The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1859, Page 3

i @umed to address Her Majerty’s Minister regarding tho Many outages and impositions from which their low sountrymen: ed at the hands of the clergy purty. The British Minister first reproached his fellow countrymen for their impertinenco, and the clergy promptly availed themselves of the good opportunity of practising their eplecn, Several of the exiles have gone & Pugiand to endeavor to obtain justice from their go- nt for this wanton persecution. Hmeutof several other Englishmen, without any accusanon or trial whatever, The British Minister, Mr. jem, they have also gone to appeal .t 5,060,000 dollars conducta business. has been made public of an official it appears that the clergy party after perl hg to be shipped to Vera Cros, attempted to accomplish some of their = own. potiticaends, at the risk and — of foreign mer- chants, by endeavoring to take the monoy to anothor point on the Gulf coast, Thir trick of the clergy was de- ‘ated, but not unit! their commerce was robbed of a eonsiderable sum, taken from the conducta by Gen, Robles. It is true the clergy excuse themselves for this trick by saying that it was advised by Mr. Otway, but Chat cannot excuse them for the robbery and bad faith, ‘The imprisonment of several Englishman in this city and in other places, governed by the clergy faction, may be added to the above hist, a8 well as a late piece of rob- bery at Guauajuaty,practised upon Euglishmen and all other Jorcigners by Gen. Vulez, in increasing to a ruinous rate taxes that wre declared abolished by a recentact of the giergy justy. The robbery of Mr. Allsop at Tepic might a 50 De aiced to these grievances, but he got his money back by the timely arrival of a British man-of-war at San Bioe, the captain of which threatened to blow the place down if the money was not returned. The above (except the Tepic Consulate affair) are the autvayes perpetrated by one party. Now let us see how tw cake stands with the other, or the constitutional party. ftie toreea jean of Garza at ‘tampico—in which one tiskiman, with many other forcigners, suffered—is the From what charneter, first on th avery aggravated case, and deserved the geri ¢ of foreign governments, al- hough it * really ne more arbitrary in its character Slaw t «| Towns of this and other cities, which T have hit notied against the clergy party, notwithstanding they were the cango of the banishment of soveral Americans and Fy hmen. ‘To the demands of Great Britain and other foreign Powers the constitutioumtists not only agreed to pay back tho moncy taken, but also made an apology, paid damages and fired a salute to the British flag. The rebbery of the mint at Guanajuato is the second and ‘ast case worthy of mention. The mint was sacked, ‘but it is fair to say that the federalists Kuew there was a Jarge amount of mouey belonging to the church in the mint, and us by # law of the coustitulional government Wis money fiscated to the nation, they (the oon- atitntionaiists) demanded it. ‘The director of the mint (an Ynghshman) ‘refused to give it up or to show his i and this enraged the chief of the forces occupying the piace, who took all the money in the mint. Nothwithstanding there was some show of right ou the side of the copstitutlonatists, the case was no sooner represented to the cqnstitutional government at Vera rng, than they agreed to pay back @he money. ‘Thus it will be seen that white Lord John Russell is not Yy Wrong in saying “both parties have committed ainet Britieh #0 ot it must be noticed that ‘renee in the number and perpetrated by the ntyatect by the constitutional. 'e the iattor have made ail the reparation fe * still persist in trying to defend A the world. The reader may say they ure partially j.stified this by the incapacity and partizanship of ‘tw Granting that seme Bee mLy e for Mr. Otway’s partizanship, these horrit attacks apon human er cast ad tribution upon thé heads of those who took leading parts m thoxe disgraceful and inhuman atrocities. IMPARTIAL OBSERVER. Maxton, Anguat 2%, 1850, s * writing the foregoing remarks, the clergy rement of this © ye imposed a forced loan of i ry heretofore imposed in ndaye, aud must force rs to ciose their shops. In the first s about two cent upon capitals and credits, i paid in eight days the loan ix to be in: five percent. It is not diMlenit to gay what be the result of this new foam. It must bring great pou the city if it be euit r » aut many people i ‘The number of persous who ean pay Impest dre few, as money tingly seares with & and bankers. itis not {Fronch ministers will d way dovs not give up to Mr. will be given up to is no hope. Their What a state we i last evening, when “Ernani’? was or, Stefani, Amorio and Signor ut replacing Signor Junca, who was an- ‘4, Dat was prevented from singing it by 's. The performanes was on the whole excellent. Madame Gassior’s voice is admirably suited to the music of Elvira. She looked remarkably well, and sang with more five and sympathy than she has ever displayed here previously. As to her executive power that is beyond cavil, and it was fully displayed in the cavatina of the first act, which she sung 80 admirably as to receive an ananimeus recail. Stefani sung the rather exigeant tenor ety weil, Amodio had an ample opportunity » the boet use of it. Gassier, though sang the music with the taste and artist, which he always is. The orchestra, which has some “stunning” work to 40 in this opera, displayed its full power under Mr. Ma- peGeicn The performance received the warmest tokens of approval from a full house. “Pon Giovanni,” with Cortesi,"Gassier and an excellen dustribation throughout, will be sung on to-morrow night the last of the season rous direction, ‘Tux New Agrisns ror Tus Acapemy or Mustc.—Every- bocy—that is everybody interested in Metropolitan amusements—is inquiring anxiously about the new artists drought out by Mr. Strakosch to assist at the winter cam- paign of the Italian Opera, We have already given the names of the recent importations, the two prime donne, Sperauza Crescimano; the tenors, Stigelli and Testa, and the baritoue Perri. It is customary, how- , fy present to the public artistic biographies recount- ing the porsonal history and artistic triumphs of the agers. ‘This wo have not done, for the very excellent reason that we can find no data in relation to these artists on examination of the newspapers and other sources ssually referred to. 3 they say, is from Ma/trid, and Crescimano, is Has the former any connection with the ase by our government of the Ever Faithful isle? re is a story floating abont to the effect that the nish government has a secret commissioner here to of Cuba for the pretty little sum of ed and fifty millions. We all know that opera » often been mixed up in diplomatic matters, a nateral tact for intrigue, and perhaps this prima donna, who is said to: be young and handsome, yy be a secret agent of her Catholic Majesty. Then Crescimano is from Sicily, the hotbed of revolutions. Has ver kicked up a row of any sort? Let us hear all about it. ‘The men, too, must have done something awful at some Ume or other. The managers promise us the sis- ter of Cravolli, who was a colebrity hefore sho committed matrimony, ap’ a tenor Beaucarde, who ought to have a history of some kind, If there is not to bo an excitement about the new artists we might as well have been con- tented with what we had before, Tux ConckkT Seasoy —Madame Anna Bishop's concer! at Brooklyn on Tesday night drew a large and fashion- able audien In the ballads sung by her she was warmly cncored, both for their expressive execution and the tinks which they formed in the minds of many with hor former succossfal career in this country. In the cavatina “Come me per sereno,’? the grand duo from ‘Norma’ with Mina yon Berkel, and the ‘Quanto Atiore’? with Signor Marino, Madame Bishop displayed bigh outtivation and finish which early won her such a bigh position in her pro‘osaion, We understand that so much pleased with the resuits of this first con- cert in Brooklyn that she purposes giving a second one there, in conjunction with” Herr Formes, on the return of tho great basso to this country, which will be in the course of a few weeks. We see that Miss Agnes Sutherland, the Scottish Night- ingale, announces o concert for this evening at Dodworth’s rooms, in Broadway. She will be supported by Miss Louisa Francis (soprano) and sister, Mr. J. R. Thomas baritone), and Arthur Napoleon, tho youthful pianist. The progrdmmo includes somo of the finest lyrical com positions of Burns, Moore and Maginn, she OR Tak Jewish New Year.—Lasteven wg the forty thonsand Jews resident in this city, and indeed those in ali parts of this contieent, commenced tho celebration of ono of their most solemn hotidays—tho Rosh ana, or Jevish New Year, The origin of the fostival ond tn Xoiii, 28, 24, 25:—“ And the Lord ayake unto ¥ »iny: Speak ‘unto the children. of Irae! saying. | sventh month, in the first of the month, shail yo beso a Sabbath, a memoriat of blowing of and ince convocation. Ye shall do no servile ‘To-day the Jews will assemble in their syna- gogues and honses for worship, to invoke the speedy ipproneh of the Messiah, and of that day when “evory knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that God js the Lord.’ One of the — peculiarities — of this festival is the blowing of — the ‘shoper,’” a trumpe: made from the horn of a ram with. ish, which will be sounded three times during ce of the morning, symbolical of the proclama- tion of the Day. of Judgment, when the Lord opens the three great books—the pher Hachajim’? (Book of , xeipher Hamon (Book of Denth) and the Kiphur” (Book of Repentan No business of any kind is transacted by the Jews while the festival Iivs, Tn thove eynagognes where rabbi preachers are P rte to the oceasion will be de- I foatl menced at ennget last evening, i ‘od. Th and terminates at 1a Friday evening BALLOONING IN NEW YORK. | Ascensions of Mr. Wise’s Balloon Jupiter from Hamilton Park. REPORTERS ON BOARD. Birdseye View of the Metropolts from a Special Reperter of the Herald. Fears for the Safety of Mr. La Mountain. BALLOONING TO EUROPE, &., &., &, ‘The uncertainty of the fate of La Mountain and hiscom- panion, who ascended from Watertown, in this State, four or five days ago, docs not deter mronauts from voyaging in the clouds. Professor Lowe is hard at work, over in the Jerseys, building a monster wrial ship, with new and hitherto untried appliances, in the shape of a circular fan by which the balloon is to be elevated or depressed with- out any expenditure of gasor ballast, and of a rudder with which she is to be steered through the skics. Pro- fessor Wise, too—he who formed one of the party that made that perilous voyage in July last from the Mississip- pi to Lake Ontarlo—is in New York, busily engaged in preparations for othor long voyages. The balloon which he now has—the Jupiter—is smailer by one- hird than the Atlantic, in which La Mountain proposed to cross the ocean, and, of course, is not suited for any such enter- prise. Buthe is using her for the purpose of habituating PeOple to receive the idea of the feasibility of arial navi- gation, in hopes, probably, that enough of interest will be manifested in the matter by capitalists as will induce some of them to invest a little in the experimen . ‘Two or three days ago an attempt was made to send up the Jupiter from Jones’ Wood, but it turned out that the pressure on the gas there was not sufficient to inflate the vallcon within any reasonable time, and so the attempt was abandoned. Yesterday it was renewed with better success, the ground chosen being in Hamilton park, at Sixty-sixth street, just east of Third avenue. It was expected that all things would be in readiness to have the ascent take place at noon, But unavoidable ae- lays prevented that, Hamilton park has been used during the week for the State Agricultural Fair, and it was under derstocd that the trial of the steam plough would have taken place yesterday, and would have attracted a large number of spectators. It was in that idea that the same day was selected by Professor Wise. But the ploughing match was postponed, and the expected crowd did not come. Mr Wise did not seem to have any regret on that account, for crowds interfere rather too much with the success- ful management of a balloon, and he knew that he se- cured his object of publicity better by having half a dozon reporters present, than if his spectators were numbered by hundreds of thousands. ‘The inflation commenced about half past ten o'clock. The neck of the balloon being connected by a canvas pipe with the gas apparatus, the gas was turned on, with slight force at first, but with increased force as the bal- loon began to assume size and shape. Tho netting which surrounded it was hooked on to canvas bags of ballast arranged in a circle, and according as the size of the balloon increased, the bags were shifted farther out from the centre into a largor circle. It was slow work, this inflation of the balloon, and it tired out the patience of many persons. The admission into the grounds was dependent on payment of twenty- five cents, for the benefit, not of Mr. Wise, bat of the funds of the State fair; and as there was really nothing on exhibition, the payers of quarters were not very nu- merous. Boys climbed the boundary fences railing in the park, from the Third avenue and from the street to the north, and sat perched on the top thereof til tho heat of the sun’s rays and tho un- promising appeaaance of matters generally drove them off. Under the shade of a line of tall trees were seated two or three score of persons, men and women, who had paid their admission fves and who, having something wherewith to regale themselves, either ip their lunch baskets or in the entrance salcon, awaited the completion of all the preliminary pre- parations. A few policemen were rendering officious services in driving pegs for a rope circle and keeping the curious from pressing their inquiries too far; and some — men were lending a hand in doing little chores around. Professor Wise himself was not on hand; but his son Charlie was. Charlie took things very coolly'and imper. turbably; saw to it that the netting was kept dlsentangled, and referred to Mr. Wilbur, a journalist who seemed to have some contro! in the matter, for general direc- tions. Another member of the press, Captain Smith, who has had considerable seafaring experience, rendered mos important services. He arranged the windlass by which the ascension of the balloon was to be regulated, saw to it that it was firmly planted in the soil and not likely to be carried away by the strain upon it, fixed the coil o rope and took general control of the management of the cranks. By these and other aids from newspaper men, police and bystanders generally, the preparations for an ascen- sion were completed a little before two o’ciock. The onl; obstacle then was that there appeared to be too mucl wind stirring. The white clouds sailed pretty briskly over the blue sunny sky, and the waving of the tree tops showed occasionally that there was con- siderable of a breeze aloft. Mr. Wise thought it rather hazardous in that state of the atmosphere, to attempt an ascension. He was afraid that the strain upon the rope by which the elevation of the balloon was to be controlled might be too great, and that if the rope snapped the balloon would be carried out to sea, the wind biowing from the northwest. For a trip the weather was. pleasant enough, indeed delightful, barring the risk of Veing carried out to sea; but for only a limited ascent, restricted by ropes, he thought it was la Rekty Tt was all but resolved upon, therefore, to defer the ascent till next day, and in the meantime to secure the balloon where it was. But a spell of perfect calmness deterinined him finally to make the experiment, and it was arranged ‘hat the reporter of the Hkkatp and the reporter of another New York paper shonid accompany him. “Now then,” said young Wise, “I want one man to place himeelt’at each of those sand bags, and do as I telMbim.”” ‘Thirty men were promptly at the posts as- signed them, waiting for « Astring from each of the pendants of the nett where it was held by the bal- lust bage, was quickly tied to the strings of the basket. ‘This operation connected the basket firmly with the bal- r of strong, new rope was firmly tied, bie and crosswise, to the hickory hoop out of which these basket strings’ radia’ ‘An expert hand stood ready at the proper moment to attach to this fasten- ing end of the r that was wound round the drvm of the windlass. So that it will be seen the safety of the aeronauts depended chiefly on the strength of the hickory hoop andthe security of the fastenings. Roth proved all right. Wise haw gave the word to unhook tho sand ht to the ropes. ‘The order was oboy Now the Fover hand, and draw into the ring.” This maneu- gave the balloon an ascension of a few fect. Three ur sand bags are thrown into the basket. The wind- iss rope is firmly knotted to the hoop. Wise and the two reporters jump in. “Now then, ali but ¢’ Anct) ¢ balloon. ‘This was to test the as thrown out, and the bags and to hold d A bag of ballast is oon is now in proper trim, “Let ko.” ‘There she gocs! and cheers go up with her. Some forty féct from the ground, Wise finds that more ballast. may be got rid’ of. Lifting one to the edge ‘of the basket, and singing to the people beiaw to look cut, he half empties it of its con- tents, The shouts of laughter from below tell us that me one in the crowd has reecived a shower bath of sand. This lightening of the butioon lifts us above the tops of that row of tail trees, and we ascend regularly, thougb not very rapidly, becaus Mt by the rope. We see the crowd gathered around the windlass, and watching auxtously ihe inteoee eitals upon the rope, fear- fig icet itshould give way. Wise gives his orders, and every syllable is distinctly heard bolow, just as every word uttered below is heard “by those in the basket. At the height of some four hundred feet the word ‘Hold on” is given. Poised at that clevation, and with- cut any sensible motion to ourselves, although the burket appears to those below to sway considerably, ‘we stand and look around at the prospect Right beneath us ig the Central Park, To the west we see the Hudson stretching along, fanked by the patisades, and with its waters ploughed by nu At and sailing vessel. The view northward, the upper portion of the isiand of New Y ives 8a beautiful glimpse of that ng edifice, the High Bridge. Far to the cast we See the bine vs of Long Island sound, and wearer still these of the river, moandering as it were the islands. And soxthwa itiful panorama of New York city, with they: ny achurch spire glittering in the sunshin Lavenues ensble veto trace it like a map ym the Battery to the ars to be rathor thic ame spread befor the be etm the Fust river, wha ephayy oh, is the city of Prooklyu, er three hundred hoveond inhabitants; and there, on the othor side of New #York, is Jersey My, ant near us still the pic treeque Heboken.”? After seme ton or fifteen minutes spent in this most charming survey, Wise wavou his hat asa signal to haul in. Soon we began to perceive th ot of (hat move ment. The tall trees appear to be pigmy than they were fow moments since, and the mon at the winedtass are not such more Lilliputs as they were justnow. Nearer and nearer the earth we come, fe are right over those tailtrees, and the balloon appears to be bearing downupon them. Wise cautions us not to be nervous in case our bask et should try to nestle in their tops, Oar nerves aro not itt tw the test, for we clear them, and sweep down gracefully and quickly to the carih. As the basket touches, it is seized and hold down by a huudred strong arms, and the bags are thrown in again, until everything is in iness for the next trip. A quarter of an hour after we see the balloon asconding again, with Mr. Wise and two reporters in the basket, In the meartime the breeze has sprung up again, and it the baltoon farther to the east, Once or twice the # gets foul of the trees, and brings down thick vanches to the earth. There is danger of the » being severed by friction against the boughs. “tetande the test well, The tre 1, sme wre gttinto other difficulties. The ballo n swee wn over another line of trees. It caupot escape them. we run to see the crash, Town eomes tho ear int top of the tree, smashing the boughs us if they were Iwas feared that the balloon itself might its af- but pipe stems. htorn, by seaped, and rose He ont of the b vi von afterwards effected, when it wax found Cuet he reporters had gett of his 1 ons tard brviged by incautionsly hotdhy m of the basket in its descont thrangh the ‘th reafe to venture up any more, ant 9 tie m wn veured on the game spot where it was filled in the merning. Mt bad been arranged to have a photographer go up ond take sterergeople views of terrestial things from certain clevation, The too great movement in the at. mosphere prectuded the possibility of such a thing yester. day. He may go up to-day if it be perfectly still and caim, as under no other conditions of the atmospher: would such a thing be feasible. Mr Wise will probably indulge othere who may wish to enjoy a new sensation, by giving them a chance to ascend a thousand fect. 0! course he will have to charge something for the enta: tain- ment. His father, we understand, is arranging for a trin in the clouds one of theso days, and will either charge a fixed sum—ray fifty dollars—or put up the seats to public The Jupiter is some thirty-four feet in diameter by about fifty in extreme height. With the car attached, its height is Sixty-five fect. It contains eome twenty-four thousand cubic feet of gas, so that its inflation alone costs about sixty dollars. Of course the gas was not discharged last even. ing; it will serve for ascension for some days, it being easy to replenish it to the extent needed. The balloon was entirely devoid of ornamentation, Tt is composed of oiled cotton, of which material some two thourand yards perhaps are used up. On one aide it has its name painted’ in large letters; on the other, the Latin Jegend:— “* Astra, Castra, Numen, Lumen’? —which means, The stars are iny dwelling place, the divinity my lilt.” There are several patebes on it, ac- counted for by the fact that In one of the Western railroad baggage cars, sparke from the locomotive fell upon it. Trips have been made with it from Boston, St. Louis and Lafayette, Ind. The basket is the ordinary specimen of oblong wickerwork which is ysed in warenouses for hoiat- ing goods im, and by washerwomen in good business. It is four and a haif tect long by three and a half wide—so that there was not much room to spare in that cage. It was amusing to Hsten to the comments of the by. standers as the balloon was being inflawd. One would declare, in reply to a question whether he would like to koup, that he was not tired of his life yet; while another would declare that he would as lief go up in her as cross the river in a ferry boat. Between the two ascensions there unplensant in- terlude. A man somewhatunder the inffuence of liquor was ordered geuffly by a policeman to get outside of the ring. He replied that he wanted to go up, as he was the editor of an Irish-American paper. He said this jocu- larly, but the policeman evidently did not appreciate the joke, for he rushed at the unfortunate would-be editor’s throat, Knocked him down, and then set to to roll him over as soldiers roll up their mattresses. In short, there was @ great deal of uncalled for brutality exhibited, and when an elderly man denounced it in no measured terms, he was himself seized upon and marched off to the sta- tion house; while other police officers drew their batons and rushed in upon the respectable persons who had gathered around the old map, and drove them right loft as if they were a party of rowdies. Such conduct is not calevlated to insure to our police officers the counte- nance and support of the good citizens of New York. THE MISSING AERONAUTS. No Tidings of Me: La Mountain and Haddock, the Balloon Excursionists from Watertown—An Account of the Ascension—Mr. La Mountain’s Various Experiments—Explanation of the Ru. mors of His Safety. No certain and definite account has yet been received of the missing balloonists, Messrs. La Mountain and Had- dock, who ascended from Watertown, Jefferson county, on the 22d of the present month. The balloon struck the northeasterly current, and was last ‘seen about an hour after its rise, evidently about two miles above the earth, and travelling in a direction which would have carried it into the St. Lawrence region of Canada. Since then nothing has been heard of either party, notwithstanding several rumors to the contrary. It was their intention, when they left Watertown to, make but a short voyage, and return the next day,as Mr. La Mountain had an ascension advertised at Kingston, C. W., on Thursday of this week. It may be that our surmises on this point will prove correct—that the voyagers found themselves compelled to descend in the wild region of Hamilton or Lewis, from. which itmay be impossible for them to communicate with us for a few days. It was Mr. La Mountain who first proposed, with Professor Wise, to make a voyage across the Atlantic; and it was with this idea he built his immense balloon, named after the intended enterprise, the ‘‘Atlan- tic.” As a preparatory experiment to determine how fas a balloon would travel in the atmosphere, and solve the often discussed question of an upper #rial current con tinually setting from west to cast, he made an as cension in the beginning of July last from St. Louis, with Messrs. Wise, @ager and Hyde, and descended near Sacketts Harbor, in the northwestern portion of this State, having travelled from the Mississippi to Lake Ontario—a distance of twelve hundred miles—in twenty-four hours. This trip was very succo=sful in one point of view, viz.:—in demonstrating the fact that an acrial current from west to cast existed, and that a voyage to Europe could be made in a day or two days atthe farthest. This only emboldened Mr. La Mountain in his long cherished enterprise; and he had intended during this fall or next spring, after a few more experi- mental trips on land, to attempt the daring project of crossing the Atlantic. He made one or two ascensions since his grand jvoyage from St. Louis. The balloon in which he made bis trip from Watertown was the Atlantic. Mr. La Mountain intended making two more grand assensions—one om the 4th Of October, from Jones’ Wood, in this city, and one from the Agricultural State Fair grounds at Albany, on the 8th of October. It was our intention (and is still, if Mr. La Mountain turns up alive and makes the asconsions) to send special reporters with him to take notes. Mr. La Mountain conceived tho original idea of auction- ing off seats in his balloon, like pews in a church or boxes at the Opera, and we learn that already many private requests, backed by large sums of money, have been made for them, among others by a young lady, who is anxious to indulge in the novel luxury of a balloon ascent. The sale of seats takes place to-day, at 1114 o'clock, at the Merchants’ Exchauge, as will be seen from the follow- ing announcement published yesterday in the Herauy:— TWELVE O'CLOCK, SEPT. 27, 1859. Canp.—The agent of Professor La Mountain in this city has not, 1p to this hour, received any fatetligence from him. The fact that the bailoon Atlantic is the largest and strongest extant, wnd that every reasonable pre of mrostation could suggest Vatertown ascensiyn on th his final safety, Should an; Lefore twelve o'clock thin nigh of the various city journals. nition that experience in the art had been taken previons to the d inst. hopes are entertained of vy leapnich be receiver from him t it will be posted on the bulletins The apprension which the various telegraphic messages tn yesterday’ papers, relative to the lengthened aerial voyage of Professor La Mountain, created in the public mind and ren- dered the publication of ‘the above card in the evening papers , has buppily been dispelled by the JCGVEUL INTELLIGENCE OF THE SAFETY OF THE FEARLESS AERIAL NAVIGATOR, and gives renewed evidence of the strength and safety of the ALLOGN ATLANTIC, THE MONARCH OF THE SKIRS. The sate of the privilege of sonia in the car for the GRAND NEW YORK ASCENSION will lake place as announeed at the MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE, ‘Thursday morving, 1134 o'elocl By ALBERT H. N{GOLAY, Faq, Auctioneer. The contradictory portions of the above paragraph need explanation, It seems that up to twelve o’clock on Tuesday no intelligence had been received of Mr. La Mountain by his agent in this city. At that time a despatch was received stating that he had not yet been hoard from, Some doubted the truth of this statement; aud on the same day Mr. S. I. Ingersoll, of thiscity, tele- wraphed to Mr. A. J. Morrison, of Troys asking if any in- teMigence of La Mountain had been’ received. The fol- lowing is the answer by telegraph, which we print verbatin anded gafo, Goes up to morrow from Kings- will be in New York Friday A. J. MORRISON. Mete denial of the truth of the general tele- teh ii peert the ab Put stil! being ine Meas to Mr. Tay ngereoll telegraphed yesterday to 7 vers, of the Troy Daily Times, and anewer— La Mountain not heard from, Mr. Morrison will write you to-day J. M. TRAVERS. ‘This last piece of intelligence has dispelled nearly every hope, and though the sale will undoubtedly take place to- cay, etill the public will look forward with cagor eyes to he ecvelopementy a few days must make concerning the ate of Mr. Ta Mountain: The following was rece ival the following ed at a late hour last even. nigiae . Troy, Sept. 28, 1859. w York papers of fe lansing of La Mountain is or et been heard from kim, His The despatch or paragraph in the oreons, Ne wife is in this c Tried—Description of the Immense rial Ship “City of New York.” While the public mind is agitated with the excite- ment attendant upon the expected visit of so great a prodigy of nayal architecture ag the Great Fastorn, a cer” tainly not less wonderful project in ballooning is now slowly and silently but certainly advancing towards trial and very probable realization. We refer to the construc. tion of an immense balloon, the Great Eastern of air ships, which is in rapid course of completion near this city, and which will colipse all others of its kind, as the leviathan of vessels does every other thing afloat. Its destination is Europe, the daring aeronaut who is to conduct the enterprise, Mr. T. 8. Carlincourt Lowe, ex- pecting to reach Fugland, France or Spain in forty-cight hours, or seventy-two atfarthest. An idea of its im. menee size may be formed when we state that the entire jongth of the balloon is 350 feet, or nearly 90 feet higher lun Trinity steeple. Its dimensions in other respects correspond with its great height. Its circumference at the longer diameter is 887 feet, and at the traogverse di. ameter 330 feet. It will thus be seen that the body or bag of the balloon is nearly globular. The greatest diameter or the distance from the valve to the neck, is 120 feet while its transverse diameter, at the widest part, is 10 feet. 6,000 yards of cloth have been consumed in its construction, and about 600 gallons of varnish have been used in applying the first two coats, Another remains t- be puton. The cloth is in twenty sections, the sections belonging to the upper part of the balloon being forty fon feet long, those of the lower part, 105. A central belt twenty-six feet in width, will connect the upper and lower portions. For twenty-nine fect from the valve down the cloth is double, and five and a half feet down, triple, with a fold of strong linen between. The netting, which is of flaxen cord, one quarter of an inch in thickness, made expressly for the purpose, is fastened to a circle of hempen rope, one and a half inches in diameter, which is capable of re- sisting a strain of five tons. There are 400 meshes of the net around the middle of the globe, each mesh being eight or nine inches across. The length of cord in the netting alone is over fifteen miles, and it has been caleu- jated that it will bear a considerably greater strain than will be exerted. At the lower end of the net is the concentrating hoop, a stout circle or band of wrought iron, one and a half inches in thickness, which carries the car, beat and everything to be taken up. The netting, together with its rope and hoop, weigh about 326 pounds. ‘the car, which is twenty feet in circumference and four feet deep, is made of ratan, having @ hole in the floor, eighteen inches in diameter, from which a stout ladder conducts to the boat, twenty feet beneath. The car is circular in form, surrounded with canvass, and is suspend, ed twenty feet below the concentrating hoop. From this hoop down to the edge of the basket is a curtain, thus con” verting the basket into a room. Windows are inserwd im the canvass, that the aeronauts may, while protected from the cold by their canvass wall, have means of making observations. The car is, moreover, to be warmed by a newly-invented heating apparatus, de- nominated the “lime stove,” a contrivance, we believe, ot Mr. Lowe himself, a detailed description of which we shal! give at some future day. This stove, besides warm ing the apartment, will algo serve to perform some of the ordinary culinary operations. The voyagers will thus have a double protection against the extreme cold expe- rienced in high latitudes, and which has heretofore been one of the most prominent annoyances of ballooning. Beneath and suspended to the car is a Francis metallic lifeboat, 45 feet in length, cight feet beam, and four feet in depth. The boat will have an Ericsson caloric en- gine, for the purpose of working a propeller on the screw principle. This propeller is pro- vided with twenty fans, and Mr. Lowe expects to be able to exert an elevating or depressing power equal to 300 pounds, thus doing away with the necessity of bailast, al- though, of course, sufficient of the latter will be taken in case of a contingency. The propeller will also enable the aeronaut to keep steerage way and prevent rotation of the ‘balloon. In case an accident should happen, proper meaug are at band to cut the balloon from the boat, and the latter will then be propelled by the screw and the ca- loric engine, in the same manner as a screw steamer. The boat is provided with a mast and sail, and fuel for the engine. Water and provisions sufficient for six months ‘will be taken in India rubber casks and boxes. In the elevated region to which the voyagers will ascend, water freezes, and would obviously burst wooden vessels in which it might be contained. The use of India rubber casks, which are certainly a wise expedient, removes this difficulty. An India rubber folding lifeboat will form part of the outfit. Two copper buoys, weighing 100 and 200 pounds respectively, for the purpose of condensing the gas, will be attached to the balloon. These buoys involve a new principle, which Mr. Lowe intends tr. on this tri ir. Lowe has also invented avery original and inge- nious contrivance with which to determine the direction of the diffrent currents in the upper atmosphere. Thi: consists of an apparatus which he calls the “sounding line; as its name indicates, it is a rope or cord, two or three miles long, if necessary, with ribbons or streamers at certain intervals, which will indicate the directions of the different strata (so to speak) of currents. If the wro. naut finds by consulting bis compass that the balloon is carried by a current too far north or south of his desired destination, he drops the ‘sounding line,”’ with a telescope discovers how far down the proper current is—being shown by the streamers—and with the fan propeller lowers himself to that level. ‘Ihe balloon is provided with an ordinary ship’s an- chor, weighing 100 pounds, to land with; the rope attach- ed to it is 100 feet long and four inches in circumference. Twoor three sets of small grapnels are on board, to be used when the large anchor is not necessary. A couple of miles of small rope will be taken to tow the buoys when thrown overboard, and for any incidental purposes i e. nation will be carried, and passports to y in Europe will be obtained from the Secre- tary of State for the voyagers, who are some eight in number, Many persons have already applied for a pas- sage—many of them offering immense sums for the privi- lege—but their requests have been invariably denied, as the first trip is intended to be purely scientitic, to solve the problem whether ballooning to Enrope is practicable. Among the articles to be taken on the tri! trip are one hundred small parachutes, by which to drop letters, pa- kind, to steamers or vessels on cean over Which the balloon may pass. These pack- ages will be done up in india rubber mail bags which will float upon the water. There are, besides, one mercurial and one anereid barometer, two marine and four ordinary . thermometers, telescopes of every power, a tand chronometer, and, in short, every- g that is necessary to make careful and correct obser- vations and note the natural phenomena which occur at H doves will be taken along, to be des- ival anywhere, or in the event of any ndles and signal rockets will be pro- cing thrown on any shore where it will De necessary to signal distant vessels, One hundred copies of each daily and illustrated news- paper in this city will be taken along, to be delivered in and Paris two days after their publication here. ‘sen will be provided with an india rubber suit, to serve both as a protector against the cold and asa life preserver in the water, ‘The entire weight of the balloon and its appendages is 834 tons. Its lifting capaci s tons, leaving a net lifting capacity of 19 tons, The balloon will, therefore, be eof carrying a great quantity of freight and a number of passenyers when an airship line to pe isestab'ished, The first passengers will be the nt himself, Mr. Lawe, several scientific seamen and andsmen and the represeniatives of the press, together with a gentleman who will act as the historian of the occasion The balicon is denomina’ but under the cirer: the “City of New Yor! vo think {f would have been roperly call t Western.” It is not too to change the tu ‘othe builders. A space of nine days will be required in filling it with gas, the balloon’s capacity being 759,000 feet, or about ten times larges than any balloon heretofore constructed. The cost of inflation alone will be $1,800, and the amount expended £0 fur in the const: nearly $25,000. Mr. Lowe is perfectly sangnin to the successful termination of nterprise. Ie sets about his preparations with the air of one who knows that certain success is to crown his undertaking. If the thing is not successful it will not be from a want of proper means to test it. A balloon nearly ninety feet higher than Trinity steeple is certainly large enough, if the fault lies in thé respect, Everything that science and knowledge © ntribute will be employed to aid the undertaking, anil the question of rial navigation to Europe will shortly be settled. We have binted above that the proper name of the air ship would be the “ Groat West ern.” So far Great Britain has taken the lead of the United States in naval matters, but it bas remained to the genius of an American to conceive and undertake an enterprise which, if successful, will revolutionize all the old ideas of travelling, and the steamship of to-day will be to the air ship of the future what the stage-coach of by-gone days is to the rail car of the present. This im menge balloon, the leviathan of the air, is in wronautics what the Great Ecastorn is to navigation, and should for this reason and the honor of the New World— the Laud of the West ’—when he is to take her flight, be styled he “Great Western, ‘The balloon will be finished in a few weeks, and will be on exhibition in New York or vicinity for a short time prior to her departure. It is contemplated to start some time in October. New Bowery Tugatrr.—A drama in threo acts, bear- ing the title of “Garibaldi,” has been produced here with more than ordinary attention to the details of scenery, properties, &c. It is apropos to the recent warlike events in Italy, avd gives what may be called a familiar view of the Emperors of France and Austria and other distin. guished individuals, The play, which is the work of Mr: James Pilgrim, is of the usual mediocre order of melo- dramas, but the mise en scene #8 excellent. The tableaux which conclude the second and third acts are among the finest pictures ever seen on the New York boards.: The piece draws full houses, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1859.—TRIPLE SHERT. THE NEW YORK STATE CAYAL CONVENTION Letters ‘am the Candidates for State OficesProceedings of the Conven~ tion, die., dic. * Unica gept. 28, 1859, The Canal Convention assembled at eleven o'clock, a! the City Hall. Carlos Cobb, of Buffalo, organized the body by nomi nating Henry Fitzhugh, of Oswego, as Chaivman. Albert Sawin, of Erie; T. '. Flagler, of Niagara; Janes Galleny, of Monroe, W. H. Shankland, of Onondaga; A P. Seymour, of Oneida; W. Clark, of Montgomery; W. Cuyler, of Livingston; L. D. Collins, of Troy; John » Vean, of Dutchess, and D. H. Elton,of New «rk, were chosen Vice Presidents. W. Monteith, of Buffalo; J. F. Lyon, of Oswego; 8. 6 Chase, of Albany; J. Lewis, of Yates, were chosen Seer tanies, About two hundred delegates wera present. A. H. Hovey, of Onondaga, read the call of the meet ing, and addressed the Convention on the sub ect! th: canal and commercial interests of the State, and m sed for @ committee of eleven on resolutions and business. “he following committee was appointed:—S. B. Haat of Erie; L. A. Spaulding, of Niagara; Thomas Parsour, 0! Monroe; L. B. Crocker, of Orange; A. H. Hovey, of Ono daga; R. C. Palmer, of Oneida; 8. G. Chase, of Albany; J H. Mallory, of New York; C. H. Thompson, of Steuben E. H. Edwards, of Broome. After some immaterial talk, the Convention tooka re cess till two o'clock. Among the proceedings of the Utica State Canal Con- vention the following correspondence was read:— SiR—The prominent position in which you are placed before the public, and the controversy concerning your views respecting the internal improvements of the Stat, induces us, in behalf of meetings of fricuds of the State canal system in the city of New York, to request an ex- pression of your opinions on certain points connected with the prominent questions of State policy involved in the approaching election:— J. Are you, or are you not, in fayor of the completion of the enlargement of the canals irding to law—so as to give the required depth of se feet at the commence ment of navigation next spring—au object which cau be accomplished with moderate means during the wext win ter—which depth will at last complete that graat work, #0 as to permit the transit of canal steamers between Uh Atlantic and the lakes, with greater average tonnage than the average tonnage (below 800 tons) of the ships and brige transacting the ocean commerce of New Yori city. wh: and with seven fold greater average topnage than the average tonnage of canal bouts when the enlargement was begun—objects which, wheu accomplished (and they can be accomplished during a single winter with trifling expense), will verily the pre diction of the New York Chamber of Commerce that “the completion of the great work of enlarging the eanals of our State, and the simultaneous introdustion 0: steam es the motive power of their navigation, will mark an era of eventful interest to our country, but especially to this city and State”—which improvement of the Erie canal‘ must of course put all competition at detitince,”” says the Chamber of Commerco—‘ confirming to our city, beyond peradventure, the supremacy which we have already reached, and which ids fair to make New York the commercial mistress of the world’’—* the su premacy of New York over all other cities ou this conti eent, in numbers, weaith and extent of its commerce,” dating “from the opening of this work, (the Erie Canal), which turned the commerce of the interior from its natu ral channels, having their outlets far distant from us, inte our capacious and magnificent harbor'’—the aavantages vhich railways give to other cities lying nearer the western ters, “we can only overcome (says the Chainber of Commeree), by falling back upon the Erie Canal; and, by enlargivg {ts capacity aud cheapening the means of trans portation over it, rendering itas much superior to any of the competing routes constructed to divert its trade, as it was originally superior to the ordinary bighway’—but “the deepening of the water must be completed to the fell extent of what has for years been proposed, before we can reap the full benefit of the new agency (of canal steam navigation), now contemplated,” as the Chamber of Commerce justly remarks, when directing the prepara- tion of a ‘‘ memorial to the Legislature, urging the impor- tance of completing, at as early a day as possible, the en- largement ef the canals of this Stater’’ 2. Are you, or are you not, in favor of selling or leas- ing the canals of this State—converting them from public bighways into private monopolics ? 8. Are you, or are you not, in favor of securing to the people of this State equal rights upon the canals and railways of this State, by a law defending them against that pernicious ‘discriminating” railway policy, whereby freight is now transported through this State, between ‘Western and Fastern States, on better terms than the pro- ductions and purchases of the people of the interior of this State are allowed to pass to and from New York city over the railroads for which the people of this State granted valuable franchises and spent millions of doliars?—he pernicious influences of which iniquitous system, are set forth in the report of the majority of the select legisla- tive Committee of the last session of the New York Legisia- ture, which, with other documents, is now submitted to you—a system of disparity and injustice unparaileled in the annals of trade and commerce—such nous of the most despotic monarchs of the world have ever dared to inflict upon their own people. Your answers two the foregoing questions are respact- fully invited, to be addressed to the undersigned at. New York city, before the 27th instant, or on that day to Utica. Respectlully yours, HENRY O’RIELLY, Chairman. SEPTEMBER 23. HUGH ALLEN, S-cretary. The following is the reply of Lyman Tremain, nomine for re-election to the office of Attorney-General :— ALBANY, Sept. 25, 1859. Gxytiemes—Your favor, containing several interroga. tories propounded to me on behalf of the Clinton League, for the purpose of ascertainiug my sentiments respecting the internal improvements of the State, has just been re ceived. Tacknowledge, to the fullest extent, the right of the electors to full information concerning the political opinions of ry candidate presented to them for their support; Such knowledge is particularly due to a body of men whose views and purposes are manifested with the dig nity, ability and cafimness which are exhibited in the ad- dresses and pamphlets issued by the friends of the canals, which accompany your communications; and I regret that the brief period of time intervening between the receipt of your favor and the time when an answer is desired compels me to be so concise in my reply. Your first interrogatory is: ‘*Are you, or are ye vor of the completion of the enlargement of the ording to Jaw, so as to give the required depth of feet at the commencement of navigation next spring? When L accepted the nomination for Attorne Tdeelared to the Convention that T was in fi constitutional prohibition against the sale of th also, that I was in favor of paying off every dollar tloating debt contracted for work done and’ m nished upon the enlargement, and in favor of comp! the unfinished public works at the earliest moment During the early part of my political life T resided i county which was not direetly inte in the this State, Regarding, however, with pride the splenic system of internal improvements which had been com menced by De Clinton,and which had conferred bouor and glory upon the State of New York, I have uniform contributed, to the extent of my bumble ability, to su every constitutional movement tending to pertuo his stupendous and noble system, hat my present and permanent fnvure rosie ed at the capital city—a city so vitaily intere everything that concerns th would indeed be extraordinary if my attachment to the canals had become weakened. The people of this State have, in repeated instances, determined that the enlarged canals shall be nd the friends of these works have tondly hoped that the period was near at hand wheu they shonid bo re. warded for their arduous efforts to complete the canals, amid trials, obstacles and embarrassm A small sum of money only is now plish ob j and Tha 10 hesitati ron in the affirmat nd question is— Are you, or are favor of selling or leasing the cavals « tee yerting them from public highways into private mon neral, of the My answer to this inquiry is already ind ‘The people of New York adopted the j tion by. an overwhelming majority. An imports vision in this instrument declared that “the Le all not sell, lease, or otherwise diapose of an pals of this State;’but they shail remain the property of the State, and under its management, fore Since the adoption of this instrument no curred which is calculated to obviate the demonstrate the inexpediency of this constituti striction, Every movement locking to a salo of the can ed forth indignant remonstrances from one ¢ ite to the other. After years of patient labor, the friends of the carais perceive that their work is rapidly approaching its com Nes Is this either an appropriate time or occasion fi the State to divest itself of the ownership of this vast and noble inheritancey Is this the time to entertain a project for opening the constitution in order to place these canals in the hands of nls oF @ gigantic association ? nt Las oe ted by the Canal Board and the Legis- he rates of toll, may be sy i and mismanagement in keeping be guarded against and remo But sel! the cauals, and th them in repair, ma the legislative’ power. foree and yigor, I answer you, then, by say am not in favor of selling or leasing the c State. Your third interrogatory asks whether I in favor of securing to the people of this rights upon the canals and rail! of th law defending them against that pernicio railway policy whereby freight is now trans) this State, &., and Tam referred to a logts of last winter to show the evils which you propos On examining that report, I find that itis all “the railrords having their western termini at Eri have totally debarred the people of those localities on ogre along their ined a vary Gane ‘Oa Sa eel cache ppropriated to the tr: them by asso. force of those Ueettig| wi erty delive feces ereeny in other States. Thus, during of 1865, coincident with the close of the ca als in Novem ber of that year, the peoplo along the western sections these roads were devied transportation for their p while day by day, whole vessel loads were rece these railroads, at’ transported, pursuant to arrang ments with confederate railroads in Western State not until this property was dispuscd of (which was Ist of January, 1856), were the people doing bnesine> along the western lines of these railroads permite to 3 Participate in their use, by the transportation of their yerty, and then only’ Vy paying ‘an advanced of ‘raneportation equal to about one hundred per cent upon a ernen Nhe prone thus excluded.” ¢ trutl exe complaints I cannot judge; bat weuming them to be Well founded, T think thess evila howid be correeted, and, if need be, by law. jent common taw ft wes made the duty of a common carrier to receive and carrion, Vative and carry, all goods offored for trans- y re suitable tire. This du ment carrier. It is i etain there goods an nut rive preference to ‘owners of other ‘whose eode are net placed in the possession of Pigs a subsequent period of tituc. It is also alleged in tho report that the railroads are ceustemed to trangpo:t goods from Buffalo to New York ‘t less than the actual cost of transportation, while upon preperty transported but @ part of the distance the harges are so much more than the actual cost as ocessary to compensate the roads for the losses sustained. » the preperty carried the whole distance, and make a profit on the whole; and that charges upon way freight are based upon the acknowledged ground thatthe neceasi- ties of individvals compel them to pay these charges. It seems to me Ubat euch discrimination against our own citizens is unjust, and should be corrected. ‘The railroads derive their corporate existence from the people of this State, represented in the Legislature. They are invested with the power of Eminent by the people of this State, Our citizens residing nearer tho sea- board than the citizens of Ulinois or nesota, should not. te derived of the advantages whi ir location secures to m. . Although: this subject is one to whi¢h Ihave had no oc- casion to direct my attention, and it is somewhat foreign from my professional or official pursuits; yet, it seoms to me, that the ciseriminatien of which yon complain, if it exists, is unjust to the people of our own State, and should be guardea againet by law. ‘t being the owner of any railroad stock, I am in @ porition to remind you, that, while you are entirely right ip endeavoring to secure for these who are interested im is, ail their just rights, no injustice should ber towards that large Class of oar citizens who have inveeted their property in railway enterprises, Believing that my answer covers ail the questions sub_ mitted to me, I have the honor to be, yours. very traty, LYMAN TREMAIN. ‘The following is the reply of Robert Denniston, nominca for the office of Comptroller :— Hesky O'Ruetty, Chairman, and Hvem Aue, z Genrrmwen—t have received your circuiar in behalf of the Clinton League, propounding to me certain inquiries. in reference to “the canal system, the railway manage » interests goneratly.?? tion is, “Are you, OF are you not, in favor cnlargemmnt of the canals, ac- as to the di- tcy of complet~ ! Coavention, abtained bie to att When oom with ember of the 1 trnetis interests of the State, to ait concerned i their navigation question is, a OF are You not in fa gor Teasing canals of this Stave—con- m from pubiic highways into private mono- Tanswer in the negative. When on the eve ot enjoying the fri atvantages of the enlarged canals it woutd be extremely unwise to sell or lease them. ‘The constitution torbids their sale. One of my first votes: was cast for De Witt Clinton for governor. He ¥ en struggling, amid many ditflenl- ties, to accomplish the construction of the Erie aad Cham- plain canals. He had my earnest though hamble support. Ivenerate his memory. Those canals are the enduring monuments of bis fame, They are identifiet with the Prosperity and greatness of the State of New York; and, should the Legisiawre seriously propose their sale or alienation, it would require but litte excitement of the imagination to look for hat great man to rise (rom the dead and rebuke the proposition. The third question is, “Are you or are you not in favor of sceuring to the people of this State equal rights upom the cana’s and railways of this State, by law; defending them against that pernicious “discriminating? railway policy 7” answer in the affirmative. He original policy on which the canal enlargement was baged and the railway companies near its route charter- ed was, that the trade and tonnage from the lakes to the AUianti¢ markets were to yield the money to pay the in- terest, and ultimately discharge the principal of the canal debt. It appears to me that policy has beon departed. from, the caval revenues have been frittered bag 2 and resort has been had to taxation to make up for ‘Aeite. ‘This causes just complaint among the people. ‘The duty of the Legislature, in my judgment, is to cor- rect the error into which they have fallen, and in their wisdom devise some measure with which the railroad companics would have no just cause of dissatistaction, and. secure, from the vast traflic alluded to, the very moderate: tribute necessary to curry out the original policy and re- lieve the people from taxation. Tn reference to the “uiscriminating railway policy,” I suppose a moderately bigher charge tor fveight going short distances over through freight wonld not be deemed a just caust of complaint; but if suid policy, as represeat- ed to me, be carried to an extent to be oppressive to those: using the railways, I deem ita fair subject for legislative. wk seit am, with greut respect, your obedient ser ROBERT 1 Replies were also received from Mcssr niston, Church, Dorsheimer, Skinner mond. A telegraphic despatch from D. R. F. Jones states that he is in favor of the canals, but rece the letter too late to reply. Comptroller Church writes as follows:— ALBANY, Sept. 27, 1859, GexTieMes—Your favor, making certain inquiries rela- lative to my views as to thr best policy of promoting the: interest of.the canals, came to hand too late to enable me make any other than a brief reply. I have no personal interest in either the canals or the railroads. of this State except asa citizen of the State, and am therefore in a position to act independently and impar- tially on any question which may call for my official action. Since ] have heid the office of Com»tvoker [have ed earnestly, and with such success as the limited means at the commaad of the State and the embarrass- ments of the trea-ury would permit, to iucrease the capa- city of the canals for business, and I am sincerely in. favor of their final compietition 4s soon us means are yro~ vided by tho Legisiature for that parpase,aud Lhave sa posed that this could be done so a8 to being them ioto with seven fect of water in the sping of 1 Ishall most cheerfully render all the assistance iu my to accomplish that object. Ta the sale or lease of the canals, and itt it.g the constitutional prohibition agai ot them, Tum detitediy in faver ef atoptis policy in reference to the mapagement of tue ure for ther: st amount of business avfrt the ey plains. Asa and shalt revenue Jegisiation Aven smpetition and — The Stu in ter fs siontd be Ald be teue to il interests. cP ble position in respect use of our own public works than the ¢ States. It is eminently just that the other Stat by the construction of oor share of the burden of thei aud not stand ou_a mor those of our own State. On 1 policy plainly dictates that the ut zeus should hi tion. ‘ored footing than contrary, sound sts of cur own citi. ve the first aud most fave: In the rise of our can: A the highest pri the people of this State. Tam, AFTERNOON ALVORD offered vention to select at this. time from dates now in nomination by the political whom they shall point to as their peoutiar ave the questi ho are friewds to th represent, to be answered mnmistakeably in nomination before the day of election. present. Or. 8. B. Hest, from the Committee on Resolutions, re- ported a series as follows:— ; , 1. Advocating a return to the original canal policy of the State, which was, that property passing through tho State should pay the debt of the Stave by the imposition of tolls generaliy on 2. In tayor of com: tions uf the State citizens on equal term: of other States; and in the sby law, railroad corpora~ ry the property of oor own h the property of citizens on of th is of the Stato, " nt price to the opening of the in 1860, with as geont an extension of the length of the locks as’is practicable within the present 4. That a tax Ss 4 lo till the winter of 1861-2, 'y lowa in anticipation of the a exch tax, mmiesioners responsible for tho gh lot by contract, and requir- »ntractors 9 constant cundi- ing them to exact from the a of perfect repair. 6. Instructing the State Committee to prepare .interro- catories for the candidates for office, embracing the mea- sures advocated by the Convention, and that the replies bo published ag a guide to the crnal men in deciding as to the ability of the various candiates. A debato ersued, the general expression being opposed: two nae the Pecan he fist resolution was laid over. The scone was amended on motion of D. C. adlehss dy striking out the concluding sentence, which dt that a pro-rata bill must be conceded by the railroads, Upon the third resomtion, Mr. A. H. Hovey moved to strike out the portion recommending tho enlargement of locks. Adopted. At the evening session resolutions in favor of talling tho, the railroads, and providing for committees tw gondugs the legishative elections, were adopted, Adjourned Sine die