The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, October 19, 1857, Image 2

MONDAY; DDT SBNIt
FoßkkiiistitaiimittiA PRESS
'' FOR CALIFORNIA,' • '
; ;. .oirifteinser from the Uniie4 Staten, CeL2Otli, 1857.
Phiiwlelpbi na, and Feinsylyanlans„ °sal, citizens of
' " all - oiler" /WO who have fslonde in
,California, are
' infOrnoiAliatilieltainunatar
:FORNBrfI PRENiFOR CALIFORNIA,
1 ` THIS HORNER, (llonday,) ,
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pro;paid to Califon:Us; Viva Chinn per single
cOPY. • - ...„
This inkier
• •
EXPRESSLY-FOR
And inolades, a. full summary of-the last fortnight's
- -Haifforaia steamer 'starts from; Hew' :York at 12111.,
'To-mostubir. Haiti Isere hero tohlght.,. , •
: Persoildesigning to advertiee - ,
PORN - MI CIALIFOiINIk i.)1.111118 .
Ifttat - bind in Advertisements before 10 o'clock ,this
. morning - .1 4 N 1 r
nsf- We' ptesen!, this 'northing mdse -of
Sading matter, on our ,oniside—a good :defy,
•Eandliar Life in • Eennsylvania, Editorials,
News,_ The City, and our New Rork Letter. ,
J. ,W. StILLIVANi-ESQ
J. ,Nirr Sunman; Esq.', 'general news and
-publication agent in'.San FtonciScit',lll antbOr' 7 ,
.dzed to supply , Tnn lattEs to those mho desire
and to receive subseittioni, end 'advertise.
'ruentS . jonrnal.', Seamen% nn-
Mervin friends, in , this outer; commend him
as a most 'enterprising, and . fitithfai 'publisher;
and We' have ' Pleasure', iiientruiting our Ms*
'enterprise in Califon% to'histeeping.
THE UNITED' STATES DAWN 'ON THE
The.litsishingtoe:Wational, Itatelligincer hat
• .broken vound In fteor-] , of the United States,
_"Bank: 1 The Fbiladelphla'.. l ToifLanierican has
. spoken , ,
out 'for the protective. principles.
s These are' but effete remedies,fer'atiei•stato
of -affairs. The -peopie ,:hOrt,nOilikietite for
another: lite* of ' Issne , like that which broke
;under' them In" 1889; `and il.eft floating
' up on, the rinnorselnsii :wares , 6r. bankruptcy ;
they. have no 'desire again to see the Vast
revenucaof the Federal Government gorging
,
, speculation
.to, the ; they have no wish
to see
,Congresi besieged by ti horde of berers,,
hired•byttgreat Cerporation tO carry forward
- •new.,schemes of plunders and, , above 'ail,
-will they protest against' such an experiment
now, ; tvlien they , trace tile „groat grievances
under which they groan to a banking system
which,' thie very height of apt.irent_ sol
vepok and, success, yvltiiir Kind:ea passed cur
, rent in all palls of .the land, fell into one mass
•
of inconPsiyablei ruin "at thi) ',first breath of
They have supped fall of these
' „' Nor, can theOtective .principle i prevail
How can the North .dmeriean hope-to ,make its
'appeal' benetipial to Pennsylvania, when: it is
nbtoilonS; that.thelßepublicans of New Eng
-land andNew , York at Ali hour ;demand; as
theyhave!befOre 'denianded,' , "free ; iron and
free,wool for their own railroad operations in
the West, and their own lees' • Manufactories/
'They`go l "for ,nroteCting only that which con
cerns thortiselves,leaving us of • Pennsylvania
to take care.ofpurselves,
dleease that afflicts the body politic re',
quires -other .repre,thei.. Expedients; will no
' longer stifficii." 'gave the
• Independent Treasury.to the „people must rOZ
moVe'the question (if , CurrencY`froni
Must 44004 cOnstitntional:_test to &arena) , p
.and mast protect-,,the people ,t ilum tanks of
issue.„; All parties be'readi f . or this great
eforM before the Present:Siege is,over.
MR. SPEAIcEIi RANKS 'ON THE CRISIS.
• Thei coolest' specimet(of political compia
' Pena) , is that Pontained,,inthe speeelf at:Bos.,
ton of ,the iiori: N. P: Reims; the Republican'
candidstejor GoVeinet of litmaielmeetts, on
tiiitejening of Thurectay,the - Uth, , intlieconree
'of which by traces ; the disastera 'which n :.
ow be
',net.tie to the 'neglect of the • intiustricd'i o ntereeti
of: -the 'Co4nirg, -4,:v:::4";pedeiat...'oovernertest.
Owning from Mr. "Banns, this is tilurnelmuctut;
ammption.': He' was -chesen:',Spealter! • of • the
Irons° ,tif. ItOpresontativei . by , tho EtimhBcatt
swßiatcor#,WQßWrPlarAilttyl. *46
AIM • representative Of .
that.' 'great ',Mew England "iota:int which
struggled •against a fair 'duty:— upon' foreign
c 'ittiltetul iron, `Mieu@ted Wolf with the men
who, on all occasions, sought tO,reduce starro:
form the Tariff to:suittl;tiir Own nations. ,COn
eidatiog that the ransaiihsee has Vein removed
from politics ' by tthe peacotiff *elic6it which
took place in 'tliatTenitoif oti,ttei 7th of Oc
lober, Mr. Bnivicto4n; we „giant, compelled
tc*.ndopt some- other 'method of 'exciting the
prejudices of' hie-followers. &Wile has gioi,
a grand'mistakti,inittempting ,M lay our pre
senttroublesat.the,door of the Federal Governi
ment,:which; µe well under the Administration
of den:Panda as that of kr:BUCHANAN under,
for, its earnest' and fear
leaf; .enforcement oe.eConomy 'in our public
expendltures,', and for its :hostility to; special
, , •
Tint ELECTION. =
.:General ..irt.taa.tx F. f'AuFER's t)ltitulity
cannot; = ue think, be less Ann:45,000. The
Democratic candidate fOr'Ciansi. Commissioner,
: Hon.`kitutoii SieuntiAzin;aCiieater county,
and the Dentoirat!e eandiditos foi- Supreme
- Cart, Hon. WMLIAIit . STRONG, of -Becks; and
:Istor Thompson, of Erie; will have at
- leaetna groat; a plurality as the qeVernor. The
.IrAlile State tleketbeate '149, ; Combined oppe
-aition nearly 20,00 0 majority:_ -The follawing
aikerianients to:the , Ocitu r iitnilen have been
1 0S.ed • ;
•-„ _ , ,
tf There, were foor ftioeodmeots tobe voted open:
Onaltmits the.Stato in the amonnt of debt it may
- -contract-to $750,000, oicept.to repel invasion or to
• repress domestic insurrection, and also prohibits
tbo lending of• the eredit of the' Commonwealth . to
any individual or berporistion; - and' the Common
wealth'akdot Oilier or stockholder
, any ~asioelation or eorpdratien, , The Second
• aroeudotesit deprives tholisigielaturo of the power
So dividoootuillearwithosit•the aspent of the voters
;of such counties... Tho'third provides foi tho op
-..portionmenti of • representatives 'throughout the
; Ina% ; and thelliision of the city of - Pbilndolphia
into senatorial and, representative' districts ; and
the tOnrtb giyes`p o rter to the floigislainro to alter,
, revoke, ; or_ tonal.. any . obarter of. incorporation
. .
--'whenovey it Is deemed injurious to: the eitisens."
TEM PUBLIC WORKS OF THE OENERAL
„ CIOVEIttIOWIEPiT.; .' - '
,;,• • .OuriVialaittitoncorrasbondent this morning
preautits,spiadeniiak VOW' 'of ' the' financial
:vermillion of the Federal revenue, preient and
iirospedive,, ;The &am:ease* the customs at
•New ;York points out the reaction iri importa
tions,.'Of:the' dePleiC4'„ccinilition of
4he United Statea treasury, a still,More stern
"'system; df
,h4Mcnii , rill helniiste'd upon at
Washlogtoti. lifatticf oitr intlille,,iv#lo along
-, Vent coasts slid fu onr,jiait+ore will prohably-be:
'tethpdtirili alpando'neo lhOrigh'itti hope not,
in view of the approaching liardivinter and the
ladt that "sp . many.thpusindi.`Uf 'working man
will be thrown out of employment in tlie gene-
, NO BANKS. OF ,INSFR IN- CALIFORNIA, ,
of.teine , arc;::nrikria . wn,bi'
The currency is all hard money, and, eor,large
transactions, drafts. While this fact willhe of
eat', Importance trrtliO golden" Star in the
Wpreseni panic in money , matters; this path
~atuanot,fail to be ;proviicative of much disist3i
• upon our Pacific settlements. , :It is indeed
,trakthat - speculation has done its worst; that
a great reaction has taken . place in business
matters, and: that real estate .had o afloat ac-,
• counts, gone down 'to' the "loyiest rates iii;the
California ,towns but there eiti beim doubt
that thp stur*Nvilt:buist with, ;great; fury upon
•
the. whole -iegion". ~It:-is a' source of- groat
collimplitOetliboWevei;,ibitt if 41ifornia las
no paper ! batiks; Isho has gold-banks tidthont
number to, offer to, tbo suffering country.
ELECTION . IN 15ArirSAIS 7
it ' Win 7jtvieedtbui : the election in 'Kansas
1),B, v,ety:pohOenbly.,', ' u , a held on the,
7th a' October, andl•no , collision ,'itOok place.
The, Free,State men E{Cgtct lump got the
i;ut 'the legislatui:e is in doubt.
:„1327 The, Seleet.BOarilliiehool for small
-lbays,"at 'ol4rrionq Delkwaie;lme' hotiesside
. from Philadelphia, is advertised in Tun PRESS'
to-day.,the•rraro,eapieitiei pf the
::„Iteicltr.OLEtemitifell, arid heartily edrumsnd
his - .enterprise te,, parents., Ills nunlbet 'or
pupils Is limited 'to ten. We believe:4l(las
roam ro.f.°klt-t^ciT4Fel.P.tNgllYielbOr•
~ • "
,
4 / 1 47,
rae preguency,of the Penn,
4 4. 1 3 1 A.3:Aee , 514 0 . 1 qqa .' 4 ob*1 1 -' •
HIGH PRICE OF FOOD.
There is a complaint, from all quarters, that
the retail price o f food - has not come down,
notwithstanding the enormous yield of grain.
We perceive that flour Vitally forty per cent.
cheaper than it was this time last year, but,
look at it hew' kvri'may,
_we` cannotpereelve
that bread is laiger;: wideli means cheaper.
There °vide* is an unitiViteilding, if net*
agreement; (aincititaintt6lflitltillA law a
combination,) to keep down the size and weight
of bread, and keep up the price. Is this to be.
submitted to •If so, for how long ?
That amiable dowager, Mrs. Partington, is
xeportect, (by 4131' , friend and amanuensis, Mr.
thillaber) to hitie 'complacently said, on a
formi3r-oecasion, when'the
fopth was complained ; of; tlipt, for her part,
ells was entirely'satistled. I send out my
nine-pence," (Bostonian for .a York shilling
and a 'Philadelphia levy,) said she g 4 and it
brings me in two loaves as usual. To be sure,
if they raised the price, and Wanted me to pay
fifteen cents, instead of twelve-and-a-half, I
shonld complain,, but' catch me discontented
until the bakers chargé more than sixpence for
the sixpenny loaf." The bakers, wo fear, are
chiefly 'of the ,Partingtonian Glass—they keep
the weight below what it should be, but avoid
increasing the price. Therein they remind
the' patient public of the tall man, who en
deavored to lengthen his short blanket by cut
ting off three inches from the bottom and sew
ing them On the 14, but, at the end of the•
operation, complained that the blanket was
as no longer than before." •
We observe' that in New ,York some of the
btkers have voluntarily , and honestly com
menced selling bread • by weight. This is a
fair way of acting, for the purchaser thus ex
actly knows what to obtain for his money. If
thehakers in 'thin city would do likewise, it
would Obviate, some of the many complaints
now so current against theb. It was the custom
in 'gime parts'of . Ireland, (and may be still, for
atighi,Weleciewlo the contrary ,) for what was
called the "assize of bread" to be officially
struck or declared One's week. The price of
flouiwas talen on an aVerage of the prices for
six weeks'previous,' and the municipal anther
fibs thereupon decided upon the price of
bread, fairly towards the vendor as well as the
'purchaser, by which " assize " the whole sell
ing of the week binning was imperatively re
gulated, and any deviation from it; against the
consumer, Was• punishable and was punished
by laW., It_maybe , worthconsideringwhether
some such regulation is' not necessary here.
Of course, when suggested, the cry cc of need
less interference with private business" will
be raised, but a public' evil, caused by private
dealers, Ortega) , comes within some remedial
process 'from the Legislature. The police can
seize bad food, and it is a pity if dear food
be outside their limits.
What here is said of bread applies to nearly
every other article of food in most general con
-Irumiition: ' Meat, poultry and fish, with field
and garden produce, are all greatly higher in
price, than .' they ought to be, and the prices
. tntiet core dorm 'Forestalling prevails very
greatly, and Must be put an end to. Between
the original producers and the ultimate retail
ere' third and even fourth parties intervene,
who take the lion's share ,of the profits, and
thus keep up the market price.
THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA
There can he" 'no' doubt that of all the trou
bles that have ever visited Europe, that now
portending 'is by 'far the. most threatening.
The bankruptcy of the entire world seems to
bo at hand. The whole civilized human race
has been Ming too fast; and foreign Govern
ments have delighted in, teaching the people
to, forget their rights. A new era is, howeier,
about to dawn. Paris, which, since the elec
tion of . the preseet,,EmPeror, has been the
headquarters of extravagance and of fashion,
will, in all probability, become the rendezvous
of every, revolutionary element which has ecn
centrated there in times of political and peon
niarY complication. It will require the utmost
sagacity and preparation on the part of Louts
Narotatm to prevent the union of these ele
ments in one resistless organization. The
icarciti
,of Money,, the failure of rail
roads, and the overthrow of the Credit kobilier,
theleneral depression sof Stocks, the discharge
of hUndreibi of thane:ends of workmen,' will not
only let loose 2upon Frapee and Abe COntinerd
the leaders of revolutiW; bat Wilfrmateitititi
titedviztream3lttundelli es we sate on Sat
urday, must protect herselfat home and abroad:
et , home by keeping her masses ereployed,
abroad by holding Ilier‘eolonleti in subjection.
Her ditlieulties • in India, stupendous 'as they
are, exciting itt all their details, presenting
view of savage 'atrocity such this 'age has
never seen paralleled, are scarcely lesi Interest
ing in a political point of view, than in the rola
thin which' she sustains to' the eolony of Aus
tralia, Which has, become, so important for its
supply of precious metals. Bearing a peculiar
relation to.Californie in all its natural produc
tion's, and yet; at the same time; inhabited by
an aboriginal raee much more fierce than the
Indians of Our goiden• region, Australia is, at
this motaent;the, centre of discontent on the
part of the • people against the home Govern
ment at, London. Prior to , the panic which
now appals the world, efforts wore made to
give to Australia certain popular/tight!. Con
cessions have been made to her people in ac
cordance, with these efforts; but when it is
recollected that these movements aro_ led by
Ainericans, able, enterprising, and progressive
men, it is easy to foresee that while Europe is
shaking to its centre, and while Lord PALMER
sToN and his' colleagues are engaged , in pro
tecting themselves tutd their People at home
and in India, the flag of reform and revolt
may bo raised in Australia and be rialntained
against all odds: 2
THE SUFFERING . POOR IN THE GREAT
CITIES.
The condition of thousands of discharged
men and women, lathe, great cites, begins to
excite intense interest wherever humanity has
an advocate or friend. Tables are being pub
lished, showing the numbers of persons thrown
Out of employment in all the great , manufac
turing establishments; and if this-is so at the
present writing, when tho weather continues
to be moderate, what will it be should the
crisis in money matters increase, and the win
ter to be d severe one?
We are happy to understand that steps are
'being taken by some of the Masonic socie
ties to extend that relief forivhieh the Masons
,are so well known and we venture to express
the hope that this good example will be widely
followed.'•••
'There are thoudands of organisations of a
literary and - social nature, not-to .say benevo
lent, in this city, which have accumulated
large'sume by contribution's from their mem
bers , Would it not be well for. these Societies
to think of• the propriety of sparing 'soup
thhig Mil of their, Surplus; for 'the general
charity.: ; , ,
-1114: couplet' of•lbe 'Nett York laboring
classes will be ascertained Mien feeding: facts
like th ® present, , •
A. M. .t R: Davies, 864 and 397 Broadiray, bare
disaharged 610 girls and ,10 otters. •
E, ,Millet 91 Chambers street, has diticharged
800 girls and 4 nutters. "- • ,
Bradio, Canal atrial,' has disohargid 124 girls
and 2 otters. ,
McKenzie; Canidatreet, has discharged 90 girls
and 2 natters. , „ ,
Isidord Bernard; Grand street, has discharged
420 girls and S outtera.
Al: Hell, 80 °anal street, has disobliged 24 girls
and 2 cutters.
'
B. M. Hendricks, Eighth avenue, ha's discharged
65 girls and 4 outlets.' '
Here, then,laeoording to the Evening Post, wore
seine seventeen hundred eleak• makers, chiefly
girls; thrown out of employment on Friday last,
(truly a black Friday for theni,) just as the winter
is about to elate in, and at a period when the lull
oleo of life are intrinsically and relatiltely dear.
Here is realdistress, Here is grief more poignant
than that experienced by bank directors and rail-,
road operators. The depression of the 'Michigan
Southern, and the assignment of the Illinois Ben.
trill, in point of the real suffering sustained, is sin
touch to tho hitter disappointment of these seven . -
teen hundred unfortunate awls.
The failure of John IC Genie, the celebrated
Witter throws hundredit out of employment; that
of the j Harpers turns loose eight hundred 'hands,
while an immense aggregate, beyond the reach of
means of calculation, IS made up,beyond,
roth hundreds of
other failing firms.
The condition of this class, and the faot which
will soon become obvious, that somebody must pro
vide for them, should stimulate all business men
.who yet maintain a footheld, to take measures to
obviate the present distress, by pushing the wealth
of the West toward tide-water.
A,Tot in the,Count cif:Senator for the CoIIOY,,
By. the following additions it , will be seen
that ad . error of one hundred votpain the nia
jorityef Dr. I.,X.mi4tßELis,ppi2oCiaiia can
didate for Senater, in Philadelphia city and
&flinty; has been rnadethe ean y aissers malting
the tetitl77B, inoteCof,, se, •{t ' The
nitiftnlie n oceuged'in'tfie 'Reath ward : ,
let, division ~ 116 6th division . foi
• 133 7thi ff,
~130 Btb. "
*l c; H , ,
THE ELECTION.
THE STATE
Au.nonmsv COUNTT.—) 4 4Imot has 1089 ma
jority, according to the offipial returns. Mcllhen-
Hey, the DeMoCratio candidate for Commissioner,
Bee 460 majority . Irwin, , /Democrat, is elected to
the : Assembly, in plans of Riddos, Republican,
whd ia beaten by 124 votes. Well done, Allegheny!
BLAIR Cottarv, OFMOIAL.—Paokor t 1819; Wil
mit, 1450; Hailetiurst, 689; Strickland, 1793!
Millward, 1480; Linderman, 528; . Thompson,
1,798; Strong, 17,99; Broom, 518; Brady, 518;
Veech, 1,482; Lewis, 1,481.
Assembly—Demseratio gain.
Christy, 1972 ; Patton, 1801.
For first amendment, 408 ; against, 62.
„.,gor second amendment, 398 ; against, 71.
For third amendment, 418 ; against, 43.
For fourth amendment, 418 ; against, 44.
BUTLER COUNTE.—Ttio Republican vote, sines
last year, has fallen oil one-hall. The candidate
for Prothonotary is the only Democrat elpctod in
the county. The Herald says that old Butler will
be Democratic, next year:
CHESTER COUNTE.—Thomas S. Bell, Democrat,
is elected to the Senate by 260 majority. Morton
Garret, John Hodgson, and Rber Sharp, Democrats,
are elected Assemblymen by about the same ma
jority'. In fact, the Demooratalmve carried every
thing in the county except, the Recorder.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.—Paoker's majority is 1,206.
There was not a single candidate on the Democratic
tleket defeated.
bAUPIIIN,COUNTY.—The Harrisburg Patriot'and
Union thus good-humoredly takes off the defeat of
the Republican candidates :
" We are compelled to announce the sudden and
complete failure of the firm of Wilmot & Co. The
partners are Wilmot, Veeoh, Lewis, Mitward &
Carey. They failed to a very large amount—lia
bilities heavy—aisots nothing. The cause of their
failure is said to be the sudden fall in the price of
bleeding Kansas' steak in which they had been
dealing heavily; This is their second failure. No
use of liquidating, because it is estimated that they
can't pay one per cent. of theit liabilities. They
had succeeded by puffing in, inflating their stook
to a higher figure A large number of people were
induced to invest, and have been ruined by their
failure "
MONTOOMICRY 00IINTY.—The whole regularly
nominated Democratic ticket in this county is
elected. Packer's majority over Wilmot 442,880.
SCHUYLKILL Conarr.—The whole Demooratio
county ticket is elected by thumping majorities.
MAJORITIES-OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL.'
Ootober, 1860
ti r;
Counties. b 0 6i
• - 0 4 a
s
3
• A p 5 3 4
PI It
Adams, 39 ---
Allegheny, 4225 -- *1039
Armstrong, 395 150* --
Beaver, 649 -- 400
Bedford, 33 -- 600
Berke, 6081 0972*
Blair, 309*
"-adf 3976 *3BOO
Iliad ord,
Ducks, 658 946*
Butler, _ 603
Cambria, 1183 1200 _
Carbon, 883 835*
Centre, 821 618*
Chester, 446 120*
Clarion, 07 _
Clearfield, 660 734*
Clinton 181 320
Columbia, 1699 1260*
Crawford, 1666 600
Cumberland, 251 012* _
Dauphin, . 625 413*
Delau are, 619 *1.6
Elk, '' 289
Erie, 2103 1200
Fayette, 183 600 --
Franklin, -- 110 118*
Fulton, 258
Green, 1089 -- --
Huntingdon, 280
Indiana, 1817 1000
,Teifervon, —.-. 123 --- -- --
Juniata, 49
Lancaster, ' 2444 . 1200
Lawrence, 1678
Lebanon, —, 634 --- 676
Lehigh, 8 71 _ 848* ---
Luzern°, 1021 1732*
Lycoming, 397 -- 1170*
McKean, 232
Mercer, 838
61ifflin 19 816*
Monroe, 1519 . 1400*
Montgomery, 1044 2890*
Montour, 601 612*
Northampten,W2o —:— 2057*
Northumb'd, 1178 ' -- --
Perry, 87 400 _.
Philadelphia, 8434 17748*
Pike, 691 660*
Potter, 255
1738 2853
Somerset, 774
Snyder, 254
Busßushanna, 1104 700
Sullivan, 167
Tioga, 2578
440 * 301
Vensugo, 25
Warren, 992 --
Washington, -- 108 ---
Wayne, 137
Weattnereltd, 025 000
Wyoming, 41 -- 300 ---
York, 1482 3536* -
32,805 29,802.
Those marked with an asterisk [a] are official
BY MIDNIGHT MAILS
- 4/1031 - 17 - 2119 - 1111 Vitra v.**'
(Gorreepondence of The Press.) •
Dull Times for Wasblnstoir,Bem Halls of
Congress—Reports of Departments—Busluess
of General Land Office.
WesuiNaroN, Oct. 18th, 1857,
There is anything but a hopeful spirit pervading
society hero. Croakers, with fasts and figures,
show that there will be an empty Treasury; that
during. the coming winter salaries must bo re
duced, that expenditures of the Government must
be curtailed largely, and that the hotels, members
of Congress, strangers, and all others, will be
disappointed in the non-fulfilment of their ex
pectations of a brilliant season. That there
will not be the lavish and extravagant expendi
ture on the part of the General Government there
has been, and that whams for appropriation of
doubtful utility and constitutionality, to say the
least of them, will be.defeated, I do not doubt, yet
there is not now any good ground upon which to
a prediction that, tooting on the Government'build
Congress, will be forced to negotiate a loan. Soon
our cotton and tobacco, the demand for which is
greater than the supply, though the latter is equal
to former years, will return- to us specie from
,ahoad to revive our trade, and the revenue which
can be collected under the existing tariff, In ordi
nary times, is full enough, to judge from the data
to bo obtained on the subject, fer all the fair pur
poses of Government.
To visit the now wings of the Capitol, a stranger
wonld hardly imagine, unless he already knew the
fact, that there were hard times here. The adorn
ments are innumerable and tasteless. Regard
seems only to be had to secure the most costly em
bellishmetatsiteaving out of consideration altogether
fitness and beauty. Never was there a boudoir
or opera-house more loaded with paint and
tinsel. The 'Hall of the House of Represen
tatives is oblong, and standing inside of it the
impression is that of being inside a great casket.
There is none of that massiveness, that fine effect
of the old ball. Every endeavor is being made to
get the new halls ready for occupancy at the ap
proaching session, but T do not think they will
suoceed". The new dome, which was to bo com
pleted, according to the allele report, in nine
months, Will, it is now aseertained, take as many
years.
The heads of departments are busily engaged in
the preparation of their annual reports. That
which proillises to be of most Intercept' the Treasury
report on the National Rinances. What will be its
recommendations it would be difficult to surmise.
It will uphold, without doubt,' the present tariff,
and oppose' any modification of it until it has had
a fair trial. The information with reference to the
various kinds of iron, to determine which does and
which does not oxydize; may he submitted sepa
rately.
The Interior Department, it is said, will, as it
has done, push forward vigorously the several
Wagon roads to California.
• Business of General Lend Office during four
weeks ending October 3, 1857 :
Letters received and entered on registers 3,588
" written and recorded - - 2,993
Patents engrossed - - 5,217
" rooorded• - - 7,495
" examined
transmitted
Entries posted in tract•books
hoses of scrip issued -
PUBLIC , AMUSEMENTS.
The Italian Opera season will certainly close
this week, for the company are engaged to appear,
very early next month, at Havana, under the lead
ership of Max Maretzok, and it is said that every
box is already taken, which shears either that the
Cubans like musk, or that it is the fashion to &a
enk the opera.' At any rate, the season at our
Academy of Music ends this week. "Ernani" Is to
be repeated, for the last time, this evening, with
Gazzantga,' BottXrdi, Amodio,. and TagHance, In
the loading characters. By the way, when enu
merating the company, on Saturday, we wore so
-ungallant as to forget Miss Adelaide Phillips, a
charming singer, who would be an acquisition to
the lyrical drama any where. She Is so unobtru
sive that, with all her ability, her name did not
occur to us as. we wrote. , •
"Hamlet" and "Perfection" will bo played at
the Walnut Street Theatre this evening, Mr. Wal
ler , appearing as Hatnier, and Alm Waller as
Ophelta, also taking the part, with 'songs, of Kate
O'Brien. Wo shall tie glad to see a large audi
ence •assobbled to greet the first appearance of
these performers In'this country, and also to And
that they merit the high critical and' popular ap
probation they received in Europe.
At the Arch. Street, "Jaok Hale" ie to ho re ,
posted this evening,' and, we believe, throughout
the week. Wo do not enter upon the question of
I%4:Wheatley's right (or wrong) to play this piece
—though Ivo have an opinion on the Babied—but
wo only not as faithful reporters when we Bay that
"Jack Cade" has drawn the most crowded houses
of the present sermon.
At Sanford's Ethiopian opera-house, the bill of
the evening promises vocal and instrumental
Music, in abundant variety, withMenty of dam,
'
Ing..' , There will also be perforntedlhe Whistllnf
Quintet, and the lively farce of The Amateurs.
It la all exceijent rale at this house that the encore
call is not complied with.
Thomeure Variative continuo attractive, and
ttie_ptictiof admission h adapted to the low-lo
pOltet circumstances which the Crleld hoe wade
very general..
Ve ;Marll3oro (Md.) 4dvocate records the
death of Miss Margaret Coffren, a daughter of Mr.
Frannie Coffren, of Notingham district, from kor
dress accidentally taking fire.. Bite was in the
twentieth year of her age. , ,
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, lITONDAN, OCTOBER
,1.
THE LATEST NEWS
FROM WASHINGTON.
[BP.VOIAL DESPATCH FOR THE PRESS.]
National Finances—United States Bank—Coal
for United States Squadrons In Foreign Wa
ters—Preservation of Wood from Decay—Re
ceipts front Customs for the first days of
October.
WASHINGTON, October 18.—The existing condition of
the national finances begins to excite general attention.
The amount in the Treasury vaults, subject to draft, is
a little over $12,000,000. The limit of the law for the
purchase of United States stocks has been reached; red
the remaining $8,000,080 is set apart by law for coinage.,
This earplug revenue is daily And regularly decreasing .
In amount. On the 14th inst., the reccipte from cm.
toms at the port of New York were only $17,000, and
they were correspondingly low at the other seaports of
the United States which have boon heard from. Un
less, then, a revival of trade soon takes place, there
will be, in January next, revenue barely sufficient for
the economical administration of the Government.
The In telligenter, in view of the embarrassment in
monetary circles, and the general stagnation of trade,
looks to the re-establishment of the United States
Bank as the infallible panacea of all our ills. Only two
months ago the same paper was alarmed that there would
boat the end of this Decal year $50,000,000 of surplus re
venue to paralyze the arm of industry, and embarrass
our trade. In this respect the Pages showed wherein
it erred. The United States Bank is not the remedy.
The remedy is the same that le recommended to indivi
duals—retrenchment and reform. Instead of appropri,
ations for this, that, and every object, let the approprl.
ations be confined to constitutional objects, and sops it
will bo seen that, instead of $85,000,000 of expenditures,
we can well get along with 850,000,000.
With Ron. George W. Jones, of Tennessee, in the
Rouse, and Hon. Andrew lohnson of Tennessee, in the
Senate, the country can be assured tha'eno large appro•
priation will pass without its cause and purpose being
fully made known.
A modification of the tariff of 18571 e being agitated
in thd North. This movement Ido not think will meet
with any success In Congress. Certain It le that the
Department will not recommend any ouch modigentloifi
for as yet data enough have not been obtained to:Atty . ,
fairly of the operation of that tariff.
Tho Navy Department has made public the regulation
that where a contract for carrying coal to our squadrons
in foreign waters is entered into, the vessels most load
il to
im
at Philadelphia, notwithstanding they may be
other ports. Recently contracts have been ;nada
William J. Weld & Co., of Boston, and Alexander V .
,
Botts, of New York, to deliver coal at Shanghai Mid
Hong Kong. Two vessels have been engaged to deliver
it at Singapore. The " Fleetwood "is now loading for
the Capo of Good Hope, and Workman & Co. havp con
tracted to takeout a cargo to 9allne.
October, 1861
some time Mace, the Patent Office received trim the
office of the proprietors of locks and canals on Mern•
muck river, Hoes., a communication relating to certalal
means of arresting the rapid decay of several klnda of
wood. The manufacturing companies there had, at
their joint expense, put up an establishment for carry
ing on the process, mainly for their own purpose. A
good deal of lumber wig also prepared for other parties
—principally for railroad companies in the vicinity-411e
total amount annually prepared at the establishment,
being from one lo two millions of feet, board measure.
The experiments Indicate that the preemie not, by any
means, a complete protection from decay lu all cues,
bat that, 64 applied to some of the mere perishable
wombs, A has a poierful effect in checking the tendency
to quick decay.
It was presumed that there can be no doubt of the
value to the farmer of a cheap process that will render
some of the perishable woods, like poplar, really dura
ble.
The process la extremely Movie, consisting only In
Immersing the wood In a dilute solution of chloride of
zinc. In a large establishment, a vacuum and forcing
apparatus is convenient, but on the scale usually re
quired for private purposes such apparatus Is not at all
essential.
It Is suggested that the Patent Office make experi
ments on the subject at Washington, and it le now more
than likely such experiments will be made, and the re
sults publiehod to the country.
The receipts from cuetome for thn fleet days of Octo
ber, at New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, are as
followe :
New York—Oct. lot, $44,000, 24, $20,000; 3d, $30,-
000; 6th, $40,000; 13th, $33,000; 7th, $41,000; Bth,
$48,001; oth, $26,000; 10th, $31,000.
Philadelphia—Oct. 6th, $10,000; Bth, $10,000; 10th,
$ll,OOO.
Boston—Oct, Ist, $18,000; 2d, $8,000; 3d, 56,000;
sth, $3,000; oth, $8,000; 7th, $13,000; Bth, $16,000;
9th, $15,000 ; 10th, $B,OOO. X. Y.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
Bedford County.
(Special despatch to The Press
11cDFORD, Oct. 17 —Schell has 161 majority in the dis
trict. One member certain.
Ilannisauno, Oct 17.—The following are the official
returns:
FOR GOVERNOR.
Packer. Wilmot. llallehurst.
Cumberland 3078 2166 68
Ducks 5747 4801 101
Lehigh 3805 2057 9
Dauphin 3109 2650 000
Schuylkill 6950 3070 581
Blair 1019 1450 109
Allegheny WOO 7687 860
Lycomhig 2872 1702 318
In Allegheny, thu nepublioans elect foar members of
the Legislature ' and the Democrats ono. The Demo
cratic candidate for county commissioner boo been
elected.
i,
A . election for Congressman, to fill the va y occit•
slot dby the death of Me. Montgomery, too lace in
the went!' 'notelet, conmaaed of Colombia, ontour,
Lei rile, and 14'onting counties. Paul Leidy, mocrot,
Ise stud hr . ~,,r, largo majority over Eltalih 'Timt..
sun ()oion. Mr. Leidy cartiOCl eeery.cou of the
Meer ct.l ,
. .
lion. Thomas B. Dell, Democrat, I olected State Elena
tor from the °heater and Delaware district.
John B. Rutherferd, Union candidate, is eleotodßena.
tor from Dauphin and Lebanon district. R. Jynoble
man, Democrat, carried Dauphin by about seven hun•
tired, but Mr. Rutherfotd carried Lebanon by about
eight hundred.
For Governor: Pecker, 1532; Wilmot, 1217; Male-
Surat, 103. Canal Oommiesioner : Strickland's majority.
250. Democratic Supreme Judges, majority, 218. The
Democratic county ticket was elected, with the excep
tion of county commissioner, who was defeated by a ma
jority against him of 7 votes.
THE MONEY CRISIS.
TUE BOSTON BANKS.
Bosrom, Oct. 17—Evening.—The bank directors, at
their meeting to-day, authorized an increase of loans to
the extent of 13,000,000. Stocks were better to-day,
and more orders for investment are coming in.
VIE CONNECTICUT BANKS.
Mittman, Oct. 17.—The Charter Oak, Mercantile
and Exchange Banks of this city contrive to receive the
bills of the other suspended banks, but will not discount
them unless they are enjoined.
MONETARY AFFAIRS IN NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, 00T. 10.—The run upon the city banks
has subsided, and confidence in their stability being re
stored, affairs have assumed a more cheerful appearance,
and the money market is easier. ,The free banks that
suspended specie payments anticipate an early resump
tion. No failures are reported. There Is still nothing
doing In exchange.
MONETARY AFFAIRS IN CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 17 —At a meeting of the bankers of
this city, held this morning, it was resolved to receive
at par the notes of all New Orleans banks, aol all
Banks that are bankable in New York, Boston, Philadol.
phin, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. This action cameo a
much Improved feeling in the money market.
The suspension of Messrs. Winslow, Lamer k, 03., of
New York, has occasioned an unsettled feeling wilh re
gard to Indiana funds.
TILE MISSOURI BANKS.
Sr. Louis, Oct 17.—The report that the Bank of the
State of Miasmal had euepended is untrue. The tiree.
tore have determined to pay every dollar of their liabi
lities, end express confidence in their ability to weather
the storm, as well as they did that of 1837.
THE BANK OF INDIANA.
Lammas, Oct. 17.—Tb e Jeffersonville Blanch
states that the Bank of Indiana has refused ts pay
specie for its bills.
SUSPENSION OF AUGUSTA (GA.) BANKS.
AUGUSTA, (GA.,) Oct. 17.—A1l the banks in the city
suspended this morning.
From iVashington.-Arrest of the Richmond
Custom-Rome Robbers-. Somerville, the Pa
tent Office Robber—Redemption of Govern.
mut, Stocks
WASIIINOTON, October 17.—Somerville, one of the
robbers of the Richmond custom-house, was arrest'd itt
Richmond to-day, and a portion of the deposits tere
recovered. Wheeler, his accomplice, was committal to
the jail of this city, yesterday, on the same charge. The
latter, when arrested. gave up three hundred dollars in
gold, together with diamond etude, a splendid gold watch,
end a bunch of skeleton keys. Wheeler is known to be
the eon of a celebrated English thief, and has committed
heavy thefts in various cities of the Union. &marline
was concerned in the robbery of Jewels in the Patent
Office, a few years ago.
Samuel Archibald, a chief engineer of the navy, liras
today appointed engineer•in•chief,
The amount of Government stocks redeemed by the
Treasury yesterday and to-day was W4=l. The amount
of money subject to draft In the Treasurylslll2,B9o,BBl;
the reduction of the amount from last week being up
wards of two millions and a half of dollars. The re
ceipts of the week were about $19d,000.
Now YORS, October 17.—The steamer Asia has hr ,
rived from Liverpool. Her dates aro to the 34 Init.,
the IMO 11111 Vanderbilt. She brings one hundred arid
thirty passengers and 130,0001 n apecle. She loused the
Europa on the afternoon of the 9d, the Baltic on the
morning of the oth, and the Persia on the afternoon of
t
h '
o 7th, ull bound to Liverpool.
--------
-.- 7,654
- -
_4,965
- 13,811
- 11,507
OINOINNATI, October 17.—The Ooluinbus Journal 114 ,
published a table of election returns, and, according to
it, Chase, the Republican candidate, is sixty-five ahead
of Henry B. Payne, Democrat, with the counties of
Paulding and Melo to bear from.
The returns from these two counties aro ; Paulding
lee, and !dolga 200, for Chase. The official returns also
change the previous reports in favor of Chose, and be is
therefore probably elected.
CINCINNAII, Oct. 17, PAL—Reported returns front
all the counties in the State have been received, but
each party claims a majority of four hundred votes for
its candidate. Official returns will be required to decide
the result.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 17—EvenIng.—Tho result of the
election for Governor to still undecided. The Repot'''.
cane figure up u majority for Governor Chase of 1024,
while the Democrats claim 300 majority for their candi
date.
Denttoe, October 17,—T7rentpone counties giro
Samuels, the Democratic candidate for Governor, a gain
0f4,000 votes over Fremont's majority. Seventy
counties aro yet to be heard front The State Leginia•
tore will probably be Democratic. In the General
Asaembly the petnocrata gain fourteen members.
NAV( Yana, October 17.—A. despatch to the 71,biene
nays that Alexander Ramsey, the Itepuldlean nominee
for Governor, had certainly Nee elected, and that the
whole Republican ticket vas probably successful at the
recent election.
The Next European Sumner.
Now Yon, Oct. 18.—There Is considerable anxiety in
relation to the European intelligence expected by the
next steamer,
as it will probably bring the effect or the
suspension of eode payments b the ank
markets. T he
Penusl
yank upon the p London and Liv y erpoo ß l mare
steamer Neal; America will be due te•morrow fd Que
bec, with Liverpool dates to the 7th moa t .
Distribution of Breud to Ulm Poor or Pittsburgh.
PITTSBUROJI, Oct. 17 —Cob. B. Bauford is giving out
bread to the poor, at Masonic Usti. The hunger of a
largo number of persona is thou being appeased for the
time.
New ()nacos, Oct. 16 --Cotton—Sales today, 2,¢00
hien at fiXte9Mc. The sales of the week amountd to
16,600 bales. The stock in port is eetimated at 110, e 250.
Receipts less than loot year at this po , t 80,000 bales; at
all Southern ports, 181,000 balm Flour nominal. lied
w e bea r t a l q ly uo doll. t
Oc .o f s e e — C R or io n a pelts
oe7oolo oYrSoav l i e s s iona are
of the
week 800 bap.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Mifflin County—Official
Arrival of the lisle
The Ohio Election
The lowa Election
The Micineootn Election
CORRESPONDENCE.
ANOTHER BLOODY ELECTION DAY IN
BALTIMORE.
[Oorrespondenee . of The Press.]
BALTMORE, Oat. 18, 1857
The fourteenth day of October 1857, must for ell
time stand forth as the most infamous in tho blood
stained era of the " dark ages" of the -once pros
porous and honored Monumental City. Never, ever,
since the organization of the secret , order wero such
demoniac and devastating scenes witnessed. We
were prepared for deeds of dark infamy ; but the
actors in the disgraceful tragedy are themselves
horrified at the magnitude of the villainy prao
Odd, and those high in power, who wore Riders
and abettors by supplying the moans which secured
it, (and they comprise the entire list of our local
authorities,) express their astonishment at the re
sult of tho plans thud/viz/4d and had executed.
They oven express openly their regret—folgued
though it ho—that their murderous cohorts wont BO
far as the history of the day proves. In referring
to this election, the Sun, an independent journal,
noes the following language:
"By courtesy we UBO the term election,' but
we suppose the record of American suffrage in tho
whole history of our country contains nothing so
humiliating as the transactions which took place
under the nominal pretence of an election. To
call the thing a farce' is to sport with the most
Vicious and demoralized political condition of this
community. Moreover, disorder, riot, and bloodshed
have again disgraced the name of our city, and we
stand in the record of yesterday's hideous proceed
ings blot upon the escutcheon of popular liberty--
a very mockery of political independence.
" It is unnecessary to refer to any particular facts,
or to tell the story of the day. It is related with
emphasis in the returns of the polls of the several
wards, which suffioiently indicate that many thou
sands of tho people have been virtually disfran
akised, and that no election has taken place. A
certain number of mon will be returned as elected
members of the first branch of the City Council,
and as such will take their seats, but under circum
stances which few will be disposed to vaunt or even
contemplate.'
For several days preceding. preparations were
actively going on for using force to carry the entire
City. The judges of the elections, or at least the
two American ones in each ward, without
even the courtesy be notifying their single Demo
°ratio cotemporary of their intention', proceeded
to so arrange the polls as to bring the Demcsiratie
ward polls In such juxtaposition with the polls of
their own wards, as to piece both within the con
trolling province of their murderous hordes, with
out their being so divided by attendance at each
ward as to weaken their power to crush every at
tempt on the part of Democrats to deposit their
roles
Be complete wore their arrangements that, with
in an hour after the opening of the polls in the morn
ing, nineteen out of the twenty wards in the city
were under the control of the murderous clubs,
who, infuriated by the liquor furnished by their
superiors, and with the weapons also furnished
them, commenced their work. Not an instance
can be found in either of those wards where a
naturalized citizen was allowed to vote; they
being either beaten, shot, and driven oil on
their way to the polls, or when they succeeded
in reaching tho window, it was only to have
their papers wrested from them and destroyed,
and their .persons brutally beaten—the least re
sistance insuring their being maimed by the aid
of either the revolver or knife. These things wore
done in the very presence of the police, who, when
called upon to discharge their duty, would only
respond by inciting their murderous horde to in
creased violence by asserting that the murderer
in chief had given orders to them not to interfere
in the elections—nor did they until a Democrat
would be knocked down and attempt to protect
himself, which course insured his arrest and con
finement in the station house.
These outrages were not confined either to the
naturalized voter, but even our most respected,
high-toned citizens, without respect to age or con
dition, wore also made to suffer from personal vio
lence, besides being disfranchised.
Upon several occasions during the day the mayor
was celled upon by such as it was thought could
incite him to do his duty, representing the pro
perty and business interests of the city, but in
vain. To one of those delegations he replied,
upon learning that an officer had been shot in the
riot, "They have killed ono of our mon, and we
will give them as good us they send," and he ac
cordingly did join in the murderous fray by per
mitting irresponsible vagabonds to arm them
selves with muskets deposited in the City Hall, and
sally forth in his very presence to do the bloody
bidding of the secret order.
For several days succeeding the election, and up
to this time, it seems as though the very fiends of
hell had been loosed upon our disgraced city. In
every section of the city the public houses kept by
Democrats aro being sacked and robbed, while a
Democrat whose activity has made him known to
them is in hourly danger of assassination when
beyond his own door. God only knows where and
when tho end of thew) fearful doings will come.
Among our most reliable citizens there is an evi
dent determination to end then, by same summary
Process, all liavirni daspairod of relief from She
lintlatrities
The returns show that out of fourteen thousand
Democratic votes, known to be in thin city, two
thousand sevrtt hundred and ezghty-ninc were
polled on Wednesday last. It is a task beyond the
power of man to depiot, us they octurred, the out
rages practised to produce this result, which ren
ders Baltimore a foul blot upon the political map
of the country, by the entire disfranchisement of
the majority of her people, and among them the
greater proportion of those representing her pro
perly nod business Interests. Despair is visible
upon the face of all who have the city's interest
and honor at heart; and the question on all sides
is, " when will those disgraceful, horrible, and
damning outrages end 7" Ono thing is certain,
that they will end only when the citizens take the
matter in hand and teach their official outlaws
their duty by the punishment they so richly
mote. Yours,
Mr. Buchanan's Utah Policy—Tho European
DIE=
[From the London noes, Sept. T ]
It is said that Mr. Buchanan is resolved to put
down Mormonism—at any rate, to break up the
community at Utah. There will be great difficul
ties, swing to the weakness of the Federal Govern
ment, half of whose force is reported to have de
em tod already. But the new President I'4 a reso
lute man when he has underta2en a thing, and
we hope the days of this abomination are now
counted We certainly ought to wish this, for it
Must be confessed that wo aro a good deal con
cerned in the growth of Tilormoubun It is a foot
that the majority of the community—Mr. Ceryalhe
says nine tenths—are English, Scotch, and Welsh.
flow is this , Who is responsible for this? What
have our orthodox parish priests been doing, and
what have our orthodox dissenting ministers been
doing, that their own congregations have been the
feeders of such un enormity ttB this
It is very poor consolation—but, perhaps, it is
some little consolation—to find that with respcot to
our own people, fanaticism hag had more to do
with the current to this wretched delusion than
vice. It would, indeed, be dreadful to think that
so many thousands of our men, and especially our
women, had designedly, and with their oyes open,
joined a system of the grossest polygamy. But it
is only Just to say that, to a great extent, this was
not the case.
London papers of the lid instant state that
the bullion in the Bank of England has decreased
since July £OOO,OOO sterling, or nearly $3,000,000.
This is the most important item of the foreign
news. Though gold has continued to ,flow into
England from the rich province of Australia, it
has flowed out (alder to the continent and to India
while the supply from the United Staten has fallen
off, and shipments hence will not be renewed.
Should spode, on the contrary, come back to us,
and the drain continuo from London to the East,
the decrease of bullion in the bank must go on,
producing, fret a want of confidence, and then
revulsion and panic, which will, as is said of
earthquakes, be sensibly felt" in Paris and else
where.
'Flour and wheat are declining in the British
markets. In the 1837 crisis we were importing
breadstuff's; now we have an immense eurplus for
export, if means can only be found to bring it for
ward.
TIAIINUg ONCf atonic.—Tho Stamford (Ot.)
Advocate says : " It if:certainly with pleasure that
we announce the probable fact that r. T. Barnum
is again 'on his loge;' that he is to-day a richer
man than ho was before his connection with the
Jerome Clock Company. It is raid that ho has
bought all the claims against himself for from five
to twenty-live cents on the dollar, with tho am:op
tion of some $15,000 held in and about Danbury,
which ho will probably balm to pay in full. The
whole of the vastproperty assigned by him for the
benefit of his creditors has again passed into his
hands, and he is now re-furnishing and re-fitting
' /runlet& in good style for his permanent resi
dence."
. The court of common picas for Essex coun
ty, Mass., whiah has recently closed its session at
Newburyport, has, by its conviction of liquor
sellers, produced considerable stir among the
dealers in the ardent. There were twenty-seven
convictions for liquor selling, and, if wo may judge
by the accounts which havo reached us through
the Nowburyport Herald, the district attorney has
been very itupurtial in the prosecutions. Some of
the parties were young men, some women, and
some of them old women. Ono man was worth from
$25,000 to 530,000. The whole twenty-seven were
carted to the House of Correction at ono time, to
be locked up with felons.
Recorder Stith, of New Orleans, in order
to Sot himself right before the public at home and
abroa4 on tho " telegraph question." in regard to
the arrest and detention of peaks neuusod, an•
pounces that in nil cases of thio natqro before him
he will bo guided by the following principle : " A
telegraphic despatch from an unknown source is
not sufficient to detain a party. A despatch from
the chief of police, the tnarshal, the sheriff, or the
mayor of a city or town io sufficient to detain a
party long enough to have the truth or falsity of
the despatch verified."
Tun Itrastracn.—Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee,
reports the purchase for the Stato of the Hermit
age, and its tender to the Federal Government.
In ease the tender is not accepted, the Governor
rooommends that the property ho retained qs a
random for the future Governors of the State.
A. few days since we published a case of
supposed suspended animation in Now York State.
The lady has since boon buried, it having boon
satisfactorily ascertained that she was dead.
A letter from Madagascar affirms that Queen
Ramat° has ordered all Europeans to leave the
Madagascar coast.
Thu Providence and Worcester (Mass.)
Railroad does not owe a dollar of floating debt.
Rappy company, and lucky stockholders!
, 1857.
The New Orleans Custom House
The New Orleans Bee gives a minute descrip
tion of the custom house, now being erected in
that city. It is sold to be the largest structure of
the kind in the world. The corner-stone was laid
by Henry Clay, in 1840. The building covers s
whole square, measuring on Canal street 334 feet,
on New Levee 311 foot, on Custom House street
252 feet, and on Old Levee 298 feet.' "The
trenches which were dug for the purpose of lay
ing the foundation, were originally eight feet IS
depth. The bottom of these trenches was first
covered with a layer of three-inch plank.
On this flooring was then laid a sort of net-work,
made of twelve-inch timber, strongly bolted to
gether with iron. The interstioes of this net-work
were then filled up with cement, shells, brickbats,
etc., which, in process of time, will, it is thought,
form a solid floor as hard and durable as granite
itself. On the top of this was then placed another
layer exactly similar to that last mentioned. The
underground .platform, therefore on which the
building rests, is two feet three inches in thick
ness. This foundation is generally 18 feet in width
for the outer walls, though near the grand en
trances and projections about the corners it is 22
foot. The walls have attained a height of 83 feet.
The coat of the building up to the first of July was
82,128,000, and the whole cost et completion is es
timated at $3,225,000.
An important matter in relation to the work Is
thus alluded to by the Bee :
The question now arises, is the foundation of the
building strong enough to sustain the immenie
weight that will press upon it when the building
is stored with merchandise? When the building
is coMplated, its weight, by itself, will be twenty
pounds to the square inch. What will it bo when
tho house will be running over with the products
of the four quarters of the globe? IL has been
calculated by tho best civil engineers in this city
that the soil of Louisiana should not sustain more
than ten pounds to the square inch. We are not
surpesod, therefore, to learn that the building has
settled eighteen Welles since the foundations were
laid.
What the ultimate settling may be, it is, of
course, impossible to say. It has been stated, and
generally believed, that this mottling has been
uniform, but such is far from being the case. The
top of the building is now six inches out of level—
that is, while the structure has only settled ono
foot on the corner of Canal and Now Levee streets,
near the porticos, on Customhouse street, it has
settled eighteen inches. To show that this settling
has been anything but uniform, we may state what
we believe is now generally known, that it caused
the grobsed arches in the centre of the building to
break to such an extent that they had to be taken
out and replaced with iron girders, and this not
withstanding the strength of the huge iron bands
and wire cables which hind the walls together in
every direction.
Had spiles been driven:to the depth of about thirty
feet—at which distance repeatelexperimenta, such
as boring for the artesian well for the marine hos
pital, etc., have demonstrated that there is a layer
of solid earth—a foundation might have boon ob
tained that would have lasted for centuries. As it
is, it would not be surprising if, in the course of
flfty years, the floor of the collecter's room should
be on a level with the current of the Mississippi.
The flanks of lllinola—Their Condition
The following is a statement of the condition of
all the banks in Illinois, as regards circulation and
stocks deposited to secure the same.
If the Bank Commissioners use this power of
call promptly, and the law of the last session,
known as Dunham's law, is rigidly enforced, we
think the bill-holders of the banks of this State
can lose nothing, even though the banks suspend
specie payments
VALUE OP SECURITIES AND AlloyEr Op CIRCULA
TION SEPT. 15,1857
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Banks.
Il .F. .
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Y ..e. 6 w „,,,,,
4
Grayville 350,533 368,000 .... 17,0116
Farmers' and Tra 107,820 111,072 .... 3,852
Railroad 78,950 81,344 2,394
Frontier 133,340 139,040 4,300 ...
Citizens 49,000 50,000 .... 340
Bloomington 57,049 51,040 6,000 ....
International.... 67,000 60,000 7,450 ....
Chicago 53,603 50,000 3,693 .. •
State 723,710 733,293 ..., 9,589
Alton 50,844 46,170 4,674 ....
Agricultural...-. 96,730 94,238 1,392 ....
Northern Illinois. 37,630 40,240 .... 2,610
Galena 72,878 64,670 18,203 ...
Pike County 143,450 159,112 .... 15,842
E. I. Tinkham...142,150 149,196 . 7,746
Central 86,164 34,850 1,314 ....
Marino 123 873 103,044 20,131 ....
Am. Exchange... 173,770 180,230 6,460 _
.
Raleigh 230,320 284,255 .... 11,935
Iluntsville 66.860 90,820 .... 3,960
Belleville.... ... .218;830 22,974 .... 10,910
Napierville 41,100 42,395 .... 1,259
Elgin 65,520 65,736 .... 218
Peru 44,090 45,722 .... 1,632
Illinois.. 138,436 142,530 .... 3.934
Southern YlllllOlB 232,730 245,944 .... 13,214
Quincy 50,850 53,950 .... 3.000
Commonwealth ..
80,530 84,915 .... 4,335
Republic... ......393,808 403,045 .... 0,441
Aurora 247,750 159,862 .... 22,112
Chester 48.980 61,220 .... 2,240
Edgar County.!.. 70,100 71,216 .... 916
Corn Exchange...237,olo 24,860 .... 11,850
Grand Prairie.... 77,450 79,430 .... 1,940
Ilanillton C0unty.169,420 177,095 .... 8,275
Lafayette 52,635 54,100 1,466
slississippi 88,420 80,530 .... 1,112
McLean County.. 47,440 49,732 .... 2,292
illerch'te & Dr0v.112,510 117,346 .... 4,436
Morgan County... 62,765 65,545 .... 2,760
National 72,000 75,376 ' .... 1,776
Pilule State 57,430 00,170 .... 2,740
Southern 131,300 133,218 .... 1,918
Warren County... 50,560 52,800 .... 1.416
Reed's 48,532 50,875 .... 2,343
Rushville 23,240 1 21,492 .... 252
Several weeks since, tho flank Commissioners
made a gall upon a number of the stock secured
banks of this State for additional securities, in
order to protect the issues. This step was ren-
dered necessary in consequence of the depreciation
of stalks in the Now Yorke market. We are glad
to Mate that tho following Imuk, have al 1,. ..ly me
sponded to this Oall
Alton Bank, Farmers' and Tri. Bank,
Agricultural Bank, Lafayette Bank,
Bank of Bloomington, Marion Bank,
Bank of Elgin, McLean County Bank.
Bank of Galena, Mordants' and Drov's B'k,
Bank of Napierville, National Bank
Bank of North'n Illinois, Prairie State Bank,
Bank of Pike County, Railroad Bank,
Bank of Peru, Soatk'n Bk of 111.,Grayv'e
Bank of Quincy, State B'k 11l , Shawneet'o
Central Bank, Peoria, Warren County Bank,
City Bank of Ottawa, Frontier Bank,
Chicago Bank, Citiaens' Rank,
Edgar County Bank, International Bank,
B. I. Tinkham & Co.', Bk Grayville Bank.
A few of the banks called upon havq not yot
footed up; but it is probable that they will do so
boforo the oipitation of tho Auditor's notioe to
them.—Springfield Journal.
Indiana Fiee Banks
(From the State Jouroal.)
The auditor of State hes furnished, us with the
following monthly statement of the contlition of
the several free banks of Indiana, which have com
plied with the amended general banking law,
which requires a deposit of at least fifty thousand
dollars' worth of securities, and to an amount equal
to ten per cont. above the circulation :
SAC64ONI
' lion. ties.
Bank of Gosßen..., „ , .032,339 88,564
" Gosport 01,390 67,633
" Indfana 20,998 61,000
" Mt. Vernon 60,409 55,450
" Paoli 59,719 85,09.5
" Rockville 54,150 59,570
" Rdlam New Albany 43,500 50,050
Salem, Salem 71,930 79,120
Bloomington Bank ' 81,830 90,000
Cambridge City Bank 68,700 02,808
Canal Bank 48,000 50,600
Central Bank (closing) 14,278 15,650
Crencont City Bank 45,781 52,225
Exchange Dunk 47,421 52,166
Farmers' Bank, Weettleld 56,566 . 62,574
Indiana Bank 90,524 100,187
Indiana Farmers' Bank 45,810 50,390
Kentucky Stock Bank 83,090 107,773
Lagrange Bank 60,028 60,027
Parke County Hank 78,227 b 3,862
Prarie City bank 08,383 77,750
Salem Bank, Goebel; 47,814 6e.1,71:03
oloulhern Bauk of Indiana 105,182 117,620
Tippecanoe ❑auk 47,010 51,740
Total $1,401,655 $1,f,91,262
Jot% W. Dotio, Auditor.
Office of Auditor of State,
luditespolle, Oct. 1, 18:4.
MATTERS AND THINGS IN NEW YORK.
(From the New York papers of yettenlan
A melancholy accident, involving the leas of four
lives, occurred in Benasen street, Williamsburg,
yesterday forenoon. While a number of masons
and laborers were at work, laying the foundation
of an extensive lager bier vault in the rear of the
saloon, Nov . 30 and 32 Itemsen street, the embank
ment fell in upon them, killing four of their num
ber, named George Beckley, Jacob Reveler, Bart
lett Horne, and an unknown man, a resident of
this city.
In the supreme court, yesterday, Judge Clarke
delivered an opinion reversing Judge Peabody's de
cision admitting Mrs. Cunningham to bail on the
bogus baby charge. The opinion of the court
was nuantmoya. The District Attorney moved
that the prieoner he remanded to custody, and,
after much argument, the case was postponed till
the 211th inst. 'Meantime, Mrs. Cunningham re
mains at largo on the same bail as before.
The Democratic convention, for the nomination
of county officers, met at Tammany Hall last eve
ning, and agreed upon the following-named candi
dates: For Register—William Miner. For Gover
nor of Almshouse—Anthony Dugro. For Sup.tr
vtiors—Willinui M. Tweed, Isaac Bell, Jr., Elijah
F. Purdy, Walter, Roach, John It. Briggs, V.
Connor. 'The convention did not adjourn till mid
night.
The Republiaana held their convention last eve
ning for nominating candidates for the Assembly
at the approaching election. In tbeThirddistrict,
J. S Schofield received the nomination; in the
Eighth, Robert M. Pore; Ninth, Alexander Mc-
Leod ; :Fourteenth, D. Jones; Sixteenth, Edward
Dayton. In several of the districts, in conse
quence of being unable to make a selection, the
matter was referred to committees fur adjust
ment.
A workingmen's meeting was held last evening
in Constitution Hall, called to consult on the pre•
sent oriels and to devise measures of relief. The
attendance was very slim, not outnumbering forty
persons. An address was read and speeches made
denouncing banks and brokers, and the codfish
aristocracy, and resolutions were adopted to urge
the construction of public works in the city.
It appears from the report of the city inspector
that there wore 410 deaths in the city last week, a
decrease of 48 us compared with the mortality of
the week previous
The number of Interments in the city 'of I'hiladel
-1,141a, fur the weekending at 12 o'clock to• Jay, 1r.., 108
t.ast report ....................................... 102
Conßuniptlon of Lungs 98 Adults 73
Congestion of Drain.. 0 Children 03
Convulel one 0
Debility 9 160
Typhoid Fever 0 Males. 96
Indaunnallon of Drain 11 Females,. 79
'•
Lungs.... 8
" Stomach., 8 1011
Marasinua„. 9 Boys 63
Old Age 7 Girls 40
Still Born 13 --
93
110 Under 1 year 35
Other diseases.... 50 Between 1 and 6 pearl 44
Total
~.. led Under gre years...... 79
Over seventy 11
Of the aboyo there were—
Prole lbe Altnshollee.. 9 People of Color ....... 8
From Comitry . 1 Couety Prison
reni New 1
JOAN N, SIENDELSON,
Ilealth °Direr.
M"J:=l=
Health Office
bCTODEF. 17, 1057
711 E COURTS.
SATU'RDAY'S PROCEEDINGS
[Repotted for The Prt,
DISTIKIT Count No. 1 -4bre, Sharawool d Cate
An Interdsting Case Ira*, the New Stay Lac , —The
first case under the recent act of the Legislate, of the
13th October, 1851,1gran ti lig a stay of tar cation in cer
tain eases, wan before thi, court on Saturday, under the
folio, beg circinnittancee :-
In May, lily, John Sidney Jones confessed a judg
recut in favor of Haggerty 'c Co ,for $2,400, to secure the
payment of three prom irgory note, of $BOO, on condition
that if tiny one of them should mature and be unpaid,
the pla , ntiffs client! e execution for the whole
amount of their debt On the 13th of Oetolir. 1857, the
day the new act became a law, the first note hi came due
and was not paid. On the 14th of October, the plc atida
Issued an execution for the whole amount of their claim,
and the defendalt now &MEW Into, court and asks a stay
of execution (crone year from this time
Judge tarsus, on behalf of the defendant. offered to
allow that - the aeretiJant no,\ the owner in fee of cert a i n
real estate, worth, beyond all locumbrances, the amount
of the judg'ineut '
David Webeter, Esq , for plaintiffs, objected to tto.,
right of the defendant to have a further stay, and con
tended—
Ist. That the agreement on which the judgment was
confessed provided that an execution might issue, if any
one of the notes remained unpaid; that this was a con
tract between the parties, and that the recent act giv
ing the defendant a stay beyond the period contracted
for violated the 10th election of article let cf the Con
stitution of the United States. Mr. Webster argued
this point at great length, and referred to numerous
decisions, among which were Bronson tr. Kinzie, 1
llovvird Sup Court Rep. (U. S I ; McCracken vs. Hay
ward, 2 Howard; Grantley's Lessees, 3 Howard; Eberle
rs Cunningham, 3 Wharton ; Western Savings Fund vs.
Thu City, Law Journal
2.1 That the defendant's case came within the excep
tion, contained in the act of 13th of October,l3sl
3 i That the defendant had already had his stay of
execution under his agreement ; and could not get a
further stay.
4th. That the agreement amounted to a waiver of the
new stay, as it contained ea express stipulation that
the execution might be Issued if any one of the notes
remained unpaid.
JuJge Paramus, in reply, argued that the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, in 8 Watts and Serg., had af
firmed the constitutionality of the stay law of 1842, and
that the act of 1887 woe equally constitutional, as it
acted not on the rights of parties, hut only on their re
medies.
Judge Sharswood said, that the application was sue of
considerable interest, but being somewhat novel in its
character, the court would consult together before de
ciding. Subsequently he pronounced the opinion of the
court against the application for the stay, and decided
that the objections urged by the plaintiff's counsel were
well takes. David Webster, Esq , for plaintiff; Judge
Parsons for defendant.
COXXON PLAAB—Judge Allison. is equity. Jacob
Lukens and John Kelly, trading as Lukens , Kelly, k Co ,
vs. Edward P. Kelly, Charles Roth, John P. Doherty, m
Kayser, and Henry Wagner. This was an application
fur an injunction to restrain the defendant, Sdirard P.
Kelly, from punning the tailoring basineas to the city
of Philadelphia, under the following circurcutancei
The defendant, Edward P Kelly, was formerly a mem
her of the firm of Lukens. Kelly, & Co., and his interest
In that firm was purchased by the complainants, under
the express agreement that he would not engage In the
tailoring bushiest In the eat of Philadelphia for the
term of three years from November, 1856. During the
prevent year, he, however, rented a store In Chestnut
etrect above Eigh th , in this city, and advertised that
he would open there for the sale of cloths, eassimersa,
Ac. Accompanying this was another advertisement,
stating that John P. Doherty would. at the same place,
in connection with the other defendants, anduct
tailoring business.
Complainants charge that Edward P. Kelly, though
osteneibly engaged only In the mienf cloths and CU
si mores, is really engaged In the tailoring baslneu and
they ask the court for an injunction to restrain him'irom
so doing, and to restrain the other defendants from doing
as with him. Tfie respondents deny the allegations in the
complainants' bill, and say that they—Doherty, Roth,
& Wagner—are alone concerned in the tailoring bast
nese, and that Edward P. Kelly In interested in the axle
of cloths and cassimeres alone. held under advisement.
II M. Phillips and Isaac Gerhart, Esqrs., for the com
plainants, 0 Gunton and Illeight,E.eqrs , for the re•
spondents.
•
QUARTER. 8833101.1—Judge
Thompson —Habeas
Corper.--Jeanette Taylor, a lady of about forty-ere
years of age, and very respectably connected, being the
sinter of Governor Hopper, of Rhode Island, and the
sister-in-law of a highly respectable druggist of this
city, was before the court on habeas corpus, on the
charge of obtaining goods from Joseph D. Greene under
false pretence', in the months of July end August,
Md. The following are the circumstances of the case,
as detailed by the proseeekor, Mr. Greene: 11. stated
that the lady was an acquaintance of his, and had been
introduced to him by the keeper of a respectable beard
log house in Arch street. below Sixth; that she had
made several purchases before at his store, at the corner
of Ninth arid Arch streets , and had always paid the
money that a small portion of the goods now charged
as haring been obtained under false representations,
she had purchased from Mr. Greene himself, on
credit, without representations of any kind; that
the larger part was sold to her under these se
veral representrtions first, that she was a sister of
Governor Hopper, of Rhode Island, and eister-in.lser
of a respectable druggist of this city; and secondly,
that this gentleman had charge of property of hers,
which she inherited through her grandfather. Upon
the gentleman being applied to, he denied this latter
statement, and upon this she was arrested, and being
unable to And bell ' was sent to prison. 11r. Greene, upon
being cross -arandned, admitted that The only testimony
as to the falsity of the defendant's last 'statement, was
what he bed heard from her brother-in-1/m, and that
he had reason to beliere that all the other statements
of the defendant, as to'her connections. &e., were true.
Mr. Dull, who appeared for the defendant, asked for
her discharge, and argued In a very forcible manner
that mere hearsay testimony of any gentleman was not
sufficient of itself to remand her. He farther stated
that hir Honor Judge Thompson bird Intimated to the
early stage of these proceedings, that the testimony was
insufficient to hold the defendant. and by reason of ouch
insufficiency had allowed a subpeena to lune for the gen
tleman alluded to, to make good the allegation of fraud
on the part of the prosecutor. That this gentleman,
although within earshot of this court, sent for answer
to the subpoena, that he would not come; and was it now
to he decided that nesse, which in the morning wa.s con
sidered insufficient, was now made strong enough
to compel this lady to answer before a Jury, when no
additional testimony bad been received by the Mort
Mr. Dull further contended 111 M It 11041,1 be tiniest
and oppreseive to remand tills lady to prison, to wait
the convenience of any gentleman, especially as it had
been threatened that Mils lady should be left to linger
there without trial or defence. lie further sold that the
testimony did not support the former ruling of this
court, do bringing the defendant within the statute of
1842.
Mr Munday. who appeared (or the pmeeention, rose
.eptr, when he wee ivt—• wvwwil hr Judge Thompspn.
who mid met hen aa no doubt or one pa-sin morel' pout
iug the defendant to answer.
Mr. Ball hoped that at least an early day would be
fixed by the court for her trial.
Judge Thomprou Intimated that it would be some day
during this week, end the matter then terminate 1.
AMUSEMENTS TUIS EVENING
ACA SANT Cr Blcsio, a. W. Coax Or BROAD ANIS Lo-
COST sTAa 176 —." Brutal."
WasiTtsir a Aicii Brtlllll Tinuorsis, Aims
eeovs Hltra.—•' Jack eade"— ,, Lore in Livery."
WALNUT firmixT THII7IIII, N. E. moms or Num
LrD WALAUT STBIZT3 —"Hamlet"---" 1 POlrfiletiOn."
N MONA L TUNATRI.—W/LNCT SMUT ADM E/011111
STIIM —" Uncle Tom's Cabin."
INYORD'S 01.111 Roue,' TTTTT R Brnef t AROIR
Cuxarmor —Ethiopian Igo iliurtrated, conelnding with
a laughable Afterpiflee.
PARIRTIRS, 7IFTELVDCHI923I77IITHRIT3.
—Aliso°Panama Concerti.
Officers of the Pennsy/vania Co/anis:akin
Soctety.—The following gentlemen have been
elected officers of this society for the ensuing
year :
President—lit. Rev. Alonzo Potter D. D.
Vice Preaidenta—Gerard Ralston, ; Charles
Brewer, Esq ; lion. Robert R. Reed; r. Thomas
Hodgkin; E. F. Backus, Esq. ; Dr. George B.
Wood; Stephen Colwell, Esq. ; Rev. Win. Chester,
D. D. ; Hon. Edward Colas; Arohibald Robertson,
Esq. ; Rev H. Malcolm, D. D.; Rev. J. P. Dur
bin, D 'D. ; Hon. John Torrey; John Brewster,
Esq ; Dr. Hugh L. Hodge; Rev. W. B. Stevens,
D. D. ; Samuel IL Perkins, Esq.; Jiasevh Harri
son, Esq. ; Ron, William F. Packer; Alexander
Brown, 'Esq.; Dr. Edward F. Rivinus; Jesse Ken
worthy, Esq ; Archibald Mclntyre, Esq. ; lion.
W. L. Helfenstein ; John P. Crozer, Esq. ;
H. Allen, Esq ; Dr. John Bell; John Cox,
Esq.
Recording Secretary—Robert. B. Daridton, Esq.
Treasurer—William Coppluger, Esq.
Managers—Dr. L. P. Gebbard ; W. Parker
Foulke, Esq ; Jolla W. Claghorn, Esq. ; William
V. Pettit, Ilsq. ; John Marston, Esq ; U. S N. ;
Thomas Wattson, Esq ; Paul T. Jones, Esq ; Rev
William P. Breed; Hon. William D. Kelley;
Rev. Thomas S. Malcolm; Rev. Alfred Cookman ,
Maurice A Wurts, Esq.
Sudden Deulhs.—Coroner Delavau held an
inyue~testerda_y morning on the body of a man
Patrick
named Patrick Devlin, who died suddenly at the
Central Police Station He bad been arrested for
drunkenness. An inquest was also held on the body
of a colored woman named Mary Ann Waters, who
died suddenly at Na. 622 Carpenter street. A Ter
diet of death from unknown causes was rendered.
Kicked by a llorse.—John Buena, aged sev
enteen years, was admitted to the Pennsylvania
ilfoqltal yesterday, haring been wnsiderably in
jured by being kicked by alsorse at Passyunk road
and Catharine street.
MllArenr CovvEsrioa —The Major lienersis
and Brigadier Geuerala of the veltmteers of this
State are to meet in Convention, in Harrisburg,
on the 9th of Noa ember next, to tako action to
wards restoring the citizen soldiery of the State to
its former condition.
A boy, two years old, was se*lded to death
at Now Egypt, Ocean county, (N. J,.) on Wedneri•
day, by pulling a pot of bot cone over his person
while at the breakfast table.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
Pell At 111.1.1113, October 17—Evening—The apathy
which has characterized the market for Breadstuff' still
continues, and the demand for Flour is confined to the
wants of the local trade, the retailers and bakers buying
moderately at from IS 25 up to Kali ip bbl. for com
mon to choice brands. extras, and fancy family Flour,
according to brand and quality. Shippers refuse to buy
even at $5 25 bbl, at which rates there are some
sellers of fair mixed brands, bat some refuse to ac.
ceps this price, the stock of this description being much
raluced, and the receipts showing • rapid falling off this
week Holder' of Corn Meal are free sellers at 11:3 75
for country meal, but there ere few If any buyers in mar
ket at present. - Bye Flour is selling in a small way at
54.25 per bbl; the stock is very light. Wheats are ra
ther scarce tq•ztay, but Ito demand for milling is mode
rate, and prices are fully maintained, with sales of 1,200
bu fair to prime red at 115e1200, the latter Tennessee
and 1,500 bu white at 120.1130 c, as in quality, including
500 tin prime Southern at oar highest figures. Corn is
wanted, and all the old yellow offered, some 70S00 be
sold at Tic; about (150 his nee' sold at 65067 e Oats are
rather more In nnandi and VC° bu good Southern
brought e Rye Is In request at the distill e
ri at 13 a isle of Penn'a is reported at the latter
pr e i s c ' e. Bark is but little inquired for and dull, buyers
only offering for first quality Quercitron, at which
rate sales are reported. Cotton exhibits no animation,
and prices ere entirely nominal. Groceries and Provi
sions continue quiet, and without any material variation
to note Whiskey is selling as wanted at 313 i
for bids, and 20421 q for 11hds, the former for drudge.
BALT11 1 4018,1: TOBACCO MARI:MT.—The unsettled
condition of the money market, and the difficulty of
negotiating foreign exchanges, have caused very little
business to be done in Maryland Tobacco this week
Felten have, consequently, been maintained with diffi
culty in some cases, and In others, reduced rates have
been named by holsters , in order to effect sales We
continue the quotations of last week, but remark that
purchases could be motile on lower terms. Maryland
brown leaf, as in quality, $8 60059; inferior short
seconds, SIBE7 60; brown leafy, pall% and extra,
$llOll4. Parcels of Maryland ground leaf, of the new
crop, are shortly expected. The last crop of Ohio To
bacco basins; now been all seat to market, shippers of
this description are looking forward to the new crop
with much interest. The yield will, no doubt, be
largo, Ray from 20,000 to 24,000 hbds., and the quality
is considered very good. The market will open at a de
elite on former quotations, unless the demand is larger
than there is any reason to auppese will be the case . In
the absence of receipts ; ur of sry transactions on winch
to base quotations, we omit thug altogether. Our quo
tato* for Kentucky, which are almost nominal, me
follows, via: Frosted lags at $7.606t9; frosted leaf,
$9n510.40 ; sound lege. ; common leaf, ;nada
f 12.50; medium leaf, g12.50n513.2.5; fair, madame;
'good to fine. 514.506411; selections' at MT ogle. The
inspections of the week are 48 hhile. Maryland, and 4
Ohio—total, 302 khds.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Pankanianiza, Ocharrr 11,1857.
A correspondent of the New Tort Herald, rating
upon the cause of the suspension '
says
There an be no mistake that our Angto-Aseeries.a
bankers did all in their power to masks our beaks scul
pted, and solely
let Ta protect their own bootee in England, sod
2d. To share as, as they are used to, by exorbitant
exchange.
Now, would it not be possible and advisable to protest
tie here by an export duty of ?II per cent . or even more,
on all specie or any precious metals' I be! eve they on
the other side of the ocean would have to take cur pro-
duce as payment for their manufactures, or hare to lay
us the above premium on one California gold.
A petition to this effect should be signed by rrery
Amerfesn mercbant and business man, and be presented
to Congress.
The remedy which is here suggested for the great evil
of specie payments made to meet kites, or aecommoda.
lion ball of exchange, is a very unwise one. It is al,
W6 ) . 5 (maim to impose export Julies on specie, bread
studs, Or any other article of merchandise. Such a
policy may amwer for the contment of Europe; teat it
is unworthy of entrance into the mercantile relations
of constitutional England and free America.
But accommodation bills of exchange, with adze.
quent specie shipments to meet them at maturity, are a
greof evil, because they are a papsr basis for enormous
and artificial expansion of our foreign debt. The se
commodation system naturally grove out of the time
(say CO days sight) at which bills of exchange on Eu
rope are generally drawn. It is a great convenience to
get cash in the United States and pay the same amount
in England sixty-three days after one's bigot exchange
km reached the shores of the fatherland. Such a feel.
ity on simple credit naturally begets unhealthy business.
It is the duty of governments to repress (if they can)
by taxation, whatever tends to disturb the buds of real
capital, on which hesiness should be conducted for the
welfare of the country at large. Therefore XII !Stift on
bills of exchange drawn on Swope at longer time than
three days sight would be good policy. That excise
should be large enough to cover the nine of sixty days
credit on a tight money market. Two and a half per
cent. would be sufficient to stop the sale of time ex.
change.
If exchange on Europe were bomight down to a solid
foundation by such a measurelof oar General Gorera
ment, those iseetripreaterible adiyettats of specie
which we see going on when =hen* on Xnedza
la
below yar would cease.
Why should a beaker draw on Zurope at sixty days
sight, and pass the bill oil as a cheek ha rosniey ? Dar
any one girt money is Philadelphia sad gel for it a
bank or hatiker'm sixty days sight bill fexrenisittaace to
New York or Boston, or New Ch inns • -No : De gels
for his money pail in Philadelphia, whaf eel
money on prreenoshes is New York, Pokey or New
Mans. 4 cheek is OM for the treader of gooneys
from one of our cities to another. Why should not a
simple cheek, or solnathing midge at Ironton to they
days' eight, at the outside, auk* aettlernetda between
Philadelphia, and Liverpool, or Louden, tr Paris f Lot
these who can explain the &derange.
We older:dame OA William Waterthit, Ysq 14
resigned the Presidency of the Comae=ler Beak, sal
the Bisectors this =min' =exam' orally alerted Joeep
Jones, F.sq., to suocea4l Wes.
Th• 'Perla deposits of specie in the New Yost teaks
are stated to &smut to Ise milli , * throe ilmowbed
thousand dollars, nearly one-half of the whole moues
of specie reported u in their posseseSen In the last
weekly statement. It we. by this mans that the pal.
lie were deluded, and a &hair of strength kept up.
The steamship Asia letup 1:0,1X/0 frost Liesrpool,
but no later news of importance.
The Beak of Kew Orleans, tbe Quinn Beak Citi.
zees' Bank sad the Mseheales' end Trains' Bunke
hays suspended specie payments, aisqult to tlud.i
notes, and the otters an no dosit an the no of fol
lowing sta.
The arable of tke Cleveland and Pittance' Rama
were adi follows:
Augut, 1UT.....
Augut7lss6
InCIVe4O
September, 196 T....
September, 13:4
1111501 T SNP
93.441 45
.. 55,740 113
Inure/le *sr SS
The September receipts of the New Tort esatral Bail_
rod were ae follows
September, 1S 6T.
September, 1468.
The following is a, statement of the awnings of the
New York Central Relived far the feel year ending oa
the 30th September, IBS?, compared with its earalamt
for the prerions fiscal year; estimated In part ter Sep.
nether, 111.57 :
Rust Years. Itaraings.
Ealing September 30, 1351 .gt,809,364 6
Ending September 30, ISM 1,16,31$ 11
Increase. myna fie
Tke earnings of the Central Rebel Cknapasy of
New Jersey for Sept, LW, wen $63,1111 CS
For the semi time Last year *OM 40
Increase, 23 per cent ~...111,Ti1 3.5 .
The following are the receipts of titslbreie o=l
Company for the peat week awl lea am - compare d
with the receipts to corresponding tine lag year :
Total to October 4, 1555 4140,1115 11
Week ending October 11, Idbd 8,611 ID
Total • - • • - .1e118,773 it
Total to October 4, 1857 85711,301 WI
Week ending October 10, 1157.. .. B,ass se
Decrease io 1337 VASS Xt
The receipts of the Toledo, Wabash, uld Westaro
reamed, for August aced September, compasses follows :
Anima. 84:0=ber
..420Ark fly 134.1111? 13
... 57,01 65 50,6111 111
3413
Passenger@
Freight
Mans and einem
!R=EJ
The anneied statement atlailtS litsTralast of igareiste
tato trew Tent gazing the week and
s [nee January 1, la each of the put thee* plan
nOrtniSrs to roister Dar 4MODB.
For the week. 1865 UHL MST.
Entered at the port.... 81,81404 1,318.5110 1,138,23
Thrown on market.... 1,812,461 1,237,5 ea 241,400
Pine Jammu 1.
Entered at the p0rt...E52,434,930 10,127}19 83,985,63
Thrown on market... 56,133,124 80,218,11311 78.791,151
The following are to-day', quotations faispeeie, by, c ,..
Cronin A Co., bullion and specie brokers, 40 limetka
Third street, payable in bankable final :....41
i.i.
kmer. ,lee dollen, e1d..1 OS I Am. gold, old eoLusgel OS
hi " ..1 i &rrereigns 495
Mexican dollars 1 06 Napo/sons OD Denes).3 00
South Am. 1 05 Tan guLldera .. I: 405
Spanish pillar dollars..l 13 Ten thalark...a 8 00
Five francs. 96 Spanish dauldimas...l6 00 .
German crowns 103 Patriot .• —.15 SO
French•' . 110 Ducats 2
American gold 2 to 4
New York exeliange -Porto 2
PHILADELPHIA STOOL EXCHANON SALM,
October IT, 186 T
Reported by R. Manly, Ir., Steed- Broker, No.
801 Weditist :trod.
TIBBT BOARD.
MO N PenzallB.6l-40 2,000 City YR Os Si
1.500 do UM MO Morris Cuss! 114.61
1,000 do SZ do 61
1.000 Pam= s's 82) 12 Bear Mud a1d..4.5
3,000 do 12M SO Ooh Nov preti....l4
3.000 do ....15..42.4 50 do 14
3,000 do 1 50 do ..,..23-14
1,000 do 81 50 do 53..74
1,000 do 52 10 do 14
400 do 61 10 N Poona 6.ii
1.000 Penns Coup 5'5.154 SO Lidos CzaaL._. 3
1,000 0 t Am R 64 '89.64 20 Routing RR .....10
3,030 Seh Nar ISs >72..65 100 do ....45-14ji
BITWEIN BOARD&
2,000 Sob Nar 6:1265 65 4 Bur Miaow ILLS
3,003 Pout fo • 415 11,060 tams Coup , 5...64
aoo Norris Nail it, 61
ID3 City S's 14
1,900 do 81x
23 PiR cash C&P "ZX
10 P 9 R cash CAP 33
MOND
1,000 N Nona RR 6d..47
1,500 do
500 City Cs SI
310 do 64
300 City RR Ca Si
COO do Si
10 Ponca R.. C&P.33
1P. , . , ..11....C2.2.33
3 do .C.22..35
2 liorriskal Z. ... 45
1 do id
103 toadies IL 164
7 do 1611
200 do .. 55v0.16
100 do ....15-16
10 Norris Cann.... rx
CTS-3211.4D1.
Bid. staid .
Ne X do '22 poorl4 X 14%
12=0 k .111 c. R 9 11
do let most Vi 92 65
do do Slbei 49 o
Loris Woad .... $
4%
I Wieksboso 6
IG iron! Bank_ 7 x 4
Lelligh Ziar...... ik 1
Union Car.a1.....3 4
New Creel! X 1
Catawba N 8...6 I
50 do 36
.50 do 36
C•LOSINO PHI
Bid. dtked.
6'x....B4Pkiladel l4 X
• • RR. ...84 S 1
• • •' X 94
Peunsylv
Raiding R ld 16`
de ]305.1. 'TO 60 6J
do Id 6'6,`44 TO SO
P• 504 RR 34 36X
MArrii Coll Con 37 38
Mau N 6.• tr 2 ...51}1 56
" stock S 9
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Parr.
NEW TORE STOCK EXCHANGE ULNA,
Octokr lf.
FEW BOARD.
33:1 N TC•Rtrivil R 4414
660 do , ii, Gig
306 die 410 &IX
400 d 4 bl 3 66
100 do Al 44X
50 do taw 46
103 do 610 11.1)1
600 do /40 64
366 Ririe Railto4l 11 lic
X 0 do 110 11
50 do MO 11X
103 Iladsoo River R 1.51
ISO Ravi*. R 7*
'33 SLUE Avenue I 83
RI 17 HAT 1 Rut 11 136
IN Ruda% R Ri 34
4000 N Y fit 6'4 10 97
MOO do 14 1 2 '6O 96
4 do 56 14 96
6001 do 14 iou
2000 Oldo 51 64 16 96
1000 211thigto St 6•
1000 'Nan St 64'90 19
MOD do N9 l ;
me do 70
1400 Virgi.cla SA 03
10000 do Etlyi
4000 do S 2
9000 do 83
7000 Idilsouri St 64 06
3000 do 63%
1900 Cal St 71 70 SO
.0 do
2Z , 0 do
=I do I', '75 60
4300 NT Cen E R es 76
400 do
3000 Erieß3zolls's3 50
EMI
do crtbds '7l 27
1000 Rev R R Ist mt 60
223 do =,‘
290 Mk 1123 &NW 1 11
ITO bfle.2.lo.l.2lripf at
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2f
Pam do
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1100 do 21 n
20 111 Cents] 1R 73
117 do 73j
IGO Cler k Piitsb R 13*
900 d., 13
10 Orr Col & CLO R 30
30 do ' $2
so 0101 & CLIt R 71
130 do 670 i
HO Cie.& Toledo R 23
ICO do
• -
1000 Goeh Beck Bd4 IS
6003 11l CCU R bdi 60
1000 do 60X
1030 do 6031
4000 Terre II & 42m 35
5 B'k of America so
22 Am Sickle Bk 60
20 Mechanic" Bk 90
9 Bkot Commerce 83
150 Canton Comp'y 14V
100 do 19014 X
100 do 1,90 10
50 Del dr. lludelCo 91
282 de 93
167 do b 3 9SX
39 do
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100 do sXO 94
'550 du 21'eti
870 do
110.50 Chicago Et I R
do -63 3 c
100 do 1069.
100 do 105 TO
50 Millet-la d. Misaß 19
91 La Crossed. Itill
50 do 6X
100 do 630 6%
HO do aid 944
15 d o 95
100 Penn Coat Com 621;
70 do 61
50 ettin Coal Camp 6x
275 do 6 3(
:50 do 9X
63 Peci9e.ll6nroCo 71
33 N Y Central 13 663;
IS.: do 65
:110 do 610 641(
SECOND
•'OOO Missouri St ea 66
1000 do 631
1000 Virginia 6e 89
1000 do 81X
4000 N Y St ea '74 104
1000 N y 8152'59 96
4500 N T Cea H 63 TON
low Find River It lm 17
5 Am Earki , ge Bk 79
140 Del & lindel CO 95
50 do 113 93 X
100 Canton Comp 141(
tt. Cana Goal Co.p fi
400 do 6
Cleo t Toledo R
100 N Y Central R IA 65
10 &le Railroad 1l
150 do
40 Reading • 32
200 do
45
Clete
Railroad 1 1
100 Cloy it rittsb R 2's
50 Ida & Chia R 110 02
10 do 6$
Jutpariaticms
[Reported for The Prem. I
RlCLlVOND—Stesausltip City of Bich:Rood 11Gteb e 11-
93 b.gt rap Jessup & Moore; 90 do seed C HCumnxtam
11 Id iiler & Bre- 3 boxes rolls JeulluS & 1 16 rt sberns;
1 cat liquor Ling & Byers, 6111 e do B Iti'oer; 7 Jags
sundries Parker & Tots.* 61 pip loci 0 PAiaass &
co; 86 boxes tobacco Beeksur, Megianica it Co; T 4 do
5 cases do T Webster, Jr.; 23 Mclntyre; 21 Bales racy
Server & MarterLd do doom - dal J 3 Moasterard & Soo;
60 boo apples Tustin k abeirell; 3 mispiw eaybois
Posers & Weightily:l; 4 do blida Posltbey & ![a. soy;
%.31 do casks 61 pkgs salutalim i ardor.
18111,124 lit
111,1411 SO
.$11.11,11.1) It
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AOSIS 1$