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2 THE CHARLEST CONVENTION, Som? of the Candidates and) Mince; and mai Xhat be will turn NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. with Mr. Dovgias | The delegates to the Charleston Convention from inee: | rieran.ra wi hie hen cast dao and hie devel . States areinatructed to go for Stephen A. Douglas for ow pushed forward by his , rely iog On bis “Juck,”’ seem tent up fortunate wioner @f the Hat he been jodigwasiy governed, the Vice Mr. Breckipridge is just p Presioect might fave Come im oo the last beat. But hat is now ous of he Question, Fhe frieads have tried Is mite, and have po reason to be over ernfical ia | ! yew othe remult. tn Kemineky they enter by all | Their Prospects. The Pulling of Wires and the Laying of Pipes, [3 ke, &o. GIN SORRRSPON DEN OUR VIRGINIA C declan! UY | Phe Oharleston Yonvention—The Ded-gates from Vorginia— | What is th, Real Voice of the State Wise im the Aven: | dant—Hno Douglas Stands i tne South, de. \ Every Nerthero or that has 80 far commented upon ‘She rction of the Virginia Democratic State Convention | geems to have falien into ® palpable error ag to te result | pf the vole upon the substitute to a resolution offered py | Gen. Chapman, declariug Sovernor Wise to be the choise | of Virginia for the Presitency. The substitute declared it mexpedient |. express a preference, and pledged the Con- ‘veation to support the nominee of the harleston Conven- | ‘Mon, The telegraph erroneously represented the substi: } tate ap being adopted, when the very opposite was the | fact The vote upon it was taken on Fritay night, ‘put | the Convention adjourned over until the following dary, pa. fore the yote was counted up. (0 the meeting oF the | Donvention, on Seturday morving, a controversy gross | ‘apon the question of allowing the abseutocs ¥) yote—the ‘Wiee men taking the affirmative in the argu mont and the | Maprer men ‘he negative. Toe cont oversy ragod | fartously the whole of Saturday; and when the | (Obmir decided thet it was in order to record the absen- | Wwous, a fnyious yelling and peate from te decision of un Mace ii impossible or the | or wase thitnsel at the siigges | Gen ral J. 1 by roms of Wise's fricnas, te count the vote a8 It / 400d; aud the result show | ed & wih hourwus Ave huadrer ana Atty two | agenst ’ Tom was, in effet. aseptiog the resolution weral ChaOr yao, exorewsing ap | Yor Wire—toe kubstitute, ton’ was voted down, Deing a | Competng propoki on wy p thatol General Caaymar. A | more accurate court oft ne vote by the secretaries, now | ever, reveaicd & E01 ore fazgrabie result io refereace to ithe substiewte was ascer- Hf th sntaes were | st tt woall haveex | Wee, for the majority ugs mined to be 3,962, 1.7) wad of 1,582 allowed to vote tr @ majority a) ‘oreded twelve (b/onsand. It was # kaow!eige of this | fact ibat dreve the Muster men w rears to tas | Stratagcms oud —uinult wirien the report of toe | Proceeeinge W “fhe HERALD #0. pialply deveipoed Ata Caucus of the Urlepgates tavoradie to Wise, neld at Corin. | than Hal or te wight b. @ meetiog of Un ’ ‘tion, it Wor Ce Joiuveiy ascerts ned, trom & call ‘and the rh er nse of velegates Wise nad a over (Weve (houseD t favorable te a expressioy Of pref Fence for hsm, while there w not teas thao seven eight tro more whose pina he wae, but wh were Opposed to aN Expression fecw I fraie upon the mee: rebar detwem Wie ans Hupter, a d. of preference would ehow Wive 10 thovmvad abea! of bis rival O} | electars chosen in the Skate n are known to be favo- | rabic 10 Wise; aud whea the delegaes are chosea tu the Beveral cistricts the number favorable to nim ill be | foorito exceed even tia ratio down Wise as the chore ‘The trien is of Judge You may safely set ot Vicginia beyoud all question, Donglas who represent tli as gain- tng strength ip the Sovth must be entirely igaoraat of | We state of feel io that ection jn references to him Of | Al the democrwae cane towed in connection | | with tbe cbar i strength fw the South formally de elarea that they woul even it he got the pomicawon ; and candicate who oar mand the united vote of the South stands, of chance. These seciarations of preference for Northern Sta‘es wii! avail vothiog at Charleston, sipce the Section to-wbich fae democrauc party has to Loox for its Winmph repudiates bim. Ta» people of the souh laaga | of men feeking to fot Nonglas upon them, give aguarantee that asiogle Nortacra state o ever he muy are bring forward ‘Will go for the demovratic Caporale, w The Sorthera wan who would he V would inevitants for | feit No man who has say regard for his frriure prospects w:ll veature 19 doit A WORD ON THE OTHER SIDE. Ricumoyp, Va. , March 22, 1860. What the Virginia Democratic Convention Really Did~ Hunter the Cock of the Walle, bc. As much speculation bas been intuiged ia with respact te tim influence of the Democratic State Couventvn ta Richmond, vpon the political prospects of Seoator Huutor and ex-Goyernor Wise, I deem it due to truth and to the @emocratic party of the country to present « brief expo- mition of the proceedings of that body. Ht bas always been the policy of tne democratic party im Virginia, with bot 4 solitary exception, Ww abeisin from ny expression of preference for @ particuler can ti‘ate dy the State Convention, leaving the peopis of tho seve: ral electoral districts perfectiy free and uatrammeiled io Whe selection of delegates to the National Convention, who ‘were respovsibie stone to their respective districts for the manner in which they executed the important trust com- mitted to them. Oonfiding in the continued observance of that time honored usage, and believing that the Conveutioa would wonfire itself to its regutar ana legitimate duties, une party throughont tbe State tovk but littie interest in the appoint ment of delegates to that body, and hence tne county meetings were but thinly attended—in some insiwaces eompoeed of not more than twenty or thirty members, iu sountice containing from 1,000 to 1,200 democratic voters. Under there circumstances, the friends ie. Wie, ‘upon the meeting of the Convention, supposiug that am: ity of the members in sttendauce were ‘avorabic to fa womination, cetermined, w disregard of previous to ‘press upon the Conyention a resolution «: jing the preference of the Slate for him, for the do le pUTPOEe, AB BYOWed Dy ils advocates, of exerting an Wafluence fu the selection of delegates by the Diarict Conventions in the State, and at the same tice civing him additional strength in other States This resolution was opjwsed by the friends of Seua or Hunter, as contrary to the usages of the party—an wr | proper interference with the righis of the peopie, aud, if | Successful, calculated to mislead the pndtic miad as to | the true state of feeling in Virgiaia upon the sabject; wat | agubmitote for the original resolution was geomiticd, ce | @laring it inexpedient to express any preference. After | an animated isc: ssion of nearly two days, » vole was ‘taken on the substitute, which is believed to have pra: ‘wailed by 8 sma! majority, but the vole not Laving beew published, its preciee character cannot be a=certainad. Bren it is, however, tbat afier that volo, the (ciends of Governor Wise themecives proposed to lay tha whole aub- Jeot on the table, and thereby admitied their utter defeat. Maay of the counties in the State known to bs almost unanimous ‘n their preference for Senator flunter, were, Bevertheless, represented in the late Conventioo almost exchisively by the frieuds of Governor Wise. Whettor | thie resulted from accident or greater activity on the part | of the Governor's {rieuis, still it afurdaa very unsafe | ‘ertterion by which to judge the real septiments of the | Virginia democracy. While many of them admire some Of the traits of Governor Wise’s character, yet the great maseof the party cliag to and more ‘ally confide in Sena- tor Hanter, as a truer ant move cousistent repreventative | of the great principles of State rights, which have shad > wweh lustre upon the obsracter of the Ancient, Do- minian, ano it is coufltentiy believed by those who are best | informed upon the subject that Senator Hunter, in a vote canfined to the demccracy of the Stats alone, would peat ex-Governor Wise more than two toone, and if submitted Yo the whole people, by more than three to one. Should Mr. Hunter receive the comination at Charleston, it ts conceded that there will be no opposition ucket tn Virginia, for all parties have entire confidence in his purity of character, consistent poiley and eminent con- vervatiam. Whitest bo bas ever maintained his own pri ‘eiples with the most unbending frances, he has always | treated Ais opponerts with courtesy and kindness; and | hence he has po pertonal enemies in his own State or re. Hie enlarged, liberal and philosophical states- | | | \ | manship, bounded only by the great intarests of his awhole country. are duly apprecigted by his owo immo- | ‘inte coprtituents. and should commend bim to the favor | of the whole confederacy OUR KENTUCKY CORRESPONDENCE. Kastccky, March 20, 1860. Weithe’ Douglas nor Breckinridge Will Do for Kentucky— Guthrie the Man for the Times. SBpeo. vations in regard to the reanit of the deliberations of the ©) 1arleston Convention, are as rife bere as in the | great pei itical centres of Washing‘on city and New York. It may (n> that, removed from the inflocnces that warp She judgment and sway the feelings of even tho calmeat | observer ia thote citier, we may guess more correctly at dhe courme of ‘‘coming events’ than better informed, but amore pr'ejaciced and interested politicians at “head quar- | aur? swill not be". gous than any other gentleman whose neme will be be. | wroudy ive great axtiafaction toa majority of the demo, | New Hampshire and other States. Hu nas also more | sate | homes had Deeh pr } four CXceptions, are #1 strongly». Irritated by th» congo met j Gabe, | jug, uncer the ©, | par, | port, and ald ww securing his election, | to virtually end the campaign, meact np their power, to prevent the recommen tation of Mr ce. They sigaaiiy fared. Tory were defeat, lenetvonely cfeated. To the contest for delegates fur tae t large, he BvOwed ‘rienus of Mr. Gutarie, whe’ ed wm the newer, =} cules for the portion, were all cles. aer@ AS Cane | The district delegates, selector py j¢71.07 He frat dsitet. | with three or | emphatically for | amount. | fodted, probable Mr 6, wlinost to dad faith, « 13 { the Kentrepy @- ovcckiurioge will nog get the vave of withcrawe >) -vitgation, even shouls Me. Gainria bo Cow The foliompg paragraph, from the Loaisville <r oi the Luth, edited by one Of the delegates, sooma ; to Maicate such w feehog:— ‘We bave no reasons to believe tat Mr. Breckinridge ” and And not ¥r. Gotorie, ie the chu of the people, and the man tor the mer” —we have se, 00 indicat sttbis is the Leche #10 should et the Semmens of tucky ov their TEDFeseutatives At Cb urleston Lecome eonvinaed of this, we Ye bture to aay the coaviotion iil be produc: agar ert by Cenee than bes yet geen he light, o: is believed to In otbor Sie4ea his ir nde have not been moro 8. ful. 0 atuecumpt to Cure ao expression in bis favor fror the Penvey!vauia Convention failed. A simi ar oro 100, 1 tke Louwiana Couvenuon was twice voued Yown by over#heiming majoriies There i# nothing in bis record to g ve bin por strength with the people. Hig speech at Cynibiana tn the spring of 1855 is not oal- Cuinted to give Dim great popularity with foreign bora bis. The truth is that, Gate, the democracy T anst lose by, da feat. The election of, ber Mwuete Wate sates hook ax ee of Jobp Brown to give activity and v to of hoenlity to elaveholting aad slavehol de wn tbe vurrery and the matatmipistr our eoucatiopal system aoa retigious lustitubions, that ba become ialent and almost extinct GUR MASSACHUSETTS CORRESPONDENCE. Boston, April 2, 1860. Delegates to the Charleston Conveniion—Fraternal Quarrels Among the Faitifule— District Comventions—Presidentis Procltvities of Delegotes—Oollector Austin and the De. mocracy. ‘Though the moet sanguine of the Bay State democracy have not a shadow of faith that the electoral vote of Maas- achusetts will be given to tae cancidate of the Charleston Convention, there {s, of course, not a delegate from here but is Cully impressed with the peculiar importance of his own position, the value of his ind vidual vote and the ho hae Gj pione Voure Hit speech at Frackfort in Deo wider lass mor- | tally ofepced the @ berenis of Me. Dougles; aad his {lt Poig eller, 1b the tatl of 1868, and hia epeech at Florence Jn the Bummer of that year on the Lecomy qiieation, make it mporsible or mm to receive the vous of Lo aati Le compton frieucs of Mr. Dougiaa, without which ho caa- vot be Lowibates, aud if nominated, ould not carry Pe aida abd Cuber ree State ler would be adzeptabié to Southern democrata; bar have nO idications thar he hase gth at the North. As @varticipaot in the dicussoas growing ont vt the propokion 10 sdmit Kaneas under tue Lecompwn ite wll SeCtONS Of the party Stepnens Lage, Brown ul in the same catewdire Wilk stow cs» success be most vertaluly secured ? Upon whow can the democracy of the whole navoa best ube? Mr. Guthrie, of Ke ntucky » man for the fi , of und Gemocrane orine! ot Dis emiusmt sited powition in question” no one doadis. Y reaxous Why DY be strongest man who can be Keleoted, nua, other thiugs be equal, availablity Will celormine the Bomibesiva. His comiuct while Seera- tary of abe Treasury duriug Gen. Pierce's administration, | Tencere him, and wili make tue he be chosen ag {is standard boa: able to the attacks of) ome up the fcene of the alleged extray corruption of the present a/irmniaistr our leacer (be parhal aud Inve gating Co minttees of th uid be ax Looght, Then, be bre € Commencement of the L: ib besiness which hie city and siate are, largely interested Slope growing OUL Of thal q Ulibee Wi COUsequence Of Lis course 10 regard io iF; his u9- inetion Wal be bo trivmph of either Lecomptonites or ani) lecomptonites; and every cemorrat im che Union can, without any sacridce of personal feolivg, join in his sap Again, on the sub- beet endorsea by » his record is more Jersey. Penvayiva- New York and the New Fogiaud States than that of ther Gemocrat in ihe mi ‘This, teken in son- ton with bis admitted conservatiem, and his aon- Lufcaiion with recent divisions in the parcy, will, it i ved, enable the party with bim to carry Pennesyive- , both ih October aud November, which, with any otber candidate, will be, at dest, exceedingly doubtfal. Though pors.b!y not as great a favorite wita Soutbera ox: temists s2 Brown or some soch man, be will yet, beyond Avy Qu’stion, 1f Lorrinates, wet the electoral ‘vulos of all the eisveholding States by than would be given wo any © from either the Norta or the Sonth, Be wall certs wacaand more Northern votes than apy oter n could get. 1 her y cap and will do, certain victory will enable tha pariy to outlive the agitation of the questions whic now threaten Nsoverthrow. In the next four years the courts will Cispose of these threatening subjecta. ‘The next National Convention will be composed of men agrecing harmo- iy on alleubjects, Tue paxt will be burted, and all ct together ag brethren again, and like consideraticns will probably make bir. Guthute the canuicete, him ss partisaa taken oo part in stion; he has ex clot the tariff, while bis views bi the strictest. democrate of the Sou acceptable the vemocrats of Ne Ba OUR WISCONSIN CORRESPONDENCE. Brow, Wis., March 17, 1860. Claims of M1. Douglas to te Presidency—Sketch of His Political Career for ‘the Last Sia Years—The Ruck on which Ue Litle Giant Split—The Effect of the Popular Scverergnty Doctrine on the Anti Slavery Agitation, ¢ 4s agsivting ® proper diviaion of the question wh restoration of the Missouri restriction would wllay the ex- citement and agitation atiending end following its repeal there ig an inquiry to be made and auswered, that de immense importance from the political agitations of the present tme. It le—do the importance aad exten pnovations, In principle, upon the then late previous ac- tiour of the government, involved in the bill for orgauiz- ing the Territories of Nebraska sud Kanzaa, furnied cause adequate io the production of that very extraordinary ex- citement and ggiiaiion? A yery litle reflection must satisfy (he ievpartial sensible looker-on that this inquiry cannot, with aay show of propristy, receive au aff live arEwer Where, then, are we to look far additions to thie cause siilietent’ to make it adequate to the effects produced? We answer frankly, as truth direc , and uoiafliencad by persoual partiality or prejudice, to che personal quall- ties and status of the Chairman of tae Gommitter on Ter- ritories in the United States Senate, who introduced the Dill. This answer may startle some who have had tho pa. tence to follow me thus far, aud may ssem to damsad some Cilation On this point. We aay, then, taat previons to i864, the divtinguished Chairman of the Seaate Com. { mittee ‘on Territories bad, by the movacing dictatorial | - | energy, rather than superior siatezmaniixe ability with | ¢: which "be bad discnseed funcry mea#ares of exciting interest, paseed with great rapidity through many grades of perition to one from whose height the [Sok dowaward was dizzying While bis rapid elevation had excited the admiration of the crowd, bad astonished many frieads and commended sn outward show of deference from neither respect por interested deliberate approval and esieem of auy; mend, it had fatied and bod exciied in many poi ical peera and competing sepirants aD under current of jeniouey, envy, fear and | haired that oniv waited @ iavorable opportunity to stoke duction by f with @ prospect etfect. The intro. of the Nebraska. sas ill, fullowed ihe flaming manifesto of Mesers. Sumder, Chass, jipgs and Wade, fornished the opportusity, as they eupposed, to macy; while yet many others were restrained oply by their strooger feelings of - patriotism which ware wed to counteract tueir feelings of repugnaace to the bor of the bill ‘Aw evidencing the fact that the importance of the inno- ved in the Nebraska Kanzas bis, wae seadequate to the resuits that followed so imme ciaiely its passage, the aitention of the reader may bo called to the fact, tbat, though the quailing, timtd sup- porters of Mr. Douglas, in the West aad Northwest, who ime tardily aud reluctaatly toa weak and equivozal sup- port of the measure, endeavord to excuse even this, by cot tending—not that is provisions being demanded by right and justice, it should reecive a cordial sapport, whether it wade slave or froe States—but that it might be supported without just offence to siavery restrictionists, because ite effect would be to make free, rather than flave States; yet, notwithstanding all this pandering to a morbid, senseless anti very sentiment, the anti- Bavery’ feceling of aympathy for the negro be. came so far exhaust and dried up before 1860 that great pains were then taken, all over the coun- try, by the republican perty,’ to repudiate the jdea, that regard for the negro'or his interests had any influence upon its action or formation. Ani nover, since the organization of our government, was ture ag Hitle real antisiavery feeling, 80 little real aymoathy and regard for the intorests and welfare of the negro, in cur country, as in the spring and summor of 1857. | It was then in the power of Mr. Douglas and his supporters to give the death blow to sectional strife and agitation, Without apy restoration of the Missouri reatricuon The democratic party, greatly weakened and depressed Dy desertions eccasjoned by the acts of Mr. Doug'as, and kept io power and efficiency only by acceasions trom tha rapke of former opponents, drawn by patriotism, and pointe growing ont of hie trying measures, hed, with mich gallant’y ano skill, under a sharp fire of mueketry, takea an expesed position before the last entrenchment of the enemy. The next battle, if won, was to be decisive aud It would have substan- tially silenced sectional agitation and strife. Ho who doubts this has studied events to !ittle purpose No one had ever experienced greater need of loys! frievde, and no one had ever profited more by the unsel- fich loyaity of his supporters than had Mr. Douglas; and no one bad contributed as much as ho wo tie necessity of occupying this exposed position bs- fore the enemy. The democratic army, reduced as it was by the Jeeertions already noticed, was stil! capa, ble, with proper subordination and gallantry, of carrying the entrenchment triomphantly, and thus restoring sec: tonal harmony; but when the signal for the attack was heard Mr Douglas was discovered within the entrench- Tents of the enemy, with his powerful artillery in full lay = he) eget army, ee | reduced and rought into peril by its loyal, gallant an Jotic sup- port of hie measures, st igen For this sigpal feat of patriotiam and great service to the democratic party Mr. Doug'as modeatly demands to be made President by it. And his sapporters, whose zeal ought to compensate for any want of members, sagely clamor that this man, who bas thrice produced sectional spligand divisions in his party that the party had not * power within and of itself to heal—on the Oregon, Nebraska and Lecompton questions—who haa done more to promote rectional animority than any other man, sara, ‘Who “will be the democratic nominee for President? ‘There i's the rub! Who will bo? It is easior to aay who | Mr. Doug:'as will not be nominated. Yet it is probably ‘true, that he is the sirst choice of a greater number of per- ere the Convention. But his friends are mainly in | ‘Btates hopelese!y anti-democratic. Hfs nomination | ‘rats of Obio; but he could not get the electoral vote of ‘thas State. So with Jilinols, Jowa, Michigan, Vermont’ wdoompromising opposition than any other aspirant, This wpposition, too, is in the democratic Siates. It is | rhape, Horace Greeley, and by whom the party th een brought in every Siate where ho nas hy comalaae y can unite ou bim, as we beliove they | hora | ves | fot the | any of thoke civil enough to quietly tolerate what they | after various hard strvggies in defence and support of | great neceseity that the aggregated vots of the Stale ebotld tell uring the last week of this month. But the position of delegate, though scrambled for and growled over with prodigious zeal, is one of no little discom‘ort and policitude, A great part of the leaders of the aeme- cracy tn this State either hold otfloe under the federal ed- ministration, or desire to, and it is a matter of much con- cern with thore who attain such a pitch of greainess as an election as delegate to a national convention, to be able to trim their rails 80 us to get the full force of the precise blast which will impel thom directly to the ational treasury, although, indeed, some try to catch every breeva, and others trust to ick and simply drift. They cousut the stars and the vartous political weathercooks, stndy their alma- nace fur meteorological prophecies, ano do what they can towards mastering the various theories of sturms whick have ever Detogged scientific old ladies; and when through with atl attach themselves, with a tenacity acd vigor of paytixanship corresponcingto ‘their various tem- Pperamedts, to the skirts of whatever candidate appeara to enjvy most of popular favor, and look for safety in bis wake. Some, from an ea of selfish caution, are call- e@ todepen ient, while a degree of manliness is occasion- ally found among both warm partisans and the un- plecged. But evicent'y these last are only the exoep- viene AR @ Tule the ‘Uclegates will vole Jor the man whore prospecis for the nomination appear beet, in she hope of afour yeers sunning in fuiure Presidenvial fa- vora. Iuseuchusetts will send twenty six delegates to the Charleston Convention. Ail but two are now chosen. In the het given in the ALD & few days since the dele. gates from the Tenth district were omitted, sad the dele gation from the Eleventh accrecited wthe Tenth. It should stand:— DELEGATES AT LARGR. Caleb Coabing, Ieanc Davia, James S. Whitney, Oliver Stevens. DISTRICT DELEGATES, 1. W. ©. N. Swift, Edward Merrill, 2 PW. leiand. H. Lineola 8. Bradford 1. Wales, 0. Uaderwood. 4 James Riley, JH. Wright 5. Joun T. Aeard, J. ©. Lovejoy. Cornelins Doberty. B; E. 3. Williams. Not chosen. — 8. B. F_Butler, Walter Fessenden. 9 Geo. W. Gill H. Ht Stovens. 10. C. W. Charm, Ji Alte. 11. D. W. Oarpenter, Charles Heeboer. Some opportoraties for “a pretty close observation of the atofus of tbe aifferent leaders an’ cliques of the Mas- sachusette democrats, enable the writer wo suenk with a Segre of confluence with regard to the Presedautial in- citbings of thie delegation. The delegates at largo wore choeen in the late State Convention at Worcoster Poe others bave been selected by conveitions 10 the several Congressional oietricis. The coovension at Worcester, though by its resolutions it nominaily endorsed Mr. Ba: chapan’s administration, wae cortrolied by tae partisans | of Sevator Donglas, notwithstanding the etrenuous ef- sorts of an active muority devoted \ the policy and in- terests of the President. “Thi fact oun be easily proved, | Aud was perfectly evident to any one haviag an opporta. | Dity to observe the spirit of the convention us manifested in choise of offices, cheering, & Mr. Wm, E. Par- Wwenter, atterling democrat, one of the most consistent | una cfilelent eupporters of tho administration ia the | State, in a contort for the presidecey of the | convention, waa defeated by Dr. Loriag, an avowed supporter of Senator Dougiss, acd’ now declared to be deep im marwuvres to secare the nomination of Frank Pierce. Gi! the delegates electad by thie. convention, Celeb Caghing alone 18 conxidered dependert, and yumor would have it belfeved tat ho at work for ex President Pierce. Mesars. Whitaey, Davis and Stevens are a'l for Dougiaz, Mr. Swift, from ihe First Congressional oistrict, favors Douglas. [fis colleague from the cistriet is independent, as alao are botia the delegates from the Second. Dr. Wales, of the Third, was chosen ag ap admin stration man, though his ooponents bave charged im with Nonglasiem, Geaeral Vaderwood, from the saino Gietrict, wit! goto Charleston unpledged. The delegates from the Fourth disirict, Mesers, Riley and Wright, bave de. clared themes ® ‘or the * Lite Giant’? The conveation in this district, which includes the southern wards of Boston, and Rexbury end Brooklive, was the scene of a very abimated contest between the administration wen | end their opponent—Major Berrett, Colonel Wright's oppo- Dent, being very popular with a larze part of tbe voters | of the district. ‘The convention in the Fifth district, which | covers the northern wards of Boston, and Cambridge | and Cheleea, wae the mom stormy of the year. There were no jess than five double delegations asking admitsion to the convention, which assembled at tho Cambridge City Hall The district committee issued j tickets of admission to th® parties in their opinion | entitled to seats. The dissatisfied contesting delegations made a forcible Zonave ingress throvgh a winJow to the hall, and took poeseesion of the meetiag. After mach Wranghing, the greater part of the ticket admitted with. ow; snd, organizing at another place, clected Messrs. Heard and Lovijoy to represent them at Charleston These gentlemen are both supporters of the administra | tieu, ‘The parties who €0 gailantly aseauited the City Hall electet Mersrs ett and Doherty. The | former gentleman, though perhaps too well known to need | character zing, ts believed to de friendly to Donglas. Do her common witb most of the [rish wing of the party beresbouts, aleo favors Dovgias. Both delega.ions will | present themerlvee for admission to the Charlestoa Con Yeniion. Mr. Williams, from the Sixth. {a called independ- ent. Dr. Loring has been alreaiy noticed in this letter. There 1s a Dougtss delegation from tha Bighth district, in the perfons of Messra. Butler and Fessenden. One of the delegates from the Ninth, Mr. Gill, of Worcester, ix the in- divicual charged, oa the testimony of very respestablo gevilemen, at the late Siate Convention, with the amiable indiscretion of ballot stafflag—a charge reiterated in tne Convention which mate choica of bim us deleg: aud not yet atiatantorily explained away. He is an ardent admiror of Mr. Douglas. His colleague from the eamo district fg also for Douglas, Mr. Chapin, from the Tenth district, will go into the Charleston Convention untrammellet by pledges. Mr. Allis’ etanding is not known to the writer. Meesrs. Car- | penter and Heebner were un‘nstrncted by the convention fn the Eleventh district, and are believed to be unpladged. Atecapitulation will snow ont of the twenty four dele- gates now choren at least thirteen Douglas men, The fecord choice of many from this State will undoubtedly be Franklin Pierce. It is by no means ® certainty that some of those alluded to as independent and unpledged may not finaliy vote with the oppoaente of the alminis- tration. Whatever pledges may be made now, however, fo unswerving are these remesentatives of the faithful that itis impossible to precicate what each onc of them Wil be ready to doon and after the 23d dav of April next. In the face of the fact that a majority of the democrats in this State favor Senator Douglas’ aapirations, the elec- | tion of £0 many delegater not devoted to his | interests is an evidence of the skill of the tactics of the a ministration men. No man ia the North has been more active ia his endeavors to bave adminietration men sent to Charleston than Col- lector Anstin, and to these endeavors in a great degree is due the fact thatthe Dougias men hava beea fi: in many inetances. Of course they are irate tha: his long covtinved opposition to their gcbemes has been 80 far Successful. As was to have been expected, those who supported the coalition and the infamoug anti-democratic constitution of 1#53—whieh, if accepted by the le, would bave disfranchised a!! onr democratic stronghol the free soil democrats are, with scarcely any exceptions, secretly or openly Douglas men. Some of them, ia the hope of yet receiving favors from Mr. Buchanan, plot in secret, while others, even among those vow enjoying g00d, | Pokitions uncer the federal government, are loud in favor of the Tilipoi: Senator, and bitter in thelr abuse of the Collector and the President. When they are in Wash- ington they plead the statute of limitations to cover their past offences, and try to make it operate against the past services of natioval men; but sharp lawyers ag are eome of them, they surely ought to know that the statate of limitations is no bar to prevent accountability for the con- tinuous fraud on the party of which some of them have been guil | | | | | OUR MICHIGAN CORRESPONDENCE. ANN Axpor, March 90, 1860. The Presidential Candidates at Charleston—Douglas Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting. The following States have appointed delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to be held at Charleston, South Carolina, April Votes. Votes. 4 Massachusetts, 13 hen teas re ew Hampshire. . Maine......., 8 ‘The politica of those representing the above States in the Senate and House of Representatives are as fuliowe:— a pogribility Of the democrats carrying ue suo t#0 (iidole and Indisca) probably democratic, Wi twenty-four votes, rrial vow, } id Voters Protos. New York .. +85 New Jersey... 1 Fevrsylvania , ++ 27 Roede tela: Coppeodout + 6 Oregoa, 4 va re will hy akhew of goug democratic. The delegates from thi 42 Stawe will not propably go for the nomination of Mr. Douglas at Charleston, with the exception, perhape, of Con- becuout The delegates to the National Convention who are all democratic will pot go for the nomination of Mr. Doogie Upon any Consideration ;— Ve Votes. Alabama... 7 Arkansas . Deiaware . Mississippi... Miseouri.. ‘Thees States would be most ten of Mr. Douglas, Probably against him neetout, California, Oregon .... 00+ ‘Toin) For To Deoudtful— ARERR decidecty gains ihe nomina, New York, Peunsyivgnia, Con: ‘ew Jersey, Rhode 1 d and Whole number of votes. .... cece vee tones 0008 | Under avy circumstances bow tan Stepben A. Dongias get the nem nation of the Chariesion Coavention? fe canbot get ® majority, let alone a two-thirds vole, which alone ca Lomwal. : Afier all, this great blow in favor of Douglas comes mostiy from States which cannot pogsibly elect demovrauc | Presweutial electors. If air, Douglas is nominated we sal! do ali we can for OUR OREGON CORRESPONDENCE, Onacox, Feb. 20, 1860. The Schism in the Democratic Party in Oregon—Lane and Grover, dc. A friewd has just handed me a column from your issue of January 15, containing your Oregon correspondence, with a requett that I would correct your correspoudent’s errore and misstatements. There is an unfortunate split in the democratic party in Oregon, which, onlevs healed, will certainly ruin the party there and give the State this year, With two Senators and a repreecatative, to the op- position, The factions are designated as the Bush wing and the Lane wing. Lave has, up to this date, managed Oregon ag though he beld it politicaily as his own pro- perty, A body of sturdy democrats itke the Oregonians cannot be managed like # plantation of Southern laborers; henee the difficulty with Lane. They were willing to keep ‘dim in office, but when he required them to fll ail the other offices with kis tools and minions they rebelled. They could endure fer a few months in the Senate Delazon Emith, formerly a respectable county court lawyer from the Weetern part of New York Stato, but when ordered to yeiurn bim to the Senate for six years, they said they had in the party otber abler and better men. They sent Gro- ver to Washington as their first repreeentative by a ma. jority of 1,660. Without bis indefatigable winter's work at Washington in 7869 Oregon could not bave been admitted. His con- stituents were satisfied with his success and wished bin two return to this Congress. Lave found him two strong, fi aod outspoken a maa to be mao a ivol of; and in Dis absence packed a convention against bim and bad Stovt nomisated ja his stead. The democracy of the new State fet cheated and insulted, awd, tough Grover sup- ‘ort-d the regular woriave, Stout gots 2 contested by barely Ripe majority of 1,660. A word fe Gi victory. Grover was offered, in the first mstance, the Senatorship, but betrg a young max, ouly thirty tive, he Gechned it im favor of Smith. Tne cemocracy,on being Gheatec out of bie services as representative by Lane, de- cided to return him to the Senate ;and though he had against him the combined influence of Lane aud his two tools, Smith and Stout, he tacked but one vote of a nomination. Tae oppombon, keowing bis merits as a man aad & riting statesman of tne West, offeed him votes enough to secure bis election to the Senate, if be would permit his | frience to vtart brm before the Legisiature as a candidate, but be felt thathie duty to his party required him to de- chee the profiered aid; Heoco the vacancy of one seat from that State. Y Your correspondent, evidently iguorznt of the antece- devia as well as the talents of Grover, endear slan- der dim ‘n your columns. This may’ be fae itis, Dat i, @i!l be the ruin of the party in Oregon.” Ris truco that Grover canvot, ike Leno, boast of having prepared Dimself for a ttatesman by keeping » wood yard for steamboats on the Misaissippi river. His family are ali distinguished for their telert. His futher, now seventy. five years old, one of the wort eminent surgeons in Maine, 8 horn a democrat since the days of Jifferson. Onoom- pleung hes medical stasies, the last war with England broke cut, acd he shouidered big musket and volun teered a8 @ private, Under After that bloody vi at Lundy's Lane. off legs avd arma, aad dressing woun: him to be travs‘erred to the surgical sta. His oldest son, a leading cemocratic politician in Maine, hae been Siate Senator, and is now 2 delegate to Charleston. His second son, for ten years Professor of Modern Languages in a college in me of the Middle States, died last Sommer while travelling in Europe, at Upeaia, in Swecen. His fourth son, Lieutenant Grover, of the army graduate of West Point, led at twenty: two a survey ing party of four men over the Rocky Mona. taina, in the desd of winter, sisoping in tae snow, repaded rightly by choirs of wolves, and with the cher mowmeter often thirty-two degrees. below zero. His third once caused ton, lafayette Grover, as well as his three bro. there, was educated at Bowdoin College, in Mame. From there he went to Vhiladelplia, and sta died law for three years. Tue writer of this sketch vas @ echooimate of his for some six years, and recoilects him both in the academy and at college a8 one of the most thorough szholars, abie debaters, andciear- est and strongest writers of his class, On finishing his law studies bis patron—an eminent lawyer of the Quaker City—impreagod with his abilities, made bim a very liberal off-r of a partnerehip. To his surprise the cffer was declined, and the young advocate infor bis patron that ba wae going to take a law library ang startior Oregeo. Nothing could have as- tonished the old Philadelphia lawyer more, and he asked, a fondly leaning uj assured y iebier my feelings were vot hostile | the pod tim. Im respon 0 other man, of any Ht . oor Geter tomar as cing cat uer zoama OF any Barty eno! | President, ‘The publicean jadge for themselves aa 19 the | (here a Mile porsace: io law took piace ws to tho divech Would bis clect gm. Phe fa sald as a teutn, over | prospect of carrying any of these States in the election for | orntente of witness’ |: ttere to reply). an aleo thas i could Hit esliy ‘aere could not well be invented a doctrine | _ Titels and Indiana have also instructed delegaton for | AS ar as L recollect, rho wrote me suoacr lees OF dcPMA Tare ropugnant tm te oniy to deliberate asi and there is a fair show of the democrais | rut ceriain Gab jiviuce al the letters. (Latter from reason, lO Proper geuticuaaly inetiucys, and to the genios , carrying ove i Hot beth of theag Bias j mi8 2. to Withens of Jan, 9, 1660, produced and read by | of ourfeore sume’ than thet of Me,” Doogias’ popilar | This nukes ninety woven votes to toe National Conven- | bia with cmovez and teura.) | recotect writing two werepeay Wilh Lit epptication of 3, <men, m ite dis | tien in farér of the MOmIOAtON Of Mr. Doogiad. Seventy. | letters; my recollection kerves me no Turtuce thaa up to Peers proved 89 attrattive tom Gohtidiang, aud | thre of these yotce are from States where voor ip naraly | thie torn fetter, the op why T wrote ber & feoond let ter before receiving An RDEWE™ <6 ray mMPAE was that | was advice rrichil 16 give ber some wivice; here are 8 OF Odtipes (paseldg to Mr, Peters) of the secoad ) auswer to tho letter Treovived, the torn letter iin the accompany log (band ipe another letter to Mr. P.>* I banded the torn etter to ga y, aud no one ol86 on, aud asked him to advise jge what course 10 posgue; he read It over and a4 i070 gee to show itto Me. J, J. Bur. roughs, Gerk of Ure Conrt; it was #OnGe time befors T | would yield and etrey my contidence any farmer, bat I covclnéed a8 } "gad gone for advice | should lake aivice. Q When did you go to Dr. Way? a. Oo Feilay right last we determired on meeting Mr. 8 at Dr. Woy’s office nest morning; circumsiances would not "iow me to be tbere in time to meet Mr. B ov his wBy to Dr. W's office; T wont io Dr. W.'s office and told bim my reaeon; be told me he had thonght over the mat. ter, avd advised me to pursue the conrse [ have—te place it fn your hands (Mr. Poters) tn the strictest confitever, only io be veed in the inst emergency, in case my pister cbaracter should be blasted; he (Dr. Way) gave me tha: advies, aud said he wo tin the sams muaver, Q. Whset did you do the letter? A. He or W. came over to see Mr. Burronghs; bo and B. re turned to the doctor’s office; 1 was in the store a} time; they eat in Dr. W’s cffics some tims, and then fr. W. came out and ealied me in; J went to his office. and he told mo that Mr. Burrouxhs agreed with bim ip the advice; that is the substanos of what be told me; | told them that I would not place it ia Mr. Johason’s bands, and requested them to do it; J presame they did so; I came to the deterinination not to betray the confidence of my sister, but upon reflec- tien upd advice, T could not bear to have cay sister’s cha- racter biasted, and rather than have that doae [ would detray the confidence placed in me and consult Dr. Way; in justice to the dead, my sister Fiaouagan and ber cnil- dren, apd my dear sister Anna, whose nter woul! be tramp'ed upon and eternally laste jaded to be- all, that 1 was actuated by no feeliog of hatred or ra- venge agai the prizoner; the preservation of my sis- ter's character, ag pure sa T know it to be, was my only sim. (Herc Mrs, Lane's confession was read, which sue tried to destroy yesterday when banded her by the prose- cution to recoynlge; it was dated the 16th January, 1860, and denied al: previous statements about the violence by Flanagan, &c., and also said she was intimidated by land to make her full confession in order to clear him, &e.) Q. Did you gee your sister at Mr. Sm'th’s? A. After receiving ber etaiement, I went to Mr. Smith’s toxee my sister the Sunday after; ebe did state to me that Tand sent Laura (a negro girl) for Flanagan on the morning of the 18th of Jone; I recol'ect of another staie- mont; ebe stated to me that Mr. Fiasagan— Objected to. Bo ruied by the Ooart Q. ‘Did you have a conversation with your eister yeator- day? A. Tdia; she sent for me; 1 begged her, for Goa’s eke, pot to perjure herself; she arose from the chair end eatd, “will,” Itcld her that | bod Matement, in your bands (Mr. Peters); she was vory much distressed; then she asked what must she do; [ told her to tell the truth, bothing bat the truth, and not perjure hereelf; she arose and replied, 1 will? Q. State the advice you gave your sister, the langusgo she used. Objected to by defence, upon the ground that that bad been betore repeated, and a diflerence arose about the trangposition of the worde, truth and perjury. Mr. Wise now ured strong terms reletive to the prosocution, and ‘accured them of uring professional trickery. dir. Jobneon arose and vindicated bimeolf by asserting, “Tf trickery was referred to bim. it was éa untrata.”” (Sirong iudications of a stormy time } Governor Wige then commenced his examination of tho previoun question, and taking down ths witness’ reply, which was as follows:—Not toswear to lie; not to per- jure berse)f, sud advised ber to tell trath; bat T can- hot say in what order this was said, or swear to tho order im which you Lave taken it down; 1 will swear that bor reply wae not made to that phraso— to tell the truth. Here Mr. Taylor arose and made an exolanation {n re gera to the little misunderstanving betweea Messrs. ‘Wise and Johvson, and appealed to toe two gentlemen to +1 con tray ber confidence; T want you to understand, one and | AFFAIRS IN NEW GRANADA. Our Barranquilla Correspomz. Barraxquitta, N. G , Characteristics of the Inhatitantim Rerti!' 2708 5, 1860,” God Fuld for Agriculturisis—7_,, “1Y the sama the Soil —The Civit Wart The Revolutiontst pherepacynne vf ao sino "ote Burning at Bogota Prolet of the Bri- tah Contti- —Hnglish Missionaries at Work—Noved Way Of Disp sing of Religious Bocks—4 Oclperteur Tries nig Tend a, the Gaminig Tuble—The Opsning'of the Ports of tht Zeprbliic, ke. y Taarrapquilla is rather @ petty village, of about 20,000 , nbabitants, built on a bed of] lime coral, with the atmo- ‘sphore cool morning and night. It contains a good many people of foreign birth; it bas a singular code ef morals ond very little moral cultivation. You will be When I tell you that here a mancan in one month eara enough to support hime year. The inhabitants are ‘Azy eet Of fellows, burdening awoil that cannot be sur- passed for fertility and the healthiness of its climate. Thi 8 @ great field for emigrants, and if I could only induce. them to come hither and engagein agricultural pursulte,. they would never regret the i Here you can raise from @ potato to a pineapple—ooflee, sugar, rice, what corn, &c.; yet flour and salt meats have to be imported, caused by the inertness of the.inhabitants in not develop~ ng the resources of the country, We have beeves andt bogs in abundance, ard an enterprising Yankee butcher with a good force of his own coumtrymen to assist hint, could meke a fortune here in a short time, Our ports ere now open, and the reportie that the ra | Metre ig over. Congress bas been in seevion siace tag id ult. ‘The two political and now révolutionary parties of the gorntry are styled the Couservative aad Inveral. The first have the federal powers; the latter are somewhat im States, and herein Bol) h power ip their own. feceral government, garrisons, drilling troops, ete, The causes leading t0 the outbreak originated in a election Jaw, which, I pelie appointment of commissione?s of election emtirely inte tha | hands of the conservative: ir meu wore Cons stantly declared elected, and the others ag efian defeated. ‘This, with the well known partiality of a Judge, maado of get the pot boiling. : Jobw Nieto, living at Carthagena, and who ran some years ago for Governor of the State, but was defeate owed some $26,000 to pariics in his own-ecity, who prese him for payment. He repiied to hia creditors by saying, ‘Loan me $8,000 and I w pay you all I wili get up « Tevolution And ee he did; though no doubt others de- sired it ag well es he; yet Nieto issued a proolamation, sent. his sgents to work to kindle the reyoiutionary fire, and im hort time commenced to seize ‘the federal arma and troops; and in a short time gained complete possession of the Scate of Bolivar—ho acting as and proclaiming himself Governor. The federal authorities sent troops to eubdue the neurper, bit they were ignominoasly defeated. At one time during the battle this cisy amd garron were in pos- session oi the federal troops under Gen. Pesacio, but in the. afternoon the tables wore turned, aud Nieto, with hig party, drove them to the wall, The later have now got possession of this city, and a beggerly looking set of wretches they mre—some with coats and others without, all kinds of military equipments, but no uniformity in dress, Indeed, they are nothing but @ vagabond sot of demented or jezy uiggere. One thousaud Yankees could whip ail the troops ip the haps Mr. Conetantioe, tne Engligh Coneul, took quite a cone spicueus part in the revolution, when the federal troops were outside the city, by riding out and advising Gon, | Pesado not to risk @ battle, as the tberals were too strong for bim. Notwibstancing the assurance of her Britannic — Mojesty’s agent’s advice, Pesado did rivk a battle, abd. with 101 very inciflerent troops captured the city; but, ag || before stated, be was driven out by the liberals under Gen. Nieto in the afternoon. The foreigners Lere pretty generally side with the liberals. President Ozpina is Jesuit, and imports meny Jesuits from Rome and Spain, This, 1 presume, wilh the known Dosulity to Protestants, is tao reason the priesthdod here. are divited. A padre (Reiveeaith), who was ex-commu- ” make itatlmght. Mutaal explanations then took place, % _— accepted, hands shaken aud things pusoa a equare again. * Gross exsmined—Q. Did you not try to obtain the trust and confidence of your tisier? A. I way have done it, Q How? A. Opiy in reply to her letters. Q. What reply, and in what form? a. [can’t auswor, and Know not. Q Do you say that you did not write to your sister Anna before the 18th of December, 185s? A: I beliave her letter of the 18th of December to be hor first, and I cid not write to her before she wrov to me. Q Then you believe you did not write to her before the 28th of December? A. I delieve I a:4 not. Q. Do you remember whether in any letter to hor written by you in the first of the correspondence you pro- tested to ber what @ dark cloud she was bringing over bor character? Objected to by the prosecation because his (wit ness’) letters were not produced, and he waa not supposed to charge bis memory with everything he wrote in detail. Ruled by the’ Court a8 @ pertinent examination upoa the dearicg of the cage ip point. A. I will not eay that I did, ‘Dut it may be fo. Q Do you remember what number of lettars on this subject you did write before the torn letier was received? A. Two, three or four—] con’t thick more, before I got the letter of Janusry 15, 1860. Q What time did you receive that letter? A. I am in- clined to believe I received it the day or the day after. Q Have you referred to or resd ail the letters from your sister Aura Before you read the toru letter? A. I bave ail that { could find; do not think [ destroyed any. Q. Have you read ail the papers that von received from ber in the same envelope in which you read the “torn jeter?” . «Letter here produced by Mr. Wise tor witness to recog- nige.) A. Lthiok it very likely I did receivo this alao; T do not think J read it; I them over very caretuily before I banded them to Mr. Peters. Q Did yon hand them to Mr. Peters? A. T do not re- member whctber I handed them to hit or laid thom dowa on bis table, (Here Mr. Wire read the letter over!ooked by the wit- ness. It War dated January 21, 1860.) Winete—I believe I did receive that lotter with the ‘tornletter,’’ and I heve told’ you the reason. Mr, Wise—Yes, you have told me the reason, Did you in December, 1859, or not, propose by letter, to your sis fer Anna, ® pJan by which to wipe ont the attaint alluded to? A. Tremember little or nothing about them (ais let- I am willing for them to be shown, and wish you Woulc ask me DO more questions about them. Mr. Wise—-No doubt, no doubt; but I willask you. I repeat the question. A. Tremember but little about it; I say now I may have cone ii our plan? A. My plan was to state the hole affair, and I intended to nse the state- ment after tue trial; but you, air, (to Mr. Wise,) have criven me ip court. (Here Mr, Wise became excited, vsing severe language to the witness, questioning his integrivy to a atyle of most poring rebuke and biter garcasm. The witness, ng under the torture caused by an aeeortion of Mr: that he bad perjared himeeif aiready, called the Governor a liar. Mr. Wise now gave the witness the re- rewed force of bis powerful buttery, replete with bitter “Why do you go to that wild and distant ferritory, a mere province, when you can have & fine practice in the metropolis.”” His reply, thovga sportively made, has turned out a prophecy. Said he, ‘Like Cwear, I go to the provinces to return upon the capital” His law arguments before the federal courts of Oregon show him to be of sound judgment and great discrimina ton and strength of mind. If such inen are slandered by the employ€s of Lane, and counted out by his’ packed conventions, the democratic party in Oregon is doomed; it has eevt ite last Senator and last representative to Washington. INTERESTING MURDER TRIAL. The Trial of Land for Marder in Vir- ginia. ‘The trial of Walter Land for the murder of Benjamin F. Flanagan, his brother-in-law, before the Circuit Court of Princees Ann county, Virginia, excited an intense interest im that region. Land, it will be recol- lected, eecaped to Baltimore after shooting Flanagan, ant ‘was arrested at Barnum’s Hotel. After his retarn to Virginia he escaped twice from the officers of the law, and for some time cinded recapture by tecrcting himself in the Diemal Swamp. During the progress of the caso seingulsr as well as painful scene occurred pendiag the examiration of Land’s wife, an account of which we published on Sunday. The Norfolk Argus says of tho proceedings before the court on Tuesday, March 27:— ‘The letter which Mrs. Land tore into fragments con- tained the following material \ts:— “ Omthe i6th of June Mrs. Land discovered her hnsband in flagranti delicto, and reproached him for It, at which he ‘Lana) retorted by accusing her of a want of chastity on the 17th of June. She starved to goand tell her sister, ‘Mrs. Flacagan, her troubles, when Land seized his gun, ‘and threatened to shoot Flansgan if rhe did, She suc’ ceeded in pacifying bim, howevor,and be then went to the court house toree H.M Woothonse. He returned with a paper which he requested Mrs. L. to aign. On the morning of the 18tb, the day of the murder, sho saw Laad talking to Laura,seervant. Shortly afterwures Flana approached the bourse, came in, and wae sho! down. She (Mrs. 1) screamed, ran out of the house and fainted and when che came to she was lying on a pile of boards. Land approached her and said, ‘I have killed bim; be is dead; what shall I do? She advised him to kill ber, and then sboot himself’? Then followed the ga tails of the ezoape, &c., &o. Mre. Land (wife of the prisoner) was again called & the stand, and wee cross-examined by the State, John Pe. ters, Commonwealth’s Attorney. To questions propound- = by the Commonwealth’s attorney, she answered as follows :— ‘The interview between Mr. Flanagan and myself oc- curred about eight o’clock at night; had a conversation about the murder with my brother Frank; I sent for my brother; asked if be bad given up my letter containing my |. retraction; he said he bad given it to Mr. Peters, booause he thought it beet for my goo?; I told him he had deceived me; my brother advieed me not to swear falsely; havo three brothers in the county and one in Worfolk. H. M. Woodhouse recailed—Reside with his sister, Mrr. Flanogan, sioce the murder of Mr Fismegan; teaolr scbool; since my sister left brother Daniel’s, where she ‘was come time, I came to the determination of not seein; ivvective and scorching sarcasm. Many oould not bave stood it. Thivge weut on protty hot, and the scene be- came intensely and painfully interesting. The wiiness made the most bumble spologies, and'bis pardon was granted with an acmonitory Icoture truly intoresting ] Q. Isthatall? A, That is all to my knowledge, Question repented A. No material difference as to suabstance. Q Dao yon not urge upon her that her character would be blasted if she stood to her first confession? A. I may have cone it, 1 think it probable. ‘The rest of the examination up to the adjournment of Court wag principally upoa the question as to what tho witners fad written, the defence propovniing questions frem the face of his letters, which, during the intermis- sion, they had obtained. Mr. Jolngon bad objected to this mode of examination, testing the memory of the wit- ness when the letter could be produced. e Court: ruled that questions could be propounded to witness with- out the letiers being produced, as he need only testify as to the beet of bis knowledge and bejief.) After rather a Jong and trying ¢xamination upon what he had written. the letters were produced and read by Mr. Wise with fail emphasis and force. There wore seven in number, and dated as followe:—Dec. 7, 1850; Dec 21, 1889; Jan. 12, 18005 Jan. 14, 1800; Feb. 14, 180; Feb. 18, 1860; March, 2; 1860. ‘These letters were pure fn intent, replete with brotherly affection and advice, and intersperred with Coristian ap- peals to God alone to lighten the trials and afllictions of ‘big dear sister. He impressed upon her the necessity of eeeking religious consclation. Letters wore produced by witness from Mrs. Land, which, in consequence of the latenecs of the hour, were not read then. Wileon M. Bonney, in reply to ex Governor Wise—I ent to the tavern on Monday to bring Mre. Land into court; I ertered the parlor and saw her ard her brother sitting in the parlor, the two alone; Mrs. Land was sitting in the reckicg-cbair, with her hands covering her face, sobbing aloud; Tetopped a minute, perhaps, approached, and then told her that I was sent to bring ber into court. She exclaimed, “My God, what sball Ido?” Mr. White- hurst remarked, “Amy,” or ‘sister, be calm; she said, “TN ceny it’’ inan under and subdued tone, and springing from ber chatr exc.aimed vehemently, “I swear Twill,” and rushed into the back room and put on her Donuet; she then returned to the parlor and charged her brother with having betrayed her confidence; he replied that be thought himeelf under @ solemn and awfal cee tion to do £0; she then exclaimed, ‘What will I do with- out him? I bad rather die than he should be taken from me’’—I bare got to the end of the ohapter—that’s all t beard. test! closed on Wednesday evening at a tate! hour Mr. Jobn Peter® ed the argument for the Commonwealth on Thur*day morning, and spoke about an hour; the Court then took a recess—owing to tho ill- ness of one of the jurors—until after dinner. well Taylor then consumed the evening by defence. pe ph achat ak ahem ic. Wilson. jdge—caured the Court to adjourn at an car maa bere Mr. Teplor bad tiated ay fee ‘On Friday resumed bis argument and spoko op,bour and iiTollowed by Mr. L. H. Chandior, who spoke about three hours. Ex. Wise then (four govthroogh that everiog, and tnt ihe seta noua ea throu; evening, and that the session Sricnged M66 IHW tha oWht The core monks wee ¥ nicated by the Pope, is held in bis ‘sual high estimation, ‘the sacred bull to the couwery notwithataudiog. He hag a cag congregation than auy of his regular contempo- Taries. ‘The priests here are a very libidinoas set of fellows, ‘Troy all keep their mistresses, and, indeed, I may say everybody else. Marriages here are very rare, wud thea / only among the weaithy c! It ig authoritatively alleged that Ospina caused all the, Protestant Sivies that the priests baa been colieeting for. Some time to be burned at Bogata. This sacrilegious allair- was preeteniea against by the British Uongul at that place. « Mr, Jones, the American Chargé, wus present acd looked» quietly at the scene without uttering a protesting word— aferrexample of the supineness of American Cificials ia general. ‘The English Foreign Bible Saciety had a vary good man out bere, besices a colportour to oistribute Bivles among these semi-barberinns. The Iaiter wae geut joto the in- terior of the Sinte with books; but not mesdag with a ready cale for, them, be wentto a fair and put them.up for drawing by lottery. This was a novel way, to be sure, of disposing of religous books, bub them you kuow the Spaniards are grout patrons of iotteries. By thia mosae the colporteur disposed of $450 worth of books, but subcequently fell into temptation, in going to a gaming |] fable, where be lost every dime be had received. Wagu! ho was cailed upon to give aa account of his sioward-’ ship be excused himsel, by saying that ne bad bean, rodbed; which was, of course, faise. iJ ‘The new constitution of this State has been adoptod,] and was read bore the other day, its reception baing an. wounced by sslvos of artillery. The parucalar points is | its provisions to cause this enthusiasm I bave nut vet learned, There Spanish documents ace generally inded, circumlecutery affairs, without point, snd hardly comprehensive to the authors theraselves, not to speak of the ignorant people to whum they are addressed. Tne President’s Message, for inatauce, was ono of thia verbose kind. I could make nothing out of it, except the Presi: dent excused bimself for not having whipped Nicto. Hig alleged excuse is that Venezuelan troubles kept bis troops on the borders of tbat State. The fsct is, he has no treups at all, with the exception of@ few miserable, hull starved, half clad black devils, not po sessing a kno vledge of tae | first principles of a soldier. Mosquora,the Govsrnor of Cauca, wno hes en eye aver ihe Presidency, aad with & tendency to liberalism end a friendship for Niet, of+ fered the rervices of three ihousnnd mon w Presideut Ospina, but the iatter haviug no confidence in tho loyaity ef the offer, and knowing fuli well that there wore not three hundred soldiers in the republic, very poluely de. clined the offer. e 3 After considerable war talk and there ie Cor this revolutionary Herran bas arrived st now & prospect for @ setilemen broil without the loss of ii Carthagena, in trausita for the capital, fully empowared to settle difficulties, and the general opinion is that the War is virtually at an end. i ‘The ports bave been reopened by the authority of the ‘Tatendente, or fsderal offical. The liberals are await patiently the action of Congress in regard to matters an fecting their principlea and policy ; a compromise bets h them and the conservatives may be effected and may not! No estimate can be given as to the probabllities of @ sel’ , as the natives here aro so whimsical and ca, tlement, pricious, Our Magdalena River Correspondence, Macparewa Rivar, N. G., March 5, 1869, ‘ The Political Condition of the Country—Phe Cass-Herray | Treaty—Lale News from Carthagena— Extract of the Re: fort of the New Granadian Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the New Treaty with the United States. i ‘The political condition of this country must be approach: ing its crisis, if ever it come at all, for, indeed, it seems 1 be all crises. The conservatives, although theoretically ix favor of the federal governmént, appéar to look upon i! with the same distrust, and President Ospina’s adminis tration is decidedly unpopular. It has just received ¢ severe check in Caucs, where General Mosquera, Governoj of that State, has been waging war in favor of “Stat \ rights,” against what he calls ‘federal usurpation. + ‘The last report is that Mosquera had}defcated Canilo’s army! ofwhom some six hundred are said to have been slain ‘The large number of killed is accounted for from the fad. that the victors had eight hundred cavalry troops. Gey Prias commanded the force of Canilo, and was reporto © among the list of the killed, : ‘The fight tock place at Bugs, on Fob. 22. This news § greatly at variance with the reports current at Bogota Feb. 27, which represented Mosquora as being entirel: without troops. On March 1 a builetin was published at Honda with ¢ following moet jubilant ana positive statement-— , ‘The amencments made by the United Stitec Senate # the s-Herren treaty have been approved by bot! ph houses of the New Granada Congress; but General Jone! the United States Cherge @’ Affaires in this couutry, wa about to investigate a fomewhat technical point in regar+ to the ratifications, and I cannot sey whetber the treat g0cs by this mail or not Late news from Carthagena states that everythin; regerd to politics is quiet @nd satisfactory, but how it will last quien sabe. ‘We subjoin a translated extract from the report of Seerctary of Foreign Affairs of the New Granadian Co: feceration, in regard to the treaty with the Uni jates:— Tt is gatisfactory that the government of the Unit States of America, with the approval of the Senate of th: Reyublic, should have agsented to the modifications whi vention of September 1 ; me’ acced other amendments which affect the frst and cigh articl Jo 1gt was origitally as follows:— Al} claims then ps tor] ee coropanies or individuals, citize: of the Unite ites, upon the government of Nw Granada, which bave been presonted prior to the sign, ture of this Convention,”” &c, ‘This article as amended ie na follows:—‘‘All claims the part of cor} compunies or ind ‘viduals, citizes of The United States, npon the government of No) Granada, which shall bave been presented prior to first day of Soptember, 1869,” &o. Article Sth state?.—''The present Convention shall { " rable party into @ powerless and dwindling minor t-publican, Democratic. | her at ali; 1 thought if I did eo the public might say that ercwded and not aeound was to be hoard save the elo- | ratified and the raifications exebanged at Wasbin; Dased 0,000 hostility, not to the man, but to the princigls | the only. ‘man of that party whose name ean be Dresenieg Mipnesota. . 78 1 | influenced ber to retract what I bed. heard she had made | qui nt speaker's voice. Every seat was filled, the bench, | within nine months after Whe date hereof, or sooner if he represe "8. If nominated several of these atatoa | for the pes Bags any bope of sucosss, “Ant thig | Wisconsin | 1 | tober husband's counse!; that was my reason fur not going | the bar were crowded, and oven the aisles and the vesti- | sible.” : -tionably bolt; amd the defection of vas | clamorof his zealons and enthusiastic backors gives at- | Obio. . 16 7 | there; some time before Christmas I received a letter from | buie beyond was filled with a silent crowd. This article is amended os follows:—“This Convent. would unques aa Wate ‘an + ditional energy and meniace to the share of the Little Gisat's | Michigan. 5 1 | her; it was banded me by my sistor, Mge. Flanagan; ithad | he trial was concinded on Saturday night last, the | shail be ratited end the ratidoations exchapged with/ Southern State Would render defeat more than probable, Verily the age of wonders bas not yet cone by. ‘owe (#41 republican, 4 — | deen sent. (Mr. Chandier—Do you Of your own | jmy bringing na verdict of guilty, aDy hig pun- | nine months from the 8th day of March, 1889.” head age gone by. Jowa (#4 repu Ys ; As the quertion o° avsilability will unquestionably be | — There ia probably no nams in the country borus by a | Mawsachusets co. 13 — | knowledge bow it bad been sent?) letter was pro: | ishment at eighteen years in the State prison. As appears from the amendmenta themseives, their o} > gonsidered by the Con Ven on, 00 man will be nommatet democrat ‘could be run Sor President by the demo- mont do. & — | duced and read by witness with much emotion and in ject has been to extend the term for beth the present . Carry the prong” democratic Statos—such as cratic with leas rational ;eospect of success than Hampebire d 5 — | tears. Upon reading it he remarked:—That is the first tion of claime against the eo for the exchan ‘Routh Carolina, Alabama, lo.'e#ise.°v!, Keatucky, &. Mr. that Stephen A. Dovgias, and with no other name | Maine 8 — | received from her to my knowledge. A second letter was Marie SvGsr my Veruont.—The maple moe of the acts of ratification. Executive has ‘Douglas will nos be the choice pf ine Gpayention, because ‘would the advantages to be by success bear 20 oe — | read by witness. TS ane ke Vermont, this season, ia eatimated at nearly ‘thou- to accept theze modifications and to sabmit Bo could no} be elected. Imsignificast @ proportion to the hasaras of dofoat as with Total... rro0e 6 10 | these letters was truly pfecting—many being in tears, sand tons. \¢ Consideration of Congress, as sppears from the

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