1 ;V/j ; r
iMpifyf,
»' ,». 3fr. *•<.* t L-ggf.vi~> ■tr'.'ii'-. iff-, ftsftrf •>.v'i ' ■'; m .
-'*& «,*•w; : , •? 0 ‘ n * a - of th
. ; -;.W»«w>Empw<)r.; «»P«ral Nyy. -., -._ ;
v '-\;"t-' : 'J’?£.. ■ The News. -’"'- 1 ■•-■,'
' Indlen’Empire, aboutthe safety
L . gfyfhioh oonalderablo alarm is felt, bocauß6.no
■_' * tidings h«d besttheard from her. it Llverpoolup
' : to 'Se iOth 'ol€,' when ehowaa twenty-one days
i ont .sailed from New Jotfc oath# 23d of October
. V wlth elghtyroiio ;j*MeiigeM, ? ftravtoeiv of whoni
; T..£n re ; Jto sfit»i®r»t. WSffiV' and a «rew;of.elghty-eht
t : «»Bn,‘besidea the - captain and nlne offioere. ' She
'l{tKid a&pn’J»»rd'jd»ut tio,hundred tons of oargo,
• oonslsting of cotton, tobacco, and atavos., She wae
’? i remarkably etinnoh' and, maealTely-buill eteam*
v- ehip of .1,857 ,tona register, and; she ranked A lt
-at Lloyd’s. She was built of oak, and strengthened
r 5
- trhehl tessel, .haring dwo cylinders, eaeh of them
seventy-two Inebea ia: diameter.' .S he was rigged
as ft tbree-muted brigantine, bat; did notoarry
many; spark. Resides aU, this, her oommander was
i mai»,or^at v je*porienoe; and her bffioers were
' ■ if ell Acquainted with their duty; •
■' - Advio'es dated i‘ Los Angeles, . California, Ooto?
; :ier3d,’.- havebeenreoeivedby Mr. A. H.'Oamp
' belli general sunerintehdent of.the Pacifio wagon
roads,' fitomitW' superintendent and obief engl
neer of tbb El Paao and lfort Yuma wagon-road,
ihelr, party, reached San Diego on the
14th"of October] after‘baying completed their work
to Port Yuma,,; They'expeotcd to reach San Fran
oisoo In‘time ,to',;emb’a'rk In the steamer whidh
/.Salledbh tho4thinstant.. ,
■ v A Mass Convention of the DemoeraHo oitisens
1 Of Kansas ,was h'ehD at Leavenworth oh the 25 th
r uit. ' A strdhg feeling infayOr of Senator Doug-
Mss for the Presidency was manifested throughout
. its session. ,l
Additional newa oonSralng the reported rioh-
' ness of the Kantas gold mines has been redelved
TatSti Loulsi flt is also sald that platlha hai'been
1, dlseovsied by .the Indians, but. they refuse to dis
- olose'the’ldeality in whidh it was found. -i
S:: The ap’wlaleleotlon for Congress in Berks ooun
' ty ’took plaoe yesterday. The returns indicate the
. election of General William H.Keim, the volun
teer oandldate,: over Wanner, who is a devoted
dissipleof JehuG.'Jonea. ■ > -
. , ; Mrj Forsyth, United States Minister to Metloo,
. arrived at yesterday.;
r • The agent of the'Alice Painter has agreed to re-;
. fnnd to the filibuster.*’ emigrants ” their passage
.■.snonay.'..-rfi-i..,.'.;,y,-;d..'
ThsGrandJory "of the United. States Olroult
Oourt of South Oarollna have found no blllfl of In
dlotmehtiagalnit the drew ef the. slayer Hoho.,
. The oatfide pressure, of,ultra Southern /sentiment
has proved too strong for the' laws of the country.
. The Dred-Soott decision.and tha'fugitlve'slave
' law ire things to.be worshipped with undying
iea],hutthe deorees against plraoy, brutality, and
; wholesale fmurdoraretd.be ignored,' aooordlng to
.the South .Carolina ideas of jurisprudence.
The Sonth Carelina Leglslatare.hu not yet sne
' oeeded ih eledtlng iUnlted States Senator.
' TheLondonErasays: “ Mr. Morphy has de
cided to para the winterin Europe. His deeision
oannot fall of giving, a still groator stimulus to
European chess, iHerr Anderssen also has made
final arrangementa for-being in Paris on the 12th
December, so that' this mnbh-expeofed matoh will
i. rsally dome off. After its'termination Mr. Morphy
will, probably, be in England, where plans are
falready afloat for giving him the reoeption be
' : inoritB.” ' ■ •'
A St. Petersburg journal annonnoes that the
' tauor, Malmanoff, while on tho atage, had mur
' dared, tho prima ddnna, Areronloh.. No details
are given. , It is merely, said that tho persons In
the house . were so enraged that the seats in the
pit were torn up and damage done.
Quite a largo squadron was In, the port of San
dnan del. Norte, Nioaragua, on. the sth Inst., to
. wit,,,the United.States,sloops-of-war, Savannah
.. and Jamestown, the British steam frigatos Basilisk
and Leopard, the Amerloan brig Lorina, the Ame
rlcau schooner Emma, ; and tho British steamer
Deo. .The Nicaragua people have Jaeen thrown
Into great agUation by toe rumors of another de
. Mont;npoh' thein;by the filibuster Walker. It is
; said,that with a force of only 400- or 505: men. ho
■' would' bo able to dveroomo • all tho.reslstanoe ho
■ wouldineetfrbmthefcreea of that oountry.- .
f,; Tho Now York Eitmhi’.'l’ott says'that. John
Brobstfanold man,* living in dnmberland county,
~hfarylapd,,has juat beon -disoovored to ho. tho
/rightfU owuer.of .a large traoi of,mineral Usd in
the heart of tbe rioheat mineral region ef-Penn
• iylvanla,'wdrth*B,ooo,ooo. He has sold outall his
r^hfliand.tiUe''for^'2,'Boo,ooo.;.; ' , ' ! ;
' r Oh Sunday night,-the 21sf Inst. 1 , the-house of
.Mrs. glgourney, tlie poetess, in’Nartford, Conn.i
was brokon into and robbed, during the absonco of
tho famlly. Tho robbers carried away artloles to
.toe amoant of Beveral hundred dollars, and left the
oon tontaf of trunks, driwors, and boxes. strewed
around intnextrloable oonfosionfsomeof them be-
Idewed- with melted tallow, and ;othera brokon or
i pMllj bnrned J;>-
~ /AUVgi in«»tliig*r&s held'in Now Totk,onMon*
'dey mght, in favor of tho Bible; 1c ,the pnblio
sehooii./The extent and nature of the evil against
.which the agitation if directed was. thaa expressed
by James J?. : Gtirard, .the prealdent of the meet-'
... !‘ t , ,v’-. ’t t * -. v. ’*
« Ifc is 7 snpposed’by"ineny thatrlhe' Bible is
taught itt tho public schools—that it' lireo/ted.-
.There never was a greater mistako. The Blblels
.neverreadhy the ohildren.'/They never see/it;
;thej aerer haniile it, and that teaoher would lose
wpulddare to make a single, com
/ihent upon anything wbiohbe might read. I have,
known!: any child,-or any oV'any
ohltd. to ohjftot to thu. Thefe Has •been .porfeot
' unanimity in regard to this*!.. Bat in a certialnpor-,
tionofoorcity. in; the Fourth* Sixth, and Four*.
- teenth wards, the 1 ' reading ~of t 'the Scriptures has'
been omitted., BatllttleTs yet done; bat twelve
schools out 'of, two hundred and nine are with 1
out the Bible. Bat you apprehend* and justly/
that there issa entering wedge, and that ft may
be driven home; hehceyou havc oome here to in
riot bddone.’ 1, - ‘ ' l} ‘ '
,th(i ooinsfce of.tho United State*
Hint lit this city for the month of. November Is a*
.Allows: 'Gold coinage,'<3odii3s; silver, $550,000;
sente, $25,000. ' -7• ■
' /The trlel of Thomas Allibono and,Thomas A.!
NewhaU, on tiie cbargeof conrplring to ohoat and
defraud the Bank of Peuusjlvania t oommenoed yes
terday In the Const of Qdarter Bosaions. The oonn-i
tel of the. dtfsndanta;inide motions 'for' Separate,
taiill.ofthe Beonwd,hut after argument they were
pverrnled. Ajury was empanelled, .and Mr. '
Longhead opened the ease of the Commonwealth. '
' In the “Ohr Amerloan Cohsln”’salt of Laura ;
K*ene v> Wheatley. A'Clarhe,’ the'defendants
were ordered to pey 81,500 iato oourt, to abide the.
fhrther oonslderation of the case.
1 The assessment of> the property of this oity for
1858 IS«xed npon the- following valuation: Real
estate, |ljs,B;Mo,ppo j'iperionai 2i697,6«9 {
,toteli $i5p,687,009. ; Numberof taiablee, 103,850.
. The number of arrests in this oily for the month
of November wa52,238.'. '■ - ■,
Ooczstonallywe aee. la an AdmlnUtratlon
paper, sentences like these: «The antl-Le
if they'
return to theparty jbat shchmonas Fohney
neTeroan he pardoned.” < jAs.wmay. be sup-.
IWYIagS
been:lntimately connected 'wlth him for ithtL
last forty-one years, and hoping to 'live ahd
die with him, we take the liberty of answering
Each impertinences thns: Therprlnciples of
the Demderjitio party are everything to ns.
They are first and vital.,;. Wo ,wili- cling, to
themras the Shipwrecked marinor clings to his
plank . when inlght iB ‘ closing .around' him;:
Bat-when the organization of that , party is
tuorped' by a set of ofßcial hirelings, and •
turned into .'anjendorseinent of repulsive doc
trineSjWe reject, the organization,' and trample'
upon it: ; As' tp whether these officials pardon
.hi for this; or not, opneems ns “.nothing. TVe
feel that we should not pardon onrselves if we
dld-'hpt this,,’ onr .position.
Gentlemen of.the: Administration, yon will;
need THE Peess a long while before it will
n'eed'yoii.'-.Vr.,.,:.,.,.'-.;;, 1 1, '!
Oy Hop, David- C.' Bbodebiok, ef Cali
fornia,’ reached Philadelphia last evening, and
is sUjdng' i at;the Merchants 1 Hotel;
i-'V'! l tal sua Opera.
1 The present Roaaou last night: Masdames
OolsraJCistia'nTgli,;' BtrikOMh,, and Da WUhorst
re^Viyed; th»“ final ,0/, honao,
ABodio,’ Brlgnoli, VBatiU, Jand. Labooctta “ as
aiitedi’ - on this occasion; We missed .the)
gifted Parodf. btit hope to inset her and -most' of
: tti^fieTs.'it'a sttifs andf.no’distant; period. ' She
'peiformaDOeioat'n'ight inolnded separate oots from’
•»ei*A:l;favorite<opora»—a mtlangt whloh ls ei
. tfSbielyVigteSaWev onie in a while, as a novetly.
enthtitiat* of the audiencayas yery great,
;and this'inaVodf-.the season, fnliy deserve s to by
Aseor^,ys’.ye'iy ; #„V"-V.V •
~ s--h .
IfsAjis iiipu~yf,a_ oltftte Mm-;
tlooof o»pit»llst« i 6 th« iale thisjovening, ofthb
' '< street, above'
- / B'oeitfsdVertisid Id snither.pphinin, by Mr. James,
;tf&j*ltpertjr hria one;
, of ththest loostibna luthbbtty, aiidyuro to bb in J
Any:
''. - 4f«ir6tts ot JnTMtuig his une mplojedoapital in
V"?' v-f!
"% "’-V -., \‘Ti>-;.vV=!>' V(~}
:'-'it-'SBiß^*w™4et>W- ! M<l4pta ; lh(WaUn ( pftte.
-ft' 1 uhmWt t^tilisihie 1
K -’’ •■- T.'
Who are the Guilty Hen?
Mr. Booiuirxnr, Injhlo recent, letter to the
Pittsburg oommtttea, deplored;ha' one ef the
greatest evils of tlief.to»ioS,tbe*ii|.o,9frntonej
to influence oleotions, and/predictea that If
this terrible praotiee waa not speedily arrested
the Republic would be destroyed, and a mili
tary despotism''.established ujjon its ruins.
Several correspondents have inquired of us
to whom he particularly referred in these re
marks. Can it be Ms own office-holders ?
Previous to our late. elections there were
u hssesSments'”' upon all the employees of
the Federal Government, and it was well
understood, that those who refused to con
tribute the queta with which they were
charged would be guillotined. A large
amount of money was thus raised, avowedly
for electioneering purposes. Is Mr. Booha
nan ignorant of this fact? Did he see in Ms
own ohorishod organ, the Union, a few months
since, a savage attack upon the clerks in the
departments at Washington, because they
were not as prompt and as liberal in their con
tributions to a fund for the politi
cal expenses as Mr. Wendell desired ? Does
he mean Mr. Cobb, who retains in his depart
ment.a host of collectors, naval officers, sur
veyors, inspectors, etc., who annually make
the collection of fnnda for electioneer
ing purposes one of their most Important
duties? -Does he mean Mr. Flobenoe, who,
beyond, all question, made the. navy yard
and ..the opportunities of obtaining tho mo
ney ot the nation which he was en
abled to fhrnish his followers there, tho great
leyer of Ms power and Influence, and whose
well-earned' laurels as «the widow’s friend”
have been won by the money he Is supposed to
have given them a chance of earning by their
labor? Dioes he mean his devoted friends,
Owen Jonbs and Jehu G. Jones? Does he
mean Mr. Bmleb, or has our illuminated Se
nator never been cognizant of tho use ofmoney
for electioneering purposes ? Does he mean
Postmaster-General Brown, because the Post-
Office printing is parcelled out so as to sup
port political presses at the cost of tho nation ?
Does ho mean, tho Danites* of Illinois?
There has been no body of men in this
country who havo raised more monoy to in
fluence elections daring the last year than Mr
Buchanan's office-holders' -and, ‘particular
friends, and no man knows this fact better
than himself. His eyes were piercing enough
to discover ainy anti-Leoompton Democrats
who were found lurking in office, though they
were thousands of miles from Ms throne, and
though their highest offence was a refusal to
betray the pledges of 1866 j yet he either can
not or will not see that he retains as his prime
favorites hundreds of men guilty of an offence
which, to is in the higheit degree
dangerous io tne -Repuhlic, and it is perfectly
well understood that if they do not commit this
offence th’ey.wlll'lose their offices I When onr
pious President writes another sermon would
it not ' he. well for him. to select homo other
tpxt?-'. ~ , f _ ■ .
Purchase of fifonnt Vernon.
The question often Is asked: What will
Pennsylvania do towards the purchase of
Mount Vernon ? It is particularly suggested
on looking- over the columns of the Afounf
Vernon Record, where we see that two-thirds
of the States in the Union are eager to be
come, de facto, tho united owners of Wash
ington's grave, and aye actively sending in
their .'contributions.
We gee by the report thus fat made, con
cerning the purchase, that two hundred acres,
containing the home, tomb, etc., are sold to
the Association, and that $lB,OOO were paid
at.the signing of tho contract. The first in
stalment ot $67,000, duo in January, is ready
for payment. Here, then, fs $76,000 of the
purchase ftind already raised. Tho remaining
sum of $126,000 is still to come, and the pub
lic spirit pf tho nation should supply it by the
22d of February next, the birthday of Wash
ington.
- In contributing to this result, surely onr
own proud'State will not flag behind? So
long as one brick rests upon another at Inde
pendence ."Mall; so long as the ,names of
Germantown and Valley Forge exist ; so long
as Philadelphia claims'to have been the seat
of the- first Congress, and the residence of
President’ Washwoton, wo will never enter
tain the thought that she will not. step forth
nobly to aid the purchase of his home and
grave, whose brightest laurels were won'npon
her,soil. ,
Pennsylvania soldiers’aided him with their
hearts? best .blood; with him they bravely en
dured hunger and cold; at his voice they tra
, versed her frozen ground with naked feet;
and, through ,his wisdom and valor, they be
queathed freedom to their country.
TTlll not Pennsylvania citizens now give of
their abnndance, to c.onsearate as a shrine,
.where liberty thronghont the .world may wor
ship,.that hallowed mount, whereon lie the
mortal remains of him who, for virtue, stands
peerless among mankind 1 ’
The Women of this State ought to help at
once, in this great work, and fathers, husbands,
and brothers shonld help them in this well
merited evide ace of their, appreciation of the
blessings of peace and prosperity, which, un
der a Divine Providence, Geoboe Washiko
. toe so largely helped to obtain. The move
ment may properly begin with those who are
In authority among ns, and the inhabitants of
Philadelphia, we are persuaded, will not be
slow to' respond. We make, the suggestion
for 4 the honor of onr city and onr State, for
we know that the motive power of Patriotism
has only to be applied to produce' the re
quired result. One united effort, made by
common consent, throughout Pennsylvania,
and particnlarly in Philadelphia, would make
the Homo and Grave of WAsnwaTOH the pro
perty of the Nation, before the ensuing anni
versary of the birth of the Father of his
Country. '
Dramatic Copyright.
The olalm made by Hiss Laura Keehe of
exclusive copyright in the comedy called
“Onr American Coußin,” appears wholly
without legal or moral foundation. On Fri
day, we stated the case gs far aB we could
learn, It from the data before ns. We now
have additional particulars, from that undoubt
ed source “ the best authority,” and they are
as follows:
In the year 1861 or 1862, «Yankee”
Silsbee was fulfilling an engagement at the
Adelphl Theatre, London, which was then under
the management of Mr. Websteb. That gen
tleman negotiated with Mr. Tom Tatlob fora
comedy, the price to be £6O, and the principal
part In which shonld be especially adapted to
Mr. Silsbek’s peculiar style of personation.
The result of that negotiation was “Our
American Consin,” for which Mr. Silsbee
supplied Mr. Tatlob the Yankeeisms. The
play was at once put in rehearsal, new scenery
and dresses were, prepared for it, and every
arrangement made for its speedy production.
At this stage of affairs Madame Celeste,
very unexpectedly, arrived from America, and
as Mr. Webbies. desired hex to appear at his
theatre immediately upon her arrival, an ar
rangement was made with Mr. Silsbee, that
terminated hisengagement at the Adolphi. B e
was thereupon engaged by the manager of the
Surrey Theatre, and it was at that ostablish
ment that he took his farewell benefit, and
made his last appearance in England. Upon
that oocasion, Madame Celeste and Mr.
Websteb played for Mr. Silsbee, and, as a
farther mark of esteem, Mr.' Websteb present
ed him with the manuscript of “ Our Amori
can Cousin.” Hr. Silbbeb brought it to this
country, hut not liking the part of Asa, never
produced’ the' play. Shortly after the death of
Hr. Silsbee his widow made a copy of the
comedy, and sunt it to a friend in California,
who, hot thinking himself capable of doing
justice to, the part of Asa Treuehard, returned
it to Mrs. Silsbee by Express. On Its way
hither, orrather whilst at the New York ofiloe,
It was lost or stolen. Mrs. Silsbee was neve*
able to recover the missing manuscript, but
sold the copy which remained in her possession
to Mr. Wheatley. <
.. . Itis possible that Miss Keehe really did
He play from Mr. Tom Taylor. It
has beeh'sriggested that she is merely playing
: &f>m'the’copy which'vanished from the ex
press office, but she positively declares that
she purchased it, and even names the price.
But the question, one offset as well as of law,
Is, could Tom Taylor dispose of rights In
this country which he never possessed? If
hU had-published the play in England, any'
ohe could ' rdprint it here. Jlr; Silsbee
clearly had the, play five years before Miss
Khsbb got her copy, and his priority of claim
has passed, 'as cleSrly, to Mr. Whsatlev,
through Silsbee’* widow SrLSßnn's owner
iship of the play arises, not, as has been sup
posed; lrom his suggesting—<.«• making—
the leading: character, bpf from Mr. B. Web
srEa’a making him .a present pf the, drama live
or six years ago.'
BY MIDNIGHT MAIL .
Letter ftoto “Occasional.”
[CorrMpondonce ot The Frees.}.
. , , ' Washinoton, Nov. 30, 1858.
The Administration of the Federal Government
are joßt now engaged' in a vigorous effort to show
that the Snpreme Court of the United States must
be respeotod, first, last, and} always. It Ib, in
their eyes, the ineffable presence of parity and
jastioe; and so indeed it ougtt to be. I am for
obeying the Supreme Court, Dred Scott and all.
It is suggestive, however, that while this oourse
Is taken by the Union and other organs
of .power, so little attention is paid to the
ntteranoes off this high oourt of justice and of
law, whenever they «come in ednfliot with the
policy of the extremists of the South. At this
writing the Southern filibusters and fire-eaters
are arraigning that splendid jurist, Justice Camp
bell, of the United Spates Snpreme Bench, as an
enemy of the South, because ho bos dared to de*
aide adversely to the pirate Walker. His deci
lons are attacked with the greatest An
other case, not less praotioal, is presented in the
oourse of Attorney General Black against the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania, beoauße of its deci
sion in favor of the constitutionality of tho sale of
your canals. His pon and tongue are constantly
busy defaming that high tribunal.
The President expeota to restoro the Adminis
tration to some vitality by a bolligerent foreign
polioy; bat it is too late. There is no expedient
left in the programme for the fature that oan re
deem the past or resoue tho present.
There are many applicants for office, and few
places for them. Tho slate Is full of Pennsylva
nia oundidates, but the obance is small. Sinoe
that highly*accomplished jurist, Mr. Bcmak, has
been selected for Trieste, and that distinguished
citizen, Banken, has been appointed Register of
the Land Office, the President expresses his deter
mination to look elsewhere for future appoint
ments than to bis own State.
It is settled that Old Ironsides, the gallant Com
modore Charles Stewart, is shortly to resign his
position at your navy yard, and the President in
tends addressing him a publio letter of congratu
lation and thanks on his long end invaluable ser
vices to his country. It is also settled that Com
modoro Frederick Engle, a Pennsylvanian born,
only less distinguished than Old Ironsides, and
generally beloved for his sterling qualities as a
oitizon and a seaman, is to sucoeed Mr. Stewart.
Commodore Engle was bom in Chester, Delaware
county, where his relations still reside, though be
is a oitizen of New Jersey. He will make a most
popular commandant of the navy yard.
The manner in whloh the Beoret-servioe fand
of tho Department of State’ Is 4isbsrse4 ha? al
ways formed a subject of ourlous inquiry. In P
free Government such a fund is oaloulated to ex
cite a jealous interest. Any clandestine ex
penditure in a country that Is free is dangerous*
Sueh an institution may be, and doubtless Ib. ne
oessary. "We must fight firo with fire, and often
the nse of money is pardoned in order to serve
great interests. But in this RepubUo it is a haz
ardous alternative. Fancy, for instance, the em
ployment sueh a man as Grand, on a secret
mission, roaming over tho fftoe of gurope, paid out
of this fand, and all the time tho depository of tjie
most saorod information! It is said that onoe a
publio man buys u rogne he sells himself; and so
when a reckless man is employed by oar Govern
ment, is not the Government itself sold ? Jam
promised, from one who ought to know, an inside
view of this scoreot-eervice fund, whioh may
startle the uninitiated when I spread It before
your readers. Occasional.
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEQ-RAPH.
ICT SEE FIRST PAG?2.
Yesterday’s Special Election In Berks.
[SPECIAL DBSPATOa.J
Bbadinq, November 80.—The rebutter rebuked!
Kelm'e majority in Beading, 884. Will be 600 In
the county. Is there sot another mission vacant for
the last martyr?
[SPECIAL DISPATCH.}
Bhadiko, November 80 —Keitn’s majority In Read
ing, 884—a gain in nine townships over Sohwarta of
801 for Keim.
Berks Connty Congressional Election.
BrADiso, Nov SO —The election for a member of
Oorgrees, to eapply the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of J. Glancy Jones, was held in th* district to*day.
The following returns have been received:
QSS7 Wanner, Helm, Msj. in Oct. Pern. Tern.
Pern. Opp. Peru. Opp. Loss. Gain
Onmru township.. 01 80 24
Muhleob’g town’p. 1 40 46
Bpringtownship... 40 30 4
AJsaco township.. 41 40 1
Hamb’g borough.. 37 26 - 12
WomeHdorf. 24 6 19
Lower Heidelb’g,. 40 124 84
CITT OP RbADISO. t
Northwestward... 210 176 84
Southeastward.... 155 161 6
Northeast ward... 108 164 47
Sprues ward 149 111 88
Southwest ward... 263 230
82 1042 200 900 242 72
82 *72
Majority eo far.96o Opposition gain, 170
Later from KansaB««Territoii&l Mass
Convention.
Bt. Louis, Not. 80 —Leavenworth date* to the 20 th
instant per the United States Express to Booneville,
fornlshei advicesfrom Kansas.
A Territorial Mass Convention of the conservative
element assembled at Leavenworth on the 25th; for the
purpose of organising an opposition to the Republicans.
The attendance was numerous, though only six coun
ties were represented A thorough re-union and reorga
nisation of the Democracy was ad vocated end hotly debi
ted, a strong minority characterising *uoh notion as pre
mature. A series of resolutions petitioning Gongrea*
for liberal land grants for pnblta Improvements, de
nouncing the Republican party, and In favor of the ex
clusion of free negroes from tbe future Btato of Kapsss,
declaring the slave question a dead issue, advooatirg
the opening of tbo Indian reserves to settlers, aod a
modification of the pre-emption laws, was fioally
adopted, with a preamble determining upon an imme
d ate organisation of the Democracy. The session
was prolonged to a late hour, and was rather tarbulsnt.
Both wings of the party were w 11 represented, and
the dlscnssion maintained with vigor. Able speeches
were made on both sides. The Convention did not
limit itself with regard to candidates for the next Fre
sidenoy, though strong Douglas tendencies prevailed.
The Convention has adjourned sine die.
Later from Utah and the Gold Hines.
Bt. Louis, Nov. 80.— The Utah mail has arrived, hut
brings nothing from Salt Lake. The severe weather bad
seriously retarded the trains. Those of Russell A
Waddell would get through.
Three men have arrived from the Kansas gold
mines, having .In their poFsesslou $5OO worth of gold
dust, obtained whtlo prospecting last summer. They
give a moat satisfactory statement of the rlsbness and
extent of the gold deposits. It is reported that there
have been discoveries of platina by the Kaw Indians,
who refuse to divulge Its location. Tbe deposits are be
lieved to exist on the Smoky Dill fork of the Kansas
river, being in the direct route from Leavenworth to
Pike’s Peak mines.
A number of persons squatted on the 25th lost, on the
military reserve adjoining Leavenworth. Lumber and
other obstructions were placed on the ground, but were
promptly removed by the quartermaster, Captain Tan
From Washington.
Washington, Nov 80.—Mr. Porsy fa, United States
minister to Mexico, arrived here to-day.
Paulding Tatnall also arrived to-day with the new
Japan treaty and despatches from Consul Harris to the
State Department.
There will be an important recommendation by the
President to Congress concerning the opening up of
Utah to settlement, by brlngiog the publio lauds into
market, and extending the pte-empuon laws to that
Territory.
The Slaver Echo in the United States
Clrcait Court of South Carolina«*»No
Bills of Indictment found.
Columbia, 8.0., Nov. 80 —The grand jury of the U.
8. Circuit Court oame in this morniog, but found no
bills of indictment in tbe three cases against the orew
of the slaver Echo. The counsel of the prisoners will
probably move for thair discharge from custody on
Monday next, when the question as to tbe constitu
tionality of the aot of Congress will come up for argu
ment. The if. 8 attorney for this district will endea
vor to hold the prisoners.
South Carolina Senatorship.
Columbia, Nov 80.—There is still no result in tbe
struggle for the election of United States Senator for
the long term, in tbe SUte Legislature. On the last
ballot to-day the vote for ex-Governor Adams fell to
42. The namo of R. Barnwell Rhett was withdrawn.
Mr. Keitt continues on the course, and his vote has run
up to 21.
The Nicaragua Filibusters
Augusta, Nov. 80 —The Mobile Register of Sunday
last contains a card from Julius Hesse A Co,, stating
that m tbe Government bad refused a clearance to the
emigrant vessel, the holders of passage tickets would
be refunded their money.
» ' ■ ■■■—-
Nbw Yobk, Nov 80.—The broom factory of Messrs.
Bent A Benson, at WnUarnsville, was destroyed by fire
this morning- Loss $lO,OOO,
Frederick Albrecht’s brewery, is this city, was burnt
this morning. Loss $lO,OOO.
Markets by Telegraph.
Bavahkar, Nov. 29.—Cotton.—Sales to-day 1,000
bales, at an advance of The marketolosel un
settled and excited.
Baltimobe, Nov. 30 —Fleur is steady At the former
quotations. Wheat sells at $1 35®1 60 for white, end
sllBol 23forr*d. Corn Is dull at 63a020 for white,
aod 65ai670 for yellow. Provisions are steady hut un
changed. Whiskey is active at 25a28£0 for city, and
26c for Western.
Cuioaco, Nov 80 —Flour active. Wheat firm at 60c.
Corn dull Oats quiet. Receipts—6oo bbla flour, 2 500
wheat, and 1.000 bashels oorn.
gJCiNCiNNATi, Nor. BU.—Hogs are active, and the mar
etbuoyant andexcitfd. Bales 20,000 atso 7607, in
eluding 10,100 for January delivery. Mess Pork—
-8,000 bbls sold at $l7 for future and present delivery.
Lard, ll®U*c; 150,000 lb Bulk Meats sold at
B#o. Whl*key 23u. Fiour firm.
New Oblbahs, Nov. 80— Sales of Cotton to-day,
11,600 bales, atd for the past three days, 26,600 bales.
Receipts for three days, 27,000 biles. Beceipta ahead
118.000 bales. Exchange on London, 107 X
ClOB son New York, 60 days, I*®2} sight bills, #®l
cent, discount. Fiour, $5.
Peremptory Bale op Walrut-strebt Resi
dences.—Thomas & Sons* feolo next Tuesday will
inolude two handsome residences on Walnut street,
to be sold peremptorily. Also, several other de
sirable residences.
Valuable Business Stands, Farms, &o.—Also,
valuable business stands, farms, mill property, Ac.
See advertisements. Their sales 14th and 21et
Instant also oomprlso a large amount of property.
Jones’ Hotel will bo sold on the 21st.
Auction Notice.—B. Scott, Jr.,auctioneer, 431
Chestnut street, sells this morning, commencing
at 10 o’olook,’ ombroiderles, ribbon sets, trimming
ribbons, veils, Winter bonnets, hosiery, gloves,
.undershirts, drawers, Also, fifty oases boots
and shoes, goiters, Ao Catalogues now ready.
' S 3?" -A. report of Mrs; Cleveland's leotare before
the Fomale Medloal College of this oity is unavoi
dably oronded ont to-day,
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1858.
THE ALLIBONE AND NEWHALL CASE.
Opening Speech of j*Xr. Eoughead.
The Jury having all beda sworn or affirmed to well
and truly try the case, and a true deliverance make be- i
tween the Oommrawealth and Thomas Allibone and •
Thomas A.NewhaU, District Attorney Longhead opened .
the ease as follows: - I
May It please yonr Honor—Gentlemen of the Jury:
The bill of indiof meat whioh y i u are about to try is one !
yrhich charges Thomas Allibone, late of the countv of >
Philadelphia, the president ef the Bank of Pennsylva
nia. and Thomas A. Newh&ll, lately & director in that
bank, with the offence ofconsplraoy. - In two counts of
this bill of Indictment, tWdefendants are charged. one
as president and the other m director of the Back of
Pennsylvania, with a conspiracy to defraud that inst'-
tutioo; and a number of what we calUn technical lan
guaeo overt sots are laid In these two counts Ah it
will be in yonr cnetody. it may not be improper that
I ahf uld aay that this hill of indictment contained ori
ginally five counts—that is, a charge laid la five diffe
rent manners. In the fonrth couot, the defendants
.were charged with what Is technically known as embez
zlement.'under the act of 1850, whioh prescribed that
any president, director, or other officer of any bank In
corporated under that act, who fraudulently embeszled
the funds of the institution, or of any one entrusted to
Its charge, should be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and punished by a certain degree of punishment; ana
the third coant charg'd a conspiracy to commit that
off*nce; but those two counts, upon the defendants
coming Into court and saying they were not sofHoient
In law to maintain a prosecution upon against them,
the Oourt overruled. Tho demurrer was sustained,
and, therefore, the defendants are now upon their trial
on three counts of this indiotraent In each of these
counts the charge is that of conspiracy, or combining
together for the purpose of defrauding the Bank of
Pennsylvania
It is a case, gentlemen, of no ordinary Importance in
its bearings, and in the subjects whioh will come under
yonr investigation. It is a case of no ordinary import
ance to the defendants, and it is one of the highest pos
sible importance to the Commonwealth. The Bank of
Pennsylvania was an institution chartered in 1793, by
the Legislature of Pennsylvania, granting It what ere
known as banking privileges, and chartering it with a
capital of three mlllicrsof dollars In 1810 the re
obarter of this b«nk took place, with some change as to
the mode of the eleotion nr directors, loans and bonuses
to the Commonwealth, and-the management of the
b*nk. In 1880 itw»«reebartered for twenty five years,
so as to end, I thick, in Maroh, 3858, with a red need
capital of $2 600,000. It had had a history of on»x«m
pled p*o»p«rlty. It had t-een the favorite bank of
tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It had been
the reoipient of the publio funds of the Common'
wealth, an* the agency and offloa in whioh the trans
fers of publ { o stocks had bsonmwle. In.lBBo it stood
In that high and floorifh ng condition; but [n'.a few
years afterwards thO'e disastrous and ruinously oppres
sive times of 1837 and 1888 came upon the country,
prostrating individual enterprUo as well as corporate
capital, and the Bank of Pennaylvanla felt the shook In
common with the whole financial and commercial com
munity Acoordlng’y. In 1844 the capital of the bank
was rodeoed from $2 600.000 to $1662 000; and the
shares of stock, which bad before been fixed by the Le
gislature at $lOO etch, were correspondingly reduefd to
a par value of $?6O. After that reduction of capital,
the bank rotrioved its former high name, and fn 1849
felt sufficiently recaporated to ask for an loofease of
capitol. and by an act of Assembly, passed in 1849, Its
capital wia raised to $1 876,000. which continued to be
its .capital a'ooV until the time of its disastrous close in
September,’lBs7.
About the year 1863—1 do not tie myself down to
f articular dates; you will have them more particularly
rpm the witnoioos—the old gentleman, whd bad so
long aoted id ptwjldenf and careful financial guardian
of this back, Mr Trotter, res’gned his position, and
then one of the defend tots, new upon trial before you,
was elected to fill that highly responsible and honor
able post. At that time the b«nk was in a flourishing
condition ; its capital of $1,875 000 was' then bringing
In a fair and legitimate profit to its stockholders, and a
large and abundantly ample (i surplus fund” attested
the previous owoer of prosperity which bad attended
the business of the bank under ike care of that venera
ble old gentleman. I think that In 1858, at, the timo
the defendant, Thomas Allibone, assumed the presi
dent of the institution, the other defendant, Thomas
A. Newhall, was ft dlxeotorof the bank, end that he
was active, and perhaps mainly Instrumental, in pro
moting the election of Thomas Allibone to tho position
of president of bank. Certain it Is that these
twd persons were 'very intimate in aU their rela
tions—financial, social, and otherwise. When
ever, espeotally darlog the last* year of its ex
istence, when the troubles and the trials, when
the peculations and the intsmanaglements (wilful
and corrupt, or grossly negligee, as they' might
have been) began to thicken upon the hold of this de
voted institution—whenever dnriDg that laat year of
Hm utruogllng and painful existence, Ur. Allibone was
called away, he left In bH place as Its temporary head
and acting president, Mr. Tbomae A. Newhall, the
otberdefeudaut here I will show you. gentlemen, that
there were peculiar privileges allowed to the president
of this bank; that there were peculiar accounts to whioh
no £***• ** v ® that of the oonfllenttal clerk who wrote
them and tke or aoting president, whodl
& them, er P .r reachel ’H »««•»? «“>“
acoouata was, and how the stewardship WM
discharged, I eha[l presently show you. i shall open
It to you, and prove it by testimony that cannot be
doubted.
There was more than this tnttmaev between
fendants A member of the family of the prealdent of
the bank became the partner (n business of Mr. New
hall, the director in that institution, and many of the
loans which you will have before you, running through
the books of the bank, were loans to the cashier of that
business institution known as the Pennsylvania Bogar
Beflnery, In which Mr. Newhall and young Mr. Alli
bone were partners How this intimacy thickened,
how the threads’ of the web which had been woven
round tho capital and the assets of the bank drew
these two men together ao the great crisis approached,
Z will hereafter show you.
Now, gentlemen of tho ju*y, I have told you what
I intend to provn on tho part of the Commonwealth as
to the habits, tbo relations, and the positions ef IhefO
defendants. Let me next, for a single Instant, briefly
examine the offence which is here charged. It is, as I
Mid in tho outset, a conspiracy. Itis that these two
persons, in the confidential relations In which they
were placed, agreed together, unlawfully and fraudu
lently, that the funds of the bank should be abstracted,
fraudulently token, and used for their own benefit.
G sotlemen do not be cirried away by the idea that two
sagacious men like these or any who are brought here
charged with offences liko this, ever can be shown in the
aotnal not of conspiring together. • Do not imagine that
the Commonwealth will show (because we shall not
show) that those two defendants were closeted together
and that they laid their deliberate plan. We do hot
know their secret pgreoment. We do not know when
it originated. We do not knoy on the part of the
Commonwealth when It first sprang intoegutenoe. We
know It only by Ito fruits. We know it, and trace it
only by its acts, whioh, logically and legitimately fal
lowed up, show such a conspiracy and combination;
but the precise day, the exact hour when the tempta
tion was yielded to, and the combination was made, we
esnnot definitely establish. Let me read to you from
the book before mo. I take it from ibis book beosupe it
Js colfe’ed here and wilt savo the trouble of sendlngfor
a volume vht*h esnnot always be readily obtained,
what a learned indge said in reference to this offence,
and the method of its proof.
u in prosecutions for criminal eonipiraotes,” savs
judge Eiog. << the’proof of tho'rombination charged
must almost always be extracted from the olrcsmston
oes connected wl<h the transaction which forms the
snbjeot of accusation. In the history of criminal ad
ministration, the case is rarely found in wbfeh direct
and positive evidence of criminal combination exists.
To bold that nothing short of each proof is sufficient to
establish a conspiracy would be to give Immunity to
one of the most dangerous crimes which infest society.
Hence, In order to discover coospirators. we are foreed
to follow them through alHbe devious wfndirgs in whioh
tho natural anxiety of avoiding detection teaches men
SO circcmstanpcil to envelope th a mselves. and to trace
their movements from the slight but often unerring
marks of progress which*th* most adroltoanning can
not so effectively obliterate as io render them Inapprtf
oiable to the eyes’ of tbe sagacious investigator.
It is from the circumstances attending a cri
minal or a series or criminal acts that we are able to
become satisfied that they bar© been <he results not
merely of individual*, bat tbe products of oonoerted
and associated notion, which, If considered separately,
might seem to proceed exclusively from tbe mere agents
to them, but which may be so linked together by cir
cumstances, io themselves slight, as to leave the mind
rally satisfied that these apparently Isolated acta are
truly parts of a common whole, and that they spring
from a common object, hiving In view a common end.
Theadeqnsoy of ue evldep'e. in prosecutions fora
criminal conspiracy, to prove the existence of such a
conspiracy, like other questions of the weight of'evi
dence, is a question <or the jary. n —Wharton's Crimi
nal Law, section 2851.
I am, therefore, gentlemen, detailing to yon the eir
pamjtancaf under which this indictment Is preferred
against these defendants, and the method in which tbe
proof of the Commonwealth will be laid before you I
oame now to a part of the testimony that I shall offer
you showing transactions in this bank in 186 T, which
must startle and alarm all who hear it, wbqdonot
know oftbe transactions themselves. This bank bad
a Board of Directors who met together on oertaln fixed
and sttted days to transact what they snppos«dto be
the business of the management anddlreotfoo of tbe af
fairs of the bank. They were generally gentlemen
well known in onr business community, of
high character, and of busings principles. They
wontd meet together, and the ordinary business
of tbo bank would oome before them for trans
action. I bellevo that at most of these
meetings of tbe board of directors—and I allude
now more particularly to the Itst year of the existence
of tbe bank—th«ir busiceas was confined to the ordi
nary discounting of the paperthat was offered for dis
count. When these gentlemen, placing too most im
plicit reliance upon their officers, especially upon their
president, who was the financial head apd manager or
the Institution, had performed that labor, when they
had passed upon the japer that was ofleredaodseteoted
perhapasome $30,000 or $lO,OOO of It to be discounted,
and when they had read over the statement which was
handed to them of tho balance duo depositors, the
amount of and the arsets or tbe bank, they
supposed that the business of the bank was well nigh
concluded, ard thatthe preridentof the institution was
carry mg out what they had left for himtodo. Dreadfal
ly.wofully, were these directors mistaken on their confi
dence. When the directors 7 dqors bad closed, and the
gentlemen of the board had dispersed, tbpn began the
important business ofthe institution: then tbe ac
counts, of which 1 have given you an intimation, under
the immediate control of the president, or tbe acting pre
sident, and of which both these defendants had dlreot
knowledge, were opened to scatter ruin to tbe stock
holders and disaster to the institution. Then it was
that the president wonld loan or take enormous sums
from iho bank It was at such a time, upon tbe sixth
day of July, 1867 that the president, without tho know
ledge or authority or assent of the dirn:torg, gave
to the defendant, Thomas A. Newhall. tbe “ aorom
roodation,” aa it Is called, of tbe bank for £17,00), about
$32,709, In the shape of a bill of exchange drawn by the
haokupon a financial house in Liverpool. The transac
tions or Mr. Newhail with some European houses wore
very large, and It was necessary for him In the courro
of his business, as I Infor from the ovidence I shall
offer you, to make remittances to those European
houses, and, of course, it was necessary that he should
have the means of remittance, and ho obtained from
Mr. Allibone. on tbe oth of July, 1867, one sterling
draft fur $82,783 82-100: on the 14th of August, another
draft for £ll,OOO, or $59,065 63-100, all without the
knowledge or assent of tho beard of d[reotors. On
fiepteaber 1-t, he likewise got from the president a
draft for £lO 800 ss. 4d , which amounts, in our cur
rency, to $90,709 27-100, also without the knowledge
of tho directors of the bank ; on the second of Septem
ber, the day after, tbo further buui cf £0 000, or $29,-
00863 100. Thusfrom Jaly 6thtoBeptembor2d, with
out the knowledge of tho'ltoard of Directors, without
asking them whether each a crodit should ba given to
Mr Newhall, Mr. Allibone let bimharo $262,26478-100.
Now, mark, gentlemen, ns we go on, the bearings of
tho testimony which wo shall submit to you. Undoubt
edly, part of this large sum of $202,000 was or could be
naid ror by Mr. Newtali, and his various houses or
firms who kept several accounts in the bank ; acij to
pay for thia Mr Newhall gave what are commonly called
and kuown as memorandum ebooks; that iB to say,
ebeckß which ate not handed to the teller of tbe bank
who Date checks to pay them, notdrawingthe cash, bat
representing the cash, as it istermtd.nnd put in the
receiving teller's drawer «e eaeh. Therefore, while
there ohooka are lying In the receiving leller’a drawer,
the man Is using ihe money of the bank until those
cheeks ate actually charged to his account. During the
whole of thU time, and up to the period of which I shall
oreseutlr apeak, {to wtt, from the 17th to tho 22d of
September, 1857,) theee large advance! wore partlypa d
for bv Mr Newhall giving two memorandum checks for
about *135,000. Paper dlreoting the payment or so
muoh money, elgned “Thomas A. Newhall,» In two
oheeks, amounting to *130,(00, wao dally counted, hr
tho direction of the president of tho bank, as so much
hard money belonging to the institution.
Well gentlemen, wj all know that in tho fall of
1867, towards tho end of September, iheterrible whirl
wind lhatewept over the commercial world, came on.
and its force waß severetyfelt by the Bank of Pennayl
vanla These two defendants knew—none knew it
better, for they understood tbe affairs of the Bank bet
ter than any other director or officer; in fact, they
alone understood them—that a day of settlement must
come. Tbe bills of exchange or which I have spoken,
drawn by the prealdent or tbe bank upon the Liverpool
house, had to be met there: they were drawn upon tho
house of George PeaHd'« Oo : and, as they accomu
lated and large sums became due in consequence of
these’ drafts on that house, the Bank of Penn-*
svlvania must do something to plaoe funds
there; Mr. Thomas A. Newh’ll must do some
th-ng at toe same time to relieve his aocounts.
and to take up the memorandum ebticki for $lBO,OOO
which remained In th*‘ receiving toiler's drawer as cash.
Accordingly on the 371 i of September, Mr. Newhall, la
the name of his firm, signing “T, A. Newhall & Oo.,"
drew a bill or exchange upon the house of Rostron Sc
00., in Manchester, for £50,000 I think I shall satie
ty you that Mr. Newhall. when be drew that bill of. ex
uhang*, had not on* dollar coming to him from tho
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house of Bostron & Co.; that it was a mere experi
ment, hoping that for grace and favor.they would accept ,
and give him a little time to turn around* in. Bome- i
thing musk be done with thlsbUl. or else (he drawing
of It would bo of no sorvioe f and Mr. AUibcne, without,
tbe slightest knowledge of the dlreotors, without their
knowing either the necessity for such a step, or I
the . precarious position In which tbe bank was .
placed, without their having the slightest inti
mation even that it was convenient for the '
bank to do such a thfog. buys this piece of paper from
Mr. Newhall for £60.0017 5 and immediately they send it
off, with Mr. Newh&U’s son In the same steamer, to tbe
parties upon whom It was drawn, for tbe purpose of ao
o.ptanoe. You will thus see that £6O 000, or about
$240,000, were added to Mr. Newb&ll’s or’dit upon the
books of the bank by this transaction ; bat he had then
deposited in the teller’s drawer his checks for 186.000 < f
which I have spoken, so that he takes that $136,000,
and then in the course of four.or five days, when Mr.
AUlhone is absent from the bank, anl Newhall is aoting
fireeldont, he goes to the note clerk, who had charge of
t, and tells him that It is Mr. Allibone’a wish and di
rection that he shall receive credit for that £50,000
draft, and on the 22d of September they extend to him
upon tbe beoks of tbe bank a credit for $240 000 Then
Mr. Newhall can take up hie $lB6 OCO of memorandum
checks, and have a handsome balance of $104,000 upon
that bill of exchange, for which amount he is apparent
ly aoredltor of the bank.
This was on tbe 22dof September I Mr Allibone then
came to tbe bank. The ominous 25th day of Septem
ber arrived. This bank that had before maintained
such a high character, that had such ample command of
funds, it was found oonld no longer sustain itself, aDd
on the 25th of September, 1857, when the unfortunate
depositors and note-holders wont to its doors to transact
tbelr usual business they found them closed. The final
catastrophe had been reached. The time had cme
when these drippings—drippingsdid I say ?—when these
deluges of the assets of the bank that bad been
showered by the president and the directors
upon themselves and their friends, had brought it
to Its flaal ruin. All was excitement In the city of
Philadelphia; everyspedesof business was neglected.
Every poor rosn who h«d a ass note upon any bink was
runnlog to save it. In a few days after this, Mr AlU
bone ceased to come to the Bank of Pennsylvania. Ido
sot wish to do intentional injustice. He was, doubtless,
much occupied iu meeting thoofllcersof other banks, but
at any rate he was very little at the Bank of Pennsylva
nia, and about the sth or 6th of October he retired to
his home, alleging sickness as the came Mr. Newhall
had up to this period been taking a very activo part
in the affairs of the bank: but let me here remark
in pacing that I shall show you he seldom went
to the board when they met for ordinary ds
count business. That was not tbe business he had to
do- His business was usually transacted after the
board bad gone. Mr. Newhalt, with this credit upon
the books of the bank) by means of the bought bill of
which I last spoke, was apparently a large creditor of
the bank, a large depositor. It was announced on the
25th dty of September that the bank would transact no
more business at present. Carta were put out by di
rection and request, a resolution having been offered
by tbe defondant (Allibone) at the board of directors,
which was passed, cautioning everybody not to be
scared or alarmed at the position which th*y were com
pelled temporarily,to occupy, and assuring them that
the bank had ample assets to redeem all its liabilities,
whether' of deposit, circulation, or otherwise.
It was then the duty of the president and directors
ef this bank earnestly to strive to retrieve the position
which it had lost. It became tbeir duty, In the dis
charge of the trust confldod to them, to look faithfully
after the interests or the stockholders, the depositors,
and the note-holders of the bank—tbo note holders
alone haying olalms reoohing to $600,000. Lot us see
wnat wad the as the Commonwealth will ahow
you, that was taken of these interekts, and how this
trust was discharged. On the 28th of Beptember. be
fore Mr. Allibone hftd retired to his house in West
Philadelphia, away from the turmoil and excite
ment of the scene, Mr. Newhall went into the
hank. There was among the employees of the insti
tution a cleric called i£e note-clerk. 'When bills
and notes 'wtere* dhcounted, they were regularly
handed to this note-clerk,‘who put them upon his book
—I am stating the process substantially, liable, how
ever, to be corrected by the witnesses hereafter—and as
the notes, which were then confided to the cashier, or
to thp note-gler£ under his direotipn, approached ma
turity, tbqy ware again Into the actual cor
poral cpstody pf the note-plerk tv examine and to keep
arranged for payment On the 28th of Beptember, Mr.
Newhall, then aotiog as temporary president, instead of
guarding interpats of tip depositors, p.rthe note
holders. and of tbo stockholders of th» hank, walked
up to the clerk who had possession of these notes, and
demanded from him a certain amount of them. Be se
lected from the notes then the property of the bank,
the suspended bank, $45,499 62-100 of the bills dis
counted aod approaching maturity. He took a
note of William 8. Boyd & 00. for $1,496 27-100
due the next day, Sept. 2fHh: a note of Woods.
Obrtflty. & 00. fa well known Western firm) for
$3 874 75-1(0 due the next : day/ Bept 29th‘: a'note
of Farnham, Sfrkbam. A 00. for $1,103 68-100, due
Sept. 3Qth 5 a note of Williamson, Taylor, & 00. (a
well-kDpwn dry gopds hoqse in the olty of Philadelphia)
for $1,546 17*100, due OptQber Ist; another note of
William 8. Boyd & Oo forslo,oCo. due Oot. lst-and the
case of the Commonwealth will have something more
to do with this $lO,OOO note before It finishes with
these defendants. He took a note of Orrtok, Brent, &
Thompson, due Oot. lit, for $1,166 46-100; a note of
A Blade A 00., due Oot. Bd, for $1,000: a note of B. O.
Knight A 00., due Oot 3d, for $3,010 * 89-100; a note
of P..& B. Slevin, due Oot. 3d, for $515 06-100;
a note of Thompson, Olerk, A Young, due Oct Bd, for
a note of Thompson Black, due Oot. 4th,
for $742 80-100: a note of Gorge Ogden, Jr., due Oot.
6th, for $621 87-100; a note or Weaver A Graham, duo
Oct. 6th, for $496 84-100; a note of Wesendoack A 00.,
duo 06t 6th. for $2,600:’ a note otQoo.F, Thomas, pre
sident of the Commercial Insurance Company, due Oot,
9th, for 73,000; a note of G. Lippineott AOo , due Opt.
10th, for $2,000; a note of Gillespie, Zeller ACo , dqe
Oct. 12th, for $46510-100; and a note of tbo Philadel
phia and Readirg Railway Company for $lO,OOO, due on
the 10th or October I ask you here, gentlemen, to
mark this note of $lO 000 of the Philadelphia and Road
log Railroad Company, due Oct. 10th, and the note of
WiliiamS Boyd A 00., for SIO,fOO, due Oct. Ist. Here
was an aggregate of $45,499 82 100, for which Mr. New
hall deposited bis memorandum check: that is, the
obeck was drawn against the balance he had accumula
ted by that' blli'of exchange. in fhls way that
the Interests of the depositors, note-holders, andstodk?
holders were looked after by Mr. Newhall! But this wab
done with the knowledge of Mr. AUlbone; It was done,
according to Mr. Newhall’s statement, bv Mr. Alll
bone’s dlreotlon, and when he was told of it he approved
the act.
Let me go a step farther, and disclose another trans
action. On the oth of Ootober there were in the Bank
of Pennsylvania two notes doe. drawn by a highly
respectable firm in Markot atrept, Morris L, Hallowell
A Go., for $20,000 each. - They were due to the Bank of
Pennsylvania; they had been discounted there, and
wero payable there. Morris L. Hallowell A 00. had
been large depositors in the bank, and when it olosed its
doortf, on the 25th of September, they had a considera
ble balance due them la the bank. Th*y thought, as
every one would think, that it was just, and right, and
proper, that what tbe bank owed them on their deposit
apeoutft should be tafeen from the amount of tbo notes
which they owed the bank, am| it was'uuderstQod be
tween them and all the officers pf the Sank, Mr. Alll
bone included, that the bank was to receive the check
of M. L. Hallowell A 00. for tbe amount of their de
posit. afime $l4 000, in part payment of these two notes,
and that the balance of the $40,000 should be paid in
what were then known as current funds. On the morn
ing or the day that these nates fell due Mr Newhall,
then acting, I think, as the temporary preatdent of the
bank, at any rate In tbe absence of Mr. AUlbone, who
was at his house, in West Philadelphia, went to tho
clerk having possesrion of the notes, and teld him he
must Rtve them to him. The olerk demurred at
first, but he #as tqld tfrat it was by direction
of the president j that he wig to take them to flallo
well’a counting-house, there to negotiate the settle
ment. The olerk then Improperly, unadvisedly, but,
as he supposed, entirely rightfully, became his supe
riors had direoied it. gave op these two notes to Mr.
Newhall. Mr. Newhall then went up to the counting
house of Morris L. Hallowell A 00. Theie he re
ceiv'd from that firm tbeir check for $14,000 on the
Bank of Pennsylvania, and he reoeived there also
their checks npon three solvent, paying banks fa
this city, the Philadelphia Bank, the Farmers and
Mechanics’ Bank, and I think the Bank of North
America, for the balance of the $40,000. Mr.
NewbaU went to these banks and drew twenty-six
thousand dollars In current funds, then at par. Iq two
or three hours from the time when he obtained theie
notes from the note olerk, he returned to the Bank
of Pennsylvania, and proceeded to settle with the olerk
for the funds he had received from M. L. Hallowell A
Company In payment of tbeir two notes of $20,600
eioh. Mark you, gentleman, this la a director of a ru
ined institution, who ie taking oare of the interest of
the stockholders, of the noteholders, and of the depos
itors! He handed to the olerk. as payment of them
• two notes of M L. Hallowell A Company, first their
obeck for $14,000, whioh was perfectly fair and legiti
mate thou $6,000 of tho circulating notes of (he bank;
alsq, an ucdqe note of the Philadelphia and Reading
RailroadUonipany for SIO,OOQ, dqe the next 4*T» the
very note which ho had taken from the bank on the
28th of Beptember; also, a cheok of the Bank of Penn
sylvania for $lO 000. drawn that day by G. Phllier,
oashier, payable in blank, and therefore unendorsed Up
on this the Commonwealth will offer you a slight butain
gular history. I called your attention, when stating the
number or notes that Mr Newhall had abstracted from
the bank on the 28th of September, to the foot th *t he ob
tained a note of Wm. 8 Boyd A 00. for $lO,OOO, due
qq tbe Ist of Oetober. In the disasters that swept over
tbe commercial world at that time. Wm. 8. Boyd A 00.
were unable at that particul&r 'btlsis to take up that,
note which had beea discounted by the Bank of Penn
sylvania. They saw Mr. Allibone, and be agreed that
In view of the crisis, they should have some extension
of time. This, so far, was perfectly fair and legitimate.
It was proper In thkt terrible crisis, if accommodation
cou’d be afforded and extension given, that it should be
done to undoubted houses in undoubted distress. Mr.
Nowhall was acting as president of the bank when
these notes became (due. They went to Mr. New
hall and told him or the understanding. Mr.
Newball, I think we shall show you, never said
to them u I have that note.’’ but said to
them ‘-very will,” They came jo an arrangement by
whioh Mr.’Newball gave them up that pote bf $lO,OOO
and received four notes ante-dated, one as if made July
24th, 1867, for $2 668 72-100, one July 31at, 1857, for
$2 601 28-100, one August 25th, 1857. for $2 613 27-100,
and ono August 30th, 1867, for $2,686 78-100, each at
■our months. You will perceive that if these four
notes were discounted on the 27th of September, the
interest from that time to their maturity deducted from
tbeir face would leave exactly $lO 000. Mr. Newhall,
tbe board not being In session, goes to the discount
clerk, who was acting for tho oashier at the time, and
says “Enter these notes as discounted on the 27th of
September, ana give me a obeck for them,” and Mr. G.
Phllier, Jr., the cashier’s son, gave him a check for these
notes. This SIQ 000 check, njarkyou, was tbe product
of the four notes given for the 210,000 note of William
8. Boyd A 00. Therefore, Mr. Newhall obtained In that
way for tho sli>,ooo note of William 8. Boyd A Co.,
which be bad taken from the bank, this obeck, which
he handed in to tho clerk as the mopey he had received
from M. L. Hallowell A 00.
I have told yon that $6,000 of the $lO,OOO were'
haod*d to the olerk in Pennsylvania Bank notes—
handed in by Mr. Newhall as received from M- L. Hal
lowell A 00., in payment of their two notes. In other
words, instead of glvlog $26,000 in current funds to the
bank, which he hid received from M.L. Hallowell A
Co., Mr. Newhall handed in that amount nominally In
paper of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which w&s <hon at
a disoouut of 10or 16 per cent., and In credits. He
pocketed a nice sum by that neat little operation! If
only 10 per cent., he made $2,600. That was the way
this director took care of tbe Interests of the stock
holders, note-holders, and depositors of the bank,
whom he ought to have protected ! This matter wab
entrusted to his hands—and this wa? done by the al :
lowaace and by tho direction of the president ot tfae
bank, for whom he was acting. But I pass from that
transaction.
Gentlemen of the jury, I will show you by evidence
that after tbe bank had suspended, nn the 6tli day of
Ootobor, when all around was disaster and ruin, when
poor people were praying for the payment of the $5 note
or $lO note they held in their hands, which had repre
sented, a few weeks before, all tho money thoy were
worth, Mr. Allibone, the preaideotof tbe bank, and Mr.
Newball, aoting as a director, and inconcert with him,
came into the bank, and went to the receiving teller
(who had been receiving, in payment of claims due to
the back, and due to note-holders who had deposited
notes for pp leption, tbe current funds then passing at
;ar in the city, and who had pecelred somo thousands
r>f dollars in that sort of money)—going eltho**
toother, or tbo one saying tbe other was waiting— aid
uireoted the receiving toller to band them two sums,
one of $7,300, and tho other of $O,OOO, in ourrent funds.
The receiving teller remonstrated, saying that this
would not do; that they would not have enough to pay
(be holders of the notes whohad deposited them there,
and that they must not take those current funds. The
ooly reply was that they must have it, and, d esplto his
rsmonstrauoe, they took from the drawer of the teller
$13,310, for which they deposited Mr. Newhall’s check
on the bank, drawn, I think, against the balance crea
ted upon the sterling bill That is a circumstance
which I shall bring to your attention by oompetent and
irrefragable testimony.
Gentlemen, when this disaster overcame the bank,
It was not apparent to the directors, It wis not appa
rent to tho community, If they believed the statements
and plaoirds of the officers of the bank, bat it was ap
parent to persons who bad been sagacious enough to
watch the progress of events, that this bank was utterly
ruined. During the anxious meetings of the board of
directors, there was la the room in whioh they met,
the president’s room, an iron fire-proof, and ip that fire
proof the prfsident gave them to understand were the
valuable assets of the bank. There, in that enug
retreat, and safely locked, were the assets which
would answer *ll the demands upon the bank
when this furore had spent itself, for a moment,
so as to give an opportunity to make them availa
ble. la other words, the representations, di
rectly and Indirectly, were that there wae in that
fire-proof at least a million of dollars in good securities,
In good notes and bonds. Mr. Alhbono, as 1 have said, be
came sick early in Ootober; be went to his house In
West Philadelphia; he did not attend the meetings of
theb&nkAft*r Gthjo!Ootober. Thatfire-proof had
a key, but the key was nowhere to be found. The
key had been always in the exclusive custody of the
president of the bank. Itwassentfor by the board of di
rectors—not once, bnt again and again, and thero wee el.
ways eotne excuse for Its non-production. Tho key was
lost; It wee mislaid; it cruld not be found; bo
could not lay his hands on it; It would be sentfjh
direotly; it wohld be sent In the next morning.
These 'were Ihe various excuses, Proortutinaticn
ia tho delivery of that bey wu, In the vJew cf
the anxious d rectors, keeping them from a delightful
view of those immensoosseia locked up in that fire
proof. At length the health of Mr. AlUbouo became eo
much weakened and shattered that he wa* obliged to
start for Europe, to g> away 'rom these sceuos of
trouble and these constant explanations which were
harassing his brain—and Ido not wonder at It. When
called upon to account for these things be was obliged
to raskbis brain forth* answers which he ought to
give, and I do notwouder that this distracted him, and
he was obliged, for the a*ke of bia health, to travel in
Europe! While the whistle of tho locomotive which
was to carry him to his port of departure was sounding
inOamden, the key of that fire-proof was slowly and re
luctantly wending its way into the{key-hole of the fire
proof In the president’s rooirt of the'Bank of Penn
sylvania, the deligh'ed directors standing around ready
to gra»p what was to redeem them from' the
pressure which wa9 upon them. The bank was loaded
down with a debt to the other city banks of over a mil
lion of dollars from over-issues, from checks upon it
which they held—checkß for which there was money In
the Bank of Pennsylvania or ought to have beon If it
had been left there by the officers Knowing that the
heavy load was upon them, the anxions directors stood
around greedily awaiting the opening of the box—this
iron box, which I am afraid was destined to prove a
Pandora’s box to Them as to the stockholders They
opened, and in place of amillionof d-iilarain good securi
ties, there came foith some boodß of the Horapfleld
Railroad Company that had not a cent’s worth
of market value, that no* broker would buy at
any price, upou which loans'had been made, with
out the kcowledge or consent of the directors, to
tho extant of $239,600. There were 5280,6C0 of notoi
of the Hempfield Railroad Compaoy, if possible, more
worthless than the bonds, with $467 000 of the bonds
nominal y, but having, perhaps, 467 cents actual value,
as collateral security for the notes. They found, also
In the tame sacred repository, exhibits, showing that a
late director of tho bank, Mr. Daniel Deal, aod his firm,
had been getting from the president and his coadjutors
(not the directors, for they knew nothing of this—it
was some of the business of the bank done when the
doors of the committee-room had bean oto*ed.) loans to
the amount of $l4O 818 21-100. They found farther a
bundle of notee of the president’s brother and bis
pnrtner, amounting in all to $23 90316-100 The whole
indebtedness of the President brother and his firm to
the bank was $116,026 67-100, of which notes to
the amount of over $23,000 wore fou< d in this
fiie-rroof. They fonnd also what wero capitally and
patently called ‘’ghosts’’—wbat bed been good b'lls of
the banks, wbat had represented the bills receivable ;
that is, the bills dlscountedand received by the Bank
of Pennsylvania I will not hazard a statement a* to
the amount of them. What is meant by “ahrsts” Is
this: Instead of the bill itsMf, In each Q*se was a little
slip of •paper, “Niteof • fors— s ” a memorandum
to show that tho note hat been there. These memo
randa they found in the fire-proof—memoranda which
were, like fath, “the substance of things toped fer,
and the evidence of things not seen,” and never to be
seen by the stockholders of this unfortunate institution.
Thero were also Borne private papers found there be
longing to different parties
Here was an end of the hopes of the directors and the
eager anticipations of the stockholders, depositors and
note-holders of the bank. Thoy turned in dismav, un
til finally, finding nothing of tbe affairs of the bank, dis
traoted by tbe liabilities pressing upon it, they appeal
ed to the Govornor of the Commonwealth to inquire un
der an act of Assembly into its affairs. He appointed a
commission to come here and Investigate the affairs of
the bank, to find (hopeless search !) where the 'ssets
had been carried. This commission of iotelligentcen
tlemen. as intelligent a eommiasiqa m could have been
selected In the Ptato ftf Pennsylvania, after weeks
npd wee as of labor, were finally driven to say
that they could make little or nothing of the
terrible entanglements and Intricacies into which
the affairs of Ibis bank had been burled lVhOo
they wero progressing la their labors, tho unfor
tunate stockholders pf tfce bank met! and' ap
fiointed a committee tp Investigate the affairs of tbe
natHntlonl They likewise selected intelligent, saga
cious, well-known citizens—men who had given time
and attention to matters of this sort, and they were
a*ked to fiod where tbe assets of this bank bad gone.
Thg Inquiry “ wherel” has beep answered only by tbe
echo—where ?” A' part of year functions, gentle
men, Will be to aoawer that question, if you can, & lit
tle more rubatantively than it has yet been answered.
In the midst of the labors of the comnTstion appointed
by the Governor, tbe directors beearae convinced that
so utterly and hopolessty insolvent wai this hank,
which had once stood so proud, that they recommended
to the stockholders, and they agreed to the unfortunate
suggestion—{ dq npt unfortunate pol oy, but
unfortunate as being forced upon them—to make
a voluntary assignment of the assets of the bank.
Thoy dirt so at once, and I will ehow before you, wbat
three sworn appraisers, who p'cked up those things
which wero brought as assets, tell us. for the first t'roo
hi the legal investigation or tbe affairs of tbis bank
represents its great capital of $1 876 000, and tbe one or
two millions of dollars of debt* against the bank.
Those appraisers, sworn to do their duty and to ap
praise truthfully and well, as we shall show you, re
turned into the Court of Common Pleas for this coun
ty, that all thev could find of the assets amounted, in
its length and breadth, to $162/00.
Now, gentlemen of the Jury, pardon mo for taking
you back for a single instant to tbe management of
this bank in its days of prosperity, as they were
called. There wero in the bank, as you will find by
examining its books, a number of peculiar accounts.
I wyi tell you how they were made up. The presi
dent or the acting president drew hfs checks, which
word paid at the paying teller's desk, or passed to the
credit of the party to whom they were given as so
much cash, without limit, saying at the end of the
Checks, “Charge transient discount account.” This
was done by both those defendants. That is to say,
there was an account which purported to be a tran
sient discount account, kept for tbe purpose of allowing
transient discounts to be made between the meetings of
the board to good men, customers of the bank, when
they were in a hurry and must have moans at onco.
This fund was at the command of tho president or the
aotlng president without any limitation whatever,
and wo shall show you ljow it was used.
Qnthe Ist of October, 1867, on 1 1hU'account there
was ft deficit upon the books of the bank, of money that
the president had drawn the amount of $425 -
048 GT-IGo—gone, whitberno one knows; how, no one
can tell Yet. gentlemen, while we ore seeking jostlce,
let ua do jostlce. This transient discount account hsß
been reduced by parties who were accommodated, and
who I take to be tbo legitimate parties that really did
get transient discounts to tho triflinpf!) sum of $301.-
000. That ia all upon that accountwhich stands against
the president of tfoe bank i Bear in mind, gentlemen,
that no one had aooess to that, or dare draw a check on
that account, bat the president or tbe actlogpresident.
and I will show yru that It is a privilege which neither
of the defendants declined Mr. Newhall, while aotlng
as pres dent of the back, drew out for his own accom
modation $132 COO of this fund.
Then, gentlemen of the jury, we pass to another ac
count, equally mysterious aod equally disastrous.
Thera was In the bank an account which was known ag
the Temporary Loin account.’ It was opened for the
purpose of allowing between boards, when discounts
oould not be bad, parties who were in good standing,
who were customers of the bank, and were laboring
under a little temporary pressure forwent of means to
‘make up amounts to pay notes, or for othor business
purposes, to borrow from the president, on such secu
rity as they could give, snob sums as would enable
them to get through, er as he would lend them for
a few days. Ac matters were managed, there was
so special fund set aside in tbe bonk either
for the transient discount account, or the tem
porary loan account, or another account wh'ch
I shall come to presently—there was no specific
sum of money set apart for them. The president
could draw ad libitum upon the funds of the
bank: he could take the whole oapltal. 1n1857, when
the frightful accumulation of these accounts was sta
ting them in the face, both Mr. Allibone and Mr. New
halT freely used the temporary loan acoount. and each
of them drew upon it while aotlog as president ef the
bank, so that on the Ist of October there was an enor
mous deficit in that account of $176,498 66-100, which
has since been reduced by payments of parties who ac
tually received accommodation to $320,000, which is
entirely unaccounted for.
There was In tbis bank another equally disastrous ao
ooont called the ate llog account. In 1864 the Board
of Directors directed sqob an account to be opened, #qd
it was opened with the celebratod houso in Liverpool
to whioh I have before alluded—George Peabody A
Oo It was thus begun legitimately; but In April,
1856, an account was opened by the president with
smother firm, and a bill for £40.000, or about $lOO,OOO
was obtained. That was passed to the oredit of
((Thomas Allibone, president,” because there was an
aocount existing in the bank, “ Thomas Allibore, presi
dent,” and he could draw unlimitedly upon the funds
of the bank &s president of the institution. In other
words, the president could draw upon his aocount as
president, upon the sterling account of which I am now
speaking, upon the transient discount "account, upon
the temporary li an account He had four mouths with
whioh to gulp up the assets of this bank. Tbe
sterling account was at first in books whleh were liable
to the inspection of the directors;bnt very shortly
after, when large Amounts began to be charged to ster
ling account, and charged in favor of “Thomas Alli
bone, president,” he took it upon himself to direct that
this acoount should be put in what is called the Indi
vidual Ledger. Those who do not understand what that
is may think there la very little in the change of a
'book,* but the Individual Ledger is the book in the
bimk, as I understand, in which the ptivate accounts
of all the depositors were kept The account of every
span vhq deposited money there was placed in the “ In
dividual Ledger,” ana tbe amount of ohecks drawn by
him was placed opposite the amount ofhisdepesits. In
that book no slogle director, no board of directors, by
a special, by-law, and tbe rules of the institution, had
a right to look' Ko one dare go to the Individual
Ledger but tho president himself How it came there
you will hear an explanation of hereafter, I hope, for
I havo never been able to conceive of one; but it was
placed in the “ Individual Ledger,” so that the amount
of money whioh tbe president drew, saying upon the
ohecks. “ Charge ste-ling acoount,” was pat in this
Individual Ltdger, aod when the deposits were summed
qp everv day your $2OO/00 or $3OO QQp of deposits were
cut down by having against them a per contra of so
much of the sterling account,and, instead of exhibiting
to the directors the real amount of deposits, it exhibit
ed so maob less deposits as tho sterling acoount in
creased.
There was another motive. I said that no one dare ex
amine that account except the president, or aotlng pre
sident of the hank. It was found impossible to make
head or tail of this account, to get any accurate idea of
how it stood. Items were ordered to the sterling ao
count one day. and then transferred to the aco'mnt of
“Thomas Allibone, president,-’ another, so that tbe two
accounts became so mixed that it was Impossible to tell
bow they stood. They were all embraced finally In the
president’s account, and of that now permit mo to say
a word. In tho account thusore&ted, it appears that
there now exists a deficit, a lops to the steckho'ders, of
$490,000, not one dollar of which is accounted for.
Bear in mind that both these defendants Lad entire
access to these books, that both could examine them.
A singular (though it was sold to be an unintentional),
and a fatal mistake to them, is,that it was c eoassory some
explanation should be made of the affairs of tbe bank,sod
in the sterling account was found a debit against George
Peabody, tbe Liverpool banker, of $191,111, asif he owed
the bank that sum, whereas no such indebtedness ex
ists, and when the maite- was probed, it was acknowl
edged that this was n entire mistake. It was said that
tbis was an unintentional error. How any one could
mnke such a mistake, will be a question for you to de
termine when I produce the evidence before you.
Gentlemen of the jury, there is one other matter to
which I desire to call yonr attention: We have seen
how the fire-proof was opened Rod how nothing came
out. Among the bills of the bank we are able to trace
tbe*e: a note of E O Knight A 00., due Qct Oth,
1667, for $3,010 89 100; a note of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, due Oot. lath, for $36,000; one of
Robeson, Brooks, A Co., due Oct. Ifith, fors3,ooo; ono
of Thompson, Clark, A Young, duo Oot. 20th. for
$2,601 60-100; cue of Joseph Howell A Co., due Nov.
6th, for $5,000; one of tho Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, due Nov. 16th, for $25 000; another of the
Same company, due Nov 20th, for s's 000; and another
note, the namo of the drawer of whioh is illegible to
mo, for $360, doe Nov. 17th. TbeßO specific notes wore
gone, taken, abstracted —no one knew whither they
went; bat I will show you that these defendants are
the parties who alone could have taken these notes. I
cannot apportion the amounts between them, bat I
will show you that ene of these defendants, when
pressed, when the tirao came when an investigation
would look a little furthor than white-washed tales
and fine speeches, deposited to tho credit of tbis ao
count $36,000, reducing the amount from $98,871 to
$03,000; and you may readily see how the defalcation
for the balance is to be accounted for.
Gentlemen of the jury, I shall not detain you longer.
I Trill show you what I have promised to do; I will
show you tho connection of tho defendants; I wi'l
show yon their management; and then I shall ask ytru
to stamp with your seal of reprobation, by a verdict of
conviction, such transactions as are thus brought to
your eyes and to the desecration almost of justice. I
said when I opened thiß case that It was an important
one—important in its various interests. It Is impor
tant to these defendants, because this trial opens np to
them the opportunity of fairly explaining to. this jury
what I put to them as the evidences of crime. It will
give them the opportunity to ac ount if they can; and
none will rejoice more than I, and none in this comran
nity, perhaps, will rejoioe more thin those who have fan
cied that they have been grossly wronged and defrauded,
if these defendants shall satisfactorily account for all
these thloge, square theip actions before a jury, and
come out unscathed. It Is important to the Common
wealth. It Is Important thatthe juatlco of the Com.’
monwealth he impartially administered It is impor
tant that so great a disaster and so foul a wrong be
brought to the bar of justice to answer for its fruits. In
that view it iR highly important to the Commonwealth,
and its importance can hardly be overrated; but lu
orery other aspect of the oase, it is no other than every
case which comes into a crimkat oourt, and it is to re
oelve at your hands nootierconsMeraMon I mean
m less and no greater than every case which comes in
tj this oourt.
While I ilk you, gentlemen, to put aside from yonr
minds, in travelling through thiß oase, every prejudice
which the diaouaaion of the affairs of this hank may
have oreatod, and to give the defendants a fair trialj I
warn you equally not to be led away by the social posi
tion or the high character which they have heretofore
mntntAicedf.DOt.to shrlnkfrom the investigation on ac
oount of the magnificence of the fraud which was per-
bnt calmly, deliberately, honestly to examine
laehvidence na it shall be brought before you, and so
to render your verdlot thatyou will be justified by your
Consciences and your God. ;
con °tasl<m of Mr. Longhead’s opening, the
f® aT r ®djonrned until ten o’clock this morning, hav
day &trao sit from ten to four o’clock each
District Coobt No. I—Judge Stroud.—
'‘dratniitrator of Owen MeM«mu,
M “S aret MiMeima, adminlatratrii of
TWawaaa scire facial
stir mortgage. Verdict for plaintiff $1,047.60. Daniel
Dongherty for plaintiff; H. &. oia 7 for defendant.
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS THIB EVENING.
Mrb. D. P. Bowkbs’ Walnut-streit Thiatbi.—
“Aline”—“The Irish Attorney.”
WOTATtSY A OliAr.Kß’g AXOH-BTXJfIT TffXAV«l.—
“Our American Cousin Charles II.”
National Oirods —“Lent’s Circus Company.”—
Polish March and Cavalcade—Equestrian and Gymnastic
feats.
Assbmbly Buildings.—Signor Blits.
Sanford’s Opsba Hoobh.—Ethiopian Entertain
ments
Ejiakspeabb Oonobbt Saloon, Sixth and Chestnut.
—Miscellaneous Entertainment.
Heal Estate, Stocks, &c.— Thomas &
Sons’ sale of Real Estate, Stocks, Ac., took place at
the Philadelphia Exchange last evening. The follow
ing ere the sales: ,
Lots Nos 633 to 843 inclusive. Woodland Cemetery,
f“uO; 2 shares Arch-street Theatre stock,with tickets,
$330; i share Point Breeze Park Association, $131: 6
shares Union Bteamship Company, par $lOO, $11: 2
and Savannah Bteam Nav. Co., par
$6OO, s2o; 14 shares West Chester Railroad Company,
8 per cent preferred stock, par $6O, $11: 61 shares
Northumberland Coal Company, par $5O. $1; Pew No. 7
H 1 ? d ! e nv m ®, T e , n , th Presbyterian Church, $142 60; 1
»uVi 8 ., P i h, J? <le l? hla Athenaeum, $9 60; 8 shares West
L b J ,a ? e: l S* }a Passenger Railroad, par $6O, $4O paid,
£ a s S so ’ ? 10 paid, $36 25; 6do do,
. s:>o, full paid, $46. Lot and dwellings north side
or gproce fltreet, ea.t of Twooty-Hecond. £1.700; three
story trick dwelling, 623 Ohrlitlan utreot 51,076; Urge
and Taluabte lot of grouod with three fronts, 109 feet
ir'.rnm- fr °;‘ “ street, 126 feet fronton
„*“!!2 01 V 1™ Bt > “d 126 feet front on Pennsylrnnla
nrecue, S 7.000; Tnlnable four-story brown stone and
mestlo office.betiding, No 627 Valent street, S 8.000;
la r 5S'"V > ?’ b ;l. ck »S“, te “” 4 dwelling, Eighteenth street
Sonth, s676; three■ story brick dwelling 816
Wharton street, $400; neat modern residence, 8. B
corner Wood aod Eighteenth a'reets, $1,100; three
story brick dwelling, Bratt street, east of Falrmonot
street, $160; roar three story brick dwellings, ad
jolnlng the above, each $160; three three-etory brick
dwellings, Pratt street, adjoining the above, each s76o'
three story brick dwelling. Davis street, west of Thir
teanth, Twentieth ward. $476.
Private sales since last report: Dwelling No. 115
South Tenth street, $5,000; Lot, Chestnut street, west
of Eighth, 26 feet front, $31,000.
Assault ard Battery.—Jacob Ridgway,
who is the proprietor of a house in that delectable
neighborhood, Bradford’s alley, near Bt. Mary’s street,
whero the colored population of our city “most do con
gregate,” and from which there *» oft nroqeeds a sound
of revelry bv night,” in conjanqtion with Hiss Mary
Henry, of the same eboqyhne as the aforesaid Jacob,
wsb arrested on Mond'y night on the charge of Maty
Jones, wh° asserts that the above pair did most shame
fully beat and bruise her, in cocsequence of whieh
treatment they were this morning arraigned before Al-
German Patehell, and as none of their many friends
seemed disposed to go their security for three hundred
dollars, they were both committed to answer.
Aoqidents.—Andrew Wolfe, aged 25. was
admitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital yesterday morn
ing, having had hfs right arm fractured by falling down
the cellar steps of a house in Mervine street, near Co
lumbia avenne. *
An elderly man named Peter Burns had his left shoul
der blade fractured by falling into the hold of a canal
boatqt South street wharf, on the BohuylklU. He was
taken to the hospital yesterday afternoon.
CharlosGenthlor, aged 43, was admitted, at a late
hour last evening, having reoeived a very bad.cut on
his aim. while at jrork, oo Thursday last, at Agnew’s
firo engine manufactory, in Yine street, between Ninth
and Tenth.
Su3picioc9.—Quito a number of dwellings
*f or ® f° an d open on Monday night by the policemen of
the different wards After instituting a thorough search
through the premises nothing was fonnd to indicate
robbery. Ia one instance, the oosupants of the house
had been absent from tbe oity about two weeks; but
whether tbe doors had been left open through the care
lessness of tbe occupants, or opened intentionally by
these who had no legal right to do so, remains a mys
tery. Too much care canoot be exercised in dosing
dwellings properly at night, as there are those con
stantly prowling about who are eager to seize on any
thing that may come in their way.
A Good Old Age. —Harriet Lane 9 a colored
woman, died on Saturday nlvht last, at b?r residence
in Middle alley, above Sixth street. She was a native
of Africa, and brought to ‘this city when a child. She
had attained the Bge of one hundred and twelve years,
and was conversant with many of the Revolutionary
evonts connected with Yalley Forge, one of tho dark
est periods in the time that tried men’s souls. In her
earlier days she waa a slave in one of the Southern
States, but had been a free woman for a long time.
For the past ton years she was assisted by the Guar
dians of the Poor.
Re-opened. — "Wo learn that Mr. John
Campbell has re-opened bis hottl and restaurant, on
Chestnut street, below Sixth, whioh has lately under
gone some valuable repairs and improvements. Mr.
Campbell, who ia the pioneer of respeotable publicans
in oar midst, will, doubtless, be surrounded by hU old
friends, and enjoy the results of a thriving business in
his peculiar and excellent line.
Foundling,-— On Monday evening a fine
male infant of the tender age of three weeks was dis
covered ou tbe door-step of a house in Adam Btreet—
No. 1210, (between Pine and Bpruea streets.) The
landlady of the house, in tbe kindness of her heart,
tenderly took charge of the little innocent until ar
rangements can be made for its future support by the
city authorities.
Assault and Battery.—Yesterday morn
ing Barbara Dnland was arrested on the charge of com
mitting an assault and battery on Margaret TUlburn,
who wsb poshed from a step, and whose cas? we men
tioned yesterday. Bbo is noif iii a critical condi
tion, orbing to the injuries she received at the time of
her fall. The accused was held in $l,OOO bail for a
further hearing.
Arrested.— George Leonard, who was
mating night hideous, and haring a good time gene
rally, ru arrested by Lieutenant Hampton, at a lata
hour on Monday night, and was comfortably housed
until yesterday morning, when he had a hearing before
Aid. Remington, and in default of bail was committed
to answer.
An Owner Wanted,—Yesterday mojniDg
three vagrants were arrested at Second and Poplar
atreots, haring in their possession a considerable
quantity of wearing apparel, whfoh had, in allproba
bility, been stolen from a clothes line. The clothmg
was taken to th« Thirteenth ward station house, where
it awaits an owner.
Fire.—At a late hour last night adire oc
curred at Mr. John Corbitt’s drug store, in Oollowhill
street, near Twenty.third, opposite the SpriDg Garden
gts works. The extreme lateness of the hour pre
vented us from gaining the particulars, or ascertaining
the amount of damage to the property.
New Counterfeit Note.—A five dollar
bill on the Nation Bank of Boston, Mass., has made its
appearance. Vignette, factory on upper left end, like,
nos?of Washington on the right. -Shop-keepers will
take notice*
Lecture.— Last evening Mr. Wm. Dnnn
del'rered a leoture before the members of the
delphia Library Company, on the *• True and Beauti
ful.” The attendance was large and the applause
liberally bestowed.
Fire.— About T o’clock last evening, a fire
was discovered in Hutchfngoa street, below Master.
Nothing was destroyed, however,, but a bed and our*
talus.
New York Markets Yesterday*
Ashes.—The demand for pots ia fair, at $6.63*, and
Pearls at $6 87*.
Govrsa —The market is quiet, but very firm, under
more favorable advices from New Orleans and Europe ;
sales of 1 600 bags Bt. Domingo last evening, at 9* a
9*, and 600 do fair Rio at 10*o; the stock, according
to the Messrs Scott’s circular of data, comprises 16,830
bags Rlb, 1,913 do Bahia. 3,460 do Maracaibo', 800 do
Laguajra. (Triage,) 1,660 de St. Demingo. and 61,633
do Java—in all 76,186 bags By telegraph from New
Orleans, we learn of sales of 3,000 bags Bio ex Water
at ll*c, and tfce residue of the cargo was held
atll*o
Plods, Ac.—The demand for Western Canal Flour
is moderate, and the market is heavy The demand Is
mainlyfor xhe trade. Unsound Flour is more saleable,
and is held with firmness. Choice brands are firmly
held.
The sales are 6,000 bblsat $4 20&4 40 for superfine
State; $4 70©4 95 for extra do; 54.700t96 for low
grades of Western extra; $5.35®5 50 for shipping brands
of round hoop Ohio; S 6 6007 for trade brands do;
$6 60©7.76 for extra Genesee; and $6 69&8.60 for St.
Louis brands.
Canadian Flour is in limited demand, and is steady
sales of 200 bhls at $5®0.20.
Southern] Flour is heavy;lthe demand Is moderate,
and arrivals limited—sales of 1,200 bbls a*. ssa6-46
for superfioe Baltimore, Ao , and $6 56e7 26 for fancy
and extra brands Bye Flour is quiet at $3.25®4 20.
Corn Meal is in fair demand, and is firmer - sales
or 400 bblsat $3 5033 65 for Jersey, and $1.87* for
iir&odjwine.
Fatms—By auction. Minturn A Partridge sold 105
eases Bordeaux prunes (per bark Yiotorine) at 18®83e,
4 months.
Gbain —The wheat market is dull and heavy, the
demand only for small lots for milling. The sales are
8 o’JObusat SLS2oI2) for red Southern, $1.200l 40
for white do; $l2B for good white Michigan, sl4s®
160 for white Kentucky, $ll6 for mixed Wisconsin,
and for mixed Southern. Bye lsqnletat 76
®7Bc Barley is firmly held ; sales of 6)0 bos at 78a
93s for fair State and choice Canadian. Oats are pressed
for sale, and the market is heavy; sales of State at 47
060 c, Western and Canadian &t bl®62a.
Corn ia rather heavy, the demand more aotiveat the
insido figures at the dose, and is in part speculative;
tho sales are 88,003 bun at 74c for\unsonnd, 74* ®76*c
for Western mixed, ibe latter rate for choice, 76c for
new crop Jersey yellow, and 88c for old Southern yellow
in store.
Provisions.—The Pork market is better, and is ac
tivo ; the demand brisk for future delivery, at advanced
rates. Thefsales ara‘3,6oo bbls at $:7.40ffi17 60 for old
mess. $l7 80® 18 for new do, $l3 60® 15 for new prime,
$14.16 Tor uninspected prime, $lB 25 for new mess,
iron hooped $l6 60 for prime mess, $l9 for clear, and
new clear $20.60. Included *n the sales are 600 bbls
mess lor March and April, sellers’ option $lB, and 500
bbls fo; March, April, and May, at same price.
Beef is in moderate demand, and ia plenty and heavy;
Bales of 6&o bbls at $0 25c710r country prime; $8®9,25
for do mess ; s9® 11 for repacked mess, $11.12® 12 for
extra do ; prime mess is in fair demand; sales of 100
tos Illinois ou private ter<rs.
CutmeatBare quiet at 9®9*c for hams; sales of 1,000
city cut at 9*c Bacon is dull and nominal. Dressed
hogs, heavy weight, are inactive at 7a7*e.
Lard is better and in demand ; sales of 600 bbls and
tea at 10*allc—included are 350 bbls for December
delivery at ll®ll*c. .
Jluttor aud cheese are firmer and in demand.
Sugars.— The demand ovnUnues quite limited, but
prices are without important change; sales 100 hhds
Cuba at 6*®7*o. Havana has been in fair request at
7«8*o.
Tbas —At private a moderate Inquiry prevails, par
ticularly for black, at full prices. An auotion sale,
said ti be the last of tho season, is announced for Fri
day next.
Whiskey.—The market is quiet: sales of 300 bbls
at 240.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE—November 30.
SECOND B3ino.
160 Galena & Chics 71ft
200 do »30 71ft
145 N York Cent p&c 83ft
100 do opg 83ft
228 do p&c 83ft
100 do *3O 83ft
100 do b6O 63ft
100 do opg 83ft
160 do ' bOO 88ft
6 Erie Railroad 17 v
200 Hud River R s6O 38
20) do 83
100 Harlem R Pref 29
’6O do b 3 29ft
600 Reading B R s3O 60ft
600 do sQO 60ft
100 do 6ift
12000 Missouri G’a 00
10000 LaC AMLOBd 23ft
20 Continental Bk 101
10 Hanover Bank 90
100 Brunswick Cy Ld Sft
20 do 3ft
200 Canton Company 21ft
f,O Paoitic Mail 8 Co 01ft
35 do 93ft
200 do *3O 93ft
6 Bel & Hudson Co 99
26 Clave & Tol R 3lft
200 Ohio &R Id R ICO Gift
100 do b 3 61ft
100 do sBO 61
200 do oft
160 Panama R 630 120 ft
. St. Peter’s College, at Troy, New York,,
has received a donation of a very valuable pieoe
of land, one hundred feet by one hundred and
thirty, opposite a portion of its grounds, from
Thomas B. Oarroll.
Pendleton, the late keeper of the famous
gambling house in Washington, is to be succeeded
by Joe Hall, who is quite well known to the “ fast
men” in New York and Philadelphia.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAI.
The Blonoy MafbeU
1 TBItiMLPHIA, Nor. $0,1868.
Stooka were more active to-day, 'tkoogh without much
ohange in prices. The market closed with a show of
mere strength and steadiness'than has been seen for
several days. The money market is unchanged. The
specie reserve of the New-York bonks. contrary to the
general expectation, shows no lo«s of specie, and the
large arrival on Monday will make the line stiU greater
la the next statement. The New York Herald makes
a great grumbling over the large line of loans,ignoring
the well-known fact that a heavy per-centage of the
money loaned is invested in' funds convertible at any
time into specie. It also keeps up a series of attacks
upon the New York Central Railroad, which, as yeti do
not seem to have injured the stock uf that concern ma
terially. J ' ' • s r -
Business is very brisk at New Orleans, and the ac
counts from the cotton ports generally are encoura
ging. /
Statement of deposits and coinage at the Mint of the
United States, Philadelphia, daring the menth of No
vember, 1868: -
QOI.D Sin.LION DEPOSITED
From California.,..,
Other sources..,....
Total Gold deposits.
SILVBB BULLION DBFO3IXSD,
Including silver purchases... i5211,T20 00
Bpanlsh and Mexican fractions of a dollar
received for exchange for new cents,
Total Silver ......... .....$227,720 00
Copper cents (0.8.) received for exchange
• for new cents.' '
Total deposits
COINAGE EXEOUIED.
GOLD.
No. of Pieces. Value.
12,179 . $243,680
...... 2,f21 25,210
14,133 85,815
Denomination. ,
Double Eagles
Eagles
Quarter Eagles......
Total
28,888. $304,185
Half Dollars
Quarter Dollars...
Dimes
Half Dimes...
Threo-Cent Pieces,
500.000 $250,000
800.000 200,000
330.000 88,000
1,000,000* 60,00.)
400,000 12,0G0
Total 3,090,000 $550,000
Gent 5...,,,,,
2,500,000 $25,000
RECAPITULATION.
Gold Coinage..,
Silver •» ~
Copper « ~
,<...28 833 $304,135
~..3,080,000 660 000
....2,600,000 26,000
Total 6,604,838 $379,136
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE BALES,
November 80, 1868.
ftsrotrro bt HuniT, brows, &. ao., baxx-sots, btogz,
AND XXOKANQI BROKBBB, 80KTHWBST OORBXS THIRD
AS» OHBBTHOT STURTS.
FIHST BOARD.
600 City6a, 8.,euh.102*
200 do .102
600 do New.eaeh.loB
6000 Oatawiesa B 75.. 48V
1000 Elmira 2d mt 7s. 81
1503 Soh Net 6», ’82.. 71V
1700 do 71VI
2000 N Penna B 6s ... 63
1000 do 105... 87
8000 do 87
1000 do 87
2000 Cam & Am 6s ’B3 85 V
36 Lehigh Nav 50V
14 do 60V
6 Penna B 42V
6 Penna B 42%
6 do 42V
16 do 42%
2 Commercial Bk.. 60%
8 do 60%
82 do ......cash 80%
| ' 4 Cam A Am...b5.117
4 do : bSU7
1 Norristownß... 67%
0 - do ; 67%
100 Brie 8........b5 18%
50 Oatawfssa R..... 6%
100 Reading B 26%
<6O do .... .bfiwri 25%
■ 8 do 26%
I BOARDS.
|lOOO Oatawissaß7s.. 4*%
I 40 Richmond Gas ch 10
! 3 Germantown Gas 60
BOARD.
21 Beadingß 26%
600 do '.cash 26%
82 Penna B, (Iota). 42%
6 Academy Mtuie.: 54
ICON Penna R...... 8%
12 Par A Use Bk, Its 69%
20 Morris Cnl prer. ,108
lOOQhesValß 5
20 do ' 6
100 Bshnjl Nar ptef. 10%
100 Oatawissi R..... 6%
2 Harrisburg R.... 68%
10 do 69
10 Oommereial Bk . 60%
BETWEEN
8000Penna85........ 95*1
500 City 64 cash .102 VI
2000Cam&Am6s >B9. 85V i
u seqqn:
200 City 6s, New Gas
cash.lo2
300 do cash .103
1000MorrlsOanalOs.. 88
1000 N Pa B 6s..e6wn 62V
1000 do 10s 87
4000 Reading B 6* »70 83
1000 Elm B Ist m 7s b 6 72V
1000 do b 5 72V
1000 do b 5 scrip on 73
600 d02dmt...., 61
2000 do Chat 10’a. 66
1000 Catawissa 75.... 43V
1000 Oam&Am 6s >7O. 86V
1000 do >B3. 85V
GLOBING PBK
Bid.AxJud.
PhilaCs 102V102V
do B 102*102*
do New. .106 106
Penna 6e 96 95V
Beading R 26V 25V
do Eds >7O. .82V 83
do MtgBs>44.93 86
do do >86.78* 74
Penna 8... 42V 43
do latm 65...102*104
do 2dm 65....91 82
Morris Can C0n..48 60
LOSS—STEADY,
' Bid. Asked.
BchNav Stock... 8* 9*
do Pref.,....16* 16*
Wmsp’t A EImR.JO 10*
do 7slstxntg.72 78
do 2d 61 62
Long Island 11* 12
Girard Bank 11* 12
Leh Goal A Nay..’.6o* 60*
do 5crip........29* 80
N Penna R.......8* 9
do 6s 62* 63
New Orotk * *
Oatawissa 8..»6* - 6w
Lehigh. Zino. .V» ."-l >, -3*
Co Pref .107*130 *
ScbuylN&r 6a »82 71V 71V
Soh Narlmp 6a..73 74 '
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS, Nor- 80—EtrniSO
There is very little doing in Bre&istuffa to day/and the
market for Flour is without animation; shippers are -
not buying: sales are to the trade at from s6<s6 25 for
rape fine. $5 60,06 76 for extra, and $606.75 for fanoy
brands; shipping brazils are held at $6.12*05 35 Corn
Meal and Bye Flour are dull at $3.87* for the foimer,
and $4 bbl for the latter, not much in- 1
qui ed for; holders are rather firmer to-day; about
3.900 bushels have been sold at 125a128c for for • red.
,1360142 c for white, the latter for good Southehr. Bjß
is wanted at 76c for Delaware and 80s for Pennsylvania,
Corn—About 2,600 bushels new yellow sold at 70a730
for damp, and 76a78c W bushel for dry, lota:
sales of old yellow are reported-at SGc.' apd- 014
and new mixed at 80a83 cents.'' Gaia oref’tfu
chacgad; about 2,800 Southern sold at 45d.
Bark—Quercitron Is quiet, and held at $3O pertep. Got
ton is belter to day, and 2000800 bales hare been sold
at 17*032*0 per ft, the latter fop' good middling ffclr
uplands. Groceries—Vothisg doiogto slterqnotations,
and the stock light. Pror-'fllons are held firmly, without
much doing. Seeds arednll, and about 403 bus Olorer
seed sold to-day at ,$5.60©5.75 per bus, chiefly at the
former rates for good Feed. Flaxseed is worth $1.60
par bus. • Whiskey is scarce, and on the advance: salts
300 bbla at 24*e for Easton, and 2S*c for Ohio,.
axe scirce at 24c, and drndge at 23c, hOlderegener&llx
asking more.
CITY ITEMS.
Interesting Anniversary.—Tho twentieth
anniversary of the Philadelphia Bible Society was made
an occasion of unusual interest at Concert Hall last
evening. The great public regard' for this excellent
institution was well attested in the character and ex
tent of the audience assembled to participate. As early
as seven o’clock a considerable proportion of the Mata
ware occupied, and at half-past seven the halt waa
nearly filled, the platform being occupied mainly by
clergymen, invited friends of the cause from adistance,
aud the officers of the society
The exercises of the evening were commenced with
the reading of the fifty-fifth psalm, commencing “Ho *
every one that thirateth, come ye to the waters,’* by
the Bichard Newton, D.D., rrctor of St. Paul’s
Church, whloh was followed with a prayer.by the Bev.
William D. Breed, of the Presbyterian Chureh.
The annual report was thon read by Thomas Maekel-
ter, corresponding secretary.
In the opening of the report, re'erenoewaamadeta
the great events of the past year, bearing! moro tinned
diately npon the spread of the Gospel
From the report we learned that during thepaat year
2,991 Bibles have been distributed by ibe society, inde
pendent of 1,985 New Testaments, making ia a 114,966
volumes. These, in connection with the nnmber of
sacred volumes distributed by this society heretofore,
amount to 94,624 Bibles, and 15,649 New Testaments.
The receipts for the past year have been $5,149.
Thanks were returned to different societies for contri
butions. The colportage service* within the past year
have not been as extensive as usual. It was stated that
the faotof this society being an auxiliary to the. Pen
nsylvania Bible Society operated against it— it was re
garded as circumscribed, in its operations. The func
tions of this institution were purely benevolent. Thera
was no seeking for profit in any of its operations, The
Bibles were published at the lowest prices, and sold at
what they coat, and to those who were not able to paj
for them they were given gratuitously.
At the oloae of the report, the audienoe was address
el by the Ber. Dr. Morris, of Baltimore, following
Whloh the congregation united in singing the beauti'ul
hymn, oommenolng—
“ Eternal Spirit! ’twas thy breath
The oraolea of truth inspired ’ ’
Address a were also made by Rev. Dr. Bowman, Pre '
s.dont <f the Indiana Asbury University, Bev. Mr
Hafnwav. ««* William iburg, New York, and others. The
adjournment was not reasbel until nearly 10 o’clock.
Hon Anson Burlingame, OQe of the molt at
tractive lecturers of New England, as well as one of the
most prominent men before the country, is to deliver a
leoture before the Literary Congrers on Thursday even
ing, at Mosloal Fund Hall. Subject, « Now and Then ”
Every lecture.goer should be present.
Have you seen then ?—That superb engraving
“ The Village Blacksmith” and the beautiful Art Jour
nal, which are furnished to subscribers of the Cosmo
politan Art Association, can now t e seen at S. H.
Hunt’s, northwest corner or Fifth and Chestnut, for a
short time only. n29>6t
Housekeepers, and those preparing to com
mence housekeeping, will find it to their advantage to
call and examine the extensive stock of Housekeeping
articles at tho new store, &. W. corner of Second and
Dock streets. E.g FaxsONACo.
Rich Confectionery.—Those of our readers
who are in the way of buying confectionery (and who is
not?) should bear In mind that the point where every
conceivable variety of elegant luxuries for the palate
in that Hoe may bo obtained in greatest richners and
purity, is at Messrs E.G. Whitman A Go’s, Second
street, below Chestnut,. Give them a trial.
We are pleased to heaT that the Rey. A. A.
Willits is to lecture at Concert Hall to-morrow even*
ing. It Is to bo hoped that our Philadelphia lecturer
will be encouraged by seeing a full house, and sb this. Is
said to be one of the best lectures the Bev gentleman
has produced, and the object a good one, we promise
him a large attendance. His subject is “Mental Dys
pepsia ’*
The Tides.—The regular flowing and obbing of
the sea, known as tides, twice m every twenty-four
hours, is caused by the attraction of the sun and xnoou.
the power of the moon being to that orthe sun as five
to one. In a precisely similar ratio, as, regards fit,
fashion, fabric, and price, is the attraction offered to
purchasers of fashionable clothing, tho palatial store
of Granville Stokes, No. GO7 Chestnut street, over thit
of a’l competitors in tin tailoring art. The reidern
of The Press ere particularly invited to make a note
ofit.
“What we Look foe bees'are Measures,
not Min”—As the candidate said when he entered tho
tailor shop. We look for both men and measures whoa
we enter the fashionable portals of the “ Old Franklin
Hall Clothing Emporium” of E. H. Eldridge, No. 321
Chestnut street.
The Torch-Light Procession. —The streets
through which the firemen’s procession pasted on Qatar -
day night were literally ablaze with the torohes, &o ,
carried by the firemen. Every description cf light
giving material was used, and the glare and glitter w ere
unparalleled. Some of the torch-bearers oaught the
greasy and tarry droppings from their flambeaux upon
their clothes, and manv coats were ruined. Under
these circumstances it is gratifying to reflect that tb ere
Is a Brown Stone Clothing Hall kept by Bockhill &
Wilson, at Noa. 608 and 605 Obeatnut street, above.
Sixth, where any quantity of new and elegant garments
can he proemed upon the ihortest possible notice. _
Don’t fail to see Herring’s Great Paint
ing, “ The Tillage Blacksmith.” free exhibition; will
positively o’ose to-day! AtB.H. Hunt’s, northwest
ooroer of Fifth and Chestnut streets. 2t
-Valve.
$366,047 60
, 16,822 60
~.$382*70 00
16,000 00
~.$614,366 00