00*BER ns /867,
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FIRST PAsin.=4fieete.of tho Credit System;
Literary Criticism;_ Letter from Portugal;
Report- of-the; Secretary-;of , War; General
I , Tew,s,;. The . .ooaris; Philadelphia and City
eirmati, Markets,' ~ ,FOualit P,ton.--:-The Two.
Fountains, hy,-S 0). Patterson; Groat Men
and' tVefflOolts, - Gieybearci.
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srzimat oir satNATon DOUGLAS,
cf - difiepo — rief the great speech of Senator
,Dosor.,a,B' `cif .the; - Calhoun .Constitution; deli
vored in thb United States Senate on Wednes
,day lasts. will appear in THE -Pitssa of to,rtior;
restraorning; 'Extra Copies Can he' hcdibi
abpiliatiori at the counter: •
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- 2`. THE souTitrAN DEMOCRACY:
Isierthern minority, in a Territory
known to be,eontrolled by a majority in favor
or slaiery;,4ennnted by such a coup d'dtat
as tile Lecomptori Constitution, to perpetuate
fremdonithere, and 'teoverilde : the plain will,
orthe'..Majerity,
.there 'would have been ti
united protest on the part •of the members of
Congress,'-
Senators and Representatives from
the sia-vo',StateS 7 TheYWOUld. have proceeded
bodyto, the President; ; and demanded the
fulllecognition of their-rights, and failing in
thkwir‘uld lave resorted" to , the. alternative
which, basmore than once been threatened—
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thetbe, ofwithdrawing from all association with
the; Representatives of the ether States. We
are'not witheut hope that this fadt will -Make
its due. - impri3ision upon, the 'minds. of such
Southern statesmen as must' noir i feel that
they are called upon to endorse the, action
of-men who, hi the name ,of the Seal], have
perPetraieil " all''tba outrages in Kansas;
and who,-for their own immediate selfish ends,
attempt to establish - a precedent Which must'
operate more fatally against the South than
nuything-atteMpted hi politics for the last fifty
years,;- for, besides weakening the South In
the - futiire, the .operations"of:the minority, at
LeCompton May throW , the new State, in the
event Of a fair vote being -obtained 'hereafter,
into - the handsof the Republicans, which will
locate upen.the borders of Missouri an Abell
tien rend Hymn! State, fimmwhich arrows, fire
brands,
- and death May be 'scattered all over
the South.
, Thd South cannot surely desire to perpetu
ate-slavery in Kansas by a fraud. There is an
instinctive repugnance among the chivalry of
the South to all dishonest action. They recoil
fl'om the imputation of being willing to pro-
Mote their_ min interests by wrong; and we
shall not be surprised if, in the course of the
coming debases in - Congress, declarations to
this effect Will be made by the leading Repre-
Sentatives of the slave States. •
When California came to Washington with
her Senators and Representatives, and de
manded admission into the Union under a Cori
etitution endorsed by an overwhelming popu
lar vote, nearly the entire South stood in solid
column against ber, and nothing but a com
promise, by which the fligitive-slave law was
strengthened, and other concessions agreed
upon, induced them to consent to abandon
their position. How, then ,do "the Southern
Democracy expect their Northern allies to
stand up in the face of such a record as
is, presented in the Lecompton Constitu
tion? How do they expect us to turn
back the tide of fanaticism when, while
admitting, as ill the South must do, that there
Ise vast preponderance of free-State men in
Kansas, they are still determined to forceupon
the people of that Territory a Constitution
fabricated by a minority, or by a Convention
elected by a. minority, and at the same time
depriving the people of any fair chance to
vote upon the slavery question Itself? Can
the South be assisted and strengthened by
breaking down the Democracy of the North ?
clan it be fortified in its peculiar institution by
aronsing - new elements of dissatisfaction in the
free States, and by placing in the bands of its
avowed enemies, Messrs. &man, HALE,
TRIAIIIIILL, SUMNER, GREiLEY, and others,
means by which a new sectionalism maybe'
awakened?
:These are quitions 'which every ,Southeri
statesman should carefully and conscientiously
consider:: The. course .or . the •acissoun . •..
is :Ilotte signifitant of the' sentiment which
prevails in' that State. The action of Judge
Eratonniand other loading pro-slavery.men in
Kansas, is a strong proof that the Locompton
fiend is denounced by the, most disinterested
- witnesses. , „
Row is this example to operate in regard to
the Territories hereafter to- bo organized, and
in referincelo States hereafter to be intro
duced? To-day it may be to the advantage
.of the South to make a minority predominant:
to-morrow. the North . may seize upon the
precedent, and wield it against the South.
The whole ititure is filled with trouble, tiad it
becomes every patriot, in Congress and out of
it,:fo unite in frank speech and action, so_
that - the principle of popular sovereignty 7-•
thdprinOple that cc the majority shall rule"—
a principle it as ancient as free Government
itself"—may - be - placed upon an immutable
foundation. . ,
BY -.MID:ATIGHT MAIL
FROM -WASHINGTON
Removal °, Secretary Stanton—Lord President
Calhoun—Judge Douglas's Great Speech
Appointment of Colonel Richardson as Go.
veneer of Nebraska. •
ffflorrespondeece of The Press.) •
- WASIIINOTON, Deo. 10,1857
The removal of Secretary Stanton, by the Pre
slant, seems to have taken place some days be,
fore the fact came out in Washington. General
Denver, Commissioner of Indian - Affairs; his
successor, left hero as it was supposed • for
Ohio, a week ago, but it is now believed
for the
,purpose -of proceeding to the Ter
ritory of
_Kansas, there to supersede Stan
ton, or else to exercise a certain supervision in
regard to the election which is to take place on
the 21st of this month. Mr, Stanton, in obedience
to what seems to be, the overwhelming, demand
of the, people of the Territory, and in order to
fulfil the pledges of Governor Walker and himself
to that people—that tbo Constitution, whenever
- framed, should be submitted to a popular vote—
convened thci Legislature, which, at this writing,
is in session, having commenced on the 7th of
December. This Is doubtless the cause of his
removal. Two prooltsaatione have been leaned
by Lord President Calhoun—ono announcing his
officers to conduct the election :on the 21st proxi
mo, whenthe Lecompton Constitution will be sub
mitted, and laying
_down the law in reference to
that election ; and the other providing for an elec
tion under the Lecompton Constitution, on the
first Monday of Stumary, for State officers, and for
a ' new. Legislatnie: The "legal and regular"
Legislature of Kansas, elected on the 6th of
Cotober, under the same statute -which called into
existence the Constitutional Convention—the only
body that tbo whole people of Kansas have really
jet elected—the body which can wipe out all pre
ceding acts—is now itt session ; and yet, in the facto
or, all this, we have Lord President, Calhoun
calling an election for-a new Legislature! It_
Is net my purpose to comment on the oxtraer
.4l;mq picture widish this 'conduct presents to
the, American people; but if Secretary Stanton
is to be removed for calling the regular Legislature
together, according to the demand of the people
who elected it, what measure , of reprehension
should be meted out to Calhoun, who orders an
election under a Minority Constitution, In advance
of the adoption of that Constitution by the people,
and before the judgment of Congress has been
passed upon it?
This is a new complication of the Kansas quer,
Aion. Intelligence from that Territory will now
be awaited with the utmost solicitude. And woe
to them public servants at Washington who, in
addition to all. these facts, should deem it to be
their, duty to set at defiance the will of the majori
ty In Kansas! -
The speech of Sedge Douglas, in the Senate yes
toflll,9, Will be printed in great numbers and:cir
culated; throughout the country, and I have no
doubt that it will carry conviction to every mind.
Ile may be said to have, barely commenced the
politest ; -
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. :Tadao. Douglas bases hie opposition to the Lo-,
0 - onipton Constitution on many strong, grounds.
lb speaks of the Preeident's &swan:mat as one most
-iteeidedly not In favor of that instrument. Indeed,
the 'President's inetructions to Governor Walker
deManded that the-wholo Constitution should go to
the whole people. In this view of the 'case, Judge
Douglas proceeds to prove that the work demand
-4d bf thecPresident and Governor Welker was
nedlilled by minority Constitution.
,hir:Baoliantut has again appointed Col. Richard ;
siett'iloverno!Of Nebraska., The Colonel is now In
Wiehington, arat Will th is time, it , is said, accept
the Pius tendered by the President. It speaks
wellfer the, liberality gr. Pohlman that he
• Skold have appointed 001 . Richardson to this im•
ier:tanf position', iitvleir of his determined hostility .
16.the'Iiemimpton Constitution; and I understand
llistlf dot . Richardson
.aceepteLthe position, it is
distinot• understanding that he is not to
-OA lato ippfltipp to the 440014toilthnitittition,
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FROM WASHINGTON.
141 mi-falls of Congress—captain !tido Relieved
front the Superintehdency of the CaPlia EN
tension—Great Putronagrof the Superintend
ent of Public Printing, &c. -
reorreepondenee of The rased
WASHINGTON, PM/aOr 10, 1857.
A feeling seems to exist in both Rouses of Con
firm, to remove their sessions into the new halls
as soon as praotioable, and it may be that this will
be satisfied on the opening of the new year at the
latest day.
The new halls have been fitted up in a style of
costly splendor, and , lOok, with their gaudy colors
and infinity of decorations, more like the cabins of
Mississippi steamboats or opera houses, than legis
lative, halls.. Some spiv discussions will take
plass on the accounts of the superintendent when
thor iiregent in,
It has been long determined by the War Depart:
want to relieve Captain Meigs from the superin....
tendency of tito Capitol extension and the aqueduct,
'which is being eonstructed for the purpose of
bringing water from the Groat Fatlsof the Potomac
te .this city. • I understand, to-day, that he has
been so relieved, and that both these works will
soon be placed ender the other superintendents.
Much anxiety is felt by printers, book-men, and
others interested in Congressional and Departmen
tal iwinting, for the advent of General Bowmen,
who has been appointed Superintendent of Pablio
Pritting in place . of Sol:Linen, whose term has ex•
'pirod• There are few public) officers of this Govern-
Mont having the control of as large patronage as
this superintendent. He Supplies the paper for
the printing of Congress and of the Executive De
partments, and every bill for printing, engraving,
binding, do., must pass through his hands and oh
tain his approval, before it eon be allowed. Even
Mr. Buchanan is compelled to secure his approval
for any printing that he may have done.
With such power, it WIII not be strange if, on the
arrival of General Bowman, he le beset by a myriad
of epeoulatore and others, who will do their en
deavor to get him, by hook or by crook, to yield
to their influence. i do-hope that he will keep
a sharp look out, and prevent, Indirectly even,
the slightest doubt to be cast upon the pure
integrity for which he hag always been admired,
and which was the moving cause of his appoint
ment. X. Y.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Among the numerous architectural improve
ments of our city, we have to notice a truly splendid
Iditice, No. 28 North Third, abavo • Market street,
which has beery ettoted by Mr. Charles A. Rubin
cam, a most experienced builder and contractor,
for Henry Kern, Esq. The plans of this building
have been erawn by Mr. S. D. Button, 26 Mar
-chants' Exchange. The plumbing is by Rice &
Whalley, 936 Arch .street. The painting and
glazing have been welt executed by Hunneker &
Brant, Arch street. The plastering by Mr. Wil
liam Trench, of Chestnut street. The locks by
Mr. Poter Rodgers, Seventh, 'below Aroh street.
Mr. Rubincam, who is the builder of the State
Arsenal, (corner of Sixteenth and Filbert streets,)
has already won the very highest distinction in his
Profession, and this beautiful edifice will go far to
extend it.
It is doubtful whether, amid the many first-class
places of business which have graced our city, of
late years, any one is even equal to that which we
now notice. It is built in the form of an L, and con
aista of five stories above the street level, with a
fine basement and good sub•cellar. It extends
147 feet back, has a front of 30 feet, and has quite
a large extra shoot of 64 feet—thus making not
only a full approach in North Third street, but,
with an opening, 24 feet wide, into Wistar's alley.
The entire brick-work has been executed by Mr.
Samuel Haines, well known as $' facile prineeps
in the ornamental work of that nature in this
city. The store is fronted with blue Pennsylia.
nine marble, supplied by Mr. Samuel F. Prince,
of Chestnut street ; Tho lower interior Is wholly'
granite work, by Messrs. Comber & Co. The
safes (not the Queen-Dowager's of Spain) were
made by Stewart & Stevens.
Yesterday afternoon, at McCroa's hotel, which
is fortuitously and fortunately book of this truly
fine *store, Mr. Henry Korn entertained a largo
party of his friends at a most sumptuous dinner.
"well watered with wine," as Paddy would soy.
He mentioned that he had been nearly the third
of a century in occupancy of the premises which
had previously occupied the site of the now edi
fice, and that the largo amount required to erect
the new fabric had been wholly realized by moder
ate profits'on largo sales on the same spot.
The entertainment, on the ()cession, was truly
splendid, and the genial hospitalities of Mr. horn
were cheerfully done amplest justice to.
PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS
Miss Waxtests' COSTUMB CONCERTS.—To-night
and on Saturday evening, Miss E. L. Williams
gives Concerts at the Handel and Haydn Hall,
Spring Garden, for the benefit of the Home for
Destitute Colored Children, an institution incor
porated by the Legislature "to affords home, food,
Clothing, and instruotion in school learning and
obsiantrrurranrgouv. , l ca auntrintrund'
at a suitable age to plane them in families to learn
some useful 'occupation or trade." Miss Williams,
Whose vocal powers aro great, while her dramatic
art is indifferent, does not, on these occlusions, ap
pear in the objectless entertainment written for
her by Mr. Lover, but; wearing the respective
national costumes, will sing Scotch, Irish, Welsh,
and English ballads, with some French and
Italian airs.
PARODI . AND VISIIXTEEPS' CONCERT.—At the
Musical Fund Hall last night, by far the best con-
Cart of the season was given. It had two especial
peouliarities—it was, almost exclusively, an Eng
lish concert, (allowing Miss Milner and. Mr. Ernst
Porting to " make their mark" in the music of
their own country,) and it was Parodi's farewell.
She left Philadelphia last night, by the " owl
train," and immediately proceeds to Cuba.
Aucn STREET TILEA . TRE.—This evening, Mrs.
E. L. Davenport takes her first benefit here, and
she deserves that it shall be a bumper.
Tun Rotuma BALLET TROUPE.—The Academy
of Musk) will re-open, next Monday evening, with
performances by the Romani ballet troupe—by
far the best dancers who ever have performed in
this country.
WALICIIT STREET TIIEATRE.—hire. 'Bowers is
about becoming manager of this establishment,
with a good company.
SUCELEY'S.—Thia evening is the last night's
performance' this week of Buckley's Serenaders.
They will not perform on Saturday evening.
MATTERS AND THINGS IN NEW YORE.
promthe New York papers of yesterday.] '
PARRISH WILL CASE iNctpan.--The Surrogate
this morning rendered a dedision sustaining the
Will and first codicil of the Into henry Parrish.
The other codicils were disallowed. It is said
the ease will be taken to the Supreme Court.
COLLISIOH.—The barque 3. W. Andrews, Cap.
tain Prowl', for Mobile, while. attempting to got
under weigh for sea, this morning, with a pilot
on board, came in contact with ship Viking, hence
for San Francisco, which carried away the barque's
foretopgallant mast, head of foretopmast, with top
gallant, yard and rigging attached ; also, the main
royalmast. The J. W. A. was towed to the dock
for repairs, while the Viking proceeded to sea,
having sustained no damage.
CORRY OP, OYER AHD TERMINEII.—III the case
of Samuel Keys, for the murder of his wife, this
morning the jury brought in a veriliot of man
slaughter in the fourth degree. The prisoner was
then brought forward and asked by the judge what
be had to say why sentence should not be passed
upon him.
Keys replied: "I am 11/1 innocent a.s the child
unborn. When I went home the day my wife died,
I found bar drunk, and asked her what ailed her.
She told me it was none of my business, and I left
the house. This was about nine o'clock in the
morning I returned again at slx o'clock in the
evening, and, found her lying on the bed, and
bruised - about the face, and was surprised to hear
she wan dead. The reason I said„she should have
been deed years ago, won because she got drunk. I
maid prove that whenever I have lived with her,
that I never raised a hand against her."
The court, in passing sentence, praised the jury
for their - verdict, and said that he would impose
as light' a penalty as possible. Keys was then
sentenned to two years' imprisonment in the State
prison.
An Important Grain Decision.
The Cleveland Herald, of Saturday, reports a
deeision of much importance to mercantile men,
rendered in the United States 'Court, by Judge
Wilson, in that city the day previous. A year ago
last June, T. A. Wilson sold to the agents of Fitz
hne Littlejohn, of Oswego, a quantity of wheat
lying in an elevator at Cleveland. The purchase
money was paid, and an order for the delivery of
the wheat given. On the night after the order
was given, and previous to its being weighed
out for shipment, the elevator took fire, and
the wheat was entirely consumed. Notice had
been given by the seller to the buyer, at
the time of sale, that no insurance had
been effected. The question between the par
ties now turned on whether the wheat was sold
"free on board" or not, the purchaser contending
such was a part of the terms of sale, whilst the seller
denied any mention being made of ouch agreement.
A snit was brought for the recovery of the money
by thepurebesers. Judge Wilson charged the jury
that the question to be considered was whether the
wheat had actually been delivered to the purcha
ser. The fact of the money being paid, and the
warehouse order for delivery being given, did not
suffice. The article must have been actually
weighed out to the purchaser before delivery could
.be legally,effeeted. It not beingeontended by the
'defendant that this had been done, the jury re
turned a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,907.30, with
tuteivat from the 23d of June, Ma.
Homeopathy
The number of Hotriceopathie physicians in the
United States is about 3,000. There aro two lio
'nueopathic. Colleges, ono at Philadelphia and the
other at Cleveland, 0., at molt of which, upon an
average, 125 students graduate annually.
' The yearly meeting of the State Society will be
hold at Albany next May. Semi-annual meetings
of the profession aro bold ovary autumn in the va
rious States. The Now York County Society moots
every month.
Homeopathy was introduced into the United
States in 1825, by H. B. Graham, M. 8., and the
adherents to the systeni are increasing in numbers
continually ; the several organisations are in a
prosperous %Witten, notwithstanding a deeply
rooted preindloo of the "regular" faculty. There
are three Homeopathic dispengalUlS in the city—
the Central, Northern, and Bond street, and coun
ty aealetlei are in operation in Saratoga, Kings,
Washington, Oneida, and New York counties.
The Homeopathic Medical College, of Pennsylva
nia was incorporated April 8,1848, and the West ,
ern 461preopat1110. 001bita, at 0 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 Butle•
titlolll.
THE PRESS.---PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1857.
THE LATEST NEWS
BY TEUEGRAPIL
Governor Walker.
prEdaL DESPATOIC To 111 E PALM I
WesniNuxoN, Deo. N.—Governor' WALKER •IS
expected to arrive In this city to-night. •
THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION.
U. S. CAPITOL, WASTIINGTON,
Deoembor 10, 1857
-SENATE.
Mr. Sew Ann submitted a resolution, which lies
over under the rule, directing the Joint Committee
on Printing to inquire into and report whether any
new provisions of law are necessary to secure the
faithful performance, on the part of Congress, of
existing contracts, which provide for accurate re
ports of the debates of the two Houses.
Mr. DOUGLAS gave notico of his intention to in
troduco a bill at an early day, to enable the pro
plo of Kansas • to form a Constitution and State
Government preparatory to their admission into
the Union. •
Dir. FOOT .gave notice of file intontion to intro
duce a bill making grants of the public landttto
actual settlers. .
The Senate then went into incentive session.
After the secret erasion, tho Senate adjourned
till Monday next. _
The Speaker appointed Messrs. Smith, of Vir
ginia; Grow, Taylor, of New York; Nichols, Smith,
of Tenneiseo; Morse, and Dowdell, as a Committee
authorised to OS appointed to examine into this
eubjeot of publio printing, and to repast such re
forme as thoy may deem advisable.
On motion of Mr. Banks, the Speaker was an
'thorized to appoint the standing committees; and
in order to afford him an opportunity to do so,
that when the House adjourn, it be till Monday
next.
On notion of Mr. WartnEN a committee was order
ed to be appointed to report when the new Hall of
Representatives can be occupied.
Mr. Down ELL offered a resolution requesting the
ministers of the Gospel, of Washington city, to al
ternately-open the daily sessions of the House with
'prayer.
. Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, presented potitions
against the employment of chaplains by the Go
vernment, on the ground of its unconstitutionality.
A dohate ensued, during which, in reply to a
question, it was stated that various ininistbrs had
tendered gratuitous services.
Mr. DOWDELL'S resolution was then adopted.
Mr. STEPHENS, of Georgia, offered a resolution
which was adopted, providing for the distribution
of books heretofore printed, to new mombers.
Mr. LETCHER, of Virginia, took occasion to say
that it was the duty of the House to atop the ovilß
attendant on these book distributions. Some vo.
Noma wero now in course of preparation, a single
one of which will cost two hundred thousand dol.
lase. Everything to bo printed should be first
scrutinized carefully, especially. since the House
had heard so much about the " plunder," which is
alleged to be connected With this department.
The Rouse then adjourned till Monday.
FROM KANSAS.
Meeting of the Delegate Convention—The Le
totapton Constitution Repudiated, &c.
- Sr. Louis, DCO. 10.—The Democrat received
Kansas letters to• night containing the proceedings
of the Delegate Convention, which met at Law
rence on the 2d instant, ex-Governor Robinson
presiding.
Resolutions were unanimously 'adopted repudiat
ing and pledging ceaseless hostility to the Lccomp
ton Constitution; denouncing the sail for elections
on the 21st inst. and lst proximo; declaring that
the Legislature elected on October sth shall not be
suspended by any' Constitution or State Govern
ment, until a fair and impartial vote be had; en
dorsing the Topeka Constitution; requesting an
extra session of the Territorial Legislature to frame
an election law; providing for the submission of the
Topeka and Leoompton Constitutions—the one re
ceiving the majority of legal rotes to become the
fundamental law of the State of Kansas.
A resolution WU also passed, returning thanks to
acting Governor Stanton, for calling a special ses
sion of the Legislature.
Speeches wore made by Messrs. Robinson, Lano
Thatcher, and others.
Death of Colonel Turnbull.
WILMINGTON, N. C., Dec. 10.—Col. Wm. Turn
bull was found dead this morning in bin room at
the hotel whore ho was boarding. Ho bore the
rank of colonel by brevet in the corps of topo
graphical engineers. lle was a native of Mary
land, and entered the army in 1819.
Re-Election of Senator Hunter.
RICHMOND, Deo. 10.—The legislature on joint
meeting have re-elected It. M. T. Hunter as
United States Senator, for the term commencing
March 4th, 1819. His election was nearly unani
mous.
CUstom House nt Oswego Robbed
OSWEGO, DM 10.—A burglary was committed
last night at the United States oustoin house in
this city. The sare was blown opon with gunpow
der, and $5OO carried, off.
Destructive Fire—A College Building, Burned.
WHEELING, Va., Dec. 10 —At ono o'clock this
morning the college buildings at Bethany, Brooke
county, Vu., was entirely destroyed by fire, to•
gather with the furniture, three valuable libraries,
extensive laboratories, chemical apparatus, and
valuable papers. It is supposed the fire originated
by ineondiariem.
The Weather at Clateinuatt
CINCINNATI, Deo. 10.—The weather is Clear.
The thermometer 35 dog. River twenty•ono fee
and rising.
Salting of the Kangaroo.
New YORK, Deo. 10.—The steamship Kangaroo
Nailed for Liverpool at noon, with $250,000 in
specie.
Markets
BALTIMORE, DOO. 10.—Flour le dull at $5; Wheat
is arm; old white Corn is selling at G3a650, and
new at 40a50o; old yellow 60a630 ; new 45a55a ;
Whiskey 22a23a. Exchange on New York 103ia
104.
Plyranurtan, Dec. 10.—The markets are gener
ally unchanged. Flour and grain dull. Whis
key, raw, quotes at 18c.
OINC/NNATI, Deo. 10.—Flour is steady; sales of
2,500 hbls at $3.9054 for superfine, and $1 for
extra. Receipts of the week 30,000 bbls.
Dogs are unchanged at $540.25, There are
few offerings, and the demand is moderate. Hold
ers aro firm. There is now lying here, awaiting
investment in Pork, nearly two millions equal CO
gold, but dealers will not buy beyond present
prices. A large number of eastern dealers are
willing to invest a half million of dollars at safe
prices. Tho receipts are light. Mess Pork is dull
at 813.25413.50. Shoulders quote at Sic., and
Sides at 131 c. Qrcen meats are slightly bolter.
Whiskey steady at He.
CITY POLICE-DECEMBER 10
(Reported. for The Preys.]
Moss Many TIPTON'S REAUX.—The old saying,
that , "it is well to have two strings to your bow,"
may be true enough in its general application; but
the affair we are about to relate may prove that it
is not always well to have two beaux in one string.
Miss Mary Tipton is a nice little dress-maker, re
siding somewhere in North Thirteenth street.
She is, In was, passionately beloved by two gentle.
men of this city, to wit: George Fooderman, a boss
tailor, and Henry White, a clerk in a grocery store.
She appears to have had no decided preference for
either, bet had made up her mind to accept. one
of them. Meanwhile, the two suitors wore endu
ring all the agonies of suspense. Feodorman, the
boss tailor, being a stout individual of a somewhat
greasy constitution, did not suffer much in the
Seth ; but White, the grooer's clerk, was obviously
wasting himself away to a shadow, as his affections
were powerfully strong, and his bodily constitu
tion le exceedingly weak.
Last evening, both lovers happened to call at
the same time; and, while they were waiting for
the object of their adoration to appear, Miss Mary,
from an adjoining apartment, overheard a propo
sition made by Fooderman to his rival, that both
should give up the pursuit, in order that both
might escape from the torment of hope delayed,
and that each might avoid the horrifying possi
bility of seeing Mary united to the other. This sug
gestion, which showed that jealousy was a stronger
feeling than love in the bosom of the boss tailor,
settled his fate at once. Mary burst into the
room and "sacked" him on the spot. As soon
as Fooderman had departed, Miss Tipton turned
to the pate and trembling grocery clerk, and
threw him into an ecstasy by declaring that
ho was the elected of her heart. The tender
scone which followed was brought to an un
timely termination by the re-entrance of Feo
derman, the rejected and infuriated boss tailor.
Ife had boon to his shop, which happened to be in
the neighborhood, and had brought away a largo
pair of shears, (one of the impltiments of his trade,)
and came bank with the avowed purpose of exe
cuting vengeance on his successful rival. Never was
there a more ferocious boss tailor than this Feeder
man. Amurath was a mere Bucking lamb in compa
rison. As soon as the grocery clerk caught a gliinpse
of the gleaming steel and hoard Feoderman, that
remorseless boss tailor, express a determination
to out off his ears, he fallen his knees and solemnly
renounced all claim to the hand and heart of Miss
Mary Tipton. Nay, ho professed himself ready
to make a vow of perpetual celibacy, and was
willing to swear by the river Styx, that he would
'never look at a woman agaiur if Feoderman would
agree not to cabbage any portion of his ear. The
screams of Miss Mary, in the meanwhile, had
brought in some of the police; but it was too late;
the recreant grocery clerk had saved his hearing
apparatus by a full and final renunciation of his
sweetheart. And so, instead of two beaux, Miss
Mary now has none at all. But she avenged her
eelf, in a measure, by having Feoderman arrested,
.44 bOand elritf to keep OR pm, IV,
THE CITY..
ABIUBEINIIINTS THIS lIVIONING
AAIRRIOAN loinomr ON Blum, BROAD AND LOCUST
BIRRETS.—Concert for the Benefit of Bt. John's Orphan
Asylum..
lIANDEL. AND rfAYDN HALL ' N. E. GORNER
AND SPRING GAHM STREEII.-009tAIMO .CODCertS,
by the Welsh Nightingale.
WHICATLIVE4 Anon MEAT THICATIII, ARCM StRIINT,
Aziong TIIO Lady of ileft4"—" The Serious
Family."
WALNUT STREET THErrnr, N. E. coma or
IND WALNUT STREETEI.—" The EnOlifilitrBBB."
NATIONAL THEATAN, WALNUT STREET, NICAR ElOlllll.
—"Equestrian PerformanCO3."
JAYNS'IS NSW HALL, C/11117TNUT
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SlVElTll.—Buokley , B Opera Troupe.
BA2iPORD'S OPERA HOME, ELEVENTH 131 . 81161 130T1
Onsatxrr.—Ethloplau Life Illustrated, concluding with
a laughable afterplooe.
Proceedings of City Councils.—A stated
meeting of City Councils was heldyosterday after.
noon, et which the following business was trans.
acted
The following memorial of the Board of Man
agors of the House of Refuge was read and re
furred to the Committee on Finance :
Your memorialists respectfully request that
ouch appropriation may tje granted by your hono
rable bodies as may be necessary for the main
tenance of the Mouse of Refuge for the coming
year. Awaro of the state of the finances of the
city, your memorialists will not ask for an amount
which, under a more prosperous condition of the
treasury, would bo exceedingly desirable to
to
celvoy bat restrict themselves to such a sum as,
with the expected assistance from the Common
wealth and the labor of the inmates, will Do abso
lutely necessary to sustain the institution. The
appropriation now solicited is for $23,000, which Is
$5,000 less than that granted for the year 1857.
It will be seen by the estimate herewith sub
mittal, that more than forty-three thousand dol
lars will be requisite to support the institution;
and we think that the groat coonomrpraetieed by
the managers cannot fail to meet your approba
tion. We refer to the printed estimate to show
that the salaries and other expenses are less than
are paid in other institutions. While it is hoped
that a reduction will take place In the cost of pro
visions, the expense of the rapidly Increas
ing number of inmates will more than coun
terbalance this reduction. It is a socree of
continual regret that it has been found im
possible to procure employment for all the
inmates—scarcely half of them have been
occupied in the workshops; the inmates, however,
are deriving advantage from Increased scholastic,
instruction. It would be superfluous to enter into•
any argument to prove the great advantages the
community, no well as the Inmates, are deriving
from this school of reformation. More than five
thousand wayward children have enjoyed the bene
fits of this institution, a large majority of whom,
we believe, are now useful and respectable Ott
zons; most of the others, we doubt not, have de
rived some advantage, at least, from the instruc
tion received by them while in the Refuge. It
would afford the Board of Managers sincere plea
aura if the members of Councils, when they have
leisure, would visit this interesting and noble
charity, and witness, themselves, the salutary
effects it is accomplishing.
By order of the Board of AIDDIVID.
TROSIAS EAur, President.
ALEXANDER Ilmsny, Seertary.
The following is a recapitulation of the items
comprising the estimates :
For the White Department $16,256 21
For the Colored Department 8,224 02
For the general expenses of both de•
partmints
$27,120 50
To which add an estimate also of the
expenses for the 4th or last quarter of
1857, for both departments 9,040 00
Interest and ground rent for 1858, on
$37,500* 2,250- 00
Claims due and unpaid prior to the
commencement of the present year.. 1,800 00
$39,740 50
THE INCOME FOR TILE MAINTENANCE OF THE /NATI-
TUTION FOR 1857
. .
From the City Treasury $28,000 00
From 'Which deduct appropriation to
pay off the floating dobt of 1858— • 8,000 00
20,000 00
From the State Treasury 15,000 00
From the labor of the Boys, about.... 4,000 00
Deficiency 740 SO
To which add an estimate for the pro.
babla increase of inmates in 1859..., 3,000 00
Total deficit
e The Ground Rent and Mortgage Debt of the
House of Refuge amount to $37,500.
Mr. Heideman presented a petition from Joseph
Delavau, late Coroner, asking for the payment of
his claim againit the city, incurred by collecting
the ballot-boxes during the progress of the Investi
gation in the contested election case between
Mosses. Lewis C. Cassidy and Wm. B. Mann. Re
ferred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Williams presented a petition asking for
the construction of a culvert. Referred to the
Committee on Surveys and Regulations.
Mr. Ilorrocks presented a communication from
George J. Hamilton, stating that he had a just
claim against the Board of Health for MO for cer
vices rendered. Seeing no p!ospeet of receiving
his duo from that quarter, he is compelled to ask
Councils to pay his claim Referred to the Com.
anittee on Claims.
Mr. Cuylcr presented a petition Asking for an
increased compensation to the public officers of the
city. Referred.
-- A communication rrom-the Chter-nalrisstso soul
Surveyor was read, submitting aorta's* plans for
surveys, ko. Referred to the (:lommittet!OU Sur
veys and Regulations.
A communication from the Board of Guardians
of the Poor, asking for an additional appropria
tion of $1,539,2p, was read and referred to the
Committee on Poor.
Two commuhications wore received trona the
Board of Controllers of the Piddle Schools; one
asking for an appropriation of $2,500 for repairs to
the Ringgold School House, recently damaged by
fire. On motion of Mr. Cuyler, tins communica
tion was referred to the Committee on Sohoole,
with Instructions to report on the cause of the
oversight, by which the directors of the Fourth
Section failed to have the furniture of this build
ing insured.
A communication from Peter Armbruster, Re
ceiver of Taxes, asking authority to retain certain
temporary °larks, engaged in hie Mace, wed read,
and referred to the Committee on Finance.
The City Solicitor notified Solent Council that a
suit had been commenced against the city, and re
commended Councils to pass an ordinance pro
viding, for the payment of the same. Referred to
the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Kline presented a petition from the Hibernia
Hose Company, asking to be admitted into the
Fire Department. Referred to the Committee on
Trusts and Fire Deparment.
Mr. Common presented a petition from the Fame
Hose Company, asking to :be admitted into the
Fire Department. Likewise referred.
Mr. Common also presented a petition from the
Diligent Hose Company, rotative to an alteration
of a fire plug. Likewise referred.
Mr. Kline presented a report from the Commit
tee on Law, to whom had been referred the claim
of the city to certain ground in the Twenty-fourth
ward. Attached to the report wee a molution
instruoting the city solicitor to commence an ac
tion to test the matter. Agreed to.
An ordinance from Common Council providing
for the payment of the claim of Jospor Ifarding &
Son, and for transfer of certain items of appropria
tion, was concurred in.
A number of other ordinances and roolutions
from Common Council were considered and con
curred In.
Mr. Cuylor offered the following
Revolved, 'Ant tho Committee on City Property
he, and they are 'hereby, requested to report to
the next meeting of Councils such temporary ha
provements no are prnoticable in the office no
commodatiots afforded to tho Prothonotarles of
the District Court and of the Court of Common
Pleas
Resolved, That the committee be, and they are
hereby, instructed to take into consideration and
report what permanent iMproYementa in the ac
commodations afforded to our courts and public
offices aro desirable and practicable, and at what
cost the same can be effected.
After a discussion between Messrs Roberts and
Cuyler, the resolutions were adopted.
On motion, the Chamber took a recess cc twenty
minutes.
On re-assembling, a•report VOW read from the
Committee on Prisons, relative tr the accuracy of
certain estimates. Referred.
A. communication was road from the Chief 'En
gineer of the Fire Department, reporting the Dili
gent, Weems's°, Philadelphia, and Fairmount En
gine COMpnies, for disregard of his orders at the
fire nt Lighth and Market streets, on Monday
morning last. Referred lo the Committee on
Trusts and Fire Departmenl.
Mr. Neal offered a resolution to suspend these
companies from the Fire Department until the
Committee report upon their conduct.
Messrs. Cornmeal and Schofield opposed the re
solution at considerable length, after which it was
disagreed to by a vote of 5 yeas to II nays.
The resolutions from Common Council Native to
legal action being commenced against those persons
implicated by the committee who reported upon
certain transactions in the Board of Health, wore
concurred in. Some unimportant communications
werepresented and referred, after ivhich the Cham
ber adjourned.
COUNCIL
In the absence of the president, Captain Day
WAR called to the chair.
A communication was received from the Solidi
tor, stating that the market house at Broad and
Race streets would be sold, unless an appropria
tion of $750 was made to pay the ground rent
against the same. Referred to the Committee on
Finance, '
A communication wee, presented from the
Receiver of Taxes, iNking that hie temporary
clerk') be continued. Referred to the same com
mittee.
A resolution from the Controller of Public
Bohoole, asking tho trawler of certain items of
their appropriation, wee referred to the Committee
on Schools,
A communtoation from the same body, asking an
appropriation of $2,500 to ropair the Ringgold
School, was referred to the Gam committee.
The usual number of petitions wore in-wonted.
Mr. Moocher moved to suspend the rule fa order to
consider the bill reorganizing the Board of Health.
Mr Miller hoped the subjcot would not be con
sidered at this time.
The ayes and nays were called, and the motion
was lost by a vote of 33 to 23.
Mr. Parker made a statement, that at the late
fire the fire companies could not got half a supply
of water. Ito asked leave to submit a resolution
in regard to the subject, but Councils refused.
Mr. Ring submitted a petition that the court
rooms and offices were inadequate to accommodate
the business crowded into them. Referred to the
Committee on City Property. •
Also, a communication from Mr. George J. Ham
ilton, asking the eettleiment of a claim of $B4O
against the Board of Health. Referred to the
Committee on Claims.
Mr. Boyer submitted a petition from the Hiber
nia Hose Company, asking to be admitted into the
Fire Department. Referred to the Committee on
Trust and Fire Companies
Mr. Hellman, a petition asking that the water
main be oonneoted with the steam tiro engine
under Carter street. Referred to the Committee
on Water Works.
A petition for water pipes in tho Twentieth
ward was referred to the same committee.
Mr. Warnook submitted a petition from the Vol
lowohlp Fir? Company, aliking an appropriatpa of
hose. Referred to the 'Committee on Trusts and
Firo Companies.
MT. Kane, a petition for the permission to lay a
railroad track from the Kensington depot to Wit
low street. Referred to the Committee on High
ways.
Mr. Kneass submitted a petition from the M. E.
Church of West Philadelphia, asking to be released
from rk claim for laying water pipes. Referred to
the Committee on Water.
Mr. Drayton, of the Committee on Finance, sub
mitted an ordinance, authorizing the Commission.
era of the Sinking Fund to sell city loans enough
to raise the sum of $114,900, to pay the City loans
falling due on the lst of January next. Agreed to.
Also, an ordinance making an appropriation of
$500,000 to pay the interest on the funded debt of
the city falling due on the let of January next.
Agreed to.
Also, a report stating that the Committee on
Finance had examined and submitted the esti
mates of the expenses of the Controller's Depart
ment, of Wharves and Landings, Law, Clerks of
Councils, City Treasurer, the lon Beat, and that
of lVilla Hospital. Laid on the table for the
present.
THE ALLEGED FRAUDS 1S THE BOARD OF UEALTR
Also a report anti resolution that the City Soliol•
tor be directed to consume° suit against Messrs.
Kahl and Shaeffer, tho contraotors employed by
the Board of health to till up the lot at Broad
and Primo strooto, to recover from them, if possi
ble, any sum of money which has boon unwarrant
ably obtained from the City Treasury.
Mr. Wildey presented a substituto that the City
Solicitor be authorized to prosecute such of the
officers and members of tho Board of Ileslth as
may be Implietsted in the recent corruption in that
department.
The Chair declared the motion out of order, as
the Solicitor was not a actualised proseouting of
ficer.
Mr. O'Neill moved to amend by adding a resolu
tion that the District Attorney be requested to
commence criminal proceedings against the officers
and members of the Board of Health who have
committed the recent forgeries upon the city
treasury, Sto.
An amendment was made that the city Solicitor
act in conjunction with the District Attorney.
Mr. Miller spoke in favor of the adoption of the
resolution as submitted by the Finance Committee.
He thoaght the parties who perpetrated these
frauds should be sent to the penitentiary.
Mr. O'Neill then withdrew his amendment.
REMARKS OF MR. MAURER.
. .
Mr. Mascher contended that those rascals (the
members of the Board of Health) should be placed
out of the power of robbing the city to a greater
extent lie thought it came with a bad grace from
Councils to miss these resolutions after, they had
refused to consider the ordinance to reorganize
'this department.
Mr. Ridgway thought the Board of lloalth was
not the only corrupt dopartmont of tho city go
irointnent. If they passed these roiolutions, ho
trusted that a committee of the honest mernbors of
Councils would be appointed to ems that the juries
were not, packed. (Laughter.) There were many
rogues about who wore allowed to escape by this
course.
Mr. Stevenson urged the adoption of the ordi
nance to reorganize this department. They were
about making their annual appropriation, and he
thought no more money should ho placed in the
hands of those robbers.
The resolution submitted by the Finance Com
mittee Was agreed to.
Mr. O'Neill again submitted his resolution in
regard to their prosecution by the dietriot at
torney.
Mr. Miller moved to amend by submitting reso
lutions, that the recent investigation by the Board
of Health developed transactions which had
shocked the moral sense of the community, which
were equally criminal and disgraceful, and that
the original evidence in the ease be submitted to
the mayor, with the request that he will band
them to the district attorney, with instructions to
commence suit against the members of the Board
of .111411th for conspiring to defraud the city trea
sury:-
2,570 27
Mr. Parker said that these frauds would always
eiist until the people elected honest mon to office.
lie was fearful these resolutions would amount to
nothing Ile referred to similar charges against
other officers, nod the course of the fluardians of
the Poor in selling the remains of certain paupers.
The Chair decided that the latter part of hie re
marks was out of order.
Mr. Parker—l am in order, eir.
Capt. Day—You are out of order, sir.
Mr. Parker—l am in order, sir, and—
Capt. Day—l decide you are out of order—(rap,
rap.)
Mr. Parker—l am here:as a representative of the
people, and have a right to express my views in
regard to all rascality.
Captain Day—The gentleman will please take
his seat. (Rap, rap, rap.)
After some little sharp debate between Moms.
Parker, Stevenson, and Day, the resolutions sub
mitted by Mr. Miller were agreed to.
Mr. Hallman moved to reconsider the vote on
the ordinance re-organizing the Department of the
Board of Health, and it has agreed to by a vote of
46 to 20.
CONSIDERATION OF TOE ORDINANCE.
53,740 50
The Clerk then road the ordinance to reorgan
izo the Board of Health. It provides that the
Board of Health, as at present organized, be abol
ished. At the slated meeting of Counoils, which
shall be held next after the passage of the ordi
nance, three citizens of Philadelphia shall be
elected by each Council, ono of whom shall be
elected by each Connoil to serve for one year, one
for two years, and ono for three years, and the
persons so elected, and their succossors,shall them
forth constitute the Board of Health of Philadel
phia, and shall possess all the powers, and perform
all the duties now conferred or enjoined by law on
the said Board of Health, and shall serve without
compensation. The terms of service of the per
eons to bo cleated by the present Councils shall,
immediately after their election, be determined
by themselves by lot. At the first stated meet
ing of Councils held in December id each sub
ahquent year, one person shall be eledted by . each
Council, to eorve for three years as a member of
the board, as re-organised by the ordinando. The
.Board of Health shall elect annually a president,
of their own number, and also a clerk, whose sal
ary shall be ono thousand dollars per annum, and
three messengers, whose salaries respectively shall
bo six hundred dollars per annum. The Bald clerk
and messengers shall perform all the duties which
aro now by law or ordinance required to be per
formed by the clerk and messengers of the board.
And it is expressly enjoined that all sums of
money duo, payable to, or received by the Board
of Health, or any of its officers, shall be paid week
ly into the City Treasury; and all sums expended
by, or for the purposes of, the Board of Health,
shall bo paid by the City Treasurer, upon war
rants drawn by at least five members of the said
board. under appropriations regularly made by
Councils.
A motion watt made to amend to make tho Board
consist of twelve °Bizerte.
Mr, Miller urged the adoption of the amend
ment, as the Board lies consisted of twelve mon
since its organisation in 1794.
Mr. Clay thought it cheaper to food six men than
twelve, and the tower the number of harpies quar
tered upon them the bettor. If there was to be
any cheating, stealing, or turkey-Dating, it would
bo cheaper to lot ax men do it than twelve.
Mr. Parker thought the people were most to
blame in this matter. If they ohoeo to elect dis
honest men to office, they should suffer. lie re
ferred to the fact that, last year, the Guardians of
the Poor sold the bodies of defunot paupers; yet
the people re-elected them. Ile thought it not
worth while for them to waste their time upon this
subject. It came from them with a poor grace to
say that the only honest moo in the community
were to he found within the four walls of the Coun
cil Chamber.
Mr. Moocher replied to the last speaker. Ire
was surprised that ho should endorse forgeries upon
the City Treasury. Ho thought, ovary member
was satisfied of the propriety of making a change.
Mr. Stevenson was in favor of 'selecting twelve
mon to this post; but if they intended to have
honest mon, and to take them from the present
party in power, the fewer men they selected the
better.
Mr. Perkins doubted the legal right of Councils
to remove those men, and their right to remove one
class of men selected by tho people.
Mr. Stevenson said that if Councils selected bet
ter men than the people the tax-payers would be
satisfied. Before consolidation this department
supported itself, and always had a balance in the
treasury. Last year they expended $37,000. It
was the duty of Councils to see that this depart
ment was properly managed.
Mr. O'Neill advocated the passing of the ordi •
seance.
Mr. Stool said ho should vote against this bill
from principle. Ife was unwilling that the inno
cent members of the Board should suffer equally
with the guilty. Ito called upon them to ferret
out the guilty and in aish them.
Mr. Stevenson said if a man kept company with
blackguards, ho was generally known as one of
them.
Mr. Miller moved 1 • refer the ordinance to the
Committee on Law, to inquire whether Councils
can legally pass such an ordinanco.
Mr. Drayton said Ote City Solicitor had already
expressed his opinion that they could pass such an
ordinanco.
Mr. Miller could see no lacces4lty for so much
haste in this matter.
Mr. King arose to discuss the merits of the bill,
but the Chair declared him out of order.
Mr. Knoass urged * reference of the whole sub
ject to the Committer on Law.
Mr. Crease said he had some doubts of the power
of Councils to remove these men, who were also
elected by the people
Mr. Moocher denounced the movement to refer
the subject to the Committee on Law, as an at
tempt to defeat the ends of justice.
Mr. King sold he was oppobed altogether to the
whole bill. When the present Councils canto into
power, ono of the first acts was to remove the Di
rectors of the Girard College, and elect mon of
their own political creed. Now, it was proposed to
abolish the Board of Dealth, because there wore
few honest men there of a different political taste
from their own.
Mr. Parker urged a reference of the subject to
the Committee on Law.
Mr. King argued that all the departments of the
city government should be under the immediate
control of Councils, and If they Intended to make
a change they should apply to the Legislature to
do so.
Mr. Jones was desirous of bearing the opinion of
the Committee on Law upon the subject.
The reference to the Committee on Law was
agreed to by a vote of 38 to 17.
Mr. Drayton, of the Committee on Finance,
submitted an ordinance making an appropriation
of $3,300 to pay the interest on a temporary loan
made by the City Treasurer, and to pay $3OO to
Mr. J. 1). Miles, the clerk of Councils, for extra
services. Agreed to. Adjourned.
Another Fatal Railroad Accident. —Mr.
George Banes, a brakesman of the mail train of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was knocked or the train
yesterday morning, at Eaglo station, and instantly
killed. Mr. Banes was not missed until the train
arrived at the Paoli station and the West Chester
train came up. Mr. Banes resided in this city.
lle leaves a young wife. The accident is accounted
for as follows: The mail-bag for the Eagle station
Is thrown from the platform without the train stop
ping, and Mr. Banes, in looking out to see If the
mail-bag had cleared the wheels, was struck and
knockoff from the platform by a freight train
coming in the other direotion on the other track.
Death from Want —Coroner Penner yes
terday held an inquest on the body of an unfortu
nate creature named Emma Jaclcson, who died
from want and exposure in ono of the many miso•
rabic hovels in Bedford street. A verdict in ao•
cordanco with the faets was rendered.
Carrying Concealed iVeapons.—A drunken
Individual was brought to the Central station last
evening, having in his possession a heavily loaded
golt'p rarolTor, h a ffue loo%El up for a hOliTing.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
A QUESTION OF ORDER
OPINIONS OP THE If ultnurts
Exciting Coroner's Caie in thr Fifteenth
Ward—Parrientors of 'she Investig,tion.—A
tragedy matured yesterday morning, at the house
of the Good Will Hose Company, in Wood street,
between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets,
which resulted in the sudden and awful death of
a young man, named John MoKeown. It appears
that McKeown, who was about twenty years of
age, was an apprentice to Mr. Wallace, black
smith, in the neighborhood of the hose house. On
Wednesday night, between t welve and one o'clock,
the deceased, in company with a son of his em
ployer, made an attack on two men from West
Philadelphia. They first demanded a treat of the
strangers, and upon this being refused they made
an attack upon them, knocking them down and
otherwise maltreating them.
The strangers gave an alarm, and some pollee
officers being in the neighborhood ran to the spot.
Young Wallace got oft at the time, but he was
arrested late yesterday morning. Officer Plather
pursued McKeown, who ran to the rear of the hose
house, mounted the fence, and got in through the
back way. The officer, who is a member of the
company, went in at the front door, but did not
search further than the first floor and the lower
part of the stairway.
About two hours after tho body of McKeown was
found lying in the street in front of tho hose house;
his face was horribly crushed and his skull was
fractured. Ifs died a few minutes afterbeing car
ried intelhe hose house. There is scarcely a doubt
that the deceased in fleeing from the officers ran
up stairs into the cupola from whence he got upon
the roof and ultimately felt to the ground, a dis
tance of three stories. The affair created a great
excitement in the neighborhood, and a crowd sur
rounded the place during the entire forenoon.
Coroner Fenner empannelled a jury and pro
ceeded to the spot. The following witnesses wore
examined.
Henry Flatber, sworn—l am an officer of the
Fifteenth ward; at half-past 12 o'clock last night
I was standing at the corner of Twentrsecond and
Callowhill streets; two men wore coming out Cal
lowhill street, and they were attacked ; they
erred "watch;" me and my partner ran to
wards them ; ono of the attacking party got away,
but the deceased, who was ono of the party who
made the attack, ran and got over the fence of the
hose house; I got in from the front, but could not
find him ; at twenty minutes pastlwo o'clock we
found him lying in the street in front of the house;
the way we cams to find him was that. one of the
men who was attacked lost his umbrella and hat;
we wore looking for them when we found the body;
the mon who wore attacked belonged to West Phila
delphia ; they said they were going along when the
two men asked them to treat, and they said they
had no money ; McKeown and his comrade then
made the attack; the persons who were attacked
refused to give their names; McKeown was a
runner with the Good Will Hose; he was not a
member of the company; the body was still wares
when we found it; we only searched the first
floor of the hose house when we went into look
for McKeown; I know him well when he was get
ting over the fence; I am a member of the Good
Will; I saw the deceased about a quarter after
twelve o'oloolc and told him he had better go
home, that our orders were to prevent prowling
about; the deceased ball been drinking, but not
much.
Jeremiah Clew, sworn—l am an officer of the
Fifteenth ward.
The witnass wile in company with the first wit
nese, and corroborated his evidence.
•
Ile also said he heard a fall a short time before
the body was found ; the man was still alive when
he was found, but he was entirely insensible ; ho
died a few minutes after he was taken into the
hose-house; ono of the men who were attacked
was out over the eye; he was knocked down by
one of the two men who made the attack ; the hat
sad umbrella have not been found so far as the
witness knew; an old hat had been found in the
gutter this morning, but the witness did not know
whether or not it was the hat lust by the party at
tacked. -
•
T. M. Gessler, sworn—l am a member of the
pollee of the Fifteenth ward ; at half-past twelve
I hoard a cry of "murder," and on running down
to Twenty-third and Wood streets I found two men
who said they had been attacked ; one of them had
a out over the eye; they gassed so much that I
cleared them out ; they had both been drinking ;
I afterwards saw the cleansed dead at the hoso
house.
Abraham Foreman, sworn—l lived in Twenty
third street; I heard some men in the street cry
ing "Watchmen! watchmen!! you are a d—il
pretty set of watchmen !" I got up and wont out ;
P went to the hose house, and on the road there
the officers told me two men had been getting licked;
I went home and to bed afterwards ; at that time
the body was not lying in front of the house.
Patrlok McCafferty, an officer of the Fifteenth
ward, was sworn. He and another officer were in
Callowhill street, near Twenty-third, and heard
the cry of the persons who were attacked; he after
wards assisted in the search for the rowdies who
made the attack ; after this time he saw the body
in the hose house. That was the first he saw of
him.
Michael Lefty, sworn—l am trustee of the Good
Will Rose Company. The rules of the company
(made in consequence of incendiarism in the neigh
borhood, which was unjustly attributed to the com
pany) forbid that any man or boy, not a member,
should be admitted to the house after 10 o'clock at
night. Only last night, three persons were put
out. A door in the roar can be opened from the
yard unless it is kept carefully fastened. We have
to keep men in our hose house. Last night, there
was an alarm of fire, and when the company went
out it got a shower of bricks. Several persons
bunked hero last night.
Edward Riley, sworn.—l was in the hose house
when the occident happened; I assisted to bring the
deceased in ; nobody can get in from the rear, Un
less the door is left unbolted ; it was loft open last
Right ; it is an unusual circumstance ; I hoard a
noose in the rear and some person going up stairs
late last night ; there wore slx.of us members of the
company here last night; no person was on the
look-out iu the cupola last night; it was between
two and three o'clock when the body was found.
The witness could not tell what time it was when
he heard the footsteps on the stairs, but he thought
it was after ono o'clock.
Wm. Wallace, the employer of the dimmed,
was sworn.—McKeown was under instructions; he
was about 20 years of age; he worked till G o'clock
last evening, and was home to supper; ho was in
the habit of drinking too much sometimes; he
sometimes stayed out all night; some three or
four weeks ago he was out all night, and I found
him here (in the hose house) asleep in the morn
ing; I know nothing of the difficulty last night;
ho had an ugly temper when under tho influence
of liquor.
Charles Meredith was sworn.—Between 12 and 1
o'clock last night I wont for acoach for Dr. Small.
where I live, at Twenty-third end Callowhlll sta. ;
I was struck on the back of the head by the de
ceased; James \Vallee° was with him at tho time;
they asked me for a shilling, and I told them I had
none; the deceased then struck me; I saw them
afterwards in a scuffle with two strange men ;
McKeown was drunk ; Wallace was not so bad.
The jury then adjourned until 4 o'clock this after
noon, In order to allow a post mortent examination
to be made by Dr. S. P. Brown.
The Concert for the Benefit of St.
Orphan Aayb fa, at the Academy of bionic, takes
place this evening.
THE MONEY MARKET.
P/111,41DELPHIA, December 10,1037
We gave not long since a history of usury, or
rather of the opinions entertained by various na
tions and ages against the practice of lendinguloney
for interest. It is our present purpose to endeavor
to show the reason for this unusual condemnation
of usury in times past, and why we believe that in
our day such prejudices should no longer exist.
Before doing so, however, we will introduce a few
words upon the argument of Aristotle, who is the
only ancient author that attempts to reason against
the practice
It seems impossible to avoid any other conclusion
than that Aristotle, in the Passage we quoted, was
deliberately and sophistically hazarding what he
knew to be weak and fake premises, in the belief
that, as his hearers had already established the
conclusions in their minds, they would not question
his propositionsor combat his arguments. In other
words, that ho prostituted his reasoning poweA to
confirm and support popular error, rather than em
brace the alternative of encountering popular pre
judice. When he said that "to make gain from
money, it•hielt is naturally lux-ten and no fruit.
Jul, is most justly accounted dishonorable," d;c.,
it is next to impossible that there did not occur to
his penetrative mind the answer which has since
been made, and which suggestsitaelf. that though
a darir would not beget another dam. any more
than it would a rain or a ewe, yet for a darie which
a man borrowed ho might buy a ram and n couple
of ewes; and that the ewes. if tike ram were left
with them a certain time, would probably not be
barren. That, then, at the end of the year, he
would find himself master of his three sheep, to
gather with two, if not three, lambs; and that,
if he sold his sheep again, to pay back his daric,
and gave one of his lambs for the use of it in the
meantime, he would be two lambs, or, at least, ono
lamb, richer than if ho had made ;no such bar
gain."
It is undoubtedly, however, in the fact flint
those nations whose records have coins down to
our day were chiefly addicted to agricultural pur
suits, that we aro to find a solution of the universal
prejudice entertained against usury. And this will
be the more apparent when we remember that the
most strenuous opposition to the repeal of the legal
restrictions imposed upon trade in money is ever
experienced in our legislative bells by those mem
bers who represent, and no doubt faithfully ex
press, the opinions of purely agricultural con
stituencies. And the reason is apparent •
Where there is little or no commerce, the great
motive for borrowing is necessity. and the motive
for lending must be either humanity or avarice
Ile who was actuated by a desire to succor the
oppressed would scorn to accept a compensation
for his beneficence ; while the miser would never
feel that he could obtain sufficient payment, and
his exactions would naturally arouse sentiments of
anger and hatred In the sufferer. When money is
borrowed for the purposes of trade, its value to
the borrower can be readily ascertained; but the
case is widely different when the loan is demanded
by an individual in want of bread lie would
agree to pay at a distant time almost any stipu
lated
price for present relief; and the demands of
a lender, whose motives in lending were avaricious,
would rise in exact proportion to the distress of the
applicant, and his own risk of losing the principal.
It was from this cause that in every country
which had no commerce, the money lender who
exacted interest came to be regarded in an odious
light. Ito was subject to the same detestation
with which we now regard misers, and in addition
to this, he born all the odium which wo now,
whether justly or unjustly, east upon pawnbrokers.
It is not, therefore, a matter of surprise that " ho
who putteth out his coin to usury'• should be
classed in Scripture with " him who taketh a re
ward against the guiltless."
It would be just as reasonable for us to revert to
the ideas and practice of ancient times in respect
to commerce, as to retain respecting money, the
handmaid of commerce, Ideas and practices which
naturally resulted from agricultural occupations
and the low state of trading pursuits. Plato says
it would have been better for the Athenians to
have (moth/nod to pond annually the voila of Fovea
of thole principal citisens to be devoured by the
minotaur, than to have changed their ancient man
ners
and to have become a maritime power.
The Romans ,indulged in still more inveterate
prejudices against lucrative arts and professions ;
and in the middle ages in Europe, when trade and
commerce were almost universally in the hands of
the Jam, the odium of their religion extended to
their occupations, and their loans for Interest were
not lees reprobated than the commercial activity
and enterprise, by which they were perseveringly
enriching the very States at whose bands they suf
fered persecution.
Wherever commerce has been extended, how
ever, we find that more liberal ideas on the sub
ject of interest have been more or less generally
entertained. Sir William Jones says that in the
efiret of the sacred law tracts, which the /Redoes
suppose to have been revealed by Menu, some mil
lions of years ago, and which Sir William refers to
a date long prior to the Christian era, there is a
curious passage on the legal interest of money,
and the limited rate of it in different cases, with
am exception in regard to adventure., at sea;
"as exception," says Jones, " which the sense of
mankind approves, and which commerce abso
lutely requires." When, in spite of prejudice,
commerce began to get a foothold in ROll3O, it was
found neeesaary to modify the legal regulations as
to Interest, and it was for the very reason that the
law lokoed upon the taking of usury as a crime,
while tho business of the citizens made it not
only innocent but indispensable, that it became
in the eloquent language of Gibbon, " the
inveterate grievance of Rome." One of the
first great minds to extricate itself from the
bondage of hereditary prejudice, and to dis
tinguieh the diversity of circumstances between
ancient and modern nations, and the conse
quent necessity for different regulations in respect
to usury, was that of the great reformer, John
Calvin, whose writing on this subject displays alt
the clearness and force for which his mind was so
justly remarkable. But error often yields slowly
to truth, and though the necessity for allowing
interest because at last universally recognised, it
was still sought to be hampered by regulations im
posed under the influences of old prejudices, un
just and unfair in their operation, branding the
taking of interest above the legal rate as a crime
under the name of usury, and affixing to it
entirely disproportionate spenalties and forfeit
ures.
It is only within a comparatively fe . w years that
a few writers have been found with 'efficient
moral courage to support the actual truth, that the
rate of interest should be left, like the terms of
other contracts, to be adjusted by the discretion of
the parties. The celebrated Law first broached this
doctrine, but it was brought prominently forward
by Turgot, the famous French Minister of Finance
under Louis XVI."
To point tho way to this great reform was is
keeping with the character of the man who could
take charge of the ruined finances of France, and
apply the remedies—" no bankruptcy, no more
loans, no increase of taxes; but a vigorous exami
nation of expenditure and resolute reduction;"—
who could face, without flinching, an army of en
emies, of ousted sinecurists and their families and
friends, of disgraced official plunderers, and dis
charged and lazy pensioners upon the poblio
purse—who could restore the credit of ruined
France, and postpone, while his reforms were
maintained, the wild fury of the French resolu
tion.
Three generations in advance of his time, Targot
wrote as follows:
" It is an error to believe that the interest of mo
ney in trade ought to be fixed by the laws of
princes. It has a current price, like that of all
other merchandise. This price varies a little,
according to the greater or less security which
the lender has ; but, on equal security, be ought
to raise and lower his price in proportion to the
abundance of the demand ; and the law no more
ought to fix the interest of money than it ought to
regulate the price of other commodities whichlsave
a currency in trade."
The following is a statement of the receipts of
the Penneylvaoia Railroad Company for Novem
ber. The figures aro very gratifying, and speak
well for the management and prospects of the
company :
Receipts for the =Loath ending No
vember 30
Same month last year
Receipt. from January 1,1837, to De
camber 1, 1857.. .54,616,499 03
Ramo period hut year ~.. 4,413,191 76
Increase $201,222 27
It would give inereased satisfaction to the stock
holders, and the publio generally, if the income
derived by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
from the Columbia Railroad and the Main Line
were given.
The receipts of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
(luring the month of November, 1857, were as fol
lows :
Main Stem. Branch. both roads.
For passengers, 261,550 36 $23,440.25 994,990.62
For freight —271,016.41 10 481.76 231,499.17
331568.78 33,92101 366,488.79
This shows a falling off of '9:43,270, u compared
with November, 1856. The fiscal year of the Bal
timore and Ohio Company begins Wolter Ist.
The receipts during the first two months of the
fiscal year, for four noses/live years, hare been
as follows :
October. November. Total.
1854 $359,610 11347,878 $701,233
18.55 429,437 - 390,119 - 822,556
1856 471,391 434,759 896150.
1847 398,192 365,489 792,681
At a meeting of the associated banks at the New
York Clearing House last evening, a resolution was
offered " that after the 12th inst. all balances at
the Clearing House shall be paid in specie"—
which resolution, if adopted, would essentially
bare been a resumption of specie payments. The
banks voting in favor of the resolution were :
Commerce, America, Manhattan, Merchants,'
American Exchange, Phcenix, National, Fulton,
Chemical, Greenwich, Leather Manufacturers',
Broadway, Mercantile, Irving-14.
And those Toting against it were : Mechanics',
Union, City, State, Republic, Metropolitan ' Con
tinental, tradesmen's, Merchants' Exchange,
Ocean, Batehers and Drovers', Chatham, People's,
Hanover, Citizens', Nassau, Market, St. Nicholas,
Corn Exchange, Park, Commonwealth, Oriental,
Marine, Atlantic-24.
The ether city banks were not represented at the
meeting.
PRILLDELPRIA STOCK Exeaksay. BALED,
December 10, 1967
Reported by R. Manly, Jr., 3'04 Broker, No
80i Walnut street.
PIRET BOARD.
500 City do CAP new.9l% 2000 Sosq Canal 65....62%
000 do new CAP .911 j 14 Ilarrlsb R...10t5.52x
700 do .... CAP 83% 2 Reading It 204(
1000 do .... CAP.B4 20 N Penn R 8%
1000 do .... CAP 84 8 Penn It :124
500 N Penn RFC 62% 8 do 38S
600 do ....... —152% 10 do b 5.34%
1000 do 62% 2 do 391(
1000 do 52% 20 Morris Onl prd...02
1000 Elul II let la mrt.7o% 179 Lehigh 8enp.b5.3454
1000 do ..Ist mrt.7ol( 3 do 2dr5.3414
1000 Penn 5s 85 100 do a5.343‘
9800 do 86 11 do 14.34%
300 do 85 20 Morris Cana1....45
1000 do 85 59 Bahl Nay 11
1000 Morris Canal 6...72% 2 Germantown 8k.501i
1000 do " 4 1i 10 FarmAlles Bl MI
BETWEEN BOARDS.
3000 C&A Tr - 611'6415.741 17 Peon R 39
1
10,000 Penn 1s 95 7 do '1
SECOND BOARD.
1000 N Penn It Cs 10t5.528i
080 do 52%
500 do 53
1 Bear• Mead R.... C.4X
23 do 1049.54
15 'tartish R 53
55 N Penn R tots... 88;
10 do sOwn.
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CLOSING PRI
Bid. Asked.
Phil& O's int off 8311 84,V
RR.838, &iv
4 • 4, Nev 914( 819;
•4 "Coop 048 y 91%
Pernaylv s's. T; 85
Reading R "6t 2 $
do Ronda MO 73 16 '
do Met 6a 4 44.81
Patina RR 29 28
slnrril Cant Con 43 45
Sam N Oa 82 —6l 83
5t0ck.....10% 11%
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210 Lek Scrip..bslots.S44
50 Elul It 12'
25 Resdinz R..cash.26ti
10 Norristown R
6 do ...........58
10 City Bank 40
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Wl:wilt& Elm RIIK 12. f
do Litman Ve 70 ;Os
do Wen TO 51
Long Island.... 9y
'Vicksburg d
Girard Bank 9 9S
Lehigh Zino 1i 1
Union Canal 3 4,%;
New Creek
Catawlesa R R.. 8 % X
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BREADSTLIFES tAT BALTIMORE, Dec. 9.
There was some inquiry this morning fur Flour.
lint so far as we could learn there were no sales of
any description made. There were buyers on
'Change of good brands of' both Howard Street and
Ohio Super at $5, but the holders declined accept
ing this figure, and most of them seemed disposed
to wait the receipt of further foreign tidying before
operating. For both Howard Street and Ohio Super
holders were generally demanding Ibis morning
$5.121a55.25 per barrel. City Mills Super is dull.
It is, however, firm at Si 75 per bbl cash, and $5
on time. There has been some movement recently
in Extra Flour. There were sales yesterday of
some 100 blds Ohio Extra at $5 50a55.,75 per bbl,
and these are the ruling figures to-day for this
variety. Howard Street Extra is scarce, and we
quote it as ranging from $5.75 to $0 25 per bbl.
City Mills Extra ranges at from $5 50 to 56.50 per
bbl. Rye Flour is still quoted at $4.75, and Corn
Meal at s:t So per bbl, for both Baltimore and
Brandywine.
There was only a moderate receipt of wheat this
morning, but of Corn there was a good supply.
Wheat wee in brick demand, particularly for
prime and choice lots, and for them descriptions
the market was firm at yesterday's prices. Red
Wheat sold at 1008101 c for good to prime, and
white do. at 1004104 e for common and medium,
110a117e. for (air to good, and 12,0 e. for prime
lots. Choice whites would have brought 1233125 e.
had there been any at market. The offerings of
to-day reached about 16,000 bushels. Of Corn
there were about 25,000 bushels offered, all but
2,000 to 3,000 bushels of which were new. New
white was dull and lower, but some sales of new
yellow were made at an advance on yesterday's
figures. Now white sold at from 42 to 50c , ;ad
new yellow at from 45 to 55e. A few parcels of
old yellow were sold at 53a63c., but wo heard of
no sales of old white. Of Rye there were 500 bush
els Pennsylvania sold this morning at 73,175 c., and
of Oats there were about 5,000 bushels sold at 29a
33e. for Virginia and Maryland, and 34a350. for
Pennsylvania.
CAMBRIDGE CATTLE MARKET, Dec. 0 —At
market 1,147 cattle, about 950 beeves, and 197
stores, consisting of working oxen, cows, and 1,2,
and 3 years old.
Market Beof—Prices: extra, 36.79x;7; first
quality $641.25; second do $5.50; thini do $5;
ordinary do $4.
Prices of Store Cattle—Working Oxen from $l5,
$lOO, $l5O to $175. Cows and Calves, from $25,
$ 35 , $4O, $5O to SOO. Yearlings, $l3 to $l5 ; T wo
years old, $2O to $25 ; Three years old, $5O to $52.
Sheep and Lambs-2,800 at market; prices in
lots $l, $1.75a52 ; extra and selections, $2.504312
each.
Swine-1,100 Western at market pricer, live
51 per lb; per
BY THE PILOT UNE.
LETTER FROM NEW TORR.
Norrespondenee of The Prem.]
New YOBS, Dec. 10-5.20 P. M.
The alarm felt by the principal importers is to
what may happen in the great commercial aides
of Europe, and the fear that the next steamer iney
bring them back a sheet of unpaid bills, make
the market here even more dull, and unfidenee
more scarce, than they otberwisewoold be. I have
seen several German importers to-day, who dead
deservedly high in oommercial credit, and who
are really rich, but whom the next steamer from
Europe may strike down, by the return of pro
temed bills of exchange.
The same apprehension from abroad seems to
pervade all classes, and the tightness with which
moneyed men fasten their bruebeepockets is
increased and increasieg, and until good news
reaches us from Europe, will continue. I know a
first-rate man realty, though perhaps not first-rate
in the bank dictionary, wbosold hie note to-day at
24 per cent. per annum, and though keeping a large
and regular banking account. refused acoommo
dation unless he could deposit eollaterals. Every
thing is dull and inactive. Those stereoty ped
words in all market reporta may be used every day
in describing business here.
Nominally, money is abundant and easy. Real
ly, it is scarce and tight. Paradoxical as this may
appear, it is so, and until the banks open their
vaults and capitalists begin to think that there
are some men in the world who may be trusted
with impunity, we shall not have much relief
Go where you will in the city, no matter whet the
nature of the business, stagnation is the complaint.
"We are doing nothing. We are afraid. We do
not know whom to trust, and therefore prefer to
do nothing than run any . risk." Many of these
same men have money lying fidle at their bank
ers, or in their own safes, and yet dart not anveet
1 a shilling.
1 The large experts of gold are certainly paying
oft" our indebtedness abroad, although we atilt owe
1 an enormous ram, bat they are helping to keep
down the market for our own staples, and, in this
respect, are to be deplored. The rates of exchange
I are such as to prohibit specie shipments, but the
distrust of bill-drawers renders bullion more
agreeable and ufer, and until confidence is re
stored, we may expect this to continue. It is
some time Since I have ventured to classify the
market prices of mercantile paper, or rather of
motley, and I own that it is still difficult to do es,
except nominally.
~
On call, the best men with best collateral, can
get money at 5 a 6 per cont., end 36 • 60 dem
at about 7 per cent Inferior men—that is, men.
not ratel A 1 in bank parlors—cannot get any
thing at the banice-e:they must go to the shavers.
If they are very good, they can get their paper
done at 12 per cent.; if good, at lb a 18, and if at
all doubtful, or netvery well known, however good
really, 21 a3O per tent. However easy you may
hear the market is here, I can assure you that
what I say is true, and that the liberality of the
banks is a mere myth—a fraud upon the
public. The only liberality I tan learn La that
which they show in employing lawyers to eve
drawers, endorse/re, acceptors, d - c
-,
whose names
are to be found on notes or bills drawn, endorsed,
or accepted for the banks
This they do lavishly. I overheard one of their
officers testa:noting an attorney "to sue the parties
vigorously, all of them"—meaning the wretched
endorsers of a note, who had never received one
dollar by the translation, and yet offered to make
terms, and get time, but were lto be sued vigor
molly," To hear these pompous bank men talk of
bankrupts, you would suppose that murder was
venial in comparison with bankruptcy. And yet
who are worse bankrupts than these very men'
They either failed because-they were insolvent,
and should, by law, he long since in liquida
tion, or they failed while they were able to pay,
and are the worst kind of ineolvenLe—namely,
fraudulent.
There wasp meeting yesterday evening of the
Clearing House Association, to consider the pro
priety of paying all the balances in mule after
the 12th inst. With characteristic harmony,
action was made impossible, fourteen banks voting
in favor of the propoeilioia, which would have
amounted to a resumption of specie payments, and
twenty.four against rt. The Metropolitan Bank
has called for the payment en the 22d inst., of the
instalmentedne on the subscription to the tnereaud
capital stock. The total amount of the certificstea
of deposit held in this city is said to be $4,850,000,
of which the Shoe and Leather Bank holds
$e,230,000.
Foreign exchange was a trifle firmer to-day for
the choicest signatures, but the general market
was very dull and unsettled. Good names may be
quoted at 1081a1081, and the best bankers` names
at 1081a109 for 60 days sterling. The Kangaroo
took out to-day $257.312 in 'pule. The Fulton
will probably take out $450,000. The business at
the clearing house to-day was: clearings, 812,948.-
145.43; balances pain in coin, $892,26x49. Ame
rican.gold sold freely at 1 premium. Sovereigns
were in active demand and scores at $4.48454 00 1
Napoleons, $3.87. The bills of the Somerset County
Bank are redeemed at par at the American Ex-,
change Bank. The January eoupons of the Mis
souri State bonds will be . paid by the Bank of
Commerce. Mr. F. M. Horns, late Resistant cashier
of the Nassau 'Bank. has been appointed cashier of
that institution, in the place of Mr. Tooker, re
signed.
There was a larger business done to-day at the
slut exchange. At the opening, prices recovered
slightly from the depression of yesterday, and the
market was mere buoyant: but there was a felling
off at the close, and the beers in greater strength,
evincing an evident disrosition to use it. New
York Central went up to 75, but fell to 731: Eria
was steady at 16j end Illinois Central weal down
to 86. At the second board, Reading clo s ed at
531; Erie et 16; Illinois Central at 86!; New
Took Central at 731; and Michigan Southern at
181. The market closed steadily. Th e scbscrip
lion to the new bonds of the Michigan Central
already reaches $600,000. and 'difficulty is antic.
paced in raising the whole earn.
The Sub Treasury to-day received e5t,245 54 ;
paid, $76,026.83; leaving a balm* of $3,917,
0-10.08.
NEW YORK STOCK EKCILANCIK—Dic. 10.
FIRST BOARD.
600 Indiana State 274 53 5O Mick Boathere IX%
8000 TO/lois to 87% 55 Ilith =I( So &NI Ft
4000 Missouri Si :7% 100 de 112%
1000 do 17 1 4 50 do 32%
1000 Cal State Is, 'IS 66 70 Panacea R 92
1000 Kr State is 100 30 Illinois Con aVI
2000 Erie 24 mtge lAIA 8 0 15) do 13 S 7 tk
9000 111 C4ll Das cB2 1150 do al 67
1000 N Y Central 6s 81 1 50 do s 3 56
1000 Tlt & Alton 2 m 50 , 1 19 Gale.. & Chic 72%
4000 Mich Oen 9p ct let 150 do
Mt Illu Fond Con INA Cl & Tol It as 42%
Bonds 33%200 do 510 42%
29 Ocean Bk 7t 100 do 110 42%
10 National Bk 99;10U do 1,10 42%
20 Penn Coal Co CO iXO do t6O 42%
29 do 591; i sMO La Cr & 111111 10%
21 do 03 15, 150 do 53310%
200 do tee 60 150 do 10%
13 Del & and Can 100% 150 do 1.44 11
200 do 030100% 10 Chic &Rk Ist 73%
75 Pacific 31 SS Co 69% 160 N Y Cen R e 73
100 Comb Coal 9 1 ;1250 do e 7.1 e t
970 Erie R s 3 16%1225 do c 74%
100 do 83015%;100 do seo I: %
100 do 1 c- 16%1 10 do 74X
100 do eID 16,4 125 do 14%
10 Hod Air R 19 IWS do 74
40 do 18%1 50 do 131,
50 do 1151:i IA do ale 73%
WO Reading It s 3 52 200 do 010 771
200 do 030 52 150 do shil 731;
25 Stich Cen It 527, 50 do c ;3%
SECOND BOARD.
2000 Cal State Is, '7O CS 100 Erie Railroad 16%
2000 Missouri its 27% 100 do 16 4
4500 Illinois CO.. MA 82 125 do 1,10 16%
100011u1son R 3m 54 150 do s 3 16%
500 N Y Cen R7* 61 100 do 03 16%
20 Amer Ex Ilk 90 100 do 02 16%
53 Barite Stall Ca eag 'DUO do 8116
100 Cemb Coal 9I 5 Hodson Kit It 19%
18 Delkllud Can Co 100% al Illiocia Cen lit 49%
17 do 100% 47 do ES
50 N Y Central 7581 50 do Ed%
100 do 73% , 400 Cler & Tol R 42
100 Reading R 52% Ce Chic & 160 Isl It 1.32
100 do b.,1 52 8 100 do 7.tr
50 Mich Sob NI It 19% 50 Is 72S
$000,443 89
353,122 83
67,321 06
Wasta'n Total for
ASHES.—The market is quiet for bath kinls - ,
sales of pots at $8.50a54.62}, which is lower, and
pearls $o
COTTQV is quiet; middling uplands are heavy at
11 cts. The sales are 150 bales.
FLorn, ac.—The demand for Western canal
Flour is more active, but with increased arrivals
and little inquiry for export. holders bare sub
mitted to a decline of 540 cents per bbl on the
low grades. The medium brands aro heavy and
freely offered.
The sales are 8,000 bbla at $4 55154 65 for com
mon to good State; $1.75a54.95 for extra do;
54 55154 65 for superfine Indiana and Mrchigan ;
753.35 75 for extra do; 55 20a$5 c , O for common
to good extra Ohio; $5 tiOssl' for good to eh,f•23
do; $5 Stnts7 10 for St. Louis brands. and $5 7:a
$7.75 for extra Genesee
Canadian Flour u freely offered, and is lower—
the demand is light—`ales cf 600 bbls at $3 60a
5-1.70 for superfine, and $4 9515.0.25 for extra
brands.
Southern Flour is abundant. the large arrivals
intimidate buyers. Sales of 700 bbls at ssa.ss :la
for mixed to good brands. Baltimore, Sc $3.33a
$0 80 for the better grades.
RTe flour is plenty and is heavy—sales of 70 bbla
at $3 3044 30. Corn Meal is quiet at J 621 a
$3.70 fo: Brandywine, and $3.35x53.40 for Jersey.
Buckwheat flour is inactive at $2.12a52.2d.
Gassy.—The demand for wheat to rather more
active, particularly for the low grades ; these are
wanted to complete invoices, and are firmer, while
the better kinds are rather easier and slew of sale.
The sales are 20 000 bush at $1.224151 24 for
Amber Tennessee; $1 20 for good red Southern;
St 12 for red Indiana; $1 21 for white do: fkle for
Chicago spring; slaslo3 for Milwaukee Club,
and $l. 032 for Canadian Club.
RI e is more plenty and Slower; sales of North
ern at 73.17C,c , . Bark.) , and Barley Malt ate ILI:,
tire, end nominally unchanged Oats are in fair
request at 429.43 c for State and Western.
Conn is plenty and is lower; the demand it
onlyfor the trade; sales of 15 0,./0 Lush. at 75a".'isz
for Western mixed; Goadic for new Jersey and
Southern yellow; and Me for old and new
Southern mixed.
Pri.‘isto , %—The demand far Pork i=
and the market is heavy. especially f.r c,.ontry
Saks of NO bbls at $16a...z1e., 7a fur mess and $ll
asls 50 for prime, and $lO 5J fur clear
Beef continues heavy the arrivals arc limited
Sales of 100 Ws at $5 752;5 75 for country prime ;
S9R:IO for do mess; sllasl3 for repacked 11 e,tera
mess, and sl4 l sll .50 for extra do
Prime mess is inactive at $101524. Beef 14,
are plenty and Leavy; sales of 25 this at „Site
$l6 50. Bacon is quiet at 10311 e. Dressed
are plenty and lover. owing to the warm weather
sales at s,',af,c.
Lard is in sruall stock and price; are sustained ;
sales of 100 bbis ' in lots, at lOuldi. Cut Meats
are in good supply and heavy. Sa'ea of Ilq Wads
at Tai lc. for shoulders, and fhlalOc. fur hams.
Butter is plenty and is dull. at 12514;,:. for
Ohio, and 14a20c. for State. Cheese is quiet at
SaS ie.
Si' An —The sale of new env New Orleans was
again postponed, on account of the weather. until
to-morrow after the tea sale The twine's so far
to-day has been moderate, and prices are fully
sustained.
IMPORTANT DECISION CONCERNING DISCOENT
ED DRAFTS PAYAPILI: ELSEWHERE--The Buffalo
Express of the Bth, states that to am:ulcer of eases
lately tried in the Supreme Court in that city, the
question was raised "whether paper payable below,
as ills ealled.(that is in New York) and discounted
hero, is usurious or not ; that the court held in the
affirmative, and so instructed the jury, who ren
dered a verdict accordingly. In other words, it
was held that a loan of money to be repaid at a
place other than the place of the loan, where the
parties resided and did business, the money being
worth more at the place of pay meat than at the place
of loan, was usurious and void. The principle on
which the decision turned is not established in this
State, and we presume that the ease will not 'ewe
any principle until posed tru by th e Court ef
r