The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1859, Page 1

| THE NEW YORK HERALD. — WHOLE NO. 8468. THE SLAVE TRADI @apture of am Alleged Slaver—Her Arri- val im New York, dic. Having roeeted information from Qaptain Wager, of fhe steamer W. G. Putnam, yesterday, that he had towed ® ship, suppesed to be a slaver, to tle Navy Yard, our ro- porter proceeded thither to procure particulars. On reach- ‘img the office of the Oommodere, that oflloer stated that in @e absence of Lieut, Stevens, who had the vossel in @harge, but who was then probably in New York, it would ‘be imporsible for any one to board her, The Commodore ‘wae then asked when he expeeted the return of Licut. Mrovens, when he replied ‘Every moment. He will very Probably all bere before he goes to the ship.” This de- termipod us to await his arrival, especially a8 no one had ‘any tea of where he might then be. Three or four hours Fasecd away, and still there was no sign of Lieut. Stevens. ‘We now returned to the offico of the Commodore, ‘Whe by this time was of opinion that he weuld ‘‘scaroe- return now,” perhaps not until to-morrow. Moan- time the Commodore having declined giving a permit go on board the slaver (the Emily, of New York), wo @etalped one from another officer im the Navy Yard, who ‘was aleo kind enough to place a boat at our disposal. Having got alongside the Emily and presented the permit ‘te tbe person who stood at the gangway, that worthy eommonced to strain bis eyes in an effort to decipher ‘the few plainly written words which the contained. Having Waited some time in vain for a reply, and seoing Bo disposition on the part of the youth at tho gangway to Break silence, much less to pronounce the words, ‘You ean come on board,” we asked, “Can I go om board?” ‘when the following brief dialogue ensued:— Orricen—No. ‘The orders are to let no ono on board. -Where ie the officer now in charge of the ‘weenel? Ovncxr—I am. Rerorter—Don’t you think you can admit me on that command? Rarorrxr—Is the of the Emily on board? Orncxr—Ho 1s not; he wont to New York. ‘Raronren—Do you know where he is? Oyncxz—I do not. Those on board are not to hold in- tereourse with any one at present. Rerorrsn—When do you expect Lieutenant Stevens to ‘Orricen—Every moment. Finding it impossible to obtain any further information Bere, we returned to the Navy Yard, and subsequently earned that it was very uniikely Loutenant Stovona would return, nor did any one know where he was ex- copt modore, who only knew him to be in New Yerk. In this di we were obliged to reat satisiled ‘web what particulars couid be gleaoed trom the Commo- ore and others. They are the following: The Emily cleared trom New York for the coast of Afri- @ about the latter end of June last, and proceeded to Lo- ‘ange. There she was discovered by u British cruiser on ‘the 24th of September. Tho Britisher roported her a sus- Bed@lous vessel to the Unitod States sloop-of-war Ports- meuth, Cothoun, who, on discovering and board- dwg ber, found that she contained over one hundred water onsks, & ae quantity of mashed rice, several @ alt and a quantity of lumber. It is id fbet mashed rice is the f given to negroes on the passage from Africa, and that lumber is placed on board siavers to form decks for packing the negroes. The rewult was that tho veseel was placed in charge of Licut. Brevens, of the Portsmouth, and a crew from that vessel ‘being pat on board, the Emily was ordered to New York where ehe arrived yesterday morning, after a passage of forty-five days. It is stated that Lieut. Stevens attempted ‘4 question the captain of the Emily after her captare, but ‘that be declived answering any questions. It is argued ‘that the casks on board were required for palm oil, and ‘Mled with water to keop them staunch; that the salt was ‘wanted for cabin stores; that the rice & a preservative of health in the African climate, &c. The Emily is an old Joking cratt, but apparently’a fast sailer, and certainly a model. ’ It is said that she was formerly rigged a8 a k, and owned in the city of Philadelphia; but that sho ‘was overbauled at New York last summer, and lay for a Jong time near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. ‘There are two Spaniah gentlemen on board the Fmily at present, who to be passengers, but who, it is rumored, are her owners. It is also reported that had the Emily not been @aptured when she was, she would have been off next day ‘With a carg? of negroes, and that one of her crew actually ‘made this statement. UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. Nov. 11.—The United States vs. The Ship Emily.—Tbe ‘bark Emily was seized on the Coast of Africa, off Loango, as aslaver, last September. The following is the order of Oommanier Calhoun to Lieut. Stevens to proceed and ex- amine the ship:— Usrrep States Barr Porrswoorn, Orr Loasrco, West Coast or Arnica, Sept 21, 1859. Sin—The ship Emily, of New York, Captain Lindsay, now fsaehored on the quarter of this presents very et for the belief i oe neovssary to ope: Saee, whieh 300 will don io most eareful manner. You will brecitally reeae g Jone nvesteaton TN CALNOUN, To Lieut. H. H. SteveNs, United Rates Navy. HH. H. Stevens, lieutenant in the United States Navy, in bis report as to the condition of the vessels furnished to superior officer, Commander John Calhoun, gives a full and detailed report as to the condition of the captured ‘veescl. He states that sho contained a largo amount of lumber, a ground ter of casks, three,of which were par- tiauly filled with water; two largo cases containing a boiler, fitted with a fireplace attached underneath; eighty barrels @f brond, 113 barrels of rico, and a large quantity of othor provisions, comprising pork, codilsh, herrings, &c. He ‘also discovered rum, pails, ‘ale, salt, and other minor matters, He says furthor.— ent of the men themselves shows several of them net ts be Ainericens, ‘The novoud tate says that be was bord in Canada; the steward Is a Portnguhse; Francis Snow, Knewn as ibe boatswain of the vessel, is alsoa Portuguese, Baving been bora in the West India islands. He also states fhat Snow is not his proper name, and others give places of ‘Wwth different from that in the articles. No such man as J. W. Douglas, the mate, is to be found on board. The captain saysbe ‘wus left in Now York, The captain algo admtited that the vessol had been reported before leaving New York as on ao Mogel voyage, snd that the Marshal came on board of the ves- pty i sailed, but did not open ber hatches at all, only m ‘the crew as they eame on board, the cook and the @bief mate being then still wanting The names of two Cortu- gusse—Jose bre Cosia and Francisco Fernando Sauto—appear x the'articles in a different hand writing from all the rest, but ‘fre not found on the crew list. ‘The oaptsin says that they were stowed away on board, and caine out afer the vessel sailed; wobe bad ‘ames entered on the artic s. Be goes on to state that he found two persons on board, who could render no account as to who had employed them in the yoyage—one an Amorican and the ether a Spaniard. There was nothing to show by what authority they were there, The captain shows no passenger list, and professes not to know even the namos of thase por” pons, saying that he was to take two passengors, and that that was suflicient for bim. The repert gocs on ‘The American asserts that he came out for his healt Wines to teil bis name or give any further account of ‘The Spaniard gave mo hie name an Antonio Garcia, but Loo not get an; further from bim. Taking all points consideradon, together with the small value of tbe cargo Drowght out, there seems to be just grounds for the supposition ‘that the vessel is invended to embark alaves. Feat. te. HH. STAVENS, Lieutenant United Btates Navy. Te Commander Jonx Cauoun, United Rustes ship Forte ‘Wo subjoin the following affidavit:— A, B. M. Sraawxn Trrtox, Orr Loaxdo, Hept. 22, 1808. 1 wish engeged in the slave trade, 1 have the to m- that f visited that Bip on the morning of the 11th scoompanied by Mr. Chas. J. Bigley, of tls ship, to a ¢eriain’ her nationality, which visit noted'in her log. This Jessel auchored in Babla Fonda Bay on the night of ube 10th in: sian, in $5 fathoms, being about a mile from the shore, which rt of the coast is solely approprinted We puurpore of car: Bring on the slave) trade; and from the following reasons i is my belief that abe has some for a cargo of slaves, viz:— Firet—The vessel arriving at nih, taking up. her position lose in shore off & well known slave depot,*nad one of her Sasengers inn American, whom T believe to bo the pressat Dener) visti the sbore the same night Seoond—Oo passing her gern I observed ber name, Emily, of Boson, on tt, the “of Boson” being party yy black paint, I called the attention of her master, Mr. Wm. Lindsey, to this ‘also made the same statement, ani atorn SS verify Jt, when ho found hie mistake; ho then added dat ie ‘vessel formerly belonged to Boston, the manier ulso remarking that he bad not seen her stern since leaving New York, vt though he had already declared that he had seen “New York’? painted on it two daya before. ‘Third—Her master stated that he hed but one cask of water in his ship. 1 maw two tlors of leagors on hia upper dock, several of which had water in them, and a soremarked that ave had unusually large hatchways, anid that several small casks ‘were ent in balves and fitted the name, a4 tubs used by slavers, Fourth—A tan calling bimself tho boatawaln of the Kentiy told one of my boat's crew that the vessel had ca'led at Havana tinee leaving New York. This I made the muster anquainied with, when he flatly denied it, and produced his loz, asyang that he had touched only at Ambriz wince he oleared out of New ‘York; he also atnted that he could not get water at Ambriz, and Frag informed by o Portagngee authority uhern that 6 ould obtain that articlo ‘at Bahin Fonda, which was the ouuse of hts mnehoring there. Fifth—His register déseribed her wa a bark or vonwel, and ber ig bas boen ultorwd froin bark to wbip since Inaring New York, which the muster admitted he hind done himeelt. 1a rae had two passengers on shewther © hoes ; failing to precure water tin hie ofthat pluce to proceed: (an be, stated) to oases, for the pErpowr.of tiling up with wauer. “The ship appears tome to per in the water now, than who was wheu I visited. bor in Bahla Fonda Bay, on the Ith day of Boptomber, 1559. { fm, sir, very roepesifully, your obedient werrant, © . A. BU! Toutenant Commander H.W. M Btesseve Triton. A warrant has been issued from the office of the Uni ‘States Distriét Attorney, and Oapt. Ryndors, with his apes tios, proceeded to Brooklyn to recetve the prisoners from tho custody of the offloors. “They took into custody the cap. tain, two passengors and nine of the crew, all of whom wore fully committed for examination. If is expooted that tho examination will take place to-day. The vessel is ‘af present lying in the Navy Yard > one en Amorioan and ‘onda, Arrivals and Departures. hip Jamestown, ves” Rishmo the steam) Jamestown, rosea, Wn M Whitioges! F Ballard und Indy. 6B Port tee Pavia, ED Newton, J A’ Seawell, RM Hi A Dr Van 0 Linds, Miss Halsey, Mra a’ , LY Scrivener, H Byer, 8 N Payoe, Dr JT rook, J 8 Brander, Jr, Frank Mathews, and & 23 SENTENGE OF COOK AND OTHER INSURRBO- TIONISTS. Cuntastown, Nov. 12, 1850, ‘When the prisoners were brought out for sentence the Degroes Cepoland and Green deetined to ray anything Coek and Coppice beth addressed the Court, denying that they had any knewledge of Brown’s intentiun to seize tho Ferry until the Sunday previons, when they were callod ‘pon to take the oath of obedience to their commander. ‘They expected to be punished, but did not think thoy should be hung. Hazlitt will not be tried until the May term ef the Court. ‘The negroes are to be hung on the morning of the 16th, and the whites during the afternoon of the same day. BEWARD AND FORBES. POMPEY AND MENAS—A SHAKESPEREAN ANALOGY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The remark made by Seward to Colonel Forbes abow the proposed servilo insurrestion, viz: “You should not have told me of it,” reminds me of ascene in Snakes- pere’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra,” between Pompey and Menas. Pompey bas tbe ‘‘representative men” of that day on board of his galley, and they are all having a jolly time—possibly, nay, very probably, some of them are a little more than three sbeets in the wind. Menas, ope of Pompey’s unscrupulous captains, conceives a bold idea, which will appear from tho following:—We quote from Act Il , scene vii. of the play :— Menas—(To Pompey aside)—If for the sake of mort thou wilt Lear mo, Rise from thy stool, Pompey I think thou’rt mad! The matter? ‘Mevas—I bave ever held my cap off to thy fortunes, Pompey—Thou hast sery’d me with much faith: What's SEY rip, Meias—Wil thou bo lord of all the world? Pompey—What say’st thou Menas—Wiit thou bo lord of the whole world? That's twice. Pompey—How should that be? AMenas—But entertain it, and, ulthough then think me poor, am the man Will give thee all the world. Pompey—Hast thou drunk well? Pompey probably supposed bis friend was “tight.””} .ai—No , Pompey, 1 have kept me from the cup. ‘Thou art, if theu dar’st to be, the earthly Jove: ‘Whate’er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, Is thine, if thou wilt hav't, Pompey—Show me which way. Menas—Theso three world-sharers, these competitors, Are in thy versel: Let me cut the cable; ‘And, when we are put off, fall to their All there is thine, Pompey—Ab, this thou should’st have dono, And not have spoke on’t! In me, ‘tis villany; In thee, it had been good service. Thou must know "Tis not my profit that Jea¢s mine honor; Mine honor, it. Repent that e’er thy tongue Hath so betrayed thine act; being done unkown, Tehould have found it afterwards well done, But must condemn jt now. Desist, and drink. Whether or not Pompey, Seward asked Colonel Forbes to partake of a little Bourbon whiskey after his dis- closures does not appear; bu:, in alt other respects, the interview and its results are remarkably elmilar to tho cutthroat proposition of Menas to the ancient rer: “THAT FORBES CORRESPONDENCE” TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, Nov. 10, 1859. Your Charlestown correspondent writes, and wonders how thogo mysterious letters came into public print, It has not only puzzled him but many others. Theard of a circumstance the other day, which created some curiosity in my mind. I was told a party in this city bad a lot of the ‘‘celobrated Forbes leters,”’ which he fays aro valuable to somebody. Having heard that the gallant Colonel bas taken his de- parture for parts unknown (I suppose on account of being foreaken either by the “prophet” or the “false prephot”’), mayt the favor of your publishing this, in order that. rok Ae body Daye oy sbe enabled to afford the public information as to whether ‘those letters,’ that are a] tly in the market, are in reality | pes or bogus. Wao, an say who bas thems, how fe came Wy Gem, and ict the public be cautioned giving credit to everything that appears, unless vouched for by its original writer. Being aggured that gome of this correspondence has beon purcbasoa, ‘God knows by whom, or for what purpose,” it behooves the ‘‘forcible, frank Forbes,”’ to let us if ‘any of those letters were loft in the poeeession of any per- son who would be likely to ‘trade them off” wit know who.” Yours, aca mime N. B.—Canada papers please copy. LETTER FROM HENRY CLAY PATE. COMPARISON BETWEEN HIMSELF AND JOHN BROWN— MORE KANSAS REMINISCENCES. TO THK KDITOR OF THR HERALD. Norrout, Va., Nov. 8, 1859. Having received an anonymous lotior which I desire to answer, I request that you allow me to do so through your journal, as the author is unknown and the news- paper is the only channel through whiclt a reply would probably reach him and those for whom it {3 intended. The letter follows. It is without date, but postmarked New York. Busiog aud Pet of the Prosi To H. C. Pare—Border Ruffian and let o! lent:— an olf'saying, of whieb you have probably heard, ‘tha: ‘otsbould not call kettle biack.” You call Brown un outlaw What have you been? Any beiter? You call yourself rag Ata Pate—y ou cannot blame fieys mother for givin; vou thet name; but don’t bring in that honored man in suol hideous connection. Why not H. ©. and the rest? You are de- termined Itaball, not b6 broken ‘Pate, at least. Old Brown, L and maddened hie brain, should make you blush to own, ‘Think of « President who'refused the asulaiaace of the United tates oops to preven! murder, and who rewarded the mur- derer with the oflice of United siates |. Read the en- cloned statement of facts aud aay what you would have been under leas provocation. Yours, &c. PLaIN TRUTH. From a Jeffersonian Republican. THE ENCLOSURE. " The history of the provoking causes of Rrown’s Kansas ca- reer are thus stated by the Cleveland Herald:— had a.son, K.P. Brows, who pear Easton that and confined ina sere. ‘Thon it was an axprens vieited Fort Leavenworth, and begged that United States troops might go to the spot and cave Brown from being murdered. That was re- fused, and refused, too, in compliance with positive orders from MUSE eeereth as peemncicr eae tae taoaee ‘mone in the power of very men; ruflans struck him, and be rose to his feet and uaked to be per- mitied to fight the Beet man among them—he would fight for ive, him, the chanoo, m to fight him, but 8 his life—but the cowards dared wn ft on slavery. Tie became the leading free State partiaan inthe) auaaa Troubles. He was the terror of the Mlasourt ron! REPLY. ‘The mendacity of your letter is only equatied by the ignorance it displays, and surpatsod by your cowardice in sending me an anovymous tote. It would not be no- tioed if it were tho only one of tho kind I have received and did not reflect the sentiments of a large number of Northern people known as black republicans and aboli tioulste, amongst whom [have beon vilified for the last three or four years. it is to their sense of justie aud renson—if they havo them—I would appoai, through you, for a respectful hearing at ivast. That | am, acoording to popular prejudice at the North, a “border ruffian,’” it will not be denied; but that Tam a real raflian you Aball bo mt upon the proof, if my proposivion, bereia made, shall be ascopted. But { do cony moet emphatically that’ am the “pet of the President.”” If Tam a pot of Mr. Buchanan, the aubseribor ts not aware of it, having uever reveived 2 crumb of comfort from bis hand, nor te least evidence of his favor, but inetoad, his disfavor. Although 1 have not asked of him anys for mysolf, Ihave boen denied romething for a friend, ‘That show of disfavor, however, did not make me an enemy of his administration, as it might have done you, and lam ready to defend it so tar #5 becomes any good democrat. Whatever elee you may say of the President, he ‘hag not that sin to answer for,”’ tho ain f “petting’’ the subscribing border rusfian. You gek, if Brown i8 an outlaw, what am 1Y 1 would pat th question to you. I have never been in the pentientiary, although some of your friends have tried to get me ‘there, Brown has, ft seoms from pretty good testimony. Tnever tilled ‘a man, white or black, hor a woman, in oold blood or in any othor way, though your abolition organs have charged it on me; Brown has. j novor robbed and burned a house, albeit I stood accused in Dr, Gthon’s attempt at a book, with that same; Beown pac, Jnover stolea negro, notwithstanding it has been published that J hookod one, which tarned out to be my. own; Brown has, by his own confoesion and the admis-ion of bis warmest admirers. Ihave never been found guilty of treason, insurrection and raurder, and sentenced to bo hung for thoeo high crimes, which your frionds have not find the face to charge upou me; John Brown has. insinbate that Tam an outlaw f Only because Tam a slaveholder! If that beso, I rojoice to find myeelf in such excellent company\as Gov. Wise, Senator Hunter, Secro- {ary Cobb and Stophen A. Dooglas, ‘pot. mentiouing thou- sands of the tract patriots and beet of mon, inoiuding that ilustrious statesmmn in his grave, whose bame you pro- tend to think Tdishonor. (Do yon’ suppose his epirit would not biueh to own an admirvr of a trator to country he loved so dearly and servod so faithfully, like you, to be an admirer of himeolf?) You think “Brown “ig a vile incendiary,” and ‘condemn Wiis course.” Why then do you volunteer as his advocate, and my traducer on hig account? Possibly you bate the treason, but love the traitor. You divelaim the murder but acore the murderer. You copvemn the theft, but ad- wire the negro thief, You sespise house buruing, but patrepime the “vile meendiary.”” Your exeuse shout equals your logic, ana your compares favorabiy with your intellgebve, of Which you bave bie to boast, judgit g from tho only evidence betoro me. It 6 entiely new to woe that E P, Brown, killed at Faston, was a con of old John. It was not talked of at tho mo, nor afierwards, and 10 pot believe be was more of kin to Oseawatomle Brown than you are—thoug! your relavonship may not be very distant. As to the eir- ‘cumstances of bia death I know nothing, but I do not en- tertain the idea that they Wore such a8 described by the Cleveland Herald. No man ubbors eold-blooded murder more than 1; none woule go farther to punish St, or sooner denounce it, in friends us well as foo, as I have dene Who is the murderer refurred to 13 as bitule known to me as to you—perbaps less. That he was rewarded’ fie, the? doen ‘by the President, or that the troops when needed were withdrawn by his orcer, i6 a8 untrve us that you aro ‘most ignorant of what you are most assured,” You evidently refer to Mr. Bu- ‘hanan, when, if you knew as mach as you think yoa do, you wonkd know that General Pierce was President at the lume E P. Brown was killed, the date being given in the extract from the Cleveland Herald which you sent mo. Old Brown Faye he went to Kansas to‘‘iigbt the battles of freedum.” Redpath states that for thirty years be “secretly cheriehed the Wea of being the leader io a ser- vile msurrection.” The “Jeffersoulan republicans” fur- pished him money to go to Kansas, and gave him the wherewithal to begin the war; and Old Brown has pone but himself and his fricnds to blame. If be sowed the wind, he might have expected to reap the whirlwind. if he appealed to the sword, be ought to be willing to die by the sword. If be resorted to the le lationis, be ready to abide by the law of retaliation. if he invoked asvaseination, could he complain of others killing in self defence? “Tie even handed justice eommends the ingre- diente of the poisoned chalice w our own lips.” If any of Brown’s cons were murdered, I do not know it. The propesition Ihave to make is thie:—Your letter being postmarked New York, I presume you are a New Yorker, and ag you bave hinted ata want of courageon part, in referring, very ungrammatically, if not in ex- tremely bad taste, to a * broken Pate,” I will come to New York, bo'd a diseussion with you, if you area re spectable person, or apy of your party, on the subject of your abony mous communication, and my course in Kan- sae, with ap Sncklental defences of Mr. Buchanan's ad- Minietration {f necessary. Or,1 will come and spaak alone, if you prefer it. The speech or discussion must tke place in cane prominent ball, and. the proceeds, if anything is charged tor admission, sball go to the fund for the pur- chase of Mount Vernon, or the erection of the Washing- ton Monument, as ] may designate. You can make knowa the acceptance of the proposition through the New York Papers, ‘und I will come on and prepare for the occasion. jould you prefer tocome South, I cau assure you of polite treatment, and that you will receive satifs evi- dence that J am not a ruflan. Yet you will find I“ my rights, aud knowing, dare maintain them.” Tremain, as ever, a democrat. iH. CLAY PaTE To Puaw Trum, New York, OLD JOHN aRONN Be MISSION TO KAN- ai {Frem the Lawrence og Herald of Freedom, No. 5.) While we presume it is not the intention of the republi- can p. ess to defend old John Brown, 6. vindicate his con- duct at Harper’s Ferry, yet we regret to know that they have done so in the past in regard to crimes infinitely more damuable than the Harper’s Ferry tragedy, and now they haye the wickedness to say that * his misaion to Kansas was a peaceful one,” and that “it was the vio- lenee committed upon his family and home which made him the demon he is.”” Jn our article of last week we stated that old Brown came to Kansas late in the summer, or in the fall of 1855; that he came armed, and ‘n a peeuliar manner; that those a)ma were furnished him in the Btate of New York; and that their supply was made tho condition of his coming here; that he showed a b'oodthiretiness peculiarly his own during the Wakarusa war, in December of that year; and and that nowbere in his whole Kavsas history do wo tind a particle of evidenco that he desired to cultivate the principles of peace. It is urged that he came here a peace man. Do peace men emigrate to a country, carrying with them only broadswords, navy revolvers, bayonets, muskets, pikes, &c.¥ Do peace men call from their dwellings at midnight their fellow citizens, and cut them to pieccs with broad. swords? OLD BROWN NOT OSSAWATOMIE BROWN. ‘The cognomen of “Ossawatomie”” has very gencrally been applied to Old John Brown, though {ucorrectly. Brown was never a resident of Gusawatomie, but resided rome eight miles above, that, place, on Pottawatomie creek. ve tit originally, was to 0. C, Brown, Esq. , 2 resident of imio, ‘one of the projec: tors of that settlement, and proprietor of the town site. Preeees and poiiticians are continually confounding these names.—Lawrence Herald of Freedom, Nov. 6. City Politics. FACTS AND SPECULATION UPON THE MAYORALTY. ‘Now that the battle of the State and county election has been fought, and the dead men buried and the wounded cared for, the belligerents are actively preparing for a Solferino battle inthe Mayoralty issue. Various specula- tons are rife as to whom are to be the nominces, and who will be the victor. Next Monday night the Mozart Hall branch of the loca’ democracy will hold their Mayorality Convention; ba this creates no excitement, from the fact that it is well un- derstood that Fernando Wood will be the nominee. The Tammany branch of the democracy are keeping very quiet, and to the outeide world appear in a stateo torpidity; but this {s only apparent, Some sangulnc poli- ticians imagine that Tammany Hall will adopt a similar course as that in the late Mozart county nominations, by endoreing {is nominees. But this is purely speculative; the initiated who are in the secret of the ‘coal hole’ cau- cuses of Tammany profess to know that a different policy has been agreed upon, and that they will have an inde- pendent candidate for the Mayoralty. From present in- dications the battle threatens to be warm and—wordy. The republicans are alo working very quietly, but they have already a ong liss of aspirant for the obief magistracy of the city, many of whom are of the small! | fry order, and would not, if nominated, stand ‘a ghost of a chance” for election.’ The radical “pubs” have been casting their neta for several weeks, trying to tind a fish of the right stripe for vbe honor, but as yot are unsuccess- ful. Comptroller Haws? friends, learning that he was willing and apxious to resign bis preseut position, have proposed to the pure black ‘:pubs”” his name for Mayoral- ty hexors, but the proposition has met with a subdued growl and a denial of Mr. Haws? claime,on tho ground of his not being more of a party man since his installa- tion into the Comptrollorship, IM is quite probable that there will be three candidates in the fleld, and it is to be presumed that of these the loss objectionable will meet the ratification of the taxpayers. Police Intelligence. Carros Gy 4 Burotak.—On Thursday afternoon Mr. William 8. Williams, of No. 78 East Twenty filth street, had an oyorcoat stolen from bis office, in the pockets of which were the keys of the front door and the safe. Suspecting that tho thief would mako an attempt to entor tho office during the night time, Mr. Williams, in company with a friend, concealed himself in the building and watched for the expected return of the thiof. A little after midnight the thief made bis appearance, and opon- ing the office door commenced to explore the premises by the aid of lighted matches. Without waiting for any further demonstrations, Mr. Williams sprang forward and secured the intruder, who was almost mute with sur. prise at the suddenness of the movement. The prisoner, on being brought before Justice Kelly yesterday, gave his name os Henry Smith. Ho was committed for érial before the Court of General Sessions. Smrext Rowpyism.—Francis Callahan was taken tnto custody by policeman Boyle on chargo of assaulting Mra. Bridget Keenan and hor daughter Ellen, about one o'clock yesterday morning, as the latter wore returning to thoir home aftor sitting up with a rick relative. The agsauit occurred near the cornor of West Broadway aid Worth street, where the prisoner tt is alleged throw the youngor of the two females upon a box and attempted to take im- per liberties with her person. Mrs. Keenan, for inter- ‘im J in bobalf of her daughter, was also assaulted and felied to the ground. The cries of the women attracted the attention of the officer, who, hastening forward, suc- coeded aftor a sbort but exciting chase in capturing tho assailant. The prisoner was committed for trial on two charges of assault and battory. AN ALLecxp Pickrocket.——A young man named Anthony Stephenson was taken into custody by policeman Hamblin, of the Third precinct, on chargo of picking tho pocket of Frederica Soybold, residing at No. 200 Seventh stroot, Oa searching the prisoner a portomopnaic, containing $55, ‘was discovered, which was identified by Mrs. Seybold as her property. ’Stephenson was brought before Justioe Osborne, and wae committed for trial in dofault of bail. A Mopxs, Pouceman.—aAt the corner of Tonth street and Second avenue, on Wednesday evening, a drunken woman was beaten in a most brutal mannor by off of the po- lice, Persons who witnessed the occurrence state that the officer struck his victim several timos in the face, cutting her mouth and causing the blood to flow quite freoly. ‘The ep creature begged that he would not etrike her, but the aj war in vain, The model policeman boat ber until ‘was covered with blood. Aecrp Rosnerny on Siurnoarn.—Richard Kearney, John McCarty and Wm. Geary wore taken into custody by the harbor police of boet No. 7 on charge of robbery preferred against them by Francis Williamson. The ac- cused, It is alleged, went on board the ship Charlotte, bound for New is, where complainant was employ- ed, and, knocking him down on tha deck, robbed kim of watch, ome money aad clothing, valt in all at $200. ‘The prisonors were sent before the United States Obituary. Capt. Tomas Pan, U. 8. Navy, died in Washington ‘on the 19th inet. , (Linge ‘after a short illness. Capt. P. was severely wounded tn Fepuisiog ant Amerloan’ gunboats, wre? Savannah, by the boats Charleston, Sout L. Gray, Baq., late aclork in the United Stated Pension oflice, died of yellow fever at Powder Horn, Tox- as, on tho 27¢h ult, Bore about the Forbes Rees A TRUNK FULL OF ABOLITION PAPBHS LYING AROUND LOOBE. In the month of December, 1867, Oolonel Forbes re turned from bis Kaneas expouiion, aud yok up bis quar- ters at the European House, No. 707 apd 760 Brewlway. By o reference w the dates of his eorrespundesee, 1% will be found that much of it, and, among other things, bis letters (o Sanborn aud vthers, were writ ten from this Lote). Oo bis return frem Washmgtoo, m Jure, 1868, Gol. Forbes again wok up bis readieuoe to this house, and, on removing from the place, @ short wme after, he eft a large box of books, papers, &&, &¢., in the care of the proprwwr, to be called for at a future period. On several owasione since leaving the betel he has, persovally and through his friends, made application for a reavoration of we trunk ond its coutents, but never could got bis property into his posreesion. ‘The reasons alleged by the proprietor of the hotel for detaining the trunk and papers is, that Ov). Forbesse bis debtor to the tune of $126 25, and he says that the books ond papers were lef in Ins hands as seourity for the amount. A friend of Col. Furbes—Mr. William Kemeye— yesterday waited on the proprictor of the hotel, im com pany with two gentlemen, for the purpose of ascertaining the intentions of the hotel keeper im regard to the Furbes’ documents. The interview wus a brief one, and very few important facts were elicited from Mr. Hanemanp, the proprietor. Mr. Kemeys inquired of bim if he intended wo give up the papers. To ths he replied that he would not do #0 without the payment of his bill. Mr. Kemeys assured bim that Col. Forbes was as poor as death, and was at present prostrate on a bed of sickness, and, therefore, could pay nothing. Mr. Hanemann re- garded this as a great misfortune, wih which he bad nothing to do. His bill, he said, had beon ran up for bread, meat, wine and lodgings; and as his landlord would not permit bitn to stay im the house twenty minutes after his rent was due and unpaid, be had to insist on his lodgers paying their bills. Mr. Kemeye acquiesood in this, but suggested that the bill had already beon paid by the note of Colone] Forbes, and added that he had the proprietor’s receipt in his pocket. Mr. Hanemann seem- ed greatly surprised at this statement, but broadly denied the fact, alleging again that the books and had beon fett with bim as security for tho debt. Mr. Kemeys said that this was simply absurd, for no man would cake a trunk of books and papers as security for a debt like that speken of. The howl keeper promptly responded, that sometimes a packet of letters or papers is found ‘more valuable than a pao or other piece of furnitare, and that his reason for holding the papers was, that he thought they woulo be valuable to Colonel Forbes’ aad that, therefore, they would pay his bill and at Besides, he said he knew that there were abolition wi iwgs avd books in the trunk, for Quionel Forbes had wid um so, and bad given bim some of the bovks. Mr. Ke- meys objected ‘this would be very wrong, and tbat Mr. Hanemann hed no right to sell the private fapers loft in his carc. Mr. H. contended that he was hot gelling the papers, bat that he had a right to protect himself, He bad always buen very kad tw Col. Forbes, ano he insisted on the payment of his bill. The conversation between Mr. Kemeys and the hotel keeper continued for # time to relate simply to the abject poverty of Col. Forbes und the delivery of the papers. At Jengtb Mr. Hanemann suid that to yw how much he was inclined to be just, he would give up the trunk and ay just ap he bad recenved them for one-baif of the bil, Dlr. Kemeys asked him whether, sf he couki raise the sum of }, be would take that and give up the papers. The proprietor reflected a moment, and weu said there was a seoovd person to consult in the mawer. He then left the room. Shortly after he returned and consented to take $€0._ Mr. Kemyes stood up for $50 and tpoke of Jaw, when Boniface became somewhat excited and said that Mr. K. might sue bim as soon as be pleased. Mr. Kewgye—But ido vot wish tw sue you. J am act- Ing a8 & (ried of Col. Forbes, and do not wish to see his family correspondence made public. Put yourself in his place ano Bee how yoa would like it. ‘Ibe hotel keeper reflected fur some time, but still in- sisted on his $60. Mr. Kxaxvé—But bow am I to know that all the papers of Colone} Forbes are in the trunk as he left tem? Keren. ‘ tor -Timve + Repay pata ccna Oa ape te ees pk: ever been ip the trunk and taken out some pers? It may be go. Hors. Kxxrgr—] am almost certain no one ever did eo, The chances aro one to ninety-nine, Mr. K.—Then you say that you will return the trank ‘and contents the sare as it was when you received it? Horny Kxxrzx—Yos, except the lock, which I broke off. Mr. K.—You bad no right to do that, for it was Ovionel Forbes’ property. ‘The proprietor of the hotel insisted that it was his pro- perty, and began to get furious again, but eventually calmed down aud eaid that if he were paid $50—the sum Pad Kemeys said be wouk try to raise—he would give up \e property. The foliowing is a copy of the recei; to Colone) Forbes by the owner of the of his note:— ‘Mr. K—But how can you tell whether any ono bas the pa- which was given on the receipt New Your, Ji 1888, ‘Wm. H. Forbes, To Mre. Ramseyer ie Hotel ‘Francais Kepanol, 767 and 769 Broadway, corner of As per bill rendered... #119 25 street. One week's board. ‘Total.. ne Received payment. tee et tases eeececeeess ses. $126 25 BUSAN RAMSEYER, Per host. M. Jounson. ‘The present proprietor of the hotel is the son-in-law of Mrs. Kameeyer. ‘The interview yesterday with Mr. Hanemann broke up somewhat abruptly, but not before his admission of breaking open the trunk, and his readiness to acoept $50 for the debt. It would thus seem that Colonel Forbes— who is now in Toronto—if avy of his correspondence should become public, is not in any way to be blamed, as his private papers have been thus forcibly detained. SchMler Centennial Festival at the Astor House. Last evening a largo company—a fair proportion of whom wero ladies—aseembled at the Astor Houso to colebrate the centennary of Schiller, the German poot and dramatist. The large banquet hall had its walls draped with flowers apd cvergreens; each of te panels bore the name of a celebrity in the history of the world, among which appeared the names of Washington and ‘Jeflerson, encircled with immortelles. Tho upper ond of the ball was drapored with American and other flags. In the ceptre was the German standard, bordered with black, and in front of this was a bust’of Schiller wreathed with immortelles. Leopold Reinwirth presided, and on his right and left sat eeveral gentlemen, American and German, who took rn in the proceedings of the evening, dolivering focal; ‘&c. Among those on the right of the Chairman was Mayor Tiemann. Tho important part of the arrange- ,ments for the due celebration of the occasion as a festival ‘was no doubt characteristic of the hospitality and cour- tesy of the German people; but as the invitation to the press was fixed at an hour which debarred the reporters an opportunity of ocular demonstration on the subject, nothing positive can be said. ‘The cloth being in due time romoved, the assemblage ‘was addressed by several Gormaa speakers in succession. Tho firet toast was ‘‘Sobiller,” and was introduced and reeponded to in eloquent language, if the applause which foliowed is to be taken as a criterion. ‘The second toast was ‘German Fatherland,’’ which was drank with much eothusiasm. The third toast was “The Land of our Adoption.”” ‘This toast was eloquently responded to in the Gorman laps ‘The Sext epeaker eulogised the writings of Schiller and Goetho—men whose names are eternal in the hearts of thetr countrymen and of the world. The Hon. Groror was the next spoaker, and delivered one of the finest elooutionary cffurts of the evening. He pala @ glowing and animated tribute to the memory of Schiller. President Kmxa, of Columbia College, responded on be- half of the toast to the arts and sciences. Ho regretted Unat he could pot address the meeting in their own noble language, but he would epeak to them in his own lan- guage, which was kindred to their own. Ho spoke of tho fact that the Gorman treated woman with more respect and consideration than other people. The most ancient historians bad told us that while other nations treated woman as toys ami playthi , the Ger- man made ber his friend, companion ond adviser. Kven in this country, the Germane had eet an example of con- aeration for’ woman which he hoped would spread through the whole nation. The scene before him that evebing was enough to evince the German appreciation of woman. It was the first timo in his life that he had ever seen at a public celebration the women mingling with the men as was to bo seen this evening. He hoped tho Ame- ricans would be inoculated with this custom. bog He thon proceeded to eelogise the Germans for their genius, talents and accomplishments. The arts and ecionces found their culminating point in Germany. Army Intelligence. Captain G P. Kingebury, Ordnance Department, has deen detailed as a member of the Board of Officers insti- tuted by the War Department for the oxamination, &c., of rifled cannon, in the place ef Captain A. B. Dyer, of tho Sk Asari Si re ciel ete ver ral Qrumanding Department of Texas as Inspector, all eee Teports having in ioe. Oticors baring woch ite peblic property ‘om hase vice. re e on requiring the action @ the Ins:ector will make directly to him, accompanying the application an in- ventory of the property to be A leavo of absence for sixty days, with permission to apply for an extension of six months’ haa beba granted vo Lieut. Walter N. Jenifer, Second cavalry. An extension of leave of absence for six months each has been ted to Brevet Major L. A. Armistead, Sixth infantry ; Lieut. P. W. L. Plympton, Seventh infan' Lieut. Robert ©, Hull, Fifth infantry, ary Interesting from Buenos Ayres. OUR BUBNOS AYRES OORRMMPONDENGE. BUENOS AYRmS, Supt. 16, 1859. Ponttion of Buenos Ayres Towards the Argentine Gunfellera- tun—Hidorical Resume of Her Ounstitutionsl Progress: de., de, Ie Buenos Ayres an aseaulted State or a provinces in re- Ddeliion? Ap answer to this question will appear in 2 brief skoteh ‘of her history. Buenos Ayres was settled under the Spanish flag in 1636. During that contury the whole valley of tne Rao do te Plata was occupied by Spain, and for conveuteace the whuie country was divided into provinces, which were ruled by a viecroy. A rebellion, inisated in Buenos Ayres in 1810, extended gradually to the other provinces, so that in 1616 a ounvea- tion which copvemed in Tucuman, representing the La Plate provinoss, formed a republican constitution, closely mo telled after that of the United States. The ounfsdera- tion thus formed has been known by various names, as “United Provinces,” ‘Provinees of the La I'lata,” and now “The Argentine Confederation.” In 1881 the principles of the government were again thoroughly reviewed and reaffirmed, and Gen. Juan Manuel de Rosas became President. Ho was a bold, vigorous man, and he gradually strengthened the govern- ment toto an absolute despotism, im which the liberty, property aud lite of the ruleu were in the hands of we ruler, and there was no appeal. In 1862 Gen. Justo Avtour de Urquiza, Governor of the provines of Entre Riws, gethering av army in the upper ovinces, prociaumed a revolution, marched agamat eas, ad routed him at the battle of Qaseros, near Buenos Ayres; and Rosas, ruined politically and pecu- piarily, ape yt by aforeign vessel of war to England, where he lives. General Urquiza was hailed as the liberator. He dis: solved the legwlature, repealed all existing laws, substi- tuted others more liberal, and called a convevuon in Avguet, 1862, of the Governors of the Provinces w form @ Lew Republican Ounstitution. When the constitution thus formed waa submitted to the Provinces for adoption, it was rejected y Buenos Ayres, Soon after this rejec’ tion, the as my, left by Urquiza to hoki the city, was driven out by a lar demoustration, Lith September, 1862. In the fol February, 1863, General Urqaiza. returned to enforce his authority and that of the conetitu- ton, and beseiged the city. At the end of six months his army retreated im disorder, and ho himself oaty found pervonal safety on board the United Biateg steamer Water Witeb, then under command of Captain Fage, who was upon an exploring exped tion to the rivers of South America. General Urquiza is still grateful for this favor, which he has often and in many ways acknowledged. ‘was the last appeal to arms, and from the awk- ‘ward and unpatural state of affairs of July, 1853, macy bag put advanced a step. Buenos Ayres declares bereelt dissatisfied with the eovstitation; that in it injas- tice is done to her, and that by its being submitted fur adoption the right to reject it was conceded. General Urquiza, who was elected under that constita- thon ip 3863, for aterm of six years, comes hour of z from office, to subdue Buenos Ayres, 80 as to give to his successor the repubhc im its int ity. Buenos Ayres meantime professes only to be a 4 claims no privileges of independence, except incidental ones, and professes tobe ready on fair terms Ww enter the confederation. ‘And now wages the war. Each party has aboat 8,000 armed'men, who are waiting in garrison the opening of summer. Each of the belligerent parties 18 represented ip the river Plate by about half a dozen war steamers and two or three armed schooners. The efforts of the United States Manister to negotiate a peace bave utterly failed, #0 that the arbitrament of war ia pow the only alternative. fo that Buenos Ayres, as a province, has never given her ageent to the exist.ng constitution, and as independent choice was allowed her, she is of not a rebellious rovince, but a sovereign Btate, capable alte of alliances & of independence. THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF BUENOS AYRES, General Bartholomew Mitré, at the age of thirty-six, at the head of the land forces of Buenos Ayres. He began his military career in 1840, as ensign, and he has ascend- ed etep by step, in esteem and position, until be became, in 1889, b; Bonatorial Sieplona Somuspantee io- cami tiie tie ) he Tilt been Cabinet Minister, and be only Jeft the War Department for tho war itaolf. General Mitré is of a military family, his father and bro- thers having made themecives known both apon the field and by military authorship. For four years of the siege of Montevideo he commanded one of those delachée butte- ries which for ten years resisted a force of ton thousand ‘veteran troops, and in 1846, when he had heroically gone to the aid of Bolivia, in the command of the artillery, he decided the tunes of the day at the battle of Vilichi, In 1851 he allied bimeelf with General Urquisa in the effort to overtbrow the ,. despot, General Rosag. At the batile of Caseros, February 2, 1862, Lieut. Col Mitré commanded & buttery which told’ powerfully upon the destinies of the day, and when the aaministra- pene ne aera ope en of Rosas at that bat- tle—was found to fail in important political principles, Col. Mitré was as ready to join in the revolution of 11 of 1862, which suatched Buenos Ayree in an hour from the bands of a garrison of ten thousand soldiers. Upon the virtual bear nyse of Buenos Ayres, be was appoint: ed Secretary of War under the administration of Governor ‘Obligado, and again he filled the same post under Gover- nor Alsina. Inthe present struggle all eyes turned to him as the fittest for the chief command. His election was hailed as predictive of success, and at once order, discip- hue and vigor were infused into the whole army. General Mitsé is self-educated. His early life was spent upon a cattle farm, and, further than in the element branches, he had no instructor. His partiality for the ar- Ullery directed him to the study of mathematics, and his early mania for versificatiin led him to the study of Ar- ca. and foreign literature. An intense admiration of the character of General Beigrano was the occasion of his bringing outthe biography of that gallant officer, which became under his skilful pen the best history of South American independence ever published. In national con- ventions and in the Eegislative Assembly he has often ap- pee and always with great credit, as a debater and jer By his contributions to the literature of hie native ooun- try, he bag, in comparative youth, gained an enviable eminence a8 poet, orutor, biographer and bistorian. In person Geveral Mitré fe @ little above middle sta- ture, bis features are plain and regular, and in his fore- bead he bears the result of a fracture by a spent ball. Ordinarily there is in his countenance a great want of ani- mation; but in a time of excitement, though he cannot be surprised, he reveals the existence, deep within, of the real Southern fire. Ae from the field of batéle itself, his namie is unstained %, asingle act of violence. In re- ligion of course he is a olic, but be has won distinc- tion by his most generous and tolerant spirit. Ho has for years advocated publicly and Privately, witn voice and pen, the untrammeled liberty of conscience. ‘To be mere explicit in sketching the character of General Mitré would be simply to write a eulogy. Happy would South America be were all patriots as puro; appy. will the world be when each vigorous workor and thinker shall construct a character so harmonious. Court of General Sessions. Before Judge Russell. A NOTORIOUS COUNTERFEIMER SENT TO THE STATE PRISON. Nov. 11.—At the opening of the Court to-day John Snooks, apparently a very intelligent men, and gaid to be & well-kaown character, was placed on trial charged with forgery in the second degree, in having in his possession two counterfeit ton dollar bills on the Nassau Bank of Brooklyn, with a folonious intent to utter them. He was jointly indicted with Wm. Fishor, who was disposed of fing Bing.” “The principal wituces for tne prosoceion was 5 witness for the prosecution was officer Fitzmaurice, who gave a lengthy but very interost- tng account of the doings of the prisoners on the morning of the 26th of August. Ho watched them go from Broad- ‘way to Maiden lane, saw them confer together in ea ways, and arrested Snooks. After arresting Snooks, the officer pursued Fisher, who entered a stationery store in Maiden lane and ’ offered a worthless tea dollar bill in exchange for some articles. The officer arrested him, and took both of them prom) sae frag house. It was observed that Snooks threw something from his pocket while he was detained in the store daring officer Fitzmaurice’s tem- Porary absence, which, on being examined, was found to the bills charged in the indictment. The defonce offered toetimony to show that a man paid a debt to Snooks in the worthless monoy; but the story and the circumstances connected with it were so improba- ble that the jury rejected the plea, and, after liste to the lucid charge of the Judge, promptly Tuniieed ature dict of guilty. Counsel for the defonce moved a postponement of tho sentence, which was denied, whereupon the prisoner was. asked why judgmont should not be pronounced against him. He mado quite a long speech tothe Court, and it was evident from the language which he used that he pos. seesed considerable natural talent, which, if it had been employed in an honorable calling, would have made him & reapectable member of eociety. The Judge observed, in passing sentence, that Snooks had served a term in the Btate prison, but learning that he bad pursued an honest calling since his release, the Judge, instead of ending him to the State prisom for ton es Sentenced bim to imprisonment in that imatitution for five years and six months. Superior Coart. Before Hon. Judge Moncrief. Nov. 11.—Wm. Leland ce. Ludlow & Co., Auctioneers.— ‘The plaintiff claimed that ho omployed tho defendants to fell e beuse and lot fot him, in Green streot, and that it was bid off by one of the deputy shoriffs for $6,780, and ‘that the rT gave bis chock to Ladlow & Go. for the sual ten per cent. McKibbon, the deputy Sheriff, failed to perform the bid, and Leland claimed check; the having been subsequently sold at a red Ta to him the check, but re- turned it to the deputy Sheriff, claiming that the bid was ‘& mere offer, and did not bind the aser. For plain- tiff, Messrs. Hyde & Jonks. For defendants, Mr. G, P, An- drews. Verde amount. for defendants, “TRPGRTANT POLITICAL DOCUMENT. Authoritative Exposition of the Posities | ef Edward Ba’ m the Slavery Ques- om, FREEDOM THE RULE— SLAVERY THE EXOBPTION, {From the St. Louis Kvening News, Nov. 8} Some of the opposition papers of Migsuuri (the 8t. Jo- ceph West among them), while admitiwg the ol private citizens, who suppose themselves candidates for the Presicency, thrusdng their opinions on all ques- ions upasked ob the country, nevertheless appear to tick that the case of Edward Bates is 9 exeeption They claim thut Mr. Bates stands 80 prom ontly bx > the ‘country a8 a possible candidate {0 ..0 Preside oy, and that the anxiety of Missourian: ~ 80 great to de lare in favor of bim, if his views on ; acerptable to them, that Mr his views on that one subject .. Ie citizens after committing themselves to his support might find themselves in w fulse pusition, There will be no occasion for any citizen ever feeling any embarracsinent ou Mr. Bates’ account. He is pote dicate for the Presidency, und wiil not seem by ‘pebinh ing letters opasked, and ou even the most occa- sion, to be courting attention to bis views But if Mr. Batesthould be made a candidate by the authoritative rl of bis has trymen, be will obtain ne vole upon false pretences. ‘He will stand upon no juggle, hike the Gpcinpati platform, with ite double readings. Tho country will know his a all questions, manifestly as in lettors of hving bu then, Mr. Bates’ views of slavery will not be more for mally ast forth, But us the Brewing Newe, several months sented the name ot Mr. Bates a3 tbe favorite of the’ Be Louie oppositionsts for the Vresidency, it is to be suppored that we had gufliceut’ knowledge of his opinion® on this and other subjects, to justify the nomina- tion of him. It may be that we kuow enough of bis views, €veu Bow, to satisfy the more importunate qneriste in the matter. The following are whut we are sure will be found to be the views of Edward Bates on the slavery question: — SLAVERY NOT WENPHICLAL EOCALLY, POLMIGALLY OR REU- ‘crovety. Mr. Bates does not believe that ‘African slavery ts the corner stone of Jiberty.’” He does not believe that African slavery is a beneficial institution, either in a social, political or religious sense, Not in a eocial sense, because it sets at naught the family relation and ceparates man and wife, parents and ebildren, at the caprice or on the necessities Of owners, Not ina political sense, because it is productive of diseords be- tween natiens that tolerate it, aud nations that do not, and because it is liable to panics, commotions, insurrections and massacres, and has ended often in bloody Not in a religious sense, because it rbuts the mind knowledge, makes the word of God a sealed book to slave, aud gives his body tw the service of a human mas- ter, whereas the body of every created being should be freely given to the service of God. ITS KXTENAION’ UNCONETITUTIONAL EXCEPT BY AFFIRMATIVE 23. GISLATION. Because Mr. Bates doce not bdelicve that slavery isa beneficial institution, either in a social, ‘political or religious tense, be is unalterably opposed to ite exwnsion into Ter- ritorks already free. Mr. Bates, in bis political creed, is a Henry Clay whig, and Mr. Clay doclared that bis “right arm should drop from bis shoulder before he would vote to extend slavery over one foot of territory already free.” Mr. Bates heartily endorges that ecntiment, and to that creed. Mr. Batee does not believe that the constitution, by its proper vigor carries slavery into all the territorles that may be acquired by the United States. He believes that freedom is the rule, and meres: the exception. He does not believe that slavery can exist in any territory acquired by the government of the United States, except by the positive law of Congress. That positive law Mr. Bates would not be in favor of passing, because for reasons already given, he is opposed to the extension of slavery into territory already free. DISTINCTION BETWEEN SLAVE AND OTHER PROPKRIY OORVAL ‘WITH THE GOVERNMENT. If it be held that this exclusion of slave from territory ‘acquired by the common blood and treasure of the Union,” establishes an invidious distnction between two eections of the Union—that it denies to the South that are freely given to the North—Mr. Bates denies em- phatically that it has apy such effect. Tho d' complained of is coeval with the government. Jt is no new tbing—no modern hardship; in tact, no hardship at ail. The localizing of slavery—the prohibition of its emi- gate, and establebing itself in free ter: ‘was em- lied im the compact of the Union, at the . Bat for this limitation the ween ates, got far more than an be he national and votes for every Bvo slaves. Biaves do not vote, but their masters vote for them. The fn the South count as much as the votae of five men in the free States. (COTIZENS OF NEW YORK POSKPSSING RIG! Why should this be eo? If tlaves are ont y fo? If slaves are only as the Southern man will ray, why shold not the Reriaen tnan’s property vote algo? ‘It js all only property. the slavebolder is to compini, therefere, that a distinction is made againet him—that he cannot zo into the common territory of tho country and take his property, the citizen of the free Btate can reply—‘* It is not property like my property that you wish to take, but it is proper- ty that votes—it is property that gives you two and @ balf votes to my one—it is property that makes me inferior to you in our relations to the federal government; and that is not fair when we come to occupy what has been bought by ‘the common blood and treasure of the Union.’ is distinction between free property and slave pro- perty is, a5 before stated, as old as the constitution itself. If there were no Terr the OF PROPERTY NOT him and hoid it. A citizen of Virginia, to the State of Ohio, and carry all his proper hold ft. fe can’t do it now. He coulan’ by ago, nor twenty years ago, nor at avy time since isted as a State of the Union. Why 16 this @0? the constitution prevail equally over all the Union? not the very language of the second section of the ft article of the constitation of the United States declare that “the citizens of each State snall be entitled to all pri- vileges and immunities of citizens in the several ‘States 2” SLAVERY 18 NOT PROTBOIKD BY THK CONETITUTION, BUT ONLY BY LOCAL LAW, Yet we find that citizens of Massachusetts possoas, and have possessed for over fifty years, certain privileges in the mattor of cbanging their domicils, which the citisens of Virginia do not possess. One can go to Ohio and his property end keep it. The other cannot And Jet demagogues would bave Southern men believe that ho discrimination against their property ought to exist, or ever did exist, and that to enforce such diserimmation in the settlement of now States would be to establish a dis- Unction between certain classes of property which the South cannot, in honor, eubmit to. If slavery cannot go into the free States and maintain itselt, why should it expect to go into freo Territories and maintain itself—there being in neither case local lews to protect it? Is not the constitution of the United States vigorous, as comprehensive and a¢ just in Onio as it is Kansas? Doce it not regard the property—the vested righte-—of all citizens, in all places of the repul equally sacred? If slavery is pational—if it exisw constitution iteelf—how can the constitution permit BR rit in constitut the federal government have no power to interferet Of course not; for the constitution says “the United States shall guarantee to every State a republican form of government.” such @ State government despoiling a man of his right, Would not be republic but despotic. It is cloar thas if slavery be the r it be national—if it exists in the constit , and is carried wherever the constitution ‘vaile—that it is as sacred in Ohio as in firmly to bo upheld in eithor as on the banks bine. Wherever the flag of the Union floats, citizen is entitled to protection ewe ational and constitutional. Such would be regard to slave property if slavery is national. THE DISROGNATION NEVER THOUGHT 4 HARDSHIP SOUTH But this is not eo. Tt is mbt claimed even by the and never hes been, that @ elave owner has remove with his negroes toa free State, United States government to protect him in Yet his right to go to a free Btate is z fl a rfl I i &5 Be i HL jadallen ig Kaneas, 4 property €o as deprive the citizens of the Union of thelr national and conetitutional nghus? This | igted And why? Because, perhaps lates felt that in the privilege to vote on their slaves, that species of property had obtained a peculiar and tranacen- dent advantage over all other property in the Union, that more than compensated for its one restriction—to wit: that it should not enter into and cetablish iteelf in free Btates. don, also, thi vilep that thould propose to abandon, also, the eee tant ch rty enjoys. Surely itis only fair that Thom iepetat of met, become equal before it Clams 6. go ae equal into the common territory of the Union. If the South decline the one, how can it fairly claim the ? Son = aan ont ae IMPOSED BY LAW. ESS, Mr. Rates does not, therefore, regard ‘noo. of savory into the Territories of the Union aa carbine a distinction between property; batsimply as maint a distinction already established, willing! the South at the formation of the Rince. re rlidtilisl ; aie | = Bates ‘well ask themselves more is gained by asking what cannot be bad, and sul to the fatal necessity of denial and defoat; or asking that the resent limite, privileges and) guarantees rr. as a slavery whether