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For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

From our Philadelphia Correspondent.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut,

March 5, 1858.

Snatching a couple of days from the somewhat monotonous routine of an exacting profession, we repaired to spend them under the cooling shades of this delightful "city of Elms"—cooling enough, we assure you, the thermometer standing at 7° F. You will perceive that this must be particularly refreshing to a Philadelphian who seldom or never sees Fahrenheit coil himself down to zero. We came hither bent on gleaming among the profuse ideas hereabouts touching Rocks—not indeed the plural of our long lost friend and co-laborer 'Rock' of your columns—nor yet the 'Rocks' in vogue among Teutoni as Metall-Geld, but the genuine 'Rocks' of Dana and Silliman, whereof we may tell you anon.

We have had some quite brisk times here in the world political these two or three days. The Democratic State Convention sat at Union Hall, Wednesday. Every body was on the tip-toe of expectation concerning what the unterrified would resolve touching the Lecompton affair.—Was the Douglas or Buchanan wing to resolve what is true Democracy? Mr. Geo. M. Landers, an ex-Senator, whose excellent personal qualities, we should think would revolt at his connection with the damnable and blasphemously wicked Democratic Party, brought in, as Chairman of the Committee of the Committee on Resolutions, some milk and water resolves and whereases touching State moneys and taxes, ignoring completely the real point at issue between the two wings of the faithful. This brought Hon. Colin M. Ingersoll to his feet. Collin saved the Union in '54 by voting for the Kansas-Nebraska act, right in the face of instructions from his immediate constituents; but these constituents thereupon 'resolved' that Collin should stay at home, and he had not therefore had a chance to save the Union before for some time. Collin who is quite good at drawing room declamation, and a withal a pretty good looking man, roused the slumbering energies of his brethren in arms, and immediately as he sat down, one of the richest scenes of the season was enacted. A Douglas man mounted his seat and bellowed out with tremendous force, denouncing the Buchaneers rank