The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1871, Page 6

Se THE Cai0 DEMOCRACY. Ynteresting Campaign Speech Last Night by General Tom Ewing at Columbus. Exhaustive Criticism of Republican Ad- ministration of the Finances. ‘Wow the Masses and the Merchants Have Been Systematically Swindled, HARD ON GRANT. He is as Crucl and as Cold as a Bayonet. eee Splendid Promises of Fiscal Reform by the Democracy. CouvumBus, Ohio, August 11, 1871, General Thomas Ewing, Jr, delivered this even- Bg in this city the opening campaign specch for ‘MMe Ohio democracy in the coming contest Lor Gov- ‘nor. As will be onserved, the speech mainly dis- weuases the financial issues of the nour. General Bwing was frequently interrupted by applause, ana his sentiments are generally accepted as pn authori- ‘ative declaration of the programme of the party, Be spoke as follows:— FELLow O:T1zENS—It ts important to all who care for. good government to sift the past fcom the pres- t Ericissues, so that judgment may be given in- Phaenis by the people on the very questions to be ded. First, then, the war lasues are setued for- ever. Secession invoked the war, slavery became Recessarily involved in it, and both went down to- Fen in the batde. No one, North or South, rep- senung BUY Lody Of citizens, has ever questioned € tinallty of that terrible and potent arbitrament, ll the alleged war issues are settled also, The urteenih and fifteenth amendments embouy (in @daition to some matters which were never dis- ee) all that the republicans have asserted, and democrats denied, to be proper or necessary fesults of the war. These amendments are recog- Bwel by the demecracy of Onio and the nation, aged unanimously, a8 part of the supreme law, a, therefore, to be construed, obeyed and exe- — precisely ag the rest of the constitution, lence, uniess and until some party proposes to @gitate fora new amendment of the constituuon, #triking out all or part of these amendmeuts, they @re beyond the range of profitable discussion, THE NEW DEPARTURE. This position, taken by the democracy throughout e¢ nation, is miscalled ths “New Departure.” ‘hat departure from democratic principles 1s there saying that, though we opposed making the endinents part of the constitution, we wuil obey NEW YU KK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 18 a —— Tegal tenaers at any time, and Into which iegal ten: ders may, atthe opuon of the holders, at auy ume, be converted, It is not at all likely that the currency would fall 80 far below par se that any bond would be redeemed in & less valuable currency than that tio overnment for it. If such instances occur tie fliardshiv will not be great, however. ‘ake the bondholders of 184, Who, according to Jay Kes ttle less than forty cents in gold for y have already received six per cent on their investment and a the principal re- turned to them, and still have the bouds, So if the currency in which the bonds are redeemed were to fall even to sixty or seventy cents in gold on the doilar (Which ts not to be anticipated), these gentie- men Will not have suffered much by thelr seli-sacri- ficing purchase of the bonds at forty, I know whole families who have suifered more by the war, and by the legal tender act. But there 13 no probability that this policy will depreciate the currency at all for any length of time, Our five-twenties have been below par in Europe, not because of lack of falth in the resources or Btu. bility of our government, but because it 13 weil Known the people regard them as justly payable in greenbacks and that our necks are not yet callous enough to bear whatever yoke our agents put on us, ‘The credit or Great Britain rose when she compelled her creditors to take three per cents for bonds bear- ing a higher tnterest; and if we, in stiict accordance with our contract, make our debt easily support able, and therefore sure to be kindly borne, our bonds will have a value denied to those compounced of “repudiation and extortion.’® CHARACTER AND EFFECT OF THR NEW CURRENCY. The effect of this system, when the outstanding notes and bonds are ull converted by purchase or jayment into the tree per cent legal tenders, will . To give us a currency superior to any we ever bad in these Important particulars:— a, It will be a legal teader for all purposes what- soever. It will pay every debt, tax aud impost, buy every commodity and rule every money transecuoh with the power of gold, -_" dD. It will bo @ stable Currency. Its Constant con- vertibuity into bonds ee @ fixed rate of 1a terest will give both tt and the bouds a value as stable as that of the consols of Great Britain. This quality being obtained, it will be of no more im- ortance, 80 far as the adaptability of the currency }0 ail the uses ef the people goes, whether a dollar Of tt will buy eXacily a dollar of gold than whether it will buy exactly a bushel of wheat, Gola will re- main, as how, & mere article of commerce, and of ho more Influence on cominerce tuan any other arucle, except as it is the measure of values in about half the countries wich which we trade, If the American measure of value, the paper dollar, aud the English, the sitver pound, keep about even. pronartion to each other, as they do now, our oreign trade will not be injuriously affected by the fact that the measures are not the same—any more than our trade with France In silks 1s affected by the fact that our measures of length are not the same 2g hers, And if our eget tenders and the English pounds should vary in proportion to each other, Such fluctuations aifect chieiy our foreign trade, which 1s not one-fiiticth part as great as our howe trade, But if we had a curreucy redeemable in specie, as the republicans propose, it would be in- cessantly expanding and coutracting, not because of the fuctuatt us of the business it 18 used to trang. act, but because of the export of our gold to settle Qaverse balances of our foreign wade, The whole superstructure of domestic business would thus be incessaatiy racked by movements of its foundation, c. twill be an elastic currency, contracung and expanding to fit the fluctuating demands of trade. At seasons when large amounts are needed bonds wii be converted into currency to meet the demaud, and as that falls off the surplus will be reconverted into bonds, 1t will always be euiiicient, never ex- cessive, a. Jt will establish & moderate and nearly uaiform Tate of interest. AS much Will be issued at once as Will command investments preferable on the whole tabies, gave a their bonds; U execute them now they are part of it? Has che mocracy ever wilfully violated the constitution ? Never. That theory of our government wiiich led nullification and secession was sincerely believed most of the Southern democracy, ana many (of e Southern whigs, Jt had been taught them by @oue of the venerated Fathers of the Constitution, ‘@ndq it were a gross error to charge (hose who were by that tastraction into the act of war witn wil- disregard of Known constitutional obligations, fhenever the republican party, since the war, h ind the grants of powePof the constitution insut- ent, or its limitations embarrassing, in the ac- Somplisiment of its schemes, it has .deliberatcly violated its provisions and, as Thad Stevens said, “legislated outside of the constitution.” But the Semocratic party, throughout its long and grand Sareer, has been distinguished for its rigid obsery- ice of the fundamental law, aud has never wil- lly violated one of its provisions, however pressed. party exigencies, RECONSTRUCTION, in thus recognizing the fact that the amendmeuts ve been ratified We do not at ail endorse, or a:l- to have been valid, the reconstruction laws ugh which their adoption was secured. The that those amendments are part of the consti- jon resuits from the fact that the Southern State vernments have been to a large extent formed, Wholly accepted and acquiesced in, by the atbern people, white and black; have, been re- pognized by every department of the national gov- @rnment, and all the affairs of society conducted Aader them for three years past. We canuot shut reyes to these controling facts. Governments, children, become legiumized by recognition of ur putative iather—the peopte. ‘These State gov- ments have been so recognized, and it is refore too late to attack their legiti- y. Only the wildest poliiical visionary uid now talk of overthrowing those govern- mts by force, or of changing them, except ler their own forms. Hence ther acts ratification of the Amendments must be treated cisely a8 hose Of the Northern States: and the rtiticates Of the secretaries of the requisite num- r of Siates to the fact of ratification by the Staies spectively having been fied with the Secretary of ve at Washington, no department of the general vernment can unpugn them or deny the effect of ir ratifications, 43 declared m the constitution. rejore those amendinents are part vf the coustt- on, notwithstanding the lawless iuception of Southern State governments, And tue democ- ‘y, in recognizing the accomplished fact of the et of the amendmenis, no more approve eir policy, or the execrable means of procur' sheir adoption, than the republicans in 1354, by re- Sogniziog the law lor the organization of Kansas &nd Nebraska and making the pest of it, endorsed squatter sovereigaty or took back the accusation i the repeal of the Missourl compromise Was a t- breach of faith. HARD ON GRANT. I would like very much, fellow citizens, to disenss Me diderences between tue two parties already de- veloped as to the construction and execution of the amendments. And especially to show how tue re- Font party, by a fiagraut misconstrucuon of the 1444433 Fares: EeERRS ULUtO as It as assumed to confer on Gen- ai Grapithe power, whenever he thinks the au- Shorities of any State fati tv give any person or per- pons equal protection of the laws, to suspend the tle od of the writ of habeas corpus, stop the cuieneo! the civil government, and declare and e war on the people, ‘This extravrimary power Vested in Generat Grant obviously to enable him re-elect huused aud his party ucxt year, by con- ingor breaking up the elections in the Southern tes, wath tue federal army and te black muuitia, comignes gil the qualities to make him a fit in- He 13 both ignorant and ument Sor such designs. leas of the duties and obtigations of his a ofies—has probably ny read the mstitaution-—for it is nos publisned in the @rmy Regul, tions or the Stud Book--is boid, un- ‘upulous, Ambitious, selfish, and as cruel and cold @ bayonet, {ibe don’tuse that law nexe year Pd that purp ose and effect it will be because the rikern peopee Show a returning sense of ite vaine Bf constitutymal liberty, or because the Ku Kiux and carper-i yg, ters Combined can’t coucoct s Beni plausiiue, prete Xts, or because Horace u. a(S Dim for ya republican nomiuation. Tet us pe, for the homer of tue couutry, that all those | bontingencies (vib! happen. | feneral bwin, &lleD proceeded to dis: i eXhaustive BMaNNEr The Various questi ont of the de Ge and the currency. bf alyzed | fee yste Wit ail 14 details, contending that has increased e Geran tre public burdens, crip: enterpr. Bing « hed the business, die then went on to enounce tie | Ho y fo @ ihe duture as that io be adopted #3 and paralyzea FINA “OE POLICY OF REPUBLICANS, ing th: Vpoliey to be ai She finances we ar ¥ fortunately not fo what the republ, eax party purpose: wef their policy, distin GUy expressed in the Mrengihen We pablu ¥ credil.” to reduce the CY OF hold it at its \weseut volume uulil vy con- ruon it reaches par tt gold. ‘ibis mvolves con- | ued high injerest, a Bd Continued approprianion | W the non-producers, ti), WOuUgh usury, Of most of the | Bel crease whicu ali 1 We property in the country | id ail the labor combi A produce. J hey inte », to iund the whole twe Wiy-four hundved mill! Of bonds, motes ana greenb Wks 1nL0 Bew lox Sexe pt irom all tax | ratiroad } pla | on all the neces | Sugar consumed now than then. to goverument three per cents, It will thus es- tablish the average rates pald by business men at about five per cent, Instead of nine, a3 new. Once established, these rates will be comparatively un- form, because, a8 they tend to rise, more currency ‘Will be issued, and as they tend to fall more will be exchanged for bonds, Let us see the effect of this policy in lessening the burden of the debt. Assuming that tt will take one billion of currency to reduce interest and meet pre- sent demands of trade, the people wiil then pav in- Verest on fourteen hundred millions of bonds, equal to forty-two miilions of dollars, instead of one hundred and thirty millions in currency, as now. The currency will increase probably m equal ratio with the popuiation—say twenty- five mililons the first year. If the people pay the interest of the bonds and apply the yearly growth of currency to extinguish the principal, tue whoie debt will be paid wiihin years. Or if they apply the natural growth of the currency to the interest of the bonds, the whole burden of the debt will be Jess the drst year than the burden of the geonent hational bank subsidy alone and wii in a low years Day all the interest and gradually extin- guish the principai, But we will be told the legal tenders will be a gebt outstanding whea ali the bonds are paid. They wiil be no debt in any proper sense oi the word. The government will be bound then to do what it always has been bound to do, but has never done— furnish the people all their money, the measurer, exchanger and distributer of all their values. It Will be necessary to Keep up the per cantta circula- tion and maintain its stability and elasticity by some sultable means. The people will have got & good money; stable, elastic, estabiishing low and uniiorm futerest and thus promoting happiness and industry by distributing equttably the increase of the land between capital and lavor. The curse of the debt will thus turn to a blessing by teaching us how to escape the usury which has robbed and de- graded the masses of all nations irom Israel to Great Britain, LAND GRANTS, A few words now on the land grant question, and Jam done, Among the greatesi errors commiited im nailonal politics in the past ten years has been the bestowal of public lands on private corpora- tions, ‘dhe first graut was to the Pacitic Raliway in 1:62. Belore that year there had been bat two land grants ever made by the general government for Works Of internal improvement, aud both these were Made to States, not to private corporations. The need of a raciic railway was mantiest at te oule brouk of the war, The graudeur ol the idea and the absence of all reitable esumates of 11s cost magnified the supposed diiticulties of the undertaking. Both parties united to give it a munificent land grant. But the hole made for the cat was big enougn for all the Kittens, and hundreds of smailer grants fol- jowed, until over two hundred millions of acres were given away up to the end of last session—an area cight times as large as Olio. in all this cen- tury ihe general government has soid and given away about six hundred and fifty millions of acres; and it has left, excluding A‘aska, but nie hundred mulions, Leave out te worthless lands of the mountains and plains and it would be an extravegant estimate to put the rest ut 650,000,000 of acres, or as much as the governuent has already disposed of. This remain- ger 1s but sixteen acres to cach inuabitant of the United staies, It should be kept as a sacred trust for the people to be diposed of onty, by gift in mod. erate quantitles and values to those who need and Will occupy it. Then, wuile any of it ts left, the roo. bery of the masses by usury now going on cannot reduce any large number of them outside of tue cities to absolute pauperis, ‘Though both parties united in the first Pacific grant, Lhe later subsidies nave been opposed by tue gemocracy and carried through by the repubucans. ‘nua, the last Northera Pacitic grant received but nteen democratic voles in the House out of 107, and not oue in the senate. CONCLUSION. Tknow well what answer tue constellation of re- | publican orators who will blaze in our skles on the 24h wil make to all we say of the depression of tn- dustry and the decay of property among the masses, | They will point to tae two rallroads pushing to the | Pacific, to the unexampled extension Of our system in every State, to the rows paaces rising In our cities, aud the dis- s of wealti shining on every hand, But these vidences only of tae growth and concentration apital, not Of the prosperity of the masses, To sow their condition, ascertain bow steady is the employment of mechanics and Jabortng men, and Wwhatis lett of their Wages alter tariffs and tseg ies und common coinforts of lve are taken out. Hear Commissioner Wells’ state- ments, based on official staustics, that the masseg live more poorly now thaa before the war—w netwithstanding the increase of popuiation, fev: stioe# and hats are worn, aud jess tea, coffee and Behola in ¢€ 8 standing vac. of ciiy East and West tenement to jell how t iues are crowded by hard times Into the plac tied by one. Bee the milion of only haif employed wen in New York and a cir- cuit ol Bity miles, of whom Horace Greeley tells, Rewember the wail ual weat np out of Koston last year from the cigat ‘housaud sewing Women in that Small cuy who starve im eight of her gorgeoua peluces of Lut one poor meal a day—and thus learn Mow wide the span Between # buppy and a splendid Innd. % national banks & have not yet been abie i it 18 fair to Ngore ¢ nigh ap in that for tue Wile dent aided under th Buspices. Tho resuit ef Luis) PAY, 1! careied ont, | Would be to te e by four fuwbdeed imilions ihe | gorse intere arhig debt oyyouverting yreen. Wis. ‘Lue people, new ithetanding tie | ai2 0! intByest, Wu) tie Wave to pay | of one hundgest and twe uty miiions of | fold iitevest, dustead of ope hundred @id Atieen lions. as now. ‘Tvere's nat much belief in tha ! | Let us see w we will pay\if the d¢Ut be fauded te Jerty-year five por cent berids, Fediin& it wilt | > i, alter ‘ll we have borneol war and | al this generation oust not te do more wind suterest a1, $3,49,600,000 of 10,000 to We pad, principal brivclpa: am leaving $1,090, | Bhd interest ¢ bounded, by ou if thavbe | a 1ol dhe jorly yearg 1 he amow we | @ii baye pe compound Interest added, wt. $10,000,900,000, or four times the present det | our chidren will owe $7'210,000,000, oy mor three times te prevent J DE MOOKATIO YINANCIAL NEW D From thie whoie system of fuanc nd 10 come, agopled aud proposed by t ean party, the gemocracy of Oiuio annow depariure~one which Will geiieve the peop.'e of muck of their buréen of taxex, Joave no veriage of debt io oppress and enskive our eliJrer establish and regula the carrency as to g: duce interest, aod thuw disiriyie the nes increas of wealth fairly beiween iabor and aii forme of capital. > ‘They propose that the general governmend shal) |\, fornish ali tie money of the People ia an issue which Bhali be a Jegal tender equally Will eoln for all pune | wid racked by discord and by wer it hae kept th iow citizens—it 18 in vain to look to the repub- Sab OFsanizahon vo arrest and remedy ine evils I or to bants or ratiroad companies, reat repositories of the w power wich “the policies of that party @ Ulched from the people. You cannot divide tuose Tees, With few patriotic exceptions they ail act vogether, Jt has been and is tae fixed poiicy of the republican party to build up great money powers by tard, bank, bond and gud subse dies, Theee corporations are now iurmensely powerful in American poilties and grow stronger Already in taany States, Ubrough anoney ronage, they corrups Legislatures, make tuo hich govern them, and Vhus to the extent of 4s interests Mise superior to Tie people and be- come sovereign in the State. With them, wid the wealthy men gi IY, Who have been enriched by Weir party, tocomwol the North, and the army aud Diack unitia to ceutrol the Souk, the republican Hy expects to revew and perpetuate its power. Olgok to that party, theretore, to abolish tariil, bank aud bend sist or to reforni a money syatem which robs the masses to envich ita supe porters, or lo resiure civil order and free govern. j Ment in the South, were avout ag vareasonadle ea to expect Jim to sarveuder Brie or Gener, a to abolieh nepotisin. bh = iD Fhts contest the democratic party ts the sword ana buckier of the poopie. it hus fought every ex Ising abuse and tried to ay every approprisi@a remedy, Though some time contyolled py Slavery faith im the people and tree government waic Jefiersou, its giorlous aposile, taugnt. It yepr penis no faciion, hut the whole people: no fection, but the whoie country. It ts not a whe a black man's party, @ poor man's or He and private debts whatsoever, excep! where che contract expressly calix for spew, ald With tt re- deem ihe fi venty bonds; aud, §O prevent an | @ndue expanrion of Lie cuireney, ante & flsce per Ment bond Whiek shail be exckungening af gar lor | , gt tS ap infidels party, It party. Wil (remple on no ina t of federal power, because the | transformation of the material world, as our ca ot erat asanaation e It | the rights of Liberty and the mviolabllliy of pam to consolidation leads on to despotism, la the oom jahts for equalily against privilege, democracy | science are the sins of our share i the transforma- against aristocracy, government by the paliot against government by to the people and seeks direction strength from them, Whence comes the tuspiration of every great reform, And it now especially cails on the masses of the repuolican and labor reform parties—the | of the principle that every men ought to be rewarded eople,’? Who are interested least in mere ‘gece is and most tn such measures of re ent as salt ive to the workingman a fair share of the wealth he creates while laying on him only a fair share of the Just burdens of government—to help it overtirow the sepabuoen Par’ policies tend to strengthen, exempt and exalt capl- ta], aud weaken, burden and degrade labor. MAZZINYS MANIFESTO, Adress to the Workingmen of Italy—The In‘er- national and the Paris Commune Severely Denounced—Hazzini’s Love of Labor— ‘What He Says About the Men Who Deny Their God, Their Country and the Righ's of Individual Property~Tho Uulon of Italy Yo Be Conse crated at Reme, 3 The great Itatlan patriot, Guiseppe Mazzini, has addressed the followiug to the workingmen of ialy:— DEAR Har ypbedercten | among you love me and know that Liove you. Tlove you'as a hope of im- mortutty for the dearest being; for L know that ta You, men of labor, live more than elsewhere ihe tm- mortal destinies of Italy. 1 love you because the Unjust privations suilered tarough ages have bot taught you Lo bate, because you alone, perhaps, in Europe felt that nobody can have rights without eae beoause you Rave gathered around a tag that bears written on it duty; because siuce one lope of resurrection dawned for your country you aid your duty ta ughting, sutfering, dying—because you fought, suffered ana died unkuown, without the peas oi fame among the liviag, without bequeath. ing @ hae to posterity —in tile silence ana sanctity And you love me be- cause you Kuow that I have desired much for you and =witiout —seldsh ment Tequirlag to ve spur votion ior what 18 goud; Lecause you kuow thavift Ican, as every man can, err in inteilect, 1 cannot knowingly and willingly, or for tae sake of amore hasty victory, attemot to deceive you, because you know in your soul that to-day | am devoted to your Wellare, (hough, on account of my years, every hope 1s lost of rejoicing over it as 1 could once, while fer- vent with euergy and confidence, | eutered into political hfe; but L will be devoted to your cause until death, Kor a long time I nave not written to you directly; but, writing in reference io the alf_irs of the coun- try, Lhave never veen silent about your element, nor Of the change of your condition as inseparable from the possivality of Ilauau progress. Cr you L had no fear, and I know that in order to prepare You for that progress you required no mcivement. And 1i to-day 1 address myself to you Ldo it to warn you of a danger that tureatens yOu, and Which rests upen you alone to drive away. Together with the regular movement of working- Meu 1s lormed an associaiion that threatens Lo fal- euly it in the eua—iormed through the same meaus and in the same spirit which inspired you, aud of your martyrdom. through which aloce you will obtain victory. (speak of ine INTERNATIONALE, This association, 1ounded years ago in London, and to Which 1 refu-ed from the beginning to lead Wy Cu-operatuion, is directed by a counch, the soul of Which ts Carl Marx, a German and aman of acuie genius, like that of Proudnon—aissoivent, of a doml- heerlug temper, jealous of ihe miluence of every- body cise, without rm religious or philosophical convictions, aud, I fear, with more elements of bate than oi love in is heart. Tis council, composed of men from different countriesana in which te conditions of people are dulerent, cannot have aniy iu the apprectation of the existing evils and their Possible remedies: but they must inevitaviy lead more than anytiuing else to negative results, ‘he only reasonable mode of organization of the aril sans of Europe is that which, recognizing nanon- ality as sacred aud leaving to the dilereut national aascciations the management of their own allairs, would form oi the dclegutes selected irom and in- structed by thema common centre, by wiicn they could maintain tue harmony of their movement to- ward lis general éud. A nucleas of inatviduais who take upon themselves to directly govern # vast mul- titude of men, differeut as to country, tendencies political condition, economical mierests and meai of action, will always end by not having periormed any work, else it will have to work tyrannically. For these reasons | withdrew myself trom tat body, and so did, @ wile after, the Italian section of ule Republican Alliance in London, Tne Internationale exercised influence principally in the second period of the recent Parisian move- ment. Of this, and of tue programme adopted by them, Of the acts which debasea that period, I have spoken ecisewhere. The programe found Frauce hetpless; for tue first time Paris rose und fei alone. And as to the fascinalions exercised, which, over many, the power which the association proved In Paris, 1 will not try to diminish 1, a8 1 couid, by ex. amiuing the circumstances; tuey were so peculiar tnat very likely it Wili Occur NO More ihat We should behoid the arms, men, means and passions of a wronged popuiation at the disposai of tue luterna- tionaie leaders. J would feel guilty of thiuking basely of you if I, exhorting you to remain apart from that associa- ton, should speak to you otherwise than of tue eud to which it tends. From that ead alone aud not from the numuver of the adepis in that society must you judge ll, Like me, you know that every lorce 13 unavie to last which is not based upon truth aud justice, The Internailonaie is doomed to dismem- berment; and in Bugland, the seat of its centre, the dismeimberment lias already begua. din reierence to che principles tuat Inspire the as- sociation, I ao not intend iv say tat they are form- ing the faith oi all its members. In an organization constituted like the Internauonaie real unity can- ot exist, and 1 Know Ol seciions located in coun- tries far from tue ceawe Uiat are Wholly iguor of the tendencies of the society. ‘They merely know that they velong to au European association which hus for 118 object ie emancipation of tue working classes and nothing else. ‘ihe oficial acts of the centre have teen up to to-day rare and little known. But those principles first revealed by imprudent oraiors in tue international conven- ons held in late years in Switzerland and Belgium, Were left wituout being dented by the ceutre; were confirmed irom tune to ume by members of the council in London m thelr public discourses, and were more recently corrovoruted during the rale of the Conuaune in Parts. ‘The principies mooted by the heads aud influen- tial members of the Interiativnaie ave:— Firsi—A denial 0: Goa—tuat Is, of the only, firm, eternal, iudestructable fuundation of your ‘uties and your rights, of your duties toward otners of your ciasa, and of the certainty that you lave been called to conquer and wil conquer. Once cancel the existence of a iirst mtelligent cause and cancel the existence of a supreme moral law gov- eruing ali men aid constituting ceriain obligation for all; and you also cancel tie possibity of a law Of progress, Of a superior mtcliizence which re; Jates the life of humanity; progress and inoraliy become no miore Wan traustiory facts, without a source, except in the tendencies, in ihe’ impulse of the organisin of cach man; without saaction, except from the will of auy oue actuated by changerul in- tereats or by force. Second—A denial of one’s fatherland, of hits na- tlon—that Is, of the basis of support for the lever With which you can work for tue bveuefit of your: selves and humanity; and it is as if tuey would call you to work, willle denyig you every department of the work itself, or shutting up the doors of the workshop, Your country was given to you by God, because in a group of tweuty-live mutions of brothers ciosely ugited to you by “name, language, faith, common aspirations, ‘and their long Glorious — unfolding of tration, and in thele veneration jor the resting piace of de- parted loved ones and the solemn meinories of the martyrs who fell to strengthen the mation, you should Lud wore available and vulid assistance in the fulfimeat of sour mission than a geographical posiion or speciat aptitudes would uiford you. He who would supp your nation- ally Would neutralize ait that immense sum of Jorces exvcated by the communion of the means and activity of three mitiions ana would close to you every path to pleniy aud to progress. Wor ‘the nation the Internacionale substitutes the Commune, the imdenendeut Cominnue, for goveruing them: Seives by themselves, You coine irom the Com mune, they . Inthat your life was edueated Which is true; but Will Fou Go back to the ife of Infancy, will you give infaney ap eover man- hood, becuuse belore being meu you were children? The life of the Commane was besides preceded by that Of the family; why should it not extend even to that? In 18 ascending prog s1oa8, never st jollows from ihe: f Commu the isola Nations, (06 Workiug bing yourselves wore in associauon? of — pairioic Do you not wh ation, from the idea of fateration of f the law that culls you to Vast and a more mitiaate 1 you feel so strongly the sentiments brotiernood, you will remain sueb, even according to” the italian ore ganization, «Moral education and untform laws are necessary to transmit from gen ton that to an While they would lea whims of every Comma hcred licreased measuy 1 Unsuimously accepted, fucation aud law to the You may have edu tion and laws cont 0 Almost Dine thousand Communes, to infiiences predomimating for awhtie among some or ollicr of tie men of progress or reirogresston, untlovists or federalists, vellevers Jn Gout and the tminortatity of the soul, materialisis Gatholic Glergymen, and you wil have alter the inzd of o centusy wil ihese littie local egotisms re- the name of country will yauis, and the civil etriies of uve Middle Ages will be repeated, And 0 the wesuwinle there wil arise # scaretty of Means everywhere; the path to grana Poh tee Jnteiiec aud economical realizalions "iil be ent olf, aud itaitan life will be reduced to a poor, siiny, tive existence. ‘The scheme of the Jnteruationale guides inevituoly to anarchy und Imi podence, denial of all individual property: that sumulus to the prodtction of tue eves. 2 po man 1 pefore the law, tt stande for are 1ese! re people aad the Plates, Leewage It ‘wend, Sis joa. viv GWeils wit sartes of life. Property when it 1s ine consequence of favor Fepresents he activity Of tue body, of our OrAwisic, Just ad thought represent 1 of the soul, aad te Ube vis the dollar and the perones itiooks | duces bas a right 10 the fruits ef bis own labor. Ia ans , all of whose | much a3 at present the laws tend to diminish tion of the moral world. He who labors and pro this resides the right of property. And if ror Jess activity in labor arises froui matertai inequality this is a token of moral equality, the consequence according to ‘8 Work: “Avere anto egli ha merita(o,” It is necessary to attend to the placing of an order of things in which property may not be- come a mononoly, aud that it may not descend to the future “Mf not from labor; in which ag gradualiv their permanent concentration in a Jew hands, and adopt every jnst means of transmission and distribution, But the abolition of indiviaual property and the substituting of col- lective Property ‘would suppress every impetus to Work; Would suppress every stimulant to give the highest possible value to future productions} would guppress the lverty inatvidyel [gvor, aud, atirl- buling authority to a few individuals, representing the state of the Commune, accessible to selfishness, seduction, arbitrar: | Sepdengios and the arbitrary ad- ministration of all property would Again reduce every ciiizen to @ system of salary, under some other name, When we would, litte by litle, wish to epepush the association, and reopen the ware 19 ali those evils which to-day provoke Wpue con int Against a few Vee! capital, Collecti rQ> i erty re ted ty “ rate of human economy van ang ny i iy inch ha hoa departed | oy Ach hi om the patr archal system Of Families, To-day such is not the case among the Com- unas of Russia, where jor many years the work- men, freed from servitude, hasten to avail them. 8clves of individual property, I will not prolong this ubpleasant examination. ‘The few points taken ought to be suiliclent to Juuge whether the Internationale would or would not prove salutkry to you, . No. You will Bot abandon, for such proponst, the way thus far tested successfuliy, and I will be able, even to my last day, to move oi it with you. When upon searching listory you will find ideas which reter to the first known periods of humanity, which have lived with It trom epoch to epoch, trans+ forming themselves always, but always and every- where remaining in their essence, Inseparable from soctety and stronger than every destroying revolu- Uon; stronger than other ideas which Lelorg toa single People and @ particular age, and in ques- uoning in your better moments of love, of holy suffering, of devotion to your general good, your conscience you will perceive to bo within an echo of those ideas transmiitea through thousands of ages; then those ideas are euvstantially true ana innate in humanity, whose progress they must also follow. You can and must modtiy thom; ameliorate their development and applicution, not abolish them. God, the immortality of life, your country, your duty, the moral law which is alone sovereign, your famiy, property, liberty and association are Aniong those tdeas. Do not deviate trom that programme, do not re- move yourseives from those among your brothers Who recognize these your rigits, and labor to level the path leading to the institutions that can recog- nize and preserve them. He who would cali you elsewhere ts unabie to help you, Educate and mstruct yourselves a3 much as pos- sible, Never separate yourselves froin the forcunes of your country, but cause your brotherhood to adopt every cnterprise tending to make 10 still more free aud great, Increase your associations; form clubs, and connect through them meciamcs gnd farmers, untung the cities with the villages aud country towns, Labor to create co-operative socie- les ve every quarter, You may contide iu the result. But unite yourselves compactly; be locked up in tne One cause; be disciplincd as anarmy. To-day | you are hot as such, Your societies are morally iden- | tided wita common tendencies; but no one hasa | right to speak if not in his own name; no one can take it upon himselt to use the name of the whole artisan Class beiore the country to express wants or wishes; no one can speak authoritauvely, ‘This they Want; those the workmen of Italy repulse, Have unity of purpose—ot of action and method. With. | out a compact of brotherhood, without a direct cen- | tre you cannot acquire or infuse into others a cou | ception of the strength that isin you; you cannot | arrange aud publish statistics of ‘ihe’ evils whica | afiiict your classes; you cannot give the vigor of uniformity and of regularity to the indication of the | proper remedies, ‘These things | told you a few years past and you accepted them convincingly, A treaty was ac- cepted by the majority of the societies in one of your coveressional conventions, bul through an error commitied in the formation of the direct an- | thority that treaty remained 4 dead letter, useless and torgotten. Why do you not strive to revive it ; and frame it anew with more wise provisions and amendments; vigorously agitate that motion of con- centration whicn is to-day more urgeat than ever? | And why do you, a new element that is rising and | cannot stay itself without receding,,make yours the | fault too frequently committed in “italy of saying | and not doing. Rome, the maternal city, ts ours to-day; but ours | to a certain degree, ours materially only; and it de- volves upon us all to turn toward her the soul of whe country, and from her receive the consecration | of the way we must tread upon tn order that your destinies being tulfilied a strong manifestution of | Tralian vitality wili make the union holy and fruitful. } Why do you not hasten to gather in Rome at a con- | gress and give a new baptism to your brotherhood? | Perhaps, besides its great advatitages to you, you should remember for the sake of example, and as if giving the initiative to Italy, that from Rome ought Vo issue another and a broad national treaty, a defini. uon of our future life, without which Rome and Italy are Gimpty naraca, GUISEPPE MAZZINL WELCOME HOME, Arrival and Receptioa of Judge Dowling—The Seneca’s Cruise in Seurch of the Sicumer Queen. Atan early hour yesterday the friends of Judge | Dowling assembled in force on board the police boat Seneca and proceeded down the Bay in search of their returning friend. Every preparation had been made on board to give the popular Judgea fuing reception, aud the boys amused themselves on the Way lesting the quality of the champagne, which by | general consent was allowed to be excellent. The | cool breeze on the Bay during the sultry heat of tne day made the excursion truly a pleasure, aud nothing but | THE SWELI. OF THE DEEP SEA | Seemed to affect the nerves or the appetites of tie | Judge’s lusty frienus. Fortunately for the jolly | looks of some of the party it was not necessary to | tempt too far the dangers of the deep, as the smp | Which bore the fortunes of ‘Joe” hove in sight, As gvon as it was alscovered to be the wished-for | Queen the Seneca put about her helm and laid | by, Judge Dowling’s frlends gathering to the side and giving hearty cheers, while the artillery of the ship spoke in thunderous tones responses to the Welcome, The sreatest enthusiasm was manifested, | and a8 sv0n a3 the queen cust anchor sie was at ouce boarded, and ihen ensued a hand-shaking that vureatened to dislocate tue Judge’s arm. However, | ih ESCAPED ALIVB, and the exuberance of bis friends having somewhat subsided, Joe recounted for tueir amusement some | racy anecdotes of his visit to tie Uld World. Such | fun and such jokes, and above all such hearty | laughing at tiem, are not often enjoyed, and by tho une (he Judge had beeu got on board ‘the Seneca, | to be janded at the Barge Oilice, everybody was in | the best of hutwor with hunself aud the world at large. The Judge's heaith was drunk, and the fair Lydia, Compaulon of the voyage, but wastreely VOASTED IN FLOWING BUMPERS, Judge Dowling looks jn excelient health, and seeis to have enjoyed fils trip unmensely, He'ts us | brown as @ berry, but it must not pe concluded from | this ihat he bas veea ‘done brown’ in Europe, Rather guess not! Among those on the Seneca | Were jresident Sintib, of the Police Board, and Vom. | missioners Manterre and Barr, ex-Congressman | Morgan Jones, Superintendent Kelso, Jolin Stacoin, | Warden of tho City Prison; Captain Kenneay, Sixth | recinct; Cliriswpher O'Connor, Archibuld Ful- eiton, Captain Living, Devective Force; Mr. Jonn Hogan, Toibs Couri; Alderman Coman and his | brother; Detectives Wariey und Doran; Sergeants Meyneer, Douglass aud John J. Quan. After tae examination of baggage at the Harze Oftice the party proceeded to the foot of Warren street, and the Judge was escorted to his r friends, where they ieft him to seek repose after tne excitement of ie day, MONOPOLISTS ON THE FRONTIER, Upper Missvurl Ofticials Need Looking Atter— sutiers Attempting to Monepolize Trade. | CutcaGo, August 11, 1871, The Sloux City (Nev,) Zimes of the 9th Inst. pubs | lighes an anonymous letter addressed to General | Hancock, charging Messrs. Peck & Durfee, who have charge of all the trading posts on the Upper | Missourl, with gross frands, and also with abusing | the yighta and privileges given to them by the gov- ernment. The writer says they Dave induced Gene- ral ptaniey, the district commander, to issue a general order prouibitiag citizens or soidiers from iar goods from any one Vk 4 the post sut- jer, and it is also claimed that tuey bave refused to carry to certain posts ou their tine Of boats, notwith- anding that they are common carriors, all pack- | eges addressed to citizens or svuldiers wi they believe to contain Paabetat or clotting. ‘This, the writer claims, 18 all done with the countenance and connivance of the military author Was ot forgotten, | VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX, MILWAUKEE, August 11, 1571. Vice President Colfax arrived here last evening, | and will remain over to-day as guest of B.D. Holton, A number prominens citizens took breakiast with him this morning. Atier visiting | prominent places of interest to«iay and a reception Uus evening he will leave for St. Paul, THR ITALIAN OBLEBRATION, The Committee of Arrangements of the Italian celebration request all societies, civic and military, Aimerican and foreign, in this and the adjoining cities, Who may desize to take part in the coming coenration, to commeaicate win the ey sign of our purtin the | pergre Lue 20th lusiant at $07 Broome surcet. Who have been curlosity and a desire to be as near a3 possivie to | muscles and an tron frame. | Strange People who I to not know. | With him a long time, | Sherif, he sate:—Mr, | his room, 71, THE GALLOWS. | mrmonemettarereeenty tomantth \ Execution of Franz Josoph Von Messner at Rochester Yesterday. He Meets His Fate with Calm- mess and Resignation. Rocusster, Augnst 11, 1871, Since early morning the city has been throngea by the curious from all Parts of the adjacent courtry, here bya vague and unhealily the sceno of Messner’s last suifering on earth, Men and women, old and young, gathered in knots about the sireets, and a deuse crowd was packed in the neighborhood of the Jutland without the lineg of the soldier? Who gilarded the avenues ai grounds approaching It. Longlifg yea were siramed toward thé gray 8, 28 If their viston sought to penetrate them, and tany seemed listening attel- tively as if to catch any sound from the prison yard. The guard about the jail consistea of Companies B and 0 of the Fifty-fourth regiment, N. GS. N. Y., unaer command of Lieutenant Colonel Baetzel, and reported to the Sheriff for duty, from their srmory, at six o'clock A. M. The rush of persons anxious to witness the execution has been so great as almost to drive the Sherif from his office, and though many more were admitted than it was designed should be, long lists of names of persons of greater or less influence were registered at the office, some of the parties actually BEGGING FOR TICKETS or special sheriff appointments. The Under Sheri, Mr. Charles J. Campbell, estimated the number of applicants at five thousand. Every effort was also made to ascertain in advance the exact programme of arrangements to be followed, but Sherut Camp- bell remained unfiinchingly silent, and no satisfac- tion was afforded the curious, As the hour for the execution to take place drew near the excitement Increased, till the air of anxious expectancy on every face became absolutely oppressive. Now, however, ail the excitement and fever are over, Franz Joseph Von Messuer has at last gone to his long home in the dark aud unknown land; gone ‘With a stoical air, as one persecuted, yet with many evidences of sorrow and repentance for a deed com- mitted in a moment of ungovernable passion, and witn a childish and complete faith in the power of good Father Payer’s prayers to obtain for him for- giveness for his sins. The old man had been taught by three years of suffering and by many acts of injustice and cruelty to have little faith in the honesty of inuividuals or the good qualities of the masses. They had, he believed, sworn falsely suinst him; they had, at a later time, brutally and meauly demanded in his presence that he be led to death at the frst moment prescribed vy his sentence for fear @ writ of error would arrive and deprive them of a disgusting and horrible pleasure, and they had gambled about bim and won or lost thelr stakes, as he should keep or jose hig life, All this did not make him love his neighbor muci. Debarred from human sympathy, regarding all who approached him only as enemies, he turned from man to God, and ove should hope at last fuds peace. THE CONDEMNED. Franz Joseph Von Messner was born in the king. dom of Wartemberg tn 1817. He had been in this country nearly twenty years, and came to this city from Long Island in 1851. He was of medium netght, | broad shouldered, compactly built, lean and muscu- lar, A broad belt from the forehead to the back of the beas was nearly bald, the hair, which was of a dark brown, growing thinly. He wore a heavy mug tache, the face and chin bemg cleanly shaved, and showing firm, square cut jaws. He was xot a hand- some ian, nor was ho in the ieast degree repulsive or evil looking, and ve had evidentiy suffered much and worked hard (uring a jong, rugged life. When he came tothe prison first he Was bronzed by the sun and winds, and, despite his age, had cordons of In the fearful months he had passed since then the brown lunge had faded out /rom his cheek and forehead and the arms had ‘own feeble and nervous almost as a child's, ‘or some months past he claimed that his memory was iailing, and @ strange, buzzing noise came tn his head, which often pained him. ti¢ gat ata little table in his cell and looked down through the grated window to the grass plot in front of the jail, longing with who knows what intensity, what hope and what fcar, for some glimpse or gvod for- tune, some fruit of pity, souretaing that would stay | the shadow of death, which jor the fourth time was | creeping over him. | in the window and smoke his huge German pipe, Then he would sit at twilight enveloping and losing himself in the clouds of tobacco smoke, But most of ail he reaa AN OLD DOG'S-BARED GERMAN BOOR, read it with an intensity that was almost despera- Won. Suddenly he would rise with a nervous ; Quickness, and with his eyes fixed persistently on | some distant imaginary spot would walk stupidly across the oor or down the hall, fumbling with, arranging or disarranging something, anything. This was the only outward evideuce of the terrible inward agony. Siuce he swore his life away last June, however, he grew weaker aad the forces Of nature which had hitherto borne im ‘up seemed ebbing away. ile refused to talk about ; his past or future, and exhibited littie contidence ta the efforts which It was rumored were being made te secure for him a commutation of sentence and save him from the scaffold. As hus faith in his coun Sel’s ability to ward off the blow became tess his faith io the mercy of an all-powerfal aud forgivin: Goa Lae great. Something of his feeling and thought can be obtained from the following letter addressed by him to the Under Sheriff, Charies J. Campbell, and dated on the 2ith of July last, By this It will be seen that his strength and courage were both fast ebbing away. 1t1s copied literally, and, though under ordinary circumstances tie curious, uncouth manner of Sulvagton and bung- ling attempts to spell out English sounds would ex- ciie a smile, the mirth in them now would ve very ghasily in its nature, MESSNER'S LETTER. Snrriry, Your Hon Sir! You pliese excuse me for my wrid for I wish you woult make a stone t now if all tne folkes wil 40 like to read my orping atul by 0 may When was hire wast excuse me for nut apeking Boo 0% now in pease and no more dia! Duertag Iwas in a dead sicop. whit you Sir. Your respectfully FRH JOSEPH VON MESSNER. The following postseripts were enclosed, writien on smail slips of paper:— You plies grand mea Drink La health Is not as it was som how it is how or in the morning for time ago you know you a Fi J VON MiSs Ny. CAMPRELL—You pilese and kip that for you tell Pim about JOSEPM MEss} Yesterday I visited Messner In his cei), and talked He asked me to read tue re- port im regard to him published in the HERALD of ednesday last, and scemed much pleased by tho appearance of his Own words vervalim. Then ue taiked about his healih and about his crime. He said:—"My memory is pretty much ail goue now; L can’t think well any more; but I know that soine of them who swore against me swore iaise, ‘they swore my life away, I did not intend to Kill my wife. J say so now, when I kvow that [ must teil the (rnun, Lioved my wile, and I was proud of her, Yes, Lwas. She was nota preity woman, but she was beantt- fully formed—ask any of the neighbors—and I was proud of her and | loved her, But she brought me here, and L want to say lo all of you thal you inust take warning by me and NEVER MARRY OUT OF YOUR NATION, My wife was Irish and {was German, and Irisn ani German don’t agree. My father has been dead many, many years, but I remomber what he told mo my ar | when I was young—that I snonid never marry out of my own nation. Then, turning to the Under Campbell, you kuow that book you brought me to read? Jt wis two years ayo, hat book was Englisi, but It was true,” 1 read it and understood tt, every word: and you know what I told Fo about it theu, ~The condemned mun here placed his hand upon his heart. You know, he sald, whatT told you about its; itwas in that book; itwastrue, Tie Under Sherif asked who would n0t liké to look over the book agam = He said no; it was fine print and tere is a nerve runs from tie eye right back to the brain; when you read fine print it tres the nerve and that makes yonr head ache and confuses your brain. Besides, je added, J read Inv book (HIDIe). When asked it he would like company i pel id ig he saa ¥ in bis cell darng the night, HE DID Nor sien MucH in the night, but sat up and read his book, and he also expected Father Payer, of St. Bonifacius' church, Who had remained with him daring tne en- tire day previous, and prayea with him, preparing him for the great change that awalted him, He Was earnest in his praise of this pious man, for whom he said he would also pray with his last breath, He sald he wished to write’ on a piece of Paper the thanks hoe wished to offer to Mr. Beck- Witi's (the jailer’s) family for therr many Kindnesses fo him. Then retiring to the pailet in one corner of Which is a very Jarge one oa an upper floor, he lay down and begon speakirg of nis wife, Weeping In the midst of broken sentences, As the writer left him be offered the hope that a possibie chance might yet exist for uis life. Tue condemned man ShOOK his head feebly and muttered, “Tuere 14 no hope: I have suffered long and I must now be pre- pared to meet my God’ In the interior yard of (he jall the workmen wero preparing the gallows curing this interview and laying down a plank platform. Daring all Weduesday night, when the condemica Was set wader the influence of his long interview With Father Payer, he was restless and wept freely in his waking moments, while he moaned piteously as he slept, Ho retired’ at hail-past eleven on that night and arose rather late. Du ‘ing yesterday he became moro trang and was quite selle-possessed during tue interview above described. At about half-past eight o'clock in the evening Alderman Kel- 1y aud Alderinan Parsons called to see thé prisoner. These gontiemen bad ‘nterested themselves i tbe » road. Governor in his pela tw ed eraor in . They si buta we be i ee 5 ore NIGUT BEFORE DEATH. At fifteen minutes past nine Messner w: by Snerliy Campbeil, scoompanied by Sheruf Root, of foupking county, Dr, Hovey and two othera, Sherif Campbeil asked if ne would not‘like to havi @ reporter sit up with him, as the bri egret ol with the fe visited the H&RALD remained in the build! during the night, He replied that he did not wish to see any one connecied wii the press, as he woud rather remain alone and read his book. Dr, Hovey felt 118 pulse aud head aud iooked at his tongue. Find the puise veating low and regulafly, he lesaner, you are well.” The prisoner replied, “Yes, but I'am ready to go.” These gentlemen left him at @ quarter before ten o’ciock, At ten o'clock Messner veyan reading bis “Explanation of the bible,” an illusirated pamphlet. Ata quarter past ten he was ettil reading, and, a few minutes later, pee down aud prayed silently. At liaif-past ten @ arose {rom his prayers aud became quite talk. Muive, explaining to Ofiicer Ra ng bin, the aio of the erucifixle tortu aud how of the two thieves the one who pe was saved, and only he who one it ee ent ty purgatory and was ned. At hali-pasi deren e began to wai We Py smoking a cigar, and again, at @ quarter to twelve, he kueit to DEN At five minutes to tweive, the wind blowing fresh through the grates of the open window, he arosé and closed the sash and afterwards walked about for five minutes and again Hee to pray. At tem minutes past twelve Messner asked Oilicer Payne for @ penknile, and afterwards asked OMcer Markley, saving, “I have a good ways to travel to-morrow. aud 1 would like to ; ‘TRIM MY CORNS,"? Markley gave hin a smal penknife, which he soon returned. At wenty minutes pust telve he lay down, asking one ot the officers to call him at five o’clock, adding, ‘I have a good deul of arrange. ments (o maze and’ must start early.” Some five minutes later he arose and began walking about. He did not retire tul one o’ciock, when he dropped into a slumber and slept soundly till ball-past ive 1a the morning. Oulicer Payne thea AWOKE ill! and he at once began to cress, first bathing himself, Lhe wife of Ovicer Markley came to ius room and sewed a button on hissnirt, and he was very particu. lar Lo get AveW pair ol cotton socks, which the under sheriff had ordered for him. He dressed hunseil in his best suit, witich consisted of a pair of Pants and dark colored coat and vest, with white shirt and gloves and black slippers, At about six o'clock Father Payer visited him and talked and prayed wiih him tor a jong time. fhen religious services, strictly private, were held, At about nine o'clock, and When the services were conc.uded, Mr, Wilson, of Messner’s counsel, appenred aud held an, interview With hin, The sveue at parang was very alectiag, At halt-past nine three Protestunt clergy- mon, oae froin Lockport, one {rom the village of Webster and one (rom tlds city, visited him, aud he expressed to thein HIS ENTIRE READINESS TO MEAT HIS. FATR. He wanted to go, and said iis ‘ormenis would soon be ended. Father Payer again entered soon aftor this and exhorted nim to place his faith in the holy Church and supplicate the Saviour for forgive. ness, Mr. Ripson, ol ccunsel for the condemned, then entered, and Messner bade ii adieu, asking him to come and see him executed. Ex-Sherttt Sutheiland, Aiderman Connolly, Detective Hughes aud others then passed in to the cell He said to Alderman Connolly he ho, ed to meet bim in another and better world. When he bade them goudby tears came to his eyes and his face appeared flushed. Otherwise he did nut seem stronziy affected by the near approach of his doom. He repeated hia thanks to Sheriff Joseph 8, Cainpbell and tue anacr sheriiY, his son as weil, as to the jaiior, Mr. Beckworth, ana faintly, and oficers Payne and Mai ley, the two last of whom he said, had treated him with the kindness of a brotier, Av half-past eleven Farher Payer began reading from the Bibie tor am hour, No one was admitted, but when the steam whistle in an adjoining pianing mill blew for twelve o’clock he said, **My tine is now suort onearth, I die forgiving all men and trustng Jor forgiveness in our Lord Jesus Christ, who died to save us ull.” AG ® quarter-past tweive A PROUESSION FORMED in the lower hall of tue jail, consisting of Sheriff James B, Campbell and Under Sheri Charles J. Campbeil, of Monroe; Sherti! G. A. Sweet, of Wyo ming; W. I. Parisi, of Genesee; 1. F. Stout, of Se: eca; Joseph Gillis, of Alleghany; Root, of ‘Tompkins, and: Arnoid, of Livingsion county. Next came Messner, with his attendant officeis, Markley auti Payue, and sis priest, Father Payer, and Judge Ful- ler, District Attorney Davy and o.ners. ‘The proces- sion moved out to the jail yard, in full view of the many people gathered avous the vicinity and on the adjacent housetops, Messner was led upon the scatiold, followed by Ihe oilicera and a dense crowd, which inundated tae plavform. He was piaved ina chair, immediately under the noose, and his deatls warrant was read to nim by by Sheriff Campbell. During the reading he rematued impassive, with hig eyes fixed on the platform, except fur a moment, when he glanced at the crowd, At the conclusion of the reading he arose and shook hands with the Sherif, Judges, jailor and other officials. A iriend then read the followiug VD) LApIES AND GENTLEMR?—You ex: Thave something to auy before I die. J am very thankful to all my friends, my counsel, George £, Repson and J. W, Wik son, for all they have done for eto save my life. Tbave forgiven all my enomies from my ueart, 1 won't take an; hardship along ia the other world, Ladies ani gentiemen, God b'ess me. God yive you afi who was atiend« n—how Jésus Was if you please, ask you all for furgiveacss, peace. I will leave you all. An under sheriff then pinioned his arms and legs With straps andthe noose was placed around his neck, It was & Manila rope, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and was attached to a larger one. This rope, & new one, Was substituted for the old one used at this jail made of shoe thread, by which a number of murderers were exocuied at this jail, ag Well as at others in the midland counties, including Rullo# at Binghamton. He heid A GILT CRUCIFIX in his right hand, and showed no emotion when the Tope was adjusted around his neck. As the cap was drawn over his fuce, however, he trembled silghtiy. The crowd witich gathered closely around him was agitated by those endeavoring to get closer, or to “obtain a better view. At precisely hal!-pas! twelve the signal was given and the drop fell, the weight striking the ground and jerking the man about two feet from the floor. It was denied that the neck was broken, though the victim died with hardly @ struggle, One minate and a quarter after the weight dropped the body exhivited slight spasmo:tio con. Yulsions, the pulse being at 120, Twelve minutes later there was no pulse, and at the expiration o} | twenty-six minutes life was extinct Before his death Messner requesied that bis body should be given to Father Payer, to be buried by the side ot his wife, according to a written request, in whici be curses any Who snail prevent its fulfilment, i Some two weeks sluice ex-Sheriff A. Sutherland, of Pittsford, showed to your reporter a leiter in Messner’s wilting, Which ‘itd a few days previously been slipped into his hands by the condemued, iD Which he begged him to convey to him TWO OUNCES OF AQUA FORTIS, alleging that he wished to take it in order to pre. vent death on the scaffold. [ alluded to tius atrempt to procure the means of self-destruction in a former despaten. He suggested ta the note a plaa to intro- duce the acta for him without deiectton, and begged hard for tt. The jailer last night informed me that he had told his atteniauts within a fow “ays that if he could get some ajua fortis he could cat out the bars of his Windows with it and escape. THE “CONNAUGHT RANGERS.” The New “fvailoxus Uighty-cighti” Looking for a Colonel. A general meeting of the new regiment, the fear. less Eighty-eighth, was held last evening at Consti- tution Hall, Twenty-second street and Third avenue. Some five hundred men were present, all young, all earnest and all infused with the spirit of tne occa sion, There seemed to exist among ail present a singular unanimity of purpose for an Irisi assemblage. Cuptaia Oooney was called to the chair. He read the roll of members, some 650, already signed, most of whom answered to their names, Major Hannon, of East New York, said that he had thirty-five mon, and expected ten more in the course of a week. Captain Lyddy was called upon to adaress the meeting. He said—1 veleve in those numericais, 8% The ‘argh a Ballaghs® have = proved themselves ta many a well fought field, and, though always dgating for an alien governmcut, ‘were always brave men. What this regimeat wants now 13 a colonel. ‘The Ducleus, the stuff, ts here, but we want a colonel. He must be & man of means, He mast outdo Jim Fisk, if necessary, because we want a man who will bring the regiment to that pitch that they will Go honor to the couatry they came from. We form two-thirds of the population, and we ought to have SIX regimenis tnsiead of one, and we Could have them if there was proper organization, Major Conyngham followed im the same strain, Tie said that he jiad seen the Elgnty-cighch fight in the Irish Brigade ana he Knew what they were, and he wanted to see a regiment who knew their duty too Weil to fire on deienceless citizens, Some other speeches followed, alter which the meetlag adjourned amid great enthusiasin, " JERSBY JUSTICE, [inportant Dee sisn Regarding the Justices? Act. At the Mercer county Special Sessions yesterday A question arose for tie consideration of the Court, Judge Reed presiding, as to the construction of the supplement to the Justices’ Court act, passed at the last session of the New Jersey Legislature, The question was raised by Mr, Vroom, puvile pro secutor, Whether, under section third of that act, the Justices were eutitied to thelr costs are allegae tions found tn the Special Sessions as well as upon Indictments, and whether they were entitied to costs In every case sent up, whether there was a con. vietion or not. The Court heid that the Justices were entitled to cosis in every case, whether there Was a conviction er not. THE 81, LOUIS EXPRESS ROBBERY, 8x, Lovis, Mo., August 11, 1871, Detective Harrigan, who has been Working up the robbery of the United States Express delivery wagon, in this clty, last month, recovered x the 80,000 Kausas Pacitic Ratiroad von waren cone rised much the largest part of the booty taken, The bonds Were found in the Woods, a short distan from the city, on the ine OF the ‘Ferre Hiauie Radlk