The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1856, Page 8

NATAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. For sear two years immediately pressding the nen pipe the protection of nd the ie A F i f f dore F, H. Gregory and myreif, both then ac masters, end each in command of & single gun coat, with a crew about thirty men, all told. After the rmance of some extraordinary fests ot daring in conflict with the Pirates, and a zealous, untiring ana faithful discharge of the dutied confided so him, Gregory left the New Orleans station, and I became, I ‘may say, the sole defender of ‘that exposed :rontier. During this eventful period, I was often at one anc the same time c mmanier. cook, nurse, and, after the doctor (the twelfth viccim claimed by dis- ease), I wee physician and friend to @ pacty of fifty-six men and officers, myselt tor several gays oelog the only “ove fit for duty, aud to me fell the lot of performing the Inst offices to the dytxg, und the funeral rites over the Braves of thirteen of those who were in September, i811, Duried in the swamps of Teafoncti. ‘The importance of my services may. in some degree, be eatimated trem the fxc’ chat Lafitte, the great master spirit ofthe pirates aud smugziers, wade me su overture through @ third party, of $10,000 % year if | would witadeawfrom that part of the coast. I: was subsequent to vhis offer that T successfully bearded the deld pirate’s own vesse.— {A Baltimore cupper, subsequently parchased snd equip- ped for the navy, and cailea the Firevrand in commemo- ration of this ‘event]—when enveloped in flames and amidst traine iaid to open barreis of gunpowder, left to deatroy an avenger, whom he could neither tura from his Purpose by bribery nor care wee in open combat [* # * * *Tieutenant Chomas A. C. Jones particularly distinguished bimseit by poarding one of the schooners which had been fire’, and extinguisaing the fire after it bad made great prog:+ss—a quantity of powder being left in her open cabin, evidently designed, tw blow her oe . + * * * —Cmmodore Patterson's GBoiat Report, Niles’ Weekly Register, vol. 7 mo- the head of twelve hundiced men and with fifteen smell cruisers, was abou’, consummating @ treaty of alliance with tne English commanders—the neterious Nichols anc Woodpine—then at Penaacols, in command of the acvasee detachment of the British force destined for the attack on New Usieanx, via Barateri Was commemorated by the presentation to me of a aplen- did eword, unxnimously voven by Virginia, my native State; while with no tess pride and high gratutication I rejoice to know that the protection of our coast and coast trade, from the Mi-sissippi to Mobile Bay, at the most eventful pericd cf the war, afforded by a’ few gunboats under my command, was ever remembered with gratitude Dy thegrest wud guoo Andrew Jackson, as well aa up to day, not only by the peopis of Louisiana and other States sud cities on the Sul, put of the whole Union. Of the cocurrences of those times 1 may be excused in further saying—vn tre lo hef August, 1812, tuea e lieu- ‘tecant of only three wots’ commission, | was cruisiog off the mouth of the Mis-iserppt in gundoat No. 158, whea Y discovered the United Staves orig Syren, of lx'een gans, Captain Michsel &, Oscr 1, astly pursued by the Eughsh man-ofwer Brazeu, of tbir\y two guns, commanded by Cap'ain Stirtug, royai vavy,and in uuminent dauger of being captured’ by tue Kngii-u ship. In ubis dilemms I managed go as to divert the Bri'on’s attention from the Syren—which verse! vcivg in shore, the enemy thonght could not escave—aud atwut 2 P.M. be baled up in parsuit of the gunboat. ‘The race now sairly set between the Brazen and the Jeflerson (as the caemy called the tiny gunboat) lasted twenty hours, and resultei im both the Syren and the gunboat ly reacoing the anchorage within Cat aod ~hip Is.ands T was tp command ef a division ot gunboats in Mobile bay during the w and spring of 1815-14. Tae latter part of April was informec what the exemy’s sshooner Shelburne, ef tweive guns, Hon. Lieut. Hope in com- manc, was at anchor ff the bar of Pensacola, cap- turing Americon yesiels I procesied forthwi.h, acecmpanied by soother gunboat, commanded by Setlingparrer Daily, with the ‘le‘enminstion of capvuing the © apeher on the ba heard reach' ‘né, although sbe might be at + through @ spy, Captain Ho} my in’er'ion, and sailea berore [ gov there. On iz Vensacoia. I anchor “he town, where | was rudely recetven by the Syaviss authoricies, secause | hed foroed my way by the ‘ Barrancse,”’ contrary to the port regulations. I informed the Grvernor that I bad come there to capiurs he ‘Shelourne.”’ acd to cemsad, aud enforee my demands on the Spanish officers for the most rigid performauce cf theic neutral cbligstions towards my country and her ciliz-us. The immediate trutt of this va of the Semno'e Indians, some four ors, who had taken in the town of Penrsccia fro the pursuit of Generai Jackson. While there shings were eusciing, his Maje-ty’s orig Ans. eonds, of 18 cunx, Captain Westpoal. anchored juss with- out the ar, and sent a note on shore to an Eogiisn mer- chant, with whom tost asy] happened to de diniog, edging the honey of & Britiwh officer that the two Jef- rsoas should never rstuvn 10 an American port. fhe English captain's nove #a> pas-ed round to weveral of the guests, and finaliy to me. As soon as [ learned the pur- pectot the wove | emcla:med, ‘fhank Ged | wili De a dead max before sunset, ra post oaprain in thirty days! [ d (etme that ‘eliow!'? On the turn of the de, the two Jeflersons were under all sail, beating down the bay. Seon the Auaconda was uncer Way; Dut instead of starding ‘off ana on,” under easy sail, and awaiting the avack her captain bad so vaunt- ing!y wvitea, ana t wiwess which every balcony and housetop is the city was filled with aux.dus spectators, be ingloriou-ly feo, crowding wil sail to seaward, and, being an extraorcinary ‘xst railer, made good bis escape, though chased by the gunbuste until ost sight of im tae carkness of the night; oer cic erher sbeor Shelburne make their spvearance sgain, s0 ioog xs ths guaposts ‘were eff Pensascis or in the port. On the revurn o! the boats to Pensucils, after crul-ing several cays off the ort, the Govermer despat-hed bis sta‘e barge to briag ¢ American officers on shore; and their reception on the pudile square was marked by every circumstance of reapect—more appropriate tor the nero of some blood- bought victory mn for the humble commanders of twa contemned, and, even by our own citizens af home, oft- derided gundcets. Lem, slr, aa ‘capable to perform promptly and efi- ciety” ad my cuties, “both ashore and affost,” now, as i have been at any time ai der, 1814, woen, opposing fleet transpirting » powerfut foe for the attack on New Orleans, I recetved a severe wound in a desporate bat:le, wherein | combatted near two bours, hand t hand, when the odda were engbt or nine to one against me, -of the thirty-six men and officers on my ceck attic began, mors than one naif were kiled or woundes, not, bowever, until ot the forty-five barg+s anc launches meaned with twelve hundred ve'erans, and commanded Wy one of Btitsin’s abiest = ins (sir James Alexander Gordon), then on » wooden leg and still on the Active list of the royel navy, many dosts were sunk or destroy: ed, with four buudred of their crews put hors de combat; two of- whem, including First Lieutenant Pratt (he #ho filehed the pen trom the hand of ‘‘History,’’ one of the sn) of the naval mouument on the terrace of the Ca; @! the Sea Horse, teli by my own band ‘has ‘true, I never entirely recovered from the effects of ‘that wouad, ana still carry in my body the musket ball whieh laid me on my vessei’s deck, if not lifeless, insen- sible for s while ano weltering in my own aad my brave comrades’ blood; but though my suffering» were intense, jong doubtful, will. under the provi: life being spared, long before 1 hac re and when my wound was scarcely it trized, I again ho service, acd wae next found Someatn conntry’s Bo om & forego station, and satia- factorily the ardtous and active daties of first Heatenaat, first op boarc the frigate Constellation, and then the frigate United States, at » time wnen those spien- did ehipe were at once the pride of the nation and the ad- tmiration of the world. (No. 2. Appendix.) Tem as competen: now to discharge with alecrity ail the duties that could properly be required of me, ax I ‘was during my three years’ cruise in the sloop-ol-war Peacock, one rf the Pacific squadron, under the galleat Hull, in’ tue years 1826-26, and '27; during which I was the first representative of a civilized vation to extadlish treaty or commercial arrangewent with the Sandwich, Soeiety and othe: South Sea tsinnds, whereby security to all citizens o@f the United states aod tneir property was easured, and a considerable debt ($500.000) due to ou countrymen satiafactority liquidated and honoresly paid T am an competent ne to : beh Agel nent. ” discharge sil duties an in when in amannae the sicop-of-war Peacock, of 22 gunr. 1 while Peruvian Acmiral. witn his ting flying on ‘of 60 guns, “brought to”? the Peruvian , of 24 guns, and forces ner commander to deliver to me an Americen seaman by tie mame of Spencer, who nad been unla' lly det--ined oa ‘board the @deniral’s aly, who was. aiter the admical should be discasrged, 12 viola- tion of that promise, transferred to the Congresso, on tne eve of her departure on distant service I potent — vir, iy pes Ar Len! hoger ”’ diacharge all my duties aa I was tu 1842, whea oet gz +, had naira Peru ((slay) had pond of e vy thet government flags, “except that of Great Britain,’” ifatey revoeation or general opera it to insure promp” rexpest were ivsiantaveously complied officer in command, and it was vot renewed. - now, rir, in ali respects, ar I was Pacific squeiron, in 1842, I ® recret freaty between Mexico an the were about to ity, to the latter, which ceasion only vy my promptly assuming the reapono- , and by & nucessrful one main. getting edmiral, whose torce was io ali re- mine, an% planting ‘ne fag of my a of Monterey, thus signifying to that the were not then nor thenee- to colonization by sny Puropean Power, pow, sir, to promptly aod effi- daiee, ashore and aflvat,”’ as with Mexico, in 1848 when, the Pacific eee for hd romp destruction and igoominivas by the famous Pansda and hey hae the cause of ‘our country, and euocored our troops, under special in- vitations and prosiamations from the military and neva! commanders who prececed on toat station. Tam as competent now to “ promptly and efficiently Alscharge all the dutiew”’ which could be required of me, ‘wostber ashore or afloat, an! was in 1848, 1640 and 1850 ven. tn the absenee of any o:genie laws, or authorised gq: rernanent, 1, by example, by precept, by mora; euasioa, i Hi NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1856. ee, remained performing active duty for ears, aud returned in the said sbip in 182 in the year following, (1812,) your memorialist was at- tached to the aid ship Macedonian, under the command of Captain Biddle, in the West Indies, until the yellow fever broke cut among the crew. aud raged with frightful mortality, when ebe was compelled to return to Norfolk. When tbe ship arrived, your menorialist was the onl, Meutenant of seven on duty. Io October, 1825. he j ne the U. S. frigate United States, uuder the command ef Commodore Hull, and sailed for ti Pacific, au¢ while there volunteered to serve cn board the U. 8. abip Pea- Captains Jones and Kennon. In (+> or, 1827, he in the ssid ship to the Unite: . ..06. In 1832. be was ordered to the commanc of the U. 8. schooner Grempus, end served on board of ber for t1 ia the West Incies. In 1838, he was appointed to the command of the U.S. ship Erie, attached to the squadron of Commo- dore Dallas. In 1889, he was trans.erred from the Erie to the U.S. ship Levant, at tw the same squadrom, then under the command of Commodore Shabrick, and acquitted himself, as he has reason to believe to the en- ‘Ue satisfaction of his commanding officers. In 1846, your memorislist was ordered to the comand of the U. 5. tngate United States, and served in her for nearly three Years, on the coust of Africa and in ‘he Mediterranean, and :eturned, in Februsry, 1849, to the United States. The aggre gate sea service of your memoria ist is upwards of twenty-five years, although tae Navy Register only sbows rineteen year? and eleven months. In addition to this xervice, your memoriaiist has performed snore duty at navy yards and on recruiting service; and for the thpee years ending on the It Ustober last, he was ia command of the navy yard at Portsmou:h, N. H. LIEUT. M. F. MAURY, SUPERINTENDENT UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY. * * * 4 * . * If it be said that your petitioner was overslaughed be- cause 6f a broken ro the reply is: there are other offi- cers who are maimed and blind. who were not go troated; nay, there was a member of the Board who had twice suifered the misfortune of a broken ieg No surgical or otber examination to the vest of your petititioner’s be- Hef, war held upon either; and yet your petitioner has deen officislly degraded, while this member of the Board has been honored with promotion. If it be because of unemployed time, the Navy Register shows that officers have beer advanced by the action of this Board who have been unemployed altogetner twenty- five years since they eutered the navy—more than half theif time. One or the Board has been id’e twenty-three, and snother eighteen years; while the unemployed time of your petitioner amounts to only seven years and seven months. Pro rata, the official roster shows that he bas deen more constantly on duty thas the captain aad com- manders on the Board themselves have been, according to the aliotment of averager. It want of sea-service be urged, then the register will show that the ratio of sea-servic- to hia credit 1s greater than that of several of his brother officers who have been promoted in consequence of the fincings of the ard. ‘With these facts, and a fair repute ion, your petitioner i 88 to conceive whersfore, except by the mere will and pleasure of cetaia members of the this beavy finding has been brough, against hia. But. sight or wrong, your petitioner, without being in‘ormed of the nature of the charges, or ccnfronted with the witnesses against him, has been adjudged by this Board ts be protessionally incompetent; and, sccoraing to its recommendattors, as appears by a letter of the Se.rs- tary of the Navy—a t we copy ot which is hereuato ap- pended snd marked D—he bas been pisced on the Re- Served List, anc rendeed hereafter and forever by lax ineligibie to further promotion in the navy of the United States; ond be bas alreacy been exposed to official dezra- dation im consequence itherecf, by having his juniors lifted upand prom-ted over his head. Yo distrarchise and degrade an officer without specify- ing the nature of the accusstion against him, ia surely against the spirit of American law; to cast him off on tae broad grounds of incompetency, is an outrage upon natu- ral justice. What constitutes cflicial incompetency ! Tgnorance, idleness, crunkenness, #]) sorts of immoral habits and infamous practices—anytbing that is devasing; nay. everything that is wicked or vile. An officer is readered incompetent by diswflection, treason apd cowardice, or any ignoble trait ar in'smous conduct. The findtog ot the B ard is @ warrant and an invitation tor the evi) minded toimpnte any of these to your peti tioner. He humbly submits that he has not deserved sush trestwvent at the hands of any trivunal of his country. He has served it. to the best of his poor abril for up- wards of thirty years. During ali that time his carecr fo the service has been without official reproash. He tas never been tried for any cffence or accusation; and the Secretary of the Navy atated in hs place (H) that other officers, like your petitioner, “of spotless charac- ler and eminent service,’ huve been treated in like man- ner with himeei’ by this Board. Spotless repute icm is dearer than prosessional ad. vancement, and though the finding of the Board oe- privée your petitioner of valvabie professional privileges, and inflicts the severe punishment of » living naval death, yet he feels that thisis light asd easy in com- parison to the damniag stigma of professioval iacompe- teney, which # mejority of this Board, eomposea of his peers, bas secretly and illegally passed upon bim, Your petitioner is reavy for any sacritice that the pub- lic good may require of him. Unwargs of thiry yeers ago be took the oath and lecged the abilities with which h» Maker had endowed im. bumble though they were, yet loyal anc true, to toe eervice of bis country. has ever borne this pledge o/ bis youta in remembrance, as a ruie ef con- duct; and he is ready now, as be was then. to do what asailor may do for bis country’s good. Vherefore, if his presence hinder the efficiency of the navy—nay,. if it do not a‘d to and promote it—he is willing to give —_ to better men, and to retire to the waiks of private fife. But, in going, let not his fair fame be tarnishe or made a target for the shafts of malice. His good name is very precious; therefore he prays your honorable body to interpose wich your high authority and protect hia in it, It is anbmitted that Congress never intended to disere Git useful service or bounden duty of officers, be it per- formed on shore or afloat, provided 1t be performed effi- ciently anc well. Your honorable body, it is humoly con ceived, never intended to cast euch @ reyrosch upon sci- ence in the navy or its disciples, as to class the demands 0! the public service uj it and toem tor important na- val cuty anywhere with cownright official idleness. ‘The law cid not authorise any such clasrification; nor is there any prineip © or practice known in the navy that would suthorize cue credit to be withheld from an officer for obeying orders and performing to the best of his abili ties the dutte assigned him, pe they by sea or land, and of whatever nature. The law drew no distinction be- tween duty ashore and duty sfloat: and neither Lieu!en- ant Biddle nor the Board had any right, it is submitted, to give or credit for one than lee A Regt . (our petitioner, as appears by the Nav: ister | 1865, bes been esperar cas shore duty twelve years and eight months. One member of the Board has been un. eroployed twenty-three years and cine monthe; and an- other eighteen years and one month. These officers were no! retired; yet in the opinion of the janier member, the Board would have been bound to havea fling at science is the navy, and remove your petitioner from the active it. Your petitioner farther begs leave to state that he bas not rerved with eny member ot the Board for twenty years. and that he is upabdle to xay upon what grounds the Board cisims to have found him ‘incapable ot per- forming the duties of his office;’’ for his office was not imepeoted by the Board, nor dic the Board, as iar as he can lesrn, inquire into ita condition, either through him- self or any of the officers connected with ita management. herefore. your petitioner cha-ges the Boar, ors majority thereof, eomposed of individuals to him un- known, with having done injury to the service and the fair fame of your petiioner. He accuses them of baving passed arbitrary judgment. which is tyrawpy. He charges them wi'h having wantonly offended che, of tke law, snd with having acted contrary toftn rue mening sod intent thereof. He charges them with hay- ing abured the power in:rnsted to theit hands, wita hav- ving, by their mode of procedure, ignored the usages of the ew. sod spurned ite most cherished maxims. Fi uatiy, be charges them with having violated the prin- cipies of natural justice, and with having done outrage ts sentiments thar are very dear to the hearts of all good cativane, te these charges anc allegations to be true, and Ube the public service, as weil as the good name of your peuitioner, requires toem to be investigated, and the wr ngr dove to be righted, he prays your nonorabie body w take the matter oto consiceration, and cause inquiry to ve made as to the manner in which certain terms of aa ‘erty the efficiency of the 1856. have been carried Board of Naval Officers therein called for. He further prays that the officers who composed that Board may tach in turn be cosfronted with your petitioner, anc held to answer wherefore and upon what evitense they, the raic members of the said Board, have ventared without cause to cast @ stigma upon ‘his professional ¢putavien. M. P. MAURY. CAPTAIN ISAAC 8 STERRETT, Ty has been conceded, even by the secretary of the Navy, that the report of tae Naval Board, which was de- sigued by Cong-ear to promote the effisiency of the Nevy, by removing from the active servise list all officers f- und inoompetent to do their whole duty efficiently and promptly, oth aanore an¢ afloat, and by cropping en- tirely from the rolie such as are to blame themselves for their incompetency, is to some exient imperfect, and did not exactly attain the end whieh Congress had in view in pasting the act under which it was constructed. Indeed, there are many who think that the action of the Buard ia so widely Variant from wnat 1: sbould neve been, that Congress ought to interfere and rectify, as far ax possible, the errors committed. We doubt, however. that it lay within the range of possibility for that board or any other that could bave been appeinted. to render @ report that would have sstiafied everypody. This much, at veaat, is due to the Board. But we are convinced toat their action is defecti sufficiertly #0 to require the interposition of Co: a8 for rather than that one faithful and meritorious officer of the country should saffer injustice, it were better that the board had never been appointed, Among thos for whom we would invoke the aid of (ongress, ta the officer whose name is placed) at the head of this article, We have before us the Puget Sound act enutled “An set to Navy. approved February 2 out by t nd 243 Firra AVENUE, New York, Jan, 1, 1866 Duar Sin—I received your letter and its enciosure Inst | evening. 1 do not regard it as any departure from the ule I have prescribed for my conduct, not to interfere personally beyord # proper exposition of my political principles in the questions now peading before the peo- pie of the United States, and in which my name has been | wingled, as one that possibly might be placed by the | American party on its ticket at the next Presidential electian, to express tc you my acknowledemeate for your kindness, in vindicating my character, as you have, in the article you enclosed to me. Nor do I conosive it indelicste or improper for me to say to you that] am grateful to you for your delence, Not on sccount of an influence it may have in referencs to the American nemi- neétion, so much, as because it repela charges against my integrity ¢f covduct, ag a man, and as a citizen. The charges alluded to in the article are false and foul Qrpersiour, destitute ot a sbadow of truth Exalted as 1 regard the chief megisteacy of this confederacy of so- vereign States, 1 do no’ seek it. man who dares seck it is unworthy ot it. 1/18 @ trust of transcendant dignity, the highest on earth, but it is also of equal re- sponsibility, and for the faithful execution of its autivs, those who’ may occupy it, have a fearful acsountabllity to their coustry, anc to their God. ButI hold my repu- tation a# a wan’ dearer and more valuable to myself, to wy partner in life, and to my children, than any political nition, however high, to which I could be preferred. ice would cease to reflect honor on any maa, if dishon- orable means were employed to obtain it. and especially are thare referred to in the charges you defend me egainst dishonorable. A Vhiladelpbia paper sent to me yesterday (marked) atrudes to me ay having “plenty of money” and disposed “to spend it freely,” and as baving, in consequence, ‘great influence in the primary elections’ in this State, Whatever may be the fact in reference to my private Pecupiary circumstances, the means I have accumulated have heen earned by no little persons! toil, and I do not feel that it is indelicate or egotistical for me also to say by my honest incustry and frugality. always gratefully acknowledging the favor of Divine Provivence. Wha I have bad sense sufficient to earn and gave I trust I may have sense enovgh to keep for more useful and honor- able and worthy purpoves than to spend is ia attempis to corrupt the elective franchise. 1 have been told by friends that an Easton (Pa.) payer, and a paper publisbed in your town, (I think it is called the but am not certain,) have also arsafled me in ‘ike wanuer, but I have not sven the articles. All such charges, by whoms-ever or wheressever made, are utterly untrus; I should dexpise myself if there wus any foundaticn in'trurh for them. So, too, I have been in- formed of rome individuals having made pimiler allega- tions verbally; ana in two or three instances friends of ine have taken rome pains to the slanderers to their source, and it is a suggestive fect that in every such case the inventors turned out to be persons wio had marife some colicitude to proffer pladges to advocate and sustuin the wishes of my friends, for a con tion, but whose advances had beea rebuked, When thirg having the slightest appearance of a hint of such object bas been mace dy letter to myself, it has met with silent contempt. I' I have misunderstood any gen- tleman in this respect, 1 most sincerely regret it, and will atone for wy error. Since the charges referred to have been preferred against me, I have inclined te the cpinion tha: justice to my country, my perty and myself may require the prouypt publication of every letter containing any yropo- tition or suggestion looking to auch object that ia heve- aiter written to me. T do cot consider the recipient of an msult to bimself is under any obligation not to expose thore who perpetrate the insult. Icefy avy acd all who may be eppored to me politically, and any personal ene- mier, if I have such (though I ‘know of none, I cannot suppore that Il am exempt from the common ict of men in this regard,) to epecify a solitary instance in which I have directly or indirectly authorized or couatenan sed, or in any form or shape doao anything to justify the im- putations mace. 1 bave made ac promises to any one of any kind. I 4o not believe any friend of mine has acted differently. If any one has, the wishes I have expressed in this respect have been disregarded. I bere be € ecntribuied as became Lene the gitimate and proper expenses of the political party to abich I have been attacued, such ss printing notices, rooms for meetings. lights, stands, banners, music and the like. IfI bad not, [rhould bave been justly subject to the imputation of parsimony and meanness. ‘ihose who ectes with me in the national demucracy from 1841 to 1852 can state my course In this respect then. Since my name has been mentioned in connection with the Prestsency, 1 have been constrained by my convio- tions of propriety and by prudence to allow the charge of stingivess to be made against me, in preference ‘0 giv- ing the slightest ground tor auch accusations as you have defended me sgatust. Ihave even feit thet caution and restraint were necesrary in the hestowal of ordioary chari- tler and acts of kindness and friendship, to prevent auch ymputations bemg made. [ have ected with such ex- treme cireumspection, becante I consicered it not oniy to be due to my character and feelings as an honest man. and, I will ado also, because I have some pride of prin- ciple, and Lkewixe because I am not msensible to the 00d opinion cf my ‘ehowmen, Laseure you, my friend, ‘hose who malign me by tzese charges do net know me.’ I place tou high an es'imate upon the American party to beieve for a moment that uy attempt to control it by money would bave any effect to advance the prospecty of any wan who would wake ruch effort. 1 feel that if the a°eusations you have enswered in my behalf were true, right micded men ought to denounce and scora me as unwortay tne smallest office or trust, aud muon more unworthy the Presidency of the United States. If I am ever nominated for the Presidency, or if elevated to that office, it must be by che voluntary, un. bought and unsolicited suffrages of my countrymen- I will not resorc ‘o intrigue or deception to attain a nomi- nation te that exalies place, nor to aid my chancer of an election,’if nomiva:ed; snd if elected, I will no* dishonor the office and my country by perfidy to my trienda, or in- justice to those who may have <pposed my election, or those who in the exerc're of thelr rights disagree with me ax to my official courre. In allowing my friends to use my eame Xif I know my own heart,) I have pot been influenced by any selfish o0- ject for myselt or others. The maintenance of the honor ‘and the interests of my country and countrymen should be the sole sim of every man chosen to fill the Executive chair. I shall not murmur if any other is selected; but if | am designated, I shall do my utmost, with the aid of Providence to do my duty. is ery res our obedient servant, ae eee GEORGE LAW. Lewis R. Parxer, Esq., Trenton, N. J Our Honduras Correspondence. Bruzr, Honduras, Dec. 22. 1855. Official Appointments—The Cholera—England’s Rule Pro- gressing—Aleration in the Shipping Laws~A Man-of- War Alarm—Balls and Pleasure—Trade. Some time since J informed you that the magistrate of the colony of the Bay Island, was dead. I have now to inform you that his successor has arrived, and will enter on bis duties at once, There bas been an unusual amount of sickness in this colony the present seasen, which has swept off a great many white and colored inhabitants—the blacks have, as a general thing, escaped. ‘There seems to be no disposition on the part of Great Britain to give up that colony or this settlement; on the contrary, everything that is done there or here tends to strengthen and establish s permanent government for both places, Bulwer and Clayton’s treaty to the contrary notwithstanding. As an evidence of this] may say that hitherto no veesels could be registered here, and any foreigner couid own an Foglich or any other vessel; now allare obhged two be registered, and ‘no foreigner fs al- lowed to own a vessel under the British flag. A regiater, surveyor and shipping waster have been appointed. Nearly all the foreigners that were or are owners of ves- sels in this town have become naturalized, or have taken the oath of aliegiance. A number of other small regu- lations have been adopted, and seversl old laws, or cus- tomm, that were originally in foree here, have been quiet- ly ehelved and are thrown to the winda, and others will be recommended to the next Legislature in their stead. This has been done inthe face of the worst times’ we have ever had—ur staple, mahogany, being ruinously Jow and dui, amid the suffering and loss occasioned by the great fire of last year, and the cholera and fever which visited us. Shortly after this reaches you the brig Nina will ar- riye at your port. She {s s very fine vessel, and the first which has been bulit on the island of Ruatan. this isa new field ot industry, and report says tha: she is of a ube A bandsome medel, strong, and a fast ss: ‘The screw steamer Argus is in port. She is one of the famous West India squadron—a fine looking craft, wel manned and ably officered. The commander, » few nights since, at midnight, commenced a little’ private practice by firing one or two brosdsides. This, as a mat- ‘ter of course, aroused our little tewn; the inhabitants were amazed, end, starting from their beds, rushed to the bridge, and » gexeraicry of “What's she matver?” issued from every mouth. A wag seid the Yankee filibustera had come down to take the town, and for some times little confasion and some fear were manifest on the partot sil No harm eame from {t, however, and on the morrow it turned out that the commandant wished to see how soon Se mater from & sound sleep into ac- tion. He is men were alarmed, up, and two ‘prentstten Bred in three and a hal’ minutes, " The Su; itendent gave a large anc grand ball at Go- vernment House on the evening of the 20th. It was well attended, and for this place was s grand affair. The la- dies were mageificentiy dressed, and fall of smiles and good nature. And where all Icoked well behaved well, eve. Theve balls are all the life we have in town, as everything ix very still and quiet, ‘Trade is unusually dull. All of the cutters are in town, but an mahogeay is very low, and wages also, but few are hiring, which makes money scarce and tes do The struggle | surrounded with much embarrassment, and the relation which it bas been itriaae, pornos ited to dlevvaa the pro, ie prog ‘The LETTER FROM THE HON. LEWIS D. CAMPBELL. Hoves or Raraxsavrarives, Wasancton, Jan. 25, 1656. ‘70 TER EDITORS OF THE INTELLIGENCER, Gmnmow—' to elect a Speaker has been plurality vote, a dansk 1 came trto inexperienced in legislat a. ties, in 1840, when there was a similar contest—the promi- nent candidates being Messrs. Winthrop and Cubb. The free wcll party was represenved by Mesars. Giddings wil mot, Root. and some six others, who held the ce of pewer. After a protracted struggle many efforts were made to acopt a plurality rule, Although @ supporter of Mr, Winthrop. I united with the free soil men on thir uestion, and uniformly voted sgainst it, agreeing with them in ibe arguments which they presented: thet it was of doubtiu: constitutionality, and @ Ceparture trom the uniform usage since the organ! vhe government, of bezsrdous dewey. It wae finally adopted, anc the Tebult was that a house. a majority of which was elected es edycoates of the “ Wilmot proviso,” refused to apply the restriction to the Territories wequired from Mexico, which, by the iawn of that geverument, bad heen previ- ous'y decicated to free institutions, and closed its legisla- tion’ on the +lavery question by the enactment of the @ Slave law, without securing «ial by jury, as by Mr, Clay and the Cumproiawse Comait- a mate. On one occasion during the contest referred to, when theplucolity res bution was before the House, Mr. Gid- ding: propoard the following substitute, in the proprivty of which I fully concurred :— Wheress, the eiection of the Speaker of this body is one of the highest and most important ¢udes incumbent upon its mem- bere; ano, whereas, by common consent of every House of Keprecentatives aince tha ado: ton of the Constitution, « mi Jorliy of all the voles how been regaréed as neoasanry choice of that officer; and. whereas, the freedom of de vate bas exer been regarded as one of the wafeguards of American Il yt ‘Therefore Resolved, Thst » change Speuker by a plurality of vou uch election 8 as to elect ® while the minority are not per- iy or constitutionallty of such €. will be oppressive in operation, of dangerous tenden- 0y, und ought pot to be adopted. During the firet veek ct this session, when it was sug- gested to me by the frien is who kiadly supported me for ‘the Speater’s chair that » pucellts ressiution would in- sure succers, I again avowed my oppost ion to it. Without eladerating on the subject, my reasons for yoling againstit now I will state :— 1, Thas I am not tully satirfied that it is not an infrac- tion of the sptri: of the Urnstituticn, 2. That it is ap abandonment of » uniform usage, which cid not in 1849 avd J fear would not now, promote ‘the success of the principle: which I advocate. 8. Pecause Jbeve reason to apprehend that its adoption at this time wil result in giviug the organization of the Houre to the friends +f the Nebraska ac. 4. Recause, usice {rom principle, Iam not disposed to stuilify my pest record until Lam’ satisfiel t, ts wrong ; cerisivly not untiltbe public interest demands such & sacrifice, anc a charge ot my position woula settle the © vexed question,” ese reasons briefly now, from » regard to those requented them in respectful terms. To the as here who may bave “jobs” in view, and te the ecitore el-ewhere who have denounced me aa a‘ traitor’” to the principle I bave always advocated aud stil adhere to, 1 tid Cefiance. lum neither ty be led as the puppet of the former, por to be driven under the lash of the latter. Very truly yours, &.. LEWIS D, CAMPBELL, Affairs in Wasbington. [Correspondence ot the Fiedericksburg (Va.) Recorder.) WaAsHInoToN, Jan. 5, 1856. Another Presidential Ticket in the Field. It is said to be currently conceded, in most of the political circles at Washington, that. the natioual democrats of New York are becoming elaborately Grpavized, thronghout the State, for a definite and decisive object, which, whether achieved or mot, cannot fail to give them a commanding position in the Natienal Convention at Cinciunati, on account of the noble motives with which it is conceived and cherished. The mete rumor of this object, through some of our own journals, is said to have prodaced a marked and grave effect upon the strong councils of the capital, because it afforded a consistent in- terpretation of many significant indications, of similar import, that had appeared at various local centres of political action. The adamantine firmness and purity of this great body of the democracy of New York have won the rotound admiration of all kindred minds, in every State of the Union. In defence of their proud prin- ciples and sacred trust, as constitutional republi- cans, they have maintained, for the last seven years, and wider incn}culable disadvantages, a conflict with apestacy, ‘auatici-m and official power altogether upparalleted in our political history, for the heroic eles on the one side, and the brazen perfidy on the other, which have constituted its principal ele- ments. Undismayed by the apparent disparage- ment of their cause and numbers, in the gubernatorial election of last year, when the exciting local ques- tion of the Probibitery Liquor law left national issues in temporary abeyance; and unshaken by the fact that they did not fully exhibit their aug- mented force, amid the dark lantern and fusion fog, which prevailed in the legislative and judicial elec- tion of last month, they ure now energetically re- organizing to offer an emphatic example of terested patriotism and policy, which must still fur- ther advauce their claim to universal respect and re- gard. For the purpose of closing, forever, the ruin- ous schism of the democratic party in that State, and of obviating the remotest suspicion of complici. ty with the Know Nothings, which has been im- puted, whether justly or not, to a certain portion of their former organization, and to one or more of their most prominent wen, “the national democra- cy of New York will bring no Presidential candi- daie, from their own State, into the Cincinnati Con- vention, but will sustain the nominee of Virginia, whoever he may be” In uniting upon this policy: it will be seen that, while they surrender nothing to their schismatic op- ponents, they completely 'e the master project of the Nothings, which is now clearly ascertained to be that of drawing them, nolens volens, into the omnivorous maw of that arch heresy, through one of their most distin, ed leaders. In order, there- fore, to place their democratic integrity, in this mat- ter particularly, as high and illustrious as the san at noon, they have ved to unite upon an eminent Virginia statesman, as their preference for the first station in the land, and upon one of the ablest and most worthy of their own citizens for the second. In preferrmg, as it is announced they do, Senator Hunter, of Virginia, for the Presidency, and Augustus Schell, of their own State, for the Vice Presidency, they are evincing not less fidelity to 1 attachments than they have maintained for their principles. It is well known that the former was their choice and their expecta- tion, as Secre' of State, in the Cabinet of Presi- dent Pierce, and that Augustus Schell was their unanimous and persistent preference tor the highest federal office in New York. Their disappointment of the latter as well of the former, may be regarded in the connection of cause and effect, or as a peualty following an unforgiven offence; but, gratified in neither, they now evince but the characteristic chivalry of the old democracy in proposing a higher position for both. In Mr. Schell, however, as their candidate for the Vice Presidency, they probably hope to accomplish something more than a mere re- dress of old grievances.? Through him they hope to see the rankling evil in the party healed so thorough- ly that not even a cicatrice shall remain. This was Ins intended mission, and would have been his happy achievement, long ag, had not the persecu- tion of the faithtul been deemed, as of old, the reecriptive Es of apostates in power. He Epreemivent ly the practical man of the steadfast tion of the democracy of the North, command- ing universal ahs for his inflexible consistency, integrity and endurance, but not more, perhaps, for these qualities, than for the high toned yet genial and conciliatory courtesy which he has exercised towards his opponents ov every occasion, and es) cially at oer crisis when it was hoped that the democracy of New York might be reunited without dishonor to the ancient banner he upheld The contemplated affiliation of this para mount portion of the democracy of the Em- pire State with that of the Old Dominion, to which we have thus referred, is as nataral and interesting as it is important. It is natural that constitutional republicans of such a character should seek, on such an occasion, and under the critical circnmstances to which we have significant- ty alluded, a special alliance with their congenial brethren of Virginia. With whom would the faith- ful link bat with those who have never swerved? And it is doubly important, becanse it is now con- sidered settled that the other section of the Lop: A New York will not present any candidate from their own State, for the next Presidential term, and «ould not if they would Thus, by resolutely Lrg ng aloot from the ‘‘dark-lantern” ‘defection, as it is the particular ee their new organization to do, the Femocrac of the Empire State will present to the Cincinnati Convention a united delegation from a virtually united party; and acting, as they propose to do, with their brethren of Virginia, they will not unreasonably nor in vain expect a liberal reciproca- tion. Gris v8. F.aco.—The time allowed Mr. Comp- troller Flagg to answer the complaint of John S. Giles, on bebalf of the people in the quo warranto suit, relative to the right of the former to the office of Comptrolier, will expire to-morrow. Mr. Charles (’Conor has been retained for the defence of Mr. Flagg. The Attorney General and Louis N. Glover will act as counrel for the people Those most familiar with the case entertain no doubt of the ability of Mr. Giles to establish his claim to the office. Both sides are row canvassing the electors of the firet district of the Nineteenth ward, to ascertain for whom they yoted for Comptroller, and it is provable that every citizen ot that district whose name in upon the poll Ti-t, will be calied upon ‘he etand an a witness, to textify, J) Me Fiagg’s case depends upon Binding 316 who will wil) fail. Messaxe of the Govervor of Mississlppl. Governor Jobn J. MoRea transmitted his annual mes- tage to the Legislature of Mississippi on the 6th inst. The document treata the anti-slavery resolutions of some of the Northern States with all the dignity which they deserve, but adheres strongly to the Miesissippi platform on the various questions touching the subject of Southern slavery. The following is the closing portion of tag message :— I travemit, herewith, resolutions from the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maino, Massachusetts, Michi. gan and Pevn-yivania—some on the slavery, and some on other questions, To those from the State of Maine, 1 ask the eepecial attention cf the Legislature. They are embodied concisely in the instructions of the Maine Le- gislature to their Senators and serene ney to use all practicable means to secure thei in and are believed to be the sentiments iahed by the large mojori'y of the members in that body from the Northern S'ster, which at present prevents the organiza- taon ef the Houge of Kepresentatives, on account of their hostility to the South on the slavery question. ‘bey are :—Firet. An aot repealing ali laws of the United States wutborizing slavery in the District of Columbia. tecond. An act repealing the statute of 1850, known as the Fugitive clave law. ‘Third. An act forever prohibiting slavery or involun- tary servitude, excep! for crime, within the Territories of the United States. Lastly. ‘Iba their Senators in Congress be instructed, pnd yeprerentatives requested, at @il times hereafter, most s'renugusly to oppose, tm every. spe the aomivvion o/dny new Siaie into the Union, except upon the convition © be embraced in the act ot admission, that slavery or involuatasy cervitude, excepting that for cume, of which tbe accused sball have beea duly proved guiny, shall be for ever prohibited therein. They éenounce also the repeal of the Missouct compro- mise, by which they sey slavery wax for ever prontblted iw the territory North of the parallel of 36 deg, 30 min., ion oF @ avlemn compact and & Objections hesitation us to the evurse to be pursued with them, ‘They were the sovereign voice of tue State, expreaied © 48 the revolutions are, I have hed no through hor Legtalature: and whe:her ' faction or fanat cists had temporarily the control, were for the time being to be considered ax her sovereign will. It is hoped they were not the voice, truly ropre- sented, ot her people, and it is believed that a better sentiment has control of her counsels now. But it was my duty to present them to the Legistature, aud let the scvertign voice ot Maine be met by the sovereign votce of Mississippi. Upon the questions embraced in these resolutions Missiesippi bas taken her position. Not hastily, but calmly—deliberately. It is embodied in her action in convention in 1851. when, afier the most grave consid- eration of the subject, she declared in reference to what were termed the ‘*imeasures af compromise,” and in con- hection with them the rejeotion by Congress of the propo- sition to exeluce slavery trom the territories, ard to abolish it in the District of Columbia, that while she did not en- thely approve, she would abide by taem aa a permanent adjustment of a eectional controversy. She at the same time declared that rhe held the Union secondary to the rights and principles it was designed to perpetuate, and that viclations of her :ighta might occur, which would amount to intolerable oppression, and justify a resort to measures of resitanse, amonget whtch sho enumerated the followings— 1st. The interference by Congressional legisiation with the institution of slavery in the States. 2d. Interference with the trade in slayes between the States. 2d, Any action of Congress on the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia or in places aunject to the jorisprudence of Congress, incompatible with the safety ard domestic tranquillity, of the rights and honor of the slaveboloing Etuicn 4th. The refural by Congiess to admit a new State into the Union on the ground of her tolerating slavery within her limits. 6th. The passage of any law by Congre-s prohibiting s'avery in any of the Tertitories. 7th. Whe repeal cf the Fugi:ive Slave law, and the neglect or re‘ueul by the general government to enforce the constitutional prov sions for the reclamation of fagi- tive slaves, OL. Retolved, further, that, in the opinion of this ecnyention, the people ix the recent elections have been governed by an sbidiog faith that the said adjustment measures of Congress woula be enforced in gvod faith ia every tectionof the land Thee resolution: of Aiuine are in direct conflict with the porition of Mistissippi, amd if ber voice could contrat the Iegisiation of Cougrers wt the present seasion, or a cor- rerpor ding sentiment of the North could do so, the true with Miseisstppi, standing upon her ° con- stitutional rights, would be fairly made. — It in not suppoced’ our state will depart feom her position. If there sve any who de-tre her to do ko, {hey bave as yet given no expression to their opipien. | is weilkrown that I was ono of th:se who ot the time bis position wes taken, was in favor of hav- ing ovr constitutional rights more detnitely settled, and the controversy between the North api the South forever exded~-not by a dissolution cf the Unten, but within the Union, «nd under the consiftution. But'l acquiesced in the voice of the State, and stand firmiy by it. Every Mi-siseippian coes the raise. The time for discussion on this subject among ourselyes has away. We be came one iv sentiment in acquiescence in the actin 0: the convention of 1861, and we wili be one in action when its issues are me'. I therefere recommend to the Legislature, in rexponve to the resolutions of Maine, to retorn o her resolutions uranimonsiy re-affirming the porition cf Minsissippy, wi'h a calm, temperate ana aigai- fied expomtion of our rights, and our determinstion to maintain them at ell bazs: Northern sistes ve vpon the censtitution, the responsinitity will be with them, and the righ? with us, whi Tr may be the result. The difficulties in the Tecritory of Kansas have pro- duced nuch excitement in the country. sad awakened feeling of deep mterest among the Southern States. Ful ly impressed with the importance of securing thet Terri- tery to our interests, and for the extension of our insti- tutions, after the most mature reflection, I have not been able to eee how the Siaie, in her sovereign capacity, con take messures to effectthat onject. YetI .m reacy to co-operate with the Legisiature to any conrtitusional mearwe which their wiedom may suggest, or their bet- ter jucgmen’ devies, to eecure so derirable and important arerut. Were i) in*he spuere of my duty 1o address the people cn ‘his subject, I would make every appeal to them which “coud arouse their sympathies or their in- terests 10 evcoursge the syilit aud ald the progress of emigration to tbat errito'y. The people of the South have it in their pewer to secure it, and they have only to make the effort todo it. Numbers msy oome there from the free States, but the Southern emigrants can control it, not by force, but by tue irresistible energy of their determination and their wiil. If this Territory is lost to the South, it will be the fault of our own people. Marriages of Slaves. AN ITEM FOR ABOLITIONISTS. (From the Charleston (5. C.) Courier, Jan. 24.) A stending topic of argument sgainst slavery, with the abvlitionixts—thove, at least, wno pretend at all to argument—is the arsertion that ‘it virtually ignores or disregar’s the marital tie, Admitting ine utmost possi- dle force in the argument, it eould be met br counter statemen's against any form and mode of labor; tor the reperation of husband and wife is a common incident to ‘the bireling wbite and black, no lexe than to the stave, We could appeai also to the experience of ali Southern cbeervers, 1b proof that our siaveholders and pianters generaily were anxiously disposed to respect aau protect the meritai reiations of slaves. and that more difficulty is founda in educating and training the slaves themselves to regaré it than in protecting it when estabjished on good basis. We introduce the matter, however, only to mention a fact lately brought to our notice, wnich'speaks more than apy sssertions could as to the relstive attacn- ments o! the negroes. ‘The ease to which we refer is, briefly, a voluntary and mutual diseolution and rupture of a mari of fifty years’ happy and agreeable duration between slaves; and ‘thia wae by the consent of both parties, each preferring to sever this relation rather than to leave the master’s ‘amily, altoough the option was left to each and ei‘her— a is most generally ‘he case. The circumstances were these:—The wife :.as ap oid nurse and ‘ mama” of a family migrating «0 Florida, and had for years lived in» condition of indulgence and ease, bet‘er than could have been possible had she been free actually, as she was vit- tually On the closing of an estate by sale for division, under our Jaws, she was necessarily offered for sale, and was purchared by the ron of the mistress, to whom ene hac ben nurse snd favorite maid. This gentleman, who hea often in his boyish days received at her hands the rod, which the wiee king recommends ar & sovereign spe- © fic for the foolisrneas of childhood, very naturally and characteristical! red her so far as it could be done, avd gave her the choice of three resi- cences for life, and atthe same time promised ample and Abuncant comforts. To his surprise her answer was, No, massa, | goes wid you to the new country.” He told ber of her busbanc, and again asked her to choove a nomina) waster and protector in the neiguborhood, and ove of there pisces offered to ber was the plantation on which her husband tived. She persiswé that ber first choice was to follow her master, when he immediately rerolved to purchase her hosbend, whose owner was equally anxivus to protect apd spare the mar tal tie of a veteran servant bar- gain was soon settled between the masters, for both slaves ‘wert too old to bave veen worth any consiceration unde ony other rystem but the ¢ tie of #lavery; bu ap unexpected difficulty occurred. Tne husband stoutly refased to leave his master’s faaily, anc protested that deeply oné long as he had joved his wife, be could not leave bis home to foliow her. State the naked proposition that a husband and wife ofvuch age and qualities had been separates, and aboil- tonism would at once find matter for tear-moving homi- lies. Yet here fs one plain case, of very late occurrence, in which such a sevaration occurred against the desires and intention of two siavehoiders, anc by the alternative choice of two slaves. Ca, any of our Northern moralists tell us how many white marrisges have been cruelly and miserably severed by Calitornia migration’ Fires in New York. Free IN ULIVER STREET.—Between 8 and 9 o'clock, on Saturday night, a fire was discovered ina party wall in the tenant house No. 82 Oliver street. It waa extin- Lier bvefvre any damage was done, by the Fourth ward police. Frm tn BRoaDWAY.—About half past 5 o’elock on Satur- day evening, whtle s gas fitter was repairing the pipes in the eating saloon of A. Florense, on the eorner of Brosd- way and Housion street. the escape gas took fire, ex. ocing with much fores, and seriously injuring tie gas Etter and one of ‘he waivers belonging to the saloon. Fme tv Forty-sncoypD Street... About one o’clock on Saturday, ® fire was discovered between the flooring of the basement and firs’ floor, in the new Presbyterian cbureb in Forty-second street, betweer Seventh and Kighth avenues. It originated from the furnace heaters, It wae extinguished by the police and some citizens, Lore about $100, Lusured. MARITIME INFELLIGENCE. au = Eectaos and Uttere trtended for Ge Maw You ALMAnAs 208 Hay TORN <u Dar. Rehr Hleanor, Townsend, Go:rgolo town, DO, Ringgold (wrecker) Crevioy trom the bark. John Fae- pum, eshore at Bquan Beech, (0 Johnson & Higgins, Sehr Jooes Jmuih, Barman, Seveonab, with mdse, to Me- i] a " waonab. with m to Cready, Mott & Co.” On the 20th inst at 5% o'c'ork aM. whem, Oh a Ry witha brig. name by Ry wea bor thick and stormy. bow," planding right board tack, put our helm time to clear the brig, the brig apparent keeping Der course, strikicg our jibboom. carrying it away, ard sorlaging oar bew: gprit vory tadly. ‘The capra'n of the brig desired me to lay by. Gwing to our crippled condition we ware oliged to take im pearly al) eal. after doiog 6o hove to for alxiven hours em the larbosrd tack. The *exther yo" being very thick and net having seen anything of the orig. we wore ship and stood atx hours to the weatward, in bape of tailing in with her. Fede . Ing Ot PucceRs, again wore ship and 01 A to make the weather having moserated. ‘The brig Rsex, report is yooterday’s Herald, th very Iikels the samo vesiet bn. tte tain of ber reporta no'bing abut the wesiher, ov that he eny effort to clear tho eehooner, ‘The Jonas emite is at pler 4 East River BELOW, Brig Sarab, from Pensacola~ (by pliot boat E Forrest), SAILED, Steamship Ericsson Fayre. snd snobored at Quarantine, ‘Wind during the day from N to NE, with snow. rald Marine Correspondence PHILADELPHTs, Jan 27—Arr bark Paez, Wilson, at the Belaware Breakwater, from Porto Cabello. Minccilancons and Omusiers. New Youx, Jao 27, 1865. ‘The urdersigned pilots, attached to tne pint boat James M Waverbury, desire to express their thanks through the onluana of your vaiuable paper. to Caplain salsey, of the seamtug J 1, Lockwood, for the assisiance rendored to their boat in get- ling her out of the ice newe the Kast Ban, on saturiny Ins ‘and towing her up to the clty, for which valuanle services thay will ever hoid him 1a wratetul remembrance NIOHOLAS McCAk1¥, FRASOIa PENNBA, GEORGE EVASS 3 PUALVERT, EDWARD FRYER, Pilots. Srmaxsurr Burnep—The schr James Bose, Captein Lovett, from Malaga, bound to Charieston, which put into Jacksouvile 4m Gistreag on the sth, reports having seen on the Sin tn lak 30 10, ton 76 60, the wreck or a large steamship, which appeared to have been burned. A large piece or timer was banging to the wreck by @ long har of iron, supposed (0 be one of her chains, ‘The timber was painted flesh color. On tha th aaw pleces of boards, ptep ladders, and a large belaying cavel, 190 patuted flesh color. Her decks were off, but could aes ne za ebinery.—(We think the above is doubdttul.) Bm Neisox Pisce (of New York), Thurston, which arrived at London 2th wit from Baltimore, bad a moat boisterous and perfious passage She sailed on the Ie! of November, and at midnight on the 9th had aheavy gaie trom the NNR, which continued till the 10h when the rudder post was sprung be Jow the deck, in wearing the skip. On the 18th end 2iat had two more tevere Ka ee, and on the latter day etipved a heavy sea, whieb stove Ip the door of the forward houce and did othar je, During each gale shipped sgren: deal of water. During the tollowing six days had atm sr weather. and on the 28th ic blew a perfect hurricane; the “9th waa sull worse, aud the ehfp was suddenly abrown fn the trongh of tha sea, which mado & complele breuch over her. ailing the decks aod washiag eversthing trom thelr lashing, starting the cabin house ca it to leak, ard partially fillimg the carn with water, In orser to tave tho ship it became neces to lighten per and abut 260 bbls were thrown overboard. She was 4)so run into vy aa unknown bark on the Sih of December, and received cow: siderable additional damage, Sar Devavaun (supposed Br), Biliow, sunk at the ‘Pogne,” near Beilze, Hon, about the 18th ult, No farther particwars, Bpkack, Carver, arrived at New Or cave fem Boron on i. When off Bermuda expenievced & savers hurricaze, during which she was hove on ber beam ends, and the topmaats had to be cut av uy ic order to right the vessel. Kxrcn Broritzns arrived at New Orloene from Cbarlosten on the 17th tnat experterced eevere weather on the pas: ‘sage, and lost foretopgal.ant mast. Bric 0 H Kenney. kanda'l, frem Boston for Guay while in Boston harbor evening of 25h. got in ooninot J sehr Splendid, and sprung @Mret»pmast, in contequeace of which abe returned to Sour Srixxprp, Haskell, hence at Boston, was tn contac with brig CH Kennedy, aud had stsrboara Dow stove, Mee above. Scur Axcrurvs (of Saco), Bill with a cargo of cement, trem New York for Boston, via Holmes’ Hole where she ashero (th inst, is reported eshore at Biliingsgale Point (in wae Bay, oif Welitieet). Crew saved. No other particulars. Scuk ANATTA. reported from New Urlenas for Yzabel, was lost on Mauger Key Keef aout the middie of December. The following table gives & summary of tha veuseis in the harbors of New York, Soston, Phiisdeipbia and Baidmore om et the 26th inst, at Charlesion, Savanvan, ana New Orieane om the 17th, aud at atobile on the 12th {ust: 5 2 is lex wes alee Sluz 9 Mesers J Holmes & Brother, of Maltepotnet, are bull a bark of about 380 tons for Mesers J & WR Wing, of Mew ford, to be launched shout Juze Ist. nded for one ‘business, and to be commanded by Captain H Crem- re Launcuxp—A fine stip called the Fast Indian, of 900 teas burthen, owned by Messrs S’ephen Ti'ton &Co, of wee launched from the Messrs Currier & Townsend's yard, New- ury] She ta designed for we Kast India ness and will be commanded by Capt Win Lecraw, of N. Aporber ship. fo be calied the indus, owned by Messrs BB Moseley and Charles Wi!is, of Newburyport. will be fiom the sawe yard ibis week. At Portsmouth, ship Witch of the Wave, of 1100 tons, was launches 26th Inst from ihe yard of George Raynes & Son. Ske / is owned by Messrs Titcomb and Charles ti Coffin, ot Ne port. ‘This ebip is ot the same name as another built at same yard, sid to & house in Amsterdam, Notices to Mariners. MARTIN'S INDUSTLY LIGHT sHftr. The Savannah Repubiican of the 22d inst says:—The new ree Ci ae Tor Martin's Industry arrived in our har- or yesterday. Jenkins, of the Lighthouse Board, has received ta- feweien bon the office of the Twelfth Ticbaneene Mobos Sen Francisco, Celliornia, that the light at tue lighthoase Eontb Farailote Isand (shout. 21 rales broad off the seat fans on the wighr of hg et tee eal me ght of the tet ewer sn i ra that {t will be continued ight is a revolvir,; ite light, showing flash every misule @roushout the entire borizone Senet ‘The lighthouse tower stands on the highest peak of the South Parullones, ia bull. of brick, ip weventeen teat in eight and is surmounted by @ iantern and Ughting apparatun ‘th order o' Fresnel. elevat Bo i The itebt is should longitude of the I Survey, are se follows be Nebt aa given by the Const Lativude 87 deg 41 min 44 nec N, Longino oa cee. £-7. mip hy ieee Ww, ‘The magnetic bearirgs and dist»nces tn statute miles, takem npproxima‘ely from the chart of the sae survey, are ‘as f0l- 8: 1e8, N 29 deg 20 min W, 20 mil Point Boats, N 66 deg K. 27 miles. a Point San Pedro, 8 85 deg #, 29 miles, repaiz%, Hon, Dee 22—In port new Br brig Nina, for Nor Cary Vexp Istanps, Dec 25—Arr bark Ida, Kell ¥ Kawmscn, Dec Yimhrrehip Andalusia, Futon Constantino: P 10 Janzino, Nov 20-Sid bark Rodman, Brown, Calde Dec 2c, bark jongiass, Lane, Raltimore; ath, "hip Mery Howe Francisco, baving repaled; 5th, berk Dela Luncan, Baitimore; brig Wm Skinner Parrer, New urioans; White Gquaii, Hardy, NYork; Conrad, Salsbur', a, by) ehip Coromardel, dandry (trem San lsec, brig Queen of the South, Melbourne; 11th, baka Wanex. Riny, NOrienne; 12h) Bk Wletolee Nicken: 0; brign Denmmary, firtiman, anid Elsinore, Bartlet, do: woh Cid’ ship Gibraltar, Kiliman, Rast Indies; bark Fame, Spelabte, Baltimore. A st ot vessels in port Deo 12 we published 7. soe gi esaen ee per RP GA te a low Poleman. a ard $0 tor Niayand ihe Ocré do Lion Which fd for do'ea by +a a plac bs Mount Savage, Watson, M. Jan %—Cld steamer Mount , Wi NYork, ship Marianne (Brem), Warkmelater, Bremen, brig Besther (br), Avh, St Johns, NF; sehr Wild Pigeon, ‘Millikin, rovidence. ‘The steamer Relief was cutting ber way out ot the harbor yesterday noon. at which lime abo hnd fn uw fas an dente fon’s wharf. The steamer Jon Whitne: was in the t ack of the Reiset, but making slow progress The iow '4 vary thick BOSTON, Jan 3, aM—Arr bark Leinnd, Hldridge, Savame nab; brig Georgia, Farntam, do; schrs Jamies Mil er of New York) idock. Mobile via Holmes’ Hoie; splendid, Haskell, NYork. Returned, brig OH Kennedy, iaudall, from Boston, JOCMARLESTON, Jan 26~Arr (by ta LA |, Jan 7 tel), on Horan iet (by tD, sobr WA Kilis, M- ORLEANS, Jan 18, PM—Arr steam lorie, Cozzene, Key Wert via the Florian ports; Renita Phompeons Brazos Santiago; ahip (xtord, Studever, Trapani: bark Litas . Lirniken. Havana." selow, coming up, steamship ico, Lawiess, trom Indianola and Galveston; rohr William, Cobb, Matagorda; 2ships and 2 barks, names unknows- ©4 ship Fro-tdent (Br). Harsiow, Liverpool: bark Jenale (50, Tuekson, Glasgow. Towed o sen 14th inst, ship Chas Ward. NEW BEPFORD Jan 2—Below » topaall sehr. with lam: per. {upposed the Buena Vista Frisbee, from Virginie for atin NEW LONDON, Jan 2% -A: named). in tow of propeller J Winn tro fo ht r bri lee, Havana vin Tarpaulin (‘ove and ’ 5 Yin Tarpaullo “ove and Holmes! Holo: achr_ AF Howe, W Sid, wind NW. barbs sarah B le, PO Alexander; bi ' Com Stewart, Abby Killen, Gow Brock, Onward, Oastiliar ; PORTLA®D, Jan 25-~ Ar Orizava. SI r tid prig (om Stewsrt, Dunning, Matenzas. Gen Hersey. OVIDENCE, Jan 25 Arr propeller Weet , Clark, NYork Cle hark Gootapeed, Fave Mole ne SAVANNAH, Jan York: park Charles Acadian Ervir gto sugusta, Lyon, New Riven, Uitvarts Htchie, Jen 'U-arr chr J 4 Ohabourn, . Gasgow; Standard WILMINGTON, NO, Rimpeon, Boston,’ C1d'Htb, brig 8 P Browp, Freeman, Oar epas,