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- • Menataoturere of
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YirtaTollES. .
Clorattaatly ea hand a siiondid stook of Sopertret
Watchea - of all the cerebrated makers..
Sealseed, Bracelets, Brooches, Ber-Illop;
Wage, eta ail other articles fa the Miasmal this.
Drawiager of NEW DIISIONS will be made free of
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RIOR GOLD JEWELRY. -
♦ biautire assortment of all the new styles of Vine
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Pearl,
pearl, Oorwl;"Cerbunole, Aterquirite,
Two, £O., Ste.
SHEETTELD EASTERS; PARENTS, WAITERS, lie.
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sel9.-swoo
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No. In efIRETNUT; BELOW FIFTH BTRIIRT,,
Importers of (Watches arid Fine Jewelry, 'Manufactu
rers of fltsflingseel Standard Silver Teo Seto, Yorke and
Spoons, ante agents for the sate of Charles Frodshem4
naar ono Gold. , Modal LOndon Thnakeoperi—all Abe
alseann hand, mines r 2,60, $215, and 1300. -
say, sod tholes Watches it the !asset Ode!.
is fesidonoble.thwelry - ; , - „ „ „
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• 'Madelphis.
Constantly on hand and for able to the Tradi,
00111SONION staviaz SETS, Mtn
PLTOIIERS, GOEILItTS, - CUPS, WAITERS, - HAS.
.E.IITO,O4IITORS KR IM, SPOONS, POEMS,
hetip..l , NS, &.9.3 AO.
gilding sad plating op. all kinds of metal. seZly
SILVER . • , • -
WILLIAM WILSON SON.,
AIAIMPACTUARRIT OF SILKER
, ~,o§TABLisium 3.512,)
'ft. 170Bplitt ilsra oaxAsty ITBAKTS.
A Urge emiortment or EMIL VIII); of every ds.
ger l ol o n. ertostautly On hand, or made to order t 4 matoh
say patio= desired: '
IMporter*, Bhetleld *n4 •Mr mioglouri Imported
wars.. **2.o4ltorly,
EIRANOIS P. DUI3OSQ & SON, late . of
•babom4; Cantov & Co.,.Waulteale' tuNtrvio•
T VASES Or JBWELRY,BO4 OLtrarNirr sired, Ph
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MAMMA r . Minton,
mat
T - Ic.z.N - GsyORD SON'S PURE
osivsao gar the laundry) hue mitab-
Ifilotlit greater celebiity than has ever been obtained
by any other Starch.
Mils* been the ?vita of Its marked superiority in
quality, and Iteinvarlable uniformity,
The public may be %stared of the continuance of the
Willi standard now established.
The production is over 20 tone daily, and be demand
bee extended-throughout the whole United Btatee, and
lin_fneeldo countries..
worst.% thug on a very large scale, and under a rigid
NAM, tbeta* able to Recuraa portect unlfenoSty In
the quality throughout the year. This it the great de.
nderattun lOckatch•making t and is - realized now for the
Brat „ .„ , ,
The very beat Starch that can tie Made, and no other,
Is always wanted by Consumers, and this will he sup
plied to them by the Grocers as mon at their customers
Hite Joerne4 which Jo the trest;"aud, ask ; for ft—other-
WtOo'tboy would be likely to get that article On which
thiliigett profit can be made. '' - •
Kr. Singeford boa been engaged In the manufacture of
titereknontlntunufly for the lentil years, and during the
whole Of the period the -Starch Riede under his Meer.
vision has been, beyond any question, the beet in the
market. For the first 17 years -he had charge of the
works Of Wm. Colgate /c Co., at which period he in
vented tluf prsicess of the manufacture of Corn Starch.
Tr AskOr KINGSFORD'S STANCH, ea the
Oswego tuts recently been taken by another factory.
It !amid by Mt the boot grocer in nearly every part
of the Gauntry.
'l'. KINGSFORD d, SON'S OSWEGO -CORN ST/01011
(fer, puddings, &c.) Ma, obtained an equal celebrity
with their Starch for the , lanndry. Thin article is per.
featly Pure, and to, in ofety . respect, equal to the best
Steramda Arrow Hoot ; besides having additional quail.,
yea which render it invaluable for the dessert.
Pet* Starch bah hein extensively packed and sold
m Corn Starch, andbaa given - false impressions to many
as to the rest merits of our Corn Starch..
tram respect delicacy and purity, it is coming alto
noigenvo,l, use m a diet for infante and luvalide
KVILOUG &
otIS-it /90 FULTON Street, N. Y.
1110EGEWAf t or CHINESE SUGAII-OAII
1.7 ODED-25 buababs for sale by, • •, • „
ODOABDALS4, l'ZIR•011, &
itokt-ic NO. 104 Dt. Delaware areeme.
iIOPE.-:7-Baief's , are invited to call
AA and entwine oar Walla Dale Hope, which we eon
eau all as low as A:meth:an and warrant 3 somas hi
RirYoaud !nal?,
*l , • • No. '49 W. Water ,
and zt Wherre.,
AMAX :,131:4110X-4NGItATING, DIE
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DECEMBER EBER NOW READY
" CONTENTS.
PLORENTINEIfOSAIOS,
THE BATTLE OP LEPANTO,
THE WIND AND STREAM,
TURICAY TRAORS,
ROBIN HOOD, -
THE GHOST REDITIVITS,
THE GOLDEN MILL-STONE,
" TIM AUTOMAT OP THE BREAKFAST TABLE,
. THOMAS CARLYLE, ' -
- THE BUTTON-ROSE,
OUR BIRDS AND 'THEIR WAYS,
- THE INDIAN REVOLT,
- SKIPPER IRSON , 3 RIBBEE,
SOLITUDE AND SOCIETY,
AKIN BY MARRIAGE.
warare WILL IT END,
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Legal Nfiiiteo.
IN THE ORPHANS' OOURT FOR THE
CITY AND COUNTY OP PHIL &MURIA.
Estate at DANIEL- MURPHY+ deceased.—Notice is
hereby giren, that the Widow of the sald decedent has
preeented and filed in the said Court an Rpm ligament
Readier petition, claiming to retain the personal pro
'pertytherem mentioned, tinder the act of 14th of April,
1851, and the Court approye the same op PRIDAIr,
the fourth day of December, 1857, Woes exceptions
be flied thereto.
n 01849-25-260
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rITIROYTEXILLE SEMINAR Y
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inent* on 'the SitOOND .Iif.T.DNESDAIC of September,
nud oloseihe last Wedneiday of Inns following.
Normal Clue, Troy Womb Seminary—Tuition free.
Winter Term commenolog !lopteMber 10th.
• . The charge for tuition and board, including all no•
materiel connected with it, ouch as roost font, washing,
• foal,. liiht, etc. 11..V.5, per annum. An additional
is made for tousle and the other ornamental
branches of Amide education. Where a ated sum Is
preferred, $350 Per annum (one-half payable at the
commencement of each term) will he received, and for
it the pupil entitled to all the advantages of the Dual.
talon, • , - • . • • ,
Pupils mai Miler at any period of no term, and aro
:required to pny only from the time of entranc?. •
Vie Xnetitutleu. tartilebee all Neale %eliding for a
thorough course, of useful and ornamental education.
Tile P/4414418 are by more Than twenty Pro
fessore and Teiobers. ' •
• • • .
' Extensive ooursea of Lectures are annually delivered
by Professors ou Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, O auto
'fry.; Botany, Astronomy, and 'Elocution.
, This Institution is furnished with a valuable Library
and extensive Philosophical Apparatrus, a well-eelected
' , cabinet of Minerals and Shells, and Maps, Chaste,
Globes, and Diode's.
Every facility is afforded for the thorough study of
the French language. The French teachers reside in
the family, and adapt their system of Instruction to the
use of the language In conversation.
DIPLOMAS are awarded to young ladles who have
passed. satisfactory examinations in the full course of
English studies, with Latin, or one of the ,roodera
languages. OSETIFICATES to those who have com
pleted the partial course.,
The unpile are received into the fatally of the Penal
pals, in which every arrangement Is made for their
physical education, and the improvement of their man
note and morale. They occupy private rooms, two in
each, the rooms of the female teachers and that of an
experienced rouse .being among those of the young
ladies ;
Ttte actrautageo of this Institution are the result of
the accommodated facilittea of more than thirty years
of its onward progress.
Circulars containing more particular information my
bo obtained by application to the Principals, John U.
Willard and Sarah L. Willard, Troy, N. It.
The. terms for day scholars are $5 per quarter for the
i Introductory Class of Buglieh studies. Tbeso are head
lag, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Arithmetic, Dud&
meats of Geography, Geography for beginners, and
Geology for beginner's.
For the second class $7 per quarter. This includes all
1 the branches constituting the extensive course of Eng
' 'DA studios. -
TRUSTEES.
BENJAMIN MARSHALL, President.
Jose 11. WILLARD, Secretory,
Mayor And Recorder of Troy, ox.officio.
Benjamin Marshall, John D. Willard,
Robert D. SiMunn, ThomasW.lllatottford,
Jonas 0. Hoartt, - Silas K. Stow, •
Jae Vow Schoonhoven, Jonathan t Meanie,
Goe. B. Warren, Thomas (Rowan,
John A. Griswold, John Mallory,
Url Gilbert. oc2it-Gm
j'AUES THE
LESS,
'A PASIILY BOARDING sogoouson BOYS.
• Ray B. R. Bittern, BoOron/
The Manua &salon will begin on TUESDAY, Sep.
tembor 1. -
Of matri omy be obtained st the Boor Store of IL
goon% a. W. corner SIGHTEI and CIitIBTNIIT, or
of the Rector, Post Office, Sabi or I,lllla
delphis, anl7-6m
VB . ITTENDEN'o PHILADELPRIA COM-
N.l MEROIAL COLLEGE, S. B. corner of SEVENTH
and OHESTNIPS Streets, Second end Third Stories,
BOOK-SEEPING; PENMANSHIP, every style.
COMMERCIAL LAWS AND FORMS.
COMMERCIAL OAVOGLATIONEI.
ZEOTLIERE, Ad. ,
Each Student hen Individual tnetructton ?torn compe
tent and - ettentive TescWere, under the immediate
seve One Won of the Principal,
n:
of the Beet Penmen in the Omar, kim °barge of
the WritiAgßepartruent.
Please osll end nee Specimenp and get a Oatalegie of
Tows, to •
PROrESSOII SAUNDERS' INSTITUTE,
MIST PRILKDELPHIA.
No Seminar y whatever is more like a private family.
The potgrse ot study Is ostensive and thorough, Pro
testor Saunders will resolve a few more pup& under
fouttoeu. years - of age into hie family. Enquire of
Wears,' 7. S. SllYer and Mathew Newkirk, or 06 1 . J. W.
Forney, Editor of thin Paper, whose dons or wards are
now nieusbers,of hie family. septl4-tt
WIC. H. DOIOISQ
130ots anti 4:sl)octs.
ROOTS AND SHOES.—The subscriber
has on hand a largo and varied stock at BOOTS
and SROES, which he will sell at the lowest prices.
080. IV. TAYLOR,
n02L47 S. E. earner PIPTII and MARKET Sta.
FALL STOOK OF BOOTS AND SNOBS.
—.JOSEPH H. TROMPSON lc CO., No. MI MAR
KAT Street, end Not. 3 end b YBANKL.IN YLAON
here new In store a large and welLassorted stock of
BOOTS and MOBS, of City and Bastern otanufactnre,
which they offer for eale on the beet terms for Cash, or
on the tonal credit.
Dnyere axe invited to call and examine their eioOk
ani•dtt
Notut to (golloirincts
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
11 -The ship PHILADELPHIA, from Liverpool, le
now discharging ander general order, at $ll/PPEN
STREET -WHARF. Consignees plesse attend to
roceipt of their goods.
11024 TUOIL RICHARDSON d 00.
NOTSOR TO CONSIGNEES. Thu ship
PIULADELPIIIA, Captain Pool, from Livorpool,
la now ready to discharge at .B.l4penstreet wharf. Con
signees will pleat* deliver their permits to the Custom
house officer on board, All goods not permlted in five
data will be sent to pone store.
POl6. • T 1101163 ILICILARDSON & CO.
CCLOVERSEED.—NOTIOE TO PENN
SYLVANIA HARAIDRS AND BTORBIKEEPERS. _
The andevolgned are now prepared to purchase for
emit, prime Clover Peed of the neworop, rennvylvania
storekeepers and farmers, by eonding samples to our
addieascan, at all times, ascertain the price at which
wd are ' buying. Partied wishing • samples, by which to
be governed as to gtutlity, CAD have them sent by mail,
by addressing US. 7.11 011.0 U & 00,
aeon-tr 43 North Brant, and 44 Water streets
,r—ECONOMY IN GAS BILL S.—THE
VLF befit pare Regulators ever offered for Five W
hen, rer sale by the WATERMAN GAS BEGULA,
TOR COMPAAY,
11020.1 m
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~ - ..Turpentine, to strive, tor Sae by
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Q Worth WAtar ntreet.
STORAGE on SECOND and THIRD
YLOOHB can be bed at 11a North Water street.
apply to MARTIN lc BIAOAI I ISTNR, n 023
M °s4- - -47 bi19 0 Oarcilink Moss, for sate by
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ARTHUR, Dx. DITILTON,
Attorney for Widow
602 OREBTNUT Hiroo!
Strangese , saute inpilabetpliia.
Fir the benefit of strangers and others who may de-
sire to vitt any of our public institutions, we publish
the annexed list.
roam° rascal or ASlnesstilwr.
Academy of INGO, (Operated corner of Dread and
Locust etreets
Arch Street Theatre, Arch, above alt street.
Parkinson's Garden, Chestnut, above Toth.
National Theatre and Circus; Walnut, above Eighth.
Sandford's Opera House,(Ethlopiand Eleventh, below
Market.
Walnut Street Theatre, northeast corner Ninth and
Walnut.
Moment"' Varieties, Fifth and Chestnut.
Thomas's Opera ii Rous can
so h,
or below Seventh.
n eences.
Academy of Natural Sciences, corner of Broad and
George streets. '
Academy of Fine Arts, Chestnut, above Tenth.
Artists , Fond liallAChestuut, above Tenth. ,
Franklin Institute, No. S South Seventh street.
newslusieNT
Almshouse, west side of Schuylkill, opposite South
street.
Almshouse (Friends'), Walnut street, above Third.
Association for the Employment of Poor Women, No,
292 Green street
Asylum for Lost Children, No. 36 North Seventh
street.
Blind Asylum, Race, near Twentieth street,
Christ Church Hospital, No. 8 Cherry street.
City Mounted, Nineteenth street, near Coates. '
Clarksou'a Hall, No. 162 Cherry street.
Dispensary. Fifth, below Chestnut street.
Female Society for the Steller mad Employment of the
Poor, N 0.12 North Seventh. street.
Cleanness of -the Poor. office No. 66 North Seventh
street.
German Society Hall. No. 8 Smith Seventh street,
,11onat, for firlandleila Siltildran, sealer TweratFOßd
- ",` - r
14(dowe* W 1 Meg Women'S Serdety L ehirrry,
?Matelghteenth street.
Penn 19.1doWe' eYinm, West and Wood streets
Eighteenthe Ward.'
Masonic Hall; Chestnut, tbove Seventh street.
klagdalen Asylum, corner of Race and Twenty-tirat
streets.
Northern Dispensary, No.l Spring Garden street.
Orphans' Asylum, tcoloredd Thirteenth street, near
. •
Odd Fellows , Hall,. Birth and Haines street.
' Do. do, B. E. corner Broad ant Spring Gar
den streets.
Do. do, Tenth and South streets.
Do. do. Third and lirovrn streets.
Do. - 'do. Ridge Reed, below Wallace.
Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine street, between Eighth
and Ninth.
Pennsylvania Institute for therruttruction of the Blind,
corner Race and Twentieth street.
Pennsylvania Society for Alleviating the Miseries of
Public Prisons, Sixth and Adelphi street..
Pounsylvenia Training School for Idiotic and Feeble-
Minded Children. School House Lane, Germantown,
office N 0.162 Walnut stoat.
Philadelphia Orphans' Asylum, northeast oor. Sigh
teenth and Cherry
Preston Retreat, Hamilton, near Twentieth street.
Providence Society, Prune, below Sixth street.
Southern Dispensary, No. 99 Shippen greet.
Union benevolent Association, N. W. 001114)1 . of
Seventh and Sansom streets.
Will's Hospital, Race, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets.
St.-,Totoptt'a Hospital, Girard avenue, between Fif
teenth and Sixteenth.
*Episcopal Hospital, Front street between Ranting
don and Lehigh scenes.
, Philadelphia Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, S. W.
corner of Chestnut end Part eta, West Philadelphia.
PUBLIC 00(5.00555.
Custom House, Chestnut street, above Fourth
County Prison, Pacsyunk road, below Reed.
City Tobacco Warehouse, Dock and Spruce atreets.
City Controller's Office, Girard Bank, second story.
Commissioner of City Property, office, Girard Bank,
second story.
City Treasurer's Office. Girard Bank, second story.
City Conanalealoner's °dice, State Homo.,
City Solicitor's Office, Fifth, below Walnut.
City Watering Oarmilttee , s Office, Southwest corner
Fifth and Chestnut.
Fairmount Water Works, Fairmount on the Schuyl
kill.,
Gtrant Trust Tremnarer's Office,Pifth,above Chestnut.
:House of Industry, Catharine, above Seventh.
House of Langtry, Seventh, above Arch street.
Hone° of Refuge, (whited Parrish, between Twenty
second and Twenty-third street.
Home of Refuge, (colored,) Twenty-fourth, between
Parrish and Poplar streets.,
Health Celce, center of Sixth and Ransom.
House of Correction, Bush Hill.
Marine Hospital, Gray's Berry road, below South
street.
Mayorl office, 8. W. sooner Fifth and Chestnut
streets.
New Penitentiary, Coates street, between Twenty.
first and Twenty-second streets.
Nary Yard, on the Delaware, corner Front and Prime
streets,
Northern Liberties oss Werke, 'Malden, below Front
street,
Yost Offfoe, No. SOT Dock street, opposite the Ex
change,
Post Office, Kensington, Queen street, below Shacks.
=Mil street.
.Post Mike, Spring Garden, Twenty-fourth street and
Pe nuaylvanin Arena*.
Philadelphia Exchange, corner Third, Walnut and
Dock streets.
Philadelphia Gas Works, Twentieth and Market; °Moe,
NosB B. Seventh street.
Pennsylvania Lustitnte for Deaf and Dumb, Broad and
Pine streets.
Penn's Treaty Monument, Beach, above Hanover
Street.
Public High School, S. It, corner Dread and Gluten
Public Normal School, Sergeant, above Ninth.
Recorder's Office, No, Et State Rome, east wing.
. State HOttee„ollestnut street , botween Fifth and Sixth
Streets.
Sheriff's Office ; State House, near Sixth street.
Spring Garden commissioner's Hail, Spring Garden
and Thirteenth streets,
Ilaion Temperance Hall, Christian, above Ninth
street
United States Mint, corner of Chestnut and Juniper
streets.
United States Arsenal, Gray's Perry Road, near Fede
ral street.
Naval Asylum, on the Schuylkill, near South street.
United States Army and Clothing Equipage, corner of
Twelfth and Girard streets.
United States Quartermaster's °Moo, 'corner of
Twelfth and Girard streets.
Cola:Hose.
College of Pharmacy, Zane street, above Seventh.
Eclectic Medical College, Raines street, west of Willi.
Girard College, Ridge road and College Avenue.
Houiceopathie Medical College, Filbert street, above
Eleventh.
Jefferson 'Medical College, Tenth street, below George.
Polytechnic College, corner Market end West Penn
Square.
Pennsylvania Medical College, Ninth street, below
Locust.
Philadelphia Medical College, Fifth street, below
Walnut.
Female Medical College, 220 Arch street,
University of Pennsylvania, Ninth street, between
Market and Chestnut.
University of Free Medicine and Popular Knowledge,
No. 08 Arch street.
LOOATIOIt aP COURTS.
United Stites Circuit and Dtetrlot Condo!, No. 24
Fifth street, beton , Chestnut.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Fifth and Chestnut
streets.
Court of Common Pleas, Independence fill.
District Courts, Nos. 1 and 2, corner of Sixth and
Chestnut streets.
Court of Quarter Sessions, corner of Sixth and Chest
streets.
BUIAGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
American Baptist Publication Society, No. 118 Arch
street.
American and Foreign Ohristian Union, No. 1410hent
nut Area,
American Sunday School Union (now), No. nn
Chestnut street.
Amerman Tenet Society (now), No. NO Chestnut
Episcopal Reading Rooms, 524 Walont Arcot.
Mestaniat, Crown street, below Callowblll amt.
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bible Boolety , corner
of Seventh and Walnut atreete.
Presbyterian Board of Publication (new), No. 82
Cheatuut stroo t.
Presbyterian Publication llouse, No. 1334 Obeetnu
street.
Young OhTiatian Assootaion, No, 102 Ohinitaut
street,
Northern Young Men's Ohristian Association, Ger
Taunton% Rout' and Franklin, •
Philadelphia Bible, Tract, and Periodical Wes (T.
Stookton'e}, No. 535 Arch at - root, /het house below
Math street. north Aide.
Lutheran Publication Society, No, 732 Arch atm
below Eighth.
RAILROAD LINES.
Penna. Central H. B.—Depot, Eleventh and Market.
I A. M., Mail Train for Pittsburgh and the West.
12.65 B. M., Fast Line for Pittsburgh and the West,
130 P. M., for Harrisburg and Columbia.
4.80 P, M. Accommodation Train for Lancaster.
11 P. M., Express Mail for Pittsburgh and the West.
Reading Railroad—Depot, Broad and Vine.
7.80 A. M., 'Express Train for Pottsville, Wllliainsport,
Elmira and Niagara Falls.
8.80 P. M., es above (Night Express Train.)
Nero York Liner.
1 A, M., from Keneington, via Jersey City.
6 A. AL, from Camden, Accommodation Train,
7 A. DI., from Camden, via Jersey City, Mail.
10 A. M., from Walnut street wharf, via Jersey oily.
2 P, DI. via Camden and Amboy, Express.
3 P. 31., via Camden , Accommodation Train.
P DI., via Camden and Sarney City, Mail,
6 P. M., via Camden and Ambily,Accommeitation.
Connecting Lines.
OA. M., from Wainutatreet wharf, for Ileirldere,Easton,
Water Gap, fieranton, &o.
6 A. At., for Freehold.
7 A. M., for Mount Holly, from Walnut street wharf ;
2 P. AL, for Freehold.
2.30 P. A1.,0r Mount Holly, Bristol, Trenton, An.
81'. M., for Palmyra, Darlington, Bordentown,
4 P. M., for Belvidere, Kasten, An., front Walnut street
wharf.
6P. M. for Mount Holly, Burlington, lee.
Baltimore R. N.—Depot, Broad and Prime.
BA. M., for Baltimore, Wllinington, Now Castle, Mid-
dletown, Dorer, and Seaford.
1 P. 11., for lialtimere, Wilmington , and New Cantle.
616 P. M., for Wilmington, New Castle, Middletown,
Dover, and Seaford.
P.M. for Perryville, Past Freight.
11 P. 81'., for Baltimore and Wilmington.
North Pennsylvania B. IL—Depot, Front and Willow.
OVA. 11., for Bethlehem, Easton, Mauch Chunk, An,
10 A. M., tar Doylestown, Accommodation,
2.16 P. M., for Bethlehem, Beaton, Mauch Chunk, &e.
4.30 P. AL, for Doylestown, Accommodation,
10 A. M., for Gwynedd, Accommodation.
Cn,oden and Atlantic H. Io.—Viue etreet whet!.
7.30 A. AL, for Atlantic City.
10.46 A. M., for Haddonfield.
4 P. 31., for Atlantic City,
4.46 P. 41., for 11addontield.
For Westchester.
By Colombia R. R. and IVemtchestor Branch.
From Market street, south al to above Eighteenth.
Leave Philadelphia 7 A. AL affil' P. M.
Westchester 8.30 A. DI., end 3 P. M.
On Sonneve
Leave Philadelphia 7 A, AI,
Westchester 8 P. lc
Westchester Direct Rallreadopen to Pennelton, ()runs
Bridge.
Prom northeast Eighteenth and Market erCetil.
Leal% Philadelphia 6, and 9 A. 31., 2 4, and 6 P. M.
4( Pannelton,Grabba Bridge, 7,8, and il A. al, and
4 and 6 P. At,
On 9aturdayn IRA train from
N/b Pennelton at 7 A. M,
SOAYS
MAN .1 Philadelphia 8 A, IC and 2 P. M.
t'ennelton 01( A. M. and 6 I'. M.
uormantown 4. Norristown B. B.—Depot, Dth and
Green.
6,9, and 11 A. 11. 1 UM, 4.45, 6.46, and 11.15 P, M.,
for Narrator's.
6A. M. and 3 P. M., for Downingtown.
6,8, 9, 10, and 11.30 A. 14., and 2,4, 0,8, and 9
51. for Chestnut 11111.
0,7, 8,9, 10.10, and 11.30, A. M., and 1,9, 3.10, 4,5,
6,7, 8,9, and 11.30 P.M., for Germantown,
McVey Valley IL—Leara Philadolpta OA. M. and
MMMEZI
STEAMBOAT LINES.
2.80 P. M. Richard Stockton, for Bordantown, from
Walnut atreet wharf.
10 and 11.45 A. M. and 4 P. al., for Taoony, Burling
ton and Bristol, from 'Walnut street wharf.
9.80 A. M. Delaware, Roston, and Kennebec, for Oape
drat pier below Spruce etroot.
'l.BO A. N., and 2, and BP. Id., aohn A. Warner
and Thomas A. Morgan, for 11//stol,
MOMS, 24,
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1857.
Ije'prtfi.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1857.
ENGLISh PANICS.
On the termination of the War which Great
Britain had waged, for over twenty years,
with the Democratic spirit of tho French Re
public and Empire, commercial depression
prevailed to a large extent. A great number
of private banks fell to ruin, and the bank
ruptcies of merchants and traders, from 1818
to 1819, (when PEEL'S Currency Bill passed,
compelling the Bank of England to resume
specie payments,) were to be counted in thou
sands. Matters gradually grew better. The
working classes obtained full employment, and
ceased the political agitation into which
poverty bad driven them. The agricultural
interest more slowly recovered, for farmers
who had to pay the same rout when corn was
at 00 shillings a quarter as when it was at 100
shillings, (during the War,) and who hod not
saved money, ban fearful odds tci trinterid-with
lioirevir 'nll things conflicted with undo,
cortuuorio, manufactures, and agriculture, had
improved so much, by 1824, that people lite
rally did net know what to do with their
money.
Just at this time, 1824-5, speculations in
foreign loans, mining shares, and joint-stock
Companies, grow into a furore in England.
Then, as at present, there was a groat produc
tion of gold—it came from South America, just
as it now comes from California and Australia.
The speculative spirit was so rife, that the
Real del Monte (mining) shares, from £550,
rose to £1,350 each. Largo as was the quan
tity of gold imported from South America, a
much greater amount was taken out of the
country in foreign loans and investments in
foreign mines. This depletion of gold greatly
affected the Bank of England, which had beep
prohibited from issuing notes under «5 nomi
nal value. There was literally no gold money
to circulate. Trade suffered, and, as Mr.
HusxissoN confessed, (( England was within
twenty-tbur hours of barter," when a bank
clerk, named JONES, (who survives, with a
pension of £l,OOO a year,) remembered that
certain boxes of one-pound notes, which had
been redeemed in gold in 1821, and should
have been burned, had not oven been cancelled.
With the permission of the Government, when
only one million sterling of gold remained in
the bank vaults, these one-pound notes wore
brought up, thrown into circulation, and, as
substitutes for gold, wore received every whore.
In three days confidence was restored, and the
panic of 1825 ended.
Ten yearn later, when therowas more money
in England than the owners could employ in
legitimate business, the speculative mania
agaia broke out. This time, however, the
Speculations were within the four seas which
surround the United Kingdom. Tho estab
lishment of joint-stock banking companies was
gone largely into. At that period, too, when
Railwayistn was becoming a fixed and practical
principle, covering the kingdom with a won
derful reticulation of iron roads, a great many
public companies were formed for the purpose
of making railways. Much money was thrown
out of active employment by these means.
This was during 1835. By the close of 1836,
when several public and private banks had
failed, and when the notices of intended rail
ways occupied forty-six pages of the London
Gazelle, another panic was d'hand. Early in
1837 it came to a head, and was aggravated by
the suspension or bankruptcy of many com
mercial houses in the United States. After
much ruin had been consummated, the panic
of 1837 came to an end, but its effects were
visible for a tong time, on the trade and com
merce of Great Britain.
British trade, however, is strongly recupe
rative. In a few years, money again became
plentiful. The result of having a plethora of
money, generally is what men call specula
tion. In 18.15, it again took the shape of
Railwayism. As many as fifteen hundred
railway companies were projected and adver
tised. The capital proposed to be thus
invested might' amount, on a rough esti
mate, (putting $15,000,000 sterling as the
average tbr each line,) to a small total of
$22,500,000,000. There came a panic, of
course, when these many bubbles broke,
This was not rapidly removed. Commenc
ing in October, 1&15, it lingered into 18.10—
when it was partially relieved by PEEL'S
abolition of the protective Corn Laws. But,
in the winter of 1846 and the spring of
1847, Ireland became the victim of flunine
and disease. In the fall of 1847, much such
a crisis as has just occurred came on, and
the Bank of England, which had its charter
renewed in 1844, was unable, somo said
unwilling, to give relief. The Government
interfered, and would have permitted the
issue of small notes (as it now has done,)
but the mero announcement that it bad the
intention to do so was sufficient to restore
confidence, and trade recovered its healthy
tone without any further measures on its
behalf.
Now, again, at the close of another decade,
wo have had a Pauic—the fourth in thirty-two
years. It would seem 118 if the natural course
was disease recovery lusty health
abase of strength—and ailment. .Inst so with
the body. What excess is to the human
body, speculation and extravagance are to the
cortnnereial system of England.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
WASHINGTON IN DOMESTIC LIFE. From Orig'
nal Lotter; and Manuocripts. By RICHARD Rtisu
Lippincott 4- Co., Philadelphia.
The materials of this volume, a thin octavo of
less than one hundred pages, have boon chiefly
supplied by " a collection of more than thirty
original letters from General Washington, on mat
ters, for the most Nit, purely domestic and per
sonal, addressed to Colonel Tobias Lear, his pri
vate Secretary for a part of the tires ho was Prosi
dent ; and than, and during periods much longer,
his confidential friend." Colonol Lear's widow
(niece to Mrs. Washington) lelit these letters to
Mr. Rush, ten or twelve years ego, and approved
of an abstract, with a commentary interwoven,
which ho made of their contents, permitting its pub
lication. Mrs. Lear died at Washington, last Do
comber, after surviving her husband forty years.
Mr. Rush believes that la now publishing the pa
per she bad sanctioned with her approbation, ho
performs an not which would have been grateful to
liar were she living. The greater part of the tot
ters has not hitherto found its way into print.
Tho abstract, thus laid betbro the public consists,
as Mr. Rush declares, of "Notices of, and oxtraots
from, the original letters, the matter being
abridged, connecting links used, and omissions
made where the groat author himself marked them
private, or from parts otherwise not necessary to
go before the world."
In addition to the Letters placed in the hands of
Mr. Rush, by Mrs. Lear, she subsequently favored
him with the perusal of a Diary kept by her hus
band at Mount Vernon, in Ina, antorior to the
time when Washington became President. Ono
extract from this Diary, given in full, by Mr.
Rush, is of the greatest historical importance, It
hears data Octobor 23d, 178th, end records Wash
ington's own account of the circumstances, within
his own knowledge, of the treason of Benedict Ar
nold, as related at Washington's dinner table, As
convoying Washington's own impressions and
knowledge it is tall of iniMdi. But wo must ro
turn to the narrative by Mr. Rush, which shows
Washington in domestic life,
Tho letters to Mr. Lear range from September,
1700, when Wanhington was Provident, to August,
1708, when lte was induced by the older Adams to
accept the supremo command of the army, when
war with Franco appeared imminent. The first
totter was written at Philadelphia—tho loot at
Mount Vernon.
The noticos of IVaBhlngton's domestic modo of
living, scattered through this extended eorrospon
denco, aro numerous 1118 directions are given
with dm greatest particularity, and, all through,
while he exhibits the true Virginian taste for being
handsomely appointed, in till respects, ho ale
shows a strong distasto for extravagant outlay.
"Spare, that you may spend," was the rule of
WasillegloWn life; but, Ifbilllllo was careful, and
oven anxious, to avoid unceoesaary and extrava
gant outlay, ho desired to have every thing about
him of the best, but was reluctant to be over
charged.
Tho publio tiorvico, au wo . know, wan greatly
banal/toil by this oatufalaves, Of all publio
Washington was, perhaps, the most disinterested,
as tha`wholo of hie pecuniary relations with his
country - abundantly prove. Even at the last,
when, et the call of duty, he mourned supremo
corticoid of the army in 1798, ho expressly stipu
lated on the condition of "receiving no pay or
emolument until actually waled into the hold."
There aro repeated expressions, in these letters, of
his strong determination to decline, no President,
living In any dwelling, at Philadelphia, which the
public should pay for. Ile perceived, however,
how necessary it would ho for his successors to be
properly lodged.
Mr. brill gives a summing-up upon this Corres
pondazoe, which is so well worthy of perusal that
we bore extract the greater portion of it:
"I bum thus noticed eucoinotly, perhaps I might
more 7sppropriately say described, these letters.
In ohrulging and connecting the train of them,
Washington's language le used to the extent that
will he won. 'no style /a different from that of
hie official produotionS hod other letters of his vo
luminqa correspondence. ito naturally stopped
into out more familiar when writing to a confi
dential friend on family matters relating to his
home it Mount Vernon, or as it was to ho arranged
in Philkdelphla while be was President. But the
style the directness Mid elneority of all his
writinc It is apparent that the letters aro writ
ten vr toot reserve. With two or three excels-
WO ) snls implee appear to have boon kept; yet
ove n V i t l ig Is frank and sdaight-forward. Under
eta
- human nature thoroughly under all its
pbast* o deals wisely with men in email things
as inin!nt; but ho does no ono injustioe, When mit.
ers arc noting disingenuously towards him, though
seeturthroughlt; he is considerate and forbear
ing, taking stops !lustily, but ready Co make
allowsksees where they could bo made. Dishouesty
or susPielon of it he never overlooks. In the
second letter ho suspects his etoward of extrava•
R 0 .11,361.11 spending too much for supplies of the table
Copt feritts upper servants; yet ho authorizes Mr.
Lear to rotain him, if, on looking into his accounts,
be nub him honest; intimating that any succes
sor to ,him might act in the Mall way, and a
dismistat might he only achango without a benefit.
His reprobation of all dishonesty is seen in snore
than ono of the letters as well as his restrainedmodes dealing with it whilst adecting only his
own inthroste.
"As regards ttio sin nntin3 soon in the letters—the
detaiierespooting his house, furniture, servants,
carriages, horses, postilions, and so on—ilteso will
be road with curiosity and interest. They suggest
a now test by which to try Washington, anti lot
him battled by it. We have not betore had such
detailatem himself. It is for the first time .the
enttniirites been so lifted."
* *
44 Before his fame, steadily ascending from Its I
adamantine foundation, give signs that it was to
encircle the globe, sorne Imagined him too prudent.
Some tkoughthim,devoid of sensibility; a cold, co•
lossal ;Miss, entronohed In taciturnity, or enfolded
in a mantic of dignity, The sequel disclosed that
his complete mummy over passion, moving in har
mony wgth his other powers and faculties, lent its
essentikt aid. towards his unrivalled name. O pinion
and passion wore strong in him. The latter ousted
in veholnenee; but he put the curb upon it, turn
ing it into right directiont, and. excluding it other
wise froin influence upon his conduct, 110 stilled
his dislikes; lee was silent under sneers anti dis
paraging Innuendoee lestinopportune speech might
work injury to the groat cause confided to him.
To the success of that,cause he looked steadily ,and
exclusively. It absorbed his whole soul, and he
determitred to coneentrate upon it all his forbear
ance at well. en energy. The complicated dangers
which encompassed it ho knew, front his position,
sooner and better than others ; but be would not
make them public, lest the foe might hoar thorn, or
others whose prepossessions were unfriendly ; pre
ferring that temporary odium should rest upon
himself. Therefore his reserve; and thus it Was
that the grand results of his life came out in mani
foldblessings to his country ; thus it was that corns,
at first distrustful, and others long distrustful of
hie superiority came to admit it in the end. lie it
added, that his native good Bones teaching biro the
walne asocial restraint, and his knowledge of the
world, its approved observances in intercourse, the
toned the gentleman on its best meddle over also
graced ids publie glory."
* • * is sr
"1 rfturn to his letters to Mr. Lear. In superim ,
tending his domestic affairs, these letters exhibit
him as the head of a woll-ordered family, himself
the regulator of it all under maxims that best con
duce to order because not too rigid. We see that
he was truly hospitable, kind, devoted to his kin
dred whom ho gathers around him, interesting
himself in their education and welfare; cheering
them with a welcome at Mount Vernon, and sooth-
ing their in sickness and sorrow. The kindred of
Mrs. Washington alike share his solicitudes, pater
nal oat% and constant. kindness. All this is dis
cernible from the feats that drop out in these let
ters. They paint to a heart affectionately alive
to the best semi anti family footings. We serids
attention to the comfort of his sery ants, slaves, and
others, ilisgovernment of them, upper and suitor
dinatu, appears to have boon peaces by his union
of discipline with liberality. 110 know that his
postilions, if they slept over the stable, would
oarry lights there whether he forbade it or not,
for they would do it when ho knew notning about
It and not toll on each other. Ito therefore allowed
no stooping there at all.
"I could not avoid remarking, as characteristic
throughout the whole of his correspondence, that
there is never any complaining of his labors
Letter-writing alone would have been a heavy
labor to him but for his system and industry.
Promptitude in using his pen there must neves-
Eerily have boon, or ho could not have written co
mush. The history of the times will show that
when he wrote these letters ho was simultanconsty
writing otbors on public, business, which, us the
world knows, he never neglected in nay jot or
tittle no matter what else he might be doing. The
domestio letters must therefore have boon struck
off with groat facility. Let us call to mind oleo
the more than two hundred volumes of folio matiu-
script of hie public, correspondenco which Congress
purchased, and then remember that tho sum of all
ho wrote is as nothing to what ho did in his long
career of activity in his country's service, mili
tary and civil.
"Next I remark, as a now corroboration of the
modesty over so prominent . in him, that not once
throughout the whole of this correspondence does
ho make any, the slightest, allusion to himself
connection with the Revolutionary War, compara
tively recent as it then was. besides that CA'
general tenor of the correspondence might have
supplied occasions for such allusions, special oppor
tunities were at hand while skirting the battle
grounds and other localities of his military opera
tions in the war, even in • his journeys between
Mount Vernon and Philadelphia; yet they are I
never once made. Tho casual mention of his '
'Old &Weans Cornelius,' whom he happened
to want nose workman about his grounds at Mount
Vernon, is the solo reference that could wako up
the mind to his having had anything to do with
tho Rovolution. He had helped to pave the way
for that great mut by the influence of his high
character thrown into the scale when the early
iluostions of resistance or submission were in ngita
; ho hail helped It on by his attachment to
constitutional liberty at that epoch, though his
fortune was at stake, and friendships among the
high-born and cultivated front the parent State
then among his associates in Virginia-00111d a
bosom like his have boon swayed by such thoughts;
he had helped it on by the special weight of name
he had won in arms fighting side by side with the
proud generals and troops of Britain, conlident of
victory, but saved from iikoihilation by his inborn
fearlessness and suporinrilY, when death was all
around him, and dismay everywhere in traddock's
disastrous fight--their silent, homage crowning, the
head of their deliverer; his triumphant sword at
Yorktown put the crowning band to the i mortal
work—the work that founded thin great nation ;
yet wo could never inforfrollla word or hint in the
course of those totters, from first to last, that ho had
anything to do with the work, except as the name
of 'Sergeant Cornelius' incidentally fall. from
his pon with only a rural object. What a lesson
Some extol themselves openly. Some do it under
MCI of soli-humiliation, called byor Primal' writer
the pomp of modesty. Washington is simply silent,
ho will slide into no allusions to the great and
glorious work of his life in the midst of temptn
i lions to it.
"Finally : the charm of these letters is in their
being no familiar, no out et the sphere of his ertilasnt
pondonoo generally, and therefore holding
up
in lights that seem new. Mankind, long familiar
with the external attributes and grandeur' of his
character, looking up to his vast faro as hero end
statesman, uncertain which predominates, have
known leas of him at home with his family, his re
lations and his friends. Tho inner parts of his
character, the kindlier impulses of bin nature, his
sympathies with those dear to hint, dependent 011
hits, or looking to him for the apiece M his kind
ness, seem to have remained less publicly hems n.
Mr. Sparks, in his preface to his •Lito and
tinge, remarks that 'it must be kept in mind that
much the larger portion of his life passedlip a con
spicuous public theatro, and that no acesulft of tit
eau ho written which will nut a: sumo o ,, entiaTy
the Mr of history.' Ile whin, that while in his
work 'anecdotes are interwoven ' and melt inci
dents of a private and personal nature es re known.
they are wore rare than could he desired.'
"The synopsis of the letters which I have given.
may perhaps tend in some small degree to supply
this desideratum in his illustrious life Monvide of
the more copious anecdotes and reminiscences ,ap
plied by the patriotic and filial devotion of Mr
Custie. This Is my humble hope."
Standing as he does, a connecting link between
the Dead and the Living—uniting the glorious
Past with tholopeful Present—Mr. itnoh worthily
crowns a life of honorable and patriotic utility by
this lust presentation to theptfinlic, wit N icis, to him.
is indeed a labor of .lov. ~,NVILnk him, that
imitating the praotickt iirinorlht thildearr. which,
yet is continued in somo countries, he adds another
stone to that cairn whit% hes loftily silicon to the
fame of Washington.
What renders this volume still more interesting
to the Pennsylvanian Is the dedication to eijAIILES
Dann Dlattafintd., by the ,other. The yawls of
this dedication are as follows:
44 This literary trifle is hardly wirth a dedica
tion: yet it has dared to touch, though with in
competent hands, it high subject, end, trifle as it
is, I dedicate it to you. At an agteeablo little
dinner at your table lately, where no had the
new Vico President, Mr. lirockinridgo, whose
maternal stook, the Stanbopod, Smiths, and
Withorepoons, is rich in intellect, no knew tit
Princeton, you said we had, boon friends fur
upwards of sixty years. You were right; for
we were marry boys together in Philadelphia,
before our college days at Princeton ; and I may
bore add that our friendship never has boon in
terrupted. Itscuerto
The Lexington (Ky.) Observer says that at
Terre Ilauto, Indiana, last week, corn was soil
ing at twenty cents, and many buying warn not of
faring over eighteen conta per bushel. In Posey
county, Indiana. Just bolowEvaustilio, corn in the
field was offering lest week at twelve end a half
ocaica per bushel.
PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON TILE CITY
DEBT.
Opinion of the City Solicitor.
CITY SOLICITOR'S OFFICE.,
limmber 25, 1857.
WM VI BRAYTON, ,
Chairman of tho C r um:ll4km on Finance:
. . ,
Dear Sir: When the Councils wore about to
meet on Thursday last, I heel the honor to receive
from you a note, inquiring whether the city was
liable for the interest on certain bonds issued by
the districts of Spring Garden and the Northern
Liberties in laver of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. The question hail been previously ex
amined. and there wets but time to reply in a sin
gle, sentence, that, in my opinion the city was lia
ble for that interest. In common with many of
our fellow-citizens, I rend with deep regret and
disappointment the proceedings of the Common
Council, refusing to make an appropriation for its
payment. As the subject will be renewed at your
next electing, I deem it proper to furnish yen with
the grounds of toy opinion, Rod to exert in the
most direst manner whatever official power the
department possesses, for the porposo of averting
ouch a catastrophe as the refusal to pay this just
debt.
I intanise two things. There is no real fear in
this cane of repudiation. No man in Councils
dare advocate such a doctrine: Every old woman
In his ward would'hoot at him. There is a moral
atmosphere in Philadelphia which a man so dis
eased could not breathe and llro. On examining
the vote nt your last meeting, the names of some
of the foremost men in Ceut:lister integrity and
intelligence will be found in tho lint of nays. The
error no merely temporary—such no will occa
sionally occur in; a, deliberative assembly—to bo
dig:4mnd by tho light of reason as speedily as It
arse.
The other thing which I wish to promise is this.
No defence of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is hero
intended. ,I
hoveioninlntanewl thorlDirsand no knowledge resources.ortheir
If they hod the means to pay this interest, a fatal
mistake was committed in not doing so. The
hands mete isaued for, their accommodation, and
they have enjoyed the use of the money. 11l the
spirit of the whole arrangement, by the very terms
of the bargain, and by every principle of fair deal
ing, they were bound to bold the city harmless. I
do not say that they should have committed lay
oeny to obtain the money, but I do solemnly say
that it ought to have been paid if the payment had
cost the sacrifice of the very furniture of their
office. The fact that dividends were not declared
to its stockholders generally is no excuse, for this
interest stood on a very different footing. They
not only failed to pay it, but gave the City no no
tice of their intentions to fail—foots which should
not be forgotten when they come to bo sued by the
city for the money. I four that a now state of
things has thus been inaugurated between these
important corporations.
Now for the foots producing the present ques
lion. On the 24th of March, 1851. the district of
the Northern Liberties directed the issue of these
bonds. They are coupon bonds, payable to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company or their assigns,
" together with interest at the rate of II per cent.
per !mum, payable half yearly on the 15th of
May and November, at the office of raid railroad
company, in the city of Philadelphia, en presenta
tion and delivery of the proper coupon hereto
annexed." The ordinance directs the " coupons to
be receivable from the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in payment of the interest, or on account
of dividends due by said company on the stock
held by the raid district." The last section pro
vides that the faith and property of the district ho,
and the some aro thereby,pledged for the payment
of the said bonds, and in addition thereto, the
stook of the company held by the district is sped
fleetly pledged as security therefor. The ordinance
of the district of Spring Barden, and the bonds is
sued under it, aro not materially different. In each
easelthe enactment in referred to in the bond.
The foundation of the opposing argument is.
that this reference to the ordinance affects thepur
chaser of the bonds with nutlet of its provisions,
and compels him to inquire into the speoial autho
rity for issuing them. I admit it. I believe it a
sound legal proposition that a reference in tin in
strument of writing to any other paper which is
accessible to the porde:er of the instrument, is
itself sufficient ground for imputing to him know
ledge of the contents of that paper. It is ,hard
doctrine, in a case like this, whore an obligation
is issued under the b{ hest sanction of corporate
authority, and where the purchaser has mine. rea
son to presume that every thinghas been rightly
done. But let as take the principle as we fled it.
Ii any intended purchaser of these obligations
had made such an examination, be would have
ascertained that the faith and property of the dis
tricts were " pledged for the payment of the bonds
hereby authorised."
In the debate in Councils it was argued that the
pledge was given only for the payment of the hands,
and that 11, different compact was intended respect
ing the fat:roet. The term bonds is certainly the
only ono used in that section. This was enough
The interest fellows by absolute, irresistible legal
necessity. If I say on the back of a bond that
va ~ p eocitle for it. payment, or, as these dis
(Huts did, that 1 pledge my property for it, pay
ment, tie lawyer can doubt that I would also be
responsible tin the interest. It follows the princi
pal as the shadow follows the substance. It is fruit
nhieli the tree produces by force of a law necessary
to its own existence. A man might as well under
take to remove a tree and let the fruit remain in
the air, as to discharge a bond and let the interest
main suspended. The obligor might as welt say
that lie is bound only to pay the interest and not
the principal, as that he is bound to pay the latter
and not the former. On no ground can ho draw
smelt distinctions. Once liable for the debt, ho is
liable for every incidental obligation that the law
annexes to it.
So much for the ordinances authorizing these
bonds. In the very body of the instruments them
selves, there is a contemporaneous exposition of
the enactment which admits of no mistake. "To
gether," say the bonds, , with initieit at the rate
of six per cent. per annum, payable half yearly,"
to. To this covenant the seal of the munteipality
is set. Could anything he plainer If the dis
tricts and the city wore not to he liable for the in
terest, why did they thus write it down in the
bond,3 Why should a construction ho asked
which could only' be given if the very opposite
words had been introduced?
But, it is said that this interest is expressly made.
payable at the taco of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, and that by a necessary inference that
company is to pay and not the city. Let it ho oh
served, that the only sums now payable aro those
gpxuremeil in tho coupons, the bonds themselves
Luring many years to run. The coupons, as the
word unpin ts, were made to be detached, and may
be sold from hand to hand, irrespectively of the
state of the original bond. They aro nothing more
nor less than distinct promissory notes for the pay
ment of interest. In form they run thus: 'There
is duo the bearer thirty dollars, payable nt tim
office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co , in Phil—n
(1010 M, being six months' interest on bond No.
' tc., do ; and the signature is that of the
clerk of the district. Betirew this instrument and
a promissory note, payable tics bank, tho analogy
is perfect. Suppose the holder of such a note pre
, sent it at the bank and payment be refused, would
' any bruin in his senses stint' that the drawer of the
note 50d thus disobaqed from its payment? Go
further and suppose, the bank to hare solemnly
agreed with the maker tw discount another note
for the payment of the first, and to have failed to
do so, would that circumstance have the slightest
effect on the claimof the holder against the drawer
of the note r
What, then, is to be done in the case before us , .
Simply to pay this interest, and then to slle the
Peno.llN ania Railroad Company, whose business
it was tilmake the payment. It may be vastly in.
conAniFitt to pay, but the way of the transgremor
will always-be found harder than thovath of duty,
Rather thai . boar they it of repel/fallen, I BM
sure t fiat the children in our schools wenlil contri
bute pennies enough to relieve the treasury of any
great ineenveuieuee from making this particular
ps,}inent With such pecuniary backing, let us
not he afraid to discharge a just debt. •
There ono other n low Of the ease which lam
bound in fairness to present. Suppeeo this appro
priation be not made by Councils, what then?
When a debtor is nor wilting to put his hand into
his pocket to pay a lds own debt, is ebb law power
less? Lapprehend we shalt tied it otherwise. Suit
will be brought' immediately, and it will not bo de
fended lis otd 4 l net coltut to puffin a dishonest
defence fora firiwito cliolitlo an honest debt, end
the city has no better right to make each a requi
sition on its law department. This course has
been well considered, and wilt not he departed
from while ray hand is on the helm. Judgment
will be obtained—a mandamus gyill be ',sued to
the City Treasurer—and lire modry will be paid.
We shall Ibus have the disgrace, and the bond
holders will have the money—mvory uecqu it
it
vision, it reettlt to Mt., of the subject matter of dis
pute, 'llium) are remote consequences which Imu
euro can never occur. I led the profoundmt con
fidence that at the meeting of Councils, which has
been called fur Oil , afternoon, the former vote will
be reconsidered, and Philadelphia 11111 hereafter
wlinue to hold the proud pre-eminence which
alio hits :o long oettispied, as that of a poor but
honest debtor. •
Very respectfully and truly,
\v u. A. _Pours:t, City Solicitor
\\*nut of I,nhor in the West
Ma Wt. Louis Dr mereat, of the 16th instant, has
the loilm.ing Flatonlothi iv:puling the want of
meehanks nod laborers in liarsatt We Litre no
doubt that hundreds of our worthy mechanics,
he are now so hard pressed, might vastly improve
their peenniaty enntittion, Rs well as hotter the
Fr. 'toed.+ of their fAntilie+ in all ether respects, by
seeking new Money in the Mr West :
" We hare received information front several
reliable gentlemen, just artived Irma lianas, that
a large number of meehaniett soil laborers are
Iva! tad in that Territory at the ptosent time In
fl of thetils y vett they have not a t•utliciest
' • Afsmecha " . oct 1n,40 half the work nit ice is
required, and for *Melt' they would rreive front
t. , t2 :Al per day. Ono gentleman tells us that
there is not a single:humid:et., tailor, blacksmith,
or tin9oith, , in the town of Osawattamie, nor in
in Lykens (manly In fact, there is a de
ficiency in alt the MOCTilallient branches through.
out the Territory.
- .
" Two or three builders monopolize all the work
in a too n, and they are so busily engaged in erect
ing dwellings on their own account that they !T
-renton to de so, and aro unable to attend to out
side wt.! k. Laborers aro wanted all over the Tee
rut," a t b o th, miens than can be obtained in any
other part of the country. We are assured that
there it no exaggeration in this statement, and if
wo entertained the slightest doubt of itt correct
ness use should not publish it for this purpose of
deceiving these to villein such information may Lea
important.
At the present time, when se Many persons
are thrown out of employment, and when the ap
proaching ranter may bring with it groat dtto
tress, it would ho well for those who aro thus
situated, to tool: in limo for the means of
tones and protection for themselves and families.
Kansas otters the best field for the unemployed
and industrious mechanic and laborer of the
United stales The gentlemen who communi
sated thin information we know to be reliable;
they have left their names at our Vince, and way
be Ns Tilton to upon the subject."
TWO CENTS.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM BURLINGTON
Correspondence of The Press j
BVILLINGTON, N. J., Nov. 21, 1857.
Our ancient city has not escaped the pres
sure, which affects all other parts of the
country. The only manufacturing business
carried on among us is that of shoes for a dis
tant market. Hundreds of mon aro constantly
employed at this work, and a large number of
females find employment in the same branch,
women's shoes only being made. But the
hard times suddenly put an end to the demand
for shoes. Your city buyers, with whom our
manufacturers bad found a wholesale market,
were no longer able to sell, and the stagnation
reacting on the latter, they have been com
pelled to shorten sail by discharging a large
number of hands. Snell a necessity, at the
approach of winter, falls very hard upon a
multitude of families here. But, then, it is no
worse than in hundreds of other towns. In
Trenton, where much manufacturing is car
ried on, the distress among the unemployed is
likely to be very severe. Already the corpo
ration has appropriated $5,000 for purposes of
relief. Fortunately we have no similar neces
sity here, but private benevolence will be
found sufficient as aforetitne, for the comforta
ble maintenance of all who really need assist
ance.
It is cheering, however, to be able to say
that the severity of the timeshas had no effect
on the prosperity of the two great educational
Institutions of our city—St. Mary's Hall and
Burlington College, both under charge of
Bishop Doane. The term of the former, just
commenced, opens with one hundred and fifty
young lady pupils, and others are coming in
every day, giving encouraging promise that
the number will yet reach two hundred. New
first.class buildings have this slimmer been
added to the Hall, making the whole estab
lishment one of the most complete in the
country. The college also flourishes well.
These facts go to show that there must be a
largo class in the general community who are
wholly unaffected by the pressure of the times,
or they could not afford to continue their
children at expensive boarding schools.
Do you know that you have a bona fide
specie-paying bank in your State At Bris
tol, opposite to us, the Farmers' Bank of
Bucks county, last week, rejected the relief
law of your extra Legislature, and, on Mon
day, commenced paying specie in full. To
prove that this was no sham resumption, it
may be added, that on the day following, the
bank discounted paper to its customers to the
amount of $4,000. It has more than enough
coin on band to redeem its whole circulation.
It was curious to note the effect of this re
sumption is Bristol and the neighborhood.
Confidence came back of its own motion ;
nobody came forward to demand coin except
where change was actually required for busi
ness uses; and the. deposits of specie far ex
ceeded the amount drawn out. The stock of
this bank is held by a quiet, solid, non-specu
lative class of Bucks county farmers, who go
in almost unanimously for the real hard.
Many years ago, however, the whole capital
of this bank was sunk, just as that of your
Bank of Pennsylvania has been, by in-door
villany. But the stockholders held together,
paid in a few dollars pet:share, preserved their
charter, went on and did so well that now the
institution has a surplus fund of nearly forty
thousand dollars. I believe it is the only real
specie-paying bank in your Strap.
The weather to-day gives token, not of "it
goodly day to-Morrow," but of steamboats
stopping and canals closing up. The Indian
summer has been short this season—but then
you know it is a.timo of shortness in every
thing, and what right has the Indian summer
to be otherwise ? Let, us hope that,the winter
also, will be quite as much troubled with the
shorts. - LIBER.
The Loos of the Steamship Opelonsas—List of
(Prom the New Orleans Picayune, November 18 J
On the arrival of the Opelousas railroad train
last evening, wo learned from rumor that there
had been a collision on Sunday night, between the
steamer Opelousas, Capt. Ellis, which left Ber.
wink's bay on Sunday, and the Galveston, Captain
Washburn, of the same line, coming from Galves
ton and Indianola to nenvick's bay, and that
there were several lives lost.
Tho most authentic shape in which we have
been able to obtain intelligence of the important
event has been - that of a note from Mr. John
McNair, the clerk of the Galveston, which we np-
Pend. It win be seen that among the passengers
lost by this °coarsens° was Gen. James Hamilton,
of south Carolina.
Mr. Dl Noir's Letter.
ON BOARD STEASSOLP GALVESTON,
November 17, 18,57.
Editors of Picayune: Gentlemen: At 120 clock
sniduight) the lath inst., the steamship Galves
ton came ireontact with the steamship Opelousas,
striking the Opelousas nearly amidship, causing
her to sink in about twenty minutes. Tho Galves
ton, receiving but little damage, laid by her SO)
daylight this morning, and succeeded in racing
the following passengers, and all the officer; and
crow. Yours respectfully, Juno MeNsan,
Clerk Steamship Galveston.
LIST OP TllOfill KNOU N TO BE Los?. —Gan. J.
Hamilton, South Carolina; Judgo John C. Cle
land, New Orleans; A. J. Voorhies, Princeton,
New Jenny; Mr. Smith. mother, and young lady,
St. Louis; Miss Luny Williams, Lavaca; C. W.
IViltnet, Hardin witty, Kentucky. body saved;
ono child of C W"Alitnet, Kentucky ; Miss Mary
Pettway, Nashville, Tennessee; McParlane, late
mate ateamship Jasper; two children of Geo.
Williams,Columbia. Texas; ono child of 3lrs.
Fontes, Buchanan county, Missouri; August Men
dell, Dewitt county, Texas; Dunn, Navarro,
Texas; one negro girl belonging, to Mr. Hush
bergh ; one negro boy, third cook on Opelousas.
Liar OF Tile SAVED.—J. N. Cecil, Brazoria coun
ty, Texas ; Mrs. Wilmot, Hardin county, Kentucky;
Miss Fanny Aitchison, Johnson county, Missouri;
Mrs. E. C. La Grass and child, Richmond, Texas ;
George Williams and lady„Cotumbia, Texas; W.
IL Mitriwether and Ludy, Corral county, Texas;
J B. Thompson, Louisville. Kentucky; It W.
Dunn, Lavaca, Texas; U. W. Priesthurgh, New
Orleans; Francis P. Wood, Prince Edward coun
ty, Virginia; It. T. Murphy, Twiggs county,
Georgia; Green Walnuts, Grimes county, Texas;
Edward Wise, Now Orleans; J. L. B. Air, Jack
son, Michigan; E. W. Finch, Buchanan county,
Missouri; J. W. Ilitchings, lady, and servant,
Nashville. Tennessee; 3, D. Parish, Austin,
Texas; J. J. Ramsay, Gonzales, Texas; G. W.
Bowers,New York; R. T. "Lewis. Jackson, Michi
gan; apt. 11.11 Hill, U.S.A.; li. Trotter, Mpam,
Texas ; H. Hobart and two servants ; ex
pressman; William M. C. Connell and two Maxi
cats Do Witt county, Texas; George Parmiee, 11.
B. Mexi
cans,
New Orleans; J. M. Ceases., Louisiana;
T. Parreau, Lavaca, Texas; Mrs. Husliberger,
child, and two servants, Galveston; Mr..Fouts and
servant, Buchanan county, Missouri; R. D. Allen,
mother, brother, and two servants, Bastrop; Teias;
Samuel S. Berry, wife, and child, Alabama; 3. N.
' Thompson, Toby'a express; John York and Hugh
Tato, Now Orleans; Timothy La Rush, Houston:
W. J. Boyle, Johnson county, Missouri-56 pas
-11/3-Weresr's and crew (27) all saved.
These arts all tho particulars we had boon able
to gather Ila tb tica)ly up to midnight, (last night.)
In our no we shall doubtless be in possession of
inure.
In the evening edition of the Picayune we Gad
the following additional particularb ;
Wo gather but few more particulars in relation
to this unfortunate affair than these published this
morning.
We find on the passenger list of the Opelousas
(the lest steamer) the following names, not in
cluded in the published lists of the saved and lost.
We fear that they must be included among the
latter:
Mr. II Trainer. Mr. G. Harney, Mr. E. Bill,
Mr. A J "lOUs, Mr. Wyeth and lady.
Ile understand that Captain Washburn, of the
tiafroston, beiniismsielt.. at Galveston, woo not on
tartlet hi 3 steamer at the time of the ilisaater. Tho
otheor in command of the Galveston at the time
wo= Capt. .lore. Smith
We have been gratified to learn from his own
lips, that Mr. A. J. Voorhies, of Princeton, New
Jersey, reported lost, it among the awed frerm the
ill-fired Opelousas. Mr. V. it , a3 en route to the
interior of the State on bm.ine , s, but, having lo•t
all his money, has turned his face hernewaiii
again.
All of those who were rescued front tho sinking
steamer of course saved nothing (rem the fatal
wreck, and were brought to the city without mo
ney, elothins, or anything el , e. Several of them
are at the City and Areade Hotels, where they ere
receiving the greatest kindness at the hands of Mr.
Morse. his family, and assistants, (who aro always
prompt in deeds of philanthropy and hospitality,)
and where, we aro plea,ed to learn, subscriptions
for the relief of the unfortunate sufferers have
teen o pen e d, and aro receiving. the signatures of
the sympathizing and the charitable.
I was a passenger on the Opelousas, Captain
I:Ilis, bound from Iterwielcs flay to Galveston. nn
the night of the 15th, about a quarter past II
o'cloek, I was nu Acne,' in my berth by a shock,
as if the ve , sel woo struck by lightning. I rushed
on deck and found it crowded eith Pasoencr' , all
in (ho wildest state of excitement—the ladies
screaming and the gentlemen running to and fro.
The first conscious...ls I had of danger was bear
ing the tante and steward eallingoit the passeng ers
to save themselves, as there were two life•pre
scrvers in each stateroom. I hastily made for the
cabin to get a life-preserver, but on reaching it
found the water in it ankle-deep. I hastily re
trne.e,l my st,i , s, and, on reaching the deck again,
found the steamer sunk to tier gunwales. The
pas,engers then ran to the hurricane deck, but in
about three minutes Nlio had sunk to that deck.
Tho scone of wild confusion and dismay which
then presented itself beggars all description. The
wits cut away, anti some fifteen or twenty
jumped into her, and others jumped into one of the
quarter-boats, when both heats started for the
fiat
testett, then some distance front the wreck. (At
this time I did not see the Galveston, and was to
tally unconscious of the cause of the disaster 1 The
life-boat before reaching the Galveston ass cap
sized, and several of the passengers sunk to nso no
mere. I held on to the stern of the Opelousas, and
while in that position was joined by the second en
gineer. This officer had secured a plank, which
enabled him to shove off from the wreck I did not
do so, believing the Opelousas was aground In
a few moments, however, the Opelousas, from
the weight, 1 swat), of her reachipery, brokq
/10,T10111 TO IrAntaplliißDZXTll.
Ownniipondwats fog " Tin rams" will ,plesas best in
mind the following rules
Every communication must be scoompaniat by the
name of the writer. in order to berate ear restnem in
the typography, bat one aide of a elm* should be
written upon.
Ws shall he greatly obliged to g eatfrates to reamyt
Vaal& and other Butes Ica eontributioca grin the ear.
tent news of the dj7 in their particular locelittee, the
mama of the rarenoilLes ebantry, the (WNW) of
population, sad nay thfonuatiort that will be intecaltiag
to the general reader
in two and turned bottom upwards Seeing the
Galveston in the distance, I struck oat for her , and,
after swimming, I think, about a quarter of
was picked up by one of the Galveston's boats.
Captain Ellis, who was clinging to a pireugue bot
tom, was also picked up at the same time. The
first engineer,
his wife, a man whose name I do
not recollect, two negro boys, and some others. I
believe, clung to a portion of the wreck, after she
turned bottom upwards, until daylight, when they
were picked up. A Mexican, name not known,
who had rescued a little boy, was also found next
morning holding en to a log, and himself and the
boy are among the saved.
The mate of the steamer, Jasper, McFarlane,
running to Sabine Pass, was one of the passengers
of the Opelousas, and was rescued. Me afterwards
left the Galveston to endeavor to save some of
the other passengers, and unfortunately perished
in the attempt.
From all the Information I could obtain, is the
confused state of affairs, after I was saved, it ap
pears that, both boats behrg ruder fall headway,
the Galveston struck the Opelorms on the star
board aide, a little forward of the wheel
house, cutting her nearly in two, and smash
ing her machinery so, that the steam from
her boilers soon filled the cabin. ?evicting
it impestsible to distinguish objects distinctly.
The second mate of the Opelousas, and the
first mate of the Galveston, were on watch on
their respective boats at the time of the collision.
Captain Washburn, of the-Galveston, was not in
charge of the G. that trip e having left the host in
Galveston, on account of stekners. Capt. Smith, I
understand, had ehar4se of the G. Capt. Ellis as
serts that he was ha his right track or emote when
the collision took place. Immediately after
the collision, Capt. Ellis leaped on board the Gal
' rester' with a rope, for the purpose of making the
latter boat fast to the wreck of the Opelousas, in
order to save the passengers, but being rumble
to accomplish his purpose, leaped back on the
wreck.
The Galveston staid by the meet daring the
night, and her Lerman and men lased every exer
tion to save those floating in the water. Their
kindness and attention to the survivors, while on
board the Gt., and petit they were placed on hoard
the Union, at the flats, outside of Berwick's Bay,
will long bo remembered by them with gratitride.',
GENERAL NEWS.
A case of sonic importance was tried at
Wheeling last week, before Judge Thompson, in
the circuit court of Virginia. It was that of a snit
brought by James 0. Hawley, a brakeman on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, against that com
pany, for damages for injuries received whilst doing
duty upon the toad, from as aceideat alleged to
have been caused by the negligence of his fellow
employees. The ease was ably contested on both
aides, and elieited unusual interest. on -account of
the principle involved. The Hon. Andrew Hunter
and James S. Wheat, Esq.:, appeared for the com
pany, and the lion. Mr. Russell and others for the
plaintiff. The jury, after hearing the evidence and
arguments, rendered a verdict awarding 85,000
damages to the plaintiff. We learn that Judge
Thompson has set aside the verdict of the jury. both
upon the law and upon the testimony, and, in a
review of the case, has granted a new trial.
The jury in the case of William Jones,
Jr., tried at Washi n gton, Pa ., for murder. after
being out seventy-two hours, returned a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree." The Pitts
burgh Dispatch says that during.the rendering of
the verdict a painful stillness pervaded the entire
court-room, a silence only broken by the motion of
the prisoner's eounsel for arrest of judgment and a
new trial. The prisoner- was.remanded to prison,
and heavily 'ironed. After the rendering of the
verdict, Jones appeared rigidly calm, and bore the
scrutiny . of " a thousand oyes" with a composure
amounting almost to indifference
The *heeling Times of Saturday says that
for the past two days a rumor has prevailed in
Some circles to the effect that the flempfield Rail
road had been sold or transferred to the Pennsyl
vania Railroad. As yet we are unable to trace
the rumor to any reliable source, and we believe
it to be premature, If not entirely unfounded.
We learn that one of the directors hasbeen absent
from the city for several days on busican con
nected with the road, bat the last information
from him made no reference to any swat arrange
ment. We conclude, therefore,, that there is no
foundation for the reporL
A letter from Itlityagoes, P. R., dated Sib
frays: The brig Delaware sails today for
Philadelphia. - She takes no sugar or molaarrea,
though the stock of both is far from being export
ed, but the prices demanded here are more
than could be realised in the United States. The
. .
loss, it is feared. will be heavy oa speculators
hero, owing to the decline in Europe and America,
In coniamption and prices. The new crop looks
well, and so does native produce generally.
The Chicago Press gives particulars of heavy
leases of the gale of Wednesday night, on Lake
Miobigan. About daylight en Thureday morn
ing, the new schooner Kossuth went down outside
the Break-water, at Chicago, having been blown
out from the north pier. to which she had been
moored. dier crew were saved by the Tug Levy.
She was owned by G. 'Raab, of Sheboygan, and.
cost 5.10,000. Money on board amounting to
52,100, belonging to the owner, was also lost.
Mary Mulligan, formerly a servant in the
employ of Mrs. Cunningham, otherwise called
Daniell, emigrated some time ago to Cineienaii,
where she found employment in the dressmaking
establishment of a Mrs. Boggles. Mrs. B. de
nounced Mary as being " no better than she ought
to be,' , whereupon the letter brought an action for
slander, and upon trial of the case the jury
awarded her five hundred dollars damages.
The Norfolk Jlrgas states that on the IPth
instant two gentlemen shot, on Curriteek beach,
N. C.; no less than one hundred and forty-eight
wild geese, which they brought to market and
shipped North. The coast of North Carolina is
said to be swarming with wild fowl.
The jury in the case of the Commonwealth.
es. John Kerr, indicted in the Washington county
(Pa.) court, for the murder of John Bistel, on
Monday found a verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree. They had been eat since Satur
day evening.
A Columbus paper says - that, during the pro
gress of the recent tornado near Crestline, Ohio.
Miss White, a bung lady, aged about seventeen
years, was carries by the foree of the wind eeverat
hundred feet, and left dangling on the top of a
cherry tree.
Thomas Egan, a native of Clarksburg,
Western Virginia, attempted to commit suicide, on
Thursday, by jumping; from a train of care, near
Harper's Ferry. Ile received a severe gash in the
bead, and is not expected to recover.
Qn Saturday last, a child about coven years
of age, daughter of Mr. G. W. Dreleh, of Norris
town, Pa., was burned to death by her clathes
taking fire while in the act of centering a plate
Irons the stove.
Mayor Hodges, of Port stuouth. Virginia, has
addressed a letter to ex-President Pierce. in itieg
him to partake of the hospitalities of that city-ea
dinner, de.
Dr. G. Moreau Holt, formerly of Dedrora
county, Tennessee, has been appointe3 by tleneral
Willitta Walker surgeon in the Iklicaragnan army.
It is thought that the Mormons can bring -an
effective force of 1.5,000 men into the held, and
more than as many Indian allies.
THE COURTS.
WEDNESDAT 9 IPROCSEDINGS
(Reported for The Press
BISTIIICT Coral. No. I.—ln the easo of Francis
J. Be•ehlmp9 c... Robert Buchan in and John
Cranford, trading as Stevens Co., before re
ported, the jury returned a verdict for the plzint - ti,
.51,3 S 9t. Rtehard Donegan, E.q f,rtbe plaintiff;
Abbott, F.•q for the defendant.
James SitinnAtt, Jr.. and William A. Meyers,
trading to Sillituan Meyers. An action 0.1 two
promis.mry notes. Verdict for plaintiff, $113.39
\shin lf. Sharpless, ER.] , for plainta; Gorge
Tboen, as., for the defendant.
Ann Woodward•rr. Joseph. A. Clay and L.rai3
0, Chibourn. An action of Fei fa on a mortgage.
James W Ptul, Esq . .. or plaintiff; St. tleorge T.
Campbell, Esq , fur defendant.
E. J. Johnson rt. Mary B Magee and N It
Johnsen, executors of Henry Ma,;ee. de,tea. , ed.
An action to recover the amount of service; rot,-
dead as real-e,tatc broker. On trial. F. Curler,
Eq., for plaintiff; 11. .MeMurtrie, Esq., for
de
fendant
DISTRICT
,Coi, ET, NO. f,—.11.1,17,C TLITe —ln the
eats of Dougherty r .. Foley .t Co., hrfore
rerkTtc.l, an action and delivered,
tho jury Ictunled a verdict for the defendant. J.
B. Adaua.A. EN., for the i.laintiff; J. B. 31arlilar2,
for t defenJa lit.
Itiehard Greenest! vv. Henry Daily and John
C. Rush. An a:.•tiou of replevin f o r gao.d 3 aistr..y.,. 1
Covent,. Jury out. J. P. L , ttebe td and 11. XI
P11 1 11,44111qi., for the plalutitf; tlerhart
endl[Rdkin for the defendant.
noboit 2i. Corson A, Co. rc. Shantz. .tn
artiou of a .reploviii for a Loat e3al. Us
Jo.iepti P. I.,aughead. Egi— for the pla:u-
Sfts.N. 12 , ,1ney and Jeter ivr the k t,n,l,-
dant.
StsetoNe Judge Conrad.—Henry
Riley WllB eonricted of the larceny a a piece
eilk. Sentence deferred.
e t
tw
l h u, :l u r t le i 3 i, ! e l a ol; , kini was acquitted of selling
Hubert Connell was can% icted of an arsault an/
battery on E. Neff.
Jameia Dunn. who pleaded guilty of argon
1.‘33.,iti , :e, it as .ieritrelteo/ to two years' lint ri,c , r,
inept in the Eastern penitentiary.
Judge eonrailiin pasting sentence, made sell."
eloquent and feeling remares touching the crin,
of which the prisoner was guilty, and
the court would deal with the Om st .ererity in
future with rub ea,e.l, an/show that the t of /els
of hose house= and engine hoot, .zre Lot I /ot e the
law, P!! they f-,olishly n!CIII to ieLLziLe.
Cm rzzpoa.—ln nor reptt of tl.e c i:e of tle
IV Hinkle, ago :gated that he re, rhargol with
selling liquor on Fundtp. It Ebould hire her
for selling liquor without licen. , e. II e have been
informed that Mr. Mille keeT3 a tnogt rt,paq3-
bin house. and has never violated the Sunday U.
The pry in thin ease were dis,:harged, being una
ble to agree. Mr. ninkle produced a license.
Joseph P. Loughead. Esi , W 1.3 SIC Onl in, iu (len
court, as District A ttorney.
St en a GETTING UP Sraini.—The Pari., COT
respoodeut of Landepoldrare says that
the idea lots been started in that eity queer
notions. of ebeli.bing flights of stairs oltograter
in pritnte dwellings, and substituting tLerefor
steam hoisting rneeLines. As a steam engit.e 13
not by any means a coaren;ent article to hare in
one's bonse, .M. Fignior profo3op that the roo:ire
power shall be electricity. .endinz, a fat man to
the top of the house by a BaiS of lightnioa is
somewhat of a novelty
Moors.—Simpson says the ladies do not se t
their caps for the gentlemen any more' they
spread their boors.