THE PRESS,
FUfUfHED KtOBPTKD,
BV JOHNW. FORNEY
OWIaS NO. 417 CHESTNUT STREET
DAILY PRESS.
fwiLva Oskts pee Week, pafable to the Uamer.
.mued to Sobaoribw out <>f fee oitj at Six Dollars
Sijjnnjjt, Foil* Dollar* von Kioht Months,
j^Sollae« tor flu koNiua-invanablr in ad'
vs|rt>for.fee time ordered.
. TKI-WEKIU.Y PRESS.
;IWl*4fc > Sat>u'itoraotttof the Citr at Turk* Pol
i AMi'put AlidSC. Id advaiee.
:■ ■' COMMISSION HOUSES.
QIiOTHINGr GOODS.
ITALIAN CLOTHS.
ALPACAS.
SPANISH. BLAY. AND BLOUSE
LINENS.
ftitS AND TANCT
DUCKS AND DRILLS.
NOW IS «rO»K, AND FDA BADS ST
GEO. D. PARRISH,
col-lm 310 OHiSSTSUTfItnut-
£Up>LKY, HAZARD A BUTOBINRON
«U. 11* CUES’,*** **..
OOHMISSION MERCHANT."
FOBIHK SAWS op
philadelphiA-ma OK
GOODS.
TON MILLS,
fORMKBLY SAY STATB MILL*
'iIMAWLS of all in treat variety.
SMboimd and Printed TABLE GOVE Ad.
tfNION BEAVERS and BROAD CLOTHS
BALMORAL SKIRTS.
*OEMU»S,aiKI Poabl* ud TwiJted COATINM
«-4 SACKINGS and kMvj ZBPHYK CLOTHS.
Twilled aod Rein FUArtNKUi audOPEKA FLAW
SF.LS.
Ftißtod FELT CAJtFETIWSO.
For eale t>y
FROTHINGHAM a wells
S« Solid FRONT Street, an.
3ft LETITIA Street.
HATS AND CAPS.
NEW HAT STORE.
JOHN E. FOSTER.
(Late of 109 South Third atreet.)
Havinr taken the atore at
NO. 831 CHESTNUT ST.,
And fitted it up in tuperior style* invttea the attention
° i ” -, ffillKaJ&T i AND,EXTENSIVE STOCK
or
HATS AND OAFS.
M9* HiaaeVfaU etjlea are muoh admired.
■l5 tiGQW.
RUSSES' BONNETS.
SOMJST-HIBfO NEW IN STYLE,
AND VERY DE'IRABLH.
LINCOLN, WOOD, & NICHOLS.
725 CHESTNUT STREET
oo»-‘mwftMn -
STYLES
OF BATS, CAES, AND TURBANS,
CHILDREN’S WEAR.
LINCOLN, WOOD, & NICHOLS,
725 CHESTNUT STREET.
oaftft-nnrttMl
npHOS. KENNEDY & BRO.
739
CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH,
Km ouM a SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of
FRENCH FLOWERS. HEAD DRESSES,
feathers, ribbons, straw goods,
AND •
BONNET MATERIALS,
• / AT LOW PRICES. wHm
BOOKING: GLASSES.
an
PICTURE FRAMES.
Of mrj miilr.
. ENORAVINQS, 01L-PAINTINBB, *«.,
HO. 6*6 ARCH STREET.
, , GKO. F. BENKERT,
XUIWXUtUXXa xm IWOKTXK.
0 KIN Q-G L A S S X S,
PONTBAIT ADD PICTURE FRAMES,
* ENGRAVINGS,
OIL PAINTINGS, *»,. At,
I AMES S. EARLE k SON,
tEPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS, WHOLE
SALE AND RETAIL DEALERS,
EARLES' GALLERIES,
•IS CHESTNUT street.
CABINET FURNITURE.
pBENOH FURNITURE.
GEORGE J. HENKELB.
iiti WALNUT STREET,
* hut eMud »large invoice of
out.
QUADRILLE,
MARQUETRIE, and
ORMOLU WORK,
Wktab to will Nil at nrr REDUCES PRICKS.
PIRBT-CLASS CABINET WARN
GEO. J. HENKELS,
•S 4 WALNUT STREET.
Offer* At
VERY REDUCED PRICES
gh* largeat aMortment In the Union, all of New Danina
Call and aaamiaa before eurchating. aaU 3m
r<ABINST FURNITURE AND BIL*
LIARD TABLES.
MOORE & CAMPION.
• . Ho. SOI,SOUTH SECOND STREET
la aoanaotion with their, axtanmre C,bieet Bueluew,
an
Wh'tltr* pronounced, by ell whohareused them, to
• UNrtor»««other*.. - - • 7. -■
F Atn* gttUtyand finish of these Table* toe ma&«>
feolOTere refer to their numerous patron* throughout
iseUckin,wh oere familiar with toe character or their
WOt%- W^fg
Itfir OABINST WARKROOMS
IMPEND THIS WEEK BtJ '
■ Ha,4, South SECOND Street,
Poor door, .bora Che^utgr^
A «rg» aeeortmeutof FURNITURE ore verrdeeori.-
„<* oonaUsUr aa hand, at tha loweateath rnoaa.
SPOUTING GOODS.
£JUNS. PISTOLS.
. . SKATES. &c.
PHILIP WILSON & ao.,
MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR GUNS,
Imaottan and Daalata in
PINE GUMS AND SHOOTING TACKLE.
CRICK KT BATS, SALU, A*.,
, BASE-BALL IMPLEMENTS,
. SKATES OF EVERY VARIETY.
FINE PISHINO TACKLE,
AT THE LOWEST. PRICES- .
'vv ; :i?a; ; PßeawwT street.
oeS-ft-.- ; ■;)<>,■ . .
HELLAS,
gLMBPKB^OPIBNNBR,
i. WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS
Ui(>RELI.AB A°&D PA RAB 0 L 0
NO. >3B MARKET STREET.
» V..- 1 'rmtAD*i*ni*t i ■'
in yf toiiriiie ipnf* to* n'
ytriifiinSp bxrfauiß* yaaiMii* or ixmiui
I*dst mawt- wcvatvias, ****"*!!* U
BmwP HOUBE - ..
■•fat;** AIR,,BOUTS BIXTH Street,
jyi J&f, WaiaUa ladatandtnaa Sanan.
-njwHaiala* *» Earoaana xlan.
AaaMMa at all bo»m,
fWVii s;„ sVl A. K. LUKBNS.Proftlator,
' CII.-.-TCU
VOL. 4.—NO. 92.
KETAIL DRY GOODS.
JNDIA SHAWLS,
In freet variety and choioe eeleotlons, at
GEORGE FRYER’S,
No. 916 CHESTNUT STREET.
ooia-tf
RADIES’ DRESS
TRIMMINGS,
STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS.
ZEPHYjt WORSTED, BEST QUALITY.
GILT TRIMMINGS AND BELTINGS.
CROCHET FRINGES AND BERTHAS.
EMBROIDERED SLIPPERS AND CUSHIONS.
EMBROIDERED CHAIR SEATS.
WOOLLEN YARNS, ALL SIZES.
ZEPHYR-KNIT TALMAB AND JACKETS.
ZEPHYR-KNIT SONTAGS AND SLEEVES.
ZEPHYR-KNIT CAPS AND GAITERS.
trimmings and zephyr store,
Comer EIGHTH and CHERRY Streets,
ooi-tMB
rfIHORNLEY & CHISM’S! ! !
A One Dollar Silks for 750.! *
Dollar Ivremyfive cent Sllka for $lll
Dollar Fifty-oent Silks for Sl.tSl i i
Dollar Seventy-five oent Silka for $1.601111
„ . REDUCTION IN PRICES 1
Long Broohe Shavrla, KioeUent, for 88.
Lone Broche bhawta, Superior, for $lO to $l2.
Locrßroohe Shawl*, Very fine, for SH. Ql6, SJB,
sna $2O.
NEW CLOAK ROOM!!!, , , „
Beautiful Cloake for $5.
Fine Beaver Cloaka for $7, $B, $9, and $lO.
Richly and Elapantly Trimmed lor $l2, 910, $lB,
$2O, and SSB.
Arah Cloaka, Zouave Jaoketa, Blaok and Fancy
Ciothi, Ao., A° BEgT BLACK pjLKS!!!
Good Quality Blaok Silka, will wear well, for $l.
Heavy Blaok Silka, Slack Figured Silka, &o. t &o.
MEW’S AND BOY8 P WEAR!!!
A Large Stoofc of Clothe. . „
A Large Stock of Caaeimerea, SattineU*, * Vesting®,
Blanketa, Flannels, Linen*. and Muslim?. _
At THORNLEY A CHISM’S,
N. E. Corner EIGHTH A SPRING GARDEN Ste.
N, B»—Every article bought for oaah, nol
A ECH-STREKT CLOAK EMPORIUM !
-*H- Arch-street Cloak Emporium!
Arch-street Cloak Emporium!
EIGHTH-STREET CLOAK EMPORIUM .
Eighth-atreet Cloak Emporium!
Eighth .atreet Cloak Emporium!
every variety at lw prices
Every Variety at Low Price*!
MA»ISTO V oRb t^K t l^?f<K r DAY’S NOTICE !
Made to order iu One Day’a Notice I
Made to order in One Day’a Notice!
ADAMS A SON, EIGHTH and ARCH!
Adame A Son, Eighth and Aroh !
Adama A Son, Eighth and Aroht 0010
TiiYRE & LA.NDBLL, FOURTH AND
M2I ARCH BTRKETS.-CARD FOR NOVEMBER,
1860. Jlemonatration iu Shawls.
Demonatration in Mika.
DemOoftration in Pop I in#.
Demonatration in pelaicea.
. Demonatration in Mennocs.
Demonatration in Cashmeres.
Demonatration inPiapo Cover*. n012J9
SILK AND dky Go oils jobbers.
OPEN,
MONDAY, OCTOBER BTU,
FRENCH AND GERMAN
DRESS GOODS
AUCTION.
Vhe attention of our ouatomera ia invited.
JOSHUA L. BAII/ST.
IMPORTER AND JOBBER,
No. 313 MARKET ST..
nol-tf ■ ' ;
OHAFFEEB. STOUT, & Co.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
aaU-lm No. *93 MARKET STREET.
J3 # O. THOMPSON,
TAILOR,
NORTHEAST CORNER OF SEVENTH AND WAL
NUT STREETS,
Opposite Washington Souare.
PANTALOONS IN FIT A GUARANTEE,
N. B.—Gentleman vuiting the oity are solicited to
have their meaantee taken for future orders.
noU-mwftm
HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS.
yyriLLiAM yarn all.
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
HOUSE FURNISHING
GOODS,
Nd. 1020 CHESTNUT STREET.
mmediateW opposite the Academy of Fine Arte J
TABLE CUTLERY, OVAL WAITERS,
KITCHEN TABLES, DOOR MATS,
CLOTHES MANGLES, Ao.. Ao.
Peraoue aommenoingHousxxxXFiKG are particularly
inrited to an examination of thla atook of Übbvuz,
' Goons, ae7-tawsai
rhitadetohia.
BLINDS AND SHADES,
BLINDS AND SHADES.
B. J. WILLIAMS,
No. 16 NORTH SIXTH BTHEET.
la the moat extensive Manufacturer of
VENETIAN BLINDS
AJU>
WINDOW SHADES.
The largest aud fineat assortment in the city, at the
towMt price*.
STORK SHADES made and Uttered. RKFAIRING
promptly attended to. ‘ . nol-2m
SEWING MACHINES.
& WILSON.
SEWING MACHINES.
688 CHESTNUT STREET-SECOND FLOOR.
nod-3m
JJ ARRIS’ BOUDOIR
SEWING MACHINE.
No. FOR QUILTING AND
HEAVY WORK.
Both sew from two spools without toe trouble of re
winding, aud run* with little or no noise.
_Forj»UatNo.yao ARCH Street, Philadelphia, and
Ho. T 8 BALTIMORE Bt„ Baltimore, Md. oott-am
rpHB BEST MANUFACTURING AND
SERVING MACHINES
IN THE WORLD, AT
I. M. SINGER & CO.'S,
ooS-Sm No. 810 CHESTNUT Btreet,
SJEWING MACHINES AT REDUCED
PRICES —We have tide day reduced the prioee
of out MACHINES, from #W. »», 975, 890, 9100,
Ae., Ac, to 910,950.
no)s 8t T»0 CHESTNUT Street.
REMOVAL.
THOMAS MELLOR&OO.,
HOSIERY HOUSE,
Have removed to the Store formerly ocoupied by
YARD, GILLMORE, k 00.,
No. 40 AND 42 NORTH THIRD STREET,
JBetneen MARKET and ARCH Streets.
no3-lm ,
m/TABTIN * OUAYLE>B
IWL TOY. AND FANCY 900D9
103* WLNUT STREET,
fatAHf.
MESS MACKEREL—63 bbls., 57 half
ifi bWa.,74 Quarter bbls» and 1W kit fa Ho. I Mesa
Mackerel, of • choice duaUfa. yietoreCndUnainf, lor
-£En . No t« M 6% f MHV^ES.
Rosin, pitch, and tar.—i,7oo bbio,
Roein, all iradee; MOdo. Piteh, Urxe «i«» i 75 »!•.
Tar, tait Wilmineton il,oookageTar,nMnbijjiht»Mk
»lH. Sr Hit U* ROWLEY, ASHBURNBR, A 00.,
0,14 South Wharvee. . no«
VELVET CLOAKS,
CLOTH CLOAKS,
SILKS,
SHAWLS,
DRESS GOODS,
R ARSON’S
A Superb line
1860,
CLOTHING.
REMOVALS.
FURS.
LADIES’ FURS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION i
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST IN THE CITY,
UNDER THE CONTINENTAL,
Conflating of finest
DARK SABLE,
HUDSON BAY MARTEN,
MINK SABLE,
VERY SAUK SIBERIAN SQUIRREL,
VERY EXTRA FINE CHINCHILLA, &c„ Ac.,
Made on the premises expressly for our sales, into
TALMAS,
CAPES,
HALF CAPES,
MUFFS, and
MUFTEES,
AH manufactured and without dye. and will be sold vet,
low for aaflh.
CHARLES OAKFORD & SONS,
NOS. 836 AND 888 CHESTNUT STREET.
nolttt
gLEGANT FURS.
The aubsonbera have now open
THB MOST EXTENSIVE
AND SUPERB
COLLECTION
LADIES’ FURS
TO BE FOUND
IN THE CIT Y
FINEST HUDSON BAY SABLE;
RUSSIAN SABLE,
MINK MARTEN,
BEAUTIFUL CHINCHILLA,
ROYAL ERMINE,
FINEST DARK SIBERIAN SQUIRREL,
FITCH MARTEN, STONE MARTEN,
THE PREVAILING STYLES,
WARRANTED GENUINE.
J. W. PROCTOR & GO.
70S CHESTNUT STREET.
PURSI FURS!
GEORGE F. WOMRATH,
NOB. 41ft AND 41T ARCH STREET,
Hu now Opan
A FULL ASSORTMENT
LADIES’ FURS,
To which the attention of the Publio ia invited. 003-4 m
rKEFABED GLUE).
SPALDING'S
PREPARED GLUE)
• A STITCH lit VIMS SAVES NINE
ECONOMY 5 „ DIOPAYCHf
SAVB TUB riBOBS •
MtWisii *«ppm, i«im in
it if very desirable to have some oheap and
oonvenlent way for repairing Furniture. Toy*. Crooke
rr. fce.
SPALDING’B PREPARED GLUE
meet* all suoh eroergenoieei and no household can afford
to be without it It if always ready and up to the stick
ing point There is no longer a necessity for limping
•hair*, splintered veneers* headless dolls, and broken
eradles. It is Just toe artiole for oone, shell, and other
ornamental work, so popular with ladies of refinement
and taste.
This admirable preparation is used oold, being eha
mlo&Uy held in solution, and possessing all the valuable
qualities of the best cabinet-makers’ glue. It may be
asedln toe plaoe of ordinary mucilage, being vastly
more adhesive.
“ VSEFUI* IN EVERY HOVBE*
11. B. A brush aooomeanies eaon bottle.
PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Wkeleeale Depot, No. 48 CEDAR Street, New Yeik.
Addrea
HENRY 0. SPALDING A CO.,
Box No, MOO, New York.
Fat ap for Dealers in Cases, containing four, eight,
and twelve dosen.abeantifull/ithoerapluo Snow-oaap
aeoomvanying eaoh package.
%T A single bottle of
' dPAEDINa’S PEBPA RED QLVE
will save ten times its cost annually to every household.
Sold by all promwet Stationers, Druggists, Hard
ware and Furniture Dealers, grocers, and Fancy
ftorea.
texntry Merohants should make a note ef
BPALDING'B PREPARED QLTJE,
when making up their liet.
_ IT WILL STAND ANY CLIMATIs
das-cnwf.7
SAFES.
LLIEB’ PATENT
WROUGHT AND CHILLED IRON
DEPOT
715 CHESTNUT ST.,
UNDER MASONIC HALL,
M. C. SADLER, General Agent.
AND BANK LOOKS. DOORS, Ao.
totly toe only Mercantile Safe mode that if
and Burglar proof. sett-tt
JULY IST, 1660.
NEW FIRMS AND CHANGES.
MERCHANTS IN WANT OF BLANK BOOKS OM
be iupplled from a very niuerloniuortment made from.
Linen .took, or mad. to order.
WABXAKTB» AT lOW PRICKS.
WM. F. MURPHY & BON’B
NEW STORE.
Sletiouere, Lithographer,, aud Letter-PreM Printer.
SION OT TUK IXDOKH,
No. 339 CHESTNUT Bluet.
le. eir-tf '
JpAMILY FLOUR,
MADE FROM CHOICE WHITE WHEAT,
O. H. MATTSON.
a, W, cot, ARPH and TENTH streets.
WELL’S SWEET CIDER,
MADE EXPRESSLY FOR OUR SALES.
The firit invoioe of thla
CELEBRATED CIDER
Juat received.
ALBERT O. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN
FINE GROOERIEtS.
oeSl- tf Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Streeie.
CPAKKMNG AND STILL CATAWBA
WINES,
MtHivMmn i?
J BBHBLBS.
Cicoinnati, Ohie,
Always on hand, and In lots to tut purchasers, by
CHARLES F. TAGGART, Bole Agent,
No, 631 MARKET Street
iJHOMAB THOMPSON,
SON, & 00.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
CABINET-MAKERS’ MATERIALS,
938 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
*»“ Brooatelle, Rmhei. Rew, Datnukx, and every
ieeori.tioa of Fumitnn .nd Cuttain Good,. ,ell-Sia
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1860.
C(? e U r e s s J
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1860.
Thomas Muir, the Scottish Reform-
Martyr.—(First Article.)
In November 1847, died in London, a well
known public character, named Thomas Gal
loway, one ot the patriotic men who were Im
prisoned in 1794, and subsequently, because
he was an advocate, with Thomas Hardy and
others, of Parliamentary Reform—a measure
which he b»w carried into a law, by the Bri
tish Ministry, in 1832. TVe last saw Mr. Gal
loway, who was an engineer in a largo way,
exactly three weeks beiore his death—namely
on the Sth November, 1847, at the dinner to
commemorate the triumph of trial by jury, in
the cases of Thomas Hardy, John Horne
Tooke, John Thelwall, and others, charged
with High Treason, because they sympathized
with the principles which caused the first Re
volution in Paris. Hardy, Tooke, and Thel
wall, all tried separately, were respectively ac
quitted, chiefly owing to the great ability of
Erksine, their counsel, after which the pro
secutions against their iriends were abandon
ed by the Government, much td the chagrin
of 'William Pitt, the Prime Minister, who had
attempted legally to murder these men, on a
strained extension of what is called Construc
tive Treason. Mr. Galloway spoke at that
dinner, and detailed what he had suffered for
«the good cause” of Reform. That able and
honest man, Colonel Thompson, M. P.—the
real, because the first, mover of the great An
ti-Corn-law agitation—was in the chair, and
hiß honest, homely, impressive speeches it did
the heart good to listen to.
The result of the English trials of 1794 was
favorable to the cause of Liberty* The law
was strained against the accused, with the
hope and with tho view of procuring their
conviction. Had they been conviptod, each
of them would have been hanged by the neck
as a traitor—have had his head afterwards
I chopped off, and held up as “ this is the head
\ of a traitor"—and very probably (so bad was
spirit of tbe Government at tho time) tho
hoad, thns cut off, would have boon stuck on'
the top of Temple Bar, and tho body to Which
it had boon attached would have been « quar
tered,” according to tho usagos of « the good
old times.” But, thanks to the honesty and
firmness of English Juries, this attempt at
murder, “ according to the law,” was de
feated. In Scotland, a short timo boforo,
equally innocent men had boon tried and con
demned by packed Juries. Life was not
taken; but tho misorablo men, convicted by
fraud, were transported, and suffered tho
worst that could be heaped on them as con.
victs. While we rejoice over tho succobb of
Trial by Jury, in England, we have too much
forgotten what slavish, forsworn, packed Ju
ries did in Scotland, against Truth, justice,
and Innocence.
We allndo to tho trials of Mnir, Palmer,
Margarot, Gerald, and Skirving. We shall
sketch tho case of Muir —it embraces tho main
points of tbis nefarious matter.
Thomas Muir, born at Glasgow, la 1705,
was a member oi tho Scottish Bar. Ho was, 1
woll-informod in his profession. Ho had re*
ceivod the benefit of a sound roligious edu
cation. Ho was well instructed in the dead,
and some of tho modern languages. He was
23 when ho was called to tbe bar at Edinburgh
in 178?. Eloquent, well-informed, industri
ous, quick,.zealous, and clear-headed, Thomas
Mnir was a rising lawyer. In five years he
had made wonderful progross at the bar. Ha
had reason to anticipate permanent and emi
nent success.
Some time anterior to the French Revolu
tion, a desire had Sprung up, in England, to ;
obtain Reform in Parliament.. Many .con- )
siderabio men took part in a movement which
this desire created. Mr. Pitt (it was in 1782,
before he obtained office) was one of those -
who took part in this movement. He Went
farther in his views of Parliamentary Reform
than had been gone by any one, except tbe
Chartists. Hs was for Annual Parliaments
and Universal Suffrage. Ho declared «that
tho restoration of tho House ot Commons to
freedom and Independency, by interposition of
the great collective body oi tho nation, is es
sentially nocossary to our existence as a.froo
people.” He declared that «an equal repre
sentation of the people, in tho great conncil ot
the nation, annual elections, and the universal
right of suffrage, appear so reasonable to the
natural feelings of mankind, that no sophistry
can olude the lorco of the arguments which
arc urged in their favor; and they are rights
of so transcendant a nature that, in opposition
to the claim of the people to their enjoyment,
the longest period of prescription Is pleaded
in vain. They were substantially enjoyed in
the times ot the immortal Alfred —they were
cherished by the wisest princes of the Norman
line —they formed the grand palladium ot our
nation—thoy ought not to be esteemed the
grant of royal favor—nor were they at first
extorted by violence from tho hand of powor.
They are the birthright ot Englishmen—their
best Inheritance, which, without tho compli
cated crimes of treason to their country, and
Injustice to their posterity, they cannot alienate
or resign They form that triple cord of
strength which alone can be relied on to hold, in
limes of tempest, the vessel of the Stale.”
Bat in 1784 Pitt became Prime Minister, and
thenceforward he put Parliamentary Reform
on the sholf, as far as he was concerned.
Others, not having the same motives for
becoming renegades, followed up the idea
which had’ caught their attention. Reform
Associations were formed, both in England
and Scotland. Mr. Thomas Muir, in 1792,
joined one of these bodies at Edinburgh; the
Earl of Selkirk, (thon Lord Baer) had also
joined it. The United Irisbmon in Dublin
sent an addross to the Scottish Reformers,
congratulating them on their movoment to
obtain a Reform in Parliament; and Pitt's
Government, which was now openly opposed
to all Reform, pretended that it was not only
Seditious thus to speak of Reform as neces
sary, but that it was equally seditious for the
Beformors of one capital to correspond, on
this political matter, with" the Beformors of
another. Tho French Revolution was then ot
■work, and many well-meaning, weak people,
were persuaded that, in Great Britain, tbe
agitation for Reform wa»fbut tho overture for
Revolution. Tho notorious Henry Dnndas—
hotter known as tho Lord Molvillo who. was
subsequently impeached and tried for breach
of trust as regarded the public money—was
then tho Lord Advocate of Scotland; ho was
sent down from London to prosecute (and
persecute) tho leading Reformers fn Scotland.
Early in January, 1793, Muir was arrested
on a charge of sedition. He was bailed out,
and shortly after visited Paris. His friends
advised him not to do so, as any person then
in communication with France was reckoned
» traitor. Ho went, and the Government
people set on toot a report that ho bad gone,
as Ambassador from tho Scottish Reformers,
to aid tho Revolution there, and take mea
sures for kindling a like llamo here. In Paris,
Muir associated,with Lafayette, Barns, God
dorcet, and others —tho comparatively pure
among crowds of blood-stained wretches.
Meanwhile, while thus absent, secret pro
ceedings against Muir were in operation.
When things wore ripe, ho was formally for
dieted for sedition. The war thon raging,
forbidding .intercourse botweon France and
England, rendered it impossible that he could!
meet his trial at Edinburgh on the appointed
day. He did not know until tho Sth of Feb-1
rnary that bis trial was fixed for the 11th, The
mere formalities (ol soliciting and obtaining a
passport) requisite to bo gone through before
ho could loave Paris would have occupied
more than those three days,
glmmediately alter, for non-appearance, he
was outlawed by tbe Crown, and the Faculty
of Advocates—so time-serving «s to condemn
the absent and unheard—struck his namo off
their roll. In July, 1793) he landed in Ireland.
Be Inst no time in crossing over to Scotland.
He had scarcely pnt his foot on Scottish
ground ere-he was arrested.. Early In August,
: 1703, he was taken to' Edinburgh os apri
) soner. On the 80 th of August,* he wad placed
at the bar of the High Court ot Justiciary,
and, after a trial of eighteen hours, he was
convicted of sedition, and sentenced to trans
portation for fourteen yeais.
J Paw trials excited public attention so much
at the time. Mr. Muir was tried, convicted,
; and transported, fol no other 'cause than that
■| ho was. a Reformer. There was no appeal
• against the conviction. His biographer, Mr.
'Mackenzie, says: «An appeal lies against al
most every' decision pronounced by the Su
preme Civil Court of Scotland—whereas ho
Appeal lies against any of the decisions pro
nounced by the Supremo Criminal Court; that
IS to say, a person can sock justice in the
House of Lords, if it is to affect Ms pounds,
and pence; but he cannot seek it,
if. it it to affect his life, liberty, or repute.
We don’t say that this is an invidious distinc
tion —neither do we say that the law in this
respect is good or had. We merely state the
fact, with-this observation, that it has fre
quently happened that the most grave and'
deliberate decisions Of the Court of Sessions,
even pronounced unanimously by the whole
judges (Mfteon in number) have, on appeal,
bqen, overturned, or reversed on sound and
cogent-reasons in the House of Lords. Now,
we>.ask, mighfc not' the same tMng have hap
pened in: a Criminal oaao i For, if a judge
gobi(t W#«ng in the one <cfUft,iisho hot just »a
likel&to go wroug ht the other? Nay, Is he
Uot more likely to go wrong in the case whore
he juw*j? Ms opiuionf like the Pope’s) cannot'
be.reviewed or aitered elsewhere, than in
the other,'where he knows his opinion will bo
sifted and reviewod by the highest tribunal in
tho empire ?”
Beyond all doubt, the jury which tried
Thotoas Mnir was packed. Again wo quote
ftom William Mackenzie’s Life of Muir. He
says what is fact •. « At tho date of Mr. Muir’s
trial—for a long timo preceding it—and down
to within tho last very fowyoars, tho judges ot
the Court of 'Justiciary wore armed with a
fearful extent of power in one most important
particular, which we think is utterly repug
nant to the right administration of justice.
They had the nomination of juries entirely in
their outi hands. It was exercised in this man
ner : Whenever tho trial of any offender took
place,, the court (appointed by the
court itself) handed to tho presiding judge a
list of namcs.of forty-fivo jurymen, who woro
all citod to attend oh tho occasion. His Lord,
ship thon proceeded to pick ont, or select,
from tho list, beginning at tho top, tail, or
middle of it, file names of any fifteen jurymtn
lee pleased, being tho humber requisite to sit
on the trial. And no objection could bo
stated by the prisoner to tho jurymon thus se
lected, except on the limited and special
ground? of personal malice, misnomer, infamy,
minority)deafness, dumbnoss, insanity, or re
lationship to the prosecutor. All other objec
tions, however powerful, or of whatsoever na
ture, tbfkt Anight have been urged by tho pri
soner, were en'tiroly disregarded. Ijjmae wero
Ms jurymen, and from them lie . not
fly.” . - - ■
Attempts wore mado to chango tMs vil
lainous system.—ln 1821, a Mil providing that
juries should be chosen by ballot, was intro
duced by a Scottish membor, and—will it bo
believed?—all the Scottish counties, except
Lanark and. another, actually passed resolu
tion, that to do so was contrary to tho articles
of tho Treaty of Union, —that to improve the
criminal law fa Scotland was contrary to such
articles I Sir Robert Peel, however, adopted
the biQ, carried It through Parliament, and
thus, by rendering it impossible to pack juries',
became the useful reformer of the Scottish
courts of law.
Let us now show what actually occurred at
Muir’s trial. Alter the Lord Justice Clerk
jwho, be It known, was the Eight Honorable
Eobert KcQueotr, ot Braxficia), bad' select
ed ” the names ol the first two of Mr. Muir’s
jurymen, Mr. Muir rose and stated, that “ho
had.no personal knowledge of them—that he
they were highly respectable, but ho
nevertheless solemnly protested against their
sitting on his trial, because they bolongcd to
an association who had publicly condemned Ms
principles, and who had actually offered a re
ward to discover any person who had circu
lated any ot tho political publications—of
which ho.was accused of circulating iu tho in
dictment.” But the court unanimously re
pelled the objection. It was a matter of fact,
that the whole of Mr. Muir’s fifteen jurymen
were members of that association, who had
already virtually condemned him. And it turns
out: that tha Foreman ot this Jury was ono ot
the most active members of that association—
and one of a-committeo who had previously
poured out' tboir anathemas on his very
name! As soon as these jurymen had been
all selected and sworn by the Court, Mr. Mnir
again arose, and solemnly stated that “he
would never cease recalling to their attention
the) peculiarity of their situation—they had
already determined his fate—they had already
judged his cause—and, as they valued thoir
reputation, their own internal peace, ho on
treated—” Here he was “slopped by the
Court, who concurred In opinion, that his
conduct was extremely improper in thus taking
Up their time, as the objection had been re
pelled.” In this manner was Muir’s jury
packed. It was « extremely improper ” for
his doomed man—this prejudged man to pro
test against thing tried by a jury which had
already virtually condemned him.
Hero pause we tor. tho present. To-mor
row we shall conclude' out account ot tho trial
and sacrifice of-Thomas Muir, the political
martyr. We shall have to tell something
about Lord Braxileld, the brutish Judge who
iried him, and whose place, in public estima
tion, should bo noxt to the infamous Judge
Jeffreys.
* We take this date from W. Maokenste’s very able
Life of Thomas Muir* but in Toone’e Chronological
Historian it ia recorded thus! u August 26. Jdr.Thomus
Muir. JuD-iof lluflteTshill,Wfts tried and found guilty
of sedition, by the high court of Juatio'ar7 at Edin
burgh, and aentonoed to fourteen years transportation.”
Northern Sentiment.
I For The Press. 1
Mr. Editor: Your able correspondent, “Oooa
sioaal,” touched upon a subject fn his powerful and
patriotic article o! to-day whioh cannot fail to meat
the approval of men of all parties in the North. I
allude to his remarks made upon the oourso pur
sued by that part of tbo Northern press whioh
would totally misrepresent tfao popular sentiment
of the North, and injure us in the estimation of
our Southern brethren. Before tbo election, this
crusade upon the Norib, by Northern journals,
might have been understood, if not exousod, and
been- attributed to partisan zeal or other purpose.
Bat now, we ask each other what it means, and
whether there Is any* unseen hand giving en
couragement, pecuniary or otherwise, to theao un
warrantable and in«ousable attaoks. Unwar
rantable they certainly are, for no reason is given
for these murmuring* but the election of a Presi
dent by the constitutional voiooof tho people. Has
been Hone by tho President eleot to
'create this dissension and threatened disruption of
the Union ? Is there any reasonable apprehen
sion to expeot any aot on bis part which will be
good cause for this precipitate notion of several of
the Southern States? Or, more to tho prosont pur
pose, hare tho people of the North shown'any dis
position to carry put those dangorous doctrines
whiob are said to lie at the foundation of tho Re
publican party ? We think not, and yet those un
scrupulous journals, lod on by that mass of evil
and discontent, the New York Herald, would re
present the entire body of tho Republican party in
the North as glorying over the troubles in tho
South, and, as eager to force upon them Illegal
euactuents, and wrest from thorn their acknow
ledged and constitutional rights.
When the press—that great exponent, as well as
projector and regulator, of a nation’s greatness—
becomes so far debased as to take advantage of a
trifling and temporary alienation of sentiment, for
the purpose of disuniting a happy and prosperous
people, bound together by the closest ties of reli
gion, interest, and government, it is no longer en
titled to respect. The freedom of the prase should
be maintained at all hazards, but its licentiousness
should be condemned and prevented; for, if wo
allow It to run riot, not only will private reputation
be injured, but a nation’s existence will bo attaoked
and impaired.
Ido not wrUo this as a partisan, or as a would-be
co&ifibutor, hut as a private tribute to what I be
lieve to be your reotiiude of purpose In daring to
support the Union against its enemies, of whatso
ever party, whether North or South. .
I am, sir, very truly yours, Dauopßirpa.
H>
the Exnnr in the south.
TUBDISUNION FEBUNO SBBSUBNO.
The Merchants Agree to Pay
llieir Northern De’bts.
The Carolina Banks will not Suspend,
«EORGIA WITH THE CAROLINES.
SECESSION PAPER AT A DIBCOUNT.
Charleston Still a Clearance Poit.
HON. JOHN MINOB BQTTS ON THE CBISIS.
Ex-Mayor Swann, of Bnltimoae, Pro
poses a Convention.
•Tho corrospondont of tho Now York World writes
to that paper from Charleston os follows:
Charleston, Nov. 14 —There is much discus
sion,as. to tho proper mode or seleoting delegates
to the,Convention whioh moots at Columbia on tho
JTth of December.
Several prominent gentlemen who have been
named, deolined. It. is generally oonoeded that
there will bo bat one tioket in eaeh district, and
that pledged for secession.
THE ELECTORAL TICKET.
Tho Courier ot this morning says: 11 The elec
toral body at Charleston must seek our, diligently,
tho wisest and worthiest citizens, m’etl of ripe judg
ment and approved fidelity. Saob. ond snob Only,
mnst bo.oeUod.:to..this; great .Those,most
worthy will. bo,2soet ,«eoeptf feaHte*
euoh an ' emergency tho 'deliberateJy-exsrefmd
?hoioe of clGotqra shonlff'OYotf’aie'pet'sonalconside
atlditi. Let no rash pledges be given; let there
bo no encouragement to personal considerations or
factious combinations. In good time measures
oan be taken to seoure a proper and responsible ee*
lection of names, worthy o£ the choioe of the neo*
plo.” r
PERSOSAL AMBITIOHB ?0 BE ABAHDONED.
Tho Mercury of this morning, -on the Saint
joot, says:
“ Wo doslre to depreoate individual nominations
to the Convention at this momentous juuotuie. In
publio affairs personal preferences should have no
place in our counsels. Ambitious aspirations
should rcoelvo no countenance from the people.
.Tho publio good—that alone should constitute the
aim of all. This Is no timo for the gratification of
any desiro for advancement. Place should seek
tho men, and not men place. None should be
eagtT; none should refuse.”
IMMEDIATE SEPARATE STATE ACTIOU.
Returning members of tho Legislature were re
ooived last night with a salute of artillery. There,
is to be a grand ovation to*morrow night at Insti
tnto Hall. It is oxpeoied to be the largest turn
out over witnessed in Charleston. Members were
greeted at overy stopping-plaoe along the roads
with the motto: “immediate separate State
Aotion!”
THE MEHCJJANTB WILL rAY TIIEIB DEBTS.
Palmetto, throe, and lone-star - banners wore
vory suggestive of additions which aro expected to
be mado to a Southern Independent Confederacy.
A mooting of Hayno and MeetiDg-street wholesale
merchants was held last night to take into con
sideration the subicot of suspension. They unani
mously determined to pay all debts due the North
as long as they could raise money to do so.
EAGER YOR A PRAY.
Three hundred men aro ready in that city to
move, paying thoir own exponses, to tho assistance
of any State that tho Federal Government may at
tempt to ooerco into submission.
roruEAR demonstrations to the legislature.
Charleston, Nov. 14—10 P. M.—A meeting ia
now being held at the Institute Hall, to make ar
rangements to give of tho Legislature a
formal reception. To-morrow thero will be a
grand demonstration.
Largo numbers of citizens have gone up to the
depot to rccelvo thoso who return at 11 o’ofook to*
night.
. ’ The firemen in this City, who number about 1,500,
have organized themselves into military companies.
They drill nightly.
THE ARSENAL AND THE VOLUNTEERS,
Tho Washington Light Infantry is a volunteer
corps A number of oitizens solicited the mayor
to afford adequate protection to the United States
arsenal, as the Federal foroe was not able to do so
in oase of sudden outbreak. The mayor detailed
a detachment of this company to tako charge of it
for the present.
There is a largo quantity of arms and ammuni
tion stored in the arsenal. The banks will not sus*
Send unloss for the relief of the community and
efenoo of the State.
BOOTH CAROLINA JEALOUS OP ALABAMA AND
GEORGIA.
A full-grown pslmotto was raised in Broad street
this ovening. A large liberty pole on Meeting tftroet
.was raised to-night. A large number of banner*,
•with the device of a palmetto tree and lone star,
were raised In various parts of the olty daring
tbo day. Feeling in favor of secession hourly
grows stronger. Many are afraid Alabama or
Gooreia will scoedo before South Carolina holds
her Convention, ond thus rob her of her long
eherlsbod glory. Some hope it will not be peace*
fu! secession. They desire fclood to be spilt to ce
ment it forever.
BREOKINP.IDG2 NOT GOING SOUTH.
Tho rumor that Breckinridge would visit the
South for tho purpose of urging the people to abide
by the Union is authoritatively oontradioted.
TOOMBS INSISTS ON RESIGNING.
Millbdgeville, Ga, Nov. Id.— Senator Toombs
has publicly declared he will, under no oiroum
stanoes, serve in the Senate after the inauguration
of Lincoln.
Probabilities of secession in Georgia are in*
creasing. At tho State Military Convention,
floventy*sevon delegates voted two to one in favor
of secession.
MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN GEORGIA,
Millbdgkyille, Ga., Nov. Id.—The military
Convention was called a year ago for the pnipoae
of reorganizing the volunteer system, and without
any antioipation of the turn events have taken
Thair notion meets with hoarty responso from a
large majority of Georgians.
Delegates from sixty-seven military organize,
tions deolared, by a yote of more than two to one,
in favor of scoeaslon. The others only voted
against the oxpedienoy of tho declaration.
Governor Brown was present. He says he will
not permit the ooercion of any State.
A MERCANTILE PREDICTION.
Messrs. Oorooran <fc Higgs, the largost banking
firm south of Mason and Bixon’s line, predict that
business operations will return to their a\ sn tenor
in loss than sixty days, when the South BhaU return
to its sensos and behold its prostrato business in
terests.
Tho now Declaration of Independence, sent to
tho Constitution, was a mere draft by a Southern
oletk here, and which that paper was foolish
enough to publish. The President takes no notice
of such a whimsioal, unofficial not.
SECESSION TAPER AT A DISCOUNT.
Tkiskimkof paper doss not find favor pn ’change.
South Carolina bank notes were refused by bro
kers to-day at any discount Two prominentmer;
chants—one of tbisoity, and one from Virginia—
to-day received advices -from a Boston house,
that no farther credit would be extended, but that
the oash must bo forthcoming on sales. This re
ooil on the South, and the already-ruined credit of
South Carolina, will oporato to dampen tho heat of
extremists.
CLEARANCES AT THE PORT OF CHARLESTON.
Charleston, Nov. 13,1860.
To Hon. A. Schell, Collector, Now York.
It is reported that olearanoos are refused at this
office. Confradiot it. Tho business of the office
goes on as usual. Wir. P. Colcocx, Collector.
JOHN ill NOR BOTTS ON THE CRISIS.
The following extraot of a letter from Hon. j.
M. Botts shows how muob rolianco is to be placed
on soma of the alarming reports that reach us from
tho South:
Richmond, Va., Nov. 1860.
My Dear : The letters published in the
Herald from this place, in rogard to the feeling
and condition of things in this State, are fabulous
and unfounded to the last ‘degree. There is nothing
in tho world going on hero relative to raising, and
aiming, and drilling tioopa, that would DQtfcaye
ooourred if there had been no eleotion at all—even
to tho enoampment and parade of oavalry in this
vicinity, which was gotton up last spring for the
purpoßO of getting up an esprit dr. corps,** and
which broke up last night, and nil have returned
to their homes and daily avocations—yet it is an*
nounoed by tho correspondent of the Herald ,
among a tnousand-and-ono other stories equally as
unfounded, that it was a preparation for war,
growing out of the oleotion of Lincoln. Virginia
is sound to the ooreon the Union question, and has
no idea of being hitched to, or dragged into any
movement that looks like one of Disunion.
I am, truly and Binoerely yours,
John M. Boits.
NOYEIi MEASURES ©y ADJUSTMENT—SPEBCfI oy EJf*
MAYOR SWANN, OY BALTIMORE.
Last ovoning, the Young Men’s National Union
Club bold a largo meoting at the 801 l and Everett
headquarters on Broadway. Henry W. Hilliard, of
.Alabama, was announced to speak, but ho was un
avoidably detained.
Hon. Eh P. Norton, president of the olub, on
taking the chair, m a <te e, few remarks, pertinont to
the present condition of the country. * He was op
posed to tho notion South Carolina was now taking,
and bolioved tho 801 l and Everett men were just
as willing to fight disunionism Boath as they had
boon to crush sectionalism North. (Cheers, j
Ex-Mayor Swan, of Baltimore, wag introduoed
to tho mooting, amid great applause. Ho felt at
home among too friends he saw around him, know
ing them to bo lovers of the Union, and opponents
of any. party which sought its dismemberment.
He olalmad to bo as conservative a man as there
livcd'eouth of Mason and Dixon’s line, but, never
theless, felt that there was real danger to the
Union: Ho thought that Mr. Linooln should re*
assure tho country by avowing conservative senti
menta, and expressing his determination to enfotoe
existing laws. [Cheers.] In oase the danger
grow greater, he would advise a Convention, not
of Southern States, but of all the States, and the
settlement of the disturbing question, by pledging
the North to tho following propositions: 7
1. That horoafter tho North should recoghize
without qualification, the institution of slavervaa
it has existed under the Constitution. •
2. Tho honest enforcement of the fugitive-slave
3. The equal right of the South to a fbU phrUoi
pation in the oopupanoy of the Territories.
Jle believed that upon the basis of these prODo
sltions all present evils would be eorteoted, and
oar aovemment movo on in harmony forever;
•Cue meeting edjoutnecl at about 10 o’oiwi.
TWO CENTS.
* proceedings'Of City Councils.
, TheaUtad meeting of both brandies of Councils
was held yesterday. , , r
SELECT COUNCIL. , ; «
, Communications,' as annexed, were.presented,
and referred to the several standing eomnmtees:
: For a’Cnlvort ’’at Twelfth and Washington iv«f
nue v fot payment ;of wages due John,
englneer at Ealrpumut; ft? the removal of, gutters
|n Washington avenue; from St. John 0. Davis, &
Co., offering to remove coal ashes from the struts:
from Mr, Birbinbinc, relative to grading the dam
at Fftirmount; from the Controllers of Softools, con- 1
yeyinj* snndry resolntions pawed at thelast meet-'
jng oz that body and already published.
1 protests,against.the action.
Of Counbils In establishing night schools independ
ently of the authority of ihe.vontrOUtfft.
j Mr. Mclntyre pronounced It impertinent, in
which opinion epme other members coincided. A
motion'to refer it to the Committee’on Bohools was
lest, and the communication was laid on the table,
and will not be printed, in the t
j From Joseph Shantze was
stating thatHhe amount of appropnation for re*
pairing-intersections of streets at s&Bsjfu- >j
? Also, one from the president ofthh Pennsylvania.
Railroad, Bhbwing that the'
limiting thanriinbor of ears to be drawh* by a string
of mules, .will double the thebusineps,
and, of course, damage the Interests of the city as,
stockholders. The'fault’ lies in the* dilapidated i
{racks, and as in a short time the track will not bsr
needed, there wJU.be no necessity Jorthe
ftanop. . ' *
| Mr; Drayton thought that, after hearingQtils
communication, Councils should rescind iheiw for-'
mor action, for whloh purpose he moved’a snspen
<ion of the rules. 4 ' c
• M*. s N»al objeoted. : • l a:
; Thd motion w.as..oarried,. and .the flOtipa of
hreyiflu muttnft wMreeeoAdwnMk
j MrfjftUftii prettfetod am&brflf&om theNorft-'
m Xtitodlw tofUdrim'# <* s ? h : iif,
{ enlain relative to the.
? my thiqal «hw»etey or tyenjopofgd psjmur,
meat In Independence Square. Rlrreraarlw had
eoasttlerably- nettled the directors, anir he Was
pound to say that iba.-direotors appeared, to -be La*
earnest in the matter. The idea no wished to cbn-‘
yey Was that the present agitation rendered'it
doubtful whether any Southern State would contri
bute money to adorn a Northern city, and sot as jt
has been construed by some of the highly xespeota*
hie‘trustees Having toe matter in charge, Who' met
(iere» 4 and f frere th«.guests of theeity.Tajt June, #s
& reflection that they were knowingly -engaged
upon a myth. His brief association with that body
had left a deep impression of their sincerity of
purpose, and, at tbe time,, of the undoubted sup
port of their, several' States, and especially would
Pennsylvania cordially support the faithful and
of her trustee.'
1 Ten of tho original thirteen bad enacted Jaws to
Sh'are the expense and honor ofjho erection. Vir
ginia, North afcd South Carolina ore yet out, but
the expense had bech .apportioned, and the trus
tees, he had been informed, would proceed inde
pendent of them. He feared,'from bis connection
with the trustees as chairmßn'Of the Committee on
Entertainment, that what he had said might have
led neoplo .to suppose the city lacked .proper in
terest in ah enterprise so -patriotic and so compli
mentary; ontko; cootrgty, the city looked open
the matter the deepest concern, and whenever
doubt had. been expressed \t' had been in the lan
gua£e‘of-regflt, not of depreciation.,
> Mr_-Neal (Water) presented >*a report, recom
mending that water-pipe be.introduced into Race,
Edgemont, Tulip, Brmton, Montgomery, and other
Streets, which was agreed to.
, Mr.' Beideman presented an ordinance pro
viding for the repair of the track of the city rail
road in Market street,which passed finally;
• The Committed on- Health' repotted’ in ' favor' 1
of transferring items of 1 appropriation for the pay
ment of vaccine physicians, which was passed
finally.
! Also, a resolution for the early Abandonment of
the City Hospital, which was adopted.
A resolution ‘to set ourbs and pave footways ia
the Twenty-fourth ward was passed. -
| .One. limiting the size of all school buildings
erected in future by the city was offered by Mr.
Megary, and adopted.
] ATMoJution to accept the trusteeship of a sohool
houßO building in old Passyunk township, donated
by Stephen Girard, and for fifteen, years unoccu
pied, was agreed to, and the building thus be
comes transferred to the care of the Controllers of
Schools'.
< A resolution changing the place of voting in the
Eleventh precinct ortho Fourth ward was referred
so oommitiee.
; An ordinanee by Mr. Benton, to change the
names of certain streets, was referred to the High
way Committee. 9
A resolution appointing a committee to oonsider
the expediency of supplying water-gas to the
Almshouse was agreed to.
j Also was passed a resolution of .Inquiry, as to
gome mode of improving the cells in the Second
and Sixteenth district station-houses.'
’ The majority And minority reports of the Water
Committee, relative to the of turbine
wheels: for the waterworks, waa taken up.
[lt will be remembered that the majority re
ported in favor of the- Guytlia wheel, while Mr.
Neal, in the minority, recommended the wheel of
J. C. Stevenson, of Paterson, N. J. The resolu
tion ofiMr. Ncal, to pay Stcve&Son $l,OOO com
pensation tor the prtferenot of as alleged inferior
wheel, by-the efi*mittee r waj under dWsrionat
the pcstponwnast: of thw- aubjeot at a previous
toeettogj
S Mr* Bradford said that he was a man of few
words, and rarely spoke over five or ten minutes
qt a timo. But, in the present instance, he ahould
ask the indulgence of the Chamber. In their ao.
tlon the committee had been represented by Mr.
Neal in a very remarkable manner;.and, in a
speech made in this Chamber, an hour ahd'a quar
ter in length, and over his own signature in the
public prints, he has charged the committee with
acts involving actual baseness, and even leading
the publio to believe that the committee had been
influenced in awarding the contract for the wheels
by a pecuniary consideration. He would now
trespass so far upon the time of the Chamber as to
read a plain statement of the facts, and to show
that Mr. Neat had entirely and wholly misrepre.
sonted his brethren on the oommitiee.
Mr. Neal. I rise to a point of order. I desire
to know if the rules of this Chamber admit the de
livery of written speeches.
• Tns Chairman. There Is no rale to the contra
ry. sir. *
Mr. Njbal. Then, if one gentleman cornea here
With his written speech, another can do so, and af
ter a while there will be no end to them.
Mr. Bradford resumed by saying that he should
read no written speech, bat, though feeling grossly
aggrieved, he had preferred to write hisfaots chro
nologically, and, at the same time, by confining
himself to those facts, to avoid all personality.
. Mr. Neal I desire to know if there is not a
rule of this Chamber prohibiting the reading of
speeches. Sere he is criminating me, and (this
was said jooularly) may be it’ll end in a duel yet.
• Mr. Bradford. If it hadn’t beon for the
straight ooat that the gentleman wears thore’d
havebeen a duel long ago.
Mr. Neal. 1 object to the reading of that paper.
It contains documents read in committee, and can
pot be introduced here.
• Mr. Bradford. It dees, sir, and the Chamber
requires to know their import.
. Mr. Dayis said he hoped that Mr. Bradford
Would be permUted to prooeed uninterrupted. He
was opposed to any interference with hiß remarks.
Mr. Odylbr. Mr. Bradford will proceed. If
he is out of order in anything he may say, the
chair will call him to order.
Mr. Bradford resumed with a history of the
wheels, their trial, tboir respective merits, their
comparative merits, and all the particulars attend
ing the action of the committee in awarding the
Contract to Mr. Guyelin, The system of models in
testing the-capacity of Wheels was proved to be
’erroneous, ana the model of Mr. Stevenson’s
wheel, whlob produced a power of 73-400,
was proved to be a copy of Mr. Guye
lin’s wheel, which gave a power of 84-100.
The wheel of Mr. Guyelin was put up during
his absenoe in Cuba, rough from the foundry,
by the foreman of the works in whioh it was
made. Mr. Bradford demonstrated at length,
that Mr. Stevenson’s wheel could sot be put
Into the wheel-house built at Fairnlount, it was
a pretty little piece of maeblnery,'but it did not
meet the requirements of the water works, and
the committee coaid not adopt it. The model of
Sterenson’s wheel was so polished that all friction
was removed, and you could almost turn it with
your breath. The Guyelin wheel was of rough
Conestoga iron, fresh from the works, put up in
Mf. Guyelin’s absence from the country; and a
celebrated engineer who has visited all the coun
tries of Europe declares that the GuyeUu wheel
put up nine years: ago is not excelled In effioienoy
by any waterwheel In the world.
Mr. Near said that if any others of, the majori
ty—any other, big guns or little guns—desire to
apeak—ho would like to hear from them. Other
wise, according to rules of oourt, ho would like to
have the closing speech. The speech ofMr.' Brad
ford, he thought, crowned the reputation of that
gentleman, and, as Randolph once said to au op
ponent in the foram, ho should rest upon his lau
rels, and never make any other effort in oratory as
long as he lived. Mr. Neal read a number of pa
pers, sustaining his view that Stevenson’s wheel
was superior to that of Mr. (Javelin.
The subjeot was discussed atfurtber length,when,
by consent, it was postponed.
Tho hour being a quarter to seven o’olook, with
important businoss yet untransacted, the Chamber
adjourned until seven o’clock this evening, when a
special moating will be held.
The Common CounoU ordinance, authorizing
tho grading of Girard avenue to Forty-first
street, Twenty-fourth ward, was taken up and
passed finally.
Also, were concurred in resolutions approving
the sureties of the municipal and oounty offioars
eleot.
Also, one authorizing the cancelling of oertain
bonds of indemnity.
A resolution to inquire into the award of a con
tract, by the Controllers, for the erection of a
school qn Frankford road, Twenty-third ward
was agreed to. *
Also, were concurred in resolutions for the onen
iog of Wayne, Lancaster, and other Streets
The Common Oounoil bill for the erection of
publio buildings was referred to a oomuUtee
Tho Chamber then adjourned.
COMMON COUNCIL.
A large number of petitions were presented, ask-
W of S* B and water pipes, ereotlon
of public lamps, «0., all of whioh were referred to
the appropriate oommiitecs.
-A communication was fooeived from H. P. M.
Birkinbme, Chief Engineer of the Water depart
ment, asking for an extra appropriation in the next
annual estimate, for the pmpose of removing the
mud that accumulates in ana near tho forebay, in
front of the rooky promontory at Fairmount. This
was deemed neoeasary, in order to preserve tho
purity of the water. Referred to the Committee
on Water.
Council receded from the amendment to the
ordinance supplementary to tho ordinance regu
lating passenger railways. The ordinance pasted
the Common branch, but when sent y W "-Select
Council that body refused to concur in the amend
ment.
THE PUBLIC BUIIiBXKas QUESTION.
The ordnance providing for tho erection of new
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‘lamed thrso times a Month, in time for tha California
Steamer..
waß oolar conaiileretlon at
£kan S» f a “J° a r?mene at tlie last meeting, wa*
IWemtinA’ to «»d ‘‘fer
drdiname Mw vMie kuUdlnge,” and tha
ClpStge, wC“ B UP °° ,h!Td
ih? ordinanoß t-. lon ® a P os<ill i in opposition to
%:p^n?tr p !r^‘. waa
teJsgag&.t3?fyawi«
Majority of the people were in favor of Pbnn
Square s the proper location for them, but he "
lie7ed that th# present ordinance contained numy
errors,; sad he moved that It be postponed 7
• Mr* hoped that it would not be poet
ported, but; thpt the Chamber would do something.
If tho gentleman from tbo Tenth (Mr. Crenrww)
had another bill, whioh was better, he 'Hoped it
would be presented. He could see no force in the
oMeotions of the gentleman from the Third ward,
(Mr. Quinn,) as profound a lawyer as he was. .
, Mr. Andrew Miller hoped it would not be
postponed, but that it would be passed, and sent
mto the other Cham her, where it could be amended.
He thought the bsafc way'to erect public butidlaga
r aB -* > ?i a 'f omm * 8 * 0a » 8,5 tlle Eutenf Feoitoff*
tiqry, Almshouse, and other publio baildiߣB/;h§d
been none. Ho the commission wub bad
Qh&rgo of the subject had done their work w elf,
except that they had located the public buildings
a mile from the centre of business. «Besides, there
Was no necessity for ereoting more than one bond
ing for courts, as the present municipal buildings
were sufficient. He deprecated the spending
,of such a'large rum'of money, while
wag embarrassed with’debt. Ft rTTljiml tui
*P‘ a *°l» as to the whioh should be ;
vote on the motion to postponeyihvhUlwas
L ft?, a and ike (motiop’ was negatived, .rout
cameu# r on '■
i] The vote wks-then'taken'; and resulted 1 as lob
> -r IV,,- -.t . 0
F 88 *! Haoier, Hjimes, HallrHamfitoa,
toppiaoott, Jamea Maxtiu. cTf.
wPJSv. n« c * earr o- Crea ' D».J.McLean, PaaEftftter,'
Stteves. Simons, SuneecQ, Binexf^cnitewarlh,
’fVeavM^o B'’ 8 '’ ■ l^tton ' C t J.mSon, and
’^Navs.—Messrs^ Blynn. Catherwood.
barker, Hallowell, -Harper. Henry.'? Kerr,
KinSfLamagT Merargee, a. Miller,MCore, lr.-McClean,
Sr., McClogkey. Ninegteel, fasooe, Qoian,Bhibe,Siiesl
an^Wrcioff— ’Thomas," John wawon/Wolbert,
’ Mr. Trego, Preaitfent, wm excused from voting.
TUB SELECT COUNCIL RESOLUTION IN RELATION
TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
The resolution from Select Council, providing
for advertising for proposals to erect a fire-proof
building on Independence* Square, at a cost of
$400,000, was then taken up, and it was postponed
indefinitely by ft vote of 40 yeas to 19 nays, as fol
lows:
Andrew*. Bethel!, Catherwood, Cafc
teU, Cramp. J)fal, JOuffield. Foulon, Haas, Hacker*
names. Hall, Hauowell, Hamilton, Harper, Leicb,
Lippmoott. James Martin, McCrea, JD. J.-MeLaan!
Ninesteel,Pascoe,.Paul, Potter, Quinn,
Server, Simons, Simpron, Sines, Bouthwortb,’Starr,
JBtraiton, Summers, John
Nats—Messrs. BaiJ, Brooks, Bnmn3,C6«sin*£niard,
Oerker, Henry, inghain. Kerr, Kimr, Laning, MeSr
S®.®’ Air Mi!Her,*®. MoClean, Nr., MoClcskey, SfJve,
Sites, Wolbert, Wyokoff—l9. ■ ’ ' • '
The Finance Committee reported a resolution au
thorizing the cancellation of a bond of Indemnity
given to a property owner as a security for payment
of damages occasioned - by the opening of Delaware
avenue, which was passed.
A resolution .was; adopted, approving of the
sureties of N. T. Barpox, Commissioner of Markets,
An ordinance was: reported by the Finance Com
mittee, appropriating $9OO to Samuel Sloan,-archi
tect, for preparing plana,, foe a hospitals o& .the
Lamb Tavorn toad, forth# Board of Health, wMeb
•plans were not used. hoe commenced
suit against the otiy for the recovery of compen
sation. This sum bad been awarded to him by ar
bitrators. A long discussion
the merits of the whole transaction were'tiise&ised
at length.
Mr. Foulon thought the charge wax too high,
and that Mr. Sloan was not entitled to more than
$3OO, if Bomuoh.
Mr. Qpinj? said ho thought ho could prove, if the
ordinance were postponed a week to allow Jtim
time to do so, that Mr. Sloan had ouly.made a
ohargo of $2OO, at the time the work was done,
some five years ago.
The ordinance was postponed till Thursday
flext.
The Committee on Highways reported a resolu
tion to open Cotton street, in the Twenty-first
ward, in three months* time, as required by law:
also to ourb and pave oerfain streets in the Twen
ty-first and Twentyfourth wards. Agreed to.
The same committee also reported in- ihvor of
er&djng Girard avenue, east and west of the
bridge, at a cost of s2,Soo—the paving to com
mence at Twenty-ninth street, on the east ride,
and end at Forty, first' street, on the west elder
The contrast was directed-to be given to j Lewis
Smith. Agreed to.
The Committee on Trusts reported an ordinance
in relation to the Boadfaot lands, In Centre'coun
ty »belonging to the city, whioh provided that the
Superintendent of Trusts shall be empowered-te,
sell Umber “ leaves, 1 F or leave to out. timber on
the lands, according to certain, restrictions, and
uponßeourity being girea by persons desiring to cat.
timber. Alter some debate, the ordinance was re
committed to the committee. ’
The Chamber concurred in the ordinanee from.
Belaqt Counoil providing for the repairing, pf the
city railroad oa Market street, by the ’Penniyl
vania Railroad Company, at a cost cf tw
paid for out of the-tolls received oa the' road. : •It
was also amended to read that thd' work shall be
done under the supervision of the ohief engineer
and surveyor of the city, and the Pennsylvania
Railroad was further required to keop the road in
repair for one year.
Mr. Megarobb offered a resolution that Select
Council be requested to meet in convention, on
Thursday next, to elect three directors jof the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and three di
rectors of the Northwestern Railroad Company.
Agreed to.
. Mr. Thomas offered a resolution to dispense with
tho stated meeting on tho 20th insfc., as tho day
has been set apart by the Governor as a:day of
thanksgiving.
The Chamber then adjourned.
The Yancey School Denounced in Yan-
cey’s Oivn State.
iFrom the Mobile Register, November 9.]
Other grave erms of the Breckinridge party we
might expose, but these suffice for eurpurpose,
whioh is to warn the people against the effort sure
ly to bo made by the leaders of the Yancey school
of using that party as the instrament for “precipi
tating, ” without consulting, the people of these
States into a revolution. Comprising the majority
of the professional politicians, this party, of course,
has a majority in most of the Legislatures of the
Southern States, and it is by. acts of the seve
ral Legislatures, and by individual aots, that
it is attempted to oommit ns, whether we
will or not, in a manner which will array
Southern prido and Southern patriotism, against
Southern .judgment, well knowing that with
our people that pride must and will overrule
mere interest, just os a man will defend a friend
for an aot which in itself he disapproves. The
slightest spark once thrown into a powder maga
zine, His - too late to talk of prudence and precau
tionary measures. Let, therefore, every true Ala
bamian insist on the calling of the Convention, for
whioh tho Legislature, in the exeroiseof its lawful
powers, has provided. It is rumored that the'Le
gislature will be convened to absolve the Governor
from the necessity of calling that Convention, and
will then proceed to take measures to place the
Btate in an attitude of irrcoonoilable Hostility.
This timely exposure of the plot may serve to mp
Uinthebud.' Let the Convention be. let
the questions involved in our future aotion be tho
roughly discussed before the people, and then let
every true man obey the will of the people in this,
their sovereign capaoity, under penalty of being
treated as a traitor to the land whioh gave him
birth or shelter. We are nat children to be “ pre
cipitated/’ but men who oan and will resolve on a
oourae In which to persist, come weal, come woe.
The Romance op Crihe.—Recently vte
published the particulars of a somewhat extensive
robberir—sl,2oo worth of jewelry having been
taken from a gentleman’s dwelling house Inßroad
way, while the family were in another apartment.
Soon after the robbery was made known to the po
lice, Officers Cochue and Spenoe, of the Fifth pre
oinot, arrested three.young men, named Joseph
SohaUis, Samuel Muasop, and Frank Swayzey*
who were subsequently taken before Justice Cola
-1 han, and remanded for a hearing at some future
time. The subsequent efforts of the officers to fer
ret out the guilty parties and recover the stolen
jewels, led to the discovery of a regular organized
band of thieves, who have their rendezvous in- a
small ohsouro room over a stable in Second street
The band consists of ten members, who are regu
larly enrolled and banded together for stealing.
They havo a written constitution and by-laws,"and
a set of rules defining each man’s duties and privi
leges, and the obligation of oaob towards the other
A number of well-planned schemes for committing
laToenies woto found written out. One of their fa
verito plans for proouriDg information regarding
houses they intended to visit, was for one or mot?
members of the club to go round with furniture
polish and offer it for salo at some house of respeot
ablo appearance; they would propose to exhibit
the quahUcs of the ertiole by renovating any piece
of furnituro in the house that the inmates were
willing to have experimented upon. In this way
they would pick up a great amount of informa
tion that they would subsequently turn to good ac
count. A number of out citizens who have been
robbed within the last two months oan now reoaH
to mind the previous visit of a vendor of furniture
polish. Five of this band, including the three, al
ready named, have been taken' into oustody and
committed for examination; and the officers ex
press a confident belief iu tboir ability to find the
others and recover the property of Bir. Rogers.—
2Y> Y. Sun.
An Incident in a Theatre.— An evening
or two since a little eronfc occurred at NJMo’s
Theatre whioh will long be remembered by all
who were present. Bending the appearance of the
members of the orchestra, who were for some
reason behind time, a plainly-dressed man in the
third tier commenoed whistling the. peculiarly
plaintivo melody, “The Last Rose Of
with a sweetness and grade quite bewitching. By
degrees the accustomed hum of voioea in the par
quetta and boxes oeased, and all eyes were:tamed .
upward in the vain endeavor to trace whence
came the mysterious and thrilling strains.' The
audience seemed ontranoed with the strange
warbling notes and trills of the whistler, and perfect
quiet reigned throughout the house. Some of.the'
actors peered from oehiad the curtain, and area
the musicians crept sllontly into tho orchestra-
With the frost intricate variations, the whistler
filled the air, when a storm of applause broke imm
the audienoe, whioh almOßt shook the house to the
centre. Again were the shrill and peculiar notes
of the whistler hoard, and again was the house ra
daced to breathless silenoe. The strange musks
oeasing a seoond time, the orchestra atruok up «t
oporatio airrbut their music was' faiflj amwned
bythe storm of applause. One of the ushers finally
traced out the whistler, and ohurfiawy turned bta
out of the house. ' -* '