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‘which I am entirely indeb ei to the research and Bcourate sential a. kuewledcoe of Mr. Sater, speaks volumes o| nod treatment and phy: Gomfort of the Southern slsve, : Mr. Garrison differed entirsy on these pointe Trom Mr. Parker, and did not sdwit the cal; ofthe North, or the mitigation of Southern c»mplicl- Bip aver , at least to she exteny aliowed by Mr. . ‘and denounced the system o* slavery, as practised in the Southern Smtes, a4 the worst in the world, “What,” said 1, “‘w 4 auder the Ro- ‘Man empire, in which the master could at will a jis slaves to death?” He thereupon corrected him. Belt and avid, “The worst in modern tines” Some conversation ensied between Mr. Parker ‘and myself as to the allezed hybrid character of amulattoes, and their inatitity to perpetuate their ‘kind, as mulattoes, by coutin ious intermarriages, or marrying in and in, as it is termed. He mentioned metances of three geperali us o! such mulattoes at the North; but admitted that he, like myself, was only on the inquiry as to this point, ithen another fieid 0; ciseussion, and con- tended that Northern interferesce sud aggression had retarded instead of adsancing emancipation in ‘the 3 had strengthencd the institution and weldea the South together. as one man, in its support and detence; that Maryland and Delaware had, atone vtime, nearly left the Soutiern fold, bat were now back again, where they were before. as members of the Southern flock or tami!) ; that Virginia, in 1832, had entertained the question o' the abolition of sla- very in her State Convention Lewislitare, the Ric] Enquirer, ander Mv. Ritchie. and the Bich- mond Whig, under Mr. Pleasaais, vielug with each other in denouncing slavery as » curse to Virginia, and in clamoring for its s a, aad the measure having narrowly escaped <uece-s—but that a coat of tar end feathers would prob ibly now await the man in Virginia who should venture to 1e.ew the propo- sition; that Kentucky, despite the emancipation’ proclivities of Mr. Clay, #9 jar as his own S.ate was concerned, (but not as to the plantation Stares, for he held domestic slavery to be their unaiterable inherit- ance, 80 fur as human agency went.) and of her Ohio border, had Seacionsly adnered to the system, and cast her lot, now and forever, wivh ber sister slave- holding States; and that Missouri, although with but 70,000 er 80,000 slaves in a population of 700,000 or 800,000 souls, was co resolute in the maintenance of the institation of slavery ax t> subject herself to the charge of Lo gth re rye ia rd ae A a sr ropegation; strengthening of the nee power, by rendering the slaveholdling States a “eB in sentiment and in upell mn, was ane to the = le re against, and foreign interference wit! Bouthern slavery; that the pride and passions of the Sonth had been ‘now roused in defence of an insti- tution, interwoven, with their lile strings, ond identi- fied with their homes and their hearthstones with their Penates aud their Lare-—and they would never yield it but with th+ir hearts’ blood and their lives; that Northern interference had also induced Southerners to probe the ques- “tion and philosophy of slavery to its profoundest depths, and to discover that it was defensible and » both on economical and Scrip{ grounds; and that, on the latter cround, it was as im- preg nable as the rock of Gibraltar, or the rock of of divinely inspired and divinely sanctioned truth: that, whereas, the aystew was once general- ly held in the South to be un evil and « sin, and ‘wus gradually getting undermived, as least in the ®oeuthern border States, trom causes working with- in themeclves, it was now no longer regarded as an evil, any farther than free labor is regarde’ as an evil, (both of them, however. in God's provi- -dence, full of compensations, and the former much more so than the latter), or as sin, in any respect; but, on the contrary, as conformable to the revealed will of God, and as apart of the oe -effect the great of snbduing the wilderness of America to jarposes of civilization, aud, per- haps, ultimately of accomplisbing the reflex ac' oruens and Christianizing barbarous and be- nigel Africa: that, so long as there was abo- li interference, from abroad, or cutside of the slaveholding States themselves, the institution be- came stronger and stronger, by the operation of well understood we? of human nature, among which is of doieg nothing on com- pe that I m: CE a been at ease on the subject of the lawfulocssof slave- , and weil remembered that, while a stadent in the ith Carolina College, in the year 1819 or 1820, [had commenced a debate, in a college society, with these ‘worde:—*That slavery is an evil, entailed on us by our ancestors, is universaily ad uicted;” but that my ‘opinions had long since undergone an entire revolu- , and By eed See Willy a8 “— on me eal now it a8 not short wry pacoarday vo call tbat sin, which Jehovah nd ed and patriarchs practised and which Christ and his — sanctioned and regulated: and that, forthis change and revolution, in Southera sentiment and , we were indebted to the abolitionists, and baps more to Messrs. Garrison ana Parker than any other two men living. Here Mr. and Mr. Parker both said that 1 should then thank, rather thau denounce them for their course. I answered, of a surety, I did thank them, not for the motive, but for the unde- and would; and especially if he attem, ons of our pee or excite t! discontent, by them of his views. Not party to s against him, as I disap- Fiat tere Soy constituting the ‘uob, (although less so in Southern ble and orderly popu ation, in great measure, white mob aot FS 7 “not be turned out im favor of one in such ill odor with the Mr. Garrison next of freedom of discussion, to our slaves of the right to that no North- ern or allowed to discuss the Southern proceeded to explain one might treely discuss the ques- tion in the ; bat that no one would our slaves, to enter into TF Eos manner, oc ot , ee teech ing up « edition and ‘lass now contented sna and best fed and best clothed, and morally and the me the Toerriest lation in the world: No more jamolested, to make my among & numesous gather- ing of laboring engaged on one of the and 7 Beaspireey spotlati of pab- lic peace. was, Sas fee ae and not . some one, in isms" — and I do not believe be per- mitted at it were practical violence were apprehended as Sarely, if it of such liberty or licentiousness of speech, the police of either Boston or New York would ar- rest and nip the mischief in the bud, by the prompt- ost and most active interference. ‘As to Southern laws against allowing slaves to read and write, I stated that I knew them to be a dead letter in South Carolina, (and Mr. svawson said they were #0 likewise in Alabama,) and I believed them to be so in the entire South; and that, in South bn nar leading men were in favor—as 1 myself wiping those laws from our statate book, as contrary the spirit of Protestant Chrie- tianity, which could not consistently permit the Bible to be a sealed book to any haman being, of any color or condition. I J was not only in favor of wing slaves to learn to read and write, ee no injary Cor tered from such &® course, a6 our negroes were gious even superstitious race; and, were they Sorte reed, would scarcely read anything bat the Bible and Hymn ; and that even incendiary pamphlets would circulate harm! among them, by either being ‘unread, or the better and holier and teachings of the wacred volume. Twas asked if it was this last stated reason that had inclined my mind in favor of extending this privilege to the negroes? I an- Femmes ene etna were ved into Jamaica, preveeeey, Pil, eee oe rr hom and their descendants, bat 311} 73 Years, to be emancipated in [838 tho,italeof the Br! ‘aah nct. “in the whole of the British West Indive there, were iaetasactan as "ayo he tae is iis i 333 ih cet Ey ; i l zs i f Fi NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1856. swered no, that I hoped I was actuated by a higher mwotive—the spiritual welfare aud e‘ernal interests of the negro. Here Mr. Garrison remarked that neither the the Ubarleston Courier, nor rere would dare, or venture, to maintain such senti To which I replied that they both would, and the Courier Mr. Garrison still doubted, bat I insisted, and said time should bring him proof of the correctness of my assertion. I wasasked if these opinions of mine, and the pro- gress of missionary effurt among the slaves in the South, indicated’ that eiwher I or the South was acting with a view to toe ultimate emancipation of the negro race? I answered, “Not at all. Vhey are wholly irrespective of any such play. which does not enter at all into my mind or the Southern miud. Domestic slavery is regard- ed as the perpetual and not unfavoroble destiny of the South, anicss and until it shall please Providence, a+ sop.e day, ip the very remote fubure, to extingatsh it, or rewove it, from: our borders, by an exodus greater and as miraculous as thrat of the Jews.” Leiated that the attemptea insurrection of 1822 in Charleston was due. us testified by some of tae witnesses, and seme of the cri@inals, in part, to the circulation of incendiary abolitios pamphlets among our slaves, and ty the dircussié:s incident to the Missouri question, and intimated that | held Mr. Garrison responsible, im some meagare, for taat in- tended but frastvated tragedy, and that it had re- sulted in oo wpe restrictive of emancipation in South Carolina, which could formerly be effected by a simple process be!ore one or two magis‘rates, but pow ould only be done, either inter vivos or thumously, by act of toe Legrelature. Mr. Gi in thereupon set me right as to the chronol gy of his sbolitionism. Ithink he said i: did not commeace beiore 1831 or 1532. I amended the record accord- ingly, and added that my knowledge of him dated nom his editorsbip of the Liberator, which had caused him to be led about the streets of Boston, with a rope round his neck and a mob at his heels. He or some one else said, “It was a Synth Carolina rope.” I replied, ‘Perhaps ao, but it was pnt on by Massachusetts bands,” which was assented to. T asked Mr.Garrison, asa test questiva, whether, if Massachusetts, like South Caroliua nad, withia her hits, more black than white people, he would then be in favor of bestowing political and socal equalit on his sable protégés. He said he certainly would. I replied that he was then an honest and con- sittent abolitionist, and my opinion of him was from that instant somewhat changed for the better; and that, however, much I might deplore bis errors and delusions, I could still respect an honest abolitionist; that I did respect Ger- rit Smith, for instance, who had proved his sin- cerity, by pouring ont his money like weter, for the objects of bis mistaken sympathy; but that I cor- dially and may ie despised and deiested such men as William H. Seward, Charles Sumner, John P. Hale, and the hke, who, I firmly believed, were only using free soilism as a meaus and tree soilers a8 tools to accomplish their seltish purposes and ob- jects ot unballowed ambition. Mr. Garrison admitted or rather asserted, with some bitterness, that pro-slavery-tsm, in his accepta- tion ot the torm, was yet in the ascendant even in Massachusetts, and as well in the pulpit as in the social and political walks of life; he regarding all as pro-slavery men, who do not go to the extremes that he avd Mr. Parker do. Mr. Parker or Mr. Garrison questioned me as to the disunion proclivities of the South. I reptied tuat, if Kansas, by fair vores, without interference, by either “border ruffians” or “(ree soil ruffiaus,” shoaid form a State constitution, with a a ry clause in it, ang should be rerused ad: op into the Union on that ground, as sure as there was a sun in the heavens, the Southern States would dissolve the Union, at all hazards, and form a Southern confede- racy; that,as a Union loving, conservative South- erver. such a course approved itself to my jadgment, and that 1 might be tairly taken as au index of the sentiment of the Union men and conservatives of the South; and that, as the South was one sen- timen' vow, so would it be one in action when the crisis sbould arrive. Mr. Garrison expressed his high Eegracstion at hearing this, and indeed gloated, with delight, and even with fierce joy,at prospective disunion; and th several voices exclaimed, “‘the one idea, the one idea,” implying tbe exclaimers regarded him as a monomaniac on the subject, and that they differed widely from him. He said he would rejoice in any event that would entirely relieve the North of its compli- city with the iniquity avd guilt of slavery. rr. Parker did not indicate his views on this point, bat L strongly suspect him to be in full sympathy and accord with his friend, Mr. Garrison. Notwithstanding the ultraism of Mr. Garrison, he declared himself a peace man, and that he is for efiecting his purpose of the entire eradication of siavery from the land, only by mild mega § mange means, and by such patieat eadurance a suf- fering as were characteristic of the meek and lowly author of Christianity, and should be sw. 80 of his disciples. In this pacific phase of his abolition- iem he styled himeelf, or recognized himself, as “‘a Newburyport man” or “‘abolitionist,”—a ion which was not otherwise explained than by its con- nexion with the confession that “his hts were tarned on ,”’ and by his reference to Mr. Park- er as “a Buuker Hill man,” or “abolitionist,” from which I inferred and understood that Mr. Parker's “ voice was atill for war,” in the accomplishment of abolition, by any and every means, however vio- lent or revolutionary. Fiat justitia—ruat ccolum, is the war cry of the latter, while the former deludes himself with the belief that, by his machinations and in’ only pro- . towards in “the strong delusion” that i 8 & i 3 i 5 i i i ty {rk sie zt E : 4 i = is ry Ea i : i iE | E F rea at ctl i ME F A : 5 i i =, a H Fa INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY—THE MILITARY STRENGH OF THR AOUTH. Tt is a wide spread, but as widely erroneous an opinion at the North, that there ia in the South 9 wense of ii ‘and a constant of BR wap SER, ees "ant eee sense of security is perfect; we to oar dum- bers, with eur Mavens of ane walabers ond guart dians, to protect us and our pro; from vio- lence or spoliation. servanta | me up at ber men servants, taking their tarns by twos, were ber nightly sentinels, to guard against the © inurauders and other evildoers. And such is the custom on most plantations- Andrew Pickens Cal- houn, Beq.. eldest son of the great Southerner, (who baa recently returned, as a resident, to his native State, and now owns Fort Hili, the family home- stevd of bis illustrious father,) informed me that, iv the cotton growing region of alabama, he was one ot thirty enpernens ‘adults, { suppose, he meant,) in the midst of five tpousand alaves. Who can imagine a higher degree of secyrity thau is indicated by such a speaking tact? Besides, in all the time that gla- very bas existed in the Southern States, the worst ond the only serious icsnrrecion,which has ever oc- curved, was that of Nat Toruer, in Virginia, in 1831, when but sixty white lives fell @ sacri- fice to the mad and easily crushed émeute. Why, acciients on railroads and steamboats, steam car and steam-bailer explosions, and collisions of rail- road cays on Jand,and of ships or other vessels on the water, destroy more lives, ata time, than are here chargeable to insurrectionary account; and North- ern mobs are far more frequent and de- structive to life and property than slave disturbances in the South. In Charleston aad in South Carolina, my own native city and State, there bas been no serious or weil authenticated at- tempt at ingugrection, since the commencement of the Revolution, and for a long time before that event, except the reasonably detected ani easily frostrated one of 1822, which was of very linited extent. History records no previous one; although tradition does dimly shad >w forth one, in an early period of our colonial existence, when the African slave was fresh from his barbarian home. Yet so obstinate and excessive is tanatic credulity, that Mtss Harriet Martineau, after passing six or eight months in the bosom of our families, in city and on ee: coe home and writes a book, in which she chronicles the absurd fabrication that the people of Charleston go to hed every night, fearing (to give an Irish turn to her expression,) that they will wake in the morning and find their throats cut from ear to ear! |, there bad been time for it, I would also have enlarged on the military strength of the South, as copvected with and promoted by the institation of slavery. In free countries the peasantry, the tillers of the soil, are required to fill up armies in time of war, and agriculture suffers accordingly: but, in slaveholding countries, war disturbs not the opera- tions of the farm or the plantation, (except when they are 1avageo by the enemy, an evil to which free States are equally subject.) for the peasantry are slaves, and freemen aione constitute the military arm of the pom for both de‘ence and invasion. Nor is there any danger fiom slaves in periods of war, for two very sufficient reasons—first, the free- men are armed cap-a-pie and disciplined, and best fitted and able to prevent or suppreas revolt; and, secondly, the attach ment of slaves, geverally, to their masters is such that, a8 J waite by our Revolutionary history, when armed, they, like the trained bond servants of Abraham, in the Bible, do battle not for, but sguinst their masters’ enemies. nces were common, in the Revolati »nary history of South Caro- lina, of masters arming their slaves, and doing so eftectually, to defend jite and property British assault and spotiation; and the faithful slave often refused, under threatened and actual torture, to discover tothe Britivh or the tories the hiding places of their masters. What, then, have we to apprehend on this scJre? Nothing, literally nothing. We are content- ed with our slaves, and they are contented with us; avd Iam one of those, who confidently believe that it is not in the power of the Serpent of aboliti- onism, however Satanic bis intent, and although he may lie coiled at the very foot of the tree of know- ledge of good and evil, to diffuse his poison, or to do any serious mischief in our Southern Eden. Richarp YEADON. Letters of John M. Botte—Botts Declares Gov. ‘Wise a Madman. TO THE EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND NATIONAL AMERICAN. mgt. ag note to ee ee re et oe eorhest practicable moment, pul in Your paper #peech of his Excellency, Henry A. Wise, Governor of we Commonwealtn ot Vi @s publisned tn tho Hs. RALD Of the 30th ult., and learnestiy hope there is n> whig or American paper in the State that will hot also aii in sprenoing it broadcast before the people. Let th masnes of read. Letthem see what thi madman of their own selection is preparing tor thom. I sbould mourn over the tamentabie fact, if I could be Neve the great body of our democratic fellow citizeas were not as true and loyal to the Union as any other por- tobe ound siding and abetting im 8 conspiracy to Urin. iD, cine to brin, on & War against the United States. I bave olten hstened to the insane ravings of » wil! junatic ip the asylum, but never, never in the whole course of my life have I beard, read or witnessed the workags Of a disordered brain more strongly stampe | whb madness than ip this instance. Can it be possible for apy man to rise from a perusal of this speech without coming to the conclusion that Henry A. Wise, who thus descends from the dignity of his office, attends a town of his party associates, throws bimseif, into spasms to intlvence the public mind, to ex ette the passions of the multitude and familiarise thetr thougbts to the direful calamity of disunion, without say- ing to this man is exher a natural born fool, a tu or conspirator in fact, and a traiter in his heat! Never before bas amy maa in’ this country acknowledged bis responsibility for so sreazonable a production. Let no man suppose | intend this as « retort for he has said of me in bis speech. I write as if that were pone | obliterated from the paper. 1 have already an- sw ‘that part of it sufficiently, twice before the people, both here and in Petorsburg. { confine myself to the teasopable matter thie contains: First, then, is be # patura! born fool? I do not think he is. Is bea lunatic? I believe before God he ts par- tiajly deranged, and I bave believed so for the last aix Years; but occupying his position as Governor of the Com- Monwealth, it does rot rake him the less dangerous to the country if he acta from lunacy than from natural weakness, Is he a covepirator’ Is he engagod ino conspiracy to levy war? Read this spesch; accom- it with general orders for officering the Nob—oouple, with them hin, dally” conversations serv! w ly conversations ‘us reported ip the public strests, of his inteption, in the event of Fremont's election, to take possession of Oid Pott Comfort—(which I think there is no difficulty In es tabliabing )— the law on conspiracy, and tnen tell w is not a lonaticora , and whother it has not become the duty of the proper authoritics to bave him immediately arrested’ ‘Flere is what fe down in Burr's trial a8 conatitating ‘conspiracy to levy war.— Any combination to subvert, by force the government of the Vaited States, violently to dismember the {'nion, to com pela ol to eaure the repeal or ry law, laa iracy to levy war; and if the mo ato eect the actual emowiiment apd men for yarpore of executing the tres sonable whieh was previous! ly ronerived, it amounts to (orving of wir: and oF course the levying of war agains! the United’ States is traason, Here then is the law, and hore is the evidence of « cont ptracy to levy war, which only lacks the means urnge to carry out the ie design of the Gover. por of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Will the proper ai wait for the overt act of treason, or will they crush the conspiracy conspirators with the judgment of the law? And to avoid poy Emp on my own part, I invite the Governor to o his complaint formaliy may be subjected to all JOUN M. BOTTS. MR. BOTTS DENIES THAT HE FAVORS FREMONT. In compliance with the request of the gentlemen to whom it was addressed, the National American publishes the folowing letter — Tacnxoxn, § . 28, 1856, My Dean conaréay, betore | aarved ict Peter borg, some nd pian hand « copy of the South i A Question for Bi: Hughes. WILL THE CATHOLIO CHUKC 4s OF THE UNITED STATES SANOTION DISUNION. We Gnd the following letter, addressed to Bishop Hughes, in the Charleston Courier, of the $4 inst. — To tar Wost Rey. Axcanisnor Avcure— Moer Rev. Sik—Our Episcopal See has been for some time witbout ® head, and in this event it bas been my practice to refer to you all those questions whicd ralate to the general interests of our greet republic. My last com- munication touched the right to hold saves as aM abstract question, and was addressed to you just before the last Aeeemblage of the general convention of the Bishops of ted States. The convention, with wt a dissent- ing voice, determined tua Sena perfect right—that ‘the rendition ef Opesmus wos an exe put ation of the right and that the emtizear conld newer eutertea & duuot of the right. My communication, } repeat, was Ob Whe Abstract question; there was no direct issue oD the subject at that vay, and {was conieut with the sim- pie ceviaation of your body, which tauks be to the provideree of Almighty God, has doue much to unite the Cathotios of this vontivent on the subject of slavery. Av the prescat moment, however, the direct iasue { thea coutemp ated wat banc. I the fanatic spirit of the Northern section ot th: Nn rual succeed im e@ eating their candidate to the Prerideuey of tie Uatted States there will be the one of two allernatives presented in- stanily to the Amertcau propie—the withdrawal of the Diteru Soutdern Staten from the Union, or the formation ofa genera! copstituione! garty, which sbull ake toe mort effective measures for withetanding the adwiniatra tion of a goveruinent formed wpon President Fremont. 1 bm, ebrever kave ‘deen, agaivet the seceerion of the biawe States from the coniederacy, and will unite unre- fervecly with the Constituvopajats of the entire country for the overtbro # of the nt elect, although be may have received the constiutional vote of thy Electoral se. rauher than adopt recession asa remedy ia our emergency. This is revolution. My object ix to from you whether, ax @ Catholic, I shall be infract- ing ony of the jaws which Almighty God bas 1moosed for my moral goverpment, or, in other words, whether the eburch would absolve me from my allegiance to President Fremont, although constitutionally elect». apa thus sanctify the blow which | woald strike for the hberties of my ounien aa the interests of man- kina, DO uDim)o tant part, the vonoflenviog negro, who would be deprived of w home and wil industria! eudeavor, 1" the fapae of the oay be permitted to uss we elecive fravcbiee gusrantecd by the constitution, to break down as) that ie effer tive of gooo in that novle tastrament, the proiection of our property and our rights against the en- croschments Of each ower, or the comoliued power of the whole world tw placing this direct question before you, I ekould state that Ido not compromise the wburch us to the angry dis- «Merion BOW pr Rding of ber interference with political afwrs. I way early taughé to reduce ail propositions to thei simpleef terms. My brother offeads, | remonstrate *ba bim; be will uct listen wo 1 take Lim before the church and the church sets in the premises. If, io tae cue betore us, Vreeideut Fremont heads @ goverement thac professes oprniy to make war upon my rights aud property, Lelaim of the church to be absolved {row the wllegiance that Lowe him, aud thus to bear God's com. iscion m the war I wage agast Lim. It is a question of covectence aloug. My Protestant conlederates will pos ¥osm Do sveb autbority, avd will contend, no doubt as sadly as 1 will, but this is not enongh for me; I be heve that Almighty God bas reserve t to himself alt morai qrestor s, and that ibe church w alone the egeut to deter mine them. in closing this puble communicati#’ I must beg yeu to bear in mind the delicacy of the position we #hai! ocewpy. We can expect to find no other com- neseion then the one f pow geek. The federal sovernment will be our enemy: the federal States, ‘with all their sovereignty, witl have no power to autho rie tbe revolt, They msy become parties to it, end I trust will, but they will be as much without a commission As any individual of the reiorming orgavization, The coureb is the only source from whence we can look for the authority which ranctifies the blow ot the strong arm, lifted against ite government. It is for this reason that { submit the subject publicly for the consideration of the catnolies of the United Sates. They wil be silon the side of any measure that will save this great ropublic. They capnot be thrown too soon into connection with officers of the church, whose duty it ts to advise on this deneate moral sunject. By the 4th of March next any or- ganization that sbali be elfective for the preservation of the Union muet be bad, and its utmost efiort eterted. Most reverend sir, a word in excuse tor bringing your pave so directly beiore the public. 1 know my own sec. nion of this country, and repeat, that they are prepared for the revo. I kvow that you would be advised of the fact at the earliest cate, and from some res popsible quar tor; and bow can I do more to assure you than to ran the iiek of being termed an alarmist, sbould the star of fana- tom ek at the coming election, and the blessings of prace be resiored to this now distracted country. With he sincerest regard, | subscribe myself, yours faith. tu ly, 4. A. BRISBANE. Mr. Brisbane rays in bis letter to the Courier:— ile to Mary quertion of whether the constitutional party to wi it aliudes is ready to exter the feild and prepare the public mind for deposing a President elected as Mr. Fremont will be. In the cburch we bave long have of Popes and anti Popes, and they managed in thoee cays to eflect the substitution of the former for the latter, without tovebing, in the slightest degree, the stability of burch. it i+ net for me to say how it would bedone Political senee, but we fing in the press of the North t plans are rife. One I would refer you to, that toe President of the United States, Pierce, skould possess himseli of the treasures and archives of the government, and, eseisied by Virvinis, maintain thiogs in statu quo, ‘upill the public mind could be brought toa proper com- promise, The Carolinas and Georgia would soon sustaia ‘Virgipia, and the rest of the glave “tates comein time to svpport the movement. I need not say to you how ne- corsary it would be to unite the moneyed power of the Northern States in sustaining the iaterreguum, aod hence I bave looked to tndivivuals as well as States in the formation of a consttudonal party. T piace the Catholic booy in this commupication to Bishop Hughes, or, in fact, he places it there himself, If you will peruse the Freeman's J-urnal of New York, or aa extract from it in the Catholic Miscellany of the last issue, } ou will understand me better. He no doubt wrote tne eoitorial ip point. I bave every reason to know that the ay my is eafe, and I haye no doubt but the navy may be relied on. In One, in the conuoversy before us some measure must be ade to enlist the minorities of the ree States, the capit of those Siates, and the Catho- eo States. Soy based = Bd u bern § would, in a few months, silence the pre- saree ‘ion of what were, no doubt, exaggerated stories, Tre first outbreak, and the origin of what followed, was ‘B Saturday » When & party of mon known as mem- bers of the Empire Club attacked @ Fillmore and Donel- von eg! evening, the same party, led by John Garvey upd Jubn James, returned orcem: deavored again ents, and en- to tak m of the flag. It was Court. the rumor reterred to above, and the eveste of Satur- day night, increased the excitement ;esterday, and, as ae ee eens on ane Taney geetenny oo on ee So ee \timore Se ge cere SS ry fi & pa . tbe emerson veh eee —— Empire headqaarte corner i and Foret recs, tovenge’ (he destruction of ear it ‘ih aa. 2 i Fs% a! Eg af a fi Hj Fe vil i i hi i s Ei : i il i s i3 & ¥ fe ; iit H i § ; i i i i l hil #3 i : i i H z A i i! t French and Front streets. He received the biow om the back of the head, producing @ serious wound, snotber pamed Stepnen Murphy was also struck with & brick, and while pursuing bie asaaitants was arrested ‘by the police, Tae Irirhmen thea reipforced, aod armed with pwto 6 ane guna, when the assailants retreated into Holliday street, where several shots were fi-ed, but DO ope was twjured, The irishwmen being armed, pressed Opan the opporite party with euch force th t they fled up towards Baltimore street. 0.6 of the pursuers was armed Sith two revolvers, which he dred without effect at one man. Bickley, the man who was first struck, fell into the banda of the police, and whiie being conveyed to the on house, was knocked down and severely besten. ley, Murph ) John Miskell were arrested, all of hoin were dew Karly yesterc a ere weat into Frepeb street fu sweet temps, Dut was criven oll Fevers: pe baring Oven fired atbim, Be obtained exsmnons avd revormee to bis beat, when @ man baad Garrity «porosobet bia aod naid ho hoped the watchman woud be shoe betore meoroing. He Nas isumediaiey taken to te wareuooure and held to ai Aboat half past ¢ Pariion met te Bowe m « fight wth pi iwinvtes without or who were th ‘bat late hour ve *elock Inst vt tvo contending * it origraated, we could not ni Avother Member of the California Vigilance Committee in Troudle—Life in the Land of Gold. SUPREME COURT—IN CHAMBrES. Before Hin Judge Whiting Cor 6 —Chartea #. Duane vs, James Dow? —Applica tic for an order for arrest against the defendant was an¢ the following was issued to the the defendant in this a of tiftwen thou E sioktes, pl of New Ibe efloavit of Mr. order was issued, is as loliows:— Charles P ry, 1850, for’ the ‘Stare of San Francieo 1550, of w untit the he rey ats and also Was © co F J Was miecied Chiet Bagh cor Ainge be! lence in San fair character and r . eat, penceft] and law -ablding citizen, ith day of May rT ailing themselves th was @ me the exercise of pout erimiwal law, set a ‘and constituted Francisco, the ppolnted and eec’ 4 im their piace and s! aad baois ef armed imen who nt 0 of Visi abou! (o enie nouse, and din the hagem er whieh is eit .”” choking im of Life: that afverwards he was crag the neck fora number of Ik ¥ a quarter of n mile, oth ‘ommitiee, situated a Xacranento str le t. where he was taken to the room of Committee having painted over the ebicf entrance door the . * Oflive of the Chief of Police,” where rive or six hours; daring ail which t a oot wus detained there, that he requested entte him which was refused, he not having any food upon the day of and before his arrest; that afer ‘of five or six hours bad elapsed, he was informed that not be put im a eeit whieh bad been occupied by Jemes Sul ivan on account of the blood being in said cell; this versution having oceurre? after the death of aad James ther \ he morning: that he was taken sici ed, and refused to ial bim by his brother, which request was mot granted; that de afterwards” obtained a temporary rebet by calliog that the cell in which be wi while #0 conti ke any food unless carried te of foside, which guard wos ebay, were four persons outside of % niiaket and bayonet apd pistol, aud in ® part of the same floor, a. fronting the cell door in which deponent was coolived, tbere was a large number of men, numbering mauy bundreds, who were undergoing a drill as soldiers, and were the control of the Vigilance Committee; that while so coniined his physician deemed it necessary to cali tn, and did call in, sever ral members of the Executive Commitiee, of which the cefend- ant ie. @ member, for the purpose of show lng the danger to the health of deponent. and asking the privilege of taking him to his physician's house, or to a place where his life would not be anger, ws the conlined space and want of food bad greatly his health, which reasonable request was refused; that os cutered aaid ¢ his hands wo in inju about three hours after said refusal three cell and placed handentix on his wrists, brin, femme ty Le could not use either band; that several mem ers of the Kxeeutive Committee iminediatel cell avd stated to this depovent that be must leave the State of Colifornia, and that, after 0 leaving. if be should again return, that bis punishment would be death; that previous to tant named , the suid Committes made several ¥ to deponent's cell; that the defendant Dowe, was 01 the Executive Committee, and was said celi, and made several pro} ti depwocnt shoukd, et the ‘expense, Of tbe C tee, that mt omen or cord to New York and return in there t steamer. which was leave for New York and retarn agaio he was informed b: ihe guard who had charge of the cell that the Committee were erecting & gallows, he was afraid that the Committee of < Lntended to hang this deponert; that said, guard prevended to be le friend, and said that dep net witmy io ub, mi'ting to leave San a morn fh day of June, 1566, he Was salen out of his cell, with his hands ironed tog’ ther as hereinbefore mentione, and guarded by several armed men to the court and which ® large number of each and all of whom were fully with side sword, bayonet and pistols, That the square, with this deponent in the centre, marched to the and thts deponent wae informed that hin lite depended on re maining quiet; that li he hanes on apane srould bp sho’; tliat the mareh Was eoatinued to ‘at the foot of Califor: nis street, where said square |, arf this deponent was piseed wt the end of the wharf, and the French battalion, wire formed apart of the square, commenced grilling, te front of the place where he stood, and be verily believes he wns about to be shot; that afew momenta afterwards « sicamtug approached aaid wharf. and be was put on board, and he was informed that he was about to be to Aus tralia, that raid ateamtug proceeded to a ship thea in the harbor called the Carrier Dove, and » fast to gald ship ars towed her 10 soa: that about daylight the maid steamtug: B left amid ship mt mea. this dey rr part Ol a reasten ish which had been, caught. st bea; thet he was unable for the me that he was ailed to attend to the calls of nature; and while at sea was very sick and without ‘ony means of relieving his filmes; that at about four o'clock in the afternoop of sald day the Pagans steamer Golden Age ran out to the said steamtug, and this deponent was eons 0k See “at inced in the sts againat 8 b Seed ieetinete hae Sb ccs spe wing no fo meana th cominued for several days afer he was placed on board the steamer Golden Age, ord uptil he was alced re; that about seven a half ‘days afterwards Tsai diesaber arvived pt Acapruileo, where he was vente | (rom by 8 guard of the Vi lance Com EM alter severed hour detention te the harbor of Acapnico, this succeeded in into a canoe, ‘8 landing at Acapaleo, w! was iftacked with ellow fever within two or three days afer inadie g, without or means to help himerif, and without j if been he was y the heen’ a on and freced In by & member of the said VI Gom- xl nnd he ‘wea werodiior of the chy oF fan mi Th the extent of between four and five thonsand fo grading a part price of naid work, Hivy thousand dollars: which sald eomtract Cralng merefrom was lost. to this sala Coramitee, of whieh the defen ri vad defendant. Dows, acknow! ae that he was a tacber of the Rxecutive Commitee. The the defendant was a member of the said V Commit: se, from the members of which the Executive Tel. and thet the anid Kxecntive Commitice were she ne pfficers of said Vigilance Commitier, and that def ail Gog iodge ot ise arrest end inprienaanenst of pti, and par ‘Land waa active ms rat of ami had a knowledge of the fete and clr Cupatances of We exraitiation of the platmuft from the ity Of San Fransisco, That the #aid Joseph a; ore A, besor "diet iH S Sa" imprison “ a spent” ot sab comma. one; and each and all arreat Tanciaen dolare which engu ae if i HA 4 an arrest and ment , ae the thet which the. defendant waa red and depanent prays that «ald de poawtge sua be het uy bath saoraer Sepa eae) r ind believes to be mt of i in view of Bin oar Which’ amount of bail defendant ean returnable oe rere megan at tf ea eS amber amv sre tsa cy, wha re 8 per oe cercton court R. SICKLEA, Plaintiffs Attorney. ‘Taanmerc.—The first concert of Thaiberg, the grent pianist, will be given at Niblo’s Saloon, on the evening of the 20th inst, We may expect « gt creme art and fashionable world, ‘afeir should (ier anon piace Mike Ace ’ | MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. N.C. Bly in thechair. im the absence of Me. Valen: tine, who is confined to his house by illness, Me. Voang, his ceputy, acted as clerk. The Mayor and Recorder were both absent. Severs: petitions for the correction of taxes wore Fe ceived and referred. The Dill of Maris Heimes, for STS, for three months services at Jefferson market, was order- ed to be paid. CORO NERA’ AILLS. The bills of the Coroners, amounting to $4,084 31, for the quarter encing 30th September, 1856, were roferrea to ihe Committes on County Offices. CO¥MUN, LON FROM THY COMPTROLLER. Mr Flegg rent in the foliowing communication — The Receiver of Taxes, who is reqnired to account for the fa)! amount of the tax ro)! <elivered to btm by the Board of Ke pervinors, desires to have the rolls made to conform to the re- h were made by the Board before the tax ‘The Supervisors, it will be remembered, giving the usnal authority to the Comptral- " corrections on (be assessment asec bis ame from the resoiuuon and substituted the w Fupervior” for that of Comptrolier. ‘The the aggregate »moun' of the GX aa extended, {uel oe 98 heey. taxes checgod. oh tens wich wore erased from the rolls of allowed to cusmute Mr. Howard will pre- | sent astatementor the property exempted from taxation er A.lowed 0 cowraute by resolution of he Board of Suver whieh: Koard alone hax the power of adjusting the matier as the case Low slacds Respectfully de, A, G. FLAGG, COMMESIC UNION FROM THE KECBIV Et OF TAXES, ‘The sollowmg communication was received from the Receiver of Taxet:— Gentleman [regret being obliged to eal! the attention of your " le bod; to the nununerocs errors contained in the ‘port the ombeing censure should be well preparing or @ required b rs on the books, + power Whaiever to forreet the more glaring . Resprcttally HENKY H HOW Aap, Valvavon on id, 7th, 19th and 2st wards, $4,176,606; tax On VA Uetiog, $24,010 96, tax reduced, $460; amount bb. the Comptroller to the xam ped 1he tax De remitted the Sane Aud su lume > Couet pronibiting the confirmation y ‘aX gwimet (be valuation of the Part x ‘The corsmunications were referrnd to the Comenities om County Gfiwes wad the Board adjounec i Wednesday pext ai fovr 0 clock. BOARD OF ALDERMEN, ‘Tow ikmrd held phe tre! meeting of the Ocwber semion la-t evening —-Isase 0. a, ibechar, @gmp A bumber of petitiows celve (wad referred, KPORATION 6 Tne MAYOR. noMamion i cotmmEn.catoa was received trom the GENTEEvEN—t berehy pom Con peel to the Corparmii denth of Lorengy B. ehepa allie Alderman Ovaney move? mation, Om the motion be" ol 06 Aves—@ldermen ¥ © pirmation of he moms 4 put, 0 was casried Dye vole Healy Hoffmire, Chaney, nine, Herrick McConkey, tue President, Pullmer, OLICE CREO 1 ays—Tueker, Voorlis Beigs. ueF OF ed from the Mayor, trans of the Oia! of Poliae, of A communication war r wit ing the semi annual rey which the following 14 an ‘The tables show the ending & to have be valiew of the districts. and 3 M5 hic offences for whieh area 8 Were lnade, were Sch sen’ to Kil. so; wont aad batborny pe. aitempt to steal, uty att joument, 1 lary, ii, 21 erciewent, © cone lote, 92; fer- 29, felony 45, fighting in the 499: grant larcemy. gambling. 122; insanity, 265, Intexteation. 6.79%; do ng stoten perjury ; in ; violating Gow apesT; Bh, Pech SG; seliing lottery polleies, 8: vagraney, 1,11 poration ordinaners S60. uring the rame time there were 5. against property; vie'ations: were to the Corvor 22. ib lodgers werr secu greatest number aod the least w divided among the mo February. 6474; March, 66 June. $271," Their ages, uation, color, condition, Ae. given in voluminous form. During the above tune {ue police foree, by sickness und otherwise, lost aggrecate. 4 mew perday. ‘There are in the department LOM meu, vie-—2 captains, 44 lieutenants, SS sergeants, 940 policemen, Of these 181 are detatled ‘The tabies were vot accompanied by soy report or re- fererce to their offenors or amounts. A PROPOSITION TO DIVIDR TUR GOVERNMENT OF NEW YoRm INTO TWO MUNIOUPALITINS Alderman Vawax presented the following preamble amd ree lution — 1; ars to he covered ® of every variety found impors ule the laws and ordinances of its own estabiishment with: proper fidelity and # due regard to the interests of the tam ‘and whéreas |: in even now believed by many refieat- * ‘one of the principal causes of the preseut de- fective government of the city arises from the great exweat of the feld of ts operations, sod the conseqnent impossibly of providing for local wanis and of exercising that ven vigilasaw and economy which are ersenilal to grod miunieipal cavern: ment; e be it Resolved, That & commiitee of five members of thie Board be’ appointed to inquire tuto the expedienoy of applying to the jalnture for the enactment of = law a the itlend of Manhattan inte two tmeant- cipalities, with a view to ite beter government, a Eretler degree of responsibility and @souomy in the adminia- tra ton of ite allairs. red. The committee not yet name ! A petition tron tee eeuett & Wwe y in m propert; lyn, praying for better accommodation on the Vell street ferry, was received and referred. An-ordi- parce to divide the Nineteenth ward into four clection étstricts; adopted. An invitation was received from the Chiet Engineer of the Fire Department, nxking the mea- bere of Board and the city government to review while passing through the Park BOARD OF COUNCILMEN, The first regular meeting of this Board for the preseas month, was held last evening, B. F. i'inckney, Faq., Pre- sident, in the cbair. In consequence of there aot being @ snfiicient pumber of members preacat to form @ quorum, the Board adjourred to Wednesday. Coroner's Inquest s. PRATH OF A STRANGE CHARACTEG BY SUICTOS. Coroner Connery was called upon to bold an inquest yesterday, at the Franklin Square Hotel, No. 328 Pene® street, upon the body of a man named John F. Rogers, who committed suicide, as it is supposed, by taking am overdore of landanum. The decewe!, it appeared, waa ‘an Englishman by birth, but bad bee « resident of thin country for a number of years. Tie wes s printer by occupation, and occasionally took it into bis head to be was diveased from sick nese, domestic troubles and finam a oe ot bad tos baste St the above named Rotel for about three weeks; that es bad been confined to bis bed during the greater partet the time, from sickness. On Sunday morning @ daughter of the landlady of the house visited the deceased in bis room, and learned from him thet he bad caught @ bad cold, and was vi u deed. This witmers, afer dotailing am converration that took plage between her and de sien ee Se ae set es fonvins bas von I to the and ry i: th i bf i i : } i : 4 i | ; f iti i a i i