The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1857, Page 3

enn @er Amour River Correspondence, Four Nicos, Asoun Rives, April 16, 1887. MELFPARY GTATION AT PORT NICOLAI—DRSORIPTION ‘OP THE AMOUR RIVER—COLONIZATION BOUKMRS— AMERICAN STRAMRAS ON THE 4MOOR—MANNSGS AMP OUSTOMS OF fHE INSASITANTS—TRAVDE OF BOOUMIA WITH THE UNITED STATES—DEFEOTIVE YRBaTIEG—LUERAL POLICY OF THE NEW SMPEROR —POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY—PAR~ LALITY FOR AMBRICANG—POLITIOAL BXILES— A @LANCE aT SISERIAN HISTORY—NAVIGATION OP PHE AMOUB—DOMESTIO AND WILD ANIMALS—IN- PRRIOM TRAVKL—TOPOGRAPHY, COMMEECE, ETC., Bro. W a letter for your journal datod at this distant pleco an prove of irterest to your readers, you are at \iberty to make use of the following facts which I have found leisure to Jot down during my residence here, which has been siaeo leat summer, I arrived in July, 1856, in the bark Mer vine, from San Francisco, and located with the view ef ertablishing » fur trade with Ualifornia, for whish the @ountry offers remarkab‘e facilities; and though up to {fils time my efforts have not been crowned with the suc- eees I could wish, I have still hopes of availing myself @f tbe opportunities which here offer of opening ‘am eninterrapted commerce in skins and peliries How ‘aew the information I have obtained may be to your readers T cannot say, as the only American papers I have seen from the day of my departure from San Francisco are files of the Hrnatp which were brought here from the Kast in dies bs the Euglish trading brig Albert, Osptain Ormaby, whose depariure next week for Snanghas enabics me to Jerward letters to my friends aud these pagea for your paper, should they prove acceptable. FORT NICOLAI. ‘Te fori whence 1 date is situated near the wostern bank of the river Amour, which is bere a wide and turbid stream of great volume, taking its rise in the Altay moun fins in the far interior, The fort is constructed of heavy Jogs and mud, and was erected by the Emperor Nicholas— after whom it is named—soon after the commencement of the late war. Thore are here a captain and a few soldiers who perform a sort of nominal duty, but, like the peasante ef the country, are allowed to attend to the scanty agricul- tural porsaits which the brief season permits, There are ‘ero other forts some miles above this point, which is some fifteen miles from tho principal mouth of the Amour. Al- together, they mount about forty gains of an antiquated wake, and are scarcely available for service, though they were deemed sufliciently formidable by the all xd fleet to keep their ships at a respectful distance during the war. Many of these gans were brovght here early in 1856 from the dismantled forts at Petropaalovski, which were destroyed by the Freuch and fleet after ite abandonment. Those ‘re the only military stations mainvained by the government between the coast and the large in- terior town of Udinek, near the great lake of Baikal. Tue @iaiar ce to Irkourk, the principal town of Eastern Siberia, by the river, i near two thousand nites, and owing to the ¢ ties of the route there is ecarcely any communaica- on. Irkousk is the residence of the Governor, who is wow here on one of his occasional visits to this distant pleco. His Excellency has held the post for tw: lve years, ‘Bne by his ivilexibie justice, and the faithful divcharge of his duties, bas won the good will of the wild and secluded people over whom his jurisdiction exten is, and has re- d the favor of the new Emperor. THE AMOUB RIVER. I believe that very few of yo ir readers are aware of the fature importance of this noble river to the commercial interes # of America, or the great extent of coun'ry which Wadrains. Taking ite rise,as 1 have said, in the Altay 8, which divide Chinese Tartary from the Russian possessions, it flows a distance of about two thousand wailes, and discharges by four mouths into tho Gulf of Baghauen. At the point whero it passer the fort it is rearly @ mile wide, and reminds one of the Mississipp! ve low New Orleans, the country being of a low alluvial sbaracter, and on the eastern sido spreading Out into ox tensive fanpabs aud swamps. Ai tbe mouth, which I Bave reveral times visited, there are several telauds covered with low, stunted ebrubbery, which, ( am inform- ed, are anpually increased in size by the depo ite from the river. ‘There ris a bar at cach mouth, ever which from twe!re to seventeen fect may be carried. ‘The channels, however, are consiantly ehifiing, and the Bativer, on entering, either trust to tbe sounding line, or, etoge tothe guidance of a species of fish re sembling the porpoise or * puffing pig,” whica tovariahly the deepest water, and js regarded by the sailors ‘av an infallible pilot over the bar. The river is several miles wide at its mouth, amd the water Is discolored far @ut into the Gulf, There are no buoys to indicate shoals, and the mavigation is certainly intricate and dangerous tbe winter months the region about the estuary and the surrounding country is a solid mass of ice, and unin Babitable from ihe intense cold; tho meroury falling to 60 degrees below zero, where it remains for months with but slight variauons. ATTEMPTS TO COLONISE. The government wunin twelve years has had tts atten- on turned towards this locality, and great exertions were made under the jate Kmperor to establish colonies here. In the summer of 1844, a sciectide corps from St. Peters burg was ordered to proceed to Dooaria, wo survey the end report to the government. The engiucers, sware that the hobby of the Emperor was to seule the Y, represerted this region 10 be well adapted to cul- fivation, and made false reports of the climate and re sources. The result was, that the following year an expe @ition was organized in Western Siberia, and five or ax thousand people were sent down Amour, supplied with provisions the neces less Hl and of itfe. They arrived, after ag BO in boll yer 4 through an almost recttons of laad portioned off to them But meeting with netural obsta- to rics, built in 1864, I be- . Webb of New York, ie now on the river aud few sipeover to Sitka. Since tae failure of dition of 1545, seitlers have been unwilling to ), unless the ‘omeut would maintain steam umes of Tae Geipese town of Oroam, about three hundred miles above here on the Chinese side of the river, is the only settlement above the upper forts. This jaa mere villago, and coa- taing a few hundred Tartars and refugeo Chinese. ICH PUESAETS AND FLOODS. RB wonld be dificult dercribe the awful solitades of grow and ice which reign here during the winter months. The deuee primeval fores s of yellow and fir, roofed ‘with a 00 xti. uous ooverirg of snow, shutiing out even tue geanty light of en Arctic winter, extend on either wide ‘down to the river’s edge, whion lies betvoen these of somore foliage, foo and huge shapelers matcos of snow. to the extreme cold, the grester part of the popu- Intion emigrates to the southward before the setting in of the winter. [bey usually locate near the mouth of the Soungari, dischargirg (from Chinese Tartary) into the Amour, but which is Iiiile inferior to that river in ex'ent and In the spring time, when the ice commences fo break cp, a cone of wild sublimity is prosonied. Magees and ids of ice go tearing down towards the sea, and these accu caviating bear the mouth and heaping up ai the bar, ecmetimes go out into the sea of Okbotak in the form of bergs. I need not say that st such times all river mavigation is |, and the country for bundroda of miles a derolate wilderness. CINDABITANTS OF AKOUR THE COUNTRY. There are not far from Afiy thousand people tn Dooarta, which name is given to the fection of country inoluded etween the Amour river and the Stanavoy and Altay ‘These may be divided as followe:—Twenty ‘Tartare, who roam over tho country in bands; immigrants from Western Siveria, and the cross between the Esquimaux and Tartar, ‘smaller than ths latter, and physically in- Tartars and Siberian exiles, who are the aro mostly herdemen ‘and hunvers; they but have fow of these animels amoog Principally occupied tn raising ca tie hich they own large droves. The cattle form,and inthe summer time fat- i z i ‘ ' F i H z 3 333 ge THE Hi pope Js loan fortilo, and, driving thetr slowly from valley to val Iittde villages here there, and rosming op as herbage is exhausted. These temporary wottle jo of the skina of catile and rein- and wolves cannot be obtalaed. fl sant ite Ht - ! }, comrae, binck hair the effeminate H not, ce which is exhibited in of the Chinese, ‘women are a ern in- ‘wearing fow Ormament#, aod rere to their lords; their skins of deer and often of ‘and mannore are those of a r ii i! : i F z 2 ! MARRIAGE CEREMONY IN DOOURIA. ceremony” of marriage, which | nave witnessed mes, i# of the simplest kind, and ae primitive @ well bo imagined. jen AD atta Shmant 1s formod be the parties the #uitor promenta himrelf at the hut of ride’s father, where a tremendous uproar at once |, he who can jabber tho londert and fastest being bert man. Tho requent ts monly refured by both and daughter, bat eventually the wedding day \* }, and the bridegroom repairing to the hut finds bride tied «with = rey in 8 corner, and by reroral force Ok! women. The duty of the je to vanguieh there hage, drive them from the bouse, release aud bear away bis intended, leaving a hand- fome present in furs sod hunting Apparatas for the bride’, father, There is a wild, gipty look about the girls, which eometimes imparts an alr of vivacity, but never conceals their extreme ugliness. TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATRA, Up to the dato of the gold ditcovery im California, the river was almost unknown, except tr sregnene the impetus given to (ie Commerce of YY event, this part of Asiatic Rorsia has graduaily tn Importance, ‘and the local government of Siberia have great hopes of catablishing a perma. trade between bere and California. Tougobroski, a writer om © The Productive Forces of Rorops,”’ has devoted « large space in his work to the advantages of @etablishing a reciprocal commerce with the United Mates, and the Rorsian government bas recently shows & commendable anxiety to bring about #0 desirable an errat At the present time, however, there is no treaty, cor has there heen since 1834, between the United States and Roeeia relative to tha trade of the Paciie, Oa the tih of April, 1824, according to a work in my possession, a con Fention between tho United Sates and Rassia was tenet tm which the third article sipolates that the Americaus i HH sii el the natives ”” At the the term above the Russians Tefused, under the iIliberal and exclusive of the old Ewperer, to 7 American veseels to trade on the unoocu- pied parts porth of the latituae of 6440. In 1846 theattenion our tenUaries at St. Petersburg were instructed to inquire the cause. The Rugstan government replied that the treaty had expired, and that they claimed the to exciade American vessels from the Interior waters of thelr siong on the northwest ooast, which, of course, also ap- [+04 w the Amoar river, The only reason offered to our nietere—Meears. Wilkins and Dallas successively—by ‘Lount Nesselrode, the Bussian Minister for Affaics, was, tbat the renewal of the 4th article would ricans an opportunity of furnishing the natives of the cast ‘witb spirituous liquors and firearms; though he. adduced uo case in proof. Prosideut Van Bur to Con- grees of Becomiber, 1838, will, I , allurd thowe In Verested in this subject, further upon it, Since that Ume the tubject bas been a1 to rest, and Ame- rican wacers are excluded, as far as treaties aro of the coasts of the Pacific north of 64 deg. 40 min , unl ander the following restrictions :— Americans are aliowed to trade in the ports, by first obtaising permission from the Governors, who are permitted by the goverament to cluim certain perquisties, which, however, are not exorbitant. The expired treaty of 1824 should bé at once reconsidered by the two gevern- vrepta, apd ours sbould coubticss take the initiator / steps, va we have the most to gaio in commerce by ite revizel. It involves not only this regi, but also the entire North west American Russian territory; and the proximity of we Oregon and California coasta to this northern Asiatic coun: wy renaers it imperative that something should be done to place our commercial reladions with tm the Pa citic on @ sure and proper basis. It is singular that during all the administrations since 1834 amid/ the oft recurring political turmotis and questions and scramblings for office ‘bis question should not have been adjasied. But what- ever may bave been the reason for the neglect, it appears to me to be an important queston, and one that should be immediately sevtied, and that Ame: ican citizens em ark ing in any enterprice on the Northwest coast may be enabled to know definitely under what regulations they may act. I believe that should our government place this subject properly before that of Russia, tuere will no ditfl culty im negotiating @ treaty that will be of mutual bonellt to both nations. | should here add, however, s0 great is the anxiety of the present Kmperor to cultivate commercial relations with the United Stake, that the above named lack of definite treaty et pulatious, if + hes ¢ver occupied the mind of the Ruy sian government, has had no weight in intluencing the conduct cf its olli.ers here Americaus are received gince the wer with open arms, aud the Governor (General Moraviofl) two yeare since, when ap American veesel was here, virited her in person, dined on board, made cortly presents to the captaia and officers, aud « general one in the form of money W ibe crew, besides fajuting her from the fortas she came in and deparied, with as tuch respect as if she haa been anaval ves sel. Her whole cargo was disposed of to the goverumont. During the Russian war a ca go was sent here from Saa Francisco, which, running the allied blockade, reached the foris and was diz posed of af an immense prouilt. Itoon- sisted mainly of provisions and ships’ stores. The only exports beace which could be mace with advange sking, which, however, have not been ciilectod wo any extent witba view to pment, We have an account here that a screw steamer is building in New York for the Russian government, mtended w ply onthe Amour As affairs exist at preeent ik would be difficult to concave to what useful purpore she could de applied, RUSSIAN PACIFIC NAVAL FORCE. The goverument has not kept @ fleet Om this coast since the wer. I:ceed, the only naval vessels seen here for years were the Jhana frigate, destroyed im Japan in the earthquake of 1855, the travsport Niemap, and @ small ecrew e¢chooner. Capain Lesouski, who commanded tho Diana, has been appointed 10 the command of the Russian fleet tn the Mocitersanean. a5 we hear. He was promoted for his brave and energetic mea- sures lu raring partot the crew of his frigate, and es- caping to this port. He Duilt @ schooner in Japan out of the wreck of the ehip; and passing several times at night within sigbt of tho enemy’s fleet, and ruppiug the gaunt- let between them, arrived safely wader cover of the fort's guns. Though Leeourki commanded the Diana, ho was not the cbiel. The equadren was under Admiral Patiatio, who, we learn, has since been created a Count for nis kill and bravery while in command of the Rossian Paciic equadron; but the principal acts of ekill, dariag and accom- plished seamanabiy—as WO can ali atest here—were done by Lesoushi. POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. The couniry known as Doouria is included in the local government of Kastern Sideria, of which General Morvaioll iw Governor. Chis oflicer, who has jas; errived from Irkousk is a man about fifty years of age, with brivtitng @ray bair, and the air and deportment of the gentleman and soldier. He performs this lorg and poritous joarney once in three years, and is obliged to render an account of the country, observation and as thet inerval time, to tne supreme* govern ment. At such a distance from tae Amoar, it is almoet impcssible to obtain reliable information of the etate of the country, and the inhabitants conse. quently live an isolated life, From the General, who is now at the fort, I obtained an outline of the political condi- on of the country. He informed me that it is the earacst derige of the present Emperor to es abiish & regular com- munication by the way of the Amour with the great inland there was a special desire to cultivate contracts war, the old Emperor, Rossia bas beon undergoing & wonderful revolution in all matters relating 0 public improvements. ekill ingenuity is demanded on all rides—to build railroads, bea ae he and steambouts, light cities with gas aud raive sanken fleets. Our countrymen are in high foauer, aad with the sucden start which Ruaria is taking in all the arts of civilization, no better field oflers for the employ ment of our artivans. All this is owing to the liberal policy of the reigning Emperor, who bids fair to ve another Peter the Great in bis anxiety to repeir the thirty my of stag pant and ri of his father. ‘ae establisa- ment of steamers on the ir i@ with the special view to Western Russia, from , are political exiles. Some of these have grown old in their punishment, and save iho eternal sepa- ration from their kindrea of whom they may never hear = have become at last resigned to their fate, [ doubt if come of them would care again to rovisit the scenes of their youth aftor so long and complete an absence Among there are rome whose torm of oxpatriation commonced forty years ago, Abouttbree hundred were sens to st bveria ehortly after the coronation of Nicholas, in 1826, for being concerned in the great \usurrection of iaze, Some however, only @ tithe were living, who returned siiver- haired, di cropit old men, who had been banished in tno flower of manhood. 1 was not here when they took their coparture, but am told the parting scene was most ailect- MORAL CONDITION OF THR PROPLRE. ‘The “knout'’ is unknown here ladee!, eo simple and primitive are the that political crimes; and punish ments are upkno’ . MorariuiT informed mo that reat) ments of provity and hover maintain @ higher standard among the exiled population of the Siberias than io avy othe” part of the empire, and that the most primitive methods of tranencting business are in vorue; written documents betng rarely parsed, and a man’s word considered as invt olate, ‘Tho money ured hore, as well ax forthor ip the in , consists of square bits of deorskin, tanned a inede quite bard and baying the \mpreas of the Emperor bead. Any ee are referred to an umpire, thefts in Deouria are wn, and any member of society whose ‘operty has euffered by flood or tempest, is generally re lieved by the jot contribution of bis friends in cattle aud | reindeer. RUSSIAN CONQUEST OF SIBERIA. General Moravia is the jetor of large lanted estates im the region of Lake Baikal, where there are indications of great mivera! woalth. He bas also the largest library tn the coontry and is cvupted its most learned man. The first atiempts, be informs me, © conquer Siberia and an nex it to were made in the reiga of the Cxar John the Terribio, by means of the celebrated robber chief Yer mack. « Don Cossack, who bad loug been the terror ef the | caravans passing between the Don and Volga. Overpow | ered by the Seat againet im, he fled to the Ural rrountains, aod became scquatuted with the great Rossian nobleman Count ol, who had tact enough to direct his warlike talents the plan of conquering Siberia, and olfering it as propintory token to the Czar. | The phn pleased Yermack, and afer eigtt yours of fighting be acoompiished hie tuk and laid his con the feet i” prince. John loaded the others seat | waa net long afterwarde drowned while atemping to twim a river after & defeat. These immense ous were act completely subjugated until carly in the reven teenth contary, when, in the reign of the Michael of the house Romanoff, ii was effected. The Amour, thong utvally laid down im the maps as pasring through the Chinese territory, is actually the dividing line between Comeso Tartary and Asiatic Rassla. The troaty wntoh ced all the territory north of the river to Russia was mado with China in the reign of the Emprese Catherine. NAVIGATION OF THE AMOUR. Prevtovs to we arrival of the few stesmors now on th river, the Amour was pa} 4 entirely by boasts built tn a eudstantial roanner, caloulated to stand the rocgh weather of tho Gulf of Sagbalion and oven of the Okhotsk rem. It was in one of there that General MoraviolT came down from the taterior, though his boat was towed by steam power for the last two hundred miles, [oaving Irkousk, he croteed the Atlay mountains ats pass whor: the snowy peaks towered twelve thoutand feet above him on either hand, and proceeding with sledges, drawn by reindeer ® distance of four bundred miles, be strack » fargo tributary of the Amour, where he had previously arranged for the construction of a strorg framed vosee! bath expresaly for the purpose, and capable of carrying (wo month'r provisions, and Lg ‘Comsacks, who had boon oa to make the journey. Ho was six weeks desc: —_ bas gone through a series of exciting incidents and « ‘vontures of travel, the cotaile of which he not long since Fecownted to mo. Of these [ took copions notes, and ast am not awnre that any correct description of this great river has ever been publithed, [ shall make his narratire and jon of tho people and country he passed throngh the suhject of some fitare lotter. fl te certain that the Amour ts navigable more than a thousand miles from the sea for vessels drawing ten fret of water, and that no fais or Of any kind fut Mis a formidable Ftroam, and fe m Teapects rerembios tho being equally Eroat at its mouth thor of Water for aome distance Dut does nos di 80 Iarge a volume of The scenery in Many places te darcrihet as eurpacvingly wild and pietnrosqne. “Immense and unknown aias ‘iftod thetr peat 6 the clouds, and vast and extenting to unexplored distances, flankot cast their ginnt sadows into ity depths. J} oan only re my itmbility to Coreard with thie copice of the Gener sketches of the country he bas traversed. Ps ia [ igi a Gt E p Hy EE 4 i & é | : the common goat, The first are of ero covered with a fine, yellow ibick, and adapted to prctect them Irom the mble cod. The smaller speries run ip coun! nymbera, led by # venerable patriarch of the band, They are sometimes surrounded and driven wlio « large enclosure ously Ly consisting of stakes driven into the ground with side ropes 866 around them to the height of the animal’s head. jovgb great jumpers, they never attempt to leap tals simple barrier, aud crowd and huddle into the corners, where they are caught wud killed by their pursuers. Tn skins only are preserved, the flesh serving for the wolves who bover about the vicinity im packs and at might fall upon the remains. Great quanuties of Osh are taken from the river, which, instead of being eaten fresh, arg buried in boles dug in the carb and icfs to secume pusid, when they wre drawn out and devourod in that state, The sieuch at such times is entirely beyond endurance. THRE ROUTE IN*O THE INTEAIOR. Though inland Siberia may be reacaed by maans of the Amour, there are but few instances known of the whole aistance to Irkousk being accomplished by that route. The government pas consiructed # rough road or mountain path from this place into the interior, whicb, however, is only paeabdie during tive months im tue year. At dis- tances of twenty leagues apart there are public stations where travellers may obiain shelter. These are rouga but strongly built bute, aod where ths country is barren of timber, firewood 1s kept aupplicd at the government expense. The wayfaror, powever, must depend on his gun fer subsistence, or the bews and arrows of his pative companions. These are sull the exclu- sive weapons of the chase—(rearms being confined to the few civilized members of the community. Few at tempt the perilous journey decides government couriers or tbe occasiona) unfortunate exiles from the west The trip involves months of harcships awong desolate aod #now-clad mountates, traversed by ravenous boasts, and woot by fearvul storms, The retnieer sledge, which is mosily bsed in vaveliing, consiets of & swail f-amework of wood, with wide, fiat runners, aod made to hold one person, Somet men the sledge is mace, as in Lapland, of other sking, wrought into the shage of @ canoe, ed withont runners, They fly over the snow plains with wonderfal epeed, aud very often give the pur- suing wolves a fruitiers 20as9, FACE OF HE COUNTRY. Tho region of Doouria is generally billy ani densely wooded, The lteser spars making down from the Altay mountains ex'end out towards the O kowk and Ja an seas, im the form of roling lauds, opening at intervals, aad gradually subsiding, towards we coust, into grassy plains, and finally into swamps ano marshes, towards the mouth of the Amour. In the woods there are a variety of pa ata ble wild berries, which afford rusteraace to the hears The open spaces are tometimes cultivated, put «ith scarcely any success, a8 tae aommer searoa ‘ix 0 short and inbosptable that grain bas vo time to ripen What Ditle ts Frown ja harvested unripe, and dried as fodder tor cattle and reindeer. ENCOURAGEMENT TO FORBIGN ENTERPRIGE Valuable com) aod iron mines ae raid to have been dis- covered in this vicinity, and such is the anxtery of tine government to encourage immigraion bere, that | owe no doubt they would hold out eacetient inducements for Americans io commence opeuing them as well as io stare the timber trade, for which no country ta the world offyrs greater faciiues. Tvo much cannot be said of the de-ire ot the people here w have the enterpririvg Yankees amorg them. An Ame ican echoover wae here rome time since from California Her cargo #as discharged by tae Coseacks at triting wages Tue officers of the vessel were surprised at the wonderful hardiness of these northern people. At night, after performing @ hard day’s work, they used t> wrap themrclyes in th it covering of throw themselves up: the eck and snore the nigat away in perfect comfort, and quite regardices of the ice and snow thst balf covered them be ore morning. Thoy would spring vp ®hen aronsed, tnsko off the snow like huge dogs, cross themecives devoutly, eat sparingly of biack bread apd such greasy matter as they could scrape up about the galley, and were then prepared for anothor days work, For physical strength, endurance and rugged bealth I bave never seen thir equal. There men aro ur pished by the }ocal suthsrivies to assist ia discharging ves- sels arriving bere Tcoulé oosupy much more of your valuable outline desoripitonn of this parry? bat fear ready taxed your patience I cans ot too sirongly Aiteption of tbe trading Americans to this volut, whieh commanding the passage up one of the most important rivers ip Asia, is coud: ‘dertined to occupy an import act position im the commercial world, Toe trade though Upimporiant at p erent mast tncrease under the foster policy of the new Emperor, who, in everything velating to improvemer t, is the direct opposite to bis anl-progresuve father. Tas future trace, of whatever jaence, will patevally be conc ucted with Ualifornia where grain and surplus impor ted goode will be received in exchange fo: the furs, timber and mineral products of the Amour country. Inevpry utempt made by Americans to open upthe resources of this region, 1 pave good reason to believe thet the Russian government if properly applied to will further the views of appiicants for substantial en- couragement, a8 has already been dono with the iste Rus sian American Commercial Company of San Francieco gg Reception of the New York Firemen at Deroit. [From the Detroit Free Press, July 22} United Sites Hose Company, No. 25, arrived by the Wootern World yonterday. ‘apd’ were recetved at the land tog by the Fire of the city. The Srem-n — to eatl, at Prremen’s Hell, at half past incluced the larger abare department, and, preceded by the Ligh) Guard marched to the Michigan Central dock, tn rein storm that commenced a» they started, aod soon as they arrived at the depot, and udder shelter All banda were pretty well drencaed. Weetern World i and did not come !n sight aniil i 6 cannon, whieh fred minuie guns untl) » be dock, wher Det/olt dremon, w the number of some four or ive hundred, were ari up in regular order, ‘Three che era for the New York firomen were call for by Chief Rugineer Duncan, which were given by the Detroit firemen, and responded to by tne New York company, The boe carriage of the visite's—a very foe cae—was brovg ht o sbore and taken charge of by Wolverine No. 3, wter which the procession was fo med anew, beaded by the de; officors, Mayor Hyde end the Common nol. The rala ocommenosd again at this juscture, and poard down « tor revt during the march up Jefferson avenve to Firemen’s Hall, when, the firemen being housed, it kindly ceased, Ths aseermbinge flied the largo ball to suffocation, and was caiied to order the President of the Detroit Fire Department, R T. Pitot, who, tn a few orief and appropriate remarks, welcomed the New York -emen to Detroit, and tendered to them the hospitalities of toe city during thelr stay. Mr. A. H. Miner, foreman of the New York company, responded in a very neat and well delivered speech, 12 whieh be thanked the Petrol: firemen for thelr attentions, and expremsed a wish for ihe long oon tinvance of the prosent existing friencly relatims. He was followed by Mayor Hyde, Recorder Morrow, Ald. Craig, Jobn Patton (ex President of the Deoartment), Aid Ald, Marah, Aid, Martin, Ald. Daocan, William Duncan (Chief Engineer), and William Loo (First A sistant Engi- beer), all of whom spoke briefly and Us the point, expross tog Lag A ny and a feeling of welcome to their visitors. Meeting then broke up, ant the line of march was resumed—the rain modifying Ite (ormer encr- getic demonstrations to « light drizzle. The orovession marcbrd tn eingle fle, a column on each wide uf the street, down Jefferson avenue to Woodward avenue; up Wood ward avenue to Michigan avenne; up Michigan avenne to manne aes don Randolph to Larned, and op Lar ned to Ba engine hocee, between Rrurh and Bea ibien streets Flere they were received by Mr. I) T Sherlock, in bobalf of Wolverine Company No. 3, in some appropri ate remarhs; after which they were escorted to their quar ers, at the Tremont House. ‘The supper given by No. 3, in honor of the arrival of the New York firemen, took place at the Tromont House in the evening, and was the occasion of much eajo ment and good fee Companies Non. 25 and 3 seated themsetvos in the supper room at 9 o'clock, accumpanied by some afty led guests, and an excellent aod varied supper ‘was rerved vp by the hosts of the Tremont House, which was dircussea with great zest by the party prevent. The cloth was then removed and the first regular toast pro. pored by Mr. &. T. Shirlock, as follows: — 1. United States Hose Company No 25—May thete wort. ern journey be to them # source of pie e—may ther ever consider that ihey are not amoug strangers, bat in the midst of friends and brothers, liakod togower im ven glorions miuston to rave Mr. A. Miner, foreman of No, 25, responded briefly to the iowa. Nicnonas Lonoworta Araeerro—His Cataw- na Wine At ier — Aa we mentioned last week, Dr Hiram Cox has deciared bis determination to do hie duty as a regulerly appointed Inspector of Liquors, at a!l hararde, to prevent the good people of Ohio trom bei Yb the mysterious manner peculiar to the tim gies, Tho venerable doctor has found consiierable trouble in indveing partion to submit to an Inspection—sald parties Protesting against bie Joogment and knowledge, and as. serting his unfitness for his office On Saturday the doctor bad 9 warrant issued for tho arrest of Nictolas Long- ‘worth, who had refused to allow the lo*pectors to examine his famour Catawba wines, “Old Nick,” is some- times called in pleasantry, was found < in tie but bad to come, aod vid come, before Exquire er, and there give bail for bis appearance in the sam of $500 next Saturday—James T. Kliott going his eesarity. Mr. Longworth was indignant agaiast Father Vox, and told him repeatedly end passionately that he was a juccang and would, we believe, had be been a litle younger and Cox not quite #0 old, have given the doctor an idea of the “poble and manly art of self-defence.” Matters nok very favorable reveral timos for a pugilistio encounter, Dut oil wes finaliy poured upon the troudied waters... i Cacdtte. Ltastnity OF Staxewospeae.—In the Superior Court this moruing, Chief Justice Nelson delivered ao opinion on the estion—-Can stakeholders be made to refund money on the resnit of a race? Tu charge of the Conrt was to the offecythat ail such wagers wore in this State itegal, and that the losing party cowld recover of the stakeholder, if he was potided of thelr jatenvon w recede from thelr original bargain atauy time before he et the actrally paid the money. [f, however, he paid ¢ stekes to the winner before sny From the lovers, thon he ea ono of much interest to the spor't Fowrah. YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1857. following statement of facts which though not exactly official is authorized by a majority $f all the members of9ct fo tah body: J. The election baving resulted in favor of republicans, the democrata threatened that certain republican members “should never take their seats alive,” and that ‘hey ‘would “by hook or crook” have the orgaizing of tne oa Hiuving aarembled at St. Pan ia aazem| at St. 1, propositions we-e made to individual demoarats to agree with the repabli caps upon an hour for assombling—no definite time having been fixed by lw 3. This overture wae not recetved with favor until noar 12 o’clook on Sunday night when the democratic mem bers 'n caucus proposed to meet at 12 0’clook on Monday, 18th, apd agreed to sign ® paper conjointly with tbe repub Hicax committee tw that effic.. Suct a paper war propared and rigned promptlh by the republican committer, por: uant to agreement, and then prevented to the com eratic commiites for their signatures. Tney quiedy porketed the paper, and sent Dack a quidbling Kubstitnie, agreeing pot to meot until the usual bour ? (aot the first compro mise they bave brokea.) When the republicans de manded the “ mutual agdeement”’ they bad sigued, they were infermed that it bad suddenly and mysteriourly dia appeared 4. Covsidering this flagrant breach of faith, and not desiring to put their honor w apy furiher test, or to allow theme eives te become egain entangied in the meshes of a democratic plot, the repablican delegates convened a the Council! Chamber ‘p the Capito} at 12 o'clock on Sun Cay pigbt (the democratic caucus being still ip resrivn at the Fuller House), and determined to remayn tu the puild- ing wnt) 12 o'clock, noon, without organization. males the democratic delegates should be in attendance before that time. 5. Meantime, a paper was signed by fifty atx delegating Davis g legal cersifleates of cleo ion, requesting J. W. Norta, deiegaie elect from Bice county, to'vail the Gravention to order at a8 early an Dour ou Monday as a inujucity of thore members should present themselves at the place o1 meeting. 6 On Monday roorning the democratic caucus passed ¢ rerolution to meet for organizing the Coavention att valve o'clock M., and sent a copy, sigue by Juage Suerbarne as Provident, ana ©. L. nase (Secretary and wasting Gover: nor of the Territory) as Secretary, to ibe republican dele gates then in waiting at the Ca iol 7. At precisely reventeen minutes bef ie twelve, by the clock in the Convention Hall, (by which Mayor Becker at pledgeo himeeif to be governed.) the crmocratic dologa es, with woro«d of thel: frieude, rushed wt» the hail, wad Secretary Chase proceeded to ‘he stand te call (he Coaven. tion to order. Atthe moment Mr Chase stooped into the Speaker's derk, J. W. North called te Oouvention io order, Aud s!most rimultaneously with him the Uenvention war alee biden w “come to order” by Mr Come. Mr. Norts m ved to appoint T J Galbraith, of Scott county, Presi dent pro bm., put the motion, and it was ca rind Penotug wns, ex Governor Gorman bat moved that ~ this Convention aijourn unt! twelve och M tomorrow.” Mr Ohare immediately pu motion andj ceciare: itcarried. The de mosraiec mein bere—-not to exceed forty in number—then withire ¥. Meantime Mr. North bad called Mr. Galoraitn to the cuair ‘Tre delegates (repabican) remaining ta the Couveuion were tity ex in bumper, who then presented their cer tficates of election, » ere sworn in, and took \neir seats as members of the Constitutional Convention. Having a ma jority of the whole oumber of deb gales, aud cousequently @ quorum, the Convention then proceeded to busivese Hop. St. A. D Balcombe was elected President, aud 4 per. warebt organiza'ion effected i 8. Ouring the next twenty four hours it was positively aererted by democratic delegates that they #hould, at 12 o'clock ob Tuesday, take poression of the halt Romors of violen @ Tile Lbroughout the city, and some ros! dent dem: . who were oppoved to the revolutionary proceedigs of the democratic minority, feared, thoy said that there woula be blood shed in their eff yt to taco “ne hall In the cemoeratic caucus at the Capitol on fuesday morning, it was urged (bat they rb uld take the hati a pied by the Copyention, “peacefully if they eould, but for. cibly if necessary.’ At ll o’cock Mr Chase came to the door and in the Dame of ta¢ Meoretary of the Torritory “cemandec the hall for tbe use of the Constititivnal Con. vention,’” « The President infor ned him that the Coavention was a) ready in rerrion in the hall, and that tt would uct be sur rendered to apy ther body. At 12 o’clock the whole of the democratic delegation fame to the coor and recoanoitered, sec evary Chase raid to one of bis friends, ‘Ii’s of no nso, DO Man cad got por seaeion of that ebair;> and Judge sherburne was beard to tay, ‘They will not yield, it is useless for ur ty attomst.”” Mr Gorman etepped inside the door, aad, addressing his “prigade” outeide, raid, “I move his convention adjourn to the Coureil Chamber,”’ waich move war passed,and he mover moved cff with his demooratic satellies. (What “ibis Convention”? would done if it bad decided not to adjourn, is # question for Jeflersou’s Manaal. ) the wececers iben convened in the Couucil Chamber, and continued by the election of HH. Sibey, *resident, and R. ¢. Houpeworth, Secretar: They remained in sea sion about an hour, and sdjournes until yer orcay noon At 12 o'clock» yesterday they again met, ant cowtiaaed in session precisely fifteen minutes. Majur Fiaodras moved to adjown 12 o'clock M on Monday next, ao interim of five days, which is violaive of parliamenary rules Judge Sherburne doubted their power, or the policy of such an adjournment, and £0 @ compromive was etieoed by adjovrnicg until this noon. This anxiety to suepend the seenious of their Copvention shows how much faith they have in the revolutionary posture they have assumed. For the three daye of the session now past the republican mejority in Convention (to which Convention the dem> cratic delegates will of course be aimited of application) bas been laboring faithfully to execute tbe trust imposed by Congress. The Mutiny on Board the Whale Ship Hun- tress. [From the New Bealora Mercury, July 22.) ‘Wo notice a telegraphic despatch in the Buston Journal, from this city of July 20, respecting the mutiny on board the bark Huntress, Capin Wilham Aliea, of tnis port, siready reported uader our shiy news bead.’ fhe alleged caut for (his mutiny, as stated ta the despatch, is that it occurred “tn consequence of ill tresiment © one of the men, by the caytain, who throst ‘nto his mouth « piece of jron’a foot and » hali long, knockiug out some of bis wets, &o. The iron was kept in bis mouth two or tree minuue,’? The above statement is not, wo learn, in acoordance With the faote, Captain Allon having in vain tried to #vepce ap Epgiish sailor, named Roland Garver, who was gross y eperunen!, dio puece for balf & minuto a. bit of irop ip the wan's mousb, bat inilictea po special injury on im further then oheckwg bis mutinous ousbreak, Tae true cause of the dillically ap ears to have been * that Capiain Ailes determined while in tne port of St. Helens % preven. tbe uuusua license ahowed to some of the abipe then in port, in communisating with the shore, by wWhick aif discipline on the ship would bave Deou des troyed; nv special trouble cour ed oa the vo, age until the Huntress arrive’ at & Helena. According to whe letter of Gousul Kimball, “the cre; has as vomed the worst form mutiny in thas &keng equal Command we i, OF Taher depriviag the master of it, ard it is a case that caus for pavisoment \f American shipmasters are ever to be somained in weir » Pre perty and inveresta are " There was ng on the hip during he voyage. Capt Allen is A rtrict dincipiipariae, bat mSicved no puaishment oa eloer of the crew thas Wa# Unusual and Dot demandes under the Cirovmatances ; as the other men on the ship, aside from the mutineers, do not complain of bad treatment, tae info reece is that the offenders lacked soe due sptrit of subord bavion s¢ eesential on & Wbalupg voyage. Mr. Kimnvau a) Judes in bis letwer to the want of @ consular weaty wiih he Briish government, for lack of which seamen cannot be Ls ay when atthe port of St Helena Ihe owners of Huntress are satisfied with the conduc; of Capt. Al jen in the premizer, as ome stories have bees circaisted respecting the want of provisions on this -hip, We ona state Abas the svarvation proces was not in force, and that in @ voyage of ek ven monthe and eigut days the officers aud crew, all told, 51 men, wore furnishod with 44 barrels flour, 81 barrels pork, Si barrels beef, bread without stint, @ galion of molasses @ month to each maa, be- sides polis of freeh mest, vegetabios, llowance equal to the above rations, of our whalers are not, as some outsiders neem to suppose, fed on a prison discipiias system ) Th other crews i port with the Haptress persuaded ihe oro of the latter ship to demand more fresa provisions wan they bad, and also exiracriinary licenses, which are acver allowed where any proper discipline is maintained on shipooard, we bave no doubt. it is for the Court and jury decide if ihe captain exceeded the proper limits of hie uty previous to their arrival at that port or while there ‘at anchor. In our opiaion he i* justidied in bia conduct. One of the ringlead:rs in this muiiny was from a res- peotabie family in the West, but he has proved to be auy- thing but an honor to them. The tianwess was a now and splendid ship, perfectly outfitved tn all reapects, and had every prospect of making a fine voyage previous wo this upfortenate mutiny, which evtaile a heavy loss apon ber owners. (We would & word to the ioston Journal, that it would be well for its condactors not to pablieh des petches similar to the one we have quoted from thia city, 9) they have apecial authority to rely on for their woul The examination of the seamen brought home on the Rantr: Silaa Borden and thi: teen others, was begun yeeterday, but postponed to 11 A. M. this day. Mr. Androw is for the government, and J. H. Prince for ino defendants Qvarranty Retvrys or tar Post Orrice De Pantmast.—The quarterly returns of the general Post Uf- fice Departinent for the quarter ending March 31, 1867, bave been examined, audiiwd, analysed, and registered in the Aac or’s office, and exbibit the following results — Groes revenue from letter postage ..........8 24,057 * “newspapers and pamph’s = If Pus ~ bos se © 1045 20 = pd 1,426,641 12 “sy nad 20,107 43 $1,878,196 85 Total amount of balances due postmasters... 12,658 83 $1,900,785 18 Amount of compensation to portmasters....- 269 60 Amount of abip, steamboat, and way letters. Incidental expenses of oitices Not revenue to (nite 1 States, Of the siamps sold there we ‘Tre Oveatann Mati. —Mr, Mason, who is to take charge of the overland mai! to Stn Diego, was In San An tonio, Texas, oa the let instant, meking preparations t» fart on the ‘Mh, The mail fro Sau Jiego Is to leave on Gaya aa fram Sap Actonio, riz, the Oh and 2b nd semi monthly theroater. Stages wilt bs pas om she route at 6.00 as the mani! mesttor #ball call for it, 21,028,006 03 164,800,898 87 igbt AF ig themeclver aad to regulate their own affairs as each State npeeinene ote fit’ Our demooracy far \wer teaches us that, being minority section, the south ‘is Wo be the aufferer ander this consolidation of’ power in the bangs of the Northera majority, and tas: the Uaion und the genera) gover pment are Wo be ued for the wreck \pg and tinal eavversion of the South uncer tho domination of the «tronger section. I> thir crisis of affatrs, then, we find our democrasy most developed where it a most need ed, in greseeviog aud seoaring the righta, interests and ioriitutions cf the Southern States against the encroach m nta of the North, and against the dangers that menscs ber, through the ger oral goverument of the Union in their benos. The cardinal feature of our democracy is now Soutberm rigbis. Tce ralvation and established security the South is the aim ead end of our politics—our uemocracy But there are at the Sovth democrats, so called, of anober stripe. There are certain politicians, who appear neither "to comprobend State nghts or the present perils ‘What beset State rights ef tue South. There are some woo regard the South as alogether secondary tn importance to the Unien, and jok with more horror u: the prospect of ‘td dimrolution than at the threatened -abyerston of the couth, These men are of three classes—those who can nok ovcern the wigas of the timer, and #ee not the dangers @ their wection—thore who, dimly perceiving these, yet gee with mor did disticctness and greater borror the evils of cisunion; and \hose who neither care nor see gags Desde thet ow tuterest in the present success of tbe party 10 which they belong. The aim of ail such demoorais, by whichever of these views influenced, is, of course, uwerly wt Variance with ourown. With em, the paramoust obd- ject of patrictic desire-ls the preservatiou of the Union and the avecess Of whe vational Union demosracy, For this they are :eady to sacrifice the South—If exvediency re- quires it. At this juncture it is though! ex cedient to appease the Nob avout Kansas. The naioaal democrauc ad- ministration have thought proper, through ,Gov. Walker, to purchase « temporary truce with the black republvan party by taking every step i their power to make Kar sas a Norsbern anti tlave Stace, Tt 8 thought expedient for the accomplishing of this great party move to inger the risk of driving off $e Southern rights members of the party, (rusting that the preeen\ inc\goation at the treache ry mey vens ivelf and cie out im the Soush, having oaly served w st-engthem wem in the North, and that ihe South, ulimately cajoles end browbeat, will again be oragged along in 1860 @ wilitug and enthusiastic vistim ip praise of the grea: and powertal matical dem eracy, who have again saved the Usion— albeit at the expense of the power avd sa’ety of the poor South. ‘This is the policy wad whe programme. The danger to fis Compirte success artees only fom the Southern rights democrut# of the 3ouh, who poreidiy--althoagn t¢ is by bo Means credited—may not tamely acquiesce 19 this base betrayal of the Southern cause, whether Inauced by party expecieney or even tho preservation of w Usion purchased at be ccet ef her safety and well betug—a Union worse than wortlloes at such @ price—and migos orgaaize @ great Southern party and ron a candidate of thetr owa to 1860. The ational temocraey, therefore, naturally look upon the Southern rights democracy as the eaemy at PIERRE mort to be feared. Accordingly, we fad tne lead- ing urgaos of the pationsl democracy eietly eng ged In Auemple to dwparsge Southern rights men and preeves throvghout ihe Sonth—to ridicule their views, heap obloquy upon them for their earnest ¢(forts in hobalf of the South, and to denounce them indiree:ly as “ultras,” “oxtremiste? and “becessioniste,”’ and thus drive them, by bullying them on the one haad, aod coaxing them on ihe other, from the positions they bave taken againat the wie ation and treachery of Walker Itie even tatimaed thst Gov. Wire, of Virginia, ia to be turned loose upou the denovucers of Walker and this naiional dem cratic trench. ery. It is thought that ni6 ready and powerful pea, ta 09 operation wirh tae efforts of party men fouth, will readily turn the (ide, and ai) will again be well with the Union and the waticnal party for 19¢0 We desire, in view of thie effort, to call especial atten tion of our eotemporaricr throoghout the Soath to the bol ( auempt of ihe Richmond, Laquirer to play this game egwnct (be Soutbern rizhis men of Georgia, Alabama and Mishinsipp), aud so Vivi Kem off by classing them with the bygrne eccorsioniate as “‘nitraa’? wad “extremists,” and by placing them in the category with Greeiey and the moat fanan ‘ana absurd of aboliioniste, equally inimical & the bevonal deaycracy and its designs. ‘We would, at the rame time, suggest to tho prople and convertion ies of South Carcliua the impropriety of at twebing the Stato toe party like this, ready to betray tho south for a brief and temporary advantage. CALL FOR A DISUNION CONVENTION. Wouoerne, Ju y 8, 1857. Drax Sin—The State Disunion Uonvention, held at Wor- cester, Mass, January 1867, recommended a Na tons) Con vention, based on tbe same princi pler, dari.g the proeut year. Your attention |: respectfully invited to the accom pauy!ng call, prepared by # sub-committee designated fur Vat parpos the rerulis of the Worcester convention were important Ik established the question of union oF disunion, as an open qvestion, among ® large and tntlacntial class who bave bitberto shrunk from the ccnsiceration of the subject The able correrpondents of the convention who deprecatsd Gleunion, still recognized it asa legitimate matter of dis- cureion, This was a great sto A great blow was struck ai the popular, upreasoning idolatry. Soon blows mast be routes the slave power will have leet ite chief weapon when the North bas ned to calculate the value of the Union. Unti) that te done, thore will always Des means of crurbing us into submission. It way seem to some, that the present is not a peouliarly favorapie od for such a convention. The year afwra Presidential clection in always a period of lull, “Optimists nd quietiste”’ represent tbat the character of the bow ai ministration and the vew Congress is no! yet deflatwly incicated, At prevent, affairs in Kansas look more provi tions, while new light dawns in Missouri, aud even, ito thought, ip Virginia. The semory of the Sumner outrage is softened by she tein deaths of its anthor and Its occa. sion. The Fogitire Slave law and the repeal of the Mie tour! compromise bave ceased to be novelder, and the Dred Scott decision is sequicsced tn by many, as ® merely abstract grievance Bet thw is merely a truce, nota peace. We have no indemnity for the past; po security for the future. Not a Wrong * Yet re iresred; Kansas is not yet savod; Sumuer is pot set restored; Mixsourt t# not yet freed; Virginia is not yet colonized, Tho futare, in all these cares, ts rtiil cloudes by vnoertainti Ii the Dred Scott case be an a» traction, It fs oae of those abatractions whore prac ical commequoncer convulse U rid. For all Fur eiforts there js not yet on inch of truly free soil is the nation The great State of Obto, under the ablest republican govern. mect, bas just been the scene of bloody and successful slave bunts, That the new almicistration will be tho- rovghiy subservient to the rlave power is a foregone coa- ciusion. Thejexistence of slavery is aggresion, aud new ingenuities of ousrage may at way momeut be prung upoa ve. From more politics there ts little to be expected. The commanded just votes eaough to carry its moesures, aud, under our present organizsion, Always will. If the republican party told truth last No vember, the Presidential election transferred the balance Of power, more than ever, to the side of slavery. It haa four years of corruption, conquess and annexation bef ors it, and i remains to bo proved thst any merely political com vinauicn can defeat it. Oa the other band, whe attitute of the republican beaders ts now, aa alwaye, one of timidity and compromise. They deprecate. with se Caution, the ebarge of any Ciapositian io interfere with slavery as it Ja, abd claim the support of Sothern men for their nomias. tions, as affording ondl niulshed security toslave property. It e evident that the mass of republican voters in many ates are becoming more radically antislavory. And noting will core inuch to promote that desirable cbange as the feariews discussion we propose, Undoubtedly the fret object is to create an untied and determined North. Rot if there ls even achance that the alt mate reealief tbat effort is to be diennion every one muss admit whe po- regard the prevent ea an op Portune period for oor convention. We with to act with enimnen#, not with impetuority; to be covtrolied, not by impviee, but by mature conviction. It ie pot surange wn ecch a convention should be im & period of That it ehoald be beld in a time of comparatt quiet, » « fact of momentous rign! deance. Such a convention appeals wo Usree distinct clawes of persons: — 1. Thore who repudiate the United States conetitation as estentia ly pro stavery, #nd hence »bjore all nnlon under \t. 2. Thore wha, now accepting this view of the constite en, sali concur In the opinion that there can be 2° por mapedt union between free and slave Siatos, and that tae oply practicable solution will be found, sooaer or laver, |o 8 reparation. 3 Those who, believing in the wlitmate triumph of free dorm without disupion, #til re of te agitation of tho subject, becaure they admit disunion to be a possible ro full; and br cause the discussion will tend, in soy case, to ttrengthen and consolidae the Nordh on the side of free. dom. Ti bas been delermined to eummon the convention by mesns of acall,to be signe’ by euch porvons s¢ may, from either of the motives above indicated, sympathise with its object. oon @ many such names, from every free State, G poo and wide distribation Of this sentiment wil] be exbivited, aad increased | stereat will be given to the ¢ouvention ‘You are therefore rerpectfully Invited to append to this call your ow p signature, and to ‘ont such others as may be within your resch. Its belfeved that acy effort, #0 bestowed, will be heeful aa wery work. ai) copies of the call should bo returned, (with sigoatures, ana a mo frorandum of the place where obtained.) 6 Joseph A Hovland, Worcester, Meas, on or before Sentombor 1, 1887. +fROs WENTWORCA BIGUINSON, WENDELL PHILLIPS, ¥. W. BIRD, DANIEL MANN, WM. LLOYD GARRISON, CALL FOR A MATIONAL CONVENTION, Whereas it mast be obvions to all, that the American Colon i¢ becoming more and more dirwed, by slavery, nto two distinct and antagonistic nations, between whon harmony is imporaible and even ordinary intercourse 1s becoming daogerons ; And whereas slavery has now gained entire ovntrol over the three branches of our vational government, executive, jadiciary and legislative: has so interpreted the ovastite Won as to deny the right of Oongrees to cata rlich freedom even ip the Territories, and by the same prooses has re moved aii legs! protes.ion from a large portion of tho poo ple of the free States, and bas inflicted, at many times an! places, ovtrages far greater than those which our father’ Tose | Arms t0 repel ; Ana s#hereas there seems no probability that the futur’ ‘will, In theme renprets, be different from the past, aader oxiating State relations ; The vndersigned respectfnily Invite their fellow citizen» of the frre States to meet in convention at - ia Oct ber, 1857, to consider the preeticability probabil ty se: dieney of a reparation between the free amt slay nd to take such other menzares as the condition « times may require, Expaires Roves, Susnow Grauvos, July 22, 1867. f i places, I return with renewed pleasure to this charming spot, which. after repeated visite scems only to gain upon me the more. Here invalids desirous of feding pure mountain air, good living, amd quiet but agreeable society, will meet with those agrémens in perfection. Fast poopie, however, will toon discover that they are out of their element in Sharon, for with the exception of ap ooasioual outbreak of snob- bishnees at what is called the fashionable house, the gene- ral tone of the place is of the most unpreteadiag and sociable character. ‘A Although owing to tho hotels being princtoal y in the hands of one family counection, cannot be said to be emiuently progressive, I find some few evidences of improvement ia the general by pd of the pice ince las; season. The old Spring eo bas been pulled dowt and a fine new buiding under the same denomina- tion erecied 19 i place. ‘The grounds leading w tne pria- cipal spring have trimmed up & lite, and at the pre Bedi Moment carpenters are Dusy com vie log a sort of oo- tagopel temple structure over the sulpbur spring Owing to a curious crotchet on the part of the proprietor, the new erection will be rendered mach less couvenient and aitractive than the old square abed tha: formerly covered it. He has abolished the seats which surrounded the lat- \er, from the idea thas they alfurded wo many facilities to the rustics of the neighborhood to rub their skirts to those: of the ‘‘aristocracy.’’ And #0 because a few of Lae smart- ly dressed and pretty country girls and ‘hoir beaux ol- bowed at rare intervals the fauming daughters of dry is men srd Wali street brokers, the iavalida who here are to be opinet of ‘heir tavorite reaiag bere bis very mixinre of classes only added 0 *t acd picturesquevess of the groups. watering places. Untilabout ten day: were almost entirely o upty; but they are now filing ra- pidly, and by the ena of the week they wil! probably not be far short of their usual number. Amongyt the promi- nent persons at the Eldridge House are G B Lamar, of Georgia; W. Stewart, of Mobile; GT. Rice, of Worcester; Hon. I-aac Davis, do.;, Erastus Corntog, albany; John F” Laite, Philadelphia; A. Mavo, Jr, New York, and their femities, Lrecognize but few of the old faces that were hero jast reason, and but one Philadetphian, The Bos- tonians, however, muster pretty strong and comprise rome of our hapdsomest and most accomplishet lady guests. Wecan, I aseure you, got up ao amateur concer’ at rhort notice, which ké not easily to be rivalled even a6 New York Apropos ofconcertt,an amateur affair of this sort came off last night’ at the Paviion for a charl- ty benefit, aud waa highly sucoossful The princtyal ringers were Misa Read, of Vniladelphia, a talented and uccomphished girl, who wins all hears by the moder ty and amiability of ber bearing, Senor Bueno, of Havana, am amateur who woula do honor ¢) the boards of any iyric stsge, and M. Albeié, a French gectieman, who sings vaudeville tritles with an effect which shows him to be an oid havitué of the Opera Coma, Miss Read was overwhelmed with an ava'anche of oyuqneta for the Mmenver in which she acquitted sere ii in several didicaly operatic pieces, and Senor Bucno’s ¢tfurts were also greet ed with tumultuous applause, It is rarely that one hag the pleasure of bearing such excellent private singers. I murt not omt; to notice the performance of Mies Gantz on the pianoforte, which was marked by exquisite taste and grout brilliancy of execution. The general accompa- niments by Mr. Chase on the same instrument were also excellent Considerable additions have been made to the Eldridge Boure since lact season. The grounds have been enlarged, and two fine billiard tables and @ bowling alley added to its amuremenis. ‘There is.come talk of Thalberg’s coming here after hig concert at Saratoga next week. As yot there have been but few hops of any acconnt. There is dancing, however, nigt tly im most of the hotels. The National (American) Executive Com. mnittees Lotsviam, July 15, 1887. GxaTiEMEN—All the members of the american National Executive Committee who have commupicated with me bave expresged the desire that Hon. Jacob Bro me, of Phi- ladelphia, hail be the chairman, The committee is ag fcllowe:— Hon, Jacob Broome, Chairman, Philadelphia, Penn. Hon Autneny Kepoedy, Satumore, Md, fon H Winter ‘is, Baltimore, Ma. Hon, A B. Bly, Boston, Macs. Hon, W. K Smuh, CH, Als. Verparian Ellis, Was Hen. J. Scott Harrison, Hou A H A Stewart, Kichmond. Va. Jas. W. Barker, New York clty,N Y- Hoo. Erarwe Brooks, New York, N. Y. Jamee Bebop, Newark, N J. Hou Keone b Raynor, Raleigh, N.C. ion. F K Zollicoffer, Nashville, Teun. The Chairman of the committee will communicate with the different members and ascertain their views of the tume and place of their firs; meetwg BLANTON DUNOAN, Cor Seo, Natioual American Cousot. Brooslyn Oty News. Tar Unive States Breanne Mosusirrt Agmocwo.— An accident ocurred to the United States steamebip Mis- sletippl ) esterday afternoon as she was clearing from the dock at the Navy Yard. The tide was bigh and storng, and 6 vervel was forced againas the gas hoare wharf whore ebe struck. One of wer wheots was broken, the shal sbat tered and her stern damaged. She laid in a very preca 7008 position for some time, careening on one side, Teo steam tugs vere put into requisition, aad she reo off aod taken back to the yard for repairs, wil eke rome aod therefore d lay her cont cruise, Whi! on the dock one of ber sailors to gt on shore. He was pursued D; ber @ per- fons, Who appeared to cover his retreat aod he escaped Previous to striking the dock the steamsbi) ran into aa other versel and damaged her cousideradly. Ipeytirrep.—The body of the man who died at the Nints Pprocinet station house on Wednesday, was yeaterday iden- tiled by bie friends ax Robert Weber. He was a vativa of , and has been in this coxwtry for about one Pa He le& a wife and iwo cbjidres in the le Intely rea ded at No. 86 Chatham streot, for @ liquor merchant in Wiliiaam street. cl }, of Washingtoa City, opon a iad ten who was the subject of anchy lor! elbow jpint, the right arm having been atiitened |i rmight porition, aod consequently nearly useless. The object of we operaion being the creation of an artificial joint, the bones wera divided rt the elbow, and a piece taken from each artica- Iating surface. It was successfully performed, and tna eflort to secure a movabie and useful joint it is thought wiil be perfectly atrained. ASTERTISKMKNTS BEAKWED VERY BAY. = : ey vere, from tl O amt) iro lard, who arrived te few York wo Weare age, wil ba Dane fwily received y cousin, Mary Telven. a. Pa riok Kine ley #, (9 Greenwich street. wy JUST, OF MONTREAL, BORN AT WUHLHAU- ne, Ge many, i® required to leave bis af dress with Pr. Meleaner, Dew York, as A family ne #8 have been re- evived tor him, I" MI#S M. CRAGT£, WHO ARRIVBD ON THE 2TH BY © the Hero frem Liverpool, woud send her address to A M., (from Edinberg,) at 21 sroadway, abe would beer of some- thing © ber advantage: FORMATION WANTED—OF MARGARET HRALY, the ti Rte At ‘any ipformaiion of her ba a cow 0 Mary Healy, Alon by ber winter, Mary Healey. thankfully received by Hou, alwoa, Iline ts. WHO LEYT HIS OMM “PARTLY ON BUST NES 4 kbd pari for pleasure,” on Tuesday, the 14h inst, is eatora.y enirenied by D. U. #40 return ‘o hia Daainers aod hia family. pee F THE PERSON WHO TOOK A SILK "UMARELLA from of the evnnter of the Herald offloe yeete diy even- k, will revarm the seme tw the aeak of the y oblige the oWner, aa it if valoed on so- 208. ] AM LOOKING FOR YOU. Luecaa& FFT 118 HOMR—ON MONDAY N'GET, JULY 2, IN eompany with two olber boys, my son, Grorge (nttia, 16 yearso'd @* out five feet, light compl cont DIAC pants and Disek cap. Am ing bim will be thankfully received and liberally dis angigns parenis. KOWARD OUTELE, is © street, NY L, 2eAaMe Phace, af HALr-rast one Or L9CK to ¢ay i. AGGIR—IRQCIRE FoR NOTE ADDARERED ro AFEAMIA Hrooklyy Post eflics, ly a. TS, 1 Pe DIsarreannn: surroseo TO HAVE strayed away, an inieres ng ~ ung gentleman of about 4 years of von, dark corly looks arwand an Ant nour head, inch na the raven's wing. on & face ex preesing extraordinary juve!) gence Had on when be lef ® Air of pantaloons, cost, vest, ete As he i* from Scotland !t Pipreaumd hut he 18 lurkiog sround the Highande if be will revura to his kaxtoas (riends au will be forgiven and (| go ten TLEY LAW, WILEY LAW, W Law, 1s t# of Sompter comnt oly by letier to Bolten 4 SYLAG —IF WILet gia, shuld Se ltt triage, bon 29% Pos: of- og greavy to his advan~ af thaw fee, New tage, oF in the event of bis Cenh hs ne) perore ATIC REPURLICAN GENERAT, COMMITTEE, sey toeting of ihe Democratic Republican General New fork will b= beld at Tammaay elty of Commiciee of th a ening, July 4, the ( Ballon Friday Authority vesied the purpose of saant to ed ‘o0ek, i call the next meeting, for Shairoan young >y ‘swe kad Aopotnting the sandt the wanracthn of other har Dasinesd Sams. DWARD OUGPRR, Obairmas. Ress, & Hawt, Y secretaries. Rost. @. Warasry, ae COAL. peer RED ASU STOVE AND Ka> range and hee, rormened aud le! m yards corner King and Green 3 Canal street, near Alien MATTARW CLINTON. LEGAL NOTIONS, |, LATTERS OF ADMINISTRATION Dm BO- tesamento gnBEXO to the emtate of Willem Goins snp a he resent “hem in Wahid os McALLISTEA, sdminisuaior, 39 Souls MWh street, (ile eee ty