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' Bort of Ui« State Treasurer, of PonßajlyeaU ,
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!. i?(»i has f«yJi The .'News* ....: -. .> *. -. o.
V :VYesterday wda privateoalendarday in Con*
S' :i ß?ei)s, and' the' ..wasp conse
)■; 'Suently. itlJ''ii»tli|ii'4«S'#<J»fc*. , l ''lii; Hw,
'.fojgata. ,Mt. Bnw^.'aftwa'/e,.w»ole»w9*H“6
oVoaae-Frasident forjall'theieoenttooriesppndepoe,
t:='- < 6etW&n'the’‘BHlißh'Government-and tho'Ameri
can* roinirter at, London, ton«>ing the BiineOa of.
' - ! dho inierican J (iag'-in connexion with too dare
„v,tradejiwith'> speoial»reference to the slavpr Wan*
The consideration;of the Prenoh epolra*
tWribiU was'resumed'; ;buf,'orHng to the sickness
fc against the WI was taken
up! On thia eubjMt;conatderaWe.dobate_enaued
£ Sn'eera*bo appointed,to. <mrvey,eaoh.of the
three routes proposed—the northern, .central, and
- ; ,' aoalbeWatfd rimhrt' tha reralt of.tho survey to
''. nertiueeMngof Congress,,
. i,,. Without.taking any notion oh }he bill, the Senate
• ■ atHjurned : over until' Monday, In commemoration
1 ’'•*& toebhtUe : of;NeWOrleMs'.j '•
“ " v 6f > pjrlvato ohaiao
' " ter were‘reported. , Mr'.., Jonoa, ,of Tennessee,'of
ftted a resolution calling on the Beoretary of jtbe'
■•> Interior to ‘report by what Authority the advisory
,board of agrlouTlure Fatent Office was ; a«*'
'th r e‘' dele'ga^r'were; appofate^.
;,'!,ihDd frpm what'.iphd paid.. Arneaage was eepelttd
'* Jfromt-tho Preßldent in regard to the eonlraettfor
oarrying the Caiifbrnia mail torn St. Josephs, and
r<ii» gibing reaaonswhy.fie did' not mgn the joint reso,
' T ' lutipn passed bnth'e laat day of the former session
for lissenlng 'the tfme'fortrinsporUngthe 1 mail
from that place to California. After reading {he
•iidopnment the House adjourned. , v ! :
The Wasbington papers, received last night,'
ring ns acoonnts of tboenthusijistio reception) in
, thatjolty.of .Senator, Douglas. The enjoyinont.of
Ihe occasion was somewhat marred by the sudden
“ [ Jeath ;i of ,Qen. *Hepdoraon; put. notwithstanding
this inelanohoiy event, -..the people weloompd,,
..'with; ai.joyVthat.it, wasjmposalbla to,restrain,
7 * the:.undaunted hero of, popular Sovereignty.
' o Belrtg. called, for loudly by the multltuda who
"--vthrohged the street before his house, he . oame
in front, and, inthecodneof a brief but neat
«' speech, said that ttVheirtwas indeed filled .to
Overflowing by this unexpected and spontaneous
7 3 Jreeep{ion of.his friends'on his return home-for
\ 1 next; to Illinois, his : adopted State,, there was no
,place.upon the faoe of, the,earth where he felt
* eSimuoh at home as he did in Washington oity.
. .That State' had rcceived him when a- boy,-
with op*n aim*,' hod -nurtured him to man
' hodd, had honored him .with high public trusts,
'■ l 6ll d had stood by him'in all his measures up to the
' "■’present Say, aiid the' present hour. For'sixteen
'.years,he biffi, been Tn the pnblio service of
' 1 that. State, and' the" greatest;.joy of hiß.heairt
.’..aas that hts , official, eonduot had,met, with the.
-.ofi her eitizens up to .the present
> time. He was fresh from his'-constituents, ana,
noat to their approbation, was' this reooptlon meat
."‘gratifying to his heart. This,’ and the cordial
-...receptions he , had, met With along his route
e': hither,showed- that the heart 'of the Ameriosffi
‘'peoplo wos'bvcr fooiid.right When its Chords were
; touched by-the hand of patriotism. '.He salty hat
thepeojlebf the BUtHot of Colombia,' although
they h&' noVvoloe.ln, the National Legislature,
- i had ■ evor maintained a . patrioUe conservatism,
'; "Which', had,’ exerted’a s'alutaiy Jnfluenoe on the.
~ politics. of the oonntry.As he .expeoted .to Be
■ among them now for some time, ho would beg to
; tahe leave ,of thorn for the present, and bid thoin
goodnight: 1 ’ ' ‘ ,1,.
;- " ~We have dates from California to the ISth nlt^
' per.overlandmeU.’ to.St-.ltOPis^-three
than heretofore received. ■ The news." Is not. Very
’‘important., BtuinesswastatherduUatSanFran
, cisco. The news from the Gila river gold mines is
discouraging, and emigrants were returning, dis
' heartened at the failure of their expedition. - The
Camnnohe Thdiana continued their' depredations
.'oh the ’ihaile opportunity oFcredt-While
the Navajo tribes , display hostile Intentions to-.
‘ parties poUiDgy> their country. , | •
,’b;GovernoV.EanfcSf oflfoesachusotts, was inaugtt
’ ■ ritod yestbrdajJ' and delivered Ms mefflego. to bo Oi
.btahohea df'tholi'eglsiatttre.,' .It is longj'exolMtyi
ly.eonfinod to State matters, and gives an encsur-<
’aging “aoMfunt’of ;BjB'ihatiWlM:7pio^tyßs < -«C7j ; lr» J
v Commonwealth.,l'4h»- expenditure,of the ‘past
, year for educational purposes was ona .million four
■ u , hundred,, seventy-four ', thousand , four ' hundred
"eighty-eight dollars. Th e -number of ohildren
, r bet Ween: jlve and fitt*en yearß Of age ia .two huh
‘-dred, twenty-three thousand three, hundred and'
. > fdhr, of.whom two hundred and eighteen thousand
'pnehund^,ninety-bight have been in attendance
,-ni»n,the jsphbola during tho year, showing an iq
■ urease'lß tho attendance of fifteen' thousand one
; hundred! sixty-seven pupils , on’last'. year. The
School Fund, from which their system of schools
o is suppprtedjis ahput.;one million,five,hundred
‘thousand-'dollars. -■ •- • . - . 1 ■ l
j The Newark- Mercury says,:, “ There is g rumor,
, that Senator Thomson, of. this State, ahdMr. Bu
- ohananhave had a quarrel inrelation to a gentle-'
, manhoWoh thorotiredlistpf naval oßoers'. If re
■ port speaks true, Mr! Buobanon' snubbed Farmer!
•' : John,’and the latter Imitated that oeiebratedariny
r to Flanders, so fomljlar.to' ohr'leaders.,, We are
■ lnolinod!to believe there Is. truth In this, from this
fact that Mr. c ßuoh anau has quarrelled with nearly
' ail his early friends, and "taken to. his confidence
neSrly.eU of his early "enemies.” .
J "’ iA blit was reported in thb Missouri Legislature,
on Thursday, authorizing the Governor, to oall
'"but volunteers to repel invasion.by the “Kansas
, banditti,'' ond appropriating thirty thousand dot
. lars for that purpose. This smells of gunpowder,
i eyening serylces
, lnTrlnltyChnrohjNew York,with the building
. brilliantly' illuminated, following the example set
. by. msny of thoprihofpai . English Protestant
churches. ■ . ■'
' The NWYork Journal of Commercegiyes the
following pleasingiparagraph: “He take great
'-.pleasure lit recording' another tnstanoe 'of noble-
] > 'nosqon'ihb partpf ,one of. our'qitiiena., In 1849
- tbe Sugar refinery of Messrs.Harrir A Ookerhflu-
Bon burned, and the firm being’ lngge' losers,
1 Wo compelled to sasponipajment, . They oallcd
\ a meeting'of th'e'oredUOrSj and the junior partnor )
. Mr. Adolphus IE. .(Jokorhauaen, pledgod to them
alt that the sssete' wonld realise ;i irbich promise
he literally M&Hbd, by paying seventy 'oents on
the dpllar,,leaving himself ntterly"pe'nniless, 'bat
with theoonflilsno'o and sympathy of every ene with
whom bohad aiy.businesa ttansaotipns. .Ho lmme
. diately reoommeneed his works,- and, in- company
with his .brotherj has been; very snSo'cssfhli having
, accumulated a handsome, fortune. On Now Year's
day ho addressed » handsome note to eaoh one of
his former creditors, enclosing to them,, net aim
. ply his-share of the compromised .portion of the
Old debt, but the whole of the 30 'per cent, left
1 unp'aid'ten years before!, [ Wlth his bhoraoterlstio
modesty be has taken some pains to keep this
" transkiition■ (oht'of the ,'papdrs,’;bnt it’to ‘.tod
good to.,keepend deserves to ,bo published as a
lesson worthy to be; studied by all who-would
maintain s true nobleness of character amid the
■ temptations of this money-loving ago.” 1
> Well Posted Up!
' TbeNew YotkHerald, only a few days
ago," emphatically had “no doubt that the
Hon. BIrfiALPH ABB&daoMniK, K, G, 8., now
Lord DnHPEnHiilra, Isthonawßritlsh Minis
tor to. succeed Lord Napiebl’l ' Moreover, it
gjive ~lopg biography of, Lord Ddnpehm
<shtit-* •-...
'■ - •’the London Gazelle, of December 14, con-.
- tabled the-following official announcements :
v - ‘tPaOEMnaa I?<—The Queen has been greoionsly
pleased to appoint Lord Napier, now her Males
fty’sEnvoy‘Extraordinary and. Minister Plenipo
tentiary tf> fho"Un(tad -States ’of Anserine, to be
her .MejVsty’e Envoy Extraordinary and'Minister
Pldiipotontlary to the King of the .Netherlands;
_ also Lord-Lyons, now her Mnjesty’s Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the’
Grand Duke of Tusoany/to be her Majesty's Bn-,
voy.Extraordinary and-Minietor Plenipotentiary
tothoUnited States of-America.” -' 1 : :
'ere fcnripnsy if 'not 'anxions, to know]
hpw ttipHef tild will wriggle out of Its notable
.blunder in.this respect. - Probably, it will let
it pass ‘f fa solemn »aenc>,’fX'ike ,tho rest of
Its numerous misstatements onEuropean mat
;s'.v.
* rt j-RCport of the Siate Treasurer. - ' i
f , correspondent at Harrisburg has forward-;
ed to us an:-early> copy of the reportj-of tho
: Btat&,TjfpJsiiir|r,Jqtfntio, the Legislature, on!
thehthinst.j Whjoh will be found 'in "tritr cpl- 1
umns '{fijg'jnOrnijig-: it glvesiii detail the sta
tisliaBujpoh'whieh-tHe r B4tlsfaoteryexßibit.pf
.thOijfiijancaasOf s the'Siate ,presented in the!
pnd Jt,’wlil
,doubtlflH -De read’with, great interest and satis-.
’ ?* r-j i■ 1 ~ i.w'
.This Is the anniversary of one ofi the Most
; iinjp6'rtkHte¥^hie'iii I tfl‘outoalrdif , tho < n4t\6^ l
. thebattlecOf'rN'ow i Orleans'.",! ts: rsmrfpfince
disfi}P l ?l!a-!oh|Pjieft: l o.nn;rpcplleoti6fi»g)f',tiSe;
Woetwf brilliant rVicforyj: oWesorej reminded
of bis oauntrymen.
, Office,? Hunting,,,,, '
,If tho American 'party, had been sincere, in i
the denunciations of < the!'<‘wiid, htirit. after
office” which was incorporUtod Inlo thoir plat
form, a few years had; devised a
method by which tho s tUspoßiticlh end "anxiety
to obtain official.station in this country oonld
have been checked, they would have accom
plished an object far more useful and important _
than any of the others at which they professed
to aim. , .Office-hunting. Is 'the besetting lolly
and 'sin of Pinion. It ruins more men,
blights the peace and-prosperity of more fami
lies, and infliots greateripj ury upon,the. general
welfare, than almost any.othqr existing evil.
In, a young and growing eonntry like this,
with many undeveloped, resources anil open
ings in every walk of life, for the profitable
employment of every. mental and physical
.energy of her citizens, it is a sad .sign to see
thousands cast aside, these tempting oppobtu
niUqsfor.asurb advance npon the highroad
to‘ honor or weklth, for the paltry rewards that
.qfficiafemplbyment can bestow. It, is a mis
fortune.to tho nation that such energies should
be wasted, as well as to tho deluded and mis
guided, men, who prefer tho, devious, uncer
tain, and unsafe path of political intrigue, in
. which they'are liable, at almost any moment,
to be undermined, to the manly and independ
ent position 'Which; with ordinary' industry
and prudence, can be acquired either in the
agricultural, mercantile, meohanioal, or pro-.
’ fessional walks of like.
, , The path'of the office-seeker is fall of shoals
and quick-sands. ; The success of his party is
nearly always' problematical, and with its
defeat all bis hopes and aspirations are blighted.
But supposing it to be successful, if he is not
a nominee .eleoted.by the people, and if he
only, 'expects office by appointment, he finds
hundreds of competitors springing up from
every'quarter, and in the general rush his
chances of- success are like , those of the
holder of a lottery-ticket for drawing a flrst
class prizoj For long and weary days and
nights' he mnst experience ail the agony of
hope deferred; and in intervals of this kind
thousands and tens.of thousands’grow neglect
ful of their ordinary duties and pursuits, forfeit
the ■ respect >and- confidence of those who
wonld otherwise have carried them on success
fully. through life, and, like the dog in the
fable, in grasping at the. shadow, lose'the sub
stance. . . ,
• There are few offices in which men can ho
nestly advance their fortunes to any consider
able extents and those which are of a decidedly
lucrative'character areso eagerly sought, that
more money is spent in ttie .efforts to acquire
them by the numerous candidates, than the
successful aspirant is enabled to realize; and
while a few, a very few, are successful in those
hotly-contested struggles, and have prudence
enough to resist the 'strong temptations nnd
necessities for extravagant expenditure which
accompany the - possession of their offices,
on every,hand.we see wrecked and mined
men who have frittered awsy their manhood
and squandered a moderate competency in
fruitless endeavorß to climb the slippery
ladder of political preferment. As to the
office-holders who have escaped all the perils
and-overcome all-the obstacles which have
been too (nighty for their competitors, what is
‘their position ? The great mass of them, by
the-time they are fhirly warm in their seats,
familiar with their new duties, and unlltted by
habit for their former employments, are sum
marily discharged, and become comparatively
helpless and worthless members of sooiety.
The permanence of their positions doponds
upon the course of the ever-changing currents
of American politics,' the impulses of tile
people or the whims of those who happen to
obtain the stations which possess the appoint
ng power. ; Eyen while they are in office, at
the moderate salaries they usually obtain, there
is little to- satisfy their; avarice or their ambi
tion. " The, feelings which - inspire them aro
well described in a late article by Mr. Covhwo
one of. the editors of the.. Lancaster (Qhio)
Eagle , who, after hbrdinggthe post of chief
clerk In the office of First Controller of tho
Treasury Department'for one year,' resigned i
He says:,'
i We retarn with feelings of pleasure to the
chaireditorial, oftex anabsenoo of one year. A
ypzi in the pablio Uertioe at Washington has had
the «ffoct of oonvinolng ns that the private Station
is the. post of honorj pleawre, and pMfit f- aid we
-quit publio office gladly, voluntarily, and without
a single regret at the Joss of its honors' or "emolu
ments. {t seems strange that there should be such
a fascination in those positions at Washington for
the young men of curoountry. When obtained,
they.are nnt living graves, in whioh the ooeupant
buries his hopes, his ambition, and bis energies.
No matter-how brilliant, how intelligent, how in-,
daatnoos, he becomes metamorphosed into the
tread-mill horse, pursuing the B&me weary, nevor
changing rpund, until death sets him free. No
matter how energetio, the weary routine of official
life lies orushingiy upon his energies and aspira
tions. It is enough to say that such a lifodla not
suit üb. and that we would not, while young and in
health, sell out our future for an annnity of $2,000
per year, at.the will of changing political dynes
.ties.-”
But there is another view of this matter, of
■more importance to tho people of the country.
Since, this -greedy race of office-tranters is
spread almost as thickly oyer tho land as lice
over Egypt daring the plague, they dull and
weary thepublio ear with their importunities,
and by. dint, of their audacity, perseverance,
and persistent efforts, frequently obtain impor
tant positions for which they are wholly un
qualified, and which, if the public interest
prevailed and the honest unbiased judgment
of the) great, body of the, citizens .was fairly
expressed,.would bo conferred upon men far
more deserving and capable. Tbereare many
stations in.the ponntry where good men may
greatly advance, the-common prosperity; bnt>
alas, how rareitis to see' them worthily filled!
How often does dull mediocrity, when coupled
with low cunning and intrigue, outstrip genius,
talent, and patriotism in the race for promo
tion ! How illy do the halls of Congress or of
the State Legislature represent the real talent
of the conntry I Howmany men are elected
for. no reason that can be perceived or ima
gined, except that they are individually over
anxious to hold the offices they aspire to, and
by dint of money, persuasion, intrigue, or con
stant importunities, have flpally coaxed,
bullied, and worried the people Into an en
dorsement of their ill-founded pretensions!
and how few men succeed in politics because
the people really feel that they wont their
services and know that they con be useful to
them/ .
With ail onr republican theories of theeqnal
ity of men,; the idea is not yet popularly real
ized that ; -
“ Honor and shame from no condition rise:
well yonr pan—there all tha honor lieB;»
And hence many of onr soletan humbugs
reason in this way i “ I am a man' of very lit
tle consequence, with no intrinsic worth or
talent; hut if I can bo elected to the State
Legislature, X may become of some impor
tance. If I am eleoted to the Senate, I
will be a still greater man. If I go to the
United States Senate, the whole country will
be illuminated’ by the brilliancy of my posi
tion; If I got to be President, I will Immortal
ize my namo.” . They never stop to think or
care for their capacity for the places to which
they aspire, nor reflect upon the serious in
jury they inflict upon the people by unwor
thily and inefficiently occnping posts which
better men should fill, and. which, if properly
filled, would greatly advance the welfare of
their constituents. We want more , of that
spirit in this country Which honors, men for
What they are intrinsically, and for wbat they
achieve in the positions they occupy, no mat
ter how lowly or humble they are, instead of
that feeling which honors men simply beedhse
they have> legar right to write Honorable
before their names. We want it impressed
upon the hearts of the,people,’and upon the.
obtuse brains of the Incapables who are per
petually aspiring to places for which they are
pnfltted,. that 'nothing' should cover a man
Wlill more ridicule and disgrace than to at
tain, utter persistent effort, a high position to’
which' hW is unequal., No official mantle,
howevor brilliant, should be allowed to bide'
the deformities ofthe Webrer ; and the citizen:
who 'evinces talent, patriotism, and honest'
.dovotiori' to the interests of his iellow-men,
should receive Ilia duo share of respect and
consideration, no matter, how destitute ho'
maybe of the trappings of office. - ' 1
” Thero ia ono more view of the evils of office
hunting, which is the most saddening and pain
ful of all, and that is the miserable degrada
tions and self-stpliiflcations to which men snb
,mit in their efforts to appease power. We
read in old 5 , histories: of Kings upen their
,thronaß, wlth base', subservient, and cringing
.courtiers around them, and turn disgusted from
such exhibitions of tbo meanness ofljumanity.
bavu we nothing-jike this in one conntry ? ,
■bo'wd'See no irien lying prostrate at the ftet
;of: pqlyeri abjuring their own honest cohvie- j
ttonsj'add eridoralng'wii’at'fn their hearts*they '
know to bq miserable rascalities or wrongs;
surrendering up their judgment, conscience,
and manhood on ttfe ShHne of executive dicta
tion,' and. ftirnishing in republican America
parallels to the most degrading acts of servility
that have ever been witnessed at the most
exacting courts of the Old World? Have
we seen no subtle Hamlet saying to these,
Poloniuaes, that a cloud was shaped like a
t camel, a weasel, a whale, jtn'd finding them
answering in quick succession against the
olear evidences of their ©wa senses: “Yes,
my lord V 9 Have we not seen myrmidons of
power as eager to execute despotic edicts iu
our own land as if they were remorseless apd
corrupt favorites' of a tyrannical monarch?
Have weno hired .bravos ready to commit
political assassination wo no trem
bling cowards who disgrace their manhood,
and quake and tremble like aspen-leaves,*at
tho very echoes which ring through the White
House ? ! ..
Public Amusements.
Miss Vandenhoff, the eminent English aotrqss,
daughter of the veteran John Vandenhe.fi', "Who
lately arrived in this country, and has been very
Buoeessfnl in New York, commences, an engage
ment at Walnut-street Theatre, on Monday even
ing. Mr. Swinbourn (her husband), who accom
panied her from England, is also engaged, and
has the. reputation of being a good actor. Miss
Vandenhoff made a great hit when she visited
tills country some years ago, and is now a much
better actress Of course, her own beautiful play
will be produoed. Seven years ago we saw Miss
Vandenhoff and Mr. Barry Sullivan perform the
prinoipal ports in this play,—she as a blind girl
and he as a eoulptor,—and nothing oould have
been much better, in authorship or aoting.
Mr. Gustav Satter gives his fourth “ farewell’ 1
oonoert this evening, at Musieal Fund Hall.
, John E. M'Donough, the popular aotor, has pur
oh&sed, and yesterday paid for and took possession I
of the Volks’ Theatre, Baoe street, between Seoond
and Third. It is his intention to fit it up, Without
Joss of time, as a theatre, with several collateral
amusements of whloh we shall soon give some de
aoription. Every person who knows Mr. M’Do
nough, as a Bteady man of business as well as a
good aotor, will wish him success—aa we do.
The usual varied round of entertainments at the
National Circus, Walnut street, will be repeated
this evening. Mr. Lent, the active manager, adds
quite a crowd of distinguished performers to his
troupei and this Combination Company commence,
In this arena, on Monday.. They will perform
every evening in the week, and also oh Wednesday
afternoon. Mr. Lent, by bis new arrangements,,
has got together the largest and best oompany, in
his special line, now in the United States.- He
deserves encouragement, for he labors hard to ob
tain it.
Valuable Real Estate, Stocks, Mortgages
Ac Thomas A Sons’ sale on Tuesday next, 11th
Inst., 'will oomprise, besides stocks, ground rents,
mortgages, Ac., several valuable Germantown pro*
parties, oity dwellings, stores, Ac., by ordor of Or*
pbana’ Court, exeoutors, and others, including one
of tho most valuable business locations in Market
street; to be sold peremptorily. Also, without re*
serve, by order of assignee, eight traots of land,
Wisconsin. See advertisements and pamphlet
catalogues issued to-day.
Distribution op Bread to the Poor. —lt will
be seen, on reference to our advertising oolumns,
that the Committee on Charity of the Supreme
Grand Council of the Sons of Malta of Eastern
Pennsylvania have, with their oharaoteristio libe*
rality, made a donation of five thousand loaves of
bread, which is to be distributed to the poor
through the agenoy of several of tho benevolent
associations of the oity.
Pianos and Mklodeons —Raven, Bacon, A
Co.’s, Hallett, Davis, A Co % and ether Pianos;
also, melodoous at bargains. J. E. Gould, Seventh
and Chestnut streets.'
We aro indebted to Adams & Co. for copies
of the Cincinnati paporsof Thursday morning, re*
oolved yesterday morning, via the Steubenville
and Pennsylvania raUroads.
I3P* Attention is invited to an advertisements
to-day’s paper for a partner in an old established
silk and ribbon jobbing houße.
Further Particulars of the Loss of the
. Vanderbilt.
the scene described bv one on board.
The Boston Traveller has obtained from Mr.
Philbriok, mall agent, who readied that cit> with
a portion of tho mails, the following account of
the disaster:
The steamor Vanderbilt, Oapt. Frazee, loft New
York ’at roar o’clock on Monday afternoon, the
WOatfaer at the timo fair, but the oloudß Indicating
an. approaching storm. While the weather chu*
tinned clear enough to boo, the labuttarks'the pas
sage waa madein tho Ufiual style. After, passing
Huotlngttth, about 71 P. M, snow, oommenoec
falling; and tbobgh open and light at first, It soon
became so dense that nothing could be’seen beyond
the vessel. Shejwas kept going, however, at a
moderate speed, apd the lead was hove as rapidly
as possible. In this style, feeling bet way alohg,
she proceeded* Thb fast departure she .took was
the bearing of the Light of Saybro'dk; aha lhaklng
fitLre of her course, she continued hfaiil a quarter
before four on Tuesday morhi&g,the last oast of the
lead showing hor in 25 fathoms, and immediately
after she Struck a rock ou the Race Point, Fishery
Island, about twelyo milesfrom New London. The
shock was vory severe; all the efforts made by her
officers and crow td get her off proVed unavailing,
as she bad run on for a distance of fit least twenty
foot, and proved to be hard and fast. At this time
the Vessel was, as it were! bounding from every
blow of the waves, with evident continued increase
of the original injury. Sh'o had on board seventy
two passengers, pf whom fifteen were females, with
two or, throe children, muking, with the officers
and drew, a total of over one hundred persons.
Finding that nothing coaid be done tor the ves
sel, Captain Frazee and his officers at once turn
ed their attention to the’ safety and comfort cf
those entrusted to their oaro, and who, without
exception, women as well as men, behaved through
out the trying circumstances in which they were
placed, as Mr. Philbriok expressed it, !u the most
heroic manner.
In the first plaoo one of the orew was sent ashore
in a small boat to asoortaln the name of the island.
Measures were then taken to make ell hands oom
fortable for the night. Bedding was brought from
tho lower oebinsto the upper saloons, end thhs ell
oalmly but anxiously awaited the approaoh of
dawn.. When tho boat first went on she made but
little wator, hut the notion of tho waves soon in
creased the original Injury, end at the ebb of tho
tide the hog braces were broken, and the boat left
a wreak npon the rooks, with from fonr to six feet
of water beneath her. Early in the day of Tues
day the passongors were landed by the small boat,
Into which they wore towered, nnd from whioh
they sorambled over the rooks to a “ wrecking
home,” but a short distance from the shore: Thu
house contained a large room, with a pine floor
made to preserve the building should tho Water
flow upon the island.
Here thoy were made as oomforteble as posslblo,
being supplied plentifully with food from the boat
and with light by lanterns hung around. A neigh
boring haycock was scattered abeut tho floor, and
a portion of tho room Was partitioned off for the
accommodation of tho ladlos. Here the day end
suoaeeding night wore passed quite pleasantly, Mr.
Pbilbriokv acoompanied by a passenger, making
an oxouraion during Tuosday to a farm houso at
some distance, through a deep snow, to Inform the
Inmates of their situation. From this hoUse 4
number of wagons wore font to ednvey the females
to a better plaoo, but the weather was sb threaten*
Ing that they oonoluded to pass the night where
they wore. The bap tain, officers, and a good por*
tion of the orew, spent Tuesday night on beard the
vessel; but all who desired it had lull liborty to
sleep at tho wreok bouse on shore. At a quarter
before one o’olook on Wednesday morning, the
steamer Plymouth Rook, from Now York, was teen
from the Vanderbilt passing on hot way to Bto*
nington. Lights displayed, but tney were
not seen from the Plymouth Rook, and there were
no rockets on board the Vanderbilt for uso In such
an emergency.
During Tuesday arrangements had been mado
with Mr. Noyes, the owner of a schooner of about
two hundred tons, on the western shore of the
island, to take (ho passengers to New London, and
early on Wednesday morning a number of ox
wagons and 'other conveyances arrived to take
them to tho place of debarkation, in the mean
time the revenue cutter J amee Campbell. Captain
George Clark, hove in sight, and sent a lieutenant
on shore to offer all tho Assistance in their power,
but as a bargain had already been made with Mr.
Noyes, his offer was courteously deolined. Ho
tendered a passage to Mr. Fhilbriok, the mail
agent, whioh was accepted, and with all the letter
mails and a portion of the newspaper mails, Mr.
P. left the island, and, via New London and Sto
ningtun, reached this oity, as before stated, at
Abont 5 P. M.
When be left tbe passengers Were being con
veyed aoross the island to the sohoonor. Tbe
steamer Plymouth Rook also oame up from Ston
ington, the propeller Osoeola, and also a number
of wrecking vessels, but owing to the state of tbe
weather they were unable to be of much service,
though every aid was offered.
Tho passengers during their twenty-four hours’
stay in tbe wreoklng house of tbe almost deßorb is
land, held a prayer meeting, and also a meeting in
regard to the accident, iu whioh the courage, oour-
Usy, And seamanship of the officers and orow were
highly oommended. They saved All of bhelr bag*
gage and personal property, if we except a pair of
shoes, whioh an aged Irish female lost, while
clambering over the rooks. .The freight of Ham*
den<fc Co, was also all saved, and probably that of
the vessel, embracing cotton, wool, hogs, flour, &o ,
Will be saved in a damaged state. The vessel, in
the opinion of Oapt. Prazee, will bo a total loss,
though tho machinery may pessibly bo got out.
The Vanderbilt was about eleven years old, but
was in every way a stout and well furnished boat,
having been lately repairod, and was on her first
trip East, after going again upon the routo, when
the oboldent oocurred. She » valued at about
$150,000, and is not insured. '
Mr. Philbrlok describes the soene of the wreck
in its wintry aspect as sublime in the extreme, tho
6urf, os it beat upon the rooks and shoro, striking
up for fifty feet or more. '
The rescued passengers were brought here in
speoial Wains, and reached the city at a late hour
last night, fatigued at their lengthened exposure,
but grateful that their lives had been spared
amidst the fearful dangers to whioh they had been
exposed. .
Stealing a Woman.— Ono John Lansing,
ofDallston, N. Y., stole - his wife the other day.
Because of bis dissipation, she bod left him, and
procured actuation in a milliner’s. On,Monday
evening, ho oalledthero, and insisted uponbor go
ing with him,but she peremptorily refused. Daring
a temporary absence Of the lady of the establish*
ment, Lansing seized his wife and oairied her out
of the house, leho screaming and making all the
resistanoo'possible,) and throw her into a slefgh
lie bad propared for tho occasion, and drove off at
a rapid rate! The neighborhood was aroused, but
not in time to overtake the thief. The result was
a little tempest in villago, but Mis. L. re
turned next day*
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1859.
-.Letter from New^Ydrk.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT TRINITY; CHURCH—THE
DEMOCRATIC GENERAL" COMMIT TEE : I V.-FOW
LER RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN—MR SCHELL 'CAN’T
MANAGE MR. WOOD POPULARITY OF FANNY
KEMBLE’ 8 READINGS—ORBAT BUSH OF POOR
FOR RELIEF FROM THE* ALMSHOUSE—COL. FUL
LER’S PROPOSED LONDON DAILY —.JUNO A
LIVES—PAUCITY OP MURDERS YESTERDAY—JEHU
G. JONES IN TOWN *. AT THE OPERA -r- MONEY
MARKET. ' '
[Correspondence of The Press .1
Nbw York, Jan. T, 1859
The American Episcopal Church Is rapidly imitating
the example of'hermbther, in England, in the manner
of performing the services. A few years' ago—three or
four—the choral service, as done-in the English cathe
drals, had never been performed here. - Row it is per
formed, In several, with as,much accuracy and effect as
in the old'country© The Christmas festivities were
never celebrated with so much of the form and spirit of
the Church aathey were last phrlstmae, and hover, Jo
this country, was the festival of the Epiphany CB^e '
brated with such high observance as on yesterday. Va
rious Episcopal churches were opened, early and late,
some as early as six o’clock in' the mornin'g- 1 At
Trinity Church there yfaafull service add communion,
at noon—ovCe two hundred persona partaking of the
elements. In the evening the church was lighted very
brilliantly, for the first time, and the first step taken
towards the 'choral nervine; that is to say, the Psalter
was chanted, antlphonally, by a seleat chdir of thirty
persons.
This was probably new to nineteen-twentieths of the
congregation, and it was very effective. -About thirty
clergymen were present, in surplices, together with the
bishop. This may be regarded as the storting point; in
the leading parish of New York, to the introduction of
ca’hedral services.
Issao V. Fowler, Esq , wAs last evening
re-elected chairman of the' Tammany General Demo
cratic Committee—ad appfoprlato testimonial to'hls
personal good looks, his tact and vigor sb a party mana
ger and disciplinarian,' and <his hlgh'st&ndlAg as a true
and genial gentleman. Tbe anU-Tammany.irnen »re
still rebellious. Collector Sohell’s pigning
tentoua parchment in the whit® house
where the President is facetiously said tojbavejiad'&i
single eye to the restoration of harmony lii the pert j,
seems not to have Fernando Wood; wjio, with
his well-drilled and by-no-means-to-be-desplsed army,
refases to be bound by it, and pebteta in'remaining with
arms atlmbo at the braves of Tammany. They “‘will
not down.” ’ .j ■' v .
; The popularity of Fanny Kemble continues adCuna*
bated as when she first appeared jots the bosrdAof.vUr
old Park Theatre, eighf-and'fwtnty years/,ago, <List
evening a orowded house assembled.to hear''hex;,•read'
Ounbeline, notwithstanding the reopening ‘pf the
Acdemy, the demonstration at Trinity Church,.audja
large number of private parties. Her votaej'retalns
that wonderful mellow'and‘sympath6tta tone for which
she was remarkable when' a girl. '
Within the last three days the names of nearly seven-
thoniand poor,people bAveb'ernregistered at the Alms
house Department, in the Park, - asking for relief:
There are many thousands mors waiting their turn to
be registered, for whom, the fature has hardly other
prospects than starvation. The superintendent takes
the names and addresses of these poor people, and
gives them to. the visiters, who make a personal
and examine the necessities of each ease. The crowd
at the Almshouse Isa long and dismal array of pallid
faces, pinched forms, and ragged garments—the uni
form of the sad army which gathers for relief.
Colonel Fuller, who went passenger in the Aaia,'wiU
commence the publication of aeheap dally paper, on the
American pTau, provided, on looking over the ground,
there appears a reasonable prospeot of ounces.
Some of the papers have been trying to kill off Jun
es the baiso of Strakosoh’s company. It’s no use to
say his jugular vein' has been tapped, when he was in
dulging In a jocular vein In the lobbies, at the opera,
last night.
There were fewer scenes of blood yesterday tb&n
usual—only one murder nod three or four assaults. The
police force is daily increasing in efficiency. At a meet
ing of the Commissioners yesterday, a new pTednct
was created, called the City Hall preoloet, to be com
posed of forty-one patrolmen, under command of SopeY*'
vlsery-Ixupeotor James Leonard. It will embraoe .the
Mayor’s squad. Leonard 1b one ©f the model officers
—lntelligent, gentlemanly, experienced, keen as a
hawk, wise as a sarplnt, harmless as a dove—the Fouchfi
of the American police.
Among the guests at the No* York'Hotel is your fat
friend, Jehu G. Jones, and Carrol Spence, Esq., late
minister to Mexico. J. G. J.-visitedtheopera,and was
tickled a’most to death with Ihe music. He -was ac
companied by two or three “ unfortunate men, bat per
fect gentlemen,” whose titles have escaped me.
The money market continues easy, Is easier, in foot,
than last week. The very slight advance In latex that
was attained at tho close of the year h'g given way, the
maximum rates for call loans being four per cent, the.
minimum three, several heavy transactions having
token place At the hitter figure
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, JiM. 1.
100000U.8. s’s >74 104# 1000 Bolding & 64V
60C0 Missouri o’s 86# 100 do s6O 64#
2000 do 86# 200 do 64#
20000 do '3O 86# 200 Mich SAN la b6O 21
20000. do aBO 86 60* do 21
4pOQ Tenn 6’s ’OO 02# 226 Illinois Oen R 70#
100 Gambl’d PrefbOO 21 100 do s3O 70
35 Pac M 8 Co 03# 3'o Mich SAN I GtUr 40 -.
160 do 23# 60 y do •’*- IW 40
60 do s6O 02# 100 do ' sOO 48#
150 do b3O 93# 6 Panama R \ 118—
60 do . 03 20 Otev A PittebgH 0#
60 Pennsylvania Co 83 400 Gal tc Chicago R tfl#;
660 NY Cent R 85 160 do “tf 71#
160 do b3O 85 , 32#
100 do bOO 84# 100 Ohicafc Book ! R 69#
260 Hud»on River R 34# 60 do 'llO 69#,
100 do b6O 31# 100 do D6OIO#
J6O Harlem Ed b6O 18# 150 - do b6O 50#
ICO,' do , 13# 100 d» , MO^Ofe,
. AbAkb.—Thu market Sxlrra f&r pots
Pearly have advanced.to 56.00. ■
Cpvr'ok.-'-Tbe market is dull this mornißgL b*t a
kood.biisioess was done yesterday afternoon, the sales
reaching 2,500 bales, at our prices. v
Floub, Aq.—The market is again bettor for the loy
grades of State and Western flour; the demand ismalnly
speculative Good State flour is found to be In small
xtook. and is more saleable. \
The sales are 0.600 bbls, at $4.8004 66 fqr superfine
State; 35 1005.40 for extra do; 35.6c06.65 tor "hip
ping brands of roumJ-hoop extra Ohio; $570®7 for
trtde brands do; $6,60©7 75 for extra Genesee,'-and
$5.6&0>8 60 for St. Louis brands.
Canadian Flour is scarce, and Is better; sales small
at $6.6000.60. Southern Fleur arrives freely bat the
bulk of that to hand to-day is of oholee quality, and is
already sold; the sates are 1,000 bbls. atfi.76tt6.4o
tor mixed to good brands superfine StUiraore, et>s
$5.6507.40 for fancy and extra brands Bye Flour ant
Corn Meal are quiet. . 1
Naval Stores. —Spirits Turpentine Is 'toady and la
moderate request; sales of 100bbls, t> arrive, at 490,
; and 800 do, in merchiinfablo order, at 49#c, cash.
Crude is inquired for at $8.62#, but holders are firm ai
$3.75 280 He. !
Common Rosin Is in livelv request, and prices bav4
further advanced: sales of 168 bbls at $1 67# & 810
lbs, delivered by lighter. 2,600 do $1.60, and 600 do at
$1.82# 210 lbs, delivered from yard, now held
higher.
o»i.b —Linseed Is in great demand, and prices have
advanced le galloo, without leading, however, to
large transactions; sales of 20.000 gallons have been
made at 64066 c, in otske and bbls, Other .kinds are
quiet and steady. In Cotton Seed, sales of 2,000 gal
lons pritoo white winter bleached have beeh made at
90c, cash
Sbedb —Calcutta Linseed is active and firm, further
sales of 8,000 bags htive been effected in Boston at
$1.67#, cash.
A White*Heiress Elopes with a Negro*
The Detroit Free Preeb of Thursday tells of a
singular elopement in that vicinity on Saturday :
A young girl named Sarah udson, whole father
lives on a fine property amilo or two from Pontiao,
eloped on Saturday and oame to Detroit. The
partner of her night was a black man, whq has
been in the employment of her father for some
time in the oapaoity of farm bond. Tho first inti*
mation that the father had of the intention of the
parties was conveyed by the fact of their flight
They immediately oroesed oVor to Windsor, upon
reaohlDg’thia city, fully sensible that they never
oould accomplish their unnatural designs on this
side, as no offioial or clergyman oould have been
found who would have so far transgressed the
bounds of deoenoy as to unite the oouple, the ap
pearance of tbo girl being eaoh ns would forbid
the union lh the mind of any sensible man, to
say nothing of the law lh the oase. Some indi
vidual was found in Canada who performed the
ceremony, however, nnd the two were made one,
They are now In Windsor, enjoying the swools of
tho honeymoon
The brother of tbo girl oame on tbenext flay,
arriving hero on Sunday, and, ascertaining their
whereabouts, wont to her and implored her to re
turn. She was contented, however—loved her
obony half—was happy in his arms, and couldn’t
think of going baok. Tho emotionsof a brother at
suoh a sight can better be Imagined than described.
Some men would have blotted out their disgraoo
with a single blow, but be bad boon taoght tbqt It
was no Bin against God or man that his young
sister should ropoao in the embrace of a negro, and
at tho came time oalmly look him in the face snd
say that sho was oontented. He wont home, os he
hnd come, alone.
The girl is about eighteen years old. The family
are said to have occupied a position In society
whioh was flrst*olass, and the blow is, poijse
n, a terribloone. Tho father IS r!ob, Md
an heiress, whioh makes it very nice far
the African of her ohoioo. The mattorhas oauted
an intense exoitement in tho neighborhood where
tho parties aro well known, the girl having been
bern and brought up where her parents reside.' It
is dtffioult to imagine any train of olroumstanpes
by which a young and intelligent girl oould he
brought to form a connexion so repugnant to ell
the Benses; yet, the foot exists, A more com
plete retribution for the orime of fanaticism wo
never beard of. The least we can wish Is. that
the father, undoubtedly well oured of his beliefs
by this time, may be able to save bis young daugh
ter from tbe terrible future whioh now opons to
her.!
[From the ETollidaysbarg Standard ]
The village of Fostoria, this county, was tho
scene of one of the most appalling calamities, on
Friday morning last, it has ever been our lot to
record. Mr. Louis Bender, a tanner, went to his
work as usual, on the morningof the 17th, leaving
his wife and three small children at home. Tho
mother went to the stable to milk her cows, leav
ving tbe childron by themselves. Tbo ohlldren, as
is supposed, sot fire to a box of shavings, wbioh
was placed beside the stove. The doors and win
dows were all shut and fastened. Every posslblo
effort was made to rescue the children from
their horrible situation, but without avail—they
wore literally roasted alive. The soene was one
wbioh baffies description. The oldest child, a
boy, waß five years old; the second, a little girl,
three years old; tho third, a small babe, three
months old. ' Tho oharred remains of the ohildron
were recovered after the house was burned down.
They were all burned Into a hard, shapeless crisp.
The legs and arms of tho little sufferers were en*
tlrely consumed, and nothing remained but part
of their bodies! The oharred and blaokened re
mains were burled immediately after tho fire.
The parents aro almost distracted, and it is feared
that the mother will lose her reasbn altogether.
She has not tasted food sluoe.
A Letter from Madrid says We have
received news of a terrible oatastrophe. The rich
load mines of Linares,'belonging to the State,
have fallen in, and, it is said, buried in their
ruins more than 70 minors, of whom upwards of
30 bavo boon taken out dead. Tho falling in of)
the earth is attributed to tho oxceesivo rain for,
somo days past.
Mr. D. K. Mcßae has been selected as the
orator of the Literary Sooieties of tho University
of North Carolina for next commencement.
A night mail train to Now Yovk, over tho
now route from Boston, 1b reoommondod by busi
ness men in Providence.
SECOND BOAitD.
Appalling Calamity.
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGBAPH.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
[BT OTBRL4N9 MAIL ]
PROGRESS OF THE PRESIDENT’S MKB9AGE,
Crime at Han Francisco.
Attempted Suicide of an Injured Husband*
IJVMAJ*' J>ISITVRnJU\'CEB'
Sr. I/01718, Jan, 7.—The,overland mail, with San
Franolsco advices to the ISth ult, three days later than
the dates previously received, has arrived.
Governor Weller, of California, bes offered a reward
of $l,OOO for the arrest and coovlotion of any parties
engaged la the Ist) riot at Los Angeles and Columbia.
1 A man by the phme of Ward detected A R. Molony,
State Comptroller, in criminal intercourse with bis
wife. Warn shot at his wife, and thinking he had
killed her, attempted suicide, inflicting a dangorons
wound. Melony is a married roan, fifty years of age,
and has a-large family, including grown-up childron.
The California press demands his resignation.
Dr O’Dowd has committed saicido in consequence of
having administered an overdose of opium to a young
man named Bradley, produciog death.
The French stoop ef-war Eurydice has arrived from
the Sandwich Islands. The news is unimportant
The weather at San Francisoo was colder than ever
koown before. . ,
Business at Fan Francisco was quiet. The only ves
sels reported as haring arrived there are the ship God
frey, from New York, and tho Bi&ck Hawk from Liver
pool.
1 ho passengers by the mail report that Mr. Pardeo,
the express messenger, who started with tbe Presi
dent’s message, wsb sick at El Paso The message was,
however, sent forward at the express rate of two hun
dred miles per day. . ,
■ About' fifty persons were met returning from Gila
river gold mines, being discouraged by the want of
I water.
vessels, with provisions for the miners and
| Government, had left Pan Francisco for Fort Yuma:
Three companies of dragoons had gone from Los An*
geles to establish a post in the Navajo country, thro*
hundred miles above Fort Tana, on the Colorado river.
The Gamanche Indiana continaed to rob the m«
'Stations whenever an opportunity occurred. They and
the employees of the malt company are virtually at
war. The latter are building strong station-houses,
which are to be provided, wlthfrom ten to twenty gone
each.
' The Stockton and Kansas citr mall party had been
turned back by the Navajo Indians, with threat* of
massacre if they attempt to cross the .country again.
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,
Second Session^
U. fi. Capitol, Wasdisqton, January 7, 1859.
SENATE.
< Being the private-calendar day, much routine bus!
-nCss was transacted. ,
A Communication was received from the BecrM&ry of
VNet cCbc'eming the report of the engineer’s bureau,
relative .to the ground used for federal purposes in the
harbor of New York.
- - Mr. Skwird of New York, presented petitions from
the State of Now York, in favor of the homestead and
old soldiers bills. Also, a resolution, which was adopted,
calling on the President, for all the recent correspon
dence between the .British Government and the Ameri
can minister at London,, touching the abuses of the
American flag in connection with the African slave
trade, especially in the oasoof the elaver Wande er.
Mr. Wilbon, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution
*{whioh was laid over) calling for fall details of the oon
tracts made with Mr. Butterfield as mail contractor..
The bill giving new registers to the Canadian-built
steamships America and Oaoada was passed.
Mr. Harlan, of lowa, offered a resolution, which was
.passed, calling for information relative to the number
of ships and officers, and also of the pay, of the nary.
Mr; Hauuohd, of South Carolina, presented the cre
dentials of hla colleague, Mr. Ohesriut, as United
fctales Senator from South Carolina till l£fo.
The Senate agreed to take up the French spoliation
bill by a vote of SO yeas to 23 nays.
My. Datib, of Mississippi, was speaking againtt the
bill, when he complained of being too sick to proceed.
The Senate refused a motion to postpone the conside
ration of the subject by a vote of 31 yeas to 80 nays;
but in consequence of the sickness of Mr. Bavin,
The paoiflo fiallroad bill was taken up.
Mr. Shields, of Minnesota, spoke in favor of the
northern route to Puget’s Sound, setting forth its ad
vantages over all others.
Mr. Boolittlb. of Wisconsin, moved an amendment,
providing that a board of three engineers be appointed
to surrey eaoh of the proposed routes, the northern,
central/and southern, and report the capabilities and
an estimate of the expense of each to the President be
fore the next meeting of Congress. A new feature in
his amendment is, that it also provides that the alter
nate sections of land along the route shall be open, un
der the homestead law to actual settlers
Mr. TabafluLL, of Illinois, in speaking nominally on
the Paciflo Railroad question, replied to the speech of
Mr. Iverson made yesterday. Be noticed Mr. Iver
son’s alluslonto the Illinois eleotion. He denied the
claim of the modern Democracy to that honored title,
considering them the mere survivors of p'ostrate Whig
gery. He vent into a Ustory of-the rise and progress
of the Hepoblican party, and agreed , with the Senator
from Georgia, that it vould goon progressing till it ob
tained power: and itwoald administer it In accord
ance with the true principles of the Constitution.
Without taking action on the bill,
On motion of Mr. Slidell, of Louisiana, the Senate
over till Monday, in commemoration of the
battle of New Orleans.
HOUBB OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr. Blair, of Missouri, introduced a bill to est&blitb
an tseajr office in Bt Louis.
Mr. Stkpjjkbs, of Georgia, announced, in response
to many Inquiries, that the Oregon bill was on his dsa*,
and ha waa ready to report It the first time the Com
mittee on Territories shall be oalled apon by the
Speaker. Ho will then request that immediate action
be taken on the bill, and trusts it will be reached by
Tuesday next.
’. Mr. WAsbbuaxk, of Illinois, wished to know whether
the .gentleman.from. Georgia (Mr. Stephens) would
floss the passage of the bill without discussion.
■Mr. Stephens replied that he wa? willing the debate
’'shall contloue as long as the House may desire.
Yar.ons bills of a private character were reported.
Among them was one by Mr.- Hopkins, of Virginia,
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for the relief
of the owners, officers, and crew of the brig General
Mr. PusLPS, of Missouri, from the Oomtnittee of
-'Ways and Means, reported a bill making appropriations
for fortificAtioDßi. i
' Mr. Josig, of Tennessee, offered a resolution calliof
on the Sehretiijr of the Interior to report under whs >
law and by what authority the advisory board of agri
culture to the Patent Offico was assembled, -the manner
in which the delegdtes were appointed, and from what
fond they .were paid.
Metsrs. flbtinES, of Indians, and Stephens, of Geor
gia, severally gave their understAnding of the subject,
supposing thst the delegates were assembled under the
discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, {75,000
having heretofore been appropriated for the collection
ofagricuHurat statistics.
Mr. Jones, tf Tennessee, said tba>, ir it was right and
proper that su;h conventions should be orntinned, Con
gress ought to take the responeib lity of providing how
they should be called, the number of delegates, and the
amount of. compensation.
•’The resolution was passed
The House then went into committee on private bills,
Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, in the chair.
Bleven private bills were passed.
The Bpeaker laid before the House a message from
the President, giving the reasons why, on the last day
of the former session, he did not sign the joint resolu
tion lessening the time for carrying the mail from Bt.
Joseph's to California. The message states that the
Postmaster General already bad a aisbretionary power
in the premises; the contractors themselves nadpro
posed to shorten the time, and on a subsequent examina
tion it was found that a proposition was pending to carry
the said malls for $47,000 loss than was authorized by
th&tresolution. Adjourned.
From Washington.
Wibhihoton. Jan. 7 —The Patent Office bos iaiued
a patent or David E. Hughes, of New York, assignor te
the Aroer'oan Telegraph Compaoy, feran improvement
in electro-magnetic telegraphing
Prominent citrons of Washington, Rod other persona
occupying high public poaltiona from different sections
of the country, have determined to offer tho British
Minister and Lady Napier a grand complimentary ball in
Februarjr.
The Secretary of War in response to tho inquiry of
the Senate,has enclosed a letter from the Topographical
Engineers Bureau, stating that there !a no laud in the
immediate vicinity of the city of New York which can
be appropriated for the use of the revenue department
hut the extent of the publio domain at Bandy Hook
might, perhaps, admit of a portion of the south end of
the neck for such purposes.
The correspondence between the British Government
and Mr. Dallas, to-day called for by Mr. Bewatd’a reso
lution ia tho Senate, will, it is said, If furnished, ex
bibit Startling facta in regard to the continued abuso
of the American flog to cover the slave trade, and show
that the yeoht Wanderer played a prominent partin
that traffic on the African coast.
Mr. Douglas has acjepted the invitation to partake of
a publio Sinner in Baltimore, at which every county la
the BUte will be represented. It will take place at
such time as will suit his convenience.
Tho Benate hu re-elected Professor Baebo and ex-
Senator Badger Regents of the Smithsonian la tttute.
The nomination of Charles L. Weller, m p -atmaeter
at Ban Praaoifloo, belog before the Senate for coofirma
tlon for tbe second term, a pamphlet has been circu
lated among the Senators, ohargiog him with viola
tions of the law, Ac . arising out of his controversy
with the Penny Post Compear of that city. The Post
Office Committee baa the matter under consideration
H. J. Graham, the delegate appointed to urge the
organisation of a Territorial Government for Oolona,
has arrived here.
Senator Davis, of Mississippi, laboring from indispo
sition, was obliged to retire from tho Sonate chamber
to-day So oonseqnenoe.
United States Supreme Court.
Washington, Jan *i —No. 280. Bobert lUinsey ot
al. tb John W. Bacon. Error to the Circuit Court of
the Northern district of Illinois. Cause docketed, and
dismissed with costs.
No 85. The United States vs. John A. Sutter. Ar
gument concluded for appellants.
No. 30. McKinley, Gnrrioch, Sc Co., vs. William
Merrisb, master and claimant of ship Pons Aelii. Ar
gument commenced for appellants, and continued Tor
appellee.
Territorial Allaire.
WiBHiNUTOS, Jan. 7.—This morning the House Com
mittee on Territories decided to report the bills for
organising the Territorial Governments of Arizona and
Dakotah, and against the proposedbill rorthe Territoiv
of Oolona.
Kansas Allaire.
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE —MEASURES TO REPEL
INVASION.
St. Loots, Jan. 7.—Governor Stewart submitted a
message to the Senate yestO'day. reciting tho recent
depredations committed ou our citizens of the border
counties by the Kansas banditti under Montgomery and
Brown.
A bill was imtdedlatoly reported authorizing tho Go
vernor to call out volunteers to protect persons nnd
property, and repel Invasion. The bill appropriates
$30,000 for that purpose. It will probably be passed
to-day.
Detention of the Dnstern Steamers.
Nrw York, Jan. 7,—None of tha Eastern steamboats
had arrived at noon.
The weather is foggy.
Loss of the Brig Kate Anderson, of Bath,
Maine.
Cjuhlsstoh, Jan. 7 —The schoonfr British Queen,
from Nasiau, repoits the loss of the brig Sate Ander
son, from Bath, Maine, on Berry Island, on the 4th uit.
Her crew were saved, and lied arrived at Nassau. The
Kate Anderson was from Charleston, bound to New
Orleans.
Marine Disaster—Mutiny ou Shipboard.
Himptok Roms, Jan 7.—The ship Flying Dragon
has gone ashore on the Horse Shoe Shoal, near Old
Point Comfort. The crew has mutinied, and the United
States marshal has gone down to secure the matinoers.
Fire at St. Louis.
St. Louts, Jan, 7.—A fire broke out this morning in
8. Msyberg’s hat store, on Broadway, which extended
to two or three adjoining buildings, and causing con
siderable damage to them. ' The loss amounted to $25,-.
000, fully covered by insurance.
Markets by Telegraph.
Balt mors, Jan. 7 --Flour Is &othre; sales of 2,500
bbls at 6O. Wheat ia unchanged: sales of
6,000 bus at $1 £6®1.60.’ Corn is in light receipt;
sales oi 4,000 bus at 71®730 for yellow, and 68®700 for
white. Provisions are unchanged, and there are no
sales worth reporting.* Whiskey—The market is Im
proving; Ohio ie quoted at and city at 24c.
New Orlkaks, Jan. 6 —Sales of Cotton. to-day,
4,000 bales. Thu advices by the Noith American have
caused less firmness, bnt quotations are without quota
ble change.
f HAn'.KSTON", Jon 7 —Sales of Cotton tc-day 2,000
•baU'«i; quotations nre u difingod
Sa\ anxau Jau 7.—Cotton-sales to-day 600 ba’es at
former quotations.
Cincinnati , Jan. 7 —Floor' unchanged; sales at
s4.7fic and 4.86. Whiskey ia firm at Hogd
dull and’lowor; sales of4oo at fßtfro 40; tho receipts
tc -Lit amounted to 1,000 hog*. Mona Pork If quoted at
$16.75 hard is firm at 110 Bacon, balk sides, sales
ol 60,000 lbs at 7Xo.
Indiana Legislature"
'-message of Gov.
Willard,
iNDtANAt’OLis, Jan. 7.— The annual message of Qot.
Willard was sent in to the Legislature this afternoon
Ho reoommend* the erection of Btiitable buildings f t
the use of State officers, the Judges of the Supreme
Court..and the depository of the State records. He says .
thsttne revenues of the Wabash sad Erie Canal have j
greatly diminished, and fears that tln-y will prove in- j
adequate to beep the canal iu repa'r; that the bond- j
holders are unwilling to sustain the work by any other I
means than those derived from the revenues, naif of 1
the entire debt of the State bai been invested in the
work itself, besides SaOO.OOO for Its coapletion The
bondholders have informed the BoArd of Trustees of
thoir determination t 6 clo£? the canal and abandon the
work whenever the revenues p*ove Inalequate
The Goie-nor calls the attention of the Legislature |
to the necessity for increasing the salaries of the Judges
of the Supreme Court, and also the amount given to
the Governor. He sajs the laws of the Blat* in regard
to the qualifications of voters and election officers are
inadequate, and tfcat a law sbou’d ce passed iofllctiog
severe penalties cn election officers who decline to re
-04 ve legal or almit illegal Vofcs He also recommend*
that ai appropriation be made frr the enlargement of
the Insane Asylum.
Message of the Governor of Maine.
Augusta. Me , Jan. 7.—Governor Morrill, in his
message delivered ti the Legislature to day, adverts to
the financial condition of tho State, nud says it de
mands the raofet exact economy in the public service
The expenditures have been constantly augmenting
until the ordinary receip's are behind the annual de
mands, and the annual expenditure now averages $164.-
000 over the annual average of ten jfara ago. This
increase is attributable to the wise cd liberal
policy for the promotion of education, agriculture,
&c.. hut there is still great vigilance and watchfulness
needed The receipts of the year are' est s mated at
$368,000 The Governor urges a large reduction in the
legislative expenses, and recommends biennial sessions.
Re then speaks of the needs of the agr'Cultural io-
torost, and the capacities of settling lands. 1
He recommends a State Normal hebool, and also
a renewal of .the authority to the laud agent? to'grant
leimlta to out timber on the public lands. He refers
o an offifllaHavestlgatlon of the alleged frauds in the
reent election at the Mad&wask* settlements, and sug
gests additional legislation to preserve the purity of the
billot box. He closes unon the subject <-f Federal re
lations, and says that State right* should be vigilantly
guarded. He regards the new policy of the Federal
Government upon the slavery question as injurious to
the rights of the free States, and calls upon tho Legis
lature and people to malnta’n their resistance to the
extension of slavery.
The Wreck of the Susau,
Savannah, Jan. 7.—'The Mobile papers of Wednes
day have been received. The Mercury of Monday con
tains a loop account of the wreck of the Susan, written
by Oapt. Maury. All the passengers have returned.
The Gardener’s Monthly—Central Park.
We have upon ouf table tho.first camber of The \
Gardener's Monthly , edited by Mr. Thomas Mee- ,
han, the able horticulturist. It is a quarto of six
teen pages, handsomely printed, and filled with
valuablo matter. The publication office is at No.
23 North Sixth street, and tho terms of subscrip
tion are one dollar a year. Wo transfer to our
oolumns part of tho sketoh of tho now park now
being laid out in New York. An engraved plan
of tho park acoompanicstbe artiolo :
Central Park, New York —The great work oF
the ago is tbo Central Park of Now York. In an
other yoar it will be thrown opou to the people
It will stand for ages a memorial of the sagacity,
taste, and energy of the men who have built up
that city and made it tho metropolis of onr coun
try. The men who have spont years of toil in
their devotion to this publio pleasure ground have
thoir reward in (he consciousness of having con
ferred great and lasting benefits on the toiling
millions of the oity. Thousands will visit this
beautiful orcationof nature and art; and, while
enjoying the beautiful sccnos spread out before
them, will feel the prideof ownership in it, though
no other foot of God’s earth be theirs. Little chil
dren in their gambols, and age, resting undorthe
well-shaded walks, will bless the memory of tho
men to whom they are indebted for so much
rational enjoyment.
It is now more than seven years slnoe the first
offioial steps were taken to provido a park for New
York. On the &th day of April, 1851, Ambrose C.
Kingiland, tho Mayor of the oity, in a speoial
message to the'Board of Aldermen, urged the ne
cessity of scouring au amplo area of ground for
i the purposes of publio roore&tion. Mr. A. J*
i Downing followed this up by an able article in his
magazine, The Horticulturist , deploring the fact
that Now York, and American cities generally,
i were voluntarily and ignorantly living in a state
of oomplote forgetfulness of Nature nndfher inno
cent recreations. Ho referred to the manner in
which the population of the cities in France and
Germany pass their afternoons and evenings toge
ther in beautiful parks and gardens, and pointod
out the importance of the social influences of such
places in elevating the tustos of the masses of the
people.
Tho municipal bodies of tho oity seconded tho
views of the Mayor, and at once procured tho no
oe3sary legislation. On tho 11th of July, 1851, an
act of Assembly authorized the oity to take a tract
of land on tho East River for a park. This tract
is known as ‘'Jones’ Woods.” Subsequently a
more oentr&l situation was preferred, and the Le
gislature passed, on the 23d of July, 1853, an act
for taking tho ground now known as Central Park.
Under this act five commissioners of estimate and
assessment were appointed to assess the value of
the lands taken for tho park, and to assess the
owners of the adjoining lands for tho benefit they
would derive from the improvement. These com
missioners were appointed in November, 1853,
and two years wore occupied in the task impo
sed on them. Thoir report was oonfirmed by
Judge Harris, of the Supremo Court, on the sth of
February, 1850. Tho lands taken for the Park
extend from Fifty-ninth street to Ono Hundred
and Sixth street, lying between the Fifth and
Eighth avenues. Tho lower line is about five
miles from the Battery, and the upper lino about
the same distance’from the upper end. of the
island. The Patk will-bo about two miles and u
half in length, and over half a mile in widthi
Seven hundred and seventy-six sores of land aro
embracod .within these limits; Seven thousand
five hundred and twenty city lots were taken, and
their v&luo assessed at five millions one hundred
and eleven thoosand four hundred and.twenty-sU;
dollars and thirty cents . About ten acres belong
ing to the State, upon which tho arsenal stands,
were subsequently purchased by the oity for
three hundred thousand dollars. In tho centre
of this area stands the Croton reservoir, cover
ing thirty-throo aorcs, and tho grounds reserved
for tho now rescryoir, covering ouo hundred and
seven aorcs. Tho cost of surveys and other inci
dental expenses up to tho ditto of the confirmation
of tho report of tho commissioners amouuted to
about $58,000 The amount assessed on property
owners in tho vicinity of tho Park, lor benefit re
ceived, is $1,000,000. Tbelaw of 1850, for tho re
gulation and government of the Park, provided
that no plan for the laying out of tho grounds
should be adopted, of which tho ontiro expenso,
when funded, should requiro for the payment of
the annual interest a greater sum than one hun
dred thousand dollars per annum.
The entire cost of this Park will be as follows:
Cost of 770 acres. • •'!s£•/! *•••. ...$5,111,425 3
Cost of 10 acres, subsequently pur
chased
Surveys and other expenses
Amount appropriated for improve-
Total amount already appropriated..s6 969,426 30
Id the above statement is not included the value
of tho thirty-threo aores occupied by the Croton
reservoir, which belonged to the oity/and wbioh
will probably iacrcaco the amount to seven and a
half millions of dollars, and it is thought by some
that, before the entire plan is oarrled out, it will
cost ten milliojis of dollars. Truly this may be
oailed a gigantic undertaking.
The surface of the ground embraced within tho
Park is much broken by rocky hills, and at pre
sent presents a rugged aspeot. The npper portion
is tho most elevated, presenting some grand'
views of the surrounding oountry. Thoro are
many fine trees interspersed over the ground.
The commissioners appointed to lay out tho
grounds offerod the following sums for designs :
For the first •.*•....52,000
For the second ...... 1,000
For tho third 750
For the fourth 500
Topographical plans were furnished to all ap
plicants On tho Ist of Maroh, 1853, the plans
were opened by the commissioners. There were
thirty-throe competitors. The design of Calvert
Vnux and Frcderiok Law Olmsted obtained tho
first prominm, and the work of improvement is
now in active progress under the superintendence
oftheso skilful gentlemen.
From two to three thousand men are employed
on the work, blasting rooks, making roads and
walks, and oonstruoting the new reservoir, whieh
is to be made to present the appearance of a beau
tiful lake of irregular shape, and enoiroled by a
drive of moro than a mile in length. A parade
ground of fifty aores has been sot apart for the use
of the military, and provision made for play
frouods; also, »flower-garden, skating-ponds, &o.
a the uppor portion an arboreum will be formed.
Immonso numbers of trees are under cultivation
in bods, Teady to bo set out in their appropriate
places. A substantial stone wall encloses the whole
park. Messrs. Vaux and Olmsted hare tho heads
to understand, and the hearts to approointe, tho
great work upon whioh thoyare engaged, and they
are rapidly pushing forward tho improvement of
the ground. When completed, it will be thoobief
point of attraction in the city, and thousands of
strangers will be attracted to -that great mart of
commerce to enjoy the pleasure of a drive or stroll
through this splendid public pleasure ground.
Before closing this artiole, we would seize tho
opportunity of expressing our gratification that
the corporation of tho oity of Philadelphia has at
length taken the initiatory steps towards the im
provement of the Fairmount Park, which em
braces within its present limits about one hundred
and thirty acres. The tenants have been ordered
off, and It has been placed under the care of a su
perintendent, and tho Committee on City Property
aro advertising for a plan or plans for its im
provement. We annex a copy of it, and com
mend it to the attention of our many able land
scape gardeners and rural architects.
Notice. —Plans for the improvement of Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, (Lemon Hill and
Sedgoly estates,) are horoby invited, uuder tho
authority of an ordinance of tho City Counoils.
A premium of $5OO will be awarded to the author
of the plan which ia selected, and 5250 will be
paid to the author of tho plan next in excellence.
Every plan must be accompanied by an estimate,
and must bo sont to this offioo on or before Febru
ary 15, 1859. The selection will be made by tho
Committee on City Property. Those who desire
to oompeto aro invited to oall at this offioe, whore
further information will bo furnished.
J. M CnnißTonunß,
Commissioner City Property.
Hot Bbicks. —Tho danger of taking hot
bricks for bedfollows was illustrated in a town
near Albany, a few nights since, when two^ young
ladies wrapped ono in doth to toast thoir feet
with in tho font of the bed. They woko up in tho
night nearly suffooated, and found tho bed on fire,
the brick having burnt through five quilts, por
tions of tho skirts lying upon tho foot of the bed, a
holo in the mattress, a portion of a nightgown
upon ono of the ladies, and discolored their feot
with smoko.
The sudject of a city charter for tho village
of Saratoga Springs, Now York, is agitated in that
beautiful and populous town.
Sudden Deatii.— Mr. Franklin B. Nimocks,
sged 35 yoars. died mddcnly yeatcrlay morning, at his
residence. in Fourth street, below Wharton. Be hrd
been in the enjovineut of apparent good health up to
the moment ot bis death, and it Is supposed that his
death was caused by disease of the hearc The charac
ter of tho debased in spoken of in the highest terms
by thefio who kner lil-r. host, nnd his low will bo deoply
lamented hy his family and ntimeious triends. Mr Ni- •
mocks was a native of JofiViAon county, N h. wli're ■
his Dither now le/ules Uo mu t to the Mexican war
with tho En'timore battalion, and did his country pond
service at the btttlw ot Monterey, lie wan then ap
pointed Aflfdf-ln.t Adjutant General, and while them ray ,
was at Tampico ho was acting Adjutant General. After ;
the war Mr. N. held a position in the array paymaster’s
offi«p, in Texts Recently he was clerk for Onpt. Day,
navy agent, and at the ttuie of bis death ho wm cbiof .
book-keeper in the offioe of the Oity Treasurer.
THE CITY.
AMU9SMXNT3 THIS BVBNIHG,
Musical Pond Hall —“ Gustav Sattet’/jlast Con
cert.”
Mas. D p bovsrs’ Walkct-btabr* Tuaatra.—
<{ The Honey Moon “ The Drunfcard.”
WHAITI.KT as OLAAKN’S AROH-BTRAR* THAATAW
“ Our American Oott«in”*~ <{ The Dumb Man of Man*
©heater; or, Tbo Felon Heir ”
National Oirgob Lent’s Circus Company.”—
it Kqu«etrUn, Gymnastic, and Aorobatio feats.”
Sanford’s Opera Hoosh.—Ethiopian Entertain'
moots.
i Assembly Boildihos.—signor Blits.
Alleged Gamblers Held to. Answer.—"
Oar readers will doubtless remember the ease of Mr.
George Peterman, who was convicted on the charge of
forging checks ou Mr. Bolomon Lukens and obtaining
the money frern tbe Kensington Bank. Much interest
was manifested at the time'of the trial, .aad many of
our citizens warmly sympathised with Peterman, who
had been ruined, ae is allegedly the sharpers who
frequent our gambling laloons. and by his intense
passion for gambling was led to tbe commission or the
crime which resulted in his conviction. Beve'ai of
the alleged proprlr tors of saloons, answering to the
followir g names, were before Recorder Rneu, oft
ThurFday eve? ing: Zacbariah and William Robins. No.
1021 Chestnut street: Jampg Kelly. Sansom street,
near Kigbth ; Robait Har»ey, Thirdand Brown streets;
-'ltliam BevAo, conneited with Robins; William
Waley, Fourth street. near Library; Charles M*nn,
Fanaora street near Eighth; and—— Cooper,. Ninth
street, abovp Chestnut, were charged with keeping
gambling bouses.
Mr Peterman was brought up from prison to testify,
and gavp the following evidence: “ I am a Philadel
phlan, and since 1823 have lived at Second and Poplar
streets; I have;visited numerous gaming houses in the
’ast's’X years; very often In the last few mouths; I
have been to Zacbariah Bobbins 1 place, 1021 Chestnut
street, ahd seen tbe game offaro p’ayed there; William
Bevans Is said to be connected with Mr Bobbins; I
have Feen him dealing; I have also been toWm. Wa
ley’s place, Fourth street, sear Library; John Baker.is
said to be his.partoor; I ha# played there; atfaro re
cently ] also to James Kelly’s house, in Bansom street,
near Eighth; I played there eight or ten days befero ray
arrest; did not Use more than fifty dollars there; Mr.
Kelly was there when I played ; Chae. Mann’s place is
opposite Kelly’s ; it is the only place in Philadelphia
I won sny money; I was there a month before my ar
rest ; Mr. Mann dealt when I played; I won $3OO, and
tavepurtof it to my family; I was at Wm. Robbins’
pltce. Chestnut street, near Tenth; saw different deal
ers there; Mr. Robbins paid me some money when I
wo - it; I also visited a bouse in Ninth street, above
Chestnut, Cooper 4* Fricker’a place; eaw Mr. Cooper
there dealing faro; Ineveraaw Pricker dealing; know
nothing, of my ownknowledge,of him; I visited a sma 1 1
place at Third and Brown streets, kept by Robert Har
yey, and saw faro played there. **
After his examination by District Attorney ' Mann,
the testimony for the Commonwealth closed, and the
paities were held in tbe sum ot $5OO to answer.
Robbery of a Medical Student.—A stu
dent of Jefferson College arrived in our city a few
wi*oks since, bringing with him the nice little sum of
$l,lOO, which was intended a* an appropriate sum to
meot his expense* daring the winter, and see him
through with the title of M. D attached to Perkins.
The übove amount hid dwindled down to $503, which
remaln 9 .d in the Western Bavings Fund. On Thursday
night last, Perkins with some half dozen boon compan
ions, starred out with the intention of having a good
time They were a-oompaoled by a roan wbo repre
sented himself as astadeotalso, a d called bipiselfn.
S O. Boyd. They became oblivious to tbiogs terres
trial long before the night was Fpent, and yesterday
mo-nlng. when Perkins woke.to consciousness, he dis-
covered, for the first Urae. that hie bank book, in which
sso3 were entered to his credit, had been tskeu from
his pocket*. He immediately started-for the ’Western
Sav lugs Fund, to notify the officers of his loss, and was
surprised ti find, on his arrival at that institution, that a
person had called, a short time before, wlih the book,
anditited that he was the Ur. Perkins who had an
account there, and that he wanted a check on the Bank
of North America. The officers, supposing it to he all
right, gave the desired check, and tae man left After
being apprised of this, Perkins proceeded to the Cen
tral Station, and entered complaint. Officers Franklin
and Hamilton, accompanied by Perkins, proceeded to
the Bank of North America, and ss they neared the
j bmk, Boyd, who was standing on the steps, recognised
I Perkns with the officers, and started on a run, throw*
I ing the oheck down on the pavement. The officers,
I after ehaslrg him through several in
captaring the wouid-be student, H. 8. 0. Boyd, and
i took him before Alderman Beitler, who held him to
| answer.
Female Association of Philadelphia.—
Am*ng the many benevolent and praiseworthy societies
of oar city, perhaps none can lay higher claims to
excellency than the above. The mission to which this
society has particularly devoted its energies is the fur
nishing of clothing to the sick and infirm poor of onr
city, and from the 20th annual report of the shore asso
ciation we glean the following interesting facts: The
mm of rooßer received by them daring the past reason
amounted to $89610, $409.04 of which were used for
purchasing dry goods, and $270.75 expended for sewing.
They received the following donations: 2 pieces sattl
netta, 60 yds gingham, 14 prs of gaiters, 7 hoods, 34 lbs
of scap, 3 pieces of cotton flannel, 1 dot pairs half here,
12 prs of woollen sleeves. 14 lbs of candles, and a variety
of smaller donations. Burin? the year 1865, garments
were made and distributed This society has been ma
terially assisted in its labors by the co-operation of the
Tenth Ward Relief Committee, and many of the worthy
poor of our city have been furnished, through the latter
medium, with employment. The officers of the associ
ation are Hannah Miller, President, Elizabeth Jentins,
Treasurer, and Anna Wharton, Secretary, who .reside
respectively at 315 N. Eleventh street. 037 Fr&nkUd
street, and 336 Spruce street. Any dona'ions stnt to
, either of the above residences will be gratefully re
ceived and appropriately distributed.
Robberies.— A dwelling house, No. 622
Green street, was entered early yesterday morning, by
prying open the back window-shutter, and robbed of
weariog apparel to the valae of one hundred dollars.
The office of Ooroner Fenner, situated in Walnut
street, below Fifth, was entered an Thursday night,
and robbed of hats, oosts, &0., belongirgto the coroner
and hia clerk, Mr. John M. Foster. The stolen arti
cles are valued at fifty dollars.
Excellent Appointment.— Mr. Hiram Mil
ler, who, for a number of years, acted os conductor on
the Reading Kailrcad, has been appointed general re
ceiving clerk by the company. Mr M. has many friends,
who will be glad to hear of his appsintment. though
they will regret the lose of so courteous and efficient a
conductor, who has won the esteem of all with whom
heotme iu contact.
Donations.—-If tiio treasnrors of the Southi
wark. Moyamensiog, Western. Northern, Kensington,
and Green-street soup societies will call op in Mr!
Thomas T. Mason, at No. 434 Market street, they will
be foroished with five dollars each, to be appropriated
to the above societies. ;
Sudden Death.—An elderly lady, named
Mrs. Mercer, a well-knewn resident of.Routhwark. fell
dead yesterday morning, white in the act or walking''
serosa the flour of her chamber. She had been com
plaining for a long time, and had reached a good old
age *
Fluid Lamp Explosion.— An alarm of fire
was Caustd (n West Philadelphia last evening, at the
feeidence of Mrs Franks, in Oak street below Park, by
the explosion of a fluid lamp. Mrs. F was engaged in
filling tho lamp while burning, when it exploded, burn
ing her seriously.
Found Dead -A man, named B. Singer
sod, wab found dead In bUbed yesteriay morning, at
his residence, No. 2031 Oallowbilt street, lorooer
Fenner held au inquest on the body and rendered a ver
dict iu accordance with the fact*.
Liberal Donation. The I. O. S. 3f.
will, ihls morainr, distribute fire tboumad ticket?, for
as many loares of bread, to the different aonp aocletlee
of thlfl city.
THE COURTS
YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
300,000 00
58 000 00
[Reported for The Press.]
Supreme Court—Chief Justice Lowile, and
Juft'c-s Woodward, Btrosg, and Read.—Scott's appeal
(Landis vs Bc< tt) Error to the Court of Oomtnoa
Pleas of Philadelphia couoty by Sa-d. H, Per
kins for the appellant, and by E. Spencer Miller for the
appellees.
The argument in the case of Miller’s appeal was con
tinued yesterday morning by Ardrew Miller tor the ap
pellant, and by B Johnson, J. Wagner Jermoa, and
Wm A. Porter, for the appellees.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex-relatione J
M Gosline vs S. B. Starke, Kpq , sheriff of Luzerne
eouotf. This case was brought*np to the Supreme,
Court on a Aaieaj corpus issued by the Prothonottry'
of theBapreme Court for the Eastern district of Peon
sylvania. It la alloged that the relator in the ease is
indebted to a number of gentlemen in the -ity of New
York to a very heavy amount. His creditors in said
oity made affidavits that the defendant bought a quan
tity of goods of them, consisting of mittens, gloves, and
drygoods, and that he made falfe representations to
them as to his ability to pay for the same The relator
resides in tbs borough of Eyde Park, in Luzerne coun
ty, and carries on hi* business in that place. A war
rant of arrest was issued on the affidavits of his credi
tors. who stated that the relator had ooacealed his
goods to keep them from his cretitors, and he was ar
rested by the sheriff of Luzerne county acd locked up
iu prison Gosline then asked for a writ of habeas
corpus against the sheriff to show cause why he shonld
not bo discharged from custody.
Yesterday morning the ease was argued by counsel for
tho discharge of the relator.
Afh-r hearing, the prisoner wav discharged on biß
rpcngnizaoco to appear on tho second Monday of March
next, nud abide, &0., as per recogoizaoce of record. The
furthor hearing of the ca»e is adjourned until that day
at the city of Philadelphia.
Nisi Prius—Justice Thompson.—Emma M.
Kenyon vs Mary Ashbridge —Before reported. This
caso was a feigacd issue to try the validity of a will, or
as to who wm the proper heirs of Captain’ Kenyon,
and whether the captain's brain was affee'ed by a tumor
upon his forehead, which caused apoplexy. Th'fl
morning tho jury in tho case returned a verdict for the
p’alntiffas follows: That Emma M. Keuyon is the
heir at law, and that Captain Kepyor* was not ceropos
mentis when he made the will dated August < th, A. D.
1833. and codicil dated August 12tb, A. D. 1833, and
assess damages at $250 per annum next, from six years
previous to suit, and up to this time, amount.Dg to tho
aura of si.t2s. Benton and Bro in for plaintiff; Fat
lon and Btrrill for defendant..
Daniel R. Grove vs. William Hughes. An action to
recover damages for an alleged breach of contmit. It
is alleged that the defendant sold the plaintiff the good
will and fixtures of a general furnishing nadeit.aking
establishment, and sgreod not to enter into that busi
ness again; and the defendant also agreed to recotn
meud the plaintiff to h a (the defendant’s) customers,
aad in that way obtain him a large amount of buaine.s.
The plaintiff alleges that the de/endant afterwards en
tered i< ti the business, aud constquently violated the
conditions of tbe contract, by mtaus of which a large
amount of his (the plaintiff’s business) was taken aw*y.
On trial. Wharton, and F. O. Brewster, for plaintiff;
Ouyler, for defendant.
Orphans’ Court.— Judges Thompson and
Ludlow.—The usual business of tbe Court was trans
acted.
1,500,000 00
Quarter Sessions — Judge Allison.—Hugh
Shannon was charged with an asiau’t and battery upon
JaraeaGiipatrick a police ofiber. From the evidence,
it appeared that Hugh went home and commenced to
bre*k up the furniture. Uis wife called Gilpatrick to
come aad arrest him The officer at first refused, but
afterwarde neat iDto the house, and found Shannon in
bed, and dragged-him out, when Shannon struck him
in tho face. Tho officer admitted be had no warrant,
nor did ho bear murder cried
Judge Allison instructed tho jury that the officer was
wrong to enter the house; ho was not warranted in
m&kicg the arreßt, as he saw no breach of the peace;
Shannon’s wife should have obtained a warrant for his
arrest The judge instructod jury to render a ver
dict of not guilty, whioh they did. The jndge then re-
Srimanded Shannon, and he and his wife lelt the court
ouse in company.
Spencer Smith was charged with pacing a counterfeit
$lO note.purpor ting to be issued by the Merchants’ Bank,
of Newport, It. I. Smith e»ma into a tsvtro, at Sixth
and Powell streets, aud purchased a bottle of cham
pagne and a dozen fried oysters, and gave the bill in
payment The defence alleged that a man came into a
house in the neighborhood of the tavern, and gave
Spencer the note to get the above articles lie ob
talned the articles, and took them to the man, who
gave him twen’y-five cents for his trouble. Tbo next
day Spencer was arrested Mr Loughead asked the
jury to render a verdict of not guilty, which theyd-J-
William Oonway was acquitted or the larceny of a
small quantity of money. The defendant had been
convicted of a similar charge, and sentenced.
Denuis Hownton wm cha-ged with keeping a disor
derly house In Seventh st-eet, near Baker street. The
officers alleged that the house was visited by blacks and
whites, of both svxes, and wes very often disorderly
and noisy. The defendant called numerous witnesses
who testtßed th.t tho homo woo orlerlg, aid than iu
no more noioo o', his houM than onj other holel in the
ne'RhWhood. Jorjont. Dmlel Dougherty for do
fondant. n
United States District Court- Judge
Cadwalader —The court was in season yesterday
morniug, but aij .urned without transacting any busi
ness of pablic importance.
District Court —Judgo Snarswood.—
Bnmicl Allen, F.kj , late Hhe*iff of the city and county !
of Philadelphia, to the ” flb of Thomai J. Meagher, vs. !
UaTid Arm°tro g An action on a replevin bond given j
oa behalf at Kiwar.l R. Ilelmbold to the p’a’ntiff, upon j
aiiiNtiesa lor rent due end in A judgment was j
ooufcsfied by f dward R. Helmbold in tbe re pi via i uit,
r.rd this action was brought by the late shtr IT to re
cover ou the replevin bond the amount of the jndgmont
fo obtained. Verdict for, the plaintiff f0r541«.26,' T.
8. Smith and M. J. Mitcbeson fo: the plaintiff; W. W.
Juvenal for tbe defendant.
The other District Court was not in season.
FINANCIAL lAM) COMiIERCiAb.
' The 'Money Market. '
PBILADXLFHIir JftD. 7,-1860.
The upward movement in stocks was rather accele
rated to-day, and the bulls imagine tflat they are
about to receive the, reward of their patient and steady
resistance to the tide that hat borne so long against
them. The general sentiment bat been in favor of ha
upward movementin speculative shares for a consider
able time { and it hue been mainly owing to the course
of exchange, the movement of specie southward, and
the certainty of a large abstraction of specie when'the
new loan is made to the Government, that that senti-
ment has not heretofore manifested itself in a very de
cided manner at the stock-board. How far these con
siderations . may be able- to repress the disposition to
create a rise in stocks for the future, is a problem that
every one must solve for Money can be'ob
tained readily enough now below legal latrs; how much
ioterest will be demanded in the market when the
rpring business opens, or to what extent the payment of
ten millions into the Government vaults will cause
bank loans to contract and money to role h : gb, are
questions every one should settle for himseir, before he
resolve* upon trying his luck in stocks. When he is sure
he is right, let him go ahead
We have an extra from the c ffice of Peterson'* Coun
terfeit Detector .with the following notice of a new
counterfeit:
“ Wehave just detected a new spariou9ss note, pur
porting to be issued by the SUte Bank at CUmden, N.
J. It Is an alteration of the begua W&ubeek
piste, which hasheen altered to various backs through
out the country. .The vignette ia a Western river rteam
boat and river scene; bead of Washington in the lower
right corner ; head of Henry Olay on lower left corner.
It is well engraved, and likely to deceive the unwary.”
The returns of the pork packing in the West, so far
as received, indicate an increase in number as compared
with the returns from the same places last year, of
188 hogs, while there is a loss of weight equal to
121.200 hogs, leaving the actual increase abont equal to
67,670 hogs. The falling off In lard is ettim&tedby
good judges at nearly five pounds per hog.
The domestic wool business for December was unu
sually heavy, everybody looking forward to a season of
| great activitv in the woollen manufacture, lbs stocks
100 hand at the close of the year were light in compari
son with previous year*, and jet the receipts in 1858
were equal to those dr1856, and much larger than in
1857
The annual message of the Governor of Ohio gives
the following financial statistics:
“The general revenue for the support or the State
Government is now raised under separate and specific
acts; the message recommends tbit all rats* ef taxation
be prescribed by a sinsle law The total receipts of re
venue for 1868 were $3,758,621.67 The disbursements
were $2,516 468.77, to which should be added the excess
of the defalcation over fanner apparent balsaoe. which
was $17,143.15, making a total of $8,682,602 62.-' The
balance in the Trea«ury, therefore, at the tr mmence
meet of the present fiscal year, was $226,118 95 »
The total of the pubHo debt at the commencement of
the year was $17,169,972.81—0f this $6,413,625.25 will
be due after December 31,1869—and for the'paymentof
which provision is required, which't is thought maybe
had in a new five pei cent, loan The message recom
mends the onifarra taxation of banks. The banks or
ganized under the act of 1846 claim exemption.hut aa
the Supreme Court of the State has recently re-dezied
the vsllditf of tie claim, though the Bupreme Court of
the United Stitea su tafned it, the message dec'ares
that the officer* of the State will not racoznlae it &g
valid.
The superintendeit of banking in the State of New
York states la Ms a naval report 1b at he fs of opinion
that statutory provision in reference to the examination
of inspected banks by the superintendent, creates a de
lusion in the mil ds of the community by encouraging
the belief that it tends to recare them from loss; and
it throws an ostensible rerponsibility upon the euperfn
tendent impossible for him to fulfil. He retotmnend fl
its repeal. And he takes rccaslcn to reiterate bis con.
▼ictlon that it is wise to remove all restrictions calcu
lated to embarrass the banking business the
quarterly and weekly reports, and the system of secured
circulation,) leav.ag capital employed in basking “ a 8
free as its use In any other branch of human industry
and effort.”
We are in receipt of Imlay & Blcknell’s Bank iYofc
Register fcr this week, and also of a notice from them
of tbe bogus bank bill on the State Bank of Camden,
described above.
The following is the amount of Coal transported on
| the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad daring the
I week ending Thursday, January 6, 1850:
Tons. Owt.
6,80114
700 05
4.133 06
109 07
1.747 18
From Port Carbon......
“ Pottrrille.
“ Schajlkill Haven
“ Auburn..........
“ Port Olinton
Total for week......
Freriously this year.
To same time last fear.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES,
Janutt'y 7, 1859
BBMETBD BT VABZ.Br, BBOWB, A 00., BABB-BOfV, BTOOK,
AND EXCHANGE BBOXBBB, XOITHEHST 008888 THIBB
AND OSZSMUT BABBITS.
TIKST BOARD.
4009 Penna 6a cahOAP 92*
2000 do cah CAP 62*
1000 City Cs. 99*
1000 do 99*
600 do 90*
100 do 09*
603 do ......PR 09*
600 do Pit 09*
2*o do R99fc
1000 0 A Am6s’TO... 8n
1000 do ’89... 82*
ICOO Penna R 1 st m 6s 101
1000 do 2d 92*
600 N Penna Klos.. 87 „
1000CatavtssxR7s... 53*
2000 do 53*
2000 Tenn Coup 65... 80
2COO Bu«q dual Or. b 5 85
1000NPennaBOr...: 63
BETWEEN BOARDS.
300 City 58 ’6O 97 llOFara A Mech Bk.. 68*
-1100CUyf18.......... Fo*lBB Lehigh Yalß 43
72d A Sd St R.. . ."b '*T33 Girard •
20 Pe anaß..in lota 43 \
SECOND BOARD.
2000 City 6ji R 99* 100 Beading 8...0&P 27*
10(0 do 39* 100 do C&P 27*
4700 do .....New 103* 100 do , O&P27*
10Q0 do 103* 100 do . C&P 2 *
2600 do ....in lota 99* 100 do C&P 27*
200 do 09 100 do C&P 27*
1006 Penna R 6563 100 Bcliuyl Nar 10
3000 do 63 100 do 10
1000 do 63 50 do 10
2000 do 63 100 do 10
2000 Readingß 6s ’B6. 74 100 do ....10
2000 Oatavis B 7f1.... 73* 8 Union Bk. 22-
3 Minehill R 62 140Bebl Nar Pcf..lota 18
5 Penna P. 4i 40 Girard Bk 12*
20 Lehigh V R..lota 43 27 do 12*
40 Beay Mead., .lota 56* 33 do 12*
70 Farm&Meoßklts 59 18 Lehigh N&t...... 49*
50 Little Bchnylß.. 25* 5 do 49*
100 Reading R 27*
CLOSING Pi
Sid. Asked
US5s ’74 104*
Phi1a0a......... 99 99*
do B 99 99*
do New..loB*lo3*
Penna 6e 92* 93 1
Beading R 27* 27*
do Bde ’70..84* 85
do Mtg 6e>44.03 05
do do *86.73* 74
Penna It 42* 43
do latra 6a...101
do 2dm 6a....02* 92*
Morris Can C0n..46 48
do Pref 107 108
Behnjl Nay 6a ’B2 70* 71*
CITY ITEMS.
Philadelphia Sabbath School Association.—
A meeting of superintendents and friends of Sabbath
schools will bs held on Monday evening next, at
o’clock, at the church, corner of Bread and George
streets, R»r. John Chambers’), for the purpose of con
sidering important subjeots connected with the Sabbath
School cause. The meeting will doubtless he a large
one, both from the popular cha**cter of the object, and
the number and eminence of the'speakers, of which
latter the following are announced: Rev. Dr. Leyhnrn,
Presbyterian; Rev. Dr. Brantley, Baptist; Bar. Mj.
Pratt, Episcopalian; Rev. Mr. Jenkins, Presbyterian ;
Rev. Mr. Cham bets, Independent.
A Popular Establishment —We have hereto
fore had occasion to notice the spltndid new House
keeping Goods establishment of Messrs. E. S. Parson
& Co., sonthweßt corner of Second and Dook streets, as
auioog the moat complete of that class of houses in
this country. They a-e tho sole agents in thiß city for
the rale of several of the moat important new articles
in tho housekeeping line, and their entire stock is such
as we can recommesdto cur readers for their patronsgo
with the utmost eonfldecce.
Ladies’ SHorriNG Guide.—About tho middle
Of January Mr. 8 £ Cobsn, the publisher, will issue
another edition of the “Ladies’ Shopping Guide and
Housekeepers’ Companion.” which will contain a list
of officers of the Insurance Companies, Corporations,
and Societies of this city. *
Cuban Annexation —Tho excitement on the
ever “ faithful isle.” io regard to the Pres'dent’s Mes
sage, Is gradually dying out, although some alarm seem B
to exist from the great number of *• Americanos” so
journing on the island, whloh is estimated to be nearly
11,000. When it is remembered that each of the male
sex carries a revolver and wears a suit of clothes bought
at B. H Eldridge’a “ Old Franklin Hall Clothing Em
porium.” No. 321 Chestnut street, we ccnfres the Ca
belltros as well as the Sennoreitas have just cause of
alarm The latter, especially, are in danger ot loang
their hearts by the charms given to the former by the
exquisite costumes rent out by this celebrated establish*
ment.
Burns, on Man.—
*< What though on homely fare we dine,
Wear hodden grey aDd a’ that;
Gie fools tboir silks and knaves their wine,
A man’s a man for a’ that.”
Brrns Is right enough so far as he goes ; bnt if a man
desires to be respected, end a’ that, he has got to pay
some respect to the opinions of the world and wear such
elegant garments as can be procured at the Brown Stone
Clothing Hall of Rockhill & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 003
Chestnut street, above Sixth.
U A Man Cannot Thrive who has a Waste
ful Wife ” The experience of many husbands is
that their wives are not pattioulariy after
th»y themselves become frugal and Deposit their
money in 7HB Ganelin Saving Fund, No. 336
South Fourth Street, below Chestnut, and la many
cases the wives find they can save much from the
money appropriated for ordinary and luxurious ex
penses, and they themselves become depositors, their
money bearing 5 per cent Interest, and can be with
drawn on demand at any time for investment In proper
ty or for other purposes.
Open dally from 9 to 3 o’clock, and on Wednetdaya
until 8 P. M.
Deposits paid in gold, silver, or notes of city banks.
See advertisement In another column.
JP* This Company never suspended.
War to the Knipb—Mississippi is getting
rbadt TO oo TO Wab with th* Noath.—The Vicks
burg Sentineltsj*i “We have now 60 cartridge boxes,
1 cannon, 7 bayonets, rusty, wi’h no points; 4 flint-lock
muskets, all rusty and without locks: 5 Major Gene
rals. 10 Brigadier Generals, 60 Colonels, 60 Lieutenant-
Co’ontls, 60 Majors, and will soon have 600 Caytains,
1 «00 Lieutenants, 4.8G0 Sergeants, and 4,600 Corporals.
Wears h*ppy to inform them, however, that we lave
nr privates -'he Legislature having dispensed with
that useless portion of the army.” This U a grand and
imposing array, truly; and we would advise all hands,
«. horse, foot, aad dragoons,” to get their uniforms med e
up at tho g clothing baaau of Granville Stokes, N*.
607 Chestnut street.
12,691 05
150.990 04
163.581 09
139,202 00
3000 Read B oe, ’86... 74
4 Mechanics’ 8k.«5 27*
15 Lehigh Nar..... 49*
9 Lehigh Yal 8.... 43
6 do to 43
6 do to 43
34 do /..to 4$
1 Minehmit 42
20 PhtSfcTrenton RllO
12 . to'. 116
2 Union Bk 21*
5 Cam A Amb-.b5 339
4 Germantwoo Gas 50
100 Readß..opening 27*
tQ do..openAinx 27*
18 Girard Bk 12*
28 . do 12*
7 do 12*
[OES—FIRM.
.Bid. Asked.
Bch Navlmp 6a.. 74# 76
Bch Nav Stock... 9# 10
do Praf 17# 38
Wmap’t h. Xla It. 9# 10
do 7alstmtg 71* 72#
do 2d. 66 67
Long Island Ilk UX
Girard Bank 32 12*
LehOoalANav...49* 60
Lehigh Scrip 27* 28
N Peona R 8* 8*
do 65......62# 63#
New Crack: # #
Catawisea R..,. 8 8#
Lehigh Zinc 1 1*