The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1856, Page 1

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The action of the State Convention which assembled at @ on the 10th of January, for the appointment of tea to the Nationa: Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, was of such # character as, in our judgment, tocall for animadversionon the part of those who dissent from its conclusions; and we avail ourselves of this method of submitting to the public our views of the exigency which has thus besa evoked. A candid expression ot opinion, and an earnest adhe- rence to principles deliberately adopted, have ever formed prominent characteristics of the r ‘Gemocra- cy ot New York. With that party it has been our pride and pleasure hitherto to be identified in political action; and we have looked with satisfaction per ed HS has policy a to which tt" has given tality and ultimate success. The direst and rigid responsibility of executive agents; een A the pubiie expenditures, ‘‘that iabor may be htly burtbened ;” the abolition of exciusive privilege: to individuals and tions; the reatriction of execu- tive patronage; and, as far as practicable, the app ication of democra'ic ‘principles in the administration of pudlic affairs; these bave been the leading objects to which the radical democracy of this State have devoted their efforts, ed, in most cases, from the admixture of materials verse to the genius and spirit of party to which we have alluded; from the machinations or weakness of men p! fessing ‘to accord in sentiment with their less brethren; but who, when the hour of trial arrived, p serred an acquiescence in the policy of politioal opponent to the labors and sacrifices incident toa rigid mainte- nance of sound policy, and the ultimate triumph of cor- rect principle. The annexation of Texas, and the consequent war with Mexico, having resulted in the acquisition of a largs ad- dition of territory, the character to be affixed to it be- came # subject of early aud arxious consideration. Was it strange that party which had adopted Jefferson as its great exemplar—which had appropriated his doctrine of etrict constitutional construction, his hostility to public debt, his abhorrence of civil and religious tyranny, his love of democratic equality and justice—as their own, should also have inberited his views of the propriety and. duty of extending to the territory acquire] the free in- stitutions under which they #0 greatly prospered? Was it surprising, in the midet of the advancement in self-goverrment to which they had attained, that they should have urgently desired that a country of so wide extent should remain free to the industrious iabor of the citizens of our own State and of the emigrant secking a home on our shores? By no means. And hence there Brose from crowded mart and country village, from con- vention and conventicle, from foram and legislative hall, ®@ general expression of hostility to the re-establish- ment of involuntary servitude in the territory from which it had teen already banished by the deliberate a2- tion of a semi-barbarous people. But then, as now, was in the State a class of men worshipping at the shrine of officiat patronage, who, for selfish ends, obstruct the pregress of a public sentiment they could not stem, and dare not directly oppone. By the aid of adventitious circumstances, men of this character suc- ceeded in obtaining a trifliug majority in a democratic State convention, and, shielding theselves behtnd the subterfuge that, however proper the principle in the ab- stract, the time for ita application had not yet arrived, they refused to give expression to tne preva'ent the demoeracy of State. A separation ensued; each section chose its delegates to ths National Conven- tion. For reasons which aave not cessed to operate at the preeent day, the repreventutiverin that refased to give admission to the regular delegates chosen by the radi- cal democracy of New York, except ‘upon terms deemed by the Jatter as upvjust and degrading. They spurned the conditions, and returned to their constituenta with honor unsuilied ni spiri:s unbroken. It is not nesesaary to advert to the contest which ensued in defence of princi- ples, deemed sacred as those for which our fathers bled. ugh that the result taught their brethren of other States the dangerous tendency of atiempting to trampie on men. ‘Who know theirrights, and knowiog.dare maintain. ‘The aplication of the prohibitory clanse in the bill or- wavizing the Territory of Oregon, and to that part of Texas lying north of 36 deg. 30 min.; the admiasion of California as » free Stave; and the acknowle¢ged force and —— of the local law against involuntary servitude in New Mexico and Utah whilst in « territorial condition, served in * measu-e to quiet the apprehensions of the tree States, and prepared the public miad for an acquisscence in the compromise measures of 1860. Long and vio- lently agitated ty the community had been, it readily sank into répose of the assurance thus held out that the vexed question was firmly settled by consurrent events ogeiuet slavery ex ension. The national conventions of oth political parties deliberately resolved agins: all far- ther disturbance of the subject, and pledged themselves to withstand all attempts at its renewal, ‘‘ in Congress or out of it,’’ on any pretext whatever. On this platform of abstinence from agitation the demo- cratic party elected its Presidential candidate. To the ac- compiishment of this result the individuals whose names are to subscribed cheerfully gave their votesand infla- ence;when they heard the President of their choise, before high Heaven and his assembled countrymen, declare his solemn determination to frown fodignantly on any end every attempt to revive agitation, they felt them- selves relieved responsibility of more than ordinary magnitude, by the assurance that, in no possi. ble contingency, could any aggressive measure escape the ordeal of the exesutive department of the govern- ment. Alas! for the mutability of human Purposes; scarce had the ink of the inaugural message become! ary be- fore there was. concocted a measure of aggression, more bold in its assumptions, more unblushing in its effron- tery, than men in power had ever dared to hope for, far Jess propose, And this scheme, unasked by any portion of the community, undemanced by avy public exigency, the deliberate violation of @ plighted faith held sar by all parties for more than a quarter of a century, the assured harbinger of a sectional strife more bitter and uorelentiog than any which had ever preceded it, re- esived the direct encouragement end official sanction of Fronktin Pierce, the sworn defender of the country against slavery agitation. Whether through weakness or wickedness, through + mbition or cowardice, through edt or bravado, this act of treason towards freedom and a Northern con- atituency waa beget pry we shall not endeavor to do- termine, Enough, that through its instramentality the floodgates of sectional s:rife have bein opened—suffi- cient, that by it the democracy of the fi tates have been everywhere overthrown—enough, that by it the Temple of Liberty {s threatened with destruction in the flame of anarchy and civil war. History has handed down to eternal infamy the names of men celebrated for deeds of folly or of crime; but if the scenes in process of enactment shail eventuate in fratricidal bloodshed on the plains of Kansas, there will be no more lof.y or enduring pullory, no name more execrated {n all coming time, than his who, with every conceivable motive for fidelity to the peer and prosperity of the country, yet chose to hazaid th, in clutching after continued prerogative and power. It 18 not our purpose to analyze the various and contradictory reasons by which Northern men have sought to palliate, it not to justity, this act of aggres- sion upon the rights of the free States. There is but one true reason t can be given, and that reason is in direct hostility to the settled convictions of a vast majority of the democrats of New York, as reiteraied through their conventions during the ‘last ten years. Its sole, its setf-evident purpose, was the exvension of slavery. That institution hed been exciuded from Ken- sas and Nebraska by a law enacted under circumstances which gave it the charaster of a solemn compast. By it Kansas was free, and must ever remain so. No further legislation was necessary. It required no ‘interfer. ence,” on the part of Congress, to accomplish this re- sult. Free by the action of a previous gensration—free by the acquiescence of all parties daring » quarter of a century—tiee by same power which secured that Dlersing to Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscons! and Iowa. Under « similar inv these States had all been organized without excitement, without violence, without any alleged breach of constitusiumal rights, entire concurrence of Southam repre-en: that we shoul€ tase through successive years the declarations plecgg wpon record by the democracy of New York, as to foe place occa. pied by them in ‘the controversy between siavery and freedom. The sentiment of opposition to the extea- sion of slavery is too wide spread and universal to be controverted. In this respect there has been litt'e, if any, want of coincidence between the sections into which the demecratic party has been divided. It they have differed, it has been ag to the time when the restrictive polisy should be applied, not as to the propriety of the principle itself. On the aside of the radical democracy the whole current of party declarations is in one direc- tion, Even the last nominating State Convention, held in September last, adopted this authoritative exposition of the sentiment of its constitueats:— Resolved, That while the democracy of this State will faitn {uly adhere to all the compromises of the conatitntion, and maintain all the reeerved rights of the Sales, they deem this &n appropriate occazion to declare their fixed ho:tility to tne extension of slavery into free territory. No man can with truth assert that this resolution falis to accord with the feelings entertained by the demo- cratic masses; nor will any person at all conversant with the popular sentiment, or the causes o tit thereupon, venture the allegation that, in the lapse o three short months from the adoption of the above re- solution, an entire change has come over the mind ef the democracy of dent op) abettors of its diffusion; and, their mame of the monstous’ fraud repealed the restriction against the entry of slavery into all that territory lying north of the Missouri oom- primire live, Yet such is the aspect presoated by the Convention held at Syracuse on the 10th of January last, {for the purpose of appointing delegates to the National onvention at Cin 1) Procesdiogs Ao extraordinaty in their character and positions, a4 in our jadgment to SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1856. seave democrats 20 allent aoqul- encende to allow themselves to be di from the high Pm sey they have fore oeou; or, by an act of tinct repudiation, to ay ves and cod Dariy hey to of, pie ees YY Anes ee “4 erroneous theory and r We venture to afin t no Conveation ever as- sembled in this state, professing to speak for the de- moeratic party, did so with less warrant of authori than that which assembled at Syracuse on the 10 of January, 1856. The fact is manifest not only in the tone and tenor of the proceedings, but in the ac tual circumstances under which the delegates were . Tt was, toan unparalleled ex'ent, a body with- out constituents; in part self constituted, in part ap- pointed by ‘men in buckram;” some represent! Jocalities ‘to which they were not attached, and others “ magnanimously withdrawing” as delegates from cities, only to appear as the representatives of some rura! istrict; whilst through the whole ran a chain of offistal reasization and expectancy, one end of which was heid at Washington, and the other by a supervisory agent ef the Post office Department, present at the ecene of action. Nor can it be disputed that the Convention accomplished, £0 far as tte action furnishes a criterion, the purpose for which it assembled. With a self ppreciation which the public will not be apt to mistake for modesty, it selected from {ts own members more han one- of the entire delegation to Cincin- rati, in the apparent conviction that they who had been moat conspicuous in misrepresenting the democratic fentiment of the State, must prove most accepteble to those who were expect to profit by the dereliction. But we em) that toe Convention apoke the sentiments of the democracy of New York, either im reepect to the approval of the Kansas-Nebraske Dill and its concomitant measures, or in regard to the “‘enun- ciation of sound opinion and the example ofg20d govern- ment and wise measures’’tby President Pierce. We deny, emphatically, that the Kansas-Nebraska bill ‘‘sccords with the sentirents of the democracy of this State, and with the traditional course of legislation by Congress,” or that this dispisttion of the question is likely Fult most auspiciously to the peace of the Union, or the cause of good government.” Wo deny emphstical “that the democracy of the State of New York deem this # fit oocasion to tender to their fellow citizens of the whole Union their heart‘elt congratulations on the tri- umph, in the recent elec'ions, in several of the North. erp, Eastern and Western, as well as Southern States, of the principles of the Kansas-Nebrasks bill,” for the rea- fon that co such triumph was ever attained; and the democracy of New York, when truly reprevent- ed, never utter an untruth, palpable upon the unblash. ing tace of the declaration. Bot it is of the procesd- ings of the Convention in relation to the subjest of slavery, and of the general tenor of tts action, thet we propose to speak. In so doing, it shall be with candor, and with no personal disrespect towarda ita members, In many of whom we recognize personal friends with whom it has hitherto been our pride und pleasure to act po- litically, Waatever, therefore, may be our sentiments towards them as individuals, since they have assumed to speak for the democracy of New York, of which we form & constituent portion, we shall exercise the privilege of freemen in canvassing their declarations, and in saylog how far we will, and how far we will not, be bound by their promulgated doctrines and acta. A No candid observer, at ali acquainted with the senti- ments and recorded action of the democracy of New York, can rise from a perusal of the proceedings of the last State Convention without a comviction that its doctrines are widely and irreconcileably at variance with those hereto- fore promu'gated by that party. Had the address issued by that Convention, devoted its attention to an elucidation i chad it entightened the community as ner, and the causes, which had ope) ted on the democratic sentiment to produce the incongrui- ty 50 bly obvioux—had it shown that the renewal of the slavery agitation was justly chargeable to the demo- cracy of New York—had it proved that t! peal of the Missouri! compromise was a beneficent measure, designed for the advancement of freodom—had it exemplified the @angerous tendency of agitation in favor of freedom, and the innocuous character of efforts tor the dissemination of slavery—had it discharged one or all of these impor- tant duties with ability, it would have added to the repu- tation of its author, besides Jaying the democracy under & weight of obligation they might have found it difficult to discharge. But to discourse flippantly of moral du- ties, snd attempt to emuggle slavery under the mantle of conseience—to epeak of it soothingly, as something too sacred to be canvassed, and too pure and harmless to te called in question—to represent it as a favorite insti- poe oc ofthe ey coernspel nes rey da re ee wedge about with epecial privileges gua it age the a sions of ihe” infant Freedom—to dilate upon free discussion as if it were the bane of our repub- licen institutions—and, finally, to drag into the arena ‘he memory of New York’s most venerated and best beloved dead, and torture his sayings from thelr true intent, with the view of administering an opiate to the consciences of bie fellow-citizens, for purposes waichy living, he woul have spurnec—these we cannot but regard as the devotion of conceded talents to an un- worthy end—a sacrifice upon an altar already smoking with the blood of many victims, bu! whose inexorable ¢emand spares neither the chief msgistrate in his rabinet, the judge upon the bench, nor the attorney in hiv cloeet. There are doubtiess those who may ioquire the reason or this perversian of the democratic sentimant of the State, Its object, as avowed on the spot, was to amooth the way for the ostensible representatives of the demo- cracy of New York, then and there apprinted, into the National Convention. It was in the seeming expectation that the doors of that assemblage would bs closed against men who, conscioua only of integrity of purpose, and professing the doctrines of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Van Buren, believe that freedom was the boon for whieh our fathers struggled, and that for its perpetua- tion and extension our system of government was formed. It ia because alavery requires that those who minister at its altars should cleanse themeelves from ali taint of free aoilism, that the purgation at Syracuse was under- gene. It ie, nevertheless, aue to trath to state that many ot shoe who participated in the convention disavow apy charge ot sentiment on the subject of slavery extension, and claim for its procesdings only the cbaracier of a ruse de politique, tor the accomplishment ot ulterior objests ‘This view ofthe subject is strengthened by the faot that, if the address wnd resolutions of the convention she- dowed forth the real views of its members, no necessity existed for the selection ot a conflicting delegation to Cincinnati. One bad already been chosen by & section of the party. not rcgolar in {ts successton, but of long standirg orthodoxy on this subject; and hence the con- tirmation of there deegates would have given an earnest of conversion to the doctrines of the‘ nationa! democra- cy” more potent than mere words. To our apprehen- sion, however, the whole proceeding involves a inccusistency and want of candor which we are unwilling to share even oy a silent parvicipancy, Nor is it gt Cincinvati alone that a degrading submission of opinion at the dictation of others ia re- quired. Who does not know that, however pure tae cbaxacter, however transcendunt the ability, however tatiafactory in other respects the political creed of an incivi¢ual may be, it “unsound on the rubjest of sla- very,” he might as well expect exemption from the inex- orable demands of death as promotion at the handa of the Preaidert and Senate of the United States, Have we not seen worthy citizens rejected. the strongest pledges vio- sated, and the rankest injustice exersised towards indi- ouals, tor no other reason than that at some period in their history the offending persons have refused to Wor- sbip at the shrine of this modern Moloch? Yet this is the institution, and these the men, whom the tndepen- dent democracy of New York are expecteito uphold. It is to bask in the favor of such dispensers of patronage hat mercenary politicians prostrate themselves at tue feet of power, and it is to conciliate the go2d will of those who hold the Pkg to the Cincinnati Convention that the democrats of State are expected to renounse their jormer | pocnag am and with humble mein to ask the pri- vilege ot being represented amongst the peers. For ourselves, we decline to be classed in such a category, oF make common cause with auch suppll- ants. e dissent from the actioa of those who assume to speak thus in our name; and stand, as we have always stocd, uncompromising opponents to the exten- ston of elavery into free territory. In so saying, we be- lieve that we but repeat the eonvictions and cetermina- tion of @ majority of the radical democrats of New York men who haye no affinity with abolitionists, and no desire of changing their party relatiors, but who, being democrats in principle a8 well as in name, will act aa bo- comes freemen intent on the vindication of their own selt respect, and who acknowledge no fealty more sacred than tbat they owe toGod and thelr country, It is au erroneous imputation, propogated from unwor- iby motivies, that the course of the democracy of New York, in resisting the extension of slavery, ia actua’ by amorbid philanthropy towards the African race. T: they regard it asm social, moral and political evil, at war with the fundamental principles cf elvil liberty, and deleterious to the true interests of the country. Bat it is because they know that wherever slavery is intro- dueed there labor is cegraded to a servile employment— that divides society into two classes, and aflixes the badge of servitude on a)] whose lot it is to toilethat free and forced labor will not ama'gamate on the sama soil and that hence slavery operates to she virtual exclusion of a white laboring popalation—it is for these and many other cogent reasona which might be adduced that we desize to keep the “peculiar institution’ within its present limits, and preserve the boundless and fertile prairies of the West as a field for free Jabor and a home for free men, whether our own immediate descendants or those of the emigrant fleeing from the opprevsions of the Old World. Jt is satiefaction to know that the efforts of demo- crate in this behalf are in perfect accordance with the bg td and practice of the illustrious exemplars of thelr faith. They are content to rest a justification of their course on the happy results which have flowed to the country from the beneficent operations of the ordi- panee of 1787, and the similar provirions which have since been incorporated and applied in territorial bills; whilst the names of Jefferson, Madison, and a host of honored followers, assure ua that the platform on which we stand is sufficiently broad, comprehensive and demo- cratis, without adding to It the nartira,eifish and cec- tional’ plank of Nobrarka-Kansasism. qny But ince the Convention of Janus: ywsJth saw fit to dreg in the name of our venerated. Wright, and to ad- duce bis warnings against the ee of abolition. ists in the internal affairs of the States na an arguinent ja favor of quietiy acquiescing in the efforts now making for the extension of slavery, we invite attention to & single declaration of that dist{ogufshed civilian, made in ect reference to the subject w@ are now considering. 2 letter to James H. Titus, Kéh., bearing date ‘Caa- , April 15, 1847,” Mr. Wrightfiaye:— If the question had been propou my public life, sball the arms conquer, or the meney of the Uni tory now eg oi ree slavery upen wo tite qnortion ia the Win led to me at any period of he Union be emploved to be used to rohaas tarrt PRICE TWO CENTS. I am surprised should cepab's of galeria any yoplaton, oF giviug any other answer 8s And it us to inquire, if such was the sen'!- mant of Silas Wright af to the introduction of lavo- enter our pro est. The con- tinued encroachments made by those assuming to speak Party, cannot be otherwise than alarming to all who have a for the true jes of democracy. The doctrine of Mr. Jefferson, of @ federation of States, depressive of national tendencies, is discarded, and a cen- tralization of and influence fted upon it, which cannot long exiat without pi all 5 sen- timent, and substituting that of a federal nationality. To build up and strengthen the States, as the only pot- fible check to consoligation, was the theory of Jefferson; was the theory of Hamilton. Conventions, struction of piaiforms, have silently chi ‘the ver prinst) upon whist the democratic party was found- ed, and have now converted it into a pure nationality, fgnoring the opinion and sentiments of the people the States, and dictating dogmas of belief at wat with the doctrine. of Stage Mverelauty. Even the it of representation is perverted, and delegates are chosen, not because they reflect the sentiment of their con- stituencies, but because they agree, or profess to agree, with the cpinions and interests of other States and sommonities. Conventions are no longer aliowed to give expression to the views of private citizen; but, controlled by the retainers of the general govern- ment, are mace to echo the dictates of the central ower, to which a paramount fea!ty is proclaimed. Not content with the enjoyment of their own le- gitimate rights, the advocstes of slavery exton- sion assume {o sit in judgment over ths con- sciences of their fellow citizens of the free States, to prescribe what they shall think and say, and what sball be the peoniee tenor of their opinions in order to entitle them to a participancy in public effairs, or even a standing in the party with which they mey have had a life long indentification. There was a time, within the memory of even youthful citizens, when freedom was considered as national, aod slavery ax local end rectional; but under the concessions of the present day, slavery has come to be rewarded as the corner atone of our repwolicaa edifice, and the «xtension of its domain as the shibboleth of a ‘national democrat.” The tea isnot remote when it was deemed strictly in accordance with democratic prin- ciple, that the people, the fountain and source of all polf- tical power, ehould prescribe the measures of govern. ment, and give direction to the conduct of those they placed in public station. But under the peculiarly demo- cratic ausptoes of the presont hour ani the existing ad- ministration, this wholesome principle fs reversed. It is no longer the people who rule, but who ruled. It 1s the President, who, under his own sign ma- nual, declares what measures shall be approved, to what standard of ethics the pomulas mind shall con- form, and upon what terms and conditions men shall be allowed to remain within the communion of ie bey It is the President who reads homilies to his North- ern Constituents on the immorality of aiding their less favored fellow-citizens to emigrate to the unoccupied Prairies of the West, and stigmatizes the founding of @ free State as ® crime against the peace of so- ciety; whilst with a characteristic consistency he levies, through his subordinates, a forced contribution upon the employés of the government, for the dg oe of infinenc- ing the election in his native State. The Jeffersonian test—“honesty, capability and fidelity to tho constitu- tion’? is mo longer regarded. ‘Does he approve of the measures of my admintesration? does he stand fairly and squarely on the Nebraska bill? is he without taint on the slavery question?”’—these are the tests of cbaraeter and concition upon which men are permitted to call them- selves democrats, and participate in the favors of the present administration. Nor does it stop here, Mem with no stain upon their personal or politica! charac‘ers, whore whole lives have been devoted to the advocacy of Cerocratic prinetples, are treated with contumely, and their counsela spurned, because they are unwilling to violate therr convictions of right, and join ina crasade against the best interests of the country. The most emi- nent living stateemen of the republic, (Van Buren and Benton, ) against whose devotion to the constitutional rights of the South during a quarter of s century the breath of calumny never dared to lisp a whieper, are now branded with obloquy and reproach, for no other cause than refusal to enlist under the banner of slavery “These ave the fraita which bslong to the existing ord are vaite wi isting order of things, and thia the shrine at which the aemocrats of New York are commandea to bow in humble ad :ration. White we refnse » compliance with the requisition, we hezard the prediction that when time shall have ripened coming events into history, the futare will belfe the past if President Pierce 4o not prove, in his own dear bough: experience, that the gratitude of the slave powor ts a3 evanescent as its demands are exat and imperious. Against the legitioate and constitutional rights of the South we wage no warfare. Towards its citizens ween- tertain no hostility. We concede to them, within p tisdictions, the right to regulate their own internal sffairs in their own way, and accord- ing to their m convictions of propriety. But they snust cease the attempt to force upon us an agreement in principles, in regard to which there can bs no commu- nity of feeling and xo acsordance of action. We warn them sgainst placing confidence in the representations of men who have not tte power, even if they possess the dis- position, to control the votes of the democratic electors of the Emplre State. These will demand a due respest for their own rights anda proper appreciation of the rights of others. They will require s return to those principles of pub- lic polity which shall give to the democracy of the States thelr true weight and position in the direction of affairs, and secure them egainst the abuse of feceral power. ‘They will ack that the steer policy which bas mark- ed the onward march of slavery shail cease. Taey will demand for their brethren in Kansas the just protec- tion to which they sre entitled against border ruffian. ism, anda cessation of that anomaly which, under the appellation of ‘‘popular sovereignty,’’ imposes upon a ® government upheld by the bayonets of a federal solciery. § dking for ourselves, in view of the cireumstanees we have detailed, we unhesitatingly but firmly declare that in no possible exigency of party relations, by no act of omission or commission on our Will we consent that the fair and fertile prairies of the West shall be le to echo to the of the oversesr’s whip or the clank of the bondmen’a fetter. The experience of the past and the hopes of the future all point us to an in- flexible adherence to the docirine so often promulgated My the democracy of this State, of “anoom promising hos- lity to the extension of slavery into free territory,” the recognition of which can alone secure the support of the democratic masses and insure the stability of our repub- lican institution, a Beckwith, A.W. Benjamin Smead, af Jaton, Robert Com ort . Pomioy, ‘eorge Hantington, H. G. Root, 0.F. Marshal, George W. Pine, Alexander Hess, D. Molntyre Stewart, Oliver Allen, J. N. Wightman, G. 1. Harrower, John H. Wooster, John W. Fowler, H. J. Schuyler, Charles G. Higby, Jobn E. Hinman, John Ostrander, Ward Hunt, ‘Thomas McBurney, Richard Hulbert, S. T. Bayt, Daniel T. Jones, James S, Wadsworth, A. Y. Thompson, Ira Godfrey, Andrew Ven Dyck, Calvin P. Vacy, E, G, Lapbam, Lyman Hawes, James C. Smith, Otis Haat, John Lapham, way H. Goodrich, Chester Looms, 5. 5. Havens, Kvert Van Buren, Benjamin Welch, Je., Nosh Davis, Jr., R. H. Stevens, H, J. Sickles, H. P. Thayer, J. M. Cornell, William A. Sutton, George Rathbun, William P. Angel, Lucius Ropingon, Ariel 3, Thurston, William M. Gregg, Addison T. Knox, Martin £. Townsend, Thomas B, Carroll, George W. Mason, Marcus L. Filley, N, W. Gardiner, cary rd, 8. G, Ayres, Burton A. Thomas, William Hoffman, Lyman Wilder, rus Bartow, Harry Patterson, arles Horton, William Russell, Henry R. Selden, Robert Denniston, O. H. Palmer, Nathaniel Jone, F. P. Hurlbut, Merit H. Cush, Levi 8. Chatficid, Joseph Slaughter, David Dudley Field, Vincent Booth, Gerarcus Boyce, Platt Potter, James H. Titus, R. K. Cunningham, W. J.D. Bilten, Andrew McMullen, John T, Hogeboom, Tra Brownell, Senaca M. Dorr. Abm. J, Van Alen, Cure 8. Grinnell, Clark B, Cochrane, ary Churchill, Alsx. F, Wheeler, James M. Dudley, George W. Luther. Morgan Snydi Ira Porter, Abrm. N. Van Alstine, John P. Luther, Jobn P. Joner, Joneph Hilton, F. A. Sharpe, Charles A. Sherill, Tae Fire iw Loweii, Mass.—One of the most disastrous ties that has ever befallen our favored city oconrred this morning about half-past two o’ciock, in Wy: ’8 Exchange, the five story stone building on the corner of Central and Merrimack sireos. Tho following in & list of the sufferers :-—Mr. Weaver had a vory large atock of farniture and house furnishing articles, and hie lons is very heavy, estimated at consldsrabiy above the maura: large amount of valuable goods was de- stroyed, and the articles moved were badly damaged. He is ineured $15 000, Burbank, Chase & Co. loat every- thivg in their workshop—unfinished clothing, &&.; and about thirty giris in their employ aro sufferers to some extent, as nothing was saved from this room. The gooda in the store were prinsipally removed, They were in- sured $12,200, C. 8, Eastman removed all his goods; in. sured, J. White removed his goods; fully insured. A, G, Woodward removed his goods; insured. 8, Wilkins; goods removed; insured. [. Lucas; goods removed, camaged; insured. B, H. Penbaliow’s prioting office is almost totally Cestroyed; he is insured $3,000, A. J, Simpson removed his goods, damaged; insurea $500, Burler & Webster saved their goods and papers, B. H. Weaver bad all bis household goods stored in building, packed for removal to the West; lose $1,200. The building {s owned by Wm. W. Wyman, Feq., and was built by his father, Wm. Wyman, in 1830: ‘The damege is estimated at about $10,000 —Lawill Cou. Theatrical, Musical, d&. Concxnr To-Niast.—The tenth and last but one of the grand sacred concerts given under Mr. Carl Bergmann’s direction, will take place at the City Assembly Rooms this evening. Among the many excellent pleces an- nounced for performance we motice Schumenn’s grand onmeey inD minor, and the overtures of Robespierre, by f, aad Waverley by Berlioz. These concerts hav- become quite popular with our music loving citizens, audience may be expected. AcapEmy oF Music.—The unpresedented suceess of th: opera, under the management of Max Maretzek, bas in duced bim to prolong his season for a couple of weeks, He has succeeded in re-enlisting the services of the dis- tinguished and universally popular Medame De La Grange, for that period—it being positively her final engagement prior to her departure for Europe. To morrow even!: “Lucia di Lammermoor”’ ts to be performed for the time, and on Wednesday, ‘Luisi Miiler”’ will be given for the first time at the Academy. BROADWAY THEATRS.—This favorite house has recently been doing s most prosperous business. The enterprise acd liberality of manager Marshall, the industry and rhill of acting manager Biake and his indefatigable as- matants, combined with the inimiiable acting of thos immense favorites, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, have had the very desirable effect of attracting large numbers ot wpectators every night. Mr. and Mrs. W. commence be sixth wok, to-morrow ney ovenioe, when they appear in & new extravaganza, Promises a great deal of fun, styled “'X. J... the Female Forty Thieves; or, Fairy Filibusters,”’ and the prize farce of ‘Darby O'Donnell.” Previous to the extravaganza the farce of ‘Lend Me Five Shillings.” NivLo’s Ganpen.—Manager Niblo, whose experience is ably seconded by the talent and industry of his invalua- ble’ ssatstants, Messrs. Corbyn and Moore, is atili con- tributing his fall quota towards affording delightful ea- tertainments for the public, Young Hengler’s, dashing feata on the tight rope amaze everybody—he plays the violin, beats the dram and performs various otier as- topiehing mancuvres while turning somersets on the cord, aud with as much apparent ease as though he were quietly seated. ‘The Ravels and the ballet troupe, head- ed by M’Le Robert, continue as great favorites as ever— ple never tire of seeing them, To-morrow evesing we are to have Hengier’s performances, the ballet of ‘Les Abeilles’”’ and the great spestacle of ‘‘ Mazalm.”’ Bowery TuEatrx.—Gen. Waldron and bis popular as- fisiants, Merers. Griffiths, Jones and Miler, continue thelr laudable exertions to render the Old Bowery what it was in the palmfest eays of the drama, and from appearances they will succeed in accomplishing the desired ultima- tom. Good actors and attractive pieces well placed on the stage are again the order of the night, and if perse- vered in cannot fail to delight all patrona and eventually enrich the enterprising management. To-morrow evening the grand legendary and musical romance donominated “Tho Devil’s Exilir, or the Shadowless Man,’ will be per- formed by a strong cast, and with new scenery and other &ppropriate requisites. The drama of “Rosina Meadows” is the opening piece. Burton’s THeatRe.—No better evidence is required of the general appreciation of Manager Burton’s system of catering for the amusement of the masses than is af- forded in the crowded condition of his auditors every evening. Indeed, he has entirely too many friends coa- pared with the dimensions of his establishment; and it 1@ ever expects to accommodate a moiety of them he will find it necessary to procurea much larger house. Not satiefied with the ever popular entertainments afforded by himself and bis talented company, he has engaged the great favorite, Miss Agnes Robertson, who will appear to-morrow evening in “The Young Actress” ani ‘* Andy Blake.” The amusements open with ‘Jenny Lind” — Mrs. Howard as the heroine, WALLACK’S THRATRE.—Mr, Wallack, who has been pe forming to brilliant ascem! of the refined and ta- lented of our city during the past forty-eight nighta, will bring his reries to a close on the occasion of his benefit, next Tuesday evening, Mr. W. has every reason to be satiefied with the unprecedented success and universal epprobation attesdant upon each of his diversified round of characters; but as for the playgoiug community, it would be far better satisfied {f ne could be prevailed upon to continue cn the stuge till the close of the season. To- morrow evening he gives hfs admirable personation of Martin Heywood, in Jerrold’s play of the “Rent Day.” “Love and Marder” and ‘Out for a Holiday”? follow. LAURA AEENE'S VARIETIES, —The fair Manageress of this splendid place of recreation has definitively put at rest ail doubis that may have been entertained as to the es- tablishment of an up town theatre upon permanent and profitable basis. Talent, industry, enterprise and liberality have achieved the great aim of Mise Keene, and the popularity of the Varieties has become what the world calls a ‘ fixed fact.” However, nothing short of this was expected from such an actress, and such o host of auxiliery talent as she has at her command. Some of the members of her company have no superiors and few equals in their various lines, and, asa body, they are noted for talent of an unusually high order. The iu- tensely intercating drama of the ‘ Marble Heart,’’ and lnughable comedy of ‘ My Wife’s Mirror,” are announced for to-merrow. Broapway VARIETINS.—The highly enviable notoriety achieved by those precious juveniles the Wood and Marsh troupe, seems to have astonished the public quite as much as it has surprised and gratified those through whore sagacity and enterprize their extracrdéinary his- trionic talent bas been bronght into action. Large crowds nightly press into the little Varieties witn the tame eagerness that they do into other establishments, @ most popular and polished adult artists per- ‘amilies throng the little theatre constantly, aad it would be rather a difficult task to decide who am them are the most delighted, the children or their pe- rents, Everybody should see the preity spectacle of the « Naiad Queen”—it is to be played but one week more, KELLER’s Empre Hatt,—The tableaux and musical soirées afforded by Mons. Keller, at 696 Broadway, have become exceedirgly popular with the lovers of the fine arts and good music, and it will bea matter of surprise and regret to all if this gentleman does not eventually find it to his interest to locate his*elegant exhibitions Latgroos | in our city, At present his commodious nall is well filled every eveniz; vy large pumbers of la- dies and gent’emen, the former frequently being as two to exe of the latter, thus shi ming that M. K, not only Yeceives the sympathy of the ladies, but with it—what is always eure to follow in such cases—the “substantial opinions’? of the gentlemen, To-morrow évening five new tableaux are to be presented, songs are to be ren- dered by Madam ‘Dy and the Germania Quartette Club, and Herr Stoepel will perform on the “ wood and straw instroment,”” Woop’s Minstrs18.—The new burlesque, styled ‘The Mischievous Monkey,” hes proved s decided hit~one of the greatest of the season. It enables George to exhibit his excellent comic and pantomimic talent to great ad- vantage, and should be seen by every person who derives gratification from s good hearty Isogh. The various minor characters are all rendered creditably, and the whole affair is about the best thing of the kind that has been produced in many a long aay. A variety of scugs, &c., are to precede the burlesque to-morrew night. BROOKLYN MuseuM.—Extensive preparations have been made by the Thespian Dramatic Association, for the pur- pore of Etving their popular manager, Mr. Widdioomb, a grand comp!imentary benefit at the above house to-mor- row evening. The dramatic selections for the occasion consist of “Black Eyed Susan,” “Sketches in India,” and “The Irish Tutor,”” in which ® number of favorite lady and gentlemen amateur will appear. Bucxter’s Haut.—This hall, in the Chinese Buildings, 539 Broacway, will be re-opened on Tuesday, for the ex- hibision of the great historical moving diorama of the Battle of Bunker Hill and Conflagration of Charlestown; vhe marvellous performances of Mr. Sherman, the ven- il ow & beautiful dioramic scene called, “Fairy whole affording an instruciive and highly je entertainment, DusskLDORF GALLERY.—The large and magnificent col- lection of printings, &e., in this, lery, at all times af fords delight to the educated, refined and artistic. There is probably no piace in the clty where a eouple of hours can be passed more agreeably, Concent IN BRookiyy.—Mme. De La Grange and Mr. L, M. Gottschalk will give another of their splendid en- vertainments at the Athenmum, on Tuesday evening, being, we understard, the last with which our neigh- bora will be tavored by these distinguished artiste. They are to be assisted by several talented musicians. Mrs. Grirritis, a great favorite, and wife of the esteemed acting manager, takes a benefit at the Bowery cn Tuesday. ie * Devil’s Elixir’ form one of the fea- tures of the oecssion, Tnx Movunrainexns.—The Mountaineer Singers of Bea: propore to give one of their pleasant concerts at the vernacle next Tuesday evening. One novelty connected with these ariists is that they sing without instrumental eecompaniment, thelr voices forming sn orchestra. They will have the ar: nee of Miss Brainerd, the brothers Gaspard, and Mons. Charles Sage. Cart Ws1s is to give his annual concert at Dodworth’s Academy next Friday evening. Ho wil be assisted by Mme. Wallace Bouchelie and Mersrs. Gottecha(k, Bernar- ci, Aptomas and brothers Mollenhauer. Superior Court—General Term, Before a full Bench. DECISIONS. MAy 17.—Alexanuder Stewart vs, Henry Morange.—Re- ferred back for re-acjustment, Hiram A, Briggs, &c. vs. James Grant, &¢.—Kight per cent to be deduced from the amount claimed in the two suits. Plaintiff to have judgment for residue with in- torest, other wire new trial granted. i W. Clark, &., va. Isanc Sisson et al.—Judgment aflirmed, JSenper W. Hughes va Isaac Alexander, &.—Judgment for defendant. James Meur va. Albert Satver.—Judgment for amount re‘eree has allowed, with certain deductions, Order to be settled. Jcreph Cohen va. John Fagen, ot al.—If plaintiff mb- mit to reduction of $100, judgment to stand, otherwise new trial granted, Cornelius V. Andereon vs. Richard Busteed.—| Costs to abide event. Rebecca Freeman ve. John Orser.—Judgment for de- fendant. George W. Piatt & Co, va. Samuel I’. Townsend.—Vo. tion. Order of Special Term reversed. Dantel A. Butterfield vs, Hamfiton Spencer.—Judgment Special Term affirm ed. David Congreve vs. Andrew W. Morgan.—Judgment for Plaintiff on verdict, with conte. Jamon Salmon va. John Orser,.—New trial grantet, Orcer to be netted. Paniel Rooney va, Seoood Avenue Railroad Company, Coats abide event.—New trial orcered, w trial. THE PEACE IN EUROPE. The Protocols of Conferences held at Paris Relative to the Treaty of Peace. ARGUMENTS OF THE PLENIPOTENTIBEIES. HOW TRE PEACE WAS MADE, &o., &. &. + PROTOCOL NO. 1. THE OPENING. The plenipotentiaries of Austria, of France, of Grow Britaiv, of Russia, of arcinia aad of Turkey met to day 4m conference at the Hotel of the Ministry for Foreign Af- Count Buol speaka, and proposes that the presidency of the labors of the Conference suould be coafided to Coumt Walewski. ‘This is not only,” he “gs custons sanctioned by precedents, and recently observed at Vi- enna; it is at the same time anact of homage to the go- vereign whose hospitality the rey tatives of Karope are at this moment enjoying.” Cowut Buol entertains ne doubt of the unanimous asrent with whioh tis which ensures, in all respects, the best direction being given to the labors of the Conference, witl be received. The Plentpotentiaries unanimously agree totais pre- poral, and Count Walewski, having assumed the preni- pency, thanks the Conference in these terms:— Gxxtizex—I thank you for the honor you have the goo@- ness to. do me in choosing me as your organ, and though 1 es- teem myrelt very unworthy of that honor, T cannot, I ought not to hesitate to accep’ ‘evidence of the sea- {iments which have induced our ‘as wall ag our adverse: Ties, to demand that Paris abould be ‘the seat of the negotia- tions now about to be ;, The uranimity manifested om this point augurs well tor ihe final result of our efforts. far ag concerns me personally, I shall endeavor. confidence by conscientiously ‘fuldiling the duties which bave imposed on me: ii aba Ty care to prevent us pro.jzity; but while having ‘specially in view the prompt attainment of this object, 1 sba!l nevertheless not forget that too much precipitation may us from ft. More- over, gentlemen, being all animatea with an equally conct te. tory spirit and dis to evince mutual good will by avoiding irritating olscussions, we thal he able. 1c wecomn bane ju Jous'y, and with all che e completereis whion it admita of, greai tark which is imposed on us, without loslug sight of Jum Impatience cf Kurope, the eves of which are xed upon us. and which anxious\y awaits the results of our deliberations. ‘pon the proposal of Count Walewski. the Conferenos decides to intrust the drawing up of the protocola to M. Beuedetti, director of polijical affairs in the office for Foreign Affeirs, who is introduced. : The plenipotentiaries then proceed to the verification of thelr respective powers, which, having been found im ood and due form, are deposited among the acta of the Conference, Court Walewski proposes, and the plenipotentiaries agree, mutually to engsge to observe complete seeresy ret pecting Sree nib which shall passin the Conference. Sardivia not having taken part in the signature of the protocol i ate upon at Vienna on the Ist of February last, the Sardinian plenipotentiaries declare that they cats Crm the said protocol and the document am nexi » Count Walewski, after having explained the order of the labors with which the Conference would have to oe- cupy iteelf, Ly eae to declare that the protocol signed at Vienna onthe Ist of February should serve as pre- liminaries of peace. The plenipotentiaries, after having ext their ideas on this point, considering that the proto! at Vienna on the Ist of February by the representatives of Austria, France, Great Bri Russia and Turkey, re- cords the adhesion of their courts to the bases of I~ ations laid down in the documenta annexed to the said protocol, and that its provisions fulfil the object whic. would be obtained by an act designated to settle the pral- winaries of peace, agree that the same protocol and its am- nex, a copy of which shall be marked with their initials and annexed to the present protocol, shallhave the value i @ plenipotent 4 being thas respecting prelim! 8 of peace, Count Walewski pro; to pro- a pp a nature ving aries of the belligerent even omnia that it is me- cessary to take steps for suspension of hostilities be- tween the armies in the field di the presumed contin- wane of the negotiations, resolve that an armistice shall de concluded by the comimanders-in-chich, which shall ceare absolutely on the Slat of Merch next inclusively, if ena) that pericd itis not renewed by common con vent. Durtrg the suspension of hostilitles the troops shal retain the respective positions which they occupy, ab- taining from any act of aggression. In consequence, the precent decision shall be transmit- ted without delay, end, as far as possible, by the tele graph, to the cotamanders-in-cbief, in order that they may conform to it se goon as the orders ot their goverm- ments srali reach them. ‘The pleuipotentiaries further resolve that the armistice shall not affect the biookade established or to be estab- lished; but the commanders of the naval forces shall re- ceive orders to abstain, during the continuance of the armistice. from any act of hostali'y against the territories of the belligerents. This being settled, the plenipotentiaries agree thet they will meet on the day after to-morrow, the 21th of February, in order to proceed to the negotiation of the <efinitive treaty. Done at Paris, the 25th of February, 1866. BUOL-SCHAUENSTEIN, COUNT ORLOFF, AUBNER, BRUNNOW, WALEWSKI, Cav a BOURQUENEY, VILLAMARINA, CLARENDON, AALI, COWLEY, MEHEMMED DJEMIL. PROJECT OF PRELIMINARIES, 1, Danubian Principalities. Complete abolition of the Russian protectorate. Russia epall not exercise any special or exclusive right of protection or of interference in the internal affairs of the Danubian Principalities. ‘The Princ\palities shall preserve their privileges and immunities under the suzerainty of the Porc, and the Sultan, in concert with the contracting powers, shall further grant to these Principalities, or confirm therein, an internal organization suitable to the wants and wishes of the populations. ‘The Principalities shall, in concert with the suzersia power, adopt permanent defensive Ab required by their gecgraphical situation; no obs! shall be throwm in the way of the extraordinary defensive measures which they may be called upon to adopt in order to repel any foreign jasion. In exchange for the fortified positions and territories occupied by the allied armies, Russia consents to a recti- fication of her frontier with Turkey tm Europe. This frontier, thus rectified in a manner suitable to the eral interests, would start from the neighborhood of Chotyn, follow the line of mountains which stretches im the southeasterly direction, and terminate on Lake Salzyk. The line wonld be definitely settled in the tre ot peace, and the ceded territory revert to the Princ} ities and to the suzerain'y of the Porte. 2. Danube, The freedom of the Danube and of its mouths shall be effeciually secured by Ecropean institutions, in the contracting powers shall be equally re} without prejudice to the spcetal positions of Toe avert voréering powers, which shail be settled upon the prin- ciples estabhsned by the act of the Congress of Vienna om the subject of river navigation. Each of the comtractivg powers shail have the right of station 6 or two light vessels of war at the mouthe of the river, for the purpose of insuring the execution of the regulations relative to the liberty of the Danube. 8. Black Sea, The Black Sea shall be neutralized. Ita waters, thrown open to the mereantile marine of every nation, shall ne interdicted to vessels of war. Consequently, there shall nefther be created nor main- tained there any military maritime arsenals, ‘The protection of the commercial and maritime interests of every nation shall be assured in the respective ports of the Black Sea, py the establishment of institutions im conformity with international right and the established bar Pg in such pore 1@ two powers bordering on it shall mutual! tomaintain there only the number of light amt fixed force necessary for the service of their coasts. The convention to bs concluded between tnem to this effect, after having previously received the approbation ot the powers signing the general treaty, shall be anuex- ed to the said treaty, and shall have the ssme force and value ss if it formed an integra) po of it. Thia separate convention shall neither be annulled nor modi- fied ee the assent of the powers signing the general treeaty. The closing of the Straits shall be subject to the ex- ception in tavor of the stationary vessels mentioned im the preceding article, Subject to the Porte. 4. Christian ulations 5 The immunities of the Reyah subjects of the Porte shall be confirmed without prejudice to the independence ba A of Gaeta ‘8 bho berations being in progress between Austria, ee Great Britain and the Sublime Porte, with the view insuring to the Christian subjects of the Sultan their religious and pelitical right, Russia shall be invited at ‘the peace to take part therein. The belligerent powers reserve to thomnelves the right which belongs to them of Proposing in the interests of Europe special conditions in addition to the four gasran- tees, [Initials affixed.) PROTOCOL No. 2. GENERAL VIEW. Srrting or FRORUARY 1 Present—The Pleni, on Fees tentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britain, Russia, ia and Tark zi The Frnst PLENIPOTENTIARY of Russia annowroes that having ae teen to er government the resolution taken by the Congress on the subject of tne armintice, he had been informed that orders had been immedia rent to the commanders: in the Crimes and in Asia, The Pienipotentiaries of France, of Sardinia and of Turkey mate similar communications. The Earl of CLARENDON states, on his side, that the or- cer had in like manner been sent to the commanders of the naval forces of the allies in the Black Sea and in the Baltte to abatsin from ony act of hostility against the Rustian territories, Count WaLewskt states that it is desirable to advert ta certain preiiminary points in order to settle the course of the general nego {ation. Count Bvor iscf«pmnien that it would be adventagecas,