The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1859, Page 6

6 .NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU S73: | TERMS, cash én advance. Money sent by mail will be at the riak of the vender. Postage stamps nol reecived as subscriiion monry. The DAILY HERALD, two Losing whi, = snr THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, ot ate col 1, OF $3 per annum; the European Eslition eves ir lay Seana hee ciety inent, boll ari Galois Win on the hand Sah of wach month conta PTR ANIL HERALD on Wedneslay, at four cents per Unban CORRESPONDENCE, containing importan fev, solicited from any quarter of the world: A raed, wilt be Wreraity pid Yor.” BaF OUK FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARK Paunvianiy Requesta 10 SAL ALL LETTERS AND Pack: AEF HOTICK taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejected comenuntoations. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S ‘GARDEN, Broadway.—Four Lovers—Evov T10N8 ON THE TIGHT Rors—MaGic Puss. 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Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille. ‘Hamsore, . be Chapeauronge & Co. ‘The contents of the Evrorgan Enition or tux Herat will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of the pubiication. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition. ‘The United States mail steamship Star of the West, Cap. tain Harrison, will leave this port this afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o'clock this afternoon. ‘The New York Waexty Heratp—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from al! parts of the world, will be published at eleven o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos sible. The News. The San Juan island difficulty was the subject of @ long interview yesterday between the British Minister and the Secretary of State. Lord Lyons is said to have expressed the opinion that the ques- tions in dispute between the two governments will be arranged to the satisfaction of both countries. General Scott returned to this city yesterday from West Point, where he had been staying over Sun- day with his daughter-in-law. His return to the city is consequent upon arrangements made for his departure for the Pacific to-day. He will leave this afternoon at two o'clock for Oregon and California, in the steamship Star of the West, and be accom- panied by Col. L. T. Thomas, Assistant Adjutant General, and Col.G. W. Lay. The Scott Life Guard will fire ar artillery salute on the departure of the steamer from the dock. As she proceeds down the bay salutes will also be fired from the various forts in the harbor. ‘The Persia, from Liverpool on the afternoon of the 3d instant, reached her dock at Jersey City early yesterday morning, after a very stormy pas- sage. When twodays out, on the Sth instant, the Persia broke the crank pin of her port engine, which forced her to lay to under canvass until the night of the 7th. This accident was repaired, under many disadvantages, by her officers, but the con- tinued stormy weather prolonged her passage. The passengers by the Persia have expressed ther ap- probation of the conduct of Captain Judkins and all those serving under him in a very flattering Manner. The news by the Persia was anticipated by the Borussia, but we publish to-day some very interesting extracts from our late foreign files, with ‘@ batch of letters from correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Spezzia and Interbachen, Switzerland. The Kangaroo, trom Liverpool the 3st of Au- gust and Queenstown the Ist of September, via Ha- fifax, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. The Kangaroo, as already reported, was detained by the late severe gales on the Atlantic, The Great Eastern is to leave Portland, England, on the 29th of September, for Portland, Maine, and thence to New York. Captain Harrison, late of the Cunard steamship fleet, will take her to Portland, at which place, our London correspondent assures us, Captain Comstock, the former commander of the Collins steamer Baltic, will assume the charge, and bring her to this city through Long Island Sound. Captain Comstock takes command for this trip only, and for the reason that, from his long ex- perience in Sound steamers, he has become practi- cally acquainted with every nook and winding twist on that route, whilst his services on board the Baltic have rendered him equally familiar with the avigation of Bandy Hook and the proper time and Mode of entering or departing from our harbor, Captain Comstock commanded the Russian frigate General Admiral in ber recent voyage from New York to Cronstadt, and will, we doubt not, find hhimself perfectly at home on the deck of the British Ieviathan. ‘The United States steamship Falton is reported to have been wrecked in the gale of Friday on Santa Boss Island, near Pensacole. The crew were saved, as also the stores, but her hull is said to be breaking up. The particulars of several marine Gisasters by the storm sre given in our telegraph reporis. Our correspondent at Rosario, writing under date of July 10, furnishes us with many interest- ing particulars relative to the existing state of af- (ats between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1859.-TRIPLE SHERT. Confederation. Active naval and military prepa- rations were under way in Brazil, and it was thought the forces of that country and of Urquisa would be united. The American Minister, Mr. Yancey, had goue on a mission of peace to Buenos Ayres from Urquiza, with power to settle the questions at issue between the Confederation and Buenos Ayres. ‘The result of his mission had not transpired. ‘The examination of the Bergen tunnel rioters was procceded with yesterday before Mayor Collard of Hudson city, and will be further continued this morning. Affairs at the tunnel were quiet as usual yesterday, and we heard of no attempts to replace the obstructions on the track. On Sunday night, however, several acts of violence were perpetrated | against the house of Mr. Austin, who acted as one of Mayor Collard’s aids during the day. Mr. Austin | seems to have excited the especial hostility of the Jaborers, ag several large stones were thrown through the windows during the night of Sunday and an attempt was made to fire the house. Mr. Austin was also fired upon. Indications of an in- tention to attack the house of Mayor Collard on Sunday night were also discovered, but no overt | acts were committed. A reward has been offered for the arrest of the parties engaged in the assault on Austin’s house, and a proclamation issued by Mayor Collard against all unlawful assemblages in | the locality of the riot. Several rioters were fully identtfied by the witneases during the examination yesterday, a full report of which will be found else- where. The Board of Aldermen held their usual meeting last evening. The question of re-districting the city was called up, partially discussed, and then laid on the table. Communications were received from the Commissioner of Streets and City Inspector, which will be found in our regular report. The | first communication of the Street Commissioner | relates to the Fire Department, in respect to which he says further expenditures will be necessary, neer tothe contrary. The second relates to cer- tain contracts for the regulation of Fourth avenue, between Seventy-first and Seventy-ninth streets, which the Commissioner contends are invalid, by reason of their having been awarded to the highest instead of the lowest bidder. The communication of the City Inspector ison the subject of the re- moval of the numerous piggeries which infest the island. The nuisance, though greatly abated, does not appear to be entirely removed, and the City Inspector asks for the passage of an ordinance that will mote effectually prevent the keeping of swine bclow Eighty-sixth street. The Mayor sent ina veto on the resolution of the Board permitting the Kighth Avenue Railroad Company to lay aswitch or turnout on the south side of their tracks in Canal street, ator near Broadway, for the reason that three railroad tracks in one street are too many. ‘The Mayor also suggests that city railroad compa- nies which have received valuable psivileges with- out charge should be required to provide suitable passenger depots. The Board will meet again on Thursday. The Board of Councilmen transacted conside- rabl& business last evening, as will be seen by our report elsewhere. A series of resdlutions were adopted direeting the Comptroller to advertise forthwith for sale at public aution the leases of the ferries at the foot of Grand street and Peck slip, now ranning to Brooklyn, Eastern District. The resolutions declare that Mecorale & (Co. are unau- thorized to run their ferries from the above slips, the fifteenth section of the Montgomery charter giving the Common Council full power in the pre- mises. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in confirming the contract to repair the City Hall. ‘The Board of Supervisors held a meeting yester- day for the purpose of appointing registrars of voters, in accordance with the new enactment. After one ballot for the First district of the First ward, which resulted in a tie, further action was suspended until the next meeting. The Board, after transacting some routine business, adjourned until the 27th instant. The Tammany Society, or so called Columbian Order, held a special meeting in the Grand Council Chamber last evening, ostensibly for the purpose of electing additional members, but incidentally for the purpose of devising some scheme of frau- dulent action with regard to the new Registry laws. All was wrapt in awful mystery while the Grand Sachem, Issac V. Fowler, presided in the Great Wigwam, dictating rules of action which are to govern the respectable portion of this community. The latter class, unconscious of the portentious proceedings, were sleeping peaceably, beyond the reach of the loudest war-whoop of the Grand Sa- chem. Ata meeting of the Excise Commissioners yes) terday, Mr. Haskett was the only member of the Board present, and consequently no licenses could be granted. The Health Commissioners held a meeting yes- terday, but no important business came before them. A case of considerable interest to shipowners was decided in the United States Circuit Court yester- day by Judge Nelson. It was a suit on a bottomry bond for $9,200, executed at New Orleang, and covering the vessel, cargo and freight of the bark Yuba. Payment was resisted for reasons stated in the report. The Court below having allowed the libellant but $4,000, he appealed to this Court and recovered the whole amount, except $192 paid the Captain of the Yuba. The decision will be found elsewhere. In the action for slander and false imprisonment, brought in the Marine Court by Carrie Creech against Ellen McKernan, the jury rendered a ver- dict for $200 in favor of the plaintiff. The will of James P. Allaire came up yesterday in the Surrogate’s office, and the testimony closed. Counsel will sum up the case on the 3d of October next. Charies H. Lock was arrested om Saturday last, charged with having on the 6th inst., in connection with one Paul Leithel, defrauded the firm of Geo. 8. Robbins & Son to the extent of $6,104 11. The ac- cused was held to bail in the sum of $300. The calendar of the Supreme Court (circuit) was called yesterday before Judge Potter, but no case being ready, the Court was adjourned to this morning. Two notorious river thieves were yesterday sen- tenced to the State prison for five years by Judge Russell in the Court of General Sessions. Conside- rable business was transacted by the Judge anda number of cases disposed of. Among the celebri- ties before the Court was Mr. McAlpine, alias Lieut. Colonel Marmaduke Reeves, on two indictments for theft. John Haggerty, alias Banta Heenan, was tried and convicted of a bold robbery of a jeweller’s show cage, in open day, containing valu- ables to the amount of $1,300, which he seized in the presence of the owner, and made good his es- cape at the time, saying to the shopkeeper, “Ran after me as fast as youcan.” As none of the pro- phrty has been recovered, Judge Russell remanded him, in the hope of recovering some portion of it. There woz a pause in Qe cotton market yesterday, while holders were firm. The obief inquiry was from spinuors. The sepply of new was limited, while a good, deal of the old stock on hand did not embrace a wide range of selections. We continue our quotations in an- other column. The receipts of flour were liberal, while the market was heavy, and 5c. to 10c. per barrel lower, especially for the common and medium grades of Stato and Western. Good extra brands were about the same. The market exhibited more activity at the decline. South. ern was unchanged, while sales were fair. Wheat was heavy and lower, with more doing. Corn was scarce and firm, with sales of Western mixed at S6c. a 87c., and round and flat Jersey yellow at 88c. a 90c. Pork was firmer and in good demand, with sales of moss at $15 25 8 $15 75, and prime at $10 66 a $10 62. Beef and lard were steady, The sales of sugars embraced about 700 hhds., at prices given in another place. Coffeo was quict pron ame Freigula were Grmer, with modevate en Our New Question with England—The True Policy—Our Rights and No Com- promise. The sending of Gen. Scott to Puget Sound, while it indicates a disposition on the part of our government topursue a moderate and pru- dent course in the difficulty that has risen be- tween the gallant Harney and the hot headed Douglas, should not be taken as an evidence of a wish to compromise the present dispute with Great Britian. ‘That Power has always exhibited a grasping disposition in regard to doubtful territory, and on every occasion and in every part of the world has ever claimed more than it was justly entitled to. By this systematic policy it has been a gainer, bullying the minor Powers into | concessions, and obtaining them from the greater ones by resorting to acompromise. In the question of the island of San Juan no com- | promise of any kind should be admitted. If a clear and fair examination of the question should show that we have a logical right to the territory that is in dispute, no consideration of policy should be permitted to swerve us from the maintenance of that right, even to the bit- ter end. The boundary treaty stipulates that the line shall run along the forty-ninth parallel of latitude to “the middle of the channel sepa- rating the continent from Vancouvers island, thence southerly through said channel and the Straits of Fuca to the Pacific Ocean.” This language is sufficiently explicit, and an exami- nation of the locality will easily determine which is the channel that carries the line south- erly to the Straits of Fuca. Let that be insist- ed on at all hazards. The careful labors of our | Coast Survey establish clearly that the main Hoteriensianding, thsameetions: obeie kdet Bagi, | channel, both as regards breadth of extent and depth of water, lies west of San Jnan, and be- tween that island and Vancouver. A narrow winding passage between the minor islunds cannot be taken as the channel in the sense intended in the treaty. Since the return of Lord Palmerston to power the policy that he initiated in ordering the British cruisers to stop our ships in Ameri- can waters, and at our very gates, has been again adopted. Secret negotiations in Central America—in direct opposition to both the letter and the spirit of the Clayton-Bulwer folly—and cunning connivings in Costa Rica, clearly indicate the spirit that animates the pre- sent British Cabinet in American ques- tions, Every sentiment of national honor, every impulse of national feeling, tell us that we must meet this policy in a like spirit. Com- promise will not save us from dishonor, nor will palliation engender a spirit of justice on the part of the hereditary haters of American progress and influence. This is the position that the Palmerstonian theory has always held towards us. The circumstances of the present time ane propitious to us in a conflict, if it must come ; and when it does come, that conflict must never cease till the last British soldier is driven from the American vunuuent, either North or South of us. Canada is already tired of British rule. From Labrador to the lakes, and from the lakes to the fur ocean, it aspires to a complete re- moval of the political barriers that now inter- cept the currents ofits trade and intercourse with us and its own industrial developement. Many thousands of its citizens long for a political union with us, and to become a part of our great system of self governed States ; others seck for an independent organization, with unrestricted interchange, while few indeed cling with any sort of ardor to the present hybrid union with England. In Jamaica the selfish policy of the imperial rule has produced results far more disastrous than in Canada. The teachings of Exeter Hall bave brought the negroes to the eve of a war of extermination against the white race there, which promises at no distant day to rouse a feeling of deep resentment throughout this continent against the perfidious rulers who have fostered the iniquitous policy, for the purpose of striking a blow at our social system. In Europe the position of England is such as to favor us also in a contest with her. The entente cordiale with France is broken, notwith- standing the sycophantic efforts of Palmerston to preserve it, in order to carry out his aims against us. Russia has beenssorely injured by Great Britain; Italy and the reform element there betrayed and outraged; and the minor Powers have ages of bullying to redress. India is still a terrible sore; and the maritime supre- macy of England is now among the things that have been. Her commercial system depends upon her recognition of the rights of others as well as her jealous guard of her own. In-any attempt to carry out her old policy of coercion England could not find one friend upon the Old Continent or the New to join with her in a fray with us. If we do not meet this difficulty now as man- ly feeling and our national honor dictate, we shall have to meet it at a later day, and perhaps under more grave circumstances. Let there be no compromise, then. Let England learn that the day is past when she can obtain more than she is justly entitled to by making enormous claims, and then, in a spirit of seeming con- cession; giving up a part only. The mission of Gen. Scott is one of prudence, but let it not in- augurate the idea of even one atom of con- cession. More Facrs ror tae Peopte.—Two com- munications were sent last night to the Com- mon Council from the Street Commissioner— one in reference to the state of the appro- priation for the Fire Department, the other in regard to the legality of a contract for regu- lating Fourth avenue, from Seventg-first to Seventy-ninth street. The Street Commissioner, in the latter communication, differs from the Corporation Counsel, declines to abide bya previous decision of the referee in this case, and refuses to pay, giving his reasons therefor. In regard to the appropriation for the Fire Department, after stating fully the manner in which the money has been expended, the Street Commissioner adds, that without a further ap- propriation expenditures for fire apparatus must cease. It remains to be seen whether the Common Council haye power to approprime money beyond the amount which the Legisla- ture have’ authorized the Supervisors to raise by tak. In other words, who is it that has the right to decide how and for what purposes this city shall be taxed? We are pleased to see that Street Com- missioner Smith has determined to wait for the money before ordering more work. Both of these communications are impor- tant, and should be read by all taxpayers and others interested in the gopd government of this city. a ee The Absurdities of the Commercial Pross— The True Regulator of Trade. The New York Courier and Enquireh, in an article published last week, showed how inti- mately the editor of that commercial sheet was acquainted with things pertaining to the king- dom of Heaven; and the same paper, in an ar- ticle published yesterday, and which we trans- fer to our columns elsewhere, illustrates with equal accuracy how much the editor knows of the things of earth. The Courier is a so-called “commercial paper,” published ostensibly for merchants, and supposed to be supported by them; it is, however, doubtful whether any other existing publication—not excluding periodicals devoted to light literature, music and the fine arta—could by any mischance have given cur- rency to as much nonsense and balderdash on the subject of trade as are contained in the article from the Courier now under review. The article is devoted to that pons asinorum of superficial economists, the balance of trade. After worrying himself very needlessly and un- successfully in the attempt to answer a silly correspondent, the writer goes on to deplore the fact that this country has been enabled to produce and export $06,000,000 of specie in ten years, which he thinks we had far better have kept at home. We might have done so, he conjectures, if Congress had enacted a heavy protective tariff. This is the point of the whole article. We cannot stop to notice minor absur- dities, such as the assumption that “the United States are more in debt to Europe now than in 1857;” the assertion that “a revulsion occurred in Europe in the spring of 1859"—a piece of very conclusive financial intelligence; the statement that “the drain upon capital” pro- duced by gold shipments “deranges trade and the currency;” the insinuation that if we alter- ed our tariff the French would smoke more American tobacco and need no American gold, the sagacious inquiry “why we didn’t ship gold prior to 1848?" and so on throughout the arti- ele, which our readers can consult for them- selves. There are two clear and obvious principles of commerce, which, when rightly understood, are a perfect safeguard against such nonsense as all this. In the first place, ina series of years the exports of every country are always about equal to its imports. During a single year a country may buy more than it sells, and run in debt for the balance; but next year the account must be squared, or nearly so. Nations never give each other long credits, as individuals do: the late United States Bank remains a memorable example of the folly of attempting such a thing. We repeat, then, the exports of every nation, including, of course, negotiable securities, must, during a period of ten years, be the same, or nearly the same, as its imports. It can import just as much as it exports—no more. Ifit cam increase its production of arti- cles marketable abroad, then it may buy more foreign goods; if it cannot, then it cannot in- crease its imports without rendering a financial crisis inevitable. So much for the absurdity of tariffs regulating imports. If, in obedience to the crazy notions of the Courier, the United States tariff were so remodelled as to shut out foreign goods, the consequence would simply be that the foreign demand for our products would decline in proportion. If we bought $100,000,000 a year less of European manu- factures, Europe would take $100,000,000 a year less of American produce. The exports of the United States for the ten last reported fiscal years are stated in the gross at $2,524,644,000 ‘The imports for the same period... 547,318,000 Leaving a balance of only.........2...-+ $22,074,000 —barely a month's business at this port. The Courier evades the conclusion which the facts force on the mind, by absurdly classing gold as a commodity which ought to be kept, not exported. Wherein, we should like to know, would this country bave been better off if all the gold of California had been kept here? What is the use of gold, except as an article of pro- duce, like cotton, corn, tobacco and dry goods? It has over these, certainly, the additional ad- vantage that it is a basis for banking pur- poses; but as our banks had gold enough in 1856 and the spring of 1857 to get up an ex- pansion which broke half the country, surely it cannot be pretended thatwe should have been better off if the banks had had $300,000,000 more—the amount exported since California was discovered. In reality, there is quite gold enough in this country, and a cessation of the export demand for it would be even more in- jurious to the general interests of trade than a cessation of the demand for breadstuffs, cotton or provisions. The large gold export of this year ought to be just as much a matter of con- gratulation as the large export of cotton: neither the one nor the other weré wanted here, whereas, by sending them abroad, this country obtained goods which were really needed. The second principle which shows the fallacy of the Courier’s theories is this: importations of foreign goods are always proportionate to bank expansion, and are not governed by tariffs. Bhis proposition in a measure grows out of the last; for barfks expand when crops are bountiful and the export demand liberal. Economists of the Courier's school never can be got to see this; they batter their heads against tariffs until they can distinguish nothing else. The following table is instructive :— Exports of Imporia of Bank: Domen prod. Forclgn posts. sion. +. $128,665 ,040 189,980,035 506,080 117,419,376 140,989,217 525,115,702 108,496,616 113,717,404 485,631,687 121,023,416 162,092,132 492,278,015 32,086 107,141,519 462,896,523 121,861,803 127,946,177 386,487,662 104,601,534 100,162,087 323 957/500 84,346,480 64,753,700 254,544,987 111,200,046 108,435,035 264,906,814 4,646, 117;254,564 288,617,131 488,516 = 121,601,707 312,114,404 158,648,622 545,638 10,282,945 164,032,131 154,998,928 344,476,582 145,766,820 147,860,439 «332,323,195 151,898,720 178,188 318 364 204,078 218/388,011 216,224,932 413,756,709 209,656,306 © 212,045,442 ) Returns for '52- 230,976,157 267,978,047 f 63 incomplete. 941 304,562)381 857,897,779 275,166,846 = 261,488,520 (876,144,758 064 314,639,442 634,183,280 362;960,681 800,141 084,458,887 1963..." .. 324,644,421 «282,615,160 583,165,242 It will thus be seen how exactly the imports of foreign goods have throughout corresponded with the bank expansion; how, when the banks curtailed, the imports fell off; and how, when the banks began to expand, the imports atraightway began to increase. The fact is, the banks are the “steam regu- lator” of our financial system, and he who would regulate that system must deal with the banks. Tariffs, prohibitory duties, and all that class of remedies, are utterly futile; trade moves independently of them. The banks hold the valve by which the steam is let on and let off, at the pleasure of half a dozen Wall street autocrats. The banks import the dry goods and the sugar; the banks build the railroads; the baka work the mipes; the hanks build the fine houses in Fifth avenue; for, though they do not do these things themselves, they provide the means through which alone they can be done. The way to regulate our system, there- fore, is to regulate the banks; and that can only be done by a general bankrupt law for the goy- ernance of corporations. This would keep the banks in check; nothing else will. ‘The State Election—How the Truth Comes Out. By degreeswe are arriving at the facts touch- ing the rowdyism which disgraced the proceed- ings of the Democratic Convention in Wieting Hall, and the way in which the truth is coming to light is highly amusing. We have already published inklings of evidence showing from what point the wind blew; and we now publish something still stronger, which can leave no doubt in the mind of the most skeptical as to the real fomenters of the riot, and as to what party hired the fighting men to play their réles in it. The following is an affidavit of Mr. Hee- nan, the celebrated American pugilist :— City and County of New York, ss:—John C. Heenan, of the city of New York, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he went to Syracuse to attend the meeting of the late State Convention out of curiosity, never having seen or attended a State Convention; and this deponent further says, that before going to Syracuse a person holding an office in the Street Department approached this deponent to go to Syracuse for the Purpose of oppoeing Mayor Wood, and offered him money to do so, and this deponent further rays, that while at Syracuse he was the guest of Teaiah Rynders, stopping by his invitation with him, and that said Rynders paid his bill at the Globe Hotel in that city for the whole time this deponent remained there; and this deponent further says, that said Rynders offered him fifty dollars to take a part in the reception or admission of per- sons to the room where the Committee met, but that hay- ing funds of his own, and not wishing to be con spicuous or to take any part in any disturbances or improper conduet, he ‘declined the offer; and this deponent fur' that he no part in the that he E ention, signed nd which was sent to him from room N $ House, which room was oc. cupied by said Cagger, and ‘the was not given to him by Mr. Wood son by his direction; and this d h ‘supporter of tthe instanc to an important office in the Cu y under the direction of the present Surveyor of the Port, and then resignod; eo under the Mu which office he held for three month: and further, that he bas been offer present city also declined; uot a politician, that he is nota bully, riotous purposes, and that he de living and to maintain a good reputation; aud this depo: nent further says that, seeing his nan connected with the he has voluntari! from any unfayora ateme imputations against his chai JOUN ©. HEENAN, Sworn this 19th September, 1869, before me, Joun J. Ax Gxving, Notary Public. In the telegraphic messages sent from Syra- cuse to the New York papers, and all over the country, it was represented that Fernando Wood and the Mozart Hall party had hired Heenan and other fighting men to disturb and overawe the Convention, in order that the ex- Mayor might carry out his wishes by violence and brute force. Now, the foregoing document effectually settles that point. In the first place Heenan was approached and offered money by a member of the Street Department (one of the Peter Cooper faction) to go to Syracuse to op- pose Wood. Secondly, he was the guest of Captain Rynders during his stay in Syracuse, and the Captain paid his bill at the Globe Hotel during the whole time he remained in the city. Furthermore, Rynders offered him fifty dollars to take a parton the admission of persons to the room; and Heenan was admitted himself on a ticket sent to him by Peter Cagger, and sign- ed by his name. Heenan has never been a sup- porter of Fernando Wood, but, has been in the political interest of the other side. Captain Rynders himself bore this testimony in the Herawp of Sunday last that “he hasno know- ledge or belief that the ‘Benicia Boy’ or Hee- nan, was hired by ex-Mayor Wood or the Mozart Hall party to go to Syracuse and get up a muss there.” As the “Benicia Boy” was the Captain’s guest, and under his eye in the Convention, the Captain can speak from the book when he says that “what he saw of him was more as a pacificator than otherwise.” Of course the Captain does not use the word “pa- cificator” in the same signification as Commo- dore Stockton called his big gun “the peace- maker,” though it must be admitted that in that sense it would be eminently appropriate. The well deserved reputation of Mr. Heenan in the fistic art—his strength and skill—his long and terrible sledge hammer left hand, all combined to make him a formidable pacificator. But in Captain Rynders’ sense it was neither his left arm nor his right, but his persuasive tongue that was used to keep the peace, or to make it. It was not the character of Achilles, but of Nestor, with his honeyed eloquence, that the Benicia Boy played in Wieting Hall. He does not, however, appear to have been very suc- cessful in preventing the riot, whatever he may have achieved in bringing itto an end: But he is rather indignant at the idea of being a supporter of ex-Mayor Wood, or of fighting for him; and in this we give him full credit for sincerity. He evidently belongs to the other side, and considers it an “imputation against his character’’+to be charged with deserting or betraying his friends. He isa man of honor, and though on the same side with Confidence Cassidy & Co., would scorn their treachery. From Mr. Heenan’s affidavit it is very clear on which side the fighting men were employed. From the offers made to him in New York by the Peter Cooper party, and in Syracuse by one of the leaders of Tammany Hall, we are left to infer that the same offers were made to other pugilists, who were not so squeamish about receiving the money. Mr. Heenan only accepted the payment of his hotel bill. Others were not so easily satisfied. They, like Mr: Heenan, were admitted on the tickets signed by Peter Cagger, and it was the work of Cagger Cassidy & Co. they came to do. It was in their interest the disturbance commenced. There can be no doubt that Mr. Alvord was the legitimate Chairman, and that the meeting had been regularly organ- ized, when Cagger proposed to disor- ganize it by appointing another Chairman, who lent himself to the disorder by accepting the office and going on the platform, whence he was pushed off by some person with more zeal than discretion. The disturbers of the Conven- tion, the aggressors, were not, therefore, the party who appoimted Mr. Alvord to the chair at the time named in the call, but those who, coming in late, insisted upon having a different chairman, in violation of all regulsrity and parliamentary rule. Cagger & Co. are, there- fore, responsible for all the riotous and disor- derly proceedings which followed. But with their characteristic treachery and rascality they throw the blame on others who had nothing to do with it; and not only so, but with malice Prepense they forestalled public opinion by giving out before the Convention had met that Wood had hired the Benicia Boy and other fighting men with the intention of creating a riot and disorganizing the meeting, and they made the telegraph even say that Heenan oc- cupied gne of Wood's regerved geats at the Convention. Thus they tried to make scape- goats of John C. Heenan and Fernando Wood, as thoy endeavored to do with the New Yor« Henavp and others in the case of Governor Wise’s letter. In both cases they have used Daniel S- Dickinson. In the instance of the letter they made him an instrument to circulate it, for, in- stead of returning the copy to the Regency which they addressed to him, or sending it to Mr. Wise, he put it in circulation by sending it around. In this Convention they also used hina to endorse their treachery, when his own self- respect ought to have led him to repudiate the rascally Regency and to denounce their dis- honorable doings. Had he acted im this way he would have stood in a high and proud position, instead of being regarded as a member of a bolting Convention, which that of the treacherous cheating Regency undoubtedly is. The Convention of which Mr. Alvord was chair- man is the only one which has any just claims to regularity. Mr. Dickinson will therefore be judged by the company he keeps and the asso- ciations and acts with which he permits himself to be identified. The only question of any interest at thia Convention was the mode of sending delegates to Charleston. Cagger & Co. packed their dele- gates under the influence of the treachery prac- tised against Wise, and Mr. Dickinson allows himself to be placed in the false position of en- dorsing the foul act. He must abide the con- sequences. The regular Convention have very properly referred the election of delegates te Charleston to the people, who ought every- where to repudiate the usurpation which took the election out of their hands, and appeal to the National Convention for the vindication of their rights. Ifthey do so there can be little doubt that at Charleston the decision will be om the side of true popular sovereignty. As regards the interesis of the State there is not a particle of difference between the claims of the democratic ticket and those of the repub- lican ticket. Both are alike—both parties have plundered wherever they had a chance—and they will do so again. The canals have been their devoted prey, and will be to the end of the chapter. But, as regards the bearing of the republican ticket on the future of the country, there isa vast difference. Its success involves “the irre- preesible conflict” threatened by William H. Seward—a war to the knife between the North and the South, in which more blood will flow than was shed inthe French revolutiou. On this ground, and this alone, all patriotic and good men ought to vote against the republicam ticket. The villany of the Regency may cause it to triumph; but we hope that the sentiment of patriotism will prove stronger than the feal- ing of disgust at treachery and dishonor. Tue Ricuts or Naturanwep Crrmexs Aproav.—From our Berlin correspondence in another column we Jearn that Mr. Wright, American Minister to Prussia, has succeeded in obtaining the discharge of Christian Ernst from the Hanoverian army. This young man, at the age of nineteen, left Hanover and settled in Ohio, where he be- came a citizen of the United States. During the present year he returned to Hanover, and was arrested on a charge of owing military ser- vice and thrown into prison among the mean- est description of criminals. After being de- prived of his passports, and robbed of $160 and his clothing, he was dressed in the uniform of a recruit and sent into the ranks of the Hanoverian army. When he left Hanover for this country his name had not appeared in the conscription list, and yet, notwithstanding this fact and that he had an American passport in his pocket, he was treated as a malefactor. Mr. Wright, our Minister at Berlin, was. in- structed to demand his immediate release, and also indemnity for his loss of time and the ig- nominious treatment he received. Though it pretends the the act is a concession of personal courtesy to Mr. Wright, and not done in compliance with any principle or in obedi- ence to the law of nations. His dis- charge has been ordered by the Hanoverian government. But how the indemnity has been settled we have not yet learned. There is no doubt, however, that the same firmness on the part of our government which compelled the release of this citizen of the United States will obtain for him ample compensation for his loss of time and whatever hardship and indignity he has suffered. A great noise was made by the leaders of the Know Nothing faction about a reply of Mr. Cass to a letter of inquiry as to the rights of naturalized citizens on returning temporarily to their native land. Botts and Zollicoffer “yang the changes” on the subject, making be- lieve that the quondam dark lantern party, whose leading principle was the proscription of foreigners, were more friendly.to adopted citi- zens than the democratic government of Mr. Buchanan. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. Mr. Cass has compelled the release of the naturalized citizen, Mr. Ernst, the Hanoverian governmené deeming it wiser to comply than to run the risk of having their ves- sels and crews sailing to American ports seized by the United States authorities. The Prussian government, in the case of Mr. Hoff- man, “pardoned” him, in order to avoid the yielding of the principle. Hanover has fol- lowed suit, and says it will not abandon the principle. This may serve as flattering unction to its wounded pride. But it makes little difference to this country whether itis by a principle or without a principle, or in opposi- tion to a principle, if only substantial justice is rendered to our injured citizens. The petty governments of Germany may call it by any name they please. We look to things mor than to names. A rose will smell as sweet by any other name. Registration or Vores—APpomntMENT 01 Insrecrors.—Under the Registry Law framed a the last session of the Legislature it becam necessary that every voter should have bi name, as such, registered before voting at an} election, and for this purpose it is provide that the Board of Supervisors appoint the regis trars, of whom some six handred will be th: number required for this county, and the cos of the operation will probably amount & $20,000. At the meeting of the Supervisor yesterday the question of appointment was 0: the tapis, but the Board seemed to be conside: ably muddled as to what the law meant an/ what powers were conferred upon their bod by it. After some discussion, therefore, the adjourned to this day week, for the purpose ¢ studying the law and obtaining a legal opinio as to the course they should pursue. Moantimé we wowld observe that the law provides thi