The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1856, Page 6

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Two conventions of the democracy were held last evening, at Tammany Hall, for the nomination of candidates for the Mayoralty. These were com- posed of delegates representing the Wood aud Cus- ftom Hone factions, both of which are arrayed in deadly pohtical hostility to each other. As they were both unanimous in the objects for which they assembled, they adjourned without coming in con- tact. The Custom House delegates nominated Mr. James S. Libby, ex-Alderman of the Second ward, while their opponents nominated the present incum- Deut of the office, Mayor Wood. Before adjourniag, the Libvyites adopted an address which makes a woultitude of serious charges against the Mayor. ‘This certainly does not look iike fusion among the @emocracy. We have received a {communication from the North American National Commi*tee, signed by the Chairman and Secretary thereof, stating that the Jeter of deciinature of Mr. Johnston, of the North American nomination for,the Vice Presidency, was surreptitiously obtained and published without ac- thority; that the committee reguested Mr. Johnston te reconsider his action, and that Mr. Johnston had written in reply, withdrawing for the present his letter of declinature4 We have not room this morn- tpg for the communication, A large number of the delegates to the Whig Ni tional Convention, which meets at Baltimore rot row, have arrived at that city. The whigs of Balti- more have made arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the delegates. Elsewhere will be found an interesting letter, con- taining the particulars of a revolt which broke out among the troops at Lime, the capital of Peru, on the 15th ult. The insurgents numbered some five or six bundred men, under General Castillo. When apprized of the revolt, the President mustered those troops which bad remained loyal, to the num» six or seven handred, and proceeded to attack to insurgents, who had taken possession of the aunt of the Inquisinon. Atter some skirmishing and a eavalry charge, the insurgeuts were compelled to retreat out of the city, and the insurrection, for the time being at loast, was suppressed. The populace were much excited during the day, but took no part in the afair. We learn by onr correspondence from Panama, that a court martial is shortly to convene on board the steamship Independence, which was at that port ‘on the 2d inst., for the trial of three o f her lieuten- ante, and perbaps of #ix or seven ward room officers, for breaches of discipline not gtated. There had been no jess than 161 desertions from the veasel— which, together witu deaths, dischaumre:, ani trans fers, amount to 220. The ship is now ninety men short of her regular complement. Advices from Daltimore inform us that the cap- tain and part of the crew of the packet ship Dia- dem had arrived at New Orleans. The Diadem had foundered at sea while on a voyage from this port. Four of ber men were lost by a beavy sea that swept her deck. Judge Lecompte, of Konsas, has written a long letter in vindication of his course in sustaining the action of the Miesvuri border ruffians. The letter is im answer to the speech of the Hon. Sehuy'er Colfax, of Indiana, made in the House of Representatives, and seems to be a personal affhir altogether. In the Board of Councilmen last eveinng the sub- ject of redistricting the city inte 60 Council districts came up, and the minority report against changing the present boundaries, was substituted for the re- port of the majority. The Board adjourned to the first Monday in October. The New York Volanteers celebrated the anni- versary of the surrender of the city of Mexico yes- terday afternoon, by a parade and supper. They numbered thirty-lve. The trot on the Union Course yesterday, between Brown Dick, Rocket, ani Lady Moscow, resulted in favor of the former, who won in three straight heate, The details are crowded out of this day's ‘asue. The time made was 2:20—2:35 ~ 2:32, ‘We give today an article from one of our cotem- poraries on the Sunday newspapers of this city, set- ting forth “the spectacle of angela weeping at the political degradation” into which they have fallen. Placido De Castro, who has been on trial before the United States District Court, charged with fit- ting out the slave brig Braman, was acquitted yes- terday. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,200 bales, the market cloving firm at I1fc. for middling wpiands, and 11/0. a 12c. for Mobile and New Orleans do. Plovr declined about 5c. a 100. per bbl., with moderate rales. V\ heat declined from Be. to Sc. per buel new white sold at #1 70, and new red at $1 66a 91 56441 57. Corn declined 2c. por bushel, and clored at 70c, for sound mixed. Pork was firm, with eaics of mess on ‘the spot at $20; 1,000 bhis. do. were sold, deliverable in al! this month, buyer's option, at #20. Sugars were stiffer, with sales of about 1,500 ry’ closing with the turn of the market im of the seller. Coffee was quite sleady, @ fair amount of sacs. Freights opened at 84. 8}d. for grain, im tik and bags, for Liverpool, and at the close, 8jd. in bulk was pail, and (d asked im ship's bags. To Havre goin wae taken at 1ée. per buchel, A Republican Convention, for the on ination of Governor and other State officers, w |! meet at Syracuse to-morrow. ‘The members of that party are called black re publicans by tie dime- crate and the Know Nothings, although it would be, in our opinion, wore appropriate to call some of them—such as Thurlow Weed and his cen- ‘véree—not black republicans, but dirty repabli- cans, We think that the democrats have a mach better lien on the epithet “black,” as a prefix to their geueral name, than any other existing par’ iy—occording to the speech of Gov. Wise—in dus country; for they appear to be more in- terested in nigger stock, in the rise and fall of the price of blacks, than apy other party in the Union at the present day. Be this as it may—as far as taste in names is concerned—the republicans—other- wise the supporters of Fremont—comprehending a variety of conflicting, though popalar and con- structive elements—will meet in convention at Syracuse to-morrow, for the purpose we have already stated. This movement is, probably—as regards this State—one of the most important of those that have taken place since the nomination of Fre- mont himself, The democrats have already put forward their candidate. Like some of the negro worshippers in the interior of Africa, of whom travellers tell us, they have selected one of the King’s sons as their reigning chief, and have slaughtered and cooked and eaten up all the op- posing candidates. Fernando Wood, one of the most prominent of these candidates, was com- pletely slaughtered; and according to all appear- anees the Custom House is busy preparing the cooking utensils to roast him, grill him, devil him and eat him up in this city, tail and all, unless he shall be able to turn the tables on them and eat them up—a dénouement which is justas likely as any. However, the candidate put forward by the de- mocrats is a very respeetable man in every rela- tion of life, in intellectual capacity and in purity of purpose ard conduct. We have known Judge Parker for nearly twenty years, and can say that a more respectable man in public life could not have been selected by the democrats. In fact, the wonder is how such acamp of negro eaters as the modern democracy is, ever selected so good a man from the king’s own family. At all events, although we support Col. Fremont for the Presidency, we are not committed to the in- sane and foolish acts of some of those who con- stitute his supporters. If the Republican Con- vention at Syracuse do not select a proper man as their candidate for Governor, we shall throw the whole batch overboard, and see what we can do to elect Judge Parker, notwithstanding the ter- rible sins whose shadows hang about him in con- sequence of the origin of his nominatioa, Thurlow Weed and his clique have put for- ward several candidates, whom they mean by the help of the Central Railroad influence and other corrupt bargainings to engineer through at Syra- cuse to-morrow. E. D. Morgan, Simeon Draper. Mr. Grinnel}, Gen. Wadsworth, Horace Greeley, and perhaps some others, have been named. Mr. Morgan is the chairman of the Republican Com- mittee, This is a private special committee, en trusted with funds for carrying on the generai campaign; but as far as we can understand, they mismanage it in every possible way. He is con- nected with the great railroad interests of this State. If nominated and elected Governor he will be their nominee and agent, and on that score he ought to be opposed by every popular element in this great State, unless we wish to sell it, with its 600,000 electors, to a sort of Camden and Amboy company on a large scale. We will not support Mr. Morgan, Simeon Draper is a very amiable man, but a good for nothing politician. He is great at a dinner speech, but if elected Governor he would fall under the influence which has put forward Mr. Morgan, and therefore we will have none of him. Mr. Grinnell comes under the same catagory. Another name has been mentioned—that of Gen. Wadsworth, from the western part of this State. He has been heretofore a democrat, and is a very respectable man; and should his nomi- nation proceed from the right quarter, with an understanding that he is not to be the agent of any moneyed oligarchy in the State, ye might be disposed to aid and assist him, in some degree, in the approaching contest. But we understand that the “little villain” of this State—as he has heen politically designated by his brothers in afflic- tion—has been endeavoring to make an arrange- ment or bargain with the friends of this gentleman. The arrangement is to put General Wadsworth forward as the nominee for Governor, provided his friends shall unite next winter, at Alt and elect the aforementioned “ little villain” ww the Senate of the United States. We are opposed to all such bargains, either before or after elec- and we should like to see the friends of General Wadeworth, and of every other promi- nent candidate for the position of Governor, set- ting their faces against all such intrigues and corrupt bargains. Another name has also been mentioned in con- nection with the Governorship. It is that of a person unconnected with any of these cliques, but associated with so many philosophical oddities and heresies that people think he would make but a sorry candidate for Governor. We a! ule to our venerable friend in the white coat, I’b‘lo- sopher Greeley, of the opposite camp in color and doctrine. A mecting was held the other evening in the Tabernacle—that common ground of unfortunate politicians—for the purpose of putting his name before the people of the State as a candidate. And why should he not be a candidate? Some of his supporters think that he is very much im- proved of late in his philosophical notions, and particularly that he is not near so averse as he used to be to roast beef, plum pudding, and a gloss of fresh lager bier. Judging from the casual glance we sometimes get at him as he passes round the corner of the next street, his ample forehead turning one corner while the tails of his cout are getting round the other, we should think that the philosopher has actually improved very mpch of late, and that really and truly he would make a candidate for Governor that might do credit to the republican party if it means to reform itself and to be the represeniative of the popular elements that have been at work for some time past in this great city and country Much interest will therefore be felt in the do- ings of the convention to-morrow. If they do not nominate a proper person—an original friend of Fremont, a man of sense, a philosopher—one who is capable of reforming his own conduct and his own principles, a& one of the vietims whom we have mentioned has done-we certainly will be inclined to help and aid the candidate of the de- mocracy. We aseuredly will not eupport any nominee of the Central Railroad oligarchy, engi- neered, aided, assisted and forced on the people of the State by Thurlow Weed and his batch of big and little villains. Resrrrvrioy oF THE Bay Istanps To Honpuras —Ovr Re.ations wits Evcianp.—In another column will be found a copy, in full, of the con- vention which has just been concluded between Great Britain and Honduras for the restoration to the latter of the Bay Islands. The terms of this instrument are as comprehensive and satis- factory as any friend of Honduras or advocate of the Monroe doctrine can desire, The first article, after setting forth as the motive of this arrangement the desire of the contracting Powers to secure the neutrality of the islands in refer- ence to any railroad or other line of inter-oceanic communication which may be constructed across the territories of Honduras, constitutes the islands of Roatan, Bonacca, Helena, Utila and Barbaretta a free territory, under the sovereign- ty of Honduras. All functions hitherto exercised by the crown of Great Britain are to cease after the proclamation of this convention, which is to take place as soon as possible after the exchange of ratifications. The privileges guaranteed to the inhabitants of the islands by the convention leave nothing to be desired. They are to enjoy the right of self-government, trial by jury, the most perfect freedom of religious belief and wor- ship, exemption from all taxation except such as is imposed for the benefit of their own terri- tory, and exemption from military service except for the defence of the free territory, and within its limits. Honduras also binds herself not to erect, nor permit to be erected, any fortifications on the islands, nor to cede them, or the right of sovereignty over them, to any other Power. We know no arrangement of this difficult question which would be likely to give such gene- ral and permanent satisfaction to all the interests concerned as that which has been thus happily concluded. By it England gets rid of unprofita- ble dependencies, which endangered her relations with this country, and at the same time secures a free transit across the isthmus for her Pacitic trade. It removes from our own shoulders the onus of a dangerous quarrel, into which the en- forcement of our views in regard to these islands must have inevitably led us. It also secures to us the same commercial advantages which England and France will derive from a line of communica- tion placed beyond the dangers arising from the jealousy or vindictiveness of foreign Powers. To Honduras the benefits are still greater. Not only is the integrity of her territory restored, but her existence as an independent State is virtually guaranteed by thie instrument. Of the develope- ment which this proposed line will give to her agri- cultural and mineral resources it is unnecessary for us to say more than that the prospect which it holds out has led to the formation of the strongest and wealthiest commercial combinatioa in connection with it that has ever inaugurated any similar enterprise. It will be seen from the letter of our London correspondent that a projé has been signed by Lord Clarendon and Mr. Dallas, constituting San Juan a free part, and placing it under the sove- reignty of Nicaragua. It is probable that asa preliminary to the completion of this measure, Great Britain will recognise the government of General Walker. There is no doubt that this step would have already been taken had not the defection of Riyas, and the stand of opposition made by him at Leon, rendered a temporary delay advisable. Necessity, however, now dic- tates an immediate selection between the two rival Presidents, and there is no doubt that the choice will devolve on the man whose courage and firmness of purpose hold out the greatest promise of stability for the new order of things. It is worthy of remark that the three great issues which make up what is called the Central American question— the restitution of the Bay Islands, the abandonment of the Mosquito protectorate, and the renunciation of San Juan in favor of Nicara- gua—might have been much sooner arranged but for the culpable procrastination of our govern- ment. In the desire to coerce Lord Palmerston to send out another Minister in place of Mr. Crampton, Mr. Dallas was left without powers to conclude anything. It was believed that in the alarm created in the English Cabinet by the Spanish policy of the French Emperor, almost any concession might be obtained from it. We do not know whether most to admire the gene- rosity of this calculation or the disregard which it evinces of the anxiety existing here on the Central American question. To secure the tri- umph of a pitiful vanity in the Crampton affair, we have been kept in suspense on this important matter for weeks after it might have been satis- factorily settled. It is this system of balancing personal against public interests, and of disre- garding principle in the conduct of public affairs, which has brought the present administration into so much discredit. It is fortunate for it that the necessities and interests of the govern- ment with which it has to deal incapacitate them from taking advantage of the errors into which it so frequently betrays them. ‘Tae Matse Evection—Smait Crowes or Coy- sonation AccertanLe.—The Buchanan organs are consoling themselves with the discovery that their late aggregate vote in Maine is almost as large as any vote which the democracy have heretofore cast in the State; but what puzzles them is where the tremendously increased vote on the other side comes from. That is a puzzler, that’s a fact; bat the mystery may be solved. If our democratic politicians, daring the last year or so, had paid less attention to their rowdy clubs, and more attention to church worship, and to the opinions of the honest, independent masses of the people of all sects, all nations, and all parties, they would have discovered ere this the secret of the milk in the cocoanut. We tare say that throughout the North there is a body of law and order men, and patriotic men, of honest religious and moral instincts against ru‘fianism and military despotism, amounting to half a mil- lion voters, who are now coming out ¢n masse upon the principle of Thomas Jefferson—that «resist. ance to tyrants is obedience to God;” with whom, in fact, the question of the Presidency has be- come a question of religion and morality, and who are rallying to Fremont to stay the progress of the Jacobin democracy. This law and order, moral and religious move-* ment comprehends areserved corps of thousands upon thousands of voters who have heretofore taken little or no interest in our political elec- tions, In addition to thie force, the young men of the North, who have lately come, and are just coming into the full possession of the elective franchiee, are almost in a solid body in favor of Fremont. These facts will explain the tremen- dous accessions to the Fremont p in the late elections of Towa, Vermont and Maine; but they furnish only an inkling of what is yot to come. The work does, indeed, go bravely on. Rupicutous ATTACKS OF THE anne AE th | kaetineas Guvmamen se 6.-ccmmecia| gga Ub Galina Geel an Ramee | Senne Sovemp atjan Gain, See te: Gik teely--dncams Conleeil Tinlad ip: ae UPON THE Norrs, axp Vice Versa.—aA certain class of journals at the South, particularly those which support the projects of such men as Governor Wie, Jeff. Davis, Stephens, of Georgia, and other fire-eaters, are eternally engaged in abusing the North, and representing all our social, political and religious relations asso many proofs of li- centiousness, immorality and atrocious fanati- cism, The Richmond Enquirer and Examiner, (and sometimes the Whig,) the Charleston Mer- cury, the Mobile Register, the New Orleans Delia, and many other similar journals, all indulge in these ridiculous tirades against the North, and attempt to show that the sentiments of Garrison and his little clique of anarchists are those of every man north of Mason and Dixon’s line. Here is a perfect specimen from the “ Muscogee Herald,” of the State of Alabam :— Free society | We sicken of the name. What is it but a conglomeration of ‘greasy mechanics, filthy opera- tives, tapali fisted farmers, and mooastruck theorists ?’” All the Northern, and es} the New England States, are devoid of society fitted for a well-bred gentleman. The prevailin, clase 0 ‘one meets with, is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own arudgery, and yet who are hardly fit for association with « Southern gentleman’s body-servant. This is your free society which the Northern Hordes are endeavoring to extend into Kansas. The folly and wickedness of these Southern presees in their ferocious attacks upon the North and Northern institutions, merely on account of the insane ravings of a few radical abolitionists, can be paralleled by more pretentious journal- ists hereabouts, who are unceasing in their efforts to prejudice the minds of their readers against the South and Southern institutions. But this system of sectional calumny and abuse, originat- ed by Garrison and his associates, never attained aby great importance until it was taken up by William H. Seward and other men of the same calibre on one side, and by Jeff. Davis, Stephens, Cobb, and men of similar character on the other. The journals at the North do not seem to remem- ber that they are engaged in a great contest op- posing certain specific acts to bring about certain specific results, but they turn aside from the straight path to indulge in attacks on the South generally overrunning with folly and calumny, and set on by Seward and his as- sociates. The New York Times, for example, which was established by Mr. Seward and his friends, asails the South, its men and its in- stitutions in the same vulgar style which is af- fected by the Southern journals when they pitch into the North. Our cotemporary, the 7'ribune, is also guilty of the same folly, and pollutes its columns with ridiculous and absurd attacks upon Southern habits and mauners, and prints all sorts of sectional calumnies. We find in the Tribune the other day an article signed “Red Republi- can,” which overflows with the most odious and absurd attacks upon the South, as is shown by the following extracts:— In the great blic, where there would be no slaves and no ollgarcy, the welfare of the working classes wou! become the majn objezt of legislation, and wr should n° denaee fee the concition of ine laborer becoming more more wretched |The philanthropist, who 1s now thrust aeide or trodden down by the myrmidons of the Southern oligarchy, would exercise a OPenefoens influ ence among ctatesnen and in society at large. * * © ‘The union between the free and slave States m' cherished by some Northern men who are freetr: who know the free States would protect Dative in in” proeed hercssoncts | bo 9 aden Rm Seens ie cerire the coma) ne! countries,although they know that the result will be the extermination of most of the present white inbabitants and the establishment of slavery. But whatever domestic reasons there may be for preserving the union between tke free and slave States, the European democrats are now pretty well “y= vinced that they baye nothing to hope but every tis fear trom that union, while on the other hand the o2. 4 of Europe regard the slave States as their natural al es. Here we find the institutions and condition of the South slandered and abused without the sha dow ofargument or philosophy, and in the old style, while we are engaged in a great contest against certain specified acts of this wicked and atrocious administration, and waging upon the great questions which enter into this Presidential election. The system of labor at the South has its evils. Every system of labor has its evils. The system of free labor at the North has evils which no legislation can cure and no constita- tion can remedy to the fullest extent. We have our poor houses, and our alms houses are filled to repletion with the overplus of a crowded pupu- lation. Industry and economy will never be sta- died or practiced by a certain class of people, in any system of society, sufficiently so prepare them for the coming of the evil day. Then again the people of the South are stigma- tized as an oligarchy. The term is as unjustifiably applied to them as it would be to the men of the North who have attained an honest independ- ence. In point of wealth we have more uumerous samples than can be shown by the South; and the rich men of the North—the Astors, Girards, and others—would form a more real oligarchy than thoee of any other section. But the idea put forth by our cotemporary, that the present union of this great republic is an evil, and that it ought to be dissolved, is wicked fallacious and atrocious. The greatness and the power and the influence of this country, which is now acknowledged and felt all over the civilized world, have arisen entirely from the union of these States, and the free developement of the resources of the country by the different systems of labor, each suited to the geographical position, climate and sail of the section. When will our cotemporaries learn common sense as practical politicians, and abandon their ridiculous abstractions and absurd theories, fit only for the inmates of a mad house? We are engaged in a contest with great practical issues, and to those issues our attention should alone be directed. Our cotemporaries should confine themselves strictly to the discussion of the great principles involved in the contest, and refrain from frittering away their force and space upon the ridiculous vagaries and absurd notions of imprac- ticable theorists. PENNSYLVANIA, THE Battie Frewo.——No doubt of it. There the democracy are preparing to dispute every inch of ground, inch by inch. It is their last gasp. To Penneylvania, according- ly, and her October election, the combined efforts of the Fremont party of the whole Union should be directed. Let every paper. every document, every man that can be spared from the stamp elsewhere, be sent to Pennsylvania, and let every man of them open and keep up a raking fire upon the military nigger driving despotism which the Buchanan democracy are seeking to fasten upen Kansas and all the Territories of the great West—for Pennsylvania is ripe for this Fremont movement for the Union, the constitu- tion, and white men’s rights. Pennsylvania, the first to lead off for Jackson, for Harrison and for Taylor, will surely go for Fremont, if his sup- porters only keep up the fire there till the Octo- ber battle~a raking fire, fore and aft—against the Kansas ruMfaniem and Ostend filibusterism of Pierce, Atchison, Buchanan, Forney, and the rotten, disjointed and demoralized democracy. Keep up the fire in Pennsylvania, hot and heavy, for free white men’s rights in Kansas, against the dernocratic policy of making more room for nig- gers at the point of the bayonet—and the work fe dene, complete stultification of the amiable Dix him- self, before we are called upon to comment upon the testimony of John Minor Botts, which sends Mr. Fillmore to perdition at once and forever. Both the witnesses are alike in one respect—they have both learned the value of Presidential favor. Gen, Dix was tricked out of ‘the mission to France by Pierce, and Mr. Botts informs us he “is under no obligations to Mr, Fillmore. The only civility,” says he, “that I ever received at his hands, during the three years of his administration, was one invitation to a din- ner.” (A good many of bis most faithful ad- herents never even got that.) “I mever asked him but for one favor in my life, which was for another, but it was not granted.” Both, there- fore, come upon the stand with similar antece- dents in this respect, and in both instances the impressions they leave behind them are precisely the reverse of those which they intended to make. There is one striking difference, however: Gen. Dix delivered his evidence with ® rueful countenance—Mr. Botts his, with a frank and joy- ous consciousness that he was confounding both judges and jury. He laid them out flat and cold with the following wave of his hand:— Gentlemen, Jet me say that if you expect that either Fillmore, Buchanan or Fremont are going to assist ae in the extension of slavery, or the admiszion of ou that you are mistaken. Neither ot je South has shut iteelf out from all opportunity for the extension of slavery or the admission lave States. If you expect that hanan, or Fill- more, or Fremont are hkely to disturb the institution of tlavery, a8 it exisw under the constitution, you are equally mistaken. Neither of them will do tv. Thus, it is quite immaterial to the South, in this respect, who is to be the successful candi- date; and it is not worth its while to take the election very much to heart. Yet Mr. Botts his a candidate, and recommends Mr. Fillmore. For what? First, because he is the representative of “a great national conservative party,” though he has not yet the probability of carrying a single State. Next, that, having been an anti-slavery man, he had changed his views, and pleaded the statute of limitation in bar of his liabilities for his former opinions. Tam very well prepared (continues Mr Botts) to plead the etatute of limitation upon Mr. Filimore’s record, prior to the time when he became the President of the United States, because he has pleaded the statute of limitation upon it himself. He bas had the candor to tell you that he was original; Ee against the institution of slaycry; that while he was the representative of a portion of the people ef New York he represented the interests and the principles of his district; but when he succeeded to the Presidenoy, by the unfortupate death of General States, let mo tell them will co it. Taylor—I don’t know whetber it was fortunate or unfor- tunate There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will— he became a new wan; be threw off all his prejudices; he was no lor ger a district representative; be was a national mab, and he administered the government upon national principles, whatever there might bave been oojectionable im bis previous record. And to give force to this position Mr. Botts quotes the language of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, who, in speaking of Mr. Fillmore, said he was “a whig, and yet did no harm to his country.” This is about the substance of Mr. Botts’ arguments in favor of Mr. Fillmore, though he naively adds: “T should like to have a chance to vote for him against Buchanan, but as to the general run of candidates they put up now, it gives me little concern whether I vote or not.” What little claim Mr. Fillmore bas to the Presidency, even by the showing of his own supporters, is nothing more than a change of opinion and doing the country no harm! The whole force of Mr. Botts’ speech is against the principles, policy and con- duet of our public affairs by the present adminis- tration, and the folly of the South in having given it its support, or in adhering to its conti- nuance by the election of an inconsistent and un- reliable politician like Mr. Buchanan, It is to be hoped his frank and lucid explanations have at least opened the eyes of the good people of Vir- ginia. If we may believe Senator Dix and Mr. Botts, neither Mr, Buchanan nor Mr. Fillmore have been straightforward men. The vindications of their characters as statesmen are nothing but ad- missions of inconsistencies; and so they must be received. In fact, both these candidates require the most skilful manipulations to keep them in shape long enough to last till election time, so strong is the opposing current which beats against their platforms. It is for such men, whose portraits, drawn by their own friends, are utterly unimpressive, ex- cept in their shadows, that the people are ex- pected to vote. By such men they are asked to renew the blunders and follies of the two last administrations; and because Fremont is not a pupil in their schools, the inheritor of their in- consistencies, and pledged to follow in their foot- steps, they are urged to vote against him. But it is precisely because he is not like the hackney- ed politicians of the old school that he is their choice. Whatever trouble Messrs. Dix and Botts find in standing by their candidates, the friends of Fremont have none whatever. They may have occasionally to defend him for having married alovely woman--for having given the people a knowledge of the vast extent of their territories—of having first floated their flag in California—for having too early in life dis played brilliant and useful talents—for being too impartial a friend of the constitution, and for being an untrammelled and uncorrupted man. But this they are willing to do, without quali- fication, either at Richmond or at Rye. They fully agree with much that was said by Gen. Dix, and more that was said by Mr. Botts. They believe that the only remedy remaining for “ a state of things disgraceful to the administration” —« dis- graceful to us as a civilized and enlightened nation”—is the election of Fremont. And the South must perceive, with Mr, Botts, that if “Tawfully and constitutionally” done, it “ far- nishes no* ground for a dissolution of the Union; and he is insane who coutemplates any such thing.” Jo. Scovitne iw ait. His Grony.—Read the telling article in yesterday's Evening State Register, on the political tendencies of the Sanday news- papers of this city, in reference to Philosopher Greeley and our next Governor. This Register is doing more effectual execution for Fremont than all our other evening papers, of the same side, put together. The people appear, at all events, to be of this opinion; for it is but a week or two since Scoville brought down bis /eyiser to (ais city from Albany, and already he circulates from six toveven thousand papers aday. He has struck a vein at last of the real staff; and if he will only stick to his text, and pursue his course with ac tivity, tact and unflinching tenacity, he is a made He publishes a racy, spicy, briek and Read the Kvening Stote Register. man. lively paper. Movrst Iau nurs Axswerep.—Our partieular friend, the Colonel, of the Fifth avenue, puts a number of modest inquiries to us rélative to Phi- locopher Greeley, such as whether we havedined Borrs on Tan Srayp—Ayoruen UsexrecreD Wrrvess.--This is a busy time. We have searcely recorded the strong arguments of Gen. Dix against bis own candidate and party, and the } | with him lately ; whether we are ready to sup- port the galvanized squash for Governor ; or whether our opparent inclination that way is a practical joke ; and Gant have conv our white-coated to @ prac school of morals and politics, &e, &, Wom vise our military cotemporary around the to read the editorial columng of the during the next six weeks, and we dare will find out what we are driving at, premises. Does our curious and inquisitivg Colonel know that patience is a virtue, and that itis dangerous for any man or any igen broach opinions one day in advance of his or to dine with any one before Sain teen tite? THE LATEST NEWS, BY MAGNETIC ANO PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Whig National Convention at Baltimore, BA.timore, Sept. 15, 1866. A large number of delegates to the Whig National Cou- vention, to be held in this city, on Wednesday, the 17th inst., have already arrived, The hotels are filling up, ‘and the city ts full of people, Much feeling is manifested a8 tothe proceedings of the Convention. The whigs of this city have extensive arrangements for the reception: and entertainment of the delegates, Hon. Francis Granger arrived to night. Meeting of North Amricans at Albany. Aupayy, Sept. 15, 1856, ‘The North Americans held a meeting at the capitol, thid evening. Samuel Hammond, Esq., addressed a respectable meet- ing, which assembled in the chamber, and Chauncey Shaffer, Esq., a larger one which assembled in the hall. Much oonfusion prevailed at the outer meeting, and for some time an interruption was threatened; cheers were Proposed for Buchanan and Fillmore, and groans for Fre- mont. After a time one or two of the noisy persons were ejected, when the meeting passed off smoothly, The number present was not large, but respectable, at both meetings. Democratic Gathering, dc. Paitape.paia, Sept. 15, 1866. The Hon. Howell Hobb, of Georgia, addressed a large democratic gathering this evening, in the Eighth ward of this city. Great preparations are making for the democratic torch« light procession which is to take place on Wednesday. ‘The buildings for the approaching National Agricultural Exhibition, at Powelton, are completed and books have been opened for entries by the oxhibitors. Kews from Washington. ‘Wasaina: Sopt. 15, 1856. It ia understood that owing to ‘ue unsettled political Condition of afluirs in Nicaragua, no new Minister from that country will at present be received here. Death of Hon. W. W. Irwin. Prrrssvnq, Sept. 15, 1856. The Hon. W. W. Irwin, a promiaent lawyer, formerly Mayor of Pittsburg, member of Congress from this die trict, and Charge d’Aflaires to Denmark during Mr. Ty- Jer’s administration, died here this morning. The Southern Mall—Loss of the Ship Diadems Barriworg, Sept. 16, 1856. New Orleans papers of Tuesday of last week are re- ceived. ‘The captain and part of the crew of the packet ship. Diadem, from New York, bad arrived at New Orleans, The Diadem bad foundered at sea, and four of the crew were lost by the heavy sea that swept the deck. Yellow Fever at Charleston. CuaR.eston, Sept. 15, 1856. There wero three deaths by yellow fever at Charleston on Saturday. ‘The Marion at Charleston. Caarcaston, Sept. 15, 1856, The United States mail steamehip Marion, Capt. Wm, Foeter, from New York, arrived here this (Saturday) morning, at eix o'clock. Arrival of the Knoxville at Savannah. SAvannan, Sept. 13, 1856, ‘The steamship Knoxville arrived here from New Yori at 8 o'clock this mornin; road, 13%; Peaniyiven ALBANY CATTLE MARKET. ALBANY, Sept 1 1886, PB ng et aie ee week were, 8. Ay eves, cows, 5,002 #l swine a 100 ibs; cows, $260 840. No sales of of sheep. we sales of 4,000 bushels, at $1 68 for blieCanadias, lav lower; four row. jl 29; two rowed, $ 22,000 bushels cor at 67c., half afloat. ‘tales of 10,000 bushels oats, at 42)¢0. a dic. for State, THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION, The Negotiations between the United States, Great Britain and Honduras. OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. Convention between Great Britain and Honduras for the Restoration of the Bay Islands—Signature of a Pro- jet between England and the United States for Placing San Juan under the Sovereignty of Nicaragua—Probay Ue Recognition of General Walker by Great Rritain— Use made of the Central American Question by the United States Government. I send you enclosed a complete copy of the Convention for the restoration of the Bay Isiands, The only essen- tial and peculiar part of the general treaty you are al- ready in porsession of. A copy of the Convention touch- ing the continental limits of Honduras, disposing of the territorial pretensions on behal! of his Mosquito Majesty 1 will forward you, if possible, by the next steamer. I bave just heard that on Wednesday last, the 27th, be- fore going to Scotland with the Queen, Lord Clarendon signed a projet with Mr. Dallas, to be submitted to Nica- Tagua, putting “an Joan under the sovereigaty of the lat- ter State, merely providing that It shall be commercially afree port, The Mosquito question is disposed of, as I explained to you im the summary which 1 sent you some weeks ago. If Walker comes out victorious against the clements now combined againet him, sure he will be recog. nized by the British government. The subtle moye- ments of Louis Napoleon in the direction ef Spain baye alarmed Fogland, and she feels that whatever alliances she may bave on the Continent, trom motives of policy, she bas no friends there, and that she cannot afford to have an enemy in the United States. Ibave no doubt that these considerations have had their due weight in bringing about the Centra) American from the circumstance tha!—al) statements to the con- trary notwi'betsading—the gove-nment at Waebington did not give Mr. Dallas powers to conclude anything, ‘They evidently thought to take advantage of the desire of the English government to settle the Central American affair to force it to send a Minister in place of Crampton, Tt te thus that opportunities of setting difficult questions are gambled with to effect political purposes. CONVENTION BETWEEN GEEAT BRITAIN AND HON- ee, RELATIVE TO THA BAY ISLANDS. the Queen of the United Ki: of Great jer Majesty ‘ingdom priisia and [re'and, and the republic of Honduras, being deetrous to ima friendly manner certain questions connected with the territorial "vmaita of the repr a pea ve, mostare resolved to conclude a Cat for that bave ramed as their plentpotent — "4, “ cm ond the ‘followiag graphical posith neutrality of the ielands ‘adjaornt taereto, with reference to spy railway or other line of inter oceanic communisa- tion which may be constructed acrors the territories of Jionduras, her Britannic Majeaty and the Ay med of Hon. ouras agree to constitute and declare the islands of Roa- tan, Bonacca, Helena, Utila and Barbaretta, situated in the Bay of Honduras, a free territory, under the sove- reignty of the republic of Honduras. he preeent legis’alive, judicial and executive nuthort- ties in sald leiand sball rematn im the exercise of their fepetions until the i Assembly of the said isiands = herwise provide, with, however, the following ex. ceptions » an functions hitherto exercised by the crown ot Great Britaip, and by the Governor of Jamaica, in the govern ment abd Le ope of the said island, shall cease from bo] date oe J Fane | § hee! Convention ‘therein; ard enoh proctamation e made as soon ag poreil after the kobe of ratifications ee All functions bitherto exercire! by the superintendent of the Britieh setelements tn the May of Honduras, in the capacity of Lievtenant Governor of the said istan ‘ie, and by the Ba: Magistrate therein resident, in the t and legielation of the «aid telanda, shall conse, wix iti wer The an above mentioned, unless the Legislative Asembly shall sooner provide wg tiene imei irae vee pr eu dati(uter for abliants 0 ree Territory shall then permas. ees the following rights 2d immunitien, - govern themselves by meane of their own mite ba sf he wha wehave done, and what we mean to do, in the .