The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1859, Page 6

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UDVERTISEMENTS renewed every day: advertisements te gered in the Wen Huai, PAMibY e California and Kuropean Editions, TOR PRINTING rascutal with woatness, cheapness and te swatch Meas onl Pe? ar $5 t0 any No. 275 Volume XXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, snitable persons to ins ect the condition of the boilers in bu |'nzs » eve steamis used. A reso- lution preseaivd by Mr. Lent was a’so adopt ed directia, tle Committee on Lands and Places to report measures where- by the Five Ponts can be secured fort'e mwp:s o '@ ng itout sa park, and also to erect na por ion o the property suitable build- ingsfo 'h @ o m~«atono: the oty government* Thus our ma'ers 61 pe ceive that Messrs. Lam- bierand Lent have adopted the suggestions made in oure:to al co usns ur e ence to these wupor tan na er. The Mozar Halt de ocrats last evening held elections in the sey al districts to choose dele- gates toa convention to nomiuate candidates for Supervisors and Ju) cial officers. Our advertising columns show who were chosen. The trial of Macdonald for the murder of Vir- ginia Stewart was postponed y sterday, in the Court of Oyer and Termiuer, until the first Monday in December, in order to give time to the defence to send commissioners to Mobile, Ala., and other States, to examine witnesses. The Octoner term of the General Sessions com menced yesterday, but there not being a quorum NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Breaca or Paomise— Tux Moar. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Paivatezn anv Pinate— ‘Turnese—ITaLiaN HRiGANDs. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposit Bond street. — Dor. WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rivais—Tickusu ‘Times. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE. 624 Broadway.—Sea oF cu. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gaxisatpi—Macic ‘ThUM kT—LIGHTBOUSE FIEND. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSRUM, Broadway.—Afor- noou—My Neicuson’s Wire—Swiss Corragr, Eveuing— Oor oy Toe Dertus—BaLixt Diveurissamanr. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Rrmorian Sonos, Dances, &c.—Biack Swan BRYANTS! 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The Teutonia, from Southampton on the after noon of the 17th ult., arrived at this port last even- ing, bringing our London files to the date of her sailing. Among the extracts which we publish this morning may be found Admiral Hope's report of the battle between the British and Chinese at Taku, in which no allusion whatever is made to the aid and comfort rendered the British com- mander by our forces on that occasion. We have important news from Venezuela, dated at Laguayra on the 16th ult. The French Charge d’Affures received his passports and was expelled from the country on the 14th of that month. He took his departure for France in the steamer Luci- fer. Venezuela was still much disturbed, but the evolutionista seem to have been nearly crushed out, a3 we have reports of considerable fighting, re- sulting in continued successes of the government troops. The executive was, it is said, supported by the moneyed and law and order men, plenty of yol- unteers, and the piety of the ladies, By the arrival of the overland mail at St. Louis we have advices from San Francisco to the 9th ult., foar days later than the accounts brought via the Istbmus. The news is important. The election for State officers, members of Congress and the Legis- lature took place on the 7th, and resulted in an over- whelming triumph of the national democracy over- the republican party and anti-Lecompton faction of the democracy, so faras the gubernatorial candidate and the Legislature were concerned. The republi- can candidates for Congress who were supported by the anti-Lecomptonites, and the coalition candi- date for State Printer, were enjoying the benefit of a slight doubt as to the fact of their defeat. In San Francisco the candidates of the reformers—the suc- cessors of the Vigilance Committee—were elected by a handsome majority. The aeronants, Messrs. La Mountain and Haddock, ‘have at last turned up, after an absence of ten days. They ascended from Watertown, in this State, and after a flight of between four and five hours dura- tion, descended one hundred and fifty miles north of Ottawa, in the great Canada wilderness. Hero they travelled about during four days, without food or even the means of striking a fire, and were final- ly rescued.by a gentleman who was hunting with Indian guides. The great cricket match between the famous eleven English cricketers and twenty-two United States players was commenced yesterday at the new grounds of the St. George’s Club at Hoboken. The weather was exceedingly fine, the spectators numbered some eight theusand, and the playing ‘was pronounced the most scientific ever witnessed in this country. We give in another column a de- tailed account of yesterday's play, together with the ecore. Lane, the alleged Fulton Bank defaulter, ap- peared before Justice Osborn yesterday for the Purpose of proceeding with the examination in his case, but owing to the non-attendance of the eoun- eel a the bank the case was postponed till Monday ne: The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, but transacted no business of general interest. The proceedings of the Board of Councilmen last evening were quite important, as will be seen by our report elsewhere. The Mayor vetoed a series of resolutions adopted by the Com- of grand jurors present, that body will be organized to-day. James McDermot, who robbed a lawyer naued A. P, McConney of a watch in daylight, While he wos passing through Lispenard street, was Beut to the State prison for five years. Harriet Forester, known for many years among the “ fan- ey” by the cognon.en of “The Widow,” was sen- tenced to nine months imprisonment ia the peni- teutiary and fined $200 for keeping a disurde:ly house in Canal street. Consideratle delay was occasioned yesterday morniug in the Supreme Court, special term, in consequence of the non-appearance of the usual printed calendar for the term. When inquiries were | made it wes ascertained that ope of the super- visors had taken the manuscript from the County Clerk's office in order to have it print- ed something cheaper than heretofore. Judge Jugraham issued an immediate order for the pro- | duction of e:ther the printed calendar or the original manuscript. After some time had elapsed the calendar was produced, part in print and part in manuscript. The consequence of the delay in printing was, that the lawyers were unable to pro- ceed with their cases, and the Court adjourned tu this morning. The total less by the burning of Speyer’s lager bier brewery in this city on Sunday night 13 esti- mated at $275,000, on which there was an insurance to the auount ef $145,000. A trotung match for $2,000, best three heats in five, im hurnes-, between Brown Dick and Lancet, took place on the Union Course yesterday, and re- sulted in iowa Dick wuning the race in three _NEW YORK HERALD, TU The Great Issue of the Approaching State Election, What is it? The stern resolve which has been taken, by the wealthy and intelligent classes in this city, that political sway shall no longer be monopo- lized by fighting factions, and that the atrocious “irrepressible conflict” programme of William | H. Seward shall not be permitted to plunge the country into ruin, has awakened public con- science, effectually, to the pitifully degraded depth to which rowdyism and demagogueism Mave reduced us. The duty is recognized of united and strenuous efforts to rescue the State from the incompetent and corrupt hands in which the sources of authority are now vested, and to avert om it the indelible shame of having on orsed doctrines, on the eve of a Pro- sidenti.. election, the success of which would shatter our national prosperity. It is well that itisso. Alittle later might have been too late. Apathy, the engrossing cares of business, and divided counsels, have too long prevented conservative men of worth, standing, and re- sponsibility, from opening their eyes to the disastrous consequences which must inevitably flow from neglect; but, now that they have made a move in_ the right direction, their own immense personal stake in the matter would appear to gua- rantee that they will wield with firmness, de- cision and endurance, the power which they de- clare shall never again pass out of their hands. We augur, therefore, the most practical, per- manent and happy results from the great up- rising wh ch has been witnessed within the last two weeks. The importance, at the present time, of an ir- resistibly patriotic attitude, on the part of the opulent, high-minded and provident supremacy, in this city, cannot be overrated. New York is less the great metropolis of the Western Conti- nent, on account of its vast population, than b-cause its influence permeates the remotest sections of the republic. It is the financial heart, in unison with which the pulses of every moneyed interest beat, from Labrador to the city of Mexico. It is the reservoir of surplus thought and intellect which plans the future, exalts the destinies, intensifies the progress of, and gives ideas to, other parts of the Union, It governs the country without appearing to do so, because its ascendancy is inseparable from the interests of those whom it undesignedly subordinates. It puts forth the careless, lazy strength of a material and intellectual giant. straight Leats. Time 2:31—2:31}. ‘the Excise Commissioners had no quorum yes- terday,and Mr. Haskett adjourned the Board till this afternoon at two o'clock. A new phase under the Excise law has come up. Yesterday being the first day of the October term in the Courts, several persons who keep liquor stores and who have been sued, have put in affidavits of merits, thus swearing toa good defence. Their names are to be handed over to the police for action. At their last meeting, which took place on the 26th ef last month, the Health Commissioners ad- journed for the season, though the fact was not then announced. About two weeks ago a cargo of slaves was land- ed near Trinidad de Cuba. one of the inspectors— ayoung creole—informed the government of the fact. That night he was assassinated in his bed. We give elsewhere further and fall particulars, collated on the ground, of the recent discovery of an immense oyster bed in Long Island Sound. Tho facts stated may be relied on as correct. The Whig General Committee held a meeting last evening, and adopted a report in favor of nomi- nating only candidates forthe State Senate, it hay- ing been deemed inexpedient to put a complete ticket in the Geld. . The members of the New York Corn Exchange went on an excursion yesterday afternoon up the Hadson river on board the new steam propeller Henry Andrews, the pioneer boat of a new trans- portation line to Albany. They proceeded about twenty miles up the river, and returned in the evening highly pleased with their trip. On the pas- sage speeches were made by Messrs. Hall, Frost, Thorp and others, and resolutions were passed complimenting Messrs. Redfield & Co., the projec: tors and owners of the line. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer and thermometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather, at three periods during each day, viz: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— is 94M. | SPM OP. i i ‘oyous “uaa ~ypags op fo og Seer S281 = | REMARKS. herpes arrest overcast; afternoon, overcast; ™Sanday—Morning, bazy; afternoon, heavy shower; night, clouded. Monday—Clear all day. Tueaday—Clear all day; night, overcast. Wednesday—Clear all day. Thu at ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 300 bales, at unchanged prices, and a rumor prevailed that a sale of New Orleans middling was made in transit at 11X%c., with freight at 9s. 16d., but we could not trace it. Flour was in better request, and sales more freely made, including purchages for the eastward, while some lota were taken for export. For common and medium grades prices were somewhat irregular, but the market in the main closed without any change of importance compared with Saturday’s quotations. Prime wheat was steady and in fair demand, while common and in- ferior grades were heavy and irregular. Corn was firmer by about 2c. per bushel for Western mixed, with sales at 8c. Jersey and Southern yellow were reported gold at 4c. a 950, and 966. Pork was heavy and cheaper, with sates of moss at $15 60. $15 80, and of prime at $10 50a 210 5634. Sugars, both brown and refined, were firm. The sales embraced about 841 bhds. and 56 boxes, on terms given in another column. Coffee was firm but qiet, with emall gales of prime Rio reported at 12};c. Freights were firm, but engagements moderate. Coxprtio& or V HLA—FORESIGHT OF GEN. Paraz—Recent intelligence from Venezuela represents that republic in a state of anarchy and ruin: perfectly hopeless. In another co- jumn we publish a communication from our correspondent at Caracas, which contains a letter written by Gen. Paez in May, 1857, show- ing conclusively that the veteran patriot fore- saw the fate that was in store for his unhappy country, and predicted the very course of events which has since received a melancholy verification in the lot which has fallen upon Venezuela. The last crowning gem in the noble career of Gen. Paez is the fact that, al- though even then despairing of the redemption of his country, he returned to her in his old Yet the city of New York is the very worst ruled city in the land. The State of New York is the most abominably governed member of the North American Confederation. We are the laughing stock and derision of the envious and the horror of the good. And, the mon Council declaring null and void leases granted to Meserole & Co., proprietors age, with self-sacrificing patriotism, determined of Williamsburg ferries, Tho Mayor states | 4° what good was possible to be done there. that to sanction the resolution would be | Finding all efforts hopeless, and, as our cor- to establish = precedent calculated to disturh | Tespondent states, treachery besetting his own canfdence in the city. On motion of Mr. Lam- | footsteps, he has returned to New York, which wier a special committee was appointed to report | has been the home of so many years of exile, an ordinance to provide for the appointment of ' ahandoning Venezuela to her self-elected fate. reason is, that the men in whom the probity, property, mental resources, and vigor of this city are‘concentrated, can seldom be stimulat- ed to assume the salutary dominion they are entitled to. It has grown out of the unerring instinct of self-preservation alone, that they have begun to doso now. The hundreds of merchants and capitalists, whose names we have already published, could never have been startled into political activity, if late events had not demonstrated that the corruption of party organizations is complete, and that con- tinued supineness and lethargy might involve the triumph of Sewardism, civil discord, des- truction of commerce, annihilation of those in- ternal and external sources from which prospe- rity flows, and the shipwreck of the welfare of +thim nuw Nappy nation. - In the election for State officers, next month, there is no issue by which the local interests of the people of the State of New York, can be immediately affected. The tick- ets which have been presented by the demo- cratic and opposition conventions, are nearly alike in intrinsic worth, and one may be pro- nounced about as good or as exceptionable as the other. Both parties are incompetent to dis- charge the functions of good government, and they have been equally committed, for many years, to every ramification of organized fraud, rapacity and injustice. Therefore, it the pros- perity and developement of the State of New York were alone at stake, the choice would be small, and our concern little, whether one party or the other triumphed. But the impend- ing election will have a much deeper than any mere local signification. It will, more than possibly, be a turning point, for weal or for woe, in the history of the whole United States. The same William H. Seward who ascended the gubernatorial chair, at Albany, in 1839, and, after an administration of four years, left the State on the verge of bankruptcy, now aspires to the highest seat, at Washington, for the same period. It is the confident belief of his friends, that if he can secure the endorse- ment by a popular vote, in November, of the black republican ticket, and the disunion doc- trines which he promulgated at Rochester, the question will be settled and his pernicious ascendancy secured. It is to avert this ter- rible and irreparable disester to the na- tion, that the intellectuality and wealth of New York city have banded together, to achieve, by their own strength, and with their own means, what either the rotten rowdyism of Mozart and Tanmany halls, nor the venal intrigues of the Albiny Regency can accomplish, The following is the demmcratic or anti- Seward ticket which was nominated at Syra- cuse on the 14th ultimo: Sceretary of Stat Comptroller. D. R. Floyd Jones. ndford F. Church. man Tremain. Judge of Court of Ap Clerk of Court of Appeals. These are the names of respectable men, to whom there is little individwl objection. The black republican, “irrepressible conflict” ticket, is, perhaps, as unimpeachable in the character of the different candidates. It runs:— Secretary of State. ++ E. W. Leavonworth. State Prison Inspector. Judge of Court of Appeals Henry E. Davies. Clerk of Court of Appeals Charles Hughes. Were the State of New Yirk isolated; had its citizens no responsibility o: interest, beyond its boundaries; were there nocommon_nation- ality and no ties to bind the different States together; if patriotism were extinct; if the memories of Washington, Madson, Monroe and Jackson had become a scoffing and a by-word, then the alarm felt at the dark cloud menacing our future, might be despised. The black flag which Mr. Seward has unfurled may have charms for sectional fanatics, and for such a8 2” outlived love of country or pever expe- ESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. rienced that holy sentiment. It is, fortunately, otherwise with the strength and worth of the high minded and conservative population of this city. Not only democrats, but a large class of republicans, the entire old-line whig remnant, and the anti-abolitionist section of the American party, go heart and soul with the gentlemen whose names we published, in part, yesterday, who have 80 boldly come to the res- cue, at a moment when rowdyism had invaded all of our local and State organizations, and the direst calamities impended over the country. It is for the merchants and intelligent men of the city, without distinction of party or occu- pation, to carry out what they have so auspi- ciously begun. The inactivity of past years should not disappear for a moment, but be re- placed by the utmost energy and exertion, un- til the victory is complete over the political heresies which threaten to rend the country to pieces, and which have already undermined its well-being. It would be a fatal error for the gentlemen who have taken this matter in hand to falter now, although we do not anticipate such a calamity. A eall should be at once issued for a public meeting—one of those mass meetings of merchants, from which rowdyism is excluded, where the frosty headed experience of many years does not fear to appear, and which carries its voice and influence to the re- motest corners of the Union. The respectability of the whole city will be there; the first speak- ers of the State will take pride in co-operating with such an assemblage; and a fiat will go forth, againgt rowdyism, profligacy and plun- der, on the one hand, and Sewardite disunion- ism on the other, which will be the doom of both for a long time to come. i Bishop Onderdonk and Protestant Deve- lopement. The Diocesan Convention that held its session in this city last week made a most important movement in church practice, and the House of Bishops that meets in Richmond to-morrow will be called upon to approve or disapprove of it. The question has been pretty well ven- tilated in the secular and religious press of the country for several years past, and is a familiar subject to the whole community. A bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church was arraigned and convicted before his peers, some fifteen years ago, for having indulged in certain unchaste and immoral practices, caleu- lated to bring the church and the clergy into disrepute, and was, as a punishment therefor, destituted of his diocess. Ever since then he has submitted to his sentence, and the func- tions of his former office have been, and still are, performed by a provisional bishop. Under the sanction and with the aid of seve- ral of the leading clergymen of New York, a movement was recently set on foot and carried through—so far as the Diocesan Convention had power in the matter—to have the sentence annulled, the backslidings of the erring but penitent shepherd condoned, and himself placed once more in charge of the fold, or a portion thereof. It is the action of the Dioce- san Convention in regard to this subject which we regard as of such immense significance, and the public will look with much interest to the disposition which will be made of it by the House of Bishops, the court of last resort. It is to be remarked, however, in this connec- tion, that while the confession of Bishop Onder- donk is not fully up to the point, while he neither admits nor denies the justice of his sontonos, but indulges income gonorel declara- tions of his manifold sins and transgressions— declarations which the holiest and purest of men oftentimes make—neither is the pardon full nor the remission of punishment entire. No priest would accept the one as a full con- fession, nor would any penitent be satisfied with the other as complete absolution. There are reservations in both which detract from their general efficacy. The bishop regards the sentence which he has undergone as a just re- tribution for general, not for special backslid- ings, and his judges couple with their grant of pardon a secret provision that @e shall not in- sist on exercising the functions of his episco- pacy if restored, but shall agree to certain ar- rangements in regard to the dividing of the di- ocess, and the general distribution of powers and duties. In fact, the Diocesan Convention have notshown to Bishop Onderdonk that kind of mercy which ‘<Bleaseth bim that gives and him that takos.”’ As the confiteor is strained and incomplete, so is the absolution unchristian and hampered with oppressive conditions. But, nevertheless, this proposed restoration of Bishop Onderdonk is a curious movement in the history of the Protestant church. It is an assumption of the power of absolution from sin, which, however recognized in theory, has been rarely observed in the practice ef that church, Confession and absolution have hitherto been practised only in the Catholic church. The Protestants have ignored both, although form- ing part of their church ritual. This movement, however, is a return to first principles, and chimes in very appropriately with Mr. Bellows’ recent sermons on the suspense of faith. While the House of Bishops shall have the matter before them we recommend them to read and study the very striking and curious coincidences between the sermons of Arch- bishop Hughes and Rev. Mr. Bellows, as re- ported in the Heratp of Monday, 26th Septem- ber last. They will there find remarkable affi- nities of sentiment between these representa- tives of rival creeds; and they may thereby per- haps be strengthened in their merciful leanings toward Bishop Onderdonk. Henceforth con- fession and absolution may be grafted on the practice, as they are upon the ritual, of the Pro- testant church. Thus a new dogma is about to be established among Protestants, through the operation of the law of development, just as the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was cs- tablished among Catholics a few years ago. Progress is the law of existence, and thereis no reason why churches should not be as subject to it as are societies. We will look with great interest to the proceedings of the House of Bishops. Wuo Wants 10 Go To Cartrornta?—Three steamships—the Bakic, of the old Collins line the Northern Light and the St. Louis—-sail to-morrow for Aspinwall and San Juan, with passengers for California, They are taking passengers at all prices—some, we believe, as low as forty-five dollars for the through trip, in- cluding bed and meals. We daresay that some of the agents, if pressed, would take good look- ing men for nothing; and men who are not only good looking, but are politicians as well, and can use their fists, might get a trifle for going. So here is a chance for people who want a three months cruise and a sight of the blue Pacific. More Developements About the Rowdy | were guilty themselves, It is quite evident Scene at the Democratic Convention: We had supposed that the testimony in the case of the scene of riot and disorder which took p'ace at the Democratic Convention at Syracuse had been completely exhausted. But not so. There is more to come, and the last piece of evidence is the best, the clearest and the richest of all. We have heretofore publish- ed numerouscards and affidavits on the subject from the rowdies, shoulder-hitters, prize fight- ers and bruisers. Heenan, McCabe and Mur- phy have figured in our columns, and thrown a flood of light on what would otherwise have | been involved in obscurity. But the affidavit which we now subjoin is worth all the rest put together. It makes the whole matter as clear as noonday. Hitherto the question was only seen by the light of the moon. It is now illu- mined by the effulgence of the sun. It will be recollected that one Cornelius Wood pushed Stryker, the chairman of the ' rowdy Convention, off the platform, and this was charged on the Mozart Hall faction by the Regency and its organs, and the | statement was sent far and wide on the wings of the telegraph. The name of John C. Heenan was also mentioned as being en- gaged by the Mozart Hall party to break up the Convention. But Heenan came out in an aflidavit and showed that it was the Regency and the Tammany Hall leaders who hired the fighting men, and that as for himself he was the guest of Captain Rynders, who paid his bill, and was in the interest of the party opposed to Mozart Hall. And now, Cornelius Wood, who, it was alleged, had pushed down Stryker at the instigation of the Mozart Hall men, comes out in another affidavit declaring that he was in the interest of Tammany Hall and the Regency, a8 represented by Cagger and Fowler, and that in knocking down Stryker he knocked down the wrong man, and intended to lay low Mr. Al- vord, the. Chairman of the regular and rival Convention. From the former cards and affida- vits it also appeared, as through a glass darkly, that Captain Rynders enlisted and headed the fighting men for the Old Wigwam, though he published the other day a curious certificate which was beyond our comprehension. But Cornelius Wood settles the matter, and here is his affidavit :— AFFIDAVIT OF CORNELIUS WOOD, THE TAMMANY ROWDY WHO KNOCKED STRYKER OFF THE PLATFORM AT SYRACUSE. City and County of New York—Cornelins Wood, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that seeing 80 many false statements in the public press with reference to the occurrences at the late Democratic State Convention at Syrai and finding that injustice is done to m song by an act of his own, in which Mr. John Str pushed from the platform at the Convention, he i8 inducod to make this deposition:—And deponent saith that he went to that Convention as a politician, to participate with others in tho excitement which always exists at such places; that, holding an office at the time under McIntyre, Byxbie & Co., the contractors for the government public store labor, he thought he could be of servi sent. And this deponent further says, that he received a ticket to enter the hall where the Convention was held from a person whom he knew to belong to the political interest opposed to Mayor Wood; that the ticket was sign- ed by Peter Cugger,and that he had reason to,believe was sent to him by Peter Cagger or Isaac V. Fowler, and that he considered himself a8 belonging to a party of men who int vd to have « fight and break up the Convention if directed to do so, but in which the deponent did not in- tend to participate. And this deponent further says, that when in Wieting Hall, after the chairman was made, great confusion and noise took place; that Captain Ryn- ders commenced tho row, threatening to beat some of tho New York delegates; that during the disturbance this deponent resolved to go upon the platform and push the man off; that this nt did so, supposing at the time that he was doing right, and getting rid of the man who had no right to act as chairman of the Convention. And this deponent further says, that if he had known that he was doing wrong he would not have done as he did; that he has no doubt it was tho intention of the person who told him to go and push the chairman off the platform, that he should push Mr. Alvord off, and not Mr. Stryker, and that he did not know one from the other, and supposed he was aiding the Cugger side of the ques- tion in what ly did. Aud this depouent further says, that Be does nét Know Mayor Wood pérsonally; that he had no connection with him before or at the Convention, and that he is not in any mannor connected with the Mozart Hall political organization or Mr. Wood. CORNELIUS WOOD. Sworn to this first day of October, 1859. Joun J. ANam vexe, Notary Public. This is equally edifying and amusing. The candor of the Tammany rowdy is admirable. He is not ashamed to own up that he was the man who knocked down one of the chairmen. The only thing he is ashamed of is that he made such a blunder as to tip over the wrong man. For the-mistake he is so sorry that if he could gain access to an Episcopal Convention he would seek absolution for it side by side with Bishop Onderdonk. Like Mr. Heenan, he eculd not bear the idea of having his name identified with his political foes and of desert- ing his friends in the hour of their need. He was, therefore, “induced to make this deposi- that the rowdyism in Wieting Hall is brought home to the twin brothers—Tammany Hall and the Albany Regency—the Coal Hole playing second fiddle to the Slaughter house. Nor are Cagger & Co., who issued the tickets to the shoulder-hitters for the rowdy Con- vention, content with this performance, They have since issued begging circulars in which they have the audacity to ask trom re- spectable men sums of money, varying from $100 downwards, to carry out the treavherous schemes of their rowdy convention. They want the money to support and circulate their campaign journal, which is so impotent and | imbecile that it cannot support and circulate itself. But thoy will not find so many dupes as | they expected. The general answer to them | will be, that as they have managed to carry out two frauds at their own expense, let them | carry out the third also at their own cost, and without dipping their fingers into other men’s | pockets. John C, Heenan and Cornolius Wood have been capital Marplots to their base de- signs, SLAVERY IN THE TeRRITORIES—TuEe Pour - | ctans Beroacep.—Our Presidential politicians, | North and South, democratic and opposition, | are all at sixes and sevens on the subject of sla- very in the Territories, one ef the very simplest of constitutional questions, W.H. Seward and other republican leaders confend that, while Congress may and should exclude or abolish slavery in the Territories, it has no authority to recognise slavery in any Territory, inasmuch as slavery is only a local or sectional affair, while freedom is national, and the underlying principle of the constitution. Gov. Wise, on the other hand, maintains that it is the duty of Congress to protect slavery in the Territories, and that the federal constitution limits the sove- reignty of Congress to this duty of protection. Mr. Douglas holds that Congress has no power to meddle with slavery in the Territories at all, but that the absolute jurisdiction over the sub- ject belongs to the people of a Territory as to the people of a State. Now, “who shall decide when such doctors disagree?” The Hon. Wm. C. Smedes, an op- position member of the Mississippi Legislature, has undertaken to settle the question, Ina printed letter upon the subject, which lies before us, Mr. Smedes, resting his case upon the Dred Scott decision, takes the ground that there is nothing in that decision, nor in any opinion of the Supreme Court, “which in the remotest degree suggests either the power or the duty in Congress to protect slavery in the Territories;” but as Judge Taney has proved the right of the slaveholder to set- : tle with his slave property in any Territory of the Union, “all that slavery wants in the Tef- ritories is to be let alone.” He admits, how- ever, that the Territorial authorities, by tax- ation, &c., may practically exclude slavery; but to guard against this difficulty he proposes that “the Territories be organized on the basis that they shall neither legislate for nor against slavery.” But in this view of the matter this new doe- tor stumbles, like all the rest, in denying or abridging the sovereignty of Congress. If Congress may require neutrality on the part of the Territorial authorities, why may they not be required to admit or exclude slavery? Thus all these constitutional doctors fail to meet the case. And the opinion of any one doctor may be pronounced as good as that of any other, where each makes up his theory from con- venient inferences and special pleadings. For j our part we repudiate all these special plead- ings, and fall back upon the text of the con- stitution and its practical interpretations from the organization of the government down to this day. We thus find the sovereignty of Con- gress and the executive government at Wash- ington over the Territories affirmed in every possible form, including the subject of slavery. ‘We thus assume, from the various acts of the fe- deral government, running through three-quar- ters of a century, that this Territorial sove- reignty of Congress within the republican land- marks of the constitution is absolute, and that the exercise of this sovereignty on the subject of slavery in the Territories is simply a matter of discretion. tion.” Like Mr. Heenan, too, he went to the We can find nothing in the constitution, nor Convention of his own accord—for the love of | C@0 we find anything in the Dred Scott decision, the fun—“to participate with others in the ex- | to sustain the platform of either Seward, Wise, citement which always exists at such places.” | Douglas or Smedes upon this question of A row to rowdies is as attractive as a | Slavery in the Territories. On the other hand, dead deer to hungry dogs, who are lured | Upon the broad question of expediency and from all quarters by the delicious scent. | Congressional discretion, we do not know of In ao democratic Convention with which | 20y better policy to pursue than that recom- Tammany Hall has anything to do, a rowdy mended by Judge Black—non-intervention, and is as much in his element as a fish in the water. | 92 appeal when necessary from Territorial le- But though Cornelius Wood went to Syracuse | gislation to the federal courts, up to the Su- in obedience to his own pugnacious propensi- | Preme Court at Washington. In the meantime ties—like Carleton’s Irish tailor, “blue-mould- | the subject is in the Hands of the politicians, ed for want of a batin’,” when he dragged his | and it would not be surprising if, upon their “pig coat” after his heels through the fair, | Various abstractions, they should succeed in hoping that somebody would tread on it as the | 8iving us three or four candidates and parties signal for a set-to—yet Cornelius shrewdly and | for the next Presidency, = sagaciously “thought he could be of service | Exprostoy or A Pousticat, STEAM ENorNE.—It to be present.” He held office, he says, at the | has been some time a proverb that the pro- time, under McIntyre, Byxbie & Co., in the gov- | fessor of a game is very liable to be the se- ernment stores, and he was ready to do them 2 | verest loser by it. And though, from earliest good turn. Now, it is well known that this | youth to the most vigorous manhood, instances firm, who are supporters of Dickinson, made a | of the verity of the old saw, in little things as solemn league and covenant on his behalf with | wel] ag great ones, are of daily occurrence, yet the Regency to get half of the de'egates, and | the sufferers continue to growl asif it were they thus all became harmonious and loving, | some new thing. A notable instance of this is like Barnum’s “ Happy Family.” They united | found in the fuss which some of the papers are against Mozart Hall, and, as a matter of course, making about the appointments of registrars Cornelius Wood joined in with heart and hand. under the new eléction law. The makers of And he got a ticket signed “ Peter Cagger,” | this enactment should not be the first to abuse which was sent to him by that individual or by | its practical working. The man who invented Isaac V. Fowler. He thus “considered himself | tne guillotine suffered decapitation by it, hut as belonging toa parly of men who intended | we never heard that he complained of the in- to have a fight and break up the Convention if | ,trument. The fact about the Registry law is directed to do so.” Deponent further says that | that it was put through the last Legislature by “Captain Rynders commenced the row.” He | the black republicans, who at the time cooked would be a bad soldier who would hold back | the Board of Supervisors so as to have, as they in battle when his captain went into the melee; thought, in any event, an even chance with and when the Captain of the Empire Club| he democrats in that body. As tho “commenced the row,” that was the signal for | Supervisors were to appoint five hundred regis- his “pacificators” to “go in like lemons.” | trars, for whose services the city was to pay Accordingly, Cornelius thought the time had } :wenty-five thousand dollars, the republicans then come for him to play hispart; but in his hot | noped to get enough of the now patronage to haste and excitement he pushed down Stryker | strengthen themselves in the city. The demo- instead of Alvord, not knowing the persons of | crats, of course, kept a sharp lookout for a either, and thus marred the whole plot. chance to turn this part of the law to their own The Regency are caught in their own trap. | purpose, When the time came for the appoint- But with their ready tact in such matters, they | mont of registrars two of the black republican turned over this mishap to account, and charged | supervisors were absent from their posts, and the act of rowdyism on their opponents, and sent telegraphic despatches to that effect to all the New York papers. The exposure of the falsehood by the affidavit of Cornelius Wood, their own instrument, is now completo. This is of a piece with their tactics in the case of Governor Wise’s letter, charging upon other men the treachery and dishonor of which they one of them did not return until after the work of appointing the registrars, which extended over nearly the whole of two nights, had been finished. The democrats were all at their posts, and of course appointed nearly all their own men, keeping the disbursement of the monoy in their own hands. It was purely a matter of