The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1863, Page 10

10 RATIO 14, ACADEMY OF DESIGN. ANE“ TEMPLE TO BE RAISED TO ART. (ARERONES OF LAYING THE CORNER STONE, Remarks by Mx, Benry P. Gray, Parke Godwin, Wm. ¢, Bryant, Hou, George Bancroft, Rev. Wi. W, Yellows, Rew, E. I. Chapin, &e. Iavocation and Benediction by Rev. Dr. Vinton, resentation of a Silver Trowel by the Are chitect to the President of the Academy. THE PROPOSED BUILDING, &e., &e DESCRIPTION OF Or, ‘Fhe corner stone of anew temple to art, adout bemg ratact for ‘the use of the National Academy ef Design, wie led yesterday a‘terncon with appropriate cere- monies, and in presence of a large mumber of our cit! wens. The Fite of the building 1s the northwest cornor of Twenty-third ‘street and Fourth avenue, avd extends ‘eighty (eet on the former by one bundred feet on tho jatter, Tho edifice is to be im the Italian gothiv style of architecture. The material is to be: for the basement tioor, the grayish blue Westches tor marble, with bands of North river graywacke, and for the front of the building proper, white marble; the whole to be surmounted by a balustrade, The baso- ment floor not required for the janitor’s rooms is to con- tai rooms for the Life and Antique schools, Tho Life sohool room is to be twenty-seven feet by fifty-four, ‘Fhe main entrance ts to be on Twenty-third street, on the sccond or prineipal floor, and is to be reached by a double notof marble steps, The entrance hall will be eighteen fect wide, and from it a broad flight of stairs will lead to tho gattorics above. On the right, facing Fourth avenue, and occupying the whole length of the building, will be asuito etaire the visitor will fod bimeelf in a hall\thirty four by forty feet, occupying the centro of the bwWdlog and di vided by adouble arcade of marble, supported on rich pelened marble shafts, This ball is to be lighted bya #kyh: ht and is intended fer the paintings that are the pro- perty 0! the Academy. Arcund this ball, and opening out of it, will be fiveex- hidition galleries, (our of them for paintings and one for eerlytire—al of them lighted from the roof. The pic- ture g Neries will afford space for the exhibition of from ew ht hundred to one thousand pictures. Tt has been suggested that the exterior appearance of the building will bear a resemblance to that of the ducal palace at Venice, INVOCATION, ‘The exercises were opened by the Rey. Dr. Vinton, wenring a black silk robo, who, after tho Lord’s Prayer, Tecited the following.— Aimighty God, without whom all our purposes are jn- e@ectu:! aud all our efforts vain, grant Bf ghar and essing 1 {hy bumble servants assembled together to with ail solemnity, tbe corner stone of av edifice to ‘be devoted to Thy honor and the benefit of Thy creatures, and to the beautiful in nature. Nature is tho art of God. Beor, Lord, hast made all things beautiful in His timo. Tospire Thy servants to represent Thy glorious art. In Spire onr hearts with a humbling sense of our dependence apn ‘Thee at all times and in all undertakings. tho foundation of this institution rest upon Thy favor. Open the bearts and hands of Thy people to give of their abun. dance for carry ing the design into effect. Prosper cvery efo ¢ for iis advancement, and ev: person engaged iv Ms erection und support. May its blessings be enjoved many, and conveyed to the remotest generation. Above all, may it be an effectual, thongb humble, weana of advaveing Thy pame and praise among this md All which we ask tBrough the merits and for sake of Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, REMARKS OF MR. HENRY P. GRAY. Mr. Hewny Peters Gray, @ member of the Committce of Arrangements, and one of the Vico Presidents, was intro- duced by the President of the Academy, Mr. Huntington, and 8; oke as (ollows:— Lapies any Genviotey, AND Meurens or THe ACADEMY: — You have peen invited to participate in the ceremony of the laying of the corner stone of tha National Academy of. Deen, It is my duty and privilege (acting as ils Presi- de+) to welcome you to a spectacle which I hope may be & interesting a8 ‘tis certainty novol, and briefly az possi- bw detain you from (bo favorite speakers who have kindly ‘oonse.ted to address you on this oecasion, while | gay a few words about the institution which, with your appro- Dation, we are now to Ina gurate on this solid foundation, The National Academy of Design was instituted in 1825, 1 quote by memory, from a synopsis of the bistory of the Academy. nearly completed, by our Treasurer, Thos. 8 Cummings, Feq., one of the original founders, five only f whom now remain. It held its first exhibition in a reom twenty five by fifty feet, on tho corner of Reado Street and Liroadway, i 1826. | This exhibition was open evenings, aud ndvertised ag brilliantly lighted by gas Trem six burners. It js interesting to note that this was tho first time gas was ever used fer an exhi ition of pictures. The pecuniary result of the exhibition ws unsuccessful, leaving a deficien- ey which was supplied by the subscribers. The Bext exhibition rooms were in Chambers street, aver Btoffanns's baths—a locality since become distinguished by various public Occupauts—at the avuual rent of $300. The next rooms were in Clinton Hall, in 1830, at $500 per year, The next, in 1840, in Pr edway, corner of Catharine Gilley, over the Historical Society's rooms, at $1,000 per ir’ These were oecuplet ten years most successfully, 18 , when the Academy bought the ‘Brower’s 663 Prondway, opposite Bond street, which was Men the up town limit of travel of this line of the Broad way ompius. The whole property of the Academy was ‘then less than $10,000. After using these rooms a few years they were sold, and since that time the Academy bax hired various places for its exhibitions while waiting for the building we have now started. * The sule of the property in Broadway, under tho manage- ment and through the noble geberosity of Messrs. Jovatban Starges and Charles M. Leuppe. trusters, assisted: by Thomas 8. Cummings, Fsq., trustee, whose able Serviows (hese gentlemen have often acknowletged, pro- duced for the institution @ clear protit of $60,000. Ana ‘with this sum ,increased nearly three-fold by the success of the Feilowshiy Fund last winter, we have bought and so far We have ox- ‘Duilt this property as A permanent abode. dntod retitore, we are told, in spirit, We Rave a material form—sich an one, 6, as shall ‘manifont our unity, peace and onncord, increase our prosperity and usefulners. 1 said this was certainly a Bevel spectacie, Is it not?’—when we reflect that this is ‘the first academy of the fine arts this side of the Atlantic— the first instance of the building of an academy of @eaign, not only in the United States but on this continent, and directed ex.tirely by the artists, carried ou @rictiy under academic regulations, and dependent here loro wholly on our own rosources. And now, strongly ‘wedded to public sympathy by a new order of members— faa “fellows” —their sudscrijtions will enabie the institu. tion to ajpear berore you in a form of olegant architec fare, whieh, we trust, will be a characteristic feature of ‘this locality and av ornament to the metropolis. la cov. @usion, may I not plead, while we have our shoulders at the wheel of this enterpriae, that our (riends and sub aeribors will soriously entertain o preposition which, if earried into elect, will pay she whole cort of jt, including @ Cand for its maintenance, 1 propose shat you rhould MOVE resolution, that, recogah "ing the ta poriance of en- @edling our city by ovtabliehing .» permanent galiory and aondemy of the five arts, we wil) cach of ms eadeavor to stain Baubscription to the FelLows’ Fund of the Na- ‘sional Academy of Design of equal 4 mount t our own, REMARKS OF MR. PARKS GODWIN. Mr. Panxe Gopwin was tho next eaker. Ro said: — Assembled today under the genial 4 vtumna skies, to @ake a record of our progress in art and ecsonce, im pelied by no low or groveliing taste, but ywith a high and Gimert holy roveronce, I may say, wo ,meot to reara Wrapie to the beautiful, where the actiyd ministers in ahat service may yoorly bear their richest wTerlngs, and @ here the broad brotherhood of that faith \y come up always to pertorm their beneficent worship. (.\pplauss. ) Aeornot but think, Mr. President and gentiod em, thas you have chosen an appropriate and propitious ie for Wir isugaration. It may seem strange that 1 should Sennect this period of war in any favorable sense with =the = gently and arte of race, The earth boneath our fect seoms to throb as if with (be shock Of earthquakes. Evory Southern breeze comes 0 8 laden with tho clash of ‘arms and the thunder af Cannon, There may be now many & brave soul ascendini its Makeor—many a manly form sinking, as the ongel Of death rwoers by with indiscriminating blows. Those have board mo discours® to artists before will rocail Rasa © theory Of mine that those great national, Mroggles which put nations to the utmost strain of all heir noblest qualities are but the tempestuous aprin and reed time for tho glorious summer of all tnannor. of ‘teliectual fraits. (Applante.) The soul of the people ta Nfted ap to the high level of thought and feeling in Hob the great arts are born. (Appiause.) it ie com. ‘mon to refer to some great ayes in the world’s bietory— such gf the age of Pericles, in Gresoe, of Augustus, ip Rome; of the troubadonrs, in early Europe; of the Medici, io jtaly; of Lowa XIV., in France: of Flizebeth io Englavd, aud oor own modern ora ol the Bineteenth century. But why were those ages #0 die Ainguished ? Bocanse of any patronage which the kings t or princes, or oven the merebant princes of those times, laviebed ep artiste and their work? A® weilarcribe to thot caqne stare shining in the heavens, the glories of the Ot the tunis of the woods, No, Fayrop. NE pea a As ®F bt it is only the fod tht © Pie it birtk, These ages were £reKL re the 8 1 Wye ihe penpie, aroused Dy the great events ta which Vy .y parteipated, over- flowed si every appropriate Wy otal agnation, The Be @i Ferivies in Greece ame imu edately after the Perstan war, whicd ited the spirit, “of Greece to almost sn- perMeiaan strougth; aud “that spirit caimed it self in Phidis, Tsebyiw.s, Fiaro aad Demosthenes, Ont of the civii contests ¢; Reme came the soit splendors @ the Augustan titeratrre, It was when Europe fiog ftsel( upon Asia te inwimerable hosts to rescue the poly sepuichre from profvne tonch that we received the ear- Lest iudheations: | Gothic architecture which began fo oversproad WeBt continent: and then it was that the lays of ihe traibadours and the tales of the trouveres Drvke fort Meo a chorus of birds, It was not from tie. divoam faver, bat from the trying confitets of the Italian republics, Wuat the great ace caine when Michael Angeto und Leonardo de Vinci crowned the laurelied bo d of italy with those works which are at ouce tho deMght “and the despair of artists, It wis tbe wars of Louis Quatorze, act bis luxurious patronage, thatoalled forth what is ‘tuished in the Freuch style. Se I might refer to the grand outburst of the niseteenth century, And the application of the theory is this: that we may hope that out of the throes and convulsions of our own darkening and strengthening present will bo ‘born those lovely forma of grandeur which mark the best epochs of any people. Thrs may we not see, across the smoke of the battle fild, the glorioas bow of promise which the benign Author of the Universo writes en the — oo when the tempest has passed ever? (Ap- plause. RYMARKS OF WM. C. BRYANT, ¥t bad been arranged in the progrimme that the next speech should be from Professor S. F'. B. Morse, @x-Presi- dent of the Academy; but, as that gentleman was net able to be present, the assemblage was addressed by Mr. Ww. Cuiiew Brvanz, who said, in allusion to the absence 9f Professor Morse:—I well recollect the time when, ral- tng the artists of Sas di oe eon Semeoere he ea them to the encounter with’ the old Academy of Fine Arts—s useful institution enough in tts day, but no anited to the time, I recollect how, a’ter a few exhibi- tions of this Academy of oura, to which snch artiste as bimeelf, and Durand, and Ingham, and Inman sent their Paintvooga, the old iustitution quietly expired and left the Held open to us younger moore vi 8 rival. For my own part, as an early frieud this Acade- my, I, too, have some title to say @ word or two on an occasion like this. I was a witness Of ts birth, nearly forty years since. I lent its founders such aid as’a daily prees could give, and its pupils accept ed from me a short courre of lectures on the mythology of the eneionte. Ff eonerstulate ite members, and 1 oon gratulate the public, who will be equally the gainers, on t vorab.c Wait whica its lortuves are now taking. Ia the history Of certai races of mankind it ts related that, in the earlier etages of their civilization, they led a wan- dering Iifo, dweiling in tents. migrating from place to place, and pasturing their herds wherever tho glittor of cool waters or the vordure of fresh grass attracted them, As they made one advance after anothor in the arts of life, and grew numerons from year to year, they began to dwell in fixed habitations, to parcel out tho soil by metes and bonnds, to gather th mselves into villages and to build cities, So is has been with this Academy. For more than a third-of acontury it had a uo madic existence, pitching its tent now here and now there, as convenience might dictate, but nevor possessing @ permanent sew. It is at last enabled, through the monificonee of the citizens of New York—a munificence worthy of the greatness of our capita) and most honorable to the character of those who inhabit it—to erect a build- ing suitable for its purposes and in some degree commen- surate with the greaiuess of its objects. It no longer leads @ precarious li'e; tho generosity of its friends ensures it an existence which will endure ag long as this city shall remain the reat of a mighty commerce. When this institution came into existence I could count the eminent artists of the country on my fingers. Now, what man among us is able to enumerate all the clever men in the United States who have devoted the efforts of their genius to the fine arts? Fora taste so widely diffused we Tust have edifices of ample dimensions and refining architecture dedicated to that purpose alone, and such we shall possess hereafter in tho temple of art whose corner @tone wo are this day assembled to lay, REMARKS OF FON, GBORGE BANCROFT. Mr. Bancrovr was the next speaker. He said:—It is Ume that this edifico should rise. Our artists have already filled the werld with their fame. In sculpturo and in painting their names are already world renowned, and nowhore to-day would a gallery of art be esteemed per- fect if it had not within it the productions of American bands and American minds. (Applause) I have a favorite belicf that in this nation, beyond any other spot or pation on earth, is art destined to thrive and attain its highest result. ‘The reason is obvious. All great art ap- peals to that which is universal and unchanging. When- ever art has languidly flourished under the pro- tection of aristocracy or princes, it has been com- pelled, in some measure, to cater to the tastes of those princes or that aristocracy. Here art must appeal to universal sympathy. Here art must appeal to that sentiment of tho beautiful which ts deep in the human heart, which constitutes one of those great qualities that make man an immortal boing, travacending all creation aronnd him. (Applause.) It is in that appeal to the universal sonse of the beautiful that, in a republic, and nowhoro else than in a republic, art can attain its highest success. (Anplaure.) If you jook throvgh the line of «ges, you will find that there have been but few epochs when art has in this manner completely carried out the highest conceptions of which human genius is capable, and it has been always either in connection with roligion or in connection with liberty. Here is distinguished above all other nations for ana for freed greatest triumph. (Applause,) Our artiste Most earnest guaranteo for the purity of their purpose in the time which they have for founding this edifce—in the midst of civil war, in the midst of our triais, in the midst of the most wonderful Gisplay of disinterested patriotism and of the Joftiest at- tachment to the best interests of mankind. 1} respond entirely, in that connection, to the remarks of Mr. God- win, and TI have uothing to add to them except the hope that the gleam of ortist light which shines on us to day may be like the wing of the halcyon on the stormy wave, the barbinger of |.y,and life, and triumph and peace. (Applause. REMARKS OF RBV. DR, BELLOWS. Rey. Dr. Berrows was tho noxt epenker. Ho was un- willing to see the corner stone sivk into its place without Putting to tho line and the plummet two or three practi cal thoughts—not that ideal thoughts were not the most practical of all, Alluding to a hesitancy felt by Mr. Bry Ant in the coarse of his address, hosaid he knew the rea- son why the memory of his friend Pryant had failed. It wos that he might give him the opportunity to say that while bis memory might fail a little as to what he was to utter, everybody else’s memory would never fall of that which he had said. (Applause and laughter.) When God sowed this world with humanity he did not fail to plant enough of artistic sentiment in men’s hearts and minds to Produce, whenever the genial sesgon of opportunity should come, the most lovely and luscious fruits, Truth, beauty and goodness cannet be divorced. They are the three sides of one cube. Although this wae the fret Aca demy of Fine Arts in the country, he hoped it was only the predecessor of @ long and noble proceseion—the staple to which was to be atteched ever so many shining links, till the whole nation will be bound together in the bond of beauty, truth and goodness. (Applause. ) While art mipistered in the highest degree to the delicate culture, the ornamentation, nay, the moral and spiritual education of society, it also ministered in the same way to the material prosperity and success of men. Not a mechanic resent, not an artisan, however humble, not a house- Pieper, ‘uot a human being within the sound of hie voice, who wag not interested in the highest development of art. The apothecary’s shop over tho way was not more useful to society, nor had that beautiful church opposite a holler purpose than this temple would have, inasmuch an its design would be to show forth the glory of God, not in the English language alone, but in that universal language of color and form which appeals to- all classes and all times, and which is there. fore the grand univerenl language of the world. {Loud applause.) They were erecting that which would produce fruits in the industry, the customs, the tastes and the com/orts of every human being who lived in this great city. Only yesterday he visited the carriage factory of Mr, Lawrence, in Broadway, and thero found the most surprising connection between the pros- perity of that establishment and of ite two or three hun- dred workmen and the creation of the Park. Every tree, and shrub, and ornament which invited people into that nobie instrument of amusement and relaxation eet anew wheel in motion, a uew artist at work devising the kind of vehicle suitable for it, It filed bles and coach- houses, and fe policemen pew ways to overlook and bew people Wy Band Scross the street. (Laughter and ap- pause.) There was nota human being in the city who bad not benetited by tho Park. Tho tax which jt im a was buta drop ip the bucket toward the wealth it had created end the value it had given to real estate ‘The city of Boston was investing one hundred thousand dollars in ab organ which was to rank among the throe or four noble instruments of that kind in the world. The people thore well understood that in doing #0 they drew thonsands and thousands of people to their city, who must go thereto bear what they could not hear any- where else ou this continent. It was, therefore, the best possible investment they could make; and even the ho- tel kee, ere and bo mem Sage od sm might have them. selves supplied the monty, as thoy would get it all back jo a year, In Washington the other day he saw tho ati ing put upon the great iron dome of tho are for th Placing on ite top of the beautiful statue of Liberty, the work Of Crawford's dying fingers, and he rejoiced to thin that, just at the moment when, by the’help of God, they were achieving the new liberties of the land, there *hould bo riving into the air that gigantye image ‘of lib erty. It soemed that politics and statesmanship were Dot independent of art. It seemed Jaid the solid foundations and dong always aoe rating the capitol freedom and moneo, eternal ve for throughout the wideaproad, tm- applause.) Ndert domain of free and united people, ( PRESENTATION OF TROWRL, Quite a nice little ceremony now took place io the pre sentation by Mr. P. B. Wight, tho architect, to Mr. Hua- tingten, the President of the Academy, of a silver trowel, Dearing the following inacriptton:— 0 We. 8. Howe & BB Aurma Roth Mr. Wight and Mr, Ht tington made neat and Propriate remarks im the preset ation and neceptance. LOWERING TAR CORSER STONE. Then ar odontal, ot lowering corner stone into tte piace, was with, In tne on which it is bo Feoh was Cul @ repepinio sg? @ box tiahteen ipchen fonc, twelve wie andeight deep, The box, whigh is of vop mer, containe! tue f llowing arti AOOOE 0b LOL IE LODE RELEDE SEEDED IOLD NOON sae St the Conetitetion and By Laws @t Ue Nationa cadens of Desiet H A he Exbibition Catalogue of 1863, 3 Ling of the Satnary of the National? emy of Design 2° The Letiors of President Lincoln, Duited Staten. ; 2. Historical recor:t of the National’ Academy of Design, 3%, ‘Thos. 8, Cummings, treasurer, } Officers ef the Acatemy of 1863 and 1864; names of "i Architect and Butiders. Lint of tne Fellowsat the National Academy of Des Postal currency of the United States below one di Copies of the daily papers—Herald, Timex, Tribune, Post and Commercial Advertiser-Army and Navy Jour: Bal. aud Harpers Journal. Catalogue of the Columbia, College Law School. mhia College Annual rt Goin ‘of the United Statasle. 3c. Be., 10e., 28¢., 60e., 1 gokd., Medal of Samuel F, B. Morse, ex-President, by K. uller. Medal of Asher B. Darand, on President, by K. Muller. Head of Liberty, bronze medal, by K. Muller, ‘ Muller, - . Muller. , Philadelphia, July, 1776 and 1863. RN OROIOLE OLE DODD IOL The box was placed in its receptacle, the Preeifent used his silver trowel in spreading mortar over the bed, and then the corner stone, suspended by pulley lowered into its piace and properly secured—the Presi dept announcing the fact in these words:— We thus lay the corner stone of the Academy of De- sign, and dedicate it solemnly. to tho high arts, in the mame of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. Some closing remarks were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Chapin, and then, with a benediction from the Rev. Dr. Vinton, the ceremony was concluded. RALLY. OF THE DEMOCRACY. York Firemen, b rel's Curae, by Union Mass Meeting of the Union Demo- cratic Asseciation. Resolutions Denounoing the Administration and Responding to the Democratic State Nominations, Speeches of Ex-Judge Dean, Amasa J. Parker and Peter Y. Cutler. CHEERS FOR VALLANDIGHAM. The Democracy Divided---Peace De- manded---Great Confusion, &e., &e., &o, ‘The large room of the Cooper Institute was crowded last evening by democrats summoned under the auspices of the Union Democratic Association, Suspended over the platform were the following inscriptions :— ‘The great issue before the country is this:—Shall aboli- tion put down the Union, or shall the Union put down abolition —Henry Clay, 1851. constitution as it is, the constiitution as it was, Stand firm. No proscription-for opinion’s sake. ‘While the audience were waiting over an hour before the proceedings commenced, a band discoursed popular national airs. The meeting was called to order by Hon. Luke F. Cozans, who nominated ex-Judge Dean for Presi- dent, The nomination was ratified with acclamation, SPEECH OF JUDGE DEAN. Judge Dean said:— Fauiow Cinzavs—I know the ibility that I as- sume im accoyting thé position assigned by you to me to Bight. I know that our opponents, those who have Pose Aes os : ever oe 6 press anc sword, bave ‘arrogant in conse- » eg of tho result of the late elections—(omtnons si- lence)—and I that in consequence of that that they are ready to denounce every man, no 5 i j what may have been his past rocord, and no matter what he msy have made for the cause of the constitution and the Union; no matter though he have been like the gallant leader of the Army of the Ce cClellan)—no matter, though may have done what McClellan has done for bis country, yet he would be de- nounced by the it shoddy party if be did not knee! at the wheels chariot of Good” and ‘lot of power. Pplause.) 1, for one, have astake in this 'e That T am, all that d have, all that 1 Dope to be or Hope have, or bope to leave for my children, is the glorious in- ecante of my byes ti ge | wes and inion, (Cheers. that ‘what ever I may have heretorore done—(a voice— Nothing, wo nigue we shall bose tna oa, tad and oo re was traitors. A little more than one this day, that day when Seymour a traitor. They told us that we could not withdraw him—that he to ten, and beat- en 80 badly mado to prove that he had been running. How was the fact? ‘The people of the State of Now York, at the ballot box, summ there by the constitution of tho State and under the laws, chose him as their executive, and he ig still their executive; and he has the same er in Now York to euspend the writ of habeas that Abraham Lincoln has in the United States. (Hisses for fa Ae a and a voice, ‘‘ He (Governor Seymour) will do it. Judge Drax—No, he will not do it, I beg your pardon, my friend—he will not do ft. He knows too woll that that there are rights which the people own, and which belong to them independent of written constitutions; and no democrat, no matier whether he be a Governor or the tipstait, will ever take from the humblest citizen that right. "It has been consecrated by the blood of our fathers; it has been earned by three gonerations of fight- ‘og against royal power, and Abraham Lincoln is the first man in any republic that has ever attempted to take it away. (Renewed hisses for the Presi- dent.) Now, gentlemen, in this crisis every patriot and every man who loves his country, and who feels that its free institutions must be proserved, should speak plainly, act independently and take the conse quonces, That is my doctrine—take the consequences. Good.” and applause.) For one I shall do so. I re. t it—whwe I respect rulers and their authority, while , a8 & citizen, will yield due obedience to law, I will at ail times, and in all places, fraud, usurpation and tyranny when practiced by those who trusted with the administration of national affairs. (Applause. ) Were I not your [gi ome to-night I would dilate upon this subject. I wou! to you what a repub. lican Senator from the State of New Hampshire said— ‘that “there was more danger to publit virtue from the frauds of the government and the army contractors than there wae from the army of the rebels.” I believe it_ to: night on my oath. (‘That's so.) J pass it over. You bave other gentlemen to address you who will speak upon these subjects in detail. I would not have to go outside of this city—I would not have to go beyond the Mayor of this city to show you that—(cheers)— But these patriote—and patriotism is the lost resort of the ecoundrel—(cheers)—the men who talk about patriotism and about sending men to recruit the army: who tell you ‘that conscription should be sent into every family, and ‘when it goes into the family of the shoddy contractor he poys bis three hundred dollars and skulks. (Applanse. uch patriotiam , I say, is the last resort of the scoundrel. ‘We have met here to-night, fellow citizens, to ratify or to refuse to ratify the nominations made by the Demo- cratic State Convention, which met at Albany in Sep- tember last. The individuals who compose that ticket are good men and trae. I shall not repeat thetr names; I do not care about their names. | do not care by whom. begotten or to whom related. All personal matters sink $n this great crisis. The question is not on the individual, but on sustaining the democratic party in its present sition in national affairs. (Applause.) Tho nation, two years and a balf now, bas been engaged in a'war with rebellions States—a war which those controlling tho republican party and the administration said to us would ever begin. 1 remember perfectly, and every man with- in the sound of my voice to-night bas heard repubjican epeakers say, and hae road in republican nowspay prior to the election of Lincoln, that the Southern States dare not rebel, that their slaves beld them tn terror, and that the very moment they attompted to get outside of the protection of the foderal constitution, that moment they would be destroyed by their own slaves. After the Tebellion broke out, as it did, and the whole people rose to sustain the governmont, we wero told by the syren votce of one who, though he may be a statesman—though he has been a groat leader in political affairs, has talked in reference to the “higher iaw’’—that the rebellion would be put down in ninety days. Ho has always ro- minded mo of what Satan whispered in the ear of Eve when she was about to taste the fruit of the forbiddes tree. As she told him ‘“ That will not do; that @ forbid- den,” he whispered to her tho higher law—a law higher than that that was written. Tho ninety days has Multiplied wp] now, we are two anda half years from the time that the ninety day moto was to become due, and what i# our position? Why, on Sunday last I read @ proclamation from the President, in which he told the ee of tho Union, that they must prepare for a fight three yearn to come. (Laughter.) Instead of ninety Gays, it ie threo years long, and that notwithstanding Greeley's three times three hundred thousand biack - ade that was to go on the emanc!pation proclamation, that of the Presidenttioratio bas already reeponded and responded ateay, light app! “y Instend of doing as Caleb Strong, of otte did In our war with Great Britain, instead of doing as the Governor of Rhode Island did on the sai , and John Cotton Smith, the Governor of Con- Decticut, refusing to allow the militim to go out of the State, even inst a forcign foe, Horatio Se; ir bas resper by © proctamation pub- Uehed today, and, gentiomen, I can only eay that in doing so—in yay By! Proclamation, ag 1 did thie morning, the first thing bofere my breakfast, I aaid:— , Governor Seymour in a Christian, and’ forgives his enemice.” (1. 3 remember, inet June, when Penorylvanid waa invaded, when Abraham sent Over the wires, 1 Hetjp me, Horatio, or I sink’ (Tangh- ter.) He tmmoartinte! ded, and pent avi avail- abla man, and they got thee before the dro ip Van- Winkies of Philately hia had even waked op. “I remem- er that afterthat, and dy that means, that the battie of Gettyebarg war won, and that ix°6 Uoion force were vic~ torious, 1 remember another aftor that was past, aed after ‘were no longer In danger from Lee. dabbling in the dirty work of uy their favornes, ami depouncing thore who ity! enyeu them W YORK HEALD, THURSDAY, QUTOBER 722, 1863:-TRIPL® SHEET. | fo that ly in any to re- spond that he is a Coristisn and willing to bj his | evemes. I am willing to forgivethem. bwill forgive them only because they are the dapesitarics of power; | the ho persons who are trusted with our political aitairs, a h its aministration for one your longer; | but! tell Lhem that the people will bring them to account, | end that the 4tho Marci, ove year henee, will end their term of power, (Chvers.) Why, gentlemen, when Goy- erper Morgan, then Governor of the State, under the call of the President, sont of regiment after regiment, within about a year and a balf they made him a ma or general. He bad never smelted powder, aud never bas yet. They made bim @ maor geocral; and what do they pro- pose to do now with Governor Seymour for baving saved the national capital, and for having sent them reinforcements when they could not otherwise lave op- posed the army of Lee? aro going to make him the head recruitivg officer of the State of New York, and try him Dy the drom-bead court mai tial if be does not an- swer their purposee, That is what they propose to do yea is a democratic Governor, Now, 1 know per- fectly well that there are among the citizens of the crt) of New York persons who have been opposed to thi from the begianivg, who thought that the Union vevor could be restored by war. (A voice—'it pever will.’’) My friend, 1 differ with you. Isay nothing about the cause, nothing as to what brought it ov. If meet the irsue as it ignow. there is an army against the Union, avd that arory must be destroyed by force, (Applause.) Is Governor Seymour right ip responding to that proclama- tion notwithstanding the action of the administration? (Voices—** Yes, certainly.) I say ten thousand times yes Nothing else can be done. The federal party in 1812 to 1814 cppored the government and opposed the war. They were destroyed by it. The whig party—as loyal a party as ever exisied—opposed the war with Mexico and denounced 'y one engaged tp it; but the war was success/ul, and atler it the democratic party by ite action added California and al! the Pacific States to the Union, and they mow repose under its ‘t and glosious fing. say, therefore, that we are right in responding to t proclamation. While we condemn tbe manner in which they conduct tue war—removing general after genoral tho moment that he is a formidable candidate for the Presidency (and we have the news this morning that Rosecrans, who pever Inet a battle, is removed and another put in his p'ace); while we condemn the man- ner in which the war 4 presecuted, let the democracy of New York ray with oue voice that ‘under no ebrcuim stavces shall the war be ended by a dissolution of the Union, Bo yousay. that? (Voices, ‘“Yes.”) And that for ite preservation al) the power of all the people and all the resources of this nation shall be applied? 1 ask this great meeting representing the demccracy of the State of Now York, if they agree to that sentiment, if they do Task themto say aye? (Loud cries of ‘Aye, ayo, no, no,” “Peace, peace,” which occasioned great confusion.) I bear ocessiovally @ man who cries ‘Peace.’ (Re- newed cries of ‘We want peace,” followed with ap- jlause.) Will you have peace by & dresolution of the inion? C80, no,” “Yea, yes.”’) ease have peace by having the great sources of Mississippi closed? (Repeated cries of ‘Peace, peace,” ‘No, never,” “Order, order.” ‘Let us hear Parker.’’) ‘or my own part,,so far 28 I am concerned, and g0 far a8 irae ‘hat, 1 ave a hope to have js o'ncerned, it 18 all pledyed to the safety of this Union and its integrity in every inch of its soil. (Applauso.) If this meeting does not agree with me upon that subject, 1 will retire from this cha. (Voices—*You aro right; go on.” Uther yolces—‘Peace.”) 1 know J am right, and J am going op. (‘Good,” and applause.) Any man who would con- nt to a dissolution of the Union on the terms proposed should join the army of Jeff. Davis—(a voice—You join with them,” and renewod confusion)—and before he js there long he will be banged to a sour apple tree, We mean to say by the yote of the democracy of this State, to the republicans, to thcse who are in rebellion against the Union and to all foreign l'owers, “Hands off; we will settle this matter ourselves a8 we will.” (Cheers. We will say that to Johnny Boll, and he wil keep the rams home, owill say it to Louis Napoleon, and be will keep hia fleet home. We will tell them another thing: that neither Meximilian nor any other fellow they pick up in Kurope sball ever be crown- ed Kmperor on this continent. (Loud cheers.) -While wo do this, we will assert at the ballot box the right of free speech, a free press, and the personal liberty of the hum- Diest citizen of the republic. This liberty is now denied; it capnot be exercised, the patronage given by the in- crease of offices being so enormous. The New York Times, @ week ago erday, stated that ten thousand yoters, Dot Coialers, left the District of Columbia to go to Pennsylvania to vote for Curtin. It is 0 enormous that, for the present at least, liberty seems dead. But let us hope that in the hereafter angels may move away from the grave the stone, and that a glorious resurrection may yet await that liberty for which the bave tolled and have suffered, judges have , legislatures have legislated, and which was bequeathed ‘to us by our fathers. I say, gentlemen, notwithstanding the peculiar times in mice are now placed, su a8 we are by the minions power, » Swiss yard, the President, and the paid men who live upon the of governments! patronage—notwithstanding that I na Taf ait tbat Shere wil et bo a Tewurrection and that we all shall live to see the when this Union hen the national authority shall from the Lakes to the Gulf—from the Jost, sou ‘and conserv: the conatitution can ly stand, and de- claring their unyielding opposition to ail men, and to all factions who in any manner seek to impair or destroy the glorious Union of the United States as a great Confeder: republic; that we will uphold and maintain the Union at all times and underal) circumstances, by all the means in our power, and that we will never consent to or mit ap: it whatever by which it tither destzoyed or endangered. The third resolution seis forth that while the peoplo have responded with noble zeal aud liberality to every call upon their patriotism, we regret that the adminis- tration, entrusted with the control and direction of the national power and resources. bas been insensible to the Obligations of duty and false to the which it is charged, The treasures of beon wasted; the loss of tife which was has foarte increased the South bas been united and strengthened the Union cause perilled and the success pro- tracted by a policy of devastation and ruin; the sentiment of the North has been divided and paralyzed by the disregard and subversion of the principles and guaranties of tho constitution; and imbe- cility, corruption and fanaticisin have prolonged through nearly three years a war which vigor, honesty and patriotism could have finished in less than one. We now demand of the administration that 4t shall Jabor faith- fully and unremittingly to bring the war to a successful close; that all otber considerations shall be merged in devotion to the Union and the constitution; that our armies shall advance with the banner of conciliation, and not of ruin, and that Rpg ber gdb scheming shall be postponed until the gs Of peace are again extended to the people of a restored and vindicated Union of all the States. The fourth recites the ‘' flagrant” violations by the President of the antees of personal liberty and pri- vate property, aod affirms that a just appreciation of the value of the inheritance bequeathed to us by our fathers, and an earnest conviction of our duty to transmit it un- impaired to our children, ae’, us, lest such usurpa- tions and wrongs shou! reafter have the force of pre- cedents, to protest agalnat them, at all times and on.all occasions, and to denounce the perpetretors of them to the hostility of the present and the reprobation of future ages. ‘The fifth charges that the shamofal diversion of the military forces of the nation from their duties in the field to carry popular elections, which has allowed the rebels for the fourth time to threaten the security of the national capital, is a crime against tho nation’s life, which cannot be too severely reprehended, and that the President in thus disregarding the duties of bin office, and the promptings of patriotism, to accompligh bis partisan schemes and advance his own re-electi®, bas mistaken the intelligence and the spirit of his country. men, who will not fail to remember and punish bis inil- delity to duty and to honor. The others respond to the democratic State nomina- tions, and compliment Governor Seymour for his noble fidelity to principles. The resolutions were put and adopted edhe seer) ‘ity vote; but there were many dissentient voices beard ‘various parts of the building. SPERCH OF HON. AMASA J. PARKER. Hon, Amasa J. Parker was then introduced, and re- ceived viata 3 applause by the audience. He spoke pay By lows:—In meeting byte te ingimy citizens, to discuss the defore the country, to hegre ts dear also di ie in the imminent] peril now pend grossly crtmaal, he great stru; ot popalne ms talus the latringe ri 9 sBecs of tonttatined foamed power. The rightof por- sonal liberty, without which the government is worth leas; of free speech and a free , Without which the YY, indeed of these popular ri |, fer the own government was was built, should be tram; here, and should be in absolute dan; extermipation. Fortunately, our own form of ‘ug with peaceful means of protection can effect at the ballot box # successful and bloodless Fevolution. If that be left to us—if it be not invaded federal bayonets, or controlled by fom gen the questions involv by we fully understand authority, & good defence in all courts, to ¥ proeecution, civil OF criminal, pending or fawure, for amy search, relzare, arrest or im- Priconment. Thie atrocious act thas makes (he will of the President the iaw of tho laced, and places the people at the merey of ue many Renmets wike as oder bie ity, You nathor| tay be torn from your (.miy; Your whole proverty may be svized, Tealbary no soureen redressed if committ: foe President or under his authority. The odious doctrine of tyrants that«‘the king cin do no wrong”’ is enacted Jaw, ineven a more ble of ours, and in the Bineteenth century. Will not the ail parties seek protection at the ballot box against av aet of usurpation which would be tolerated in no absolute monareny of the Old Worid? Step by step, as if feeling the way, these encroachments upon tho rights of the people have been made. ne by one our hands bave been bound, aud recently, az if to complete the plau and sulle even complaint of wrong, the writ of habeas corpus 18 su8- pended by the President's proclemation. By this act the courts are paralyzed. Their powers and functions, in the ery of human liberty cease. Pending proceedings fall to the ground. Hereafter there can be no inquiry into the cause of Imprisonment. Sic volo sic jubeo. ‘The pnceent and tho guilty are huddied together in une com- ve mica prison. Marabals and military agents are Spread 0 the land in thousands, ‘Their cupidity is stimulated by raising the reward for arrest- ing ® deserter five dollars to thirty. If they were all honest, which experience dis- roves, they could not fail (0 make many mistakes, In identity alone hundreds have already been made. But they are burried off handcufied and feitered to the loath- some prison. If you are drawn as a conscript, though you may not be witbin the ages of liability, though you gre clearly, for any cause, exempt, the docision of the military board against you is conclusive. Ne court is allowed to correct the error. Though it be the result of partisan matice and you be seventy years of age, you must submit to tho wrong. ‘The writ of di ance for invocent gone, Such, fellow citizens, is bow the condition of this once free North. I say “fellow citizena”—perbaps I ought to say ‘fellow subjects.” But, though bound band and foot, the people of the North are still struggling to be free. One year ogo the democratic State Convention de- nounced these arbitrary arrests as “a usurpition and @ crime,” and a majority of the sus- tained t depunciation by the election of Gov. @rpor Seymour, With that able intrepid cham. State ernment, we continue the struggle with confidence and hope. You well know how unejual ig the contest. The whole power and patronage of the federal goverument ure brought to bear against us. Federal office holders, both civil and military, swarm over the land like the locusts of Feypt. Federal gencrais abandon their appropriate field of duty toengage in partizan strife and p abolition doctrines upon the stuinp. Shoddy ccniractors give largely of their suddenly acquired wealth to sustain this administration at the polls, for the end of the war would terminate their profits. Corruption stalks abroad at noon day. ‘The mercenary are purchased while the timid are frightened. Yet in the face of all this power and onage and terror nearly two hundred thousand freemen cf Ohio have boldiy denounced tbe arrest of Mr. Vallandigham by Burnside and bis bavisbment by the President, “as a usurpation and acrime,” and this bas been done in spite of wide differ ences of opinion existing between Mr. Vailandigham ani many who supported him ag vo the policy of the war. Ir- respective of such differences, the vote was due and was given as a condemnation of an outrage upon personal Niberty. Nearly 200,000 citizens deiiberately rebuked ‘the act of tvranny by their votes, and the Administration rejoices beyond measure that it was not 200,000. it well knows that the majority who voted in @hio did not approve the act, for most of the leading republican esses at the time admitted its iliegality. Intolerance ® leading characte: ic of the party in power. It repudiates the Jeffersonian doctrine that ‘there is nothing to be feared from error while truth is le(t free to combat it.” Jt would chain down the mind as well as the body. It denies the right of free discussion, its presses teom with ubuse of ever’ democrat who exercises the right of discussing public af- fairs. Following an imperial example, it compels whole regiments to vote in accordance with its will. Liou. ‘tenant Kdgerly is stricken from the roll for voting the de- mocratic ticket, and in the same spirit Secretary Stanton himself, with an impudence unparalleled, sends a tele- gram to Mr. Forney, on learning the result of the election in Pennsylvania, in which he charges, in substance, that the democracy aro rebels, like those driven from that State in June ‘with steel and cannon shot.’’ Shame upen such partisan is deliberate insult to the democracy of tire North as well as of Peunsylvania. The head of the War Department cannot 80 soon have forgotten the fervent appeals he made to the democratic Governor of this State for aid in that emergency, por tho promptuess with which it was furnished, nor the profu- sion of his thankfulness, expressed to Governor Seymour upon that occasion. Shame upon such ingratitude. Let me be more specific on this it. On tho 15th of June Jast, when the rebel army threatened Wash! Stanton, in bis emergency, sent to Seymour the following telegram:— To his Excellency Goyraxor Sxrwour:— The movements of the rebel forces in Virginia are now Io) General Lec, with his Btates of an resi dent, to repel the invasion promptly, bas called upon Ohio, Eoonarivanih, Mary’ and Western Virgivia for one hun- dred thousand mili Coy vould furo! six wonths, 6 other for a short time, to be credited in the draft, it would greatly advance the object. Will you please inform me im- mediately if, in answer to a special call of the President, you con ‘raise and forward say twenty thousand tollitia, as Volunteers, without bounty, to be credited in the draft of our State, or what number you can ibly raise? 4 ti E. M, ETANTOW, Boctciary of War, Governor tive, and immediately set about raising troops. Not a moment was lost. Regiments were on thetr way in a fow hours, and.on the game day the following telegram received:— 7erfe Prendent disects me to retura you hie thanks and those of the Le ag for your drompe "yepones, A scone, movement of your city regiments to Philadelphia would bea very 1 Movement, and do great good in giving strength to that Blate. The call months, unless sooner discharged, the law. Itis likely (Oe pe bt po long, we be requii Bbw! . WN’ per your gee what was asked the whole world knows how promptly 'y moved, and gallantly they bore themselves in the field. hey did indeed “give strength to that State.’ example roused sluinbering energies of the peo- Pennsylvania. the example and the citizen soldiers of your own thrown into the scale at tho right moment, when it was nicely balanced, that evabled our army to make a successful stand against the invaders, 1 insist there has been manifested nowhere else in the history of this war such promptness and energy as characterized the action of the Governor and_ his staff in this emergency. And so thought the President and Mr. Secretary Stanton. Tho latter wrote a letter to the 7 IN Becretary of War, of your Sy reptccta, 1nd Governor, expressing warmly his thanks, and also sent to the Adjutant General of the State the following tele- gra Juxx 19, 1363, To Adjutant General Srraccr, 8. N. G.:— ‘The President direots me to return bis thanks to his Bx- cellency, Governor Seymour, and his stail, for theie ener- etic and prompt action. "Whether any further force is ikely to be required will be communicated to you to-mor- row, by which time it is expected the movements of the ene- will be more fully developed. ad EDWIN M. BTANTON, Secreiary of War. ‘Tho letter was as follows:— Wan Derantunst, Wasurxcror Crry, June 27, 1863. Rak Sin—I cannot forbear expressing to you the di obligation I feel for the prompt and candid support you ba given to the government in the present emergency, The energy, activity and patriotism you have exhibited I may be permitied personally nd oflicially to acknowledge without arrogating any personal claima on my part to such service, OF to any service whatever. T shall be happy always io be esteemed your friend. IN M. STANTON, His Exceliency Horatio Seymour, ws The following is the telegram sent on tho 14th Octonor instant to Mr. Forney: — To Jonx W. Foryry, Exq.:— Thanks for your telegram. All honor to the Keystone held the federal arch in June, and with steo! * 9 h e Overwhelmed the foe at the ballot box ss ne en Sd EDWIN M. STANTON, I repeat, every word of this missive is @ gross insult to the . Who upbeld the federal arch in June? Who drove the tuvaders trom her soil? Was jt dono by Tepublicans alone? Ask the democrats of New York who burried to the rescue and shed their blood upon the battle field? Ask the democrats of Pennsylvania who were there also? Were the persons overwhelmed at the ballot really the eg ee as charged, or were they - the Sos viol invasion? How much more Mou truthful; Mr. Stanton ould a 4 have been overwhelmed wer and patrovsgs. Pray, how many thousands did . Stanton send to Pennsylvania to help achiove the Tesult? Let the depleted and retreating Army of tho Potomao answer. This abuso of the democracy of the North is becoming totolerable, The State of New York has been especially singled ont for misrepre- sentation and calumny. hile {t {8 confidently believed that far more than its just pro) It has not been permitted to know, as the fact is, that about sixteen thousand volunteers have been fur- Bished to the general government by this state since Governor Seymour was on the first day of January last, And this is in addition to the fourtecn thousand five hundred troops sent to the rescue when Pennsylvania was invaded; whoreas all the general gov- ernment has raised from this State undor the conscription law, including substitates, is, up to this six thousand. , what Btate of this Union, under oy rule, : A ais! voluntary troops New York, ™ democratic anspicos? pe in pen ngage a abolition f the democracy were everywhere most active and efficient. thous their earnest cooperation it could never tmve been accomplished. We comiiain that ‘war is Dot prosecuted to a speedy termination. We complain that ite object and purposes are perverted to coda, A war waged for tho ningle purjose of suppressing the rebellion and restoring the Union woald have ended lom ago. A warfor the extermivation of finvery will be ioterminabie, We complain that the President bas forfeiied bis pledge ax to the object aud mode of prosecuting the war, aod has surrendered to the influences of the mom radical iitonisia, thos repelime the cordint of conservative men of the North, and dr) fogether in one #0 ld cowinn of Fee lance, the ibe Prert or indi ae | where it exisia. I believe J have mo right to #0. 204 1 have no iucimation to do go.” In jation of this pledge be said, at a later day, to his pation prociamation, “I order and declare that alf Persons held ag slaves in the said hes ony States and parts of States are and hereafter shall be ‘The party in power picdged itswit, by the ado} Congresa of the Crittenden revolutions, that the war Do prosecuted only tor the restoration of the thie idea was subjugation tg now opevty avowed.’ We cannot, undet any circumstinces, consent to disunion, To prevent if we should exert the whole power of the government, and: ebould make every honorabie effort at covelliation, It is believed that eveu vow States are ready to Teturn if they could be protected im all their rights under the constitution, Bat the radical policy that unf rtu controls the adminigtration js not’ wiling to rece them. It demands more—gubjugation, obiiteration of existing State lines and a dependeat’ territorial condition It d mand ae ry. Itdemands what will never be yielded, but what 1 be a long time” be'ore even the desolation and human suffering, falling, now chicfly upon the women and enildi of the : and at ail times pen the loyal as well as the rebellfous “ be the successtul means of exacting such degrading: jerms, Mr. Parker closed with an earnest appeal to the > to Bee that not a vote was lost at the coming sooten Parer ¥. CUTLER was the tust snecker, and in tho cours¢ of his remorks said that the abolitionists of the North provoked the South to i.angurate rebellion, He urged them to support the democratic nominees at the coming. election, ‘The meeting then separated. A meeting wus held outside which was addressed by 2. |. Morange, Mr. Quinn, und others. [ Union. City Politics, THE NOWINATIONS. In our list of the candidates of tne McKeon democracy’ and of the Constitutional Union party, published in yes: . terday’s Herat, tho vame of Gideon J, Tucker, who bat ‘been renominated for Surrogate by both these organiza- tons, was accidentally omitted. Surrogate Tucker bat received the nomination of all parties and factions, except. the republican party, and is, sivgularly enough, the only candidate for any county office standing in that position Tho vote which he may receive, therefore, will bo thé only clear test of the strength of the democrats of this city. bane of and Tam. meng Dem oray, Josiab Sniherian McKeon Supreme Court Superior Court Common Pleas. Marine Court. Eu rosutes., Recorder Register. Supervisor. Vain Party arly. Jovan Sutherland, Josiah Sutherland, Joxeph 8, bosworth :Joseph 8. Boaworth, lo nomination, W. White, Supreme Court Superior Court, ienac Dayton. o ohn T. Hoffman, Register ‘John Keyser, Supervisor. No nominatien,..., Henry Smith, UNION DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR ASSEMBLY 19 THE TWENTIETH WARD. The Tammany and Mozart Assembly Conventions of the Twentieth ward (Eleventh district) met lastevening - at Biegin’s, in Thirty-second street, Tho nomination for Assembly being apportioned to Tammany, the delegates organized by choosing Bernard B. Quin as Chairman ané Herman Ewisch and Michael Carey as Secretaries. Thos. B. Crocker was on the frst ballot cominated, ond declined. ‘The nomination was then, by uuauimous ballot, tendered to Herman Lowenberg, who was put forward in the dia nilties "Ho aivodeolined on the ground of laabiiay Nc... mi je also on w abandon his business. Carolan O’Brien Bryant was then declared by acclama- tion the choice of the Convention. The nomination wae endorsed by the Mozart Hall Convention, William J. Peck, Chairman, and P. G. Maiony , secretary, in session in the same building. The two bodies of di assembied tp (Ses toer ner stearate ing thrown open, an can ie a address before u large assemblage Of the citizens of the i YKRON DEMOCRATIO COUNTY CONVENTION. | This body met at the Sinclair House last pe ated Murphy in the chair and Mr. Heory R. Roome ing as secrota: Tho och ation of Mr. Philip W. Fugs was received and accepted, and Mr. Thomas H. Ferris was nominated in his Brooklyn City Pelitics. DEMOCRATIO NOMINATION FOR SENATOR OF THD SEOOND DISTRICT. ‘The Nemocratic Second Senatorial District Convention reassembied at the Capitol, in Joralemon street, yesterday afternoon, according to adjournment, and was organized © by the selection of Mr. Jesse M. Folk’ as Chairman, and » A. J. as Secretary. After ‘the roll of deiegates, a note was read from er at rg . Lesiio, declining to be a candidate fer the: nomi nm. Ga motion, an informal ballot was then entered into, which shows the following reeult:— 4 had ever in favor of the Union, and promised bis efforts to pat down this aconrsed 5 firmly oppose any inroads uvon the Hberties of the citizen, = would always oppose the en.ctment of sumptuary AWS. The Convention having transacted their business with three cheers for the candidate, THR MAYORALTY. independent democrats and taxpayer's party. Row three caud dates in the jield, from which the soter® can take their choice, Benjamin Vriace 1 the oe democratic candidate, Colone! Alfred M, Wood the Untory candidate, and Martin Kaibfleich, the present incumbent, is the choice of the independent democrats and tho tex- payers. HIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. ind republicans of this district are alike, bothered about the selection of candiates for the Ase arme as The republicans, or Union party, finding, after a number of ae as they conki nes agree, very wisely adjourned sine die, and last night tho Union General a mittee ordered a omg a for delegates to Ayoonvention to nominate a candidate, The deinocrats better follow their exampie. ee New York Congressional Nomination, Avcany, Oot. 1, 1963. John V. L. Pruyn reccive tais evening the democratia nomination for Congress in this district, to fli tho ya- caney occasioned by tho rosignation of Hou. Erastus» Corning. Movements of ator Wilson. Bostox, Oct. 21, 1863. Senator Wilson loft this evening for New York, to take~ Part in the political canvass of that State. Brooklyn City News, THE LATE GENERAL JAMES ¥, MAI.LON. The remains of the lave General James E, Mallon werg~ yeaterday covsigned to their last resting piaco in the. Cometery of the Holy Cross, at Fintbush. The deceased accompanied the Seventh regiment asa pr vite in thelr first campaign at the commencement of the war. He Afterwards agsieted in the formation of the Forty second (Tammany) regiment, in which he went out as Heutenant, By good conduct aud faithiul services he attracted the ~ attention of hfe superiors, and was , step by! step, until he attained tho position of colouel. He waa eubsequently nppointed acting brigadier general, and while ig his brigndo jo battle at Brietoe Station wag killed by # musket ball. ' Tho rervicer were solemnized in St. James’ Catholic church were read by Rev. Father Turner, an; sisted by Father Friel, and the requiem mass was eung by, 4 An address wee delivered by Rev. Father Keegan, in which he referred to tho Christian virtues of deceased and his patriotiem, and made a feoliog allusion tot wife and little children, now left a widow and rphans, ‘Un the conclusion of the ceremonies the my i i cortege moved along Jay street to Flatbush avenue, to the eometery, 7 B. Charch Destroyed by Fire. ‘ Prrmnowa, Pa,, Oct. 21, 1863, ‘Tho Third Proshyiorian church was need by fro. to-day, including « yetuabie organ and the library of thé » ‘The merurance on the beliding amounts £20,000 in the Western, North Aweriean, Alleghany Franklin offiers. The organ was also insured for $1,208 | inthe Western office, The tire originated in the old Jour» | mal buildings adiom™ing, oceopled aw workshops by seve Fal tenants | lovg ago abandoned, and the purpose el (