THE VOLUNTEER. JotmJl. Bratton, Editor andProprletor. OABbUbBi WQVBMBER I8Ca« TmNXsoivimi.— Tbit day (Thursday 25tU InsU) it tbe lime appointed by the Governor to bo observed throughout the Stato at a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer. Public, tervicet will be held in til the ohorebet in Ibit place. Psara' or Ex-Ootkßfcoa Suui/ra.—Es-Govoroor -Jobn Andrew Shall*, died, al hit residence, Lancas ter oily, on Thursday bf last week. Hit ago wat 76 year*.'- — . lt on a visit to Vicksburg, Missis sippi. Wo believe ho own*.* valuable pianlatioo in IhalSute. '.' Wq-Jeain fltpnj the. Methodist Protestant that the Protestant Methodista have commenced a movement to build op a college in Alabama. About. 630,006 Were’promptly raised at-the alert. One gentleman Abner.McQaboo, Esq., neat Montgomery, Alabama, -contributed ten thousand- dollata in the form of an bndownrent. iiktkcn ot Pnokitx Cass.—Susan Marla Learned has obtained a*verdict against Alfred W-atkyns, of Albany,for a'bleach of promise of marriage, of 63,. 500. ibanbary jail, Conn.-, has been rather notorious, u beirig remarkably easy of egress, and that fact baa made Fairfield county a favorite compagno ground with rogues. In one case the rascals passed ■ vote of thanks to the keeper before they broke out, ond in another, ono of a gang refused to escape be cause it was too easy. At the October election, the Whig majority In Cheater coonly, wta about 600. Immediately after ward*, the Whigs of Philadelphia, with the GrlaneV| Food, got op a barbecue at Valley Forge, to enllght the pebplo of Cheater coonly. The Presidential election came on, and the Whig majority in that ooanty fell to 180. Iff there had been another Whig barbecue, the coonty would have given a handaoroo majority for Pierce. 03“ The official vote of Maßaachusolla, for Elec tors, shows that Col. Greene of the Post, ran* some 1100 below Gen. Whitney, the other Democratic Elector at large. Thla only proves the truth of the old adage, that the tree that bare* the boat apples is the most dabbed and stoned. Mail Robberies—Arrest.—A letter, dated 'Washington! Nor. SI, says—Letters, containing money, haring frequently miscarried of late be* tween Richmond end Baltimore, Mr. McGuire, the special agent of the Post Office Department, on Friday, mailed a decoy letter in Virginia, ad dressed to a banking-house in Baltimore. It con tained tome worthless bank bills and a marked quarter dollar. The agent on Saturday traced the possession of the coin to Henry C. Weighlman, employed in the post-office in this city. He as. serta that he-teoeired it in change. He has hith erto Sustained the most irreproachable character, and bis friends believe he will be able to prove his Innocence. Ho haa been admitted to bail to mwah farther investigation. £Hi«RATioir to Ltetau.—A letter from Haiti. 3let inst., says that the bark-Lind ■aiM /or.Ljbpria the day previous, from that oily. She is (6 slop St Norfolk and take on board 170 more, for the same destination. Bishop Scott, the Rev. W. Horne, the Rev. Mr. Scott end several ladies go but to Liberia in the same vessel. The brig Shirley will sail on Thursday next, with another parly of Emigrants. Escape or a Bank Robber. —We learn by a latter from Norfolk, dated Not. 20, that John W. Rand, who robbed (he Portsmouth Bank, some lime since, made hie escape from the jail in (hat town, the night previous. He was pursued as soon as missed, but ho has not yet been taken. Shocking Accident.— A letter dated Bethlehem, Nov. SO, says—An accident occurred here this af ternoon, which has thrown quite a gloom over the tcwo. The Democrats, in order to manifest their gratification at the result of the recent Proaidential election, had arranged tabavo a torchlight proces sion and festival heie this evening, and this after noon several persons commenced the celebration by firing a salute. Unfortunately, one of the men working the cannon, named John Roth, wore a pair of cotton gloves, which caught fire, and in Charging the gon caused a premature explosion, which horribly mangled himself and another per son, named Wm. Bush. Roth had both of his arms blown off and his eyes torn out, besides re. (reiving other wounds, which render his recovery impossible. The other unforlunaie man may pos sibly survive. In consequence of this accident, the torchlight procession was postponed. Rags amvcKNA Locomotive and a Flock or Geese. Tbs Rochester American has Ibe following inch dent s “Coming up on the express train, the other day, it so happened that on leaving Fondi, a flock of tom£ thirty wild geese swept over Into the valley of lbs Mowbawk, just ss (ho cars were under way.— These gesso being manifestly bewildered, kept on steadily up (he river, but well over on the opposite side oflhs Tilley, hence a good chance to compare their speed with the “lightning train” was afforded . At first it seemed to be about an “oven thing,” but after t few moments il wts readily perceivable that lbs geess were drawing ahead of the locomotive.— Afters few moments the flock seemed half inclined dbwn into the Mowhtwk, sod abated much oflbelr speed—the engine recovering the Ibsl ground, but Ibe geese thought belter of It—changed fVont, sought a greater elevation, and pushed ahead again in the asms direction of the train. Dy this lime the race became quite exciting, and one could hardly re frain fromjßcUlmlng.“go engine; pair in.goos,' 1 bat there was no need of exhortation, at both seemed Idling on t about all they knew—the geese gradually drtwiog ebesd till within a short distance of Lillie Falls, when (lie bevy hauled up in (he wind's eye, shivered a moment, sod stood down Ibe river egain, having, gained In the race about two miles. Tbe geese must have been going, when last seen, at the rats of sixty or seventy miles the hour. This is Ibe first race ws have seen between a locomotive and the feathered race, and though the latter had the beat of It, tbs former did well, considering It was compelled In carry weight.” Composition or the Moon.— Every object on its surface of the height of one hundred feet la dis tinctly seen through Lord Rosso’s telescope* On lie surface are craters of extinct volcanoes, rocks and masses of alone almost Innumerable. But there are no signs of habitations such as ours, no ▼sstlge of architectural remains, to abow that the moon is or ever was inhabited by a race of mortala similar to ourselves. No water is visible t do ees. bo river | all teems dfcsolate* A considerable lias, It is said, has ukso place In the tfddqntfteflP* river, and lumber Is aomlug down galls rapid. President merge and ms administration. THd AWrifcan democratic principle never has been better illustrated than by the recent election. The great massesof intelligent-end honest oitixens, after long agitation,-went pe'rfcelbily to tho ballol boxes, and filled them to overflowing with' e'ofTVa* gee re affirming (he force of the dorißtiUillon, (he stability of the Union, the wisdom ol* economy in publip expenditures, the Jostles of equal andJlghl taxation, and the duty of maintaining with un shrinking firmness, In the presence of foreign powers, the attitude of a free and fearless nation. That is the almost unanimous vote. It is as fnca pable of misinterpretation as it is impressive.—* Fbarblin Picbcs, of New Hampshire, is the typo and representative of that vote, vindicating, in a single day and at one broad sweep, the highest troths and purposes of Republicanism. - To use the language of the Harrisburg Keyttone, an achievement such as litis election, rc-kindles the confidence of all patriots. On the 3d bf No- vember, the country, her institutions, peace and happiness, were fell to be, at last and once more, solemnly and solidly established by the people.— .It waa no.equLvocal or partial result, about which partisan critics could nicely cavil; bat a ponderous judgment uttered so loudly, so distinctly, so final- ly, as to carry conviction home to every man. If over, in any sense, the voice of the people be the voice of God, here it is I The mission or President PtenCK is coraprehen , eively sketched by those remarks upon its origin. All political parties are infested by eels of men incapable of appreciating such a mission who cannot rise above their own selfish desires:—who, like the fly on the wheel, ascribe the vast revolu tion to theit own buzlng—and who think the new Chief Magistrate worth having only so far as he caters to their Ihsatiate appetite for ofiioe. With , a haste as indecent as audacious, they rush to his ' residence, or put' forth their self-nominating roani -1 testos in newspapers: cliques and coteries assem ble on corners to contrive modes of securing exec* I olive preferences for the Patrortlo whom they are subservient, and, affacon9eqUencc l forllVemBeWes,j his backers: and he to whom a mighty people, i with the sanction of their ineffaceable seal, have 'list confided their Union, and rerittwn, is beset, circuitously dodged and* beaded', anil perse veringly cob-webbed by legions of.crawllng but nimble spiders who hope to use his noble functions for the attainment of their miserable ends of per sonal ambition or cupidity. Still, we hove no distrust orfeai'. His immense majority, both popular and electoral, places the incoming democratic Chief far beyond the reach of local faction here, there, or any whore. His administration of the government, with such a start, will bo up to and even with the purest hopes of democracy. All his antecedents, especially the training and exercises of tho stern, consistent and radical school of New Hampshire, guarantee the fidelity and straight-forwardness of his action.— Tho personal qualities of Gen. Pierce, 100, as de picted by his associates and neighbors, (for we have not ourselves ever had the good fortune to meet him,) inspire and justify unlimited confidence in his being equal to his high calling: not readily circumvented by those who, as the phrase runs, strive “to gel him into their own hands but self protected by that natural sagacity which instantly uncloaks tho hypocrite, and that singleness of heart which makes tho conscientious and inflexi. ble performance of public duty a necessity of his nature. If President Pune* is to be embarrassed in carrying oat the purposes of his multitudinous constituency, that embarrassment will come at his I very outset, from smooth-tongued and professing | friends, and against this, wo think he must be abundantly well armed. All of os remember how sorely afflicted and seriously impeded even the iron-willed Jackson was by Cabinet dissentions* The Secretaries of the departments were, either themselves looking to the succession, or were ar dent champions of others who did: and bonce per petual rivalry, not,lp advance the good of their country and the fame of their Chief, but to improve the prospects of a favored aspirant. It was the recollection of this which induced Mr. Polk, st the opening of his term, to announce an under standing that none of his official advisers should bo presidential candidates: an understanding, however, which notorious proceedings, very soon in the progress of his administration, led ua to pre sume had been abandoned. President Pieros has an immense party to select from: a parly rich in abilities of every sort, and numbering in its ranks the truest, sternest, best tried and most rolisble democrats: sod such has been the universality of his victory; so large have been his majorities in almost all the Slates, that a special claim, on the ground of service in (ho campaign, cannot bo ad vanced from any quarter, without being manifestly presumptuous and ridiculous. No choice was ov er more national: and that enables, if it do not oblige him, to fling aside all ideas of local or par ticular obligation, and (o give himself, entire and untrammelled to the whole American Union. | Now that the great deed is consummated, it is natural that the people, returned from the polls, should speak of the glorious consequences they anticipate. Speculation is rife In every direction. All eyes are watching to catch the Aral faint streaks of a rising sun; anxious that none of its rays shall bo arrested by intruding vapors, but that it may move upward and onward through its destined course with undimmcd'brightness. Woe to those who shall attempt to thwart this hope of a gener ous and confiding nation. Execution.— David WiUon, negro, who was con victed si tho September Court for Howard county, of rape on a young girl of about fourteen years of • go, was hung at Ellicoll'a Mill*, yesterday, in pres ence of ■ largo number of spectator!. A few minu tes before his execution ho confessed his guilt, which he bad always previously denied. Retired —George Wilkins Kendal, of the Now Orleans Picayune, is about to marry and retire to his vast sheep railing farms in Texas. Kendal has surely seen the world, and a little more ; is about forty eight, and possesses a fortune of $lOO,OOO. ' Curious Suit.—A few days since, In St. Louis, Missouri, a game chicken escaped from his owner, ran into a drug store, flew against a boltls, up sol U, and thus sot evaporating eight ounces of otto of roses. The druggist has sued the owner of the rooster, lay ing damages at 665, the value oflhe perfume wasted. Vermont—Tn* Main* Law.— The petitions for, the Mains Law. already presented to tha Legislature of Vermont, are signed by thirty seven thousand parsons, of whom seventeen thousand are legal vo tore. Tbs obsequies in honor of tho memory of Calhoun, 1 Clay, and Wcbater will take plana in New Orlosna lon Tuesday the 9th oCDeeember. ,An exchange paper says "two, bouMi at Clnolo. ball are now cutting np hop” It must be a light I to css t Iwm tickle b (ki porktl tad dissect blow DOCTEINES OF EOBESPIEEBE. We never expected to eee the principles of Ro bespierre quoted - with approval by ,thc editor of an American newspaper* for they are calculated to give to every humane man a thrill of horror* But the editor of the National Democrat exhibits as bloody a disposition as the French .tnopajer, and would have hie Coarse adopted. He saye: “The veins of the ‘royal linca* must be bled un* til blood roHtrlike rivela through the'hing'do m s.— Robespierrb orido exclaimed, ‘AIaS, there is no hope for my dbhappy country until the lust drop is emptied from the veins of tho'no^Jl^ly. , ; The same truth applies to nearly ail-Europcalihe pres ent day. 1 * Now, says tho Baltimore Clifppft tfe Have no love for the “royal lines*’* bni.wo should-bo sorry to see a war of extermination waged-againel them. If the true republican spirit pervaded the king doms of Europe, the “royal lines” could be ren dered harmless, without a general slaughter, as is theoaso In England. In that kingdom iHe lib erty of the subject is as well secured against in fringement by arbitrary power, as the liberty the citizen ie in the. United States; and justice Is administered with: at least as much equality to i The experiment of'shedding the blood of the “royal lines” was tried la France—and what was the result 1 The men who were concerned in the massacre of the King, Queen and nobility, when they could find no more royal blood to shed, turn* ed their hands against their -fellow citizens, and kept the guillotine in active and daily employment. Among those most conspicuous In these wholesale murders, was Robespierre, who is now held op as an example for the people of Europe. Was he in fluenced by the love of liberty 1 No. He delight led in blood, and aimed at a control Which would tenable him to shed it at pleasure; but public in -1 dignation cut him short' in his career, by sending him where be had sent so many others, to the guillotine. The King and nobilhy either destroy ed or banished, the people created a Dictator in | the person of Napoleon. They exchanged one arbitrary ruler for another—and the “liberty and equality” for which the revolution was professed ly commenced, were never realized. More recent ly the experiment has been repeated, excepting that life was spared. And have “ liberty and equality” been obtained by (he dethronement of Louis France at present, and ihe question iff answered. Those who could not endure the rule of a miljl king, submit with alac rity to the dtdlaribn and arbitrary abts of a usurper; and implore him to accept the imperial diadem, as their master. The shedding of 4 the blood of the “royal Udes” id" France, ha*, then, but tended to the greater enslavement of the people. Nor Is there any reason to suppose, that, if alt the royal heads on the continent Wefe Id be struck d(T to morrow, it would result in the establishment °f liberal governments. The people-aro nbi qualified to enjoy liberty.- They have been habituated to despotic control, and seem to' love (heir abject slate. If it were not so, and they were inspired ! with the true principles of liSerty, they would as sert their rights, and compel their sovereigns to grant them free constitutions. This could be done without shedding all the blood of the •• royal lines.” A Noble Example. Under this head ibe Middletown (Pa) Emporium records (he following magnanimous act t Mr. Gsobok M. Lauman, formerly of Middletown, was called upon a few days since, as we learn, to contribute towards" an ox Roast 1 ' and general jubi Ice at Portsmouth,'ln honor of the Ule Democratic viator;. With the usual well known liberality of that gentleman, he gave two hundred dollars to (ho applicants—to be appropriated, however, to the pur* chase of flour and fuel for the poor of Portsmouth du ring the coming winter, instead of the contemplated rcjolceings. Such acts of benevolence and gen erosity are characteristic of the man, end the ap propriation thus made will no doubt be more satis factory to the President elect, and the Democratic parly at large, (Iran if the amount had been double, for a different purpose. Louis NAfoutog m New York Citt. —The Brook, lyn Daily Advertiser, moralizing upon (ho rapid as cent of Louis Napoleon upon (be ladder of ambition, from positive poverty, to superlative grandeur and power, recalls some of his reminiscences of his. so journ in New York city several years ago. The editor says i ** Whet strange events have occurred witjiin a few years in reference to that man! We know him whilst ho was residing in New York, at'a' Dodging house in Reade street, then kept by a gentleman who occupies a high official position under the French Government. At that time he was very jyjor, and very dissipated. Notoriously profligate in his habits end without (he pecuniary sbility to indulge to the full bend of his inclination the culpable propensities which characterized him, ho was frequently expelled from certain places in which ho obtruded himself, and more than a dozen (hues was (he occupant of a cell at the old jail in the Park, long since torn down. “Nut long prior |o his leaving the United States, ho was arrested for a misdemeanor committed by him at (ho disreputable house of a woman whoso establishment ho alien visited, and the writer of (his article was employed professionally tiy him to save him from (he threatened consequences of hil reck lessness and indiscretion. We little supposed at (hat time that tho thoughtless gay young man who was then our client (and who is still indebted to us for counsel fees and disbursements) would become l£m. peror of France. Such, however is his “manifest destiny but wo believe (hat his realization of hia ambitious hopes and aspirations will but hasten the fesrful doom which unquestionably impends over him." Washington Cut—The Hotels. —Strangers are beginning to flock to Washington—and many who have not arrived have engaged rooms. The Republic During the coming season the many strangers wlio will flock hither for business and pleasure, will probably bo belter entertained at our hotels than at any former period, judging from the activity on the premises, with a view to the comfort of the expected guests. Tho session of Congress, the National Fair under the auspices of the Metropolitan Mechanics, Institute, and the incoming of a new administration will be the principal attractions, and concentrate from every portion of the widely extended Union persons of all funks and conditions. There is no question that we will have an unusually interesting as well as gay season. Shameful Confession.— The Albany Journal, (he leading Scott paper in New York, confesses (hat it did no! expect to elect Scott, and that it deliberately deceived Its readers. It says ; “ To have expressed apprehensions during the heal of battle would hive wounded the feeling* of the ardent and wholly dlahcartened the watering : and therefore we fbpght on blindly• deluding other* mod half deluding ouraelvca." Thla unhluahlng avowal of lU own ehemeftil con* duet excola anything of the kind that we ever wit* neaaed, always excepting the aimllar confessions of IhbN. H. Slafeamap.— Concord i’flfrlot.' The moil faalilonablo color* for bonnets,-in Parts, are black, bluofgreeivand’llghl red a new shade. Utce and'vcHel are the materials moat used I for bonnets. For some lime it wis feared that abort walala would bcvbasaumed,but thla is, happily opt .the case. __ (£7* AI what tints ofiifd.rosy.a man bssaidlo bp* Jong to ihtvsgsleMt kingdom? When lung tape ricoce has mad# him sago. JThba Jftcmsr. i Gale an Labs Erie.—A severe (ialo on Lake Erie commenced bn Thursday night, lllh inst., end raged with unprecedented violence for 24 hours, doing great damage. The steamer “Samson" be longing to Wm. Buckley of Buffalo, was totally lost. The steamer Propeller Globe, and the steamer St. Louis, were totally wrecked, and a number of Uvea wore lost. , New Party.— At a meeting of tho Webster Slate Executive Committee of Masssohusatts, hold at Bos* lon on the day. subsequent to the election, it was re* solved to constitute the Webster organisation into ‘•An American Union Parly," and to "sustain any National Administration, of whatever name, which is practically conducted according to the maxims laid down by Washington, and Webster." Pigjron ln Pittsburg, bn Wednesday, for $4O per ton. A few months ego,'it coaid bo bought for $22. Tho Pittsburg Gaxotto* attributes this great rise to the scarcity of the articles, many furnaces being out of blast. This rise will soon set them in operation again* The late rise in England has also given pig metal a dl’afl In Ibis country. Present to Gxn. Fierce.— The Boston Times says: Wo learn that a.nnmbor of tbo patriotic citi zens of Boston and vicinity are getting up a compli mentary testimonial of their esteem for the President elect, in the shape of a “mddbl’* carriage, together with horses and equipage complete, all of New Eng land production, for the occasion of his inauguration in March next* Keen Shaving.— lt is strange to what littleness men will sloop to, mb a neighbor in (he matter of discount. Tho Philadelphia' Ledger tells of a man who makes it a practice to carry $lO bills on a cer tain Bank, which he buys at 2 per dent, discount.— He purchases an article for a few shillings and re ceives $9 in good money as change. Adding $1 to $9, ho buys another $lO bill for $9 80—Jhua making twenty per cent, on each dollar that ho spends. Melancholy Suicide— Mrs. Goutd, wife of Steph en Gould, Esq., formerly of While Haven,Pa.com mitted suicide at Williamsport on Thursday morning, by culling her throat with a rotor. The unfortunate lady had been subject to derangement of mlud at intervals, caused by a sad bereavement which alio suffered, aome years since, by the drowning of soveril children In a flood. Tut Maine Law Unconstitutional. —The Judges of tho Supreme Court of New Hampshire have deci ded that the prohibitory liquor law, passed at (ho last session of the Legislature of New Hampshire, con flicts with the Constitution of the State. Tut Dirty Shirt Party.— The New Orleans Della says, tbo Democrats can no longer be called the Dirty Shirt Party, as, in the good old days of Nicholas Biddlo and his Monster, it was fashionable to designate them. By the lime they have their beta all in, they will bo the bcpl dressed set of fel. lowa in the city. AUeqdy yoti may dibtirtgulsh them by the new and fashionable titles which they sport. This thing of making one’* political opponents furn ish his toggery, is only agreeable to “iho parly on one part"—lhsl*t all. Congress.— The next aosiion of Congress com' menoes on Iho first Monday of next month, (Decem ber 6.) snd will continue in session until tho 4lb ol March, when Gen- Pierce will bo inaugurated as President, and the (arm of the members elected to the third Congress commence. Queen Victoria a School Maru.— Ii is stated in an English paper that Queen Victoria has at Wind sor a Sabbath and a da; clssa of cliiidern belonging to the domestics, to which she unremittingly attends, when the Court is held there. The Presidential Electors chosen in FonnaylvanLa, on the 2d inst., moot at Harrisburg on tho Aral Wed nesday in December, to give their votes. The El- cctors in all the other Slates moot at their respective capitals, on the same day for a similar purpose.— The votes are sent under seal to the Picsidenl of the United Stales Senate, at Washington, and on the 3d Wednesday of February nezt, (hey are opened in the presence of both Houses of Congress, and the result officially declared. California contains four hundred thousand square miles. This would give eight Slates as large bb New York Slate, fifty as large as New Jersey, and fifty seven as large &■ Massachusetts. With a pop* ulation equal per square mile (o that of No w Jersey, California would support eighteen million* of inhab itants; if equal to New York twenty millions; and if equal to Massachusetts, forty millions—or fifteen millions more than tho present population of the entire United States. Mrs. George Flick, while in « deranged State of mind, drowned herself at Race st. wharf, Philadel phia, at 3 o'clock, on Wednesday morning. She had been partially deranged for three months past. She wts married about two years ago and leaves • child only ten days old- Tho unfortunate lady stole from the house while the nurse in attendance upon her was asleep, and her body was found st an early hour the next morning In the dock. Christian Baker was shot in Philadelphia on Monday' by Maria Lena Maaser, a German domestic, whoril heliad seduoed, and borrowed WOO from, and afterwards refused to marry. She -fired a pistol af* tkr htrp as he was leaving his mother's door. The ball inflicted a bad woutfd os the .back part of the head, but it is not dangerous. A Whig contemporary, while looking at tbe rous ing majorities against his party in moil of the Staler, feara this will be known in history as the Big Lick Campaign. A Whig exchange alyl : “Wo preiumo Iho new Preaidont will appoint IheZamrton Time* one of the papere in which to pabliah two lowa or Ilia United 6tolea.“ There ia ono tiling certain, the Freaident elect will not appoint any Briliah Whig to cilice, while he will make thoae bounce who ere in. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellowa hare elected Thomae Holm, Grand Warden, in place of George It. McFarland, deceaacd. The famoiia Capl. Parker French, at last adeicea I from the Pacific, had arrleod.al Sant* Barbara, on I board the American brig Harriet, from Maaatlao, [with 75 Texan ICangera. The eoaool wan declined for Ban Franolaoo, but waa obliged to put Into Santa I Barbara in dietreae, thoogh it wax generally beliored I that be had bribed the captain to atop there, being 1 himaolf afraid to land nlSan Francleoo. The bronze cqnealtlan atatue of Gen. Jaokaon, which ia being oaat by Mr. Clerk Millo, will weigh about 35,000 poonde. It i* expected to be hniahed and pot In lie petition at Fayette Square, Waahidg ton, on the 6th of January. The operationi of,the Cheater county Pa. Mining Company conlinoco to go on with great aucceoa— During tho laat week they turned out 750 nige of j pars lead. A soD*in law of Gov. Foote, of Miaoiaaippi, named Thomas Carnal, wai killed on Monday el Kentucky fiend, Mtav., by a young man whose father he wood. ded acme lime since. At a tale of wines In Baltimore, on Friday, some of them brought as high as 160 per gallon, or £1,25 per wine gUss. 1 Hon. Jefiaraon Davis has recovered from hip re cent indisposition by. which his eyesight wps' threat «oed> • 3UI Sorts of fkragrapljs. KxrxNsivE Boarding:—ln an article relating to the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, tbo " Inclesldfi" says: "In tho matter of prices,'fow pay less than $25 per week j and one foreign emissary, who has taken rooms fpr (he season, ts paying at the rate of $3O per day, besides a very liberal extra'expenditure for, (be very choicest of antique wines. One gentleman pays $5O per week. The bills of others amount to $2OO, $250, and $3OO per week. The bridal chain* ber is constantly occopltd at the rate of $2O per day. It is also slated, that ".more people are tamed away than are received" and that "rooms are taken by letter and by (olograph, for weeks la advance,” The proprietors should have procured a supply of the wines sold last week in : this city, at $154 per bottle. They could no doubt retail them out to thoir customers for a dollar a drop : as those who would pay the rates named Tor - board,would not hesitate to indulge in wloe at that price. Of such people it may be truly said," a fool and, his money are soon parted." . New York Congressional Delegation.— The Tribune publishes a full list of Congressmen elected in that Slate, at the recent. election, and classifies them 21 Democrats, 12 Whigs, 1 Abolition,and 1 Independent Land Reformer. In (he 'present Con. gross (be delegation stands 17 Democrats and 17 Whigt. The Slate loses one member nnder the new apportionment. The British. Fleet at Havana. —ln (ho pretent sumewbat uncertain relations of Cuba, to the United Slates, the presence of a powerfol fleet, in the harbor of Havana, is naturally enough, giving rise to surmise and speculation. Wo find this fleet, enumerated in a Havana paper, as follows ; Frigate Highflyer, mounting 20 gone, with PaU bans. Sloop of war Dauntless, 22 gaas, with PatXhans. Vestal, (capacity not alated.) Corvette Calypso, 7 guns. Besides theso vessels, the lin of battle ship Cura faerland was in the harbor—the only vessel belong ing to the regular West India Squadron. The force abvvo mentioned, therefore, Is something supple mentary and extraordinary. Fillidubters in Canada. —It Is said that 11 Lone Star" associations have been established at Montreal and Quebec, with subordinate lodges in other parts of the provinces in foil correspondence with the pa rent oluba In the United Slates. What will the Lon don Times say now 7 Veteran Voters.— Oliver Graves, aged 92, Justin Morton, Jigod 91 and Consider Morton, brother of Justin, aged 94, of Wbatley, Mass., were born in the same house, voted for Gen. Washington, and have voted at every Presidential election since, including that of (ho 2d inst. Activitt in the Iron Trade.— Tho advanced price of English rails kka had a favorable effect upon mills in this country, and enabled some of (hem to resume operations. The Montour Works have just made a contract for twenty thousand tons with the Penna. Central road, ot something over 85.5 per ton, equal to cash. Ten thousand tons are tu bo deliver ed thib year, and ten thousand in IS53'. Washington Monument Fond.— Tho receipts at (he office In Washington, D. C., from (he 15lh of November inclusive, amounted to 85,574 72, of which sum 81'415 Gd waa-from special agents, and nearly all the rest from contributions at election polls in all parts of (he United States- A’ couple of hundred dalhrs of It comes from various places in Western Pennsylvania. Stock Cattle. —There tre between one atlif two thousand slock cattle at the several drove sVandk be tween Unionville and Parkersburg, and that the drovers find dull sale for them, owing to tho high I price at which they are held. The Checsler county market is overstocked. We hear of at least one drove, near Parkersburg, which baa been soul back to Virginia. Tin Meeting or Congees*. —Congress will reas* somblo at Washington iho slh of next month, less lun three weeks. The session will be s short one* md unless the members commence work earnestly hero will bo but little real business transacted.— Fortunately the election is over, and there will be but little occasion for partisan speeches, so that much lime will be gained for finishing the business of last session. Dklawabe College.— Fifty thousand Dollars bsve been recently subscribed, mainly by the farmers of Delaware, to endow thelf College at Newark. It is conditioned that a Professorship of Agriculture shall bo at once established, which is to go into operation the present winter. Delaware in this, has shown enlarged views and a noble generosity. PaETTT Goon. —The Madison co, N- Y., Whig accounts for General Scott's defeat. In the fact that his “ military career disqualified him from running 1" le had never run, and couldn't learn bow. Misstssirn Paving Ur.—A vote was taken lately In Mississippi, in regard to paying the old Planters’ bank bonds, formerly repudiated which shows a large majority in favor of the payment. A Clay Monnmcnt Association has been formed In New York, of which Henry Grinnell is President, and Martin Van Daren one of the Vice Presidents. It it to be auxiliary to the Kentucky Association. Rev. Dr. Parkman, a distinguished Unitarian preacher of Boston, and brother of the late Dr. George Parkman, died in Boston, on Friday, of spo pl.xjr. Wu. U. King, Vice President elect of the United Slates, was si Tuscaloosa on the 6th Inst., on a visit to Genera) Thos. King, his brother. The stamped envelopes which the new postage law requires the Department to place in Iho hands of the Postmasters for sale, will be in readiness in Jan* aary. This practice will be a great convenience.— It has been in existence In England, substantially, for mere than half a century. • Three cent pieces are getting -Into, very genera) escalation, and have been found tu be.of great con. violence in the making of small change. The mint baa coined an immense jiurober of thorn but the dc mand keeps pace with the supply. Michigan was one of the Slates that was surs to go for Scott, before the election. The returns show that Scott has majorities in but two counties in the Stats—loo In one and 50 in another. The Buffalo Courier learns on unquestionable au- thority, that General don’t think so much of that “ rich Irish brogue” In Ohio, a* be did some few days ago. He aays he “ don’t care a cuts how wet and muddy the Cleveland people gel after thls.V The ceremony of receiving the black veil took place at the convent of the Visitation, in Baltimore, a few dsya since. The names of the young ladioe who received the. veil are Misses. M. Virginia Bun ting. Caroline Pyeti, and Mary Tarleton, all of Balt), mure. 1 • jn the Penitentiary, at Columbus, Ohio, on the 2d inat., a negro woe ebot for attemplng to take (he life of one of tho goarda with a long bowle knife. The guard puttwo balls through the body of the prisoner. |le la not expected to IWe. '• •' ; ' • The City Marshal of York h«* granted 5551 li cences for puollti houses, from the Ist January up to the present date. The amount received, for these waefSM^ THB U«VOIt 111 BUnOIM. oriNioNs or tdk stfrtaioK odour jooact. ' Tbo following is (ho opinion of lodge* Bell, feast. man,'Gilchrist and! Woods, of (he Superior Court, respecting the constitutionality otlbe Liquor Bill. I. The Bill confers onjastlces in extent of author ity the Constitution does, nol sanction, particularly in respect to the power It gives (hero to pronounce a sentence of forfeiture of liquors seised for a violation of Ihb Law. ‘ 11. The Bill provides fot no trial by Jory, or for •ppea) and trial by jury before* hightrCourl, The Constitution provides tbatin ell controversies eon* corning property, tbd parties have a right to a trial by. jury*.: • 111. Tho seventh section of the act oonfliotedireet. ly with tKe Constitution of the U. 8- This section provides that no action osn v be roalntaloiid Iq.any Court in the State, either. Iti whole or In part for |q. toxioiting or spirituous .in any other State or county, o law of this State can deprive a ' citizen of the U. 8. of the rigty to enforce a eliim of debt before the tribunals of the State! IV. Liquors are. properly. The law in recognising thchi as euch in the fourlh'abdton, when in tns hands of town authorities for sale and meobobiealoie, can* not, by tho force of a few phrases, make property loso its characierwhen in pttior custody., V. Double or increased penalties in oases of con- viction under appeal, because it operates'as a penalty upon the parly claiming appeal, conflicts with his right to an appeal, and cannot bo supported by the Constitution. • ' • - VI. Tho bill is designed by Us provisions (o de mand escoasivciball-and render it. difficult for the accused to-prooure sureties; If it had been added jhal the accused should not baye the bencfilpf coon. sel to defend him, the. parallel bitween the present law and the practice in England In former days, would havebe?n. completed. . VII. The conviction of a principle through;, any aet of boo ogenl, is hold to be unconstitutional. The accused should be'cenfrbr.ted with, (ho ’witnesses ■ gains liim, says tho Constitution ; but the Liquor Bill asya no, and is therefore opposed to the bCnstl* lutionsl rights of tlie citizens* ’ VIII. The people hate *, fightto be secured a gainst all unreasonable search of thsir dwellings, and all search warrants,must be under oath, accord* ing lo Iho Constitution; but searches and mrreats may be made according to the bill without wananta on nalh, and It is (has unconstitutional. In conclusion the Judges 'state that some of the objections are of the roost serious character. CHARACTERISTICS OP GREAT MS. Tasso’s conversation was neither g«y nor brll- Dante was eihter taciturn brsatirics*. Butler waa sullen or biting. Gray seldom talked nr smiled. Hogarth and Swift were very absent minded in company. Milton was unsociable end even irritable whan pressed into conversation. ■ ■ • Kirwin, though copious and eloquent io public address, was meager and dull In colloquial die* course. Virgil was heavy io conversation. La roolsioo appeared heavy* coarse and stupid | be could not speah and describe what he had just seen, but then he waa the model of poetry. Chaucer's silence waa more agreeable than bis conversation. Dryden’s conversation was alow and dull, bw ho* mor ssturlne and reserved. ■ *. Descartes waa reserved in mixed company. Corneille, in conversation waa so insipid that he never failed in wearying. ■ He did not even speak correctly that language of which'he Was such a master. Don Johnston used to sit silent in company and iuck his wines and their humors. Southey was stiff, sedate, and wrapped tin hi si* coliolsnv. Addison waa good company with bit intimate friends, but in mixed company he preNrtod hlff dig-® nily by a stiff and reserved silence. Junius wsa so modest that ho cimtd scarcely speak upon the most common subjects without « fuffusioo of blushes. a , , . , Fox,in conversation,never uaggeoVmsanlmalHm and yarjjoty waa inexhaustible. Dr. Dcntly was loquacious. Groilus was talkative. Goldsmith wrote HkO an angel, talked, like poor Poll. . „ .. Burke waa eminently entertaining, onthdalsslio and interesting iq, conversation. Curran waa a convivial deity, he aoared Into every region, and waa at home in them alt. Dr. Birch dreaded a pen ea he did a torpedo; but ho could talk like running water. 1 Dr Johnston wrote monotonously ponderously, but In conversation his words were close and sins wey; and if hit pistol missed fire, ha knocked down bis antagonist with .the butt'end of I*. Coleridge, in conversation was full of acuteness and originality. Leigh Hunt has been well termed the philosopher of Hope, and likened to a pleasant stream of conver sation. Plemticrs of Congress Arriving. Washington, Nov. 123.— The near approach of the period fur the meeting of Congresa is bringing many strangers to the city, and (he membera are beginning lo arrive, Senator Douglaa has arrived, and also Hon. Andrew Johnson, M. C., of Tennessee. Senator Dodge, Sr., of Wlsconalo, hat remained at George, town during recctfs. OurnlDß, of the Wd/plnghrand*r •tie* ofgood brand* for oil/ coniumptlon, a( Is| a 61- : Rve Fi.oua.—Small jalca al ♦4j l * 4L UoaK"’ Mkau— lt acarco and higher j Icatatlo of GRAIN.-r-Wjifrr—Thero la a good demand fof Wliodt, with' tales 1000 bushels old' Panns. white, afloat, at 117 a 110 c ; 11910 was refused for a c*fg& of red.- Paftna.‘|lVa- Is In demand at DOci sCoafs* mixed tdd and; post nt 70o.;, OATa~SaI«« of Prim®' Boulhortf at 470» and Penns< at 50c. . >1 j ■ • WmixaT—Salee ofbblu al'9oo f spd hbdaa^fl/o/* !