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THE REPUBLIC.
THK AHUI CTION CASK.
Juan Francisco Hkt, alias Garcia
Before Ike Hon. Geo. Y Bright, Second Justice qf llu
Peace, and M M. Coken, U. S. Commueioiur
SEVENTH DAY?Saturday, Aug 4.
This case was resumed at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Mr. Cohen informed the court that he
had received a letter from Mr. Hunlon, U. S. district
attorney, statins that he could not attend., but
would be represented by his partner, E. A. Bradford,
esq.
J. Kichardson, a Balize pilot, was first called.
Recollects the last time the Mary Ellen went out.
It was on the 6th of July, about 6 o'clock in the
morning. Was on board about an hour and a half.
Saw two persons whom he took to be passengers
on board. One was a small-sized, delicate-looking
man; look him to be a Spaniard. His complexion
wm very light; did not hear him speak, and does
not recollect precisely how he was dressed. Wit
ness reinemtwru ihitf he hxd ? lii'hlhaton. hilt does
? ?- ? -o ?~
not know what kind of a hat it was. Saw him on
deck just before leaving the vessel, and saw him go
down to breakfast with the other passenger and
the captain Witness went below afterwards, and
saw the two passengers at breakfast with the captain.
The other passenger was a stout-built man. Did
not notice any restraint upon the actions of either
passenger. The small man was very observant.
Hud he been in any distress, and needed assistance,
witness would have rendered it to him. He might
have jumped on board of witness's boat if he hadwanted
to do so. There were six men on board of
witness's boat. Witness does not speak Spanish.
Some of witness's crew were on board the Mary
Ellen. There were but two white men among witness's
crew; witness does not recollect them.
Crot?-examintd by Mr. Warjitld.?Does not recollect
what kind of a coat, vest, or cravat, the
small passenger had on. He had neither whiskers
nor moustache. Judged that he was a Spaniard,
from his hat, his dress, and his countenance. Did
not hear him speak, and does not know whether
the captain spoke to him or not when they went to
breakfast. Does not know any of the officers of
the Mary Ellen except the captain. Had never
taken her to sea before. Merely supposed the two
persons at breakfast with the captain were passengers.
Would not recognise the persons if he were
to see them. Has known Capt. McConnell by
X11 three or four years. Does not recollect upon
t house the order for the pilotage was given.
The order was given to the clerk at the Balize Did
nnf nnltrii ?ilKpr nf thp npQopntrprs nriftl Hp hflfi
been on board twenty or twenty-five minutes.
Witness does not recollect the name of the white
men on board ins boat. Could not swear positively
that there were any white men on board. The
boat's crews are changed so often.
By Mr. Collens?It is usual when a vessel is going
out for all the crew to be on deck, and they are
generally very busy.
Duquesney, the chancellor, or secretary of the
Spanish consul, was called, and Mr. Cohen then
read a paper that the court had determined not to
receive in evidence, the alleged copy of Rey's declaration,
made before Don Carlos de Espafla. Noproof
of the existence of any original had been adduced.
By Mr. Collent.?You have stated that Garcia
mode three visits to the consul's office. Tell us
what occurred at the last visit. Witness.?1 only
saw him passing through the corridor on his way
up atairs. It was on the 3d or 4th of July. Witness
saw no more on that occasion. Garcia was
alone. Witness made out a passport for Garcia.
The consul came to witness on the 5th of July, between
2 and 3 o'clock, and told him to make a passport
for Don Pedro Murga y Romeo. The name
was first understood to be Grunca, and when he
said it was Murga, Mr Reynolds objected and said
the books must be produced. Judge Bright said
that question had been settled, and Mr. Foulhouze
contended mat me boons couiu not oe caneu tor.
Mr. Cohen said that the witness bad, he thought,
altered the name at the suggestion of the consul for
the defence. Judge Bright remarked that it was
better to let the witness go on and u-slify to the best
of his knowledge and belief, and the examination
proceeded.
Witness gave the passport to the consul. The
consul had given direction to make out the passport
in that way. The directions came in a letter from
the secretary of the captain general of Cuba. The
letter in question was here produced by the counsel
for the defence, and was identified by the witness.
Mr. Dufour objected, unless the signature was
proved
Hy Mr. Calient?The consul corresponds with
Sr. Siandeval, the secretary.
Witness knows his handwriting. The letter is
his. Has seen his signature on passports, Ac.
The letter was here translated by Mr Foulhouze
and read to the court:
Havana, June 27.1S49
To Setter Don Cat ios it Esyonn.
My dear nr and etleemed friend: By yesterday *
I steamer I received your interesting letter, dated
June 19th and 20th I avail myself of the departure
of the other steamer to answer it. The point
at issue requires it, and tiere is not a moment to lose.
Should the man spoken of comply with whsi he
has offered, und should you decide to lei him come,
it will be proper to give htm a passport under o
supposed name, and to w rite to me at the same
time, in order that we may know it as soon as he
arrives, and lake all proper measures accordingly.
in ts*e he has not deported when you receive
I this Inter, have a care to aend him here at anon as
possible, giving him a passport under the name of
Don Pedro Muifi y Romeo. 1 will be prepared
from the very moment the vesael enters the mouth
of the port, though the receiving of his letter may
be deferred on account of obstacles in the post offi. < .
It is very important that the secret be kept, that
all remain wholly concealed, that he accelerate his
journey after having furnished you with ail the information
he can before hia departure, and under
the seal of eecresy. You must also advise him as
to the conduct he will have in observe during the
navigation, in order that he may remain unknown,
and that his arrival here be not divulged
As to vour being cited before a court, I have already
told you in my last that it aeema to me to be
very strange, and so it ia. You should not be an
anxious aa you app' ar to be about it, though what
happens to you ia very unpleasant
I will thar.k you lor a few numbers of that .Y?rrw
Ttltgrufo, which begins to speak I am desir
.us to know his opinion. You may direct it to me
under cover
It is altogether false that the general has either
sent or even thought of sending his resignation in
any way or manner. He ia well, &/ H much engaged
at work.
As you have written to me that our man will
leave by one of the vessels which are soon to sail
for here, I am on the watch for the first which shall
arrive. It will be of a great use for us to obtain
through this means some important information
about the foolish designs of the traitors, and you
will have rendered a great service
At hia arrival here, we will proceed ao that he
will have nothing to fe.ir, and in no way be discovered.
I he quarantine will not impede it.
Very respectfully, yours,
CRISPIN X. DE8ANDEVAL
After some argument, the court decided to receive
it in evidence The exam nation of the witness
was then resumed. Mr. Cohen naked him it
he had any record at his office ahich would show
how Garcia's pnssfiort was made out. Wuneai
baa a book of passports, in which that was copied
Witness has seen in the consul's office outer papen
relating to the Garcia affair.
A rw< kaee was here shown to the witness. Mr
I recognised IL It w?? received about 8 o'clock or
Thursday morning last, and wi? opened in thi
j.reaenee of witness It contained a letter from th?
secretary of the captain general, and alao a letiei
from Juan Garcia. One letter waa received fronr
the captain general. It waa aealed with the ofliria
veal The aame aeal 1a generally placed upon offi
eu?i doe.umeria la acquainted with 'I" aignaturi
of the captain general Haa eeen it often. Recog
rnae? that appended to the letter
Mr Thif. ur atated that the letter of the captan
general waa in reply to one from the conaul of th<
27th June, and he would call for thot letter. Th
letter waa tranalated by Mr. Foulhoure. It ac
knowledge* the receipt of Rey'a declaration, al
leged to have been taken before the conaul. Mi
Dufotir inaiated ufion having the letter of the 27th
liefore recurring to the one in court Judge Brigh
aid the court did not dictate to the defence aa t
what evidence tliey should produce If they choa
to aubmit Irrokrn linka of their chain of evidence
they could do ao.
Mr. Sandeval'a letter was here ahown u? th
witneaa
Mr fJ ifour again roue and objected decided*
to the re.epnon of the letter* in evidence H,n
cried boldly that "the lexers were all fabricated f
the ocraaion, and placed on board the Britii
aiearner on the 27ih of July, the day on which t
conaul waa abaerii from the court on the plea
ai'kneea " Mr Dufour continued at length, coi
men ting on the papers produced and the rumor
declaration of Key He contended that even
Rcy had made a declaration, there must have be
noma motive He had either made it with a promi
of reward or fear of punishment.
%
Vlr. Larue then addressed the court in regard to i
the letters, and the objection* of the prosecution to <
their admissibility as testimony.
Mr. Warfield followed in reply to Mr. Larue.
He contended that the proceedings against the consul
could have been known in Havana, and were
known, on the day the letters objected to were
duted, the 27th July. He stated that a letter was
received by La Patria from Havana, dated 27th,
mentioning the Rey affair, and stated that it was
well known throughout the city of Havana. The
brig Salvador* cleared from this port on the 20th,
the day the affidavit wus made, and could have carried
out the news
Mr. Collena contended that the Salvadora had
not arrived at Havana on the 27th, the day the
British steamer sailed.
Mr. Bradford continued the argument, objecting
to the admission of the letters on purely legal
grounds.
Mr Cohen then recapitulated the grounds upon
which the letters were offered and objected to,
slated that the court wus inclined to receive thedoc
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UIIICIHO IUI WIIUl illCJ WClt wu? ui, ? Q
sideration all the objections made. The letter from
the secretary of the captain genera to the "consul
was here translated. It is dated the 27th, and announces
the mile arrival of Garcia, and that he is
in quarantine.
Mr. Collens here offered again the declaration of
Garcia, which was ruled out at the commencement
of the examination. He contended that it should
be admitted, as the letter of Mr. Sandeval showed
that the original declaration had been received in
Havana.
Mr. Cohen did not think this fact was by any
means conclusive. It did not prove the existence of
am original, and this was the grand objection. The
do< umeni was refused, and the examination of the
witness wus resumed.
Witness lias seen Garcia's signature once. Saw
it on the declaration. The declaration was here
shown and the witness was asked if he knew the
signature. He was asked if that < the signature to
the declaration) was Garcia's. Witness thought it
was. Question objected to. Witness did not see
the document signed. Some argument followed,
and it was decided that no comparison with a signature
that was not proved genuine could be received
in evidence.
Mr. Collens asked the witness why the exorto
mentioned was sent back to Havana. He replied
that it was usual to send back ail documents of that
kind.
By .Mr. Dufour.? It was received on the 16th
May, and was returned on the 1st of June.
By Mr. Dufour.?Two or three days elapsed between
ilie first and second visits of Garcia to th#
consul's office. Does not recollect when he made
the first visit. The second was made on the 26th,
the day he made his declaration. When Garcia
came to the office the second time, he came with
Llorente, Ayala, and the consul. He saw the carriage
stop and saw the parties come in together.
The consul and Llorente were absent about half an
hour before they returned with Garcia and Ayala.
This was between 12 and 2 o'clock. Witness was
alone in the consul's office. Garcia appeared to be
very unxious. Witness did not hear any conversation
on the second visit. Mr- Ayala sailed for
Havana on the evening of the 27th, on the brig P.
Soule. Ayala was often in the consul's office.
Letters from the consul were entrusted to the cajv
tain of the brig. Knows of none being given to
Ayala. Does not think Ayala was sent to Havana
by the consul. Does not believe he was. Does
not know that Ayala received any money from the
consul. Never heard the consul mention any thing
of the kind. When the consul, Garcia, and the
others were in the consul's room on the second visit
of Garcia, Llorente came down for the official seal.
Llorente and Garcia remained up stairs alane some
minutes after the consul came down. It was before
the ani-wer received from Havana that witness
saw Mr Trescazes in the consul's office. Among
other things, the consul told Trescazes that he
wanted him to set a vigilar on certain persons.
WlUiess was busy when Treocozes came in. Didn't
pay attention when he went out. The consul returned
in a few minutes after they went into the
corridor. Does not know that they went up stairs
M. Trescazes, in company with another gentleman,
calltd at the consul's office more than six months
Creviously to this time. Witness thinks he would
are known it if the consul and Trescazes had gone
upstairs Jn answer to the txorlo of the captain
general, the consul staled to him that he would endeavor
to procure more information in regard to the
persons who had aided the escape of prisoners from
Havana. The consul told witness that he had
written for a pardon for Garcia. This was about
"the beginning of June. Captain McConnsll speaks
Spanish -, he often spoke it when he came into the
office in his (witnese.'s) presence. He generally
conversed with the consul in English. The letter
i had been Whig, il would have given ihem the Mini
I support. We coukl (urn over a file of ihe Union
- for four yearn poet, and find matter copied from the
? Sun, aa well aa matter eulogistic of the .Sun and
- the neutral preen, sufficient for an oriavo volume
! It waa then all honeat and well meant, we doubt
t not; but the Union'i opinion of the neutral preaa
e I now ia not honeat. It 1a the result of chagrin that
e thin neutral pre?* cannot controlled to partisan
, | ends Because the neutral preen aupported Mr.
I. Folk through the war, it by no meana followed that
; il waa and mutt be a politically Democratic preen
i, | Supporting the war and supporting the election of
it l^ewia f'aaa were two very different thing* The
o firnt we could do patriotically, theaecond we ahould
e have done hypocritically.
, It ia somewhat remarkable, that the whole neutral
prenn cornea up for Father Ritchie'a denunciae
lion It showa that it ia in unity, and that, aa the
reprenentative of the menace, both it and the manarn
y are opposed to the pet idean and schemes of the
a- Washington Union. Now, the Sun ia noi exactly
tit a neutral paper. It does not hall hthrrrn opinion*
?h Neutrality by no meana expresses ita true charue
he ier. The Sun in an independent paper. It holds to
of its right to express its opinion frankly and freely
n- , U|?on all questions of public interval?upon all sub'
ed jecta proper for newspaper discussion It may
if i commend a good measure, or condemn a had
en j wen sure in either party, without Incoming par'l
ae aan, or losing a particle of its indejiendencc.
And here we may add that the foul-mouth#dneai
concerning the passport was received on the 2d or
3d of July. Witness does not know when the answer
was sent hack. Thss consul has private correspondence,
which w^es* know* nothing about.
Does not know that Captain McConnell got letters
froir. the consul on his last trip. ? consul
a letter by the Mary Ellen in regard to
of New Orleans. He staled that there was 00
cholera Captain McConnell obtained a " clean"
bill of health. There were some notes on the bill
of healih, regarding cases of sickness in the hospital.
By Mr. Cohrn ?Witness does not know who paid
Garcta'a passage. The Mary Ellen was not chartered
by the consul, to witness's knowledge. He
(the consul) might have done it without witness's
knowledge. Capt McConnell came to the consul s
office the last time on the fifth of July. It was before
dinner He was there on the third. When
witness made out the passport he was aware that
he was inserting a fictitious name. The passport
contained a description of Juan Garcia. The consul
gave htm the description, and took the passport
away with him.
By Mr Collriu?Capt. McConnell brought this
manifest to the consul's office on the 3d of July.
Does not know to whom the goods were consigned.
Iti* not usual f.>r captains to give a list of their
passengers; the passengers are known at the office,
as they have to come lor their passports.
This concluded the examination of the witness,
and it being 10 o'clock, the court adjourned to
Monday evening at 5 o'clock.
From the .S'ev York Sun.
"They (the neutral papers) are a sort of guerilla
t?and in politics, which, however unprincipled
they may be in their common plunder of the public.
........_?,J W........ ... .....
Democratic party, as a aort of common foe, whenever
they have an opportunity. In conclusion, we
will only add that we have the moat sovereign contempt
for the whole hypocritical tribe of neutrals."
[ Wtuhington Union
The Washington Union is peculiarly independent
and courteous all at once. When did it first
make the discovery that the fnrrilln neutral papers
invsriably comqnit their depredations upon the
Democratic party, when there is an opportunity'
If the New York Sua is included in the category
of neutral papers?and it evidently is by the spirit
of the above parngraph?the Union once held a different
opinion. When, during Mr. Polk's administration,
the Sun stood boldly for the honor and
rights of the Union in retrnrd 10 the wsr, while the
1 Democratic partisan press was tongue-tied, then
i the Washington Union could not laud nor quote
from it too much. And so. too, in the days of
Texan annexation, the Union has made the air ring
i again snd sgsin with the praises of the neutral
presa. which it has styled the patriotic press, the
i republican press, the press of the peop'e, the inter
preter of the sentiments of the people
But the .Sun did not defend the wsr, nor sdvoi
cate annexation, simply ecausc they were mea!
sures of Democratic administrations, but because
> they were republican measures?measures of the
r oeonle. If the administration of those measures
i>l the Uniu* for months (mat ha* been a shameful
tsxatnple of (he prostitution of the prees. Time
was when Mr. Ritchie, as one of the nobility of
Virginia, v vould have scorned to fill the columns of
a public j( lurual under liia control with low slang.
Tne L'nioi i now vies in vulgarity with the "Flush,"
the "Whi p," and other extinct excrescences of the
press T nat it should fairly oppose the Administration,
v /ilh all its might, is natural; no one cau
find faul t with that; but when it descends to such
personal ilies as calling the Postmaster General
"Collatrier-Morbu*;" his assistant, Mr. Warren,
"Executioner-General;" and a Connecticut Senator
it chances to dislike, the ' Wooden-Nutmeg
Senator,"?it shows the lack of honest weupons
and editorial decency, and a readiness to adopt the
very guerillarism it lyingly charges upon the neutral
press.
THE HE PUB LIC.
WASHINGTON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 15, 1849.
' INDISPENSABLE REUNION."
We are watching with some interest the
movements of the two branches of the Democracy
in New York, preliminary to the
peace convention. From the resolutions
in the various districts, we are at a loss to
imagine what may be the result. The
politicians of the Butler school, who
have been living on the public for thirty
years, and cannot endure the idea of exclusion
from the offices, will fall in, perhaps,
with the principles of reunion recommended
by the ex-official organ. They
will agree to all mental reservations, and
perfect liberty of thinking on every subject,
and to recognise the name as the
only test of Democracy, without reference
to principles. Then there are some honest
Free-Soilers, who will adhere to the Van
Burens, and persist in their determination
to emancipate the Democratic party
from the control of the corrupt Richmond
clique, who broke down the elder Van
Buren in 1844. They will go into no
struggle based upon the idea of sharing
power with the Denbys, Masons, Ritchies,
and Stevensons. They are determined
to rescue the party from the
odium of a connexion which has broughl
so much disgrace upon the name worn b\
the followers of Mr. Jefferson, whose
principles have descended upon the present
Administration. Then there are the
Old Hunkers, who are willing to abandor
all tests, but they will never consent tc
give the "Free Democracy" that degree
of control by which they can take the
power of the party in the State; and the
Barnburners, thinking the Old Hunkers
have held and abused power long enough,
will probably agree to nothing less.
We find in the journals of the two sec
tions of the New York Democracy the
resolutions of the various local convert
tions, which seem to partake very strongl)
of the color of the respective prints in whicl
they appear. First, we turn to the A1
bany Jlr^us, the organ of the Old Hun
kers, and find that the Democrats in the
first Assembly district of Steuben county
have agreed that the Wilmot proviso quar
rel is a mere quarrel about goats' wool
and amounts to nothing; but they havi
also agreed to another resolution, whicl
seems to modify the effect of this under
standing. The latter is in the follow inj
words:
Keiolved, That we are opposed to the extenaioi
of alavery into territory now free, and are in favo
sf adopting every constitutional mrana for ita pre
that, in the opinion of this convention
veriuot.. ' .11. j
Con reaa haa "*? Powfr ,0 upon, and con
. eatabliah, slavery in free ter
sequenlly no |?ower to , a' '
ritorv acquired by the Unite.- u e*'
The Democratic convention Cf ^'rc
Assembly district of Krie county ha\"!
also passed resolutions, which we find ic
the.7r^t?. They are opposed to the Wil
mot proviso test, because they think ii
will break up and destroy the Democratic
party. We copy two of their resolutions
j Riwired, That our faith in the principles of the
Democratic party, as proclaimed and practised n
times past, remains unshaken; and, although rfe
feated in the last election, thai defeat was, in oui
opinion, the consequence of disaffection m our tun
party, and not from the popularity of the men o
doctrines of our opponents.
Resolved, That the points of difference betweer
the two sections of the Democratic jwriy aretheo
retical rather than practical; that although the ex
istence of slavery is considered by the people o
the free Slates without reference to party, as i
moral and political evil, that it is their duly as wel
as their privilege to express that sentiment througl
their representatives in Congress, yet we are op
posed to the incorporation into the creed of th<
Democratic party of the nation any new principle
or test upon the subject. We feel that such at
tempt would fail of its design, and, instead of ben
efiting any portion of our people by the action n
the General Government, it would break up am
destroy the Democratic party, and thereby poai
pone indefinitely any action upon that subject
which would be but one of the many evils const
quent upon ihe disorganization of the Democraii
party.
Now we come to the organ of the Barn
burners and their resolutions. The Al
bany Jllla* publishes the resolutions c
the free Democracy of Sullivan county
e ...l* l aL. r_ii :
ii um wnirii wf copy me ioiiuw nig.
Rrtolrrd. Thai the fearful iwrease in the numi*
j o( slaves in our country ia, in our judgment, th
natural and intvttable renult of the almost unlimite
extension of slave territory; that we regard slaver
' wan national, aortal, and political evil; and that, a
! a moral and religious people, we feel ouraelrt
bound to reaiat ita further extension
Rrtolrfd, That we conaider the queation aa to th
power of Congress to legislate upon the auhject i
I alavery in the territoriea of the United Statea, i
one that haa lieen long aettled, aa well by the de<
aiona of the Supreme Court of the United Stale
and the pannage of the ordinance of 1767, aa by tl
legislation of Congress for more than fifty year
aanctioned and approved aa it haa been by Jeffe
eon, Madison, Jackson, Van Buren,and Polk.
Rrtolrtd, Thai we regard na eminently juat ar
wiae the exerciee by Congress of that power, h
which Indiana, lllinoia, Wisconsin, Mirhiga
Iowa, and Oregon, have been forever secured again
the evila of alavery; and that we hold it to lie ti
high and aolemn duty of Congress to extend to ot
brethren in California and New Mexico the win
legislative protection lhat haa l>een thrown arour
irir* .111f.r11n ?n *rrr?OTi nnn rmrwnrrn.
kt*olx>fd, That, in our judgment, the success ar
fiermaneiit pronprrihr of the Democratic party r
quire that we -hould inscribe upon our banners, i
a port of our creed, "eternal hoetilily to the forth
extension of elavery;" and that the earnest and u
i '-easing opposition of the illustrious Jefferson to i
i further extension furnishes abundant authority fi
incorporating the principles of the foregoing reaol
lions into tht creed of that party, which derivi
nearly all its articles of faith from the writings
i that good and great man.
kffbtd, That we are in favor of a reunion
tht Democratu tarty, if it can be accomplish)
without an a andonment on our part of the print
I plea of the foregoing resolutions.
The Jlilna also publishes the followir
i resolution* passed bj the convention
THE REPUBLIC.
; Democratic electors of the first Assembly
district of Oneida county :
Rtavlved, Thai the political doctrines which we
I believe, and to which we will forever adhere, are
ihoee udopted by the Butfalo convention; that re*
flection and experience, and the course of our oppo*
nenta, as to the principles there laid down, have
only served to demonstrate thetr truth and the ex*
I pediency of their application at the present time;
and thai especially in regard to the great question of
human slavery, and the powers of our Government
over the same, we reiterate our firm adhesion to the
Jeflersonian ordinance of 1787, to the exclusion
forever of slavery over free territory, and to the
exercise by Congress of all its constitutional powers
as to abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia,
and to freeing our Government from all support of,
or identification with, slavery.
Resolved, That the principles which we thus avow
are ihe old and cardinal doctrines of the Democratic
party, and that defeat in their support is far preferable
to an inglorious supremacy attained by a de
Hcnion of or suppression of (hem, and thai it is only
by their manly avowal and firm support that a union
can be formed that will be either beneficial or honorable.
*
The resolutions of the Democratic convention
of Ulster county are very significant,
and we give them without diminution.
They indicate a desire for any thing
rather than a reconstruction of the Locofoco
party as a national party. The rebuke
they administer to the ex-official
journal for its "rampant clamor" on the
subject of removals and appointments, we
trust, will be duly appreciated. It will be
seen that the Democrats of Ulster are not
willing to come together on the mentalreservation
platform, but claim the privilege
of making their old points, on which
they broke up the national Democratic
party at the last election. We imagine
that these resolutions will distress the elite
of the distinguished Democrats of Richmond
more than they can well express.
We copy from the Albany Atlas:
Resolved, That we are opposed to the present
national and Stale administrations Itecauae we differ
from the former with regard to the extension of
slavery, and with the latter upon important questions
of State policy, and with both upon the sub1
jects of a tariff, the independent treasury, and the
. extent of the power of internal improvement by
the General Government.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Ulster now, as
heretofore, feel a lively pleasure in being associated
with such names as Van Buren, Benton, Blair,
: Cambreleng, and Silus Wright, the same qoble phat
lanx who stood by the veteran Jackson in many
hard-fought buttles with the Bank of the United
States, when summer politicians and sunehine pa!
triots, tco timid to stand by the right and maintain
principles, were following John C. Calhoun and
Henry A. Wise into the arms of the monster.
! Resolved, That the Democratic party cannot be
( sustained solely upon rampant clamor about removals
and appointments to office, because its great
> end and aim is not the loaves and fishes?but it
must hcve some great, distinctive Democratic principles
to press forward in pursuit of, when it will
be hereafter, as it has been heretofore, successful
and triumphant.
Resolved, That Democratic leaders and candidates,
' in attempting to commit the Democratic party to a
( doctrine that pronounces the ordinance or Thomas
Jeffersoi, the founder of the American Democracy,
uncnnsLtutional?a measure that received the sane
- Hon of the Virginia Legislature in 1788, and waa
k accepted by the first Congress after the formation
' of the Constitution of 1789, and that made Micht*
gnn, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana free
, and prosperous?and to a doctrine that the extension
of slavery is a blessing, because it will in1
crease the comforts of the slaves by giving them a
wider ipace to occupy,?are attempting a work
which, if successful, would inevitably prostrate the
* Democratic party, and leave it a monument of prtn?
ciples abandoned and consequences which might
have been expected to follow.
' Resolved, Thai the Democratic principles are ever
- onwnrd; ihai whoever attempts to stay the wheels
of progress will be crushed in the effort; that the
' individual who proclaims his satisfaction with the
e platforms oj the post will soon find himself outatiipped
by the progress of Democratic opinions; and
that such a stationary position of the party would
- have continued it the supporter of a National Hank
, us sanctioned by ihe Democratic leaders in 1816,
* instead of being its steady opponent as at present;
would have left it the supporter of a protective tan
riff as in 1824 and H28, instead of its opponent as in
r 1844 and '48; and would have bouna it to a rejec.
Hon of the independent treasury at its introduction
, in 1837, as "an interpolation of the Democratic
. creed." ?
Resolved, That the Democratic party can only
be maintained by a stern and d? voted adherence to
j principle; and that a reunion in this Slate upon any
other basis would prove a mere rope of aand to be
* dissolved by the first breath of air that sweeps
thro'1'*1 the political ulmosphere.
' Resolved That any attempt to patch up s union
by a suppression of opinion upon a great question,
, involving the first principles of Democracy, and
allowing"every man and every candidate to enter*
tain hia own opinions upon that subject without a
. auerv or question, would be as futile and incon
MtMM nil to lakf the name course with regard to a
bank, tariff, or any other question of the day which
1 inTolvea far less radical principles of Democracy
than the extension of alavery.
Rt wived, That we have reason to believe that
1 the great mass of our brethren of the other section
r of tnc Democratic party perfectly agree with ua in
regard to the great queation of the further ex tension
1 of alavery, and the juriadiclion of Congress on the
subject in the territories ; we respectfully invite
them, in view of the position taken by the united
Democracy of Connecticut, Vermont, Wisconsin,
1 and ihe expression of the Democracy of Pennsylvania,
New Hampshire and Maine, to come to1
geiher upon the Ihisis of the same sentiments, and
achieve a victory upon it, as glorious as that which
the Democratic candidates for Congress in Con'
neciicnt achieved upon the same principles.
We also see it announced that the Richj
j mond Enquirer'g u sweet little fellow,"
- Martin Van Bi ren, is in the field, as a
delegate to the Democratic convention at
Rome. This will add very much to the
interest and importance of the proceeding
of that convention. There is no pos(
vitality of his consenting to any abandonment
of the Buffalo platform. We imagine
1 that his letter in favor of Mr. Polk is the
r last concession that he will ever make to
ie the el tie of the dtstingmshed Pemocrwts of
'' Richmond. He will not again stand in
lg the way of the accomplishment of Mr.
* Wkm.hr's menace, that those men should
lf, rue their treachery to the New York regency
to the I let day of their liven,
j On a full review of the resolutions and
proceedings before us, we are persuaded
(i that there will be no reunion of the Demr
ocratic party in the State of New York
l(j during the coming fall. Not only is Mr.
>y John Van Buren'b announcement of the
dissolution of the Democratic party conie
firmed by every thi' g that we see around
^ us, hut there is really no present prospect
id of it? reunion and reconstruction. The
i(j reason of this is obvious. They can find
nothing to reunite upon. President Ta ti.or
,N ! stands upon ground on which all the true
n. ! Democrats of the country can rally. He
'? has announced it to he the only wish of
u_ his heart to give satisfaction to the Amerm
ican people, and to give effect to their will
j as expressed through their constitutional
of organs. We imagine that the 44 Democj!
rary" will find a small platform large
enough to hold all honest Democrats who
ig are disposed to quarrel, an Democrats,
of, with such doctrine.
"PK1THKJC, WHY HO HUTU I"
The $105,000 Mystery.
We have looked with solicitude in the
journals of the Opposition for some further
developments in the Denby case.
We have been assured that the facts for a
full history of the atfair were in the city of
Washington, and were to be had without
any thanks to the departments. We have
been promised that they should be forthcoming.
We have not seen them. Nor
have we seen the defence that we anticipated
of Mr. Walker and Mr. Mason.
Do both these gentlemen throw
themselves, in the want of a better refuge,
upon " the sanctity of private life ?"
When we made the first announcement
of Mr. Denby's defalcation, the Union
came at once to the rescue, and avowed
that there was nothing in the transaction
to touch the integrity of N. Denby, with
whom the senior editor was acquainted.
At the same time, with an expression of
very proper horror of all " dishonest"
defaulters, the senior editor threw out an
oracular intimation that matters were in
progress to show that the affair was all
right, in the following words : " Wc presume
these statements will be noticed more
properly from other quarters." So we
thought at the time. We have now waited
quite a fortnight, and there has not been a
scintilla of notice from any other quarter
than Mr. Osborne himself, who merely
confirms all the essential particulars of the
prior statements. Mr. Osborne indeed
stated, we believe, that he was responsible
for only about one hundred and twentyfive
or thirty thousand dollars of the
amount, and that he knew nothing of the
balance.
Were these " the quarters" to which
the Union alluded ? Did the Union mean
that this charge would be more properly
noticed1 by Mr. Osborne, than by any
other "outsider?" Mr. Osborne wast
not the temporary navy agent at Marseilles.
Mr. Obborne was not an officer i
of the Government of the United States.
Mr. Osborne was only a member of an
insolvent commercial house that had exploded
at Richmond a year or so since.
There was no peculiar propriety, therefore, J
in Mr. Osborne's taking any notice of i
this affair.
To whom, then, was the allusion? Ob- ,
viously to the members of the late Cabi |
net. The reference was to Mr. Secretary
j - a* n __ n# i
Walker, ana 10 lvir. secretary iyiason. i
The Union intended to say, no doubt, that
these gentlemen would more properly than
any others take notice of the current allegations.
They could best explain in what J
manner, under the Sub-treasury law, ;
which was expressly passed to withdraw
the public money from private use, so 1
large an amount of Government funds
found its way into the hands of a commer- i
cial house, to be employed in commercial
speculations. This was the mystery to
be explained. The author of the Subtreasury
law and the Secretary of the
Navy, who appointed Mr. Denhv, were
the proper, the only proper persons to explain
it. The Union, therefore, was right
in intimating that there was reason to look
for satisfactory explanation to these "more
proper quarters."
But the Union has failed to draw out
either of these gentlemen. They both
stand mute. Wherefore? Do they give
up the game? Do they confess themselves
guilty of a violation of the law so gross as
to implicate them, even in its severest
penalties?
But the Union has made a still more
specific call upon Mr. Mason. It is now
a week since it announced that "the Secretary
of the Navy is absent from Rich
mond." At the same time it said?"The
" materials of this whole transaction are
" now in Washington, and we have to ask
" no favor from the department in obtain"
ing a sketch of it. We shall wait a day
" or two before we state the details. Our
" correspondent further says that he 'will,
" as soon as time is afforded him, give
" (us) a fuller statement on this subject.' "
But nothing further have we yet heard
from the correspondent of the senior editor.
The "day or two" have become
eight days, and yet we have no further
details?though the details were all in
Washington, and were to be had without
thanks to the Navy Department. Nothing
further from the organ?nothing from its
correspondent?nothing from Mr. Walker?nothing
from the ex-Secretary of the
Navy. This matter still remains "shroud
ed in mystery." All we know is that the
United States' strong box is mysteriously
miniu #155,000; and that the law denounce
uivaro penalties against all the
parties who had the handling of the money,
"irf WHATEVER CAPACITY," for its loss.
We have already puWi?bed the sections
of the Sub-treasury act which bcai upon
this case. We know that it talks of fine
and imprisonment, to the amount of much
money and the extent of long inrarcera- I
tion. A prima facir case is made out
against three or four gentlemen, with
whom the senior editor is "acquainted,"
and who are "known" among the tlite of
the distinguished Democrats of Richmond. |
And yet they have not favored us with a
word of explanation, to show who are the
proper subjects of fine and imprisonment,
and remove the burthen of ohloqu> that
now rests upon their shoulders.
The Albany Argun announce* in the
following manner the appointment of Kx
Preaident Van Buren a* a delegate to the
Democratic convention at Rome:
tkt PolUieml Hoard* ?The FreeSoil
cooeentton of Colnn?W?n county, held ?n the
10th met., appointed ax-Praoident Mmtk Va?
Brae* aa a delegate to Rome, without, m the Jb
lot nay", iha power of auhmitution Join* V**
Bcaav i* named among the "Free-Soil" delegate*
aid to haee been appointed from the cry ?f New
York. I
HONOJtABJLK ALBERT GALLATIN. | ,,
This distinguished and venerable gentle- e
man died at Astoria, Long Islaud, near the j;
city of New York, on the 12th instant, at
the advanced age of eighty-eight. An- j;
other and probably the brightest of the t
public men whom the country has in a a
short time been called on to deplore, the c
death of Mr. Gallatin was not unexpected, c
for his health had become so feeble that at i
any time during several years an an- ]
nouncement of his decease would have i
created no astonishment. Born in Geneva, t
Switzerland, on the 29th of January, 1761, |
an or pi) an irom nis tnlaucy, he was educated
by dibtant relations, and in 1779 was i
graduated in the law faculty of the distin- |
guished university of his native city. He
was a pupil of the celebrated historian
Muller, and a companion of Dumont, the
friend and literary executor of Jeremy
Bentharn. In opposition to the wishes of
his friends, Mr. Gallatin, at an early
age, emigrated to the United States, and
landed at Boston, July 14, 1780. Recommended
to the notice of Dr. Franklin,
by the French moralist, La Rochefoucauld,
he soon found himself in the midst of all
that was good and great in the society of
the country. After a brief sojourn, howD...t
u i i i\*
CVCI, 111 lJUMUU, lie piutccucu MJ IVlcllIie,
where he served under the orders of Col.
Allan, commander of Fort Machias. Even
thus early in his career, he was enabled to
prove how sincerely he was attached to the
cause of the country, by advances he made
from his private means in a season of want
and difficulty.
In 1782 he became Professor of French
at Harvard University, from which, however,
he soon removed to Virginia, and at
Richmond was engaged in prosecuting
claims of a foreign mercantile house against
that commonwealth. He there acquired
the friendship of Lee, Henry, and other
distinguished men, and for a long time
meditated establishing himself there. This
idea he, however, ultimately abandoned,
and fixed himself in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
In 1789 he was elected a member
of the convention to amend the constitution
of the State. In 1790 and '91, he
was a member of the Legislature, and '
in 1792 a member of Congress. In 1793
he was elected a Senator of the United
States, but was declared not entitled to a
seat because not eligible under the Con- 1
stitution ; he, however, occupied his seat 1
for two months. In 1794 Mr. Gallatin returned
to Fayette county, having during (
his absence married the daughter of the ,
distinguished Commodore Nicholson, of <
the navy of the revolution.
About this time the whisky insurrection
broke out, and Mr. Gallatin was conspicuous
among that portion of the community
supporting law and order. In October,
1795, he was again elected to the State
Legislature, and on the same day (October j
14) was chosen to Congress from the district
composed of Washington and Alle
ghany counties. He took his seat in De,
cember, 1795, and represented the district
I for three consecutive terms. On the inauguration
of Mr. Jefferson as President, Mr.
j Gallatin became Secretary of the Treasury.
This was in 1801. The efforts of Mr. Gallatin
to extinguish the national debt are
well known and proven by the fact that
between 1801 and 1812, under the system
j commenced by him, $52,400,000 of the
$100,000,000 owed were paid. In 1813 '
he was one of the commissioners to Ghent,
and while absent from the United States ,
negotiated the commercial treaty between
1 the Union and Great Britain.
From 1816 to 1823 he was minister to
France, and in 1817 went on a special
| mission to the Netherlands, and in 1818
j to England, to which country he became
minister plenipotentiary in 1826. In 1827
he returned to America, and established
himself in New York. From this period
1 he, though deeply interested in political
matters, never participated openly in public
affairs.
As a writer Mr. Gallatin was well
I known. His essay on the northeastern
boundary, his treatise on Mr. Jay's map,
and his works on 'he currency, commanded
! 1 A a. A.1 O A 1 i
universal auenuon. ^oon auer niv re- <
moval to New York, Mr. Gallatin became <
president of the National Bank of New I
York, and wa* unceasingly diligent in his '
efforts to promote the interests of the com- <
mcrcial community. For some years past i
Mr. Gallatin has contributed much to his- I
torical and ethnological science, and has i
finally sunken to the grave with unblem- i
ished reputation as a man, and with the <
highest position as a statesman, citizen, I
and scholar. Alone and unaided, a stranger
and unknown, he eialted himself to i
the highest point the laws of his adopted '
country permitted, and made his career a I
brilliant commentary on the perfectners ! I
oi American institutions.
From ike Vnvm of Jlvf 14.
A WKM OF "DB< BN< Y." <
Wf copy the following paragraph from the .Hem r
phit (Trim.) Kogl* Ft refere to one of the num ?
here of the "Heroic Age;" t
" The author of this despicable article muat be
Burke, naaociate editor of the Washington Union "
We know of no other man in the Union who ta ra- 5
pa hie of ouch profanity, acurrimy, and abooe We '
notice, too, that the writer of the article a;>eaka of r
Ritchie as 'uur senior.* **
We aaatire the malicious and mends* tona libeller, '
of tl>e KofU, that "Burke, the associate editor of the ,
Washington l/num<M nM write the article al- ,
luded ui, nor one word of it A more unscrupu- '
Ions, scurrilous, and vulgar fellow cannot be found,
connected with the prese, in the whole Union, than J
the editor of the MrmpKu F.agl'
Thia in what we call showing proper re- i c
sentment. We do not wonder at the in- ?
donation displayed on the occasion, hut it
is certainly a very back handed compii- v
ment to the writer of the article in que*
tion. What must we think of a journal '
which publishes articles so vile in their
character, that one of the editors repudi- )f
ates the chaTjre of writing them, very *<
nuch in the same terms that he would
mploy if he were accused of picking
lockets?
The junior editor disclaims the article
n the Union, but he does not exonerate
be senior editor. Is it possible that the
irticle in question came Irom tbe pen of
me of the elite of the distinguished Dem>crata
of Richmond? The very pointed
nanner in which the ex-Commissioner of
Patents disclaims the article on Ms own
iccount alone, without exculpating his
senior, indicates that he cannot exculpate
trim with verity.
We believe it is pretty well settled, in
the code of ethics, that the endorser of a
falsehood is,as liable upon it as the maker.
We supposed it to be equally well settled,
that the publisher of a scurrilous article is
as culpable?is even more culpable than
the mere writer. And yet the senior
editor of the Union cannot find words hard
enough to abuse the Eagle for charging
him with writing what the Union was
guilty of publisMng.
Will the senior editor also exonerate
himself, or will he remain exposed to the
suspicion thrown upon him by this halfway
repudiation? Can he say with truth
that he did not write the article alluded to,
nor one word of it?
The Abduction Case.
The report previously circulated from
Mobile, that Rey, or Garcia, had, though
invited by the American consul to return
to the United States, refused to do so, has
been confirmed by the following affidavit
of Mr. John Williams, master of the brig
P. Soule, a packet trading between New
Orleans and Havana:
"State or Louiiiana,
City of New Or leant, Municipality No. One:
" Personally came and appeared before me, Joseph
A. Bonneval, alderman of the Sixth ward of
the First municipality, duly commissioned and
sworn us a justice of the peace, Captain John Williams,
of the brig P. Soulf, who, being duly sworn,
deposeth and says : That he arrived from Havana
on this day, between the hours of one and two
o'clock, p. m.; that he left Havana on the 28th of
July last; that, before his departure, he saw Gen.
Campbell, the American consul ut the port of Havana.
When he went to get his register, he states
that he was informed, by said General Campbell,
that he went alongside of the brig Andrew Ring;
that he had a conversation with a man by the name
of Rey; that he asked him how he came there;
that the said Rey told him he had arrived from
New Orleans on board of the schooner Mary Ellen,
Captain McConnell; that the said General Campbell
then offered Rey to send him to any part of the
United States that he wanted ; that the said Rey
refused his offer, and said he wanted no American
protection, 'and was fully satisfied to remain in his
nwn country, having returned there of his own
accord.
" [Signed] JOHN WILLIAMS.
"Sworn to and subscribed, this 6th August, before
me.
"[Signed] J. A. BONNEVAL.
" Alderman Sixth Ward."
This affidavit we take from the English
side of the Bee of New Orleans, and
it adds to the"doubt and mystery of this
strange affair. In spite, however, of the
many conflicting circumstances and the
very contradictory evidence, the interest
in New Orleans touching this case does
not in the least decrease. The beginning
of the end, however, has already come,
as we learn by a telegraphic despatch that
Lhe evidence for the defence has been concluded,
and that nothing remained but the
addresses of the counsel and the decision
of the court.
From the Union
Thr Pnaqnler Tlnvtllr of thr Arimtntstr*.
Mow.
Had not Mr. Secretary Ewine large transaction*
with the Bank of Gallipolia, in Ohio ? Was he not
% director or stockholder in that institution, and did
He not procure larce loans on discounts from that
fiank to tuiti him in hi* land apeculaiinna ? Did
not that institution become insolvent, and were not
ihe stockholders swindled, while such men as Thomas
hwing crew rich on their ruin ?
I ask some of the Democratic presses in Ohio for
? history of these frauds, and to ascertain irkttker
ind Kmr the liabilities of that corrupt bank were
11*< harped. A UrcaiaT
The above communication appears in
ihe I'nion of yesterday. All the questions
may be answered in the negative, and all
the insinuations conveyed in the form of
interrogatory are absolute and unqualified
Falsehoods. The 44 Democratic presses,"
ind not a few of the 44 Democratic" men
>f Ohio, can readily answer these questions
if they would. John A. Bryan, Auditor
)f State at the time the hank war set in
operation, and since appointed by Mr.
Polk to the office of surveyor of private
and claims in Florida, knows more about
the organization of that hank than any man
in Ohio, unless it be Wilson Shannon,
Democratic governor when Bryan was
Auditor. L.ei me i.nton appeal to these
nen, and if they tell the truth, 44 Demo:ratic
prenei" will never say 44 (ndlipolis
Tank" a>fain.
It is to be hoped that Messrs. Rryan
ind Shan.noh, with such assistance as the
4 Democratic presses" can furnish, will
avof the world with a history of that
>ank, and especially of its orifanization in
IMO under the charter granted in 1K19.
Natal.?The Untied Slates sloop of-war Virv
lalia has Iteen thoroughly retired at ihe Oosport
tary yard, and is now in commission, lo aail eery
oon from Norfolk for the Pacific. The following
a a list of her officers:
Commandei, William H. Gardner; firal heutrnml,
Robert E Johnaoo; aecnnd lieutenant, William
d liemilon . ihirrl lieutenant Read Werdrn
burih lieutenant, Thomaa H. Patieraon j acting
naater, John P. Bank head ; surgeon, J. C. Palmer,
saistant b- rgrnn, Robert Carter; puraer, John Vsa
\ Bleerkar j lientenant commanding marines, F
i, Via y son; midshipman A R Simmon# , capatn'a
clerk, Gardner ; bnMSWain, 2L WbiK
uarah ; runner, John D Brandt; ntqwitor, Robrt
M Rein; antimatter. John W North.
Panned midahipmen J. H Carter end J E Demven
gn out in the Vandalia, a? f?nenen(jere, to join
he Bre7.1l erjuadron.
The United Biaiea eteemer Viien ie lying et thr>o?port
nary yard, nearly reedy for eea The fok
>wing art her offirera:
Lieutenant commanding, Jnmea Wood; act1*
rnaater, Jamee fi Day ; panned ?ni<lahipinen,
Villinm I Truiton and Samuel McGa* ; firnt ealaiant
engineer, Samuel Archbald , third eaaietnnt
Iigineera, William C. Wheeler and T. A Jackmn;
1 plain'a nlerk, J, Peinher
A> the lateat acrounia from New South Wa/en, no
then eleven venneln were advertiae?l a> takt- pa*
rngera for * California