The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1859, Page 4

4 IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON OUR DISPUTE WITH ENGLAND. TERMS OF THE BOUNDARY TREATY. Our Clear Right to San Juan Island. The Hudson Bay Company Be- hind the Scenes. amnennninnnneennt PROBABLE RETURN OF MR. DALLAS, ae, Re, re SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD. Wasuinatox, Nov, 5, 1859, Thave satisfactorily ascertained that though diplomatic rules, and perhaps prudential considerations, prevent the State Department from disclosing the exact state of affairs to the public, yet it is believed that serious difficul- ties may, and probably will, grow out of the dispute bo- tween the United States aud England in reference to the * island of San Juan, or Bellevue, in the Straits of Juan de Foca. It is generally conceded that General Harney was entirely right (and not “rasp,” or ‘procipitate,” or “he ’ or “imprudent,” as British partisans have called hui in taking possession of the island for the pro- tection of the United States citizens there, and for tho maintenance of the rights of this country to the istand, under the Pakenham treaty of June 15, 1846. That treaty was negotiated at Washington by Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of State, to close the 54 degrees 40 miautes controversy, It was ratified by the coastitutional ma- jority of the Senate of the United States. The (irst article is in these words:— From the point on the forty-ninth paratle! of north latitude, where the boundary Jaid down in and conventions between ‘the United Staves 3 Britain term . the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of her Britannic Majesty shall be coutinued westward along the said forty- ninth parallel of noth latitude ts the miidiie of the channel which separates the continent from Vi Island, and thence southerly through the miclite of the snia channel, and of Fuca’s Straits, the Pacile Ocean: Provided, however, That the navigation of the whole of the said ‘chanye! and straits, south of the forty-ninth parallel of norih latitude, remain free and open to both parties. It will be recollected that the United State that treaty, always claimed Vancouve 2a, but eon- sented by that treaty to relinquish its claim. The sole object of the clause designating the line which T have ftaticisod ‘was to separate Vancouver’s Island from the continent, and to exclude it from the British retinquishment, and to include it in the relinquishment of the United States, by which the 54 40 dispute was compromised. Vancouver was claimed by the United States as appurtenant to the continent. Itisa well settled and universally received maxim of the jus gentium, that all islands contiguous to the mainland and naturally appurtenant to it arc regarded or- Ginarily as subject to the same political jurisprudence as anterior to NEW YORK FEPALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1960.-TRIPLE Gitar. reported, however, that recent hydrographical survey® Of the United States Const Survey officers and those of the British Admiralty show that one of these channels has a few inches of water in it more than that west of Bello- vue, Cuneede this to be so, even if such hydrographical surveys attest such fact, if the ginuous and nerrower channels winding amonget and through the emall islets cast of Bellovue and extending through to tho Washing- ton shore are the deepest, that fact in no degree alters the question, The recent discovery of such greater depth of water cannot afféct the treaty made upon a different pre- sumption. On the contrary, the treaty is to be construed to conform to what was intended by tho parties upon what was then known to them, If any of these inside channels were interded, they would have been designated by the name found for each, on the old English and Spanish maps, and not left to subsequent ascestalument as to depth of water, &c., without any stipulation providing for such ascertain- ment. Mark! The suggestions are based upon a conces- sion arguendo of the hypothesis assumed by Lord John Russel, that the channel between Bellevue and Vancouver is not a continuance of the Fuca Straits, which assump- tion 18, however, in my judgment, the very glimax of di. plomatic impudence. 1 learn that the everlasting Oswald, or red line map of old George III, would, if produced, settle this question at once in tavor of the United States, and hence it has been kept back by the British govern- ment evor since the Oregon treaty. Mr. Everett, it is said, has notes of it, and also the late Louis McLane obtained an anapection of it which General Cass has memoranda of. It is utterly out of the question for the United States to relinquish Bellevue. It is essential that it should be re- tained and fortified for the protectiqn of the other United ‘States littoral isles and the coasts of Washington Territory in that vicinity. You may rety upon it that the present administration have no idea of relinquishing it. Mr. Duchanan drafted the treaty of 1846, and declares thereis no ambiguity in it; that he understood its effect perfectly, and that it was intended to include Bellevue. General Cass, it will be recollected, voted in the United States Senate against the ratification of this treaty, because it relinquished Van- couver Island and betwegn 49 degrees and 54 degrees 40 minutes. It would be cfMMbus:to present a record of the vote on thattreaty at this juncture. British bullying aud hombuggery will not answer any purpose in this affair, except to exasperate the American peoplo and induce a more determined and sammary course by the administra- tion, I bave unquestionably reliable authority for the fact that Palmerston constrained Lord John Russell, against his wishes, to write a most impudent despatch in reference to General Harney’s conduct; but upon its re- ceipt, General Cass, under the instruction of the Presi- dent, sent an answer in which he gave Palmerston “a Roland for his Oliver.” In a few weeks all this will come out. Lord Lyons is sorely grieved and perplexed at the aspect of things. He is a plain, quiet, sober, unobtrusive Presbyterian parson-looking personage, ‘in old bache- lor, neither popular nor unpopuiar, It is report- ed that he does not fully agree with his govern- ment in their course on this question, bat, with the gallant Admiral Fanshaw, condemns the conduct of the Hudson’s Bay agent (Douglass), who has made most of the trouble. The President will submit the correspondence to Con- gress at the opening of the session, and will ask for means—money and men—to enable him to defend the the mainland, or, in other words, as belonging to it, The right toa continent or toa large island, founded on prior discovery and occupation, draws with it the right to adjacent islands. A State is regarded, in the absence of any épeciflc relinquishment of said right, as owning islands contiguous to her shores, because such own. * ership is often imperiously necessary for the protection of such shores and enforcement of her laws in time of peace, ns well asof war. Mere convenience is a sound basis for such right. It is true Great Britain has not always observed the laws of nations in this respect—aod her conduct. with respect to the islands in the Bay of Fandy, even littoral islands, close under the coast of Maine, and one (Campa- bello) at the very entrance of an important seaport—but it is nevertheless a sound and just rule. The enforcement of the revenue laws, and health or quarantine laws of a nation, and of its police laws in timo of peace, often de- mand the concession of such ownership Jurisdiction, 3 coasts in ax ‘as urgently as the defence and protection of time of war, The British authorities, it is said, urge that the right to Bellevue sbould be yielded to them because, ina naval and military point view, it commands the Straits of Fuca, in their course to the Gulf of Georgia. This argument, however, cuts both ways. The Guif of Georgia is partly below the boundary line of 49 deg. and on our side, and we have equal right to the key to its connection with the Fuca Straits as the British can huve on the score of reasonableness and propriety, and greater when it is considered that Bellevue commands as well all the smaller islands cast of it and between it and the shores conceded to be owned by us. send you an engravea official map mate by General ‘Tilton, the Surveyor General of Washington Territory in 1857, which accurately delineates the Fuca Straits and the Jocation of Bellevue or San Juan Islands, and plainer than any other map or chart that has come under my notice. ‘You will perceive by the map that Bellevue is clearly and unquestionably a “littoral island,’* naturally appurtenant ‘to the main land of Washington Territory. 1t is the out- Gide of one of a group of smaller istands in close proximity to the shore, and it is a much greater distance from Vaa- couver than from any of the other islands behind itself, or ‘than any of those islands are from the main land of Wash- ington. There are several channels between those small islands (some sixteen or seventeen in number), all of which channels have distinct and known names by which they have been long recognized—as, for instance, the Rosa- rio Strait—whilst the outside channel separating Beilevuo from Vancouver, has ever been regarded and known asa continuation of the Fuca Straits mentioned in the treaty, and which, as before observed, ran into the Guif of Georgia, some twelve or fifteen miles south of the British | boundary line. ‘You will perceive algo that Bellevue is beyond a marine Ieagne, or three miles, or longest range of cannon sh which some publicists contend is the limit prescribed by the laws of nations as the jurisdiction naturally appurte nant tothe adjacent mainland, sometimes designated as iit. toral covereignty.”” Great Britam has, in disputes with the United States heretofore, urged the empirical doctrine three miles against us, and it is fair that she should ab: it now. But the terms of the treaty are clear, plain and 1 Diguous. In the first place, the term “channel” employed in the treaty clearly applies to the waters in the Georgia, opposite the forty-ninth degree tude and neurly twenty miles north of the no: end of Bellevue Island, and the designation “middie of the Fuen Straits” is the clause governing this question. The waters between Vancouver and Bellevue are : of Juan de Faca”’—so all the geographical w:t'orities <a. If this position be correct thére is no room for con: st, Bat concede this view to be incorrect, and thatthe term | channel’? is the controlling word. The line preseribod by the treaty is under such construction a line in the “middle of the channel whigh separates the continent from Vancouver’s Island,’ not one which separates the continent from Belleyue Island or the other islands adjacent to the coast of the coutinent and naturally ap. purtenant to it. The question is susceptible of « plain and simple solution upon principles of common sense, and all the obfuscation and obscuration of diplomacy cannot make it otherwise. When on Bellevue Island, are youon the western side of “the middle of the channel which Separates the continent from Vancouver's Island?’ This is the sole question. Is there not stilla “channel,” nay, ’ between you and Vasc Now, the words “main” or ‘principal’ or “chief,” ure left out of the treaty: no description of ‘the chanuel’’ meant to be the line except that it is the one “which sparates the continent from Vaucouver’s Island.” If auy of the channels or straits eastward of Bellevue had been fheant, it;would have been designated by its well known name, contained in the maps extant more than three-quarters of a century past. The line is called “the channel” in the treaty. The prominent object was to fix the line be- tween Vancouver and the continent. Vancouver only was intended to be excluded from the territory retained by the United States, and to be relinguished by the United States to Grent Britain. No other island is mentioned. ‘There is no express clause by carrying*with Vancouver Ysland the relinguisbment of other islauds appurtenant to it a8 littoral islands. If there had even been Buch clause Bellevue or San Juan, as represented, is not within three miles milus of Vancou: ‘r, OF aay Mttoral ‘island of Vancouver, and is not in aay. other Fespect or quality naturally or geographically an appar- tenant of Vancouver, as u littoral isle of: ofhorwise: and the very reverse is the fact in reference to its relation to the coast of the mainland of Washin, the admitted Littoral isles of Wastin, Bellevue and the main coast. There are, it is trae, ave. ral channels running between those islands: none, how ever, balf the width of that separating Hellevue from ‘Vancouver; and as to all of them, they are nota cannon shot in width, and do not hold one-fith of the volume of Water phat is bell hy the other wees ok Deora, yp a jgton Territory and eon situate between rights of our country, and uphold the honor of its flag, at all hazards and to the last extremity. And it will be given to him. General Scott's visit to the Pacific had as much reference to the settlement of this dispute by the ultima ratio as by diplomacy, and hence, too, the recent Jarge accessions te our navalforce in the Pacific. We shall be prepared. You need not be surprised if Mr. Dallas comes home betore the holidays, or early in the session of Congress; but this dispute, unless Palmerston yields, is ope that cannot be allowed to rest unsettled, and upon a mere cessation of diplomatic inter- couree. It is of a nature demanding other measures, and their immediate adoption. Unlese it is adjusted speedily it will swell into difficulties not of very ready adjustment by peaceable means. It is an error to suppose the people of the United States have bad memories. They will not brook anything from England, and less from Palmerston than any other British minister, The whole of this dim. culty has originated with Palmerston’s dislike of the United States, and his encouragement of the Hudson Bay Company officials in their audacious insolencs to our peo- ple on the Pacific. Ever since that company tailed, in con- Junction with certain lobbymen here, toswindle the United States out of an odd million or two for the purchase of their pretended “possessory rights’? in Washing- ton and Oregon territories, they have been striving to make trouble and get the two countries by the ears, When Lord Derby was in power they received little en- couragement, and on @@e contrary, with great sagacity and patriotic foresight steps were taken to abolish the con. cern. There is no doubt that this odious and unprincipled corporation has been at the bottom of many of the Indian outrages committed in the vicinity of the boundary line. We learn there is proof of some of its employés having in- cited the Indians to make predatory incursious oa this side of the line, and even accompanied them in such raids. ‘That will be a sad and sorry day for Palmerston on which he resolves to proceed to extreme measures to gus- tain this infamous corporation in its nefarious courses. He will find that within six months after it is known on the Pacific coast that war exists with England, every foot of British possessions on that coast will be under the stars and stripes. One-half the population of Now Al- Dion and Vancouver detest and despise the Hudson Bay Company and its semi-governmental officials, executive and legislative. There are a goodly number of Yankees intermixed with them. All this is well understood, from | San Diego to Birch Bay, and 20,000 volunteers can be raised by the blowing of a whistle not more shrill than that of Rhoderic Dhu, and who, fully equipped and mar- shalled for war and agriculture and gold digging, would | prospect over all the Fraser river country in less than another month, and establish squatter sovoreignty, and send Governor Douglass home by the Saskatchewan route in double quick time. We shall regain 54 deg. 40 min., lost by the treaty of 1846. And itis quite certain that the people of every section of the United States will not regard at this crisis a war with England with disfavor if entered upon for just cause. You may rely upon the fact that every member of the present administration will stand up firmly for the rights and honer of oor country, and if Palmerston and Russell | persist in te ¢ course, if they dare to face the British yeo- manry, the Britieh merchants and British manufacturers, 4 with them the three millions of “British operatives” with the United States will maké laborless +0: months, @ warlike contest is sure to ensue dur- ming winter or spring. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasiincton, Oct. 29, 1859. The Organisation ship, the Clerkship and the Public Printing. ‘The organization of the House of Representatives is the all-engrossing topic amongst the gang of lobbyists, wire- pullers and politicians now gathered here. Up to the Har- per’s Ferry affair, the republicans felt, or at all events expressed the utmost confidence in being able to carry the organization. Now they are somewhat less hopeful, but they are by no means despairing. Taey will, of course, have to cateh a certain number of “Americans” apd anti-Lecomptonites if the majority rule be persisted in. They calculate, however, upon being abie to make terms, 80 a8 to secure Briggs and Clarke, of New York; Davis, of Maryland, and Etheridge, of Tennesseb, by Jet- ting the Americans have the doorkeeper, and giving 1: vis and Etheridge prominent positions apon commity Clarke, of New York, will be given the chairmanship of the Post Office Committee if he demands it, and it is be- lieved the bait will be eufficient, on account of Clarke's connection with the house of Vanderbili. As for Haskin, of New York, he is devoted to For- ney. The two prominent republican aspirants for the Speakership are Sherman, of Ohio, and Grow, of Pennsylvania. Either of these gentlemon is perfectly will- ing to see Forney elected Clerk, if by the agroement they can secure the two or three votes which that ex-Kitchen | Cabinet Minister boast he controle. One of those votes ts Hickman, of Pennsylvania, the other Haskin. It will be seen that if these calculations aro correct, the republicans can elect their Speaker without mach diffloulty, and without the aid of the Dougias Mlinois members. The re publicans proper number 118. Add the goven above named votes, and it gives them 129 votea—on + nore than makes up a majority of the Hours, But the plan is first to try and gota resolution atopted establishing the plurality raly. » will enable the Amer: i mitting themselves. dir Speaker, whilst they ¢ on the ground of desiring to The republicans would aise pr would relieve them from the roanousibility of tion of the House, as they would represeat in ths organiza tion really @ minority. Acting upon (his plan, the ft first a caucus of ry the republicans wil but sinply aa tilaty for the Speakership, leaving the other offices open as their stock in trade, Will then agree to neoept the Doorkceper trom tho Amoricans, and the Clerk from the anti-Lecomptonites, and feel certain in cacryiag tho Speaker by one or othor of the plavs indicated. Shor- man’s agents havo been basily engagod in travelling all over the Northern States canvassing the members, and Grow’s friends have been no teas active. Suerman's ad- vooutes press his claims on the ground that lo is conspicuous as & rampant, ultra free soiler than Grow, and therefore more likely 16 unite the “opposites Wis favor. Grow’s friends urge his cluimsoa the ple ho was the standard bearer ef the party in tho contest for the Speakership last Congress, whon it w: f with the Knowledge he coald not be elects, that having stood’ the brant of the attic, he i titled to the laurels of victory; that his anteceds democratic in everything but ‘the nigger question, ant that if the republican party fanotto be tmerely. tho abot tion section of the detunct whig party, with anew name, those members of it who have democratic antecedents should be promivently recoguized. ‘The great object, of course, of the republicans in getting tho Speakorship is to have tho control of the cominitteus, aad thus make capital for the Prosidontial campaign. With 4 r0. publican Speaker all tho committees would be constructed witha majority of repubticans upon thet. It is sheirinten- tion tocall for commitios of investigation vpon matters counected with all the departments; aud the country will be flooded with documents to demonstrate that the demo” crats are the most corrupt scamps in existence; when the truth is, that if the republicans can show a clean record, it is simply because they have wot had equal. opportanisies at the public crib. The Clerkship of the House, now that the book contracts have been done away with, and the othor stoaling contri- vances guarded against, is not worth so much as formerly, when Forney made, a8 was alleged, a hundred thousand dollars or more out of an office ostensibly and logully wort six thomaud dollars, But still there is doabtlem wi scope for an enterprising and ingenious man de- sirovs o% turning an Lanes penny Upon no other hypo- thesis can you account for Tush and scramble made for the place. Here i# an office, thesalary of which is but three thousand dollars a year, and which lasts but two Years, with scores of applicants who are willing toexpond more than the whole salary to insure success. Surely here is a miracle of patriotism—a perfect avaianchy of dis- interestediness and philanthropy, Wendell, since his return from his lobby pilgrimage to the Northern and Weatern States, boasts loudly ot his coull- dence in securing the priuting. But Wendell is nothing but a boaster, who owes his former success tothe lavish expenditure of his gold and the no less libe ral use of a baser , but one of great mo- ment in this region—brass, Wendell is perfectly un- scrupulous in his lobby transactions. He is the head of the lobby, and hand and glove with Tuurlow Weed, Farmer Abell, Matteson and that set. Yet, notwithstand- the itomense profits of the printing and the large lobby foes he has received, it is believed he 1s not rich by any means. Ho ridicules the idea of Rives being abie to att the printing, and boasts around the barrooms that he will pay fifty dollars for a vote whore 3 would grumble at fifty cents, and that as he understands the ropes he 1s sure of success. As he declares he has always paid well for anything ho has received, tho public will be able to discover whom he has influenced by marking the names of those who support him. Wendell also boasts that he has the only printing oftice in tho country capable of doing the work, and that therefore he can'make hisown terms with any one who should be elected printer, after the manner of the Chovaliers Steed- man and Banks, Congress can guard against this by elect- ing responsible men. Of course, if they choose to select needy adventurers, they do so knowing that the job is to be turned over to Wendell. Rives, who is a sly old codger, well acquainted with the ropes, though he bas usually confined his lobbying to getting well paid for the Congressional Globe, has been engaged during the summer in adding to his printing office, and declares. bis ability to proceed at once and execute all the work of Congress. He says that the day for printing huge volumes for Co has gone by, and that there is no necessity for su establishment as Wendéll’s, that he will agree to do the work for 20 per cent lees than is now paid, and will give ample security for the performance of ‘his contract. Rives is rich, and can give satisfactory security for all he undertakes. He moreover declares that sooner than Wendell shall continue to execute the printing, he (Rives) will do it for any one else who may be lected at cost. Itis quite a pretty quarrel as it stands; and I believe it grew out of an attempt on Wendell’s part t» interfore in somo way with Rives’ job—the reporting and publishing the do- bates. Between the two the public need feel very little interest. Both dosire to get their hands into the Treasury, and Wendell’s friends say the only difference betweon them is, that Wendell is willing to divide his plunder, whilst Rives sticks his in bis breeches pocket and buttons it closely. As far, therefore, as the poor public is con- cerned, it makes very little difference whichjof the patriots gets the job. As the time draws near, the different actors will become more visible to the naked eyo; and I will keep you advised as to the pi of theseveral conspirators. "I have said nothing in this letter about the democratic aspirants for the Speakership, but it will be time enough to speak of them when their chances look a little more brilliant than at present. Wasumcton, Oct. 31, 1859. Harper's Ferry Excitement—The Forbes Correspondence— Governor Wise's Course and Declarations—The Trial. The intense interest which the citizens of Washington take in the trial of Ossawatomie Brown and his followers at Charlestown, Virginia, may be best inferred from the rush for the New York Hxararp on the arrival of the evening mail. In less than half an hour after itis re- ceived not a copy can be obtained of any of the news dealers. During the past weak I have known of repoated cals for back numbers, but not one could be had. Our citizens are fast finding out that the only way» secure the Hxnap for some time to come is to subscrive for it reguiarly. This is also an evidence of the cordial ap- proval of the course which the Hrraco has pursued in regard to the attempt of the republican party to strike down the rights of our Southern fellow citizens by vio- lence and bloodshed. The letters of Colonel Hugh Forbes, implicating Seward, Sumner, Hale, Wilson and others, created a profound sensation, coupled as they were with the bold editorial remarks charging directly home to these parties their misdeeds and treasonable conspiracy against the constitution and the Union. There were afew who professed to doubt the reliability of Colonel Forbes, ‘but when they had examined the developements with at- tention to the minutest details, they were forcibly led to conclude that the statements thus made public are entitled to full belief, no matter how galling to tho sensibility of the political adherents of the traitorous leaders of black republicanism to have the fact bronght home to them that the true interests of the country have been lost sight of and an attempt made to overthrow the institutions of what they affect to regard as the weaker portion of the con- federacy. Atonce the data upon which Seward founded his “irrepressible conflict’’ document was perceived—at once his visit to Earope and the Pacitic tour of the white hat- ted philosopher of the Zrijune were understood. Here. after, whenever any of the great leaders of that se i party make a pilgrimago to Rome or the Pyramids, another raid of the “Ossawatomie republicans” will be anticipated on our Southern borders. And, hereafter, nothing that these compromised leaders may perform will dissipate the ignominy that at taches to their past deeds. The denials of Joshua R. Giddings and Horace Grecley have no weight with the Union-ioving and conservative citizens of the District of Columbia. The speeches of Wilson and the editorials of the New York Evening Post, Boston Liberator and Albany Exening Journal, only serve to fx more deeply in their minds the complicity of black repablicanisni with the practical “irrepressible conflict” of Ossawatomie Browa, Speeches may be read at the approaching session of'Con- gress by the hour, and tons of abolition documents distri- buted, but the sentiments of the people here, as well as throughout the Union where the heroism and patriotism of our forefathers are cherished, will remain unaffected by apy explanations that may bi made. In this connection it may be well again to bear witness to the growing popularity of Governor Wise, who has proved himself to be a faithful guardian of the rights of the people, Stil, there is one point upon which there is a ifference of opinion. The declaration of Governor Wise that he would not have given up the prisoners to be tried by the federal authorities, if the President had demanded them and the jurfsdiction of the United States had been complete, touched no responsive chord of the public fee!- ing here.’ To have acted. upon this resolution, Gor. Wise would have placed himself in a position of defiance tothe constitution and the government, and established a dan- gerous precedent. This hasty remark has been attributed to the impulse of the moment, when that distinguished gentleman was smarting under the wanton murder and wrong inflicted upon the people who have entrusted him with the protection of their lives and theie rights; and it is believed that he would himself have been the first to bave corrected it, and to have invoked due obedience to the compact of the federal Union had such a re boon required by the exigencies of the occasion: Wit the exception of this, his entire course is heartily approved and ‘commended, His prompt action in sending a requisition for Captain Cook won ap plause only equalled by that called forth by:the equally prompt action of Governor Packer, of Pennsylvania, for delivering that blood-stamed outlaw. General testimony is borne to the impurtial justice which is being accorded to the prisoners at Charlestown, Happily for the future peace of the country, the greatest care bas beon taken that there may be no foundation for charges of unfairness in the trial of the conspirators. ‘Thero are some parties, however, who affect to think that | the ends of justice would have been quite as well attained by grauting the delay desired for obtaining counsel, but they are not numerous and express themselves rather fm- ploringly than with a firm conviction of the coundness of their pleading. If Ossawatomie Brown's physical _con- dition had really been such that his physicians could have testified that he was unfit to attend the sittings-‘of the Court, and his counsel had not been written to and allowed sufficient time to arrive, thon it is conceded that there would have been some basis for a postponement, But it cannot be denied that the first telegraphic reports ot Brown's captare showd ‘been regarded ag invita. Von enough to his friends to immediately despatch coun- fel for his defence. If Joshua R. Giddings, Wentell Philips, Gerrit Smith aad the hosts of abolition fanatics had not been so much taken up with their own compli- city with the prieoners, perhaps a movoment would at once have beon set on foot for senting counsel to Charles. town. if Senator Wilson apd Horace Greeley had not been so entirely engroased making speeches and: printiay editorials for political effect, Brown would never have ha’ the pretext for denouncing his trial asa mockery of jus tice. Notwithstanding all this, however, the comluct of Ossawatomie Brown, since his arraigninent before the guardiansof the law, is looked upon as a mere trick to gain time; for even the young lawyer from Boston, Mr. Hoyt, who hus displayed more zeal in the cause than the cld: of the flock, raises his voice to proclaitn his satisfaction with the efforts of Messrs. Green and Botts, the connse! assigned to Brown by the Court. In view of this state of things, ana to relieve the State of Virginia trom the dif cuities by which she is surrounded in consequence of the non-obtainment of foreign counsel for her prisoners, it roust give universal satisfaction to our citizens to reflect that, however taray the Boston homanftarians have eeemed, they hayg at least eequred efficient counsel the efforts of an agent here. It is understood that thre the got offices of Montgomery Btnir, Keq., Chilton and Magruder were inituced to become counsel for the prisoners, and on Saturday jast took part in the proceed; of the Court, thus removing the last shadow of complaint from the possession of Brown. Now, itis presumed the Court willno louger be impeded by of injustion and oppression, In the mean- time there is no lack ofeigilance on the part of the go vernment officers, srutiny of the doc imonts ia their posscesion is daily continued, and the convictions of the public here are that.at no distant day all implicated as ac- ceasories before the fact will be brought to trial in the federal metropolis. ‘The editorial ia the HeRaLy of Saturday morning in ra- lation to the final settlement of the presvat disturbed oo tion of the country on the slavery question has attracts considerable attention fa political circles. i Whilst a considerable number agree that the restoration of the Missouri compromise would be perfgstly feasible unit per- haps result im peace and harmony tothe Union, thoy main- tain that this tranquillity would bo secared solely by the racrifice of the constitutional rights’ of Southern citizens to enter the common Territories with their proper ty onan equal fuoting with tho citizens of tho free States. In their Qinion, expedisncy aloue cold dictate such a course. With tho Missouri compromise re-estab- lishod, the concession would bo allogetber oa the part of the South. The North would gain free territory, whilst tho South would yleld bor constitutional rights over a por- tion of torritory now equally open tw settiemont from both sections of the Union, an be content te permit North- ern emigrants to enter Southern territory, and if suffloient in numbers to wrest itfrom her. Itis’ maintained ‘here that the time has come to decide whether. the South is ta have equal rights in the confeaeracy or suffer invasion from lawless bands of fanatical adherents to Seward’s “irrepressible conitict” doctrine. If Giddings, at Philadel- phix, could proclaim himself ready tor the’ decisiun, so @au the good and true men of the South, i Wasmxc7on, Nov, 2, 1859. Removal of Capt. Meigs and its Reputed Cause—Sherman to be the Republican Candidate for Speaker—Scramble for the Offices—Mr. Appleton, dc. ‘The transfer of Captain Meigs from the superintendence | of the Capitol and Post office extensions yosterday mornin; created no little astonishment in political circles here. So en- ergetic and 80 often repeated had been the efforts of men of influence for the last three or four years to secure this result, and so successful bad Captain Meigs been in de- fending himself from all the charges brought against him, that but very fow indeed believed such an event possible. And even now our citizens are ag slow in believing the announcement as the black republicans were in crediting the outbreak of ‘Old Brown’ at Harper's Ferry to” any- thing more serious than a riot of the Armory workmon. ‘The causes which led to Captain Moigs’ downfall are said to be founded in his failure to settle his accounts. On his return from bis recent visit to Virginia to recruit his fail- ing health, the Secretary of War (it is reported) required Captain Meigs to retirn to tho construction fund the money (something like $50,000) used (it is said) in refit- ting the hall of the House of Representatives on his own responsibility, Beivg unable to do go, ho was. taken from the furthor superintendence of his work, aad Cap- tain Franklin, of the Lighthouse Board, appointed in his place. Another report says he was removed because he refused to obey an order of the War Department, What- over may havo led to his displacement, if nothing better be accomplished, (avd there is every reatou to believe the change will eifect wonders), it is conceded that at least one of the never-failing charges of extravagance in government expenditures has been cut off. ‘The black Tepublicans, beyond all peradventure, will unite on John Sherman, of Ohio, as their candidate for Speaker of the next House. That he will be elected is considered highly probable, as that party have deter- mined to follow up the ion =which they learned in the election of Banks, and yote for Sherman until opposition is finally wearied out. Grow was not ‘conservative enough for the co-operation of Southern op- position members, and Tom Corwin had avowed woo much ‘mpathy with the peculiar institution of the South to suit the notions of the majority of the black republican pha- x. The remaindor of the organization will undoubtedly turn out a scrub race—a scramble after the offices in the gift of the officers to be elected. The Chevalier Forney seems determined to win the clerkship, if combination and recom- bination effect will that object. It is now handed around among the black republican leaders and wire pullers as fact, it if they secure the vote of the “irrepressible con- flict” members of the House for the industrious Chova- lier, in return he will bring to their support the votes of six led and disorganized democrats. That inde- fatigable gentleman has let it be known somehow that he carries in his breeches pocket the votes of Mf Hickman and Swartz, of Pennsylvania; Haskin, Ci Rorpalis, of New York, and Davis, of Indiana. Al the source from which this entertaining little bit of gossip emanates should be considered reliable, still it is not credited to any extent in this community outside of the ranks of thos who are to be benefitted by it. It is regarded as quite possible that Messrs. Hiccman and Swartz may enjoy that enviable position, but that Messrs. Haskin, Clark and Davis will suffer such'a use to be made of their influence and importauce the knowing politicians in this community are slow to belive. Its no longer doubted that Hon. John Appleton, Assist- ant Sec: of State, has determined to accept a foreiza appointment, as he has sold his furniture and broken up housekeeping. For a long time past his health bas been quite delicate, ahd ho only remained in the Stato Depart- ment at the urgent solicitation of the President. Hon. John B. Haskin, of New York, was here on Mon- day. He had an interview with Judge Douglas in the morning, and left in the afternoon train for New York, Wasurnaron, Noy. 4, 1859. Hail Contractors and their Preemption Rights—Vacant Chairs in the Senate, céc. In the administration of the affairs of government, the executive departments are sometimes required to decide eases in which vast amounts in value, and ofton impor- tant principes, are involved, and frequently the public at large remains ignorant of such decisions. A matter of some importance, not only as to the amount of public property in question, but because of the light thrown upon the reckless practice of making land grants, ‘was recently decided by Mr. Wilson, then acting Commis. sioner of the Land Office. By acts of Congres of March 3, 1855, and March 3, 1857, pre-emptions to contractors carrying mails through territories west of the Mississippi were granted, for 640 acres every twenty miles, or 320 acres every ten miles, along the whole longth of ths routes to the Pacific. gives to the Buuertlold contract the pre-emption right to about 69,000 acres of lana, and to others in proportion. Now, not’ only is this an enormous amount of land to be pre-empted by one party, but such land is alwaysthe most valuable. The routeselected is invariably through the most available country, and where settlements must follow. Then theso stations, a or twenty miles, are mostly chosen with a view to the water courses, junction of streams, or some other features which are favorable for establishing town eiths, Thns, in the course of time, these pre-empted sections or half soc- tions must become very valuable—in most cases many times more valuable than the surrounding country. One of these mail contractors, from Missouri to New Mexico, I belleve, appreciating filly the valuecf these pro- emptions, and ~ acontractor asecond time for the same gervice, changed the course of his mail coaches, un der the second contract, alittle to the loft or right of the course followed during the first contract, in order deflection of course, to secure new pre-emptions, such a claim, after a few successive mail con E there would be but little valuable land. left on the route for. the public. The acting Commissioner ot the Land Office decided against the contrdctor, on the ground that the pre-emptions were granted for the route and not as a bonus to the individual. On the organization of Congress, or shortly after its or- ganization, there will be but one vacancy in the Senate and that from Oregon. There are four vacancies at t present moment. The Legislatures of Texas and Minueso- ta and the Governor of Culifornia will soon proviee, bably, for filling three of thom. It is differont, however, In the case of Oregou. The vacancy from that State be. | the Kingston, now ono of H. B. ing for a full term, the Governor cannot appoint, and the Legislature will not meet before Septem! . ; 80 that Oregon wil! bat o1 ator in the nited States Senate during the whole of the coming long session. Apropos to this partial representation of Oregon in. the Senate, it is due to the people of that State to svy, that they ought not to be censured for this stata of things. Their Legislature was conyenod in extra sc in May last, by proclamation of the Governor, when it wxs incumbent upon them to choose a Senator. The Legisiature was largely democratic. ‘The democratic members ef both houses? in caucus, nomi- nated the Hon. Delazon Stnith over Messrs. Grover, Wil- ams, Curry, Nesmith, and all others; but when the ques- tion was taken up in the Legislature it was found that a sufficient number of the friends of those defeated in can cus were in coalition with the republicans to prevent au election. ‘Thus, in Oregon, a8 in many other of the States, the treachery of professing democrats, and the seliishncas of ambitious cemagoges, haye damaged their’ own party. From information from leading political men in Oregon, itis believed the democratic party will trinmph on the meeting of the next Legislature in returning Mr. Smith to the Senatq oe ee oe LO ee) Threatened Distarbance at the Bowery Theatre. During the past week the proprietors of the Bowery theatre have had in rehearsal a new play, called “Three Eras in the Life of a Fireman,” illustrative of the Ife of the Hon, 1. C. Broderick. It was advertised to bo played on Saturday evoning for ‘the first time; so strong an opposition, however, was manifested against it on the part of the members of the Fire Department that the piece had to be withdrawn. It seoms that as soon as the play was known to be adver tised, with the name of D. C. Broderick as one o the characters, the firemen became greatly incensed, Several meetings were called during Saturday fore. noon, and no Jess than three committees from difrout sections of the city waited apon the proprietors of the theatre and remonstrated against the production of the play. ‘These facts becoming known, induced a great THE TURF. Park Course, Trotting. A purge of $1,000 was trotted for on Thureday tast over the above course, between br. s. Geo. N. Patchen and br. g. Brown Dick, Lancet was entered for the race, but did not come to the score at the time appointed ; his owner thought him not exactly up to the mark in condition, and was therefore afraid to risk bis reputation with two such formidable competitors. The race was mile beats, bost three in Ove, in harness, and was the best that has taken place ou this new and very popular racceourte, and as good acne, time and interest considered, as was over trotted in thie eountry, Geo, N. Patcheh won in threo straigh| heats, bis Bashaw blood coming beautifully to the surface in overy heat. ‘The Suffolk Park Course seems to be exactly adapted to the peculiarities of Patchen's style of trotting. He wears round shoes in front, trots heavily and with great vigor, and requires 8 track suitable to his style of going—one on which he can extend himseif without fear and without danger of accident. Dick ia an entirely different class of horse, and seems to do better on a smooth, hard track, as Suffolk Philadelphia— he treads lightly and does his work with very little appa- «| rent effort. This track did not suit him on a first trial, but it is that he will do better when tore accustomed to that kind of soil, which is rather damp and heavy at certain seasons; yet many suppose that it is destined to become one of tho fastest tracks in the Union, cither for running or trotting. The track Is situated abeut seven miles south of Philadetphia, on the line of the Baltimore anid Ohio Railroad, the cars passing close to the fence and conveying passengers to the race ground. ‘The track is most beautifully laid out. A total absence of display is immodiately apparent on en- tering the enclosure, and perfect simplicity scems to pro- vailthroughout It is owned entirely by Mr. Jamos Kelly, who purchased the ground, laid out tho track, and com- pleted the whole affair in a most satisfactory manner. The ability and energy displayed by this gentleman warrant the belief that this track is destiued to permanent success, and afford a strong contrast to the futile endeavors of Jockey Clubs and other humbugs to get up tracks in the vicinity of New York. ‘There was very little betting on the race, and what there was seemed principally confined to New Yorkers, the Phila- deiphians appearing to be quiet spectators of the race, with- outevineing a disposition to speculate on tho result— which is all yery proper, there being no necessity to com: bine horse racing with gambling. But to the details of | the rac First Heat—The horses coring up nicely together, the word was given and they dashed away from the score at the vory top of their speed, too fast, indeed, for Dick, as he broke up and fell off four or five lengias betore he . Patchen did not mace the turn. He was on the outsid wait for Dick, but rushed on headlong to the quarter pole, which he passed ia thirty seven seconds,and reached the half mile pole in 1:13. Dick now began to closd up the gap between them, and hurrying the stallion a little too fast sent him flying in the air. Dick now rushed to the front,and with & good lead mado the best of bis way past the three quar- tor pole and up the homestretch. As eoon as Patchen ro- covered, he struck # git that took all beholders by sur- prise—every step was a gain on Dick; yet no ouo eup- posed that he could possibly reach him before he got tothe score; but after one of the most guilant and tremendous efforts ever witnessed, Patchen planted his head alongside of Dick’s as they reached the score, and the judges de. cided that he won the heat, in 2:2814. The result of the heat, however, did not seem to discomfort the backers of Dick, and they still continued to offer high odds in bis favor. Very fow takers were on the ground. Heat—The horses having gone through the usual cooling process, nnd the time being up for another heat, they were again called, and came promptly forwardy, Jooking ag fresh as daisies. Tuey soon” came dashing up to the stand and were started. Patchen was goon olf his. legs. the gait being too fast for both of them. Dick immediately followed suit, and flouncered about provok- ingly. Patchen was the lirst to clinch terra firma, and, holding on finely, he gota lead of Dick of balf a dozen Jengths or more, and the chances of the latter winning the heat seemed to be entirely ont of the question. Dick, however, after he recovered. trotted bravely, and closed up the daylight gradually, though slowly. Patchen reach- ed the haif mile pole four open lengths ahead, in 1:1334. In going around the lower turn Dick made a’fing burst, and when he came in sight, after passing the old houge at tho bottom of the track which hid them from view fora moment, he was close np to Patchen’s wheel. contest set in in earnest for the heat—Piifer whipping Dick and Tallman ruflling the bit in Patchen’s mouth, and urging him on in every way. Dick got closer, and Patch- en shock him off—be clos*1 up again, and was again thrown off—the struggle lasting to the scorce, which FESHR crossed first length ahead, making the heat in Third Heat—The send off this time was as even as pos- sible; but no sooner had Dick got away from the score than he again took a fly in the air, as he had doneia each of the preceding heats. When he resoverad he made af- ter Pateben in.good earnest, ani was close up at.the half- mile pofe—time 1:15. orcing his way up to the stallion, he carried the latter toa break, and they were head and head for the next quarter of 2 mile. The contest was in- ly interesting. “Coming to” the three-quarter pole, yoked togethes, Patchom broke, but, instantly racovering, was again at Dick’s head, and a neck and neck struggle ensued for @ hundred yards further, when Patchen again broke, but was fortunate enough to catch ina moment and not lose an On they catne, side and side, head and head, nose and nose, until within a few yards of the stand, when Patchen again broke up, but, with a tremen- dous jump, catching his trot at the instant, he landed on the Score a throatlatch in front of Dick—winning the heat, the race, and the purse. Time, 2:2914. ‘Lhe follow- ing is a summary :— Serrork PARK Covnsr, Pmtanuenta, October, 3—Purse $1,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, }, Tallman entered br. s. Geo. N.’Patchon..., 1 1 1 D. Pfifer entered br. g. Brown Dick .. 222 W. Woodruff entered bik. g. Lancet. drawn, Timo, 2:281;—2:20%4 2:91. After the race was over a match was made on the ground between Dick and Patchen, to come off on the same track this afternoot News from British Honduras, OUR BELIZE CORRESPONDENCE. Betz, Hon., Oct. 13, 1859. Another, Naval Difficulty Sctled--An American Slave Schooner as a British War Vessel—Case of the Schoon:r Sandford Adjusted—A Good Sugar Crop—Encouraging Regorts of the Mahogany and Dye Wood Trade—Ebavy Rains — Official Testimony of British Good Keeling Towards the United States—War News from China— Cochineal and Indigo Scarce—Overland Trade, dc. My last, via New Orleans, informed you that the diffi- culties with Honduras, in relation to the scizure of the schooner Industry, bad been settled, and of the arrival of ajesty’s war cutters, formerly aa American schooner, taken while engaged in he slave trade. Sho is now commanded by the Hon. James Fitzmaurice, and is a very trim, snug looking eraft,and by all odds the fastest suiler in these waters, ¢ hus been for some tine sltioned at Ruatan, and bas lately taken his Excellency Mr. F. Seymour to the Bay Islands. She leaves here to-morrow morning for Ja- mnaics, The dificuity between the owners of the Now York schoonor William H. Sgndford has beon settled by the gale of that vessel. She is now owned by an Englishman, and will be called the Richard, and here- after sail under English colors, She leaves here, via Ruatan, for New Orleans, this day, in chargo of Captain Johnson, fu: emerly the mate of the bark D. Jex. ‘The cultivation of the sugar cane has been ‘very sic ceseful in this settlement during tho current year, For- merly we imported about 200,000 pounds of brown su gar per annum. Now, we have exported more than that quantity, and have still a large surplus on hand, while the crop of cane has not all been eut, and the new crop and the rattoons are in a most promising condition, giving promise of more cane than all of our milis will be able to grind next year. Sugar is now offered at from 4¢. to 5c, and this with an excise duty of seventy-five cents oo the one hundred pounds. Ram made from the cauo juic with an excise duty of twenty-five cont? per gallon, now offered in large quantities at sixty-two cants. Our mahogany, logwood, fustic and lignumvit have bad a very successful season this year—a long dry season’ to cut in, ant a very rainy one to get it out and bring it down. For the last two weeks it bas rained constantly. Our town is nearly under water and our rivers are all over- flowing their banks. ‘Tho royal mail steamer Wye arrived last night from Jamaica, with the mails, and the schooner Tallahassee, from New Orleans, came in yesterday, ‘The Tallahassee is the only Amorican vessel in port. For the past six weeks we have had light land winds and still dead calms, with unusually hot weather. Imention these facts that you may compare this with other sections of the Atlantic coast and the West Indies, where we have frei3H that there have been heavy winds and dreadful Bales. There is another item of news which came out in evi- dence on a trial when this government sued a firm for tho vse and occupation of crown lands. It is this:—The Colonial Secretary was put in the witness box, and his cor- respondence with the colonial officers in London real, when it camo out that the British government would not look favorably on any one act of any of her officials here, or on this part of the continent, or do anything which might give offence to the United States government. As this was trom private correspondence, and in no way intended for the public eye, I think. it of much importance, as show- ing the faith and friendly fooling of ber Majesty's outers: rush of people to the theatre, a large number of whom were firemen. At the conclusion of the first play, one of the lessees cate ont before the curtain aud addestend the audience, stating that, owing to the opposition manifested, it had been deemed proper to withdraw the piece, This announcement proved gatisfactory, and another piece was substituted, Deputy Superintendent Carpenter, Captain Dowling and accompanied by Sergeant Dickson, of the detective force, were present, and, had any disturbance occurred, a strong force of police were in reserve near by waiting orders. Ag goon as it Was announced that the play was withdrawn, Deputy Superintendent Carpenter dismissed the reserve, and they returned to thoir several wards. There is no doubt but, had the play been brought out, a row would have resulted, goverument towards the United " f Tho packet brought news of the recent war in China, and a report that the Americans hat assisted the Kaglish. ‘This was received with continued cheers and applause which 4s another evidence that the English wigh the goo: will and friendship of the United States. ’” Our market is abundantly supplied with provisions, liquors and dry goods. Trade ut present is dull, bat great liipations are indulged that we shall have a capital trade at the approaching holidays, Cochineal and indigo are very scarce, and como here only in ama'l quantitios, inost of it floding a safer, cheaper and more expeaitions route down the Pacific by steam aod by railroad across the continent at Panama. The steamer from here now does not get half the quantity sho did formerly. Thus another of the supports ol (is settle. ment is fast fading away, ‘Then the | THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. Our Albany Correspondence. Amawy, Nov. 4, 1869, Mr. Denniston Aiding the Know Nothing Ticket at the Ba- pense of His Friends—Hts Evasion of the Charge—B& ‘Material Aid” to Black Republican Know Nothing Anti- Weed Ongans—The Oficial Canvass of the Republican State Committee— Proof of its False Representations—it Shows that New York City Can Elect the Democratic Tickel—A Democratic Bet Declined, €e. ‘The Henato's expesure of the fact that Mr. Robort Dea- niston, the republican candidate for Comptroller, had paid three hundred and fifty dollars ‘‘to a fand for the elcotion of the American’ ticket,” having drawa out an official denial of the truth of the statement, it, becomes Proper to inquire whether Mr. Denniston has net descended to subterfuge but Iittle removed from direct untroth, in order to conceal from his republican support- ers the position which he really eccupies in relation to the movement by “Brooks & Co.”” to overthrow Sowardisa in the State. Mr. Denniston’s letter 1s adressed to the High Priest of Sowardism, who sold his party in 2857 in order to beat Mr. D. and his associates on the republican ticket in that year, and it is in the following words:— 2 ‘Sausnonr 2, Dean Stu—This moment my niteation hus beam oater es ablisbed fn twe Hbaacs of toe Sits tage mening hat etter corresoe acer Paneibated $850 to fund for ibe election of the entree Uke" donot wuppore worthy ofa serous eoniradiing Mf itis so worthy I say that there la not of truth in Go seement ‘Truly yours, RO! IN. It will be observed that Mr. Desnietonma dgniat is, that ho bad ‘‘contributed $350 to a fund for the tion Of the American t-cket.”’ He probably reconciles bis conscience to the pubtication of this statement, first, on the tpi that he Utica ticket is not an American ticket; and secondly, because this money was paid only to secure his own suc- Fed and not ‘‘the election of the American,” or Utica et. Now, I assert upon the direct authority of a mem- ber of the American State Committee, that Mr. Denniston did directly pay to that committee the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, for elec- tion purposes, What Mr. Denniston intended within his own mind should be the effect of his contribu- tion is entirely immaterial; but he cannot and dare not deny the fact that he has paid money, orecaused it to be paid, to the American Generai Committee, since the nomi- nation of the. ticket designed to defeat some ef hig polititical associates who received with him the nominations of his own party convention, Tho exposure of this treachery to bis associates upon the republican ticket is doubtless galling to Mr. Dennistm — at this Pichcrens time; but can he suppose that he will strengthen himself with Americane - rush’ng in his ter- ror into, the very bosom of Thurlow Weed, for whom he has pretended such abhorrence, and piteously pouring out his plea of “not guilty?” This “holding with the hare while rupuing with the hounds’’is calculated onlyto make Mr. Denniston asoflensive to those who ado im as an anti- Seward man now, as to those who defeated him as am anti Seward man in 1857. Bet while Mr. Denniston’s hand is in at denials, perhaps ho will contradict the assertion that he has afforded “ma- terial aid and comfort’’ to the shaky organ of sore headed republicans aud rotten American ‘strikers? in this city. If so I am prepared to “bring on the proofs,’’ The Republican State General Committee have at length put forth a canvass of votes in the State, which they claim will be cast at the election on Tuesday next. It is a statement grossly exaggerated in favor of the re- publican ticket, and intended as a game ot brag; and yet, although strained to the uttermost to give their ticket a show of a chance, it is aciear and unmistakable evidence of their entire hopelessness, and of the certain defeat that: awaits them. I send you & copy of the canvass, accom- ied by the reasons which convince me, and will satia- Fevers impartial person, that the republicans mast pre- pare themselves to “give up the ship.” ‘The following t@ the highly colored canvass of the Republican State Com- mittee — ——_—_—_—— 1859. 7 9,418 1,200 5,014 1,900 192 3,684 2,673 Fr 6 Dx 68 4,749 3,998 4, 3/044 1721 4,300 2,968 6m 6,518 5,370 mm ++ 8,087 8,907 2,320 2,800 1,512 pt 177 2413 ow 2/359 1,780 106 3,066 1/592 19 2442 3)082 200 00 2.66 156 D b i 2,202 4,798 Fy 922 14,580 v1 2,683 1,878 2 Livingston. Bi74d 35 Madison. 5,281 280 8,081 700: 3,054 476 221600 6,100 3,782 560 1,000 am 8,877 460 Fo = 400 2,823 540 6,862 250 + 6,480 pyr i $70 38 990 3/485 608 040 6,490 1,040 786 1983. 130 800 ~ 1 224 » 7,990 2,728 234 4,680 8,800 “8 1,660 1,500 370 2,546 8,608 69 Schuyler, 2)2b5 1,470 80 Seneca. 21264 2,280 20 1,054 23300 700 3,000 2650 8 3,689 23069 365 « 4,000 5,640 806 2}081 1,583 9 5,040 2,7 330 5,031 3,736 384 4;468 5,657 3,354 2,000 80 2,579 1,280 40 make; that it isthe “whistling” by which, in the sur- rounding darkness of coming defeat, they endeavor te keop up their courage. : It is well known to every person who has been into the counties of tho State, that in every rural district it is con- ceded there’is_no energy or enthusiasm, and that the vote must fall off from last year; and yet in this canvass the Republican State Committee increase their vote 25,731 im the State, making their increase in every rural district. By these figures, however, the republicans give them- selves, over the democratic ‘and Utica tickets, a majority of only 704 votes, as follows:— Des 244,813 28,082 + +6272,896 [273,599 Majority claimed for republicans............... 708 By these figures, too, the republicans show over the de- mocrats a majority of only 28,786, as follows:— Republicans, Democrats .1, Pretended minority for democrats,...,....... 28,786 T have said that, in order to accomplishithis insufficient result, the Republican State Committee bave increased their vote largely in every rural district in the State, in the {gee of the fact that in almost every county the vote will materially decrease. What,on the other hand, do they do with New York? They give New York city the following vote:— Republicans Democrats , Americans, Total. Democrats... Americana Abolition ‘Total. a eeeg ees sees eesesesecsceesesee sees s 69,699 Thus the Republican Stato Committee oniy increase the yote of the.city of New York by 61 votes. Again, the democratic vote in the city, as pretended thle cas vase, isto be only, : ee Ob I 1858 it WA... i Pretended increase........... . 1,006 Will you: please now turn to ti of John. Brown and William H. Seward for tho past threo wocks, and review the intave attacks made upon the Boards of Canvassers of the City of New York, and the rocklora a8- sertions of the “wholesale frauds’? ‘intended to be prac- tised by the democrats at the polls on Tuesday next? You will tind your ‘‘wool-gathering philosopher of the Tribune charging thut over one hundred thousand votes have been registered, and that forty or fifty thousand fraudulent majority is to be piled up in the city for the democratic ticket. You will discover that disinterested Pecksnitfian lobby beggar, Thurlow Weed, howling ut the enormous outrages about 'to be per- Petrated upon the ballot box in the city by these “Irish Catholic” registrars, who are going to rush in one hun- dred thousand votes under cover of the black republican Registry law. You will hear all the abolition pack, headed by General Webb, barking id yelping at tho same gam “monstrous frands’’ about to be perpetrated, and the ono bundred thousand votos about to Be polled m New York city. Which shall we believe, the republican organs or the Republican General Committee? Tr the broadcast charges © of the former are to be credited, then this canvass of the — Stato Committee is a cheat, and ‘the republican ticket 18 doomed to defeat, and the’ di ticket to success, — by the showing of the republicans themselves, by thirty — thousand majority. If the canvass 1 a faithful one, and While every rural district has increased its vote by thousands, New York city has only increased sixty-one — votes, then the rabid charges of frand made by the re- © publican organs against the New York Registrars, only beeanse they happen to be foreign born mon, are f and calumnious, A practical Hlustration of the hopelessness of the ra- 4