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PEACE AND RECONCILIATO The Urgent Necessity of a National Convention. CONDITION OF THE SOUTH. War ot Races and Repu- diation Imminent. —-—— GENERAL CONFERENCES OF THE PAST. ——__—_.____ The Hartford Convention and Nulli- fication in South Carolina. Secireceeragemer THE PEACE CONVENTION IN 1861. wise The importance of holding conventions to con- wultas tothe general welfare dates back to colo- nial times. In 1750 the British Ministry resolyed upon the expulsion of the French from the Ohio, and they recommended union among the colontes | A convention or dele- | Jor their mutual defence. gates from seven of the colonies assembied at Al- bany, jn this State, to hold a conference with the | Five Nations, whose friendship would be of the ‘greatest valee in prosecuting a war against the French. A programme, which wasto have the sanction of Parliament to give it efficiency, was recommended, by which representatives chosen by the colonies were to have power to raise forces by Jand and sea, levy imposts and taxes and appoint omMcers—the grand council to consist of forty-eight members, distributed among eleven colonies, wader a president to be appointed by the Crown, The plan of this confederation turned out to be unacceptable to all narties, was not approved in this country on account of the large powers given to the President, depend- ent as he would be on the home government; and it was not approved in England because of the Impatience manifested at that time, and for years before, of the control exercised by Parliament in | It was considered that an or | ganization of the kind proposed would be danger- | ous to the aathority of the mother country and | S¢¢™s, t0 disprove the worst charges wud sus- Amerfcan affairs. the result was the scheme was abandoned. NATIONAL CONVENTION TO ADJUST MARITIME RIGHTS, .The next convention held was in reference-to the commercial interests of the States bordering on Chesapeake Bay. It assembled at Annapolis, Ma., three years after the independence of the United States was acknowledged by Great Britain and three years prior to the adoption of the fed- eral consultation. Among the strong in- ducements to an enlargement of the powers of the general government, com- mercial differences among the members of the confederacy exerted a principal agency in bringing about @ change in their civil polity. ‘These differences were of no ordinary gravity, and cequired the judgment and experience of the fathers of the Republic for their satisfactory adjustment. Situated as Maryland and Virginia were, in having several ports adapted for trade on the same great estuary—Chesapeake Bay and its waters—the spirit of trade rivairy was soon ex- sited between them, when it was found that the concessions and sacrifices which one State was | willing to make were met by similar concessions and sacrifices on the part of the other, and thus ®n uncompensated loss was sustained by both. It was, moreover, as remarked above, a constant wourge of mutual irritation, jealousy and discord. The interests of Virginia and Maryland strongly urged them to agree on some uniform system of duties and other commercial regu- ations. No successful effort had been made to effect it until accident, concurring with patriotic sagacity, brought it about, for the purpose of forming a compromise concerning the jurisdiction ef the Potomac ana a part of Chesapeake Bay, con_ Stantly brought into conflict between the two Btates, as those waters were common to both. hose States in 1785 appointed commissioners to meet at Alexandra, Va., in March of that year. They made a visit to Mount Vernon, and while there agreed un the suggestion of Mr. Madison, who was one of the commissioners, and, with THE CONCURRENCR OF WASHINGTON, to advise their respective States to make an ar- rangement for the support of a naval force in the Chesapeake, at their joint expense; and also to establitsh a tariff of duties common to both States. These propositions were adopted by the Virginia Legislature. Maryland, however, qualified her consent tothe proposition by a condition that they should first be made to the neighboring Btates of Delaware and Pennsylvania. But Mr. Madison, anticipating that the two latter might also require the concurrence of other States and thus perhaps defeat or protract the proposed re- | form, was induced to propose a meeting of com- missioners from all the States. The resolutions prepared by him’ were adopted, according to which commissioners were appointed to meet those of the other States ut a place and time to be agreed upon, ‘to take into ceusideration the trade of the United States; to examine the relative situation and trade of those States; to consider how far a guitorm system in their commercial relations may be necessary to their common interests and their Ushel harmony, and to report to the several tates such an act relative to tnis great ubject a3 Tatified by them will enable the United es in Congress assembled to effectually provide for the same.” Nine out of the thirteen original States appotnted dele- gates to attend at Annapolis, but only five were Fepresented. These were New York, New Jersey, Pennsyivania, Delaware and Virginia, and what ‘Was remarkable the State in which they sat had no Fepressntstive, From the sparse attendance and the limited powers confided to them the com- missioners decided to adopt no other measures than to propose to their respective States a gen- eral convention of deputies for the purpose of a general revision of the jederal system. The address was drawn up by Alexander Hamilton. ‘The invitation was accepted, and thus originated the convention that met in Phitadelphia and which framed the constitution of the United States. Meantime the existing differences between the Interested Staves remained unsettled until that grand national assemblage, over which Washing- ton prouiaes, settled the question, as well as all others, relating to the general interests of the country. when eee oe) THE HARTFORD CONVENTION. Daring the war of 1812 there was widespread digsatisiaction prevalent im the New England States in reierence to the embargo, non-importa- tions ant non-intercourse. ‘ihough Madteon's ad- injoistration was as warmly and openly supported 8 could be expected in any country in which the people are accustomed to form opinions on public Measures and tree to express them, yet, in the important section of the Union mentioned, the majority of the people appeared to be decidedly opposed to the prosecution of hostilities with Eng- land. The merchants and shipowners, who con- stuvuted the most weighty and wealthy classes, were undoubtedly sufferers by the existence of war, and this injury to their interests gaye a farther acerbity to their poiltical feelings, The firat serious movement, clearly indicating dis- affection to the general government by a num- ber of States acting in unison, grew out of thia state of affairs. Opposition was mani- fested iu various ways in the annual addresses of rnors, in iong, argumentative reports ot legis- Jative committees, in Jaws to embarrass the action of the federal government when ny te for war and in carrying it on when it was declared; and im reference to the raising of men jor the invasion 01 Canada, or even to march beyond the lines of their own States. On one occasion, when @ vic- tory highly honorable to the bravery and skill of the American Navy had taken place, & member of the Massachusetts Legislature lorinally moved a Fesolution that “it did not become A MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE torejoice a% victories obtained in such a war.” An assemblage of delegates met at Hartford De- gember 16, 1814, _In response to an invitation from Massachusetts, which was tully represented, Con- necticut sent seven representatives, Rhode isiand four; two appeared from New Hampshire, aud one irom Vermont, not sent by the States, but by the separate counties. ‘The avowed object ol the mecuing was to originate measures to pro- cure the united eftorts ot the commercial States to procure such amendments of the constitution as would secure them from future eviis. It was claimed that the defence of the New England coast ‘was neglected, and the British were beginning to att it with vigor. Stonington, Conn., was bombarded, Castine and all Maine cast of the Penobscot was taken possession of, while a rumor spread that Massachusetts was to be invaded by & Jormidable force. Massachusetts, considering the ene in which it stood, it was held there, mo choice left between submission to the enemy and the appropriation to her own defence ©) thou Fevenuge derived from her people, wuich Is | | Jearing to displease the | severely the action of the Hartiord Convention. | breaking up the Union, because they thought un- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. the general government had theretofore expended elsewhere. Accordingly a circular letter wa sent to the other New England States, #8 before in- timated, calling upon them to meet in convention | “to devise means of security ana defence which | may be consistent with the preservation of their resources from total rutu and adapted to ther local situation and material relations and habits aud pot repugnant to their ovligations: as mem- bers of the Union.” For twenty days THE CONVENTION SAT WITH CLOSED DOORS, and on their adjournment tbe delegates embodied the result of their deliberations in a report ad- dressed to the Legislatures which they repre- sented. This maniiesto was moderate in tone. It pointed oat the dangers impending over New England from the yy usurpations of the gen- eral government and from the foreign enemy. In the power over the militia claimed tor filling up the ranks oi the regular army by conscription, in authorizing the enlistment of minors without the consent of their parents or guardians, the report Maintained that the federal const:tution had been disregarded in @ way that demanded trom tne in- dividual States firm and decided opposition. The Convention recommended to the Legisla- tures for which it spoke the adoption of such measures a8 might be necessary to protect thelr citizens from the operation of the acts passed by Congress containing provisions sub- Jecting the militia and other persons to lorcibie draits, lt recommended aiso au immediate appeal to the federal government by tne New England States for anthority to combine their iorces Jor their defence against the British, and to appro- priate for the same purpose a reasonable amount of the taxes levied apon them, Finally it proposed amendments to the federal constitution, among which were basing representation on the popula- tion, making TUS PRESIDENT INELIGIBLE FoR A SECOND TERM, disqualification of persoms Of foreign birth to hold ofice, limiting embargoes to sixty days, requiring @ two-third vote in Congress to admit new states, % interdict commercial intercourse to decl ration of war or to authorized hostilities. Congres: Which was then in sesston, setiled some of these questions by ay act regulating the employment o! gic yroops by the federal government in a satis tory manser, The Convention gpd its mupoosed | treagonable designs caused & great outcry, dnd ex- cited much alarm and apprehension througnout the country, The government stationed Mujor Jessup, a Kentucky soldier of distinction, at Hart: ord with a re; amiane of troops, tO repress any | udden outbreak; but 8 care u tiga ion, this officer reported tha supetita dt Wat: ington that the Convention would confine itselt to yemoustrances and an address to the people, and that there was Do reason to apprehend auy treas- onable act. The State Department, however, had acorrespondent who alleged that be was in the confidence of the British Consul at Boston and ha@ learned from htm or from his papers the ex- istence of a couspiracy of New England royalists, who intended to establish THE KINGDGM OF NEW ENGLAND, with the Duke of Kent as Sovereign, ‘The Chief Clerk of the State Department was sent to Boston to investigate tnis matter, but could discover no trace of the alleged conspiracy. Ine imputation of treasonable designs to the Hartford Convention continued ior a long time, and resuited in ex :iud- ing Irom political power in tue nution almust | every one implicated in its doings. 1t was also | One ‘of the causes which destroyed the federal | party. Tne secret journal of the Convention was Pubushed by the secretary to suow that tue dele- gates had been misrepreseated. This publication picious agatust them. But if these allegations were entirely groundless one can see no reason for the secrecy of their deliberations, except tue petty one o: wishing, for the sake of exciting alarm, of being thought worse than they really were, or the more unworthy motive of eople of New Kugland, most Of whom, notwithstanding the war, still clung to the Union. It must be remembered that vhe debates of the Convention by which alone the feelings and purposes of the members could be tuily understood ure as yet A SEALED BOOK T0 THE NATION. The Governor of Massachusetts, as authorized by the Legislature, appointed three commission- ers to proceed tu Washington and there to make to the government the modest application men- tioned in the resolutions of the Convention. But the news of peace reached Wasnington at the same time as their envoys, consequently their mission became the theme Oi unsparing taunts and ridicule tu the newspapers, and they returned home without making the ubject of tueir journey formally known. Thus end d the Hartiord von- vention. It 1s true it was called at a time of great national peril; but unlike some others alluded (o 1n this article, 1t Was intensely sectional and dan- gerous, It is almost impossivie that such an as- semviage can be convoked again. A conven- tion such as the necessities of the nation | at present appear to demand wouid, doubtless, be | heartily joined in by the peopie of New ingland. | ‘To restore order and prosperity to the South, con- sistent with the rights guaranteed by tue consti- tuuon and laws to all Classes of 1ts inhabitants— white and colored—would be an aim worthy of the best and abiest men in the Eastern us’ well as of the Other States of tae Union, ‘10 cement and not disrupt the Union should be the object of all atriotic citizens, without distinction of party. {18 idle to think that contentment can obtain in the South as loug as there is an ever-tireatening War of races, and as loug as some good and sub- | stantial measures are not adopted by Congress tor the relief of its sorely suffering people. ‘Ihe true means of securing the sincere attacument of the Southern States to the government would seem to be the enactment of #uct measures us could be best devised in a national convention, in which ail the States would be represented. During a debate in the United States Senate in 1829, DANIEL WEBSTER, who replied to Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, reviewed In parting wito tue subject it may be well to quote what he said on the occasion. “supposing that the Hartford Convention,” Mr. Wevster re- marked, “assembied ior any such purpose as constitutional laws bad been passed, or tu con- sult On that subject or to calculate the value of the Unton, supposing this to be their purpose or any art of it, then, I say, the meeting itself was dis- loyal and was obnoxious to censure, whether held in time of peace or time of war. or under whatever circumstances. The mate- rial question 1s the object. Is dissolution the object? If it be, external circumstances | may Make a more or less aggravated case, but can- not affect the principle. I do not noid, tberetore, that the Hartford Convention was pardonuble | even to the extent of the gentieman’s admission, ir its objects were really such as have been im- puted toit. There bever was a time under any degree of excitement in which the Hastiord Con- vention or any other convention could have main- | tained itwelf one moment in New Eng- land, if assembled for any such purpose as the gentleman says would have been an allowable purpose—to hold conventions to decide constitutional laws; to try the binding validity of statutes by vote ina convention. The | Hartford Convention, 1 presume, would not desire | the Pat would be their defender or auvo- cate ii he puts thetr case on such untenable or ex- travagant groonds.” NULLIFICATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA, We now come to the great nullification excite- ment which brought the country to the verge of civil war, irom which it was in ‘a great measure saved by the iron firmness, undaunted resolution and lofty patriotism of Andrew Jackson. ‘The ¢risjs the country passed through lasted from 1828 to 1833, and if at one time seemed immi- nent that no peaceful solution of the diffi culty could be reached, Several national and State conventions were helt to take | into consideration the condition of afairs | that threatened to result inthe secession of one | or more States irom the Union and the consequent horrors of @ fratricidal struggle which such a course would entail. In this critical condition of affairs the assem feof representatives from every partof the Union—men chosen for their high character and devotion to the best interests of the natton—ior the purpose of consulting, had @ decidedly healing and salutary influence. A brief synopsis of the history of nulli- fication may now claim our attention. ‘The policy of encouraging domestic manulactures by taxing those inh ofees from abroad had been at first | opposed the slaveholding States as injurious to their Interests, since they Mein’ thus be compelled to buy, a8 tney claimed, an inferior | or dearer article tnade at Nome for the benefit of | i pugpuractorer. In 1827 the manufacturers, ticularly of woollen cloths, in the Eastern and iddle States becamé clamorous*tor more ef- fectual RCTION AGAINST FOREIGN COMPETITION, Pi and for the purpose of Inducing Congress to act effectively on the subject conventions were held in many of the States, which resulted in a general convention of the iriends of a protective tari at Harrisburg in July of the same year. At the next | session of Congress an act was passed establish- ing high rates of duties on imported man- wactures. South Carolina took the lead in opposition to this measure. This nostiitt; went on lige) strength by the Giequaston ane agitation it provoked, It was contended that it was unconstitutional, from which it followed that duties laid for this purpose were not obligatory | the disapproving States and therefor fold. if vhis short process the doctrine of nullification oF | Vhe right of a State to decide an. act of Congress unconstitutional and invalid arose. It was a doc- trine which soon made proseiytes in all the Souch- ern States, until in some it obtained the support of a large majority of the people and consequently of the Legislatures, and the discontent which it oc. casioned was industriousiy tomented by politi- cians, among Whom Calhoun was tbe chief. It was argued on the part of the nuliifiers that the Tariff law of 1828 was evidently intended for pro- tection instead of revenue and that the terms of the tederal compact being thus clearly violated, South Carolina might, a8 one of the original parties, SECEDE FROM THE UNION, These ominous signs of violent political strife and perhaps of civil war did not dispose the iriends of protection to relax irom the advantages they had obtainea. They were on the contrary in- clined to its unqualified support and to object to all alterations and amenaments, South Carolina preneeed to carry out her doctrine of nullification y open resistance to the laws, which opposition ‘was attributed to the influence of those anxious to elevate Calhoun to the Presidency. ‘To strengthen their cause resort was had to the agency of a national convention. It met at Philadelphia on the last day of September, 1831. Fifteen States were represented by 195 delegates. A resolution offered to the effect that @ provecti ari? was unconstitutional was moved by Mr. Gallatin to be , but on thirty-five voted in favor the propssl jon, = An addresa to the le of the United States was adopted @ Jergo m@ority. 4 committer, commugt a | thonal and voids that it would be unlawiul for any | Stated that Congress having by a recent act so | and “son, img of one from each. State, prepared a memorial to Congress. An oppposition national convention met in New York the foliowing Month. There were 500 members irom thirteen States and the District of Columbia present. Alter @ session of a week they adopted an address to the People, and followed tie example of the Philadel- | phia Convention by P gress. In ine meantime every device of pleading | and litigation was put in requisition to defeat the Tariff law, since violence and bloodshed were to be avoided as iar as was practicable. South Carolina was sanguine, however, that matters would never Teach this issue, as in the event of a THREATENED CIVIL WAR rellance was placed on the sympathies of all the Southern States, and it was thought that the other States, trom a similar belief, would be prevented irom driving tue dispute to that extremity. The representatives of South Carolina in Coagress publisied o& manifesto to the eople of that State, which was echoed an address and resolutions of the eltizens of Charleston, They said:—‘The crisis has arrived, ‘the Twenty-second Congress has adjourned and the majority have, by their tust act (so tar as depends on them), sealed your destiny.”? They said they had aremedy lor the wrong and asked the people whether they would submit or apply the remedy, They concluded with several resointions, which were to arrest the operation of | the Tarif act in south Carolina; thanked their representatives in Congress; invited the call of a convention Of the peopie of the state, and pledged themseives to vote forno member of the Peginia- ture who would not favor @ convention. They deprecated @ resort to violence and treated it as a Phantom ‘conjured up by avarice and ambition to alarm the timid,” and declared their readiness to Mcet any consequences, ‘The Legislature, when it met, authorized by iarge, majorities a call for a convention. That body accordingly assembled in November, 1833, Alter a session of three days they reported an ordinance declaring the revenue laws of Congress then in force to be unconstitu- onicer of the state or of the Untted States to coil- lect such duties; that the validity of this law shouid vot ke called into question B Sey 900 tO law or equity, and that pepsons olding offiée unter South Carolina shouid take an gath to en- force this ordinance on pain of removal, and ties declared that tney would maintafn the dfdinance at every hazard, They jurther anounced that they Would not suomit to force, dnd they would con- Sluer thé measures of $e general government to coerce the State gudeniorce the turiff as incon- sistent witg thelr longer continuance in the Union, and that they would forthwith proceea TO ORGANIZE A SEPARATE GOVERNMENT, The ordinauce-was adopted by 136 votes to 26, The Legislature passed a law to carry the ordi- Dance into effect, the provisions of which, If en- forced, could not jail to bring about a collision with the federal authorities, Matters had now Teached that point when ii neither party gave way, of whicn there seemed no probabiity, the questi: could only ve decided by physical jorce. Ail the States then looked on with lively interest, and the suvject was /ully discussed in seve. al of the Legis- , latures, A very large majority of them, by decisive votes, did not hesitate to condemn the course of South Carolina and to deny the nullitication ot a jaw of Congress by a State to be the right remedy Jor a supposed violation of the coustitution. Mas- sachusetis, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylva- | nig, Deiaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Ken- tucky, Indiana and ‘feunessee ail took this course. Lven the State of Georgia, which, like South Caro- a Nonon Cay, opposed the taruf and had pro- Ose vents CONVENTION OF THR SOUTHERN STATES, for the purpose of devising some mode 0. ooraining reliet from re pnered @ resolution declaring that | they abhorred the doctrine of nuilification, A | sunilar course was pursued by Alabama. The Legisiature of Virginia acted differently. It passed resolutions earnestly requesting South Carolina to | rescind the ordinance of the late Convention of | that state. With equal earnestness it urged Con- gress to modily tue tari so as to reduce the reve- | nue to the proper expenditure of the government, The South Carolina Convention having been again called, in consequeuce of the mediation of Vir- | ginta, the deiegates, after a short deliberation, | | passed another ordinance, in which it was reduced and mourtied the duties upon foreign importations as substantially to reduce the Tevenue so as to meet the necessary ex- pense of the government tt was resolved tuat the ordinance nulliiying certain acts of Vongress should be repeaied, provided that tue act amend- ing the militia laws of the State snould remain in force until they were modified oy tne Legisiature. During the controversy President Jackson tssued @ proclamation to the people of Suuth Carolina, announcing his firm resofution to have ail the laws of the United States enforced and respected and ‘hat be would use all the power oi the gov- ernment for tunis purpose. There was no mistak- ing Jackson’s attitude, and the people of south Carolina, knowing the character of the man, recognized the futtity of following | in ‘the path they had marked out for themselves, ‘The President’s proclamation was | THE DEATH KNELL OF NULLIFICATION and secession, This Memorable compromise, which seemed on the point 0: an appeal to arms, unequal as the contest would have been. gave general satisfaction to the naiion. After soothing the pride of the uulifers, as 16 Was practically » concession to their demands, it enabled taem to sce what their excited passions had prevented them from perceiving—that th-y Lad esvaped a sastrous deteat, unsupported as they were vy a Majority of any State in the Union, and tt grati- fied tne friends or peace, law and order that tne | extreme and odious use of force was no longer necessary. The effects 0! national conventions ta times when new and strange conditions of affairs ‘exist in the country was illustrated during the | bullification episoue in our history. And the part | the Legisiatures—composed of men coming fresh and directly irom the people—toox had a poweriul influence in bringing the controversy to apeu Jul and satisiactory termination. SOUTHERN COMMISSIONS, During the intense excitement that prevailed Pending the measures ior the aumission of Cali- Jornia into the Union, and the pussage of the | Fugitive Slave law in 1860, @ convention oi the Southern States assemblea at Nashville June 3, of | that year. The attendance was not large, but it | ‘was ‘composed 01 some of the abiest men in that | section. Mr. Sharkey, of Mississippi, who pre- | sided, stated that the object was not to mature measures ior the protection Of the rights of tne People of the South, but to preserve the govern- | ment. It was not called to dismember, but to resenting a memoria! to Con- | | the Stutes severally. protect the Union, He repelied the glander that they contemplated tue dissoiution of the confede- Tacy, and expressed a hope titat tue Union might be tue last thing to perish amid the universal wreck 01 matter. The resolutions adopted ai- firmed the claims of the Slavehuiding States adjourned, after a session of ten days, to meet six weeks subsequent to the ad- journment of Vongress, Another convention was | hed at Cuariesion, 8. C., June 11, 1854, lor ve pur- pose of devising means to promote the interests Ot the slaveholding states, The principal subject discussed was the propricty o1 constructing a railroad to the Pacific by a Southern roate, The Convention Was uoanimous in the opmion that | the road ought to be built, and @ majority of tie deiegates were in favor of the work being per- furmed by the Southern States alone. Kesolutions were adopted recommending measures to be taken to secure the right of navigating tue river | Amazon, to promote maou/actures in the South and to open direct ntercourse with Europe. THE PRACE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF 1861. This pody assembied at Washiagton January 19, 1861, and it was menerany expected that its de- libétations would result in devising a peaceful means oi averting the civil war, which was then on the eve oi breaking out, ‘The first angry shot haa not yet been fired, and the Virginia Legisla- ture thought that if there was @ general conven- tion of all the States some plan of settlement would be reached. ‘They deprecated so dire a ca lamity a8 an internecine biooay struggle, and in- vited the sister commonwealths to unite in an earnest effort to secure adequate guarantees for securing the rights of all members gf the Union. Maine and Iowa were represented by their Con- gressional delegation: ‘ennessee, Ohio, Ren. tuoky, Indiana, Delaware, Illinois, New Jer- sey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusette, faeces Island and Missouri were represented by lelegates appointe by théir respec- tive Legisiatures; New Hampshire, er: moht, Conuecticut, Indiana, North Carolina, Maryland and Kangas were represented by dele- gates appointed by their respective Governors. ichigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Oregon were not represented. South Carolina, Fiorida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas had seceded previous to the meeting. Ex-President Tyler presided, Among the repre- sentatives present were William P, Meredith, 5. P. Chase, D. M. Barringer, D. D. Field, W. 8. Gro beck, Tho! Ewing, J. W. Grimes, G. S. Orth, OU. Butler, James G. Guthrie, W. C, Noyes, G. 0. Bron G. 0, Boutweil, Reverdy Johnson, Erastus Corning, R. M, Price, J, Wilmot, Robert PF, Stock- ton, General John E. Wool, ©. A, Wickliffe, and | many other distinguished men, The Convention remained in session until the 4th of the following month. The debates were able, protracted and Tather acrimonious. Many of THE BELBEYENTATIVES OF THR NORTHERN STATES yore disposed aud voted for compromise measures whité others mahifested unquaiified hostility to ranting any concession favorable to slavery. ‘he resoluttons adopted as peace measures ros vided ior the prohibition of slavery north of $6 deg. 30 min., and that no interierence should be made by Congress relative to the institution south of that line. That when any territory south of said line should contain a population entitling it to ® member of Congress, it should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery on an equal footing with the other States. That no territory should be acquired by the United States except for naval and commercial stations without the concurrence of & majority of all Senators where slavery is prohibited and allowed, nor should ter- ritory be acquired by treaty unless the votes of ‘the majority of each Class of Senators (North and South) be counted as a part of the two-thirds hecessary to ratitication, Slavery was not to be abolished in the District of Columbia without the consent of Maryland and compensating owners. The respective States were to make enactments to entorce the Fugitive Slave law, and in the event of viole nce being exercised successtully to prevent the Frendition of lugitive slaves compensation was to be allowed, A resolution against the right ef any State seceding was indefinitely postponed by a vote of nine to twelve, The only Northern State in the minority were New Jersey and Ohio, When the resolutions were offered tn Congress the secession movement had made some further prog- Tess and that body did not seem disposed to en- tertain peace propositions such a8 the Uonvention recommenied. A motion tos nd the roles for the purpose of receiving and considering the | the condition of the South, would recommend | and exaspe: Foagiutions wos pegatived agd no sugther ao! Was taken. In this way the Convention, from which 80 much was expected, finally ended. A few months later, and when actual hostilities were in progress, Mr. Fernando Wood, of this city, ofered @ resolution in the House of Representatives, authorizing the meeting of a national convention to take into consideration the condition of the coyntry to which all the States—North ahd South— were to be invited to send delegates. Mr. Wood’s | object was, if possible, to bring about peace. The resolution was tabled. * | NBOBSSITY VOR A NATIONAL CONVENTION. A nauonal convention that would assemble at | the present time to consider the war, its conse- | quences and results and how best the Union can | adjust itself to the new conditions it has left us, | would have the highest anu most patriotic duties | to perform. It would have to devise measures to avoid anarchy, a war of races and repudiation, toward which many of the Southern States are | drifting; it would have to suggest measures for | reconciling the imterests of the pegroes and | whites and establishing harmony between them, as, for either-weal or woe, the two peoples have to remain in the future side by side together, as they have in the past, and the policy which has been pursued since the close of the war of treating the Southern States as con- quered territory would in such a convention be condemned as one of the principal causes that has led to the existence of the present deplorable con- dition 01 atiairs, There are immense resources in the South only needing means for their develop- | ment, and industries that were destroyed by the war that could be readily revived by proper aid. ‘The prosperity that would tollow the restoration of order and the revival of business in the South | would be shared in by every part of the Union. But before this can be sccomplisned the negroes must be rescued from the bad iofiuence oi: the carpet-baggers and inspired with confidence in the frieudly intentions and sincere good will of their | white fellow citizens. The freedmen should pe en- couraged to acquire property and become iree- holders as the vest means of giving them an inter- est in good and economical government. The cor- Tupt and in some cases illegal State governments should be put aside and the best men, white and black, intrusted with the administration of the Jaws. i st THE QUESTION OF SUFFRAGB isone that requires most careful consideration. The States have no power to make color or race an impediment to the right of voting, but they can establish qualifications alike for both races, as is the case at present in Rhode Island, where the | possession of a certain amount of property is a necessary requisite to exercise the right of suf- frage, A similar law in the Southern States would be productive of the highest possible amount of good, and would in a short time hurl from power | the adventurers and illiterate negroes who have robbed, ruined and disgraced the states in which they have had control. Governor Kershaw, one of | the most prominent conservatives in South Caro- ina, May be accepted as expressing the views of the educated whites in the following language used in @ letter recently written by him:—‘To secure co- | Operation between the biacxs and whites the | honest colored people should be invited toa full share in public offices. The power intrusted to us should be administered without favor or prejudice, | soas to secure the best iterests of the whoie | peo le, an’ to protect equally ta the enjoyment of | is just rights every citizen, however high or hum. | ble, ana promote the weliare of all alike so far as may come witin the sphere of the government. | Upon such principles only can harmony and good | government be secured in the present state of suctety here, Co-operation in this good work would lead to matertal dependence, respect and good will aud tend more to the elevation and development ol the colored peopie than all other possible pedients.” This language, coming trom a dist guished Southern man, shows how willing the edu- | cated classefyare to do justice to the negro, and | places at fault the views of those who attribute | to them a desire to keep the blacks in a degraded | condition. in caliing @ national convention all pariy lines should be ignored and past failures, errors and mishaps forgotten._ All good citizens, without regard to political leanings, should unite in the cause of order, honesty, intelligence and virtue in the governnient of the Southern States, Nothing but disaster to the South can be looked ior a8 matters now stand, and there is no way of | avoiding 1t except through the wisdom of a na- pons convention, which should be calied without | elay. THR CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION—1787. The National Convention of 1787 was assembled with tne great object of framing a system of gov- ernment jor the united interests of the thirteen original States by which the forms and spirit of Tepublican liberty could be preserved. The autuority of the revolutionary Congress was undefined and it found itself unable to entorce its will except through State action and State omicers. The necessity of some clearer specitica- tion of Congressional powers sdon became urgent and led to the adoption of articles of coniederation, which were assented to by These articies did not con- cede the full measure of authority essential to the vigor and effictency of the government, the estab- lisnment of public credit and the preservation of jJaith with public creditors, An army could not be kept in the field on a permanent footing, capable of hoiding the enemy in check. ‘The crty of New York tell into the hands of that enemy, the inter- Mediate conntry between this city and Philadel- phia was overrud, and (rom the latter capital, the ety oA the general government, Congress was | oblige TO FLY BEFORE THE INVADING FOE. H Taught by these events that a near intimate | union was necessary to the deliverance of the coun- | try irom a foreign yoke a convention of delegates | from the States was therefore caled, as sug- | gested by Hamilton, on the recommendation of | Congress, to prepare amendments to the articles of coniederation, It met in Philadelphia, May, 1787, and organized by electing General Wasn- irgtou President. The Convention was a body of great and disinterested men, competent, both moraily and intellectually, to the work assigned them. They were conspicuous for their profound theories and their acute perception of principles; tur comprehensive patriotism, justice and mag- nanimity. They were fully impressed with the | idea that the States had mutual interests; that each of them had relations with the others, and with the rest of the word, which its separate and unaided ree wae unable to manage with suc- cess; and that even its own internal peace and prosperity required some external protection. weing satisfied that something beyond mere amendments to the agreement then in force was | required, the members proceeded to frame | a vew constitution, which was completed | and agreed ‘upon September 17, 1787, and submitted to convention of each State for ratification, it being provided that the ratif- cation of nine States would be sumMicient for its es- | tablisnment between the States so ratitying. Kleveu States, at the end of July, 1788, aneond | tionally adopted the constitution, five of taem | proposing amendments for the consideration of the first Congress that would assembie under it, and | one o1 the five calling Jor a second general conven- tion to act upon the amendments desired, NORTH CAROLINA AND RHODE ISLAND held aloof for some time, wnt finally assented in due form, The federal government, Lowever, was fully organized and put in operation, nnder she cou- stitution, March 4, 1789. The constitution contains within atself @ provision for the calling of iuture conventions for amenament or revision, but none has hitherto been called; the amendments thus far having been ali made under another provision by which Congress proposes and the States ratify. ‘The Convention had no power to enact or estab- lish anything. It was a representative body clothed with authority to agree upon a system of government to be recommended to the adoption of their cunstituents, In like manner a national convention, called at the present time to consider measures to be afterward given the iorce of law by | competent authority. OPINIONS FROM VIRGINIA. |“ -———— Governor Wise on the Results of the Rebellion—“Reconstruction is Destruce- | tion.” RICHMOND, Sept. 7, 1874. The proposition of the HERALD to call a national convention for the purpose of considering the war, its causes, consequences and results, and how best the Union can adjust itself to the new condition of affairs, has attracted a good deal of attention among the leading politicians and statesmen of the South, It is very favorably discussed and seems to meet the general approbation of the really con- servative men of this section. As a proof of this I called on no less a distinguished gentleman than Governor Henry A. Wise, in his law office, to whom | Thanded a copy of the HERALD of the 4th inst., | with the request that he would read the leading article and give me his views upon the proposi- tions treated of in it. He carefully perused’ the editorial, and, without any further preliminary conversation in reply to the general inquiry of what his views were, the Governor answered:— Views of Governor Wise. A “called session of Congress” wag to be depre- cated, There ts no condition of fhe South which calls for any extraordinary measure of the sort. Any extraordinary exertion of federal power will, just now especially, exaggerate any existing evils fe all the antagonisms which threaten collision, The South nas been seven years im the exhausted receiver of politics, and very naturally kes some throes for breath. True and patriotic poticy will give her a littic air of freedom, and as soon as that is mhaled she will, first of all, herself seek repose and need be only let alone. Drive off the vultures and vermin and she can be resuscitated in a reasonable time. Constabulary force is suMlcient without the order- ing or stationing of any military force by the federal authority. The latter should never be | resorted to but when called for by the federal {adges, or bey State executive and judicial power, in vases of serious insurrection,’ where the laws, State and federal, cannot be exe- cuted without military force, It 18 quite assured that the late outrages were local and ought not to be magnified peyond the proportions of mobs or mere Lynch law violence, Tne North isso settled and sufficiently guarded by police thas it seems to forget ‘that for all time in the history of the frontiers and of sparsely populated pes of our territories, Lynch has ever been je | the folly of proposing to elect a “Harlequin of Fa- | deny that we have had some bad legisiators, as | fair vote recorded, which was not done in 15’ | hazards. I happen to know that Governor Kellogg | $100. | police jurors; and it is a good thing that the « ms but by good men combining for whenever o Sanek bad men banded for ‘alechlel, desolated war oatiaws Plunder in “ine "South, se ae 10" must some margin - wed to the only means of protection oF Sienna | and property. Not that Lynch should be recog- | as free to become and continue to be an 00; but the fact of his eficiency ought to | be rved by giving authority by law to select bodies of the posse comttatus in every desolate, wild and frontier settlement—organize and arm a chosen home police in every community needing it. | Just let it be understood that the Stave Executives will be supported promptly by the President in keeping peace und order, and an organized local posse, Well selected, will be all the guard required, | To allow “a WAR OF RACES” to enter mto the political arena Dow is nothing | short of infamous fraud and a national folly worse than “judicial blindvess.” If General Grant | has any aspirations for @ third term, | and if he were base enough to use such a& step in the ladder of it 1s hard to see how it can be mad policy. By doing simple justice to the | defending and guarding its peace and industry he can make !t unanimous ip Bis favor; for if a long-.| ing ‘or a third time be Casarism the South 1s made to suffer and dread something worse—Neroism! The hot, strong, commanding despot may be bad enough; but no Cxsar was ever half as bad as a “fiddling Nero” or @ malignant Caligula. If the nation will only forget and iorgive the South for tof his uth aod | naticsm’? a8 a choice of evils over a civil war Pres- ident itis hardly probable that tne like will be done again, LOUISIANA'S - CONDITION. —.——— Attorney General Field’s Political Opin- fons—Kellogg’s Efforts for Peace—The Alleged Compact of the ‘White League.” A reporter of the HERALD yesterday called to see | Attorney General Field,* of Louisiana, whose de- cisions in the State have been accepted generally as fair by both the democrats and republicans. | The Judge wasfouna at the St. Nicholas Hotel, where he is temporarily sojourning. He is a native of Kentucky and impresses one favorably as being @ specimen of the old time Southern gentlemen, urbane, erudite, unpretending. He received the HERALD representative very courteously, and something like the following conversation en- sued:— ReporTer—Judge Field, I should like you to give your views as to the situation in your *tate—your ideas in regard to the political outlook ? Judge FigLp—That is bad, very bad, T will not ; you have at the North. Many acts have been passed which stould never have been en- grossed upon the statute books; but, in the | main, there has been no reasonable cause fog complaint. Nocwithstanding all reports to the contrary, however, I confidently assert that Louisiana is republican by from 25,000 to 30,000 majority, and the whole desire now is to have a 72, The “White League,” so calied—co-operating with the old Ku Klux—apparently do not desire this, and thus the strife between the law-abiding citizens and the lawless element. RerorTeR—Under what pretence do the opposi- tion array tnemselves? Judge KrELD—Under the pretence of bad gov- ernment they seek to carry the elections at all has used his best endeavors to conciliate the fac- tions—he bas even bestowed offices upon some of their leaders; but they will be satisfied with nothing short of the overthrow oi the present Legislature and government and tne installation os Hobnery and the officers elected, as they claim, a RevorTER—Have any white men of power and influence reiused to joi these revolutionists, this “White League ?”” Judge FIELD—Many, I will name among this class one of the largest planters below New Or- Jeans, Mr. EMingham Lawrence, aad Judge Taylor Beatty, of the parish of Assumption, who is Judge of the Fitteenth Judicial District, This latter gen- tieman has published nis reasons for so declining. REPoRTER—These persons certainly cannot be | termed “carpet-baggers 1” Judge FIRLD—No. But.every person who is a republican and advocates republican retorm is termed a “carpet-bagger.” ReporRTER—It seems, however, that the property more igh the fleids and pigntations are | satisfaction to the backw his ambition, | holders of Louisiana have good reason to cumpiain ol the burdensome taxation, Judge Fieup—Very true. I will explain this. The first Legislature that met after the war und Anarew Johnson’s proclamation were nineteen- twentieths democrats. They found ail the levees destroyed, lands overNowed and general devasta- tion and ruin, They went to work vigorously, issued large amounts of bonds, called Levee Bonds, to build these again, and five to eigbt millions of dollars of this class of securities were sold in the open market, the money was squandered, the Jevees were badly recullt and the overflows soon destroyed them. Then additional issues were authorized under the Warmoth government of 1868, and the indebtedness for levee and railroad purposes increased to ten or twelve mullions of dollars. The crops failed successively for several ears, farms became dilapidated and worth- less, the people were overwhelmed with dept and general bankruptcy impended. The taxation increased to twenty-one mills per This was the amount of State tax levied when Kellogg became Govern Now mark the improvement, The last Legislature passed a law reducing taxation to fourteen and a hall mills per $100, and the republican government, determining | to reform the abuses, attacked successfully the previous fraudoient issue of bouds in the Courts, ana withtn the last tweive months thé State nas been relieved of a great portion ef her responsi- bility for acts of former reckless administrations, REPORTER—That seems clear; but why do not the good men of alt parties join you to consum- | mate these reforms? Judge FIELD—'They Will not do so, although we | have irequently invited them so todo, Our elec: | tion comes off in November. We elect a State ‘Treasurer, one half oi the Senate, the entire House | of Representatives, sheriffs, parish judges and ane forcement act’? permits us to have the assistance | ol the United States trvojs to protect the marshals | iu preserving order and to have a fair vote re- corded, REPORTER—What is the natore of the “WHITE LEAGUE,” of which you so often speak ? | The Judge here took irom bis pocket a copy of the New Orieans Repudlican, 01 date August 13, and pointed to an expos?, which 18 startling if true. Some of the sections run as follows:— We enter into and form this league for the protection of our own race aguinst the daily increasing encroach. | ments of the negro, and are determined to use our best endeavors to purge our legislative, judicial and mints- terial offices from such a horde of miscreants as now assume to lord it over us. ‘That to accomplish, this end we solemnly pledge our honor to each other to give our hearty support to all that this league may determine by a inajority of votes | cast at any regular meeting, and to aid to the utmost of our ability in carrying out such measures as it may +f white man for hig political opinions so that he join us in the one grand object we may have in view. At Alto, on the 11th of July, the following was adopted: That we regard it the sacred and political duty of every member -of this club to discountenanee and socially progcribe all white men who unite themselves with the radical party, and to supplant every politcal opponent in all his vocations by the employment and support of those who ally thetmaelves with the wiite man’s party, and we pledge ourselves to exert our ereiee ANG ues OOF mneRDs CO the cousummating of this lop That we do not reject or condemn an} The following ts from an address to colored people in tue Natchitoches Vindicator of July 18:— ‘The white people intend to carry. the State election this fall. This intention 19 deliberate and unalterable, from the fact that their very existence depends upon 11, and that you may enjoy tae blessings which will uatu- Tally follow such an event—biewsings made doubly sweet when you know you were partly instrumental in bri ing them about, we aesire your co-operation, and we stmply ask you will you assist in’ redeem. ing your State from the gradation and ruin she now isin, or will you follow stil the advice of those who have placed her thus! Take time to answer it, and let your mind, should you decide affirmatively, be at rest Tor your future weliare and happiness, We propose to do tof you more tha! ny party ou. On the other hand, You imay eaching of your former rule’ ‘orrect, and you elect to attam pt, for tt will only be an attempt, to continue their rule— then you must take the consequences. For we tell you now, and let it be distinctly reme that you have fair Warning, that we intend to carry the State of Louis- jana in November next, or she will be a military terri- to And again:—_ It @ singlo hostile gun is fired between the whit blacks in this and surrounding parishes, every oa bagger and scalawag that can be caught will, in twelve hours therefrom, be dangling from atimb. We do not st in irit of braggadocio; we say itin the inter- ace, and we know what we are falking about e BS PRESS COMMEN’ TS. inland An Appeal to the Herald. {From the Columbus (Ga) Index.] We appeal to the HERALD, as brethren cry in distress, not to exert its vast influence against us, but to see what we have to encounter, what we have to endure, to. note with what patience we have hitherto borne our wrongs, and give us the aid of ats kindliness and sympathy. We did not sirst acnw the race line; tt was the carpet-bagger who taught exclusive union to the negro on the basis of color, All our troubles come from the carpet-bagger and the renegade “scalawag,” and ‘wo will yet have @ reckoning with them in which shall be the force and power of vengeance, Intimidatie: emed @ necessary American regulator. Neighborhood outrages, in the ‘ absence of magistrates and sherifa and bad amemn cquid nos be prevented or punish {From the Norfolk Landmark.) Grant can do without the scalps of the bordian rofana. but he cannot do without the votes of the | Jury, how serving in the States; the latter must be had Southern the former be lost, and it must certainly be some men, who see the military forces of their government withdrawn from the defence of thelr wives and children, to know that they are te be used for the patriotic purpose of mtimidating their white brethren o} e South. A Favorite Project. (From the New Haven Palladium.) We are glad to see that the H#RALD, which just now is busily engaged in trying to get up @ na- tional convention of peace and reconstruction does not contemplate any indemnity to the old Slave masters; for that, 1t says, would be “impos- Sible and impracticable.” This is reassuring. But 43 it insists We must make some substantial repa- ration to the sourh—what it calls “some earnest, Iraternal, generous aid in the work of reconstrue- tion” —perhaps it may intend placating the South- ern whites by proposing that the federal govern- ment should assume their State debts. This 18 @ favorite project with some of the Southern politi- fans, among others ex-Governor Walker, of Vir- ginia, who 1s to be sent to Congress to advocate it, Broad, Cath (From the Lynchburg Republican.) To the exclusion of editorial and miscellaneous reading matter, we give place this morning to the leading editorial in Friday's issue of the New YoRK HERALD, under the caption of “Let us Have Peace and Reconstruction—both Sides of the Southern Question.” The subject is treated in a broad, | catholic spirit, and the conciustons arrived at are worthy of the thoughtiul consideration o! the peo- | ple of the whole country. “Retribution and Compensation.” {From the Atlanta Constitationalist.) We be'ieve in the triumph of jastice, and also that retribution and compensation are prime fac- tors in the government of the world, The South is.in the flery furnace of amiiction! but the North will not be spared punishment, The more we are ruined the more shall they be rutned finally, Al- ready one of the chief cities of the West has begun to feel the evil results of a pollution of the right | of suffrage. Justice to the South. (From the Lynehburg Virginian.) The HERALD proposes @ remedy for these troubles that 1s cntirely new, and may be recetved in the North with something o/ derision. Never- theless the point it makes is well taken, and the means it suggests to bring about a better under- Areading between the sections by first Polng: ie tice to the South strikes us as plausible an to- gether right. A Utopian Suggestion. {From the Richmond Despatch.) ‘The HARA. calls earnestly for a national con- vention to consider this great absorbing question ol the day. We conswer Its suggestion altogether utopian. Ifwe cannot get wisdom, statesman- ship and concession out of the national Congress chosen by the people, we cannot see how it ts to be found in a national convention chosen by the same people. But the question is with the North. Unquestion- ably they have the elephant political. What they shall do with him is their question. We have po power In the premises. We have suffered greatly; and have learned how to suffer. Let our northern fellow citizensgo avead, There must be an end to their unstatesmanlike and vicious legislation. This fost a has been postponed, Coty § to the discomfiture 01 the South and the injury of the whole nation, but we have mot lost hope, and are to-day more cqnvinced than ever that the end will soon come, to the general joy of the nation. The Herald Wishes to Save the North. {From the Richmond Whig.) The HERALD, on the other hand, in an able and vigorous article of two columns, containing many truths and many failactes, calls for a “national convention of peace and reconstruction.” The HERALD discourses at large on the failure of recon- struction and the mischiefs it has wrought at the North as well asthe South. As for a remedy it says:—“It 1s idle to talk of military power to keep the peace. It would be an expense, an offence, @ scandal, a burden that could not be borne, & violation of the genius of our institutions.” “1s would certainly be better in the interests of civili- zanon and liberty to have two coniederacies, governed by statesmen of honor and character, Who respected credit and sacred, obiigation, than such a Union as we certainly shalf see 11 South Car- olma and Arkausas are permitied to drag these federal States into the abyss of bankruptcy.” “Have we not imposed too heavy a fine upon the South as a consequence of the war? Have we not punished ber, though a sister Commonwealth, ten ‘umes more severely than France was punished by the alien Invader?’ “Should not some compensa- tion be made to the South for this enormous fine ? There 1s certainly an evil in the South which we have not reached. Weare rapidiy arifting upon chaos, disorder, a war of races, repudiation, itis the money view on which be HERALD lays the most stress, The most productive portion of the Union being desolated, the bankers and mer- chants of New York begin to tee the effects. It is hot that the HERALD cares anyching lor the South, but it wishes to save the government and the North from bankruptcy. THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY WHIPPING CASE. The Testimony Taken by the Coroner Sent to the Grand Jury—Dismissal of Charles Barnard. It will be remembered by the readers of the HERALD that attention was called a short time | since in its columns to the death of a little Italian boy named Joseph Vandeuser, who was an inmate of the Five Points House of Industry. At the in- vestigation instituted by Coroner Croker, to learn | how the boy came to his death, testimony was. elicited from credible witnesses tending to show that the youthiul Italian was cruelly woipped by Charles Baruard, an oMcer cognected with the House of Industry. He was’ subséquently removed to the residence of lus parents, where he | died. The verdict of the Gorofer’s jury was that the boy came to his death by diarrhea, aggravated by | want of proper care in ‘the early stages of the disease, and his subsequent improper removal from the hospital. Coroner Croker, however, felt it to be bis duty to hold Mr. Barnard to await the action of the argue jute ot GOtENt with rendering the above verdict, the Coroner's jury immediately indicted the sab- joined communication to Mr. Phelps :— New York, Sept, 5, 1874. Hon. Bens. K. Pueves, District Attorney :— Sin—In rendering the verdict which we did yesterday in the inques: on tue death of Joseph Van Deuser, before Coroner Croker, we intended it to be understood that our opinion Was, the catse oi the death of the child was from diarrboa, followed by improper treatment, and ihe removal of the chid by its mother from the hospital, ana Rot by whipping d by Charles Barnard, as the Coroner charged. We were surprised to see by the apers that after our yerdict the Coroner insisted on eoping Mr. Barnard in the Tombs, even refusing to receive bail. We ard the action of the Coroner im this particular as wrong and unjust, and, in our opinion, you ee lose no time in directing the discharge of Mr. jarnard, Louls W. Jocham, Foreman; John Slavin, Henr; Pinding, J.D. Templé Hersey, Di J. Marrener, ‘Amos Lyon, Cornelius W. Bliss, Willtam Sutherland, G. W. Pe a Edmund 8. Bulli, Henry Elworth, &. H. Cam ell. ‘the testimony taken before the Coroner was submitted by the District Attorney to the Grand General Sessions, and yesterday tuat body came tuto court with the papers, dismissing the complaint against Mr. Bar- It 1s said that this verdict was unanimous; but as the proceedings of the Grand In- quest are secret there is no way of sub- Stantiating this rumor, If such was the verdict if it somewhat trange that the Grand Jury should nave entirely ignored dence which led the Coroner to believe tl ends of justice demanded his holding Mr. Barnard, It is a somewhat significant circumstance, too, that the day after the rendition of the verdict by the Coroner’s jury officials rom the House of Indus- try were seen at the Coroner's office, eager to ob- tain the names of the citizens Who bad composed the jury. THE DEATH or MR. COMSTOOK, Early yesterday morning Ooroner Croker held an imquest over the remains of Mr. Gilbert H. Comstock, the gentleman who died at his late residence, No. 12 Livingston place, from the effects of an overdose of morphine, which be had taken by mistake for the p se Of allewating pain, he having suffered acut from kidney disease and also from neuralgia The evidenee of Mrs. Com- stock, in regard to her busband’s death, corro- s porated substantially the report jously pub- lished in the H#RaLD, The jury rendered a verdict of death by accidental Comstock in Mr. was 47 years of age and @ native of this city. “OITY TREASURY, Comptroller Green, reports the following (im bursements and receipts of the treasury:— DISBURSEMENTS. number of warrants 104, amounting. Claims paid, WO. vagsveve was sesoriss . pee $59,521 vayrolia, number of warrants 72, amounting iss ae Fa Total, warrants 176, From taxes of 1874...... From arrears of taxes, From ficensen Maar’ office. ; From lcsnses; ac. Department Public arks., 004 08 Total. see sees 6 MOTE