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“WILLIAM H, SEWARD AT PALACE GARDEN E ‘iret invigorate t and inv le Thereiore gobody at that day | Sty additional ferrtory, oF to ®rajegete for Tremendons Concourse of Re= | fe? the purpore of What did it require? You publicans. | required, (rom what was were ip State of New York only inbabitants, and | every seventeenth ane 8 The Past, Present and Future of | 77° 7,18, Us) New York. I i call i ff i Bverybody could gee that in New York upon a basis could not be negroes instead New York as in the whole United States. Tho ‘was en obvious one, The African slave trade was ‘Sean fo fall fine, ond 4 enh Seay pursued for | white men. ml as some may de- mcre wee # iremendoss concourse of republicans at | POON detrime of the irrepressible condict bet weer, ‘Walece Jardea inti night, uszembled to hear the apostle | the negro and the white man, between freedom and sia af the irrepressible oomfict doctrine—the redoubtable | very in the same comeaneny, ae ee at that dist/ot day rent and the vation of Wm. 1. Seward himself. Outetde, among the colored | ty see ae ee aetatinned eo he ost wanterne—where lager bier aud sherry cobblers aro usu- | clusion of Evropean free men. (Applause) There z e Z — & Se E @lavery to be Gradually and Peace- ably Circumscribed, 2 ke. ally consumed—tho crowd preteed backward and forward were L-~} bounties = and bestere a = ie vol aitempte to get admittance to the large ballroom | Sot S a Wy papepaive.. bares | 208 where the meeting was beld, Half an hour before the | how it is, and it is for these philosophers, wao deuy tbe | jn from the city of New York I saw the cobbler’s light ibic Conflict, to tell how it ws. it had been as ‘trgan ization of the meeting that beliroom contained as | te (ee gE a eres dense 5 mann of humanity as perhaps was over squcercd | Ghat whenever a State will i. Iopria,‘ir.cae fi within the tame space. We should say there were six | refuses voluntary emigrants from Ireland, au ‘honsand persons jammed together here in an impenctra- | Germany, and to tbat State po free emigrants will go. What was to be done? What was t be done’ To make bic uvses,nnd outaide there may have been balf that | tbiva great Siete, and this s great ation, {i wes mani. wamber, A transverse gallery at the end was occupied | festly requisite to diminish the force aud vigor of ‘African labor; and, on tho other band, to stimu- By Wredies. ‘The ballroom war decorated with wreaths of [ite Ni'ioroe of thee emigration, Does aay ody douot Sve rercens and flowers, suspended from side toside and 17 Jt required, secondly, a system of al im | provement to be'commensurate w! greutuess of the ‘mc ag tho windows and arches. On tke platform was& — esse Bas perry te fond & mvove strip, with the motto— laboring population should be educated and trained #0 as ‘ seoerocorscerscors vereserore ~wecesereoreere® | y be eble to maintain a republican government ia all tte So long a* God allows the vital current to flow 2 | purity, ‘These things, Lowover, required the co-opers rough my veins, I will n never, never, by 3 wilt, ald in admitting 3 tion of the federal Legistagure, acd the co operation of tae word or thought, by mind o1 State Legislevures. The federal Legislatures addresred One rood of Froe Territory to the everlasting curse Of } themselves Co that great work in the Congress wich pre- Human Bondage. —Lenry Clay. 5 ceded the constitution, and the convention ch Geroneccsvecesese-cocosoneoerercesoaeemenacenvoee® | tua, "te eemmmmnnieas stan onan tis Gan Me mecting was presided over by William M. Svarte, great which | ucocede pammbitation, These Y ioe " 1 three ede! ive emutborities § sett! iL ado largo number of Vice Presidents, Among the latter | Uhre, federal, legislative authorities | seitled the wae Horace Greeley, and the ansouneement of bie name Practical, They did not ox Far auevet to toa wwas greeted with tumultuous epplause. pate the African slave. They did not emancipate, or at- ‘The meeting was called, not to ratify the Preeideatial tempt to emancipate the African slave. They iid not arrest once, eno ‘vom instions, but #imply the county and judicial nomine- ¢yeh ihe Dai SRNR. Once, bus ther: eencrbarss More all slave States to remove slavory themselves of their own free will, as Soon a8 they practically could, without Tue resolotions, which wore read to that end, were re- | disturbing the pease and order or iuterests of eoctety—of seived very orgraciously, with shouts for “Seward, ‘Weward.” whiob the States themselves were left the cole judges. The next siep that they took was to prodibit the African lave trade—not imme Mr. BVARTS essayed to address the assemblage, but he was constantly interrupted by loud shouts for Seward?” Be azwured the audience that he was not trespassing on twenty yoare, and it was declared that afver that time no African slave should be introduced ipto the Uaited States. ‘Weir time, as Mr. Seward had pot yet reached the hall; Doteven that aseurance did not s Tacy now, ok & step on the side of free labor. The e od free labor by federal lawe, by inviting eml- ration from Europe--the exiles, tbe por and the feant. ‘ey cried for Seward. In vain Mr. Evarts attempted to make bimself heard. No one but the New York Senator would be heard, although there were some voicer that @emanied Horace Greeley. Was great and the voyage hazardous, they declared that They took another broad and liberal _ Mr. Parts nally gave up the attempt, introduced | inay was this They declared by law for’ usl- My, Pournor, of Auburn—a republican stump epeaker— form naturalization; that the free a ‘ oman cou! ‘i dienee any | to this conntry, from whatever land, ebould, Oat ibis gentleman could not obiain an sudlenee ny | Shera sufficient probatios—sufficient to establish his were than Mr. Evarte, At length, at about a quarter before eight, a maz on we platform shouted out, “Three cheers for Bil! Seward.”” ‘Fort wae an intimation of his arrival. Iostantly, from every throat of the congregated thousands, arove a wt character and bis loyalty—be should be adnltted s# a citizen of the republic, and ofevery Staie State, on the game footing as the pative ns. They took one more step more effect than all the rest, apd that was tha thoy should exclude slavery from al!’ the unoccupied end unsettled nat ‘ 1 i f domain on which all the fature Statce were to ve erected; maltancous shout. Tee ball cohoed and echoed again to | to" cciude slavery therefrom thenceforth end forever’ abe tumultuous and hearty cheers, which were given | (appiause ) This is what the federal legislative autho amid waving of hats from the men and of handkerchiefs | rities did. Hear now what the States did. i all of eenthu- | Pride and greatness and glory of commerce was | from the ladies, It was fully a minato before the enthu- | Priie, and gratnens wid Bry Ot merino Gtagm subsided States; seven of the Staten scconling the To give Mr. Seward a little breathing time, a Gice Club | wise—I had almost said, and I will say it, acconding the ‘ f > the ot jout—policy of the federa! government, ebolished slavery was introduced, and sang e political ballad to the chorus | Pee eee ete ase ea at onoe, not Uy vidlooes, sf “There's good time coming.”” When-they got to th? not by confiseation, but by such measures as thoss econd verre, a wag ebouted out, “We've waited long adopted in the year 1800; by such measures that in b e years alerwarde, that whercas in 1890 every nen ere: ih person in this’ State was a slave, in the Mr wakD Was then introduced to the audience by Mr. % one slave was to be found on the gol of the Avarte, hit was the signal for renewed demonetrations, and again the vant sodiense appiaated to thocehs, A | tho same polly, bel tue subeining ix, the more Bamber of men and boys, who had taken seateon the | Southern States, declined to pursue that policy, eof the platform, were requested by Mr. Seward to but sill determitiod to. compete for the groat nati ; 4) Commercial prize then claimed by Now Yoru in ebange their positions. Alleding to this in a playful | 4.55 and insured to it sinoe under her enlighto: manner, be said :—You see, fellow citizens, that I like to Iueel-men who bad uot learned the demoteliomg det ae ear \o my friends a# possible, He then pro- that virtue and freedom eafeobled a State, and that slave pale . 4 Pro" yy ism occcagary clemost of patural greatness. Among a ary PERCH OF WILLIAM Ht, SEWARD. parca Norge wal seagate Fwrow Crurvs—It would surprise, 1 doudt not, citi- y ay a triots of that early period—were Coles and Hamiiwo, Jay, the Clintons, Tompkins, Rufus Kivg; and, coming on ; Ss pe 4 ater, Dut uot unworthy of ‘the noble association J. W. GUan of ChE eavteepelle, wie Gress daily an Senge, end | CL ar the Ge ae ee Soe (Appisage )” Tae who are found at night tn the political and eocial circles, thoughte of ‘theeo calightened tea-thex walled ap oa istely, but after the expiration of less of a!l lands, no matter whether Catholic or Proteataat, | fy them, for stil! | Jew, Grock or Gentile—no matter whether they werd | Foglish, Irieb, German, Pole or Hungarian, they invited all to come; Sut inaemuch as the cost ef traveportation They tel] us that they will withdraw their trade from the the emigrant mig>t sell bis labor to pay the expenses of bis transportation to this free land from his native gol. | step, aud | New York man emigrating New York or of Connecticut. oval | The | men, or the no man, that they tor has there ever besa oue found | pplause.) Six of the other Staves followed | bave remained statiovary, or relatively so, The finest site for commerce on this continent is Jeans, and in early life | mate = ean tae Yor, the capital of my native cede and supplant New York, o Bate marae w cacaen ‘this continent. 1 found ‘that there was ten times the on in New York ‘hat ‘that it was increasing in & ratio ef euch itnde that when New Uricans should have # quarter of a million, Now York would have a million and # balf. Shall I tell you the reason? | found it in the fact that when I went out in the it and came twinkling in his window. At the gray of morning ot late at night, everywhere, I saw mate as weil as told. Bot when I came to the city of New Or- leaps I found there that everything was sold and nothing ‘wes made. Alter trying ip vain to find any article of bu- ‘man raiment that was mede in New Orieans, I did #ee on Charles Hotei S this inscription: — laughter.) Fellow eltizeng, thie is no reproech; it is not spoken reproechfulty of New Griewns It would ill be- come me to do eo. But it their system. They employ siaves, anc in New York—1 was going to say we empioy— 1 think I will reverse it, end say free men employ their wasters. (Loud appinure ) ‘This is but an filustration, ‘The principle is the same with e devartment of in- dustry—tn every department of manufacture. Now, the ‘lave States not ouly build no great cities, bat they build no great Sates, compared witb there free Staies. There ia one other distinction, and that is, the {ree States mal- }y and replenish the continent with free States, bat the flave States tail to multiply and replenish the contiaent With slave States, and they say the reasoa ig not in the Bi ature of ery aud freedom relatively them eelves, but it 8 in — the injustice of not allowing them first to establish slave | territory, and they ere coming to @ay next, as they logically must, in vot allowing them to reopen the afri- can slave trade, and so to farnish a supply for slave States. (Obeer) The opposition is founded upon this state of ucts Ie it reasonable to concede w it? We can- not concede to it unless wo are willing to arrest the pros- perity and growth sod greatness of our city, of our State, and of our country. That would seem to end the argu- | meat. Bot they then resort to terror and to menace. city of New York, unless her citizens wii) vote as tbey require them to vote for their supposed interest. Is it best to yield Why, fellow citizens, j@ not @ province of Virginia or any more tban {it is @ province of New York is the _ lig of the country. New York must be the metropolis of | the continent, Her commerse, like her principles, must be clevated, equal, just, impartial towards every State— Carotina, ‘a It, foo, {ree | towards freedom, wt least, if she must be toleract of | slavery. (Loud applause ) Bat they proceed to teil of | Baal if we do not concede to their demands they will te- | Cage und dissolve the Union. Shall we, then, surrender? ‘That involves the question whether they will secede aud dissolve tbe Union if we do not. What then ie it we pro pote to do whic they require us not to do? Why, it is simply to vote for the mun that we prefer, orer the threo TOtBl.. sss rere Peres neeeee point at which this was taken was corner of ud Broadway. Yours, &c., H z of are the chief property en- the existing controversy. How much moucy ‘the South contributed to de lives of their families? }, Imithfaul to the rights and iastitations of the Soutut the Onarieston Mercury, which for shirty five ears has been & prominent press ia the Soath—what been the fate of ite editors? The lrst rained, the se cond barely earned & narrow subaistence, the third injured sold out in time, the fourth aied @ ruined maa. Tue Ofth ie our bumbie selves, of whom we will say gothing What paper at ibe North bas brougkt to the public wore understanding, more ability, eloquence or fidelity than the Charleston Mercury (we speak not of ourselves)? There bave been braios aud iabor enough in it to have amageod a dozen fortunes. Yet how meager has been the patronage conferred upon it comparoa with ite Norshera contemporaries. How many tens of thousands of dollare, due to it, have been lost, udeollectable and unpaid? How many teue of thousands of dollars are now due t and chiefly by the very wen—ths piartore, the slave. boiders of the Soath—wbose property wud lostitutious, ‘where liberties aod lives )t bas iabored te prowecw If ite | principles and policy were for salo t) morrow, in Wall street, in New York, it could with ease realize @ hua. dre; d thousand dollare. We know what we say. El wood Fisher sunk a fortune of forty tuousand dollars ia | the contest of 1850-52 by his proes in Wasbiugtoa, in | the perilout enterprise of defending whe rights aud ia stitutions of the South. Are the defenders of the South by the padlic press, in the greater contest of 1880, to bo Elwood Fishers? Let the siavenolders of the Sout imi tate, at least, tbo enlightened seldsbness of the people of the North, and support, witn a becoming euergy, those presses which are faithful to thetr interests ani insvita tions. The public prees is said to be the fourth estate ia Eogiand. In this country it ts the sole ettate. Kings, lords andcbmmons we have none; for no maa in the South recognizes iu Congress, or in the Exenative admi- istration at Wasbingten, soon to pass into the hands of our enemies. any power for good to the South. Our cause ig naked for eupport, at Waghington or in tae North; but We have the prees, and that may be all potent for our de fence, It caa inlorm and counsel our people, arouse re- | sistacce to our florce enemies, and bring to the South de liverance snd liberty. prefer. (Cheers and laugh- Ver.) Je there any offence in that? Woy, thas is just want the constitution says we may do; and inasmuch as there must be necessarily & difference between us; the constitution requires every man not to vote for the ‘man fome one else wants elected, but for the man that be himself prefers over everybody else, (Cheers) Weil, they ay that, noverthelese, they mot take offence. We atk why’ This is right. “Why, yes,” say they, “eo fur you are ali rigot.” “Why, then, wi dissolve?” They reply, **We will dierolve because Mr. Lincoln and « Co ommit aggreesioas upon us afler they are elected.” ‘ery weil,” we say, “bat is it pot prudent and is it not reasonabie to wait until be ts elected fret, apd until be commits the aggression or tempts to do itt” (Cherm) They acewer, “No, we cannot afford to wait for an overt act, hesmass the overt | not may never be committe¢—(Laugnter ant cheers)— | or, if it should be committed, we should be woo much de moralized, and we could not resist and vindicate oar. selves.” Weil,'l will not argue the latter polat—(cheers)— but | do believe better of them than faim of Uhemreives. I know their manhood, their spiri:, the’ courage and their chivalry, aud | kaow enough of Gamen nature to know, algo, that’ he who waite until an overt Act if committed before be strikes buck, will be able to recover liis right# a thoasend times sooner than be who Strikes before any overt act is committe’, (Applanee ) f 1 were to claim that 1, whose vote if in a lators and imaginary theorists—projectod, aud ined | But why should we expect thet President Lincoian 1d hie dierent rural district, feel an equal interest and an cqual Shen completed, all tbe great thoroughfares neree | Cabinet, and a repablican Congress, will commit aggros “ Degas swabs gp N lone against the #lave States’ They could not do it con. pride im the proeperity and greatness of Ne aig Btibationaliy;and what they ca snot constiiationally uo {Appiacee.) And yet I know not why I should not. The h not be done in this country. (Lowa cheors.) be city, snd the country around that sustaius it, are not and commerce between the city of Ne ef, who are these meu who are to commit reperate and ielated from each other, but are parte of ortions of the © N© | there unconstitutional aggresrione? They are citlacus exe whole. The town stands by common consent for f our civil | Of the United States, chosen by their foliow cli zeus; town and covpty. Certain! e 8 necestary—that was edu if rot altogether the best, yet from the best oF ¢ borbe may justly feel that ride ree people. The foundation a bo part of the free States. Are they jess likely to be hopest, aad all the glory of the c 5 qoal, free, jest nud tmpartta Clese% | and jost, and wise aod prudent statesmen than the men seldem exempted from its m zene was laid in the State a. au early | tele. ted from the same constituencies who heve beret» Bet when a city extends its dimeusi ar and after much cousention was doally introlicod | fore filed the meats of Cougress’ Aye, but they toll oo all sides as to make the State ® tablished permaneatly in the city o: York. | that this repubtionn party is driven on by emthoat and when extending #t iber tt embraces th: # citizens, 1 bave told you ta these few, very | and madmen, fanatice, and that they will coatrol, remote regions of d constitutes them suburhe the whole foundation of all the prosperity of | instead of being restrained by ftatermen, This ro- then be who lives as well as be who New York, which now, in a period aly joan party chat, peat Tuesday i# to elect Abranam withio the heart warm w s, counts @ population of a m aud ps | Lincoim Pretiaent—(ioud appiause)—what will it be bat wa ® try A commerce surpanring & ches of 189 | @ majoriiy of the American peopie. (Ores of “ood ") —se well ae the fo | If is ie leme than that it cannot elect anybody, If it electe e « £ i Sates, which now aay be | be the precisely same American poopie d be t ‘ cine @ popL “4, | that b ted government in the abure of coos: Whicb hag establia 8 108 | ior out of tenderness to the oath | r aport which {8 a - | and siave «States, for a pried whieh bas . % | of Ofty years, ome of “true” aed cheers.) It will ve | aay otuer oc at forbearing still se it can be and majatete the pria. ' 0 T port ia the we of freedom; and te maintain these principics, as | uatead of being bef have alressy shown ves nO action of the ¢o- cat State, and 0! 4 ment in ANY wacons’ yal direction whatever, Jat bold y to a etranger id | they tel ux are arguing only apon reason. What © bare sald, you have told me 4 | fear i# tbat the South and slave States will pot listen w happy republic which the accieut philosophers conceivod | rearoa. They are excited—they are disturbe ad the apclent poete sung, und which the 4 rate, and they ti go ont of bth experience of mankind bas proved to b i or no reason, right or wrong.’ Well, (@ ro acd ® feation. And pow for the fav think ‘very differently of whe | Sy | York ed mes now before me, 1, myself, when I was even older than some beard. 1 sought recreation and rest outside of the city of New York by rambliag round the wmbe im the Potter's ficid—now the Washington seunre, | thank a very able and ingenious writer iu a morniog Dewapaper, who yesterday called my attootion to the fact, certainly eetabitehed by demonstration and fgures, thet within a period of 150 years tue pop of the sometimes thought thet « CAN fee BDOUL AS Wel w + im the midst of the exclseny » 02 the priuctgie nw abt mot that the fgurce acrease by aa I aad to laave tue \ncrease of the tngrease by fore go aet exactly a9 ve the eanale and tt 5 , toa and to leave y com ai State oa New York ba Sand upoa ti waa \boe - nme -¢ (Applwuse.) Here an ier e nu)syed by Bost oa ‘ we sitar cone » 4 try 0 . t tabliunmect ations " as tnre ' toa tion ake a tow “ A>rabe to bee ‘ * “han toh m acre . © ' Y r There a ard reean ‘ ‘ ate " ' t y kee Of “Never great Etate « “ and and freedom Though: ” Stale Gomall thas vf be thaaked, ai! thet otterea reat # needful bo do, suc law agricultern! and manw'wtur yo oo more such ediets. 09 more each j far we to the % ‘ t ¢ falls of @@ Jadgmente, are rogivteret Gohore. Any ope could pre Laat a great a riebing Good") Why, then, siace 't 8 #0 simple, ehould pou teruat arta here if toi © « ‘ be not go 6 deme WAY (oat wae Dogue by your With free men, \utoiligest wen, aod it lave phere, and which bas bees prosecuted fo long ant leh wo be furmieted with for aoccee . anch evecess? WhY, they tel Be thet we are to exes within the State. Th » 4 pps Woy «oye tomar ly nat weed of ¢ cheers) —dul anybody ever expect to firetoh Og to the Miss fame or happwer corth by be Inker and © her did sen that the nate f they wie What are we made m vercome the op,oaitioa or daty? (Jnest®.) ©, and wat (#8? | have airendy aliodet the fast that fifty youre ago, whee the seven Norther Steven ade Srutverc Sfetee diin be N\pen of Bo thie oppne's at a 4 \ | of thirty millions, briagwe | “ North. The eleetion of a chief meeis Fepublis L every Interest to use the Det Argame yase that | bas. We give them the w ments which bave been submitted to you ko of len her: ‘Which I bave astempted to review to in return what? Der nneiations a: and bt. Ther giro us throate = Well, they on | are note very logteal form of argument, but they are o | to be biemed who use them, for they areal! (be argum-nte “1 | they have. (Cheers and iaughter.) And what is our duty what is oor duty? To threaten back agata ful menace for mensee, and denaveistion for dooun No; but to Listen with patience, with Kindacae, fee aud sympathy; for w xyont WR, Aud OUF arguments are mach Weir threats (Laughter ) {do throats, belore election, are evideaces of } oot think revolution and dieunion after election, for the #mple | re that I have always found thet ® man wao | } tend to strike m fatal blow dow not gir beforehand. (Laughter 0 it | A maa intoxicated may threaten, but be + be will do when be beoomes sober. (vg! Koows that no sober maa cas fell ke we wh ter) be wer weet | 4 do when be eullere bimsel’ to be wertaken wit esioation. A maa in a passion | never cant what do when fh je ¢ as everybody . 2 wn vers often does when ho i : thove which he meditates when he is are made by the politicians in the | os states As T have said, | ” Th w day, in hed me whet I ibougt | Tunaught it eertaia for that Mr. Douglas hed Stale of New York, and ‘ that State. (Deri | aid I ¥ go> \; bow * say fe watt 10 u think that Mr. Dodgina sinly cagant bot will Fou allow oe r. cise (* ronntog ae @ carcig , and is cuuvasring for | » faith im truth, oo faith ia virtae Tam not me 44 eee the nuteber of thie class of American Drought out ao that we may tee them altogether For my part, 1 ia the eomatt- tation, fatth ty t ypte of the Stata and of the U faith (a freetom, faith in jastion, faith a virtoe, an nm bomanity. The sonetittion and the Loion bare @ood sigbty years, oniy on found of ved a faith cxoting merican pa; it will stand too aud forty Presidential eleotions alter 1. ta wandered anda thousand. bees (wae emtan- drown witer, more winous than they Were when As Mr. Seward mace bis bow - ¥ Aopianded aneembie? in Fourteent to eeoort him to hie t a! aie Ugh were orpanirad And audrewaed by variour tpeakers more bumane, and tt wae ret sbiieted 0 Awaame Were st provesefon, net in Gardena i TO TRE RDITOR OF THE Wenatn. view Youn, Now 2, 1600 Sin—The following, earefnity calsulated by myself and Our readers, wo trust, will pardon the disagreeable trothe contained in this article; but we live ta times | when ignorance and error may be ruta and truth saiva- on, New Croton Muin: Bridge. PREPARATIONS FOR SUPPLYING NEW YORK WITH PLENTY OF WATRR—THE WAY IN WHICH IT 18 DONE—MOW IT PROGRESSES, BTC., ETC. Some ehort time ago the coatract was given to Messrs. Sceden & Rowland, of Greenpoint, L. 1, for laying the new and large main pipes over High Briige, for the pur- pose of supplying the city with an extra quantity of Croton water. A® well rupplied as our city is with good and wholesome water for our purposes, both io ® eocial and commercial view, the great growth of New York actually demands a much greater supply, and elibough the sccommodation at present is Inrge, still io ® very few years it would * © doubt be found Insufficient to meet the increased de- mand of our citizens. Our readers will recollect winter the skating pond of the Ceatrai Pend upon the rain that might fall aud to the Park for ® supply of water to be used for the exhilarating recreations of curliog and skating. This was entirely owing to the lownem of the Croton water ip the for in case the water should be used to iil Ub id & large ire was to break out im the city the supply of water would be in- suileient t extungnieh i, aod there would be no kuowirg where the consejvences might end, 1 soaroity wili be entirely done away with whea toe cow mains will be ready for uee, which will be eariy \n the spring, as the capacity of it wil! be threo and a half times ereater thaa the two that are now iu use oombiaod fur nish. The work of laying the new maia was commenced last Saturday, and it #ii! probably take uotil the Let of Janu ary to Ouish it The preparations for laying it are very complete, and arranged in such & mauner thet very Iittie trouble is experienced. Oa cach of the parapets of the bridge is jaid @ railroad track, und ou this elevated ra\lvoat are conveyed the huge pieces of the pipes, ome by y suall all have been placed im their proper pow The pipes are browgns obs in foows to the bridge, ant thea are hosted from ihe decks of the seows to of 122 feet. Having this railway car or p! piace set apart for them to the reader, but wh that cach sect the pipe weighs four tone, be will see that great care and picety are sequired in the work of raising and placiag Fach section, as we before stated, weighs four tour, ts tweive feet long, made evtirely of wrougat iron, and bas aty-three foot, There wil be one hundred and twelve and a half sectione, mak ng a total length of thirteen bondred and tfty feet Test On cast iron pedestals, at w ¢\ste apart. Theee pedestals wii W allow for tbe contr while under the in orm. and wt Once deposited 1a the pear very Fmple ant expaasion of the of the changes of nace aimeephere ‘These sections by a stationary engine ax large revolving d Seven minus se each piece With Unie specd they aro a Present able to raise and short time more men #1 then process at & woch q The railroad i not oi eouly three cach day, Ina the way get, only aboot three fourthe baviug been completed, bet there 16 more than epovgh for the present paurpores. Gur reporter had the honor of riding tx of the mina, while @aspended from the ca trip on & railroad ince, and betgh foet from the grouod The car is at presoat prope ie hand, but ina short time sicam wil! be used, tionary engine being able to adord sutfloient’ power v9 move ft, with ite heavy burden. as the new malu, whoa completed, wil! be above the top of the bridge, aad there. fore would present a tery ungaiuly appearance, it 1¢ \a- lenaed to add seven tert to the beight of High Bridge, so 8 to cover the now main, the entire wo be covered by an arch of brick work When we have the threo large malas ia 0; the new receiving reservoir ready for us heed have no feat of receiving orders from the Board to be more coonomical in the ase of thas greatest of luxeries, water. It will also have the effest of giriag a mech greater supply, and with more fores to our dre gun panies in case of a large conflagration. Tt ie oaly whon we feel a want of water that we leara to fad the preparations for tacreasing the © be regarded with gratitude jby ail the cit York. Fiankeytem of Thariow Weed To THE RDITORS OF THE NING POST. 1 desire 10 add to the explanation you have deomod it i@ seldom thet @ p cova n Proper to make in reference to this eu ject Whon the Governor's hospttallilee wore accepted by the Pripee of Wales and his party isting o( fourteen), the task of ‘i'ling the fow remaining eoute was e delicate oua. The propriety af making the diner an aificial one was Mani est but ae Loere were oight State oMoer# and put four teats, to bare dt ; ous, fovera teat dent members of nie ‘On the more t fad that be could not, th Gorervor, 1 wel weet tmmediat no. Ald-de Camp. wi denora! Mitebell and asked him to give bie seat et the Gororaor's ta to the Lieutenant Govervor. He answerel cart “Tehan’t do i” Lremarked that hie © anee a very proper request surprised me.’ He inquired why he ‘was asked to give up hit wvat.” Lanawered teat | bad Just called to make the request of Coloue! Rathboue, «ho ‘was aoernt; that Genarai Johnson, austbor mem oer of the #taff, bad gone to West Point to eaoort the Prince: aod that meeting bim, opportanely, I bad asicod Ain v9 40 jt what it was ueval proper for members of the suits of President or a Governor, oF & General-in-Chief, under similar ciroumetenees to do. 2) woe one for which Lam wholly respausi rie The ebarge that “General Mitebell emcluded fron the Goverpor's table becanse be lf a hotel keepar” ie posterour—especially prepommrows Wyo the saggestioa And the reqaeat were mine—not 1 vornor’s. if aug fvch iJea could have entered my bead it would nave pra | youted me from asking Govervor King to appoint Governor Morgan % reappoint, General Mitoxell ppeetfally, yqure TAURLOW WEES Ainany, Nov. J, 1860. and R NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1860,.—TRIPLE SHEET. aesinea to | #07 friends 1 an nocurme account of the numbers in ihe | A MUUNS Ur Int Grand Union Meeting at the Cooper Institute. THE G cHISis, The Minute Men of Mew York on Duty. Patriotic Rally Around t ge Union Banner, Rey Rey Another grand mars meeting “¢ {yr democracy of Now York was held at the Oooper " pagttvite last evening. Tae Toom was not qnite 80 row" ma x on many recent o0c' sions, but ks was full enor gm gratify the ambition of ‘any popular orator Biriv!'44 te make his mark on the pub” Me mind touching th croiting themes of the day’ ‘The enthusisem 0 the audience was very great. The intricately erions condition of the prosent state of aflairs yeumr to have bad the effect of arous- pg every inking man to a conse of bis duty. The deep {n/oreet <f those who were present at the meeting art night could not for » moment be mis taken. They applauded every Union sentineat to the skies. T’sey gave enthusiastic cheers for the constitution and te free tberty of the States, and in every way eviner d their appreciation of that national freedom which \bey bave eo long enjoyed, aud which is now g0 seriously Uereatened. “Mr. Joseva J. Hurry called the meeting to order in the ‘aval manner, proposing August Belmont, fisq., a8 chair- man. ‘The nomination was received with great euihusiasm. Mr, Beiaonr. on taking the chair, was.received with tremendous spplanse, He eaid:— Fariow crnzens—In thanking you for the bonor which you have conferred upon me } caunot refrain from ad- | Greseing 8 few brief remarks at this critical jauo- ‘ture of our political affairs, In less than four days you Will be called upon to record your voles at an clection, apon the result of which depends not only the preserva- tion of your property and the prosperity of your native city, but also the very existence of this @reat and vast republic. Whatever the republican leaders may gay to | the contrary, I fear that the clection of Mr. Linvola to | ‘the Presidential chair must prove the forerunner of a i dissolution of this confederacy amidet all the horrors of | Clvilatrifeand bloodshed. I koow that Mr. Liucolo’s me. joge—a distance | slavery iu the Territories, but ey are placod on | gulate it in their own way ou the Work, and It Will | the inatitetion of wav + Propounced the funeral oration at Chicago; {t was S friende claim for him sentiments of patriotic aud con- | kervative attashment to the Union. But of what avail can these sentiments be, even if they coexist, from the | moment taat he consents to become tue standard beser of a sectional party bolding priaciples incompatible with Ube sacred obligations of the constitution, aud arrayed in | open and unrelenting hostility against the property aod the institations of the fairest portion of our common coun | Wy. But, my frienss aud fellow laborers in tae cause of the Union, with God's Diessing we most axt give our Opponent a chance to carry out thelr fatr promiges or | thetr boasting tagata. | will not believe the gr of New York, which, under the benedcieat iil our Instisutions, has grown up loa mighty empire telf, will ever give ber casting vote iu favor of fw: eectionalism. I will uot belicye that the city of } York, which owes ber proud position as the firet com | mercial emporium of the world to the blessings of our Union, can ever be unmindful of her outy vo the Union. Ibs an abiding fsith tn the aofliching courage of oar indomitable democracy which bas carried its victorious | Dacner through many a bard fought battic, And last, | though pot least, my friends, I place implicit trust in the | GBergetic o operation of those patriotic aud eonservetive men, the members of the Lime bouored whig party, who, | forgetting ali past differences and on'y miadial of their unwavering atiachment to the Uaion, have united with us to fight the common euemy. ue When, in 1850, the Hydra of eectionalism sad disauim firet raised ber bideens bead, we saw the groat statesmen | of the repablic Iay aside all differences on miaor topiea | of interzal or foreiga policy, aud by ous uaited eflurt | crush the treasonable monster. Then the immortal fter stood side vy Bide with the eloquent and Uaton | ing Beary Foote; then the patriot aud statesman Joba Bell fought shoulder to shou'der with the honored vete | ran of democracy, Lewis Case, and the cherisued idol of | the American heart, the great Heury Clay, was linked band in band with the unilimebing and patriotic cham- pion of the constitution, Stephen A. Douglas. (Loud ap- | plauee.) The great work then fo nodly begua by our | great leaders is now to be completed by tue uuited eff ris of the American people From the snow clad bills of the far Norta to the blooming eavannabs of the suony South, from the rolling waves of the Atlsotic to the golden | ‘of our empire on the Pacific, the bopes and feare of every American patriot are ceutred wt th!s moment in | New York. Will you allow these bopes to. be disappoiat- | ed? (Cries of “No, no.”") No, before another week shall | bave passed away, I trust that the mighty Smopire State will have redeemed berself from republican misrule and preserved the Uaion from the calamities of a sectional administration. Mr. Jaume 8. Tuayew, of New York, was the firet | Speaker after the cbairmas, He said be had neither the | time nor the inclination to make any statemect of what he had seeu and what he had beard (rom others during the inst six week: different purts of New Yo: | fone. He bad already visited nearly one half of the o | he ever known that a mocting of repu festation of the secestion party agatos: the Uaion and tue covstitution, ever could, ib numbers or enthusiasm, cope with the displays of the Union men of tue country. |" (Ap: Pplaose.) The leading princtple of the repudiioun party w abolitionism, aud mé Foch it wax eid ournala and speeches emanating from the gates of passion bad been let loose, and the rostra\ the constitution and laws were av. feeling thas engevdered. But for con millious of the North who at tue Sout there was one w ed behiud to wateu him. ( plause.) The principles of our government aud our stitution were neither slavery uor anti siavery. aow, then, could party, based upon either of these deat Abe issues growing out of the events of the age? Tt The moment ened nu ieeue arose, with a party bebind it, that party was without a ooastitational end or aim. According to the doctrine of she democratic party, the constitution neither prohibited nor estabiished tbe people there to re- (Applause) Tals was the ¥ital elemental principle of the goversment, aad upon | this principle the Valon men in the present coutest rtaad and base their triumph. ‘The repablieaa party were siready beginning (0 feel the uncertainty of thelr position, and to revert to the averred policy of Suck bad been the attempt of rt oor fathers for strength. Mr. Lincoln himse on deavored to show shat twi Convention of 1 tution ever as ¥ very platiorm, who en { the me 8 of the pense wita the This was a fall ai length wo Mr. Lincyla wa erronaod ¢ policy of the goverameut ip every res bad ned = The re publican party wae o party that asin in the bietory of ine United States y hang up by the strength of party ¢ bat the siagie qoertion of slavery, © stitutinna! foundation, to wold sb tegetber Tt was uotalug more nor lea than an abol opposed not so mach to might €0, ax to the \u- (App Mr. Thayer riticise the ragub! at be It at thew proceadet at some epoeeher of Wn. And now, gentle tect from our m\ tertain ard repre whose relatics y woald Wa. durin ry for me to way here, mand a lawyer, made « », before the republican speech, two or three weeks nye club in this city, ia which be sums up, as reported by the New York Zimes, we of slavery aud the cons quent office of the repabiiean pariy, in thee remarkat ‘ ymmaodmeat— Thoa ebalt not sual,’ applied as much toe man's labor as to his property quoted from a code of laws of Suuth Caro'iaa, in 1740, re It was the olf vhat had bails « You, m the thie—« thieves, and and croelties ¢ 89 abolitica presehor, in his wildest fight, ever étd or coukt go far- Uber than to call slavery theft, and siavonolitora thieve And there are the other poiuts, the atrocity of the law that fe clied. Oar slor, when bo hat ex heusted bie learning ip the direction Of Syoth Garolion ho refreshes himself and the pablic by citations from tome of the anoient laws of SMastachasetie Why, to ¢> beck one hundred and twenty years, wed (ind in the deat statetes nicely diseriminatiug Ditwoen the dieeovery of borrers thet th vwooers, i Somner {i thir hi time, to poms Will eayy the log b apiaye im to way nothing oO; fraterniiy and reeip-ocal How jong will men who have manuex of rif reepent = consent le wo @ aby roiation Wore who heap upon them fuch charew and repemchar’ | Avother gentieman, prominent ja the republican party, emipent in bis profeesion, avd pertaking largely of the contidence of hie fellow citiswe, nod of the commervatios stamp, may be referres to io this connection, aod I tend 10 do It with eotire respect. Mr. Wm M. Evarte apoxe et Auburn on the 18th of Oct ber, and discussed the re!s- lions of parties in the present poll meet that Mr Kvart should go there to do it; he Wook after the mantic t' noted wi in the great wigwam— Lone, ip thie piace ran Bryant's dagger througe ‘what a ret the envious Grevley mat this, the well belovet Morgan stabped If Me. Evarte fet s shade of disappointment w' found that Mr. Seward was not quite #0 ‘oat as Corsar when ‘be fell at the base of Pompey’ wal mut be pleoed to that last infirmity of noble mia When I raw that Mr. Kvarte hed made @ spect I rarw that it was an able one, that {t would be elaborate and well arranged Standing there, under the immediate countenance of bie great master, | know be coult not | finch from the trve issues. | waited and waa carious to see bow he would Mheathe to tbe well = consirueted = body of bis specch enly intended to give the people bis own views and opin. | | Mee of the State of New York, and on no ove oocasioa had | the griet of Antovy how it had been pierced | sips ee Tepeeee g 5 or 4 the crowd and out abolitionists, A fro 7 D—Do—8n i ote, ore 7 & Weicom nition yng may ben Nile ‘ad flict between freedom aud slavery. iw be expected that one haif of the coantry with the other balf woen such sentiments wor wtwred a were read, comiog (rom those who claimed lo belong to the covtervative portion of their party. He wiso boat, lostead of iuvoking vnis bellish aboittioa sentiment of the North, they ouwid stand where they J | wat said of Attila the Hun, that wherever bis nore | Wod the grass never grew afterward. He wordere:) whether the seed of constitutional liberty would row where the seed of abolitionism has oe disseminated: feeling of distruss between the two portions of they Union wus already esiablisned, and Hoaven aoew Where it would end. iu the worda of Thomas On, the question jwas one calculated to dwtray the Union, a8 it bad already aroused ibe evi) pasetoos and | @xetted the animosity of the je. Shonid this Vuiom | Sok conmtibstirn Be. Se . Ne id the broad arck. of country fail. ver. jever—they we'! gab! \t. | We was covered wish everything fair that grows on American soil, The cotton plant and clover, tbe grain and coro sheaf feetooned its pillars; they had ‘seen (hac | the old Key Stove ‘tate bad already given way; would | New York bo +, wita the sharp poiat of the irrepresible conflict, off the block upon which Dewits Clinton, . er—and applause.) Be prayed to God that tt might not be so, aud if not withie Aft: years from the preseot ume, one hundred aud fifty mil- Hous of people would be marching with a steady wad un. jostled step tow strain eo full and joaious that Lo | discordaut strok® of minstrelsy would ever fa!] upon the | troubled ear of @ people surrendered at last to the \nfer- pal tiead of their Union and their 88. ho siastic cheera, amid which Air. Thayer resamed hit seat > ‘Tne baud piayed “ Hail, Columbia,” the audience gave | three tremendous cheers to the Union, and the President | then announced that Hon. James K. Clinton, of Mies .se\p- Pi, Would next address the meeting. Jamas K. Cuintox, of Mississippi, was introdoced anid great cheering. He here, be said, to epeak for tae | far ci! Southern State | Obe of thote who only inquired what was rigct, and then Acted up to his judgment. He belonged to the great Union conservative party of tse country—(great anpiaise)—2 | Coion under the covstitution as the {atnurs of | the country handed it down to us Hs fret cholee for Presiaent was Stephen A. Dooglas, of Ilt- bext, for Mujor Breckinridge, or for te novie, hearted stateaman, John Bell. (Theee names were greeted with loud applause ) He covgratulated bi aself upoa the fact that the friends of all these wen bid com- bined to lick the sectional candidate. (Applause.) We lived in a time wheo a dark, portentous clout hung over the Union, and threateued the ity of the beet country in the world. This ¢! was the wicked, dampuble malaria that carried death to the nation. It meditated fojustice to m idrge por- tion of the American people, and wa8 Bot sus- by philosophy or the religion of Jerua Curist, This country had expanded from a few feebie colonies to be one of the moet msguid cent countries in the world, and was reepected every- where but at home. (Laughter and cheers ) Ae a south erp man, he inquired if the South was the cacse of thie discontent that prevailed? (A Voloe—It was the b/ci | republicans.) When dia we of the South do you 1njus- | tice? (New Af mary of the Statea that orig'nally | Were slave States bad sold out to the South, was it not | base in these Northern “tates to attempt to destrsy the | very property fold to the South? The Southern people | did not koow how to get rid of slavery, and this coontry | would be deluged inarea of blood Outeide | political organization would overcome tae lustitation of avery. (Uheers) He maintained that the abolition | party of tho North was the cause of all the agitation now | existing. It was @ party not only without priociple, bat | itshowed itself to be wholly ignorant of tho suvjec: it | sought to control, That was always the caee where partice | Mevidled with otber people's business. A great majority of the republicans were never ina Southers State. The | speaker maintained that the extonsioa of slavery was itz weakness, because there were oaly 350.000 people direct- ly Owners Of slaves, and when the institution wax spread At would become weaker. The republicans were ignoran sleo of the subject of inhibiting the slave trade between ‘the States, for Virginia could never be made a free State, He inquired what bad the abolitionists ever Gone to miti- gate slavery? A Voica—They stole the negroee Mr. CLintorn—The republicans keep the aboltioninue ar & vort of compend to du thertealing. Look as -be negroes ‘op Canada; they are sicoped in filth, and were a post | the nation. What was tho condition of the negroes North? He ventured, if vbere was & hear. kiadled with #ympathy for tho black man, it was the democrats, and pov the republicans. Hoe told them that tue megso wat the most Perron to sing “J rdap te « hard road to | travel,” when he ie indnoed by the avolitioniete to go North. The republicans, in all the agitation avd war apon. | | tained ‘ow | Instead gf alienation of feeling, we ought to be the Lap- | piest people in the world. the constitution, bad brought the eountry & the verge of roit aed compelicd the South to pase stringent iawae in wee to negrote; the republicans bad caused fre inctead of ove, to be administered to the pegrn, True philanthropy would induce them w let tbe sabject of ‘avery wone. It might be that Abraham Livooln would be ted. Avan bowers man he told bis heerers that he believed if Lincoln if elected, at least Miesisei pp!, Flor! in, ma, Georg '® wad south Caroliag would seoade to- gcther, and, es my friend says, Texas too. This be urmiy believed would be ths case. Ho did not believe ‘that the election of Lincotm would be Micien. cause Lo diseoive the Usion—(appiause)—but if bis \asuguratioa woul! result: in foreiwg the dootrines of the repablican party, then he hesitated not to say that every Soatherr s Ougat to gooutof the Uaion, The Svuthera mea bel that the; fuperior to the Atria race, | Whiie the repablicam party maintgined that the black wan was equal to the white man. He asked them if they would live 19 @ goverement that protlaime! such doc- | tripe. As for the South, would.vever do it. (Greas app sure) He did not believe that Liacoln would ever be Fresident of thie vation (Renewed appleuee. > As in the language of the poet, “God often bide smi! face behind afrownirg Provitence,” he bad faith the country would be saved. What rearon bei the love re of thetr country to fear, although Obio cud hed gone for the black republicans, that N pot be true? She pow had aa opportunity to write brightest page in her hietory, and if she dot Tuesday that Liveotn ehon!t’ not be Pres entities to the proodent name ta the world's 5 (Loud cheers) He believed that New York would eave the vation. Let every man be a hero and xo to work on bie own hook, and if they did #0, be believed New York City would roli up 45,000 wajority for the laion per’ y. The Uuion coald not be dissolved, becease God Alaughty ned that it shonld always remain unwed. He bad jookes pon the variout traasparencis of the polit..a! parties, and if it was in his power be would write up the Grmament above them, “Tae Union aud the Camatita Hob, our aatlve land forever, cemented wits ibe blood of oor (athers.”? Mr Clinton resumed his goat # On the conejusing of Mr. Chinn's spesch, 109 Chairman Mace Pome paetiog Complimentary remarkr, sod then o- troduced The honorable General Vartasmicnam, ef Oai0, who fald that be bad no ceeiro to detain the meeting, as the jate, aid the eloquence that oad preseded not "be equaiied. Him apology for ring that the Union was fn denger. In his own Ponnay ivauis, alarming tigas and events of wofal Import had ed. now the last Jutrenchment of the Calon ax too. Bie bad 8 consoling metaage for Now d but not congvered meu of Obie, tbat tney ehould rm to their principles and thelr Cuties, to roll pack the threatening tide Of the sectional od sow roll ing or to destroy the country. Before “od be believed that the destiny of the whole country was in the haude of New York. "United they mus’ conqoer, bat if divided they wenld fall. In fusion u¢ in union they woglt be Firovg, deepite of the arithmetic and ths arguments of Senawr Seward. When bad mea combine good mea roust astociate. The democratic party hai done weii to wnite. Sarroended ap they are by dangers, they ate tod that the Unica must be saved. But this could only he dows by eupporting the doctriaes of Ube oxamtitution "de went on at Considerabie length to difpaie the ther ire of the republican party, aod concluded higeloqreot t by predicting @ thorovogh viotory for the Unson on Tuew omy bext He was loud; plunded throughout, aod on the coa clusion of bit oration the baud played & pairiotic air. The meeting roon after aeparated ia perfect barmeny everybody seeming quite determined todo the beet fur the Lojon aod the integrity of cach soversigu State. My Jorbua J, Henry wae most untiring ‘0 bie efor for the good of the popular cause. Court of £25 — — iner. Before Hoa Ju jagraam Oct 90 —Ia the Yaathee of Cnarien Deviin, the © ted the commission to Cail‘ornia, ani xppoin ge Ogden Bofiman as the Commission to | lorrgnioriee Judge Hollman war Damed >) bu Attorney, and wiling'y right Judge, by Mr. Devlia’s counsel Arrivals and Depa ARRIVALS, Flameces asd Sortramrron tai bh K hey Ru med Spetaham, Regnin MW Choearborcngl nine, FM Watts, Aug Lafira, Avion Brusler, Jalia f Cann xstox—Steamship Marioo—W P knder. ¥ Nes “er DJ Barber. Migs Rosico, © 1) abrena_ I. F Sooner, au Capt, , B Tiarrition, WH Barbridge and lady, der, W Loder. Mrs brainerd, M Oswald, 5 H Carpenter, W Rmmhb—ard 18 to the steerage. ‘s CALPORNTA Ula Agroew sl. Shaman SUELESTTNGUY URN: Cxpt OH Berryman, (Cap. Simmons Mra MeCormic ry Frsatt, Capt Chas Gill. Cant, Alden. risbee, timer, ihren children Dewey,‘ mother, two chi 3 ia serv @ aay gy OH Trmsherm aud te eAtatton dos Ls cer CH Brooks, De Birdsall D Bure nies, ever keto ie Themes ac an hy 3 wife. Mire Gem. lilgerser. Fit Re Fee Oe Rew Holleanroct, ire owas Mire MerSio—and 290 the era u 4 ieee” ovale” Tags Pare Toa giovannl er, Mew flee, Ponte, Missiseippi. (Applauee ) He wan: