of; and nominate a te for tho Presidency, under it, sub- Ject to the coufirmation of the popu ar vote, At present, there is quite an animated steuggle between different aspirants to the I'r eney. prominent candidates; but Vidanrzi’s prospects are and he seems to have become e general favorite. Coneval eat bas also much popularity, and may bea can- date, Mejor Emory, the Boundary Commissioner, is here ; but it appoars that bia report sannot be techaloalty coin? Plote ti) about the 10th of December. There is no need of much haste in the matter, for the new government has sot yet demandes the three millions, and will probably present its claim through the new minister. But the pew government have entered a protest, by special in- struccions to Gen, Almonte, against the payment of the muoney to the American or other essigneos of Santa Anna, The ac ual payment of the money will no! therefore, be made tillabout the middle of tho next month. The Ameri. cans romesening Santa Anna’s post obits will be sadly divappoin ed, if they expect to get the money from the 2 Comenfort is one of the present administration. It has been suggested that the question might be re- ferred to the Senate, a. it coneeras the construction of a he Senate have already acted on the an! not to meddle with it, At the late session, oved ng on smeudment to the General A) jon bill, that t.e President be authorized to- pars (a Anos, in advance of the com of the ndary dine, the sum ef two millions. This was in- tended to old Senta Anne in his diticnlties, and sus- tain him for a short time ; but the Senate rejected it, Subsoquently, the executive government, upon an appli- cation of ic minister, at Santa Auna’s req to recognize his essignmente or drafts, by poy them when they might become due, Apna nor propr Se promising to- Tf to Santa. in person, the government woull not pay maine to pay it upon his order, when it under the jrenty heeome due; certainly they would not pay it to his order, aftor he haw ceased to have any con- nestion with the gevernment. The contingency upon which the money is payable has not even yet arrived . It probacly will” happen ina month. Meanwhile, all Santa Annn’s acts are repudiated by the new ment, o is (o che exteling government that we are to ge from the chligations of the treaty. becomes due, must be * to tl t in the city of New York.’ Who- jones, it mnat be upon the order of tho ent, Terbops the American a may have ® good claim on (let government, and get ite order to reeeive tho money; ox perhaps Santa Anna may, meanwiile, be restored to cower, and then waive claims for the money in behalf of those to whom he as- Ngned it, when he bed no control over it whavrer, The latier is the bert charce. Loaders Coneva or Wiscorsiy.—The population of the State of Wirconrin, according to the census just taken, compared with tha: of 1850, is as followsi— Rrorm xo or Nwrots Ganwer.—On Monday evening this populer resort will be re-opened for the winter season’ The celebrated Ravel Famfly wit! once more delight the smurrment-secking public with their langhable and ex- teordivary performances, ond present on the opening night three entertaininents of dixtinet and varied charac~ ter, comprising a comie pantomime, a grand ballet, and a splendid ferry spectacte, Among the new artiste engaged to strengthen the slready powerful company, we find the pames cf no less then three danrsuses announced for the first night—-Mile. Therese Roberts, Mile. Pauline Géné, and Mile. Lina Windell, Of Mile, Robert it ts only neces sary to fay that vhe bes divided the honors end applause of the Parisian andieners with Corito, wt the Academie o who bate A 13 » sheet The bare plea‘)