The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1856, Page 2

2 POLITICAL PARTIES: IN: NEW"YORK. Another Attempt: at a: Fusion.of the Democratic Party. Iateresting History of the Devioce and Shifts of Party Journalism. Another Bold Stroke for an Albany Regency. ae, &o., &o, What is history but teaching by example? ‘The fusion of the Argus and Atlas—the two democratic eoxgane in Albany—caps the climex in the history of the political newspaper press of this State. With there organi- sation of parties thropghout the Union—with the pro- exedings of the Know Nothing and Nigger Worshipers’ Mational Conventions before us—vwith the Cincinnati (on- ‘vention in prospect, the union of these two concerns a moteworthy fact. To add.a to the. interest of the eplacde, we annex @ brief sketch of each paper:— SKETCH OF THE ALBANY ARGUS. Wo pohtical newspaper ever published in this country enjoyed a more extensive reputation or possessed a greater party influence than the Albany Argus in its palmy days. The existence commenced on the 26th of January, 1813, whilst the war with Great Britain was raging. The parties were thea designated as republican and tederal, The organ in Albany of the Istter was the (actle; ‘that of the former, the Register. It was the State paper, and owned, controlled and edited by the talented, though eccentric, Solomon Southwick. He became somewhat dmtolerable, and subsequently treacherous, to the repub- Mean party. The war was a party measure, but it had ‘not been in continuance a twelvemonth before Southwick refused to sustain the administration in all its lengths, At that period Daniel D. Tompkins led the republican hosts and the friends of the war and Mr. Madison in this State. He was aided by Lieutenant Governor Joha Taylor, Biisha Jenkins, Benjamin Knower, Chas. KE. Dudley and many others, then youthful, influential and popular men. Having lost confidence in Southwick, it became imdispensable, for the support of the war, the national administration and the republicen party, that a new or- gen, in harmony with the party, should be established. Newspapers were then, both as to matter and manner, Bight, indeed, in comparison with what they now are. Very few existed excopt they were of a desideily political e®aracter, and at no time since party divisions existed were politics made to run so high, or pierce ita arrows s0 fetaliy as duzing that war, for the reason that the feder- alista, the leading partizans, exerted every nerve to para- Jyze the arm of government in the prosecution of the war; and the republicans, on the contrary. were equally vigo- rous in sustaining the honor of the country, and maintain- fog the popularity of the war. In the prospectus issued for the new paper, the hundred republicans, headed by John ‘Baylor, said: ‘Of the unfortunate divisions in the re- publican party, itis not our intention to speak; these @ivisions are seriously felt and deep!y deplored.” This is ‘all they said in relation to tue defection of Southwick and his adherents; but the main reason urged was the neces- sity of having » paper which would support the war. In truth, such s movement was indispensable, as ne(ther the general government, then in conflict with the mighty power of Great Britain, nor the republican party in this State, straining every uerve to carry on the war tos @uecessful termination, bad an organ in the capital of the State which professed the patriotism to stand by this eountry. Jesse Bue!, s printer in Ulster eouaty, was taken to Albany, and became the ostensible publisher and proprietor of the new paper—the Argus. Mr. Buel, though a writer of fair talents, hed no pretensions to the authorship of the able leacing editorials which appeared im its columns. The paper at once received the patronage ef the general government, and in two yoars—1814— Mr. Buel was made State printer, in place of South wick, who bad gune over to the federalist body, bene and soul, being their candidate for State Senator, though de- feated. The Argus, then, becoming the official organ of the Stafe, as it had been for two years that of the party, at once assumed a prominence among the influential jousmals of the country. The party retained s strong hold on the affections of the people mainly on account of ‘the pretexded iseue of the war, by establishing ‘‘f:¢e trade spo mrilgug? ighta.’) tone a2 sey Dae having ‘Béquired @ competency, disposed of the Argus establish- ment to Moses J. Cantine and Isaac Q. Leake. the tarmer brother-in-law to Martin Van Buren, and a talented rer of Greene county. This new firm were made “State printers. Both were political writers, wielding ‘masteriy_pens. But tnis copartnership existed only & a time. Im March, 1823, Mr. Cantine died. Mr. Leake then associated with nim Edwin Croswell, who was mite a youth, son of Mackay Croswell, proprietor of the Gates Reriaeer. Edwin was known at home as a youth offsir writing talents, as he had for several “done “ap” the editorials aud most of the ‘‘scissoring”” ee Sotber’s rover. He went to Atbary at the eommenceme] of the legislative seasiot of 1 tarnished fo; the Argus sewi-weekly contlenred reports of tht transactions of the two Houses. Durtig the illness of Mr, Cantine be alto contributed polltical articles for the editorial columns, which he took pains to point out to Mr, Von Buren, Mr. Butler and others, as his pro‘uctions. By ruch display of his talents the leading party ~ on eon- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1856. forming the well known American Company. The; purchased tracts of new'land in Tiitaots 3 gan and Wisconsin, ind also at Onwego, Buffalo, Roches- ‘ver, and other in this State. The Argus, circulat- Pa far and wi was made the tieiataepetone organ en fing settlers and emigrants to upon ville ge cities, < towns, ges, mill sites a to the company, the surveys of which were always desutitall lithogra; eneatin raper. The maps exhinived elegent! laid cut streets and avenues, admirable mili sites with tude of the projects 6 “Albany y. They haa three banks of the cspital under ir control, in addition toe large number in various parts of the State held also in their hance. The Mectanica’ and Firemen’s Bank, me tus Corning. Cronwell, marcy, Flagy, Dix, Wright and o being the secret advisers and counse! ‘The revulsions of 1836 and 1837 shook the foundations of this cetabination of speculators. They hed spen their own means as well as sll they could borrow, and now interest, taxes ané other es required addi- tonal fords. Marcy all bank pills passed by the Legislature, ‘also one suppresmng the cir- culation of all bank bills cf this State under the dene- mination ot five dolars. These asts created great dis- satisfaction, but all the efforta made in the columns of the Argus to justity them. utterly failed; and the peorle ousted Marcy, and placed Wiliam H. Seward in the ebair of State, by a majenity of ten thousand four hundred and twenty-one, with s large whig majority in both branches of the Legislatu.e. This avalanche of public apinbos tumbling upon the heads of acy, throwing them from power and hurling them from of- fice. effected a final dissolution of thatselish, arro- gant and domineering combination. Having justly for- feited the cenfidence of the people, been thrust from Cflice and conrequently trom power, and having uo ‘“co- besion of public plunder” to keep them together any lenger, each ‘naividua) pocketed whatever amount of tnerthip property he could grasp, and they have er since met cn friendly terms. kiwin Croswell re- ed the Arpus and tho State printing until the lta y <f January, 1840, when Taurlow Weed was substi- tuied for State prister, who, after having the office, reported to the Legisiature that in the space of fourteen months he crew from the trestury the enormous sum of twenty-nine thourand dollare. In 1642 the demoerate held the [vgislature. A bill was pasted depriving tke use of the oflice of State printer, Seward vetoed it, but the biil passed nevertheless; bat no effort was then made, neither at the extra session the same year, to appoins a ruccessor. In the early part of the session cf 1843 another bill was passed. In the meaptime Mr. Croswell had admitted a partner into the Argus establishment, a person named Van Dyek, a coun- try printer, ot Orange county. When the question came up whore name should be used by the demo- eratic members for State printer, Croswell and Van Dyck came to loggerheacs. Althorgh the latterhad only paid two thousand collars into the Argus concern, and had consequently d:awa that rame amount out in montnly instalments, Vai ck cemanded that his name alone shoulc be inserted by the Legislature, declaring, “I will de sole State printer. with the entire control of the press, or nothing. ‘the political control of the paper amust'be centred entirely in me.” Lhe two Crcswells holding three-quarters interest, and Van Dyck only oné, and that not half paid tcr. gave the former a great pre penderance in its pecuniary affairs. and they seemed Amazed to learn that their partner should make such an ungenerous demand. Edwin Croaweil, of course, would not yield io Van Dyck, as he was never known to guc- cumb to spy wan. The diffizulty Jeaked out, and mem- bors ci the islature and others auterfered in order to bring about a reconsiliatinn. Cro:well offered to put the name of the ficm in as State printers, and divide the re- sponsibility and the profits in a ratio corresp with the interest each held in the Argus; But Van Byck was inexorable, immovable, lett theconcern in a fit of anger, and never revurnec. The legislative caucus was held, and Croswell obtained 66 votes, against 40 given to Wil liam C. Bryant, and the next dey Croswell was confirmed yy doth houses, on joint ballot, by a majority of 56 over lorace Greeley, the wnig candidate. The -irgus was thus retoste:ed the State paper. The public printing was dividea xo taat Mr. Croswell, though State printer. tad no income from it but suca as was derived from lccal acvertisements, which afforded some “ten thousand s year,’ ‘The re-appointinent of Croswell laid the foaniation for the division ot the New York democracy. H= nad be- come obnexicus cn account of his dictatorial eonduct, and become unpopular a# ove of the ola Regency, and at having held tne lucrative position of State printer nearly twenty years, fhe large vote given for Bryant in the caucus gave evidence that a formidable oppsition had atisen, and indicated witout auy doubt tha: if Croswell had allowed Van Dyck’s name to have been selected solus as State printer, that he would bave made the Atlas the State paper, thus cesting tae Argus aside and ashore. Van Dyck was taken uader the wiag of tue Tadicals, as they were then baal ytd snd Flagg gave him oné cf the best berths im the Comptroller’s office. The feud thea gtew quite Ccesperste, All the State officers except Governor Bouck and Lieutenant Gov- érnog Dickenson, avowed open Deatity to the Argus apa te ‘State priuter ecitor. Young, Dix, Flagg and others of the old Regency now laborea with veal to prostrate Cro«well aud his paper. They succeeded in driving Bouck into retirement, snd electing Silas Wright, Governor, in his steac. They obtained a mojority of racisais in the Levisiatyre of 946, whén Lina betadltr) peng. bill eas fafrodused, ousting Cros- he fight between the fac‘tons now me furious, perronally and desperately vindictive. Wright was Governor, Gardiner Lieutenant Governor, and such men as Denniston of Orange, faxton Smith of Puinam, Beekman, rear “ Lindenwold,” Young of Sera- toge, Sedgwick of Onondegus, Lester ot Ontario, and Porter of Cayuga. were in the Senate—Crain of Herkimer, Speaker; Geurge T. Fierce of Dutchess, Tilden of New York, Baicy ot Putoam, Pergins of St. Lawrence, and and others (flike stamp, Were members of the House— to purebase the interest of Mr. Cuntiuc, and to Place young Creswell in the editoriel chair at the eltcw of Mr. Leake. The partners soon came to logzer- heads. The junior gentleman searce'y became seated before he exhivited such symptoms of dictation and ar- rogance as the Senate would not tolerate with imp nity. Articles frequently sppeared in the paper which Mr. Leake pot only cid not approve, but utterly condemno: and re. ted. Finding that ‘both could not ‘sleep in one ? a la Tyler and Botts, Mr. Leake demanded a disso- ution of the firm and s separation. This was finally effected, through the medium of Mr. Obadiah Van Ben- thuysen, a practiesl printer, purchasing Mr. Leake’s in- terest, leaving Mr. Edwin Croswell sole editor on the first day of Jenuary, 1824, « “consummation he most devout- ly” prayed for. fi ‘The Argus, up to this period, some t years, was published only semi-weekly. The federal Daily Advertiser blivhed by Hunter, Martin A Ryckman, ‘dischar; fs morning broad+ides too frequently for semi-weekly interchange of shots. Mr. Van Benthuynen, the enter- ipg and practical copartner, determined upou puo- hing the Argus daily, in order to meet the foe promptl and tofurcish his readers with news and general intelli. gence as early as his spirited competi‘or. (n the 8th of r, 1 first daily sheet was issued, and from the type were also issued a weekly and semi-weekly, down’ to the last gasping of its prolonged strug gie for existence. Thougn the circulation of the ‘Argus was toleracly fair, still it never could have been and continued had it not heen sustained by the patronage it resrived in the publication of legai no- tices, authorized to de a! in = columns aa the Btare ir. At this per: yan Buren was Unites ‘States Terie, Marcy, Comptroller, and such talented fants as Silas Wright. Jarve Southerland, Greene C. , Peter Sharpe, BF. Baie, Heman J. Redfield Jonas Esrii, Jr., Jobn Bowman, r Skinner, Joho Sa- General Ward, were republican pillars, leaders and contributore to the columps of the Argus. Up to the year 1842, Marcy, Wright, Crosweli, Fisgg and Dix formed what was known, the nation throvgh, as the famous “Albany Regency.” They made polities their chief study, end reduced it toa perfect science. They eould decapita’e De Witt Clinton, and re- ‘move him from tbe supervisory care of the canals, and Despatter bim with fulsome panegyric and ‘encom;urs ; they could deride Gen. Jackson for pretending to aspire ‘to the Presideney, vy calling him ‘Mister Jackson,” and when the wind veered its course, turn & somerset and iaud him to the skies as the second Washington of America; and, strange to say, in these days, thin ‘Regency’? induced = majority of the people follow them all their in- eonsiatencies, their gyrations, twistings, windings, subterfnges and tergiverrations, For years the Le- gislature was under their absolute ‘and complete control. They made and unmade Governors, State off- cers, United States Senators, and ao inveigled themseives into the affections of President Jackson, that the old hero sbeolutely threw his own mantie upon the shoulders of Martin Van Buren, one of their number. Whitst this grasping combination held the reins of power, the aaa special grants for bank charters and other mo- nopolizing co! tions arose, and was carried to an alarming length and unprecedented extent. The cele- brated safe rtem was of their concoction, and ia 1845, '6 and ’7, when Marcy was Governor, and encon- raged the Legislature to grant such a large number of banka, none were allowed creation, except Thomas W. Oleott, or some other protege, was named to commission ‘and distribute the stock. Bribery and corruption were rife in those Regency days. Members of the legisiature ‘who were disposed to be honest were hurled from their ity ‘ma moment by the magical icfluence of an invincible lobty. In truth, no project ever passed through the Legislature of speeniative character but ‘the avails prospectively were assianed to some newaling of this central and all powerful combination. Thetr common organ was the Arye. Upon ite various keys each one played his own familiar strain. The democratis meares were relieved from all concern relating to the «public business or the man to transact it. The regency had the State accurately polled, and in each county was ate- tioned » faithful sentinel, Country editors knew not the channel in which party or public opinion ra, until the current came fi from quarters at Alpany, through the columns of the Argus. Candidates for the Legislature or other public stations dared not aapire to each distinguished honors, made « pilerim- to the capital of the State, tn suppliance be- Tire the Hegency, and tendered the imperative quid ‘And if any daring apirite undertook to diep' fre Recency their right of sale and dictation, exch re- fractory democrats were at once stricken from the rolls of the party, aod the columns of the Argue made vocal with howlings of their excommunicstion. Among «few ef the pames of thore fearless men who wers thus summarily disposed of we have in our mind's eye ‘the racicals having ® wejority over the old fogies. A caucus was belo suid Wiliam Cassidy was elected as State 8 ‘inter. The wi end Crosweil’s friends unt-ed and eated the radicals, and a law was passed allotting the publication 11 legal notices to ‘the publisher who would give reenrity to doit the cheapest. Creswell de- that the radical 4fus wnould not obtain the ge, tendeted’ proposals to Insert the legal notices in the Argus free of wii expénse. Thur that sheet retain- ed the appellation, but empty honor, of State'paper, until the session of 1364, when Thurléw Weed was again made the printer ‘udder tuil psy, togetver wita en sounds: of perquisités lavished wpa num by unscrupulous w! legislators and State «flicers. ‘The dissolution cf tho. regency, and the loss of the State printibg, made great inroads on the profits of Ite clique, and the treatment of Croswell towacds many his old friencs rendered him unpopular. Neituer of these things, however, affected him and his paper to any extent, in comparison with his position as oue of the principal maungers of the Albauy Sunal Bank, at the time of its failure, July 10, 1848. The enemies of the Argus took up the Canal Bank fail- ure, and jost no opportunity of bringing up Crosweli’s name in connection with it. The barnourners had be- come formidable, and though they abanconed the demo- eratic party in 1848, aud supported Van Buren and the abolitionists, they mansged to poli nearly us many votes in this Stave as the hunkers under the lead of the Argus, together with (he influeace and impulre o: a national de- mocratis convention. shorty after this, Croswell aban- doned the editorial chair, and came to this city re. tary and corresponding officer to the George Law S:eam- ship Line, leaving the Argus in the hands of Sherman Cros rell, his partner ong relative, He retained an into. rest in the concern, though he receved n> benetit from it until the firnt aay of August, 1854, when he finally dis- pesed of all his claim to the establishment, ‘About the Ist of January, 1855, the concern was u> for “Cowes anc s market.” It waa offered to the Know No- things, who thought themseives at that time possessed of sufficient inflcence and strength to maintain an organ at the seat of State government, haring, as they had reason to believe, a controlling imfluence in the lower branch of the Legislature. The’ principal proprietor of the Ar- gus, Mr. Sherman Croswell, having becomé weary ot con tributing from his own private tunds to the support of the establishment, was auxious to cispore of it and get it off his bends. It was tue leadiog bard shell paper ia the State, but the monied men of that refractory section re- fused to aid it, or assist vo keep it up until the appeur- ance of better times. Negotiations were at onee made with the Know Nothings. Mr. Crosswell’s price for one haif of the concern was agreed upon, but they could not offer him satisfactory securities. It then appeared that tbe pational administration waa in search of an orgav. Marcy refused to make the barnburner, free soll, abolt- tion concern at Albany the official gazette, on account of its black niggeriem, which would mxterialiy iojure his prospects in the South. He ascertained that the Argus was in the market, and immediately instructed ite pur- chase, which was readily xccomp ished. The objec’ of this was, pet to endorse the sdmumiatration at once. but to iesns feelers periodically, no ax to throw only guflicieat dust io the eyes of the obdurate hard shells aa vo bind them from epying the sea! purpore, which was to bring them vnconsciourly into the support of the sneceesor to Franklin Pierce—the migh'y Magnus of the softs. An editer of a country pajer was indacted into the edndr'al chair. At fit no particular symptoms ot caving in were manifest, but ere long his cormna brearme filled with quotations from the soit papers, which were wo very extremely desirous of hgviog the bupkers anc national demoorata cast into the shade of obsivion, on the acta ot omission, or commission, towards them, which Vierce and Marcy had perpetrated, apdagain unite in eommon brotherhood, preparatory to the contest of 186¢. To all this the new editor of the Argus wost cordially eesented. He wae for harmony. He pretended to have been a hard shell demosrat, but for the sake of uniting the Darty, 40 a4 to march shontder {fo shoulder in bettie array against theie common enemy, athe whige. He bad yieided tis hard preferences, aud |. Was willing to re-unite with the barmburners, His denial that the Avgus was purchased by the adminixtration avaised no longer; the few hard rhelis patronising tt on ‘Ascount of Its antecedent abilities and usefulness, and from ite support; and not one of the leacing men held further intercourse with it or ita soft country editor. From the time when the paper fell into the hands ot the administration down to about the Ist of July follow. ing. some tix months, the intention wae to stop the pub- heation of the pen and sheet. and transfer its few aub- teribers to the Alas. Nearly every arrangement was made with the ostensible proprietor, but the pensioned hireling, engaged bythe barnbarners, being aware that his “occupation would be gone’ in uch au event, sternly term! | opposed the proporiticn, In the meantime Marcy kept | | ot ® month or eens meee bis position, elevat columns, and sénnnistration that he was a of ing orgen in the State Ne atter day the same monotonous same dulness, was displeyed over Marcy at length became clagusted; he resorted rnuffdox ever unconsciourly, aud fmally, ina fit ot distract countermanded the order for the pur- chased ihe frees searvaing,..0mh commended she trensfer, the Argus, \ all its perches, li eg 5 E than the purchase tand dollars was the difference ticnal cemccrats, and hooted at by the éwincled cown to a secondary sheet, subordinate to the ag stoltien paves 5 BD Argus, thus falling from its exalted posi- ticn, offers focd tor political reflection. It furnishes testimeny to the #0 little seknowl ‘and apy ted, that in ‘successful pul of 3 daily party orgsn, as much talent, educa! industry and perseverance is pices og in Dea paren any cther pro‘ession. When east qualitiestions were withdrawn from the Argue, it lingered a twelve menth a a mere copyiet of other men’s views, without foreshadowing a t feature, originatiog an idea, or aturacting the notice of any one who possessed sufficient patience to irs heavy columns. a. males the mour and Pierce prod tien of the New York democracy.’ The tree sotfers will assuredly, tom man, join with, act and vo e for the Sewarcites; and these comprise» lat majority of those who, during the last four years are de- nominated sott ehells. On the other hand, the one hun- dred thourand national democrats in the State wii! el:her reorganize and recruit members upon their p’at‘orm, knowing no North nor Southpand run candidates in ac. cordance therewith; otherwise, they will, for s campaign ar twe, remain in sialu quo, voting for the Amerioan cau- tes. SKETCH OF THE ALBANY ATLAS. The history of the political newspaper press of the State ot New York, if ever written, wiil present a singular contrast with that of any other State or country. ‘Shere has been more exertion made, greater talent enlisted and employed, and more abundant means squandered to sustain the partieam press than in all the States of this nation besides. Politicians from the early days of Jeffer sen and Hamilton, through those of Macison and Jackson, down to the administration of Pierce, have made New York their tattle ground. If Pennsylvania was the key- stone to the arch of the confederacy, New York was es sentially the balanee wheel up which all the motive power depended, and arvund which all the lesser bodies revolved, ard were kept thereby in. proper position Every smbitious adventurer upon the po.itical element saw the necessity of enlisting the potential power of the press and of subsidizing its conductors. Aaron Burr was the originator of the measure, or rather he was the most conspicuous and talented of the demagogues who mace the press subservient to pe.soral sggrandisement, De Witt Clinton not only possessed those indispensable vehicles to fame and power, but also filled them with essays and articles from his own pen duriog a wuccesticn of many years. Van Buren adopted the sume couree, with the exception "hat he neither farnished money nor mattef tor his papers, but induced the scrib. blers for bim to labor in anticipation of office, whicn promices, when he obtained power, were sometimes bro- ken, and scmetimes amply fulfilled. By an analysis of his sppcintmente when Goyernor and President, it wit! be found that a larger number of editors and p.in(ers were provided for than under any other administrations. The amount cf mopey which has been laviched upon the political prers in the city of New York, at Albauy and other material points in the State, is incalculable, O: course, the sum never cam be known or computed. It is sufficient for the present purpose to know that the pa- pers thus devoted to the eause of ambitious demagogues were the least supported by individual patronage, and were distributed through the State by hundri and thourandsat private expense. It isa-eertain fact, too, that every heavy contributor who endeavored to sus:aia ® publication of such # nature retired from offiee a bank- rupt in morals anda pauper in polities. Scores of them have paid the debt of nature, if they paid no others, wbich debt could not be postponed nor avoided, whilst myriads remain, grasping witha fiendish tenacity the alexcer drippings obtained trom subordinate and de- gracing servitude, with barely a sufficiency wherewith to wend their seedy garments, There was one it fa these latter days of this’ class which stced conspicuous amongst its cotemporarits. - The reader, without any hesitancy, will readily perceive that weallude tothe Albany Ailas. 1: has had a career of noto- riety, and now, in its trac sition, it will not be amiss to no- tice rome of its peculiar characteristics, its conduct, the object of its cwners, the means it has employed, the mo- ne) yeas upon it, the individuals it has bankrupted and ruined, and the consequences of {ts own deserved fate. The title of the paper was originally in possession of Gadige Vance and Cornelius Wendell, two practical print- era, who bad previously for a number of years been employed as compositors wpon the Argus, “They were induced to issue it as a democratie auxiliary to the Argus, then the State paper. The interes's of the patty in the State, if not in the tation, being in the care and under the able protection of Edwin Croswell Vance & Wendeli’s Atlas was merely a local or conside: as the city orgen of the ‘floodwood democracy.’”? The eleetion of William C. Bouck, in 1842, as Governor, was obtained by a nearly united democratic vote, rome seven thousand only of pretended democrata bat voted for A-veh Stewart, the abolitionist. Upon reac! ng the cep. tal ef the State, in the month of December, precoding the meeting of the Legislature in January, 1843, Governor Bouck naturally repaired to the State departments to poreied ia his orticonlog weange to tho Legilatare. ra hi coming message 6 . Kt tbat period the Comptroller’s office was the head. quarters, wherein were contained ail the facta relating to the general and epecial finances ot the Stace, the cans}s, the banking department, &. All these masters were under the control ot the Comptroiler of the state. Here Governor Bouck met Mr. Azariah C. Flagg, who had been reinstated a year previous by tho Legisiature. Mr. Flagg, anticipating the object of the Governor’s vi-'t, cirectly iwportured him as to the policy be (the Gover- nor) intenced to pursue in relation to tuc canals. The Goveinor, being famuiar that rubject, intormed the inquisitive Comptroller quite frankiy tuat he bad no spe- cial pelicy 10 recommend cifferent from thet which the demecratic party under Throop and Marcy had pursued im relation to the eanals—that ne hed been elected Gov: ernor, he believed, on account of his antecedent course in relation to them, and should endeavor not to disap point the expectations of bis friends nor the demo- cratic party, which had elected him by a Eajoity of nealy twenty-two thousa: over Mr. Bradi-h, bis highly popular and whig competitor. This reply did not auit the oaie- chising Comptrciler. Mr, Flagg wanted to kuow distinot- ly whether the Governor mvended to recommend a con- tinuance of the ‘system of canal enlargement, by whieh the whigs had bankrupted the State, and reduced the pudlio stocks down to e ty or whether he intended to go with him (the Comptroller) in stopping the work al- tegetber. Guvernor Bouck being s friend of the public works, and believing a gradual enlargement coull be car- ried cn by means of the surplus revenuvs, could not agree with Flapg in bis distinctive canal poH:y. He re- tired from the Comptroller's office, finding that ne sym- pathy of views existed between him and ths cbief finan- ¢fal officer ot the State. He was compelled to res irt elre- where for asristance, and applied to Mr. Croswell, of the Argus, in whom he found » friend capable of senting him thut aid, so greatly cesired, in being inducted into the guberpatcriai chair. Mr. Croswell wrote, or certainly tupervised, the first message Governor Houck delivered to the Legislatare. The Stu e officers then were Semuel Young, Secretary; Azsriah C. Flogg, Comptrolier ; George P. Barkes, Attorney Genera; and Thowas Farringtrn, Treasu- rer. The previous session of the Legislature con- tained such choice, restless and revenge'ul spirits as Robert Denniston, of Orange; Henry W. Strong, relent; John B. Scott, of New York, in ¢ Michael Hoffman and Arphaxed Loomis, of Her- Levi 3. Chatfield, of Otsego; John A. Dix, of Al- bavy; John L. O'Sullivan, Conras Swackbamer, of New York! Sanford E. Church, 0: Orleans; George It, Davis, of Rensselear, nd so on. in the Hous They had lain cown the “poiscy of ’42,” as it was called, and were de- termined to carry it out, nolensvolens. Then the Adar was brought into requisition. Jawes M. Freuch, being roprietor, wih ample means at his command, gave ue life and impulse to the concern. All the state officers above named. together with their paruienlar friends in and out of the Legisiature, threw the weight of thetr in- fluence towards mehisg abe Arlas the succesful rival to the Argus, The patronege of Fisgg’s department, the C.mptrolier proper, the vanking and the canal, in job printing and savertising, was immense. This was 6x- olusivery givea to the Atias, as weilas all that could be soraped trom the other public offices, The administra- tion became literaliy ¢fvides, even uuto personal houti- lity. On the one side stood Governor Bouck, Lieutenant Governor Dickinson, nearly all the Canal Com- misrionert, with Fawin ‘Cromwell, of the Argus ; on thegther, were the State cffisera, the Speaker of the House,'and other enemies of the canals, with the Aflas, At tous time the columns of that print teemed with bitter effusions from the abte pens of Colonel Young, General Barker, Mr. Acfiman, Mr. Flagg, and othera of inferior range and calibre. Sr. ‘Hoffman’ commenced a serias of arvieles udvoenting the expediency and necessity of a new constitution. ‘The Atias was the jeading organ in placing that able-writer’s views before the people. The whigs had bankrupted the State by running the eonsti- tution into theaground, and the only effective means to prevent further disasyers in the futnre was to incorpo- rate “the poltsy ‘of 42” into the State constitution. Although the whigs and leading huokers did not openly or viclently we the calling of a constitutional eon- vention, stil!, they were lukewarm, ard the result showed that there was in the State-@ ‘vote ot nearly thirty-four thourand agkinst calling it. The act authorizing the paved in the early part of the session upon ratifying the ne constitution about hourand votes went agninat it, nearly three times the number oppored to the call. This result gave the Allas grettter prominenee, had labored with wal and t, a the ‘two years of his office, to overwhelm and destroy him in the ¢cemucratic ry. They had no in their immediate ranks of sufficient popularity nomination nat him. Silas age. to. He declined peremptori- Yith his postiin, A delegation fess Albany waited upon 2. y waited upon him perscnally at Washington, but he remaiued firm and immoveable. Then the conspirators visited Mr. Van Bu- ren, at Kinderbo.k, and‘urged him to use his influence with Mr. W: upon his return from the natione) capi- tal. This ired effect, anc Mr. Wright obtained ane Bouek’s one in the ting con- vention. In the meantime the term of office of State printer ex- ed, apd the tame had arrived when the barnburners return already made in sustaining the beltigerent Cro va. had evjoyed cere patronage printer di many years continuousy, time Weed it, and would have been itical op; it. But he hich the bara ears ok ci ‘was ambitious to beeome State print not allow his name to be used in copartnership with Creswe)l’s; but with pape to State printer he was de- termined to be, as be atthe time, ‘aus Gasar, aut nullus.”” Croswell conquered, kicked Van Dyek out of the Argus office, leaving Jemes M. Freoch and William Cassidy simply the ostensible publisters of the Atlas. Here was an unexpected discomfiture. The whole bined torce of the barnburners hed outgeneralied by sing’e man. They were placed in u most unex, ¢temms. For months and years they the fond hope thet the proprietor of the om created ‘in anticipation of the State orinter- ship, and those payments must be met or the concern would sink, Silas Wright was then Governor; Fiagg, Comptroller; John Van Buren, Attorney General; Far- ripgton, Treasurer. The paper was on the point of being abandoned. For weeks it lived from hand to mouth. and omcontributiens collected for its indis) le Saturday night payments. Finally, a consultation was al several cc n'erences and iaterviews the amount of its indebtecness for which Mr. lrench was liable, was near- ly accertsined. The largest oreditors were advised of the state of things, a majority of whom agreed to settle for fitty per cent. A stock concern was then proposed, and Mr. Flagg, Dr Crain of Herkimer, Dr. Beekman of Kin- deshook (who had the barnburners promise of Governor), John A, unx of New York, James S. Wadsworth of Liv- ingsten, Dean Richmond of Buffalo, and a few others, were solicited to ceporit certain asressed amounts. John Van Buren, though brother-in-law of French, did not rubscribe a dollar. Thi« arrangement being perfested the afcressid fifty per cent paid, Mr. French with- drew penniless and cirheartened. Mr. Van Dyck, » elexk in Mr. Flagg’s office, was then transferred to the Alias in 1846. About this period the Wilmot Proviso was thrust into the lower house ot Congress, as ® means and for the pur- pee of cistractirg the national democracy. In October, 1847, a democratic State Convention was held at Syra- cuse, cailed for the object of nominating candidates for Comptroller and other State officers. The huukers ano barnburners had then become visibly divided oa the Pro vito question. Neither faction could confidently rely upon a mejority in that body. There were # dozen eou- tested veats, ard it became evident, a: an carly siage, that the section which could control and admit the con tending delegates would have the convention, Four days’ time was consumed in settlirg the reveral claims The first question taken showed a hunker majority, though the vote wars clore one. Jobn Van Buren wa: ousted, claiming to represent one of the Albany districts Two or three of the barnburners were voied in, and al! the rest rejected. Amongst the leaciog hunkers Jamex T. Brady and Horatio Seymour bore the most cunspicuon- Nota single tarnborner would consent to serve in officer of the convention atter Robert H Morris, cf New York, was made President. A thorougn burker ticket was nominated, upon which was place: Oryille Hungerford tor Comptrolier. The ticket /hrough- out wés & very wesk one, as the recult of the election abundantly proved. \ David Dudley Field did not desert the convention, a- seores of ovher free roilers did. but remained @ silen member, for the purpose et distraction, until near th« close of the business; he then arove and submicied the following resolution:— Resolved, That while the democracy of New York, repre- sented in this convention, wiil talthfuily adbere to a 1 the oom: Promises of the constitution and maintata all tee reserved Fights of the Statca, they declare the crisis has arrived when the question must be met— promising hostiit ty to the extension of slavery into territory now free. which may hereafter be sequired by any action of the Uni'ed Btates. The hurkers having the majority. promptly laid the jissile on the tal it was introauced for miscnievou~ purpores, and it produced tue intended effect, which was a rupture in the conventicn. aud a scat'ering of the de mocratic hosts. This was food for the ‘las. Van Dyer, returning from the convention, placed Fielés’ abolition resolution over the editorial columps, ax the corner stone of the barmburner {sith, accompanied with the expres- tion, impious as it war—The stone which the builders rejected the same shall become the head of the corver.’’ Thir gave new vigor to that sheet. it became at once the leading abolition print in the North. The Baffalo plas form abd the placing Martin Van Buren in nomination to efiect the deient of General Cass in 1848, gave ihr Atlas stil greater prominence, as it outstripped all other publications in advocating the ni - ism of that platform, and in the support of Van Buren. Its columns teemed with venemous, malignant and excoriating articles from the abNst abolition pens in the State. Amorg those contributors, it may not be amiss to mention a few of them, such as Gerrit Smith, Preston King, Benjamin Welch. Charles S. Benton, Chas. B. Sedgwiek. Dudley Burwell, Wm. Jay, Erastus D. Cul- ver, James W. Nye, William Barstow and Henry B. Stan- ton. Subscriptions rolled in abundantly. The colamns apd dimension: ye paper wi enia . triou- tions towards support of the Atlas came io abolition terrents, The paper was free scil, aud nothing else. It fupperted for office such men as Charles Francis Adams ana Seth M. Gates. It continued to prosper _duriog the contest of 1848, and claimed the support of the aboli tioniste, free scilers and barnburners, without associe- tirg at all with the democracy, down to 1852, keeping floating at ita flogsteff the celesrated anti-slavery ‘cor. ver atone,” wit Cassidy as editor. By that time, however, the leading abshticnists found, to their sorrow, that they had taken s snake to their bosom. ‘They became ecnvinced that all the love the Ailas ever had for alave emarcipation was to keep up an excitement against General Cars as long as he was promiacntly a Presidential candidate, no longer. After the pnemipations in 186% of Seymour for Governor, and Pierce for President, the Atlas threw aside, apparently, its abolition niggerim. The celebratec “corner ‘stone” wes silently. secretly and stealthily lowered down from ita editorial head, without giving the readers a why or wherefore. No change cf editor or pro- prietor; no repentance for its traitorous course, during ‘the previous four years partictlarly; no spology for its abuse of every prominent national democrat in the conn: try, located either North or South; no reasons given for its silence on the rlavery question, nor any for support ing a profeseed national candidate for the Presidency— rections ot the party wondered at the cause, and why the ecorpion’s teeth hac noiselersly been plucked from the editoriais of the Atlas, It was the most extraordi- nary sciomerrault ever thrown by poii.ictazs, either in the good old Puriten days or in these degenerate latter times. Her print, dyed in the wool of abolitionsm, nurtured pported ‘by free soil sectionalists, nursed by all the Gerrit Smiths and Fre4. Dougiasses in the State, which suddenly shut cown its floodgates of souse, and cpenly exhibited pretensions of harmony aud union with the democratic party. Notwithstanding the A/las contributed more thon all other papers and purties com bined to distract and destroy the democracy of sew York, and keep it in a minority year after year, it cawe out with unparalleled impudence and supported the natienal nominees in 1852, How true the words of tou poet:— ‘Men change with fortune, manners change with climes; ‘Tenets with books, and principles with times. In Jess than three months af.er the election of Pierce, the most ample and abuodant facts became transparent why the abolition artillery of {he Atlas hed been mud denly spied, and why there were no more echoes re- bounding from Mason and Dixon’s barrier. It then be- came evident that Pierce had formed a jeague with the New York free soil barnburners. Dix was to go in the Cabinet, and other prominent free soilers receive iu- crative appointments both at home and abrond. The patronage of the departments was to be given to the Atlas, amd it was to take promi- nent and leading ground, and be considered the acministration organ in ‘the entire North. This war the consideration proffered, and it was eagerly grarped at. For a year anda halt this Albany Hercules fook upon itself the responsibility of upholding and defending Pierce, Marcy and the administration. The bards and hunker, who abandoned Pierce as soon ar they disecvered ‘that he disiegaried them, were mort orate realy ridiculed by the organ. Dickinson. Bronson, Schell and every other prominent national democrat, were thrust with poisoned daggers t> the hilt. Because they abanconed Pierce and stood erect upon truly vational principles, the nards, through the main instrumentality of Pi Albany missile, were uncere: moniovely thrust from e*ery petty post office and custom houre in the State. The cases ot Bronson, of New York, and Reynolés, ot Albany, ‘are standing specimens of ad- ministration harmony, brought about by means of the democratic Aflas. From the 4th of March, 1858, until after the election in this State im November, 1858, that print was ringing daily pwaas in honor of Pleree & Co.; but up to that time not sufficient patronage had been received from the general government to pay tor gas light. The proprietor and the editor then took Rae pent grounds, One day the columns of the Adas teemed with vindictiveness sgainst Pierce, Marcy and the entire na- tional acministration; these articies were written by Van Dyck, The subsequent issue contained ext: inary Jauda'ions and high praises of the same public functiona- ries. The public was highly delighte@ with this singular barmony, and every one saw in iv a certain demine of the pre. ‘Cassidy was the main editor through all tue ainburner, abolition, free soil and piggeriam of the Allas. His’ vindietiveness was proverbial through the entire State. Hie bitter abure, both personal and poiiti- cal, of every leading national democrat, from Daniel 8. Dickinron, Greene C, Bronson, Edwin Croswell, dowa to the mere ward sod town politicians, was a matter of notoriety. His obstinacy in numerous ‘instances in pre- venting unicn "pon cancidater, is well known; particu- ly when everybody else—in 1864—was ready to harmo: nize on a Congressional candidate in the Albany district, he threatened vengesure Mer hme 4 his par- ticular candidate should be witharawn. Mr. Van Dyck, who'held the title and Property, offered the ecneern for ‘The real owners of the Argus, now the softest shell, urchaee, Tne twema arked were 109 extravegent. Various wei held, without any final results, although these negotia- - be a leet Py MA wi obtained—being jand «party of g sotte authorized Cassidy to make the purchase. ie . A pcrtion of the amount was subscribed by the leadersin this Stave, and the belepce was sent from Ww on, And 10 the famous Albany Atias. nctorious for ite disruptt n, Oiseomfiture an¢ destruction of the democracy of New York; roterious for its virulence and scorpicn al of mary of the most distinguished democratic stateamen of the State and hosp Botorious for its absorption of texs of thousands of coll coatriba'ed by ambitious apd revengeful demag gues; notorigus for its abolition- irm, barpbuyneri+m, ‘reesolliem, ec! soft sbell- mie now engulphed, absorbed, and all its vitality de- e Previous, however, tothe final consummation of the ot tas, an egreement was entered into with the stockboicers of the Argus, thet the subscribers and advertisements of the former shou! | be transferred to the latter, ond that Cassidy should be sesociated with Com- Fariecleas apd babeid you Bavo'ene poper called the fected; ant you have one called the y dere and Atlas! 'Si ¢a le monde. The Martyrs’ Burial. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. I propose to give your readers a brief narrative of the circumstances attending the burial of the prison- ship dead in 1808 :— Our guilty and unnatural mother across the sea had done her worst—yes, the worst of all—in her calendar of crime. She had hurled the thunderbolt of war upon s weak and humble people; she hired foreign cut-throats to desolate the homes of her children, and for years her cathedral organs had celebrated the triumphs of her tyranny. Every cruelty which wickedness could suggest, and every meanness which debasement could invent had been practised; she had gorged herself with blood and spoil, and was besmeared with treachery, dishonor and shame, until the invincible lion seemed nothing better than a buzzard reeking with filth. But while she was doing her worst, our sires had been doing their best—as patriots, freemen and Christians, ‘They rose superior to trials, danger and defeat; con- tending for a mighty principle, it nerved them to giant deeds—matchless in heroism, sublime in self sacrifices. England contemplated her plamed gene. rals and lines of veterans as they marshalled through the land, and with unholy vanity trusted in herself; but the Colonies viewed their little band of leaders and feeble army as they fled often like the hunted deer from the hound, feeling that their only trust muet be in God. For seven long years the English butcher rioted in our bleeding country, and yet, onthe 25th of November, 1783, the shattered remains of their splendid armies embarked at the Battery, crestfallen and defeated. The boasting Philistines had found the avenging Sampson; the bullying Goliah had met the omnipotent David—it would not do. There was something in the American sword which the Euro- pean adventurers could not blunt, and they were going home, smarting from its keen edge. The sun .arose upon the preparations for embarking on Eva- «quation morning, and before its last rays gilded the «westein horizon New York had seen ita last of the scurvy crowd. In time the almost exhausted confederacy merged into the model republic, and she soon marked out that lofty path of progress, which the wisest de- clare isionly bearing her forward to a destiny still moreexalted. The bones of ‘the martyrs, who had endured such horrid sufferings in the British prison ships, laid con- tentedly in the soil, until excavations for the Navy Yard rendered their removal imperative. It will be remembered that these men were sailors, captured by the English cruisers, and tar hed New York, where they were confined in loathsome hulks, an- chored in Wallabout bay. Thousands died from starvation and disease; theshore, for a great length, being filled with their graves. On the 10th of February, 1803, a memorial was preeented to Congress, by the Hon. Samuel L. Mitch- ell, of New York, petitioning that body to collect the bones under a monument, and was signed by Geo. J. Warren, Wm. Mooney, Nathan Sanford, Wm. Boyd, John Jackson and Edward Roberts, Committee of Tammany Society. It failed. In 1807, a new committee was appointed, consisting of Jacob Van- dervoort, John Jackson, Iraachan Cozzens, Burdet Stryker, Robert Townsend, Jr., Benjamin Watson and Samuel Cowdrey, who reported, Feb. 1, 1808, in favor of their removal immediately, issuing circu- lar letters to all important societies, asking their con- currence and aid. These were very tavorably an- swered from every quarter, and the Common Council of New York appointed Aldermen King, Miller and Bloodgood a committee to act with the Tammany Society. The vault was, consequently, commenced near the Navy Yard, and the corner stone laid on Wednestiay, April 13,1808. A procession formed at the ferry in Brooklyn, and marched up Main street, brough Sands, Bridge, York and Jackson streets, to the tomb, under the direction of Major Aycrigg, Grand Marshal of the day. The corner stone was drawn on a truck, and bore the following inscrip- tion:— In the name of the spirits of the departed free, ered to the memory o' portion ot American seamen, soldiers and citizens who pecaiies on board the prison sbips of the British, at the Wallabout, during the Revo- lution. This s the corner stone of the vault, erected by the Tammany Soctety, ot Columbian Order, whieh contains their remains. Tne grouni for which was bestowed by JIchn Jackscn, Island, season of blossoms, year o dieecvery the 316th, of the {nstitution the 19ch, and of Ameicen Independence the 324, April 6, 1808. Then followed the names of the committee and builders. The ceremony was performed by Benj. Romatne, Grand Sachem of Tammany Society, and then an oration delivered by Joseph D. Fay. Speaking of the Martyrs, he said:—“ They preferred a terrible death to a dereliction of principle, and their names are not known to Americars. They suffered when no eye could admire and no voice praise, yet their relics have not had the rights of sepulture.” The tomb was hastened to completion, and May 25 appointed for the burial, but in consequence of a storm, it was postponed until the next day. Day- light was announced by the firing of from various pom flags were hoisted at half-mast on all public buildings, vessels and military At 10 o'clock the military aseembled, under command of Generals Morton and Steddiford, and the civic societies under direction of Garret Sickels, Grand Marshal of the day. The procession moved from the Park down Broadway, through Wall, Pearl and Cherry streets, to the new market (now Catherine), in the following order:— First, a trumpeter, mounted, dressed in black, wearing a helmet ornamented with flowing black and red feathers; in his right hand was a trampet, having a black flag attached to it, bearing the mot- to, in gold letters, “Mortals, avaunt; 11,500 spirits of the martyred brave, approach the tomb of honor, of glory, of virtuous patriotism.” Second, Colonel Van Zandt, Chief Herald, in fall military dress, mounted on a white horse, richly caparisoned, bear- ing the staff and cap of liberty, to which was sus- pended a blue silk shield, edged with crape, the field showing thirteen stars. Three, Major Aycrigg asa citizen, and Captain Coffin as a naval character, acting as aids to the Chief Herald, in plain black drestes, and carrying the American Fourth, escort of horse, Major Warner, commander. Fifth, detachment of artillery, Captain Buckmaster. Sixth, Brigadier General Morton and aids, com- manding first grand division of military. Seventh, Brigadier General Steddiford, commanding second division, among which was Ue deny McClure’s corps of Republican Greens, with their band, which per- formed, the “Grand Wallabeut Dead March,” com- osed by Captain James Hewett. Eighth, band. Ninth, intended for the Cincinnati, but they were distributed in other’ parts of the procession. Tenth, Grand Marshal, dressed with feathers and sash, carrying a truncheon in his hand, supported b; four aids, holding white silk banners. Eleventh, clergy. Twelfth, Wallabout Committee, buck tails in their hate and a paces of mein on the left arm. Thirteenth, the Tammany Soc ety and thir- teen coffins, in the succeeding order:—First, cap of liberty, shrouded in crape; second, the great st..1.d- ard of the society, supported by the Sagamore and his two Masters of Ceremonies; third, the Grand Sachem, wearing the badge of office, which con- sisted of a silver chain of thirteen links, with a gold medal attached, on which is seen the flame of liberty, with the motto, “Preserve by concord.” On the right of the Sachem was the Treasurer, carrying wampum, and on the left the Secretary, bearing the journal of the society; fourth, the orator, in a black suit; fifth, Father of the Council, smoking the calumet—on his right the Scribe, carrying the constitution, on the lett the Counsellor, with the book of laws; sixth, the Sachem of the New York tribe; seventh, the stan- dard bearer, with a banner dressed in mourning; eighth, the tribe Hunter; ninth, the body of the tribe, in two lines, fourteen feet apart, the first cof- fin occupying the centre, borne on men’s shoulders, and covered with the identical flag which was hoist- ed at the Battery on the 25th of November, 1743; tenth, one hundred and four Revolutionary characters (eight for each coffin) as pall bearers, whom the Hon. Samuel Osgood and Hon. Henry Rutgers took the right and left of the first coffin. They all wore white scarf, relieved with crape. The Alank, or Clerk, brought up the rear of the first tribe. The other twelve tribes then followed, each attending a coffin, and marching in like order. Fourteenth, music; fifteenth, grand national pedestal, consisting of a square stage, on a truck, surmounted b; a railing. Below this drooped a deep festoon, whic covered the wheels. The B gm was in imitation of black marble, and was eight feet long, eight high, amd four wide. On its four panels were inscribed various 8, thus :—" Americans, remember the British,” “ Youth of my country, martyrdom p fer to slavery,” “ Sires of Columbia, transmit to p terity the -cruelties practised on board the Briti prison ships,” “Tyrants, dread the gathering while freemen freemen’s obsequies perform. A blue silk fiag, eighteen feet by twelve, floa! at the of the pedestal, the being eight feet high, and surmounte & globe, on wh rested an eagle enveloped in a ‘of crape. The Genius of America stood upon the summ of the pedestal, and was represented by Josiah F coner, a member of Tammany, and son of a Revo tionary patriot. He wore a hoose under dress light blue «ilk, reaching to his knees, over which along flowing white robe, relieved by a crimsd scart and eape, sandals on his feet, and on his sg cap adorned with fe On the. a near the pedestal. stood nine tf » holding pegy the Dedaees Sonam foots wa, h — serra ie Ese Honor, Virtue, P nce, Fortitude, Merit, Courage, Perse re u Science, all attributes of the Genius i Americ Each wore a scarlet badge, with a blue silk frin on which the name of the ¢! was embroide} ed in gold, and each bore an emblematic ‘banner bs oa The whole was drawn by four horses, charge Sixteenth, 300 sailors, casrying the American fi iy Bie betes bees 7 ies: ee on - Eighteenth, Corporat lew m Wit linton, Mayor; Nineteenth, his Excellency Dan’ D. Thompkins, G ohn Broom, Lleutensd of g Persons of ‘distinction folfowing, posed. q societies and military. ing alee Sas Reaching the of thirteen bo were d for'thocoftins teloe ind wet bearet ‘he d Sachem, Father of the Coungil, Chi¢ Herald, Aids and trumpecr'leading the-van. Th car was embarked in a boat coi ted for th Purpore. Minute guns were fired from both ti ew York and .Brooklyn shores. The processio formed again at the ferry, and was joined by man ladies. ceeding to the vault, the cof wet placed upon 6 #form, the Genius of America: o he right, Tammany Society in front, and the mil tary coeapying a neighboring hill. After prayer b the Rev. Ralph Willoteon, Dr. Benj. De Witt deliver ed the oration. It was an impressive effort, and scpuiice fu: tie hecna: eee oi mes,. the asl “Bat when these august funeral solemnities are ended shall they be covered with the sod and. re membered no more forever? Shall not their name and their virtues be told to posterity 7” “Shall the rich man, who dies in luxury and dor, amidst the comforts of the world’ an friends of his bosom, have his name engraved: on costly tomb, and shall no monumental marble tell the untimely death of the poor patriotic tenants of a prison, who, rather than feast on the spoils o their country, sunk under the vengeance of a vin dictive foe? Again: ‘Before the lapse of man; years, this vast assemblage of the living shall all ba numbered with the dead. Are ye willing that you bodies, like these bodies, shall be scattered. on’ thd highway, and your flesh devoured by the dog? No Humanity revolts at the thought. Go, then, and da unto the dead as ye wish the living to do unto you when ye pay the last debt of nature.” Alter the ceremonies, the cortege returned to thd Park, and was there dismissed. The pledge of that day has never been redeemed The bones moulder where the tribes of Tamman: laidthem almost forty-eight years ago,and there they will remain until the general Resurrection, iff no more interest is manifested in them intime ta come than there has been in time gone by. It shameful that this is so; Dlaerana tiie the proud cities whoze shadows now rest on the scene of their] martyrdom, and despicable in a nation so prospe rous and free. If we busied ourselves in gathering! the bones of our patriota, and studied a little morg the history of their devotion to Colombia, the Kan. fas emigrant gould find more use for the woodman’ axe than the murdering rifle. Could a few of th scheming traito e and “little villains,” wha would rather rule @hid the ruins of their countr: than serve her jnstly—touch the sacred earth whiciy] covers the ashes of her Martyrs, the hand would wither which is lifted against her liberties. Band of political scoundrels pillage the public treasury the “cause of lom”” ts dur legislative councils; ‘border ruffians” and Yankee abolitionista pl their exciting part in the drama .of the days! and the grave of our forefathers is forgotten. Traitors used to meet by stealth in caverns, dark lanes and mysterious tenements; they met at midnight; they talked in whispers, and they seale their covenants in blood. But now they harangu in the streets, on the hilltops, and mutter throug the press; they assemble at noonday; they té loudly, and even dip their fingers in their brothe! Be . An eed Rees way pe ini Li sd heabal ro lew England is meddlin; with affairs which, she will learn too late, it is h policy to leave alone; while the South is obii to rally in the defence of interests which are vital te her existence. Thus the farseeing patriot discove: much to apprehend; ¢louds are collecting as dark the wretched race who cause them, and it will re quire both patriotism and moderation to avert the impending storm. Atsucha time, I suggest that it might not be without its good resulte for those who feel concerned for the relics of our sires, ag well as for the fature of this Union, to take them from their neglected tomb, to bear them before the gazing multitude and lay them in some chosen spo where we may renew our vows of fidelity to the peat les for which they boldly suffered and so ravely died. |. ALEXANDER Parren. Broox yn, Feb., 1856. The Turf. NEW YORK. TROTTING ON THE IcE.—OSWEGATCHIE TROTTING CLUB.— OGpExseuRG, Feb. 11.—Purse $25—$5 to the second best. For all three year old trotting horses owned in St. Law| renee county, Mile heats, in harness. J, J. Macison, ch. m. Jer 212 Norman Dayton, $214 1, T. Warner, gr. 1.83 3 Time not 2 in consequence of storm. Fen. 12.—Purse, $50-$10 to the second best. For alll four year old trotting horses owned in St, Lawrence! See aria a oh Lang Retefeld 11 Ten , bd. M. 5 seseee Wo. H. Talman, br. g. Billy Barlow, 2 6. N. £., Woolley, ch. m. Kate Hayes, Time, $:05—2:67. Fr. 13.—Purse, £50—$10 to the second best, For all trotting horses that never contended for puree, mateh of sweepstake. Mile heats, best three in five, in harness. Jesse Smith, ch. p. Moscow, $1 Peter Segarce, br. h. Young 2 iat. C. P. Gocdno, gr m. Flying Maria, 1 dist Time, 2:57—! Sane Day.—Purse, $60—$10 to second best. For sll pacing horses owned in St. Lawrence county. Mile heats, mn barness. N. P. Woolley, eh. m, Lady Washington . 1 HH Stewart, b. b. Bay Billy.........66 Time, 3:00. County Purse.—$150—! to the second best. For all trotting horses owned im St. Lawrence county. Mile heats, best three in five in harnesi Chas.'T. Baldwin, b. g. Eutaw... I. T. Warner, ch. m-Lady Peck. Orren Partridge, b. w. Lady Fairfiel Time, 2:44—2:58—2:565—2:46—2:51—2:46. Sanr Day.—Landlora’s Purse, $40—$10 to the second best. For all trotting and ing horses owned in the 3 | jet ae wine in barnes. colley, ch.m. Lady Washington (pacer)... 1 2 Z Goodno, b. g. Sir Waltar citenan} ” $3 ¢ '. Tallman, b. g. Botfield (trotter. 8 dist. ‘Time, 2:56—2:66—3: Fen. 15.—Puree, $600—$100 to the second best. For all trottizg horses. Mile heats, best three in five, in harness. Wm. Riley, br. m. Tib Hinman J.T, Warner. ch. m. Lady Peel W. H. Saunders, b. m, Lady Moses ‘ime, Mos Law 1s Inniois—A Man HaAnaep—A criminal under sentence of death was taken from prison and hapged by ® mob, om the 16th instant, at Charies-| town, Coles county, Ilinois. He was sentenced to suffer the penalty of dea h for the alleged murder of hls father in-law, some time ago. At the trial, the prisonér’s sel failed in obtaining a change of venue or new trial the man was accordingly condemned to be hanged Friday, the 16th imtant. Meanwhile, at the solicitatio ot his ccunsel, the Governor granted a reprieve of nin dayr, in order that certain clreumstances connected with the murcer might be more carefully a. 0 Friday. @ Jarge crowd from the surrounding dletricts coll lected to witness the execution. When informéd that ‘emporary reprieve bad been | ies ge some violent m them to break open the smong them advised prison an Yang the criminal, Unfortunately this advice was unop- yored, and acted on. There was s guard of twelve armed men around the prison. The mob drove them off, ben attempted to gain admittance at the gate, but the wife of the jailor locked the door and prevented theas from entering. ‘They proceeded to wrench out the vars on the prisoner’s cell, and soon made an open: —. enough for one men to enter. They pushed one of number into the cell. ‘The prisoner ing, but two men were soon admitted and arrested him. ‘He was taken out. The mob took him half a mile out te but only two men were found wil to act havgmes, Bore ae were finally induced to asst anc the prisoner was bonged on the branch of ‘The thers found it impossible to raise a ‘s epough to rescue the prisoner. Several o rioters have den arrested. Great excitement pi Charlestown, we bim @ thresh- HH: toe & Txon Works Burnep IN PaNnsyLvaNtd.—OR Sunday morning lat, at about three o'clock, # fire tok pisce at the Cambria Tron Works, which destroyed the large casiicg house and furnaces, Nos. 1 and 2, of the range of new furnaces erected by the company. before it | was arrested. The engine house and the were also much ivjured The fire took plaog fa cones” quence of the “bridge” at furnace No. 1 giviog way, when the metal in its lquid state rushed ont, thereby causing a‘ boil.” The great accumulation of snow vented the destruction of the other two furnaces. ‘ tht was most brilliant, the snow on the surround! $40, ny expect to have irr made in about twe weeks.—= Jeanetoun, Pa, ‘Echo, eb eee