The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1856, Page 2

cere ee ne en UES 1°Tpe vale of ihe Tens and Miseuri eompromian, 1. The vi . ‘With the facts of this vielation, its wicked OFF apt intent, and the foul means of getting it done and its dis- astrous and bloody consequences, you are all suff¥iently acquainted; and I only name it to give it its place at the bead and front of yil the evil measures of this adminis- tration. 2. Prostitution of the whole appointing Mower to elec- tioneering purposes. This was openly dor.¢ from the first moment of its existence. Appointments were wh made with a view to affect the election’, State and federal, and to operate for or against particu’ar men; amd for this purpose the most unfit character§ would be taken im pre- ference to the best. You know how it was in this State; and as it was here, so M ee 706 Saher eiaees se i doudle calam free suilers, apostates an: red ogad were So beans 8 Se ty of civiland | vet. One single q mi was requisite, that of work: ia a ee ee eee ing'm the elections; and the only preference seemed tobe went, ‘Oncianatt near entien—the owh was ip favor lose W! een most viol BE an hover o * oe ae things | against the Union. On that principle an editor was taken werestome, ancl to assist a little at a safe nomination, I — sent aye arse into bondage, food apg have four. ‘office inside emtion, een sent there—but as Consul-Gene United ‘A-garrison of office holders inside of the Convention, | <1". him editor had published a daily paper m Wash- THE PRESIDENCY. ol. Benton’s Speech at St. Louls—Birdseye ‘View of the Pierce Administration and Cin- cinnati Convention. ‘Ottizens—I appear before you in an unexpected charac- ter—that of candidate for the Governorship of the State @f Missouri. It was a place which I had not sought, bur which I felt bound to acceptin the present condition of We country—its peace greatly endangered both at home and abi and the services of all good citisens required ania Desicging army ci the same gentry om the outside " a ington city for three years, wholly devoted to the separa- ee Pee te er ee ea the | tion of the slave from the free Sates. which could g-ve no dewrcratic vote, lembers ef 8. Unfit appointments on fercign missions. This is a were there, although forbid their dusies | mortifying head of ecousation agama Vhe present admi- ‘Yrom'being at such a place. A cohortof office holders | nistration. Never were such men sent abroad to repre- were there, SS ean in the federal system, in- ‘eapadie of voting forthe swullest federal office, yet sent there'by'the administrdtien to impose a Presidem upon ‘the le. It = scamlalous cofection, ex@uied the:consti- ‘wation from being even éectors of the President, ‘and yet ‘pent'here'to'vote for the administration—and to ¥ote upon ‘the' principle of the ox’that “‘knoweth his master’s crib— ‘pen! the principte of ¢ue ass thatfcsuweth the‘hand that feedeth him. ‘Bulles*were there from the Custom House ‘and'the Five Pointsin New Yos#x—all with the approba- | ‘on of the administeation; for the office holders would not |} ‘be there’ (absertt from: their dutes and drawing their pay) ‘without the consemt of their employers. 4t'was a scan- dalous cotlection. The menfvers of Comgress were im the double breack-of their duties. ‘They Were neglectiog ‘their Jegielative dutics, and doing what they had been ia- terdicted from “Thirty years: nomination of Presidential canéi- ‘Gates was taken trom Congress on accowntofthe correp- ‘Won whith jt engendered, and given to delegates, iutend- ed to be fresh from the people and to obey their will, and ‘the nomination removed from Washisgion to Baltimore, to get ont of the reach of President making meubers. But these members fotlowed to Baltimore, getting proxies from some delegate when they couldget ‘no appoimtment frem the people; and to get rid of them—to get egtirety beyond their reach—the Convention itself was removed from Baitimere to Cincinnati. ‘Vain effort to escape them. They followed on to Cin- eimnati. They broke up Congress te get to this forbidden p aes the new President will be very hard if he docs not remember them when he comes to the distrebution of office. From Washington Gity came new corps, never before put upon such service—the effice holders in the city, clerks imthe departmeste—heads ef bureaus—men who have no vote in any federal elec- ‘on—political hybrids, unable to ect man’s part in any election, but sent to Cincinnati, az a life guard, # support the administration. * * * * * * * ‘Such was the composition of neerly one-half ofthe whole ‘eonvention—custom house officers, postmasters, salaried clerks, packed delegates, straw delegates, political eunuchs, members of Congress, district attorneys, fede- va) marshals. The place in-which they met, acd which had been provided by a packed administration -commit- tee, was worthy of the meeting. It-wasa sort of den, ched by along, narrow passage, barricaded by Bree doors, each door guarded by armed bullies, with erders to-knock down any person that approecled with- out a ticket from the committee, and a specie! order to ‘be prepared.with arms to repuisethe Missouri delega- tion which came to vote for Buchanan—a repu!se which ‘they attempted, and got themeelves knocked own and trampled wader foot. ‘This den had no.windows by-which people eculd look fm or see, or the light of the sun enter—only a row of like a steamboat skylight, thirty-five feet above floor. Itavas the nearest representation of the ‘black bole’ in Calcutta, and like that hole, had well nigh be- come notorious for a similar catastrophe. The lit:le panes Of glass above were hung on pivots, and turned flat to Det in air. Arain came on, drove into the den; and to ex- lade it, the panes were turned up. ‘Smothering ! Smothering !"’<vas the cry in the den; and the gloss had to be turned up again. Over this place was a small box for She admission of spectators,fits approach barricaged and led, and emtrance only obtaixed upon tickets from same packed committee, and to whom they gave tickets was soen chen the first votes were given fer Bu- ehanan, and when each State that voted for him was hhissed—even Virginia; and the hissing only stopped by a threat to clear the galleries. Such is the pass which ‘the nomination of President is now brought. No President, seeking a second elegtion, has ever been @0 repudiated before. Several, so seeking, have been de- Seated by their adversaries, but no (ne has been defeated his own party. The elder Mr. Adams was defeated by democratic party, then called republican; the younger Mr. Adams was defeated by the same party; Mr. Ven Buren was defeated by the whigs. But each of these gen- ‘demen bad the consolation of having rved the ree- tand confidence of his own party. ot so with Mr. ce. He is repudiated by those who had exalted him. ‘After four years’ trial he is Condemned and thrown away —the victim of his advisers. It is the moet humiliating termination of a public career that ever was witnessed. His whole yote was some sixty—only five dozen out of near three hundred; and if from theseare deducted the intrusive votes which ought not to be coynted—those of the office Bolders, ihe packed delegates, the straw delegates, the members of Congress, and’ the complimentary votes which were begged for him to lessen the shame of the @iserable defeat—if all these were dedue as they ought to be, he would be loft withaut a single eft 40 go out as he came in: with the uganimous consent of ‘this party. fate fora man who came into ollic Ds twenty-seven States, with two thirds.af each Ka Congress, and the united democracy of the whole Union. After all, the result was due to<he place where ‘the Convention was held. If it had beep in Baltimdre ‘where the outside pressure would have been.on the other side, the office holders wauld have carried the day. Let it not be forgottes that the place governed this gwomination—the place convenient to the solid men of the country; = gee dryers be omer soc wo save — Bominatious. The old intrigu rs—the permanent profes- r gional Presibent makers—will not be caught in er a Foie Panel ieee ore through forcign terrisory in place . They will go re the farmers cannot | © ad , come; ens . no aly wee in the amendment of 6. Neglect of the Territorial governments is another ef fhe Constitution, and giving to the people a direct vate for | the offences of this administration. Political partisans President. Already itis reported dhat the go next time i pothouse demagogues are sent out to fill their offces— to Charleston, S. C., where no Western farmers can get at | men untit, if they were disposed, but merely electioneer- them. If you ask how can this be known now? I answer, | €TS, epgaged in the State and federal elections, while the ‘well. Each Convention now appoints a Committee | protection of the federal government is utterly unknown, Of Ks own body, thirty-one in number, to sit from four | @&d violence, bloodshed and disorder overspread the reers to four years, and manage everything. These | land. Basle, whose ascendant over the savage mind Femmittoes do the cheating in the recess ‘of the Conven- | Charmed the Indians into infantile submission, was dis- missed, because he would not electioncer, to make room for a pothouse demagogue, who could do nothing else, California, Oregon, New Mexico, are all the scenes of bloody outrage, Indian wars rage—private murder pre- yails—law is unpotent-—the federal officers are of no ac- count, and the citizens are driven to the novessity of providing for themselves, I need not mention Kansas; the condition of that blood stained ground is sufficiently known to you. J will epeak of Uh, where the federal government is ignored and re- pudiated—its laws and authority set at defiance. The term of the Mormon Governor, Brigham Young, expired three years ago. As he had thrown off the authority of the United States, it was determined to send him a suc- cessor—a military graduate of West Poiut—and Captain Steptoe was calied from his pleasant quarters to go upon the enterprise. When Brigham heard of it, he made a speech to nis people, in which he told them what President Pierce intended,and what he himself intended—one sending a new Governor, and the cther intending to repulse the r- | compliment. It was in that speech that he said to his people that be intended to remain in his place until the Lord should gay to him, ‘Brigham, 1 dou’t want you to be Governor of Vtab any longer,’ The administration wes afraid of him, and undertook to out-mana@uvre him, and that in the highest style of West Point tactics; they determined to smuggle Steptoe in. For that purpose the military governor was furnished with a battalion of soldiers, and directed to preceed to the Mormon Kingdom, as if he was going to California, stop there to hy- berate, and, watching the chance, slip into the governor- ship some day when Brigham was out—something like a weuzel that gets into another bole when he finds the occu- pant gone. When I heard of this fine scheme, I said to my acquaintances, und can prove that I eaid it, (for I do not indulge in ex ‘poste facto predictions.) that the next time we should hear of this Gov. Steptoe again, he would would be on his tip-toes, marching to the tune of ‘Hey, Betty Martin, tiptoe tine,’ and so it was; for before the hy bernation was over he was on his march in good truth w California, to return thence to the United States. But there was something else which I did not foresee, which was, that this military governor carried off four doen of the Mormon Betty “Martins with him, to the infinite distress of the #aints, profoundly chagrined to tind themselves 80 encroached upon La the Gentiles. But it was the last encroachment of the kind. No more of the United States military have beon there since, and Brigham says he bas promised the Lord that if they come again he will fix them so that quired me to avoid his house, and I have not been there | they will let bis Betty Martins alone. And that was fince, Still, we meet handsomely when wesident brings | the end of the attempt by this administration to us together, sometimes - meeting in evening rides n | give a Governor to Utah. Brigham holds on to the the respective hats immediately rise high in the air; | place, and Mr. Pierce stands with hands off, and the sometimes on foot, in an evening walk, whea we rush to | scaadalous spectacle is seen of a man assuming Wo be Go- the salutation, and so pressingly that an observer might | vernor by the will of the Lord, repulsing the United guppore it wake «pair yf old bosom friends—Pamon aud | States authorities, trampling the laws under foot, ingult- Pythi which diplomacy requires, and even without mar- nersswvithout keowing uw to behave im company mere political ¢emagogues, to reward them for services pest, and services to:come, atthe federal and State ¢lec- e@omnity for past serviews at the polls, awA to enablethem * come baek and .ecommence their partisan bors. ‘our countey, ad-the admiration of #e courts te which ‘they were sent. Tutented, edueated, ceplcte wish know- ledge, porshed inmanners, modest. virtuous; sach were formerly our mini#ors abroad. What contrastare those we now send abroed. What a contpast to 'the Rufus ‘Kings, -tix> Jobo Massballs, the Henry ‘Clays, amd the long list of splendid wmes which administrationmakes—I speak of the mass, ‘for there are ‘a few exceptions—are not onlye disgrace,'tut an injury to our countey. They injure our national reputation. ‘They degrade-as infthe eyes of foreign nations. They in jure the whole ebaracter of republican goverument. Hany ‘of them not enly of bad manners, but bad morals. Only think-of that Dale Owen, ‘who published a news- paper and wrote a book to abolish the institution of.mer- riage, and te persuade-men and women to live together like the beasts of the field. He is sent <o a foreigt court for his election services, and must cenvey the idea, wherever be goes, that the United States is a whole nation of Mormons, returning to the state of forest animals. But if he «must co, he has certainly gone to the right place. They sent him to Naples, where his doctrine may meet with lees abhorrence than in agy other part of the civilized-wrorid. And all these missious are multiplied to the greatest possible extent—stnding these unfit men to places-where they haye nothing to do, even if they could do anything—merely to give them pay, and where many of them, by their vulgarity and misconduet, are excluded from social intercourse, and contiped to the privileges which tbe treaties secure them, and left to the lc com- pany whieh their manners and tastes require. 4. Extravagant expenditure is the characteristic of this administration. Never was such. profligate waste of public.money seen. Seventy to eighty millions squender- ed per annum, and not a symptom of apy abatement. When Mr. Polk went out of office, which «was.after the acquisition of all our new Territories, he computed the annual expenses of the government at twenty-five to twenty-six millions; now itis three times that amount, and geting worse. ’ Increase of offices and salaries—in- crease of army and nayy—multiplication of useless agents to attend to the elections under the, pretext of filling some office—-waste of money in building ships to rot, abile re- fusing a dollar for the improvement of our great rivers; such are their devices to get rid of the public money. ‘Nearly a thousand dollars a.man is now the average cost of every. man in the army and navy, and the civil pension list of England proposed fer their further support. ‘And both army and navy reduced,as fast as possible, to the concfion of government establishments—Presiten- tial, and not national institutions. All appointments are conducted on that principle; all divymissions and reduc- tions are conducted on the same. Two hundred officers haye lately been turned out of the .navy by an open, scandalous and. criminal perversion. of law; and the same operation. is desired to be performed .on the army, dhe rule of dismission being to save partisans and favorites, and to turn out, good officers, without ,regard to service or character, Whose political a@inities or connections ase not approved, 5. Violated pledges rise up in judgment against this ad- ministration. I do.not allude tothe inaygural address; these-addreeses are now made like piecrust—to be broken. I speak of public specific pledges, openly and solemnly made, and openly and scaadalously violated. There was the pledge:to reduce unnecessary duties, and get rid of a corrupting surplus revenue. That pledge is violated—has been for four years, and still is. The enor- venue is kept up to increase patronage, to pure chase worthless land from Mexico, to corrupt presses, to reward partisans, to strengthen the government, to build up armies and navies,.and to fight foreign nations, if they can succeed in picking guarrels with them. Equally public was the pledge, and equally scandalous its yiolation, to make a national highway to the Pacific ocean. Four years ago the pledge was made; the time is out and the pledge not redeemed. The time bes been lost in making useless and costly surveys for two outside roads—one for the North and one for the South—and in endeavoring to purchase fram Mexico, slice after slice, ihe raute to Guaymas, on the Gulf.of California, Tex mil- lions were given for one slice—jt was found to be werth- less, and besides, would not include the place. At¢he ‘ast acoounts, further efforts were making to get apo- ther slice, at another ten or twenty millions, still further south. In the meantime, the plain, direct, national central route is repudiated, although it is now one-third made; for the railroads weet from Baltimore, Philadelphia, an other Atlantic ports, bow penetrate the West, converge to the centre before they reach the Missiasippi, and con- hect with the Missouri road, now complete to the centre of the State, and advancing to the western border. Yet this direct national route, though now one-tird made, is rejected and repudiated for an outside route through the ‘tone. Such a fall announces the most deplorable administra- tion which our country has ever seen; and such is the fact. Athome and abroadein all its acts and policy, ‘both foreign and domestic—flagrant misconduct has been the order of the day. The fleld of its bad acts is too Jarge tw admit of a full survey on an occasion like the present; I can only seize and present the most promi- taking those which concern our home affairs irst— the foreign afterwards; but, first, 1 must show who J mean by the administration, for it by no means consists of all whose names compose it. In the first place, then, Ido not mean Mr. Pierce, T Jeave him out, entirely. He is a kind man, tender-heart. ed, and will cry for anybody’s sorrows; but he has nei- ther bead nor nerve, and he is as helpiess in the hands of bis managers as a babe in the arms of its nurse. I have to give a signal instance of this helplessness which con cerns yourselves as well as myzolf, and which admits of 0 paien because J was party to it, and know what . Pierce sent for me soon after his inauguration, de. fg me to call upon him the next evenimg at § o’clock. I ‘Went according to the request. He told me he wished to to me about the Missouri appointments, and know they could not be put off for awhile? I’ answered, eon an they were all four years’ appointments, and to out of themselves in the course of the spring and Bummer—that I despised the business of removing men who were doing their business well, and whose terms would soon expire, and had rather wait for the vacancy to come of itself. He replied that these were exactly his own sentiments, and i. was readily agroed that the appointments should stand over until my return from Missouri, which would be in six weeks. On this agreement, thus volunteered by himself, I left the city, and in two weeks was followed by a liat of the intinents—and you know what kind of ‘appointments ey were—all made from my enemies, and w work in the election against me—a thing which they have faith fully done, and are still doing. Even the Post office n my wn town was so filled as to render it impossible for me to use it, and drove me to the resource of sending my correspondence through Adams & Co, This is what hap- pened between the President and myself, and is one of imnumerable instances to prove his nullity in his own ad ministration, 1 did not get angry with him for it. 1 knew he was sincere at the time he spoke with me, and pitied his inability to keep his own word voluntarily given. Lexpreseed uo resentment, because I knew they would not jet him do as he wished, but self-respect st getting “ a iong and crue | ing and defying the federal government, and no attempt a made to reduce ‘itm to lawand order.” Such is the in- the next place, I do not mean Mr. Marey. He leaves | surgent condition of the polygamous kingdom of the Lat bimeelf out by permitting others to dominate in bi ter lay Saints. # partment, and by publicly agreeing to what he pr sly All have heard of this polygamy—a etate Kg tone at condemns. | leave out aiso th cretaries of the Trea. which morality, decency, shame revolts; and | have been eury, of the Interior, of the Navy, and the Postmaster | told how an tion $0 abhorrent to human nature ia General, and ouly condemn them for remaining in a ca’. | kept up, and that it is by virtue of the civil power vested net in which they are without influence, and sharing th am more than by his religious odjum of measures of which they have no part in th that the enough to overturn the institution, paternity. This brings me to the Secretary at War and ae not that all civil power, as well as the religious the Attorney General, who, with an outside force of de. | ,urisciction, is in the bands of Mormon authorities; 80 termined nullifiers, are the whble adminsteation. But at this administration is actaaliy re#ponsible to the mo- ittle peed be said of the Secretary of War. He is a mar. | ral sense of the civilized world for the presen@&ontinu- tinet, puffed up with West Point science, dogmatical, and | ance of polygainy in the Terrivory of Utuh. pragmatical, within his circle; but that circle is a narrow n for a view of home of affairs, and enough, to ope, and he moves uncontrolled with it. He = am avowed | account for the unparalleled dixmission of this adtni- cecessionist. | nistration, without the superaddi.ion of misconduct Of the outside force of nullifiers still Joes remains to be | abroad; but there is enough of that to have sunk it with said. They govern when they please, and always in tue | out the misconduct at home. Never was such a wellicose game style—by presenting a menacing front. Gfall these | administration—picking quarrels all the time, and every- the Attorney General is the master spirit. He isaman | where—and builaing ships, and raising troops for the ine: vitable war. First, Sjwin was the power, Cuba the ob- of talent, of learning, of industry—unscrupulous, double sexed, double gendered, and hermaphroditic in pol ject, and the Black Warrior the pretext. You have all with a hinge in his knee, which he often heard about that Black Warrior, and how Commodore thrift may follow fawning.” He governs by subseryi | Macauley was rent to ¢ aba with ships of war to enforce ‘and to him is deferred the master's place in Mr. Pier redress; and bow a Minister was sent to Spain demand cabinet. When J heard that he was it cabinet, I set down Mr. Pierce for a ¢ ferosaw the swift and full destruc ' im. I had known Mr. Cw var on account of the hushed up, and but it was ed up thus ppen as Tean tell you young against Arkansas Because she Was a slay | nt y retten’ wnd backing Slade, of, Vermont, in the attempt to abo! | at bis station Secretary slavery in the District of Columbia charge of business in his ey ~<a govern. all their meas bh lad been months on for Tyler as ior ‘ terme ¢ i United States 1 could bave no faith in ap adr: s vw t ¢ ‘ ‘ jar ; : i t : & fob be M4 taid ite calamitous fate row the momect gree che chs or a i ei i Duy what wae w be NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1856. followed? Was the Secretary who showed the despatch and settled the difficulty thanked by ones? Not at all. He was dismissed the service. the Minister, who never showed the despatch, censured for the omission? Not at all. He was caressed, and con- tinues in office until he chose to ask his own recall, « That chance another was incont discovered. Grvat trite ant Tieace wore, gning t Aftoaios Ox Upon the spot the Africanization Cuba became the alarm of the administration and the war cry of its adhe- rents, and a war inevitably with Britair,, France and Spain, and an with = Rur'sia in the war upon them, became the burdey, of would who kDew he deserved all he got, and ful he got ne, more; al! which may be volume of the “Thirty Years View.’ This if the man to stand guard over American rights, te pick. a quarrel with Great Britain when she has done us DB’, harm and has made apologies for the mere techni- ca’, offence which she may have committed. The case “was this:—Our Atlantic cities were full of unnaturalized foreigners, most of them her former subjecte. She wished to recruit them for the Crimean war, but to do it Without violating our laws; getting them to go to her own lennon. and are enlist. pieewerse Ce was made, and instantly the practice was stopped and apology made for unintentional wrong. There was no harm was thank- jeem th the second sent Ourqmuntry—aren Whheut-a particljoftbe knowledge | tons. They. emd-sugh broad in order to give them in- || Vormerly, the United States ministers ‘were the pride of | Albert GaHatins, {the John Quiney Adamses, ‘the Pinck- ' neys ef Sovth Carolina; and the Pinkuey of Méryland, the | grace ou diplomatic annais Such appointments as this | done us. » only danger of harm was that Russia might resent it as aiding her enemy, in violation of our neutrality. ‘That would have been a serious complaint; but Russia never maxte it; the war was over before the recruits, (if any,) could get to the Crimea; and now peace has jong been made. Russia and England are friends, and we must ‘aquarrel with England on account of Russia—Russia erself having no quarrel with Great Britain, and no com- plaintagainst us. That was the only haem auprebecses and itmever occurred. As for taking such people away as she ‘was endeavoring to get, Ishould think their loss no da- mage tous; and that irrespective of their foreign birth. I hold that any man, native born or foreign, who would quit the United Statee—where good wages, comfortable ving aad independence are in the reach of all—and tix thousand miles, to the Crimea, to lead the life of a British soldier for sixpence a day; I hold the loss of any sueh men would be no damage to our country, go as many of them as might. Yor this Mr. Crampton is dismireed. No, not Mr. Crampton, but the British vernimnen ‘or he only did what his government directed, and what it has justified and assumed. This is very different from dismissing a Minister for an act of his own;-it is an insult to the British government; it is a challenge and defiance to it. It is @ just cause of resent H but the danger is passed. The administration which dismissed Mr. Crampton have themselves been dis- missed—ignominious!y so—by their own party—that is to say, the sound men of their own party and the whole power of the country. The whole country has dis- missed that administration. They have no party, no ad- hercnts no support. Their own janissary guard—the venal officebolders—bave deserted them—' their ruined fortunes elunk all away’’—and crouched at the fect of the conquerer; and to finish this universal desertion they bave deserted themselves—fled from their own soli- tude, and given in their adhesion to the people that whipped them. ‘Thix must satisfy Great Britain, and restrain her feel- ings, vatil the new administration can restore peace and friendship with her. She has been greatly outraged, not aly in the ect of dismissing Mr. Crampton, just done in the nick of time tor the Cincinnati Convention, where (maugre the presence of the two administration’ cham- pions, Caytain Rynders and Tom Hyer,) it had a coutrary ect; besides this act, the official papers, even including President's messages to Congress, all contained insult- ing expressions towards Mr. Crampton and his govern- ment—all dictated by Cushing. Shame that such a man should have been placed in a situation to insult a gent man, much less to pick a national quarrel with a gre ation, and undertake to play off here his tactics of the Chinese mission. ns, 1 have told youof the attempts to kill off Mr. Buchanan in the Convention under the two-thirds rul there was-another attempt, of a different kind, to do th same thing. It was witha platiorm—a patibulary stru ture—with a rope over the head and a trap door und the feet—and so contrived that if he got on it he was strung up inthe North; if not, he was laid out in the South. His friends found out the game, and deter- mined to mount it, be # what it might.’ They said the President does not swear 10 platforms, but to the constitution ; and besides, it is lawful to fight fire with fire. It was concocted by the old janis- garies, and produced at the moment the balloting ‘was to commence, £0 as to make disorder inthe ranks; dut the trick failed. It was receive 1 in a tempest of emu- lous applause, and extolled to the ekies. I asked one of the:most vociferous of these applauders, how he could swallow such stuflf He answered promptly, ‘As Ido fpecac! to puke it up agein.” It wusa New Yorker, of course, who gave that naive answer;.and I am gure ‘bis stomach would feel the cleaner after tae relief. Citizens! this business of making platforms is a new in vention, unbnown to the old democracy, who had no platform but the constitution, no.aim but the public good: and they are gencrally the work of demagogues who have no thought of the constitution—no.thought of the country —wno thought of anything but to get oflice, and keep it— changiug for that purpose with every change ot adminis- tration, and swearing to every creed that runs an hour. come words of his in Parliament, in relation to 8*,me unity of action between England and France in the Cyimea, and ‘mn some mutual complaint against Buenog, A) He made the statement over again, and declared Co. not thinking about the United States, or Spaip., or Cuba at the time; and ¢o this terrible Africanization of Cuba and the Russian alliance followed the melanc'noly fate of the cin nablaaaghie catastrophe, and died the death of the liculous, Then came the Ostend Conferegsie, in which the three United States Ministers were ses% to make a platform in relation to Cuba, which was thet the United must take her ifSpain would not se! her—which it was known she would not. But #rat was going it too strong, and the acminisveation who sentthem to make it disapproved te ‘work, vdaile approving their conduct in doing. By that time the chances for.a ‘war with Spain had ren out, and seemet to be lost forever, when the chapparal government of Waker offered ne¢w prospect more eucouraging than the «ther, It was imply to acknowledge th e mertt in the chaperral, kt aid tlow to Walker, a ad be established in Nicaragua, and the invesion and con- eats ot Cuba’be made by the United States citizens under the ehapparrdl fag. That play ws just comencacing when the nomination at Cincinnati extinguished the pol life of its authors, In the ‘meanwhile a qaarrel was being with Denmarkabout thoe Sound dues which Europe paid thefore America was discOvered, and which America fus paid ever since her Independence, aad by virtue ‘of treaties made by our most approved administra tions, Setting itself up for the liberator of the Baltic sea, this administration gave orders to our merchants to cease paying the dues after the 16th of April last, assuming the right to abrogate the existing treaty’ the Banish governmem gave notice that it woul coliect them as usual, under the treaty; end the adminis- tration finding out that bad no right to abi the treaty, and besides, that Gopephagen was not Greytown, gave orders to their merchants to pay, but to make pro testation to the contrary,.and to warn the Danes that the government would try to git back the money; and so stands this affair, which would be ridiculous if & did not threaten the peace of #wo anost friendly nations. ‘And now, Why this Quixotic attempt to liberate the Baltic eat ‘It is not our sea; it is not appurtenant to our continent; it is not wholly Europyan;.and Europe, which pays the dues, has precisely two hundred times a8 much interest in it as the United States hae—sending exactly two hundred sbips to our one into it. Why this Quixotism ? Simply for a fuss—for notoriety—for the glory of a war | with a small power. How different the conduct of real statesmen in times past! Mir. Adams’ administration | made the Danish treaty now in force. Mr. Webster im- } proved it when Secretary of State, under Tyler, getting the dues reduced on our staple articles, and obtaining a stipulation to place as on:the footing of the most favored nation, and to give us the benetitof every reduction which should be made in favor of any ather nation. ‘That was statesmanship—contrasting as sense with y—as justice with rapine—with the conduct of this administration, picking a.quarrel with Denmark'to libe- rate a European sea;.and.ready for a war to abolish mo- derate duties in the Black Sea, while keeping up enor- | mous duties at home, contrary to a public pledge:to re- duce them; but enough of this folly and. madness; and | thore who may wiah:to-understand the whole subject will find it, fully but briefly, set forth in the second volume || of the “Thirty Years’ View.?” But Great Britain is the power which our bellicose ad- ministration deem most worthy of their prowess, and with which the attempts to pick a quarrel.are most lively and inceseant, She barely escaped a brush with us on account of the Africanization of Cuba; and now we hive the Monroe doctrine, the Bulwer treaty, the Mosquito coast, the Bay of Islands, the Ruatan Island, the Nicara- ua canal, the recruitment question, and ‘the dismissal of ir. Crampton. Heayens, what .a list! and.all the pro- duct of a few montis, in’.a eeason .of profound peace. ‘The details of these quarrels.are too tedious tobe gone over, but a notice of the most prominent will show the folly and insignificance of the whole. And first, of the Manroe doctrine, so incessantly quoted, and £0 ignorantly and mischievously applied. It is as. | It bas been my prerogative to kick over these platforms. sumed to be a doctrine by virtue of ‘which the United | 1 was bred in a political school in which they were States are bound to stand guard over the two Americas, | Uknown. The constitution was the only form from Capada to Patagonia, and repulse all intrud- | known in my school—and the only one to which I swear. If one is. made beyond the cosstitution, it is surplusage; if short of the constitution, it is defective; if different from the constitution, it is void; if the same, it is superfluous. In any event, then, these platforms are, to me, useless— to many pestiferous—to their authors, stock cards, which they throw away when the game is won. Jhave one more accusation to make against this admi- nistration; it has broken up all political parties founded on principle; it is the author of the fractianal parties which now spapglie Sue poultice! Ormannent, like those fragments of a_ burst planet, to which the as trovomers give the name of asteroid. It is the an ther of then all, and finds retributive justice in the scorn with which they all treat it. It is unnecessary y ne 1 speak of these parties: I adhere to my own and support i: and that w the exclusion of all the rest. One only I allude to—one with which the name of a member of my family is connected, and in reference to which some persans who judge me by themselves, (i favor which 1 most earnestly decline,) attribute to mea sinister connection. I will not answer such insinuations by words, but by conduct. (Great applause.) ‘Now, when has it ever happened that 1 have been influenced by family connection, or even by my own ing colonies from the boundaries of each power, It is assumed to be a doctrine of forcible pro- tection, und the United States ithe protector. The individual must know bat littie of Mr. Monroe, or this cubinet to suppose such doctrine could come from them. No! they were not the men to meddle with other nations’ affairs—not the Quixotes to regulate their neighbors’ concerns—by force ofanms. They were men of reason, peace and justice. They Jaid down the Mon- roe doctrine for themselves, and invited other American states of Spanish origin to adopt it eacn for itself, and to maintain it, each by itself, and by its awa means, withia its own hmits. ‘This was the doctrine as laid down by Mr. Adams in his instructions to our Panama Ministers, as may be seen in the first volume of the * Thirty Years’ View.”? Far trom standing guard over these American States, and protect- ing thern with our arms, they were pot eves allowed to expect assistance fram us; and every assertion of the doc- trine to the contrary is a libel upon Mr. Monnee and his Cabinet; besides, is an ignorance of our constitution, which would not have allowed them to bind us to the waging of such wars, even if they had been witless enough to attempt it—whioh they were not. Well, it is by virtue of this doctrine, thus converted { iBterest? What office have I ever got for one of my into an’ armed protectorate over the two Americas, that | /mily¥ What appointment have I ever got for we muet fight Great Britain in Central America. And for | ™y#eif? No, T am above such consi. What? Why, for the meaning of a word in the Clayton. | detations, T’am above family, and above self, when the good of the Union is concerned. From first to last 1 have been for my country, and mean to continue for t. Ihave made many facrifices for it, and am making a great one now in standing this canvass, The good of the Union alone brings ine out. Clouds overhang Cur foreign relations; sectional hate prevails at home; Bulwer treaty, which its authors cannot agree about. The English proposed to leave it to arbitration; our administra- tion refused on the ground that no impartial arbitrator could be found. Then the Fnglish offer to leave the choice to ourselves, binding thegnselves to abide absolutely the decision of our own arbitrator, be it what it might. To tii offer they bad returned no answer at the Iast ac- counts. This is one of the causes of war—not only a fit subject for arbitration in itself, but even for chance, a Jot deeiscn, a proper rubject to be decided by lot, by tossing a quarter of a doliar into the air, with the cry, ‘Heads, | win; tails, you lose,” for it is a case, I think, in which the loser will’ be the winner, cepecially if we should be the loser. This ie one of the causes of the cherished war. Then come the Bay of Islands, the Ruatan Island and the Mosquito coast. They are a bone of conten- tion, The British have them, and we propose to drive the British out. What for? To take them onr- selyes?. I hope not. With respect to the Mosquito coast, God knows we have mozquitoes enough in our country, without annexing a whole kingdom of them. And as for Ruatan and the Bay of Islands, who but a good geographer can tell where they are? All I kncw about them is, that they are out towards the Equa- tor, the other side of Cuba, and might furnish a point @aypui to a filibuster inyasion of that island. Now, lam against filibustering and annexing, and am willing that the British should remain forever im these places. They were once the haunt of pirates, and might become so again, if the British were to leave them, But the canal of Nicaragua—the ship canal acroes the continent at that point—and the construction and protec- tion of which forms the go of the Bulwer-Clayton treaty, and subsidiary to which is the whole quarrel about Central America. Now, the canal in itself i: a good thing, and yery desirable to be made, but by any pewer in preference to our. selves. When made, it ia for public use, and the makers will Lave its oare and expense, and bo more use of it thin others. I would not own it—no more than I would own the Straits of Gibraltar, or the Isthmus of Suez, I haye two special objections to our ownership or guardianship over that canal. It would be a foreign work, requiring a fleet at each end to guard it, and forts at each end to shelter the ships, and troops at each end to protect the forts. ‘Two powcrful fleew, each strong enough to fight Great Britain, (for that is the object,) two sets of forts to shel- ter great fleets, and two powerful armies to man the forts —such is the expense point of view of this protectorate and guardianship over the ship canal at Nicaragua, I am against meddling with it. Let others make it. We shall have the use of it in time of peace, without the cost of its care in time of war. But J am against our meddling with it for another reason. That ship canal is the antagonist of our own road to the Pacific. It is the antagonist of a national road through our own land to our own California, It is the antagonist of that road, and intended to make the high seas the only, and the perpetual, line of communication with California—to make the Atlantic ports continue to be forever what they now are—the entrepots of California trade and travel—the sole points of departure and return for all trade and travel between the two sides of our continent—between the thirty States on the At lantic and in the valley of the Mississippi and the golden State of California. ‘Now, 1 am againet all that monopoly. Fair play is pretty play. Let the Atlantic States have all the ad- vantages which the sea gives them; let them continue to 0 to California ky 4 sea, Or any route they please—by Benne, by Cape Horn, by the Nicaragua lake, and the ehip canal, when it ie ‘made. Let them use all these routes, and bave prosperous voyages on all the rouws. But let us who live inland, and own land all the way to California, and are almost half way there—ict us have a road on the land; and Lot for ourselves only, but for all— for the Atlantic citics az well as for the interior—for the North and South as well as for the centre; for a contra, road suite. ‘Tbe present administration is the deadly enemy of this central route. It i# for anything in preference tw this route—for an outeide road north, along the frozen lati. tude of 49; for an outzide road south, along the burning sands of Sonora and Sinaloa; for a foreign water route through Central America, seven thousand miles round and it is for this foreign route that we have all the quar rel with England about the Bulwer-Claytou treaty, the Mosquito coust, the Ruatan Island, the Bay of Islands’ and the Nicaragua canal; and it is for thie also that we have the libellous perversion of the Monroe doctrine. Enmity to this road, and prostituting the powers of the government to defeat. is one of the great offences of this administration—an offence against the whole Union, but cepecially against the State of Missouri, the natural route for the road, and along which it is already one-third built —from the Atlantic coast to the centre of this State, and where jt would be in communication with all the rstiroad lines and all the st ambont navigation of the thirty States on this side of the Rocky Mountains. But this is a large subject, and require @ full speoch to itself, whieh it shall receive, b The c.owning of all these attempts to pick a quarrel With Great Britain is in the recruitment question, and in the dismiseal of Mr. Crampton. This crown to the work js the bor of Mr. Cushing, whose fitness to make foreign war, or to guard domestic rights, may be seen in his own account of his mission to China, and in his speeches in Congress, justify ing the British attack upon the steamboat Carolin ‘nder the flag of the Union, and moored to our carded by stealth, her Crew slaughtered in p, and the vessel’ set on fire, and, wi apt in flames, eent plunging Over the Falls of Niagara with the dead and dyirg on board. Al) that Cashing justified, for which he was scourged upon the spot by William 0. But- Jer, of Boptucky, and who took tbe scourging a a man stantly. our own State is the theatre of a commotion which dis: turbs us at home, and injures our character abroad. Peace is my object—the sunshine of peace for the State, ee pe eseeant the aid of all good men is solicited in obtai it. We have a fair nomination for the Presidency- § man who can be nationally elected, and whose air 8 must be national. He will need support. He is not going to repose on a bed of roses, but rather on the thorny pillow. Our country is in a deplorable condi tion. Fraternal affection gone—sectional hate engen- derec—extreme parties in the ascendant. Violence overspreads the land; we open no paper without seeing bicod. The whole country seems to be without govern ment, and the Territories are 90: Kansas in civil war; Utah in revolt; New Mexico worse off than under the Spanish viceroyalty; Oregon carrying on Indian wars for itself; and a State—California—driven to the resource of voluntary associations of citizens for the protection of life, liberty and property. The present administration, in violating sacred com- promises, is the author of all the violence and disorders which overspread the Jand. I foresaw and foretold it at the time, and strived against it. Prevention was my remedy; that having failed, a cure of the disease must be attempted, The people have rightly judged that the authors of the disease are not physicians to cnre it. They have called in a new doctor, and we must help him in the application of all the remedies he shall prescribe. Citizens—The eyes of Europe and America are upon this eicction, not as it ccncerns men, but as it concerns the great questions which alarm and ‘agitate the country. It represents the principle of peace, of order, law and Justice, at home and abroad. Europe and America knows that fact; and as the election goes, so must be their inion of the continuance or ceseation of the present de- plorable state of things. From Kansas. [Correspondence of the St. Louis ecctilbaal Lawrence, K. T., June 16, 1866. A young man named Hopkins was shot early this morn- ing, by a man named Haynau, both residents of this city. The deceased was a Kentuckian, in favor of makinj sas a free State. Mr. Haynau and his wife went before the Committee of Safety this forenoon and made their Statement. The testimony of the wife differed very ma- terially from that of the murderer. By their statement it seems that the deceased went to the house of Mr. Hay- nau, forced the door, entered the house and fired several shots, none taking effect. Mr. H. then took his revolver and ¢. the deceased through the heart, killing him in- By the testimony of these interested parties, Mr. Haynau is justified in doing what he did. It was done in self defence; but after the man was killed, Phe me onl sation with some of our citizens, declared had “killed foar other men, and had his eye upon eight others.” He is now acti ag deputy sheriff of Douglas county, and ag such used the troops this morning in ar- resting a man named J. Colburn, and taking him to Le- compton. What Colburn was taken prisoner for no one knows, as there was no writ out for him. The United States troops, which have been stationed at Topeka for the last three or four weeks, received or- ders to leave there and go Turkey Creek day before yesterday Perhaps it is to prevent the sacking of that city. 'y it is reported in this city that the Kickapoo Rangers passed up towards Lecompton, on the north side of the — yesterday, Their object is not known to our people, This evening a Dich came upon the coach and reports that Col. Sumner, with his troops, wore driving the armed bands out of Kansas, and that 150 had left fo Westport. They threaten to return again as soon as th United States forces have left. Our Newark Correspondence. Newark, N. J., June 25, 1856. The Recovery and Burial of the Body of Mise Frederikson ‘The body of Miss Magdelana Frederikson, formerly in the employ of Rev. John Schiwarts, who was lost at the burning of the steamer City of Newark, was found by some fishermen and drawn to shore somewhere in the regioa of Bergen Point; and after the form of inquest re- quired by law, the body, acoording to the heathenish custom of the place, was put in a rough box and buried near the water's edge, with about one foot of earth above the box. Was this, think you, te save ubor or expense, or both, that the dead should be thus put away, and thereby to the existing affliction of friends be added that of euch improper burial? But through ber German friends the body was, on Saturday last, taken up, and a jot procured in the New York Bay Cemetery, and a decent Christian burial secured. Errpruic amoxg Horsse.—In New Ham; other parts of New England, a violent epidemic pre- ong the horses. It is a congestion of the lungs, causing dificult breathing, shivering, stopping the action of the bowels, and rendering the animal powerless. The sickness lasts from eight to twelve days, and readily cured, if attended to jp season. ‘Our Virginia Correspondence. Ricumonp, Va., June 23, 1856. Whe Democracy in High Spirits—Ex-Governor Ploya Active- ly Engaged on the Stump—Whig Convention—The En- quirer and Sandy Stuart—Inauguration of a New Bronze Statue of Washington—Shooting Agvay—The Weather, de., de. At no period in the history of party contests were the democracy known to be in better spirits than at present. They regard Fremont’s nomination as thc @nost favora- ble result for them that could possibly have ensued. They Jook upon McLcan’s rejection as a mest fortunate circum” stance, for they held him to be the most dangerous com- petitor that could be chosen by the black republicans. While entertaining the strongest hopes of success, they feel that to permit themselves to indulge any feeling of apathy at a time when the peculiarly sectional character of the contest affords such a good opportunity to win ad- ditional Southern aid, would be criminal in the last de- gree. Hence they are actively at work, and seem more a pxious than ever to bring into requisition the best talent which the party can afford, i Ex-Governor Floyd, who is certainly one of the ablest and most effective stump orators in the South, has al- ready taken the field, He addressed a large assembly at Lynchburg on Friday night last, and, as 1 am informed by a private letter from that place, delivered one of the ‘most powerful and effective addresses ever heard in that own. 4There 1s probably no men in the country who has rendered more efficient aid in secur- ing the nomination of Mr, Buchanan than he hes. To his zeal in behalf of “Old Buck’ curing the past winter, is mainly due the firm stand taken by Virginia in his bebalf, He toiled, as Thave had good opportunity of knowing, late and early, to effect that ob- ject; and with such influence as he wields, thus actively exerted. no other result could have followed. Apart from his unflinching and stern democracy, of which the name of Floyd, in Virginia, is the syn mh, he wields a power ful intluence through the medium of an extensive family connection, which is coeval with the independence of the Old Dominion herself, Iam informed that the ex Gover- nor will address the Spartan band of this city early next month, in compliance with an invitation extended to him by the deme cratic association of Richmond. I will fur- nish you with a full report of his speech, which I have no doubt will be found unusually interesting. The 16th of next month has been fixed vpon for the holding of a whig State convention in this city. I can form no idea of the object of this convention, unless it is the adoption of some plan to prevent the accession of any aid from the ranks of the old line whigs tothe democracy. The fact that many of the papers Waving the names of Fillmore and Donelson dis- played in their columns as their Urst choice for the Presi- dency were the most zealous advocates of this whig movement, gives strong feasibility to this view of th matter. It would be a strange inconsistency in these journals if, after aiding to procure Fillmore’s nomination, and advocating his election with all the zeal of which they were capable, they should now abandon that posi- tion, and take up some old line whig in preference to Fillmore. His recent hob-nobbing with the Pope has, no doubt, given the faithful a distaste for their champion, and probably produced some doubts regarding his fidelity to the Know Nothing principles. This hob-nobbing and fraternizing with his Holiness is not compatible with per- fect soundness upon the anti-Catholic doctrines of that party. It is this view, probably, that has actuated the brethren in this new move. I have reason to think, not- withstanding this circumstance, that my first view of the object of this Convention, that of preventing the accession of any aid or comfort to the democracy from the old line whigs, is the correct one. Meanwhile, every effort will be made by the opposition to neutratize that movement. There is every feasible prospect of success in that ello: for many old’ live whigs, indeed ali of them, who ha: thus far ‘stood aloof trom the Know Nothings, secing the issue in the coming contest to be, not whether Americans or the Pope shall rule America, but whether slayery shail exist in the Territories or not, and whether the doctrines of State rights shall be maintained, will not hesitate to ly themselves withthe party most clearly identified with the latter doctrines. The Enquirer of this city, referring to the letter of your Petersburg correspondent on the subject of a pending ne- ‘otia‘ion for a fusion of Southern Know Nothings and Northern nigger worshippers, does not hesitate to partica- Jarize Alex. H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, as the ‘‘distin- guished gentleman” to whom reference is made by your correspondent a3 the agent in this extraordinary movement. The dieclosure has caused not a little sur- prise; and if effect it is likely to have, it will be to add to the strength of the democratic nominees in the South. The extent of this coalition is understood ‘by many to be the retention of Fillmore in the fleld, in order to draw cff as auch Southern support as possible from. the democratic candidates. The plan will, no doubt, prove a very effectual one, and that such a project is or will be fixed upon many regard as certain, in view of the utter hopeleseness of Fillmore’s election. ’ Nothing short of bis retirement from contest can remove the idea ‘of an existing compact of the character indicated. ‘The ceremony of inaugurating a new bronze statue of ‘Washington will take place at the Lexington Military In- stitute, in this State, on the 2d, 3d and 4th of next month. Addresses will be delivered on the occagion by Governor Wise, L. M. Keitt and other distinguished gentlemen. The statue was executed by Mr. W. M. Mubard, of this city, from a model taken by himseif, under a special privilege by the Legislature, from Heudon’s celebrated marble statue in the rotunda of the Capitol. It is a fac simile of the original, and esteemed by all who have seen it asa production of great merit. Mr. Hubard receives $10,000 as his compensation, which was appropriated for this purpose by the last Legislature. ‘A report reached here last evening ef the death by shooting of a Mr. Kenna, of Kanawha county, in the western part of the State. It is said that a difticulty oc- curred between himself and bis brother-in-law, a Mr. Lewis, arising out of some domestic difference, which led ‘ation of Mr. K. from his wife. This enraged the brother, who, in the course of a coutroversy upon the subject of these ‘difficulties, drew a pistol and shot Mr. K. dead on the spot. The deceased was a lawyer of con- siderable distinction, and a gentleman of great influence in bis section of the State. He was a delegate to the state Convention which nominated Wise for the Governorship, and was, toavery considerable extent, instrumental in procuring his nomination. He was owner of a large tract of valuable coal lands in Kanawha, and, if I mistake not, had extensive business connections with gome coal mining companies in New York. 1 will probably be able, in a day or two, to give more fully the particulars of this sad calamity. Yesterday was the warmest day we have had thus far this season. The thermometer stood 94 in the shade and 130 in the sun. The heat continued unabated up w 3 o'clock this afternoon, when a violent thunder storm set in, which was followed by a heavy fall of rain. Harvesting is progressing very Mecrnt dh in this region for the past week. The wheat crop will fall considerably ote of an average production, but corn and oats promise well. Very general complaints are made here of the diffl- culty of obtaining copies of the Herp. The supply re- ceived at the newspaper depots in this city is exhausted in Jess than one hour after their roveipt. Our Mackinaw Correspondence. Tuk Mission Hover, Mackinaw, June 11, 185 Beauties of Mackinaw—Grand Democratic Rejoicings in Favor of the Nomination of Buchanan, dc., dc. “ Who hasn’t seen Mackinaw had better hold his jaw,” although no improvement on ‘ Quien no ha visto Seviglia, 10 ha visiouna mara viglia,’’ is still a vety forcible West- ern proverb, The writer having seen Mackinaw is ac- cordingly under no bonds to “hold his jaw,’’ and conse- quently lets loose on the Heratp. This lake girt island of Mackinaw, rising from out of the blue waters, and covered with verdure to its lofty crown, old Fort Holmes, offers to the tourist unnumbered attractions, as regards beauti- ful views, lovely drives through leafy woods, and sylvan walks of miles in length. One of the loveliest of the walks is that from the Mission House to Arch Rock, a great na. tural curiosity, not second to the great Natural Bridge in point of the exquisite beauty of the’view from the arch. The blue waters of the lake, the graceful trees descending tothe pebbly beach, the varied effects of sunlight and shadow, all go to form a picture fit for a Claude to copy. Nor is this the only curiosity; their name is numberlose every walk rev them to the visiter. If you want scenery, this is the spot; if you want fresh, pure, healthy air, a splendid appetite, a retreat from dust and heat, cool nights and refreshing sleep, come to Mackinaw. You needn't put on three shirts a day, and dance the German cotillion d la Newport; you needn’t * fight the tiger,” or drink yourself blind @'la Saratoga, or consider yourself a poor exile, and have the blues, dla Long Branch. But you can dress, dance, drink or be dull, just as the humor suite you, and ‘not as Mrs. Grundy says. ‘There are as yot but few visiters at Mackinaw; but two weeks more and they will begin “piling in” and’ recruit- ing, (i. ¢,. gaining health), not enlisting soldiors for the United States and Kansas, not by any means. There is a company up in the fort at present, and they add by bry! uniform to the picturesquenog of the view from the id fort. If James Buchanan, Esq., when he steps into the Prosi- dential White House, does not remember Mackinaw, {car out the St. Clair Flats, and ehove Michigan ahead gene- rally, it will be an act of base ingratitude, after the patri- oie display by the staunch democrats of Mackinaw mado only last night. A grand illumination of the Mission House came off last night, at half-past eight o’clock, in honor of the nomination of James Buchanan at the Cincin- nati Convention. The illumination was witnessed at a dis- tance by the spirited Mackinawians, who doubtless found a solid democratic pleasure in witneseing the enterprise of the three men of their number who came forward, like the three heroes of William Tell, and dedicated their ef- forts to the cause of democracy. The orator of the even- ing wes prevented by hoarseness from addressing the numerous assemblage on the lawn of the Mission House, but the emiles of beauteous woman in some degroe com: peneated for this affliction. Mreworks were set off on tho Iewn, and a dance in the Mission House closed this high compliment to Mr. Buchanan. Over six hundred lights shoue in the windows of tbe Mission House, and the effect of the illumination on the beholder awoke his admiration and delight. The Mackinaw Band not being as yet fully organized, were reluctantly compelled to keep silence and not feast the ears with music. The indisposition of the ‘‘man who keeps the cannon’’ also prevented the demc crats from hearing its thunder tones. Still the festivities of the evening passed off with great elas. Betore mid- night the assemblage departed, and silence again reigned in Mackinaw. Count or Arrga1s, June 25.—No. 91; reserved for July 2. Now. 74, 82; reserved for June 28, No. 282; struck off, No. 67; Wall agt. Kast River Mutual Insurance Company ; argued. Mr. J. W. Gerard for appellant; Mr. Wm. C. Noyes for respondent, No. 1; Hoyt agt. Carter; argued. Mr, Job Pierson for appellant; Mr, John H. Reynolds for respondent, Taxation of Americans Resident Abroad, . SUPERIOR COURT. Before Ex-Judge Mason, Referee. Hickson W. Field vs. (he Mayor, Aldermen and Common-- alty of the City yf New York.—Ovisios.—The statate in re lation to the assessment and collection of taxes, enacts that every person shall be assessed in the town or wards in which he resides, when the assessment is made for alt personal estate owned by him, (1 Rey. St. p. 715, 4th Ed., sec. 5), and the question presented for decision is whetherr the plaintiff, at the time he was assessed for his personal estate by the assessors of the Twelfth ward, ip the years? 1863 and 1854, was a resident of that ward. Is deciding: this question it is important to distinguish temween the: popular and the legal meaning of the word “ zeside ” and: “residence.” In common parlance a man ix said to re-- side in a piace where he may happeo to %e for ashor& time, whether for business or pleasure, aud he may ins this Sense reside in two or more places in the: same year;, Dut as a men cannot exercise political right,.or be sub- ject to taxation at the same time in more chun one piace, he can haye but one legal residence at the sume time ands for the same purpose. The latter part of tho-section of the: statute above quoted is un illustration eb the, differents seases of the word, It provides that * when-a.person: shall reside during any year in which taxes may be levieds in two or more counties, towns or wards, his residences or the purposes and within the meaning ¢f this sections shall be deemed and held to be in the county, town or’ ward in which his principal business? shul bave beens iransaeted.”” His legal residence for the:purpese of taxa~ on is fixed, though he may actually rovide or dwell the: rine!pal part of lis thine in another county, town or: ward. And though his legal residence for other purposes, , such us administering on hig estate, may be imsuch otherr county, town or ward. In cases not coming. wituin this; +pecial provision the legal residenco-of a party is to be as-- certained according to established principles. By legali residence, then, is meant, the place where a persun’s po-- litical rights are exercised, and where he 14 subject to tax-- ation, (Crawford vs. Wilson, 4 Barb. S.C. R: 322), and ins reference to this question of liability to taxation, the: words ‘domicile,’ “‘ inbabitaney’”’ and “ residence’?" have the same meaning. (Thorndike vs. City off Boston, 1 Mete. p. 242; Sears yx. the same, ib. p. 250.) ‘The question, therefore, where aid the plaintiff reside a& the time the assessments in question were laid, is equiya~ lent to the question, where was his ‘domicil’? or bie» “home.”? There are certain maxims which will guide us in arriving at a just conclusion in this matter. Every: person bas a domicil somewhere, unless he 3s a mere va- gabond, (Phillimore on the law. of domicil, p. 21, 23,) ands he can bave but onc é¢emicil at the same time and for the: same purpose. Every person has a domicil of origin, which he retains untit be has poclred another, and ha: Goes not acquire another until he has manifested and car- ried into effect bis intention of abandoni his _formerr domicil and taking another as his sole domicil. The ac- quisition of a new domicil does atthe same instant ter- minate the former one, (Somerville ¥s. Somerville & Ves. 787; 5 Metcaif supplement, p. 587: Crawford ys. Wilson, 4 Barb. S. C. R. 622.) When @ person removes: lor home with intent to change it, no ngth of residence in the new place is necessary to com plete the change, it is complete by the union of the act of. removal with the intention. Length of time alone will not: do it, intention alone will not do it, but the two taken to~ gether constitute a change of domicil. (The Venu’s 8 Cr. P- Collins vs. Rivaz, 2 Curteis Eccles. R. 859.) place of domicil, whether of origin or subsequent choice being shown, it is for the party alleging a change: to establish such change by positive acts. If they do not appear, the former demicil remains. (Harvard College vs. Gore, 5 Vick. 375; Kilburn ys. Bennett, 3 Met. 199.) With the aid of these principles we may arrive at a.cor- rect conclusion in this cage, _1.—It is admitted that the plaintiff was domiciled in tie’ city of New York. If this city was not his domicil of origin, it certainly was of choice, He had lived here tha greater part of his life; his business, his family, his mane sion house, his property, were all here; he’ was well) known as one of our old’ and wealthy ciiizens, and his: liability to pay taxes as long as he actually lived bere igs not disputed. 11.—Has he abandoned his demicil?_ The: pixintiff- relied! on the circumstance of his giving up his heuse, which he: leased for a term of years, with the right: of terminating; the lease upon six months” notice, and divi ling kis furni- ture and family pictures between his two children. F cannot, however, attribute much weiuht to this fact. There are not many among us who find it convenient to keep up their domestic establishment when they go abroad for a single year, and the breaking up one’s establishment, and even selling house and furniture: would not, in my judgment, show conclusively an inten tion of abandoning one’s domicil and taking a new one in» a foreign country, But in this ease there was only a change of family arrangements, the mansion house be- longed to the son, was leased from him to she father, and! surrendered when he had no longer any use for it.’ The: furniture, &c., was not sold, bat distributed to his chil- dren, and, for aught that appears, its possession can be resumed at any moment. Neither can any inference as to his change of domicil be drawn from the fact that the plaintiff said nothing about returning to this city to the Witnesses who saw him in Paris in 1864 and 1865. Itis merely negative evidence at best. It appears that he was in Paris for the beuetit of his own and his wife’s health, and although he said he might not live to return, and thas he had no detinite purpove as to the time of bis return, yet that is very far from proving that when be left this country he did so with the intention of abandoning his domicil and residing permanently in Paris. There is not: a particle ot evidence to show that when he went abroad he had any such in'ention, and without evidence to tha. eflect his former doinicil remains, I think, however, that the power of attorney introduced in evidence show” aflirmatively that the plaintiff did not intend a je or his domicil or legal residence. That power was execute at Faris, on the 6th of April, 1854. In it he describe - himeelt as ‘Hickson W. Field, of the city of New York. gentleman, now temporarily resident in Paris, in the em. pire of France.” it recites a power of attorney given t the same partics on the 16th of June, 1852, in which hs described himself as “‘of the city of New York, gentle: man, now residing in Paris, in the kingdom of France.’* In the first power he had appointed his con-in-law, Me Jay; his gon, Hickson W. Field, Jr., and Benjamin H+ Field, his attorneys, for the term of two years from thee date thereof. In the gecond power he reappoints the. oe eeeee cestapeicps with ¢ my return. e city of New York, whensoever may be.”” Now, it appears to me that the mecouaitr ne ferences from these documents are—l. That when he executed the power in 1852 he expected to be absent for two years, or, which is the same thing, to be home in {wo years. 2. That when he executed the seeond powor he had no definite purpose as to the time of his return, but that he still expected to return and resume the management of his own aflairs, 3. That his description of himself in both powers shows that he considered him felf as still of New York, and that his absence was. but temporary. The inference in favor of his legal residence: being unchanged, to be drawn from this document, ia much stronger than any evidence adduced by the plain- tiff in support of a change. The general principles off law on this subject, and the express decision in the case: of Sears vs. City of Boston, 5 Met., 250, above referred to, fully justify a dismiseal of the complaint with costa. United States District Court. Before Judge Betts. JUNE 26.—The United States vs. Siz cases Apothecaries aj the same powers, ‘“un- A pot iesapparalus, dc.; Parker é Ca, g Grane? ‘leston,. S.C., claimants—Mr. Joachimsen stated the case to the’ Jury, as being a suit to forfeit these articles. There were Fix cases of apothecaries’ apparatus, imported into this port by Koop, Fisher '& Con, per ship Reinhardt, from» remen. ie revenue act 1842 prohibited, undor pain of forfeiture of the entire invoice, the importation of indecent and obscene prints, paintings Mithographs, and transparencies. This importation contained a number of porcelain figures, which were painted. They were of am indecent and obscene description, and that the present. Udieseih 3 ie under ai (ai oe of the Secre= ary ie Treasury. ter proving these facta, Mr. Donohue claimed that the goods were not within the act, not being ‘prints, paintings, lithographs or transparen- cies.” Those articles, he clalmed, were porcelain figures, sized with paint, and therefore did not come under the: designation of paintings. The jury found a verdict for- the United States, subject to the opinion of the. Court upon the point of law taken by the defence. The-deol- sion is reserved. taal Samegrarreney and Musical. N1810’8.—-The admirable comic pantomime entitled “Pongo,’’ in which the Ravels, especially M. Marzottl, have recently gained so much well-merited applause, ta to be repeated to-night. Mr. Hengler will also-go throughs. He ecuneiaes — Byes performances, and : Mike. and others of the choregraphic troupe, appear. in» a goand ballet divertissemont. sis Burron’s.—Manager Fleming issues a very heavy billy’ stocked with light and mirthf\l Pieces, for ihe vere fi of the patrons of this popular house to-night, The selec- tions consist of the comedy called ‘Simpson &Co.,” tha screen scene from the ‘School for Scandal,” the sparkling: ; little comedy styled the “Rough Diamond,” and th@- amusing farce of the ‘‘Post of Honor.’? Broapway.—The farce entitled ‘A Loan of a Lover’ ‘and the comical play of ‘The Toodles,”’ are to be rendered this evening by those inimitable Nobeaethusn the Wood and Marsh Juvenile Comedians. Go early, you — seat, for the house will doubticss be ag usual. Earirs Hatt.—This cool and comfortable place is nowy nightly filled by the admirers of M. Keller’s unrivalled; tableaux. The pictures are, of course, the great featar of attraction, but, at the same time, the magical of Sig. Adonis, and the Lae of Mme. Lovarnytan®> others greatly assist in rendering the entertainment: Vieasant. ‘Woon’s Mixetrers will not play the successful burleaqua, called the “ Mischievous Monkey” after this week, It universally declared to be the richest thing they have. ever Pe cuents It will be preceded by songs and danoeg. to-night. Dramatic Jonier.—A grand combinaticn of dramati@: talent is to perform at Niblo’s Garden to-morrow evenings Among other distinguished artists who will appear on the: eccasion are Messrs. Burton, G. Jordan, Wi Bland Mire. Maeder, Misees Durand, Raymond and Walt ) Mire. ‘Thos. Baker, the favorite musician, &. i Coxcert.—M’lle Adelaide Ventaldi, assisted by a nume. ber of eminent vocal and instrumental performers, is ta» give a concert at Niblo’s Saloon to-morrow evening. Tha programme for the occasion contains a variety of choica: musical gems, and from the well known ability of tha ortists it is evident they will be finely rendered, Brooxiyy Mcsevm.—A benefit is to be given here nex week for Mre. Hl widow of the late favorite actor of that name at Wallack’s. The selections embrace ‘‘ Per+ fection,”’ ‘A Soldier's Courtship,’ and ‘A day After tha Wedding,” in which a number of popular pegformers ar@ to appear. From Fort Laavexworta—aA letter from Fort Leavenworth, dated the 14th, says that all the troops a& that garrisom’ are distributed through the Territory, for the dispergion of all armed bodies of men. Lieut. Bryant's party had started for a survey of a road from Fort Rildy- u Bridger’s Pass, in the Rocky Mountains; and Lieut, Dickengon’s party was to have started on Monday last fox the survey of a road from Council Bluffs to Fort Kearns, — bt. Lowis Republican, June 22.