The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1858, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8081. Dewocratic Ratification Meeting in Tarrytown. ‘SPEECH OF THE HON, AMASA J, PARKER. naar IS VIEWS OF NATIONAL AND STATE POLICY, he, Bey &e. A meeting of the democrats of the Ninth Congressional istrict was held yesterday afternoon at Tarrytown, to ratify the State democratic nominations, and particularly ‘that of the Hon, Gouverneur Kembie for Congress, Tho meeting was held in the open air, in the orchard grounds ‘Mat face the Franklin House—the same place at which @e Haskin ratification meeting was held a couple o months since. There was quite a large attendance present —the number probably exeeeding a thousand. A plat form, handsomely covered with the national flag an @rnamented with political devices, many of which had @one service in the campaign of 1866, was erected for the sonvenience of the speakers, A band was in attendance and now and again the discharge of a gun awakened the echoes of the Hudson. ‘The meeting was called to order about 2 o'clock P, M. by the nomination of Gen, Aaron Ward, of Westchester, as @hairman, and of the following named persons as Vice Presidents aud Secretaries -— Vice Presidents—Williaim Lawton, Dr, Salmon Skinner, John Immens, Sen., Flijah H. Brower, Westchester: Mathew D. Bogert, William Dickey, Rockland; Hon, John Garrison, Hezekiah Conch, Putnam. Becretaries—A. H. Lockwood, John E. Marshall, Henry B, Todd, Dr, William Govan, Washington Mickwac. REMARKS OF GENERAL WARD. General Wakp, on taking the chair, said:— Fruow Crrvexs—I am very glad to gee the spirit which- prevails here. It angurs well, very well indeed, for our eause, I rise merely to return my grateful thanks to you of my native county for the high honor you have con- Sorred upon ‘me and for the enthusiastic manner in which you have been pleased to do it, We have distinguished Bpeakers here from a distance, and among others our own @istinguished candidate for the executive chair, and I will pot now detain you with any epeech of mine; but if you aak ine to make @ specch r others are through, I will do 0 with pleasure, for these are the times that try men’s eouls. I now introduce to you Governor Parker, for he wil} be our next Governor. SPEECH OF HON. AMASA J. PARKER. Mr. Parker, on coming forward, was grected with cheers. He said: Feliow citizens, 1 appear before you on your in- Vitation, not for the purpose of peaking at ail of the eandidates that are before the public for office, and cer- tainly not of those who are my own competitors for the executive chair. If 1 were to speak of them at all, it could be in terms of hay a personal oe oy But I come here to discharge a higher duty. I come for the pur) of dis- peers tahg f briefly ,a few of the questions in which weall, as citizens of this country and as inhabitants of this State, feel a particular interest. I sball not discuss them at tho ongth which their importance might warrant me in doing Because I am to be followed by other speakers, and I do not wish (o monopolise too much of the time of this assembly. Ite certain, gentlemen, that we could not meet for a more otic purpose than tnat of discussing and understand- forge, Uo these great questions of national concern; and if there is any spot in our State where a man can be most moved by feelings of patriotism it is here—here in your own town, on the banks of the Hudson—in the town which ig with so many reminescences of the Revolution; where treason was discovered, and from near to where the traitor fled. Two years ago, tlemen, there occurred in this country of ours one of the most warmly contested elections that has ever taken place in our bistory. You cannot have forgotten that occasion—I troat never will forget it, because we should learn from {a lesson with regard to our future action. It was atime ef great excitement. The North was intensely excited. ‘ism seemed to rule the day. Men became wild on of , Which was brought into the can. ‘vars. It was one of the cloeest, as it was one of the most impportant, elections that ever occurred. eftement of that day has passed away. ‘therein involved have beon disposed of,and we arc now at liberty to look back on those questions more calmly ‘than we could Jook at them then, to understand their ‘epinions that after. "AL that imne, are to govern us hereafter. time, all the free States of the North were excited, ‘ings of the 7 were carried away on this slavery, which bad been ungenerously the canvass, That question had ruling element in struggle. ‘were concealed, and the judgment o called out upon them. ‘struge! stood, every fair minded now democratic was enti t he doubtless, to recar to it for a momen learn wiadom for the future. Th whether Congress should decide the qnes f Hi 2: chy H 4 if g ik in tho Territories, or whether the peopl should determine it for themselves in framing their Stat constitution. By whom should the qi sottledr— the people themselves or © body i m only real question involved in the stragzic. ‘It happened that that question concerned slavery; but it ‘might as well have concerned anything else. Suppose that it had been some other domestic question, which the ofa Territory claimed the right of possessing, and for themselves; and suppose that Congress had at to usurp that right and undertaken to de. cide the question: why, th re would have been no diffe- of opinion about it. All parties would have agreed it ‘be a usurpation on the part of Congress to domestic question, and that it should be themselves. But it to be the ‘a subject in to which we at -jndices, and in which the South ‘she does in all others. These H i : i E at Hi | # H : Z f i f 2 2 = ; . (Three . Why, gentlemen, in that , it wens rent, a only Kore’ but abroad, that existence of the Union was involved. It was appa. that the South could not submit toa President, sevect ly by these Northern States, and elected on the of slavery, and in hostility to the interests of Tt was so regarded abroad. Even the organs of monarchical governments of Furope regarded it 80 expressed their opinion. They A for the elec of Mr. Fremont, because they thought it would lead dismemberment of the Cuion, and the destruction on which they look with jealousy. They disunion the polities! power of the country , and ite oy agin ceaset. and that it can po longer ‘a competitor of the Powers of Europe. Therefore, they on the struggle with great interest. Now, if een differed with us on that occasion will look question fairly, they will seo that it was sim whether Congress shall decide the inetitn Territory, or whether the people shall devide them ves. that great question the democratic then where it has always stood, and where I will always stand—on the side of self goverament, popolar rights, on the side the peopie power that may be attempted to be exercised ‘Congress is in The Sweeqoecan ase or. is to a jinasmuch as a ter- ty bo vote in Bat, gentic independently of this right of self goverument, there in the world on the score of policy, question of slaverf s not be decided by and why it should by the people of Z.. If you commit to Congress thie question of scenes of violence may you not expect You will have all the members from the North on ‘the one side, and all the members from the South on the other. is & question in relation to which the South is Fy fensitive—more so than in regard to all others them it is a (Of the highest im noe, They know very well this interference of the North wit! fa very likely to stir up aservile insurrection in the South, that in pepo Ta ym Fy ificed. May you not, therefore, well fear to commit a subject to Congress, to have incendiary Hu! Segece i" fi RY i $ i 4 Her feelings and prejudices on the part of both: Task you if you could trust this ques 4 tribunal where it would do more mis- ik Congress? If you wish to sce Ty apeeches are made there now on ‘subject by leading repuilicans, I will give you an ex baron Pee in the of renentative: , of Ohio. Gifings said, in one o Jook forward 2 the day when there shail insurrection in the South—when the blac: With Britieh bayonets, and led on by Britie hia freedom, and a Lg ° master—wh torch 0 joendiary shall light up the towns and citics of the South, and biot out the last vestige of a! ‘y: aad though at y and wher their tho dawn of a pa'titiea ‘words uttered by a repatstican sentiments, © shocking to the moral sense of every right minded man, fwere uttered the of Southern members, an! the Post Office to ever, i extent view <= some danger i the Territories were left to be in ae ey When ight he not reper ite: i t i 3 i Z i A Hf 32 ‘ 5 py] to rest at ni 3, reas ' ee before morni very cn. lamity . invoked by Giddings may cocer, that his tamnily may be .(mmolated and his irty destroyed? Has he not reason % fear it when such speeches arc made in Con. grees ands, 0t Over the Union? Ie ess, therefore. fie proper ph.'ee IM which to introduce this firebrand, and to kecp tp thie bitter fecling between North and South? Is it 0 allo Wed to monopolize the whole time of Congress win’h should be devoted to ques. fone of great. nm. onal concern—the extending of agmmers the inn ‘ement of government in all its Sen a Why, centlemen, if the last election Riad had for result the comm, ting of (bis question to Gan. , the question of slavery would be carried into every esd iy district in the Union every second re, ‘when members of Congress were to be alegnd sat woul ple of the district at war with each r bet the i ing and disturbing them, It seems to me, gous lemen , ‘that no candid and fair man, no matter to wl Body to whieh elongs, will deny that Congress is an untit body to w to entrust the cuaccin of this power; or that the people of the Territory are precisely the r persons to pass upon it. If you say that the people o! the Territory are to decide the question for themselves, then the moment they 8 upon it the whole difficulty is ended. If, there- fore, you woukl secure to the oacue, if you would” perpetuate the Union, if you would make the whole country great and glorious and prosperous, ag we all hope to see it, then by all means adopt the course that shall terminate questions of this kind as often as they may arise, in a mode which will create the least excitement and the least bitterness among people who happen to reside in different portions of the Uni 10D. ‘At this point Gen. Warp suggested that as the people at the meetiag could not get afull view of the speaker. Owing to the manner in which the stand was built and festooned, he should stand upon a chair while addressi them. Mr. Parker tried lo carry out that idea, but foun that it only made the matter worge, as it brought his head within afew inches of the folds of a flag. me voices called to him to take down the flag, but Mr. Parker said: “No, gentlemen, I cannot tear down the American flag.”” ‘This happy remark brought down rounds of applause; and, instead of taking down the flag, he pinned it higher up, which caused Gen. Wiard afterwards to remark that the Governor had gallantly nailed the colors to the mast- head. This pleasing little episode over, Mr. Parker con- tinued — I think that this great question has been sottied for all time to come by the result of the late Presidential election. A leading republican orator from a neighboring State con- ceded it, the other day, to be so. He said that for fifty years to come they would never be able to get Congress to pass an act excluding slavery from a Territory when it was to be admitted. That is virtually conceding that the people in the elec! of James Buchanan decided that great question. But, gentlemen, there are other subjects ‘connected with this matter to which, perhaps, I ought to advert. You well recollect the storms and difficulties that keemed to accompany everything done in Kansas. I do not stop here now for the purpose of going back to show who created these difficulties. Neither will I stop to dis- case the propriety of the Emigrant Aid Societies of the Fast in interfering as they did, and sending out rifles; nor, on the other hand, the propriety of the border ruf- flans of Missouri interfering. All interference from any quarter and from every quarter is against the rule of the democratic party. Their rule is non-intervention in this matter. (Cries of “good.” ‘Their platform is that Congress is not to interfere at all with the people of a Territory, but that they shall be per- mitted to exercise their right of self government to the fullest extent. Any interference, therefore, whether it comes from one side or the other, is a violation of demo- cratic principles. 1 certainly do not justify it at all. Nor ‘will I speak here of the violence or frauds committed in Kansas, nor of the great fraud by which atrocities were, for political effect, represented as having been committed, which never were committed. I pass by all this. It nas nothing todo with the principle involved. The simple question is whether the shail be let alone entirely to vote as they please, uninfluenced and unbiassed by in- terference from apy quarter. Now, gentlemen, this ques- tion has been sent back by Congress to the re ple. The Lecompton constitution was presented to Congress, and alter a great struggle, in which the friends of popular sovereignty differed, it re- sulted in the constitution being sent back to the people. The people have since passed upon it, and voted without interference from any quarter; and a =, large portion— @ vast majority of the people—were found opposed tw the existence of slavery there. This question, therefore settled in regard to Kemess. It cannot arise again. ‘Pue moment the people were let alone and permitted to come forward quietly and calmly to vote, all agitation ceased. They spoke for themselves and settled the question. We at the North, gentlemen, never doubted how they would settle that question. Made up as Kansas was, of emigrants from the North and not from the South, we never should have doubted that it would become afree State. We knew pertectly well that those who were most exceedingly anxious for Kansas to be a free State could entrust the matter to no body of men more likely to make it free than the people of Kansas themselves se they came from the free States of the North and @Brried with them their hostility to slavery. We predicted at the time that it would result in making Kansas a free State, and such has been the result. A fair expression of the will of the people has been given against the iutroduction of slavery into the State, and that shows that we were right in another point of View—that it was not necessary to go to Congress to exclude slavery—that for those who wished its exclu. sion there could’ be no safer tribunal than the people themselves, who have at last voted to makeit a free State, ho differed with us wit! say yet that wo were Tight. On this question we regretted exceodingly to seo a portion of the democracy of the Stato go off and Vote with the republican party. ¥ Were misied on that question. But now] that struggle bas parsed by and that wo can jook back calmiy at it, and judge dispasgionately, 1 am satisfied that there are thousands of them who will come back again and act with us. Many will admit their er- ror, and will say that after ali it was a question for the , and that that Tans of thie poset id not have n interfered with, that after all it was for the greater good of the country, and that is not to be lost sight of. And they will be more careful in the future, | trust, bow designing politicians at the North, whoseck to stir up fana- tic feelings and to establish a great Northern party, shail imtiuence them. It is fortunate for us, gentiemen, that the great question is settled. Tt gives us time to look at other matters of great and vital interest to all of us. Cer. tain it is that our whole thoughts should uot be absorbed in this great question of slavery. We should have some time to consider other great and common interests in which we are concerned—for in respect to slavery, we at the North are not wt ail conce ned. We may, therefore, look at other questions, aad trust that the democratic par- ty will always be found on the side of popular rights and self government in any qufestions that may arike between Congross or any power and the people—especially it it be portion of the people not represented in Congress. ‘The democratic party has been always found on that side. Its sympathies bave not been contined even to the lumits of this country. It has been its policy from the beginning of the governinent to invite emigration from abroad. (eof the grievances of which we complained in our Declaration of Indep was that the British king had ised to fanction voring emigration to this country, and had failed to encourage it. The demecoratic party ever found the friend of the emigrant, emigration, because it 18 plain that it is for the interest of the country. Every load of emigrants that arrives here adds to the national weaith. Ido not mean to step and count the few dollars that an emigrant may have in his pocket on his urpose of bu -ing land and seething wih bas family ‘ort; that is the smallest t every em a of the public gain If he lar im his pocket and ‘< . a valuable acquisition to the wealth of the eae if lause. | Labor is wealth. departments Labor, applied to all the of life, makes up the wealth of this count a man comes here from abroad, whether he brings with him the geuine and learning of an Agassiz, or the skill of a Robling, by which he can construct suspension bridge over great gulf, or whether be brings here the miner's and artisan’s skill to work our mines and con strnct our machinery, or brings simply the muscles which nature gave him—iti all cases he makes a liberal offoring on the altar of our country, and adds to the national wealth. Therefore it is, gontiemen, that the democratic party invites emigration trom abroad, and bas always oc cupied that porition, from the foundation of the govern. ment. That was the position it eccapied under Jefferson when the alien laws were wader discussion. The demo- cratic party invites emigration from abroad—no matter from what country it comes—from Ireland, England, Seotland, the banks of the Rhine—no matter from where. The democratic party invites men of all countries to come here, and, after the time fixed by law, to join with us in restatning this government, and enjoy its blessings. Is not that the true policy? { Uhink it will be admitted to be ‘so by all fair and candid men. I know that on this sub. ject, too, there have been differences of opinion. No doubt these were honest differences. But I regret to see by the published returns that emigration been sadly falling of for last year or two, ‘This will detract {rom our uational wealth, and will retard our growth. Certain it is, however, that many who hare differed with us on either of these questions, are in their hearts national men, conservative men—men who would hold the Union together. Do you believe, however, that if the great Daniel Webster, the expounder of the consti- tution, were now alive he would be found acting with the Bry, who favored dirunion? Certainly not. He would ve spurned it, and his eon who succeeded him foris that he can do no better service to his country than by acti as he now does democratic party. (€ Harry Clay, too, gallant Harry Clay—(Three « Harry Clay)—the man who loved his country, and who would have scorned any sectional movement, where would he have been found if he were now living? You cannot suppose he would ever have joined a sectional party for the promotion of merety sectional objects. His son who succeeded him, too, is found battling in our ranke—for the democratic party is, in truth, the onty party where a con- servative man can find shelter. He cannot belong to a sectional party and peril the existence of the Union Hie will not engage in anything proseriptive of either race or creed. Where else can he go—where can the straight- out whig go except to the democratic party, which is now the only national, conservative party in the Uniou? ‘Therefore it is that in all parts of the Union these men are found acting with us. (Applause.) But, gentlemen, I have not time, nor is it nevessary to discuss on this occa sion at any considerable these national questions Happy it is for the eountry that excitement has subsided. Happy it ie that this question in regard to Kansas is set. th A fortnight ago to-day the election in Kansas of members of the Territorial Legisiature took piace, and so little is heard about it that very few know that it has oc. curred. There was no violence, no bloodshed, no incur sions from Missouri, no Sharpe's rifles from Massachu sette—nothing to interfere with the people, It is indeed, fortunate for the country that there is now time for repose Peace and quiet. It is at such a time that the democratic party comes into power: W is then that its pri are appreciated. If the rty is put down at all, it is only by some tem porary outburst of local feeling, some fanatical agita tion, OF a combination of such questions that hay , for the ti, to mislead the public mind. But the public mind is cota. to come back to the side of the democratic party whn the time of repose arrives. Such a time there is now. 1,'¢ question of slavery will not, I trast, soon be agitated aga. Certain it i that the public mind cannot soon be abused again with regard to it, And now we shall have amp,” time to turn our attention to the consxde- ration of other grvat national questions, aye, and a time to PAY come little até, tion, too, to the questions of poliey in On own State goven’ment—<uestions which have been * Heglected in all this exottement. Hardly any question of Bate policy bye been diegivecd for yours past. All baw and when been forgotten in the agitation of the slavery question in Kansas. We have been governing Kansas and not verning Now York. There will be time now, I trust, wo return to our own State and look @ Itttle to our own affairs, in which we all have a very great interest. If you will make use of moments of repose to look back at the legislation of the last few years, you will find that there is ample room for interference and reform. ‘The democrats claim a strict construction of the constitu- tion. It is a cardinal rule of their faith that the consti- tution shall be construed strictly. In this they differ from their opponents, and now if you look over your statute books, with the statutes in one band and the constitution in the other, you will see that laws have been passed in open deflance of the constitution. The constitution is made for the protection of the citizen against the Lagisiature; and yet you hear it complained of on every side that _un- constitutional lawsare passed, For the city of New York a Police bill has been passed, which, if not a violation, is certainly an evasion of the constitution. By it men are placed in power who are not chosen by the peopie of the city and are not responsible to the peopl) of the city for their acts. And this is but one of a series of acts of usurpation on the part of the Legislature against the citizens of New York. Ineed not stop to enumerate them particularly, It is enough to say that the public mind should be direct. ed to this subject to see whether it is not neceasary to use extraordivary care to prevent arecurrence of these matters, Mr. Parker proceeded to discuss the question of the canals. He did so at considerable length, advocating the completion and extension of the canals, and then placing them in a condition of the highest possible adequacy, and arguing against the policy of alienating them or dis- posing of them for the benelit of any corporation. He was followed by the candidate, the Hon. Mr. Kem- ble, and by General Ward, Mr. Scrughan and others. The Venezucian Commissioners. THEY THANK OUR COMMON COUNCIL FOR HONORS PAID TO GEN. PAEZ EIGHT YEARS AGO. ‘The Committee of the Common Council appointed to meet the Venezuelan Commissioners had an audience with them at 3 P. M. yesterday, in the chamber of the Board of Cor cilmen. The four Commissioners, P. J. Rojas, Gen. J. do Austria, Miguel Mujica and Dr. M. Paez, (#0n of Gen. Paez,) were present, besides all the other Venezulans, about twenty in number, who were in town, Many Cubans and citizens of Central and South American States were also present. Gen. Paez expects to start for Venezuela in about a fort night. All the other citizens of that republic who are hore ‘at present will accompany him. It is probable that public ovations will be given the Commiesioners and Gen. Paez in Philadelphia aud Wash- ington before their departure. Gen. Paez was not present at the meeting yesterday. He is said to be out of town. The Venezuelan Commissioners were introduced to the Committee of the Common Council by Mayor Tiemann, after which P. J. Rojas, President of the Commuesioners, addressed the assembly’ as follows:— SPEECH OF P. J. ROJAS. The gratitude of Venezuela brings us, sir, of this honorable Corporation. In the When the republic mo} credit, she rejoiced in secret at the with wi dispersed sons were received in # foreign Iand, and was proud to know that the best loved of them all—the protector of those liberties, the supporter of that peace and cred! victun of the then prevailing des was wel- * The day was n might, cast of thetr op) the world with renewed titles to respect. Venezuela is free, and sence ua to fulfil to-day an obligation contracted during ber adversity, Tie splendid oration, of which General Jose Antonio Paez at the gatos of tion whieh I wns the object, when, as an exile, he knocked this Union, wae the generous act of the Corporal now address. In doing homage to the » you honored his republican princip! noring the citizen, you honored the country which gave him birth, and to whow* welfare he had plded himscif in sacrifioe. It was yours to change to laurels mar crown, which pressed the brow of our warrior statesm: in ‘thus sustaining the defender of popular een ufuiminated an enathema inst abuse and ranny t y. Wor this act Venezuela owes tude; and in the full flush of tetumtph — in the name of that illustrio cigus ncceptance of her sincere expreasions of gratitude. to bear the thanks of nation to « people whose com culiarly grateful, in a city which, in my love for the the tree, I chose aa my home in the days of my exile. Mr. Rovas then read the decree of the Venezuelan Con- vention recalling Gen. Paez and thanking the city = decree was age on the ocwasion of their reception at thorities for the protection extended towards him. the Metropolitan Hotel. REPLY OF THE MAYOR. Mr. Rosas and gentlemen of the delegation from the National In bebalt of the. fanictpal authorities of the city a of the in York, 1 have the honor (o receive and you, pave been to tender to tie National Convention of Venezuela, for taneous recep! by the Common tis city to the diatingulabed native of Veneruels and soldier of South American a nio Paez, on exfe from bis country and his home, but as 7 oe ee ye ogee! liberty. epezuel to peace fires the return of her brave and Knowledging the distingulshed by the aetion of your National Convention, 1a res ~ wie S ae bim to this land We 0 fer aud eaile, pergnit ‘Dikemen, the sincere teelkig of d bere assembled experience in this act of justice dope liberating ariny her liberties were mainly sectired. T know that rejoices more over achievements tu her cause. ‘While his departure from among us will be deeply silt he will be Femembered, not atone as the palriot aud soldier’ endeared (6 us by bis schlevements as well as his suffering in the rich treamure We poswent ughout the whole of the event fuland protracted struggle which secured his country's Inde. him ose token of nis “from which Venezuria recetved the ‘and by whom the path wae traced to all the sous of the cause of freedom, but also im tu the sword carried by him thro Kezlence, and was presented to us thie free land, * sxam i y to the hope that Veneznel sth borden lobet pom ie tration as her republican President, will move on ia a new the end ih of preeperity and glory. und not tbe betehrorng republics, emulating the example ree, happy aud prespercns land, may join together of similar duion and common defence, ing to ber and their freedom, but adding ample of successful tree government to the nations of the world, Mf our own sincerity i 4 when yoo return to your « nee of the good fee: ihe republie ot North America, After the speect Jderman Davis moved Mayor be di municate the proce’ bat had to both branches of the Common Council. motion wae adopted, after which the meeting ad yourned Move the Schuyler Frauds, SUPERIOR COURT--GENERAL Ti Hon. Judges Bosworth, Hoffman and Pierrepont, pre Ger, 18.—In the Matter of William R. Highe, respond. prices, payable monthly, on the estimate of the engineer, Nine of there estimates had been paid at the office of R. &G. L. Schuyler, the defendants haying thoir office ina , and iv the same building. On room rented from that Orr the presentation of the claim for the tenth estimate, Bay lig was told by the Schuylers’ clerk that they had not money enough, and proposed to pay $3,186 70 in cash, aud to give the note of R. & G. 1. Schuyler at thirty days, for the balance, which was $3,500, Baylis said if tne company had not the money he would take a note with in terest ack The note was given, and a receij by Stewart & Bayiis for $6,686 70 was taken. Tho the defendants. that they charged the company with the whole amount of the receipt Judge Pierrepont, delivering the opinion of the Court, oaid Stewart aud Bayle having done ail this work the it bas not Panay, amount claimed was due nor has it been released by any formal instrument. defendants have received the consideration upon which this action is found, and for it oz. have nothing. The company with this fact that the Schuylers charged hote makes no difference in the present case, he was their debtor to a large amount at the time, and they parted with ho new consideration in consequence of such charge. To make the receipt of the Scbuylers’ note operate as pai ment pro fanto, it was necessary for the defendants show aa agreement to take it as actual payment, Merely taking it and giving a receipt in fall is not sufficient to es- labl.sh such agreement we facts, therefore, are correct- ly found by the referee, and he has drawn therefrom a Jusion oflaw. The receipt given did not preclude '¥ into the a ment actually made in respect to the terme on which the note was taken, and it follows that what was said at the time was competent evidence. The terms of the agreement, if one was made, ate to be deter. mined upon ration of what the parties to the transaction said at that time. There was no error in the admission of the evidence. and judgment must be affirmed with costs, Mrs. Louita Keppner and two children, of Lawrence, Mass., were passengers in the Arago from Havre. Prem Porsenouth, de, tm sieomahip Roanot ‘rom . ae. stent — den WF Ritchie, 7 ber AA Allen. & Has fe 5 ie, Wm HT Staph K Wilt, F Dennis, J Carroll dad lady aut ? ia seerage United States District Court. or. 18.—This court was opened before How. Jodge Ingereell, but no case was taken up, The petit jury were discharges! for the day —TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1858. etounder of that ressors, And presented themaelves to Fou a debt of grati- her’ National Couvention haw decreed a vote of thanks, which itis now our pleusing duty us iv. men; they come from a weak ut 4 people Who are generous and eedou. The sympathy whieh you evinced in the her calamity willever do you honor, as will your gra minissioners, in whowe name T address you, are proud tutions and: rable progress they admire; and to me the duty is pe; ndence, arrival here eight years 9,58 only 24 good order, now de- oubr conferred upon our ey conte yeet wo the part hich not only myself but the members of the munteipal bodies restoration of that perity with which bis country is agata blest than sure of revisiting It and the aenes of his glorious are wit you can ciewtsbip, that the ngs that i, v9. the New York ond Harlem Railroal Company.— case came up on appeal from a judgment enterod on the report of a referee. The action was brought on a en under the following state of facts —Stewart @ , the asrigners to the plaintift, contracted with the defendants to grade the track of the railroad at certain signed note was not paid, and the Lolders offered to surrender it The defendants set up tha the claim was paid by the note, and ehow that at its date the Schnylers were indebted to the company in the sum of $300,000, and PRICE TWO CENTS. Meeting of the Ei, hth Ward Demo-~ eracy. BPRECH OF GENERAL HIRAM WALBRIDGE, THE PRO- PLE’'S CANDIDATE FOR THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL. DISTRICT. Tn accordance with the cal! published in the Heraup of yesterday morning, a mass meeting of the Righth ward democracy was held last evening, on the corner of Prince and Mercer street. A substantial platform waa tel on a portion of the open space, and a considerable time before the meeting was called to order the whole of the space on and around it was crowded, ery window within hearing distance was thrown open, and enh had several spectators of the proceeding® A fine ban whiety had been engaged for the occasion made the streets musi cal with the performance of some of their best selections, and when the speaking was over there was a grand dis play of fireworks, During the meeting the platform was illuminated with immense transparencies that lit up the streets to a consideral'e distance beyond the limits of the crowd, Altogether, «a point of numbers, enthusiasm and respectability, it was one of the most successful meetings which has been held this season, and augurs most favora- bly for the success of the people's candidate. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Mr. Joel B. Fox as President, after which Colonel Harrison introduced General Hiram Walbridge, who was received with the most enthusiastic demonstrations of applause. When silence was restored he addressed the masses, After speaking at length on the issues involved in the ap- proaching State canvass, urging a speedy completion of the canal enlargement and a revision of our State constitution, General WALBRIDGR remarked :— This vast assemblage dem: tes the interest felt by the democracy of the Third distri@¥ the manner in which tions have recently been made in this city, and also d trates that whatever opinions corrupt and designing polit may entertain, the people are always ready and willing to co Junilce to those who have faithfully endeavored lo properly Wischarge whatever public duties may have been contided to them. ‘Tam not insensible to the motives that have impelled your gathering. 1tis to resist the shameless manner in whieh Audidates are now foreed by corrupt potiuiclans on the conf dence of the people—an evil, unless speedily arrested, which must terminate in the most disastrougeousequences, and entire- ty change the character of our repul institutions. The un Diushing effrontery with which officeholders attempt to inter- tere with the legitimate duties of the people has become the crying political evil of our times. The passion for public eim- ployment, instead of the less exciting and more peaceful pur- sulle of private life, is everywhere growing, and to this mainly attributable the inci ower which office ly absorbing. This the office: The Morrissey and Heenan Fight. Mass MORRISSEY NOT INJURKD—EXCITEMENT AMONG THE FANCY. ‘The report in circulation yesterday that John Morrissey, the pugilist, bad met with an accident while attempting to escape from an officer at Buffalo, caused intense exctte- ment among the ‘sports’? in the city, and many of the lead- ing rendezvous of the friends of Morrissey were overrun by those anxious to learn if there was any truth in the report. During the morning there was no person found who could give any information as to the truth of the ra- mor, but one or two of his leading friends immediatly telegraphed to Buffalo, and it is said they shortly received answer that there was no foundation for the report, and that Morrissey was in perfect trim and ready for the fight. One despatch was as follows:— BUFFALO, Oct. 18, 1858—1:45 P.M. John Morrissey is in good spirits, and has met with no accident. It is said that the report was got up with a view of keep- ing back the friends of Morrisse fight. is, however, did not have much effect, as the five o'clock train by the Erie and Hudgon River railroads, a° cll a the Albany boats, took out between two ‘and th oo hon dred last evening. Heenan and Morrissey, from informa tion received by telegraph, are said to be both in saf> quarters in Canada, about forty miles from Butfalo, Two steamers leave Butfalo at ten o'clock to-night to take on the friends of the pugilists. The fight will take place at Long Point Island, about eighty five miles from Buffalo, TELEGRAPHIC. Burravo, Oct. 18, 1858. The coming fight betweqn Heenan and Morrissey causes the greatest excitement among the “fancy.”’ The city is probably fuller of bruisers now than ever before, and delegations continue to arrive by every train. Notorious sporting characters are here from Havana, New Orleans, California, and all the large Northern cities. Both Mor- rissey and Heenan are reported to be in excellent heath and spirits, and ‘eager for the fray.” ‘The fight will take placo near Long Point, Canada. Hee- nan’s seconds aro Aaron Jones and Johnny Mackey, and Morrissey’s are Dublin Tricks and Australian Kelly, The betting is even. A fight came off to-day at Point Albino between two lesser lights of the pugilistic fraternity—Seotty, of Brook jyn, and Barney Aaron. It resulted in a victory to Seotty Barney giving him afoul blow. They fought ten rounds in Ofteen minute; The Irish Commercial Flag. SAILING OF THE GALWAY STEAMSIIP PRINCE AL- BERT—PRESENTATION OF THE FLAG TO CAPTAIN WATERS—-SPEECH OF MISS £SMONDE—EXCURSION DOWN THE BAY—SALUTES FROM HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S FRIGATE VALOROUS—THE NEW YORK STATE MILITIA AT STATEN ISLAND, ETC., BTC. The Irish commercial flag from the ladies of New York in holders usurp and have been constan unjust and finpertinent interference of holders in the affairs of the people attained a culmi hating point in the Convention which assembled at the Fith Ward Hotel inst week, wnt placed in nomination the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, whose acceptance was in direct violation of an agreement into which he had previously entered, and all the substantial benefits of which he had received when he was elected a member of Congress, Of the twenty-five delegates composing that asscmbiage, nineteen are in public employ- mentand pensioners upon ‘the public erib. The democrat party bas survived many conflicts in which it has been angag- ed, Ithas always responded to the welfare and prosperity of the people; but with all ils strength, It will be unable to bear Up Against thin unjust interference’ by the people's kervants in what repent ‘Delongs to the people themselve i Une of Mr Jefferson such an interference in the affairs of the people by the office holders would have been deemed guificient cause for & removal fromotiice, Let ua not hope that, with our i facilities for trade, for commerce, and for manufac ‘was presented yesterday to Captain Waters, of the pee turer we have not grown less careful for tbe honor of the coun- Albert, on the occasion of his departure for Galway. ‘The | try than those who have gone before us. | Let us rather hope ‘thut the great beer of the peoee en ‘din the bumble pur. suits of private life, have inseusibly allowed an evil to apriay up which they will eradicate whenever aroused. The Amert- can people are a gallant and patrioue people, and they will not long permit the pensioners upon their bounty to dictate to them as to the manner bg Mn dis. charge their political obligations, and to designate those who are to become the recipients of public favor. In this glorious old Third district the only and the serious question involved in the action of this packed Custom House convention is, whether the intelligent and indepeudent democratic masses are prepared to yield all obedience to those who fatten upon their bounty—those whom they have placed in power, and who thus seek to saddle them with obnoxious cw tes. We must arrest this evil before it is too late. I conscientiously believe we never shall exercise our legitimate share of inifuence in the public counciis unti! we have overthrown the fraudulent manner in which candidates are now forced upon the people. Nor ean we do it during the years we are enj in a Presi: dential straggle. ‘The magnitude of the * then in- volved, the high excitement that pervades the country, often cause the voter to di his vote without carefully serutinu the candidates for the local steamer Massachuseets was chartered for the purpose of accompanying the Albert down the bay; and after she touched at several piers, where she received an overflow- ‘ng complement of passengers, a band of music and two neces gf artillery, she steamed up to where the Prince Albert ®as lying at her pier in the North River, The Mas. eachusetts bad an Irish flag at her peak, and the American banner floated over her prow. Among her passengers was: Miss Teresa Exmonde, of Brooklyn, the young lady who had promised to present the flag to the captain of the Albert. On nearing the pier at which the Prince Albert lay, she was greeted by three loud cheers from the thou- sands who had assembled around the vessel on the adja- cent piers, and by the numerous passengers and crew of the Prince Albert herself. This was responded to by | Or. even Congressional —the whole iuterest con- three hearty cheers from the Massachusetts, anda salute | Cemtrating in the success of fhe Rnetentid canter te of twenty-one guns. The Prince Albert was gaily decked greatly tnfertor to the North—whore faci for ulation is Ere general diffusion of knowledge are limiied when compared with those of the Norib—-has been enabled this farto exercise Such a preponierauing influence in our national administra Yon at Washington The auswer may be readily found in their superior method of designating candidates for ‘There the corrupt, fraudulent, ballot box st Litting convenuon system’ ik unknown, ‘Thee for public favor is presented directly to the sutfra gee Of the people—ng corrupt and. corrupting caucus resenting hin fresh from its demorallairg associations. 1 ia true, the tucroaned facilities for auccess in private Ufe and business amid the larger population of the North present often- ttractions tor the achievement of fame and for- ‘are to be found in the Gouth or In public life. Here the counting reom, the sterile, though remunerative labors of in bunting, both below and aloft, displaying on her miz- zen Rogers’ American code of signals, and on her fore and mainmasts the flags of many nations. She saluted the Massachusetts by dipping her ensign and fring a ua- tional salute. ‘The steamship Indisn Empire, another of the Galway vessels, was also lying at ber pier, and took part in the ceremonies. Sh ¢ was gaily dressed in bunting also, an mous position at the head of he pier, On saluting eseorting steamer, by “tipping he colors, the compliment was instantly returned a cheer given for the Indian Em, pioneer of the Galway steamers. The Massachusetts now 7 venient pier, and # committee, composed of Col. Kelly and pt. oceeded to the Indian Empire, to pany the escort down the harbor, At two o'clock the Prince Albert left her pier amid great cheering and the firing of guns, not only on board herself and her escort, butfrom various piers North river. These scenes were continued Ul beth is arrived near the British frigate Valorous which saluted each of them bj sipping her flag and man hersigging as they which compliment hjpropriately reciprocated by the Prince Albert and hor escort. On arriving at Quarantine both vessels were ular favor. x nud shoulder Wickes "wikia the Tas tained in the North, of selecting who have not expressed thelr tions that will properly be the sui men, ty iiuencles, and its | Oe Rag G4 We bave a right to know ia advance the opinions saluted by the Sixty ninth regiment New York State Mi- | presented for our es of apy question thatmay probanly Litta, whieh is encamped there. The salute was anational | ome before him for ection This is the ‘isting wishing feat one, and it was responded to by salutes of twenty-ono | “f out free ineiitadons: and when, om, fomraptoe or clher gune from both the steamers. The throng on board tho Massochuretts was so great that an attempt to bring her alongeide the Prince Albert was abortive, and it only re. Suited in crushing one of her paddleboxes against the bul- warks of the larger vessel, and she narrowly escaped careening over. The captain of the Massachusctts ret used to make a second trial to bring bis verse! alongside the flag should bo vert ment provides the neces¥ary way to effect tt—not by violence penlahed—pot over vtolnted rights a I threatened liberties the simple agency of the ballot box— ‘That weapon that comes down as still As snow flakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman’s will, ‘As lightning does the will of dod. E E 3 ‘nt us in the councils of the nation, where the public ems ceome acai: teens bt “aa” at [noruse are to be preserved, than in aelecting those who ure wo came over tothe Massachusetts. He with, 5 Yorn 5 was welcomed enthusiastic cheers, and escorted by Colonel Keily to meet Mirs Esmonde, who was ens forward by Captain Courtenay and his first officer, Mr. Berrey. After a warm exchange of salutations, Miss Exmonde raised the dag betore Captain Waters, and addrersed him thus: — Latics and Gentlemen, Captain Waters and officers of the does not tax bie, nity to give work of hie handa.” This prinelple ment of those manufactures which, like enchant Prince Albert—Tbe most pleasing duty that ever devolved on | out daily the creations of their macht me is mine to-day; and ‘whee T tank Colonel Kelly and the | and hands. There ia not a gentlemen who selected me for thin proud occasion, Twish the | obmrve laws of trade, alte tak bad fallen into abler hands than mine. Ia behalf of the | of demand and supply. The exports ladies ot New York--some Irlah by birth, others fired by the | wf trade are examiued with eare 57 ent n that the sex kinired everywhere—I present this fing, 8 silken ground green asthe beautiful hilla of old Ireland, its folds floating free as the winds that soon will waft chant princes of our grenteity fu b joed, 1 should say they are the foremost—ly directing eur redundant to the best mar you from the bright shores of America. Across the abield | kets of the world. So, iudeed, my whe among w= ail which the genius of America claims, we have lait the | have nota direet personal interest aa an Individual member of fig harp of Erin. The hushed music of old Ire this municipality, as « citizen of the State, and of the Un in the sign manual of the only really free | the polities! questions, whenever we contemplate the inevitable ni that the sun om. Take the fag—in i babity: framth and expanaitiity of the republic! Hut you may inquire f this condition of things wil not work to the ultimate rula of the republic. No danger need be feared a long an a free, in- dependes untremmelied press remaius to aronse the dor tant energies of the people; fur it was the convievion of the philosophic Jefferson, since confirmed by experience, that fold you carry the br soil redeemed from Kuropean vasaalage as much by the enter keen great commercial nation as by military id and the harp that sleeps upon i are wrought ed - w n who here found their highest position In men do to our sex, not with the lance | even error may be’ tolerated If trath and reason are and spear alone, but with heart and mind. Carry this mbat it. Gentlemen, T desire you to under: we upon it bears a thrill of rights and privileges fin contending for, your oligarchy of officeholders who fatten upon your nd who week to dictate to you whom You. shall dear amt how beautiful Is the country from which it comes. We select you. # the lent of flag. because we will en denigna’ to represent you in the alainre, Trust Wonty to the brave, the honorable nist good” When we | Acuee cf modesty sivull bave dictated that, having bece do homage to our own nation or adopted country, we render it | warmed into exietence by your bounty, they should not sting also to a man worthy (if that were not a little too Trish) to be a hand of their benefactor, A sent in Congress ie only native of tab. With the fervent hope that continued prosperity | honorable when secured by honorable and worthy means. may attend the great national we this day honor, | The honest, worthy members of wei States, and of lcoumen to you this given bannes it akle by side the ensign of Liberty there tthe mast of your 7 ber ¥ OF th ‘flan people, ‘whose ““eead tale a falta shal your own Riste, will tuvoluntarily masoration with any whore pathway is mark: the violation of private honor, because, gentlemen, {t is as imporsible to stem the torrent of the impetuous’ Niagara by this with retin to Galway Bay. Wishing you, sir and | to louk for pubic yirue where ts re and crew whom Yyoucommand, asafé and | ficed at the of unwarrantable ambiting.Mstinessn speedy voyage. I bid you farewell. jn not contered always by. o many ® rade Be Liamiet and round many a hutnble % are oon gated bonest ta wl bare never Known or felt the ‘ings for oMfice. Absorbed in thelr counting houses, sad i” ary a the merchants aod busi ness men may not ie ir) to arrest, the dowaward eatanrel whe abana, But let them wot for et that popuiar degeneracy ia the invariable precursor of poll ip enalatement, and thet no. ple can retain their freedom Mise Famonde now handed the flag to the eaptain, who recetved it courteously, and then thanked Miss Exsmonde ja appropriate words, and complimented ber highly as a wud accomplished representative of the ladies of ‘ork. Cheers were given for Captain Waters, Miss F le and the ladies of New York, aud then several small boats were bi ht into requisition to convey as have ceased to be indifferent to ita perpetuity. Great many people ag ‘bie on board the Prince Albert, Ay A, M has been our growth, and where they © acoliation, which Captain Waters | singetacent tr Bate isonet ta futnre, eur atte have gull assured them was intended to be as Irigh as possible, At five o'clock both vesrels parted, amid cheers and the booming of ¢ mall one returning to the city, tot the Prince Aer dashing along gallantly on her On the return to the city comic gaiberere have muitiplied. iversal—tt is made the avenue, not to honor, but to wealth plow acon arrested ‘will terminate tm the overthrow of the liberties of the only free people upoo course were sung s specch General Walbridee was inter. by Captain Courtenay and other gentlemen, and the party | Throughout his specch ; pted with repeated bursts of enthusiastic applause, and separated with three cheers for the Galway line and | Tuite’ with repeatal brie a antecembingy failed tie auother for the captain and officers of the Indian Empire. Among the cabin passengers on board the Prince Albert are the American Consul to Stutgardt and family, and tho Rev. Mr. Fleury, a Catholic missionary, who has been residing for eight years in Kansas, a Benedictine, the vo- cation of which order it is to encourage literature and learusng at their stations, as well as reli |. The steerage was full, and there was a fair com t of Gret and second cabin passengers, as well as freight. Pride ie ey esate Bae ere carr out in J ‘ince G f PD. Upehur, James Power, 4 W. Jones, Ww. Candler, Letitia Daniels and child; Dr. Arnott, R.N.; Rev. name with loud and repeated cheers as the ne: in Congrese for the Third district ‘The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Wild and several others, after which it adjourned with three cheers for their n nee. A procession was then formed, which, with banners, torches and (luminations, paraded through several streets in the district with the greatest enthusiasm. a Political Intelligence. FovrraesT# Coxarmsionat Dreteict.—Hon. Erastas Cor candidate Temke; TW. ¥ Consul to Stutgardt; A. P. | ning was nominated for re-election to Congress by a demo. Young, N. F. Young, ‘T. W, Young, A. @. FH frennan, wife and’ child; W.-C. Wilson, Mies Olivia g, | CTslc couygntion held in Albany on the 16th inst. Maeder, Mies Ann Eaton, P. J. Connolly and wif, F. 8. ORR.—At a democratic mecting at Eincin Botier, Flien M. \ Mitel ‘Duty, Michael Man- | nati r , there was a transpareney with this inserip ning, Kate O'Donohoe, Peter Dolan, John Cheevers, Kate Leonard aud two ebildren; Jane Power, Mrs. Hall, Martin ‘Mrs. Dr. Davies, A. Youlett, P. B. Mignault, Miss han: Hewry Revell, B.C. London, Henry Kelsey, lack we’ W. J. Campbell, wi children, W. Mulvey. Te Reeves, J Tran D. Shaw and child, J. Mullins, Wonderly, Sarah Power, FF, Martio, of Habfax;T: C. Kinuer, of ditto; and 206 in the stcerage Fiewt witt tas Ixptans.An extra from the Fort Smith (Ark.) Timer, dated Oct. 8, says —Last night news Was received from Fort Arbuckle by Capt. A. Mont- gomery, Quartermaster at the post near this place, by a, Jeter from Lieat. Powell, First infantry and Quartermas. ter at Fort Arbackle, giving an account of a battle be. tween a detachment of the Second cavairy, United States army, and the Camanches, in which Lieut. Van Camp and four men were killed, aad Major Van Dorn wounded; one man mirsing and ten wounded. Forty of the Camanchee: were found dead on the eld, and it ig not known how piany are wounded. tion — 1800. DOUGLAS AND ORR. AN Ovb Lane Wing.—This cognomen has been usel so often that it has lom@ tho significance and respectability which was once attached to it, A gentleman of St. Louis, Probably Edward Bates, who at one time cousidered it an honor to be #0 styled, has lately become disgusted with the Muse of the term. He gave a definition, says the Demo: erat, of what he considers an ‘old line whig” of the pre sent day. Ho says he is « man who takes his liquor regu: larly, and votes the democratic ticket occasionally ‘Die Iwptans Aree 4 Useren Starks SkwaTor.—Senator Fitch, of Indiana, went to enjoy a buffalo hunt on the Cheyenne river, but with his party was set upon by a bend of Yankton Indieus, who drove them out of the tor pitory. "THE ARIEL OFF GAPE RACE. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. CONDITION OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE, STATE OF THE MARKETS, &e., &e., ke. Sr. Jona, N. F., Oct, 18, 1858. The Vanderbilt United States mail steamship Ariol, Capt. Ludlow, from Bremen and Havre, via Southampton Oct, 6, pasved Cape Race on Sunday, the 17th inst., at 5 P. M. Her news reached here to-day. ‘The Aric! has 260 passengers for New York. There is no improvement in the working of the Atlantic cable at Valentia, The Submarine Telegraph Company have issued propo- als for £150,000 additional capital to lay two cables, from Huilto Elbea in Hanover, and Tonning in Denmark, A meeting ix to be held at Paris in November to make arrangements for the construction of a canal across the sthmus of Suez. ‘The specie in the Pank of Austria amounts to £11,000,000 sterling, and the aggregate amounts held in the banks of England, France and Austria are five millions, (A word is omitted in the despateb.) The Western Bank has made a call for one hundred ad- ditional ehares for the fleet of November. There were large quantities of tea at Canton waiting tbe re-opening of trade for exportation, Trade had been as- sumed at Shanghae, Rumors were afloat that there wore two French shipa- of-war at Lisbon, demanding the restitution of Charles George. ‘The King of Donmark was quite ill, Lord Elgin was at Japan, and United States Commis- sioner Reed at Shanghas. Affairs at Canton were in a most unsatisfactory state. Cholera had appeared among the Chinese army, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. {BY TELEGRAPH TO SOUTHAMPTON. LiverPoot, Oct. 6, 1868. LONDON MONEY MARKET. Console closed on the 5th inst. at 98 a 9844 for money and account, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. The market for cotton is quiet but steady at the rates reported per Africa, The sales of the last threo days foot up 21,000 bales, of which 1,400 were on specula- tion and a similar amount for export. Mesrrs. Richardson, Spence & Co., however, say that the fair and lower qualities have been offered to the trade at a slight reduction from former prices. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER. The Manchester market exhibited but little activity, but there was no change in rates, LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. Messrs. Richardson, Spence & Co. report flour as having a declining tendency, with prices a little easier, though nominally unchanged. The market closed with a ten- dency still downward. Wheat dull and nominally wn- changed; Western white is quoted at 68. 34. a 6s. 6d , and Southern at 78. a 7s, 5d. Corn dull and quotations nomi- nal; yellow, 388. 6d. a 34. There are large quantities of Black Sea grain in the market, which are gelling at ade- cline in all grades. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. Beef is heavy. Pork quiet. Bacon dull and prices weak, with but little inquiry, Lard dulljat 608. @ 618. Tullow slow of salo, but prices unaltered, LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. Rosin is dull, and inferior descriptions of common are selling at 3s. 10d. a4s. Spirits turpentine steady at 386. 64, & 306. Sugar quiet, Coffee quiet, Rice etendy. Ashes quiet at Sls. Gd. for pots and 32x, Gd. for pearls. Cod oil dull at 38%. 6d. a 34", Philadelphia pork 9s. &d. a Oy. Od. Baltimore do. 68, 6d. a 79. LONDON MARKETS. Prime old wheat is unchanged, while inferior is lower. Sugar is steady, Tea firm. Coffee unaltered, Tallow ‘frm. American flour steady. Cotton steady, Police Intelligence. Tar Lave Arrert To SHoor 4 Cuxnoymay.—Peter L. Berrien, the crazy Frenchman, who attempted to shoot the Rev. Morrie D. ©. Crawford, pastor of the Methodist Fpiseopal church in Thirty fourth street, on Sunday even- ing, was Lrought before Justice Quackenbush at the Se cond District Police Court yesterday, and there examined on the above charge. Mr, Jobn Lane, of No. 166 West Thirty fourth street, made an affidavit the soner, detailing the facts, as already publisl day's Hexat, upon the Sirengt of whieh the magistrate committed the accused to the be for trial. Ber- rien i* crazy there is but little doubt. His conduct and general appearance justities the belief that he ie a more fit pn mpd a Lees oar Ra than 4 prison. As an evi- nee is inFanity the following copy of a letter (found in his hand when arrested) a given Oentimwen—Itis the deepest emotions that T ts the consequence » ot several You have i i i et i a lar! heart with the principle of this is rth. The first two times I wi the clergyman's epeech; the third ime I ws clergyman. man spoke a gol deal about (human! fineBslal matiere. “Tie anid. “Phere ina man who eame to conntry a very simpe one: he ought to heashamed, buthe is not ashamed at afl, for it required 69 powerful a strength to a few shillings, he ie no pabamied at all, fur Told you vat 1 was the ower of God.” For that very reason T supported patent luring several years, the most terrivie, unjust and” estmmine physital aud moral, for t thought 1 wa Of humanity, and there was titme Timbed ty 1 pointed tine, In violation to Uraitors and conventions, he right of man, there was only pertkly and deception being sacred Having thus finiabed their acts, a gE able nothing, they bave obliged me to take arma. (My ime Been filtiied in, Rurope before T eame to Amesies,) Urata men, thin is neither religion nor civilization; this is intrigue and treachery from polltteal: parties, ealeulsied ta some ‘re spect to be prejudical to one another's taterest inatead of being Deneticial to All, by a great and mutual interest, ui enough toh abile opiniow te the thonet who mate muck treacherous an! brutal ealeiauous, T should adviae to collect their numbers aad look back to see how much tt has benefitted the public health, moral or material, When a man ts roasted alive in the fame’ of and after baring suffered martyrdom for years and betrayed omee, Will perhape kill me entering the second time, or refer tos ue me fereeiou nets T feel compelled to pro mevtly aileears the trettare of hig. the art the weltare of mankind, the secu. rity of femilies es individuals. I cannot longer ta ae TiSe ronsctence of every honest man and true aon call on the conactence of ever; “ferorter to Teevier justice to ie tte a dumantt in oner 19 render ju « and Christ's sake, T tweet rempertfully and inuet umabty appent f eeeerlens Oceanis Gt ines Beas Ct oe rela to give the (1 given before God and man, and which, he has acquired at the Price of hie blood, for the #diseation of the church. ‘The realisation of the heartful telegraph cable, which «nites the two continents together for the redemption and pear tho world ‘Ger. 17, 1868, ARREST OF ALLBGED Pickvockem.—James Riley, John O'Neal and Frank Foley wore arrested yesterday by Po- liceman Rursel of the Twentieth precinet on charge of picking the pockets of Mre. Caroline Garener, of No. 327 Seventh avenne, and stealing from her a portemonnaic containing twenty dollars. Justice Quackenbush com. mitted the prieoners for cxamination Mrs. WW. Davenport had her pocket picked of a portemonnaic containing ninety dollars yesterday while riding in one of the Sixth avenue lige of omnibuses, A gentieman in the stage rved the pickpocket’s move. ments vilared him just ae he was making bis out of the door, The prisoner was handed over to 1 on being brought to tho Jefferson Market ollee, # Peitee Court he was committed for trial, " The stolen perty was recovered. The prisonor dropped it on the seat when detected, hoping thereby to escape detection, but fortunately the trick did not succeed, Coroners’ Inquests Yesterday. ‘The Coroners wore notified to hold inquests in the fol owing cages yesterday —In the case of Levi Spires, who led atthe New York Hospital from the effects of injuries received on Saturday, by falling into a well hole at the corner of Grand street and the Bowery; on the body of an uvknown tan found drowned at pier No. 2 North river: also apon the body of a man named McManus, who fell overboard from the steamer Broadway and was drowned, abont a week ago. The Coroners were also netified to hold an inquest 1 the body of an unknown man found drowned at Tubby. Hook: alko in the case of Louisa Linn, a child two years old, who died from the ef- — of by received co eeean of Gegupenie yarn id lamp, Mary Tigue, a woman babe reviding at No. ne Waebington street, died a. day winder somewhat suspicious cirow police report that. the deco died from ‘all ree@ved while intoxicated, but the nei deceased was beaten by some one. The inquest in this cage will be held to-da habits residing at No. 886 Water street, died at Bell Hoepital from th# effets of injuries supposed to have heen received at the hands of the man who kept the honse ded. Coroner Perry will inve herein deceased re the matter day.